skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netscape took a long time to embraces CSS. I guess "not invented here" was a big reason, because they actually designed their own CSS alternative: Something called JavaScript Style Sheets, which was somewhat like CSS, but used JavaScript syntax.

Wikipedia has a page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets, but as they write "It now remains little more than a historical footnote".
The used schoolgirl panties vending machines probably do not help, either.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp
As an aside, ES Harmony will have block-scoped bindings.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:let
A simple business model that would be coherent with your current users would be let them mention what they do to loose weight, identify commercial elements (not just weight-loss powder, but also say, iTunes apps, or a organic walnut producer) to sell mentions, or better coupons to groups that pledge to follow a similar regimen. That way, you can have not only friends, but stranger who use the same technique to help you out.

Sponsoring would be a good idea if you fail to identify anything relevant automatically: let the users name a product that they use to loose weight, and associate their gains to it.

I'm not sure how competitive you want this too be (hopefully, not too much) but you might also encourage treats to your members. Let them tell they friends (on Facebook/twitter) about it, and their friends pledge a present if they reach certain goals and get a recommendation fee from those merchants. Maybe consider a two- or three-sided gift not too punish and burden too much those who failed: a trip to Paris below a certain threshold, a wine & walk tour of California below a higher threshold, and a sweat-your pants off in a Cheyenne lodge otherwise.
I didn't say cloaking, you can show the same content in javascript and html. Show html for search engines.
The criteria is whether or the publisher feels they can "hook" additional people by letting you lend the book a single time.

They are probably weighing the possibility of the lendee actually reading it through in 14 days vs the possibility they'll only get part way through (hopefully to the juicy parts) and have to buy it themselves to finish. Thus generating extra sales.

Right now, Amazon has left the decision on whether or not books are lendable entirely to the publisher. Since the activity, lending, is something that is happening on the platform AFTER the point of sale I really don't think the publisher should have much any say in it.

I want to know if Amazon conceded this power to the publishers right off the bat or if they thought about enabling the feature completely in the consumers control first.
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He can reuse this article for Wikipedia's 20th birthday. That's efficiency!
And then we could have it appear on Wipeout and The Price Is Right. The possibilities are endless. :)
I was going to use it, but then I found that a 4 star hotel was going to cost me a little bit less($16 less a day). And the hotel was in the center of London, while anything cheaper on airbnb was about 1-2 hours away by train.

Granted, that's London...so the rent is high, which means the people have to charge more for their apartments.
It only is a valid statement if you add the notes about always doing the validation server side too, and only using the JS one for improve UX.

But w3schools is read by beginners, they don't have any clue about web security whatsoever, if you don't tell them everything they will just go with the few things that you've told them.
> I guess regarding hardware and infrastructure they are still advanced

It depends. Your categorization is too coarse.

> Most non-mobile sites are entirely flash. The most popular search engine is still Yahoo. Shift-JIS encoding is more widely used than the world standard UTF-8.

I didn't know these 'facts'. Can you give me the details?
Just out of curiosity, how did you know Shift-JIS is popular than UTF-8?
I'm fairly sure it's a joke kids.
A world of search and micropayments would be a world without advertising. Everything would be in the form of information services. You pay for searching to find what you like, then you pay additional when you find it.

I wonder if it's now possible to set up a "Free Market Information Bubble"? Have a browser add-on that removes all ads and makes the Internet operate on micropayments? It seems that there's a subset of the Internet who would be delighted to pay for such a thing.
"We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. [...]"
Dailai Lama ;)
Commerce disempowers while connecting people. Commerce also empowers people while creating or reinforcing social distance. There are different trade-offs.

Of course, the effects are profound.
Can any one please answer the question
Nothing proves that he "invented" facebook, depending on how you interpret the word "invented." The fact that he still runs the company indicates that he built facebook. And if you consider inventing and building to be synonymous then he invented facebook.

The line from the movie is tautological for a reason, and it actually makes an interesting point about software patents. It's using the word "invented" in the "created/built" sense: essentially, "if you had invented facebook, you would have created facebook." You can't separate the idea from the execution of the idea.

Interpreting facebook's buying of patents from friendster as evidence they didn't "invent" the product kind of misses the point.
Does the stock market appreciate management consultants?
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Facebook's profit in its 6th year of operation has been put at $220m (of $770m revenue) [1]. Google's profit in its 6th year was $342m (of $1.4bn revenue).

Facebook is not entirely a slouch in the money-making business and shows a gross profit margin higher than that of Google in its same stage of development.

I'd also suspect Facebook's revenue is more diversified than Google's which is primarily from one form of advertising. For example, the numbers suggest 10-15% of revenue comes from "virtual gifts" [2] - even that small amount of diversification would be enough to trump Google's one trick pony.

Of course, Facebook is a private company and the numbers could be wrong, as you imply. That would leave some rather big names, sources, and publications with egg on their faces though..

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/goldman-unit-passed-on-earlier-facebook-investment/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-does-facebook-make-money-2010-5
Totally agree, TC Europe seems to be lacking any real support from the TechCrunch brand.
Unforgivable is the example code for „PHP MySQL Insert Into“ without even mentioning the risk of SQL injections. This should be among the first things to be explained in every tutorial, article or book on „How to connect to a database with PHP and do something.“ If there is something like Worst Practices, this is one of them.

There is also code diplaying unsanitized $_GET variables, opening up all possibilities for cross-site scripting attacks. No creativity is required for exploiting sites that use code from these examples, it's the low hanging fruit :-(
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RE: "sustainable growth"

Consider what features you might need in order to keep current members as long term members. The problem with the focus on weight loss is that people will fall into one of two categories: 1) Yo-yo dieters who will keep coming back to lose the weight again or 2) People who make real changes to their lives, lose the weight and keep it off. Your current configuration most likely has long term appeal only for group one. In the long run, this could smack of failure in terms of the big picture: Do you really want to be known as the site that actively encourages people to regain the weight/be yo-yo dieters so they can come back (and line your pockets some more)?

Think on what "challenges" you can introduce to keep the actual successful people around and contributing members of the community. This might be stuff like "has kept it off for x period of time and counting". They could get kudos of some sort and held up as good examples for the rest of the community. It could differentiate into fitness challenges -- run that 5K, move on to a marathon (or whatever).
How about: Users prefer "good" UI. Users evaluate "good" partly in terms of expectations.
Cleaner code is one of the reasons. There are several: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/why_you_should_use_a_content_repos...
Isn't their site in current form basically an "About Us" page? I'd love a great banking UI as much as anyone and hope BankSimple will deliver, but so far all the hype around them is just that.
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So how is Facebook accepted in other countries than US and Japan? Maybe US is the outlier and we may have to think why Facebook is popular in US.

That's just a speculation. But we need more data points anyway.
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I'd say, the review was actually good for Josh, as it gave him very honest feedback, probably much more frank than what he heard from people in person.
People tend to say either "great, keep on going" or are very negative about a product, without being specific. It's easy to ignore the negative comments and write them off as 'hating'. I would venture that TC is an authoritative source, and therefore he took a hard look at what maybe needs to change.
That would have been very sporting of them as I recall seeing an interview with Jeopardy winners where they mentioned the crucial role the buzzer plays in the game and how skill with it provides a competitive advantage.
Shift-JIS is still widely used here, how widely used I don't know and I don't work on projects where we deal with character encoding so much anymore so I don't bother to keep up. But it does make some sense that it would still be used because, if you stick to Japanese characters, it is more space-efficient than UTF-8.
how do we get this wuss off the front page
I really like the idea of pledging gifts... it isn't something that has come up in our brainstorms so far either.

I wonder how many people would need to pledge to build up enough for something the size of a holiday? Although a much smaller gift might not provide enough of a motivation...

Would the business model here to take a percentage of the pledges?
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None of the altenatives listed by W3Fools appear to counter the overwhelming advantage of W3Schools in that you can quickly look up information on a given html attribute or css selector. The site is essentially one big cheat-sheet.

Unless W3Fools puts up a credible alternative (the open wiki demand is unlikely to be entertained for an instant) then the war would seem to over just as the first shots are being fired.
I have never seen one of these machines and I couldn't tell you where to go to find them. There might be a few fake ones somewhere in Akihabara to appease the Japanophile weirdo crowd and I'm certain Snopes is correct about them being around ~20 years ago, but as near as I can tell these things no longer exist.
glad i didnt read what i already know...
Based on the article, the Japanese social networks appear to address an entirely different set of social goals than Facebook. Real names are important on Facebook so that people who have lost track of each other over time can reconnect. And that's most of what people do on Facebook. Meeting new people online through Facebook is entirely secondary (and not really beneficial to the data collection upon which Facebook relies). On the other hand, anonymous user accounts require another channel of communication in order for people to reconnect (such as meeting at a party) and therefore they are oriented toward connecting online with people with whom one has recent real world connections, i.e.42 year old Rod Wingstead's high school sweetheart has no way of knowing that he is "winger471" without already being in contact some other way.
Thanks for the reply, but I have already given the project proposal, so I need to work on this. Any suggestions on it?
I love the design and the concept but if completely free where is the business model other than being just an affiliate channel?.
If you're using a template engine to render UI on the client side, it's helpful to have a rough idea of the relative performance:

http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/45

Here's a screenshot of the results: http://cl.ly/42CP

It can make a difference, because UI-rendering can often be the performance bottleneck in a JS web app ... especially in older browsers like Internet Explorer.

Although, perhaps it isn't a problem at all -- looking at the source, it doesn't appear as though Jade supports IE:

https://github.com/visionmedia/jade/blob/master/lib/jade.js#...
Incredibly clear categorization of the types of behaviors. Diving deep into the basics of concepts like behavior change, language, game theory, and virtually any other concept really help us start to better understand what they really mean and aim to achieve, what affects them, what in our mind constitutes success and failure in affecting them, and other insights of the sort.
I'm lying in bed at an airbnb place reading this thread. It's my first time using the service and it's been incredible. Good followup emails, owner's place was exactly as it was described and it's so much better (and cheaper) than a hotel. I will definitely use this again.
Haml-js is nearly ten times faster, for what its worth...
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I don't know that it is. But I suspect a more effective form of racism would be a subtler, better encoded form of racism.
I do not consider inventing and building synonyms, because they are not.

If you want to use words as variables, my all means, go ahead.

What is the point? "You can't separate the idea from the execution of the idea."

It is separate, and has been demonstrated by numerous companies.
well, handicaps can be arbitrarily large. so a bot could have beaten a pro with handi even 40 years ago, as long as you make the handi large enough.

recently bots have gotten a lot better at go - they just passed 3dan rank, which is above where most amateurs ever reach. http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13...

But they still have a ways to go.

Here is a (fake money) future prediction market on whether a bot will beat a pro in an even game by 2020 - running at 20% right now. http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=GoCh
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Thanks for the positive comments - a video tour is definitely on the list to do...
Maybe this will help:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=python+gui

I have heard that this book is good, but I haven't read it yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Rapid-GUI-Programming-Python-ebook/dp/...
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At leas one person ditched Starcraft II he waited for for years an plays minecraft instead. Minecraft is in competition against AAA games and it seems that it sometimes wins.
Some sort of premium paid membership for extra access/privileges? Maybe how-to videos or a mail-order DVD?

Limit the amount of certain functions to non-paid members. They are only allowed X type actions per day/week/month etc.

I also had a Groupon like idea, but not sure how you would implement that. For instance, if several friends are doing a weight-loss challenge, if they collectively lose Y lbs within a specific time period, something is unlocked or given. Maybe make this a premium-only membership.

You could also have page for healthy foods/supplements that link to amazon's affiliate program.
Wouldn't it be trivial to duplicate the books you borrow?
"Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a period of 14 days"
Does any one know if lending dead-tree books is legal? It sounds ridiculous I know but is not it outrageous that you can not lend your own e-book to whomever you want for as long as you want as many times as you want, or it is just me?
Perhaps that implies we should start using kiloLoC and megaLoCs?
Words are variables. They have different meanings to different people.

The idea of a chair and the execution of building a chair are indeed separate. But I challenge you to fully specify every aspect of a software product without building it first. There are so many intricacies and connections that don't become clear until it's actually built.

Anyway this has gotten pretty far off topic so we should probably stop.
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Probably because Facebook decided to "invade" and set up office, whereas Twitter worked with Tokyo-based Digital Garage to localise Twitter for the Japanese market (and attempt to provide extended services geared for the Japanese market). Twitter also doesn't require your real name - all they care about is that impersonators specify that they are parody and not genuine.
Since when are patents thrown out because the company/patent troll is sitting on them? Patents are not trademarks and you don't have to actively defend them.
"as predicted on HN": i did a search on previous discussions on kindle and lending, if someone's interested, here they are:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865687
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052925
I don't have a problem with passive advertising.
What I find annoying is the advertising that steals the most precious thing I have - time. Spam emails, cold calls and link baiting scraper sites fall into that category.

If you really think your product is in my best interest, pay me to listen to your pitch. Otherwise, place your ad on a web site containing interesting original content or get a web page and let me google you if I need your service/product.
> 1953 has no bearing on this situation 60 years later.

I'm not really educated on Iran, but I find this hard to believe. It wasn't that long ago...

edit -
I should have posed the original comment as a question, but can anyone elaborate if I'm really totally wrong? Surely the coup in 53 would have had an effect on the revolution which would have an effect... ?
>I find that very unlikely, especially since the attacking nation would definitely be destroyed as well.

You're talking about a region where suicide bombing is perhaps the most common attack method now. I think its clear that our definition of rationality is different from Iran's regime (as opposed to Iranian people).

I agree Israel is a relatively minor issue. The real conflict here is Sunni-Shiite and Farsi-Arab (Iran-Iraq war alone probably had more casualties than the entire 100 year Arab-Israeli conflict). If Iran has a nuclear capability, it's unthinkable that Saudi Arabia or Egypt or, at a later stage, Iraq, will not strive to have it as well. You will get a multi-lateral arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

On the other hand, it's impossible to stop Iran forcefully. The best you could hope for is to delay it, hoping that the current regime will be replaced by a more rational one.
Hm, what about https://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl, jquerys official templating plugin?

I use this one with a js-app in conjunction with knockout.js and a few others.

So performance of this one would be interesting, too.

Btw: The actual benchmark is really compelling.
> It depends. Your categorization is too coarse.

Yes it is course b/c that is not my area of expertise. Feel free to inject any information here.

> I didn't know these 'facts'. Can you give me the details? Just out of curiosity, how did you know Shift-JIS is popular than UTF-8?

Well I don't have any hard statistics to back up my statements. They are all simply personal observations.

However in Japan "moji-bake" (character encoding error) is an everyday phrase. Shift-JIS is mostly to blame. I think that's enough to show that it's still widely used.
The story could definitely use some Nicholas Cage.
He is wrong on the second count, nyt had an info thing some time ago where you could come up with a plan to balance the federal budget.

It was easy to do without raising taxes.
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This is superb cool, I loaned the "Coders at work", after 30 minutes, received an email and go to Amazon to deliver the book to my Kindle.

However, I believe Amazon might update their terms to prevent this.
Hm. Pedantically, his experience with his mother isn't Based on personal accounts, it is his personal experience. So to him anyway it wasn't anecdotal. But to everybody else, sure. Like all reported empirical evidence.
The page is really pretty looking and simple. :)

Very nice.
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Some numbers in this analysis are a bit misleading - if you view the budget as "social security, defense, and everything else", the huge portion of the budget taken up by Medicare and Medicaid is papered over. Medicare+Medicaid is $788b, more than Social Security, and is similarly "untouchable". (source: http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/Mandatory.htm)

Not to say that I think Social Security shouldn't be touched. I do think that as a matter of purpose, Social Security needs to be a defined benefit plan, even if we have to cut those benefits to some degree or another to make ends meet.
Come on, Marsh. How many people at INL have worked on SCADA security research? There's a lot of them.

Furthermore, your premise is incoherent. There hasn't been a backdoor identified in OpenBSD IPSEC. The "bugs" that have been found (scare-quotes because all of them had been fixed already) weren't usable as backdoors.

Were commits to IPSEC laundered via Canada? Yes. The reason? Because Theo believed that a US commit tainting the IPSEC source code could subject IPSEC to US export controls.

What's the "coincidence" you think you've found?
"Associated with Stuxnet" and "associated with the Iranian nuclear program" are two extremely different things.
Military and "defense" costs far more than "just" $1 trillion every year.

There are many many hidden costs and the massive expenses for the thousands of severely wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan that survived instead of dying because of modern medical technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance, cleanup, and production, which is in the Department of Energy budget, Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department's payments in pensions to military retirees and widows and their families, interest on debt incurred in past wars, or State Department financing of foreign arms sales and militarily-related development assistance. Neither does it include defense spending that is not military in nature, such as the Department of Homeland Security, counter-terrorism spending by the FBI, and intelligence-gathering spending by NASA.

Military expense is a MONSTER that just grows and grows and grows.

ps. The costs for the Iraq and Afghanistan war are technically done outside the budget and through borrowed money. The INTEREST on them alone is over $500 Billion

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-10-23-wacosts_N.h...