skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's W3C, what were you expecting? It's the very best example of death-by-committee I've ever seen. If they designed a lightbulb, it'd require a 9 step checklist just to get it out of the packaging, wouldn't fit in the industry-standard socket (because, of course, they've reinvented the wheel again, poorly), and by the time you actually got the thing installed the rest of the world will have moved on to better light-producing devices, but will be forced to deal with the W3C brain-damaged version of the lightbulb because it's a "standard".
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That thought has crossed my mind several times. The idea of the free app is just to allow users to test the product. Ads definitively don't pay for the amount of time invested.
I'm in pretty much the same boat. I feel kinda dirty playing with the type signatures to see what compiles, but if it compiles in Haskell it probably works.
Currently, yes. For more of human history than not, both were common.
> For example, constants defined with css-constant('foo', 'bar') instead of $foo: bar

The issue with sigil is that they risk conflicting with (and making more complex the parsing of) selectors. `$` used to be coopted by the Selectors Level 4 draft spec in order to select a non-tail subject for instance (it's apparently been changed to the `!` suffix).

Not that I like what they picked any more than you do (the spec is currently using the `data-` prefix for definition and `data()` for dereference, likely in keeping with HTML5's `data-` attributes)
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That's a cool idea, but I wouldn't want to lose the scope as you would with a closure. I will look into seeing if it's possible, though.
God yes. Putting ads next to something small and clickable is really irritating. My biggest problem is when there is no paid version of the app without ads. Even after blocking them, I'm still left with a bar of precious, unused screen space.
Agreed; after getting used to working with Haskell's type system, I've found it kind of painful to use languages with weaker, less expressive type systems (which unfortunately, is basically every practical language other than Haskell). The ability to transform all manner of bugs into compile-time errors via the typechecker is indispensable. Once you start digging into GHC extensions like GADTs and type families, it gets even better. I never feel nearly as confident about the correctness of code I write in, say, Python, even when using a full test suite.
Considering he sold 200,000 copies of his video in 12 days, I would say he's pretty popular.
There's no logic to defining constants. Which is what the "CSS Variables" proposals are about.

It merely makes maintenance much, much easier.
Totally broken for me. Firefox has weird selection behavior (trying to italicize one word often catches the previous one, next one, whole sentence - or works normal), with Chrome the buttons don't work at all and with Camino (older Gecko engine), I can't even place the cursor.
I don't think a person can understand politics until they realize that your first sentence applies to everyone, including themselves.
You mean like iTunes?

Eliminating the middleman is the whole point of these people that advertise and sell their DRM-free shows straight from their websites.
>It's an old truth: most people choose their own facts to make themselves feel better

See copyright violation.
A lot of Christian fundamentalists will look down on you. That's sort of the point of fundamentalism - extreme adherence to some principles. "No alcohol" is a pretty common one in a lot of Christian churches. Many will perform their communion with grape juice, not wine.
I think the more important reality is that TIMTOWTDI doesn't really belong in CSS, and that's what we're seeing happen more and more.

Part of the problem is that CSS And rich internet applications can't really properly coexist - they do now, because that's part of how we work, but as time goes on the amount of lifting we're going to want to do with JavaScript is only going to continue to increase.
A copy-on-write file system still does plenty of rewriting; if it didn't, you'd run out of space before your harddrive was full.
Which makes them perfect for today's and tomorrow's computers - use SSDs as main drives and HDDs for data storage. But I think the write speed will be good enough to use these drives as main drives, as well...

As for reliability - I don't think it's going to be that much of an issue - I've had CD-RWs that I used as portable storage and wrote/erased/read dozens of times (with scratches on them from constant use). A fixed platter in a clean housing should last quite a while...
> The issue is speed.

It makes no difference, these are proposal for constants so it's trivial substitution. Furthermore by avoiding repeating the same value over and over again CSS variables likely reduce the file's size.
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And this was just a few years back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xPvD0Z9kz8 (Get perpendicular! animation by Hitachi)
While I'm sure it's a technical hurdle in itself, I didn't think that fuel or weight were the big problems with a manned mission to Mars. I'm curious as to what Mr. Musk's plan is for shielding passengers from intersteller radiation that one would experience outside of our magnetosphere.

The Apollo astronauts were exposed to approximately 1140 millirem over a 9 day mission, while the average here on earth is 350 millirem per year. Nuclear workers are limited to about 2000 millirem per year... so the approximately 52,000 millirem per year the astronauts would receive on a Mars mission is a problem.
I burned out late last year after finishing our accelerator program. I took some time to reset and then came back with a vengeance. I'm happy to grab a drink/talk on the phone and share what worked for me: tk@toutapp.com.
can you try http://tifftiff.de/wysihtml5/examples/advanced.html and seeing if you see the same issues?
google.com
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...
I agree the use case ulf suggested is more of a turn-off, and more used for trying to create a beneficial relationship through dishonest / manipulative means.

Starbucks does the name-game in the best "automated" way as you can. Asking for your name to put on your drink, and then they repeat your name a bunch of times - which attempts to make people feel they have more of a connection.
Spolsky would advise a sabbatical.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000076.html

I've considered taking a "normal-job-as-sabbatical" several times (e.g., being a welder for a year).

(also, consider that humans tend to adjust their problem-severity-sensitivity knob to their current level of input. e.g., the bus driver in your home town is probably really stressed out about this "problems". this puts you in the rare position of possibly being able to truly achieve 0-stress in one of those "normal" jobs, as long as you can keep your current perspective on what "real" stress is).
If something as simple as a variable scares you then I am guessing you have no hope in hell with dealing with a bit of jQuery, let alone Javascript.

Welcome to the real world. It's time to upskill.

Side note: Developers may be inferior designers, but that does not make them inferior coders, since by their nature, that is what they do day in, day out. I am not a designer, I am not a front end guy, but my html/css/javascript is a lot better quality and reusable than I have seen come out of any design agency. We won't even go into having any consideration of the selectors they use and any rendering speed they may have...
No need to hide it behind nginx or some other dedicated web server.

A contributor to Go says otherwise if SSL is involved: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/yohrNK8lFhc/L1d6...
An unlimited budget is almost as bad as no budget
Just like everybody's been doing for the past 30 or so years :-)...
A half day isn't enough. You need to have at least one night where you go to sleep not thinking about work. Whether that's a 4 day weekend or a week of vacation, you need it.

An ounce of prevention...something something.
you can apply css to svg
Obligatory XKCD link:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/

(100 rem = 1 sievert)
Technically no, but the failure probability is about the same as someone randomly guessing a private key:

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/621/does-ntru-decr...
You will have to download an entire font even if you are only using a few arrows.
May not be prohibitive, but it should be kept in mind.
Designer Returns to the Letterpress for Love of Art
Honestly, I'd like to see Maven/more tools in .NET more than language features for a very good reason: all the niceties of these new language features don't seem to contribute much to most .NET projects somehow.

Either people aren't using it, or the type of software that uses .NET don't need it, or the 98% programmers simply ignore it, or something else that I don't know/can't point them out.

So please Microsoft, give us Maven for .NET. NuGET and MSBuild aren't enough.
It doesn't notice and remove border-radius tags, which made the experience particularly weird.
Then write about a few.
Haha, fair enough, think I just didn't get the gist of what you were trying to say!

It's a very nice sentiment indeed, and think it adds much more goodwill than the value of the book.
How does a weak targeted page compete against a strong kind-of-targeted page?
How does a keyword targeted page compete against a high PR, but not-as-targeted page?

So for example, if I made a page right now targeting the keyphrase "Go anywhere with your rhubarb", and did everything possible for on-page optimization, how would it compete against a site that does not target that keyphrase, but ranks high for a related keyphrase?
There is an embarassing amount of whinging in this thread about paying $0.50 per day for what is probably the best newspaper in the country. I've been paying for the Times for several years now and it isn't even a blip on my budget.
"most people choose their own facts to make themselves feel better, then hunt down the justifications they need a posteriori."

...

"alleviating climate change would actually create new work, even new industries"

Yup.
I thought it would come out the same.
It's our (rndmize and my) attempt at creating a sane approach to the news. do you feel like something like this useful? if not, how can we make it more so?
I'm afraid of the same thing, but not because it will drive away designers, but because CSS is meant to be, and is most powerful as a declarative language.

What CSS really needs is an actual layout module in the specification (instead of the hacks we still use to this day to execute the most simple of layouts).

With all that said, I do think variables are a great idea.
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Gridpak: Responsive grid generator.
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> The articles are littered with crappy advice confusing beginners, have little structure and are filled with ridiculous questions (questions in an wiki???)

The original wiki has questions, back-and-forth-discussion and loosely structured content on many pages. Maybe some pages need to be maintained/wikified/deprecated, but the EmacsWiki itself is fine. Also, it was never intended to be the authoritative GNU Emacs wiki. GNU Emacs is self-documenting. The non-standard stuff needs the wiki more.
Do You Have To Be Rude To Manage Like Steve Jobs?
Aziz Ansari is so funny. I loved him as the fruit vendor who hates Australians on Flight of the Conchords, and his Randy character was pretty much the only good thing about that train wreck Funny People. Nice to see him succeeding via Parks and Recreation and el Internet.
Thanks for the enlightenment. Reading between the lines, the case of Japan's missing inflation might be a variant of "in the long run, we're all dead," given the decades of stimulus and low inflation. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out here.
I vote for a rename to phlask =)
Not like iTunes, cross platform and open to anyone's business (iTunes won't accept just any content)
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Moodpanda releases API for developers to build from their data
You can tell your co-founder. You've got a duty to let them know. I'd be furious if a co-worker told me that they'd been nursing a huge problem on their own, and not let me in on it until it was too late, and it put the whole project in danger.

I'd time-box it - tell them you are feeling burnt out, and want their help for 2 months. No reasonable person would be annoyed at a co-worker taking it easy for 8 weeks. If you feel better at the end of it, then the crisis (for them) is averted. If not, you can consider your options. Note - I'm not a therapist, and I don't know if that's the best way of handling it. There's plenty of people who are better qualified than me to come up with a good plan for this.

> startup that really needs me right now

You should really re-consider that. No startup needs 100% of your ability. A slightly inferior feature-set won't kill a viable startup. You aren't in a 100m sprint in which you need to do everything that's humanly possible to beat the other guy. It's more like a dance competition, in which strategic decisions are more important. That's assuming you have a ton of competitors.
There are lots of other modules

https://metacpan.org/module/Method::Signatures
https://metacpan.org/module/MooseX::Method::Signatures
https://metacpan.org/module/Method::Signatures::Simple

and many more. In this case, there might be too many ways to do it.
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Ask HN: anyone here actually use the right alt/ctrl/meta keys?
Strange - buggy here in Chrome (Mac), my browser goes transparent :)
I think future Web standards should take out the Gecko/Chrome/IE layout+parsing engine and make it a separate library. Standardize a minimalistic (but powerful) GL-style presentation API.

Why are standards committees dictating developer workflow? We should be able to swap in our own parser and UI framework (which is what DOM is) that fits the specific website/webapp needs best. Not reinventing the wheel, of course - things would naturally coalesce into ubiquitous standard libraries, but a bit more competitively.
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demo link broken?
Not only that, package developers are 'lazy' for not documenting or moving to github? I don't see the author volunteering to do anything. :)
You seem to be in an entirely different universe from the point. Most workloads would take weeks, months, even years to write out 60TB of data. It will be unnecessary for the filesystems to garbage collect old data with any frequency, and you may very well not want them to -- when you have so much space, why not have an available record of every single I/O transaction back to the beginning of time?
I have been there and crashed and burned in the process. Two things that have completely changed my perspective that I suggest is reading two books, "The Secret of Letting Go" by Guy Finley and "The 28 Laws of Attraction" by Thomas Leonard. You have to make a mental shift and let go of the baggage that you feel is forcing you to do things you resent.
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No. But PDFs are really seeing a resurgence thanks to tablets, especially the iPad. It's the one kind of formatting that's pushbutton and done. Anyone who uses Word can create one. [typo edit]
I found this article very useful, and helpful in de-mystifying the world of functional programming. Are there other articles that cover functional programming theory in plain words like this?
I hope some of the advice people have given here is helpful to you. It would be a lot easier to advise you effectively if you gave us some more details about specific experiences which have triggered the irritation, resentment and desire for a break. Any suggestions made without that information are at least a little speculative.
I hadn't used Linux in 1994, my first experiences with it were ~1998 but I remember that getting it to install and work correctly with my hardware as well as getting X to work was no mean feat.

X was no worry - our machine only had 4 MB of RAM, so I was practically forced to use pseudo-terminals. The learning curve for Linux distributions was not that steep. Slackware, especially in those days, was orders of magnitude less complex than current distributions. I picked up a cheap bargain UNIX book, which was enough to get started.

Even at the point you had installed it , you would be compiling binaries with GCC that would have targetted Linux/glibc etc so you wouldn't have been able to share many of your creations

Well, sharing my creations with the world wasn't very much possible anyway, since we had no internet connection. Besides that, for me the magic was in creating a program.

Besides that, your comment is factually incorrect, since a DOS port of gcc was fairly quickly available (DJGPP). In fact, IIRC Id Software's Quake was later compiled with it.

I'm not sure what the best compromise between having a "trusted" source of software is and being able to install what you want.

Me neither. I see how it is beneficial for some family members and friends to have a controlled software ecosystem. Also, App stores improved usability a lot.

On the other hand, if kids only get their hands on devices that are controlled completely by corporations, how will the next generation of hackers learn?
I've started using Emacs a few years ago (we have a youngun' here!), and EmacsWiki is the best concentrated source of information around Emacs.

Which is a crying shame.

I agree with the author: while the goal is noble, the implementation is terrible. Discussions and content are mixed up, for example look at the cscope page [1]. Which is the latest and best package for integrating the tool?

It's 2012. Unix has had package management for decades. It's the age of app stores, why am I still downloading elisp files from a wiki? I want the equivalent of vimscripts! I want something better!

Emacs is an incredibly powerful tool, which has had many features decades before those newfangled IDEs. Unfortunately that also means that there's incredible inertia in the community. Here's hoping that the OP's article can trigger something.

[1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CScopeAndEmacs
There are so many reasons why this model is great for comedians. Production costs are low so the risk is low. Profit margins, for the comedian, are far higher than with other forms of releasing a special, so total revenue can be higher. More so, because of the drm free aspects the show can have a broader reach than otherwise, increasing exposure and serving as promotional material for the comedian's acting gigs, next standup releases, and live shows. Expect this sort of thing to be the norm inside of 5 years if not sooner.
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I'm not sure if this will even be visible, but I'd love to have the site with css/divs instead of tables/html styling. This is because I use plugings to manually edit the css to make it look prettier, but I can only go so far when all table are just <table> with no id or class.
Eliminating the middleman is not the point. Avoiding the negative consequences of having a middleman is the point, and eliminating the middleman is merely a means to that end. If you can be a middleman without (or with fewer of) those negative consequences, then you're working toward the same goal.
I think you'll find it offers ultimate browsing experience in Netscape Navigator :)
You can create a subset of that font to serve if only using a few icons. I've done that with Scribophile thought I can't recall right now what utility I used to do that.
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There are many good reasons why startups should consider Ireland as their choice location:
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Nothing in her reply indicates she's a man.
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You're right about apple developers not being expected to demo apps on pre-beta software. Because doing that makes your software look shitty.

Don't do that. Or script out the demo really carefully.

PR exists to make the products look good.
Texas sure as shit isn't the South. Buncha dumb hicks over there. :)
Why will it explode in a few months?
Why do you think that? Any reason other than the classic idealized economic model of humans as heartless, brainless utility maximizers?
VCs will not tackle this because it's considered "risky".
> Most workloads would take weeks, months, even years to write out 60TB of data

Today, yes, but this isn't going to give us 60TB drives today, or even tomorrow. It's going to give us 6TB drives. It might give us 60TB drives at some point down the line, and it would be unwise to make any strong predictions about workloads at indeterminate points in the future.
That is a good start. But since most of my projects consist of many files, still not fully optimal. Though, having the chrooted Ubuntu there helps with testing the code I wrote, too.
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Firefox 11 has the italics issue in both the normal and advanced editor.
> Yes, it was pretty offensive and not helpful.

This perfectly describes my thoughts on your own 'helpful' post.
SVG would be wonderful if it were not for the lack of native support early on in browser land. That skips over the none trivial problem of what it takes to create a symbol/glyph in SVG. Not only do you have to be a competent typographer, but you also have to be a programmer (SVG is very Postscript like). Yet more barriers to widespread use. None of this is fatal, but like speed-bumps, it certainly slows things down. I'm in general more happy adopting a widely used Unicode font for the things that I need in this category. Your mileage may vary.
If you are on Linux, add this to your ~/.tmux.conf file.

##CLIPBOARD selection integration
##Requires prefix key before the command key
#Copy tmux paste buffer to CLIPBOARD
bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | xclip -i -selection clipboard"
#Copy CLIPBOARD to tmux paste buffer and paste tmux paste buffer
bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer -- \\"$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)\\"; tmux paste-buffer"
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The game is Dummy Defense. It launched yesterday and is currently at #41 top overall in the US app store. I did some heavy promotion yesterday with a large email list, and FreeAppADay is promoting my other app, SimplePhysics, which is driving quite a few sales. I'd be glad to hear your feedback about the game as well as answer any questions regarding the development or marketing efforts.

Here's the trailer:
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