skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Such assessments turn individuals into pawns of their cultural heritage, just as Mr. Gladwell’s emphasis on class and accidents of historical timing plays down the role of individual grit and talent to the point where he seems to be sketching a kind of theory of social predestination, determining who gets ahead and who does not — and all based not on persuasive, broadband research, but on a flimsy selection of colorful anecdotes and stories."

1. We have just spent an entire presidential campaign during which we were reminded at every turn (and rightfully so) that the gap between rich and poor is growing, and this seems to dovetail nicely with a "theory of social predestination." Having anecdotes and data to try to explain the mechanism for how this works seems a worthwhile undertaking.

2. Why does she want Gladwell to research high speed Internet connections?
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 04:50:03 GMT
One suggestion: Prominently display the URL of the site you are showcasing. I suggest the title bar and/or your worthyy bar.

I like the idea.
MS doesn't want Yahoo's people so much as it wants control over the domain name yahoo.com. It's all about getting in front of the traffic.
I shied away from that only because I wasn't sure about adding custom attributes and making my xhtml invalid, e.g. to a div block which doesn't have a show attribute in the spec.

Getting the argument itself is actually easy enough, I more ended up struggling to find an "appropriate" or natural interface for it within the html itself.
Economic recovery plan for the U.S.
If you're on a Mac and you're using Safari you might like Urly (http://www.zenonez.com/urly/news.html). It lets you make a pretty basic stack of browser links. If you don't like that (and you're a Quicksilver user), it might be worth writing some Quicksilver triggers to push and pop urls using a text file as a stack.
You might do well to find someone who is active in OSS communities, ideally, someone who has contributed code. This allows you to see the quality of their work and communication skills, and (in my opinion) it gives some indication of their willingness to work remotely and still "get things done".

I work for Mozilla, and I am a full time remote employee. When I was hired, I came in to the office to work for two weeks, and now, I typically visit the office at least once a quarter for at least a week. For a startup on a tight budget, that much travel might be difficult to handle.

I would also encourage you to find a place to live in IRC (either host your own private server or set up a channel on freenode or something). IRC brings a sense of closeness to local and remote resources. If people stay in the channel and use it, there is also a good opportunity for "water cooler chat". When I work in an office, I listen to people casually talking around me. If they are talking about something interesting or something I might have some useful comments about, I speak up. If people in your team live in IRC, then they will use that medium as a place to ask those little one off questions that normally happen either in the hallway, snack-room, or via IM. If it happens in IRC, you can easily capture that knowledge for future use, and other people can see the conversation and might have something useful to say about it.

I also encourage the use of an IRC "backchannel" if you have meetings that include remote resources. If you want to see an example of a meeting like that, tune in to http://air.mozilla.com and irc://irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting on Mondays at 1PM PST.
Apple allows Google to cheat in the SDK
If you're a bit more conservative with your screen real estate, I'd recommend the Tab Kit plugin instead:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447

It includes the vertical tree-style sorting, but I prefer the horizontal mode with several rows of tabs visible -- it lets you see more at a glance.

It also color-codes each group of tabs uniquely, and lets you collapse groups. It's a handy way to open a bunch of research on one topic, then set it aside for later.
He uses C# as a synonym for .net which is misleading. With F# it's way easier to get a proper .net REPL which is a great feature.
Dammit, now I do too! I almost want to buy that app and I don't even use Subversion...
This might sound crass, but companies who knowingly and actively pay people to do nothing on a perpetual basis deserve to die:

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/17/A01-351179....
If all threads in a block have the same number if iterations, you're fine; different blocks can take different number of iterations. As long as the number of blocks is much higher than the number of SMs, the machine will dynamically schedule the blocks to available SMs.

At this point the programmer's head has already exploded. MIMD systems (like OpenMP on Larrabee) don't have any of this BS.
How far away from a cell signal are you?

You might want to invest in a directional antenna mounted on a pole high enough to paint the cell tower. A good cell signal repeater using that antenna can pull three bars of signal strength down into your house/office.
What level are these students? College or High School students? If it's college (which I assume it is), what's the class you'll be lecturing during?

This is pertinent because it's helpful for us to know if these are captive students or students who might actually get some use out of what you're there to talk about.
NASA's interplanetary Internet tests a success, another triumph for Vint Cerf
"At American Motors, my dad cut his pay and that of his executive team, he bought stock in the company, and he went out to factories to talk to workers directly. Get rid of the planes, the executive dining rooms — all the symbols that breed resentment among the hundreds of thousands who will also be sacrificing to keep the companies afloat."

Unions will not take management seriously until this happens.

However, I also don't understand how people who constantly argue that U.S. wages must continually fall for the sake of corporate competitiveness think that the U.S. won't collapse without some kind of middle class. And if this seems hyperbolic, please consider the effect of inflation, rotating asset bubbles, decreases in health care affordability, and rising unemployment. Without some kind of wage growth above inflation, I don't see how a real middle class can survive. Perhaps there are specifics in this case that warrant some reductions, but it seems to be the same argument any time an industry gets into some kind of management induced trauma.
Cinpy: Lightweight C Within Python
Thanks so much for the feedback - With regards to my target, I'm going to have to let any exposure the site might get dictate this preliminarily. Ideally, my target is people who will likely never see any coverage worthyy might get on most relevant blogs. The less web-savvy casual user who has never heard of sites like TechCrunch, Mashable, Killer Startups, etc. These are the users who would not only benefit most from a site like this, but who many of the sites worthyy covers have the most trouble reaching.

Of course reaching these users is a time-consuming (let alone expensive) process I've yet to begin to tackle. If I survive the first few months, it will become my focus.

In terms of real estate, I would be very appreciative if you could shoot me a screen shot (zach --at-- worthyy --dot-- com). I've tried to keep the sizing as short as possible but I do have future plans for the currently unused real estate so finding a compromise was difficult.

Lastly with regards to resizing, I view this as a huge issue that I unfortunately don't think I'll be able to address with v1. After analyzing my spec, the developers agreed that iFrames would provide the best solution for the homepage. I did what research I could with the resources I had and eventually agreed. The site sizes and positions the frames according to the real estate available when the page loads and as such, resizing is a disaster. Whatever you do, don't view it full screen... ;)

Hopefully I can manage to generate some interest/traffic that might warrant revisiting the current implementation but for the time being, my budget for the site is pretty small. If you or anyone else has an idea as to a possible fix, I would love to look into it.
I think the VM is emulated only well enough to run existing bytecode samples. If a studio can discover a bytecode sequence that executes differently on the licensed and unlicensed VMs, they can use that code in future movies.
It baffles me that we'd blow 700 billion bailing out financial institutions that caused our economic problems. Money that's now going towards bonuses and acquisitions instead of buying "toxic assets" as originally intended. Toxic assets that were created by these same wall street companies.

As we save the companies that crippled the credit markets, we have no interest in spending a fraction of that same amount of money helping the companies most negatively effected by the condition of those same credit markets.

I'm sorry, but I don't see anyone buying a car from a manufacturer in bankruptcy. I think bankruptcy will be the end of the American auto manufacturers. The resulting damage will dwarf the 25 billion a bailout would cost.
A great pitch to become the new car czar.
I investigated this for serving up static content for my company. a couple things are wrong:
1) it doesn't serve up gzipped files to browsers that accept gzip, you have to manually manage this yourself
2) there's no way to force CF to reload from S3 so you have to resort to versioning by filename (styles.v1.css, styles.v2.css, etc)..

Otherwise for it's price, CF is a bargain for client-side performance minded startups.
Ok, but how about the hundreds of small businesses and suppliers that depend on the Big 3 for work?
If I remember correctly, I think the site that day was Open Source Food. Trust, if I was Yongfook I definitely wouldn't be having the iFrame problem mentioned below... ;)
This is why I qualified the SAT as merely the "least broken" part. Rich parents can buy extracurriculars (internships at prestigious museums, etc.) to the nines. With the SATs, there are limits on how much improvement coaching can bring. A rich kid with a 100 IQ will never break 1400(/2100) on the SATs, even if he has the best tutors in the world.
I'm thinking of open sourcing an old project
I like password wallet - http://passwordwallet.com
Moreover, the article didn't convince me that DR success is so much related to its design.
Romney has a proven record of turning around sinking ships. Both the Bain Company and the 2002 Winter Olympics were in bad shape when he took the reins in 1990 and 1999 respectively. He fixed both of them and remade them into viable ventures. I'm quite apt to take his word when he says a managed bankruptcy is the best option for the US auto industry.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it seemed like the writer of that letter was a bit too obsessively fixated with "battling" Google. I mean, I can understand doing it once you work for Yahoo!, but he said his reason for joining Yahoo! was to battle Google -- that is, he apparently had this goal even before he was hired by Yahoo!. Kooky.
I'm going to copy the text that I posted to my blog here. Not sure about all the etiquette of this.

http://paddymullen.com/2008/11/19/open-sourcing-chartwidget/

In 2007 I wrote a javascript charting package named <a href="http:/demo.chartwidget.com">chartWidget</a>. I intended to pursue business opportunities with it, that didn’t work out (another post).

Take a look at the site. You can view the javascript source, but it is obfuscated, I modified the YUI Compressor to munge global variables somewhat safely.

Anyway, I think I wrote some pretty cool code. I’m not currently doing anything with it, and many friends have recommended that I open source it. So I am thinking about it.

I have some questions

1. Which license to choose? I’m leaning towards GPL, because it is still a bit hard to let go. Which license puts me in the best position should someone want to use it (for me to possibly receive consulting fees)?

2.Should I include my whole subversion repository, about 700 revisions, I’m worried to do this, because it quite likely includes passwords ( I know bad practice)? On the plus side including the whole repository could show thought patterns, to help other people debug the code

3.Will anyone care? I guess I can find out by doing it.

4. My code is idiomatic to say the least, in some places wrong, and in many more places just hard to understand. How much will this matter for me, if someone looks at the code will they consider me an idiot?

5.What questions am I not asking that I should be?

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SplashID.

http://www.splashdata.com/splashid/download/iphone.htm

You can download the desktop version as a stand-alone app or use it with the iPhone, Treo, etc.

It's not the prettiest mac application but I think it gets the job done. I originally used it first when I was on Treo many moons ago. Then when I switched to the iPhone I really missed it. As soon as they came out with the iPhone version, I bought it immediately. You have to sync the iPhone and your desktop through a manual process but it's pretty straightforward once you do it.

It's not integrated with quicksilver though, but I don't know if you want that sort of info easily accessible outside of the app.
In short, lots.

I think Xobni's person-oriented metaphor is a very strong one. It doesn't replace Outlook's UI, but it does add a lot of value to it.

In Gmail, I end up with dozens of labels and filters putting mail in each of those labels. Many of them basically group mail by people, which is Xobni's strength. I love the idea of seeing that person and all conversations you've had with them separated out without having to create that through a label system. It's such a common thing to want to reference, but not as easy as it could be in Gmail.

It's also great to have quick access to files sent by that person, separate from emails. Digging through emails to find the right one that a file attachment was attached to is no fun in Gmail or pretty much any other mail program. Xobni wins on this front big time.

Another is seeing relations between people. I do this by filtering groups (usually by common domain, but then there are exceptions for personal email addresses too) into their own labels like "Client X" and "Client Y" for my most active clients, since keeping them all in one stream is just too much to manage. But being able to quickly drill down to Joe who works with Steve when Steve mentioned something Joe was supposed to send you would be really nice. Another Xobni win there too.

Gmail Labs sounded like a good idea, but while a few are pretty useful, most of the options in there are a joke. A snake game? Come on. Randomized signatures? How about selectable signatures already?

They really need to start thinking a bit bigger to continue improvements. Gmail is far from perfect, and while Xobni isn't a complete client unto itself, it is a nice addition to one to be sure.
Make Your Site An iPhone App
mmm... steak n shake. Perhaps the best after-bar food ever. Ironically, their fries suck.
This technique would render your site unusable in mobile browsers, where it is unintuitive or impossible to hover a cursor.
Thanks Jasber - I've screen-capped the bug and will get it resolved.
except that you can't know if the person who is typing is the real one
Uh yeah, that already exists:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/ (random page)

This won't take off at all. If you still want to pursue this idea, least you could do is add a top iframe with some info on the site, comments, etc..

Edit: well, you said in your original comment that there would be a frame, but it doesn't seem to work on the current page that is displayed. (safari, mac)
Read a real world book, not something on the internet.
Perhaps some parts of Gmail are RC and some are beta? (No idea, beta really doesn't have any meaning here)
Your Apps idea is an excellent point. As of right now, I certainly don't have the feature available in my apps account, but I don't have it in my @gmail.com account yet either. Apps accounts also don't have access to "Labs" features at the moment though, so this could take some time.

If I remember correctly, you can actually already apply some branding to a google apps account (if not for a free one then the paid-for version) at the moment, but I recall it being very limited. (just the logo, possibly)

(tangent: some bizarre modding going on here - I'd love to hear why)
All the payments show up in the public twitter stream, so you know how much people theoretically have at any given time. The daily max is circumvented with sockpuppets.

It doesn't have to be lucrative for someone to try it, or for it to ruin the whole idea.

Other ways to ruin things: having trouble understanding the credit crisis? Create your own with twitpay. Just start twitpaying your friends and sockpuppet accounts in crazy, interlocking ways, but way underfund your accounts, then have everyone start making claims. Who gets paid!? I don't know! It's twitterific!
USB is a good example. They added support for it to Windows 2000, and refrained from updating Windows NT to support it. By some odd coincidence (NOT), all the new retail non-USB products (including ones that worked perfectly fine with the old connections -- mice, keyboards, webcams, printers, etc.) disappeared from the market overnight, leaving consumers unable to buy anything but USB, even if they wanted to pay good money. This was a major pain point for me for a long time, and is thus seared into my memory, because NT was working great and I did not need Windows 2000, except for USB support.
The Safari bug was announced. I like the idea, but I wish there was a method of letting users index featured sites (tagging or the like) to help people find related sites.
So much about Microsoft ever buying Yahoo. They bought all they needed.
Wow, I completely missed the intellichat thing. That sounds pretty nasty.
one must ask why a waitress at denny's who makes minimum wage and has no healthcare must bail out union workers at gm who make 8x the wages, do less work, have ZERO DEDUCTABLE healthcare (do you? i doubt it), and full pensions.

or why should a succesful worker at honda in ohio subsidize not only a failed competitor, but in essence have his own taxation used to undermine his own hard work?

as for saving jobs and investment...most of the suppliers are already on death's door if they only rely on orders from detroit. investors have already lost 95% of their money on avg...nothing can reverse these losses

in the end the govt cannot give the big three their reputations back. lost reputation is why people do not choose these cars even though they are now comparable in quality. barak obama cannot force me to buy a buick
Some monitors have multiple inputs and you can use a cheap passive USB switch for the KM. I use this kind of setup since dual-link DVI KVMs are quite expensive. I also discovered that cheap USB KVMs are crap; the passive switch is more reliable.
As we save the companies that crippled the credit markets, we have no interest in spending a fraction of that same amount of money helping the companies most negatively effected by the condition of those same credit markets.

are you trying to tell me that gm is simply a victim of the credit crisis???

why would a bank loan them money now?? aren't we all about responsible lending now?? lending money to gm is the corporate equivalent of a subprime loan. we don't want banks making subprime loans anymore.
and one wonders why bankruptcy is suitable for any other company in america, including airlines that have gone in and out of bankruptcy numerous times over the years...yet this same option is not permissible for the big3?

this is exactly why ch.11 exists - to allow freedom to restructure
This actually is an excerpt from a very good book called Fast Food Nation.
Name me a single hugely successful internet company that is driven and built by user suggestions.

Flickr? Craigslist?

To create something game changing you have to be like apple, you just build interesting stuff and test it on users until you find something that works and then you release it to everyone.

How will we know if it works if you don't listen to the users? Quantitative information always benefits from qualitative feedback. It's really not enough to know what's successful if we can't tell how or why it's successful.

Also, the advice from almost anybody creating new and interesting products is to place yourself in the shoes of the user and build things that you yourself would find useful. Who should we be listening to then?
it is good to see you guys got this far. met one of you almost a year ago in mountain view. i hope you get some good money from it.
In short; they're in trouble. That's why you should never ever put all your eggs in one basket.

As I noted in this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369994

my family has already been hurt by this. My Dad was laid off, my Grandpa was forced in to retirement. My other Grandpa lost his job. One of my Uncles who did supplies sales was laid off. Only one of the above actually worked at one of the US car companies - the rest were part of the supplies/small businesses.
David brooks explained the difference really well. The bailout of wall st. Was a bailout of the entire financial system. If it didn't happen comapnies would not be able to borrow any money. Forget who it's from. If we don't bail out the big three we will all still be able to buy tons of different kinds of cars. (Can't send link from iPhone)
the reality is there is no real competition in north america search. google has the market sewn up. team members can move from yahoo to microsoft to powerset to whatever...google will still dominate.

brand matters. in a test i recall, they took yahoo results and google results and swapped the company banners. people liked the results that had the google logo on them. google has the brand in search, its probably impossible to unseat them unless they do something drastically stupid