skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you just can't. One of my first projects as a freelancer involved hacking full-text search onto a niche news site hosted on a shared host with a shared MySQL instance (specced before my time, and not something I could change).

Sphinx wasn't available, Lucene certainly wasn't an option, and the immutable MySQL fulltext config wouldn't let words of 3 letters or less be indexed. However, that wasn't good enough, because there were a lot of important 3-letter company names in the niche.

So, what did I do? I prepended 'zzz' to every word before it went into the fulltext index. Dirty, hacky, inefficient, and let me deliver working functionality the same day the request came in.
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Thanks for highlighting that distinction. I guess we can chalk up the lack of prosecution for actual fraud to the incredible power the investment banks have over the political process (i.e. lobbyists, campaign funding, regulatory capture, etc). I watched Inside Job a while ago and details are starting to blur together. (I just remember everyone looking really bad.) Perhaps it's time for a second watch.
'handy guide provided by Derek Sivers on how to write up a good "help wanted" ad.'
Can you suggest a link , where I can find the ad you are referring ! thanks
http://roem.ru/
(in russian)

A site with news and inside stories on Russian web businesses.
It's not technical and pretty narrow, on other hand - big business owners and managers routinely write there (for example, Pavel Durov, creator of Russian social network #1, wrote a few articles).
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about WebGL, etc. But I've got a brand spanking new machine that churns through every task I've thrown at it... except WebGL demos. I'm running the latest Chrome and it's simply choppy as hell, despite the low polygon count.

Why are we bending over backwards to modernize a bunch of antiquated document technologies?

I quite like Javascript, but it is rapidly becoming byte code. If you considered "compilation target" to be a JS design goal, I'd consider Javascript to be an abject failure. Similarly, while I realize WebGL is in its infancy, any 3D rendering layer that, by design, cannot approach the performance of Direct3D for simply pushing polygons (not even talking about programmable pipelines) is also an abject failure.
Pot calling the Kettle Black.
In fact the company issued a special $30 billion dividend early in Ballmer's tenure. The Federal Reserve had to correct for this in their quarterly report, because it was an economic event felt across the entire country.
My old MacBook had three screws in the way of the hard drive, which had a pull tab to make it easier to get out.
They clearly need a peer review process as any decent Node dev could have told them that article is crap.
Ars Technica (surprised no one mentioned this one yet), Economist, WSJ, NYT, Phoronix, OSNews, Financial Times.

I used to read books, but then college started. Now the only books I read are textbooks. A tragedy.
That nothing in Science is 100% certain and it's a good idea to not get religious about it.
Is coal the only other option? No.
This seems like the right choice. As nice as it is to force code to make explicit distinctions between the two methods, something as popular as jQuery shouldn't cause code breakage in a single update. Deprecate, hint at the better way to do things, and wait for users to move toward the more modern approach.
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Facebook fan page removed 2x (Once for blocking Facebook tracking)
WikiLeaks, get out of the gagging game
At least this place looks a lot warmer than the creepy smiles and conversations that my local supermarket started employees on. I presume forced-happy looking employees are better than genuine ones (looks like Joker replaced Batman).

The local smaller shops are pretty warm despite many customers, although not as massive as TJ that I know of. I could be deceived!
Interesting. If a company pays dividends, does that mean it doesn't have confidence that it can make as much money as its investors could make by investing their money elsewhere?
I have fond memories of my large, sand-colored Isis Project mug (thanks, Ken Birman.)
For purely non-technical (but still very educated and inspired--it helps to be well-rounded): www.newyorker.com, www.givemesomethingtoread.com, www.longform.org, and soon www.grantland.com.
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I regretted not editing out that part of the quotation immediately after hitting submit, since I knew that although almost everyone would understand what I meant, there will always be someone who'll call it out in some heated nit-picky reply that ignored the obvious intent of my statement. Thank you, sir.
Zero Hedge is interesting in that it shares the philosophy of the Economist i.e anonymity. In a world now, where everyone appears to be shouting or seeking attention, it's quite refreshing. (Although both could improve the structure of their commenting)
Rails 3 is a web framework. PHP isn't. I am always puzzled by the apple to oranges comparison: Rails vs PHP.
> The US government can detect encrypted messages and find those passwords and keys pretty easily.

I presume using rendition and rubber-hose cryptanalysis?
64x being tame by dot com standards still doesn't make it cheap!

As for the earnings argument, look at it this way - Apple and Microsoft both made about 18B after taxes in 2010. Difference is, Microsoft's been printing money for almost a decade. Google doesn't even come close.

It's a fantastically profitable company. You can speculate about the future however you want, the fact remains that this company that until a year or two ago made more than Apple and Google combined is priced far below that combination.
Actually, I think it is that whether bad memories can get institutionalised. If Balmer leaves, that body of bad memories will be gone, and people more willing to take risks again. We need to remember the software landscape has changed considerably. What might not be permissible of Microsoft in the 90s may now be fair game.
Fraud, in the shape of "liars' loans", aka Alt-A, was the major driver of the housing bubble: see http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04232010/profile.html where William Black discusses the frauds. See Wikipedia on William K. Black for more.
Daily : Somethingawful Forum, my Tumblr feed, Newspaper on iPad.

Weekly : A bunch of design feeds : Abduzeedo, Minimalmac, Bornrich, Joshspear.com, We Make Money Not Art, Changethethought, Yummy fresh grain feed!

Monthly: Zen habits, Stepcase lifehack, Freelanceswitch, Lost Garden, Wired iPad app.
The Economist in paper form, and lots of books again, thanks to my Kindle!

If I had the time, I'd probably get the Financial Times.
Sidestep is a pretty-ish (OS X only) UI for SSH tunnelling - it can be set to auto-activate whenever it detects you're on an unsecured wifi network - like your local coffee shop.

http://chetansurpur.com/projects/sidestep/
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" [TED Talk]
They all seem too "thick". I guess they might work if I was starting from scratch but they look like a pain to migrate to. Has anyone come up with something much leaner?
Even so, it wasn't enough. Shareholders of MS stock realized a 25% return due to dividends over the last 6 years, nearly half of it due to that one $3 per share dividend. In contrast, Google shareholders realized a 177% investment gain, Amazon shareholders a 370% gain, and Apple shareholders a 900% gain. This would be fine if Microsoft were in a different industry than these guys, but they're not. If anything Microsoft's business is most similar to Apple's (or at least had been). Microsoft's failure to capitalize on markets other than their core OS/platform and Office is very, very much reflected in their current stock price.
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> You don't have to read the comments or argue about nuclear power to be interested.

You could even go so far as to say you don't even have to be a hacker to be interested...

And at that point you should flag the article for being off topic.
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On the web:
1. Hacker News
2. Techcrunch
3. Documentaries on Youtube
4. Interviews of Warren Buffett

Physical:
1. The Economist
2. Books by James Gleick
3. Reader's Digest
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New Yorker, Inc., Wired, Daring Fireball, and a whole bunch of stuff in Google Reader
I see where you're coming from, but it seems a lot like "my biggest complaint about languages I don't know is that I don't know them".

To be fair, I think there are varying degrees of intuitiveness, clarity, etc with languages but I don't think your example really demonstrates a schism in that regard between JS and CS:

$('.shopping_cart').bind 'click', (event) =>
@customer.purchase @cart

var self = this;
$('.shopping_card').bind('click', function(event) {
return self.customer.purchase(self.cart);
});

If you look at the two together, you'll see everything is almost in exactly the same place. The only difference is some punctuation and small syntactic changes.

Coffeescript should be pretty intuitive for anyone experienced with Javascript, but it does take time to learn and "train" your eyes and brain to understand the syntax...otherwise it wouldn't have much point
(but this is true of any language).

I think it's a great virtue of Coffeescript that the CS version is so close to your JS one, while being more readable (imho), shorter, etc.

>The inconsistent use prevents me from being able to skim code and get a feel for what it's doing.

Again, I can't help but feeling like this is a non-Spanish speaking complaining that Spanish prevents them from reading and understanding a Spanish language Magazine.

The optional syntax in Coffeescript is generally optional for a reason, because it is determined by something else (generally indentation).

I think you're right that this could be abused, and I could see how someone might not like it...but personally I prefer it. I like languages that will just do the obvious thing, and let me spell it out when I want something else.

I think again your example doesn't really bear out your point, as it seems plain as day to me that each item is separate and I can't imagine needing commas to differentiate them (though I can respect you might not feel the same).

In fact, contrary to helping commas, are more likely to introduce errors. One of the most common errors in JS is forgetting a comma in a list like that, or the dreaded "hanging comma" error that will only cause an error in IE.

Not having commas also allow easy yanking and insertion of whole lines to reorder the list, etc.

Don't get me wrong, again I think you have a point, it just seems to be that the crux of it is this style syntax is not your cup of tea (which is fine).

On an unrelated note, I'd advise against using the name "self" for variables in Javascript, as it's already taken: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.self
node.js is Evented I/O. It might not be a perfect match for mail server. Not like in Comet or other similar situations, SMTP sessions are highly batched and not that human-interactive. There might be very little inactive open connections on a typical mail server.

But based on document, "Haraka's primary purpose is to provide you with a much easier to extend mail server than most available SMTP servers out there such as Postfix, Exim or Microsoft Exchange, yet while still running those systems for their excellent ability to deliver mail to users."
Thank you! I will keep that in mind
I consult with Getcocoon.com and work on their social media accounts as well as blog for them. Facebook has become a HUGE pita lately with fan page censorship...

I have great instincts and noticed strange things happening prior to the first fan page removal.
1- You can't login and start to get messages that your account is currently unavailable due to site issues.
2- they do not send an email or reason why your fan page was removed.
3- your fan page still shows up in facebook search but you can't access it.
So today I posted about "Facebook Application permissions and how to take control of them."
The same three steps I listed above occurred again...

The Cocoon Firefox plug-in is all about Internet security and privacy and has options to block 3d party ad servers and Facebook tracking - obviously this does not play well with Facebook.

Cocoon had under 300 fans - so they could easily squash the page(s.) I need people like you to help (I'm not sure how yet) but I know you have big voices and potentially big feet - to move this post ahead so that it gets noticed.

Can you help out?
This is great news.

While we're at it, what web framework are you guys using in your Scala webapps? Lift? Wicket? Play?
yeah, that's what I thought when I ran it in FF 3.6, I got the message "sorry, you're gonna need chrome". So I fired up Chrome 11 (which I also use) and I got
"We are very sorry, but 3 Dreams of Black is an experiment and unfortunately does not currently function on every configuration. It appears that your computer's graphics card doesn't support WebGL technology. You can find more details for troubleshooting here and obtain a list of recommended graphics cards."

I tried following the link, but it just takes you to a google chrome download page - nothing obvious about graphic cards.

Now granted this is a work machine, and a fairly old one at that, but I have a GeForce 7600 GT which isn't the worst card out there by a long way.

Is Chrome the new IE? Well certainly they're pushing the envelope a bit, and that's good for the long-term evolution of the web. On the other hand it's gonna be a long time (if ever) for technology which is dependent on specific graphics hardware to make it into the mainstream.
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I used to have a huge list of feeds in google reader. After start reading HN , now I don't even bother to open google reader. If the blog is good enough to read , I am sure it will come in HN in a matter of minutes. Thanks HN :)
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Mark Zuckerberg Should Resign; If You're A Technology Reporter, So Should You
Sorta seems like a bubble.. its not the first time its been said.. whether or not I agree with the rationale -- doesn't make the observation or the phenomena any less valid. Or, do we wait for the bubble to burst before anyone can call it a bubble. (I dont know..)
Permutations & Loops
> You're more likely to die in a car accident. Every single day.

Eventually you'd run out of lives...
Yeah, but i'm sure you didn't write a thing with any of both if you say so.
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Yes, and increasing earnings per share generally increases stock price.

In theory you only buy shares back when you believe that they are worth more than they are trading for. If this is true, it will increase the intrinsic value of the company and should increase its price per share. If it is not true, then management is incapable of evaluating their own business and shareholders should demand that all non-essential capital be returned to shareholders in the form of dividends.

In either case, my point still stands. These things don't matter enough to be bickering about them. From January 2000 to present the Nasdaq is down about 29%, for Microsoft to only be down that amount your adjusted price would need to be about $40. You need to be very generous to say that those dividends we're worth ~$15 and that's just to match the Nasdaq.

If you really want to argue with the data you should be arguing about the start/end dates. Comparing to the Nasdaq eliminates some of the problem as most tech stocks were equally inflated in 2000. I still think you're looking at near parity at best. Microsoft should have been better than average and the data shows that it probably wasn't.
I installed it and ran it from the Market on CM7.03 on my HTC Incredible.
Putting aside Quercus, a PHP implementation on top on JVM, Zend at least provides a proper Java bridge into their Zend Server line of products, including the Community version: http://www.zend.com/en/products/platform/product-comparison/...

I tried to use Quercus, but besides templating, it pretty much blows at everything else PHP related. http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/

Therefore this isn't a sole feature of the J-something language implementation on top of JVM.
Silex: ExpressJS for PHP
Scheme on CoffeeScript
The video for me runs in landscape.
How does this stack up against Typus?

I remember some time ago, ActiveScaffold was the king of admin tools... Now I can hardly keep up with the new name for these admin projects.
It is a fantastically profitable company. A fantastically profitable company with the P/E ratio and historical growth rates of a public utility.

Why invest in Microsoft when you could invest in Exxon Mobile, Johnson & Johnson, The Coca-Cola Company, Novartis - all companies with better long term growth rates and beefy dividends.

Look, I am not trying to be discouraging, but I find it grating how little progress Microsoft has been able to make despite its huge market advantages.

Maybe the question is one of perspective. I tend to constantly think in terms of long-term investments. If you are investing because you intend to cash in on an upcoming bounce in the price (rather than holding on for the long term) then that is actually a sound strategy - I wish you luck in timing the bounce.

It's the long-term perspective that I am mostly referring to. That is the reason for the speculating about the future.

Disclaimer: I own none of the shares mentioned above - as a matter of fact I currently own no shares of anything.
Tumblr has become a huge source of information for me -- I've never liked the RSS model, where the "unread" count nags at me. On tumblr I just read what's on top, and don't sweat if I miss things -- if it's big news, it'll get reblogged.

On tumblr I subscribe to The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Economist and ShortFormBlog. On top of those, I have a bunch of others who provide art, photography, pictures of puppies and pretty boys. It's the perfect mix :-)
(I'm Aaron, and at least in my case it was Think Computer Corporation v. Facebook, Inc., meaning that my company was the plaintiff, not the defendant. There is a difference.)

Generally, this is a good point, but there's a good explanation. Most of the key people involved did something that others might characterize as dishonest at one time or another, so it's hard to know who to believe. This is why I posted all of the evidence I had available to me in public on-line years ago. To my knowledge, no one else has.

I argue that it is really the media's fault for not ever actually investigating the story, with one exception, which is 02138 Magazine's work. Sadly, 02138 no longer exists. I've written about this issue here:

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Mark-Zuckerberg-Should-...
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I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft is targeting 2014 as the year that Bing is supposed to stop losing money. I can't seem to find it again though.
"Though <a company>’s intrinsic value cannot be precisely calculated, two of its three key pillars can be measured... The first component of value is our investments: stocks, bonds and cash equivalents... <a company>'s second component of value is earnings that come from sources other than investments... There is a third, more subjective, element to an intrinsic value calculation that can be either positive or negative: the efficacy with which retained earnings will be deployed in the future. We, as well as many other businesses, are likely to retain earnings over the next decade that will equal, or even exceed, the capital we presently employ. Some companies will turn these retained dollars into fifty-cent pieces, others into two-dollar bills.
This “what-will-they-do-with-the-money” factor must always be evaluated along with the “what-do-we-have-now” calculation in order for us, or anybody, to arrive at a sensible estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. That’s because an outside investor stands by helplessly as management reinvests his share of the company’s earnings. If a CEO can be expected to do this job well, the reinvestment prospects add to the company’s current value; if the CEO’s talents or motives are suspect, today’s value must be discounted. The difference in outcome can be huge. A dollar of then-value in the hands of Sears Roebuck’s or Montgomery Ward’s CEOs in the late 1960s had a far different destiny than did a dollar entrusted to Sam Walton."

- Warren Buffet, 2010 Letter to Shareholders

Over the last ~10 years Microsoft has been good at #1, good at #2, but #3 has been suspect.
It's a cash cow. The bulk of its income comes from Windows and Office, with most of the rest coming from servers and enterprise services.

The issue is that it is being managed like it is a change-driving company investing huge sums in new markets that generate slender revenues where they don't generate losses. Paying $8.5 billion, around 4% of its market capitalisation, for Skype is not likely to change the revenue it gets from its core businesses.

If it wasn't so big, I would expect it to be a private equity target. But the pargest PE deals have been around $40 billion, about 20% of Microsoft's cap.
I really like David Brooks' column:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped...

He's the pg of the political world.
> "Only charge developers a monthly fee"

I'd check US employment law first -- here in the UK, I had my first proper startup attempt holed by discovering UK employment legislation that stipulates you can't charge a worker for finding them work - you can only charge the person who ends up hiring them. There are nuances and exceptions to this, such as when someone's contracting via a corp/company etc, but it definitely applies to individuals freelancing, etc. Hope that helps.
Actually there is no other option. Fission is the only technology that can support present rates of global development for the foreseeable future.
Yes, this was the correct move. jQuery is for thinking less and doing more; the prop/attr distinction is both a painful code change and a needless complication for the sort of purposes that jQuery is used for.