skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that social media experts (some of them whose blog posts rise to the front of HN) get their own pages, merely for having won awards or recognition in some social media BS ceremonies. In their case, I think it's the combination of online media savviness and the likelihood that no one will actually read their page that keeps their pages from being deleted.

For how much Wikipedia is assumed to be a tech-geek lair, I'm surprised that being big in computer science/programming/etc doesn't guarantee you a spot. CoffeeScript has its own page but not its creator, for instance.
Flapjax still has you deal with the abstractions provided by HTML and CSS. I generally think these abstractions are pretty problematic, but more subtly, this means you must think imperatively (e.g. modifying the DOM) which doesn't really fit with the FRP paradigm. Flapjax is also based on the classical formulation of FRP which I think is not ideal for this setting (that is a big part of my thesis).

Nonetheless, I think Flapjax is a really cool project, and if you have to work with HTML, CSS, and JS directly, I can imagine it makes many things much more pleasant.
If there ever was a perfect example of "don't be a free user", this would be it.
Are you suggesting that wikipedia should choose articles for inclusion based on what is recognizable to laypersons?

I think this is rather ridiculous. We don't decide what goes into scholarly journals based on a public poll, I don't see why we should do that for an encyclopedia.

EDIT: If one accepts the premise that even wikipedia requires curation and cannot simply include all submitted articles, then it follows that one of the tasks of the editors is making value-judgments about what knowledge is interesting and important to wikipedia's readers. I assume the guidelines about notability, conflict-of-interest and whatnot are attempting to set forth policies that assist in making these value-judgments.

You appear to be arguing that the only basis for making this value-judgement is recognizability to a layperson. I'm having a hard time understanding why this is a suitable metric.

I doubt that having lots of information about porn stars will benefit wikipedia's readers. It might entertain them, but I don't think it has any scholarly benefits. At the same time, I don't see how removing information about scientists benefits wikipedia's readers. I can see that in some extreme cases having lots of articles about little-known scientists might clutter wikipedia. However, I don't see how holding articles about published scientists to a higher standard than articles about pornstars benefits either wikipedia or its readers.
Yes, Google is the only one championing NaCl right now. I don't see how they get from their current position to some sort of lock in ala Microsoft though.
>It seems like everyone wants less security precautions.

People want better customer service, not less security precautions. (Who would want less security precautions with their money? Is this just a really argumentative way to push a position?)
This is an important issue! I'm aware of the problem and have some ideas of how to avoid it. My compiler is not actually doing any optimization at this stage, so this will be addressed when I give this more attention.
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Agreed. Closing itself takes around 60 days. So 90 days is really tight if you are talking about from "hey let's go get money" to "cash in bank"
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Views of your personal data come via their APIs, and never the raw data itself; Microsoft only ever owned the code.
Heres what I managed to put together in about half an hour (paste it into the last example):
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I like it, just wish you could define the dimensions of a square or should I say a rectangle.
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Zeratul, great feedback, thanks. The proximity issue is critical and tricky, and we haven't solved it yet. Really like your suggestions; I'm going to play around with prototyping them.
For those of you not familiar with FRP, it's a really great read! Hudak and Elliott really present their ideas clearly and elegantly.
I read Design Patterns and was unimpressed. Maybe it's because I'm used to large codebases that are already well designed, but all I got out of Design Patterns was formal names for patterns that I already used in my code because they're intuitively the correct thing to do.
Actually, you are wrong about the "specific meaning of donate" according to numerous guidelines on the Paypal website.

https://thegreengeeks.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/why-paypal-is...

Not my blog, and I apologize for the embedded rant in there, but the case is thoroughly presented and debunks this whole "donate must be a charity" misconception, using Paypal's own documents.

Edit: direct link to paypal policy containing the following sentence:

https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;?locale=en_US&...

"Donations that are not associated with a charity or nonprofit organization are not subject to these requirements, but all donation transactions are subject to review and must comply with all of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policies"

https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...

"If you are not a 501(c)(3), you can still accept donations with our standard pricing."

I also disagree with your position that "donate" implies that it can be written off (or that it implies anything tax-related, for that matter). I don't think many people assume that. Anyone who has written off a donation knows that they can only do so with an associated donation receipt. This is why many charities often specifically note when a donation is tax deductible - saying, for example, donations in excess of $20 will be given a donation receipt.

If a layperson is not familiar with the difference, they aren't writing this off. Additionally, there are several types of organizations for which donations cannot be written off.
So what is the alternative for subscription-based software services? Is WePay a viable option here? I'm currently in the market, and, while not afraid of PayPal, I'm not fully enamored of them, either.
"...They can build you a simple website for a thousand dollars but they can’t build the next Google and they won’t create the technologies of the future."

well, i always chuckle when people use this (admittedly worn out ex) for the their argument, but folks like Bill Gates, anyone, eh? ...well, guess it's not like he created "Google"? alright, sarcasm aside, I don't think there's any doubt about the importance of a college degree to get a broad perspective on understanding computational what-have-yous, esp compared to learning just a language or two, but the author overstates his point a bit -- of course exceptions are plenty where people can succeed w/o degrees, though i'd just imagine less likely.
"We can observe that many online services close" does not imply "People who make online services have a moral obligation not to close."
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Name a porn star from the 1800s.

Name a scientist from the 1800s. A bit easier, isn't it?

People who can't name scientists from earlier times can't name porn stars from then either.

Science isn't about popularity or notability. It's about satisfying your curiosity about nature, honestly reporting your results, and experiment. At least it is for me, which is why I got a PhD in physics. Porn stars thrive on publicity.

A scientist without notability is like a fish without a bicycle.
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What specifically is your thesis? (I'm well-versed with the various formulations of FRP that have existed over the years.)

P.S. the navigation links at the top of the page don't work in Opera. Why aren't they just links + :hover CSS? (I presume they're written using Elm but that's not good if people for whom Elm doesn't work want to find out more.)
I think iOS software is a better example. There's no reason they can't be hosted in a Safari page, and they're rich while still being sandboxed.
Hi Nick! Thanks for making this, I'm going to add it to a project right now.

One quick note -- it'd be cool if you had a big "find me on Github" button near the top, just for convenience. And so that people understand right away that it is a project they can easily download and mess around with.

You could even go for something snazzy like an unofficial Github watch or fork button:

http://www.markdotto.com/2011/11/26/introducing-unofficial-g...
Depending on your definition of control, they have both the page views and ability to create a single-click installer to create an ideal situation wherein most developers are compelled to target their environment, and most users will eventually click their download link. At such a point, both groups will begin to advocate its further use by yet more parties. I'm not familiar with a better word.
Clojure add-watch function looks like a way to get reactive programming like functionality.

http://lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2009/05/model-view...
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The main hack done to the compiler is that generated code avoids certain constructs that inhibit perfect static analysis, allowing the NaCL host (i.e. Google Chrome at present) to verify the behaviour of some untrusted binary before ever executing it (just like Java does).

I am having a hard time with this. At first I thought this amounted to a claim that the halting problem had been solved, or else that Java and NaCl are not Turing complete. I'm guessing the problem is with the term "perfect." So something interesting must be going on or it wouldn't be worth mentioning. What's being verified? That the code can't execute data and won't call certain interrupts, or is something more interesting happening?
Is there a better way to solve this problem?
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This is likely one of those articles I'm going to print out and show to people/keep in my drawer.

The sheer amount of patent suits lobbied against android distributors is de facto proof (In my opinion) that they are inherently frivolous.
NaCl may have a large role to play in the future, but I don't think this is a bad thing, or "dystopian". NaCl, Android, Dart, and Chromium are all open source and can be forked by the free software and open source communities and retooled for whatever ends should Google begin to play nasty. The big issue here is control of user data, which is orthogonal to the choice of software anyway. You can use all of the software above to connect to friendly data stores, perhaps ones you control.
Thank you!

Dictionaries and Sets are high on the ever growing list of extremely important libraries :)

Also, it compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS. Not just JS!
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There's some real confusion about Android here. Android already has its own bytecode format (Dalvik), and it's unlikely that NaCL would replace it, if only because NaCL is tightly tied to the underlying processor instruction set, while Android has already shipped on at least two (ARM, MIPS), and been ported to at least one more (x86).

It's also already the case that a third-party app which requests appropriate permissions can replace the standard contacts app --- in fact, there are several alternate contact managers already in the Android Market. Of course, the user must confirm that they want to allow the app to manipulate contacts, and apps that don't request that permission can't ordinarily do that. (Malicious apps can manipulate contacts without asking permission on the customized versions of Android shipped with several recent handsets, per news from the last few days, because the vendors doing the customization screwed up, but that's another rant altogether...)
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The font you used for heading seems to be not working in my chrome browser. I have never had a problem with fonts before. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/N4xO9.jpg .
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At first I thought this amounted to a claim that the halting problem had been solved,

That's not what the halting problem means! There is no rule that says you cannot prove a program is safe: the rule is only that you cannot prove any arbitrary program is safe. NaCl gets around that by adding checks to the code (bounds checks, etc) to anywhere that it can't prove is safe.
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Thanks, we're tracking it here.

https://github.com/openphoto/community/issues/17
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Looks good. I'm going to sign up and setup an account to test some development work. If all goes well, might stay on for production.

Just noticed that the version you have for CodeIgniter seems old. The current CI version is 2.1.0 (http://codeigniter.com/downloads/) , you have it at 2.0.0

Any chance you could update it?
I don't know exactly what NaCL does, but the JVM/CLR verification is all about making sure you don't write over someone else's memory, jump to some arbitrary address, etc. Essentially the problem is: how do you run untrusted code in the same address space, without it getting all of your process's permissions.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Virtual_Machine#Bytecode_v...
Maybe not but a lot of them are very well versed in autolisp and customize their environment with it. That's what's interesting about software in my view. Once the low level plumbing is done you can always move up to a higher level and continue to build. I'm not sure what the max might be. Maybe one day programming will be much less direct and be done by non programmers than it is now, I won't hold my breath that this will occur too soon for most of us to be out of a job.
I've seen it before too, but googling now returns several sources attributing it to this Carl King fellow (and this URL).
Maybe they want to start Android from scratch? It might be worth it if this means Google will handle all updates from now on. But it better mean that, because otherwise I don't like the idea of making it impossible to create custom ROM's, while still not getting updates like it happens now.
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I don't presume that all free services disappear, nor that all paid services succeed. That said I'm very hesitant to make myself or my business reliant on any service with a business model I don't understand.
I think you're focusing too much on the underlying technology, Dalvik is ultimately little more than a layer of indirection, that could easily disappear deeply beneath the covers of a 22nd century OS, hidden by a simple click of a 'Build' button in an IDE, much like Win32 did.

Similarly, Contacts was only used as an example, as it is prominent and simple to understand. The main reference made there was to the data the Contacts UI represents, which ultimately backs on to some class library that ultimately is controlled by the platform (as I understand it).
Looks like it might be http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-in... but i could also still have it wrong.
As best I understand the emacs functionality, vim's numbered registers are its analogue: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#registers.
Btw, John Doerr was a Rice grad himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr
What does NaCL have to do with Google APIs? It's a client side technology. You can talk to whatever server(s) you want. (Presumably subject to same origin policy like JS, which if anything means it's easier to talk to your servers rather than Google's or someone else's).
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Perfect static analysis is certainly halting-equivalent. What you're describing falls short of perfection, which is what I've suggested.
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I have a similar toolkit that uses pure javascript.

https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs

(see reactive example)

Functional reactive programming makes ui development so much easier. I've seen a lot of people starting to think this way about ui systems (with good reason). Good work!

I'd like to add similar compiled-in reactive optimizations to FaxJs as I'm sure Elm does. I commend you on choosing a static type inference system.
"what it means to be a string includes styling (bold, italic, etc.)"

I would keep String and StyledString separate. Lifting to a StyledString is okay if you want to concatenate a String and a StyledString.

(plain "This is ") ++ (bold "GREAT!")

-> StyledString "This is <b>GREAT!</b>"

Strings are used for more than just rendering HTML, and I should be able to forget about styling in situations where styling is irrelevant.

"partial serialization of something..." ++ " another chunk"

-> "partial serialization of something... another chunk"

One immediate benefit of keeping String and StyledString separate, is that you won't forget which argument comes first in link.

link :: (String -> StyledString -> Element)
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had nothing to do with the non-dischargability (can't get out of with bankruptcy) of student loan debts. That change happened in 1998.

Thanks for the info, I thought I read that they where both in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act in 05. I was unaware of a previous bill.

And I do understand that the laws have been change previous to the 05 and 98, but my understanding of the law is that it was the first such attempt to restrict the people who could file for chapter 7 AKA total discharge of debt, therefore pushing them into a 13, requiring a judge to garnish a large portion of the income for 5 years before they can be declared free from the responsibility of having the service the debt.
It's not a moral obligation. It's that there are structural reasons why most web services have a short lifespan.

That's a problem because it makes it hard to rely on any new service, and that's eroding user trust. At least among people I talk to, there's a lot more skepticism about new stuff than there was a few years ago.
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It's not circular reasoning: it's a conclusion based on observation. Several groups tried to solve each problem. All of the groups that tried to solve problem A have thus far failed (although some have made measurable progress) while some of the groups that tried to solve problem B succeeded despite having considerably less resources at their disposal. "Hard to solve" can be a somewhat difficult label to define, but those results are a strong indicator that problem A is harder to solve.

By your logic, every "impossible" problem could be solved easily if just DARPA would offer a small prize to whoever solves it. Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work that way. There's a reason why DARPA chooses the tasks they do for their challenges: they spend a lot of time and effort identifying tasks that are highly likely to be amenable to novel solutions.

>Airplanes can change speed drastically, which is at high speeds about as effective as stopping.

Incorrect, on two counts. First, not all airplanes can change speed "drastically." Second, it is not as effective at preventing a collision as stopping. If both cars in an impending collision stop (and in many cases, even if only one of them stops), a collision becomes impossible. On the other hand, there are a lot of situations where deceleration merely delays, but does not prevent collision. That has value, but it's not as good.

>And no, you don't get to say collisions are hard to avoid because 3 dimensions are hard to calculate, making that not a solution.

I never said it was "not a solution," but I definitely do get to say that it's a much harder problem to solve. Here's the steps you have to perform to avoid a collision:

1: Detect an object.

2: Track the object to determine it's course and speed.

3: Compare the object's course and speed to yours to determine how likely a collision is.

4: If the probability of a collision is unacceptably high, determine a change of course and/or speed which will reduce the probability of collision to an acceptable level. If the probability of collision is already acceptably low, return to step 2.

5: Maneuver to change course and speed accordingly, then return to step 2.

If you are moving in three dimensions and the objects with which you might collide are moving in three dimensions, step 2 is hard to do accurately. (Unless you've studied radar tracking, you probably don't appreciate exactly how hard, but if you're genuinely interested, Skolnik's Radar Handbook is a good place to start.) The less accurate you are at step 2, the harder steps 3, 4, and 5 become, because you have to deal with more uncertainty. Is that really where the other object is? Is that really where it will be in twenty seconds? How certain are you of that? How certain are you that there really is something even there at all? If you're wrong in one direction, you'll have a midair; if you're wrong in the other direction, you'll perform some extreme maneuver for absolutely no good reason.
FWIW, I spent a few minutes picking up arbitrary links from that search, and following the "via" or "source" links. Some chains dead-ended in a 404, a few were on blogs that looked at first glance to lift a whole lot of stuff without attribution, and the rest all filtered back to this article. That was just a small subset of the hits, but at first glance this may be the original here.

On a tangent, I've always thought it'd be neat to see a DAG drawn out for items like this as they get copied, referenced, linked, and commented on throughout various blogs, social networks, and whatnot. Is anybody working on this?
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