skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting artifact: Amnesia is one of the hippest live venues / bars in the area, kind of ground zero for Mission hipsterdom. That it now has the art of Banksy really only elevates it to new echelons of cool never before seen this side of Valencia.
It's not about their panes. It's about memory and CPU management and not having to worry about which tabs to close. They'll all get closed eventually, so it sort of forces you to use the history browser.
Or by a prankster with temporary access/credentials.
That explanation would be too selfish on Facebook's part and incredibly disrespectful to their users from a privacy and information control standpoint, but who knows, it may be the unfortunate truth.
Where would you place expression templates that help designers to embed simple domain specific languages in C++? The end user doesn't have to know much about templates, but this approach leads to high performance AND very concise and expressive code.
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That's a really cool implementation. Nice work!
Can you be more specific about the hypocrisy you're seeing here?

Apple is closed and proprietary for native applications.

Flash is closed and proprietary for web applications.

From my vantage point, whether or not you approve of Apple's restrictions on native app development (like most, I don't), their refusal to allow Flash on the platform is good for the Internet; it's driving companies towards HTML5.
in the same way that directories already solved the search engine problem? :)
An email is sent to the user to notify them that their account has been queue'd for deletion - after that it takes 14 days for the deletion to happen, during which time a simple login will cancel the deletion request. So I doubt it's about pranksters. These other controls seem adequate to prevent that type of thing.
Err, just because a newer more powerful phone come out doesn't mean the older one is obsolete! The Nexus One is still more powerful than almost every Android phone that's been released or announced so far.

As I see it, the top Android phones on each US provider currently are:

* Tmobile - N1

* ATT - N1 (actually, the only decent Android choice on ATT so far is the N1)

* Verizon - HTC Droid Incredible

* Sprint - HTC EVO.

For those who absolutely insist on a hardware keyboard, the only decent options I know of are the Moto Droid on Verizon, and the upcoming MyTouch Slide on Tmobile. Both are less powerful than the phones listed above, but the Moto Droid is still a pretty darn nice phone (particularly after the recent update to 2.1), and the MyTouch Slide looks like it'll be the next best hardware keyboard option.

(HTC Desire looks nice also, it's almost identical to the N1. But I haven't heard confirmation of it landing on a US carrier yet. :-( )
There's TextMate on Mac, and e-texteditor for Windows (which is a port of TextMate)... but that leaves Linux high and dry until the developers finish porting it there too. It requires cygwin under Windows too :/.

Other than that, there's SciTE, which is quite nice. Notepad++ on Windows is a derivative thereof.
I think the speed is always a feature, but at the same time, caching always feels more interesting in terms of a proxy. For example, where I work, we're able to use one server and proxy massive amounts of traffic to a cluster of services. I know we paid for this tool and it has proved to be worth the money. That said, it does a great deal more than just caching where even if there were a faster caching solution, I'm not sure it would be worth paying for.

I hope that makes sense since simply stating "there are already those kinds of programs available" does mean that there isn't room for improvement. The evolution of lighttpd, nginx and cherokee all suggest that people found apache limiting in some way.

As for the service it did feel pretty darn fast, so kudos for that. More use cases or a more general caching proxy/load balancer might be something more people could consider worth paying for but that is just my own thought.

Good luck!
Woz has fun with leaked iPhone T-shirt (photos)
weird... in FF I get all of the presets sites, but in IE I'm only getting CNN. What gives?
Forecastfox is a Useful Chrome Weather Extension
What do you mean by "work out" an arbitrage system? Arbitrage is arbitrage. Do you mean he wrote a system to find arb opportunities and place the bets automatically?
Nice little hack
That entire series is positively fascinating
It looks like Dell is going to be releasing a hardware keyboard w/ the upcoming Dell Smoke: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/dell-smoke-slaps-android-...
Scary. Once I complied Qt and I let it happen while I sleep.
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You are correct, that's why I said 'very little bearing' rather than 'no bearing'.

In practice, most of the time specificity is all that matters.

I try to avoid 'last one wins' situations as they often mean you have written redundant CSS, hence making CSS harder to read :-)
Ummm, what's the legal theory that allows a US state to regulate out of state commerce like this?

On the other hand, I wouldn't want to be a web company based in Massachusetts and this might have more than a small effect on the Boston area's attractiveness to many startups.
Your HN account is not linked to your real identity, unless you want it to be. Many people think that's a big difference.
To offer a balance, there's some negative feedback on amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculated-Bets-Computers-Gambling-M...
HN is still a relatively small community. If you wanted, you could poll pg to run a query that would delete your account and see what he says.
Refusal to support Flash is good for the internet but its still hypocritical of Apple to talk about preferring to support more open standards. Perhaps qualifying it with "preferring to support more open standards on things we can't control anyway" or (less snarky) "preferring to support open standards on web-based apps" might have worked better.
Last time I pulled my credit report, the security questions included "Choose which of the following is true: you have an account at XXX Bank / you have a loan in the amount of $YYY at ZZZ Bank / etc."

Yes, some other information was required too, and no, I don't know what good a credit report does you either.
Looks pretty cool, although it makes my N cpu y.yGHz machine crawl. It's sad that 10 years ago(?) people where doing this kind of things with java applets and it actually worked better.

EDIT: I initially tested with konqueror. Now with chrome , it's faster, but I found some strange behaviour when closing windows, as it makes some of the other windows jump to a different position.
Apple isn't interested in 'what's good for the internet' (and neither is Adobe). Closed and proprietary for X is still closed and proprietary, regardless of what you slot in for X. The hypocrisy is self evident in both cases, and frankly not uncommon in this sort of corporate competition. What I found funny was the sheer boldness of the statement.

Basically what each is saying (and doing) is: "We support open standards for whatever isn't under our direct control (because if it was we would close it)."

Substitute 'free markets' for 'open standards' and you have a pretty good description of what happens in the world economy on a larger scale.
What Good Programming Entails
Wow I had this professor in Stony Brook... I think my first computer science class, too, if memory serves me correctly, it's been a while.

Gotta check this book out. Thanks!
Going on a tangent: Did you read Tintin while living in America? Because from what I've understood, those comics are almost unheard of there. Is that not true?
umm, people disagree that it's broken? I don't get downvotes.
Periodic table shows colors of elements (I used ones from Jmol).

No exports yet, though in Firefox you can save any canvas element as PNG just by right clicking on it. Maybe for other browsers I could add PNG export via data URI.

Proteins are tough. When you get into thousands of atoms, performance is unsatisfactory, it's pushing browsers to limits.

Firefox is especially problematic because of weird memory behavior - it's growing a lot (on simple array assignments) and then it stutters on garbage collecting.

Chrome is much better, though interestingly for the most complex molecules new Opera is the fastest.

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Edit: I added PNG export.
Kleinberg, not Kleinberger, and he's a prof at Cornell, not CMU. I'd guess it has less to with geography, and more to do with the fact that Kleinberg is a (brilliant, celebrated) academic who probably wasn't very interested in doing a startup.
very cool.
one missing feature I have noticed is a permalink option. so one can have a
specific one (or more) loaded with the page.

e.g. "http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/#aspirin would load the aspirin
presentation.

this can be useful If one wish to send a direct link to that particular item.
Wolfram Alpha iPhone App Was $50 now $1.99
The title itself is a little FUD-ish.

According to this link: http://www.leapfile.com/MA-201-CMR-17 , it only applies to the following subset of data:

--snip--
According to the definitions in 201 CMR 17.02, personal information is a Massachusetts resident’s first name or first initial and last name IN COMBINATION with any one of more of the following data related to the person: social security number, driver’s license number or state-issued identification card number, financial account number, credit or debit card number with or without any required security or access code or password that would permit access to financial information.
--snip--
The big thing with regulation of commerce is that a state can't do it in a way that favors in-state merchants over out-of-state merchants. This law appears to treat in-state and out-of-state merchants equally, so might be OK as for as regulation of interstate commerce law is concerned. (And it might not--this is a tricky area of law).
What? 60 years of anti-Soviet fear-mongering propaganda isn't good enough for you?
I've seen many volumes of Tintin at the bookstores in NYC, both independent shops and Barnes & Noble. I also remember them from youth, but wasn't a big fan. I don't think they are super popular, but have been available.
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The rock music parallel to the "lean" startup, and why you shouldn't go the VC (major label) route is "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
In Defense of SEO
The pundit is blowing it a little out of proportion no? Mac OS market share is still tiny compared to Windows. And a lot of switchers still run Windows by dual booting or in a VM.

Title might be better as "Is Windows 7 finally convincing XP users that they're not upgrading to a version of Windows that doesn't suck?"
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(?)
During the time when Google came up, there was a considerable interest in search engines in academia, E.g. Some papers by Udi Manber, a prof at Uni of Arizona at that time had these papers:

U. Manber, and Peter Bigot, ``The Search Broker,'' First Usenix Symp. on Internet Technologies and Systems, Monterey, CA (December 1997), pp. 231-240.

# R. Muth, and U. Manber, ``Approximate Multiple String Search,'' the 7th Annual Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symp., Laguna Beach, CA (June 1996), pp. 75-86.

# U. Manber, M. Smith, and B. Gopal, ``WebGlimpse -- Combining Browsing and Searching,'' Usenix 1997 Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA (January 1997), pp. 195-206.

U. Manber and P.A. Bigot, ``Connecting Diverse Web Search Facilities,'' Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering 21 (June 1988), pp. 21-27.

Ofcourse he was gobbled up by Yahoo at that time and is now a VP at Google
That's a fair point. OTOH a lot of people who take the trouble to write a book would like to see it in print, and almost all publishers forbid you from releasing the manuscript in alternate forms once it has been published. Also, for somebody with his skill set, there are many shorter paths to riches than writing MAA monographs.

If you just read even the preface to this book ( http://books.google.com/books?id=UvWGgaE4ZA8C&lpg=PP1... ), it is obvious that his motivation for writing it has everything to do with a lifelong fascination with mathematical modeling and sincere desire to share that with others, and nothing to do with making money from gambling returns. The gambling was merely meant to put his model to the test in a way that penalized failure.

It's all right there in the book. But hey, why consult the text when we can all sit around grousing online about what his intentions might have been?
The value of a network increases as the square of its nodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfs_Law

The value of a network to a user is in the number of people he can communicate with. The value of a network to Facebook is in the number of accounts it can claim; the more accounts, the more attractive is the network to advertisers.

If Facebook reports number of users to advertisers and investors, it would never want to be in a situation where they have to show a loss of users. So they make it obscure to delete your account.

/speculation
Ah, the same Steve Skiena (I think) of Algorithm Design Manual, the best algo book imho.
Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica?
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> Now with chrome , it's faster,

A benefit of v8, Chrome's JS interpreter.
AFAIK, Google PageRank is part-technology, part-PR.

As Paul Graham says (http://www.paulgraham.com/revolution.html#f1n), what made Google wasn't PageRank: they would have succeeded with a different algorithm. What made Google was that they cared about search and did it really well.
windows version as good as the linux one
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for putting this up, it complements the slides they've put up.
It's not the rat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/troyholden/4544878324/

Although the rat has apparently been spotted in SOMA.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapshure/4547103038/
It does strip off the metadata embedded in the picture files, so there is some anonymity added there.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy...
Well - that's enough to make it relevant whenever there's a card transaction... that's going to affect a lot of people.

This however "and perhaps the rest of the world" is complete FUD - noone outside of US cares about US state laws (unless you have some branch there of course - but then you already know you have a lot more paperwork to do).
It would be nice if they added a few options, I would like to see a "don't notify me about updates" checkbox. If an app is working fine and not a security risk (much more likely on android), then I don't want it to bug me.
It's a good entertainment read but taking apart a hedge
to prove a point can get misleading pretty fast. For instance,
if you don't like Goldman's shorts, Goldman could have created the same hedge results by taking a long position in gold. Hopefully the result of the discussions will lead to better transparency.
I don't get this. How is having 4M users an achievement or success? Isn't the real question how many of the users actually use the paid service? It's interesting how the presentation talks nothing about that unless of course I missed it :)
I'm not sure I agree. Similar products (or similar-sounding, at least) had been around for years, so much so that Joel Spolsky wrote a post ripping the idea of file-synchronization apps as the biggest failed cliché around. The space was regarded as saturated. So Dropbox was a late entry, not a luckily timed one.

There's another (rather prominent) precedent, of course, for a startup entering a space that was widely believed to be saturated and taking it over on the basis of a simple product that just worked better. I hadn't thought of it before now, but Dropbox kind of reminds me of them in this respect.
I've actually gone and removed Twitter support from an application I work on. It was a small, fun /tweet command in Mobile Colloquy. I wrote it on a whim; it came out to maybe 100 LOC (with proper error handling and formatting). More time spent in NSURL{Connection, Request}'s docs than on anything else.

It was removed because it isn't worth the hassle of adding in an {O, X, YetAnotherCharacter}Auth library. No, I don't have to write the code for it. No, including an entire library is not better than 100 lines of code (where the the authentication part amounts to one line if there isn't any error handling).

Twitter's API went from being incredibly nice and easy to work with to having a huge barrier in front of it as soon as they deprecated basic auth.

//edit: Note: I'm not trying to condemn OAuth. I'm sure it has its uses (even if I'm not quite sure what they are). I just don't see how it is a benefit in this particular case.
>I felt bad about the load I was imposing

This is how you know you've got loyal users.
Wow, thanks for posting that link. I’m really glad the ‘learning by doing’ methodology is under some scrutiny, because it’s not the way I learn at all. For what it’s worth, if I had come across the draft of Zed’s book when I was first learning to program, I suspect I would have hated it, very quickly gotten bored, and dropped it in favor of something else. I can’t stand being presented with the absolute minimal amount of explanation required for something. Glossing over the details is the quickest way to lose my interest. I need a complete, in-depth explanation, even if I don’t necessarily understand it all at first; I will come back later and re-read parts because I know exactly where the explanation was.

Another thing that I think would have especially bothered me about this book is that there are exercise upon exercise without answers. I remember being in algebra class in high school and hating that the book didn’t provide an answer to every single exercise; without an answer, doing the exercises was almost completely useless to me because I had no idea whether I had solved them correctly.

Hacking away at something until it works with minimal explanation is certainly one way to learn, but when I’m first learning something, as a novice, that particular methodology just makes me frustrated and angry. I could go into my garage and fiddle with my car’s engine for weeks on end trying to figure out how things work, but that seems like a largely inefficient way to go about learning. There are people who know how a car engine works that can communicate their knowledge to me—after all, isn’t that the whole point of instruction and education: somebody has already figured it out, and they can explain it to you quicker than it takes for you to figure it out yourself.

This isn’t to say I can’t now hack away at something in the dark and probe it to figure out how it works—I suspect that’s a necessary skill for being a good programmer. But learning how to program initially through such a method would not have been ideal for me.

That being said, I think there’s still a lot to be said about the straightforward, practical programming advice Zed throws out. In particular his explanation about the importance of noticing minor differences is really awesome. Obviously people have different personal learning styles, and I suspect this book is geared to those who learn like Zed, so I don’t doubt it would be valuable to those people. I definitely don’t learn like this, though, and I just wanted to point that out.
reminds me of http://itstrending.com/
I don't think they are all that mean. I mean, they stuck Billy Pilgrim in with Montana Wildhack, so they at least seem like they will help a brother get laid.
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There's no need to store any of those things in your database in order to allow card transactions.
VP Biden donated 1.5% of his income to charity [link to pdf]
I agree that if they reach us first, we're probably borked. However, if we reach them first, we are logically more advanced, so we should really really try to reach them first.
Came across this, VP Biden donated about $4820 to charity last year.
Linux consulter who don't know about dovecot. What a shame.
People who accidentally hit that button would not be happy.
Wow. For someone born in 1982, this sounds like a whole other era. But I have to remind myself that my kids will probably think the same of the technology that I'm using right now ("Oh dad, you mean your 'Mac Pro' only had 8 cores and 8 gigs of RAM?").
Andres,

Thank you for your comment. Originally I am using personal funds, mostly because as you mentioned, I am willing to bet on the local talent. We will try to get as many people with the relevant experience as possible, but as you know, that can be limited so we will have to figure some things as we go along (like PG did the first time around, but with lots of references from the Lean Startups/Customer Development methodologies and the experiences we've had with our own businesses). Besides this, do you have any more recommendations? Regards,

Hugo
Coming to Python with previous programming experience, I was impressed by the Google Python Class. It feels like it crammed my usual first few weeks/months of "oh you can do it like that" moments into a couple of hours. Which makes sense as I believe it's what they give to new hires there who don't already know Python.

FWIW I didn't watch the videos, I just read over the webpages.

http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/

Looking forward to reading Zed's book too.
For more sensitive information, such as those elements listed, it's more common sense that you'd encrypt that data and have a security policy, regardless of what state in which the people in your database reside.

The title of this article so broad it implies that if you simply had a contact database (with no sensitive information) containing Mass residents that you'd have to file a security policy and encrypt every piece of information.
That's cute but nowhere in the linked article does it accuse facebook of being evil. The article simply provides helpful information about how to go about getting a task done that some may want to have done.

edit: heh, just realized the page in question even has a "like" button. ;)
AllTop For Facebook Likes. Cool
just do try mrxvt for the terminal. it is even faster, even more configurable and has true tabs (unlike urxvt with its perl bindings)

I really feel it is the best of the breed of lightweight terminals - unfortunately development has slowed, so it doesnt have full unicode support.
I think the Head First series is actually quite good for teaching Python as a first language.

I recently purchased the Python one (it's just called Head First Programming from memory) for a friend who wanted to start with coding and she picked the basic concepts up pretty quickly.
@zachallia is awesome.
A strange post. Congratulations?
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Method number 3: Violate Facebook's TOS. One instance would be to upload a nude photo of someone or for the brave souls, one of yourself.
They may be addicted to the convenience of the gadgets if
anything. Nobody rings the doorbell anymore, they stand in
front of the door and call you from their cell.
She also has a related Listmania! page "Why We Must Colonize Space"

http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Must-Colonize-Space/lm/15QM4CUB...
Considering the only example of life we've seen is all of these species that co-evolved on earth, I think it's a little too ealy to understand what "life" even means, no? After all, it might be that there are many more variations of evolutionary paths than there are probabilities of one getting this far...
why creepy?
The article isn't about existing marketshare, it's about the trend in how that marketshare is changing. This is the first time in a LONG time that Windows isn't losing marketshare to Mac and Linux.

That's a fact. The speculative part here is Why. Is it that Windows 7 doesn't suck? For all we know, Microsoft could have a new ad campaign, or had bought a sales lead sheet made of gold.

Time will tell, but I predict this is not a permanent reversal in the longstanding trend.
Google Sky (look in infrared)