skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not that hard to make it looks exactly the same. Just doing a "save page as" in most browsers will automatically store all the html, css, and images needed to render a page to your hard drive.

The only reason you noticed the different buttons and different text is cause the author decided to save himself some time and just replaced the page with a screenshot of how gmail is rendered on their computer.
I didn't make the connection when I saw it, that plastic is made of oil.
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Also - Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Bing, etc are very short. "Duck Duck Go" isn't.
This strikes me as the biotech equivalent of map makers introducing fake streets or phone book makers including fake people.
I might be a little cynical, but I personally believe that keeping the oil underwater is worse and is simply a BP PR move. If it is underwater you can't burn it, you can't skim it, you can't absorb it, and the sun won't break it down.

Sure it might not get into marshes as quickly, but instead microbes eat it and create total deoxygenation of the water. I have dealt with the cleanup of minor sewage spill that caused total deoxygenation of a sound, I know how horrific that is. Basically all of the fish suffocate, die, and float to the surface to rot. Expect to see bumper to bumper fish carcases for miles. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life.

I think the goal with absorbing is that you will put out booms to protect sensative areas, and then when oil collects near them you can absorb it where it is more concentrated. The oil does not cover the surface completely, it is in patches, so collecting it into a solid slick makes the economics a little better (note: the idea that collecting it could be profitable is ridiculous, but you can optimize the dollar per barrel cleaned up ratio)
X-52: Scramjet at Mach 6... maybe.
Slackware. No doubt, far easier to use and maintain than Ubuntu.
not sure if that's an honest question or sarcasm or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
Is there a site listing odds on this thing actually working?
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Sounds like it was your coworker's communication skills that were lacking, not yours.
The fact that it was in a must less populated part of the world, in many ways make the Exxon disaster worse. Since we have so many people on the ground, observing the effects of the BP disaster when they walk down the beach, or try to go fishing, the effects will be harder to hide.

And with things like twitter and facebook, we have a great way for the ordinary person to keep the pressure on.

Also, the amount of oil being released here is huge, and it is going to affect a much larger area, if it does not disperse quickly. Lets just hope they get this under control.

From what I have read, people at BP/Haliburton should go to jail for letting the drilling go ahead, when there was damage to the saftey mechanisms.
Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to respond. The first time through I read about congestion control addition and thought that BT used UDP.
Everything that you said is correct. However, the majority of people that use the Internet are different. I don't have any data to back this up, but all the non-tech people I've ever interacted with think that "unprofessional looking = untrustworthy"
I'm using Chrome 5.0.375.38 on Mac OS X and the site didn't work for me either and I'm not running any kind of "NoScript" style extensions, just an out of the box Chrome.
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Hell, even Scheme would be a lot nicer than Emacs Lisp. Actually, if I could even get Yi ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi ) to work, I'd use that. Elisp sucks.
A New Type of Phishing Attack
Thank you for all the suggestions.
The article specifically mentions additional congestion control as a significant part of the protocol. For the routers themselves, UTP is also an IP protocol so it should have most of the same state requirements (routing tables) as the same number of TCP connections.
Exercising is good for you
I'm surprised at the creationist angle in that article, it's not as though that has any bearing on informing people about an insect.
Maybe you miss your shot because you get distracted by your knees creaking? :)
DDG's founder has officially won me over. On my little blog I keep (harrywolff.com) I made a post about Duck Duck Go and Gabe managed to find me and my post. Thank you Gabe. Keep up the very awesome work.
And if it looks exactly the same, I think the possibility of noticing the incorrect URL is lower ..
Freight shipping is vastly more efficient than driving your SUV in from the suburbs everyday.

Just sayin'.
Indent the code two spaces. http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Easy, nuclear.

We put more radiation into the air with coal ash then we have ever released with nuclear power.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is... (first article I found - there are plenty)
But we right -- the mexican food IS worse. It's made up for by the Thai and Indian food, so it's all good.
I use 1Password for pretty much everything and I love it. I have its database on Dropbox, so it's synced and can be used from different computers. I also have the iPhone app, so I can get my passwords anywhere if the need arises out and about.

However, I'm at a point where I need to figure out a recovery plan, because, you see, my Dropbox password is in 1Password as well, and my email password too. So, I could imagine a scenario where something gets compromised and I have a hard time getting it back…
i was thinking much cleverer than that... imagine mail.google.com /the real deal/ but there are hooks in the API to catch what you put in the login boxes - the only give away is a miniscule extra bit of local processing - no traceable network usage required. one attack could collect usernames/passwords from a user for every big site they use.

the phishing site that plants the stuff could even get away with being massively obvious - so long as people look at it they could be infected.

of course finding such exploits is non-trivial... but people are doing it with some regularity.

(EDIT: incidentally the only way I log in to Google Mail or anything I log into is by typing in the URL specifically, e.g."mail.google.com", so this is pretty much the only way to hit me up with this sort of attack - if I get "magically" logged out then I might get stung, but it seems doubtful... its just too suspiscious)
And you don't use sleep ?

Besides that, it seems that the boot speed increase according to the article is next to non existent, and the comments point out that the application starts were actually done without wiping the OS cache.
The tab-disguise isn't working in Chrome.
BP does not have insurance -- they are too risky to insure. (They have their own internal insurance division, that operates like an insurance company. But basically, it's a savings account.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376075
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Nope, you can just show up. :) I imagine it'll be obvious who we are.
Hopefully somebody's got the balls to run them in Windows :P
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Ask HN: New Site Idea- Karma Chameleon
Hi All-

I was browsing my favorite message boards today and was thinking that it would be cool to have a unified karma repository. Much like IActionable does badges, I thought it would be cool to be able to "bring" your karma to new sites, and for people to be able to see where you earned your notoriety or plaudits.

Thoughts?
I work at a digital advertising agency and we're researching the best ways to quantify the value of integrating open graph into our clients websites, and facebook marketing in general.

Anyone have any good experience or tips :)
Interesting... maybe it's not really a malicious website, but it did take my username/password and facebook did warn me to change my password immediately after logging in, so I didn't hesitate in doing so!
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Textmate on the mac, sublime text and scite on the PC, eclipse for Java
I feel totally vindicated for my tab-closing OCD now. I'd like to think the lack of auto-filled username/password forms would have tipped me off but in a hurry I'm not totally confident of that. It would be even more effective for sites you expect to be logged out of after a period of inactivity.
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Great post. On a slightly related note, are there people in the HN community who are awesome salespeople? Any of you looking for a job?

I've found that selling to enterprise customers isn't the hardest part - it's find really awesome salespeople.
Isn't this sort of one of the things Disqus does?
Didn't I already see this post this AM?
Thanks for sharing your personal computing habits with us. I happen to reboot quite often, switching between Ubuntu and Windows. I tried using a VM, but there were too many issues. With an SSD, rebooting from one OS to the other is fast enough to not be annoying, so I can have my dual-boot cake and eat it too. I have paid, and will continue to pay good money for this.
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I don't know if that's necessarily true by their definitions. As I see it they could be the same intelligent devices with different programmed goals. One group of nanobots you tell, "Make as many copies of yourself (including this instruction) as possible." The other you tell, "Make as many paperclips as possible."

I think they would make it their first order of business to destroy each other, postponing their primary goals in order to make weapons or enlist the help of allies. If they failed at destroying each other, they would reach some kind of peace treaty. Or maybe they would try peace first, realizing that war has too high a chance of wiping them out.
The "carpet bomb" attack that the article refers to is scripting the browser to download a lot of files, knowing that Safari doesn't prompt before downloading a file, in the hope that the user will execute one of them.

I don't think this kind of a attack is that practical on OS X as there's no way of automatically executing a downloaded executable (as far as I know) and OS X's sandbox would kick in with a dialog confirming that the file should be opened on the off-chance the user did elect to open something random from the internet.

It's arguable that this could be a more powerful attack by taking advantage of an exploit in the handling of one of the "Safe" formats that are (by default) opened automatically (Movies, Pictures, etc). However, such an attack would be more subtle if it were just used inline in a webpage which makes the issue a bit redundant.
For not so computer literates I always would recommend Ubuntu or something like that, the only problem that they will have (at least I always have) is to upgrade to newer versions, for someone that is not a übergeek this is a nonissue and a LTS release will be just fine for some time.
This is just absolutely heart-wrenching. Louisiana is a very beautiful place with a wonderful ecosystem. It really, really pains me to see BP totally destroying my home. Louisiana's coast has a hard enough time as it is, what with erosion — this is the last thing we needed.
Slackware comes with /usr/bin/vi symlinked to /usr/bin/elvis by default, although it's easy enough to point it at /usr/bin/vim if you want.
I was working a development job, but once a week we all had to do a day of support work. We all hated, we were supporting very non-technical staff, and there tickets were often so much nonsensical jibberish, that it made it very difficult. Often it took a few emails back and forth to find out exactly what the problem was. Eventually I figured out how to use the telephone, and often a 2 minute call would sort out there problems, without any work to be done on the system. It was great to talk to these people, realise that they weren't just problems in the ticketing system, but people trying to get work done. It proved to be a lot less frustrating experience once I figured that out. My colleagues, however, never learnt this trick, despite my assurances that they should just give them a quick call.
Hmm I don't know how I overlooked that. You're right though: http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-jupiter-insurance-2010-5
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He was kidding. Slackware does not install any distro specific GUI stuff so you need to know how to configure the servers that you are interested in or hope that the package maintainers have one available.
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The adjustable flow rate makes this thing kind of interesting to play with.
Ubuntu is the best choice for a user who is not terribly computer literate. The Ubuntu devs have made an extensive effort to provide a cohesive and well-integrated system that should not require the user to drop down to the command line for most uses. No other distro has made as exhaustive an effort to insulate the user from Linux's rough edges; Ubuntu's popularity ensures that numerous online tutorials are available to assist in just about any task.

As with any operating system, installation is the biggest hurdle, particularly if the user needs to preserve existing data. Once past that point, however, if he can handle Windows or OS X, he should have no trouble using and maintaining Ubuntu.
I typed 30 copies, and using the master key I went into every squadron building bulletin board, and posted these orders from the base commander on all 30.

Sounds like a good way to find out how a stockade works.
Ye can gain mine Emacs when ye wrest it from mine chill, mortified fingers.
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I guess I'm OCD in the fact that my Gmail tab is always my far-left tab - I know exactly where it is. It's the only Google feature that I really use (apart from Reader on my phone), and I'm pretty fussy about where I type passwords in.
I wonder if there's a safe way to bookmark this...
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Komodo Edit works well on all platforms and support 'scp' for file access.
Coda, but I am just a designer/front-end guy, so I don't count
Unlikely to fool anyone using Opera, the favicon doesn't change and the password button doesn't light up.
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eclipse. Why? Default for java.
Some pluses... nice plugin based architecture, stable code. Autocomplete, refactoring, source code generation, etc. are not optional things when you're trying to do too much all the time. It's nice working in something that is pretty standard and offers you the ability to share styles etc.

Downsides..
IDE-ification of development. Slow startup time (wants SSD hybrid drive for this). Synchronizing plugin versions can be a pain in the ass. Fairly steep learning curve to advanced features.
Related to this, I recently was wishing I could separate some|all of my Google services with extra or different passwords.

I'm not exactly sure what I want as far as design vs. usability but it feels bad right now to have one password for the amount of data that it's protecting, especially when I have to enter it occasionally for more "fluffy" services.
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As an emacs newbie with a nagging desire to learn Perl, I would gladly commit to switching to an emacs implementation in Perl.
I use netbeans because it is on parity of sucking as bad as zend studio but it is free. I really like the "intellisense" as i went from C# asp.net stuff to php

i really want to give jetbrains my money but they haven't put out anything for me...yet :)
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IntelliJ IDEA for clojure and groovy. TextMate for everything else.
The scariest thing here is the included video pictures the very post it appears in!
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Is there anything stopping you from creating a modestly successful blog or a piece of OSS which solves a big problem in an underserved niche for very gabby programmers?
jEdit is my third arm. Hypersearch is amazing and the beanshell rules.
vi, Xcode, Xemacs, Eclipse, textedit. That's a good start. Depends on what is handy. emacs wins for super-large files (>1GB).
MiniMap is an interesting feature. I'm a VIM user and it looks like we don't have it.
People always say that. Fortunately someone figured that out on the order of 34 years ago

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security ]

(for a more recently active discussion, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Specific_Language)
From the admittedly not very good benchmarks provided - I don't see the appeal. I get the appeal of a potential hybrid - but I don't think this is it.

I replaced my system drive with an 80 gig Intel X25-M G2 a while ago (late-2009 macbook pro) and performed a few other tweaks (which really may or may not matter in the long run...)

My machine shuts down in less than 2 seconds and boots from power off to ready to rock on the desktop in 20 seconds... and while before I used to say "well who cares about boot time, I never reboot"..... I've now realized that I never rebooted because rebooting was something to be avoided, because it took so long. (not that it was long, but it was past that threshold where booting became an event by itself you had to endure).

Now that I can have the thing booted about as fast as I can pour a cup of coffee, and shut it down faster than it used to go into sleep mode (and sleep mode is instant, plus you don't have to wait for spindown before yanking it off the table and running to the next meeting anyway) I'll stick with my solid-state goodness for my portable machine.
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JSON is great, but the thing that bugs me about this usage is that it is essentially a bloated version of a "normal log". You don't need the field names, braces, :, quotes or in-fact most of the characters there, just single character delimited columns (traditionally comma, space or tab) with rows delimted by some other character (traditionally newline), some rules for escaping (or not) and the first row as the field names (if they are not obvious). Its more human readable, more machine readable and shorter than JSON - and actually, its already the unofficial standard so you don't need to convince anyone of anything.
If you think emacs lisp is hard to read now... ;)
Komodo Edit (Mac) with the Vim bindings turned on. It's lightweight with some advanced features like code completion and basic project management (find & replace in project, etc).
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2888

You guys have it too.
If you care /at all/ about cost per page, a laser printer (used, if you don't use it much) is nearly always a better deal.
Friends don't let friends use Hotmail.
The boats driving around aren't powered by solar either.
TextMate/Ruby = Emacs/Elisp
What would qualify as non-toy? With Ring and a routing library like Moustache what more do you really need for building a non-trivial web application in Clojure?
That is a really effective phishing attack that I have not seen yet...at least I don't think...and if I see it again I am pretty sure I would not notice. Kind of scary that this information is now in the hands of countless phishers.
Since others may not know, you and Bill completed your PhD's in Mathematics and Biology/Chemistry, respectively. You both had experience programming and are now early employees of a software startup. Would you say you were partially drawn to the software world to change things up? Are there counter-examples on Hacker News of graduate students in Computer Science looking forward to doing a post-doc (i.e., the reverse situation)?
I write for ReadWriteWeb, but I gotta say: KillerStartups is really good. TheNextWeb also finds a lot of things before anyone else I know does.
At work I use various flavors of Visual Studio (including VS.NET 2003 on Windows 7 http://technikhil.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/visual-studio-200...). For any quick editing and especially text manipulation it's notepad++ or emacs. I am trying to learn emacs but I am still not completely there yet - I use it for text editing mostly with some python editing.
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True enough... but you're underestimating the subjective performance increase. It's astounding (not with this drive, but with a full SSD)

Since switching my mac to a decently quick SSD and doing a few other tweaks to go along with it - I actually shut it down for the night or when I know I won't be using it for a while - because it shuts down in less than 2 seconds and boots to fully-usable in 20 seconds - and apps still start instantly, suddenly rebooting is no longer a thing to work around or avoid. I don't worry about keeping anything running to speed things up, because everything is just that fast.

Plus I can just yank it off the table without waiting for drive spindown if I have to run off to another meeting.
SlickEdit has been a long time friend.
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I think that you've reviewed the old hotmail.

"Microsoft wants to change that perception. Sometime this summer, it will roll out a fantastic new upgrade of Hotmail. I've been using a pre-release version of the service for a couple of weeks now, and I'm a huge fan."
Ah, nice find. Windows only though.
yeah, i'd really love to see a list too.

personally, even though i fully acknowledge the whole "work with us and share the energy/dedication/soul" thing, i'm most productive when i have the freedom to swap up my view/environment every day (which is something you can't really do too easily inside an office)... inspiration, or something, i dunno.

i think it also forces people to be more thoughtful about the way they communicate/interrupt each other, which is pretty huge.
That took me on a discovery path of the philosophical approach to mindfulness. There seems to be a whole body of literature analyzing this from various angles. In particular, Varela seems to very influential. He is also cited in Daniel Siegel's book called "The Mindful Brain" (I was just referred to this book by a student of Psychology). Good stuff.

I wish mindfulness was based on some simple guiding principles/laws like with classical mechanics. But as with a lot of Biological processes, it seems to be a large complex system. Varela's "Theoretical Biology" book sounds interesting but I suspect it is a complex model of the body+mind rather than a simple one.
> I've used Emacs in the past, but something about the way in which you can navigate code just makes me feel less than efficient in it.

Have you ever tried IDO, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings?
Google has a related project on NPAPI

http://code.google.com/p/nixysa/
Buy the nice desktop computer and then install your own SSD and re-install the system on it - then use the mechanical drive for bulk storage, compiling, video streaming, etc.....
This is old but seems relevant: http://xkcd.com/378/