skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toshiba Lays Claim to ‘World’s Lightest’ Laptop
The lottery is a stupid tax, not a poor tax.
Anyone know if his slides are available online?
Any recommendations on 'disposable' credit cards?
MacYenta.com allows you to discover the indie developer next door
Juan on Programming: Done and Gets things smart
Sounds like a good YC business: a service that will take care of the hassle of canceling you from other services.
Less significant than it sounds (and certainly the title of the blog post is sort of linkbaity), but an encouraging sign nonetheless.
The inherent problem of scientific theories
Who said anything about "purely as a webserver"? There's iCal, iChat, wikis, Open Directory, etc.
What does this mean?
1) some of Yahoo's executives wished Microsoft had bought Yahoo
or
2) usual brain drain
or
3) unusual brain drain
I've been in the business since the late 90's my friend, and for a significant portion of that time on the side of front-end design and production. I didn't mean anything negative by calling out his inexperience with XHTML/CSS, but after reading through his rebuttal it was the only logical conclusion.

Unlike you, I clicked on your profile and read a vast majority of your comments. You should go back to lurking, and spew your negativity and snide remarks elsewhere...
Hulu only works in the US :/
Bingo. Don't forget the word 'detained'. Cops can either detain or arrest you. Normally, they will tell you when you are being detained.

Being detained means they may put you in cuffs for their own safety while they try to understand the situation. (Let's say you are involved in a domestic squabble.) You are temporarily under the state's custody but you aren't being charged with anything.

You know what being arrested means. You don't want that.
I watched Heroes last night on Hulu. It was more convenient than kicking off a torrent. That is huge.

I'd like it to be HD with no Ads - and I'd love to integrate Tipjoy to give money voluntarily to my favorite shows. I'd also love to be able to download the videos.
I personally this the ASK YC posts are what make HN a great resources for entrepeneurs. I'm not really interest in PG's belly button lint, but please keep the ASK YC posts coming!
Citibank provides a web service that dynamically generates a credit card number linked to your account, which is only valid for a month. This service comes free with their credit cards AFAIK.
The point of the article is to show how table-based layouts in some specific circumstances are more maintainable than pure-CSS layout. If you disagree with this, it would be interesting to hear your counterpoints.
i suppose it depends on how you define "quickly resolved". if by "quickly resolved" you mean resolved in a few hours, and that's acceptable to you, then that works. sometimes things being "quickly resolved" in a few hours are unacceptable.
I'm reminded of Greg Egan's "running on the dust" theory. The main idea is the same: if a simulation algorithm describes our universe, there's no need for a machine to run the simulation. We exist... in the abstract, in the same sense as numbers exist.
Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We're Doing
Does it seem like we are still in the dark ages of web design and layout? Lately, I've been excited that I can get away with using alpha transparent PNGs on my sites, even though we've had the technology for the last decade.

From the moment I began to learn HTML, I've been busting my head against this 4x4 beam standing here. The beam is bloody, but I'm still struggling with things that should be ultra-simple.

We have a variety of prior work we can use to investigate better layout strategies, namely from the print design/layout world and from the programming world, where we have layout managers a-plenty. It really is frustrating.
Pretty lame "argument", especially considering how much goes on in 13 years in the computing world.
Let's see: If Windows 95 was good enough for most people in 1995, then it's good enough for the rest of us in 2008.
Rishi Chandra on Google Apps
Well, the admins/editors would still know who you were, and could chastise you privately. Perhaps, further, only accounts with high amounts (>100?) of karma could post anonymously?
Well, and not a decade too soon!

And now that virtualization is the word of the day, I'm wondering if it matters now?

It may run faster, but is it simpler to just fire up a VM manager and bring up Windows?
One Dead Media: edge-notched cards
Skype 4.0 Beta: It’s All About Video
And Yenta sounds Jewish. What does the word mean?
They don't. A table row has exactly the same recursive structure as a definition list, and will be treated the same way by a screenreader. It's kinda sad how many people like to play the "accessibility card" without any actual understanding of how those technologies work.

What screenreaders do have trouble with, however, is static layouts where the "meaningful" content is buried six levels deep, and often at the end of the logical document, just to make room for a bunch of navigation aids and advertisements.

That, however, isn't a reason not to use tables where they help. Also, note that with just a tiny amount of javascript it's possible to come up with a document that displays in a nice table layout and has a nice logical structure for screenreaders. It just requires that you get beyond the pedantry of the table.
I have a iPhone question connected to this: if I'm running Loopt and switch to Safari to surf for a minute, because of iPhones no background apps rule -- do I lose my ability to stay on everyone's radar?
Blankets and Throws,bedding soft and home furninshings from Dunelm
I absolutely love Flex's layout system and it's not table based.
Disappointing that it only supports one-on-one video. You're still forced to find other tools if you need to videoconference with other members of your team, family, etc.
At first glance I figured the problems would be something similar to Project Euler (projecteuler.net) which I have spent some time with. After reading up it seems to be more in line with topcoder competitions (http://www.topcoder.com/tc). Nonetheless I am glad this was brought to my attention and I will be brushing up on my skills to try it!
http://www.macyenta.com/about
While I agree that there should be a way to disable the awesome bar, it's worth nothing that it does take some training and getting used to.

The awesome bar uses historical data from previous searches, so if your search for "news" always ends with you clicking on HN, it will put that at the top. Over time, the bar will learn your preferences and become much more useful.

I hated the bar at first, to the extent that I considered going back to FF2. For example, I used to always type "en." to find a wikipedia page, but that no longer worked well. Now I love being able to type in parts of pages, and I no longer use bookmarks since I can just search my entire history. The only thing missing is the ability to sync the history and awesome bar training to other machines, which we're working on ( http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/ ).

Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla :)
Using tables for form layout is a bit of a grey area--both in terms of "abuse" and suitability. In my view, if you put your labels in TH cells and then you corresponding form control(s) [see note 1] in adjacent TD cells - and make appropriate use of 'for' and 'id' attributes accordingly - this isn't such a problem.

However, using tables for general page/columns layout is ignorant. It also highlights fundamental weaknesses in your page designs to begin with; if you need to use tables to get around the "limitations" of your CMS, you should be educating your designer(s) as to what is and isn't possible.

In my experience, with considered design and type-setting - plus the "background to create appearance of columns" trick - there's nothing you can't achieve with semantically rich, minimalist markup.

I've been able to depend on the 'One True Layout' CSS columns framework since its inception and have yet to encounter a columnal page design it couldn't handle cross-browser.

[1] You need to be careful with things like groups of related form controls, however--such as radio buttons. These should always be displayed using a fieldset, along with an accompanying legend, which means tables aren't particularly suitable for semantically arranging this sort of complex interface. For things like simple login or user profiling forms though, I think tables are arguably an OK construct to use. But I never do, personally.
1) J2EE. Which I suppose is a J2EE complaint, but the sins of the father...

2) Searching performs rather poorly in terms of the quality of results.

3) It's licensed.

4) It doesn't scale if you're doing anything more than a text repository.

5) Jira / Confluence integration is, imho, sub-par given that Atlassian makes them both.

Not an "end of the world, woe is me" story, but still ":("-worthy.

((NB: I haven't used any other wiki software, so it's possible that Confluence is far better than any other option...I hope not))
Apparently forms inside tables are bad for screenreader users because they have to constantly switch between "forms mode" and "tables mode" to navigate them.
IE Sends Mozilla a Cake to Celebrate FF3
Good points. I've been using FF3 since alphas and have gotten used to the "smart bar". (I didn't even know it was called that until today.)

I tend to agree though. I'm still being driven nuts that Google's favicon has changed. I think companies need to be sensitive to all the momentum that people bring to their products.

But then you have to balance that with the overhead of supporting an "old" feature for the sake of old users.

This might have been one of those things that might have worked better as an add-on. I think it might have been kinda slick when you first fire up FF3 to be presented with a choice of basic add-ons to play with, like "Smart Bar".
You could always use the layout tag to take care of the CSS pedants :-)

http://www.codeirony.com/?p=6
Wow, Firefox team appears to like Macs.
The YouTube acquisition wasn't just about buying a streaming video company. It's not about losing money on every sale and making it up in volume. The YouTube acquisition was about getting Google's engineers a huge dataset of video to start running search on. Google's all about trying to do things with huge datasets.
The 10 Most Influential del.icio.us Users
Not needing a physical presence is pretty cool. More of us are working out of our homes with teams that work all over the world. This could be really useful.
Xing isn't any better.

When you register, you get all the features. After a month, when you don't upgrade your account, you only see who was on your profile (picture) but can't click on them. You can't even send messages to your friends anymore. You can't search for people, etc...
I think we covered this one the other day.

ORM rocks in some situations and in others, all you want to do is get your claws on SQL.
"Kicking ass" doesn't even make sense in this context.

It controls its media. Ok, good.

I visited YouTube about a dozen times today. Hulu, erm, zero.

Ass kicking? Hardly.
I should have added in my post that im doing research on AIDS in a lab
i was renting a dvd from a redbox at a supermarket last weekend and next to the redbox is a lottery ticket vending machine with various tickets ranging from 1$ to 50$!

Some old lady while I was there probably burned through 50 bucks buying lottery tickets and scratching them off like the vending machine was a slot machine.

kind of sad really
So, why can Leopard server be virtualised, but the desktop version can't be?

I run VMware on XP so I can use whatever *nix I want at the time. I'd love to be able to use OSX that way, but Apple won't allow it. This drives me nuts. I'm fairly platform agnostic. But, people used to complain about Microsoft not being open. Why aren't more developers making noise about this?
I found Shiunzen Young (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzen_Young) to be a very good instructor. I've been to two of his retreats, and he does a great job of putting technical Buddhist terminology into Western terms. He used to teach Math and Religious studies at a J.C/University in Southern California, so he has a very approachable "western-academic" style.

A good source for Buddhist teachings is the KPFK archives (http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/). Search for "Something's Hapenning". Thursday Night is the night they usually play meditation and spiritual stuff. Be warned: some of it is really good, but a lot of it is extremely hokey.

Also, Sounds True (http://www.soundstrue.com/) has some really good teachers (as well a a few charlatans, too).
This is a bit of a stretch; they don't even really compete with each other all that much. Hulu only has TV shows; it doesn't have huge volumes of user-generated content. People don't use Hulu to the exclusion of Youtube or vice versa.
Perhaps the solution is to make a better screen reader, one that can extract semantic data from non-semantic markup.
Could call it CancelMe -- For $5 you could cancel any one of a dozen major evil fee spammers.

I like it. Somebody contact me (info in profile) if they would like to explore this further.
Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000
They want legal registration, 10% of the prize, and written reports after the contest is over. Too much hassle.

http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.h...
You may also find Sphere Online Judge: http://www.spoj.pl and http://acm.uva.es/archive/nuevoportal/ useful. Both contain problems from a multitude of sources, namely ACM-ICPC. I've never participated in the Google Code Jam, but presumably, these problems should serve you well.
go fuck yoursself ideot
For an enterprise environment, Confluence is the best of the bunch.

1. It has commercial support (you did say: enterprise)
2. It's easy for non-techies to use
3. If you buy the optional "Crowd" product, you can do identity management using AD
4. Use the tomcat bundled version, but upgrade the VM allocated memory to a gig to prevent slowness.
5. Upgrade frequently
there is value in keeping certain acquisitions out of competitors hands.
Isn't that what DNS is for?

I wish you luck, but I can't help thinking rickrolling, goatseing, and spamming other people's links will be a problem.
Depending on the price, it could be a reasonable option for people who want a place to do some porting or qa work on OSX but otherwise do most their development on some other platform.
Sorry about that, I completely missed it.
I've downgraded from them. Yes, they only do it by email, but they did it like they said.

They need to fix it though.
i2we Raises $750k For Social Net Apps
I'd rather see them try to break the record for most browsers downloaded
with BitTorrent during the first week of release.
Thank you for pointing that out. I felt like I was losing my mind as I was reading Cuban's blog. Can someone direct me to the place on Hulu where I can upload my kid's gymnastics video so I can send it to my folks living overseas? Oh yeah, that place doesn't exist.
Disclaimer: I work for free :B
I'd like to play with your "Smart Bar"
What is Reddit Announcing Tomorrow And Why Is A Penguin Involved?
Better idea: ContestIt

file complaints with any number of credit card companies and collect statistics on the number of complaints vs. number of successful chargebacks by business, by CC company, and by industry. Sell the statistics. Use a pass-through form to handle the CC transaction, and be excruciatingly honest about how the process works.

Basically, act as an aggregator to get better leverage and provide convenience to individuals.
Thank you for pointing these out. You're absolutely correct -- I'm not sure how the "accessibility card" could still be played without better understanding, but it seems to stick around.

I challenge the hackers here to find a way to teach this to the CSS diehards. I often wonder why the accessibility of CSS based layouts is often preached by the same people who make Flash sites.
I'm not sure a tipping model would generate enough for Hollywood.

Along the same idea of avoiding the ads, I'd rather pay a subscription for a piecemeal selection of HD episodes with no ads.
--> about:config
--> set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0

This appears to work, but at the expense of removing the URLs you typed in the address bar. So I guess your point is still valid.

Personally, I think the Awesome Bar is fantastic.
Again, I find myself agreeing with you :-) People seem to think that if you create CSS based layouts, that they can be repositioned and re-done using only CSS. This is simply incorrect, and anyone with sufficient html experience knows this.

If you want to change the layout of any site, you need access to both the html and the CSS, so trying to separate the two is just overkill. Sure, you'll want to use CSS for colors and fonts, but for page flow, CSS isn't powerful enough by itself.
This pair leaving likely means little more than a couple who don't need to work (for anyone) wanting to do something different. They are in a fortunate position where they can. Good for them. They should take a nice vacation.
Not sure the profit model on this one -- seems like once the data is correlated it's just the same data, whereas a service would have individual meaning to each customer (a la "get these clowns off my back!")

I can think of at least five other "cousins" of this idea. No matter how you do it, there's a big imbalance between providers and consumers -- and wherever there is an imbalance, there is economic opportunity.
Haskell branch has a parallel garbage collector
I'm a little wary of doing that - presumably they'll start pushing back and getting on credit card shit lists is something that makes me feel even more helpless than not being able to cancel something.
What the hell is going on with these Google Street View Cars
Oh. I've always wondered if that works. Did it? Did they respond?

I get a lot of mileage out of the brokered introduction feature.
It's basically my resume; I'm OK with people circulating it. =)
It takes some getting used to but once you wrap your brain around it and its quirks it's VERY useful, to me at least. Of course YMMV.
I know it's been said to death but seriously tech crunch is like one of those really cheap and inaccurate "magazines" you see (only once staring at the packs of gum wears thin) as you wait in line at the grocery store. Grabbing on to any piece of "juicy" gossip and yielding approximately NO constructive criticism on a technical level let alone a cohesive/interesting economic perspective. Seriously the dude needs to move onto writing trash about politicians and celebrities. No kidding when I read his articles I imagine they are being narrated by that "perez hilton" guy. Same tone and substance.
I agree that when you start using it you hate it, but I've grown to love it. It's one of those little learning curves, and you learn to start typing what you mean instead of a cryptic URL. I think this is one of those things that "normal" users will love because it matches how they think. And us techy folks will learn to love it because it really does make more sense.
Citicard has a virtual credit card number which we can use for a certain period of time. Never used the virtual number myself though.
Diamonds on Demand
I've gotten (semi)-used to it now, but I wonder why they did not make it an option to switch between the new way and old way. Or at least, keep the current "look" but have an option for it to behave the old way.
The great part is that a cheap digital timex will probably keep better time than a finicky mechanical watch.
The Objectives Of The All Partner Meeting: Close the Deal
It learns while you use it, so the sites you like (news.ycombinator, news1130.com, etc) will get to the top the more you use them.
Yes, I had similar experience while closing my account on LinkedIn. I had to email them, to which they replied with asking reasons. But why should I bother giving them reasons about why I want to close.

They really made sure that I don't have any option to close the account in one-click (ok, 2 clicks max. for confirmation!)
A Firefox extension to turn off the AwesomeBar has been out since February.

Oldbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
Lab grown diamonds to be used as silicon replacement in semiconductors?
As someone mentioned above, it learns your habits. It irritated me at first, as any fairly major feature change would, but it is pretty awesome and useful.

When I find that I visit a site so often that I habitually key in the first few characters, hit down, and hit enter, it is time to bookmark it and give it a keyword (in a bookmark's properties). After doing so, (as an example) if I go to the bar and type 'hn' and hit enter, it automatically takes me to http://news.ycombinator.com/. I think using this feature would benefit you, and maybe ease your hatred to mild distaste, and, just maybe, eventually you'll even _like_ the Awesome Bar.

I wish you luck.
The fifth amendment:

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The relevant bit here is the part about being a witness against yourself. You can't remain silent when asked for identification, but you don't have to answer the cop when he asks you if you know how fast you were going. In that situation, you're pleading your 5th amendment right.
Marketing can seem silly when you're looking at it from a different perspective.
I came here just to say that. Youtube works everywhere, Hulu doesn't and probably won't for a long time.
I'm curious how much you have to pay for it (initially, yearly, and based on revenues/profits).
I think there is room for both, but Hollywood will want a sale.

Tipjoy is going to support any distribution model people want - we're just starting out with voluntary tipping. We're building a general purpose micropayments engine.
Power User's Guide to Firefox 3
To be fair, there is an obvious benefit to being able to search titles and bookmarks. I've been using the betas (and nightly builds) for quite some time, and it's stopped getting in my way. I do believe that the default behaviors were not thought through very well (strings at the beginning of a url should have higher precedence than page titles), it does take up too much space, and it takes too long to show up. It also tends to interfere with autofill.
Or people can just read the actual blog post:

http://blog.reddit.com/2008/06/in-san-francisco-this-wednesd...
Fred Wilson: Why widgets suck and how to fix them.