skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have specified, paracetamol is the only effective pain killer I have found. The others don't have nearly the same effect.
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If I could guess, 100% of the people are male. Polyamory is usually one guy and more women and is usually quite the sexist thing. Seeking life extension is at the current point of science not really rational.
A case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance perhaps, guessing some expernal entity demanded such steps from Google?
Check this message:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/B0OUf_Bd15E/vq7D0i0k4...
JPEG XR appears to be aimed at being a less resource intensive alternative to JPEG-2000 for camera manufacturers and semi-pro photographers. WebP seems to be setting itself up to be used to deliver images via the web.

Currently XR has a lossless mode, 4:4:4 color support, tiling and alpha which make it more featureful than WebP but those have all been announced for future versions with some features having experimental implementations already.

On the other hand XR, at least the currently available encoders, seems to perform very well under PSNR tests but fails compared with even JPEG in SSIM tests.

http://sites.google.com/site/dlimagecomp/ms-ssim-results

It also worth noting that being an ISO standard holds far less status ever since Microsoft bent the procedures beyond breaking point for OOXML.
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Actually, the GPL and LGPL portions of Honeycomb have been in the repositories for a while. What most people are clamoring for, is actually the portions that aren't GPL/LGPL.
This isn't some act of defiance. Playboy is doing exactly what Apple wants them to do, which is create content for the iPad. If Apple wanted them in the App Store they would be in the App Store.
Check out http://www.youtipit.org (maybe even send them an email) - would you consider bitcoin? Could be good marketing angle as well, and if your micropayment system or framework is good enough, spin it off with your site being a test case.
Ick, you’re right.
I've looked at the tarball one or two days ago, and there was no source for the clipboard.
You don't say where you are, but I've used a Paypal micropayments account in GB.
Considering the way Safari caches pages, you're lucky if you're not forced to reload a page when switching between Safari windows, let alone apps. The Safari cache size on iOS devices is cripplingly nonexistent, and I wouldn't be surprised if it only used RAM and no disk caching.
"of course shared between browsers"

Is it? Are saying that the flash crap doesn't distinguish between browsers/profiles?

That's another very bad security problem with flash. For me, it's the final straw. I'm going to wipe flash from all my machines now.
Please enlighten me!
> You already said your clients aren't asking for it and you're not providing it, are Chrome and FF honestly breaking your HTML4 and CSS2, or are you just exaggerating the problem rolling releases cause?

Yes. See the examples in my earlier posts to this discussion, several of which have directly broken my (and many other people's) sites for customers using those browsers.

> Because given the choice between slow as shit browser releases tied to OS updates and anything else, I'll choose the latter because it's less headache.

False dichotomy.
Hasn't the iPad abandoned files?
I live in Philippines, I have Philippines bank account.
I love to use bitcoin but it's too niche for my target audience.
I think if you explicitly specify a cache-manifest, it caches it somewhere - I assume to disk, since RAM is scarce.

The Gmail web app (along with some others I've forgotten now) seem to start extremely quickly when you bookmark them to the home screen.
Go speak to a few naturopaths, and look at improving your health in general. Then go seek proper medical help.
I doubt offline storage would be remotely capable of holding all your Kindle books. And requiring an internet connection to read it isn't optimal.

In any case, this new subscription service only affects repeating payments right? So Amazon could still release the Kindle without that feature and it would still work with books that you have bought from the store.
> People who aren't rich, white, straight, and male don't have the privilege of forgetting about their own identity the way you do.

You know, not everyone who isn't rich, white, straight, and male has the burden of being constantly reminded of one's own identity.

As a non-rich, non-white, straight male, I think I can honestly say that I was never particularly aware of my non-richness and non-whiteness until I started attending a large university where people make a big deal about class, race, sexual preference, and sex.

Did I get picked on as a child? Sure. But I never assumed it was because I was non-white, I generally thought it was because I was nerdy and small. Once I started standing up for myself, most of the taunting came to an end. Bullies are often cowards.

I think that some people are taught to believe that anytime that something bad happens to them, it can only be because of sexism, racism, etc. These sorts of beliefs are ultimately counter-productive and negative. In particular, they teach people not to take personal responsibility for their own lives.
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The Gmail web app uses regular cache manifest offline functionality to cache the assets, but then uses Web SQL (of which the W3C has dropped the development of the spec) to store and serve up the messages.
I've tried to compile http://bellard.org/mersenne.html, alas
not enough memory.
Pity, that would be full win.
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Ask HN: What is the future of Travel StartUps?
I'm working on a Travel Startup which more or less is build around customer pain points of pre & post sales support & customer service But I'm unsure how market will receive this? Any Suggestions?
The actual paper is here, but I didn't link to that in the submission because I don't want it auto-submitted to Scribd:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/Oakland11.pdf
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I guess you could store images as base64 encoded text in the Web SQL database, then create the images using the data: protocol. However, not sure you could fit many images in as the file size would be higher.
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Also explanation of the idea by authors of the site:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/5tc/rationalist_horoscopes_a_lowhang...
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I am a demanding luser. My javascript coding skills are non-existent, and I recognize that I'm asking for the moon on a stick here, and HN isn't the right place to make feature requests anyway.

But I'd love to see some extra features ...

What I'd like to see?

1. Support for loading and mounting additional read-only filesystem images embedded within the web page (presumably serialized and encoded in Base64 or something).

2. Support for a translucent FS, to allow writes to a ramdisk to show up on top of the aforementioned read-only FS images.

3. Support for writing out an updated copy of the JSLinux HTML file, with a saved copy of the read-only filesystem, including changes merged in from a translucent mount.

(In other words: you can edit files on a designated filesystem, then "save" the VM webpage and get a new copy of JSLinux with your edits added to the external filesystem so they're there next time you fire it up..)

4. For added fun (but arguably this is an entirely different requirement), I'd like to see a version of JSLinux merged with TiddlyWiki, so you'd have a combined TiddlyWiki (for documentation) with a virtual Linux environment (terminal only) embedded in it, and the ability to save changes.

You'd then have a single file containing (a) a hypertext documentation system and (b) a command line Linux environment.

I would ... well, "killing" is too strong a word; but I'd probably move into it for good, using vi and MultiMarkDown for book production and small-scale programming projects and TiddlyWiki to keep track of ideas and notes.
What if you logged into "MySuperDuperTwitterSummary.com" and everytime you hit your home page there, it gave you a summary of everything you missed since the last time you hit the home page, organized in a one-page, above the fold format. Links at the bottom would take you to previous reports.

The challenge would be two things - on the back end, summarization/threading/categorization and then on the front end presenting an effective information design. I think you could get 90% of the way on the backend by leveraging hashtags.

Anybody know of something like this that already exists?

I have to confess I am completely swamped by Twitter and don't keep up either.
Well you could take larger payments and give the change in bitcoin at a rate slightly higher than market.
Seems to work fine in Safari however.
I'm not a native English speaker (nor French), but other English dictionaries have "existing now or current" as one of the definitions for "actual":

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actual?show=0&...

http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0007040#m_en...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/actual

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=actual&tbs=dfn:...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/actual

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/Dictionary...
Please..."Windows" was trademarked and that is a much more generic term than "App Store". Reality plays no part in this.
They are still doing good business all over the world. American proxies are popular for access to Hulu and Pandora by foreigners and Swedish proxies are popular for bittorrent.
I need your valid email for this.
You would be able to fit a decent number of images in. The maximum database size on iOS for a Web SQL database is 50MB if I'm not mistaken.
I'm not making any claim that it's logical or follows a pattern. Are you sure you really mean "confusing" though? As in, ambiguous? Because it really isn't for most people, even those that don't speak English very well.
> Modern browsers have most of these:

Well, modern browsers have some form of most of those, often different to the form in any other modern browser.

HTML5 video is a great example. It's a nice idea, but as long as everyone is having childish arguments over which formats they're going to support, many of us who have to produce real world applications for real world users are still going to use Flash. (Sorry, Apple.)

If and when the sorts of features you described are standardised such that web developers can write one version of their code and have a fair chance of it running on all modern browsers, then you'll have a case. Until then, I'm afraid it's just your personal, and inevitably biased, wish list.

> These are the features that let Web developers build a richer caliber of Web applications.

Can you give us some examples?

> IE 8 has none of this. IE 8 was really not much more than IE7 with improved CSS 2.1 support, and IE7 wasn't much more than IE6 with tabbed browsing.

Writing silly things like that makes you look rather foolish. For example, you've just defined "super-fast JavaScript engines" as a necessary criteria for a modern browser, and then immediately glossed over orders-of-magnitude improvements in real world JS performance between successive versions of IE. Of course faster JS engines are never going to do any harm, other things being equal, but IE8 runs JS fast enough to be useful.
1. The "tap to call for assistance" feature doesn't work with paper.

2. You can cram a lot more information into an interactive screen than you can on a single side of paper -- the shop displays will be fundamentally more useful and informative.

3. Centrally controlled updates to pricing. Ability to request build-to-order options at the shop counter. Means less staff running around the store checking all the displays are in order.

4. When the iPads are out of date they can be sold off as refurbs. (They're embedded in plexiglass boxes so unlikely to get scratched up by customers.)

5. Power consumption of an iPad is dwarfed by the power consumption of the lighting and aircon/heating for that amount of floor space in a premium store.

6. These are probably minimum-spec 16Gb wifi-only iPads. (They're in a store, with guaranteed bandwidth and presumably a central server behind the magic curtain. They don't need to store stacks of movies and tutorials directly.)

7. Anyway, since when has "environmentally friendly" been a primary operational criterion for any high-end retailer? Apple aren't in the business of minimizing resource extraction, they're in the business of maximizing profits. Obviously, they think whizzy animated interactive store displays will help them do so. Saving trees is way down their list ...
Energy production is mostly solved, but storage and transportation aren't, and those are incidentially the areas where oil and gasoline excels.
I dunno, "web app" has been common lingo for over a decade. You just don't hear it much anymore because it's lost its buzzword status.

Interestingly, the first Google hit for "web app" is some sort of Apple store. A preemptive strike?
I hope they continuously improve their "platform" and make it work, and show how they make it work. If they can be successful, increase their profits by 30% and gain freedom, I can't help but think others will be eager to follow.

It'll be interesting to see how Apple responds if they do get to be a huge success/poster girl (hah, see what I did there?!)
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Byte-saving techniques in JavaScript
I think that's absolutely right.
It wasn't trademarked by a company that sells windows.
Why hiding a browser’s navigation bar does not mean the rapture for URLs
Albeit spending most of my time speaking/thinking English, I'd have to confirm that French is my mother tongue. Well, swiss French, but close enough ;)

And I meant to write about the current president indeed.
Once Microsoft won the browser wars and Netscape was out the picture there was little reason to continue improving it. The development of IE was merely a hedge against an all-internet software paradigm, the exact one that is now threatening to end Microsoft for good.
To summarize a few of the articles you linked:
Students do better at math in East Asia than in the US because East Asian math teachers know math and American math teachers don't.

My own experience bears this out. I once taught in a program to help public school teachers get certified to teach mathematics. I simply couldn't believe these teachers had college degrees. I was teaching geometry, and none of them could go to the board, draw a circle with a compass and label the center point A. It took them two weeks to learn that the center of a circle is in the middle, not on the circumference -- and, believe me, I tried to explain it. Of course, none of the teachers could add fractions either. These teachers were impressive people -- it's not easy to play parent, social worker, and cop to fifty teenagers at a time -- but they were absolutely uneducated. It seems that education majors aren't taught the rudiments of the subjects they're meant to teach. Teachers wish they knew math and they're grateful to anyone who will teach them -- they were so grateful to me that I was terribly embarrassed. I don't know what's going on in education departments, but it's a real disservice to teachers and students.
One of the key points that come up all the time with these 'physical goods vs. digital goods' discussions is that the latter can be distributed endlessly.

Why is there no way for me to give something I bought to my friend, digital or not? We have a digital currency now that claims that I cannot both send you money and keep it at the same time. Why isn't this possible with my mp3s, ebooks and movies?
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Stores have incentive to sell goods that expire fast.
I'mn afraid your blog post is almost completely unreadable in Chrome and Opera on Windows 7.
I completely understand that it is a highly cultural reference, and I do (atleast think) I grasp your point, but I do not agree that something that is said in jest is (especially when so wildly out of context such as this) is any more offensive on its own because the reader is not a part of the original intended audience.
Nothing against either party, and I don't really want ot hijack this thread any further so I will leave my comments at that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7S_XWuKpHc

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And all the while are we arguing about creating a digital copy of digital content. Even thinking about OCR here is like priting a screenshot and scanning it back in to send it via mail. Possible? Sure. Useful? Not at all..
It was trademarked by a company that sells lls a windowing owing system.
Isn't it nigh impossible for consumers to discover these web apps?

They don't seem to stand a fighting chance as long as they are not indexed by the App store.
I agree with that, there are no arguments against fact. In my case, maybe the time of day, the day of the week and the location were a factor. Of course is anecdotal, and maybe of the 200 people in the store, 100 were making purchases, but my experience wasn't the best one.
This was one of my thoughts, too. Bencoding is hardly ever used outside of Bittorrent, but it's a useful serialisation tool.
Yes, I haven't seen the new model in person, and I thought it would be a good idea to "feel" the resolution in comparison to my Macbook 13".
"It's not like anything else" - non-tech analogies to explain tech concepts
Seems ok in IE though. The page looks like it's a latex export.
The app store isn't much good for finding anything outside the top 25 apps anyway. If you want to dig any deeper than that you have to page through tons of junk by hand.

I expect to see more and more apps like this move to the web. It's easier to iterate and simplifies multi-platform support. Apps will be coded to native apis because they really need that kind of access, and not just because people expect software to be delivered that way.
If you've got a brand as well known as playboy -- you've got a decent chance. Anyone else - not so much
So why are they ignoring the big ones? Like for example ThePirateBay is a .org address which falls under US regulation?
It is not at all difficult to let consumers discover those web apps - all you have do is to include an ad on the cover of the magazine "Get playboy for your iPad at www.playboy.com/ipad".

You then make a similar note on the homepage.

Now if you don't have a magazine you can advertise on, it becomes a little harder.
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App store is trying to be trademarked by a company that has an App Store?
I know a polyamourous married woman. She's also one of the most intelligent women I know.

Not seeking life extension at all is definitely not rational. Perhaps it's rational not to seek it personally, but that's a personal choice. I think our society should seek life extension as an ethical choice.
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Actually I knew that but the point here is whether generic things can be trademarked, trademarking them multiple times in different areas which then converge is not all that relevant.
She. Big company BS. She was foisted on the group.
Yup. We tested messagepack a while back in our environment. Speed difference was 2% versus gzipped JSON. Not enough to invest time in changing a working system and losing human readability.
quite a few people uses vim daily?? My life is spent inside vim :) -- ups sorry got the wrong impression.. You should use sarcasm tag. Shame on you!
From memory, I am quite sure that here in Australia standard bank cards, which are generally referred to as debit cards, use an entirely different fee structure to credit cards. These bank cards always require a PIN and work on the EFTPOS network. Important, as you can't use them online. The rate is a flat one if I'm correct.

Debit cards issued by Visa or Mastercard and operating over those networks incur a lower fee than credit cards but follow the same interchange fee structure. Australian Visa interchange fees are here: http://bit.ly/visainterchangefees. Just incase anyone was interested. Whether or not these cards require a PIN or signature depends on whether they use the Chip-and-PIN system, which all new cards issued in Australia should.
Should Apple buy a phone company?
Preparing for an IPO is tough enough on senior management at the company as it is, let alone having to arrange underwriting, vendor placings, etc, without qualified professionals holding your hand. Lawyers know the law, not the market.

Also, who would do the pricing (flawed as it may be?)

Also, in the UK, a 'sponsor' (typically, a financial institution, like an ibank - http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Doing/UKLA/sponsors/index.shtml) is very often required, by law and by stock market listing/trading rules, to be involved throughout a stock offering to the public. Sensible, or regulatory capture? It may be a bit of both.

Likewise, it's tricky for lawyers here to advise on the offering of shares to the public (it's a "regulated activity" per s21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/21 )
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with ICE, they go straight to Verisign with ICANN consent and take the domain at the root without involving the registers.

The way it works is that registrars for .COM and .NET work with Verisign who runs on the root name servers for those TLDs. It used to be Internic which was operated by Network Solutions, which was bought by Verisign but then NS was later spun back off, but Verisign kept the root name servers. .ORG was given to another organization at some point to manage.
ihackernews.com by HN'er ronnier works very well for reading HackerNews on a mobile, although it seems that voting has been borked recently due to some log on discrepancies. Why pg doesn't have a simple mobile version is mind boggling.
Whats the point of this? Is it useful?
Apple Store 2.0 goes live. All info cards replaced with iPads
Speaking as a professional translator, let me encourage you to look beyond dictionary definitions - each definition in a dictionary means that the word in question can stand in a particular role. A true pair of synonyms would coincide in meaning in all situations. Dictionaries can be very dangerous tools indeed in unsure hands. I know I've injured myself with them repeatedly, as has every translator at some time or another.

"Actual" is a common mistranslation from French or German. As a rule of thumb, actuel/aktuell can almost always be translated as "current". "Actual" in English means something more like "true".

In the phrase "actual situation", "actual" does take on the Latin meaning of "existing now or current", but you can see that today's gloss of "true" also fits there: "true situation" works pretty well to describe the actual situation. Although come to think of it, "actual situation" sounds little odd to my ear (although that is a very dangerous metric, because everything can sound odd if you think too hard about it).
This is a very nice list. I didn't know most of these tools before, and they look very useful; I'm going to try and learn some of them. I found the link in the topic a bit disappointing. It mostly contained tools for system diagnostics rather than work flow optimisation.