skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see prefetching of doom again. I hope they have thought about the obvious problem this can cause when the browser spiders all the links on the page:

People using the GET verb for deletions. Bad practice but common as dirt.

Ouch!
It will be interesting to see the impact of MS's game studios/technology in 3-5 years. By then, TVs and/or sub-$100 set top boxes will be thoroughly integrated into the post-PC app ecosystems and will be powerful enough to run fairly sophisticated games. It's not hard to imagine Blizzard/EA/Ubisoft/etc. targeting the most ubiquitous platform before the "dedicated game consoles", at which point the console game will dramatically change.

So the question, to me, is not the future of the XBox so much as whether MS can leverage their impressive game technology to get a foothold in these emerging ecosystems. I'm generally not a fan of WP7, but the games have some very impressive technology and I think their studios could make something of a completely different caliber than anything Gameloft/Chillingo are doing. If they can create a groundbreaking Halo or GTA-like game phenomenon on their phone platform it could be their best chance to stay relevant in the consumer space.
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'There is a direct and measurable causal relationship between number of LOC and number of bugs.'

So if i write unit tests, that increases the number of lines of code, thus increasing the bug count right? The static type information in java is more akin to unit tests than actual programming logic - they decrease the bug count, not increase it.

Whether they decrease the bug count enough to make up for the productivity loss is the part that is debatable
"Your categories: You have opted out of Google's interest-based advertising. No interest categories are associated with your browser."

To opt-out just go here: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/intl/en/plugin/
Making It Easier for Immigrants to Start Companies in the United States
Interesting. Did you ever compare business tactics to actual military campaigns and strategy?
I tend to have several windows with sevaral tabs open for different categories: things to send to people next time they are online, personal techie things I intend to read when I get a minute, work related similar, and so on. Yes I could use bookmarks and such for these, but I find this a more immediate reminder. Every now and then I scan round these windows and close off things that have slipped into irrelevance or bookmark ones that I might still read but maybe not any time soon.

On top of those there are "recent research" for any problems I am currently working on, which is usually at least one window each with a search results tab and a few tabs I opened from there (after pruning the ones that were not relevant in the end.

Plus there are the tabs I am "actively" using (which is pretty much always at least five at the moment: two mail clients, two social networking sites, and a page containing the results of various service monitors which updates every minute or so).

I often see FF taking a bit more than 1Gb RAM particularly if I have complex pages that auto-update a lot (Zimbra, facebook, so forth) open, though often closing it and restarting with the "reload last session" option brings that down by at least 60% (I assume the "extra" is stuff cached in RAM and/or memory allocated and not yet released due to fragmentation in FF's internal memory management - both situations being "resolved" by the restart)
back of the envelope, a thingomatic is $1300. If you get it working well, it'll happily print for days unattended. electricity and plastic i'd guess is less than a buck an hour. ABS plastic is dirt cheap. less than $20 per pound, stuff you print weighs a fraction of an ounce.
How much money can a student developer make with Android?
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1. how is EJ a whiner? Are you saying that she shouldn't have voiced her experiences with AirBnB? Is that how you would approach customers dissatisfied with your own company's services?

2. Are you saying that simply because some people aren't articulate ... you shouldn't pay attention to the articulate ones? I don't get this at all.

This is one downside to the ostensibly democratizing effects of social media: it creates a “filter bubble” in which good writers and popular bloggers get good service

Or maybe it draws attention to bad customer service which, in the end, improves the service level for all customers.
Why I'm Happy Netflix Raised Its Prices
I have seen that claim before, but in my experience the few times Chrome crashed I had to close the whole thing. The individual tabs may have been working, but they definitely weren't responding, or at least I wasn't able to get to them as the wrapping process seems to have crashed.
(Beside the point: the Android keyboard is worst piece of @#%$@ I have ever had to work with)
Given how far polygon technology has gone, when we talk about computer graphic animation nowadays in the games domain, we are talking about something where we can actually write a system that can react to things and we don't have to individually animate each from with no particular intra-frame compression game. Compare that to a Kinectimals video. Any video, I don't care which.

In the way we mean the term in video game graphics, no, that isn't animation. And they're not going to fool anybody in the industry with that claim either. I would in fact observe that they'd probably appreciate it if you and others would stop linking that video, as it's obvious from their last video they've dropped the claim to animation, or it would have been in there. It just makes it obvious how stupid their claim to "animation" is.
I wouldn't put too much effort in judging a language or a community based on the free, unpaid-for, unmaintained website. If you look at the Ruby community, and I include Rails, Sinatra and Padrino folks as well, you'll see that the majority of the activity takes places in more of a social setting, examples being http://rubygems.org/gems/gemcutter and http://github.com and the great podcasts from folks like Peter Cooper, et al.

The time for engaging through a one-way webpage has long passed.
Hopefully this will reduce the remarketing ads I keep seeing(doubtful). I click 1 link on HN and then usually it's a YC company fills up all the ad units on every page.

Ahh at least it's better then the get rich quick stuff or the 1-Secret Diet Trick ads on Facebook.
The point of the article is that if you're "recoding something" then you're not approaching cross-browser development in the right way. Dismissing IE users as "people who couldn't care less" and writing off proper cross-browser support because "it is just a bore" really doesn't (or shouldn't) have a place in professional web development.

I have worked as Head of Development at a 3-person agency, as a Senior Developer and Front-End Architect at Yahoo! and now as Web Architect at a medium-sized company. On all the sites I've worked on (with their varied budgets and development team sizes), dropping support for IE6 would have been putting our desires as developers ahead of those of the users who are still using that browser. In the end, supporting IE6 actually wasn't that hard; you just have to control what "support" means.

Yahoo!'s Graded Browser Support gets this right. Though it no longer explicitly categorises the browsers it lists into A- and C-Grade, those grades still exist. Rather than Yahoo! prescribing which browsers should get the full experience and which should get a core experience, they leave it up to you:

> The GBS focuses on specifying which browsers need a verified usable experience based on factors such as market share and influence. Defining what is “usable” and specifiying acceptable levels of degradation are left for teams to decide.

From http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/07/12/gbs-update/

That's not to say the GBS is perfect. Using global browser market share may make sense for an international behemoth like Yahoo!, but you really should make your own decisions based on the browsers your users are actually using. Make sure you're looking at unique visitors rather than page hits though, because if a user comes to your homepage and sees an obviously broken layout they're not likely to hang around very long.

In short, supporting IE6 is actually easy if you can justify giving those users just a core experience (minus bells and whistles) and have a development team that knows what they're doing.
OT: Did Bill Gates fixed BBC?
Funny, they erred on my age the other way. Did it also peg you as "25 - 34"? I wonder if this is some sort of default.

Otherwise, it seems to have accurately tracked what I view in Chrome on this particular computer / boot partition at home. Would not expect it to track stuff at work or when booting to Windows to watch Netflix.
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Yours has a legend! that is awesome.
US Stops Cocaine-filled Submarine
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> How is it even feasible to find a specific tab without doing a time consuming linear search?

Firefox's awesome bar searches open tabs. So, "C-l ann" gets me to this tab as "annihilate" is in the title of this post.
~1.5 years ago, we did a project in Groovy and found that some things were not quite there, like passing named parameters into a constructor.
This is small potatoes, a line item in a marketing budget that includes things like staging exercises to serve as backdrops in Hollywood movies (in exchange for tight control of the portrayal of US armed forces in said movies), and recruiting offices in every US city. It would be surprising if an organization that size didn't spend that much on social media.
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The article suggests that the page author has to explicitly request prerendering of a link with a "rel" attribute, possibly to avoid this problem.
We also really need to get rid of IE. Especially IE6.
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How is it unusable for you? I'm on Lion too, and I find Chrome to behave pretty much the same as it did on Snow Leopard.

Edit: typo.
There's also Hacker News for business news: http://forlue.com
Affluent consumers more likely to share information online: study
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Sure, I mean you need a good manual on how to use all that persona management software effectively.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49137822/USAF-RFP-BLOG-WARS-PERSON...
I haven't tried, but I think that enabling Turbo in Opera Desktop might have the same effect?
I apologize for the lack of clarity. My point was that by forgoing consulting work, you weaken your negotiating position with venture capitalists by removing other competitors for your time, energy and existing capital.
I wonder how many of the users actually signed up for a Google account to use Google+. They definitely had the advantage of so many existing Google accounts that just needed to have Google+ activated.
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I can fully understand it.

it's the same in the technical startups that I've been involved with (i.e. hardware or science):

- build a quick mvp with off the shelf stuff

- start optimizing.

by the time you're done, most of your parts are no longer generic and have optimizations where you need them.
If it were true that stupid people prefer X, then yes: your preference for X would suggest that you were stupid. Preferring X, however, wouldn't _make_ you stupid if you weren't, just as your IQ won't leak out to 'fill the vacuum' were you to attend a Stupidity Convention.

It's just statistics; it's not black magic. Assertions about groups are not assertions about individuals, so don't just treat one as the other.

> In other words, even if it was true, what can we do with this knowledge?

Advertise differently.

> Oh, right: continue to judge[!]

Falsehoods won't do anything to stop that.
I'd forgotten how much I enjoy Steve Yegge's writing. "laaaaaambert, the sheeeepish liiiion" :)
This isn't about "web development discipline," it is a rant about how people should support IE6 cheerfully, with the idea that it is normatively incorrect not to support it.

Whether or not to support IE6 is reasonably a business decision based on your audience and resources for implementing. That balance shifts over time (note that we are not having this discussion about IE3, 4 or 5 any more).

If you need to support IE6 then yes, support it from the beginning. If you don't need to, then don't.

There is a valid role for advocacy and social pressure here, it is not writ from God that "thou shalt support IE6 even if it be costly with little benefit."
I found a job through Quora (I thought I was just answering a question)
I tried sending a reverse resume to Google. I sent in cupcakes with the URL of the custom-domain-resume-website on it. Got lots of hits from Mountain View and Atlanta on the day, but in the end didn't even an email saying "no thanks".

Oh well.

This guy's app is clearly way better than mine was :)
I've had mixed results, both with myself and other people I've used, and part of the difference is focus. If you're a remote developer for one company, with one set of tasks, I've found it's easier. If you're doing remote contract work for multiple clients, you've just added in some more hurdles.

I'm considering taking on a full-time developer to help out with my work, and while I'm OK working for people remotely, I'd probably prefer this person to be local and we get an office, at least for part time meeting space (if there was a coworking area nearby I'd use it). The difficulty I've had is finding other developers who are communicative with emails, ticket systems, phone calls, whatever. I've worked with a couple dozen devs over the past few years, and can count on one hand those that were strongly professional in their attitude towards communication - documenting things clearly, keeping in regular contact, knowing when to ask questions, preemptively helping out with ambiguous issues, etc.

Certainly "working from home" can be great, but you do need an emphasis on "work" rather than the "from home" to be successful with it. I know people see what I do and say "awesome, I'd love to work from home". The reality is, many people need the structure that going to an office provides (I wouldn't even mind it myself now and then).
Recently posted, much discussion:
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NOTE: Sorry guys - all out of invites :(
Map makers do it too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_streets
I think very few people can get away with not caring what others say about them. What people think of you DOES matter. We don't live in an isolated bubble and interactions matter. You seem to be proposing that PR people can handle things once you're successful, however, my impression is (and odds are) this advice is for startup founders before they are fuck you rich. If you're Bill Gates already, sure, do whatever the hell you want (Mind you I think he's doing amazing things for humanity at this point instead of being a dick on a beach in thailand). But if not, this attitude just won't help you or your company.
Your local police department would probably be interested in this technology as well:

"Ottawa police are trying to come up with ways to better tap into social media sites in the hope that they can get the jump on flash robs like this. In the meantime, they want anyone who's seen this videotape and knows any of the suspects to give them a call."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/08/02/ottawa...
I've got one project where I need to RDP in to a windows server, then RDP from that one in to another one. The second one is constantly unavailable - 'too many terminal services connections' or something like that. But this is only one client, and it'll be over soon. You have my condolences.
Aidan Cully's answer has some meaningful content: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/97912/how-do-... It's also pretty close to my answer, except I would say that he gets bogged down in visual complexity and I'm more interested in the more empirical concerns of information content. Assuming "good" style, a solution that is minimal, contains only essential complexity, and nothing more, is elegant.

Languages differ in their general elegance by virtue of their ability to separate essential complexity from accidental complexity. For instance, C is hobbled in the contest to create truly elegant code, because in its capacity as "portable assembler" you can't ever really ignore memory management, which is in the accidental complexity domain for the vast bulk of problems.
Yes it did. I don't know if that's default, or if it's because most of my relevant content surrounds tech, financials, and intellectual property though. I'll check Chrome when I get home - it might give a better view of who I am.
The Android browser is not Chrome as addressed in the article.
Why is Microsoft "only" a Gold sponsor? They have more cash on hand and are worth more than Google and Dropbox combined.

It may be a trivial thing to note, but it still seems odd to me.
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I think whole point of comparing programming languages from this angle is pointless. You should not go and judge a language by several phrases. Go speak/write/read it for a while, learn some slang.

Like all other languages, programming languages are also just that, languages - tools to express your thoughts. To me and many others Common Lisp reduces the friction between those thoughts and written description of them. It is so much more to this language than just its syntax and politics. It is joy to develop in thanks to SLIME, it almost never gets in your way, it performs, it has wisdom of half a century and people who possess it. Yes, it is far from perfect, but then again - there is no perfect language! and even if there was one it would sound like those studio processed pop-star voices rather than perfection to me, because it would still superimpose its perfection over you own views.

In other words, please don't judge the language by how you can pronounce "how can I get to the city centre", it sounds similar in most.

Now all this spoken/written language comparison might sound weird to you, but to me it makes perfect sense, because programming to me is nothing but a dialogue between me, computer and the future version of me reading the source. And I like the language which allows me to do this on my terms, rather than that of Guido, Matz or whoever. And to me Common Lisp is pretty close to that.

P.S. Just as a side note, folks on #lisp and #sbcl are one of the most pragmatic and intelligent people I have ever seen, I learned more from their discussions than by reading a couple of books. To any of you reading, rock on Lispers ;)
Ack. Further research confirms your information:

http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.html

Thanks for the heads up :)
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This is true. So it requires managers who, well, manage their teams and allow flex-time/remote privileges appropriately. That's how my employer works--do you get your work done while working remotely or at different hours? Great. Keep it up. Does it seem you're slacking off? In that case, you are going to be asked to adjust your schedule for awhile to get back on track.
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That makes sense, but it raised a question on my mind: What about malicious sites? Could this be used to do something without the user knowing?

One could mark a link as prefetch and that URL would be downloaded without prompting the user. Does that impose a genuine threat, or is that something that malicious sites can already do?
Dude! How about taking some chances with something that already got traction and having some faith in it?
Ask HN: Do you think games consoles will ever use SSDs?
Back at the tail end of the '90s when Nintendo released the N64, it was a shock to see that it was still cartridge driven. These were the days of the PlayStation and the beleaguered Saturn that were wholly CD-based.

Nintendo boasted about performance, the fact that loading times were so quick, but were hampered with limited memory and poor graphics. Nintendo have always controversially positioned themselves seemingly just behind the opposition, bringing their unit prices down, but shipping an absolute butt load of them, e.g. the Wii.

There was something in the N64 cartridge story though that resounded with me at the time, which is why I wanted one more than a PlayStation. I never owned a PlayStation. But when the Xbox came out, I leapt for that - especially for its blockbuster title: Halo.

The Xbox had a hard drive (a small one admittedly), and it struck me that at some point consoles would get to the stage of being like traditional PCs and the games would be 'installed' to the fixed media, obviating the need for the portable medium (by then the DVD). But the Xbox and its successor still use optical media more than anything else for game distribution and playback.

Now we're witnessing the end of the Compact Disc (and by extension DVD & Blu-Ray)* with consumer broadband speeds increasing and downloading/streaming becoming an ever more present reality. It's not surprising then that systems such as OnLive have come up that aim to make use of this increased bandwidth more fully, cutting the cost of the physical hardware to a minimum.

But it strikes me that Nintendo were right all along. They were just unfortunate victims of poor timing. Now that the overall cost of solid state memory is dropping as more and more consumers adopt the idea, I can't help but feel that the N64 would've been more of a success had it been built today.

But this question isn't about the N64. It's about the viability of Solid State memory as a storage and distribution medium for games consoles. Is it viable, or will it be leap-frog'd by the likes of OnLive?

* I appreciate that we will probably have CDs and their derivatives for a while yet, notwithstanding the fact that Sony are determined to keep flogging their dead Blu horse. The fact that people say they want a physical medium doesn't change the fact that it's essentially a dead medium.
Chiming in to say that ~60 tabs is not uncommon for me either. The Tree Style tab extension for Firefox is amazing and allows me to organize tabs into groups. Some groups are on the "to read" list that I don't get to for a couple days.

It is also the main reason why I can't/won't switch to Chrome - no Tree Style tabs.
Recently discovered OS X backdoor Olyx has been in use for over two years
I'm willing to bet at least a handful of people have gotten jobs through Quora.

Someone claims to have even landed funding for their startup on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-gotten-startup-funding-thank...
Personally speaking, I don't target IE6 for the same reason i don't target IE1,2,3,4 or 5: I don't have the capability or resources to do it.

I guess that must make me a bad web developer then!
This isn't much different than many people who go to an office each day. The problem is the management/job that puts attendance over performance. If employers would put performance over all else, it wouldn't matter where someone worked as long as the work was done.