skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Google Reader is fine. But the RSS entries that it's displaying sometimes other resources from the original blogs. For videos or click tracking, this sometimes is JS.

Before the change, it just put the browser into mixed-content-mode, but now it does that and in addition it disables loaded JS.

I think it should block it without the error message though.
Why is that, by the way? I've tried various transitions over the years and for any serious work I've soon settled for the plain old immediate "transition", i.e. nothing at all. Anything else has turned out just annoying, for me.
These guys are taking a shot at it although they are targeting lawyers rather than laypeople: http://www.greenlinelegal.com/
The first comment there shows a counter study which says that for non-spatial tasks, keyboarding is better since muscle-memory can be used.

Do you have other studies?
actually, the last point is interesting, but goes the other way: the attacker doesn't have to find your password, just some text that hashes to the same value that is in the password file. that places an upper limit on how secure you can make passwords for any given hash (although in practice it's usually irrelevant).
Their cert is fine, it's just that the page generally has to load content from external, untrusted sources to do what it does.
Here's another whimsy: instead of (necessarily) a poor country, how about any country that relies exclusively on land/property taxes, VATs, and tariffs? Are there any?

As far as I can tell, those taxes can't be dodged by a virtual currency since they are levied on physical items.
Not trying to take away from how fantastic and inspiring a story this is, what's with the "check for grants/subsidizing" bit?

Is the ultimate advice "be from a wealthy country that lets you travel on welfare"? :)
1. The problem is that contract language, like Perl, is very much TMTOWTDI or "Tim Toady": There's More Than One Way To Do It.

2. Exacerbating the problem, a lawyer drafting a contract (like most programmers I've known) often can't resist the urge to "improve" specific provisions, sometimes for style but more often to try to subtly micro-optimize his client's future position, to the disadvantage of the other side.

3. All this means that the other side's contract reviewer has to read the entire contract every time, looking for "improvements" by the drafter that might not be in the best interests of the reviewer's client.

4. Strong AI wouldn't be needed if clients would push for Perl's TMTOWTDIBSCINABTE or "Tim Toady Bicarbonate" attitude about contract language: There Is More Than One Way To Do It, But Sometimes Consistency Is Not A Bad Thing Either.

5. In an ideal world, there'd be:

a) a Creative Commons repository of benchmark language for various flavors of different types of contract provisions, and

b) client- and market pressure for lawyers to edit the benchmark language when drafting a contract. That would allow the other side to run a quick diff, e.g., using Compare Documents in Microsoft Word, to see which benchmark provisions were used as-is, which were modified, and which were omitted altogether.

6. Contract reviewers could maintain private copies of the benchmark language repository, annotated with tags such as, for example, "FAVORS EMPLOYER" and/or "HEADS-UP" and/or "ALWAYS ASK FOR THIS." These annotations would show up in the Compare Documents results, for free, canned "legal advice."

7. The foregoing could greatly reduce the cost and delays associated with contract legal review. But lawyers (and many clients) will almost never do so voluntarily, because they hate the idea of giving the other side's contract reviewer any help -- even though doing so might help their clients get to signature more quickly.

8. I've been experimenting with something like the foregoing as a side project; I'll post an announcement if and when I get an MVP.
downvoter dumb. no hire.
I can confirm this. I am running Chrome on Ubuntu with the Nvidia binary drive and the WebGL works fine.
Groupon won't let you go
The Incredible Sinking Bubble
Maybe Wesley Snipes? First as Blade ... then by the IRS for tax evasion.
Does Social Media Have a Return On Investment?
Less expensive? not by much is my bet: Amsterdam is the most expensive city in Holland and one of the more expensive ones in Europe (Scandinavian countries + London may be worse is my estimate). It's also impossible to find housing.

As far as immigration is concerned, one can fall under the category "kennis-migranten" (loosely translated as knowledge-workers) pretty easily, as long as the company sponsoring you is willing to pay the money, around 50K (Pay is not like the Valley, but I'm guessing this is doable).

There is the possibility of starting a company as an American citizen due to a WW2-era Dutch-American Friendship treaty (see http://www.expatlaw.nl/dutch_american_friendship_treaty.htm)

As far as startups I know of in Amsterdam, there is Fashiolista, and Sofa used to be there...
'Status Anxiety' is a very well done documentary on the question of why money doesn't really buy you happiness:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/status-anxiety/
Highly recommended!
One of the side effects of this that I've seen is on sites that are on https:// but offer embedded YouTube and other such scripts that are coming from http://

Basically... I'm seeing this message crop up wherever I see embedded media.

Message is: Even if your site doesn't need https:// , if you're going to offer widgets and embedding you better offer a https:// option for those.
Now it might give people the wrong signal that in order to be accepted by pg/YC, you need to be as sketchy/evil as Loopt or Airbnb founders

You just have no idea what you're talking about. The Loopt and Airbnb founders are all among the more upstanding people I've met. Anyone in the YC community can testify to that.

This problem with u-Deals was in fact a bug. And as Nick points out (http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=2697523) the SMS problem was a bug too.

Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers.
Bigger Stronger Faster* - Awesome documentary on steroid use in weightlifting, really thought provoking.

Alone in the Wilderness - A guy that is built like Popeye goes into the Yukon and builds a log cabin by hand. I think its really inspirational.
Synaptic Package Manager removed from Ubuntu 11.10
that is the reason why it wouldn't work, since the company would provide a ready market for stock that nobody else might buy (not to mention that you have to use company cash)

also 'fair market value' is difficult for a private stock
Why not just have a library in Javascript, for example:

Q.each(arr, function(i) {
this.rocks();
arr.pop(); // watch out doing this in the loop
arr.push('foo'); // watch out doing this in the loop
});

Q.each(obj, function(k) {
this.rocks();
delete obj[k]; // should be safe maybe
});

var p = Q.pipe(crazy stuff involving pipes and callbacks)
doSql("SELECT * FROM users", p.fill('users'));

getUsers = Q.getter(getUsers); // turns it into a really smart getter

getUsers = Q.batch(getUsers); // turns into into a batched getter

and lots of other stuff

Why must the language take care of everything for you when libraries can do it? That has been the case with C, C++ and other languages.
But what of value was actually produced by that "computational effort"? What is the current total worth of the results for all of that computational effort?
If effort produces nothing of lasting value, is it a valid basis for value?

Machine rights and slavery are being ignored as people blindly treat the work done by machine slaves as if it was done by "owners". Some publicly act as if slavery of machines or other humans should not be the basis for a currency, yet we still have slaves. The slavery still around isn't just about mining the materials for the capacitors in your tech toys. And it wasn't just a part of past colonies.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/men-sho...

How many hours of CPU work, or how many bitcoins does a slave cost? If some do decide or admit that slavery is acceptable, or just a fact of life, would the value of a slave be a more stable value for the basis of a currency? (measured in prime adult slave-years perhaps). Perhaps one should have to be a slave for a time to obtain bitcoins. However if one is born into debt, it might take some time to have a positive balance.

Does being born into a society where there is public debt associated with a national currency amount to defacto slavery?
Dark Days is great. It's about people living in a train tunnel in NYC: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/

Errol Morris' movies are all good. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is pretty widely known. But also check out The Thin Blue Line, which is built around multiple reconstructions of a crime scene and got a death penalty sentence reversed: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/
Art & Copy (http://www.artandcopyfilm.com/). It's the story of how advertising went from a staid, "old boys" industry to one where creative talent prevailed.
Ask HN: List of great web development shops
I'm interested in compiling a list of web development shops that tend to

* build high-quality medium-complexity websites using the best open-source frameworks and tools

* have at most a couple dozen employees, and most of them are technical

* have egalitarian decision-making structures

* probably have a physical presence

I started a spreadsheet with four that I happen to know of: http://exoweb.net (Beijing), http://hashrocket.com (Jacksonville, FL/Chicago), http://bocoup.com (Boston), and http://unspace.ca (Toronto).

http://bit.ly/iuQxyw
I would go one step further and block form input when you are on an HTTP site, to forms that go to HTTPS. This would end the charade of "secure" log-ins on an HTTP page by forcing the login page to be an HTTPS page.
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Two great documentaries that focus on China, which I have not seen listed:

Manufactured Landscapes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Landscapes

Up The Yangtze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Yangtze
+1. I watched this on a whim on Friday and absolutely loved it. The film is worth watching just for the interviews with Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior VP of industrial design.

Also, The Pixar Story is terrific. Plus, both documentaries are on Netflix Instant.
From Charles Karelis. Surely, as you point out, there is no absolute standard of poverty across different times and places. Nevertheless, the suffering of poor Americans today, some of whose objective circumstances would have qualified them for the middle class back in the U.S. of 1930, is real suffering, and seems to call for a response. In addition, I think it lowers the marginal utility of small improvements in their consumption. The conundrum is, that in a (we hope) super-prosperous future America, there will be poor people (by the standards of that time), who are objectively better off than middle class Americans today, and it is (for many people at least) hard to care a great deal about their plight. So do we absolutize contemporary intuitions about poverty and say these future people won't be "really" poor, or do we say they will be really poor but that that doesn't impose a moral obligation on us today, e.g. to conserve so they will be less "poor"? Neither answer feels totally right.
I would be much more impressed if people who raised this point also suggested a fairer way of distributing the coins.

It is difficult to tell if they think the fundamental concept of bitcoin is bad or if they just have sour grapes because they aren't an early adopter.

But while we are at it, why shouldn't early adopters profit?, they took a risk early on.

And actually if you ask me I think the minting system is pretty good, mining costs electricity, while many miners are surely hoarding and speculating they all have to pay their electricity bill on a fairly regular basis.

This ensures there is always someone somewhere selling bitcoins and increases the liquidity of the market.
Low-energy European systems reboot from deep sleep in one to two minutes.

What sort of system takes that long to come out of sleep?

This sounds like more evidence that competency is not required in order to be successful in business. :-)

Here, on Comcast, it takes so long to switch channels (sometimes multiple seconds), that channel surfing is no longer reasonable. Additionally, the channel listings are limited to less than half a screen so they can cram more ads in, so locating interesting shows is an exercise in frustration. A Netflix-style, information-dense interface is now so superior that I see absolutely no future for cable television systems.
Please, stop reacting.
+1 Startup.com - great movie
Features that can be added through libraries should be added that way. You cannot add new syntax which involves scoping of variables through libraries. How would you do destructuring assignments with a library and have it as succinct as it can be done with syntax?
If you are right, and money is "the only reason he had to help his relative," that would actually prove his experiment failed -- that for all his pluck, his savings of $5,000 were not sufficient to help a sick relative. The fact that his relatives tend to be better off than those of the genuine poor would only reinforce this.

As it happens, his experiment might not actually be a failure, because what you're saying seems dubious -- people help sick relatives for all kinds of reasons beyond possessing money. If he quit the experiment to contribute love or support, for example, that does not conclusively prove it wrong (although it does raise the issue that it would be much harder for a poor person to contribute such support to a sick relative -- time is not free and quitting a job has more dire consequences when you're poor).
Interesting but correlates with the number of files and libraries the interpreter must read or parse. Anything that's quite self-contained is fast; anything that needs to look up and read lots of files is slow.

All I can say is that Java startup time is abysmal. Still, and after fifteen years. Java was dead slow in the 90's and it's dead slow these days when compared to anything else. I love Clojure but Java startup time rules it out for anything else but long-running processes or, when coding, using repl via swank.
Yes but many of the ideas in CoffeeScript were likely slated for ES.next before CoffeeScript. So it has been working in both directions.
Seems like these two companies have found a true soulmate in each other. It makes you want to cry.
For those that don't know Werner, he's the kind of guy that says "It's not a﻿ significant bullet" after getting shot with a pellet gun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w
There was an ES4-to-ES3 compiler. The Traceur compiler takes many of the Harmony ideas and compiles to ES3.
Unix filenames can not include / characters or null bytes, so I call shenanigans. Nonetheless your point stands: be careful. (And make liberal use of -print0 !)
This post is entirely self serving and misses a key point: Why would I want the world's largest advertising company to have access to my healthcare data?!
https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/health/hipaa.html
How does paying well and being full of nerds obviate a moral dilemma? If working for facebook is morally wrong (feel free to argue on this one), then neither of those conditions changes things. It can be both a smart move for geohot, as well as an immoral one.

Again, I'm not saying that working for facebook is bad. I'm saying that it's rightness or wrongness is not determined by how well they pay or how many geeks they employ.
I see your point to some extent. I don't think the functions for mimicking classes provided by libraries like Prototype and Dojo have particularly crummy syntax. But since there isn't a standardized way to create classes, implementations are usually a little different.

Still, according to this logic, any language that doesn't support classical inheritance has warts. I'm not sure I agree with that. JavaScript doesn't have classical inheritance built in, but I haven't seen anything to make me think that it's really needed from a programming standpoint. Your point #2 is valid, but could that can be attributed to the programmers who use the language rather than the language itself?
Restrepo is great. I thought it captured two things very well: what modern war is like from a grunt's perspective, and the disconnect between US officers and the local Afghani leaders they are supposed to be working with.

It's also got some amazing handheld footage of firefights. After the third or fourth time the cameraman dives for cover and the people around him begin shooting, you start to think, "hey, this seems like it was pretty dangerous to make." That only makes it sadder that the guy holding the camera was recently killed in Libya while doing more or less the same thing.
After watching some short pieces of his, he came off much too much like a British and slightly cleverer version of Michael Moore -- entertaining to watch, the editing is great, but the documentarian techniques are wholly deceptive. He'll link unrelated things with a sleight of hand, then sneak in several ideas during the shock that follows.

Do I have the wrong impression?
I like Chrome's ongoing attempt to push forward security where it's obviously deficient, but I'm worried that that we'll start getting warning-weary with all these drop-down bars telling us that something might be awry. Any site that has Java already gets one of these on Chrome, now this will pop up, seems like it will just train users that the only way to get their web content to display properly will be to click "yes! run it! dammit, just let me see my stuff because i couldn't care less what you're telling me!" I'm not quite sure what a better UI solution would be however...
Apple certainly would have been the logical fit. Their response to his work suggested begrudging admiration more than Sony's outright hostility.
I just named one.
It sounds nice if you can pull it off, but on the occasions where I've been continually moving from place to place I've found it much harder to actually get anything done. Continual travel adds cognitive and other entropic overheads which deplete your mental and energy real estate.
True enough. I can see how the cookie law has the intention of making the internet a better place for users, I just suspect that it's highly unlikely to do so, if what I understand about it is correct.

My understanding is that it requires not only an affirmative acceptance from users of cookies, but requires that the site placing the cookie be able to prove that the user did, in fact, provide said acceptance.
The answer is, supposedly, data portability, which is a pain in the ass from hospital to hospital, or even doctor to doctor in the same hospital system. My wife, a nurse, has horror stories about how they sometimes have to fax info to other departments, just to have it re-entered into the same software.

Also, Google doesn't advertise on their Health product.
His past legal bills were paid by the thousands of donations he received to "fight the man", which he promptly...didn't. He shouldn't have any future ones unless he plans on engaging in more man-fighting.
I loved Fermat's Last Theorum: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516#

And the recent 'Senna' for both capturing the passions involved.
Isn't this just lexical macros?

I expected a HN headline to refer at least to a novel Lisp style AST macro implementation; there's m4 and cpp for basic textual macro expansion and those are very old news.
Riot On - a very entertaining and well produced story of dotcom bubble madness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
Harlan County U.S.A and Hoop Dreams are pretty much mandatory viewing. For a laugh, I quite enjoyed Monster Camp.
The trace param to Xargs is nice too: You can check what will happen before doing something.
Legally speaking, the larger problem is probably immigration law. The anti-foreigner sentiment here is driving a set of ever more annoying laws and processes.

To digress a bit:
For the non-EU crowd, the easiest way into the country is probably with a kennismigrant (knowledge worker) visa. This entitles you to a faster, easier process but there's a few problems: You must work for a company with (or willing to apply for) a special license to have a knowledge worker, you must make over a certain salary, and you're not allowed to do any other sort of work while living here (yes, that probably means your side startup).

Supposedly, you can also set up your own business here and work for yourself directly but I've never met anyone who's successfully done it. I expect you'll probably need to hire a decent lawyer to help sort it out.

Immigration aside, the Netherlands is a nice place to work and there's more to Amsterdam itself then pot and prostitutes. Something interesting is always going on and there's plenty of smart folks bouncing around. Personally, I hope this whole Appsterdam concept (mobile-centric name aside) turns into a huge hit.
>>...so your invincable.
Same question here - What would I do with the QR code?
Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
The -delete option is not available on all UNIX systems, as it's not part of the POSIX spec (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/utilities/fin...).

(Also, rant rant, I really don't understand why find was extended with -delete in the first place. What's next, "ls --delete" or maybe "cat --grep"?)
I read the whole article, however, I didn't think it did a good job of getting to the bottom of everything that does matter. The article needed to give people a better sense of the situation of the poor, by providing more insights. Otherwise, people who've never experienced poverty would not understand why it's so important to help these people out. The best reporter on an issue like this is someone who actually made it out of poverty and is actively trying to help their own people.
Les Blank did a great documentary about Herzog filming Fitzcarraldo, as well. A very interesting pair of films to watch -- it's titled "Burden of Dreams."

Herzog has several short docus worth seeing too. I know the one is on youtube where he goes to an evacuated town and up a volcano that's set to blow, to find a man who has refused to leave his home on the volcano's side.
The best thing about Unix, and maybe the worst, is that you never stop learning about it. Nice article.
I'd also recommend posting things on sites like Forrst. That's how I found my co-founder. I posted a rough outline of what I wanted to accomplish and asked for those interested to send me an email for more information. Ultimately, I had maybe 5-6 say they were interested with one sticking around (perfectly fine). Leverage community sites. It's definitely worth your time.
I fully agree that having a blog is a must, and not just for startups. On a side note,

<shameless-plug>I'm writing a book that will help developers and startups build successful blogs. It's going to be published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. You can signup here: http://technicalblogging.com </shameless-plug>
Is your life interesting or happy?
At the beginning of June I went to Chris Guillebeau's first World Domination Summit in Portland, OR (http://worlddominationsummit.com/) and met lots of people who are living like this. I highly recommend going next year (I'm already registered!) if you're interested in learning about the techniques people use for lifestyle design.
In IE9, the mixed content warning is not modal. It blocks insecure content by default, with a notification bar that allows the user to allow mixed content.
"Crumb" is a charming, interesting and often sad look at Robert Crumb's work as an artist and his idiosyncratic personal life and relations.