skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would make sense in theory, but in practice you can't make POST request to a JSONP API. So that's why you have to stick to GET request.
The kernel (along with a modern FS) already is crash-only. Journals are designed to recover a FS quickly from any state after a power failure. The remainder of the kernel mostly is a bunch of in-memory structures recreated on every boot.

As for userspace, well, e.g. Firefox is a lot of the way there. SQLite itself is designed to handle failures extremely gracefully, and by virtue of regularly flushing most of its state into SQLite, Firefox itself achieves a great deal of reliability (although this might not be true of its cache storage, etc.).
When you're starting out, just DON'T start with flat fees. Your rates aren't high enough, and you won't have the leverage/experience to successfully navigate the issues with requirements changes.

But once you get it, they're pretty nice to offer to people.
For some sites, where security particularly matters, using https by default on your landing page seems like good marketing.
This is true, but I've noticed that in practice, Chinese or Japanese trying to identify characters to each other (rather than look up an unfamiliar character in a dictionary) tend to draw rather than list the components.
I absolutely agree. The iPad is a tool and toy you probably don't need, but if used to the max it'll probably enhance your life in some noticable way.

Every single morning, while sipping coffee and waiting for my omelette to finish cooking, I catch up on the latest news through Reeder, the first RSS reader I've actually enjoyed using. I also check my mail to see if there's anything important I need to respond to right away.

When I'm finished eating and catching up to the latest news, I grab my iPad and go upstairs for my exercize. While doing strenght training I use my iPad to quickly make a note of how many reps and how much I lifted. After I'm done with my strenght training, I take a run either outside or on my threadmill. If I take the run on the threadmill, I'll use the iPad for watching a video, either South Park or TED.

After I've showered, groomed, brushed my teeth and flossed, it's time to start working. When I work my iPad is always lying on the desk next to my laptop. I use it for:

* Displaying my ToDo-list (the Hit List)

* Displaying the email I'm working on.

* Displaying some relevant notes to the work I'm doing (Evernote).

* Displaying a PDF or website containing documentation to what I'm working on.

* As an extra screen (AirDisplay) for Photoshop tool pads and similar.

* VNC or SSH to another computer

* The occational check of HN, Twitter or Facebook.

* Calculator

* Calendar (Week Cal HD)

Yup, everything I've mentioned could be done on a normal laptop. However, it's incredibly useful to have an extra screen for displaying relevant information that'll never be obscured by application windows covering the information.

After I'm satisfied with my work for the day, I might hang out with my friends, perhaps take a picnic in the park. My iPad is always accessible in my manpurse. If a customer has an emergency problem, I can quickly and easily log into their server and fix the problem (Textastic/Prompt). If I get a brilliant idea, I'll note it down in Evernote and analyse it with the Business Model app. Maybe I want to think deeply about my business - I'll just open Dropbox and read through some business documents about future plans or surf on some of my competitor's sites through Mercury Browser.

When I'm back home I might do some more work or chill out with some games. Perhaps I'll open Rage HD and have one of the most immersive and physically exhausting gaming experiences possible through the Virtual Window control mode.

Right before I go to bed, I write in my diary (Day One) and finish my TODO-list for tomorrow.
1. Assassinations are against US Law.

2. The US already has long-range assassination hit squads, e.g. Osama Bin Laden's Assassination
Agreed. I only mentioned this to show that Arabic is complex, especially for people who want to study the language in detail.

In older times however, most Arabs used to incorporate these short vowels into everyday speech. It was normal for them.

I find this somewhat fascinating because if I or any other casual speaker were to attempt to do this, we'd have to pause for at least a few seconds before each word to figure out which short vowel goes at the end of it.

It's pretty sad that Arabic speakers have gone backwards instead of advancing in the language, but I guess it's a price we must pay.
Though xslt didnt come out of Java, it comes from the w3c mindset of how things should be done. His main criticism is the poor Java XML library, combined with the weakness of xslt, so neither work. Now we all know that most DOM style interfaces are badly designed, tend to think the answer is the Haskell one is an exception.

Everyone else just avoids xml for these types of reason... Obviously you cant for this problem.
One more reason to have your own IP addresses.
Anybody interested in written languages can get lost for hours here http://www.omniglot.com/
Surveillance camera, faster and less predictable than a satellite (and faster than the SR-71). Nothing can fly as fast inside the atmosphere, no way to lob a missile or artillery at it.
I'd like to see a HN discussion of what people think Twitter should do about all the unused Twitter handles or those that were obviously abandoned after a few tweets back in 2009.
-Should Twitter charge a nominal fee, say $1 a year for an account?
-Should a domain name 'trump' an unused Twitter handle, ie. a way for domain owners to acquire unused Twitter handles?
probably first we see something like in Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within. A holographic device on your wrist, then we get into cyberpunk with glasses, then contact lenses and then implants ..
Possible remedies for Too Big To Fail (2009)
git clone git://github.com/myname/vimrc.git

That's too much effort? Enjoy your default configs with no syntax highlighting etc.
You're referring to the PADD:

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD
ICBMs can go fast, but they follow a predictable ballistic trajectory. They can also be intercepted by anti-missile missiles. You will need another scramjet to catch a scramjet while in the atmosphere.
I am not sure I understand your point (that's honest) :
The article claims that we don't need iPads to improve our productivity, and you say you bought one mostly because it's a joy to use it. How is it contradictory ?
"Some words have separate broken plurals depending on whether you're talking about a small or large number (the cutoff is somewhere around seven)."

Huh, I wonder if this came about naturally, and if it did, I wonder if it has any tie-in to the number of items people can hold in their heads at one time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...
Technology enriches technologists and capitalists, but it actually impoverishes the uneducated masses because they no longer have jobs and cannot afford higher education.

The missing link in your story is that the secretaries and phone operators and librarians put out of work cannot afford retraining and cannot get loans to retrain. So they are converted from middle class wage earners to the ghettoized poor.

Without a social safety net, gains in productivity only benefit a small minority. The middle class is being cannibalized by your kind of thinking.
I should be clear-- I'm not saying you should make up fake hours or pad your estimates to conceal a higher rate-- you should work on the basis of flat fees. If the client thinks you're not worth the money, they can choose someone else to do the work. If the project takes longer than you expected, you lose, and the client wins. I think that's different than the "they bought the time" approach you were (sort of) attributing to me.
And in the US as well. There are some isolated regional accents that are virtually unintelligible to people from other parts of the country. It's not perhaps quite as pronounced as in the British Isles, but it's definitely there. But everybody understands a midwestern accent (the kind used on national news broadcasts).

For a while there was even a neutral American British accent used in major broadcasts and films...but it's since dropped by the wayside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_English
Dallas Cowboys vs San Diego Chargers live streaming ((ff22-08))
San Diego Chargers vs Dallas Cowboys
NFL Preseason
DATE: Sunday 21st August,2011
Start Time 08:00 PM(ET),
Venue:Cowboys Stadium.
Enjoy and Watch NFL Preseason Match 2011 between San Diego Chargers vs
Dallas Cowboys live free on online.Watch and enjoy free exiting this
match on your desktop or laptop online here on 1th August 2011.Watch
Online Live Broadcast American Football Match 2011 from all over the
world.No matter where you are you can always watch your favorite teams
play live online.HD link here. The NFL season which just wrapped up
featured one of the most exciting Contest of US Football.You can watch
the full season nfl football matches live on online Tv.Coverage will
begin in the Summer with the top preseason NFL football games
available and will continue right through the regular season,the
playoffs and even the Pro Bowl game.U Can Watch Live NFL games on
internet tv.This site nflfoxtv.us provides NFL live broadcast,live sop
cast,live telecast,live coverage, live stream free online, live
internet pc games, live streaming free games on online and broadcast.
Show HN: Basedroid - A Base Framework for RESTful Android Apps
Nothing can fly as fast inside the atmosphere, no way to lob a missile or artillery at it.

Assuming it's going in a straight line (Which wouldn't be unreasonable at that speed), you just need to send something up to block its path.
What? Why would they have to sell the patents? Keep the patents, license them to the spin-off, no?
Corporation vs. Startup in One Photo
ICBM's fly outside of the atmosphere and they don't turn... IE. they're ballistic. I could see that something designed to hit the predictable path of a ballistic missile at mach 20 would fail to hit an aircraft which can turn at mach 20. (How well this thing can actually turn is another question.)
hmmmm, I'm guessing they didn't take any patents at that time then ... but Apple sure as hell did ...
Nasdaq ITCH
AFAIK Newspeak is written in Smalltalk. I wonder if it's possible to run it on (or port it to) JTalk.
Indeed, the whole article comes off as strawman-ish. Nobody [to first approximation * ] ever says something like "I mean, seriously? Scientists?! What have they ever done for me?" because, well, that attitude is quickly discredited by a moment's thought.

Now, what you will find is people with attitudes like

1. Useful sciencey things like MRIs and clean water are important, but a lot of what's going on is just a pointless waste of time and money (seriously, you spent how much to figure out the internal mass distribution of Jupiter?), or

2. Science has done all sorts of bad things to the rainforest and stuff!

3. Yes well, science is very important, but we have major budget problems so it's inevitable that pure research budgets need to be cut, or

4. Why are we spending all this money on [huge science project of little practical utility] when [far more urgent and heartrending problem]

But these are much more difficult arguments than the one which Phil Plait appears to want to have with the imaginary dude in his head.
I've got `cd .dotfiles ; hg pull ; hg up` in my bash to solve this (+ ssh agent to not require logins all the time)
SSLab's grades are not stupid. They monitor how solid the SSL implementation is and what needs to be corrected to ensure higher security on the site.

Another useful tool is SSLScan, which for Hacker News shows that they are accepting of a very strange set of HTTPS cipher and MAC configurations.

SSLv2 should be turned off, as well as the majority of 40-bit and 56-bit ciphers. Their unusual preference of CAMELLIA-256-CBC is pretty amusing to me.

Prefered Server Cipher(s):
SSLv2 168 bits DES-CBC3-MD5
SSLv3 256 bits DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
TLSv1 256 bits DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA

Whaaaaat?
Geekletics – Run Report Generator
How can you say that businesses are rehiring when unemployment is the highest since the great depression?

Previously, jobs were being shed and productivity was rising.

Now, jobs are still being shed and productivity is declining.
Solely addressing number 2, I think the factor here is time. The strike window for this weapon as I understand it is 1 hour anywhere in the world. Navy SEAL operations on the order of killing Bin Laden have lead times measured in months. Even Tomahawk missiles take time to position (warships) and fire. When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed or killed within a hour, Mach 20 is the only way to go.

Plus its non-ballistic flight path and high degree of maneuverability probably allows it to evade most anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic missile defenses.

Scary stuff.

Edit: Grammar and spelling.
neither was the car invented by Ford or the phone invented by Bell, contrary to common belief. But they made them for mass production.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym
I wasn't aware that it was a law. I thought it was merely a prohibition put into place by an Executive Order signed by President Ford.

In either case, it seems moot in today's day and age. What's the difference between firing a missile at enemy headquarters with the intention of killing the general and senior staff, and an assassination?

It seems today that 'assassination' is simply pursuing the usual methods of war against a specific target.
Very interesting combination of concepts and total prediction failures. To anyone debating, it's worth watching.

My personal favorite was "People don't buy generic news, they buy a specific newspaper, with a branded identity". I wonder what caused the change. Poor digital adoption by newspapers, paywalls, and aggregators that do a better job matching your interests get my votes.

edit: I wonder if newspapers wouldn't be in such bad shape today if they had embraced tech like the video suggests. I still boggle at how much resistance they seem to have to change - you'd think a news agency would have noticed the struggling/death of others with similar behavior that they had been reporting on, and realized it applies to them as well.
Based on the context of the article, he was a QA person in a triple A game company. It seems to be standard practice to let most of the QA teams go once the game has shipped, as most of these guys are contract, not full time.
The US Air Force understands the concept of high speed spy planes with the SR-71 and knows how to deal with intercept attempts. A slight turn takes the plane well away from harm.

[edit] now if the enemy builds its own with the same speed / range then all bets are off
Yepnope.js: A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills
We're definitely on the same page on flat fees!
Those differences are not to my knowledge as a native English speaker used to convey any sort of meaning, and as demonstrated by the existence of monospaced fonts have no particular importance. They are merely an artifact of the glyph geometry.
Granted, the 'ballistic' part does decide it. But what says ICBM tech can't be adapted to simply turn slightly while re-entering? It's not like this plane will be making hair-pin turns, I find it extremely hard to believe something with no need to fly back can't match it for maneuverability.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA the inflation-adjusted budget of NASA over its entire history from 1958 to 2011 is less than $800 billion.

That is significantly less than the cost of... several single large initiatives that have passed through Congress recently (no doubt if I picked an actual example then I'd wind up with a political argument on my hands...)
Watch out, this extension does not do what HTTPS-Everywhere does! With KB SSL Enforcer, your browser still hits the HTTP version before being redirected to the HTTPS version of the site.
They're against the law if they're caught. It implies nothing about the existence of successful stealth-assassinations.
No, because IE7+, FF2+, Opera, and Safari don't support HSTS. New Firefox does, and Chrome does.
Proof in spanish: http://www.cij.gov.ar/nota-7387-Designan-juzgado-en-causa-po...
This reminds me of something Steve Yegge said.

"I know, I know — everyone raves about the power of separating your code and your data. That's because they're using languages that simply can't do a good job of representing data as code. But it's what you really want, or all the creepy half-languages wouldn't all evolve towards being Turing-complete, would they?"

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
Agree to disagree on the grades, and agree to agree on SSLv2 and export ciphers.

(I have other complaints about the SSLabs grades, but I'm not getting into it here).
Yes, but he's "arguing against it" by reshaping it into a ridiculously extreme and self-evidently-false form.

It's an intellectually dishonest and particularly annoying (yet extremely common) way to argue.
Uh... before they decided to end it, "PCs and printers and the like" made up the majority of HP's business.

HPSD is a very tiny fraction of HP: 14000 employees out of 320000 worldwide, and that's after having bought 15 companies in barely 5 years. We're talking $3.5bn revenue, out of $126bn for the whole company. HP is a very small software business, it's a big hardware and services business: HPES, formerly EDS, makes up ~$35bn of HP's revenue
A tool to stop other people from mispronouncing your name
Yes. A LOT of sales people got replaced by Web sites. And technology also replaced many book store clerks, telephone operators, etc.

In some ways it's a BAD situation.

But, in 'productivity', that is, economic results per dollar, that remains. It's just that increases in 'productivity' don't always mean an increase in standard of living, quality of life, better society, etc.

All I addressed was productivity, not standard of living, 'the social contract', 'financial security', a 'better society', etc.

You are absolutely correct that much of the technology that has increased productivity has hurt a LOT of people. And it is very true that our society needs to do something about this situation.

And, moreover, if count the cost of the 'safety net' for the people put out of work for the technology, then it may be that, with also the cost of the technology, sometimes there is a net loss in 'productivity'.

For another example, Google, Craig's List, etc. are putting out of work a LOT of people in the classified ads departments of newspapers. Heck, the Internet is putting a lot of newspapers and magazines out of business: Newsweek just sold for, what, $1 to someone who wanted to run it as a personal interest instead of a business?

I haven't gotten a newspaper or magazine on paper in years, and last week I finally hauled out three really heavy, big, green plastic bags of old magazines.

Still, in the long term, larger picture, and in the sense of the article, 'productivity' marches ahead. We don't like all the downside, but, still, we don't really want to go back. So, we need to find better solutions for how to move ahead.

Sure, it's too easy to see that too soon we will have to give everyone a basic 'stipend' so that anyone who wants more can work and make much more. Doing this and keeping a 'productive' society will NOT be easy.

Or, what happens when Robots, Inc. makes a robot for $1000 that can do the work of over 90% of the current jobs?

Still, the article and I were writing about JUST 'productivity' and not at all about your, justified, concerns about 'quality of life'.
Either way, you have to spend the money. If you have to spend the money, you have to collect taxes. If you have to collect taxes, what are you gaining by sitting on a big float in the Pacific instead of living in London or Manhattan where the operas are?
Wait --- what? They fired Hurd as a direct consequence of him paying a hooker.

What's that got to do with strategy? Or are we claiming that it's "okay to lie" about why someone is being fired..?
If the author had even pretended like he was making a rigorous, logical case for why some particular budget should not be cut then you would have a very good point. Yes, a specific instance of a science budget being cut is mentioned, barely. It's really obvious that the author had a bunch of general opinions he wanted to share and the news about the budget cut was merely an impetus to write.
Oh man, what a treat for you.

Lem also has another essay about Philip K. Dick in his book Microworlds, you might check that out as well. He is a serious critic of science fiction, and he pillories the genre without mercy; Dick is the only science fiction author he considers worthy. He has zero patience with crowd-pleasers.

Still, he's got a wicked sense of humor. My daughter is reading "Memoirs of a Space Traveller" right now. It's definitely on the light, even funny, end. Start with the light stuff and work your way to the denser material.

I'd say Lem's strengths are his intelligence, his incredible pessimism (rare in a futurist) and his sense of humor, although you'll find only the first two in His Master's Voice, Return from the Stars, and Solaris.
One explanation would be that people at work couldn't keep going on 60 hour week, so at some point decrease in productivity is unavoidable. That means the businesses will start recruiting to get back on track with 'normal' productivity.
Re 7:
In a way, you're both right.

Khadra' here is a form of plural, not the feminine of akhdar.
The literal translation might be "she is green," but the correct translation is "the books are green." No native arabic speaker will think of the books as feminine while referring to them in plural, but in singular objects' gender is strangely ingrained in our minds:

kitab akhdar : green book (masculine)

tawila khadra' : green table (feminine)
How does she have anything to do with some ISP (mistakenly) blocking an IP, because a judge ruled that two sites should be blocked?

May I remind you of the Communications Media Law that was passed some time ago, protecting free speech from monopolies?

You're just trolling AND off-topic. You should be downvoted.
Which is very small and hard to see, especially for one Gruber which does not work as a corporate drone
It is also possible that the efficiency gains brought by technology allow previously inaccessible services to become accessible to more people, thereby increasing demand for those services.

For example, some types of legal discovery can now be done very well by software. On the face of it, one might think that many lawyers will lose their jobs (as discovery normally requires the attention of many lawyers). However, since the process is now cheaper, companies that could never before have afforded such legal services can now afford them. The lawyers will no longer be doing the actual discovery work, but will instead guide the software.

I realize that my example targets a highly-paid group and that litigation is perhaps not the kind of thing anyone gets excited about, but this is what popped into my head first. You can apply this thinking to other fields.

Technology sometimes leads to job losses but it also leads to new jobs. It's not much consolation to people who lose their jobs - and how to redirect talent on a large scale seems to be an unsolved problem - but in the long run, if done right, tech improvements can improve all the lives of many people.