skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this as well. Right now, I have 41 open, which is about normal. At work, I have another 50 or so open.

I primarily use tabs as a "live bookmark", both positive ("remind me to look at this later"), and negative ("I don't want to deal with this now, but should later"). I usually browse non-linearly, where I go through an entire page opening interesting links in new tabs before moving on. Thus, I end up with tons of tabs that, by default, stay open. I usually do a quick clean up every few days.

A sample:

1) JavaScript cheat sheet. I've been needing to brush up.

2) A recipe that I want to try soon.

3) Ask HN page on best Git GUI for Windows. We're switching to Git at work, and most developers use Windows, so I need to find something that will make the transition easier.

4) "How to Read Mathematics". I'd normally add this to Pocket and read on my Kindle, but I also want to send it to old professors.

5) A couple tabs for a pair of prescription sunglasses I'm considering buying,

6) My side project's Trello page.

7) Several pages with design ideas for my side project (both JS and CSS)

8) Long Ask Reddit threads I wanted to die off before I read them.

9) A couple blog posts I've been wanting to read, but not long enough to add to Pocket.

10) Links that I've opened after seeing HN's homepage.
etc.

http://i.imgur.com/Plmzb.png
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"The government" is absolutely complicit in that crime because they turn a blind eye to it.

Do you think that the cops don't know about Backpage or other prostitution outlets? Do you think that law enforcement is impervious to corruption?
Do you still use the recruiters? Why give them financial INCENTIVES for mixing good with bad CV's?
If you’re using any Unix at all, then ed really
will always be there, no matter how old or limited
the system. Well, unless you use Arch Linux, anyway.
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Don't miss out on the emacs/ed/vi jokes:

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Like others have pointed out, you'll probably not get much traction with this project due to the way you've decided to package everything.

One immediate problem I see is that you don't have version set in your Gemfile. Down the road, when you run "bundle install" it's just going to pull the latest versions and most definitely break at some point.

Also, it looks like you just moved to rails 3.2... Your assets were moved into the asset pipeline, but still exist in the public folder.

Finally, you have no tests. No serious developer is going to use ANY project that's not well tested.

Reality is, Rails already has very mature projects using generators to accomplish what you are tying to do. Generators allow you to give your users options when initially setting up their application. Check out Daniel Kehoe's "RailsApps" project here:
http://railsapps.github.com/

Kehoe's project is a phenomenal example of how to do this well.

Good luck!
Why? We have better alternatives, and clearly things can work without it.
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This was an eye-opener for me - and I think reading it has changed the direction of my product!
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The market for illicit drugs rivals that of oil.

Factions in our government and governments around the world can make money secretly from it.

Powerful people also see the value of playing both sides. They profit by producing it and they also profit by owning stock in many private prison corporations here in the USA where we have the highest percentage of non-violent prisoners.
I'd never preemptively judge what could be done with an architecture without looking at it first. There are always creative possibilities, so if their is something wrong with their technology choice (not saying there is), then I wouldn't preemptively rule out being able to do something about it.

Of course, maybe sarcastic presumptuousness is what they are after? Why not send in your resume?
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Yeah, I corrected that after I noticed a few people commenting to that effect. :)
Most likely the Financial department processing his stock—I have little clue of how vesting options works on that side, but I'm assuming they owe him something priced along his departure.
Now, this is exactly what's so crazy about patents.

Something like email doesn't get 'invented' by one person, it's the kind of thing that multiple people will arrive at through different paths at about the same time.
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To expand on this: virtually everything is paid for by in game currency you can earn by playing games. Every game you play makes you money (you earn more for longer games). Using that money, you can buy almost everything.

The equipment you can buy with the in game currency gives you a real advantage in player vs player battles. Having no equipment at all means you need a very large skill advantage over the other players to be able to win games.

To get all things you might reasonably want to buy, you need to play an uncomfortable amount of games - which gets many people to take a shortcut and buy the in game currency with real money instead of obtaining it by playing games.
No, they're a bit away from my position and equally placed to left and right.
That's cheating!

My bad. I just assumed he skimmed the article as I often do.

Either way, thanks for the article. I've considered my grip on native Unix tools to be a weakness, but there's generally not much good intro material like this.
This is clearly to give them a defense against their competitors link farming them to SEO oblivion. But it seems so arrogant.
coho.me - "CoHome" Yammer for households/families.
You won't feel bad if you decide to quit. You are not in a comfort zone in terms of money which will make you think before spending and probably become a better manager of finances. You might be motivated to keep your skills up to date in case u have to find a new job.
"Farmification" of a Chinese Joystick Factory
I currently use Qwerty, but have been wanting to switch. From what I've read, Colemak is easier to learn from Qwerty, and has some advantages over Dvorak. http://colemak.com/FAQ

Thanks! I'll definitely buy your program if you can add Colemak.
There is central control at the protocol level.

Look at a chart of total bitcoins over time and note it's not smooth: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time_gra...

Why was it setup like that? Well it was decided rather than having a fixed rate of supply though time there would be a target number of total bitcoins and early miners would get a free pass: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply

A more rational setup would be a fixed rate of supply though time, so in 2750 the % increase in supply is a tiny fraction of overall supply but the absolute number would be the same as 2012. Instead they picked a fixed target number of bit-coins which eventually creates deflation as bitcoins can be lost which destroys them.
For decoding the video itself, https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway is as far as anyone's gotten so far, but it's slow (as one would expect). Still, I'd love to see something able to extract the audio from container formats.
Just use bit.ly and let them deal with it.

Not that I believe for a minute that this would ever hold up in court. And how many people would go read the TOS before posting about the site if they found it interesting. I was on their site for about 30 seconds and didn't find it at all interesting (sorry).

Next addition to the TOS will prohibit standing next to their company's sign and pointing to it with your index finger.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize my estimation was binding.

You saw a job posting and assumed that they treat their technology choices as unassailable and immutable, and I pointed out that it may not be economic for them to change their entire codebase. You seem to have turned this discussion into an argument about their codebase having a problem and requiring action. Who's being presumptuous?
The only commands I can use in Vi/Vim are the ones I remember from ed, lol.

Like burnt in from the 80's.
Yep, I'm guessing whoever wrote the Verisign application didn't know about כתיב מלא. Whoops.
Great post!

I'm interested in the concept of soft limits and how that fits into these different models - I remember when our company's GitHub profile went over the allowed number of users, and (I forget the exact numbers) it showed something like "Users: 7/5", highlighted red.

Soft limits seem to say "Hey, we know you're slightly over your limit, and that's cool - but if you want to go any further, we'll need you to upgrade".
I'm glad ed is there. I'm glad articles like this are there. But there is no way I'll have retained that article in the moment my terminal has borked and I actually need ed. I wish that something like this available in the man pages, or something like them, or at least referred to in them.

Because maybe I'm not clever enough but I don't find the man page articles to be very good introductions. As reminders of syntax and options and functionality they're great, but I don't find them useful as orientations to how the various utilities work. They are short on examples and demonstrations, which are often the quickest orientations to the basic operation of a tool.

The info tool is sometimes better but not so frequently I'm accustomed to using it. On Ubuntu 'info ed' actually looks pretty good from an example standpoint. But 'info awk' looks like a copy of the man page. And 'info vi' offers a discussion of the emacs vi emulator, about which vi enthusiasts can only mutter "well played".

It would be nice if there were a 'tutorial' command (or 'dontpanic' or 'towel') which gave a brief orientation to how these tools actually worked, with examples and demos, and then some lead into resources on the host (man pages, info, help available within the particular tool) and on the web and elsewhere.
I think you might have an exaggerated idea of how addictive illegal drugs tend to be compared to alcohol and tobacco. Heroin and Meth actually are more addictive[1] than legal drugs, but not magically so. Still, banning just those two drugs would be a coherent policy, unlike our current laws that also ban Cocaine, Marijuana, normal Amphetamines, LSD, etc.

[1]http://www.americanscientist.org/libraries/documents/2006451...
I notice it isn't smooth, yes.

But I don't see your point. I am aware that BitCoin has a deflationary economic model which favour early adopters.
I feel like a super-intelligent alien race that has come across Earth in its interplanetary travels and has made instructional documentaries about "human life" for its young in the same way that we make documentaries about insects and cell biology.
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I'm imagining a $100 device that instead of using any supplies like strips or needles, maybe uses a ultrasonic pulse as a micro-drill to extract a molecular sized droplet of blood to test.

Then it would clean itself using the same ultrasonic pulse emitter.

Or maybe forgo the whole blood deal and somehow use saliva.
Awesome stuff! I love your blog, by the way. It gives me a standard to which to aspire.
I guess I'll date myself by saying that when I started studying CS, I used ed and thought nothing of writing programming assignments with it. It seemed totally natural. I recall a typical sequence of writing a few lines and then printing out a block of lines to the screen to check. Then jumping somewhere else printing out a block of lines, editing some more etc. I recall hearing about vi and thinking it was overly complex and obviously wouldn't have worked on the hard-copy terminals (really, hard-copy terminals - no screen!) that were scattered about the lab. I don't think I could have conceived of eclipse...
I think that merely by using objective scales to determine what to ban, like this[1], we would accomplish the same thing. We already have safe opioids and amphetamines from medical research. If those were legal over the counter but Heroin and Meth weren't I expect more people would use them instead.

[1]http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/28
Looks like it was removed, because I can't find it.

They still have something in there about damages for $100k, but that pertains to "using" the content of the site.
There's an obscure "ed" mode in diff as well:

-e --ed
Output an ed script.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff#Edit_script
Chomsky arguing semantics. He's a linguist, he has his hobbies. Why do the rest of us care?

This link is quite relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
At the very least, it will earn you 20 points on the crackpot index: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Apple doesn’t need a social network (anymore).
I think you're getting screwed, and I'd be actively looking.

If you're working on your own projects, though, the threshold where you can say 'to hell with it, I'm off to work on my own stuff full-time' is pretty low. That's your silver lining, I suppose, although it only applies if you're planning to strike out on your own.
My favorite:

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
That's one of my very favourite pieces of tech-related comedy. I still laugh every time.
If anyone's interested, a while back I put together a table of commands available in various versions of ed, from 1st edition UNIX up to POSIX, as well as sam. It's largely academic, but I did find it interesting how features crept in.

http://lubutu.com/misc/ed-languages
Legacy (on automated sharing and taking responsibility for what we design)
Yes! They re-write webpages to insert a bunch of script, which re-writes all alt tags to instructions for fetching higher quality images for this or all images on the page. It is annoying. They also have a psuedo-random interstitial telling me that I'm over the "fair use" allowance.

The only reason I'm still using them is that they don't charge for MB or GB; I pay for three months and get "unlimited surfing". They block some stuff after you hit 1GB, but that's trivially easy to get around. Which I do, since they've said I get unlimited web use.
Yes, and .icloud makes a lot of sense, because it's company or product specific. .cloud makes NO sense because neither Apple nor Amazon nor any other company owns the idea of clouds.
When you do get a bigger salary, it's pretty awesome. When I switched fields (biology -> software engineering), I basically doubled my salary.

Since I'm used to living on half, the rest of that money basically goes straight to my IRA/investment account, with a little skimmed off for a new monitor or whatever.

Living like you make 30k (even if you don't) has some great benefits.
not would be. I'm certain they are lobbying hard on any potential policy change that would affect them. What multi Billion dollar industry does not do this?
> But there is a strong part of me that thinks WordPress could become a serious (although very different) competitor to Facebook.

I'm not sure that Wordpress will ever be a real competitor or replacement for Facebook, although Wordpress is pretty popular as it is today.

Whatever "the next Facebook" turns out to be, it is unlikely to look anything much like Facebook! It will need to do one or two features well that Facebook does badly or not at all, and be a means to a particular end. For example, the original focus of Facebook was to share contact details and let people communicate about events within a relatively small group of people (students in specific universities). The interesting stuff happened elsewhere; the site merely allowed it to happen more easily. I don't think that an open/distributed clone of present-day Facebook is going to be enough, which rules out Diaspora and friends.
When the US legalized alcohol its use doubled, but alcohol abuse only went up around 15%. That is, people who will only use a substance if its legal will tend to use it responsibly. I expect that if we legalized other intoxicants they'd mostly displace alcohol, which would actually be a public health win for many currently illegal drugs. For the others, I expect that having the FDA ensuring a pure supply would be enough to make it a net good idea, even if its one with disadvantages.
On many systems you should be able to unbork the terminal with 'reset' or 'tput reset'. Then you do not need ed ;)
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That's not how contracts work; just because you CAN sue someone doesn't mean you MUST. Nor does not enforcing against one party mean they can't against another.
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Chomsky is being a polemicist, which has always been his greatest skill.

He has been off on politics rather than linguistics for some time now. E.g. check out http://www.chomsky.info/articles.htm
(this is a similar pattern to many old scientists)
I guess a Facebook CTO has better things to do than creating a 'REST' Api.
Every 210,000 blocks the mining reward is cut in half. At current rates, the mining reward will drop from 50 to 25 btc around December 2012. This is separate from the difficulty updates that occur every couple weeks.
In a similar vein, I've heard of people claiming to charge per spam email received, is there any precedent of someone successfully claiming there?
Huh, I didn't know about that. That explains a lot.
I'm not sure where to file this: Viral add campaign for Saygent or bored lawyers writing a TOS.

In either case, Saygent just won... oh I'll show YOU Saygent, I hope you like being on the front page of EVERYWHERE!
Pie charts are intended to show how one constituent value compares to the whole. Since these errors are not mutually exclusive (a single page can fail validation for multiple reasons), and since the top 10 reasons constitute an arbitrary whole, they should really be using a bar chart.

Um, like this: http://bl.ocks.org/2941604
I try to avoid line wrapping, but SQL statements usually force me to have some >80 char lines.
"You seem to have turned this discussion into an argument about their codebase having a problem and requiring action. Who's being presumptuous?"

You are, and in a very ironic way. I never said their codebase had a problem. I don't know anything about their codebase. It might be just peachy.

Look at it this way. What if someone was hiring you to build pyramids by lifting each stone using only the narrowly prescribed box of using your own power (since "that's how we've always done it" say), they might also say that your focus on horses and pulleys was a wasteful obsession about means instead of ends and that you shouldn't flinch about dragging each stone yourself all day every day. They might think you are just wasting your time tinkering when you should be moving stones instead, but the truth is that your means are the only human way to reach those ends.

But again, their codebase might be perfectly fine. The thing is, I don't like to be told that I have to accept that it is before I've looked at it myself. They can have a really good hacker who will keep his head down, pump out code, and not question past decisions, or they can have critical thinking, but not both.
I had to use it more than once, typically when running on a hosed system, typically from within some miniroot/initrd/ramfs when the machine wouldn't boot and no full screen editor would run because of missing termcaps. However, cat is actually easier to use as a quick emergency editor (if you know how to use ^W,^U,^D and friends). Unless you're stuck using an ASR-33 :)
Yes, we should all do the same, and equate jaywalking with dictator-mass-murderers. That sounds logical.
lolwhat? you're not fit to tie his shoe laces. but then again, weak ad-hominems are a pattern to those who aren't, and/or are admiring the clothes of naked emperors, right?

"old scientist" -- chomsky got dragged into this by paying attention ever since the vietnam war, when not many people did. you irresponsible, ungrateful little fuck! (mod that down, ban me -- it's worth saying something that actually matters)
The Cloud was invented 50 years ago, only we didn't know it then
Has the term plagiarism been used before for lifting layouts? Copying to be sure. Look and feel though aren't copyrightable, though yes, copyright is different from plagiarism.

As I tried to make clear, that the css file is stolen straight out, that's clearly plagiarism/theft of that file. And even though the file lacks a copyright notice such notices are no longer strictly required.

The layouts of course look very similar because they are both using the same css to set everything up.

That all said, Helvetica/Arial in menu categories, Georgia as body font and 40px margins is something on a lot of sites. These are quite generic settings. There's not a lot of leeway possible for something like margins, there's a small finite range of reasonable settings. It's expected that many sites will have the same ones.

It's also exceptionally common to have a logo in upper left, section selections to the right, a bar at the top, and text with margins below it. This is a completely standard web layout.

Even seeing everything here exactly the same but with different text, sections and css files, it would no longer be certain to be cloned, but entirely possible to be just another person using a standard web layout with the same settings.

How many typewritten letters have I received with 0.5" or 1" margins? A lot. Sent a lot too. Margin settings are not intellectual property at all, neither is font selection, especially when choosing completely standard web fonts in the same way that is used by many sites. Even if someone did peek at their css and "steal" their 40px setting because they like those margins, it's not theft to do so. Stealing the entire layout by copying the css file, yeah, that's a problem though.
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Where do you get the 70% figure from?

I bought my 2010 MBP almost exactly 2 years ago for $2700 + ~$300 for an SSD + drive enclosure. Today I'd be lucky to sell it for $1500 considering you can get a 2011 MBP refurb for that price.
Trying to be creative in a 'Dilbert' world
> Make the controls (links, buttons, inputs, whatever) always visible, but when the free users click, they get a "This is for premium

That's a good example how 'freemium' is inherently dishonest and therefore will not succeed.
I don't know what you mean by old, but Chomsky has been an activist for over 40 years now.
I recommend the Catleap monitors, ~$310 shipped from Korea, same LG IPS screens as in 27" Apple Studio monitors.

Have been using mine with a MBA at home, love it.
> For images that are purely decorative including an empty alt attrib is valid. People using screen readers (and people with images turned off[1]) don't need to hear (or read)"SMALL RED BULLET" for all 7 items in the list.

I typically use "-" or "*" as an alt for bullet images in text, and similar decorative markers. It seems to make more sense to me to emphasize that there's a list.