skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too specific, too lightweight, and there's no existing precedent. The purpose of the HTML specification is to standardize and formalize how pages are structure, not predict every corner case.

For example, many sites are now embedding videos, which is a heavyweight activity. So HTML is being extended to be able to say "This is an embedded video" so that browsers can handle the nitty-gritty details, not people who make webpages.

Disclaimers are not heavyweight. They're usually a single sentence. That's what I mean by "too lightweight." It's too specific because very few people have to put up disclaimers - yes, few people have to, say, embed video, but embedding video has more performance implications on the browser, and many people will view such pages. It's not worth the corner case for something as small and specific as a disclaimer. Lastly, the trend in HTML standardization seems to be "formalize existing practices." I don't think there's an existing practice for disclaimers beyond just putting a sentence or two at the beginning or the end.

Finally, I think that re-postings of a review could cause legal trouble beyond the original posting is a weak argument. And in the case of a re-posting, I don't see how adding a semantically tagged disclaimer would help - the HTML probably wouldn't be copied over, so the semantic tagging would be lost, and if the copier picked up the semantically tagged disclaimer, they'd pick up a plain text disclaimer, too.
I think you overestimate the ease of making money in porn. It is a highly competitive space.

But, yes, there could be other ways to structure deals that don't require an exit to make everyone happy. But most current high tech investors don't invest that way.
I think it's interesting that an article about the good parts of IE 9 still triggers complaints about IE 6. It really was that awful.
Interoperability : OData interoperability with .NET, Java, PHP, iPhone
I think the question is not whether we will be swayed to develop for a particular browser, but rather (as a commmenter stated earlier) it will end the trend of developing "in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari first, then switch to IE 7,8,9,... to "see how broken it is"

Hopefully it will.
Yes, but if you check out the site they don't just update the position to mimic fixed, they "bounce" it into place.
Founders at Work: Steve Wozniak
Billions of healthy, lean, long-lived Asians might be surprised to hear that rice is bad for them.
Great app! i bought it after just watching the demo :)
Maybe it's just me, but I'd be more concerned with kicking ass than how many other girls there are doing what you do.
The mention of Swan Oyster Depot reveals this to be marketing spam. I went there one time and it's not any better or fresher than dozens of other places... and it's crowded and more expensive.
"So I said, "I'll look into this floppy disk." And I started pulling up the datasheet on that chip, and I started coming up with my first ideas of "how do I have that chip get the data to a floppy disk?" And then I came up with this clever little approach. I needed a little bit of logic in here..."

Steve Wozniak, Founders at Work

Amazing full inspiring interview (I have read every interview in JL's book and it is by far my favorite)

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
How To build your own open source Dropbox clone
Now that Oracle has these patents, what might we expect to see happen?
Wow! It gets a 55/100 on the Acid 3 test.

Sign me up.
Hey, you don't know how many normal-looking people are perverts. It could actually be way more than 13%!

:-)
The knee-jerk answer is that the IE team's ideas often seem to come from a crack pipe. Not to say that every single one of their ideas has been bad, or that everyone else's ideas always turn out great, but IE has a lousy track record. There are more than a few instances where the IE version is either internally inconsistent (many of the IE6 CSS bugs) or provably worse than the competition (JS event handling springs to mind).
I attended a presentation by Molly Halzschlag at Microsoft Mix a few days ago and she mentioned an interesting factoid. IE6 was going to be the last version because the browser was going to be fully integrated into Windows. We all know that didn't happen for a variety of reasons. So IE development stopped for five full years and lagged FAR behind other browsers.
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Great app. I struggle reading notes while playing and the small keyboard is really helpful.

There's also a bug in Für Elise, it ignores the repeat signs.
Intro to Facebook Search
While I'm glad to see this, it flies in the face of their previous position that side-by-side IE was impossible.
This is a step in the right direction but it obsoletes any windows/IE computer earlier than Vista SP2.

Considering the amount of resources used by Vista, I think all speed improvements of this browser would only be realized if you're already dedicating lots of processing power to OS overhead.
IT, Unions, and Scoialism
Ask HN: what do you think is the best UI for setting up recurrence?
Recurring tasks, reminders, emails or deliveries. Anything where you have something that should re-occur on some schedule.

What is the best UI that you've seen for configuring this?

- Free form text field, i.e. typing "every 24 hours"

- Classic form, dropdowns and radio buttons (examples would be appreciated)

- Crontab...

- Something else entirely
His arteries will probably be like those of many other heavy meat-eaters, but it's not his arteries that concern me. Check out his response to the 3rd commenter on that page, who mentioned that her son doesn't follow the paleo fad diet:

"Your son, do you light his cigarettes for him, too? I am a nazi about not having bread in the house- maybe that's stupid but the only poison I'll supply to guests is whisky and wine."

It's one thing to be a fringe nut-case who rejects the empirical findings of mainstream dietary research, but imposing the same on one's children is very disturbing.
The Complexity Machine
I wish someone would dissect JVM in exactly the same way: i.e. clearly explained what needs to be stripped off to have a quickly loading "hello world" implementation eating less than 1MB of RAM and starting in a few microseconds, like a normal, sane process should.

All these wonderful things are being built (Clojure, JRuby) on top of JVM that are of no use outside of web/EE because default JVM is so heavy.

Yes, a VM does a lot more than just bootstrapping your stdlib, like in case of libc, yet I keep thinking there must be plenty of unnecessary fat to strip off. Just look at Microsoft CLR: same feature set, yet none of that sluggish starting, RAM-wasting JVM nonsense.
Thanks. That's the kind of reply I was looking for.

I guess it will depend a lot on how people implement disclosures over the next few years. When HTML6 comes around, hopefully I'll get a chance to dust off this article.
I had a flash back to the punk zines of yore -- except those were printed at the office depot and the "copy count" was always off by around 80% ..

Not really sure what theyre going for with this. I wonder if this is something smaller organizations/clubs/groups could use to publish monthly newsletters.
I've never made it there, but I've heard about the (obvious) emphasis on garlic at "The Stinking Rose" (which is not mentioned in the article; at least "rose" is not present in its text). Is it worth the trip?
Nice... have to be a data visualization nerd to appreciate fully.
Another point I didn't mention. The Prius can detect a no-assist situation and will reroute all braking pressure to the front wheels for maximum effectiveness. So even in the extremely unlikely situation you have no regenerative braking and no vacuum assist, you can still stop the car.
Yes to what both of you are saying. But it's not quite just "politics", I would say. Perhaps look at this as an evolution of the post-WWI principle that "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services#Or...)

(Me, after the WSJ recommended it I just got a copy of The Deceivers by Thaddeus Holt, 1148 pages (!!!) on "Allied Military Deception in the Second World War". Very interesting.)
I liked Metacrap so much, I think you should submit it on its own. (But remember to note it's from 2001!)
Ask HN: Dedicated advertising?
How does a site move from something like adsense into getting dedicated advertising clients like comedy central, specific vendors, networks, or companies?

How much do they pay?
more than a year ago i started The Printed Blog www.theprintedblog.com we were the first print newspaper comprised entirely of blogs and other online content. we were discussed in every print newspaper in the world, including the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/start-ups/22blo...) after going through around 300k of my own money (and some angel money), we couldn't sustain the business. i wrote about why here blog.theprintedblog.com
Ask HN: Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit
I was thinking about unicode the other day, and I realized the look-alike characters could be used to bypass Twitter's 140 letter limit, so I put together this little app.

As far as I know, this is the first time anyone's written an app to exploit unicode this way. I looked at a bunch of other "tweet shorteners", but none of them really delivered.

I figure if people will switch URL shorteners to save a few letters, they might find this useful, too.

http://tweetcompressor.com/
Link: http://tweetcompressor.com/
I don't think anyone has ever questioned Microsoft's ability to take on the competition - or even beat the competition as they did in the Netscape wars. Rather, I think we're permanently jaded against the IE browser not because of its technical merits or flaws, but because they let it go stagnant.

Knowing that people using Windows 2000 are stuck with IE6 - despite the fact that their machine still suits their needs - is why we need to continue to push people away from IE. Even if IE9 is amazing.

Firefox 3.6 STILL works on Windows 2000 (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.htm...). Until Microsoft releases a browser we know isn't going to put us in the "I can't upgrade past IE6" situations that we hear about, I'll proudly support everything that isn't Internet Explorer.

(Note: Has anyone ever tried to submit a bug report to Microsoft? It is impossible! I even put together http://crashie8.com/ as a proof of concept, and I still can't get anyone to acknowledge the problem!)
As long as you don't plan to release for a few more years I suppose. I mean, people are still using IE 6 today. It will be a while before IE9 1) comes out and 2) is adopted by a large number of users.
Hedge funds with media coverage underperform no-coverage funds by 3.5%/yr
I've seen a remarkable dearth of "genuinely interesting tech stories out of SXSW" reports in the last...well, ever.

The music side of things is rather more interesting; I'd actually like to go to that, one day.
While the hardware acceleration will only be available on modern Windows, there's a good chance IE9 will come out for Windows XP too. (The lack of hardware acceleration on non-modern Windows is something that Firefox will face too once it flips on the D2D switch by default.)

> I think all speed improvements of this browser would only be realized if you're already dedicating lots of processing power to OS overhead.

That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal.
Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1563703
While I dislike self-help books almost as much as neocon apologetics, this ad should be rewarded. Is the Kindle version readable (no DX), i.e. no special layout or pictures get lost/scrambled?
I don't bother backing up the full system, just the user generated data. I am storing lots of data as flatfiles rather than shoving them into the database, so rsync helps there.

I like having a complete copy of all user-data on my home machine for development purposes as well as backup. So, I rsync all user generated content (they are 99% flatfiles so this is easy), as well as a daily mysql dump. My other founder and I both perform this daily, so at any point we are only exposed with a 1 day risk (seems acceptable at this point). This also gives us two separate off-site backups, which is nice.
The Proliferation Of Scareware Hits Home
if the ram is good ahead of time, bit flips are pretty rare. I mean, not unheard of, but if you are storing a bunch of mpegs, or tweets or what have you, it doesn't matter that much. when your ram goes bad, you will have lots of random crashes (and at that point, boy howdy, any data that was written gets screwed royally. You are really best off loading from backup at that point, on a new box.)

That is the other problem; because it's not 100% clear it's the ram (without ecc) it's easy for the service provider to push around 'half bad' modules without really fixing them. I know at all the big places I've worked, it was an incredible pain to get people to take a hardware problem seriously enough to get them to let me fix it, rather than just re-imaging the box and putting it back on the 'available box' queue.
What more could you ask for?

You forgot security. :-)
couldn't you write a greasemonkey script that automates the clicks?
I think there's another problem. Arab intelligence services tend to be brutal, so I'm not surprised that _they_ thought that their course of action was a good idea, but was "let's torture this Islamic-fundamentalist blogger into infiltrating al-Qaida for us" really a course of action that raised _no_ moral or common-sense alarm bells at the CIA?

And where do I go to get my money back? I would rather be killed by a suicide bomber than defended by torturers. (I say this as a conservative -- and as someone who believes in objective right and wrong.)
Holy cow, that's a well-made app. You dangrover are either a passionate music lover, an excellent developer, or both. Kudos - I don't even play the piano but I'm going to buy it just so that people that make software like this are rewarded!
It's unclear to me how you arrive at the conclusion that the Japanese eat a far larger portion of grains than the standard american diet. I'd like to see some clear statistics on that. One thing I've read is that americans simply eat more calories, period, which would help account for your anecdotal observations.

Furthermore, it may be that the Japanese diet has a number of healthy side effects that counteract their rice consumption: seaweed, high omega-3's in fish, natto (source of K2), etc... Country by country comparisons are famously problematic (see "Good Calories, Bad Calories") because there are so many variables to consider.

Finally, I'm not suggesting "eliminate grains and eat more meat," rather "eliminate grains and eat more vegetables."
"the number one search term on our intranet is 'Google'"

Awesome.
> Apple was a newcomer to consumer mobile hardware the same way Google was a newcomer to consumer mobile hardware. Saying Google is a newcomer to hardware is simple incorrect. They have the most sophisticated data centers in the world. They actively sell a hardware search solution. Google is not new to hardware.

Sorry. But you have absolutely zero idea what you are talking about.

You want to talk about Apple's mobile hardware experience before iphone?
What was macbook? What were those 3/4 generations of ipods before iphone was released? Do you consider an ipod a mobile device? Do you consider a macbook mobile device? How can you say Apple was newcomer to consumer mobile device before iphone release?

First ipod was released in 2001, first iphone was released in 2007. They had ~6 years of experience of selling and manufacturing mobile devices before they released a consumer phone.

What "consumer mobile device" did Google sell before Nexus One?

Comparing Datacenters to consumer mobile device is so weak, I am not going to even bother.
Call me silly, but self-proclaimed hotness (your sig*) might work very well in WoW, but I imagine less so here.

If I were you I'd change it.

(sig: Hot + Geek = me)
There's always been separate use-cases for pixel and vector-based graphics.
I think it was more about aesthetics. They wanted their bed to be perfect (that's why choosing took them so long). Since it's rare purchase 500 pounds more or less had no value in comparison to regret of getting the wrong one because it was cheaper.

Price (if not exorbitant) is often not an issue (at least for some people) when choosing items that are meant to look nice.
The Kindle version is excellent, the pictures are crisp, no special layout.
Tarsnap does de-duplication well. I don't think it runs afoul of any patents; and if it does, well, that's my problem, not yours.
The Onion started out as a newspaper and is still going very strong in print (690,000 subscribers according to wikipedia).
The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores.

Personally, I'd rather see that app on the Kindle DX, or a device with a similar screen. My eyes suffer enough already from all their computer time.

(If the app were on an Android device such as the Nook, I'd turn the pages with voice commands.)
Hey, don't give away the secret of the patriarchy!
Same deal here. I got my N1 unlocked, and it's a pretty chunk of change up front, but it's less expensive over the period of time that I'd otherwise have a contract for.
Live Interview with Brad Feld (Now)
Death of a thousand cuts
How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile
Maybe she feels that having an understanding of the demographics of the industry she's working in (and possibly making contacts with whom she can discuss issues she imagines they will have experienced) will help her to kick ass.
I disagree wholeheartedly. Make money now. Don't leave it on the table. Sell 50,000 (or 100k! or 200k!) copies at $3 or $5, and then approach sheet music copyright holders.

Copy the business model that Tapulous uses for Tap Tap Revenge: I should be able to download a Ben Folds-branded copy of Etude, and then a separate Beethoven app, and then a separate Liszt app. Each one should cost five bucks. And then user should be able to buy EVEN MORE CONTENT via in-app purchases.

Showing content owners that you've already made a million dollars (or whatever) is much more compelling than vague hand-waving about market share and potential of an installed user base.

I get really frustrated with this notion that newly released software should be free, or that monetization potential is always increased by giving something away. Who knows what might happen tomorrow?

Perhaps an app significantly better than Etude will soon be released. Maybe Dan Grover will get bored of working on Etude. It's possible that sheet music copyright holders could even be dumber than music labels, and they'll be unwilling to cut a deal.

There's money to be made, and the best way to make it in the short term is to sell the app.
One very cool thing I learned today is that knowledge amongst a number of people, with the help of modal logic and Kripke possible world semantics, essentially reduces to a graph reachability problem.
Google's China-advertising resellers post public plea
Pervert seems a bit judgemental. The more interesting fact is that something like 13% of the population (assuming I can extrapolate) would like to show others their genitals. I wonder what the true stat is for the population.
Nice. I'm using S3 right now, but since Tarsnap is tuned for backups, I'm gonna check it out.
I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately. It's easy to forget that there are still a lot of WinMo phones out there with a Start menu and a task manager. MS did a complete turn around with their new Metro UI and the fact that it is aesthetically distinct from anything of Apple's earns them some points in my opinion.
"having a solid GUI tool just opens the user up to learning more powerful tasks and getting more work done faster."

i've been trying for a few minutes now to think of when a gui has made me more productive when i can do the same thing via command line or gui. i'm sure there are times when that has been true but i'm hard pressed to think of any.
This reminds me of a blog post from one of the Unity developers:

We joke that doing anything in C# will result in an XML parser being included somewhere. This is not that far from the truth; e.g. calling float.ToString() will pull in whole internationalization system, which probably somewhere needs to read some global XML configuration file to figure out whether daylight savings time is active when Eastern European Brazilian Chinese calendar is used.

http://aras-p.info/blog/2009/11/14/improving-cmono-for-games...

The sad thing is that he's not kidding - if you profile a typical application under Mono or .NET, it loads an XML parser almost immediately.
UK. . . what's up with the high percentage of perverts? Too much BBC?
Agree. If you are going to make a claim like that at least post a photo. Or preferably don't make that claim.
An intelligence agency not run by politicians, on the other hand, would be an enemy to be feared.
All I can say is wow. Not only is the app super intuitive, but genuinely useful and usable.

On top of that, you have a real eye for design.

Great job, I wish you the best.
What Every Designer Should Do Right Now 
I would like to remind every designer today about some of these tasks that we often put-off but are so important and necessary to get done.
I'm not sure I understand the revelation here. GCC is often used to target single boards with little resources. You can build gcc for the environment you want to target. Sounds like attempting to use a compiler flag in a way it wasn't intended. If you wanted to reduce the binary size wouldn't you look at the linker?
I think Opera beat them to it.
Indeed. After looking at various package/dep schemes for clojure, I just gave up and created my own application and library templates and copy files around - at least the jar files are small enough that it doesn't really matter.
I think we should all take a moment to thank Google for making Chrome and get all browser developers to get out of their collective ass and do something to fix their broken browsers. The amount of improvement and works going on the top 4 browsers since Chrome was released is really amazing. IE 7-8 were half-assed job to counter Firefox's popularity.

Even Firefox is getting their act together and their next release is very much inspired by chrome.
Historical evidence. Firstly, IE users are less likely to care enough to upgrade a browser, for the same reason they didn't care enough to look for a better one. Namely, it doesn't really matter to them and they're unaware of why it should. Secondly, Microsoft is a lot less pushy about software updates than other browser vendors.

IE7 came out 4 years ago (and then IE8 two years later), but despite what an enormous improvement it was to IE6, we're only now seeing IE6 finally start to fade away. IE6 usage didn't drop below half of all IE usage until around June 2009. By comparison, Firefox 3 had more than double the usage of FF2 within 3 months of its debut. Chrome shows even better (in fact, absurdly fast) adoption rates.

All this source StatCounter:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200807...

Add in corporations hesitant to update IE in the workplace, and you've got the IE stick-around-forever problem.
Love this bit, like to him it was an easy task...

"Then it was just a matter of designing logic to put dots on a TV screen that add up to the letters of the alphabet and spell out what's coming from another computer far away."
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