skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a strong difference between UI and UX, for example, when looking through postings for stuff for sale, or places for rent - filtering by HAS IMAGE is really the only way Ill look at an ad - yet there has NEVER been a way to expand and see images.

The FLAG FOR REMOVAL is and has been abused for YEARS. The fact that an apartment or for sale posting gets flagged then immediately nobody else can see it has been used to effectively block competition in the buyers market. They should simply have a ticker to how many flags a post has been given.

Posting has been built upon, but made very cumbersome. And shows that they employ mediocre critical thinking when developing the UX.

Sure, the site is amazing, its a gem of the valley and I use it daily when looking for work, stuff, places to live, and weekly/monthly otherwise. But to defend this is the same as Quora trying to convince the world they have incredible design, which they dont.

The fact that sites like padmapper can even exist proves that CL is broken in certain areas.

Everybody likes the site, but everyone is also constantly defending poor design as if its some sort of hipster notion that we just wouldn't understand.
And yet radioactivity from bananas does not seem to accumulate in the water supply of SF, or does it? Has there been a measurable increase in radioactivity in the SF water supply because of all the discarded banana peels?

The real newsworthy aspect of the Fukushima isotopes in SF is that Fukushima can affect the whole world. And who knows, maybe those isotopes can accumulate?

Not saying that I worry, just saying that there still seem to be fundamental differences between Fukushima isotopes (spreading and accumulating), bananas (seemingly not spreading so much, not sure about accumulating) and the sun (no isotopes?).

As I said, I think those comparisons just seem dishonest to me and make the pro-nuclear people lose credibility.

Also, the Tacoma bridge was built by engineers, too, and yet it broke down. Obviously engineers are not the infallible angels that you make them out to be.
This is one of my favorite "web things" ever. It is an awesome illustration of how fundamentally insignificant we are.
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but I never made the connection that this kind of puzzle is basically the proof of the four-color theorem.

Sorry, but the proof of the four-color theorem is much, much more difficult than the proof of this result. (Which is called Kuratowski's theorem and was proved in 1930.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%27s_theorem#Kuratows... for more background on the result that I was saying, and http://people.math.gatech.edu/~thomas/FC/fourcolor.html for more on the four color theorem.
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Apparently it was an "outtake." This also confused me.
I think it is still quite likely that Facebook could implode spectacularly in the same way that Digg did. It would take longer for their company to unwind (due to the huge number of users) but once the momentum is lost other platforms will have a chance to prosper. The (presumed) forthcoming IPO and the events around it will be interesting times for everyone, I think.
> exclusivity

It was exactly this that made Facebook great for college kids and drove its initial growth. Facebook was once a quasi-private space, and that was all kinds of fun. Sort of a unique online social experience (and not in the buzzword sense of "social") that was available for a couple years.

Now it's just another AOL.
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'Share the Air' was a prank that still got serious funding and biz dev inquiries
Cluster SSH is also a tool for Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ClusterSSH
I think privacy is actually a good reason for strong data portability. If users can easily leave your service for another, you have a strong incentive not to violate their privacy expectations. To extrapolate that point out: strong data portability and interoperability encourage a competitive environment.

I think you're conflating "closed" with "private." An open social networking environment can still harbor private (I would argue more private) sharing contexts.
With the current court system, it is about as good as it gets. Contracts absolving other parties of responsibility don't hold up in court. Heck, take a look at all the problems around Accutane. If you take it, you are told and sign forms stating it can cause depression. Well, it looks like that won't be good enough. People's love of punishing the big even companies have doomed those that suffer more than the revenge has ever been worth.
and the marquee and frames based website :)
Be sure to scroll to the bottom, where there are a geocities affiliate button, the omni present (at the time) under construction gif, guestbook, netscape and ie 3 buttons, and green-led counter.

Back in the day I had the very same last three on my angelfire and then geocities websites... Ahhh, the memories.
Thanks, that's the first of these P = NP posts that explained it for someone uninitiated to the discussion!
You're totally right.

Just got a phone call from my sister... she totally punk'd me. Now the ENTIRE office is rolling on the ground laughing...

Of all people, my non-techy sister!
Finding a Tech Cofounder – The Unanchor Story
Why you should bother designing for IE
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That doesn't seem like it could be true. The film is rolling through the camera, and if the shutter were open continuously, the entire film would be a vertical blur of light. The shutter would open and close once per frame, so the film can be advanced. The actual shutter speed of a camera shooting 24 fps would be much faster than 1/24 s.
I find this unlikely because FB is much more mainstream, pervasive, and locked-in than Digg has ever been.

Honestly, I kinda hope you're right, though.
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Microsoft .NET introduces a suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT.
Yeah I would ignore that protip, instead of taking you to jail they would take you to the Mental Hospital for trying to feed something imaginary. If indeed Tumbleasts are imaginary. I still might not be convinced they are NOT real.
There's a slot for email in your profile, but this is not visible to other users -- if you want people to be able to contact you, include your email in the "info" textarea.
OK, this is my favorite of the day. The only thing they're missing is an animated "under construction" gif.
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Dealing with Craigslist in NY I found it to be full of scammers and spammers.

Buying from people listing on craigslist is very much a buyer beware experience. Plenty of bait and switch. And my personal favorite "It's currently in pieces, you can pay me and take the pieces away. All the pieces are there but you have to pay cash first."

Craigslist has a lot of room for improvement and it would great to see useful changes made.
What's wrong with just being a stable place? Why does everything have to evolve? Craigslist works fine for a lot of people. It is familiar, doesn't hog bandwidth, and doesn't leak personal information like a sieve. Sometimes a hammer just needs to keep being a hammer.
Yes, if you are doing business with the mark you get precedence, especially if there is lots of documentation that it predates the filing.

However, be aware that everything I know about trademarks I learned over the an intense 6 week period when Sun was trying to figure out what to call Java (my suggestion was 'Silk' :-) and the browser (initially WebRunner but that was already in process by Apple/Taligent).

Do consult a lawyer, do file for a mark if you want to keep it.
I think regardless of the numerical threshold that's up for debate, the point is, there's a level at which the company feels like it's this amazing well-oiled machine. Employees take ownership and pride in their work and strong personal chemistry among co-workers can put icing on the cake. Maintaining this level of productivity and chemistry becomes progressively more difficult as a firm scales.
Is this kind of thing really done frame-by-frame though? I think with smart interpolation techniques you shouldn't have to do single frames anymore.
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Maybe our information is out of date, but here's what we learned:

https://github.com/jsonpickle/jsonpickle/commit/0b97652e4102...

jsonpickle: Remove cjson support

"First, please don't use cjson for anything. It's got multiple bugs and misfeatures, and is generally unsuited for anything except impressive benchmarks. It was easier to write my own library, from scratch, than try to fix cjson."

-- John Millikin, author of jsonlib
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Not really. It's a completely different statement than "everything is rocks". If everything is a file then everything shares properties common to files. It turns out that this is really useful. If everything were a rock then... well, let's say that it would not be so useful :-)
How many goofy stories have you seen today that affect publicly traded companies? I don't think I have seen any yet.
A relevant comment from the post:

>You might want to put lines on that graph showing that Craigslist was sued for its adult classifieds on May 4th and removed the section on September 4th. One could argue that the disruption has primarily occurred because of those events.
I think we have some semantic trickery going on.

It's fairly obvious that a log file is a file. But "the log" is clearly a never-ending stream of information.

The author makes other good points but the title is linkbait.
Sharp comments like this are the reason I read HN ;-)
Scroll down in the bottom frame :)
Here are some more relevant links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529104

http://metaoptimize.com/blog/2009/03/22/fast-deserialization...
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Another interesting view of all this is via John Crowley's novel "Little, Big" (certainly heavily influenced by Yates).

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I believe syslog-ng is non-blocking. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.
:'-( I miss the X-Files and the old Web.
git rerere --help

once you resolve a conflict git will remember, and do it for you. :-)
CraigsList derived an estimated 53% of their revenue from job listings, 30% from adult ads

Not surprising, as those are markets with a supply-demand imbalance. These seem to gravitate towards marketplaces that require lots of hoop jumping, I guess because it artificially pares down the demand.
I was really hoping it would be something at least somewhat interesting like an SQL injection vulnerability or some kind of 0-day (EDIT: in external facing system/service), for the sake of RSA.

But no, it was email attachments (EDIT: granted, with an Excel 0-day). Email attachments???!! Says a lot about the effectiveness of security awareness training. Fear the APT.
The fact that they haven't done the things you describe doesn't change the fact that craigslist is a terrible product.

It is clogged with spam. Clever types of spam, often ones that crowdsource their content by mining previously legit posts. Since there are no reputation mechanisms to speak of, it's far too easy to waste your time with stuff that's either spam or a scam.

Meanwhile, data visualization has progressed dramatically in the last decade. craigslist remains in 2001. Wading through apartment listings, for example, is miserable, and there are almost no mechanisms in place to encourage that very basic information is communicated by people listing their properties.

craigslist can keep its hideous, serifed-out visual design as long as it wants. The big beef here isn't how craigslist looks – it's how it works.

The fact your dog doesn't shit on your pillow doesn't excuse his taking a dump in your shoes every day.
Very cool. I normally despise April Fool's, but this made today worth it.
On your point #3. Actually, you are incorrect. Profit is revenue - all costs. Whether or not it counts as COGS is only relevant for gross margin, a metric which isn't the best to judge software companies. R&D is an expense, so it affects your profitability and your net margin. If your company spends $100 less, that's $100 more you have in the bank, $100 less that you need to sell people on.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grossmargin.asp
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/net_margin.asp
There's no common sense to be found, especially on the GOP side. There are a number of money-saving programs that they're trying to significantly defund, which would end up costing more than they save.

For instance, funding for poison control call centers. Instead of just calling up a call center, people who are afraid they or their kid has been poisoned would have to go to the emergency room, which is far more expensive even if it's a false alarm.

They're just making piddly penny-wise, pound-foolish cuts that will barely scratch the deficit.
The web that knocked AOL's wall down was already there when Facebook started getting big.
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Yes, the risks are high for the employer especially if it comes to such high fees, so I assume by letting the employee to make the pay, there won't be any (high) risks. Of course this might not be possible for everyone but would be good to have it as an option.

Will just assume that getting the Visa won't be a problem. At least in my country not.

Hopefully will have the _pleasure_ to try the system soon.
Craigslist is designed to make communication easier. If different people have differing ability to communicate, this makes it more difficult to communicate.

Mediocre UX makes for a better meeting ground, because when you start making things easier beyond a certain point, you start to do so at the expense of outliers. For a site like Craigslist, making 90% of people feel twice as comfortable and 10% feel less comfortable is a bad thing.
"Time moves forward and stops for no one, yet so many people are prepared to waste it, have unlived lifes."

I don't think adopting this line of reasoning has ever made anyone more happy. Even if you can "live your life fully", this comes with a pressure to "use your time to the fullest" that would, to me, be unbearable (I've been there, although briefly).
What's stopping you from profiling your rails app after you finished it before the home built php solution? You always want to decrease development time, product out the door is what matters as Windows and Linux/Unix prove that even with superior alternatives (plan9, inferno) being first and with momentum is infinitely more valuable.
If you stick to the brightly lit parts of the language, things will work. The Facebook codebase was and is enormous, so the vast majority of PHP has to work as advertised. The one big thing that's ruled out is eval, but other wacky PHP tricks ($f(), $C::staticMethod, $obj->$methodName(), foreach order, etc.) work. Outside of eval, you have to go out of your way to break it.

That said, it's a young project, and things can be a bit rocky. Including compilation in your deployment process is also a pain; do not kid yourself about that. It's kind of "industrial strength" in general; unless you care about how many PHP requests you can squeeze out of a unit of hardware, HipHop doesn't have much to offer.
Dupe. Discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398238
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I can't speak for Canadian TV but primetime British dramas are generally technically excellent - for instance, this year's Oscar winner for Best Director, Tom Hooper, has directed episodes of Cold Feet, EastEnders and Byker Grove.

Practically nothing that doesn't feature US accents and locations is picked up by the networks - sometimes period co-productions sneak in, as long as there's pretty frocks and no swearing.

You're missing Misfits, for instance, which is the best show on TV...
The web is as a roaring ocean; AOL and Facebook are as but sandcastles on the shore; waves come in, waves go out, and no sandcastle is forever safe.
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You're just over 500 karma; I'm around 140 as I write this. So I guess I have a ways to go. :)

Not that I'm really worried about it one way or another, though.
Huh, they changed it back a few seconds ago. (I suspect foul play maybe?)

If you didn't catch it, it was a redirect to http://rubyonrails.org/download
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I think the fact that Cameron, Jackson, and Lucas are using it will make the transition much easier.
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I'm sure one amongst us will come up with something that brings down fb. no single company will ever be able to grasp the whole social experience.
I recently developed this process and have found a few niche website topics with it. But, I am curious, has anyone used a similar process and how successful is it for you?
Correct. There's a simple formula for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed#Cinematographic_s...
Recent movies filmed on digital video have the problem that the exposure time is much less than the frame gap. So action scenes look like flick-books. Gladiator had this issue, as well as most of Michael Mann's recent output. A higher framerate will make action really flow.
The company has to prove that it couldn't find any qualified Americans to do the job.

Can you please link to an official document that states this? Because i thought the only relevant clause was not paying the Visa holder less than what an American would get. In other words, the Visa sponsor must pay market rates.

Edits: Sorry, bad connection.
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Craigslist is so full of spam and reposts it's practically useless for major categories. Take for example Dallas apartments/rentals... hardly a single legitimate posting in there.

There is A LOT more to complain about than appearance.
http://www.dejavu.org/ for the old web and its browsers

http://michaelv.org/ for win 3.1
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The chicken and egg problem in localized services is extreme. Like others have said here, if someone is to replace craigslist they will need a very general destination type product.

The problem is is that not only do you need to reach a critical mass before the content is there, but you need to do that in each and every location. This is why it's such a challenge.
You're absolutely right. I see that HDV is encoded with the H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 compression scheme.
For apps like this it's worth to buy an iPad.
"real life"
I love the GeoCities reference and the under construction guy (aka Sticklyman).
The aliased fonts made me think I'm having a deja vu experience.

-webkit-font-smoothing: none;
In the following paragraph she mentions RSA didn't use another tool they sell to prevent this kind of attacks. I think she used the phrase correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
Funny you mention that, I listened to those audio CDs as well! I think that and "How to Develop a Perfect Memory" are the best resources on him, he's the man.
I really must be "blind". I can see the difference side-by-side (especially the moving ball) but the difference is so slight. Even 15fps looked fine to me. If you showed them to me back-to-back, I don't think I could tell the difference. Which is frustrating to me, because I know the difference but I wish I could see the difference. I feel like my eyes are failing me.

This is watching the downloaded avi.
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Why entrepreneurs and founders often have trouble sleeping: Closure.
I can't believe the person who wrote this is legitimately knowledgeable about this industry or the relevant tech. Phonetically misspelling "Bayesian" as "Beysian", while hardly a deal-breaker or even worth notice from someone non-technical, is a giant red flag from someone trying to sell themselves as a technically competent analyst.