skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Safari and Firefox have by now had a chance to copy this behavior, but neither have, even though both have added other features to their tab bars.
At least since Posterous just uses email, you could still post to Posterous from the office.
Regarding skepticism, I didn't say that skepticism was a new idea, I said that the idea that science can replace philosophy is a new idea. The kind of skepticism you're talking about is actually incompatible with modern science, so it can hardly be taken as an example of a scientific world view. After all, one pretty clear example of recent progress in philosophy is the demonstration that scientific theories are not reducible to statements about actual and hypothetical experiences or "appearences" (i.e., the failure of logical positivism).
My friend Mark Christian works for PBWiki. I know he's a bona-fide Canadian because he pronounces it 'aboot.' He's pretty enterprising.
Also, when you open a new tab in Chrome, it opens to the right of the current tab, not at the end of the line. Very nice when you use it.
In the mean time... Ctrl-w
he rewrote urls with mod rewrite, from the interview I got the idea that basically the entire site was redesigned from scratch.

He was using php before, and his entire structure was the usual ?p=123
So they do what opera has been doing for ages. Got it.
I really liked those Safari tabs. I guess I was in the minority though. It prepared me very nicely for Chrome tabs, though.
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> What's the point of this Javascript hacking with suboptimal results?

Javascript performance has been making huge leaps in the past few years, and Google is helping to drive that further. Plus, penetration is hard. Javascript availability is practically 100% vs. Silverlight's 20%.
There's also BDD [Billing Driven Development].
There are two pieces to this: first, for all IP-related work done prior to formation, the founders will typically assign their IP to the company for a nominal valuation, usually in connection with paying a token dollar amount for their stock; second, if the founders continue to do IP-related work following formation and issuance of their initial stock to them, they need either to be employees or contractors in relation to their company and, in either case, need to have in place some mechanism that ensures capture of their continuing IP-related work product for the company (this is usually a work-for-hire agreement if they are contractors or an employee invention assignment agreement if they are employees).

Those are the basics. Beyond this, you need to ensure that proper "consideration" is given to the founders to make the IP transfers legally binding. For the pre-formation IP transferred in connection with the stock grants, this is not an issue. For post-formation work, this takes the form of continued vesting of stock (if vesting is in place), often coupled with some form of very modest deferred compensation that is needed to minimize tax risks to the founders.

Some of the technical rules are explained in more detail here: http://grellas.com/faq_business_startup_015a.html.
no same old domain, he just rewrote the urls, but since he forgot to do an htaccess redirect, Google didn't know that ?p=123 was now /template123/

So basically as far as Google was concerned, the only page that was still working from the old site was the index page, and even that was completely different.
I don't think that is a fair comparison:

On November 17, 1989, the Sun headlined a page 2 story STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS OFFICIAL."

The Sun Says column added:
Forget the idea that ordinary heterosexual people can contract Aids. They can’t anything else is homosexual propaganda.
Gave me a chuckle. Code Santa does sound pretty awesome doesn't it?
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The new iPhones and iPod Nano's are actually pretty good. So is a Flip. The flips can even do HD.
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It's not just about speed. But even if you focus on speed, Silverlight will always be much faster.

Check out this c64 emulator in Silverlight 3:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Honorable-Mention-MIX09-S...
Then, posterous may need to get a different domain for the business blogs.
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I think Google is actually thinking javascript is going to be the base machine language of the browser. They seem to be investing a lot of effort on the V8 engine. http://code.google.com/p/v8/
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"Here’s Google Chrome in Arabic..." WOW!
Great design. Only thing that bothers me a little is the fact that the cursor turns into a typing cursor during a drag, instead of a hand (at least in chrome).
With sites like LinkedIn and Highrise blocked by Barracuda, I think Posterous would have to also bang on some doors to make sure business blogs don't get blocked.
Why would Google think such a thing when Silverlight has better tech? Why not build a Silverlight competitor?
Nobody's pointed out the most obvious one:

Fireman Development (FD) - You are constantly in crisis mode and thus are only motivated to do something when someone sends you an email containing the words "CRITICAL". And yes, it has to be in all caps.
Do you want to film the video with the camera and then import into your Mac for post-processing (recommended). Or, do you want to hook a usb/firware camera to your Mac and record directly from that?

For doing the sort of thing you're talking about, I recommend an external camera. The recording media (flash, hard-drive, tape, etc.) doesn't really matter because you're not going to be doing hours of continuous filming. You DO (IMO) want a camera with an external mic adapter. This is important because you'll likely want a wired or wireless lavalier mic in order to get good clear audio.

Check your local craigslist. Lots of people are upgrading to newer HD cameras and selling older units. You don't need HD for what you're talking about. Just google "[camera model] + OS X" and you'll find reviews for most popular cameras of how well it does (or doesn't) work with OS X and iMovie or Final Cut.

I've had good luck with Canon cameras (but there are some models out there that don't work very well) overall.
And middleclick.

Tabs do not show the close buttons for me in Opera, it wastes too much of precious space.
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Almost no company will tell you why you weren't hired. In the US, as soon as a company gives you a reason for why you were not hired, you can sue and argue that the grounds for rejecting you were frivolous. Worse, if the exact phrasing used in any way possibly implies that you might have been rejected for a protected class (even if that's not actually the case in reality) then you can sue for truly ludicrous amounts of money.

Neither of these are hypotheticals; one company I worked for had had a couple of lawsuits due to the former, and last I heard, a friend's company was halfway through a lawsuit due to the latter.

This is another area where you can thank the lawyers for making it a mess for everyone.
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When I lived in the valley there were a bazillion Canadians there. Someone told me at one point that the bay area can be thought of as the 5th largest Canadian city. I'm from Nova Scotia myself, but now in MA.
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What if your job title was about the motion you engage in daily?
Thanks for that.

I'll have to adjust to it, but I can tell right away that this extension improves the browsing experience by giving some type of order to tabs and child tabs.
I love this landing page. Excellent marketing for an open source project. Demos and documentation right up front. Lots of information on the home page, but it all loads quickly, easy to scan.
We'd love to be able to store an infinite amount of data in redis with large datasets -- that would let us use it at Posterous in ways that are beyond how we use it now -- which is mainly for analytics and job queueing (via resque)
Thanks, this info is really helpful! (Especially the microphone, I hadn't thought about that.)

I'd err on the side of quality as long as it didn't mean breaking the bank, which probably means I'd go the import route.

In your experience, has iMovie been enough to get the job done on the software side?
Too easy to cheat the test. Next.
Here's one with slightly more detail (user count & description), made with Feedity - http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/google-com/UlRVUVJS

(shameless plug)
It's particularly curious as Sourceforge and Google Code ostensibly have more to offer in terms of mailing lists, bug tracking, etc. Yet, GitHub clearly provides far superior hosting and source control tools and also lowers the bar to entry for participation, and I think this has made all the difference.

I also find it notable that GitHub's freemium model means they don't feel the need to bury their site with advertising (as is the case with Sourceforge) which makes it far more usable and also seems to convey a friendlier atmosphere.
Deservedly so. I was a long time Subversion user and just recently switched to git on github.

Automatic downloads from the tags you push make it worth the price of admission alone.

I'm going through an interview process now, and its made it very easy to show off code and reduced the time on the phone asking questions mainly used to remove the cruft.
Yes I have used it a fair bit to write javascript - in some ways it provides the boring bits of stuff around js (like module-like systems, name spaces etc..).

If you like IDEs, IDEA from jetbrains even knows when you are doing inlined JS and assists you as you code.

I thought I would hate GWT by now, but its one of those things that mostly stays out of my way. Would I used it for a new project from scratch? Not sure... maybe. There are lots of other options now for more classic web approaches that dont' require it to be a monolithic ajax app (and jquery is pretty hardened to provide a lot of the glue/lubricant).
I lived in Canada for a year working for my acquiring company and I love beer + clamato. do I count?
That's not how you pronounce "deux."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Fr-deux-f...
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I saw a CNN story last week about Google's free energy monitoring software. Then at the end of the story was a huge let down: you need special hardware to get it running.

I checked Wattvision right after that and there were no updates, so today I'm super happy to see that the hardware is available. If it proves to work well, hopefully we'll see a story on CNN (i.e. to the public at large) in the next few months.
> Java Tools echo system

Took me a while to figure out what the heck this "echo" is.
Folks at Hacker Dojo have been discussing holding a reverse job fair, where hackers who are in the job market come in with their craft (live demo, code samples and whatnot) and interact with other engineers or hiring managers who can recognize their mad skills and refer internally, decide who to bring in for further interview or hire someone on the spot!

It's not scalable, but as I see more and more co-working spaces sprout up in many places, this could be ONE way of solving the hiring/recruiting problem for hackers.
It's called Webkit. And GWT uses it.
Firefox 3.6 does this too, I like it.
Hey fellas/ladies - one of my developer cronies sent this post my way and I'd LOVE to chat with some of y'all. I AM a recruiter and have been for the last 12+ years..in addition I share the exact sentiment that you have written on the pages below. Any of you wanna chat off line? If so, I'd welcome it and would enjoy your contribution on my blog TheAntiPimp.com. Might also help to check out this post I did about the things I hate about recruiters...rock on.

http://theantipimp.com/?p=1082

Scott
scott@theantipimp.com
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See: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
I know that I'm in little danger at heights. Indeed in the past I've done quite a lot of climbing and abseiling. I've overcome the fear in a way by leading scouts up a climb or two. I most recently climbed with my son and did my best to show as little fear as possible - unfortunately the inobservant (or malicious?) instructor cornered me.

For me it seems that fear of heights and mild vertigo that ensues has grown progressively worse as I've aged, I assume because I'm more aware of my mortality.

It is not a case of knowing nothing bad happens - I'm still alive! The worst I've had is cuts and bruises (and perhaps a bit of chaffing!). I get the "ghoulies" even when playing video games when my character is at a height.

I simply can't imagine putting myself in a situation where I can recall being fearful in this scenario but am currently not fearful; unless I'd already lost the fear.
Pronunciation's a bit off, but that doesn't matter. What bugs me is that with a slow network connection, there's no confirmation that hitting enter actually did anything.

I hit enter three times and clicked on a bunch of stuff before it showed me that it had accepted my first item, and then it accepted it twice more.

Needs more async thinking, but the design is quite friendly.
thanks for the comment rantfoil. The more I talk to people about this issue the more I think virtual memory is the first thing to do. I'll start working on VM this Xmas, really hope to have it pretty solid in three months.
Alt+Backspace in Opera or Ctrl+Z.
You seem to be implying that, on news.yc, it's okay to criticize Joel Spolsky, but not Paul Graham. I think it's that you don't have enough controls in your experiment.

I read this longish blog post in its entirety. I don't agree with all of it, but I think the author made some valid points, and that he's making a good-faith effort to be constructive. I also read the longish Giles Bowkett blog post you're talking about. It was very much not constructive, and in fact was all the way across the scale to conspiracy-theory, tinfoil-hat-style nutbar-ism. I'm not surprised it didn't score very well when it was posted here.

Have you noticed how Paul usually reacts to criticism? Say somebody posts a comment here that is vaguely critical of something he wrote. Paul's usual response is along the lines of: "Are there specific things you can point out that I was wrong about?" That doesn't sound to me like a guy who considers himself beyond criticism.
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No analog meter support. I'd have bought.
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fine, make it a real test, where you have to take a test in front of a representative
There is a hidden feature on many tabs - They close with mouse middle click! This is extremely important on tabs, because they always seems to have the smallest x button possible.

I've tested it to work on Firefox, chrome, IE, Visual studio and other applications.
"Silverlight will always be much faster"

Anything to back this up?
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Why Chrome has No NoScript
Not much of an API though.
Glad to hear they decided against writing their own in Scala.
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Chrome doesn't want Adblock, so they don't put in the hooks for NoScript to work either. (or else they're just slow...)
Instead of tests or more likely as an augment to tests. I could see something more project Euler like only more language and skill level focused. You would have to invest in anti-plagiarism tools as well.
It will be great once web socket support becomes more pervasive. True 2-way communication would be a great boon in the complexity department for a bunch of different types of web apps.
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The viewing of source was every step other than the last one. I have never coded in javascript at all, but their "web developer" trial was trivial even for me.
Funny thing about recruiters, is going through a recruiter I've generally wound up with higher pay than doing things the other way around. They'll be their typical aggressive recruiter selves, sell me, bid me up and insist that I can't possibly work for less than X without making me seem like the prima donna.. I still get to be the mild mannered guy who's primarily motivated by the quality of work. They've also gotten me into places faster.. last couple of times I was looking for work, the companies with a recruiter had me into final interview stage before other companies (some of whom I was actually interested enough in to seek out and contact) even got back to me from my first "here's my resume" email.

So.. they actually do work. You'd think that if the company wasn't forking over 25% of my salary to a recruiter, they'd be more enthusiastic to speak to me and would be willing to pay me more, but it hasn't worked out that way in practice. YMMV.
The numbers are tractable, though. The circumference of the earth is very close to 40Mm (useful fact to know -- it was one of the original design points for the meter). At the equator (where the rotational acceleration is highest, even though coriolis itself is zero) we have a velocity of 40e6 / (24 x 60 x 60) == 463m/s. So the acceleration (v^2/r) of the ground the target is standing on relative to the free-flying bullet is 0.034 m/s^2. Taking the 3-second shot example from above, the target will move 0.5 x 0.034 x 3^2 == 15.3cm during the bullet's flight.

And yeah, a six-inch error is just about what I'd consider the maximum tolerance if you're trying to hit someone's torso. So it seems that yes, the numbers back it up.

Yay, physics is fun!
Could I have a bittorent client running in Chrome?
like hackers-got-talent or x-codemonkeys
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Or, you could ask for his/her university transcripts and get a fairly good summary of a whole lot of tests. :-)

Also, this may not be a popular comment on this board (which I have been lurking for quite a while), but there is more to a good hire than someone who can get a high mark on a tough programming test. Granted, it is a good place to start, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to work with the person and they have to be able to work with the rest of the team.

I have hired many programmers over the life of our startup, and about 5 months ago I fired the guy who would have easily got the highest mark on such a test. I should have done it years ago
Uh, I guess. They needed some way to support all the communication applications on their browser-OS after all...
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Google PowerMeter works with TED (http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html)
Quite a lot more here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/01/17/crystal-methodology
Come to think of it, it's possible to have tree-style tabs in a horizontal top bar. I hope someone more clever than me implements this idea sometime.
I must say the thing I like most about github is that they seem to be very transparent about who they are and what they do. Add that into the website interface which is insanely easy to navigate and use and it makes a very nice website.

This differs greatly from sourceforge, which now looks like a shareware site, and google code which can be difficult to navigate at times.
I couldn't find any info on how the thing reads the meter. Is it plugging into the meter via an open port, do these digital meters all have wireless transmitters themselves, or does it do something crazy like use a camera?
Congrats Savraj! Out of curiosity, how are you powering the WiFi sensor?
As they discuss, will proxies have to specifically enable Web Sockets to allow this to replace AJAX?

I thought this was the same problem Flash sockets had, traffic being blocked.
We're from Canada - we're not from Minnesota. I honestly have never gotten how Americans interpret our "about"'s as aboot's ;)
See, it's the smugness people don't like.

Seriously though, I just fired up Opera (v. 9.63 - I never use Opera) and it does not have this behavior. Tabs resize as son as they are closed, from the left, middle, and right. So in addition to being smug, you're also wrong. To give you the benefit of the doubt, I upgraded to Opera 10.10 and tried again. Still the tabs resize as soon as one is closed.

Maybe you're thinking of something else?
A nice feature and a partial mitigator, but just because a destructive action is undoable, it doesn't mean there doesn't need to be any concern over the action being accidentally triggered. Both because accidental actions are annoying and because many users won't know how to undo it.
It sounds more like "aboat" to me.
You can generate faster code with static typing.
Be original. If you want something unconventional, you'll have to make it happen. Here is some inspiration:
http://www.socialmediajobs.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...
With the wealth of data that they collect, this would be a great place for an economist (like myself:)) to study usage patterns and possibly conduct experiments.

Of course, the set of people that buy this device are more "green" than the average consumer and also more likely to change habits. Nonetheless, looking at correlations of household-level usage with location specific variables like weather, sporting events,etc. could be really interesting. Moreover, conducting experiments where alerts are different for 50% of the users to test how responses differ would really illustrate how public policy should move forward. Think of the A/B testing web developers use, but with possibly wide-ranging consequences.

Great work!
Yeah, I have absolutely no idea why Web Sockets aren't just an initial HTTP request and then a protocol switch (Upgrade header); that would work for the vast majority of proxies and make cookies/same domain/etc work seamlessly.
Title is disingenuous. I don't believe since Ava Lovelace that programming was ever female dominated. Even when the referenced Cosmo article was published, it was estimated that one in nine programmers were female. Even if reliable observers suggest that it was closer to 30 or even 50 percent, that's still not female dominated. Having said that, I've really enjoyed what I've so far read of this essay.
I think they have different sensors for digital ones. I think it is easier to make a sensor for analog one by checking the spinning wheel. It is pretty cool they can have a light device that reads the rpm of the spinning wheel and connects to internet via wifi.
(Not that this might not be outweighed by other considerations such as the ability to close multiple tabs quickly, of course.)
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I don't like how chrome of firefox does tab closing. When I close a tab, it can take a few seconds, and it feels like I missed the tiny button, so I click it again. Of course, this happens just as the tab is closed, and I end up closing the next one as well. Very thankful for history of clsoed tabs.
The author may not realize this, but in the 1960s the word "programmer" did not have the meaning it does now. Software development was done by two different types of people working together: "systems analysts" who designed it, and "programmers" who translated their designs into code. What the systems analyst produced was very precise; it was pretty much a program written in a higher-level language than was then available. The programmer's job was to translate this program into Fortran or Cobol.

So it's not only the female programmers of the 1960s who have disappeared, but the male ones as well. The word "programmer" still exists, but the job it described in the 1960s has mostly gone away. The female programmers weren't replaced by men, but by compilers.