skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be sure to check all the demos.

A feast to the eyes.

http://www.uize.com
What do you want Firebug to do, build jQuery support in the extension? Yeah, right.

I would be awesome if someone did build the concept of profiles so that you could set firebug to do Dojo, or JQuery or YUI etc.. deep debugging in a manner that suits that toolkit.
Six Tips to a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Heh... some pearls of wisdom from that article "If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it - it’s cheaper in the long run."

And, far more relevant to this discussion: "Becoming rich does not guarantee happiness. In fact, it is almost certain to impose the opposite condition - if not from the stresses and strains of protecting it, then from the guilt that inevitably accompanies its arrival. "
Angel investment in the US: 16 billion Euro

Angel investment in the EU: 200 million Euro

50% of that was in the UK
I like this quote because it is true as well. It is easy to point to finger.

"But Republicans should beware, and even mute their mischief. We're in the middle of an actual disaster. When they win back the presidency, they'll probably get the big California earthquake. And they'll probably blow it. Because, ironically enough, of a hard core of truth within their own philosophy: when you ask a government far away in Washington to handle everything, it will handle nothing well."
Creating an online business card: Interview with onepage founders
But only through the end of the month (Monday)
Google-ITA Software: a waiting game with plenty behind the scenes
Ruby's Hidden do {} while () Loop
It is! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3909854615539675694
The real iPhoneKiller
There's a pretty big difference between really cashing in and not having to work a day job. I know several musicians who are full time professionals, but none of them are 'rich'. Even ones with a Grammy hanging on their wall aren't well off like Microsoft's first N employees. The bigger your band also the harder it will be for everyone to make a living (Arcade Fire vs Brian Eno).
Exactly. I don't get all the Avatar hate. The story was bad, but the cinematic experience was excellent. It was a summer blockbuster style movie. I didn't go into it expecting a plot, I went into it expecting action, explosions, and shiny things. It delivered superbly on those things. Don't judge Avatar against hard sci-fi, judge it against something like Star Wars or the new Star Trek movie. Its purpose was to entertain, not to leave you thinking about it for days. Personally, I find nothing wrong with that. I generally prefer movies like Primer, but sometimes it's nice to kick back with a bucket of popcorn and marvel at the pretty lights.
I was having the exact same problem when my account was using around 85% of the allowed storage.

I also had another account with very little emails stored and it was pretty fast.

My solution (quite lame): I redirected the "full" account to the other one and started to only use the later. So far no more problems...
Would be curious to know if pop and imap are also slow
Shameless self-promotion: my timeline app, Preceden, which lets you make multi-layered timelines, would be perfect for representing timelines like this (and the one in Primer!).

Check it out: http://www.preceden.com
Well... To be fair, the added matter could be shifted into a higher dimension and detached from the cat. You would then see a small cat with the expected mass of a small cat.

All you need is sufficiently advanced technology.
Transient Technology, how probe may handle interface mapping
While focusing disproportionately on things like programming/ startups and business, both the other articles that crop up here and going through local news/ following links I think I get a pretty broad knowledge on things. I am still able to go really in to depth on the areas I am most interested though.

Probably could be said that I spend more time reading in this way than I should though, its a fine line between staying on top of everything and putting yourself in a place to get things done.
It's so rare that I use the actual GMail interface that I often forget how it even works, or how slow it is. Shortly after GMail allowed IMAP access, I hooked it up to my Mail.app and don't even bother with the web interface. It's so much more convenient, and it's rare that I've have problems when the cries of "GMail is down again" come about.
Google says they're aware of the speed issue, that they have a solution, and that they're fixing it.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/gmail-slow/
I've been programming exclusively in Ruby for almost 3 years now and came across this while I was looking at tempfile's source. I was gonna write about it but turns out this guy sums it up pretty good. I apologize since this is a news site and the post is from 2007, but it was news to me and I thought it was a very elegant hack.
The Gmail team is most definitely aware of this and a fix is in the works. At SXSW this year there was a panel with four or five Gmail team members and this came up — they said it's related to the size of your inbox, and that it has a lot of Googlers complaining internally too, since many of them have the oldest/large accounts.
Also see http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/gmail-slow/, though it has basically the same info.
For me, IMAP is not slow at all. In fact, I almost never have a problem with GMail over IMAP at all - and I have 3 separate email accounts (some under google apps for your domain) that all check every 30 minutes or so).
It continues to amaze me that a company as technically brilliant and pervasive as Google is so spectacularly bad at even rudimentary customer service.
You still could easily find you need to, even with IE 8.

Sure, simple box positioning is easier and most of the stock jQuery UI library works fine, but it's precisely when you try to do anything moderately fancy that IE can quickly because a major hassle.
I can't imagine an unmarried NBA player getting any flak if he's only had kids with one woman.
interesting. i guess I have about 7k emails stored in my account. maybe 10 labels. a bunch of labs featues enabled. and everything is usually pretty instant for me. searches never take more than a second or two. There's an occassional hiccup, but nothing really troubling.

using chrome and FF on OSX
Yes, Apple is more than happy to make the software available free of charge, but with the gargantuan caveat that they add their own restrictions in the App Store license terms. In particular, these new restrictions are very un-GPL. For instance, can a user that downloads GNU Go via App Store then redistribute that app?

More to the point, the GPL was written the way it was for a reason, and the FSF should not be expected to ignore the terms of the GPL just because it'd be inconvenient to Apple. By standing up for their ability to enforce GPL terms, the FSF did directly attempt to protect consumers and developers. At the least, they showed quite well that Apple is not on the side of either the users or the developers.
Apples and oranges? This is akin to comparing gdb with vim: sure, you use them both to develop software, but they're used for different parts of that process.
I'm not talking about writing the "clever code" that nobody understands (including the coder 6 months afterward)—that's a symptom of the hubris-laden self-proclaimed intelligent programmer the original author is confused about. A genuinely intelligent programmer might early in his career write that esoteric crap as well, but soon learns that nobody—including himself—can understand it after a while. And that is the difference: the intelligent programmer stops doing that immediately while the pseudo-intelligent guy can't stop himself, worlds without end.

I've been in a variety of shops over the past 20 years or so where new kids come in, thinking they're all that and a bag of chips, and systematically replace smart, well-engineered, and working modules with their new ones that will now take years to become as robust, and never be half as elegant.

They do this because they won't take an afternoon to spend the time to read and understand the original code.

Intelligence isn't wholly a matter of genetics—some of these earnest kids do eventually learn better in spite of their natures. They spend enough time with the real good guys to figure out they're not one of them, and then they start trying to figure out why. The fakes go on for years and years writing the worst stuff imaginable and even after shown direct evidence of their incompetency will refuse to reclassify themselves. They start getting defensive, paranoid, thinking they're the poor misunderstood artist. Whatever.

Coders who aren't willing to get into someone else's code to see the "whys" beyond the "hows" are the people I specifically exclude from my projects.
From Fabulous Chart Makeovers to "You're Fired"
This is one of those awesome stories of a guy getting a crazy idea and just doing it.

It looks like he's making some great progress, too.
Even the megastars tour & concert. Isn't it because musicians are performers / entertainers? Making albums only is probably not enough (emotional) reward.
I was going to comment that it's going to be revolutionary when these guys combine forces with Android, but it says in the story that this is built on Android. Interesting times.
Yahoo is the second most visited site on the internet, according to google. [1] So I think there might be more people upset than you think. Plus all the people on flickr would be pretty pissed.

[1] http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/#
I have 600 MB stuff there, and it certainly beats my corporate Outlook in speed...
I'm usually more interested in the reasons people have for doing out-of-the-ordinary things than on what the actual activities are. Here's what his details page has to say:

http://imjustwalkin.com/details

"From John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row:

Once when Doc was at the University of Chicago he had love trouble and he had worked too hard. He thought it would be nice to take a very long walk. He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen. And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.

Because he loved true things he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees, to savor the country, and there was no other way to do it save on foot. And people didn’t like him for telling the truth. They scowled, or shook and tapped their heads, they laughed as though they knew it was a lie and they appreciated a liar. And some, afraid for their daughters or their pigs, told him to move on, to get going, just not to stop near their place if he knew what was good for him.

And so he stopped trying to tell the truth. He said he was doing it on a bet - that he stood to win a hundred dollars. Everyone liked him then and believed him. They asked him in to dinner and gave him a bed and they put lunches up for him and wished him good luck and thought he was a hell of a fine fellow. Doc still loved true things but he knew it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

I’m not walking because of love trouble. And lord knows I haven’t worked too hard. But the rest is right on. I’m anxious. I’m not sure what I’m doing with my life. I need an adventure. And I do want to smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees. I want to savor the country. And there’s no other way to do it save on foot."
I have 50,689 messages now, down from ~68K. So I deleted like 18K. Again, it seems ridiculous that I need to delete messages.

However, it is even more ridiculous that if this is the solution that works, Gmail makes it really hard to make it work. There is no way to search for the biggest messages. There is no way to isolate all mailing lists. I can't find a way to search for [ in the subject.

I ended up launching up etacts and otherinbox and looking for people I used to contact years ago (old projects) and deleted emails from those projects.
Dropbox on the list at 985. Impressive.
Even if LeBron is unmarried, he's certainly giving his girlfriend and kids a lot of money.
Primer was a fantastic movie. Total mindf*, but then that is what made the rewatch worth it.
Really? I don't see the two as being remotely related. In fact, I'm tempted to say that google's technical brilliance is likely the reason for their poor customer service.

What is amazing is that a company as large and with as many products as Google - regardless of its technical prowess - hasn't set up the necessary customer service infrastructure yet.
Funny, I built this for a client ten years ago (back when NN6 was still in beta), and every time I think back on it I wonder what I was thinking not simply using the browser's HTML engine to lay things out for me. You end up essentially rewriting the hardest bits of the browser in javascript to get everything to lay out properly.

There were actually a few valid reasons for it back then, but now in the age of layout standards, I don't see it as particularly valuable.
You can buy Tbills directly from the Treasury at http://treasurydirect.gov/ Lower rates than a CD, but safer if you are worried about your bank going belly up (if you own a Tbill, the US Govt would have to go bankrupt for you to lose your money).
That' a great tip, thank you.
The goal of the OLPC project was to get low cost computers to children that couldn't otherwise afford them. Before OLPC, a 'cheap' laptop cost $1500, with many over $2000. Now, 40 million netbooks - most under $400 - are in people's hands. A secondary used market allows people to get used netbooks for under $200 (thanks, EBay). We all owe a debt of gratitude to OLPC.
Wow..

The Firebug team created a product that moves web development a generation a head in terms of tool sets, then released that tool for free when most people would have gladly paid for it.

It's free, and open source. If there are bugs, stop bitching, roll up your sleeves, and submit a patch.
Is the Third Wave here?
"It just depended on your deal" is a bit misleading, I think. I don't know (anecdotally) of anybody who got a good deal from a record company prior to 1970 or so, as Mick points out. The fraud and coercion reported by most artists is mind-boggling; artists were fleeced as a rule.
Did OLPC have anything to do with this? It seemed more like the asian computer makers thought it would be a good idea to roll out machines their own citizens could afford, since it's a gigantic market.
I doubt it's a lie. what would be the motivation? There's very little trolling on HN. I see no reason to doubt its authenticity.
#20 - ask.com
#252 - digg.com
#261 - justin.tv

Reddit not in the list... What I don't understand is how come sites like openoffice.org, kaspersky.com, mcafee.com are so high in the list. Do people really visit them that often?
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As I was reading your article, I got an idea. Create Duck Duck Mail! Your search engine is awesome, and I bet your mail service would be awesome too!
Behind the scenes of BBC iPlayer
Good Snail Mail API Service?
I've looked at both PostalMethods and Postful. Wondering if there is any more competition out there.
14 Survival Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Use IMAP access to get & sort messages by size and delete ?
I extracted the data, added IP, country and response headers, and dumped it into a usable format:

http://openmymind.net/top1000data.txt

You can do some decently interesting analysis..like the fact that nginx is the front-end for nearly as many sites as IIS.
Times ipad app crashes on BBC report. Go Go Cocoa..
yeah definitely agree -- it shouldn't slow down with more messages if one of the primary selling points is, "never delete another message."
Read this:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/elevator-pitch

And then this:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/deck
"It really annoys me when people seem to assume that 24/7 Internet connectivity is a given, and something that every single American has right now "

I don't think here's anyone out there who assume that.It's just that some people decide to target only those that do. You're complaining about being left out of the new stuff while at the same time refusing to adopt the new stuff. If you want to continue working with your local software fine, nobody is stopping you. You just sound like a whiner when you go 'oh I want to stay at the forefront of technology, but I don't like where that is, whaa it's so unfair'.
That reference says "slowness is really only an issue for power users of the service — those with hundreds of thousands or even millions of messages."

I only have 50K messages at a little over 4GB. People are saying they have inboxes as full as mine and are still fast.

Something doesn't add up. Is my account on an old infrastructure?
Sometimes I have issues with large attachments using Mail.app through IMAP, but I think its mostly Mail.app messing up or google throttling the connection.
Combine this with some interface and packaging cleanup (something one really talented designer could do), and some decent marketing, and they could make a fortune off this thing. I would still keep my iPad, but I'd probably buy a few of these for guests to use, and as additional interfaces around the house!
Source: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
I think it's also amazing that, in a decade of using many Google products and APIs, I've never needed to contact support.
This is why Android is so incredibly important. The Chinese can build good hardware at ridiculously low cost, but they just can't do software, as anyone who has ever used an iPhone knock-off can testify. Android massively cuts R&D costs, putting the agile and efficient Chinese manufacturers at a distinct advantage.

Android will take the whole of the Chinese and Indian smartphone market by default, unless something else comes along which is more open, versatile and easy to implement. The markets are sufficiently price sensitive that $7 extra for a WinMob license is a dealbreaker, let alone the vast premium the likes of Jobs or Kallasvuo charge. They have peculiar demands that western manufacturers just aren't attuned to - when have you ever seen a Nokia or a Motorola with dual sim card slots?

Western hardware companies should be sweating about their local markets too, but not because of the threat of generic clones - there's a much bigger scare on the horizon and it looks suspiciously like HTC. They have gone from generic manufacturer to big brand in a few short years off the back of WinMob and Android; There is a tide of companies seeking to do exactly the same thing.

Mohandas Gandhi said "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.". I hope we all get our enjoyment while the joke is still funny.
PBR Sells Out; Hipsters Responsible
It's more likely that their computer does. For stuff like Auto-updates.
I'm not sure who your target audience is. I've searched for apartments, a car, and a house. Every time I used a spreadsheet to keep track of those things and it worked great. From my quick look at your site, that's all you really seem to be offering. I'm not sure what extra value you're adding.
Opera browser is much faster than a potato
Which, of course, is a -not so subtle- parody on the Chrome video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI
Not only is these problems difficult to reproduce this post is highly irritating. I find the attitude ignorant.
They used to have a spoiler warning in movie articles but they got rid of it. I kind of liked it, but I suppose it made it seem less like an encyclopedia article and more like a forum post.
I found funny the jab the guy did at Apple's excuse for closed-source software: "[...] we’ll run anything, including viruses and Flash."
Please provide source.
Wow, it would cover all of South Florida and reach to the Bahamas. (Enter Miami, FL to visualize.)
Initially, no manufacturers were willing to do this. OLPC began designing and spec'ing the initial machine themselves, then worked with an ODM for manufacture. When countries started showing interest, other manufacturers (like Intel) started jumping in to get market share. Once sales commitments hit million unit counts, many manufacturers (ASUS, ACER, MSI) jumped in, later to be followed by OEMs like Dell and HP.

If OLPC hadn't forced the issue, no one would have cut their manufacturing costs and margins to this level.
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time
Also read: Still best to be in North America. I lived in Toronto for a year, I live close to London now, I know where I'd rather be.
"...as measured by Ad Planner."

the list is a decent guesstimate. unless every single site on the planet uses the facebook like button, google analytics, google ads, or something else that tracks globally, there is now way to correctly measure UC or PI.
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I have it from a pretty quality source, i.e. my girl friends father who is high up in a rival oil company that none of the things they are doing right now have any real shot at working. They are just stall tactics until they get relief wells setup with new rigs which take about 6 months to setup. So, expect this to go on for a while!
Perfect! Why didn't I think of that before.
I never understood it. How can they churn out cheap knock offs so fast. Either they are really smarter than the whole R&D department of Apple combined or they have a very vast and well developed espionage market.
North Korea completely missing from Google Maps
I found it impossible to relate to or care about any of the characters.

If you haven't seen it, find the incredible review of the Phantom Menace on YouTube by Red Letter Media. The most insightful part is where he asks people to describe the nature of the characters in both trilogies. For the original movies, people instantly recall, for example the "dashing...arrogant..scoundrel" Han Solo. For the newer films, nothing. What was princess Amidala like? Nobody cares.

Avatar suffered from this, and no amount of shiny graphics could ever bring me to care. With great characters you can forgive all kinds of things (eg Battlestar Galactica.)
There is no way Google can scale customer service to be profitable for free services. Gmail at the end of the day is a free service, and you should either (a) pick a different email provider or (b) setup shop yourself if you need that kind of service.
Interesting that so many solutions posted thus far use strlen().

My C is beyond rusty, but this is what I came up with; do/while is so underappreciated these days. (HN needs a "spoiler" formatting tag, methinks. :)

void condense_by_removing(char *z_terminated, char char_to_remove) {
char *pos = z_terminated;
do {
if (*z_terminated != char_to_remove)
*pos++ = *z_terminated;
} while (*z_terminated++ != 0);
}
Ofcom unveils anti-piracy policy in the UK
The Google AdSense customer support team has been very quick to respond to my inquiries over the years. This is probably attributed to being one of their direcly profiting products, perhaps.
If I have Million$, I will:

1. Put it in a bank for my security (living on interest if that how you call it)
2. Quit my job
3. Go some place cheap (probably asian countries)
4. Then just enjoy every minute of my time with my family
Interesting! Matched my experience with the slowness of SimpleDB.

That said, this benchmark web application does not hit the sweet spots of SimpleDB and AppEngine: parallel queries.

For AppEngine, using a single entity group (for transactions, data needs to be server-localized, and that is one thing that an entity group does) is really not using the platform correctly.

That said, good article!