skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't make or distribute java much these days but the fact that it's open-sourced means that java developers can start to expect most desktops to have it.

And only after what... 14 years? Good going Sun.
Announcing: Jiffy Firebug Extension for Viewing Client Side Performance Data
Why would you have 70-80 tabs open in anything? When I have a lot of tabs open, I feel dirty and cluttered.
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Firefox. Definitely Firefox. The UI on Safari isn't really that good.
It would also mean that your level of protection depends on the amount of air in your tank.

As someone who chronically forgets to fill-up, I wouldn't like that idea...
I'm trying to figure out whether your "Defiantly." was an accidental typo or an intentionally ironic nod to digg/youtube style comments where nobody actually knows how to spell "definitely."

edit: that is, http://digg.com/odd_stuff/D_E_F_I_N_I_T_E_L_Y
I disagree. The Gnome document viewer also opens another window--I hate popups, as they're disorienting. So, it's faster than Acrobat by a large margin...but it pops up, and is still generally slower than Scribd. I simply don't find PDF to be a an acceptable substitute for HTML when it comes to reading.

So, I agree that converting to HTML would be better...it's technically a much larger challenge (click on the View as HTML link at Google for a Word or PDF document...and you'll see how well--or, not so well, in this case--a huge mega-corp with tons of cash, tons of smart engineers, and the obvious desire to do something useful in that direction, solves the problem).

I may not like Flash, but at least it works in the browser.
If you like your keyboard shortcuts that (mostly) work across all FF installations across all platforms, go with FF. If you're a Mac-only person, stick with Safari if you already know it well.

Also, FF has extensions which although there are good alternatives on Safari, I sincerely doubt there are as many good quality ones for Safari as for FF.
Then I will wear pong so I dont' have to behave well :)
I read the guidelines or whatever and it said that generally you don't need to post something that would be in regular news. Well, this was on the front page of CNN. Not really hard to find.
This was predicted/proposed by Neal Stephenson in "Global Neighborhood Watch" ten years ago

http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/global.html
You should check out geary and fourth market:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/4th-ave-and-geary-farmers-market-san...

Yelp reviews:
"I love this family owned Produce market. The vegetables & fruit are always seasonal and fresh. The prices are ridiculously cheap you almost feel like your steeling."

....

So long, Sucky's!

Hellooooooo hella cheap produce.

"Not always the freshest, and not quite the liveliness of a legit outdoor Farmer's Market, but for the convenient location AND all the money I'm saving, do I even really care?"

And, I now several other small grocery stores, just as cheap.

Go to lucky's, or safeway, and you are paying almost twice for the same stuff.
Guys you have to digg around for the good stuff. If you live something like Marina, or Fidi, or Soma, you probably don't have choice but big stores, but if you live in the Inner Richmond, China Town, Mission, there are plenty of family run cheap grocery store.
One more good and cheap grocery store for you. There are probably a bunch of other ones, if you dig down, so I hope it helps cutting your bills, next time you want to shop for fresh produce:

Parkside Market
http://www.yelp.com/biz/parkside-farmers-market-san-francisc...

"This is my favorite market. I can come out of here with three heavy bags of groceries that would have cost me an arm and a leg at Safeway. Their produce is great, the bread selection more than adequate (tons of different flat breads but I don't know what to do with them, so my fault) and their jams and tea collection perfect. That's the usual stuff I hit. Oh wait, chocolate, they've got chocolate! They really have quite a variety of nice items that I'm not remembering to mention right now."
You can already buy shower heads that claim to save 30% water, by mixing more air into the water stream.
1. So do many other "cv jobs", but they don't take more then a decade to do it.
2. Like in any other job.
3. True. But automatic promotion doesn't make one proud.
4. Here it's the biggest difference. As an entrepreneur you're training in being able to know what needs to be done. This teaches you the opposite: everything is equally important just because you're told so
5. Not really. In any other job you have at least a few hours of independence. Not in this one.
6. True
7. Not really, at least not he open-desk seating part.
8. Ha ha. Creativity... really.
9. All work = useless work. No work is ever used except for evaluation purposes. Ever. Ever. God, i'm depressed already.
10. Could be, haven't been employed in the field for a while.
11. true
12. true
13. Most people have exactly the same in their resume, so its real value is nil.

I'd like to elaborate a bit on the creativity part. Most school is a lot like an assembly line - the cheapest way to teach thousands of children necessary things. This is not bad, time and money constraints are real. But in this framework you can't afford to encourage true creativity, simply because to be creative you need: 1. a "space" in which to be creative and 2. not to be evaluated by classic means. School environment provides neither.
There are very very few funded startups, so the question for me is the comparison between those seeking funding and those that are bootstrapping (seeking revenue from paying customers). I find the former to be much less realistic than the latter but we are probably looking at different data sets.
The Trons - all robots band
A bit long and sensationalist, but the ideas are sound.
Long story short: where is a power law there is also a long tail. Using the long tail in a smart way has many advantages. Most of them revolve around greater diversity, which can be surprising in a power law environment where we're used to see only concentration.
Eg: few movies are blockbusters, and many are not. Instead of watching only the blockbusters you can invest effort in "mining" the movie long tail for something that matches your tastes very closely.
Some interesting aplications in social sciences.
Lolcats are just dumb, but what you are pointing to is smart and brings a person back to earth because we tend to get overcomplex.
How to Make a Volcano
How to Make a Volcano
Social Networking Sites Attracting One In Four Online Users 
"Social-interaction platforms, such as top-ranked MySpace and Facebook, have grown dramatically in recent years, with one out of every four people online now visiting social-networking sites."
Could you please also make sure that I can download the PDF without having to sign up?
Oh no! Alexa's old web measurement tool doesn't measure itself!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/alexa.com

Pathetic sensationalism. Google has a new reporting tool. Genuine thanks for reporting that, but the whole linkbait spin to it is just a big turnoff for intelligent readers.

If the author had actually done some work, such as comparing features and ranking agreement between the services, the post might even be considered useful.

To the author: Don't feel too bad, though. You're not alone. You're just one of an army of sales guys who "gives people what they want" to make a buck for yourself. I'm sure these types of posts are gobbled up by digg and reddit audiences.
The latest is http://www.sproutcore.com/

Its not mobile specific but is the new framework that Apple is using for its mobile me apps. This would allow you to dev apps for workstation or handhelds.

The easy language to get started with sproutcore is ruby ;)
More and more I think Economics should be a compulsory subject for all school graduates, and furthermore, we should have a sort of 'Basic Economics' license (analoguous to a driver's license) and people without it should be barred from any public service dealing with money. In the private economy of course, they would do as they please, but having the license would be strongly encouraged.
Ask HN: How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network
We are prototyping(just started) a social networking idea.

The question I have is:
We want to have a sign-up page, where we will allow user to "create an username" and next step will be to enter thier gmail/yahoo username/pass(we wont store and we will say that) to fetch thier contacts so the user can know who is already using our service. The user if wishes can skip this step.

Initially, we were thinking of using openid and remove the "create username" step. But we thought not many people may remember thier openid. Another alternative was that they could sign in using thier yahoo/gmail account.

But the problem is it would be frusttrating for the user to once give us their gmail info to signup(i.e just creating the username) and then again to fetch the contacts(to see which of their contacts is using our service).
Also many users may just want to checkout the services without expanding the network, so combining the above steps into one signon wouldn't also make sense, right?
So we thought we should be going the usual "create username" route.

My questions are:

1. Do you think asking user to create a username would be a big hassle when compared to entering thier gmail id twice. What do you think?

2. My second question is more of what you would normally do. Normally will users give thier username/pass to a not-so-popular website?
Lots of websites like stubleupon,linkedin,FB do this.

3.Also when checking out a new service, would you just want
to create an username to check it out or also will you take the extra step to discover which of your friends are using? If they are not using, normally are you ok to send an invite. This sort of seems wierd, bcos you are just signing up, it would make sense for you to invite your friends without knowing if its good?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html

I wouldn't.

edit

It's worth noting to answer one of your questions: I don't follow my friends around to every new site that pops up. Primarily because only 10% of my friends are technically savvy enough to the point where I would actually use the word "Twitter" around them. I've found this is becoming increasingly more and more the case, we're establishing connections with like minded people online, and isolating ourselves to a certain extent when it comes to who among our friends knows their two cents about social content.

That said, if I create an account on a site "just to test it out", I'll probably use my dummy email account in the first place partially out of habit, and partially to gather any extraneous crap that may get dumped in the inbox anyway.
I'd never use a site that asked me for my gmail (or any other) username/password.

I'm not the only one who feels this way. Take a look at this, for a start: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html

If your social networking idea depends on this, start again.
I come to HN mainly for the general interest stories (as opposed to the strictly "hacker news" posts), so I'm glad this is on here. Most of the time the comments from HN contributors are of equal interest to the story itself. They are generally quite insightful and definitely add value.

Yes I can go to reddit for this kind of stuff, but I find the comments aren't of the same quality and I don't really like the colours/layout, nor the ads. I much prefer HN's simple lo-fi layout.
is this robot music or what ? why is it here ? not appropriated
It's certainly not there yet, but the Web Inspector in recent nightlies is a lot closer to Firebug than the one in Safari 3.1. That, and the advances the WebKit team are making elsewhere, gives me a lot of confidence that it's only a matter of time before Safari has a built-in web development tool and JavaScript debugger that matches or improves on Firebug in every area.
I find that having the 'Add to del.icio.us' bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar and then just hitting Cmd+1 whenever I want to bookmark something works pretty well.

I tend to hide the bookmarks bar because the way I use it, it just takes up unnecessary screen space, but the procedure above doesn't require it.
Exactly, especially since there seems to be a better way: http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/

I've never tried it, but as I understand it, this is the right (and safe) way to get this information.

My guess is that you get an email from Google saying that some application has requested your contact info, along with a link to click in order to allow or forbid it.

edit

A quick look at the documentation describes two ways of getting informations for a Gmail account, either with login+password or using what they call AuthSub Proxy Identification: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForWebApps.htm...

The application requests access to the account and gets an authentication token, which can be used to get user information once it's been validated either by login/pass or by the user.
Most people don't care, the privacy implications are only worried about by people who know enough to worry about the privacy implications.

Despite the Facebook Beacon blowup in the blog echo chamber, very few users cared:

http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/12/05/facebook-bites-t...

So, sure! People who read CodingHorror are concerned about the security issues... but how many of your users even know what the hell CodingHorror is?

If your social network is focused on people who might have heard of CodingHorror, you might want to have second thoughts. If not, keep it secure and be careful about your implementation. Personally, if I trust a site then I'll use the address book import if provided.

EDIT: Like mentioned above, definitely use Google's actual tool to do the import:

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/
Sorry but please can you stop this mindless Yahoo bashing? You can use Techcrunch for that if you are so inclined. Thank you.
OpenID: If they have a yahoo account, the user just has to remember "yahoo.com" and if you're supporting OpenID 2.0, it'll work. If they have almost any kind of blog or social networking profile these days, it's also an OpenID.

Users remember their OpenIDs. Use the discovery mechanisms built into the spec to do the hard part for them.

Check out the RESTful apis being built as part of the OpenSocial specification. If they can tell you what network they're a part of that supports OpenSocial (Google, MySpace, hi5, Plaxo, and soon, Yahoo) then you'll be able to kick off an OAuth process that ends in them giving you permission to fetch their friendlist.

But their email username and password? Don't ever do it.

We're past that stage now. It's no longer state of the art, and it's dangerous enough that it ought to be considered harmful by all responsible adults.
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Yeah, i was bored with it, but only after years of brain melting. If you watch TV for 6+ hours a day for 6 years you will get bored eventually. The numbers are approximate, but close in my case, i don't know how i survived 6 years of cartoon network. And its nice to see that Einstein was wrong for something, makes him more human.
"So, sure! People who read CodingHorror are concerned about the security issues...but how many of your users even know what the hell CodingHorror is?"

If the topic being debated was about the blog in it's entirety and why Jeff Atwood writes it, you might have an argument here, but considering two people pointed to a blog entry I'm going to disagree wholeheartedly with everything you just said.

The article makes a VERY good point that some folks very often use their email password as the de facto password throughout the Internet. Just because someone comes along and eloquently it's a bad practice doesn't mean people are automatically NOT going to do it, and immediately become
more informed to privacy and security concerns.

And even for people who don't use the same password, they just as easily don't want this information just flying across a random connection string for the sake of seeing what your "friends" are up to on this new socially-capable website.

It's not about "Who reads this random arsed blog" any more than it is keeping in mind every avenue of user interaction that will occur on your site, and being accountable for how you use data given to you.
Where in the world is Jerry Yang? (Sing title like carmen sandiego song for fun)
Zed Shaw rant on Ruby Vulnerabilities
台灣。好貴! - 凱濕的部落格 - udn部落格
> The split second you get any traction, any success at all? Look over shoulder, they’re coming. You are already ‘the old way to do it.’

Yeesh. I already misread the headline; this just reinforces it. :(
Very cool. I've had a slight desire to make a simple machine to attract fireflies with a webcam, computer and LED. Apparently male fireflies use a single pulse and females respond with two pulses, but I've never tested or observed this independently.
In physics, it is always smarter to predict possibilities, as opposed to impossibilities ;)
Submit something better, please.

Sure, it is just some guy building some robots, but I didn't think it much worse than the average HN content lately (Yahoo resignation letter generator/10 things whatever whatever/Learn how to program/etc.). Cheered me up, anyway.

No, reconsidering it, but given that the Yahoo-Resignation-Tool already has 44 points, I really can't feel bad about my submission.
> Acrobat Reader opens in a pop up window, which is annoying and slow

Adobe don't have a monopoly on PDF readers, why do you even have it installed??

On OSX, PDFs open up in the browser just like HTML, and load only more slowly due to typically larger file sizes. I don't believe that noone has written a decent PDF viewer for Windows.
How would your service differ from Scribd?
Yes, if you have a decent screen, PDFs are pretty good. And on the Mac, they are also pretty damn fast.

scribd is quite impressive for what it does, but Flash is a cruddy interface for dealing with multi-page documents. Add in the lack of recognition for the scroll-wheel, and poor font-rendering compared to native, and scribd becomes an active annoyance.
We have your images
That would depend on the way it was set up... In my view, it would require a few specific ingredients:

1. Standard formats (PDF, txt, html, etc... heck... even chm e djvu)

2. Offline access (PDA, laptops, etc...)

3. Printing

4. Sharing (iTunes like)

5. Easy searching within a given volume and across volumes (google books)

Of course doing all of this while preventing rampant copyright violations is the tricky part.
O'Reilly doesn't seem to be doing too well (on the copyright part at least) with their safari online project. You can pretty much find any of their books you want if you know where to look.
Apple seems to be doing a good job with iTunes. Maybe it's time to have someone doing the same for books. There are several websites online that try to do this, but the legality of the works they have is ofter fuzzy.
I've been tinkering with the idea of making a "del.icio.us" or "arXiv" type of site where people could place links to books (mostly technical) that are currently out of copyright. Wherever possible, links to online bookstores where you could buy the book would also be provided.
I'm asking the same question, and you're not close to answering it. My question was "what problems in compiler optimization make it a thousand times more useful than protein folding and associated medical problems?" because you authoritatively stated that protein folding work (implicitly computational protein folding work) was much less important/useful (pick one) than compiler optimization work. You keep talking about protein folding research, but you don't say anything about compiler optimization. Was that comparison just an off-hand or self-deprecating remark about protein folding work? I'm not asking which area is more important. And, I know enough about both fields to not get lost in the technical details of your answers. So, I'll ask it again: what problems in compiler optimization make it a thousand times more useful than protein folding and associated medical problems?
I agree with everything OP has to say.

OTOH, if you are addressing an immediate need; that is, if you have prospects whose hair is really on fire and you can put together a good (not perfect) solution fairly quickly and cheaply, then you have a "sugar daddy".

That's right, a customer who can bootstrap you. You have a nice influx of cash, real user feedback, a raving referral, and a tangible asset in your back pocket as you go out into the world. Not easy, but not unusual either.

Imagine writing software for 3 months, selling the first copy for $50K, and keeping the IP. It's very doable if you know what you're doing. Not a bad springboard for a bootstrapper, huh?
I'm aware. I was trying to take a funny jab at Java and it didn't turn out so well.
Let Sudo Insult You When You Screw Up
Simplified Javascript would make a decent base for a scripting language
PHP vs Perl comparison: the Perl view
This may be helpful http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209870
What is kind of insulting to humankind is that we do not realize how we suck at predicting the future.
Not sure I follow you. Most desktops are some flavor of Windows, call it +90%. What piece of technology, not present previously, became ubiquitous on Windows once it was open sourced? Open sourcing java doesn't mean much for end users on the desktop, imo.

The commercial open sourcing of java will matter on the ecosystem and it's a good thing for java developers (which, despite HN demographics, there are still millions of). Particularly, when you consider the flaws of the JCP and Sun's control to this point.

Good going Sun indeed--stick to making awesome hardware.
anon. inner classes are simply too heavy to warrant most uses. You want brevity.
There's this book too:

http://commonsware.com/Android/index.html
There's a Mac in the background in the 6th picture.
Do you run a startup? Do you work for a startup?
> it also has a Javascript error/eval console.

It even has tab-completion, which makes it feel even more solid than what I've experienced with FF and various extensions.

I only open FF for FF-specific testing.
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Thanks.
There are few options
1. Redirecting to Yahoo/Gmail page where the user signs and authorizes Yahoo or Google to give us the user's contact. This gives the user the secure feeling.
2. Same as 1, but instead of redirecting show it in a big frame on same page, so the user feels he has not left the page and can if the user wishes find friends through another webmail account.

which do you think is better for you(and normal not so tech savvy users)?
I don't know. These days, Safari's Web Inspector is quite on-par with Firebug, with some things I like even better.
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Pets.com's Julie Wainwright is so over the dot-com bust
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think any significant number of people want to do general reading on computer screens.

This is why there's a market for i-ink style screens.

You might get some traction if you provided a service that easily integrated with the ebook readers already out there (sony/kindle) and provide for people to "buy" them with deep discounts and a monthly subscription (like cell phones), or rent them for even less.

For heavy-readers $50/mo for netflix style "borrowing" of books over the internet plus an ebook reader may well be worth it.
Metaclass programming in Python