skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started a similar project before Christmas. It has a whitelist feature, where you can list styles added using JavaScript. It may not be the perfect approach, but it's at least one way of getting around the problem.

It also supports lists of HTML and CSS files to search through. It can perform login, find duplicates, list used rules as well as unused rules, as well as count how many times each rule is matched in the markup.

Requires Node, can be installed with npm.

https://github.com/operasoftware/ucss
CEOs hardly matter in big corporations . I don't see hiring a 35-40 yr old CEO moving Microsoft in a new direction.
Word of the Year or Hype of the Year?
I'm not American, but doesn't federal crime simply mean that the crime does not fall under the jurisdiction of states?

I can totally understand why it is a federal crime - copyright has to be enforced across the country. It'd be rather senseless to enforce copyrights by states.

Now, the real issue of course is as what he said: Why is this a crime? Shouldn't this be a civil issue, to be settled between the two parties? This is the part about copyright enforcement laws I don't get: how is it a crime?
Looks like they're going to have competition: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5095706
This is not just some sort of non-innovative company well know for it's vicious internal fighting like EMC. This is Microsoft, an extremely important and, yes, innovative company.

I think that this really is news - peeling back the covers to see the mess going on at Microsoft seems to my mind quite interesting.
Nowhere near as nice as Sparrow though... apart from push.
Well, two things with that. Three really.

First, does AWS allow ramdisks? It's been a few years since I tried to mount a ram disk on Xen, but it was not possible at the time.

Second, most databases are smart enough to shuffle stuff into RAM for you, starting with indexes and commonly-accessed tables.

Third, the "D" in ACID stands for "Durable". If you want an in-memory store, use an in-memory store. RDBMSes do sorta kinda rely on the assumption that stuff written to disk is actually written to a disk.
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Sweden had a deficit of 0.40% of GDP in 2011 (last year I have figures for), in that same year the US had a budget deficit of about 10% of GDP.

Furthermore, maternity leave and holiday time are neither expensive nor are they getting more so in the future.

What is more worrying in the long term are benefits associated with retirement because due to demographic changes that cost will continue to grow even as the number of people in the labour force stays steady or slowly shrinks. Those problems are not unique to Sweden.
If you visualize the data properly, you rarely need to automatically discover. The answers literally jump out at you. We've been doing this with AlphaVision for years:

https://aqumin.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W45
I tried to do it once. It's a really terrible place to be in. I tried to take a knife to my wrists but failed, then ate all the drugs I had on my shelf. Knocked myself out, and woke up in my own vomit with very sore wrists, not a cent to my name and all my credit cards maxed out from online gambling. The lowest point of my life.

There was a build up leading up to that point, I had previously fantasized and romanticized about it.

For me being suicidal was like being down an inescapable black hole. Managing depression was similar. When hard times hit, it's all too easy to let your mind slip down this black hole and start feeling suicidal and depressed, I have to fight to not go to that place mentally. But when you're feeling low and you can feel yourself slipping into this black hole it's very tempting to allow yourself to fall right in.

For me also being suicidal was a deeply visceral experience, and also an experience of high perceived clarity. Mentally I felt very clear and focused.

It was also a time of uncontrollable and intense emotion. I felt deeply emotional about life and humanity in general, with small moments of shame. It was also a time of high desperation, and a place I could see no escape from. It was a very strong cocktail of negative emotions which are hard enough to deal with individually. Life as it appeared around me I perceived as meaningless and vacuous. The path of least resistance to get through each day was cynicism. Sometimes when I watch the TV or news I had uncontrollable surges of very intense empathy which would cause me to cry. It's very hard to articulate exactly how low and desperate I felt.

Fortunately for me my family were always there for me, and now I feel I am better. Even though at times I did not recognise they were there for me, they were and they were acting on it. Eventually I started to recognise it and very slowly I started to make things better.

I really don't think there was any other way for me to escape it all except with the help of my family. I dread to think what would of become of me if I didn't have that support network. I feel if I did not have that support network, I do not think I would have escaped alive. For suicidal people in worse position than I was I do not know how you would go about helping them.
I think most pages are interested in getting a reasonable view in mobile. From my experience the cheapest and best way is to use media queries and say for everything with a viewport less than 700px, let the divs get a 100% in width. Add that to you base.css and it should already be 100x better for your customers/users.
It's news because Joachim Kempin has got a book to sell and he or his publishers have hired sufficient PR talent to make it news.
In for a penny, in for a pound.

I wonder if he would had made any money from this, a better lawyer would had better represented him in court, and thus serve a lesser sentence. That is, even while facing more serious charges.
My forever project tought my many Important things.

Since I do not have to reach a target I can try solving old problems in new ways and see how it works out in the long run.

My forever project spawned some nice sub modules which I use in productiv code.

In some branches of my forever project I tryed things generally known to be bad style to see some of the problems myself.
Hey Jeroen,

Living in Leiden, you might as well want to join the amsterdam meetups directly, as it is closer from you.

The idea is quite simple : meet awesome people, discuss with them, share experience and be amazed by all the good energy that can come from all those awesome people.

I joined some meetups already in Utrecht (Ruby meetup, Startup Weekend) and always get out of it feeling like working all night. . . just to be a bit as amazing as the people I can meet.

I have a lot of side-projects/ideas but always struggle to find "real" people to share them with. Meetups are a really good way to find people that have the same kind of interests as you :).

And it is totally awesome to meet strangers (even though a bit stressful). Always good to get out of your comfort zone from time to time :).
You know, that would make a brilliant Haiku...

Microsoft

A festering money hub
individuals with indy goals
reeking to create beyond bounds

Of course, I could be rubbish at Haikus.
You can find/replace Microsoft with Oracle and many other companies though. Oracle is led by one of the founders and in many ways it's even a bigger mess there.
I enjoyed the read, but I borked at your suggestion that not being purely functional, and the language barking at you if you break that convention stops you learning functional programming.

Take most Lisps (I'll assume scheme, because it's what I'm most familiar with), which give you more than enough side-effecty rope to hang yourself with should you so desire- but you won't get far unless you're coding functionally.
What's in a title? Imagine if you could come out of a computer science or design course with "Master of...[domain]" appended to your name.

The grandiouse title giving should probably be reigned in.
I agree with MetaJack that analysis and execution are two different disciplines. "Quants" use tools like R and Excel, while the models and trading engines are most likely C++ or Java.
It looks like the single Scorpion core that was in the Nexus One, based on ARMv7 and a competitor to Cortex A8.
Sometimes the goal of a personal side-project is not to produce something meaningful, but just to learn and have fun while doing it.

If I take myself as an example: I have this git repository checked out as 'coding' on all my machines, which has about 15 different folders containing projects ranging from simple prototyping experiments to fully-finished projects. Only a single folder contains a project that was ever released publicly (an iOS port of a classic MS-DOS game). Everything else is half-way finished at best.

Does that mean writing all that unfinished code was merely 'a distraction'? I don't think so. All of this started out as just a way to learn about something I knew nothing about before, and most of the time I stopped working on things the moment I was satisfied with what I learned. There's an arithmetic coder in there, a marching squares implementation, an MPEG-2 decoder that fully works but is dog-slow and doesn't process the color channels, a framework for 2D pattern recognition, a component-based Python web framework, a web application that was intended as a tracker for poker scores, and some other things I can't remember.

If I had set out to complete all of these projects, I would probably have finished 1 or 2 and still know nothing about the theory that got me interested in the other 13 or so.
Not very sure if it good tool, for sites with one css file applying to all pages.

Very possible, some css rules are only used in 1 or 2 pages.
In the best case you can break it down in reusable parts. I took some of the commandline tools I created for my forever project, and turned them into a stand alone application.
Is Microsoft the last big company?
They had to grow to that size to handle the marketing and distribution globally - their most obvious successor is Google who operate at a similar reach but something like 1/10 of people

It might be an inevitability - or it might be that giant companies are just of their time and giant will now be in the thousands not the hundreds of thousands

Anyway it's not news.
I'm not sure the OP would support your twisting of his opinion.
Amazon EC2 Costs Compared
Some general observations:
+ Going Windows is almost twice as expensive
+ Going Reserved approximately halves costs
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Yes, the lack of a map has bitten me a few times.. especially getting to an event where I've been lazy about properly noting the exact directions.
After owning a Geeksphone One and using a Zero, I have some mixed feelings about them producing the firsts Firefox OS phones.
Some general observations:
1) Going Windows approximately double costs.
2) Going Reserved approximately halves costs.
Goddammit. I accidentally pressed the uparrow on this noise and there's no way of undoing it. Damn that is a big flaw in this software.
But if you get a subpoena, you have no choice in the matter. I don't know the facts in this Megaupload/Ninja Video case, but this is hardly the revelation that Wired wants (?) to make it.
No buy link, what a wasted announcement.
They unveiled... a holding page.
Cool congrats on getting your project out! I like the simple design. How does it work, what's your stack and where are you pulling the movie data from etc?
See e.g. the Double Irish Arrangement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
I think the first link is more a pop science show than real depth...this is a much better series from feynmen(unfortunately its really long):

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c

2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMSgE62S6oo

3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNNXD7fuE5E

4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UigjOJm6F9o
You don't need to imagine; just look at any MSc or MEng.
I put it up at https://github.com/pshc/archipelago.
The MBA seems to attract a certain type of person, which is my point.

I'm an MEng myself but I don't see that type of person around the whole engineering scene.
but discontent is what drives the progress - people feeling satisfied all the time would basically not produce new stuff to fill the constant black hole of desire and wants.
send it to me i have ages old computer( running ubuntu) with CRT monitor.
Thank you. This was a very insightful comment, and I'm glad you said it. Sorry if this is a little valueless, but this is a topic that touches my life and I feel I need to do something more than just upvoting you.
Microsoft is much more diversified than Google. If Google becomes as diversified as MS then there is a good chance they will catch up on head count.
I loaded up Firefox OS on a Nexus S a few months back and the performance was really really poor compared to Android 4 running on the same hardware.

Their low end device looks similarly specced, so I'm a bit worried about how it will come off. Haven't gone through loading up the latest builds so perhaps performance has improved a lot.

Before Android 4.* (especially 4.1 and Butter) I think there was room for another competitor in the market, but I'm having a hard time believing FirefoxOS is going to be able to make significant inroads.

Android has finally grown up and contract-free low end phones are now available for $60. I would expect the 2013 ultra low end handsets will be 4.* which is really going to be a game changer.
Get Ready For An Innovation Explosion
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096125

OK, just my $0.02, so take with a handful of NaCl ...

Firstly, I cannot parse your title. To say that "no comments" are "not wanted" means that "comments are wanted". You seem to be saying the opposite, pointing out (indirectly) that the posting doesn't have a reply box.

So I guess I don't really understand what you mean.

Secondly, job postings on HN are a special category and never have a reply box, so this isn't a special case, it's just one instance of a special class. So your observation about comments not being wanted (assuming that's what you mean) is wrong.

Finally, this isn't really a site for opening a general discussion like this. If you have a point to make then either blog about it yourself, or find someone who has, and then submit a link to that. Or at least give a reasoned and coherent line of thought that people can discuss.

Added in edit: Let me actually say "Welcome to HN" - I can see that you're new, and I can guess that English isn't your first language. My comment is intended to help and inform, so don't be put off by it.
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You can't. The only way for this tool to be of use is if you have a tiny amount of pages that you can run it against.
Mozilla reveals Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone
It would be interesting to hear longer review. Still I believe you experience is better than OpenMoko FreeRunner (I have not owned it but my coworkers and other people I know bought these and never used again). This experience alone discouraged people from trying anything else.

It would be interesting to see if one of those Open devices or OS succeeded but it needs more than "open" for that.
SitePoint made an extension that does this years ago. It will try and scan your whole site too, making it a bit more useful than this:
http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/
Interestingly enough, Larry Page is on record recently talking about the possibility of Google scaling up to a million employees:

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Lar...
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The masses: "Should I buy an iPhone or a Galaxy?"
Got mentored by a fortune cookie? Empty platitudes are detrimental to clear thinking; yours is a prime example.
The performance of Firefox OS today on 800MHz hardware is many times better than it was on the Nexus S devices back in the day. This is partly due to hardware but mostly due to the OS maturing.

In short, today's build of Firefox OS will run very fast on these developer specifications.
I personally like Yann LeCun and like this idea. However, the root problem in CS research community is not a bad reviewing/publishing system. From my point of view, it is the evaluation system of the so called "professor" and researcher. The performance of the research is evaluated by the publications (the number or the citation). So here is the consequence: only a part of good "professor"/researcher really care about his research, all others care about the publication instead of research. My personal experience, you can see everywhere the "professor" push his graduate students to publish the paper. They are engaging in making the relationships to make his paper easily be published and make a lot of citations without any meaning. The publication is just a medium to describe the research analysis, results, etc, the true contribution is the research itself. Another point I want to say to learn and teach the knowledge is a very important responsibility of a professor. However, many professors only want to get publications from his students. So my conclusion, if the evaluation does not change, people still will abuse the new good review/publish system to get more publications, instead of doing valuable research.

Another very funny thing is that until now, CS research community always publish paper with improved results, good performance. It is definitely not true and the experience from failure should be also a good material to share.
I wish this paradigm(*) was more mainstream, it open your minds and flip your view of computers.

The CmiVFX tutorials about building towns, nature.. anything procedurally were a long and dense brain rewiring. It's almost not about using Houdini, it's about solving a problem with generic functions.

Houdini earns a paradigm name as many things in Houdini are built in Houdini, which is .. well math with interfaces. At least back in 2005, the skeletal animation system component was a encapsulation of geometry primitives bound by some arithmetics, you could open and edit it as any other surface or object. Turtles all the way down. Beautiful. Reminds me of Emacs/Lisp actually, once inside, you won't leave.
On the one hand, this is not enough hardware to make me happy.

On the other hand, if it runs smoothly on this, it should run smoothly on more sophisticated devices, so it's probably a pretty good test platform.

(One exception: not enough pixels on screen to stress the graphics hardware.)
Good to hear, maybe time to load it up again to see where it has gone. I was really jazzed about it (bought a Nexus S just for the occasion) but seeing just how bad it was really broke my heart.
Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
I find I don't have enough time to read all the stuff on Hacker News, but I spend heaps of time on the train where I’m usually listening to music.

Since I work at a startup doing some stuff with text-to-speech, I hacked together this text-to-speech "radio station" so I can listen to Hacker News on my mobile instead of music.

It uses native HTML5 audio that worked fine with iOS and Android in my testing (though some OEMs like HTC screw up the player skin), and uses the RSS feed to grab top articles. Obviously TTS isn’t perfect, but I find most articles except coding ones are comprehensible.

Let me know of any suggestions.
Not that I think it's a good practice, but the fact is a lot of companies announce products with great fanfar before they're actually available. Right now there's a press conference where they're talking about the phones. There's a Twiter tag:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23geeksphone&src=hash

Since Geeksphone is in Madrid, twenty minutes from my home, I hope I can just walk in and buy one as soon as they're for sale.
It's not that unusual.
Lots of companies start out the way this guy did.
This happens all over the world, not just in China.
In order to scale things up, you either rely on manual labor or automated machinery. And you can outsource both.
A lot of suicides are caused by self hatred. No matter where you go, there you are. Have you ever spoken to someone who moved because they were depressed? It rarely helps as much as actually seeking help, because the situation you're trying to escape isn't a social one, it's one in your mind. Depression is not a result of factors leading to suicidal ideas, depression is the factors leading to suicidal ideas.
I don't see the point of this benchmark.

Was the file cache (apc) on? What features were enabled on what frameworks? Default configurations or production ready?

From my experience, raw framework speed doesn't matter much anymore. It can easily be improved by disabling features, utilizing caching, switching to SSDs, etc.
I'm sure consumer electronic companies had the same debate 20 years ago with the same arguments.

As you say, there are clear cases where this cheap overseas model isnt going to work. But to dismiss them completely is like saying Kickstarter is no good for video games because AAA publishing houses already exist.

Low volume cheap prototyping or niche manufacturing is an area ripe for disruption. Actually its not even disruption since AFAIK there are no established players (in the West at least).

People like the OP's Maker seem to be driving the way for low cost, low volume electronics. 3D printing seems to be slowly leading the way towards cheap custom molds for enclosures. Once the two meet....

Personally I welcome the revolution.
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... and thus causing massive destabilization in whole economies. No thanks!

Think about it. If a corporation employs 1 million employees, and that company fails, then the economy will most definitely take a hit. On top of this, that company would hold far too much power and could use the power of the number of people working for it to force governments into doing things that it wouldn't do for the greater good. It happens already now with big business, but just imagine what it would be like with a million employee business!
There are many companies that are much larger than Microsoft in terms of number of employees. Microsoft employs 94,420 people worldwide [1], but by this measure it isn't even in the top 100 of the Inc 5000 according to [2].

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx#Employmen...

[2] http://www.inc.com/inc5000/list/top/employee-count
>it's objectively a worse use of those engineers' time

If you are ActivisionBlizzard, or EA. What do you do if you're not them? THQ is a good example of a publisher that tried to mimic the big dogs, and failed dismally because of it. There's a huge difference between AAA games company, and wannabe-AAA games company, and the expansive graveyard of developers/publishers is a testament to that.

It seems incredulous to me that when facing a distant bankruptcy, the best choice is to keep doing what you've been doing, dump all your remaining cash into finishing the AAA games you've got going, and betting it all on black. Are these companies completely oblivious to the fact that smaller, indie-style games are, at the very least, profitable?

Maybe the games industry culture really is this self-destructive. Or maybe, with budgets so high, even for a huge company, solvent to insolvent can be 1 or 2 poor releases away.