skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia meteor blast was largest ever detected by global nuke monitor network
I think localStorage already asks the user.
More like mostly chilly. SF doesn't have the temperature extremes of the Montreal, but you still have to wear a sweater most of the year. You can always spot the tourists by their shorts and newly bought "San Francisco" emblazoned sweatshirts.
I had a blog just over a year ago but it was deleted by my web host, about to start again.

Write drafts, stock up on lots of them. Go back the next day and revise. Research your points. Feel free to take excerpts from other websites to drive those points, but don't copy entire paragraphs.

Write about stuff that interests you or enrages you, stuff you're passionate about. The rest should come naturally. If you're having trouble finding something to write about, don't force it. Find inspiration.

Keep your blog design relevant. If you want to start a tech blog, go for a design that supports that. You don't have to go all out on an amazing design, but it definitely helps presentation. Some opt for a minimal, fixed, black on white design. Remember that this is your blog and it represents you.

Typography is more important than you think.

Lastly, don't write an article about something because you were asked to, and don't publish an article you aren't sure about. Readers see really quickly the difference between writing from the heart and marketing.

That's all I can think of right now.
Around The World With A Backpack And A Laptop
reminds me of Dune II
You did the right thing; that person was trying to score. I also offer them food only. If they don't accept it, it's usually because they are junkies and want someone to extend their habit.
Does anyone else think that the author should set up something like mailchimp with an autoresponder to deal with the spam? Something that explains his policy, why he doesn't respond to emails, why he won't remove the link without charging them?

Many of the people who will have these spammy links on his forum will have paid one of the more scummy SEOs out there to raise their SERPs. The people emailing may not have originally been aware that the links have been put up. By having an autoresponder address for people to mail to this should alleviate the spam for all but the dumbest of people (that can't read what to sign up to to get a response, or those that fail to read a clearly defined policy via email).
The aviation industry is the same. Most aviation authorities around the world have a no-fault reporting system so that fixes can get implemented without pilots worrying about losing their job.
A 286? LUXURY! We only had a 8086 with half a megabyte and we had to hook it up to a bicycle generator to get electricity for it!
Google doesn't agree with you.

"Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners"

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
It's Smalltalk but without the image, without browsers, without inspectors, without live objects, without...

Well... you get it...
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I use a service like this in Sweden (abuni.se). You change your government-registered mailing address to a virtual PO box number with them, and all the companies and agencies that pick your address from the government database (probably 80% of them in Sweden) will start using it.

Then they scan all your mail and send it to you as PDFs, as well as archiving it on their site. I've also authorized them to do direct debits with my bank, so now they automatically pay any bills I get on paper for me automatically on the due date.

I've been living out of the country for over a year (I haven't even had an apartment in Sweden), and this system has worked great.
Honestly your going to have to wait in long lines with some of the worst smells you can possibly imagine.
Why plan pricing is better than per user(unit) pricing
This will show my age but ... as a junior developer, I was responsible for generating the 'gold' floppy disk set for our application. The second disk of five held hundreds of small report template files, and without a post-disk build defrag the install process for the second disk took a couple of hours instead of a few minutes.
For one release - you guessed it - I forgot the defrag on the second disk. I passed the disks to another guy for a test install, and later on in the day he test-passed the install set and send it on for duplication. Hundreds of floppy-disk sets were sent out to clients later that week, and then we started getting many irate phone calls about the slow install process.
Turns out the testing guy had missed the slow install rate because he inserted the second disk, then went out to lunch for a couple of hours, and assumed everything had completed quickly when he returned.
Lesson learned - have a written checklist for generating installs / deployment (we didn't at that stage).
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Really. I assumed you were talking about some nmap-based attack I hadn't heard of. That maybe fills the target's HD with log files or something. Wondered whether that would work cross-platform on any device, like this attack. Wondered whether it could be pulled off by an idiot with a grudge, like this attack. Or whether targeting someone by IP isn't in fact actually harder than being able to do it by getting someone to click on any link, anywhere.

But yes, indeed, if the machine's already vulnerable to something else, then that is possibly much worse.
It has been my experience that this doesn't persist for whatever reason. I did it before and now it's hidden again.
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If that's the best link(Or a link that links a non-existent link) then I'm happy to say that no Anonymous do not swat.

But touché, I didn't ask for a reputable link.
Sun Tzu's Foundational Flaw
This black hole spins at nearly the speed of light
well i believed that they are not ordered. (which they are not in some languages)
FWIW I wish youtube didn't autoplay.

Not that I care about unexpected noises in a situation like this, but I hope we all agree that unexpected and unwanted noises are genuinely annoying to many people.
> The question I'm asking myself now is how to fix this.

Doesn't the website answer that? Just follow the spec!
Firefox isn't vulnerable…
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, the thing is that it's seventy years since the last time, but there is so much longer time left.

We need to change our ways.
I don't know if some SEO actually do that, but following Google's guidelines for webmasters, using Google's webmaster tools instead of building an opaque site with Flash or full Javascript certainly helps Google (otherwise they wouldn't publish these guidelines to start with).
No.

I mean people can tell you their opinions, but the reality is that nobody knows - as in all other investments...

Now that I think of it, at least with BitCoin there can be no insider trading, because there is no company that owns BitCoin. (There could still be information not available to all, for example somebody could have cracked the protocoll and short BTC knowing that it would be dead once he releases the information).
Interesting read: Fiscal Budget for India. 1 crore = ~200,000 USD
So you don't have an idea? Here is mine: what about spending 3 years tracking other startups' evolution, interviewing entrepreneurs, angels, VC's etc..., with all this information and contacts spend 3 months preparing a kickstarter campaign for a book about startups and entrepreneurship, 9 months to write your book, and with all this information/contacts and press you have collected 1 year building something thinking about what the would would need two year later.
Arguably, that's the spirit of the FileSystem API.

http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/

> An application can request temporary or persistent storage space. Temporary storage may be easier to get, at the UA's discretion [looser quota restrictions, available without prompting the user], but the data stored there may be deleted at the UA's convenience, e.g. to deal with a shortage of disk space.

> Conversely, once persistent storage has been granted, data stored there by the application should not be deleted by the UA without user intervention. The application may of course delete it at will. The UA should require permission from the user before granting persistent storage space to the application.
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Faxes are also dying out, but there are plenty of companies making a living off of e-fax services.

Although I agree the economics of picking the stuff up out of your mailbox makes little sense... Mail forwarding or PO boxes would be far more efficient.
Not really. You obviously haven't (yet) done anything like
update t1 set status=0; where status=4;
when you wanted to release (set status to 0) objects that are stuck in state 4, and let all other objects keep their existing statuses.

This is an easy mistake to make on command line. I hate GUIs too but not having one doesn't really help when your fundamental operating model is wrong.
I also change the prompt colour according to server. I can tell at a glance which machine I'm on (plus the hostname of course).

It means having a slightly difference .bashrc for each machine, but it's trivial.
Do you think the company learned the value of backups, or do you think they learned to blame junior devs for fuckups? Sounds like they learned nothing, because no attempt was made to determine the root cause.
Heh, that may possibly be one of the final features for other browsers to copy from Opera, before they join the herd and switch to webkit :)

I'm actually not sure how much that'll change Opera, and affect their way of innovating new features to include.
I can understand someone getting frustrated. This forum may have great information, but it is also causing a lot of harm, possibly leading people to dangerous sites. Is it the owners responsibility to do something about that? I think so.

Just as you have lots of machines that have been compromised and are part of a botnet.
The only people that should have gotten fired for this are:

* The person responsible for the database backup (no backup plan for your production DB!? wtf)

* The person having designed the SQL admin tool (not putting an irreversible DELETE operation behind a confirmation dialogue!? wtf)

* The person giving full write access to the company's production database to a junior developer (data security!? wtf)

Sure, the employee made a mistake, but most of the failure here is due to the bad management and bad organizational design.
Got my bike stolen today not to far from the Tenderloin, pretty bummed about it I loved that bike.
I'm British and I think your British friends are wrong. I do agree that most of the people who use "orientated" are British but I don't understand where they get that from.

"Orientation" is the term for the process of orienting something. So a design process in which, say, user stories are turned into object-oriented designs could be called "object-orientation". But it does not follow that the result is "object-orientated" - we'd just call it "object-oriented", in the same way that something which has been through a transformation is not "transformated" but "transformed".
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My mother taught me that the only thing one can safely gift to strangers is food, (non-alcoholic) drink or clothes. At the time I didn't dwell on the advice too much, but it makes sense to me now.
Really well done. Love it I am 13 again !!
> Unity is horribly inefficient with screen space

WUT? Unity needs LESS screen space then AWESOME WM or something similar because of it's global menu. Look! http://screencloud.net/v/zB84 How much more vertical space would you have in awesome?

And, as someone mentioned, left panel can be hidden, but I prefer to use it.
Too bad that outstanding solution will be vaporized from the face of this earth and replaced by Chrome's implementation!
That would be amazing, even though the boosted boards remote seems kind of awesome on it's own.
I feel in a lot of ways that starting over at 50 must be easier than starting over at 30. At 30 you possibly have kids, a spouse, and are just getting started in a mortgage. At 50 the kids are off to college, the house should be paid off or close to it, and now you have many peers in the same situation as you (ie, access to capital). It's no wonder the avg age for entrepreneurs is mid 40s
Using relative paths in your css generally resolves that issue, is there a specific reason that doesn't work in your use case?
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Just find a way to run `synclient MaxTapTime=0` when your X session starts up, and you should be golden. This just disables tapping the trackpad to click, similar to how a MacBook’s trackpad behaves.

I want his babies for this - I have just "lived with it" on every laptop for years simply because I was too lazy to dig into the hell of X and drivers and docs. But now I see the light
Agreed, but I can only guess that Wyo is not a usual shortcut for Wyoming. Although I made that mistake as well.
I agree there's no real 'overnight' success. I remember watching interview by Daniel Dae Kim, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dae_Kim

When asked what he thought about his overnight success by the local TV anchorwoman, I remember him muttering something about being an actor playing bit parts for almost 10 years before he got his big break, LOST. As far as he was concerned, his success wasn't overnight but took many years.
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Here is the thread where the initial !!Science!! on whether bolt weight made an impact on their lethality - [Dwarven Research: The Effect of Bolt Weight on Crossbow Performance](http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=115683.0)

The results were converted on reddit into a LaTeX PDF, which is excellent reading - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891221/DF%20study.pdf

This led to the follow up: A Comparison Study on the Eﬀectiveness of Bolts vs Armors

LaTeX - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891221/DF%20study%202.pdf

Thread - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0
A few years ago I learned a lot about trying to help homeless people with money, food, housing, and employment. Here's a blog post which details my experience of trying to help two random people from the streets of San Francisco:

http://captainrecruiter.blogspot.com/2010/10/cathy-and-lance...
In the same way that different people viewing:

http://facebook.com/

see a different resource? For a web app like FB I don't think this avoidable. All data served is dependent on who you are when you are logged in.

For another example of how to handle this better, see twitter:

twitter.com - the user's feed, content differs for each user

twitter.com/username - the user's public url, for sharing, a proper URI which everyone can use

twitter.com/settings/profile - the user's private profile, content differs for each user

I agree they shouldn't need that redirection with no id supplied and I suspect it's just a legacy of the original way of showing profiles (profile.php?id=n), they could just redirect it to root instead (shows the same as profile.php it seems) to avoid leaking state.
From what I understand, in limited circumstances this can and does happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
But given that I am not a lawyer I have no idea if creating a LLC for the sole purpose of isolating a patent holder from court fees would qualify and/or be provable.
I read this a little different. I think this is proof of incredible demand. I'd also add poor usability and difficult to understand to the list of hurdles that bitcoin is overcoming.

I think this is one of those cases where the demand is so strong that people put up with anything. Online Payments really sucks, for both sides. Merchants aren't guaranteed that the money they get will stay in their accounts. They need to become experts in fraud & risk & money laundering. The whole process is mitigated by a duopoly with 150 years of technical debt. Credit Cards, Payment Gateways, Merchant Accounts, Paypal, Chargebacks. All these suck. Not everyone has access to them. No one feels safe using them.

When natural demand is that high, it can overcome everything else. There's a whole class of products priced at insane prices. Quality is uncertain. They product can be dangerous. It's only available from dangerous criminals. You need to be introduced to the vendor by your least favorite "friend." If this product was breakfast cereal, people would just eat something else. But since natural demand for ilegal narcotics is so high, all those hurdles get jumped.
Persevering seems to be a very personal choice and there's no correct decision for everyone. It's easy to look at someone who hasn't achieved the level of success they desire and to write them off while encouraging them to take a safer, more conventional path. The trouble is that such a decision all but guarantees their ambition won't be realized. It seems that those who are just happy doing their thing are the ones most apt to persevering. They also seem like the ones who would feel more disappointed by giving up than by having not "made it" yet.

At what point would you call it a day? Is there some point you can determine it's worth giving up? I'm curious to know how you'd make such a decision.
Any domain can authenticate its users, Mozilla acts as a fallback if a domain does not do this. At this moment most domains do not directly support Persona authentication, so almost always the fallback is used, but the system is decentralized by design.
recent gnome3/unity and gnome2 since forever: settings > mouse (or "mouse and touchpad" in unity/gnome3) > touchpad tab > [ ] enable click on touchpad.
Monitoring API changes
There's a difference between buying links, which Google actively started prohibiting at a certain point, and the automated forum spam you are mentioning. The latter is done using software like XRumer, and has always been penalized by Google. The former wasn't prohibited in the beginning, when link deals were often mutual agreements, most of the time involving a traffic component as well.

The snake oil salesmen that are mentioned, are the ones who actively participated in the scheme by selling links and making a buck, and are trying to make another quick buck now that the rules have changed.

Moreover, some links aren't even paid at all, but just look manipulative. For example, if you developed a wordpress theme, and your link is in the footer of tons of blogs, you might get penalized for manipulating the anchor text of your links in a non-natural way. In those legitimate situations, webmasters do have a moral obligation to cooperate.

I don't think anyone would think that of an honest entrepreneur being spammed to death by link spamming software.

On a side note, there are plenty of forums on the web that have survived the spam wave, if it were core to your business, you could have protected yourself.
summary:

paragraph 1, i don't like gnome3/unity

paragraph 2-n, how to change settings, in the worst way, so it behaves like a mac

only thing I agree is the trigger to gnome-settings-daemon. that is really trick.
" and for female singers - if your genes made you butt ugly, no career for you, "

Music is not limited to the payola crap pumped on most stations you know

And I'd say it probably gets better with music sharing over the internet, the ones complaining are usually the executive heads.
You could continue to allow 5mb for each subdomain, but wait until say, 25mb for the sum(*.domain.tld) before prompting. For example, this would allow {www,mail,docs,plus,???}.google.com to continue as they are now until google.com managed to rack up 25mb worth of data. After which point the user might want to know they're holding on to a fair bit of data for one particular site.

Then again, prompting is really annoying, and most people just click "okay" and without comprehending.
I cannot completely follow you, but your number of 17.2 Trillion is off by the factor 1.000, and the fortune of the Rothschild family spread and resolved from generation to generation, as large family fortunes always do.
Great bug report :) Hopefully someone from Canonical will see this, and can send it to the appropriate people!
Can you recommend any good overviews of the subject? I'm not a designer, but I've always been very interested in typography.
I would build robots. Not with AI, but simple programmable robots with commodity hardware. If I can add them AI in that time span, well great... depending of the level of AI of course. Or an exoesqueleton, that would be cool too.
Classy response/apology.

I would have also personally tried to find a unique/obvious subject line in the same direction as Francis took to get Mark Cuban's attention.
Have you tried playing around with different external microphones?
Aaand one of those demos killed Safari
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EmeraldBox: new boilerplate Python framework
Developing web apps should be done in the easiest and most efficient ways. Python offers that. However, most of the available frameworks required a deep learning curve for new users and most users have problems deploying the web app.

After using several python web frameworks as well as using other languages' frameworks like Rails, CodeIgniter and Zend, the author came to a conclusion that python is the easiest and most efficient language.

However, it will require tools that may speed up development. It that sense, Rails has a very good approach and will be implemented for the helper tools. Integration with 3rd party packages should also comes easily without having the need to interfere with the main OS, hence comes virtualenv.

Thus, comes EmeraldBox, an easy-to-use, light-weight, and easy-to-deploy framework.

EmeraldBox comes in a localized environment and includes standard packages that are commonly used in web development. The tool includes framework management tools and is designed to give ease for developers in managing database and migrations.

We are standing in the shoulder of giants, leveraging the following technologies and knitting them to work hand-in-hand:

Twitter Bootstrap
Flask
SQLAlchemy
Tornado
Best of Python Packages

https://github.com/femmerling/EmeraldBox
> would have been better served having spent that time pursuing something else

This is just the gamble that success requires. It's easy to say that objectively they may have been better doing something else in retrospect, but perhaps they felt some satisfaction trying. In any event, it's impossible to know whether someone is going to succeed in advance, or remain unsuccessful.

It appears the decision to persevere, like the decision to "give up", cannot be made rationally. I'd love to be shown otherwise though.
Discussion from last June: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062216
This is the most incredible story I have read in a long time. To have such a business relying all on one database and no backups... unbelievable!
Thanks for narrating the story of John Harrison. I would say that what he found was the GPS equivalent of his time.
The Chromium developers really dislike localStorage (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58985#c7)

They'll have to fix this bug, but I won't be surprised if they try to remove localStorage entirely soon.
HTML5 localStorage does not allow sites to fill up users' hard disks (without their permission).

Bad, non-conforming implementations do.
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