skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I breathed a sigh of relief. I was worried that Wolfram has been investing so much into Alpha, all the while not making any money from it. Such unstable arrangements do not last.

This looks like a viable way to earn money with that excellent service, which means it won't disappear any time soon. I'm glad to see that.
So, the reason why you want to bootstrap the models you need for an initial render, directly into the page ... instead of doing this:

myApp.init = function() {
Books.fetch();
Authors.fetch();
Notes.fetch();
...
};

... is because, all else being equal, it will noticeably improve the speed of your initial page load. Instead of N separate HTTP requests, all of your model data is available in the same HTTP request that fetches the HTML. Put the bootstrap at the bottom of your page, and you're in pretty good shape.
Should we write specs for validations?
Don't like the idea of iPhone apps accessing your address book?
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meaning that several names are still visible or deducible, and you had to manually draw each of those dozens of lines.
Isn't it essentially already integrated into your IDE? You click the save button, and it compiles the less file.
Well, an example from yesterday -- while troubleshooting an electronic circuit, I wanted to know (roughly) how long I can survive without external power, given that there is a 10uF capacitor powered at 3V.

Nothing revolutionary, but it's nice that you can just enter "10uF * 3V" into Wolfram Alpha and get the answer both in coulombs and A*s (which is what I really needed), all the while confirming what you think the relations are.

So I'd say I use it as a smart calculator that also assures me my thinking is correct.
It didn't even mention that there are higher reward levels than the ones mentioned on the KS page. http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/the_double_fine_adve...
From the background check interviews:

"<Blank> concluded the interview by stating that even though he does not consider Mr. Jobs to be a friend, he (Mr. Jobs) possesses the qualities to assume a high level political position. It was <blank>'s opinion that honesty and integrity are not required qualities to hold such a position."
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as a pragmatist, I really don't care.

the W3C is completely ineffective.

I kinda wish Gecko and Trident would die, as it would make my life a lot easier (no more silly compatibility libraries, testing in 5 different engines, etc).

what's stopping Mozilla from forking Webkit? remember that Webkit itself was a fork of KHTML...
Hmm, 17 pages were deleted.
http://lesscss.org/

don't think it touches vendor prefixes.
How well does Git handle being used for syncing arbitrary files? I'd been led to believe that storing large binary blobs in it was a Bad Thing (tm).
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Ask HN: Anyone need a designer?
I'm a designer interested in working with startups - being in the midwest I am not around enough startups to get introductions or meet enough people to make the proper connections. Anyone have recommendations on how to approach startups with regards to design, or could make a connection for me: you can see some of my work here, designjohn.com
Doesn't work for me either. It looks like it's a problem with the Titanium App SDK for linux. https://github.com/Paratron/SimpLESS/issues/8

Someone suggested using the Windows installer in Wine. I haven't tried that. I'll just go back to lessc.
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Which would be fine, if the default is 'off'. It isn't, as far as I understand.

It seems you like that feature. I respect that, just like I totally understand that for some users 'instant search' on Google is a good feature. For me this is a misfeature though and, given the potential network abuse, shouldn't be on by default.

Ignore the mobile network: Every hotel I've been to in Europe and Israel had very crappy wifi quality. I'm pretty sure that I'll hate sitting in a lobby with or on the same floor as Chrome users with that setting turned on (granted: Depends on usage patterns and how frequent this feature would jump into life). On those connections I can easily throttle myself to death by opening three tabs.

Please don't go for the low-hanging 'fix the network' here. I cannot. And that's a real world scenario that will become worse by a setting that defaults to true although it might very well create problems for the user _and others around him_.
That is my favorite quote so far, along with the section that says Mr. Jobs "couldn't see the SA for one hour" for the next three weeks.
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Super interesting!
Thanks for making the files publicly available.
Titanium makes the impossible seem possible with native mobile apps. There are some speed/memory issues at times, but as long as you construct your app with best practices in mind you should be good.
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> People did produce vlogs and responses from their webcam. You got that right. But this has nothing to do with Flash

It has everything to do with Flash. Flash was the only reliable way to record via webcam and have it instantly available. I say that it contributed to YT's critical mass because YT made it easy for anyone to record and upload. No crappy bundled webcam software could beat that. YT didn't need to explain it. No "if you have this webcam, use this software" or "open Quicktime and export as a .mpg, then..." BS. Record, hit stop, hit upload. Done.

> I seriously doubt vlogs were "the underpinnings of YT's critical mass". YT got popular because of its videos (of cats, songs, babes, funny stuff, etc)

You have to respect that YT is a community, one with a pretty significant voice. Type in "sopa", "war in iraq", or "arab spring" and see how many cat videos you get. Video sites were already around - a video site you could contribute your voice to - that's what made YT a success.
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Not necessarily. If it's a portable device, they may be able to take it home (practically the default, if you're issued a laptop).
Employer at that point (in the home) cannot prevent you from visiting any such site as you're doing it on your time. I suppose they could have a clause preventing you from visiting FB (or any other site) at any time from a work-provided device, but that's unlikely.
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if it's not HTML5 you're not interested?
If the user visits your site with an unsupported browser (which in this case may actually perfectly support the features you want), (s)he's going to have a terrible experience and see a crappy design.

So I think you undermined your own argument completely.
Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001. I realize this is not central to the article, but "A lot of products were made in the end 90s that only worked in Internet Explorer 6" bothered me. Perhaps it simply made me feel old, but I'd like to think its some sort of noble sense of historical correctness.
Very cool, wish I had known about this before I built my own. Of course, building my own let me tailor it to the data and style I wanted (http://dustytome.net/demos/widg/).

As a side note: is there any place to get free(ish) weather forecasts? I've been using Wunderground's API (which is nice), but I don't see any way to let multiple people use it without shelling out more money than I can justify at the moment.
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Nesting itself is worth it's weight in gold. Add in mixins, variables, etc and it's just icing on the cake.

I also force myself to add hover states to all the links, even if the client didn't specify it in the designs. Being able to use something like:

@link_color: #ffcc66;
@link_hover: darken(@link_color, 15%);

is a HUGE perk.
Those were all duplicates.
College grads have more options than ever before. Startups are cheaper and their networks are pretty big. Today it's just to easy to get funding for your own idea.

1) learn to code yourself
2) hire someone at eglance or odesk
3) raise more money and pay the right price

Good luck!
Can't we just convince devs to not use prefixed code? That stuff is experimental, it is guaranteed to break in the future. I know it's hard, but wait for the standard to be standardized, or realize that every time you type "-webkit-" you're making a commitment to fixing your site at some point in the future.
Consider, that this generation of Poles is first since 1795, that did not had to fight for freedom :)

It is part of our culture to rebel, and there was nothing to rebel about recently (ok, there was, but people were divided on the most important matters, and ACTA is great as a common enemy). I wonder, if that's the case in other countries protesting right now.
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Would have had to be GHWB--Clinton wasn't inaugurated until 1993.
Thanks for the link. Updated the post with your suggestion!
Hope its useful for others as well.
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Distributed version control is such a wonderful thing. And, I love how github has become a pseudo-wiki - letting individuals change information, knowledge and not just code. Naturally, HTML/HTTP is graph-like, but unfortunately it has converged over time into a few homogeneous master branches, owned and controlled by a few. I hope that techniques like DVCS with its branching, forking, and merging of information, can create better Wikipedias.
Yeah,

There are absolutely fascinating. I wonder what "Level III - Full Field Investigation" means.
"Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs' honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals"

If you've read the book, it's no surprise to see "distort reality" written here. Still, it's eerie (but understandable) that the FBI dives this deep.
I'm don't know if Facebook does it. But I personally feel that a lot of the companies should cleanup their bottom 5 - 10%. This will motivate everyone to work harder and learn new stuff. Congratz on your offer!
Offer HN: In SF, want to talk about privacy?
Anyone want to chat about the importance of privacy to the startup? I'm going to be at RSA in San Francisco (Feb 27-Mar 2) working the booth for my employer (https://privacyassociation.org). As it turns out it looks like I don't need to be in the booth until 11am each day which gives me the mornings free.

I typically present on why privacy matters to information security folks (at large companies) but I've been thinking more and more about how a basic understanding of the privacy space could be used to significant advantage by consumer facing startups. I blogged about it yesterday (http://jnorthrop.me/2012/02/8/privacy-done-wrong-so-many-missed-opportunites/), which usually flushes the issue from my consciousness but I can't get it out of my mind.

I look at the hoopla around Path and Pinterest this week and think how easily the bad PR could have been avoided. Then I notice time after time in "Show HN" posts how these sites don't even have the most basic of privacy policies. Pile on top of that the FTC settlements with Google and Facebook last year as well as the serious moves from the EU, FTC and Department of Commerce to restrict what companies can do and I want to scream from the mountain tops, "Is anyone paying attention to all of this!"

So, I'm offering my time, for free, to anyone relatively close to the Moscone Center that wants to talk about this. I'd love to share what I know and provide my perspective, but I also want to learn if what I'm feeling so strongly makes any sense.

Oh, and if you're at RSA come find me at the IAPP and we can chat there as well.

edit: I should add that you should feel free to contact me directly at the email address in my profile.
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I always thought buzz luhrmann wrote the song first. Just to learn it was an article in the Chicago tribune.
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Can you simply change the account information to, for example, help your parents stop junkmail to their address?

If so, make sure to advertise that you can help others do this in addition to your home address.
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It refers to the sending of agents to conduct character interviews.
right. because, if they were deleted for other reasons like "being kept secret", it would have said so!
Isaacson's book mentions that Jobs and Clinton were friends. Most likely it was Clinton who was considering the appointment.
Thanks for the story. It reminded me of why sometimes there are things more important than career success. While I'm nowhere near having kids or a wife, I've always thought about the tradeoffs between them while constantly reminding myself of how relationships and family is so important despite desperately wanting to succeed. I guess success can also be thought of as succeeding your family and making sure they are well taken care of.
It seems like building a database confirming which kinds of direct mail people don't like would be valuable. If nothing else, it would provide a way to update the names on direct marketing mailing lists (for direct mail that hasn't yet been stopped).
I wrote a framework for safely launching and controlling applications from web browsers in '93 - presented a paper on it at the first web conference at CERN in '94.
my current solution is to link to a less.php file which compiles + csstidies + writes compiled.css to file for next visitor. Its cached and compressed and I don't have to worry about precompiling for production and i can have local image routes on dev and cdn image routes in production without changes.
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Except it's not guaranteed to break, because vendors aren't consistent about dropping prefixes.
That would be the "people screw up" part. Do you have a cure for that?
So Canada has this option, and a commenter above said Germany does. Why does the US not have this?

What's even sadder is I cannot fathom how you guys have this option. The US has literally grown up with junk mail - it's always about 99% of mail and we cannot fathom what life is like on the other side!
Maybe the answer is that we should have fewer authors who can survive on their back-catalogue. Sure, some great authors would never be discovered, but by the same argument we'd get back those mediocre authors who would otherwise have been brilliant engineers or doctors if they hadn't been able to satisfice themselves into a career which neither truly benefits them nor society.
So basically you're talking about having people pay real money to get requests fulfilled, and receive real money for fulfilling requests? Maybe like $1 per request, and I'd keep 15% of that or something, so the fulfiller gets $0.85?

It's an interesting idea - I'm not sure how willing people would be to pull out their credit card for such small favors, and I'm also not sure about the logistics of charging such small payments, but I'll do some market research and gauge some interest on it.

Thanks a lot for the thoughts!
IE's standards support is pretty decent these days. There are other reasons to choose a browser besides support for standards too.
The most interesting thing in these documents is among the last few pages which appear to be fingerprints (presumably SJ's) lifted from a telephone receiver at SFO. I wonder why? Can't just ask the guy for his prints?

EDIT: it appears from further reading that they're related to a bomb threat involving him at SFO. They're labeled as "misc notes on extortion at Apple."
Probably. Why not?
Honest question: how does the telephone system confuse you?

-Dial a number, receive a person (or voicemail).

-Most people don't even dial numbers any more. Select contact, press send, receive person.

Do you use a cellphone or landline? Are you in the US? I'm on (crappy) AT&T service with a cell phone and haven't had a dropped or misrouted call...ever.
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But if you can be more specific that'd be great too. thanks!
They were listed as duplicate because they were duplicates of the "this entire page of the original document has been redacted per FOIA provisions" form letter.
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p.s. saw your mentor application! will get back to you asap.
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Anyone having issues on Windows? I drag my project folder over...I only have one .less file in my /content folder of an asp.net mvc project. simpleLess throws and error saying Syntax Error on line 1.

This Less file works great when using run time compilation.
Junk mailers are the postal system's main customers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sunday-review/the-junking-...
Well, WebKit is nice and all. At some point, it was not WebKit, but Gecko that was the shit. Then early WebKit authors made something that was easier to embed and had a license that was friendlier to corporate entities. Apple and Google flocked to it, and improved it even more.

They could do this because they had a standard to work from. They didn't have to source-reverse-engineer Gecko, because they could work from that standard, that described how things worked. They didn't have to fork Gecko (nor would they have wanted to because of the licensing), because they didn't need to do things exactly the same way even where it made no sense. This standard came to be because earlier browser vendors (including Microsoft/IE and Mozilla/Gecko) understood that things would be a mess if they didn't cooperate. They'd been there, and done that.

If you're now proposing to drop the actual standardization process and define the Internet as "whatever WebKit renders", be aware that you're just killing what made WebKit possible in the first place. You could fork WebKit, but you'd still have to emulate it close enough to be bug-for-bug compatible. That's not a way to get a real improvement or independent implementation.

And it wasn't how WebKit came to be, either.

For the companies that are heavily invested in WebKit (Apple, Google), it's a wet dream: it ensures they can never be eclipsed by something even better. Imagine if we had done that for Gecko (it's open source too, after all!): Mozilla could have sat on their asses and wouldn't even really have to have cared about improving it. Luckily people competed with rendering engines, so both WebKit and Gecko keep improving rapidly. And so do IE and Opera.

I can make similar analogies for things like C++, GCC and LLVM. Even if the implementations are open source, having a standard that allows independent ones is tremendously important to prevent stagnation.

I'm not ready to allow C++ to be redefined as "whatever GCC compiles" any more than I am ready to allow the Internet to be redefined as "whatever WebKit renders". Even though yes, this does mean more work keeping things compatible for me as a C++ programmer.
I'm one of the developers on musicbrainz, which is written using many of the technologies listed above.

We're experimenting with moving from Template::Toolkit to Xslate, we're having performance problems with Template::Toolkit.

Similarly we're seeing performance issues with Moose, and considering moving at least some of the code over to Moo.

If your project uses many CPAN packages, have a look at Carton. It has made our deployments infinitely easier.
Project Euler offers an interesting set of challenges.

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Yeah, that's the feeling that I got also. Although given the financial backing of his opposition, perhaps he feels that he needs to assault Lamar Smith on any occasion that he can.

Also, it seems like his main audience is other Republicans, who will understand and be concerned about what he means by those criticisms. To a Republican the interview is informative, but to non-Republicans it's probably off-putting.
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...

5 - Left a job for other reasons under unfavorable circumstances

Answered:

Date: 09/85

Code: 5

Employer: Apple Computer"
I think I'll just not use Chrome, if it's all the same with you.
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On the "git as a backup tool", the author missed a tool which looks quite interesting, called Bup (https://github.com/apenwarr/bup) which is based on git's toolchain. It is still immature but worth looking at.
This is like saying "Is a hammer really that difficult? Do we really need to add the complication of compressed air? We don 't need these nail guns. I can already get a nail in some wood."

Less compiles to css. It is faster to build great things than with just css. It is easier to maintain. There is almost no reason NOT to us it instead of straight css. There may be other better tools but if you have to build a lot of css, less is a great tool.
The documents toward the end are interesting. At first I thought, "wtf they sent out field agents to dust for his fingerprints?" But a few documents later and apparently he and a couple others at Apple where victims of a bomb threat and the fingerprints where of the suspect. Haven't finished reading Isaacson's book so not sure if this was in there. Otherwise (from my cursory read) nothing else was new or unexpected.
Hm sounds as efficient as sticking with one number no matter where you are and accepting roaming.
Also, it makes it super easy to hit the CSS rules-per-file limit that Internet Explorer has.
IE6 was propriety and dead.

I don't think either propriety vs opensource or dead vs active development are important to the overall question of "is standardizing on a single implementation a bad idea?"

Yes, the fact it had dropped out of active development made it worse to standardize on, but it was already a bad idea.

The same goes for open source. Yes, it can be forked to get away from something bad, but if only one browser/engine becomes standardized on by users and developers, then that engine's team has complete control over what the web becomes regardless of competing implementations are doing.

It creates a HUGE hurdle to pull the web in another direction. People weren't "stuck" with IE6 because it wasn't opensource, they were stuck because the distributor wasn't releasing new versions that also did what the competing products wanted supported.
"Based on the background information furnished by Mr. Jobs, he has no close relatives residing in communist-controlled countries."
Clinton wouldn't be in the White House for two years tough, would he have asked the FBI to start a background check almost 2 years before the election?
I don't know how to check this myself, but are the redactions flattened, i.e. so they cannot be removed, or are they just shapes on a another layer drawn over the relevant areas, i.e. is the redacted data still recoverable by editing the pdf?

It wouldn't be the first time a "redaction" turned out to be no more than a mere obfuscation in practise.