skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between art and design is that design serves a concrete purpose. Obviously there is creativity involved in designed, but the creativity of a good designer is about solving problems. This manifests in different ways, but for interactive or industrial design usability is the most important concern, and therefore, all else being equal, uniformity across sites is a good thing. Forms of visual design whose primary concerns are either/or attention-grabbing (eg. billboards, posters) or communication (eg. magazine, flyers) naturally enjoy a bit more creative leeway.

With established norms stabilizing on the web, UI creativity there can and should decrease. However that said, there is always the possibility for optimizing towards narrower and more specific problems, but this must be done sparingly since new interactive paradigms introduct a cognitive load on the user which may not be acceptable for the intended audience.
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I tend to type `gi tpull` instead of `git pull`, so I put this small thing into my .bashrc:

function gi {
first=$1;
shift;
first=${first/#t/};
git "$first" "$@";
}

(My bash-fu is very limited, but it seems to work).
The HFT experts from the book were amazed he didn't walk away with trading strategies, rather "plumbing" code, which is useless outside of Goldman (specific to their network, also his new employer used a different programming language) apart from a memory jogging exercise, like keeping a notepad. It would be much easier to write the new code from scratch rather than reuse the Goldman code.

And he didnt steal code, he backed it up on a subversion repo. There was unlikely any malicious intent, yet you labelled him a thief. If he was so obviously a thief, why would HFT experts be furious what happened to him, once they learned the details? Why were charges dropped? Why use an agent with no clue in the matter as a pawn? What you're saying doesn't make sense.
They're not as good as Paris, but they're getting better.

The first time I went to Japan, I had a number of experiences buying a perfect-looking french pastry, only to find that the inside was cakey, or filled with hot dog, or some other weird thing. It was like the form of the thing had been perfectly copied, but not the substance.

Went back again a couple of years ago, and the average pastry was much closer to what I'd buy at a decent shop in France. I figure they've got another few years before they're competing with the MOF winners. ;-)
Reminds me of playing with RhinoCAM and CNC routing during a digital fabrication course in college.
I've always liked Pascal and Modula-2 (never got round to trying Oberon). These programming languages are actually much simpler to learn than many recent languages, including supposedly "friendly" scripting languages that tend to have quite large and loose syntax.

Brian Kernighan wrote an influential essay "Why Pascal is not my favourite programming language" that strongly influenced the perception that Pascal was suitable only for teaching and not real production work.

The important point about languages with a small, finite (and clear) syntax is that you actually feel you could fully learn the language, maybe even master it. Your code may end up a little bit more verbose (anathema to many programmers, I know) but that doesn't mean it's unreadable.

I don't mind if a language is strict about the way it's syntax is written. I'm happy if it doesn't have shortcuts either (i.e. it has just one method to perform an operation or function). This, in my view, actually makes learning the language simpler and easier.

I've longed wished that there was a simple, strongly-typed compiled language with the lineage of Pascal available for modern server side web programming. Does anything like this exist?
Being a key member of an administration that engaged in torture, domestic surveillance and starting a war of aggression is pretty egregious. She wasn't just filling a seat. You can see her statements supporting torture for instance.

And, most especially in the case of Rice/Dropbox the issue is support for warrentless surveillance.

What Nazis were charged with is hardly relevant.
What is "pure opensource"? It's hard to imagine a credible closed source implementation in the age of NSA ubiquity.

I don't know PolarSSL. If it's a reasonably complete implementation then maybe it deserves more attention.
A downvote Dewie?

Really? That's your "scrutiny"?
You should take a different approach. Your target audience aren't the decision makers.
a. Try to sell the product to the decision makers in that business (school management etc.). Pitch them about saving resources. (employee time)
b. If for some reason you still wanna target the employees. Let them use it for a small number of cards (say 5% of what the general average for an employee is) and then make them pay for more. (they will only realise there time and effort saved when the witness it.(Pitching to them isn't really gonna help)
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Have a look at the "The mind's I" [1]. It is a collection of essays and other short texts on consciousness, self, AI and strange loops with added commentary by Hofstadter and Dennett.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self-Soul/...
He's worried that the company may grow and he'd then have rights to a big chunk of equity as the cofounder.

I'd establish that first. What kind of obligations has the company with him? just a salary/contract? part of the ownership?

So yeah, the vesting is key.

It simply doesn't resound logical to me that they are talking about firing him while at the same time he's needed for some months. Sounds ridiculous that they wouldn't have any role for him in that case, even if not as lead dev.

Reeks like backstabbing politics, so par for the course in the startup world.
Oh ok it's a tribute to the GRiD aesthetics revived in a dock.
Maybe because there is a very decent application in Linux called gLabels.

Besides that, the most important factor is the cost of one hour of work of an employee for the boss.
Have you read Kafka's The Trial?
"The creation of ID card is generally done with photoshop and separately edited for each card"

I've actually never seen this done. The schools and companies in my area all have systems that integrate the picture taking with the identity information and automatically print a card. What you're describing simply requires too much skill and time.

So you've built a product, but you're competing with packaged systems. I did a quick search and picked the first (non-ad) link: http://www.idsecurityonline.com/photo-id-systems/?gclid=CI2s.... It looks to me like you assumed you'd found a niche market without realizing the breadth of competition. Sorry ... and good luck.
Not a screenshot, but a js mockup of a new service I am working on with a few others.

http://junk.arandomurl.com/

In PouchDB We have a client side database that syncs in real time / works offline etc, but getting the server side of it setup for application users is still a hassle, this is gonna be a service (and an open source app), that deals with users authentication and datatase provisioning.

I want to get it to the place where you pretty much just sign up, include some js into your app and your uses have offline capable real time syncing application, some what along the lines of firebase except with a more capable offline experience (and open source)
I read somewhere about 'the kernel trick' (a machine learning concept used in vector classification), and decided to implement a few major distances (euclidean, absolute and dot product) and see what they would actually look like.

Here are 100 cases of the Iris dataset in a 'euclidean kernel': https://twitter.com/adrnsly/status/455305310488363008/photo/...

Turns out 'the kernel trick' and KNN classifiers can be chained endlessly in a recursive structure (as long as you build and propagate your neighbourhoods right!), which means they can be used as an activation system in a neural network (as opposed to the sigmoid or hypertan functions).
Gentoo, Arch at least (and related distros).
I also believe Fedora does that.
No offense but your patio11 sounds like a textbook LBH case.
This is just rawgithub.com on a new URL right?

I suppose they changed when github stopped using the raw.github.com host, so although this makes it a little more generic, it's lost the biggest usability advantage it had in that you could just delete the dot between "raw" and "github" and hey presto.

All together - wish this was on rawgithubusercontent.com !
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About you code. Alot of coders use different naming/formatting so that's an NON issue when it comes to your code. Also your the freakin co-founder... that CTO should have more important things to worry about than if the founder is writing camel-case / low-dash variables or functions. Testing is also optional, I know there are lots of coders that has written tons and tons of really useful code with little testing that works flawlessly. The main reason for using testing is maintainability, but since you are in the early stages of development you will usually end up rewriting your system later anyway, to a better / more secure version.
If design was just about letting the user get things done, can we conclude that iPad is terribly designed? I can do almost nothing productive on it.
Debian SID: not quite so fast but certainly close. Thinkpad X00s.

keith@mocha:~$ uname -a
Linux mocha 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Are rents higher than mortgages on comparable properties in SF and Seattle? In NY the mortgages are even worse.
It doesn't have to be that an extreme, making the employee(s) currently responsible for the cards redundant, but it would allow them to do more productive tasks. That said, those productive tasks may not be as relaxing and mindless as creating those cards in Photoshop.

Point still stands though.
If the CEO agrees with the CTO, then the company is dead.

It means the CTO is on a mission by the CEO, who was unable to speak directly with his cofounder.
http://www.floattheturn.com/dictionary.php?word=d&page=3

"Degenerate, often simply 'degen,' is a well-known appelation for players who behave in a self-destructive manner away from the poker table."
you should also read what OP is posting here in the thread.

"
> if you have hired a CTO who is better at engineering than you

He doesn't do development himself(he does review everything before it goes into the production branch), simply that he knows better developers than I.

I have re-written much of our original code to a point where it is of good quality, both in it's intended role and in readability.
"

The CTO hasn't written any production code so his software skills are questionable. The OP belives his current code is of good quality right now.
I have nothing to post but i really like the idea, especially considering the replies you got.
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Could be a founder principle: A few successful Web sites use a given UI approach, people get used to that, so new Web sites copy approach to minimise learning time. Couple that with Bootstrap's availability.

Example: Windows 95, 98, ME, and XP all had a panel at the bottom with a menu ('start') button on the left. That became normal for a computer. Anything different (Canonical's Unity, Gnome's Gnome-Shell) is seen as 'problematic'.

Reference: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the bit about the early history of motorbikes and the surprising range of arrangements.
There's a difference between sole investor in a specific financing round, and sole investor period. It's extremely rare that a16z is the only investor since they often don't participate in seed rounds and then try to do as much of the first equity financing round as possible.

From publicly available sources it's very clear that one of the two companies you listed has many more investors than a16z.
Getting things done and productivity are not the same.

If the thing I want to get done is watching a movie while I'm on a train then the iPad works well.

If I want to edit some code then a laptop is better.
You can never get pastries as good as in France for a simple reason: humidity. It influences the cooking process in such a way you can never get the same texture, and your pastry will become soft within hours of cooking because it soaks ambient humidity.

Pastries in Japan are still quite good, but they can never hope to compare with French ones - they developed their own style and adapted it to Japanese tastes as well, so you can't even expect to get something that has the same taste either, even if it looks alike. And for certain items, you just can't find anything that even matches the supermarket form of it in France : take Pains au chocolat, most of them scream of utter failure in Japan when you bite into them. And I've tried numerous ones, even in expensive bakeries, and was always disappointed.

And let's not forget pastries in Japan are way more expensive than in France. That counts, too.
There are a lot of super smart new employees who think smarts alone makes them qualified to jump into a new job and instantly know better than the people who have been working it for years.

And often they do. I've found a fresh perspective really helps as I am sometimes too close and invested in the existing process. Doesn't make it easy to stomach though...
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> - Subway maps light up to indicate where you are

That's certainly not unique to Japan.
Thanks for sharing. Japanese fanaticism over other cultures fascinates me. It's copying but with a uniquely Japanese undertone. It doesn't fit the easy sound bites of American generalization.
And that was for Windows XP, 13 years ago...
This, pretty much. At my school(s) the cards are generated automatically from registration on Moodle/WebSurf/WebPortal, and are printed from machines built specially for the purpose. I mean, one of the schools I'm talking about has 25,000 students, with at least a 20% churn rate every year. That's a lot of cards, they're not doing it in photoshop, sorry man. Cool product, good application of skills, though!
Just so you know, you have a name conflict with another open source project of an entirely different domain[1]. This may or may not matter to you.

[1] http://www.irc-wiki.org/Janus
Could never view that site on my iPhone (4S/iOS7.1). Mobile Safari crashes within a few seconds! Bad design from my 'user' perspective.
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Well sure but it the net was definitely more oriented to ppl that was into hacking / coding back then compared to now. Mainstream wasn't the net back then.
Bill Gates and IV chief have very deep relationship. There have been reports of Gates attending brainstorming sessions at IV office to generate patentable ideas. I honestly think IV has managed to sold Gates on the some beautiful vision. Or perhaps its just creating FUD that if you don't join in our patent cartel, others will get you. There are also reports that many IV employees have deeper access at Microsoft. For example, IV employees are regularly invited to otherwise employee-only event that Microsoft Research organizes every year. This is unprecedented level of access considering none public information there. Besides Microsoft is currently on defence and it can use all ammo that IV offers for small "membership" fee of their patent cartel.
Well in terms of layout and functionality, sure, I understand the need for consistency. My comment was referring to the artistic element of color schemes and fonts. That is the part that gets annoying when everybody does it the same. You can have consistency of function while being creative with colors and things like that. I love it when I show up on a site with bold colors and unique design ideas. It gives me the impression that the company is willing to try new things.
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Just like they fake the perceived slimness of their machines. Thin border, deeper bottom.

Looks better than it is, works very well.
I've built something similar: annaenber.nl. It was a great moment to build something using mongodb and to fiddle around with some CSS3 transitions. I always try to build small and releasable side-projects as an opportunity to learn new stuff.

In my case, privacy was the main reason to build the site: I did not want to share pictures of random guests (in more or less drunken state even) on the web. So we selected only images of ourselves and put all the others behind a login, accessible via a private mail with a token. Guests loved the fact they could download all the photo's too, there. :)
Maybe you're just annoyed everyone is using Twitter Bootstrap?
So if Apple have a private class with a method called 'invalidate' and I also have a method called 'invalidate', I go on the naugty list?

That sounds crazy. Wouldn't it make sense to keep a list of private classes rather than private selectors?
I just think that invisible hand of the market is an equally virtual limit effect as the many eyes ensemble. The stream of closed-source vulnerabilities is also substantial and a time-to-fix is much larger there, what effectively pays for the additional effort required to identify a flaw.

No free lunch in security rather hides in the trade-off with convenience.
Cool idea.
http://test.gmbl.io/static/img/displays/ScreenShot1.png

I've been building a football (soccer) stats site to teach myself to code. Python/Django. The main gist was I had stuff I did every week in spreadsheets to facilitate my losing money ( ;-) ) at the weekend, and wanted to automate it. Built a python program, realised it'd be nicer if it had a web interface, enter Django... spoke to some friends who asked if they could use it once they were done, and here we are.

No ads, no affiliate links (things that are genuinely horrible, if you're just looking for the stats, especially at work). For having started to learn to code less than a year ago, I'm pretty pleased. It'll soft launch before the end of the season.
What if you implement in-app purchases. It will look like a free program, but when they get used to it: "Bang! You have used all your id-card-coins for the week. Would you like to buy more?". This is how consumers are owned these days and they seem to enjoy it.
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I might be living in a country with very few banks (3). I may benefit from letting them know about a security issue, especially if because of that issue I could potentially go to jail

I may not have the option of changing bank because the others are even worse.

however I don't know how much I would pay for that. Probably some kind of class action would work.
What do you need to make a successful web app?
That's not true. They generally consider it people's own responsibility to take care of the trash themselves by taking it home & disposing of it there.

Most people don't stop to think: it costs money to dispose of trash. Here they just don't believe the city should have to foot the bill for your garbage. Different way of thinking about it, is all.
I love the language swapsies idea. I have never considered the idea people might want to learn English off me ... although my Mandarin is terrible.
I value your app at 99 cents.
Everywhere you go, the face of the Leader placed high on giant placards and banners...
I think this is a widespread misunderstanding about GPL, and I am afraid it is the reason why businesses typically have a GPL-aversion.
Thanks! We bootstrap the knowledge graph with WordNet and then build on top of it with knowledge extracted from Wikepedia and generic web pages. There is also a conversational interface to allow users to directly insert facts.
That is very impressive. I'm amazed they essentially keep a revision history of their system configuration.
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EULAs are largely a farce but in theory you have to accept the EULA to accept the software. As far as I know GPL/AGPL comes in at a different point entirely.
Reasonable doubt is the standard for burden of proof in criminal cases, not in civil cases.
Nope, but they only keep their dream in the head. Client want other useful design (not dream) right now.
"You can never get pastries as good as in France for a simple reason: humidity. It influences the cooking process in such a way you can never get the same texture, and your pastry will become soft within hours of cooking because it soaks ambient humidity."

France is a big place. I'm reasonably sure that humidity levels differ between French cities, yet they still make French pastries.

I mean, I get it: you're always going to find some reason to like French pastries better. But "humidity" is a pretty bad reason, since you can actually control it.
A friend of his has claimed privately that he takes advantage of specific lossback deals that certain casinos give certain high rollers, and this gives him a positive expectation at craps at least some of the time.

However, it's hard to know how much truth there is to that.
Can you make an online demo or something that shows it working on my laptop? I have a hard time believing that you can localize my gazes - I need to see for myself.
"Something you dont need" contains the points everyone focusing on developing a quick MVP should focus on.
what if that file is per container and every software runs isolated? it's still a potential issue because you could retrieve other sensible information (log files?).
> the company is dead.

No, it's not. It means the relationship between the cofounders is severely damaged. The company may be fine.

Everyone is making the assumption here that what the CTO is doing is wrong. It may have been the right thing to do for the company. It is just the wrong thing for the OP.

I think the OP should lawyer up, try to get fairly compensated for his contributions, and end the relationship.

Business is unemotional. Those that invest their life into a business are emotional. Be true to yourself and it is ok to love what you do and enjoy who you work with and what you work on, but when it comes down to it, it is a job. Founders are no more special than any others. As soon as you start making significant progress from idea to product, ensure that you have clear written contracts setup.

There should really be a site for those beginning their company that provides sample contracts and talk about about the pros and cons of each approach for ensuring that when relationships end, things are handled in manner civil and with prior understanding of how things work. It could only be a good thing, because the incentive will be there to work more effectively in order to contribute in a way that will end in value immediately and/or later, regardless of the outcome. There are a lot of people that specialize in helping people in this regard, but I can't think of a site that is specifically for the purpose I'm speaking of.
Sorry for confusing watching movies with getting things done
Ca. 65% of Japanese are concentrated on this area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiheiy%C5%8D_Belt