skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got an android phone recently and started using twidroyd yesterday. The first time I tried to tweet from my phone, when I hit 'done' a 30-char-or-so ad for Twidroyd was appended onto my (20-char-or-so) tweet. I was rather irked that I had to go back into the text edit box to delete it. I uninstalled the app immediately (thanks VM for not locking down the base ROM to prevent removing this default app, I guess) so I don't know whether this is only first-use behavior or persistent, but it is rather sleazy and annoying and I don't blame Twitter for banning them for this sort of horsecrap in the slightest.
A lot of questions - don't need to answer. Maybe they can jog your thinking...

What draws you to data visualization? Is it the sorcerer's apprentice type visceral appeal of creating meaning out of seemingly entropic data? Or is it you like the data visualization aspect more than the political campaign/marketing of your business.

Reading between the lines, it seems you are comfortable (and doing fairly well) bringing data visualization to small political campaigns - do you want to expand that ambition? (e.g. in charge of real-time analytics for a large political campaign). Or do you feel like you want to tell people at cocktail parties that you are a data scientist? What would your dream job as a data scientist be? Do you want to be in a position where your job is access to huge data sets (Google, Facebook, Twitter) - for the ego and boasting of it? What do you think of OKCupid's data analysis/data visualization blog on dating - do you want to explore hypotheses and test them on large data sets? Is Edward Tufte's book(s) a coffee table book or do you flip through it when you are bored? You don't have his books? Did you want to enter the Netflix Prize contest but felt you didn't have the skills to compete?

I've met some biostatisticians. It's hard to figure out what the heck they are talking about - but they really do enjoy their job (providing quantifiable evidence of drug efficacy).

I've also met some actuaries. They get paid a lot. It's a very secure career. It's all numbers.

Some of the best visualizations are not that complex.

http://twistori.com
http://twittervision.com

There is a $$ rather expensive test called the Kolbe test that you may consider investing in taking - it goes way beyond Myers Briggs to pinpoint your personal strengths and how you feel about them.

http://www.kolbe.com
I just realised that http://nic.ly is down. I wonder how many other Libyan sites have been shut off from the world.

The DNS won't be affected for the most part as .ly it seems to have redundancy in many different countries.
Statistics is an area where they generally take students from all fields into master's programs. The most common second master's subject among the grad students I know is statistics - in fact, half of the lab I'm in (biology) are Biology PhD/Statistics MS dual degree students, because they're interested in working with large biological datasets. You might look into that. See if you can find a stats professor that specializes in computation and large datasets.
I remember him spamming my paintball newsgroup in 97. Even then it was considered newbish to acknowledge him.
Congrats to Zed's book. It was great fun watching him crank it out. I've used it personally as a quick refresher course on Python basics after having not used it at all for a couple years. It was a great, breezy tutorial, well structured, easy to crank through and good enough to get you up and running.
I am an absolute advocate for rich urls - they improve user experience, especially now browsers such as Chrome are limiting the visibility of page titles. The SEO benefits are undisputed, and in general I'd always recommend.

There is still a case for Devil's Advocate here though. Consider one of the most popular internet properties, Youtube.

Youtube could switch on rich urls tomorrow, but they don't. In industry where pageviews are king and you have trusted branding (no shock redirects), then I believe Youtube's ugly hash urls might well benefit them.

More than a few times I've visited links which I otherwise wouldn't have if the title was embedded in the url. Occasionally I've been pleasantly surprised by the content and stayed to watch. Considering the hokey titles of some of the better content, I think their url structure might genuinely be a benefit. Also, without their structure there would be no oHg5SJYRHA0

A few other large properties use this (flickr...), and while I think for early growth you are basically throwing away potential traffic, for sites of a certain level, there could be gains by not having rich url structure - not least they can ignore a bunch of complex DB dupe indexing issues by throwing away titles.
So out of:

ly. 172800 IN NS phloem.uoregon.edu.
ly. 172800 IN NS dns.lttnet.net.
ly. 172800 IN NS dns1.lttnet.net.
ly. 172800 IN NS ns-ly.ripe.net.
ly. 172800 IN NS auth02.ns.uu.net.

dns.lttnet.net and dns1.lttnet.net are unreachable. nic.ly was using only these two for its name servers.
"picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates" might as well be the Web 2.0 motto.
An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. Thompson
No, I had to compile my own kernels for several reasons.

1. My soundcard didn't work with any vanilla kernel (+ modules)

2. I owned a webcam that had a slightly different USB id than the ones supported by the driver that in fact also supported mine.

3. I owned a laptop with a touchscreen which involved having to compile some non-standard modules.

Anyways, things have gotten a lot better since I've "left", but Linux (on the desktop and Android, for that matter) will always be "very good the next release". Which is, of course, utter bull. If you don't have excellent polish as a priority from the start, you'll always be fixing things for the "next" version while simultaneously introducing 10 new half-baked "features".
Show HN: 7courses recipe manager, updated.
Awhile back I launched http://7courses.com on here to get some preliminary feedback. The reception was positive, but there were a few issues that had to be addressed. Mainly, the font, and the lack of a normal user system (limited to openID logins). This has been changed, along with a whole ton of other features which may or may not be immediately apparent. Either way, I think this project has come a long way, and hope you can find some use from it.

http://7courses.com
http://twitter.com/7courses

7courses is a central place where you can store and collect all your recipes. Say goodbye to recipe boxes, dough covered printouts and scribbled page numbers. See a recipe you like? Jot it down instantly on 7courses.

7courses was built around the idea that you should be able to choose how you want to organize your recipes, and doing so should be easy and quick. The UI is responsive and intuitive, with a no frills design. Just jump right in and start adding recipes. The design is mobile optimized, so it will work from your mobile device.

Please feel free to provide critique and suggestions.
> Perhaps many individuals all posing as a single individual

Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden.
I believe I mentioned that word.
JScrollpane: http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/ Good stuff, but doesn't work with touch/mobile devices. It would have been nice if they would have detected the userAgent before calling JScrollpane, as default scrollbars do work with mobile.
Gawker blog visits down 90% after site redesign
Interesting point on embedding numeric IDs. Looking at the Backcountry.com example, have you ever attempted to place all content one level beneath the domain (i.e. all content has a directory depth of 1)?

- Category: http://www.backcountry.com/mens-clothing

- Item: http://www.backcountry.com/smith-phenom-goggle

- Brand: http://www.backcountry.com/smith

I was rather baffled by this approach, but it seems like it was a rather recent change and I'd assume it's been well thought out. Intermingling brands, categories, and products makes me think that they must use a lookup table of sorts (I don't know how you'd use rewrite rules), but I've never seen an implementation like it before. Any idea on how to approach implementing varied content all on the same directory depth?
Quite simply, it's Alfred's station that makes Batman's efforts appear seamless. Alfred offers Batman wisdom, advice, an ear for consultation, and most importantly, he picks up Batman in the Bentley, when he's hurt, so he doesn't end up in ICU.

Moreover, in this scenario, our real-life Batman fails to become buddy-buddy with the police chief. That's a critical step.
All the nitpicking people are doing on this and ignoring the point behind that graphic...

The Point: "Modern Browsers" are the browsers that actually get around to actually @#$@ing SHIPPING new features and NOT TAKING FOREVER TO DO IT. Iterate faster and get new crap to users NOW.
Is that even possible? I've never heard of anyone having a separate sudo password.
Calling someone smart has little meaning, because it means different things in different contexts and one persons smart may not even be considered smart at all to others. A lot of it is age related to, being good at multiplication in the first grade is going to get you called smart, later in life it's just assumed.

Also as a related example people confuse memorization with smarts, here in Australia times tables are generally taught up to 12*12, if a kid if very fast at these but falls over once the number goes over 12 they have just put a lot of time into memorization without picking up the principles properly.
Firefox's minor updates were not really feature updates.

On the chart Chrome whole number releases are new feature releases. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 are seperate because they are similar feature releases. 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 are not.
Thanks for writing this. I'm really looking forward to digging in....
At least 11 minutes (DARPA requirement mentioned in the article).
Yes, sure thing. Every single CSS bugfix is a backwards-incompatible change, no?
Obama's Silicon Valley meeting
The point, which you seem determined to not get, is that the "major release" designation is an arbitrary one, and some major releases have more scope than others.

Which is what Tyrannosaurs said. Then you objected to something he didn't actually say....
A lot of reddits fizzle out. There's no mechanism that removes people from a reddit, so it could appear a reddit is lively if you only look at subscriber count.

People post stories, but there's very little discussion.

It looks like both reddits are dead.
Nice comment and one reason I write here.

Writing politically incorrect comments can cause a lot of high emotions that can ruin the content. Somehow some signal is needed to 'qualify' the content as, say, "not in the usual academic style"! Looks like I need a better signal.
Hm... would the user not being in sudoers and using su with root password being different than the user password make more sense?
Ironic that a supposed defender of free speech is doing this. Although I find Phelps abhorring, I still support his right to spout his ideology.
This is very disappointing. Paul is a great writer and a great voice on the engadget podcast.
I wonder if gdgt.com will have something to announce soon.
Or consider a service. Suppose you're ODesk or eLance--do you offer a money back guarantee months later after you've paid a contractor for their work?
There's free speech, and there's hate speech.
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Dollars to donuts the author is a Vimmer. I am and the workflow makes complete sense to me :-)
It's very easy to start a new business in the US. Heck we have websites now that automate the process. And actually it's pretty easy to avoid/minimize taxes in the first few years, when there's little/no/negative income. Yes, some regulation are probably too much. Yes healthcare is too expensive and employers probably should not be mandated to be involved in it. But to say that all regulations are bad, just because some may be, is a leap one cannot make.
I've also been frustrated by these issues. I want to be able to edit a file with local typing speed (i.e., gvim on Windows), but then be able to hit a key and be in a terminal window on that server in that folder to perhaps do a manual grep or rebuild an index or whatever. I feel like we were closer in the 90s with innovative products like Slirp and Term and, yes, Zmodem (and Kermit).

I started trying to build out something like this based on vim's netrw stuff but it never really worked out. I'm not even sure if what I want is part of vim or if it's some nebulous other tool.
There's a difference between maximizing profit and making enough to run a respectable operation.

The better websites will post a lot of short, less than stellar articles to get search traffic and revenue, but still post good articles regularly. Ars Technica is a good example.
When praise becomes the reward, the strategy is to do whatever it takes to get praise. When success is the reward, the strategy becomes learning how to succeed, which often means passing through failure. We all have an innate ability to find the success strategy. For example, video games have no mercy--the only way to succeed is to keep trying until you get better. And yet most kids will continue to play a new game until they improve because, in this case, learning is an adventure, its own reward. The best teachers seem to apply this to the classroom.
With all these platforms (iphone/facebook/twitter),I think the smartest guys are those who do not get much news coverage, make decent money silently without growing too big, and not being too small. When you exist because of benevolent dictator,don't think of pointing a 0.44 magnum and getting lucky if you are just going to get nuked!!!
I have usually a few dirs that i go back and forth frequently when coding, and I simply set them to my env. I add the following line to ~/.bashrc
export lib='/path/to/my/lib'
And 'cd $lib' will take me there. Very simple, and caters for most of my cd needs. Don't over-complicate things
At funerals? Screaming at small children, six inches from their faces, that God killed their father on purpose?
Thanks, that makes sense and sounds similar to my experiences: Java 1.5 (I meant Java 5 :-) had been around for an awfully long time before I was able to use it at work. Of course, when we actually were able to move to Java 5, it felt like a bit of an anticlimax. The new for loop and generics and autoboxing and the like are all cool and probably make Java a bit more fun to play around with but hey, I'd been playing with Python and Haskell in my spare time by this point and they're a lot more different and more pleasant to work with. I guess I'm an example of your rule because I only use Java where I have to at work now and I can't think of a personal project that I would use Java for.
iPhone - OpenGL ES from the ground up (beginners tutorials)
Joe, a properly issued search warrant is not a writ of assistance, and you are not James Otis Jr. Nor are there any property rights in contraband.

I'm sorry that I have done such a bad job of explaining it.
Why would the zen master of JavaScript of which you speak have any need for JSLint in the first place? Us mere mortals are sometimes forgetful and need reminders...
What if this is as good as it gets?
The new site does not appear to have Sitemeter linked.
Pretty certain sitemeter isn't tracking most of gawkers sites: http://twitter.com/#!/sachaqs/statuses/38809671385104384
The problem is that in aggregate terms, the more cheap housing you have in an area, the more crime, violence, graffiti and litter you're going to have.

Not because all persons who live in such places are always and inherently bad, but because a much larger percentage of the people who can only afford such places do have certain cultural, behavioral and educational qualities that cause them to breed such things. You enable the Ramen-eating college student to live there, but also the basket case. The struggling artist but also the drug-dealer or gang member. The single guy living alone for the first time with an apartment full of books, but also the extended family of 10 immigrants with 5 kids and varying degree of legality, all of whom who will be consuming government services and imposing government costs and externalities out of proportion to their taxable income contributions back. Having a town where the prices are so high only doctors and lawyers can afford to live might mean there's less diversity, but also the streets and lawns will be nice and safe and quiet, speaking in general. Given a choice only between these two imperfect extremes I know I'd take the second one.
So what is yak.to?
I apologize if I missed something, but I think it's shamefully insensitive of the editors of that site to not even acknowledge that this issue is proportionally irrelevant in light of the fact that peaceful protesters are getting shot to death TO-DAY in Libya.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23924674-liby...

Let's do a thought experiment for a moment and pretend there are some things more significant than web development and e-commerce, shall we?

yes I cross-posted.

EDIT: the author/editor there (Allen Stern) was gracious and considerate in his response to my complaint, and committed to trying to find a way to put the .ly domain issue in perspective in the article. Kudos centernetworks!
The use of gotos rather than function calls is interesting... man that's gutsy programming! I'd never thought to do that when considering optimizations.
Because the link is actually http://www.squareup.com/
You'd think that if squatters/scalpers were rational the market would be more efficient. The way things really work I think the domain name business is run by compulsive hoarders.
I'm still angry at AOL from 10 years ago, when they kept stealing money out of my bank account - after I had cancelled my subscription.

Why are they getting in to journalism? Did the government finally outlaw AOL's previous business model or what?
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Obama dines with the honchos of Silicon Valley
The dinner guest list, which was held in the home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, were the CEOs of Silicon Valley's big tech firms including Apple's Steve Jobs, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Cisco's John Chambers, Google's Eric Schmidt, Yahoo's Carol Bartz, Twitter's Dick Costolo, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Google's Eric Schmidt who recently ceded the title of CEO to company founder Larry Page.
Why isn't Posterous in the list for Blogs?

I would also add Slicehost for Hosting and Database category.
Dive into HTML5
They probably make most of their money on the outlier posts that go big.
I suppose. However, I didn't specify that in terms of static/dynamic typing because I don't find that definition very useful.

On the hindsight the better term to use was probably just “type safety.”
Are you a professional coder now? If so, how/when did you start, once you started self-learning?
Wait, what? hackernews is linking to slashdot?

I'm having a Cobb moment...
Westboro is obnoxious and vile, but they work within the law. Anonymous has declared war on free speech.
They're trying to ride the SEO wave before search engines become self-aware and make slaves out of humanity.
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Who decides the difference?

EDIT: It should also be noted that in the United States (where Phelps is based), restrictions on "hate speech" have not fared well in the courts, as they are usually seen as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States

Looks like the Supreme Court is due to rule on a case involving Phelps that may settle some of these questions from a legal perspective:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/snyder-v-phelps/
What's always concerned me is that I don't know how to draw that line. Where do you put it?
I use a pseudonym here so I can actually speak my mind. But when I openly use my True Name, my address is generally there with it. I don't obfuscate it because it seems inappropriate to deliberately break something and require correspondents to work around it just to reduce a problem that's mine, not theirs.
I use this approach and it works absolutely wonderfully.

The single, small, annoying caveat (there is always one) is that after an unexpected reboot, you will have lingering dead sockets; if you forget to delete them before starting ssh, ssh will complain and will not overwrite the dead socket.

There's probably a way to get it not to do that, but it happens so infrequently to me that I've never bothered.

I've also noticed that if you SSH into some arcane embedded devices, they behave strangely if you try to open a new channel on the same connection. Tread lightly on anything not OpenSSH on the far end.
I agree, but that $13 figure was their calculation for the mean. The median is only $3. Lucky they're not paying much ;-)
Someone, maybe you, mentioned in a prior conversation here at HN that fax or mail was required during setup. Has that changed?
Ehm, I have access to docs for all of my personal domains, and for my gmail account.

This is the menu that is shown that allows me to switch between accounts: http://i.imgur.com/tU5t4.png
Is there a difference between the two? What's the distinction? Who gets to decide? Does the distinction change over time?
Silverlight already has some 3D support and the next flash beta will include a full programmable shader pipeline (using CG I think).

So there is some tough competition and with Flash reportedly having a ~97% of the web install base (bar iPhones/iPads which I am still unsure whether that will be an issue or not only time will tell) and a very large developer base it will be interesting to see what will happen.
I wonder how much pull Toyota has with the Japanese media? (ie how much ad time they buy).

ANA is the launch customer for the 787, a few stories about safety concerns could end up with an 18month delay while the Japanese space agency does a study.

This would also hit Toyota's rivals (Mitsubish and Fuji) who are building parts for the 787.
Nice one reproducing the NEHE tutorials, they're classics, I cut my teeth on them back in the day.
Twitter has a right to protect the quality of their stream.

With 140 characters, there's no room signature spam.

Twitter's policy that you can't alter the user's tweeters is one of the first thing a developer sees in the terms of use.
I'm more upset by the fact that he wont be on the Engadget Podcast. Those 3 make up probably some of the best dynamics for podcasts.
Blogofile (Static website generator)
Sadly, the world of academia has scared people into thinking goto is the spawn of Satan. It really does have its place.
It is not perfect. But then, nothing seldom is.

What it does protect from, given that most attackers will not have your ssh-faker password, is from the attackers obtaining any access to your sshd to try anything, be it a password scan or whatever. It is another layer in front that deflects all of the script kiddies, and many of the more intelligent attackers.

Why telnet? Because ssh-faker is not an sshd, and so you can't submit your password to it using ssh.

Perfect, no, another layer, yes. Kind of like having a lock on both your front gate and front door. Those who can't get through the gate lock can not ever attack the door lock. Those who can get through the gate lock still have to then attack the separate door lock.
Yes there are two pieces of uber-secret space alien technology Microsoft included in Windows at the behest of the NSA called "autorun" and "plug and play".

Windows installs a Plug and Play device and its driver automatically.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/...
This is mitigated by not allowing password-based logins for SSH. Your point still stands though.