skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can use minimal interfaces and write your own access to their APIs when necessary, find an OpenSRS based registrar, problem solved.
To a certain degree you're right, but when comparing economies that have roughly reached parity, a dollar to dollar comparison can give a rough estimate of the merit of valuations; and otherwise, it can be used to estimate the distance between economies. What I meant with my comment is that if the most expensive (? I'm assuming that here) real estate in Beijing is only a fraction of similar real estate classes elsewhere, the Chinese economy still has room to catch up with the real estate prices. It's not a particularly wise idea that the Chinese economy isn't up to par with the US and European economies of course, it just shows that maybe what is considered so heavily overpriced may not really be so in the medium term, if only the rest of the economy can keep up (which I doubt it can, but that's a different discussion).
Yeah it doesnt make much sense to me either, but i think what they mean is they want to make the association that you MUST use Windows and IE10 to run HTML5 apps, which obviously, is ridiculous.

I assume they also want to add "features" onto HTML5 too, in a similar fashion to ActiveX.

Its just the way Microsoft think, they have a very proprietary mindset, IMO.
As an Indian myself, let me explain how things work here. Like everywhere else there is a regular mix of people in India. But what one needs to really understand is that sheer volume of people in India highlights the rat race that exists in all societies at a level of contrast that attracts these articles.

In most cases, the people are from humble beginnings or from small towns and cities. And the effects of the pre FDI days still continue to exist. The mentality among parents is that opportunities are scanty, hence need to be treated precious. This leads a lot of conservative thinking. Actually right from early days of our post-independence era, the only way some one could really well off financially was to either be a doctor, engineer or do a real big business with a lot of initial investment. The other options remained joining the military or civil services. Having said all that opportunities, both in terms of jobs and college seats were very little.

Most people in the previous generation have either worked in process based factories, or small time shops like grocery shops or other places. There fore the perception automatically is "study well for a seat in a professional college else you are doomed". Now opportunities being scanty and people looking for them being more, automatically makes people go to the limits to get what they want to get.

Hence just to pass exams there are books, guides and tutorials which focus on only scoring marks! Add to that the IT boom has led to opening of "only on paper" kind of colleges where people enroll just to get a degree. I hope by now most people understand why its important.

Its important as we have linked education to money, jobs and earnings. The purpose of education is to learn and use the learning to add some value or what pg calls create wealth. Whereas by linking education to all the material stuff we automatically create a rat race. The solution is simple, award work not words(Degree abbreviations) next to one's name. Jobs must be given to one's who can 'do', not the ones who just 'know'.

Having said all that, I can honestly say there are a lot of good people who make genuine attempt to learn and build stuff. Its just that our country is really big. And like everywhere else, it will take time to overcome this huge inertia and bring in education reforms.

Government is already working towards that, they have introduced laws to bring in Grades in place of Marks and much more is in progress.
Mixing up and cherry picking the concept of an art and a craft made this a pretty annoying read for me.

> Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing

I personally care about the 'aesthetics of plumbing' if I'm able to see them (which I might not be able to).

When we're talking about aesthetics, it means to me that I value the thing because it's a clever solution to a problem. A solution that requires the minimum amount of effort/energy/material and delivers the expected result. I don't really care if somebody designed a lock, a valve , a differential gear, a sorting algorithm or an API.

We can also talk about aesthetics in music or paintings, but those will be subject to the person looking at them and the society that person lives in. Some people think skyscrapers are aesthetic, some people dislike them. While aesthetics in art tend to be more subjective, the engineering solutions are more objective in that regard.
Napkee - make your Balsamiq mockups come alive
Are you looking for to outsource your SEO work?
> Quite likely to release a W- boson.

Possibly, if it interacts at all. This is still a vanishingly small probability, even if high compared to other neutrino energies.

10^15eV is an astonishingly high energy. About 1,000 times as energetic as a proton in the LHC (which benefits from a gigantic rest-mass). To generate enough of them to be detected is seriously the realms of ultra-science fiction. Along the lines of turning Jupiter into a star or building a Dyson Sphere.
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OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) has a host of resources (local & linked)
Try: http://www.owasp.org
and: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Java_Project
Why would Microsoft adding features to HTML5 be any worse than the -webkit- -chrome- and -mozilla- CSS extensions that I see everywhere?
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Campus Drives, campus recruitment - campusdais
Campus drives are campus recruitment sessions that connect organisations with today’s talented students for the purposes of employment.
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The CIA claims the Soviets were working from a rejected Shuttle design provided as part of an engineering misinformation campaign:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Yuri Milner and Curation of Content
If YC is a grad school, then doing a startup is a way to learn and graduate. Hanging around on HN should be viewed as entertainment. That's at least my experience (I have been on HN for the past 3.5+ years).
Invert a whole web page with only CSS
Discovery. Trial and error. Observation of nature.
In general cloning is pretty bad. If I ripped off a popular iphone app, threw it on the app store, I'd be dilution the profit of the original creators and confusing users. I profit at everyone else's expense.

But there is a pretty good chance that Tumblr and Quora will soon be blocked in China. (All it takes is one blurb by one user on a sensitive issue, which is how Posterous and blogspot got blocked).

So if we assumed that

1) A product like Tumblr creates value for it's users
2) Tumblr will never be able to profit from China without the government/network connections

then cloning Tumblr seems like a win win scenario for everyone involved.

If doing a startup is about creating something users want(that doesn't exist yet or is not accessible for whatever reason), and the spirit of startups is to do things as efficiently and cheaply as possible, then isn't Diandian(the Tumblr clone) doing exactly what they are suppose to?

Disclaimer:
I founded a startup in Beijing a few months ago, and actually received seed funding from Kaifu's Innovation Works. I don't work for them, nor am I trying to defend anyone's actions(Come on guys... even the ICONS?). Just offering a different perspective from the other side of the the great firewall of China. ^^
It means in a browser with a rendering engine made for that one platform, and not made more generically for cross-platform support.

That is the most charitable reading, and how even that reading is supposed to be meaningful is beyond me. Basically, since MS can't demonstrate in any meaningful way that their not-cross-platform engine does anything better, they're offering up "it runs better because it's made for Windows" as a truism.
for someone that lives in shanghai, this is great news. housing in shanghai + beijing are ridiculous, i don't know why a house in shanghai (1000 sq ft/92 sq m) would be more expensive than a house in sf, nyc, seattle, boston, etc of similar dimensions. the running rate in a decent part of shanghai would be roughly 566,153.00 USD (for 1000 sq ft/92 sq m). this isn't even the nicest part of town, for that you'd be looking at 707,692.30 USD. take the average income of a person in shanghai which is about 461 USD /month, who could afford this?! it would take this person 38 years to save up to pay the 30% downpayment (if considering 0% inflation over that time period).

i know for fact that the government's recent policies have played a big factor in this drop in prices because they now limit people from buying a 3rd house and have finally decided to add property tax.

hopefully this trend will keep up--buying opportunity!
It's a shame they're doing this at so late a stage. I understand that 11.04 is now in feature freeze and Unity will be released as is
They should probably stop fucking around and start building a real business again.
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Not to impugn your advice, but coming from the competition, I'd take it with a large dose of salt.
I think it means that there are less steps between HTML code and instructions. Less layers of abstractions, no crossplatform compromises - straight from HTML to DirectWhatever. I don't understand the controversy, it kinda makes sense to call it native when it is optimized for a single platform. Similarly to running x64 code natively and .net, java or VB6 running non-natively through abstractions.
I live in China (well, 40% of my time), work for a social network, and I think you're wrong.
Tumblr is sometimes blocked here, and I would bet that it's going to have the same destiny as Facebook and Twitter here.
The local Facebook clones work very well here, as does the local Twitter clone (that employs something like 500people). Meanwhile, the "originals" are blocked, and only people who can access internet through proxies or VPNs can access them.
Therefore, I don't really think of any reason why Tumblr would have the last laugh.
Where are you from? I've actually never heard it before (in the US).
My practical experience does not agree. I've actually started moving off of Rackspace cloud because I find that sometimes it is super slow. No such problems with EC2 in three years of use.

The new Micro instances on EC2 make it a no-brainer.. really.
We actually have an idea in an area which is - if I read posts on HN - pretty well funded. VCs and Angles have a lot of interest. But in Germany, people don't see it - the ones with money even less. And its really hard to start a business, as you already summed up.

We even think about moving to the US, but as a foreigner it's also not "easy" (well, noone said it would be easy to start something on your own - but you get what I mean)
This site is great! I love the way latch has presented the examples with each concept. (I would've begged for something like this ten years ago when I was still in highschool.)

I would love if he could take this further and, say, cover graph algorithms in the same way the Linked List was done here.
I don't see the fuss, what does html5 really mean anyway, a bunch of stuff that was already in development was put under this umbrella term because it was easier to market.

Microsoft being a company that want to make profits have taken this one step further with running native html5 apps, it might not mean anything to a technical person but it is a good marketing pitch. They are successful because they are good at this kind of stuff and it is why some people still think the IE symbol is the internet.
I don't see how "Numbers" is any more intuitive than "Calc", not that Calc is really a good name for a spreadsheet application, but at least it makes sense. Spreadsheets do calculate things, it's just the name collision with the Windows app calc and the fact most people associate calculating with, well a calculator. Calc may be a poor name for a spreadsheet app but Numbers is definitely worse.
I believe they're talking about video, which is what most non-technical people think first of when they hear "HTML5".
I just tried the same on the Mac (in TextEdit). If you start with a slash, you get a 'go to directory' dialog. If you enter a slash later in the filename, it saves with a slash in the filename. The 'magic' is that it actually uses colons, which are shown as slashes in the UI. If you try to enter a colon in the filename, it replaces it with a dash. Renaming a file in finder to use a colon, gives a message similar to your 'Illegal filename'.
Because those extensions are typically used to provide functionality that is intended for eventual inclusion in the CSS spec.

One would expect "Microsoft adding features to HTML5" to involve something other than participating in the cooperative advancement of a nice universal standard.
I don't really understand why everyone is getting so worked up about this. I take it as meaning that MS is going to implement IE10 with as much low level integration to the OS as possible, i.e. it can make efficiencies by not having to support multiple platforms.

This is not the same thing as adding proprietary extensions to HTML5 that people seem to be inferring. Although IE9 doesn't support all of the HTML5 spec, so far as I've seen it hasn't added anything proprietary or invalid according to the spec, I don't see why they would change this for IE10
> ny attempt to distill it down to single parameter comparison is going to compromise some element of that complexity

This is extremely true not just of this but of comparison in general. Turning something complicated into a natural number below 100 and then using > and < is pretty limited.
What further re-inforces this POV is that the word "native" is used in said blog post by Dean Hachamovich [0] no less than fifteen times.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-f...
Sometimes they do change location, and you end up with 28,000 tons of coal on your front door. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx
Very interesting point of embracing the fear associated with starting a startup. I thoroughly believe in working with individuals who have something to lose; without fear true motivation and commitment are far from commonplace.