skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best response so far. However, we don't feel that this (the business card as a status symbol) can't be translated into a p digital form. We will be pushing out features that allow for more sophisticated designs, and optimized connections methods will make the whole concept more of a commodity. However, we know that until we get to a point where adoption of (whichever) online business card service reaches some kind of critical mass we have to play well with paper cards. Like I've answered before, this won't be solved overnight.

But even if your card is well designed, with offset typography: "Eggshell with Romalian" type (continuing with the American Psycho references) - come back from a conference, trade fair or event with piles of cards that lost all context - that's where our system shows its power first and utmost. The context of a meeting is just as important, if not more, than the card itself. Eventually you'll want to follow up on a meeting, track sales trajectories, etc... Information your paper card will not remember.

Final note: have a look at our video and see if you can spot the reference.
I don't find interleaving natural. It would be natural if we were using old school hypertext and reading from anchor in the original text to response in the new text. But as it is, I have to skim a whole email again to find the small portion that changed. If the reply is terse enough, I have to reread the large original to get enough context to understand what they are saying.

If the large portion is snipped, you can't read the whole thread in the final message(s, for forked threads), but have to go spelunking through multiple messages.

Also, on some mail readers it is hard to tell the difference between responses and text indented for visibility, like quoting or code or equations. Replies to replies get really messy.

I also don't like scrolling.

I got used to reverse chronological reading with blogs (the train has almost sailed on them, huh).

What top posting forces you to do is to form one coherent complete thought (if you plan to be understood).
I think it is also a significant indicator that he has $16,500 in credit card debt which he also can't pay off. That sounds to me more like he has serious problems around understanding his financial responsibilities than a law student who was required to rack up a large student loan but was doing their best to control it.

I am not convinced by some of the indignant tone of the article either - maybe they have no right to tell him what he should be doing with his life, but surely the whole point of the bar exam is that they have the right to decide if he's the kind of person they want to allow to pass the bar?
As an Arizona State Univ. grad myself, I can say that his undergrad alma mater probably doesn’t help his Character assessment!

… but as far as (fiscal) fitness, it’s known to be an exceptionally cheap school, so at least he tried to keep his undergrad debt to a minimum.
Well apparently the domain name reveals the purpose of the MVP, so even if it might be bland it at least describes the product. You can always change the name and say "formerly known as ..."
I'm not sure that's a good example.

"Simple" is a subjective term.

The way I understand it, the simplest explanation is not the one that "makes sense to me", but the one with less unneeded baggage.

And it's not a principle of logic, but a general guideline. So take it with a grain of salt.

Consider a pen falling down, and consider these explanations:

1. Things always fall down

2. There exists gravitational force between bodies

3. Relativity's explanation about how bodies bend spacetime (which frankly I don't really understand).

#1 is the simplest, but the least accurate. #3 is more complex but more accurate. And when I say it's more complex, I mean relative to #1 of course.

Relativity (from what I understand) is actually simple (once you have the right mental model), but to the uninitiated, it appears to be rather complex, and #1 would appear to be much simpler. But, it would be wrong to dismiss Relativity based on "Occam's razor".
I didn't see an option for 'Occasionally, by accident', so I went with 'rarely'. I recall in the past having seen an ad that was legitimately interesting, so I can't say never, but I can't recall the last time it happened.
I prefer this comment:

Its not fair to accuse anybody. Its clearly said in the API docs, that both the APIs
will be merged in version 2.0. This issue will be automatically get addressed by that
time.

If you are looking for a temporary solution, I'm sure you can find one by surfing
through the groups.
I don't know much about it, but I believe it is called lojong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong).
> Google supporting only WebM and deliberately not supporting h.264 in order to force uptake is a bad thing.

It's not that simple. It's bad because it cannot possibly have a beneficial effect, as Gruber demonstrated I think pretty well in his article.
>build a bridge that could transport marbles from one side of a 12-inch square to another without anything touching the surface within the square

Could you roll the square in to a tube and roll the marbles along what is effectively the underside of the square. It doesn't touch the "[top] surface within the square. Might need 2 paperclips.

The obstacle is the bridge.
How much damage could be caused by a peer reviewer having  a bad day?
Lets be a bit clear here, Apple's choice of supporting H.264 didn't force (many) people to change their encoding format. H.264 has long been the primary choice for video (outside of the Microsoft formats).

A lot of people are saying "boo Apple" for choosing H.264 for their iOS devices. This is despite the fact that it really the only viable choice for their users. VP8 was proprietary up until May of last year and Theora is really not comprable with respect to bandwidth and quality. There was not a viable open format until WebM and at this point H.264 is deeply entrenched.

Personally as long as the W3C doesn't declare a format for the video tag (like images) I'm okay with Google's move. I think its going to greatly slow adoption of the video tag however. At this point most content providers are going to stick with Flash online for their video players so they can then provide the same (unwrapped) video for their users on other devices. When video content providers are to enocode once in H.264 and use a flash player or encode twice to partially support a now crippled native video tag, I think they are going to stick with one codec, and use flash. Google's choice may strengthen WebM's position in the long term but its weakening native video in the short.
It makes for a much better joke if you start at one ;-)

It is actually a pretty old joke, there are a few variations on it (one for Computer Scientists, one for Mathematicians, etc...):

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/~rfm/107F07/EPMjokes.html
Nope, never on purpose. I have a deep mistrust of advertising in general. I'm more likely not to buy a product/service if it's advertised to me.
College Cuts Imperil Dream That Fueled Silicon Valley
Good summary and write-up, missing a link to download though: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix
Census: Long-distance moves in US hit record low
Google purports to do something similar on its display ad network - they call it "smart pricing". If it's a low quality placement that is "unlikely to produce an actionable business result" (their words), the CPC an advertiser pays is lowered below the natural auction price. The whole system is pretty opaque, but as you mentioned, it likely allows Google to keep millions of poorly performing pages in its display network without harming the overall network (too much.)
Here's my (noobish) understanding: On Hacker News when you submit you have the option to include a clickable URL -or- text. The preferred thing to do is to include some text rather than the URL.
Nice post and update from Paul. Ill have to bookmark this for future reference.
I like this syntax more: https://github.com/creationix/do
Nothing to be concerned about. How many people die of CJD every year? Not many.

You should be afraid of cancer, car wrecks and heart disease, they kill more people in one week than CJD does in a decade.
They probably didn't see that policy helping.
Sounds like it would be useful to coat aramid composites, since many aramids decompose in UV
Remember when Dean Kamen claimed that the Segway would change the way we built cities? Most hilarious product launch ever.
Finally!! A prediction from "Back to the Future" comes true!! We can get rid of our pesky dust jackets off our books and have dust free paper!!
Similar stupidity happened early on with HIV, especially dental procedures, I recall that there was a big stink about the aerosolized particles from the drill making it in to the suction tube and back out again when starting up the drill for the next patient. So now the whole assembly is replaced between patients instead of just the tips.

It seemed rather obvious to me at the time.

On the other hand, what's obvious in retrospect is not always obvious beforehand.
re 2nd paragraph: but isn't that a fantastic reason for them / others to be attempting to make a usable one? However unusably slow it may be (though their users are used to that by now)?
It still is, so long as it's sequestered such that the fibers don't become airborne. Asbestos removal projects done in eg. municipal buildings are often misguided.
Gruber has said that he liked Google’s approach of including many codecs (WebM, Theora, h.264) in the recent Talk Show episode with Dan Benjamin. I’m consequently not sure whether he is supporting Apple’s decision to ship OS X Safari only with h.264, it doesn’t sound like he does. (He is certainly making less noise about it than about Google’s decision.)

This is probably his position on Safari for OS X, not Safari for iOS, since WebM hardware is not out yet (and it is consequently crazy to expect Apple to support WebM on mobile devices – Android phones also don’t).
Playing The Patent Troll Game
I've seen view through do some pretty amazing things first hand. It depends very heavily on the advertiser and the vertical, but in some cases it's astonishing what a few million dirt cheap impressions can do to drive sales through other channels.
Justice Department's Top Terrorism Prosecutor Goes Patent Troll
Checking his profile it's his 1000th day on HN.
Geohot's response to Sony
The ability of tracking to get better is almost unbounded; the ability of advertising to get better is probably not

Advertising will stop getting better once the only ads you ever see are for things you need right at the moment, in the exact place you need them.

my actual economic decisions tend to come from non-advertising sources. When I have actual money to spend I look for reviews and the experiences of others. "But reviews are just ads too!" Not all of them, and I have gotten pretty good at finding the ones that aren't. I'm even pretty decent at reading through the reviews that are mostly ads.

The perfect advertising system will be something you trust enough to substitute for reading reviews. You might think it's unlikely, but there are numerous precedents for it (eg, financial advisers advising you on things they are paid to sell).

It's true that there is an inherent conflict of interest between an advertising system and giving accurate advice. However, in the type of system envision the future value of your transactions though the system will be enough to provide a counter-weight to outright bad advice.
I think the most likely solution would come from a language extension to something like Coffeescript.

It could work similar to the async monad in F#:

#asnc x = () ->
var f = window.menu("file");
var m = f.openmenu();
m.click();

would unwind as:

window.menu("file",function(f) {
f.open(function(m) {
m.click();
});
});
I'm pretty sure when most people hear "open specification," they'll think it means "open for anyone to read and implement

The shouldn't, thats not what it means. An open specification means that anyone can contribute to the authoring of the specification it has no bearing on licensing terms. Which is the OP's point "open" means a lot of different things.
It says it only lasts for about a year. What happens to it? Does it steadily degrade over time, or is it exponential towards the end?
And what a frightening thought that is.
Didn't brand/model overload play a big role in the decline of US auto makers? I've heard this repeated many times but I don't know if it's true or not. Given that almost all of the US automakers have drastically cut their brands/models over the last few years I tend to believe it's true.
adobe announced that they would add vp8 to flash months ago. as for a "bargain"...what would that even consist of? you can use and re-implement vp8 to your hearts content today without payng anyone.
Posterous introduces photo slideshows from any page
How to Make Plastic - DIY
So whether or not this specifically is going to pan out to anything, it has a fantastic nugget of an idea in the middle of it: There will be web-based API standards for tools dealing with code. These APIs represent a good thing, as now perhaps people will start creating great code tools to the API instead of to a specific editor/ide. As such, we get a start to the "standard code tools interface" I've wanted for a really really long time.

tl;dr -- this could be the start of the end of "use this IDE because it can do X and this other IDE for Y" and the beginning of "Point your editor to Z for this functionality!"
First, are you seeing good convergence on numbers? How many votes does it take, and how long does it take to acquire them?

Given your background, have you considered building a similar "duel" for restaurants? Mostly I'm curious how the restaurant duel numbers would compare to Urban Spoon's rankings. (There is the problem that not all users will have been to all restaurants, so maybe restrict to a small popular subset in each geography?)
> the coating won’t evaporate off under ambient conditions

They say a coating lasts about a year, which is what is prompting this type of questions. What happens to it after a year? Does it stick to various things that come in contact with the coating? Does it break off and fall to the floor?
That's about $5,000/year while enrolled in law school. Is it _that_ bad?
The one strange thing about the overload of Android phones is there seems to be very little choice in the <4" touchscreen only model category. I'm not sure if the handset makers are conceding this market to the iPhone or they just don't sell very well?
The thing about it that is frightening is that the length of time that it can take to manifest itself can be a very long time. Thus, it could be that already there are many many latent, slowly developing cases of nvCJD in our population.
Apple supporting only h.264 and deliberately not supporting flash in order to force uptake is a good thing.

Google supporting only WebM and deliberately not supporting h.264 in order to force uptake is a bad thing.

That's a very poor reading of Gruber's argument. Instead:

Apple supporting only h.264 and deliberately not supporting Flash in order to force uptake is a good thing.

Google supporting only WebM and deliberately not supporting H.264 will not force uptake of WebM, and will instead drive the continued use of Flash for playing video.
The downside, of course, is that if you're on a web site that is ad supported, you are taking away from the profitability of the site you do like.

I try to click on ads (WHEN RELEVANT) instead of completely avoiding them no matter what.

If you really never want to click an ad, have you considered using Adblock?
Today’s Award for the Silliest Theory of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
I've got to say I agree. In my last job, I trained a guy fresh out of law school to be a pizza delivery boy. From what I learned from him, law school is extremely expensive and you're in a tough spot after graduating and waiting for your bar exam, but he was still capable and determined to make enough money to keep himself afloat.
Even as a pizza boy, he was making more than $12, and working more than 24-32 hours per week.
I don't see any martyr here, and the entitled tone of the article doesn't help the argument either.
Man, what about Coro? I just ran across that - is it worth my while to examine it more closely?
the original sounds much better:

necessity is the mother of invention. There are plenty of restrictions already I think, due to necessity, whether it is time, money, skills, why be even harder on yourself.
I agree the interleaved style definitely has its place, and I do use it occasionally, but I find even with highly-topicalized, technical email it can be helpful to simply restate rather than snippet-quote -- it's a chance to verify that you've correctly digested the original point, and you have more control of the flow of your message.

Of course, like so many things, a lot of it comes down to a matter of taste. (Still, I must defend the honor and right-thinking of top-posters :)
The lack of globalCompositeOperation in IE9's Canvas implementation is a pretty serious limitation.

It seems to come down to the limitations of Direct2D, which doesn't seem to support any other compositing operations except source-over, a.k.a. "normal alpha blending". This is fairly surprising when taking into account that Direct2D is a very new graphics API (it shipped in Windows 7)...

I think the root cause is that Microsoft's graphics APIs have long evolved in a different direction compared to everyone else. Make no mistake, Microsoft is a very important force in graphics because they control Direct3D, and that has placed them at the vanguard of high-performance accelerated 3D graphics.

Direct2D seems to mostly take design influence from Direct3D. One of its explicit goals is to provide 2D utility graphics for Direct3D games -- stuff like HUD displays for games. The traditional "Porter-Duff" compositing operators (i.e. the blending modes missing from Direct2D) are not very useful in this environment, so instead Direct2D concentrates on "game-like" stuff like high-level geometry objects.

In contrast, the other major browsers use graphics APIs that fundamentally derive from the Adobe school of print-oriented graphics, where an image is built from low-level immediate mode operators. Think PostScript and PDF.

The original Canvas JavaScript implementation shipped in Mac OS X 10.4 to support Dashboard widgets. Canvas was just a paper-thin wrapper over Apple's Quartz API, which in turn was essentially a royalty-free implementation of the PDF graphics model (before Quartz, Apple/NeXT were licensing Display PostScript from Adobe).

I think Mozilla's Canvas implementation uses Cairo, which is an open-source library heavily modelled after PDF and Quartz. Chrome uses their home-grown Skia, which is also very similar.

Poor Microsoft. If they had taken the opportunity in 2004, they could have easily dictated a simple web graphics standard that would have played to the strengths of the accelerated graphics API that they control. But instead they were busy building giant fortresses of proprietary APIs like the dead-end Windows Presentation Foundation, and now they're having trouble implementing something as superficially simple as Canvas.
Desktop Eclipse can compile my code for me as I type it and show compile errors in red. I truly believe that in a few years something like this can be running test suites on another server as I type. It may not work exactly the same but the idea is there. You will know very soon that you have broken some regression test - or that your code as it exists in the editor would break a test if checked in.

All in all I am a big fan of this idea. I spend way too much tome fiddling around with the settings in desktop Eclipse and even when I get it working I know it is only temporary.
He had a job as a stock broker and changed it for a $12 /hr part time job, which is what the board took issue with.

Honestly, it's neither that interesting nor that well written of an article.
you seem to be arguing that we should just keep using h264 unless things go bad, at which point we can always switch; do you not see the problem with that? even if MPEG-LA licensing fees never change, I'm with Mozilla (and google) on the fact that ensuring every video producer and provider will be paying license fees to put their content on the web for the next 17 years is suboptimal. codec choice is good, but until a royalty-free option is everywhere, I'd rather them play hardball.

speaking of mozilla, unless you run windows 7 and like microsoft firefox plugins, switching back to firefox won't do you much good on the h264 front.
is there any way to tell if your submission is getting deleted as spam? i've been a member for more than 6 months but don't comment that often/have never submitted and can't tell why my posts aren't going through.
I love the design of your home page, the CTA and copywriting is spot on. The one thing I think you could do without is the "Get e on your phone". It's out of place and too big. If I want to download your app I'm just going to go to the app store.
True - most of what you'd consider "C" is really stdlib and stdio - but nobody would ever say that I/O isn't "part of the core language" because you have to use a library.
This is definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. Until you get more users, you're not going to get the really interesting sways.

You definitely want to make sure you create a feature to determine which users have the most sway.

Ways to get traction: Find things that people vote on now. With March Madness coming up, maybe do something around that? Or well known debates with passionate online communities?
Techcrunch losing its salt.
Lately, am finding most of the news boring and not analytical at all, Or there is just too much repetition of the same things. M.A is rarely writing posts, and when I look at the few he ever writes,they are no longer vivid as they used to be. Worse of all, Techcrunch seems not to be listening to their audience.
After checking out posts here and there, I find myself clicking over to see what Mashable and Mixergy have got. This is something I rarely did before they got bought by AOL. Surprisingly, I find guest posts at TC better than those written in-house! Do you have a feeling they should seek more guest authors for their posts? What do you think about TC generally?
Well, neither can H.264 be a standard, it is a non-free codec for video.

The word "standard" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

(I wish standards were free -- I've always wanted my very own copy of IEC 60908.)