skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the UK as well, and have similar worries. My own MP (Julian Huppert in Cambridge) seems to be fairly clued up about these technical/IP issues, but I fear he is in a small minority within Parliament as a whole.

There is a certain kind of person -- I'm still not sure whether it's in the political classes or whether it's an ingrained assumption/bias at the top of the civil service -- who keeps supporting harsh IP-related laws. I don't assume that they're doing it out of malice. I think there are good arguments for having a robust IP framework, at least until someone demonstrates anything more effective at promoting creation and distribution of new works.

But at the same time, as a practical matter, there is inevitably a balance to be struck between enforcing someone's IP rights and protecting someone else's rights of privacy, freedom of expression, and so on. I get the feeling that a lot of the briefings used to persuade representatives to vote for these draconian laws aren't paying much attention to the costs in these areas, only to the assumed economic benefits of having a strong IP regime in place. At least if the problem is ignorance rather than malice/corruption, one possible solution is education, and thus I write to my representatives in the hope that at least some of them will listen.

FWIW, I had about a 50% response rate to a letter to 7 MEPs on this subject, although I don't think I should count the one whose letter basically repeated each of my points verbatim but with the words "I understand that..." at the start of each sentence!
So create something new.
> Why should it mean anything special for creationists?

I guess maybe this is a misconception based on the media having come up with the stupid label of "the God particle"?
When Launching Early is a Bad Idea
You are right, Looking good and actually being usable are quite different.

The main problem with this concept, I think, was that the extreme minimalism ended up in a UI that hides too much information.

Even when I love the way it looks like, it feels like I would need to hover everything, just to get more info (and if Win8 aims to touch devices... hover is not good).

And of course, it doesn't look good for multitasking.

Here are some other concept designs from the same time...
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/25/2823647/windows-8-desktop-...

This other example is really interesting, because of the fact that it anticipated extremely well how Windows 8's Explorer looks like today:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/056/8/b/8b357c7cff026...

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/056/0/b/0bd5349ab72b1...

Compare it to the real thing:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-bl...
Does it support a view where you only see new posts since the last visit? Or alternatively sort by the most recent posts?

This is something that bothers me. Say, there is an interesting discussion with ~100 comments and I read all of them. Then I come back later to ~110 comments, I have to find the new comments manually.
They've been using spy glasses for years though, haven't they? I, er, would have thought.
In comic form:

http://vimeo.com/41038445
This isn't life-changing, but very convenient and unobtrusive in a good way. Well done, vlad! :)
Snippet from http://www.youtube-mp3.org/situation-update

Update: Google has released a new YouTube app for Android which allows videos to be downloaded and stored in a permanent fashion on the device. I don't think that it is necessary to comment this.

How convenient that they decided to start shutting down services that download videos/mp3 from youtube while launching an app to do exactly that
Wouldn't combining it with an If-Match header make it idempotent, assuming the server actually performs the check before applying the patch?
Exactly. P(results|luck) and P(luck|results) are two very different things. We don't know the probability that the results are due to "just luck" (whatever that means).
The difference it makes is that with PHP being so popular, it gets a lot of support from cheap web hosts (often being the /only/ language supported), and thus if you write software to be deployed, PHP is the only option, thus it gains popularity, thus nothing else gets supported.

I've been working with PHP for ~8 years, having it as my main source for income, and I'm /still/ finding new and interesting things to hate about it on an almost daily basis. I wish I could go and code in a better language, but that's not an option, because cheap shared hosts don't support any better language, because of people like you keeping the PHP ecosystem limping on.
This idea rocks, but what about privacy? How can I control which company gets access to my assessment data?
Next up: TPP. Bring it MPAA/Obama administration!
Huppert, your MP, even posts on Slashdot from time to time.
Does PHP have a function to generate a new URL that is the current URL with one of the GET parameters changed yet?

After working with PHP for years, I've taken a look at rails and a few python frameworks, and looking back to PHP it makes me sad that I have to keep using a "web oriented language" that doesn't come with basic web features :-(
But I like PHP. Even with its numerous warts, it's the easiest language I've ever written.
The US military was not involved, contrary to popular belief.
New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage
The standard model predicted it and it was found. That's a major win for the standard model, which is the result of many years of theoretical work, as said above - it was able to predict something completely new, something that was never observed before.
I'm not deep enough in the field to see what questions could be answered, and we will see, but it's always a good thing to be able to rely on your model of the world.

So - this is not about other questions in the first place, it's about the validity of the standard model. We can continue from there.
(A common title for talks etc is "Physics beyond the Standard Model".)
Using intern developers to write PHP.

I really hope you're using a framework, because that above sentence is a recipe for disaster.
That's addressed directly in TFA:

> The European Commissioner responsible for the treaty, Karel de Gucht, has said that he will ignore any rejections and re-table it before the European Parliament until it passes. That’s not going to happen. Parliament takes its dignity very seriously and does not tolerate that kind of contempt, fortunately. This is something relatively new in the history of the European Union’s democracy – the first time I saw Parliament stand up for its dignity was during the Telecoms Package, where the Commission also tried to ram through three-strikes provisions. (Instead, Parliament made “three strikes” schemes illegal in the entire European Union.)
That's funny.

I'd love to see Steve Jobs' reaction to Bill Gates' opinion regarding what Apple needs to do.

I suspect Tim Cook's reaction will be similar, though quieter.
CERN announces discovery of new particle consistent with Higgs boson
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That's about it. See also
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/06/28/why-we-shouldnt-com...
I suspect the slides will be given to people afterwards. In this respect, they're not that bad.
Android-x86 4.0.4 “eeepc” running arm apps with libhoudini and videos/benchmarks
Subtract the nice wallpaper and the problems here become much more obvious. It's wrong in exactly the same way that the new Gmail UI is wrong. Too much white space, too little colour, tiny grey abstract buttons without obvious hit boxes. Screen elements are too similar in colour to tell where one ends and another begins, white spacing is inconsistent, the scrollbars are too small to grab and lack up/down buttons, the mouse pointer is almost invisible even when placed over one of the darkest areas of the screen. It looks like there's an assumption that third-party programs (Skype) will create icons and front-ends which use the exact same widgets and icons as the new UI, which most of them obviously will not. There's a similar assumption about third-party web sites: what does it look like when you load up Facebook?

How do I launch Office from this interface? What do the tick marks next to "Homegroup" and "SkyDrive" indicate? What about the 3x3 grid of tiny squares next to "Max" in the Skype window, which is almost impossible to see? Why is the "minimise" icon in the top right of all windows still a thin horizontal bar? Why say "thumbs only" when that's self-evident? What do the red and green squares in the IE tab bar indicate? How do I see which taskbar icon is highlighted if my wallpaper is white? How do I see them at all if my wallpaper is bright orange?
Thanks! Privacy is extremely important to us. Our main goal was that everyone has complete control about who can see your data. You can explicitly set each section to private, your contacts, or public. Furthermore, before you haven't shared your profile info to a company they are not allowed to access your data.
While this is really good news, and should be celebrated, I'm still asking myself if this would have been approved if a draft wouldn't have leaked.

However, we must not rest on our laurels, as I'm sure something else will appear sooner than later to replace ACTA.
At their height they had plenty of failures too. Bob comes to mind....
Vasikaran
>What were they thinking when they sent such a large force ?

Take it up with New Zealand. Though you can hardly blame them as Kim is clearly a nutjob.
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Hi Igal,

went through your blog post, thanks for the info,

can you guess what could be the reason behind my scenario,
does frequent change in DNS also affects SEO??

and does CloudFlare have their IPs manually whitelisted in all popular search engines (like Incapsula or Akamai, as per your post) ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

My point was really that people often look at something and think "Oh that's easy!". But when you actually get to the real depth of the problem it's much much more complicated and fiddly and time consuming.

Off the top of my head here are a list of things you'd need to consider for developing a game: name, story/concept, title screen, credits, intro animation, implementation of gameplay/physics/loading/saving/graphics, settings / players details, user interface and GUI elements, help, input processing (mouse,joypad,joystick,touch), sound (music, ambience, effects, interface effects) ,artwork (logos, gui elements, backgrounds, sprites), repeated playability testing (is it fun, well tuned?), level creation (initial design, tweaking, testing for edge cases), utilities (level editor, sprite/animation tools), demo mode, cheats, achievements, scoreboard, installer.

And of course a game over screen.
Yes, but GET, HEAD, PUT, and DELETE do very different things.

You can write an idempotent PATCH mechanism. If that's what you want, you can do it. You control the server, so you can restrict the accepted patch formats to idempotent ones.

Adding an HTTP verb doesn't make patching magically happen. Someone has to write the logic, either you or your framework authors. Obviously there will be different mechanisms and some will be effectively idempotent. Again, not in the mathematical or functional programming sense, but in the colloquial DBA sense, at least.

Limiting HTTP PATCH at the protocol level would be a huge mistake, I think.

None of this should be construed to mean that I see a clear need for a new HTTP verb, though.
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One of the greatest landing page i've ever seen.
A friend hypothesized coming up with a 'reverse doomsday clock', which would count down to the estimated time when virtual sex would that much more satisfying than real sex that the species would stop reproducing. It's ticking down.
What does "authorize 5 minute coffee break for our developer team" mean?
Saw you mention it on the Google Now submission, watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, so thanks.
Goodwill is the premium paid above the book value. It occurs because most corporate purchases occur above the value the acquired company has on the books. An example: My company has a book (accounting) value if $10 million. I sell it to you for $30 million. $20 million of that becomes an asset on your books of "Goodwill" - a catch-all for the brand value above and beyond my tangible assets. If at some point you don't think you can generate earnings to justify the premium, you write it down. This is what Microsoft did.

For a longer explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)
This happened already in 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vif4D-TJYQ

They must really like that font :)
Lots of good intentions but by making it public, you ensure Microsoft cannot and/or will not consider it. Their marketing people might even actively try to avoid anything similar to this.
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Yes. A thousands times, yes! Some people find themselves to be the smartest person in the room and think, "I've made it!" Others, in the same situation think, "Time to move on..."
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This is dumb sensationalist bullshit of the highest order. We've had helmetcams for years.
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very neat UI.
Everytime a user requests a code using this checkbox a "coffee-bell" rings in our office :D
One of the worst cases of overusing parallax scrolling I've ever seen.

Edit: parallax/tacky, call it what you wish. I was thinking of this while writing the comment: http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/ (note: every great thing can be ruined my misuse, I like that library.)
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Craigslist sucks - the same ads are repeated (sometimes 4-5 times in the same day), lots of spammers/scammers, hours upon hours wasted with nothing to show for it. Any other website that is not this bad, without using brokers?

I set up an alert on ifttt.com - if anyone from ifttt is reading this: is it possible for you to filter out the ads, based on address? I mean, the same ad is posted 5 times a day, with the same address, text slightly different. If you could use the address to detect if it is the same ad, and not send multiple alerts, that would be awesome.
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Another advantage of the Quartz watches is that they require less time for improvements and require the less maintenance than the mechanical watch. Quartz technology is outstandingly and remarkably simple.
1) Use a framework like Symfony2.

2) Yes, I agree, PHP encourages you to write esoteric code. Oh wait, what the fuck am I smoking? Better yet, what are you smoking? You can do this in every language I know.

3) Use unit and functional testing. You do use automated testing, don't you?
GoogleApps yes

But don't waste your time with Zimbra, really
The app and the website both look beautiful. good job on that. Unfortunately i am not a huge fan of todo lists. but i wish you really good luck. the project looks really promising but i do not know how much potential it might have.
Oh, I don't think many poorly networked emerging markets will stay niche. But in going from emerging to emerged, they're going remain poorly connected niches.
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To me, every PHP version being vastly better than the previous version says something: the current version is shit too, it's just going to take another few versions until you admit it :P

Compared to something like python, where version 3 has basically one major improvement over version 2 (ie, a unicode core); everything else was done pretty much right the first time, and massive changes aren't needed.

Heck, you can still use 2.5 (the python of 2006) quite happily today, and you'll be missing out on a few nice features that would make your life easier, but there's nothing wrong with it like there is with previous version of PHP.
What nonsense. If they wanted to use a headmounted camera for filming pornography then there's nothing stopping them. There are plenty of such cameras around.
Ah! nice! Enjoy the coffee for me to! looks nice, i'm looking forward to see more!
Do you know how Exchange works, and how Zimbra works, from a user and management point of view? (I'm not even taking GoogleApps seriously, because many organizations don't want to outsource the storage of their private data).

If yes, how can you say that they are 'similar' except for the very most basic point that users can send email with them, much like both a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Ford Model T are both 'cars'?

If no, why do you suggest them?
Cisco locks customers out of their own routers
Playing up to your opponent's level can happen in tennis too. One of the factors I think might be coming into play, especially in a sport like volleyball or tennis, is that your opponent is directly across from you and their play provides a mental model for you during the game. You can subconsciously mimic what they do, and their actions during the game act as a constant reminder for how to play well.

I noticed this snow skiing too. I had learned to ski when I was four and went multiple times a year every year, but I lived in Texas so it wasn't an everyday event. Then one mogul run I followed directly behind a more advanced skier, mimicking his moves and rhythm, and all of a sudden on that run it clicked -- my skill level shot up several folds.
I think there is no parallax in there...
Your code doesn't start with a "<?php" tag?
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A couple of days ago someone posted this, might be worth checking it out

http://apartable.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184440
The ability to buy a ticket for a popular show at short notice on (or close to) the day of the show has real value to me, and is a service I'm occasionally willing to pay for.

For example last time I was in London I just happened to see that a band I liked was playing that evening. Having no other plans I wandered up to the venue a couple of hours before opening and a kind gentleman outside was happy to sell me a ticket. Sure I paid roughly double the value printed on the ticket, but to me it was worth it for the service and convenience.

Now I'm not saying that scalping is the best solution to this problem, but there is definitely a market here (for tickets on short notice in my case) and money to be made and value to be added.
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If you are seriously claiming that Exchange and Google Apps provide the same features except for the most basic, one-sentence description of those features (as in, 'they both send mail and store contacts'), you clearly don't have the slightest idea of what Exchange is or does.

Regarding the BI, I think you're mistaking me for another person in this thread, I don't know much about that, nor do I have an opinion. I'm just saying that Exchange is unique and there is nothing out there that can replace it without making very different trade-offs in the way your IT infrastructure is set up.
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How many webapps are installed by non-technical users? I guess for scripts (Wordpress, phpbb, etc.), PHP is the best option for this reason, as they have thousands of installations, but most webapps only have a few.
The idea seems pretty redundant (Last.fm anyone?) but the landing page is just awesome!
I don't think you understand why the prefixes are there. CSS was designed in a way that things should either work or not. There shouldn't be different ways to interpret a property. With browsers battling over several syntaxes for CSS3 implementation, the last thing we want is to have webdevs build a separate stylesheet for every browser out there, because (for example) "transform:" works different on Firefox 3 than on Firefox 4, and Chrome's implementation is also different. The prefixes help a lot here: you can group all these different stylesheets into one by using the prefixes, and once the standards are finalized they'll just use one syntax that can't be interpreted any other way.
What would happen if you could put a <?python> tag with python code right in a page just like you do with the <?php> tag? Is this even theoretically possible?

I feel like the biggest advantage PHP and classic ASP have is that there is a low barrier to get the most basic dynamic content working. If you're not a programmer, you don't need to understand a framework or a design pattern to get things going.
Section 2 contains:

A PATCH request can be issued in such a way as to be
idempotent, which also helps prevent bad outcomes [...]
Clients using this kind of patch application SHOULD use
a conditional request [...] For example, the client
can use a strong ETag [RFC2616] in an If-Match header on
the PATCH request.

So you can, but aren't obliged to.
> I find that a bit unbelievable

I find it unbelievable that you (or anyone) pays any attention to the gender of a programmer you only met online.

> that show that the author is male

I searched and couldn't find it. The closest I came is the name on github.

> women in the tech community don't get the credit they deserve.

Why do they deserve credit as women? Who cares if they are women? Give them credit for doing something as a human, not for their gender.

> 'He', unfortunately, isn't a gender-neutral pronoun.

Yes it is. The fact that you think it isn't is a discredit to your education.

> So...the gender of another person only matters if you want to get into their pants?

Or if you want to be close friends with them. Online it makes no difference.

> It's really quite obvious that you don't respect whichever gender you are not.

And yet you can't even tell which it is despite me writing about gender. (And no, I'm not going to tell you.)

I ignore gender for things that have nothing to do with gender. There are plenty of things (including online) where gender matters, but programming isn't one of them.
I agree, but people really should expand on why when they say things like this.

I can only imagine that this website was designed by someone using a Macbook (or Magic Trackpad), without realising that not everyone can scroll easily with two fingers, which is extremely short sighted.

I have a MBP myself, and I actually enjoyed scrolling through the site, but when I tested it on my Windows PC the animation was jerky and I had to scroll more than I would've liked, overall unenjoyable. I would've closed the page half way through reading and never looked back.

Yes, Mac's are awesome, but web designers need to remember that they're not designing for themselves, they're designing to every conceivable person in their target market.

Scrolling like this is great, but only in short bursts (Unless you're on a Mac w/ trackpad).
> Well, they are not trying to convince anyone here. They are trying to prove something.

And that's the impressive part. Finding this out cost circa $10 billion. To get that dough, they had to convince a lot of politicians (and hundreds of millions of taxpayers) that this was worth it.

To the general public, a clear result is much more satisfying than, "Well, gosh, the data is ambiguous; we need another $10 billion to get some solid answers." It takes a lot of integrity to go to the lengths they did. I salute them!
Scratch has finally reached Debian repositories