skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have recognized that a handful of guys were smarter. But that's after working with them. Sometimes I realized how smart they were after I was elsewhere, found a problem that they had solved and found out how hard it was. A superheroe makes things look easy.

Would I spot one of them in an interview? Not sure, but I think so. But that's just because I'm supersmart myself ;-)
Associated Press Outsources Strategy to the Legal Department
One advantage I can think of is access to a pretty good speech engine - with Linux, you have to pay for something of reasonable quality (eg Cepstral voices).
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The counter-argument to liquid-layouts is the fact that you need to specify a min-width which is not supported in all browsers (easy fix for jscript sure, but certainly not hack-free).

So for individuals like myself, who run at 1920x1200, legibility is a significant issue unless I manually resize my browser window which is about as much of a pain in the ass as scrolling horizontally.

Sadly, there is no perfect solution when designing for the web. Horses for courses.
Please don't post direct download links. Especially after the last ones were removed.
Thanks for deleting it yourself, that is appreciated. Do you still get the karma from the submission, even though it is now gone?
Joost in a browser is “weeks away”
It's not so much as failing of CSS as a technology as it is an indication that CSS is not the language designers want it to be.

What really sucks is that it's actually pretty close to that language. Everything's fine until you hit the cross-browser compability issues or realize it's missing a few primitives (like the ability to easily create columns). Then you want to tear your hair out. And/or resort to hacks.
>It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you enterprise software.
DIY Wiretapping: The Ultimate Guide (And How to Fight Back)
Even if you aren't involved in a criminal case or illegal operation, it's incredibly easy to set up a wiretap or surveillance system on any type of phone. Don't be surprised to learn that virtually anyone could be spying on you for any reason.
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MT9: An mp3 replacement?
T9 could be the next format for digital music, if the Motion Picture Experts Group (the people behind .MPEG video) approve it. The possible MP3 usurper offers up to six tracks of audio to be compressed together, theoretically allowing different instruments to inhabit their own distinctive tracks.
And especially not redirected/obscured through tinyurl, etc.
I believe css3 adds support for better tables. Although when IE might decide to add that is anyones guess.
How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
I'm looking for some open source wiki software to do internal documentation for software, hardware, procedures, etc.

A google search for "open source enterprise wiki" returns Twiki and Socialtext. I also stumbled upon TeamPage. I poked around with Socialtext and I like that is a hosted solution (less admin and maintenance for us). Has anyone used any of these offerings or does anyone have any other suggestions?
I removed the other ones that were direct download links. This is a preview.tinyurl link, so it won't start downloading immediately unless if you click Proceed.
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I deleted the old ones that were direct download.

That was supposed to make it a NON direct download, since it's through a preview.tinyurl, so it won't start until you click Proceed.
I guess so, downmod me to the points that I got from it if you want.
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Hopefully this will help keep the project (and its release schedule) more organized.
Thanks for the submission and feedback!
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This game ruined my productivity for about 2 hours last night. Thanks a lot!
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We've implemented plain old MediaWiki in our division. It serves as a document and guidance distribution point to the wider corporate public, as well as an scratch pad for internal procedures and process. Due to the general lack of fine-grained access control and segmentation, we stood up two instances: one for the "public" site without authentication for read-only access (and mediawiki accounts for division members only to edit content) and another one for the "private" site with HTTP authentication for the wiki root.
you just submitted an ad... that's a sponsored post.
I dunno, CSS doesn't really provide much to help you scale a layout. Scaling using percentage widths is about as rudimentary as it gets.
Tables would make that not work so well on, say, an iPhone. The way it currently works, the "content" column is going to be the first thing visible when the browser's not wide enough to fit all three.
I agree with the comments already made in regard to your post above. Here are a few of my own:

If you're going to point to the early 20's and the like as a parallel (a time when economic prosperity was high), then I beg you to compare tribal behavior in Africa, and consumption habits within Latin America where economic prosperity is extremely low across the board.

However, I am partially in agreement with the context of your post. MTV/VH1 has been destructive in the picture it paints of meaningful wealth, and I feel media has played a significant factor in "keeping up with the Jones" to the masses. Before the 90's, exposure to this type of wealth-behavior was relatively contained. In retrospect, the credit crunch has hyper-inflated our economy and caused businesses to scale up while a tidal wave formed below. I can't tell you how many people I know that are living a facade, white, black, and brown. It's sad really.

On a side note: That picture has to be Cris Angel's hand. I want to know which Vegas tycoon thought he was a good idea. slap
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Funny, the founder of Jaiku has a Twitter account.
Thanks for the feedback (and the mail as well), and you're right about everything. I'm going to add some fixes this week, which would hopefully solve the "lack of clear end" you talk about; don't know about the CSS fixes yet (shudders).

As for this test, I've battled with the design a bit (and know that it is nevertheless unintuitive). I suppose even after the demonstration it wasn't clear?

Finally, as you pointed out, one of the biggest problems is the clutter now. This has been an issue for a while already, although I still don't know how to best address it. I'm not sure if it is good to give a "start here, then here" guide; I just want users to be able to do whatever they find interesting within a few mouseclicks. But I'm all ears to suggestions regarding front page changes.

Thanks again.
Great work...I'll bookmark for future reference!
This IS hacker news. It is closely related to a certain creator of a certain file system who refused to exercise his 5th Amendment rights and is now formally convicted of murder.
Xobni - a good takeout candidate for Google, Skype?
Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
Boston has way more much richer people, so showing off with stuff like a Rolex won't do much good. Your $10K watch isn't that impressive if there are people that could buy the watch company.
Firefox 3 Released!
Server's a little slow (we're serving 14k downloads per minute right now...), but the site is updated and good to go.

More direct link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Sad, but true. It's horrible coming in as a naive freshman and figuring out that you've exhausted most profs, funding, opportunities, etc... within a field that your university isn't familiar with
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Convincing the labels to back this format is a long shot, unless the DRM is there. The multitrack feature would also require some pretty significant interface updates to software and devices.
Twiki is good if a bit difficult to setup. Checkout wiki matrix: http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Can Associated Press control the blogosphere?
they forgot kayak and yapta, the two sites i actually do use.
Interestingly, you seem to be admitting in the last sentence there that you are an outlier. Otherwise, I posit that you could deal with the people.
Firefox Download Counter - Impressive
I'm almost certain it is Jeff Dean. During my 3 month internship at Google, his name came up EVERYWHERE.

1) He is a primary author on all of Google's major infrastructure-related publications (BigTable, MapReduce, etc)

2) I've seen his internal resume. It is CRAZY.

3) Just for fun/learning I took some time and wrote an internal web app which produced pie graphs showing peoples line counts navigable by directory. I didn't run it on the entire code base because Perforce is a dog, but what I did run it on, he dominated.

4) There is an internal web app listing Chuck Norris -style Jeff Dean facts. I learned that when Jeff Dean launches his profiler, loops unroll themselves in fear.

That man is certainly Done, and Gets Things Smart. In fact, he has been 40 times more Done ever since he upgraded his keyboard to USB 2.0. Not to mention that during downtime, he alone handles all Google searches by hand.
This article actually looks like a pretty good example of a PR hit. The article says that the Guardian says that LG and Samsung are "interested" in the technology. Click through to the Guardian, and it's the company themselves that claims LG and Samsung are interested.

I'm not implying that this is bad or anything, just interesting. The technology sounds cool, FWIW.
Maybe they can include MT9 with standard mp3 for players that can't use it.

Multi-tracks is a cool idea, although I don't see a huge market pining for this. Not sure why they are limiting it to X tracks though.
I always enjoy reading essays that make me feel unconformable, it usually means that the author is forcing me to think.
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Firefox 3 direct download link, works even if the website is down. You know what to do.
There's an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review that breaks down the relationship between IT and the business depending on two factors: the reliability of IT and the need for IT innovation in the line of business.

The result is that you can lump the relationship of IT and the business into 4 categories:

Defensive: Factory Mode (High Reliability Need, Low Innovation Need)
Defensive: Support Mode (Low Reliability Need, Low Innovation Need)
Offensive: Strategic Mode (High Reliability Need, High Innovation Need)
Offensive: Turnaround Mode (Low Reliability Need, High Innovation Need)

If the blog poster worked for a company in the defensive mode categories, his approach would definitely not be welcome in most cases, unless he had a major reliability argument.

Hopefully, he found a position in a company aligned with the Offensive side of the quadrants.

The article I mentioned is Nolan & McFarlen, "Information Technology and the Board of Directors", Harvard Business Review, Oct 2005.
I think BzzAgent is diabolical and genius, and what they do is target the gaping hole in the soul of capitalist America. We, as a nation, are simultaneously desperate to belong and to believe. I find it sad that, for many, talking up consumer products seems to do the trick.
I remind myself that I don't have to talk to the police every few months. (Need to pre-wire it so I don't flounder when under duress.)

One thing you have to be careful about: you may end up doing yourself more damage by pleading the fifth when it isn't necessary.

"No officer, I understand this is a routine traffic stop, but I'm pulling out the fifth and am not responding to your queries."
Juste change win to osx to get the .dmg.

Best day ever? Best day ever!
I believe IE8 beta has support for display:table* properties.
Twiki has the worst wiki markup of any wiki I've ever used. Avoid.

The company I'm working with at the moment is using Confluence, which is reasonable. I'd much rather be using MediaWiki or Trac though.
We use MediaWiki, it works for us just fine
How is it we're still talking about this?

This is a solved problem, and has been for the last 5 years or so. It's not a "Holy Grail" any more.
I've used moinmoin in the past and it worked very well.

http://moinmo.in/

EDIT: just wanted to add I've also used Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/
Nice post. I'm familiar with some of these, but some are new. I especially like Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki. For the next week or so, I'll sample all of them, and then update my home page. Thanks.
I've been touting this for awhile now. You can decrease your cost of living and Increase your standard of living at the same time by figuring out what you truly value and redistributing your income.

for example, I own about a month's worth of everything. clothes, dishes, etc. At the end of the month I pay someone to clean everything for me. It's WELL worth the small amount of money (it's only 3 hours of work) I pay because I hate doing that stuff and having it off my mind entirely is a relief.
I severely curtailed frivolous spending by carrying less cash on me. I'm reluctant to use my credit card, so now I buy less things on the spur of the moment.
We use Twiki here at CoreStreet as well.
The HN guidelines say:
"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I think this qualifies.
Surprised it hasn't hit a million yet but it's going up fast. Awesome stuff
You don't have to plead the 5th to not answer questions.

If you are not under arrest then you don't have to say anything. If you are, then what you are using is your right to remain silent ala miranda.
The site is pretty reliable now, IT has been working their asses off over the last couple of hours. Feel free to use http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ now.
The whole reason the movement away from tables began is because complex layouts (nested tables) do not render correctly in different browsers and it does not separate style from content like CSS does.

Tables also makes it harder for crawlers/interpreters to understand the page as content may not be hierarchically correct due to layout issues, etc.
The site didn't go live until 11:16am PDT, so we're a tiny bit behind...we'll catch up fast though.

Go downloads go!
If your site is in a niche. You can pull affiliate offers. If you have a site about custom leather chihuahua leashes, you can sell from petco.

Look at cj.com. As an example.

Or you could do private ad sales.
I like liquid layouts as I like things that make good use of the real estate they have.

Liquid layouts also tend to print more correctly i.e. without bits chopped-off or missing.
Firefox 3 - Good PR, Poor Execution
Tables render better on mobile browser than pure CSS layouts. Mobile browsers are very smart about tables and almost always do the right thing. CSS is just too complex to get a good result when you need to scale down to a small screen.
Ludacris Seeks New Musical Talent via Web or Cellphone
I know I was dumb found to find that they hadn't pushed distribution through bit torrent.
"A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income." via Jason Kottke
To replace mp3 you need to win on at least one of these fronts:

* licensing/royalties
* quality per bit
* power consumption to decode

The article addresses none of these, but instead talks about being able to remix an song to suit your tastes because all of the instruments are on different tracks.

This is just silly. Rounded to one percent, no one wants to do this to their music. Add to that, it isn't really possible because in any modern musical production there is audio processing that happens to groups of tracks on the way to a final mix and then more processing on all of the tracks combined. The final product is not a linear combination of the inputs.

A poorly thought out gimmicky feature is not going to replace mp3.

Oh, the labels will have to support it since it will require completely new production techniques and if the cost doesn't cause them an aneurism then the idea that you can go in and rip out a drum line to sample will.
If you use tables, you don't have to avoid CSS. They compliment each other. I agree that nested tables are ugly, but they're also completely necessary now because of CSS. Using tables to render your main multi-column layout wouldn't require any nesting. Also, tables are more likely to render in different browsers (including mobile browsers) than a complex CSS layout.

Given the number of CSS hacks and extra HTML tags in exactly the right order that is necessary for most column layouts the end result is almost always less complex with a table.
Interesting article, but the author seems to assume that unit testing == TDD. I think weirdness of "write your tests first" is one reason people initially resist writing tests ("I can't do exploratory programming!")

I write lots of unit tests (and find lots of value in writing them), but I only do TDD about half the time. Generally, when I am writing a new feature, I write my tests after it's reasonably stable. However, when fixing bugs, I usually do TDD.
There are also products that are designed to work in concert with Adsense. The company I work for, Adroll.com, enables publishers to use Adsense as back fill, set a reserve eCPM, and earn premium CPMs by banding together with other similar publishers. I hope this is helpful.
PG:

I think Paul Graham is probably a DGTSer; I mean, looking at his code in "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp", it's pretty clear that he's on a different plane of existence from me, and I've learned a ton from him. So he probably has more useful things to say about it than I do.

Thoughts?
I find it bizarre and annoying that you find a handwritten thank-you note bizarre and annoying. Have we gotten so immersed in technology that we've forgotten how nice it is when someone goes out of their way to show a little appreciation? I sure hope not.
Quebec is not in the list of provinces for Canada :( Does this mean I can't participate?
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These generational things are pretty stupid. Even more so when they overlap or don't really cover what the colloquial definitions are.

I mean in my circle, Millennials are kids born in the mid to late 90's while Gen Y are kids born in the 80's and Gen X are kids born in the 70's. Their rise to prominence and influence on culture is why we give them nicknames.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Yes, I was thinking about the six-track limit, too. Most recording artists (big and small) use way more than six tracks, and mix down to two for the consumer market. Creating a separate six-track MT9 file would add additional work, costs, and complexity.
Exactly. I think CSS started out as more of a typesetting layout, and has been stretched into this other beast.

To me, it doesn't make much sense to spend many hours of cursing and headaches trying to force CSS to do something that a very basic HTML table can do in just a few seconds.
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Fail: Viral Weezer Video Not Allowed To Be Viral
Try pubmatic.com: they give you a ton of advertising options and optimize the rotations. Note that you should give them time for the latter. I have seen a 15-20% increase in eCPM.
RCRD LBL, Normative, WeMix. I'm psyched for all these techy twists on record labels. The music industry is due for a distribution shake up like mainstream media is experiencing now with blogs, vlogs, and podcasts. It's just an issue of who's gonna be there first and/or who does it best.

I'm kinda hoping these guys suck, though, so I can clean up when I start my own...
Feel free to prove me wrong in two years, but I feel this will /never/ (and I mean never in the information age sense, i.e. a few years) gain the traction of or simply replace mp3s.

mp3s have been at a point where an everyday listener is simply not able to distinguish between a 192kbps mp3 on a player with subpar audio hardware and the master recording. iPods, audio players and generic computer speakers make the distinction even less significant. I'd even argue that the industry is actually hoping to move in the opposite direction and bring music to phones and other channels of lesser bandwidth and will try to bring down quality (and size) to a level at which simply won't annoy and keep people buying.

The multi-track technology is purely a gimmick. Most artists do not want you messing with the levels of their tracks or make creative adjustments to their music. That's their job after all. Not to mention artists had a fit when iTunes started selling songs individually and took away their ability to distribute an album as an atomic piece of music. Also, I don't know how RIAA will look at bars being able to buy a song and use it for karaoke (the use the article mentions) without additional licensing.

Calling this an 'mp3 replacement' is as sensationalist as you get.
It'd be a neat feature to add to mp3s (technical difficulties/impossibilities aside), but it's not enough to propel a whole new format.

What's more, content producers, especially ones like the RIAA, don't like you playing with their stuff too much, so I doubt you'll be able to get much content for this anyway.
I wouldn't want to enter the kitchen in which dishes have been accumulating for weeks.
Doesn't seem to be loading correctly...
Have you checked out PBWiki? I've heard good things, but haven't done anything with it personally.

http://pbwiki.com/business.wiki
I think the general attitude here, is to provide the functionality to a) disagree and to b) bury bad content.

In those separate issues, transparency becomes an issue, particularly with the downvote. I'm definitely in favor of promoting transparency in order to disagree or bury bad content.
Yeah, avoid TWiki like the plague. Horrible tool.

What's most important in an enterprise wiki is the search feature, so be prepared to use a 3rd party tool for search.
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I'm also having trouble. It also seems like the counter stoped! The load seems to be a bit much, either through the downloads or through the viewers of the counter :-)
I find that richer people still flash their wealth, just in a different way. For instance, I know a lot of very wealthy people who wear Patek Phillipe watches that cost in the 6 figure range. This would not appear to be showing off to an average American, who couldn't spot or guess the price of an uber-expensive watch, but in wealthy circles everyone notices.

I do agree that there's a shift in spending patterns among the wealthy (and Bobos in Paradise is a good book and explains it well) but I don't think that it's due to a desire to be less conspicuous, nor does it have that effect within their social circles. (They're sure to show off their $20,000 slate shower stall.) I think people are just shifting toward buying stuff they like rather than stuff they think other people will be impressed by.
I'm picturing a lot of cardboard boxes and stacks of Jolt.
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You have to wait a second for it to load, even after it looks like it is loaded.
Ehh. Here are all of the following "shoulds" that I hear:

- Your app should work at any resolution
- Your app should work on any browser
- Your app should work on any platform, even grandma's old PII running Windows 98
- Your app should work on dialup, and be sexy for broadband
- Your app should be accessible to the blind
- Your app should not break when new browser versions are released

...and so on and so forth.

I am perfectly willing to write such a beast. Are you perfectly willing to pay for the hundreds of hours it would take to do it?

Every app designer is unfortunately forced to make some tradeoffs. In some cases, they make many tradeoffs, usually because nobody's willing to pay them to meet the needs of every user out there.

Not coding for 800x600 in these days of high resolution, high-bandwidth design, is a logical tradeoff.
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