skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already half garbage anyways. Recipes and fashion tips? Just what I always wanted!

Would be cool if things could be categorized somehow so I could only see the top stories being shared for things I actually care about. I realize this isn't really possible but one can dream.
It's pretty poor: You can't even inspect the global scope without being stopped on a breakpoint.
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/

I highly doubt this will be prevalent technology 'in about a year'
How often does one need/want requests to take longer than 30s? If it takes me more than ~5s to load a site, I typically go elsewhere.
I dunno, there's a big difference between "running your mouth off on the internet", and "running your mouth off on the internet, often being right and at least having solid supporting arguments when controversial".

I don't mind people being opinionated, or even wrong - if they also demonstrate they've thought about the subject at hand. Extra credit when people are controversial and entertaining at the same time.

Congrats on the sale Ted, I hope it works out well and was what you wanted - and keep on entertaining (at least some of us) with your public persona/writing.
$10 seems a bit much.
I'm amazed that a post about such a potentially dry subject - UI/typeface on maps - is the most fascinating thing I've read today. Extraordinary well done by the author.
So Alice is somehow supposed to know the set of documents that will be leaked ahead of time, generate the fakes, then somehow get them to Wikileaks so they will be leaked at the same time as the originals?

Am I missing something here? Wikileaks has the element of surprise and time. There's no way to put out documents after the fact and say "oh nononono, these are the real documents" without being obvious.
Google has better thought out color contrast too. The other ones are either too monochromatic, or the map details overwhelm the labels (think 90's web page color contrast)
You're using "sales", "commission", and "revenue" imprecisely/incorrectly.

The money they collect from customers is "revenue".

A portion of those revenues are paid to the local merchant. That is the "Cost of Goods Sold".

The revenue minus the COGS is the "Gross Profit".

So, in your example, then they would indeed have $500M in revenue, and $250M in gross profits.
JavaScript is definitely not "a rather boring language." I actually prefer it to quite a few others.
I just use a notebook to keep track of stuff. Evernote is one of the options you can check out.
“The Social Network” Snaps Up a Trio of Prestigious Awards, Is an Oscar Next?
Too many colors, too close together in hue, and the hue adjusts not by how the languages are related, but by alpha sorting of the language names.

Terrible info graphic! I'm sure I could do much better in 10 minutes, and I'm a rank amateur. Someone has not read Tufte.
It's not one issue. It says "from 2009 to 2010", and while it's not clear whether that represents one or two years, it's still quite a savings over buying back issues on paper, or even a subscription.
I'm not sure the voters can make a better choice.

In our winner-take-all electoral system, the voters are only given two viable choices, neither of which represents their own views. So our leaders are basically determined by who spends the most money in DC, with two options so life is simple for lobbyists and each party has competition. The system, quite accidentally, is designed for those who milk government, not those who pay the bills.

This system can be replaced, but given our Constitution, change is unlikely to happen to begin in DC. I think some sort of competing decision making system that is more trusted and uses proportional representation will have to be implemented that can then press for change.

Such a system would have no legal authority, but if highly trusted and transparent, it could have the moral authority to demand changes to the real electoral system. Especially if most people see the system consistently produce better decisions than Congress. That part's easy.

The trick is getting people to use such a system. Perhaps starting on the local or state level.

Any ideas?
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Based on the idea of justbuythisone.com > I did a North American version http://b.estprice.com as a proof of concept.

Sample page: http://b.estprice.com/laptop/under-1000
If I remember correctly they had a cap of 30 seconds even for processing requests. Has this cap also been removed or it is only the cap on the task api that has been removed?
Nevermind, you can write, just not save.
I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...
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If you just get cash in moderately sized portions, its really not that bad. A $2 charge for a $200 withdrawl is chump change.
There's a difference between creating and putting out fires, though. I enjoy creating, but I can also set it aside long enough to spend some time with someone. I DON'T enjoy putting out fires, but it is usually a necessary evil towards a more significant goal.

It's amazing to have a SO who understands and accommodates that, but the two shouldn't be confused - it's the difference between having to fix an emergency, and enjoying coding more than sharing a meal with your SO.
Do you know if your input method produces unicode? That could be the difference.
Amazon Cites Terms of Use in Expulsion of WikiLeaks
That's a bit unfair. I actually program in Python, it's not a language war I'm fighting here. My point was to point out a language that would be a marketable skill which 3 years ago Rails was really kicking into high gear. This was not a matter of a "killer language". JavaScript has its quirks just like all of them. A tool is a tool is a tool is a tool.

You can be as pragmatic and all-language-embracing as you like, but you eventually have to come to a conclusion, damn it. It's my conclusion that JavaScript is a necessary tool in the tool belt of web developer.

That being said the irony of you using your little corner of the world to insult my little corner of the world was a bit disheartening. I assure you that the general populace of my corner are now sad and are taking down the "Welcome your little corner" banners and polka-dot party hats we were preparing for your arrival.
The protein myth (that vegetarians don't get enough protein) was introduced in 1971. In 1991 the author of the book that created the myth retracted her statement but the idea will not die: http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-complementar...
I don't see why the parent is being downvoted. It's reasonable to ask if the comment about US Gov't placing copyright claims on their documents is a joke. Unlike, say, Crown copyrights, the US Gov't's documents are generally not entitled to domestic copyright protection.
I love your front page.

Have you gotten much response from businesses that want to use your service? How are you advertising?
Some Internet-Use Tracking Firms Ready to Reveal What They Know
i speak of freedom, not legality. If the gulag awaits you if you're caught, that's a completely different story than it would be if you hack in a society governed by rule of law. But don't take my word for it. Ask the North Korean hackers.
Dan deletes his Twitter account
Google meet apple ala 2005. :) It was really cool the firs time I used the open dialog to insert a photo from iphoto. The real question is if they will let us write modules so we can get stuff from github, pbwiki, etc.
It does support images. Paste an image url into a new note, then hit return.
For example: http://corkboard.me/mTJPwxMRha
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The old ones often have this almost exaggerated humility

Yes, but there were a lot fewer of them. Back when you
could fit, e.g., the world physics community in a single auditorium, things were different.

And modern bio research is insane. It's insanely expensive, and it's insanely competitive. Even the most talented postdocs need luck and politics to escape permanent postdochood. So I don't blame the woman for coming out swinging. She's probably bright enough to realize that she's crazy lucky to have found something this interesting, even if the interestingness is exaggerated, and she should pitch this for all it's worth.
The article is not talking about "bugs that can wait til Monday" or all night coding sessions. It's talking about emergencies that affect your customers that must be dealt with immediately.

You've been with at least 5 startups in 9 years. That suggests to me that none of them were terribly successful, in which case I suppose just about any problem could wait til Monday.

My startup has almost 20,000 paying customers and if something goes wrong, you bet your ass I'm on it immediately, whether it's 3am and I had more than few drinks earlier that evening, or I'm in Hawaii on my birthday and 7 servers lose power and I have to spend the next 5 hours dealing with that mess. Did I mention it was my birthday and I was in Hawaii?

These scenarios are rare, but they do happen. I would never actually take my laptop to a restaurant, but if something bad happens it needs to be dealt with pronto. In the example from the story, I would have either delayed going out, or if it happened when I was already out, then I would leave as soon as possible. In general I don't put work before family or fun but every once in a while you have to if you want to run a successful business.
A coworker of mine is adamant that the only safe way to buy 2600 is with cash.
I have used Paypal, but one foreign vendor was also able to take a US bank check. I was a bit surprised as I did not know this was possible. I'm sure it varies by country, but if it's possible in your country, larger companies, in particular, may prefer to pay by bank check.
Ask HN: nodejs, express and jade - worth it?
Hi all,

A few weekends ago I wrote a simple web traffic analyzer. Very simple website. I told a few people about it, and also told them about the sites that I was basically mimicking (for my own personal education). I didn't make any updates to the site after that single weekend of working on it. Well, I found out today that 2 of those people actually enjoy using it. One of them made a few feature requests today.

Now, this site is very minimal. It's not pleasing at all to look at. It doesn't even use any custom CSS - only Yahoo's base CSS file. So, I'm thinking about making it better. As I mentioned, I wrote this site several weekends ago and since then I've been playing around with nodejs, expressjs (web framework) and am about to try out the jade template engine. Jade itself is entirely new to me, and at first glance I laughed at the thought of using it. It has been sitting in the back of my mind though since I laughed at it, making me wonder if I could force myself to perhaps try it to see what it's all about.

Anyways, I'm thinking about re-writing this site using nodejs, express and jade. It perhaps won't be better, because I'm a nodejs beginner, but it may be a good learning experience.

Does anyone out there actually use nodejs to power their entire website? Is it even recommended for that? It seems very low level and I am not sure how productive I'll ever be with it. This Jade template engine is pretty much a foreign language to me. I've mostly always used engines similar to Jinja2, where it's still entirely HTML.

I just wanted to see some thoughts on nodejs as the choice backend engine for a complete website!
Every Playboy Issue, With No Staples in the Way
Amazon.com Explains Why It Dropped WikiLeaks
NASA Announcement: We May be Overlooking Life?
I think they mean in relation to the exit.
DHH on why ruby, monkey patching, freedom, etc
I'm not a pro or anything but this is probably of interest to you:

http://howtonode.org/ is built with node and https://github.com/creationix/wheat is the blogging engine it was built on

Hope it helps.
Thanks for posting this comment; though I agree with the poster you're replying to, you provide a good counterargument that gave me some insight.

I greatly enjoy creating and producing, so count me in your camp on that issue. And yet I can't see the appeal of diving so deep into the creative process that you lose touch with other important things in life. As time goes by I increasingly view the opportunity cost as too much to bear. Your friends and family grow and change over time; they may move or die or drift away. If you don't spend quality time with them now, it may be prohibitive or impossible to make it up later. The places you've always dreamed of visiting may be very different when you come up for air (consider how New Orleans has changed). The bands you always wanted to see live may have broken up; the bands you wanted to play in may never have formed. You won't have participated in that historic march or rally, you won't have seen that rare animal before it went extinct, you won't have climbed that mountain and seen that glorious landscape before it was marred with suburbs and smokestacks. The world we live in is ephemeral, always changing, and you can never go back.

That doesn't mean you can't create and produce and have a great time doing it, but it does mean that it's worthwhile to carve out enough time to experience as much as possible of the beauty this world has to offer. When I'm lying on my deathbed, I want to look back and remember a life lived to the fullest, full of experience and laughter and love. I do not want to look back at a lifetime spent staring at a laptop screen, regardless of how much I created or how much money I made.

I think a person's stance on this subject is probably determined by the kinds of experiences that they value. If there are only a few types of experiences that really excite you, it probably makes sense to traverse life depth-first, and get as much out of those kinds of experiences as you can. That might mean that long hours and single-minded focus over long periods are the best way to achieve your goals in life. If you are excited by a wide variety of experiences in many different areas, a breadth-first traversal of life is probably more suitable.
Given the young age demographic of HN, I'm looking forward to hearing people's perspectives on the prospects facing people in their fifties who are trying to get back to work.

If you had two programmers competing for a job, equally qualified, but one who was 25 and the other 55, how would you choose?
The message goes beyond simply quoting ToS:

"Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy."

If that's not taking a position, I don't know what is.
I heard an anecdote about the last recession. It's just an anecdote, but should be interesting. It's about an "unemployment counselor" - she had 18 unemployed executives who would come to weekly meetings and complain about how tough it is to get jobs.

Deciding that it was unproductive, she suggested that everyone make at least 5 calls on jobs during the next week, and the main focus of next week's meeting is talking about how well it went.

Only 2 out of 18 showed up. 16 of them didn't make the calls at all.

I'm not finding the statistic right now, but I also remember hearing that the average number of job applications per week for long term unemployed people is 2.

This doesn't invalidate the article, but it's an important consideration. If you're not looking very hard and flexibly for work that might be suitable to you, does that really indicate that there's no opportunity available?
Kosmix Annotation API
When I was in middle school (5 years ago), algebra was standard 8th grade math. Honor students got 2 years of algebra from 7th to 8th grade.

At least, my year was given two years of algebra.
Eye of the storm: The jaw-dropping image of an enormous 'supercell' cloud
The only reason i knew there was more than meets the eye was the title was "gorgeous html5 site". without knowing that i probably would've bounced.
> If you had two programmers competing for a job, equally qualified, but one who was 25 and the other 55, how would you choose?

What's equally qualified mean? I don't see how someone with less than 10 years of experience could possibly be equally qualified as someone with 30+ years of experience.

Either the veteran guy has a greater depth of skills and experience, or he's on a fast downward slope and not picking up new skills. If a 55 year old is bringing the same to the table as a 25 year old, the 25 year old is amazingly talented, or the 55 year old has abandoned learning new stuff.
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WxPython: Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerators) « The Mouse Vs. The Python
Ask HN: Cloud Browser by Google or Facebook. Not Social Browser.
This is one of those problems that happen when content adopts a standard before there's any widely available implementations (see: all the people who blindly added "use strict" to their JS because jslint told them to).

I've been tinkering with HTML5 forms recently for a project for a customer, and my experience has been that Firefox 4 betas are excellent, Firefox 3.x supports nothing (the next best thing), Opera does fairly well (it supports the old "WebForms 2" spec, but the spec changed when it got folded into HTML5), and WebKit is fairly broken (It claims to support validation, but I've never actually seen it complain about invalid fields).

Said customer is going to get a site that works pretty well in Firefox (natively, and with a polyfiller), IE (polyfiller) and Opera (native), but will be unavoidably clunky in Chrome and Safari. C'est la vie.
AppEngine's task queue uses http requests to do offline processing.

In fact the new limits only seem to apply to these types of requests — not user facing requests.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overv...
When I first started coding I had a huge fear of breaking something as I got more experience and got more comfortable that fear went away, its always a little there but nothing to stop me. Now I struggle with the "beauty" of my code. Will people think that my code is ugly. I will add "Code Fearlessly" to my arsenal of things to repeat when I am scared...the other one I like is "there’s almost no code worse than no code." by Nathaniel Talbott.
It's just you (based on my study with n=1). I.e. I think Google Maps look way better.
in 1998, we used to aim for 50-60% on all 3 (P,C,M) to get in top 500 out of total ~2500 seats - all india topper that year scored himself at 85% (they just tell you the rank you have to score yourself later).
YC (or any other commercial funding source) does not have a political incentive to keep funding failed or failing companies.
> Where in that article does it say that it's not an arsenic-based life form?

Life on Earth is carbon-based. There are no phosphorous-based lifeforms that we're aware of, so replacing phosphorous with arsenic doesn't make a carbon-based bacterial species into an arsenic-based one.
It is impossible to tell which color is which in this graph.
For what it's worth, there's a decent amount of people who find GT boring because of its level of realism. Burnout and Mario Kart for me, please.
"In particularly dynamic industries, like software engineering, unemployed workers might also miss out on new developments and fail to develop the skills required."

Can't buy that argument for software engineering. If you're unemployed you've got plenty of time to learn new technologies whilst looking for work.
Don't assume this article lets you off the hook, because you'll be single pretty soon.
I'm using MailChimp's API for my app, though I'm anxiously waiting for Aweber's API (it's read-only right now) -- they allow you to segment lists in a much more sophisticated way.
[0] He heard about this in 2005 (when the government was run by a different administration) but couldn't find anything. Eventually he filed a FOIA request. Silence, until spring of last year, when he was told there was some some information but it was redacted. So he filed an appeal, and it was granted. I suspect the lack of DoJ comment is because they're still trying to find out whether it was a fully formed program or just junior official's bid for career visibility - I suspect the latter, given the extremely basic level of information on these slides and lack of other documentation.

It's unclear whether the question left with the DoJ was about this 'hotwatch' project or about administrative subpoenas in general. An AS is a request for infor information issued by a government agency under statutory authority (ie Congress passed a law specifically saying an agency may issue one in an investigation and it must be complied with). About 300 government agencies are empowered to issue them altogether, although usually within a narrowly defined scope. The obvious constitutional problems with administrative subpoenas have been known for some time [1]. Misuse of such procedures has resulted in disciplinary proceedings at the FBI, among other agencies [2].

The basic thing to remember is that legally speaking warrants are not required for this kind of information gathering because it does not constitute a search [3] - as a legal term, this may not always mean what you think it means. for example, your phone conversations are generally private and require a warrant to listen to, but the numbers you call are not, and subpoena-ing that information from your phone service provider is not a search - at least, so said the Supreme Court in 1979 and neither it nor Congress have seen fit to decide otherwise since then [4]. This manner of gathering information is not actually new at all, as subpoena powers go back a lot farther than 1979 - that's just the last time their legality was debated in this context.

Some people think the options available to law enforcement should be much stronger, of course [5]. But in the meantime, relax - the sky is not in fact falling and things have not taken a sudden drastic turn for the worse.

0. http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/12/dojs-hotwatch-real-time-...
1. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RS22407.pdf
2. http://www.justice.gov/oig/testimony/t1004.pdf
3. http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/05/administrative-subpoe...
4. http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2007/09/fourth-amendment-priv...
5. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:0Eiic5n5QFcJ:w... < sorry, original is 404ed
If you want to be pedantic and get into a debate nothing is really ruby as the language lacks a spec the best definition of Ruby we have is acts kinda like MRI 1.8.

Also, most browsers don't run really run Javascript, they run ECMAscript or JScript. It's really jQuery converted to bytecode/assembly/C on SpiderMonkey/JagerMonkey/V8/Nitro. Sure you can create a high performance web server, but that's not really what V8 was meant for.

/pedantry
Ask HN: Best server-side Javascript framework
I'm building a simple SaaS app and have been using Django+MongoDB for the server side bits, but my app is a very heavy JS RIA and I'd love to do the backend in JS, too. Wanted to see what HNers recommended for server-side JS. I'm a Rails guy, so am used to being spoon fed... Have a VPS with a number of PHP and Rails apps, so am comfy administering stuff.

* I'm wary of Node.js because it's so young, I'm a touch worried about it crashing and it requires a new set of JS-derived drivers/libs. But it has a huge range of frameworks that run on it and huge community.

* RingoJS seems like a very solid foundation and it gives access to a huge range of Java libs (of ever-varying quality). But I'm not in love with its programming model and it has a relatively small number of add-on frameworks and a small community.

Any other contenders I'm missing? Better to stick with Django?
The odds of your startup succeeding are better than the odds of you finding a girl as cool as this.
Earlier today, I was thinking to myself that it would be -- blackly -- humorous if the Amazon action ended up being the result of a DMCA takedown.