skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're joking right?

The HTML table model allows authors to arrange data -- text, preformatted text, images, links, forms, form fields, other tables, etc. -- into rows and columns of cells. - HTML 4.01 specification, 1999

Tables were added in the HTML3 spec:

HTML 3.2 includes a widely deployed subset of the specification given in RFC 1942 and can be used to markup tabular material or for layout purposes. Note that the latter role typically causes problems when rending to speech or to text only user agents. - HTML3.2, 1997

The "for layout purposes" was a big mistake, they even acknowledged that it wasn't adequate. Fixed 2 years later, or 10 years ago. There is no reason to markup things as tables when you can have a much clearer document outline using the proper header and grouping elements.

HTML5 parsers have no problem keeping up with old tag soup, but that doesn't mean we should keep writing crap. Implying that sites built using only tables are accessible and machine readable is just.. asinine.
I worked for a couple of years investigating frauds and I was blown away at the lack of law enforcement activity. There's a whole community of people who work together to steal huge amounts of money from anyone who will give it up.

These people are amongst the biggest spenders on lawyers, as they try to keep their names off websites through the use of libel laws.

For example, these guys: http://www.petraenergy.net/

It's a 'company' operated by Paul Simms, a disbarred solicitor in the UK, and Srinivasan Solaraj, an Indian national. Both were declared bankrupt in 2007 after a non-existent deal blew up in their faces. The business has no assets, everything on the site is puff. They chose the name because it's similar to a legitimate Malaysian company. Simms' old legal firm was called Citilegal, until Citibank noticed it was a little too similar for comfort.

Generally, law enforcement are happy to leave frauds targeting the wealthy to civil courts. The police simply aren't interested.
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So you're a metabank, and you provide mint like tools for analyzing expenses, paying bills, etc.. Then you provide better customer service or a better experience or something like that?

Do you plan to use customers leverage to get better terms with the actual banks? Like could you move all the accounts to another bank if it paid better interest or something like that? Do you take a cut of the action?
Nature loves symmetry!
Where does it say you don't need to modify linux?
The problem isn't that you're expressing an opinion; it's that you're making an assertion that isn't falsifiable. Of course it's possible some police officer somewhere is going to act inappropriately. Now what?
Will its model work well with an open source/community project – where you want to allow all walk-up participants, but need some moderator powers?

For example, can you edit the searchable logs to remove spam?
> Bright lay people will absolutely be able to poke holes in research

By the time they can astutely manage the actual field with understanding, they will no longer be lay people.
An economy with realtime and complete data. Imagine the efficiencies created then.
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Nexon Is Going Public
Yes, they transmit their location on regular intervals (from the article: every hour) via the cell network.
Everything important on the site is 'TBA' or 'Coming soon' - is this serious?
And I'll be right there with you when that happens. But right now, what's happening seems to this particular liberal who is generally concerned with his civil liberties to be reasonable.
what happened to convore?
"Azul Systems have today announced Zing 5.0, eliminating their previous requirement for a hypervisor, and therefore bringing their pauseless JVM to unmodified 64-bit Linux for the first time."

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/zing5-native
Actually CRC-16 has a much better distribution than djb2 and other algorithms for this use case.
CRC-16 is a remarkably good algorithm for certain kind of hashing, and has a few very interesting qualities being the reminder of a polynominal division. For instance if you hash two bytes data you are guaranteed to have different hashes for every different pair of bytes without collisions.

CRC-16 performed very well in tests also with the very common case of keys with the same prefix, like object:0, object:1, and so forth.

So CRC-16 is very good for our use case and has the advantage of being simple and fast.
Just keep trying, I got 500s a couple of times too.
Yes, not all the details are final yet, as would be expected for the buildup to the first class.
> "We chose bank partners who are comfortable with our vision, and that includes not charging outrageous fees and engaging in other customer-hostile practices."

I don't mean to snipe, but you did partner with Visa, right? I understand that real life doesn't always present ideal choices, but that was rather part of my point. That people might switch to Simple with the idea that they won't be supporting those kinds of institutions, when via a partner deal, they may still be.

Or, in other words, if BofA woke up tomorrow and offered Simple a great customer-friendly back-end deal, while remaining customer-hostile to individuals who deal with them directly, would Simple's philosophy prevent a deal? And how happy would a customer be, if they switched from BofA to Simple only to find out that their money is technically in a BofA account?

And please don't take the criticism as something that it's not; I'm only posting because Simple sounds interesting and I'd like to see it do well.
Relevant: http://imgur.com/SKKUw
"The Zing™ JVM 'Pauseless' Garbage Collector implements a highly concurrent algorithm that is able to concurrently compact the Java heap, and to allow the application to continue to execute while remapping of memory is performed. This patented solution allows applications to completely separate heap size from response times for predictable, consistent Java GC behavior." (from http://www.azulsystems.com/zing/pgc)

Great, so you can patent a GC algorithm now.
Also, the Fair Trade people will only certify certain business structures (they're really big fans of cooperatives), leaving a number of small family-owned businesses out of their world-view. Not that cooperatives are bad or anything, just that it's kind of a narrowing thing to do. They're opinionated. You may or may not agree with all those opinions.

Fair-trade coffees are also subject to adverse selection. The really good beans can be sold to coffee fanatics on their own merits, at a price above generic fair-trade costs, leaving the inferior beans to be branded fair-trade.

This isn't to say Fair Trade is evil, just that it's... limited and has a few issues, and it's probably better these were discussed rather than covered up in the name of promoting an abstract unspecified good which may or may not actually justify the price premium. You may get better results by buying normal and giving the savings away.
"I am a student and majorly do C programming for microcontrollers. All that works good, sometimes better [looking at you TI MSP430 launchpad debugger] on windows. So the only purpose of having a linux installation is that I am habituated in last 5 years."

You may need to return to Linux if you have to deal with running on a microcontroller or require a build environment that utilizes it.
I'd be interested to know how this stacks up against HipChat. I'm not sure what I'm missing out on, but it would be good to hear if there is something.
Using semantic HTML and CSS to design pages is certainly not a "hip" technology. It's use case and benefits, while not perfect[1] are well understood and proven. It's not a "broken" use case, like using tables for layout are.

[1] highly interactive web apps.
This depends largely on material choice and to a lesser extent on which supplier you choose. Tinkercad is a design package, we don't do the printing ourself but outsource it to printing services like Shapeways and i.Materialise. I would suggest taking a look at their sites to figure out prices and materials.
SimpleGeo Co-Founder Joe Stump Leaves Post-Urban Airship Acquisition
These posts are mainly good so that someone who actually knows networking will respond and tell them they are correct or incorrect.
http://cutbrooklyn.com/home.html
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Good point, "do" is certainly more evocative a name than "cool" would be (unless the latter were in the refrigeration space).

I think it's a lousy name otherwise though. It's, ironically, not even really verbable. Technically it is a verb but not one that you can use to invoke do.com. Imagine swapping 'trello' for 'do' in this sentence:

"Our task list is getting out of hand -- we should trello this."
You get more recent and frequent package updates running on Fedora or CentOS (RHEL derivatives).

Fedora is a little more aggressive than Ubuntu about packaging newer software. That's why I switched back in 2009. It's not a huge difference, though. Both of them normally package the latest stable version and only push minor version updates during a release. RHEL derivatives by design are much slower to update. What you got when you installed RHEL 5.0 in 2007 is, for the most part, the same as what you get when you install RHEL 5.7 in 2011.

For evidence, compare the packages tables linked to below.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat

I can't stand the apt-get package manager from the command line. I prefer yum over apt-get any day of the week. I understand you can install synaptic, I'd rather not have to. Yum also has the wonderful yum-plugin-priorities package for maintaining a number of repos with specific priorities and hierarchical rules for determining which packages to update from which repositories. There are also plugins for finding the fastest mirror and protected the base packages so you don't bomb an app updating

I don't want to engage in the perpetual package manager holy war, but I will add that apt has package pinning (the equivalent of yum-plugin-priorities and yum-protectbase).
Imagine the surveillance endemic to the system.
The URL strings are hideous! Marketing departments are going to enjoy that!
Lookwork, a visual aggregator
Startup Quote from David Karp, Founder, Tumblr
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Yep. CoffeeScript too :)

What you see is just the beginning. If anyone's interested, we're hiring developers and designers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060989. We run as an independent business unit within Salesforce, similar to Heroku, and have our own office in downtown SF. Great perks from a large company but all the benefits of shipping as a small team.
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

- David Karp (@davidkarp)

http://startupquote.com/post/12522195335
INFOPOCALYPSE: You Can Lead Them to the Security Trough...
(A bit off-topic, but...) I've supported myself on the side over the years as a cook, and I can tell you there are some misconceptions there. The difference in heating time is marginal, but thicker bottoms disperse heat _far_ more evenly, preventing hotspots that can ruin whatever you're cooking. Thin pans also have a tendency to warp, but you've solved this by replacing it every six months.

As far as nonstick properties go, a hard anodized pan will be every bit as nonstick as a cheap Teflon pan, but with the added benefit of not leaching chemicals into your food when it gets scratched. Aluminum pans are also great, provided that you know what you're doing - be sure to get them up to proper heat before adding your oil and/or ingredients, and clean them properly.

The cast iron is a great choice.
Well, I guess that explains why Pachube went to a free service earlier this week.
I was thinking something like this would come in handy the other day. Goes to show if you have an idea, chances are someone else is already thinking about it.
If you think it was placed there by law enforcement and your intention is to cause maximum embarrassment- then you call the DHS/Fire/etc and assume that inter-agency cooperation is such that they wont have a note saying you are a surveillance target.

If you think that it's FBI/DHS device (ie if your skin color is between latte and espresso, or your name as an 'Al' at the front) then call local law.
this is awesome, mixing a bit of irc + campfire. really like the ability for users to pick web interface or their own irc client.
Contributing to Open Source (or Why it is okay to get paid to write software)
Amen.

Take a break. By staying at your computer screen, reading a bunch of text and pressing space bar. Then stare at your computer screen for 30 seconds more; you clearly don't do enough of that. PS: Quiet place not actually quiet.

OR you could, you know, go stretch your legs? rest your eyes from staring at a screen? Not be lectured about twitter et al by a website?? Maybe even outside?

Sorry if i'm harsh, but this is the definition of 'solution looking for a problem'.
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Does the FBI also pull this stunt with cars tagged with consulate plates? That is, who is offered more civil rights: American citizens on American soil, or employees of foreign governments on American soil?
You should probably run spellcheck on that page - start with "nubmer" :(
FWIW

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Created On: 2005-06-16 19:22:24 GMT

Last Updated On: 2011-09-15 12:17:38 GMT

Expiration Date: 2012-06-16 19:22:24 GMT

Status: member-lock

Registrant ID: COCO-10657700

Registrant Name: Roman Rumpf

Registrant Organization: Raystream Inc

Registrant Street: 2101 Midway Road, Suite 140

Registrant City: Carrollton

Registrant State/Province: Texas

Registrant Postal Code: 75006

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I'm starting to suspect that Russ Cox is actually a team of people, all contributing under one name.
here we go again with the version number complaints.

get over it. it doesn't make any difference to you what number they want to call it.
Sorry, our server is swamped right now. I'm working on it...

Update: I've made a few tweaks and it should be better now. fingers crossed
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> I know that the $15 ones won't do the job right. But if they did, then there is no way I'd buy the more expensive one

That's a matter of perspective. If you cook often and have had an opportunity to use the two, you'll notice a stark contrast; just like you notice the difference with crimpers. The guy spending a weekend to redo his home theater wiring is probably going to opt for the $15 option.

How many people research purchases like pans and wire crimpers in order to gain a proper perspective of where the price vs. quality lines cross, and how many just go to the store and get the one with the prettier package? I think that's where you start to see the trend I mentioned.
I can't possibly upvote this enough. 99% of websites I visit have too much style, and I think it's better to go under than over.
Next time you're over here give "streaky bacon" a try, it looks to be closer to the norm in America. And I've made a mental note to eat some bacon next time I'm in LA to see what you're complaining about!
> Well, they get the same real-time feed from tailing the car. Tails do not require warrants.

I think that they should.
I've been reading my way through Project Gutenberg's Science Fiction bookshelf.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%2...

Much, maybe most, of this is short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. What stands out for me is the big stuff has not happened and how much all the mundane stuff has changed.

Some things that are common (and don't violate known laws of physics) that not happened:

* Space travel.

* Atomic powered rockets. And airplanes. And cars. And toasters (see next).

* Ubiquitous, essentially free power, typically atomic. Mass to energy converters are popular in the stories. Fission/fusion reactors are extremely small and safe in the stories.

What is really interesting is how many things that are written into the scenarios as assumptions, just normal life, have changed.

* Phones had wires and operators (and rotary dials). They typically had a video feed as well - video is available today but not prevalent for everyday use (no thanks, I don't need to see my boss).

* Smoking. Smoking. Smoking. Smoking in closed spaceship systems. More smoking.

* All computers are huge.

* Typewriters, telegraphs, etc.

* Phone booths.

Misses:

* The concept of a cell phone is totally absent.

* Data transfer between computers (e.g. internet) is nearly totally absent.

* The computer power and size of todays computers is so much greater than the power of the (huge) computers envisioned is so far different as to be effectively a miss.

My conclusion: speculating is fun, but the things that you think will be real in 20-50 years will still be will-o-wisps. On the other hand, all the things you take for granted will be so different that it will make your grandkids laugh at you.
Look them up on Google News. Disgusting.
Fixed: I'm the first to admit I'm a lousy speller. Though I won my jr high spelling bee.
Well, if you think percentage wise, I guess for a given book I'm reading 50-90% of the text. That's far more than a summary.

Emotionally, it's certainly enough to get attached to characters, which is the point. But the way my brain likes to read (it's not a conscious decision, just the way I do it), is to skip a lot of the description, and get to the interesting bits (dialog, action scenes, etc).

I certainly miss out some subtleties, but if you and I read the same book we could have a meaningful discussion about it, probably without you realizing that I likely read it in half the time and only paid attention to about 80% of the content.
Here's a comparison of Raystream's "own" encoding side-by-side with their "uncompressed" video after being run through Handbrake with default H.264 settings.

http://imgur.com/a/uQsiU

See if you can guess which is which.
Not publishing positive replications is just as bad a problem as not publishing negative original results. We have things like BigTable and Hadoop now; if 100 laboratories repeat an experiment and publish their results, that just means we can raise our confidence in the result by the sum of their likelihood ratios.

Getting more data improves the accuracy your results even better than using more sophisticated algorithms: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/theorizing-from-data-by-peter-n...
Sales figure from author's blog, publish-date from book-store pages.
i'm not entirely sure what you are asking. can you elaborate a bit more please? thanks. fred
Google+ Business Pages: What You Need to Know
Neo Keyboard Layout for Programmers
I initially submitted this post, but then deleted it and resubmitted to the original post on Common Crawl blog: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3208853

I now regret since this one got much more attention. I was under the impression that linking to the original post was more welcomed here HN, but it seems this is not always the case.
One thing I wish I had discovered earlier is that some devs from Google released the sources for a "Google I/O" app for the last two years, and that reading that code teaches you a lot of how to design a good app.

The Google I/O app uses (and sometimes introduces) many useful patterns in UI design and Architecture design. It scales to all kind of screen sizes, hardware configurations and platform versions.

Here is a link to a resource page for the Android Developer Lab in Paris. You can find links to Google I/O 2011 and two other examples there.

https://sites.google.com/site/androiddevlabs2011/code-lab-pa...

Oh, and also: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/
Well, there already is Google Scholar. I don't know precisely how much effort goes into the ranking algorithms used there -- but I do already use it in preference to Pubmed.
HP to hold all-hands meeting tonight, fate of webOS likely to be decided
Polaroid: This time it's digital
The Neo layout is overlaid on top of your existing keys. You use a modifier key to toggle the second layer.

More resources:

* Homepage (German): http://www.neo-layout.org/

* Wikipedia: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Keyboard_layo...

* English introduction: http://pebbles.schattenlauf.de/layout/index_us.html
Does that mean there "patches" went into the linux kernel or did the work around that?

If they do does anybody know more about whats going on in terms of moving these features into the kernel? I could really find anything on it.
what value do I get out of this? (why don't I just go pitch a Angel directly?)
Is it wrong that the first thing I though when I saw that page was 'Twitter Bootstrap'? Think I need to get out more...

Seriously though, it's an interesting idea, I'd say the copy on the homepage is a little misleading as it lead me to believe this is something that is already happening.

My only query from a cursory glance is: what is my incentive to give a large steak in my company, seems giving more away benefits everyone but me
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Vetting specialized developer experience
1. I don't dislike linux, it doesn't support my hardware and so I don't use it. As simple as that.

2. There are other more important things I look for in a laptop than if it runs linux or not. No disrespect, if I get a decent graphics card at this price point, I would say hell yeah! (There was a discount in the store on the same day as I blew my last computer. RIP Sophiya)
Jquery plugin for expanding textareas based on neil jenkins' technique
Hi guys,

I read Neil Jenkins' article Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant in A List Apart last week and was impressed with his technique.

Here's a link to the article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/expanding-text-areas-made-elegant/

I decided to throw together a quick jQuery plugin to help spread the love.

It supports all reasonably modern versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari and IE8+.

Let me know what you think. If you have any issues/feature requests, feel free to open a ticket on GitHub.
I have some idea of the regulatory nightmare that becoming a bank represents so I understand the approach, but is that on the long term radar?

It seems that a technologically driven bank could offer even more interesting services to individuals and businesses.

Edit: Or would love to chat in person over coffee (on twitter @scottmarkwell)
I just launched an MVP the other day, but at least I removed the tabs which had blank content!
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Step 1: take short position in company
Step 2: publish site affirming company is a hoax
Step 3: you know the drill

Not that I don't believe it's a hoax...
If you're ready to go to an angel, then you're already sure that you're ready to drop everything to do your startup, so maybe you should.

Dandelion is for people who have a great job, an idea they think has potential, and would like to create the best possible pitch to angels and convince themselves it's worth doing full time (not always easy if you have a great job). We also offer a superb way to find co-founders, designers, etc.

And it's fun.