skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*recent = 2001 PowerBook G4 or above
Yeah, the title is really ridiculous here. Chrome won one metric; Firefox won the other. Mozilla has every right to cry foul.
I could understand a tree-style view to help categorize, I will have to check that out as it sounds very nice.

I was asking from a perspective of standard tabbed browsing that doesn't have a form of organization like this; IMHO under such circumstance so many tabs would be unmanageable or confusing at very best.
Where can I see the data for GitHub?

I'm not sure I even trust that... I do lots of bindings from OCaml to C, and whereas I consider them to be OCaml projects, GitHub sees they're more C by LOC and counts them as C.
If you read S&P's actual paper, it focuses on political dysfunction, not economic. For instance, they said that if the Bush tax cuts for people making 250k/year were allowed to expire, then they would have allowed the USA to retain its AAA rating, but the American political system seems incapable of making the necessary revenue adjustments to attain fiscal consolidation.

Of course, S&P is really just a bunch of corrupt idiots, so either way you shouldn't pay much attention to them.
Unfortunately I'm not sure that anyone will bother fixing their sites until everyone else starts doing it too.

It's too easy for the web developers to just point the memory leak blame to the browser and none of the users will be the wiser.

If some day in the future there's an extremely easy way to figure out which sites are using how much memory (each tab in a process?) then we could start seeing some push back for JS leaks to be fixed.
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I know. I suppose it is some kind of DNS issue. By the way, it says in Japanese that they are building the server, and the page is a test page.
Can a mod help in moving this question to the Ask tab? I am afraid it is getting buried in the "new" section.

Coming to think of it, what I would probably like is the clean UI of Basecamp's discussions but that still supports certain forum features that users come to expect (the quote button/embedding media etc).
Two things. I use a paper folded up once horizontally and twice vertically which creates 12 spaces that I use for calendar days for immediate to do lists. For longer things, like interviews and thoughts, I use a small moleskin which makes it a real pleasure to write.
That's because Opera Mini isn't a normal browser. It's something like a thin client. Opera's servers do all the rendering and shoot things to your phone in a little binary file which the app just has to display.

Opera Mobile and Opera Desktop are more conventional browsers.
> These tarballs are usually code drops that happen when device reaches market and are mostly never updated afterwards :(

considering how often these devices get updates after reaching the market, I'm inclined to say that you don't miss much :(
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HN is a top-1000 website, I doubt it classifies as niche any more.
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Well I don't really consider "buy stuff in one click because we remember how to sell stuff to you from the last time we sold stuff to you" to be deserving of a patent either but hey...
You have fundamentally misunderstood the motivations of the average corporate user. The system is a tool to them, nothing more, they use it when they must, then get on with their real jobs.
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This is a silly critique. We all know the weather forecast isn't absolutely 100% accurate, but it's still worth having.
How  to Ask for that Raise in a Recession
Whatever about inventing a better algorithm, it's clear that the ratings agencies didn't do any kind of due diligence before slapping AAA ratings on junk mortgage securities...they were afraid of losing business from the investment banks! They should have been the ones telling the banks what was what.

Those in the know would describe the ratings agencies as "brain-dead", the lowest on the totem pole on Wall Street...traders who made money would game the credit ratings scores so S&P and Moods would rate the junk they were peddling AAA. A modern form of alchemy - turning junk into investment gold.

For a nice, easy-to-read account of those who made a fortune from the mortgage market collapse that tells you how exactly the ratings agencies were played for fools: The Big Short, by Michael Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame)
"does Notch's paraphrased claim "I don't like trademarks, but I let my lawyers do it anyway, and we almost had to enforce it but only once" really give the principled higher ground?"

Yes. There is a difference between honest attempts to avoid customer confusion and bullying competition just to cause them trouble (or show the "we're serious about protecting our IP" theatre to investors.) Obviously, some cases may be borderline, but here it is evident who's on which side of the division.
Both S&P and Moody's make good points, but have a different assessment of the uncertainty. Compared to other nations, The U.S. has a surprisingly healthy budget. Cut out the bush tax cuts, end the wars, stabilize health care spending, and you could create a surplus in no time. Few other countries have that luxury. However, it has not only become questionable whether Washington will be able to make the necessary changes in the foreseeable future, the corruption that underlies this inability is very hard to get rid of and may cripple the government even further.

I think these two different ratings appropriately reflect the uncertainty of the situation.
I sincerely did not know about the tree-style tabbed browsing feature. I attribute this to my initial apprehension in adopting tabbed browsing to begin with, thanks for the info!

I also think this has a lot to do with browsing style as well. For purposes like my own I rarely need to have more than 5-10 pages actively open. I make extensive use of bookmarks and generally group my tabs in separate windows for organization purposes.
In the US, ratings agencies and the bond rating system are a legacy of the New Deal-- the ratings agencies are approved by federal regulators and are protected from real competition.

Contrast that with stocks, where anybody can be an analyst and issue a rating, and where there is no mechanical, legalistic system of downgrades and upgrades.

The feds created the bond ratings agency oligopoly to "protect investors", but I'd argue we'd be better served by true ratings competition and more due diligence by investors.
it wouldn't have anything to do with buffet's stock in moody's (and him already losing billions as an effect of the recent downgrade by S&P)?
The downgrade didn't cause this. At least, you need a rather complicated model to explain how it did. Interest rates fell on US Treasury bonds; this means investors think they're the safest instrument to invest in. Today we saw equities crumble, not bonds.

I would guess it's mostly the evolving European situation that's throwing us headlong into the abyss, with a hefty serving of realizing the USA is run by clowns who are utterly incapable of addressing any important problems. Note that this is beyond simple "politicians are teh stupid," which applies in any country, but in the USA particularly. Europe's facing serious problems, but that's because they're burdened with very tough choices as a result of badly thought out institutions from the 1990s. The USA faces very easy choices, but we're facing serious problems because... well, we want to? Because we have a dysfunctional government? Who knows. Regardless, it's an unforced error.
Wouldn't a downgrade be expected to result in an interest rate _increase_, due to higher risk?
Great article. I was wondering what you use for your test frameworks?
The login problem is solved better by OpenId than by Facebook Connect.
I hope that the idiocy of the claims offsets that imbalance. It would be very, very sad if just having heaps money would let you win any case.
There's nothing to prevent this from being implemented, other than it'd be a huge hacky mess. It would require sidestepping iconv (or however grep does it) when LC_ALL is one of a specific set of strings, activating some special cases, and then additionally, building on those special cases, further scanning the input pattern (which may not just be a literal string - how might this work with character classes/ranges?) to ensure it is 7bit, in order to achieve the desired speedup.

Or if your input data is sufficiently ASCII-ish, and so is your search pattern, then why not just force the process locale to C and avoid the whole mess to begin with.

I'm suddenly left wondering how the "." regex syntax functions in the face of surrogates when handling UTF-8.
Poor CS students. People are always giving them advice, Learn more SQL, learn functional programming, learn whats going on at the low level hardware, contribute to open source, start a blog, get on github. I seem to remember Computer Science is ranked as one of the hardest degrees, It certainly was no picnic for me. Leave the poor kids alone.
70 years later, and we're still all "men"?
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Being lazy has its benefits
Those sound like non-trivial features and you've convinced me to give Kicksend a go. Best of luck to you.
WTF Happened to the Constitution?! The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
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Chrome is very fast and I do love it, but it still doesn't have a hardware accelerated HTML5 canvas. So if you open up a HTML5 game, IE and FF5 skip along nicely, but Chrome gets very choppy.

I hope they fix this soon, because if your "real world" involves "playing HTML5 games", Chrome is one of the slowest!

Edit: here's a little HTML5 "game", try it in IE9, FF5 and Chrome: http://www.scirra.com/labs/ghostshooterfullscreen/
I tuned in yesterday for the last 30 minutes. Well worth anyone's while on a Lazy Sunday. +1
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correct.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcqc1/httpreddit...
I think the more important thing is learning statistics - without a fundamental understanding of why you would do statistical analysis on a dataset, you can hardly fault someone for not using [Excel,R] to do so.

I'm re-tooling my knowledge of basic stats before I dive into using tools like R to automate:
http://www.khanacademy.org/?video=statistics--the-average#st...
Not just CS majors — I'm an art school grad and after 20 years I'm amazed at just how much writing my career has required of me. And it's not just writing skills, but communication skills in general which includes public speaking and presentation. And sadly I'll even add one more skill which you can't even acquire in school — just having patience to do hand holding is more important than I would ever have imagined.
The very best website I have /ever/ seen is Berkshire Hathaway. Why? Because it is precisely fit for purpose.
It serves its need perfectly.

Likewise, I think more designers should pay attention to this outline. We would be better served by less decoration and more content.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
wrong.. just ask Henry Blodget if he can be analyst.. Stock analysts are regulated by the SEC..
Profitability varies by firm size - the bigger you are, the lower your margin
On the virtues of being the big development fish in the small platform pond
I have an external 1280x1024 screen, and I've switched it to portrait. I wish I'd done it long ago, as it's perfect for Xcode help docs, and for reading PDFs generally. It also runs the iPad simulator without scrollbars, but sadly only when it's the primary screen.

I totally agree with you.
I think that that day is rapidly approaching or here already. Using chrome you can inspect per tab memory usage and use that to identify leaks that may be coming from a page (in fact that's what the author did originally). And in firefox you can use about:memory to inspect per tab JS memory compartments. Its still not always obvious who is to blame (browser or site), but it is becoming very easy to spot this kind of behavior.
As someone who has asked you that very question, I'm looking forward to what you end up focusing your time on. Good luck!
Yes, I've heard that vim was a popular IDE. Although, its not very appealing to me because i don't like its interface much.
Animated PNG format implemented in JS
Though they might be the best people, and though I have Duckduckgo on my side, it might be useful to post a citation.

EDIT: To practice what I preach: Duo Song has made an impressive network sniffer and some other cool stuff, and Jon apparently is a security guru who, among other things, has found several security related Android bugs.
The PNG files are loaded and parsed entirely in JS and then rendered to the canvas element using putImageData. Works with both normal and animated PNGs.
What i meant was a general purpose site.Most people who visit hacker news are programmers/entrepreneurs/designers i presume.
LNKD has a free float of c. 8,250,000 shares or c. 8% of FDS. Average daily trading volume up to August 3rd, and adjusted for underwriting: 1.62m. Since last Thursday (earnings call), when LNKD dipped c. 5%, trading volumes have been 102%, 90% and 67% above the average daily volume. So then, 40%, 37% and 33% of its free-float, for August 4, 5 and 8 respectively. In just under three trading sessions over 100% of the free float has changed hands. What don't you find special?
I'm impressed. These features can't be trivial to implement though, so something tells me they've been baking for a while.
There is a "thick client" opera browser as well. Good browser.
what they meant was in addition to the $4 trillion saved by current budget compromises over 10 years that getting rid of the Bush tax cuts would add $4 trillion in ten years thus placing $8 trillion of that $14 trillion deficit as no longer being an impact in ten years due to the surpluses we would have each budget year.

It seems to me that reducing the deficit by 50% is damn good idea.
Evaporate? When you buy a stock for $10, that is the moment when your $10 are gone -- not the minute it plummets. If you can sell it later for $15, congrats, that is the moment where you can realize a profitable "exit". But in the meantime -- every second of it -- don't ever count on that stock, bond or other 'vehicle' to "hold your $10 through the winds of change" or protect it against changes in the perceptions and opinions of all the other gamblers, investors, savers, market participants around the globe. Any given day, its "ticker value" merely reflects the value judgments of the relatively small number of co-owners that happen to buy or sell the same asset that day -- it never reflects "your net wealth". Your net wealth is your cash, house, car, brain, any other physical asset -- minus any money you spent on counter-party future obligations, promises, thoughts, hopes -- speculation. That stock you bought? It can be $1 or $100 tomorrow or in 10 years, and you only ever know it when it's time to sell.

Was money lost? Sure -- but not last week or today -- rather, on the day the individual investor bought into these markets.

Anecdotically, I made a few nice profits with Bitcoins back in May/June when they were all the rage -- but I never ever confused them with physical wealth, I knew the nature of my gamble and I timed my exit -- not perfectly, but good enough to convert this "digital profit" or "paper profit" back into "physical goods". I'm not a full-time trader or gambler and I believe in investing my time more productively, but at the same time, sometimes it's fun to play money games. Too bad so many people on a world-wide scale believe it's a smart idea for their retirement estate to "take on debt to 'invest' in others' debts". This has been going on for a long time but it's not especially sustainable or otherwise inspiring -- especially since the debts are now backed by the children of your children. Think I'm off-topic by now? Think again!
WOO! Just came in the mail! Can't wait to read through it!
Why would they help out the other, competing Android manufacturers by giving their pretty good UI for free to them?
Ask HN: Review my startup - Odysci.com
http://www.odysci.com

Odysci is a new and free academic search site. If you used Google Scholar, MS Academic Search or CiteSeer in the past, check out Odysci.

We currently cover papers in the computer science, electronics and math areas, and we plan to expand to other scientific domains later.
While our coverage is still not as broad as Google Scholar’s, we cover the main journals and conferences in CS/EE and we’re continuously adding new papers. We pride ourselves in the quality of our search and relevance of the results (i.e., ranking), for which we have developed our own algorithms.

Besides search, the portal also has information about conference deadlines, lists of best papers and comments by experts in different fields. We also keep a blog (http://blog.odysci.com) where we post new features and discuss stuff that matters to researchers, and a Twitter account (@odysci) with posts on interesting technical news and links to related searches.

Would love to get your feedback on the portal, its usability, quality of ranking, and any other suggestion you may have.
Thanks!

Odysci Team
The Wycats bundle makes it possible to narrow searching to within a folder.
"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above or e-mail us at berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."

I like the focus that the site implies, and that "limited number of personnel" implies.
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Digg comes to mind as a watered-down competitor, though I stopped using Digg altogether after the #DiggRevolt and subsequent exodus of their user-base.
Business is business, and competition's inevitable -- but that said, I can't see myself talking openly around this team in the future. Given their track record, who's to say they won't try to do the same with something of mine?
CloudApp's approach to this is slightly different. It's more than just sharing files; they have an image viewer as well as a music player, with the ability to customize your own pages via the viso project (https://github.com/cloudapp/viso). You also don't need to know your recipients ahead of time. Just upload your file/bookmark, and share with anyone, anywhere.

It doesn't look as though Kicksend is useful for URL-shortening as well, which CloudApp makes dead simple.

I am curious, though, to see if/how the guys at CloudApp respond to this...
Indeed. The only detail that surprised me was that you could only do exact lookups in the dictionary. That makes it O(n*n). If you had the dictionary stored in a trie it would be O(n) on long strings. (With a maximum constant whose size depends on the length of the longest word in the dictionary.)
That is such bullshit. Ge.tt steps:

1) Click on "Select files"

2) Click on the files, press "Open"

That's all, you got a download link that you can paste in an email.

Now let's see how many steps your site takes:

1) Click on "Sign up for Kicksend"

2) Fill out the form (equivalent to 20 clicks I'd say)

3) Click on "Sign Up and Continue"

4) Click on "Send files to a friend's email address in the next 5 mins"

4) Click on "Select Files"

5) Fill out the email field

6) Click on "Send Files"

(There's still no download link at this point, like if I want to IM it to my friend.)

7) The person who received the email, doesn't get the download link, but a "Friend request" link instead. Click.

8) Click on "Approve"

9) Click on "Inbox"

10) Click on the file name

Finally the download link
First the impact of a false prediction on a weather forecast is not as dangerous as that of a false prediction in default rates, second, even an erroneous weather forecast isn't too far from the observed weather.
The political dysfunction is only interesting to them inasmuch as it produces economic dysfunction. If Congress was deadlocked for months on end on, say, Don't Ask Don't Tell legislation, the thought of downgrading the US's debt rating would never have crossed their mind.

Slightly increasing revenue in an environment where increasing revenue is simply seen as a reason to spend 117% of the revenue increase won't prevent debt downgrades.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870464860457562...

It's not a revenue problem, it's a spending-more-than-we-have-revenue problem. And I don't mean that it must be fixed with cuts only, but the idea that we can tax our way out of this problem is basically purely theoretical. With the real politicians we have, it won't work, unless after we fix the root spending problem.
A friend of mine went for a job interview in accounting. He almost didn't get the job because they didn't think he wrote so well.

They basically said. The accounting part is the easy one but if you can't write we can't use you.

It always struck me as a great insight. Almost no matter what level of expertise one will acquire the ability to communicate is just so much more important than we like to think.
Here's a summary of CloudApp's two account types: http://blog.getcloudapp.com/the-next-level
How we made a customer testimonial video for $10
Might want to check out iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com
I feel like random altruism makes us feel good while probably doing very little actual good. As the OP said, it's haves giving to haves.
My most important takeaway from this is that you're starting to publicize the conversation from the entrepreneurial elite.

When the first recession dip happened in the millennium and we were lamenting the manufacturing industry, I was preaching the same thing to my wife and liberal friends, that it's about retraining and that's where our tax dollars should go rather than subsidies and tariffs.
Unfortunately, especially with government spending, the devil is in the details and the follow up accounting. Look at all of the money that was pissed away to corrupt contractors in Iraq with nothing to show for it.

From a purely technology industry perspective, the implementation details that need to be solved are with Placement. Every job posting for startups has "Rockstar Developer" in them. The people you're training won't be able to get a sniff from entrepreneurs who need to maximize each dollar spent on a new employee and they are not willing to train people up while building their team.
I'd say they could freelance, but that market is drying up as the cost of living in the US has out priced many developers here against Eastern Asia and Eastern Europe. This won't change until people start to realize the true cost of a Repeat-Quality-Check loop that happens with cheap dev.

Finally, you have to solve the no-skin = no-value human penchant for not caring too much about things we get for free.

I think if you combine the arguments above, you can get to a solution where Government takes tax dollars to Subsidize Placement of Individuals who Qualify by paying their own way for Retraining with a Government Qualified Student Loan. Place them within Larger Companies (banks, established Tech Giants like MS) who can absorb their nascent skill set while getting a Subsidy for (like you said) the first X months while the person is employed. To make it work, repurpose some bureaucrats from different areas of the government in order to qualify and follow up (this is an absolute MUST). MS can complain about not getting enough H1-B's to come in from India, and be presented with this counterargument of "why don't you hire the people from our program?"
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I love your comment and would love to get it elaborated a little. Can you give an example of what you mean?
looks good but I am not sure why I would use this more than I would use say Google Scholar?

Also could you explain with an example perhaps how your search results would trump Google Scholar? Such an example of on the home page would help people understand the value proposition.