skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I am attempting to repond to both Xurinos and romaniv in a single reply here.)

My clean URL example was just an example. I did not intend to infer that the world is primarily navigating via URL manipulation, but it came across that way. Rather, I meant that it can be a nice touch for usability, in certain cases. For example, power users are going to quickly notice, "Hey, I can find a vehicle by manipulating the URL by using the 'manufacturer_carmodel' pattern." Of course, the site would have normal search functionality, so that traditional users could locate vehicles in that manner as well. In the end, it is more about SEO, but with the clean URL paradigm, you get both (again, in some cases), so it can be a win-win. Also, the URLs look nice when they appear in search results (i.e., nice keyword-based URLs instead of URLs with query strings and IDs) which can lend itself to readability/usability.

Of course, even with clean URLs, a case where it probably does not work is a blog (as noted by romaniv). For example, no one is going to manipulate a long URL string for a blog posting; they will simply navigate the site for the information. Although, here is a real-world example that I have encountered: I have come across multi-part blog postings via Google searches. In many cases, "Part X" displays in the search results, but not "Part 1." In these cases, it is always nice when these sites are designed with clean URLs, making it a breeze to simply copy the URL from the search results, and change the "X" to "1". Clearly, this is not easy (or possible) to do if the URL is a query string with an unintuitive article ID.

Ultimately, I think that clean URLs are about SEO, but I think they can have a usability factor, again, in some cases and well, for "power users" at least. I probably should have said "power users" instead of "users" in my original post.
>All countries and governments are dirty to some degree or other.

Other countries haven't positioned themselves as the world's policeman and moral authority (complete with a large network of military bases), AFAIK. If you set yourself up as a standard of freedom, then it's unsurprising that others will hold you to that standard.
The World’s First Emoji Domain
I like how kbp visualizes progress, a unique approach.
> One recoils at the thought of it and can only wonder who within Cisco would have countenanced it all.

That's the thing. "Cisco" would be hard to hold accountable. But people made those decisions. Was the law broken (false testimony == perjury? barratry?) If so, it was broken by people.

Hold people accountable and you'll see less abuse.
Thank you! I have seen this far too many times and it drives me crazy. Also, people then get stuffy when you start to rearrange the bags properly so more can fit in there. Aaaah!
Post it on twitter, then post a link to your tweet on facebook.
While I can sympathize with you, I'm much more sympathetic about the outrageous check-in fees and the fact that people want to avoid checking if at all possible, even if it means cramming bags in.

On top of that the incidence of problems with checked luggage is seems much higher than reported. In the past year, me or a traveling partner, have lost two checked bags, had one misrouted, and had several items stolen. For this reason I consider anything I check purely optional and things that I know I have a reasonable chance to never see again.

My general rule -- if it fits, it fits.
I love telecommuting. I have yet to find an office environment which feels right. Really, what do i end up doing? Sitting down and writing code? That can be done almost anywhere. Meetings? Chat and Skype.

Of course there are problems but i dont see them as a reason not to telecommute. If anything they present great challenges to overcome.
Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No.
What does it mean when a ! is followed by a double equals? Is !== different from != in netspeak?
It's difficult to explain to someone like this that contentment is different than complacency. Yes, of course I am happy for my friends, family and I to have exactly what we have. At the same time I am not happy with an enormous waste that mostly benefits people who exploit it and seems to have an incurable financial disease, and I know that the poor and distressed people with whose status I am not content are not really being helped despite the fact that all this tax-gathering is supposedly all for them. I don't think I'm a "dick" for not thinking that it's all worth it because a woman with multiple degrees somewhere is rich.
Depending on the organization, it may not be "panic-induced" at all. The NYT is on fairly solid financial footing and have been doing innovative things for a long time because of their heavy investment in developer and data positions, including bringing in Jeremy, who's since put forth CoffeeScript, underscore, and backbone.js

There are other newspapers that are floundering and are basically looking for someone to take care of the CMS and anytime the server flops. But this is something you discern from their job description and initial inquiry. So, to say, "who'd want to work for that dying industry" is like vowing to never work for a tech startup because of their numerous failures in comparison to the few success stories.
New Macbook Air vs "New" Macbook Air
new:

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

vs old:

http://web.archive.org/web/20101220195028/http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
You know, the remark was over-the-top, but let's also not trivialize the corruption of two governments for the purposes of destroying one man's life by comparing these acts to, say, someone cutting you off in traffic.

The fact is that Cisco appears now to exist outside – above? – the law. I don't have a good, clean answer for how you deal with that. Bloodshed doesn't seem the right answer but it's not like you can trust a civil action to go anywhere when the puppet master has his hand so far up the assholes of so many bureaucrats.
Cisco has proven itself an evil company. In other recent news, Cisco promised to create jobs for a "tax holiday" and instead, is laying off employees: http://www.googlemonopoly.eu/index.php/2011/07/19/cisco-want...
>Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government (and related rich democratic countries) when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive?

Why does the EFF focus on electronic communication rights rather than physical torture? Because it's a valid issue and they feel is worth the focus. If the abuses in North Korea are more important to you than the abuses of the self-appointed leader of the free world then go focus on North Korea.
More Cisco News:  Layoffs instead of promised jobs
Yes. That is science.

The candle burns (approximately) all of the oxygen, reducing the volume of gas inside the cup by 20%, which causes the water level inside the cup to rise in order to equalize the pressure of the gas inside the glass with that of the atmosphere.
And I'm sure none of your research at all is taxpayer-funded, right? Because that would make you the leech.
Bookmarked for the next time Cisco recruiters contact me. If we as the tech community don't shit-list companies like this in the worst way possible, what else can we do?
That's a great basic outline, and I agree with all the little touches you add, such as making it clear who is calling whom, and that your number is clearly visible in any case.

My only problem is who should suggest the first meeting time/place. By suggesting it yourself, you are assuming a position of seniority in the relationship that may not be appropriate, and project the image that their time is not as valuable as yours. I personally only suggest a time if I have reason to believe that the other person will be available then. For example, "Would you like to talk about XXX over coffee after the conference we'll both be at?" Otherwise, I let them know that I will make myself available whenever is convenient for them.
Sorry if its just me but I always thought that if you've spent some time around HN, you can tell between talent acquisitions that occur out of need(other option being going dead) and talent acquisitions that occur from a position of power(ie. friendfeed). In the former case, congratulations are still in order for the founders not coming out completely empty handed, but I would not term it as "huge successes".

Congratulations != huge success(in the big picture sense)
I may just be slow, but I didn't see a way to actually start editing without embedding their link tag on my site. I imagine that'd be hard to do what they want without a bit of hackery to get around cross domain issues, but for casual poking around, it was more than I wanted to do.

I did read that quote, though.
Where as Southwest has open seating (no assigned seats) and boarding groups, this has assigned seating, with those seats being placed into groups at random rather than by location in the plane.
Copying the core aesthetics, while glaring over the details that actually make Lion look good.

Especially the progress bar: sure, it does look a bit like Lion's but it absolutely lacks the subtle colors and shades.
Reddit releases new updated mobile version
clickable: http://i.reddit.com
It would be awesome to have this as a more native component of modern webservers.

I built something recently using Flask to do this for a client of mine. See it in action here: http://files.arbesko.com/

And get the source on github! https://github.com/whalesalad/arbesko-files

Please keep in mind this was my first Flask app and I was doing it more as a fun experiment for a friend I had done work for in the past.
I would love for him to visualize how much we pay towards our debt each year in comparison to the actual debt.
Exposing DPRK as corrupt and inhuman would not surprise anyone, nor would it change anything. Short of going to war with the DPRK (we already tried this once) nothing is going to change. Wikileaks/Anon/Lulzsec will have no effect on the DPRK.

Wikileaks/Anon/Lulzsec has a huge effect on our government(s) because they can be removed and rely on a lot of soft power. If we can't get our governments to care about human rights what chance is there to get the DPRK to change?
I think some sort of academic graph system could be a suitable replacement. Individual users could "like" papers they thought were worth reading and other users could "follow" them to have those recommendations factored in to their reading lists.
That's why I love the Pirate Bay and its community.

Free art, technology and culture.
Yep, this is the internet.
Panic introduces the world's first emoji domain
PayPal going offline, will be used by 20 big retail chains by 2012
I was on JSTORs side of this argument until I read your comment. If its funded in part by taxpayers then the data they produce ought to be at least in part taxpayer property.
Exactly - it was odd, but most of the noise cancelling headphones I've used do just that - they cancel some noise, which makes other stuff all the more noticeable. Blasting whitenoise in to my ears does the opposite, but muffles most minor noises.
I think the "less emails" is not nearly as important as making it as easy as possible for them to respond to you. The more work they have to do, the more likely they are to just ignore the email rather than reply. That's why I would either not say anything or just suggest general times (e.g. "Afternoons on Mondays and Tuesdays are best for me.")
Might require OS X Lion and Safari.

Corresponding blog post here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
Seems fixed now. If you did something, thanks. If not, please accept my apologies for a waste of time.
Farmed fish are often fed unsustainable fish! It's just laundering unsustainability.
The Economics of JSTOR
Why we need a space program
I used to have a rigidly self-enforced work/home schedule, when I was out of the office I was really out of the office.

Right now I am working from home, and I find I work from the moment I get up until the moment I go to sleep. I was considering going back to working at the office but I realized that back when I refused to work from home, I spent most of my time worrying about work. At least now I can get up in the middle of the night to check email.
Roles in the IT World
Interesting. I imagine it wouldn't have been too hard for the creators of this graphic to include that, but for some reason they left it out (hmm!). Good example of how data visualization can be misleading.
Should scientific articles be available free online?
i think .mht file format does that for HTML/JS/* minus all the graphs
php not sure about the rest.
Nothing like using a vintage 1988 syntax in 2011...
I wonder how many of these talent acquisitions happen because of being related to YC? There are many startups out there with strong talent. Not many of them get acquired for talent reasons.

How do talent acquisitions happen? Do they usually start with exploring partnership opportunities?
this was echoed at djangocon europe, they're looking to split functionality between stuff that every migration app could use (like generating alter statements, etc), and the actual tool itself.
Well, if you're making that magical $100K and you vest after three years for, oh let's say $300K, that'll bring you up to $600K not including benefits and other compensation that could, in theory, make you $250K if you're willing to swallow the opportunity cost of working at $100/yr.
There's also Frontiers http://frontiersin.org . The problem is how to convince scientists to use them.
They should find a name that isn't already used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex
I noticed the Cappuccino folks eyeing this paper on Twitter...

(Since the new Lion Auto Layout facility is based on the same algorithms.)
I don't think git has ever been included with OS X, but it has been part of Xcode 4.x. Once you install Xcode 4.1 or later on Lion, you should have git again. (Xcode 4.1 includes git 1.7.4.4)
Clickable:
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

http://web.archive.org/web/20101220195028/http://www.apple.c...
Im a little mad.. because.. products back by YC such as Fridge and JustSpotted have asked us as consumers to believe in their efforts and adopt their products early..

NOW, it appears that these companies just seem like a way to get hired and acquired..

-- You ("the startup") asked us to believe in you and adopt your product and approach -- only to be left with a defunct product

Seems like: "If the going gets tough, --> you sell out" (Literally)

Im not hating.. Im proud that another YC company is moving on to better things.. . but -- seems like a slight break in the trust placed on startups..

how can consumers adopt early if theres a seemingly greater reality that the startup is actually "built to be hired/acquired" /.
So what country should I flee to?
Google Quitely Acquires +.com IDN Domain Name
Unfortunately, their definition of "lawful" is that the FBI is doing it.

That said, I wouldn't go so far as to call this hypocritical. The FBI at least pretends to have a morally reasonable agenda for its actions.
Well, most of this already exists in Google books, where I'm reading some of these particular scientific journals right now, can switch to OCRed text at any time (albeit with ftrange contemporarie fpelling), or download a facsimile of any public domain work in PDF format. The only thing they don't have in place (and should add) is the wiki-style crowd editing.

So the guy has basically built a 33gb torrent of stuff that was already freely available to the public, just from a different source.
I can has IPAD?? Yep. Click LIKE US. WINNER ANNOUNCED 9/7/2011 (~60 so far)
This is a big flaw with a hopefully simple fix. Such a small thing ruined an otherwise pleasant experience. Great job, there is definitely a need for this and it works pretty well.

Edit: with the breadcrumb and icon/file switcher views, you may not even need this hierarchical view...
The book "Good and Real" opens with this thought experiment and has a good discussion.
A Roadmap for Rich Scientific Data Structures in Python
Actually, I'll buy that. They're bringing that physical minimalism into the software. Cool.

Now they need to sort out and rationalize the switchers. alt-tab, exposé or mission control? Pick one.
>and can only wonder who within Cisco would have countenanced it all.

I think Google "cisco general counsel" would be a reasonable start.
Been posted on here before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774704
Linksys, which is the Cisco consumer/small-business brand, is rarely if ever the cheapest. So in this case, ethics and self-interest may coincide. -- At least, as long as we know nothing about the other manufacturers.
>Are they really doing this for the good of mankind or are they just trying to get attention?

They're, presumably, trying to get attention for the good of mankind. "Get attention" is literally the only [1] useful thing Anonymous is actually capable of doing, remember -- they can release documents to bring them to people's attention, make statements to influence people's opinion, etc. There is no need to inform people that the government of North Korea is corrupt, because everyone already knows it's corrupt. It'd be like informing people that oxygen is a really nice thing to breathe.

The prospect for literally "attacking" most organizations is kind of weak. Most of the corrupt governments in the world aren't very technologically advanced, so disrupting their computer systems wouldn't do much good. I'm sure Anonymous would love to go after Blackwater, I [and probably they] just have no idea how Anonymous could go after Blackwater.

[1] -- okay, not only. The alternative is interfering with military systems resp. affecting a war, but this is far more difficult, dangerous, and just generally a bad thing.

>I read somewhere that an Anonymous hacker used to fight oppressive governments in Africa. Why did he stop?

I don't think he stopped. He just isn't getting press coverage at the moment.
Hold a book in your hands while standing in front of a mirror. Now turn the book around so you can read it in the mirror. The text is backwards. But how did you rotate the book? Sideways? If you had flipped it over vertically, the text would be upside down instead of backwards. You are the one who reversed the book, not the mirror.
Politicians are only temporarily in office, but get to reap immediate rewards, regardless of the longer sustainability of the process. Also, from a political perspective, future people are not present voters, so present voters may themselves be willing to spend future capital in the present.

But generally, it's not a 'contract' when a liability is hoisted on someone without them having agreed to something beforehand.
The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to effect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. One theme is its assessment as a "personality", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite[nb 1] led to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The film's assessment is effected via the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and a consultant to the FBI, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically-diagnosed psychopath. The documentary concentrates mostly upon North American corporations, especially those of the United States.

The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business practices. It establishes parallels between the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave and the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect for the law.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Corporati...
If you're willing to go through a build step, it's fairly easy to get everything into a single document. Sproutcore does it today with no special configuration. There are tricks to getting large amounts of content to load in a performant manner and you'd have to do history API to get transparent support for an entire site but neither hurdle is particularly high. You don't even have to invent a new format for specifying what makes up the site since the web archive standard already exists.
i never understood the question: how could anybody ever even think that a mirror flips left and right? there is no emperical way to observe this behaviour (with a single flat mirror).
Well put. Lion doesn't have an "all windows entirely visible" Expose mode, which will change my workflow immensely.

P.S. There's a hack to change Snow Leopard Expose back to Leopard style. First thing to do on any SL install.
Wikileaks/Anon/Lulzsec will have no effect on the DPRK.

I think they would actually have a very detrimental effect. In the US, we routinely blame the governments of China and Russia for hacks that could easily be perpetuated by high schoolers who live there. No doubt, DPRK would blame our official institutions, giving them much more legitimacy (at least internally, but probably internationally too) when they claim that the world is out to get them.
I was really upset when I got that Pivotal Tracker email.. Glad to see a good alternative that won't follow in the Pivotal Tracker path..
wow, really? Are you pulling my leg?
Wispor.com launches discussions-based social network
What I Earned After 141 Days in the Shopify Theme Store
It would have made sense to compare that to total GDP or something other than a building, I find it kind of useless as it is. It's big but seriously you're talking about the largest economy in the world. I don't get all the irrational fear this is supposed to engender in the mind of people.
It's funny that places like Google even perform talent acquisitions. I guess when you're controlling billions of dollars a few million here or there is a comparative "drop in the bucket" but it really has to be about covetousness or something, because there is a large supply of talented engineers that would be willing to work at Google as normal employees, and certainly many of these would have the same capabilities as the Frid.ge team. Does it really cost anything close $5M-$10M to find a handful of employees with that skillset? I'd say Google is definitely doing it wrong if so -- I can understand a premium for demonstrating competency with something like Frid.ge, but it just seems quite inflated when all Google ends up with in the end is a few employees for a few years (if that). I have to say I'm pretty skeptical that talent acquisitions are a decent deal from the acquirer's side of things.

No offense or displeasure to the Frid.ge team of course, if they're happy with it that's fine. I just don't see it as an economically effective investment from Google's end. Perhaps part of it is the extra headlines that are inevitable when a YC company gets acquired? Just doesn't seem like a good value to me.
If someone is really more important than you, they will get really frustrated if they have waste time driving the tiddly bits of the relationship.

I cut down useless steps so I didn't waste time. I remained polite; I asked for the time, I didn't make it an order. I drove to an action to move the relationship forward. That's respect.

If they aren't available at the time you ask, they will take command and respond with times they are available. Then you defer.
Very reassuring. Nice to see Safari sandboxing, too.
Can you provide a link that shows the actual numbers? This link says the war is $1.3 trillion. The national debt is $14 trillion.

http://costofwar.com/en/