skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infinite scroll is also a way to make scrolling infuriating, especially if you are wanting to click links and fan out from that location: it forces you to avoid your browser's carefully designed history stack like the plague (opening new tabs or windows for navigation instead) lest you lose your incredibly valuable document you've carefully been scrolling down in (and which is now so large it is threatening to cripple your browser anyway). What happened to normal "next page" paradigms? Does user testing really show that infinite scroll is better?
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Using Google Docs for Classroom Instruction
Most certainly in San Francisco.

http://www.fixmuninow.com/faq.html
I'm curious, what's wrong with t.co?
Please please please do not pop before the end of 2011!
Votable questions right in the article body of blogs or websites?
Flipter.com is aiming at putting interactive votable questions on the article body of blogs or websites. What do you think will it work?
good point! You need some functionality though where the response can't just be memoized by the crack. What could it be?
Ask HN: Any company use a HN style forum as an internal communication tool?
It seems to me that a privately hosted HN forum would be an effective communication tool for open discussions among staff (rather than email)?
OK. Maybe this is what I didn't understand. You're saying that the video is a screen-capture of how to use Popcorn, the video itself isn't played with Popcorn? Man, this is confusing...
But how is disqus able to store the fbs_<appid> cookie which is returned, under safari?
Sony, Nintendo (and others) solved this by running the said applications externally.

For example a Sony or Nintendo SDK would have the gcc compilers, linkers, bintools, etc, and they would distribute the source... Yet nothing stops them from writing pre-linker, post-linker, pre-compiler, post-compiler steps that would be required by the developer to get called (or get called automatically by a tool).

In such case you mix well GNU (GPL) with closed commercial software, and distribute the end product just fine.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Announces Medical Leave of Absence
Very small QA team...unless you count all the feature, cross-browser and multi-language testing done by the product management team.

I'm still not sure having the product team responsible for hours and hours of black-box QA testing each week was an effective use of resources.
In silicon valley you don't have to go and fetch coffee for traders.
Make it a meme like FML. Say, "I'm TCS" (i.e. Totally Cube Screwed), or something like that? I enjoy the posts so far, keep them coming.
Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible
I don't know. We use artificially populated data for performance testing. for user behaviour and other metrics, they would have programs running against the actual production database, not a stale developer copy of it.
Are you verifying the referred emails? What percentage of users are taking the bait to get earlier access?
Who’s who of bad password practices – banks, airlines and more
This has been a well known phenomenon for quite a while. Even back in the 90s, when algorithmic trading picked up steam, wall st rushed to hire math Phds and now wall st wants algo geeks. It'll be really hard to woo hackers to work in the hierarchy driven wall st culture. Some hedge funds are opening offices around Berkeley and subscribing to the valley way of life.
You also don't have to leave your ethics behind when coming into the office.
Sorry, but had to be posted:

Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", linked under... ahem http://norvig.com/21-days.html
If you are a college student reading this and have the slightest inkling of entrepreneurial flare, please please please do not work for a financial company/wall street.

I can assure it will be nothing compared to what you are able to accomplish by starting your own company and building something you care about. In finance, you will be fighting against transparency for the sake of maintaining profits when you could be doing something way more important... And yes the problem solving is fun at first, but then you realize that you could be problem solving on something that matters to you. A few thousand dollars more doesn't matter, and if you figure in the cost of living in NYC you're probably making less.

That is my advice, take it or leave, but please, think about what you're doing.
I'm sure Bush did care what was happening on the ground, but the confused response between the different levels of government was astounding (and surely wasn't the feds fault alone).

In fairness Katrina was a much more difficult disaster to deal with than the flood. The flood required small-scale evacuations, while Katrina required the evacuation of an entire city. There's always going to be chaos when you try to evacuate an entire metropolitan area within 48 hours... the manpower and infrastructure to do that kind of thing just doesn't exist.

And that's before you consider that there was a storm as well as a flood.
And what will they do with the money? hire more lolcats?
I don't think it is fair to include free apps in the analysis and then ignore the revenue that may have been generated with ads. The article does end with a note saying that $2b was paid out in 31 months for apps compared to the music.
I never got the hacker obsession with idea vs execution. It seems fairly obvious to me that you need both to succeed?
Hate to be another "Bubble" preacher, but if this isn't another step in that direction, I don't know what is.
Tell HN: Object365 - Everyday of your life in a JSON object
I am currently working on a web application, but have been meaning to pursue one of my other ideas when I finish. I figured I would share it now to help me think of ideas as I go forward. Basically the idea of the site is to store everything about your day in a JSON object for a year.

Why you ask? Well, it would be cool to identify and trend habits, go back in time and see what you did on a given day and whatever else you could think to do with the data. How would you get it? I kind of worked some of that out.

I set the whole site up in phases:
- 2 weeks = Voice memo everything I do
- 1 week = Go through data and identify specifics to track based on habits. Build application to take in data and create a JSON object.
- 3 months = Voice memo trackable items and enter them into application

At the end of all this you should have a decent result set of data that you could query on using MongoDB or something else. Obviously this would not benefit everyone, but I know it would me and hell, I am interested in the end results. If others are interested then please share your thoughts so when I pursue this I could bake them in.
I don't have a breakdown with precise numbers for you, but some bloat comes from the fact that we include all of our templates in the phoenix bundle. Some savings could come from fetching certain components and pages on demand, but right now, we pull down everything. Gzipped it drops to ~200k, which isn't terrible considering that this is fetched in parallel with API resources and the initialization of our cross-domain iFrame. We're currently working on getting our bootstrap time down, so the bundle size may be reduced as a result of that effort.

Re: DOM issues, when you switch around between pages and/or timelines, we detach the timeline DOM elements and keep a reference in memory. Upon returning to a previously loaded timeline, we do a repaint (not bad). Right now, we don't employ any such technique for an active timeline that has been scrolled a long way down. One thing we can do is detach large blocks of tweets that aren't in the viewport and splice them back in (while maintaining an accurate scroll height) if the user scrolls back up.
3% cpu continuously is enough to make a (my) macbook noticeably hotter.
New glass tops steel in strength and toughness
> and partly because of the different quality of people in the two cities.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Fixed. I swear I did that right before that last post though.
The problem with knowing too many languages is that soon the syntax starts blending with each other, and context switches take time.
Things Real People Don't Say About Your App
The point is that it DOESNT MATTER what the scales or methodology was. There is no study or methodology or renumbered axis that will place alcohol to the left and bottom of marijuana. All that matters is that alcohol is above N2O and that heroin is above cocaine and that tobacco is to the right of marijuana etc.

The point I was originally making is that alcohol and tobacco is IN THE MIDDLE of all the illegal drugs in terms of damage and addictiveness and therefore you can't argue that they should be legal or illegal base just on those 2 factors alone.

Here's the study though in case you still want to look at it:
^ Nutt D, King LA, Saulsbury W, Blakemore C (2007). "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse". Lancet 369 (9566): 1047–53. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4. PMID 17382831.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#cite_note-97 )
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--"I've had people in interviews ask me point-blank what the social value is that we're adding," Mr. Chau said.

This is a question that shouldn't be uncommon, and should be easy to answer. If people at these financial firms can't easily answer it (and don't say "we increase market liquidity by 1e-30%!"), it's no wonder new hires with lots of prospects would avoid them. Why not work at, say, Facebook, where you're taking part in changing the way people interact, and every single person your age is using your product every day.

If the most interesting thing you do in a day is increase the wealth of others for a tiny tiny fraction of it, that's a huge opportunity cost. You could be be spending 40-60 hours a week doing something you find much more rewarding, and still have high enough a wage to meet all your financial goals.
This is no where near the disaster that Katrina was
Bubble? Don't know. I bet they attract very distinct (relative to most websites) and important segments. If I took at stab at it I'd say something like non-tech white employed females.

If they do have unique and/or focused segments, and enough of them, they can monetize it.
Well, there's two ways to look at this. Are we buying Cheezburger Network because of its existing collection of fad-sites, or are we buying it because we think they have the capacity to keep coming up with new fad-meme-sites indefinitely?
maybe some cheeseburgers
They addressed this in a recent blog post: http://www.osqa.net/2010/04/20/dont-panic-stackexchange-is-n...

The impression I get is they want to create a platform that matches the SE system, and then advance it above and beyond what SE is.
Wow, dude... I'd need to write you a textbook to answer your questions... if you have specific questions you can ping me at magee70@yahoo.com... FYI I'm on my 3rd startup... sold the first two..
"I love verifying my email address." Sigh... I know, man. I know.
There are a lot of reasons to believe we're in another startup bubble, but at least Cheezburger is profitable.
Apple Holders: Give Us Our Cash
Strikes me as over complicated. Add variables to CSS. Done.
response.headers['P3P'] = 'CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"'
That's not a problem inherent to infinite scroll at all. It's easily fixed by setting a hash value on the current page (the #foo in a URL) corresponding to the current scroll state, and updating it each time infinite scroll happens.

Why Twitter doesn't implement something like this is a whole different issue.
You are right that Islam is the official religion. But I don't think it means much.

Tunisia encourages women working in official positionsnot to wear the hijab in public places. Same restrictions for men. Indeed, you could say that the rules is stricted than in France (the most violently anti hijab of my friends are Tunisian muslims). It is only of anedoctal value, but within most of my friends who are muslims, most of the ones not practising the religion at all (eating pig, drinking alcohol) are of Tunisian descendant.

You are the first person that I know who claim Algeria is more secular than Tunisia. I would be curious to know what you are basing it on, the fact that the military took control does not mean much: what matters is the society.
Yeah, that one is the best so far probably.
Innovating without permission
More importantly, is this person the right co-founder for you?

What skills do you lack?

Do you trust them?

Whatever the deal, assume you own all the equity to start with, and they have to buy shares to become cofounder. It doesn't really matter what the cost per share is, but it should be enough for you to reach the next milestones.

You also need to reg the company, and have a lawyer produce a shareholders agreement.

The analogy of co-founder to marriage isn't far off the mark.
Facebook & Identity: The Continued Push Toward Becoming Your One True Login
It seems that they've changed that sentence, it now says "Hopefully he's going to conquer this one as well".
Facebook Estimated To Collect Almost 5 Percent Of U.S. Online Ad Revenue
Good deal russ, thanks. There's a fine balance to maintain between combining and lazy loading files. Still seems to be one of the harder front end problems to solve since client side architectures are all relatively unique. Thanks again sir.
Have him or her prove his worth over the next month as a trial. No compensation or promises, equity or otherwise. Business co-founders are generally great at talk, but less so at action. It's stereotyping I know, but its a generalization based in fact. They aren't as in demand as the technical side, and are generally more willing to work for free. Of course, saying "I'd like you to work for free without any compensation this month" won't sound good. Try "I'm skeptical of the need for a business cofounder, so I'm giving you the next month to show me that you're critical to success."

At the end of the month, you'll likely either think "well, it doesn't look like he(she) did anything I couldn't do" or "wow, there's no way I can do this without him(her)".

If it's the latter, give up 30% of your company vested over a few years.
The Leave
Just a tip -- relaunch FF in safe mode (sans extensions etc.) and verify before reporting bugs like that, please.
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On the odd occasion that I've caught the MUNI, I've been under the distinct impression that the driver and I are the only two people on the bus who could possibly have a job.
By law you are not required to fill out the information and a company can not base its hiring decisions on the information even if it is provided. That also means that by law the company can not hold it against you either in making a hiring decision.

The questions are used for several purposes. First, some companies use it to determine overall demographics of the company. This benefits them if they were ever challenged on not promoting females or discriminating based on race, etc... I also believe (my HR legal requirements are rusty so I could be completely wrong here) that some states, and possibly the federal government, require employee demographic breakdown info when hiring new employees.

As for providing a resume, I would not put a photo on the resume itself unless asked specifically for it. Instead you may consider putting a link to your blog or LinkedIn profile with your photo already there. While I have never heard of a company disqualifying an applicant because of a photo on their resume, I could understand how it could be a controversial subject. Some companies may be afraid that by accepting photos they could open their liability to discrimination or EEO complaints.
Nothing like posting a picture of the y-combinator on a ycombinator.com site :)
A rails / mongodb project also exists for this called http://shapado.com/

Code here: https://github.com/patcito/shapado

Personally I am still uncomfortable with rolling out a site that looks exactly like StackOverflow. I imagine it could be a good basis to start on though.
Same for us.

It's just a little bit too simple to be useful for anything but a solo project.
Are you sure it's wired memory that it's eating? Or just inactive "standby" memory which will be reallocated to other processes if needed?

If your free memory isn't close to 0, your OS is wasting RAM or you don't have much anything running.
Depends on the application, really. I can give you an example of where I've personally considered using this (ended up going with an alternative, however): my startup's product is a hotel front desk system and we have to encrypt room keys to work in the locks; pushing the crypto off onto an external device would make it considerably more difficult to pirate the software, as you'd have to reverse the algorithm and reimplement it in software. In the end, it didn't make sense for us, but it would've been pretty solid, as the odds of you having two identical cards is monumentally slim (and would only even be possible every couple of years).
Street Artist Banksy to Be Unveiled Via eBay Auction
Anyone care to explain why this is downvoted?
Is there a good step-by-step on a setup like this? I've used RVM for Ruby and that is pretty straight forward...

Someone commenting on their workflow using these tools would be awesome as well.
This Is Why Apple Won’t Be Fine If Steve Doesn’t Return
The fact that most simple copy protection can be broken by
someone that knows a bit of assembly shouldn't surprise
anyone writing applications,

But it does, which is the point of the author.

this post is just self-congratulatory silliness

You know, some people just like to write up something they did that they think is pretty interesting. People will keep inventing the wheel over and over again and still be proud of their wheel. This kind of derogatory remarks are uncalled for. You have no idea about the thoughts or feelings of the author and have no reason to think ugly things.

If I were to respond to your comment in the same way, I would say that you were just displaying your superiority complex over someone learning the ropes. Or perhaps bitterness and jealousy over the attention this article gets, while your more advanced knowledge does not get the attention it deserves. Or ... whatever. I can come up with a number of epithets to attribute to you based on that little bit of text, all equally uncalled for.
I generally don't like Gizmodo's articles (generally being sensationalist rubbish) but I found this article very interesting.
I demand pictures.

Ours mostly is food-driven. She'll fetch if there's food involved, but not otherwise.
I've never looked at this site before today. What's the point of it?
How the IT department can go from zeroes to heroes
I think that's a good point. The scale of the gulf weather events on urban populations (also thinking of Rita and the Houston evacuation) is just astounding.

I guess all reminders of our planet's volatility no matter where we choose to settle.
> Even if you did it under existing laws, the amount of money required to resume all the properties would be immense.

IANAL, but as I recall, the guarantee that forced acquisition occur on just terms only binds the Commonwealth, not the states. Queensland may not have just-terms laws, and even if they do, Parliament would be able to suspend them.
Here's the follow-up story...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_identity_the_c...
In that case I should probably mention the 16mb (yup megabytes) upgrade you could get for the Commodore 64, up from 64kb.

It was a silly thing and needless to say, stupidly expensive.
Why is this a bubble if they are already profitable?
You can imagine attempting to support something like this when the user has scrolled 20 pages worth through a timeline. We could, of course, backfill newer tweets subsequently up to the most recent (taking a minimum of two requests and a maximum of 20), but this would be expensive.

I mentioned somewhere else in this thread that we could maintain an accurate scroll height but detach more recent tweets when a timeline is scrolled a long distance. We could do the same thing here, and backfill as the user scrolls up. There are some challenging things to get right though if the user decides to jump to the top, etc. Definitely non-trivial.
I wouldn't be. Bob Brown has form on this sort of thing. He blamed the ACT and Victoria bushfires on global warming also. Basically his major supporters at this point must be the forgetful and the shameless.
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I imagine it must be difficult to talk about Ben Huh with someone who's hard of hearing.

Person 1: "Huh said we have to fix this."

Person 2: "Huh?"

Person 1: "That's right, Huh said that."
I was confused a while till I saw you talking about Moses Schönfinkel. From everything I've seen people usually refer to those as SK combinators not SC combinators.
this works for IE, but what about safari?
The estimate I've read is 100W per person.

Sometimes, in a crowded room, it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine how hot it would be if each person except you was replaced by a 100W incandescent light bulb.
So, app developers are the new rock stars? Finally, revenge of the nerds! :-)

On a more serious note, this is fascinating data. I wonder what the comparison to web apps looks like, but that's a much harder (almost impossible?) number to get at.

I say fascinating, because who would've thought that having a centralized marketplace with a builtin secure payment mechanism would've created so much value/wealth over such little time, kudos to apple.
He deserved it because its difficult to generate that many page views in such a short span of time. Plus its a great app!
Got something that works well. Code available: http://pastebin.com/MRxvi47L
Potentially useful. How well do this and Shapado scale?
First Kickstarter-Funded Film Headed to Sundance
They didn't redact informants and collaborators names from many of the documents they leaked. I would hardly call that exercising caution.

I understand that in some cases redacting names weakens the impact of the leak and its political statement. However, releasing the name of some random informant working on the ground in Iraq has no substantial effect on the impact of the whole leak, but can have an enormous effect on that person's life, especially if he's killed.
According to some random company's estimate their ad revenue hit $1.6Bn. We won't know until they go public, if ever.
I like music while coding and depending on the style, it usually doesn't distract me. But I also don't mind or even realize the lack of tunes if I'm deep into a coding session. I often marvel that I went N hours without music and didn't even notice it until I came up for air.
Do cats get a share of that funding?
Meh, I call BS on some of this. I've def lazyed out on deleting my account because I couldn't find the button on the site.
Almost all of Facebook's internationalization is crowd-sourced. What you're seeing probably isn't a bug, the string just hasn't been translated by a user yet.
On the other hand, working for one of these firms can be a huge motivator to start your own. Sometimes, it takes the experience of something you hate to teach you the value of something you love.
Would this matter that much if a person didn't share much on Facebook? After all, Facebook does not force anyone to share intimate details of one's life. On the other hand, constantly updating or changing the privacy controls and policy ensures that the majority of people don't keep up with it. No one likes to read the terms and conditions of any site.
I'm sorry, but who cares? This post offered nothing insightful, merely click bait towards some of your projects. Teach me the benefit of learning "12 languages" or offer some productivity hacks to achieve so next time.
For a solo project though, the simplicity is really refreshing.