skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I design a popular browser for a living, and I also liked breadcrumbs enough to write up this quick hack back in 2003: http://bodytag.org/crumbler/

Here are a jumble of quick thoughts, please don't take them as the opinion of the team:

1. The reason we didn't pursue anything like this is because sites are easily capable of doing it themselves in their own UI - the URL bar itself needs to come with expected behaviors, and when sites are able to overload it, it becomes more unpredictable. Standardized web UI has been a dream for many years, but the chaotic cacophony of the web is where all the beauty and innovation lies. Though it's a long way from the old ideals of User Agents, a modern browser's job is to get out of the way.

2. Windows Explorer is also able to get away with this style of UI because most people rarely type anything in that field; in the case of the browser, people are typing things in there all the time. Conflating menu-based and text-based navigation is hard.

3. Even though people are generally familiar with the structure of their own filesystem, navigating through it using the breadcrumb-menu interface is somewhat foreign - people don't like to think about sibling pages, especially for pages elsewhere in the stack. This becomes worse when you're dealing with random websites, where you don't know the layout of each.

4. Many websites don't map to a standardized navigation - products can exist in multiple categories, and sites like Wikipedia completely mess with the notion of tree-based structures. Building a notion of site structure into the browser was too prescriptive (see rant at end of point 1).
Judging by the number of players imported from Latin America, I think the US only has enough players for a half-dozen MLB-level teams.
Obligatory: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/
Ask HN: 2 jobs, two environments, one laptop.  Any tips?
I use my laptop at work and work on my startup at home. It's a MacBook Pro. At work I need to have Mail and iCal open, as well as a few stat tracking webpages. At home I usually have plenty of documentation open (8-10 tabs in Chrome). At work I'm on a 30 inch monitor. At home I'm usually sitting on the couch.

I'm getting a little frustrated with this setup. To keep my tab limit down, I close the documentation for my startup when I'm at work. When I'm at home I close Mail and iCal and the pages specific to work. If I don't things just get sluggish.

Has anyone found an easy way to "switch" environments on a mac? I could use spaces, but that won't help with performance, it will just get it out of my way. Any good extensions for Chrome that will let me save a session and let me restore it later? Has anyone else had this issue?
He left off a couple of important points. Because The Wire is drama, you get to know the characters as people. There is a huge difference between looking at "urban, ethnic and impoverished" on paper and getting to know and appreciate the characters as individuals.

<insert spoiler alert here>

Season 4 follows the youngest generation and ends by showing you how each character steps into the place vacated by a character from the older generation. This was the most painful season for me to watch, seeing young people being trapped and molded into another wave of failure. This cycle is a topic dear to my heart, and one I believe would not require mountains to break. The cycle perpetuates because we're all afraid to touch it... myself included. The subset of our society that is undereducated and economically, socially and emotionally depressed is a component of the whole. And if we own the whole, we own all of the problems, including those of the subset.

This is a course I would love to take, if only because I have some very, very strong opinions on the phenomenon. But I'll spare HN the details.
I agree. It's pretty important. Missing values can be coded as funny things like minus infinity in some languages. So then, if you want to assign a subset of a vector to a new group (say the number of people who have had a an event e.g. "heart attack") and you used the argument x <= 1, "missing values" would be incorrectly categorized as "heart attack". You can see how this could really affect your analysis. With R, the usefulness of NA is that if you're careful when you import data, this never happens.

Of course if you're always careful, if your NA values in other languages are stored as numbers, you can avoid this error. But it's made easy by R's approach to NA.
though, with comments like that is the data really expunged? Would you trust that your account and information is actually removed? Or conveniently archived for future use?
Bet Zuckerberg is wishing that Schmidt's "let kids change their names" idea was implemented a few years ago.
Is there any documentation? What are the components of this benchmark?
Why? Either you are comfortable with the amount of personal information you are publishing on Facebook's systems or you are not.

If you are comfortable about the personal information you are giving them then I don't see why out-of-context IMs from years ago change how you feel about your actions.

If you're not comfortable with your own sharing then what the heck are you doing?
In the USA, Baseball is not as popular as a kid's pastime as it once was. Little leagues are having trouble getting enough kids to actually have games...
Our price average for Texas is around $450+/oz (save for the skewed average by some fake submissions).

Not exactly cheap, but makes sense if getting caught is costly.
Semantics aside, the situation is very different between physical goods and duplicable goods. I don't know anything else but this very thing ought to be reflected in the interpretation of law somehow.

For example, the scale of thievery/infringement goes roughly from:

- Stealing physical media (= traditionally illegal, one is left without)

- Copying to self or a friend (= should be legal: it's none of anyone else's business what I and my friends share among ourselves. And I have a limited number of friends anyway)

- Copying to a "friend" or internet peer (= question mark; I think it should be legal but many don't)

- Selling copies to a friend (= should be illegal as I would be pocketing actual money and the original author wouldn't)

- Selling copies to a "friend" or internet peer (= definitely illegal, I'm making money out of others' work)

Thus, the culprit gray area is copying to others without a fee. It's also the point where the most arguments (to both directions!) are about.

I don't have the answer. I do, however, have one point: no law should be based on speculation.

If you could clearly show that someone would have bought a copyrighted piece but got it for free instead, only then there might be some case for the original copyright holder to be entitled to some money, capped at most to the regular list price of the copyrighted work in particular.

However, if you can't show that then I think it's pretty clear that nothing substantial has happened and, also, nobody could ever be convicted in that situation.
The obvious one is dual-boot.

Really, what kind of MacBook Pro can't handle email, iCal and 10 tabs? What else is it doing? Can you upgrade the RAM any more? SSD?
Everything is a remix
I think it is necessary to recognise an author's moral right to the work or, if you wish, mandatory attribution. No-one ought be allowed to take someone else's work as theirs.

Beyond that the issue gets a bit hazy.
So what? Most of the players in the MLB aren't of US citizenship. I was comparing American and Japanese professional baseball. The citizenship of the players is irrelevant.
I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes if I just let my mind wander I come up with the most amazing insights and then I have to--SQUIRREL!!!!
Nitpick: Apparently the visualization wasn't made by or for colorblind people... all the dollar signs on the map look pretty much the same to me.

(No, I'm not stoned. :-)
postgresequel just sounds greasy.
Not the person you're replying to, but I often find my "best work" to be undirected side projects as well, but you're right that it tends to be something that can at least be prototyped in a week. If it can't go from idea-germination to some useful checkpoint in a week, and it's not what I'm officially "supposed" to be working on, it'll tend to get abandoned partly done.

The stuff that can be finished in a week often feels like my best work, though, at least intellectually (and you can get a good amount done in a week if you're excited about it). The week-long side projects tend to have more novelty, which sometimes even results in more impactful published papers: you're proposing the first X to do Y, and you have a working system to boot (in academia not always required, but a nice plus if you have it).

My biggest projects tend to require some focus and months, but they tend to be more of the grind variety. Take that initial prototype, either one I've produced or one someone else has published, and build a Real System on it, working out all the details, including engineering and theory as appropriate.
Can you cite one human test that shows HFCS to be more harmful than sucrose? Because I'm not going to suggest that the AMA is at all the end-all of medical research (it's clearly not even close), but the AMA says "Because the composition of HFCS and sucrose are so similar, particularly on absorption by the body, it appears unlikely that HFCS contributes more to obesity or other conditions than sucrose.".
I'm torn. On one hand, it's yet another infographic. On the other hand... it's actually informative.
In 2006 Facebook was way more than just a side project. Zuckerberg had already dropped out of Harvard to work on it full time and had raised investment if I recall correctly.
Just checked the author's blog, it is named after Geddy Lee. Just hope that this isn't meant in the "Sinatra" vein, as we're talking about two different leagues of singers here (and hey, I like Rush more than Frank).

Other than that it looks quite interesting, although I'm not a big fan of full-language template systems, cf. PHP. Did anyone ever make a JavaScript StringTemplate?
A technical look at the difference between liberals and conservatives
While this does put a higher bar up that needs to be passed by quality candidates, I think the true benefit is that if you want the job you'll spend hours on a problem - which means they know each candidate really does want to work there (unlike those who generically spam tens of companies).
RAM upgrade on the way. That may make spaces easier to manage. Right now I've only got 2GB and its full with 8 tabs, Cal, Preview, and 6 terminals. Usually I have a dozen or so more disposable tabs.
The main link on this thread is incorrect. The IMs are from 2004, not 2006.
See my reply below as to why you are completely wrong. Normally I wouldn't emphasize a point so much; in this case it's quite personal and aside from my personal connection, I believe, quite important. Intellectual property theft affects a lot of people who work on software, and it's crucial that the community appreciate the nuance of a case as informative as this.
As I said in a cousin comment, the nationality of the players is irrelevant. I would count non-Japanese citizens playing in the NPB as members of Japanese professional baseball, just as I count Mo as a member of the MLB.
I'd just like to say this: instead of immediately "going to fuck them", he went and created one of the largest websites in the world. Sounds like a much better outcome (at least for him) to me.
Actually your example seems like a better one. Most men would read his example about rape and say (truthfully) "I would never do that!"

Neglecting to use a condom in the heat of the moment? I imagine the line becomes grayer. It's not longer this abhorrent thing where the consequences are binary (did or did not rape), but instead more of a risk/reward thing where judging the consequences requires more fuzzy logic.
I would say we are not doomed to police-statism, because there is a countervailing force: An open network is more valuable than a closed network. There are forces that will work to keep the network open so they can tap that value, though they may face a coordination problem. Google would be one example of a company that, for all its many missteps and concerning moves, is broadly speaking fighting for a more open net rather than a more closed net. (I'm not saying they've been 100% successful or 100% aligned to openness, but net-net I've been reasonably impressed with their vision on this point; and again, by "reasonably impressed" I do not mean "in love with".) Even a government may be convinced that the more valuable open network is in their best interests, as it represents a larger tax base to work from. Perhaps we should be encouraging Internet taxes now, instead of fighting them!

But the police state won't be defeated by broad-scale usage of some technical tool. Small-scale usage by a small core group of hackers who constantly adapt (and, frankly, constantly suffer attrition by the police and face the non-zero chance of making one mistake that allows the police to catch them all) might be possible, but if we're going to defeat a police state it will have to be on something other than a purely technical level like that.
The Nokia E61i - a tale of 51 buttons
Any subject of Gawker's "reporting" deserves the benefit of the doubt.
To quote Elements of Style, vigorous writing is concise. Clutter it up with a bunch of qualifiers and it becomes tedious to the reader and the point you're trying to make gets muted.
That 2nd problem would be very elegant / interesting to solve using the Reactive Extensions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee794896.aspx) - a good intro is at http://haacked.com/archive/2010/03/26/enumerating-future.asp...
The take home lesson here is that all your online activities can be used in court against you some day in unbelievable detail, so if you plan on being 'successful' start acting responsible today, no matter what your age.

Impressions matter, during a lawsuit evidence matters, this provides plenty of both.
I fail to see why analytics data seem to be considered "low quality" data ("we don't care if some stuff occasionally gets lost"). As far as I can tell, most businesses out there are driven by metrics which are derived from analytics data... so I don't agree that "it's OK to lose some".
Just created an LLC for this purpose, as well as combining all of my side projects under one brand.

It costs a significant amount, and I'll soon see if it's worth it...
UGH. Read the thing in its entirety and that Aaron guy comes off as too helpful and naive.

Fuck, you can tell from the tone Zuck takes with him. Zuck is nice when he needs something, and cold as ice when he knows he did something.

Pretty fucking sad and annoying at the same time. UGH!

[Edit:

Oh, the parent is ThinkComp/Aaoron! My sympathies dude. Too bad, you're a typical flat-footed computer programmer; how come you haven't seen this guy for what he is the moment he told you to take down the ads featuring his site? then he returns to you, repeatedly, for advice, help, testing, feedback and insight. Why did you allow that?]
Also, since this is Harvard: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/98-the-...

And because the students taking this course probably aren't physics majors: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts...
A Boy Who is in Fact A Girl
Josie Romero is a small boy who at the age of four knew that he is in fact a girl.
Yeah, I think I came to the realization as I was finishing my post above that for most people, "best" and "biggest" really are incompatible, for precisely the reasons you mention. Once a project becomes sufficiently large, it can become a grind to work on; additionally, the scope is inevitably bigger, which means even more work to make sure it's hitting on all cylinders.

A small, quick project that does just one thing well is probably a lot easier to see as your "best" because there's just fewer edge cases for you to say "boy, I wish I would have done it this other way..."
That might be a bad idea. It might conflict with the browser.
I am "that Aaron guy," and it was my job to be helpful. At the time, I ran the only entrepreneurship club at Harvard available to undergraduates.

In retrospect, I was naive, but so was Mark. Ironically, I think he underestimated the value of having friends, and the negative value of having enemies.
I won't say he's a sociopath. But he's a guy with too much power. And we all know : Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's the main reason I don't like facebook.
Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposed
If they use it for statistical analysis then the sample size decrease a bit, but likely not in a significant way. If they lost all their data that would be a bit different.

For instance, I routinely delete web server logs older than 30 days, on the assumption that if I didn't need it in the last 30 days I'll probably never need it. Every now and then this bites me and I need more than 30 days data to test some assumption, then I will just have to wait for a bit. (for events that occur infrequently enough).
The original quote is:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle [sic] their pockets for new vocabulary.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll
Sure--but, if that's the case, you'd think someone would reply and correct you, instead of just blatantly down voting an otherwise "get the point across answer", and forcing you to speculate. :)
False negatives means you are wasting a talented person's time (on both sides) because your interview process sucks. From the stories I've heard, Google needs to work on reducing that.
Right. It was also prettier than the Spectrum.

I think the PC keyboard and the VGA monitor take away part of the fun.

But I am the guy who wants to build a Symbolics keyboard for his PC. I am not an example of sanity.
I don't know why you got downvoted. The phrase I like to use is that "what happens on the internet stays on the internet"
Yeah, but that happens with groceries, too.
22 Part Video Series with Jason Fried of 37signals
I would add that genius is more defined by an extreme tenacity than intelligence.
i've always known that steve is a ninja. and of course they deny, he's undercover.
They didn't actually invent their own crypto system. They used the scheme devised by Swedish cryptographer Rolf Blom, know as Blom's Scheme. Which is a form of "threshold secret sharing". It has been known for quite some time that the system falls apart once a particular number of keys are known.
Maybe he dropped out of Harvard before he took Business Ethics.
That's the best way to come up with ideas. But at some point you have to implement them, and that's where discipline comes in.
I've never had any problems playing a Blu-Ray disc on my PS3.
Why not study real life instead of fiction? Fictions are, by definition, not even pretending to be accurate.
tl;dr: Internet tough guy turns out to not be so tough in real life.

I'm sorry, I know this is HN and not reddit but my lack of self-control has prevented me from keeping this one to myself.

To respond in seriousness, I'm the same way. There's several times I haven't allowed a situation to escalate to the point I had to fight, but afterwards I always find myself wishing I would have.
Chrome releases WebGL demos
Great & free tool for automatically testing even heavily ajax driven webapps
>I would be incensed to be made to study a mere novel.

Except, possibly,in an English class. Which in fact (not at Harvard) is where I read 1984. A pretty sucky novel in all.
Meh. I canceled my Facebook account years ago.

But these IMs are just typical of the immature little kid he was back then. We all say and do stupid things when we're that age. It's not a big deal.
My experience was much smoother. A phone interview, a day of in-person interviews (5), and then the decision. The whole process took a month or so, but I wouldn't say I was strung along.
I'd be more worried of your employer seizing your startup, since you've been working on it with their equipment. Either that, or you've been bringing their information out into the world on your personal laptop, which probably isn't a good idea either.
In reply to your edit:

I distrusted him immediately because of Facemash, and I refused to work with him directly accordingly. The situation I faced was a classic Catch-22. Had I agreed to help him with the project he refused to tell me about (which was actually my own), I would have been named (just like Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz) in a federal civil lawsuit by the ConnectU team, which I had no knowledge of, and I would have been complicit in helping Mark run Facebook in a way I didn't agree with. By refusing to co-operate I became a target instead.

As someone else here said, "I've never met a sociopath before." Well, before January 8, 2004, neither had I. It's pretty hard to know what the "right" thing to do is in that kind of situation.
Interesting, I didn't know that priority was given to reads(in theory anyways). Thanks for the tip!

As for server durability, yes, it has been beaten to death. Yet, I still talk to developers that either have no idea that's how Mongo operates, or don't know what save mode has to offer.
Smart enough to realize it's a work of fiction? I often hear college educated people claim "The Jungle" and "The Grapes of Wrath" are historical documentaries.
Post a notice on your site while you are updating the code and restore when done.
The great thing about URLs is that they're unique. URL meta tags sound like every phisher's dream
Android apps that appear in the top 10-20 paid apps require rooting which is more or less the same barrier of entry. (I can't remember if this requires you to check "unknown sources" or not. Maybe by default they don't appear)
Mangling Proudhon, "Intellectual property is theft."
This might be a rather short session, I don't think Zed carries.
If you run the benchmark, the results include a list of the tests with links to short explanations.

EDIT: Click to the results page and explanation links: http://bit.ly/cXTBUb (using a redirect because HN broke when I used the real URI)

Here's the list:

ai: 922.9ms +/- 3.2%
astar: 922.9ms +/- 3.2%

audio: 5564.5ms +/- 3.4%
beat-detection: 1996.1ms +/- 5.2%
dft: 821.8ms +/- 6.8%
fft: 1965.6ms +/- 6.0%
oscillator: 781.0ms +/- 0.9%

imaging: 2875.9ms +/- 1.4%
gaussian-blur: 1271.2ms +/- 1.1%
darkroom: 510.1ms +/- 0.7%
desaturate: 1094.6ms +/- 4.0%

json: 365.9ms +/- 1.6%
parse-financial: 235.5ms +/- 1.6%
stringify-tinderbox: 130.4ms +/- 2.1%

stanford: 2392.1ms +/- 3.2%
crypto-aes: 468.7ms +/- 2.0%
crypto-ccm: 656.2ms +/- 3.5%
crypto-pbkdf2: 1063.0ms +/- 4.5%
crypto-sha256-iterative: 204.2ms +/- 2.9%
@jrockway: I'm curious about this, do you have any links to texts you've read about this or is this from personal experience?

In my experience there are all sorts of reasons why different desks WANT to price things differently. When 2 internal desks cross markets, they trade with each other instead of the broad market. Its advantageous for both internal desks because if the order is crossed internally, they don't have to print on an exchange, they save transaction costs, and they can be incentivized to give internal desks better prices. Its important for them to be able to shift risk from desk to desk so they can properly attribute PnL to the right agent.

edit: jrockway, just read further down that you said you work at a bank, where I'm assuming you had that experience. Ultimately the question is whether it is or should be the case that security XYZ should be considered to have the same price firm wide.
thank you :)

The use of I was my interpretation of a lot of what was said and summing up how I saw the information in many cases. I didn't want to do a straight blow by blow / regurgitation of quotes.