skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be neat if Google bought Twitter, but I have a reason they'd put a kibosh on Buzz if that happened... Like Google Video after they bought YouTube. =(

I mean I like and use Twitter, it's just that Buzz is a lot better.
I ditched my 15" MBP for an Air and couldn't be happier. The SSD actually makes it feel much faster. I do the same kind of work as you do. I think you'll be very happy with your purchase. I already converted 2 people to the Air and they also love it.
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I can't imagine everyday people caring enough about specs to actually make decisions based on said rumors.

The default expectation is that iPads will hit in late March. So we're talking about rumors relating to devices that may exist three to four months after the decision of "what are we getting Sally for Christmas" gets made.

And Gruber thinks average people will hear those rumors and then be willing to disappoint a loved one on Christmas over a spec bump they have no context for?

And, again, I wonder aloud if we have any indication that this happened this year. Because we all heard rumors and those things flew off the shelves anyway. So if it didn't happen this year, why would anyone expect it to happen next year?
Please dump Adobe AIR as soon as you can and make native apps, I (and most likely others) hate AIR apps. That's one of my biggest complaints with Yammer is their desktop app. If you don't want to be like Yammer don't use AIR ;)
I hope this is fixed for you as soon as possible. It's only been a day or so since the mistake, though, so hopefully they'll fix it once the gears of bureaucracy have had a chance to turn.
Fair enough. But I'd also say the key metric to analyze would be market penetration, percentage of total population buying the products. A lot more people have cell phones these days, both percentage-wise and gross numbers-wise, than people had personal computers back in the day.
I think colanderman is talking about the CEO of HBGary Federal, Aaron, and not Penny, the CEO of HBGary Inc.
Only if you don't care about user experience.
Technique? Adult supervision? Fitness? Safety? Proper size matching? You've misunderstood the point.

Sure, they sound melodramatic, cheesy and sentimental talking about their fight club. But at least they're out there doing it, venting, and participating in some mostly rules-free shenanigans.

And "sexually charged" is the condescending weenie's way of simultaneously saying the participants are closeted homosexuals, and that being gay is a bad thing.

Naysayers manage to anger me and tire me out, all at the same time.
This was an excellent explanation, and it's a really brilliant idea. And the fact that it already has an impressive perceived value (parity with USD), I would totally accept it as a form of payment. It will be interesting to see what this does over time.
A message from HBGary Federal: http://www.hbgary.com/
Much as the British Empire ceased to exist, Somalia ceased to exist as well. Any world map which shows Somalia as a single entity is simply wrong.

But of course, if world maps can be wrong, why are you appealing to their authority two posts up?
So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition.

Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle down to prepaid. I'd like off the contract bandwagon please.
There are no real leaders; they may break off into factions, like those that frequent a certain IRC room, but the group "Anonymous" is a non-entity by any meaningful definition. It's whoever happens to be on 4chan or other, mostly similar message boards, and out of those, whoever is enticed to join a chat room or download LOIC, and out of those, people that actually click the button to send a lot of requests to DDOS (or people that show up to taunt Scientologists, as the case may be).

There are lots of people that go there to marshal the forces and most fail, cf. "/b/ is not your personal army". If someone happens to generate a buzz that rings for most of the board's demographic, they can start a chain reaction where a lot of people hit MasterCard at once, and get a bunch of disciples attracted to an IRC room for who knows how long -- it may last a day or a month, there's no way to say definitively. The marshaller then becomes the leader of that group of disciples, but "Anonymous" isn't a group by itself.

The most accurate definition for Anonymous is "a subset of users of Xchan". That's not a very good definition, especially if you want to go around and pin DDOS and whatever else on individual people.
True. But what's even worse for your career is when you learn programming languages that don't need DI frameworks because that kind of clean separation is baked in (like Python) but then most jobs out there are Java :-(
So, a human powered botnet that follows commands at random based on how much fun they are?
Yeah and it doesn't work very well:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/deported-s-...

This woman snuck back in a few times after being deported by using "special tape." I really wonder how special the tape is. On the other hand:

846 foreign nationals were refused entry

So, I doubt they will ever get rid of the program.
Skilled technical hackers giving the attacks technical direction, or skilled social hackers who know how to get a bunch of anonymous teenagers to do their bidding?
I think it's precisely because so many companies are choosing Android that they wouldn't want to go Android. There's very little differentiation in following the herd.

Of course, if you're going to differentiate, you want to be the quarterback chased by all the girls, not the scorned outcast playing alone in the courtyard, with only bullies providing social interaction.
The combination of those skills is the secret sauce.
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mobiles take pennies a day of electricity to power. mobiles are computing and cheap to power.
Facebook no longer needs Twitter (although I remember the stories of Zuck being enamored of it and seeking to buy it a few years ago) and Twitter would never sell to Google for the same reason Evan Williams and co left in the first place.

They don't get social.

First they missed it entirely... (wait that isn't true I almost forgot about Orkut) Flat out year over year Google proves they just can't do it right and don't get it.
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What school are you dropping out of?
I'll agree that it's confusing, but I will also say that it's less confusing than our practices with mainstream fiat currency.
In the first place, y should a news publishing site even use hash-bang url? U r not a web app built on ajax
That's all I've figured out myself. Too bad no MediaTemple users have commented ... I'd honestly like to know what keeps people using them at their price!
Greeting cards have needed fixing for a long time, but the traditional card brands have tended to pay for fitting/fixtures etc. to have a monopoly in stores (at least here in Aus). Always good to see more competition in this space.
This a great framework, but you need to use it as it has to be !

I love the grid without overflow:hidden, bring by the "X X X X X..." on a :after.
More of a framework, OOCSS supply a philosophy: reuse, reuse and reuse.

The way I understand and I use the Oriented Object concept in CSS, is to provide "graphical" behavior to DOM element:
ie: a <div> can extend the shadow behavior with one class and the red border with another.
It permit to keep the CSS short, highly maintanable and to make the CMS more flexible, by giving more options to remix a block.

But the risk using this framework is to multiply className on a element, this fact have to be known, not to fall on a trap with double sized html !

The bases of OOCSS:
- the template:
<div class="page"> is the wrapper
you can add the 'liquid' class to make your design fluid

- the grid:
line / unit sizeXonY or lastUnit,
the sizeXonY give the width of the 'cell', lastUnit permit the last <div> of a line to take the left place.

line contains unit,
no margin or padding on unit (Groxx , to keep the percentage true (4 x25% = 100% vs 4x(25% + 10px (ie.margin)) > 100%)

- the block : see http://oocss.org/module.html
but to be concise, the mod structure is bullet proof to insert corner, shadow on a block, without CSS3.

- fews plugins (not always useful) to supply solution to main CSS trick.

You can have more info here: http://oocss.org/ or in looking the demo in the git repository.

And a last thing, the resume of Nicole Sullivan (Stubbornella) give her credibility (to me): W3C, Yahoo!, Facebook...
She's also the co-creator of http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/, the image size burner by Yahoo!

Hope it could help you to go deeper in this framework,

Keep goin' on Nicole !
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Nokia makes the vast majority of their own software and has for years.

Hence the premise, "It looks more likely that Nokia could get out of the OS business altogether". Without that premise; yes, Nokia is obviously IBM. So question that premise rather than the validity of the argument, if that's your intention. I myself think it's a shaky premise, but given that premise, Nokia isn't IBM.

And, while we're on the subject, in the PC market, IBM did not, by and large, develop their own software

IBM had literally decades of experience developing their own software for every other type of computer before PC's even existed. Likewise, Nokia has decades of experience developing embedded software for cellular phones. Has Nokia matched iOS or Android yet? No, and neither had IBM matched the Apple II.

The company-defining question is where one goes from there--IBM adopted DOS as a stopgap but quickly worked to develop OS/2, first with Microsoft and then without them (hence attempting--and failing--to remain a systems company). Nokia has attempted to develop Symbian, but if they drop Symbian and decide to adopt Windows Phone (which, again, was expressly the premise of that comment), they would move in the opposite direction, like Tandy did.
I've considered joining a Martial Arts gym, because I thoroughly enjoy the competition -- I wrestled all the way through High School.

However, I've convinced myself that it may be detrimental to my long term cognitive abilities. Do any HN martial arts participants have any insight into this? Can one really expect to repeatedly get hit in the head and not pay for it, long term?
Interesting replies

[04:37] <+Penny> Hey I"m not sure how this whole Torrent thing works, I'm sure I"ll find out but I can tell you that if you want freedom of press and

[04:37] <+Penny> documents, there is a better way than doing it this way. What you did was illegal and it will hurt you guys as wel

...

[04:41] <+Penny> Can you take PHil out?

...

[04:42] <+Penny> Perhaps I'll invest in you guys, but invest in me, please do not leak any of the emails from HBGary

...

<in reference to Greg her husbands emails>

[04:48] <+Penny> OK, so if we fire Aaron, you won't release?

...

<in reference to Bradley Manning>

[04:54] <+Penny> This isn't about Greg's email this is about Bradley. When you work for the military and you take an oath, shouldn't that count?

[04:55] <+Penny> It's not negotiation, I'm asking a question I want answered. You want me to donate to bradley's fund

[04:56] <+Penny> OK BUT what if it puts people in harms' way? What if it cause bad ramifications for US citizens?

...

<Penny's husband Greg now comes on>

[05:51] <+greg> do you guys realize that attacking a U.S. company and stealing private data is something you have never done before?
Ouch ... They actually DMed you to confirm your thoughts on (gs)? They tried to sell me on (gs) in a DM message the other day! That's bad...
Why would the military want an array of tens of thousands of low-power emitters when a few klystrons will do? 10+ megawatts pulsed output in a single L-band device is not hard to achieve, and much higher can be achieved if you're willing to accept the higher cost and shorter lifespans associated with running at higher voltages.
Like me. I may try to pick it up used (hello, zero money to publisher for re-sale. Well, price production-cost-free stuff cheaper!)
Please tell us why it is absolute bullshit?-
HP fires Microsoft?
I have for the last 2 years. Lots of YC founders seem to. It never occurred to me there was anything unusual about it.
i personally recommend a macbook pro with an i5 or better, why? the cores, the macbook pro/air 13" use the outdated core 2 duo which supplies at best 2 cores, the i5 and i7 have 4. from a memory perspective, you'll only get 4 GB at best with an mba, with the pros you can go to 8 GB. this is great for running not just virtualization, but also if you're like me and you have 20 things open and running at the same time.

i dev in jquery + python + a mysql backend on fedora 14 running on vmware fusion. it's fine on my macbook pro 13 (2.66 GHz/2 cores/8GB Memory). highly recommend getting an SSD and maxing out the memory. my only complaint is the number of cores, wish i could have more cores.

in terms of being able to dev on an mba, it's totally possible, it's not like you're compiling code. so it really comes down to how much memory and how responsive you need the machine to be. also if weight plays a role in your decision making.
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Those are channels and more like Convore Groups.

A topic is more like a forum topic/thread.
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This is reminiscent of infogami. I dug up some old pages.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003008.h...
http://blog.reddit.com/2006/02/infogami.html
http://webpy.org/

I'm quite fond of web.py. It appears that it is still actively maintained and can do quite a lot.

http://webpy.org/cookbook/
Ummm....

http://www.bitcoin.org/
Please don't downvote this guy any more without discussing why he's wrong.
Best description I've seen yet. Granted, I'm impressed with how much momentum they seem to have already collected, so I feel like their implementation is sound, but still tin-foily.

They are working on a real problem though. Paypal kind of works, but isn't ideal.
With a feature like that, they aren't analyzing what people _say_ about it. They are testing the way people interact with it. Perhaps they will test how many images users with the lightbox will look through on average compared to those without it.
Said paypal/mastercard/visa would lose money to fraud.

The bitcoin miners only process the transactions. They don't care about fraud and chargeback.
> I tried looking it up, can't seem to understand what it really is.
> But at least they're out there doing it, venting, and participating in some mostly rules-free shenanigans.

This is unnecessarily dangerous. You can go to a Muay Thai class, train up for a few months and kick three shades of shit out of each other if you want to. The difference is that with experienced teachers who will show you how to avoid injuries, the likelihood of serious accidents goes down.

Exposing yourself to unnecessary risk when you have safe alternatives isn't manly, it's stupid.

> ...participants are closeted homosexuals, and that being gay is a bad thing.

No one said being gay was a bad thing. Repressing gay feelings and letting them out through violence on the other hand isn't so great IMO.
Boxers lose IQ. I believe so do football players.
Would you prefer reading the articles in paper or in the ipad? (I'm considering switching from paper to ipad)

Thanks!
In this scenario, "company" is used to refer to an incorporated entity (C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, etc). That is to say: You should not register a corporation with the government until you are sure that it has potential for growth.

You seem to be using the word "company" to referring to something different.
I've been doing Muay Thai and Boxing for many years and I work on my master thesis right now (Neural Networks and Statistical Data Analysis). So no, it doesn't make you stupid or influences you in a bad way. Au contraire: It helps you build your personality and you will pursue you goal more ambitiously.

Also if you don't competet and only do light sparing you won't get hit hard in the head.

So go to you local gym and have fun!
I was there when it happened, as were many around here.

Movabletype did their pay-only nonsense after version 2.66

People starting looking for alternatives.

WordPress 1.5 out and 2.0 was in beta and it seemed the strongest choice at the time. 2004 is like a lifetime for the internet, seems like a poor choice now but things were different then.
Both sides of the conversation. Mail.app's thread feature only shows emails you have received, without weaving in the emails you have sent.
I'm fairly certain that more money is spent to create & manage a single US dollar in circulation than is used for a single bitcoin unit. The latter has no paper form, no need to be physically lugged around, no ongoing R&D design overhead spent on counter-counterfeiting measures, no Department of Treasury budget costs, no Secret Service budget costs, no banks or bank vaults, no armored trucks with armed guards lugging money bags... I could go on but I'll stop.

To address from a different angle, the phenomenon where you say electricity is being "wasted" to produce a bitcoin is analogous to the creation of a US dollar. Not to the using of it or acquiring of it. You can buy and acquire a bitcoin fairly quickly and cheaply, CPU/electricity-wise. Much more so than if you had to "mine" it. Much like dollars. Much cheaper/easer/faster to "buy" a dollar than to construct one out of thin air. (A legal one, anyway.)
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Some tidbits that come to mind off the top of my head:

Until a few (minor) versons ago, some functions built entire translation tables EACH TIME they were called on the same page load. Someone finally caught it recently and put a static in there.

The critical add_action/do_action functions had a slowdown issue up to a few versions ago if there were more than a dozen actions on a filter. It was finally optimized to be hundreds of times faster.

The first time they tried to update the cookie functions for a major release (I think it was 2.5) they misunderstood the research paper and had to change cookies again in 2.6, breaking some plugins twice in two versions.

The meta tables until very recent history were allowed to have non-unique indexes on key values. This "feature" (an alternative to serialization) was almost never used and made meta updates much more complex (and the db slower in general).

The entire tag db structure was changed in version 2.3, breaking all tag plugins, because someone thought it was theoretically better to have a "Term_taxonomy" reference - which is still unused to this date. Having it in there makes tag queries much more complex and slower. Then they took out the timestamp for when tags were added which makes it impossible to track.

The list goes on and on. Remember, a few versions ago is still 2009.

Last time I checked (2.8?) WordPress still uses SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS which has some nasty performance problems on many versions of mysql.

To this day, the query count for most pages on a default install with a few posts/comments without plugins is over 20. WordPress 3.1 now uses nearly 1 megabyte of php code PER INSTANCE.

Oh and last but not least, ALL plugins are loaded on EVERY page load regardless of the request/rendering requirements. Even admin-only functions. Clever plugin authors can somewhat code around this but it's still a crazy system.
You are entirely correct. This will eventually develop all the problems associated with a strictly limited currency. If a nation's economy was purely based on bitcoins, one would expect that economy to quickly grind to a halt as people start hoarding their bitcoins instead of investing them in businesses, etc. (BTW something like this is currently happening to the world with gold).

However, I doubt any economy will be purely based on bitcoins. If successful, the bitcoin will merely be a useful way to do painless and anonymous internet transactions, and not the only money out there. And if bitcoins get too rare for internet transactions (because people are hoarding them) it would be very easy for someone else to start another bitcoin-like currency.
"... The Army's Best Ranger competition is a Eco-Challenge event ..."

The Foreign Legion's has it's own version, MDS, "Marathon des Sables" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_des_Sables
Not to be _that_ guy, but why is this a point of curiosity?
I think your last paragraph nails it. He apparently called out a bunch of innocent people. Imagine the damage that could do?

And agreed, the coder was a saint among men!
>they're using a monopoly in one area

Then it would be the regulations granting monopoly that are anti-competitive. Again, removing restrictions on extant and would-be competitors cannot be anti-competitive; words mean things.
I use mediatemple.

My setup is the mediatemple for client projects and a linode vps for my own personal playground

I like them because they are like an entry level honda to, for comparison, say the Rolls Royce of one of the more expensive Rackspace plans.

I don't know if anyone else has used rackspace but I had a client who did once. You pay them something like $2000 - $4000 a month but everytime you call them you instantly get a person on the phone that can get you to someone who can help you fix your problem.

With mediatemple you have to deal with a machine answering and wait 5 or 10 minutes but you only pay $200 for the whole year. And the service and knowledge of the support people is comparable.

They also have a great control panel with all of the standard dns configuration, 1 click app installation, administrative stuff.

Long story short they have plenty of things that automate the tedious setup process of building a site and pretty good customer service.

Though I would agree for the more tech savvy go for the free Amazon ec2 instance and scale up from there or invest in a vps with linode or slicehost.

If you have any specific questions feel free to ask. I know my answer was really general
How well does its offline support work?
That's not what they told me the secret sauce is.
There's a lot of non-MVC, non-OO "good" code out there. An immediate example is the Linux kernel. I just don't think that's really a great argument; the last several web projects I've done have been MVC, but I haven't really developed an affection for that format, and some implementations (CakePHP ಠ_ಠ ) make it serious pain in the rear.

I guess "no logical sense" is the most legitimate complaint here, but aren't a lot of programs also like that? A lot of things start out one way and end up finding a niche in something different, and that can make the initial assumptions costly and/or annoying, but I don't think it necessarily taints the whole codebase, though.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned but a huge rap sheet of functions is a lot more workable for me than a lot of OO programs that I've had to deal with.
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