skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I look at it is: An in-house same-domain solution's the slickest and fastest.... but you lose out on any network-effect recommendations.

That said, facebook widgets are ridiculously expensive in terms of domain lookups and requests.

But back to the topic of tweet buttons. Twitter's 3-request button beats the heck out of the Tweetmeme iframe+javascript franken-thing. I just looked on Tweetmeme's site ( http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button ), and even they recommend using the twitter button: "We recommend using the Twitter Tweet Button. You can find more details about it on the Twitter goodies page."
I store passwords in my head, or if need be, with the PassPack site ( http://passpack.com/en/home/ ).
"Say cheese."
That combined with taking board seats (which is why it's better for a VC to put $20m into one company than $10m into 2) is why VCs want to fund big rounds, but founders don't have any such incentive to take them.
Anyone who is using 12 px font in body text should be butchered imho. For reference 12 pt is approx 17 pixels in 100 PPI, and I think that even it is bit small for body text in web.

Also, desktop display tech needs to advance. But meanwhile, yes, please test your font selections with different software and preferably hardware, and ensure that it stays readable. I think all these new tech allowing fancy typefaces has produced at least twice as many horribly unreadable sites than those it has improved.
Funny, I was just thinking about that very thing when I noticed your post. Problem is, I'm a little "ashamed" to release the code right now because I'm in the middle of some major revisions:

1. Use DeBruin notation for referring to bound lambda values positionally, instead of my current approach of actually using the lambda symbol in an associative list. (Don't laugh, it works.)

2. Change the C implementation so it just uses an array of longs for the whole working space, with integer offsets, instead of node structs with pointers. At that point the whole implementation will be "nothin' but int", and avoid malloc altogether.

3. Change both the Perl and C implementations so that I supply external function definitions as function pointers. Right now when a high-order function is reduced to a normal form (lambda form), I actually look at the name of the external function being called and do a big if-else on that. (Don't laugh, it works.) This will no longer be an option when I go with DeBruin notation. Besides, the function pointer approach will be a lot more solid, serious, and extensible.

Thanks for expressing an interest. When I'm a little more proud of my code and have something available for download, I'll announce it on HN.
Done! I was thinking of pullups anyway. Situps are easy.
Beats this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Noodles

I had some really interesting (and expensive) ramen called sapporo ichiban, it was delicious. Then I discovered it had about the caloric content of a big mac, but without any redeeming qualities (a big mac has, for example, actual vitamin content).
I am amazed at how may people are saying they grew up with no pavements (sidewalks), is it because they found no need for them as the location was too remote for anyone to walk to anywhere they may need to go or that they thought no one bothered to walk so why spend money laying down something that no one will use?

I take "walks", however not in the sense of the article. I find that a walk before work is great and on your lunch if you have had a crappy morning. However I walk with a purpose, I think about thinks I see, get my brain interested in stuff I wouldn't usually think about. It gives inspiration and helps figure out problems that otherwise seemed impossible to overcome.
There's increasingly mainstream coverage of apps which are incompatible with almost every android phone out there - requiring 2.1 or even 2.2 like this does. I wonder how long it will take for manufacturers to take upgrades seriously? Some of them are still abandoning their handsets as soon as they go out the door.

I suspect many of the early adopters are now including this in their purchasing decision when they upgrade.
Government data... you have no idea how much useful data is just sitting around in municipal, state, and federal governments.. they've done all the legwork, so: data mining. big time.
Pretty on topic considering tweetmeme wrote a blog post about the new twitter button and Datasift together: http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2010/08/12/twitter-tweet-button/
5 Awful Things Distributed Teams do
1. It's a 20% fee when you request $10, or a 2% fee if you request $100.

2. Overdraft fees are disallowed by law and are opt-in now.

4. Also, it's not typically the banks that cancel cards, it's the processing network that does.

Most problems people have with banks are user-error, plain and simple. When you misuse a computer program, you waste time. When you misuse a bank, they charge you money.
Terence Tao's second iteration: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/deolalikar-responds...
Work 40 hours per week.
If you're interested in dabbling a bit, here's the grammar I'm using:

Here is the basic Fexl language, which can express all computable functions.

expr = \atom expr
expr = factor
expr = factor expr

factor = atom
factor = (expr)

The full language includes two additional notations for convenience.

expr = \atom=factor expr
= (\atom expr) factor

expr = factor; expr
= factor (expr)
It's interesting that none of these criteria directly mention 'they built something useful'. Shoot for building a useful thing. If you pull it off, you'll be namedropped in blog posts like these for all the wrong reasons.
I wouldn't necessarily put Clojure between JRuby and Scala (I hope I am not misinterpreting). I think it should be more along side of JRuby depending on the type of problem you are trying to tackle, it supports a totally different paradigm of programming.
Fictional conversations in which one person picks apart another's argument are a farcical way to present a point. It's a way for a writer to avoid having to let an argument stand on its merits - we as humans are not particularly good at divorcing an argument from the arguer.

Time after time, this author presents one character as surprised and incredulous, and the other as collected and confident. While it's a great way to convince people of something, it's underhanded and rude.

I don't appreciate being subjected to this crap.
Agreed. And the maps functionality rocks, too.
He gets it in his the first point. Exits are so low these days that a <1% pre-dilution employee grant is basically meaningless. Unless you work for the next Google (and how many of those have their been in the last decade?) the best-case scenario is that your equity makes up for all the unpaid overtime you worked getting to the acquisition. The risk/reward ratio is far more in your favor as either a founder or an employee of a funded company.
Most of the handsets on the market are gonna get 2.2. Myself, I couldnt wait so I installed 2.2 myself and I'm loving it.
HN is 12px font for me, I think that's the Chrome default. Looks fine to me.
"So, for example, broadband providers could offer a special gaming channel, or a more secure banking service, or a home health monitoring capability – so long as such offerings are separate and apart from the public Internet."

Can somebody explain? Does this mean verizon would be able to sell special secure service to say, bank of america for its public site? What is the meaning of "separate from public internet"? doesn't this eventually mean that by paying verizon, BOA would be able to offer secure service than a bank who did not buy the "special service" from verizon? Am I missing something here?

If this is the case, what is to stop verizon from going a step ahead from offering "secure" to "faster" service to those who care to pay. then where goes net-neutrality.?
I agree with this. The faster Apple kills off their closed dying platform, the better.

There's a reason that Android outsold Apple last quarter, and it wasn't antennagate.
I agree. It's fun to play with at first, but besides looking cool, it doesn't help with navigation at all. I would be interested to know if they are seeing a drop off in traffic yet. Besides, they'll likely get smacked down hard for scraping content. They did a great job getting press for launch (I wonder how much they paid Scoble?) but I can't see them returning that $10 million unless someone acquires them.
I've found that a pretty good rule of thumb for recognizing corporate BS is any time a campaign is called "Get The Facts" or something similar.

For example, look on the side of many boxes of junk cereal and you'll find a "Get The Facts" box touting the benefits of some miniscule quantity of vitamin contained in the cereal. Or when Microsoft launched a "Get The Facts" campaign in 2004 to try to steer users away from Linux.

I also find the phrase to be highly condescending.
Designed deterioration (2007)
>Babies get cranky for a variety of reasons you will never know.

True that and good advice. Communication is impossible with a new-born. The kid can have a new diaper, be well fed and recently repositioned into their favorite posture but still have an itch on their nose or have a gassy tummy. They can't fix themselves and you'll be absolutely unable to determine what's wrong. There will be screaming (hopefully just on the baby's part). Resist the urge to take this as a personal defeat or as an accusation on the baby's part.

Eventually the situation should subside. Run through the random fixes, offer what comfort you can and know that sometimes the baby's just going to cry.
A couple things I was curious about after reading this: wouldn't a blog that's just been handed to a new owner end up losing followers once the readership realizes the old author's bailed? Also I'd love to hear any tidbits you'd care to share on monetization strategies for bloggers.
The finance world tackles the passive: 0 for 2
Not almost every Android phone.

More than 62% of Android phones are either 2.1 or 2.2.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
Non-conventional hackers in the Mexican Drug War 
Mexican drug cartels are in war and they need urgently more money to survive. One way to get this extra money is hacking (non-computer) established processes or systems. Here are just three examples and some preventive recommendations.

Gathering confidential information from banks:

They express kidnap bank executives. They request the complete information from customers for next day or they will kill or kidnap his family. Once the information is delivered, affected people start receiving calls telling you (for free) how much money is in your bank account, your address and where and how they want the money.

One way to avoid this hack is to open a bank account in U.S. and/or distribute your savings in two or three Mexican banks in order to maintain a low profile.

Undercover delinquents:

Delinquents are calling to business owners in order to schedule meetings telling they are executives from well known companies. When they meet (they look like executives), the person is kidnapped or extorted. The same is happening with people selling their homes by themselves.

Calling to the company where the supposed executive works in order to confirm his relationship and hiring a real estate agency are the recommended actions to skip the hack.

Home-jacking:

Young people going to dance clubs and bars are being kidnapped for information. They request to the victim to mention who in the bar or dance club is the one with wealthy fathers. Delinquents follow the target to his home and just when the door is open they proceed to kidnap the family until they get the money and other precious items, including the cars.

Checking if suspicious cars are following you or are parking near your home will save you from this bad experience.

People from Northern Mexico are suffering a drastic change in the way they live and relate each other. Currently every call and every unknown person is a possible threat.

All cases were provided by friends or neighbors, directly affected by this type of hacking procedures.
NASA center director attends reception with an Anybot
Personally I try to avoid putting Verdana or Georgia as backup fonts (In practice, the stacks you've listed are fine because almost no one will not have Arial installed, but by that logic you could leave out Verdana altogether). In principle, if we're imagining a situation where Arial isn't an option, falling back to Verdana will usually look pretty crazy, because Verdana is designed to appear so much larger. 12px Verdana just looks a lot bigger than 12px Arial. All this (including the part about it not mattering in practice) goes for Georgia (vs Times etc) as well.
The dead sea: 40 per cent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton last century
SGI Partners with DARPA, Intel to Develop Exascale Supercomputer systems
Why we forgive Facebook
True, but money equals freedom from day jobs, equals more time for cool hacks...
I hope very much that this is an overestimate -- otherwise, I am very, very concerned that we are going to switch to an Earth with a dead sea, atmosphere and climate controlled by land biota, as it has been in other hot cycles.

Nature Article:

Global phytoplankton decline over the past century

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/abs/nature09...

Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4J1
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4J1
Correspondence to: Daniel G. Boyce1 Email: dboyce@dal.ca

Abstract
In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs (phytoplankton) account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth. Analyses of satellite-derived phytoplankton concentration (available since 1979) have suggested decadal-scale fluctuations linked to climate forcing, but the length of this record is insufficient to resolve longer-term trends. Here we combine available ocean transparency measurements and in situ chlorophyll observations to estimate the time dependence of phytoplankton biomass at local, regional and global scales since 1899. We observe declines in eight out of ten ocean regions, and estimate a global rate of decline of ~1% of the global median per year. Our analyses further reveal interannual to decadal phytoplankton fluctuations superimposed on long-term trends. These fluctuations are strongly correlated with basin-scale climate indices, whereas long-term declining trends are related to increasing sea surface temperatures. We conclude that global phytoplankton concentration has declined over the past century; this decline will need to be considered in future studies of marine ecosystems, geochemical cycling, ocean circulation and fisheries.
the wireless carriers here in switzerland also don't provide you with a public IP - at least depending on your location. I think this has more technical reasons than anything else.

The three carriers we can chose from are strangely (and probably illegally - the state is looking into this) similar to each other, but all of them don't make any effort in traffic shaping or controlling.

OTOH, they are pretty expensive for what they provide. When AT&T in the US added that 2 GB cap, I was sighing and looking at my 250MB cap.

Sure, other carriers have better deals (better as in "cheaper bandwidth" but worse coverage), but you basically can't get more then 1GB for a reasonable price.

Aside of that though, they don't care how you use the service they provide.

Not having a public IP I can live with. Paying so much for data is annoying, but if that's the way for them to provide me with unfiltered and unconstrained net access, then I'm fine with that.

Hell, the word "tethering" wasn't even a word here before the iPhone came around - hooking up your notebook to your phone has always been possible (and encouraged - see prices and caps).
You're right... unfortunately most of the mobile device manufacturers out there are still in their mode of creating tons of devices one after another, forgetting about the older ones.

They're all scrambling to compete with Apple, but they're completely missing this. Follow the In-N-Out philosophy... do one thing really well and then keep doing it. So many handsets these days are utter garbage. They're all more or less leapfrogging each other with a few pixels there, a few GHz there, +1 MP on the camera.

Of course the carriers aren't helping. They all just want to sell units. It's a mess.

I'm happy with my Nexus One and T-Mobile for now :)
Yep, it's on her site.
What happened to AltaVista and Yahoo? From innovator to imitator to forgotten
AltaVista was Google before Google. They tried to imitate AOL and Yahoo, and lost their engineering roots
Hey look, yet another problem that Android developers and users don't have. Make any button do anything. And the antenna works.
I know that the University of Oslo started on a rather big Groovy project, but after a few months ported everything over to Ruby (not sure if it runs on JRuby though). As far as I remember, they felt that Groovy was a terrible "clone" of Ruby: Long and Java-ish backtraces, small community and much broken code.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thomasfl worked on the project, so maybe he'll chime in with more details.
"MYTH: This proposal represents a step backwards
for the open Internet.

FACT: If adopted, this proposal would for the first time
give the FCC the ability to preserve the open Internet
through enforceable rules on broadband providers. At the
same time, the FCC would be prohibited from imposing
regulations on the Internet itself."

The last sentence seems to be exactly what net neutrality advocates have been endorsing; a regulated internet that prevents ISP's from favoring certain content providers. Why would Google tout this as a benefit? Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but this sounds like a reversal. Please clarify what they mean if I'm wrong.
The most important point here is their defense of the wireless exemption.

Agree with it or not (I'm on the fence, and most people seem to disagree with it), it is deliberately temporary, and most importantly, subject to annual review and debate. So if you don't like it, please disagree, but do note that this is not meant to be a permanent provision.
More explicitly: most professional print documents are done at 300 dpi. Since retina is 326 ppi, it's safe to assume that if it looks alright on paper, it will look fine on retina.

It's worth noting that it doesn't really matter though. Most iPhones are pre-retina, and this will be the case for at least several years. So I can't think of a medium where it's okay to assume this level of screen resolution. The author's point still holds.
I am going to go another route.

I only had 4 or 5 friends that really studied language in college. The guys that studied mandarin, despite being able to speak it in class with a forgiving teacher, couldn't converse when they got to China. They both said actual chinese is nothing like what you learn in school. They learned everything when they got there, despite having 4 years of university lessons. I also know a guy that studied russian. Same thing. Russia was where he learned russian. He had to reteach himself everything becuase what he learned in the states was useless.

So my suggestion is this: if you're going to move to china or russia, then move there with a couple books and go talk to people. Otherwise, learn french or italian and use it to get laid.

Most likely, even if you learned a more complex language, you wouldn't use it. So why not study an easier panty-dropping language instead?
Cross-reference with this classic story from Cabel Sasser of Panic

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Google's veil of not evil while always hyperbole has been pierced. At this point, it feels like the moment in the wizard of oz when they see the man behind the curtain.
(My startup) ThinkLink / FaceCash

http://www.thinklink.com
>> ...Ive told the Times that the key to the iPod wasn't sudden flashes of genius, but the design process. His design group collaborated closely with manufacturers and engineers, constantly tweaking and refining the design. ''It's not serial,'' he told the Times. ''It's not one person passing something on to the next.''...

Perhaps this and the rest of the article provides some insight into pg's question about Apple's culture: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596767
depends. a lot of niche blogs don't make their money on regular readers, but on the adsense revenue on organic searches and people looking around for info they want. a lot of the techniques he talks about is similar to the process people use to make that type of adsense/referral.
August 12 and November 17 every year are usually the best times for meteor shower sightings (for the November 17 details, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids)

Since August 12 is my birthday and November 17 is my mom's birthday, it makes it real easy for me to keep track of this.

The most amazing place where I watched the meteor shower was the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
> I've found that a pretty good rule of thumb for recognizing corporate BS is any time a campaign is called "Get The Facts" or something similar.

Good thing that phrase doesn't occur anywhere in the linked post.

Or is your aversion to any use by a corporation of the word "facts"?
The best place for free fonts I have found is (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/).

They also package them up as @font-face with all the variations needed. I would be warned though, font rendering varies so greatly, that unless you test extensively, most will not be good enough for anything but headings.
Class Projects: The Good, the Bad, and the Future Value
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that practice stemmed largely from older days, when "programmers" were people who translated specifications into machine code or assembly, and programs were actually written and specified by higher ups--essentially, the day that programmers were more like human compilers than what programmers do today.
I don't buy it.
What even net neutrality advocates want to avoid is the FCC becoming the "objectionable content police." The FCC should be able to enforce net neutrality, but not create new regulations regarding content.

The EFF discussed this in their recent post on the matter.
"Equally" is a loaded word but depending on the areas you work in, a software engineer can make a lot of money in Hedge Funds and IB's. The key differentiator is how "close" you are to the Front-Office.
Yeah. You're not the only one saying this.
Tweetmeme uses Backtype data, right? (At least when used through Posterous it seems to.)
Also, on Twitter's blog, it says Tweetmeme is now "pointing" to the Twitter button. But it's not totally, otherwise we couldn't get our counts like we are.
Apple is a little too close to the top for my comfort.
For those stuck on pre-2.2 phones/firmwares, a friend wrote:

http://linkpush.appspot.com/
Jobs was a year ahead of the curve I guess. But the main thing was banning dogs--from a lot of things I read, one of the big unofficial benefits of working at Apple before the second Jobs era is how you could bring your dog to work and spend your breaks playing frisbee with him.
The biggest problem with the North American banking system is the reliance on the antiquated cheque system. In the EU I can send money to any other EU bank account quickly with little or no fee. You can pay bills and send money - and no need for an intermediatary like paypal. The inherently insecure concept of letting others pull money out of your account don't exist. Pushing money also reduces the whole range of service fees relating to bounced cheques and insufficient funds.
Suggest you google "Is Social Security Bankrupt" and review the governments own projections. SS receipts are at parity or below obligations. It is, therefore, bankrupt and only maintained by the federal governments ability to run infinite* deficits.

(*) Infinite, that is, until the Chinese and other foreign nations stop purchasing our debt.
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