skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MLA handbook has some interesting information about spacing after the period. Here is section 3.2.12 "Spacing after Concluding Punctuation marks" in my physical copy of the sixth edition.

Publications in the United States today usually have the same spacing after a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark, or an exclamation point as between words on the same line. Since word processors make available the same fonts used by typesetters for printed works, many writers, influenced by the look of typeset publications, now leave only one space after a concluding punctuation mark. In addition, most publishers' guidelines for preparing a manuscript on disk ask professional authors to type only the spaces that are to appear in print.

Because it is increasingly common for papers and manuscripts to be prepared with a single space after all concluding punctuation marks, this spacing is shown in the examples in this handbook. As a practical matter, however, there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor requests that you do otherwise. Whichever spacing you choose, be sure to use it consistently in all parts of your paper--the works-cited list as well as the main text. By contrast, internal punctuation marks, such as a colon, a comma, and a semicolon, should always be followed by one space.
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So, like companies such as mozy and backblaze, which I explicitly mention? Essentially they provide insurance in the form of backups. Trivial to use too. I'm not sure of your point anymore.
Not without also trashing it for those in China using it as a store of value, and not without the cost of price instability being imposed upon anyone selling/buying goods with the currency during the process.
But who's got more advertising and marketing power? Apple deserves a lot of credit for its high quality products, but people seem to forget they also sell a lot because they sell hard.
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I don't see any building, I just see a strange kind of entitlement mixed with a taste of blackmail.

Really, they're just bitching about the google rankings when you really think about it, because 'they know closures' or something to that effect.

w3schools is ranked highly because lots of people linked to it and it seems to have helped them in some way or other. If you feel that that ranking is not correct then maybe start your own search engine as well while you're at it?
If you read the content of the site, w3schools was attempted contact multiple times. They also browsed the github repo and started making changes to their site to save face.

You're absolutely right, if they made it something community driven and contributed to, it'd rock! That's why MDC is linked to, it's a wiki!

p.s. ie8 working cool for me :)
Here's a theoretical argument that seems unavoidable to me, though I haven't seen any evidence for it: many open source developers of a project consult in its area. It makes sense that that project is hard to use.

The great appeal of software, for me, is that it can encapsulate knowledge and expertise; a kind of abstraction layer. A magic talisman of wisdom and talent. This can include guiding the user in how to approach the task, implicitly providing concepts with which to reason about it. Like one of those old-fashioned how-to books, it can aim to be teacher, mentor, friend.

The "problem" is that if you give it away, you can't make any money on consulting, because (ideally) it itself is the best possible consultant. So you have to charge for it. But it doesn't seem quite so noble...
John Dvorak: Why I Don't Use Facebook
Fewer Than 6 Percent of Gamers Buy Virtual Goods…And That’s Big Bucks
Tools for developers and designers is a big point. Especially with new hires.

Ten years ago joining a major corporation gave you access to resources you didn't have on your own. Exchange was better than Yahoo mail. The T20 cost so much almost no one would buy it for personal use.

Today when student graduate they are often used to and already own Mac laptops or high-end PCs and are using Google services. They can lose productivity going from these (cloud) consumer to enterprise technology systems.

I recommend the Gartner report "Gartner_Report_BYOC_checklist.pdf" on BYOC.
You can very much influence that. If you're a contrarian as you appear to be - don't send your kids to school where dominant culture is one you don't want them to belong to. You can still send them to a public school where backgrounds are varied. Coupled with informed perspective from an open minded parent that kind of experience is probably quite powerful in shaping a young mind. You could go a step further and home school them yourself - in that way you can completely control their socialization. Just beware that human psychology is extremely complex and the results will probably differ from expected in any case.

I find it odd that people pile fortunes for their kids while claiming that they don't have time to teach them and spend time with them. When in reality your kids the your biggest insurance and investment of your life. What is a point of working whole day so you can pay another person to raise your kid? Who's kid are you raising then anyway?
I would be extremely embarrassed if I had to go through life telling people: "I had one good idea back in 2003, but I had some trouble with the programmer who I never paid, and I could not recover from that, so I have now spent my whole life making a living by suing my former programmer. I've yet to have another good idea, or do anything else interesting with my life."
"W3schools obviously fills a niche that the W3C isn't filling"

This alone is the biggest problem - that you think they are somehow related. They are not.

"W3Schools has gone through the work of reading the spec and turning it into a good reference"

No. You're wrong. THIS: http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/

...is a good reference based on a spec.
The author is out by a factor of 100 with his attempt to quantify the campaign's success (80k is a respectable 1% of 8million, not .01%)

Secondly, whilst the dark pattern requiring you to "like" the song to listen to it may have been in place, it certainly isn't now. ~1% of group members actively choosing to "like" an individual song and sending out signals to all their friends actually seems pretty good.
I think that one of his assumptions is wrong:

As far as I know, Comic Sans is actually easier to read than Arial, especially in children and dyslexic people, and I'm not sure that a 60% grey is much harder to read than a 100% black. IIRC, dark greys are more readable than pure black (on screen at least). At last, once again IIRC, in the midrange, font size doesn't impacts readability at all.

I don't have the time to look for citations right know, but I'm fairly sure I'm right.

The author simply doesn't test whether that Comic Sans and Bodoni are less readable, and doesn't provide any citation backing his assertion.

This is somewhat questionable, methodologically.
Must be because the field is empty. The space there is actually a textarea.
To add to the anecdotal evidence, I have contacts in the strong IT department of a top university near me. So it could indeed go either way.
Is there any human on the planet that thinks W3Schools is affiliated with W3C? If you're smart enough to know what W3C is, then you know W3Schools is different. It's a strawman, knock it down.

W3C did not invent the term world wide web, www, or w3 - there is no deception.
>these unquoted/unspecified typographers
There are quotes from several specified typographers and style manuals. I do not understand why they are unquoted and unspecified. See especially paragraphs five, six, and eight.
Indeed, and if your job actually requires a high-end computer you're probably getting paid well enough to afford one.
Would the creator be able to add in a copy function to the highlighted code to remove the line numbers?
> Isn't that part of the point though, that you as a fan don't really need/rely on Facebook?

Not at all ... I love getting updates in my news stream from the pages that I'm a fan of, and I'm sure clickthrough rates for those are ridiculous ... add that to the fact that you can share any link that is sent to you through said fan pages and you can see why marketers wet themselves about it.

My contention is with the fact that even though I'm a fan of BOTH Jay and Kanye I have to go to a 3rd page to like it before I can hear one stupid song ... makes zero sense.
So if MW1 is available for Mac, why isn't it available on Steam? MW1 for Windows is listed at $30, perhaps EA won't sell the Mac version at that price and Steam doesn't want to endorse a precedent of multiple price points for different platforms?

I try not to presume ill-will, but there does seem to be something amiss here.
The Yuan is pegged to the US Dollar at around 1 yuan = 0.15 USD cents. A graph of exchange rate for Yuan/USD over time produces a horizontal line.

The current president 'Hu Jintau' controls the exchange rate through China's currency policy which dictates how many USD an owner of Yuan can get in exchange.

So buying yuan is a bet that the peg will be removed and the USD will be printed so much that nobody will exchange human labor for it.

It could work, but I'd buy physical gold before the yuan.
The conversion rate isn't as outrageous when you take into account that US site shows prices before tax, and EU sites prices with tax.
> - It's the electronic equivalent of a clean desk. It makes a clean impression when other people look on it.

I don't think they are equivalent. Your desk is just there for people to see it, but email is much more personal.
I wouldn't want people messing on my e-mail, as I don't want them messing in my drawers . There is nothing to hide, but they are not an open book.
May be it is a good idea for american's. I am from india and if i open an account in Chinese bank my phone will be tapped for sure!
Regarding the placement of GA, this is intentional. You don't want to count a visit before the page has actually been displayed to the user.
Light-up cereal boxes and self-cooking soup powered by the magic of induction
Let me try to persuade you otherwise:

Imagine average Joe investing in a very non-diversified portfolio of one stock which he has decided he likes, perhaps due to personal knowledge of the firm.

Over time, odds are this stock will do poorly compared to if he'd had a more diversified portfolio.

It's the same general law of markets that is why it's generally better to invest in index funds... they benefit from overall increases in productivity and economic growth, without being subjected to all the risks that less diversified portfolios suffer from.

Of course, it's always possible to formulate a 20/20 hindsight critique of diversification b/c there is always an investment or two that retrospectively looks like it would have been an obvious sure thing to a layperson.
This study was previously reviewed by the economist and discussed in this comment of NH:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810857
>"There are too many kids in America playing on sports teams that don’t keep score"

If you hang around those games, you will find that many of the kids, parents, and coaches keep score even if the league doesn't. And if hang around similar games with older kids where they do keep score, you will see how parents and coaches regularly over-react to the outcome of those games.

As for trophies just for showing up, it's not restricted to youth sports, I give you the 2010 Texas Bowl featuring the #6 team in the Big 10 v. the #6 team in the Big 12. Texas should sue for defamation of character.
I see. I'll work on it. Thanks!
Horrendous action, no doubt. But there was an interesting follow-up:

"Prior to Kelo only eight states specifically prohibited the use of eminent domain for economic development except to eliminate blight: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington.[30] By July 2007, 42 states had enacted some type of reform legislation in response to the Kelo decision. Of those 42 states, 21 enacted laws that severely inhibited the takings allowed by the Kelo decision, while the rest enacted laws that place some limits on the power of municipalities to invoke eminent domain for economic development. The remaining eight states have not passed laws to limit the power of eminent domain for economic development." (from the same link)

I don't think you'll see that in China.
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I think you might have missed my point.

ExpertsExchange was useful because it had a broad range of obscure technical information, and the ability to get specific questions answered, but it was spammy and a pain to use. StackOverflow came along, took the good parts of that model, combined them with a clean interface and an open community, and won.

W3Schools is useful because it's a good barebones reference that assumes zero prior knowledge of the subject, but it's somewhat shady in how it represents itself, and the information isn't always accurate/complete/up to date. X came along...

As far as I can tell, neither of the two sites you linked, or the parent article, are a good reference for absolute beginners, which is the only thing that will either beat W3Schools or force them to improve.
Flip that "entire freaking life" comment around, and ask yourself whether the current IT schemes and the current common IT approaches are working as well as might be desired.

Whether the current IT plans have survived contact with the end-users.

If IT assumptions and approaches and plans aren't working and if errors are repeating, then IT is left to continue to spend on and work on More Of The Same and on Just Try Harder solutions, or IT can look at different approaches and different solutions. At performing some Root Cause Analysis, or whatever that might be called, and at shifting strategies and tactics.

Computer hardware and software vendors have the same issues, too. Sooner or later, the "blaming the users" for a repeating failure modes isn't going to be a viable product strategy, and somebody (else) then ends up owning the problems and the costs, or your product ends up cast aside.

Look to ways the most serious of these repeating problems can be eliminated.

Backups? IT has to expect some users won't do backups. Something akin to Apple Time Capsule with Mac OS X Time Machine is an absolute killer feature for home users. Your data ends up archived with minimal end-user involvement.

Passwords? How long will we repeat the IT password mantras? IT has to expect some users will continue to pick passwords. So what to do about that?

With a large enough breach or a large enough data loss, IT can be forced start deploying its own CA chains and certificates, and moving to tokens or analogous. Or backups. Or whatever. Why not start ahead of that breach?

As for alternatives and depending on your local user requirements, look to add and to migrate to embedded and tablet devices and automatic backups; trump the problems where you can. At certificate chains and VPNs. At automated backups.

Look for, but don't repeat mistakes.

...Don't expect existing mistakes to fix themselves.

...Don't assume that longstanding approaches and solutions are still the best available solutions.

...And don't plan that end-users will grok IT. They know and think about cancer research, or whatever their job is. Not about IT.
Will Facebook ever be rid of the Winklevoss twins?"

Yes, on the legal front, this is likely to end sooner rather than later at this point, as the appeal by the twins from the lower court judgment ordering that the settlement be enforced has not been well received by the panel hearing the appeal (see link, with my associated comment, from a couple of days ago to a story analyzing the judges' comments during the oral argument: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2096370).

I will restate here from my prior comment what the stakes are on this appeal:

"In my view, the last major legal cloud that hangs over Facebook is the appeal by ConnectU and the Winklevoss brothers of a federal court decision upholding a settlement between them and FB of their claims that Mr. Zuckerberg had allegedly stolen their ideas to form the company. With that settlement in place, those parties received what many considered a windfall ($20M cash and 1.2 shares of FB stock, originally valued at $45M and now estimated to be worth $150M). Should it be set aside, however, the settlement value of such claims today would be astronomical. Why? Because these claims (unlike those of Mr. Ceglia, who filed a claim nearly seven years after the fact claiming an "84% stake in Facebook") were timely brought and have overhung every round of financing that FB has done from the beginning. In other words, existing FB shareholders have at all times been aware, in making their investment, of the risk that they could potentially lose everything should ConnectU prevail in its claims to own the FB IP. That is a devastating outcome for FB shareholders, of course, but the claimants here (unlike Mr. Ceglia) cannot be accused of laches or foot-dragging in ways that make the timing of their claims inequitable and therefore unenforceable. Thus, should they get this settlement set aside, FB would be faced with years of future litigation during which a serious question mark would hang over the entire value of its company. Hence, no IPO; hence, a far higher cost of any financing down the road. The stakes are high in this case."

Money, then, would appear to be the main driving element here. By playing with house money, the twins stand to gain by continuing to leverage their legal threats. That is why this whole thing has taken on a Terminator-like quality. In the end, they will either run out of legal leverage or they will be paid off. Time will tell on which it will be but I doubt that they will back off gracefully regardless of any windfall they might have already received.
Like in this case, I find myself looking at the response headers of GET Requests quite often, so:

alias h='curl -sIw "Time: %{time_total}s\n" -X GET'

This issues a GET on the given URL, printing only the response headers and the time elapsed. Append -L if you want to follow redirects.
This page needs a call to action.

https://www.track1099.com/info/learnmore

Looks great!
If you're in the kind of job where your job performance will be substantially impacted by the newness of your computer, you should also be earning enough to afford a new computer considerably sooner than your first performance review.
If the firm is also running the VMs, it makes no sense to ask the employee to bring anything but K/V/M.
Inaccurate. The crimes charged were identity theft, wire fraud, and obstruction. The prosecution has broad discretion to choose what to charge. They chose poorly here. There are US felony statutes that pertain to unauthorized statutes; they require a (low) threshold of quantified damages and have a lower penalty attached to them compared to identity theft, but had he been charged with them, he'd be doing significantly more than a year in prison.
How do you define (and enforce) those rules? My general position when writing library code is that none of my classes should be subclassed.

The very few classes that may be subclassed are documented as such, and the methods that may be overridden are explicitly documented, as well as what behavior is required from the subclass when overriding those methods.

The invariants of complex inheritance hierarchies are very hard to understand. What happens if the superclass method isn't called? What happens if one of those methods is called, but another isn't, and the object is placed into an indeterminate state? What enforces that your subclass -- and all other subclasses -- will conform to these often complex and difficult to describe invariants?

This is very similar to multi-threading with mutable vs. immutable data. By making your data immutable, you grossly simplify the understanding of your system's behavior.
In his test, it appears the Mongo driver is just putting the message on the wire, not actually waiting on the server reply or verifying that the command was ever actually processed. Using the Redis in pipelined execution mode would be a much closer test.
Yesterday, I saw the future. Yesterday, I saw an interactive video.
>. Are you willing to implement an IT infrastructure where it is impossible for a user to lose mission critical data? If not, then you're insubordinate. Move along, please

Bosses don't always let you stick truecrypt on everything, especially if they say, have macs.

Most companies aren't run by the IT guy, and no universities are. You don't get that authority most places.
Tim, for what it's worth, I've gotten links to your site from a few people who said your site seems "overly inspired" by Mixergy.

When I started out, I found myself unconsciously imitating Gary Vaynerchuk. That's why you'll hear my older videos start with an over the top "HEY EVERYONE IT'S ANDREW WARNER..." Listening back, I can understand why it was so unnerving to my audience. They noticed that I was trying to imitate, instead of working to find my own voice.
This sounds a bit dramatic given that laptop computers fully capable of running typical business applications are no more than $1K these days (and can be quite a bit less). There are lots of things you may need to (or be advantaged by) spending money on depending on the job. For example, if you're in a sales job in certain industries, you'll need to spend quite a bit of money on clothing (suits, etc.). Relatively few companies supply cell phones today, although some may pay for data plans. Maybe commuting to your job is the only reason you need a car.

There are certainly complexities to bring-your-own-PC programs, especially with less technically savvy users, but the personal cost aspect isn't really one of them. (Especially given that most such programs have a subsidy.)
They suggest PromoteJS which links to MDC. Imagine you've never written a line of JavaScript. Which one of these would you rather be linked to?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide

http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

The massive table of contents with words like "inheritance", "iterators" and "regular expressions" or the page with a hello world program and a button you can click to run it yourself?
Do you need a desktop-specific site? Well, do your analytics tell you that you have a greater bounce rate from desktop browsers than from mobile browsers?

Grammar mistakes in your copy:

"You're busy at work and trying stay focused" should be "...trying to stay...".

"You don't want miss anything interesting stuff while you're away" should be "...want to miss anything interesting while..." or "...want to miss any interesting stuff while...".

Or maybe these are Americanisms I've not previously picked up on. They grate with me, anyway.

It took me a while to work out how to pronounce "Refynr". "Reffy-ner", does that mean anything? Does this matter?

I don't think bullets work with centred text.
I'm actually just speaking to the charges for which he was convicted, not what he was charged with (based off the wikipedia article).