skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"'we’ve only touched one percent of what' social can be within search."

Brin was quoted above in the google earnings address, "We’ve Touched 1 Percent Of What Social Search Can Be" ~ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/sergey-brin-weve-touched-1-...

"... Eric is still around and filling an important role ..."

I think this could be a bigger adjustment than you think. Google under Schmidt has not gained ground on social search and in effect dropped the ball. An important lesson running a product on the open Internet. Google with the massive financial and technical lead can loose ground and revenue to competitors.
It's not just one website. It's a collection of humor websites building on a theme that is certainly not a fad: humorous commentary on a photograph. Lolcats may come and go, but the bet (and a good one, I believe), is that their humor staff can keep ahead of the trends. http://cheezburger.com/sites shows their attempt.

I believe this 30m is also going to help them go further into content creation.
I think it was JumpChat, an app for mass messaging by combining text, email and IM.
My theory (I wrote PadMapper) is that as long as it's light on their servers, helpful to their users, doesn't bombard them with ads, and sends users back to them, they're fine with it. PadMapper's just a search engine for part of their stuff.
Use LastPass and generate random passwords, you'll just chuckle at the next company that does this rather than freak out...
Mastering computers easier than riding a bike for kids, survey finds
I stand corrected. Chrome joins Gmail.
In my life, discovering jQuery is what made front-end development fun again. I think we're incredibly fortunate to have people like you helping us build software, and if it was possible to measure the aggregate impact of your work it would be staggering..
Global incubator has finalists selected via crowdfunding marketplace
I'd love to hear more about what art you are involved in (besides jQuery of course!).
I don't need ANY article to explain this concept, it is, like you said, painfully obvious.
Product Comparisons: Quantity vs. Quality
For all practical intents and purposes, SMS and e-mails are the same thing for the non-technical end-user when they're easily accessible from a phone; use of either is referred to "texting."

I never knew that about SMS, though... thanks for enlightening me. If it is that different, and not just raw data, then I guess it does make sense to charge differently.
I vastly prefer reading in a 'night' mode of amber text on a black background to reading on my Kindle. However the iPad had other issues with it, including low res, and iPhone has too little text on the page, in both cases my wrists end up sore either from weight or repeated paging.

I'm hoping iPad 2 is a little lighter, and does have the 2x linear resolution bump. Then it will be quite a good experience.
I'd definitely report it and switch ISPs if it wasn't fixed in short order. Even if it was an account to something I didn't really care all that much about like controlling my DVR.
Debt, not deficit. Anyone who doesn't know the difference probably shouldn't be writing articles on the subject for a newspaper/magazine.

Also, this is off-topic; consider politics.reddit.
Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?
With depth recognition it would be more difficult to put a picture of someone's face in front of the webcam to unlock the computer.
Apple TV comes to my mind...

The Israelis probably did see far more wider uses for this technology, but it seems to me Microsoft just outbid the others and then marketed this only as a game controller. Though, I wouldn't be too surprised if we were to see more uses for this popping up in the next version of Windows or somewhere else.
My impression is that furthermore, most of the problem sites are those who are trying to post ads. There are a million spammers and lazy businesses out there who would simply LOVE to be able to use Craigslist as their own personal ad bucket. Craig even calls them out specifically in the TOU as "third-party posting services."

Padmapper and similar can do their job with RSS feeds and occasional callbacks to see if ads are still alive, which I think alleviates a majority of load concerns. One area in which Craigslist has moved to shut down Craigslist search engines is where services have implemented multi-location search for sales items, which violates the Craigslist maxim of connecting people locally and introduces shipping and payment complications (Paypal) that they'd rather not be in the middle of. That Padmapper deals with a part of Craigslist that is necessarily localized may be their saving grace.
He says they use Mongo for Geo queries. It'll be interesting to see if they keep using it now that the GeoCouch R-Tree index has eclipsed Mongo's geo-hash capabilities.
Agree with everything you said. I also moved to SF recently and used PadMapper. There's no reason to use anything else.

Unfortunately, the crime map overlay is kind of useless as it's total crime, not per capita, so it makes dense areas look more dangerous than they really are.
Interestingly, even over an infinite grid you should get to your target with probability 1:

http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter2009/Thompson/randomw...
Well, news flash: so is everyone else. Hence all the things you hate about our culture.
How I wrote a Twitter timeline search app in two days
Yes they do. It had been a little slow due to the traffic they've received from the bubble ball app going #1, but it seems like they've taken care of whatever the issue was.
Google's executive shakeup, or evolution
I'm starting to think the Great Firewall is yet another protectionist policy. Apparently (alarmingly?), it is working.
I'm sorry, but this is not "publicly clarifying" anything. This new is huge. My guess at the real reason is this: Google created and continues to dominate the global market for low-priced ads - but it isn't doing enough to retain that dominance by either innovating in search, developing content networks (like Facebook or Amazon) or by taking control of new platforms (which is hard to do).
Well, for you there would be equity upside (vs. contractors that typically get zero) and the chance to gain more responsibility (vs. contractors that typically aren't allowed to manage budget or people)
Right. Another commenter mentioned that they'd switch ISPs, but if it were me, I'd just be sure to use a different password than the one for any of my other accounts.
In my current situation (alone with no one to physically force me), it's impossible for me to "relax" for 2 minutes, because I am actively willing myself to not do so.
No kidding. I lived in Zaire back when it was still called Zaire, and woke up one morning to a cacophony of wailing...it was the funeral procession of a girl down the street who had died of cerebral malaria the night before. I was only 5 years old, but I believe that put a stop to my complaining about the bitter pills we had to take.

It's easy to forget that scenes like this are still played out a million times per year.
Apple TV maybe? Not built-in but as an add-on controller for the device and games/apps?
Yes, you are right. If other people have access to the computer/browser that you have used, they can get your login credentials.

I actually came across a situation where this was really possible. I went into an internet cafe and had access to the complete browsing history of the people who had used that computer before me. This was some years ago, browser was an Internet Explorer and all options to erase the history manually were disabled.

When I asked someone of the guys who worked there, if it wouldn't be a really cool idea to give each user something like a fresh session and browser history, he said that this is not a security problem at all, because it is "the same people who come everyday". So it is ok that I can see where they have been? WTF!
Exactly.

It's not hard to pinpoint the exact line of code that is causing the slow down and come to a conclusion. This could have easily been fixed without reverting to jQuery 1.4.2 and risk breaking other things in the process (assuming they upgraded to 1.4.4 for a good reason).

On top of that it was their own code which led to the slowdown. Passing the blame to jQuery seems wrong when it was their own mistake to disregard best practices.

Here is where Twitter failed:

1) Need better testing when updating a version of the library.

2) Need to understand what the library you are using is doing and how to avoid performance bottlenecks.

Basic stuff.
Almost think it would have been more useful just to give him a list of blogs(and twitter users) to keep up with. This will give him a sense of the startup community, and allows him to keep up with services he can look into using under his own will.
Orbit: A Slick jQuery Image Slider Plugin
But if something really sucks, then we must call it out as such!

Also...hahahaha HTTPEntityEnclosingRequest
Santa Clause?
Great. Now LinkedIn are going to reset my password again.
As far as I remember Sam Harris does know quite a lot about Neuroscience in fact he is a PhD in that very area.

With regards to potential religious truths then the problem of course is that you can't verify religious claims thus the very idea of talking about truth in this context seems rather misguided.
thanks for taking a look!
Startup founders: you don't have a brand
That was easy, I just used my other computer for 2 minutes.
Their response has been, "just clear your browser history", and "lots of sites do this." That and hanging up on me twice when I asked to speak to a manager.

I've not seen a URL like this for years, and I find it shocking from a company with over 600,000 subscribers, but want opinions on how much of a fuss to make.
I usually start with a pretty rough mental image of what I want, maybe draw a few rough sketches / diagrams / whatever on paper or on the whiteboard, then just start building and let it evolve. Once I have enough built to feel comfortable showing it to people, I start showing it around and soliciting feedback.

As things evolve, I may start writing down use cases or capability cases on paper (well not literally paper, but an OO.org document or a text file, whatever.) And since all of the stuff I'm working on now (outside of $DAYJOB) is open source, this stuff usually winds up on a blog somewhere for the world to see. Here's an example of my first stab at using Capability Cases to describe something:

http://www.jroller.com/openqabal/entry/so_what_s_a_capabilit...

Note: I don't claim this "system" is the best - or even particularly good - it's just how I happen to work.
Once bitten, twice shy.
I agree, I think the restructuring decision will be beneficial - ever since Larry and Sergey gave up their majority control (they now control less than 50% of the company, I think) Eric and the board have been taking Google down a slightly different road. With this change, it should give more control back to the founders while still keeping the excellent business decisions Schmidt has made in the loop.
Wow, that is pretty brutal. I hope it was done as in-crowd sarcasm.
Same. Besides being a master of javascript, Resig also has a unique talent for API design which separates jQuery from competitors.
Yeah, I'm going to try redoing the overlay with homicides and other violent crimes pretty soon.

It's tough to normalize this kind of thing well, since there's an argument to be made that if there's a shooting on your block, it'll feel dangerous no matter how many people there are living there. Also, primarily commercial districts would get unfairly dinged if it was normalization per capita... would be better with foot traffic in that case.
I agree on the hyphens, but I disagree strongly with your suggestion that mycv.com won't get a bonus for relevance to the term cv.

I've seen plenty of sites with inferior link profiles (to the sites below them in the search results) rank because of domains with a couple of relevant keywords along with a generic one. It's nowhere near an exact match, but it's still worth something.

Let's use the term "entry level jobs" for an example.

http://www.entryleveljobsite.com ranks #9 right now, yet it's link profile is far inferior to my site http://www.onedayonejob.com which ranks at #16. Yes, there are probably some other factors included, but my feeling is that the domain name has a lot to do with it. If you look at the SERPs, you'll see that the entryleveljobs in entrylevejobsite.com is bolded. That right there tells me that Google sees the keywords in the URL.

Btw, I'm using SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer to compare link profiles.

Additionally, many of the links that you build will have CV in the anchor text because of your domain name. That's huge.

A domain like mycv.com would be great if you're trying to rank for CV. CV.com would be better, but that's unrealistic.

However, I'd push you to use Google's AdWords Keyword Tool to do some more research on what keywords you want to use in the domain name.
RSS feeds do not contain location information. I presume that is specifically to make this more difficult and deprive users of a decent interface for what is clearly location-based information and should be on a map. Furthermore, RSS feeds to not go back far enough in time to make this workable.
Proper front end engineering PRODUCES measurable, testable, predictable, reproducible and stable solutions. If you're calling yourself an engineer, you should be able to build a full application client side with separation between the business logic, communication, and display code. If you're writing untested spaghetti jQuery all over the place without at least writing custom extensions, I object to you calling yourself an engineer even if you can bang out a marketing site in no time flat. Call yourself an expert front end developer with my blessings.
I often thought it was Schmidt who needed the supervision, if only when speaking about privacy concerns.
I just tried your app but some of my tweets don't seem to be showing up. Does it have a lag or did it just miss them? Will they show up?
I know I'll get some heat for this, but here it goes anyway.

Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. Not of those that make the news or your typical "fundamentalist". I read and study the Bible and do my best to be a good person, understanding the world around me yet living as closely as possible from that which God has asked of me, through the Bible. And if you ask, I've been doing pretty good at it while remaining relevant in the world around me, even in the tech community, so often agnostic or even atheist.

Meditation, unlike commonly thought of, is not about "emptying your mind" or "getting in tune with the Universe". Meditation is all about letting a thought, concept or idea completely soak your brain. That allows you a superior cognitive understanding of it. The different areas of your brain will be called to process it from all different angles.
From a Christian standpoint, there are a few things that we are called to meditate on: "(…) whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (http://bible.us/Phil4.8.ESV) If you read the previous verses on that passage (4-6), it talks about "rejoicing" and "not worrying". That is only possible when you let your brain soak in the pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, etc thoughts.

Now, I'm not trying to preach or ask you to follow Christ or God. What I'm telling you is that meditation is actively thinking about certain things and those things alone. It's not passive. It's not "emptying your mind". That is relaxation and it's also a good thing. But "emptying your mind" without filling it with the right things can have terrible consequences.

Personally, I'm trying to "disconnect" a little bit more. Less Twitter. Less RSS. Less… Apple rumors. Why? Those are all fine things and I enjoy knowing the latest news on the things that interest me. But living on the "now" has terrible consequences over how I analyze the past and prepare the future. I need to read more books and… meditate on what is important.

Bottom line: take time off, unplug, relax. Read/listen to things that fit the verse I quoted or bring up things that are either troubling or exciting you. Then allow yourself to unwind by letting the silence around you help you focus on what you have soaked your brain in. And I'd say "pray", but that mind be beyond the scope of your question… ;)
It takes some perspective to see (gathering stats from wwikipedia.org):

---------------------------------------

Gross Domestic Product of Top Ten Countries

=======================================

United States	13,843,825,000,000

Japan	4,383,762,000,000

Germany	3,322,147,000,000

China 3,250,827,000,000

France	2,772,570,000,000

United Kingdom	2,560,255,000,000

Italy	2,104,666,000,000

California	1,812,968,000,000

Spain	1,438,959,000,000

Canada	1,432,140,000,000

---------------------------------------

Country	External debt of Top Ten Countries

=======================================

United States	13,450,000,000,000

United Kingdom	9,088,000,000,000

Germany	5,208,000,000,000

France	5,021,000,000,000

Netherlands	3,733,000,000,000

Spain	2,410,000,000,000

Italy	2,328,000,000,000

Ireland	2,287,000,000,000

Japan	2,132,000,000,000

Luxembourg	1,994,000,000,000

---------------------------------------

If I was to be concerned about any country it would be England. They are 6th in GDP, but #2 in external debt.

To make things simple:

• Fred has a salary of $13,843,825.00/year and buys a $13,450,000.00 house via a loan.

• Jane has a salary of $2,560,255.00/year and buys a $9,088,000.00 house via a loan.

Now, which one do you think has the potential pay off the loan early?
Using a mouse and playing a game is computer mastery? This headline seems a bit exaggerated. The small gray print underneath it is much more useful/informative.
I helped to found the Difference Engine, a 13 week bootcamp programme, based in the North East of England. The first batch of 9 teams "graduated" in June 2011 - from which 5 teams have had follow on funding.

Following the success of the programme I was approached to help relaunch the Springboard.com programme based in Cambridge University - funded by the backing of a consortia of Angel Investors. We are in the middle of applications and will accept teams from anyone on the planet. We have received overwhelming support both from the Cambridge and London entrepreneurial community.

Based upon the success we have achieved before we are definitely aiming to get over 50% of our teams funded.
HEre's what I don't get.
We see map/reduce posts all the time, like it's some fantastic new technology.

Reading up - it seems to me that map & reduce are standard functional programming patterns (or whatever you call them) that just happend to lend themselves very well to distributed computing.

mapping and reduction have existed in functional programming forever, no? There's no magic there.
We "talk" with body language.  So should our cellphone.
1. Did he in this day and age really just recommend a license (BSD/MIT) which has no patent license at all?

2. Did he really just call BSD a "copyleft" license?

Unfortunate.
What you see on your timeline at the time you sign up is indexed right away. After that, the app gets all your tweets and those from who you follow.
As twitter has an hourly limit for API calls, it may take some time to index your friends history.

It depends on how many friends you have and how much they tweet
In quite a few places if you're calling yourself an engineer you need an Engineering degree.

Just saying.
Really though, how many different ways are there to display ...

[PRODUCT NAME]

{tagline}

[email form]

...on a web page? Is it that it's centered with a large background image? How much is this ACTUALLY ripped directly from another site versus just design 101? Did you look at the HTML and see that they had copied a lot of the same styles/classes/IDs/element structure?

I'm not denying the similarity, but I also think that it's easy to jump to conclusions when accusing someone of stealing a design. No, I don't have anything to do with radishapp.com either.

disclaimer: I have been known to surf the web when I'm not feeling motivated to design a form, but I never copy a single design explicitly.
That's pretty much a survivorship bias, though. Tons more companies were cratered by their founders.
I've used that idiom too. It's a great trick. One potential issue is that if you continuously trigger the scroll/resize event, your callback will go an extended time without firing. That's usually only a problem if you're using it to adjust UI elements on scroll/resize, in which case you'd want to add a timer to force the callback if the delay has been too long despite the event still firing often.
Who makes a better Google CEO?
Update from their FAQ:

How do I know if my password was hacked?

We believe it’s best to be cautious. So, if you’ve registered your account with Trapster, then it’s best to assume that your e-mail address and password were included among the compromised data.

That's all 10 million they're saying that to.
Social search is going to be big in the next few years. In light of this, Facebook is a much more serious competitor to Google than Bing.
Hopefully this is not another "Jerry Yang as new CEO of Yahoo!" thing.
Adrian Crenshaw a.k.a Irongeek has already done something like this using the Teensy ( http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ ) programmable usb device. The upside is it is programmable either using C or the Arduino dev environment. It costs under $20 and can be made to look much more unobtrusive than a phone. Combine this with some good social engineering and you have yourself a dangerous penetration testing tool. For more info check out Adrian's writeup http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/programmable-hid...
The reverse is just as bad.

Dear GDs: Let's not fight anymore, lets work together to make beautiful web-babies.

Love, the Engineers.

PS: Did you lose weight? You look great! Lose the hipster hat.
If you look at the definition of an engineer:
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, economics and ingenuity to develop solutions to meet economic and societal needs. -- wikipedia

I think programmers easily fall under that category. Think about the issue programmers runs into when developing say a web app. You have scaling issues, database issues, system problems, and general limitations of the programming language you are using...solving all these problems often follows the same approach an engineer works through.
What Drives a Startup Founder?
No, you are right. I updated the article to include the missing step. It was original left out because I didn't think it really had to do anything with map and reduce...but then that's pretty silly, especially ince most of the article doesn't.
Thanks, this is useful. I don't understand why Twitter itself doesn't provide this option. I can search for tweets near me, people, tweets with links, etc. but not what I missed when I wasn't online. Could you combine this with other services such as Facebook or email?
Nice name ;-)

But yeah, there is more to be done on the organizational and collaborative fronts.
I try to do http://www.natural-stress-relief.com/ meditation at least once a day. When I make the time, it hugely improves my focus, productivity, and general mood.

Yes, that site is sketchy as anything. But the technique works.
Firefox Mobile Add-Ons Cup Winners
I'd consider using a service, in that case. I think Xero does this sort of auto-billing stuff; in Australia MYOB will do it for you also. If you haven't already, consider using a payment gateway service to take money from credit cards.

Good luck with your business.
Sergey Brin: "I've Been Accused of Vaporware"
"Open Kimono" ranks just behind "end of the day" (used twice on blog) in terms of business jargon that annoys me.

Language aside, I like the business idea.
Guy Steele: Fold Considered (Slightly) Harmful