skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about:

document
.getElementsByClassName( 'externalLinkBig' )[0]
.setAttribute( 'class', 'externalLinkSmall' );

80 columns is definitely my preferred (but not "I'll complain") line length because I don't have my editor maximized (cringe) and long lines aren't as easy to read (especially when there's several long lines in a row, it's hard to keep them straight near the far right).
I have a 3-day pass, so I will be there. My e-mail is in my profile if you want to meet up.
I'm not sure the information on this site is correct, but it seems kind of strange to have to pay twice when buying music. You're paying first for the actual mp3s and then you're paying a monthly fee when what you bought(and want to store in the cloud) exceeds 2GB?

Since the files are the same and there's no need for duplication on UbuntuOne's servers why would they need to charge you for storing them on their servers?
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“Pull” Your Ideas From The Ether
What no social engineering? No Mitnick approach? Please, many times the easiest way to get someone's password is to simply call them and ask for it.

Also, there should be a section about targeting geeks. If the person you're trying to hack is of the geek variety, 1337speak is where I'd start once the obvious ones were done.
Magazines Use the iPad as Their New Barker
I wonder if there's anything similar for Rails? The admin and user things are two aspects of Django that struck me quite positively, as a Rails user. I get annoyed with the half-baked auth things for Rails; it's not like I want to do anything that differently with each new site I do.
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I think the general rant I'd throw comes down to the fact that this guy is a "software engineer". He constructs code as if he was designing a mechanical machine, which is just awkward and inefficient. Don't get me wrong on the whole "software engineering vs programming" thing, but I discern good, fast, efficient code from bulky, clunky (but still working) code; you can't "drive car" with a sailing yacht, you can't "breakdance" the Waltz, and you can't go "industrial engineer" on programming - sure, it'll get you somewhere, but it's just not the best way for the end purpose's fullest efficiency - AND EFFICIENCY MATTERS.

Play with this a bit: http://pastebin.com/wauSARbt

1000 plots, averages to 35 fps on my 2.25ghz Macbook on Safari 4.0.3, and this requires more computational power per object plotted than a smart version of the "bouncing balls" effect he tries to do.
You don't need special characters if you can use a passphrase. I use a passphrase for all my encryption passwords (usually 5-6 words long), which results in a password which is 20-30 characters long. This is implicitly better than a 10 character phrase of mixed letters/numbers/symbols.

The problem of course is that so many password entry forms (I'm looking at you, most-of-the-internet) have limits on the lengths of passwords. This needs to change. Hell, some even limit your ability to use special characters (no spaces? wtf.)

The most egregious offense I've seen is an international banking site I use for my stock -- it limits your password to 8 characters, numeric only. I nearly shit myself. Of course, I immediately went in for their high security passcard that has a random 2d array of numbers in it, which is in addition to the password. Trying to perform any actions with the account requires you enter sequences from the array.
I suppose you could move them from UbuntuOne to your local computer to free up space, but it does seem a bit odd.
I'll be ... yes, Grapher is tucked away in the Utilities folder under Applications. Time to clean the dock of iChats and suchlike ...

(I've use of a Mac again for three months now, after a hiatus of many moons, and had not noticed. Thanks.)
Great project. How many weeks are you committing to the 1-a-week learning process? You get better results in personal challenges like this with a concrete end date.

Don't let the peeps on the demoscene board discourage you - their expectations are deeply imbalanced ;)

I think you'd get a lot more feedback if you screencapped the demos and posted youtube/vimeo videos on your blog. The default viewing process isn't the most inviting.
Your informal board of advisors
From the screenshot here: http://uxmag.com/design/the-impossible-bloomberg-makeover I don't see any blatant UI flaw. It looks like a number of unix tools I use on a daily basis.

Is anyone going to suggest replacing "top" with a friendlier UI?
The title is a little misleading but the articles makes some good points about the distribution of advertising dollars now and in the future.
BBG's GUI is not pretty, but the real reason people use it, and pay a hefty fee at that, is because it is full of things people need, and that's an understatement.
Listing of tech meetups/user groups in London
head -c 8 /dev/random | base64

After a couple tries, you'll have something that breaks into pronounceable syllables, insert some punctuation (there's a lot of punctuation on your keyboard besides those under the number keys) to break the syllables and you're good to go. There are many tools that generate pronounceable nonsense passwords, but I prefer this way. Another approach is to generate 5 to 8 word phrases ad-lib style (these take longer to type in, but some people find them easier to remember).
I'm going with a group of old friends. Unfortunately, I couldn't get tomorrow off, so I'm going to miss most/all of Friday's stuff.

Still, I'm really excited. This is my first time going, but one of my friends has been before, and he speaks really highly of the experience.
I'm planning on doing it until I feel I can build something large, but I may well continue doing these demos for a long time afterwards -- after all, you can do a lot in a very short period of time, especially once you've built up your base toolkit. I built this one in about 7 hours from scratch, with no prior knowledge of FMOD, so I don't think it's too bad.

As for the pouet guys, I'm not too worried about them -- I'm doing this for myself, but I've received a lot of great feedback already and really appreciate that.

I'm going to screencap it and throw it up on youtube later tonight, but it's now 11am and bed is calling. I'll likely release the next one with a video out the gate, but I was just too excited to not throw this one up as soon as I got the greets in.
China Seeks Nuclear Industry Domination
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215182

It helps avoid duplicates to use the canonical URL and the original article title. (WSJ uses multiple titles for the same article, it appears, at least as link text.)
Google Maps Elevation Web Service
As a former trader, I can say that Bloomberg's UI is, while not perfect, in general quite good. You can do almost everything straight from the keyboard; once you get used to it, it's quite fast. In about 30 seconds, I can calculate the yield on a mortgage-backed security, see what the Treasury market is doing today, skim a list of top headlines, and show a graph of the stock market since today's open. Try doing that with Yahoo Finance!

In that sense, it's very much in the spirit of any other command line environment. But apart from any UI issues, people continue to use it because of network effects. It's got a great messaging system that everyone uses, and it's got a common set of tools shared across the entire financial system.

Old habits die hard, too. Even though I'm no longer trading, I still have an old Bloomberg keyboard on my desk.
Ubuntu 10.04: The Perfect Consumer Operating System
I bought the book and love it so far; it is not yet complete but the intents of the author are clearly geared toward a rather deep (limited by space though) review of the selected languages;

all this is supported by meaningful projects to get passed the syntax and have a feel of the core decisions that underline every language,

good work so far!
There's formtastic [1] to whip up forms according to the models. Using this and some DRY admin controller you can assemble an admin controller pretty quickly. Still, nowhere as fast as the Django admin. There are also some plugins to get an admin but they never did it for me.

[1] http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic
I guess it's just preference, but you can see this on bloomberg.com as well. I find it blinding when switching from a page with a white background (as most have). When using the terminal itself, its not as bad for some reason, but then again I don't use it on a daily basis.
The writeup seems a bit goofy and I can't find the paper with the doi. Anyone else having any luck finding the actual paper?
ok, I've searched for a minute how to add a node and didn't found a way. So I closed the app. Maybe in a future version, it will be possible to easily add a node in an Open Graph Viz Platform.
I guess you can summarize this as "show potential investors a business plan, not a game". I thought that was implicit.

I've been considering starting a game company on my own, and I have a friend who has done it before. His advice was "show resumes of people who will work for you and how successful they have been. Investors care more about your potential than what you want the money for."

Seems like this article agrees.
Back in the late 90s, my partner and I were getting a startup game development company funded. I pitched quite a few VCs, and ran into this same problem. The typical objection was "The game business is like the music business -- it's based on hits, and we're not confident we can predict those."

And it's true, from the VC perspective. A game developer often creates each new game from scratch, so it's not like a traditional product that is created once, then enhanced and refined over time. Each new game is a fresh new chance to fail.

Maybe these days a middleware startup could get VC funding, since they create a product that's used to make games, but not the games themselves.

In the end, after I accumulated a stack of more than 60 rejections from VCs, we got our funding from a traditional computer game publisher.
Jordan, great advice. I find myself doing the same thing (although my rank goes to 5, very Spinal Tapesque).

I'd challenge anyone that follows a similar system to make sure that all those 1s are actually pursued in some meaningful way, even if just in marginal increments (as you suggest). Having the ideas are a small part of the battle - you become a rain maker if you can execute, which is much easier said than done and something I try to focus on each day.
An hour of exercise per day needed to avoid weight gain
Pixii seems broken on OSX (stock ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1).

I can't try tyrone :(

Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.
Feel free to let me know if I'm missing any funds here.

The criteria was:
-must actively invest $250,000 to $500,000 in startups
-must have dedicated resources in NYC to review details
-must have dedicated capital
Of course, what it actually says is "the kind of people who do lots of exercise are less likely to gain weight", which isn't the same thing.

Personally, I can avoid weight gain if I just avoid sugar/heavily refined carbs and watch my intake.
Becoming The Center Of The Universe
I once worked for a company where the Marketing department believing anything that was not dark text on a white or off-white background was hard to read. Amazing how a couple individuals could off handedly discard an entire rainbow based on a single mis-guided principle: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-...
Excellent. One of the problems I've always had with graph viz tools is the need to cram my data into some predefined schema to make the tool work instead of having the tool do that kind of stuff for me.

Been playing around with it for a bit. Amazing work for a beta release. The "generate random network" option is fantastic. Some GUI bugs, like drag doesn't seem to want to turn back on, but really great stuff.
I'm gephi main dev. That will be fixed with better documentation asap. You can add nodes and edges by using "Node Pencil" and "Edge Pencil" tools in the toolbar.
Why Joel Spolsky was wrong about 'duct tape programmers' being good programmers.
The testimonials are a good touch, but the associated pictures don't exactly inspire confidence.
So... alternatives?
India grows despite our government, not because of it.
Facebook Threatens Greasemonkey Script Writer
The question is who determines what the right speed is. You are deferring to a corrupt gang of thugs with guns (the communist party and its army) whose kids are the new super rich of the country to determine when the right time has come for them to give up power and wealth.

The transition to democracy in most other countries was the result of great struggles, sometimes more violent, sometimes more peaceful, but I don't know of many cases in which those in power have simply announced one day that the time is now right for them to pass on their power to the people.

Your attitude is self defeating.
California is far from just another state (some would say a country inside a country), but generally I agree in that this is a somewhat larger test than normal for state rights.
Meet Ann Miura-Ko, The Most Powerful Woman In Startups
Wondering why users do what they do? Because you designed your site that way
Yes there is a bug with drag. I just filled a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/gephi/+bug/546986
Exactly. I use to work with a company funded by Benchmark that approached it the exact same way. Their first game was just the start, and most definitely not the end. A lot of game designers fail to understand this; very few game empires are built upon a single IP. The half life of most games is pretty dismal.

Our angel investor runs a social gaming company backed by Sequoia, his company approached it in much the same manner. They have a backlog of game ideas. It's growing a big gaming businesses with multiple IPs that interests VCs, nobody wants to juggle the risk of game development on a single IP.

So yeah, the title of this post is definitely wrong. They fund game companies not game ideas.
Yeah chaining is a way to do it. I've recently gotten addicted to chaining though. So now a lot of my functions look like this. A listener for the timespan navigation that Cadmus has:

'onNextTimespanClick': function(e, el) {
return this
.onNavigationClickStopEvent(e, el)
.scrollToTop()
.animateNavChange(
this.getSelectedNavigationEl(),
$$(
'div.navigation a[href='
+ this.getHashFromUrl(el.href)
+ ']',
this.navigationContainer
)
)
.refreshItems();
},
The current consensus of anthropologists is that the direct ancestors of modern humans were African populations of Homo erectus (possibly Homo ergaster), rather than the Asian populations exemplified by Java Man and Peking Man.

Somewhere I drew an analogy to Java the language, as described by pg in "The Hundred Year Language" - http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
Zynga Prepaid Cards Hit U.S. Retailers
I'm a game developer, have built a profitable but small studio and I wouldn't invest a cent of my money into a game company I didn't have control over. The risks of developing a game are:

* Technical. Modern games of the retail console variety are incredibly complex pieces of technology. I would not be surprised if building an MMO was comparable to designing a car in terms of engineering effort expended. If your schedule slips, you need to rework major pieces of code just so your engine is no longer dated.

* Artistic/Creative. The game world needs to be interesting, believable and engaging. Asset production is very expensive. Let your schedule slip, and it will all feel dated.

* Gameplay. The game needs to be fun! This is much, much harder than it looks.

* Market. Distribution is incredibly hard, and even very good games often fly under the radar. Is your game the genre of the month? Is
it fun enough that everyone talks about it? etc

Very rarely is someone great at all 4. I'm reasonably good at #1 & #3 and hopeless at #2, and average at #4.If you manage to somehow succeed at all four points, then you have a game that makes essentially a one time income of $x (it's spread out over a few years, but it spikes high and rapidly diminishes). Hopefully you made a profit!

And that's per game. All you need to do is mess up your next game (for instance by being too ambitious and letting your success get to your head), and you're bankrupt. The trouble is that you're essentially engineering new products each year or two. There's none of that nice, slow maturation of product and increased customer base you may get if you make, eg, bug tracking or database software, operating systems etc. Each release is potentially a very big, maybe-the-company-won't-survive flop.

There are a lot of companies that are established enough that they can survive on their fan base and income, but they're the exception, not the rule. I admire every one of them.
This post reminded me of "Moby Dick". Extremely long introduction that has nothing to do with topic promised in the title, so boring that I lost all interest, before getting to the author's actual point.
Guy's computer specs. Boring.
If I had my handy Ctrl-Shift-E, I'd no longer have any use for Firefox outside of testing.
The NewsCred Platform just launched our API, but all how-tos (including company supported wrappers) are on our own site. Feel free to link to them though if you want: http://developer.newscred.com.
Support for weka's file format would be great as well
At uni doing computer science a dictionary attack on the departments password file threw up TWO people with: NCC-1701-D.
Google's Go programming language - four months on
Yeah, I'd love to read more about the challenges previous companies have faced when trying to sign up local advertisers.
International Longest Tweet Contest
Unsurprisingly not too different from Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway (ref card: http://refcards.com/docs/vromansj/perl-best-practices/refgui...).

But one difference I noticed was the use of "cuddled" else in Crockford's list:

} else {

instead of PBP's:

}
else {

Conway believes this is more readable and inline with K&R style (used in both conventions/practises).
I'd actually missed the so-called "clarification" which, ihmo, makes it clear he's trying very hard to create a false impression:

"Ozer: It sounds like you are saying that some of your patent holders own patents that are used in Ogg. Is that correct?

Horn: We believe that there are patent holders who do.

Ozer: It sounds like you’ll be coming out and basically saying that to use Ogg, you need to license it from MPEG LA. Is that correct?

Horn: That is not what we said. We said no one in the market should be under the misimpression that other codecs such as Theora are patent-free"

So specifically asked about the patents in the H.264 pool, he responds with the non-specific "there are patent holders who do" (yes, On2 now Google) and this is couched with a "we believe".

And when asked directly, he repeats his non-statement about Theora having patents on it. Yes, we know that. What about patents held by people who are looking for money for them?
"Content Aware" PhotoShop - Scary Good
What's "documented need"? Hosting costs for the project? Room & board for the summer? College tuition?

I might not be considered to have "need." I'd live in my parents' house if I were to do this. I have to pay a good portion of my Stanford tuition somehow or another, but I could see you determing that that's not "need." (And if it is need, then >95% of your applicants will have at last $5k of tuition to pay for the year, so everyone will have need.)

Regardless of whether I "need" the money, spending an entire summer hacking full-time has some serious opportunity cost. I could get a real job (and make >$5k). I could hang out with my friends every day.

Do you really expect college students, most of whom have little money, to line up to forgo ~$10k of income (roughly the amount you can make at a programming internship, varying wildly of course) so they can do an open source project?

Sure, it would probably be more fun; it would be have completely flexible hours; you might not end up quite having to work full-time on it. But still. I'm a lot more likely to do it if I at least get a good portion of the compensation I could get from working.

And even if you do find people to do it, the quality of people will be a lot worse. For the most part, you'll get the people who don't have an opportunity cost of $10k because they're not good enough at programming to land a good job over the summer. So you'd probably just end up wasting a lot of the mentors' time because you'd have to accept lower-quality people. The money helps you be selective and hopefully get some truly high quality projects out of it.
Roger Ebert producing new show going "full-tilt New Media"
The answer to this question seems to invariably be "no, but it's a great OS for geeks." I think it's time to stop worrying about it and just keep on making it better.
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One of the types of writing research essay is character analysis essay. Character analysis essay is a demonstration of your knowledge on an assigned book or story. In character analysis essay writing, you are supposed to show your awareness and attitude to the written book.
> Is anyone going to suggest replacing "top" with a friendlier UI?

`htop` is that better, friendlier UI...
This should make it easier for Iran to have successful missile launches. As long as they can afford the upgrade license. http://dvice.com/galleries/iranphotoshop/iranmissile_1.jpg
Yeah I think it must have to do with the number of people you follow. Hiding has worked fine for me. Though I only follow about 150 people. Surprisingly not that many people I know use Buzz, even though most use GMail.

Anyways, if you're looking for alternatives, I used Bloglines before I was a GReader fan. Might want to try that out again, or a desktop app might be up your alley too.
Delivering a Killer Elevator Pitch
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/06/05/the-dreaded-elevator-cocktail-party-pitch/?awesm=bothsid.es_5fn&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=backtype-tweetcount
Chrome Still Standing at Pwn2Own
Performance is only half the story...

As the comments show, different systems will have different performance benchmarks. Maximizing performance on your dev system doesn't guarantee performance for your users. A full test suite of all platforms and browsers and Flash versions, while possible, seems like a burdensome undertaking for most folk.

I'd spend a lot more time maximizing the performance of my underlying code than benchmarking which platform can edge out the other. If you NEED that edge, you can be sure that some systems out there won't cut it.
There is a TED talk by a young lady just going into cancer research. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eva_vertes_looks_to_the_fu...

Her ideas about cancer really make sense to me, and match a lot of my own ideas. If she is correct, that cancer is the body's natural healing mechanism --- but for all tissues except muscle tissue, evolution never bothered working the bugs out of the code ---, then cancer approaches such as the one in this study seem a bit doomed to me.
Huh?
http://gizmodo.com/5459770/which-ipad-3g-data-plan-should-yo...

$30
I skipped the first 3/4 to get to the point. Though I think there are enough people that don't know the history to justify that first 3/4.