skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what enriched text was supposed to be for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text . I say "supposed" because it seems that it has not really caught on. I consider HTML to be inappropriate for e-mail. Seems to be down at the moment, but http://www.avernus.com/~gadams/essays/20020418-html-mail.htm... is good.

Edit: fixed link
This post strikes me as very defensive. I will grant that yeah he made a mistake but like the rest of us he's entitled to make mistakes. I'm not sure the images matter much but it's great that he got the text back.

I hope that the people who feel inclined to jump all over him will recall one stupid mistake they made before doing so at least.
It certainly could be done on Dropbox, their services have been growing more close over time. Zumodrive only recently added linked-folders, which are basically a copy of the Dropbox model.

That said, they are both YC companies, and it's good to have competition in this space.
I'm not commenting on the relative quality of the two products (emacs v. vi), but I second the feeling that I should be using vi. Had a quick start on my desk for the whole year now! Wonder where I've picked up that attitude -- I've been a good little emacs user for years now.
Yours used a straight apostrophe. ;)
Isn't sucrose just as bad as HFCS, though?
Why are you looking at a server rather than sending it yourself? If you follow best-practices, you're not going to see worse results than using one of these 3rd party groups.
Google confirms Goggles for iPhone
Fuck Style
But Google knows the contents of each page, though.

If they were going to be awesome about it, they know what the page says, so they can just store an MD5 hash of it, and find what the new URL is, if it's still live, or serve a cached version if they can't find it.

That'd be pretty nifty.
Indeed, JungleDisk appears to offer a very similar service. I back up my entire main computer to JungleDisk (automatic incremental backup every midnight). On my minimal laptop for travel is a "Drive J:" which gives me access straight from Amazon's cloud for all the data on all the drives backed up from my main computer without local storage. One charge for the software, no extra cost for any number of virtually sync'd machines. Works great for a travel machine where you want access to all your data but don't want to carry it around with the risk of losing it; there's even a password to gain access to "Drive J:", so a lost computer contains no private data and also can't be used to access the cloud copy at Amazon.
4. Microsoft could buy Plurk to save face.
That's a good point: if there's a poster there then it can't be a white board.
It would be useful that instead of praising one person and denegrating another, supporters of jquery, capucinno et al addressed each of the many concerns that have been raised about those libraries in a manner that can be objectively evaluate.
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I have never used 99designs specifically but I got my site done for right about the same price point.

I have seem some work done on 99designs which, if it is Not Design (TM), then I heartily wish that every project I ever work on will be Not Design (TM) up to that caliber.

One of my favorite examples: a buddy of mine makes Perfect Table Plan, which does seating charts for weddings (among other things). He wanted an illustration of what could happen if you sat two wrong people next to each other, and provided directions similar to "I want a vicious biker dude sitting next to a little old lady."

http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/99desi...

Look at that and tell me it isn't professional.
were you hired, or were you moved internally?

Its cool that they have someone devoted to worrying about these issues.
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It's difficult to have a rational discussion with someone who has already staked out an extreme position and offered little to no evidence to support that opinion.

Also, it's spelled Cappuccino. And since David's superficial review contained virtually nothing of substance, there isn't much to objectively respond to.

Example:

<script src = "Frameworks/Objective-J/ObjectiveJ.js" type = "text/javascript"></script>

> Nice markup.

Yes, one file in 280 Slides (not Cappuccino) has spaces between the attribute, equals sign, and quote. We must be incompetent.

> Yeah, I guess "false" is harder on the fingers.

Or, maybe, we're going for an easier transition for people from an Objective-C background...

with (new prototype_bug())
member = true;

> Ugh.

How insightful. Hilariously enough, this is actually doing real feature detection to detect a real bug in real browsers.

> I've seen enough.

So, in other words, he made no substantive evaluation. If you ask us questions, and aren't a dick about it, we're more than happy to give answers. We readily admit our own faults, and we're vocal about what our framework is not designed to do.
Hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to poke fun of Gruber now, but back in 2002 Macs, "beefy" two-processor desktop machines, were barely running OS X. I mean, the new Mac OS X mentioned in the post was Jaguar. Do you remember the awesome speed of that bad boy?
I agree with much of what is said, especially 'Lesson 1'. I'm surprised how many
people just starting a company have expectations of landing millions in VC money, or talk as it such a large sum is a necessity.

http://igeejo.com
Flipping Out (Flickr doesn't branch)
A crossroads in life...
I am at a crossroads in life and need some advice... Let me start off by saying I am a designer, not a developer. I bootstrapped a company (got incorporated as an S corp) and I am the sole founder who was responsible for the front-end and hired a developer to the back-end and a DBA to maintain the servers. The company has a solid business model and solves a problem within a niche community. The developer worked remotely and got the v1 alpha 80% done when he was having problems with certain tasks so he found another developer in the UK to help out. The 1st developer then started having personal issues and and bailed on the project. The 2nd developer stepped up and finished the v1 alpha (we cut corners to get something launched). We quietly launched to prove the concept and to work on content then work on the business side. We have about 700 users from just word of mouth to help test and get feedback. The new developer wanted to re-do the entire system in a new framework and make it more efficient the the original developer had it and I agreed. Along the way, we made it better and added new features. The new developer was about 90% done, but unfortunately has had major health issues and cannot continue. So, I am stuck with a 90% v2 system and cannot afford to hire another developer right now. I am 36, no family to tend to and very passionate about making the company a success. I live in central Florida so the tech scene is lacking. Nothing is keeping me here and I am trying to decide if I should pack up and make the move the move to Silicon Valley where I have a better chance at finding a co-founder/developer/chief technical officer and give the company a real chance. If I stay put, it could take too long to find the right person and my dreams could vanish. If I move, I would be moving across the country where I don't know anyone but it would not take long for me network. I would like to hear what others think...
Yes, that I think is the best of the social engineering ideas presented in that video, its also one of the easiest for the city to implement in terms of infrastructure.

You would make a lot of people mad by doing it though.
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I got pulled over when I was learning to drive, with my dad in the car, because the cop didn't think I was old enough to even have a learner's permit. Like, it was so far out of the realm of possibility, that he felt compelled to pull me over.

I have dozens of stories like this now.
I love Dropbox. I have it on every computer and make sure all of my friends use it.

But I store 10GB of music in my dropbox, and I don't want that on every computer.

I would gladly move that to zumodrive.
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Has anyone tried this with a local caching file system like OpenAFS? I've always wanted to but AFS is a PITA to get setup.
Long URLs constantly disappear, but only one root at a time. If Wikipedia disappeared tomorrow, all the Wikipedia links would break, but URL shorteners consolidate roots. If bit.ly disappeared tomorrow, it's not just one site that is affected. Furthermore, the use of a redirect breaks traditional mirroring systems. You can't just prepend somemirror.com to the path and expect it to work.
Never mind Github, this is one of the greatest rivalries of all time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
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http://www.kevintom.com/ycnews
Just because Javascript can be used for annoying purposes does not mean Javascript is, itself, annoying. It's just a way to execute code on the client side. CSS is not a true programming language.

>>that's the argument that most people who hail on the side of JavaScript take...

There is no holy war between Javascript and CSS, just like there are no carpenters who argue that a hammer is always better than a screwdriver. They are different tools with different purposes.
Sucrose can be regulated by your body with Sucrase, whereas HFCS cannot. Maybe that's part of the reason why so many Americans are overweight? Hard to escape HFCS in the average diet. Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Cane_a...
"cloverfield" is David Mark, FYI -- it seems someone went and pointed him here.

I noticed in several parts in his response, he's trying to claim credit for aspects of jQuery's development -- something that I think most people would find patently ridiculous. Given David's recent threats, if I were Resig, I'd be tempted to start using the word "defamation" and tell David to put up some evidence or shut up.

Fortunately, I'm sure Resig's more level-headed.
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OK - I can see what you mean. However, I still disagree. De-obfuscation does not provide more evidence that infringement occurred, it simply implies that whoever did it likely knew they should not be doing it, which has (I believe) absolutely no legal implication.
I think this is a good play for Google. I'm sick of URL shortening services, but if they are here to stay they might as well be backed by a company that will be around. This is also going to be very useful for them to trend real time sharing.
I can't find anything in Google's privacy policy that prevents them from using any information they have within Google. In fact, they specifically say personal information may be used for the purposes of:

- Providing our services, including the display of customized content and advertising;

- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;

- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;

- Protecting the rights or property of Google or our users; and

- Developing new services.

The information they may use in such ways includes "server logs [which] may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser."
Please post in English, thanks.
Because Google isn't links:

http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration...
quality is still hard to measure.

speaking from experience, i've always had passion and personal projects, etc, but i used to be a sucky programmer. now i feel like i've mastered certain things, but i'm still developing and getting better.

for one thing, quality comes from sustained effort and committment. i've been working full time on startups for a while. that's a hell of a lot different than someone doing a different weekend toy project every month.

i'm friends with some pretty passionate "hackers," and i'm definitely not knocking that kind of activity---heck, i have side projects sometimes, too. but there's a big difference between hacking and building something serious. toying with tons of APIs and langauges doesn't make someone a good programmer.

finding a good programmer is still hard. even if programmers were completely honest, and the metrics all objective, would they even have the language to explain to business guys that they were good programmers, both in technical proficiency and quality? it's not impossible, but it's quite difficult.
No, I'm fairly sure the one I saw used a photograph of a road.

That is certainly the same effect, though.
zfs send/receive is amazing. I wish other filesystems had it
This linked article is junk[1], but the study on which it is based is rather interesting:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673878/

The gave either fructose or glucose based to volunteers over a period of 10 weeks, and seem to have shown a clear statistical difference between the reaction to the two. Although both produced similar total weight gains, there were consistent differences in how the volunteers reacted to each:

"These data suggest that dietary fructose specifically increases DNL, promotes dyslipidemia, decreases insulin sensitivity, and increases visceral adiposity in overweight/obese adults."

[1] The "six times sweeter" claim is false, and indicates a lack of both fact checking and logic. If it was 6x sweeter, you wouldn't need anywhere near as much of it!
It's very different: you don't have to own a gmail account to send an email to a persons gmail account.
My my all the hating on bikes here. What gives? Have any of you actually commuted on a decent bike-- not one of the cheap $300 Walmart ones? It's glorious.

Is it wrong for Denmark to impose such a high tax? There's probably better economic means to accomplish the task. But the hating on the bike counter? Now that's just silly.

If you're in SF South Bay, there are plenty of low-traffic roads where you will beat the cars back home and be much, much less stressed out from not needing to jockey in traffic-- at least if you could give up your prejudice for a moment. It also does your burn rate well for those of you doing startups.
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You can’t tell from the picture alone whether or not the house is “like yours” or not. In particular, you can’t compare how much purchasers can negotiate down the price when he or she finds stuff needing repair, or how much the agent can negotiate up the price by convincing purchasers that the floorplan is ideally suited for their special special needs.
The Wikipedia page on the topic suggests that chimpanzees have pale skin under dark hair and that humans might have evolved sweat glands and less hair for heat management related to a larger brain. Seemed to me that the suggestion there is that paler ancestors became darker in regions closer to the equator (Africa, Australia, Indonesia).

I guess paler people today in Northern Europe may have either had ancestors who became darker and then lightened (as per the Knol piece) or moved out of Africa before their skin darkened to deal with the UV/Vitamin D issue. From memory, it's been suggested that expansion into Europe was around 50,000 years ago.

Interesting story though - have never read a page on Knol before.
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I think there is another reason for this practice:

Imagine that one criminal has good leadership skills and is able to manipulate another, weaker criminal. He could then convince the weaker criminal to pull the trigger and escape consequences himself, and then do it again and again with different weak criminals. By sharing the blame the system compels the leader, whoever he is, to restrain the underlings rather than push them to the extreme.
anyone who says "fool proof" does not understand the ingenuity of real fools.
A look at decaf antiforensics anti-cofee tool
Depends on your wallet size: Silicon Valley is not cheap. If your product does not involve rocket science and your that close to having a viable product you should be able to find a developer either close by or "anywhere in the world" that can help. I'm just a few hours north of you. I'm not a dev for hire but have plenty of sympathy for your situation and tons of experience bootstrapping. Finding a co-founder is not something you do by moving cross country and randomly bumping into people.
No Torn, you're still not using the correct statistic.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STANDARD DEVIATION.

Also, how can you say that the article isn't "honest," especially given the complete, precise explanation for the stats at the end.
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He is not more popular than jQuery, however. (Or Resig for that matter.)

...Not that this should be reduced to a popularity contest.
Given that sucrose is half glucose, half sucrose, and that none of it can enter your system without the molecule getting cleaved, yes. And sucrose is not a new item in the British diet (think of the Caribbean plantations) and I've read it was at least for a period (but not one in which anyone was paying attention to this sort of public health) an important part of the diet for many poor people.
Some Good documentary films about food...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Corn_%28film%29

(You can rent the last two on iTunes)
The hidden story of the 3D engine
Creating a Flash platform game with Flixel and Flex - Squishing the player
You're craaaaaaaaazy, sir.
All 32mil RockYou accounts hacked. Passwords were stored in plaintext.
You're assuming that 3D will be significant. I don't.

We'll know soon enough.
Yeah, but if you consume enough sucrose and you don't cleave it, you'll get the equivalent of lactose intolerance (lactose is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose instead of fructose).
I find that for me, side projects are very beneficial because they give me absolute freedom to try new things without stepping on co-workers toes.

I have to agree that metrics don't tell the whole story. It really depends on what the programmer is looking for. Some people may be attracted to new features & complexity in their projects, while others look to design a small simple project.
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And this is fine in theory. I agree, as I think most other Javascript programmers do now.

However, I have a challenge for you: calculate the browser window's width in pixels, before the page is done loading, and return the correct value without doing any browser sniffing.

Enjoy. :-)
Speaking personally I don't think either of those conclusions can be drawn from this article, but nor do I think they're terribly controversial as broad generalizations.

I would love to see more and better science on the topic but I think there is still value in anecdotes and the discussions they result in.
I fit some of those criteria! I don't feel it in my place to judge my programming skills in front of everyone here though. =p
> Even if "hide the decline" was considered to be referring to something dubious, the use of "trick" would still clearly mean "technique".

Yes, read the link. The "technique" was concatenating two dissimilar datasets in a way that suggested a trend that simply wasn't there.

They had tree data for a certain period of time and then both tree and temp data. They used a model to generate temp data from the tree data. They then concatenated the temp from tree data for the time when they didn't have temp data with the temp data that they did have.

They didn't show that applying the same procedure to the tree data when they had temp data did not produce the actual temp data....

Do you really want to argue that the model was good only when they didn't have a way to check it?

Yes, it's "creative". The problem is that it's deceptive, or if you like, intended to trick.

And the fact that it's deceptive has nothing to do with them calling it a "trick". They could have called it a banana.
Yeah, when I read the book it sounded cool but as I posted it here I wondered why the cops didn't notice in the story.
Note that if you store your passwords in a fast hash format like salted SHA1, an attacker with 32MM database rows can publish a very credible sample of usernames and passwords, and leave you scrambling to explain how the breach isn't really as bad as it looks. Not a great position to be in.

The right answers to this problem are BCrypt, SCrypt, PBKDF, or (at a minimum) salted "stretched" SHA1, iterated many thousands of times.
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What's ironic (and somewhat irksome) is the preachy tone of your post.
Is there an implementation people can use? What about a formal spec of the SQL extensions you are introducing? What's the licensing like?
See also:

Modules in OCaml

Type classes in Haskell

C++0x "concepts" (axed from the specification, but you can do generic programming with templates)

And many more.
if true, this is so irresponsible it is almost unbelievable
Also, after launching a feature, we have to go back in the code base and remove the old version (maintaining separate versions of all features on Flickr would be a nightmare). But overall, we find it helps us develop new features faster and with fewer bugs.

Its crazy to me to think that a high profile site like flickr would push impure code into production with the promise of "we'll clean it up after launch". I guess if you've got the right culture and discipline, it can work. Just seems so fragile.
For a decade of advancement, your examples are very weak. Compare 1970->1980 or 1980->1990 for the change in everyday technology!

I had an mp3 player in 2000. Creative released a 6GB hard drive based player in 2000 with which you'd still do fine today. It was Napster's heyday. I had a cable connection very capable of delivering video on the internet. Sure, the majority of streaming was porn sites, but the capability was there. I was using Google then, like I am now. The Startac was released in 1996. By 2000 there were many LCD phones, and the BlackBerry was available.

I don't see how a tech-savvy person could not have lived a very similar life in 2000. Look at 1990 with no graphical internet (for instance) and qualitatively less computer capability, and there really isn't any comparison in rate of change.
I think it would have been interesting to have had the participants rate how they felt with energy levels and other factors during these experiments.
Trial opens for hacker/sysadmin who allegedly locked out SF city officials
This problem is isomorphic to the antivirus problem. You can't even trust the memory controller to tell you the truth about live memory contents. When you compare Decaf to, say, a modern rootkit, it's apparent how superficial this forensics conflict really is.
Copenhagen is a completely flat city which also encourages biking, but yeah, the car tax is probably the biggest reason.
If you want to become serious about game dynamics I suggest watching this interview: http://mixergy.com/amy-jo-kim/
Didn't Reddit do something very similar?
Many do. E.g. 37signals.
It looks like Dropbox's selective sync is right around the corner, which would fully handle that use case.
given the nature of their service, I can't help suspecting the bulk of their clientele use one password for everything. Awesome.
This is just some amateur hour shit. They're a well established and well funded company. How do venture funds not do better technical due diligence(or any at all)? I wouldn't release an app for 32 of my friends to test, let alone 32 million people to use with plain text passwords. Enough of my bitching, because it's inaction. Now for words of action/openings for suggestion: How do we make sure companies don't do dumb things like this?
Leading to obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence, and related charges (no pun intended)... Also likely to weight very heavily on a jury when they learn you destroyed your computer rather than allow the "good guys" check it over.

yeah... have a nice time in prison