skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems a bit sensational considering IE9 is in Beta . . .
I'm not good at the whole English thing (even though it's my only language). I didn't mean to imply you were at fault, just that your title didn't represent what was actually happening. Also I didn't realise that you'd posted a comment here pointing out it was supposed to be a joke, I'm used to reddit where it points out that a comment is by the submitter.

Poor wording and a mistake on my part, sorry! :-)
Excellent article. And I think the parenthetical comment here cuts to the chase

> And as much as I want to just accept it (for reasons of self-aggrandisement)

For people who identify as "great programmers", there's a huge amount of ego and status that comes with this view. Don't get me wrong, I think that computer science education in the US is pretty bad, and lots of people come out of school without having great programming skills, but there's a huge difference between the elitism of "almost everybody but me is a bozo" and the more complex reality.
So - it works in Webkit and Webkit, and not IE9 Beta. How's it look in Firefox, Opera, etc?
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First indie game created for the Kindle
Source, please.
Yes, we compared our traffic levels, not our server count. The title of this post implies that we're saying "we have as much traffic as SO and they use more servers!" which wasn't the point. The point was Stackoverflow is a tangible comparison of traffic, not hardware. Anyway I replied to you above explaining, I misunderstood your intentions.

Your title made our servers and setup the focus, that wasn't the point at all.
Well, the 2010 version of me has the benefit of being able to weigh up the pros and cons of 2010 vs 1900, whereas the 1900 version of me has to make the decision with incomplete information.

Another question: would you rather be rich now, or middle-class in 2120? (No singularitarians, please, we already know your answer.)
Kings generally didn't get to be where they were through acclamation of their peers, they generally got there because at least one (and often many) of their ancestors was a spectacular badass.
I thought this was a good explanation of the design constraints and their motivation for using that platform.
Are you calling a US number? The site says that free calls are only supported to US numbers.
Yes. The power! The prestige! The early death of easily curable disease! The paucity of knowledge and culture! Muhuhuahaha!

But seriously though... I'd rather be middle class now. That starts to change for me around 1950. At that point it starts to be better to be rich.

Interestingly, that gives you a picture of the adoption curve. I feel like being rich in 1950 could buy you what being middle class will buy you now. But all the money in the world couldn't buy that in 1900.
BREAKING: Twitter investor asserts that Twitter is undervalued.
I wish they hadn't done obvious work on the car during it--you can see they installed reinforcement bars and replaced the windshield halfway in, before they started dropping stuff on it. If they made such obvious improvements, I don't believe for a second they didn't make less obvious ones (say during the sea water).

Still a hell of a truck.
Why create an app for the Kindle?
It's still high paying, and still has a lot of job openings, for the A, B, and C level programmers (as it were, keep the "F-level" out).

I see two likely posibilities here. One, you classmates were all terrible -- i doubt that is true, but maybe one or two never 'got it' in industry. Two, most of them discovered that they didn't love programming, and if you don't love this line of work, it's really easy to hate it.

Maybe they just found their passion elsewhere?
> IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3

No. Two points: 1) IE9 is still beta 2) CSS3 is still beta
if anything, twitter is overvalued...
I beta tested Pulley - http://pulleyapp.com/ Quite good.. They just officially launched in Oct 2010... For $6, you get 100 MB storage, Unlimited orders, Unlimited bandwidth and 25 digital products to sell. I think it's quite alright.
While I can't say I really disbelieve the spirit of the demonstration (past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, but it often ain't a bad approximation), it'd sure be nice to see more information, especially the source code used.

Anybody who's done some web development would have to look at those screenshots and think "all those differences could be due to just one tag/directive that's being interpreted differently by IE9"... and that different interpretation could conceivably even be more in-line with the spec than what the other browsers do (whether that's a "good" thing or not is a different discussion). So, if I had to bet, I wouldn't put my money on Microsoft being the ones in the right here... but I don't like comparing browsers' standards compliance solely based on screenshots.
Sorry xtacy, try again! Finishing samples at 3am the morning of launch is not a good idea ; )
I like how he says he'll "prove it" without providing the actual source to what he's writing so people can download it and review.

Also, I do believe IE9 has beta 5 out for the preview builds. He might want to look into that before going off about Platform Preview 4.

Also, he's mistaken about MS' RC's. RC does not mean "1 version before gold", it could be 2 or 3 versions before final for that matter.
I would make the argument that both Twitter and Facebook are massively overvalued, only Facebook is much moreso.

I'd want to see a solid revenue model that produced tangibly large profits for both of them before I'd stop being skeptical about their valuation. So far, I only see speculation, and given the effect of speculation in other, more tangible markets, I'm extremely wary.
I would assume his net value is mostly invested in public and private companies.
On the one hand, being middle class now is perfectly good and comfortable, aside from probably working a 40 hour week.

On the other hand being rich in 1900 not only gives you the freedom to do what you want (within the more conservative boundaries of society and technology back then) but also allows you to travel and see cultures in a way that isn't possible now.

If you go to a developing country, people wear t-shirts with slogans on them. Advertising is everywhere. If you went to New York in 1900 it's be completely different to the New York of today, as would Paris, London, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Istanbul and so on. The cultural differences would be so much greater than they are now, as would the dress, the traditions and so on (perhaps less so for the traditions). Then you start looking further afield, away from the cities. Places like Fuji, Rhodesia, India, the near east etc.

To experience those things would be somewhat incredible, perhaps moreso than the global, homogenous McDonalds/Starbucks in every town world we see today.

Then there's the experiences you could have. You could watch Sandra Bernhard perform. Go to see the Kitty Hawk's maiden flight. Go to Paris and meet people like Claude Debussy, or to Holland and meet Vincent Van Gogh. Visit Sigmund Freud in Austria, watch the birth of Hollywood and meet people like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Stan and Ollie.

As for things to see in 1900, you could travel to a still Victorian London and see Queen Victoria's visit. You could go to Australia for the first time (Australia was 'created' in July). You could see the opening of the Paris Metro, and while sipping a bol du Café read about the Boxer rebellion in China. Or you could meet Mark Twain as he comes off the docks back to the U.S. then go to the first Automobile show in Madison Square Garden. It's not as clean cut as you might think.

Personally I'd rather be middle class now for various reasons, but I wouldn't rule 1900 out just on the grounds of health or technology.
The end of the article explains this all quite well: Programming is very easy to get into professionally. I know we all like to think of ourselves as super smart and that our knowledge is somehow hard to come by, but in reality, it can be as easy as picking up a book. You just can't do that in most fields, even "easy" ones.

As a result, you get a wide variance of commitment, and therefore talent.
I launched Rejection Therapy two weeks ago today.

Rejection Therapy: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com is the real life game with one rule: to be rejected by someone every single day, for 30 days consecutive.

It's designed for anyone who wants to get out of their comfort zone more and overcome rejection.
Think about it - with servants, how much time do you not have to spend cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, or a million other boring things?

I think that would be a dealbreaker for a lot of people.
This is awesome! Thanks, John.

One thing that I find a bit unfriendly is that on an iPhone, every switch to a new page briefly shows the URL bar at the top. Other than that, everything seemed to work for me.
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Emerging rivals threaten Facebook's dominance
If we go that way I would have to answer the same thing.

So a more interesting question would be, if you didn't have insulin, would your answer change?
The author argues that the 'interest graph' is more commercial than the 'real friends graph'. True. However its clear to me that the 'real friends graph' is much more useful to real people. Facebook's 'real friends graph' is a useful tool, helping me keep track of people in my life. The 'interest graph' is a much less useful thing.
I'd rather be poor in 2100.
It worked for my Canadian cell number.
My startup does: http://fifobooks.com/
Just want to make an important distinction. OP is talking about hardware startups. Someone below mentioned WakeMate, and I want to clarify that's not what we should call a hardware startup - it's a very very different beast from a company that designs ICs.

I've heard Brad Feld use the term "software enabled hardware" and I think that's as good as anything else to talk about companies like WakeMate.
I can help.

Fifobooks (http://fifobooks.com/) is my startup, and part of the value we add is producing ebooks that look good on various e-reading devices.
When your mental model of how a computer work is such that you know what each of the statements in your current language does, you understand how they fit together and you want to know what could go on under them.
I thought it started at 9:00, and I was refreshing the page.. well, I can relax for another half hour ;)
That's crazy. They should come with warning labels or something so people don't accidentally buy them.
My mobile Rogers Canada number worked as well
No growth potential? Yearly profits proceeded to shoot up by like 200% over the next several years.
This is my first year not participating in Rails Rumble-just too busy with real life and family. I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with this year.
They should probably have simple programming experience (say, basic Python) first, otherwise they won't have enough context to know "SICP" from "PAIP". That's just a bunch of acronyms.

SICP - _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/). Free online. Probably one of the best computer science books. It doesn't cover web programming, but if you know your programming fundamentals and theory well, you'll be in a good position to pick up whatever else comes along after current web programming techniques become unrecognizable. (The code is in Scheme, a Lisp dialect.) Do the exercises. Seriously - do the exercises. And yes, some of them are difficult.

PAIP - _Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence Programming - Case Studies in Common Lisp_ by Peter Norvig. This could very well have been three or four separate books. It has case studies of historical AI projects, chapters on learning / optimizing / implementing Lisp, chapters on search problems and logic programming, etc. Highly recommended, but I would wait on this one until you're proficient in at least two unrelated languages.

K&R - "Kernighan & Ritchie", aka. _The C Programming Language_. This is the book on learning C. Short, concise, informative. Your programming will benefit considerably by learning C (you'll be able to access low-level OS features, esp. on Unix, and it gives a good mental model for the lower-level stuff going on). If you like C and are comfortable with the exercises in K&R, then get _C Interfaces and Implementations_ by David Hanson - it covers practical library / API design, by way of a guided tour through several of the author's freely available libraries.

Also recommended:

_The Practice of Programming_ by Kernighan and Pike - Concise, practical advice about the programming skillset not specific to any one language: debugging techniques, how to write clean code, testing, rules of thumb for performance tuning, etc.

CTM, _Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming_ by Van Roy and Haridi (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html). This book is about the fundamental models different programming languages are based on, and how they complement each other. The writing is lucid and accessible, and covers many things (constraint programming, for example) that similar texts never get to.
My wife and I were talking about something similar while walking the dog this morning. I'd said 60 was the new 40; she said there are still a lot of ways aging can and does kill you, like Alzheimers (her mother died of it). I responded "but they're working on that."

Then it dawned on me: These days, an integral part of our mental framework is the dollop of optimism that comes with "they're working on that." I wonder whether people 100 years ago had the same feeling.
Who are you most looking forward to seeing/hearing speak?

Because I'm fascinated w/Groupon, Appsumo and alt/dynamic/time-sensitive pricing in general, I'm looking forward to the Groupon founder.
The thing is, those 150,000 humans don't all die of the same cause.
These 3,000 did.

Also, this has been stated multiple times, but 9/11 wasn't about killing 3,000 people, it was about attacking America as a whole, making people feel that they weren't safe in their own country. Surely you don't feel that way just by knowing that 150,000 humans die of random causes each day.

This is major speculation, but what do you think would've happened if the fourth plane reached the White House/Capitol Building ?
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Ask HN: Legal rights for US alien status developers
For international web/software/app developers, how do they get legal rights for launching their websites/softwares/app in the US. For instance if they are working with other co developers for a startup in the US, what are the legalities?

Thanks a lot!
To be fair, if I thought Twitter was undervalued, I'd probably be interested in investing in Twitter as well.
From what MS has said, #2 is crucial. They've stated that precisely because of the staying power of IE6, they need to ensure that the next version adopted doesn't get stuck with proposed/intended standards that wind up not materializing. I don't necessarily like this, but I can see some wisdom in it.
The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. I'm doing this for the first time ever in my career. A bit risky, I know. Just looked at some of my pages in IE8/9 and realized how much work I saved by not supporting this nonsensical monster that is Internet Explorer.
I didn't assume that it meant be rich in 1900 and have full knowledge of the future. How would a rich person in 1900 know to go to Kitty Hawk? Or that Hollywood would be what it was? Rich people today are similarly missing out on what will be remembered as the greatest moments (and greatest people) of our times. Where was Bill Gates when Google was founded? Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.

Plus, $70k in 1900 is about $1.8m today. You'd never have the clout to do half the things on your list. Not to mention the time, it takes a long time to cross the Atlantic.
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This isn't even the beta, it's one of the earlier preview versions.
I bought a dv7 from HP, has two hard drive bays and a bluray in it (I need bluray because of my job).
Its non-inclusion throws this whole demonstration into question, imo.
Who says you wouldn't have to work for the $70k in 1900? That's about $1.8m in today's money and plenty of people have to work very hard to earn that kind of coin, big TV or not.
Well, ontological arguments are ancient and always seem like cheating. I am not a fan of them myself. But as I understand things, Plantinga's contribution is to formulate the ancient argument more rigorously. Even he does not claim the argument proves God exists -- only that it demonstrates God is either impossible or necessary. (Nor do I claim to agree with him on that point.) Particularly interestingly, the bit I presume you object to (though "facepalm" is admittedly a bit of an ambiguous criticism), that the possibility results in a necessity, is not the bit philosophers find objectionable.

If you wanted to really grapple with the argument as a means of growing your mind, not just satirize it without understanding what's going on, you should probably start with a more neutral summary of the state of things. Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselms_argument#Plantinga.27s_...

Honestly, though, that's not the one I would have picked to pursue. I think that particular contribution of his is a minor thing, only interesting to professional philosophers in the first place. I had in mind something more major, like his notion of Warrented Belief. Or perhaps something amusing, like his evolutionary argument against naturalism.

But look, taking someone's weakest work, saying "Huh?", and satirizing it may feel good, but it's not a valid way to grow intellectually. Back when I was a creationist, if someone had said to me, "Look, you really ought to read The Demon-Haunted World -- even if you don't agree, it'll expose you to a totally new way of thinking about things," and instead of reading it, I went and found someone on a creationist website who made fun of some obscure little passage without really understanding it? I wouldn't gain anything by the experience.

Grapple with the original and the strongest form, or don't bother. Don't fool yourself.

[Edit: If you're looking for something meaty of Plantinga's to read, try this: http://philofreligion.homestead.com/files/alspaper.htm . It's entertaining and friendly, and you'll probably learn something.]
EA rečeases webkit-based code including EASTL
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Also, this has been stated multiple times, but 9/11 wasn't about killing 3,000 people, it was about attacking America as a whole, making people feel that they weren't safe in their own country.

They aren't safe in their own country. Huge numbers of them die prematurely of random causes every month.

Surely you don't feel that way just by knowing that 150,000 humans die of random causes each day.

I look both ways when I cross the street. I don't check my car for bombs every morning. That should tell you something about which I fear more.

Disclaimer: IANAA (I Am Not An American). Perhaps they feel differently than I do.
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Here is the license for EASTL - http://pastebin.com/yNaqw27h

Looks like BSD.
Facebook's revenues this year are expected to be in the neighbourhood of $1 billion (http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-discussin... ), a near doubling from last year. Given that, their current valuation is totally unsurprising.
Does anyone here use twitter? Can you explain how and why?
The inner platform arises out of how the JQuery ($) function/object and all the methods behave.

Compare conventional DOM code:

var d = document.getElementById('elm');
d.style.color = 'red';
d.onclick = function() {}

To JQuery code:

$('#elm').color('red').click(function(){});

Now what if you want to add debug statements between the style and event statements? Using JQuery you have to "undo" the inner platform in order to get access to the actual element object:

var d = $('#elm').get(0);
// debug code
$(d).color('red')
// debug code
$(d).click(function(){});

All of a sudden what made JQuery concise starts getting in the way.
What is the website's audience and is it private or for work?

Whenever I've done side projects, I just build it for modern browsers and then maybe make it just a bit better than not working on the most recent IE.
The right solution would be to have more frequent feature updates.
Unfortunately most of the common rail/high tech diesels are less compatible with vegetable-derived fuels than the older tech diesels. You can run biodiesel in some, but often not B100 -- but in the old diesels, you could run straight vegetable oil.
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With $1 billion in revenues, that puts their valuation at over 33x their revenue. And their operating costs are also off the charts, so that's where questions about profitability come in, since investors expect to be rewarded at some point.
There is a high probability that you wouldn't have had diabetes in the first place. You would be living a very healthy life and more physical activities and oh yes, healthier non-GM foods.

Definitely rich and healthy.
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I disagree. Give me a hard problem and a short deadline, leave me in front of my computer with my environment set up (so I can do some quick trial-error), don't look over my shoulder to evaluate me (but you can help me if we're doing pp), and I'll succeed. Give me an easy problem over the phone (I'm a visual) or on a whiteboard (my handwriting is not good) while timing me, and I will fail.

But in the end, I like this kind of interview, because I don't want to work for anyone who would evaluate me like that.
An excellent illustration of how much the Federal Reserve has diluted the value of the dollar over the last century.
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I was thinking this same thing. Glad I found it posted already.

I know this is hogwash because I've made that exact IPhone interface in HTML/CSS3 for IE7, IE8, Webkit Browsers, and FF. Sure, the IE versions didn't have rounded corners or even shadows for that matter but it didn't look retarded.

I would guess that the author hasn't been developing cross-browser web applications professionally for any significant length of time.

IE does some dumb things with hasLayout and floating, so you generally avoid them. It also wasn't clear that the author knew that Safari and Chrome use the same rendering engine.

Even with IE9 and their dumb syntax, its not impossible to learn how to make something look freaking sweet in modern browsers, and passable in IE. This position of course costs businesses thousands of dollars a year running VMs for compatibility. It makes it worse that IE9 doesn't run on XP.

The entire post is a little link baity, but I certainly understand the frustration.
I must admit that after reading the title I was not surprised to see the disclosure at the top that the article was written by someone with a lot of twitter stocks he's probably thinking of unloading.
Is this not using hardware acceleration on the iPhone? Even on iPhone 4, the transitions are extremely choppy.
I don't think either
i) the agents that weren't permitted to scrutinise the suspected terrorist's laptop would have thought it remotely worth posting to Wikileaks
ii) if they had, it would have made the slightest difference to what actually happened
I don't think the authors would argue with you that a friends graph is more useful to real people. I think the theory is that an "interest graph" is more commercially valuable. If you follow Apple, you're very targetable. If you're friends with your college buddies, you are not.

I think Facebook realizes this-- which is why you're seeing them offering "like" buttons, share buttons, embeddable commenting functionality, etc. I honestly think Facebook is doing as good a job as Twitter at capturing interesting nowadays... And for a broader audience.