skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there are a few. For example, QLD 4352. It's just a collective postcode that covers everything around Toowoomba that hasn't been given a postcode. Using the suburb name instead of 4352 is a whole lot more productive.

http://maps.google.com.au/?q=qld+4352

It's eight non-contiguous areas as far north as Caboolture and as far south as Casino, the biggest of which are not much larger than Brisbane City Council.

Edit:

There's a treasure trove in the post code boundaries of utterly bizarre things that only past houses being in weird places can at times explain.

http://maps.google.com.au/?q=act+2611 or this:
http://maps.google.com.au/?q=sa+5710
Take a look at this:

http://www.vincentcheung.ca/jsencryption/

A lot of ciphers have been ported to JavaScript now:

http://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/
Hm. I ran this with Fiddler running; and I saw exactly what they claimed. I received a cypher text and the client rendered it.

More importantly, I noticed another query before it:
GET /qsml.aspx?query=http%3A%2F%2Fsebsauvage.net%2Fpaste%2F%3F9f9ee11adc3a2093%2312WGK1zDE5Nqpz8mwVa%2BA%2BQQ8%2F12zJqHb5935uRvWdw

Bing was searching for my link on the internet in case it wasn't a URL. Knowing this, couldn't someone demand Google give them someone's search history to sebsauvage.net; and, if whole URIs are returned, the anchor tag will also be provided?

This doesn't seem completely private. The webserver may not know what's in your text; but your search providers will; or will have the knowledge to be able to.
Investors and founders have had to become more creative and seek other ways to exit ($$). Only a handful of companies have made it through the SOX morass. So, it does seem logical that they are better. But, to suggest SOX might have actually been positive? Like the TSA is positive because more people are learning to fly? (I don't know if this is true).
Except when it doesn't. My thoughts on that are in another comment.
It's unwise to lazily adopt a silver bullet without understanding the context and thinking through the consequence. I can say if you are not using XML with encoding specified to encode everything everywhere, then you are doing it wrong. You should get all your data into XML as soon as possible. Of course it sounds ludicrous.
You are indeed correct, thank you.

The article is highly misleading on that particular point. Given how extraordinary a claim it was (enough for me to take the time to write a response to it), I should have double-checked it from an alternate source!
Your app actually reminds me of a movie version of my app. Kudos!

Might I recommend incorporating some sort of mechanism to help people figure out a movie to watch?
YAML ? Easy to read, edit and understand.
We use JSON for graphs. What sucks about it? In what sense is XML better at representing graphs?
Make this the default behavior if you want, but add a configuration option to change it.

In my opinion, there should always be a configuration option associated to a new feature/behavior like this!

Because in the end that's why I still use Firefox : I can configure it like I want!
When you order a pizza it doesn't exist at the time you order. That doesn't change the fact that you're purchasing a product.

Though I think with kickstarter you're technically making a donation. Either way I don't see how that could affect your taxes (other than sales tax) unless you're backing something you want use as a deduction...
Yes, JSON is no ML, but YAML is, which is a superset of JSON's semantics/features. You're perfectly right that JSON is not always the right tool for transporting a document, but I still wouldn't regard XML as the best tool for any of those cases.
Hey I hadn't seen the technique above either. But I've certainly heard of your work. Unfortunately I am not able to share in the bounty that is NLTK.

Anyways, it is really hard to judge these things (statistical recommenders) since the metric is inherently subjective and there really is no wrong or right answer. But the way I like to defend it is: if you are going to just skim you should at least use a statistical based approach. Better than just jumping about randomly.

These days I'm more interested in abstract summarization without cheating (no templates).
This "article" is odd. I've worked with multiple systems and I don't see a reason why one data model can't be bound to XML and JSON without being awkward. It's so incredibly EASY to output and input with both, why not? Personally I prefer JSON as I haven't found anything that can't be represented within it.

I didn't see any example within the article regarding JSON formats that generate awkard XML ad vice versa. Does anyone have examples of that?
In the same vein, http://hashify.me/ stores markdown documents in URL and uses bitly for "persistence". Previous discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197/
un-minifying javascript is very trivial. you just copy and paste it into an online javascript beautifier. you won't get the original un-obfuscated source with original comments, but you'll get readable javasript that you can easily parse visually.
This is a recurring problem with Matt Taibbi's writing, which is worth knowing, because any time Taibbi writes something that remotely bears on startups, technology, or the finance industry, it's sure to be plastered to the front page on HN.
We're talking about on-screen images, not printing them.
Ask HN: Those who took CS373, can you build a robotic car now?
Assuming a proper budget.

Just curious to see how comprehensive the class was.
I don't really understand your point here. Those JSON data dumps don't make any sense...and wouldn't make sense as XML either. Why wouldn't you enforce a schema? I've never worked on a system that didn't do validation and schema enforcement regardless of xsd, json, etc; you need to have well defined ways of laying out your data or it's going to be useless regardless of the format used.

>JSON is great, but it is not nearly as flexible as XML, partly because of attributes.

Attributes can be stored in JSON as well. XML and JSON simply store data in different ways.

>Also, because of it's JS heritage and compatibility, lots of common things are not representable in JSON.

Like what? You can actually put real values in their correct types with JSON. You can't do that with XML, so what types of items are not representable?

>This is mostly because object keys MUST be strings.

The same is true for XML so I'm not sure what your point is. Don't nodes and attribute names need to be strings in XML?
Assuming there's anything left to sue for...
Someone made a service like this last year (http://hashify.me).

HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213
There are things that seem "natural" when using XML? News to me :)
There's no way to point from one part of a JSON doc to another without inventing a terminology or convention for marking the start (anchor) and end of the arc (href). People use 'id' for one end but there's no way to say a json value is actually a reference (href) not just a string. XML has that built in (ID IDREF) and so does HTML, but I didn't say XML was better, I said JSON sucks at markup and graphs. JSON's handy for serializing trees of data with no loops.
>Maybe it was when CEO Zuckerberg started to seem less like that geeky, counterculture college kid and more like a run-of-the-mill billionaire.

What? Zuckerberg never seemed "counter-cultural".

Also, and maybe I'm crazy, but Facebook was never cool -- it was always "just" useful. It was a way to learn about people in college and get back to them after you met them at a party. Facebook was a social utility.

It was also better than MySpace, and had more users on it than Friendster. Does that make it cool? Nah, it just makes it better.

I think that the idea that it may have at some point become cool is among... high school kids who couldn't get in, because it was only open to colleges. Later, it became cool to moms and dads because "it's that internet thing and I can see pictures of people I know, cool!".

For everyone else, who were familiar with email and Flickr and hell, even blogs, all that is just noise.

Facebook was never cool -- and if it was, it was cool among the uncool.
It sounds like you're confusing front-end developer with designer who knows a bit of javascript. I think there is a burgeoning group of developers who build javascript/client side applications. These people aren't really designers, and have programming chops.
What parts of SOX do you think are negative?
The problem is some uses of flash doesn't put any flash controls on the webpage. Mainly for audio related uses, like audio players (mixcloud), or games (since html5 audio still has some work to be done). Chrome gets around this with an icon in the urlbar, and an option "Run all plug-ins this time". If firefox wants to make click-to-play the default option, I don't think this is going to cut it. The only two options they have are to only click-to-play visible plugins (but this is really hard to detect), or give a popup. The popup might work for most users, but some are just going to get confused. In fact, I don't know if most users will read the place-holder for click-to-play in general, or just go "why isn't youtube working".
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1. Those are ships that stopped at islands in the Atlantic. Since the data was copied from ships' logs I doubt there is data on ships that went down.

2. It seems that the person that entered the data just entered a limited data set. So no this does not represent all shipping.

3. I am pretty sure this is related to islands the ships are stopping in as well. (Probably Georgetown and St Helena).
as I said above, de-obfuscating a large javascript app that's been obfuscated/minified by proprietary tools is virtually impossible to decode. Try running some of google's code - gmail, docs, take your pick - through your beautifier ;)
Steve looks a little cross.
I assume you are suggesting CORS as an alternative. Unfortunately, some APIs (e.g. StackExchange) implement crossdomain.xml but not CORS.
I'd like to have a premium account of rapidshare. rapidshare is so slowly. ozkakko@gmail.com
Awesome. I hope the old adage good product wins is really true in the browser world. It was quite a trick to grab market share against IE back in the day, but now they are up against the google cash machine paying Adobe/Avast/ Real/etc. $3/download for chrome. Hard for the little non-profit that could to compete against that. We'll see.
Really like it!

One small suggestion...could you make the "76 comments" under the title clickable through to the HN comments?

One other option (maybe a user preference), include some noteworthy excerpts from the HN comments in the email as well?
Author of Rolling Stone piece is focussing on the JOBS act as an enabler for stock fraud.

That's because, at this point in time, fraud should be the focus of anything related to the financial sector.
If they were caught in a storm it would be very unlikely that they could get their exact location and put it in the ship's log. They are probably sailing back and forth between different islands.
> It's not important to attempt to eliminate fraud, it's more important to make sure people have enough information to know when they're doing something risky.

I suspect it's at least as hard to do the latter as it is to do the former, and almost certainly harder. At least with the regulatory framework in place, the person you have to con is a professional auditor. Without that regulation, it's going to be trivially easy to con the average investor.
Israel did wipe another country off the map: Palestine. Yet we trust them with nukes, which they don't have at all.
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Email sucks. This is how you fix it.
For everyone else, who were familiar with email and Flickr and hell, even blogs, all that is just noise.

I agree, yet it seems that there are scores of others for whom those other options were either unfamiliar or insufficient.

It was cool to those for whom the really cool things about the Internet were just a bit out of reach (e.g. too geeky or obscure). The people who before Facebook would share photos by pasting them into a Word doc and E-mailing the resulting file.

It became AOL for the 21C. and it had a ready audience.
This is a great idea for a visualization. It needs to start WAY earlier, and it needs to begin when there's almost no long-range sailing.
Ask HN: Thoughts on interning elsewhere before working fulltime?
I have a job at X after college (I worked there before), but I asked my boss if I could intern at Y before I headed back into work. The boss replied that it was preferred that I started right away after I graduate but said it was up to me if I wanted to intern.

Well, I got the offer to intern at Y and now I'm wondering if I might be making the wrong choice. I'd love to intern at Y because I think they do awesome stuff and this is the last chance I'll be able to get to do something like this. But I'm asking myself questions like what if this pisses off my boss over at X?

I don't know what to do. I don't know if I'm giving into fear of consequences or if I really am making a wrong decision here.
Many in the US have said the same thing about Iran. When all it takes is one nuke, why should Iran wait to find out? See the hypocrisy? Existential threats work both ways. Are those US talking heads and politicians "brainwashed religious fanatics?" A more important question is why Iran('s government) wants (or claims to want) to eliminate Israel, and how to change their mind (or their government) peacefully.
It's much easier to become a business guy after you already know how to program ;-)
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No they haven't. That convenient mistranslation is widely reported because it suits the narrative of the major political powers [1].

They've essentially said the current political regime in Israel must / will disappear. However that sentiment is less useful if your aim is to portray the Iranian state as an aggressive, modern-day Nazi regime though.

Anyway that aim (essentially portraying Iran as a country dedicated to the extermination of Jews in the Middle East) completely falls apart in the mind of anyone who cares to review the facts: Iran houses the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside Israel, with population estimates ranging between 30,000 and 90,000 people (most sources put it at 75 000) [2], and they are represented in the Iranian parliament.

The current Iranian regime is certainly terrible, and can and should be condemned for many reasons, but pushing the notion that Iran threatens Israel with genocide is pr-fueled nonsense. Useless for intelligent discussion, but handy for manipulating public opinion.

[1] http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/08/28/putting-words-in-ahma...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews
I actually believe the google+ user count. do a search for cialis, viagra, etc. - it's spam central. but then again so is tumblr, twitter, etc. and no one gives them grief about calling these folks users.
Well, it's true that JavaScript- and Canvas- powered ads are harder to distinguish from legitimate web content. But the flip-side is that they're (re-)programmable using standard JavaScript APIs, and thus vulnerable to manipulation by browser extensions in a way that Flash never was, being a proprietary binary format.
If you haven't played Braid and don't want to spoil the ending, skip the 4 paragraphs starting with "After traversing Braid’s five main realms,"
> Is there a way in which apply can look like eval, and eval can look like apply?

Vau, from kernel, may be a candidate.
IIRC that MBP can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM max.
I turned it on a few weeks ago, and after a day or two white listing a few sites that I use often (Google Music, etc) I've found my browsing experience much more enjoyable. My computer as a whole seems snappier; although it could be placebo.
Didn't IE try this and developers got around it by using Javascript to embed flash?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9046245/Microsoft_dro...

Turns out Microsoft did it because of patent issues.
Please note that this not an official extension.
As a former Microsoft employee, the only words that come to mind are "IT'S A TRAP!"
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When my mom started using it.
Yeah, the XML ecosystem is priceless. XPath, for example, is the one reason a project I'm working on can't switch to JSON.
I am proposing that when you get an email from Company X about a new feature request, you should only need to drag the email into the "Company X Features" list. This should instantly create a todo task, share it with everyone with access to the "Company X Features" list, and everyone working on the task should be able to see relevant portions of the original email.

This is what mailing lists are for. Forward the email to the "Company X Features" list, and you've got it.

If you need something with more sophisticated group-wide activity tracking, emails and todolists are indeed poor choices- try filing a bug, and CC'ing the mailing list.

I know on HN it's not hip to not complain about email, and maybe these methods aren't the second coming of productivity, but they seem to work pretty darn well without having to reinvent the wheel.
Heh, you could put something very capable and integrated really quickly using Emacs--all the building blocks are already there. I imagine combining Org-mode, an email client, your development environment and whatever else you happen to use in Emacs with a bit of elisp glue would do most of what the post proposes quickly and elegantly.

Coincidentally, can you use AucTeX's LaTeX previews in other buffers? Being able to see LaTeX equations in emails and chat buffers would be great.
To be clear, I'm talking about how someone defines themselves and their profession. Be a "software developer" or a "software designer". Don't put yourself in a "web" box, because the web will be implemented differently in a few years...like software always is.

There's a professional skillset that developers and designers should have that is far deeper and more general than this year's popular web technologies. If you have that skillset, your career is a lot more secure.

If you're a software developer/designer, and you think of yourself as a "web developer/designer", you're selling yourself short. And if you're beginning your career, know that you'll need learn how to develop/design software, not just "web".
DDG has its own crawler that suppliments and cleans the main search results.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/07/google-web-spam....

DuckDuckBot

http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html
I use Windows 7 and it works for me.
Yeah, HTML5 YouTube has the significant disadvantage of autoplay.
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Well here's my attempt: http://hpaste.org/66897
>If it's const it is static be default.

If it's const at the file scope it's notably NOT static in the 'visible in the file scope only' sense of the word.

Try it, declare a const int at file scope in a C file and use it in a different C file with a extern prototype.
XML is just one data storage and exchange format above many, with no particularly interesting properties and no compelling reason to use it. UTF-8 is the only encoding that's ASCII compatible, widely accepted/expected, and can represent any text you'll ever encounter.

I can come up with half a dozen reasons to use something other than XML for data storage. I've yet to hear anyone give me a compelling reason to use something other than UTF-8 for encoding strings. Just because what I said is absurd when you replace UTF-8 with XML doesn't mean the original was absurd.
Why ever use const at a file scope level. That's what I mean. #defines work SO much better there. Especially if being used outside the file.
Good point, but you can use a parser that supports comments, even if it's not standard. You could also create a node to hold comments.

Then there's also YAML that supports comments.
Sorry, it's on the production machine image from Wikipedia. The prototype is legit from all indications.
That is great for me but not so great for those who aren't techies.
Unfortunately for this case, Shift+RC takes as much effort as Ctrl+RC and replaces the "open in new window" shortcut.
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comp.lang.javascript was a very inhospitable place. David Mark's touted his "My Library" as the holy grail of libraries while bashing any others, yet kept it closed source (now abandoned).

> an unstable "fragment builder" or `innerHTML` calls. Both are neither stable nor secure

They are as stable as the code using them, just like their server-side counterparts. The parser isn't any less stable when called from innerHTML. Would you mind expanding on security?
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Don't take me wrong. But I think your comment reaffirms what everyone and the author of the post says about Google+. That Google+ is quickly turning out to be an elitist network where people don't want what they perceive as 'common' people to be part of. And it's not cool anymore for them once it's adopted widely. It's not much very different from how iOS app users reacted when Instagram launched their Android app and saw a flood of Android users coming in to the network or how Quora early adopters complained about when they opened up from the private beta.
But I mean, yes it does. Imagine if implementations were inconsistent as to what they allowed for JSON keys so that your browser couldn't understand the JSON your python code sent it. That scenario is prevented by the limitation being well documented.
The logo doesn't do anything on several Google properties, not just gmail. And actually prior to this refresh it didn't do anything on G+ either, which annoyed me to no end.

They made this change a few weeks back and I honestly don't know why.
Are you saying you don't think Gmail has a backend...?
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I planned on just using it internally until all the bugs where worked out but what the heck it would be freaking awesome to get you using it now so you can tell me if you love it or it sucks.

For those of us considering signing up, do you personally find your product useful?
i would go one step further and disable all auto-play for audio and video. not just flash, but html5 as well.

if there is some audio or video designated to play onLoad, notify user and have them click ok/prevent/mute...etc. it might make for some no-so-seamless experiences, but the alternative it 90's style animated gif annoyances on spam sites etc..
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I'm not trying to spin this to make GOOG look good, but I would love to be able to spend $1 and get $1 back as profit in addition to my $1.