skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this and slided to an earlier time. Now it's difficult to get back to the current time. Dragging the slider to a future time or clicking to the right brings me back to the earliest simulated time. Using Chrome 2 and it isn't slow.
Besides the spelling mistake, is "As sort of life crises go" a valid expression? Should that read "As far as life crises go"?
I don't understand this complaint. Of course this article is about how to get hired at 37signals and companies that hire in a similar manner. Why on earth would DHH bother writing about how to get hired at companies that don't have hiring practices similar to those of his company? I'd hope that most readers understand that companies are not all the same in their hiring and what may get you hired at one will not get you hired at another.
hm. I tested it on Opera 9.64 on OS X and it seems to work fine. I haven't tested the linux version, though. Sorry, you must hate that Opera is always neglected by web sites!
Looks really nice, but perhaps a little buggy? I'm using Opera 9.64 on XP and when trying to view the stream about the missing France flight, I was only able to get two of three streams at a time. The third would show a paused icon in the top right. First, the Twitter stream was paused; after I clicked around the timeline, the Twitter stream started working but the pictures frame emptied and stopped working.

Great stuff overall.
As a hack it might not be impressive, but I found it useful to see the presentation side by side. At the moment, I'd say Bing is definitely much cleaner and more pleasing. The speed seems about the same but it's hard to judge the results without lots of work. It's amusing, though, to see how closely Bing mimics Google especially in the first items of the header: web, images, video ... It would also be nice if I could just close one side or the other.
I spent some time in photoshop turning it into a sports car, and here is the result:

http://i41.tinypic.com/30cc6cz.jpg

For $50K people would buy it, wouldn't matter if it was powered by hampsters or a Supercharged V8.

Why? Because it would remind them of a baby Aston Martin. For engine choice I would probably use the engine out of the Chevrolet Camaro, GM is going bankrupt, so you can probably buy the engines on the cheap. And those engines are known for having a ton of potential. If GM doesn't work out, the 4.6L Ford would have to do. Of course can always follow in Lotus footsteps, keep the thing light, and use a supercharged/turbocharged 4 cylinder Honda/Toyota engine

Thats the thing with most cars, looks account for 90% of public interest. As long as you make a truly beautiful car, people will buy it, even if its a complete piece of crap.
Maybe you could find a way to make time, perhaps by starting with a shorter initial phone screen. Interactive dialog has much better predictive power compared to resume+coverletter in my experience.
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Very cool!
When I watched the Air France stream, many of the items were in foreign languages. You could offload language detection to the Google Languages AJAX API to allow filtering by language, or even better, automatic translation on-the-fly ;)
On the Processing front: Ben Fry et al. recommend you google for "processing.org". You can try "p5" too - it used to be at proce55ing.org before they got the non-leet domain, but the nickname's stuck around.
Way to misinterpret. I'm not questioning who deserves the right to free speech, I believe all humans do. I'm simply asking those who don't believe it is a universal right to explain who deserves it and who does not.

As for one of your other (tangential and irrelevant) points, it is just so wrong I can't even begin to understand where you would get such a mistaken idea.

China is managing to keep a greater percentage of its citizens above the poverty line than the US, despite it being a slightly smaller country with four times the citizens.

That's because the chinese poverty line is lower than the american one ($1.25/day vs $28/day).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

In fact, the GDP per capita (PPP adjusted) in China is below the American poverty line ($6100 vs $10400).
It'd only become a downvote if it affected ranking. I was just suggesting it be shown.
Google says it will challenge Amazon on electronic books
Startup idea: Get those DeviantArt hippies under one freelancing roof so people can hire them.

On more than one occasion, I found something I liked there and I had a paying client who wanted "something like it"; either the artists weren't answering emails, or they were busy doing term papers, or they just sent me nice step by step instructions on how to do the same in photoshop along with the plugins they used, yet some "added" me as a friend and forgot to reply.
So there is no necessary relation between a task being trivial, and how long it takes.

I wish more non-engineers could grasp this. It's so annoying when people say, "It's not done yet? But you said it would be a trivial feature to add!" I am then forced to explain all that means is I know how to add it and can visualize the general diagram in my head, but since I am not regurgitating the precise implementation from memory it isn't merely a matter of rote data entry.

This may be a problem caused partially by us, too; I don't care about implementation time because the implementation is the trivial part; it'll be done whenever it's done and I'm not really bothered by that since the problem itself is already solved. Hell, most of the time I don't even have an interest in fully implementing a solution to a problem I've already mentally solved.

I guess I should note this doesn't apply much for me at the moment seeing as how I co-own a company, but it's an annoyance when it comes to dealing with clients.
1) Yes, users suggest events and the moderator (me) approves them, if they're relevant. I'm trying to keep it to a short curated list of what's happening in the world (also, there's rate limits on most APIs!). Eventually, I'll add a system for users to publicly vote for "upcoming" events.

2) There isn't currently a throttle, but if you mouse-over a column, it will pause so you can read something interesting that you see. Mouse out and it un-pauses. Also, it's like an IM conversation... if you scroll up, it will stop auto-scrolling to the bottom.
demographic is an adjective, like financial. True, people say financials when they mean financial (statement)s, but I share the Economist's dislike of this linguistic slop.

Consider also that the written word still enjoys somewhat higher esteem in Britain, where the Economist is published; it is by no means uncommon to find corpses in the gutter of London's Fleet Street in the early dawn, driven to suicide by the shame of a misplaced apostrophe.
Personally I'm still enamored with WolframAlpha, though Bing has a distinct edge in ease of typing=).

I realize that (for now) these sites are apples to oranges, but I would welcome any move by Microsoft/Google to take on Wolfram. Perhaps Bing will go this way? They have a lot of smart filtering, and the endless image search is just fun.
Does it mean "fast" or "efficient" or something else? Both those words are shorter and more widely understood.
Understanding Google Adwords Promotion And Why Its Very Effective
Google Adwords is a type of marketing devise generated by google itself. It has been proved to be an ingenious way of advertising. Apart from handling the publicity for a particular company, the idea is to automatically generate revenue for google.
For a while, that is all I owned. It is the most flexible outfit. untucked, sleeves rolled up, top 3 buttons undone and you are chillin on the beach. Button it up, to just top button open, roll down sleeves, you're at work. Tuck it in, add a tie and jacket, and you're ready for a formal occasion. I never quite found the appropriately versatile pair of shoes, however.
Hm, did you see a little pause icon in the top right of the column? If so, you probably had your mouse hovering over that column. It pauses on mouse-over so you can read something that you see is interesting.

Edit: Having said that... yes, I'm sure there are bugs!
Sadly, seems not so on my Kubuntu box.
For some reason I interpreted this title as a role playing game in which one has the opportunity to be a financial compcontroller in a corporation. The implied premise of a game in which one prepares financial statements, tells vendors that they can't yet be paid, and informs the bank that those receivables are coming in "any day now" was very unique.

The actual product sounds much more promising.
Hi, I hire people. I read cover letters. I consider them almost as important as a resume.

If they are generic form letters that have been obviously sent to everyone without any modification, then I probably won't even talk to the person applying.

If they aren't interested in what we're hiring for, it makes me a lot less interested than what they have to offer.
Is it just me that hates the idea of this covering the google adverts? I don't think that's a good idea personally. I installed it, and then when it was covering google ads, I just thought "eugh no that's just wrong". It'd be far better to have it in a separate sidebar. Leave the browser window as it is.

If you're adblock, then sure - be like that. But if you're trying to be a legitimate company, covering someone elses adverts with your own content seems like a bad strategy.
The ultimate revenge, wonderful.
I've been getting my business education by making mistakes running businesses.
The instant headline from this, for me, is that 10% of Twitter users use it to talk: 90% use it, if at all, to read.

There's probably something deep here: about the difference between Facebook-style reciprocal friending, where you're probably talking with people you know pretty well, and Web/pub-sub style "give me these messages, please" arrangements like Twitter, and the dynamics behind these two media.

Twitter feels like a performance space; Facebook really doesn't. Myspace, if you're on there as a musician, is somewhere in between...
How about kill it on your Google search for your name?
It all depends on the sense with which you approach something. I have been a loyal reader of the Economist for a decade now, and have arrived at the point of finding competing publications almost unreadable due to the poor standards of writing and the substitution of affectation for real style.

On the other hand, I also enjoy reading 4chan and post there occasionally - sometimes in clear English, sometimes in LOLspeak. Though many there are undoubtedly only semi-literate, many others are simply having fun at the expense of others (as can be seen by the relatively correct use at Encyclopedia Dramatica). If you use the 'wrong' misspellings at 4chan - I kan has chisburgar, say - you'll just get laughed at.
I don't think he's arguing in favor of moral relativism so much as saying that we need to remember when dealing with other cultures that they don't have the same set of expectations as us. One of the reasons we are so anti-censorship is because there is a strong tradition of anti-censorship in the US. As much as we like to think we are inherently moral, the truth is that a lot of it does stem from culture. This isn't to say that anti censorship isn't objectively good. Just that we don't necessarily support it merely because it is objectively good.

So you may get weird responses when you transplant such a value to a culture that has thousands of years of history where the issue of censorship was never really important. When you say censorship is bad to another westerner you are signaling a value and you expect a certain response. Your communication is predicated on a shared set of connotations. If you forget that others might not share your connotations and forget to argue from the ground up you might run into problems.
Online, ‘a Reason to Keep on Going’
The Plain English community is big on these rules and they're at the heart of the style checker I built for After the Deadline.

I flag passive voice (4), complex words (2), cliches (1), redundant expressions (3), some jargon phrases (5), and I use a statistical model to eliminate suggestions that make no sense (6).
Wiki style -- http://collectivesys.com/item/detail/Cappuccino%20RIA%20deve...
Google loads much faster for me.
The criticism i've heard from many scientists is that kurzweil tends towards optimism and hyperbole b/c of his breadth of knowledge, but lacks the specialization and depth of knowledge sufficient for making credible prediction.
Who is "the" press? I think who hates and loves whom is pretty predictable.
There is no way to build anything close to an accurate model of the climate. It has far too many independent variables. What really makes it ridiculous is that the are always claiming to use the latest "super" computers when every (good) CS student knows that you can't solve problems like these with any size computer. Also - regarding non scientists influencing the debate - seems to me a lowly patent clerk had a pretty large influence on physics around 1905.
Almost.at: Real Time Events, As Tweeted By The People Who Are Actually There
It looks good! I had a few problems though:

It appears you can pause individual columns but clicking on the pause button doesn't work (in Firefox at least)

The columns should have titles

The last column (Links) keeps the background title over the text (in Firefox at least)

Selecting different stories on the left seems not to work some of the time and there is no pointer icon when hovering over them (in Firefox at least)

I think you need a page explaining what is going on and how the site works because it seems to assume you already know.
your writing signals values. being unaware of this doesn't mean you aren't signaling anything, just that your signals might be a jumbled mishmash. people are unconsciously aware of this and respond better to more consistent works.

This is what your english teacher was talking about when they said to eliminate everything that doesn't directly support your main idea. When trying to convince someone of something it often seems like a good idea to just toss any justifications we can think of out there and try to overwhelm them with sheer numbers.
congrats on getting techcrunch covered
Now You Also Can Call Bing 411.
you should visit seattle some time.
As I mentioned on an earlier thread, if you just want bing to look a little more like Google, I posted a Greasemonkey script here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649

Interestingly, I can really, really tell that Google has iterated pixel-by-pixel on their interface to get the optimum look because there's an "uncanny valley" I sense when I see results UI that is close but-not-quite-like theirs.

It's really hard to get the search results to look exactly like Google (the script doesn't quite do it) and when it's not quite right it feels as if it is a fake/squatter/parked page rather than the nice clean Google search results. This script attempts to get partially there, but Bing, by default, reminds me a lot of the sort of "parked" search results you see out there.

I haven't quite put my finger on exactly what triggers that feeling, but it seems to be a mixture of line-height, coloring, font size, and the length of the excerpt.
Actually assuming the climate and weather aren't connected is fundamentally ignorant. The El Nino and La Nina effects are the biggest example of this, in that it can change regional temperatures across the entire globe, it can cause algal blooms, which in turn are a key part of the climate model.

A prolonged El Nino is reported to have helped provoke the French Revolution by causing famines all over Europe. Crop failures and record low temperatures/rainfall have profound effects on the environment and the local biospheres climate effects. Death of biological material (crop failures) is usually tied to CO2 and Methane release through the biological processes that result, this is not to mention that prolonged cold periods (El Nino lasted over a decade at the time of the French revolution) result in less plant growth and more CO2 production through fuel burning. Then it would have likely led to a lot more deforestation than it likely would today.

My objections to computer modeling is that all they are is a model. If you put the wrong equation into the model, the answer is wrong.

The one thing I've never heard factored in is the amount of thermal energy emitted by living organisms and our society. From the estimates I've read, all the biomass on earth produces roughly 3-4 days the amount of solar energy received from the sun. Essentially the Earth is receiving 369 days worth of energy, for only 365 days in a year.

It's all a matter of equations, and the computer models have always put out unsatisfactory answers. I remember one being laughed at for predicting ocean rises of 1 cm per year, and I believe we've had approximately 0.01 cm per year.

My point is that the climate scientists' jobs depend on the climate being in danger. If there weren't fires we wouldn't have firemen, and if we didn't have crimes we wouldn't have police, so if there isn't a climate crisis we wouldn't have climate scientists and there's no provisions to protect us from rogue scientists but there are provisions to protect us from rogue cops. None of these models are repeated, no one can confirm the results as even being valid, they're just guesses.

Perhaps I just have a problem with trusting people in white coats telling me the sky is falling, but it all sounds too much like Chicken Little to me. I need to know the firemen aren't burning buildings down before I'm willing to pay them to put out fires. Equally I need to know Climate Scientists aren't hyping this up just to keep their careers alive.

As I've already said, I don't have a problem with the hardcore evidence and I believe global warming is happening. My problem is with the explanations and predictions, because they all seem either too simplistic or just bunk. Perhaps it's just a problem in the translation from the scientific and non-scientific lexicons, just like the major problems with explaining evolution to an American.
hippywrangler.com is available -- good luck ;)

I agree though; there's a ton of talent on that site, but most of those folks aren't really out for money.
I don't know why people would make web applications that entirely depend on canvas + js instead of using flash because it just shrinks your potential userbase due to the number of IE users out there. In contrast flash player is installed on like 99% (?) of all computers out there.

Until HTML5 gets wide-spread adoption I guess.
I don't know much about the Shootout, but my guess is that, if someone wants Arc there, they need to go and write whatever programs the Shootout requires you to write in order to participate in the Shootout.

I'd try it, but I don't know Arc (or Lisp yet, for that matter). If someone here knows Arc and wants to see it in the Shootout, I suggest they look into the faq: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/faq.php
Microsoft wows with full motion camera for games
Easy to think that looking from 2009 backwards, but at this point in his administration he was just as fawned over from the media as Obama is today.
Perils of pop philosophy
Really? GM is not the largest company to ever have gone bankrupt in this country. Many of the railroads were larger when they went under.
here is the link:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/almostat-real-time-even...
That's exactly what he asked for.
That is what I did. I just wanted to share with everybody so that they didn't have to do the same.

I'm apologize if the link isn't working for some people, I was just trying to help out.
I am a little puzzled here--how do properly pastured cattle sequester co2? If you do grass farming, the cattle's manure will fertilize the grass, but I wonder if there is a net sequestration in the process.
I wonder if you can brand fat....
Cisco blog on Infrastructure 2.0 and its strategic importance
Surprisingly, it runs quite smoothly on this crappy little Athlon 64 (about 5 years old, 1gb RAM) here at work, in FF 3.0.1.0. Not as smoothly as on my home machine, but not enough to be annoying either.

Excellent work. I am not sure about the name, I presume you are trying to say 'almost like being there?'. It probably doesn't help that today's top story is the sad news about that missing plane :-/ ...one feature request would be some kind of feed/download option for the stats window at the bottom...though for the few who'd be interested in doing math on it, I suppose it wouldn't be much more effort to just go to Twitter directly. I found myself wondering about the absolute numbers represented by the graph, though.
yum install wbm-virtual-server-mobile

Or:

apt-get install webmin-virtual-server-mobile

Magic happens. Not an iPhone app, but an iUI based theme that works really well on iPhone, and pretty well on Android. We do actually have plans for standalone apps, but it's an area where we're not particularly experts...so it might be something we have to outsource (which we tend to avoid for programming stuff). I've just bought a Mini 9 for Hackintoshing, so I'll soon have an iPhone dev environment, so might give it a try.
Thanks! That's pretty funny because I only told people about this site 2 and a half hours ago!
UFOlogy 2009: A Six-Decade Perspective
BlackBerry Internet Service Data Outage this Afternoon
MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox
'mcabber' is a nice console-based Jabber client, this fits your SSH scheme. 'talk' on unix-based machines is a possibility but just isn't as nice as Jabber.
You could also just use any old X11 Jabber client over X11-over-SSH.
It looks like a real-time news aggregation service.

Very good, would benefit from a search bar on the homepage and integration of real time comments from social sites such as digg, reddit and even Facebook public profiles.
I'm in the home automation business and this is what I do all day. Complex tasks become very intuitive when you use pretty graphics and simple layouts.

If you need ideas for widgets, check out what the guys at http://www.chumby.com have done.
Pay-for-performance may benefit doctors who care for very sick
So is it just in Illinois that we have http://www.illinois1call.com/? This seems to be seriously effective. Someone doing work on the yard calls the number and sometime the next day a whole passel of yellow/blue/red flags are planted in the ground, marking where various things are. They are doing resurfacing on the subdivision street, and there are flags everywhere, sometimes augmented with yellow paint on the grass.

On the other hand, Chicago is famous for having a $2 billion dollar flood in which nobody was hurt or killed. One of the city inspectors called out apparently did not even know of the abandonded underground railroad that as he "inspected" the area, the flood was just about to get underway.

This was a major urban adventure, as they tried to plug the hole. One scene had huge concrete trucks hurtling down city streets in excess of 70 mph flanked by police cruisers. Another scene had unimaginably large pumps brought in to pump out basement complexes. (The Army Corps of Engineers would not let them be used, as the draining would have been too fast, causing collapse of walls)

There was even a special extension granted to individuals whose tax returns filed late due to this adventure.
Andy Grove's biography tells the story how he had Bill Gates over for dinner to discuss the relationship between Intel and Microsoft. Upon hearing one if Andy's proposals, an excitable Gates said that it would "be actionable" (meaning the company could act on it). Andy misunderstood, and stood up from the table and angrily pointed at Bill and shouted "are you threatening to sue me?!". The meeting went badly from that point, and presaged a bad relationship between the companies for years to come.