skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essential:
http://www.24in60.com/

Tech:
http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/

News:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://therealnews.com/ http://www.globalpost.com/

Politics:
http://reason.com/ http://mises.org/daily/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/ http://www.fpif.org/ http://www.newstatesman.com/

Opinion:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog http://exiledonline.com/

Periodicals:
http://nplusonemag.com/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/ http://guernicamag.com/ http://forth.ie/ http://purple.fr/magazine/ http://mondediplo.com/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/

Other:
http://www.quora.com/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ http://www.godrinktea.com/
While I still firmly believe that it is possible to build and run a safe nuclear plant (as far as technology is concerned), I'm not sure anymore whether government is capable of coming up with the right safety regulations and policing them effectively to actually make it happen.

And I don't think power companies can be trusted to safely run power plants without oversight. For all I know there are some that are more capable than TEPCO, but the fact that there are companies like TEPCO (and probably many that are even worse) means you need someone to look over their shoulder.

I have to admit that prior to Fukushima, human incompetence did not factor into my opinion on nuclear power as much as it now seems it should have.

Maybe the IAEA could be brought in on this. They seem to know what they are doing?
Sorry, should have summarized changes:

1.6.1 addresses backwards compatibility issues with new 'attr()' and 'prop()' behaviour added in 1.6.

This means that code written against 1.5.2 will work 100% against 1.6.1 (this was not the case with 1.6).

So to many people this is quite an important update.
>> Beyond that is the fact that Microsoft has 89,000 employees — are you telling me that the company that put a computer in every home couldn’t create a Skype clone? <<

Yes, that's right. They couldn't create a Skype clone, no chance. Of course, they could create a similar product in terms of functionality, but how many would switch to it from Skype?
(missing Cycript) :( (I really need to make a better website or something)
Not read, but I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast
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I seem to recall hearing that those two died when a crane collapsed, due to the earthquake, but I don't have a source for that at hand.
Link is broken - and page cannot be found on the blog either.

> Page not found
> Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog The Official Netflix Blog does not exist.

(result of blogger outage?)
FWIW, I don't think they were saying that Indonesia is part of India or that the two are related.

I could see how one might make the leap logically, but it's not what was being implied. The "India" was part of a descriptive label, and "Indonesia" was clearly a country just picked at random for illustrative purposes.

It's like if I told you I got a scroll written in "India Ink" while in Michigan...I'm not saying Michigan is in India.
> charging extra

I doubt they will, as customers would simply leave for one of the competitors. They will loose much more than they'll gain. Continuing to try and cash in on SMS traffic is like continuing to try and sell music the old way: we've entered a new era and that business model just won't work.
You go back and forth between saying that "you don't get it because you don't get it" and "this is my preference, but you do have a point."

I am experienced in JavaScript, and I believe you that I could train myself to code in CoffeeScript or even brainfuck, but should I want to? I am a big fan of the native JavaScript syntax with a few exceptions. I believe it can be improved, but I don't believe CoffeeScript fixes more than it breaks.

A more appropriate metaphor is a non-Spanish speaker complaining that you dubbed my English movie with more English spoken by a Spanish man with a really heavy Spanish accent. I can still understand the movie if I try but it certainly doesn't improve the experience. Perhaps it does for Spanish people?

I don't like languages that let you do what you think is obvious, and when I look at 5 different examples of the exact same code they all look completely different because it turns out that there's no agreement between what people think is obvious (big problem with Ruby). That's my personal preference.

Using browser-compatibility examples is unfair. I'm not arguing against precompiling with an improved syntax, I'm arguing against precompiling against this specific syntax. It's not hard to imagine a syntax where hanging commas are automagically fixed (even Google Closure does this for you). Inserting whole lines to reorder the list works perfectly fine if you have hanging commas.

var foo = [
1,
2,
3,
]

Re: self, no harm done if your variables are scoped, as they always should be. For bonus irony, var self = this; in the root scope is eqv to what it would be anyways.
I just want to say that Carousel is awesome. It's very beautiful and I leave it on my desktop. Great execution and I like that it's not free - I actually paid for it because it was so well done.
Ars Technica, Qaiku, Twitter. Also, Google Reader:

From your 385 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,616 items, clicked 39 items

For non-tech news I read Skuuppi, which is a bit like HN for Finnish news: http://www.skuuppi.com/
I'm also running the latest Chrome on Linux, on a cheap laptop (although it does have 2 cores). I could run it with no problems and no visible system slowdown.

I guess it also depends on the software used, on drivers, etc ... the technology is very new and still a work in progress.

by design, cannot approach the performance of Direct3D

And why is that?
Actually it's a lot worse than that. MS already has a very successful Skype competitor, that does better than Skype in most metrics

Windows Live Messenger boasts in excess of 330 million monthly active users with 40 million concurrent, compared to Skype's 170 million and 20 million-30 million concurrent

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/microsoft-conf...

Only 8 million Skype customers pay, so the income they'll get from it is pretty much nothing (compared to other sources of income MS has)

Read that whole article - it shows how dumb this purchase really is.
People often forget the Microsoft right before Balmer was slapped with one of the largest anti trust lawsuits in decades. People wonder why MSFT hasn't been competing aggressively for the following decade... It's because they've been afraid of anti trust litigation yet again.

I've had a couple of conversations with people in semi-upper levels of MSFT management. Long term Microsoft employees are still scarred from that litigation. So much that it still comes up in conversation 12 years after the fact.
If you factor in dividends the return would be something around 20% over the past 7 years. Crappy, but definitely not "flatlining".

Microsoft makes twice as much as Oracle, pays a dividend, and yet has half the P/E multiplier. It's just not a sexy stock right now, but you can't deny the underlying profitability. Personally I think it's just that they've made some really embarrassing mistakes (Bing?). None of the failures have really dented the bottom line...they still had 8.5B lying around to buy Skype.
I am amazed how many people in the field don't read Ars Technica. If there is a better source for quality tech and science news reporting, I haven't found it.
Blog post: http://blog.jquery.com/2011/05/12/jquery-1-6-1-released/
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> No one in this thread has suggested that coal is safer.

But many are more eager to abandon nuclear than coal. I will be fair, however, in saying that at least some of them hope to abandon both.

And I will also say that if they can make wind & solar (or whatever else) work, I'm all for it. I believe that nuclear is a good engineering choice, but you can change that opinion by providing better technology.
Where's the math?
I agree, I'm not at all sure how they plan on doing that. VoIP I can understand, and most contracts/plans also ban "SMSoIP", but Whatsapp is something different.
For the longest time I had a phone with rockbottom SMS rates sitting at home that I used a webinterface for to send messages cheaply.
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Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones):

art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longtext, netsec, oney, philosophyofscience, scifi, skeptic, space, sports, starcraft, truereddit, twoxchromosomes,
The most hilarious was the myspace module which
automatically set up networks of teen girls
who chatted in uh teen-speak

Makes sense - teen-speak barely means anything and it's frustrating as hell to read, so normal people usually turn away before starting to see suspicious patterns.
13% per annum is better than most top-rated mutual funds earn
I am, mostly because this is a great dataset to play around with for free.
No mention of Nokia deal?
Steve Sailer is also a white supremacist.
They don't scale but Google can afford to hire enough to make the problem go away if they made it a focus. But not going to happen any time soon when they don't believe in customer service.
Sorry, should have been clearer - they may be artificial but these are historic boundaries which while they may support (in some ways) certain business interests, are not there because of them and in almost all cases pre-date those interests by a considerable period.
Or http://www.pandaboard.org/
Easy, if anyone was allowed to put any ad on adwords the quality would quickly go down. Google has made a lot of money on having ads that users perceive to be useful. If they lose this perception and people ignore the ads then they stand to lose big.
The complaint is indeed about negligence, not malice.

Google puts some effort into making sure that (i) people aren't annoyed by ads directing them to content they didn't want, and (ii) the top ads are good quality and likely to have a good click-through rate. Ads that have a high quality score cost less to place for that reason, ads with a low quality score don't get placed, or get placed on the second page of ads.
In addition to Ars Technica, I also read Kotaku Australia. I find Mark Serrels' contributions to the Australian edition to be some of the best material on the site.

I read /r/australia as a filter for domestic news (mainly links from The Age, SMH, ABC and Crikey).

I also use Stylebot to hide the comments section on every news site I read regularly, generally nothing good will come of reading them.
Any quora user can sent it (the invitation) to your email. If you are interested, I can do that.
I have read a book on the subject. Look at this code and tell me with a straight face that it's easily readable:
https://github.com/jdegoes/blueeyes/blob/master/src/main/sca...
The sheer amount of weird language tokens is disturbing.
Microsoft's had better earnings growth than any of the companies you listed. In the past 5 years Novartis grows its revenue from 30B to 45, MSFT does it from 51 to 62. Keep in mind that it gets harder the bigger you are - if you're already sucking 51B from your customers, how the hell do you find another 11?

The flaw with speculating about the future is that anything that's certain will be priced into the stock immediately. Any other "educated guesses" you make might as well go to a blackjack table.

A lot of people think they're being prudent just because they're investing with a "long-term perspective". That doesn't get you anything in and of itself - I can buy a car and hold onto it forever but it'll never appreciate (well, until it becomes an antique). It's true that you shouldn't daytrade, that you should be willing to stomach holding something even if it loses value. But that just makes it more important that you understand why you've chosen to hold onto this stock for so long. And I don't think speculation about the future is a good basis for that decision. If you can point to something in the present (e.g, 18B in net income) there's a lot more assurance that you're actually getting something for your money.
> "Even a company that's growing ought to pay dividends in most cases."

That's not true. Companies have opportunities to invest money into things that a normal investor cannot. If a company can invest the money at an above average rate it should.

For US investors, it's even more clear cut as dividends would be taxed if payed out. If the company instead retains and prudently invests that money, the company in essence is able to generate a return on money that would have been payed as taxes. Over the long haul, that "float" is extremely valuable.
It really depends on your motives. If you will be needing to port to new platforms in the future, it's better to have a hard-and-fast crash now, so you can learn and avoid the undefined behavior now, rather than face a large bug backlog years down the line.

But you're correct that sometimes it can be expedient to exploit such technically undefined behavior. (I've committed this sin myself, most commonly in serializers/deserializers)
The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".
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Yes, but wouldn't that get them in trouble because of the anti-monopoly laws? If I remember correctly, they got sued just for bundling IE with Windows, right?
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Most of all done in library, as opposed to language or runtime feature.
i hope HN stops posting interesting news so i could be productive with my job
facebook has ipv6, on wwww.v6.facebook.com

www.v6.facebook.com. 3600 IN AAAA 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3

Maybe on ipv6 day they might put that on the main www.facebook.com name too - no idea.
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Bit of a distraction, but I really like the presentation of that document. Is there a plugin for vi or emacs that allows you to word-process into nice blocks like this? (with appropriate automatic rewrapping and the like)
Are we in a Bubble? Who cares?

Really. Who is investing in startups right now? Rich people who think they can make more money investing in startups than they can investing in other investment vehicles.

What happens if these rich people lose their money? Nothing. No bail outs. No massive loss of income for "normal" citizens. Rich people get a little less rich. Some rich people who put all their money into angel investing lose all their money.

Who is getting funded? Teams of two and three engineers who have built a product and have gotten some form of traction. Last published figures I've read said that Angel List has gotten 300 startups funded this past year. How much money are these startups getting? Anywhere from $50k to $1M.

300 startups * $1M = $300M in funding in angel capital this past year. The National Venture Capital Association's numbers [1] states that Total VC in 2010 was $23B, which is still 1/5th of the VC that was spent in 1999, and is in line with VC investment over the past 10 years.

$300M in angel funding is roughly 1.3% of the average VC funding per year over the past 10 years.

What _is_ different this time around, is that there are hundreds of smaller bets being placed, rather than dozens of huge bets.

Are all of these hundreds of startups going to have decent exits? No. Are a number of them going to turn into successful businesses, perhaps.

But, what is going to happen is that hundreds of founders are getting an amazing education on raising capital, starting a company, shipping product, and trying to make money. What really excited me is what Silicon Valley and the tech landscape is going to look like in 10 years. What this surge in angel investment is doing is educating massive numbers of engineers in how to build and ship product.

As far as I'm concerned that's a huge win for everyone, regardless of how many exits there are this time around.

Is this a Bubble, really, who cares? Writers that need to sell magazines.

ref:

[1] http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
Sure, and as a shareholder I can say that I always know better. In reality I probably don't, but it's a matter of principle. We own this company, and they're telling us that they'd rather use all the profits they generated (out of the money we provided) for themselves.

It's not that I think every company should always pay out a dividend. It doesn't make sense if you're growing fast, or losing money. Berkshire doesn't have to because we generally agree that Buffett's a better investor than the rest of us. For the vast majority of companies not in these categories though, it seems like the shareholders would be better off if they just got the cash.
I don't remember selling candy (though my old classmates tells me I did).

Lots of other things I did sell though: fruit from the garden, some kind of world wildlife foundation stamps on the train (train passengers are a captive audience!) etc.

Ticket scalper once when I was a teenager (I invested basically all my money in buying 6 tickets).

It all seems like just right place right time stuff. Who wouldn't sell their candy if there are buyers at a good price?!

For what it is worth I have been in variations of (successful) self-employment for practically all my career; but I am not much of a sales person.
Good for him. I hope he wins. The Winklevii(did Mark ever call them that? Cause it's brilliant) have made a career out of suing facebook and I'm glad they're getting some of their own medicine.
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As a multi-paradigm language, Oz is really interesting because it has all these approach into a single language, you can easily compare and see the strength of each approach. But you can even go further and see how the different approach can interact.

http://www.mozart-oz.org/
> "What, exactly, other than a sneaking suspicion that Facebook might not be worth it's valuation? Clearly some people, the people buying Facebook stock, disagree with you. Why are you right and they're wrong?"

It's not about anyone being right or wrong. The future is inherently uncertain. Investing is about making a bet that will pay off on average. As valuations go higher and higher, it becomes more and more likely that people are only going to make money on an above average future. That's a bubble, and the longer it takes for a below average future to come the bigger that bubble will grow.
With vim i use fmt. Mark the block in visual mode, then :!fmt
> B) If you were a designer and wanted to build something, what would you do?

Install wordpress and download a few plugins. It won't be the next facebook, but most sites aren't.

Similarly, if all you need is good enough design that won't scare people away a theme is probably adequate. You can always hire someone later.