skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not recommend showing a user's password for security reasons. If you do show it thought, then using xss_clean would probably complicate things as it probably removes or escapes some special chars like <, > and &.
Slashdot is what it always was. They have maintained their identity in spite of all the new trends, and they will continue to maintain their audience. Digg, Reddit, HN.News are different from Slashdot.
Hard to know what this is, I couldn't find it anywhere.

Looking at his blog though: http://ricrichardson.blogspot.com/

Down on the right hand side it says "PC Online" and the title tag states "Open standard for online forums. Beta tested with advertising community".

Looking at the rest of the claims he makes, nearly all are obvious at the time that they were made.

Obvious is defined as "would another developer given the same problem create the same solution", if so then there has been no inventive step and the patent should be dismissed. This is before even considering prior art and other things... the guy is a joke.
Good article but it fails to mention perhaps the most important technology for making it work - the telephone. I'm not so sold on teleconferencing - similar issues as with videoconferencing. But one-to-one calls can and do work.
Can you provide some more details? What kind of caching do you use? Some in the cms or on the server? Do you know if your hosting provider is using squid?
Right click and copy. You can then paste into a text editor.
It's a D major pentatonic scale, I think.
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I am using stock Wordpress 2.7.1 (2.7.0 at the time of slashdot effect). I have not enabled any caching plugins at Wordpress. All the pages are generated with php, so I suspect it is impossible to effectively use squid? Here's the website itself: http://www.cybertechnews.org
This is based on the Japanese electronic instrument, Tenori-on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenori-on
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Shared hosting isn't as bad as people make it out to be — very few people use many resources, so your site could have had a massive share of a 8-core box or something.

Still don't like it though, but my main requirement is root access. :)
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Unfortunately Microsoft can easily take the hit for sums that seem astronomical to ordinary people (or even ordinary businesses) and then turn round and use that as justification for their own patents.

Just like when it gets fined hundreds of millions by the EU, it can use these numbers to elicit sympathy, while I'm sure internal calculations show greater profit from ignoring the law or playing the patent game, even after subtracting these costs.

After all if they didn't profit from it, then they probably wouldn't do it.
HN has Alexa rank of 7000, while slashdot has about 1000. When I look at HN Alexa rank, a big jump happened in the last month. Anyone knows why? I like HN myself, the philosophy suits me better...
Though seems obvious, very good advice esp #1-2
I think he meant in terms of total traffic.
Thanks for all the great feedback so far. I really appreciate the valuable advice of you guys. I think I'll go for it. However, it showed me one thing: I need to get things done right now. I will keep you up-to-date. Thanks HN!
The traffic they send is not.
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Is your host the same one running those $4.84 ads on your site?

In any case, details on how you did it would be most interesting. What kind of changes(if any) did you make to your "hot" page?
I didn't see an option for them to host the pages though or did I miss that feature?
To be quite honest, 20k pageviews is no more than any server worth while should be able to handle. That's less than a pageview per second. Even peak times of 10 or 50 times that should not pose any problems...
This sounds nice in theory, but I don't think it is always true. There are techies who have a career and those who have a job. It is better to get as many who have a job doing what they are passionate about, because they are probably wasting their time at their job.

And I wish that at least one of the 100+ companies that have come out of YC were IPO bound. I tried to hint that we were of that mindset when we had applied, no cigar. I'm not really sure why YC continues to advance sites which seem to go against their own "Derivative Idea" rule for why startups fail (e.g. this round: a group bookmarking site, a themed video site which piggybacks on YouTube). It would be interesting if YC decided to have one round where they choose nothing but "hard problems" with huge potential.
The hole in twitter was really big, surprised it took that long to exploit.
The bias is obvious in how this article is dripping with resentful tone and constant privacy paranoia. However, it was worth the read, if only for the closing line:

"I feel better for a minute, until I realize that the only reason he knew that [journalists weren't] so easily [replaced] is that Google had been looking into how to replace [journalists]."
Slashdot traffic isn't quite what it used to be. That said, it's cool that your shared hosting service was able to keep your WP powered blog up. Wordpress can be notoriously resource heavy.

Give your hosting company a heads up that you got slashdotted and they were more than capable of handling it and send them your thanks. They should appreciate it! :)
How much traffic do you see in a month?
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You could get similar services from a colocation company as well. You could purchase a fully decked 1U server for $2000, then pay $50 a month for colocation (that's what I'm doing).
It depends how big they mean by "seed", too. Y Combinator's one extreme, half-million pound investments at ten million valuations is the other - I've seen both called seed rounds...
That's great for creating custom notification sounds for your app.
"I hear how we are to release early and often, which means less testing".

In the parlance of our times: You're doing it wrong.
Seems like the EU is making an effort http://www.few.vu.nl/~ast/
350k hits per day is only 4 req/s. Assuming there are typical peak hours, I'm guessing it could reach 300 req/s during peak hours. Nginx on a crappy 128MB server can deliver around 8000 req/s on a static page. Even if there was zero caching, I would hope you could manage 300 req/s.

(and yes, I actually tested this on a crappy 128MB VPS. I also tested out using a rails, merb, and compojure generated pages and was able to reach 500-1000 req/s easily)
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Well that was a surprisingly sensible article. Looks like we could be heading for a tipping point. Or the apocalypse. One of the two anyway.
I can't remember who said it, but: "If you can't be first, be the best"
at least according to quantcast, their traffic numbers have been steadily going down: http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org#traffic
Black, empty screen here. (Firefox under Ubuntu)
Not to rain on your parade, but developers.slashdot is not the "full" slashdot effect. The full slashdot effect (from personal experience getting http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... slashdotted) happens when you're on the front page of slashdot, and results in about 100-150k visitors from slashdot itself, accompanied by another 20-50k visitors from other sites that pick up the story. If you get front-page-slashdotted, you'll probably also get dugg and redditted at the same time.

For the record, danieltenner.com has had 50k visitors in a day from just reddit + HN...

The problem also usually comes up when comments start to add up (another reason why disqus rocks). http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... had a couple of hundred comments within a day, and since Wordpress (it was on WP at the time) didn't cache them, the page load got excruciating.

That's not a problem for http://danieltenner.com anymore, since comments are now served by disqus, and the pages themselves are static html. I suspect I could take several "full" slashdottings at the same time now and still stand. Nginx is pretty good at serving static files.
It's an opinion piece by a professional polemicist.
When you're doing something novel, you're probably going to find places where the off-the-shelf tools don't do what you need.
That is weird. A few months back, I got suspended from my shared hosting account after upgrading to Wordpress 2.7X and I was getting only around 600 unique visits a day... The hosts says I was already using more than 90% of their resources...
Here's mine ~

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2217/boopt.png
You'll meet potential employees, business partners, bloggers and other people who could help you out. Knowing lots of people isn't a business plan in it's self, but when you do have one, knowing people will help execute it.
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There have been a few key data points lately:

* Snakes on a Plane - large blogosphere audience, no bumbs-on-seats

* Web-Cameron and other election focussed unicast - "preaching to the converted", or "shouting into the ether" it used to be called

* People selling real items on internet fare better than those selling blogging/tweating related items
Out of curiosity how much MB/GB bandwidth did this total too even though your host doesn't limit you?
Not really an option. I am from Germany and this is a US based startup. Furthermore, there are many things I don't like about their execution and how they realized the whole concept. I wouldn't be too happy joining them.
I somehow end up thinking if I ever get to see so many workplaces in RL!
Yes and I am sure they would come in nice a regularly like that :-)

The top story on slashdot is there for about a hour so I would expect that they would come in as big spike at the start and then drop off.
thanks for posting.
Maybe I have a different idea of defensive programming. But for me, defensing programming is making sure that when you call a method (or something else) the data is assumed to be good or else it will go KABOOM. This is for example asserting for all the arguments that should exist and not for if (something) return;

For example, if I call a Draw method on an object, I assert if the object Color property hasn't been set. I don't create a default color for it. This makes sure that the Draw will work as it should, it will make no assumptions on how it is being called it just makes sure that when it was called it will have to be valid.
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You can copy a pattern. Just right click and copy.
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> rather not spend time on typing closing tags

Isn't that what Emacs is for?
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Same, Safari in 10.5 --- Javascripters have to deal with graceful degredation / progressive enhancement, why not Flash?
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The main reason that SGML allowed closing tags to be optional was that it was 80s technology and storage was expensive.

To omit tags you needed a DTD that allowed the parser to infer where the close tags should go.

Enforcing the use of close tags in XML meant that building a parser was much simpler and that you no longer had to supply a DTD which I think were probably very instrumental in XML's success.
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I got 20k unique visitors from stumbleupon in less than 24 hours on an equally cheap host (running wp, no caching, image-heavy page) with no problems.

Shame they totally screwed up a few months down the line and I was forced to move host.
What does he mean by "live and fully interactive"? Presentations are by definition always live. I personally hate presentations which are "interactive". Just show me your topic as fast as possible.

TED presentations aren’t interactive and I like them very much.
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This reminded me of 'Soul of a New Machine'. I would recommend that book if you enjoyed this post.
What is "hacker news" about this that I couldn't get by subscribing to scienceblog directly?

Actually, n/m, I don't care so much for meta-discussions about the falling signal/noise on hacker news either.
If you like generating and playing music this way, Brian Eno's $3.99 iPhone app Bloom is very similar. I was addicted to Bloom for a couple days.

http://gizmodo.com/5061004/brian-enos-bloom-raises-the-bar-f...
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Working fine on Debian Lenny 64bits with 32bits shockwave flash 10 r15.
Sadly, Firefox 2 isn't dead (and apparently still accounts for 40% of Firefox usage), so inline-block is even further-away than the death of IE6. I recently had to take out a bundle of inline-blocks I had put in for a client's intranet site after finding out that they wouldn't even consider updating past 2.0.0.20. Why go through the major effort of transitioning to a new browser and then doing QA and testing for all your existing web-apps, but then not put in the small amount of effort involved in keeping said browser up-to-date? I've never seen a single site, no matter how complex, break on a Firefox upgrade.
I was toying with some ideas like this for a toy design. this is rather elegant.
A business plan should always include a plan to get attention. Without attention even the best product wouldn't sell because nobody knows about it. Getting attention is part of your marketing and PR

But getting attention cannot be your entire business plan.
I made a similar mistake in a job interview once. I was interviewing for a position as IT technician, and the network manager asked me where I wanted to be in 5 years time. I responded "in your job".

It didn't go down well, and although I explained that I meant "in a position of responsibility such as that of network manager" rather than replacing him in his actual job, we never did get on. Although I got the job, I was forced to quit just over 3 months later because I couldn't stand the tension.

It turned out that he was an asshole to everyone, but I have a feeling I marked my cards somewhat.
Oh, eh, no?

There are a few very nice ones in there, but aren't we over the phase where OMG OMG OMG more than one monitor - and not much else, it seems - is impressive?
I'm curious, what exactly is impressive about the "first place" workspace?
I saw it for each of the 2 pages.
42130,65540,32904,66578,32800,74816,35978,65792,45568,74962,34944,70144,42562,81920,43690,87380

:D
Vim!

Although I must admit you've got a point there, it's a bit like Atwood's indentation piece yesterday, why bother fussing over that when your editor can sort it for you?
I didn't see it the second time I clicked the link so I don't think it's something the linker can control.
You would never have to filter a password. In general, you shouldn't rely on filtering, but rather on escaping. Escaping always work, whereas filtering can have subtle edge cases. The only place where you should resort to filtering, is when you (for some reason) need to display input as code. But it's important to stress that filtering is less safe than escaping - it's not the other way around. That's counter-intuitive, so a lot of people get it wrong.
The point is that HTML is a standard format that many tools and people are familiar with. HAML is not. While HAML might be more succinct, there is a tradeoff being made that is probably not appropriate for all situations.
It's not the case that the Enterprise is too large to escape Earth's gravity (what does that even mean? It has warp engines!) but that it has been previously stated in Star Trek that it was constructed in an orbital shipyard.
The most impressive workspace is the one just near the beach, not the one with 100 monitors :)
Why do you need to check in every 30 minutes?
Referring to this (http://i.gizmodo.com/photogallery/impressiveworkspaces/10078...) I've seen more of these vertical screens recently, (and not so recently: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICL_PERQ_1_workstatio...) but I was wondering if they're useful for coding? I'd assume so since you'd be able to view more lines and not white space (unless you're in an IDE) but I'm still a little unsure.
They don't do it. And I can't say I recall seeing a service that does so....
One similar thing I've never understood is card games like Magic the Gathering and (perhaps?) Pokemon.

From what I gather this is kind of like playing poker, except you can just go out and buy more decks to stack your hand. Just doesn't seem fair or fun to me.

A similar partly-virtual good I can't wrap my head round is intentionally limited-edition goods such as beanie babies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_Baby
"Brilliant!"??? You think that having a FrontPage 2002 cheat sheet is "Brilliant?" I'm calling "friend of abcphp_com who upvotes abcphp_com stories"
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kind of... but even better because it doesn't require class extending / modification.
Interesting that all of these workspaces were basically decorated caves -- unless I missed one or two.

I've set up a "nest" in a lot of different places. What I'd like is a huge window overlooking something worth viewing everyday, like the mountains or the beach. Something light and open with lots of walking around room, not something that looks like the crypto shack on a nuclear submarine.

To each his own, though.
Useful XSS cheatsheet:

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Interesting you say that. I'm fleshing out a design that uses a similar syntax - In python:

(html,
(body,
(h1, "header one text")
)
)

To me it's certainly not as painful as writing out html. I'm still working on it - hope to have a demo soon but its not a high priority, more something to sketch in the notebook when bored.

I have wondered if anyone would be interested in a templating syntax like this and got some response from the python mailing list -enough response to determine it's worth pursuing.

Its for personal projects so the designer seperation isn't a concern - I perfer to be able to generate it by code.
He said 30 minutes per day, not every 30 minutes.
It's not always possible in Flash, as SWFs published for newer players are sometimes completely incompatible with older versions of the player - usually it's done with JS on the page it's embedded on.

Besides, this is just an experiment - I bet you don't see those canvas demos taking these things into account!
Were you using the hosted version as well?
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> Well, it didn't work for me.

Me neither, and "The Wrestler" was quite a glaring omission.

I also agree that the "micro-genres" feature is flawed. For example, I searched for "Gwoemul" and none of the micro-genres it returned matched the reason I liked the movie - the deliciously dark humour.

When I searched for Eight Legged Freaks though it returned "terrorize goofy carnage" which is a close enough, if over-simplified, description of Gwoemul.

I suppose it boils down to the audience size as well. More people (on that site) are likely to have seen Eight Legged Freaks because it's older, and because it's Western movie (Gwoemul is Korean).
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It's not the only one. You can omit closing tags for td, tr, th, li, and probably others I don't remember. I actually do this; it doesn't make the resulting document any less clear for humans, and so if I'm typing it myself, there's little point in inserting them.
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It would be great if someone were to bring the full feature set of the Tenori-on to software. It's a very cool tool, but the price is prohibitive for people who just want to experiment with music.
Ah, well that explains it I guess :o)
I feel building nerd-rage building up in me, when I have to celebrate a click-orgy to watch the movie-trailer.
Oh I don't know, perhaps it doesn't include the 4-projector basement monitoring screen in the basement, relaying real-time hits and anomalous voting patterns.

Ahem.
I can agree with that, I wouldn't use a code-based markup generator simply because I couldn't see how you'd add design-based containers and things in there. Seems to eb good at producing semantic content markup, but not for full pages.
What about e.g. language barriers?
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"In the case of the latest Star Trek movie, the trailer clearly shows the construction of the Enterprise – on earth. This is the source of Nerd Rage for many who will not-so-calmly explain that a Constitution-class starship could not possibly be built on earth because it is too large to escape the earth’s gravity."

Wha?

So when the Enterprise comes near to the Earth what happens? It just can't escape the Earth's gravity, or does it only get stuck when it's near the Earth's surface? It's not the moon you know; it has engines.

NCC-1701-D is supposed to weigh about 400,000 tonnes. Leaving the Earth's surface to reach LEO requires a delta-v of 10km/s so you've got to accelerate 400,000 tonnes to 10km/s. The Space Shuttle does this and it weighs around 2,000 tonnes. So are we really expected to think that a vehicle 200x the size of the Space Shuttle could not be launched into orbit?
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and yes pentatonic scales are used a lot in eastern music so that will solve it. You only have 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th
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Contrary to the article inline-block on inline attributes is supported by IE6 according to the Quirksmode tables (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html); unsurprising as it was originally a non-standard IE-specific attribute. Firefox 2 was the browser everyone was waiting for in order to use it.

We'll have to wait until IE7 dies until we can forget about the hasLayout problem, sadly. (http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html)
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