skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble making an html form that will generate the request Google seems to need. Do you know what a form would have to look like?

The Twitter url doesn't work for me, incidentally. I get a Twitter search page but with no query or search results.
Mozilla, HTML5 editor differ with Microsoft
Excellent; that's some of the most intelligent argument in this area I've seen for a while.

And it is so true. Look st how much time people spend propogating meme's on facebook. Ok so there is always room for us to enjoy banal stuff - but I feel like it is starting to enroach on our lives.

It's like the sivers post from the other day; if only we shared an interesting wikipedia rather than one of those chain emails, conspiracy theories or "questionaires"...
This makes me sad.

Despite my political opposition to Obama, I thought that he understood the culture of the "IPod, XBox era." In fact, he leveraged these tools of 'diversion' in his campaign (and did so very effectively).

This seems to be the knee-jerk technophobic speech that politicians would have given in the latter half of the 20th Century. Instead of being afraid and resistant to technology (which, as we have seen, is unstoppable anyway), politicians should be encouraging the public to put these technological advances to good use. See: David Cameron's TED talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELnyoso6vI).

He highlights a significant point in his speech, as tel says. Being able to deal with all of the information is something that we need to cope with. However, placing the blame on the tools is not the way to go.
I'm curios about the tests. Can you expand?
Try http://search.twitter.com/search?q=this
A cup of tea and 5-15 minutes of meditation always helps to start my day.
It would be interesting to analyze, over time, the relative points of the first several "root" comments.
The problem is the original headline. The headline makes it sound like Obama is bemoaning iPads and Xboxes. It's sensational, it grabs your attention, and you wonder why he's bemoaning technology. And then you get to the article, which is actually about Obama bemoaning "the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction." Hmmmm.... Text-book irony.
I'm not sure I agree with the implication that said devices are to blame for this sort of thing. A lot of this problem is just as, or if not even more prevalent in old media. One could argue that more convenient Internet access helps solving the problem by allowing people to do fact-checking for themselves. I know I look up points of contention on wikipedia via my phone in a way that just wasn't possible a couple of years ago.
I'm not a big fan of that quote. If you can't read into it and figure out that what your customers actually want is a faster, weather-proofed way of getting around, you have larger problems than "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Using it to justify not listening to customers would make more sense if Henry Ford made his business successful by selling horsewagons.
If Guido made Python into Lisp, what would be the point of making it?

Different languages have different strengths. And weaknesses. Reminding myself I have learned to program on a Texas Instruments' TI-51 III shows me it's the programmer that makes the machine tick. Learning to program on something that can't make a conditional jump (or jump somewhere but program step 0) is educational.
If this is what should happen, then eventually will it not reduce competition? And if other browser developers thought this way too, it would ultimately stall the innovation in browser development.

I think they are going the right way with IE9:

* Sticking to standards (at least claimed as of now)
* Not creating proprietary APIs (hopefully. I'm not sure about this)
* Improving speed
* Rapid iterations of the browser,

all this _while_ keeping an eye on security is a good thing for the industry as a whole since it keeps browsers competing with each other.

(NB. I'm not too trusting of MS but they seem to be behaving better than they used to)
I have this suspicion that as android phones drop in price, they will become a valuable experimentation platform. For example, a scientist could take a $80 android phone, root it, plug in a solar panel, put it in a glass box, and use it as a data acquisitions platform sending data home on the cell network (or nearby wifi if appropriate).
I guess this message would of been better conveyed in video format.
At the risk of quibbling, this strikes me as a couple steps removed from anecdotal. I expect a degree of subjectivity, but without direct observation, it's merely hearsay (not entirely unlike some interviewing techniques, but I digress).

It's not even removed, it is anecdotal, I don't even know for sure if they are telling the truth, and possibly neither do they. But the universal component seems to be that they all agree that it takes time, so the only thing left to argue about is how much time, and hence roughly how much cost. We're talking about a fair sized sample though, so even if it isn't a research project it will hold some water.

The question is born out of my own experience that it can take some time to get a new hire trained, coupled with a bit of information about the complexity of the subject matter it usually gives me some insight in to how well their documentation is and how good their teams are at communication and dealing with integration issues.

That's a big assumption, and one I would suggest is false for experienced technical people, especially non-programmers.

I detect an additional, implicit assumption, that a new hire's productivity will ever reach (and/or not surpass) that of the veterans around them.

Not necessarily, there is probably some correlation with how fast someone gets up to speed and how far they'll go, sometimes you get lucky and you find someone that managed to outperform the people that you already had. But as time progresses the chances of that are smaller and smaller, simply because of the body of accumulated knowledge by the 'old hands'.

Similarly, you're assuming that they will, at some point, cease to be a drain on the team.

Well, everybody is a 'drain' on everybody else in that respect, but during the initial period where someone is entirely new to something that drain can be considerable.

Especially in those 'rare' cases where the documentation leaves something to be desired. Of course that would never happen in real life ;)

I don't think it's any of an employer's concern what an employee's personal/family situation is, nor appropriate to base hiring/firing decisions on it. Fortunately, the labor laws in my jurisdiction support such a view quite strongly.

No, but that doesn't mean that it hurts a lot more to fire someone for whatever reason if you know that it will affect his or her dependents as well. I agree that's arbitrary but I'm by no means perfect.

Downsizing is the hardest in this respect, it causes no end of grief, nobody did anything really wrong, but still you would have to let people go.

This may be true, but you haven't pointed out where capriciousness or callousness (beyond a separation of business and personal) is advocated, either by the OP or the OC.

I think the capriciousness is in the part where he says 'in startups, where you hire fast and loose', which is something that I don't think is necessary at all, and then corrects the failure to invest enough time in the hiring process by firing an overly large portion of his hires, most likely people that he would have never hired in the first place if he had spent a bit more time in the beginning.
>"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work..."

What the hell? This sounds like Bush.

What happened to the guy who was in love with his blackberry?
Most open source code already has plenty of bugs. No need to add more.
No, but decrying the harms of cigarettes whilst puffing a mouthful's worth at once would certainly garner grounds for such an accusation.
I in no way said that people use "nosql" stores because they couldnt understand how to use RDBMS's

Anecdotally I would say the opposite, that people use "nosql" stores because they do know how to use an RDBMS and they have commonly found situations when relational databases are a square peg in a round hole.
He's not placing the blame on the tools any more than you or I would bemoan the hours 'lost' to Hacker News. It's a longer view, step back.

We do need to come to grips with the social changes that are occurring and the implications of our present and future digital lives. Our man-made environment isn't the problem, it's our evolutionary memory combined with the phenomenal acceleration of information technology.
The birther stuff, in particular, is a great example of nonsense that perpetuates. On a policy level, we were hijacked by the death panel nonsense. Debate the public option and minimum coverage requirements and subsidies - sure - but the death panel stuff is just nonsense designed purely to distort the debate.

If you don't get how having to deal with stuff like that at the expense of substantive debate harms our nation, I don't know what to tell you.

Why their communications team (and remember his chief speechwriter since 2007 is a guy born in 1981[1]) keeps linking this with video games and iPods (which he certainly does know how to use; it's a bizarre line) has to be some sort of polling data. Cause, on its face, it's asinine.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)
Other languages seem to have less binary options too.
This made me smile, but I think it's telling that the film implicitly claims that surrender leads to peace, high stock prices lead to prosperity, and a strong currency leads to wealth. None of these fixes would actually work (and indeed they invert causation in the latter two cases). As long as the wealth creation and human conflict are so deeply misunderstood—even, perhaps especially, by those most dedicated to "saving the world"—I suspect many of these problems will get worse before they get better.
That's a bit of an odd opinion. Microsoft is a company and companies have one goal: generate revenue for shareholders. I suspect IE generates significant revenue for Microsoft, if for no other reason than the default search being Bing. I wouldn't hold my breath that they're going to discontinue a product that still has 50% plus marketshare.
Amazon S3, I want it to have a WebDav interface instead of the proprietary stuff they have. That way I can use different tools to save file to S3 directly - less hassle.

To make a bit of money you can take a percentage of the bandwidth charges, sell your EC2 appliance, or offer both options.
Using Amphetamines is a purely symptomatic treatment and has nothing to do with fundamental health that is implicit in the OP's inquiry, At higher doses amphetamines are undeniably highly destructive to mental and physical health. Lower doses clearly have their uses but I would not bring them up in a 'health' thread.

If you use amphetamines regularly, make sure to take additional Magnesium. It is required for your muscles to relax and is depleted by amphetamine use. It can help prevent muscle tension\heart palpitations.
Give it some time. The keyboard shortcuts experiment was disabled because it didn't work with the new interface and there wasn't time to fix it, but there's some attention being put into updating it now.
That's well-written PR Todd, but the bottom line is this: your false positives are doing potentially severe damage to third parties. These are people who aren't even using your service.

When these things happen you need a way to fix them quickly, or you will find yourselves in legal hot water sooner or later.

Also, I might suggest to you that you have neither the power nor the authority to be the link police on the internet. What you're doing is engaging in an arms race that A) is impossible to win, and B) has numerous innocent bystanders.

I've never really been one to decry the dangers of link shorteners, but this is a great example of how a link shortener—even with a team of stand-up ethical guys behind it—can be bad for the internet.

We've been thinking about signing up for bit.ly pro, and I have to say this throws a wet blanket over the whole thing.
nothing particularly interesting really.
most of them are in junit.
otherwise, it's simple stuff like marking off when I stick to schedule or violate it, estimating times and then checking those estimates.
Quit Safari

Open Terminal

cd /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/

cp Safari Safari.bak

perl -pi -e 's/rls=en/hl=all/g' Safari

cd ~/Library/Safari/

mv SearchProviders.plist.signed SearchProviders.plist.signed.bak
Check out also the FOX board that's actually built of a core module (cpu, flash and ram) plus a daughter board that brings out all common interfaces for prototyping (ethernet, usb, rtc, gpio, etc.).

When you've finished prototyping and have your own board you can drop their daughter board and buy just the core for 69 euros.

Pretty sweet (and they are good guys also).

http://www.acmesystems.it/
Great; this works:

<form action="http://search.twitter.com/search" method="get">
<input type="text" size="30" name="q"/>
</form>
Polly & Crackers.  Blog of insane nonsense.  Amazing
Random picture, video, and story blog that will make you wet yourself
The idea here is to have so many bugs that you can't really use the open source version of the product at all.

In this way, a company can release its software as open source without worrying too much about competition from that code.
http://www.google.com/quality_form

But yes, we know. There are Googlers that read HN, you know. :-)
Regression: The iPad Gets Mouse Support
Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry
The only thing Google needs is the q parameter:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com%20g...

You just need a form with action="http://www.google.com and a text input of name "q", assuming you only care about English-only.
Reinventing Business
Your shoulder pain is not the result of the pushup program, but more the result of bad form, disbalances in your body (one muscle group is stronger and has to support the other one -> more tension on the weak) or other health issues.
Stay away from ALL fast food. Even their "healthy" choices are designed to maximize profit margins, and there's just something unsavory about decades of processed food.

I stopped eating fast food about 3 years ago, and I have felt healthier ever since - I didn't change any other significant part of my diet/living situation - and I've only gotten sick once or twice, my migraines have decreased despite the added stress of college, plus I've become a better cook.
My guess is that he's feigning some ignorance in order to identify with 'regular folks.'
Obama's arguments here remind me of Noam Chomsky's thoughts on sports:

Sports keeps people from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it’s striking to see the intelligence that’s used by ordinary people in sports [as opposed to political and social issues].

So much chatter to distract us from the important issues of the day.
I think so, and I think it's called the Meat Stylus:

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/04/04/south-koreans-revolu...

http://kottke.org/10/02/meat-stylus-for-the-iphone
This doesn't seem to be the ideal backdrop for more offshore drilling.
I've been working on software design for a long time and I'm pretty sure the problem with the Google redesign is not merely that users are unfamiliar with it. They've made classic design errors.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1326795
did you see a strong decrease after the first 5 days? for how long is the app in the app store? do you still have those revenues?
I can put it simply: the only thing worse than an imperative style with side effects is one where the side effects are chained, in this case through a set of interacting objects. I came to it from the hard experience of doing it, e.g. think sequence diagrams; the methodology was OOSE.

However lately I have been wondering about the utility of this approach for GUIs.
You mean they don't see a cent of that tax :)
Sorry, but your argument is nonsensical. I may disagree with Obama on some political issues, but I entirely agree with his point. He's not attacking technology, he's attacking complacency and indolence. Hence, technophobic is not the word to use to describe his speech.

Technology, per se, is neutral. In an era of information overload, when the ability to focus has almost become a luxury, it seems plausible to think of the iPod and the Xbox as unnecessary distractions that cause more harm than good. The U.S. is fighting two (virtually) unwinnable wars and, yet, the masses seem to be more concerned with trivialities such as Tiger Woods' philandering, celebrity gossip, Steve Jobs health status, etc etc etc. Time is scarce, and time spent on sending text messages to friends on your iPhone, or on killing virtual aliens on Xbox is time that is not being spent on education. The media have become a circus, trading education for easy entertainment. "Books" from dimwits like Gladwell become best-sellers. Civil liberties are stolen from us, and yet we're too busy with Facebook to pay attention to it. We have become "soft" and docile, and we have forgotten that "the price to pay for tranquility is eternal vigilance" (paraphrasing Jefferson), that liberty and prosperity are not birth-rights but rather something one fights for constantly.
I don't know what it is, but there is something kind of strange and gross about these sculptures. I'm not sure why I'm responding in that way, but I find them both fascinating and somehow disturbing, as though I'm seeing a little bit of the root of my own being, and it is mathematical and alien.
I'm unsurprised that the readers here latched right on to the tools mentioned in the article, and entirely missed the point of his statements:

> ...politicians should be encouraging the public to put these technological advances to good use.

This is exactly his point. He used a few devices to hi-lite the difference between information-as-entertainment, and information-as-a-tool. This in no way makes him hypocritical for being constantly connected to a Blackberry; he's using the device in exactly the way that he's urging young graduates to use going forward. (It may make him a little hypocritical for his campaign machine, though.)

I think he's right. I think he's being proven right all the time by sites like Reddit, which were supposed to democratize the news, except that instead they repeatedly become a megaphone for internet tough guy squads and get hyped over issues where they don't have all the facts. Or like HackerNews, where daring to mention some high-tech devices causes everyone to completely miss the actual point of an argument.
Interface contracts – forcing code contracts through interfaces
Pretty slick Make video.

For a little bit of cash you can snag a nice ipad (or iphone) friendly stylus here: http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Stylus-Pen-for-all-Appl...
Reddit uses Cassandra for a very small part of their functionality - their primary database is Postgre. Digg has yet to transitation over to Cassandra and generally, their transition has been delayed (even if they have a lot more resources than a regular startup). Facebook only uses Cassandra for inbox search, their primary database is MySQL.

The bottom line is to use NoSQL where it makes sense and where it solves the job better than relational databases.
Actually I kinda think stupid ideas like birtherism are deliberately given air by the Obama operation. I don't mean that in a "conspiracy theory" sense, I just mean that politicians would rather engage loudly with the silliest of their opponents rather than the most sensible. By focusing attention on the few loonies who oppose Obama, Obama attempts to associate opposition to Obama with looniness. If birthers didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent them.

As evidence, witness how quickly and reflexively this thread jumped into a discussion of birtherism.

Anyway, I guess my point is that would be hypocritical for Obama (or, in all fairness, pretty much any politician out there) to complain about the infantilization of political rhetoric. This, after all, is the man whose favourite rhetorical device is the "There are those who say [something that nobody actually says]" strawman.
I disagree because of this one line in his speech:

"none of which I know how to work"

which reads like the classic politician's way of distancing him- or herself from the technology (and have heard from technophobic politicians--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-do...). Whether its true or not isn't really the point (do we seriously believe Obama wouldn't know what to do with a iPad, iPhone or iPod?), the point is that it was in his speech. I could be completely off base here (and I surely hope that I am!), but this is a decidedly late 20th century speech in my interpretation.
Could you name a country?

As far as I know (and I admit I don't really), don't they all make it hard to fire someone, at least after a trial period?

What about Denmark?

They're supposed to have a private sector that's way above average for Western Europe, but I don't know or remember about firing policies or if they have a dole.

Dole as in any able bodied man who isn't working can draw government payments that provide an acceptable level of living.

At will means anyone not in a contract can be fired at any time for any reason (well, you can disallow a few narrow ones like getting pregnant in most situations).
IPAD/XBOX arent about information but about content they are about wasting time watching videos and playing games. And not about creating content, ppl on this forum have lost their minds. IPad is walled garden where papa Steve wants you to spend all your bucks on frivolity.
Plz dont mistake it for information revolution or anything.
Especially good for debugging webhooks, such as with PubSubHubbub.
I'm not trying to generate an ordinary Google search. I'm trying to generate one with the clean search results pages Google had before the redesign, which you can get from the search page linked to in the OP:

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all

My question is how to make a web form that produces the same results as the page above.
Case Study: Single Responsibility Principle Violation
Really? It sounds to me more like the classic snobbery routine of pretending not to understand the things liked by the masses.

I, for instance, am still pretending not to know who Justin Bieber is.
Controlling Health-Care Costs: Another American way
True, but in Zynga's case their audience is going to be drawn pretty naturally to Facebook.

Even at "max diversification" of their platform, it seems unlikely to me that losing their Facebook platform wouldn't be a crippling blow to Zynga.

How many 15 year old girls are really going to want to go to a completely different site to play Farmville? 5%? 10%? Zynga's demographic primarily seems to be whatever the exact opposite of "hardcore power user" is.

Granted, depending on how draconian Facebook's take is, that 5% or 10% might be enough to make them more money, but that seems somewhat unlikely to me.
I don't disagree, but I think it's also important to understand that many doctors are more than happy to dispense prescriptions without a thorough examination or exploring non-pharmaceutical solutions. In the U.S., many physicians do not take a holistic view of health, and that leads to over-prescription of drugs when it is possible that some other type of therapy might be appropriate (I'm thinking of neuro-developmental delay, listening fitness, or vision therapy in the case of kids).
Keep Simplifying
A BlackBerry is primarily a communications tool. I don't think we should be too concerned that the President doesn't know how to play video games.
I'm sure you're also right, but I'm not sure what your point is. You can't keep bad people on the team.