skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that this will deter people from quickly starting up a packet sniffer when they share links to your site. However, how are you able to use webfaction's cert? Do they just give you their private key? Or is it just a cert that is not really signed by anyone and the common name is set to *.webfaction.com? In other words, this does not mean that you can spoof www.webfaction.com's signature, corret?
broke into the fab and altered the microcode ;)
I'd venture to claim that it is far more feasible to bring 100% of the world population internet access than to bring them health care at even US Medicaid standards.
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I dont think the community is that small. The google group is very active and the committers almost always reply to answers very quickly.

Also, the documentation is absolutely first rate. I think this really counts for a lot. Compare the Play documentation with, say, Struts2. Chalk and cheese.
Would you care to expand on your experiences with this? I keep hearing of people who take this approach, but I've always been skeptical on how well it really works out.

Assume that I have a job. What you would be offering me would be an opportunity to quit my job in return for a temporary job that might or might not convert to full time. During the transition, I will lose my benefits. Your assumption of a pay bump when going permanent also seems to indicate that I wouldn't be compensated for the risk of a permanent position not being offered.

What do you see as the value proposition for an already-employed person in this arrangement?
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I believe Lustig says the fiber in the fruit reduces the amount of sugar absorbed by our bodies.

However, he also says that sweet fruits in large quantities can still be bad for us.
> ...I think it seems probable that it's rational.

It's an example of bounded rationality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality

The decisions seem rational given the perspective and limitations of the decision-makers.
Gary says explicitly there is no conclusive evidence. He is making the appeal for the studies to be done. I find little that is harmful about the attempt. He just wants something that is potentially dangerous to be studied scientifically.

He explains this in his comments:
"Again, one common theme here is that because sugar has gotten more or a less free pass from the federal authorities for the past forty years, little meaningful research has been done."
What do you regret about Grails?
If you want to build something great, it shouldn't matter where you live.
How about listing public pools on the front page (and giving the option to make a pool public)
The idea's been applied to more basic information sources for a while, at least by some people. Some of the advocates for public libraries have long argued a version of "access to knowledge" or "access to information" as a right. Extending that to the internet seems to be sort of a modern version (although that could presumably also be fulfilled via libraries; it's not clear that home access to internet is specifically required).
What issues did you have with Grails?
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Can you explain why the syntax resembling CSS while having a different meaning is a good thing? I sincerely don't understand why so many people see that as a benefit. The syntax isn't actually compatible with CSS, in the sense that you can write Less or SCSS and a layout engine will be able to parse it and come out with a halfway correct result. It just looks like CSS.
Those of us outside the UK can't see the video above, so here is another version of it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OhnyziTPE

If you've not seen it, it really is an example of how deep the Blackberry runs in street culture - both back home in the UK and even here in the US (take a trip through Daly City or East Bay and check out the BB's).
From Wikipedia:
"The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials."

I'd imagine this falls in to that category. The takeaway for me is that the code is useful, regardless of the size, and they took the time to let other folks enjoy it.
I don't think that there are many people who really believe that access to water isn't a human right, or at least who would be willing to act consistently with that belief. Most people have at least an implicit belief that if lots of people were ending up dying of thirst, it would be a responsibility of society to do something about that.
I'd love to see net income in those columns!

From Wikipedia:

AAPL: $ 14.01 billion [1]

MSFT: $ 18.760 billion [2]

GOOG: $ 8.505 billion [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Do you mean actionable in the legal sense? I agree, there isn't enough evidence to sue anyone at this point. If you refer to action that an individual or family can take, how about this: eliminate sweet drinks, desserts and snacks from your diet.
Possibly, the machines that got rooted were just the nodes running PHP code. Each 'site' may have database user/pass for their respective tables and not the DB root. However, if the servers that got rooted were the DBs then that would be very bad. You could dump, crack etc... There are other vectors to consider, such as 'workers/jobs' doing 'db cleanup' where they would need some 'dba' access.
Conclusive evidence of a problem is completely irrelevant.

Responding to a comment referring to a specific lack of evidence about sugar/toxicity by saying that there is conclusive evidence of "a problem" implies relevancy, which implies that you are confusing the two issues.
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Ditto, pretty hilarious. "You've got fail."
Instead of using this xhtml_template, you should pass the content through tidy with the -asxhtml switch on.

This will produce a valid xhtml file that passes epub validation (http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/).
Definitely. We are a mostly-Clojure shop, but we do quite a bit of complex Javascript as well. Coffeescript makes it fun and productive.

Best of all, there are fewer lines of code to make mistakes in. And fewer stupid "forgot a semicolon" problems.

I'd suggest that people also look at Underscore.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/) and Backbone.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/). Same authorship, same quality code, great ideas, great execution.
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- I own a square mile of land with a river running through
it. You own an adjacent square mile of land downriver
of mine. If I, entirely on my own property, divert the
river such that it ceases to run through your property,
have I aggressed against you? Do you have the right to
never have the value of your property decrease?

If you change the flow of the river on your property such that it affects mine, then yes you have aggressed against me (it is easier to see in the reverse, it is clearly an aggression against me if you flood my land even if you poor the water on your own land).

- I am fantabulously wealthy and buy up all the food in
the world. Do I have the right to refuse to sell it?
Have I aggressed against the other 7 billion by forcing
the large majority of them to starve to death?

You have the right not to sell it, and no you haven't aggressed against anyone assuming that the food had been payed for (whomever sold you the food must have valued whatever you gave them in return more than the food)

- The local branch of the Nazis are hunting for members
of unpopular minorities. I am a gay black Jew. Am I
justified in trespassing on a stranger's property in
order to hide and evade capture?

Strictly speaking no you don't have to right to hide on their property (and if the Nazies kill those suspected of hiding minorities they are in danger too) though I doubt anybody would have a much of an issue with it if you did.
...and that they tested it enough to even have an average number.
The increase in aerospace engineering was driven by the launch of the first Space Shuttle, not by Top Gun.
I took a few life science classes in college. I would say about 80% of the class was pre-med. Only a handful were in it for a PhD/industry.
You also have Microsoft making efforts to obscure HTML completely to create lock-in to Microsoft's design tools. It's long been easy to create a "web page" with Frontpage or Word as a WYSIWYG editor. The followup was ASP.NET Web Forms, where a designer uses the graphical toolbox to make all the interactive fields and buttons and such without knowing a lick of the underlying HTML. The net effect is to reduce the amount of HTML knowledge in the marketplace.
Thanks. Didn't realize they had been sold. Not sure why people are downvoting my honest question though.
There are far more connected people than you think. Something like 30% of the people on the planet have web access. 30% is not "an elite slice", especially considering that over the next decade or two the number will climb higher and higher until it's pretty much 100%. The developing countries - especially in Africa - are exploding in web use, especially mobile web.

TBL is perhaps a bit early with his words, but not by much I'd say.

Edit: Numbers: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
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Awesome - exactly the information I was looking for, will set it up later tonight and post both a new ePub and the source.
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Majoring and doing well in English develops good analytical and analysis skills. You learn to read between the lines -- it's not a trivial field of study.

Also, going to college is supposed to be about training your mind. Writing an Android app doesn't require a CS degree, but getting a CS degree instills certain habits that enable you to succeed in programming.

If you want job training, go to welding school.
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This article is ridiculous: it poh-pohs speculation as such and then combats the various speculative theories being tossed about with…speculation.

Gruber (or some Gruber-like person) argued that we may be seeing a decrease in the tempo of hardware innovation in the iPhone space coming out of Apple due to the product's asymptotic approach of the iPhone's Platonic ideal form. Before long, if not with the iPhone 5, then with the 6 or 7—or whatever they'll be called—we may see product introductions that are footnotes as processor speed, memory, and battery life are incrementally bumped.

(NOTE: Having a relatively well-defined platform to develop for is something mobile developers love about iOS vis-a-vis Android; to me that would indicate that the bumps might come clumped together enough to provide an inducement to upgrade in a lock-steppy manner. But I'm pulling that out of my ass.)

iOS is an ecosystem. There's Apple's hardware but, as we saw during the iPad 2 intro, the software is just as important. And don't forget AirPlay. Apple wants to create a compelling ecosystem for consumers, developers, and content providers, and people who think that bumping the clock speed or the amount of memory beyond certain good-enough points are the sorts of people who might think that the next step for AirPlay after supporting 24bit@96kHz sampling rates is to move on to 32bit@192kHz. In other words, they're spec whores, and don't appreciate what Apple's doing, which is, to re-phrase and repeat (and paraphrase and augment Steve's twice-delivered spiel), the intersection of commerce and tech and the arts.
Shameless self-promotion here, but if you want to try CoffeeScript and are using the Cloud9 IDE I wrote an extension so you can see your coffeescript output live: https://github.com/tanepiper/cloud9-livecoffee-ext
Steve Yegge wrote about this years ago, under the assumption that it's what Google was working towards at the time. This is back when he was working for Amazon. Ctrl-f this piece for "save your brother's life": http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/google-at-delphi

What we'll end up with is increasingly powerful expert systems, and the human strategists behind the scenes will operate at a higher and higher level.
While access to water is a more fundamental right...

Sorry, I can't get past this. If the word "right" is so fluffy we can use it anywhere, it doesn't have any meaning.

I firmly believe that computers are becoming integrated with our minds. That means, yes, there are going to be real rights associated with them. It's an open issue to figure out exactly when we cross that line where the rules change, but we're getting very close.

But if "health care", "internet access", "water", and all these other things are tossed out as rights, it takes away the entire reason that internet access may qualify. It's just a jumble of feel-good meaninglessness.

We face this same problem with the word "war". We have a war on drugs, a war in Afghanistan, a war on poverty, a war on crime. If it's all a "war", then none of it is a war. The word war has no meaning that we can grab onto.

Sorry, I know it sounds pedantic or like splitting hairs, but it matters: Berners-Lee could make a good case for this, if he knew what the argument for rights were based on. Without that, however, he actually hurts the cause. That's not good.
Only as museums containing artifacts from an ancient age when people used to "print" information on physical sheets of wood pulp.
Stanford doesn't even have those "registrar-imposed limits." Classes almost never fill up; they just get larger rooms or add TAs. Students don't usually register for classes until after the term has started!

I was an undergrad at a more traditional school where we registered for classes months in advance. I was amazed that the Stanford system was so informal, but in practice it worked just fine. It's wonderful to be able to audit a few classes before deciding on exactly what you're going to take; you may learn that you can't stand a professor, or love a surprising subject.
There needs to be a certain level of skill but frankly, looking at the long term and with the right individual, I'd take a carpenter over a rockstar any day.
Well, he funds scribd, which has a substantial amount of illegal content. I don't think he should complain.
Yep, my accountants rule of thumb is after deducting time for admin and other downtime you will be doing well to sell about 60% of your available billable hours. So that about ties up with what you are saying.
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It's been around a lot longer than Google. PMs at Microsoft are technical positions -- they mostly require a technical degree (how technical is dependent on your team. SQL Server PMs need to talk-the-talk with their B2B customers without confusion).
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Our aim is to provide the service to as many people, business and things as we can reach. Thank you for your suggestions they are being integrated.
Generally: No.

If you're willing to work in finance or similar soul-sucking industry that's definitely doable.

If you want to work in most other fields then no. Certainly no (good) startup is paying $200k cash compensation to their programmers.

I'd say $150k is around the ceiling if you value the quality of work/company.

Much more common is $120k-$140k for a good and experienced programmer at a good company.

This all assumes you're in a major US city.
Try Xylitol rather, my wife switched me over to this about a year ago, and I could barely tell the difference.

Possessing approximately 40% less food energy, xylitol is a low-calorie alternative to table sugar. Absorbed more slowly than sugar, it does not contribute to high blood sugar levels or the resulting hyperglycemia caused by insufficient insulin response. This characteristic has also proven beneficial for people suffering from metabolic syndrome, a common disorder that includes insulin resistance, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and an increased risk for blood clots.
Which means?
I think Denton yearns to escape the dreaded blog format which feels a bit old these days. It's an uphill battle because users are so use to that format, yet I feel it's a war worth fighting even if Gawker didn't win this battle. Right now Dave Winer is talking about the need to reinvent the blog and I think he's on the right track (you also see a similar thing going on at sbnation which will be getting into tech). If you're looking for an opportunity don't assume that wordpress or even tumblr have to dominate the world (this was the mistake that movable type made).
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Why is it acceptable in any country to sneak legislation through in unrelated bills?

Genuinely interested in how this came to be/ what can be done.
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The comment to the right, from a recent slashdot post about the new beta.fcc.gov, reflects a common sentiment in the development community, especially from people who are just beginning and haven't worked on enterprise websites. Since I often see people discussing this topic, I though it would be useful to outline some of the factors that go into the budget for a large website, and specifically how we come up with an estimated budget for building a large enterprise website.
I guess that the benefit comes from being able to get regular CSS files a parse with LESS without syntax modification.

In some cases, that might be a good thing.
>"browsers don't save things by default."

// Depends on your browser.
I wasn't exactly looking to make it a business but enough money to cover operational costs. The revenue could be a mix of affiliate links + Adsense (kept to a minimal).

The focus here is to create a community-focused treasure trove of startup knowledge rather than a page-view focused content site.
Hi HN, this is a brief blog post collaboratively written by the Mexican.VC team. We intend to increase awareness in our space that access to market opportunities is ubiquitous. Therefore we should be paying more attention to founders working on startups outside SV or in a broader sense, the US. We would appreciate your feedback.
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A query that matches phrase prefixes - for example "Epic w" will match both "Epic win" and "Epic wonder". This is particularly useful for implementing Google Instant style searches

This is really useful and painfully lacking from Lucene. Great stuff.
Is "robotics" even a relevant market category to invest in? It seems either too broad (factory automation, home auto, toys, etc.) to be have enough depth of knowledge, or too narrow to provide a large enough opportunity. How large do most robotics toys companies get?

I think a more relevant question is about agile hardware as the future of manufacturing - which could be called an industrial revolution. Doing hardware (whether electronics, robotics, mechatronics, or pure plastic) on the cheap. The equipment and skills to make robotics companies are still very relevant to all hardware.

If anyone hasn't seen the open hardware "Million Dollar Baby" Ignite video - you can see the future of agile (not just open) hardware is being enabled right now.

http://vimeo.com/11407341
I Ctrl+R and FF refills the form data.
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could you share the gist of his opinion?
That one doesnt work either (at least in denmark)
Don't get me wrong, I think highly of Greplin, and appreciate every line of open code. The process itself it to be highly appraised.

But I've seen much larger open source patches - that are no less important - that have received much less publicity that this.
The library isn't dead IMHO, it's just evolving.

I visit my library at least twice a week. I usually don't browse or sit for very long because I place orders online and pick them up when they are in.

There are shelves with the books people have requested lined up by last name. The size of this section is probably 60% of the rest of the books indicating that most people use this method for checking out books.

I own a Kindle and it's OK but I like real books and because I read 2 or 3 books per week, it's nice to have a low cost solution.
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How about cars with software interfaces so you can download software that will assist with driving. Download driving software from an app store. Everything from red light timers to voice activated mileage calculators to self-driving apps. Little toy apps that let you take pictures of the license plates of douche-bag drivers and tweet about them, to sophisticated safety apps that apply the brakes if you're going to run someone over.

How about bathrooms with some hardware installed that controls valves on your shower, drain, toilet, sink, etc. Has some sensors: temperature, pressure, whatever. Has an exposed "reset" button that, when pushed, allows it to be connected to through WiFi. You connect on your laptop through WiFi and configure it like a router, or you give it your wifi password and configure it through an internet webapp.

You could have it do things like automatically adjust the temperature of your shower so it never goes cold. Put a limit on the temperature of the water coming out so your kids don't get burned. Tell you when the drain is getting clogged. Shut off the water when the toilet is overflowing.

Put a few hardware controls in the plumbing, expose the controls to a software interface, launch an app store and let people make apps for your toilet and shower. We need this.

Ditto for smart houses. Create little wifi plugs that you install in your light fixtures and then have a software interface that lets people write apps to control lights from your iPhone, or from a remote web interface when on vacation.

Plug a little hardware device onto your blinds that will open/close them based on a software interface. Hooks up to your wifi. Lets you program it to open with the sunrise and close at sunset, or whatever the programmer wants. Have toy apps that communicate with neighbours using morse code for $4.99 on the app store.

There is infinite potential. A wifi connection, a microprocessor, and some piece of hardware to plug everyday things into. Every single morning I wonder why someone has not invented a simple hardware unit to plug into your shower that lets you regulate the temperature. I want to have an interface on my iPhone where I set the temperature of my shower in degrees fahrenheit and then push "start" and the shower turns on and heats up to my desired temperature automatically.
Not one mention of how they would convert people from Twitter.

They would have a huge traction problem. Not that it couldn't be done, but I don't think its more than hot air and an attempt to "encourage" Twitter at the moment.

Now if it involved Facebook and status updates in an exclusive way...
Congratulations. You've certainly accomplished a lot in 6 months. Can you tell us how much effort this took? hrs/day days/week.
Yeah, see how well the gamification of HN worked out?

"Gamification" is the new "viral." It'll make a lot of people major consulting bank, but it's not going to create a lot of high quality content or revenue or whatever.

I write this a couple hours after returning from lunch, where, as I was checking in to Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market on Foursquare, I asked myself, "What the FUCK am I doing?! Who cares?!" I'm this close to removing Foursquare from my phone.

The recent article on ReadWriteWeb on the coming death of the check-in is spot on. I'm someone who lives in a dense urban area, who checks in because I'm hoping against hope that maybe someday, some's going to text me after seeing my check-in with a "Dude! You're at Bob and Barbara's drinking a special! I am so there!" But it hasn't happened in the two plus years I've been playing with Foursquare on and off.
Meta: why is his HN username green? Is it because it's a new account?
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So, um, what's a good alternative to all of these?