skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does someone has any sources about this?

Try this for example: http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/~otfried/Mule/unihan.html

> Esp, why is SHIFT-JIS important? Is Unicode not capable of encoding the full Japanese language? What information would you loose by encoding with Unicode?

The problem is that SHIFT-JIS, and other regional east asian encodings, codify variations of characters that Unicode combine into one. The Japanese in particular dislike this conflation of characters that they feel should be separate. This process of combining characters was called Han Unification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

Now imagine that you're a Japanese user who feels that three similar ideograms are in fact sematically different, but a standards body has decided that the differences are merely stylistic and has combined them into one form: I'm sure you wouldn't be as willing to lay your language at the feet of Unicode and swear allegiance to the one true encoding.

Also consider that UTF-8 is optimized for efficient encoding of Western languages: a japanese text may be in practice four to eight times the size of a sematically similar version in a western language. SHIFT-JIS presumably does not suffer from this problem.

> This seems to be a much better solution than this encoding nightmare. Esp in a language like Ruby, I want to have it simple and straightforward.

Except that languages are not really that simple or straightforward. I appreciate the flexibility of Ruby 1.9's encoding system. The only thing really broken right now are the tools that wycats mentions in this post.
Which reinforces Steve Jobs's point that there is no working mobile Flash implementation yet.
> I'm not sure if Americans "expect to be bailed out all the time," but I do know that we expect as consumers not to have our rights trampled on arbitrarily.

Right. Personal responsibility means companies must be held responsible if they don't follow ethical standards, something that goes strictly beyond obeying the law. Personal responsibility is thus the foundation of a free market.
Good point. But that doesn't mean it's useless. Check it with an external P: If it's a paradoxical process like is given in the proof, it won't finish, which will be detected, uniquely, as a paradox because it won't halt.
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> I think the idea that humans are getting smarter and nobler is hogwash.

OK, find me a duel and a bear-baiting match in America and I'll believe you. Otherwise you're just mindlessly cynical, like any number of other teenagers.
"[I]ntermediary translation or compatibility layers" is directly from section 3.3.1 and the entire reason this thread exists. Please read the primary sources for context before condescending.
But those of us who don't get a sweet union deal have to live with a bankrupt state of California that can't negotiate their union labor contracts, a broken school system run by the country's most powerful union that resists all reform (except "more money for schools"!), bankrupt unionized automakers, a stale unionized postal system that is going broke, and even union grocery stores with long lines because the union resists putting in automatic checkout machines that they fear would take their jobs.

All but your very last example[1] are unionized public employees. They work for you and me, the taxpayer. I can't even begin to comprehend how unions in this sector have ever been a benefit to the economy or the public.

I find it outrageous that it was ever allowed to happen, since, evidenced by your own viewpoint and conclusion, it has utterly eroded what unionization stands for.

I agree that unionized industrial labor was a good idea in 1900. I don't think unionized public employees were ever a good idea. Isn't this kind of corruption the stuff of revolutions? "Taxation without representation" is what it appears to amount to.

In the private sector, unions might still make sense as a hedge against corporate exploitation of workers, as other commentors have pointed out. They also might not. Your grocery store example I've seen here in the Bay Area, and the market is quite unforgiving to a business with such slim margins.

[1] The automakers are a pretty muddled situation, though the US government now owns enough of GM that I'd consider it little different from the postal service.
Are you insisting that Darfur and North Korea are representative of the world as a whole? Do you really have that little conception, child?
I use this pattern religiously (I've learned some interesting things about who gives my email address to whom), and the problem has become a lot less prevalent over the last year or two, but it's still an issue in some places. Until recently, even Facebook and Dice.com wouldn't accept a '+', and while bn.com would accept it, the Barnes and Noble e-reader iPhone application wouldn't (which they've since fixed; I'm still absolutely floored by the amazing customer service experience I had with B&N as a result, compared to what I expected).

I've reached the point where, if your email validation is that badly broken, I'm probably not going to trust you with anything more important than that. It's made for an excellent trust litmus test.
Find out how a 30 year old lean startup,Apple, made billions by opposing facebook privacy issues and furthering HTML5 on the iPad by acquiring Kiko (YC S05). (techcrunch.com)
Job's response of 'Soon' doesn't sound any better than the vaguest response a developer could have given.

At least a developer might have told you what's next on the roadmap.
No, P(Q(Q)) will finish, because P(Q) will not, and Q(Q) will call P(Q), preventing Q(Q) from halting.

As to the definition, I suppose, though it's largely implicit, which is effectively a big no-no in proofs. But that doesn't show that a real-world P must finish. If it doesn't, the failure of it to finish can be detected as detecting a paradox: just detect if the halt-detection halts.
This touches on why I have grown to think that the institution of marriage is doomed. The best excuse for its continued existence that I have heard is that family, friends, and community gather to "witness" the commitment - presumably lending it some sort of strength.

But most of the above evaporate at the other end of the relationship: everybody wants to come to the wedding; nobody wants to come to the divorce. When it dissolves, "these things happen", "water under the bridge", yadda yadda yadda.

The community that witnesses a wedding has no teeth during the relationship either. It's no longer possible to shame people into keeping their vows. The population is too dense, and it's too easy to dispose of one set of friends who may disapprove of your behavior and reinvent yourself without necessarily even needing to move to another town. One of the underlying principles of Game (as in 'pickup artistry') is that there's no reason to feel fear or embarassment on approach because you'll likely never encounter the 'target' again.

And speaking of Game, Roissy has a 2x2 matrix of shame in a post he wrote about the Tiger Woods scandal. Worth reading if the death of shame is interesting to you.

http://roissy.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/the-medicalization-of...
Wonderful. And then when a tweak is needed to said libraries, you have to upgrade the browser to correctly render the web page?

Let's not.
I'm chime on reddit. I mod /video also. You can add me as a mod for /startups once reddit comes back up.
While I may be sympathetic to some of his thesis, I stopped reading when I realized he was making up numbers, or getting them from an unreliable source. The 80's and 90's were just fine for growth, thank you, and held for the most part above his magic 3% growth (82 and 91 were recession years) even so average GDP growth in both spans 81-90 and 91-2000 was 3.2%. Here are the numbers courtesy of the Statistical abstract of the United States calculating GDP in constant 1996 dollars:

1981 2.5%
1982 -2.0%
1983 4.3%
1984 7.3%
1985 3.8%
1986 3.4%
1987 3.4%
1988 4.2%
1989 3.5%
1990 1.8%
1991 -0.5%
1992 3.0%
1993 2.7%
1994 4.0%
1995 2.7%
1996 3.6%
1997 4.4%
1998 4.3%
1999 4.1%
2000 3.8%
2001 0.3%
2002 2.4%
Wow, that's depressing.

They moved out of the Elm Street building a year ago, but I thought it was because the Joy Street building was awesome. It looks like the main organizer, Meredith, moved away, and the place died.

Well, I can confirm that at least Sprout is alive and kicking.
Assuming that large portions of the Android Flash player are borrowed from the Linux version of Flash, I'm not very hopeful for the final product. Flash Player for Linux is by far the buggiest of the desktop implementations.

On the other hand, Linux users may get lucky and indirectly benefit from a renewed push to improve that code base!
The bug in my pseudocode is that I did the wrong thing after consulting P inside Q. I'm not convinced that using "program" or "Q" as shorthand for "program(inputs)" and "Q(inputs)" changes the semantics of the pseudocode or the implications of the paradox.
So vigilante justice is morally defensible now? I'd like to hear about your complete ethical system.
Can we get some definition of the word Deckware? Not even the google knows to make of it. If it is pre-written code then say so. What about something like jQuery? Can that be used?
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I'm here at the web2.0 expo and played with the Android tablet for 10-15 minutes today as well as with their Droid phone that has flash installed.

A few notes. I didn't see any software crashes. The tablet, on the other hand, did have quite a few hardware problems. But that's because it was literally made just this demo. The tablet is encased in a clear plastic case that looked like it was hacked together in some lab. One of the Adobe employees told me it had "a motherboard and NVIDIA card". Some of the hardware connections were loose apparently because when I would set it down on the table a bit too sharply, some of the buttons would fire sometimes sending me back to the home screen. The touch screen didn't seem the best quality as someone else noticed. It wasn't very responsive. Not sure if that was a hard drive or software problem.

On the Droid, I watched a movie preview on Yahoo Movies and it played flawlessly.

So as for me, from what I saw today, I'm cautiously optimistic about flash on phones/tablets. I'd still prefer HTML5 of course but flash on phones will work as Flash is slowly replaced over the next 5-6 years.
Yes but for example I also don't care about ANSI (and all those European encodings) if I have UTF-8/Unicode.
They already have a billion plus valuation, thanks to the investment by the Russian money laundering operation DST.

I really don't think location matters so much when it comes to dot coms. If you can get traction and revenue, does it really matter where you're located?
I think is that Apple is doing something which no-one else may have done in recent past.

1. Apple is in software business where it has championed the model of fixed engineering cost and variable revenue streams.

2. They execute well and their products are neat. (That is a understatement)

3. They are market makers. There products are not just stealing customers but also creating new customer base for these products

4. Their marketing model is un-parrelled. And no-one in industry has any chance to replicate that in near future

Compare that to other companies. Most of them are not innovative but profitable because they are big, have low cost products. Some are in utility/F&B domain where its tough to increase the price. And others don't have much competative advantage.

Software is still the most profitable business (by a big margin), if done right. Apple is just demonstrating that.
Web Kit isn't a single rendering engine.

http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html

There is a reason Safari on OSX performs much better then on Windows. Safari and Chrome are differnet browsers. Safari on Mac is different from Windows, even at the basic level. Web Kit is a foundation, not the end result.

Run over to the IE9 testing site, and run the animated stuff on Chrome and on Safari, and you'll see abysmal results when run on a Windows machine. Then, run the same test with Safari on Mac, and it will be like night and day.

Now, if IE9XP can't support the same features of IE9Win7 like SafWin can't support the same features as SafOSX, then there is arguably more harm in supporting XP from a developer stand point, and therefore, a user standpoint. As a developer, it's like having 2 more browsers to check for IE9XP/IE9Win7.

That's not even getting into the security concerns with XP.

Even Apple doesn't support Safari on Cheetah!
If I want to view a web page that you've created, I go to a server which you control (or your ISP controls). I don't have to go to web.com and click through to an account that you've created on the web.com service.

If I want to send you an email, I talk to my server, my server talks to your server, and you get an email in your inbox. Maybe I use GMail and you use Yahoo, but the underlying protocol is the same, so it doesn't matter.

Services like Facebook and Twitter have been written as a closed protocol right from the start, so you're not used to thinking of them in open or interoperable terms, but it looks like it's happening - it's just a question of time and the right impetus.

(Perhaps you're thinking of 'decentralised' as being able to host stuff on any computer in some sort of cloud, but I prefer to think of it as 'not controlled by any one entity' - maybe that's where some of the confusion is coming from?)
good counter point
I'm no fan of flash but if a user-mode app is crashing your OS, something is wrong with your OS.
Nice idea. I can certainly help mod it if you need it, but I think that it is somewhat without purpose, since the startup folk hangout on HN.

Maybe a Crosspost script?
I hope you're just joking, as I think you are.

Obviously that's wrong. And privacy should be respected, bug or no bug.
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haven't had any problems with flash on linux here...
I'll bet people are only interested in this because it (Flash on Android) was originally described as running "flawlessly". If they had just described it as alpha (and realistically, buggy), this would be a non-story.
I suspect that the secure sharing of music, video, and software will help drive the adoption of something like this.
Sure, just like non-software people are disinclined to configure web/email servers and set up large wired/radio communications networks.

They still surf the net, send email and talk to people on the phone though.
It looks like it's still flash. Why announce this before it's done?
These jobs are three year contracts at six figures a year. A GP from Pakistan can make $170k base + extra for o.b. or ER on-call. This is in an area of the country where you can buy a suitable home for $80k or a doctor's mansion for $200k. It's not a crap deal, there is no preference for foreign workers, the pay is the same. it's that American
doctors really won't do it. It's not really a problem, the small town I grew up in liked having the international diversity. Without the J1 there wouldn't have been a decent Kid's soccer coach, either.
I'm guessing flash will still crash in the production version, the only difference is that Google will have an android browser similar to Chrome in that flash crashing will not cause the whole browser to crash. I really doubt Adobe can fix all the long standing bugs in Flash before the release if they haven't been able to fix them for the past 5 years.
3 Rs, reading (w)riting and (a)rithmetic.

I've been a proponent of teaching that and rhetoric for a long time.
I think they view the music industry as a cautionary tale. The start of their big decline coincided with the rise of Napster. Rightly or wrongly, movie people drew the conclusion that music was killed by piracy and they would be next.
Good question, but none, really. It won't affect our SEO - we did this to improve the user experience on the site.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to this: http://letsfreckle.com/
Gotta post this somewhere to get it off my chest, so might as well be here -

...as someone who was using OS9 when Apple had a death watch on it there's a certain amount of schadenfreude, mixed with wonder, at this situation of Apple as the 800lb gorilla. I get a giant kick out of the whole thing. :-)

That is all.
Not everything successful companies do is worth copying (re: Groupon)
I find it rather risky to change something and expect compilers to catch all the errors.

Anyway, the non-typed languages I use tell me the line of code where the error occurred. Isn't that equivalent in this case?
As the article points out, they are only using parts of HTML5 that are supported by older browsers, including IE6.
Thank you for the information and the links.

But it still seems to me that extending Unicode to also include those variatons of characters is a better and more clean solution than these workarounds.

In your link, the author speaks also about some fonts being incomplete. The right solution about this would be to fix the fonts, not to switch to another encoding with its own font.

Having one encoding (Unicode) that is able to encode just everything would simplify everything.

Btw., you are speaking about space efficiency. Afaik, most Asian characters can be encoded as 2 bytes in UTF-8. You cannot get it much better. And the space required for text is in most cases much smaller compared to other media. Also, if there is much redundancy in it, it can easily be compressed (also in some transparent way if needed, like all Ruby strings with more than 32kb are automatically compressed internally or so).
When I-35 collapsed in Minnesota was your initial reaction to hate all people who build bridges?
Especially in the case of Avatar, did anyone really watch a cam and thought of it as a substitute for seeing it at the cinemas?
I don't think it's really fair to call this "multi-tasking". Curtainly a predecessor, though. A more accurate description would be "task switching", whereby each application had reserved memory, but only one application ran at a time. At the user's request, another application would take over and run. There was no CPU time-slicing. That came later, when Apple introduced the Multifinder extension in System 7.
If the library doesn't exist locally in the browser, the page will load in the same way it loads today (and in browsers that don't support this). Because the feature would only replace known (and working) URLs with a local copy, it's backwards compatible and would continue to work with new versions of the various libraries.
To get at least two waves of attention: (1) announcement; (2) delivery.
there is a lot of evidence to show consumers do not make entirely rational choices. Even if they did, trying to determine a utility function for a consumer would still fail. For instance, can you even with certainty determine your own utility function.

Of course; I never claimed otherwise. It's certainly true that any person's utility function is at least partly unknown to them, and in any case changes over time. As a result it has little value as a predictive tool. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Ludwig von Mises attacks this head-on in Human Action (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action ).

It's undeniable that at any juncture, the action that a person takes is based on some judgment, conscious or not (and quite possibly mistaken), that the chosen action delivers a greater utility than its alternatives.

Thus, the hypothetical postdoc-cum-bartender is deciding -- for reasons that we don't know, but real all the same -- that he would prefer to do his research over bartending, even to the extent of giving up $60K to do so.

Who are we to second guess his decision? Precisely because, and not in spite of, the fact that his reasons are inscrutable, we can only assume that he's making the best call he can. By what right can we override it? And more to the point, if his/her university is providing such a valuable career for him, who are we to say that they must sweeten the pot and throw in even more money?
Nate Silver's post has absolutely nothing to do with forecasting. Why include a quote about forecasting?

The quote is a snapshot of the thinking inside government statistics offices.

Nate Silver's evidence may have some flaws in it, but there simply is no better evidence out there.

Sure there is. Report the actual quantities of how many goods are being manufactured. Look at statistics for how many cars, refrigerators, tractors, memory chips, steel, etc is being produced over time. Then make your own subjective judgement about whether its better to produce a ton of steel or a dozen computer chips.
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You are making an assumption about my personal experiences that isn't based on complete knowledge of my life history. In fact, I had a very specific example in mind of a country that has become more free, more prosperous, and more safe during my adulthood because the people there stopped being afraid of the terrorist acts perpetrated by agents of that country's dictatorial former government. The courage of the people brings about the safety and the freedom and the sound judgment of the people. I know of a terrorist movement that has utterly failed because its victims ceased being afraid.
Facebook is stirring up this kind of sentiment in less than 0.1% of their users.
And here I was wondering what a serial port driver had to do with DVC and wikis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSSIL
Being In A Band vs. Being In A Startup
Looks like an interesting command. How does it know the root of the backup?
Minor nit: the Office of Strategic Services was the precursor to the CIA. The Office of War Information was a wartime propaganda agency rather than an intelligence/operations agency.
Been using Dropbox forever, got in on the Android beta the first night. This truly makes me realize how game changing this service is-now, without hacks or anything, I can have access to my whole filesystem from anywhere.

The app itself is excellent-it is simple, makes sense, and allows you to do what you expect-view and edit files, from anywhere, and in-sync in all locations. It also lets you access media stored on the DB, and you can upload right to it.
God Software
This is an essay I've been working on that captures some of the thoughts and ideas that my brother and I have developed over time. It is an analogy between software frameworks and religion.
For the purpose of shooting up your local mall, the difference between a semi-automatic AR-15 and a bolt-action hunting rifle is not that great, either. You'd get fewer bullets off but each individual impact would be worse (.30 caliber over .223) and if you aimed, and actually knew how to shoot, you'd probably do alright.
Does anyone know the combine revenue, debt and liquid assets of those companies?

It would be interesting to see how Apple matched up.