skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Igor Sysoev once wrote "Why is Google V8 is not suitable for embedding in server" http://sysoev.ru/prog/v8.html (russian).
The Red Cross is a non-profit.

facebook has a legal obligation to maximize shareholder value:

Whereas for-profit organizations exist to earn and
re-distribute taxable wealth to employees and
shareholders, the nonprofit corporation exists solely to
provide programs and services that are of self-benefit.
If you dice the potatoes very small they will cook perfectly in about 30s in boiling water (it's one of my specialities :D)
That's a good point and I agree, but why then do browsers let this sort of crap happen?

Why do they allow JavaScript to modify what gets copied to the copy buffer, rather than just copying whatever you happen to select from the rendered page?

I can't think of any good reason why that functionality should be allowed. The copy buffer should be as off-limits to the JavaScript VM as the contents of my hard drive. So while the developers of this "feature" and the websites that implement it are partially to blame, I think there's a flaw in browsers that's allowing them to do it in the first place.

There aren't nearly enough fine-grained controls over JavaScript in modern browsers, given the really obnoxious shit that's beginning to be done with it (JS-based popups and popovers). Browser developers have left an opening for abuse and, particularly with the last decade-plus of WWW development in the rear-view mirror, we shouldn't be surprised when it gets abused in really user-hostile ways.
Firewalls are a good computing analogue to the blowout preventers and crosswalks in Brooks' article. When behind a firewall, people tend to be less careful about security.

The acclimation to risk that Brooks talks about is seen in computing all the time too. The longer a security hole goes without being breached, or a software bug goes without consequence, the more likely people are going to underweigh the risk.
Http://Adtaily.com kind of thing?
With respect to the skill displayed in that video, it's different from this research. The video you linked doesn't have the same precision displayed in the research; I don't think they'd be able to go from hovering, through a window, back to hovering as precisely as was shown in with the single copter craft.

The single copter craft does turns, flips and dances all around, but it's over a much larger area and nor is the human pilot trying to accomplish a particular task. I think he's just having fun, free-form style. The key difference, I think, is that a single copter craft can't change direction as quickly as the quad copter craft.
I have to say; despite the author appearing to be non-native English speaker that is some of the best intro/install/get started documentation I've seen for a while.

Most people just leave you to it.
Single-site browser - sorry, I thought the term was defined in my parent.
I think people could do a pretty good job of that for Avatar. The characters were nothing if not archetypical.
Men with worse conditions have found women.
Craigslist foundation bootcamp in August
Bah, so derivative: http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/
Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
Today's college kids lack empathy
You Need A Website For Your Start-Up, Not Your Product
No, it has a legal obligation to do what (the majority of) its shareholders say. If they tell it to dance a jig and give all its assets to the Flat Earth Society, it’s obliged.

Maximizing shareholder value in the way that’s usually meant is a business school doctrine, not a legal doctrine. (Edit: on second thought, it is a legal doctrine, just not the legal doctrine.) See, for example, http://www.virginialawbusrev.org/VLBR3-1pdfs/Stout.pdf :

“Dodge v. Ford is a mistake, a judicial “sport,” a doctrinal oddity largely irrelevant to corporate law and corporate practice. What is more, courts and legislatures alike treat it as irrelevant. […] Only laypersons and (more disturbingly) many law professors continue to rely on Dodge v. Ford.”
Speak for yourself, I look forward to joining the resistance and shooting at them all day long.
Suicide is one of the few mistakes you can make in life that you can never correct.
Not really, he read about it today and told you about it last night.
Where's the "learn to live cheaply"?
It's not that 37signals are the only ones doing what they do — they're just the best at promoting what they do differently from "conventional" business ideas. With Rework (and Getting Real before it), they're actually making "challenging conventional wisdom" part of their business.
Nice companions for that little dog-like robot.

The military applications are kind of creepy
Hmmm, an interesting idea. Context-sensitive addition to the right-click menu, perhaps, where I can choose to add the meta-data to my paste. I think I can get that going in Javascript.
I don't see why JS code running on a page in the browser should have access to my computer's local clipboard. That's a misfeature at best, and it's ripe for abuse.

Web apps that really need access to the local clipboard should have to jump through some hoops in order to access it, just like they have to jump through hoops to access the local filesystem. Perhaps we could make those permissions persist, so that users wouldn't have to constantly authorize a particular site (like Google Docs) that they want to let access their clipboard, but it should definitely not be accessible to the world by default.
Android Cloud To Device Messaging
Which is exactly what I prefixed my technical solution with - beggars can't be choosers. You are getting to access all this content for free, content which people spend their precious time creating. I find it astonishing that people actually have the gall to complain about the content creators partaking in a little self-promotion.
Historically Django's documentation has been significantly better than Pylons'.

That may have changed recently (I don't know, I'm not familiar with Pylons), but it gave Django a head-start with people who didn't want to have to dig through the source to figure out how to do things.
Apparently if you want to get more people to visit your site, write Harry Potter fanfic.

... If you happen to be as good at it as Eliezer Yudkowsky is. Which you probably aren't.
Einstein wasn't Dyslexic:
http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/einstein.htm
browsers dont have access to the clipboard, but they should do for the same reason word, spreadsheets, photoshop, ..., every other major desktop application do have access. This is a core piece of functionality that is a major part of building usable applications.

yes they can be abused, you can make red text on a green background, or phish someones bank about and steal thousands using this technology, banning it isnt the solution.
One page view of the whole article:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/...
All the time?

Not really. The fact that there's a trail system doesn't mean people do it.

Driving across the country is a pretty huge undertaking, much less walking across it.

The Bruce Trail essentially cuts through my back yard. It is 800km. It is a major accomplishment if, over your life, you manage to walk all of it (in intervals). Very few do it end to end.
Ah; I think I discounted the last item you quote since as far as I know it's wrong: instead, that was an cynical aside made by a Transocean "official" after the meeting in which the BP "official" in command made a/the bad decision. As quoted by another Transocean guy, "Well, I guess that's what we have those pinchers for", apparently referring to the BOP.
Comparing VoltDB to Postgres
The actors themselves have done good work, but they did the best they could with the writing. I was annoyed by the historical inaccuracies, but mainly it came off as though it was written by a college freshman.
A human has a really good vision system. We can easily differentiate the window (for example) from the rest of the environment without problem. Also, we have a pretty good 3D system, and with practice we can process the relative position of objects and use this processed information to control the helicopter/quadrotor.

In this project they are using Vicon to determine the position of the quadrotor and the window. Once that information is processed, the quadrotor is properly controlled and has good enough "feedback", the human control can no longer be a match for the precision of a computer.
Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started
This is pretty cool. However, as a technical note for others, if you decide to develop a state of the art fast-moving RC helicopter I suggest you record your experiments with a video camera that has a higher frame rate than, seemingly, 5fps.

Edit: my apologies, after re-watching the video it looks fine. It must have just been a problem on my end (although I've never seen anything like that from youtube before).
Water boils at 100C, but did you know that steam exists at temperature higher than waters boiling point? So steam above the water can go upto 120C depending on the weight of your lid. So when you put a lid on the pan you are semi boiling/ semi steaming which is why it cooks faster.
For the older versions of Exchange, OWA is actually pretty terrific in IE, a completely different UI -- they invented XHR to implement it! In the IE version, you can purge your inbox in a couple clicks.

In the last release or two (which not that many organizations use yet), they've unified it so that there's only one OWA that uses the now standard XHR support in all modern browsers on all platforms.
I'm sure the DOD would probably want a word with that guy
It's their narrative for getting attention. That is all.

Someone once mentioned how it was clever they (tiny, unknown little company) always pit themselves against well known things (Microsoft, Apple, VC X) to try and become more legitimate over time.
Holy. Crap.

Imagine what could become of this research in 5-10 years of sustained development?

God help the poor sucker that needs to deal with one of those things when coupled with less than benevolent intentions. Imagine five of these, armed and working together?

Good bye urban combat, hello robotic assassins.
If they go public as expected, I'm doubting many equity holders will be interested in a jig.

I stand by my observation that a non-profit is poor evidence for the assertion "Money can be a major concern to a huge operation without being its primary focus"
Fraud him out. Think about it. There is no legitimate reason for his behavior.
I fail to see a connection. He stated that musicians making money from recording albums is an aberration in the history or recorded music. It could be argued that the situation with the Verve backs up that point.

I'd also not equate his personal opinions with the actions taken by Allen Klein.
Yes, but this method could also be applied to building better slot machines. The game itself requires very little skill or creative engagement on the part of the player. Farmville is evil game design; it takes advantage of human cognitive hooks and limitations for the purpose of profit.

Video games should expand upon what we are capable of. Reward structures and timed events are fine to a degree, but Zynga goes too far. This kind of manipulation needs to be addressed, especially as games become more and more thoroughly integrated with our society.
The solution is simple. Don't visit sites that employ Tynt.
Thank you. It amazes me how aggressively technical founders try to find sales/bizdev folks, when domain/industry knowledge is this massive void waiting to be filled (and would help sales efforts immensely whether it be with the product of raising money).

I'd also say that as management consultant, you are intimately exposed to the problems that organizations face. Not only will you have an exposure to unique industry knowledge, you will actually be able to find niche markets that outsiders don't know exist--this seems particularly true for B2B ideas.
Because they are the self-selected standard bearers for that counter-example and because they evangelize the "getting real" business model. It doesn't mean that they are the only example, there are many.
> 6.- Design on paper doesn't work.

Some of the very best programmers in history (Don Knuth, Jean Ichbiah) designed some of their best known programs on paper. Ah, but I forgot rule 1:

> 1.- We're always wrong.

Then it makes sense.
I have to think you're taking too negative a view of the intelligence of average. There is nothing subtle about this parody.

I could be wrong, but I'd be shocked that any competent person who had seen the chrome advertisements wouldn't recognize and understand this parody.
so ok...

#2 this is a waste of time for someone with your intelligence imho
#3 - yep, too long
#4 - possibly, if you're not a self directed learning type.

I would vote for #1, if you've already got a PhD the you have what it takes to pull it off.

As I understand it, you want to work on robotics. Very many of my friends who do research in robotics got their start playing with lego mindstorm robots. This would probably be a good place to start, because you basically can't learn software dev without writing something and it will give you a firm grasp of the basics of writing software for robots.

It's not clear what your level of experience in writing software is, if you haven't gone through basic tutorials then there are plenty of those out there.

If you happen to read this post and there's one thing to take away, it's that the absolute most important thing for ramping up to high productivity quickly is that you have a really solid infrastructure. The reason is that without such an infrastructure, codebases tend to drift and you can write yourself into a corner very easily.

I'll speak to my java infrastructure as this is my primary background.

First, I'm a big proponent of IDEs especially for beginners. I really like java with eclipse (it's unbearable with notepad) because with autocomplete and source code generation, you end up with code that reads more like an essay than a mathematical proof, which suits my personal style just fine. It just helps to offload my memory into autocomplete. Whatever editor you pick, it's extremely helpful to read up on it in advance.

Next is source code management. I personally use git and I create a repository for every project I'm working on, I find the distributed, self contained nature amusing. Commit often and branch when you change features.

Next up is managing dependencies. I use maven, which I absolutely love. Maven basically centralizes your dependencies and separates that concern to help avoid dependency hell. Some people use maven to manage their source, but I do it the opposite way with the maven files inside the directory where I create the git repo.

You also have to manage your own source. It's fine to play around ignoring all this, but once you have "real" code - this means code that you must maintain - then it's important that it be of a certain quality. You should try to have each project capture a particular need (read OCR or access a neural net or calculate some geo stuff for your robots or whatever) and that each product stand alone as much as possible. There should also at least be some functional tests.

imho, a relatively inexperienced dev with such a nice environment can be as productive as experienced devs flying by the seat of their pants. It also vastly reduces the risk of catastrophe.
That is a nice theory, but I don't do that when reading. Why would I highlight on screen, but not use a ruler edge when reading?
And these games are just getting started. As they grow, these tricks will get worse. This is a MUCH bigger problem than people realize. If you could have prevented the introduction of Opium to China, would you have?

http://www.vizworld.com/2010/02/jesse-schells-dice-2010-pres...
Lenders using Facebook, Twitter to gather borrower information
Well, they've been raised by a generation that doesn't understand the concept. How is this surprising?
Forget recon and bomb usage. I spy swarms of assassin drones. Would make fine horror story.
Why Apple will not move to Verizon (for now)
They also claim that they don't want to grow. That every business has a 'natural' size. That somehow that's better than being massive - again challenging the conventional wisdom that more profit = better. They are masters of PR to geeks. Their business model pretty much relies on them doing constant PR to pit themselves as the hip small but hugely knowledgeable 'startup'.

Even the back cover of Rework reads like a parody of 37signals other stuff.
Could Student's Facebook Page Topple a Towing Company?
You're left out the single most important thing:

Being willing, heck, even interested in the question of "Have you made a mistake?" and then being willing and able to reverse course.

As far as I know we don't see a lot of this in ecosystem management. The best example, at least in terms of the millions it kills every year, is the jihad against DDT extending to preventing twice yearly spraying of the interiors of dwellings to limit malaria infections.
You can learn the mechanics and electronics yourself. You have time, money for equipment and books, and all the background and maturity you need. If you find that going it alone leads to frustration, pay a starving grad student $30 an hour to help you out once in a while. I don't say this knowing anything about mechanics and electronics; I just know that school will be too slow for you and won't actually help much. School is for people who need to prove (to themselves and others) that they aren't just dicking around. Since you've got a PhD and financial security, people are going to assume that whatever you're doing in your workshop, you aren't just wasting your time, and even if you are, you've earned the right.

Don't sweat the difference between Lisp and Python. Python interfaces to C and has large, mature, and popular scientific computing libraries. I would actually recommend learning Lisp (for the usual reasons) and using it as you pursue whatever CS learning you need, but don't be surprised if you end up using Python for practical work because of the libraries and the large community of people doing scientific computing.
The display always paints from its own top to bottom. Since it has been turned upside down, when you watch really quickly, you can see it painting bottom-to-top from your point of view. This would be true whether the display has Windows rotation or not, and regardless of how apps are writing into the framebuffer.

Windows rotation makes the graphics driver output the framebuffer in reverse, so that the bottom lines of the image appear on the bottom lines of the display from your point of view. This makes the displayed image upright again.

To avoid flicker, Chrome may render offscreen and then copy the result top-to-bottom into the framebuffer. Hence Google's statement that Chrome renders top-to-bottom, and that the screen is displaying bottom-to-top due to rotation.

OK, I think that's enough pedantry for one comment ;)
That's typical of most journalists and pundits: this guy never designed or managed a complex system but still believes he can give important opinions about engineering and management.

Engineering has done a lot to manage complexity and minimize risks (e.g.: NASA's software, GE's 6-sigma). Most accidents are really caused by irresponsible behavior, incompetence, lax regulation or a prize big enough to make you forget the risks. The problem is that this is just too simple to be newsworthy.
Looks pretty smooth to me... I'd give it >10fps for sure.
I checked on Chrome, and NY Times only tries to define single words for me -- but when I de-select any text, the embedded video player (if any) reloads. Buggy.
The notable exception being Nikola Tesla, who was both a mad scientist and a mad engineer.
Hmm?

14.6 million hours, around ~293M.
The spam filter isn't my favorite. Every time I go into my junk mail folder, I see too many mailing list entries in there, for obviously valid messages. These are all programming mailing lists, and the messages are just regular programming talk.
The Manhattan Project physicists occupy a dual space as well. Their ultimate hypothesis was "hmm, maybe building a bomb this way will work", and the experimental setup was "build it and try exploding it in the desert", which is a pretty engineeringy kind of science experiment. (Of course, there were plenty of earlier, more basic-physics experiments leading up to it.)
In a case like this, what steps will Apple take to quash the IPed?
Isn't that thinking about the control on a very low level? Why do you need to know about the degrees of freedom -- if you're able to say exactly where you want the device to be, do you need any more details about the path?

Sure - the fun factor of the complete control is gone, but the usability goes through the roof.
I've never played FarmVille, but one of the things I loved about Kingdom of Loathing (other than the general awesomeness) was that I could only do so much at a time - I didn't feel like I had to commit to it if I just had a few minutes. And the fact that each day you got more adventures, it really encouraged me to keep coming back.

Oddly, it was at the point where I had more adventures in a day than I had time to use (and therefore started loosing them) was the point that I started to loose interest.
Twitter's fake BP spokesman too slick for the oil company
So it's not legal for a for-profit organization to donate to charity?
For those interested in the benefits of Tynt Insight for publishers, please read this article:

http://www.dotsauce.com/2010/03/09/website-data-social-shari...

"Email is used for 70% of all social sharing and accounts for 48% of new site traffic."

For comparison, Facebook only accounts for 25%.

I'm guessing Gruber didn't get a chance to review this report from Tynt.
Google translate does surprisingly well at getting the gist across:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl...
I've used Pylons for reporting, here are my takeaways:

1. It's a little tougher to get working "out-of-the-box"

2. It's documentation is not as "centralized" - meaning because you can use whatever template engine you want (jinja, mako, etc) and whatever db backend you want (sqlalchemy, elixir - a nice overlay on top of sqlalchemy, django ORM, etc) the docs for a particular module may or may not be in pylons docs

3. It's waaayyyy more flexible - I can't praise SQLAlchemy enough, it's freaking amazing!
The Manhattan Project physicists -- in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer -- joined Victor Frankenstein as archetypal mad scientists post-WWII.

In particular, fictional mad scientists tend to implicitly operate in the manner you describe: by the time they're building fully functional death rays with which to threaten the world, they've presumably carried out maybe tens or hundreds of experiments to see if the new form of radiation from a crystal meteorite energy source could be channelled and weaponized.
There Was 'Nobody in Charge'
We are hungry for more comments, not just about the app but feel free to comment on our design, CSS etc

Look forward to hear from you guys!
Sounds a bit like the Appalachian trail here in the US
For better or worse, examples of companies like 37Signals are used because their approach is empowering, and their confidence about it is reassuring.

IME most hackers are in a situation where they don't know how/want to deal with investors and don't want to sit around with business types and think up monetization strategies. It's a great feeling that you can just build something with barely any overhead and start making profit early.
DOD comment: took the words right out of my fingertips...
Perfect email regex finally found
http://twitter.com/ezmobius/status/14927274062

If it was Ezra, then this is the official explanation.
This was my first thought. It's sad that whenever new technology is developed, governments think of ways to use the technology to kill people.