skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cultural movement is sometimes called "new age" and is associated with portions of the hippy movement of the 60s, particularly those that fetishized or otherwise adopted Hindu and Buddhist mysticism.

The energy she speaks of is somewhere between "ya know, like, energy" and this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_(esotericism).

Yeah, it sounds a bit crazy, but its a market. Having been around this kind of person a bit, I can tell you they'd drop money on air from somewhere pure. A hundred bucks or more is too high, but cut that to $20-$100 and you could at least pull off a decent lifestyle business in the right part of the country, especially with a personality like her's.

Judging by the landing page, she's not just an airhead. If she can get the message out and get online orders flowing, it could be a decent chunk of change per month.

It's not gonna be the next Twitter, but it would probably pay for itself in a few years if you paid for her and a couple of her friends to go on some air gathering expeditions.
It can be very expensive to build a solution for an unsolvable problem.
Windows 7 operating system will be release on Year 2011 wallpapers and photos
Custom Web Development- Employing CRM for Smart Business Solutions
Custom web development is heart and lung of the web industry. Nowadays business organizations, big or small are using Internet to sell their products/services. It gives them easy access to vast customer base on a global scale.
I believe they might have used the same stuff the Washington Post used[1]. The post quoted a lower ( 7 million ) but still unreal figure in another paywall related article [2].

[1] http://www.eidosmedia.com/EN/Page/Uuid/83c5a8b2-ae9f-11de-9d...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/behind-the-posts-rede...
Its not about who is a better musician, its about who can sell more albums, concert tickets, etc. In that respect, Lady Gaga knows how to work pop culture like few others.
They surely missed this one though.

as Underscore.js do this:

_.max = function(obj, iterator, context) {
if (!iterator && _.isArray(obj)) return Math.max.apply(Math, obj);
var result = {computed : -Infinity};
each(obj, function(value, index, list) {
var computed = iterator ? iterator.call(context, value, index, list) : value;
computed >= result.computed && (result = {value : value, computed : computed});
});
return result.value;
};

_.min = function(obj, iterator, context) {
if (!iterator && _.isArray(obj)) return Math.min.apply(Math, obj);
var result = {computed : Infinity};
each(obj, function(value, index, list) {
var computed = iterator ? iterator.call(context, value, index, list) : value;
computed < result.computed && (result = {value : value, computed : computed});
});
return result.value;
};

While John do that:

Array.max = function( array ){
return Math.max.apply( Math, array );
};
Array.min = function( array ){
return Math.min.apply( Math, array );
};
There was an elaborate article about this on TechDirt a few days back:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110317/10393913530/it-too...
Clickable: http://onflood.com/

And some hotlinks to different floodboards:

San Francisco: http://onflood.com/location/manual/?37.7789601,-122.419199

Austin: http://onflood.com/location/manual/?30.2674473,-97.7425618

Edinburgh, UK: http://onflood.com/location/manual/?55.9483399,-3.1932723
This would be a fantastic app to run A/B -like testing on to determine whether say a circular "picker" gives different results than a horizontal "picker". You could even tighten it down to see if a random distribution of numbers between 1 and 10 gives different results than a ordered distribution.

It fits the model perfectly and, at least to my perspective, very clearly.

Edit: Doh. Looks like you're doing just that.
You post an illogical, intelligence insulting crap and become "sad" when somebody calls the crap out.

You're right - the HN debate culture has gone down. The strongest and most logical argument you've managed in the discussion on radiation doses [non]equivalency is to call me a troll.
GDrive is the Duke Nukem Forever of online backup and file syncing, except it hasn't even been announced.
I do sales calls as well and I agree with what Corey says. It's not about the selling in the end, its about the prospect being able to remember you, you being able to figure out a way to offer something of value and ensuring that the person likes it after you offer it to them. Prospects who act irritated are probably going through a rough patch, and I usually make it a point to call back in a month and check for a tone change, and more often than not, they will talk.
I can't recommend Compass/Sass highly enough. A CSS pre-processor will completely free you to organize your CSS however you want, and more importantly, it lets you build up a library of common components (forms, buttons, etc.) that you can easily reuse and adapt for new projects.

Generally, these library files will simply contain mixins (reusable chunks of code), so they don't output anything directly into your CSS, but allow you to include the mixins in certain styles. Very useful for adding effects, rounded corners, etc. on different elements.

Keep in mind however, that mixins can be overused, adding bloat to your code. CSS does cascade, after all. You should always look to see if you can separate reusable css rules to include in markup (commonly seen with grid systems). How you balance out the convenience of keeping your css flexible vs. not littering your markup with lots of styles really depends on the project, but it's something to think about.

I have developed one very useful trick while using Sass for managing colors. Instead of assigning colors directly to an element (very hard to track down later if a change is necessary), I create color variables named after the element and attribute in question. Then in my colors.scss file, I build up my color palette, and after, list all the color variables I created in my stylesheets, setting their values to the appropriate color from the palette (with tweaks, if necessary).

// in colors.scss ---

// color palette
$red: #ff0000;

// assign colors to elements
$body-background-color: $red;

// in layout.css, for example ---

body {
background-color: $body-background-color;
}

Since Sass lends itself to lots of files, keeping all my colors and the elements they are assigned to together in one file makes them much easier to manage down the road.
It's not a "regex find" as the string is not a regular expression. The string is a CSS selector. jQuery can find DOM elements by CSS selector very quickly by deferring to document.querySelectorAll when available.

If I were facing this performance issue, I'd check to see if there was a fast-performing way to restrict the query to just DOM elements in the viewport. I would guess that check would take longer than the date-updating code, though.
Am I the only one who is a little tired of the term "ecosystem" in the context of technology?
For those of you in a different country that doesn't use the Dollar: The New York Times just blew almost an entire Color on their paywall.
Imagine if they'd instead invested that money in restructuring themselves for a viable, 21st century business model. I mean, it's a big ship to turn and you probably need a lot more than $40m.

But at least they'd be closer to cracking it than they are now.
So, let's say a wildly over-staffed (for this kind of project) team of 10 programmers for a year, on an average salary of $120K. That's still only 1.2M. Let's say another 800K on hardware. Does that mean the other 38M went to corporate, management, kickbacks to ensure that the right company got the contract?

If that's the case, it's even more depressing if the vast majority of the money didn't even go to people who had absolutely nothing to do with the actual implementation.

Can the shareholders of the NYT demand an investigation into this? Seems like this kind of ridiculous overspending should be something that would concern them.
ySlow recommends at most 3 stylesheets, and with good reason: the HTML headers and request times can drastically slow a site down.

By simply organizing the structure of the file well, you can have a easy to navigate css file. Of course there may be a few extra style sheets; ie.css, section specific.css, print.css and mobile.css.

Here's my CSS file structure:

-reset

-html tags h1,p,q etc

-header

-navigation

-content

-sidebar

-misc (popups, forms, buttons)

-footer
"$=" is a regex-find operator to find the ._timestamp elements with data-time property that ends in E + "000"
Can you do it again for 1 to 100? I'd like to improve my success probability for this http://xkcd.com/628/
Presumably (I haven't got one) the XBoxes can use UPnP to negotiate external ports with the home router, which, unlike the ISP's router, can trust the devices on its network.
Sorry, I meant it as "or". I guess I should have used || instead of /
Enable SSD TRIM on Mac OS X 10.6.7 for non-Apple drives
There's an interview with the founder of the site at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhV23vs8uo
Perhaps you should be selling the dream of becoming a published writer rather than just being "the easiest way to write for the Kindle."
Engineering Security Book Draft, March 2011 | Peter Gutmann
I agree that the "first introduction" is an issue, but the use of Perspectives and key signing seems to be a fairly strong attempt to overcome that.

A stronger disagreement: after the presentation puts so much time into linking the structure of PKI and the social incentives that mess it up, to just handwave that away as "a misconfiguration of SSL caused by a political quandary" is kind of missing the point. Any system designed with security in mind must take into account the human factor from the start; human behavior cannot be changed independently of the system's structure.
A comic about how IE failed to support XHTML for a decade
If the change is unnecessary, then that's a billion dollar broken window.
Set your Ubuntu Desktop Fully Transparent Panel
Whatever. I can't blame them for not supporting XHTML for so long; it's a useless standard if you ask me.
I don't think Apple is as close as you may think initially.
Steve Jobs announced during the iPad2 keynote that devs have earned over $2b from selling their apps on the App Store. Add to that all the artists and bands that succeed by selling their music on iTunes. Plus all the podcasters that wouldn't have been discovered if it wasn't for iTunes. Plus all the authors selling books on the iBookstore. Plus the hundreds of small and large companies making accessories, cases, adapters, covers, etc for iGadgets. Plus all the big brands like Bose creating iPod compatible hi-fi equipment. All the vehicles adding iPod dock support. Added up together, I'm not sure if it matches Microsoft's ecosystem, but Apple's is probably in the tens of billions of dollars.
I picked 3 because it's in the easiest number for me to strike (text box version).

My mouse is typically in the middle of the screen, closest to the higher-scoring numbers in the graphical version.

I'd like to see the results from the same test where you have to type the number as a word for the textbox (e.g., three), and where the numbers aren't laid out in the same numerical order for each user in the graphical version.
The Underscore functions do exactly the same as Resig's in the simple case (when passed just an array of numbers). They're longer because they accept custom iterators for non-numerical arrays.
I am just learning Rails, and am completely stoked that I understand this.

Dumb, I know...but nerdly exhilarating.
Except they finally did recently in IE9.
I think the card that provides "guidelines" for employees is a great way to re-emphasize the point for employees.

It is a genuine struggle for any organization be it small or big is to make your customer facing people greet customers cheerfully. And I think it is never enough to drive home this point and if having a card helps, so be it.

What matters to me as a customer, is somebody cheerful attending to my request at that moment and not someone who just wants to get you out of the way and do something better.
I also use Sass and Compass. I generally organize the directory roughly like this for projects without a separate designer:

stylesheets
- ie.sass
- master.sass
patials
- _base.sass
- _forms.sass
utilities
- _custom_mixins.sass
vendor
- _facebox.scss

The files with leading underscores are partials which are included in the master.sass. Note that facebox is an scss file. I just dump the CSS in it and include the partial in master.

The nice thing about sass is that it you can change output format, so you can just include all the external CSS files as partials and automatically output a single compressed files with your entire CSS.

When I work with a designer who uses CSS I use a structure like this:

stylesheets
- master.sass
partials
- _style.scss
vendor
- _facebox.sass

In this case, the designer's CSS is dumped in the _style.scss partial, then included in master.sass. Then in master.sass I include my modifications to the designer stylesheets. That way I can leave the designer-provided CSS largely untouched and still have all the flexibility and power of Sass.
I started to feel pretty smug [0], at first. How could John Resig not know this? Then I saw that it was from 2007. Sheesh, I probably first learned about this trick from that post.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5020954/adding-functions-...
the traditional news agencies make more sense when viewed as a branch of the civil service. especially NYT.
Not to mention how long it will take for IE8 to die.
contrarian pride for 1 or 10.
A XSS prevented by using XHTML
Hey Lance,
It took me awhile to find my CTO.
Here are my recommendations:
1) Outsource: http://www.sourcebits.com/
2) Keep doing it yourself: http://viniciusvacanti.com/

I am currently in College and think I have a scalable idea.
Kept searching in till someone believed me.
However, even since I found my CTO, I'm teaching myself how to code to just build a basic crude prototype with no hard coding or algorithms.

Most VCs I've talked to are just looking for something tangible. If you can just build a crude protoytpe and pitch it then you're solid. Also, you might want to look into mobile apps.

-CC
I had the exact same reaction. I think it's a classic case of there being no upper bound on how much time or money can be consumed by a large organization trying to achieve some effect. They have amazingly labyrinthine and absurdly bloated ways of doing whatever they want. Like that saying that work expands to fill the time allotted for it. A given task generally can not be performed any faster than some specific lower bound. But there's no upper bound, and all you have to do is add more people, opinions, meetings, committees, processes, rules, laws, approvals, reversals, fights, dead ends, legacy architecture appeasement, technical debt, alternative explorations, dead time, vacations, etc. and you can blow up the time/dollar cost to whatever level you want.

Related note: I bet if some news organization used an off-the-shelf CMS like WordPress or Drupal, they could add a "paywall" to their site in less than a week, using mostly the services of a single engineer, and perhaps a designer. Let's call that a total project cost in the $400 to $4000 range.

ps. If any news organization decision-maker is reading this, I do indie contracting and would gladly add a paywall to your site for a mere... (pinkie in mouth) one million dollars!
Xui.js - a simple javascript library for building mobile web applications.
It's a fairly complex problem. They probably wanted to model a bunch of different systems to 'prove' they were making the right choice. Ultimately that will determine who to congratulate or blame in 6 months so you can imagine everyone involved in the process was interested in staking a claim to success or evading the blame of failure. So take every facet of the paper's expenses/revenue and figure they ran the numbers dozens of ways for each minute part of the operation factoring in all their partnerships, ad buys, etc. They are a news gathering organization so they probably approached the problem in some depth. Plus they probably had good expense accounts so you know.. no need to rush it.
Ahh...now I get it. I was wondering why this plug peeved you so much. You compete with that guy.

Wow...talk about having a vested interest.

This is so unfortunate because now I have to double check grievances on HN to see who has a vested interests - which degrades the integrity of the community.

For someone with such high karma...this is so disappointing.
U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web
perhaps upkeep and renovation for n years is included
Blastoff, start a group of commands/applications from one command
Buffett cautions social-networking investors
Feb Review: Life Tracking, Major jMockups Updates. Preceden’s Best Month Yet
Shouldn't the valuation be some solid multiplier of the annual revenue of $580 billion?
> and the total number of cookies and the number from any single domain are also (theoretically) restricted

Did you mean "practically"? From what I've seen, HTTP specs generally don't set limits (so I would not expect any for cookies), and RFC 2965 is no different: it only sets a lower bound (300 cookies, 20 cookies per unique host or domain, 4k per cookie).

Theoretically (from a strict RFC reading), almost nothing in HTTP is restricted, but implementations tend to disagree at every single level of resolution (and some do pretty damn early)
Instant search comes to Yahoo
I've always thought of a reference chack as a way to make sure someone has at least two friends that are willing to say nice things about them.
It's a little more complicated than that. From the Bloomberg article:

"Developing the technology for paywalls is challenging because publishers are trying to strike the most profitable balance between charging some online readers and letting others in free to generate advertising and attention. Though Times Co. has said it will charge visitors after they’ve read a certain number of stories, for example, the company plans to let people coming to the website from social networks such as Facebook Inc. view an unlimited number of those stories for free."

I suspect that almost all of that budget went into market research. This isn't quite an A/B testing scenario. If you drive away potentially paying customers 50% of the time (in a worst case A/B test) then you are losing money. The potential for lost revenue in a "release early, release often" iteration approach may justify such a big budget. With so many factors, quite a bit of strategizing and research need to happen before putting things to the test.
From a college student: Facebook 2.0?
I kind of posted this topic before, but I just wanted to see what other people thought about facebook.

As a college student, I don't really enjoy using facebook as much as I first did.
Also, I've asked around and many of my peers are starting to the same. We are all become spectator's in facebook. I think there is a way to revolutionize this problem. What do you think?

-CC
Ask HN: How do I share an idea with a company but still receive credit? 
It is a great little idea- that I would give away if it meant that it would be used. I do want to be in a position where I am able to take credit.
What do I do?

Should I build a prototype? And then just start knocking on doors? Cold-emailing founders?

This is a complementary idea-- it would be something that companies like: SCVNGR, 4Square, Facebook and even Color.com will one day adopt to improve service for their users (and add value in their partnerships).
Good points, though I disagree with this:
"Moreover, it is almost never the programmers who decide to incur technical debt"

In my experience this is sadly not true. There are an awful lot of programmers out there that don't even understand that technical debt exists. I see it a lot amongst inexperienced programmers.

The worst thing about technical debt type issues is that it is very difficult to explain to someone why there is a problem. You have a young programmer, fresh out of uni, and you ask them to build a small subsystem, which they do with much enthusiasm. Then in the code review you see a bunch of practices that are going to make life difficult down the track: naming conventions haven't been followed, huge 500 line functions, tests are brittle if they exist at all, the code is full of handlers for special cases, instead of finding a single algorithm that elegantly handles all nominal cases, things like that.

The trouble is, the code works, kind of, so it is hard to explain to someone why code in that state is not acceptable. Furthermore, I can happily accept code that doesn't meet one of those criteria that I listed above, but when you start to have multiple infringements, code just becomes unmaintainable. It's not a clear cut case of something that you can point to and say "that's wrong", but more of a overall cumulative effect. I eventually had to let one guy go because I just could not get him to understand that this stuff was important when you're building a big system.
LOL. Does this guy think he's really going to scare us with lines that could've come from a Michael Bay movie??
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
http://www.nearfield.org/2011/02/wifi-light-painting
You know, that's a really interesting observation. Having lived across the hall from day[9] in college and seen him play both Starcraft and poker, the intense concentration, and frenetic clicking, and split-second analysis involved in both activities are really not all that different. :)
I'd like to offer another possible view: Maybe IPv6 will be a great filter on the internet.

All the subpar websites I don't want to be bothered by won't switch, and I won't have to deal with them.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
It's generally a good idea to concatenate your stylesheets for production - doesn't mean you have to write them as one big file, though.
The tight ties between the public/private sectors worked so well for finance. I can't wait to see what havoc will be wreaked by similar practices being spread to the tech sector.
It seems like everyone thought the goal was "How do we charge for content" instead of "How do we provide value that people are willing to pay for content".
I used his technique for a while but then I had to find the max and min of an array of 1 million values which is more than the maximum number of arguments to a function in most javascript implementation so I rewrote it a such:

Array.prototype.min = function() {

var increment = 50000;

if(this.length > increment){

var reduced_array = [];

for(var i=0;i<this.length;i+=increment) {

reduced_array.push(Math.min.apply(Math,

this.slice(i,i+increment-1)));
}

}else {

return Math.min.apply(Math, this);

}

return reduced_array.min();

};
Array.prototype.max = function(array) {

var increment = 50000;

if(this.length > increment){

var reduced_array = [];

for(var i=0;i<this.length;i+=increment) {

reduced_array.push(Math.max.apply(Math, this.slice(i,i+increment-1)));

}

}else {

return Math.max.apply(Math, this);
}

I'm sure someone can suggest a better way.
Indeed, a bunch of New York executive wages over an 18 month period start to add up. Khoi Vin (former art director) pondered this on his blog a few weeks ago [1], citing it as one of the reasons he resigned his post.

[1] http://www.subtraction.com/2011/03/18/what-the-nyt-pay-wall-...
Does this include the cost of assessing various options, or how to design the pay wall? I'm sure that involved lots of meetings and manager man-hours. But 40m is ridiculous even given those managerial/administrative costs.
Yes, I've been trying to learn it.