skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people (including me) do not feel any "tension". So why is it important to avoid it? Only the typography-nerds will be affected.
They've had this feature for years, IIRC.
http://jqfundamentals.com/book/book.html
I'm a member of the mobile Firefox team, and happy to answer any questions about it!
It seems obvious to me, but I will point it out anyway.

The Google homepage contains all sorts of 'non-conformant' code, so as it supports legacy browsers which don't implement css properly, or require some sort of quirk for them to work correctly.
What matters to your customers?
Ask HN: do you care about the dev teams behind api's?
API providers have developers that build them, improve them, create the documentation, tutorials, and handle support. Do you care about their blogs? Their interests? Getting to know them? Is that important or do you just want the docs and support?
Ed Felten named FTC's Chief Technologist
1) Almost all 7 billion humans on earth don't have a problem with not going outside. Just the Hacker News crowd.

2) I'm not assuming anything. Alaskans can snowmobile or dogsled.

Stop making excuses and go outside. You will thank me for it.
So why can't the FDA just not grant those special copying-based expedited approvals for the first X years after approving whatever's being copied, rather than the copying being evidence that we need to keep a patent system?
Stupid lawmaking aside, I was really proud the day after the London bombings to see so many people commuting to work regardless. There were a fair few white faces and it was deathly silent but the place was still packed. You can blow up our trains and murder our citizens but life goes on.
WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain
Yea I found huge variation in results depending on location+language combination. Would love to see a visualization of that.
Well... No. Scribe is not general purpose.
Great for developers who can understand and write code. Not so great for marketing and ideas people who generally suck.
Ask HN: Best way to create a product survey?
I would like to create a survey which outlines a potential product and collects feedback and demand potential.

What is the best way to create a survey and drive traffic to it to collect potential product feedback? I'm willing to pay per submission so long as the submission quality is reasonably high.
I got excited when I searched for "Edmonton", and saw a result for Clojure, but it turned out to be myself.
Cooking for Geeks
Ok, time to subscribe to your twitter account then.

This post I found really quite interesting. I'm taking part in the HN November Launch month to launch a side project and start actual development on Sunday. I found your post to be great timing for me, in fact I've been doing the infrastructure build in the past couple of hours and was writing up the functional and technical specs on the train, so excellent timing!
I still can not fathom the thinking that leads to this:

"This was Netflix's first venture outside of the United States, and because the company wasn't offering its traditional DVD-by-mail plan to Canadians, its prospects seemed questionable. How many people would pay $7.99 per month (Canadian) for the chance to watch Superbad whenever they wanted?

A lot, it turns out."

PROSPECTS SEEMED QUESTIONABLE?! Really, because people wouldn't be able to wait at their mailboxes for a whole day waiting for a tiny sip of media and instead can instantly watch a huge library... how does this make sense? It would be like if Google had 2 options, snail-mail you the results printed on a piece of paper or normal website google, and everyone was fretting that they couldn't get the snail-mail option.
It's all about user experience. If a feature loads for you in 300ms, then it will feel unbearably slow if it later take 700ms. If the feature always loaded at 700ms, your expectation of 700ms would never be disappointed. The theory is that a consistent 700ms is more appealing than an inconsistent 300-700ms, even though the median is better in terms of raw performance.
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For individual stocks yeah but not for the whole portfolio - see the 'product ideas' vote category here: http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=23f4c4&t=257f3b. You've increased the amount of doubt I have for my recent memory, however.
Is your project a fucking death march?
I don't know what it's like in other big cities (SF or New York), but the traffic in Seattle sucks. Driving anytime between 8-10AM and 5-7PM is a surefire way to get annoyed at stop-and-go freeway traffic.

I avoid I-405/I-90 just so my commute's transit time can have lower variance.

I'm from central Canada, and traffic in Regina and Winnipeg is a breath of fresh air compared to how it is around here (a 30 minute drive is considered exceptionally long). I'm tempted to move back to a smaller city just because of how much time I waste driving around.
Can you explain more what you mean by deprogramming folks?
Firefox & a severely hacked ezbl. The latter because it's in my editor, and I can control it from there, the former because of FireBug.
If it's easy to be great, then it should be easy to be great again (and again, and again..)
Someone should do an updated post showing Lisp porn from this decade.
Pay us in Karma points!
Thanks - something for me to fix possibly. Serving as application/xml atm. I know that lib, will look into it.
Thats great to hear - I really hate the politicians for what they have done to the UK.
It would cause necessary pressure.
Clear Rover Puck review: impressively fast WiMAX, $5 at a time
And the Washington Post picks this story up -
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/cooks...
I agree with you totally here...if only I lived in a state where it was legal. :)
I don't think Google openly discusses it. At least, certainly if there was such discussion I wasn't privvy to it. I only felt free to post these thoughts post Google.
In articles like this we always hear how expensive and slow our broadband is.

Are there any good sources comparing the real cost of broadband internationally?

When I was a kid in Germany you had to pay a fee to have a phone and local calls were not free. You also had to pay a fee to have a TV or radio and there were no private stations. Although both the phone and broadcast industry have completely changed I'd like to know what the real total cost is once you add up fees and taxes for countries with larger government involvement in daily life than the US.

Of course our local monopolies act similar to the government run in other countries and sometimes do a poorer job of it.
Emptiness is one of the core philosophies of MUJI design
Isn't the general term "flash crowd"?
That's what 6502 emulators are for! Do you still have the source?
How would I recognize it if I had it?
I searched for {ruby, javascript, objc, python} in Seattle and I fully agree with the #1 result in all cases, except Python. :-)

That said, I only agree because I know these developers through local meet-ups...
Build your own "Mini Wayback Machine"
I've moved almost exclusively to Nginx, once you get your head round how to do the "Apache-isms" (great potential neologism that :D) in Nginx configurations it becomes second nature.

Cherokee is a possible alternative too; that has some default configs for Wordpress etc. that work well. But for anything custom I found it a nightmare to get "just so".

Nginx is a neat alternative to Varnish as well; for example I'm having great success sitting it in front of a Cherokee site (serving the http) to provide SSL :)
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Not to defend the patent system too much, my experience with it mostly involves a second parties trying to patent ideas that others came up with, but there seems to be a bit of a selection effect problem here. Of all the people who consider copying something patented, some fraction of them are stopped by the presence of the patent. Of all the people who independently invent something you would expect only a very small percentage to be stopped by a patent. Also, someone who knowingly copies someone else's work knows to hide the fact.

So unless we know what percentage of people were stopped from copying someone else's work without the need for a lawsuit, this study alone doesn't tell us very much about the social costs and benefits of patents by itself. I tend to believe that our patent system is too strong and I might very well mention it in discussions with proper caveats, but we need more research.
I see it on the EvilGrade page; I'm asking here for independent confirmation.
What percentage of github users don't list their location? I hadn't, although I do now...
There's a rapidly growing list on their Facebook discussion page citing all kinds of ripped-off articles and their original sources.

One does NOT fuck with Oprah.
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Most productive? From about 9pm until about 6-7am. That is, if left entirely to my own devices. Having to work a day job during the week, I can't keep those hours... so I wind up getting most of my meaningful stuff done between about 8pm - 11pm or so.
I disagree, I have found !important to be the only reliable way to make a print stylesheet override dynamic styles (width, positioning, etc.) applied by a JS UI framework (e.g. ExtJS/Sencha).

If someone has a better solution for that please tell me!
Excellent choice of music for the video.

It stood out from the usual ones by being high energy and compelling. I also like how the clapping was kept in at the end.
Thanks! I'll keep you posted ;-)
My attempt at a more friendly description of S4 (based on my very limited understanding of it - please correct me if I'm wrong):

When processing large amounts of streaming data, you have to process the data as fast as it comes in or else you can't keep up. You probably wonder: "Why not simply delay the processing of new data while the old data is being processed?". The problem lies in the fact we're dealing with a stream which always brings in new data. Eventually, the virtual line up of delayed data will occupy all available memory.

A solution to this is to dispatch the data between multiple computers which can each independently process the data they receive and then send back the result of their processing to a central computer whose job is to put back the results together. Can't keep up with the stream? Simply add a new computer! That's more or less what S3 does.
I'm not adding this curmudgeonly comment to dissuade the OP from writing a blog he enjoys or sharing his experiment, but because I fear that others might look at this and get swept up in blogoxuberance.

Some important questions to ask: how much time did you spend reading & identifying places to comment, and then writing the comments? Doing some calculation, how much time did it take you to earn each visit on average? What % converted to subscribers? And what % of subscribers (and visitors in general, I suppose) clicked on the ads that seem to support this blog, since you don't appear to sell anything?

Or more succinctly: how much total time did you have to spend to earn however much money you've made from this effort? What was the opportunity cost of this action? My gut is: exceptionally high.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/1/199.full
Deciding to make someone a co-founder is a huge decision. You are starting a business with this person, and I suggest you really get to know someone before starting a business with them. Its easy to start a business, but its very difficult to see one through to success. The path is not easy, and although you can use something like the Github search to find candidates, I suggest you spend time working with someone before you go and start a business with them.
Impressed with beautiful minimalistic design!

I think this service could be very useful for me when transparent synchronization with mobile be ready. Evernote have not created correct two way mobile synchronization yet.
Not sure I can agree with PHP...
OT, but I can't help myself. It's a priority of the GOP to bring health care repeal to a vote. That way they all get their Obamacare creds without having to actually fix anything.

If they want to actually repeal health care, they are going to have to wait until they have a Republican president, or a veto-proof majority, which won't happen until 2012 at the earliest. There may not be repeal momentum left at that point.

Slightly more on-topic, having things like this on your medical record is a concern, but I think keeping one's good health should always be more important than insurance details that may or may not make any difference.
Four testimonial quotes, a short fluffy video, and a sign up box? That's your launch website? You're kidding, right?

Is it online only? Is it free? Forever or for a trial? ...
No, I think what sabat is saying is that the front page documentation is geared towards the wrong audience and needs to have less general information on usage.

I think if the following actually had examples of use, I'd try it out:

http://wiki.s4.io/Cookbook/Cookbook

Currently it only has:

UsingEclipse

1. Check out sources from git
2. Create Eclipse configurations: mvn eclipse:eclipse
3. Import project into Eclipse
4. set variable M2_REPO to the local Maven repository: e.g. ~/.m2/repository
5. Set up formatting:
* Spaces for indentation
* Tab width = 4

I completely understand that this isn't there yet, though. It is a new project.
great hype but still not yet clear what is this good for. Does anybody know about any other use case except the twitter topic count example?
Hmmmm

You have a new account, and I think you are either trying to stir up some trouble or trying to hide who you really are. If this were a reasonable thing to bring up (in the manner you chose), then you wouldn't have to hide who you are.

However, you used the second person and directly addressed the reader twice (vs addressing the community) and it appears that you are trying to get people to "hop on the wagon" and protest the lack of fees after 'deciding' upon a fair approach.

If my post comes across as accosting, it is because you could have easily have said:

.

"Hacker News, is it fair that Hacker Monthly doesn't compensate its writers like other magazines? Should it?"
Lets be clear. S4 is not real-time MapReduce, its a stream processing system.[1]

[1] http://twitter.com/s4project/status/29611855285
There is some social psychology and operations research around this -- not necessarily as it relates to human/machine interactions, but certainly as it relates to such quasi-analogous situations as call centers, lines, speed vs. variability of service at McDonald's, and so forth. The premise being practiced by Facebook takes a lot of cues from behavioral science data that is generalizable to many different domains.

McDonald's, to give a famous example, proved analytically a few years back that -- beyond a certain threshold of commonly expected service times -- their customers would rather get semi-slow service on a consistent basis than highly variable service. In a perfect world, of course, average wait times are as short as possible in addition to a minimization of variance. But when you're at the level of acceptability, there are diminishing returns on speed increases and increasing returns on reduced variance.
Good, except stream processing does not imply that there needs to be a master node - it can truly be distributed. I don't know if S4 is set up like this, though.
I think Andrey's protip is one example of a good general strategy: Talk to people, even if you don't know them (yet). Most people are happy to help and even if they themselves aren't who you're looking for, they might be able to introduce you to someone else who is a good fit.

As an example, I'm happy to help any founders I can (particularly those in NYC). Email in profile.
Can you relate to anything in these stories?

- http://www.granadahouse.org/people/letters_from_our_alum.htm...

- http://users.livejournal.com/kimya_dawson_/2007/12/27/

- http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and...
I bought this up in comments two issues ago when one of the authors mentioned that they didn't know there was no free PDF issue any longer.

As I said at the time, you should pay contributors at least a token fee to remove any ambiguity about copyright ownership. There is just far too much that can go wrong with the current system, and you are exposing yourself to liability. Saying 'we do pay the writers for their copyright by giving them a free copy of their own content' is not an answer.

I remember when I used to write a monthly column in a computing magazine I would take a monthly salary of $1 simply to remove any ambiguity about ownership. It was company policy not to accept or publish any content that was free (because it never ended up being free).

You are only one pissed off author away from losing everything, or causing a fuss (they could decide to change their mind for the heck of it, a year later).

It would be very different if you were giving a free PDF edition away and charging for a print edition - that is how most open source works (ie. download for free, pay for a CD)
I wonder if this is related to the number of 40 year olds convinced that being useless at 80 is unavoidable.
Most of the code the company I work for produces is open source, which naturally has comments, along with our public git repository, with all the developers' names and whatnot.

Though, for a company that does not do open source, the answer in most cases is probably a big no.
I learned a bit of Smalltalk in the mid-80's. It took me eight years to decide to learn C++ after that. It never felt very object oriented (or oriented).
Star Wars. Tie Fighters. Gun Turrets. Oh, yeah, and augmented reality
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If it's only available in the U.S. , then why am i still able to choose my country?

edit: Terms and conditions: "Offer extended only to authorized holder of the email address this message was sent to and may not be sold or transferred"
Now I really want a Tilera workstation.
Why not? There are hefty penalties for abuse of process. If the copyrights of a /b/ denizen are indeed being infringed, then they should have just as much recourse to defend them.
nothing really is a drop in solution for traffic spikes, however, there are a plethora of articles about how to make Varnish play nicely with moveable type:

http://www.coldhardcode.com/2009/04/varnish-and-movabletype-...

The same is true for wordpress:

http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VarnishAndWordpress
hahahahahaha

I can imagine that exercising with a hangover would suck, but I don't know how it's dangerous....
Why is this bad? It's a launch website.

And it worked because I signed up.
Or it could be complaints about streetlights that aren't being switched off during the day.
I'm not so interested in getting to know them, or what their interests are (unless they're related; I'd be interested to know what a email API creator's database interests are). But not interested to find out that the guy behind XYZ's API really likes to skateboard in his spare time.

What I would love to know, beyond what you discuss above, is the design philosophy and crucial decisions that were made in writing the API. Not just how to make the calls, but how the authors thought about the system as they were designing it. When I learn a new language/API, I don't consider myself adept at it until I can get inside the head of the authors.
Why not label it as an outliner? It would help more technically-oriented people to quickly understand what it is.

Also, Dave Winer would be all over it. :)
You need to watch the video on their homepage at the 38 second mark. Brilliant.
One option is if you wrap the ExtJS content in a div with an id of "xyz", then find the rule you want to override e.g. in Firebug, you can make a rule in your custom stylesheet that has the same selector as the ExtJS one but prepended with "#xyz ", and your rule will always be more selective and therefore take precedence over the ExtJs rule.
" I don't have an exact breakdown of what just happened, because my logfile analyser is still churning, from 2am last night.That's because the Apache logfile today is over 500Mb it's normally about 150Kb.
"
The post is timed at 11:31.

I think another lesson learned is that the log analyzer needs to be analyzed.
No, I mean like "Instead of pizzas, let's send this guy over 9000 DMCA takedown requests."
You're correct. In Canada, Rogers appears to have lowered its bandwidth caps in anticipation of Netflix's entry into the Canadian Market: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Rogers-Lowers-Caps-Even-F...
I for one couldn't agree more that yelp has gotten a little bit out of control. So much so, that my personal project has been to make an alternative (but solely focused on restaurants.) My version is also more social and list based. I'd love to have you test out the prototype and let me know what you think so far... it's at eaterguide.com
Mainly because of the amount of time I would have had to devote to it, and the amount of things I would have had to learn. It was an idea of "That would be cool to have." It wasn't a project I would be passionate about. I go to amusement parks about once every other year.

I'd have to have been in the park a lot to map out points where you could walk, write the algorithms for navigating the park from any random point of interest to any other random point of interest in a reasonably efficient way while following the boundaries of the pathways. I'd have to have kept the app updated when anything changed at the park, including things like "For two weeks, this one path is blocked off because construction is happening" which happens fairly regularly at Knott's Berry Farm.

Although those are all challenges I could have overcome given the time and resources, it wasn't something I would be very passionate about and it would die out as a result.

I've had a lot of reasonably good ideas, and some of them have worked out rather well in the past. Most of them I don't pursue more than as an idle thought. Those I choose to work on I do as a result of how much fun they will be, how passionately I feel about what I'm building, and how challenging I think it will be. A few weeks ago How I Met Your Mother inspired the idea for http://www.notanewyorker.com/ and that was something I said, "I'll build it tonight, I have nothing better to do." It's a cute little website, and the biggest motivating factor was I thought it would be funny, and using Python on Google AppEngine would be interesting because I've not used it to build anything like that. I found I hate Google AppEngine now though.
On one memory-constrained server, I have nginx reverse proxying to Apache, so the Apache-isms are not an immediate problem. I have nginx bypassing Apache for some static files. Having a ton of slow connections was a problem for Apache, but not for nginx.
Here are some examples: https://github.com/s4/examples

Sure enough, there is a Twitter example.
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Xt rapid XML templating language
Netflix's streaming library isn't very good and it was questionable whether people would pay $8/month for it. So far people in the US have been getting streaming "free" in addition to regular Netflix.
Ask HN: Hacker News for finance?
What's a good forum for news and importantly, discussion about the markets/finance/world-economy? By good, I mean that which is to finance, what Hacker News is to technology.

Does anyone know of such forums?
One word: AVOID
I find it's the perfect combination. Watch the 45s video, and you know everything about the product. All that's left to do is enter an email address + password and you can start using the app.

Great site.