skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not redundancy, it's a title. No tab that I have open has room for it's title in Chrome, and almost no tab ever will. If you believe seeing page titles is important, than you have to agree that the Firefox/Safari/etc. approach is superior in that particular regard.

But I, like most people I suspect, don't really care about page titles.
Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo
I can live with the close button being on the right, but I strongly prefer the way Safari does it. I accidentally close more than one tab fairly frequently, and while I know and love the "History -> Recently Closed Tabs" workaround in Firefox, it is a workaround for the bad UI of having a close button I don't want to press pop up right under the close button I'm clicking on. I'm not the most dexterous person (to put it mildly), and further punishing my klutziness by requiring precision work with the mouse is not my idea of a good UI.
Power Outage for Amazon Data Center
This annoys me as well. When a tab takes a little while to close, I think that I missed clicking on the button.

Why don't they change the color of the tab as soon as close is clicked, or some other visual clue. It can take a second or more to close a tab.
I think that programmers often encounter a culture clash with recruiters. A recruiter has a client (and it's not you) and has to fill a large number of positions. I have had some awful experiences. Once, the recruiter sent a modified version of my CV to a company and exaggerated my experience in certain areas. I guess she thought she was doing me a favour, but I ended up looking like an idiot in the interview.
Sadly there are no numbers, but I had the impression that the all of the "programmers" for ENIAC were women - hired for a job that the machine designers didn't anticipate would be so intellectually rigorous.
they would need to provide a mechanism to allow connections to non origin domains, like crossdomain.xml

I understand there are security implications, but I wish browser would stop creating prohibitively strict restrictions on web applications and make a somewhat sensible way too elevate permissions

(same origin model, access to the clipboard, etc etc)
Jonah Lehrer: The Cognitive Benefits of Travel
As a long-time OmniWeb user, I've become quite attached to thumbnailed tabs in a drawer on the side of the window. There's a Firefox extension called TabSidebar that approximates this, but it's an inferior implementation. Tabs at the top of the window are almost completely useless, though---far too little visual information to associate the tab widget with the page it controls.
Seedcamp's Seedsummit - network for active seed investors
The Arabic localization suggests that Mac vs Windows UI habits were not the main driver.
Spend money on the microphone, or borrow a good one, and get a mike stand and a pop shield. Particularly if you are doing any audio work, whether recording or podcasting, or otherwise. A decent low-end cardioid condenser produces audio output far superior to a cheaper mike, and vastly better than the audio you'll get from an integrated mike.

And yes, iMovie and GarageBand and the rest of the tool-chain can be used to produce reasonable content, once you get the hang of the tools, and can also be combined with the application screen recording that is available within the QuickTime tool in Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.

Another area with the Apple iLife tool-chain involves how you can generate graphics (diagrams, moving plots, etc) for insertion into technical presentations. While static pages and screen captures and screen video are all easy, I haven't found an entirely satisfactory way to generate more advanced graphics for inclusion.
Freakonomics: Why Does the U.S Rank 29th in Longevity?
If someone knows enough to do that, they probably also know to copy the file onto their own server.
Almost all of the digital meters have an IR LED that blinks once for every kilowatthour that is consumed by the house. Their device (along with the one that Black and Decker sells) sits on top of the meter, counts the number of blinks every few seconds, then sends that over some sort of wireless to the internet.

I have yet to figure out how to intercept the Black and Decker's signal to duplicate wattvision's functionality. This is easy(ish) to do with a mini Arduino and a pair of XBee radios.
GitHub does have Issues.
The video is actually pretty hard to watch, I didn't expect to have a visceral reaction to it.
Secrets of the New Economy
I took it to mean that most technologies seem to be applied to military use first, before they find civilian use.

Radar? First a weapon, then civilian.

Nuclear power? First a weapon, then adapted for peaceful purposes.

The list goes on: radio, flying, submarines, even the internet was developed with military funding.
Does V8 compile to a bytecode similar to Java? I know that it does JIT compilation to native code and then caches it for future use. If it happens to have a bytecode representation, we could read the Google tealeaves and conclude that Google sees compiled JavaScript as an ugly steppingstone toward a binary representation of client-side code.
"We believe some people will be disappointed. But with new [electronic] readers coming and sales booming, we need to do this now, before the installed base of e-book reading devices gets to a size where doing it would be impossible."

Wow, that says it all about as succinctly as anyone can. I can't tell if this is cluelessness or desperation.
The ranking wouldn't be based on the minimum bid, it'd be based on the amount recruiters actually pay. If the min bid is $1000 but no recruiters pay it, then the applicant would be at the bottom of the rankings.
Would be awesome to hear from a Rails developer how Cake compares to what we have in Ruby land.

I still have to build and maintain the odd PHP app now and again. Is cake worth my while to learn? Or would I be better off with something like Zend Framework if I had to choose?
Mostly, it just means that people will go out and download the pirated copy off the internet. Smooth move.
Exactly, it's not just about speed. It's about a lot of things including market penetration, language usage, and speed. By choosing Javascript, Google automatically wins on the first two points and is making Javascript kick ass in the third.

Market penetration is a -huge- aspect of coding in the browser. It's the reason Flash won't die; Adobe is really, really good at pushing the plugin on people. If people can't run your code, your code doesn't matter.

Language usage is important to developers. Javascript has the benefit of having lots of developers already using it, and requiring -nothing but a browser- to get started with it. Adobe has noticed that being developer friendly is really important, and has been making strides with Flex, making Flash development seem more familiar to traditional devs. Silverlight simply doesn't get it (http://silverlight.net/getstarted/). The platform doesn't matter if you don't have programmers building for it.

Speed is important, but only to a point. Of course, Silverlight and Flash both beat the pants off of Javascript for practically every benchmark. The important thing to remember is that Javascript doesn't need to beat them in a test, it simply needs to be fast enough.

You've mentioned that Silverlight's "tech" is better. I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean.

Google's move to push Javascript makes a lot of sense. Building another Silverlight doesn't make much sense when it is failing in every category that actually matters.
If anyone wants to share their failed startup story on Mixergy, email me.

There's a lot to learn from these stories, as you can see from vaksel's comment here.
Announcement on the CakePHP website: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/changes-in-cakephp-a...
I may be naive, but the sandboxing makes me feel more secure, so I may happily roll without noscript. (I don't care about ads, and I can live with annoying flash, especially if it means I don't have to deal with annoying unblocking of things)
I don't get it. I'm not looking for a job here, just voicing my distress at the recruiting industry.
My beef is pretty simple : they're not doing good science. I always thought of them as well-meaning but misdirected researchers. Since the emails came out, I don't think they are that well meaning anymore. My problem with the whole thing is that to me, from day one in the late 1980's, the man-made global warming hypothesis has been full of contradicting information, alarmist predictions and became a political football. I don't believe the ends justify the means. I also don't like the money and 'public thought' that has been diverted from real, immediate environmental problems like ocean and air pollution, things that can be solved for a fraction of the price and will make real difference to people straight away.
Abusing Facebook's "Publicly Available Information"
I like conkeror's interface better. I never even think about "tabs"; I just create a new buffer when I want one. I couldn't tell you how many I have open right now, but I could instantly switch to any "tab" I think might be open. Very convenient.

(The mouse is also not used.)
the analog prototype i saw actually used a laser to read the spinning wheel. it was very cool and clearly saved the household money.

i bet the digital meters are easier to read.
Militants tracked by authorities through youtube comments
Interview With Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot Founder
Again, I'm not sure what this last paragraph is about, and to be honest, seems like it doesn't relate to the topic at all. Also, the last sentence is missing a word.
One thing I would be interested in is some experiences in using the some of the JVM languages (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Jython) with GWT.
I hadn't quite read that far in the essay before I made my comment. This is why it's good to read the entire thing before opening your mouth ;)
Agreed. I don't see why people think an advertising company would want to make it easy to block ads in their browser.
My grandfather worked on a UNIVAC I that the Navy owned in the early '50s. We still have the manuals from it (binders of them - they are amazing). While looking through them on Thanksgiving, I found a reference to "automatic programming" in a marketing brochure.

I knew it didn't mean what the term would imply now (to me, programs generated through some machine learning process). My best guess was that it referred to the compiler which would generate machine instructions from the assembly instructions. So I think the idea that "programming" was the lowest-level act feasible to instruct the machine what to do predated even the '60s.

edit: I should have read the paper more carefully. The author directly addresses pg's points on page 10 by referencing the exact document I just did. His distinction is between "coders" and "programmers."
Awaiting the.. "and I have some great opportunities that you might be interested in". Case and point imo.
That sounds more like having an agent (like pro athletes) then being recruited. That model might work.
I'm one of the alpha users, and I've found it surprisingly interesting. When you install Wattvision, you can suddenly see all sorts of things you never knew about. For example, how much power electric kettles use. When I switch on our electric kettle, it doubles the power consumption of our house. Who knew? So now when I use it I only put in as much water as I need.
Chrome Features: Clever low-tech video (optical illusions, etc)
You can use all sorts of languages with Silverlight, including Javascript.

Silverlight apps can look just as polished as desktop apps. This is not true with DHTML/Javascript.
I agree that recruiters do actually find good placements. Like I said, I don't want to cut recruiting out of the picture, but instead, make it more palatable. I think you are arguing the ends justify the means, and I think that's fine, but I really believe there must be a better way to achieve the same ends with less annoying means.
ecosystem, oops.
From the web socket spec:

The protocol has two parts: a handshake, and then the data transfer.

The handshake from the client looks as follows:

GET /demo HTTP/1.1
Upgrade: WebSocket
Connection: Upgrade
Host: example.com
Origin: http://example.com
WebSocket-Protocol: sample

The handshake from the server looks as follows:

HTTP/1.1 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake
Upgrade: WebSocket
Connection: Upgrade
WebSocket-Origin: http://example.com
WebSocket-Location: ws://example.com/demo
WebSocket-Protocol: sample
Honest question, is this solving a problem and who has this problem? I pay about $30/month for electricity and I already know it goes up to about $80/month during the winter months. $200 seems like a lot of money to pay for someone to tell me what I already know.
Guys & Dolls,

Recruitment is sales. 95% of your time is wasted calling clients and candidates for the one time you get a match. This is unless you manage a number of clients where you are fed requirements, and then it's just the candidate part.

There is no way to escape it; the best thing to do is to shield yourself from the continuous onslaught.

•	Insist all communication is sent to a "jobs" email and have GMail filter it or poll it
•	Delete your phone number off CV's when sending them in or posting on the web.
•	Make your most recent employer anonymous
•	You can also use an initial instead of your first name incase they have your details already, it may fool them ;-)
•	Make sure your CV is well written and updated
•	Insist on seeing a job spec before giving them your number, if you’re the perfect match they will take the time.
•	Do tell them your current status and salary

DO NOT tell them info on current company, manager until you trust them.

Remember they want to close candidates, clients, deals – it’s a sales job

Every call is a sales call; they will try to strip you for information, about colleagues, workplace, inside info, references for managers’ names

We would often misplace the truth or withhold information to close deals; this is common practice in the UK/Europe. The most common one telling people we had sent their CV to an employer when we hadn’t just to ensure they wouldn’t let other recruiters send it to the client and increasing the likeliness that our current candidates had a better chance.

I think Recruiters have a place in society, some are upstanding and honest, other aren’t. As I mentioned, it’s about distancing yourself from them until they have the ideal job for you.

P.S.
Sorry for the ramblings, trying to watch TV and take care of my 4 day old daughter.

I’m a mature student studying CS but worked as an IT recruiter before deciding I wanted to turn to the other side.
If you're interested in non-realtime energy monitoring (and speak German), check out my skunkworks project from way back: www.stromverbrauch-online.de

You sign up, regularly put in your current meter readout and get an estimate of your monthly and yearly electricity bill. No hardware required. I've gotten a number of signups since and some people really get religious about putting in their data - some do it every other day!

Getting your energy consumption down can be an interesting sport, see the Tweet-A-Watt.
As someone pointed out, the new tab page also has a "recently closed" list, so even if you didn't know the keyboard shortcut this feature is still readily discoverable.

In general I think the better UI model is based on low friction w/ undo (lowering the cost of mistakes while streamlining normal use) rather than based on high friction using confirmations etc. (lowering the likelihood of mistakes but raising the cost of legitimate actions as well).
Encapsulated Businesses For Indie Development
Control-Shift-T will reopen the most recently closed tab in Firefox (the equivalent command in Opera is Control-Z).
Intrapreneur or Entrepreneur? Getting ready to start
I would say it can wait. The "bounce" behavior is pretty well understood on the platform. The other way to do it, if you feel that the order of the pictures represents some kind of progression, is to disable the "Left" button on the first picture and the "Right" button on the last picture.

A few other things I have noticed:

- The app doesn't tell me how many pictures there are and/or which picture I am on. That would help in knowing how far into the pictures you are, and give me a way to easily find a picture again.

- The app always starts at that first picture. It would be nice if it restarted where I left it. If I wanted to show a particular picture to someone, I've got to start the app and then swipe my way through.

- If you start swiping very quickly to try to motor through the pictures, it looks like the phone can't keep up and you end up with a black background for a bit.

- The "Random" has some kind of a bug that I've only been able to produce once where, when pressing it rapidly, I got the spinner to come up and never go away.

- "Random" generally results in the spinner getting shown, and then the screen simply displaying the new image. However, if the image is an image to the immediate left or right of the current image it does a swipe style animation to display it. It should probably be consistent and just pop the image on screen.

- A way to get to the beginning or the end might also be useful. Perhaps a double tap on the screen can alternate bouncing you between the first and last picture. You could use the double tap to bounce between the first and last picture for now, and in the future change use it to display a tiled "Camera Roll" style view.
> Websockets let you use RHTTP. The client connects, sends a request to switch to RHTTP, then becomes an HTTP server.

This isn't going to be another SIP, is it? 'Yes we've all agreed on this protocol, off you go and use it. NAT? What's NAT? Is it important?'
Yet another company with contempt for their customer base. "WE will tell you what you want."
Both Firefox and Chrome let you right click on any tab after closing another one and reverse that action ( FF: "Undo close tab", Chrome: "Reopen closed tab").
Wow this is cool. I thought you were in the deadpool. Your pricing scheme is a bit confusing. It's very Microsoft-esq.
I make no claims to the contrary. Nobody is perfect. What is the point you are trying to make, exactly?
I love my FlipCam. I've been keeping a video diary of my startup on it, and I also used several to record my vacation to Australia and New Zealand in October.

I don't think you need super-high quality, even though the FlipCams are HD. Content counts more than style or featureset. What I like about the FlipCam is ease of use, portability, and connectivity to various video-sharing services.

The vacation was a bit of a testbed. Everybody in the family had a FlipCam, and we posted to the net a lot. After a few days, however, we realized that some sort of post-production really helped make the video much better. So I started using Camtasia Studio for basic titling, popups, splices, and transitions. It also allowed me to tweak the codec settings when I rendered the file, which was nice.

Another interesting lesson: the more you film, the better you get. At first everybody was stiff as a board the second you turned the cam on. Must be some kind of hangover from the still camera days. But after a dozen or so shots with us all watching the results, we realized that relaxing was the only way to go. The videos got a lot better at the end.

Here's a sample of the more relaxed video we got at the end of the trip instead of the start: http://www.vimeo.com/7121046

EDIT: I'm a bit of a movie buff, so this is a pet topic for me. I know that you're receiving conflicting advice, and I really can't emphasize enough how content trumps style. We found the the emotional context of a piece -- setting, reactions, flow, body language, vocal inflections, narrative -- win out so solidly over technical attributes that you can shoot a great video on the crappiest equipment imaginable and it will still be great video.

I could point to major motion pictures going the handy-cam way, like Cloverfield, or I could point to the popularity of amateur internet video, or even America's Funniest Home Videos.

But I won't.
has this team considered an expansion into device level power monitoring down the road? plugging a sensor into the jack itself?

that would be really compelling if it were possible to make the sensors small enough and inexpensive enough.
With some relativist positions it does mandate inaction. They are not very popular outside of very academic applications. One could argue that this is the true or strong relativist position.

The place where relativist-like arguments are popular is with anthropologist evolutionist thinkers. From there perspective treating ethics as simply human traits, like a taste for sugar or music. They rarely attempt the normative leap though, go from a relativist argument to a 'you should do this' position.

Most vegetarian thinkers tend to be utilitarians. Most people are instinctively utilitarian & deontologist. When these come into conflict (kill a baby to save a village, harvest organs from unwilling person to save 5 people) they feel conflicted.
Eureka! I knew there was something funny going on with the tabs. It's been disheartening seeing them sliding around on their own. I thought I was losing my mind.
I've always thought this feature was particularly well thought out in chrome. Another thing I've noticed is that, when closing tabs via middle click, the wait for auto-resize doesn't happen until mouse out - in fact I barely even use the close buttons anymore because of this.
I think it could be handy for businesses, universities, research labs, or anyone else that has a big power bill. Getting it itemized would be interesting.
No, it's still long exposure to catch the winding of the flumes. High speed photography would show each flume as being directional.
This is the kind of minute feature that completely converts someone when they catch it.
And doubly so for businesses with high power needs, such as data-centers or even software houses.
Recruiters and agents are very much alike, except there's no exclusivity -- and since employees don't get contracts, their payment schedule is different. (Typically a percentage of the employee's annual salary for FTEs, or X dollars an hour for contract work.)
http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=77308&...

I'm not sure I believe the claims of RFID impenetrability, but, it sometimes set off the metal detectors at the data center.
Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider
and replies like this don't give it away at all
You're kidding, right? We used to laugh when people put BrainBench test results on their resumes.
Infographic: Which Countries Own America’s Debt?
Solar power coming to a store near you
I ignore all recruiters, except two who know:

1. My requirements for a potential employer (location, size, culture, etc)
2. My preferred method of communication (email)
3. When I might be actively looking.

I think there are good recruiters out there who are willing to work with both employers and job seekers. They are, however, few and far between.
Yes, but that's not suprising, and not something you need Wattvision to tell you. An iron, a toaster, an electric kettle all consume a lot of power, but you only use these items for a short period of time. A smarter device would be more localized and attach itself and optimize the usage of individual systems like your boiler, house heating unit and HVAC.
My own experience is that entrepreneurship is a character flaw. Entrepreneurship is not something that can be rationalized and easily explained away. Entrepreneurship is a deep desire to create and destroy at the same time. It requires simultaneous distain for authorities and respect for past artisans. In fact, if I thought there was a cure, I would have taken the blue pill. Therefore if one could accept entrepreneurship as what it really is, then there is a much less immediate need for acceptance and validation (except in the marketplace). The end result is that entrepreneurs would have a very different perspective on listening to unpleasant truth, that rejection is not an undesirable and unavoidable side product, but in fact part of the journey.