skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The main issue right now is that there's no industry standard in place for this type of technology, so it could be difficult to gain acceptance from PC makers and the like.

Yes, the author really figured out what the main issue is right there.
The "extra mile" probably comes from Matthew 5:41 "If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." (or "And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.") You used the phrase perfectly in your comment -- it's about going above and beyond what was expected.

The mileage comment was more from the auto manufacturers / EPA who tested cars. A car will have been tested on specific conditions and found to achieve a certain Miles per Gallon. However - accelerate/brake hard, drive more in the city or other different conditions and you would get a completely different result. Hence the standard disclaimer of "your mileage may vary..." That made it's way into the lingo as a standard phrase meaning "this is pretty subjective - it might be the same for you, it might not"

So aside from the word "mileage" being derived from the base word "mile", there isn't much overlap between the two phrases.

(Oh - and a related note for my American friends - as much as I hate imperial units - I will give you credit that mileage is a nice word. litres/100km is still a better unit than MPG, but mileage is a better term than fuel efficiency (or kilometreage).)
I had that originally, but was worried paranoid about XSS attacks (needlessly?). Will re-enable this week.
This interpretation makes caching illegal and puts routing in a gray area. If not instructing against caching is implied consent to redistribute the content, then you're essentially agreeing with me.

robots.txt is indeed intended for crawling, but if it's there and you redistribute someone's content anyway, I'd consider it less defensible.
Good idea! I was just about to start it, and decided to do a search in case someone had something similar. This plugin looks pretty good, actually: http://kingdesk.com/projects/wp-hyphenate/
What Would You See As You Plummet Into a Black Hole? (Video)
In Belgium the standard fee is about €530 a year, not including housing and books. If you come from a low income family you pay significantly less and have the option of cheap housing.
I re-read it a few days ago and thought I'd see what discussion the essay had. Was surprised to find no mention on searchyc.com. Was very surprised to see it posted today :)
Search rankings have nothing to do with copyright law, which seems to be the basis of your argument. You have yet to give a decent argument that materially distinguishes Scribd from Google's cache, caching proxies, or even the basic routing required for any request on the internet, which copies content by definition.

See also: http://docs.google.com/viewer
You're right it's just like Harry Potter.
First off, kickass site, very impressive that you did this, let alone over the weekend. I look forward to browsing through the source.

OK, so general SEO question. Do search engines trip up after this? Why? Are they parsing HTML straight up or do they have funky rules?

FOR EXAMPLE, I have heard that <h1> gives benefit to enclosed text. i have wondered this: but can u just have jquery automatically replace it on pageload and then get credit for arbitrary keywords while actually presenting the viewer with different phrasing. wouldn't that work?

anyway, couldn't you apply my idea similarly? this would be a really simple jquery plugin
South Africa is one of the poorest countries, yet the #1 selling new car is a BMW. Even if they can't afford the rent, somehow people find ways to spend money on their vehicles, buying crap like alloy wheels and pointless spoilers or darkened windows. I know many people like this, it's very counterintuitive.
Great stuff man. I recommend you change the sample copy that you used to something more relevant (i.e. programming/web dev related) so your google ads are more relevant.
It is a system that groups buyers together so that the seller can use economies of scale.

The more buyers, the lower the price.
You can live in your car, but you can't drive in your house ;)
Not sure if it's laziness, but a lack of courage, confidence, trust and... dare I say it... faith.

The unknown is scary.
Compiler bugs are like lupus. It's not lupus, either.

Relatedly, a certain outsourcing company I can't name really, really needs to stop closing every ticket with "We investigated and it should work fine, so it is probably a framework bug." Particularly when the code at issue looks like:

String someLabel = null;
someLabel.split(","); // throws NPE. Probably framework bug.
Ask HN: Free shell hosting with compiling?
Anyone using anything they're a fan of?
Where do you get them for cheap?
SMS msgs are not guaranteed to be received in the same order sent.
New Youtube Interface?
You should rewrite hyphenate_html as a walker rather than a recursion, because Python has a stack, and arbitrary input could make you reach max recursion.

http://github.com/fortes/softhyphen/blob/master/hyphenate_ht...
when in Buzz, the search field at top becomes "Search Buzz" as opposed to "Search Mail" -- really fast searches of the whole network. It's far from dead.
This is why Eric Schmidt uses a Yahoo email address.
Linux, on your desktop or server, isn't something a reasonable person would compare to an iPhone. If you'd like to talk about Android devices vs. an iPhone, there are useful comparisons to be made (and Android may not come out ahead in all such comparisons).

I'll also ask what Linux distribution you're using, that would lead you to building things from source on a regular basis? I build things from source as part of my job and I don't even do it more than a couple of times per month. Nearly everything I use on my servers and desktops is available from yum or apt-get repositories, and it would never cross my mind to build from source, except for the tiny number of packages I need either custom build of, or I'm the developer of.

When I've maintained Mac and Windows servers, on the other hand, I was building software all the time. Everything I used had to be built from source. This has improved a little bit over the years, particularly on Mac OS X, in the form of fink, but a lack of a good standard package manager in Mac OS X and Windows is a major deterrent from me using them. Keeping on top of updates on a stack of a couple dozen packages all built from source, is a security and stability nightmare.
I am put off by the article's title, but otherwise Alan makes some good points: I would prefer that Buzz not show the number of new items. I have been using Buzz like I use Twitter: about 10 minutes a day (each) to take a quick look for interesting things to read. I'm enjoying Buzz, and as long as it is easy to completely disable it I don't think that people have much to complain about.

BTW, a little off topic but: how difficult is it really to remove duplicate entries in Google Reader and similar aggregators? Even better: recognize which articles are original and which are just summaries with a link to the original article. Eliminate duplicates, favoring original articles. (Seems like NGRAMS or comparing word count statistics might do the trick.)
i cant even remember the last time i visited yahoo...

although i do remember the first time using mosaic...
There's a similarity in that neither fexprs nor lazy functions evaluate their arguments up front, but lazy functions will eventually, if they run and access that argument at all, get an evaluated version of it. Fexprs can get the actual raw unevaluated argument and poke at it, so if you call (foo (+ 1 2)), foo gets the syntax-tree (+ 1 2) if it's an fexpr, while if it's a function, lazy or otherwise, it will only ever see the value 3.
Have a baby if you feel like having a baby, but there's lots of great reasons to have an abortion; almost 100% of them are none of our fucking business, unless we're involved in the fucking.
http://cache.techie-buzz.com/images/posts/Omkar%20Dutta/Post...

I highly recommend it if you regularly have 10+ tabs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” —Steve Jobs

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html
Afer Nine Years, IE6 Finally, Nearly, Almost, Just About Dead
disagree.

words have power, and that aint going anywhere.
Los Angeles seems to be taking the same approach as New York, see http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_...
I just wanted to point out, two sentences in your edit actually cut directly to the heart of this issue.

Is the base starting point for society moral fairness or at least its amoral approximation of stability? The question of who benefits most (previously discussed at length in the comments) obviously.. by definition.. is more or less everyone.

Where does the wealth come from? the chicken or the egg? the farmer or the chickens? I think it fair to say with the experience of the past few years that wealth flows from the poor to the rich in boom times and from the poor to the rich in bust times.

Who benefits from stability more taking this into account?
Do I even need to answer this question?
Okay, so from my vantage as an electrical manufacturer the point of syncfu is to help me achieve economies of scale. The more people that purchase, the more I can lower my price.

You don't currently obligate buyers to make an actual purchase, so the price that the other buyers pay might be too heavily discounted. For example, 100 people reserve, but only 20 actually buy - in this case I might not make a profit since the per unit costs for 20 are much higher than for 100.

I'd rather see a similar grouping mechanism that requires full commitment from both buyers and sellers, like ebay does. You'd probably have to do this with accounts, points and validation.

As for the actual purchase you could do this:

The seller creates a graph of price vs size of the production run, as now. They specify how often they would like to do production runs (sales).

Each buyer specifies the maximum amount they would be willing to pay, by clicking on the purchase graph. They specify how long they are willing to wait until it reaches that price. They enter all their credit card and billing details into the system, and have made a promise to purchase at that price or below.

When the sale ends, the system attempts to solve the graph for price. Everyone who "bid" above this price pays the solved price, everyone below is moved to the next run, unless their stated "latest date" would be passed by waiting that long.

You then bill everyone who said that they would pay. You make the lump sum available to the retailer who then satisfies the orders. This way there is no risk to a buyer that they will pay more than they want, and no risk to a seller that you will set the wrong price.

When I say solve for price, what I mean is that

- 1 person chooses the 1 user price (A)

- 2 people chose the 5 user price (B)

you solve, 1 user (A) gets the 1 user price, they get billed, B moves into next round (unless their time limit has expired)

now more people come along

- 5 users choose the 10 user price (C)

- 6 users chose the 12 user price (D)

+ 2 people chose the 5 user price (B)

So now you can manufacture at the 13 user price because that will satisfy everyone.
Mind explaining the situation that you encountered? Maybe we can come up with something.
I just went through a major purge in order to downsize from a 1000 sq ft house, to a ~220 sq ft RV. I've still got too much stuff, but I'm getting closer.

Stuff weighs you down, and makes making major life changes more difficult (even if you know you need them). I stayed in Mountain View at least a year longer than I should have, from a contentment perspective, mostly because the thought of moving was just too much to handle.

Some things I will never allow myself to again have a lot of: Books, CDs and DVDs, more furniture than I use every day, more rooms than I use every day, more computers than I use every day, and anything (clothes, tools, foodstuffs, kitchenwares, etc.) that can sit in a closet or on a shelf for more than a year without being needed. Even now, I think I have probably twice as much stuff as I really need, and I'm planning to move into a smaller, but nicer, RV in a few months, once I've downsized more thoroughly.
There's no real shortage of sinatra clones for js:

http://www.fabjs.org/
http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/
http://github.com/visionmedia/express/

and there's no real trick to using them:

require 'express'
require 'express/plugins'

configure ->
use MethodOverride
use ContentLength
set 'root', __dirname

get '/hello', ->
@contentType('html')
'<h1>Hello World </h1>'

get '/user/:id?', (id) ->
@render 'user.haml.html', {
locals: {
name: if id? then 'User '+id else 'You'
}
}
They are comparing you to web-apps like this: http://getsatisfaction.com/

You need to get better at distilling your messages into just a couple of words.
Accounting, supply chain, and finance are fairly empirical and solid skill based everywhere. Actuarial science programs are practically straight-up math. Sure, in general undergraduate business programs are less rigorous than engineering or physics, but some are certainly based on legitimate hard skills and knowledge; you can't write them off as wishy-washy BS.
This is very cool idea, but the whole thing gives me the impression that it was developed without customer feedback.

Is anyone using it? Group buying is something that can be done without any special tools. If people are already doing it, then there are probably group buying forums out there that could use your support in making them more efficient.

If people aren't already doing group buying, then the real work is in convincing people to do it! If you don't already have connections to merchants who are doing this, then you need to find them, or start doing it yourself.

I hope this works out for you, because it seems like an awesome idea. The app looks good, but comes across as being a technical tool, rather than something that generates sales.
Palin is not campaigning against the word. Rather, Rahm Emmanuel, the White House Chief of Staff (who, in general, has a reputation for cursing like a sailor), described certain political opponents as “retarded”, and Palin, whose son has Down’s Syndrome, criticized him for it. If you think Palin was purely motivated by compassion for the developmentally disabled and not at all by the fact that the person she lambasted hails from an opposing political party, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Summary of new quantum gravity theory by Chris Lee
15% of 35% is still lower than 35% of 35%.

Why do you think so many CEOs like Steve Jobs have a $1 salary? Do you really think it is because they want to pay more taxes?
I agree that it is somewhat useful to have these ancillary classes such as marketing, finance which would complement well with a degree in engineering i.e. computer science, materials science, biomedical etc.
That is true. My parents were reduced to selling all their crockery for food during the Cultural Revolution, and we were certainly poor after we came to the US. However, we are not poor anymore, are unlikely to be poor again, and there is no longer a reason for my mother to save our used Kleenexes. I wish I were kidding.
So far, one of my favorite features of CoffeeScript is how responsive you are to questions comments and concerns jashkenas.
Corollary (on second thought, Axiom):

Heisenbugs do not exist, computers are deterministic.

Things that do exist:

Pieces of code that I do not understand.
Pieces of code that I have not read.
Pieces of code that interact in ways which I do not expect.
There are essentially two types of comedians: "intelligent humor" and "dick and fart jokes". Silverman falls into the latter; Bill Hicks in the former...
See also de-facto monopoly power over navigation on the Internet, which they can (and do) use to ban sites from being accessible for any reason they feel like. I think the overwhelming perception is that "Oh, that only happens to black hat SEOs" and this is true right about until it happens to your site. At that point, welcome to Kafka.

(It says something that every time I criticize Google publicly I get a little scared because I know that flipping a bit in the Googleplex would cause my business to fold like an origami crane. Granted, they probably wouldn't play favorites with a site as small as mine. Probably.)

I trust the cops but I'm a big fan of having an adversarial process in place which reflexively distrusts them, because should the cops decide you're guilty for reasons fair or foul, the deck is otherwise incredibly stacked against you. I feel the same way about Google: they're a wonderful company, they've done more to improve the human experience than probably any other company in the last twenty years, and I assume every word out of their mouth is a lie until presented with evidence to the contrary. Note that if you do this you'll quickly clue onto the fact that aside from the meaningless PR about openness and self-righteousness about "evil" they are a ridiculously non-transparent company.
I wonder though, why is entrepreneurship devoted to a single class? Doesn't that kind of reinforce the idea that most of business school is just training for middle/upper management in established companies?
If anyone wants to try tweaking the grammar and recompiling the language, you can run this:

bin/node_coffee src/*.coffee --output lib/coffee_script

Just be careful, if you break it you'll have to check out the 'lib' directory again to get a working compiler back.
Pedigree and pathway would get her hired, but not make her successful. She got 5/5 ratings in her recent reviews.
Based on the reaction Sarah Silverman got, I'm pretty sure the TED audience would have lynched Bill Hicks.
Troll? Why? I admire this man, that's because it hurts. Moreover, is saying someone is fat a way to discredit what he says?
It's dead for the market that includes its developers as members. Reflexively dead, as it were. It becomes a lot harder to care about maintaining something once you yourself no longer get anything out of using it.
I laughed so hard at this.
Know Thyself and Niche Thyself (the Art of The Start)
I don't completely understand why this would be an issue with multiple near stamp size storage mediums such as sd or memory stick, etc.
People are afraid to set "big" goals. Big, as in stand on your tiptoes and strain to see the objective type of big. Not run of the mill "just beyond my grasp" kind of goals.

Setting "big" goals is imperative. Because moving in their direction sets into motion all the circumstances that allow you to learn and experience so much more.

There is no failure. Only learning.
I'm halfway through his book You Are Not a Gadget and I give it very low marks so far, but not for the writing or the ideas presented -- the latter of which, however, is disappointingly nebulous. The main problem is that Lanier consistently chooses poor examples to make a point and presents very little real evidence to support his claims. He mainly complains a lot about fuzzy circumstances and persuades very little.

For example, on page 12 Lanier elucidates the idea that "entrenched software philosophies become invisible through ubiquity." It begins, "An even deeper locked-in idea is the notion of the file. Once upon a time, not too long ago, plenty of computer scientists thought the idea of the file was not so great." The section ends, "The idea of the file has become so big that we are unable to conceive of a frame large enough to fit around it in order to assess it empirically."

In between are three sparse paragraphs. The first paragraph mentions Xanadu and the original iteration of the Mac OS as examples of systems that didn't use files. The second and third paragraphs complain that now every system uses files, that we're locked in to using filesystems, and we can't even conceive of systems without files.

At this point while reading I'm very curious about Xanadu and trying to conceive of file-less systems myself. I'm desperately waiting for the author to support the analogy, but he quickly moves on to claim that "[lock-in] could happen soon to the definition of a human being."

Wait, what? Stop, and tell me about these file-less organizational systems. Why can't we conceive of them anymore? Why didn't they gain traction? Prove to me that we're really locked-in and that's a bad thing. I'm not accepting your segue -- how exactly is this a worthy example for your larger point?

And so it goes. I've picked one example, but it's truly page after page of baseless assumptions, spacey ideas, thin examples, and doubtful conclusions. Where is the evidence? I'm screaming at the pages imagining my high school english teacher scribbling "illustrate!" in red ink across the margins.
This is what happens when the government interferes with the free market! The supply of virtually unlimited, guaranteed federal loans has created a moral hazard. Loan companies don't care to hand out risky loans because they have the backing of the federal government. Since students have access to so much "free" money, they are entering colleges in droves, effectively bidding up tuition prices for the rest of us. Without such a supply, loan companies would be much more stringent (tuition would come down) and some students would not be able to enter college. While this may sound bad, its not because certain college degrees are becoming worthless anyway and some students have no business of earning degrees in human resources management from the University of Phoenix.
Thank you, Paul Graham, for talking me into buying another pair of shoes!
Also see the following:

http://hanson.gmu.edu/vc.html

Featuring:

* Gregory Benford

* David Brin

* Damien Broderick

* Nick Bostrom

* Alexander Chislenko

* Robin Hanson

* Peter McCluskey

* Max More

* Michael Nielsen

* Mitchell Porter

* Anders Sandberg

* Damien Sullivan

* Eliezer Yudkowsky
Well, nice, but the video actually shows what you would see as you orbit a black hole. However, the link in the caption to the pic at the top of the article, goes to a page with several videos, including "plummeting" scenarios.

Direct link (see "Movies"):

http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~muelleta/IntBH/
You have a valid point about ethics, but I was talking about copyright law. The two are not closely related.
Not in the minds of senile judges and functionally illiterate jurors...
Contrast this with my experience: whenever I happen upon an article on Scribd I immediately skip over it. I really don't like the user interface. (I'm on a Mac, by the way.)
heres a source (http://www.ericschmidt.com), but I doubt he still checks that address.
"It's actually quite hard to work out what words you're talking about :/ Why not just write them."

Here, I'll rewrite it, since I have no compunction against saying offensive words in a conversation about offensive words.

Gays can use the "faggot" - noone else can Blacks can use "nigger" - noone else can women can use "bitch" - no one else can.
Yes he did. Medicine, law, engineering, mathematics, etc., most people will need to go to college and graduate programs. Tough to self-educate in those areas.
In a poll taken earlier this month, 55 percent of the people surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of Palin, and 71 percent said she was not qualified to be President. I don't know why the media still treats her every tweet as newsworthy, because as a national political figure, she's a joke.

And I'm not sure she wants to become President. She can continue to have a lucrative career on the lecture/pundit circuit, playing to that sliver of the population that does consider her to speak for Real True American Common-Sense Values. Why ruin such a good thing by seeking votes from more moderate voters or, heck, actually trying to run a country?