skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just JS state, either. What if I have a flash movie running? When you middle-click a link on a YouTube video, the video keeps playing. You probably don't want pages in your history to be downloading data, playing video, etc. Ideally, you'd probably want it to start playing right where you left it when you click back.

What about if the thing in my history is a 1gb video file, and I type "gmail.com" in the address bar. I have Firefox set to remember my state between sessions, and I rarely close my gmail tab. So, that video file might stay in my back-button history for months. Is it reasonable to expect it to freeze the video player's state and keep hold of that forever, every time the browser starts up? That'd probably suck.

So, the author's suggestion isn't quite perfect. It's close, but misses some important edge cases, and misses the point of why this is very hard to do right.
I'm not sure I follow.

First, Google Apps has an API: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/ though I can't speak to it's completeness next to the Zoho API.

Second, an API has nothing to do with where the data is stored, unless I'm missing something...?
Yes, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are similar. Sweden is not a net exporter of oil AFAIK.

But oil is the biggest export of Denmark. Norway just has a lot more. Only Russia and Saudi Arabia exports more oil than Norway IIRC.
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Interesting. The first show of a Chinese bank on the list is not till '07, but 3 of them pop to the top all at once in '07. This was before the U.S. recession was even recognized.

The actual SWF is here: http://media.ft.com/cms/7a7a1484-17a3-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac...
Users and items (stories, comments) are lazily loaded from disk to make restarts faster.
Would these be subreddits where there were not that many votes being cast? Or not many links being submitted?
Lighthouseapp.com works well for me and my team.
time is a consideration, at least in part. don't know enough about how its taken into consideration at reddit, or here on HN, but it clearly plays an important part.

fewer votes over a very short time will tend to weigh more heavily than more votes over a long time.
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I haven't officially launched yet.

You can try Hybir Backup for free before we launch. www.hybir.com use the promotion code HACKERNEWS. Accounts are very limited.

It is windows only for now. The killer feature here is that it is full backup but extremely fast especially with backiing up the OS, popular programs and media files.

Hybir Backup can back up a clean install of windows 7 on my hardware in less time than it takes to install it (Less than 10 minutes) over broadband (2.0Mb)

You can roll back to a previous point in time in just a couple of minutes registry and all.
Yes, they are less popular ones. In many of them, the upvote from your submission alone is enough to send the entry to the front page. This happens with subreddits that are more popular than you might suspect.

All this appears to encourage submission and voting by giving you unreasonable power.
It's not my read that's loaded, it's Pike's language. He's relentlessly negative about Stallman. Whether his dislike of Stallman is justified is another question, but that's my point: he doesn't bother justifying it. His only concrete criticism of Stallman is his claim that AT&T never threatened to sue anyone over the patent. His writing manages to drip with disdain without making any other concrete claim:

"hippie pipe dream"

"promiscuous computing"

"harangue"

"I always thought only boring people went to Heaven."

"characteristic inaccuracies" (here referring to the idea that AT&T ever threatened to sue)

"bizarre form of political correctness"

"eager misguided nerds who in a healthier environment would probably be protesting the killing of rats in biology class"

If he had come right out and said Stallman was an attention-whoring fool whose ideas were incoherent religious baloney, we'd expect him to back it up. So why should we accept him using indirect language to say the same thing? I realize he was posting something he wrote fifteen years earlier, but he didn't say anything to disown or apologize for his intemperate language.
You know, it has yet to occur to me that I might not be able to do whatever I want. I'm not even sure what that would feel like.
Try wp-o-matic to import RSS feeds directly into WP.

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What works here for puns is something that you can deadpan. The "straight" interpretation of a double-entendre has to be enough to potentially fool the average HN reader, but also elicit a double-take.
Repeat post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532
I read something about that and stopped using OpenDNS yesterday. I felt my speed improve, especially when opening Gmail. But you know, could be in my mind.
It's a new policy direction. I think the phenomena are familiar.
I followed the Comet community for a long time, but for my projects I've always used a small invisible Flash applet (to create a socket connection). Server-side, a tiny Python dispatcher server that just forwards messages to clients.
Looking at the last update, I always chuckle when a tweet notifies about something being offline. Gets kinda ironic :)
It's interesting to note that one of the reasons ('bullshit lines' would be more apt) Gramm and others who pushed for the repeal of Glass-Steagal in 1999 used was that American banks needed to be deregulated because they would be overtaken by bank from countries with looser regulations.

Oh the irony...
> Considering exercise (especially resistance training) increases your metabolism and overall oxygen intake for many hours after,

This is popular knowledge that seemingly everyone believes is important (along with the belief that gaining muscle mass increases metabolic rate by an important amount), but the magnitude is tiny.

From one source (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/rm...):

> Exercise of the intensity and duration commonly performed by recreational exercisers (e.g., walking for 30- 60 minutes or jogging at a pace of 8-10 minutes per mile for 20-30 minutes) typically results in a return to baseline of energy expenditure well within the first hour of recovery. The post-exercise calorie bonus for this type of exercise probably accounts for only about 10-30 additional calories burned beyond the exercise bout itself.

20 calories.

In practice, exercise also makes you hungrier. It is far from clear that it's even a net win for weight loss at all, when you look at studies and data.
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That's exactly what I thought when I read it. How did it take so long to finally get to the point that they are using an intelligent payouts method.

That being said, I am happy to see any improvements in this area. I still see really crazy payout brackets. Less on-line. That seems to be where the changes are being made first.
A real education involves playful tinkering. The example of the AMV creator brings this to like. Also, I really only grokked Assembly Language after I discovered Core Wars.
Is it a bad sign for Wolfram if the screencast shows me "Loading Controls: NaN%" in Chrome?
This video is insane. If Alpha can do the stuff in this video, it's a revolutionary upgrade to human thought.

I don't think I'm exaggerating. Making this available to the world for free will probably make as much of a difference to human thought and progress as Google has, if not more.
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Live Maps > Google Maps

Birds Eye View is amazing.
The Mibbit case, by its author: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531896

It uses Comet.
wouldn't you use a comma there?

"i helped my uncle, jack, off a horse."
I think Karma is a deceptive number. A high value for total karma of a site could just as easily indicate a dilution of value as an increase in value. Averages per user, per comment, per word, and per minute online would probably be more meaningful.
Where Erlang is really strong is that you can handle fairly long running processes that won't block other stuff that's happening. Of course you can find ways to do that in C, but it's just easier and way cleaner in Erlang. This works because of Erlang's internal scheduler.
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Needs an iPhone version though. One little ad on the bottom and they'd make a killing in bar debates.

Well, at least bar debates involving drunk nerds...
Running the entire suite of unit tests even though all I'm committing is a trivial bug fix.
We use JIRA at our company. It's fast enough and very flexible. Here's a question to stimulate the discussion: what would you use if you were a one-person shop or small startup (2-5 developers)?
"Guessing what's going to kill me" might be an exercise for finding new markets. He cites netbooks as a potential problem, since many of them can't run even with his already very low minimum requirements. But that strikes me as a New Market opportunity! Appealing games tailored to netbooks, but without some disadvantages of Flash games could be a good seller. (For one thing, being able to run them while on the plane might be a good selling point.)
I'm not sure if marketing will help much. The game doesn't seem to be interesting.
Happened to me too in FF, just give it a sec.
I think the point here is that subsidies doesn't really matter for the big picture. It could be that some of these outrageous benefits wouldn't happen if it wasn't for a very wealthy state. The question is what you would be left with. It's probably a fair assumption to look at the countries around it.

What you find is that the real strength of these countries are in their culture, not in their natural resources.

Another thing to consider is how one would actually manage this kind of wealth if you actually obtained it. In my opinion, the way Norway spends huge amounts of money on foreign development projects, spreading progressive values such as gender equality, and promoting the role of the UN, are certainly better than building huge palaces or indoor ski slopes.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition (now named TeamForge).

Hate it. Would rather be using JIRA like other segments of company are today.
I'm not sure if there are any newspapers that are more informative. Perhaps the Irish Times, probably not the Seattle P.I.

Harder news sources like scientific and technical journals, and a very few websites and the occasional magazine like the Atlantic monthly and the economist are about the only things that come to mind.
There are lots of probes and probe responses in addition to the beacons. If you have CTS/RTS enabled (most don't) then you have those frames as well.

Each packet has to be ACKed by the receiver so there's lots of those.

Management frames are usually short, though.
wifi access points sense the wireless medium around them before transmitting. If they find it busy, they do an exponential wait, and try again. Thats why everyone can be on channel 11 and things won't be too bad. If they could sense the medium perfectly, routers would always be able to guarantee service regardless of the network congestion just throughput would decrease. However, they can't sense the medium perfectly, so we run into the hidden terminal problem, where wireless packets clobber mid route because they're transmitted by routers far way from each other enough that they can't sense each other. Thats the reason why wifi congestion stops traffic in congested parts of london.

Baby monitors/any-analogue device doesn't do this, and that's where the problem comes from. The 5GHZ band (802.11n) is a good alternative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_terminal_problem
We too use JIRA and I hate it. Sure it's flexible but that same flexibility also makes it confusing and hard to use. At my last company we used Bugzilla. The UI was ugly but it was easy to grok as a developer and powerful in the way you could construct queries.
There's a great low-cost (sort of) spectrum analyzer called "Wi-Spy" (no affiliation) for anyone who wants to track down what's ruining the 2.4GHz spectrum. With that and WireShark running on a Linux machine with monitor-mode capable Wi-Fi interface you can pinpoint what your Wi-Fi problem is quite well.
7 years of NKS--and its first killer app
Absolutely.

As I watched this, i was thinking to myself how awesome it would be to always have this at my fingertips.
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Unfortunately the NYT's coverage of nutrition lately has been so bad as to make me think of most of the articles as press hits by the pharmaceutical and food industry.

The conclusions from the study are interesting. However, giving people the impression they should cut antioxidants to improve overall health (via insulin regulation effects from exercise) is suboptimal. The antioxidants are rather important long term.

Exercise is critical but not sufficient if you're going to continue eating refined sugars and grains that bring about a need to improve insulin regulation to begin with.

So, to be clear, the prevention for diabetes is: Exercise regularly and remove all refined/processed foods from your diet. Don't cut out antioxidants.
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I agree that the karma points derived from article posting is essentially a lot of nonsense. I remember once finding an article on slashdot in the middle of the night about java being rumored to be open sourced before it actually happened. I quickly posted it to reddit since I had not already seen the article there, and within the next day I obtained about 80 karma points from posting that one article. The news article would have ended up on reddit regardless of if I posted it, but because I was lucky enough to see the article first among reddit readers, I got a lot of karma points.

I doubt that anyone has ever gotten 80 karma points from writing a single comment, but it is difficult to use comments alone as a ranking system since there are a lot of people who just read articles and will ignore any additional commentary.
SpiraTeam, and until they fix the speed issues... I can't recommend it.
The interface idea is nice, but a bit impractical/dangerous in my opinion.
The reason for that is that when someone interacts with a touchscreen there is no feedback, except for the visual that is, as to what exactly he is doing at that moment. You can't tell if you are configuring the car's aircondition or changing the gps settings. (Unless something happens that is immediately noticable, e.g. the volume goes up)
I know that you can take a quick glance at it, but this thought makes me uncomfortable. Consider having to do something like that while on the highway at large speed.
Not convincing.

The most interesting part is this: "As a practical matter, many algorithms in Wolfram|Alpha were found by NKS methods—by searching the computational universe for programs that achieve particular purposes."

But without giving details on what was done and discovered, it's not convincing. Moreover, the method used would need to be compared with related work such as genetic programming.
This is your pilot speaking.  Now, about that holding pattern...
Maybe a little modularity and standardization is called for. Seems like something that would improve the upgrade ability of users might help increase the number of adopters.

There are parallels in the Audio Electronics industry. At first, each manufacturer did things their own way, and only the hardiest of early adopters bothered with Hi Fi. Then manufacturers adopted standards for input impedances and interconnects, and this made the buying decision less fraught. If you made the wrong choice or could later afford something better, you could swap out a component. Now that the price of building electronics is so low, audio is going towards all-in-one convenience.
This is why I said "especially resistance training."

The metabolic benefits from aerobic exercises like walking, running, swimming, etc. are rather short (1-2 hours.) Intense resistance training gives a benefit for 12-36 hours (until your sleep, generally.)

This is why resistance training in the morning helps weight loss.
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How exactly Google failed at radio advertising
$6000 for 400 watts seems too far off to be right for panels and racks. I use 130 watt Kyocera panels that are $550 each in single quantities. So something like $1600 for 400 watts of panels. Add $550 for the charge controller, $2000 for the inverter, and $1200 for the battery bank and we are getting into the ballpark. Perhaps they mean total system cost.

The weight of the panel is attractive. Those Kyocera panels are 28lbs for the 130 watt size and when clinging to a 45 degree roof with three limbs they are beasts to wrestle into place.
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In the UK there is the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation IIRC) to whom you can send your Apache logs and they'll give you an official number. This is where magazine readership figures come from too. Having a neutral third party do it is important for advertisers.
Have you ever made a feature film? The one we're making has cost us $50k so far and we've not even got a master yet, even with most people working for points not hard $.

The catering alone was $2k. Fruit isn't free.
Reddit's ranking algorithm: http://uggedal.com/reddit.cf.algorithm.png

and HN discussion of it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231168
At first I thought it was all about Windows and I'm like "on linux there's no rebooting necessary!" mumbling: "except for kernel updates"

But reading the website, it turns out, that they seem to have found a way to do kernel updates without rebooting. Big Up!

And it seems like they want to support all major and minor OS.
+1 for scratchpad. I use a cheap spiral notebook. It gives me a place (other than the proverbial "back of the envelope" that I used to use) to write quick calculations, half-assed uml diagrams to think through the organizational structure, etc. I keep it as a journal, date and number each page, log the time of entries. I even put a table of contents on them! Almost never refer to them; hell, they're nearly incomprehensible a couple of months after the fact.
Still, I'd like 90 seconds playing with some non-tested queries before I decide how valuable it is.
This post was the SEO bible back in 2003, and a lot of folks used it to go back to basics following the infamous Google "Florida" update. I think it's held up pretty well.

In addition to WMW, Brett runs a pretty good SEO conference called Pubcon.
did anyone look at the company that produced this video? http://grasshopper.com/

http://blog.entrepreneur.com/2009/05/video-entrepreneurs-can...

they're trying to sell stuff to entrepreneurs (who've never heard of grand central / google voice). Obviously this video is a cynical viral marketing ploy... lame.
Most stories about politics, not all.
The job I have now, which is at said megacorp, I got in May 2008. It's still valid. I will say that there were hiring freezes here, but that has come and gone in under 2 months. I think it really depends on what industry you are looking to work in and your skill set coming out of college.
How many extra calories does intense resistance training (say for 1 hour) burn, beyond the training itself? I believe the answer is something small enough to be practically insignificant. (I'd appreciate if you can prove me wrong with data.)
Stephen Wolfram is a very smart guy. He obtained his PhD in particle physics at Caltech at a very, very tender age. He created Mathematica. He has an impressive track record. However, his obsession with that NKS baloney puzzles me. I don't understand why such an intelligent man is so enchanted with cellular automata and the like, which have relatively little value other than the recreational one. Here's a perfect example of a powerful mind which was hijacked by a silly idea.
Apparently those poor packets were on a slow boat from China: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-is-your-pilot-sp...
Either Google needs to put all their apps on servers inside your perimeter or compliance laws need to change to allow companies to store data in the cloud as long as there are reasonable security measures. I would bet on the latter. In the end it won't be just office-in-the-cloud that drives the change but also S3 and EC2.
I don't know about that. I think users will catch on. Think about Weight Watchers, for example. I can get a whole nutrition label for the lunch I just ate in one place at Wolfram alpha. With google, I have to add it up...
interesting graph of timeline to profitability. would have been more useful with actual figures, but the trend line is interesting too.
My worry is that this stuff was cherry-picked. Also, like Google (at least at first), this is going to be most useful to the people who think like the creators. I remember when Google appeared, some people (me, f'r instance) were able to get great results nearly every time, and other people seemed not to get the results they were looking for even after repeated attempts to refine the search. This effect lessened after a while, but Wolfram Alpha appears to have it in spades. I mean, "What is the GDP of France / Italy" clearly means to display a comparison of the GDPs of France and Italy, not to do some division producing a result that doesn't seem to have any relevance to anything... :)
If you think his book is about CAs, you haven't read the book.
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This rebuttal on Forbes helps put Norway's oil wealth into perspective.

http://clipmarks.forbes.com/2009/05/14/the-real-norway-lesso...
Whoa! Market capitalization != capitalization
The only obvious exit strategy is an "HR acquisition".
They should be able to leverage this to make a fortune just off of day-traders.
What about a page that shows some neato statistics? It could be updated only once every day to keep the site fast (i.e., no real time stats).
I have to disagree, the field complexity (I don't call it NKS) since I was introduced to it by reading stuff from the sante fe institute is a unifying force across disciplines. The large amount of rules that explain the world today are manifestations of simple rules acting in complex ways so that the findings of today describe the emergent behavior of these simple laws. Cellar automata is just one way of tackling the problem.
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I read the book. I would call it a New Kinds of Recreational Puzzles (except that they're not THAT new). It's interesting, but it's not Science. And Wolfram could try to be humble once in a while. And he could also try to give credit where credit is due. He's a very smart man, but he's not the only one. And if he's gonna stand on the shoulders of giants, the least he could do is acknowledge the contributions these giants gave.
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Sounds like someone fucked up a BGP update. Happens all the time: http://www.google.com/search?q=bgp+update+outage+level3
Honest and classy apology. Nice, Google.