skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Being lazy is even easier to fix."

Really? Please, do describe your fix for laziness, if it's so easy.

Saying "just be less lazy" is exactly the same as saying "just exert more willpower", and neither is even remotely useful to people whose problems you're belittling as being "just laziness / poor willpower". No therapist would say that to any client for any problem, as they know it would, at best, be completely useless. It's an insult - "you're lazy / weak-willed!" - masquerading as advice.
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I'm amazed that file upload wasn't fixed with HTML5: we shouldn't need piles of elaborate hacks to provide attractive, functional uploads, especially when it's such a vital part of most web applications.

I ended up taking the brutally simple approach of "upload a zip file" to one client, which worked at least!
For the longest time, my favourite was Prophecy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tUfIbqKl8
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Facebook acquires TagTile
FIXING EMAIL is the secret sauce to solving a problem on the internet.
Email is the most basic communication protocol. IF I have a communication problem and dont know how to solve it, I use email as a band-aid to get it done.

As the most basic form of communication, email is the place to look to solve peoples problems. If we are using email to do or accomplish something, that is an opportunity for a startup to build a new app that simplifies that specific form of communication, and solve the pain of using email which was clearly never meant for or is just a bandaid for that need.

Just look at your inbox and what you use it for and ask yourself, "Does this belong here? Could this be done better? If the Answer is Yes, Great, Go build a new startup!"

Before we had social bookmarking, we mass emailed our friends.

The way of the world and evolution is things diverge. They break off into smaller, hyper-focused products and services. This is how new categories are created and new brands succeed. This is a LAW OF NATURE, a LAW OF EVOLUTION and a LAW OF BRANDING.

Want to build something great and amazing, something frighteningly ambitious, look at your inbox and FIX EMAIL!!!
One thing I've been noticing with arguments against this lawsuit is that people are saying "If prices are too high, just buy from another publisher." The thing is that it just doesn't work that way with books. If I want to read Moby Dick but I think the price is too high, I'm boned. That publisher owns that specific book, and I can't just get a knockoff book. There's only one Moby Dick. They are the gatekeepers to that intellectual property.
On win7 I found forfiles command the other day that allows me to do a dir with a date restriction. By using the > redirect to output to file I got a list of files that changed in a certain time.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772390(v=ws.10)...
It's a bit buggy in Chrome 18
Ask HN: What justify this 149bytes difference? [text editor related]
http://cl.ly/3P302w3e3A2p3D261U0H/o

Assuming:
- a single char takes 1 byte.
- a linked list takes about 5 bytes/char.
- a double linked list takes about 9 bytes/char.

1. Why is "Plain Text" format so low on memory. Is it using an array as storage?

2. Why is "Rich Format" so heavy?

Insight, details answers, and links welcome.
Thanks for explaining. I would have spent (too much time) figuring out that joke. It's funny, but not worth (too much time).
Not just browsers, but all image editors (natively) like Photoshop.

But at its core, WebP hasn't been shown to be more than marginally better than JPEG, so why bother modifying your tool chain and work flow? You generally need something to be an order of magnitude better for people to bother.
There are two major flaws with this article. The first is the author's reliance on the reader's understanding of the phrase "agency pricing model." A hyperlink to yet another article that presumably contains an explanation of the term somewhere within it is not the same as a simple one-sentence explanation.

The second is his assumption that "customers will migrate to lower-cost books." Books are not fungible objects. If I want to read the latest Eric Flint novel, I'm not going to pick up a Danielle Steele book instead because it's cheaper.
You know that you can watch aljazeera on your smartphone? Aljazeera is one of most professional media agencies out there.
Ironically true. I have some friends who are afraid of visiting the site on their work machines because their co-workers are "innocent" enough to think hackernews might be actually about "classic" hacking.
What can be done about Noscript users in that regard? Image bugs?
Reasons Not to Use Hadoop for Analytics
Social CMS built on web2py and Bootstrap and is Open Source
+1. I think whats happening now is that people in the third world (Arab countries for instance) are fighting to gain rights they never had, and citizens of the developed world are fighting not to lose rights they already won. In any case the good thing is that there is a fight.
Move the file to a linux/bsd machine and do:

hexdump -C plaintextfilename
hexdump -C richtextfilename
I will never buy an eBook when I can get an actual used copy of the same book in mid to great condition for a tenth or a twentieth of the price of the eBook, both from Amazon. eReaders may have gained acceptance (I have a Kindle and a Sony eReader) but they're not "better" than real books, at least, certainly not better enough to justify paying fixed prices w/ no opportunity for second hand sale (esp. for non-reference materials).

With almost any popular, still-under-copyright book, this is what the pricing looks like on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Book/dp/0...

Paperback: 8.79 dollars. Kindle: 7.99 dollars. Used: 1 cent. Used via Amazon Prime: 3.98

To save NINETY CENTS you get an arguably inferior copy that you cannot resell, pass on, share, touch, or truly experience. No, thank you. And don't forget that your Kindle cost a hundred dollars - you'll need to buy a hundred and eleven such books before you're actually "saving" money.
Are some ISPs more privacy-friendly than others? What should I look for when looking for a privacy-friendly ISP?
Chapter 1 of the horror story "The Fire Road"
Soon, historians will need to become experts at processing big data so that they can make new discoveries.

Protip for the college kids: If you're a computer science person who really like history, take courses that will teach you how to process large datasets. Then you can be on the leading edge of historical research!
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Also a physical book can be lent and resold. They are pulling a fast one with digital content licensing. Everybody talks about price while there are more significant long term issues.
Try it now, I commented out the hover part as it might be causing the problems. Should work fine now.
Try it again. I improved the code a bit
Also, like pre-Tivo television, it's harder to ignore interstitial ads.

For better or worse, I can picture of future of free smart phones with unignorable interstitials.
Typical strawman. Authors and publishers are not a single group. Publishers are just gatekeepers.
I've always had a great deal of admiration for these kind of works.
They elevate programming to an art form.
Hopefully, anyone pondering a new project would investigate Hadoop (or any other tool) before choosing it. Not built for ad hoc queries? Yeah, that's fairly open. Requires programming ability? Well, yes, that's the intent: it's not a studio-type environment. You need staff to keep it running? If you have thousands of nodes and need them, then you probably should already have the resources for an engineer or two.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it sounds like the author tried to fit a tool to his needs rather than choosing a tool that already does so.
> When people say email, they almost always mean their email client and not the protocol.

Yes, but which client? I use mutt, my office manager at work uses Outlook, our accountant uses Gmail, and our advertising manager uses Yahoo.

The fact that we can all email each other seamlessly is inherently because of the common protocol, even though we don't think of it consciously when talking about email.
A mistake many groups tend to make.
New laws drafted by lobbyist create new categories of illegal stuff. Usually with disproportionate punishments. Just ask Dimitri Skylarov. Valid use of circumventions are made illegal (e.g. breaking ebooks DRM so blind people can read). It's getting out of control in USA/EU and many other places, thanks to old money.
Here is a good review: https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-ano...
Any sufficiently radically disorganized editorial system is indistinguishable from user-editable.
Agree on the name. I'm not even sure how to pronounce derby. I have heard it pronounced both "darby" and "derby", with the former being the more traditional, "correct" pronunciation. Kind of like how you are to pronounce grand prix as "gron pree" instead of phonetically. I don't know if it's best to be "correct" or to "dumb it down" to fit in with your peers.
Weekend Ar(t)s: The time is now for revisiting Freaks and Geeks
The tip is of course valid and pro, and I'd recommend the same, but it's already being done, under machine translation. Also, in this area big data loses its meaning, as you don't really need traditional databases, you just process raw text. There are literally thousands researching how to intelligently select and process this data.
Or you can learn math using J [1]:

* Exploring Math
* Math for the Layman
* Arithmetic
* Calculus

[1]http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Books
The CSS3 development is at a point where we should be careful not to repeat the eye-huring things we did to Flash.

All these "amazing" examples of what CSS3 can do are... well, amazing, considerings the limitations of CSS2. But also dangerous, considering "flash based web sites".

Remember that a user may want to see the same page several times. Copy-paste parts of it. Have a closer look at a specific item on the page. Cares for the content, not the weird movements it is doing.
To each their own I guess. Personally I love how awesome it is that I can have one book in many places. I can read from my laptop at work, on my phone on the go, and from my tablet at home. Each automatically syncs to the last read page and my notes/highlights move between them. Mind you I don't actually ever USE notes or highlights, but it's pretty cool that that option is there. Sure I like to hold a book in my hands, but the convenience of an ebook is really hard to beat.

Plus if I have a moment to read and I want a new book, I don't need to wait 3-5 days for shipping, I can download it instantly. If I'm ever out of the country (as I am now for half a year) I can still get any book delivered to me instantly. For me that's just a convenience, however it's critical for areas that normally have to wait 15-20 days for shipping from a place like Amazon.

EDIT: As a quick note to your edit, you're really ignoring some of the best parts of ebooks while pointing out their worst. I don't own a Kindle however read ebooks through Amazon on three different devices.
I read a lot and I don't really notice or care who wrote most of them.

Sure, I would be willing to pay 50$ to read the next Jim Butcher novel right now, but I also get a fair amount of free novels on my Kindle. If it's good I am more than happy to buy something by the author, but there is a lot of free stuff out there and I don't feel the need to spend money just because someone was published.
Numerical Analysis: Fortran, Matlab, R, NumPy a side-by-side reference sheet
Disruptions: Innovations Like Instagram Are Tough, esp. Midstream
Yeah, I know that, but this is the general state of paranoia by a lot of people. You dont want to be caught in possession of a beard while watching aljazeera on your ipad in many airports, necessarily. Or singing any songs by The Clash.

[edit] the largest and most insidious form of censorship doesn't exist in people putting a stop to things, but rather in people not doing or saying things in the first place out of fear of being laughed at or getting into trouble. It doesn't matter if there is noone watching the data, as long as people feel they are being watched and judged it has more or less the same effect.
Pirate Game (mathematical theorem)
Encarta came out around 1993 so it was a latecomer. You can find much earlier examples, like the New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia which was one of the earliest CD-ROMs and came out in 1985.
Or create better tools so that PGP encryption can be practical again.
This reminds me of Tackable:

http://blog.tackable.com/about/
Before Amazon, there was at least one additional intermediary (wholesaler).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format#Code_example

From their example:

$ echo "{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard
This is some {\b bold} text.\par
}" |wc -c
86

$ echo "This is some bold text." |wc -c
24

Also see cd34's comment.

If you're going to add information, that has to be a higher byte count.
Replacing email isn't fixing email, it's replacing email. When I discovered I couldn't practice running a mile in my house, I went to the local track. I didn't fix my house, I replaced it for this particular task with something else. Isn't this the same?

I think PG is in the minority when he considers a conversation over email a "degenerate case" of a TODO list item. A public-writeable personal todo list application is separate from my email client, whether it uses the email protocol to send todo items, or a new protocol to send todo items, or http to put todo items on a centralized database, etc.
Yeah I'm wrong. What I had in mind I guess, is take an existing very impressive 64kb demo, then do this. That might be much harder, but not necessarily impossible in theory.
Wow, there are a lot of typos and grammar errors in this piece. I don't want to sound pedantic, but the article was kind of hard to read.

However, I think that the thesis about mobile in some ways replacing older internet ad paradigms is true. Especially in emerging markets, mobiel internet is the dominant platform for most applications.
Writing testable Code
How consistent is eventual consistency?
Ask HN: Possible to re-compress JPEG on the client before upload?
When offering photo file uploading, usually the user will have badly compressed and huge (10+ megapixels) JPEG files from their cameras or phones. On the server side, these files will get re-compressed to something like 800x600px and JPEG quality 7 or 8.

Is it (already) possible to do that re-compression on the client side? So that I would only need to transmit some 100kB (800x600px) and not 3 MB or more. Something like:

(1) With javascript's new FileSystem API ( http://slides.html5rocks.com/#filewriter ) it would be possible to read the photo file's data into client side JS.

(2) Then it would be necessary to re-encode the JPEG data, which is possible, but I counld not find any library for that (yet). Anybody knows such a library?

(3) Last step would be to POST the re-compressed JPEG data to the server side for storage and get a URL to the stored photo file back from the server for inclusion into the client's HTML.

I am looking for some jQuery plugin, other JS library or example web page that does this. Suggestions
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I agree with what you are saying but this was a contrived example. The effect is "too the max" and not completely thought out from a UX perspective.

The downsides with flash were the accessibility issues and the fact that it was a browser plugin. This is baked directly into the browser and if coded correctly I think can be used sparingly for a good effect. As much as we browse the web for content, as long as it is displayed effectively (in a static or dynamic) manner is what counts.
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
Another one that should be common sense is not adding people to a project that's already late.
No. If you look at history everything we consider civilized have been a result of an effort or a struggle by the people that came before us.

Expecting the war against bullshit to end any time soon is naive. Civilization will always be on the defensive because the owners want more for themselves and less for everyone else.
Hadoop is good at what it's designed for (data processing parallelization built by programmers) and bad at what it's not (ad hoc queries by people who are not programmers).

Move along here folks, nothing to see here.
His argument and charts imply a stopped duration of 0s. I was taught that a legal stop is >= 2 seconds duration. Guilty.
Spot on. I've grown sick of these "amazing" or "beautiful", it's very relative, CSS animations. As you say it looks like what Flash was at the worst of its time or even before animated gif images were to geocities. I would be laughing if in a few years we'll look at these CSS3 animations the same way we look today at the ridiculous design of Geocities pages.

If you look at very CSS-heavy website around + JavaScript it brings to its knees my poor old computer (it's ridiculous, it's only 2 years old), it feels bulky and laggy, prevent me from copying sometimes even looking at things...

Doing complicated things with heavy CSS animation is (relatively) easy, but bringing to end users a simple yet elegant and useful design should be a webdesigner's job, not these hacky-scrolling features, stuff that swirl around making it impossible to copy or even to look at. For your nice CSS tricks leave it as easter eggs for your most attentive visitors, they'll love the feeling of having discovered something hidden.

In CSS animations, less should be more.
Like I mentioned, I have a Kindle, and I've loaded it with tons of classics and DRM-free materials. It's nice and convenient, and I really like it.

But buying something is different - buying is, by nature, a matter of value. The fact of the matter is, buying a second hand book gives you more value/dollar than buying an ebook at 3 times the cost. An ebook you read once but cannot resell is eight dollars literally lost overnight. You no longer have the eight dollars and you don't have anything worth eight dollars. When you buy the book second hand, you get the same (or better) value of reading the book, but you also retain a residue value that lives forever.
I've been playing for a day now. The fit-and-finish is unreal.

800 Microsoft points (5 bucks?) is way too cheap.
Other Helpers:

- Use the most official title: 'Yes Trooper', 'Thank you sheriff', etc.

- Be honest, authentic and remorseful, but not apologetic. (I don't agree with #1)

- Be well groomed. After I got my beard and hair cut, I stopped getting tickets. I've gotten 8 consecutive warnings, most verbal. Before getting 'cleaned up', I got 9 tickets and 1 warning.

- Have a woman in the car. Doesn't have to say anything, just smile and reply to questions.

- Pull over, turn on the dome light and leave your hands on the steering wheel. I lower my window when a flashlight hits me, and only get paper work in response to a command.

My streak of warnings still dumbfounds me. I even got pulled over twice after a superbowl for a tail light and got a verbal warning twice.
I said something same-ish, but it seems HN is full of true professionals, with no place for humor in their work --or internet procrastination time--, that never read MAD magazine as kids...
Email is broken by spam. It's incredibly difficult to send mails without being blocked by one of the antispam systems. The big names easily block IP addresses of the SMTP servers if one user has been declared a spammer. This is not a "perfect" and healthy protocol.
My nephew is 14 and has already published not one, but four books on the Kindle platform

So your example for something that could replace Amazon... is Amazon?

Amazon is doing at least two things really well that is going to be completely impractical for individual self-publishing authors to do on their own: Providing a go-to place for customers looking for books, and payment processing.
I think your first reference is generally correct. Email the protocol is mostly not broken, and the most fruitful improvements to email are in the client, not the protocol. An RFC can be improved (and most have), but that should be a matter of tweaking, not replacement.

I would like to see an additional kind of email built on RSS or something like it. I only get your "r-mail" if I both subscribe and poll. Maybe that can be had right now with better/different rss clients, and make (virtual) rss servers more available at an individual level.

The benefit is that I only get what I want, when I want it. Although a roughly similar result can be had through email whitelisting.
"The horse-and-buggy has been working perfectly for the last hundred years, why rebuild it from scratch?"

Nothing is beyond disruption. Just because a technology is sufficiently functional doesn't mean there's no benefit to rethinking it.
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Blazing-Fast Application Switching in Linux using Run-or-Raise
didn't the second sentence give you a hint good enough to determine what he doesn't agree with?

no offence but I feel like replying to a troll, and I know I shouldn't :(
Unless you're internet famous, you have to tell me what "this" is in the title or I'm not going to look.
The future of media = many small pieces, loosely joined
I love the autojump, but it's not exactly using a built-in *nix tool like most of these are. Would love to see more people open their eyes to how awesome autojump really is. Using cd to change directories is so broken.
How to Convert Images to Icon .ico Files Without Any Software ( Online )
What does ad-hoc queries on extremely large datasets easily and in a reasonable amount of time?
The author argues for a centralized command economy of e-book sales, in which large bureaucratic institutions set prices based on the consumption patterns of their executives.
It's a fantastic bit of coding, just wondering...
No. "Sold out" to The Man. The Capitalist Man.
Yeah, I feel the slight advantages it brings to the table are easily overwhelmed by the fact that I have to carry two sets of images, and use browser detection to switch between them. Even if Firefox and IE picked it up, their older versions are still not going to support the format. This makes it not very useful for at least 4-5 years.
ParrotStore: connecting Parrot to storage, caches, and databases.
Don't trust yourself. Visualise.
I live in a tiny apartment with no room for all the books I read. I don't like the clutter much anyway - and it makes it hard to move. I have no one local to me to lend books to. Being able to download a book instantly, whenever I want, is a huge advantage.

When I travel, carrying a lightweight kindle or iPad is simple and doesn't take up tons of space like the 3 giant paperback books I would read without an e-reader. Plus, assuming I bring an iPad, it does tons of other stuff as well.

On top of that, as other people have mentioned, all the syncing that is done between reading devices is fantastic.

Also, I can read in the dark on my iPad, and I can read with white words on a black background, which is much easier on my eyes.
WebP support transparency with lossy compression which is a huge advantage over JPEG.

When I was studying image compression back at university we wrote a whole bunch of lossy/lossless codecs. The issue is that most of the cool algorithms are protected by patents (such as Arithmetic coding). JPEG is quite old now and you can achieve much better results with wavelet coding as opposed to the traditional DCT approach. Plus it doesn't suffer the horrible blockiness effect that quantized DCT based stuff does.

Edit: If anybody has a few hours of time to waste here's a thesis I wrote on deblocking JPEG images a long time ago.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/hons/projects/2005/Mirsad.Maka...
play music by 17 year olds for 40 year olds? Why? So we can pretend we're still kids?

Better than playing music from the early to mid 90s... ;)