skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at the code, and what this does is to make calls to a web api on the errorjs.com domain.

It sets a key using:

http://rastajs.errorjs.com/set/yourkey/yourvalue

And retrieves it using:

http://rastajs.errorjs.com/get/yourkey

It also adds a timestamp, and allows for a callback. Perhaps it should be clarified that this relies on making a web call to their server (even if that is the only way this could possibly be done).
What are you using for minifying the javascript?
Why should I make any at all if at the end of a long productive life you jump out from a corner and says how these fruits should be deployed? For kicks? I might, and many more able than me do -- but there's a breaking point for everyone. And I found that the tax-man much more resembles that old cliche about the "greedy", the "rich", the capitalists -- it's the taxman that truly can never get enough, never tax enough, never borrow enough, just to keep their own fairytale reality going another day or decade.
I stand corrected! I guess since each dialect gets a country or two to itself it's easier to notice the situation with Arabic.
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Beyond the closed model, what sets this apart from Flickr or /r/photocritique?

Making the community invite-only excludes spammers and trolls, but also excludes potentially valuable contributors. What is rules are processes are in place to ensure that the community doesn't simply turn into a circle jerk where only a certain style of photograph is properly reviewed/critiqued?
Wait - doesn't this just do JSONP GET requests for getting/setting values? How is this not needing a backend?
Sounds like they shotthe messenger
How do I promote this iphone/ipad app? 
we spent good amount of time building Comimix app for iPhone & iPad. We have both paid and free version.

Video here -> http://youtu.be/XyHCAo9gtYM
Website here -> www.comimix.com

Any suggestions on how to spread the word to get more downloads?
Anything you read in the newspaper could be complete nonsense and you'd need to consult 50 different sources to determine what is and isn't true in today's news.

I assert this to be the case today with mainstream newspapers and television. I believe that some have less nonsense than others, but before I act on something I read in a newspaper, I consult other sources and verify.
oh, my bad. Well, the API doesn't specify anything beyond that.

My implementation is on GitHub at https://github.com/errorjs/Rasta.js
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They use "our" money for this, ie. yours? They robbed you? Or did you count on their income, as your income?
A few of the ideas seem interesting, but I would have hoped for a lot less vague marketing language full of buzzwords from this sort of company...
I don't think that is true. Learning another language sets you up with a grammar vocabulary that is very useful when learning any other language later on. We learn Latin in high school specifically because it is like a key to learning other languages.
Oh... I get it. It uses your server.
Cobwebs: syntax on; set ts=4; set sw=4; set ai;

Keep it simple :)
I provide the backend. Well, actually Heroku does
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> Nasty? In a language without pointers it makes total sense. An index is no longer an offset from an array (or string) pointer, so the first element being 1, the second being 2, just makes more sense.

Not necessarily. The reasoning in e.g. Python is that the index is not to an element, it's to one of the intervals around an element. The "first interval" (right before the first element) is 0, which naturally leads to -1 being right before the last element, thus arr[-1] being an array's last element, and arr[:-1] being everything but the last element.
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> OS X Lion users will be seeing a flesh colored thumbs up symbol at the end of the previous paragraph

All I see is EOT symbol
Anyone who's used http://clamato.net/ want to compare the two?
Thanks for your remarks. If this ever gets traction, that would be a great next step.

I don't like the name either because it's atrocious grammatically and unpronounceable but, i often encounter blogs and comments that end in "tl;dr: this and that" (that's actually where the idea came from). I think it's pretty self-explanatory to the reddit / blogging crowd.

P.S. I dont know who added the "tl;dr" for the current page, but it made me giggle, thanks.
Thanks. I should be more clear about that.

The api is defined under WHY? tab, btw.
If the default behavior isn't working for you, give the Session Manager add-on a try.
Is this even supported by Chrome yet?
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This is how you demo your product... make it insanely easy
Let us not forget the Acorn NewsPAD:

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/ART/ART_DS003_NewsPAD...
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This is called generalization from fictional evidence. http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
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If software is a growing industry and other industries are shrinking, it seems it would make the most sense that the unemployed learn to program.
That's plausible, and actually a pretty nice design. Thanks.
It's not that messy when you remember that this is the one area left in contemporary programming where you're almost directly talking to hardware which knows only the most basic primitives but can do them blazing fast and where minor coding decisions can have huge performance impacts... remember assembler/C in the olden days for normal software? What a mess. Hey, I'm already glad the shader language is a simplified version of C rather than pure assembly -- in fact, earlier I heard that the very first generations of shaders were indeed assembly-like, glad we advanced since then.

There are many many frameworks that "take away the pains of core WebGL coding" and give you "as easy as jQuery" higher-level JS APIs on top of WebGL. But you get the most control over your own hardware-accelerated program if you write it directly in WebGL. It's not too complicated, only most of us aren't used the real concepts in computer graphics.
You think the residents won't have weapons?
honest, well-paying jobs

There's something that bugs me about the phrase "honest work". It implies you need to do (usually) manual menial labour in order to be fulfilled as a person. It seems like the kind of meme the rich robber baron factory owner tells to the poor serfs in order to keep them happy with their lot. The hell with 'honest work'.

If work was so great, the rich would have kept it to themselves.
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It's not entirely true that citizenship determines where you pay most of your taxes, in fact it might only be true of the US. It's certainly not been the case for any other country I've lived in. Most have a residency test, if you're in the country cumulatively for 186 days you pay tax there. If you've had tax taken out of your salary in a country where you are not a tax resident and the country has a double tax treaty with whoever you are meant to be paying tax to then you can use it as a credit against any tax liabilities you may have there.

The UK is a bit of an exception, in that foreigners in the UK can declare themselves "non-domiciled" and not declare any foreign income they did not bring into the country. A bit of a loophole if you're foreign, wealthy, and can afford to leave most of your money offshore. Probably explains why there are so many celebrities and billionaires living in London.
How does MovieClips.com feel about CantWait's use of the trailers it has licensed and posted on YouTube?

For instance, here's CantWait's "Midnight in Paris" page on its website:

http://cantwa.it/movie/midnight-in-paris/first-trailer-117/

The YouTube movie that is embedded on that page is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_3gIxrcWK8&feature=playe...

Which happens to be posted by MovieClips.com, a company that pays the studios to license their trailer data. Is CantWait paying MovieClips.com? Does it pay YouTube? Does it pay the rights holders of the trailers?

Here's another example, CantWait's "Spider Man" trailer:
http://cantwa.it/movie/the-amazing-spider-man/first-teaser-6...

It was posted by Sony Pictures on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u...

Is Sony Pictures cool with CantWait's use of its trailer within a commercial app and website?

I am curious if CantWait is at all concerned about being shut down for commercial redistribution of content from YouTube? Or is CantWait paying YouTube for the content and its bandwidth? What if CantWait scales and YouTube says, enough is enough?
Those exist too. One of the earliest ones still in use today in OpenGL is GLut.
I'm pretty sure any design that they actually go with will be resilient to plausible weather conditions.
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It looks like everything is passed by value, so instead of passing a reference to that int, string, list, array, etc, you are always passing a copy. Once you hit an evaluation contact above where the copy cane from, it can be deleted.

I would imagine for some particular set of data (many large arrays and such) that this could get really slow, but their claim is, at least in the general case, it is faster to copy everything.
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I really thought HP was the company. They had engineering, channels, and logistics. If Microsoft would pull and XBox, they probably have a shot. I just don't understand their lack of desire to use WP7. Whoever is going to compete needs a wad of cash and their logistics done well.

The problem is it looks more and more like the tablet market is mirroring the the iPod market (most people bought iPods but some went for the more sophisticated competition).
That is not the only problem it solves. You can go to https://news.ycombinator.com/, but if you visit any other non-https website at the same time, somebody can MITM that connection, and inject the following HTML into it:

<img src="http://news.ycombinator.com/">

That will cause your browser to do a non-https request against news.ycombinator.com (unless STS is implemented), which in this particular case can leak the session cookie, because the session cookie hasn't had the "secure" flag set on it.

I'd say that it is worth going out of your way for. If you're implementing HTTPS, it is only slightly more effort to implement STS as well. And it's definitely worth adding the secure flag to the cookie as well.
Yes. Many of Google's own sites like Gmail and Google Maps use SPDY in Chrome.
> The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

More likely, it's because all said software is proprietary. If people got the source code to their cars' computers, you'd see a lot more people repairing their cars (and a lot more interest in automobiles in the current generation, leading to real, open innovation in the space).

It's interesting to consider how cars went from being something anybody could hack on, to something that only a few "qualified" people are now able to service. I don't expect the same thing will happen with software (in other words, I don't think "trusted computing" will ever become the norm), but we must be sure that it never does if we want innovation to continue in the software space.
Many such engines exist, notable ones are CopperLicht, Three.js, SceneJS. Google is working on something too, I heard.
You're ignoring one particularly American problem, which is that Americans who harvest wealth outside the system of their country of citizenship are still required to pay taxes to it. I suspect that these sort of proposals would probably go away if rich Americans who moved to Hong Kong or Singapore were not expected to continue paying into Uncle Sam's coffers.
I think it'd also be useful if you included an enumeration of the common currency symbols. For example, accounting.DOLLAR, accounting.EURO, etc.
You can invest in flying cars without ever flying one. You invest because you believe in the idea, and that some people (not necessarily yourself) might benefit from it.

Attacking "libertarianism" or "the super rich" is kind of childish - everyone is entitled to the wealth they earn (if they do so honestly) and their own political views.
Do keys need to be globally unique?
"IIRC, Finnish has something like 28 noun cases. That is intimidating"

Finnish (and other agglutinative languages) use suffixes to express many concepts that in English are expressed with prepositions:
imagine if instead of "in my room" you would have to say "room-my-in" and you would call this the noun case of "containment" or something similar, the number of cases would go up pretty quickly.
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>Funny how these guys can only afford these things from their profits in "nanny states."

Do you really think Thiel would have made less money in a less socialist version of the US?
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy"
We have tried just about everything at our shop, Thirdi.

Fixed rate quotes are dangerous because they make all the pricing decisions at the point where you know the least about the product. They lead to waterfall-esque development, since your only shot at avoiding scope creep is to catch everything up-front. Plus, change requests feel like nickel and diming to the client, slow the project down, and are just generally bad service.

Hourly billing is difficult to sell: would you buy a house, knowing that the sale price might increase by 30% after you moved in? Plus, you run into the problem of those hours not being tied to a productivity level.

We've started giving high-level estimates of projects up front, but not committing to a specific scope or price. Instead we invoice for each 2-week sprint with set deliverables. This way, the client is paying for features, not time. We start a feature backlog at the beginning of a project, but add in much more detail right before each sprint starts. The client always knows what they're buying, and we can quickly tell if we're running ahead or behind on the project based on whether we are finishing sprints early, and how many features we are knocking off.

By not getting married to one feature-set at the beginning of the project, it also allows us to throw in 'nice-to-haves' that might be easier than expected, or scale back less important features if they turn out to be more complicated than we thought. It does add time for communication and managing the backlog, of course. We have a dedicated project manager and a QA lead to keep this stuff away from our development team, otherwise they might have all gone mad by now.
Here is a short summary of the paper.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/01/crash-only-software...
This is the best essay I've read all week. Thank you so much for sharing it. His point about the great truths in life sounding like banal platitudes was dead on. It's the type of thing that's easy to say, but hard to convey. He did a great job of it. For instance, his point about seeming to be the center of the universe reminded me of Johnny Cash's great re-make song "Hurt" where he says "You are still out there. I am still right here." Totally banal and simplistic, but also very true and difficult to grasp. [video link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
I find it typical of the nonprofit mindset that there are no metrics in this article.
Everything is in the same namespace.
You are exactly right. This type of argument is called "ad hominem" (translation, appropriately, is "to the man"), and is the basis of many fallacies and Republican/Democrat debates.
> IIRC, Finnish has something like 28 noun cases. That is intimidating.

It's not actually that complicated, most are simple suffixes - so for example, instead of on the table in Finnish you say table-on (pöydällä). Once you learn the rules of vowel harmony and consonant mutation it's a pretty regular, straightforward language.
Rimantas is my real name, not a nickname.
I would never bill a client for the time it takes me to build a proposal, and I would think way less of any contractor who suggested I pay for their proposals. Don't do this. Research for quotes and proposals is in almost all cases a cost of doing business.
I'm ready to leave. I know that if I leave, the company will be in shambles.

I know that if I dont' approach it right, I will strain my relationship with the general manager and that is not a good position to be in when you want a potential future partnership.
It is especially well-suited for applications in AI...

<Groan>. I wish people would stop putting "lisp" and "AI" in the same sentence. How many decades did lisp languish because people thought there was no reason to learn it if they weren't doing AI?
I guess this is why the vision of the CEO matters so much to investors (think Jobs). But regardless, HP was in trouble. I wonder if they would have stayed in the hardware business even if Hurd had stayed on. Maybe WebOS was not long for the company regardless of who was at the helm; its unequivocal success notwithstanding, maybe it'd have been abandoned anyway.
>I think you'll need several of them linked together before you get any useful testbed for government. Most systems of government can work at small scale. They don't break until you get lots of people. The whole thing should also wind up being more stable socially.

Agreed.

>They really need to be sovereign, or they're just big cruise ships. They need to have complete ownership of the platforms, which almost means they need to be donated.

No it doesn't. They can be sold, either as real estate or to groups of people who want to administrate them.

>Obviously sinking is a big risk. Make sure there are well-drilled emergency procedures, and that the links between platforms are such that one sinking will not bring down any others. And keep lifeboats and dual citizenship, so if it goes south you'll have somewhere to go when they pick you out of the ocean.

Obviously the people moving there should educate themselves on whether the platforms are resilient to turbulent weather. They can bring their own safety equipment (lifeboats, etc.) or perhaps the owner/seller of the platform will include it as part of the rental/sale arrangement. These aren't hard problems to solve without some kind of centralized paternalist entity. Maintaining dual citizenship seems like it could be a good idea - potentially high benefit (if it doesn't work out or you don't like it) for low cost (unless your country requires you to pay income tax on money not earned there).
I tend to agree with the basic reasoning but there's one thing I don't understand.

Why cancel the TouchPad? Why not just spin that out with the hardware business to Compaq (which is the idea, yes?)? It seems they've devalued that unit by killing WebOS.

All PC makers are on razor thin margins... apart from Apple. A post from yesterday [1] painted an interesting picture where Dell, through a series of seemingly rational decisions, essentially taught Asus the PC business, allowing the Taiwanese manufacturers to eat US PC makers for breakfast in later years.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907187
Oh, that's really neat. I can see myself using this. I hope it gets more popular :)
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I am not repeating what the media says since I am talking about the decrees signed by Kirchner as an unipersonal approach to governing. Can you describe the details about Cristina's decrees? like protecting the 1978-1983 dictatorship secret decrees?

Also, Cristina vetoed the law to protect glaciers.

Continuing with your point of view, you say that Cristina promotes free speech? I say that her followers censors free speech with many practices.
+ a million if I could. One of my favorite quotes. It's from Max Weinreich, right? "A sprakh iz a dialekt mit an Armee un Flot"
Most languages in the world have no spoken form. They all have grammatical "rules", that is they follow a certain syntax, morphology, etc.
I guess the new government will need som starting funding anyway, and buying platforms may as well be part of the startup expenses. And yes, citizen self-education will be very important.
I love how his wife at around 5minutes is already annoyed by him using this device while they are eating in a cafe.
Better spend your time learning Clojure, Racket, Scheme or Common Lisp. NewLisp repeats the design mistakes of ancient Lisps that were fixed in the newer Lisps, like dynamic scoping and interpreting only instead of compiling which makes it much slower than other Lisps. NewLisp should be called OldLisp. It also adds some mistakes of its own, like deep copying everything when you pass it around. And making `cons` act like `list` when the second argument is not a list.
From the quotes that were gathered from HP's PR, it sounds like they weren't at all confident in the TouchPad's ability to turn profits in the coming years. Assuming they didn't withhold a bunch of evidence that led them to that opinion, they'd surely have had a tough time finding a buyer. It also doesn't inspire a lot of confidence if you're trying to spin off a product division after giving it only 49 days on the market.
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Why doesn't anyone tell me about these 48 hour game coding competitions? I'd definitely like to join. Been a while!
Well, if it's interesting I have no problem with sitting down and read something for 20 minutes.

A tl;dr is nice to get an overview if it could be potentially of interest to me. I have no real desire to end up reading some SEO/internet marketing nonsense only because someone chose a sensational headline.

That's too the reason why I don't click on youtube video links I get from friends. The URLs are pretty much non-descriptive and the chance of ending up watching some 15year old trying to be japanese are too big. That and the long loading time of YT.
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No, you don't fail at life, what it means is that your idea is just getting validated by other people that it has prospect. You should be happy. Now what you need to do is to see that startup's idea and figure out why his/her idea is better than yours, what makes it better than you, so now you need to focus on the competitive analysis and make yours better since technically your idea is still in stealth mode, no one knows. That means you have the advantage to play around your ideas and make it better. :)
Unless there is something I don't understand, how can this even be slightly reliable or useful, when everyone can read any key and write or replace any key at any moment ?
Yup, he did everything from scratch. The first 4 hours were scary. And beautiful.
http://www.sealandgov.org/history.html

In August of 1978, a number of Dutch men came to Sealand in the employ of a German businessman. They were there to discuss business dealings with Sealand. While Roy was away in Britain, these men kidnapped Prince Roy's son Michael, and took Sealand by force. Soon after, Roy recaptured the island with a group of his own men and held the attackers as prisoners of war.
A formal proof in the sense of Hilbert's formalist program or one produced by an automated theorem prover is very different from the proofs presented in journals. The latter are full of "it is easy to see that [...]", after which they proceed to state something which is not obvious to 99% of the population--nor to any computer, for that matter.

I submit that the Principia did not change the status of 1+1=2 at all, but only used it to illustrate the correctness of its formalization of arithmetic. It was more like a soundness check: we _know_ that 1+1=2, so if it can be proved in our system it's a good thing.