skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# is well designed and I will admit that despite it still being more Microsoft specific (mono is getting there). We are stuck with Javascript, but can use it from better languages such as ClojureScript and Haskell via Fay.

I do need to give PHP a deeper look again, because it has changed quite a bit. If I were to hazard a guess though, there are still inconsistencies that will inspire too much paranoia for me to use it in production.
Are you kidding? The "we can't fund a competitor" VCs are just saying "no" like everyone else. There's nothing particularly noble (or ignoble) about it.
>with a great matte finish

Isn't that an oxymoron? Why would you want an intentionally blurry screen?
Fifty-year-old ads in the first issue of IEEE Spectrum (1964)
At Theneeds [1] we decided to open links to news in new tabs/windows (using target="_blank").

This is mainly for 2 reasons.

First, we expect our users to not necessarily be techy (in contrast to what Marco says "Most people know how to open your article’s outbound links in new tabs or windows, especially readers of a tech site").

Second, we want a consistent experience across all websites we open, and some of them forced us to open in new tabs. We usually embed news into an iframe, with a Theneeds' top bar for actions including vote, share and go back to the content stream. Unfortunately many news sites are currently preventing embedding (e.g., via the HTTP header X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN). We decided to open at least them (then, as I said, all) as users were frustrated by loosing access to the content stream.

[1] http://www.theneeds.com
SteamOS Now Supports Intel & AMD Graphics
For anyone reading this who doesn't know (because i didn't until someone explained and linked me) bang notation is amazing.
https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Yeah, I love target="_blank" and use it often.
That's the amazing thing about threading. One can comment on a specific issue without derailing a main thread. I noted it was an aside (OT if you prefer) - I don't see how allowing the promotion of racism helps the thread any more than my your injunction to others to ignore it. If you don't want to comment, don't. It's an affront to the community here IMO for you to tell us what we may or may not discuss.

Edit: I think you edit-bombed me? The person running blackgirlscode and the other volunteers seem to be doing a fantastic job. The girls attending seem to be enjoying, getting encourage, learning. I don't know the community it's based in. Racial segregation is not the way.
My guess is that any full-time partner at YC has veto power.
It's probably a pitch designed to resonate with people who eventually get offers, with some subtle caveat that renders the whole thing moot if any aspect of the process fails to connect. That's not really a failure mode, just an optimization geared toward improving the experience for people who are presented with an offer, at the expense of those who are not.
The college/university industry is self-perpetuating, like many other industries. A typical example...

A 6-month vocational course training people in some specific in-demand skill is started at a college/technical institute, partly funded by some big company, and everyone who graduates gets a job. A bottleneck is created at the admission stage as applications soar, and only some get selected. A year or two later, the course is converted into a one-year program, teaching/admin staff numbers increased, and the original staff rise up the ladder. The course is then converted to a two-year program, the curriculum generalized to include other related skills, and enrollments for each year increased. When the student loan system recognizes the course as eligible for loans, the fees go up. When the course becomes a 3 or 4 year diploma or degree, enrollments have gone up so much the bottleneck is now at the job-seeking or internship-seeking stage and the original program creators are attending frequent overseas conferences.
For those who saw this, ignored it or didn't find why it might be compelling, check out the founders profile on Jizie.
http://www.jizie.com/users/rbatista

Richard! Put that link on your homepage. Show people what they'll see using the site.
Goddamnit man! It's beautiful!

I still have no idea why I'd use it, but at least now I can see the quality of build you can put out. This is the stuff that gets people interested.

Re-do your homepage. Put a big link that shows people what their profile would look like. Or put the profile up somewhere.

From your homepage, I had no idea if after creating an account I'd just be sent to a 'coming' soon link or something, because you never said what it did.

The thing you should be putting into your homepage (some of which you can take as a lesson in marketing), 'show your work, don't just talk about it'.

Also, I found a bit of a bug. Clicking on one of your links in your portfolio, results in an image that is stretched, but then clicking the back button fixes it.
I used to agree with the author, but these days I find myself actually preferring having a link opening in a new tab, so I'm not actually that irritated when a page uses target="_blank" if it's somewhat justified (ie. if there's a reasonable expectation that I'll click the link as a temporary digression, before going back to the original page).

The problem is that sadly, closing a tab is often easier in practice than using the "back" functionality:

- many websites are poorly coded and break the "back" functionality, making it (sadly) unreliable. On pages that load content dynamically, results are not always predictable either

- my left hand is already positioned in such a way that hitting cmd/ctrl + w is trivial, whereas going back requires reaching all the way to the backspace button/the mouse/doing a multi-finger gesture on the trackpad

- if you had to submit content to get to the current page, usually going back will trigger a "confirm form resubmission" warning

- on mobile devices, the "back" functionality is not very prominently displayed. On Chrome, you have to click the "more" icon to access it

In addition, manually opening in a new tab (which requires right-clicking, middle-clicking, or ctrl/cmd + click) is not always as trivial as people imply:

- people who are using a trackpad do not have a middle button

- right-clicking is has not been part of Apple's design for a long time. You can perform them using cmd + click or using two fingers on the trackpad (I believe it is disabled by default), but it's not as convenient

- On a MacBook, the modifier keys (fn/control/option/command) are all placed next to each other and it's not always obvious which one does what. It's easy to get confused or to accidentally hit the wrong one. I've personally done option + click by mistake countless times, which opens a prompt to save the link, and it's always pretty frustrating

- the right-click equivalent on touch screens (long press) is a bit clunky

And this is coming from a tech-savvy user who actually knows about these options -- you'd be surprised at how many people don't. Of course, having the ability to make the decision is important for power users, but I can't help but wonder if for less sophisticated users the practice is not so bad after all. The usability studies I could find are pretty dated and I would not be surprised that usage patterns have changed.
Sometimes, Facebook does require a driver's license or Government-issued ID:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632533

It's happened several times over the past few years. That's the most recent occurrence.
Come back when black women run the Federal Reserve and have corrupted it to their own benefit. Then, maybe, we can talk about "backfiring."
It is racism. It's just that it's racism you appear to like.
For your last question Joseph Walla wrote a great story on our development process:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7038287

As for electronics, the simple answer is most consumer devices have a well-established price on other markets, making it easy to guarantee prices without significant risk.
Haha, good one. Isn't trolling against the rules here though?
One thing I like about Google's process is that we take you to lunch, but explicitly tell you "this is off the record, no feedback will be submitted. Ask any questions you want, or just chill out and eat."
The fact is, it doesn't really matter what was intended of the word when it was created. "Growth hacking" on its surface seems to imply beating systems for the sake of growth. Sean Ellis, who is happy to tell you he coined the phrase, considers most marketing for the sake of driving growth "growth hacking." But, despite the fact that what I do probably matches both of those definitions, I would still never call myself a growth hacker.

The reason I don't call myself that is because calling yourself a "growth hacker" is akin to calling yourself a "social media guru" or a "rockstar programmer." It's a buzz-word that's been taken over by people who have no idea what they're talking about. And if you have to beat your chest and call yourself a growth hacker, chances are you're not.

Are there some incredible marketers out there who beat and create systems to cause growth? Absolutely. But I don't think many of them call themselves "growth hackers" either. Interestingly enough I find a few brilliant minds when I'm roaming amongst the blackhatters of the world. The seedy underbelly of the Internet has some really sharp people in it determined to continually out-engineer Google, beat other systems, or just brute force something. And sometimes what they do is pretty ingenious. You can actually learn a lot from them if you look at the principles they use, legitimize them, and use them for good instead of evil. There are a lot of script kiddies to be sure, but that caliber of brilliant marketer, whether it be a spammer who uses it for evil or some of the marketers causing explosive growth at young companies rarely beat their chests and assign themselves buzz-wordy titles. They don't have to.

Just like social media experts don't call themselves "gurus." No one of any high level of legitimacy has ever assigned themselves the term "Thought leader." In the same way, 99% of the people who call themselves "growth hackers" are at a marketing intern equivalent level.

It's just turned into another phrase people who don't know what they're doing throw around because it sounds cool.
"the same year Jason Calacanis started his highly-publicized crusade against the online marketing industry and, in particular, against professionals specializing in SEO and social media."

The same year Calacanis decided to found Mahalo, designed specifically to profit from abusing SEO 'growth hacking.'
I'll bet that most Ferrari mechanics have never owned a Ferrari, but they are qualified to work on them. Ownership doesn't give you experience...time under the hood does. I have spun up thousands of servers on Rackspace, GoGrid, and Amazon, and I've learned a ton because of it. I don't need to own the physical hardware to get that experience. If he had owned a fully-managed box (where someone else sets it up and maintains it), would that make him more qualified? I think not
I've been using DDG as my primary search engine since June, 2013. That's not my first attempt to make a go of it, I took a couple of stabs at DDG over the past year or two, but found that the results were less than satisfactory: slow response, no response, and often, poor matches on queries.

With the Snowden revelations and the abundantly clear trend of Google to aggregate as much personally-identifiable information as possible, I made a clean break in June, 2013. The performance and search quality are vastly improved. And while I don't eschew all Google products (though I'm making drastically less use of them, and as little as possible while authenticated), I find that using DDG as my first cut generally works.

For fallback, my usual scheme is DDG, !SP (StartPage, another proxying search aggregator making more full use of Google), and if I'm still not fully satisfied, Google itself.

There are areas in which Google's search tools are still hugely superior:

⚫ Searching within a date range. DDG doesn't offer this option.

⚫ Some specialized search, in particular Google Books and Google Scholar. Where Google focuses on its core competency of providing search and not on grabbing as much user data as possible, I find the company far more acceptable.

⚫ Some deep-site searches. Google seems to crawl sites more deeply and in more detail than DDG. I particularly rely on it for Reddit, whose own site search excludes comments.

As I've noted, Google's biggest liability is that, no matter its best intentions, it cannot provide any guarantee against a government-size advanced persistent threat, especially not one with the law (constitutional or otherwise) at its disposal: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1u356d/schmidt_...

But overall, I'm hugely impressed with DDG.

For those who use console / terminal browsers such as w3m or links, the 'lite' version puts the "search" button one tab following the search dialog: https://duckduckgo.com/lite

And DDG's TTY mode (command-line interface) is teh awesomenessedness:

https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
While that's an interesting view, it's also wrong. It might make for a good way of justifying things in your mind, you should really take a look at the more common definitions of racism to understand why this point of view you have in one held by a minority of people.
You sound like a terribly rude person. What is wrong with you?
> Currently, Yelp reviews of the business are less stellar than, for example, reviews on Hadeed Carpet Cleaning's own site.

I'm shocked that a company's website has better reviews than an independent third-party review site. Someone call the lawyers.
I hate those phone interview too. Not being a native English speaker myself it is terrifying the thought of screwing things over just because you don't understand the questions over the phone.
Do you not know that Veterinary Medicine is heavily populated with women?
When you vote, you actually give credibility to, and thus your implicit acceptance of the results, whether or not they are in your favour.

You play the game that is stacked 100% in their favour, and you cannot expect to win. Your vote or that of even 1 million (or even 10 million) other people will not change 1 single micron of the overall outcome. Think of all the well-intentioned people in the past, say 100 years or so, that in all good conscience cast their vote, just hoping to make that change. Did that positive change happen? Of course not, look where we are.

Bow out and make other changes to protect yourself; voting is the least effective use of your time.
The problem is that an easy to manage store is not really big enough to do anything other than increase comfort (there are edge cases where people need to be more careful but hopefully they aren't getting a reminder of that from a website).
I won't respond to this more than I already have. It's pretty clear you're reading too much into it emotionally.
Yes - we agree
I'm 100% sympathetic -- $100K is a lot of money -- but you really do need to factor in cost of living. I am not trying to evoke sympathy for folks who make $100K. It's just reality that $100K means something drastically different in the Bay Area vs any number of other metropolitan areas.

It's just more complicated than absolute numbers, is all I'm saying. If anything the fact that $100K is "not much" relative to the cost of living there is yet another symptom-- it implies that an eminently reasonable amount of money like $60K isn't enough. IOW, we should talk about floors, not ceilings or even averages.
Is the distinguishing principle you are trying to arrive at merely the motive of the people harming them? I.e., is the principle along the lines of "If a bunch of jerks define and disproportionately harm group X, then we now assign moral weight to group X"?
This is an excellent point. To answer your question: I don't think it needs to be an all or nothing proposition.

For me, I had acquiesced to always eating at my desk; convincing myself I was making the best decision for me.

I know myself well enough to know there are aspects of my life I'm not good at regulating or balancing. I also know that I'm good at convincing myself of things that aren't in my best interest. Experiments like this are useful to me for that reason.

I discovered that I was wrong about what I thought I wanted from this particular aspect of life. This discovery was important enough, for me, to make a clear cut decision to alleviate the chances of convincing myself my old routine was a good one.

An analogy that comes to mind is how some people stop smoking cigarettes: cold turkey isn't for everyone, but for those who know it is, they go for it and they stop and they feel better for it. There's science to show eating lunch at the desk is unhealthy. I've found I tremendously enjoy the alternative and the benefits that come with it. So, I've gone cold turkey. But that doesn't mean it's for everyone.
The overzealous headline-fixer strikes again. I can't remember what it was this morning, but it was better than this. The name of the blog an article is posted on is not an accurate or useful headline when the link only references a single article on that blog.
> In general I found these 14 commands end up being the smallest number anyone really needs to do basic CLI work..

What should an advanced user know? Everything provided by coreutils, stuff that goes in /bin etc? Also sed, awk and common tools for simple text processing?
> Exactly this. It's not Aereo they're worried about, it's the precedent.

Definitely. Note though, that this was exactly the concern when cable came out, and got its start by delivering over the air broadcasts from faraway metropolises to subscribers in rural areas or other cities.

For anyone interested in the history of telecommunications, definitely check out Tim Wu's "The Master Switch. There's a section on how new cable companies fought against entrenched broadcasters back when the power dynamic was a little different, really shows how often this same battle repeats itself with different players every time.
This is my assumption too. It's typical for some recruiters to never close the loop with candidates who are rejected because they're no longer "of value" to them. A sad commentary on recruiting in general, but it happens.
Is calling them douchebags for failing to think of something warranted?
Parse got bought by Facebook and I don't trust them with my data let alone my customers data.
If he's an example of tribalism, as you claimed earlier, then he should be aligned with a tribe. "The conservatives are fools" is a fairly unambiguous denunciation of that tribe. Regardless of whether you feel he favors one over the other, he clearly rejects both.
Would I get the full resolution using the DisplayPort out on my laptop and a cable to convert that to the HDMI on the TV?
Its solubility maxes out at 3%. ~5000 gallons in a river is hardly enough to get to those levels. The news is reporting that the concentration is about 3ppm. 3ppm of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol is about 0.021g of the chemical in 1L of water. The lowest LD50 for ingesting the chemical I've found is 800mg/kg. This means you'd have to drink 3086L of water for it to be lethal. The LD50 for skin contact is at least double the ingestion LD50.

That being said, I'm not going to take the risk, and I've only used water out of water bottles since this started.
One of the reasons I've always felt that the ubiquitous "tech guy" undercharges for what he does is that he doesn't see what he does as being that difficult and feels that he isn't justified in getting well paid for something so simple.

This of course is an entirely separate topic than the point you are making (which I agree with) but it's a similar issue with not being able to understand "average" or "typical" or what we sometimes call "normals" (or is often called "people in fly over country").

I was on my Mom's mac and a window popped up for her to do the a software update. I said "oh you have to do that" (had security updates) and she said "I don't need any new software" she had no clue.
Man, it's a troll post, but it might be a little too meta for even the biggest HN fiend with potential shot at Gulp vs Grunt?

document.getElementById(‘gulp’).style.color=‘#00f’;
document.getElementById(‘gulp’).style.padding=‘10px’;

I have no idea, I thought I hated the post, but now I seem to like it for its absolute strangeness.
Yeah it definitely is. Thankfully there's no way to legislate "make it impossible for links to open in new windows/tabs because this one site does it and I think it's a bad idea in some cases." Because otherwise a thousand rabid Marco fans would start a new PAC to do just that, breaking it's usefulness in the many cases where you need to do the right thing and not destroy a session.
>"expression"
>"design"
>"communicative purpose"
>"social dynamics"
>"affect people with what I was making"
>"impressing friends/boyfriends"

>"coding"
>websites

No need to declare that you're a blogger. It's obvious.
Hey I'm a white dude and I've worked with Black Girls Code on a few workshops. Just FYI girls of any race are allowed, it's just that this particular group caters primarily to black girls.

I'd say from the outside looking in it is a thorny subject, but in my observance BGC are good people who care about their community and are giving back to it through the knowledge and resources they've accrued.
In my experience it's actually the opposite of what you state.

Non-'techy' users understand the back button and they are completely flummoxed when a target=_blank link breaks this behaviour for them. They often don't notice the tab bar and don't realise that something unusual has happened that requires something other than their learned use of 'back'.

You have to understand that you're going against the norm. If 80% of links were target=_blank then your argument would make sense but they are not so I struggle to understand your justification.
oh-my-zsh does this out of the box.
The problem is that due to javascript, bizarre behavior from browsers, and now the new HTML5 back functionality, a lot of us have been trained to avoid the back button for fear of what might happen; I religiously open in a new tab anyway unless I'm quite sure I'm completely done with a page, so the default of "open in a new tab" is totally fine with me.
I used to work on a site that served the medical profession (read large set of returning users with varied technical skill, but all fairly intelligent) and we had an icon next to non-html resources and links that were external. External links used target='_blank' which the site visitors surely learned quickly without having to Google it. I found this to be a fair compromise to keep users engaged on the site and be polite with your intentions. Most links were provided in the context and in support of the original page so keeping it open did not seem rude to me, but the proper UI.

NOTE: This was a not-for-profit, so ROI was not a factor in the decision, only usability with possibly a little liability protection thrown in as an added bonus.