skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't Facebook sue Google when most of UI ideas in G+ seems to be copied?
Are they waiting to roll it out to public? Or there really isn't anything that they can do about it?
Guy's checkers table was no more a "project for boys" than a project for your daughter (or, better yet, by your daughter) would be a "project for girls". The thing I took away from the OP was to support your children in whatever they do, regardless of whether they want to have tea parties with their friends or climb trees or hack the NSA.

Well, OK, maybe not that last one.
EDIT: It is definitively only for full fleshed java-script web apps, not for quickly adding some gimmickry to a static webpage.

As it happens I just started looking into it a few days ago. Here is what I found:

The closure compiler really is it's biggest advantage. It compiles your code to really optimized javascript, with not one character too much. Only the parts of the library that you can actually use are compiled into your app. Also the library is pretty much extensive. For example their i18n code looks quite good.

The downside (in my mind) is that it forces a quite verbose java-like programming style on you (classes with getters/setters etc.). You also have to annotate your code with type information (a la javadoc) to take full advantage of the compiler. Also the DOM APIs are really ugly. They basically look like the bare browser apis.

Their is not really a big community around it either. But also means that nearly every line of code is actually used in a google application.

I havn't decided yet if I should use it for my next project.
That is a really good video. A lot more engaging.
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DON'T use a bloody CAPTCHA.
I thought the latest was to praise effort, not achievements. Praising achievements might induce self-consciousness and make kids not try very hard.
Flashback! Is PuTTY still standard issue for folks on Windows?
I dove straight into the code for my current project. Since it is something that I do not have exposure to at work, I was more concerned about learning the language and environment than developing the concept out. Next time I will definitely spend more time planning and on specs. I have found that if I had spent more time developing out the concept and defined initial core features at the very least, I would have less coding interruptions and some set goals that I could gauge my progress.
That would mean: Just because you did not succeed in murdering someone, you are allowed to go free?
Yes. It's still by far the most popular SSH client for Windows.
Good point. Stock prices are absolute bullshit when it comes to telling you whether a company is good in real business terms. I used to work for a company in the Telco space when Telcos had a stock crash. Now, our company made 40% profit year on year and had done so for the seven preceding years, yet our stock price crashed (and we continued making 40% growth year after year).

Actual value was ignored, stupid sound bites from commentators were believed. It's a fucking trading card game played by morons.
The few times I touch Windows, it's pretty much the most used program alongside Chrome and Sublime Text 2.
Direct link to download page - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...
I have it installed on every windows box I have, and that includes recent windows 7 desktop.
Router vendors start saving DHCP lease tables to stable storage and the issue is fixed?
What about just asking the user "Why would a benevolent God allow evil to exist?" and then the server checks if the answer mentions "freewill"
Ask HN: Plus Reasons Not To Use Google+
List of reasons why you're not using Google+. I state the first reason and the preface every other reason with "Plus" Please add to the list by prefacing your reason with Plus because it's an cumulative list

1. " I already have 3 social network accounts"
2. "Plus none of my friends are on it"
3. "Plus I don't care if Google succeeds in social."
4. "Plus I keep getting pointless notifications"
I made a 'Ponyo' boat out of a used soda can (which I took from the office), a used milk/juice carton (which I took for a party I went to). Didn't cost anything (even the glue I used was the end of a pot of epoxy I've had for years).

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/06/making-ponyo-or-putt-putt-boat.h...

Fun to do if you have kids.
You can't own ideas, only implementations of ideas.
'Marketing and bragging rights' sounds critical to me. In an interview[1][2], Matz describes it this way:

>> He [Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce] said he could provide us some support and that's why I decided to join Salesforce.com through Heroku (Note: Several members of Ruby Core are currently under negotiation to join Heroku).

>> So, the core of our work will not change. Our mission is to develop Ruby Core, to make Ruby more functional and higher quality. Having said that, I am expecting that the job security we are being provided and Ruby usage feedback we get from heavy Ruby users such as Heroku will accelerate the progress of Ruby development. Otherwise, there would be no point to accepting the offer.

The "support" there refers to a conversation between Benioff and Matz where Matz said a primary concern of his was for Ruby devs who either work on Ruby in their spare time or worry about job security. It sounds like Salesforce is committed to helping by hiring multiple Ruby-core devs. I think that's very real support, not just PR of any kind.

[1] http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2011/7/12/translation-of-matz-q...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2757134 (HN thread on the Matz interview (so far, no comments)
I am from Europe and it seems fair for the reasons listed by the court. Read the actual PDF and their reasoning; it is very conclusive and clear.

The part that weighs so heavy is the planning, the full intent and showing absolutely no remorse to the court. The hacking was just a means to an end. He got sentenced for willingly, cold bloodedly and with full intent trying to destroy his neighbor's life.

This would not have gone down any different in the EU.

And darn am I sick of fellow Europeans flinging poo towards the USA every chance they get and 99% of them haven't ever actually worked or lived there.
Yeah, an SMS frontend would add a huge dose of ubiquity. Not everyone has smartphones or is close to a computer all day, but everyone I know carries a cellphone everywhere they go.

This should be really easy to implement with twilio, but they haven't got international SMS yet.
Duke Nukem Forever has been released. PuTTY has been updated.

A memorable year!
I prefer PuTTYtray, it includes URL hyperlinking, tray minimization, and a few other nice features.
It's not Sony. It's made by iRiver, like the rest of the Story series.
PuTTY and Cygwin are still the most popular ways to get an SSH client on Windows, so far as I'm aware.
That's a very inspiring story.

My experience with my parents was quite the opposite. Whenever I would ask for help they'd present me with a heap of arguments why I shouldn't "waste my time on this stuff" and even try to stop me. I finally came to the conclusion that it's best not to ask them at all but try to do it secretly myself and only show them the end result.

The only other possible outcome was them doing it all themselves. Usually saying that they will do it faster and better and won't break or make anything dirty in process. Perfect example of how not to raise children.
Perhaps you could test out different voices, and test which ones people skip over vs which ones people watch all the way through? Doesn't youtube offer some stats on that?
More or less—there are some alternatives or ones that build upon PuTTY (Like, adding tabs) though.
Feds defend Internet domain seizure in piracy crackdown
Ask HN: Besides deciding if you can downvote, what is Karma for?
Was just curious really.
Does Google considers verbose good?
Missing a "not"?
What do you think "the cloud" is running on?
VCs view hedge fund money as impatient, unsupportive, scary, devil-esque
I would agree with your IDE point, IF the person doesn't know how to use the IDE properly.

I used RubyMine when learning Ruby/Rails, after having used IDEA for years (Java), and the two things which helped me learn Ruby and Rails faster than anything else were code completion (for finding methods which I may have not found otherwise) and the Source Navigator (for want of a better term). Being able to Ctrl-Click on a method and instantly see the source for it(Whether in a gem or in Rails itself) was a massive time-saver when it came to understanding what was going on under the covers.

Edit: Agree 100% with adding tests.
Regarding the bug: I think the website isn't taking into account the different timezones. I created a thought, and it was listed as created 12 hours ago.
The huge success of an AppStore failure - FingerKicks 90% Piracy Rate
Freaky Robot Mouth Learns to Sing
Google+ got right what Facebook got wrong.
I think the moral of this story is that it's not your business. She will decide what she want to do, and her parents should help, and not restrain her, or tell her what to do.
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I have downloaded the latest version zip. When I am clicking on putty.exe icon, Putty screen doesn't come up. I can see the process running in taskbar, but no window is shown.

However, if I start putty.exe using command line with parameter <host_name> I can see the window.

I am using 32 bit Windows XP SP3 on Intel x86

Strange, because previous version was working perfectly fine! Anybody experiencing same?
It is an anti-competitive business practice even if it is strictly legal. I don't care who's doing it.

In this case it is pretty clear Microsoft can't compete fairly so they're beating everyone over the head with their legal department.
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Do Robots Take People's Jobs?
That's part of the reason for the KiTTY fork: http://kitty.9bis.com/
I prefer PuTTy a hell of a lot more for the wonderful copy+paste right-clicks.

Luckily there is puttycyg!!
Why do you prefer a lighter stack? Do you use other libs in your current stack, e.g. for internationalization or dependency loading?
I'm not keen on the quote either, but I think you did miss one way in which it (or something like it) could be right.

Consider statements like these: "X would do better if it had more colour-blind people working there", "Y would do better if it had more deaf people working there", "Z would do better if it had more depressed people working there". At first sight, these are obviously wrong: being colour-blind, or deaf, or depressed, is a disadvantage, right? But that's waaaay too simple. A colour-blind person has the ability to see what something looks like to other colour-blind people, and someone with normal vision doesn't. They may also have better perception of some kinds of detail than normal trichromats. Similarly (but more so) for deaf or depressed people. The point here: "person with disability X" does not, by a long way, equal "'normal' person with such-and-such capabilities simply removed".

So, rationality. Let's stipulate that perfect rationality, if it could be achieved, would bring with it the ability to do any cognitive task at least as well as a less-rational person could; and that rationality doesn't imply autism, social awkwardness, lack of emotions, and all the other tiresome tropes you find in movies and books and TV. Even so: if you take a sample of "rational people" and a sample of "irrational people" by any realistic means, you will find other differences between them other than their level of rationality -- and it is not at all obvious that those differences will all be to the advantage of the "rational people".

Obvious example: you want to know how people will react to an advertisement, a web page, a dialog box, or whatever. In principle, someone sufficiently smart could work that out, given enough information about the population that's going to see the ad/page/dbox. But if you just get a sample of people representative of that population -- and, let's face it, many of those people will not be very rational -- you can just show them whatever-it-is and see how they react.

So, a company that's entirely filled with rational people is in practice liable to be missing some viewpoints that might be useful to know about. Sure, if those were infinitely intelligent perfectly rational people with complete information about everything, they could work it all out. But back in the real world, that's not going to happen.

I think that's probably what he was getting at. Only he said it in one sentence instead of four paragraphs. Draw from that whatever conclusions about "rational people" (like me) versus "irrational people" (like Edwards?) you find appropriate :-).
This is a debate SEOs have.

Rand wrote an interesting post on the topic this week:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-responsibilities-of-seo-have-...

There is still the point that my work is done through the lens of improving organic search traffic. Google has just changed to include so many factors, it's much closer to just building a great inbound or web strategy. There are also details that are search specific, that it helps having someone on top of those details, because they can have major impacts. So, at least for now, SEO still works as a title, especially when that's the service people know they need.

I find it equally frustrating that there are people out there pitching meta tag optimization as "SEO" and reducing the perceived value of what I do for a living.

And it's still possible to manipulate the search engines, and lots of companies do it, but that's not actual marketing.
But he does release early and often doesn't he? He just didn't give out a new version number for a while.
Yes. But they create new jobs too. Who has to fix the robots?

You see in Tesco, those new (well not anymore) self checkouts, there's 4 checkers jobs gone. I doubt Tesco actually fired them though. You get my point :)
Not on topic: this is one of the issues with not showing any indication of the votes. When you ask something and get lots of answers you have no way to know which are being upvoted or not. I did upvote one and I'm sure more people did, I was actually very curious with the result of this mini-poll. That also explains why there are several answers with the same trend, redundancy is the only to show a trend when a question is posted on the comments.
Both stolen:

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/

Stolen, in that he claims the lion's share of the credit, while having contributed very little.

Did you know that he sued a subordinate to prevent the publication of a theorem that "was rightfully his" ?
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As @ig1 said, Facebook don't own ideas. (unless they patent them).

They do have a very (very) specific patent on the News Feed if I remember correctly. Google does seem to have the same implementation as Facebook. I haven't heard anything about it though so I assume it's not an issue.
I enjoyed PopCap's announcement: http://www.popcap.com/ea?icid=ea_HP_PLARGE_pc_EN. :)
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Ex YC, Please step up and help. I know so many people like me who need a light in this direction. the number of upvotes i got (never got for so many for any of my previous posts) proves this. Perhaps this could be the best help you could ever do to a would be YC :)
Why you should be careful about commit messages
> "I first heard of him from a video Leah Culver linked to on a talk that Zed gave, “The ACL is dead.”"

I knew I wasn't the only one.
one of the nicest ideas I got from Adam Savage is the idea of a hardware store expense account. His father, instead of giving him an allowance, would give him a certain amount of money he could spend every week at the hardware store.

An artist who is a hero of mine, Toshi Iwai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Iwai) in his talks describes how his parents stopped buying toys for him when he turned 10. He was encouraged to design and build his own toys. When he talks about his art, he always starts by showing these great sketches and flipbooks he made as a ten year old.

anyway, I find this approach (expense account for building supplies, encouraging children to build their own toys) really quite inspiring and plan on trying to raise my children the same way when they are that age.
Splitterbug (YC S11) shuts down
I'm using the new version on the same (32-bit x86 XP SP3) and I don't see the issue. Everything works as expected.
My mom couldn't do what you are suggesting. She could use ThoughtBack though. Maybe that is what you are missing?
Yes, that's my point. Respond to a DMCA according to the rules, or you could be sued. Likewise, respond to a C&D or you could be sued. In fact, since the C&D offers no safe harbor, you could be sued even if you do exactly what it asks.

The threat in both cases is the same. If anything the DMCA is weaker.
Reddit's down. This appears to be the same thing.

http://imgur.com/vNqt3
Google is not Mother Theresa, but it's pretty obviously often driven by questions that are not in terms of monetary profit. Wall Street hates them for that.
Speaking of which, Eliezer should stop reading HN and get back to writing, don't you think?
Ah, the Internet: connecting together everyone with Too Much Free Time since 1991.
I wonder what it feels like to be Randall Munroe and have sycophantic fanboys for a poorly drawn stick-figure webcomic that was briefly funny a couple of years ago.
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I think it depends less on the features and more on the competitive landscape. If this guy needs to build a community he needs to rank in Google and get organic traffic. It doesn't matter if he isn't #1 as long as he can get in the top three or four results.

So a single competitor isn't a problem, but if he can't get good positioning because there are other sites he can't dislodge he's facing at best a long crawl to visibility, and is at a huge disadvantage competing against a larger team who already have community, content, ranking, revenues and domain age/trust.
There is also a chat facility on stackoverflow.
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Panning would work fine since the objects in this projection don't change anything but position with panning. Spinning would only work in 90 degree increments, but that's fine for many, maybe most cases you'd be doing this. Most isometric-ish projection systems I recall seeing don't spin / change perspective. I'd imagine that's because it's disturbing to look at since things don't get smaller as they get farther away. For whatever reason the static version doesn't induce the same reaction.
Yeah, his first papers and presentations on lisp already delved into basic pattern-based symbolic differentiation. What a brilliant guy...
PuTTY is so much better just at the UI level than Window's command prompt that I wish stuff like Cygwin and msysgit could use it instead. Unfortunately it doesn't seem the code is very modular.
Don't forget, most child sexual abuse [astonishingly] comes from within the family.
It is very easy to bash him but he must have done something right and he deserves the credit for it.
>Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese embassy).

Honey trap?
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This isn't perfect, but it's what I use and it works well.

http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/
(I don't really have any expertise in this, this is mostly what I've heard on the grapevine)

I don't believe you can attend YC while on an H1B.

Typically foreign YC participants use a B-1 or an equivalent visa waiver to take part in YC.

For staying afterwards the typical approach seems to be to get your startup to sponsor you for a H1B or an L-1 visa, but I believe this is only really a feasible approach if your startup has raised a VC round and has multiple founders.
This "feature" has fucked me over so many times! If the DHCP server is configured to be strict, or even a little paranoid, every now and then my macbook would just refuse to connect. I'd have to clear DHCP caches, settings and restart.
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Python is more widely used than Ruby overall but Rails alone is far more popular than all the Python web frameworks combined.
Judging from the number of forced jokes on https://secure.phabricator.com/ (needs login), it mostly seems to be a vehicle for bad humor.
I know, but there's no one there usually. Especially if you need anything slightly unusual such as python/django
>there's still going to be people with good and bad opinions of it.

An anecdote isn't an opinion, it allows others to come to their own opinions themselves.
My son keeps asking me about how to "hack computers" and I'm pretty sure that's what he's on about. I keep telling him about how to program. Eventually I hope it will click.
I hate ads, but then again, flowers are also ads, and they are beautiful. Maybe "human ads" will evolve one day to also be beautiful.
I hope this doesn't seem self serving, but seomoz.org has some of the highest quality information you can find on SEO. In addition to that, I'd suggest articles on http://searchengineland.com/ - they offer high quality content and news in the industry. Anything written by Vanessa Fox on SEL is usually great.

Guides like Excel for SEO shows some of the basic stuff we do:
http://www.distilled.net/excel-for-seo/

For high level patent / research based SEO, nobody does it better than http://www.seobythesea.com/ (his URLs are ugly, but his content is great)

For specific beliefs on how the algo works, this is a good resource:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

SEOmoz has webinars and a PRO Q&A. Distilled.net also offers videos of our conferences.

As for books, the best I've read are Art of SEO, which is co-written by Rand, and SEO Secrets by Danny Dover (formerly of SEOmoz, now at AT&T) which talks more about the consulting side. The problem with books is that stuff can go out of date quickly. If you're reading a book that talks about PageRank sculpting, for example, it's dated.

Other great sites:

http://www.seobook.com/ - high level opinions and analysis of industry issues

http://www.seroundtable.com/ - recap of industry news and forums

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ - lots of tactical articles

Things I've written for example:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/how-user-data-may-reorder-...

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/breaking-down-the-mormon-s...

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/building-your-own-scraper-...

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/impact-of-google-instant/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/replace-yahoo-linkdomain-with-goo...

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/guide-to-competitive-backlink-ana...

Hope that helps! :)
Why can't you post on people's walls on Google+
I'm very surprised by the reaction here. I always viewed this community as open platform advocates. Windows 8, which seems to have a new touch UI layer and ARM support, is far more open than Windows Phone 7. My prediction is the Windows 8 tablet will see widespread business adoption leaving the iPad and Android tablet to fight over the consumer market.
No, Dutchies don't like it either. I don't think it's language specific. It probably has something to do with how much machismo or political correctness there is in a culture :-)

By that logic, Americans are probably more upset about this than, say, Nigerians (I assume Nigerian culture(s) are rather less PC than American culture).
If your service is free, how much are competing services?