skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not bad taste.

The best way to make the front page is: Good headline with some luck.

The best way to stay on the front page is: Good content with some luck.
I believe the authors wrote it clear enough that they don't rule out UTF-16 completely:

> We believe that all other encodings of Unicode (or text, in general) belong to rare edge-cases of optimization and should be avoided by mainstream users.

So if you're writing a browser that must use UTF-16 in its Javascript engine due to dumb standards... it is a reasonable performance optimizations to use UTF-16 for your strings. But how many people write Javascript engines?
Blekko has given me great results before, and I've found gems I haven't found elsewhere, but I'm not 100 percent ninja with the slash syntax yet, which is maybe a reason why I still use Google most of the time.

I'll bookmark this handy page and try to get in the habit of using it regularly.
It's difficult to take advantage of ECN nowadays, too. Some ISPs seem to clobber the ECN field when packets enter their AS. This is measured and discussed here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2068833. Notably:

"""Via large-scale path measurements, we find the ECN feedback loop failing in the core of the network 40% of the time, typically at AS boundaries."""

So, unfortunately, we've got a ways to go on this.
Exactly how much complexity does a closing <html> tag add?
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I'm really curious about the technology behind the brown spots and the audio distortions. Can you cite your source for this stuff so I can read up on it?
This. Bruce Lee said the same, about his movements
Right, from a marketing perspective for a company at such an early stage its actually a pretty good deal.

In addition the Sharks know this and have an unfair advantage as investors that would motivate them to make deals. So ABC is also attempting to level the playing field a little bit
Super Mario Brothers also did this. SMB was one of the first games that scrolled, so very soon after starting, a goomba appears from the right to tell you that you can move to the right. If you don't jump over or on it, you die, learning that lesson. Once you learn that lesson, you are under some blocks, and another goomba appears. You jump over it, but in doing so, you are forced to hit one of the blocks above you, which causes a mushroom powerup to appear and flow above you in the same direction. It falls down, hits a pipe in the way, and comes in your direction. This is timed so that it's unlikely that you will avoid touching it - which you have so far been taught to do, since it's quite similar to a goomba.

The first two screens of SMB are deliberately designed to teach you the basic rules of the game without actually explaining them to you.
I agree in principle. But "chatty" APIs usually work with short strings, in which case you can use stack allocations in those performance critical calls.
Hmm strange, just tested then and works on my end with Chrome 18 and Firefox 12.0 on OS X.
Don't serve static files with node. Use an nginx reverse proxy for your html/js/css assets.
Related article published about a month ago in the Guardian about frustrations with journal publishing models: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blo...
It might be publication track for ICSE or one of the other software engineering conferences. Obviously you couldn't just write a game, you would have to actually do some research.
https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom
Hi Mike, is there any way to sync the podcasts to my iTouch?
"What Wordpress did for the web" is a dangerous comparison.
None, but for something that's attempting to generate very simple markup

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>TITLE</title>

Is nicer than

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>TITLE</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
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I've only read the CSSArrowPlease post, but any interesting examples of problem solving, be it in CSS or C++, I like to read. That was one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3948284

And another recent example, fwiw:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3916477
The HN link is giving a 403 -- anyone have an alternative link?
Are you a part of the community? Submit your own stuff. It's only in bad taste if you start spewing out generic fluff for HN.

Are you a spammer like bgr.com [1] (3 accounts), bostinno.com [2] (20+ accounts), macobserver.com [3] (6 accounts) just dumping links here? Don't submit your stuff.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3867787

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3929453

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3930361
It's a 'simple' layer of banking, although they are not a bank. They're partnered with Bancorp. They offer some additional features (namely, direct deposit and FDIC backing) over Paypal.
Yeah, if you listen to The Economist. Or you can actually come here and realise it's not that simple, and in fact, a lot of business gets done here.
―The food bank sometimes receives items with virtually no nutritional value -- "candy and crap" says Aason, which are sometimes tossed, and sometimes used as "filler items." It's not stuff that they want, but the junk food is part and parcel with reclamation.[1]

―"There are things that are not even usable. We can't sell it in the store."[2]

―"We want saleable donations only," a Red Cross spokeswoman said[3]

―"What people take out of our store, we would actually wear ourself."[4]

―“Every Monday, we waste time sorting other people’s rubbish instead of preparing clothing and furniture for sale for people in need,” Mrs Barrett said.[5]

―"A good donation is something which is unbroken, complete, clean and sellable."[6]

―“If people are trying to get rid of stuff, use the tip; we only take items that are in good condition and that people can use.”[7]

―Barbara Cunningham, Sails Outlet's volunteer manager, said people dump unusable items at the thrift store two to three times a week. Recently, they found a queen-size mattress tossed outside the door.[8]

―McLellan suggests donors ask themselves, “would I buy this?”[9]

―“They wouldn’t buy it themselves, but they think other people will.”[9]

―“The appliances and that kind of thing, we want them working. We don’t them to come in without a cord, or a broken anything. There are standards — you can’t sell things that aren’t in good order.”[9]

―“These are things that should be taken to the dump,” said Thrift Store Manager Sheila Combs. “Who wants half a pool table — and a broken one to boot?”[10]

―“We couldn’t get rid of the TVs if we slapped a $2 sticker on them,” Combs said Wednesday. “As for these computer things… we don’t even have a computer so we don’t know if they work.”[10]

[1] http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/04/26/Greater-Vancouver-Food-Ban...

[2] http://www.sunjournal.com/node/100881

[3] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/charities-report-incre...

[4] http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/05/11/18135666.html

[5] http://www.portnews.com.au/news/local/news/general/tip-fees-...

[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/sep/06/charities.volu...

[7] http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/news/local/news/general/tr...

[8] http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/09/22/1650943/tri-city-th...

[9] http://www.rosslandnews.com/news/121669949.html

[10] http://www.revelstokecurrent.com/2011/05/25/thoughtless-peop...
I had the same questions as the grandparent, but I whipped through to the end (just building a generic 'Twitter' app to get there, and then realized that I can download the source and (presumably) import it into Eclipse.

To me, this is the sweet spot that nobody else is doing, and that will likely have me using it, if only as a bootstrap for an application.

If I might suggest a (potentially premium) feature, make it so that I could store and upload my own 'skeleton' apps and use them with the GUI builder (to whatever degree of possibility that might be.)
I'm unfamiliar, are they a business or just a platform? As much as I'd prefer it all be open, the only way to send a message is to work in their sphere. Contracts between publishers and libraries exist in the conference rooms, decided by committees. No librarian or administrator will be convinced without face time a salesman who can convince them to dump their past decades of loyalty. How can a librarian, one trained in maintaining and preserving access to materials, trust that a new and free platform will be around for years? The publishing houses have been around for centuries, literally.

Somebody needs to come along and start by making the little, obvious things right. Their next goal is to avoid acquisition long enough to make a difference. Every so often a promising business comes along, only to be bought out by the big guys and slowly dismantled (see SerialsSolutions).

Also, science and math journals are only an aspect of journal publishing, albeit the most pricey of subjects of which to build a collection. These subjects have always been the first to lean towards open access but they stand in distinction from the rest of a library's collection.
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I simply submit things from my blog when I think they are things that HN would be interested in. I've never received any criticism for it. Some things catch the fancy of HN, others don't.
Nice, I didn't know they were already taking signups.

Also I'm in Win7 on Chrome and the site font (maybe the font-weight?) makes text on the site appear real fuzzy.
Queen’s speech unveils UK’s ‘Patriot Act’ Web monitoring plan
Sorry man, just trust us, Argentina is ahead of Chile (and the rest of Latin America) when it comes to skills in technology/programming. If you want proof, take a look at some of the events being run in Argentina. Check out the Ruby community. Then compare and contrast with the same in Chile. They're miles ahead here.
I've been using Simple since September[0] as a complete replacement for my bank account. That's the idea - you replace your existing checking/savings/etc accounts with Simple.

[0]: I work there.
An Argentinian here.

I honestly believe the current government is, in many ways, the best this country has had for the past 30 years (at least), even taking into account its many and very real shortcomings (the mangling of official statistics and the outrageous restrictions on foreign currency ranking very high among them).

I am obviously partial in the matter, but I also believe Argentina still has much going for it. The upper education system in particular remains very good in most places and is completely free. I attend the University of Buenos Aires and can attest to this, even though I'm by no means a top student. The resources aren't abundant, but the quality of the education itself is excellent.

Lastly, the government is forcefully buying the oil company that used to be state-owned until the early 90s neoliberal selling spree happened. It's not like it's arbitrarily taking companies by force. I think there's some kind of consensus in economics about oil being a strategic resource, so I'm not sure it's fair to extrapolate from this one data point.
I find it somewhat in bad taste, but only because I find self-promotion to be somewhat in bad taste. If I write something that others find useful or interesting, I'd appreciate it if they mentioned it on HN but I would never presume to post my own content.
Funny how everyone wants to program in BASIC but doesn't want to admit it. Like the Python and Lua guys. Try FreeBASIC, it's a compiler.
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The simplest way is to click on the iTunes icon just under the title on your channel page. It will add your channel to iTunes as a single "mix feed" containing all series you've subscribed to on Player FM.
You forgot CEA (nuclear and renewable energy, microelectronics, defense,... 16k people).
It's fine to submit your own stuff, but the attention given to /new is limited, so try to limit yourself to stuff that HN will like. Basically, if all your posts sink without a trace, try to improve your writing or choose better topics before you submit more.
For me, the real genius of Miles Davis was in his role as band leader, in particular in choosing his bands. A large number of great jazz musicians from successive generations (1950s to 1980s) played in his bands early in their careers. He was a jazz professor with them his grad students.
This attitude has killed many in aviation. The aviation industry is so conservative they've resisted electronic fuel injection for decades. Sticking instead with carburetors which can ice up. and many many people have in fact died from carb icing.
Yes indeed. You can mix and match Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy in the same app.
We hope to support more languages going ahead (e.g. Java, Scala, ...)
their admins seemed to have blocked access now:

"...Because of unsustainable subscription prices and conditions, the board of directors of the mathematics department has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013..."

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Nu3pKnb...
Same here, at least 1.5, probably closer to 2 (I think their original invitation signups were in June or July of 2010).
Click: http://www.coderegator.com/
it's bad taste to submit your own work.
it's bad taste to cold email bloggers.
it's bad taste to do SEO ("just focus on good content!")
it's bad taste to post on ppl's FB walls
it's bad taste link to your site in forums
These things are super expensive. The value they provide is a network effect --> prestige from history + high quality peers reviewing the work that's published

The elite universities can "make this" themselves -- they did something like this in philosophy (led out of Michigan) when I was in grad school:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophers%27_Imprint

The reality is these days that most/all papers are shared online in these PDF exchanges long before 'real' publication. And as a result the journal articles hardly matter as much.

I would guess this is most true for stuff with less lab work and more "pencil" work like math or logic or philosophy.
I always assumed that scientists generally do not participate in the wider web as much due to having much faster academic links than the average net user could even dream of.

However, that said, there are many things that can be improved upon that the wider web would be great for. Academic publishing is one obvious one and the Elsevier boycott is a strong indication that this is well underway.

Data collection and sensing is another, which with the new class of cheap networked devices like the Rasperry Pi, as well as pads and smartphones, could well be something that is worth putting some thought into.

Distributed computing and mass collaboration is another obvious one, however it seems that academics can often get this more or less for free, if you look at examples like folding@home and the NASA moon crater identification project thingy, so there might not be so much requirement for things like EC2 or mechanical turk, when compared to getting people to donate resources for nothing.
Agreed, it would be good to have CommonJS support.

However, it's unlikely that node modules will work as is with Vert.x, since the API is different. (Unless someone writes a translation layer)
Is there a version for Windows?
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Please don't include jQuery or Prototype using the URLs shown there, because they are only cached for one hour. Use a full-version URL.
In general this is very cool. Some constructive criticism:

1) I was really expecting an actual programming language instead of "just" HTML/CSS.

2) When watching some of the CSS demos, the switch back and forth between the HTML tab and the CSS tab was pretty jarring. I'd like to be able to see both at all times.

3) It took more clicks than expected to get things started.
Please use http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3948551 instead - it's older and has more votes.
I think it is more revealing of your answers: for anything but the human ones, you take a materialistic approach, which eventually boils down to physics.

Same principle for human matters, except we don't know yet how to close the gap between psychology and physics. Plus, you may be content with psychology if you believe there's some "magic" (like immaterial souls) between the two.
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Sorry, I made assumptions that people knew what gzip was. EDIT: That wasn't meant to be condescending, I apologise.

To clarify the original comment: I think it's rather pointless to gzip a PNG file, since PNG files use deflate compression, the same method gzip uses, and hence it has very little real benefit, if any.
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Here's hoping they make the software available on other models, like my beloved Galaxy Nexus.
Perhaps children intuitively have 'chain of events' thought patterns. It's something many adults seem to lack, which makes proposing solutions to big problems difficult; because one has to be able to see far beyond simple cause & effect to both understand the problem and the proposed solution.
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I am looking to display website analytics type data into beautiful charts. I could't find anything beautiful out there. Please tell me if you know any.

Thanks,
Thanks. We're working on it.
At least one of the developers wants to make Rust's runtime optional, to allow the runtime to itself be written in Rust. That would probably also serve your goals as well, so perhaps you'd be interested in helping out? :)

Quote:

"I'd like to see a 'runtime-less Rust' myself, because it'd be great if we could implement the Rust runtime in Rust. This might be useful for other things too, such as drivers or libraries to be embedded into other software. (The latter is obviously of interest to us at Mozilla.) Rust programs compiled in this mode would disable the task system, would be vulnerable to stack overflow (although we might be able to mitigate that with guard pages), and would require extra work to avoid leaks, but would be able to run without a runtime.

If anyone is interested in this project, I'd be happy to talk more about it -- we have a ton of stuff on our plate at the moment, so we aren't working on it right now, but I'd be thrilled if anyone was interested and could help."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724577
Absolute love the idea. It's something I've been thinking about doing for a while now, but with a slightly different twist. (though I lack the skills myself to code it).

1. I assume you're going to be adding new stuff to it daily ?For example a quick glance in the videogames section and a few 'popular' podcasts I listen to are missing.

2. Would be great if you could "bookmark" a point in a podcast. Here's my thinking. typically I would use this app at work where I can't install itunes. So if I'm in the middle of a podcast and the day is done, I can bookmark and resume tomorrow. (just one simple use case example)

3. Are you planning to add a rating system to it? One of the major problems I have with itunes is it's hard to find stuff because there's just SO MUCH. (doesn't make sense I know..)

All in all great app and I'm sure I'll be on it pretty regular.

p.s. cool domain name, can't believe it wasn't taken!!
> The net neutrality law prohibits internet providers from interfering with the traffic of their users.

Censoring The Pirate Bay is interfering the with the users' traffic. Does that mean the court ruling of Ziggo and Xs4all being forces to censor that site, contradicts this legislation?
I believe what they're implying is that what's free is use of the infrastructure but each transaction through the infrastructure incurs a fee. Contrast that with a CC payment gateway where you're paying $30-$40 per month in membership fees regardless of whether you even process payments for a given month.
Single page version: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128681-the-wretched-sta...
> the only durable products made today are firearms

I don't think that's quite true. You can seek out many "made in America" products at a higher price point and with a lifetime warranty. I recently ordered a Duluth Pack bag. It cost triple the walmart/target equivalent. But it will likely last the rest of my life, and if it doesn't it is guaranteed.

I have had my two pairs of Allen Edmonds (made in America) shoes resoled a few times. They've lasted many years and will probably last another 10, perhaps even the rest of my life. Likewise my Red Wing boots are tanks.

A lot of high quality, made to last stuff is available. It's just expensive and people are stupid cheap. And Americans are especially stupid cheap. Why buy a crap $250 suit that will disintegrate in a matter of years? Shell out for the fly made in America Hickey Freeman suit that will last forever, man.
* It is incomplete and non-comprehensive, but adding the nuances needed to make it more complete and comprehensive wouldn't be too much work*

So it's minimal AND incomplete. Not even minimal and complete. That's what the parent was saying. And it will likely stay that way (as it's not even your focus in the project), and be forgotten.

There are tons of toolkits like that.
A great article, and Valve does this so very well.

On a related note, Valve launched the 'Perpetual Testing Initiative' for Portal 2 yesterday ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/620 ) , which is an amazingly easy-to-use level editor and shared content community, which should add much longevity to the game.

People learn to build levels, and get feedback votes from players. The options are slightly limited, but you can take your level over to the full hammer editor after.

An interesting move in the context of the article, essentially teaching their community to be makers.
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If you didn't notice, this blog post is inspired by that site and links to it.
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One of the most cunning ways I've ever seen of getting someone to read about how much Photoshop sucks - by making them think they're reading about how much Portal rocks.
> The company is currently being boycotted by academics who object to its business model

The only way to win the war is through convincing the librarians and administrators who cut the checks for an institution's subscription. They're who drive prices.
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Browser support? Any idea if this works in IE7/8?
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Thanks for the tip--I held off on an Intel 160GB for $250 back in January, and now the same price gets me a 256GB!