skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following the likes of Buxton, Laurel, Tognazzini, Norman etc. since I was into HCI (oops, now it's called UX). Even attended a few SIGCHIs where they held court.

Sorry for being cynical but all I saw was a group of researchers that got into a groove with CEOs and could constantly glide from company to company preaching the UX gospel without actually making a dent in any company they touched. Don't get me wrong, it's a hell of a lucrative career path and I envy their ability to slide effortlessly from Atari Research to Xerox PARC to Sun Labs to Apple Advanced Technologies to Microsoft Research to probably Facebook Labs next.

(Actually it makes me kind of admire Google for not falling into the same trap. Yes they have "Google Labs", but they didn't create a palace on a hill somewhere full of beanbag chairs stuffed with $100 bills. They just go out and buy the tech that interests them.)
O'Reilly is doing a "Deal of the day" for Japan Disaster Relief (my response)
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No, but in general someone who takes the time to think and speak in complete sentences appears to be more thoughtful and thorough. I don't know about you but all other factors aside, I'd be more comfortable handing away a portion of my company to someone who says "I look forward to working with you" as opposed to "lol u and i will do gewd <3"
X11 is snappy when both computers are on the local network, but as soon as the traffic has to travel over the internet X11 is unusably slow. VNC feels sluggish in that situation but it's still usable. xpra or nx can make X11 usable over the internet. I suspect something like xpra will be created for wayland.
Techcrunch has changed over the years and does not cover a whole lot of the early stage funding that I used to love reading about. The dominant topics on Techcrunch now are Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Groupon, etc....

It's a shame that smaller startups don't get as much coverage on Techcrunch anymore, but hopefully others will step in to fill the gaps. TheStartupFoundry looks promising though!
for Mark being a jew it is relevant, since this is double standards against Muslims. while Facebook keep the pages that Insults the prophet of Islam, it deletes the pages that criticize Israeli occupation of Palestine. how does criticizing Israeli war crimes a wrong thing to do!?

What if facebook deleted a memorable page for the holocaust and Mark was Muslim or German what would you say then?
Lets say I'm a chrome user (and loving it), is Firefox4 worth a try? What are the main differences from the last version?
see also: https://github.com/weavejester/clucy
I see no reason to demand another 24hour news channel when the 30min nightly national news broadcasts do just fine, along with the internet and npr to spice things up.
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Is this exploitable in some odd way?

What if I wanted to use Dropbox for piracy purposes (I don't, just using an easy to understand model). Could I upload a copy of Avatar.mp4, compute or find the checksum for it, and then distribute just that checksum to other users? Or distribute a file that wasn't Avatar.mp4, but looked like it to the Dropbox client? Would this effectively trick the Dropbox servers into distributing the file for more, so that I could legitimately claim to not be distributing copyrighted material, but just distributing a "magic" file that caused Dropbox to give me a copyrighted file that someone else had uploaded?
Will Firefox 3.x auto update to 4?
Doesn't look like its working for me on Latest Chrome 10, Win 7. No dots :(
Cashed copy of the site it is down now : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dXfDrb0...
Awesome timing. The latest version of chrome (10.0.648.15, Linux x86_64) hangs on Google Reader and doesn't work with Flash for me. That gives me an excuse to play with FF4 rather than futzing around downgrading chrome.
AT&T has been the top corporate donor to Congress
Thanks for the explanation. Your comment was more informative than the article. I have always wondered about the reason for Apple ignoring India, and now I know what's going on.
I've been using the betas over chrome for a few months now. They've redone the UI, it's stabler, less memory intensive, and the UI is completely redone.
It's definitely worth checking out even if you enjoy chrome.
The Tab Candy (http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy/) feature is pretty cool.

The big thing about Firefox is the Addons: FireBug, NoScript, Adblock Plus, and Pentadactyl (was known as Vimperator) all add up to a fantastic experience.

With Firefox 4 I get the fantastic experience with something much closer to Chrome's speed and tab usability. I don't know if I would say Firefox 4 is quite there yet but it is much much closer.
Why is text aliased and ugly in Firefox 4?
Not to pike too much, since measuring is a big step from not measuring... but IMHO, this isn't analytics. Graphing and looking at things going up and down is just tracking and reporting. Looking at causes, looking for correlations (when you can't find a cause, see if the correlations give a clue), grouping up data to understand what is "normal" so that real deviations stand out from noise, pattern detection, linking of variables into directional chains (where possible), all that is analytics. (And yes, he does do some manual analysis when one of his metrics is awry... but that doesn't make it analytics, just another step in the right direction.)

I'm as guilty as the next guy to call metrics "analytics", partially because it takes some analysis to pick "the right" metric. But it's gone too far: I fear that we've corrupted analytics (which is really just a corruption of analysis, or maybe a portmanteau?) into being applied to pretty much any dashboard, visualization, or counting system.

We finally have cheap storage, fast counters, great parallel systems... so let's do measure everything, and revel in the data. But let's also admit that simply measuring is not (yet) analytics, just a necessary first step... and that it's just reporting until that additional level of, dare I say it, analysis, is applied to it.

I say this partially to push us all to take that next step, to not accept just counters, even if they are pretty and realtime, but to push for more analytics embedded in our tools, be they easy UI to show interactions between variables through to stats/AI/ML which finds patterns, shows outliers, and reveals opportunities or pitfalls.
Just checked, and it doesn't (Mac)
Like any community site there is a serious chicken and egg problem. Even more so in academia where there is a very engrained sense that research and discussion should happen behind closed doors. I can't imagine academics wanting to discuss their opinions too openly for fear of it coming back to damage their reputation later. If you could foster an academic community which was more open it would have a positive effect on the whole of academia, but then we're talking about changing an institution not just building a community.

I notice that you have made a point of being able to change the anonymity of a comment at any time. I think this is one way to help with fear of damaging reputation so good job with that.

I've got quite a few thoughts on the problem and ideas to go about tackling these issues. I don't know if they'll ever come to anything, but I'd love to bounce them around with people working in this area. My email address is in my profile if you'd like to chat.
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Worth a try? Yes.

Better Tab handling and has the ability to hold tabs in "groups" and a "panorama" view which allows you to view all tabs across groups.

The awesome bar has also improved significantly and has some smart features (like the option of tab switching instead of opening a new tab when you already have a URL open).

Better Add-ons management interface and some add-ons work without a restart of the browser.

Websockets disabled (for security)

I still prefer Chrome though.

PS. I've been using the FF 4 beta version for a 3-4 months now and probably dont remember the other significant changes.
Different (Chrome-inspired) UI; faster (rendering speed) compared to previous versions and some techy-things like hardware acceleration. They also have synchronisation built-in now.

I'm also a Chrome user but I'd quite like to switch back if they've sorted out the chronic lag issues I've always had.

Update: In ff4 now, looks and feels great, if a little sluggish with page scrolling. I don't know, Chrome just feels slicker.

Update 2: Just froze up loading a flash game, shame.
I believe that's what's going on, yes. Leiningen runs on top of Maven and so it's downloading the jars you need and storing them in ~/.m2/ where they will be linked in at compile time.

A "lein uberjar" will roll your whole program up into one .jar file, ready for deployment.
Mine didn't seem to (Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit).

The first thing I did after manually downloading and installing was to re-visit http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/, posted here a few days ago. Amazing.
I strongly agree with both of your points, at least in theory, but I will also observe that trivially and concretely verifiable derivative indicators (graduated from a "named" school) can be more practically useful than hard/impossible to quickly or concretely verify primary measures ("genuis with lots of creativity"). YC, Sequoia and other VCs are in the business of efficiently finding founders/companies to back; they are not and do not have to be in the business of increasing overall fairness in the world.

There's also the "ambitious and gets shit done" angle. IMO, like it or not, getting into and graduating from a "named" school is one indicator of precisely those two qualities.

There was a study recently that found there was a higher correlation between life outcome and where one APPLIED to college than there was to where one WENT to college. The takeaway for me was that people ambitious enough (and presumably confident enough) to apply to MIT would get similar results in aggregate to those who actually attended. I googled for a few minutes to try to find the study, but failed, so I apologize if I've mis-remembered or mis-stated the conclusions.

Disclaimer: 1993 MIT grad here, but while I greatly value my experience there, I give basically zero "extra credit" for MIT on a candidate's resume over any other school and I'd take "built dropbox" over any schooling, 8 days a week.
Firefox Twitter party
The startup time of Chrome is hard to beat - I'll stick with Chrome for now.
No news here. This happens to a lot of orgs that rapidly hire. No big deal. I think Kevin's best work is ahead of him.
I've read Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis (1934 ed.) and bios of both Munger and Buffett, and I found Alice Schroeder's Buffett biography to be pretty good. It is long, but it covers a lot of stuff that he might not tend to mention as a public figure ... and you can see how his investment style evolved from Benjamin Graham style value investing into his present strategy.

Also Buffett wrote letters to his partnership during the 60s that give a simple explanation of his investment style and explain some of his larger non-securities investments: http://www.ticonline.com/buffett.partner.letters.html ... this would be how he thought when he was merely a millionaire.
> acting as the mouthpiece of bin Laden by airing his tapes

Why is airing his tapes acting as his mouthpiece? Every others station on planet earth aired them to. It's the sodding news, and given that Bin Laden is world enemy number 1 why on earth wouldn't they air his tapes?
How to get customers who love  you even when you screw up
indeed: when people clamor that everyone should re-think nuclear power, we should actually look at the human cost of the current alternatives. For example, the news is happy to report that China will be building 50 reactors in the future. (One even said that that's almost as many as there are in the rest of the world; completely untrue). But should China really stay with coal mines? How many people do they think die from coal mining every year, to say nothing of the refinery and pollution? 2631 in 2009, 3215 in 2008, nearly 7000 in 2002.
Okay, I kind of get this, but I still don't understand the upshot for Apple.

Apple's products are all pretty "generalist" -- you can make apps for them that do pretty much anything. So it seems like the iPad and iPhone should be a hit as is.

But I'm sure that Apple would rather give up the Indian market entirely than put a flashlight on an iPhone. The same goes for other sorts of feature considerations. I don't think Apple wants to compete in (or even believes in) markets where you compete by stacking up features.
The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience
All babies are ugly. They look like little aliens when they come out. After a couple months they plump up and get cute.
win7, I tried update (using the menu) with no luck, but the install process was easy (installed it in my old ff folder and it upgraded everything) and all my settings were kept.

Some of my plug-ins are no longer compatible though...
IT works!! go to help -> check for updates
This FDI norms are hurdles but it should not be the only obstacle as there are many companies that are marketing their products successfully, in fact Dell is going to make $2billion from India alone and they have more than 20,000 employees there ... India is certainly a biggest growth market but then you need to concentrate on that properly by having active presence and that is what Apple lacks right now ...
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Chrome 10 on OS X here, working perfectly.
Chrome 10 + Win 7 here also, I see lots of dots! :)
You have a very engaging, "narrative" style of writing that paints a vivid picture in the mind. It is wasted on comments. You should write some articles.
I totally agree. Hiring blindly like that is hazardous to say the least.
I find javascript refreshingly faster compared to 3.5 . I no longer even get the "unresponsive script" messages when using the usual lot of JS-abusing pages our "tools support" team has cooked up.
Do you have 20 years of data points from Rome in 30 AD?
Lean Startup Guide to Building Software For Normals
Investing in people is the best kind of investment; because a business of people is always profitable. A very powerful philosophy taught by Dale Carnegie.
In my experience, even on a local network X11 can be nearly unusably slow, especially over WIFI. The protocol has too many roundtrips.
Don't you mean "recognised"?
Why I canceled my NBA league pass for AppleTv after 20 minutes
Dropbox
No Nees for USB drives anymore

Google Docs
easy collaboration within our startup

and of course Twitter
Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional)
For the devs, you can now run Firebug in FF 4. http://blog.getfirebug.com/2011/03/21/firebug-1-7-0/
The only college that matters
Senator asks DOJ and FCC to do their jobs, provide friction for AT&T/T-Mobile
surpass firefox in what way? all browsers have their own set of advantages and disadvantages, but firefox surpasses ie9 in almost every way, even firefox 3.6, let alone 4
We've got several hundreds years of writing, temple records, etc.
Historically major updates have been offered only after a minor release or two.
> get fed 3 meals a day during the week

Sounds like a nursery :)
I can't believe people are responding negatively to your comment.

Of course you can do development in the simulator or on an older model for a couple of weeks. Developing on the old model is probably a must-do for at least another year or two.
Furthermore, while you do need to test on a device later in the dev cycle, I (and most other devs I know) actually don't deploy to hardware for days at a time early in the cycle.

Early in the iphone dev cycle there were enormous disparities between bugs on hardware and the simulator. Some symbols didn't even link consistently between the two and re targeting would cause compilation errors. This is no longer the case and the two targets are very, very close.

In fact, if someone told me they wanted to get into ipad development, I would tell them to write their app first, and then buy an iPad to test it on.
I am not a fan of Fox but I understand what you are saying. It would be nice to have a fresh way of checking the news or view it from different perspective. Current way of presenting from any news organization is awkward. Politicians are polarizing the nation and news organizations are feed to the fire. That's why I stopped watching the news channels. I find this peaceful and healthy. Sometimes I think we are going freakN backward as a country. It's an insult to our founding fathers and the American way.
HTML5 'Supercookies' Risk Web Privacy
I'm having trouble parsing this portion of Amazon's developer agreement:

3.a. Delivery Commitment for Apps. You will deliver electronically to us (and continue to make available during the Term all versions of all software applications, games or other digital products (including any special or collector’s editions) (i) that are designed for the Platform, (ii) for which you have the rights required under this Agreement, and (iii) that are the same versions and editions (except as otherwise provided in this Agreement) that you or your affiliates make available directly or indirectly to any Similar Service.

Does this mean that if I distribute one of my applications through the Appstore, I'm legally required to distribute all of my applications that way?

If so, no thanks. I'm perfectly happy to distribute one app through Amazon's store as an experiment, but there's no way I'm going to sign an open-ended agreement to distribute everything at prices set by Amazon.

If they want every app I write, they would need to earn that through good sales and a lack of shenanigans.
The article starts with reporting/graphing but then goes on to how I analyzed those reports/graphs to actually fix an issue.
Judge gives go-ahead for Steve Jobs deposition in iTunes antitrust case
How is it counterproductive? By what mechanism does complaining about the mainstream media actually make it worse? Complaining about the mainstream media may indeed fail to improve it, but saying nothing will certainly have no effect.
* Faster startup, more responsive, faster JavaScript with the new Jaegermonkey JIT.

* New, less cluttered UI.

* Built-in sync of bookmarks/tabs/history/passwords, fully encrypted on the client (unlike Chrome's sync which encrypts passwords only).

* Sync your bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and form data to Firefox for Android!

See also this thread for answers from various members of the Firefox team: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g197r/iama_were_on_the...
It seems like this post could usefully be expanded into a longer article. If you have the time, I would encourage you to write it.
"and the moon based shield generator got blown up"

Taken down by a flaw in their hosting environment.
agrred, that's how walmart and carrefour are getting around retail FDI restrictions in India

they are setting up wholesale cash-and-carry businesses that resemble Costco in the United States

just envision that would be hard for apple to do in terms of apple stores for India
This is usually a graphics driver problem. Try updating your drivers or disable hardware acceleration in the Firefox preferences (under Advanced: General: Browsing).
> Domain names are now responsible for devolving English

[Citation needed] on three counts:

1. What does language "devolution" even mean?

2. Is English actually "devolving"?

3. Are domain naming trends in any way related to that?
>not backed up with any evidence I note

Evidence for Qatar being an Emirate? For the Emir financing AJ? These aren't disputed, AFAIK.

>You realise that Al Jazeera - not twitter or facebook - was a big driver of the recent political events

Definitely.

>caused a lot of resentment, anger amongst the current encumbents in these countries

True. So? Anything there that goes against Qatar's interests?

>They have more local staff in more foreign bureaus than any other network

And they do a lot of quality interviews that aren't rating driven. Because if you have a very rich monarch financing you, you can afford all that. That's my point. How was their coverage of the WikiLeaks docs regarding Qatar?

>Edit: Ah - judging from your blog you're from Israel.

Damn, cover blown! I guess this makes me a Mossad agent, or at best a mouthpiece for the Israeli government. Thanks for doubling my blog's readership though :)
Really the issue is that he gave a quote for the entire thing, instead of what it would cost to fix the initial problem.
jedsmith: Since it's so resource intensive, it rate limits when not focused in order to not waste your CPU.
When reading they spent money on geotargeted advertising on plenty of fish I was baffled. Decent developers or people in charge of recruiting at a company surf plenty of fish?
Thanks, but if I'm being honest, this comment is directly aping Joel Spolsky's style. I'm glad it worked.
Why not just provide a reasonable estimate, with a "price assuming this goes as expected", what can go wrong and a price for fixing the various common issues encountered along the way, and a worst case scenario price?
In a sense, data structures are "primitives" when it comes to implementation. Their structures and algorithms are published, and often there are numerous examples in other languages you can use to template your own Ruby code from. There seriously aren't any tips or exercises except to just translate from pseudocode into whatever language you want.

You might be looking for something more specific - e.g. functional implementations - but there's nothing in your post to suggest that's what you want.
I'm a web dev and need to keep 3.x around. Can I easily install these two side-by-side or is that going to cause trouble for me? I'd love to use FF4 as my main browser at work (well, in competition with Chrome anyway) but I can't risk messing up 3.