skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, I have noticed the same thing when working with canvas - any time you can get the pixel level manipulation to happen in native objects there are big performance gains to be had.

I am interested on the general idea behind your new import an existing site feature. I have played around with this a little bit before, and realize that there is no way to directly render HTML onto a canvas (unless of course you have add on permissions in firefox, like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canva...). Then of course there is something like this: http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/projects/a-browser-within-a-browse... which seems a little incomplete.

I assume you build up the elements array from the elements in the DOM, and manually generate a canvas for each one? That seems like it would be quite tedious, and handling inherited styles, etc could be a pain. Also, once you start moving elements around, they may not really have a place in the HTML anymore, so if I want to share the mockup, is it just an image, or does it become absolutely positioned HTML elements?

Great job on this by the way, I'm impressed with how well it is working.
It'd be much easier on Linux to tap the video stream from the Silverlight player. You could probably do it in userspace, with a modified X server, or even something like Xnest. The only way I can think of for Silverlight to get around it would be to talk to the GPU directly. (Even then, it might be possible, with a virtual machine that installs a special GPU.)
The German->German beatbox trick is much more interesting (see http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beat... )
I honestly believed for a split second that this was an Onion article
I don't understand this -- I buy ebooks because it's too complicated to buy physical books from my country. If it would be as convenient as the US I would buy mostly paperback and just for a select few the ebook version.
my point was that while loss of some paintings is unfortunate, the change of history which unfolded was magnitudes more tragic but also forward moving.

you should worry more that this revolution moves Egypt more on the progress path (whichever you find right yourself), than what happens to some relics (many of which you lost to colonial powers anyway).
For people in a hurry. :) You can just skim the bold sections and get the important points of the post. I tend to write way more than anyone would really want to sit down and read haha

- Quickdraw
> Wrong. On mobile the consensus is this is a sad necessity.

Is it still? I think that by now the only browsers that don't support Media Queries are so old and primitive, that they're not getting used anyway (those toys on featurephones that crash on any site other than operamini.com, previous generation BlackBerry that shows progressbar during execution of JavaScript, etc.)

Everything worth using, from Opera Mini to Androids and iPhones supports Media Queries and can swallow few extra KB of markup.
We've used a native client for many years and it served us well, only when we were able to give the users a comparable experience with just the browser did we make the switch. Even today there are still plenty of people that use the installed software, we've done what we could to make it backwards compatible.
Wait, what? I thought a couple cables on the mediterranean got damaged. What's this with hermetically sealing the country etc? Whether or not it was deliberate, I doubt it primarily due to someone going and switching off the routers, it was this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7218008.stm

and this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7222536.stm
This is great, could see it be a good alternative if on another person's touch device.

At first I thought, "Why would I want to bother with this?" but a few minutes later I realized I was ten articles down having read more than usual for one visit.
Hi Matt, I would like to ask if vertical search engines like vast.com is considered as a scraper site? Real estate search, used car search and other vertical search concepts do need traffic from google. I for one find it valuable to visit a vertical search engine that saves me from visiting site after site to find the car / house I want. Does this mean the end of vertical search engines? (I'm not affiliated with vast.com in any way)

I'm sure many people would like to know about this, thank you.
It is if you're thirty years old.
Then it becomes Assisted Suicide....
Yep, I remember Blacklisted 411. I received a couple issues for free by result of being involved in a local BBS that had some connection to Zac. After that, most issues were bought (with cash, befitting the paranoia surrounding those types of magazines at the time) from the only seller in town with them: Barnes and Noble. The local indy bookseller wouldn't carry them because, in his words, "I don't want to be raided by the feds."
You don't need to kill PoPs. ASes are run by companies. Force those companies to shut down the PoPs themselves.
The Tyranny of Entitlement
Apple’s stocks haven’t grown very rapidly in the last months, at least compared to Apple’s earnings. Apple is making shitloads of money, giving shareholders every reason to be ecstatic but they don’t really seem to be. Apple’s stock is growing conservatively.
> The UK is a democracy

The UK is a constitutional monarchy.
Netflix lists the best and worst ISPs for streaming movies
See http://trendly.com. Sadly, I don't believe the site is operational any more.
Actually, the words are interchangeable. You've heard of "Banana Clip" I'm sure. Clip is just slang for magazines, but the short word is for some reason associated with small magazines. The manuals all call them magazines - rifles or pistols.
How is a "Jewish state" a secular democracy?

Turkey is the ONLY secular democracy in the region.
You probably know that space pretty well then. Would you be willing to write that list and post it on HN or on your blog?
My current favourite spammy search (Windows process names) seems slightly improved, but still produces mostly unusable results.

Try something like: http://www.google.com/search?q=hidfind.exe

Another similar search area (Windows drivers for various hardware) has improved a lot judging from the few examples I just tried - actual hardware manufacturers are now amongst the top results for a change.

So that's quite a step forward...
Why do people own TVs?

They're fun.
Rapidshare was pretty good too (as a name, the service sucks) and it surprises me that they never managed to expand in to dropbox's territory.

And with public shared folders dropbox is definitely expanding in to theirs.
Legal advice site LawPivot gets Google Ventures backing
The Geek Gap
> I know there are others out there like me. People who would love to read news exclusively about startups, so I decided to start my own TC alternative.

I hope you're going to have an editor :)
And array/hash slices/elements, including the deletion of a key.
I bought an early Minidisk player (still have it), and you could record with it using ordinary line in RCA jacks. A microphone was not necessary. As a replacement for a cassette deck, it beat the pants off of it. Sadly, the copy protection on the disks (it wouldn't even let you do a bit copy of your own disk recordings) killed it.
So HN is in the first spot for this query now. And it redirects to this question. Make of that what you will.
NASA marks 25th anniversary of Challenger accident
Ask HN: Have any good founder breakup stories?
I don't want to be a gossip, just interested if anyone has any stories to share about how it went, how you got to that point, etc. This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons.

My co-founder and I have had a good run but I think it's about time to part ways. I'm technical, he's non-technical. It seems like it's the same ol' story: We are doomed. He is trying to scale the business before we have customers or a product that has been proven in the market and won't listen to me on anything not technology related (and sometimes even tech-related things go without me). We are already an LLC (we were in the first week, actually) and have divvy'd up C-level titles.

He brought on one of his friends to be our "CFO" and do marketing-related activities. Marketing guy doesn't like the product and thinks we should pivot. So, the product is pivoted and I don't hear about said pivot until the decision has been made and the sales direction has changed ("We need the product to do X now" where X is something entirely unrelated to the domain and requires a herculean effort). He also brought on a guy to do sales -- originally he was supposed to be doing sales but doesn't want to...so is paying someone else to do it which is suboptimal for many reasons.

To get some "initial revenue in the door" the company is getting signed up for consulting gigs. I'm not interested doing them and have concerns about the direction of the company (why do I keep saying company? We aren't a company). I voice the concerns but the proposal is sent anyway. Damn.

The guy is impossible to work with and I feel like a glorified (barely) code monkey working on something I'm not even interested in. He wants to be a "vision guy" but his vision is consistently flawed but refuses to take anyone's input. I feel like I should just go get a 9-5 at this point.

But, another project I started on whim a few weeks back is getting some traction! Unlike this company's product, I actually have users (non-paying, but at least a base of people to bounce my stuff off). So the future isn't entirely bleak, but it's going to be a rough conversation to have.

Edit: Boy, this post sounds pretty whiny. I did do some things -- a lot of things-- wrong. For instance, if we have a product that is not validated against a market there should be no reason for a pivot to be super painful. Likewise, I should have been better at asserting myself when decision time came. So, lessons for the next round, I suppose...
Absolutely. I wonder what the response would have been if his nick would have been either something techy or just his name.
5.1 on the ps3:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/14/netflix-on-ps3-goes-disc-...
Just to put your academic worries to rest, the army has secured the museum 7 minutes ago.

Fear of Islamists is what kept Mubarak in power for the last 30 years. We have no trouble dealing with blood-thirsty, Quran waving Islamist criminals; U.S. is happily in bed with Saudi Arabia and likes the taste of Islam there. Egypt shouldn't be different.
Well, few people own true AK47's, most own copies of the Russian AKM which is made from stamped parts (as opposed to machined on the true AK47 [1]. I own a semi-auto Romanian WASR 10 - which is very common in the US (PA). They go for ~$300 at a sporting goods store.

It's a lot of fun to shoot, the AK is cheap reliable, historical and can be used for fun, hunting (yes) and in survival situations. I actually do a "StartupGuns" [2] event in Pittsburgh where a bunch of us go shooting like OpenCoffee or similar.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akm ("Features")
[2] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=207534415228
Graphic.ly Raises $3 Million: Interview With CEO Micah Baldwin
Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever
'watching their charge' - clever.
(had to make a pivot joke, that is)
NoSQL at Netflix
It seems that it's fixed. When this was posted, it translated "I HATE YOU" to "私はあなたFacebookを利用しています".
I'll download anything with a crappy name as long as the functionality is there. I really couldn't care less.

Do I really think Apple is a great name for a computer manufacturer? Definitely not on the surface. But they ran with it and now it's accepted as one of the strongest brands on the planet.
Why use a real person then, why not just drop a phone in a crowd and then set it off when your safely away?
Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip
As an IT guy, I cannot even begin to imagine what it would have been like to be ordered to shut down the routers like that.
No, I'm not really defending eFreedom. However, I think that sites that are ~like~ eFreedom in some ways to be useful. For instance, large scale text mining could create things that are more than the some of their parts.

For example, I think within 10-20 years at the most we'll have systems that can decompose text into facts and then reassemble it into 'original' text.
Actually the Chinese copies are considered pretty good, but are pretty rare because the US embargoes "assault" weapons from there for civilian use with State Dept's permission (never).

Most of the cheap ones in the 90's were Maadi (Egyptian), and now they're usually Romanian.
Pretty important point. Most of the people on the East Coast I know who could use Syncplicity have never heard about it.
I've worked for David for two years. I can honestly say he is the nicest person I've ever met. Genuinely kind and thoughtful, and wants the best for the site and the people that use it.
Exactly. It's funny that some people are 'blaming the customer' for loving a service so much that he gets upset when the people who run it act like this.

Not only can they not be trusted to run the service, but they act unprofessional when you complain. Customers complain, get over it. Learn to deal with it constructively.

David's response is not constructive and William's feedback is very valuable. Period.
Charles Darwin would have something clever to say about this...
What would a modern day invasion look like?

It used to be control of the radio and TV stations, bridges, railroads and the airports, it may very well be that in the current century the control of cell phone towers and routers will trump those in priority. You can disable the power by graphite bombing power stations (see Belgrade) but that will probably not have an immediate effect on the network.

Of course the quickest way to put the routers out of commission is to simply destroy them but if you want to be able to put them back online later it will have to be done more subtle.

I recall how immediately after the invasion of Iraq a bunch of entrepreneurial types brought in a cell phone exchange in a container and a bunch of GSM phones, they were immediately confiscated by the US army. At the time the theory was that the US wanted a US company to own the Iraqi telephone infrastructure for commercial reasons but there may have been another motive there.
I assume (hope) there must be some smart people somewhere starting to work on some sort of P2P/mesh internet replacement that could work with all the wireless routers out there in order to prepare for the day when something like this happens again... ?
DKIM Signature and verification using DKIMproxy
I lived in Morocco from 1992-2003 and watched/saw a lot of people watch Al Jazeera (the arabic version).

Although it's possible it has improved since 2003, the Arabic version of Al Jazeera back then was even worse than Fox News in what they reported and how they reported it.

I'm fairly convinced the english version they've been cultivating is a massive coup for mind share in the US. They've done an absolutely amazing job at convincing the intelligent elite that they're an unbiased news source to be trusted. My experience is exactly the opposite.
I'm starting a 48 hour game jam that's being broadcast live
Wait, they're booking you on consulting gigs to get revenue for a startup company (with probably zero valuation) and you're the only technical guy doing the work? Red flag!

Edit: The point is, unless you are trying to earn money to match a monetary investment they've already made in the company, it doesn't make much sense. You could be pocketing the consulting $ yourself.
Repeating a quick search I was doing a week or so ago to find drivers, I'm not seeing an improvement. Asus actually has a great driver site, that is way better and less hassle than the spam sites, but I've yet to see it show up in search results. I only found it because one of the spam sites was using asus's servers to serve up the drivers.

http://www.google.co.nz/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
Why would I want to replace MySQL. It's GPL. Larry may scream all he wants and business will continue as usual. The worst that can happen is to use a forked version.

Drizzle is very interesting, BTW.
There are apparently some renegade hackers running HAM radio out of egypt. Apparently theyre sending morse code back and forth.

http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Egypt/Main_Page#Hamradio

"40m band, ~7-7.3 MHz LSB, 318.5 degrees(northwest/north from cairo), Friday night until the morning (16:00-05:00 UTC). ON/KC0SJH will be calling CQ"

They also seem to be coordinating free dialup links. Biggup.
ME '07 ! GO JACKETS!
Hard to find a more universally understood symbol in the western world other than the cross (and that's a bit much for a computer company). I think it was an excellent choice.
Preferential attachment. It began as a random fluctuation and then entered a positive feedback loop (as it climbed, more HN readers saw it and upvoted it further).
It's all there, free initial offer for lead gen (ebook), money back guarantee, obnoxious copy, the only thing missing is the call to action "Yes!, I want to earn $100 per week, please send me your $150 ebook for just $25"
Really clean and good roads. Not everything is bad in North Korea
It's scary isn't it.
It's a good fit for all their services, including Market Place. It's a good fit for their core market (who probably already use PayPal, but would happily go with alternatives). It fits nicely with people wanting to experiment with Facebook adverts for their small biz/consulting biz.

Only question for me is, how long will it remain fixed to the dollar :-) I'm sure secondary markets will spring up relatively quickly!
It was standard issue from about 1985/1986 - before that they used self loading rifles ie. one trigger - one round.
>in Canada

A VPN service at few dollars a month allows perfectly good viewing of Hulu and Netflix (with appropriate hardware/setup).
When you start it up you get a 'blank' project. So just go to Project -> Add Folder to Project... and you're done.

In fact, it even remembers this so you're good for as long as you want to be single-project, too.
Why programming: A basic trend is that everything becomes digital. Hence I want to be in web startups. If I'll be doing web stuff for the next couple of decades I might as well learn how to program.

It's possible to run a cab company without a driver's license, but it's not very convenient.
Not quite the same though - Apple setup iTunes to make it easier for iPod owners to use their product - and making Apple some money in the process.

They didn't decide to limit the iPod to 32Kb/s playback to protect sales of their CD players
If this is so, why are there so many startups started by ex-Googlers?
How exactly did I insult them? And please point to anywhere on tumblr's website where I can export my content? Even Facebook, one of the most closed eco-systems on the web lets users download their own content.
> can't wait until $5/gas forces US to mandate electric cars as a policy.

Sorry to be pedantic, but if gas prices were high enough to make electric cars economical, then electric cars wouldn't have to be mandated by the government. That's how markets and prices work.
WPF and the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern
Sorry I meant line in - the point was that you had to go the analog route because they wanted to restrict your use for their studio's sake.

If Sony had made a cheap PC drive that took minidisk it would have been as popular as floppies and been a real selling point for their PCs.
Heh, yeah I find that pretty scary too. Good point about matching, he has put in a lot of cash already but in a way that I feel like we don't need. Unfortunately the way the gig is structured the cost will absorb the cash we're making (we have some really expensive hardware).
I disagree. The fact that I made progress on this program proves it's worth. My prior experience with weight lifting isn't really relevant, especially given the multi-year layoff in between. When I came to stronglifts I was, for all intents and purposes, starting all over again. Based on my experience with it so far, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to a beginner - and in fact, have.

It's important to note - at the risk of sounding like i'm appealing to authority - that the people who originally advocated this program have years of experience training themselves, and training other people. At least one well known proponent has a relevant degree. And no, these are not your usual PHd in bro-science "trainers" - they've trained elite competitors and olympic atheletes. If they say this a good program for beginners, I'm inclined to take them at their word.

Having watched most of the beginners at the gym I'm at now, I can say for a fact that stronglifts would be a hell of a lot better than the average beginner's routine of sixty sets of curls, 20 sets of calf raises, 10 sets of reverse-incline-dumbell-flye-extension-no-set-hyper-mega-extensions, etc. etc....
Thank you! I can't read/speak Arabic so I have absolutely no way to verify but I definitely fell hook, line and sinker for the way they've been working on their international image.
In John They Trust: WWII Cargo Cult Continues
This is the way I've been using it on the first version. I hope it's coming soon.
Please explain how emailing (some) of tumblr's staff to express my disappointment with the level of service can be classed as harassment?
Blah... good to know. That's what I was hoping for and I'm surprised it doesn't.
sod on "loan" I would like the option to have both thanks, I don't mind paying a £1 or so more than the physical copy is on its own but at the moment if I want both I have to buy both the physical and the digital copy. Like the BluRay+DVD packs that are available.
Fast Facts on Akamai’s State of the Internet
Challenger Disaster in Pictures
Process, Best-of-Breed Software and Feature Creep
Although you were particularly searching for a book, I would still recommend the video by Colin Moock titled "ActionScript Weekend"
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801526
Sony of the late 70s early 80s was different.

You don't remember how bad everyone else's industrial design and build quality was compared to Sony - it was like Audi or BMW in a world of Buicks.
It's funny that Mastercard can't defend against an attack that my home router is capable of defending against. (A big limit on connections per /24 per minute should solve this problem. So will using a smart webserver or frontend proxy that doesn't care how many idle connections there are. Then all you have to worry about is bandwidth saturation rather than your servers crashing.)

But the lesson here is, when you visit a web page, a line in a log that identifies you is generated. Generate too many of these lines, and, one line of Perl later, the cops are going to be asking you some questions. Don't participate in a DDoS attack unless you're absolutely sure that nobody is logging your traffic. And that is something that's impossible to be sure of these days.
This paints a very different picture: https://github.com/languages

edit: I realize this is measuring something different, but it suggests that the reports of the decline of Ruby and JavaScript could be wrong.
Mozilla Ecuador
What do you think of Mozilla's opening of a community based location in Ecuador?
I'm an Egyptian National.

This has been a long time coming for Egypt and this revolution will most likely succeed as well.

The only concerning outcome, which is to be determined, is if Egyptians are up to the challenge of establishing a respected level of checks and balances. Without this, all is lost.
I use to work on the team that maintains the webserver that serves Google websearch. google.com.eg (and any other google search domain) can be served out of many of Google's datacenters, in various places around the world. The user is sent to the "closest" data center that can serve their request, to minimize latency. Country-specific domains don't have to be served out of the local country (that would be pretty unmanageable, given the number of country specific domains Google has).