skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you are one selfish dude or dudette. I will endure some cognitive noise aka ads if that means more web for everyone.

And you know what? 50% of ads I see are from edx,new relic, code school,treehouse, engineyard, heroku and I am very ok with that,
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Your answer is very fascinating, can you please explain it like I'm five?
Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))
Neat. A world map would be interesting, even if the data isn't as readily available.
That's a little unfair, considering the current 27" display retails for less than a third of the 30" model.

The fact of the matter is that manufacturing large, high-resolution displays is expensive, and that's due to a number of factors: the limited market for high-end desktop displays, the 2-4x increase in subpixel failures as resolutions scale 2-4x, and Windows.

Now that 4k tech is figured out, and Windows is no longer a complete failure at scaling to high pixel densities, expect the market to increase and prices to fall accordingly.
Yeah, I hate those dirty marketers who wrote the HTTP spec. I'm sure glad Google is thwarting the evil IETF's schemes.

Let's be real here: the biggest marketing company in the world still has all this data and way more. They are simply forcing site owners to pay to get at it now.
What are you even saying?
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I almost never click on links, I retype them or copy/paste them into the search bar. You really have no idea where you're about to go or what extra data will be tacked on otherwise.

Edit: sorry this is unclear; I am talking about search engine result links. Of course within a site or app I do click links though even then I often glance at the status line to see what's about to happen.
I think we all know something about web design.

We can all point out bad or horrible web design, at a minimum. We can also point out individual elements that make horrible web design horrible. Nobody here is going to recreate a GeoCities page by accident.

We can also point to good web design, though the particulars of why the design is good might escape us.

A good compromise is to use established patterns (like Bootstrap) which we know to be acceptable, if not stellar. And then to add small custom details as needed to our site designs.

I'm accomplished enough at CSS that I can make tweaks to an existing website. I'm not good at creating an overarching CSS template/framework from scratch, so I don't try to do that.
Why startups should think 10x from day one
There's a certain mindset in Silicon Valley that makes founders more ambitious than anywhere else. Moonshot thinking and what it means for your startup.
Not picking on the parent at all, but there's something that really puzzles me.

Why do folks care about a $500 cost difference in the main computing tool that makes their daily bread?

Seems like it's a matter of a few hours' worth of work for most of us. (Don't mean to sound arrogant, either.)
I really wish some of these high resolution laptops came with equivalent high end video cards to drive that resolution ... shipping with a 750m rather than the 780m seems nuts, it is 2 to 3 times slower and when you got 5.5+ million pixels to drive...
Those people here looking for a tiny, sane MVC framework with live bindings should try CanMVC. After doing a bunch of frameworks (JavascriptMVC, DoneMVC) I think that company produced a simple, well documented framework better than Backbone.
How are people finding your web site? Who knows.

Just because you own a web site doesn't make you a marketer or even looking to turn a profit.

Google is going dark because they are scraping web sites and keeping their visitors on google.com. Take a look at Google Images today verse a year ago. You can also see glimpses on certain mobile searches related to wikipedia keywords where they outright scrape the page, and the information boxes they show on the right hand column for certain terms on desktop.

Good business? Most likely.
So, the 15 inch retina can drive a large external monitor at high resolution (full resolution). This is worth a lot to me. I connect it to a dell ultrasharp via a thunderbolt cable.
Those big centralised choke points for information (Google, Facebook, Twitter et al) we could do without. I'd strongly favour a non-commercial distributed solution to those problems.
Light-weight job scheduling library for node
I write open source libraries primarily. A nicely formatted readme on github tends to be best, since most people will be there anyway. Fancy websites tend to drive me crazy for code libraries, since they tend to distract people from the thing they are really looking for; a simple pitch and documentation.

That being said... I have been working on a javascript geoprocessing library lately and am considering a full blown interactive website. The reason being that many of the features are difficult for people to understand without being visualized. I still want to keep it fairly simple though.

The idea would basically be to have a page for each operation with 2 maps and a description of the algorithm. The first map would show the example input and the second map would show the output. I think this would allow developers who may not be familiar with more advanced geo statistical methodologies to be able to see what is possible with their data and spark some creativity. The existing readme tries its best to get the ideas across, but I doubt it would be that effective in its current form for someone who is not very familiar with traditional gis analysis already. https://github.com/morganherlocker/geo.js
I'm not convinced about the ability to block out certain types of sounds (e.g. birds vs traffic), but blocking out certain frequencies should be quite possible.

Of course, there's one question the article didn't address: what proportion of sound is actually transmitted through window panes? One would expect that a whole lot of low-frequency sounds (traffic) would come through the walls too.
It's been this way for a quite a while though, now the only difference is that SSL is enabled for a larger number of people. Also adding the search terms to the url would defeat the whole purpose of using SSL for search at all.
You might know this, but I want to state it at least for the benefit of people reading this without much signal processing experience. Just zeroing like that really isn't the best idea. Square waves (that are 1 for signals that you want and 0 for signals you don't want) inverse Fourier transform to sinc functions[1], so if you are filtering just by chopping things out, it will greatly distort the time-domain system because the inverse Fourier transform of the filter and the signal get combined (convolved) in the time domain.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinc_function
I guess you are confused between web development & web design. Django is a web application development framework and has nothing to do with "design".
> but I do it myself anyway

Why? Assuming time/money is not an issue, it seems you could at least A/B test a professionally designed website to see if it converts better.
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Browser info?
What kinds of websites are doing this now? That seems like a really grotty thing to do to your readers.
Plus it's not like it would have really been helping the SEOs all that much. Though they really shouldn't have been relying on it as mush as they were clearly.
For something that actually matters to me, I'll work with a designer on the core visual concept, meaning usually the logo, color palette, and overall feel. Once I have that, I feel competent staying within the given parameters to put together a pretty solid design.

It really helps to spend some effort learning the basic rules of typography and visual design. It won't make you a great designer, but it will make you a much smarter customer of designers, and make you able to execute someone else's design concepts gracefully.
[0] which leads to [1]

Notice the "Copyright 2009 - Angular / BRAT Tech. LLC" at the bottom of the page.

IIRC, They had a plan to provide a paid or freemium server-side counterpart. edit: freemium, see the first revision of getangular.com[2], there's a pricing tab which disappeared later on.

update 2: they were not acquired, they abandoned the startup because it did not get enough traction. The framework lived on, though.

Development history

AngularJS was originally developed in 2009 by Miško Hevery and Adam Abrons as the software behind an online JSON storage service, that would have been priced by the megabyte, for easy-to-make applications for the enterprise. This venture was located at the web domain "GetAngular.com", and had a few subscribers, before the two decided to abandon the business idea and release Angular as an open-source library.

Abrons left the project, but Hevery, who works at Google, continues to develop and maintain the library with fellow Google employees Igor Minár and Vojta Jína.[3]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20100601201616/http://www.angular...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20100413141437/http://getangular....

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20091002201638/http://www.getangu...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS#Development_history
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> Is this because no one bothers to run against her?

No, Republicans don't let either of California's Senate seats go uncontested.

They don't run good candidates (that is, candidates that are good at appealing to any but already-committed Republicans as even the lesser of two evils), but that's pretty true of what they do for all statewide offices in CA -- there's a reason why they've been pretty much shut out elective statewide offices for a long time (and, the last one they had -- Governor Schwarzenegger -- was elected in an unusually-structured recall election which paid a high premium to name recognition in a crowded field, and then reelected with the power of incumbency.)
Ugh. Someone is wrong on the internet and I just can't ignore that.

SEO doesn't create value for the society? That is an extremely bold claim. Guest posts, infographics and other form of viral content are a very common tools for so these days. They create immense value for content consumers and that's the point. SEO is very much white hat these days in the anglosphere due to superior Google search spam detection algorithms. There are black hats, of course but they are not a defining market force for a long time already.
So you mean this will help get rid of those sites that create fake pages based on search results?
Yes, that's is clearly exactly what I said.
Heh, "programming for dummies". That told me about how to run QBASIC from my windows disk, which was a pain. Where I really got started was when the aforementioned book told me how to do web programming, based on local files. At that point, I was feeling the power. Someone told me about C++, and I got "C++ For Dummies" for my thirteenth birthday. I wanted to do games, which led me to DirectX and then SDL, and also gamedev.net, from which I learned a metric crapton.

I stumbled on python a few years later, when I started playing with Blender. The online tutorial for that was pretty good (at least for me, having programmed before). If you want advice, you might start there and see how far you get.
Bootstrap/Foundation, strip out what I don't need (read: delete some of the LESS imports) and customise it. Both frameworks are actually fairly easy to customise these days, and it doesn't take a significant amount of effort to end up with a Bootstrap site that doesn't "look like a Bootstrap site". I'm nowhere near skilled enough (nor do I have the time) to write my own grid system, panels, basic buttons, etc.

The blog attached to my side-project will use the same CSS and just leverage jekyll/GitHub Pages/prose.io to keep things simple.
What? How is that possible without JavaScript? And javascript is trivial to switch off or control.Copying and pasting links. That's nearly as hardcore as browsing websites Stallman way.
This is a nice approach. I especially like the semi Natural Language text input, very similar to https://github.com/jkbr/rrule

This will be very useful for one of my pet projects.

How does it handle DST?
>Personally I'm more worried by non-personal, bulk attacks based on database leaks.

While a personal attack is much less likely than a non-personal bulk attack, I would guess that anybody who goes through the trouble of personally looking over your words with a magnifying glass has a much higher chance of being very dangerous.

That scary amounts of information are floating around about you has always been true though. The things you can get from your local courthouse may surprise you.
How are people finding your web site? Who knows.

Just because you own a web site doesn't make you a marketer or even looking to turn a profit.

Owning a web site also doesn't give you any right to know how people are finding your site without you having to ask them to volunteer the information. That's what businesses in the real world do: they ask you, and you choose to tell them or not.
And how many pages were on that web?
Yeah, the geolocation on some early Firefox OS models is a known problem. Unfortunately, Mozilla does not control the final bits that ship on devices. This Mozilla wiki page specifically addresses these GPS problem:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Geolocation
California? What about Hawaii? They are by far the lowest in almost every single category.
If the whole purpose of these changes was to hide the search term from website owners, then turning on SSL everywhere wouldn't be required at all. That was already accomplished with the redirection between the SERP page and the clicked link, which was put in place before SSL was turned on everywhere.

There are other purposes. Like preventing governments from recording your long-term search history without a warrant. Frustrating that purpose requires SSL but doesn't require wiping the search term from the referrer as well. It would never be transmitted across an encrypted->unencrypted connection transition per the HTTP spec.
The /url redirect has been there as long as I can remember. It's just well hidden from view.
This is exactly what Drywall was designed for. It's a website and user system for Node.js

Feedback is welcomed.

http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/

Edit: more so for a functional side project, not a static website.
Yep, while I have objections to most Google criticisms, I totally agree that killing off search referrers is bonkers. I guess there will be some starttyups springing up that will try to correlate your search rankings and page visits, creating fuzzy but actionable stats concerning an search keywords.
> and contain the search terms

This would be amazing. Can you cite a source I can use?

I made the mistake of launching a [previously heavily optimized] site on the very week the secure switch took place. Explaining this to the client has been a complete disaster for me.
Note to self: Next time you want to optimize your cool-looking effects, post the source as a demo to HN. :D
Use Strikingly of course. No brainer.
I'm very glad to hear this. Thanks! :)
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Unless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly <presidents and prime ministers>. The president should be required to approve any collection of this sort," Feinstein added.

Interesting choice of words.
The right to know is codified in the HTTP spec.
I've been doing (mostly backend) webwork for a living for about half a decade now; the last ~6 months I have been building an app that is using angular.

I agree the documentation sucks; but beyond that I actually don't have any complaints. I don't have anything to compare it to; but I have written some JS over the years and what angular is doing is blowing my mind.

Because it blows my mind I find it hard to bitch or find fault. I did have to spend several hours stepping through angular core code to figure out WTF was going on with $scope.$watch(); but again, I can't really say that $watch itself sucks; just that I had to read the code to actually understand how to use it.

If I had to pick something other than documentation to point at, I would say that silent shadowing of non-object primitives when "new" scopes are creates for things like ng-repeat and ng-if
Great article, and they make a good point that it is the right-wing whose political freedoms are most threatened by attacks against anonymity.
If search engine queries being visible leads companies to write more promotional "blogs" and "content" that cruft up the web...
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I think comparing it to real world business is disingenuous. When a customer walks into a store there is a whole wealth of information that you can get without asking the customer that would cause an uproar if made visible online.
This is another good time to remind those interested in the Apollo missions that the Moon Machines series provides a great look at the non-astronaut people and work that went into the effort.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1203167

http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Machines-Robert-Seamans/dp/B0026I...
Gaming metrics could be tested during the interview process:

"That was a nice job solving FizzBuzz. Now, please tell us concisely how you would solve this problem: The purchasing department has a metric for buying in volume to get discounts. The manufacturing department has a metric for cutting inventory. There's a huge Dumpster next to the loading dock."

(Based on a true story).
Let me know if you have any questions/feedback/etc. :)
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OK, but why not take the higher ground and understand why the user is upset in the first place, and answer accordingly ? Deleting a complaint does not make it go away. It just pisses people off even more and create bad mouthing in the end.
I don't get how copy-paste is more onerous than crippling one's browser. I C/P links all the time too, to prevent click-jacking, and to know what site I'm hitting, and what type of content I'm likely to expect.
In would favor such solution too but there is none. And all hate for marketers, search and social networks won't create it.
That's good to hear. This policy seems to come from a well-intentioned place; it would be a shame if it had some unintended consequences.
Are you saying it's more likely to commit suicide just because you own a gun ?
so what happens if i have $10,001 and declare it?

My point is, what's the purpose of declaring, if it is illegal to enter the country (or leave the country) with more than $10,000 - does declaring it make it legal?
The book "The Cat in Numberland" is a fantastic way to introduce this proof (and a few other related mathematical concepts) to non-mathematicians and young children.

It is however becoming harder and harder to find for a reasonable price :( I paid $50 for mine, which is quite a bit for a children's book, but it is that good.

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enter a Brave New World where huge monolithic companies such as yourself

When did Lessig ever post that on the Apple forum?

Lessig's deleted post is detailed here: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65338904338/wow-or-from-the-wh...
Our team has talked about OpenStreetMaps, but we haven't talked with them yet. Our pilot project is still in the early stages of proving data collection is feasible (without an army of Google Street View cars). We don't have enough data to provide a useful service yet for a global mapping project.. yet? <:)
Right where most of the items have 0 responses and it's aimed at power users.

Maybe everyone who think they can easily one up Apple's award-winning-by-a-mile-over-the-rest-of-the-industry customer service should start making phones and show us all how it's done.
Sure, but when anyone takes an interest in someone else, we all know the odds "something bad" will happen, even if "bad" is simply "embarrassment of the person with the interest". Similarly, I suppose what I'm getting at is there really is no such thing as complete anonymity, just the temporary pretence of it. I mean, of course, lack of interest and luck can contribute to your anonymity these days, and time might diminish the odds that something can get traced back to you, but ... you never know. ;-)

Edit: I posted this elsewhere but it's relevant here too - http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-inv...
I've bounced around a bit.

Way back in the day, I had no budget, so I used OSS web themes with very light customization. Then when I actually started selling appreciable amounts of software, I had that website redone by freelancers (twice). It has not been my experience that cutting-edge web design has made huge differences to sales in the sort of markets I tend to operate in, though, so these days I mostly just get a themeforest/etc theme, have designers add in decent graphics (if required), and then do a bit of munging by myself.

Designers, cover your ears for a moment: There are many businesses which have sold many millions of dollars of product, including in our industry, with web design which is less impressive than things you can get on Themeforest/WooThemes/etc for whole tens of dollars. (This is not just applicable to marketing sites, by the way. There are plenty of applications which end up looking like they were designed by a software engineer which, for $15, could have had that same engineer just extract a Rails template from a Themeforest project and end up looking 100x better. Search for [admin] on Themeforest and feast your eyes.)
well... Maybe not complete fiction. Almost total fiction I would say.
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Amazing, beautifully done. Wonderful :-)
It could easily mean they're no longer letting them work on their projects on the clock, though.
"However Linus built git for himself, not for others..."

No, Linus built git to address the needs of a large community of Linux kernel developers:

Git development began after many developers of the Linux kernel chose to give up access to BitKeeper, a proprietary SCM system that had previously been used to maintain the project. The copyright holder of BitKeeper, Larry McVoy, had withdrawn free use of the product after he claimed that Andrew Tridgell had reverse-engineered the BitKeeper protocols.

Torvalds wanted a distributed system that he could use like BitKeeper, but none of the available free systems met his needs, particularly in terms of performance. Torvalds took an example of an SCM system requiring thirty seconds to apply a patch and update all associated metadata, and noted that this would not scale to the needs of Linux kernel development, where syncing with fellow maintainers could require 250 such actions at a time. His goal was for patches to take three seconds.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#History
Unless you really know who you're selling to, putting a lot of effort into a site design is probably a premature optimization. Just grab a reasonable free template or learn enough design [1] to do it yourself.

[1] I like the Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams: http://www.peachpit.com/store/non-designers-design-book-9780...
A lot of us have invested a lot of time learning Angular, pains and all :) . I've contributed to the docs, as well as source. I've also reported issues, big and small.

The current docs have come a long way from their previous state - I recommend people try taking a look at them now. The developer guide & API docs have gotten huge improvements within the past month! I think the only things that are really left is to recommend some best practices with examples and more examples in the API section.