skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, this was exactly the kind of apologetic but side-stepping rhetorics used by still German president Christian Wulff so I call shenanigans and nothing but modern rhetorics and modern PR-management. This is very alike to catching someone red-handed, with the hand still on the murder weapon stuck in the body... and then they make a public apology along the lines of "Through the feedback I’ve received from all of you, I now understand that the way I handled this dispute over $20 million, which are clearly mine by the way, was wrong. But I deeply care about ethics, human life and I honestly believe that body should be allowed to live and as a clear signal to my commitment to human rights, I will immediately retreat my serrated blade from their chest."

> They did it deliberately, there was not a mistake anywhere when implementing this

Exactly - so that's why those "oh I realize that now and really want you all to understand my deeeep commitment to the exact opposite moral values of what I actually did" apologies make me so sick. It completely side-steps the fact that it was done deliberately, 100% on purpose and they basically cover that up by trying their hardest to scrape it under the rug as an "oopsy-daisy!" now and let users feel as if thousands of phonebooks beamed themselves totally magically into their servers and they really had no idea that was happening!

You can simply not be so detached from reality that you do not worry about reading people's phone books like that.

Want to apologize and really speak through actions? Dave Morin, Co-Founder and CEO, step down immediately because you have deliberately violated human rights and now you are just trying to get away with it, IMHO. And as CEO, you are ultimately responsible.
Save yourself the useless submission url, go directly to the verbose and interesting http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adv...
I want the things I can exchange money for: food, housing, gadgets, bicycles, cars, stuff for my family, vacations, and so on.

Edit: I'll add the most important one, too: time. I like my job, I like coding, but I also like to do things like ride my bike, spend time with my kids, and so on. The more money I have, the more I can choose to do those things (simplifying a lot).
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Notice how this carefully doesn't use silent: true, seeing as in the latest version of Backbone, they have repurposed the silent option for completely different functionality.
Previous posts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330429

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310535

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094357
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> Horse shit. There is nothing wrong with telephone system or the numbering scheme or the fact that we use numbers.

There is never anything wrong with the technology you know. I think the Unix shell is a thing of beauty. You have a user interface and programming language all rolled into one, available on even the simplest of hardware. Put it in front of the average computer user, however, and they'll look at you like you have two heads.

I do not know the telephone system. For me, the internet has pretty much always been there so I had little need to use the phone and I still only use it a handful of times per year. Making a phone call is as confusing to me as it is to someone who has to dive into the command prompt once per year. On top of that, it seems like every time I try to use it, it fails in some way (disconnects, misrouted calls, etc.), adding to my frustrations.

The telephone system is pretty ingenious from a technical perspective, but it is a user experience nightmare for anyone who did not grow up with it. I know exactly how older people feel about computers that did not grow up with them, because that is me with the telephone.

We are at least trying to make computers more accessible, why are we ignoring the telephone?
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Nokia phones have a method for such convenience. A contact stored in one phone can be sent to another phone as a special sms message called a 'Business Card'. When the other Nokia phone gets it, they can save the contact from the message view options. Of course, it's not free, or local (bluetooth).
What's the reason they even have to add a prefix? If all we end up doing is prefix the feature with 4 different ones, and then the actual feature name in case all else fail, it's pretty pointless. The browser should just implement the feature as it is spec'd and when it's finalized they can do the work to match the specs again. If we did that then nothing would break other than possibly some behavioral differences.
In four years, I've had exactly one issue with Dropbox, which got sorted out quickly through their excellent support staff.

I've had loads of issues with Google and continue to, even as a paying Apps customer. Not one has ever got resolved in my favour. It's like talking to a wall.

"Don't grow too big" is an insufficient but absolutely necessary condition for "Don't be evil".

I hope Dropbox doesn't grow too big.
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I'm not saying that Google is untrustworthy but with the way they've been acting the past few years the idea of giving them my files feels a bit creepy.

Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

Edited to add:
I think it is preferable to spread information among service providers rather than concentrate it in one provider's hands. Google already has my search and email information. I do not think it advisable to add information from files to that.
Bluetooth supports vCards exchange, but it's much faster and arguably easier to do what GP said - one person spells their number, second person calls it.
This attitude is why "it's a forgone conclusion that any military action on the part of the US or NATO in any capacity means death for hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians".

US soldiers will not give a damn about civilian lives if said civilians are ragheads like me, and will drop bombs on anything from sewage treatment plants to nuclear power stations, whatever accomplishes "the mission".

The ensuing radioactive fallout and disease will kill hundreds of thousands of innocents but they don't count, they are only people who look like me, not real humans.

The Iranian government have the option of retaliating
at the instant of the first explosion with a barrage of supersonic torpedos.

If said barrage is large enough it could overwhelm US defenses and take out the US fleet, the gulf state oil installations and pipelines, perhaps the Saudi oil reserve.

To see where this leads, google for "Philip Giraldi" and "World War 3". Here is a link:
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/01/11/what-war-with...
Speaking of rounding errors...

I worked telecom billing about 10 years ago... Our system consisted of a couple dozen fairly large C++ programs, and numerous DBF tables.

This system was originally written in Clipper(1), which IIRC defines numeric as an 18 digit text field. Well, when that particular program got ported to C++, the author simply used a 32-bit int in place of NUMERIC... Which needless to say worked just fine up until we started getting clients that had values larger than 2^31-1 for that field.

The scary part, is that it would just overflow, so you wouldn't get any errors... It wasn't until some guy in ops noticed a number that just seemed a little too odd.

1: Serendipity: The founder was a medical student that happened to know clipper, that happened to have a friend that had just started a telecom company and needed a billing solution (right after the Bell breakup).
Amazon knocks Apple in its latest commercial, 3 Kindles for one iPad
Let me introduce you to "settings". You can disable the omnibox, prediction, instant, etc.
How do people feel about the lean Resume? Do you struggle perfecting your resume? How do you go about editing and tweaking?
..is this a rhetorical question?

See the byline in http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/introducing-chrome-for-an... - Sundar Pichai is "SVP, Chrome and Apps".
I like the layout of yr.no better too. Unfortunately it is only in Celsius so not as useful for me...
>I haven't heard anyone telling/writing down their actual phone number for quite a long time, what I see happening a lot it's stuff like "you want my phone number? sure, let me give you a short call so that you can save it in your's phone's address book"

P H O N E C E P T I O N
The new technology will always replace the old despite the attempts to safeguard the latter by those with vested interests. It happened to the scribes when the printing press arrived; To the telegraph when the phone came along; to radio, records, and even television. Big companies with a lot at stake tried their best to prevent new technology from invading their markets and putting them out of business.

The only one that I think is different is the development of the mobile phone and tablet computers. These are devices that are sold with locks on them and legislation that discourages tampering. I don't think we've seen this kind of thing happen before and it sets a bad precedent. I've got a Kindle and I don't really believe that I own it -- Amazon can remotely remove content from it and brick it if they wanted to. I've got a phone that that has the capability to spy on me. If I modify any of these devices to serve my interests I risk "bricking" them and voiding any warranties that they came with.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik that's a first for us.
does any of you watched 300 movie? it's persian we are talking about lol.. ninjas, ogres, giant elephants?? \
Your anonymization process pairs ineffectiveness with labor-intensity astonishingly well.
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Google tells European Commission on 'open standards': do as I say, not as I do
This is a beautiful, haunting essay brimming with sobering insights:

"At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy have been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies."
I mentioned telephone books.
I am too old to forget this crime against nature.

And imho: Telephone books are the like blackboards/dial up sites with lists of more sites.
Maybe because the people who need it most are the least likely to find it and opt-in?
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I hate monthly subscriptions. I would much rather pay a flat fee. Why do no companies do this anymore?
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Dassault Systèmes (3DS) is not Dassault. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Systèmes#Products for an idea on what 3DS does.
Piracy is sharing and most kids (I was anyway) are taught at a young age that sharing is caring. Maybe we need to now teach kids that sharing is piracy and will land you with huge fines. Next time a kid gives her friend some chocolate, we better lock her up before she starts infringing our rights!
Exalead?
Social Stream: core for building social network websites (Rails Engine)
They also have a demo: http://demo-social-stream.dit.upm.es/
The Netvibes platform has made a strong shift toward brand and social presence monitoring some time ago. I was more surprised then than I am now.
does anyone know if an alternate port has to be specified with this? Is there a reason it can't just be run on 80?
What does society gain from extending the copyright of a dead artist? Will the artist then rise from the dead and start creating again, with such a powerful incentive?
Not quite. (Although you and I have certainly discussed this plenty on GitHub.) For folks who haven't been following along:

Performing "silent" changes to a model are a power-user feature of Backbone, where you can twiddle attributes on a model temporarily, or many times, without receiving change events. Then, when you're ready, you get a single change event with the diff in model state.

Prior to 0.9, you'd get the single diff, but not all of the individual "change:attribute" events for the diff. 0.9 and above have been improved to give you both. Yes, it's something to watch out for if you want to upgrade an existing app.
I wonder what type of equity I would get in the company for my angel investment?
So browser makes can push forward innovation by adding support for experimental procedures.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad was not meant to be a Biblical be-all end-all; in one of his talks, he mentioned that the original manuscript is supposed to be a manual for the game he invented, "Cashflow 101," which was trashed by the first testers for being a long and complicated game, but anyway.

The author nailed down the first point, about financial literacy being critical, and people turning out poor because of the lack of it. If this were not true, most if not all summa cum laude graduates would own, instead of just work for, a company; they succeeded in traditional education, but know nothing about finance.

The two others are completely off. RDPD was never meant to be an instruction booklet on how to become rich, much less how to get rich in real estate. He also misunderstood the concept of "paying yourself first" to mean "don't pay your taxes," which is simply false. He made it sound like Kiyosaki is some selfish person who is demanding the rest of the world to be the same; but if you read the rest of the book, he actually points out that rich people are very unselfish, because they give what other people want: jobs, products, services, etc., as opposed to those who just want to be paid more despite being mediocre. He also said that if you want to be rich, you have to give other people what they want.

Kiyosaki's example about being "inspired" by the screaming of creditors and the government is nothing more than that: a personal example. He didn't say everyone should follow that example. In fact, he said a couple of paragraphs later: "If you do not like financial pressure, then find a formula that works for you." And he said a few paragraphs prior: "If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich. You might first want to join the Marine Corps or some religious order so you can get control of yourself." He's clear about the dangers of falling to the temptation of spending on consumer debt and using investment to cover it up.

Also, that little bit about child labor is odd. It's not like Rich Dad was trying to make millions from his son and his friend. It was more of a lesson to show how employees live their lives; personal experience tends to be a more powerful teacher, after all.

Saying that, I admit that some of the stories in some of his other books were simply repeated from this one. It must be kind of him to assume that the readers of his other books haven't read the others, but it can get annoying reading the same story.
This problem seems to indicate a tremendous failure on the W3C's part to anticipate the actual consequences of vendor prefixes, or if they actually anticipated them, a failure to act. Despite the fact that Quirks Mode is not identical, it is a similar enough case (And one that should be familiar to every browser vendor) that ignoring its example when considering vendor prefixes suggests either willful ignorance or an extreme desire to hope for the best and ignore the consequences.

It's bad enough that -webkit prefixes are putting Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft in this position, but imagine what this situation could be doing now, or could do down the road, to innovation in this space? If history repeats itself and we end up with a browser monoculture again, how can a new contender enter the browser space if pages are full of badly documented, unspecified vendor prefixes?

From the outside, vendor prefixes look like they originated as a passive response to the slowness of W3C standardization and the behavior of W3C participants. When you look at some of the W3C minutes - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0313.h... as an example - they are full of examples of participants who either do not realize their lack of knowledge or are actively attempting to hinder discussion. If it takes months or years to standardize a basic feature, should it be a surprise that frustrated browser developers roll a feature out behind a vendor prefix and the entire web adopts it as a de-facto standard? The presence of these vendor prefixes should have sounded alarm bells for everyone involved in web standardization, and action should have been taken to address it then and there. At this point, I'm not sure anything can be done except to attempt to reduce the damage.

As a web author, dealing with prefixes is miserable. Each vendor version of the prefix might have different accepted values or even have a slightly different name, and I have to go through and manually test in each browser. If I make changes to my CSS rules, I need to ensure that I update them all to match and deal with differences in syntax. The documentation for how to do this is spotty and it introduces a ton of room for mistakes in what should have been a simple part of the web development process.

As a user, prefixes are a disaster. I've got a fairly recent Android phone, and because Android is a fragmentation trainwreck, the stock browser on my phone is outdated and buggy and doesn't support lots of modern web content. To deal with this, I installed a third party browser from the Market, and I can use it to view modern web content successfully. Unfortunately, a large number of the sites I visit mess up useragent sniffing and serve me webkit-only CSS or even webkit-only JS. I don't have any options here; I can't surf the Real Internet on this phone.
Git developers! Start showing off how many works you've done everyday.
Open source is wonderful, provides a great deal of value, and it definitely works well. For some things. It seems to work quite well when the 'currency' of exchange is patches/bug reports/feedback and that sort of thing.

It seems to be a tougher proposition for more 'end user' types of things. OpenOffice, if you recall, was created as a proprietary project, and only later open sourced, just as one example.

What your examples point to is a world where IP producers are forced to cozy up to someone who actually controls a scarce resource in order to benefit, rather than do so on their own.

(I do agree, BTW, that software patents suck and are not good, and destroy value).

(Also, BTW, "it's" means "it is").
But as Steve Yegge reminded us in his famous Platform rant, Amazon knows how to make it a service whereas Google will tend to be stuck thinking about it as a product.
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In the US it is never tried or sentenced. It's simply made law, or laughed about if anybody mentions it.
How about an agreement that only one vendor should create a prefix on a feature? So, they create say "-webkit-feature", and can innovate there. Once another vendor wants to implement it, they co-operate with the original vendor and interested parties and get a standard together, which everyone can then implement as "feature".

It's ridiculous at the moment when you have -o-feature, -moz-feature, -webkit-feature, -ms-feature, and feature, which take 2, 3, 4, or even 5 different syntaxes. W3C considers two implementations sufficient for standardisation, which this process gives.

I'd also have an automatic process for moving any vendor prefixed feature into being the standard after they have had it stable for 6 months, other implementations or no. A more predictable timescale would make these "experimental" features more realistically experimental and encourage standardisation.
Granted. I wasn't making that claim, either.
I'd love your thoughts on WhiskeyNotes: http://www.whiskeynotes.com ! Any/all feedback and ideas are welcome! My email is ben@whiskeynotes.com

Thank you!
Ah-hah! I need to go that then :) Thanks for the tip!
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Thanks! I'm a sysadmin at met.no, and will forward your comments to the devs.

I found the OP solution interesting in regards to visualizing historical observations. As of now, we have a system seperate from yr.no for that (but I believe it is still accessible from api.met.no).
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My wife is Hungarian - I'm American and the kids have grown up in the States mostly. They're bilingual, but culturally essentially American, with some hybrid vigor from bicultural exposure.
Yes, and he also said that people lose three businesses before they succeed. But people are afraid to fail even once because traditional education teaches students that it's bad, terrible, wrong, etc. to fail.
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The first thing I would do is use it/test it within my current workplace. I am scratching my own itch (and an itch my colleagues have, as well) so if we didn't find it useful, it would be time to reconsider things.
Looks awesome, always wondered if I could deploy perldancer web apps on Heroku!
Oh, the Java / JVM languages chart, gotcha.

Out of that subset, Clojure is indeed the second fasting growing language. To be clear, however, that's just a subset of Java related platforms. Clojure's overall growth amid the wider language landscape on LinkedIn is a little above average.
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But what difference would his personal beliefs on software patents make toward his credibility in this matter? Whether the patents are valid or not is a matter of fact, as it would have to be in order for the patent and trade office to issue the patents in the first place. What are you supposed to conclude by knowing that TBL is against software patents? That he's lying about what happened at CERN and Pei Wei's browser? This looked like a smear campaign and I'm surprised the defendant's lawyers didn't object to it (maybe they did but I didn't read it in the article).

On an unrelated note, scientists often don't do well in debate type situations like a courtroom because scientists are often more concerned about truth then winning an argument. Thus, they'll often concede a small point from the opposing argument that is trumped up as a major victory by the opposition. The point may have little impact toward the truth of the matter but is perceived as important by an ignorant audience because the opposition is touting it as such.
I had thought of maybe running reports to show the user if she consistently over- or underestimated the amount of time needed for tasks, but I have no idea how I could predict these time estimates.

Any ideas?

I any case—I agree. It would be awesome.
I have 17-beta, but here's the flag:

"Prerender from omnibox

Enables prerendering of suggestions from the Omnibox and predicts appropriate network actions (prerendering, Instant, DNS preconnect) by calculating a confidence value for each Omnibox result."

Your options are Automatic, Enabled, Disabled. Default was Automatic.