skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landing in good weather is not particularly difficult. What's difficult is handling error conditions: the landing gear won't go down, an engine has failed, some instruments are out or misbehaving. Landing the airliner, safely, under those conditions require critical thinking, good flying skills, and practice. If you are planning on only taking one flight, you don't need to be good at this stuff, because it's unlikely that you will encounter any problems on that particular flight.

(Lots of people have died because of inadequate training in these areas. Eastern Flight 401 is a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401. The crew was so busy debugging a faulty light bulb that they forgot to fly the plane. It crashed into a swamp.)
These kinds of things can't be taught with the kind of discreteness that I think you'd like. You need that design sense first and foremost; once you have that, you can sniff out the fonts that suit your design. The best way to get that "sense" is just to copy what you love - go find the most beautiful site you can and gratuitously steal design ideas. Do this until you can create by yourself.

Or, just use Helvetica with big sizes and good contrast.
This reminds me of a recent research I've done on admin user interfaces in general. This one looks pretty spiffy, but there are good alternatives if you don't necessarily need the full framework. Here are some leads I've found:

https://github.com/pilu/web-app-theme

http://guitemplates.com/

http://www.uitemplates.com/

http://webguitemplates.com/

http://www.webappers.com/2009/09/18/20-professional-web-admi...
exactly what i thought. the chap actually wants Node to mature & become Tomcat! Maybe when he reads about NowJS he'll want them to mature & become RMI. Heh
Alright, truce. I thought I had remembered a Scala career question on Quant Stack Exchange (I'm a moderator there). So there are a couple finance shops that use it:

http://quant.stackexchange.com/q/298/35
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Let's give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is in their plans. It's 2011, what the heck have they been waiting so long for?
The new tech bubble
What's the problem? The reactor melted down and there was no major damage to any "civilian" interests.
You don't have any memory of J. Edgar Hoover, do you?
It is worth noting that unsigned overflow is guaranteed to be defined as 2's complement (wrapping) overflow, at least by Clang and other commonly available C compilers.

This is actually guaranteed by the standard (although the language used is not "2s complement", but "repeatedly adding or subtracting one more than the maximum value that can be stored in the type until the value is in range").

C requires that these sorts of type conversions happen through unions: using pointer casts is not correct and undefined behavior results.

Actually, loading a member of a union other than the one most recently stored to is undefined behaviour too - it's just that using a union in this way falls into the "...both Clang and GCC nail down a few behaviors that the C standard leaves undefined." category. (And most other compilers besides - there is much historical usage of this).
'Not as safe as we hoped' is still a million times safer than coal power. You're more likely to die in a car accident. Every single day.
You mean instead of those out-of-the-box Windows users having to just go to www.skype.com? It's pretty easy to install.
That's not an official release, no. It has two major branches: one which gets only pg's official releases, and one which anyone can submit code to without restriction (it's called anarki because it's kinda like a wiki: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=803)

Several of us have started curated repositories, but the community has not coalesced around one of them: https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/home. Like any lisp arc is easy to, and liable to, fragment.
Here's to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews
Hammer2 Filesystem Design Docs (DragonflyBSD)
Effectively, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack
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It's a slightly modified version of the Monokai theme.
Exactly - a lot of this rant about how the board should sack Ballmer presumes that the board knows better.
Also, the www became more or less mainstream in the mid 90s and mainly for college students and young professionals or tech workers in western countries. He went in full hiding in 2001 but was already hard to find since a couple of years and living in Afghanistan.

For how long did he really used email? The answer is probably anything from zero years to five. Like you said, looks to me that the system he was using was a faster and more efficient system than the classic pen and paper he used all his life.
Oh, the places I’ve been
I think his point is that nuclear power is still safer (by number of lives affected) than, e.g. coal; and the fear of rare events (like this one) pushes back on what could be a very viable energy source with (relatively) few lives lost/standards of living reduced, compared to some other methods of getting electricity.

Is nuclear power perfectly safe? No.

Is it safer than coal?
Somewhat unrelated, but anyone interested in NowJS should definitely check out https://github.com/substack/dnode first...
Personally, I think this shows us how safe nuclear power can be. The plant was hit with an earthquake many orders of magnitude stronger than it was built to handle. Then it was hit with a tsunami. Then it melted down.

All that, and how many people are dead as a consequence of the meltdown? Zero.

Wikipedia says:

"Major news source reporting at least 2 TEPCO employees confirmed dead from "disaster conditions" following the earthquake.[368] "The two workers, aged 21 and 24, sustained multiple external injuries and were believed to have died from blood loss, TEPCO said. Their bodies were decontaminated as radiation has been spewing from the plant for three weeks."

45 patients were reported dead after the evacuation of a hospital in Futaba. Some of them "were suffering from dehydration because they had not eaten anything for three days"."
I would definitely use HTTPS, but that's not really what I had in mind. When I said I wouldn't use encryption I was thinking specifically about PKI stuff like PGP, precisely because like you say, it sucks to use it. Badly enough that I think it would make you stick out and receive additional scrutiny if you did.
I actually like this idea. Where does facebook sit in that scale? I imagine pretty close to telco.
In Daniel Suarez's Daemon (and sequel, Freedom), a dying programmer develops an AI that maintains a fair economic system for its participants, and harshly punishes violators. Great read. http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113
Windows Mobile 6.5 was a powerhouse of a product. Pre-2007 most U.S. buyers of smart phones chose between BlackBerry and Windows Mobile 6.5. Both were small screened devices with a hardware keyboard — with exception to the few HTC devices with stylus based touch screens. Palm was struggling at the time and Windows Mobile was the dominate player in consumer minds, BlackBerry was the beast in boardrooms.

This seems off to me. Am I the only one who doesn't remember "Windows Mobile was the dominate player in consumer minds" in 2006?
We didn't exactly give bin Laden a lot of time to answer any questions. We found him and shot him. Encrypted documents would have remained safe after his death, but that MicroSD would be a goldmine of information that will compromise his other operatives.
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But the desktop doesn't have long left as "a server for your phone"; servers are about to take over.

I predict that this time next year all major mobile operating systems will have some form of cloud sync
Magnetic Boy
Excon: a sane alternative to Net::HTTP
Play a new game, not the older game but faster.

- Seth Godin

http://startupquote.com/post/5438355974
All three can be used for the same functionality:

scala> object Test {
| def myMethod( f:(String,String)=>String) {
| println("MyMethod result =" + f("a", "b"))
| }
| }
defined module Test

scala> Test.myMethod( _ + "&" + _ )
MyMethod result =a&b

scala> Test.myMethod( (a,b)=> a+"&"+b )
MyMethod result =a&b

scala> Test.myMethod { (a,b)=>a+"&"+b }
MyMethod result =a&b
Bitcoin is a market that grows at a fixed rate!

The stock market is kind of a joke...
I can attest to this. I've seen these orders.
With all this radioactive water leaking on and off for the last 2 months, and likely well into the future, it's probably way too early to declare victory. I'm not sure anyone fully understands what impact this might have yet.
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"We will not share your idea with anyone else, but we cannot guarantee that we will not work on something very similar."

That makes me almost 100% unlikely to use your site. I know that you're CYA here, but I would need to cover mine too...It seems a little stupid to tell you an idea if you say in big bold letters that although you might not share it, you may steal it or "work on something very similar."
It's a bit flaky, but I think that most fonts have a 'sweet spot' when presented on the web. For example, personally I think Georgia is great @13px or larger @60px but in between, it sucks. So try to pay attention to finding the right size for each font.

But I agree with aba_sababa - you can learn specific technical details about fonts and typography in books, but an overall sense for good design has to be assimilated over time. So, when you see sites that you like, use Firebug and copy their font settings. Or if you see a site that has crappy typography (eg. Hackernews) then use firebug and try to fix it.
Modern frameworks and platforms have incorporated and improved a lot of ideas (some would consider) made popular by PHP. Spend some time getting to know Rails for instance and you'll find that none of the problems you just described apply, and they've solved the same problems -- but better.

No need to manually escape strings, no build system, 4 different JSON libraries!? Seamless (you don't even need to call it most of the time) to_json. The list goes on.

Yes, you have to know about appropriate libraries to use Ruby for webapps, just like you have to know about the functions available in PHP. It's fortunate that PHP has some of that core stuff built in, because it's package manager blows. If I need to encode json I just incant `gem install json` (but it's probably installed already, or maybe I would have to start right at the beginning with `gem search -r json`?) and call `to_json`.

The point is, use what makes you productive. Not being 'designed for web scripting' is meaningless today.
Not if you told them first - if popular CMSs/blog platforms notified Google when you clicked published they'd know just before the page even existed on the internet. Other content producers would rush to integrate it as well.

I believe they already ping Google to inform them of new content, it would be a natural extension of that.
Code Your Idea
> Turing completeless, not C.

C's mix of portability, simplicity, flexibility, and expressiveness made it the ideal choice for developing operating systems that had to run on a wide variety of architectures.

Perhaps a simple example of where C gets in the way would help clarify your case.
I was addressing the transportation step of the message, not its long term storage. From OBL to net-cafe, the dude carrying it would be safer with a MicroSD, encrypted or otherwise.
and Java programmers have a lot of things clamoring for their attention

This seems like a great problem to have.
market penetration strategies can be more important than market size.

for example, a smaller market with better acquisition strategies could be better than a larger market with nebulous or not unique acquisition strategies.
Naturally, but I think my biggest issue was one of melancholy, I mean, gone are the days of asm("movl %ecx %eax");. Or do we get that in V8? :)
Windows users could do this already without Microsoft owning Skype. Users who aren't able to install Skype on their own, probably won't use it anyway.
Inside Microsoft, many hope it will be Steven Sinofsky.
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If he had started his graph at 1986, when MSFT first went public, it would be more of a fair comparison.
That same presentation walks through some OO code patterns they use; that's far from "a giant script".
Depends on the client and the needs. I generally don't deal with hosting at all (or client already has hosting.) Honestly, most web devs aren't qualified to deal with hosting anyways. I'm okay with using my own knowledge to setup a dedicated server when bootstrapping my own web projects but I would rather have my client get that taken care of for me. If the client insists, then I would simply make a list of managed providers.

For me personally, Storm On Demand has some nice offerings including an option for managed support. Heroku is also great, but I'm not sure I would put a client on it. Perhaps the client needs to work with a different developer in the future who doesn't work with Git and would rather have direct access to the file system, etc.
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Yes, the time-base signature seems like part of the solution.
But what amaze me is if a cryptographic signature is available some scamers will generate articles and sign them to gain reputation.
Poster is illustrating how those companies survived the previous bubble thanks to their business models.
Suffering of thousands? Because of this nuclear incident? What?
> I think his point is that nuclear power is still safer (by number of lives affected) than, e.g. coal; and the fear of rare events (like this one) pushes back on what could be a very viable energy source with (relatively) few lives lost/standards of living reduced, compared to some other methods of getting electricity.

Precisely. It's also crisis like Fukushima—using generations-older tech—that impedes development of safer nuclear generation technology (i.e thorium reactors, or even just better light-water reactors).

> I find it callous for you to brush aside the suffering of thousands of people by "The situation isn't good".

Perhaps I should have used stronger language. The situation is bad, most definitely, and Japan will be reeling from the effects for decades to come. Especially in the immediate area, and more depending on the extent of ground water contamination.

I'm just saying that the lack of education about nuclear power prevents us from moving forward with it, when deaths or disasters linked with other forms of power generation don't get the same media attention.
Chromebooks as they are now are not attractive. Apple's mobile platform, MacBook, IPad, IPhone, is significantly eating into MS share.
Facebook already has video voicemail. Half the time it breaks during a recording and you have to start your message over again. If you can program better than the Facebook team, success! Even if you build a worse product a lot of people might nevertheless try it, and there's your ad opportunity.

The project collaboration management space is pretty crowded. If you go down that road, differentiate. Own a segment. The work of a telecommuter is identical in most ways to the work of a commuter. Go niche or don't play.

Parents can't buy enough toys and crap for their kids. Make something that will truly engage kids. Your idea of filtering public domain search results has limited financial potential. Make a game. People pay for games, no one pays for search.
Tens of thousands of people still not allowed to return to their homes, with no clear idea when they will be allowed to do so.
How many people died so far? Zero?
Fixed the original list. Had to look up HN's markdown syntax.
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Maybe this isn't practical for you, and it's been a couple of decades since I read it, but I still have a fondness for Knuth's "The TeX Book". It's about TeX, but along the way, Knuth gives you a lot of background on publishing including typography. I also recall it as being one of those technical books that is fun to read -- truly engaging and interesting.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html
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Write up a patch? It may be a little late in the game to be changing APIs, but it might be ok since it's just beta 1.
I would think the targets got tipped off when news of the Bin Laden raid was announced.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe an additional benefit is that the tax rate on dividends is substantially lower than that of capital gains.
You had to be one of the rare consumers who were purchasing a "smart phone". I remember writing software for the platform because it seemed like it was really going to take off, especially when things like the Dell Axim were starting to sell.

Side note: Anyone want a Dell Axim?
"Is it safer than coal?"

You have to compare casualties by number of people involved in both industries and also compensate for tight regulation.

My counter-question: How safe would coal be if it had the same kind of regulations as nuclear power?
It is interesting how quick the Googlers were to dismiss Motorola's test. Rather than understand what their potential customer looked for in their product, they simply said "we tested it in San Francisco and our results were better".
The most immediate difference I noticed in design school was a Typography assignment. We were tasked with going out and looking at all kinds of signs and identifying what fonts the signs used. We had to collect 10 examples of each style of font (Sans, Serif, Slab, Transitional, Display, etc) and then identify the font and give critical analysis on each. How readable was the sign, did it convey the right message, was it appropriate for the brand / message, who was the target audience etc. etc.

This was a great exercise as it's something you can do as you walk about, or in your case, you can apply it to websites in much the same way. It gets you in the right frame of mind. By constantly being on the lookout, it starts to become ingrained, and you can start to identify fonts automatically. You judge what you like and dislike and what you would change to achieve a desired effect.

As with many things, critical constructive thinking is the key. And perseverance.
I don't know about 2006 exactly, but I remember tons of people (pre-iPhone) with Windows Mobile phones who bought them for personal use. People who had their phones issued for business always ended up with a Blackberry.

Of course I also knew quite a few people with Palm Pilots, so...
I recommend 1 book on typography:
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find out How Type Works
http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Find-Works/dp/0201...

I'd recommend checking out OpenFontLibrary.org & Kernest.com (shameless plug) for you can download the fonts, use them, and understand how they work in all the work you do - not just web browsers.
The whole point of laws is that it doesn't matter what your take or my take or the President's take is. The statute for the FBI Director's tenure is clear:

"...the term of service of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall be ten years. A Director may not serve more than one ten-year term."

There's nothing about extending the term with Congressional approval. If the President wants to keep Mueller around, the only way to legal do it would be to change the law. It doesn't matter what the reason for term limits was. At this point, it's simply a public law regardless of intent.
"meltdown" seems to trigger the idea of a huge explosion and the scattering of nuclear fallout for miles & miles to much of the general public.

That's because when fuel makes it through containment and into the water table, this is exactly what happens.
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example:

124.

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML (ibm.com)
51 points by rpeden 13 days ago | 75 comments
125.

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML (ibm.com)
50 points by rpeden 13 days ago | 75 comments
126.

A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web (nytimes.com)
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127.

A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web (nytimes.com)
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You are correct in that perspective, but Microsoft is supposed to be the smartest kid in the class. They've said so. And taking them on their word, analysts are supposed to compare it against the other brilliant companies in the sector.

Even so, look at the comparison this way. Google and Apple both created and captured new markets; Google with online advertising and Apple with mobile devices. This proves that there was a huge amount of room for innovation and growth in the last ten years. But comparatively, MS has done nothing. It hasn't grown in any direction.

And what makes the comparison even more relevant is that MS has actively attempted, and failed, to copy both of the other leaders--Ad center is a failure, MS online strategy is balkanized and schizophrenic, the zune is dead, and WP7 is not gaining traction. That failure is reflected in the chart.
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I would hope/expect that to be even more incompatible than the syntax given the architectural changes made!
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> think of it as a necessary step to evangelizing your work and bringing its benefits to a wider audience.

Which is marketing. A very good thing if done right, despite how some developers instinctually feel about it.
The future web development (rails, nodejs)
Hello guys, considering the node.js interest (and related asynchronous technologies such as eventmachine, twisted) and the increasing popularity in coffeescript, it seems to me like the future is on these technologies. What do you think it is going to happen to the existing frameworks such as rails/django?
I think rails is going to be written in coffeescript and will run on node.js, or maybe, the rails team will to do a similar work to nodejs but in ruby using eventmachine.
Thanks!
It's almost definitely not an effective use of one's capital. Angel investment is a bad industry to diversify into unless you have some sort of strong competitive advantage as an angel. Otherwise you're likely to be one of the median investors losing money.
There are several cases where this happens already. Many TV shows/films are licensed to Irish and British TV stations, however many people in Ireland get BBC et al, so these people can see it twice. Everyone is happy with this system.
The reason I would not choose a spreadsheet for this idea is for a cleaner layout. I think a basic form with boxes and labels, where the other data is hidden, would be more user-friendly. A spreadsheet has data all over, and that can be distracting to see and navigate around - for me, anyway. That's my preference.