skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes, yet another set of regulations for stairs! There are already soo many, and the idea of mandating reduced riser height in the stair has serious implications for many buildings with confined areas as this means more treads will be required and thus more overall area taken out of the building for stairs. I am, however, a big fan of using stairs, but the reality of the fire codes and the function of the code necessitates fire rated walls and doors. Making the interior of the stair nicer would be great (owner would have to pay extra) and locating the stair more conveniently is also good - but codes do have impact on that decision as well as fire stairs have to exit the building directly at the base, etc.
Heh, I thought it was a bit cheeky.
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It's not a matter of gaming the system. The teacher is the system. Just about anything the kids learn (except for honors classes, where the kids will sometimes learn some things on their own) is due to strenuous effort from the teacher.

All teachers "teach to the test" to some degree. The good ones try to get the kids to use higher-order thinking skills, and their quizzes and tests bear this out. If you want the kids to get better grades though, you could just heavily cover the material that's on the test, then make sure you use exactly the same wording on the test as was on the homeworks and quizzes (as opposed to mixing it up a bit to get the kids to think about things a little more).
Even though SF screwed up in the beginning, I'm glad they handled it well.

By "it", do you mean the splash of bad press that they weren't expecting to get? They totally turned that around, very slick of them.

I didn't read anything about them doing anything to prevent the next guy from getting hassled for a license fee he can't pay, though.
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Bing is a lot better compared to Live Search in terms of precision of the results. But its not closer to google still.
I want the feeling of getting what I'm searching for and the ability to skim and find it instantly on the results page without distraction. This isn't as subjective as feelings.. You can easily come up with a set of queries you used in the last year to find what you were looking for and ask: did the search engine return it as top N results?

edit: in general, as far as marketing is concerned, I agree that you should be in the business of selling feelings around your product, but I think you over-generalized.
Hello, evgen!

Thanks for showing interest in our project, this is exactly the type of feedback we're after!

Your first and third criticisms are very valid.

The first one can hopefully be mitigated by more groups running open trackers, so that there are more places to DDoS.

As for the second, having a central hub actually gives us a lot of room to control the network structure. The path lengths are _not_ intended to be fixed by any means. However, we wanted to get the bare minimum amount of features in place quickly so we could tie our first beta release in with the 20th anniversary of Tienanmen. With the central tracker, we can control the amount of connections per ip, run blockslists and reshape the network periodically as we see fit.

As for the third point, I don't have an answer for you yet. We're still experimenting to minimize tradeoffs in performance.
At least Bing/MS is still trying to compete in the search game, Yahoo has pretty much given up.
I use Yahoo! Mail for historical reasons. I receive about 12-20 emails per day. Besides writing and reading emails I use Search - that's the only thing I really need. I also started using folders this year: the folder names are 2005, 2006, ... 2008 :) Current year emails are stored in inbox.
On average day I spend very little time on emails, though.

I have a Gmail account, too, but I haven't found any Gmail-specific features I would use. Conversations or labels are neat and my spouse adores them. As for me I just don't care as long as my search box is working.
Not really. If you normalize all of your data according to typical relational best practices you will often later find that you need to denormalize it to scale.
Candy.com Sells For A Sweet $3 Million
Pop and forwarding.
The main reason for helping is human compassion, however, you could also argue that helping the homeless will also increase the property value in the surrounding area and possibly lead to more economic activity such as shopping.
The title is terribly misleading and the article is silly. The bulk of the article lays out a scenario in which you would and should use a relational database. i.e. he's got some data and wants to run arbitrary queries on it. Claiming that app engines isn't a good fit for startups because it's not good at this is absurd.
There are a few hanging out on #lisp that have the machines (operational).

If one does not care about lisp, then one would likely not care about lisp machines.

And there is memory left in the community--just not everywhere. I don't recall Ted Nelson's stuff saying that we are doing anything right, but I could be mistaken.

There is a bit of cognitive dissonance as well--if you like your current IDE and you are programming in java and it solves refactoring nicely for you, then you might not be likely to look elsewhere for good IDE ideas.

And with non-lisp languages, it is a lot harder to get the IDE to "understand" the program in the way that lisp IDEs do, even slime/emacs combined.

I would think that a side-by-side comparison of "modern" IDE and lisp machines would favor the lisp machine.

That being said, I recall that pg once wrote that they spent too much time on those fancy features.
Speaking of mentioning the Morris worm, the YC partners page says the following of Morris:

"In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public."
Some videos may have higher quality. Look for the HQ button on the video player.
How to learn like Leonardo Da Vinci?
I use gmail to send myself technical notes constantly. The search feature is invaluable for looking them up again.
It is especially hard for International students.
"As for being a newbie and trying to boost my points, I need to apologize. I did not do it simply to promote my blog"

I don't think that you deserved any criticism for this: Hacker News is an open site and, at least for now, I don't think you should feel discouraged from submitting. If you start posting random youtube crap I'll reconsider :)
I'm sorry to say, but a $100 million spend on advertising is peanuts in this game. Google's revenues last year were $16 Billion. Two thirds of that, or $10 Billion came from Google owned pages (read search advertising).

So, if my coctail napkin calculations are correct for every 1% share of their search advertising business Microsoft stands to gain roughly $100 million plus punch a competitor in the nose. Not bad. I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft picked up an additional 5% of the search market with Bing. That means $500 million more in revenue.

People forget that online and search businesses accounted for just $850 million of Microsoft's $60 Billion total revenue last year. Their revenue streams are pretty well diversified, and they can afford to bleed money in search for years if necessary.

Google's primary source of revenue is search and advertising. Any serious loss of market share in that business is going to hit Google where it hurts: the bottom line. They have enough cash to take a few lumps. But, they've been around for 10 years, and they are still clining to a single source of revenue. That puts them in a dangerous position.
It's called Chromium - that ship sailed a long time ago. The distribution packages will probably call it chromium-browser. The official releases are google-chome.

Since this isn't a distribution package, /opt is the correct place for it.

The cron script is unfortunate, but there's a good reason for it (see the comments at the top). We're doing the best we can with a non-distro package.

Unfortunately, having people configure their sources list fails for the same reason (it gets overridden by dist-upgrade sometimes).
The risk that my site could be shut down without notice ranks pretty high. Just think of copyright issues of the sort that Google itself has all the time. What would be Google's reaction to a cease and desist letter be?

This risk ranks much higher than my fear of scaling problems as that is something I am at least competent at solving. My funding doesn't dry up over night. If my chief developer quits, development will slow down for a while but the service won't stop working tomorrow. Some risks just cannot be avoided anyway.

And I'm not saying I want to run my own data center. What I'm saying is that I want reasonable terms of service and a realistic transition path to a different provider.

In case of a conflict I want someone to talk to me _before_ my site is shut down, and if the issues cannot be resolved I want a reasonable period of time to move elsewhere.

[edit] If the technical specificities of a platform prevent me from moving my site within that grace period, I'm not going to use the platform for any serious business.
BART(SF) vs. Metrorail(DC): How (and How Not) to Build a Subway
Python SimpleDB Library
Broken Browsers Part Two: SSL
However, in addition to the observation that the communication modes or skills differ, the author makes the claim that the development of one mode/skill will produce deficiencies in the other. I don't think the author provides sufficient evidence that such an effect occurs, and I would further argue that such evidence would have to come from a more empirical rather than introspective source of knowledge (although for sure, personal experience would be what inspired the more rigorous experiment). My own experience is that quite opposite skill sets can and should be developed by individuals. Also from my own experience I would argue that knowing when to employ each different approach to communication is itself an important skill for hackers who use many different programming paradigms and technologies, as well as people who communicate with all different kinds of people (various subcultures of "creatives", scientists, academicians, business people, different socioeconomic/ethnic cultures). I think that being self-aware and well-developed is the key skill for both human-human and human-computer interaction.
NEC CRV43: 43-inches of curve coming in July
This is exactly the sort of discussion I want to see in the middle of all the excitement. Let's air out the pieces of the system that are most troublesome, are glossed-over, etc., and ensure there's a solid foundation here to build upon. Hopefully Google will provide good answers for a lot of the concerns he raises.

The following quote is more of a minor note, but it was something I didn't think about until I read it:

While this "permanent memory" was there almost since the beginning of the Internet, it was never before real-time. How could we take back an information from a Wave? Imagine you have misplaced your password to the wave instead of password input box. It will always be visible. OK, I could change my password, but what about unfortunate copy&paste event with a credit card number?
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Oh, you've caught the community at a strange time.

Normally we just sit around and discuss the innards of Erlang.
Really useful website this, unless you're able to open 2 tabs in a browser yourself.
The "send to" feature using Gmail is my favorite. Combined with the ability to turn the email into a Google document it lets me research, write and format articles or web pages without ever leaving "the cloud".
"...I wished I hadn't wasted so much time in high school..."

Funny, I also went to Gateway and had a great time with my friends. After I read this

http://www.paulgraham.com/gateway.html

I often found myself saying, "I wish I had been more like Paul Graham and not wasted so much time in high school."

Now that I'm a lot older and a little bit wiser, I have a feeling that everything happened the way it did for a reason and it turned out OK. I suspect that's probably a little bit true for you too.
The force IE6 Bing homepage redirect (even for google users) gave off distinctly unpleasant vibes.
Punchline: Dreamhost is now selling 1-year browser-trusted SSL certs for $15, but the domain has to be hosted @ dreamhost, and you also need a unique IP ($3.95/month).

Comments under the blog posting imply the certs contain CN=www.domain.com, with Subject-Alt-Name=domain.com to get around the ever annoying "www." issue there, but I haven't seen one for myself to verify.

No wildcard certs at this price level, sadly.
Shortcuts On. I almost never use my mouse with Gmail.
Observe how many great designs are thrown out by the designer before he finally settles on the theme.

Even great designers need to iterate. Their first sketch will be immeasurably better than our first sketch, but the concept stays the same. As you get better you notice more subtle flaws in your designs and so good and even great designs are discarded in a moment.

I wonder if the number of iterations a designer (or writer) needs stays roughly constant throughout his career. I suspect it stays roughly the same. Anecdotal data anybody?
The DNA You Don't Know
This is the story of the DNA that you've never heard about. Its a story of the elegant connection between the double-helix and your X-shaped chromosomes.
Spam filter. Gmail has blocked 2000 spam in the last 30 days. Spam almost never makes it past that filter.

Second is the ability to easily manipulate large amounts of email. I mean, easily archive, make read, etc. any amount of email through search. I like to see when people follow me on twitter via email. I get an email everytime, which means there is a ton of email that I want to only look at once. Gmail allows me to go: Search:"Twitter", then "Select All", Archive. Now all that is out of my inbox.
Small comment:

"These people all read Hacker News.
But they don't know that. Yet."

I parsed this as "each of these people don't know that he or she reads--as in will read--Hacker News." It sounded like an endorsement for Hacker News, rather than explaining that these people don't know that the people around them also read HN.
Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement In Mechanical System
Your optimization only works if you remove variables of human compassion.
Well, maybe not in the way he means, but for whatever reason, if I get really deep into a program, I find it a little bit more difficult to speak Italian, which normally comes very naturally. I absolutely hate writing comments and commit messages and the like in Italian, even where I'm sure the code will never be touched by anyone who doesn't speak it. It's like it involves some sort of context switch that kicks some stuff out of cache and degrades performance...
> make stairs more comfortable and inviting for example, making staircases wider with less height per step and adding music

Everyone I know takes stairs 2 steps at a time decreasing the height would just add unnecessary expansions and make the stairs a very slow (already pretty slow if you are going up more than a few floors).

From my experience staircases that are a part of the building as much as an elevator where you don't have to open a door to get to them get used quite often.
I searched for Microsoft and google gave me what I think are better results, kind of bad, especially that I get 3 sponsored sites not related to microsoft at all with bing.
They are still billions in the red.

MS subsidized the hell out of an expensive product for 8 years, spent insane amounts of money on advertizing, AND bought software companies to increase demand. Yet it's still fighting for the number 2 spot and are a long way from making back their sunk costs.

Sony: 136 million (PS2) + 22.73 million (PS3)
Nintendo: 21.74 million (GameCube) + 50.39 million (Wii)
MS: 24 million (Xbox) + 30 million (Xbox 2)

It looks like Sony traded 3rd place to win the HD movie format war so it's probably a huge win for Sony. And Nintendo is still printing money from the Wii system. It's hard to say what the long term trend is going to be.
I'm not talking about Microsoft's general approach to conducting business over the last 30 years.

Microsoft (and many other large software companies) prohibits their programmers from viewing GPL'd source code. This policy is based on the shark-infested waters of our litigious society.

This is Microsoft's open source division: http://port25.technet.com/

They have to be kept away from the proprietary intellectual property. It's like separating your dairy and your meat when keeping Kosher. Microsoft has to separate tainted developers from untainted ones.
Rule-based action system (filters). I wish such intuitive and user-friendly programmability was part of more services.
It boils down to this:

If SHA1(n) = SHA1(m), we know SHA1(SHA1(n)) = SHA1(SHA1(m)). (this is a consequence of SHA1 being deterministic)

Also, even if SHA1(n) != SHA1(m), there is still a chance that SHA1(SHA1(n)) = SHA1(SHA1(m)). (this is a consequence of collisions: SHA1(a) may equal SHA1(b) even if a != b.)

So the probability that SHA1(SHA1(n)) = SHA1(SHA1(m)) must be more than the probability that SHA1(n) = SHA1(m).
>> "That comes back to my original comment - I'm not sure it solves any real world problem users have. Users don't care about security like that."

I'm not sure that's accurate. Maybe users don't care about security, but I would venture that's because they don't know any better. I don't think most people understand that their emails and IMs are crossing the web in plaintext, or just how easy it would be for someone unintended to get access to those messages. I don't think it's an informed lack of concern.
So this is where those $100M in propaganda were spent.

Payperpost galore.
What sorts of things do you look for that you aren't able to find with google?
I predict the Lisp Machine will return, with Android OS Clojure hacking as its embryonic beginning of life.
Not quite, because at least the city official told the guy what he needed in order to sell his services.
Yeah, the book is meant as the antidote to the "happy-clappy" self-help movement.
This is a great point. Personal comfort is a huge part of social processes and interactions. The internet has particular obstacles to overcome in this area.
Is this news? A 5 letter domain of a very strong and useful word sells for $$
There is a legitimate question about whether packaged software (e.g. Exchange) or SaaS (e.g. hosted Exchange) has higher margins, though. Getting customers to pay every month forever certainly sounds appealing.
That's an interesting perspective that isn't getting enough of the spotlight.
And then you go see these new teachers in their classrooms... which they don't have yet.

What then?
No way I'm watching a 50-minute video I'm not even sure will be worthwhile. I didn't find a transcript. I had a look at the PDF and there's nothing groundbreaking in there IMHO...
Yeah, that made me a bit nervous. I realized what they were up to as soon as I saw how they had the table set up. But I figured few readers would get it, and it would at least be a good composition.
I agree, but maybe it was just the sudden gameplay paradigm shift. I remember when Wolfenstein3D came out and I thought it looked cool enough, then Doom, then the rest... all first person shooters. It was enough of a jolt that I lost my kid fascination with games as story-telling and started just seeing them just as toys to pick up every once and awhile.

I'm not saying that era was the end-all-be-all of gaming, just when the "magic" was lost for me.
Dude if PHP is hard for you then you have a serious brain deficit.

Nobody said anything about better languages, I don't think anyone would argue that point at all, so why you constantly feel the need to interject it in all of your criticisms of PHP, I'm not exactly sure.
If you look at Google's top products, most of them come from startups they bought: YouTube, Blogger, Docs, Maps, Earth...

I can only think of GMail and Reader as products that were originally developed inside.
- keyboard shortcuts
- best spam filter on planet (although it seems a few obvious ones have slipped through recently)
- search
I don't fully understand this feature. I presume it does something different than archive, but I haven't figured out what.

Edit: Ah, it keeps future messages in the thread out of the inbox too. Neat.
I have some hope for the adventure genre yet, even after being seriously let down by Monkey Island 4 (make sure you've played Monkey Island 3 and Grim Fandango though; they're both excellent!)

That said, I've heard Psychonauts is good, though I haven't played it. My understanding is it's free on Gametap.

One that I missed when I was growing up was Touche: The Adventures of the 5th Musketeer - it's just about as good as the Lucasarts games - Note: there is a version with full voice acting, and this is the only place I know where you can actually get it: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3557929/Touche_-_The_adventu...

I haven't played this, but it's supposed to be very good as well (made from ex Lucasarts members): http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/

I found the Sam and Max series from Telltale very underwhelming and disapointing, so I never played past episode 4 in the first season.

On a somewhat related genre note, I've also found the game Beyond Good and Evil to be as immersive and entertaining as the MI series.
Using Iframes Sparingly
Interesting. I wonder if it would be possible to create a photo-sharing site where it was guaranteed that only your friends could see your photos. I am thinking this is possible via the TPM.

Perhaps I will investigate this this weekend.

(No, I don't think it's OK that she killed someone while driving drunk. But I also don't think it's OK for the government to use our social nature against us in court. Even murderers should be able to have friends.)
Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House
Starting Up, One Year Later: Chasing Dragons
Did you stop to get your shoes shined?
On-Demand Real-time RSS/ATOM parsing for web-developers
It looks good on their annual performance evaluation.
Come visit New Orleans.
While I don't have the time to watch a 50 minute video at the moment, a common theme I see in the PDF is that people are reluctant to share source code until it's reasonably "done". A lot of things that seem impressive as completed works have spent most of their development messy and (by definition!) incomplete. When coupled with potentially endless anonymous criticism via the internet* , this can be pretty intimidating.

I get where they're coming from. I have several projects that I really need to polish up and upload, and I want them to feel presentable; I don't really understand how people get used to working in public (on github, for example). I also do a fair amount of maintenance programming, and ... I want to make sure my code is better than that. Just because I change my mind, make mistakes, etc., it doesn't mean I need to publish sloppy code.

* Look at the comments in any discussion on Reddit. About anything. People get nasty, often just because they can.
Tis hard to beat Roger Wilco. Quest for Glory was pretty fun also.
I don't filter anything, but I use mute aggressively.

This ensures that I see all threads at least once, but if I'm not interested in the thread, I never see it again.
http://www.bingandgoogle.com/
I've heard about them. Way back when, I tried to get the card for the Mac 2. However a Mac2 + lisp engine card had a price tag of a luxury car.

They were as much a dead end as JavaStations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation
All green of skin. 800 centuries ago their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth and self-determination of the cosmos. For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
yes i remember laughing when the xbox came up thinking they were never gonna come close to nes or sony, these guys know how to build great products not all of them are but once in a while they nail it