skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of the entries in Bush's robots.txt were filtering out the plain text versions which are linked at the bottom of the HTML versions containing identical content. This prevents duplicates from showing up in searches. This is likely done automatically by whatever software they use to manage the content.

Want proof? Pick any of the entries ending in "/text", for example "/911/911day/text", search Google with the "/text" removed like this: "site:whitehouse.gov inurl:/911/911day" and you can still see the page in the Google cache (at least until Google's index is updated).

If you want to view it as a metaphor, fine, but there's no evidence Bush's administration was trying to hide anything on their website like this article implies. If they wanted to hide it, why would they put it on there in the first place?
helps to prevent eye strain.

I couldn't back this up without looking into it more... But I think the exercise also helps prevent/reduce/stall/mitigate short-sightedness.
But he _did_ have the Rockies outside, I can imagine why it happened... :)
Or better yet, use a passive element on the moon side. There are optical reflectors up there from moon missions that people can bounce (large) earth based lasers off of. Imagine one of those with a single LCD film over it. You can then selectively polarize the reflected light at virtually zero power use. It won't be a fast bit rate, the LCD could to 100bps easily, but I wonder what the atmospheric scattering does to the wavefront.
Yeah, I thought about completely facing the door, but mainly because I don't like people staring at my screen when they walk past. However, I can also imagine getting extremely distracted by people walking past all the time. There are people who sit at a 45 degree angle from facing the door, but I feel that with that I would be both distracted and have my screen looked at by passerbys.
Ridiculous.

On what grounds is it "ridiculous"? The cited article quotes a professor of constitutional law, your linked article is from a random blogger (who seems remarkably confident about what he "thinks" would happen if it were ever challenged in court). At first glance, both interpretations seem plausible.
Can you share with us, which ideas you implemented and which ideas gave you the biggest benefit? Thanks.
Good post, but I'm now a ruby dev. Does anyone know of such a resource full of ruby/rails tools?
Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
Not by much. Most of the energy cost of a launch to Earth orbit involves getting to orbital velocity. Getting an object that high is pretty easy by comparison.

(Get out your physics textbook and compare the kinetic energy of something going Mach 24 to the potential energy of something dropping 100 km.)

I'd expect a mistake like this from a high school student or a freshman. If you're not clear about this, then you have a perhaps a bit of homework to do before posting questions about space to a social news site that prides itself on informed, intelligent discussion.

Perhaps start with Zubrin's _Entering Space_. Any number of books about the space program will do as well.
I'm guessing it was this: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:ERwE1E4KiuwJ:www.whiteh...
It's quite neat.. Although, they are really only tracking three key entities - Users, Pages and Media. You'd hope it would be pretty simple.
i'm probably in the minority here, but i think constructing a test that rewards a broad but intensive base of knowledge and the ability to create a cohesive argument in a short amount of time should be applauded.

at the very least, hackers should appreciate the fact that it is quite contrarian.
Michael Arrington just wrote on TechCrunch about my latest project at http://grader.com and called it "beyond useless". Does that count?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/facebook-grader-for-the...
You shouldn't have a problem with static file downloads, on Dreamhost or on S3.
neat idea. I'll take a look into twitter and probably there's a way to to integrate it. SMS can be a bit costly so I'm not sure if I can afford to send out SMS, unless there's a free-bie way to do so. Suggestion?
Actually I've heard that said a lot from new users.

It's not pushed in the press b/c the press is pretty mac-knowledgeable. Design & print are major mac strongholds.
RFID Tags Enable Mobile Authentication Platform
Sports enthusiasts are often avid collectors of memorabilia, and some of the most highly valued sports collectibles are the uniforms and equipment worn or used by athletes in actual games. At sports collectibles shows and special fan events, fans can even get these items signed by the athletes who wore them, which adds significantly to their value. Imagine the value of the helmet worn by Eli Manning in the Super Bowl, signed by the New York Giants quarterback himself! But how do you — and appraisers or subsequent buyers — know that a helmet with Manning's purported autograph is authentic? Until recently, the purchaser of a signed collectible likely would have received a paper certificate of authenticity attesting to the validity of the item. But with such certificates, there was no way to definitively link them to specific merchandise items.
If you have an interest in Buddhism, I recommend this book- http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Lotus-Journey-Frontiers-Buddhi... , The Quantum and the Lotus, by Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, an astrophysicist. In it they discuss the parallels of modern science and Buddhism. The books format makes a compelling subject even more so, as it is presented as a dialogue. i.e.

Ricard: Lorem Ipsum

Thuan: Lorem Lorem Ipsum

Ricard: Lorem Ipsum?

Thuan: Lorem Ipsum =)
Yup - very old - so it doesn't really do much more than rant.

This article also completely glosses over the fact that most people don't keep their data backed up, or in a secure place (even people that know better).

It doesn't even consider that fact that... if you could accept that not all people offering cloud services are incompetent/misguided/evil... Cloud services have the potential to help people (!).
Insight into bandwidth utilization
The Primacy of the New Tool
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I have a feeling we would have seen the same result if her class would have required OpenOffice and her laptop only had MS Office. Of course it would not have been on the news if that were the case.
Doesn't need to - they just need to state what they want to do, then do it.
Is Twitter search really real time full-text search?
I find it strange that the majority of people thought the OP was referring to equal wages regardless of effort. It was pretty clear to me that he was referring to the difference in salary between countries for the same type of work. It disheartens me sometimes hearing that entry-level programmers in the US make $20 an hour, while I, with more than two years of experience, make about $30 a day. People don't realize how vast the disparity of living standards are across the globe.
I read that as wife debugging tool. Might be more useful.
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Just a small problem on macs, when I switch from single monitor to dual and visa versa I want the previous state restored. I want it to store the state of the windows and restore as many as it can from the last state... It would be great to keep all my terminals in the same location.
Same here. http://railstips.org/ is always a great place for Rails, well, tips from John Nunemaker.

There's 74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials: http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/74-ruby-on-rails-r... (not sure if this is dated or not)

19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know: http://www.rubyinside.com/19-rails-tricks-most-rails-coders-...

Mashable's 20+ Tools for RoR Development: http://mashable.com/2007/09/30/ruby-on-rails-toolbox/

Like PHP and libraries, a lot of Rails is plugins:

10 Must-Have Rails Plugins: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/6/16/10-must-have-rails-... and Top 11 Rails Plugins: http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/07/05/top-11-ra...
pg said that our interface is bizarre :-P

http://stylous.com/
Ensembl has a perl module / api for accessing their database:

http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/api/index.html
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/ has helped provide monetary incentive for longevity research. So far they have increased the lifespan of mice by 20%
Have you tried Windows 7? You might want to, I was really pleasantly surprised.
Vulpes, thanks: that .pdf of a 2007 presentation by Domas Mituzas at MySQL Users Conference just about has it all: Cache strategies; performance specifics; application components; DB balancing; storage strategies; use of compression; load balancing; administration; the People involved.
Certainly gives any LAMP-based development team a list of resources that have come together to be useful for such a project.
I'd like some company to do comprehensive and objective product comparison and evaluations based on a requirement list. Been spending lots of time doing such evaluations. I'd rather outsource it
ab which is a command line tool to simulate any number of concurrent http requests
The most influential people in the linux community left years ago. Either they got jobs, went to specific projects (e.g. apache, gnome), or to different systems (like the mac). Now we seem to be left with an operating system, not a movement. In the place of the old advocates, we have a quiet majority, and a vocal jackass minority. The minority seems to be from two sides:

1. True believers with their heads so far up their asses they can't see the concerns of normal people. They'll attack this girl to defend Linux. (She's a moron! It's her fault! It's because her body contains reproductive hardware!)

2. Insecure jackasses who support their unjustified egos by their ability to type commands in text instead of using a menu, and possibly being able to assemble the 6 parts (and all the new connectors only fit the right way!) required to build your own PC. Her inability to understand Linux made them feel better about themselves, and they attacked her to really drive that point home.
Proper speech recognition, speech synthesis and object location and identification.
Obama's most prominent word is "nation." Perhaps with the added benefit of hindsight, we can attribute more specific meaning to "nation" as we do with the terms highlighted in the previous inaugural addresses.
It could be like a driver's license for the internet, and a post office franking mechanism at the same time.

Although seriously now would you want every blog comment tied to you with a digital signature, provably yours forever?
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But is this of any use if we continue to deteriorate and need to spend more and more of our time one treating more and more aches and pains?
Startup in a time of recession
Sounds a bit like "Love in time of cholera" :-)
How do you guys think the recession has affected funding, customer spending (for online services), Ad-spending etc.? And how do you guys see it in near future? I know the question is very general, but would like to see some discussions on the topic.
I was under the impression it checked page retrieval times, which (after subtracting for idle network latency) would reveal which pages were transferring slow because of excess computation or disk use on the server. The idea being if it's slow for one user it's going to be _really_ slow for 1000+.

I've not more than installed and tried YSlow once, so I can't say too much about it.
Why do they refer to the table name in every fieldname?
Google's Android Engineering Director leaves for... Coupons, Inc
As a first approximation, you can discriminate by site. I never read comments on Reddit and always read them on News.YC.
Condi's term as Secretary of State would also have ended at 12:00, so at that point she wouldn't have fallen anywhere within the chain of command.
Obama inauguration traffic not good for everyone
Upvoted because its true. I worked as an independent programmer(still do) and i often got judged by the country that i live in instead of how well(or badly) i do the job.
You may want to study how Facebook Applications marketed themselves and the many ad networks that have evolved specifically for them.

Unfortunately, the Facebook App market is inundated with new apps, and to date I don't believe that there exists a good marketing strategy for newcomers. In fact, I believe that some categories of apps simply will not catch on no matter how much they are marketed, e.g. those which require a purchase.

Best of luck!
Good analysis - at least some good points on performance improving tips.
My observation: "Whitehouse is Stateless" :-)
Yeah. Makes the world a better place.
What's your take on Facebook app development, from the monetization pt of view.
Also, I would like to further talk to you about these offline. Can you please email me (address in profile).
Very good compilation with a few real gems in it! Anyone ever worked with http://www.phpobjectgenerator.com? The generated code looks a bit heavy.
I agree, if i'd have it i'd never get rid of it!
However the online copy is also really useful just to copy/paste bunch of codes to give a try live!
Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration
Do the Mac and Windows guys say that at present?

If not, I don't see any reason why the Linux guy would.
'Changing users makes it crash'

Wow. Which vendor? What happened when you reported it?
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So the closest we are likely to get to a PSP Phone this summer is the Sony F305. With two dedicated gaming buttons at the top of the phone which are utilized like a video-game controller when held sideways.
YSlow's primary purpose is to help you make sure the browser renders each page in the minimum amount of time. However YSlow does not only apply to browser rendering, following 6 of the 13 YSlow rules will result in a reduction of the total work the server must perform for each request.
Is Google defeating Spam?
Very interesting for sure.
Just wonder how much the 'school factor' influences rating. How many reviews and Googlings are due to students forced to read an 'arbitrary' title?
Which titles are in fact professors favorites?
I think Applying UML and Patterns could be one.
I have also seen a marked drop off in the numbers of items sitting in my gMail spam box as well.

Also I can't say that Google has come up with any false positives after a (very) few in the first few weeks of using the gMail service.
Reminds me of Lorenzo's Oil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104756/
Good use of VC.
Thanks for that. I'll never register at one of these news sites just to read an article... Amazing they try to force people to.
Break the speed of light barrier. If it's not possible, then at least average out our speed to be faster (like the bending the universe sort of method). Even 1.1c would mean we wouldn't really know the limit, and would shrink the universe within reach.
I still think that the Putnam is tougher. The average score for test takers has been 1/120 in some years. And in the seventy years the test has been going on, there has only been three perfect scores.
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Their popular list suggests they didn't have any technology for discounting the effects of voting blocs. I wonder if to this day they believe they had a representative sample of popular opinion.
Full Text Of Obama Inaugural Address and Video
End all fraud. The online version of this is, Spam, Phishing, Spyware, identity theft, etc. Offline: con artists, political bribery, tax evasion, ponzi schemes.

I don't believe eliminating all crime is possible, as I can always whack my neighbor over the head with a stick and steal his wallet, but alot of crimes are only possible because the victim has a lack of good information. This is fraud. Eliminate or drastically reduce all fraud.
Something I thought of when I was studying engineering at Uni (I dropped out) was to fit a small device onto the accelerator cable of a car that can apply varying degrees of tension to the pedal. This device would be moderated by the computer in the car to "condition" the driver to adopt a more fuel-efficient driving style. If you drive in a non-fuel efficient manner, there would be more "drag" on the pedal, thus requiring slightly more effort. The "sweet spot" of minimal drag/tension would encourage drivers to maintain a driving style which is the most fuel-efficient speed/acceleration.

This idea depends upon the ability to condition people over time in an almost subconscious manner. Not sure if it would work or not.
Convenient travel. Let me or at least my goods travel from any point to any other point with low overhead (<10 mins) at a speed of 100 mph or higher. And let me do so on demand without advance planning.
Who cares if it validates? The underlying markup is pretty unsemantic.

Just because it validates doesn't mean it's a well-coded website.
I would argue that someone destined to be a good programmer would have the ingenuity and drive to install a freakin' compiler and IDE. It isn't exactly rocket science.
In a Surging Analytic Market, Will Demand Outpace Supply?
A solution between owning and renting. I don't want to purchase a home because the cost is too high and I have no interest in being "invested" into the real estate market. However, renting has limitations imposed by the owner:
- pet/smoking/# residents preferences
- can't realistically make significant improvements to the property
circuit city stores don't officially close until march 31, 2009 (from a cc manager i know). that means no good deals until the last few weeks.
Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1
Abstract concepts like happiness, comfort and love aren't really problems. By creating some sort of device which provides these things you are essentially eliminating their meaning in the process. How could you truly appreciate them if they were simply handed to you?

Everybody wants happiness, comfort and love. We want them so badly that we spend our whole lives trying to acquire and keep them. When you start handing them out, why then do we live?
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Is online money only a myth??
Watch the video lectures as well, they're well worth it - and since they're for an earlier version of the book, you don't get presented with exactly the same information as you would be if they were in sync with the current version of the book.
I don't think a person should "do his homework" before asking a mere thought-provoking toy question. However naive the question, it has potential for informed, intelligent discussion.
"Now, if you look closely, inside this ivory tower you can make out an even smaller tower made of far choicer ivory."
SICP and Concrete Mathematics would be the two books in my backpack if I suddenly went entirely broke and had to hit the streets.
what if it were invaded at 11:59? :)
You could start an instance of Windows at Amazon to run DBDesigner for a few hours ($0.125 per).
Mono's New Code Generation Engine
Does Dreamhost let you configure apache mod_cache on your account? You might get some wins there. Watch out for artificial limits like database connection counts. But unless they're really awful you should be fine, a decent linux box can throw out huge amounts of traffic. S3 is a good idea, not merely for traffic capability but to avoid getting your account suspended for being 'over-transfer'.
Github vs Sourceforge
May be it exists in their coding guidelines? Although tablename.tablename_columnname sounds repetitive and verbose, it might in some cases be of help when one deals with too many tables and too many keys with the same name across tables.
Don't forget about IE8. That seems to be worse than IE7.
It's called a whip. Hurr hurr
Facebook marketing was the same way. During the platform release last summer most of the advertising cash came from other Facebook apps that wanted ad placement. By now that sort of ponzi scheme has died off; the gold rush's over.

Coudal has run the Deck for about 4 years now. Their premium CPMs comes from the fact that the majority of their site partners are high quality and run little or no advertisement at all to begin with. Line up a couple fly-by-night iPhone review sites running on WordPress.com and it's highly doubtful you'll get the same result; doubtful many will even give you exclusivity when properly spec-ed AdSense can make money too. Do you have enough cash to get AppleInsider.com, MacNN.com, or MacRumors.com's attention to custom design campaigns with you?

Have you considered talking to the handful of established iPhone advertising networks available? Medialets.com? AdMob.com? PurpleTalk.com?

EDIT: Looking at your site, have you considered starting your marketing domination with the website? An explanation of what the game is foremost, iTunes links, more focus on the screenshots, the $500 challenge, and everything? You can fit all that content onto a single page instead of this awkward ascending news style. Even a title tag might go a long way.
Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but did anyone else think that all this test will find is who is the best bullshit artist?
Then Batman's in charge.
You don't think there are enough idiots who shouldn't be programming using php and javascript?
Seriously? I can't see much of a use beyond collaboration, and even that isn't a really open problem with proper version control.
Moores law applied to Batteries.
No other TED talk had surpassed Isabel Allende's inspiring talk about passion.I can't stop viewing from time to time. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tale...

Another captivating small talk by Bob Thurman (father of Uma thurman) is quite fun. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bob_thurman_says_we_can_b...

Helen Fisher's view on romantic love and her scientific observations how it differs from other themes of 'love' which can also be described as the most addictive substance on earth. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_... If you don't be in love like the story she told about Mayan King in the begining, then don't love at all.
Hopefully in the next iteration the GPhone won't have an abysmal keyboard, terrible build quality etc. If they get those right they could make some headway.
How notable is it really when a company has had over $20M in funding and they manage to keep their site online?
Ah.

I read halfway before I understood what he meant by "cloud." It's now officially an overloaded term, in danger of becoming meaningless like "web 2.0."

By cloud, he means all those services where you put your personal data, thoughts, and ideas -- potential black holes in the sky from which your lifework may never return. Flickr, LiveJournal, Twitter, Delicious, etc. fit in this bucket, and I couldn't agree more with his assessment that blindly using these services is stoopid.

Lately, on the other hand, I've been using the term "cloud" to refer to services that allow developers to dynamically allocate computing resources. I suppose this is better referred to as "utility computing" -- y'know, the stuff that Amazon (AWS), Google (AppEngine), Microsoft (Azure), and Rackspace (Mosso) are big into these days. That kind of cloud? Awesome.