skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I browse with Showdead: yes and it seems that quite a number of contributors (natch ~0.01%?) have been caught by this, have had their comments downvoted to get their karma into the negative. There are spammers that this happens to yes, but also quite a few "normal" people who might not have had the HN worldview on an early comment and then continue contributing without realizing or being shown that their comments are being marked dead and don't show to almost all viewers.

I would make a new account, make a few vanilla comments that people will agree with and get karma to 10-30 to prevent this from happening.

I've seen some number of people with reasonable contributions who appear to be caught unaware by this for months or perhaps a year in some cases. I'd consider it a defect, but ? I see it more often on normal folks than spammers maybe 80/20

There are other situations where I am confused by seeing a normal contributor's comment as dead (different than deleted) out of the blue, they have +karma and won't post dead in the future.

I am certainly no social.media.community digerati though, it may work best over all.
I haven't read the comment that was downvoted, but my understanding was that it was the brand of vaccine that was stopped, and not the vaccine itself. Anti-vaccine talk is not nearly as common in Japan as in North America.
He's dogged on a lot of things that they then went and launched afterwards (no video on iPods, no tablet, no cell phone, etc etc) so I wouldn't take his criticism too seriously.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/steve-jobs/
The comma, semicolon, period thing is a bit weird in erlang it's a hold over from prolog and makes complete sense in prolog. But the semantic differences of erlang make it a bit more vague.
narcissism.

Its a running theme throughout the 'parent' blog, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com , that many social ills are at root manifestations of narcissism.
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This is a shit concept and it's not gonna go anywhere.
While this is not news for the people on this forum, it is surprising to hear it through Forbes.

And, my one-line rebuttal: ideas don't matter, unless, of course, they are actually novel algorithms. PageRank was very important to Google's success.
I've also started working on a similar concept. My approach to this problem is to use context based LISTSERVs. The goal is to help make social sharing relevant by targeting both interests and "social roles".
I have confidence in humanity that some people can still interpret a joke. My friend cleared a compressed air nail gun's chamber whilst we were building a dock, it managed about 30ft and was visibly tumbling the entire way. I would be surprised if a battery powered nail gun managed 10ft.

Plus, a nail is essentially a flachette and has virtually no stopping power. You're aiming for the head or nothing. You'd likely be better clubbing the zombies (or bunny rabbits) to death with the nail gun than actually trying to kill anything with it.

It would, however, get you into a good position when the New World Order sets in an crucifixions become all the rage again. You'd be able to crucify at a significant person-per-minute rate! Say hello to the executioners job.
I just thing people don't care how technically difficult a game was to make; they just care if it's fun. The issue of these games all relying on the same underlying psychology to cultivate addiction is also relevant, of course
Good if you want to be convinced to try out 0mq, but to actually learn about it The Guide is awesome:

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
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Wow. This is just horrific. My heart goes out to Japan. Hang in there guys!
4chan as a whole is not "balls-to-the-wall crazy." Several of their boards are, but as a whole that's not necessarily the case.
You should have some text on the linked site that says how long the video is. A lot of people are going to look briefly, see no apparent description of what you are doing other than the video, and move on. Telling them the video is only 33 second makes it more likely they'll look.

On the other hand, there is nothing in the imagery in the video that actually helps understand what you are doing. All the useful information in the video is in the audio. It might be worth spending the two or three minutes it would take to make a transcript and put that on the site, too.
From the wiki article, by the time a large tsunami reaches the shore, it has a wavelength of ~20km, taking ~1-2 minutes to reach the peak of the wave.

And yeah, in the long term, most of the water will go back out to sea (or evaporate off). Of course, areas that were below sea-level before hand, will now be big ponds until they're drained, but by and large, the water will withdraw (which does extra damage!).
Sounds like Cycript (http://cycript.org), but Cycript allows messages to be written in Objective-C syntax rather than underscore-ized, which makes using Cocoa not so painful.
Grew up in Dubai back in the 80s and 90s, spent 14 years there. The Dubai I remember had a sustainable economic model, wise rulers, high standard of living. No regrets growing up there during those humbler times.

That being said, the "go big or go home" direction of the city/Emirate disturbed me. As did the growing societal divide between Asians, Caucasians and Emiratis. Tolerance of any kind was becoming an increasingly scarce commodity. Badge-whoring though was never in short supply.

I left for NYC for my bachelors at the age of 17. I couldn't wait. I refused to adopt Arabic as my language. I refused to accept that we were 2nd class citizens in a land we toiled like it was our own.

I will always be an Indian, Dubai means nothing to me. There isn't a person in Dubai that would pass the Tebbitt test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_test

That alone speaks volumes for the misguided leadership that has plagued it for nigh on two decades.
I'll give him highest ranked writer. He is a very clear writer but no need to make it a pissing match. Our friends at other startups here pen some nice articles as well for example. Besides, he's fully absorbed one Japanese quality: he probably wont accept your praise without deferring it. :-)
Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
Same video appears on BBC ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12722026

"Footage has emerged of Friday's tsunami sweeping through Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture, north-eastern Japan."
My household of 4 uses upwards of 100GB per month without even paying for services like Netflix. Our usage of ad-supported SD streaming sources is such that buying even one game on Steam is likely to push us over the limit. The next time Steam has a big sale, we're likely to spend several times more on downloading the games than on purchasing them.
I didn't find the examples contrived at all. They all seem realistic... I've probably encountered each one personally at least once in my life.

Just the other day I was waiting for a client in front of his office while I watched some people set up for a presentation in a neighbouring room that was almost literally that same example you find so unlikley. They had to get the laptop out, turn it on, get the power brick out, find an outlet, find a cable for the projector, configure the laptop to talk to the projector...
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It's been tried (kinda). Doesn't really work apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Seal
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Only if you have the fuel to spend months in the woods using a chainsaw.

You'd be better off packing a crosscut saw and a rip saw (used for making planks) and save significant weight.
The IDE must move onto the server
Google reader gives me exactly what I want in an rss reader. I can't imagine switching... Like all things, you can't please everyone.
Even though Prolog and Erlang are very different languages that rely on very different paradigms, they do have one thing in common: recursion. Learning Prolog will force you to learn how to think recursively, and will make it easier to then learn Erlang.

That said I'm not sure it's a big win compared to learning Erlang directly.
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they earn money on impressions, don't they?
NHK World English has an online at http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ so you could listen in. I didn't see any mention of meltdown in the latest news there.

NHK's Japanese page reports a declaration of an emergency situation (apparently under official regulations for when a certain radiation level is reached) but otherwise nothing I hadn't already read.

It might just be the OP interpreting the situation as the beginnings of a meltdown.

edit: just spotted anigbrowl's post. Could have saved myself the googling (Ducking?)
I've literally just started coding my highest-potential product today. Exactly five years later.

So I guess I have to finish in 8 days then!
True. But I still think it's appropriate because a) when talking about 4chan people don't think of the sane boards and b) the crazy boards hold a great chunk of the traffic (majority?), even if they are outnumbered (not that you need many of them).

Regardless of what we think, 4chan and /b/ are synonymous in most places. And there's a good reason, I don't think international press is interested in the Animals, Traditional Games or Literature boards.
is this for real or it's a part of a joke?
Two reactions to this:

1) I love first looks at Twitter, since it's got such an emergent, gee-why-didn't-I-think-of-that feel to it, but we already have some idea of what the creation of Twitter was like (http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/04/jack-dor...)

(Do remember that it took them 9 months to hit 100k accounts http://www.quora.com/Twitter-Growth-Traction/How-long-did-it..., and it was about a year before the SXSW that made them famous).

2) I find the quality of writing in this article really amusing. Siegler's just repeating everything that Dorsey says. Posting screenies of Dorsey's tweets and removing all text would say the exact same thing.
I like how they claim that keeping prices the same for less bandwidth is "good for the average consumer".
Twitter came to life five years ago this week; creator Jack Dorsey remembers
> I'm to worried about eating into my monthly limit to do so.

Depending on the area, the limit may not even be enforced. I've pretty drastically gone over the cap every month since it was implemented and have yet to receive a warning, and I've heard the same thing from other users. Of course, YMMV.
It's the name of the linked article's author.
They cite Misek, Chowdhry and Sterling--only 2 are redundant though they use the quotation in different contexts--but i see what youre getting at.
Thats fair.

Sales of the iPad 2 havent been released officially yet to my knowledge but sales in the first 3 days are thought to be around 600000--more than the original iPad made in its first week and look how well it did in the long run--and to sell around 5.5 million units in its first quarter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402750457619...

http://www.wowtechy.com/apple-ipad-2-sales-forecast/

Furthermore, iPad is meeting current projections of 45 million (though this likely includes sales of the iPad2).

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/626826/45_million_ipad_sa...

On the other hand, Xoom was projected to ship only 800,000 in its first quarter and 1 million if lucky.

http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20110110/motorola-xoom-sale...

however, actual sales for the Xoom have been so terrible that they're not even releasing them and theyre planning to cut back production for future quarters.

http://www.benzinga.com/news/11/03/914761/motorola-xoom-sale...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/motorola-xoom-sales-tepid-prod...

I cant provide any more information than that right now because it literally isnt available to the public as far as I know; however, we can induce from whats above that Apple really isn't feeling the effects predicted by Xoom analysts, if they are feeling effects at all. And this is despite the superior hardware listed in my previous post.

Sure, Motorola dominated at CNET this year, but so did Palm when it announced the Pre and we've seen how that worked out. Like I said earlier, I have no allegiances to Apple but I think its rather difficult to deny that theyre dominating the tablet platform. You seem hypercritical of my evidence which is fine but I have yet to see any to the contrary. If its out there I'm happy to be enlightened.
I think anyone that has AT&T DSL could also have Speakeasy DSL. It's just that Speakeasy costs a lot more.
> Only the most naive programmers think that LOC actually means anything.

Sure but the author does actually compare a poorly written Objective-C version to an optimized (and different!) implementation in Lua and then goes on to say, hey look how much more pretty the Lua version is.
Slightly off topic but not really question;

Is there a defined term for the observation of continuous streams of information tailored to fit a particular popular ideology thus contributing to increased skepticism of said information?
Important first correction. The wave moves at that speed. The water itself does not. It mostly bobs up and down slightly.

Important second correction. The height of the tsunami when it hits shore is not the height of the tsunami when it is out at sea. All waves, tsunamis included, rise up when the bottom of the water starts to compress the bottom of the wave, compressing its energy into a smaller volume.

With these corrections, a tsunami out at sea is a wave a few cm high moving at 800 km/h with the water barely moving, but with the whole water column moving. It is therefore entirely conceivable that a well-built dike could withstand such a wave.

Obviously such dikes were not in place this time, but the feasibility of building them has been investigated. By Japanese scientists no less. See http://www.pwri.go.jp/eng/ujnr/joint/37/paper/13kato.pdf for one paper on the topic.
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You asked if you should continue working on this. Based on your site, and video, it's hard to say. I really have no actual idea how the site itself is going to function, or what it's actually going to do.
Wondering roughly what kind of cents per kilowatt hour they pay for electricity over there, I know nuclear is a lot more efficient energy generation but have no idea how this translates for the end consumer.
"""And then we get onto secondary claims, e.g. benefits of garbage collection. (See the pretty graph)"""

The pretty graphs are actually very misleading.

The graphs that drop down in the Lua version actually show the system load and not memory usage. So it shows nothing about garbage collection.

If you look at the process list in for the Objective-C version you can see that some other process, 'installd', is hogging most of the CPU.

I bet the author was syncing with iTunes or installing some software while running these tests.

What you can see in the Instruments screenshots is that the Lua version uses about 200KB more memory for the 'same' application.
Closest thing I know of is Ning.
Sorry, delayed response!

I would say it very much looks like technology from 1928. Compare it with the minimalist forms of Gio Ponti's Superleggera Chair, or side-by-side against the sinuous curves of a Rio chaise by Oscar Niemeyer. The LC3 looks downright old & Bauhaus-y.

Re. the innovation: This is a fascinating topic. One difference might be a result of value retention. A furniture model from 2006 won't have compatibility issues with the latest upholstery. I'm being silly to a degree, but knowing my iPhone 3GS will soon run at the speed of snot does not endear the thing's design to me. So old style could stick around without seeming too outdated, reducing the need for innovation.

Second, related thought about design innovation (again, from my very non-authoritative perspective) Furniture design seems have two extremes in innovation: A) periods of minor & incremental developments, essentially stagnation. B) Radical developments based on changes in artists' context.

The long periods where innovation is noticeably absent generally parallel times when artisans have no new medium in which to elevate their craft. During these periods, they're generally relegated to small changes: modifications & cosmetic variations on mostly-optimized forms.

Same as in vehicle design or computer hardware, the real magic happens when you develop new materials for medium & new methods for construction. (Esp. when those materials that improve fundamentals, a material's increased load-bearing ability will radically enhance what is possible in chair design.)

A good example are the years after bentwood techniques are pioneered, where designers for firms such as Thonet and J.J. Kohn produced radical new forms - the organic curves of Thonet rocking chairs look decades ahead of their mid-1800s origins, and they anticipate Art Nouveau by more than a quarter-century.

The same innovation groundswell appeared when synthetic materials (Lucite, plastic laminate & other petro-products) are introduced to the consumer markets post-WWII. A generation of design names like Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Charles Hollis Jones & Ettore Sottsass seized on these materials, creating parallel expressions of the abstraction & geometry in post-war architecture.

Recommend reading on hotbeds of design innovation:
The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847 pub. by Yale University Press for the Bard Graduate Center
Italian Lighting Design 1945-2000 by Alberto Bassi

P.S. Apologies for rambling.
Sorry - downvoted when I meant to upvote.
Did I just see a Java Applet? I thought we were past that stage.
That doesn't make it any more valid to call it a tidal wave. I would think someone on HN would be happy that a misnomer is no longer being used.
As a relative newb, seeing what ZeroMQ can do had me slapping myself in the forehead. I wish I would've known about this when I was gouging my eyes out trying to build my own abstraction for ExactTarget's terrible groups system.
You may be right - logic programming isn't easy and the semantics are different, so it may make things more confusing for a complete beginner (I learned Prolog long ago). For a deeper understanding I would still recommend trying it.
Telecoms also fought hard to make it illegal for cities to offer ubiquitous broadband for free. It started being a small trend for cities to do this as incentive to live there, but it was quickly squashed.

They also sat on DSL for over a decade until the telecom act of '96 allowed others to roll-out DSL. They finally started to market it themselves when they were forced.
Some early screenshots...

http://gallery.me.com/jackdorsey#100007
Why the downrank? Facebook is the biggest Social Network in the world, the second most visited website. Google (search engine) is the biggest web search engine in the world, the most visited website.

Even if Facebook launched the best search engine, we are used to Google and it just works, look at Bing even if the engine is somewhat more defined and powerful, we still search on Google because there's that little something we like. It's the same thing right now with Google and their (maybe unannounced) social networking plan.

Imagine a social integrated search (kinda like Greplin) where your search results maybe be influenced by who you are and what you might try to find. Where we're not posting YouTube videos across the social network but it is integrated to it in a blended experience where you can even watch videos with your friends live. Imagine Google Docs connected directly to your Facebook contacts, your calendar synchronized to your events - a unified experience.

Yes at some point it might sound silly, but think about the possibilities, the face isn't the reality, beneath it is.
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> can you also tell me why the 98% of people who pay for U-Verse should have to pay for that level of service, which they will never come close to using

They are now effectively paying the exact same amount for a reduced level of (potential) service. Unless you're willing to speculate that this will eventually lower costs for the 98% (doubt it, are Comcast's users better off?), there is no gain for any end user in this scenario.
What if they are both right?

Facebook model is phenomenally successful, clearly Zuckerberg must be right.

4chan model is phenomenally successful, clearly Poole must be right.

The only issue I see here is our polarizing attitude and insistence that one must be better than the other.

It's not a zero sum game. We have both because they target different, non-overlapping scenarios and we have hundreds of other, smaller communities, each with different rules.

We don't discuss it when people who like bitter chocolate claim that those who like sweet chocolate are "totally wrong". I think we have enough space on our servers for both Facebook and 4chan.
The thing I'm worried about with "public" cliques is that you need to worry about excluding people. What if someone you don't want wants to join your clique?
Are you suggesting that average bandwidth usage isn't going to increase?
Sidenote: refer to answers by their authors, because they are always changing positions :)
How To: Native iOS apps in Javascript
The beginning of the flood looks innocuous enough, but it keeps on coming...
He's right you know. Where would we be without Rickrolling and LOL cats?

</sarcasm>
I know. I have the syntax too. It's just one of those things where you have both a bad and a good side. It's about trade offs.

On the bright side, https://github.com/josevalim/elixir was recently released and made me actually like Erlang a bit more. Ruby like syntax with the power of Erlang without a performance hit.
As an example a friend of mine was on a boat during the massive 2004 tsunami, but since he was a few miles off the coast where the water was deep he didn't even notice the tsunami sweeping under his boat. Once it hit land it did massive damage.
Is Apple trying to do something where they alternate white/black and one of them is new and in fashion and the other is now old?

2011 - if you own a new Apple product, it's white.
2012 - if you own a new Apple product, it's black. White is old now.
2013 - White is new again. Don't go outside with a black product.
and so on
The title of this HN posting is very misleading. The title of the original article is:

Create NATIVE-LOOKING iPhone/iPad applications from HTML, CSS and JavaScript
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Worst possible case right now is a meltdown in the core (which is not explosive, just hot thermally and radioactively). A meltdown is not a problem because containment vessel is still intact and it's designed to handle a meltdown. It's just expensive and a bit dangerous to clean up radioactive sludge off the bottom of the containment vessel. (The building that blew off just protected the containment vessel from weather.) The article linked by anonymous246 explains in detail.
I have a 6Mbit DSL line but I checked Speakeasy's availability for my address and no dice.
On Windows Chrome does not give you controls, but you can right click to pause/unpause it at least.