skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get full sized images if you play with the URL (change /i/s/ to /i/o/).
Strogatz on the elements of mathematics, from pre-school to grad school
The title of this article is: "A Nation of Racist Dwarfs"

Translation:

"A bunch of uppity oriental midgets. How dare these subhumans inferior to us in the "West" (i.e. whites) think that they can have a racialist state? Don't they know how inferior they are compared to us? Why don't they just do what we tell them to? We're the "multicultural" West now. Don't they know that we let non-white mud peoples like them hang around now?"
Check out Farve's one, pretty funny: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-sound-efx/09000d5d8144d8...
Believe it or not, PHP has come quite a bit in the recent years, and with some good developers, it's perfectly possible to write good, decent code in it.
"HTML" in this context is meaningless. Are you talking about XHTML, HTML4, HTML5 or what? ;)

It depends on the doctype and namespace. In XHTML, an uppercase HR is technically meaningless, since it is case sensitive. In HTML5, it is not case sensitive so hR should be valid, according to the spec.

Citation:
"In the HTML syntax, tag names, even those for foreign elements, may be written with any mix of lower- and uppercase letters that, when converted to all-lowercase, matches the element's tag name; tag names are case-insensitive."
I think the idea is that you optionally can have a main, but you aren't required to do so ;-)
With the blue hat on, hit C once, turning yourself into a ghost as long as you stand still, and wait for the guy to walk through you.
So it couldn't possibly be that he's against merchandising, but rather it wasn't classy enough for him.
According to a comment (the comment, actually) they're just rotating the popular results some.
The complaint from the right is that the federal government confiscates the wealth of its citizens and redistributes it, presumably suboptimally.

No, that's the complaint from the Libertarians. The complaint from most of the right wing is that it redistributes to the wrong people (e.g., ones who vote Democrat).

In particular, old people tend to vote more right-wing, so you're raving mad if you think they'd ever oppose Medicare.
Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
Largely an explanation of why social sites make crappy advertising businesses. Other revenue / profit-generating elements don't get nearly the same depth of analysis and insight.

But it's a well-thought out article, and anyone who takes the time to lay that out and still admit they "could be wrong about all of this of course" is worth paying some attention to.
Want to convince others? Then don't assume that they'll "easily imagine" that you're right. Save that stuff for the choir.
Do I already need to remind you that a Republican president just enacted one of the largest expansions of Medicaid in the history of the program?

The Republican party is no more eager to cut senior entitlements than is the Democratic Party -- they both use Medicaid and Social Security as political bludgeons, and neither side has made a serious proposal to cut costs.

You can try to turn this into a partisan political debate, but the bottom line is that both sides have a strong incentive to leave these programs alone (they benefit active voters). On the issue of entitlements, the primary practical difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the Republicans have a long history of attacking entitlements for poor people, in order to maintain the illusion that they care about costs.
When I just searched for [1935 buick], the results looked pretty good. The first hit was for the Old Car Manual Project, the second was for HowStuffWorks, the third was "1935 Buick Series 40 Images, Information, and History". I didn't see any OEM links.

When you do find a lot of spam, does Show Options -> Fewer Shopping Sites help?
The kutkot ritual to bring the dead "back to life"
It's not that good really. The site you linked to only displays the discretionary budget. The NYTimes infographic is much better, because it also includes all mandatory spending. Mandatory spending is over 50% of the entire federal budget, and includes pretty much all of the 'welfare state': social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment and other income supplements, veterans' benefits, student loans, and on down the list.

Displaying only discretionary spending is a rather tendentious way of representing the federal budget, because it makes defense spending look like the largest expenditure. Such graphs are usually linked to by people decrying U.S. militarism or imperialism or the military industrial complex. This is not to say that the U.S. does or does not spend too much on the military, but simply to point out that the visual effect of cutting out over 50% of the budget biases people's perceptions and provides undue support for politicized arguments.
Biden recently wrote an op-ed in the WSJ explaining the administration's goals for the U.S. nuclear arsenal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870487890457503...
> In 2015 the default login & payment method(s) on the web will be facebook Connect, Google Gmail, or Apple iTunes.

Why not openid?
A Majority Of States Are Now Insolvent: the Disastrous Unemployment Situation
Google Shows Off its Tablet Concept
Yes. Chrome has different ways of extending the browser.

One is content scripts - which don't have access to certain parts of the Chrome api like opening tabs.

However, each extension can have what they call a background page. This is just an html page which is loaded in the background and there can be exactly one for every extension.

So you should be able to have your content script communicate with the background page (there is a mechanism for this) and let the background page open the tab.

For this, you'll have to write a fully-fledged extension though. The greasemonkey scripts probably don't generate a background page when they get converted into an extension at install-time.
Walnuts and flax seed are another source of omega3.
I agree with everything you've said. Plus, the page is so javascript-heavy, it probably crawls in IE6. It already makes my scrolling a little less smooth. Interface responsiveness and discoverability trump flashiness and visual minimalism.

Other nitpicks: the slightly grey (cream?) background is a weird, subtle annoyance, and the lack of any underlined links would definitely get Nielsen's panties in a bunch.

One thing I think the (re)designer did get right: The AJAX-loading down arrow at the bottom of the page. I wonder if there's any reason Google hasn't tried something like this over their more traditional pagination model. I'm guessing it has something to do with advertising and/or existing SEO conventions of referring to result ranking by Google page #.
Next book on my reading list is The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, so that I can finally understand all of this Economic mess the world is in. Of course it won't give me a full understand, but I have been told it will send me in the right direction.

Recently, I have been trying to understand what exactly a dollar is. From what I can tell, its pretty useless.

I've determined that money != wealth.
So close! You even used the one digit in your comment...
And this is what people forgot when they say html5 is superior. 'The future' - maybe but is anyone creating tools to speed up the generation of html5+js?
HN makes quite a few appearances :-).
Clay Shirky: It's Not Information Overload, It's Filter Failure
The free market does not provide forcible wealth redistribution.

Most Government social services are not designed to be efficient wealth redistribution and nothing more. They do other stuff like get involved with medicine or retirement. There is no good reason for that.

Even if you advocate forcible wealth redistribution, that is no justification for most Government social services. It'd only be justification for having one single program that gives no-strings-attached money to poor people straight out of the federal budget.

I think taking people's money by force is bad.
Hasn't got what polish of Firefox? Firefox is buggy and has a kludgy UI. Chrome is way more polished.
Every time I hit backspace I get sent back to this page or ones before it.
"They showed the same content he did..."

Yeah... his content. You're begging the question here, casually skipping over the question of whether they can just appropriate it by trying to draw some sort of stretched equality here. There's an enormous difference between him posting his content and them posting his content!
I only wish Chrome would add a second search box, like IE and FF do. I have never figured out how to get the keyword for another search engine (Wikipedia) to work satisfactorily in Chrome's combination url/search entry area.
It always has for me.
Here is a list of the companies that are at least self-reported to meet various safety standards:

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=16536
Interview w/ Chinese Black-Hat
I've heard (though I can't substantiate) that in some locations it is illegal to record, film, or photograph a police officer performing his or her duties. So, if this is true, in your scenario evidence of officers misbehaving wouldn't help you because it was obtained illegally.
Additionally, this type of technique works great with content caching.
If you have a statistics background, it's pretty easy to tell that it's significant given the numbers (2 of 41 in the fish oil group and 11 of 40 in the placebo).

The exact p-value is in the paper (0.007), or very significant. It's often difficult to get those kind of p-values in real world settings:

http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/2/146?l...
This is a "less-is-more" approach and any designer worth their salt could come up with a similar design (if not 100 more).

The page feels like a page from a contemporary kitchen in architect digest - where you see a huge glass table with maybe one vase in the center. It looks great but it misses out on some of the "roll-up-your-sleeves" and get thing done feel, which is what Google does best.
Works for me. In preferences, manage search engines. All or most of the search engines you've used in the past should be there. Edit the keyword to the keyword of your choice (for Wikipedia I use "wp"). In the omni bar, type "wp", space, query, enter. Alternatively you can use a tab instead of a space and this makes it more obvious that you are searching.
Chart: iPod Touch Is Apple's Sleeper Hit
Just to be clear, I was never CTO of Facebook or anything close to it (thanks for that, though!). Dustin Moskovitz and Adam D'Angelo were the only two folks to hold that title that I know about.

And yeah, I don't want to get in trouble, but ask the right people about "Team America"...
For honest assessments, probably reviews on glassdoor.com would help.
Blogs are generally going to be positive, as the person's identity is attached to it. Annonymous reviews, has its own problems ofcourse
Tim O'Reilly commented that this chart was "for the ipad doubters."

Or in other words: sales dictate product/market fit, not pundits.
Wow. That's almost unbelievably significant for a study of a damn nutritional supplement. If this is replicable, let's hope this leads to new, more effective treatments for mental illness.
Almost all of the fish oil you can buy actually comes from 1 company and have been tested for mercury (by ConsumerLab.com and Consumer Reports):

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-12-15-fish-oil-usat...

None of the major brands had significant amounts of mercury.

I'd just get the cheapest kind, given that it's likely from the same company.
Interview with Mike Matas (formerly with Delicious Monster and Apple)
The real cause of the Ruby problem in the article is the automatic conversion of "1" to "true". This is a language design bug, and has nothing to do with associativity.

As for associativity proper, I program in multiple languages all the time, but find remembering the various associativity rule differences in these languages a pain in the ass. So I always use parenthesis.

That way anyone reading my code (including myself a few months later) will find it easy to understand what I intended, and the right thing gets done no matter what the associativity rules are.
How am I supposed to get anything useful out of a theory like that?

Write a grant proposal.
"right" because it was Kay's "original intent"?

It doesn't seem that, in practice, users want to modify their computer systems in that way, despite that that's what early programmers imagined (note that such manipulation of systems had been something their personalities had obviously been drawn to--as is mine and those of most of the people on HN, probably--and also that it was necessary in those days to get interesting results).
The press releases mention it's available on the consumer level in Germany. Does anyone know the brand name and/or distributor?
shellinaboxd -t -s /:AUTH:HOME:'/usr/bin/emacs'

It's fast and usable, even supports the meta key. It's emacs in a browser.

http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

"Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator. This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins. Most typically, login shells would be exported this way"
In Chrome, you can also use domain specific searches: start typing the domain name, and when autocomplete matches the domain, press tab, and the location bar becomes a site-specific search. e.g:

ul <tab> <search terms>

expands to ultimate-guitar.com to search for guitar tabs

en <tab> <search terms>

expands to en.wikipedia.org to search wikipedia

It's great that it automatically picks up search boxes in websites. So this works on any website that you have searched in the past - you don't have to manually set it up.
He found my me.jpg. Honestly though, I found the article amusing and clever. No hard feelings here.
Even though it is obvious you are intentionally misreading the article to try to find something to offend your feigned sensibilities, for some reason I respond.

He is comparing north and south Koreans. Genetically basically the same people. Nevertheless the Northerners are 6 inches shorter due to lifelong malnutrition.
I watched this documentary some time ago, http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-.... Pretty cool, strange country.
I never argued that nudity in the workplace is appropriate.

It is, however, pathetic to be offended by nudity in and of itself. There's a distinction between pornography and nudity.

Think breast-feeding.
Way to miss the point.

Korea was one very homogenous nation for several thousand years.

So the dramatic difference in height between North and South now is clearly a product of the despotic regime.
There are amateur frothers on both sides, as on any divisive issue. Lee's a professional evangelist posting on a corporate blog.
Do I need to remind you that not everyone interested in shrinking government expenditures is a Republican?
Guess my message was taken the wrong way? I'm not advocating nuclear weapons but rather scaling back military spending and using them as a deterrent to other countries so that the current US defense force size doesn't need to be maintained.
"right" in the same sense that it's a good idea to teach math at school even if only a very limited few will become mathematicians.
I remember when Apple brought out the Macbook Air - and it sounded like a huge partnership between Apple and Intel. What is the relationship going forward?
How to get Angels like former Yahoo Prez Jeff Mallett to invest
JamLegend Shreds Past 1 Million Members
But being better will not convert all those existing Word documents and corporate policies.

Which is why all Macs, iPhones, iPods Touches, and iPads support viewing and to some degree authoring of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, and also Microsoft Exchange. In the case of Microsoft's dominance, they shrewdly chose to work with the grain, and the result is a better product for the significant number of users who need it. That is: it all comes back to what "better" means to the people with the money.
First thing I noticed
Author's name is "Hitchens". The original title refers to the North Korean regime. Among the 382096 reasons not to make up your own titles.
I read somewhere that the A4 has an ARM MALI graphics processor, not an SGX.
IPhone-to-iPad development: How's the timing going to work out?
Good question, but statistical significance is not the only issue to look at in a research study, as Peter Norvig of Google reminds us.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Disclaimer: I am already convinced about fish oil (in the first instance for cardiovascular preventive use) and take it daily.
Let me rephrase that. Pissing on _every_ _single_ other country we do business with by unilaterally ending free trade after we've spent decades setting up free trade agreements (and organizations like the WTO) seems like a suboptimal stratagem to me.
The size of their tablet in the video makes it look closer to something like MS Surface than a 'tablet' device.
Answering Baranovskiy’s JavaScript quiz
I just started reading this, but I want to add something immediately: It's my understanding that South Koreans are also very racist. So I'm not sure if the regime is at fault for that one.

...

Yeah, I dunno. It's Hitchens and he seems to be writing a sideglance apologia for Communism. (As in, "See these shrunken slaves: It's nationalism that made them this way, not Marxism.") Nothing new really. China is doing something very similar actually, and they have been replacing Communist rhetoric in schools with nationalistic rhetoric, and for them it seems to be not a problem.
Chapter 6 of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book
This author holds an air of bias about him. Even in the title "...more despicable than you thought" suggests this is more of a tabloid than anything factual.

I'm interested in knowing what's going on in North Korea, and he does have some facts in here, but on the whole I'd prefer something a little more informative.
Regular users would need to:

a) care about managing their online identity

b) remember a valid URI

What do you think the odds are?
Some practical questions to ask oneself to get more stuff done
Your message is insane. I don't even know where to start. Why would we prefer to have nuclear weapons as a deterrent instead of having a conventional military as a deterrent? Which is more favorable, defending one of our allies by deploying nuclear weapons, or defending them by deploying a few ten thousand soldiers, planes, and warships? Why would we want to put money into weapons we can never use without tremendous backlash and moral misgivings, instead of ones we deploy regularly to serve our interests?

The current U.S. defense force size doesn't need to be maintained; we haven't used a significant portion of it to defend us or our direct allies from a military attack since World War II. We use our military proactively, as a tool for enacting our will. We cannot hammer a nail if our only tool is a bulldozer.
The Hacker Handheld--Mobile Computing for Programmers
not really a tablet, its a surface like device
Google Apps announces de-support of IE6
I don't have any inside scoop here, but a huge partnership between Apple and Intel and an ARM-based iPad are not mutually exclusive. Most people acknowledge that, to get the kind of energy efficiency and battery life that people are starting to expect in mobile devices, current x86 parts are not a good solution. Nonetheless, we are stuck with x86 for anything that wants to run most existing desktop/laptop software until we come up with a virtualization, cross-compilation, or binary translation scheme that is efficient enough.

If Apple wants to continue selling Mac Pros and Macbooks, they will probably stay Intel for some time. Until Intel comes out with a part that can get Apple anywhere close to the many hours or even days they require for their mobile devices, Apple has no choice but to look elsewhere, and I can't see that as a reason to end a partnership on desktop/laptop processors.
Does not anyone else get really let down every time they read a Chrome submission that doesn't announce that Firebug has been ported over?

I've started using Chrome for my day to day browsing, but I'll never be able to wholeheartedly switch until Firebug arrives.
You appear to be either a troll or someone who gets off on feeling offended.

Nonetheless, to clarify the title for you:

a) The author cites several examples of pervasive racism in NK society (this is where the racist part comes from).

b) The author indicates that North Korean citizens are six inches shorter than their genetically identical South Korean counterparts. (This is where the dwarves part comes from).

Hence 'A Nation of Racist Dwarves' is merely a statement of fact.
The news announcement (with Rails 3 info) is here:

http://news.railstutorial.org/chapter-6-of-the-ruby-on-rails...

The short version: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial book will use Rails 3 ASAHP. :-)
True, but it's not in the form that is easily digested by the body.
Did you know that only 2.5% of males and .5% of females are INTJ? Yet software companies are full them.
Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS)
Pvaneynd - CLC v7 (common lisp controller)
I always assumed that was the case. Feel the same way about Office.
I don't think most people realize that the North Korean regime is nearly as bad as the Nazi and Soviet Stalinist regimes. The only difference is that the impact of that regime has been comparatively limited outside of the country. Which in many ways is very sad for the unfortunates trapped inside, since it seems to mean that the world pays very much less attention to their plight.
China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World
Octopart API Update
I went back and tried again and finally got it. Man, that wasn't obvious :-) Then I had to have a few attempts at trying to get through that door.. before realizing you have to walk into the wall on the left. Realized this probably isn't for me.. :-)
I figured it out thanks to another comment above. Seems you have to stand still, not run and press C. Brought up on too much Mario and Sonic I'm afraid.. always running :-)
Botnet sends fake SSL pings to CIA, PayPal, others | InSecurity Complex
Have you ever considered that maybe designers have created a culture that is not quite congruent with reality, and that their perception of a good interface is not, in fact, always a good interface?

Engineers like the Google style, but so do lots of my acquaintances who are non-engineers, from scientists to writers to school teachers.

Designers seem to be the only demographic with a problem.
Interface is very reminiscent of the iPad's. Maybe the creator got a little inspiration from it.
A downside of the proposed keyboard design is that no one will be a!le to pick it up for the first time and use it effectively. Come to think of it, you'd have to learn the layout by repeatedly looking it the back of the device, unless there was some kind of onscreen image to guide you.
The opinion of some FB engineers is that if they could start all over, they probably wouldn't use php. The codebase is very large and somewhat of a hassle to maintain, but at this point it does not make sense to move off php.

Facebook does have a faster php, but nobody is allowed to talk about it yet other than to subtly confirm its existence and that they're quite excited about it.
Ugh. The keyboard and popover menus in those pictures look like direct rips of Apple's tablet (http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-fac...). That Google would "show off" these concepts is a bit embarrassing, and telling.

An Apple designer wouldn't even show their manager concept drawings this rudimentary, especially if they were nothing more than copies of a competing product released the week before.

I really hope this isn't Google's doing. But if they are working on a tablet version of Chrome OS, they should probably keep the lid on it until it's had more than 2 hours of mockup work.