skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web is being stretched far beyond it's real point because we have found a need for safe, secure, installess /full-blown-applications/ but we haven't found anything better than the web to discover and deliver them. I'd love to have an iPad-in-my-desktop that's just a NaCl launcher. But, every time I think through what it would require to be practical, I end up re-inventing Chrome.
"Build for users, and don't worry about search engines".

I guess situations like this shows the absurdity and lunacy of people who say things like that.

But I do see your blog as the first result. As for why your main landing page isn't #1, I suggest you just stay calm, and wait a few days. Google has a knack for bouncing results, especially these past few weeks with the Penguin update and all. And if you just recently did the 301-redirect, those things take time to get sorted out. (Since MelonCard was still a relatively young brand, a 301-redirect was harmless, but if you had an old brand/domain, a 301-redirect would be SEO suicide)

You're still in the index. Your blog is ranking for your brand. You haven't been nerfed out of the blue, so stop worrying and be patient.
I call bullshit. High end Sony and ThinkPad laptops are the only laptops that match up to MacBooks in terms of screen, size, battery life, keyboard, trackpad, design, and durability. They are not cheaper.
Number three in Canada...(your blog is number one and your article on the BeenVerified scam is two).
Great find. This is the most in-depth article I've read on this subject. I actually use this as an open-ended interview question at the game company where I work. The PlayStation 2 has a bunch of quirks with floating point numbers because it doesn't follow the IEEE standard - for example, floats don't become infinity when they overflow, they just get clamped to the maximum possible float. Now you can't use your FPU for the tens of thousands of floating point calculations that are happening per frame. Sure, your processor is faster, but it's fighting with one arm tied behind its back.
Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" was terrific.
No, the restriction only applies to criminal laws.

Also, having renounced his citizenship and already given up his U.S. residency, he is no longer subject to the protections of the U.S. constitution.
I guess my post was triggered by looking through some companies on the recently launched "Made In New York Digital Map" website that showcases New York's startup scene. After clicking through to some sites, I was greeted by the same boilter-plate templates with large image backgrounds with bold headlines and "signup with Facebook/Twitter/Email" call-to-action. I see this trend becoming ever more prevalent with everyone jumping on the twitter bootstrap bandwagon, but not taking the time to tailor their offering or adding a unique twist.
Which one are you better at? Python or Ruby? Pick one. Then go
Upvoted. I recently purchased my domain and hosting from infomaniak. Great service.
Well, there's currency note schemes that aim to prevent scanning or photocopying; and there are digital watermarks as well.
This seems to be influenced by tumblr, which also uses j/k. Tumblr is, of course, influenced penultimately by vi, which is ultimately influenced by ANSI control codes LF and VT :-)
How does this look: Python, web2py (framework), mysql, HTML(5), CSS(3), Jquery, twitter bootstrap
The issue is that buying an SNES becomes decreasingly viable as time goes on while using an FGPA becomes increasingly viable. I don't know if we've reached the point where the balance shifts yet, but presumably we will at some point.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs
Five? Wouldn't that make at least for of the "EOs" rather than CEOs?

"Each of the five CEOs oversees a different area..."

Or SVPs?
Use Open Site Explorer to start on your bad link search:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains?site=safeshepherd.co...
> ... grabbing a ton of users and hoping for the best isn't a good general strategy for building a business.

Everyone has their own way and why do people judge about others? Some grab a ton of users and hoping for the best and others write online tutorials for aged technologies. Let people just do what they like and appreciate if they are successful (grabbing a ton of users is as hard as it is to write good online tutorials).
How to use effectively Java Interfaces
None of the graphs are from the Bush era, but the Iraq war was still active in 2011. I was asking whether the cost of the war's operation omitted from this graph's "Defense spending".
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differences between this and jqPlot? (http://www.jqplot.com/index.php)
What is this "completed their CS degree" stuff you're talking? That's ancient school.
> "Do you have any actual examples of this happening?"

As a guy who hangs out at a number of SF-area meetups and startup events (free booze and food? count me in) I have met many startup employees and founders who freely admit to this.

For the most part people are interested in the work they're doing (big scalability issues, big data problems, etc), but many people are in it for the money (either ludicrous SV salaries or the hope of a massive flip) and don't genuinely believe in what their product does.

I think this is the attitude OP was railing against, and I'm inclined to agree. There are some damn smart cookies in this town, most of whom are incredibly well paid and mobile - to work on something you don't believe in... that seems incredibly wasteful.
This is being said without knowing exactly which web sites you're talking about. You'd have to give examples to get a more precise answer.

Don't equate using something that works with following herd mentality. The reason something like Bootstrap by Twitter is used so often is because it "just works". If you are a start up with limited keystrokes before you burn out of money, then you focus on other value-generation parts of the business. I would rather get a halfway decent Bootstrap looking site (with tweaks) than spend money on a designer or time creating something that is different but I have no idea if it will convert well. In the meantime, I'll spend my time and energy on building new features. If the idea proves out, we'll loop back on the launch pages and do some A/B testing after the fact.
We live in an exciting time. So many ideas haven't seen the light of day because tech like this hasn't hit the tipping point yet. Once it does, the physical creativity of the hackers will be unleashed. Hell, maybe we'll have hoverboards by 2015 after all.
I wouldn't call it herd mentality. They're being practical. It's an implementation of best practices. You'll increase conversions if you put things where users expect them to be. If you build something that differentiates itself at the cost of usability and expectations, you'll most likely hurt your bottom line.

Think about cars for a minute. Don't they all look and function the same? Where's the steering wheel? Where's the radio? Where's the motor? Gas pedal? Brake pedal? Seat adjusters? Cup holders? A/C and heat controls? Doors?

Most cars are pretty much the same. The differentiation is in the paint colors offered, the design of the body, wheels, and rims. The visual aspects, per se.

You see, the same thing could be said for start up sites. Everything is where you expect it to be. What's different are the logos and color schemes used.
IMO any SEO besides writing good content should be penalized and that what's Penguin does so personally I think it's great.
Disturbing, yes. But keep in mind that there are warehouses out there with people's heads cryogenically frozen. So there's a line of people queuing up, waiting for it to happen. :)
What History Teaches us About the Next Boom in Mobile Business
Less time sitting in traffic due to more efficient road usage could help maybe?

Also if self driving cars became the norm, I could see a lot of automobile usage becoming similar to a "taxi" situation where the nearest car picks you up, and you could opt for an economical plan where the car picks up passengers going the same way.

At this point it's just speculation because nobody knows what kind of novel usage patterns and macro effects we'll see if driverless automobiles become the norm. We just know it will be a huge net positive in the long run. If only for the millions of truck drivers who would be unemployed and hopefully quickly re-employed doing something else useful.
HP considers cutting 25,000 jobs
Number two in the UK - Number one is a film called 'Safe' showing tonight at a cinema in 'Sheperds Bush, London'.

Number one in AU, BR, JP,...
88% of Groom's fellow students currently have job offers on the table, with approximately 60% of those headed to start-ups and the remaining 40% mostly employed at consultancies.

If the total group size is 20, why not use actual numbers rather than percentages? I know it sounds like more using percentages, but it feels a little misleading to me.

edit: formatting.
All compensation was taxed back then, not just direct compensation. And it was much harder to convert wages into capital gains because they defined compensation much more strictly than they do now.

This just isn't right. It was a significant change when, for example, the company car became a taxable benefit. Now employers can't pay for your schooling without paying taxes on it.

Almost everything (except for health insurance) gets taxed today.
RelativeDateDescriptor - an Obj-C Class for Describing Time Intervals
I have just open sourced a utility class that I've used in a number of my own apps for describing time intervals. The class, RelativeDateDescriptor can be used to returned formatted descriptions such as '3 seconds ago' or 'in 2 minutes' etc.
An FPGA can emulate a lot of different systems, but a SNES is just a SNES.
Because 3 of the 20 were not looking for jobs. Thus it would not have made sense to use them in assessing the success.

I'm Lachy Groom, btw.
Those links are the same. Which one did you buy it from?

(Man. I JUST recieved a Genesi Efika MX yesterday. $129 for 800 mhz, 512mb ram, 8gb SSD, runs ubuntu. Maybe that's not too shabby.)
I used to work for a really large company that had Global CEOs, regional CEOs, Global SVPs, regional SVPs..u get the picture. I always wondered why but may be I am stupid.
So did they: http://crowdtit.com
Also, your redirection is weird.. You have a 302 on http://meloncard.com, that forwards to https://meloncard.com which then 301 redirects to safeshepherd.com

If I were moving a domain, I would have 301'd http://meloncard.com to safeshepherd.com right out of the gate.

Too add to everyone's anecdotal experiences, I 301'd a domain last week and the new domain only took a couple of days to show up in search. I was a happy customer.
I might try it, but wouldn't they have friends who send them items? It's very common even inside Japan that relatives send food items to each other, and I the Japanese expats who I knew in Finland were also getting items sent to them by their parents.
Hi Jerry, you mentioned earlier that your android version makes about 75% of its iPhone equivalent. Is this still the case now?
Also, the medium on which the software is delivered is not the problem either. It's just information after all. The problem is accurately emulating the software in software which is easier achieved by emulating the harware in hardware :)
How Mobile is Rapidly Evolving the World
Digging Deep in Rails 3 with ActiveSupport::Notifications
If MelonCard was the primary source of "google juice" for SafeShepherd.com, then the change would certainly affect your rank.
Would also love an option for a premium four button pedal, and maybe a bit more memory or some kind of storage option (SD card reader?).
Turning an obsession into gold
Elon Musk is the exception that proves the rule.
If you actually waste your time reading every one of those, you should just go ahead and hang it up. We're talking about whether or not you should learn to code. The argument can't be boiled down to a simple "do" or "don't". The entire discussion is rife with mixed arguments and people talking past each other. Please, place your efforts elsewhere.
Buy ad words or quit complaining about it. You act like you are entitled to search ranking. You aren't.
I think it's a bit nuanced. Consumerism, from an economic perspective, can be a fast, efficient driver of economic growth. However, it often isn't sustainable growth (not just ecologically -- the American "Manifest Destiny" growth wasn't sustainable because explorers hit the Pacific and ran out of land).

In addition to the lack of sustainability (adding back in the ecological issues), consumerism seems to drive a general cultural malaise wherein the people try to find meaning by buying crap, rather than living fulfilling lives.

IMO, consumerism is detrimental in the long run to people's mental health and the environment (and it's not sustainable); however, it has been shown to be a solid driver of economic growth.
I have a bunch of annotated screenshots I was going to include, but the post was already a million words long and running late.
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Senator proposes 30% anti-Eduardo-Saverin tax
Hopefully I can help some. :)

I see a couple of problems with your redirects:

1) http://www.MelonCard.com uses a 302 redirect to the https version. You have inbound links to that domain pointing to the http version, so the 302 negates the following 301.

2) Furthermore, your 301's seem to be implemented incorrectly. It works for me in Safari/Chrome, but if I use curl on the command line, or any crawling software I see an infinite redirect:

www.MelonCard.com/?from=shadow&from=shadow&from=shadow.....

This is likely interrupting Googlebot's crawl too. Certainly worth a fix!

A couple of other bits to note:

1) The redirect in Chrome sends me to:

www.safeshepherd.com/?from=shadow

which Google believes could be different to:

www.safeshepherd.com/

You should add a rel=canonical meta tag to the page to help Google out.

2) Your internal links point to safeshepherd.com without the www., but your MelonCard redirect redirects to the www. version. You should probably make this consistent, and also 301 one version to the other.

This latter points may seem picky, but Google can be troublesome with this.

Hope this helps! :)
Met Police to extract suspects' mobile phone data
TED can't show this because they're supported by advertisers, which means they'll never really be free to spread ideas if they go against the will of these companies: http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/sponsors.php
We want to be the interaction layer between consumers and large screens, as touch is the interaction between personalized devices like tablets and mobiles. Applications targeted towards interactive learning and user engagement in fields like education and marketing is the segment we are focused on.
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Every time I see someone explain why they need a car they always mention big grocery trips and often taking kids somewhere or other. It doesn't seem like driverless cars will do away with those, and if they're really so necessary, most cars available probably won't be lightweight and single occupancy.
That may be true, but I was under the impression that cryogenic thawing wasn't necessarily a foolproof operation. That would seem to be to be the first step.
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That's great! Although, how does it work? I can't set any bits...
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The Mac version is next inline of release cycle, so preety soon!
That's probably because the BSNL employees are still having the samosas/chai they ordered?
How about a SNES card for my PC with all the hardware on it? ;)
An even more extreme example than Capone is Pablo Escobar. He fashioned himself as an honored man of the people in Columbia, even as he was ordering the (often brutal) executions hundreds of police officers, judges, public officials, and personal enemies.

Yet when he died, the people of Columbia wept in the streets.
> he subprime collapse was a bubble.

No, that was a bubble bursting. The act of excessive lending was the bubble.

Bubbles are only boring until they pop. But they are interesting to identify because we know they do pop eventually. I think the general argument is that people are trying to head warning to those who are less fortunate about seeing the bubble begin to pop. If we all (and we don't) agree there is a bubble than who in their right mind puts a value on such a bubble'd finance valuation. Well, that's easy, the ones who seek to gain the most benefit from it. The ones who are manipulated (i.e. pensions, 401k, etc.) are the ones who get screwed and unfortunately that ends up being the less fortunate.
A transistorized 4-bit digital computer made out of discrete DTL
Users must install some software for this to work right? Some browser plugin of some kind?
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To me, good jobs are satisfying, economically productive and reasonably well-compensated ones.

You know, the ones you get from having a well-educated and empowered workforce.
For the podcast-learning types, I enjoyed the Security Now episode where they went over SPDY, episode 343.

http://twit.tv/show/security-now/343

It was a nice gentle introduction to the subject while I was walking my dog.
Bing Search API Now On Paid Platform
Inflation isn't an increase in demand that leads to higher cost. Inflation is a general increase in supply. A rise in prices is not the same as inflation. Inflation will eventually cause a rise in prices but it is not the only reason for an increase in prices.
Is anyone else reminded of the "copper" effect people would do back in the day where they would cycle the colors of a screen in sync with the horizontal refresh of the monitor to create bars of color the oscillate up and down in really cool patterns?
Couldn't upvote this more.

Rails was groundbreaking. Yes. DHH did something great but that's now 7 or 8 (!) years ago. Rails has aged, DHH showed often how opinionated he can be and that he just isn't perfect. And the 37signals products live primarily because of DHH's and Rails' reputation and not because there are outstanding (there tons of better Basecamps out there).

Still DHH is a smart guy but a Kevin Systrom who built a company, who learned how to build a scalable backend while starting this company and then sold this company after just 2 years for 1 billion achieved something special as well and this should be appreciated instead of ranting. This is just infantile and shows once again DHH's temper and lack of self-control.
A-men.

If you're missing the UI for styling, you might try Fireworks.

The idea that Photoshop should be used as a layout tool is an unfortunate accident of history -- it was/is the household name for image manipulation as most designers and developers hit the web. But while it's good for raster/photo editing, sets of pixel layers doth not a good layout/design tool make.

Illustrator's a lot better for this. And Fireworks is made for web layout and screen graphics, has a great mix of vector and raster tools, and is evolving some really sophisticated export abilities including some of the CSS export facilities CSS Hat is doing.
Back in '01 (the good old days), we had volume prices of $40 for Xilinx parts which were big enough to get a PowerPC CPU in it.
Judging from the 4th episode of the tv show Connections, programming <i>evolved</i> from knitting, so this is not surprising.
No, safeshepherd.com has not been hit with the Penguin algorithm, nor with any kind of manual spam action.

If you look at the first website mentioned in that WSJ article, they even admit that they paid for hundreds of backlinks to their site, which is a violation of our quality guidelines.
Getting your ass kicked
You're correct, this particular problem can be handled with sufficiently sophisticated frame buffer logic. I was generalizing from that to other concepts where emulating the television or its signal processing would be required.

I'll give you another example. On the Atari 2600 game console, the vertical sync is software controlled. The software is responsible for enabling the vertical sync pulse. This can be done 60 times per second as standard -- or you could play tricks with it. Suppose you strobe it at a different or even irregular rate. On an analog TV, the picture starts rolling vertically. That breaks way outside the sandbox of a framebuffer, with signal being displayed in overscan areas, and during the normally-blank retrace interval resulting in ghosting effects. (No commercial game did that, but it's been done in tech demos, and conceivably a horror game could do it intentionally for mood.) To produce that same behavior on framebuffer-based hardware, you need to emulate or at least approximate the workings of a TV's vertical sync logic, none of which appears in the console itself.

(I know this from experience, I wrote an Atari 2600 game: http://www.dos486.com/atari/ )
Yes, you need to install the SDK, but its not a browser plugin. Gets installed as a native app and runs as a background service.
Finding Meaning in the Social Firehose
JP Morgan's $2 billion loss is now $3 billion
Actually WePay is moving away its focus from group payments to small stores, merchants, and fundraising.
Code as perspective
User will install a small package which sits in the background.

If a web app is using the JS SDK, then it will work in any modern browser.
Don't forget Ripl, either: https://github.com/cldwalker/ripl
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Excellent work, gents.

You're welcome :)
Looks good to me, although we use Postgre. web2py has been surprisingly good to work with.

I agree with the parent on Ruby vs Python - just pick the path you're already more comfortable on.
They got into the next round of YCombinator, so I'm sure we will see something soon.

http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...
Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme"
Not to put a damper on your hopes, but 40 years ago I would have said the same thing about 2012.
Your two-part explanation is accurate. The Sass team was nice enough to even point you to RubyInstaller right there on their download page.
The state of particle physics—a report from Pheno 2012
Hey Muddy - One thing that I'd love to add is "site speed"

Just about the easiest thing in the world to do, that works virtually every time is to increase site speed by.

On average we see load speed for client LPs in the 2.5 - 4 second range.

Rule of thumb for us is that 1 second reduction = 10% bump in conversion.

Here's a primer of the top 3 things that we do to improve:

a) Minimizing HTTP requests in your header that could potentially slow down loading.

b) Batching style sheets so that they load in appropriate order - eg client visually sees important elements immediately like headline, text, button.

c) Get your heavy weight elements (scripts / images), if not the entire site, onto a Content Delivery Network.

More resources on site speed:

Google's Site Speed Tax:

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/04/official-google...

Walmart's Real Data on Transactions w/Site Speed:

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/02/28/4-awesome-slid...

List of free & commercial CDNS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network