skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So either Clarkson's grossly misrepresenting Tesla's behaviour so far, which would be very odd"

Not exactly, Clarkson is notorious for letting its biased feelings cloud all forms of objectivity. See e.g the Civic Type-R 2008 review which is a complete joke when the Stig review is the direct opposite. Either a car is a lemon or a gem but it can't be both. Whether Clarkson is genuine or stages such opinionated behavior remains unclear and part of the myth. It's a fun show, but a show nonetheless.

"this doesn't seem to be a review for comedic value"

Comedic, no, but creating a sense of drama, yes. in both cases the goal is to generate emotion. Either way, I felt like it was emphasized when I watched it some time ago.

Besides, complaining a 200+ miles casual range shrinks to 55 when you're beating crap out of the car is nothing short of ridiculous. Did they complain that the Veyron 100L tank burns in less than 15min at 400+kph? That's a 60 miles range! Heck, no pure electric production car, let alone electric sports car, matches the Tesla range today.
Here ya go: http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=javascript+minify
On Web SQL Database and IndexedDB
No.

EDIT:

What will the company lose if you walk? That is what your equity should be based on. Given your brief bio, it would seem as though you can offer a lot to the company.

What contribution are you making to the product - aside from doing 40% of the work, are you contributing to design/product decisions, novel ways to implement the features? Is there any IP onto which your name would be should it be granted a patent?

What other options do you have with respect to other opportunities?
Stop playing telephone and just read the original: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/hiphop-fo...
Other recent "Ubuntu" submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392444

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392868

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393527
My recollections may not be totally accurate, but I'll try.

In 1997, I was working at TCSI. My SPARC 5 workstation had a small local disk, which had crucial things like vi on it, which were fast to access. It might have been 500 megabytes or less. /usr was NFS-mounted over an unswitched 10-megabit Ethernet to a gigantic 35-gigabyte NFS server, from which I had access to a huge variety of software, including something like 8 versions of the CenterLine C++ compiler, much more than would fit on my local machine, but which was much slower to access. My home directory was also NFS-mounted.

Installing the huge variety of software on everybody's workstation would have meant that we had to have dozens of copies of it, using up precious disk space, and furthermore that installing or updating software would need to be done on every single workstation, instead of just on the NFS server. rdist existed but wasn't widely used; rsync had just been invented.

Also, "packages and versions"? pkg_add isn't what you think of as a package management system. The FHS was adapted from Unix workstation practice established before Debian invented package management as we know it today, and at a time that Slackware still didn't have package management. You could install your packages wherever you wanted, much as people do today with easy_install or gems.
First of all you're not just a user. I think you're a valuable assist in the service you provide. Second; I have a ton of karma that has nothing to do with older posts. Third; I missed this article the first time myself -- and I am here a lot.
It's very common. It's a limitation/feature of the Chrome API. If you want to make an extension that can be run on any page, this warning will appear.
I started charging from day one. I've never had a free version. I've been profitable from day one.

That said, business has slowed for me mostly because now I have more competitors, their software is better than my competitors at the time, and most of my competitors offer free versions, which I still do not (though I am contemplating).

(this is all in relation to my guild hosting site, link in my profile)
The impression I got (and the impression I get as a blog owner) is that he was leaving a link within the comment body, as opposed to the URL field. People do this all the time on my site and it sort of immediately invalidates their comment for me.
The Human Lake
Related or duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391344

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391906
TL;DR - The software that "detected" the keyloggger was wrong, and the company that makes it acknowledged that.

The guy's apology was an actual apology, not spin. That was refreshing.
Would Apple really pull the official Twitter app? It seems highly unlikely, because Twitter has leverage over Apple's users. People won't switch to some other short message sharing service, they'll switch to a non-Apple phone.
I always recommend 'other' and 'none' options for practically all HN polls.

Not everyone is employed. Some people have unusual relationships (internships?).
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Swedish Medical robot gives manicure, makes paper airplanes
[April 1st]
Passion? What's That?
China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
Oh, totally.. but they don't care about me browsing HN..

... the IRS might be interested in a LOC count... :(
Would it be called the "jrockbar" if I created it? Unlikely.

"dickbar" stuck because "dick" is a word with negative connotations that refers to the male anatomy. The fact that it's the guy's name simply makes for a cute cover story.
I often use the Closure Compiler at http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/ (online) and http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ (offline)
What amazes me is that anyone here cares about GoDaddy, and as much as it pains me to imagine, there are probably people here that do business with GoDaddy.

It's a shame really. Your loss.
My guess would be that the number of sites having a +1 button and not using analytics is very small.
One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones
Was with you until your stab at vegetarians. I'm a vegetarian, I'm not an animal rights activists.

This is like seeing a change going in the Ubuntu distribution and saying it might offend Linux kernel developers. In other words, it's misinformed at best, and a worthless and argumentative statement at worst.
Because on http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ it says perfect score.
Nice early April 1st gag. The big giveaway is him posting the "off-the-record" comment at the end. No matter how deep into AOL he gets, he'd never give up an off-the-record comment.

This is a pretty rough gag though, if not a little mean:

"That has angered Google revenue chief Nikesh Arora, who has reportedly lashed out at the webspam team privately at various sales events for targeting some of Google’s most valuable partners. Tellingly, Arora recently returned back from a two week jaunt in the Caribbean with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, reported TMZ, where the two spent time on Rosenblatt’s new $40 million megayacht pictured left and called (I’m not kidding), The Adsense. Demand Media, worth around $2 billion, generates approximately 100% of its revenues from low quality content wrapped in Google Adsense ads"
This is nice, but I find it much less usable than GTMetrix: http://www.gtmetrix.com which runs both Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow.

As an added bonus, GTMetrix also shows you the resource loading timeline.
Nice tool, even if it makes some funny suggestions:

Minifying the following JavaScript resources could reduce their size by 1.1KiB (0% reduction).
Minifying http://ajax.googleapis.com/.../jquery-ui.min.js could save 641B (0% reduction).
Minifying http://ajax.googleapis.com/.../jquery.min.js could save 516B (0% reduction).
A previous mention on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918368

In at least two articles about the X-37B, I've read about it changing orbit. But isn't that an energetically expensive operation? In a previous article (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0824/Secret-Air-Force-...) the change seemed to be one of altitude/elevation (sorry if I'm using the wrong orbital mechanics terms ), rather than a plane change. But isn't that still relatively expensive, even with a Hohmann transfer or something? I can't imagine the X-37B can do very many orbit changes - can anyone provide more information on the physics behind this?
You've linked to two comments there, both o which complain of downvotes, both of which are upvoted. Even so, those are just people who agree with you, that doesn't do anything to strengthen your argument.

Are you sure people aren't just over reacting?
When Attorneys Generals Attack - Topix CEO on his experience
On the plus side, switching from storing zsets of actual event data to storing integer ids should be a pretty minor code change.
Google’s Music Search Engine Quietly Vanishes From The Web
Maybe it's a pure/applied split?

When I'm investigating a physical system, doing the mathematics often tells me something qualitatively different from what I was expecting, and I find that my expectations were wrong more often than I screwed up calculations. I don't mean to trivialize what goes into doing the calculations - what I mean is that I'm constantly solving math problems that force me to revise a flawed understanding of a system.

That's what I mean by "mechanical" - I have to remain disciplined and resist the temptation to reason by analogy to something I may not even understand completely.

If you care, I came to applied mathematics via nuclear engineering.
Houseplants Make You Smarter
Wow these jokes are growing weaker and weaker each year. There was a time when their jokes were actually interesting.
Ask HN: Where to host video for landing pages
I am just in the process of creating a screencast/product intro for a landing page but don't know where to host it.

Should I host it myself or with a provider? Which provider is good? Are there any good tools to track the views of the video and maybe at what time people stopped watching?

I would think having a YouTube logo or something similar on the video looks unprofessional, but maybe it also increases conversions? Is there any data about this?
But Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica don't claim to hold the universal truth or try to convince people to follow a specific lifestyle based on that.

On a site note, my GGP post earned me my 666th karma point. Very suitable.
Tips for building online marketplaces
I was under the impression that NULL is required to be zero by the standard by now. If still not, it's high time that they give up! Differences like this between theory and practice do not go away easily. The decision is changing which one is easier, the culture or the rule...
Speaking of which, I've seen you pull out links to dupes probably dozens of times. I assume you're taking your own advice and have a means of mining old HN articles? I have a pretty good memory, but I don't think I would've caught all of those without some computerized help.

You also gave me the idea that maybe there should be an application to trawl through old HN articles looking for good ones (probably excluding old hiring threads and the like), but it's such a simple idea that I'm assuming that someone has already built essentially that and I don't know about it. SearchYC's top feature is close, but not quite what I have in mind.

Interestingly, I noticed that one of the top comments ever according to SearchYC is from btilly commenting on the original article. The other top comment makes me wish that btilly had taught math at my university.
The other day I was actually surprised over how slow gnu grep was. I wanted to count how many lines in a log file contained a domain. Using grep -c <domain> <file> took 25 seconds for 1.7GB log file, whilst agrep only took 5 seconds.
This was from a few years ago!
Check out ack, tailored for programmers: http://betterthangrep.com/
Maybe its because I was skimming, maybe its because department versus department battles in a large company feel all too natural, but I have to admit that this had me all the way until:

"It's not like people are going to start using Bing."
PushState + ajax = pjax
I, for one, would like some of these micro-optimizations to make their way into the mainstream frameworks ; I don't see my.js getting big in the current state of things but merged into jQuery, it could really help us all :)
I just noticed that your screenshot isn't even of Page Speed. It is of the Audits tab in Chrome Developers Tools.
Really nice framework ! I'll try it in a future project.

Am I the only one who can't browse the documentation on myjs.fr ? on any browser on Linux.

Also, check this awesome speed benchmark ! http://jsperf.com/my-js-perf-tests/4
This also proves that it's not McDonalds fault.
Western Companies Make Mideast Censorship Possible: This Week in Online Tyranny
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I'm sorry for complaining. Bad form. Nice work on it. I like it.
Cloud Drive is not an attack on iTunes or Spotify, it's an attack on Dropbox
I only see a frame with this message inside:

Google
Error

Server Error

The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.

Thats the way they took it down? :s
Founder of a mobile company 5 years ago, however I would say we worked for "the man" as we bootstrapped via client work, which at least makes us masters of our own destiny
In my opinion, the animal cruelty side of this pails in comparison to the total and utter obtuseness of playing an AC/DC track over the top of a bunch of people who are clearly starving scrambling for a hunk of meet like some post apocalyptic nightmare!!

It doesn't really surprise me coming from this guy because the he is obviously obtuse (NASCAR sponsorship, Pamela Anderson ads etc.) but I found the graphic pictures of the slaughtered elephant far less confronting than the fact that he turned the life or death struggle of these desperate people into a sideshow spectacle for his PR exercise.
Personally, I'm rather disheartened that it took shooting an elephant to convince people to leave GoDaddy.
I haven't watched the video (I'm at work now), but are elephants currently protected? I recently read about a program where African elephants are being sterilized because the populations have grown so large that they're becoming a problem.
Project Bubble http://projectbubble.com
I like this whole debacle. I think it ended well. HN, and the power of news aggregating/forum/linking sites wield a decent amount of media power. I like that - because it's one of the instances where the collective mind has greater intelligence than any one individual. It confirms the notion that tech producers need to pay attention to the tech community and shortens the distance between the two, which I think is a good thing.
Jupiter and Saturn's rings show echoes of comet collisions
Because it's [dead], would be my first guess.

Now, if you are wondering why it is dead, I can't help you in the slightest.
You are still free to fork any code that was previously released under a free license. All of the source code they release can be used.
So far 19% of HN readers are full time entrepreneurs and 81% are either employed by someone else full-time or contractors.
Since when did it stop building?
After Co-Founder’s Departure, Is Blippy a F’d Company?
Number Theory is not obscure, and was not obscure before cryptography. There's a reason why they're called "Gaussian Integers", and "Fermat Primes". It's been around for a long time, and studied by most mathematicians. It's also part of the California State Standards.

I can only assume that the definition of 'obscure' here refers to the vast majority of an mathematics undergraduate curriculum. Which is absurd.

An aside, one of the key points of public key cryptography, Fermat's Theorem, a^p=a mod p, is a Group Theoretic concept.
Sounds like a perfect fit for my local acute clinic :-/
I am so sorry for those (Dell, Acer) who didn't get what Google built for free when other partners got involved early on. Having to develop your own software and not getting it for free certainly sucks.

If they are so disappointed, they can always launch Windows Phone 7 devices.
What about "stakeholder"?
I'm currently thinking of moving away from github for exactly that reason... I have a lot of small very small traffic repos but it makes no sense for me to pay the bigger account size.

I get along by hosting some of the repos on my own box but I'd really rather centralize everything...
It's not April 1st though.
Can we collaborate with random folks or do we need to have a pre-determined group? The former would make things pretty interesting I'd think :-)
It is not mine, but gautaml's one, and it use the independent tool of chrome that perform the same test. But when using the webservice it shows different results.
... and just emailed me, as an existing Namecheap customer, letting me know that I can help save the elephants. Nice fast-move marketing. :)

"It's not often that we would disagree publicly with a competitor, but we at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport. Check out the ABC News Report (Warning: Very Graphic!)

We've decided to throw our support behind our Elephant friends by offering domain transfers at a price where we actually lose money.

Show your protest by saying BYEBYEGD again and transfer your domains to Namecheap for $4.99 for the next 24 hours through 11:59pm EST on 3/31/11 (limit 10 per user, valid for all com/net/org domains).

On top of that, we'll donate $1 for each transfer to Save The Elephants at http://www.savetheelephants.org/

Use coupon code BYEBYEGD and let's help the Elephants together!

Regards,
Team Namecheap"
Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
And according to real time tracking, it's about to fly over Libya:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37375

No surprise that the US is flying it's secret space spy plane over the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_L...
Yes, but you don't have to mix them each and every time. It's just that you have the option to do so and aren't constrained to a single language designer's favourite style.
I can't punch or run in my dreams
I only got 97/100 for https://grepular.com/ because:

1.) I have 306 Bytes of inline JavaScript

2.) Minifying https://grepular.com/ more than it already is could save 794 Bytes, ie less than 1% of the page size.

3.) They want me to defer javascript until after page load. It's the last thing in the body anyway...

None of those are valid complaints. Where's my 100% damnit
I have some serious love for mmap.

I don't know how many people's code I've optimized by eliminating:

FILE *f;

f = open("file.dat","r")

f.read(...)

and replacing it with mmap'd I/O
I have used Ubuntu Desktop (Lucid & Maverick) everyday for years now and certainly don't have any stability issues, I don't see how changing to Mint (based heavily on Ubuntu) would affect stability.

I also have to ask what is this immature software as default you talk about?
To bootstrap, or not
I own a company, contract for my old employer, and work for a company.

I work for Kiva though, and my boss passed me on a skateboard coming in to work this morning, so it's about as far from working from the man as I can get.
Yes, ssh works fine. For your browser: I use tsocks, so I don't have to muck around with browser settings.

I have such a setup for accessing Pandora at work. We are in the UK, so we have to trick Pandora into thinking I'm from the US. Nobody at work cares.
Nice job. I saw the app zooming up the charts last night and was trying to figure out what was causing it to rise so fast.
My bad. I wasn't paying attention to the usernames.

Are you sure they perform the same tests though? Why would Google build a Page Speed Chrome extension if the exact same algorithms were already built in? I suspect they are working towards the same goal but are approaching it differently.
Thanks Jeff!!! You're awesome. Yes check out Project Bubble if you want a great UI.
I think something like Historio.us might be the way to go. They give you 300 bookmark slots free when you sign up, which is a fair amount even if you import old bookmarks. As I inch closer to the limit, I can see myself just biting the bullet and buying the monthly subscription. It's just a few £s to avoid a lot of hassle and continue using a useful service. However, I doubt I would have paid from day 1 when there are free alternatives (which may even have been just as good, I'm not sure. I may never know.).
Just finished transferring all my domains.
I'm not sure that where I work would constitute working for "the man." I have considerable equity, and was a very early hire. I'm not a "founder", but this job is a damn far sight from something like my previous work at, say, Lockheed Martin.
FF 3.6.x gets the "unsupported"message :(

Trying chrome now.
wow, first content in the source is the doctype on line 574. Line count: 10,224
Reminds me of the Ghostzilla project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla
I'd automate everything if given enough time. To me it's the essence of running an efficient business (and indeed scaling). Some examples:

1) I automated the creation of Google Adwords CPC keywords for my ecommerce website. Based on attributes of the product, the algorithm creates 500 unique keyword combinations. Over the coming days I will automate the creation of entire campaigns.

2) I automated gathering information about 200 universities by hiring a smart virtual assistant.

3) I automate my customer support emails by using canned responses.

4) I automate the running of my unit tests so that they run whenever I save relevant files.

5)I continue to automate my code base by writing new layers of abstraction which call lower layers intelligently.
How is that relevant when they are giving the latest source to people they approve?
You must work at the same company I do! Imgur isn't blocked for some reason.

Speaking of which, what is the legality of your corporation injecting fake SSL certificates for sites served over HTTPS?
Remember when Acclaim seriously considered advertising its games on tombstones?

Yeah, way to top that in the lack of taste department.

Guess who I'm not registering domains with.
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If Bob is so invested in selfless help, why doesn't he drop some cash and build a fence to permanently keep the elephants out?

Also, to those suggesting that killing this elephant is chill because it fed a lot of people, I'm pretty sure there are more cost effective ways to feed people than mobilizing an elephant hunting squad.
What kind of information do you need to invent a new programming language?