skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was suckered all the way up to the point where he describes as system for removing cliches. I am that gullible.
It really helps people get motivated when they're struggling on their apps.
GBattle says that disqus wins http://www.googlebattle.com/index.php?domain=disqus&doma...!
Don't bait people! Think of the time lost.
Response to WSJ Opinion Piece 'Why Carl Icahn Is Bad for Investors'
Going from Small Startup to Massive Company
You gotta love mainstream media's attempts at describing technical concepts:

The choice of optimal routes is made instantly; decided by a network claiming the longest numerical Internet addresses for data destination.

A hacker can hijack traffic to and from websites of choice by adding enough numbers to computer addresses to have his or her network automatically deemed the best path for the data.

Just add more numbers!
If you're going to make a prediction of China on which you will bet, bet that China will continue to be China.

This is more that a tautology -- I suspect there is a tremendous stability to the underlying forms of culture and society in China that seems to transcend ideology. Mao just turned out to be the latest Emperor, after all. I predict that China will more or less continue to have its current borders. It will continue to have a highly centralized government. China will ultimately defeat invasions (including cultural ones) through assimilation. If democracy ever comes to China, it will be a uniquely Chinese version that will somehow manage to resemble an imperial government.
Both of these also happened in Massachusetts
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/ and
http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
http://disqus.com/claim
But Arrington still won't use it.
That does make more sense, but there are so many stupid ideas that get funding it makes it tough to spot.
The source slide actually says "+100 ms -1% sales". A 1% drop in sales would likely cost even more in profits, given fixed costs.

In either formulation, it's within the range of plausibility.

In my experience, a single change that makes a web server faster causes a slow, steady increase in traffic over the next few days/weeks, as the audience reacts to the new responsiveness.

Note also that Google considers page load latency in scoring ad relevance, and almost certainly natural search result ranking as well. So everything improves with speed.
Ok, I totally fell for that. I came to this thread hoping to celebrate an end to useless spelling/grammar flamewars. Oh well.
No, it's not.

If you consider facts from the original article, you might realize that authorities were in fact 100% right. They discovered that some guy was running effectively a chemical lab in a residential area. Was he disposing the waste correctly ? Did he have an exhaust system in place ? Was he complying with fire safety regulations ? Etc, etc.. Zoning bylaws exist for a reason, and this is a textbook emergency situation. So they did respond appropriately - they evacuated the guy and cleaned up the place. Also note how he was asked to stay in the hotel, not arrested or prosecuted.

Here's the original article for a reference - http://www.telegram.com/article/20080809/NEWS/808090323/1008...
Read the original article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20080809/NEWS/808090323/1008...

Neither source is all that complete, but the original article indicates this guy was violating zoning law, as well as safe handling and disposal regulations. I'm a scientist, and I sympathize, but it's unfair to claim "home science is under attack" from the available evidence.
Memory Translation and Segmentation
I wish the author had made a (edit: more susbtantive) comment about how quiet (or loud) his machine ended up. With all those fans, I'd guess it would sound like a jet, but maybe the case is designed to handle that quietly?
It's not only Fibonacci-- "off by one" errors are more common than you'd think.
"How do you fall in love? Is there a set of best practices and a six-sigma process?"

I don't know, but "The Six-sigma Process for Romance; Taking the Guesswork out of Finding Love" sounds like the title of a New York Times Bestseller to me.
5.05 Gigawatt Titan Wind Project is... Titanesque
It's very possible I've misinterpreted the advice we got from our legal and our accountant, but my current understanding is, you cannot simultaneously be a "member" of and and "employee" of a limited liability company, according to IRS rules.

An LLC doesn't have "owners", only "members", so any equity stake you have in one technically makes you a member.

There very likely are trivial ways around this, and I'd be interested in hearing them.
i have no doubt itunes is a money maker for apple. not only that, but it will make more money as they add more users. the hardware costs are fixed and the r&d is also fixed.

the point about $0.25 being eaten up per transaction get more upsetting as your average amount per transaction decreases. i doubt highly that itunes avg transaction amount is closer to $0.99. i would wager it is between 5 and 10 on the conservative side.

furthermore, itunes is good for the economy in general as noted in my post on markets, http://siculars.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-markets-if-innovati....
Steve Yegge hits a homer: Your requirements are stupid
Some Web Firms Say They Track Users Without Explicit Consent
Developer Job Interview Questions and Answers
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Did you try looking at companies that'll laser-cut vinyl decals for a reasonable price? Those look pretty shnazzy. I think most companies are a google search away. If anything, I can ask a friend who had a few cut before for more info.
I did take 5 minutes to research this; you can find lots of web pages talking about the issue --- here's a good one:

http://library.findlaw.com/2001/Jan/1/126651.html

But I didn't find anything directly applicable at IRS.gov, except for the obvious one:

http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq-kw132.html

An LLC is effectively a partnership with limited liability (it's a corporation with partnership-style pass-through taxes), and the IRS rules on owners vs. employees for partnerships are very clear.

Again: equity is ownership; LLC's don't have "owners", they have "members".
Thought: If Nielson made any attempt to make it pretty, people would be complaining how everything violates this or that for the next couple of years. By making things deliberately ugly, everyone is left only with "but its ugly!"

A clever man that Jakob.
are you kidding? -3 points down? I'm not writing a dissertation I'm making a comment.
No. From your article:

> no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products.

Should all household cleaning products be banned for places without industrial grade ventilation systems too? Zoning bylaws exist because their is not sufficient proven danger for these regulations to exist as State or Federal laws.
Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products”
this would probably work as an ajax plugin to blogging/commenting platforms, which probably already exists.
That's good for starting, but not for big contracts, as it shows you as an idle developer, and that isn't good for bargaining in my opinion.
Great article. I find that whenever I start jotting notes for an article I'm planning to write, I find it was recently written or exists already.

Same with software ideas..
No he wasn't. The government themselves said that everything he had was "no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products."

The only law he was breaking, according to your own source, was "doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws."

The only thing they had him on was doing science. He wasn't working with anything remotely dangerous.
it shows you as an idle developer

Not really. Not any more than cold-calling does, anyway. It shows you have spare bandwidth. That doesn't mean you're idle, it just means you have some room to do additional work - which, if they happen to need something, is just peachy perfect.
How not to set goals: Steve Ballmer, a case study
Long-term and Working Memory - You Are What You Remember
"The techniques of web ops are being hoarded by some companies"

Are these techniques patented? Otherwise how does one "hoard" a technique?
If only something like this was real... or there was some other way of correcting the general butchering of the English language that occurs.

Maybe there should be some sort of law that requires everyone where some sort of modified electric dog collar so that every time someone types in "lol, wut r u sayin" - they get 10,000 volts.

This kind of technology should probably also apply to trolls, spammers and politicians.
Selling and marketing, knocking on doors, and touting your products and services "shows you as an idle developer"?

Actually, it shows you as a go-getter, exactly the type of person I'd want working for me.

The biggest difference between the top 1% and everyone else? They never stop selling.

I've done the same thing as OP and it works. Better yet, if you have office space, invite your neighbors over for wine and cheese (or beer and soda) Friday after work. Socialize and share. They may not become customers that day, but when they (or someone they know) needs what you offer, who do you think they're gonna call?
Flooz. Beenz.
Not even close to being hacker news.
Anyone tried to do this with programming contracts instead of design contracts?
It takes time to understand that these chemicals were in fact no more dangerous than cleaning products. As I said above, a chem lab in a residential neighborhood is a major public safety concern as it may end up costing lives. The only safe way of handling it is to dismantle it first and analyze its contents second.
I think Yegge goes beyond that, though. He presents "make something you, yourself, want" as the key to making something others want. If I understand edw519 correctly, he is saying "bust your butt and do a lot of very hard work to see the world through your customers eyes," in order to to make something others want.
What's Valleywag using?
The Apple process seems to be "make something Steve Jobs wants."

It seems to work pretty well.
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Is this really such a big deal?

I once tried following a couple hundred people, I think it was maybe 220ish? - I found it then became a chore (and was on the verge of becoming a major time sink) to sift through all the messages everyday to find anything of value.

Any sane person (realistically) is unable to follow 2000 active people, its just not rational to think so.

If it were such a big deal, then change things around - make it so that after a certain threshold, when you "follow" a user, you have to then click again to receive updates.

That way people can have their warm fuzzy feelings about having their follow reciprocated and it might help with fixing their scaling issues.
Icky linear format because the tech team works really slow or something. Oooh we can do disemvoweling now!
> Programmers seem to divide into two groups when it comes to writing: nearly illiterate on the one hand, and pedantic on the other.

They shouldn't say it seems that way, they should say it is or it isn't. This is weak writing.
N Guilty Men
I think it's more than an algorithm problem: initially with a site like that, it's all about getting more people, because without them, the site is worth nothing. Then, all of a sudden, poof, you succeed, but you get a bunch of flaming morons, and the quality goes down the tubes. Maybe you're in a position to make some money, but I wouldn't consider something like reddit or digg an unqualified 'success' in terms of making the world a better place.
you're right, but you can implement the real fib by returning N instead of 1:

let rec fib n = if n < 2 then n else fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
MINI rickshaw stunt in Beijing
Sounds like a good way to address "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" #8 - Dating :-)

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
Hmm - thats a little more than 4 times the power needed to power a time travelling Delorean...

... Great Scott!
Ithaca, NY has a concept called "Ithaca Bucks" which are accepted by local merchants. I believe the purpose was to keep the money supporting local businesses instead of letting it leave the area.

It's been a while since I've heard of it but I recall the fact that this makes taxes difficult to keep track of since it becomes similar to bartering.

Anyone else have heard of this? I'm trying to find an article about this but am having some trouble.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/12/disqus-version-2-addresses...
Ask HN: How did they do this?
First off, please be kind as I have very little knowledge of coding and such. By very little, I mean essentially none.

In years past, I have come across a bunch of sites such as https://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/. The specific functionality of this site is irrelevant - what I am curious about is one specific aspect. When the user enters an address (s)he wants to surf anonymously, the result is the external page desired but with a "megaproxy bar" across the top that stays fixed as you scroll on the page. Here is an example (Hacker News): http://bit.ly/B9t1s

I have a couple of questions now.

1. How did they do this? Is it just a custom javascript? Is it very complex? Is there more than one way to do it?

2. How would you describe this to another coder? I can only imagine the odd stare I would get if I said, "You know, one site displays a page from another site but keeps a header at the top and it remains stationary as you scroll and stays at the top even as they click links on the page."

3. Who passes the bandwidth? I see that resulting pages have a megaproxy URL in the linked example but does the actual page content pass over their servers? Maybe it does in this case due to the nature of the site, but does it have to?

4. When the user enters the desired URL on megaproxy and goes to the site, the browser seems to be resized automatically. Is there a way to avoid this?

I've spent some time searching Google but without knowing the proper terminology to search I'm having a hard time. Thanks in advance for your help.
Eee - a case study in bad marketing
I have very little knowledge of coding and such

Acquire some knowledge, then ask again if it's not clear.
It's not really a Catch-22; if you can't sell your idea well enough to get a coder interested in being your cofounder, then the fault lies in either your idea or your pitch, not in some insurmountable market force.

There are a lot of talented developers out there who haven't come up with a billion-dollar idea of their own yet, and who would be happy to hitch on to someone else's if they're getting a fair piece of the action.

However, if you're trying to convince them to do work for hire (i.e., give up any rights to their own work) at far less than market rate with some vague promise of more compensation later, you deserve to fail. The developers who will fall for that argument are going to be inexperienced and/or just plain incompetent; the rock stars (who you really want to work with) know the value of their work, and are unlikely to jump on a bad deal.
True enough. I deal with "enterprise" software all the time, and I found that it is all horrific. Terrible UIs, almost invariably terrible performance, chronic instability. I'm afraid that, if Steve is right and that to build something good it must be built for the builder, there will never be good "enterprise" software.

Also: requirement gathering in that market is just as frustrating as Steve says it is in the consumer market. I've dealt with lots of people who ask for features and then change their minds or realize they didn't really know what they wanted.
I'd much rather bring on a contract developer who has the time to work on my project rather than one who is slammed and will likely not deliver on time because of it.
Unfortunately Andy's analysis is fairly off (to me). The videos on both Usenet and torrent sites are likely to be derivatives from scene releases, excluding the obvious personal rips of various quality. So they might as well be bunched up and discussed together if they're from the same sources.

I don't think bittorrent availability is that sporadic, I took a peek at some of the available Olympics videos and see a longer list than Andy's provided without even starting on the public sites that probably have different quality rips and maybe some other less popular (so to speak) events as well.

Shrug. I'm not that interested in most of them. The only one I downloaded to rewatch was the mens 4x100m freestyle final just because I couldn't believe it ;)
Yes this happens sometimes (Oracle/Innobase,...), but in the case of Adobe/Macromedia I think this very evidently not the case. I mean just look at Flash and what has become of it since Adobe bought it.
oh vinyl decals. didn't think of that. good idea.
This is awesome. Gonna put a comment feed on my blog :)
Thanks!
Based on your comment, you basically agree with Steve's argument. You agree with him that "grilling" and "role playing" don't work. This is precisely what he meant. He then goes on to argue that people should build products that they want for themselves. You want people who build products to "live [their users'] lives" in order to understand the users' tasks. Sounds quite similar to me.
I wonder how much fault lies with the bureaucracy of large companies and how much lies with the acquired team suddenly transitioning from an environment where they are poor and must fight to survive to an environment where they are (at lest comparatively) rich and have no fear of their employer going bankrupt because if their development timeline slips?
A guide to the Linux kernel development process
Back in the good ol' days of the internet, that strip on top of the page was done via HTML frames. Nowadays most people utilize javascript writes in conjunction with frames for graceful degradation usage.

Not sure what you're asking about passing the bandwith.

I'm not seeing the resizing thing you're mentioning.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_set
And choose grandparents that lived a long life.
This thread is great, it proves the fundamental premise of apostrophee correct ;-)

P.S. If you could, please send me an invite for the beta. Thx!
They use frames. If they are doing what they say they are doing they are using their bandwidth twice.

Wikipedia will explain web proxies to you, without telling you that they are mostly skeezy and untrustworthy.
View source is your friend.

It's creating a frameset. The top frame is the address bar. The bottom frame is the content. When you enter an address in the top frame, it sets the source of the bottom frame to http://free.megaproxy.com/go/<url>. This goes out to the Internet, retrieves <url>, and rewrites all links to point to the appropriate megaproxy pages, so that you continue surfing through megaproxy.

When I was at my first job - way back when it was still a "teen content dot-com run exclusively by teenagers" - I wrote a little script that did exactly this, except that I rewrote the links so that they would float around the page and bounce off the edges of the window. I called it the LinksJynx. Then my boss yelled at me for wasting company time on frivolous coding projects like that. Personally I thought that was a little harsh, since I spent like 3 hours on it and that was far less than the amount of time I spent reading Harry Potter fanfiction on the job (or, for that matter, less than the amount of time the other engineers spent looking at porn and fucking the CTO's niece). But whatever.
Nielsen was relevant and aesthetically conventional something like 6 years ago. This was before web designers got the technological capacity to make the sites we enjoy today. Worse, the designers were often infatuated with the kind of aesthetics that was almost completely unreadable (tiny pixelgrid text; low contrast designs; very little "information ink").

In that context, useit was a bastion of sanity.

Jump back to today's internet and you realize useit hasn't changed at all. Sensible considering his message has only changed evolutionarily instead of at the rapid pace of design sentimentality.

Useit is a design achromatism today, but its message is still just as relevant as before.
This is one reason why science is getting extinct. What happened to garage science and the DIY chemistry kits? DIY Biology is essentially a non-started due to regulations. I loved blowing up stuff when I was a kid, and doing silly experiments at home and that's one reason I got fascinated with science.

The authorities might have been working within the law, but the law itself is all wrong. There has to be a way to encourage garage science, not make it more difficult.

I consider myself a "garage scientist" these days. The garage just happens to be my laptop and a set of virtual servers.
1. While they do use js for some of their page loading, it is not really js-specific.

2. The bar at the top remains in a 'fixed' position over the rest of the page. Hence the 'position: fixed' CSS property that can achieve this effect. The way they do it is with frames, though.

3. Both sites do. It appears that the proxy pulls the markup from the page specified, appends it to their page, and then sends it to you.

4. This is done via js. You could use something like firebug to modify this behavior if you really wanted to.
The "business requirements gathering" Yegge is railing against isn't just book knowledge, it is standard operating procedure at most "consultancy" type shops. Even large product firms and small product startups do it. He gives an example of doing it at HP.
>Disqus version 2 eliminates what was the biggest knock on the service: That it took the comments off of your blog and put them on its own site.
Print off some stickers and just stick it on to your mac. Resale value intact. That or try engraveyourtech.com and http://www.etchamac.com/
From page 2:

"The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees."

In fact, other papers I've read have said that runners and cross-country skiers maintain bone density and joint lubrication into old age, while swimmers and cyclers do not.
Obligatory self-referential search for ycombinator:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=ycombinato...
That sort of makes sense. Think of something like this. "The Blue Group will be performing in your home town tomorrow night. The Blue Group includes John the Juggler, Ryan the Rocketman, and Gina the Gorilla-fighter!" This seems to imply that John, Ryan, and Gina are the only members of The Blue Group. Comprises would probably be the better word to use here, but includes doesn't seem to out of place. Dictionary.com has more about the controversy: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/includes
Platonic Solids in All Dimensions
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard Navigation.

And in regards to that blog post talking about running a program, one can use Spotlight, Quicksilver or one of the various alternatives to launch a program.

Nobody said you had to use the mouse to interact with menus.
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Disqus 2 goes back to a proper REST API, finally. Accessibility, SEO, and a plethora of other benefits.

Javascript only APIs suck.

Shame there isn't any v2 API documentation on disqus.com yet.
According to one 32,000 person study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999), "fit persons with any combination of smoking, elevated blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol level had lower adjusted death rates than low-fit persons with none of these characteristics". The same study found that aerobic fitness had a far more important impact on longevity than obesity did.

Fantastic Voyage, Kurzweil and Grossman, Chapter 22.
From the end of the article:

Advantages:
* Despite the number of fans, it was quite a bit quieter than I expected.