skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on precisely what you mean by worst.

There is a deep, objective sense in which spending more than a year on a site that never got launched was bad. A permanent loss of meaning for that time. But it doesn't hit quite so hard as, for instance, being woken up every night for two weeks due to a bug I wasn't allowed to fix in an integration with our monitoring system, or when the amped-on-amphetimines founder threw a chair at the guy I was sharing an office with (and later explained how this was a better way to handle their disagreement than firing him, because he was really quite talented, wouldn't firing him have been bad for the company?) -- this made it impossible to work, the anxiety was just....

I think that's the odd part. A lot of the answers here have the distance of time, and know what's important. At the time, stuff like that, like having the management team demean and laugh at you for being concerned about honesty with business partners -- it has such a salient emotional impact it's hard to remember it's not even in the right category for 'worst thing'.
I think asking for meeting frequency is a good one, and one that speaks to the job as opposed to the remuneration.

When you get the answer "maybe 20, it varies" rather than end the interview, understand the environment. So I'm going to assume that going to meetings for you is something you don't like to do (and I can certainly understand that, worthless meetings are worthless) But in this same stream of questions my next one after 20 would be "How many of those meetings are run by the person in this position?" If the previous person in that position was calling 15 meetings a week it would credible to ask if the job required them to do that (and if so why) or if it was simply their preferred way of operating? If you are leading/managing a project with a fairly large scope you may find it easier to have a short meeting with the sub-project groups than read imr emails each week, where i, m, and r are issues, members, and replies. But if its a small company and the previous person just wanted to have meetings with everyone to feel useful, that might not be your style either. If there are 20 people/groups that want the person in this position to be at their meeting then its a valid question of how you might want to scale that position in a way that doesn't involve meetings.

Money is a "score" and number of meeting are a "task". Mercenaries go for a big score and don't care about the tasks needed to get there. There isn't anything wrong about being a mercenary, it is just another community of people.
Woohoo.
Thanks to everyone.
https://distrokid.com/ Clear message, clear design, clear call to action and a bonus FAQ and Testimonials all on the home page. There aren't any js/css3 effects for bells and whistles and the site loads fast. Great job Pud.
Agreed. I was half-imagining an in-house railway system made of Lego pieces, somehow.
One of my favorites http://rallyapp.io
When I was a kid any mention of a sore throat brought out the swabs and the merthiolate or mercuro-chrome. I think that's what it was called anyway. Always ended up with red-orange tonsils. Also, any cuts or scrapes were dosed with the same stuff. Band-aids and mercuro-chrome - I'll never forget the smell of a new band-aid.
Something I through I would do to learn Go. Thanks it will be a little easy learning :)
The author is of course absolutly correct in every respect but I can't help thinking that he's is one of those devs who struggles terribly with programming. This type tends to give up eventually. Sometimes after years of work. His struggle to learn git is telling. Sure git is complex but it's not quite that hard for many of us. This leads to bewildered frustration with programming and a general distrust of all programs.
I don't have Lisp, can you link to a pastebin e.g. at https://ideone.com/ that runs it?
> I question whether you read this text in good faith...

What is good faith? You're picking a small (although perfectly valid -- re-read Part II for whatever quotes you need on the self-professed motives of penal reformers) objection pulled pretty much at random from my marginalia rather than addressing the more substantive complaints in my original post.

And even here your defense is speculative ("perhaps") and offered in a non-committal way that ironically conflicts with Foucault's own viewpoint by subsuming the problem in a moral framework ("travesty") rather than contextualizing it as a power struggle in an amoral Marxist context. So even if your defense is correct then Foucault's sweeping ontological statements are inappropriate and overbearing, which is part of my complaint.

If you want to focus on bigger ideas, I've posted four more major complaints in a post above. If you are able to explain what Foucault means without making his position sound absurd and/or contradicting his own writing, you'll have done a better job explaining his ideas than he did.
Therefore, the conspiracy must be massive and absolutely flawless to make so many scientists think it's not Literally Satan.

It all comes together. It all makes sense. I bet it can't melt steel beams, either.

/s
http://slimwiki.com
Debian 8 “Jessie” Released
Magic previously had a serif font (Times?) and it was just a plain 10 digit phone number. The page was actually really off-putting to users [citation needed] until they eventually fixed it.

(Yeah, I don't remember the article outlining that it did. But I remember that it did. Magic started off as a kind of hack or whatever.)
Open and unsecured systems: it is shocking what you can find on the internet
Paul Graham said something about startups that I think was very, very wrong for most people. That you "compress your career into a few short years." That might be true for a very small number of very smart people, but for most everyone, it's a long road of several failed startups and well over a decade before they find success. It's like being a musician, only not quite as depressing. You don't know beforehand what you need to be focused on, all too often you're buying in whole-cloth to a idea that hasn't been vetted being implemented by a team that's never worked together and you just ignore all the risks because reasons and oh god this is too hard to think about so I'll just focus on what's in front of me.

You only get to compress your working life if your startup actually finds legs, and manages to find a lucrative exit, and you didn't get screwed on the cap table. Unless it does, you're working awful hard for what's effectively a lottery ticket.

Some people really really really need to work really really really hard. These people would be well-served to do some self-inquiry as to why they need to do this rather than try to find the right vehicle for their efforts, because that kind of effort is rarely rewarded, no matter what vehicle you put it in.
I like these more for their aesthetic properties than for any technical or sales-focussed reason. I really have no idea how well any of these would convert.

http://www.getjustlanded.com

http://www.firewatchgame.com

http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
Big fan of Dropbox's - Very Clean
Best use of parallax scrolling I have ever see on firewatchgame.com.
Yes, I loved it too. The only thing I wish they'd done differently is not make me sit there for the music after every single missile powerup. Just watch a 100% TAS of it to see what I mean...
A freighter-from-the-beginning variant could be possible. But knowledgeable people I've heard from say that taking a passenger A380 and doing a freighter conversion is probably either not possible due to the internal structure of the plane, or if possible would end up costing more than the resulting plane would be worth.
I'm not a fan of Pepsi but they seem to continuously make choices based on the market. Each step is a step to greater market-share.
Interestingly, the old file(1) was also written by an OpenBSD developer -- Ian Darwin of Toronto. I met him at a BSDCan, nice chap.

http://mdoc.su/f/file.1

http://darwinsys.com/file/

Apparently, Ian no longer considers himself a maintainer, devoting such title to Christos Zoulas of NetBSD and Two Sigma.
All the product pages from Panic (panic.com) are always a joy. They are simple, clear, and pleasing to the eye. Here is a good example http://www.panic.com/prompt/
Likewise. To me, it's like getting my mouth coated by an oil slick, and then it's all I can taste for an hour. I can't understand how anyone could stand it.
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
Another problem with sucralose in particular is that it appears to persist through standard wastewater treatment:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897219/

Which means that the more sucralose we consume, the more sucralose goes into our ecology, with unknown results on nature.
another way of achieving this https://github.com/PerArneng/fortune
There was another service that appeared on HN shortly after this did offering a similar service but for small coding projects. Does anyone remember the name?
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Here's what I want as a software engineer. I want to be respected for my opinion.

If I say that a customer change is a complicated task, I think it's great if my manager engages me and takes me to task on why I think that is -- as long as this is done from a position of respect and not from a position of disbelief.

When I say "We are likely going to have to implement X, because the customer won't give us an answer on it and just like the last feature, they said it was fine not to have right up until the last minute when it suddenly wasn't", I DON'T want the response to be "So, if we don't have to do X, it should only take a few days, right?".

In case it's not obvious, what I'm dealing with right now in my job is management that expects me to be up front with them but can never seem to believe what I say when I am. It's like they take the most blindly optimistic interpretation of what you say, even though that's not what you said, then hold you accountable for what you didn't say when the shit hits the fan.

If I went to my doctor and he said "You need to take this medication or it's 90% likely you'll get sick", most people would think I was an idiot if I decided to decline the doctor's advice, then complained that the doctor didn't know what he was talking about because I got sick.

So yeah, as a software engineer I want to be respected as an expert in my domain in the same way that people generally don't think it's okay to second-guess their lawyers/doctors/basically any other profession it seems than software engineering.

/Vent is now over :)
So they're swapping it out for Splenda. Coke already has a Diet Coke with Splenda.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/file/fi...

I'm not so familiar with FreeBSD coding standards and design practices but it looks like that could still be refactored even more by getting rid of all the extra memory allocations (and deallocations), making future changes less likely to introduce bugs. For example it's allocating one structure for each file given as input, and making copies of all the paths... which I'm pretty sure isn't necessary as file tests each of its input files independently; the code misleadingly implies, however, that they are somehow dependent. The old version was better in this respect.

That said, compared to the much more complex old version, the rest of it is an improvement.
http://gethelium.com
Absolutely love Stripe's homepage. It is simple and yet explains everything. Their website as a whole is a benchmark.
On front page 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856
For those curious, here's what the above message is base64 decoded:

d7:address24:udp://192.168.0.100:60602:id36:8158a718-a69b-4551-afc6-a5d42d1651854
:name9:fannytown4:pkey800:
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
<key gibberish>
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
;15:mempko.com:8080
http://www.area301.com/
My understanding, when they made diet coke they couldn't replicate the flavor of coke that well, so diet coke is based on an entirely different formula. Coke zero is supposed to be coke without sugar.
That would make sense to say if we were talking about the entire university; but we're not.
Haha, cool hack! link to the gist?
Good question, that might be a good thing to add into the guide too. Here's a short take: From a tax perspective, they're the exact same. There won't be any difference in your tax rate at all between the two. So unless you need the added liability protection b/c you're working on something like a healthcare related app, then going w/ just your own name should be fine.
You can compute the gradient, it just has a high budget cost.

The usual winner is a flavor of CMA-ES, though they may have picked up the functions to avoid this.
http://mixr.ewakened.com

Best LP I've ever designed, 67% conversion rate.
Considering these are credit card numbers and you are trying to protect the account holders, is it really a smart idea to upload the names and numbers to some third party website?
A good and systematic approach to incorporate fuzzing findings would be as follows:

1) Identify a harmful input through fuzzing
2) Reduce the input to minimal testcase
3) Contribute testcase and fix to existing code

Note the absence of "rewrite the whole thing without tests" in this process. From-scratch rewrites that may or may not have fewer bugs than their predecessors are known as CADT.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Yes, work for free for 4 months... but not that way.

In 4 months you could contribute to a number of open-source projects, launch some pet projects, and build up your portfolio/github with great examples of your talent.

If you're gonna work for free for 4 months, that's they way I would do it... after that experience you'll be able to get better position at a better salary.
Once you get used to it that goes away. Regular coke tastes really weird if I have been drinking diet for a while and the same happens if I switch to diet from regular. I'm pretty sure they are all bad for you regardless.
Ah they've messed with scrolling :( that's not nice
All the ones I've wanted to use have had bindings already written for them though...
Absolutely agree. As an introvert, I knew myself well enough to bring along an extroverted friend when I chose to venture into the unknown. He was a total life-saver; the trip would have been a disaster otherwise.
I like the 'how it works' diagram that we put right on the front page @ https://Userify.com... (ssh key manager, new version dropping next week). More companies should tell how it works right up front like that even if it's ugly.
Shameless plug: anyone interested should be able to get baseline results and above easily by using libcmaes. I am one of the authors with no time to compete, but am interested in reports on how it goes. Also if you are a researcher or a student the lib should let you experiment easily with various custom strategies.

https://github.com/beniz/libcmaes
http://mashape.com - few call to actions, lots of empty space. delivered great results for us.
The main breakdown products of aspartame are aspartic acid and phenylalanine. You may have been born with a genetic mutation that makes it possible for you to taste phenylalanine, which tastes bad.
Came here to post Kaleidoscope. It's been years since I last saw that page, and as soon as I saw the question, it was the first answer that came to mind.
AnonCVS (the idea of a repository that J. Random user could just look at
at any time) was the first innovation of OpenBSD. I guess you whipper-snappers don't remember it,
but back 20 years ago for the most part unless you were on the team you
would only see a project's source with each release. And several projects had an annoying tendency
to take patch submissions and mutter, "yeah, um, we've fixed that already in CVS" and quietly apply your patch.
> It doesn't replaces JavaScript in any way

Except for the important place, my code tree
Non-paywall link:

http://bit.ly/1DxLxwr

Unshortened-URL version:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQ-AsoAzAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fpepsico-to-replace-aspartame-with-sucralose-in-diet-pepsi-in-u-s-1429885941&ei=T1s8VYm0H8GpgwTyi4SoCA&usg=AFQjCNHZrziPYCuq9EVY7qBwvxo9yd_Qwg&bvm=bv.91665533,d.eXY

Same news from US News & World Report:

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/04/24/diet...
Improving Education Through Shorter Evaluation Cycles
This one breaks navigation gestures on OSX - I really dislike websites which over-ride scrolling behaviour.
Really? This is what I'm getting: http://somevid.com/p9A0o8k6aoTGXJmGzPlW

OsX Chrome 42
Looks like everything went according to the plan =).
A web-reading bot made millions on the options market
justlanded is so simple and beautiful, couldn't be more straight forward. I love it!
Every product on Stripe:

https://stripe.com/checkout

https://stripe.com/connect

https://stripe.com/subscriptions

https://stripe.com/bitcoin
On the contrary, logical analysis is generally not well suited to the understanding of human behavior.
I like how it actually shows you what it does!
OpenGrok on BSD Cross Reference is probably more useful in looking at it.

http://BXR.SU/OpenBSD/usr.bin/file/file.c.
Pull request? :)
Their data is getting more and more stale by the day. They rely on users for that data, so as the users go, so does the relevant data.
Vikram Chandra is a writer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Chandra_(novelist)
I used jq as well, though instead of doing a seperate echo I did this:

([{name: "name", creditcard: "creditcard"}] + .)[]

instead of .[]

Another less hacky way would be:

[["name", "creditcard"]] + map(select(.creditcard) | [.name, .creditcard]) | .[] | @csv
> And yes, one of NSA's mandates is to secure U.S. communications:

No, their mandates is to secure military and national security systems. From your own link, their responsibilities with respect to information assurance are (emphasis mine):

- Act as the National Manager for National Security Systems as established in law and policy, and *in this capacity be responsible to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director, National Intelligence*

- Prescribe security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission, handling, and distribution of signals intelligence and communications security material *within and among the elements under control of the Director of the National Security Agency*

The legal definition of National Security System is[1]:

(1) National security system.— In this section, the term “national security system” means a telecommunications or information system operated by the Federal Government, the function, operation, or use of which—
(A) involves intelligence activities;
(B) involves cryptologic activities related to national security;
(C) involves command and control of military forces;
(D) involves equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system; or
(E) subject to paragraph (2), is critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions.
(2) Limitation.— Paragraph (1)(E) does not include a system to be used for routine administrative and business applications (including payroll, finance, logistics, and personnel management applications).

NIST has responsibility for providing guidance on securing unclassified government systems and commercial networks.[2] Like the parent commenter said, securing White House communications in particular falls under the purview of the White House Communications Agency, which is subordinate to DISA.[3]

Most of the efforts to bring the NSA and the rest of the intelligence agencies into the fold with regards to securing U.S. communications at large have been heavily protested: [4][5]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/40/11103

[2] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/csl91-02.txt

[3] http://www.disa.mil/Careers/WHCA

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_Information_Shar...
I have always wondered if that page worked cold. That is, someone got convinced to sign up by that page and didn't go there already convinced to sign up.
http://www.callrail.com - I'm biased, but I really love ours... It was designed by Bruno(https://dribbble.com/brunofelicio) and I built it. In my opinion it'd be perfect if we took the time to make it responsive.
Everyone can save themselves some time and not bother clicking through to this "Test page".
In Uruguay we have CocaCola with Stevia. Are we the only ones ? I think they are testing it. As a Diet Pepsi fan, I really liked it.
This is great advice, thank you. I backpacked through Europe with my best friend and we tried to do too much in too little time. As you said, there's a lot of value in taking it slow and making decisions based on how you feel, rather than what you think you "should" do.
I hear you, but I also see some value in the products. I'd put it this way: I'm a 29 year old male, do I really want to see an ad for women's bras, Dora the Explorer, or Viagra pills? No. If I'm going to be subjected to advertising all day, I'd much rather it be targeted and somewhat relevant to me.

That being said, there are certain times when my privacy is of upmost concern, and I use Tor when applicable.

In general though, I feel like any privacy on the internet is (at this point) an illusion at best, so (though it may be a cynical point of view) I assume no more harm is done by further breaches of privacy. Maybe I'm wrong at that point, but I assume privacy is a Boolean, and once it's set to false, it's false for good...these companies might as well gobble up the data too.
I like it, but I think it must be noted that it is one of the Bootstrap templates for landing pages.
Coca-Cola Life is being sold in the U.S. here and there. Seems like a widespread test more than a full-scale roll-out at the moment. But yeah, it's here.
That did cross my mind - my solution used a full json parser (jq), and I did a quick grep for commas in name or creditcard fields before using a "%s,%s"-style solution to generate the CSV - if there had been any present, I would have fallen back to a slightly longer form of python -c 'import csv...'
Well, with tools like AFL (American Fuzzy Loop) it is more like rolling dice to find a path through a maze of numbered doors - adjusting the dice rolled (6-sided, 2-sided ...) based on how far one has come, and how many doors there is to choose from... ok, it's not really like rolling dice any more at all. Did you read:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.no/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin...
I like http://basecamp.com (I love the artwork, to be honest), and lately I have found http://getbeagle.co - though its usability could be discussed, I like its aesthetic.
There's great landing pages everywhere nowadays. The better ones have very clear value proposition and examples of how to use the product. A few examples:

http://mailchimp.com/

https://www.kissmetrics.com/

https://www.intercom.io/

https://www.heroku.com/

https://vwo.com/
> Curious - when you travel, how do you find families to live with? That sounds really fun.

There is a whole industry around this. Take a look at http://www.homestay.com/, it's like Airbnb except you book a family, not just an apartment.
for me I am a huge fan of http://www.dropbox.com

I know its kind of mainstream (and not sucking up to YC) but I just love it and always use it as an onboarding example.
Yes but FB has the advantage of everyone knowing what it is/does. That is very rare, if I didn't know what FB was I would see that page and immediately leave because it tells me nothing about their service.

It's great for FB but would be horrible for just about any other product or service.
I'm not a designer but the text sizes for headings, CTAs and the product name feels plain wrong on this page. There also isn't any contrast for action buttons so they're somewhat camouflaged. This leaves the product name and CTAs (probably two of the most important landing page elements) feeling very underwhelming.

The page also is not responsive.

Why in particular do you like this landing page?