skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree, speaking as a programmer just starting to get comfortable in Javascript with little to no experience in more established functional programming languages. The initial wow factor of having javascript on the server and client side quickly gave way to all the reasons to use alternative approaches.

This project will be the first time many Javascript programmers will brush up against topics of scale such as these, and speaking as one, I'm definitely going to focus on Erlang to explore these problems. (but still play around with Node.js on the side ;)
Try rotating. That reliably crashed Safari on iPhone and iPad for me. If it hadn't crashed for some other reason. When it didn't crash it did strange things like display things from later slides on the first slide when it was loading.

Hopefully some geeks at Apple have seen this and are already fixing bugs that it uncovers.
Much better! Sorry I didn't see that.
If I were you, I'd put something like that on the home page so it is apparent to people what they can do with your product.
"I'm a pampered software developer. I can't believe how much I complain about my job, despite the good wages, free snacks & beverages, flexible work hours, telecommute option, and having the boss refer to me as a rock star."
I would love for Apple to win a battle for open web standards. But that's not what they're fighting for, that's just the spin they're putting on it. They're fighting for absolute control over their market share, plain and simple. That this happens to promote open web standards is secondary to that.
The page just gave me a 500 error establishing database connection...ummmm...awkward?
I have confidence in this model for certain people who have a drive to achieve things.

I feel it's mostly incompatible with having a partner / spouse (and would love any disagreement or contrary evidence). Especially if the partner works 9-5, working when I feel like it will often eat into relationship time.
"Because I direct my life towards where I want to be."
Good point. For example, the vector for the recent Google "hack" seems to have been good old IE6:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/microsoft-want...
So he's wrong about "logic bombs" and backdoors, and he's wrong about ISPs ability to block attacks (he spent a lot of time with a very NANOG-y, NSP-sec-y crowd, and as an advisor to vendors in that space, so that's where he's coming from). But what do you expect? He's not a computer scientist.
NameCheap.com is the best I've used.
Define "come to work". Am I considered at work if I'm going through that annoying bug during my morning shower, or spending my weekends networking online with technical colleagues?
I was going to ask about whether there is any of the latter but I guess not. Too bad.
Reading about that guy who left Mahalo last week made me think that Calcanis was a bit of a jerk. After reading this I have decided that he must just be really intense all the time.
The Cambridge link appears to be down. Try arXiv instead: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.4315v3
It's a stupid name for the non-stupid concept of paralyzing the economy and core productivity of first-world countries by shutting down power, comms, and markets.
I would agree on with you on having a drive to achieve things makes it easier. Then again what model works for someone that doesn't have a drive to achieve things?
All payments after Dec 31, 2011. FWIW, there's already a bill in the House to repeal this section (introduced the same day the article was posted it seems):
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5141:
That's shameful and frustrating.
True, there's no model that works. They need to receive very clear expectations, be held constantly accountable, and appreciate that they will probably transfer through a lot of jobs (or roles within a government department or large corporation) and never earn more than an average salary.

For plenty of people, that's actually OK. For others, insert the occasional 'the world owes me' or 'life isn't fair' discussions.
Nokia C3, Nokia C6 & Nokia E5 Qwerty Phones Launched in India
ADAM - An iPad-like device from NotionInk, India
In this case, the primary source appears to be indecipherable to anyone except for a lawyer who already understands section 6041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and all of the amendments that have been applied to it since it was enacted, so I'm not sure what good you're doing by quoting it.

Most open source code is indecipherable to anyone but a programmer, but seeing it can at least provide some reassurance. Most political and legal processes are indecipherable or opaque to the general population, yet attempting to understand them is a positive thing.

Having the primary source to hand is useful to ensure that you're not having the wool pulled over your eyes by a biased secondary reporter. A news site could easily misinterpret legalese.

Cato is hardly the National Enquirer, but even so, they only cite a) a tax research paper that costs $75 to obtain, b) a tax CPA whose words are not reproduced anywhere else, and c) the venerable "Air Conditioner Contractors of America." There aren't enough references to primary sources to rule out a less-than-sincere attempt at shaping public opinion (not that that is necessary the case, just that it could be).

There's a lot to be said for trusting news sources in order to save time, but taking a look at the primary source yourself in many instances can prove illuminating, and is certainly a responsibility for anyone who's going to proceed to get upset/angry or campaign against whatever the news/article is covering.
Amusingly enough, I found a page on RAND's site ( http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/RRR.fall9... ), where the definition of Cyberwar isn't anything unique enough to warrant a new label. I think it's just another (surprise!) stupid buzzword.

Point in case:

"Cyberwar refers to conducting military operations according to information-related principles. It means disrupting or destroying information and communications systems. It means trying to know everything about an adversary while keeping the adversary from knowing much about oneself. It means turning the "balance of information and knowledge" in one's favor, especially if the balance of forces is not. It means using knowledge so that less capital and labor may have to be expended."
Mozilla's Christopher Blizzard on innovation in browsers
um, 2008? CS3? Gimme a break.
"it's now a W3C standard."

No, it isn't.

It's part of a proposed recommendation, currently a working draft.
Sitting in front of the computer sometimes isn't the most productive use of time. All the greatest ideas have come from people who were thinking while on the shitter. You can't avoid thinking about the problem whether you're working on it or not. Forcing yourself to work obviously by definition means you don't want to think about the problem while you ADHD tab switch between hacker news reddit, digg,IM and your email anyway. If at any point working entails anxiety it's not being managed correctly. The sitting in front of the computer part is reserved for when you know how you're going to implement/structure the problem. Starting at it while what's next seems fuzzy only leads to distractions.

Also if you 'try an experiment for a month' hoping to your hypothesis is correct, you're easily setting yourself up for a logical fallacy.
1) that makes perfect sense. Basically like a dry-run test when you're crafting the filter. It'd take more dev time to implement that, I just wanted to get a bare bones out, but I'm taking notes :)

2) From what I understand, search.twitter.com, well they have their own special secret-sauce-laced algorithm; and outside looking in I don't know how they relate, but from what I've tested, it's different. public_timeline is a very small subset of the total tweets in the world. Basically, every 60 seconds they give you a snapshot of 20 tweets, randomly picked from the Twitter universe. With search.twitter.com, you're searching for something specific (public timeline is 100% random)

3) Good to know, noted.

4) I thought about a rate limiter, but to need a rate limiter, you've either (a) entered a filter that is overly generic (since it's matching over aggressively) -or- (b) you genuinely are seeing that many tweets with a similar pattern that matches the filter.

In the case of (a), you'd have to make your filter less aggressive. In the case of (b), then you must be a "power" power user. A made-up example would be if you were @starbucks and hundreds of Starbucks fans would each day ask you "did you change the frappucino light formula?" http://twitter.com/ShesShoppingNow/status/12914278780 - which if that was indeed the case, that is the perfect use case ;) You'd be auto-answering a question that gets repeated to you over and over and over ...

In social media, it's all about honesty/transparency/genuine-"ness", so yeah .. definitely craft the response to be as genuine as possible (its your choice to make it not generic sounding), but then yeah, if people see you repeat the same exact words over and over, they might suspect you automated it. I guess then I will throw in a "randomizer" to include a slight variation in the response ;)

And on the last point, I was thinking the same .. the percentage of people who might find this useful is probably not the bulk of Tweet-izens :/ But it was a fun exercise for me, and I thought I'd put it out there for the world and see if anyone cares!
I'll buck that for you. I don't just dismiss it as stupid and evil.

There are 2 things that stand out to me which aren't being discussed. 1) Apple has maybe the very best record in supporting their customers' software through various multiplatform upgrades. If you've been on board with them, they've taken you from 68000 to PowerPC to Intel and they've had bloody seamless transitions. Perhaps that has something to do with their desire to specify how apps are built and which tools are used to build them. FWIW, they did their own iPad chip but they bought one off the shelf for iPhone, I'd imagine that they will have their own phone chip before too long. This just seems logical and sensical to me and it's possible they might alter the architecture in some way and maybe want to dynamically translate the existing apps.

2) If you look at iPhone and iPad, they clearly had some foresight and vision when they did the phone. They didn't accidentally build the iPad and it turned out to run the same software and be compatible. Perhaps there is something else that they have in mind in the coming years or two. Maybe you'll be able to use app store apps on AppleTV. Who knows, maybe there will be some other device too.
It's worth noting that some of the other perennial trolls who get their stuff posted endlessly on HN are often just as bad. I think people here and elsewhere actually encourage it, just in order to see a little "drama" in the scene.
Personally, when I'm completely unmotivated I do have to step away from my work for a while. But, the times when I'm on the edge of calling it a day but not too tired, and push myself to code for another hour or two, I have the most breakthroughs.
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i've used enom signed up via google apps a few times.

One time google apps tried to make me sign up for the domain via godaddy, but I didn't complete the transaction because of godaddy.

The UI for using enom is pretty good, you get google apps in one simple sign-up, i'd recommend it.
Why? There's no qualitative computational difference between a smartphone and a desktop computer; further, the quantitative difference between today's smartphones and older Flash-capable machines of a decade ago is probably not that huge.
Among journalists, Fox News is without a doubt the most hated because of how they undermine the very concept of journalism. However among government officials, probably Al Jazeera takes the cake because governments prefer Fox's predictability over investigative journalism any day of the week.
I'm asking again.

I apologize, I thought that was a rhetorical question. I'll be surprised if it goes over $1.25m.
who said anything about free? my point is that mobile web apps have no way to monetize, and that could be fixed by letting web apps in the app store, via a native bridge.
There is no hypocrisy here. At no point does Jobs say "proprietary software is always bad". Even the very next sentence is "Apple has many proprietary products too." This is not some dirty secret they're trying to cover up at all.

The point is that he is specifically taking about the web being open. Again: at no point does he say being proprietary or closed is inherently a bad thing. Only being so in the context of the web they consider bad. And Apple's actions in the context of the web support that.
I'm giving your upvote back. I'm not much of a TC fan either, a lot of it has to do with that they have a lot of the same tendencies and nuances that mainstream journalism has; namely: rushing to print so often and so frequently that sometimes really unfortunate things happen.

One such was the Last.FM/U2/User data deal.

But this is an unfortunate casualty of reporting, and TC while not immune, still in my opinion deserves more scrutiny from the tech community than they get. Arrington did a great job putting the blog on the Map as a voice in the echo chamber, but it's just one voice.
"Don't mistake activity for achievement"

- John Wooden
Simple solution: use the accelerometer to aim a mouse cursor for sites with rollovers. I don't suggest Apple implement that, but some app developer could, or maybe Adobe.
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Still, even if they probably won't get sued they would always have it hanging over their heads. Making an investment in technologies which even have a small chance of causing legal trouble at some point in the future could be a bad bet for them.
I've got a buddy who still uses Hotmail for no other reason than he simply got used to it. And he's a techie so it's not like other systems intimidate him...he just enjoys hotmail for whatever reason.
Wasn't that slow for me on my netbook, but doesn't have any scrollbars, which meant I couldn't see a large part of the bottom @1024x600.
Nanopatch is 100 times better than needle and syringe
Is the Earth's core solid?
Managed to skip forward to the one section with the word "synergize" twice in one pageful, stopped reading immediately.
Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing A Rise of Mental Illness in America?
The default browser in Sprint's HTC Hero has Flash 9.1.

It works well enough, but frankly I don't like the default browser and it isn't portable because it's custom built... not to mention downloading large flash files is not something you want to do on Sprint's network.
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"Web developers write functional pages first."

You're confusing best practices with common practices. The vast majority of sites are developed with the assumption that javascript will be enabled in the viewer's browser.
Breaks the back button.
Hehe, those are pretty good, but xkcd makes too much sense. The king of this particular block is Marmaduke Explained.

http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/

http://www.29-95.com/time-suck/comic-strip/marmaduke-explain...
"write blog posts like this one"
I'll second this. They also give a free SSL certificate
8th place isn't so bad. Doesn't seem worth emigrating over, for most people.
It's a wonder Apple's products even go out in the open anymore, with so many potential murderers.
I guess the real question is, have things improved since then?
I have experienced the same thing. I can't figure out why it is this way though from a biological/neural perspective. When I'm getting tired of work I usually just step back for a few days and just do fun stuff like watching movies, playing video games, and in general just doing stuff completely unrelated to work. Magically, after a few days of routine that's unrelated to work, when I get back to it everything just seems more manageable.
And a free 1 year WhoIsGuard (on renewals I suppose).
Gandi.net is French, but they're awesome. Free SSL cert too.
I read it. But in my head I heard Peter Gibbons saying it. Strange.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2Dpr6r98Q Sorry. Had to.
How exact are we talking? IP Geolocation has been around a long time, but isn't very exact.

Are you an Opera user? They have links with the Skyhook WiFi access point databases to locate people (like the iPhone 2G does) - http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/03/26_2/
There's a video of the actual device in use here:

http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-flash-ipad-comparis...
adobe does have some mistakes in their ui but i think thats a bit dramatic...cs3 really wasn't THAT bad...as for the patches and stuff it sounds like this guy had something wrong with his computer. i hate the automatic adobe upgrades as much as the next guy, but 1hour45min to apply a 58mb patch I don't really think is adobes fault.
No, it's just that the hypocrisy here is only if you step inappropriately far back from the actual issues and squint. As with everything, the devil is in the details. If you don't favor Apple, then it's convenient to not dwell too much on those details while passing judgment.
It was introduced in Senate amendment 2786: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=111...

It's huge so it's hard to tell who was specifically responsible, but it was sponsored by Sen. Reid and cosponsored by Senators Dodd, Baucus, and Harkin
Perhaps this suggests that people were looking at HP's purchase of Palm in the wrong way.

HP are the biggest computer manufacturer in the world. While I'm sure entering the phone market is a bonus to them, if they think that the iPad is a serious threat to their laptop business, buying Palm in order to be able to speed up manufacture of an iPad competitor makes perfect sense.
A coworker and I were talking about this today. We think preconditions, invariants, and postconditions are less intuitive than recursion and base cases. We are aware that recursions and iterations are dual, we just seem to like the recursions better.
There was a great comment here on a previous thread, but I can't find it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
It's totally silly, but I love hearing the accents change with each story.
As it should. Some detainees have been held there for over seven years without charges being pressed.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/11/20...
Then find someone to fund who can. It doesn't do any good to sit around barking at the world to do things for you.
You're almost certain to fall under a broadly written computer crime statute if the D.A. has a mind to charge you.

For example, in my home state of Illinois:

A person commits the offense of computer tampering when he knowingly and without the authorization of a computer's owner, as defined in Section 15‑2 of this Code, or in excess of the authority granted to him: ... alters ... data;

The ellipses are fair -- it really is that broad. Bonus points: it is insta-federal because of the effect on interstate commerce, again if someone has a mind to make an example of you.
For some reason, humor and compassion are the only competencies that don't appear on the wheel. Also, does anyone else find it troubling that "results" make up such a thin sliver of the wheel o' competency?
The Power architecture is still pretty awesome for raw power. But it's not designed for low energy consumption (ie: laptops). So while a desktop with some P6/P7 chips* would be an awesome beast - a laptop might be a toaster.

The G5 was a Power4 chip of some sort from memory.

Jobs read the market well. The move is definately to Laptops / portable devices - and Intels chips were much better at that.
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When I signed up with FB there was a reasonable level of privacy. Sure, I was posting my photos to some startup/corporation's servers, but that was an acceptable trade off to me for the convenience of sharing baby pics with my friends and family.

Since then their privacy settings have become convoluted (as expressed by the OP). Meanwhile I have uploaded countless photos, made comments, etc... and become quite invested in their ecosystem.

(FWIW, I'm a web developer. I can create my own photo sharing site for my friends and family. FB is just really, really good at doing that stuff. Part of my disappointment is mourning the erosion of an otherwise excellent web app.)
The big lesson here that might be more pragmatic is to avoid quasi-working, the state of half-working that feels like full-bore work without actually getting much done.
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been following this company for a while, really fascinating design. Hope they keep the pixel qi screen in their final product
How are those QT videos working out for you?
No, sadly, i think marketing does.
It's not flamewars, it's not "the market", aka the consumer.
It's what Apple can make the world believe. Especially in the case of Apple, my believe is that 90% of their sales are accomplished by excellent marketing. This Blogpost is just another move. I think we can agree that, when looking at hard facts, Steve is plainly lying to his customers in a lot of points.
Me, as the nerd i am, can look at some facts and behind the words of that letter.
The most sad and disappointing fact on the hand is, that most users will take the letter for granted. Steve writes as if all the things are facts, true and _many_ people will just believe him! He will sell even more units and from today on Apple customers will looks at me, disturbed, why i have Flash on my Phone/Tablet, that it will only drain the batteries, bla bla bla.
This is basically what really makes me angry about this.
He could have just written "we are not allowing Flash because we want to protect the Appstore". Everyone would understand, that's the fact, ok. But no. He wrote together a big pile of lies.
Bloggers don't get clicks by STFU'ing. Probably best to just not read them :)
It's not about proving things to apple, it's about how other people perceive Apple.
Does anybody know about a release date?
Agreed. If I'm coding a mobile version of my website and I can do it in flash and support 50% of smartphones or do it in HTML5, CSS, and Javascript and support 100% of smartphones which one am I going to pick...

It's a pretty weak retort by Adobe.
Orientation implemented in Fx 3.6 looks good http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/orientation-for-firefox/
I think that seems fairly clear cut on their part.

I wonder if they would be open to dialogue about the issue though. For example, if someone is tweeting a specific question about a branding finding that with search and answering seems legitimate and helpful.

Obviously automated search stream based marketing sucks.
Regardless of what you call yourself on the Internet, someone's going to want to tax you. Sometimes I wish I could just move "online" and not have to worry about issues like borders, countries, taxes, and governments, paying for services as I need them and incurring no burden on anyone that I don't pay for directly. Until that becomes possible I'll just do the best job possible to be accurate and honest with my finances. Alas, bridges to nowhere have to be funded somehow.

Edit: Not to mention that any country that the Internet's light pipes run through will want to control those pipes, pass laws limiting what can be done with them, etc.
I love how this is still true even if you replaced "fax" with "printers".
The next game should be exciting. Anand is known to be strong with black and he goes in with a one point advantage.
I don't understand this:

"It's not a tablet or an ebook reader, it's a new species"

Is that marketing hyperbole or did I miss something fundamental about what they are doing?
Hyperbole is my educated guess.
You sound like you'd better off going on TIGsource and showing a demo of your game and then trying to enlist help from artists.