skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this "counts," but it is still used to encode IMAP folder names. (Technically, the IMAP version is slightly different from standard UTF-7.)
The documentary you're probably referring to is "This Film is Not Yet Rated" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/).
"Free" is not illegal. "Piracy" is.
It would seem the problem is not use in it of itself of the frequencies, but rather the application of the frequencies for an LTE network.
You mean 1940s? Only way you see the movie is if you come to the theater and pays your fee in person.
I think Unicode predates Accept-Charset. Unicode 1.0 was published late 1991. Accept-Charset was formalized in the HTTP 1.0 RFC (1996). Usage presumably predates that, but it's not described in the HTTP 0.9 docs (which say ASCII only!) http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html

But what really matters is widespread acceptance of Unicode and UTF-8 and that was definitely later in coming. Thanks to dchest below for referencing a transcoding server. It's interesting the HTTP/1.0 docs characterize Accept-Encoding as a way to signal the client could handle something other than ASCII and ISO-8859-1.

Google started favoring UTF-8 in search result pages somewhere around 2002 or 2003.
I love to criticize my Mac, but this is one of the areas that I've never found fault - the mouse and trackpad controls are flawless.

Recently I've had to use a Windows laptop (Lenovo) for work and I've yet to find a suitable external mouse - the track (pad|point) on the laptop is over-responsive, and both Microsoft and Logitech drivers are buggy in their application.

Finally (and this is only on my recent laptop) the external mouse and keyboard take ages to "wake up" - and they're USB (the bluetooth ones sometimes require me to go to device properties in order to become visible)! On my Mac, external inputs respond immediately once plugged in, and even bluetooth is almost seamless.
Well, W.H. Auden might have considered someone evil based solely on the fact that they were a statistician:

Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
I'd also made something recently to try solve the same problems. ie working with discussions and threads as apposed to the front page. Check it out here: http://christopherdebeer.github.com/hnCommentWatcher/ check it out if you have a chance.
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The recruiter that got back to me was more direct and less spammy than other random recruiting emails I get from those who see my profile on linkedin etc. I'm wondering if this is an accident or a change in the way the recruiter views these postings.
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Absolutely no offense taken, and I actually share your desire to avoid KoolAid drinking. Every post should be evaluated on it's merits, and while I can only speak for myself, I hope that things that I write only end up on the front page when they have sufficient merit.
No, I did not say that. Re-read my comment and you will see that that is just my opinion. I did not say that is a reason Facebook should take it down. I gave plenty of other reasons it may have been taken down. I did not say anywhere that Facebook should be taken down photos of breast feeding.
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I think LIDAR is the most likely solution. With enough resolution, you could get a reasonable 3D map of the vehicle's surroundings with a very accurate relative model of where the vehicle is located.
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I believe it is laptops which tablets have made redundant, and desktops which actually have a more valuable usage case at this point. A laptop only makes sense if you need to set up a workstation for productivity in several locations, which limits the target market to traveling business professionals. Most people don't do extended productivity work from multiple locations, however. For people who simply need a mobile device for recreational use, a tablet is vastly superior, with its extended battery life and ease and comfort of operation. For those who only need to have a workstation at a single fixed location, a desktop is the superior option, as the large screen, full-size keyboard and mouse are positioned in an optimal ergonomic manner, with the screen at eye level, keyboard and mouse at proper height and distance, etc., allowing for extended usage without repetitive stress injury. A desktop for productivity and a tablet for casual mobile use represents the most comfortable, ergonomic and financially justifiable option for the largest segment of the market; it's laptops which are imminently doomed to niche relevance.
Good code and an ideal couple.
I'm a web developer trying to be a designer as well and the one thing that always frustrates me with HTML 5 resources is that they focus on the definition of each new element and not proper use which preserves its semantic value within a document. This one pretty much nailed it with good examples. Thanks for sharing!
Please use a higher contrast pattern for the demo!

I didn't even notice there was a pattern in the background until I read it in a comment here...
If it activates from the corner like in Gnome 3 then this is much better than the Start button.

The Start button was always a few pixels off the edges so you couldn't just shove your mouse to bottom-left corner and click. Instead, you had to find the corner and offset the mouse a notch towards up-right to hit the button.
Outlaw - ruby anti-pattern enforcement gem
Basically they are trying to exploit a loophole in the system: If you have a satellite transmission network, you are allowed to use terrestrial stations to fill-in the gaps. They are essentially trying to deploy a terrestrial network by defining it as an extension of a fairly minimal satellite network.

All of that is just regulatory issues though. What really matters is interference; I don't (and the FCC doesn't seem to) care if a transmission comes from the ground or a satellite, so long as it doesn't mess with anybody else's services.

The two points of view are:

1) LightSquared is operating within their spectrum requirements, so while there are GPS receivers that will go haywire when they deploy, those GPS receivers are faulty (as they don't properly deal with neighboring transmissions on frequencies outside their band).

2) GPS should be granted a special exception to the rules about accepting interference as GPS is very important and the GPS signals are very weak, so therefore a receiver with little filtering on the front end is far superior to one more tolerant of high power signals on neighboring frequencies.

Both arguments have their merit, so it should be interesting to see how things play out. The more you look into how GPS works, it's a wonder that it works at all which such low powers (and satellites in the middle of a radiation belt, no less!)
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The problem is the spectrum LightSquared wants to use is too close to GPS. They were licensed for one limited application of that spectrum and are now trying to shift to another much higher power application and they don't give a damn if nearby communication is harmed.

Here's a couple of technical articles on the results of testing LightSquared vs. GPS.
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2630
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389264,00.asp

"A report prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration's Navigation Services division essentially attributes 794 deaths and over $72 billion in additional costs to U.S. taxpayers if the LightSquared LTE system is implemented."
While I don't agree with your first point, it's certainly up do personal opinion. However, it's never a bad idea for people to understand how to invest and manage their money. From my understanding, that was what the author was talking about.
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True. You'd think that by now, with everyone having wifi, they would make a thermostat you could sync with you calendar, or at least turn on and off from your iphone.

Well, actually they do make this(1) but it's got a hefty price tag and it's made for enterprise users, not homes.

(1) http://www.forwardthinking.honeywell.com/products/wireless/t...
"-r" is a great timesaver.
No, they like video sales, because they make a huge amount of money on them. I'd say their ideal golden age occurred in the days after people had video playback equipment, but before the availability of home recording equipment, or at least before such equipment went digital. They'd like a widespread network of consumption devices, but no ability to create or copy content like theirs.
The hockey puck was a miserable failure. Other than that, there's no problem with Apple input devices.

In particular, the multi-touch trackpads are the meow part of the cat.
This guy is a freelance designer. He hates bootstrap because he can't get work making simple styles to forms and other web elements because with Bootstrap, this work is already done!

Clearly biased... why not use Bootstrap in production? Just add your own branding to complement it!
I don't understand why the author didn't just release the interpreter lock before going into the C routines? See Py_BeginAllowThreads
Theres a lot of members of the mathematical & computer science online communities who have spent time discussing and thinking about this sort of problem.

Timothy Gowers for example http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/abstract-thoughts-abo...

The problem with all the semi active (or at least working demo) proposals is that they wind up looking like stackoverflow or the like. This is probably not ideal, especially for a system that might be intended to help evaluate a scientists professional work. Not every good scientist is active on the internet beyond posting their papers and replying to email.
And here I was thinking that google stepped up its advertising games by offering something like recaptcha but for ads. No paywall, just ad-wall, an ad urging you to type the words "the product X is the best"/"X will grow your...muscles" before you can access the content.
Hi all, just finished Mendicant University's core skills course, and this was my personal project for the course... it tries to help you and others avoid anti-patterns that you can define formally by example. I don't expect it will work for all the examples you can dream up yet, but maybe with your help we can get it there together. Please share any ideas or examples you get working or try/want to get working!

Just gem install outlaw and then enter outlaw in a project directory to try it out, or peruse the repo on github.
Just curious, what huge technical problems do you face? You're not dealing with big health data, nor are you analyzing health trends, nor do you have mobile apps.. you're just a blog/content site (albeit one visited by many ppl), so just wondering.
I don't think cost-based pricing is the answer. Cost-based pricing is almost never the answer unless you're a charity, and it creates some really perverse incentives for the producer (for example, if I'm running my web service as cost-plus, it's in my interest to buy gold-plated servers cooled by ice hauled in from Antarctica — 10% of that is a lot more than 10% of $200). I do think the value of entertainment has dropped as the supply has ballooned. The problem is basically just that they're stubborn as a mule and refuse to seriously compete in the market that exists today. They want to keep things the way they were, and if you ask for something else, they'd rather just take their ball and go home than negotiate. And I mean, that's their right, but when they do that, they are really the ones who are undermining their business model.
This reads like a request for a startup to teach people how to pick stocks. I am not sure this would be particularly useful, and I fear it could be dangerous. There is plenty of evidence that the average investor, instead of obsessing over the return on investment, would be better off putting their money in index funds and focusing on things that are in their control, like their savings rate, (tax-efficient) asset allocation, or minimizing investment fees. There is no shortage of accessible material on the subject.

Also:

"The old model of financial advisors, mutual fund managers and brokers is dying fast."

Is there any evidence to support this? I.e., are mutual fund managers making less money? And if formally trained investment professionals, as an aggregate, are not good at managing money, is it reasonable to think that individuals will do better with a code academy for stocks?
managing money != trading stocks
Touch for interface, stylus for drawing and notes. Don't see anything wrong with that. I certainly don't use touch to do notes on my iPhone...
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Is this limited to Webkit? Doesn't seem to work on Firefox 10.
Kind of harsh to call it "a failure" because it doesn't load in IE8. It loads fine in IE9 btw.
This is honest self analysis, and perhaps some of it applies to me as well, but the fact remains that it's hard to rely on HN's front page for the best stuff here. The "unwarranted negativity" perhaps relates to how I chose to express my reservations, but I used harsh statements simply to get attention to the subject.
In my opinion market timing is the difference. There are a few key factors. Wifi penetration is coming over 80%. After a long drawn out process zigbee is emerging rapidly as the defacto wireless standard, and I suspect we will see this being consolidated over the next 3-6 months. Hardware costs to build a truly smart system have been driven lower by the boom in smartphone chips and batteries. The smart grid is coming, and it's government backed.

Homes HAVE to get smarter. The market dictates this. But up to this point, the cost to gain ratio has been far out of balance, not to mention the approach of poor quality touch screens and feature lists that read like a 1999 computer spec :) I agree nest is too expensive at $250, but I doubt that it will hold that price tag for long, partnerships are coming I'm sure.

It's a little like asking what made the iPhone different to the nokia of the day, or Dropbox to FTP. It's more about market timing, pricing and user experience than anything in a spec.

What else? Put bluntly; timing, founders and funding.
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Staring Us In The Face(book)...
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Yeah I would not recommend this be made standard practice however I personally would love to get an email like that as it does "show some personality". Things like this are why everyone stays for the bloopers at the end of a movie. ;)
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really dig the UI! good work!
Your suggestion for the CSS3 is great, I'll definitely toy around with it in the next few days.

Secondly, Parallax.js can already do this. It simply moves around the divs you feed it, which can be tiny or full screened! This allows you to throw your own header on the top, or, if you like, a same parallaxing div in the center of your page.
These guys are major hustlers. They've earned it.
I'm in the US and saw a unit for over $400. That might have been a higher-end product.
The difficulty in this is that there's a much more cohesive perception of how you program javascript than there is on how you invest in stocks. In fact, for much of javascript there's little debate, yet for stocks there are large numbers of people who have been sold falsehoods and have become emotionally invested in believing them. Even the people who haven't fallen for snake oil are rather diverse in their investing strategies. For instance, my preferred vehicle, stock option spreads, are considered "too risky" by many people, and for others they just have trouble wrapping their heads around them.

So, I think the first thing that you'd need to do for such a startup, is to limit your audience to people who are independant thinkers, people who want to invest themselves and want to take control over their financial lives and haven't given up on the idea that they can be successful doing so.

This may have been obvious when you were writing the RFS, but I'm not sure what percentage of the market that is.. and if you want to address the whole market, you've got a lot of myths to deal with. (like the idea that the market is efficient, or that individuals can't pick stocks, or that mutual fund managers are better at managing money.)

Or, put another way, maybe the first module in such a system would be disproving these myths.
The internet is like the audible spectrum in air, it doesn't need "cleaning up" through censorship. It's not about porn or saving the children or objectionable content at all. It's about saying: "This internet, and all the bits that flow on it are my responsibility", if you want to use it, you'll have to do what I tell you do to. And if you don't do what I want you to do on it, I won't let you on it. These Dr-Evils would censor people's vocal chords if they could.

The next internet better be wireless, encrypted, exclude ISP's all together. Preferably where two individuals from two different countries can exchange without any other human getting in the middle and stop the data flow. We need to give the Internet itself an ability to "cut off" nations that want to own the entire thing. The problem is we programmers, engineers and innovators are too damn reasonable and accommodating. It's time for us to fight back and say no. No we are not allowing you to have censorship. Needs to be a new law that no standing member of congress may be re-elected if any part of the internet is censored.
From this day forward I shall call people who tell others what to think "doomsayers".

But freehunter, I'm just trying to mimic Steve Jobs like the other designers :(

Naa, miscommunication here. I try out a new linux flavor almost twice a year. I tried out the Windows 8 preview. I kept my mac around for months when I was trying that out. I LOVE different, I love simple. What I don't love is "minimalization without understanding what needs to be minimalized".
I'm actually working on something exactly like this right now. I just started last night, but it's mainly for fun/learning
Kudo from Microsoft Reasearch might be an option.

http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu
I've always been a fan of connecting to users on a more human and personable level. This might have been an accident, but it made FetchNotes feel more human and have a sense of humor. I think most people really appreciate this, considering the majority of websites are bland and full of generic marketing text.
what about eloquent Javascript with the embedded console for the exemples http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html. Or Dive into Python.Starting Python at the command line is easy.
edit: I didn't read the whole comment so I didn't see the structured part.These books would'nt be that good then.
I tried a few really obvious backgrounds (Even a mario background for fun) and found a soft subtle background gave the best effect, although it looks like I went too far. It looked fine on the few screens I demo'd it on, but I'll update with a higher contrast background soon.
> http://jsperf.com/modern-js-vs-jquery-append

This is a trap that a lot of people fall into when benchmarking with jsperf. It is perfectly valid to say that the bare DOM functions are TEN times faster than jQuery at this particular task. But even the "slow" jQuery case runs more than 16,000 times in a second on Chrome. That ain't slow; you are unlikely to be injecting more than a dozen or so boxes a second so this isn't going to be your bottleneck.

These kind of benchmarks don't represent reality when you scale to an app where the inability to inject more than 16,000 boxes into a page per second might even conceivably be a bottleneck. It would be much more common, for example, to be building HTML templates via Mustache and injecting them all at once. Show me the comparison of doing that whole thing with DOM functions. :)

It is always better to start with some real code that is not performing well and find its bottlenecks. With that in mind I agree that using .live() with complex selectors or high-frequency events like mousemove is bad design. Preventing that sort of unknowing abuse is exactly why we deprecated .live() in 1.7. But I disagree with the generality that "jQuery is slow" simply because it doesn't compare well on some isolated jsperf tests, or because it provides powerful abstractions that can be abused.
Sounds like what she really needs is a local class or club that she can attend regularly. If anyone in San Diego knows of one, that would be a great help!

Not being from San Diego, all I can do is point to possibly better self-paced online tutorials. I'd recommend http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/ first. If she can get through that, she can graduate to using http://www.pygame.org

Otherwise, there's http://www.codecademy.com/ and http://primerlabs.com/codehero
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I use OneNote for this :)

I have a notebook set up in there for "profound internet quotes".
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As a BA in a start-up, I will be emailing this to the boss today...
It should allow continues clicking/sliding; right now you have to wait until the next slide is positioned.

An also there is an extra comma in the line 96 and that is one of the reasons it doesn't work on IE8.
I've often thought that frameworks should be built on top of standardized native apis, poly-filled when necessary. I imagine a time when browser specific hacks will be outside of the frameworks and "pushed down" to something lower level; ultimately shared across several frameworks rather than siloed off like it is now.
tell me more about string processing arbitrary command lines pops
In the UK the implementation currently being rolled out actually runs the smart meter on the 2G GSM network, as a ZED (zigbee end device) the nest could actually pipe data directly to the energy companies with no other connectivity beyond the electrical grid. The company running the 2g network (vodaphone) in this case, is actually in contract directly with the energy provider. Now in terms of interfacing with your smart phone this is impractical, you still need wifi (most likely), however, considering the traffic is encrypted, I doubt that the providers really have much leverage here.
Interference Studies: http://saveourgps.org/interference-studies.aspx

I am by no means an expert on the technical reasons for the interference with GPS, however, I work in the heavy highway construction industry and LightSquared's use of the spectrum is of real concern. The level of accuracy of current GPS guidance systems for construction equipment is astounding and enables significant improvements in job productivity over conventional practices.

I hope the truth and or a solution is discovered, as I do like the idea behind LightSquared and would use the service if available.
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I apologize if there was a misunderstanding. There's a lot of hate for change, especially in this thread. Metro UI might not be the best, but the desktop is a tired metaphor that wore out its usefulness after Windows 98. I welcome UI changes with an open heart and an open mind. I'm willing to hear them out (which I got burned on by Canonical when I began using Unity and it didn't get better).

I may have jumped to conclusions with your post, but you must admit there was no obvious sign of open-thinking ;)
It's pretty incredible that this website fell on it's face so hard that users couldn't even sign in. What I don't understand is why they're now requiring everyone to reset their passwords too. What exactly are they doing over there? This is pretty terrible.