skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding: it's easier for you to open a regular link in a new tab/window than it's to open a target = blank link in the same page.

Pro tip: middle mouse button/3 finger tap on touch pad.
I'm not sure there's a way to get around the fundamental issue that even the best visual editors product shoddy code. If this were to work, I can think of scores of non-technical entrepreneurs and back-end developers who would be interested. I think at that point the question is who would you be targeting - the slightly above amateur market or the guy who knows code, but not css per se.
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Looks a bit different from Sendoid (http://sendoid.com/), but still, are they in competition?
Blu-Ray was good for one thing, and one thing only.

Watching Planet Earth on my roommate's 42" (with 8-speaker surround)
I fail to see what relevance that claim has to the discussion at hand.
Will there be Windows support?
This was my final project for the quarter. I was surprised at how many Gowalla profiles were matched exactly by voter registrations.
So.. dropbox + sync that always unions files from local source + interface for access control?

Seems like the functionality could be copied pretty quickly...
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Ruby! Because it balances freedom with not-messiness.

Seriously, either Ruby or Python is a good choice. Reflect on yourself and ask: Are you the type of person who chafes under strict regimentation and would appreciate a language that has the philosophy of "there should be more than one way to do things?" (keeping in mind that it may be tough to figure out how something was done)?

Or are you the type of person who works best when "there should be one obvious way to do anything"?

If you are the former, pick Ruby. If you are latter, pick Python.
yeah, can't change it now
While content is better expressed with correct grammer, it does not automatically follow that poor grammar = no content.
Mahan hasn't officially dismissed the CIO case -- he directed defense attorneys to draft a dismissal order, which he'll sign if he approves of it.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/18/righthaven-loses...

This surprised me. It sort of makes sense, I suppose, but I didn't realize this was valid procedure.
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Theoretically speaking, would Berkshire Hathaway be able to prevent selling back to Goldman Sachs? Or would there most likely have been a clause that would have forced them to sell to GS whenever they wanted to buy back?
Judging from the word usage of my not-so-techie friends, an "app" is a "program on a smartphone". A "program on the desktop/laptop" is just a "program", not an "app". When someone says "i have an app, which does X", she surely is talking about her mobile.
I'm reading Seeking Wisdom now, and loving it.. I'm so blown by the fact that awesome stuff like these are often hidden deep in the web and not so obvious even for a regular reader.
I quoted the word "seasoned" too for a reason!
Thanks, pg
Can you explain why Digg decided to switch from a known good backend (e.g. MySQL) to an unproven NoSQL solution? What was the thinking behind that? Was it a unanimous decision?
I guess he couldn't charge people money and then not support their system.

There have been a lot of attempts to consolidate the remote market. Woz tried. iRiver made an iPod mini competitor with an embedded remote. Then there's AppleTV.

It would take a lot of time to get everything consolidated. And when you are finally making a bit of money, the industry will consolidate itself and your competitors will just target the new, consolidated standard.
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He currently does have them

Well, at least until Amazon pulls another George Orwell :

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289983-56.html
HTML should not specify styles for anything. If you want that from HTML you don't understand what HTML is.
Nothing stops you from targeting different inputs with CSS right now with attribute selectors (e.g. input[type="url"]).
As for whether it is a good idea to style inputs differently from defaults users are used to, that's still a topic for discussion.
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i have a question whether digg (and reddit) investors are going to lose some money on all these problems with technical debt.

if the answer is positive, that would be an argument to defend more careful development over quick business returns and short lasted customer happiness.

there are plenty arguments against over-engineering, there must be the balance :)
This was more than just Buffet's good timing in making an investment. He was also renting out his reputation. Goldman Sachs's future was in question, so the vote of confidence from Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, was very valuable for them. Thus, the deal was structured to be very lucrative for Buffett. No comparable investment opportunity was available to the public at the time.

Warren Buffett is very good at what he does, but he also has opportunities which just aren't available to the general public.
There's a limit in file size for the "free" plan (50mb?). What makes Crate a better alternative to Sendoid?
We can expect more articles on cooking, which is just "hacking" food? Gardening, as it's "hacking" vegetation (literally, sometimes)? Mental illness treatment advances, because it's "hacking" the psyche?
You and me both, and I don't even live in the Bay area.
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There's no reason to use a URL shortener. Please don't since it makes it impossible to tell what you are linking to.
Also, I don't see how that article in anyway suggests that Buffett's support of a bailout was due to his financial interests as you imply.
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I can see the appeal of BluRay for home theater enthusiasts but on a computer it has limited uses. Not sure there's even a good case to be made that BR is useful for removable storage given the size/prices/speed of USB/magnetic storage. Does anyone really travel around with a laptop and a binder full of BR disks? I doubt it. So that leaves you with HTPCs. Not a big market and most of them have a file server in the closet full of 1080P MKV rips anyway.
Bessemer's "anti-portfolio" page is the first of the kind I've encountered, years ago: http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio.aspx
Bessemer's Anti-Portfolio
Indeed. A simple work-around if you're using chrome:
1) right-click a nytimes article
2) open in incognito mode
Unix is a "DE", without the "I". This is a good thing. The "I" would mean that the parts would not be reusable in other contexts. While you can use "sed" for many things, you cannot do that with Eclipse's search-and-replace dialog.
Yes, it's quite refreshing to see great literature quotes in a "technical" or "business" kind of blog post. His reference to Owen's poem is incorrect though: the phrase originates from one of Horace's Odes, which Owen is quoting from. In Owen's poem, the phrase was used ironically: it's about as sweet and proper to die for one's country (or startup) as mustard gas and dead horses stuck in the mud. Perhaps the irony is intended....?
Our focus is on local matches. Thanks for the algorithm suggestions. We definitely agree on the similarity between partnership and relationship.
In another comment someone mentioned how Fred Wilson started a trend of VCs telling about opportunities they've missed. This Bessemer's page has been online for years, and contains some pretty funny bits of information.

My favourite tidbit is: “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?” :)
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Common words or not, nobody was using the term 'App Store' before Apple made it popular (after popularizing smartphone apps). Suddenly everyone wants to have their own App Stores (after making their own iPhone clones). Please, let Apple have its App Store and come up with something original. Cannot be so hard.
yeah, Buffet made money because the taxpayer was forced to bail out GS by elected officials who care far more about GS than the our interests.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/259129-buffett-profit-illustrates-how-taxpayers-gave-goldman-sachs-over-1-billion

For example, there's no reason that the US should have enabled a bankrupt AIG to pay off their counter parties. GS got $14 billion from that one at our expense, just to pay off their bet that the housing bubble would collapse.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/inspector-to-audit-aigs-counterparty-payouts/

GS was also betting that AIG would be able to pay them. They lost that bet. Why should we have paid them? There is no reason, none that are in the public interest anyway. Clearly our officials have other hidden reasons for doing so.
Apple said 'No'.
It's funny, I was reading old Joel on Software posts the other night and stumbled across this one:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html

From the essay:

"The hallmark of an architecture astronaut is that they don't solve an actual problem ... they solve something that appears to be the template of a lot of problems. Or at least, they try. Since 1988 many prominent architecture astronauts have been convinced that the biggest problem to solve is synchronization.

...

Jeez, we've had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not."

I immediately thought of dropbox. It appears, to some degree, it is a problem and some people do care. Like Chris said, its the execution and people that made the difference.
This is actually an extension to the idea we've considered. We are implementing mesh transferring (similar to bit-torrent) and the idea was to have a server act as a peer in the mesh. We are still trying to decide if its something enough people want.
I'm trying to get myself to implement a wavelet tree. There is however a lot of low level stuff that I'm still not sure how to implement. Especially RRR.

This paper [1] is the most recent practical wavelet tree paper I know of.

[1] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1483966
Ugh, trying to decide who is the lesser evil.

Just imagine PayPal but with Facebook's lack of concern for privacy added.
NFSN is very good for me too.
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Very close, the company is Finnish. That said I'm a Swedish-Finn. :)
But his winery seems to fit ... http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php
I've been listening to The Snowball, a biography of Warren Buffett. Fascinating guy.

http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/...
What about nationality?
Show HN: Kickstarter project for snap-together, desktop trebuchets
This morning, my dad made a few changes to his files in dropbox at home, as usual, turned off the system and went to office. After a couple of hours, he calls me and asks me why his files weren't synced as they were everyday. Our initial thought was that he turned the home computer off before dropbox could sync, but as you might have guessed, it is because dropbox was down.

Not sure about everyone, but my dad could've definitely used some warning that dropbox would be down.
In reply to your comment, and the one below, we generally avoid REPLACE INTO and ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. I'm not 100% sure about REPLACE INTO, but the ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE syntax definitely causes replication issues, even though it's allegedly been fixed numerous times. This has been observed by us in the 5.0.87 Percona build, as well as one of the recent 5.1 releases. I couldn't tell you for sure about REPLACE INTO, but having been bitten by these things in the past I'm always a little bit wary of these SQL extensions.

As kind of a sidenote to anyone using these features, I would recommend that you regularly run mk-table-checksum against your master/slave databases.[1] This will tell you if there's inconsistent data between the master and the slaves. Depending on the type of error, you may not get replication errors when tables get out of sync, and this tool catches the case where no replication errors occur (e.g. UPDATE that modified data on the master, but failed to modify data on the slave). Running this, or a similar tool, is really the only way to know that the queries you're running are safe, regardless of Internet hearsay or what the MySQL bugzilla says.

[1] http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-table-checksum.html
How far would go to get a date in the Silicon Valley?
Girls are like startups. VC gives them a high valuation and the company gets overvalued. This is why girls in the bay have the 49ners syndrome, girls who think they are 9s that are really 4s.
I kind of like github enough to pay even though I'm a student. It will only make me good to skip one pizza anyway =)
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Nah I know. But I predict, just like we are seeing the 'rise of the $1B VC fund', we will likely see the rise of the 'missed opportunities' by high-profile VCs.

Wait for it in 4....3....2....
Ask not what you can do for Javascript, ask what Javascript can do for you.

Stop looking around for ways to get better. Open your editor and make something you think is cool. Rinse, lather, repeat.
What are the alternatives for Google groups?
Google groups are indeed full of spams and the interface makes it further worse to stick to. I have recently shifted to a similar group application http://forums.com/ which is trendy and very user friendly. Unlike Google Groups it allows folder/files uploading options. The best part is the customization options remain with the forum owner. I think if well implemented it can serve as a great group communication platform.
Quantum computing device hints at powerful future
FWIW when I pitched him at KP in 2004 or 2005 he seemed like a decent guy.
IMO Twitter/Facebook are not directly competing with digg. Digg was a news aggregator, Twitter/Facebook aren't.
Although i love github and this is yet another brilliant feature, we should give props where due as this as been built into tortoisediff for a while and i am sure many before it.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/TortoiseIDiff.html
http://imagediff.tigris.org/
And to think some people call IE9 a modern browser.
I dunno...I think the code I wrote even 10 years ago was pretty good - for the problem it was solving. The thing is, I can solve much harder problems now. The code I wrote 3 months ago, solving the problem I have now, is the real shitty stuff.

You can expand inwards and look at how to improve your solutions to existing problems, or you can expand outwards and solve new and harder problems. I highly recommend the former when you're just starting out, because it builds your basic skills and gives you a solid foundation. But eventually you have to stop polishing turds and start hunting for gemstones. There's a limit to what you can accomplish if you solve the same problems over and over again.
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I have to say this is so cool!
Police department could use this data to do roadside random breath test.
And there will be less killer on the road.
Scientists separate plasma from blood with working biochip
Some very interesting results, especially that only 20 out of 1000+ people sampled made their names on Facebook private.

Something that I thought was strange is that I usually go out drinking near work rather than near home, and then ride my bike or take the bus home afterwards. I also routinely walk more than a mile. The article seems to consider this uncommon, but it's common amongst my group of city-dwelling friends.

It would also be interesting to use this data to see how public transportation affects drinking. When I go drinking at a bar that's near the Green Line, which closes around 1:20am, I make sure to finish up and leave around 1 (unless the extra hour is really going to make a difference to me). When I go drinking near a bar that's near the Red Line, which is 24 hours, I rarely leave before closing time. Am I normal? Mining the data could tell me :)
10 ways you know you're with smart people
Probably not. The number of people driving drunk is much lower than the number of people driving distracted or driving stupid.
I don't really think it's offensive, looks like people here are just trying to get attention. You don't need to be a great coder to know that your developers aren't that good. He accepts making a mistake, and really, talking about this issue is beneficial for other companies that will try to prevent this. So it's rather helpful.
SpaceX in LA. Looking like simulation software for simulating rockets, which is ok, but I'm excited about the environment.
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Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser
Absolutely not, I'd be perfectly happy to pay a reasonable fee (for music I now have a Spotify subscription and I love it!) or be forced to watch adds or whatnot. I keep waiting for hulu.com and similar sites to eventually (hopefully) open up to Europe, but I'm not holding my breath :\

But until that time I just pirate stuff of the internet. (They haven't even aired anything past season 5 of Scrubs yet here, at this rate I will have to wait until my death if I want watch Game of Thrones...)
The idea is to implement the intelligence in networking devices that are not forwarding. Have the switch handle forwarding while some remote device programs its tables via openflow. It's a logical extension to what IEEE and MEF have been working towards with the TE protocols(PBB-TE, MPLS-TE).

The general idea being that a centralized computer handles logical path creation through the network while the hardware just forwards packets. It obviates the need for static configuration of logical overlay paths by using whatever intelligence is programmed into the openflow controller. It also means you can do really neat stuff like distributed loadbalancing.

My question is how well does it handle convergence? Is this openflow controller just going to fall over at the first link that decides to flap 100 times a second?
The Death Star was an Agile Project
It seems fine to me. I regularly interview people with CS degrees (some of every kind!) who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. If we didn't spend a huge amount of time interviewing people compared to the number of people we extend offers to, we would be hiring "B and C grade developers" too.
I think he's not suggesting investing in "bright kids," but "smart and gets things done." Or "relentlessly resourceful." Smart is just one of the criteria, but he still would invest in people, not in "the idea."
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I'm glad sales tax is broken out like that, it reminds people how expensive the government is... imagine if people had to write a check for income tax and not have it automatically deducted each pay period.
I've been a hiring manager or principle interviewer for a number of companies. I've found that, unfortunately, certifications (at least in the java/enterprisy world) are almost always negatively correlated with competence.
it started with Fred Wilson and airbnb , I think . Missing the cereal point
http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
All they really want to do is make Android devices cost more so their fee for software on their own hardware will look competitive.

Interesting how they aren't suing Google directly?
This is in the email RFC 5322, it's not GMail.
Seems the test-drive feature is disabled or not working (for me at least). The tech behind how they got this to work is cool and could end up being a competitive advantage vs. other app stores.
Did you know there isn't a single mobile device that supports "contenteditable" (designmode) yet?

Not even android with Chrome, I was surprised (and it's nowhere in wufoo's lists).

http://caniuse.com/contenteditable

So no rich-wysiwyg forms for mobile (unless you can use Flash or native interface somehow)

and nothing else likely in 2011 - sad to see.
Suspecting that everyone else is like you is not a very robust assumption.

The current system is aimed at everybody: those who wish to have the links open in the current window left-click, and those that wish to have the links open in a new tab middle-click.

For what it's worth: I use a modern browser, but not when I am on a mobile device.
Nice. What I would like to see is having swipe and onion skin modes working without dragging the slider: just move your mouse over images and get swipe position move along or opacity change accordingly.
Of course, sliders should still be there—and make them bigger, Fitt's law, you know.
Probably some more prominent indication for opacity would not hurt too.
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I remember reading a long article it seems I never bookmarked, unfortunately, on how less likely it would have been for Linux to start and get traction in any other place, because of the ethos of community and cooperation which apparently is very strong in Finland (and Scandinavia - never been to Finland, Italian here :)
I've read it to, its a pretty interesting book. Kudos to him, he has pretty much made some of the best moves a human being has when it comes to investing and the market.

Considering the HUGE amount of financial theories/news/data/experiments/ideas that are churned out on a Daily basis.. considering the fact that so many more blow up regularly, while availing of technology to give them an edge, he really stands out.
Not at all. Most series I watch don't show here (or with crappy translations), and even if they do sometimes only a few years later. So I just torrent it.

If I actually like something I tend to buy it as a physical disc from amazon.com and let it catch dust in a corner. Even though the quality is (still) clearly superior from a blueray on my screens, the hassle-free experience of torrented mkv's is just much better for casual (re-)viewing.
It looks like the market for a 'next generation DVD' format is much smaller than what they expected. There wasn't place for two formats, and even the remaining format isn't doing that well.

Either that, or the DRM-related inconvenience caused them to price themselves out of the market compared to online streaming.
I totally disagree with this. Some people just aren't very good at making things, even if they care.
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