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The big content is for the people who jump into the site and want to read just a few articles. It's the "most important". It gets clicks. The people who sit on the site all day are…

Why was this changed from "Show HN"? gisikw worked pretty hard on this.

The reason that the big content is on the right is that it is the most popular content, likely already read. The new stuff is on the left, and we want the eye to move across the pa…

There's a write up of it here: http://mashable.com/2012/11/14/introducing-the-new-mashable/

The patent in question, as mentioned in the linked story, is patent 5,946,647: http://www.google.com/patents?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a... It patents a way to process addresses and…

What led to the demise of games like this? More time-intensive, slow, thinking games; simulations like these have always held interest for a lot of people. I certainly didn't becom…

Anyone else seeing a 500?

SimCity Societies doesn't count. That's like saying "The Sims: Urbz" was a part of the Sims series. Different developers just using the brand, it played more like a really dumbed d…

I'm really looking forward to this. Simcity was my one of my first introductions to a computer, actually. (Yes, I'm young.)

Node isn't an application framework, it's an event-driven javascript-based server. This is totally an acceptable way to handle it, so long as it takes advantages of Node's event-ba…

The best part about this in my opinion is that the controller system works on both the client and server. I've been waiting for this, was planning on building it myself if no one f…

You can. Many people do. At least with the 7" Kindle.

They have actually managed to make adult stem cells pluripotent (research at the UW Madison did this), and furthermore have managed to make them from a person's own skin (again, UW…

There's not really an advantage to embryonic stem cells anyways.

Probably for the low taxes, I'd guess.

I'm not taking personal offense, I'm just saying 1. It's not perfectly reasonable. 2. It's not rational 3. It is valid, but it is not sound. It's not an advantageous approach. It i…

The question is, why should I care to not end a statement in a semicolon? I gain no advantage. Any speed in coding advantage comes from my editor, not omitting semicolons. Most peo…

I understand JS just fine, and I know where semicolons are needed and where they aren't. But minimalism is not a reason to avoid using them. Feeling you're more clever because you …

Yes, it's specified, but you can avoid any confusion and make easier to read code by just using semicolons. It's what's called a "best practice".

This is utterly stupid. And the example he cites for why he prefers an odd function syntax doesn't cause errors..... if you use semicolons . JavaScript interpreters insert semicolo…

It has canvas hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration is a new feature in Android 4. Hence, it is only available on ICS.

That is far from their only weakness. They have really weak ad-clicks-per-users numbers. They rate at which they add new users has been slowing drastically.

The white noise idea is fascinating.

But Twitter is too.