skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing listed on the site yet since it just launched today, but here's the remnants of the 2011 Program Committee page: http://us.pycon.org/2011/volunteer/ProgramCommittee/ and here's the mailing list details: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-pc

The Program Committee does stuff like gather and review talk submissions, come up with the conference schedule, etc. It's a good mailing list to find out what work needs to be done and what help is needed.

Keep an eye on the site for a volunteer page as we fill in the gaps and build out the content as we dig in.
Venture Giant - Polaroid Features Investment
Except that, while working on their TPS report they opened a browser window to check some figures. And they bookmarked the site they found.

And then they moved onto a different project, and their browser bookmark wasn't there.

And now they're not happy, because Windows lost their stuff.

(Because very little of what most people do can be compartmentalized that much - and Windows is great because it allows you to multitask, which you can't do if everything is in a different VM.)
Depends on the day. On days when I'm both not at a consulting site and don't hit flow early in the day, I'll cop to "all of them that I find interesting, and some of the ones that I might not but which had good comments."
Python is 20 years old, though your point stands regardless.
Well, I will have to poo-poo iPython and say that it is not ready for use with Django yet. `manage.py shell` breaks if ipython 0.11 is installed.

Fixes are here: http://wiki.ipython.org/0.11-Migration
A little bit like emacs, it seems to do everything? : )
I'm curious where the author found 100 jobs to apply for.

Having tried it, my advice is don't go to Japan and then look for work, unless you're lucky enough to be from a country with Working Holiday agreements (not the US), or have a lot of connections.
True, it is a lot harder than it looks. Once you know how to do something it seems easy.
CripClassified
You have more control than you think
Related, but very different:
Reasons to leave the corporate world to join a startup (and why you should consider it too)
http://feefighters.com/blog/5-reasons-to-leave-the-corporate...
I don't understand how you can make that jump. Its true that a badly thought through law could open the door to that sort of activity, but that's not guaranteed.

Also, I see reason to "regulate" browsers. Lets say the law was this....

"A person may not connect to the internet using a browser more than two whole number versions behind the latest production version for that particular browser."

Here we have a rule which leaves browser vendors free to pursue whichever route they see fit, with no need to supply any sort of reporting or speaking to government officials. Nor need it be enforced. For example, here in the UK we have laws which ensure web accessibility as part of the Equality Act:

http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/lawsan...

Now this law is not being enforced, but if you work in web design or development in the UK, you have undoubtedly felt it's repercussions as clients demand increasingly higher compliance ratings. This has been unquestionably good for the state of the web, at least here in the UK.

Or perhaps there's a national security angle to take, or even an accessibility angle (I believe IE6 and 7 can't increase pixel font sizes). Maybe there's an existing law that is somehow being breached by the mere existence of IE6 & 7....

I suppose what I was asking was "Is there a creative way to mandate modern browsers in law".
"I'm a fan of any celebrity whose name is short and contains a convenient vowel-consonant pattern."
Science: Reality vs Public Perception (cartoon)
They left out a part of the story, which was that Microsoft approached Sony about having them license DirectX because they wanted to spread Windows to the living room. When Sony refused, that's when Microsoft decided to make their own console, which was essentially a PC without a keyboard. The sole reason the Xbox exists is to tie developers to DirectX and keep the Windows platform relevant, giving it a presence in the living room.
+1 for mentioning the influence in Hollywood. Here's a bizarrely chipper account from defense.gov about how it worked for the recent Transformers flick:

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46352

I don't really have good links, but from what I recall aside from outliers like Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, etc. the pentagon usually has its fingers in films that depict the military.
Would this type of virtualization prevent me from needing to have multiple copies of the os for each VM? I'd love to have multiple projects completely separated, without having 10 ubuntu server VMs. Maybe I'm just better off using virtualenv.
I wonder if this is how rock stars talk when they get together.
Don't be so sure. Japan still owns console games, and analysts have predicted that the 360 will fall to third place this year.
I wonder if they considered this market when they started working on Android 4.0 - the version that is supposed to scale "across all types of devices".
Always Be Recruiting
Yes, I'm on 2.3.4. I started with 2.1, the keyboard itself was OK. Sometime around 2.2 it started crashing, about every other day. With 2.3 it crashes even more.

The particular problem I had above was not due to crashing. As I was typing, the suggestion bar was pushing the text that I was typing out of sight. So I had to constantly fight with it to actually see what I typed. When taping to move the cursor, it was actually trying to make a selection, but only sometimes. Using the wheel to achieve the same made it constantly jump.

The worst part was that when you reach the end of the text box you cannot scroll below and see what you typed. Well, you can, for a few seconds then it takes you back. You can type, however, but don't get to see what you typed. It's like typing blindfolded. I had to just post the message and go back and edit it.

How something so basic passed QA is beyond my comprehension. Here's one of the threads about the keyboard crashes: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15311
How about an analysis of "what interests you"? Often I use the comments to determine if an article would be interesting to read/skim.
None of those features require OS virtualization.
That was very good. Thank you. I ended up using this one as the paging on Smoking Gun was annoying:

http://josgrain.com/StoogesRiders.pdf
Just turn up? I'm a CS student at Edinburgh and always planned to hit up techmeetup but something always came up (coursework).

Last year now, last chance!
In fact, with chrome, it's so easy to load a new page that even if I might browse 100+ pages, I just reload them everytime. I.e. g<enter> go on gmail. f<enter> facebook, etc. :p
if it's any help, i use ghostery and disconnect plugins (are they called extensions?) in chrome and that page lists nothing for me. so one way to opt out permanently is to use those.
Common Lisp also has fewer-than-32-bit integers. It uses a few bits so that the VM can tell whether something is a pointer or an unboxed integer.
Thanks for the good catch
There are jobs everywhere. That's the paradox of the modern recession: lots of jobs, just none you're qualified for.
In my experience, using buzzwords is really useful...if you want to work for the kind of company that is impressed by buzzwords. On the other hand, if you want to work for thoughtful, innovative people, it is best to be genuine, passionate, and knowledgeable about the product(s) you wish to market. I'm also a firm believer that marketers who want to work in technology should learn to program - inevitably, they will have to learn from engineers and a little bit of experience programming makes that process so much easier.

Unfortunately, when I suggested those things at a recent alumni meeting, the response was less than positive.
IMHO, I think they really fired me because I one of the co-founders didn't like me because graduated from the University of Cincinnati instead of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc.

I figured this out later when I checked their blog and he had prominently mentioned how they like to make sure their candidates are the "right people" from the "right schools." It was a very explicit statement, essentially that being from the "right school" is part of being the "right person."

I encountered this a lot in Boston actually, to the point that I developed a complex about how I couldn't really do anything because I hadn't gone to Harvard. Then I moved away and realized that the rest of the world outside this bubble doesn't care about that.
A couple of things:

If you follow tech news, you'll notice that every major cloud based service has experienced some level of down time, so while you should "avoid" shared hosts like HostGator (I think this goes without saying), you shouldn't expect that just because you go with a cloud service like MediaTemple, Amazon, Heroku, etc, you don't need to plan for possible outages. MT also had their fair share of issues back when they were getting started. Amazon has had some well publicized issues. Both of these wouldn't be an issue for those who engineer their systems properly.

It's hard to beat simplicity when it comes to reliability. We don't need the scaling capabilities of cloud services, so we go with simple VPSs. Our primary hosting is straight forward VPS systems hosted with a provider colocated at Colo4 in Dallas. I've had systems with them for 5 years now and I've never experienced a failure. We still maintain redundant services in a Freemont data center just in case.
Absolutely. Information needs to be stored somewhere, whether in the voxels or the polygons/textures. I do wonder if these guys are doing something like levels of detail to allow the close-up detail without destroying performance at the macro level.
Here it is: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/07/08/july-2011-web-s...
1) Private Equity is different from hedge funds... PE is investing rich people and institutional money in private companies, Hedge funds invest mostly in public stocks, though recently there has been a lot of alternative investments in this sector too... They "hedge" the market by having a mix of shorts and longs. PE and HF are very different, though related.

2) It's pretty hard... typically you go to banking for 2 years and then get to Private Equity via a headhunter (there are plenty that specialize in this exact thing)
One thing I found fascinating was the difference between US and UK crosswords, which I'd always assumed would be pretty similar:
"Crosswords in England are completely different from ours ... their crossword clues started including anagrams, homophones, hidden words and other wordplay ... cryptics here have never achieved widespread popularity."
0% really, I mostly just read the submission title and the comments.
If the company actually gathered the data and then published it, I think IE users threatening to sue is a dumb move. Note that I'm not calling them stupid, I'm just saying that they'd be doing a stupid thing. Even clever people occasionally do stupid things.

But if it's a hoax, and they have no data (flawed or otherwise) this could be interesting.

Then again, maybe not.

See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840626

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840900
True, but it's particularly challenging when you don't know where to find them. Especially in Japan, where it's my understanding that the whole networking thing is much more important.
I went through the same sort of experience researching the viability of a service that will stop phone book deliveries to your address. There is an official site, here:

http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/

with a similar disclaimer.
I'm a 29 years old male, but according to Google I'm a 18-25 years old female.

Oops.
Well, in this case it should be compared to whichever version of chrome performed best. That way you include any improvements they've made, but not any regressions.
Someone posted a comment but seems to have redacted it. Anyway, I do have analytics, but not for this period. I didn't realize tracking people would be a good idea until later. Here's a map overlay... I'll compile more stats and post them some other time.

http://i51.tinypic.com/rkycqt.png
Well I don't want to be shown ads period, (I use ad block plus) but I think targeted ads are far more annoying than generic ads. I also don't like the Orwellian aspect of targeted ads.
Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with that extension too. The built-in vertical tabs in Chrome are irritating too - new tabs open above your current tab, instead of below. Perhaps it is just me, but this feels very unintuitive. And more importantly, there is no way to change the behavior. :(
It also doesn't cost "hundreds of thousands, if not millions" of dollars to get a contractor to develop a garage sale-finding app.

I mean, I could build a pretty amazing garage sale-finding app for that much, but I think Brandon Tennant either builds apps that are part of larger marketing campaigns (and only sees part of that budget), or is completely exaggerating in the hopes of landing a really big fish from that article. Or the author misunderstood him.
It seems like a baller gig like that would make it _easier_ to quit and start something up. You'd be able to save so much more money, than say, someone who took a typical Silicon Valley entry level programming job. If he had chosen to work at Google, he'd have been lucky to make 1/2 that.
Boot Camp in Lion requires Windows 7
My position is pro-consumer and pro-web.

Be careful about defining your target market as those people not using Internet Explorer 6. What is important is what browser they are using at the point they want to convert into being a customer. That doesn't necessarily mean IE6 is their main browser, just that that's the one they are using right then. As more and more people are perusing the web from home and work, typically from different hardware devices, there is a fairly good chance they are using more than one user-agent. So a Safari user is an IE6 user at a different point in the day.

With your chosen approach, no visitor can become a customer when they have IE6 as their browser. That means it doesn't really matter whether they use other supported browsers from other locations that you do happen to support. If they use IE6 when they are in the buy moment it won't be you benefitting.

> In the end Html5 is coming and people are starting to stop
> supporting IE6.

And everyone stopping support of IE6 needs to weigh up very carefully the business implications of that choice. Just like any other discriminatory measure.

> We're already beginning to see the trickle of 'we don't support IE6' of major
> sites before the flood hits.

Be careful, Google's approach for their core business service is very pragmatic - IE6 gets fully working core functionality, they lose some of the new features of Search. And I don't see them removing support for IE6 from their Ads platform.

Where they've forgone IE6 support is in sites that are not critical to their business: Google Apps, YouTube.

Facebook - well UK Government organisations are still celebrating Facebook's move (and YouTubes's). They have one effective firewall to stop their employees spending working time there. That's hardly going to convince them to upgrade, since losing that is nothing compared to the cost and effort required to switch browsers without losing their core systems.

Where I stand, rejecting a customer because they work for a government organisation isn't smart business.
This looks fantastic, just what my company was looking for to quickly develop websites for the small business clients we deal with. They all want a CMS, but the value proposition just isn't there for us for a $2,000 project that requires all custom design work.

Nice work! Signed up immediately.
This IS how most non-developers "try" :)

I had an associate who would usually work with me to bring his web-based ideas to life. He decided to see if he could create one of his web-app ideas himself, and after realizing that it meant spending HOURS in front of the screen, piecing together a complicated puzzle of code while switching gears here and there to be a creative designer as well, it became evident that it wasn't a walk in the park.

"Trying" for some people will consist of searching Google for a magic spell that makes your ideas come to life.

Developcus Appeomus!
This test isn't about having lots of tabs open, but having lots of tabs opening, all loading at the same time.
Interesting test, but the real world usability significance of this are minimal.

Now, if Firefox auto updates in the background like Chrome, I might consider giving it another chance. When I want to go on the net, I don't want to wait for my browser to update.
New, improved HTML 5 based Twitter.com for iPad
Wow, this is pretty huge. There's a big gap between designers and developers particularly in the smb market. Youll have designers that don't know how to develop make brochure-style sites that business owners don't know how to develop. Or you'll have developers make an editable site that looks like crap. If you want both you have to pay a lot of money.

For designers Weebly now takes the place of the developer and gives the designer the ability to make a great looking site that is easy to maintain and manage.

This is genius and is going to be very big.
For disclosure, I am not involved in this operation. I saw it and thought what they are doing is amazing and felt compelled to help.
HTML5 Being Used to Set Persistent Cookies, Study Finds
Loopt hired JC through Quora I believe. :)
I use Evernote to collect useful and interesting articles and links I see during weekdays to read them on weekend or when I have some free time. And clip to Evernote the full articles that I think will be useful someday.
SETI Needs Your Help to Resume Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Interests: Startup, success, rants. Particularly how to get better job, better feature in TC, and $1-billion investor
Why are their bookmarks not cloud synced? Virtualization makes even more sense when you push as much as makes sense to the cloud, include things like personalization settings.
The Revolution in Cool Part Deux: Startups Get Their Own Show
Article dated to:

"Saturday, August 1, 2009"
Any idea when registration will be open?
Indeed - no, I'm the sole user of the computer, it just seems odd that so many disappeared, I'd almost not believe it if I hadn't taken a screenshot!

Considering Google's expertise with data you'd think they'd have enough NLP know-how to avoid errors like the one you describe - interesting though.
How to Save Energy When Using Your Computer
Instead of 200 pages of images, get on a real site and open only one tab with a video ;-)
Ok. So, apparently, it's testing a usecase that doesn't happen in normal use. So why should I care?
The Internet Explorer IQ Hoax and the State of Tech Blogging
Intell Online 6/30/11: 1/2 of new In-Q-Tel startup investments are video related
To answer my own question, it's looking like 1440 (http://cssgrid.net/).
If you follow US policy regarding the Internet since 9/11, you can should be able to see how browser regulation could be abused or at least slow development with red tape...and you were speculating, so it's okay for me to do that too.

If you really meant that Congress or the FCC should make a suggestion to stop using old browsers, that is completely different. It would be followed to the degree that IT departments could afford to upgrade old computers, conduct training and whatnot.

It's interesting you mention that UK developers are very compliance-conscious. Perhaps I misunderstand, but every rule that must be complied with increases the development cost of a project, and I believe the reason you want every browser to support IE8 is you want to save development time. If I understand you right, you want to shift your time burden onto browser developers and IT departments, the reverse of the current UK situation you support where the compliance burden is shifted from the IT departments to the web developers!
Don't miss the event of you are in Kathmandu. http://barcamp.org.np
Where's the Hackernews sense of opportunism. There's no set-aside on this RFP which means its eligible to anybody.
pertinent and coherent article. I agree with it all, from experience. excellent and none of the usual homesy motivational nonsense.
Sources: Storm8 Raising Huge $300 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation
Unchecked Spam Ads Infiltrate Facebook, Hijack Dealzon Brand
Some things will - as they are today - be stored in the cloud [edit or its local equivalent using WCF]. While bookmarks may be one of them - many of the items I bookmark when I'm actually working on a project rather than procrastinating on HN et al., are pretty project specific. And of course, having HN et al. in its own virtual machine would allow all those idea bookmarks to be stored in one place relevant to their useful context rather than relevant to a file system which I have to keep organized (assuming I bother with organization).

Most people don't keep their filing system very organized and when it comes to bookmarks even less so. Context is often a more efficient way of recalling what you did than a directory name - particularly over longer periods of time such as several months.

And of course, you can multitask across virtual machines - I often have two or three open at once because I need access to software which runs on a legacy version of Windows and I run Facebook in it's own exclusive VM.

At the same time I will be working on a project on the host OS. And there is no need for interconnection between any of them.

And VM's solve a lot of legacy issues, cross platform compatibility issues (e.g. windows phone apps) and Microsoft has already developed methods of integrating VM's with the host (see Windows Virtual PC and XP mode integration).
"A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax."

"'It's obviously very easy to create a bogus site like this - as all phishers know it's easy to rip-off someone else's webpages and pictures,' he said."

So setting up a fake site with fake data is elaborate? Seems like these news agencies are the ones with IQs in the ~80s.
As well as dictionaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience

I wonder what other companies that make a living by selling data sets do this sort of thing?
Thanks David, but I actually still don't see it on there. No biggie; it's just such an impressive stat that I want to see it with my own eyes :)
I was really hoping the list of questions would include more background on the 1996 Election puzzle. That one fascinates me to no end.

http://i.imgur.com/CTYHM.gif
sort of, a lot of the actions by this script rely on the browser giving feedback (e.g. finished loading the page). You could write a script to gather feedback from the display (i.e. by taking screenshots) but it's too much effort to maintain with new releases.
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Chrome doesn't update in the background. It downloads the update in the background, then applies it at startup the next time it starts. It just doesn't tell you it's doing that, so you get a slow startup with no explanation of why.

The "tell you" part is the only difference between the workflow for current Firefox updates and Chrome updates, in fact... And yes, Firefox might start doing them silently precisely because of the purely psychological issue you describe.
Hackers Are Climbing In Your Windows, So Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Files
And chance is, when you meet the 62k rows of code authentication system that is way too complicated and does way too much, that you will not be permitted to rewrite it in a more sane and modular way.
Weebly is the most under hyped YC company.