skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say... I decide to write a word processor in ASM (think... ultra fast etc...). I manage to waste 3 months in the process and get nothing useful. At the end of this ordeal, should I

1) Blame ASM and use something more convenient like python, or

2) Blame my incompetence and soldier on?

Now replace ASM with CSS, python with tables, and word processor with complex webpage.
> The most common answer is probably to trust their instincts about people.

A couple questions about this:

* Do they offer any advice on how to hone this instinct? I'm assuming they still get false positives; do they know of any traits/behaviors that seem to go either way, and ways to gauge which way those traits are more likely to tend?

* On the same thought as the previous question, do they think their 25 year old selves would've made the right instinctual call in recent encounters they've had? I ask because of the possibility of a hindsight bias. It seems possible that along with learning to trust their instinct more, they've had more data to train their instinct.
Good point. It's still not as easy as downloading a .app file on Mac. Maybe if there were a firefox plugin that opened the package and installed it through the distro's package manager. I'm lazy so I tend to look for the solution that requires the least amount of effort for the user.
Google has ~65% of the search market.

The other 35% is probably still representative enough for you to figure out what the population is searching for that leads to your website.
making it about privacy is playing an emotional card when it should really be a technical discussion. Hiding a query string isn't "privacy" in any meaningful sense. It's beneficial for you to tell a webmaster what it is that you have come looking for.

I'm in two minds about the issue though. Google don't have a contract to supply the searchterm on outgoing links (via the referrer or otherwise) but for many applications it was a pretty useful thing for them to do. Arguably their only resource there is a single search page which is dynamic depending on your query string - to me this says ?q=searchterm is the semantic way to represent it, but hey it's their application so they can "design" it however they want. On the other hand, urls are about as explicit as you can get on the web and google's are more publicised than most. Changing your public API is asking for trouble.
I call it lynch mob behaviour and I despise it. I'm quite happy to make it my personal crusade to fight that sort of group behaviour, which brings out the worst in all of us.

I think what people were downmodding you for was the sheer waste of screen space over such a trivial matter.

This whole thread is such an embarrassment. This sort of angry race to the right margin over some trivial disagreement is the sort of thing that's only supposed to happen on other sites.

I know you don't mean it to be, but it's indistinguishable from trolling.
"He" can mean male, but in English it's also the gender neutral.

BTW you have 4 w's in the url in your profile on HN.
Sure, the internet has made started to make available the ideas and knowledge of elite institutions. And those institutions will continue to give away more information and higher quality instruction. It might even get to the point where information gotten from a professor during class will be about the same quality of the information gotten from the internet.

But this only helps places like MIT, even in educating the students there. The internet can't compete with real life in surrounding you with competent and experienced people. That's probably why people like PG recommend that you move to Silicon Valley, so that you can surround yourself with successful people who are doing the same things you are. And MIT giving away information only increases their brand, which lets them choose from more people.

So that means that if I go to a place like MIT for grad school, I'll know that I will have surrounded myself with people who are all very knowledgeable about what I will be doing. I probably won't get that to such a great degree if I go to a school with very low standards, and I definitely won't get that if I stay home and study from materials off the internet. It's mostly about the quality and goals of the people you are surrounding yourself with.
What if you work much harder and don't live to be 40? Do you get to try again under your scheme?
Just how much will it decline with age?
I don't see how this is relevant at all. I'm not blaming CSS for anything. Who cares whose "fault" it is?

OK fair enough, maybe I interpreted the tone of your earlier comment in a way that you didn't intend. But I think it actually does matter whose fault it is to a certain extent though, only becuase people seem to be so quick to jump on the W3C while they give other organisations who sat on a crippled browser for years before Firefox freaked them out enough to get moving again, a comparitively free pass. I agree that moving forward, it really doesn't matter, but for the sake of historical accuracy, yeah it does.

Your argument appears to be that you are unwilling to make use (or at least very much use) of CSS due to the lack of support from IE and that you cannot sufficiently support IE6 with CSS.

I have been making sites with pure CSS that support IE6 for years. For sure it would be easier if IE supported display: table, but it's absolutely possible right now.

Your initial quip implies that it is not possible right now and this is incorrect. If you wish not to implement a pure CSS layout due to not having the time, knowledge or inclination, that's your choice to make with your projects. But understand that this is all that holds you back.

Incidentally, 38% is a pretty low IE6 stat, I envy you... If any of the sites I support hit that mark, I would seriously start thinking about dropping support for IE6 on that site all together, or at least looking at graceful degredation/progressive enhancement possibilities.
Can we please stop posting every article from Signal vs. Noise here? If anything, that blog is overrated...here on HN.
Our gov is based on electing people, not parties. I can see how subsidizing individual campaigns can be allowed. Subsidizing parties is contrived from little to no constitutional basis.
thanks! appreciate it. Brown represents classic theme. It doesn't represent modern outlook. So wanted to have brown theme for quotes/thoughts related site.
How about just adding height: 100% to CSS. Would that be so hard!?
The first lecture in this series mentions that the discussion groups are also available via video. Has anyone found these?
The Zen of display:inline-block
No vertical align in CSS eh? Here's one way to have that and break away from floats once and for all.
Freelance Job Growth Accelerates in the U.S.
What Would Google Do
What about thawte?
I would argue that the Google strategy is a mess, and the Apple strategy works. Are Apple users more loyal to their brand, or are Google users more loyal to their brand? Part of this is the whole side activities thing that Google did. The Google brand didn't really help these side activities did it?
This reminded me of a quote from Fight Club: "Only after disaster can we be resurrected." Sometimes things need to fall apart so they can be rebuilt into something better.

The approach the United States government is taking is similar to using duct tape to fix a house. Its bringing short term stability but we may regret it in the long run.
Or not: http://www.johannorberg.net/?page=articles&articleid=45
That's incredibly hilarious.
> Today, most don't any night, and most of the ones that do only have it on weekends.

When I visited Portland, I was amazed at the multiple, majority no-cost free music every night of the week
He is criticizing the available subset of CSS of not being tables. As I said, floats are the closest approximation currently on offer. How many times must I repeat it?
Yes: they do have a sense of humor.

And: are thoughtful enough to include typos, because (as we all know) some people appreciate the opportunity to find errors). [ "...discussion of girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife issues are stickily prohibited." ]
I think it could work out as long as you know what you are willing to accept. If somebody demands a discount from you, just tell them no. If somebody you up demanding that you drop everything to work on their problem right then, just let them know that you are concerned about their problem, when you except to try and deal with it, and quickly cut the conversation short.

As long as you deal with them in a way that is acceptable to you, you have lost almost nothing selling them a product once if they treat you badly. And you have gained some money, and as PG said if you treat them fairly and very nicely, they might change.
Actually, firefox 3 on xp is missing a godaddy cert line. Just install the certificate chain/bundle instead of the lone certificate and you'll be ok.
Looks like textmarks requires the person to subscribe before you can send messages to them: "To keep everybody happy and prevent abuse, you can only send texts to subscribers of your TextMark."

http://www.textmarks.com/dev/docs/send/?ref=devsb
And for the second time, "common" and "typical" are synonyms. Furthermore, there is no one case that is "characteristic of the whole set". Apparently, in order to satisfy you, a blog post (!) must cover every type of layout. Awfully demanding, aren't you?
Depends on how the risk and costs of antitrust punishment compare to the benefits of 'full speed ahead'.
This is true, and it makes hosting www.example.com and example.com on the same IP somewhat difficult. Certain newer browsers understand the Subject Alternative Name format. Here's a link about it: http://www.digicert.com/subject-alternative-name.htm

I don't know anything about the linked site, so I'm not endorsing their products.
To the best of my knowledge, such a salary spread in engineering would span different jobs with different job titles.

I've lived the 50K-100K salary spread for the same programming job. Also, at my last "real" job Amazon stole away one of our interns. He was offered a job for $86K whereas the other intern was offered almost the same position for $67K. She was the better of the two developers. I'd like to believe there wasn't any gender discrimination going on with that situation, but I don't.

Anyway, there's definitely huge spreads for the same work in software. Sometimes, even in the same company! In my experience, salaries are completely arbitrary for software engineering. I've gotten paid the most for the easiest work I've done. The only constant I've seen is that salaries are higher across the board when the economy is good.
I just happened upon your response and I can't tell if you realize how much you're twisting the facts to support your conclusions or not. I suspect you don't, so let me help illuminate where your argument goes wrong.

"Higher tax rates for the upper brackets don't lead to less taxes paid by the poor - they lead to more taxes paid by the poor."

You're confusing correlation (or, perhaps more accurately in this case, coincidence) with causation here. You correctly point out that "the fraction of tax revenue paid by the richest 1, 5, and 10% are much higher now than they were when the top tax rates were higher", but this obviously can only be the case because the income gap has widened. Despite paying lower marginal rates than they have through much of recent history, the richest 1, 5 and 10% of Americans now make so much compared to the other 90% of Americans that they still account for a larger share of revenue. If the income gap had remained stable or shrunk, the opposite would be the case. Now don't get me wrong... I'm certainly not anti-income gap and I have no agenda around redistributing wealth. I'm simply explaining why your statement is dead wrong.

What I do have an agenda around is making the tax burden distributed in the way that is best for society (and, thereby, individuals within that society, including myself). I feel that this involves heavily graduated taxation, despite the fact that I'm in that uppermost bracket. I'm not being selfish and looking for a handout and I'm not suggesting that there's anything wrong with making obscene amounts of money... I simply feel its better for society to impose higher taxes on those who can more easily afford it. Warren Buffett (and countless others) agree with me. You obviously don't, but that's no excuse to twist facts to support your agenda.
Their dump would be more useful if they...

(1) Used a preexisting aggregate web content format. Their ad hoc format is simple enough, but can't handle content with NULLs, and loses valuable information (such as time of capture -- you can't trust server 'Date' headers -- and resolved IP address at time of collection).

They could use the Internet Archive classic 'ARC' format (not to be confused with the older compression format of the same name):

http://www.archive.org/web/researcher/ArcFileFormat.php

Or the newer, more involved and chatty but still relatively straightforward 'WARC' format:

http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/

(2) Explained how the 3.2 million pages in their initial dump were chosen. (That's only a tiny sliver of the web; where did they start and what did they decide to collect and put in this dataset?)

(FYI, I work at the Internet Archive.)
nice looking site, beautiful demo. However, I think your homepage needs more info about what it is really all about.

I'd take a bit more info from your ABOUT US page, and either put something about your value prop on your homepage, or at least in the video demo.

Nice work. Love the clean design.
If you read the satisfaction guarantee you'll see it says "If you see the Satisfaction Guarantee link on an item". We control which items have the satisfaction guarantee - so we will reserve the satisfaction guarantee for sellers that have earned a good reputation with us.
Great, because this is exactly what the world needs.
The gov subsidizes parties. Campaign subsidies are given only to nominees of major and minor political parties, and party conventions are subsidized directly. From my previous link:

"The Presidential nominee of each major party may become eligible for a public grant..."

"The amount of public funding to which a minor party candidate is entitled is based on the ratio of the party's popular vote in the preceding Presidential election..."

"Each major political party is entitled to $4 million (plus cost-of-living adjustments)8 to finance its national Presidential nominating convention. A qualified minor party may become eligible for partial convention funding..."

As for the constitutional basis, I agree that there is none. Then again, there is little to no constitutional basis for social security, medicare, the war on drug users, the department of education, etc.

I'm just saying that gop.gov isn't anything special or unprecedented.
Network Solutions Pro certificate was easy to setup, offers good value at $139/year.
There are certain corner cases where this doesn't work (one that comes to mind is WPA enterprise certificate negotiation in Windows XP, completely unrelated to HTTPS).

If the requirement for "virtually all browsers" includes esoteric mobile stuff I'd be concerned about intermediate certificate authorities. If you're doing desktop applications/common mobile applications, these providers will have solutions for you.
Best advice I've ever gotten:

"Doesn't matter where you are or what you are doing, just who you are with."

That one hasn't let me down yet.
I love their navigation :

# Information on how to block our crawler. (Hint, it doesn't involve legal action)

# Our purpose and goal. (Yes we have one and no it doesn't involve spam)

# Our technology. (Thanks open source!)

[...]
This article won't load on my Blackberry. All of the pro-tables articles looked fine... (To be fair, it's probably a .js issue)

I haven't read much of the what's so wrong with tables argument in this debate. A lot people saying x is possible with divs and css is different from saying it's faster, better, cheaper. The div approach is harder to debug, the tables approach fails to set you apart from the hoi polloi...end of story?
we used thawte, but wish we used verisign because they have a cooler 'secured by' icon ;p

seriously
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, told me he sold his first company because he hated the culture. It wasn't just about his employees hating work, HE hated going in every day.

When he grew Zappos, he said he went out of his way to focus on its culture. There's a lot that goes into it. He pays people to quit because he wants everyone who comes to work to love it. He doesn't penalize his employees for staying on the phone with customers for a long time.

His people even recommend a competitor's site when they don't have the right size.

Does it work? Well they're doing $1 billion in sales. Plus their people love coming to work. Ever since I published my interview with him, his people have found a way to contact me to assure me it's all true.

He taught why/how/etc of culture on my interview on Mixergy.
Google quietly declares email war on Yahoo
Cyberbullying ad campaign - "If you wouldn't say it in person, why say it online?"
Um, please don't down-vote people you disagree with. This commend spawned a thread, -6 is not appropriate.
Is there any site that covers the topics of wildcard certs in more detail, such as what different wildcards do/don't allow you to do, etc?

I'm personally looking for a wildcard cert to cover my main site, leetcode.net, as well as all of my subdomains (mail.leetcode.net, etc). Is this possible? What cert do I need?
great idea, but I didn't get it the second I got to the site. Why say "Auctions Just Got a Lot More Exciting!"?
Why not say "An entire auction in an ad box"! or something like that?

2nd, if you want people to put the boxes on their page, i'd suggest investing in design. Of both your site and the boxes. You have to get peoples trust, and the poor design could sink you.
No, places like MIT and other research universities will survive because they also are a community of research. Also, most people who are actually using the Fab lab are associated with research institution. I don't really think that the masses will start using fab labs anytime soon but possibly in the future.
The Blue Man Group: From downtown performance art to global entertainment empire.
You don't have any TV needs because you don't watch anything in real time [which is how TV is different from, let's say, DVD rentals]. Sports programming is a big part of it.
"Self-awareness is what separates man from the ape."

Actually, apes have demonstrable self-awareness.

Promising title, but fluffy contents without useful info.

Using Rescue Time and looking at your Google Reader stats is not the same as living the life examined.
People overlook how much you need to make to retire early. Let's say a guy makes $50,000 year, and saves $20,000 of that. Every year he retired, he'd:

Have his savings go -$30,000 at the same quality of life
NOT have his savings increase +$20,000

This seems obvious, but most people miss something when thinking about retiring early: It's an extra year you have to pay for out of savings, and you're not earning in that year.
Record 19 Million U.S. Homes Stood Vacant in 2008
Gmail tweak gives nod to folder metaphor
Awesome idea. I like the flat file based indexing management they mentioned. Gosh almost wish they had a link whereby one could send them one's C.V.! Keep up the good work.
I'm using thawte and am very pleased with it. Compatibility was great in my tests - it covered all mobile devices (Windows Mobile at the time) and desktop browsers I cared about.

The also gave me a follow-up phone call to make sure everything went well (there were NOT trying to upsell, it was a genuine help offer).
are you strong and fit enough?
A few thoughts:
* Can you run a short distance without collapsing?
* If you're helping a buddy move furniture - are you able to take the heavy end?
* If the lift goes out - can you walk up a few flights of stairs without too much effort?
* Can you play backyard sport well?

Not everyone wants to be a bodybuilder, and you're probably better off than a lot of overweight hackers, but there's something to be said for being fit.

Or for the opposing view, see Linus (http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/healthy-lifestyl...):
Best Quote:
"And just about every single damn article about it had that annoying "Eat healthy and exercise" note.

I want to kick the next person who says that in the nuts. And I'll call that my exercise for the day (or, to be honest, for the week)."
Google Earth users can dive in sea
I hate to reply with this sort of thing, but I gotta say "live bonus-to-bonus" is a great turn of phrase. Google says you're basically the second person to use it in the context of the current economy. (There are two others but not really the same context.)

(I hope there's a little room in the HN credos for some positive feedback.)
What's so special about 10 to 30 or 50 to 100 anyway? I ask because this is actually something that has been studied.

http://www.fldp.org/2008/11/07/group-size/

My best guess is that organizations will go through growing pains any time the toplevel group grows to a size that 12 people can't handle. This applies to subgroups in an organization as well, i.e. if you're on a team that is expanding, then it's going to be suck being the 13th person in.

By that logic, we should see growing pains at roughly magnitudes of 10 (10 is close enough to 12 right?). Whatever, maybe not, but you get the idea.

This is a crude level of understand; I am well aware of it. But it's a place to start, and you can get quite a bit of mileage from it.

I should note that neither of the two teams I've worked in professionally grew beyond 12 people in a peaceable manner. In the first case, the company simply fell apart.
Thanks - good explanation.
You mean like every other company in the Valley offers to everyone?
CVSDude Hopes To Continue Its Success in Silicon Valley
If Google ever gets split up in an antitrust case, they'll most likely pull a T-1000 and reemerge years down the line the same way that AT&T did.
The problem with that is that your search ranking for any given key word is probably different in each search engine.
Repeat what? Previously you claimed that the author was criticizing an "attitude" and not the way that floats work. Now you're saying he's criticizing the "available subset" which you define as floats.

I don't understand what you're disagreeing with.
So... how long have you been at Apple?
Yeah, telling it like it is -- that's just lame.
sms option to consider: http://zeepmobile.com
Google Change Breaks Third-Party Analytics Tools
Put a mark on your hand, in some way that you glance at it often, and remember to listen. Everyday, keep doing it. Has worked for me for breaking "bad habits".
Youtube, the video game
University of Utah Announces Mac OS X Classes
Dynamic Linking in Linux and Windows
Part 2 is here: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1873
Facebook ads annoy me, because no amount of negative ad feedback seems to stop the deluge of diet, wedding, diamond, or diaper ads. The wedding planning ads are particularly annoying, since my relationship status is set to married.
dotbot is one of the data sources that SEOmoz uses for their Linkscape crawler. Not sure why it was submitted here but I suspect promotional motives.

It is interesting data, but when people build crawlers to index the entire www, especially if the data is intended as an SEO intelligence tool, certain issues arise. Some background on this particular issue: http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2008/10/seomozs-new-linkscap...
Open Source Research Platform: Wireless at WARP Speed
How Microsoft can release just one version of Windows 7
Other folks pointed out that 40 is too late to do many things.

I'll point out that most folks won't produce 2x as much working 80-100 hours/week as they do working 4-50 hours week.
Thanks for the input. Great idea about "An entire auction in an ad box" - I like it. And the banners are being re-designed by professionals they should be done very soon :)