skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did sort of say - let us know what's bad. It's a start, others will no doubt be doing their own bare template for HTML - I did my first proper HTML5 page yesterday, using JQuery too.

One thing I've just followed through is to merge my print styles (which tend to be minimal, turn off fancy images, remove some formatting) into my main CSS file - it was a Google page optimisation recommendation. I'm also using a reset based on YUI but without the non-standards IE hack; copy pasted to avoid a linked file as it's a single page "tool".
Thankfully my municipality does allow me to monitor dosage:

http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/water/about/WaterQuality.htm

For 2009, the highest fluoride levels were 2.06 mg/L and the median level was 0.77 mg/L. So there's at least one data point.
I have family that doesn't live in a large or even a medium sized town, their water tastes terrible, you put a filter on it (PUR, Brita) and it still tastes bad. They almost have to buy bottled water for drinking. Not everyone lives in a city with good water treatment facilities.

That alone is reason for them to buy bottled water but I'll add your fluoride facts to my conversations in the future.
It's no secret that I developed eTicket until 2008.

I weighed up the pros and cons of using IMAP and email client(s) over a helpdesk system.
With my Droid, I regularly have to reboot to get GPS to work, and I've had the issue on all 3 of the Droids I've had (replaced due to other issues).
Canned food is heated or cooked in the can and its plastic lining subsequently leaks into the food.
my brain wants very badly for the data to flow chronologically from left to right, rather than its current arrangement.
Have you considered an AnyBot?
I was expecting the graph to descend chronologically myself. It seemed to me that every other movie that I remember from 80s and early 90s were slasher films (Krueger, 13th, Critters, Steven King movies). Now, its romantic comedies left and right.

... or maybe I just got married.
Nice timing to the Techcrunch post on Adgrok:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/adgrok-simplifies-keyword-b...
I'm kind of skeptical that 17 barrels of oil is enough to fuel a car for a year.
I think that it depends on the state that you are losing. All the state worth keeping on my phone is saved to disk (sd card actually,) so it wouldn't matter if it were rebooted. The only problem would be that I wouldn't be able to use it while it was booting.
It took me until this month to get a smart phone because I'm surrounded by computers all day at home and work so I never wanted my phone to be one. Was going to switch to Sprint Evo or Droid-X but ended up stuck with ATT for a while longer so iPhone4ed it. Despite all the web-tabloid tech-drama, my general disdain for iLifestyle marketing, and having never owned an Apple device... I actually couldn't be happier so far. I just use the digitally imported (http://www.di.fm) app for music so I've never had to mess with iTunes, maybe that's why?

edit: going to get OSX to triple-boot with win7\ubuntu, maybe my mind will change once I give the SDK a whirl
> The argument in this article is that Google touches every part of the internet, and you can't live without their services even if you wanted to, because they're so widespread. I can accept that, but wouldn't that also mean that Google has an interest in a free and neutral internet, because their services are so widespread?

Google has a financial interest in its services being available as widely and quickly as possible.

Google has a different kind of interest in other folks services being available and the specific interest depends on who and what services we're talking about.
I agree with all you said, but why hate programmers? That just seems a bit personally offending. Why not instead hate new software projects?
Thanks for this link. I was just looking at a similar idea here: http://html5reset.org/
I'm pretty sure readness waits for several minutes before scrobbling what you're reading.

I'd find it more interesting to see what general reading habits it uncovers rather than a simple 'share' button.
1, 2) Exactly right. This isn't a knock on him though. He's got a family and has to pay the bills. Plus he doesn't code at all.

3) Absolutely. I'm not worried about getting screwed in this instance, as we're good friends and have built up a lot of trust over the years. Then again, people usually don't expect to be screwed over.

4) More or less. I had a decent salary up until a couple of months ago. It was enough to keep me barely afloat while going out and actually having a social life.

5) Couldn't agree more. Quitting is not on my menu, the YCombinator interview fell into our laps so I ran with it. I would never have sought funding at that stage if it were up to me. I could see doing it now though.

6) This is great advice that's hard to follow. I'm trying to get better at this all the time.

7) My landlord is a super nice lady and I will definitely not be fucking her over.

8) Yep. This is my only option at this point. I am going to get a Web dev job and get my shit back in order.
Ah, awesome idea. I'll try taping a piece of thin paper over the flash and try it out sometime soon.
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic, but I will say I very much doubt it. There are many TV shows I enjoy watching, and a few that are either inspirational or infomrative. But never have I accomplished something by watching TV.

Building something, even an Eiffel tower out of match sticks, is accomplishing something. How valuable or useful that something is is debatable, and there are probably better things to build then a match-stick tower, but it is still an accomplishment it adds to the world in a way that watching TV never will.

I will admit to watching TV and enjoying it, but I consider it an indulgence. I always have something better to do, and I think that is true of nearly everyone.
With Amazon recommendations this could go badly wrong.

'People who previously bought books, also bought books. We sent you our entire fracking catalogue'
‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years
You couldn't be more right. After reading all the comments here and on the blog post, I've decided that I've been in my own little world with this app for way too long, and I need to go do something else for awhile.

If it's really worth doing, I'm sure I'll pick it back up again once I'm back on my feet.
Minimalist business cards. What do you think?
100% right. I will be following this advice.
I'm not very religious, but within Judaic law, teaching someone a skill which allows them to better their financial situation is considered the highest level of charity.

It comes from Leviticus 25:35

וכי-ימוך אחיך, ומטה ידו עמך--והחזקת בו, גר ותושב וחי עמך

"And if thy brother is of lesser means than you, you shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, [so that he no longer be in need]"
If You’re Intelligent, Beware the Cleverness Disease
Ah! Found a few really nice plugins which I hadn't heard about before. Thanks. I was looking for something like yankring.
Asus AT3IONT-I Deluxe reviewed
With all the location data on tweets now, how long will it be until this is really useful and twitter allows you to just follow a radius of a given lat/long?
Ask HN: How kind of digital asset management systems do you use?
For our current website, we are processing and generating a lot of large videos recordings, audio recordings, and photos which is spread across multiple employees and 2 far-flung locations. For our current workflow, I'm working on consolidating all those digital assets in some kind of system.

An off-the-shelf solution like a HP MediaSmart Sever that runs Microsoft Windows Home Server seems attractive since I rather spend be coding. It would consolidate media on one site, although I'm still fuzzy on how to sync up 2 different locations (probably do some hard-disk hotswap).

(A hosted solution like putting it in the cloud is not really in the picture due to the cost and upload time inflicted by the raw videos footages. They're multiple GBs per hour.)
Anything is poisonous/toxic given the right conditions and dosage. Under the right conditions I can kill you using pure O2. The only thing that is "stupid" is clinging to silly good chemical/bad chemical dichotomies without taking context and dosage into consideration.

Low-dosage flouride in a water supply has been shown over and over again in epidemiological studies to reduce the incidence of oral cavities from 15-40%. There have been no reputable studies to show that there are dangers to this low dose.
Thanks we are pretty excited about the final product, which we are currently tweaking.
The sad truth is that private retirement savings schemes have been a total wash. The only lasting effects of these plans were the stock and real estate bubbles that effectively transferred the wealth accrued during the Boomers' prime earning years to Wall Street. Only the lucky few with defined-benefit pensions are going to retire in the conventional sense. For everyone else, it will be a return to the world before the New Deal where most people worked until they were physically unable to work, then died in penury if they didn't have relatives to support them.
Nobody is saying it's a worthless approach. On the contrary-- the reason there's so much hubbub over the paper is that the approach is quite novel. Even if the end result turns out utterly wrong, much of the lead-up in getting there can be salvaged and used for entirely new directions in TCS.

In TCS, new strategies/approaches/techniques are often just as valuable as the results (and in top conferences, they are sometimes considered even more important).

We need to subject every paper to serious criticism in order to establish which morsels have merit. Hand-waving and weak logic seriously impediment our progress, so many researchers get very frustrated by it.
You need to take a break from software development for about 6 months.

Really.

About 1.5 years ago, I was in almost exactly the same state of mind that you're currently in. So I quit my job and lived off of savings for a few months. I played a ton of Left 4 Dead and met a lot of awesome friends (most of whom are still friends to this day). I did almost nothing programming-related.

At a certain point, about 6 months in, I simply lost interest in playing games, and went back to programming. I felt rejuvenated -- actually, I felt like a completely different developer. I was now way, way more productive than I ever had been before.

So, take my story for what it's worth. It may not work for everyone, but the takeaway is, I once had a mindset very similar to "All day I've been tempted to just pop an Advil PM and go to sleep. But if I stop moving, I'm fucked, so on I go coding." It was a terrible time in my life, and I solved it by taking a complete break from software development for about 6 months, and wound up a much better developer (and much, much happier) because of it.
I love the idea of this since it would save a shitload of RAM on our app which has mongrels pushing 500MB. But realistically it scares me because in Ruby you can do so many things that aren't threadsafe. Rails being threadsafe is all fine and dandy, but unless you know what you're doing and audit your code thoroughly, it's probably pretty risky for an existing application (to say nothing of various gems).
truly innovative! reduces time and effort in sharing documents!
Why is Google getting all the heat from this? Any concessions on neutrality in that non-biding agreement is to appease Verizon, why not get angry at them or at the other internet companies that stood idly by and let Google handle the net neutrality burden?
I like it. I agree that the "email" label should be dropped, and that you need "first name" and "last name" labels. I, too, would've thought you were Boris Mus.

Consider putting a 2D machine-readable "bar code" on it.
Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips
There is no such thing as a perfect app. That is the first problem I see. Developers often fall victim to this line of thinking, and who couldn't? I mean, after all it is your baby, of course you want it to be perfect.

That's not reality though. You need customers. Not perfection. I think you should set a goal for yourself to release by the end of the week. I'm not kidding. Get it out there and validate the product. Find customers. And read more Jason Cohen.

Good luck.
I don't know where he's hiring, but $13 is an incredibly low wage for a competent machinist; it sounds more like he might just looking for a machine operator.
> For Americans, ... you then get 300k$ a year salary with quite bit lesser taxes and other perks.

American citizens re still liable for US (federal) income taxes on foreign income. There's an exemption of something like $90k and credit for taxes paid to wherever they are, but someone with a $300k salary would owe significant US taxes.

Note that many deductions are not available to non-residents.
Rackspace Getting More Mileage From its Cloud Servers
It may be the Java plugin crashing when loading the applet. Try disabling it.
These coins have the same size and weight as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar that debuted ten years ago. Are there vending machines out there that still don't take those, or that only take bills?
Wow.

It's so strange to realize how incredibly massive the field of mathematics is.

As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day. (Edit: of course, now I regret writing this. What I meant was: I can read, understand, and re-implement 99% of software engineering algorithms / architectures.)

But to know that it would take someone as insanely experienced as cpervica years of study to understand that proof... Wow.
750 Beta Invites for Conversion Rate Optimizing Tool
Man, that sucks. I grew up and lived in Charleston for years before moving to the Denver area (I'm planning to move back next year...yes it's that nice there :)). Like you I also got screwed (though not as bad) by my potential co-founder. He flaked out after I moved here, but luckily I hadn't quit my job yet.

There are not that many tech companies in Charleston. I'm curious who exactly were you working for. The situation sounds a bit shady and right up the alley of a couple of companies I know of there.
Interesting that he mentioned Android, search, and GMail as services that it'd be hard to stop using. They all have easy substitutes that are arguably just as good, or at least close (iPhone, Bing, Yahoo Mail/Hotmail).

The one place where it's really difficult to stop using Google is AdWords. If you want to buy search ads, Google has a near monopoly, and others can't compete right now. That's where the real "can you even stop using it?" is.
From my impression of this article, detailing a former executive's proscription to saving Nokia, Nokia has very bureaucratic and change-adverse middle management layer.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/nokia_manifesto_risk...
Fact? Or just something that makes you feel morally superior?
I think he has some flawed assumptions. IBM is still in business today because there are a lot of lazy IT managers who DO want a one stop shop. So that gives the current HP an advantage.

He also misses the point of Hurd's financial dealings which was to prop up HP's existing business. The reason for all the acquisitions is because the PC and Printer businesses aren't doing so great (HP's Printer Market Share has fallen 19% since 2003 and while its PC market share is up 3% since 2002 it is lower than the combined share that HP and Compaq had pre-merger). Meaning a split of the company would only serve to produce a failing PC company, a failing Printer company and a succeeding IT services firm. A move that would destroy investor value not increase it.
Worth reading, or at least the author knows what I consider to be the single most important fact in this area:

"What happens to the money that the university takes in from undergraduate tuition and fees? This is the largest pot of discretionary revenue that our administrators collect...."

Unlike outside research funding and donations from suspicious alumni, universities can spend this money any way they want to. It's no wonder tuition fees have gown so much faster than inflation.
Or: how to be patronizing.
And the critics were right. For the most part, computers in schools have been an expensive distraction, wasting money that could have been better spent on things proven to improve student performance like textbooks, better teacher/student ratio's, facility upgrades (hard to learn without good heating/AC), etc.

IMHO, the root of the problem is that just having computers (or ipads, or whatever) in the classroom doesn't magically educate students through osmosis. You need an actual valid plan for how you're gonna use the computer. Where does it fit into the lesson plan, what activity is time with the computer replacing, etc. And unfortunately that usually seems to be lacking.

The rush to buy computers and iPad's for classrooms never seems to be based on a solid educational plan, it's all about administrators and schoolboard members wanting to show of the "exciting accomplishment" of equipping all the classrooms with something shiny and impressive looking.
HTML5 Reset: A simple starting point for HTML5 projects
That depends a lot on your OS and your threading mechanism. It used to be pretty bad on Linux for example, but the modern NPTL implementation is much better. And even then it still doesn't mean that your language has to stick to a 1:1 threading model.

The main problem with threads is the relative complexity of the programming and debugging model. I don't really see a complete migration from threads to async, I see a migratino from threads to a multitude of models, where async is just one of them.
It's a silly and misleading graph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code

Alternatively watch something like Howard Hughes's Hell's Angels (1930)
> They were for censorship in China before they were against it.

No. Google tolerated it, but was never "for" censorship.

> They were for net neutrality until Verizon offered to cut them a deal.

What? Google has always been against net neutrality. In fact, this new policy proposal helps net neutrality. The main thing people seem to be mad about is that it doesn't go far enough. So how exactly does that make them evil again?
20 gallons of gas per barrel of oil
http://www.eia.doe.gov/ask/gasoline_faqs.asp#gallons_per_bar...

11,400 average distance in miles driven per year in the US (in 1994 anyway)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/rtecs/chapter3.html

11,400 miles / (17 barrels or 340 gallons) = 33.5 mpg

You can reasonably expect to get better than that in a hybrid.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/hybrid_sbs.shtml
Conversion Rate can be anything: lead, newsletter sign-up, sale, contact form send.

So I suggest to beak down your site to the following levels (example figures but not far off from typical web-starter):

100% unique visitors
30% saw registration page
21% signed up for trial 30 days
19% logged in
11% did 3 key tasks (made project, setup 1 test, checked 1 report)
5% logged in 3x within first month
2% upgraded to paid service
1.5% is still with us after 1 year

So you have these metrics and then you monitor them day/week/month whatever you feel like. And every percentage has to increase otherwise non of you technical improvements, bug fixes, marketing effort or support is working.
Discovering smartphone passwords by looking at the smudge on their screens [pdf]
A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You
This is really great — an incredibly thorough set of templates.
The HP Way: Two-thirds of HP Employees Want To Quit
OP, I really hope things turn out for the best for you.

There's another lesson to be had here: save more than two months' worth of living expenses when you're still drawing a salary. You never know when shit hits the fan.
i know, it was merely an easy, offhand example. its closer to in line for the pay of an RN who would also be reasonably qualified, though.
As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day.

That's quite a bold claim.
Apparently the source, thechive, is similar to the onion in that it is all fake.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/czj2v/girl_quits...
I guess http://www.reedge.com is partially a competitor.
Still, we all have no problem finding half-assed excuses. I think mine is pretty good:

Sure, you Americans are insane for buying uncarbonated water in bottles, who would do shit like that? I, however, don’t like and don’t drink uncarbonated water. Whenever I drink water it has to be carbonated (which isn’t all that great because the tap water quality in my region is actually pretty awesome — miles ahead pretty much anything you could get in bottles, especially the cheap stuff). Oh, sure, there are these gizmos that let you carbonate your tap water but it just doesn’t taste the same. I tried pretty much every brand.

See, I promised you a half-assed excuse.
I'm not sure if it's equivalent, but setting up the iPhone to treat your Gmail account as an Exchange Active Sync account gives the iPhone most of the cloud push features (Mail/Calendar/Contacts). I can add a contact on my iPhone that syncs OTA to Google that then syncs to my mac address book.

Google voice texting and messages don't integrate perfectly yet, for example if I get a GV text on my iPhone and read it it doesn't show read in GV on the web (unless of course I use the GV app/html5 site to read it). Also contact groups do not sync from Google Contacts.
Note to lobbyists, creating this kind of a website only makes you look guilty: http://www.fluorideworks.org/
you can use ree and passenger instead of mongrel to save a lot of ram.
Let's look at the top 10 (I will use US sales): Avatar (2009) - Yep, Titanic (1997)- Yep, The Dark Knight (2008) - Yep, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Yep, Shrek 2 (2004) - Nope, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Nope, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Yep, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Yep, Spider-Man (2002) - Yep, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - Yep

So 9 for 10
Neat resource, definitely something to borrow from, but I think I'm with Fuchs on this...
http://mir.aculo.us/2010/08/10/pragmatic-html-css/