skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could take their mountain of cash and pay the licensing fee like Chrome does.
There probably are more inhabitable moons than planets simply because there are more moons than planets.
What rule does the title refer to? The body of the text doesn't even contain the word "rule" (all 7 to 11 sentences depending on how you slice it)
The exams cost considerably less than $600, even at list price, and the curricula are not published by College Board, but by independent textbook publishers.
I'm on yesterday's Chromium build on a Mac, and here was my test. Go to the page, don't click, wait, wait some more, keep waiting, wait, some more wait. Then, try to drag the video to the half-way point and start play from there.

Result? The video jumps back to the beginning of the play cycle. Thus, I deduce, it ain't loading. Firefox 3.5 here, no autobuffer. Safari does as Gruber says and starts loading immediately.
you cannot tell the client how many seconds to buffer before playback. This completely breaks the buffering model inherent in modern video compression systems

My understanding is that HTML5 browsers will attempt to buffer as much as possible; is there any reason you'd want less buffering?
lolwut?

i'll agree with you that c++ is faster then jQuery....good day
So you can allow styles to update without a page reload?

For example, on Mibbit, you can skin your client how you like. You just open a prefs screen and mess with colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc.

Using css for that would be ridiculous. Hence client side styling via js.
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A modular design to education with students mastering skill sets instead of growing older to 'move through the ranks' would allow students to always remain around their educational peers regardless of age, allow bright students to excel, and maintain support for those struggling.

Yes. There is no particular reason why students should be kept in lockstep by age in school. Schools were once organized differently.

http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html
that's not like being really profitable. In the future, twitter may be (two words) profitable. but I doubt it.
Ask yourself: should I see if an article has already been posted 100 times before posting it here again?
Yup, there was definitely somewhat of a second system effect in HL2 development.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6112889/index.html
you could implement a parser that used .addClass() and .removeClass() instead of .css()

if i release an official parser i think it would use those methods.

the whole point is to store your CSS in JSON and parse it with JS, the libraries used to do the parsing / assigning are kinda arbitrary.
And it's a disadvantage to using CSS if the user has disabled CSS :/ I'm not sure why that argument is relevant. Fact is, 99%+ will have CSS and JS enabled.
Indeed. Christianity, as a religion, is designed to appeal to folks at the low end of society, so it's not too surprising. Nietzsche goes on about this kind of thing a lot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality
I just finished teaching Bootstrap (http://www.bootstrapworld.org) in an after-school program at 2 middle schools: one in inner-city Oakland and the other in Daly City. The Bootstrap curriculum doesn't look anything what you describe. The students start off writing simple expressions and then move on to writing some core functions in a 2D side-scrolling video game. It's not only an introduction to programming, but also a concrete application of algebra to a problem that many kids are passionate about -- making a video game. For most, or maybe all, of the students in my Oakland class (6th- and 7th-graders), it was their first encounter with variables, functions and abstract thinking, e.g., accomplishing animation by performing math operations on variables representing idealized x/y coordinates.

There were attendance problems in Oakland due mainly to external factors, like parents not wanting their kids walking home after dark. Only 7 of the original 13 Oakland students finished the class, compared to 12 out of 14 in Daly City, but everyone who finished the class in both Oakland and Daly City had a working program by the end of the 10-week course. I think it's fair to say that all of the students who finished have a reasonably good understanding of some basic computer science concepts: functions, variables, applying operators to values, evaluating expressions, and a simple notion of types (strings, numbers, booleans and "images"). The obvious next steps would be iteration/recursion and some simple compound data structures, but we didn't have time for that in just 10 lessons, which is all that this particular after-school program permitted.

My point is this: middle school students can handle a fairly rigorous approach to introductory computer science. Saying we shouldn't teach something because it will be taught poorly is no excuse not to teach it the right way -- we just need people qualified to do that. That's the real problem, but most of you who're reading this could help do something about that by volunteering to teach a curriculum like Bootstrap.
See "The pie fallacy" in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html.
Is your solution to move the rich from being rich to being poor? The rich should stay rich. You don't punish the rich to bring the rest of society up.

Here is a fun bit of trivia.

Q: What was the top personal income tax during the largest expansion of the US middle class on record?

A: It ranged from 92-93%.

That's right. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, the marginal tax rate on income over $1 million/year (in 1950s currency) varied from 92-93%. Oh, and massive increases since the 70s in the numbers of wealthy people, and degree of their wealth have coincided with a long-term decline in the earning power of the middle class.

Of course cause and effect is never provable in cases like this so you can't prove anything from this example, but it certainly doesn't fit with trickle down theory.

But since there is more money to be made telling the rich what they want to hear than what they don't, inconvenient facts like these never get reported in the political debate...
I'd have to agree. Releasing early can definitely be a good thing, but it shouldn't come at the expense of quality. Release sooner by narrowing scope and focusing on those core features rather than by cutting corners.

Another important consideration is your market. If you have a revolutionary technology and are trying to create a new market, you can probably afford to release something that's a little rough. However, if you are trying to compete in a mature market with a product that only marginally improves on the competitors, it will probably need to be more polished.
Springloops (http://www.springloops.com) hosts my Subversion repositories and can also be set up to deploy each repository to a set of servers, either manually or automatically upon each commit.
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I work with the folks who calibrate the data from the instrument (MODIS) that acquired that image. They do good work!
> i appreciate you took the time to read through everything and respond so throughly, but you seem to be missing the whole point.

You are right, I do not understand why I would want to place CSS inside an object literal instead of just placing the CSS in a CSS file.

>you can try re-reading the comments on this thread but if you've never dealt with really rich javascript apps, i can see why this is hard to grasp.

Ok, I see (not in any order):

1. "Here, something like this already exists, see [link]"

2. "This wont work / This will be slow / What is the point of this"

3. "Server-side preprocessing already works"

4. You refuting anyone who disagrees with you.
There's a good chunk of people using NoScript. By forcing people to use javascript, you're making the barrier of entry higher for those people.

Sometimes, when I see a page completely broken because it requires javascript, I just close the tab. If it's too much trouble to get your pages, which might only have static text or other elements that don't require anything fancy, to work without javascript, it's probably not worth my time to check out your page.
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The RC Church may claim that, but its hardly apparent. Through most of its history, it's been entirely willing to take the lives of those that disagreed with it, or whose possessions it wanted. As for property rights, it's one of the wealthiest organizations on Earth, with vast property holdings. Enough to pay out several billions to take care of pedophile scandals, without straining the coffers.
"We need a scientific, non-religious approach." -Crichton on Environmentalism
So, his previous employer was well justified in forcing him to have an anti-virus program installed on his machine!
"Server-side preprocessing already works" != Rich javascript apps.
Sites still function without CSS. The same cant be said for poorly coded sites and javascript. I do agree this is mostly a non-issue though.
it's not like there is a drought of shysters and wankers in California though.
>The worst part? We'll have to wait until the introduction of Ford's second-gen SYNC system sometime next year.

No, the worst part is the fact that you need to buy a new car to get a clean solution to wireless.

I recently bought a car with built-in bluetooth and satellite nav; it's my first car with any serious user-computer interaction. I bought the car used, built in '06. What I realized is that what I really want is for the satellite nav screen to be a secondary output for my iphone. I don't want their nav, I want to just run google maps. I don't want to sync my phone contacts list into the car's phone contacts. AFAIK, there is no way to send an address from my iphone to the nav system, and the nav UI is terrible.

When new cars cost two orders of magnitude more than new phones, there really needs to be a better interface. There's no justification to buying a car because it has an ipod dock or whatever the next big thing is. The computer screen in the car should be an open API for the iphone to plug into, and the iphone should have an open API for controlling external monitors and input devices (once the hardware supports it). For me, this is the solution to pg's "iphone as a development platform".

Of course, the car manufacturers will have none of it. There's a reason car computer technology is 5-10 years behind consumer electronics.
"we already have more print servers than there are planets"

If you had a Pluto before the IAU changed its classification from planet to "ball of rock" you have a nice excuse to use whatever spherical lumps of rock you feel like.

It may not solve your problem forever, but, then, you can expand the naming to "potato-shaped lumps of stuff". That should give you some mileage.
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Battlefield robot (also) had security hole
Facebook needs revenue like the GDP of a small country to succeed.
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profit.

(Obviously that's rather hard to measure as an outsider of privately held companies, but profit is surely the yardstick)
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-a is already recursive, so -r is unnecessary. For most sites, it would also be wise to include --delete so renamed or locally deleted files would be removed on the destination.
Many of the reviews of Avatar have focused on the (over-)simplicity of the plot. I don't understand these people. Avatar is packed with so much visual confection that I could barely process half of what I was seeing; I wouldn't have had any brain left over to _understand_ a plot.

Who cares about the plot? It's beautiful. Amazingly, wonderfully, brilliantly beautiful.
So that playback starts quicker?
The article speculates that potentially the beneficial effect is actually from magnesium, the fact that there is a differential between tea and coffee and that the greatest observed effect is from decaffeinated coffee would seem to indicate that it is actually something present in larger amounts in coffee, lesser amounts in tea, which is not caffeine.

Article presents magnesium as a possibility, pointers as to other sources of magnesium, no comment on whether those particular sources have been shown to reduce Type 2 Diabetes risk also but notes that magnesium itself has been shown to reduce the risk.

So, in conclusion, it seems very unlikely that the observed effect is merely because an increase in intake of either of the previous drinks will be concurrent with a decrease in intake of other drinks with a high sugar content (Which indeed would be an extremely obvious indicator of how something might assist in cutting the risk of Type 2 diabetes)
I wouldn't construe this as an endorsement of the platform. More of an endorsement of the execution.
How would you load that CSS file dynamically into your DOM?

pretend you had 1,000,000 CSS classes that could be used in your one-page JavaScript application. you cannot load all of these with <link> on page load.......too much data.....you'd have to start dynamically loading .css files using AJAX requests......and you realize that dynamically inserting a <link> tag isn't cross-browser...so you try to parse the .css file in JS.....but then you realize that you have no way of natively parsing a .css file in JavaScript.....so you find / build a .css parser.....which is slow as balls.......then you want to start manipulating these classes and have no place to access them......so you have to store them in memory somewhere....might as well use nested JSON!

pretend you didnt know what your CSS classes were going to be until run-time.....like creating dynamic DOM views based on user input.....you would have to store your CSS properties in memory regardless....might as well use nested JSON!

pretend you had an entire javascript application stack and several tools for managing JSON documents on the server and the client.....

if i'm refuting people who disagree with me....this is not my fault. i am simply responding to peoples comments and questions. i'm always open to insightful suggestions and recommendations.....

edit: also i'd like mention your comment about line numbers is kinda silly.....i could just make it one line.....its JavaScript.

i said 4 lines since it was : function declaration, for loop, if conditional one liner, else conditional one liner.......

if you are really that upset about the line number count please let me know the correct amount of line numbers and i'll be sure to update my page
Upvoted not just for the insightful and non-snarky review, but because Greg Egan is a) the best science-fiction writer most people have never heard of - it's practically impossible to find his work in a US bookstore - and b) an interesting writer on both science and code.

Science: http://www.gregegan.net/FOUNDATIONS/index.html
Java Applets: http://www.gregegan.net/APPLETS/Applets.html
isn't this the same stuff just 2 years later? why are we talking about this?
You could say that about everything in the financial world. Create government endorsed voluntary categories: SOX or anything else compliant (there are also a lot of investment you need to be accredited to invest in).
I always figured there was an interesting opportunity for mesh networks on cars going down the highway. From car to car communication, transporting large data chunks down the highway (stored on car for several mile between mesh endpoints), or even emergency broadcasts.
jwz has a pretty concise essay on this topic:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/iwtbf.html
Agreed, pretty weak sauce. There are some other worthwhile articles though.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003060
Could you perhaps explain why?
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Sorry dudes, we were told by the police that we cannot release any information as to _why_ we want to track these guys down. They said that in situations in the past, people have been sued for defamation.

I really really really wish I could tell you what is going on. For now, you will have to rely on the internet rumormill:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008900
A million CSS classes? Is your "rich web app" even usable if it is going to be styled a million different ways? I hope you were exaggerating with that number. Are these real problems you face or are these just examples you make up because you (I assume you are the one who designed JSSS) have a solution looking for a problem?
Egan gets your point entirely, and laments that it hasn't been put in service of something better. The best technology in the world deserves to be joined with a great script, not a severely impaired one.
I think it's great that Mozilla made it difficult to use self-signed certs. Most people don't use them correctly, and making self-signed essentially off limits to people is a great increase in security.

You should try using ettercap. It's surprisingly easy to intercept all traffic going to and from a self-signed site.
A couple years back, I was working in an office where it was usual to go out of the building to smoke and/or get some coffee. More than once I had my cup of coffee stolen by very aggressive bees that, I thought, were attracted to the sugar.

I then switched to sweetener, but the bees kept coming. They had either associated the smell of the coffee with the presence of sugar, or were addicted to caffeine.

I felt it was better to leave the coffee to the bees than to argue with caffeine-addicted africanized bees.
Greg Egan is my favorite sci-fi writer. Read http://www.amazon.com/Axiomatic-Greg-Egan/dp/0061052655 and have your mind blown.
Seemingly far more people are concerned with the scalability of their startup than the viability of it. I'm coming up blank with a startup that would have been successful but was killed off by scaling issues. (Twitter may have come the closest...)
Poor management, obviously.

Another aspect is that developers probably don't push back as verbally as can be needed in situations like these. This manager increased the scope, and the developer said 'fine, whatever you need'. The manager consistently interrupts the author, and eventually camped out in his cube, and seemingly without any resistance. Just seems a little passive aggressive.
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What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?

Why not give away the money to a charity or the government once someone dies?

You could even have a system that limits how much money parents can give to their children while the parents are still alive, again, in the interest of fairness.
Couldn't you just say "hey, the police would like to talk to these persons of interest, do you know who they are"? Or something of that nature?

I'm all for trying to find out who the people are if you need to find out, but putting a dollar figure on it just rubs me the wrong way.

Good luck though, I hope you guys find your men.
The value of your thought exercise is that it would flush out bigots.

They aren't asking for vigilante justice. They're asking for identification.
1,000,000 CSS classes? What web project possibly uses that many right now? Do you have a real use case in mind? Why not let the browser store and parse the CSS? That's what it is designed to do. And when the browser stores a CSS rule, it can optimise it much more than it can optimise a generic JavaScript literal.

IMHO, this is educational, but useless. CSS already does the job better and by separating your CSS files you could squeeze all the performance you need.

Of course if you can demonstrate how this could possibly be fast on modern browsers on a page with 1,000,000 CSS classes I would be very impressed.

Last: note on terminology. What you are calling JSON is actually just a JavaScript object. Try running it through JSONLint and you'll see that you need to add extra quotes around the "keys", for example.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

(1) No argumnet based on religion (that is, faith) can also be based on reason. Most of his sermon is about religion. It revolves around religion. Thus, it cannot be considered (as a whole) to be rational.

(2) I think it would be rational to say stealing from a major chain store is less evil than violent crime, and possibly prostitution. But it's not rational to encourage people to steal. As you point out, most of the time, there are more choices than those presented--it's a false dilemma. There may be some cases in which steadling is the best option. However, the theif would certainly have a moral obligation to repay the store when he could, and that is not mentioned here.

(Really, we need a basis for both 'rationality' and 'morality' to have this discussion, which can be had, but not in the space of a comment.)
Presuming that there's a post-mortem on this, it would be interesting to read if ever made public (quite doubtful). How many different processes had to either not exist or have failed for this to have happened? Surely, the military would require secured communications for such devices, wouldn't it? I presume that the manufacturer didn't outright lie to the military about the lack of encryption and that the military actively participated in the specification process. This, along with the drone video issue, is really quite strange.
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(This comment is a copy of a comment I made in response to a similar reply to my comment...)

(1) No argumnet based on religion (that is, faith) can also be based on reason. Most of his sermon is about religion. It revolves around religion. Thus, it cannot be considered (as a whole) to be rational.

(2) I think it would be rational to say stealing from a major chain store is less evil than violent crime, and possibly prostitution. But it's not rational to encourage people to steal. As you point out, most of the time, there are more choices than those presented--it's a false dilemma. There may be some cases in which steadling is the best option. However, the theif would certainly have a moral obligation to repay the store when he could, and that is not mentioned here.

(Really, we need a basis for both 'rationality' and 'morality' to have this discussion, which can be had, but not in the space of a comment.)
Are his books as overwritten as this review? Honest question, as I found the review pretty leaden, but I'm always looking for interesting sci-fi.
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Agreed. Certainly the Church has not exhausted its resources feeding the poor, and it should do so before it resorts to encouraging them to steal.
I also didn't quite get the point of the article, but I clicked on it because I expected to learn some insight about something related to the number of minutes in a day.

Like, what I learned in engineering, that there are 86,400 seconds a day and you can use 100,000 instead for estimation. E.g. when you have around 10 requests per second in a web service, each taking 1KB, then the traffic the web service generates a day is 1GB (== 10 * 100,000 * 1,000).
Yes, we could have. However time is of the essence here, and we took all of the recommendations you see directly from the Chicago Police Department. They recommended a direct cash incentive would be the quickest and easiest way to find both of these guys.
I'm fine with that argument (although it seem to apply to raising animals as well). I was responding more to the parent's suggestion that certain parts of certain plants are designed to be eaten (and then pass through your digestive system and re-seeded). That bit of natures design doesn't work so well in the face of modern plumbing.
somewhat off-topic: if your weblog hosts content from multiple authors, put the author's name at the top of the post. reading "I" and not knowing who "I" is is confusing and having to scroll to the bottom to find out and then back up again is annoying.
Google will most likely be a CA on Chrome OS systems and Android systems eventually.
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