skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A system certainly has to map between the objects and the language of the customer problem down into computer science and software engineering concepts, but shouldn't that be down at the lower levels of your system? Top-level architecture seems like it should employ objects that represent the main features of the business domain and the relationships between those features. If your system is modeled in terms of DB connection pools and collections, doesn't that create too large a gulf between the system's eventual users and the system GUI?
"Showing strength in the face of oppression"
Long live the Pirate Bay!
I've seen some pretty crazy driving in Ontario on the 401 and the QEW. Especially driving in downtown Toronto on the Gardiner. I used to commute Toronto -> Niagara Falls for work, and I saw people do some pretty stupid stuff (people driving at freeway speeds @ 5am, pitch black with so much snow on the freeway that you can't see the pavement at all, and multiple spin-outs along the way).
I have to aay it...

.... talk about low-hanging fruit!
According to Sony's Haber, the new version of its online book store will allow users to enter their ZIP code and determine whether the local library offers electronic versions of its books. These books can be downloaded, at which point they'll have a 21-day expiration date—no late fees, as Haber was happy to point out.

Wow, these people are stupid. They're stuck using the constraints of the physical world. Amazing.
I don't know about "classic tests", but I've successfully written fully-functional scripts while having a phone conversation, browsing HN and chatting on IM. You just have to set priorities. You obviously can't read something in as much depth, but it's great for reading for filtering out good stuff to read in more depth later.
I wonder how much money is being lost by businesses who buy multiple monitors for their employees and "allow" or encourage them to multitask?
So sick of Pirate Bay. Just pay for your wares.
Why? I don't see how having many users of a free product amounts to anything.
You caught me, I have plans to release Emperor Penguins onto the Arctic glaciers, now you might want to forget this whole conversation . . . unless you want to fight a Mexican Snorkelling Kangaroo!

Dammit I haven't made those yet either. Supervillanry is hard :(

P.S. You pointed out the most logical flaw in an illogical conspiracy theorist dig, I feel quite honoured.
Lots of numbers, but as usual none of them are relevant. The author is trying to make the point that "we are all connected". Not only do they not provide any evidence for this claim, they don't even explain what they really mean by it. This is pointless journalism at its best (worst?).
This seems like personal animosity to me.
You may laugh at the idea, but I had to wait to "borrow" a downloadable audio book from the Phoenix library until a copy was "returned".
Thank you, I was going to make something similar. IANABS (I am not a Business Student) but I believe that a business model involves revenue streams.

This kind of article might be a useful way of categorizing Web apps, but it's name suggests it would be some kind of starting point for people thinking about monetizing their product, which it doesn't.
how about adding a list of popular searches, categories of food with rating on each individual recipe? I can't seem to think of anything on the spot.
Tumblr's got a small staff and a presumably long runway. No reason to rush when there's not much competition in this space. (Posterous doesn't have the community to match)
I don't know how many times I will have to see this. It is not socialism. It is not "i.e. socialism." It is not kind of like socialism. It is not socialism. Socialism is not just some made up word for increased government interference in private markets. It is a synonym for communism, used interchangeably by Karl Marx in his Manifesto.

The New Oxford English Dictionary defines communism as:

a political and economic theory of social organization that
advocates that the means of production, distribution, and
exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a
whole.
• policy or practice based on this theory.
• (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between
the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of
communism.

To those who would argue that the word has evolved in its definition: when a word gains multiple, easily confused, and mutually exclusive meanings it proceeds to acquire no meaning at all and does nothing but politicize, infantilize, and confuse a discussion.
MS has acknowledged it and given a cookie cutter apology:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html

I'd imagine some design firm is getting a nasty call right about now...
Awesome app, but what is up with the million Google ads everywhere. I even saw ads above the fold in the main content area ABOVE my recipes. If the point of the site is recipes, I wouldn't dilute it so much with ads. At this stage, you're probably not making a ton of money with the ads anyway - I think it just cheapens the user experience.

Get rid of the ads, and I think you have a really compelling site.
It's hard to imagine where search will be in 10 years without speculating about where the web will be in 10 years. I think when we get better at organizing information when making web pages (or their future equivalent), search will get better and easier, and Google for search will be less relevant.
I've done karate and shaolin kung fu and wushu.
They've certainly lived up to a very small percentage of their potential.
I like to think of W|A as the Wii to the actual solution's Natal.
"Smalltalk is object-oriented, but it should have been message oriented." -- Alan Kay

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
I know I shouldn't be making enchiladas... but do you really need to show me 4 Google ads for "Belly Fat Diet Recipe"? Fine! i'll make a salad.

with cheese
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I just did a Google search of a few elements I have in my kitchen and was really surprised to find your website as the top result. Keep up the good work!
Just another reminder of the devastating disease that is vitiligo.
Obviously IKEA needs to charge an admission fee :)
Er no, if you look at the stock chart (http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AWFMI) the market was largely indifferent as to the editorial.

What is offensive about the boycott is that they aren't interested in debate, they are only interested in submission. Their calls for his firing in addition to the boycott are case in point.
I applied to this past summer, but won't be applying this winter. I (and the people I applied with) graduated, and got jobs. Well, they did. For some reason, my resume must be screaming "don't hire". So no co-founder. Also, I can't seem to be happy with an idea, and "find a problem and ask if it can be fixed" doesn't seem to come up with anything for me. Also also, I've never been happy with my coding abilities, so the lack of confidence is an issue.

Maybe being a wage slave for a year will -- like when I worked full-time before grad school -- drive me insane enough to necessitate doing something else, and I'll decide to go the YC route.
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TimeMachine to an external USB drive (a WD Passport).

Offsite? I put it in my bag with me when I leave. :)
On Friday, November 28, 2008, Burress suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the right thigh in the New York City nightclub LQ when his Glock pistol, tucked in the waistband of his black jeans, began sliding down his leg; apparently in reaching for the gun he inadvertently depressed the trigger, causing the gun to fire.

Hey, Plaxico, let me be your retail consultant,

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&...
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I think it is a very nice idea. Although looking at the percentages %%%%% immediately after the search makes it look a little bit more confusing. One suggestion could be to use different colors to express the same idea. I think you already thought about this. Great job!
You have combined 2 passions of my life: technology and food (I will be going to chef school part-time). Just when you thought there was no way you could create another recipe site, you create one that I actually find usable. Kudos.

Did you use a simple parser to parse ingredients or did you have a corpus of ingredients to parse against (or both)?
Since no one got my stupid joke :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark
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I'm actually somewhat disturbed by how popular that ad is. It's all I ever see while surfing, some days.

If the Web doesn't attract better quality advertising than those lame-ass belly fat diet ads, then Web advertising in general isn't going to be sustainable.
Anandtech tries out Linux
This is really what scares Google.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWe7eUdgx1I&feature=relat...
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Normally, we escape output as well. These fields were (foolishly) considered "trusted" and allowed to be rendered without escaping.
Hey Sharks n' Cats is a growth market.
You forgot:

4. The CO2 (and other anthropogenic greenhouse gases) is warming the earth, but the stratospheric sulfur dioxide produced by China's burning of lots of sulfurous coal is beginning to counteract the CO2 warming.
Yes, I agree. That's why we've tried to assist Rails Core in reviewing a more comprehensive string tainting model. I've said for some time now that security needs to be institutionalized in frameworks in order for developers to be unable to make stupid mistakes like this one.
Correction: the Web is about to change.

The Internet, not so much. The protocols are still pretty much the same.
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He shot himself and then they put him in jail? Ouch.
I got 125% of an ingredient by misspelling parmesan

http://www.recipepuppy.com/how/?tomake=eggplant+parmesean
Great idea. I like it a lot. I would suggest the following though. Most people are more concerned with what they can make with what they have.

Therefore, eliminate the need to pick a dish. Allow your user to select an ingredient, then narrow the list of options for further selections to only those ingredients that are common to dishes containing the selected ingredient.

For example, if you pick tomatoes, then parmesan, you can probably eliminate pickles from the list. Once they've selected the ingredients, then show them the list of dishes.
That sounds like a sensible explanation. Please don't see my comment as an invitation to post a scathing review of my startup. ;-)
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Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want.
True dat. Spoken like a true clown zen master. It wouldn't be clowncomputing if we didn't have red rubber noses and funny rainbow hair.
RIM buys developer of the Iris browser
Problem isn't that IBM is evil. Problem is that IBM has been left in the dust but still trys to pretend it's a leader.

IBM is irrelevant. Don't go to work for them.
Thank you! but it's still not very clear to me. I'm having trouble trying to visualize how this should play out. :\
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This is from 2007. Is there any particular reason to post it now?
"Audio doesn't have anything to do with it."

Argh, you are the one who made an audio analogy!

My point was that you seemed to be saying -10dB was no problem, but that would be an unbearable level of noise if you tried to listen to it. Bah, it was just silly nit-picking, forget it!
SQLite has said that: "it is a replacement for text file, not Oracle"

That seems like a very humble goal, and yet they strive for that level of quality.

The reason why it is done with quality is because the developers really wanted to.
Sensor data connected through web 2.0 platform
Not being content with your coding ability is healthy and natural. There will always be a better way to do something. This is the learning process, and great developers never stop learning.

Being a "wage slave" is not as bad as you might think. It might give you ideas and expose you to problems that need solutions.
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As a Wikipedia admin, I'd love to have you update the article for Pointcast, especially if you have sources you can reference while filling in the gaps & correcting information.
Ingenious idea, excellent execution.

Small suggestion: on the results page, I mistook the "Search by Ingredients" field for the "How to make ___" field. It would make more sense to have the "How to make ___" field up there, and the "Search by Ingredients" field somewhere lower down, perhaps under the results summary bar.
Very nice interface design :)
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SQLite is used by OS X Mail, Firefox, and plenty of other widely deployed apps. With that many users, even the most obscure branches get exercised. Finding the bugs through internal testing is a better life than reading end user trouble tickets all day.
I'm really surprised RIM had to buy a company to implement a WebKit based browser. Seems like they should have been able to do it in house. I guess if the pricetag was low enough it makes sense.
I have ideas/ I hope to be able to hammer then down to something that first I can fully envision not to mention others/ I, like zck, am not sure that my brain can come up with the needed 0/1's to make it work but also i hate the current position I am in and hope to make one of my ideas into something someday- so to wrap it up yes i would like to apply if I can muster the time to scrap blueprints together, and if not submitting this round ill put forth something soon
Yes, but IBM had to completely change its stripes in order to survive. They used to make business computers. Yet they sold off every last bit of computer manufacturing, the last part going to China as Lenovo. Their core competency is no longer computer design and manufacture, it's now basically just business consulting.

So, yes, IBM is doing well, but it's no longer playing the same game in the same market that it once was.
Ha, exactly what I was thinking. Sounds like the author is in a fund which invested in Tumblr. And he's got Twitter envy and feels the need to micro-manage!
Worth it since now the company can implement the browser immediately, instead off waiting to develop, test and launch it. Time is money, and in the long run, RIM may have just saved both. Look out IPhone. Now if RIM can just improve the Blackberry App World.
They'll make it up in volume!
You still need to have a developer certificate set up and installed if you want to install any applications on your iPod through Xcode.
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Really? Do you think Google's free users have value? What do you think Facebook could sell for tomorrow if they wanted to?

I'm all for charging for stuff, but free users (in volume) can have tremendous value. If they are a particular/targeted audience (Tumblr's isn't) they can be incredibly valuable. I've read that home improvement content can get $20 CPMs.
Or they can just look at the topology of the connections and the RSS feeds of the tiny fraction of people representative of the entire thing. Not a big deal, IMO.
I believe that comments at deeper levels (more than 5-6 levels) have the reply link not show up for a certain amount of time, which is a relatively recent change. Even for those, I've found that if you click on the "link" link for that comment, you can usually find the reply link on the resulting page, if that makes sense.
"Going to prison is a little bit like heading off to college. The first step is finding an institution that's right for you. Then there's a lot of anxiety: Who will be your roommate? Where is the library? What time does the dining hall close? How do you make a good impression with the people in charge? Will you make friends? A prison consultant addresses these concerns."

PG said school was like prison (http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html). Now we see that prison is like school.
Yeah, I think RIM has the engineering talent, but this move seems to be a time saver.
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> They used to make business computers. Yet they sold off every last bit of computer manufacturing, the last part going to China as Lenovo.

When did IBM stop making System/Z (the mainframes)?
> select fun, profit from real_world where relational=false ;

Shouldn't it be RealWorld.objects.filter(relational = False).values('fun', 'profit')
I gotta admit, this is pretty awesome. I wasn't sure about how well it would work but I was pleasantly surprised.

Great work! I'll be using this for sure!
This is another one of those techno-libertarian ideas that sounds great if you've never had any experience working in a real IT department. Installing unsupported software always results in employees who don't understand where the line of official support ends. You don't want your IT staff troubleshooting third party software or cleaning up after it.

I'm a fan of liberal web filtering policies although I do not trust client-side anti-phishing applications. I would feel irresponsible not doing some basic filtering and maybe some targeted filtering depending based on real world usage. I don't buy the morale argument at all because I always hear a lot of resentment along the lines of "oh he's on facebook all day" as a common put down of unproductive employees. And honestly, it's true often enough that people who might not go overboard can get swept up into it. That's bad morale.
Do you think it would be okay for an employer to fire his employees for engaging in political activism for causes the employer does not support? For instance, if one of my employees holds a position of authority in a labor union, and in that position, publicly endorses a congressional candidate whom I oppose, should I be able to fire that employee?

Your analogy actually exposes the major problem here: rather than being a fellow member of society acting in good faith who simply endorses a different solution than you do, you cast Mr. Mackey as a "soldier" for an "agenda" who deserves "retribution" because he (implication: intentionally) is trying to "negatively affect" people. You allow absolutely no room for someone to disagree in good faith: the minute someone expresses a criticism of a political position you believe in, that person is "the enemy" and deserves "retribution". I adopt what I consider a more enlightened view: that people who disagree with me may just be right, that they are acting in good faith, that their criticisms deserve an answer, and that they are fellow members of the community.

Your mindset is that of a civil war between pigheaded zealots, mine is that of a peaceful and free society of civil, fair-minded people. You try to destroy people you disagree with without listening to them. I listen to them and carefully consider their views. Most of all, you presume that all of your opinions are right above all criticism, question, or suggestion of alternatives. I carefully consider every criticism of, and alternative to, my views because I have changed my mind in the past and anticipate having cause to change my mind in the future.

People who are incapable of considering the possibility they might be wrong aren't suited for a democracy. They're suited for a religious war. That's what this "boycott" against Mackey is, that's what the "boycott" against the Dixie Chicks was, and that's what politics in this country has degraded to. Please keep that in mind.
I would argue that most "self proclaimed" anything aren't as good at their trade as they think.
well I've contemplated such acts myself, and while Cash is one of the main goals, high value items such as jewelry, computers, and various electronics are the main target... If I was going to actually rob a house, I would make 2 quick sweeps, the first for the high value items stated above, and the second for weapons and money. And it's not always high value items that are taken, I once had a friend who had his electric razor stolen, it wasn't terribly expensive 50-60 dollars at most, but apparently the thief needed one.
Businesses have it wrong, incentives destroy creativity
I don't think it's fair to just say "get rid of the ads". You should always be able to monetize your site somehow...

That said, they are a bit invasive... That might be solved with a redesign you've said you'll probably give in to :)
Given the importance of mobile phones to civil unrest from the Orange Revolution, to the Tulip Revolution, to the recent Iran protests, I think there are some very important political implications for the 2/3rds of the world that is now connected and living in an information-restricted society.

Even North Korea has had to deal with cheap Chinese mobile phones being smuggled in across the border, briefly allowing families separated by the Korean Civil War to contact one another.
Here is a great explanation. I'd never heard of this algorithm before but this explanation was extremely clear.

http://marblemice.com/2007/09/12/douglas-peuker-line-simplif...
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Decision makers need to come to terms with the hard realities of software development. Software development is not a field comprised of well-defined problems and stable environments. You simply can not bring scientific or mathematical rigor to a field where A) software can encompass any conceivable idea or concept that exists in the entirety of human knowledge, and B) specifications for every single project are different, and can almost never be firmly agreed upon before work begins even with the foremost world experts involved.

Imagine trying to develop engineering practices if there were infinite different realities each with their own bizarrely unique laws of physics. What about building a medical knowledge database if every generation of humans was built from a completely new DNA sequence.

Without some groundbreaking advancements like true AI there is not much hope of the situation for huge projects improving across the board. I believe large projects can succeed with the right leadership, but not adhering to the same formal set of procedures across the board.
As an MBA myself, I have never understood the mass criticism and stereotyping the degree receives from those whom simply have never experienced business school. Why? In my experience, I have learned how to think and design my ideas to the point where others can best understand their positive potentcy. I have applied what Ive learned in various aspects of business, into a functioning web startup as well. The most negativity that I have ever seen from my having an MBA, is being told by a potential employer, that I am overqualified for a position. And I honestly cannot complain about that. Would much rather be overqualified than underqualified. And thats just what my MBA has done for me. Made me qualified. Qualified to work in the position that I want, qualified to run my own startup, and qualified to write this post. And its not just the piece of paper I received that qualifies me. Its what I learned and experienced during my education.