skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
piece of art..
https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/blob/master/genthree...
No, it's just noise.

It's like someone yelling and acting up when other people are talking about something important to them, just because that person is bored and doesn't care about the topic.

If you are bored, go somewhere else.

And the net result _every_ single time is that the bug gets locked so no one can post to it. Sometimes they unlock it again after the reddit idiots have left.
LinkedIn leak points to Xbox Live "monetization" changes for holiday season
Right but if you were matched against other anonymous users with similar likes, it would be legal
I am SEO and so can you: tool helps tweak content for search, Twitter
The key point:

"ASI [“Automatic Semicolon Insertion”] is an error correction
procedure. If you start to code as if it were a universal
significant-newline rule, you will get into trouble."—Brendan Eich
Slides don't work.
it appears to be based on an ubuntu live cd
Despite the silly negative comments here, there could be some REAL UX advantages to using animations in this way.

Loading large databases of information is very taxing on mobile devices. Users really don't like being interrupted when scrolling, but sometimes they have to be. Animations like this might make the server queue time a little less painful and more gracefully notify users when its ready.

Immediate example that comes to mind is the iOS app for Netflix.
cf. last year's discussion of http://hnlike.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934178
Great article. I learned to code in my 30s, and about six months later the full meaning of it dawned on me: I could make any of my crazy ideas happen myself! No need to find someone else, no need to wait, I could just do it. It was awesome.
That piece about convergent/divergent creativity was truly wonderful. Thanks!
Articles like this are a major reason why I decided to move to New York. Commuting? Sure, but it's also free exercise!
I don't care what Crockford thinks. He's irrelevant and his opinions are often confused with expertise.
It should be relatively trivial (mechanical) to implement a JPEG encoder in Javascript compatible with most browsers.

More so if you don't care about IE < 10.
So it's last.fm for books? How it that a social graph? I don't mean to discount this data entirely, but what some reads (or what music someone listens too) is not anywhere a comprehensive picture of a user; for this reason, niche "social" services like these hypotheticals won't be able to compete with a monster like Facebook. If the service could be a Facebook app, why will users choose this new standalone network over their existing network that already has all of their friends?
I totally agree with the other comments here about safety. Driving is one of the most dangerous things the average person will do every day, and deserves your full attention.

It's fine to make choices for yourself and to accept some risk in your life, but when you are behind the wheel you are making that choice to increase the risk for everyone around you too. You have a responsibility to drive carefully.

Please don't make the roads any more unsafe by doing activities or encouraging others to do activities while driving that may distract them from the task of driving safely.

Find other ways to reclaim your commute such as moving closer to work, working from home on some days or using public transport. Or perhaps stop thinking of your commute as lost time, but time that is spent to enable you to live somewhere pleasant/quiet/cheap while working somewhere that meets the needs of your business/work.
No one needs smaller images anymore. With today's bandwidths getting higher, image sizes are irrelevant.

One-time 25% decrease in image size, years in development and more years to widespread adoption, not worth it.
The problem with working on your own is getting things done in a reasonable time frame.

Sometimes opportunities are fleeting and you need a team of people to succeed while the getting is still good.
Tracking scroll depth is interesting, but percentage isn't all that helpful. The number of comments on a blog post will mess with the data, for example (you won't be able to reliably compare Post A to Post B).

What might make more sense is tracking who scrolled down to the end of the .blog-post div, to the end of the .comments div, and to the end of the footer. Or whatever makes sense for the content on your page(s).
Actually JSMin is aware of semicolon insertion and handles it correctly.

They just disagree on whether a semicolon gets inserted here.
Even if it's significantly better, do the means justify the ends? On massive sites with millions of images, like flickr or facebook, converting all their jpegs into webps to save on bandwidth and speed would mean that they would have to duplicate every single jpeg image (keep the jpegs for older browsers) with a webp copy to serve to newer browsers that support webp. But by doing that you're nearly doubling the HD space of the entire service. More HDs, more servers, more electricity, more personnel. So whatever money was saved on bandwidth (which is getting cheaper all the time) is negated by the architecture required to pull off the transition.

I feel like this is one of those: "good inventions that are better than the competition but have no demand from the market."
I remember an old german anise cookie recipe my grandmother used to make, but had to stop when she couldn't find hartshorn (ammonium carbonate) anymore. I don't recall much ammonia smell or taste in the final cookie.
Cool idea. This took about 5 mins of my day; although if it were about cats, the tab would be open all day lol
Then as long as they don't use Canonical's trademarks (the UBUNTU name and symbol) or they get a license from them, they should be, although IANAL.

All the software in Ubuntu is Free (as in Libre) which means it can be distributed and sold by anyone.
It’s Hard, and I’m Just Not Passionate About It.
Working on auto-instrumenting the button with Google Analytics trackSocial stuff - stay tuned.
Awesome idea to help get dogs adopted. I hope it is a huge success.
We could make the web a lot faster and/or do some really cool stuff if we had a lossy image format with an alpha channel. It'd be nice this got picked up by all browser vendors. Sadly, I fear that they'll be squabbling over it, just like they are with VP8/Ogg/h.264.

I really believe that the companies involved in web standards are holding progress back at this point. At the same time, even if they all agreed to put this in tomorrow, we'd still be stuck supporting IE6-9 which will never have it. Being a web developer sucks sometimes.
>Be conservative with your equity. One of the easiest ways to scare off a technical co-founder is to offer 50% of your company in an initial email or meeting. Freelancers in particular take this as a sign of your trying to get free labor. 50% of nothing is still nothing.

I completely disagree with this. You want to find a co-founder, not an employee. In the early stage your technical co-founder will be doing 90% of the actually work. To offer them a small equity stake because it's your idea is an absolute joke.
My post said nothing to argue 'resting on our laurels' or any other political arguments to do so. It was about today relative to the past.

And I really don't see how free exchange is a thing of the past when even on HN there are posts and discussions about security. Sure, there are people working against the free exchange of information, but cherry-picking examples to suggest there has been a total reversal or that nothing has been accomplished is neither realistic nor fair.
As a society, at least in the US, we seem to have decided that audio-only activities are acceptable while driving. I suppose this is because driving mostly engages visual and motor skills, leaving our audio and language processing free to talk or listen.

Listening to audio books or presentations I believe is good. Dictation is probably a fine activity. As soon as your hands start getting involved or you start to look away from the road I believe that safety starts to suffer.

Does anyone have any quantitative data on how common driving activities affect safety?
Using iSCSI On Debian Squeeze (Initiator And Target)
It's interesting because the 5.1 specification doesn't say it is an error correction mechanism, it states: "For convenience, however, such semicolons may be omitted from the source text in certain situations".
Know your own limit - I always need 100% concentration while driving, but I found that some people can get away with multitasking.
I shouldn't have stated it in a way that sounds like I advocate authors/publishers setting prices. They should be free to pursue whatever business model they choose, just not colluding on fixing price.
mtr is pretty awesome though, you should install it and give it a try.
"jpeg" with transparency would really be a boon...
Moar downvotes!

Can we reconsider using this thing as the assembler for the web? Can we come up with a sane, cross-platform bytecode standard?
Original Combinatorics Puzzle: Pattern Lock - No. of Passwords
GoSpeccy - ZX Spectrum emulator on OpenPandora ARM, written in Go
No beating Facebook
Gotta love that result from a system that's supposed to foster innovation...
Instant share button for Hacker News
what about the sweat?
A couple commenters point out that this isn't really a social graph, which is totally fair objection to the way the author is talking about this stuff. But my main concern is that this doesn't present any evidence that Amazon is doing this (and I'm not saying they aren't), but just suggests why it might be in Amazon's best interest to do so. They put together a couple graphs, one of which appears to be based on publicly visible "customers who bought X bought Y" data, but that data has been around and visible, and scrape-able for years, and they don't present any reasons for believing that this data is being used by Amazon in a different way now than it was 5 years ago. So, in other words, reckless speculation.
You read my mind with the comparison to flash. I've never in my life visited a fully flash-based website that didn't annoy the living heck out of me. Never. The transitions , no matter how quick, add up over time and become annoyances. So as excited as I think we all are about the future of CSS, there's a feeling of uneasiness about how those features are going to be used and what we're going to do WHEN, not if, but WHEN they get overused and over done.

I think now's the time to start working on a browser plugin that disables these "beautiful animations".

- Email introduced, email overused (spam, grey spam, newsletters) we started using spam filters.

- Ads introduced, ads became overused, we install ad blockers.

- Flash introduced, flash became overused, we installed flash blockers.

- Facebook/twitter/sharing Widgets introduced, became overused, we install widget blockers.

- 2012-2014. CSS animations and transitions introduced... you get the picture.
This whole argument is silly (the semicolon in JS argument, not this post itself). JavaScript was built for semicolon use, use them. If you don't want to use semicolons then at least make sure you aren't breaking major libraries that are in mass use. If it does break something many people use then work with the creator to fix it. If he refuses to fix it then ignore everyone using these libraries, provide a weird workaround, or just use a semicolon! Personally I've created a branch off of bootstrap and another library (can't remember off top of my head) that adds in semicolons as to not break JSMin which is critical to my deployments of websites.
Thanks for the link to that talk. Took the time to watch the whole thing, and very much enjoyed it!
Hint: Australia is not US
Neat and clean design - Liked the selection tool. I wish HN provides the same.
Child psychologist midlands
The Family Psychologist understand that parents need honest,open answers when making decisions about what is right for their family.
loved all the commands...specially "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"
Absolutely - I didn't intend to downplay being a TV writer.

In that vein, being a session musician is also "making it" as well. But "it" is subjective - if "it" is being on stage, you didn't "make it" in either case.
My daily half-hour bus commute gives me a great opportunity for focused reading time. By making it a habit, I have read through a year's worth of the St. John's College classics curriculum (http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/ANreadlist.shtml).

Take the bus if it's accessible to you, load up on some books, and you will love your commute.
I can't believe that I woke up this morning and more semicolon arguments are at the top of hackernews..
I think that for some interactive content, we could do definitely utilize WeP's lossy alpha channel format. The one thing that pops up in my mind are filmstrip animations, where you make a animation using JS and a single image that has all your frames. This allows you to control its playback with JS and gives you better image quality than GIF. Right now we can use JPEG compression for this, but this means we have to bake the page background into the frames or use a huge PNG.

With enough browser support an animation like this could just fallback to a single PNG for older browsers and newer browsers would be better experiences.
That doesn't sound right to me. Making s language's syntax more liberal is not a sane way to correct errors. If anything, JavaScript's ASI is an error creation mechanism.
Unicast flooding due to asymmetric routing
An Analysis of Perversely Awful Randomized Sorting Algorithms
Surely this depends on your commute. If you're trying to get from Marin to Soma (in SF) which is mostly stop-go and local streets, that's a very different commute than Soma to Mountain View on the 280.

I certainly wouldn't want to dictate posts during local traffic driving, but if I'm driving on the 280 it's 45 minutes of uneventful constant-speed highway driving.
I'm surprised by the high number for Pascal, and low number for Javascript.
This has been done a few times before but still, well done. Works very well.
Online connectivity is specifically mentioned in the earthquake monitor caption, and can be inferred from the antenna on the laptop at the tidal pool.

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/earthquake%20Atari.jpg

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/tidal%20pool%20atari.jpg
Great idea - people love their dogs and this is a great way to show them off to others. I'd get rid of the ads for now - they dilute the 'brand' (for lack of a better word), which should be your focus right now along with getting lots of users. You can always put ads in later.
Yes, he's acknowledged many times (including in this post) that it was a mistake. That was the intention, but it wasn't successful. It should have gone all in (no semicolons at all) or not have existed.
Yes yes yes we do! Bandwidth may be increasing, but as displays get better we are going to be serving up ever increasing assets. Sites are already serving up 2x'd versions of images for iOS devices that have higher resolution screens. These higher res images essentially quadruple your file size. On top of that these devices are mobile, which lag behind broadband/ethernet connections AND many of which have data limit caps.
"Here is your new apartment. You must use a key to enter it. If you forget your key, you can buzz the superintendent during business hours, and if the super is home, (s)he will open the door for you.”

If you try to take your key with you at all times, the super will save your bacon once in a blue moon when you forget your key. On the other hand, if you think of the door as only needing a key when you wish to have it opened on nights and week-ends, you are on your way to trouble.
I would not start running ads right out of the gate. You could show something funny while the pics load instead of ads.
Feel free to come up with a sane, cross-platform bytecode standard if it sounds doable to you. It doesn't to me.
What about those who choose to swear?

Also, your stance might be unfortunate if someone ever shouts at you, "Fuck me, there's a tiger, run!"
I believe he refers to error correction as in it corrects errors in the code -- i.e. the code itself should have semicolons and is fixed through ASI.
I've found that people who multi-task while driving leave lots of room in front of their car so they can pay less attention and are themselves causing more congestion for others. Of which they are usually unaware because they have tunnel vision at the point.
Sony turnaround plan is more of the same
Estonian robots boost global online clothing market
Why build orbital space colonies?
The eternal fires of high level bike shedding: semi-colons, whitespace and curly braces, no programming discussion or language can escape all three.

Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send (i.e. just use semi-colons) and your systems will work and play well with others being interoperable.
San Francisco startup makes data science a sport
Nothing on the internet is guaranteed. Everything is at some point a leaky abstraction.

While it's possible for a mail to just disappear (or more often, automatically be sorted into a spam folder) the protocol is designed to be quite robust in how responsibilities for delivery are passed on to servers delivering the message.
3-D RNA modeling opens scientific doors
Polarized X-ray scattering technique reveals structure of printable electronics
Don't go so fast? Get a gym membership and shower there? Get a coffee and relax for a few minutes before you go into the office?
I did this when there was a shower at the office and it works out fine.

Of bigger concern is being run over by multi-taskers.
Nanoparticles home in on brain tumors, boost accuracy of surgical removal
Unless he's recording random streams of thoight then there is going to be a lot of conscious decision making and problem solving involved in authoring a post. Those tasks seem overlap with what he should be doing while driving.
Why Generation Y Is Causing The Great Migration Of The 21st Century
I don't like that you make me share before I get an invite.. It should be the other way around - why would I share something and recommend it to my friends before I tried it?
Israel, you’ve got mojo, but where’s your Instagram?
I agree.

A secondary problem with going it alone for coding your MVP is that you don't amass skills at the same rate as someone who is working full time as a programmer.

You can learn quite a bit more material if you are under the gun to get changes made for clients who are paying you, and this can be multiplied when you are working with other people who know more about solving programming problems.

For what it's worth, I aspire to be the "technical founder" for a couple of startup ideas that I work on, but I quit doing other things with my one-man-shop media business.

My strategy (as someone who programmed in HS/College and quit for a decade, and who is now moving from being a wordpress hack to owning a more diverse set of programming tools to solve the problems I am give) has been to find work as a freelancer for a progressively higher-level agencies.

Even though ultimately my goal is to have the tech chops to realize my vision (and working for other people is a sideline to that), it doesn't hurt that I've been making a really good living programming for other people while learning how to do a diverse set of technical tasks.

This plan, of course, has taken me two years so far, and I have budgeted another two years for the same path.

If your time frame is short for a real product, indeed: "you need a team of people to succeed while the getting is still good".
if ; (x3B?) and \n (x0A) are the same size, why use ; in minified JS if \n has more "features"
Off topic completely now. Sorry all.. My post was in defense of distracted driving to give a balanced perspective with some scientific data..

However, I'm as annoyed with distracted driving as ou. I play a small game when driving.. Spot the person on the phone, watch the person next to you at the light and can tell with the head nod to lap that they are texting, especially If under 30. Sorry for the stereotype.

We need some legal paintball guns so we can use on the freeway to tag offenders so those of us that are driving can know where the risks are... And it would be a chance to practice my aim. If more than a few hundred tags, we can then switch to harpoons and the cars will start to look like porcupines.
Thanks for all the input guys. I like your way of thinking on a per user basis, and also raising the concern with how effective the "influencers" will truly be.

Launch party is just part of the strategy. I'm definitely leveraging many low cost channels as well. Just needed some outside perspective :)
Actually leaving lots of room in front of your car (1-2 car lengths in stop-and-go traffic) is very safe and makes traffic flow smoother. It "evens out" the stop and go part of stop and go traffic.

If you have a manual transmission, It's almost mandatory - take a look at large trucks in stop-and-go traffic, they attempt to "idle through" because stopping and restarting a heavy vehicle is fuel-inefficient.
Hmmm...Interesting post. Typically - I would say something that is illegal is illegal but in your case you were a minor so couldn’t really hold it against you. In my opinion - you have two options:

Option 1: Apply to a company on international grounds and ask them to sponsor you on H1-B Visa. (Very-Very Difficult)

Option 2: Apply to a MS program as an international student and get your visa status changed to Student Visa. Upon your graduation - you will have work permit to get a job in US and then your job will apply for H1-B Visa. (You should consult a lawyer)

In any case, you will be in limbo for a long time.

Third and most expensive and unlikely option is that you can invest one million dollars in a start-up that creates a minimum of 10 fulltime US Jobs and you automatically get US Citizenship :)

Of course - you have already identified 4th Option of finding a spouse here who is already a citizen of US :)

Anyway - Good Luck!
Meteor JavaScript framework blurs the line between client and server
I bike to work. Sometimes I can get sort of sweaty, but I bring my work clothes in a bag and change once I get there.
If a major framework breaks a major toolchain and they both disagree on a fundamental principal, then they both don't promote pragmatism or "Get Things Done".
What is the farthest distance you think is a reasonable commute on a bicycle?
Yeah I didn't mean to be dishonest there. Honesty does help. But it also makes it an auto admission of guilt. Use discretion playing either card really in your situation.
If the commute bothers you then move, pay a driver, ride share or catch public transport (as much a people complain the Caltrain is usable). It's selfish to place other at the mercy of your distracted driving because you refuse to live with the consequence of your choices.
Fabian just posted the companion blog post: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/if-in-doubt-go-to-th...
Lots of sources on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safe...
You haven't been around for long enough or just aren'y cynical enough, I went to bed knowing that there would be at least 5 more posts about it in the morning
So, what's the paradox? I just skimmed over the article, but found nothing about one...
Same - I am in a similar position.. I had to take MBA classes and get into a CPT program. So officially I am doing a paid internship.. Companies will agree to work with you if you're good..
Plus, with a vesting schedule (~4 years), a potential co-founder would have motivation to stick around long-term, or cut his losses and move on.
I actually remember the first time I used Wikipedia, in '02 or '03, while researching pyrethrum insecticide in high school. It was such a qualitative improvement over other centralized resources; I wondered how I ever got by without it. Same way I felt when I found Google a few years earlier, and when I got an iPhone a few years later.
http://puppywar.com/

And

http://kittenwar.com/