skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know... what came to mind after reading "deletes every email in her inbox" was POP, which pretty much always deletes your remote mail once it's been retrieved. How many millions of people still use POP over IMAP or webmail? Quite a few I would guess.

For 5+ years, I've been downloading my email with fetchmail, which deletes the message on the server. Once a minute. I don't like the thought of my emails sitting in the cloud for too long.
The problem with the corporate tax rate argument lies in the difference between nominal tax rate and effective tax rate - US corporations pay far less in actual taxes than they are supposed to - which doesn't contradict your point about corporate flight, since tax haven shopping is a big part of why corps don't pay what they should. Not that corps are reflected in the graphic.

Also, the "Fair Share" thing is tough. I would argue that "Fair Share" should relate to the percentage of the country's wealth or economy controlled by the tax bracket, rather than the percentage of the population or even the percentage of yearly income represented by that group. Looked at that way, the upper brackets are getting a great deal.

Point taken on size of government. If you just believe the government should be smaller, then there is no reason to revert to historical mean taxation rates. However, my sense is that our social indicators for poverty, education, and health are so bad relative to other countries that it's hard to make the case that the status quo is adequate, much less excessive.
Patrick also lives 400 km outside of Tokyo, which is then 300 km to the center of Fukushima Prefecture, which is then 80 km away from Miyagi, where the tsunami did the most damage.

Thats almost 500 miles (750ish km). He may have felt an earthquake, and a strong one at that, but he did not survive a natural disaster and he certainly is not in the middle of a nuclear disaster. From his perspective, everything is perfectly fine.

On August 30th 2005, I moved from Pennsylvania back to my hometown in the West. Hurricane Katrina hit that previous night, and despite the gas bill costing a bit more than I had originally budgeted, as long as I kept the news radio down I was none the wiser as to anything going on down there as I crawled across the country.

Patrick, as much as the HN Japanese guy he is, is in the same position I was. He life is a little inconvenienced and it sounds like he is a little busy doing whatever his disaster/emergency related Salaryman job does. That said, I like his perspective, and I think it helps up understand that all of Japan is not sinking or melting. The parts that are though do need our help, and I think it would be good of him to distinguish between where he is being just fine and the North area that certainly is not doing well, even if the situation up there is under control.
If you ignore that he's talking about cars or planes, and his point.
This story reminds me Hit-Girl and Big Daddy from Kick-Ass movie.
I guess the phrase seemed particularly egregious precisely because the rest of the article was pretty accurate with the tech terminology.
They certainly crushed the Indian textiles industry economically, which speaks to his broader point that the dominant players only talk about free markets etc. when it suits them.
You need to consider opportunity cost. What amazing things are we prevented from realising as a result of restrictive law and the practices it supports?

There was a time where the church could point to its awesome musical, architectural and wine traditions and say that they wouldn't exist without the strong forced support of the populace, land privileges, the right to cut the balls off young boys, education monopoly and other ludicrous concessions.

I'm a huge fan of the results of some these traditions, but there's more to life.

I think the parent post was very apt. Copyright and patents are both forms of protectionsim, like the Tennessee license laws he describes.
> They might be wrong too but if you're going to call them wrong, perhaps you should first take the time to figure why they do what they do first.

Right back at'cha. You have criticized my approach without understanding it.

> Specifically, two programs that parse the same grammar would likely need to do different things at different times in the parsing process. [...] But any "general purpose" parser library more or less has taken the code and fully compile it - turn it into an AST or the equivalent and then let the programmer deal with the results

Actually, that's not what Gazelle does. If that were the best you could do, I'd agree with you.

At its lowest layer, Gazelle offers event-based parsing. It's like SAX, where the approach you have described is like DOM.

The way you would remove a single "i" tag from a string is by registering a callback that gets called when "i" is encountered, and another callback that gets called when the corresponding closing tag is encountered.

And once I've optimized Gazelle to generate really fast machine code, I doubt your "single loop" is going to beat me. For example, did you know that with SSE you can do 16 byte-wise compares in a single instruction? Are you going to put SSE instructions in your "single loop"?

Finally, your "single loop" is probably not going to correctly handle the case where the "i" tag is inside a CDATA section, and is therefore not actually an "i" tag at all. This is the biggest problem with ad hoc parsers -- nobody seems to realize how incomplete/buggy they are.

> Wait! People write programs manually too instead of automatic program constructors. It might be OK.

I think a better analogy would be: you would know C compilers weren't good enough if people were always writing in assembly instead. Writing a parser manually instead of using an abstraction like a CFG is like writing in assembly language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses

1) usage is disputed at a level beyond middle school English.

2) "that" is often preferred for restrictive clauses.
Perhaps they meant the kernel interrupt codes?
Charging for a book is quite different from patenting the ideas it contains. If Chomsky writes a book on language, you can still write your own work. Product Patents don't work like that. Get the difference?

Free to compete != free of charge.

Libre vs Gratis.

Free as in speech vs free as in beer.

Get it?
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No, it's not. I ran across one where apparently I had chosen "favorite restaurant" 10 years ago. I tried 5 likely candidates, and several passwords I use for these things. Nothing went.
Just wanted to thank you for your blog posts about this.

I am using Gambit in my own iPad development efforts and your instructions were invaluable !
That's interesting... I don't know if it's possible to animate directly on a bezier curve, though that'd be an extremely-useful thing to be able to do.

It looks like all the animatable properties just have ease-in / out timing, and go from A to B. Given that, the best you could do is animate each X/Y direction's behavior, creating a new animation at each bezier curve point, and using the bezier form of the timing function to mimic curved paths.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/css/css_transitions and https://developer.mozilla.org/en/css/css_transitions
I always look forward to his blog posts, but I think he needs to stop talking about something he is not very aware about.

Yes, Japan is well prepared for disasters, but that does not mean it doesn't need help. The preparation for a disaster mainly involves saving lives, not helping people get back to their way of living.

What is the best way to help out? I wish I knew, but sending money for relief efforts seems to be a good way.

Honestly, I'm fuming about his remarks and believe he is causing more trouble the more he speaks.
Never mind if I move to another state and throw out my old driver's license.
A is for Atom (on Fukushima type reactors)
Someone is having quite a blast at the moment, unless Forbes made the whole thing up.
In light of recent Anon-related police raids, I would hope that anyone supposedly as savvy as "k" would rely on full-disk crypto as opposed to foolishly going the destruction of evidence route.

I've used FDE for many years simply out of precaution against theft.
Ways they track you:

1. Using same computer that connects via phone, wireless, etc
and than using any email service.
2. Machine characteristics since they cannot get the machine ID they go for the next best digital finger print ..ie
operator grammar/typos..cpu speed, ram size, etc.
3. Websites have visitor logs..the track back to you eventually gets fleshed out.

I think the Forbes article writer got played..
The second space race is a reliable reason to believe.

Several governments bet big (well, perhaps medium) money on race to the Moon, to extract helium-3 [3] from water ice in there. A key component to commercial nuclear fusion -- and with only small-time other uses in medicine and stuff.

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[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions
>Not really. Unless the language gives you access to the computer (either directly, or by emitting machine code and scheduling for execution), you'll have hard time implementing it efficiently.

Why not use Ruby to emit a bunch of bytes (ie, assembly), push it into a file, and set the executable bit? Ruby could be used to create GCC so you can write C. ie, a Ruby-based Ruby-to-assembly compiler. With that technique and therefore technically Ruby alone, you're still capable of recreating every language or application in existence, right down to being exact binary duplicates.

Sure it's pedantry. But the entire hypothetical deserted-forever-with-one-language situation is pedantic at its core.
Awesome vim support for javascript with jsctags and taglist-plus
Couldn't tell ya. :/ I'll have to test it and get back to you.
Mostly because that's not really a grammatical error:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=girl+that,girl+wh...

Middle school English teachers love to invent simple rules of the language that don't reflect actual usage very well. The choice between "that" and "who" as relativisers is subtle, and the animacy constraint doesn't explain the facts of how people speak.
Someone recently described academia as 'Java vocational training'[1].

I'd expect Go to replace Java in the academic context relatively quickly, which should precipitate a shift in business' center of gravity over time. I already suggest Go to people who are serious about learning.

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[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
That famous New Yorker cover http://bigthink.com/ideas/21121 comes to mind again.
When Wall Street fights regulation, we all lose.
Yes and no.

No, because it cannot be used as an exploit.

Yes, because it allows you to read the address of the "top" object.

Consider it similar to the CSS link-color hack to read the past browsing history of a user.
Shakespeare wrote in the Merchant of Venice of "the man that hath no music in himself". Mark Twain wrote a short story titled "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg". Ira Gershwin wrote a popular song titled "The Man that Got Away". These are just the examples easily available on Wikipedia.

Your complaint does not represent majority usage in English, let alone modern usage.
Developer here.

We are glad that many of you found our demo interesting. The point was to explore how we could apply some new browser features to present educational content in an interactive/immersive way.

Sorry about Pluto fans – we were also sad not to include it. We should have put it as an easter egg!

Thanks to people who reported typo/content errors.

We cannot fix them right now though – because we have no control over Mozilla's site. We'll push an update when we get the chance.
Usability tips:

- The name of the site doesn't communicate what the site is about (at the very least make the tagline more prominent and maybe get a writer to refine it)

- The title of what's being sold should be above the video thumbnail

- The $ symbol should come before the numeral

- I'd get rid of the ad (which is so slick that it distracts from the homemake content)

- "Stuff" is a very bad label for a button

- Having the "upload video" button is useless if it doesn't worked when you aren't logged in

Biz suggestions:

- I'd use the site to focus on a specific vertical market instead of being all things to all people (and focus on a vertical where you'd want video as opposed to a still image — cars would work)

- Get a college kid who is majoring in film/video to shoot your video demos (especially if you want to go after the high end of the market)
you actually have some code that is yours

That's the important thing. Sometimes the initial excitement of seeing that github account wanes when you realize 8 projects are forks of existing projects with one change, and the other two are a stock rails project with only three or four minor commits on top of that.
> There are some situations where risk may be acceptable.

There are. This is just not one of them. Better: this one involves unacceptable risks derived from inadequate engineering. A nuclear reactor that requires an external source or energy to dissipate the (prodigious amount of) energy it generates after shut down is stupid. Sorry to all engineers involved in this, but I can't find another word. Maybe adequate cooling would make the reactor cost twice as much. Maybe it would take up too much space. Or maybe it would require the reactor to be impossibly compact. Or big. I don't care. If it doesn't work (and it's quite clear this one isn't) it's because the design is not ready. It may not be your fault - it may be so due to what the client demanded, both in cost and space constraints, but that's what professional ethics are for. I have walked out of projects and companies before. This disaster shows not nearly enough engineers did the same.
Well then it's not going to do much good as you could guess their password just as easily.
It's much more like slightly more responsive behavior everywhere, not just browsers. I have bought cheap low-end Android handset, as I really didn't want to pay a hefty price for the iPhone (Europe, it's very expensive even with subscription, which is expensive as well), it was my first smartphone and I wasn't entirely convinced that I need or even want such a thing. I do, but overal sluggishness of the Android handset (even high-end models that I was able to try for a while did have some lags and weren't really what I expected) is very annoying. In fact, it's the primary reason why I'm now seriously thinking about getting the iPhone.
They are also a lot cheaper.
She doesn't like being judged. Fair enough. The 'Please don't assume you know why' part of her title makes an implicit judgement about the reader which is at least as offensive as the comment she was offended about originally.
Let's not forget the Quora engineers are working for what is (in the very loosest sense of the word) a competitor.

If we're doing silly analogies, it's the equivalent of Starbucks sending their staff round to your new cafe with Groupons leaving no coffee or seats for the real customers and then publicly mocking your staff's incompetence in handling the situation. Sure, it's your fault for running the promotion and not buying enough coffee, but you might still consider BigCorp's behaviour a little underhand.
Dad allegedly showed her how to find bugs in C source code and exploit them. It was all harmless and Kayla had only been using the Internet to talk to friends on MSN. But she began looking into hacking, and learned scripting languages like Perl...

I've always known C was just a gateway to the dangerous stuff.
very good site explaining what happened:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/explainer-...
Tragedia en Japón: Imágenes impactantes
Oh my god they had a nuclear accident in Japan - we must shut down our nuclear reactors and instead pump out many millions of tons of dangerous radioisotopes and chemical poisons from new coal plants instead.

It's standard knee jerk procedure. We had a rail accident (the first in 10years) so the reaction was to close a bunch of inter city lines for months while they checked everything. Where did all those extra travellers go? onto the roads!

I hope the government doesn't hear about the problems with Toyota in america - they would then ban ABS and give everybody Tiger tanks to commute on.
Why? Kids are smart and have time. 16 is not that young. I knew how to do SQL injection and buffer overflow exploitation at that age, although I also knew not to use those skills against someone who didn't ask for it.

Basically, everyone is excited because she's a girl.
If the government is going after these people it should be for one reason only - to hire them.
Maybe with this kind of talent working together we could find out where rogues like OBL are hiding.
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I heard there is excessive camp in this movie, but I'll check it out.
I'm biased because I write for Fortune Magazine, but you put this perfectly. To prove your point, when I wrote about Twitter in Fortune in August, 2008, which was one of the first general business press articles about Twitter, I was well aware that 1) all the cool kids knew about it and 2) the rest of the country, Fortune's readers, did not. Here is that article, which seems a little quaint now: http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/06/technology/true_meaning_of_t...
Keep on going California and soon there will not be anyone left. This goes on all the time. Why do you think Amazon and Microsoft moved their server farms to Idaho?

Eventually they will all move out of the US there will be no where that will lower the taxes for the companies.
Actually physicists are saying "Fusion power is 20 years away" without sniggering now!
It does seem a bit odd that all three major browser vendors are able to release interesting web-apps that only run at full-speed in their own browsers. Do they intentionally exploit some exclusive feature to show the other browsers up?
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The name was inspired by http://cornify.com, how is it misleading? I'd be happy to refund your 10 seconds.
It's great that there are people here offering up opportunities to do this. There's a Rails one up there, and if you can put that on your resume, it's a plus.
http://www.vrbo.com/ has been around since 1995

And it looks (and operates) like it. VRBO's virtual head has been on the virtual chopping block for YEARS. Truly a stale opportunity, though I don't know if Airbnb will be the executioner. The acquisition and resulting IPO for the parent company can be best considered as a flip, not a vote of confidence.
It doesn't actually simulate ie6, it just moves things around randomly (see comments below).
Invites for a beta: twy.st
Vladimir, if you are interested in working on a startup in México as paid intern. Ping me.
Amazon poised to launch mobile app store
Japan nuclear crisis escalates
I think they'll do this. They spoke to me about adding phc support, so I expect HPHP to be on their roadmap.
Cool site. I uploaded my vc pitch and it showed me my emphasis. Great tool!
The opinion may well be irrational, but if it is widely held, would it not then have democratic validity?
Work offer for a hacker is sometimes feared to be just a bait of a trap. The trap is said to spring once the hacker admits taking part in the hack.

Compare http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245786
Interview with Jeff Atwood co founder of Stack Exchange (audio)
Changing Female Body Perception Through Art
Female genitalia have long been a source of fascination, recently of celebration but generally of confusion. Today it seems that creating images of the vagina is the sole preserve of pornographers, erotic artists and feminists. Step in British artist Jamie McCartney who has grasped the nettle to create a monumental wall sculpture all about this most intimate of places. For 400 women their privates are about to go public...
The services Google sells are dependent on a lot of trade-secret intellectual property.
On any version of Android, dating back to the introduction of the virtual keyboard in version 1.6, long-pressing on the menu button will pop up the keyboard, which allows you to, for instance, bring up the keyboard in applications without needing a specific textbox to select. This allows you to have applications like ConnectBot, where the entire screen is a terminal emulator, and you can pop up the keyboard at any point and start typing without having to type into a textbox and then "send" the text to the terminal. On the home screen, you can bring up the keyboard and just start typing a search query without needing to press (or even have) the search button or widget.

And for the record, when the virtual keyboard is shown, pressing the back button will always dismiss it without sending the back action to the current activity, so in your case you could have pressed back to dismiss the keyboard, and then pressed the button to receive the call.
Haha that was certainly the lesson I took from that, however the market I'm in (Auckland, New Zealand) they're a necessary evil sometimes.
IRL, it's thought by many that AQ stopped using electronic communication to relay important messages and only rely on inperson communication / messengers.
which is a pretty good description of how ie6 renders pages.
U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High’ and Urges Deeper Caution in Japan
There was not any attempt to make it run faster in Firefox 4. The goal is to showcase the Web as a platform and its possibilities. There is clearly no point in making it run well only in one browser.

Besides, we developed this demo on OSX, where performance is comparable among all three supported browsers.
Using the quotes from the article, however too few words to analyze properly, so inconclusive, but still...

From http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

Genre: Informal
Female = 171
Male = 182
Difference = 11; 51.55%
Verdict: Weak MALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

From http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php

Female Score: 94
Male Score: 133

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
So you get a bunch of pictures of your friends' babies?

Also, I don't recognize a lot of my friends because we all graduated high school together a quarter century ago and I haven't seen them since, unless we both attended the same reunion at some point.
> In December 2008, she wrought havoc on one of the most famous forums of all, 4chan’s notorious /b/ channel, finding and exploited an SQL injection bug on its content management system, hacking in and causing mayhem on the forum for a few hours.

I don't remember any such exploit. You could produce that image by posting a lot.
Disagree - Security questions are much easier to brute force than passwords. Assuming that you can send an answer to the database quickly and automatically, and that you can select your dictionary based on the question, most of the questions are easy.

Names? http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names is a good database for the US; 1,711 names will get you the top 50% of last names for "Mother's maiden name", questions. 59 male names and 138 female names also represents 50% of the population (Yes, we're pretty unoriginal). There are <100,000 first and last names in total which cover 90% of the population. (not combinations)

Birthdates? There are 365 days in a year, so 36,500 numbers will cover this one.

Last N digits of your drivers' license/social security number/credit card? There are 10^N such numbers. N is often 4, which is a measly 1,000 numbers.

Pretty measly stats.