skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, "curated search". That's been tried, and it's literally impossible to keep up to date

Weak. I'm not advocating "curated search" for everything. Your point is like trumpeting dynamic RAM over NAND gates and not mentioning caching.

And you're wrong about the economics of spamming wikipedia or stackoverflow, spammers already target sites like that, there are even spammers who target HN, and your model would just make it even more worth it for them.

Wow. that's kinda fuzzy thinking there. For it to be worth it for spammers to specifically target an anti-SEO engine, it would have to be successful in the first place, which undercuts the point you were trying to make.

Also, even though spammers target wikipedia, HN, and stackoverflow, why don't I perceive spam as a problem?
Exactly, when I'm at a computer I sometimes find myself back in my old habit of double spacing, and that's because of the double space tap on the iPhone. Perhaps I should disable the double tap space and get back in the habit of sliding my finger from [123] to the period key to end sentences (which automatically returns to the alphabet keyboard). Certainly it would save me from having to press delete after the double space to end a paragraph.
To sum up:

- Some use two spaces because they are used to it. They are wrong, stupid and annoying.

- Author use two spaces because he's used to it. Why can't you see that he is correct?

To give an actual argument related to value, I think it is helpful to differentiate between periods that end sentences and periods that end abbreviations.
If this was really the tipping point for keeping that lunatic out of public office I would have done it myself.
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Step 1: Dropbox.
I have no idea where you're inferring my support of the kids actions based on his target, but please don't that get in the way of your political tangent.
Which is better: instructional video or a marketing video for my startup?
I am trying to use my resources efficiently as possible. What do you think is better to make first? Marketing or Instructional video?<p>Thanks!!
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That's my point. Most books don't use monospaced fonts, which was the case given in the article for instances where you'd use two spaces. You don't often see monotype in emails you send, or word processors, or newspapers, or even (as pointed out earlier) in web pages.

If you're writing a technical manual, then you may want to use two spaces, but really isn't that something that would be handled by the printer?
While TBL may not be a gazillionaire, he makes money because of WWW so he's not a counter example to the "figure out how to get money" suggestion.
> You need a license to operate your car, not so with your PC.

I own a car, pay insurance on it, but never in my life had a driver license. My wife drives it, working on my insurance bonus. But since it's my vehicle, am still responsible for all the stuff around maintenance, meeting requirements for road worthiness, etc.
Both Windows and OSX come with built in backup software, but no one can force the user to use them.
Being sympathetic because you like the target is embracing the rule of men, not the rule of law.

No. I'm sympathetic because it was a very stupid prank, not because of the target.

What was the actual damage caused? It certainly didn't "paralyze" Palin's campaign.
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>silver iodide and dry ice are the most commonly used substances in cloud seeding technology (down-cased for your reading pleasure)

uh, how much silver iodide? All of it eventually goes down a drain, and back into the water supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
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That's the case for all examples here - they are virtualizing your "desktop" on a server and all you're doing is remoting in. AKA thin client aka what the industry has been trying to sell for 20 years. Pretty much the same as: http://www.vmware.com/products/view/
Emphasis on Mission critical. We're not talking about an arcane enterprise IT organization keeping you from going on Facebook (or HN for that matter) on your lunchbreak, or considering an upgrade to IE7 over the course of 2011.

We're talking about mission critical data. Data, without which the mission cannot succeed. It was not even backed up. That's not the users fault, it's a systemic failure of the organization, a failure it was/is ITs responsibility to fix.
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They aren't familiar with not getting what they want.
Can any normal tourist get inside of the area? What are the health risks of spending an afternoon there (~3 hours)? Seems like a very unique place to visit if possible and not too dangerous.
> it's a shame they didn't do something productive instead of destructive.

The people behind this project are also developers and contributors to projects like jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, Chrome Developer Tools, jQuery UI, svgweb, HTML5 Boilerplate...
HSBC is headquartered in London, not China, and takes your money in the native currency (USD/GBP/AUD etc), not in yuan.
My problem is with teachers who insist on using double spaces after a period. I have had a few teachers in recent years demand double space and will not accept papers that do not use the convention. Because it feels entirely unnatural for me to hit the space bar twice, I can never remember to do it consistently. I just wrote a python script to convert it for me afterwards.

On a similar note, I got a 0 on a paper once because it was not in the required font, Times New Roman. I had written it on my netbook while on vacation and printed directly from it and had not realized that the Linux distro installed automatically called Liberation Serif "Times New Roman" inside of Abiword.
Most tradesmen are required to provide their own tools. I can see the arguments about security holding this back, but it's not an unprecedented idea.
I can't deny that when you're first learning to write, you should be looking at fonts that closely resemble the way English alphabets are usually drawn. I hate people who write "a" the way it appears right here! Comic Sans fills this educational role because it has its roots in comic books, where everything inside those speech bubbles used to be hand drawn.

Of course, Comic Sans is by no means the only font that has this property, and there are far better alternatives. Unfortunately, Comic Sans is the only such font that comes with every Windows PC by default, and kids love it.
I agree with the sentiment here, but not the way in which this goes about it. W3schools' name is a little scammy, but the info they house is useful.

The issues w3fools cite are pretty esoteric and/or very nit-picky. For instance:

| www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_q.asp.
| Browser Support. The <q> tag is supported in all major browsers,
| except Internet Explorer.
This is blatantly false; <q> tags work just fine in IE8.

Uh, yeah, I guess it works just fine in IE8, but it doesn't work in IE6 or IE7, both of which are called 'Internet Explorer'. So saying it doesn't work in IE is technically correct. It just could be more specific.

W3schools obviously fills a niche that the W3C isn't filling. Reading a spec for HTML x.x is useful, but not viable when you're trying to get stuff done. W3Schools has gone through the work of reading the spec and turning it into a good reference. Good for them.
Adjacent cells might self-select, but you can adjust the probability of self-selection to lower this risk as much as you like. Once selected, the cell owns the adjacent cells, by inhibiting their self-selection. (Maybe the inhibitor spreads further over time?). As self-selection continues, any gaps are filled in.

It reminds me of git's hashes. There's no absolute guarantee that different objects will have different hashes (since there are more possible objects than hashes), but it's pretty good in practice (and I guess/hope git has a secondary check for collisions). I really don't like these kinds of algorithms - they are just wrong - but I have to admit they work pretty well, by taking a likely guess instead of working it out exactly. eg ethernet also uses randomnness.
Hey there, I'm the crazy host. :)

The reason I was so "amazed" is that I'm a programmer/developer myself, so I know the mindset and skill it takes to like to hack and solve programmatic problems.

Many people who aren't developers/programmers (like the founders of Sole Search) don't learn how to program - they usually just find somebody who does and have them handle the actual building of the app.

To me, it's pretty cool that these guys chose to learn themselves rather than just outsource.
Watching a technically unskilled person use a computer
From what I've seen, App-V is on-demand packaged delivery. If you access a binary and it's not on your system (or needs to be updated), it'll download then execute locally.
To me, not necessary a matter of being capable, but rather a matter of wanting to learn.
>"Apple wasted little time in featuring it in a main store banner today."

I don't know which is worse. Apple featuring a 2+ year old game at the app store, or TechCrunch writing an article about it.
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you're as wrong as posting about another side. The post is reactionary, rambling nonsense link bait about a statement of fact.
> And that isn't enough? 'Use IO only where you must' is not second-class? In any other context, I would definitely see that as second-classness

In that case, IO is second class in most languages, including Python, Ruby, C#, Java, C++, and C. I do not consider any of them to be functional.

> But it still acts immutable and for all we know, is immutable. Just because some compilers and libraries use mutation doesn't prove your thesis that Haskell is as mutation happy as something like Java.

No, it doesn't "act immutable"; an ST that acted immutable would be equivalent to State. The only advantage of ST over State is that compilers implement it as a special case of IO, and thus it can be used in place of IO for known-pure mutations.
As long as you don't do cancer research, you'll be fine.
The best links to web documentation for all (rank beginners to experts) are included on the w3fools page.
Most people that got in to programming outside of going through university got in to it to 'build something', I think I know more of those than I know of the ones that pursued 'programming' as a career.
That's a good point. Personally, I usually think people aren't interested in the real nitty gritty technical details but I bet some folks are.

Thanks for the feedback and for watching!
This isn't listening in on the phone to your sister's phone call. This is closer to listening to someone else's voicemail by guessing what their PIN number is (also not legal).

There are things which are yours, and there are things which are not yours. In many instances, accessing things which are not yours without the express permission of the actual owner is a crime.

And I'm not going to argue with you if you're saying that the sentencing for computer-related crimes is ridiculous. I agree, I think it's totally out of whack (like a lot of sentencing in this country).

And depending on how fast you are going on the highway you do indeed go to jail (most jurisdictions will charge you with reckless driving).
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See, I disagree with 'jerf and agree with you: it was a prank.

Which makes it worse.

Tens of thousands of people, many of them parents, are currently serving time in prison because they were at random selected to be among the 1% of American drug users arbitrarily selected for prosecution, and inhabited the (large) subset of those drug users who lacked the means to defend themselves once charged.

THIS nitwit went out of his way to harm somebody else for his own amusement.
There, problem solved.

The problem isn't solved. You now know what the type is for that particular moment. What you don't know are the invariants of the don_t_know_the_return_type() function.

What types/subtypes is can return, whether it can return None, what exceptions it can throw, and whether those will change in the future. That information can only come from a type system and/or documentation. Simply reading the implementation only tells you the current state of the system, not the rules that will govern future iterations of it.

The more invariants that can be expressed concisely by the language itself and enforced by the compiler, the less work is left to the user of the function to review documentation/implementation.

This is one large reason why well-designed advanced type systems are so valuable -- you can express complex invariants using them, and then let the compiler enforce those invariants.
I notice the gratuitous inclusion of a silly quote about tablets (BYOT). Using your own hardware is ok, provided that the company is prepared to accept any security issues which could arise from that.
When I see two spaces, especially in proportional text, I use it as evidence of the writer being a luddite or "past it". Only one piece of evidence, not conclusive. Probably most of its explanatory power comes from it being an indicator the user is old, educated in typing with a typewriter.
Thought so.

Double-checking still left me with some (tiny bit of) hope :
http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-l...
Worrying about trivialities like this is what LaTeX is for ;)

You still need to pay attention to this using LaTeX -- LaTeX will (usually) insert a wider-than-normal space after a period, which isn't always correct (e.g., "Mrs.", "etc.", and so forth). You can avoid this using "~".
Thanks for the kind words about the interview. I'm a huge fan of Mixery and the style of interviews Andrew Warner conducts.

I'm definitely not trying to compete with him or draw folks away from the outstanding work he's doing. Rather, I'm trying to add on to the idea by chatting with folks who haven't necessarily hit it big yet, sold their company, and/or made a large sum of money - I want to chat with the creative entrepreneurs who are still climbing their mountain.

Short answer: I love Andrew and Mixergy and hope to one day be as amazing of an interviewer as he is.

Thanks for watching!
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"I'm basing this on the movie".

Sigh. You know the movie isn't accurate. It's good story, it's not reality. Why would you make any comment on the motives of the players or the justice of the case using the movie as your primary source? The movie is basically historical fiction that happens to be set in the present day.

I knew that when the movie came out everyone would begin assuming that it was the true story of Facebook (despite protestations like "I have no idea if it's true"), but I'm literally seeing it in action here and it makes me sad.

You don't get to start from the movie as a "good guess" as to what happens. You don't get to use the movie as evidence at all.
The Mac App store really has no chance against Steam when it comes to games. It is a better platform and not tied to a single operating system. Never-mind their approval process not being so finicky.
I would like to see the circumflex key (directly below esc) replaced with something more useful but that’s also not an Apple thing.

It's useful as the shortcut for "terminal" in most computer games, but indeed that's about it. Now Scroll Lock and Pause/Break are keys I've never used.
>suddenly you're giving the contractors access to a web page and only the components they're working on, rather than the whole shebang.

Isn't this already doable? Just make separate binaries for the sections you want, all you need to distribute are the interfaces (header files, etc) to build against. Whether companies actually do so or not is a different issue entirely, and yes, something simpler may increase its use, but I fail to see how this would actually change anything but frequency.
I think the volume of incorrect information is relevant here. Even though you may consider your <q> example to be "nit-picky", the sheer amount of poor examples and incorrect interpretations shouldn't go ignored.

Not to mention attempts have been made to contact those behind W3Schools, and nothing has been done.
Yes; this is awesome.
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Wow, splitting this up 8 pages was really unnecessary. If you view this I think it's best to click the print view, as the article really isn't that long.
Would it be wrong to point out that the missing parts of the source for w3fools.com ? Or observing that placement of things like the google analytics code at the bottom, instead of the head?

Or would that make me pedantic?
> I asked people what they considered to be the "correct" number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces.

>Which—for the record—is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

Seriously? That article felt like it was written by someone at 4chan. Why did this get so many upvotes?
Don't bitch, fix it. Build your own w3schools and make a go of it, obviously these are huge oversights that need to be addressed by competent technical professionals that are as dedicated as these guys are.

Really, as long as you define yourself by attacking such a mediocre institution as w3schools you still have a ways to go.

Google didn't get where they are by pointing at altavista and their crappy search results, they got where they are by doing better.

No 'rallying' required, all it takes is spit and determination. Of course that's a lot harder than bitching.
I find Steam to be unstable and frustrating on my Mac. I would certainly prefer to use the Mac App store.
Similar to the United States, except here your house gets seized to build a factory for Pfizer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
I'm sure we can solve this with spray-on glass.
Saying it doesn't make it so -- and I'd expect someone at HN to know that.
Exactly. It's a mindset. Programmers think much differently than non-programmers.
No. The prosecution screwed up and hung a case on identity theft and wire fraud instead of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 or similar statute, so he is essentially serving time solely for destroying evidence.
"over 40 different types of radioactivity were released after the accident" LOL
I think the idea here is to get rid of in-house sysadmins as much as possible and rely upon an outsourced IT support contract.

"Staff taking advantage of the scheme must buy a three-year service contract."
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"One of the prerequisites is to have a standard McAfee anti-virus installed on the device."

Forgive me while I laugh at this. If an employee's computer is compromised, the company VMs running inside it are vulnerable. It makes no difference that the connection is secure if one endpoint is not.

The safe way to do it is to hand the employee a locked down device strictly for work.

An alternative, maybe, is to hand them a locked hypervisor which allows them to run personal, alongside work VMs (but not allow them to install anything at the same level as the hypervisor (no dual-booting)).

Edit: Thinking about this, the company may issue USB secure tokens linked to a truecrypt drive. The employee would dual-boot either into the work environment (locked down) or a personal environment, with the warning that the token must never be connected in the personal environment.
Another question: Can it be empirically determined (i.e. with a real decision procedure) that a video file was at some point encoded in something H.264? Would it be possible to remove such a "watermark" from a video mechanically?
>With this as an alternative on platforms that don't support webM

1.5fps is not an alternative.

Nice hack, though.
W3Schools is great because it covers everything, in an approachable manner. For the one occasion a year I use XPath, W3Schools has a nice refresher and function reference.

Sure, the information may be imprecise or just plain wrong, but we have to remember that this is for absolute beginners. Merely having errors does not make w3schools worthless, and a lack of errors does not make alternatives better.

The material on W3Schools is split into bite-sized chunks, along with numerous examples, references, quizzes, try it yourself areas... None of the alternatives suggested are this well organized.

Just think what kind of HTML tutorial could have been created with the time and effort it took to build w3fools.com.
Thanks for your feedback, lots of what you've written sounds very good. We'll put it on our list.

First we need to fix some bugs though. Did you get the error when you hit register or at another point?
Yeah, I spend my time on an open-source library used by thousands of people and supported said library, helping users with problems and contributing to documentation. So dumb to link to already available, good resources instead of building a better alternative. I wish I wasn't so lazy! </sarcasm>
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Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn’t come easy.

- Tim Westergren (@timwestergren)

http://startupquote.com/post/2746564464
Bullshit. The vehicle fleet manager doesn't make it impossible to run out of gas. The accounting department doesn't make it impossible to max the corporate credit card you have. They provide infrastructure, you have responsibilities in it too.

Further, and I'm really really suggesting you read this slow, and look up words you don't understand in the dictionary, universities just don't work this way. There is no central authority that can force this sort of behavior in them. The researchers themselves push for it, and the people who pay IT then demand it be set up that way. No matter how nice it would be to force backups -- IT can't override the fucking dean. Researchers are to be given autonomy is the usual directive. This leaves IT to provide easy access infrastructure, but not go that last step, as they are forbidden.

Are you sure your customers love your "DO AS I SAY IT IS THE ONLY WAY DAMMIT" attitude? Having dealt with sanctimonious asshats like you many times, and further talked to the mormons and jehovia's witnesses at my door, I realize my words won't sink in, but I will make a futile attempt anyway: Give up the judgemental bullshit. Your way is not the one true way. Your smug little smirk makes lots of people fucking hate you, and you know what, you don't even realize they smile and agree with you just to get you to shut up and go away.

tl; dr- go jerk off to your authority some more, the rest of us have real worlds to live in.
Maybe you missed this: http://w3fools.com/#build-one-yourselves
You might want to check your assumptions and read my post. The subject of my entire post was what literary form was appropriate to what medium. I've been using BBSes and the subsequent networks since 300 baud modems. Perhaps I was influenced by a more literate line of programmers and writers but calling me a newbie is ridiculous.
I posted a small python snippet. Highlighted version works fine, but the raw version strips the leading whitespace, which is rather important in this case. (See: http://codr.cc/57F58EAAED)
False Dichotomies: Pinnacle of the written form or brain killing mind poison?
> Programmers think much differently than non-programmers.

What, you mean like mathematicians and lawyers and engineers and many others besides?

Really, programmers aren't the only people capable of logical thinking or 'stepwise refinement'.
Ok, I'll back off. I'll admit a personal dislike to follow up posts to popular content professing "another side". They feel like link bait to me and usually offer something other then "another side" of a topic or statement of fact. Knock yourself out with your opinion.
Spammers don't produce content. That's the key.