skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried that for a while, but for some reason, tea stains my teeth far more than coffee.

A friend of mine actually told me about yerba mate. He's a big fan. However, yerba seems to have some other biological interactions that I would have to research. I had cancer before, so phrases like "some experiments showed an increase in oral cancer cell proliferation" are a bit terrifying.

Incidentally, caffeine itself may be cancer fighting. Caffeine is an mTOR inhibitor. mTOR has been implicated asa growth pathway in many cancers. If their are any bio-geeks on this site, I'd be curious to know what quantities are caffeine are comparable to a dose of rapamycin.
I believe some old borland compilers mapped 0 to a guard value, and checked if it ever changed to see if there were accidental writes to null.

I feel that was a stupid approach, and having 0 unmapped is actually the better choice -- instant seqfault is imho a better way to know your program failed.
Yet another reason to use Braintree. Their support is fantastic, their API is unparalleled, and we've had nothing but good experiences with them. (In spite of sounding like an ad, I have no vested interest. They're just an awesome company.)
I have to agree with you. It seems like a tremendous waste of resources, listening to and algorithmically calculating when, where, and between whom these transactions occur.

Seems like it's simply wrapping a transaction in an entirely extraneous layer with no visible benefit.
What's with the "dangerous" in the title? The word doesn't appear anywhere in the article, and the article doesn't even come close to implying it.
How about something like this:

<a href="some-visited-url">
<span class="test"></span>
</a>

Does the CSS for span.test change if the link is visited or not?

Also, this will be very awkward when the style you see with your eyes is not the style that is given to JavaScript.
all of which required me to provide a "State" name (I don't have one)

As the author is in Poland, I'd argue that voivodeships are equivalent, in terms of being the highest level subdivision of the country. As a Brit, I'd tend to go with the county instead.
The glibc headers work perfectly in strict C99 mode. The BSD headers do not.
Like a lot of these articles, the author is half-right: although schools aren't <em>designed</em> to make drones or conformists, but it can sometimes have this effect.

The real question is how one would redesign school in a <em>realistic</em> way to a) transfer knowledge to a large number of people who b) are compelled to be in class even if they don't want to be. The latter point is crucial: I'm a grad student in English lit, and the handy part about teaching undergrads is that if they don't want to be in your class or they don't like you in particular, they can try elsewhere.

Anyway, this article reminds me of an essay I wrote about the validity of grades: http://jseliger.com/2010/02/17/the-validity-of-grades . Short version: grades are problematic for all kinds of reasons. But there's no good alternative to them.
Having been through the headaches once, why on Earth would you risk having to do it again?

I will never forget that week, and I never want to experience anything like it again.
It will be way less common, specialy considering that you can't execute anything in there...
I wonder if you could use services like StumbleUpon and XMarks to find financial blogs that users have ranked and then just grabbing their RSS feeds.
Use asterisks to get italic.
Check it out: http://lwn.net/Articles/347006/

These null pointers are sometimes function pointers. Wow. You don't even need to muck with the stack and change the return address to get arbitrary code execution.

I admit I'm surprised Linux even lets you mmap 0x0. I suppose most systems won't, since mmap_min_addr will probably be set to a sane address, but it's still a legit vulnerability.
I have been told by clients who work for Cisco that the company still includes IE6 in their default image for all new workstations.
Dear Foreigner,

Okay it’s probably time to come clean. In reality the problem you highlight is all a secret plot to frustrate you and hence make you less effective and unable to compete with us in the global economy. We were all told to do so through coded messages that are embedded into episodes of American Idol (I bet you thought all that stuff Paula Abdul said was just drunken babbling)

It’s all part of a far reaching plot by our government to subvert the rest of the world. Hence Google pulling out of China and the creation of Microsoft Windows (we secretly use a highly stable open solution and just use a keyboard shortcut to make it look like Windows when you walk into the room much like that fake looking spreadsheet that was embedded into the DOS version of Tetris)

Sorry for the inconvenience (though not really as pointed out above),

America
Transparency Begins at Home
Ummm...no. Do you not see the problem with that reasoning?
This looks similar to most augmented reality apps; not terribly practical today, but with future interfaces it could be great. In 2022 when we have displays in glasses and full-body-tracking sensors, you'll be able to activate Paypal with an eye gesture, then make a tossing hand motion to send them money which they "catch".

Yes, I did just read Rainbows End...
That's interesting. I'll definitely have to check in to that. That's a great idea. Thanks.
How many cups of coffee do you (HN Reader) drink per Day?

http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/876846-244527
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They were abolished before I was even born and replaced with regions.

And then, in 1996, "regions" were replaced with "council areas:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland

that adds to the chip on our shoulder that suggests folk in Engerland don't really care what is going on in the rest of the UK

I suspect most in "Engerland" care as much about Scotland as the average Scot cares about English affairs (well, except for holding positions of power within our parliament).
Love the idea, and it solves a real problem. I thought of building something similar awhile back, when I got frustrated collecting fees for a fantasy football league.
YES YES YES YES YES! I've always wondered about this. I once submitted a form saying that I wanted something delivered to New York, Singapore. Was very lucky that it even got delivered, much less sent to the right address.
you can also crash IE6 with pure CSS, no javascript needed

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2675/crash-ie6-with-only-css
Head dev of RabbitMQ response to OpenAMQ's announcement
Spider feedburner ?

wget -r google news and see what their sources are ?

http://www.feedage.com/categories/News/1/4
"When two people with the app bump phones, the sensor readings are sent to the Paypal servers where the algorithm listens to bumps happening all over the world and matches the two phones that felt the same movement."

Correct me if I'm wrong but if they're using Bump's API, aren't the Bump servers the ones doing the algorithmic matching and not the Paypal servers?
I want to see the library and code that handles all of those possibilities.
I would get the parts (from Newegg, Fry's etc.) and build one on my own - it turns out to cost lesser and lets you control what goes into making your PC. That, and there's always the good feeling of building something from scratch for personal use :)
The Meetup Trade
FWIW, not all parts of England are in counties either, so don't feel like you're being singled out. York isn't in Yorkshire, for example. It is its own unitary authority. Even Amazon demands a county, so I put North Yorkshire. Close enough.

The Royal Mail are happy for old curmudgeons and the like to use traditional counties in addresses, if they wish: http://www.abcounties.co.uk/bpa/bpacontents.htm

All that Royal Mail cares about is your house number and postcode, so you could probably even get away with telling websites that you live in Wibbleton in Foobarshire.
No, it's a demand for people to stop douching up the site with trolling titles.
Is this the place to complain about other car drivers too?
The technology is valid. It needs a better community and a standard associated with it.

Flash is a great technology. HTML5+JS is a great technology.

Adobe/Macromedia can be, at times, hack-y. Doesn't mean that they didn't manage to have a great idea or 2.

This whole single-minded circle jerk re: HTML5+JS is causing a diffuse in logic and making people "gang" stupid.
[1] made me hysterical for a few minutes. I know this old audiophile who insisted on buying the gold-plated kind when I helped him set up his home theater. I literally spent hours trying to convince him that it didn't matter, but apparently learned behavior just beats logical arguments and evidence.

I think the reason there is a market for these kind of ripoffs is that back in the analog era the quality of cables really mattered, and that's when the people who buy these learned what they know of tech. I don't think it gets harder to learn new ideas as you get older, but instead unlearning the ones that have worked for you gets progressively harder the longer you have had them. I only hope I can be more rational when I get older.
My initial impression of Bump is that it was a silly idea. Like what if you damage your phone. However, the secret and success of Bump is that it makes a boring transaction a little more fun. Bring back a little human interaction. Make the people using it look cool or uncool (depending on the audience) - but regardless make people pay a little more attention to the people bumping. Everytime, I see a public Bump, I get amused.
I'm an advocate of keeping the team in the loop. However my business partner has some trepidations because his father's employees went mutiny by taking all his clients and starting their own recruiting firm.
My wife and I ordered our baby formula for about a year or so from diapers.com, no complaints. They even re-shipped a furniture tie that we thought they missed (it turned out we misplaced it - they said don't bother with sending the extra one back).

Diapers.com's customer focus is slightly different than Zappos - eventually at some point in time Diapers.com's present customers will no longer have any reason to continue shopping there (it's true for us today - we don't need anything from Diapers.com), whereas Zappos can potentially sell you shoes for a lifetime.

As an aside, I personally find purchases clothing (including shoes) online in the not-quite-right category. How can you ascertain the fit and aesthetic of a shirt or a shoe without actually holding it in your hand or trying it on?
I'll grant you that. Of course there was a price to pay. The FAQ had to be maintained, sometimes meta-discussions about the FAQ ate up more time and bandwidth than just simply fnord answering the questions, and sometimes the FAQ was used as a weapon to discourage n00bs.
It's a brilliant anti-competitive move.

If you can get the course work from MIT/Cambridge etc for free why bother going to BLAH-state to learn the stuff?

If you are going to school for the shiny bit of paper then the only bit of paper that is worthwhile will be the one from MIT/Cambridge etc, if nobody goes to BLAH state to learn stuff why would you employ someone who went to BSU for the certificate.

The same thing happened in the UK, the sector was opened up to allow pretty much anyone with a classroom to call themselves a university. This was heartily endorsed by the elite universities in the name of fairness and wider access. The result is that where there used to be good, medium and OK colleges there are now elite and 'the rest'.

So guess what employers look for on a certificate?
The average business today would fall apart if people suddenly got that time back that they spend dealing with IT. They'd fill the time with political machinations and end up eating each other alive.

More seriously, I predict that we'll see official support products for linking multiple iPads together in a workstation capacity within a year. Well, probably just two iPads at most, but third-party products might go for more.
Odd, but I see business users as having more in common with Eric's "Mom" than with hackers. There are jillions of custom business apps that don't give people files to manipulate: There's a client app or a web page and a database on a server somewhere stores the data. Salespeople and customer service reps and what-not just use the apps just as an iPad owner might 'just use' a program.
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Coding_Styl...

I'm pretty sure exceptions aren't used because

- enabling exceptions has an effect on performance

- A lot of Mozilla code is XPCOM, and if you're familiar with COM and friends you'd know that they're heavily error-code oriented.
Feedburner: I've thought about this one, but I haven't been able to find a good starting point. Their vast collection of RSS feeds don't seem to cross reference nicely and lend themselves to an obvious spidering strategy like web pages do. Suggestions on how to start are welcome

karma++ for wget google news. I looked at feedage, but signal:noise ratio kinda sucks.
One thing's for sure, if iPhone-like computers get more significant uptake, we will find out exactly how horrible XSS can be.
What, the whole "being able to place an order even if you're not American" thing?
DIY is gonna have to drill down to the level of motherboards and chip-fab much faster than it has been.
Yahoo Publisher Network To Be Axed, Customers Referred To Chitika Instead
Bloglines has a pretty decent feed search.

http://www.bloglines.com/search?q=finance&t=f&ql=en&...

plus a top 1000 feeds:

http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds
Do you respond to other general advice to Website operators in the same way, or just to foreigners telling Americans what to do?
Developer enthusiasm for iPad slackens as Android surges
It turns out that interface innovations for Mom also work for hackers - provided that you still have access to a *nix toolkit. Witness the popularity of the Macbook among developers. But then you wouldn't really want bash on an iPad, would you? That is not what the iPad is for. Hackers also passively consume information too, and when they do their needs aren't different than Mom's - an intuitive interface that does not get in their way.
Aside: it's amusing that you euphemized the F in FUBAR but not the F in RTFM. :)
Apple tweaked iPhones to lessen strain on AT&T network - report
This is a horrible solution to the CSS history problem that's going to break a lot of layouts and a lot of javascript.

A far better solution, IMHO, is to simply track both the origin page and destination page of clicked links, and only apply a:visited styles to links when the origin page is one that has been previously been used to visited the destination page. This is the solution employed by the SafeHistory plugin. (http://www.safehistory.com/)
It's possible to do it that way, but it adds some annoying constraints. If you're accessing data locally, it would have to go through a remote server, which causes latency and privacy concerns.
How about Puerto Rico (in those cases where Puerto Rico is listed as a country instead of a state-like entity, which is how the US Postal Service treats it)? Hungary? Japan? Germany? Anywhere else that doesn't use a state in the postal address?

Edit on second thought: how about the vast majority of forms of this nature, which have a helpful dropdown list of the fifty valid states, and sometimes DC for the District of Columbia, but almost never PR for Puerto Rico, let alone Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the other areas of the world that the US Postal Service (and law) considers part of the United States?

I lived in Puerto Rico for years, and this is an utterly rampant problem for millions of actual American citizens living in the United States, let alone the rest of the world, all due to the fact that most Americans don't know jack about the world they inhabit.
Gatto's argument goes a lot further than just education reform. He argues that schools - as we know it today - should be abolished altogether.

There are two other links at the bottom of that article. Read those, and you'll begin to see what he's getting at (that the school is a result of the capitalist need for workers and mindless consumers). The alternatives he offers, however, are rather scary alternatives to capitalism itself. Scary - at least - to me.

As for alternatives to grades: see pg's essay After Credentials http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html

Like most of these articles, he's half-right.
I would likewise suggest that you build your own, not so much for cost (although it does tend to be cheaper), but for satisfaction. Just make sure your RAM voltage <= CPU/Motherboard supported voltage. Using 1.75v RAM in a board that only likes 1.65v RAM makes an unstable system :)

Having said that, I've always found Dell desktops to be really good. A bit less extra crap pre-installed than some other manufacturers (I'm looking at you, HP), and you have a 50% chance at good support (I've called in 4 times over the years - 2 were teh sux0r, 2 were great help). So if you gotta buy online, Dell is my recommendation.

If you build your own, try and find a local shop (here we have bCom and Memory Express) - they will almost always be cheaper than Future Shop and Best Buy.
link to results:

http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpresult/876846-244527
Dear German Website Owner

(yeah, this works both ways)

I do have a state in my postal address, and if I have to enter my address as 47374 Richmond instead of Richmond IN 47374, it will probably go to Virginia first, and maybe they'll get it to me eventually.

Just saying. Internationalism is hard. If you want to go for the global market, it would behoove you to try to do it right.
That's a very, very silly idea. If the device can be jailbroken by browsing a webpage that exploits a vulnerability in the browser, such a page could also infect your device. The idea that the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad are any less vulnerable to viruses than any other networked device out there is just plain wrong. People can and will attack these devices, it's just a matter of how difficult it is; from my experience with auditing Apple's products, the difficulty level is generally somewhere between trivial and damn-near-trivial.
I had not thought of bloglines. Nice choice. Thank you sir.
What was the first self-help book?
I think paypal bought it from them.
So by their standard "everything" already works.

This assumes a policy of not needing to access anything on the wider Internet, and if there's a such a policy, it's for those in charge to determine or change.
It's true. It took me about a year to figure that out with my current project. I was building a sophisticated solution that I thought the market needed rather than focusing only on what the market wanted right now.

The solution was to focus on the simplest problem that the software solves. All the other features could still be valuable, but they will be released based on feedback from actual usage.
Oh, don't worry. VC's come with even more agendas...
I think this blog post REALLY overlooks the fact that interface localization isn't easy; even with a simple web forms.

The interface for a search engine is a single input field with dynamic suggestions and people were in an uproar when Bing didn't give suggestions that were localized to the user's country or language. That's to say, if one of the biggest software companies in the world can't get it right, then what hope does the average web developer have?
Postrank.com has plenty of feeds.
The author is stating Caffeine is dangerous to productivity if incorrectly used.

You may also wish to read the disclaimer of sorts at the bottom, and relax about a personal blog that has no sources, is purely anecdotal, and appears to be the author getting his thoughts down in writing.
It's really just limiting the difference in styles between the visited and non-visited. Which, if you think about it, is unlikely to affect too many layouts.
The classic joke that explains this: "Bill Gates Goes To Heaven" http://www.mooreschapel.org/fun/bill-gates-goes-to-heaven.ht...
Have you considered using the PostRank Topic API?

http://www.postrank.com/developers/api#topic
I think the smart thing about it is the workaround it provides for phones that don't have NFC functionality. NFC penetration is going to be way behind accelerometers for a while yet. Could be a good opportunity for mid-range/low-end handsets too.

Use cases - hmmm. Maybe the security of Paypal when buying things off Gumtree, a used car etc could be the benefit.
Good call, sir. Thank you.
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Caffeine is more common, but it's not always less dangerous. Drugs like ethanol and caffeine would never get FDA approval if they were discovered today. Modafinil (one of the more common study drugs) is quite safe. From the Wikipedia article on Modafinil:

Basti and Jouvet (1988) describe a suicide attempt using 4500 mg of modafinil; the suicidee survived with no long-term effects but temporary nervousness, nausea, and insomnia.

An equivalent overdose of caffeine (45x typical dose) would be lethal.
If you bump in the manner depicted in the Bump logo, you won't damage your phone.
Let me just stop you right there.

If you bash IE6 hard enough, those legacy systems will HAVE to be upgraded because they'll be so monstrously expensive. It's a free market, if you want to affect change then manipulate the price of stuff.

I'm in favor of everybody using this plugin because it saves _me_ money (and time) as a developer if legacy systems have to be upgraded. I don't care if other people have to pay, you and I both benefit!
It lists me as being in DC because I'm using an LoC computer. I'm in Culpeper VA.
One advantage is that I don't have to have your contact information, and I don't have to type out your email address.
A chair needs at least three legs, so does your business
Actually, as a web site owner, for a number of my sites, they are INTENTIONALLY USA only. Sorry that you happened to stumble across them, but I either do not care about your business, don't want to deal with the hassle (international shipped, phone, regulations, etc), or legally cannot serve your area.
I'm not snitko, but I don't see the problem. Could you please explain your reasoning?
Have you tried Alltop.com?
I think a line should be drawn between 'works on IE6' (not too much extra work) and 'looks as good on IE6 as on a modern browser' (a fair amount more work). I, too, ensure all my stuff works on IE6, but whether it looks as good is down to the client's call/budget.
Your contacts list might not contain your friend's PayPal email address, or it might not contain an email address at all. Bumping creates a unique identifier that connects all parties and their PayPal accounts where no such identifier previously existed. It is useful.
I find that each successive withdrawal is less severe. I get maybe two days of headaches at this point, not a week, and they are far less annoying and painful.

My body may be atypical, but it definitely reduced the severity of the withdrawal with every occurrence.
Tread carefully when spidering google, mail me for some more info on this.

Being IP banned from google is not funny.
So... Let's say that both proggit and hacker news have articles about plugging the CSS history leak. If I visit the link through proggit, the a:visited style is appled and I can see I've visited it.

Now I go to HN to see what's new and I see a link to the same article. Will my browser make it look like I haven't visited it because I haven't visited it through HN?

That would not please me as a user.
I'm pretty sure this criticism is not leveled at your sites, which doubtlessly have nowhere to enter a country, either. But if they have a space for your country but don't make it possible to enter foreign addresses, which is very often the case, then the operator has a problem and should probably think a little harder about their data structures and form layout.