skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss the days the web was about content and people didn't expect accuracy down to the pixel in their HTML.
I'd like to see a clearer up-front description on the front page. This is clearly for people-in-the-know, so just letting me categorize this quickly would be really helpful.

I think this is something for doing server-side Javascript development, with integrated hosting and an IDE. It's not clear to me how things like persistence work; since Javascript is somewhat novel in this role these things aren't obvious. It's not like PHP, where I'd just assume MySQL.

I see you are talking about new programmers using this, but I wouldn't try to talk to both audiences at once. Either have a separate entry page for new programmers, or just skip it (realistically it's only early adopters who are going to be interested in this for the near future).
Terrorism was only one example for torture. In a direct war, the situation and "benefit" might be much higher.

Also, maybe the airport checks are already a mild form of torture, deemed an acceptable tradeoff by some.

Anyway, this discussion wasn't about torture. I am not pro torture. All I was saying is that the OP might change his mind with better data.
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You would be amazed how easy, enjoyable, cheap, and healthy lentils, peas, and a variety of other beans are for replacing meat.
Which data do you have? Just curious.
" We're the first generation with all the world's information at our fingertips."

We're a long way from "all the world's information" being available.

What we have is a seemingly endless stream of information, but it is neither complete nor well-vetted.

You spend considerable time wading through or past useless junk, ideally filter for the good stuff, but perhaps not knowing what's missing or what's really accurate.
There's chicken & egg problems here that Google is in a better position to overcome. If no one buys a "Google experience" phone because the customer service is bad, then there isn't going to be a big enough market to make a 3rd party company profitable.
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I don't think I know enough yet.
Probably you made him realize the importance of screenshots and working prototypes, while pitching.
I looked at ATS about a year ago, but I didn't really have the time to get into it properly. It seems like a very interesting language with a very flexible and powerful type system. Apparently it also produces some pretty fast C code. Maybe its time to look at it again.
Robot start price - $15 000, cracking into it across the net - priceless.
How is that any better than an engine programmed by experts?
How is forking going to help us getting uniform display of the elements?
"On what basis do you make this judgement?"

Because for the vast majority of web development, having browsers with similar performance to other browsers while supporting the same standards is vastly more preferable than having one widely-used browser with better performance in some areas that continues to make cross-browser development difficult or impossible.
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How would it be any worse than it is today?

http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
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Negative margin-top renders the same for me in every browser except IE6. This code renders a green rectangle border on top of its parent with negative margin-top even though it's inside:

#main{background:#F00;height:128px;width:128px;margin:100px;}
#shift{background:#0F0;height:16px;width:128px;margin-top:-16px;float:left;}

<div id="main">
<div id="shift"></div>
</div>

Can you give some example code of your problem? Also why would you ever be combining float and position:fixed? To my knowledge, if you set position to absolute or fixed, float is automatically be computed as none.
Who were your ancestors? How far back are you talking about? Hunter-gatherers? I think you'll find that people ate pretty much everything edible around and that meat was a highly desirable food and eaten whenever possible.
re: Zanga
My impression is that they are making use of the user data they are able to collect when people start using the app. Is ther any evidence that they are selling that data or otherwise doing something uncouth with it?
Anybody who is interested in Alan's point of view and want to know more or want to work on the systems we design based on "messaging all the way down" like our startup Morphle (see http://siliconsqueak.org ) should email us at aart5@knoware.nl (minus the '5'). The current work Alan is doing can be found at vpri.org
Not true. A pirate may well be a someone who would have bought the product retail if piracy wasn't available, but chose to pirate it instead because it's cheaper.

Even for those who would not have bought the product retail, but would have bought it at a lower price, that may be a market inefficiency, but it's also unavoidable. It's not currently possible to tell how much each customer would pay for a product and price it accordingly for each of them.
Usually when I buy something I speculate on there being no customer service experience at all. My N1 works fine, no need to get in touch with Google.
pretty much every change Yahoo has done has been a step backwards, except for changing the url to delicious.com
I agree that this is pretty frustrating - it's one of the things my django-html package addresses: http://github.com/simonw/django-html

{% field form.name class="myclass" %}
It makes me think of going to the supermarket where there are 80 different breakfast cereals. Some of them might be healthy for me; I need to figure out which they are. Tedious but doable.

Except in the Internet cereal aisle there are 80 thousand different breakfast cereals, unreliably organized. Yes, the healthy stuff is in there, but finding it is a whole other issue. Now I have to rely on a curator, and I need to know how best to find and pick one, which is a different sort of problem.
> it's more philosophical ... We are consuming everything without conscience

The crucial difference is that, unlike most physical things, informational copies are an infinite resource. The only essential moral action is to share them freely. Whether that causes problems is entirely conditional on particular economic systems.

It is indeed also true that supporting production is moral. But producing and sharing are not negatively dependent. If you don't do one, it doesn't do any good to then not do the other. They are mutually supportive: you should do both, and doing either you indirectly support the other.
That's a lot of words for saying "Facebook and Zynga entered a 5-year agreement on using Facebook credits in Zynga games, but details of that are not disclosed".

Reading all those press releases, I'm wondering who is the target audience for them?

* Surely it's not an average Facebook user - she does not read press releases.

* Surely it's not a journalist or a technical person - they don't need all the marketing mumbo-jumbo.

* Surely it's not an (educated) investor, for the same reason.

My question is, who?
Glad to hear about you like the idea.

We will add more forges, it is in our roadmap.

Crawling speed depends on the forges and if we have the project info or if is pending to be got for the first time.

Hopefully, the speed will become more stable and new projects, and contributions come up earlier in Masterbranch.
Your comment does makes sense. I should change the front page.

Applications has two places to store persistent data: database and file storage. The latter is rather common. The database is implemented on top of a custom query language designed for embedding into JavaScript.

Here is a database API description: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/guide/db-and-fs/

And query language description: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/ref/core/db/#query-language
Jira. It's an issue tracker that:

o Our legal team uses to track contracts
o Our helpdesk uses to track 20-30 requests a day. With SLA Timers.
o Our Project Teams use to track $20-$30 Million Dollar Projects,
with 30-50 subtasks each with independent dates.

And, oh, Yes.

o Our engineering team uses to track software defects (It's original purpose)

The 4.0 product is mind blowingly awesome, particularly with it's _super_ fast full text query (thanks Lucene). And, you can't beat the price for small shops - $10 for 10 users. (It goes up quickly after that, but the inexpensive buy in is great for small companies.)
I worked somewhere a while ago that requested YAML configuration files, since that was how the sysadmin team administered other existing pieces of software. Since settings.py is executable Python code, adding support for reading settings from /conf/django-app.yaml took just a few lines of Python in the settings file itself.
I see your point, but the difference is that land is fixed and generally easier to enforce authority over. International waters are outside normal jurisdictions by definition, so how do you grant and enforce property rights in non-coastal fisheries?

Say you want to divide up Atlantic fisheries for this purpose, trying to balance the demands of 40 or 50 countries that operate fishing fleets is going to be a nightmare. If you go just by coastal size, where do you draw the line over which countries are allowed to participate? Developed countries with better fishing and food distribution industries, like Canada or the EU, are going to claim larger chunks based on the size of their existing economy, whereas poor countries on the west coast of Africa that don't have blue-water fleets are naturally going to object that they're being cut off from future access to resources.
Indeed. When I ran a small-business software shop, the customers hardly ever were willing to spend enough time explaining what they wanted, because they couldn't imagine anything but what they wanted, and viewed having to specify it as some sort of attempt on our part to get out of doing something. Customers want to give a short summary of what they want, and then be pleasantly surprised by the great customized product they get in return. Once in a while, that even happens.
My conspiracy theory is that bigger firms are expected to have PR departments, and people working in PR departments are expected to write longer paragraphs to justify their existence.
Yes, I do. I read both of your methods, and I have a clear preference for Weinbergs method. It makes more sense to me from a neutral non-involved point of view.

Sure I could just defer to the fact that you have done so many deals and automatically declare you the winner, but I prefer to think things through on my own. Even if I am wrong, having examined it myself, I will be in a better position to understand why I was wrong.

I think you have a very thin skin and your attack against me is over-emphasized for whatever reason. Perhaps you should explain what exactly it is about me you dislike so much? From your very first reply in the last thread, you were taking potshots at me.
That explains it very well. I wasn't entirely sure if the stop command came from fear of retribution as the house came tumbling down or not. It was pretty apparent it was a self-made decision.
I think he forgets one specific form of denial: demands for impossible evidence.

Example: Creationists demand for a complete fossil record

Since things get destroyed, a complete fossil record is not going to happen. If evolution is true: we don't expect a complete fossil record, therefore lack of a complete fossil record is not evidence against evolution.
It can't directly distort science because a) people are applying for grants to conduct research. They don't yet know what the results are going to be, unless you accuse the scientific community of massive fraud. And, b) because research grants, at least the ones I know of which are given out by NSF and NASA, are not awarded based on what the government thinks but on how the proposal is rated by an independent panel of peer-reviewing scientists.

You can of course imagine second-order effects whereby the selection of the members of the peer-review committee is skewed by the program officers, picking panels that they think will give money to the programs they want. But if they consistently picked committee members that are out of the scientific mainstream, I think you'd hear a howl from the scientific community. I've heard plenty of complaints about the awards from people who weren't funded, but that the panels were stacked by people with predetermined ideas of what results should be obtained is not one of them.

As to your K-12 example, do you know for a fact that there are (competent) researchers who have applied for grants to conduct that study and were rejected? If not, you have no case.

If you think the government orders what research be done, you are woefully uninformed of how the vast majority of research is conducted in the US. Aside from a small number of researchers working in government facilities, research grants are awarded based on proposals from independent researchers. If no one applies to conduct a study, it won't happen no matter how much "the government" wants it to. And as far as I know, there is no government-run research facilities in the field of education.

And finally, in case you haven't noticed, Al Gore has not been affiliated with the government for a decade...
Again, that's the standard answer, but it's frequently repeated and never proven. I don't see it as anything more than conventional wisdom.
I sortof disagree, or at least look from a slightly different perspective. Stealing is always an option for any good. The only reason it's not efficient is A) people's morality and B) consequences. No matter the price, if the price is high enough and the good desirable enough to overcome B and fear of A, it will happen.

So I guess where I differ from you, is that the situation we find ourselves in could have come from media going from being inexpensive to becoming expensive as you suggest, but it also could have come from the increased ease of doing and getting away with piracy, and the general sense of entitlement that people have about it which overcomes the morality hurdle.

And if you don't think piracy is stealing, then piracy is just a very efficient action in the information economy, so there's nothing really to call wrong here.
Congrats on the move and new space. Looks absolutely incredible.
They would find a way ;-)

WebKit variations happen mostly in mobile platforms. That would be expected as the system resources are so much scarcer than they are on desktop computers.
And clearly because all research takes place in the United States...

No wait, all research takes place in areas that have the exact same political spin....

Wait, that's not true either... Hmm
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You made it abundantly clear that not only didn't you read the article, you're not the least bit interested in learning new facts, just in labeling any concern about the environment as "green scaremongering".
With very little addition, something like this could be used to allow people to control machinery remotely. I'm thinking of commercial janitors (vacuum cleaners could be remotely controlled) and lawn mowers. Both of these activities are mainly just walking or riding around guiding a noisy piece of equipment which could be stopped if something went wrong. Also, machines could be semi-autonomous: controllable by a human when one is available, and able to do useful work by itself when not being human controlled.

You probably wouldn't want to drive a car or fly a plane with this yet, as a network glitch could result in disaster, but there are plenty of activities where a shut-down can be done safely.
I don't think a startup is defined as having a life of 6 months or less. The large majority of startups must have a few dozen employees - which is exactly where training would help.
Are there good backend web frameworks for C, C++ or Java, with enough users and mind share that they won't die from lack of interest?
Cool idea, but I would prefer it if you calculated words as groups of 5 letters (that's how it was calculated back when I was learning to type), and not as number of logical words. Because right now you're getting variable length chunks of text but my eyes really like to scan in uniform length chunks.

For instance suppose I am reading in 5 word groups. Some groups I read faster than others. So even though my average reading speed is a bit above 700 wpm, at 700 wpm in your application I have noticeable pauses where I've finished the current chunk, and I have chunks I do not finish. It is very frustrating.
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Well, Google seemed to disagree somewhat when they launched the maligned Buzz. Not that you don't make a good argument, but just to say that Gmail wasn't off-limits for a while.
>Of course federal funding distorts science. How could it not? It's naive to think otherwise. Politics pervades all the other areas of government spending. Are you saying that scientists and their funders are somehow superior to everyone else? That they have a special gene that makes them bias-free?

This is pretty sad and pathetic. If you are so confident, please head over to the NSF and go through grant proposals. Let us know when you prove your case with evidence that is so obviously true to you.

>Why don't government-funded scientists study whether thousands of math teachers can be taken off government payrolls and replaced with Khan's videos?

People do study different methods of teaching. I'll think you'll find that videos are no substitute for human interaction though.

Your other commentary on various things is just rather confused, but not lacking in certainty. Congratulations on becoming a fountain of truth.
It might be nice to be able to have a single article with several links. That way, we wouldn't have the discussion here fragmented between the official announcement and each blogger's take.
Not really, unless you're willing to stretch sustainable to the breaking point.

As I understand it, after a few years the floor of the fish farm is basically a solid toxic layer of fish food and fish shit, and it becomes unsuitable for farming. That's not sustainable.
Except now, the condom isn't just pointless, but it's an active threat in itself.

You might even say it's... a trojan.

groans
I'm not sure how much you think "user data" is worth. I can assure you that Zynga makes more money playing virtual Monsanto than they ever would selling user data.
Hi dlnovell, I am trying to learn this skill. Any advice or book recommendations? Do you speed read well also, or does your comment only pertain to your father? Thanks!
Good question. When the sound comes out of one robot's speaker and into the other's microphone, it sounds a bit tinny though intelligible enough. One of our planned hacks is to shortcut the audio inside the cloud, but it's tricky to not end up with extra echoes.
What I found interesting was that the no hiring manager strategy doesn't help much... also I wonder where they got the data from for other hiring strategies that they don't use.
Yes, I think there's a huge opportunity to automate the easy 80% of many jobs without requiring general AI. You just bring the people back on line when it gets stuck.
I think one can get a good sense of a team's approach within an hour long meeting.
This is an excellent point that I think is not mentioned enough in the open source world. This should especially ring true after the recent top link on Why The Lucky Stiff and his "digital suicide". If something is that important to your business, you'd be a fool not to hold on to it, and how are you going to do that if you don't own it yourself?
True. That's exactly why claims that have many independent lines of evidence, like global warming, should be taken seriously.
That's just what his replies from the other thread make it seem like. Perhaps there is some more thorough method he goes through, but from what I recognized, it seemed very impulsive and surface.

And if anyone has a chip, take a look at his first reply to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356557

I'm assuming he knows that I do iPhone apps, and when I ask a perfectly valid question he hits me with that nugget.
Right, MS is actively trying to slow down progress. Republicans eat old people's medicine, democrats want to kill babies. Facebook wants to steal your soul, Google wants your first born child. Sure.
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Blech!

Your #4 is basically saying "I concede that it's actually real but am going to deny it for unrelated economic ideological reasons."

I mean you're pretty wholeheartedly embracing the term "denier" there.
So choose a good password, or always wear pants.
What's the YouTube video about? It says the video is not available.
Well, although I don't want to get into any argument about it (I was meaning it as a "winning quote" in general - not just r.e. climate science) I think your wrong.

Because considering GW as a single claim in entirety is incorrect - there is a lot of claims and elements that make it up. It is more a field than a claim.
Aside from doing an unusually large number of deals, I don't see any resemblance between them whatsoever.
I said "either." It's completely plausible that their prioritization process is disfunctional.

What's your explanation for why IE is consistently out of sync with the rest of the browser landscape?
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If you really want to know peoples motivation for downloading copyrighted material, or wanting copyright reform, there are countless of resources on the Internet and elsewhere. This isn't the '80s. Piracy has been common place for at least a decade now. There just isn't any reason nowadays not to know about piracy, even if you don't support it, other than ignorance.
'strue (N1 here) but it does not work all that well. you can also zoom by double-tap or by using a pair of +/- buttons at the bottom of the screen, and I often find myself zooming accidentally by hitting the latter.

As a matter of fact I'd say the browser is one of the weaker aspects of the phone. I hope they improve this soon; I'm not sure what impact Android 2.2 will have, but my understanding is that it's only out to developers this week, rather than the general public for a while yet.