skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would actually be an incredibly useful service. I would probably jump on this if I wasn't already busy.
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> ... Africa will also improve in the long run with the advent of modern agriculture techniques.

In the long run that can't be true, when the population continues increasing. There's a practical limit to agricultural yield, even if output can be tripled sometimes. You could generalize that statement as "<unsustainable thing> will improve in the long run with the advent of <thing that kicks the can down the road>". The US debt can be substituted, for example. Always a better solution is to address the "unsustainable" aspect. One shouldn't be fooled into thinking the unsustainable thing became sustainable when the can got kicked down the road for a few decades.

Overpopulation leads to corruption. The situation becomes "every person for themself" to survive.
It's either Google the MAFIAA. Neither are great choices.

Hopefully this cuts into the number of bogus claims made?
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"I would be really interested to see some research about it."

There's probably specific industrial/organisational psych research on the topic, but more broadly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

People want to match their behaviour with their attitude. Usually we think behaviour follows attitude, but if behaviour is constrained in some way, people tend to warp their attitude to fit the behaviour. That's one of the arguments for dress codes in the workplace, it puts you in the role, and also explains why you feel happier when you smile, etc.

Also, we sound subtly different when smiling, it's a bio-physical thing too, not just a manifestation of psychological state. I believe most people can actually detect if the person on the phone is smiling or not.
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If I can find a computer survived the EM pulses to scan the paper, then most likely I don't need this paper back up anyway. On the other hand if all my data is dead upon the EM pulses attack, I won't put too much faith on the chance of getting hold of any surviving computer.
Stripe is meant for developers, and it is quite easy to integrate using their javascript api. If you can code a form you write basic javascript you can integrate stripe.
Samsung and the other Korean phone companies used many anti-competitive tactics against foreign phone companies in South Korea. The original iPhone's introduction to South Korea was delayed, for instance. See articles I've linked in my history.

Samsung are an extremely unethical company. I try not to have anything to do with them whenever I can help it.

> What if Apple spent all this lawyer money instead on making a superior product that would beat their competitors, you know, because it was a better product, and not just go around and be the corporate Tonya Harding?

That's exactly what they did do with the iPhone. Samsung used their might to stop it from coming to South Korea and give themselves time to develop a knock-off of it.
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That seems like an unreasonable expectation for 2$.
If one is interested in exploring more about linking and loading here is an excellent paper on shared libs and
dynamic loading:

The Inside story on shared libraries and dynamic loading
:http://www.dabeaz.com/papers/CiSE/c5090.pdf
... at a cost of durability. Tho some sort of error recovery algorithm (along the lines of parity archive) could be used.. adding redundancy at a lower rate than what is gained from additional colors..
> one of the basic principles of security is to avoid trusting people unnecessarily

And asking customers to enter their CC details on your domain doesn't break this rule?

> a form will be submitted to your server with a stripe_token for you to process

I'm assuming it just sends the Stripe token, and not CC info? If it does send CC info, I assume it's compliant with all the laws and regulations in every country?
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> That is a highly controversial statement. But it is just dropped in there. Just dropped in.

It's a pretty uncontroversial statement to me. In fact half of it seems self-evident, the other merely the overwhelming consensus.

And so maybe that's why it was dropped in. Just dropped in. Just dropped in, like a drop-bear dropping into a salt-sprinkling-party. Just dropped in!
1) The whole value of depending on snapshots is letting each developer run everything against their local, possibly-modified versions; there would be no point forcing snapshot builds to be reproducible. Release builds aren't allowed to depend on snapshots. Maybe I'm just too used to maven, but I don't see how you'd do it any other way.

2) Gatekeepers have their advantages; how you run a repository is pretty independent of the build tool. It would be possible to start a "anyone can upload anything" maven repository if this was thought useful.

3) Surely the notion of having your build depend on a random third-party git repository is far more worrying than depending on a random third-party maven repository - wouldn't you need to set up a git mirror server, which is more effort than nexus or artifactory?
Google said they would rank sites that use tables for structure lower than they would rank site that used semantic HTML and CSS.

However, CSS has, in the past, been extremely annoying to use if you want a simple tabular layout to your web site.

As other's have, or will point out, the table tags can end up being more data that you'll download each time the page contents are sent, whereas css, if you do it correctly - in a file external to the HTML - will only be downloaded one time, saving bandwidth and time.

If the site's author doesn't care about the SEO demerits of using a table, then she's not going to spend the time converting the site. This has the side effect of annoying semantic HTML purists, who believe that the HTML should only describe the content and only CSS should be used to apply styling.

While the semantic+CSS camp has a fair point, I will admit to being driven near raving mad trying to make CSS do things that were dead simple using a table. So I empathize with the people who don't want to spend large amounts of time figuring out how to make CSS do what they mean.
It is built in to many browsers.

<node>.querySelector(...) and <node>.querySelectorAll(...)

If all you're using jQuery for is grabbing nodes from the DOM and attaching event listeners AND you don't care about old versions of IE then...

http://caniuse.com/queryselector

In a nut: querySelector[All] requires IE8, addEventListener requires IE9.
So, yet another bookmark-note-taking-whatnot-app.

1. Can you export your data? JSON preferred.

2. Is there an API?

3. How does it compare to http://okfnlabs.org/annotator/, which is free, open source and distributed?
So, it appears that someone came really close to patenting a STICK.
Why Folders are holding back hassle-free File Management & Tags are the Future.
i think the simple it looks the better, i am not sure if google just found out that facebook had a more appealing favicon look and decided to get back to basics.
Three color will take three times as many bits as input and store three times as many bits. Each pixel cell will have eight possible values, but that is just three times the information.
I'm not talking about power output. It's obvious that it puts out half as much power as a Smart Car. What I'm saying is that it might not matter.

I'm talking about necessary power output. If the engine cuts the weight of the car in half, then the scale of HP you're used to hearing applied to haul the car around in a desirable manner changes because you don't need as much.
So, startup culture is akin to hipsters? Overley grandiose idealisms, It makes sense. Then again, it isn't bad that people are dreaming, but there needs to be substance to their claims other than just "my [insert app] is going to change the world because of [xyz reason]."

I think that is what is trying to be said, but...

There seems to be too much passion in this article to have it be clearly thought out.

I believe that, yes there might be a little more peacocking than is necessary, but discounting the crazy ambitious dreams is asking for nothign to happen. If anything, it is wonderful that the spirit of entrepreneurship is being given the spotlight to help inspire everyone else to start something, even if it is a little less ambitious.
Wow, "Opbeat" sounds awfully close to "Chartbeat". In fact, I'd assume Opbeat was another product by Chartbeat if I didn't know any better -- especially given the chart graphics they use.

IANAL, but should they be worried about trademark infringement? Seems like a risky name to choose.
Exactly. Stripe is probably one of the easiest integrations I've ever done.

In fact, their tutorials are so well written and their signup so frictionless that I'd say that any interested website creator should have little trouble setting up a form actually using stripe instead of an iframe.
The quality of the introduction video was so poor, I could not even finish watching it. I think the top video is the most important part of any Kickstarter campaign. A properly produced video shows me just how committed the team is, whereas a poorly produced video stops me from contributing immediately.
The .ssh/authorized_keys contains public keys. Technically, these can be completely public, as it is infeasible to compute the corresponding private key to get access. However, keeping it secret may be useful, in case a hacker compromises another computer that you own with private keys on it.

If the authorized_keys file is published, they immediately know which private keys are useful for remote logins.

If the authorized_keys file contains source-machine names and usernames in the comment, it gives the hackers a list of your other machines to attempt compromising to obtain the private keys.

If the authorized_keys file uses from="address" restrictions, publishing it gives the hackers a list of allowed source networks for remote logins. If they try to log in with the correct private key from the wrong network, they are denied access (and may assume the key is invalid).

In summary, it's technically not a security risk, but there is no reason to publish it and make life easier for hackers if they do happen to stumble on one of your private keys.
Also the earth is a sphere, if you focus on where the sun is, and used tracking solar collectors you could probably get away with 1/2 of 1% of the earths total surface area @100% efficiency. And even less than that if you added wind, hydro, and geothermal.

PS: Or ~1.5% with 33% efficient solar panels. Which might seem like a lot, but we already use a lot of land to generate energy.
Google started with Python with Unladen Swallow, but stopped after a combination of uninspiring results and the fact that while Google uses a lot of Python internally, it's generally for non-performance-critical applications. For the cases where performance counts, it's generally done in C++ instead.
As far as I can tell, this just seems like an obscenely overcomplicated one time pad. Instead of Alice giving Bob a string of bits that are known in advance, she gives Bob an entangled particle that can be collapsed to determine a string of bits at a later date. I can't see any security benefit.

This is very neat from a purely scientific perspective. It seems pointless and misleading to try to present it as having direct practical value.
asking customers to enter their CC details on your page doesn't break this rule?

It doesn't break that rule for me. It is a reason why other Stripe users might want to think twice before using the iframe I host, of course.

I'm assuming it just sends the Stripe token, and not CC info?

Yes.
I think you underestimate how many of us simply flag these kinds of submissions, as they are neither intellectually stimulating, nor do they promote interesting discussions. There probably isn't as much "moderation" on HN as you seem to theorize.

I wouldn't have even seen your comment were it not for the 'new comments' page.
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The website says that by helping fund it you are committing to the first year of payments. "You will be committing to pre-paying a full year.." Yet from what I can tell that first year price hasn't yet been defined. Is that right? I wouldn't enter a contract with an undefined liability.
... and neither is JavaScript.

We're dealing with applications here, not documents, and even in the latter case, your views regarding ids and classes are extreme.

Angular templates, more than just markup, are the skeleton of your application. The markup they generate is as semantic as you make it.
By including their JS, you give them full access to all of the contents of your payment page and depending on how you have configured your session cookie or depending on the browser, full access to the users session. Now in general, you can probably trust them, but what if they are compromised?

By using an iframe you make sure that they do not get access to any information on your page - much less the users session cookie.
I wonder how much profit there is to create loops? Company outsources to India which outsources to the US which outsources back to India which outsources back to the US, etc. I guess they make it work by finding cheap labor in the US (compared to training Indians).
I've been hanging out in the Stripe Campfire chat for the past week. There's a rather scary number of people who need something like this.
"bitmaps produced by PaperBack are also human-readable (with the small help of any decent microscope). I'm joking"

Actually, tiny human-readable text is incredibly useful for verifying the data was backed up correctly (at least for text-based files). I read about this paper backup technique a while ago, and that was touted as one of the main benefits.
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'So contrary what many people think, Maven forces you to keep things simple.'

This is absolutely why I left Java development. Maven in my mind is anything but simple. It was always frustrating to use - this was 2.0 mind you, so maybe things have become easier, but I doubt it.

Even the terminology is totally abstract and complicated. I built a big project for a well known bank around '05-'06 and we had all kinds of problems with maven - we just went back to ant.

I used to love Java in the late 90's/early 00's. I remember the resistance to doing projects with it - it was new, unproven, etc, etc - just like Language X today. I worked with some people who built some cool things with 1.2. The collections framework was great.

But, then all the enterprise stuff started creeping in and everything was configured with gobs of crap xml. Demos would be given where you could edit the configuration via gui tools, but none of the devs I knew did this. Everyone hand edited everything.

Things like maven with their overly abstracted naming and concepts and Spring where everything is 'wired up' by tons of xml are what ultimately drove me away from Java. I just wanted to spend my time working on features instead of configuring things.
The programming language that is fastest to implement features
Slashdot said that programming has a political axis with conservative and liberal programmers. Liberal programmers worry about how fast you take to implement a feature. Liberal programmers need the answer to this question. (1)

Paul Graham said that his company could implement features faster than his competitors, because his company programmed in Common Lisp and Common Lisp makes you twice more productive as a programmer. (2)

Time passes, progress happens, Common Lisp was the fastest, a more modern programming language is the fastest, so today what programming language is the fastest to implement features? Why?

(1) http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=political+axis
(2) http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
BBC staff (perhaps not contractors) do get access to discounts and other benefits with Apple and many other companies as well as offering staff discounts for some BBC events (tours, proms) but these are not guaranteed.
Like you describe, out-sourcing generally provides a net-benefit to society by providing cheaper goods here and jobs in India. But it does not necessary produce a net-benefit to the US, since the trade off is cheaper goods but fewer American jobs.

As a global citizen, I'm not concerned about the latter.
Thank you for taking the time to type this out - I'll study it and hopefully will be able to make sense of it! I appreciate the effort you put in.

Edit: aaaand that makes sense. I see now why he thought it was a bit of a hack, but it's still very nifty. Thanks again!
I don't understand why this would have more traction than something either fully-cloud with a central "server" like Google Drive/Docs or Office Live 365 (or even something much simpler like Evernote), or something that's a plugin to MS Office (like the Live bits or Google's Cloud Connect).

In other words, who wants this and for what purpose?
The only way I could see legacy replacement being feasible is if big corp X decided that they were going to do full in house system development, and then market the core or the resulting system to their competitors.

Or do full in house system development and then buy out their competitors. A while back at one of our quarterly IT meetings we had a chart showing this, X number of competitors "recently" bought out, Y number of claims-management systems (and I think other related systems, things like bill review) migrated to our in-house system and shut down, Z number of systems currently being migrated.
Here is one example: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
As one of those "from the US" watchers, just wanted to say you guys did some amazing work. I was constantly impressed with the quality of the streamed video and how well it stayed up under so much load.

So huge props all around and thanks for not flipping out at those of us stealing some traffic for a better Olympics experience.
A bit like if Apple sued somebody whose company were named pod.com, or phone.com...
The Scottish FA never had the power to "refuse to allow" anything, there just weren't any Scottish players worth calling up. The Welsh FA made the same statements but that didn't stop Welsh players from being called up.

Britain's status in FIFA demonstrates just how poorly the notion of a "British" national identity has taken hold.
"ceasing development" - no, they are still in maintenance mode for the app. I just downloaded an update a couple of days ago. Sparrow still works fine and does the job.

A $10 Mac app pays for itself within a couple of days of use. People have no issue buying two lattes for $10 and pissing it out, but when it comes to a cheap app, they feel entitled to so much more.
They are not claiming to have invented cell phones or touch screens.
I mean relatively?
I was wondering about that nuclear power engine. Is it safe?

Because on the one hand they spend all this effort to make sure all the components that go into space are absolutely sterile, in order to not accidentally contaminate the environment on Mars [this really is high priority to NASA], and on the other hand you fly a nuclear reactor there, without anyone or anything to make sure it's contained in the event it might start leaking or something.
I work remotely for CloudFlare. I wish we had one of these so that I could attend meetings at the company or hang out at someone's desk.
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I like the model, except the part where you charge the developers, if you charge 50$ to developers it means developers will charge on their apps, means that users will have to pay even more
Regarding: "As Galileo was prosecuted for supporting Copernicus' heliocentric theory (more specifically for championing reason over faith)"

Nothing could be further from the truth. The first proponents of the scientific method saw the process of describing the known universe as possible only because of their faith in a rational Creator, their definition of the word "faith" meaning "conviction backed by reason" (Hebrews 11). Their hypothesis was that the creation of such a rational Creator would necessarily be ordered, not chaotic as the pagans of the day believed, and that it would be possible to seek to describe the creation in terms of scientific laws and principles. By faith they understood that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. This was the basis for the birth of the scientific method.

In the days of Galileo, the Church as you refer to, was nothing more than a political militant state, opposed to the theology of the early Christians of the 1st century, and opposed to the Scriptures which exposed its hegemony. Indeed the Church would have mothers and fathers burnt at the stake for teaching children the ten commandments and the Lord's prayer. People like William Tyndale, and many other brilliant Oxford and Cambridge scholars were hounded and martyred by the Church for translating the Bible into English and circulating and discussing it in the 1500s.

While the Church may have opposed heliocentrism, Galileo defended heliocentrism, and understood correctly that it was not contrary to the Scriptures.

For people like Galileo and Kepler, faith and reason were the same thing. By definition, it's impossible to have faith that is not based on reason, nor is it possible to hold reason without faith. To do so is historical revisionism. If you have a bone to pick with faith, then the best place to start is with the life and death and resurrection of Christ in history. Did it happen? How soon after the events were the eye witness accounts recorded? At what cost? Independent? Do we read them as they were written? This is a matter of historicity: did it happen? Not of philosophical possibility (naturalism), or statistical possibility (frequentism).
I think the target market for this will be charging batteries in a hybrid car. So you get the low-end torque of an electric motor, and the ability to draw a lot of stored power for a short time from the battery, while keeping weight down (having a gasoline engine + an electric motor gets heavy) and radically reducing emissions.
A few I have bookmarked - I have been meaning to dig around the source but haven't made the time (I know you said Web apps, but the mobile apps have web backends).

* https://github.com/ooyala/barkeep (Rails)

* https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios (iOS)

* https://github.com/github/gauges-android (Android)

* https://github.com/prose/prose (Client-side Javascript)
Some design comments:

- far too much space is used for the colored boxes, which shout the stats that should be easily apparent from the visualization.

- categories need to be included...the titles can often reveal nothing about the project

- you might as well add the thumbnails of the projects
More volume, cheaper per unit pricing, same support overall, more or less. Cheap app prices are certainly setting the bar higher.
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BareText - Nice Alternative to Markdown etc.
I personally find it much more comfortable and relaxing to be able to hold a controller in my lap while looking up at a TV. With games on my phone or tablet, I either have to strain my arms holding it up high enough to be in front of my face, or I have to strain my neck to look far enough down that I can hold the device in my lap to play; there just isn't a comfortable way to play a mobile game for more than 5 or 10 minutes.
Just to be clear, jQuery's selector syntax supports many, many things that querySelector(All) does not.

http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/jquery-selector-ext...