skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the designer responsible for the look of the site: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-reside...
Is Microsoft Headed Towards Extinction?
I have long wanted to see someone attempt to live their life following every piece of advice on how to increase your longevity that appears in trashy current affairs tv shows, bad newspapers etc. Would make a great blog.
Think about spanking like this: would you beat up your colleague at work because he won't implement your specifications properly? If no, why not? If yes, would he be more likely to implement your specifications properly after you have beat him up?

Would a kid be more likely to understand your arguments than your colleague? If no, why would he be more likely to respond to spanking?

Ultimately, how can it really be justified to spank a kid???
From the comments of a MS employee on the Mini Microsoft blog [1]:

> A billion dollars wasted on Kin, 500 phones sold and a huge amount of ground lost in the mobile space.

Two million dollars per user??

[1]: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2010/07/kin-fusing-kin-clusion-...
I don't get the hubub about the RealID announcement. Yes, your real name is out in public on the forums, but so what?

I saw this same discussion on Reddit and loved one of the responses:

> "Thus it appears we are left with another case of I put something on the internet and someone I didn’t want to see it, saw it - this is everyone's fault but my own."
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Some of this I agree with, but be careful assuming that a child's reason can function like an adult's. Giving them choices sometimes helps them take control of their lives, but sometimes (if they're already cognitively overwhelmed) being forced to choose is an unwanted stress.

Absolutely, consistency is important, and putting some thought into what lesson the child is learning from your interaction (often not what you're trying to teach them).

And the almost-always overlooked key to boundaries/rules is that the boundaries that are convenient to you are cruelly restrictive to your child, whose burning purpose in life is to do what you're doing -- reading your book, using your phone, typing on your laptop, exploring your food, putting on your makeup, etc..

This is learning; unfortunately it's inconvenient when they do physics experiments with the juice glasses, etc..

I've found it very eye-opening how much easier my toddler is once I realized that she could have access to almost everything as long as the interactions were carefully controlled and she learned rules along the way (the same rules we follow, really). Now she's far less excited by the laptop, phone, coffee mug, dinner plate, etc. because she's had a chance to explore them instead of being tormented by them put constantly just out of her reach. She has also learned not to tear book pages (we started with things headed for recycling anyway, and if she tore a page we were sad & took it away for "repair"), so she can flip through "grown-up" books safely -- another thing off the "frantically interested" list. She's most of the way to learning that she's allowed to see almost anything as long as she is careful not to drop it or mangle it.

No punishments involved -- why punish someone for something they didn't know was wrong? -- it's all just learning, and she knows that things get put away when she doesn't interact with them the "right" way, so she has lots of motivation to learn the right way.
They definitely raise stress levels, and raised stress levels are definitely linked to cancer (I should think).
I think it already doesn't work in the new Firefox 4.0 beta, or the Chrome dev builds.
God.. CSS Visited Hack again. WHY does nobody come up with something? I know it's a fundamental issue, but hell.. this is a massive privacy exploit. Please Google? W3C? Someone?
Danger, one of the sample words you mentioned, is the name of a company that Microsoft bought.
This video is out of date and should not be referenced.

Mainly, the cross compile approach he is mentioning is now not permitted under the "Flash Fix" in the developer agreement that Apple came up with, which requires apps to be written using only native tools.

What's funny, at least I think, is that Apple used to support Cocoa Java which looked very much like the java implementation being shown in the example.
They really seem like they belong on Super User to me. I would think the Stack Overflow founders of all people would see the arbitrariness of treating Web applications and desktop applications as completely different things. Web apps are more like desktop apps than desktop apps are like plugins or computer hardware, yet those categories are allowed on Super User.
Not to mention that Weev is on record as opposing said agenda.
http://weev.livejournal.com/384838.html
Yes, and how many work in their retail stores (not sure if that's included). Every Apple store I've been to seems to have a 1:1 customer to employee ratio.
There are times where going into stealth mode might have its merits, but start-ups where the main concern for revealing their project is "What if someone does it better than us?" are obviously unlikely to be destined for great things.

ReadWriteWeb had a great article on this with this fantastic quote: "I always liked the saying that the early bird gets the worm. However, the second mouse gets the cheese."

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2009/05/first-mover-advant...
Well, as a parent who has to split time between child rearing (2.5 and .5 years old) and writing software, I can tell you that most of this article is true.

The problems are many: for me the two main problems was about 17 years of independent life and good times funded by good wages. Travelling, sports, parties, all-night coding sessions. All of these have been put into the too-hard basket.

The second main problem is the idealised view of parenting fed to us through movies, TV shows and advertising. You're meant to enjoy the bonding times, but running the bath for the 800th time to bathe a wriggling toddler is tedium no matter which way you slice it, and cleaning up poo for the thousandth time is horrid work you wouldn't wish on anyone.

The keys to success I think are a rock-solid partnership going into the child raising, family support available, and lack of other stresses like housing or income or illness. When your tired you just can't handle things in the same way, and with young children in the house, you're going to be tired as you battle to maintain your adult habits of staying up late while children take up your waking hours.

Once you've done it, there's no going back, so you have to work on finding a new level of happiness and honestly say goodbye to your old lifestyle for a while. Friends will slip away, interests will be put on hold, careers might slide for a few years, your house will be messy and ruined. That's the choice you've made, might as well find new ways of getting joy.
The issue is that most of the people attacking them have already made their mind up and are looking for any opening that they can find. They don't care about the source code or data, and if they were freely available, it would've been something else (eg. hundreds of "climate skeptics" asking stupid questions, or calling CRU over and over). It's like arguing with proponents of Intelligent Design - the more data you give them, the more they can take out of context.
Not as a principle, but in practice: when I go to a website and it's broken, I don't exactly have great faith in the quality of their products if it's a technical offering.
What's going to be the next "really big" thing?
IBM. Apple. Microsoft. Google. The i-line of products. Facebook. Twitter(?). What do you think will be next?
He does mention that things that make you more productive in the long run really should be exempt.

I think the moral is that your quirks may not be welcome for other people, even if you think they are the best way to do things. Unless they add continuous and lasting value it's best to just leave them out when working with other people.
I think you can fight through the pain. I had it a bit as a kid from excessive game-playing, but I kept going and eventually it went away and never came back.
This site seems like it would suffer even more so. On Joel's blog, the the announcement for this site [1] asked "Want to know how ... delete your Facebook account?". How long is the accepted answer to that question going to be up to date, and will it be updated every time Facebook tweaks their site to discourage account deletion?

1: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/07/07.html
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Hardly. If independent scientists working for 2 days can replicate CRU's results, why all the screaming and shouting over withholding data? Just replicate the results, see if they align with what's been published, and move on.
Too late :(

dailyD

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But you are being snide. You've always done a nice job of framing yourself exclusively against your shittiest competitors. Being better than Yahoo Answers is not something you should be particularly proud of.

A site born out of an existing strong community of clever people can easily sustain QA around that communities' purpose. If it's a general-purpose community, then it'll work just fine: http://ask.metafilter.com is terrific and makes enough from advertising to pay 4 full-time salaries and essentially funds the rest of the site.

It's success was a direct inspiration for the creation of Yahoo Answers. You're well aware of it's existence -- you had one of the Metafilter moderators (Josh Millard) as a guest on your and Jeff's podcast, but you weren't very receptive to what he had to say (Jeff was particularly obtuse). Y'all didn't understand why you needed an outlet site like http://metatalk.metafilter.com -- and then when you implemented http://meta.stackoverflow.com the way you did it exhibited zero comprehension (the worst of which has since been cleaned up).

It's like you refuse to understand how communities really make sites like these function, because to do so would force you to acknowledge that your and Jeff's existing audiences were what made SO work. You've rejected that assertion out of hand over and over, insisting that the innovative design of your social software was primary. We'll see if you can launch successful vertical subsites for things like travel / fashion / music suggestions or parenting / romantic / job advice.
It doesn't work on Chrome dev builds for a start. I believe other browsers are doing similar.
There are times when you have a great idea that actually isn't very difficult to execute but will provide huge value.

In those examples, it really isn't worth revealing your idea because someone else will execute before you.
Cigarettes seem to be conspicuously absent from the list.

Then again, I guess the link's been well established already.
CNN Drops Editor After Hezbollah Comment Made on Twitter
This is probably my least favorite post by Derek, whereas the others I've generally really enjoyed. It started very "get off my lawn-ish".

Standards are inherently good when working with others, but style is unavoidable. Ultimately everyone has to adapt and I believe this is one facet where company culture gets defined.
Hmm, on second thought--I didn't realize these were all daily mail links.
I think there's a bit of confusion here between designer and front end developer. A front end developer to me is someone with extraordinary javascript skills capable of working on new generation rich client/thin server web applications.

http://www.javascriptmvc.com

is an example of a javascript framework a front end developer would use to build this next level type of applications.
iPhone: $200 + $70/mo + apps & accessories, call it roughly $1k/year

internet/cable: $50-100/mo, call it roughly $1k/year too

gaming: $250 xbox 360 or ps3 every 4ish years, plus maybe a $60 game every 3 months, call it $300/year

entertainment: 10 DVDs a year at $15 each, a movie in the theater every month at $10 a pop, call it $300/year

eating out: $20 including tax and tip every week, call it $1k/year

car payment: a cheap car, only $150/mo, call it $1800/year.

These are just SWAGs, but they are relatively conservative SWAGs compared to the way most 20-somethings live today. Nevertheless, add it all up and you get $4-5k of money spent a year on relative luxuries. Save that up and in 4 years you have a down payment. Then roll it in with what you'd be paying for rent and you have a mortgage payment. Keep your credit clean and you can start paying on a 200k condo even in a big city in no time. Once you build up equity and once your career has advanced and you're making more income you can trade up to an even more expensive house.

This isn't rocket science, but it does take discipline and sacrifice.
I use this syntax all the time and greatly prefer it to the special 'from' keyword. I think it scares my co-workers a little less. There are a few cases where the from syntax is necessary, but it's not common.
Gold standard and gold seizure are two different things.

Executive Order 6102 required U.S. citizens to deliver on or before May 1, 1933 all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce. Under the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended on March 9, 1933, violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 ($166,640 if adjusted for inflation as of 2008) or up to ten years in prison, or both.
Here's a very abridged version: Companies reserve my services, outline their hiring trends, detail how many hires they plan to make for the year. From this I source talent to fill the positions, meet those goals and help coordinate the hiring process beyond going to CareerBuilder, finding someone who's looking for work and say "Wanna hire this guy?".

It's not really glorified recruiting as it much personnel asset analysis. It goes beyond recommending job candidates to helping the company make strategic use of their capital to use a better strategy in their entire hiring strategy.

Check my profile for an email, I'll outline my suggestions for startup recruiting.
What conspiracy theory? The vendor lock-in behavior of MS is practically advertised as a platform feature. To up and reverse their product lock-in policy would cast doubt on many (most?) of their other claims.
I can't seem to reply to the comment below me in response. But basically re:

Danger, one of the sample words you mentioned, is the name of a company that Microsoft bought.

That's why I asked the question. My thought is that there is a psychological excuse to have low expectations for a project, product, or company if it has negative connotations (and not 'making fun of' or 'humorous' connotations).

I've seen projects fail with clever negative titles (mostly via acronyms). Not because the developers were bad -- but because, I think, it might give the management or business side an excuse to look for failure. Or it may create other headaches psychologically for the people involved.

That's the only reason I asked the question. I admire people who take those risks. But it may be worth thinking it through. Or maybe not..
I believe it may have something to do with the non-ranty, non-swearing, respectful questions.
'will it be updated every time Facebook tweaks their site to discourage account deletion?' - that's the idea.

'How long is the accepted answer to that question going to be up to date?' - hopefully as soon as FB changes the system and someone realizes the answer is wrong.
That's right. The segmentation is about making sure that each site has a critical mass of experts, and enough of a focus that said experts won't be annoyed by off-topic questions. (Of course it's debatable where the line should be.)

Joel and Jeff have said several times that "Google is the UI". So the segmentation doesn't hurt the "answer consumers", who'll come in through Google with little regard for which site is which, while benefiting the "producers", who do care.
have a computer in the front lobby with skype open. Visitors can pick the person they're here to visit and call their desk from this terminal.
I hadn't followed up on it since the previous proposal but....thank goodness.

The pound-sign lambda annoyed me since other lambda capable languages use it to denote comments. It wasn't a dealbreaker, but it certainly was less than preferred.
Readability is more about consistency than some style war. If you read more code that looks like X, then code that looks like Y will look "weird" and "unreadable". The exact opposite holds for those who read more Y.

Try reading a Japanese manga translated into English. You start from the back of the book and read the right page first. Or try learning a language with "verb at end" kind of structure if English is your native tongue.

With lisp, the parentheses help create uniform parseable structure for both code and data, so I appreciate the compromise of a repeatable indentation scheme for code (using an editor) that lets you totally ignore the parens when reading.

With lisp, I do find syntax formatting such as bold keywords very effective even in the absence of color. So yeah, it is easy to create readable lisp in print as well. In fact, with bold keywords and gray parens, lisp code looks gorgeous and eminently readable.

http://xkcd.com/297/
U.S. Program to Detect Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure
John Resig on mobile development
I would have been 100% behind him if he had said, "hey, I noticed this hole, visit http://att.com/account_info.php?omg=noes and have a look!" By actually publishing the information, he proved that he accessed information he was not authorized to have, which the law does technically say you are not supposed to do. (The "hey, I noticed this hole", IMO, is not enough to build a solid case against him for accessing data he was not supposed to have. IANAL, though.)

Either way, though, prison is not an acceptable outcome for this behavior. "Don't do this again," maybe, but not being locked in a cage for years. How would that help anyone?
If there are two guys, one guy working on server-side code and another guy working on client-side code, either side could get held up waiting for the other guy to finish his part of the project.

Even if people aren't waiting around for something to be completed by someone else there is an overhead in communication. "Oh, you wanted the LIs to have that class name? Well I've got to go fix my CSS now... gimme a few minutes."
Firefox 4 has a fix for it:
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-com...
MongoSession - A PHP MongoDB Session Handler
for example To do good mobile testing you need 12 devices, 11 phones, and an iPad which costs $5,000 dollars roughly.
SuperUser is Jeff Atwood's hobbyist self-identity manifested as a Q&A site. The allowed categories neatly cover everything he's blogged about on CodingHorror that wouldn't fit into SO or SF first. There are a lot of Jeff Atwoods out there, so it works.

You know what would make a really hilarious and likely-successful StackExchange site? One focused on http://BoingBoing.net -- it'd be all about how best to anagramize a subway map or break functioning consumer electronics by hot-gluing brass gears onto them, but there's clearly already an audience for Cory Doctorow's self-identity (just as there was for Jeff).
Brood-War API. Write your own DLL to do the dirty work for you.
Large-scale targeted cybercrime can cause chaos even without a "Die Hard"-style "fire sale" that relies on bringing down infrastructure.

If random military families had their identities stolen, their bank accounts drained, and their homes flooded with harassing calls (at best) or SWATing attacks (at worst), you can bet that morale would suffer in the field. That's a level of cyber-crime that relatively unskilled attackers could bring. Do the same to any industry and you've done some damage. "Targeted crime" is a form of warfare.
Language learning hacks
Here we go again. Getting a bit tiresome hearing about this "durability issue".

I really don't understand the problem. No, MongoDB isn't durable the same way MyISAM/InnoDB is with MySQL.

But I think that is clear as day, certainly no news to me when choosing MongoDB.

Been running it in production for 3 months, working fine.
If it for some reason would be data loss or corruption, I wouldn't come crying to the devs. I know what risks I took when making the decision.

If the backups aren't there I can only blame myself when such event happen.
Speaking as the co-founder of a startup that's still in 'stealth mode', this is precisely why we haven't launched yet. We reckon that doing a launch event is a one-of-a-kind stimulus. You can't really launch twice, at least not with the same impact. Just like you can take (too much) funding at too early a stage, you can also launch at too early a stage... we want to make sure that we're at a point where we can capitalize on the momentum of a launch event first.
Don't tell anyone, but I think it's happening to Google right now. It's just early stages (like MS in 1995), and Google still has more good products than bad, so it isn't exceptionally noticeable.

But the recent, high-profile launch disasters, the clutter that's slowly creeping into the result pages, and stuff like the search page background goofiness...they sure feel like early MS-style mistakes.....