skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are the relevant wikipedia entries, but if you want more detail...

http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stab...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=5&url=h...

edit: this might be better for GRW http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0406094v2

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=h...
Template tags are a cool part of django, but they are a basic feature. They should have more prominence.

Template tags should go the views file and work exactly the same way as the other views, but be called differently from the template. This is easier to understand and use than having to learn a new syntax again.

Django stands to gain a lot by simplifying things and encouraging more class use.
50 gallons of horse shit for a dollar? Factoring in transportation, the labour required to package it up (not to mention the size of operation required to generate millions of gallons in the first place) - that's just unrealistic, even buying in bulk.
I suppose I should clarify. I didn't mean to imply that content-vs-presentation was unimportant; I think it is important. I meant to ask, is it always important enough to justify all the extra cost associated with it?

It's presented as this cardinal rule: the web designer shalt not mix layout and content, nor shall the designer obfuscate thy code with any table, less it is presented in the form of a database view. (+1 for dramatic license.)

And I would be all for that, IF the development platform that we were all forced to use actually supported that in a helpful way.

But, it doesn't. Give me a little time, and I'm pretty sure I can come up with at least one presentational trick that is absolutely, positively impossible with cross-browser CSS -- and I'll even allow you to use all the CSS hacks you can come up with. But, the very same presentational effect is a piece of cake with a single HTML table.

MVC, or MVP, are sound ideas ... where they're made practical by the development environment. However, it's possible to write perfectly easy-to-maintain code for a business without strictly following those models, and if you're dealing with some framework or development environment that makes the MVC model difficult, then I think it's foolhardy not to make some practical considerations in lieu of this stainless ideal.

EDIT: I just remembered the CSS layout that I wanted so badly and never could figure out. It drove me nuts, but this was a couple of years ago and somebody might have figured it out since. All I wanted was two columns; first was completely liquid, the second was liquid with a minimum width; auto scroll bars (but not displayed unless necessary); and -- the part I couldn't get to work -- a single line border drawn between the two. For some reason, no matter what I tried, introducing that line border caused one browser or another to add scrollbars, or draw it short, or something else idiotic. Three days of Googling, CSS hackery, and other nonsense later, and I wrote a table in just about a minute that did the job fine.
Tucker max has a good forum post on where the leeway is:
http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showthread.php?t=3032

1. If I know I am totally innocent, I am totally honest with the cops
2. If you are kinda guilty, i.e., you did something wrong but it wasn't that bad, supplicate yourself to the cop and place yourself at their mercy
3. If you are guilty and know it, shut the fuck up
If you need extensibility and power, go with TWiki.
The fascinating thing for me -- that reminded me of several projects I've worked on -- is that many of the detailed parts of the exteriors have no corresponding parts on the inside. It's also amazing to see how much 'dressing up' simple machineries need, in order to be attractive. Taken in the opposite light, however, this also shows that to build something good, you often don't need very sophisticated mechanisms inside.
Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
Tests as Documentation
> In a modern web world it is extremely inappropriate to use tables for non-tabular data.

Someone once said (in an admittedly totally different context) that '"Inappropriate" is the null criticism. It's merely the adjective form of "I don't like it."'
Of course you can always do what ever you want/what ever works. But the reality is moving away from tables for your layout will make your site more malleable and easy to maintain the future. It doesn't always mean crazy i.e. only clauses in your css either. see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219809
but didn't the article give an example or two where tables made your site more maintainable?
I've had problems with their email notifications. Despite repeated requests to be removed from all emails, I still keep getting some. I've written to them about this as well, with no response.

In general they appear to not really pay attention to user requests.
This is kinda old now. Problem has been fixed and is back up. See the update on the story.

Lets not make a big deal out of App Engine having problems. Amazon's stuff has been out for a while and has had several temporary outages since release, all of which were quickly resolved.
You sound like someone brainwashed by Google.
I'm not a sceptic, but do you actually KNOW this? Or you just came up with that sentence because it conforms to what has been told to you previously?
The world will not write code for screen readers. How about writing screen readers that can read the code that the world wants to write?
Researchers have traced the origin of platinum deposits in South Africa
Nothing sucks more that Confluence - I feel your pain all too well :(
Why the frown? I've had success with Confluence at 4 or 5 companies. My biggest complaint is the handling of major revisions to a hierarchy of documents but that's something that's probably specific to me.

Confluence is a great fit for business and technical people in my experience.
That would be fantastic. The problem is that we're pretty much stuck with the screen readers we've got - even when the screen reader companies do release new versions (which they do painfully infrequently) most of their users stick with their current versions because the upgrades are so expensive. If you care about blind users (which you should; you're missing one of the great benefits of the Web if you don't) you need to cater to screen reader versions that are five or so years old!
Right: by "helps" I meant to suggest that grad school restores the humility lost by immersion in a lackluster workforce. Anyway, it certainly had that effect on me.

I guess I was in the right graduate program, because I think nearly all of my fellow students were there primarily for the intellectual stimulation and learning. I haven't heard anyone talking about increased earning power, and I certainly didn't expect to earn more with my degree.

Sometimes I thought it would probably be easier to be a full-time student, because they don't have to commute to work or schedule around meetings and other work obligations (including the occasional death march). I believe that it's hard work being a PhD student, but I'm not so sure the full time MSCS students have it any harder than the part-timers who have to balance a corporate job.
Factors that Affect our Decision Making
Our install of Confluence is dog slow and gives a lot of Internal Server Errors - granted that is probably because whoever set it up has done so badly and on inadequate hardware.

Its WYSIWYG editor annoys me quite a bit, and I find its Markup a bit clunky.

I guess my distaste for Confluence comes mostly from the slowness, which is probably not Confluence's fault. Also, editing pages on my Trac install is so much more pleasant.
Is that opportunity I hear knocking at the market's door?
First, he just ignores ....very popular right now. Next, he seems to ignore..... many-minds because "physicists agree that there's an external reality" ... So for the sake of according with physicists' intuitions,.... doesn't accord with physicists' intuitions

You should applaud him. To discover or innovate you must "ignore" and make "no assumptions" nor "judgements" only make "observations". Only a very few people do this and sadly that is why most discoveries and breakthrough are made by accident.
Yep mediawiki is great, exports xml. We integrated this into madcap flare and our build. Published (goes to customers) chm, pdf and webhelp takes the latest snapshot and merges it in, internal users can grab the latest by browsing the wiki.

We have a backing internal discussion board for people to discuss training/presales/help and the like which is good for identifying gaps in the doco as well.
Where I work, we separate layout and content quite religiously because they're done by different people. A mess of table based HTML may make things easier for the layout guy, but it makes it more difficult for the content people to work with later on.

For example, let's say the HTML guy makes a page where product data should go. What exactly that product data is, he does not know when he's making the page. It doesn't matter, he can just make the HTML and fill it up with some Lorum Ipsum text. Then when it's time to put the actual product data in, this will take ten minutes at most for the content people to do if the HTML is clean and minimalist, while it will take a few hours if it's nested tables or worse (Dreamweaver generated crap or somesuch).

In the end, the cost of having someone do HTML properly, meaning using HTML for content only and dealing with presentation in CSS, which the content people will never see, offsets the costs of having developers wade through messy HTML every time they need to change something.
RockYou: We're Not Done With Facebook (And We May Be Raising More Money)
Factoring in transportation,

Well, I'm assuming the guy already has a Gulfstream.
The flaw in your logic is that it focuses only on instinctual pleasure and not that of a higher nature. For every "would you...?" that you propose, there is a large group of people who would say, "yes".

The trick to happiness is not always to change what you're doing; it is often to change your thinking about what you're doing. To be conscious enough of yourself to know when you are full and when you are eating food that will make you feel shitty later. To feel the pleasurable burning of your muscles and your mind as you work out and learn new things. To avoid doing anything that will later rob the little time that you have.

I don't claim to be able to do all of this myself, but I have resolved to try to stay focused on these things. There is much beauty in the world, much to experience, without changing anything but your mind.
With apologies to Mr. Godin:

Is it worthy?

Is this the best I can do?

I’ve paid for the rent and the furnishings and the menus and the staff and the insurance... is this plate of food worthy of what went before it?

I’ve flown across the country to visit this museum--a building that cost more than a billion dollars to create and fill and maintain. Is my attention focused enough?

We paid $300 in marketing costs just to get this phone to ring this one time. How shall we answer it?

I’ve had a great education, suffered and scraped and scrounged to get this point... is this diagnosis, this surgery, this prescription, this bedside manner the end that justifies that effort?

We live in a stable democracy, a place where people have lived and died to give us the freedom to speak out... is that talking head or this spinning pundit the best we can do? Or is he just trying to make a profit and air another commercial?

Is cutting corners to make a buck appropriate when you consider what you could have done? What would someone with a bigger vision have done instead?

Is being negative or bitter or selfish within reason in face of how extraordinarily lucky we were to have been been born here and born now?

I take so much for granted. Perhaps you do as well. To be here, in this moment, with these resources. To have not just our health but the knowledge and the tools and the infrastructure. What a waste.

If I hadn’t had those breaks, if there weren’t all those people who had sacrificed or helped or just stayed out of my way... what then? Would I even have had a shot at this?

What if this were my last post? Would this post be worthy?

The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
Ugh, what a bad typo I had there.

Anyway, 5+ million hits:

http://www.google.com/search?q=haloscan

...so, yeah, you should have seen it by now.
What about ems?
We use Plone CMS (http://www.plone.org) and it's fantastic. Loads of options beyond standard wiki, easy to set up.

Edit: Quote from their site - "An eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice award winner, this open-source product is one of the best solutions period - for company portals and intranets"
- eWeek, April 2006 issue
What does your comment accomplish that an upmod wouldn't have?
I had almost exactly the same experience, through the error message when I submitted my comment to their "customer service" people. The message still went through and they did cancel my unintentional "subscription". My error occured because the system somehow decided that I wanted to create an account at the same time as I submitted my message, but an account with my email address already exists (for obvious reasons).

Hope your email goes through as well.
Firefox 3 exceeds 1 million downloads in under four hours
If tables were good enough for Viaweb in 1995, then they're good enough for the rest of us in 108.
Do you mean the command line differences? Or will people who use this effectively screen-share the Leopard server and see it "as is." I know very few developers who demand that.
Why I Do Not Use ORM
Wow, I couldn't see how that is worth 1.7 million dollars. Even if it was made out of pure uranium, you had to buy the master watchmaker's equipment and pay him for 3 months straight.
I mean command line differences.
HTML table elements are not the solution. They are a convenient hack that happens to be the best alternative in 2008 because the majority of users is still on an IE browser.

In fact, it is quite possible to get table-like layout behavior while using semantically correct tags. This is accomplished through the various display: table-type CSS properties.

As support for IE6 fades this long awaited dream will quickly become a reality.
Liked look and feel of Firefox 3.0, not impressed by speed though :-(
how about you?
Tables give you abritary grids, a very important design tool. CSS doesn't do as well. People turn to CSS frameworks to make it happen.
I think it's probably a stretch to state that this is a failure... After all, we all probably knew exactly which Weezer video this article was going to be about before even clicking on the link.
Dude hasn't heard of definition lists for forms? They offer far better screen reader flow for disabled users than tables.
Why don't we just rename the table tag "grid" and just be honest about what it is. That way, it can either be a layout grid, or a tabular data grid.
Vermont OKs the Creation of Virtual Corporations
Amen. This is one of those pedantries that has outlived its justification.

Look: can tables be misused? Yes. Have they been? Yes. Does a static HTML file filled with tables for layout obscure the semantics for things like screen-readers? Sure.

Does any of that have anything to do with whether or not a table should be used for layout? Not that I can see. Two or three lines of jQuery will pack those divs into your table by class.

The weirdest part of all of this is the idea that CSS is "just as good" for typical layout tasks. Not only is it not as good, it's a near-disaster. Nothing works right, ever. It's never possible to just say "line these elements up and put these others to their side" without jumping through awful hoops. Seriously: look at the "layout" CSS for any serious site and it's almost unreadable.

GUI developers have understood this for two decades now, and universally settled on the table as the appropriate layout mechanism. Why the web should somehow be different just baffles me.
No, that was not my interpretation of this article at all. It sounds to me like you've never built a large CSS/XHTML valid website, or you'd understand why the web is driving toward standards.

I was like you ~3-4 years ago as I grew up using tables. Believe me, just move on... 99% of the job postings I see require an understanding of XHTML/CSS. And this trend will continue as standards are solidified...

Catch up or be left behind.
I really like LinkedIn. It's been useful to my business a bunch of times. But I've never been tempted to pay for it. What prompted you to upgrade your account?
I get really annoyed by the recurring CSS vs. tables debates, because they seem to be so dogmatic and often based on misunderstandings of CSS.

CSS was initially designed to support every kind of typography or layout which was achievable using presentational HTML. It was rightly recognized that if some effects (no matter how ill-advised) were only possible using presentational markup, people would not migrate to CSS. This is the reason properties like "blink" were included in CSS.

Regarding table-like layouts, the corresponding CSS property is called "display:table", and was included in the CSS 2.0 standard 10 years ago.

IE however did not and does still not support "display:table". Therefore there is no direct CSS alternative to table-layouts which works cross-browser.

A table-like layout can still with some effort be emulated by pushing other CSS features like floats to the limits. But this is actually misusing these CSS construct for a purpose they were never intended for, which makes it generally convoluted and inflexible compared to "just using tables".

But it is important to realize that the problems with the CSS approach is not that CSS is badly designed - or requires a fundamentally different mindset - but simply that the implementation in IE is incomplete.

One should also realize that tables are superior only in some specific circumstances (as described in the article). Generally CSS is better and easier to use for layout, even considering the omissions in IE.
Yes by a committee... and it's the lack of following W3C standards in the late 90's and early 00's that has created such a headache for web developers today. For example if IE5/IE6 played nice, we could spend more time building out sweet functionality and less time bug-fixing.

It's ok to be a conformist in this regard.
You should watch the video in the headline; because you would see a lawyer and a police detective both telling you why this is terrible advice.
Considering a company benevolent is a bit much, I think.
I had the pleasure of visiting (mt) offices last month as I was in the area and have been a long-time vip program customer. They talked with me about this (xv) for quite a bit. Here's what it's about:

Targeted at smaller design firms/consultancies - the 37s crowd that likes productivity. They will be able to do iChat, iCal, use collaborative wiki/blog software built-in and back up with time machine, etc. The huge thing for me is the server admin application that makes it incredibly easy to administer/maintain/manage the box from any mac... just a great UI for those that don't necessarily want to always have a terminal open.
"Am I being detained? Am I free to go?"

Those are your two key questions.

These guys aren't advising you to be a jerk, but you should know what your rights are and how they apply to you.
sounds to me like you've never built a sizable web application.
I signed up in order to send a message to someone outside of my network.
"Made of math" means more or less I think "metric" in the sense of topologies.

So fudamentally, the simplest universe you could think of would be in a set of related topologies without defined metrics.

Then going up from there you get into more complex metrics, like say, Einstein's Reimann metric, and the like.

Perhaps our world has a metric of 26 dimensions like in string theory.

Anyway, as near as I can tell, Tegmark's "made of math" idea effectively means all topologies and metrics exist eternally, we happen to live on one of these metrics, or more precisely, upon one of the metrics in which self-aware substructures like us could exist.

Anyway, makes as much sense to me for a theory of everything, as for example, positing the "Intelligent Design by the Flying Sphaghetti Monster" being shoved down the throats of children these days!! :-)
If you can make a lot of money from Adsense then you can likely make a boatload more in direct ad sales.

Google does great with Adsense though. ;)
Why not instead of blaming designers who use tables for layouts that are nearly impossible to do CSS, blame the browsers (ie 6 and 7) that make these types of layouts impossible under CSS.
Presumably, there is high demand for supplies in the middle of a warzone.
Right... but you shouldn't ignore something that posits fewer entities than your theory yet has the same explanatory power. And you also shouldn't posit something for reason X and then posit something else that undercuts reason X, because that's inconsistent.
How do definition lists offer a better reader flow?
Use Decimal calculations for anything you want to be accurate. The overhead is minimal compared to the problems with accounting errors. For scientific calculations, bumping up the precision will usually solve your problems.
This is common sense. If people make negative assumptions about your peer group, you end up with something to prove.
Firefox 3 smart bar is just too smart
[ I don't have a blog, so I'll rant here instead ]

FF3 came out today and I followed the crowd and upgraded to it. Within 5 minutes it became obvious that I passionately hated new "smart bar" feature.

A smaller thing was that it wasted tons of screen real estate and just didn't look esthetically pleasing. It rendered auto-complete items in two lines. It also made the whole list look like an Xmas tree with its liberal use of fonts, bolding and favicons. Apparently this particular "improvement" was so good that the FF3 devs removed a setting for disabling it from the about:config page. One now has to resort to using an add-on called "oldbar" instead. This made the suggestions list far more compact and it looked way cleaner and more usable.

However a far more annoying change was how smartbar populated the list. It matched what I typed not just to the head of the old URLs, but to any part in them. And to the bookmarks. And to the bookmark descriptions. And the page titles.

So typing "news" no longer brought up a list of news.ycombinator.com, news1130.com, etc, but rather slashdot.org (News for Nerds), digg.com (All News, Videos ..) and some other obscure URLs that I didn't even remember visiting. They say it learns and will eventually put most relevant URLs at the top of the list. Great, thanks. This just solved a problem that I didn't have to begin with. And it all would've been well, but here's a kicker - YOU CANNOT DISABLE THIS.

This leads me to the reason why I decided to make this post. This situation is a good example of how not to approach adding features to the application.

1. New features and behavioral patterns. These can be the defaults for new installs and this should gradually migrate everyone to the new feature set. However users arriving to a new version via an upgrade path should have their experience preserved as intact as possible.

2. Replacing features instead of adding them. You can bet that there are users that explicitly depend on existing behavior and taking it away is a big deal.

FF does not conform to these principles. Also by looking at the Mozilla forums it is obvious that the devs were aware of the problems these changes created, but decided to ignore them. Too bad really. It's not like it would've been too much work to handle these changes a bit more gracefully.

/eor
You're missing that you should just start contesting the charges. You made a good faith effort to downgrade. Chargebacks sound like the only way to get their attention.