skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and if you could get everyone to follow them, this hack wouldn't be needed.

Until then, you can use this to provide a better experience for customers that have a standards-compliant browser (or one that can use the hack) and provide a lesser experience for the rest, and that should be easier (and provide a better experience) than trying to make everything work on all browsers.
Please NO! Apple has a history of DESTROYING (yes, I'm yelling) graphics software companies. Especially the ones who's products I was using (bad luck). Silicon Grail (Chalice), Nothing real (Shake, Tremor), Silicon Color, India Pro - they just smeared shit over their users and abandoned those great products.

I would rather see Autodesk buy Adobe, if anyone must buy them - it would be a more natural fit than Apple and Autodesk at least showed they don't meddle with their acquisitions too much (Alias -> Maya could be debated though) - Softimage, Mudbox, Discreet (all of their software) etc.. only benefited from acquisition so far, even though Autodesk is kind of evil - Autodesk co-founder said their business model is to buy up market by buying their competition (on nerdTV).
I don't understand why discourage people to write. Not everything written by an author needs to be a great piece every single time. http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=195. If OP didn't post this, how could he find out what works or does not work in his writing?
Tell HN: Congratulations Thomas, tptacek new #1 on HN
It looks like Thomas has taken the number one spot.

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Google Chrome Frame Out of Beta
I'm not sure what the "openness" is that is being referred to here. It just seems that various people took a quite simple idea, and copied it. Short of not telling people about your business, how are you going to stop this?
Face up cards in 42 card deck = N

Face up cards in 10 card deck = 10-N

Face up cards in 10 card deck after flip = 10 - (10-N) = N

N == N, so they are equal
Brian Eno: 'The Revenge of the Intuitive'
Well I'm assuming you are the featured 'Michael Anderson', but if you're not why don't you just ask him how he did it?
But people are not forced into it with threats of eternal punishment.
Moving averages – yes, though it's tricky to get to them right now. The remainder: watch this space.
No, threads and processes are different. Threads are pieces of concurrent execution with a shared state from the containing process. Processes are heavier pieces of execution, they have their own memory and state, get a distinct PID.

fork() is a system level command that copies the current process wholesale, and then gives a pointer back to the parent process. This is very different than an interpreter managed green thread (ala ruby 1.8), or a true concurrent in-process threading model (like JVM threads).

Basically, processes tend to be heavier-weight, but more isolated and secure, where threads tend to be faster and can work with shared state without needing to use IPC mechanisms.

Quick googling found this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807506/threads-vs-process...
Orkut still exists? Huh.
Cycling anywhere in the US is dangerous. However, I think many people mistake the feeling of danger for actual risk. DC cyclists make drivers incredibly uncomfortable, which means they are paying attention. As a cyclist, it's better for drivers to be cursing you than to not see you. Not that that's an excuse for not stopping at red lights.
Fantastic interview. Surprised to see how open Mark was about such a collossal strategy.
Think about it this way: This plugin solves the problem of companies who are still locked in IE6 because of their legacy enterprise apps. It also gives them an easy upgrade path. All their legacy apps work as usual. New development uses the meta tag. Users continue to use one browser and don't know the difference.
I didn't mean to implicate that using shared memory would be better than an intermediary. I do still think that implementing a simple broadcast mechanism with shared memory is fairly easy, provided that you have access to inter-process condition variables. If not, things do get a lot more complicated (e.g. polling, yuck).

I don't think I can prove you wrong, per se. I do have a suggestion, though: have you tried using shared memory for data transfer, and using a UNIX socket for synchronization? Only a tiny bit of data would have to be transferred over the UNIX socket (shared memory address to read from, etc), and the rest of the data could be read via the shared memory.
1/ There is full credits to the original in the clones.

2/ The clones are better looking than the original

3/ I am assuming the whole thing is a farce

But, who knows, maybe clones work, let's try, says, a wiki, looks like a good weekend project http://simpliwiki.com

As alreay signaled (by stevederico)

Ideas are worth nothing, , execution and timing are everything. http://thenextbigtechthing.com/ideas-are-worth-nothing/
They really do have something going there. Works very well.
I have a friend who runs an indie design & print firm. http://www.danamediagroup.com is his co and his name is Cameron. Let him know Aaron sent you and I'm sure he'll giving you great pricing :]
That's a shame, because Dave is one of the charter members of the PayPal Mafia and one of the top angels in Silicon Valley, has an extremely impressive CV and by all accounts a great guy.[1]

He was director of marketing for PayPal, and he know exactly what he's doing in writing like that. Frankly, I think his writing is hilarious.

Please, this is Hacker News, disagree with the substance of his thoughts, not his style of communication[2].

ref:

[1] http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/about-dave-mcclure.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
My Xbox has been netflix ready for like a year at this point, and as an Xbox 360 user I have to goddamn wait longer than the PS3 and Wii users? They would have had an instant signup, I've been waiting for this day since my Xbox got the capability, now they aren't getting my money till my Xbox can use it on principal. I have a Wii, but Netflix can bite me if they think I'm getting it now that they've pissed me off.
When did you start the site? At what point did you start realizing that Adsense was scaling well?

Just really curious to hear your story.
Data is Code
We were using cookieless domains at quizlet.com for our static assets (css, js, images) for awhile, but recently turned them off. Some of our users (enough to be of concern) wrote in saying the site looked all wrong, and on closer inspection, weren't receiving our assets.

Because we're used in a lot of school systems, and many school districts have weird rules (domain whitelists), our static domains were not resolving while our main quizlet.com was. We decided (for now) it wasn't worth investigating how many of our users were affected or if we could do a workaround.

We're still using a subdomain off our main domain (a.quizlet.com) which prevents most cookies from sending but not al.

Going forward, I'd prefer to start base64-embedding images in css (only for compliant browsers) and using more sprites to reduce the number of overall requests.
A computer virus with an entirely new purpose
The Copilot test flight: a Haskell EDSL for embedded system monitoring
Facebook Phone Social
GET OFF THE ROAD
> The target audience would seem to be either someone deeply integrated into the Haskell community who might find this sort of thing cute or anyone with Haskell experience who is learning his alphabet.

Haha. Probably true :)
Ask HN: Offer of Employment retracted
I was offered a Senior RoR dev position at a 50-ppl funded and revenue-generating bay area company last week. I accepted, signed, and was excited to join this company. Subsequently I gave my two-week notice at my current job (not in the bay area). They have started my exit process here.

This afternoon I got a call from the HR that they are retracting my offer as "circumstances have changed and they are eliminating the position". I am literally shocked as I have a perfectly good, well-paying job at a Fortune 500 company where I've worked for 5+ yrs that I resigned from to join this small company.

What is my recourse in this situation? I was told by the Engineering Manager in this company that I got two thumbs up from all the interviewers and they were looking forward to me joining. He even sent me tech documents to go over a couple days ago.

I don't know what to do. Not only does this affect my employment situation but also my immigration situation. Not having a job impacts my ability to stay in the US.

I can't go back to my current team now as it will not only look ridiculous but my commitment will be questioned as well.

Please advise. I'm just really distressed and upset right now.
Went to school with Todd - he was one of those people who always seemed to have the energy and the dedication to be involved in every extracurricular activity out there, while getting top grades in arguably Canada's most challenging engineering program, and being an incredibly nice guy to boot.

Not surprised to see his name in the news :)
The actual implementation of non-profit status in the US is a different issue.

Consider patents. I agree with the idea of patents, but totally disagree with the US implementation. Likewise, I agree with giving discounts to non-profit organisations, but the more I dig the less I agree with the US system for awarding the status.

But that wasn't the argument made in the post. It wasn't "we would discount to non-profits if only there weren't so many lame orgs with that status" it was "why would we ever do this?".
> There is full credits to the original in the clones.

There is now, yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1694596
Nah, that would be to set the deck on fire.
this just verifies mike's original article- which means facebook overreacted in response to mike's questionable semantics (see: "building").

that said, did anyone actually think techcrunch was suggesting facebook was manufacturing hardware?
Their user base is big enough to have some percentage of hardcore users who will like such a phone.

This also complements perfectly Microsoft's need for a partner to compensate their late start. So the new market might look like:

Apple -> iPhone
Google -> Android
Facebook -> Windows Mobile 7
I'm part of the Engineers he's talking about :), basically the point of the post was that we kept doing what needed to about the free analyzer, we'll have some new stuff to show for that by the end of the week.

Yet, Ryan was able to test out the market for a new product, without using up me or the other programmer.
Talk to a lawyer and ask what "detrimental reliance" means. (Short version: what you just did owing to representation that they had a job for you. Comes with damages.)

Let your old company tell you you can't have your job back, don't make that decision for them.
This is from June 2009, and includes quotes from Nokia UK's general manager.

While it is clear that Nokia is not doing well in the States, I would be interested to see numbers on how Nokia sales have compared to Apple in the UK and Europe.
The clones are basically letting Zachary do the market research and the initial minimum viable product development to validate a concept before jumping in. Since Zachary releases a lot more market data, he just saves the clones whole bunch money.
I'm not sure how to take that.
Whichever religion it is, the typical one or the atypical, whether the threat is of eternal punishment or something else, it all boils down to whether one chooses to succumb to those threats or not.
Well... it depends how do you look at the rules. Saying "You have been asked to reorganize this pack of cards into two decks" is a bit misleading, as "reorganize" typically means moving things around without changing their properties. Sometimes you just assume rules that seem logical to imply.

To one person it might be obvious you can turn the cards upside down, to another it's obvious you can't. Then again... you could just get all cards into a deck, split in half and put each half on a side, so that no cards are facing up, or destroy the cards, or bring your own new deck and hide the cards you find, or take the cards out of the room to reorganize, or turn on the light, or bring a torchlight, or ...
I imagine they have other memcached nodes for failover. Have no idea how it's all managed though.
The nice thing about no DRM is that I'm not buying a relationship, I'm buying a product. I can just archive the bucket o' bits I receive and they can turn full-on evil in the future for all I care.

There's some rumor that the "no DRM" thing may be going away, or at least modified; the original announcement left the door open to that possibility. That does change the calculus a bit.

I will be disappointed if DRM comes in (and by "disappointed" I mean "not a customer"). Some people were claiming that if you poke around the torrent sites you can't easily find torrents of these games. I didn't verify that, but an enterprising journalist or blogger looking for a good post may consider verifying that before they come back with DRM. "Publishers stupidly insist on DRM even when the game is demonstrably not being pirated" would be a great post. (But I'd definitely verify first.)
I think the big draw here is the money involved, not the concept per se.

When Zachary launched this was the general sentiment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616154 but then it took off and people started literally copying his website to clone it.
If you permanently undervolted my CPU, I wouldn't notice until I go to run numerical computations or load up star craft. But I would always notice a slower hard disk and slower ram.
This is a bit besides the point but your site is absolutely hilarious. Nice job man.
Am I the only person that gets scared when I read things like "Instant Personalization"? I don't know that I want IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes to be able to tell Best Buy what film titles I've been looking at.

But, of course, I'm also confused why people want to 'be the mayor' of the Starbucks down the street.

Is the 'social web' the Tamagotchi of 2010? A short fad that some people will find somehow fulfilling ("I've been the mayor of this Starbucks for 49 months straight!") but that most people move past?
Beer distributors oppose marijuana legalization
I absolutely hate bike lanes. The city I live in prides itself on being bike friendly, partly because of all of its bike lanes, but all the bike lanes are just painted onto sections of roads that have wide enough shoulders that they are completely unnecessary. A lot of them just stop for a couple hundred feet because they ran out of shoulder and the bike lane was an after thought. So now I have useless bike lanes and drivers yelling at me for riding my bike in the street where there isn't a bike lane.
People are indoctrinated as children. Overcoming the threats later on in life is very difficult.
Got a great app market-ready and would like to pitch it in SF in October
hi,

i'm partner at an interactive agency in germany. we develop web applications for international customers with a strong focus on usability and design.

we got a kick-ass product in the pipeline...it's a complex piece of web-software which might revolutionize the content management market. it has been in development for several years and is 100% market-ready now. currently we are planning the launch (sales, pr, online-marketing, buzz, ...).

as this is a pretty huge project for a small company like us (10 people) we are looking for some help.

as some of ours customers are located in the valley and it happens that i'll be in that area 1st week of october, i thought it's a good idea to use this stay for networking also.

i would be very interested in demoing the software and our business-model to:

- professionals/firms which might help us launching, kicking off the product (pr, sales, ...) in the u.s.

- companies/vc's/investors which might have interest to grab a share of our software-product (acquisition rules :)

so if anyone of you guys read this or you happen to know anyone who might be interested in a short meet-up beginning of october, please drop me a line. also, tipps for networking events, etc. would be highly appreciated.

thanks a lot in advance,

markus
That's the point tho, isn't it?

It isn't about making good software, it's about making good money. Since the people who buy the software are not the people who use it, what you need to optimize isn't the software's ease of use, but ease of selling to the people on top.

If the users are happy or not is comparatively inconsequential, after all - they are not the ones making the decision.
Stick your tail between your legs and ask for your old job back. - Like the old man always says: "It's best not to burn bridges".
When Japan Collapses
The article is a bit overly prescriptive. "These are the three kinds of conversations you will encounter, and here is how you should respond." Human interaction is not that easily codified.

The book Behind Closed Doors superbly describes approaches to conducting weekly one-on-one meetings, in addition to IT management in general.

Oh, and "1:1" is a ratio.
I started the site with my friend and my girlfriend back in February while I was still in college. It took off.

Like I said below, I only got direct advertisers in July, so it took awhile to grow. I was making about $1200 / month from Adsense in May/June, and some of the space has been sold to direct advertisers and I still make about $900 / month just from adsense, plus more from the advertisers.

I'm still looking for more, but the project has taken a backseat to my new project: Djangy.com
That really really sucks. This happens, fortunately not frequently. I take it you have copies of all the documents and the preceding correspondence as well.

First order of battle is to be candid with your current employer to see if you can get your old job back, you may have to promise them not to leave within the next six months or so, conversely you can expect to be let go at any moment.

Think of it as a stopgap measure.

Next stop after that is the office of a lawyer specializing in HR affairs.

Don't worry too much about looking ridiculous, you would look a lot more ridiculous losing your dwelling or having no food on the table.

Pride is a virtue but fairly useless at this point in time.
Careful about paying a lawyer up front, though, because it's apparently very hard to make a detrimental reliance claim about a rescinded at-will job offer; it appears to be impossible in several states (at least Florida, Louisiana) and very hard elsewhere.

In the US, most jobs are at-will (you can be fired for no reason, and you're not supposed to rely on your employer maintaining your job); a Rails dev job certainly is.

That said: Patrick is almost certainly right that your company will be happy to keep you on. It'd be almost irrational not to.
If you can save a page look, why not share it with other users? Let people share their setups like themes.
That's so important I'm going to say it again. Let people share their layouts.

http://userstyles.org

Like the Stylebot page said, that's what the C in CSS is all about. It's just never caught on much. (In reality, this is largely due to the structural layout of many sites not being amenable to any CSS other than the sheets crafted by the original "designer".)
I'm confused with the success of things like FarmVille, but I can't deny that hundred(s?) of millions of users confirm its success.
It doesn't quite work like that. TCP works in packets, so 256 bytes of cookies does not necessarily translate into an extra packet sent over the network. So if you have 10 static files per page, you might push a few of them over to an extra packet, but not all of them.

It's something worth doing, but it's not the biggest win you can get.
if the primary goal is user experience.

That's a pretty big if :)
Meetup at Bin 38 tonight
Roger that. I guess I just wanted to say out loud that effort still needs to be put towards moving people to standards-compliant browsers.
People quit jobs all the time. For you, this is a big deal because you don't quit jobs all that often. I suggest that you explain to your employer what happened, and ask for your current job back. Chances are they will be happy to have you back.
[Removed bad advice about portraying this as a change of mind rather than a rescinded job offer to his current employer]

Talk to the manager at your current company and tell him that you want your job back or at least a longer notice period. They probably won't mind having you around to do more knowledge transfer for a few more weeks and look for another job.

Meanwhile, consider what patio11 said. IANAL and employment offers often have a clause saying something about how they are non-binding etc, but I am not sure how enforceable those terms are. You may indeed have a case.

Separately, start applying for jobs elsewhere. RoR is a valuable skill and fresh from a successful (although unfortunate) interview, you are well placed to ace more interviews.

Good luck!
It's about as revealing as Google saying "we want all the world's information."

They don't have to worry about anybody dethroning them for the foreseeable future. They get to play the gloating supervillain all day long with no fear of repercussion.
Were they closing down the facility in Dutchess County? How big was it?
where is app engine updates? Can't seem to find one from the drop down.
I'd suggest that your idea of the "normal" professional isn't quite accurate. I worked at a fortune 500 for a few years. Most people put in 35-40 hours a week. Many of them were impossible to get a hold of during vacation. I'd also suggest that teaching is vastly different than coding - for at least half of the day.

My wife worked for a school that was an outlier - I admitted that (see my original comment). I can vouch for the fact that her average work week was 60 hours (for what that's worth). Roughly 30 of those were in front of students if I remember right. It's certainly easier when you aren't a new teacher, but good teachers constantly change their lessons and approaches creating additional prep work.

I've met very few good teachers who weren't putting just as much time into their jobs as everyone here is putting into their startups. Passion is passion.
Basically agree with all his notions about HTML5, which he seemed to mention a lot in the interview. Also the horizontal strategy makes perfect sense because FB wants to be the defacto identity tool for any and every device. Why fight a device war when you don't have to, instead just concentrate on being the platform.
Regarding surfing: let's not forget about Flash under Linux.
I don't want to make a decision for my current company. They may even let me have it back. I'm on very good terms with my team too and they were in fact, disappointed to see me go.

I'd just hate myself to go back with my head hung in shame telling them that 'oh my job didn't work out'...take me back. I had a farewell lunch yesterday. Everyone in my extended team knows I'm leaving. My exit interview is planned for early next week and they're processing my final paystubs.

I can't believe this level of unprofessionalism exists.
Let me ask this way, What did Zachary gain by putting the numbers out?
If a non-profit is limited in the amount of good it does by its budget, then saving money will allow it to do more good, and the motivations are aligned.
How much traffic do you get monthly +/-?
It varies between 900k - 1.3M page views per month. Fluctuates between 90k and 110k visitors. Like I said, I haven't touched it in quite some time, as I'm focusing literally all of my energy on Djangy
That they had to be reminded about credits tells something.

OTOH, that they added the credits tells something too.

This is so Darwinish!