skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite sure the implementation you have (whether you iframe it or pull content in and redisplay it), but thought of a few suggestions:

1) inject the style tags w/ javascript and it will refresh the CSS content without doing a page reload. We do this on our editors and works well:)

2) Make the text box more coder friendly (allow indents, for one).

Great idea!
I think "welcoming them warmly at the door" is a helpful technique. Seems to me that the issue is not newcomers but lack of inculcation in the culture. If you want them inculcated, it helps to a) give them motive to get inculcated and b) give them opportunity to get inculcated.

Lots of online communities are really bad about being asshats to the newcomers (or just ignoring them like they don't exist). This is not a way to inculcate people with good manners. It is a good way to give them reason to be asshats back or, in the case of ignoring them, making them feel like they can do anything because no one cares or is paying attention to them anyway.
I like the idea. Here's how I envision it:

Show me all the existing CSS (with syntax-highlighting) in an editor in a sidebar. Let me modify that or add to it, then share the result. Also, highlight new or modified code somehow. Basically, a save-able, shareable, Firebug editor with diffs.
He means "destructive assignment".
Your comment was a passive-aggressive declation of stupidity in the other party.

Well, that is exactly how I perceived Linus' comment, which is why my comment came across that way.

Clearly I was wrong, but I thought everyone would find it obvious that Linus' reply was pretty much unacceptable (and thus understand the point I was trying to make... which was not a passive-agressive declaration of stupidity in the other party, despite how it came across).

As least in the comment that was linked to, all he does is "yell" (all caps) at the person he's attacking, and although he presents an argument, it doesn't address the things his attackee actually said; I (personally) found it to be thoroughly unsatisfying in an intellectual/technical sense.
If I wanted long-term exposure to the S&P 500 then I would indeed do that. I have bought and shorted SPY (which has a fee attached) as a part of short-term pairs trades.

My point is simply that for years, fund managers such John Bogle have made a big deal about the fact that an efficient market doesn't allow stock picking funds to beat the cheaper index funds, etc, etc. True enough, but the next logical step is to drop the index funds and manually reproduce their trivial work.

Someday, a smart brokerage is going to offer a service to do this automatically, with cut-rate commissions. This would save people billions and billions of dollars.
"AOL is cool." The phrase appears in big blue letters on a long whiteboard lining a hallway

could you get any less uncool?
We are talking volume here, right? This isn't digg mob style... My guess is that those 20K are spam bots?
I'd say this could fall under fair use... :)
A good idea well designed. Kudos!
Good idea on the _appends_ - who wants to save the entire code for each iteration, rather than just the changes? (hitting myself over head) haha About Wordpress: their explanation seems more marketing-related rather than practical: http://codex.wordpress.org/License Maybe going GPL reflects a core change in their business model, now that they're hitched with all the Windows Live blogs?
Actually, it should be "Scott Adams's Controversial..." (http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp)
The site is amazingly beautiful. But I don't immediately get what the point is. I do have a MySpace and Facebook account but rarely log in. I don't have a twitter account. So maybe I am just not the target audience. But I am wondering if some kind of info (on the front page) about what you can do with this would help? (Or maybe I'm the only twit who just can't figure it out -- I also had difficulty adjusting to the spare design of HN and your site is similarly clean-lined and elegant-looking.)
It's not a big deal for LuaJIT because it uses a clever tagging format that can hold a boxed 64-bit float in a register.
This is pretty creative. Question about the implementation: are you just using urllib to read the contents of the provided URL, then overriding the page's CSS with the user provided CSS?
Improving Certificate Security in Firefox 4
Adams has a few good points about this. I'm not saying that it's completely right, but some ideas are.

1. In Family Court, the man is seen as the bad one. Unless the woman is a baby-eater or something disgusting, she will get custody, with the man getting every other weekend or some such. He will also be charged to pay up to half his income for the "child",. And there is usually little or no checks to make sure it goes to the child.

2. In terms of parental and mother rights: A woman has a multitude of techniques in which to evade or eliminate pregnancy. These techniques can include up to abortion (this is NOT an abortion debate). After the child is born, the woman can also leave the child(ren) at a multitude of safe "drop points" in which the child is considered abandoned without criminal charge. The man, has very little recourse over children, even up to the woman having birth. There is no way for a man to give up parental rights and also not pay child support. The woman can do this at any time.

3. Women's pay is not in parity with men's pay of an equal job with equal skills. This is correct. The "solution" to this is to lower men's pay to that of women. And in cases which the woman sues, (SCOTUS case http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/05/29/340479/-SCOTUS:-Wom...) the woman is still screwed. Not surprising from SCOTUS.

But the comments comparing women with mentally handicapped and children... Well... That (ahem) stands for itself. That shit is just indefensible.
Very cool. Any chance you plan to integrate with Firebug?
I love it! Great job!

It is so simple too. I don't need highlighting or anything. Don't make it bloat. Keep the simplicity. This is great.
Particularly up in the Bronx, there are still the wonderful serifed mosaics that the author mentions only in passing, and that to me speak more on the enduring New York:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70323761@N00/192331109
This is the technology industry which means that you can't stand around for a long period of time without expecting or preparing for another entry. There are other startups coming in the scene addressing this issue of "privacy" and "open source" etc... With time Google and Microsoft will follow as well as VCs looking for potential candidates... MySpace could have re-designed their interface and added relevant features to stay competitive rather than switching their focus which was their main down turn. Ex. Microsoft buys yahoo to compete with google... no success.. Microsoft creates bing (sort of like a copy of google) and takes a good share of the market.

Facebook "basically" gave users what myspace and friendster had + some more in a very nice and easy to use format (even though both companies had largely taken over the market based on our expectations at the time - p.s. expectations change). Is that what a startup can do in this area to potentially "viral" and gain AT THE LEAST 100,000 members? Ex. StudioVZ, Chinese facebook copy etc...

Expectations of a market take over can now be defined as 500 mill members and in 2004 and on myspace was considered at the top of its game etc... you guys probably see what im getting at. But 2004 and now is a huge difference with access to computers, technology and cell phones being extremely convenient so is 500 mill a REALLY BIG NUMBER or Can it get even BIGGER in the future?
I like the simplicity though. No need to make it busy and bloated. Most browsers already have a Firebug or something on them already (or you can add them yourself). No reason to have two.
How about the "5 million dollar bonus" (I'm guessing restricted stocks) to retain one top engineer? We must be switching over from brawn to brains in the human value chain, which is apt, as the ENTIRE value of NFL teams doesn't even equal the value of any ONE of the companies mentioned (Total value of Facebook is $50B while total value for combined NFL teams is ~37B for example). Either that, or we're in a bubble. I, being the incurable optimist, vote for the former.
It could be certainly. Fair use is determined on a case by case basis and one of the factors is the amount of the work used in respect to the whole work. He quoted the entire work...
I can't verify this at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that you can assign the right and middle click actions on a three button mouse to do Cmd- and ctrl- clicks, so this is a nonissue for those of us with a standard mouse.
That's a good question, and if I had a good answer I'd probably be working over at Twitter because from all the speculation about them trying to tie-up their company with Facebook and a host of other large companies, I doubt they know themselves how to generate enough revenues to justify this evaluation they're getting.
Earth hour? What time? What's the point?
Yes, it works by proxying the request and injecting CSS and the header at the right places.
Yeah, I'd love to be a paying user for this.
Copyright issue applies to all services that allow you to save a page, even Google would be guilty for caching. It is up to the user to judge for a copyright infringement before saving a page.
His explanation:

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/post_deleted
Nice space near cal ave. When we talked to them it seemed like the space would cost money though.
I'd like to be able to request a visualization of my location similar to the flight pattern project http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/

figure ATT owes me at least that much
Why is duckduckgo being built on google app engine a dark secret??

if you are insinuating that duckduckgo is actually operated by google, that is a different story. But just hosting an app on their services doesn't seem to cause an issue to me.

If the insinuation is that google is in fact collecting private information via duckduckgo because it is run on appengine, I'd like to see some proof of that.
I agree that there isn't a need to reinvent the wheel, but using it I find myself wanting some firebug-esq capabilities. I ended up just firing up inspector in Chrome, but there may be an opportunity here.

Or integrating something like that could ruin the simplicity of the app.

Still, I like this a ton.
There is no way for a man to give up parental rights and also not pay child support.

My understanding is a man can, in fact, give up parental rights and not pay child support. I know a man who did so (though I don't know all the details). As I understand it, he had a brief fling with a woman who was separated from her husband. The marriage was falling apart in part due to the fact that it had not resulted in a child. The couple got back together and she found out she was pregnant. But the baby didn't belong to hubby. It belonged to the man she had a fling with while separated. She and hubby opted to stay together and wanted to raise the child as their own. They wanted to get rid of Mr. Fling. As I understand it, he was happy to sign away his parental rights as a means to avoid ever having to pay child support.
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HTML5 MP3 Player - Plays local files and parses ID3 tags
Some kind of inspector would be nice, yeah. The downside is that it adds quite some javascript overhead. I don't know if it's possible to just integrate with Firebug or Chrome inspector.
If photosharing sites can make enough campaign contributions it should definitely be possible.
I doubt it. Spam bots are at the other end of the spectrum, with large numbers of short lived, seldom noticed accounts. This has to be about the Justin Biebers and Charlie Sheens.
I'm over $150k upside down on my house. No one is going to make up that difference.
This is brilliant,im constantly playing around with ideas using Firebug and then having to take a screenshot and mailing it,now its much simpler. Plus having the site with modified css open in the browser window makes it so much more intuitive for the viewer as opposed to an image. brilliant!
If you have an example site that dynamically renders a page I could try it out and show you the result
6 weeks of vacation? starting up?
Why bother creating the accounts when you could just use RSS. Polling every minute should be sufficient.

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/259379883.rss

Winning.
"I realize I might take some heat for lumping women, children and the mentally handicapped in the same group. So I want to be perfectly clear. I’m not saying women are similar to either group. I’m saying that a man’s best strategy for dealing with each group is disturbingly similar. If he’s smart, he takes the path of least resistance most of the time, which involves considering the emotional realities of other people. A man only digs in for a good fight on the few issues that matter to him, and for which he has some chance of winning. This is a strategy that men are uniquely suited for because, on average, we genuinely don’t care about 90% of what is happening around us".

Looking at it rationally, there's two counter arguments he makes that can be considered. Women's rights activists arguing women earn 80 cents to the dollar and fewer women in top management.

I personally think the second argument is valid while the first argument isn't unless I see some objective evidence.

He could've refrained from the comparison with Children / mentally handicapped as it can lead you to wrong conclusions even on a forum like HN, but the rest of the argument isn't something that you get upset about.
I was hoping with all that space opening up at their offices near D.C. this would be for that area.
But isn't penalizing people for being disruptive wrong? I'm saying that how does one avoid a massive degradation of community culture when the community becomes larger?
I think this is meant to be a joke more than than a serious matter. Though I could see it upsetting an extra-paranoid person who moved away from Google to DDG for privacy reasons.
I wonder if the assumption "they need to make money" is necessary. If we agree that the actual value of a journal (or its 'profit') is the voluntary participation of renowned scholars, then the journal is at best an administrative function, or a 'cost center' that has to actually be minimized !!
I think he's including the cost of accessing the NYT across all platforms (iPhone, iPad, web, print).
Sorry, I didn't realize your comment was limited to a single year of our current recession. You are correct - for a short period, finance has grown while other sectors have shrank.

That's not the general trend, however, that's just a blip caused by the recently ended recession.
Nice linkbait there, ted.
I spent about around 3 hours on github(found the bugs after like 2 hours and spent another 1 playing with wiki markup --- it is sanitized don't bother), 1 hour on bitbucket, 30minutes on gitorious(obviously the bug I found was found very quickly after signing up) and ~1 1/2 hour looking at the launchpad subdomain.

I did this over like the past 100 days.
> Autoadvance is inhumane. Speakers should not be expected to have their timing down so well that every slide transitions smoothly.

It's presumably part of the presentation style that started with Pecha Kucha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha) which then inspired Ignite talks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(event)).

It's definitely a different approach but it can encourage people to present in a way that flows more rather than a presentation that is broken up on a per-slide basis.
Update:

I've checked out the suggested sites. I started with Xero, but midway through the beginning of the process of attaching my accounts, I felt like they weren't going to achieve exactly what I wanted. I switched over to indinero and I've just finished attaching my accounts.

Indinero is pretty cool. It's what I wanted, but it has a lot of growing up to do. I'll have to send some feedback over to the guys and suggest some small shortcuts to kill my impatience.

Edit: Double thumbs up though - awesome service you guys have over there!
We do a large amount of what you're describing here at Ruby Mendicant University: http://university.rubymendicant.com/

It's Ruby based right now but really about software development in general. Hopefully in the future we'll expand to be inclusive of other languages.
I actually find it to be really bad, and I'm not the only one -http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=cplusplus&...
Google Apps and Google App Engine are totally different.

Google Apps: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Google App Engine: http://code.google.com/appengine/

It's actually a pretty good idea to sign your domain up for the Google Apps free plan regardless of your project--it saves you the trouble of having to configure a mail server.
How does this compare to something like Careers.stackoverflow.com, a little bit more targeted, but arguably better for me as a software engineer...

Why should I go with you guys to show my online resume when I can put a PDF up on my own portfolio website? Where is the value-add for me as a user?
Cool! I've just done something extremely similar for a school project:
https://github.com/deniszgonjanin/Automagical

I'll put up a public demo soon. My implementation uses Node, and pulls the page html and css, then lets you edit it. If I can make a couple of unsolicited suggestions:

Right now when you click on a button or a link, it will redirect you to another website. Add a click handler for all elements and then event.preventDefault() so that the link doesn't take you off the page.
And second, add a css "outline" style on hover so that the user can see what they're clicking on.

Great work!
That's definitely false. We've had Microsoft's TFS as the source control system when I started working there about 4-5 years ago (I no longer work at ms). We also had two levels of stage servers, several for the dev code branch, and a couple for the prod branch. Eventually each team had their own set of stage servers. Stage servers were crucial since some parts of the infrastructure were not testable in dev, so to say we didn't have any is to not be at all familiar with ms's development setup.

BTW, I'm not normally this animated with my comments, but the article was so full of such baseless conjecture I as truly appalled. I actually had a good deal respect for Scoble prior to reading that. MS had a ton of problems, but it definitely had a number of great people working on technology and doing a pretty good job at it - otherwise we would have been friendster.
It's interesting that you say "Only announce products that you're ready to ship." I think doing the opposite (announcing a product that's not ready or not even in development) is a strategic decision used by many firms (Microsoft, for example) to discourage competition.

It doesn't work well here because Samsung is not the dominant player in the market, as Microsoft is in its own market. Ironically, Apple could do this, and it would work. But it'd be against Apple's secretive nature.
That makes a lot of sense. We have complete-address URLs on our first site, LA Life:

http://lalife.com/address/5314_Blackwelder_St_Los_Angeles_CA...

But the whole address can get unwieldy. Thanks for using LocalGo!
He is probably referring to NASDAQ market makers, who are obligated to have a quote at the NBBO at least 10-15% of the time. Of course, there is no obligation that their 10-15% include the 1 hour or so of the flash crash...
If only each impression were monetizable in units...
These three companies have each now opened offices in Seattle too. I suppose that could end up heating up that market as well.
Buggy! You write unit tests, doncha? Saved skills after the first disappeared. UI experience wise, I liked it. Simple, not too busy. Would be nice to be able to change the two disclosure options after having created the account.
this isn't going to fix anything that wouldn't be fixed via ensuring that stuff is escaped already on the page...
One suggestion: add a button on your top bar to view the original site (flip back and forth) to compare before-and-after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_...

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems the use could constitute educational, in a journalistic sense. Also as the work was deleted it would be hard to argue any lost economical value.
I find your arguments plausible, but many finance companies were bailed out in a big way by the government recently. I think it's possible that some of these companies were playing games that gave them a high probability of a decent gain and a small probability of a catastrophic loss. It seems unlikely that playing this sort of game contributes to more accurate pricing.
A survey of domain-specific languages in Factor
He could add is as an advanced feature of sorts - one that isn't immediately visible to the average user.
My main resume to interview filter is finding out what projects they have worked on in their spare time. They usually have a homepage, blog, github or bitbucket account, or something similar.

On the other hand, there is a class of 'rockstar' developer who are actually not very good. The best way I can explain this is by giving an example.

I was hiring for a new higher-level dev, a Rails role. I was referred to a developer whos name I knew by somebody internal. I thought 95% of the task would be me convincing him to join us, and his profile was lots of twitter followers, a good following on HN and other forums, a high profile as a developer, attached his name to a lot of open source projects and spec work etc.

Turned out he knew none of the basics. He had 'C' on his resume yet he could skype chat me the simplest C routine. I asked him to scp a file up to a dev server, and he said 'I had no idea that you could FTP over SSH' - which he said after a 3-4 minute pause where it was obvious that he was googling. I learnt then that a public profile and being involved in such projects sometimes also isn't the best indicator.
BuySellAds would also be a good idea, as the advertisers on there tend to be pretty design-centric: http://buysellads.com/
The government took money from people that were putting it to productive use and gave it to people that weren't. If they had allowed the banks to fail, their resources would have been auctioned off to the banks that didn't make poor decisions. Those banks would now be running the financial system, not the ones that destroyed it.
Despite Swoopo's self-description as an "auction" site, it is in fact a gambling site. Moreover, when you're at a casino you typically know your odds; with Swoopo, you don't.

I'm happy with the argument that gambling is okay, but Swoopo should have called a spade a spade, been regulated as a gambling site, and published the odds.
Is there something similar for Pythonistas? i.e., something with python-like syntax, static and duck typing, and performance that of equivalent Java?
That's true for the gc compilers, but not for gccgo (yet, anyway). Each go statement in gccgo creates a pthread.
perhaps it is subculture-appropriate slang for 'cool guys'?
Twitter won't allow that.

You could use the api

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

but then twitter would come after you if you tried to syndicate the content.

So then you have to deal with Gnip... and thats 10 cents/1000 tweets.
If you're that far in the hole, does it really make sense to keep throwing good money after bad?
I started learning Python in January after requesting the book "Dive Into Python 3" for Christmas. The lack of support for Python 3 on the web is highly frustrating, despite it being out for quite some time. Learning about the chicken and the egg scenario regarding why people have stuck with Python 2 has honestly left me a bit disillusioned after always hearing about what a great language it is.