skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched to Chrome web dev tools about 5 months ago and haven't had a reason to launch Firefox since.

There's still stuff I miss about firebug, but overall the chrome web tools are a gigantic improvement in speed, reliability, and functionality. Firebug feels like a dinosaur in comparison.

Capturing the web developer mindshare is actually a huge win for Google, because it means the quality of web apps is going to be highest for Chrome end-users, with subtle but visible bugs in other browsers due to the simple fact that developers will spend less time in these browsers.
Writing even a small kernel is like obtaining an assembly enlightenment. The 'magic' leaves the computer and goes into your head.
Looks like Dave Gamache pushed an update to address zooming.

https://twitter.com/#!/dhg/statuses/92687926823092224
See also http://blogs.forbes.com/johntamny/2011/07/17/a-decline-in-u-...
Keen in mind that Firefox 8 (and 7, and I think earlier versions) has Web Developer tools built in, obviating much of the need for Firebug.
I've found Quora very useful. I love its visual/functional design.

However, the vulcan/robot approach to quality, and hints of a esoteric level of people and rules that really controls things, are off-putting. They limit its mass-appeal, as a place to participate.

Maybe that's not a problem. Maybe there's a niche for the 'elite-university' of question-answering, creating evergreen quality content and attracting a large read-only audience across many years, and any number of Google ranking updates. That's a different outcome from some of the Quora-triumphalism that accompanied its early popularity... but still a good outcome, for the web and for Quora's users/employees/investors.
My question is about these particular videos. How much does that hair stylist video cost?
Having lived both in the U.S. and abroad (I have dual citizenship), I have to say I agree with the original comment. Americans are afraid, and the culture of fear predates 9/11 by a wide margin.

If you want to estimate how many attacks have been prevented by your paranoia, take a look at how many attacks have succeeded in countries with far laxer security. I think you'll find there's not much of a difference, you are paying dearly for not much at all.

Of course, America may have an above-average number of enemies, which might justify tighter security.

But if that is the case, it is worth asking why - and if the root cause can be addressed by diplomacy or (GASP) better behavior on the global stage, then maybe that would be a good alternative to sacrificing your own civil liberties?

Just a thought. :-)
That's damn right :-)
It's more important that the founders (or executives) conduct an orderly shutdown (vs. just locking the doors and not responding to email), than that every possible creditor be paid in full.

There should be an explicit seniority in debt or other liabilities. Even when there isn't, I think there is some clear standard of fairness (individuals get paid first, including refunding prepaid customer funds, and convertible notes get paid last. Vendors who have already provided service should probably get paid before continuing to pay on things like the balance of long-term leases; there are legal standards and best practice for all of this, although it probably varies by jurisdiction).

The only really bad thing is burning unknowing employees, especially after misleading them about finances.
I took the UW course that Brian Dorsey taught, the professor helping the author out. He's a fantastic professor, the Think Python textbook is phenomenal, and I'm sure he'll do fine.
I have the exact opposite experience with Chrome dev tools. It feel clunky and poorly designed in comparison to firebug. Things like clicking on an element you're trying to edit doesn't work. The page doesn't automatically update your changes as you type them. Trying to modify an html attribute in line is a battle. I could go on. It just doesn't feel polished. It doesn't feel like the people who wrote it actually use it, whereas firebug feels like the user experience was first priority.
You've got it wrong, you don't read to learn vocab, you learn vocab to supplement reading experience.

A bookmarklet that acts as mouse over dictionary, added with a system that saves the whole context (and its distinguishing look) of whatever user is reading on browser, combined with a repetitive learning aid (like one you have as flashcard) is the right approach to assistive vocab learning.
For any new technology (here, the example is social media), there is a natural evolution from closed to open standards. Early on, lots of proprietary code is modified as quickly as possible to see what works well in practice. Some companies win, some lose. An industry group trying to decide what to put in a standard is pointless b/c it's all hypothetical what features will survive the test of time.

Eventually, however, an open standards organization should come in and say "these are the standard features, let's encapsulate them in an open standard that everyone uses." This has been proven to be a very healthy way to get to an open standard that really works well in practice.

In 2011, I believe social media is ready to move to an open standard. The last five to ten years has seen a lot of technology built and verified by trial and error. There certainly has been enough capital investment in social media systems. The basics of what Facebook and Twitter do are a very good start. Something like OStatus can define the basics of what social media is by looking at what really works, which would not have been possible even a few years ago.

This is why I'm disappointed in google+. The social media industry is at the point in it's life cycle that it can move to an open standard. Google was in a unique position to ram it through all at once. Instead, they decided to make yet another closed system with minor improvements over the existing competitors. They may win lots of users in the short term but a bigger shift to open standards is coming, but now we have to wait longer for it.
It appears that this might start to turn around now...
> If I'm keeping your username, your login and usage history (likely IP address) to fight the chargeback, I haven't deleted all your data by a long shot.

I think you are approaching this in too literal a way.

IPSPs typically log IP addresses, usernames link accounts to payments, and are stored on both sides (with you and with the IPSP) anyway.

But your user uploading pictures, saving content, making spreadsheets and so on, that user data is the data that is most likely most relevant to the user.

Their email address is relevant too, if you plan to use it. If you delete their account but keep a log that the account was deleted at the request of email address 'x' mailing you from IP address 'y' and that that user had at the time of deletion logged a grand total of 64 hours on your service over a period of 90 days then that's just fine as far as I read the law.

Yes, there is a cost to keeping a free service alive post shutdown. And you probably should factor that cost in to your business plan when you start. And if maintaining a service in such a way that users can get their data out post shutdown (and possibly a migratory service or a deal with 'web.archive.org' to archive the site, which, ironically may be in violation of several countries' laws) is too expensive then you can wonder if that service is viable to begin with. Typically those costs are a very small fraction of what it would cost to run a service in an active mode.

I currently host 3 projects that are officially 'dead', their creators no longer felt that they were going to spend another dime on them and I feel that to do right by the users the small amount of money that it takes to 'keep the lights on' is far outweighed by the benefit to the users.
I don't think it's about money. I feel that Mozilla has made a strategic mistake in switching to a very rapid release schedule. My clients keep saying things like, "Firefox 5? Didn't Firefox 4 just come out like two months ago?"

I haven't even bothered with Firefox 5 yet. It's not worth my time to work inside yet another browser. At this rate, I might as well just dump Firefox and work inside Chrome.

Mozilla needs to slow the hell down and let Extension developers catch up.
Node, JSLint and Vim
You're being prude!

You're being obtuse.

The taboo around certain words in certain contexts is a consensus that serves a purpose. You can use them and receive certain extra attention, but also lose other people to distraction.

Like others, I have no problem with using this myself, but wouldn't pass it on to a general audience. If I were to do so, I would signal that I am careless and casual with the use of the word 'fuck', when it is too important of a word to devalue so.

If the creator's goal is to limit adoption to a certain audience, the use of 'fuck' is a good idea. If they want wider adoption, it isn't. Both are valid choices.
You wrote this yourself?
Part of the problem is that the state controls the means of living anything resembling a normal life, and if it decides to abuse its power, its employees are seldom all that interested in your problem. Megan McArdle had a similar DMV snafu not too long ago: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/01/car-succ... .
Fighting the bureaucracy for the right to drive - Megan McArdle
I don't generally (fucking :) care about curse words, but I agree it could limit adoption.

They should at least have a secondary url like "wheretfisthis.com" (available; almost grabbed it for them) or wherethefsckisthis.com and censor the titles; same userbase, same pics, just a different presentation.

Also probably would help if they want to do an iOS app.

Edgy is useful too, so they should keep the current branding too.
Do you mean Chrome 8 and 7? Firefox is only up to 5 now.
> if I didn't read Hacker News I'd be sitting there hitting refresh a bunch of times

Then I know some things that may help you in the future. At the bottom of almost every page at Last.fm there four columns of links. In the column named "Get Help" there is a link that says "System Status" which goes to: http://status.last.fm/ where you can see how different parts of the site are running and a short explanation if there is a problem. I've never seen the system status page go down, even when there are problems on other parts of the site.

One time when Last.fm had some problem the links at the bottom of the page went away. Since then I find it handy to have a bookmark to the system status page.

Another thing to check are the forums (I wanna say fora :-), especially the Web Site Support forum: http://www.last.fm/forum/21713 . Usually the users of the site notice problems before explanations go up at the system status page and someone asks a question what is going on. The staff usually answers, explain what is going on and sometimes say an estimate of when the problem will be solved. In short, there are more details in the web site support forum than on the system status page.

Hope this helps. :-)
edit: Nevermind. I hit 'practice mode' because I didn't understand you had to hit 'copy to my account' to use 'learning mode'. Learning mode properly introduces things. (Could use pronunciation/audio)
This article seems to be written following a "How to gain impressions and establish yourself - here's list of things you should tell your readers!"
Chrome has the best Javascript debugging tools.

However when it comes to CSS and HTML, its lagging behind Firebug.

That said, now adays I find myself in Chrome far more than Firefox simply because Javascript debugging in Chrome is fast, never crashes, and is pretty necessary if you're building an extensive rich interface app.
I don't know how this distinctly average article, which provides no insight at all, attracts so much attention. The author seems either confused about the core function of Quora or is playing the pseudo-intellectual game of attributing abstract characteristics to the service (wilfully comparing it to facebook/twitter/G+).

Tl;dr Reading this bollocks was a waste of my time.
A reddit link amongst the top 3... shame on you HN.
DoD Releases Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace
Terrorism is a great guise under which to built a counterinsurgency apparatus.
I didn't mean to say that terrorists are gaining financially or that the "burn[t] money" goes to them. I'd be surprised if that's a real goal.

My point was that regardless of where the money ends up, if it's misappropriated then it's a waste.
If it was, they wouldn't have the tight integration that makes Android vastly more viable than MeeGo.
No I guess it wouldn't be easy.

My parents did it, but then again they where only 43...

Seriously, who said it was easy?
The distinction is "He doesn't like Microsoft, so he must attack and minimize their contributions to feel better."
I thought that too before I spent some time with a Markdown based presentation like Landslide:

https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

I found myself needing to "drop down" into HTML quite often as my slides were more complex then just the simple bullet point lists.

Markdown just didn't have the expressiveness I needed for a presentation. Markdown would be fine for a say a word document but there is more need for complex layout in a good presentation sometimes.
1) While Google is efficient, there is no market need to create Google killer.

Even if there is such a need, the goal of startup would be to create a model that at scale would overperform Google. Such model is likely to be created at less than $30K monthly burn.

For example, team of two developers in couple of years may implement and fine tune some efficient social way of ranking search results.
$30K/month * 24 month = $720K.

2) Jason Calacanis empirical rule: "if startup is overfunded then as soon as profitability is achieved it would be crushed by Google."
:-)

3) "The internet is biased toward big..." -- I agree. But it's "big product scale", not "big organization".
That the last thing the world needs is another crappy O'Reilly technical book?
This looks absolutely terrible in Firefox on Bodhi (Ubuntu) Linux. I like the concept though!
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Isn't stack overflow in the top 100 sites in terms of traffic? While it might not be mainstream, it's already huge.
Agreed.

Also, up the max password length -- 20 is far too small for those who use password managers. Not that I am terribly worried about someone breaking into my WordStash account, but I don't want to have to change the settings on my password generator.
Bad headline. Driving isn't a right.
FTA: Registrar Rachel Krapielian said that protecting the public far outweighs any inconvenience Gass or anyone else might experience.

“A driver’s license is not a matter of civil rights. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege,’’ she said. “Yes, it is an inconvenience [to have to clear your name], but lots of people have their identities stolen, and that’s an inconvenience, too."

This person is why I'm a libertarian.
Create, edit and manage PDF documents really with Linux
The Greatest Short Opportunity Ever
Codes of Ethics are usually written to suit ideals, and not pragmatism. It's not expected that everyone will actually adhere to everything in a code of ethics---only that they would appreciate that these are "good things" in general, and try to implement them if they are practical.
Firefox 8 is the nightly build now:

http://ostatic.com/blog/early-glimpse-of-firefox-8-shows-vas...
This kills off the root motivation to be Samaritan with power. If everyone can copy and paste instead of reinventing it, dealing with double binds and trade offs,they'll grow to put less weight on caring for user interest.
Note that in Chinese, character is not the same as word.

Most modern Mandarin words are bisyllabic, and represented by the combination of two characters, and their meaning does not necessarily derive in a straightforward way from the meanings of their constituent characters (for example, the word for "thing" is composed of the characters for "East" and "West" in conjunction)
It doesn't show up in searches because for a long time the whole site was noindexed. Think they changed this, but considering the whole site is designed much like an SEO spamfest (tags, ridiculous hierarchy), it didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Unfortunately, the new web developers tools* built into Firefox represent a small subset of what Firebug and Webkit Inspector can do. Since Firebug is not compatible with Nightlies (Firefox 8) and Aurora (Firefox 7), it's a major regression.

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Web_Console
Firefox moved to new release cycle. The current nightly build of Firefox is Firefox 8 @ http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Not if you're a writer. Not that I want to read novels or papers that sound like a thesaurus threw up on a keyboard, but it's good to always have the right word to express a thought.
Viewpoint: CEO = Product Manager
Hopefully there will be some movement on increasing accountability for state workers. It is not impossible - I heard that New York City is ending its infamous "rubber rooms" in which bad teachers are paid to do nothing for years and years, because it's unrealistically difficult to get them fired.
It does matter; unlike the web development world where blogs are ubiquitous, in some industries writing a blog may be a complete waste of time. A better way to market yourself may be to go out and actually shake hands with people. There is only one problem: getting someone to agree to a face to face meeting carries a higher opportunity cost for them than spending a few minutes reading your blog, so you are less likely to get agreement there.

When you combine that fact with the large number of unemployed individuals in traditional industries who would love to get face time with an important person in their industry, it's just not a good idea for a manager, HR guy, or other decision-making individual at a company to agree to meet with each individual who requests a meeting.

The basic problem in some older industries is essentially that a person can only demonstrate their skills within the context of a (sometimes large) company. A web developer or a designer can create a website or a blog and show the world how good they are, but a welder or a wind tunnel technician doesn't have the same opportunity. And hiring someone (especially at a large company) can be very expensive with all the benefits, training, and time spent acclimating the new hire to the company and its culture. Most companies simply prefer to go with the less risky option and screen employees who have been out of work for a while, which is very unfortunate.
Of course not. But are you seriously going to make "people should not be offended by curse words" a principle for which you're willing to sacrifice customers? There are ideals more deserving of your time, I think.

It's not that you're wrong, it's that being right wins you no prizes here.
As far as I know, Chrome releases every 6 weeks as well. If you switch to working with Chrome you'll be working under the same rapid release schedule.
It would be nice if I could confirm that I 'know' words, and that I could opt for those words to not appear (or perhaps be grayed-out) in lists.
Last year I met and associated with a Finn while traveling in France. He spoke extraordinarily good English and could have passed for a native of the USA with very little accent correction (it was more the timing of his speech that gave him away). I wouldn't have thought him to be exceptional until I discovered that I was the first native English speaker he had ever met and he had never even left his country before then.

I wish I had been given language instruction of that caliber when I was in school.
I don't think Mozilla is short on cash.

In 2009 the Mozilla Foundation chalked up $104 million in revenue[1] from ties with Google, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, Ebay and others. I'd imagine there are some large donations in there as well.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/faq.html
I'm not Armin, but I've used both extensively, and the main thing I can feel is that Bottle lacks the elegant power of Flask's underlying libraries. Django suffers from this, too, but in Bottle it's even more obvious: Werkzeug and Jinja2 are deliriously powerful libraries! I remember Armin once talking about how instructional and useful it could be to derive a custom Flask from Werkzeug, and watching his methodology, it became quite apparent that Werkzeug's the best way to do WSGI at the low level. Jinja2's in a similar position; if you've ever read through Django's templating library, you'd agree.
That is a very good idea!
Ideologies among tech workers have been studied. Carrie Lane's _A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment_ points out that tech workers often blame themselves for unemployment. If we blame ourselves, how much sympathy will we have with the 53 year old female?

Jeff Schmidt's _Disciplined Minds_ is a very good explanation of ideologies among professionals. (http://disciplined-minds.com)

(Obviously, "unemployment" is a systematic problem of a peculiar economic system.)
The thing that annoys me most about Quora is how many of the questions are leading questions.
Actually, you can refer to a female deer as a "cow" (though "doe" is more common).
A better way to market your products.
I came across this website and surprised to see the AboutUs page and found a way to market my products. Read the question, 4. How to send articles and benefits of sending articles to us ? http://etopmost.com/about-us
Why I will never pursue cheating again
or "messed"?
I don't think most downvotes are about agreement.

An honest opinion need not be an opinion worth reading. I want to read honest, informed, insightful, and justified opinions especially when I disagree, not honest, but knee-jerk opinions, even if I agree.
This is my experience too. All the people who are members have no idea how useless the site is to the rest of us. The only time I ever visit Quora is by direct link from HN. It never comes up in search engine responses, and they have no native search feature. To me, it's just a box with a login form (which I don't have) and a signup page (which tells me to sod off). How will the world live without it!?
I'm slightly obsessed with scrobbling and checking what I've been listening to over the last [N] months. And last.fm recommendations beat every other service I've come across.

But in terms of actual listening; I barely use it.
Here is the URL for the website.
http://etopmost.com/about-us
This is only a 11-page (draft version?) forward to the book titled Birth of a Psychedelic Culture [1].

1. http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Psychedelic-Culture-Conversation...
a) I didn't know this guy was both involved with the Dead AND the EFF! Fascinating.

b) I didn't know that such interesting business happened in Millbrook. Millbrook! Man that is like twenty minutes away.
Not so great - Seems to require your Twitter followers to associate their Google account on Migrat.us before it's of any use.
As somebody that routinely carries around a netbook with a big "FREE SOFTWARE FUCK YEAH" sticker on it, I feel obligated to say: I completely and totally understand your sentiment but must respectfully disagree with your opinion in an explicit but reasonable fashion.
That is the way, Google grows.
On the plains of New Mexico a band of marathoners try persistence hunting
> I haven't even bothered with Firefox 5 yet. It's not worth my time to work inside yet another browser. At this rate, I might as well just dump Firefox and work inside Chrome.

> Mozilla needs to slow the hell down

I don't understand. You want to switch from Firefox because of it's rapid releases, to the browser that invented rapid releases?

Both Chrome and Firefox release a new major version every 6 weeks, both obsolete the version right before it at that time, etc.

If you want a slow-releasing browser, your options are IE and Safari.
n00b question but how big is your OS ? I was going to work with the Arduino Uno first but then out of concern for memory size, I purchased a Mega.