skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you try to bake a cake with a hammer, you may come away with the conclusion that hammers are useless. Try it with some nails first.

For our application, every page has a defined JSON file with dozens of resources that the page uses. CSS and Javascript.

When the user asks to load a new page, the loader clears the DOM, fetches the JSON (if it hasn't before), and loads and executes the necessary resources.

This reduces the amount of data transferred from the server, since only the necessary files are loaded for each page. They are loaded only once, since the loader keeps track of what it already fetched. On top of that, HTML is only fetched once from the server. After that, it's all DOM manipulation.

Seems complex? Sure, if you only have 100K in JavaScript. If you have 2MB, it's really the only way to keep things sane.

For each job, a proper tool.
They seem to have pulled down the Mobile boilerplate, which is too bad - I was a fan of that.

I wonder if they're implying we should use html5 v2 for mobile now. I know v2 has a "mobile-first" focus...
Isn't violating copyright(except for fair use) already illegal? If you photocopy a book fully and give it your friend, you're already violating copyright and can receive a takedown notice[1], regardless of the anti-decryption clause of the DMCA.

[1] A different provision of the DMCA
An old company of mine had Nightingale CXOs (http://www.nightingalechairs.com/cxo_home.html) as the standard issue developer chair. I remember the first few days I was there, not really getting it - the thing is this complex-looking chair that you'd think would be infinitely comfortable, and mine...wasn't.

And then around day three, just as I was finishing all my HR stuff and the get-to-know-you tours (and starting on my first project), one more person came around and introduced themselves as the local ergonomics advisor, and explained that they were here to fit my chair. I then had to watch the Flash movie on how to adjust my chair, and play with the little 3D rendering of it (during which time, the visitor was watching how I moved). After ten minutes of this they stopped me, and proceeded to adjust five or six settings on the chair (a few angles, the arm width, the pan distance, etc.).

Upon sitting down again, it was like I was sitting on a cloud, and I understood what you get with a thousand-dollar office chair. In an ideal world, it wouldn't take someone who took a course in chair-adjustment (they had a rep come in for two days to teach the advisors how to perfectly fit the chair to the desk and person) - but damn, does the system work well.
There's still a dedicated Mobile Boilerplate - https://github.com/shichuan/mobile-html5-boilerplate
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> If you have 2MB [of JavaScript], it's really the only way to keep things sane.

"2MB of Javascript" and "sane" read somewhat funny in the same sentence.
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101194056008351744
I found the aeron's nothing that complicated to adjust properly, but man, was that stuff worth it.
Taking something designed to work in print and attempting to blindly replicate it (without interpretation) in a totally different medium is a way to Make Less Money.
We could start by disallowing maximum password lengths, and insisting that all printable characters are allowed in passwords.

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Here in Britain the Financial Services Authority sets minimum password standards for online banking. I expect similar regulators in other parts of the world have their own subtly different requirements.
The same thing also works in irb.

>> "foo"
=> "foo"
>> bar = _
=> "foo"
>> bar
=> "foo"
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This article tries hard to present something useful/interesting in a lightweight manner. And is insulting throughout the text.

What stuck out was "Shit, crap, anal, Hitler, Hitler, anal, excrement, Greek people are lazy and dumb, good that they don't have Jews anymore, Hitler, Nazi, Holocaust, "Deutschland unter alles" a reference to the (now illegal) part of the 'Deutschlandlied' originally called 'Deutschland ueber alles' (think Nazi hymn).

I stop reading now. This is the most disgusting thing I've read for a long time, and goatse would probably feel like a relief now.

Stavros, what's your take on the Greek stereotypes..?

And to add insult to - erm - insult:

Page 9:
“Why should you pay $20 million to a 32-year-old trader? He uses the office space, the I.T., the business card with a first-class name on it. If I take the business card away from that guy he would probably sell hot dogs.” He is the German equivalent of the head of Bank of America, or Citigroup, and he is actively hostile to the idea that bankers should make huge sums of money.

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He in this case is Klaus-Peter Müller. Please check the first hit I found searching for his name and 'Einkommen'/income. It's German and outdated, but Google Translate should help or just scroll down to see amounts listed next to his name. You see what he got 2007 and (oh, poor guy took a hit) what he got in 2008 up until the 15.05. Yes it's not 20 million. But 'hostile to the idea that bankers should make huge sums of money'? > 2 million / year? What exactly is the author smoking?

http://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/aktien/vorstandsgehaelte...
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That's been the thought of most of the country for a long time as many either move to the coast or want to move to the coast and just can't afford it. A great second choice (first for some) is a mountain city like Denver (or nearby Boulder). Or, if you really don't care about mountains or ocean then a city like Austin at least has great weather and overall vibe.

To each his own, but I will never live in the middle of the country and will always either need to be near the beach or mountains (I did the mountains the last couple years and am again near the beach).
Love the Benny Hill music, but for a study, don't you need more than one person per phone per task? Would it have been too hard to get 5-10 people per phone per task?
Take out the back support. AAAAAH, so comfy.

Sounds like the height or tilt adjust was out of wack if the front bar is putting that much pressure on the back of your legs (I literally cannot stand eating dinner on square bar stools, I empathize with leg circulation getting shut off, and was one of the reasons I bought one of these).
Yes, it is meant as being misleading. There is no direct link between anti comunism and neo nazism. I just think neo nazis are against pretty much every thing, so I am also not confused to see them using anti comunism slogans. Their power and attention comes from being against something. What that something is, that is probably not so important.
Then you should google "funding certainty" to see that it is widely used. Just because you don't relish using slightly oxymoronic phrase doesn't mean others don't
hey j79,

thanks for the comment. :)

I'll confess I don't quite get your last paragraph. Could you elaborate on how Hipmunk helps with schedules better than Kayak?

thanks
Durga
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This is a good point, the meta comment is that post 2008 a lot of changes were put into place snd so this 'crash' has different things going on than the last 'crash'. Its this action, where the system responds to booms and busts which makes predicting the future from past events difficult at best, and completely non-useful typically.

I have talked with folks who have investment capital that is 'stuck' which is to say they have money they have allocated to the 'high risk' portion of their portfolio and yet fewer options for investing it. And while YC is a startup incubator, I also see it as a VC incubator. I would expect some of the folks who are successfully investing small amounts into a bunch of companies will begin to want to make slightly bigger bets and that will push them out of YC into a more VC like situation.

The original article's message that things go in cycles, and you need to be able to deal with that, is spot on. And in times of high volatility only the folks who have that sort of risk/reward profile that startups offer want to play (the more conservative investors are worried that their 'moderate' risk capital is at risk and so they double down on those bets taking all their high risk capital off the table). More startups chasing fewer dollars, means a more competitive environment. But that being said, startups take time to get from concept to launch, cycles take time to go from down to up. The absolute best time to start a company is just before the end of the winter.
Along the same lines I would argue that the problem solved by loaders is a symptom of using the wrong tools - too much JavaScript is possibly a symptom of abusing it - instead of client side loader code, why not optimise the data/server behaviour instead for example? Just a thought...
This is disastrous. Luckily a solution is possible. MIT will need to add a *4 to its algorithm.
The American automobile industry didn't really get hit by imports until the Oil Shocks of the 1970s. By then, the productive population of Detroit was already fleeing to the suburbs. Also, if the decline of the American automobile industry explains the decline of Detroit, then the suburbs of Detroit would have declined as well, instead of expanding. Furthermore, the decline of the American automobile industry does not explain why similar declines occurred in the other cities which I mentioned.
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There are 3 back rest configurations too: Lower back support, lubar support and no support.

I'm most comfortable with the no support option. You can convert either of the other two to this option by removing the black thing (it slides off sort of).

As far as sizes go, most tall and/or slightly overweight men need the C sized one, but definitely get a proper sized one.

If you go to high end office stores (sam flax here in atlanta) they'll have a few different sizes.
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We're in the era of client-side web applications. If you're building something like 280 Slides, you may legitimately have 2MB of JavaScript.

However, to download few widgets and +1 buttons on a static blog page, script loaders are an overkill.
Reasonable environmentalists aren't advocating that we prevent climate change. The earth's climate changes. It always has and always will. There is nothing we can do to prevent the natural cycles the earth goes through.

What we need to adjust is our unnatural, unbalanced effect on the earth's climate.
I've been thinking about a "Has Done" List. I feel like I don't accomplish anything, but I know that isn't true. I'm hoping a visual reminder of what I've done will help.

Oh Life looks like a good fit. I just signed up.
The problem with viral* marketing is that you give up control of the message.

* (or whatever the correct term is for HN-linked recruitment-ads-as-blog-posts)
Abstract: I prove that if markets are efficient, meaning current prices fully reflect all information available in past prices, then P = NP, meaning every computational problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time. I also prove the converse by showing how we can "program" the market to solve NP-complete problems. Since P probably does not equal NP, markets are probably not efficient. Specifically, markets become increasingly inefficient as the time series lengthens or becomes more frequent. An illustration by way of partitioning the excess returns to momentum strategies based on data availability confirms this prediction.

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This is basically an attack on the efficient market hypothesis - i.e., that markets price in all available information and market moves over the long term accurately reflect the best consensus guess as to the future of a particular company. For background, see Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

What I see as the interesting part of this paper is way in which the author uses market mechanisms - a trading strategy - to test problems as being in the P or NP space, basically equating the market to a type of computational machine. He argues that if the EMF is true, then a properly set up experiment should be able to come up with a solution to an NP problem in polynomial time (implying P=NP).
FYI, this is not my mac, I came across this story on Twitter. Similar to the one that happened in Oakland a couple months ago.
The real piece of math missing from this is the cost of the real estate. I'd take a cheap chair and desk in NYC over a $1000 chair at a $1500 desk in the suburbs. The surroundings matter as much as the inside of the office. But a lot of companies move to the suburbs because rent becomes prohibitive on a large scale.
For my part (and I'm biased) a database that doesn't consider durability paramount shouldn't be considered a database at all.
Didn't he just have some time off nine months ago?
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Hey, this is Nivi from AngelList. That is a dumb clause. We are changing it. We will also look through the terms for other dumb clauses. I'll follow up on this thread with the revisions later today.

People submit bug reports to us all the time. This is the first time we've gotten a legal one. Thank you.
I've always thought resetting by using a scalpel would be better than resetting by using a machete. But the problem with the scalpel is, you have to know how and where to cut. So thanks, Boilerplate guys, for figuring out where to cut!
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I'm sure he'd be happy to buy that as well.

Edit: He honestly says that elsewhere in the replies (user spolsky).
My way of remembering its/it's is to associate it with his/hers rather than the typical 's.

`The cat stepped on his foot.`

`The cat stepped on its foot.`

Still, I don't get annoyed at its/it's because it's such an easy mistake to make. I still do it occasionally without meaning to. I don't quite get how people consistently get their/there/they're or loose/lose wrong, but that's just me.
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I'm not so sure. I think the broader economic forces may help tech companies rather than hurt.

No matter what happens, America (and the world) will still have a lot of very wealthy people and institutions. Those people need to put their money somewhere. The stock market is scary, bonds and banks don't pay anything. If you had $100 million tomorrow to invest what would you do with it? I'd start looking for startups.

10% unemployment seems bad to us, relative to our more historical 5%, but Europe has dealt with that for decades. People still buy iPhones and sign up for Netflix. Even if the market for new services is reduced by a few %, the quality of new services will more than make up for it.

Rich people will still want to make money and startups will still be an appealing way to do it.
Obama: "the most aggressive foe of whistleblowers"
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Quite relevantly to day-to-day use, ghci's got multiline input and the ability to load up scripts. No more copy-paste out of scratch in emacs!
The Silverdome is in Pontiac which is about a 30 minute drive from Detroit and the Lions moved out of there about 10 years ago so that's not too relevant to this topic.

Comerica Park, Ford Field, and Joe Louis Arena are actually in Detroit and they're all great facilities. Comerica Park and Ford Field are across the street from each other and both are state of the art. The area surrounding those 2 stadiums is one of the nicest parts of Detroit. Joe Louis is located on the water, a couple miles south of Comerica and Ford Field, and while it might be old, it still has a great atmosphere and is probably my favorite out of the 3.
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Amazon escapes the App trap
If you find yourself in this spot again, Ctrl-r `cd /som` helps.
This is awesome. I've been looking for a central place for beta apps for a while.
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I don't think that's a very good justification. If you want to use that time to think then make the personal decision not to connect.

I think you're romanticizing 'travel' too ... those hours can add up to very significant amounts of time spent messing around on your way to/from/between airports, planes and hotels - your 3 hour adventure is someone else's 20 hour journey. I've probably spent 2 or 3 weeks in that limbo this year, and can't wait until the day every seat has an electric socket and every plane has wifi.
For what it is worth OWASP has password guidelines:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_length_&_comple...

That should be enough? I can't imagine that you are lamenting the lack of an oversight body to to adopt and enforce a standard. Were you?
This is a report that adds nothing to the original release from MIT and in fact fails to mention that these new predictions are based on actual observed data. Here's the original post from MIT:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/arctic-ice-melt-0810.html
for those curious about how this compares:

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Quite true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Why do we need to? Just because it is unnatural and you are philosophically opposed to it? Or are you saying something about the fact that the temperature change is driven by humans rather than nature makes it a problem?
hey onedognight,

Good points.

Hipmunk does start the new search with old parameters. And once one has discovered that, the mental burden of clicking on "New Search" does go down a little bit. Agree.

As you point out, the obvious counterpoint: how is this better than modifying the current search parameters?

One could perhaps argue that when a person is looking for 2 entirely different flights, it'd be useful to open the new search in a new window. But honestly, how common is the use case of a person searching for 2 entirely different flights at the same time? Not very common. When I'm on a travel website, I'm usually trying to book one particular flight. Perhaps a travel agency would disagree but is that really the mainstream market?

And if I needed to actually book 2 different flights, I'd just open a new tab in my browser to search for the 2nd flight. The "New Search" tab has no business being there.

To your 2nd point: I noticed that and was completely lost when I couldn't find a way to get rid of the popup. Then I realized by trial and error that clicking elsewhere on the page made it go away. This behavior might be intentional: don't give the user an obvious option to cancel, and thereby hopefully increase conversion. But it's going to backfire - users don't like to feel trapped.

Kayak has a similar popup with a clear X option.

Durga
Curious: were any iPhones/iPads hacked?
I messed up the deploy, whoops! back up: http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/

We see a future where these two projects _probably_ merge, but not just yet. I think the mobile-first, one-web community has a little more work to tackle. For now the mobile boilerplate is ideal for mobile-only webapps (like with PhoneGap).
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The law protects the renters, not the false property manager. The bums actually live in the building and pay rent. I have rented apartments plenty of times, and never once verified that the landlord is the actual property owner. I just assume I am paying the building owner or their representative. The bums are making the same assumption, and deserve renter's rights just the same. I am sure the lease could be invalidated if you could prove the bums knew the property manager did not represent the owner, but that is just as much of a legal hassle.
You say if you make one assumption about C, you have to say the same about PHP. Well, PHP is academic, C is not. C is fast, PHP is not. I would only have agreed with your post if it were PHP and C++. C++ is academic and it's not slow but it is slower.

You also say that you either like both PHP and C, or you like neither. Well what about Lua, Python... or any other embed-able language? Most Python programmers would say they don't like PHP but love C, because the languages work well together, same with PERL as well. You could say that you either like both C++ and PHP or you like none. Maybe, because PHP can compile to C++ to become extremely fast, which is why Facebook and Yahoo both use PHP because it can be fast and it is well documented. It should not be compared to C though.

(Note: I contradict myself, PHP by itself is slow. PHP is not fast whatsoever. C++ is a low level language which is the only reason why it's fast and I think it's awesome that PHP can compile to C++. I'm in no way against PHP and I'm not encouraging people to stray away from the language. I was just pointing a simple error in this post.)
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From the comments: "PHP is great for its purpose. Quick scripts that generate web content. It’s even OK for small applications. But just like C, PHP is lousy for the medium to large. Any software project with a duration in months or greater that is entirely in PHP is going to be painful."

Like Facebook? Or Wordpress? Or Digg?

PHP aint perfect, but it's demonstrably suitable for medium to large projects.
I'm building my first web app and my goal is to get 10 paying customers
I'm trying to get into a habit of documenting my journey into the world of web development. It's an area that intrigues me and I hope to share it with other would-be entrepreneurs.
To be pedantic, Rome wasn't in ruins in 400AD. The Visigoths wouldn't sack it for another decade and the Vandals plunder and raped the city proper more than 50 years later. The last nominal imperator was dethroned by a barbarian in 476AD.
My look on the whole matter is about sustainability. This is the only Earth we have, and we are many, many years away from even thinking about trying to colonize another planet or moon. From that, you'd think that common sense says that we should live in a way that keeps our planet habitable and doesn't increase the chance of a run-away chain reaction, ruining the place.

Then again we also know that common sense isn't very common, and there are a significant subset of people who are fine with abusing the finite resources we have at hand.

We do know that the Earth can heal itself a lot faster than we give it credit, when we give it the chance (re: ozone hole over Chile back in the late 90s from CFCs). So yes, the climate changes, and I'm pretty sure the extremes we're seeing today are influenced by human actions, but as long as we're taking steps to minimize our impact on the planet, we'll learn better to deal with the variability that naturally comes to this planet.
And, highlighting.
I just wish people can make their minds up on if this is a tech bubble or a recession.
Does noticing whether a link is the original link

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/captchas-for-keeping-id...

or blogspam count as a useful screen?