skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on how literal you take these pictures to be. You could say that picture three suggests "we will have computer aided manufacturing," but you could also say it suggests "robots will build our houses." I think what these pictures show more than anything, is the kind of tangential predictions people seem to make about the future. "Everything will be automated with lots of tiny mechanical arms and levers. Everything will fly (because flight is really hot right now." This is a great example of zeerust (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust). Though interpreted vaguely these predictions are for the most part pretty good IMO.
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a larger screen would be great. Like maybe the size of the Droid X
On a slightly related note, what do you think about framing another site's contents? The original article is closer to framing in this respect, i.e. showing stuff in a UIWebView is more analogous to framing.

I am currently developing a content aggregator site, but haven't decided how to link/display original articles. Should I be putting a frame at the top (or display orignal content in an iframe?) so that users don't leave my site, or should I directly link to the original article? I have strong suspicion that doing the former would be unfair, but some sites like stumbleupon do it to improve user experience.
I can run a fully featured Linux system on a 800mhz laptop with 1gb of ram.
I've found that, if you want to make responsive apps on GAE, you must use memcache. At any scale. Personally, I gave up and left for better options. The generous free quotas aren't worth the trouble.

I hear they've improved latency since I left, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm still not going back any time in the next few years, though.
Tables usually prevent incremental rendering.

Tables are usually more bytes of markup (have a lot of nested <tr><tbody> elements)

Tables may require you to chop single, logical images into multiple ones.

Tables may require you to use a 'spacer' image (!)

We're not living in 1998 (!!)

Tables make life hell for those using screen readers.

Tables lock you into the current design and make redesigns much harder than semantic HTML+CSS.

Tables prevent reuse of content on multiple device formats (mobile / desktop / tablet).

Tables prevent content from being easily scraped or translated into other formats (via a screen-reader or XSLT).

Tables usually prevent JS from being used to dynamically move and reposition specific content.

Tables make dynamic width / liquid layouts difficult (if not impossible).
> What are people more afraid of? Planes. Why?

Well, for me one reason is that I've watched countless hours of "Seconds from Disaster" and "Air Emergency" on the National Geographic Channel.

Seriously, though, I think the control thing is big for me. I'm pretty sure that if I was wealthy, I'd be a private pilot--and still would not like flying commercially.

I don't like buses all that much, or cars when I'm a passenger, so that's more evidence in support of the control theory.

I'm OK with reasonable sized boats (e.g., the ferries in Washington State).

Ambivalent about trains--I was OK with them until I took Amtrak from the Seattle area to Beaumont, Texas, and back (yeah, patent lawsuit), and saw just how poorly maintained the tracks are. Fortunately when my train derailed, we were only going about 5 miles an hour so no one was injured. It just caused a several hour delay.
I only clicked because I love baseball, but it was an interesting post.

Here's the deal: how is what you're trying to do considered retirement? I'm not aware of any web apps that require no maintenance, no customer support, and no administrativa after 3 months. Sure, you can outsource some (maybe all) of that, but you still have to manage the outsourcing.

Being location-independent isn't retirement. Neither is un-conventional employment. If it's the Tim Ferris/4HWW lifestyle you're going for, fine–but even he's not "retired".

I applaud you for setting a goal, learning from past mistakes, and being bold about it. On the other hand, I boo you for bad semantics and possibly being a little too bold.
I think it's important to note that many queries on Wolfram Alpha are VERY heavyweight--I've had complex calculations and rendering take 30 seconds to a minute to finish. It's not like Google where a query get a result in a few milliseconds. So while Terminology is not likely to be querying it with lots of formulas, I think the policy exists so a badly thought out automated querier can't accidentally put a huge load on Wolfram's engine.
The user will be upset either way, but the chances of this happening on the local machine is higher, and at least in this case someone else will be charged with fixing it.
Hello again :) I kinda like the site but... I'm not really sure what it's for? Is this for sharing my CV, getting a new job, sharing links... where does it fit in between Monster.com and HN/Reddit?

On the front-end optimisation end, that's my "thing" so hit me up if you want to talk about that!
You might want to look at the Russian privatization of the early 1990s for an example of exactly how not to do this.

Unfortunately, Walker seems to think that experience is an instruction manual.
I strongly, strongly dislike stuff like the old Digg bar, or the Reddit bar. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about?

http://www.reddit.com/tb/fp3vz

If I'm looking at a page, I want the URL to be the URL of the page I'm looking at. Feels quite scummy otherwise.

That said, feel free to do it, nobody can (or should) stop you.
this isn't surprising considering this is the same company that took over a year to release a free api: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126037
We're talking about needless complication as opposed to essential complexity. We're talking about goddammit-I-just-want-x-next-to-y-no-matter-what-is-specified-ten-levels-up-the-dom-tree!

The essential reason that front-end development "should" be easier than back-end development is that back-end development is fundamentally algorithmic in nature and requires languages powerful enough to solve any solvable problem in computer science, while front-end development--and we really mean layout here--solves the limited problem of placement, layering, and coloring, and only requires a commensurate level of syntactic power for its implementation. I guess my point is that the front-end, or at least the layout portion of the front-end that CSS purports to solve, is so obviously so much less complicated than the back-end that you shouldn't have to point that out in order to deflect the accusation that it's just a naive expectation.

I realize it was probably tongue-in-cheek, but if anyone defends the complexity of CSS by equating it to a jobs program for web dorks, they've just ceded the point that CSS is improperly designed and needlessly complex.
edw519, that post was a bit self centered.

To be honest, failing hard made me learn mostly about me, especially my own personal shortcomings.

I didn't have users Round 1.

I understand that it won't ever be a startup without users, but the last journey was very personal.
It does sound like someone who hasn't experienced flight training. You don't have to know how to drive a car by instruments alone.
Regarding technobabble, when I worked at Sunglass Hut I used to mix technobabble with explanations they could relate to: "This pair has borosilicate lenses, which is the same glass they use for Pyrex cookware. So you know it's gonna be durable as hell. This pair has polycarbonate lenses, which are not as scratch resistant as glass lenses, but they are very lightweight and comfortable, and they won't break if you drop them."

I think customers liked it because it made them feel like they just got smarter (smart enough to make an informed purchase).

The other thing I used to do all the time that worked great was suggesting to hesitant customers (understandable since I was asking them to buy $300 sunglasses in Washington State) that they take a couple of laps around the mall, get an Orange Julius, and think about it. Most of the time they would think for a second, walk out the door, and walk back in about 30 seconds later to purchase the sunglasses.
Well, live and learn, if possible, every single day of your life :-)

God bless.
Having foreign governments cover for you is one way of getting away with stuff like that. When I was working at Shell, I would never have imagined such a thing was possible for someone like me to arrange -- that would only be the stuff of movies and books. Now, in this very globally connected age, such things are no longer so far out.

I still wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. Even with China covering for you, it's not a game to play lightly for anyone who has a home and life in the US.
Which is where this could help in the first place, by reducing the load on the datastore.
"The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand"

It may look silly on the outset, but this is the book. Accounting is very idiomatic. If you are not "in", things just look backwards or outright idiotic, especially if you have math or similar background. This book bridges the gap between the common sense and accounting.
Privatization doesn't take control of infrastructure away from the public. Also, up is down, black is white, and disagreement is agreement.
What do you think about an open api for restaurant menus?
I am a founder of a restaurant menu website. I have been working on an api that would allow the menus in our system to be integrated into any app via json, xml, html, or javascript. Does anyone think this is useful? If so, how would you use it? How much would you pay? free, $5, $10, $20 a month?
Now someone needs to write a proxy that replaces all images on a site with placekittens, à la Upside-Down-Ternet (http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html) and Kittenify (http://www.reload.me.uk/kittenify).
Is it fair to the founders of terrapower to call it Bill Gates' new startup?

Though he has done a great job in getting them publicity, telling there story, and opening doors, is it really is startup?
Agreed. Also I believe our subconscience (or primal instincts) plays a role here.

Flying in a plane is more or less akin to walking in the dark. Our conscious mind sees it ordinary, but our animal half still is behind the times, and feels afraid.
Oh, my God. I understand it perfectly now. I don't know whether to thank you for helping me get it, or damn you for making me die inside a little. (Either way you get an upvote)
As a libertarian, I would interpret protecting "our most basic freedoms" meaning the right to freely enter into agreements with whichever service providers we choose. If a service provider chooses to limit bandwidth to certain sites I would be free to buy Internet service elsewhere. But, as a libertarian, I also recognize the fact that this will never work as long as government continues to regulate these services in any way. If government gives special favours to big providers there will never be an opportunity for small ISPs to compete.
Summary:

Do you want corporations to act as unregulated "traffic controllers"? Then you're against net neutrality.

Do you want an accountable government agency with a lackluster track record for citizens' digital rights to act as a "traffic controller"? Then you're for net neutrality.

* Before voting me down, look at the actions the federal government has already taken in regards to traffic control (ala exempting wireless carriers, and kill switch legislation). This smells like traffic control to me.
Winning San Francisco's Startup Scene
There are a number of disturbing aspects of this news, but I find the new "no discussion, no consideration, no compromise" attitude of the Republican party to be extremely frightening.
There were suicides at Foxconn because the jobs were HELL. US workers would not put up with such working conditions. So, China used slave labor to take our jobs? There are several points: (1) In a sense, if they want to do the work for wildly little money and sell the results to use, then we get to buy cheap at their loss. (2) But we lose the jobs. (3) As Grove points out, they build an 'industrial base' and we lose ours so that later they can raise their prices and we won't be able to do anything about it. Net, as Grove suggests, they have an 'economic strategy' and we don't.

Grove omits a big, huge point: Why is China 'open'? Because the US worked to make it 'open' -- remember, "Nixon went to China.". Why? Foreign policy: Get China doing international trade, make them 'addicted' to it, and then lean back and tell ourselves that now we have China where in their foreign policy they have to behave. So, if they misbehave, then we won't buy their computers and then we won't have computers. Hmm???

Part of the idea was that if we let China, or some such, sell us labor intensive goods, then they would get the cash to buy our high tech goods from Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, etc. Of course, soon enough China took apart a Cisco router and saw how to build their own. For Microsoft software, they copy, cheat, and don't pay. For Intel? Actually, Taiwan can make chips, and, really, also design them, Maybe Intel is ahead in the design, a little.

Looks like we have China just where they want us.

Likely the US economy is the only significant one that exposes its workers to slave labor competition via 'national economic policy' attacks from overseas.

That we believe so much how 'free enterprise' and 'competition' will protect us is foolish: Around 1890 in the US we saw how various 'deals' could grab a market, create a monopoly, and hold it. Eventually we passed various anti-trust acts to make such things illegal. Of course those anti-trust acts don't apply to China! So, for that 1890 stuff, they can use it against us, and they are. E.g., the pick an industry, attack it, lose money if necessary, or just use slave labor, run all other companies out of business, and then raise prices. So, they 'take' a market. Once they have it, it will be tough for us to take it back. They know that. The econ profs like Blinder don't count the 'asset' of 'market position'; so they are eager to see the asset thrown away. Try to get the market position back and will see how valuable that asset was.

Net, a few people in the US are doing well and like what is going on. Many others have their careers ruined and just drink 'free enterprise' Kool Aid.
It is not a mistake: http://lwn.net/Articles/430106/
Never thought of the NSFW implications.. Thanks for the headsup on this.
This comment is, unfortunately, an illustration of how sites go downhill. It has 19 downvotes, including mine. So how does it have so many points? Because it has twice as many upvotes.

When badness arrives in online communities, it arrives first in forms that make people invite it right in.
Ajax.org Debuts Development-As-A-Service Platform For Javascript, HTML5
Put it in a power strip, and people working there will want to steal it for their own cube!
Then you aren't familiar with network neutrality, which has nothing to do with the FCC dictating what kind of traffic is and is not allowed or controlling traffic.
Pr(pearl|blue) = Pr(blue|pearl) * Pr(pearl) / Pr(blue)

Two are given outright, and you should be able to compute the third based on the available data.
It doesn't make sense to compare the percentage of Gmail accounts that lost data in a single event to the annual failure rate of a hard drive. It also doesn't make sense to assume my local storage is a single hard drive in a world where a RAID array fits in a Macbook.
Good point but I am also concerned about how many songs I can fit on my player. if each song is 150MB, I could fit 30 times less songs. I want higher quality audio if anyone does. My ears are trained and have spent 10 years mixing behind near-field monitors. I have done side by side comparisons with 50MB 44/16 audio and 5MB 256kbps AAC encode, and I can't hear the difference.
On the other hand, I boo you for bad semantics and possibly being a little too bold.

I don't understand booing anybody for being too bold. But maybe that's just me... I advocate being very bold and setting audacious goals. But I also advocate crashing and burning while shooting for the stars, as opposed to merely shooting for the hilltop and then quietly fading away. :-)
Ask/Offer HN: Anyone wants to connect?
Hello HN. Long time reader, first time poster here.

Life can be a little difficult and lonely for a solo hacker working without a proper co-founder. Being geographically disconnected from the startup world makes it even harder, missing out on all the cool meetups and hackathons I keep reading about. Over the last few weeks, I connected with a few HNers via hnofficehours, the #startups irc channel, and some HN Google docs. It has been a good experience; making new friends and exchanging thoughts over our respective projects. I found myself motivated each time I talked to these guys, pushing me to work harder on my own projects.

So I thought I should reach out and connect with more such people. If anyone wants to talk about startups, bounce ideas, get some feedback, or if you need a hand with something, if you are just feeling down and need some motivation, or simply want to make a new friend, please feel free to contact me.

My skype id is hanifvirani and my email is in my profile.

Lastly, I would like to thank HN for being such a great community and a bank of knowledge. You have been a significant help.
Yes, no problem. Drop me an email when you need them and I'll try to send them in less than one day (everything is pretty tied here, so that may be two days or three, depends on my inbox flow).
'Poisoned' Chinese workers turn to Apple for help
Honestly, it seems really relevant to me. The idea is great, a lot of people will end up using it and it has a cute/wow factor.

It also servers as a reminder that the Internet loves kittens and other ridiculous things. It is important to not forget this general principle and to keep it in mind when designing your product.

People are ridiculous; remember to use that to your advantage.
The problem with the Wolfram Alpha terms of service is that they forbid natural, common uses of the web site.

"The Wolfram|Alpha service may be used only by a human being using a conventional web browser to manually enter queries one at a time."

Think for a minute what that forbids. Generating links programmatically, yes. Tweeting links? Yes. Emailing a URL? yes. Bookmarks? Oh, yeah...

Enforceability of the ToS aside, I think the original author is correct: that phrase in the Terms of Use shows that Wolfram|Alpha doesn't "get" the way the web works. Or at least they give too much free reign to lawyers who don't get it.
Of course, once the right-wing gets its way on net neutrality, insuring that corporations can do whatever they want, they will then ALSO argue, as soon as Republicans hold the White House again, that the government has to be able to regulate the Internet as well, in order to make the world safe for Jesus and protect us from the terrorists.

This BS about opposing government control really just means they oppose government control that comes from Democrats.
Can someone tell me if net neutrality was to fail and big service providers did restrict access as they saw fit - what ways would there be around it without paying extra $ to line their pockets? VPN? Something else? (I don't know much about this stuff so sorry if this is a dumb question)
+1 to the author of the article (not the "obfuscators") for using the word "therein". And correctly, as near as I can tell.
Watch out for the HP Wireless Assistant CPU Assasin
Cool stuff. But it seems lacking manual to run it.
I would like to see manuals about how to build it, run it at command line and etc.
Better docs can really add a lot attractions.
Anyway, thank you for providing such as beautiful tool. It has been years that R under linux has no such a good IDE.
It works pretty well though. Every issue is framed as a decision whether the country as we know it will be destroyed.
Seems a lot of voters like this style.
On a similar note, would the project still work if we reported it to you anonymously? I trust that you won't do anything bad with what I up-voted, but others might care more about what they've saved, and maybe letting them give it to you anonymously would get you more submissions.
He thinks (mainly because of ignorance, I guess) that ISPs are competing in a decent approximation of a free market, and that consumers have a choice of providers offering various services at various competitive price points. That's how markets in the USA are intended to work, so I guess it's a reasonable assumption, if you're completely ignorant of the state of telecom in the USA.

Just as an example, Verizon decided that my home state of New Hampshire wasn't a desirable market any more for terrestrial broadband. So they sold their franchise (basically a state-granted monopoly over the region) to FairPoint. The state only agreed to give the franchise to FairPoint after FP promised to extend fiber deployment throughout the state, and meet certain access requirements to poor and hard-to-reach areas. (This is why the monopoly is considered a fair tradeoff: the company makes their money on a captive audience in the higher-margin cities, and the state gets guaranteed service to negative-margin rural areas.) Well, it turns out FP were lying through their teeth, have no fiber capability whatsoever, and don't have enough money to improve the infrastructure at all. Verizon shareholders lost over 1 billion dollars, but the trouble is that there is no competition for residential broadband left in the state. In some places, you can get 1.5 Mb/s DSL (which the FCC admits doesn't count as "broadband"), a few places you can get Comcast cable, but there are a lot of places where there's just nothing available. And since we're not a desirable market, there's no chance of getting any other companies to deploy to those areas. NH is screwed for the foreseeable future.

tl;dr No one on any side who's been paying attention would make those claims. Status quo is state-granted monopolies, so it's up to the state to enforce reasonable rules on the ISPs.
dantheman's criticism is more on-target. There are certainly places in the US with highly-concentrated populations, a significant percentage of which would like to travel to nearby population clusters.

But as a Tampa resident, I feel confident that anybody who has much reason to travel from here to Orlando already has a car, and at most a weak preference for high-speed rail. In NYC, Philadelphia, D.C., and Boston I'd feel much less confident.
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Not quite. Seriously. The current conservative argument against net neutrality is to paint net neutrality as "regulation" and "regulation" is bad. Instead of looking at the specifics of net neutrality regulation, they just say "regulation" and hope that people's imaginations run wild. (If they went into specifics, conservatives likely would support NN, it's essentially how Reagan-era Republicans created the Internet: http://www.archive.org/details/igovernance_rawfootage_l2a)

Boehner doesn't understand it nor will attempt to understand it. His paycheck depends on him not understanding it.
I like the company, but don't see the big deal. I did this very thing back in 2002-3 calling a DLL to convert Word to HTML. Their implementation is much prettier of course.
We're on this over at support.rstudio.org:
http://support.rstudio.org/help/discussions/problems/19-imme...
you seriously think devs will do a better job daily if they have a slower machine for day to day tasks?
That would be OK if there was a functioning market for ISPs. But there clearly isn't. Most people don't have a choice of service provider and the cost of entry is too high for new competitors to come in.
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