skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran it through geocitiesizer; I think it looks a little better.

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...
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Joe Biden has long supported Hollywood; one of the reasons Obama chose him as a running mate was because of this support. Biden's track record on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks for itself.
I'll argue that Krauthammer is referring to energy devoted rather than past accomplishments. Should the Chinese return to the moon whilst we are convening panels to issue press releases about energy efficient NASA buildings, then indeed "overtaken" is correct. Bolden is just defending his sinecure and the aforementioned LEED office building.
"Earning" lots of money involves almost as much luck as inheriting it.

This is particularly true in the equity-heavy tech sector.
Mad props!
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Russ Cox's codesearch: https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/

Russ Cox wrote the old Google Code Search, codesearch is an implementation in Go based on the same ideas.
Yes, he is. Some of us have excellent visual acuity. We would welcome devices that reward this with open arms.
I purchased the first edition, any upgrade plan?
So I guess the title of the article should be "Resolution independent high-resolution graphics for your website" then. Retina still communicates the subject better to me, since we all know this is about providing high-res images for iOS devices with Retina displays. Maybe I'm just getting too old to be anal about terminology like this.
“It is just a matter of time until the truth comes out. We are working on that and we are making good progress,” Dotcom concludes.

Was the more interesting bit for me. This could actually have serious ramifications. Kim seems devoted.
Yes, Russ Cox's codesearch is great, I use it to search in around ~50 millions lines of code. A query is so fast I never bothered to measure it, and reindexing the whole thing only takes a minute or two on a 5 year old laptop. It's so fast I reindex everything at every shell login.
He should just really re-create the company and call it Megaupload2. That'll show 'em :)
Yes, I don't care for nerf gun fights nor beer on the job, either. I'm generally very serious in corporate environments and never consider them fun.

However, I would nevertheless run screaming from the corporate environment you mention. Unless I were desperate, I would not tolerate some "boss" deciding what is the most effective way to accomplish my work. I would be hired for my judgement and directed productivity; if I happened to judge that a nap was the best next step to succeeding in my tasks, then I know better than this busybody manager.
word, looking forward to it

we got ya backs when you finally get to NYC.

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Off-topic, but does anybody else find the Groupon stock "chart" on that page infuriating?! It looks as if it's interactive, suggesting that you can use the control at the top to zoom in on a particular time range, or use the slider at the bottom to go back in time. And the "hand" cursor on mouse-over suggests that you can interact with it. But clicking anywhere just serves to reload the page! Maybe it's just me but it took me two full-page reloads to realize I was being conned.

@thenextweb.com: please embed the real, functional widget; or, failing that, embed a chart that doesn't look like a widget. If you really, really must embed a functional-looking but non-functional picture of a widget, at least link it to the real widget.

And if for some reason none of the above is possible, and you really have to include a picture of something that looks like you can interact with it, don't make it clickable because doing so will confuse the hell out of people like me.
Things like "reports so easy even your boss can understand them" don't go over real well with my boss.
Well, having made no special effort, the site claims my User-Agent is as unique as my set of 5,150 installed fonts. To be fair, I suppose WebKit nightly version numbers don't satisfy most definitions of "random".

As for mechanisms, to what end, if nobody bothers to use them? Especially things like "randomize User-Agent string" that'd break a great many "non-evil" sites?
Hmm. Maybe if the economy inflates at differing rates it's not just because of monetary policy?

It's hard to reason about inflation because different goods do tend to inflate at differing rates. Perhaps we should measure the change in inflationary rates before and after some specific event.
I don't think the 6502 had #1, or at least not in an easy way. Accessing, say, the second element from the top of the stack required you to copy the stack pointer to the ?X? register, then use that to index into the stack. That works, but is cumbersome.
Please accept my apology for disagreeing with you. I have only recently become aware of the rules here and I now understand that disagreement is frowned upon and can lead to being banned.
No, you don't get it. Good SEO IS building a stronger brand.
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Check your email for a coupon code. As far as upgrading the app itself, so much has changed that I recommend starting from scratch. (It'll go much faster the second time around.)
Here are a couple that I'm not likely to do anything with, and encourage people to steal.

BookNotice.com -- Ideally, this site asks for your Amazon login, looks at all your past purchases, creates a table of the authors you read, and then notifies you when new books by those authors comes out.

Revenue model is simple -- email with affiliate link. "We saw that you've bought 3 books by George R. R. Martin. 'A Feast of Crows' comes out next month. Click here (affiliate link) to pre-order."

Ideally, it could also recommend me other books as well using a Netflix-type recommendation engine (or Amazon).

I have the name 'booknotice.com', and would happily donate it to anyone who built this.

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Google sites for event sites. Djangocon has a website, and only actually updates it a little before and a little after the event. They don't have anything particularly demanding for a generic web service, but there are things that an event needs that no other site does.

Ideally, it needs to handle the irregularity of the event. Last time I looked at the Djangocon site to see when Djangocon was hitting next, all I saw was details on the event that had already passed. I want that stuff to be preserved, for sure, but I don't want to be confused in thinking that I can book tickets to last year's Djangocon. I want the '2013' page to show up, even if it just says "Event details coming soon" after the 2012 event has already passed. It needs to have an archive where I can see who spoke at last year's event, or the event two years ago, and the presentations should be preserved for posterity.

Revenue model could be simple monthly hosting costs, or a cost+markup on EC2 compute cycles or something. If this were done by an established company (say, Heroku or Dotcloud), they could be de facto event sponsors for every event and drive revenue to their core products that way.
Interesting, thanks for clarifying :)
Metal resources don't get exhausted -- nearly all of the copper mined at the time of the pharaohs is still in use. When the cost of mined material rises, we simply reuse some of the metal that is in use in lower-value places. Example: all the copper piping that is presently being ripped up and replaced with plastic everywhere in the world.

Nuclear fuel resources are essentially inexhaustible -- there is enough Thorium to feed constant growth for at least tens of thousands of years. Which should be enough for development of fusion.
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Is "cookie pool" a widely known term in the ad targeting industry? Article would benefit from an explanation of what that is. Guessing it's the people who have a tracking cookie set, but how can those be subdivided like subprime CDOs?

Also, "Internet Explorer [is an] amazing execution of creativity that people actually want to view" is not a comparison that is going to win anyone in the web industry over to your argument...
I think it's an acronym portmanteau rather than straight up initialism.
As someone who's lived and worked in similarly collaborative or communal environments, that's something I could enjoy and definitely wouldn't dismiss out of hand.

But beyond the personal appeal, the negatively-charged comments really surprise me. People make the same argument against being very close with the people they live with--they're not looking to be best buddies with their roommates. And that's their prerogative and a totally valid choice! But plenty of people do choose to be really friendly with their housemates, and it works well for them.

By the same token, how can we definitively say that Ridejoy's strong culture is bad? Maybe it wouldn't work for you, but I'm sure you can imagine people who would get a lot out of it. After all, the 9-5 with people whose relationship with you is purely professional is something of an historical aberration. So why get huffy about something individuals are choosing to do because they believe it creates a better work environment?

Instead, let a thousand flowers bloom and try to figure out if there's anything you can learn from all of them, both the successes and the failures.
For me it is only doing that in the sponsored ads, not the actual results. Citation required.
Some initial thoughts:

- Not a huge fan of the "Pingdom killing" tagline in the title here. It sends a negative message that's unneeded, IMHO.

- I like the main page, but the multiple black boxes that popped up are distracting from the main content. Specifically, the "we're not here now" Contact button in the bottom-right, in addition to the Support button and the Sign Up button.

- You can't drag the scrollbar on the "Edit Check" page - it selects part of the page instead.

Other than those points, some small stuff: it doesn't say how I get notifications, the "contact us" black button obscures the "Follow Us" when you scroll to the bottom of the page, and, like bhauer mentions, the color depth seems a bit much - it's almost TO flashy.

All criticism aside: I'm still using it for my personal website :-) It looks like a good product, so keep up the good work!
not sure if being the "peace loving" nation has been good thing for india... India has had too much of that and looks to be a spine less country now which is not willing to take any kind of position or action...
Yes it is: and like a number of such things, it stems from the War On (Non-White People Who Use) Drugs. The incentives regarding property seizure in narcotics cases are even more perverse, and lead to brazen de facto theft.
Only have just skimmed it, but this is a great blog entry, more of an article really. Slick graphic design as well.

Will have to come back later to re-read.
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I think I've come up with some crazy far out ideas in a mild state of intoxication that I've made realty the next day. It takes down the "That's impossible" wall.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" -- paraphrase of Plato?
I always dislike how quickly everybody is to rave about the next big thing one day and then bash it the next.

They still have 8 million users and it I'm sure they aren't done innovating. I have no idea what they are going to do with the site, and I don't use it, but I'd say they are in a very good position for growth. This may be the beginning for them, not the end.

Does anybody know if twitter had a similar period in it's early stages?
But most people don't realize this, and they don't vote accordingly. So it persists and grows.
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i will say: i am glad i don't have to wake up everyday and think about ride sharing.
Sure, that's the law - but that is not the practice, that's not the facts on the ground. The moral panics over drugs and terrorism have expanded police powers such that it is de facto possible for the police forces to just steal from you. It's not legally theft: they've just redefined it, basically. It's similar to how the US government just effectively says "the things we do aren't torture, because we're doing them, and we condemn others for doing these things because they're torture."

If you have money, you have some recourse - but if you're an average citizen, the police can with any sort of drug- or terrorism-related charge, even if you are acquitted or the charges are dropped, de facto steal your shit and not reimburse you at all.
I've worked in both a startup environment and a tech giant. It's true that you get to write more new code at the startup, but beyond that I think this post is bunk.

"Maintaining old code" at a tech giant is not about keeping some ancient system working by periodically fixing a bug or adding a feature. It is about building scalable systems that are constantly adapting to new demands. It's about dealing with large-scale constraints and constantly finding and removing bottlenecks. I find it tremendously challenging intellectually.

Which isn't to say that the startup route is bad or not intellectually stimulating either. Writing new code is FUN. Trying out new stuff is FUN. Solving the problems that come with doing things differently is also fun and intellectually challenging.

I think there are advantages and disadvantages to both. I learned a lot in both kinds of environments and I think I would be a worse engineer for only having done one or the other. Some people might just be wired up to prefer one or the other, but my recommendation to people earlier in their career (particularly interns) would be to get experience in as many kinds of environments as possible.
Its a bit offtopic, but with slightly over a million in seed money invested a few months ago, how long can this culture really last, assuming employees are paid market rates and are not seduced by these twists on expense accounting.
How does Ridejoy make money?
When daily deals expire, who gets to keep the money?
fully agreed - the problem is exactly that "shoot first ask questions later" attitude and as you rightly mentioned the complete lack of accountability seemingly some of those involved here are assuming to be applied to this like with other dubious activities in the recent past.
I read it as an accusation, basically - "the FBI is effectively doing the bidding of the MPAA/RIAA."
The Spork caveat is mentioned in the book (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#code:rsp...):

One word of advice when using Spork: after changing a file included in the prefork loading (such as routes.rb), you will have to restart the Spork server to load the new Rails environment. If your tests are failing when you think they should be passing, quit the Spork server with Control-C and restart it.

That doesn't mean you won't end up on Stack Overflow, though. I end up there all the time myself, and I wrote the damn thing.
More than just conjecture, they openly threatened not to support the re-election campaign.

Procedural errors indicate to me that someone put a "rush" on the case and the results were sloppy.
Well, I think my view is pretty rational, I don't see it based on ideology as such. It's more the other way around: because by studying economic history, and economy in general, I became convinced of the values of (personal) freedom. But, to give some evidence that a stable equilibrium can occur: In the times of history when the free market determined what money was (precious metals), prices remained stable, sometimes for centuries. But once a government starts to interfere with debasing the money by law until it has no intrinsic value anymore, and keep printing it (so the same amount of goods & services are chased by more and more currency units), you can't have actual price information anymore. It's like measuring a distance with a yard stick whose units increases logarithmically in time.
My bad, just checked my e-mail. Thanks!
This event may have made their brand a household name, but one would imagine it poisons the trust consumers would place on any storage service Kim would create in the future.
I wonder how many real crimes could have been investigated and prosecuted with the resources the FBI used to make the MPAA and the RIAA happy.
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I think that's hyperbole. I understand the whole "damn the man" cynicism thing you got going on but there's two sides to the coin. When you work for law enforcement you get orders and you carry them out. These people are just like anyone else; honest people trying to get by. If anything it should be the ones giving orders who get canned.
Doesn't the iPhone only look for wlan networks once you start using it? At least, this has been my experience in the past: after returning to my base station, when I unlock it (turn on the screen), it takes a few seconds until the network indicator changes to wlan.

If true, this issue is quite overrated, at least on Apple devices.
I know like me many of you enjoy notch's Lundum Dare streams, unfortunately he isn't participating this weekend. I found a listing of other people that wil be streaming their progress and hopefully we wil see some interesting ones!
I doubt if it's make-up corruption to apologize for SOPA, it smells like mere corruption.
I'm already used to doing this for iOS, and though the process is cumbersome, enjoy the simplicity of using @2x images when designing apps.

That said, this is why CSS3 is so valuable, particularly when responsive websites have already complicated the process of building a website/app.
I wonder about this style of thinking. In particular, the distinction between making it work and making it right.

I've read The Pragmatic Programmer, and early-on, it mentions "broken windows" principle -- fix errors as soon as you notice them, or else they'll get more difficult for you to fix as time goes by. And like broken windows are like a green-light for a neighborhood to decline, unfixed hacks similarly invite poor quality code.

In practice, do "working" and "working well" end up being sort of the same as suggested by the broken windows principle? Or Is "make it work" refer to making a quick prototype, and "make it right" refer to filling out substantial functionality?
The results were as intended, the business was destroyed. Bonus: the govt doesn't have to spend money on a trial, and risk an innocent verdict.

Mission accomplished.
I can only speak to why Chrome irritates me (but apparently not enough to switch to something else yet).

1) When I copy the url, it adds the prefix into the paste buffer. This is the opposite of what I expect from an application -- "Do what I ask you". Even if you select just the hostname of a non-ssl site, it still prefixes the `http://`. This is a constant irritant when I try ssh'ing to a host or pasting a hostname to someone/something that only wants the hostname.

2) It displays some prefixes (https) but not others (http). I would prefer to be shown all prefixes. There was even talk of hiding https prefix for a while as I recall.

3) Location bar history completion always seems to show me the worse possible result. It often omits things that I want, and I find no way to complete to them. Sometimes it shows the result only if it type the full url.

4) Choices that make sense if you are trying to make the browser an OS, by ignoring OS functionality -- native printing dialogs/previews, native dns caches, tabs (custom window management), task managers, etc. Not all of them are choices I like (printing, custom dns cache). Some I like (tabs).

5) I am not sure how I feel about bundling flash. I have 'click to play' enabled, and the only thing I use flash for is the occasional youtube video someone sends me to view.
Pretty neutral. Everything is broken or circumvented in the long run.
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> (basically stripping out that personalization data),

Except for your IP address, along with all of the information sent along in your user agent string (browser, operating system, etc....)

I don't know how Google takes advantage of any of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's no real way to get a 'canonical' unfiltered search at all... and even if you can, it makes this kind of statement 'X overtakes Y' rather meaningless if most searches have the potential to be so heavily filtered/bubbled.
no self respecting programmer should use any other mouse device.

Besides, perhaps, a proper mouse?

The trackpoint is very cool in that you don't have to move your hand, but extended use can become very uncomfortable.
Exactly. How anyone thought that Groupon was ever going to do well is a complete mystery to me.
Well, we went to wormly because of missing pingdom features.
How would Apple go about unconfusing users? Should they vet future feature names to make sure they're not likely to become too popular?
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Wow. I haven't opened ie on my think pad in years. And it's been longer since I ran ie6

IE 6 as a requirement is really rare now. (as an FYI for everyone else - IBM has one of the largest Mac fleets in the world, and fully supports a Linux desktop client as well. ( and yes Lotus Notes runs on win/mac/Linux/iOS/Android)
maybe more along the lines of "what can be done will be done"
Not surprised and the lesson here is actually something very important and common: user surveys aren't always accurate. Ask a bunch of people if they're interested in learning new things and almost every one is going to say yes, but that doesn't mean they'll actually put in the work, however minimal, to do so.
Something like this is why I'm really, really excited for Ubuntu 12.10, Juju and Awsome. A huge step in the right direction for sure.
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That doesn't mean you won't end up on Stack Overflow, though. I end up there all the time myself, and I wrote the damn thing.

If that was eliminated, than spork would be an absolute no brainer.
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great blog.. i love how each article has a different layout emphasizing the content.
I think it was back in the 80s that Jello Biafra was arrested on drug charges and had property seized. The sheriff's office was able to legally sell the seized property before his trial. I don't know what happened to that law, hopefully it's been fixed since...
Is anyone else surprised at how many rounds of closures Google seem to announce? I'm not sure why these were kept through the previous 2 culls.
Even if we believe that our data is anonymous in one way or another the reality is that there are teams everyday working on de-anonymizing data. If you look at dozens of posted articles online referencing the restructuring of anonymous data you will realize that what appears to be anonymous on the surface might not be.
t430u looks promising as well.

edit: found a "leaked" photo of the x230. http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/X230-p...
In your chess example, there may be certain people that Magnus Carlsen should play chess against if he wants to improve. I don't know the specifics, but at least logically it is possible that even though Carlsen has the best chess rating, there could be players who can consistently beat him due to how they match up with each other.
I the US I can think of two.

Number one: you are in charge of you life and education. Don't depend on teachers to teach you everything or the government to guarantee your happiness.

Number two: learn to accept criticism and act on it. You won't get much of it during your years in school but you will get it eventually. It isn't the worst thing in the world and you might benefit from it if you don't just react against it.