skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the source simply being viewable for JavaScript is not the same as all JS being released under an open source license! I guess this is kind of like an open source license, though.
I am sorry it's not just this guy who thinks this, whoever he is and whatever his opinions are on other topics, you really are an embarrassment. Nobody cares if you are a "real hacker" or you are smart or if your online bombastic personality is a bit of trollishness put on just to stir people up etc. You are simply an attention seeker, and you have none of the class, style or taste that someone like _why had and will never be actually looked up to like he was. The attention you get is that directed to kids letting off fireworks when everyone is trying to get to sleep. Sure everyone probably did something like that in their youth, but you appear to have not grown out of it.

You have fallen victim to your own trolling in a way, as you are getting angry about someone getting angry at something you wrote to get people angry. So unless you were laughing when you wrote that (which I doubt, you genuinely seem angry) your trolling is self-destructive and extremely immature. Think about that, you actually spent time breeding anger in others and yourself. For what purpose? Get a punching bag, or exercise some other way, if you need to get rid of your emotions productively. When I see people like you it's not hate that is inspired it's pity that you never learned basic self-control and have to "excuse" your outbursts by saying it's all a joke.

Please grow up, people might respect you if you did. When I say "I would never ever do business with Zed or anyone he works for", you would no doubt say "I am a good hacker with tons of business I don't need your business. I am well off and my company understands I am more of an asset than a burden." But I am not denying you my business, I am denying you my respect.

Even with a tad of self-reference, you are headed the way of ESR (self-professing hacker status and all too). That is not a road I would want to be on. Best of luck.
How would you calculate the theoretical maximum for a handsign? Or for spoken language for that matter.
Wouldn’t be if they had the same wallpaper.
Ironic, considering it isn't a comment on the OP but a summary of their own post, and could easily be replaced by something like "In other words..."
Off-topic, I know, but still: saying that face detection systems have issues "faces of African-Americans" is really weird, and wrong. Face detection systems have issues with the color of the skin of people, and not all people with dark skin are "African-Americans".

Please, don't be PC when there is no reason to. This is one moment that it is more correct to say "black people" than anything else.
Where're you getting flute music from? I haven't mentioned that here and I haven't mentioned it on my blog. You're going out of your way to troll now.

Writing insults ought to be more skillful than just stringing eight or nine unrelated adjectives together sarcastically. Used to be flamewars had craft, Zed.
If a known troll attacks a good guy in a nasty tone without knowing all the facts and it's clear he wants the attention to be turned to him because he's jealous, I think it's fair to call him an idiot.
prgmr.com customer also. Works perfect, no problems of note for me. Luke is doing a great job.

On twitter: http://twitter.com/prgmrcom

Edit: He also has a book: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Xen-Practical-System-Administrato...
I signed up but the game never finished loading, so I had a play with the UI for a few minutes.

http://i.imgur.com/fzB6i.jpg
Indeed. If your site is down because of the user's error, but they can still get to your competitor's site, then that's bad for you. It might not be your fault, but you still missed out on a potential sale.

All I can say is that I am glad I do not make money from the availability of websites :)
(more info)

Uploaded Using HP MediaSmart

At least that much works...
OVH are - OK

But they have absolutely terrible support, heaven forbid if your server goes down or experiences a hardware failure - its often a battle just to get them to replace hardware. They also throttle FTP traffic.

Although, apart from the throttling and assuming your box never dies, yes OVH are good.
Ask HN: anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy?
I'm creating a new site for an iphone app I've developed, and I've been writing a lot of copy. It'd be very helpful to me get others' feedback, especially from folks here who are in the same boat. At the same time, I'd be very happy to provide feedback for others. I am not a professional writer but I do think I'm able to provide constructive criticism for most kinds of writing.

In the past I had created a web site, hallwaytesting.com, which was supposed to be a community for people to get usability and give feedback on their sites. I shut it down because I and one other person were providing the majority of the feedback, while most people would only ask for feedback and never give it. I'd like to prevent that from happening again, so I think it would be better to have a private, closed community (or group of communities) of people who could learn about each others' writing needs over time.

If it's an indication of the kind of the writing feedback I would give, you can have a look at http://www.usabilityfeedback.com/example/overall_impressions.html . I would probably not go into such exhaustive detail (the above is a paid service), but it should give an idea of how observant and articulate I am.

I'm not sure how to get something like this organized, so if someone's interested and capable of organizing - please lead the way!
lets hope non-existent.
Neutral in this license appears to be in a gray area. The initial phrase "for Good, not Evil" presents a dichotomy. Now, this addendum allows Evil as well. So the license has never explicitly addressed this issue, it seems like it would depend on what else the license says.

Assuming that the license this is added to is a generally permissive license, I would assume that neutral acts are implicitly allowed and were probably not enjoined by "for Good, not Evil" as that clause would simply not have applied.

But I am not a lawyer.
You got it! Thank you! Thank you!
Happstack's been around for a long time, and has been used in a number of production systems (including at Deutsche Bank). They're certainly trying some interesting things.

> convince people to use Haskell for reald world apps?

The project is not the language.

If you want regular old approaches to web apps, there's libraries for that ( http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#ca... ) in Haskell. But there's also happstack if you like their approach.

The vision all along was that the vast majority of web apps could be written in a MACID style -- they're not huge sites -- so make that as easy as possible.
OTOH you can measure the technical limitation and then go around it in hours. That's a lot easier than struggling against social limitation for years (as w/ CL).
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It's probably because there weren't any black coworkers around to test on. Otherwise they would have noticed it.

See? As if we didn't already have it, here's proof that diversity = better software :-)
Zed, please read the comment guidelines again and take your school-yard stuff off HN if you really feel you must continue it.
http://patch-tag.com/ is a github for darcs, that happens to be running in happstack. http://gitit.net/ is a wiki based on gitit running in happstack. DB used happs for analytic sites for day traders ( http://cufp.galois.com/2008/abstracts.html#PolakowJeff ), and notable, JanRain (the OpenID company) used Haskell on the server side for some components.
On heroku, no (that's the point - it takes a bit to get used to but it's worth it), but on another host, why would you not have root access?
Before Heroku, I used Webbynode (http://webbynode.com). It has root access and much more, all you need, and it's not expensive. They're also very good.
If you feel a comment violates the guidelines, just flag it and move on. It hurts your argument to bring up the guidelines while attacking the person you're lecturing in the same thread.
See the release notes in the above link. happstack comes with:

* HTML/XML/etc templating via HStringTemplate, HSP, or Text.XHtml with server-side templating,

happstack is not happs, and emphasies pragmatism.
There are a ton of things you can do with our code that isn't actively marketing to our exact customer base. According to numbers we got recently more then 30% of all deployed commercial rails apps use ActiveMerchant which probably means tens of thousands. Only a handful are e-commerce systems.
I think a real space battle is likely to be too expensive to make a good narrative: in the status quo, major military powers in the United States avoid naval battles because the ships that matter cost billions, they can only afford to field a dozen of them, and they have a huge likelihood of dying to the first hit by a much cheaper missile. In space, the ships will cost tens or hundreds of billions, no nation state will be able to afford a fleet of them, and they will INVARIABLY be lost with all crew the first time they are acted on with hostile intent. The environment itself is plenty capable of killing the best the United States can produce without needing anybody chucking high velocity directed fire their way.
Yeah I should have said Happstack not the language, but it isn't my point.

Point is that the tutorial section I cited discouraged serious use of the stuff it's supposed to promote.
You are a great person.
Lunch with the FT: Michael O’Leary (Ryanair CEO)
Dude, you profess to admiring _why and all, but you're using a thread on his 'estate' to further a personal vendetta against Zed, jumping on the first link to Zed's post with cached vitriol.

You said of _why:

> For all that he had a vibrant personality, his work was never about himself.

Yet in your repeated attempts to have the last word you are making the thread less about _why and more about yourself. A little inconsistent perhaps.
It's not that. The problem for someone who wants to use it is that they're entering into a contract with a licensor which commits them to an unknown (and possibly unknowable) compliance regime that they can never be sure they will satisfy.

You could have a license that said 'good for all uses except military ones' - you might or not want to deal with the requirements it imposes, but at least they're very clear cut.

But concepts of good an evil are hopelessly subjective. Besides all the examples already used here, suppose JSMin was employed for some scientific application involving the study of evolution. Well, I think that would be good since I'm a fan of Darwin, but if I were a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim I might consider that absolutely pernicious on the grounds that evolution denies the guidance of God in natural affairs (which some people do believe). Not only do I have to worry whether the author of JSMin might believe this, but anyone else who believes that and see JSMin being employed for this end might take moral offense and file for an injunction to prevent its use. such a suit would probably be thrown out immediately, but who wants to worry about such hassles when they are so easily avoidable?
first of all the game is great and very addictive and has more depth than tetris and bejeweled and what not.

problems with the page tho:
1) way too many different fonts and colors to the texts. confusing to process, i didn't know where to place my eyes for quite a while

2) descriptions and reviews are too verbose. like instead of all the reviews, all u need is like a one liner like "way better than tetris and bejeweled" that conveys what it is as opposed to like 3 paragraphs.
And this is why having the main Ruby gem repository completely open source rocks :)
The same thing happened in early motion pictures. Black actors' faces appeared washed out because the cameras were optimized for white actors.
At this year's SF Documentary Film Festival I watched a great documentary about modern origami called Between the Folds. If you have the opportunity to see it you should take advantage.

The book to read about folding is Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art by Robert J. Lang.
I don't have a Zed vendetta. I haven't mentioned the guy since the last thread about him and _why. That said, I thought a criticism of Zed re: that _why post would be a valid comment, and apparently other people did too.

Normally on HN, that would have been the end of the thread, because there really wasn't much more to talk about. However, Zed decided it was worth not only insulting me here but posting a link to this thread for his thousands of Twitter followers to read and downvote, so this got out of hand.

I'd be happy to take this to email with Zed so we can settle. That's happened a few times with people, and I find it helps us talk things out without the peacocking that goes on when somebody thinks they're in the public eye. But Zed's decided to be obnoxious, and, much as I feel sick even being in this conversation, I don't want to let him rip me apart when he's saying things that are incorrect and immature.
I could say nearly anything will be here by 2047.
The explanation on the page talks about a "column segment" and a "square piece", but I couldn't figure out how they correspond to the elements in the game.
I found an excellent solution: http://www.amazon.com/Hees-Design-MIME-Male-Mask/dp/B0019L1R...

HP should brand this and sell it as a peripheral.
Do you want to imply that you get the consulting jobs by saying the opposite --- or by being more intelligent than those statements altogether?
As a practical matter I agree, but I think part of the general cynicism about corporations is that the Bierce definition so often seems appropriate. Even when a corporation is egregiously at fault in some matter, it's extremely rare to have the corporate charter revoked and the assets sold off. Sure, the shareholders could just go and form another corporation to do the exact same thing, but it would be massive inconvenient and thus serve as a deterrent from gross malfeasance.

As an example of such, consider this recent datum: http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/1...

I feel sure there must be some pragmatic medium between corporate fecklessness and the opposite case of unlimited liability.
Considering that the camera was designed and tested by Japanese engineers, there probably is another explanation.
I am no longer a professional writer, but most of us I know are happy to give feedback if specifically asked. (As the saying goes, it's a lot easier to be an editor than a writer.)

The problem I've had with doing startup copy reviews is that it often bleeds into product critiques. As Sean Ellis says, if your survey.io question responses are in the 25-40% range, the issue is often your positioning, not your product.

I'd be happy to join you in this endeavor, but I think you're asking the wrong questions. I think you should really focus on getting real user feedback rather than "expert" feedback on how to make your positioning clearer. Again, your positioning itself may be wrong, and only real user testing and questioning will make this evident.
Is there a tutorial you could point me to that'll teach me how to make buttons with a style similar to that 'Play Now' button?
> This classic shows why the design of the data structures is the true heart of programming, and why language choice is almost irrelevant

The `almost' is important. E.g. on the one hand you won't use any of Okasaki's beautiful purely functional data structures in a language without garbage collection like C. And on the other hand you will shy away from data structures that require mutation in a pure language like Haskell.
I'm pretty sure I've seen reports of 64GB NAND chips being built for Apple. And, when you consider that there already is an app store genius, this becomes a pretty worthless article.
You can pretty much use any old approach you'd like with Happstack. I am using it right now and it is very modular.

You could conceivably use the Text.HTML module to make your own pages in the functional style. You can use HStringTemplate a la psp and php. Or you can do the fun, bloated and awful web 2.0 thing and write an ass-ton of javascript to do everything in the ajax-y fashion, and just use happstack to serve up json.

A similar situation holds for the MACID data store. It looked ok to me, but I wanted to play with some distributed DBs instead (e.g. Mongo and Couch), and it works just fine there too.

The important thing is that if you understand how HTTP works, how requests are served up, etc., then you can pretty much hit the ground running with happstack, without having to set up Apache and learn cgi or set up Tomcat and figure out how to get the default permissions on Ubuntu to work. So in that regard, it seems much closer to RoR than the traditional approach.
It's something that I always saw and one afternoon decided to try and replicate. You can search for "MetaLab" style buttons, but it's as simple as fine-tuning the settings for inner shadow (normal mode, white) a darker stroke, a gradient overlay and a subtle drop shadow.

That's probably not my best ever example of that button style either.

EDIT: A pretty poor substitute http://blog.creativityden.com/design-a-pixel-perfect-menu-me...
"links are randomly selected with a weight relative to their score..."

And their score is selected how?
That tip on full keyboard access is pure win. If I could up-mod this comment a dozen times, I would! Many thanks! This has pestered me for about a decade now.
Beijing’s crash program for clean energy
pros:

- really fresh and interesting
- lots of neat surprises

cons:

- not at all clear why what i am doing is causing these cascading effects, but the after-effects are awesome

really really cool game, and really really cool math behind hit. i'm really impressed with this.
My guess is: put the 9/10 from the iPhone App review near the top. Simplify the page and reduce the importance of most of the text - lots of colours demanding attention. Get it to 1 message and the game.

However I suspect the real answers will emerge from testing. Do a test on trial screen count and see which amount of screens increases your conversion. Test changing colours, text, positioning etc. Over time you'll know more than we could about what will work on that page.
Why did the Nook need to be created?
Really cool idea. I'd be interested in joining and perhaps adding some thinking to how it might leverage game mechanics to make it more interesting... letting the best/most prolific editors/proofreaders/copy writers rise to the top.

Do we simply create a www.stackoverflow.com type system for web copy?
I'm interested.

I think the easiest way to kick things off might be a simple reply-all discussion by email.
Excellent idea. I hope this catches on and is implemented in the US. Having to make a decision about price should encourage the use of public transportation; people will have to think, "should I park at the train station and take the train downtown for $6, should I spend an extra hour in traffic and save the $6, or should I take the express lane and get there a bit faster than the train but for $35?"
Now you've got me wanting to put a clause in my copylefted work that says "This work may be used for Good or Evil, but only by people who acknowledge the difference."
I find the page confusing. Focus on the actual web-based game, and move information about the iPhone versions and such to a different page. Ideally there shouldn't be a scroll bar on the home page once you're done moving stuff to different more appropriate pages.
Well, now that google owns DocVerse, they can steer the development efforts toward that direction - with a team that is presumably very well versed in building MS word plugins, it would be fairly easy to commit the team to building a conversion bridge that makes DocVerse-hosted offices docs available through google docs.
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I like Textpattern. It’s pretty bare bones, though. You have to put some work in, but once everything is running, it’s pretty hassle free.

Link: http://textpattern.com/

By the way, the Textpattern Support Forum is one of Textpattern’s hidden treasures and always extremely helpful.
"Now give each other a good elbow bump and don't forget to disinfect your keyboards. Tis swine flu season afterall."
Right. I think I would file all of that under the "hard to translate" category.

Now, let me clarify upfront that my minor (technically a "joint-degree", but effectively a minor) is in Linguistics, so this may get wordy and technical.

What you are mostly describing is a not a restriction of the language itself, but of social conventions. You can certainly say "いいえ、できません". While it is true that Japanese has a relatively substantial honorific structure when compared to English, there are other languages with even richer systems, such as Malay.

One thing that makes Japanese stand out amongst the ones you have listed is the fact that it is a language isolate, meaning there are no other languages that are "linguistically related". (While technically in the Japonic family, there is some controversy around the categorization of Japanese dialects, which muddies the family categorization as well). Korean is another isolate, and, as far as I know, the only language that is remotely like Japanese in terms of grammar and morphology. German, Dutch and Spanish all belong in the Indo-European family, and there are some obvious structural similarities. Mandarin Chinese is certainly not Indo-European, but it also lacks a non-trivial inflection system, and has a basic word order that is not unlike Germanic languages.

Japanese, on the other hand, does not share this trait. Consequently, there are certain grammar constructs in English that are essentially impossible to transform into Japanese; it takes a speaker sufficient in both to first completely comprehend an utterance and then re-express it. Add to this the many subtle semantic differences in words, and it's not surprising that you will get a lot of "that's hard to say"s. However, this doesn't mean that something is untranslatable. Speaking from experience, us polyglots do occasionally use it as an excuse that more precisely means "the exchange which must take place for me to extract more context out of you to effectively perform your request is something I don't want to spend energy on at the moment." ;)
I'm also a happy rootbsd user. It's been rock solid, with very quick answers to any questions via their support emails.
How long did the atomic bomb take to develop? 10 years?
I would default on the light screen

This is essential.
I like that idea of using some sort of standard hash and password pairing along with the domain to come up with a password that's site-unique. Is that original, or taken from somewhere?

Have you considered using base64 or some other encoding to shorten the string?
Lots of fun, and it played very smoothly. Obviously the graphics could use a look, but you know that.
Bing or you're fired?
Doesn't sound good at first glance. In defense of their actions is that by studying different groups (and I mean that in the mathematical sense) you will make whatever you are looking for stand out much clearer. Creating patterns of each group might make forecasting their actions a bit easier and be able to pick up an unknown group within the general population.
Just my thoughts.
Did they say 2047 instead of 2050 in order to make it sound like less of a guess?
Maybe I should say "stack of squares" instead of "column segment".
Write your own.

Use a framework (Pylons, Django, RoR, whatever) along with Disqus for commenting. It'll take only a very short amount of time, and you'll have total control.

Doing this won't make your site more or less secure, but it will prevent from being hit by blanket attacks that target popular platforms like wordpress.

(eg. 300 lines of Python on Pylons + 500 lines of css/templating (loc includes white-space and docs) = http://janitha.com with admin interface)