skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, what a champ! Put that capital into a fund that will be redistributed to music education when he dies. No interest in material wealth... keeps his life simple, focused, and open.
yeah I always felt that a lot of the bottlenecks today were DOM related - sure having fast JS means you can do more crunching in JS itself, but at the end of the day the user still experiences the sluggish dom when you are trying to build up a screen.
I rather like Joel Spolsky's observation that when one is hiring one is not selecting from the population of programmers, but rather from the population of programmers without jobs. A very different prospect.
By the author's admission, this was apparently reposted without permission. As he doesn't mention any license permitting his posting, I get the uncomfortable vibe of content theft.
Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin
How did you get the domain name?
CMS with radical inline WYSIWYG editor and online help
Hi,

I am a long time reader of Hacker News, but first time poster. I was compelled to sign up and post this video because I believe strongly in the product and the team behind it.

I am part of a team that develops an enterprise level CMS called MySource Matrix.

The linked demo video is not of Matrix, but is part of the next major iteration of the product. I am not a member of the team that developed it, but I work with the MySource Mini guys and am just as excited as they are about their hard work finally going public.

There are lots of examples of the ingenuity behind the design of the CMS, garnered from the many years of experience the team has in supporting our current product. The inline WYSIWYG editor and online help system tend to particularly excite people.

Hope you enjoy the video demo.
What makes you think that MySpace was a bad deal at 500mil. They have $800mil in revenue, all the recent valuations have placed it's value in the 5-10 billion range. Even with the dip in the ad market it's still a very valuable property.
The post 2001 defense spending boom has dwarfed the cold war at minting billionaires.

Really? I haven't heard of that many people becoming billionaires off the defense industry, given that it's dominated by giant decades-old conglomerates. But then again, maybe I haven't been paying attention. Got some names for me?
eh, I've given most customers a free month more than once, on my 99.5 sla. there's no reason why you can't have a real SLA, the company in question just needs to have the financial reserves to lose a months revenue without going into default. I see it as a way to gain credibility while I'm still small (and my reliability isn't what I'd like.)
"We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them."
--Larry Wall, second State of the Onion speech

"Identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably."
Chartered Institute of Marketing’s definition of Marketing
Believe me I would love to but for the time being we've been advised not to.
How Recessions Drive New Ideas
great domain name.
I would think your scrolling data marque could be done in javascript rather than as a java plugin (it failed in Chrome, but works in FF).

Also, you need a search box so I can check out prices without waiting for it to pop up.

Sure, your girl is cute, but you need more dynamism in the video. Better graphics, more things around, etc. Assuming that you are thinking the video is going to be a business driver.
Also, looks like your full screen of the video player doesn't work.
I would venture to guess the reason behind these findings is vi users have a greater median age than emacs users (based purely on the fact that vi has been around longer).

I still have my hair (emacs user, age 25).
Alright, time to strap on some plums. Dump the print division entirely, get rid of registration for the front page articles, and start charging for premium content.
Any number of business information companies would be potential buyers (e.g Thomson-Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Bloomberg) they all have complementry products and the finances to be able to afford such a deal.
Also, for the curious, the actual site itself is here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/independent/
I haven't used mTurk personally, but I know people who have, and I've looked a lot into their model.

Here's the deal: For a small amount of money (1 to 5 cents, or more if you like), you can pay people to take a specific action on your site, like posting a review, voting on 10 items, commenting to a post, etc.

I took a look at the mTurk site (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/findhits?match=false), and here are some things that you can earn money on:

- Look at 25 photos and click on the parts that are sidewalk ($0.02)

- Enter the title, name, and residence of a US Patent ($0.08)

- Write a 30-word comment to a blog post ($0.03)

- Find the longitude and latitude of a business, given its street address ($0.10)

- Write a one-paragraph abstract of an information technology article ($0.05)

I find it amazing that so many people are willing to do such drudgery-laden, time-intensive tasks, but evidently, when you toss a bunch of nickels into the air, lots of people jump.
Its unfathomable that they haven't added the landscape keyboard for email and SMS. IMHO, every default application ought to operate in both portrait and landscape.
I image that is easy to do when you are relatively rich. He has no doubt made "enough" money through owning the company over the past 10 years.

I agree it's admirable to give the capital away. But, not uncommon now-a-days with owners. I think one difference is many owners continue to grow their personal wealth until they die or turn to philanthropy (with a successful track record they can likely grow that money better than most trusts).
Serves them right for covering up the illegal wiretapping story to help Bush win reelection. The sooner they are out of business the better. I personally prefer to get my news from sources that don't conspire with the government to promote genocide and the erosion of civil liberties.
Perhaps, but this does have the benefit of not making the interviewees feel pressured.
Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten Coolest Innovators
> A beautiful hack...

Now we just need someone to encapsulate TCP/IP over it... then maybe DECnet over that...
"Clojure for Lisp Programmers" Talk Summary
Thoughts from Rails Rumble Teams and Organizers
If you participated in Rails Rumble... why? I'm a sponsor and I think you guys are all nuts. ;)

Participants told me things like: it's fun, you learn a lot, and the time constraint is a kick in the pants to get working on a startup idea.
It would have been straightforward enough to seize the oilfields, staff them with Western engineers, patrol just the pipelines and leave the rest of the country completely alone.

Leaving the rest of the country completely alone? So you'd still have Saddam Hussein's 200,000-man army intact, and you'd be trying to defend the oil infrastructure against random attacks by it? That sounds much harder than just marching into Baghdad.
I don't see any flaws in the technique, and its a very cool technique. But one problem I see is that you have to have the responding server package the data correctly for transport via this method.

Meanwhile, doing JSONP simply requires the data on the 3rd party server be delivered in a JSON format, while this requires the special 2kb packaging.

Its definitely a more secure way of obtaining remote data from untrusted 3rd parties, but the trade-off is that the 3rd party has to be setup to correctly deliver the data.
10 Inspirational "How I did it" stories
> small conciliation, but i think it was always a danger that aws would walk up the value add food chain.

Indeed - there's the rub... When do Amazon reach a point that their offering competes with their own customers?
I had a feeling this would happen as soon as Sun changed its stock ticker symbol to JAVA.
Seems like something Google should actually buy for the content-making-people. Maybe there's just too much debt though, and they can just hire the people directly.
Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, and The Motley Fool have the advantage in this space.
Deep in the rain forest, stalking the next pandemic
Schedule tweets and other social network messages ahead of time
Microsoft Chugs Along In The Third Quarter, But Its Online Business Is Still Sucking Wind
That's a moot point. When you have an AAA generic like markets.com you don't need to brand it; the whole sector is yours to own!

Well done on securing this very valuable name.
Defense spending has increased (not really doubled, though, according to those numbers), but much of that increase was poured down the drain actually making the war happen. Defense contractors' profits probably don't scale linearly with defense spending in times of war.
Mythbusting: Ideas Do Not Spread Because they are Good
Commanding heights (3 x 2 hour video)
Not necessarily. Journalists, many of whom don't care about what's actually being measured, probably met them halfway.
Yes, I agree with you. The player does need a loading progress indicator. I also need to be more aggressive about culling tracks that are hosted on slow servers, or have been removed.

I use JavaScript to control a little offscreen flash player.

Thanks so much for your feedback.
A company with 100M in revenue for 22M?
I've seen this around before - but basically this article is a good example of how not to communicate to users... The tone is wrong, it's condescending and it's elitist...

If you take that blog entry, and instead of being the IT guy - imagine this is a Doctor... You'd be appalled if this was "10 things your Medical guy wants you to know".
I really hope we get an answer to this -- really curious!
Watch this over the weekend if you want to understand the global economy and the current crisis. Excellent walk through of how and why the worlds economy has changed from the second world war up to the present day.

Or as Jon Stewart puts it:Those who don't understand history will have an exciting opportunity to repeat it
I think Facebook uses 2 embedded iframes and that I hear works pretty well for security. Is this method documented anywhere?

I used JSONP, but one of the Facebook engineers told me that was a hacky/unsecure method.
Interview with David Karp about how Tumblr is going to grow up and monetize
It's frustrated comedy. I'm sure doctors have a "10 things we want our patients to know" inside joke about us, too.
Video here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=...
When your company should spend
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MARKETS.COM
Created on: 03-Aug-94
Expires on: 02-Aug-17
Last Updated on: 30-Sep-08

You've been sitting on this name for a while?
The Importance of Writing Tools
Banks mine data & woo troubled borrowers
I have bought CDs from there a few times, it's a good outfit.
Didn't we just see an article yesterday complaining about how millennials are so entitled and self-absorbed for wanting to do this?
I think I'm going to need a much more detailed recommendation than that if I'm going to invest six hours in watching a video.

Indeed, the only people likely to (a) watch six hours of little internet video about economics and (b) try to persuade random people to also watch six hours of little internet video about economics are the kinds of people who have, shall we say, fringe views on economics one way or another.
no. sorry.
If your startup is small, not VC funded and knows how to bring in any revenue, it will surely survive. On the opposite, all your competitors who are heavily VC backed will die soon as their money dry out. I hope :-).
They'd probably die just as quickly.

The problem is likely twofold:

1) Print is expensive.
2) Internet ads don't pay like print ads used to pay.

Okay, threefold:

3) Craigslist has killed the classifieds market dead.

Newspapers around the world are suffering from these things. It's just acutely sad that the paper of record is no better off than the rest....
Isn't looking for the one thing an instance of the same problem?
Model-View-Controller Considered Harmful
Perl 6 isn't vaporware
If the economy truly bottoms, I’ll still have something to do, because what I do isn’t driven by the chase of wealth.

People like this really do make the difference with open source software. It is always impressive to me to see people working their day job completely outside the field and contributing as a passion. Loved the theater analogy.
I would argue that the continued evolution and improvement of the Web are far, far more important than letting Grandma have a website

That's a little cheeky. What I was implying that letting Grandma have a website is more important to the (not as then) the continued evolution and improvement of the Web.' Standards are (to that end) important inasmuch as they allow the guys that make typepad, wordpress & friends to let her do so. That is the criteria they should be judged by.
Why Microsoft's SDL Missed MS08-067, in their own words
Yeah true - Although - I have seen cultures that take this as more than a joke.
I'm sure the companies behind news.com, blogs.com, tickets.com, shoes.com, and most others with generic names would argue that it's not moot, that it's the exception and not the rule. You still have to make something people want, something they can't get elsewhere. markets.com doesn't seem to have that, at least not yet. It's hard to be unique in the news aggregation niche.
Language Innovation: C# 3.0 explained
The real question is: will the voting actually influence the paper's editorial?

Will outside links show up on the Independent.co.uk homepage if people vote them up via the new Reddit-powered system? or will the results of users voting be confined to the Reddit page?
Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than Mp3
Part of the problem is that we look at marketing as being different than the hack. However, marketing is just social hacking. A true hacker isn't confined to one realm.
But they probably do a better job of saving it for when they're talking with other doctors, rather than posting it on the internet where everyone can see it.

Also: Spending most of your time complaining about how stupid users are, etc., makes it a lot harder to empathize with them and not sound like a standoffish IT guy. (Most people are probably not as good at compartmentalizing as they believe.)

If memory serves, _Time Management for System Administrators_ (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007836/) has a good chapter about how to be helpful and reasonably polite with non-technical people when you're being constantly interrupted and the server closet is on fire (with an emphasis on little things that show you're actually trying to fix things and not just blowing people off, since many people won't necessarily recognize e.g. scowling at firewall logs as working on their problem).

"Frustration comedy" is a good term, by the way.
What it really needs is more data, anything obscure and you get no recommendations.
Startup I'd Like to See #1
wouldn't the other extreme be micro-managing workers to the other side of work/life balance (e.g. mandatory workweeks of no more than 35-hours, mandatory vacations).

the balance is letting employees plan their work day as they see fit, as long as they are delivering on target.
Why should interconnected economies matter anyways? In fact, that would increase the economic incentive for war: if your livelihood depend on people you don't control, you can get the goods much more efficiently and cheaply if you control them.
I'm dying to know Taleb's thoughts on the crisis, but this video is aimed at 10 year olds. Don't bother.
> ..a more interesting question is why you think that US policy matters.

I didn't say I think this. You are the one that claimed the US doesn't want the rest of the world to be subservient - I am just pointing out you might be wrong. And the fact that they changed the document doesn't mean the person who wrote it changed his intention.

> ...unless the US gets involved with something, the rest of the world stays out as well.

This claim is absurd.

> I'm amused that you're asking me for world trouble-spots

I am not. Read my question again.

> ...you keep telling us that Americans are clueless about the rest of the world.

I never said that or anything similar in my entire life. Not sure who / what are you are referring to as "you". I guess you (specifically you - I don't like to generalize) bought into all that paranoid stuff...

> Go down that list and ask "why isn't my country (or the EU) handling this?".

I live in Brazil. It improved remarkably in the last 10 years or so, but it still a poor country. Still, this doesn't mean Brazil does nothing for the rest of the world: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/03/58274 . There are many more examples, if you care to look for them.
Definitely not. In fact, I would say that it shrinks exponentially with the number of people on the team.

The best way to turn a genius into an average person is to force him to work in a committee with 20 other geniuses.
Computing In The Nucleus Of An Atom Achieved
The ranking should make allowance for post length: a long post with a relatively high score is usually much better quality than a short, pithy phrase with massive karma.
Niche music is one of my main focuses. For obvious reasons, the site is is good for the sections of music I like. Could you tell me what genres/niches/bands you were trying? I'd love to expand the index to include them if I can.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
"people understanding what your product can do for them, identifying it's value and thus parting with their money."

A developer's product is themselves. It's about marketing yourself, To coworkers, bosses, interviewers, VC's, future partners, clients, etc.

It's not big M Marketing selling crap to people.
Complexity and Society
Every little bit helps. 0.01% of energy is still a lot of energy... Besides, what it does indicate is a culture around energy.

Another problem is a proliferation of chargers. Instead of having one plugging in, people have two, or three, or a dozen.

If there were better standards, you could have fewer, bigger, more efficient chargers.

I'm not sure if this is addressed in USB3.0 (I'm pretty sure it's not), but there is an opportunity there to bring in a universal charger - that is smart and efficient at the same time.
redundancy is key

keep complete copies in different hosting companies on different continents.

For details beyond that, we'd need to know what kind of trouble. The US is pretty good for most kinds of political speech, but horrible for many kinds of commercial speech. Many other countries are the opposite.

But yeah. if you make sure you have a hot spare of your complete system in more than one country (this should be pretty cheap with the proliferation of VPS providers) you will be in much better shape. Once you have that covered, you really only need to worry about your DNS provider.
Seriously though, you could probably do it without karma farmers if you announced a free X for all users currently over a karma threshold. Could be a cool tool for building social news sites & there are all sorts of companies that want to give away their stuff - magazines.
Traitor! ;)

That said I have used vim for at least 3 years and I have evaluated emacs a few times, but I come crawling back to vim. For me vi is like zen, so simple, yet so complex. Another thing I like about vi is how key bindings make sense, e.g. to delete 2 words I type d2w (delete 2 words), it's lighting fast and very easy to remember - and currently I don't even think when I edit, I just do.

I am looking forward for the next posts to hear about his arguments for doing such a radical switch.
How Scala's type system works for your Domain Model
not sure about the facebook method but dojo uses something similar

http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/30/protected-cross-domai...
I like your site. It has potential. How bout include some album art next to the artist descriptions?

I think you can also UI redesign. Starting having some buttons and graphics.

good luck!
It's really cool. I don't love the colors though, I'm not a big red fan (while I wear a Man U jersey...oh well:))
You’ve got an idea, what now?
Well, they did mention one fundamental problem which also hints at the solution: the system is too optimized thus it is very fragile, susceptible to amplify even tiny perturbations.

Basically, we need to give up some performance and uncouple interacting elements to get more resilient system.
Emacs and vi(m) are both rather good text editors, esp. for code and structured text, but in fundamentally different (and complementary) ways. Find which fits your style / needs better, learn it, use it well. The end.
Yes, you're right. So here goes:

This is a documentary of the history of economic ideas since world war 2. It describes how the two opposing forces, socialism and capitalism, battle it our on the world scene, and how the pendulum swings back and forth between the two.

It is made by PBS, and has a homepage here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

As far as I can tell it does not try to depict one ideology as better than the other, merely to explain these ideas, and how they have shaped the world. The six hours of video will take you through the rise and fall of fascism, the fall of the soviet union, the depression of the 70's, the Asian meltdown in the 90's and much more. And most importantly: It will give an excellent insight into why these things happened, what economic and ideological ideas lay behind, what it meant for the world economy, and how it is all intertwined. In short it describes why globalisation and world economy is as it is today.

It has interviews with Gorbachew, Bill Clinton, Milton Friedmann, Lech Walesa, Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Sachs, and just about everyone else worth mentioning that has shaped globalisation.

It'll basically teach you the history off globalisation, and do so in an engaging way.

And no I don't have fringe economic views, even though I'm an economist by training ;-)
got 2 (way off) recommendations for my favorite band.

my opinion is that this space is wayyyy too crowded (huge players involved) and to take any market share seems impossible.
Yep, album art is a real nice idea.

The UI is something I am thinking really hard about. My skills are in coding, not UI/design, so I'm learning as I go.

Thanks for the feedback.
Which band was that?
Sleep like a rock, Wake up like Iron Man.