skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not IE6, but subprofile.com was locked into one specific version of Apache 1.x. The service allowed you to create an extended "AIM profile" (a 'subprofile'), and your friends could click through to see everything in the same window. Lots of people (myself included) created subprofile-like services, but the subprofile folks found the one version of Apache that caused headers to be sent in such a way that you stayed in the AIM profile window when clicking on their links. In contrast, for any of the other services, a click would take you to a normal browser (much lamer, of course).
Like I said, it was a simplistic and contrived example. Obviously if the list was longer or the HTML contained more than a simple <li> tag, then the boilerplate repetition becomes more annoying.

But who said anything about a Home model? What if I was just adding a list of links to the footer of my page? E.g. things that have nothing to do with the application or data but are necessary for presentation on a webpage.
Might H&M head to Australia?
Fatality rates for occupants of cars, pickups, and SUVs
I think that wishing for it to be one way is what makes it not work. This woman's husband didn't want an understanding partner, he wanted a battle. And she didn't want to understand, she just wanted to not get caught up in it herself.
"there is not a person alive who gets to that age who does not have to deal with it at some level"

I figure that there are multiple events in everyone's lives like this: quarterlife crisis, midlife crisis, tragedies, deaths of loved ones, broken relationships- these are part of the shared human experience. I occasionally try to remind myself that in all likelihood, I'll have to go through each one of these situations at some point in life. If I mentally prepare for them in the present, it usually doesn't take away the pain when I do find my world turned upside down, but it certainly helps me see the light at the end of the tunnel and think more clearly.
It used to be that SUVs were more dangerous overall because of roll-overs, but not anymore, apparently.

By the way, I'll be in the market for a new vehicle soon. If anyone knows where I can find the same stats, broken down by make and model, it would be very useful to me.
Thanks for extracting bmz into a standalone. I actually went searching for it after reading the article's comments last night and came across your link. One question I have is how up-to-date is this version of bmz? It says that it's from a Hypertable commit dated Jan 25, 2009. Would I be able to find a newer version in Hypertable's source?
Thanks, this is pretty much what I wanted!

And sorry for not searching more deeply.
How Cornelius Ryan’s 'The Longest Day' changed journalism
Scala's Problem of Perception
SUCH an annoyance! I've had to put a custom hacks in place to allow interfacing with legacy databases! Nasty nasty stuff :(
This is why I write web apps.
Samsung May Be ‘Uncatchable’ With $15.6 Billion Spending Plan
I'm not really a big fan of how writing custom template tags throws you back into the land of string substitution: the entire problem that templating languages were meant to solve in the first place!

Jinja2's macros are a much more elegant solution, IMO.
If you are into buckling-spring (IBM model-M keyboard-style clicky keys) and split keyboard layout, you should get this:

http://www.ergonomicsmadeeasy.com/store/integrated-pointing-...

and then get a ps2 -> usb converter.

I use it with my MBP. it is great!
Launch: 37signals Job Board redesign
Great quote. Made me curious about the author.
You're right that it's ok to repost Quora content anywhere as long as it includes a link - more details here: http://www.quora.com/How-can-material-on-Quora-be-reused-els...
I am not disagreeing with you but can I just say that you can really only know how it affected you - and as it felt so natural it is easy to assume that everybody is affected in a similar way.

I remember reading a pedophile stating that all men were attracted to young girls, deep down in their hearts. Anyone who denied it would be lying, to their surroundings or themselves. It's easy to see how someone who has such desires would think that it applies to everybody because it feels so ingrained.

As I said, I am not disagreeing with your point, just making an observation about how easy it is to see one self as the norm.
Thinking about your having to train your QA people as opposed to improving the experience of paying customers seems like the wrong way to go about it.
Fair enough. But you haven't given us your definition of engineering yet. According to your wiki page:

Traditionally, the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science".

You evidently subscribe to this Romantic definition of art, but claim that engineering is neither art nor science. So that makes it... religion?
I'm guessing there are not all that many applications on the AppStore that sold 3,000 copies at $30 each. That isn't really a stratospheric level of success on the open Internet. Trust me.
Raking in pledges, not donations. I wonder what the conversion rate is.
As someone who works with Linux, Mac and Windows on a daily basis (Work is most Linux with some Windows, Mac for home) I have a very strong preference for native UIs.

My brain seems to have no problem at all switching between the 3 OSs, and remembering all the conventions, shortcuts etc, but I find it's the cross-platform apps that trip me up and cause the most frustration. Why? Because they look sort of native, but they don't work native. Shortcuts are different, menus are different, buttons use different conventions (OK/Cancel in the wrong order), OS specific features don't work (like Cmd Ctrl D) etc.

For me, the idea "But if you make a totally native UI you now have a lack of consistency between products." is a trap, and that the opposite holds true; lack of consistency is good as it tells your brain how that app should behave, but cross-platform consistency is bad as it sends wrong or confusing messages about what to expect re app behaviour.
My original submission linked to http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2008/occupants.h... which is where "Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles 1-3 years old, 2008" are to be found. Someone changed the link and the title.
Perhaps a digression, but xpdf isn't a sane mouseless PDF viewer?

One of my favorite features is pressing 'q' causes it to quit, solely because I can quickly (It's blazing fast, at least on Linux) open up a pdf, pageup/pagedown through it, and quit the application quickly, efficiently and easily.

So it's not built with the most attractive toolkit, but it does seem to meet your requirements, no? (Okular is close to converting me from xpdf, but it's those extra several milliseconds during startup and the lack of a single key to quit the app that keeps me with from switching.)
the patches directory that mq uses can be put under hg control.

i don't know about git reset, but everything you mentioned before can be done with mercurial (mq, histedit, ...)
recursion is the same as iteration in a tail-call optimized environment. Granted, the JVM isn't tail-call optimized, but whatever.
I'd be curious to see whether there's a strong effect in multivehicle collisions from the other vehicle's model.
i guess i will have to try git to be sure, but i really don't see a difference here. usually if i'm going to try something drastic, i try it on a clone that i know i can throw away.
It's not that simple though, funding comes in many forms and at different times. Maybe large amounts of money upfront without any product is bad, but large amounts of funding after having built something and gotten traction is good.

If money were of no concern and you were solely interested in maximizing their chances of success would you give each Y Combinator company 10 or 100 times as much money?
I'm not sure why this is Hacker News, but I upvoted it anyway because, having read it, I find that Cornelius Ryan is now another one of my heroes.
I'm surprised not to see this in other comments, but RealBASIC is surprisingly awesome for cross-platform application development. It certainly has its limitations (BASIC), but you can crank out Linux, Windows, and Mac executables with nearly no OS-specific code.

The enterprise license is $1000, but it was worth it for my company.
Excellent. Will read.
For my final-year undergraduate computer science project, myself and my project partner built a headset which consisted of wireless headphones, an accelerometer, a digital compass, ubisense location tracker (since been replaced by a high quality PS unit) and an ultrasonic sensor. It could serve a similar goal as the cane in this video and we had two demonstration applications based around the idea of using it as a guidance system for blind people: one was using audio "waypoints" to guide the wearer and the other was to detect obstacles using ultrasonic and providing audio feedback to give the user an idea of the obstacles location and size.

Other demo apps we created are a virtual band (you could walk around and between the instruments that were playing) and a virtual zoo (same idea as the band, except we played animal noises when you approached certain areas, demonstrated its location-aware use).

While we worked on this, we had some exposure to research being done in similar areas and one PHD students who was working on haptics was working on a virtual white cane - I guess a fancy high-tech version of the cane in this video (using haptic feedback instead of a buzzer and vibtrations, to give fine-grained feedback).

Since completing the project, my project partner worked on improving the headset for the first few months of his PHD and the hardware (which we built ourselves) was replaced with professionally manufactured (and I'm told millitary grade, eg our $25 accelerometer was replaced by a $2000 super-accurate one) components.

I guess what I'm saying is that the research is there and some work has been successfully done in this area, but very little has been commercialised so far. Perhaps these girls' success will inspire others to commercialise similar tools to aid people with disabilities.
I really don't follow this argument. git's interface is a giant turd. I've been using it for months, and it still hasn't stuck, no matter what tutorials I read. The normal workflow needs far too many commands and special options, local vs. remote branching seems to do weird things, and the error messages are completely obtuse.
Does it matter to the user? If user's are just using the web version then who cares how easy your app is to monetize.
IPad effect
I've had my iPad for a little over a month. Just today, I was using my desktop and wanted to bookmark an article I was reading. Without thinking, I reach out and touch the monitor to tap the instapaper link. My mind suddenly flashes forward a couple of years and the computer I know and love so much is obsolete. And my iPad is sitting beside me, smiling.
I'm probably just another curmudgeon (which is probably an oxymoronic expression, when talking about the iPod), but something about having the iPod in my pocket and listening to music walking to work appeals to me a lot more than having it on an ipad.
Tell HN/PG: If I'm not allowed to downmod, please don't show me the down arrow.
Tell HN/PG: If I'm not allowed to downmod, please don't show me the down arrow. It's misleading.
I don't think there is a problem with the UI. I don't use git, but by the tone of the comments people seem to be unable to use it, and therefore blame the UI.

I think the real problem is the documentation, both official and unofficial. The best git intro I could find was gittutorial. It's OK, but a bit unfriendly. Everything else rapidly goes from telling you how to do stuff to teaching you how git works.

If somebody came from SVN and told me that hg was unintuitive I'd tell them it's pretty easy, and they just have to get used to a slightly different model. Then I'd tell they to try hginit.com. I'd also point out how they can still work while the network is hosed, and that even if the server dies they still have all the history. Cool, isn't it?

git users tell people to learn graph theory.
Can't wait to hear how fonts are legally distributed. :-)
I was under the impression that you only see the downmod arrow if you've got >200 karma points. You've got 445.

I didn't know there were comments for which voting is restricted. What are the criteria?
I rate journalism among my passions, which is why I enjoyed this, but I added it for its relevance to the ongoing discussion about news media. Solving 'the news problem' with technology means blaming 'the news problem' on technology, and I think it's a far more widespread cultural issue where tech plays but one role.
What Secrets Are in the DNA of a 17 Year Old Girl With The Body of a Baby?
MIT team designs airplanes that would use 70% less fuel
Well popularity is not really the reason I'm interested in these languages. The practical guy in me tells me to stick with the languages that I know, and expand my knowledge in that domain. But then there's that other side of me that's really interested in everything. These days I'm leaning towards being more practical, but I was always interested in just about everything (be it programming, music, 3D/art, or even various sports).

And you're absolutely right about making decisions, they have to be made. Anyway, I don't want to steal the topic, but thanks for the handy reminder. :)
I just don't think that the "fee" play is going to cut it as innovative. Others have mentioned ING Direct and Ally.

The real innovation will be cutting out things like the 3 day "clearing" window for funds. Or eliminating the delay for ACH'ing funds (an all electronic transaction).

The problem, banking is too regulated to really innovate, though I applaud the attempt.

Edit: If they create an iPhone app for depositing checks (Just like USAA). I am sold. I would also like to think that many tech-savvy people would be sold also.
It's just you. It's not the same typeface at all.
It would do a huge service to the web if you can get the blessing of foundries for a method that can be used by anyone for displaying licensed fonts using @font-face.

Even creating derivatives of fonts is often restricted, eg, the Adobe Font Folio EULA considers derivatives under the same license as full fonts and the Linotype EULA states "It must be ensured that the Font Software cannot be fully or partially extracted from said documents" (emphasis mine). So, presumably, it would be potentially problematic even if you are extracting individual characters and generating new fonts.

As I understand it, since fonts can't be copyrighted it's purely a software licensing & "piracy" issue. If you've figured out a way we can all get around that it would be a big deal. Maybe you are in a unique situation because you aren't agreeing to an EULA and, instead, simply extracting characters from fonts embedded in documents uploaded by your users. Hopefully you'll share the details of how your attorneys have advised you about what a website's liability is in this area using different techniques

Honestly, on one hand I'm hesitant to comment about it and give a voice or any encouragement to the foundries, but on the other hand it would be pretty shitty if scribd just skirts these issues and plays fast and loose with the situation while the rest of the web is still stuck using the same old font stacks because they can't afford to risk the legal fees.
Unsolicited feedback: "we know the best dealers and the ones to avoid altogether" from your "About" copy rubbed me the wrong way (I'm actually about to go buy a car this week is why I paid attention). If I'm not the one talking to the dealers, then I'd rather think all the dealers in my area are bidding, not just the "carWOO"-approved ones.
Regarding nursing here, the video makes the point that Japan values racial homogeneity to the point that they will let robots take care of their elderly. The flip side of the racial side is that despite bringing in approximately 300 Filipino nurses on a study program to become Japanese nurses, after the three years of their program, only 2 or 3 nurses passed the (kanji-based) test that let them become fully-fledged nurses. This was with one girl religiously studying to 1am in order to cram the necessary kanji.

The point that's missing from the whole nursing debate is that there already is enough qualified nurses in Japan, just that they don't stick around at the hospitals due to the harsh working environment and long working hours. If the hospitals were able to introduce a more flexible working system there wouldn't be as many problems.
I'm probably a little unusual in being in my mid-30s and still not having experienced the death of a loved one. I try to tell myself it's inevitable, but I can't bring myself to really believe it - I think unfortunately this means it's going to hit me pretty hard when it actually happens.
Extended Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Is Upheld
Almost everything gets compared to cars, but I don't think most people are actually accusing those things of being car-like. I have never understood exactly what causes it, but some people very often read far too much into comparisons. The two things being compared don't have to be alike except in the particular respects that are being compared.

It's unfortunate, because comparisons are really useful for illustrating ideas to pattern-matching machines like our minds, but people like this make comparisons almost useless because they always lash out at anybody who makes one.
What about the ones that have a history of consistently bait-and-switching consumers?
The case of Graydon Comstock was typical. In November 2006, six days before Mr. Comstock was to have completed a 37-month sentence for receiving child pornography, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales certified that Mr. Comstock was a sexually dangerous person.

So we can now be held indefinitely for kiddie porn? Careful ordering manga from japan...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/obscene-us-manga-co...
I've seen the paperwork.

Crunchbase has a lot of incorrect data.

Lots of funds write more than one check representing different subfunds. Often institutional investors and the vcs themselves are in different funds.

All the investors aside from me are funds (I am the only actual angel.)
> If anyone knows where I can find the same stats, broken down by make and model, it would be very useful to me.

Never mind. Found it.
Which is why you hide them behind a screen that lists "Install with Defaults". USA English, Program Files, Simple Install settings. I agree with the author that 95% of people install software this way.

It doesn't really matter. It doesn't get better than DMGs. Oh, unless you use a FOSS system.
They need to start moving away from using the Menu button. It's silly to have this big touchscreen that requires physical button presses so often. Tap, Menu, Tap, Menu, Tap. It's just not a smooth experience.
Wisdom and self-assurance matter less than the ability to conceive of a world where this kind of a response is possible. As widely-circulated an article as this was creates people capable of pulling it off.
The fact that HN users use GoDaddy for hosting is... well let's just say it challenged some of my lofty assumptions about the intelligence of HN users.
On the contrary! We need more new angels. Your perspective would be most valuable.

I always thought that new angels start as followers, then become leaders. Is this your path, or are you happy being a follower for the forseeable future? I have a million questions like this for someone lucky enough to have the money to invest and the credibility for great deal flow.
This book has even better reviews:
http://books.google.com/books?id=VmCQ28GWqE0C
Mathematical Biology: Spatial models and biomedical applications By James Dickson Murray. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Biology-Introduction-Inte...

Mathematical approaches differ greatly depending on the area of biology. I could recommend a good review if I knew your favorite area.
He's not suggesting using the hydro to detect position. He's suggesting using it for force feedback.
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Lovely idea! That said, it failed on 'Instant Personalization' and 'Friends Share'--- spotted the problems displayed the fixing message, then the scanning message only to revert to the warning message...perhaps some sort of info on how to do it by hand if the attempted fix fails?
> Either Apple needs to extend their payment system out into the rest of the web, or the media companies need to band together hulu-like and establish their own payment system (or some micropayment startup needs to get some serious traction).

Amazon. I already have an Amazon account. Allow everyone else to tap into that for micropayments.

I'm not going to sign up for some new micropayment system unless I have to. And anything that resembles PayPal will send me running the other way.
SliderNav: iPhone-Style Contact Lists Using JQuery and CSS
Path Analysis: A Good Use of Time?
> But we might be drunk. Come on - we dare you. We are the Zappos of car buying.

Declaring something to be true doesn't make it so. If you are awesome you shouldn't have to tell us. Unless people are saying "How are those guys so awesome?". Then you can tell us.

Also this makes it look like Zappos employs a bunch of drunk kids in RVs who make impulsive road trips.

And I'm not sure how I feel about piggybacking on someone else's brand. What if these guys suck, how does that fare for Zappos? Also if the Zappos brand goes through drastic changes what does that mean for CarWoo?