skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found "in the plex" fascinating too, at least the first part. It gets a bit long when it goes into details of the Chinese debacle, the Obama campaign, etc. Stuff that isn't much "googley" :)
I can't recommend DNSimple enough (http://dnsimple.com). Pretty straight forward pricing, nice one-click integration with stuff like Google Apps and they'll even give you a discount if you transfer domains off GoDaddy.
Entrance into HDTV market seen boosting Apple's market cap by $100B
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Here's my blog post on the pivot.
http://betashop.com/post/3741657155/when-to-change-your-game...

I've always said that if you can't gain some considerable traction in 1 years time, it's time to move on and try something else as there are lots of good problems out there to try to solve. We stuck to that 1 year rule with the old fabulis.

We threw away all the old code.
I guess you have somehow define feature to not include 'ease of use' or any features of the interface in order to make this article apply.

Otherwise, I totally disagree. That the users can use your product smoothly and efficiently IS a feature.
You are not kidding there. Good to hear others are in the same boat. Definitely helps knowing people trying to deal with this as well.
> "The mentality that you need an original, unique idea to succeed ...is rubbish."

I don't know whether to make an Electronic Arts, Activision or Zynga joke here.Suffice to say: you're absolutely right in a business sense and that's a damn shame.
The guy that owns them has said/done some things that annoy me, too. That plus cheaper, less-hassle registrars were enough for me to avoid it.
Godaddy is he only place I've found "Extended Validation" certs at a reasonable price - $99 instead of $499+. I hate their website and crosselling, but I do appreciate as the author points out that they have people you can call - how many registrars have that?

Are there any alternatives for EV certs that are not a ripoff?
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Good call, I think you are right. My intended point was that the OP was dismissive of the idea of Incremental/AOT compilation as a possibility. I was not terribly clear and may have misread him.

The idea for LLVM is that you can target the LLVM IR or LLVM Byte-code, and LLVM will provide the platform for your regrettable compiler. It has both a JIT and a native compiler component. You can run the AOT compiler either as incremental or sucking in a bunch of source and doing C style static compilation.

I am by no means an expert obviously, but when I evaluated it for a project it seemed to be geared towards generating fast code for C/++ like languages... for which you tend to know the machine types of things, and be operating in terms of machine floats/doubles/integers/etc. Which doesn't seem to be much of a problem for Python, honestly.

The 'virtual machine' is more of a Bytecode model... as the name implies, it is low level). You would have to build your own virtual machine (PythonVM or what have you) on top of it. This would need to be a complete VM with the ability to generate LLVM bytecode. Then you could take advantage of the SSA transforms constant reduction and other nice parts of the LLVM (peephole optimization for example).

But I guess the point is, LLVM takes care of one hard part for you, but there are a bunch of other difficult parts which would still need to be handled. Particularly the garbage collector. I'm sure unladen swallow generated code is bleeding fast because of its use of LLVM.

All of this said, I'm pretty sure that the project died with Python 3. Maybe this whole discussion is missing the point entirely? How do you write a fast compiler for a language which has no standard? It is bound to change unpredictably and be an incredibly frustrating task.
I'm affraid the name collision with the Apple and GNUStep PDF Kits will be problematic for the search engine visibility of your project.
I would expect a self-professed designer to know that "yeah i dont like the new branding" is just about the most useless feedback one can possibly give.

Why don't you like it? What do you think they got wrong and how would you do it better?
More than 50% of our members joined via viral invites -- from emailing friends, twitter posts, facebook posts, etc.

We think it is because of the social tools we weaved into our site + the social nature of design itself.
These protections extend to everyone, no matter how despicable.

In order for good people to be free, some bad guys might also get away. Such is the price of a free society.
I'd like you to survey some other teachers who teach in high schools and grammar schools of varying class levels.

I'd venture to guess your observation is way off...
Fellow programmers make fun of me for liking Matlab. I've tried to explain it to them many times (how it doesn't need iterators, how most things are one-liners, how it's 10-100 times less code all the way down), but I've come to the conclusion that they just feel threatened because it goes around most of the problems they've learned to solve with c. It's like how some auto mechanics don't think much of electric cars. I know that hundreds of cores is the future, but nobody knows how to use inherently parallel languages like Matlab, so all I can do right now is wait for the future to arrive.
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It's easy to become a teacher but not as easy to stay a teacher.
Some people really feel the need to say that traditional jobs aren't stable, even though they are more stable than non-traditional jobs. An attempt to make themselves feel less insecure of their decisions? Seems to me that creating fake reasons is a great way to drive insecurity, since at some point your whole platform could be supported by lies to yourself.
I don't know about Google, but my experience working in big corporations gave me the impression that they're extremely slow-moving and tactical.

They may have more people to throw at things, but they will almost always prefer tactical over strategical, as all of the managerial chain is judged by quarterly profits.

Note how so much of large corporations' innovation is really just the purchase of small start-ups which can think strategically and focus on the right things.
Gmail integration with a number of universities is also a great way to get a new, large batch of young and fairly intellectual people familiar with Google products every single year.
I'd like to see them take that $4bn they would've spent on Nortel patents and use it for a patent reform campaign. I'm sure that kind of money could buy a lot of votes in DC.
OK so after walking past the boards, I think its nothing except a marketing ploy to get Kitchener-Waterloo residents to support the local team.

Image - http://twitpic.com/5on93a
Image full size - http://twitpic.com/5on93a/full

The posters say to email the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, and Tom Tom to stop Android because these companies have "lost tens of billions of dollars" (wtf do i care if they lost money?)

RIM building is in the background.

Students/PR firm (some look like students but they also have your typical hot, bare-waist chick helping) is having a hard time keeping the boards up, the wind keeps knocking them down. Guy in the orange seems to be calling the shots.

Drawings look like work of students.

I personally like RIM, really want to know whats going on here.
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Yeah... no.

There's a line, and past that line, law enforcement has no power to enforce laws at all. Removing the DOJ's ability to collect evidence is, in some cases, the equivalent to denying a detective access to a crime scene. If all productions of electronic evidence can be encrypted, and the defense is not forced to decrypt those files, then dirty corporations only need to encrypt everything to defend themselves in court.

Defense: "We produced everything you asked for."

Prosecution: "We can't even verify that statement. Decrypt it"

Defense: "We don't have to."

Case closed.
What's cheaper than GoDaddy? All my .com and .net domains end up costing me $7.49. I'd love to know...
Stacklayout - 12 css class names to rule them all
Am I missing something, or is nothing bookmarkable anymore?
So according to you, the major advantage of fusion is that it will take us beyond the next thousand years, which is the amount of time that we can supply our needs with fission (I am not taking maximum numbers).

Let Dr. Prager say that in his article, then. He won't, because it will take away any sense of urgency from supporting his research; there are hundreds of years before it becomes necessary, and there is no reason not to leave this for people in the year 2371. I think his motivation is good, in the sense that he has real scientific curiosity about this, but it's still unethical to bamboozle people with talk about "harnessing the power of the stars" and "fuel from seawater", neither of which is really the point here: the stars are irrelevant, the tritium doesn't come from seawater in any meaningful sense. Current proposals for fusion reactors are also uneconomical, which is why people invent hybrid fusion-fission economies.

> This is not great to harp on because nuclear fission is still one of the safest sources of energy, statistically speaking.

Then don't harp on it. With immense shielding and cooling mass that needs to get irradiated in current fusion reactor designs, the safety is oversold; and some of that mass will get activated, since you can't economically make it only of materials that won't be.
"That is, Google could easily have gone higher with its bid: why didn't it?"

... Rich people get rich by spending wisely. Just because Google -has- money doesn't mean it should spend it on the first thing that comes along.

If they didn't buy something, it's because they thought the price was too high for the value it brought to them. It's pretty simple economics.
Same thing would have happened to me but my credit card on file expired. Talked to customer service and was never charged. Despite some of the obvious disadvantages of using GoDaddy, I've always gotten great customer service from them.
1) Just because your technical co-founder got there requirements, is smart, and can do this stuff on his/her own, does not mean that you can EVER be hands off. It is demoralizing AND does not build a close relationship between you two.

2) Let the tech co-found show stuff to you, even if its code. Try to understand it or understand the significance. Tiny show-off sessions can go LONG ways towards morale. Also you can catch problems early this way.

3) Offer help even if being rejected. Again, helps with morale if the tech co-founder knows hes not in the boat alone, even if he he/she is the only one who can row.
What happens to her if she doesn't know the password?
As far as I've seen he hasn't been posting any of these Google+ articles.
I wasn't defending Noah's behavior. I was defending Noah.
A yum repository for Fedora 15 is welcome as well.
I really hate it when reporters use words incorrectly.

"And make no mistake, the middle class has been ruined: Its wealth has been decimated, " ... They only lost 10% of their wealth? That's not so bad. Oh wait, they mean completely destroyed, not decimated.
For what it's worth, I think it's fairly common practice these days. Not long ago I booked a car rental (I think on Avis.com). The first time I got a quote, I didn't book it right away as I was shopping for better prices elsewhere. When I came back the quoted price went up, and it basically went up every time I tried to get a new quote. I had to use Tor to get it to give me the original cheap price.
Why shame? We're not really talking about endless repetition, we're talking about actual improvements, however minute, and changes that make the game playable on new iOS versions/device.

It is great if you can make something new, but if you can't, and have a good idea on how to improve something old, I say go for it. We need that too.

The problem of EA/Activision/Zynga is that they take ideas, make almost no improvements, and then use their marketing power to come on top anyway.
This isn't really a scam. I have dozens of domains with GoDaddy, as well as some of their other services. "How can I get the cheapest price" is a game we all play with them. Revision3 has a handy page with GD discount codes, and I've been referring to that page for years. I am helping keep Digg in business from the affiliate fees.

Can we agree the "auto-renew" was not scammy? They didn't rip you off a year. Just reminding you 60 days early as they should.

Can we agree its not shady or unethical to charge different prices for 1st year versus a higher price for subsequent year renewals? Or different prices for different people, in some type of A/B test? Everyone does that. Even amazon.com shows different prices to different people.

Can we agree their customer support was really helpful to you?

So what's the problem exactly?
Too late to switch to PDiddy-F?
OpenShift vs CloudFoundry
I was kidding.
Having too many floats is the canary in the coal mine. It's there to help you have a sense of how well you are structuring your CSS.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=decimated
Harvard releases archive of student Facebook profiles: unethical?
US v Hubbell makes clear that the government cannot compel production of documents (except under immunity to prosecution) which it does not know, ahead of time, to exist.
Bullshit. If America had a great middle class, ordinary folk would go on vacation in the summer, not to the movies like they do now and have done for decades. In the US, movies come out in the summer; even Newsweek used to have a Summer Movies special. In Europe, they come out in November or December, when the weather's shit and there's nothing better to do.
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rights are rights because they allow you to do what would otherwise be illegal.

for example, there's no need for a right to free speech if you're only going to say things that everyone thinks should be said.

rights exist because some things are so important they are worth the cost of abuse.

At first blush it may be thought surprising that one should have a right to do that which one ought not. Is it not better to confine rights to that which it is right or at least permissible to do? But to say this is to misunderstand the nature of rights. One needs no right to be entitled to do the right thing. That it is right gives one all the title one needs. But one needs a right to be entitled to do that which one should not. It is an essential element of rights to action that they entitle one to do that which one should not. To say this is not, of course, to say that the purpose or justification of rights of action is to increase wrongdoing. Their purpose is to develop and protoect the autonomy of the agent. They entitle him to choose for himself rightly or wrongly. But they cannot do that unless they entitle him to choose wrongly. - Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law (p 266)

the final sentence of the quote above is hugely important.
They have a white paper:

http://www.paybuyer.com/about/white_paper/
Original release: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4682

"The T3 dataset is still offline as we take further steps to ensure the privacy of students in the dataset. Please check back later at this site for additional updates- a notice will be posted when the distribution process has resumed." - http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/t3
The writer and history buff in me loves that you have pointed this out. But I think the word "decimate" decoupled from its original meaning sometime between the fall of the Roman Empire and today.
Couldn't get to the Beers section, assume you're in the middle of updating it?
It would be really great to have a way of tagging or arbitrarily grouping beers together, e.g. "fruity" or "goes with Salmon" etc, as well as by obvious characteristics (e.g. brewer). When I'm thinking about a beer, I'm more interested in the sort of beer it is than ranking it by a number.
Fair comment, I apologise.

While alot of what influenced my opinion of the logo is pure subjectivity...

> The angled infrastructure encourages energy to move through the letterforms

I don't feel that it encourages "energy" to move through the letterforms, and the fact that each letterform is rendered as a self contained "hex", hinders the flow of the logo-type.

Also I feel that the logo is overly styled (my subjective opinion)
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Good practical tips for laying out emails
I think the point is that if you are using floats in too many places you there are probably a whole host of other problems with your CSS. If you took the time to go over your CSS, and find where you are duplicating effort you might be able to reduce the number of CSS classes you are using by finding a common pattern. Thus abstracting your CSS.
How often does one refer to somebody by URL? You may have noticed (I have, anyway) that FB now "helpfully" defaults to an @-mention if you start typing a person's name, essentially offering it as an auto-complete option.

As long as G+ doesn't go down this path, I can live with it, but I don't like that a "mention" automatically implies "full access" to whatever has been said, especially given that the choice of whether or not to share a particular post with that person is presumed to be up to the author of the post, not anyone else who was also included.
It's unethical to charge someone one price for a recurring service and then more than triple the price, in an opt-out fashion.

If you raise prices, you need to do your due diligence to make sure your customers are aware they're paying more. This kind of a price increase should really be opt-in rather than opt-out.
Innovation has two main components, r&d and commercial application. While giant organizations produce decent amounts of r&d, it's generally small businesses that come up with the commercial applications. Hence, the myth.
Do you think the government should have subpoena power in order to collect evidence? Do you think they should be able to search a murderer's home for the weapon? I'm not saying they should have this power without a warrant, but nobody has the protection from a _reasonable_ search.
The shame is that the approach works almost independent of whether the improvements are there are not. The success of knock-offs seems to have much more to do with marketing.
The Why Functional Programming Matters[1] paper builds a minimax in a lazy functional language and then enhances it to an alpha-beta.

The minimax looks like:

evaluate = maximize . maptree static . prune 5 . gametree

maximize finds the maximum value. static is a heuristic analysis of the value of the board. prune cuts the tree to a certain depth. gametree generates the infinite game tree.

The alphabeta is more complicated, but also fits well within a pageful.

[1]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf
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I attended Microconf, and I sat on the third row aisle. Anne was sitting directly behind me. Thus, I had a ringside seat for the hot sauce incident. I am somewhat surprised to learn that Anne was enraged at the picture, as I was not detecting that at all. I need to work on that. I do specifically remember that Anne received the hot sauce and clearly did not want it, so she started pumping her arm preparing to return it. Alas, after three or four pumps, Noah had not noticed, and I figured she would return it otherwise. But suddenly it was released, without enough force to make it to the side of the stage where she was aiming. My impression at the time was that Anne was being playful in the same way as Noah, trying to give it back, but that was not what was going through Anne's head. If I had known she was so upset, I would have discussed it with her. As it was, I just thought it was a playful way to get into the flow of the talk that had backfired, and best not bring it up with her.

As for Noah, I was looking forward to his Microconf talk, as I listen to most Mixergy interviews, and Noah is a huge resource for Andrew's recruiting new interviewees. It is interesting how Noah has briliant ideas but seems to have some impulse control. For example, sending underwear to people he wants to meet, to get their attention - brilliant! Showing his underwear during a Mixergy interview - a mistake. (Glad I was audio only there...)

The faceless bitch was hardly the only sexual innuendo from Noah. He had had some blowback from his ASmartBear guest post recently, where he started a blog post in which he mentions, in passing, waking up next to his naked girlfriend. In his very first comments at Microconf, he brings up how everyone thought that blog post was about his sexual adventures, when of course it was about burnout. Except the out of place denial practically proves the rule - Noah is a very sexual guy, and it oozes from him. It almost defines him. Out of the 120 Microconf attendees, who brought their (very attractive) girlfriend? Only Noah Kagan. Who referred to his previous girlfriend as a bitch, live, in front of his current girlfriend? Noah Kagan.

Some of these sexual references go over the line, and make tech conferences a hostile place for women. But I think sometimes we doth protest too much at one of the fundamental forces driving entrepreneurship, and that is sex. Napoleon Hill, writing in the 1930s, devoted an entire chapter to "The Mystery of Sex Transmutation", and how the most successful entrepreneurs can take the enormous energy available as the sex drive and convert it into useful work. Yes, the vague idea that we can win the hot chick will drive many, many long dark nights of building a company. I keep suggesting to Andrew Warner, our modern version of Napoleon Hill, to explore this powerful drive, and how successful entrepreneurs harness it to their advantage.
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This is the operative quote from the whole article.

"And lastly: Performance is a browser level issue, it is not something for HTML/CSS authors to fix or work around. As long as we are authoring valid and sensible HTML and CSS, we should not need to resort to such ridiculous rules simply to enhance the speed at which a given page renders."

If you think that its okay to pass the buck on performance then the author is completely right. On the other hand, if you are looking for ways to write performance oriented code, because you want your pages to be faster, large company or not, then CSS Lint is a great starting place. No one said it was the last word.

UPDATE: I posted a longer thought here http://alexkessinger.net/2011/07/11/a-quick-rebuttle-for-css...
For anyone who needs SSL certificate without perks, consider free one from http://www.startssl.com/

It do not offer strong encryption and do not do personal identification (obviously - it is free), but it is very cost-effective solution to have https:// on your website to prevent eyes droppers sniff traffic.

(not sure if it is enough for e-commerce, like google checkout tho)

Now you have no excuse to not have https:// in your website where people enter their passwords =)
At present, all you have to do is bury it in the woods.

Sorry your honor there were no incriminating papers found.
Normal German layout, with some keys (braces and other programming stuff) mapped to the home row with caps lock as the modifier key. So <caps lock>+h = $ for example -> sucks to program on computers not owned by me ;)

I also consider to switch the y and z keys like in the us layout, because i need the y key way more often (copy selection in vim) and find it very uncomfortable to reach.