skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another widget which shows a bottom toolbar that looks like the Facebook one (and it offers sharing and chats and other crap). It makes the website fucki*gly slow and sometimes interferes with the website JavaScript and add nuisance like bad scrolling, selecting...

I finished up closing these sites as I open them.
I would also recommend that everyone that has a blog, implement the most minimalistic widgets, less JavaScript and a simple design. The purpose of a blog is to read, if I want to chat, I'll open Skype.

Coding Horror is a good example.
Fear of employment law damages business
I did a smililar thing for my final year mid year thesis review - took a pdf, opened it up in wordpad (!), cut out chunks of it, saved it, and submitted it. Got 2 weeks extra, nabbed an A myself.

... not sure if I should have said this in public, but I remember being strangely proud for having bent the system a bit :)
How to Be More Creative (Step 1: Destroy)
It's simple, if your site is newsworthy the sites with the traffic will be falling over each other to cover you, if not then too bad.

Paying for coverage is just another way to say 'advertising'.

So concentrate on what it would take to get a story that's compelling enough for real coverage out there, human interest works well, so does hot technology and 'firsts' of any kind, and raising money (successfully).

Don't bother with these small fry sites, it's not worth your time.
Stuxnet's Technical Implications for Europe
Looks bad on Safari showing an extra scroll bar in the center of the text field when continuing on to the full content. Strange.
To Refresh, or Not to Refresh (2008)
Sorry, but you aren't right. Those are mostly located in body tag. They are requested as soon as encountered by browser, because they might issue "document.write", so the execution of rest of HTML is delayed until that "src" is loaded. That's exactly what causes the problem. Putting script into body doesn't defer its execution.

I'm not sure how browsers render <script src in head, but probably the same.
It could always be worse, but thanks for the requisite jingoistic "america- fuck yeah!" comment.
Packard wrote one of the first known books of this type, Sugarcane Island, in 1969 and saw it first published in 1976 by Vermont Crossroads Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard

It seems to me that the two ideas developed more or less in parallel. It says something about the way that culture develops that this idea arrived in print only when digital technology was just making it possible (but far from mainstream).

Dungeons and Dragons also independently arrived at the same time--first published in 1974, so clearly in development before that. It seems like our culture was just ready.
Are you talking about phishing rewards?
Graph of terror alerts against elections
Don't real terrorists receive from rather than send money to such countries?
Ok, on the one hand, I agree. Starbucks should not be allowed to trademark the name of an Ethiopian region. On the other hand, I don't see why Ethiopia should be allowed to either. Just as the trademark test fails for Starbucks, it also fails for Ethiopia.

Sidamo seems to describe a certain product category, namely a particular style of coffee. The Ethiopian government should not control this term any more than the Belgian government should control the term "French Fries".
There's a few things they can't lie about. They can't lie/make up any deals for lighter sentences or whatever. Note, that doesn't mean if they say 'we'll try to get them to easier on you' means that will happen, but if you (and your lawyer) actually strike a real deal (say to provide enough evidence to convict others), the police can't screw with that.

They also can't lie about the legality of actions while in the visible position of being the police. That means they CAN lie about it when undercover.
Can Microsoft Salvage Its Mobile Strategy?
You will probably want to get independent feedback from others (with nda if necessary) on whether your idea is truly industry changing before you go investing time and resources into building it.
Hi Aeden, is there any minimum spend required before registration/hosting API use?
oh, ok, thanks! i would have made the assumption that this would have fixed it and been frustrated.
If you think Babbage had no distractions you know little of Mr Babbage :

Organ grinders .... the worst of the "thousand nuisances that made it impossible for the householder to enjoy any quiet" .... such "instruments of torture" had cost him a quarter of his working life. At one point he tallied 165 nuisances in 90 days.

his 1871 obituary in the London Times notes that he lived to be almost 80 "in spite of organ-grinding persecutions."

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/04/14/quiet/

Because of his campaigns against street music, buskers deliberately turned up at his lodgings to annoy him, even following him down the street.
Couldn't one send this kind of stuff to a third-world country as a donation? It could help feed a starving family for 3-4 months, no?
10k, pay off debt.

100k move to 3rd world country and live off 2-3 dollars a day until money runs out
That is a truly awesome bit of historical trivia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo is unsurprisingly blocked.
I use Mnemosyne quite a bit too.

I also have enjoyed writing scrapers for data I wanted but wasn't being provided in a downloadable format - most commonly stuff on forums.

I wrote a scraper that scraped the entire textfiles.org website for their texts (mostly for fun), I wrote a scraper that logged in as me into my favorite phpBB forum and scraped every post in every forum in every thread - the script would create a directory for the forum, a directory within that named by a number to denote which page it was on, a directory within that named after the thread, a directory within that named by a number to denote which page it was on, and a text file containing only the content div (to retain the formatting of the original post).

I used Python and Mechanize for most of this - the phpbb forum scraper was the most fun and rewarding.

I've also written page scrapers for websites that have things like "1324 of the best side boobs!" I didn't want to Save As for all of them! So I wrote a script that downloaded them for me (this one was easy though compared to the phpbb script).
"This is the lament of the unhappy programmer. If only I didn't have to work my soul-less yuppie job tuning database queries for youface.com I could be curing cancer. It might be therapeutic to think this but it's mostly just a strange form of depressive narcissism....All the people working here are doing exactly what they were meant to do."

Ah, yes...the world is so much simpler when it's in black and white, isn't it?

Aside from the fact that it's entirely possible to enjoy a career and still see its deficiencies, you're just making assertions and pretending they're factual.

Unless you believe that all of the people who are coding social networks today were absolutely miserable with their careers a decade ago, your typical smart person could be happy doing many different things. Just because they're writing flash games today doesn't mean that's automatically the optimal job for their happiness and the well-being of the world. Capitalism doesn't optimize for what you seem to think it does.
Is it the Meebo bar?

http://bar.meebo.com/
I've read enough about lottery winners ending up in debt so I'd just let it disappear. Or maybe donate it.
I agree .... for that matter it's uncommon to find larger organizations paying much if any attention to it. So I guess what I'm asking for is examples of web startups that you think are creating highly-secure distributed software at Diaspora's level of complexity.

Think about it: how much would it cost Diaspora to bring in Matasano or one of your competitors to get some significant help with threat modeling, and catalyze the community to get involved and take it from there? For that matter there may probably at least some security consulting firms who get started for free, both because they believe in what Diaspora's trying to do and because of the visibility they'll potentially get if the project is successful.

It's a huge opportunity, and Diaspora's got some advantages: visibility, enthusiasm, name. So while I think that Diaspora has done the right thing so far by focusing on functionality, now's the time they should be thinking about investing in the long term.
By your completely arbitrary definition of a police state, then NYC is a police state as are americas airports.

Reality is, this country is a police state, it is the modern one, and it is pumped full of government propaganda about how it isn't a police state and how all these police state actions are justified so that people are able to continue to delude themselves.

Frankly most of the police abuses are simply never reported in mainstream media.

But the reality is, depending on where you draw the line, either this is already a police state or it is well on its way.
If you attach it to my property, I just might feel the need to discard it. Good luck suing me for losing your shit. And in the case of a GPS unit I'd be making very sure I discarded it far away from the place where it was last functional.

You (as in you the law enforcement agency) might be in the right to attach stuff to my car, but I as the owner of the vehicle am not responsible if your stuff goes missing in action.

And if you do it without a warrant I'll make sure you have bigger problems.
I'm considering buying in.

Anyone else?
Yes, thank you, I've forgot to mention it. It will work for StatCounter and Twitter though.
Pretty cool site.

You might want to look into TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) weighting as an alternative to filtering for common English words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
Why does it take so long to mend an escalator?
Isn't this how most complex event processing (CEP) engines work?
The article has some interesting critiques. But really, anybody's code can be improved, particular if you're willing to spend more than half your time nitpicking about style and formatting details. Writing an article taking a famous programmer to the woodshed just makes it seem like you're whoring for traffic.

> Usually what people struggle with initially is adapting to the functional paradigmes, which Uncle Bob seems to have gotten right in the first try!

Having heard the man speak, I really don't think this is Uncle Bob's first trip around the block with Lisp - even if he is relatively new to Clojure.
Is the Internet A Long Tail Ghetto? (2006)
Something most readers are probably already aware of, but I found this post interesting as I'd never considered what the acutal social, economic, political, etc, ramifications were for the world when this happens.... I'v previously always thought of the in purely academic terms "Yeah, that was a good move, makes sense. Good for the Pope."
I agree with all those points, and I think MSFT will be healthy for a long time to come. I was just saying that record-breaking profits can either be awesome or a warning sign. I would guess that MSFT is in a better position than Adobe, but I don't know much about Adobe's financials to make a point based on them.
New rumoured Apple music subscription: $10/month. (The Ars Technica headline says it's a rumour. The HN headline doesn't. Naughty.)
Yeah, that one!
No, I don't think he was trying to put him down either, that's not why I made the comment. darwinGod's comment inspired my line of thinking, so I inappropriately replied to it. Since my comment was so off-topic, I decided to delete most of it and reply to the parent. Sorry for making your comment seem out of place.
There is a fork of MySQL called Drizzle which is run by the chief architect of MySQL before sun bought them. From what I remember reading a while ago it's being specifically targeted at being used for Web Backends.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server))
How To Be Powerful, And Why You Are Not
NIC.LY statement regarding the decision to block vb.ly
Or run one of several emulation options.
Is there a website that gives you a dashboard look at your ad networks?
I'm looking for a website that can bring ad networks together to provide a dashboard to monitor payouts. Adsense, adbrite, adsdaq, and a few other smaller networks.
You'd expect the secret service to be more discriminating when it comes to spending their time, there are quite a few presidents that you could have picked from.

I'd be a lot more worried about people that are not posting unspecific threats openly in nerdy forums. And if they would then 'watch' would be a much more appropriate response than 'alert to being noticed'.

"Secret service" apparently means do things without much secrecy.

For the record, I'm going to kill the president too. But to make it a bit harder I'm also not going to claim of which country.
The Fly With Me podcast had a great episode where they tried to get to the bottom of how a wing really generates lift.

http://joepodcaster.libsyn.com/fly-with-me-episode-25

The host is an airline pilot and he brought in a science podcaster to help him interview a professor of aeronautical engineering. Things went pretty smoothly until the professor started talking about in ring integrals and circular flows of air around the entire wing forcing the interviewers to give up and say "Look, it's really complicated." They put the whole unedited explanation at the end of the podcast for anyone crazy enough to listen to it. :)

The bottom line was that there are 3 things going on at the same time, Bernouilli, Newtonian action/reaction, and the Conada effect (I think, this is where he started talking about ring integrals and blowing everyone's minds). The problem is that even the experts can't say which of those is the principle reason for lift, and which ones are actually side effects from the "real reason." Fortunately the math doesn't care and works anyway, so they can still design and model airfoils very well.
Are "shortr.co" Domains better than "thelonger.com" Domains? 
Each time I watched This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis would create a big fuss about .co domains and how one could get nice .co domains cheaply. As I wanted one for myself, I ended up searching some possible domains.

I was really shocked at the number of 4 letter domains still available. I got really addicted, and kept on searching until I had gathered more than 150 awsome domain names... I think some hoarding instinct had taken over me :).

Then I asked myself... what shall I do with this list?? I had spent some time and intelligence on this. I did not want to empty the cart and just forget it. These were domains like:

* opamp.co
* scanr.co
* printr.co
* buyr.co
* editr.co

So I dumped this list on http://www.getr.co

The .co domains are supposed to be a substitute for .com. It is really tempting to get these instead of .coms. But is it really advisable?
Have any of u had negative experiences with .co domains by loosing too much traffic to the corresponding .com domain due to customer ignorance? Are there cases of Trademark violations and so on by the corresponding .coms?
platform.twitter.com runs on akamai. Maybe there is a problem with the russian akamai mirror(s)? I don't know if facebook and stumbleupon use akamai, too.
A reputation among the local hookers and drug dealers.
This is not just a software/technology thing either.

My uncle is in a firm of "gruff old" electricians; they have made their fortune going in towards the end of projects when they are running overdue and completing them in time (i.e. massive construction projects).

But then, conversely, I know some youngsters who do similar things in other industries. So I don't think age is even a factor, some people are just finishers.
I hope you have cash, otherwise get in line. Ten million people with industry changing ideas that need a 'partner.'
RIM's BlackBerry: Failure to Communicate
Not only is there a global terrorist network, they are so elite that they broke into CIA head quarters, rifled all their files until they found one market "Top Secret" that was a list of mujahadeen fighters in afghanistan in the 1980s that were on the CIA payroll, and decided that this was really cool. So they looked on the file and saw that the code name for this list of fighters was called "Al Queda" and so they decided to name their own organization using this top secrete CIA code word for mujahadeen fighters! Aren't they so elite, to have done all that?

Their very name is proof of their eliteness! (or the gullibility of americans.)
As well there are a good deal of precidence of Apple doing this:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Konfabulator_Inventor...

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/08/apples-research-rip-of...

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apple-tablet-ebook/

http://gizmodo.com/5046463/apple-admits-british-man-invented...
That ought to be "Chinese Govt. Blacks Out News of Dissident Liu Winning The Nobel Peace Prize". As originally written, it was kind of like saying "News of Dissident Bob..."

The Chinese put their family name first, and the given name second. Sometimes it's ambiguous because you don't know if the media report is westernizing the presentation. But in this case it's clearly wrong, because the two-syllable "Xiaobo" must be a given name because it's got two syllables.
Andre Geim: in praise of graphene
I'm just stating my opinion. I disagree with your original premise that all these people making Facebook games would (or even could) be solving the world's problems in completely unrelated sectors if market forces were aligned differently. This is the long standing hubris of the programmer, and you see it all the time on blogs and online forums, dating way back to the USENET era. If only I didn't have to do my boring job, I'd be a brain surgeon and a rock star, invent organic gasoline, do angelina jolie and natalie portman at the same time, and maybe even reconcile quantum physics with newtonian mechanics as a side hobby.

This mindset has recently expanded into the popular consciousness, with opinion pieces by every jowly conservatively liberal political columnist, and even stated by the president of the united states, who publicly lamented the fact that all these engineers are engineering themselves more money in the stock market instead of engineering up some new fuel sources. (The messed up part about that, is all those talking heads have degrees in journalism and law. Fuck you and get back to me after you pass freshman physics...) I just don't believe the notion that any somewhat smart person can be successful at anything to be true. People tend to self-select into careers they think they'll be sort of good at. I've worked in both science and e-commerce, and most of the e-commerce people would be bad at science, and most of the scientists would be bad at e-commerce. I just happened to be able to work in both fields because they both need big databases. I honestly don't believe we've lost any great scientists or nobel peace prize winners to Zygna.

The notion that skills are fungible at such a high level is like saying that if only Americans cared about soccer, the members of the Yankees would be winning the world cup instead of wasting their time playing baseball. It's ridiculous.

I don't really get your example, though. A decade ago, the people who are coding social networks today were 12. I don't think they had a lot of financial angst driving them away from their 6th grade research careers.
Link to the list of 151+ domains http://www.getr.co
Or just put them after </body> but before </html>
"A message from Babbage's Life..." is too long. A title can trade ambiguity for elegance if the essay is clear.
It's ideal for Nethack. Infinite thinking time is enforced by the platform.
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When Dalai Lama received the prize in 1989, the relationship between Norway and China became ice cold for a few years. Then everything went back to normal. Presumably, that will be the turn of events this time as well.
I believe so yes - all the other details are just about stability and performance.
You haven't yet patented graphene. Why is that?

We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.

I considered this arrogant comment, and I realized how useful it was. There was no point in patenting graphene at that stage. You need to be specific: you need to have a specific application and an industrial partner. Unfortunately, in many countries, including this one, people think that applying for a patent is an achievement. In my case it would have been a waste of taxpayers' money.

Crazy
This sounds like it was written in, umm... 2008.
Student pilot here, this man speaks the truth.
One only has to ready Gladwell to realize that becoming a master of any craft takes time, patience, experience, and lots of practice (10,000+ hours) - none of which is likely at an early age.

My mentor was 20 years my senior. His ability to read into other people's code, see potential problems, bottlenecks, and keep our code optimized has been invaluable.
What dimension of transparency you are talking about?

It sounds as if you are speaking about internal transparency between the founders and staff, as well as asking about the relationship between the startup and VC/investors. These are two very different things - Investors are going to have a pretty rigid set of expectations that will probably vary from firm to firm - there are probably also certain legal requirements that need to be fulfilled depending on how the startup is structured legally. I can't speak to that specifically because I'm not on the biz side.

Internally, my personal opinion is that a (traditional)startup is built with blood sweat and tears. You can't afford to have a hierarchy of haves and have-nots when it comes to buy in. Everybody needs to have a voice, and everyone needs to be enabled to invest emotionally in the process. You can't buy the kind of passion that comes from being personally invested in a company or project. Lack of transparency internally creates an economy of knowledge power, and puts up walls that don't need to be there. Of course, there are times when some specifics can't be common-knowledge, but I do believe that there should be a culture of openness at a basic level.
Agreed: Added a '?'...
Exclusivity.
Here's an example regarding this that affects me in javascript -

var t = this;

and then every time I refer to 't', I save 3 bytes. It's something js compressors can't do, and every byte counts in the end :)
Works same in the head. All scripts if not set to asynchronous will prevent further rendering of the page until the script has finished loading and running.
Author should probably have considered whether potential terrorists are as likely to use election time for attacks (Spain, Iraq, Afghanistan) as politicians are to use election time for alerts.
LABjs is a useful JavaScript library that lets you load JavaScript on-demand and specify dependencies: http://labjs.com/
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I actually think it's great that the term has caught on. If people were to talk about "next update to the W3C standard" or about the features individually, it wouldn't be getting nearly as much press as it does. And with the increased press comes increased pressure on the browsers (I'm looking at you, IE!) to actually support the new standards.
That was just during the job interview. And they say Google is a tough interview.