skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm waiting for someone to build a social browser extension on top of something like this. Anyone could submit custom CSS/JS for a website and the most upvoted "theme" automatically gets loaded. Sure the JS security issues might be a nightmare, but the web would look soooo much prettier!
There's one aspect of Unity that isn't noticed nearly as much as it should be: ridiculously large vertical screen space. Especially on a netbook, this is very valuable, but it's still useful even on a 15" widescreen display.
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no offense but this sounds like tasting 41 piles of shit and users preferred horse's.

that black bar is so oppressive.
My friend is a summer intern at Google (this year and last). He got myself and our entire Wave "crew" invited.
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Google Instant. Now this. Is google just bored so much so that they are trying to fix things that were never broken?

This is a company that cared so, so much about every pixel of their homepage. And yet, they've just introduced a whole new set of colors and styles in one go.

I won't go as far as calling this the start of goog decline. But it's def headed to bloatland IMO.
My post was hypothetical; I'd imagine Google does have rules and procedures in place to keep your data private vis-a-vis random voyeurism by employees (but how would I know?)

I do find it amusing that the control of the web and computing by a handful of companies is now apparently ingrained in some people's heads as axiomatic, such that any apparent criticism of one oligarch is automatically a defense of the other.
Yes, depending on your expectations.

With a LOT of effort it would be entirely possible to build something like SHRDLU that could handle a specific game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

Caution: Don't be misled by the impressive-looking conversation transcript. With no disrespect meant to Terry Winograd and the ground-breaking work he did it was- like every natural language demonstration since the dawn of computing- fragile, prone to odd mistakes and the transcripts were usually generated by someone already acclimated to the idiosyncrasies the system to make it look its best.

You could build something that recognized a richer grammar and even engaged in limited conversational discourse. It would be good enough that a person might briefly forget they were dealing with a system of limited capabilities until, inevitably, it would break down and remind them they are not conversing with a human.

The risk is those failures could be sufficiently frequent and severe as to make it worthless. The user might be better off with something less ambitious, more predictable and less frustrating. Then again, that wouldn't do anything to push the state of the art, so it should be worth the risk to try it.
I made this a few years ago, http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/

I started it when I was in sixth grade, some four years ago and it hasn't changed much in the past two years. Understandably, it's not nearly feature complete. It's actually pretty interesting that when I started out, the goal was to have Flash as the output, because embedding HTML just seemed so impractical.
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Why would it be good to avoid passing around the request object?
"I've noticed a trend in people listing employees (i.e. people with sub 5% equity stakes) as founders so they don't seem like they're a single founder. We see through this and mark it in the notes"

Interesting. Can't help but wonder if this factored in the rejection of Decal since my two "co-founders" were technically employees of Working Software at the time of the application (although we've since come to an equity sharing agreement so it's more of a traditional startup now).
Wishful thinking but highly unlikely. The airline industry has shown to be very, very price sensitive and customers, although they complain about service, really are just looking for the cheapest flight.

I've always thought the downfall of the airline industry is our (consumers') own fault; we search by price and only seem to deviate from price as our main criteria on occasion in the name of loyalty plans.
screw the non-techies, they are the reason i hate facebook. finally a techie facebook, google it is about time !
I am sure a Chrome extension will appear soon that will let you switch it around.
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Coca-cola bottle, iPod shuffle and the London telephone booths revisited:
http://post.ly/2IeYK
This seems like it's a lot of overhead for what amounts, in terms of capability, to a reimplementation of greasemonkey. It also makes you implement finer controls on execution by url yourself, whereas greasemonkey has them in its syntax. The author states,

"GreaseMonkey user scripts are great, but you need to publish them somewhere and re-publish after making modifications. With dotjs, just add or edit files in ~/.js."

but this caveat is just as strong for files you maintain outside of your browser, and some browsers' implementations of userscripts/greasemonkeylikes actually have a similar filesystem-based model for managing scripts already.

While respectable, I had hoped to be more impressed by a tool that beckons me to "hack the web".
I think this is a rollout issue, and Gmail will adopt it soon, as the rest of the products have.

I don't know what "soon" is.

(DISCLAIMER: I work at Google, but do not work on consumer products and have no particular info about this).
You forgot the fun part: to tell the app to snooze, you roll over and smack your bed. I’ve never had a more satisfying way of shutting my alarm off.
>Obviously mathematicians don't leave "exercises for the reader" in research papers

ORLY? I'll leave this right here for you:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=left+as+an+exe...

That's >100k hits from what Google Scholar can index alone--a few are from books, but the vast majority are journal articles.
Perhaps the act of rebranding itself resulted in more users? One might be reminded of a service or reassured that a service is active by a rebranding.
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"I think this article is woefully misleading in shrinking the entire matter to a simple case of increasing taxes on small businesses"

You are misrepresenting the post. It states, "it should be clear that policies like this one will hold back the economic recovery in the United States," not that this policy alone will be responsible for harming the economy. The article you posted backs up what I said quite nicely.
I'm not defending Google, I'm just pointing out that, unlike Facebook, their founders haven't declared the "Age of Privacy" as over.

FWIW: I dislike Facebook but I use it anyway because that's where everyone I know seems to be. If I could substitute it for another service that lets me more tightly control who sees what, then great.
This looks like the future of domain squatter landing pages.
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Simply having modern RAM capacity helps, because authors can add many more synonyms in their code to handle various player inputs. The early parsers were constrained by having to run in tiny RAM spaces (64k, 128k, 256k); expanding vocabulary was difficult to do without removing space for description text and other important game data.

In Inform 7, when targeting the glulx VM the memory limits are much larger (i.e., the sizes we expect today) and you can define synonyms to your heart's content.
It does not appear for me in both "normal" gmail and Apps. It does however appear in calendar, docs, reader and others
I notice that several projects (including Flask) do not build in support for DB schema management- e.g. migrations.

For those of you who are writing apps in Flask, how do you guys manage changes in DB schema ?
I am generally pro YC company and pro startup, but after the 14 months of delays, then receiving a worthless, non functional product (which I threw away), I have totally given up on these guys.

I got a $299 zeo, which works pretty well, and has an open API, great distribution at retail, and very friendly responsive and professional support. I kind of stopped using that too since I now sleep in a bed with the gf most nights, but for actual sleep tracking, the Zeo seems like a great solution.
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Same here. Mine:

1) sniffs out urls in submissions and auto-links them

2) adds comment thread folding.

https://github.com/sant0sk1/dotfiles/blob/master/js/news.yco...
Obviously, the nav bar has been internal for a while. I was not a big fan when I first saw it either, but now I've grown to quite like it. It's across all the products, and it sort of stamps the page as "you're at Google", much in the same way that you feel when you see the orange at the top of HN, or the blue at the top of Facebook. Even if you're tuned out, its in your peripheral vision and you get that sense of place.

(DISCLAIMER: I'm an intern at Google)
I'd really like to see a tech review site (Engadget perhaps?) do a Wakemate/Lark/Zeo comparison. Wear all 3 devices at the same time, compare results, etc.
Chrome extensions can't access the local filesystem so we have to start a tiny webserver in the background.

If someone knows a way around this limitation, or a simpler webserver to require / embed, I would be thrilled. But so far this is the best I've found.
I haven't looked at the exported format, but I assume it's readable. But surely other than that, import tools for other services should do their share of the work.
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this is very nice, although seems to be overlapping with couple of independent offerings. to me, for example, sparks == instapaper, instant-upload == path/color etc.
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"Google" itself is(was?) rather unconventional.
That's all true, but dotjs is only for Google Chrome on OS X.

Google Chrome on OS X has no such filesystem-based model for managing scripts.
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I have seen it in Product Management interviews repeatedly.

Interviewing with TripAdvisor is basically agreeing to an intellectual property/idea anal probing. They do it for sport and never fill the positions.

Probably because the company is fresh out and their products are getting blown away by mobile startups...

That was in Greater Boston area...
I wish I had more friends that would actually use OTR...
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"...with both education and industry expertise, the odds of start-up survival rise to 77%. And the same benefits of education and industry expertise hold true for start-up profitability — without them there’s an 8% chance of profits; with them a 61% probability..." why not take it one more step and tell the diff between just education and industry expertise? That would make this more than drivel.
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It's totally not a nerdy loophole. If Javascript 2 / ECMA-4 was available in most browsers, it would be exactly the wide-open cross platform flash experience everyone wants. It's just that the only implementation of that, right now, happens to be done by Adobe. The specs are open, there's nothing secret about it. There are open source alternative players (gnash, flowplayer, etc), and Adobe made Flex 3 free for devs which is all you need to write any kind of app you'd like.

Look, the only reason there's ANY implementation of ECMA4 in the browser, i.e. Flash, is that a company which doesn't make a browser took it upon itself to create a plugin for all browsers that runs it. Now everyone hates them because it's "closed", which is ironic because IE's implementation of for example the matrix 'filter' -- just to pick one random thing -- is so ludicrously archaic and different from anything webkit, that there's zero, zip, nada, NO HOPE of those two things ever converging in a way that would let a single piece of code skew the same image in both browsers.

Anyway, to other people -- I work on mac, and I write code for both canvas and as3. I wrote this: http://strikedisplay.blogspot.com. Also wrote sexypolitics. Things are...what they are. You have to face reality and use the right tool for the job. And when JS2 comes out, sure I'll be there. 'Til then, long live Adobe. Beats the alternative Mozilla/Microsoft/Google mess.
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Now there are LCD TVs with local dimming (using arrays of LEDs as backlight) so dark images can indeed use less energy, but no computer monitor uses such technology, so it's irrelevant for websites.
There's a major difference between the behavior of leisure and business travelers. Leisure travelers have (historically) been price-sensitive in the extreme. Business travelers have been way more schedule- and airline-sensitive. This is why you see so many perks thrown at business travelers (free upgrades, etc.)—it's an attempt by the airlines to win the business of their most profitable clients.

As to whether airlines will be inspired to install more wi-fi, consider this: all the major US airlines that don't already have wi-fi on their entire fleet have announced plans to install it on a lot more of their fleet this year. They're hoping people—especially business travelers—will make their purchasing decisions on the basis of wi-fi.
It looks like Ruby is only needed for the file server. You could easily substitute a Python file server (cd .js; python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3131). You could use a remote Apache server for synchronizing your scripts. I agree that Ruby is a little overkill, but it is simple enough to run easily on a Mac, and it is extensible for hackers.
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Most of the instructors are female, though there are a few men. Why do you ask?
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Showing up #1 for me too :)

Where in Australia are you based?
greasemonkey scripts also work in chrome.
The simple fact that these workshops fill up so quickly with women who are excited by the structure is evidence that they are good for the overall programming community,
and therefore, productive.

I suspect if you run a workshop for men only, even the men would wonder why. This is evidence that men don't need men-only workshops.
If you use your own server make sure you set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header:

https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs/blob/master/bin/djsd#L26

(Also, Ruby comes with OS X (just like Python) so it seemed a sane choice.)
Amazing how computer hardware has evolved troughout the years... and how evolution seems to have stalled a bit
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Nice to see Jason's blog get some love. There's some real gem posts here.
Melbourne.

Well, this certainly makes me re-think my strategy. Here I was thinking I was getting no hits, because I was down the bottom of the search results, while it turns out I am #1 across most of the world!

Unfortunately pageviews and conversions are still terrible. I just need to figure out what to do about it.
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Really. This is very interesting - it definitely goes against the grain of what other commenter are saying. Don't you think the theme market is over saturated?
OTOH if you want to start with something easier, but still with puzzles, Bronze by Emily Short is a good one.

If you want a very good game with almost no puzzles, then definitely Photopia.
I always forget about buying the vitamins that I need. my defenses are low and when I'm sick is that I remember to buy vitamin C.
And sleepcycle
And even if you do accept them, it should be much more convenient and less awkward.
That's what I'm looking forward to. I still want to keep up with my family but they don't care about machine learning and don't need to know everything that I'm doing with my friends. Circles sounds great for all of that.
In fact, Chrome built them into the web browser so they work without installing any Greasemonkey extensions.
Honestly, I think any kind of response is better than no response. If anything just to verify that the email got where it was meant to go.
There was a refresh in Pagerank a few days ago.

Maybe turn the front page into a longer form sales pitch?
How many sales are you doing?
As I understand it, HughesNet uses geostationary satellites parked above the US and Europe, so even that wouldn't be any use.
And I'd claim that an SSH key isn't one of them. There is only one platform (UNIX-based web applications with application servers) that actually benefits from them, and plenty that don't (Android, iOS, Mac desktop, Win32, this week's .NET desktop stuff, ASP-of-the-week, Windows Phone 7).

As a company that makes money from users, it's to GitHub's benefit to make it easy to use their stuff.
Not precisely forgetting but being to lazy for exercising... other than regular sex, I haven't hit the gym in months.
You nailed exactly what I couldn't put my finger on with that black bar.
'Switch account' works well for me - is there a use case where this is not an option for you?
BTW the "Stoic Jester Studios Web Site" link on http://itunes.apple.com/app/bullseye-factory/id408231799?mt=... leads to http://stoicjesterstudios.com/2010/12/bullseye-factory/ which is 404.
Sounds like a relatively easy way to replace dependence on Ruby would be to just load the scripts directly from one's GitHub repo, where all your scripts can be easily synchronized.
The new GitHub API actually supports Git operations authenticated via OAuth. Just throwing that out there.
I think you underestimate the value of a giant community interested in reading about stuff in general. They are the consumers of knowledge and content and are there to consume pictures, videos, AMAs, etc. While I don't always want to read AMAs, the most popular do make it through to my front page or I can see what's going on when I feel the urge, without ever changing sites. That value proposition alone is why I don't think I'd regularly use a dedicated AMA site.
They used to strongly discourage adding non-friends.

I remember when adding people you had to enter something for "How did you meet this person?" and if you checked "I don't know them", it would close the box and say "Well why are you adding them?"
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so, you regularly reject the friend requests of people you've recently met and/or people who you see from time to time but who you do not consider one of your BFFs?
>seems like a huge security/privacy problem!

Not really; websites may ask for speech input (using the 'speech' attribute[1] in certain HTML tags), but the browser keeps full control of the feature, so they can't enable it themselves without your intervention.

Of course, since Google controls Chrome, they can control that too, but on the other hand, they already could - any native app can record sound. The solution for that is simply not installing applications you don't trust.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_5dhnp23f5
I find this revelation interesting as I know people who work at Google and apparently management are extremely anal when it comes to minimalistic design. Top culprit: Marissa Mayer. It is good that they allowed him to do whatever he wants because playing around with Google+, I do really like the UI.

I wonder how many startups allow their designers to have free rein over their product.
> Moving sucks if you're carrying an extra 50-100 lbs. around. Most skinny people don't really get this.

I was always a skinny guy most of my life. 4 months ago, I was 5'11", 140lbs, really lean. I recently got serious about weight training and bulking up, lots of high calorie/carbs/fats/proteins, and I'm now up to 177lbs. I'm not exactly fat, but that extra weight is killer. All of my movements are slower, walking up stairs gets me out of breath. I never really understood how much extra weight affects people until now.
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could you imagine a headline in Time, "why men are better at everything?"
I wondered how his final result would look like with a little modification...

http://imgur.com/u5mNi
I am not sure I accept the proposition that moderation staff who are paid will always do a better job. Unpaid moderators do it for their various reasons, one of the most common I've seen is a deep passion for the topic. Being paid to do something changes that dynamic incredibly. The best moderated forum I ever was a member of was done completely on a non-profit basis. There were paid competitors, every other site in the niche had some sort of monetization, except this one. The mods loved the area and were deeply respected in the niche. The community was strong. They eventually did quit and sold it to a company, the site died nearly instantly with a paid staff taking over.
"GreaseMonkey user scripts are great, but you need to publish them somewhere and re-publish after making modifications."

Publish them where? I don't understand this. Whenever I change a user.js file and save it the browser updates it and it's ready to go next time the page reloads.

Side node: Scriptish is a fork of greasemonkey with many cool extras. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/
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Thanks nocipher for the definitions. From this I see no sporadics. And two infinite families, at least how I'd classify a family.
I think there was an open-sourcing of the code behind Wave.
But Python comes with OSX and Ubuntu
The iPhone client handles groups to an extent. You can pick one group to see a status update, but can't pick multiple groups, exclusions or custom on-the-fly groups
Yes, mint is better for sure (and they're known to run an effective blog). Good example.
How are you ensuring that you are not missing Square and Quora kinds again? Is there a reason why you passed on both?
Nicely done aliasing

jQuery.fn.extend({
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greatGrandchildren: function() {return this.grandchildren().children();},
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