skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... and that pushes FF and others to support border-radius without the vendor tag, might that be a good thing?

Only if border-radius doesn't change it's semantics; say the standard switches from radii to area. Or perhaps they add some semantics for negative lengths.

If anything like that happens, then we now have two border-radiuses: Microsoft's and everyone-elses.

I think that with border-radii this isn't likely, but for whatever is still under debate, we could still be looking at this sort of thing.
It's not possible for the person who found the phone in the bar to both not know the phone is a valuable prototype owned by Apple and know that it would be worth $5000 to a tech news website.
This depends heavily on location and field. If you are outside of the valley, anywhere between 45k-65k seems about right to me in almost any programming related position.
Actually, if you look at the original tests they submitted it was 100% for IE across the board, and if I recall correctly (since they've just replaced the old page) no other browser passed any subset 100%. Clearly they cherry picked the tests, it makes no sense that every test they wrote just happened to pass at that point in time. Either they didn't publish the tests that IE failed, or they intentionally stopped writing new tests some point before they went public to give them time to pass everything fully.

Of course after they published these results it was pointed out that a) the test were wrong and so other browsers were marked as failing, even when they actually passed, and b) IE was getting things wrong but getting marked correct because the tests were wrong. (That's not even touching the fact that they don't even indicate that Firefox and Webkit would pass a whole heap of the tests just by changing a single string in their code to check a different prefix)

They've since scrambled to get their column back up to 100% pass rate and that's why they've updated this page with their new version. Pretty weak all round.
I absolutely agree that one should, at a minimum, test meaningful statements before resorting to pointless or tautological verbiage.

That said, if it turned out that 'Infiniti G37: car.' was split testing better than 'Infiniti G37: the high-performance luxury sedan', I'd double-check their work, then roll out the new slogan. After all, at some level it's more to do with what works than what is elegant and satisfying.
The management of these companies is mostly in the U.S. and knows about it, though, even if they're careful never to themselves touch the "found" prototypes.
Home-grown terrorism - Terrorist prosecutions in America
Funny, because you're able to create SWF content using only free, open source software, including their own compiler. I don't believe your point holds. Do you ever do any Flash work?
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I agree, in general, as a former Teamster working for UPS. I moved out of the union and became a supervisor for UPS. It was hell, where I couldn't penalize any worker for showing up late, for not working, for leaving early. Some workers could not be motivated, period, as 'senior' union employees told them the tricks that made it so they didn't have to work hard. Meanwhile, my trucks were late to pull, meaning I got my ass chewed out, because I regularly had 3/10 employees skip work. The only way I could get things going was to literally bribe them with popsicles (hot warehouse in summer) and energy drinks from my own pocket $$$. The worst was having to give skilled positions to the most senior, rather than the most capable. Made for a nightmare operating environment.

However, my dad is a union employee - he works on elevators. It's a small union, and it doesn't have a bunch of 'no penalization' bullshit, and no seniority promotion clauses. The benefit it offers are a standardized health care package, so he can keep the same healthcare and retirement regardless of employer (there are only a few elevator companies anyway). The union also guarantees overtime. He can still get canned if he starts skipping work, doesn't perform etc, it just takes legitimate documentation to have happen.

There are upsides and downsides, but I believe a well run union is a good thing, but in general unions are not well run and are in actuality, terrible for the private sector.
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I'm glad they're staying downtown - I wish more tech companies here had the balls to do the same, instead of setting up campuses out in the boonies and forcing everyone to drive and live in disconnected suburbs (MS, Google, looking right at you guys).
I think it would have a private part that enables you to manage connections to other homepages, control what's public and private, and aggregates news from other connections.
You're missing the bigger, and much more legitimate omission: Windows Mobile 7 is running with IE7. Which effectively means these things won't work their way into WinMo for at least a year after the release of IE9.
No. They're saying there's a bunch of inane people who think Adobe is against HTML5 and that HTML5 is the death of Flash, while it isn't.
> They repaid the loan because they ended up not needing the cash. It can't get simpler than that.

However, the point stands that they received lots of other bailout money, money that they haven't repaid.

Yes, that money went for "ownership" and we can hope that is eventually worth more than it cost, but it isn't worth that now and it hasn't been returned to the US taxpayer.

Basically, we hold part of GM as collateral. If they fail, we're out the money.
I see that the namespaces for values and types are somewhat separate in Haskell. Could you please describe your confusion again in different words?

Perhaps I am too used to Haskell, but I do not see anything confusing in those two definitions. What do you mean with "previously used to instance types"? As far as I can remember => is only ever used in the context shown above.
I am middle-aged. I do not find him to be very funny. Who does? Who doesn't? Reference your age please.
But look at the iPhone helicopter we just saw — why should I only be able to use an iPhone for that? Why can’t you do that with any phone? If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People were using different gauged rails. Your cars would literally not run on those rails. That’s counter to the web. The ‘rails’ now are companies forcing people to write for a particular OS, which has a high cost to switch.

What a silly argument.

But look at the Quickbooks app we just saw. Why should I only be able to use Windows for that? Why can't you do that with any OS? If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People were using different gauged rails. Your cars would literally not run on those rails. That’s counter to personal computing. The ‘rails’ now are companies forcing people to write for a particular OS, which has a high cost to switch.

(Footnote: QB for Mac is not the same product or feature set.)

But look at the SUV we just saw. Why should I only be able to use gasoline for that? Why can't you run that with any fuel? If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People were using different gauged rails. Your cars would literally not run on those rails. That’s counter to the open road. The ‘rails’ now are companies forcing car buyers to buy SUVs for a particular fuel, which has a high cost to switch.

Etc.

This is the sort of thing markets decide.
My memory might be betraying me, but I believe I saw either a comment or a blog post from you at some point where you mentioned being Republican.
Probably bigger factors:

1) pre-1970s income tax used to be 90% for the highest tax bracket.

2) Nixon killing the Bretton Woods system in 1971.
Answering my own question here from the linked Q&A with Luis Villa: http://joindiaspora.com/2010/04/30/a-response-to-mr-villa.ht...
Really?

http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/

So less features, slower adoption, and worse performance will kill the Flash Player. Interesting.
It would be fiscally irresponsible for an established, free-of-charge web site not to sell your privacy to the highest bidder.

The solution is to not rely on "sites" -- to not give them the opportunity to act as corporations must.

My take on it is http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/04/10/towards-a-gnu-autono... , but there are other takes to be had.
I know that's the HN guidelines, but I can't help feeling that upvotes signify agreement more than admiration...
Interesting. This seems to be toying around with a similar idea that services like Raptr.com offer with this line:
"will include the ability to tell your Facebook friends when you’re playing the game"

Does that mean we'll see more games doing this and Facebook becoming basically the defacto for everything you're doing online? Frightening :)
Yes. Lisp is an acceptable functional language, and its communities also value functional approaches. (Whereas Python gives you almost the same support from the language, but much less from the communities and libraries. (My main grief is that dicts only have side-effecting operations.))
An interesting quote:

The “concurrency problem” is a bogeyman of the field of computer science that has
reached the point of being used to frighten children. The problem is usually stated
equivalently to “How do we make computer languages that effectively describe
concurrent systems?”, where “effectively” is taken to mean “without tripping over
our own coattails”. This problem statement contains a hidden assumption. Indeed,
the concurrency itself is not difficult in the least—the problem comes from trying
to maintain the illusion that the events of a concurrent system occur in a particular
chronological order.
Considering the extremely small numbers both before and after I doubt you could find any statistically significant trend either way.
My point was I already have a battle.net account I don't want to need a facebook account to access useful features, and as long is that is not the case I am okay with facebook integration.
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"The last 100 years or so have been the most meritocratic we've ever seen,"

Not true. Society nowadays in the US is actually relatively immobile, compared to the 19th century.

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

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

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

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

All five were from poor/middle class backgrounds. Compare to Bill Gates, whose father was a name partner in the largest law firm in Seattle, Preston, Gates & Ellis, and whose mother knew the CEO of IBM.
I guess Apple has some level of hardware acceleration going on with Safari 4... Browser flip is running at around 60 fps, the flickr app does slow down but not as severely as the video shows. The scrolling text doesn't really work at all though hah. (13" MBP)
This doesn't sound any more obnoxious than Steam's community integration. I'm sure it will be less so without a chat window popping up every two seconds -- while you're playing (ala Steam). It doesn't even suggest that it will tell all your friends and that you have no control over it. You're just making that assumption.

".. will include the ability to tell your Facebook friends when you’re playing the game and what your doing in it."

Sounds exactly like Steam.
> This is arguably true. It seems that a big reason for the GM bailout was keeping the union workers employed, and keeping business going to the parts suppliers.

And to keep the flow political contributions from unions into the politician's coffers.
The WAL log/hot standby you can read from in 9.0 are big. Back when I used PostgreSQL they were the biggest missing features that I wanted.

If you're doing reporting then you really care about analytic queries. That is in 8.4. But the truth is that most developers don't use their databases in ways where they will benefit. However if you run across cases where you think, "I wish I could just suck this data out, sort it this way, then do this simple processing/grouping and upload that back into the database" then you have probably run across a use case for analytic queries. With analytic queries the only cases where I've had to do that are to join data that is not in the database, to process datasets that were too big for the database server to physically handle, and once because performance really, really required it.
The book introduced the second pattern out of the blue. What is the difference between those two function definitions? What does "=>" mean in this context? a :: b -> (c d) -> e makes sense to me, but f :: (g h) => i -> j -> k does not.

Here is the page that suddenly introduced that second form: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/data-structures.html

It is entirely possible I missed some context somewhere in there; "namespaces for values vs types" might be my clue. :)
I don't even trust providers enough to provide a 301 redirect, but your paranoia may vary.
> " The Unions had nothing to do with that"

Disagree. I've worked in that industry and the amount of union pressure to resist automation (read: loss of jobs) is intense. While Toyota, non-unionized as it is, automated the shit out of their production processes (thereby increasing reliability, IMHO the primary cause of their victory over American cars), GM was stuck with a far more manual labor force.

I've seen first-hand the failure rates between parts built by hand vs. built by machines. It's night and day (think 5-10x higher).
By putting it inside of square brackets.

[2001:db8::a00:20ff:fea7:ccea]:80
Yeah, it's frustrating that it gets propagated as truth rather than allegory. Some day I'd like it to find a home amongst Aesop's fables. The fox and the grapes, the tortise and the hare, the boiling frog...
Can this be real?: http://imgur.com/fwP2Z?tags
The making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI
The same could be said of the CLR, and there have been efforts like Mono to replicate it independently of Microsoft. Nevertheless, in practice Microsoft control the .NET platform and the CLR. Like any other platform, they can control what underlying features of the OS or hardware it does or doesn't support, and they can give their tooling an advantage over free, open source tooling.

For example, what if they add a new set of op codes to the next release? Don't their tools arrive in the marketplace with full support of the new op codes while the free, open source tools must toil away to replicate them?

We can quibble about how much advantage their tools have in the marketplace, but unlike the late Sun Microsystems they are very clear about being in the business of making money from tools and commoditizing operating systems, browsers, and hardware to support that business model.
Are you suggesting that Facebook integration of any kind, for any game whatsoever, will always end up being what you saw on Farmville? Maybe you're not even trying to make a point of discussion.

Edit: Yeah, obvious troll is obvious.
Wow, trust microsoft to force you in to subscribing for a windows live account just because you bought a phone.

All these silly corporate tie-ins with little to no added value.
It doesn't just say Apple on the back. It's disguised with a removable case to look like a previous model, has stickers on it with serial numbers, and the Gizmodo staffers evaluating it are expert commentators on the gadget industry.

Now you could say that the Hogan fellow who found it is naive, and it's apparent that a lot of people were not aware of finders' legal responsibilities in California; ignorance is not a legal defense, but that means only that an attorney can't offer it as a reason to have a case dismissed. A jury and judge might well regard his crime as a petty one and find him guilty only of a misdemeanor.

But where Chen (and indirectly, his employers) are concerned, they really should know better because the size and practices of the industry they report on is exactly what brings a sufficiently large audience to sell advertising.
for nyc or sfbay or seattle?
My husband is a Korean citizen who came to the US and got an English PhD, and is now going for an MFA in creative writing. Both of his parents came to the US for graduate degrees, as well, before returning to Korea. His mother has an English PhD, and his father a Sociology PhD.
Yeah, your kids should be quite and respectful... but in the real world sometimes that isn't going to happen because, well, they're kids. It just takes one time to make you feel a little uneasy about being on the phone during an important conference call.

I have three of them and luckily I don't need to be on the phone much, but my ultimate plan is to build a detached home office. Not a solution for everyone, but if you have the land and skills you can do it yourself with very little cost when you factor the value it adds to your home.

This article also points out a couple other bonuses, mainly that it gives you a physical divide between home and work, which I think is a hard problem for anyone that works at home.

http://shedblog.historicshed.com/2008/12/perfect-home-office...
>Hiking for a week or so while covering ~20-30 kilometers per day is hardly beyond a motivated individual.

In America there are lots of people who do this for fun; it's called backpacking.
Ok, well, I don't play Steam games, so I don't know much about this. I imagine it would annoy me too.

> "what your doing in it"

sigh
My thoughts would be that heat would become an issue. RFID chips are much lower power.
So you're specifically speaking of China, then? Lots of students from the developed world come to the US for schooling, as well, and see virtually no change in their lifestyle.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." — Jefferson

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." — Charles A. Beard
In the future facebook will be integrated with everything.
Harshpotatoes just zergling rushed a newb.

Harshpotatoes just refinanced his home.

Harshpotatoes is browsing milfhunter.

What's on your mind?

On a side note. Will voyeurism still be illegal in the future if everything is public?
I think the main difference is that there would be a "behind the scenes" component that would allow profiles on different sites to exchange information in a secure way, while supporting different levels of privacy, etc.

I think a home page will play a part by integrating into the service. Instead of having a Facebook home page, you might go to any of a number of sites that would provide an aggregated view into your portion of the social fabric. Instead of looking at peoples profile pages, you would go to their profile page on a blog or anywhere else. This, too, would integrate into the underlying service.

This is all supposition, of course...
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If their contribution is greater, then why isn't somebody willing to pay them more? If there was such a trove of hidden value, you would think that some greedy capitalist would snap it up and exploit it.

You should ask a postdoc making ~30k a year to do cutting edge science the same question. They could triple that tending bar.
Perhaps so, but in most economic espionage cases the police are tipped off by the competitors to whom the secrets are offered - possibly out of fear that they're being set up for a sting, but that's neither here nor there.
There's a much greater chance that your children's school bus will be in a horrific traffic accident.
My grandma is more tech-savvy than my university.

We were scheduled to adopt Google apps this February, but at the last minute a group of professors stymied the proposal for a number of bogus "privacy" concerns, which included, and I wish I was kidding about this one, a fear that our data could be hosted on a Google server in a country with questionable human rights laws. What?!

Meanwhile, we use the ancient open-source Horde e-mail system, which is slow, frequently down, and far less secure than Google's. It's expensive to maintain, and its webmail interface looks like it was designed by a kindergartener in the mid-90's. Plus, our pricey yet outdated university servers are just sitting in some random IT room on campus, and are probably far more susceptible to data theft than anything in the cloud (both virtually, and in the form of someone just picking up the servers and walking out with them).

The future is in the cloud. Institutions wise enough to adopt it will enjoy huge benefits; those who are too afraid will be left behind.

And don't even get me started on the generally sorry state of technology use in education...
You may want to look at Salary.com, PayScale.com, and Glassdoor.com. They should give you a pretty good idea.
I just ran across this site. Didn't comment yet. What do you all think?
Maybe I should just comment over there, huh...lol
$80K is normal in those places if you're pretty good. Maybe more at Amazon since it's a hardship post.
You just used the phrase "catch up" (twice!) to describe other browsers that are far ahead of IE in pretty much every objectively measurable respect.

Clearly publishing a comparison of a "platform preview" (i.e. not even a nightly, it's just the core rendering engine) against the stable, released versions of other browsers is an effective psychological manipulation when even someone who is pointing out that very fact can jump to the conclusion that all these other browsers haven't progressed in the meantime.
I think the headline writer did not understand the article. The high pay is going to "professions, such as electricians, engineers and scientists" working for mining companies. Not miners.
Firefox side tree of tabs
Well, if you look at it that way, a blog isn't any different than a traditional homepage either. :) But if not for the structure that blogs impose and the fact that non-technical people can edit them, the web would still be majority "Welcome to the Jones Family Homepage: Click to look at our vacation pictures from 2 years ago! (We can't update anymore because our kid moved out and we don't know how to change anything.)"

That aside, it looks like they're building in GPG based sharing (to limit _who_ you're actually sharing with—a more and more common problem these days) and some kind of capability to automatically publish to/subscribe from friends' nodes.
Good idea in using Netcraft. This certainly makes some sense. As AllRecipes is almost a decade old and based in Seattle, i can understand why they are on a Microsoft Stack.

Thanks!
Maybe Facebook integration is scary to those who don't have experience with a community integrated into their games. That is understandable. FYI that was a quote from the article.
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If facebook is stirring up this kind of sentiment then it could very well be they have a real problem on their hands.

Apparently it is ok to take your users for a ride, but only so far.

I'm pretty happy about all this, maybe there will be a serious push back against all these companies that see the information they hold about their users as their 'product'.

What's next, distributed search engines?
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