skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that puts the burden of keeping IE up to scratch on Google, which is just bizarre situation to be in. Chrome Frame is a quick fix, but it can't last forever.

I'll bet £100 that IE will never be Standards Compliant. Microsoft have demonstrated over and over again that they have no interest in being even remotely Standards Compliant. It would be better for the Internet as a whole if IE simply ceased to exist.
Interesting, my feeling is that we're being profiled, but not for the purpose of homeland security - I mean let's face it, we're not characters from 'minority report' ... I do however feel that our profiles are commodities, and it's very valuable for companies to have this information about us. They sell shit, we buy it ...

In any case, it looks like facebook are trying to monopolise the internet, and that in itself is a bad thing ...
The negative with Like.fm is that I have to install a Like client on my laptop to track my music habits. I don't want to clutter my laptop with unnecessary software.
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I'm mystified that they're trying to pressure countless advertisers rather than a handful of browser vendors who could make the problem go away by changing the defaults from "persist every cookie from anywhere forever".
Charlie Brooker
Looking at the "forked from" field doesn't tell you whether a) it's a random forker who wanted to make a few changes, in which case you want the original, or b) the original project changed hands or was abandoned and the forked version is canonical, in which case you want the fork.

That's not the only problem.

Even with the network tree, you're still screwed, because Github's network graphs are incomplete. Take this brief conversation from ruby-talk last year:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/203100

I challenge you to deduce the result of that discussion from the information available here:

https://github.com/rightscale/right_aws/network

Right now, without delving into the code, I still can't tell which one is supposed to be canonical, if they've diverged irreparably, or if it just doesn't matter which I pick.
I think the sounds are cool. I mean yeah, the gameplay, but the sounds are fun.
I started programming a platform which had everything from segmentation to analytics to targeting and test. Here's that platform: http://www.wingify.com/labs.php

I did a Show HN, had beta users and got feedback (notably including patio11) that I need to focus on one aspect and make it as easy as possible. So, I focussed on A/B testing (because existing popular Google's tool was not easy to use for non technical folks) and coded Visual Website Optimizer.
Unblockable? No, you'd block them just as you block JPEG and GIF banners (and crappy iframes) now.
Harder, Faster, Stronger...Translators
There's a more general addon which detects and disables tracking called Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/
Server-side JavaScript with Node, Connect & Express
Brooker?
Ha! Too cool Chris, I had no idea you were in YC W11. Too cool to see it go so well with Like.fm :)
I somewhat agree, but suggesting anyone who prefers to be anonymous lacks integrity is pretty insulting. A lack of integrity is certainly a motivation for secrecy, but to generalize from that is a fallacy and makes Zuckerberg look foolish:

All criminals crave anonymity
Socrates craves anonymity
Therefore Socrates is a criminal

I think the point Zuckerberg is attempting to make is that in an ideal society, Socrates would have nothing to fear and thus no reason to crave anonymity. But fear is only one among several legitimate reasons to speak without identity.

One might wish others to evaluate facts or arguments on their own merits, rather than by the reputation of the speaker - this is one reason the Economist newspaper does not print the names of its writers. One might wish to get frank opinions uncolored by social norms - hence the many stories about gods and monarchs who disguise themselves to learn what people really think of them. One might wish the simple freedom to be wrong when exploring a new concept.

Zuckerberg has fallen into a common pitfall of the well intentioned (and one I've spent time in myself) which we might call a militant consequentialism. His conception of Facebook is essentially a 21st century version of Bentham's panopticon. It's not so much that the idea is inherently bad or unworkable, as that for it to work everyone has to adopt the same ethical standard as the person advocating the idea. It might well be a better world if we all had the same ethical standards as Zuckerberg currently happens to hold - no joke or sarcasm intended. The problem is that if your vision of a better world depends on everyone adopting a new pattern of behavior before the rewards appear, then it won't happen. It's like communism; it might actually be a great system if everyone were honest and unselfish, and once we could see the benefits people would want to empower each other as fully as possible because of the potential gains. But in reality everyone is inclined to hedge their bets, and attempts to implement communism across whole societies quickly end up in failure or repression.

Consequentialism itself has its place; without it, leadership or personal morality aren't possible, and one is just an obedient automaton, mindlessly enforcing some religious or legal or social code. On the other hand, the reason codes exist in the first place is because we tend to have extremely limited foresight in most regards, perhaps especially in ethical matters. If the people who don't share your consequentialist vision can only be brought into compliance by inflexible rules, then you tend to end up with a nonlinear feedback system. These tend to lurch to abrupt extremes, or else display periodic or chaotic behavior.

tl;dr attempts to legislate morality fail, usually ignominiously.
Grandparent is not stating that it's actually Obama's fault. He might me a great person, with the best of intentions, but he's powerless against the wants of the rest of the regime. The overall result is still a loss of 'hope'.
Lotta alle botnet: l'approccio di ENISA
ENISA ha rilasciato oggi due documenti sulle botnet.

Il primo si intitola "Botnets: 10 tough Questions" ed il secondo invece "Botnets: Detection, Measurement, Disinfection & Defence". Questi due documenti rientrano nella strategia messa in atto da ENISA per dare maggiore enfasi ed efficacia alla lotta alla criminalità su Internet...
But would it still help? I mean, accessing multiple personas through the same browser on same machine would still be a giveaway, isn't it?

https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
Guy's a genius. I still miss TvGoHome.
I'd see Romeo and Juliet as the quintessential adolescents - it's a tale of whirlwind romance, gang violence and complete absence of self control on the part of the key protagonists.

Isolated from the context of 16th century Verona and stripped of Shakespeare's poetic flair, the plot could easily be taken from a modern slushy teen drama.
Yea your lyrics button is still there :)
Why did I have to log in with facebook if you were going to give me an account I can't get into using my facebook account?

Edit: Also, the chrome extension seems somewhat bad at picking out the song and artist from YouTube videos. I tried to leave feedback about this, but your feedback form doesn't have a submit button.
OH MY GOD! I finally understand why Sales is a liability

And expenses are an asset? Your comment got 9 upvotes, which would indicate either that I am either missing your sarcasm, or notwithstanding the article, many hackers still don't get accounting.
Most of the population are morons, thus is why lots of stupid things are popular.
Testing it out, it seems to be a dialog that accepts .fla files and tells you it can't convert them. At least that's all I could get it to do with any of my Flash projects.

Has anybody managed to find a subset of Flash that it will actually convert?
This is basically an abdication of any attempts at making certain a patent is valid on the part of the PO.

Their job will be reduced to simply checking that the format and wording is in order and making sure there's a timestamp.
Had a random moment and posted my pointers as a reply to the wrong parent ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300374 ).

To reiterate I found both "Manhood" and "Raising Boys" by Steve Biddulph ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biddulph ) and "Healing the Masculine Soul" (Dalby, http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Masculine-Soul-Restoration-Man... ) helpful, although be warned that the last book is explicitly Christian in viewpoint.
Perhaps the problem is that we've grown accustom to lazily broadcasting our thoughts to all our friends when we should be broadcasting what we have to say to only a select relevant few?
Hold on just a minute, all this time/money should be spent on more lawyers and drm. Replacing an antiquated business model, now that's just crazy!
Thanks for the feedback man! Only a user could have pointed out the confusion. We will improve that bit :)
An interesting contrast to Eric Schmidt's view while he was CEO of Google:

"every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."

Possibly apocryphal or taken out of context if HoPo is the best reference I can find: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/google-ceo-eric-sch...

(conspiracy theory: I _did_ search Google - unsuccessfully - to try and find authoritative sources for that quote...)
So small business owners trying to prevent their forums from become cesspools of curses should be considered "Nazis"? This post illustrates the same alarmist tone that trolls normally do.

He's trolling people because they're trying to stop trolling.

Requesting real accounts for comments on personal business websites isn't a violation of the Freedom of Speech. It's the equivalent of asking politicians to reveal what bills they voted for. Transparency means accountability, not the destruction of everything good online. Geese.
Yes, webex is par for the course, but it helps you negotiate better $. Charge a "pain premium".
Wait, what?

Who is suggesting that prior art wouldn't/shouldn't matter?

"First to file" patents would still be invalidated by any published (or publicly available) prior art. It just means that you couldn't invalidate by demonstrating that you were privately working on the same idea.
I think you are seriously over-estimating the level of true competition in the UK Car Insurance Market. (hint; there are almost certainly less actual distinct insurance providers than you think...)
If anything it should be easier to block them as it's simpler to inspect the inside of a javascript/canvas banner than a flash one, from the context of a browser extension.
JavaScript loader comparison
A hacker in their early/mid 20's with supposedly poor social skills who's quickly become a multi-billionaire for making what is essentially just an profiles/feed website, went to Harvard, and who seems to have never had a real job in his life is, I dare say it, going to have a rather skewed and limited perspective on what's realistic in life for the vast majority of people. For the majority of folks who must or desire to maintain separate work/personal or friends/family or public/private identities, or who belong to oppressed groups, are clearly not going to be able to relate to it. People without FUx1000 money in the bank (like Mark clearly does) are going to have a hard time relating to it, because without FU money one does have to be much more careful and arguably afraid of what happens when the wrong people see the wrong thing and do something that hurts you down the line.

That said, despite his perspective, he clearly has a financial motive to turn Facebook further into the dominant identity system in the web. Actually, I'll take that back, it's not clear to me that he has any motive personally to make it any more dominant, because he's now into the discretionary billions range of wealth. Perhaps his motive is to increase ROI for all the sub-one-percent shareholders. I dunno. I've just never gotten this whole sort of unbounded ambition that thinks it's not good enough to be the 3rd best thing in the entire world -- we're talking the entire world here, it's not like coming in 1000th place, and it's not even truly a race. If anything, it's a race to stand still, and then you die, no matter what.

It's interesting to think that there are now more people with a Facebook identity than most meatspace nations have citizens. More Facebookians than Brits, for example. Than French. Japanese. I don't know the exact count of total Facebook users offhand but I wouldn't be surprised to find it's already surpassed the number of US citizens as well.
Anyone who volunteers for app level sharding is going to find themselves deep in Special Hell. Step one is to rewrite all your queries so they no longer expect really exotic use cases like "SELECT ... WHERE" to actually work until you somehow figure out which nodes to run them on (and if it was supposed to be a join between entities crossing shards, good luck with that). Step two is to find working XA-aware drivers (haha). For step three you need a knife and a goat....

Apparently really high-end clustered databases solve this problem correctly, i.e., the schema is extended to specify where any record can be found, the cluster uses that to work out a minimally-stupid query plan, and record->shard mapping becomes merely a tuning decision. I've never had the opportunity to work with one. But I'm not bitter.
Putting faces behind the comments provoke people to consider their opinions more carefully, just like we do in real life.And if you are one of those people who want to lash out, but don't have the guts to do it in face then you should just tell your best friend or keep it to yourself.

Disagree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
The new Redis protocol (the only one used at this point) is inherently immune, with SORT we have complex queries. But the point is, the way we send every different argument to the server as a single entity with prefixed length, makes the attack impossible.
Good News for Job Seekers
Excellent point. However, we have transparent per-visitor pricing (also displayed on website) so it is impossible to negotiate better $ since it is linked to traffic customer wants to test.
The HN discussion (and the Djangy post itself) about Djangy shutting down has some links to other similar services http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269406
The obvious implication in the context of web development is that there were no images used -- all of the rendering is done on the fly by the browser.

However, there are images used, at least one for the background and four for the arrows.
sorry, what are his redeeming features?
The snowball effect!
I'm a fan of WidgetBlock, a chrome extension that simply blocks all major offsite social networking widgets, whether its facebook like buttons, tweet this buttons, the facebook connect thing, etc.

It's stated reason for doing this is to improve page load times, which it certainly does, but it does just as well to protect your privacy.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hgiihiookhijpbha...

EDIT: It appears to work nicely in tandem with this ghostery thing.
I thought this would be a bad idea at first, because it'd break all those "remember me" check boxes, but a lot of browsers can save usernames and passwords and do a good job at prompting the user about it, so I think it might be entirely possible. The biggest hurdle is that there are a lot more cookies out there than username and password forms.
I think it is not even an issue of the society being judgemental. In the real world, if you say something, you always say it in a certain context (family, friends, coworker, etc...). It looks like Facebook is trying to remove that context.
There's also one issue not mentioned in this article:

Lots (if not most) of the code has documentation so poor, that there's no way to determine what it's really worth other than looking at the code, examples, tests. Github does it right by enabling you to browse the code right away and make your opinion.

This is also the reason why Sourceforge and other *forges are doomed - and to a lesser extent google code too. They present complicated interface but all in all you end up downloading the tgz only to determine later that in most cases it wasn't what you're looking for. All that buzz because of the premise that said package is actually worth your attention. Well, usually it's not (but probably is for someone else). So it is right and sane to give an opportunity to decide it as quickly as possible, by showing the code tree as quickly as possible.
Unfuddle Vs Asembla
I have to choose between Assembla and Unfuddle for our distributed team. I have worked with Unfuddle, but for a new team and product I want to evaluate if Assembla is better.
From para 66 of the Directive ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2... ):

"Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refuse should be limited to those situations where the technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user."

I would take this to mean that session cookies, shopping cart cookies and wotnot are exempted. But I'm a coder, not a lawyer, so pinch of salt 'n all that.

Edit: in fact reading it more closely, it would appear that this statement merely places a restriction on exemptions that individual nations implementing the Directive might carve out. If they make exceptions, they must be limited to the situations described, but they don't have to exempt all such uses. Which is a less-than-comforting thought.
It worked pretty well with an animation from an old project:
Html5: http://enwire.dk/Wallaby/Html5/
Flash: http://enwire.dk/Wallaby/Flash/

At least it works in Chrome but it looks kinda funny in IE9. For basic animations it could probably be useful.
I managed to get one of my designers' fla animations to compile...

...into a very static (non animated) page.

Apparently it doesn't do dynamic masks, which pretty much rules out any Flash design project I have ever worked on since about 2001.

Also, how is this better than http://smokescreen.us/?
"Crush the Castle" is associated whith old, slow and boring games with bad graphics. When you see "Angry birds" you wonder "Why are they angry ??!?" and from this point you really want to know.
"Because that's the way it is" describes my entire mathematics education. It didn't work for me, and I can't help but think there has to be a better way.
Would be probably similar to the HTML output from Microsoft Word.
Yea, that didn't sound too bad and he didn't spend much time talking about the actual burnout itself.

Maybe there are two kinds of burnout; one is "tired of coding" and the other is "tired of life". The preferable one is quite obvious, although neither is much desirable.
I meant exhume actually.

You don't need to plug them into the NSA. Since Facebook pays your salary it wouldn't be your job. NSA employees would do all the work.

I'm sure they have circumventing the privacy measures down to a well oiled system by now. The NSA loves to illegally wiretap everything. This is their obsession. Justification: all the foreigners who use Facebook being a potential national security threat. All the communication on Facebook (e.g. Egyptian revolution) being invaluable data to CIA analysts. Etcetera. It's naive to think that these agencies don't have large teams focused solely on extracting value from Facebook.

Zuckerberg, being the guy with control over everyone's data now, is way too friendly with the various alphabet soup agency heads to believe that Facebook is hindering their never-ending investigations. You don't see FBI directors kissing the feet of Larry and Sergey.
He's 20?

Sweet, he's given me hope then, I had this feeling I wouldn't have a chance because im 19 (almost 20 - in april).

Good luck Chris, and make sure not to overbloat the app with features (like last fm)

Devan
And another one:
http://bynamite.com/

I'm all for a transparency and control, but this has to be more effortless--a side-effect of something users would be happy to do anyway--especially for the average user if it is to be successful. I believe a social media aggregator can position themselves to do this. Facebook knows certain things about me, Twitter others, Google others, etc. What I surf online isn't always indicative of my true interests.
Are you saying that height doesn't matter, or just that being tall doesn't give you an advantage over being average? I've always heard it does, but that's just anecdotal. Short people are definitely at a disadvantage though. Height matters.
while letting anyone with a link view it is not a bad idea, giving anyone editing rights was certainly not a good one :)
Hmmm... it would be good to know how all these compare - I'm running disconnect: http://www.disconnectere.com/ and ghostery. Now someone is suggesting WidgetBlock. To me Ghostery seems to block more than disconnect - but I don't know how they work "under the hood". It seems silly to run 3 or 4 separate plugins for the same purpose!
Tornado always uses lists, even when there's a single parameter. I.e. `?spam=ham&spam=ham&eggs=eggs` results in `{"spam": ["ham", "ham"], "eggs": ["eggs"]}`.

While this may be not as easy to use as simple strings, it is consistent.
The fact that one needs a plugin to do this says a lot about the "Facebook" way of social networking.

Why not put it as an option in my maze on the settings page?
Google News needs a rethink; this is definitely not a 'top story.'
Regardless of performance at this point, I still can't see how this can be a negative thing.

Hat's off to Adobe for now, as I can't see anything evil in this.
How do I get over my fear of driving?
Tony Bowden described an accounting system built on Semantic Mediawiki in 2006.

http://nothing.tmtm.com/tag/finance/
New: Obama says U.S. Senate will Tax Wikileaks and New York.

(Will this article also work for Hacker News Points? Also, why is "York" highly likes but "New" isn't?)
Depends what you are trying to achieve, if we are talking a simple level about controlling what "side" of yourself your friends see I think the browser plugin is fine. If its about hiding your identity for security reasons then sure its not going to work, and also of course FB could use the techniques outlined to discover when you are doing this and block you.
Alan Watts has a great metaphor for keeping your balance. He says it's like riding a bike. When you start falling on one side, your natural instinct is to turn in the other direction. Of course, if you do that, you fall very fast. The key to staying upright on a bike is to turn in the direction that you're falling into.

The metaphor translates very well to keeping your balance as a human being - go into the direction that you're falling into. In other words, if you find that your body and mind and subconscious is telling you, "I don't want to do X anymore!" don't try to force yourself to do it anymore. And if you find that the message is "I really want to do X" follow it.

Of course, to keep your balance on a bike, you need to pay attention to what your senses are telling you. And to keep your balance in life, you need to pay attention to what your subconscious is telling you.
> In Season 5, Episode 17 of House, a guy loses his inhibition which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says.

he became an engineer? :P
Why is the image in .jpg? That's unfortunate...
I have an enhancement to your image:

http://twitpic.com/47epfb