skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the explanation. I find constitutional law very interesting, because it seems to be easy for me to comprehend, because the constitution's articles are so short, and the arguments rational rather than technical, like you would find in say, tax law or something like that.

Tell me if my impression is accurate. It seems to me that liberal justices, at least the ones I've heard on the Supreme Court, frequently invoke the ramifications of a particular ruling as an importing deciding factor, on par with the actual interpretation of the law. Whereas conservatives seem more concerned with just reading the law's words, and applying them to the case at hand.
Not to forget Kerala is the highest foreign remitting state in India. But none of this money is invested into the industry (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/04/06/stories/20070...)
The movie really is amazing. It's so full of such intense detail. I give it a watch at least a couple of times a year.

But an absolute bore to watch when I was younger.
hmmm. in that case i should add i am not american and these reports are, so my expectations may be incorrect.
The SEP hides things which don't fit into your worldview, the glasses hide things which might disturb you, which can fit into your worldview or not.
waterlesscloud is not saying that there is lots we still don't understand. He is saying that much, perhaps most of what we currently believe is "deeply wrong". This is of course possible, but I think it is very unlikely.
I think they must be grouping it under Fox Interactive Media which has a large chunk on the graph and encompasses things like MySpace and probably IGN.
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I can see a number of uses for something lilke this, but I don't understand why someone would put web-dev libraries on a live-cd. There are so many better uses.
I'm assuming refillable means growlers and the like. Anecdotal, but with the spread of microbreweries over the last 10-20 years, the number of beer drinkers I know buying theirs that way has greatly increased. Maybe I'm biased because I'm a beer nut (and brewer) though.
If you don't mind sharing, how do you get revenue numbers - analytics or payment processor?
Google Buzz does it without even asking :(
"Science fiction books" are a subset of "fiction books".

"Fiction" is a radically constrained subset of "science fiction".

One of the reasons I enjoy science fiction so much is that in the hands of a master, it has much more possibility to be truly powerful and good literature than the genres that limit themselves. Like any other ingredient, it can either make the dish or ruin it, but the ingredient should not be judged by the ruined dishes people make with it.

(Example: I recommend A Deepness in the Sky for an interesting literary treatment on slavery that goes well beyond "Slavery is bad, mm'kay?" and with relevance well beyond the usual historical issues. Try it in non-sci-fi and it would either fail or be silly.)
Nothing actually. Flash 10.1 beta will offload some h264 processing to compatible video cards, but only on Windows and that’s not the released version. Currently it uses the CPU for all decoding.
It's not as bad as this in my experience. But The students are given some pressure. I've seen teachers who think School is some military training place and treat students like they were criminals. And they only receive similar treatments. The teachers who were kind and gentle received love, even from the toughest kids.
Thanks for the pointer. Basically, Trevor wants the distraction of low-level tweaking so he can think about the high-level problem. That's the weakest argument for low-level languages I've ever heard. But Python fits the bill: Python for high-level, C libs for performance and low-level tweaking.
I don't like the term "real literature" either. I'm using it colloquially to mean works that have some combination of the following:

* Taught by mainstream college professors

* Well received by mainstream literary critics

* Winner of a notable, mainstream literary award

* Will be found on the desk of a character in several movies to indicate the character is of above average intelligence
Yeah but then someone flashes their lights at me out of the blue and my thought is 'Oh, s*, what did I do wrong? What is wrong with the car? Is there a speed trap ahead?' etc etc until I can stop and check things out...and it turns out that they just accidentally bumped their brights lever. Kind of the equivalent of grunting instead of talking. Would be nice if there were some standard tone set for different common signals.
It relates to your previous comment.
> I'm 38 and am indeed quite into sci-fi.

Apparently not as much as you think if you don't know who PKD is.
The Hummus Place (several locations throughout Manhattan) has great Shakshouka. They also have amazing hummus. Explains their name, I suppose ;)
Can you be more specific? What parts of the "hot big bang, cold dark matter, accelerating expansion, geometrically flat, ~14 billion years old" model will be shown to be "deeply wrong"? Do you think that discovering, say, the nature of dark energy, is going to demonstrate that the universe isn't really expanding? That we are going to discover that the universe is really 100 billion years old? That the universe was actually colder and larger in the past?
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Summary: satirical article to say we don't like flame wars.
Yes, we have a variety of rules and methods to do things like that, but you might be surprised at how many issues there still are. In the Wal-Mart case for example, they spent years trying to get compliance from their suppliers, and in the end they had to cut back on their goals and requirements because of the extra steps (and costs) needed.

Also, RFID as a commercialized technology is still relatively new (even though it's been around for a long time), and there are a lot of technical hurdles that most people don’t know about. For example, a standard, Wal-Mart style RFID tag won't read if you hold it close to the body (or put it in a pocket), or put it on metal or liquid; in those cases, you have to use a special tag, or a battery assisted tag ("active rfid", which can be much more expensive), or an "RTLS" tag (wifi, ultra-wideband, etc). It's all really interesting (to me anyway), but the industry has had to spend quite a bit of time getting over all of the hurdles that are non-obvious (like any industry I suppose).
This is conflicting advice "In general when capital is available take it." and "It’s also bad to raise too much, too early."

I also think (based on being told by several serial entrepreneurs) that the proper advice is "Avoid (VC) capital until you absolutely need it."
Well one thing I was thinking about is this 'laser-scan' technology for modelling real world objects. Perhaps the appeal of a quick, light, easy method of rendering detailed environments (albeit static) will prove very popular. Usually when I see static 3D demos on television (for instance on Grand Designs, a new-build architecture show, or computerized replays in soccer), they meet the bare minimum in aesthetic appeal.
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Ah I might be slightly off: the proper quote says (along with your bit) they hide things that might alarm you.

The radio play uses disturb.
Didn't Woz say he can repeat the bug at will? Therefor we know it is a software problem?
Hmmm... looks a little heavyweight, but promising. Thanks for the tip off!
i wish more engineers from big companies would do public interviews like that (either on hn or reddit). i'm sure there is a lot of quality feedback to be had from a collective of somewhat-more-technically-inclined users than what gets filed as bug reports. especially for companies like google who don't have public bug filing systems for many of their services.
your assumption is correct, I would say that a publicly available government approved list of child pornography sites is a really bad idea.

I agree that there should be more transparancy though. Maybe through some sort of intermediary, making the list available to lawyers and organisations that could have an interest, such as the EFF. And of course notifying webmasters that they're on the list so they can plead their case if they feel wronged.
Woz found a software bug in the cruise control mechanism. However once you hit the break the cruise control immediately disengages and thus the bug is "fixed". They can fix this bug but it is not a live-or-die issue because there is definitely a way to stop the car.
Do tenure committees and other such parts of the scientific establishment give publication on arxiv.org the same weight they give to publication in traditional scientific journals? They didn't used to -- has this changed?
(looks unlike anything I've ever seen)

Probably because you're not old enough to remember the Atari 2600. Looks a heckuva lot like that to me, but with better animation and sound.
Puppy Linux (on which Thnake is based) recommends thumb drive, although it sounds like mounted hard drives or network storage are also feasible:

http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Overview%20and%20G...
You Americans still have your children say this (with or without the god mention) every day? That's insanity.
So is recycling only bullshit in the US? Or did some other completely separate nefarious plot convince Norway and Canada to recycle while still using refillable beer containers?

edit: just flicking through the Wikipedia references on this it appears all the major government agencies around the world think that recycling will directly save money even if you discount externalities. On the other hand you have a 14 year old NY Times article by a professional contrarian which "relied heavily on quotes and information supplied by a group of consultants and think tanks that have strong ideological objections to recycling".

I shudder to think what kind of organisation has ideological objections to recycling, but they must have been busy as this seems to be a popular meme in America. I don't recall hearing much about it in europe though, maybe one of those libertarian things?
BCBSNC
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s (BCBSNC) networks are large and member copayments and coinsurance are predictable.
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Why I blog: context drives perceptions
Yes, this strikes me as another case of looking at the current adversarial dynamic, solving a problem, then assuming that the problem will stay solved because your opponent will just throw their hands up in dismay and say "Alas, I am defeated!"

This is not usually what happens.

While it is basically true that having so many addresses does make the old way of just scanning the network ineffective, there will still be ways of getting at least some addresses. Look in connection logs of any kind. Leverage other protocols, like email addresses, which are every bit as imperfectly discoverable (but discoverable!) in IPv6 as IPv4. For instance, send an HTML email that ends up requesting something.

Besides, it seems to me the botnet attack methods are already no longer based on randomly scanning the internet and hacking Windows; they already work on email, the web, and social engineering. IPv6 doesn't do anything about that (nor can it).
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I've implemented this before. The site was standard MVC, built in CodeIgniter. I then built a middleware layer that would either decorate the content with a layout template to generate the HTML version or create a JSON structure with linked elements (CSS and JS files) and page title.

The JavaScript would parses the incoming JSON and attach listeners to all the elements. It had to do a few tricky things like tracking JS and CSS files and provide alternatives to dom:loaded so scripts could be rerun on dynamically loading content. Really Simple History was then used to track the state.

I built and tested the functionality as a plain HTML site first then builf the dynamic loader afterward, which was relatively easy to implement. Some of the trickiest parts were gettingand the DOM to update in a timely fashion and to get the interface to "feel" right (when do you clear the old page, when do you scroll user back to top of page, etc.).

Like emilis said, there are still a few small cases where the implemetation breaks down, mainly when sending or publishing links. I ended up enforcing clean links: if you hit a HTML page when you had JavaScript enabled it would take you to the homepage and reload your desired page from there. This was mainly because not doing so would make the copy-paste problems worst. E.g. If you expecting to see "bar" but had no JavaScript then example.com/foo#bar (showing foo rather than bar) would be more confusing seeing the homepage at example.com/#bar. The redirect logic was the first thing encountered on the page so was pretty quick. E.g. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebeatles...

I wouldn't recommend implementing this unless you absolutely had to. For me the requirement for a streaming music player was a "must-have" feature. Even the quickest page load would still lead to skipping music.
Workers say they're more productive away from office
How prescient!

Coincidently "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was the last fiction I read (a couple of years ago).
Executive Overview:

Assume all new accounts are probably spammers. Don't trust anything they post until a.) your filters prove you right or b.) somebody reads enough of their posts to confirm they're good or bad.

Give Spammers the illusion they're succeeding, while collecting data on them to make your filters better.
Nice clean design-what are your plans for monetizing it?
Spreedly? Or maybe that's a layer on top of gateways? I don't know much about payment gateways, so feel free to enlighten me on why it's not a solution to this, if it's not.
You might as well have used his physical height or eye color. These attributes are equally valuable in disproving the correctness of ideas.

No they are not. I'm sorry but your argument is simply stupid and wrong. This is written language, not maths, ideas and thoughts have more dimensions than 'correctness'. If someone mentally ill, there is a higher chance what they write is not reflective of reality. And I wasn't attempting to 'disprove' anything in the letter using his mental illness. The letter is obviously overblown and inaccurate on its face. The guy hadn't even seen the movie! Why was he writing such weird letters? Well, I don't know it for a fact but it seems reasonable to conclude it's because he was mentally ill, not because his eyes were brown. The mental health of the author is a useful piece of information when evaluating a piece of writing. Saying that it isn't is bonkers.
It’s time to fix the window controls (ubuntu 10.04)
So I wonder where Linux/BSD or open source would fit? Hinduism? Buddhism?
I'd say it stands better.
You have to consider the author is of a literary persuasion, and wrote the article in the '94, unix was something obscure to normal people and popularity of free unixish things were years to come.
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"Internet Explorer? really?"

Really?
The term I usually hear is "literary fiction." Everything else, including sci-fi, is "genre fiction." I suspect that's not much of an improvement to your ears.
Thanks - I would like to keep the design as clean (read ad-free) as possible. I plan on monetizing via affiliate links to the products users are asking about, as well as possible intelligent product recommendation which could also be affiliate driven. The last thing I want to do is have an obtrusive monetization mechanism when there are transparent options, or even options that add value (recommended products, featured products (that are actually good), etc).
You linked to an IE article from July 29, 2008. Really? Welcome to 2010.
Remimds me much of http://hunch.com/
I wouldn't mind those kinds of book titles so much if they just said "Learn basic [language] syntax in [n] [units of time]". Not as catchy I guess, though.
I've made the "render" link into a button. Thanks for the suggestions!

Are there any other adjustments that people would like to see made?
Surprised that Livejasmin is bigger than Linkedin.
How bad are the emissions on that car?
I always thought that's why most systems have a single subwoofer. What's the album with the hard panned bass? I'd love to hear it (or know why they chose to do that)
I like the idea. I get asked weekly about laptops and cameras from friends and family.
"I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles."
Ah, but Powells' sci-fi section is 4 ailes, 30 feet long by ten feet high, both sides. One author can only take up so much space.

Speaking of which, Powells itself is a full city block, 3 stories high, with a Technical Books annex filling another half block. I'm reading as fast as I can, but you'll have to cut me a bit of slack for not getting around to this particular author yet.

Any suggestions for a title I should start with?
What happened in the bust was they achieved neither revenue nor traffic scale. The only thing the founders scaled was VC money. That's the ultimate disaster.
The vast majority of times that the customer "does everything right", but my website "refuses to let them check out", and/or gives them error messages that do not appear ANYWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE ... they are elderly.
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Kind of surprised I have not seen this before. Its a good idea and you implemented it quite well.
Please link to the original website (abstruse goose):
http://abstrusegoose.com/249
All the business tools needed to run an Open Source Hardware company, Impressive
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How The Concept of Free Can Work For Small Publishers
Even metal is very difficult to recycle, especially cars - it's often very difficult to separate the non-recyclable materials from the recyclable materials.

Cradle to Cradle (McDonough) addresses these concerns. The book is printed with a hot-water soluble ink on infinitely recyclable plastic.

Most recycled plastic bottles end up in carpet, which cannot be recycled again - and is thrown out.

Paper I wouldn't be so concerned about if we used something a little more environmentally friendly to farm and process - like hemp (the processing step for tree-paper contains many noxious chemicals that are unnecessary in processing hemp for paper).
Super Mario Bros. 3: A Lifelong Obsession
Maybe because of the Austrians? ;o)
Imagine what could happen if Firefox embraced extensions and released different versions for different groups.

You could have the still-vanilla Firefox, the "Turbo" version with vertical tabs, NoScript, Greasemonky, Paginator or whatever, and another version for "Developers" that has a bunch of debugging tools and a text editor (or a link to bespin). It would become much like a GUI-based emacs.
Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with longer reaction times. Elderly drivers have longer reaction times.
I've seen that site before .. I just never have good experience with the psuedo-intelligent recommendation engines.

In my experience so much revolved around the particulars of your situation which seem to be very difficult for a computer (and sometimes even humans!) reduce to computable data.

But i agree, its like hunch, or yahoo answers, or any of the other recommendation sites out there.. I just wanted something good for tech so I could ask about what watercooling kit i should get for my gaming rig, or what not.
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It ought to monetize really well with ads because the users are intenders.
Cisco's CEO discusses why the company acquired Flip from Pure Digital
The founding fathers were mostly deists and not Christians/protestants.
I like the concept, but when I clicked on the "blackberry smartphone" example I got no search results (http://shouldget.com/search/?q=blackberry+smartphone).
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Man .. I knew poking fun at IE would come back to bite me

Touche on the date ;)
Google did this for a few days not too long ago, and got a firestorm of bad press about it. Twitter Search is doing it now and annoying the crap out of me every time I use it. Unless it's done VERY right, it's a really bad user experience.

GMail can get away with using hashtags for navigation because it's an application you're never going to search or bookmark externally. Most plain-old web apps don't have that advantage, and therefore are bad candidates for hash-based navigation.

So yeah, this is tech that's been around for a while, and it's a convenient way to allow the browser back button to work in a single-page app. But I wouldn't recommend using it unless you have a good reason.
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This is a fun idea! Here is a quick design suggestion. The actual voting page (http://shouldget.com/questions/17/votes/new) is the most important page so you should spend some more time on it. The design should guide users along a path. Right now, the description / voting box / comment box are all visually equal (see http://i43.tinypic.com/35bz5gm.jpg). This is bad because users don't know what to do.

Here are the decisions everyone is required to make before voting:

- choose which box to check

- should I visit that external link to apple?

- oh wait, am I expected to explain my vote in this huge text box?

- OK I'm ready, wait a minute, I don't even have to vote. I can just view results.

I think this page should be optimized for gathering a vote. Get rid of all the other distractions. Without votes, none of the other features matter.
well, I wouldn't call this stuff volunteering - you're probably interested in some particular (sporting) event and willing to pay for a good access with your work (and maybe some money)

wikipedia editors don't get that kind of privileges relative to any random visitor, I'd argue.
That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate

Isn't that exactly what instant-runoff voting solves?
TechShop is pretty good for that. But you have to move to Silicon Valley or Portland.
>to keep homeless off public transit

They don't need to do that. Being homeless doesn't mean you are necessarily lacking in morals and public decency. They need to find some way to enforce reasonable behaviour from their paying passengers of whatever status.
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It seems Declan has come a long way from the days when he actually added new content to Politech. (http://www.politechbot.com)
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Not to defend the author's bad idea, but actually, the apps I've built with hash-based navigation would still work fine in the case you describe.

The server needs to be smart enough to read that hashtag and display the initial page in the correct state. It's just laziness to always load the same app and then immediately swap everything out based on hashes.
HN doesn't notify me when someone replied to one of my comments.
I'm afraid I'm not terribly good at color schemes, being color blind. If you would like to suggest an alternative color, I'll certainly consider it.

"Strict JSON" makes use of the YUI JSON tool (2.6.0) for parsing, which disallows a few things: functions, regex objects, etc. Thus, the idea behind "Strict JSON" mode is to ensure that the provided JSON may be parsed by a JSON-parsing library, as opposed to requiring eval (I wrote this before native JSON support was available in most browsers).

I have not attempted to make my own "strict" JSON parser because I'm not sure what additional benefit would be gained from doing so. JSLint already has a perfectly functional JSON-checking mode that will give warnings about anything I would consider warning about.

Thanks for the comments!