skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

And this: "Firefox will only send a maximum of 8 HTTP requests at a time in any case" - really? Anyone know if there is a good reason?
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Gmail is down?

Now I'm not sure if up-vote or down-vote...
yep. it is up.
That's a pretty large small subset. Everyone I talked to this morning, in western europe, eastern europe, and australia (and I in the US), was unable to access gmail.
Why would you add the MSN arabia link here???!!!

Do you think it's something "interesting"???
I'm doing that right now!
Got a small thecnical degree, worked for 3.5 years..

But my job sucked! So I decided to go to university!

Why? It's a transition!
At university yes you get shit to do (in computer science the classes are horrible and disconnected from realty!!)

But, there is no place like university to build a startup and make connections! So that's the main reason I stick to university :) Plus where I got in Québec they credit me one year + the interm because of my work experience.

So...

You will hate going to university because the classes are boring it's not practical, but you get a good degree.

But what can help you put up with the BS and really stand out is building a startup, joining toastmasters, building connection with people and making contacts, etc.

And when you know that most universities are like 60,000 people "little cities" that are all connected to the same community, it feel good :)

So... while it may not be your answer, I love what I do! And in university there are some companies that are actually taking students for a job! I see "We need 25 programmers" ads in the bathrooms :P hahahaha
Also quite funny to see a thread on this comments page complaining about a single duplicate HN submission, when twitter has thousands of "Gmail is down" duplicate tweets.

The compression ratio on twitters db must just be astounding.
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> It is difficult to see oneself repeatedly characterized as such without getting one's dander up a bit.

No reason or need to take what he said personally. He's speaking of his own experience, and not accusing you of anything.

But now you're saying he's a misogynist. He might take that personally, and for good reason.
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I've found that video game music can make fantastic background music while working - there's hardly ever any distracting vocals and it feels like you're attacking something mythic.

Movie soundtracks have a similar effect on me: The Incredibles, Dark Knight, Primer.
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Aaand we're back.
Thanks, I saw the article on that a few days ago here and it looks really interesting.

Is it really right that I could just use that to automatically recreate the entire backprop algorithm? Is it likely to be reasonable in its performance?
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Oh, I definitely like customers and talking to people, and that kind of thing. I'm not an antisocial person. I actually prefer the customer relationship a lot more than I do that of employer/employee in that either one of is pretty much free to do as we please - they don't have to buy my stuff or my services, and if they're seriously annoying, I can decide I don't want them as a customer, or simply ignore them. Granted, you can't always do that, but still... it's just a happier situation than having to order people around, or having someone order you around.
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I never meant I didn't like that kind of riddle - I really do enjoy most of them.

But I don't think they have any use in an interview setting, since they too often just test if the interviewee is up to date on the latest list of interview questions (Eg. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?conten...) or not.
I second that as confirmed; IMAP is working in India. Google Gears saves my inbox.
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Just because I'm not typing doesn't mean I'm not working.
And yet, a link to a one-sided propaganda comic strip gets 103 upvotes.
I didn't say anything about style. I think it's very hard for a person's style to shine through in a 1 page typed document, so I don't look for it and I don't disqualify people for lacking it.

In fact, I object to the entire idea that you can make a cog/non-cog determination from a sheet of paper.

The resume just gets you in the front door. It gets you an interview where someone can actually try to figure out what kind of an employee you will be. It's a first-round check on whether you even claim to have the relevant experience.
Yeah I'm guessing most people on twitter already know about TC actually. Heck most of them probably first read about twitter on TC - they post enough 'twitter' stories there.
I've done the same. I think the best group of game soundtracks I've heard are by Jon Hallur Haraldsson, for Eve online. They really help to immerse you in the game universe. I think you can listen to some of the composers stuff on last.fm
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The comic strip is relevant to current news.

The CSI episode in question aired months and months ago and has been done to death. (Google: 1,820 from reddit.com for gui visual basic)
I just did and about 5% of my (tech savvy) users don't have Flash, but then again more than half of them use Firefox and less than 15% are on IE so not particularly representative.
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They should have spent some of it on a better script.
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I noticed the exact same thing when I left a day job... my karmic income is directly proportional to my time in a cubicle.

Now that I'm temporarily back in a cubicle, I probably average about 2-3 hours of real work a day. And, mind you, that is an average... some days I stay pretty busy for 8 in a row, others I'm basically putting in seat time. The rest of the time is spent reading books and research papers online (not remotely work related), participating here, chatting with a coworker, or simply daydreaming.

Still, from what I can gather I am exceeding expectations, which is both reassuring and depressing.
That's just Google giving prominent placement to something they see as breaking news. It'll disappear in a week or so, then reappear somewhere much lower in a few more weeks as it's normally indexed by their crawler picking up links and rebuilding its graph.
Your environment can be duplicated in single team workplaces. The team agree on milestones and tasks for a period, say a week. Each member does his assignments without counting hours and at the beginning of the following week, do an accounting. Factor in or out intervening or external tasks. Team members don't have to be physically there to do things except those that need interaction with clients.

Repeat.

What's hard is when team members' weeks don't coincide :). Hey, my week is not over yet. I still have to do these things.

That's what we are doing now for the past months or so. It is effective especially if milestones are few and tasks need two or more people to get accomplished. We are a team of five.
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#2 concerns me. As a designer I'm thinking about taking on a developer/co-founder and cringe when I think about opening up my 'baby' to someone who may not care or may cause harm.
Admit it, you just wanted to use the phrase "mise en scene" :)

And of course I agree that important jobs require creative people, I don't agree that resumes are a valid method of judging creativity.
Since when does the color and provenance of the people define the United States as a country? I thought it was our freedoms and ideals... silly me.
Frank Klepacki's C&C music is great for that
Who is advising Thomas Friedman (NYT, Gov 20bn VC plan)
Is Jersey especially bad, compared to the rest of the US?

Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the Pacific Northwest?

For all the young college guys out there having a hard time, take heed. You get a dilution hit cashing out now, just hold onto your stock and ride it through. Time is on your side.

Nice way of putting it.
I'm not sure if what you are saying is that creative people should give their stuff away and suffer until the off chance they get popular and get paid? Just because you want to get their stuff for free?

There was no such thing as medical treatment in the old times either, doesn't mean we should stop it. Hell, there was no such thing as reproducing someones creative work for zero cost in the old times either. Does that mean we should stop that?

I think our world is better off by having creative people paid to be creative. I know the RIAA are bad news, but I haven't seen any realistic alternative offered.
I agree, except that I think the orange-shaped cap is very appealing - in the same spirit as the arrow in the Fedex logo. If they had changed only the cap, that would have been clever.
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For a great retrospective on videogame music, listen to this Retronauts podcast: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://download.game...

They start the discussion from the NES days, and the music they're talking about is often spliced in. It's a fun listen.
Because so many people use it for business communication, I think it'd have long-term effects on the economy that would be really difficult (but interesting) to measure.

It's not a perfect example, because you can get your mails out of GMail, but - This kind of thing might be what it takes to pass legislation forcing data services to provide access (see http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 )
Ask HN: please review my new jQuery plugin
There's also swiftfox: http://getswiftfox.com/
This is great, where did you get it ? Did you write it ? If yes, congrats, it's hilarious.
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Who can complain about an (alleged) increase of javascript speed of 4x.

Unfortunately, apparently still no support for plug-ins?

And the vaguely suggested help for developers... marginal: "built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility"
Because most people don't want each client making >8 connections to their web server at once. Nor would making more connections necessarily be faster.
"But many of the younger companies ... have not stepped back and thought deeply about the big picture."

Perhaps by "deeply" he means create a concrete plan for the future including a list of potential buyers.

But I'm curious, is it not common for an entrepreneur to let their mind wander to the future, including a potential exit, at least a few times a week? I know it's easy to get lost in your huge workload, but I imagine most of still think pretty deeply about the future waiting in line at the grocery store.
I've been using a lot of this in a developer preview for a while now, and the improvements over 3 are many, especially in the massively improved web inspector. The majority of the new things today are in the UI -- the tabs at the top, the top sites home screen -- and the majority of that is just Chrome done better.

I'm surprised at how quickly they've aped Google, actually. Perhaps just to spite them for taking so goddamn long over Mac Chrome? To be honest, I'd rather they'd aped the process-per-tab thing more.

Still missing: undo last tab close. Don't like the fixed "Add bookmark" button much, either.
Update: IME input in Mockups is now fixed, with patio11's help. The changes will go live this Sunday.
The easiest trap to fall into with software development is negative productivity.

While you can fix bugs and add features, it doesn't mean you're not in reality making things worse.

So don't force yourself to code beyond a certain point.
For me that's 6 hours a day.
What's even more worrying is people posting here defending it. It's plain ugly.

Call me old fashioned, but I'm pretty much a one language per file guy.
Well just to throw it up for consideration, I think granting exclusive rights to a work for "life + 70 years" for an individual and 120 years for a corporation is rather absurd. If the point of copyright was really to encourage artists/writers to produce content, don't you think 25 years would be sufficient time to capitalize on a work? Although I'd even settle for simply "life". The original copyright terms (in 1790) were 14 years with an option to extend once for 14 more.

The current system is in place so corporate copyright owners can continue to profit off their long-dead artist's creations... ahem Disney. Nothing made since 1923 has entered the public domain.

So yeah, the MPAA/RIAA definitely make bone-headed enforcement decisions, but the underlying system is also broken.
I've red numerous Wired articles which have butchered subject matter I am an expert on.

And this has completely turned me off from reading Wired articles on things I am interested in, but don't know enough to know when they are oversimplifying, embellishing, or just plain getting things wrong.

I tried reading this, because I do want to know, but I got that sinking feeling of being BSed and gave up.
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Ask HN: How do you find a cofounder if you want to start a company
I'm an university student and I'm very interested in startup. Anyone know where can I find a cofounder? I've already got some idea.
I wouldn't call jQuery a language.
jQuery is JavaScript.
Here is how I go through resumes from developers:

(1) Sort resumes in order from least amount of pages (on the top) to the most amount of pages (on the bottom). The resumes with the lesser amount of pages get priority (I've seen 12 pagers... the quals on it were from a complete bozo). I'll throw out anything over 3-4 pages.

(2) Throw out resumes that list every programming language since 1982 (this halves the resume stack) or a list of languages the person is "familiar with" (when will head hunters stop telling their applicants to list this crap?)

(3) I could care less about GPA as long as its over 3.0; I look for diversity at this point. Was this person an English major or a CS major? Does this person code outside of work? Are they experimenting with other languages/technologies? Does this person travel quite a bit?

(4) Now its time to more carefully read the resume. I'll actually look at the experiences to make sure they're being honest and not making stupid claims like, "Save over $10mm in costs from writing code X".

(5) Next up is the phone interview where I ask simple questions to make sure the applicant can communicate clearly, knows what regex is (this questions throws a lot of applicants to the way-side), and verify a few claims on their resume. I had one person claim they knew about DOA web-services and another guy who had "HTTP" listed on his resume and didn't even know what an HTTP verb was. Another more clever guy was actually Googling shit as I was asking him a question (I can hear your keyboard!).
Slashdot poll != "survey" in any meaningful sense of the word
One thing that Japanese companies have down is how they plan for their employees' retirements. I remember learning about their system in grad school and thinking I need to move to Japan! But it's been awhile, and I'd forgotten some of the details about how they do it.

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/06/later_ret...

Specifically: The Japanese system where employees past age 60 sometimes work for lower pay at the same company that had employed them would not be possible in the United States and some other countries because of legislation that prohibits alleged discrimination against older workers. The combination of legislation that prevents companies from lowering the earnings of older employees, and of legislation that prevents mandatory retirement in some occupations, creates a major rigidity in the market for older workers.

Brilliant. Build a system that rewards workers with retirement, yet subtly place incentives to encourage them to keep working (less). Albeit, they are also working for less $, but at this point, the holistic benefits of having employment probably outweigh the dollar amount.
I would encourage you to discuss your idea(s) somewhat openly, in the right audience. IE if you have some club or organization at your school that your idea would be relevant to (either a CIS type group, or a group in whatever "market" the idea applies to) go there and get involved and discuss your idea.

Mention to friends, family, professors, etc. that you have this thing in mind and are interested in meeting people that can help/contribute/advise properly.

A co-founder is best "discovered" instead of "located".

I would also question if you need a co-founder yet, and what function do you want them to fulfill?

Focus more on developing your idea (both programatically and conceptually) instead of on starting a company, per se.
This is a really interesting idea. A way of signaling quality of publications that is more useful than 'it made it through the committee at some conference/journal/etc' would be a major improvement for researchers.

The graph analysis is even more interesting - this is a way around the problem that publication decisions can be made based on reviews written by less-well-read grad students instead of the faculty one might prefer to hear from.

One question though - it seems like if this guy really wanted to sell the idea, he'd point us to at least one instance of it being used. All it'd take is asking someone to review an existing paper of his (or something). It'd be great to tinker with the review graph analysis, for example.

Why not even share a signed review of the project itself?
I tried to generate one for this post, but it doesn't seem to work on OS X, so I filed a bug instead.
library/frameworky thing. It's not javascript though. Try getting help with a jQuery question in #javascript...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)#Epistemo...

Objectivist epistemology is the only epistemology that is worth a shit to me, i.e., in that any attempt to refute it necessarily ends up pre-supposing one of its precepts, ergo, it cannot be refuted, ergo, it is the only epistemology to bother with.
The project is an open-source command-line tool called gpeerreview. Great idea!
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The built-in web developer is definitely on-par with Firebug and Web Developer. In some ways it's even nicer.

As far as plug-ins go, Safari's had them for years. Apple just doesn't support them or advertise them.
The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

Oh, yes indeed-y. I'm writing modem control code for a compact framework app right now.
Nice article, even though I think that too much emphasis was on "having the right idea" rather than on execution and timing. http://titocosta.tumblr.com/post/81087622/ideas-are-overrate...
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I'll be interested to see how this compares to the Webkit nightly builds...
Look at the numbers in the link above. The United States is being turned into a different country

You do realize that's happened before right?
More then once in fact.

Obviously there was the Indian to English transition.
Then the Irish.

And at one point so many Germans immigrated that the majority of Americans changed from being of English descent, to being of German descent.
Towns in the American heartland were German speaking well into the 1950s.

So yeah, the Unit States just keeps turning into a different country, again, and again.
If they are, why do people post TC articles on here every few hours?

I typically don't advise people to read articles that are full of shit.

I think people who whine about TC articles and think they are full of shit are in the minority. Their fan base seems to be growing rapidly. You can't impress everyone with your writing. And besides, TC is a blog. I think you're entitled to say whatever you want, even if its full of shit.
Interesting discussion, going beyond "browser bad behavior" - particularly noting the data about HUGE percentage of sites lagging behind in their W3C compliance.

This is an article worth forwarding to our slow-to-comply developer/designer friends.
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The Tao of Programming contains ancient Usenet wisdom:

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I was actually in the same situation as you- unfortunately I'm out of school and seperated from the most important source of feedback/support/cofounders: the people in your program.

Anyone can be a cofounder. Most often its friends, or friends of friends, but sometimes its an interested professor(MIT has a long history of this) or random people in your study group that show an aptitude in the field. I would strongly advise you to approach everyone with your idea, explaining what you hope to achieve and the possible setbacks/technical hurdles to come. Ask everyone you know if they know anyone who does something similar. If they come back at you with a few good ideas, or approach the problem from an angle you haven't thought of, then you have a candidate. Eventually you'll find someone as enthusiastic and interested in the area as you, which is perhaps the most important trait, and its a good indication of the type of person who will stick it out and help you change the world.
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They're still languages, so I think they should count, because it still takes a mental context switch when going from any language to another.
Eve Online's music is hauntingly beautiful. Definitely one of the things that makes Eve so addicting: the music feels as vast as the game itself.

If anybody feels like importing the CD/torrenting it, Shadow of the Colossus's soundtrack (Roar of the Earth in English) is superb. I'd put it above most movie soundtracks. It's very subtle and very thrilling in all the right places.
"Trouble In The Clouds" - ugh -- why do they insist on overloading the word 'Cloud,' it's confusing enough. If TechCrunch goes down, would they write "we apologize, our cloud was broken."
A resume? This is hardly something for this site.
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I'm really not liking the Chrome style 'tabs on top' my eyes are used to looking in one place for a tab and now it's somewhere else! I use Firefox as my primary browser and only use Safari as a dedicated browser for Google Reader - the difference in tabs is going to confuse me for quite some time I imagine.
Some people use Xichekolas' HN Greasemonkey script to filter domains:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

It adds a "Toolkit" link to the HN menubar from which you can set options.