skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what my Google SERP looks like in Safari, not logged into Google:

http://i.imgur.com/hTa6Izu.png

(The Kitkat.com listing has a different description than it did an hour a go, because of the Android tie-in. But even then, the Google Android page was higher up the list.)
My problem with that is people who write emails in full screen windows end up writing poorly formatted emails (very long paragraphs) because they are now composing their emails with 300 columns.

Besides, a CEO that can't focus on writing a message unless they don't have any other distraction on their screen should probably work on their focus skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKOrkLxOBoY is a very well done parody!
This is utter genius! Best product tie-in ever. Nice scrolling effects too. Almost enough to make me buy a KitKat.
Honestly: you're being a snob. The page is designed to be scrolled down once, chuckled at, and closed. And I did, and it works for me. Sitting on our high horses and demanding that Nestle's corporate IT department churn out a site worthy of YC-driven-multi-round-venture-funding is counterproductive and unkind. They had a cute idea, probably on short notice, and they got it done.

I will say that I'm actually really liking this sort of whimsy. It's distressingly rare in the bigcorp world (even in candy, I guess) to see companies poke fun at their established products like this. I like it.

I still won't eat them though.
Goes the other way too. I misidentified Fortran of all things because their dialect is far too new compared to what I remember (more than) a quarter century ago.
It's still baffling to me that they got rid of multiple-stage trip routing. Sure, you can drag the route to add waypoints - but it's nowhere near as precise as providing an address, and gets complicated once you start needing to add three or four stops along a route.
Outsourced design agencies hired by big corps aren't usually known for their respect of web accessibility.
Trademark: How Square Inc. shut down an event-finding mobile app
> On-Topic:Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This absolutely includes NSA/Snowden news and any other news relating the intersection between politics and technology.
I do make the assumption that a war on drugs can lower the number of people addicted to hard drugs, and from there the amount of violence related to it. But that assumption includes the way I would handle it, like forcing users to be in rehab before prison is considered.
For http://www.pixtulate.com (on the fly cropping and scaling of responsive images) we simply read lots and lots of blogs from the responsive web design community. We eventually narrowed down on a problem everyone was discussing and was trying to build various home grown solutions to.

After reading all the great posts by Jason Grigsby (http://blog.cloudfour.com/) the problems with sending one-size-fits-all images to mobile and tablet devices was obvious. Additionally, most existing solutions require you to pre-scale/crop multiple versions of the same image which is tedious and labor intensive. Even the proposed srcset attribute and picture element have this requirement.

Next, we looked at any existing players in the space and found that a few where starting to crop and getting traction which further validated our premise that people where looking for a robust solution.

So, we considered it worth at least building an MVP and will soon be looking for interested parties to try it out (drop me a line if interested - and yes, our site is butt ugly).
I don't think it's "pure market BS". Microsoft has "total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments standing at $77.02 billion as of June 30."[1] For a company that's still in the black, that's a pretty long runway.

And I have trouble understanding why the NSA stuff is relevant here. Believe me, I'm as upset as anyone here about it, but I really don't think that Microsoft is propped as a company by some cash that the NSA gave them to build out some relatively trivial monitoring infrastructure.

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/03/a-trojan-horse-once-again-s...
Back at Netscape, Jim Barksdale hated the term "browser war", on the grounds that a war justifies extreme behavior. He didn't want us believing the browser war meant we should be breaking the normal rules.
"2 megabites, 4 megabites, or a chunky bites option"

I died.
But probably you get stuck in local maxima. E.g. if I am on Hacker News I want to find new and exciting stuff and not things I already know ...
I could live with the new Compose... its the hidden/floating "Formatting Options" that really grinds my gears.
The video is clearly a sendup of an Apple product announcement.
My father lost a great deal of his physical books in a flood. If they were bits, he wouldn't have.
I was laughing at this parody. Then, I found myself wanting a KitKat.

Perhaps there's something to this presentation style after all!
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>That's a ridiculous comparison, The fact of the matter is that those decisions are completely logical.

I don't think shutting down an entire industry in a knee jerk reaction is logical. Gently paring down fossil fuel energy consumption is logical. I think the extreme reaction is the illogical mentality that he was talking about.
My kids will absolutely love this. The only time they use the DS now is in the car. Being able to continue from the car on to the TV will make the fighting over the shared laptop lessen a little :]
I predict that the name "KitKat" was selected not only for cross marketing purposes, but also to serve as a handy metaphor for the key enhancement to Android 4.4. I suspect Google has reengineered Android to allow for modular system-level updates, while leaving user-space modifications, (such as carrier and manufacturer-added software,) untouched, similar to how Canonical has stated Ubuntu Touch updates will work.

We've already seen Google take a more modular approach to adding Android enhancements via individual application updates to the Play Store, GMail, YouTube, etc. This has allowed users running older versions of Android to take advantage of more up-to-date software, despite the lack of manufacturer-provided updates. Given the degree to which the Play Store service can modify the OS in the current version of Android, it seems reasonable to suspect that these modular updates could be extended to include the kernel, system services, and low-level run times. Google may have decided that they will own and update key portions of the operating system, and leave their partners to focus on updates to their device-specific "enhancements."

This prediction is consistent with the tag line associated with Android 4.4 on the linked page: "It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody."

How to explain the value behind such a "behind-the-scenes" feature to the technologically illiterate masses? A KitKat is a modular candy bar. All the fingers are the same. You can swap out a single finger without fundamentally altering the integrity of the whole. Perhaps Eric Schmidt will explain it better on-stage.
First off, the Mac "Command key" is not involved with "C-x". "C" is for "control". "Command" is often bound to the Emacs "Meta" key, which would be "M-x".

For C-x I generally hit Control with my left pinky and X with my left middle finger: since C-x is a "prefix" key, there's going to be another key I hit later and that will generally be hit with my left index finger.

However for the C-x C-s sequence I use my left index finger on X and my left middle finger for S. Same with C-x C-q.

For M-x I use my left thumb on the Meta key (my Mac's "Option" key in my case) and my left index finger on X.

Just like playing piano, there is no "right" way to map your fingers to the keys (everyone's hands are different, after all). If something feels wrong or is hurting, try using different fingers.
Reddit has rules against affiliate links, though not through software.
Thanks, checked it out. Impressed that Jason takes the time to respond to many of the tweets.
Actually, each KitKat bar contains a radioactive isotope that's compared with the chemical traces left on your fingers after handling coins and paper money to uniquely identify you. So while you're right that Nestle doesn't provide the NSA with location data of where you're eating candy, they're actually providing the NSA with location data of where you go after eating candy. Such as the toilet.
From the guidelines for "off topic":

If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And for "on topic":

anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Mainstream US-centric political news is not particularly intellectually gratifying and not what this site has ever done well. Reddit and Twitter had all the same pointless arguments.

And I say "mainstream" because perhaps the only hacker-specific part of the story was Snowden being a sys-admin. His revelations and the impact of the story were felt across all of society and were not specifically related to hackerdom (the follow up stories about DEF CON or protecting your own privacy by technical means, however, were clearly hacker oriented and well suited to HN).
I don't think anyone in this thread is arguing for continued criminalization of marijuana.
Nothing says "solid, responsive, enterprise-grade, consumer-pleasing data access" like candy.

(Yes, I know this complaint is old, and dessert/snack is the Android naming theme. Nobody is buying in because of the meme; a lot of people are opting out because of it.)
I use their word for it. I will point at it and say What do you call it? Unless it's grossly wrong, or confusing to them or future helpers I let them have their word.
Sweden grants blanket asylum to Syrian refugees
Lower class: will never get a mortgage. Middle class, worry about the mortgage. Upper class, will never need a mortgage.
What is it like to work with Elon Musk
Gmail also seems to shorten the names of people you email to (at least for me). That makes me second-guess whether I'm really emailing the right person at times.
WTF at the small print at the bottom of the page
What's wrong with web developers?
How to use Go and FastCGI
This post is about how to write a Go (golang) program in FCGI mode and deploy it on Apache.
I wish developers were more aware of ReplaceState, which updates the URL but deletes the previous state. I usually put a condition check in any state saving that checks to see which is more appropriate. For example, in a page of popup videos associated with URLs I might push the first state so the user can hit back once to get the normal URL, but replace from then on so the number of back actions to leave never exceeds two.
From the guidelines:

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

So basically anything upvoted by this community is considered on topic since enough people deem it gratifying intellectual curiosity.

Secondly, the insulting part is about how he snarkly listed Snowden alongside conspiracy theories. Like him or not, the risks he's taken to get this information out deserve him some level of repspect.
I'm only a little ashamed to admit, I bought a KitKat today.
"should probably work on their focus skills"

Terrible argument. "Let's add more distractions to the screen, because the user should be able to focus anyway".

Also, Google broke the "Best Secret Gmail Feature" [1]. In the last few months, you can't select text and hit reply to quote it anymore. Grrr

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5963768/the-best-secret-gmail-feature-is-...
This definitely got me as well.
:( credit card required
The Nexus 4 (8GB) is out of stock for good
Isn't KitKat a trademark of Nestlé?
Reminds me more of the apple's mac pro page http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/.
I did click the question mark. It was the only thing on the page that appeared to do anything other than the auto-completion mechanism for the answer field.
and closed.

If you didn't "Open In New Tab" the link, and value the current tab's browsing history, this will be very annoying via "back back back back back aw crap how far must I go back back click-hold-back good grief click meh that was fun until it wasn't."
I'm not running HTTPS Everywhere.
$60 product is an impulse purchase. $900 is a lifestyle choice.

Some improvement is better than no improvement at all.
Introducing Driplr, an innovative iOS Twitter client
Has anyone used this with Leap Motion? Would be interesting to see how well it fares.
But some of those things are expensive. They are just paid for by someone else. A subtle but important distinction. The funding for the opera for example, a token amount might be ticket sales, but mostly it's the taxes of people who have zero interest in opera. So that needs to be factored into the definition.
It's a pun towards Project Butter.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/android-jelly-bean-official...
Just like the commenter at the same level, many times the customer would not bring in their previous phone and have little to no idea about what their email address even was.

The apple store will definitely attempt to gather that info, but at some point it is new account and have a great day!
Cdto -  Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal
What happened to BASES?
The webpage is a monstrosity because of a problem on the back button? Wow, hackernews comments never cease to amaze me when it comes to finding something negative to say.
For my usage, the new compose has been a major step back. It now takes additional clicks to accomplish basic tasks (e.g. change the subject) and is less clear on what I am doing (e.g. when you cc someone and switch back to the body, the cc-ed names is now in To: line making it appear that you are sending it to them directly.) There are many other examples where the experience has become worse.

I am not clear if Google truly believes the new compose is an improvement or if there is a behind the scenes reason that is making up for the decrease in usability. The new product is so obviously a step back (to me) that I am assuming it's the latter. Has anyone seen a write up that has an explanation other than "improved practicality?"
This honestly makes me wonder: what is the point of web sites for stuff like KitKat? Clearly, they can replace the entire thing for the purposes of a joke so it can't be that high up there.

Who visits those sites? What do they do on them? The Nestle/Hersheys site, sure. Standard corporate stuff. But a site specifically for KitKat?

EDIT: there seems to be some confusion in the replies. I am not talking about this joke web site that was put up today. I am talking about the normal kitkat.com that has been around forever.
How Google Glass Disrupts The Sports Image Monopoly
There's a back button in the menu.
or hold down on the back button.
Is the source code somewhere?
The most beneficial thing you can do when you start with SQL is to NEVER EVER put join clauses in the WHERE section. ALWAYS put the join clauses as close to the table you're joining as possible.

eg :
never do SELECT * FROM A JOIN B WHERE A.ID = B.a_id and B.id > 10
but always JOIN B ON A.ID = B.a_id AND B.id > 10

the second way of doing "scale" much much better when you add more tables, and start mixing left and right joins.
Something with pure dual gigabit ethernet please! (not over usb)
That's my entire point. We frequently assume that most hardware "just works" because it follows some specification or another. It's not until you run into a system that just flat out blows up when it runs into unexpected hardware that the work that Windows and Linux developers do becomes apparent.
Can't believe this kind of game runs in browser!
That's the best part.
"Don't be evil" and "Nestlé", not a combination you see that often.
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Burning Man sleeps with Silicon Valley Capitalism
Or they could call it Android Quick Bread.
I just realized how important the number 4 in this whole deal. #classickitkat
Of course, son. The car is in the garage and I laid out a set of wrenches on the workbench. Take the car apart and look at each piece, then put it back together. Once you’ve done that I’ll take you to the DMV for your driving test.

Reminds me of the story of young Walter Chrysler and his Locomobile.

Edit: For those interested, it's a quick one page read, starting at the bottom paragraph of page 5: http://www.chryslergroupllc.com/company/Heritage/Heritage%20...
How to Teach Programming in Six Months
And if you just can't conjure up the skill required to hear the whole song, the main menu fortunately links to its soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dutoncmusic/du-tonc-surging-memories
At least provide the link to the full course where people can work through the labs!

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/

I took Dan Tzafrir's version of this course at Technion last semester. Best. Course. Ever!
It is fascinating to look at the execution of the Google page vs the Nestle page.

Seems like a near perfect real world example of "HOW TO" and "HOW NOT TO" accomplish modern web design.
Avoid Pink Eye With Pretty iPhone Cleaning Products
"The House I Live In" was an eye opener for me. Also, one of the directors, David Simon, is the creator of the HBO show 'The Wire' which dealt heavily with the side effects of the war on drugs.

'The Wire' is the first thing I thought of when reading about this story.
Ran here to say this. The site quickly went from being a hilarious parody I was going to forward to friends to an infuriating display of bad design that I'll now keep to myself.
A great gift for your next anniversary
Freescale i.MX6 is a really nice platform. Shame it hasn't gotten broader traction, I think because it is moderately more expensive than its competition.

Since May I've been using an imx6 based gk802 ($70 quad core "Android TV" stick) as a personal server (email, RSS, VPN, etc.) Has worked really nicely considering. (Blog post about installing debian on it: http://projectgus.com/2013/05/debian-installer-for-zealz-gk8... )
That config is not for terminal Emacs. It's only for when you are running a native cocoa Emacs (like http://emacsformacosx.com). For terminal I always enable option as the meta key and use the OS Character viewer for the rare times I need to type a unicode character into the terminal.

Having option as meta is useful outside of Emacs, as "bash" (and other shells) use Emacs keys by default (M-d, M-f and M-b are all essential for me when I'm using bash).

I wish the OS would let me use the Fn key for doing fancy unicode characters (maybe Fn+option or something)—that way I could have good unicode input and my precious meta key.
People will visit the web page because it's funny. It features a lot of pictures of Kit Kat. Geeks love junk food and might serve themselves a treat, a why not, a Kit Kat just after watching this.

This process is called advertisement. Guess what? It works.
I don't think it would matter how cheap it is. Even at a dollar a hit a jobless person tends to need to steal to get that dollar, in addition to money for food.

I don't think it's a stretch to believe that legal things become more prevalent than illegal things, especially highly addictive things. Believing that requires no more support than disbelieving that.
The Key Lime Pie name was pretty public. I assume JB 4.2 or 4.3 was intended to be KLP, but when Google decided to stick with the JB name, reusing KLP for Android 4.3 or 4.4 would cause too much confusion.

Microsoft skipped "DirectX 4" for the similar reasons:

after DirectX 3 was released, Microsoft began developing versions 4 and 5 at the same
time. Version 4 was to be a shorter-term release with small features, whereas version 5
would be a more substantial release. The lack of interest from game developers in the
features stated for DirectX 4 resulted in it being shelved, and the corpus of documents
that already distinguished the two new versions resulted in Microsoft choosing to not
re-use version 4 to describe features intended for version 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#History
You don't launch a "specially marked wrapper" without two marketing teams talking to each other for months beforehand, so this shouldn't be a big surprise.

But still, very cute.
As near as I can tell, complaints about "derailing" translate into "I wanted to make a speech, but the other guy kept insisting on wanting to have a conversation." Is that all there is to it?

Pretty much, yeah. Derailing implies that there exist "rails" on which the conversation needs to go (i.e. the 'agenda' of the person making the speech). If you don't engage his or her central point, then you risk being accused of derailing.

Now, if you really, really don't want to hear what they have to say, that's one thing - you should probably just tell them so rather than passive-aggressively shift the subject of conversation.

But if a shift in the subject of conversation happens naturally, it's not derailing, it's just the natural flow of conversation.
I wish Hacker News had a wiki somewhere listing the most promising solutions to the top issues hackers care about. So like, best off-the-shelf mesh network hardware, best form of encryption, best $5 microcontroller with usb and/or bluetooth and or wifi, stuff like that.

If I could just get these things cheaply and easily, I would gladly use them. Right now so many of them seem more experimental than ubiquitous.
I cant read anything on that page without squinting hard and tilting my screen up and down.

Please, this is 2013, #000 on #ccc, not #ddd on #ccc.
It actually makes it great for sharing certain funny bits with friends.
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Ask HN: how to handle a non-technical founder?
I apologize for not using my original HN user name for obvious reasons. I work for an online payment provider and the founder of the company is not an engineer and screws up often in production many of which qualify for getting fired.

We have a team of 3 experienced programmers who only clean up his mess and don't have time left to push in new features.

Last week we realized that about a year back he messed up the production keys simply with the excuse that he has too many things to do. Given that we handle money and online security is such a threat, messing up with keys is unacceptable.

I work overtime to bring in an engineering discipline into our coding and release cycle but every time he amazes me with new ways of diluting the team effort.

Not only is unapologetic but repeats the process regardless of our requests.

I know many members here are or have been founders themselves. Please recommend me what I need to do to solve this issue taking into account both the engineering teams and the founders perspective.
Before I set off to cook, I thought to myself, let me check out one more thread. And then you had to go post that site.

Well, there goes the rest of my evening. ;)
Love the easter egg - try "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a"

:)
Great parody.

I suppose this is a relevant article to attach this question. What is the general consensus on using the scroll event to trigger animations/content changes?

I am working on an article that uses animations to help explain scientific processes and triggering these with the scroll position seems to offer many advantages over having the user keep clicking a next button. I know where they are on the page and can display the relevant part of an animation. This style gets a lot of hate on HN, which is why I want to ask: is there a better way?
Agreed. It also is not showing the email address making it easy to mistakenly send a personal email to someone's work account and vice versa.