skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no - but i do like mixest. this was an idea i've had kicking around for awhile.
Cambodia gets $59M in aid after arrest of Pirate Bay co-founder
What's different about this than the official component project?

https://github.com/component/component

https://github.com/component/spec/wiki

Bower seems like a blatant ripoff. Twitter Engineering doesn't even mention the component project or spec on the Bower page at all...
John F. Kennedy's greatest quotes
True, however, most prosecutors are trying to get high conviction rates, and don't care about the good to society.
There's a site trying to aggregate professional reviews of books like Rottentomatoes: idreambooks.com.

Regarding names, it probably has something to do with the audience. You're going to have a more literate audience on goodreads than the general internet population.
Lets get this straight, the limitations in performance on Mobile Safari are very much deliberate limitations. Do you seriously think a company like Apple who gets a pretty large chunk of app store sales is going to let something like HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript steal it's profits away? Fat chance.

Although it even rings true for desktop browsers not being able to perform as optimally in regards to some HTML5 features work, Apple can and could do more to improve HTML5 support but won't for the foreseeable future until it works out how it can control and monetise HTML5 (which it can't and never will).

People are quick to point out Facebook ditched web and went native because of HTML5 limitations which I believe is a lie. It's been rumoured that Facebook is going to be deeply embedded into iOS 6 like Twitter got in iOS 5 and one of the requirements would obviously be to have a native application.

The Facebook app I believe was slow because of one key issue: 37 requests, 491kb. That was the problem, of course that many requests and large size is going to be slow for users on congested 3G networks.

Case in point of just how well a web app can run is LinkedIn's iOS app. It works the same way as the Facebook app used too. It has a Node.JS backend and uses a web wrapper to load it in, they even wrote up a blog post about how they squeezed every ounce of performance out of the web UIView and I think it works well.

I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories without solid facts, but in my opinion the move to native by Facebook was a strategic one on Apple's end. Apple knew Facebook were the poster-child for HTML5 web applications that could run without relying on the almighty iPhone operating system, so throw them an integration bone and ask them to go native in hopes that others do the same and ditch HTML5 as their first choice for an app and many people will follow.
>>The article actually states quite clearly that it is not a new idea.

I was talking about this bit, which is a bit lower:

"but he is one of the first to argue we might already be living inside one."

>>Are we really sure it's untestable? It seems like something that might be worth thinking about. If we look in the right places (theoretical math, physics?) might we be able to see reflections of a world "outside"?

We can never be 100% sure it's untestable because it's impossible to prove a negative. But I put it in the same basket as testing the existance of a god.
> Sadly, Apple and/or Google have the power to retard the adoption of HTML5 as long as they like.

I'm hopeful that Firefox OS and Firefox for Android will be able to exert competitive pressure in the HTML5 app space, but it will still be a long, hard slog.
(I'm not downvoting you , just so you know)

If you know if a laptop that is better than a high-end macbook pro, please let me know. I mean, please...I'm not supposed to use Macs myself given who I work for...I am desperate for a decent work laptop without a fruit logo on it.

Sometimes MBPs are bought and Windows/Bootcamp is installed, sometimes they install Linux, sometimes OSX is perfectly OK because they are using Eclipse or some other cross platform IDE anyways. And their are those that actually do Mac/iOS development. Fun stuff.
You can use data URI and embed it directly in your CSS file. Then size matters.
What do you think he actually means by 'radiate "winner"'? What if he'd said they radiate 'smarts and hustle'? That's two out the three qualities you name. (If he said they radiate luck, I would understand being put off).

"I have not met either of them. And while I have met a few individuals who have achieved success I can honestly say I have never met anyone who I thought radiated success or was otherwise predisposed to success."

Where in the above two statements do you contradict the idea that Benioff and Zuckerberg do give this impression in person? Notice that pg doesn't say that about everyone who is successful.
This is not Gmail's designed or advertised behavior.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Either you or your friend is misspelling their address (more common than you might think, I get opt-in mailing-list mail for myaddress@gmail.com, intended for myaddress@ymail.com), or you've encountered a bug.
They didn't stop.
Actually, if he's got three convictions under his belt, that is pretty useful information, but I agree, seems like double jeopardy to me.
The most confusing thing for me, is that this _isn't_ Stack Overflow - it's Programmers. While SO is meant to have objectively correct answers, and that's why they are so quick to close threads, Programmers is meant to be more open and allow more general questions.
It's only easier if the recipient is web browsing, and wants to risk getting cookies and malware from a known-malicious entity...
V.Kurien, Father of White revolution passes away
Had learnt about him during my school quiz contests etc. But just today learnt about the magnitude of his achievements. It is astonishing how much wealth he has helped create and how he revolutionized the dairy industry in India.In addition to making wealth for himself, he was successful in creating wealth for the rural masses in India making him a "Social(ist) Entrepreneur". Kudos to the great man and may his soul rest in peace.
You've conflated a couple of things here, and I think my position must have been a little poorly stated as well. Here's some points, in roughly ascending order of important. (Anyone reading this: skip to the bottom if you're not going to read it all.)

First: 'Science' does not embody the whole of human knowledge, not at all. That's not even what it's for. It is a true thing that 1+1=2 (with standard definitions, Peano arithmetic, etc), but science has nothing to say on this matter.

Second: The fact that other people talk about this fruit they see, and you yourself have this fruit that you see, is very strong evidence that people have fruits, even if, with our current understanding, we can't verify it from physics.

Third: I do believe consciousness exists. I think (in fact it seems self-apparent to me) that consciousness is a property of processes or algorithms. Can I explain how exactly it arises? No, but then for virtually all of human history we had no idea how, say, biology or magnets or fire could come out of physics either.

Fourth: Just because a process has some property doesn't mean we'll ever understand it in a satisfying way - even very simple processes (care to explain how the current best-candidate for BusyBeaver(6) works?) This is not the same as that property not existing.

Finally: This was in my original post as well, was in fact the entire point of said post, and I can't seem to find a response in your post. If you accept (as is a part of the p-zombie postulation) that the reasons you say things like 'I am conscious' are entirely because of physics, do you think that this means your consciousness has nothing to do with your claim to be conscious? That seems absurd to me, and to me it seems that the conclusion must be, given the above, that consciousness does in fact fall out of physics.

For clarity, here's that final argument spelled out again.

1. My claim to be conscious does have to do with the fact of my consciousness. (Agree?)

2. My claim to be conscious is completely determined by physics, since I would also make it in p-zombie world (that is, the world which is by hypothesis completely determined by physics). (Agree?)

3. Therefore, the fact of my consciousness must fall out of physics. (Agree?)

Or in set-theoretic terms, because that's how I think:

fact-of-consciousness \subset reasons-for-claim-to-be-conscious \subset physics implies fact-of-consciousness \subset physics.

Do you disagree?
Yes but with drug cartels and tobacco companies society will be against you. Look at the long term trend for tobacco. Has usage gone up or down over time?

You'll always get short term success with it but it's not sustainable in the long term.
Realistically, though, Google have always seemed to view HTML5 as being a very good thing, since the Web is their bread and butter. Android seems to be more of a hedge against other vendors' platform dominance than an attempt by Google to lock everything down -- thus why Google actually exerts little control over Android distribution.

And I can see a good argument for blocking the open Web being in Apple's interests, but again, historically they've been going as fast as anyone else. They might not move as fast as I'd like, but they're not lagging.
Japanese Investors need to adapt to this way of thinking -- you'll get some duds, but certainly having flow is what is important.
Even if it's a single developer building the client (I doubt it is anymore) that's likely at least $100,000 per year. Not to mention the extra support and QA you'll have to deal with as well.
Very cool James, I usually use Spotify indie lists, but surprisingly this has a found a few cool tracks I hadn't discovered yet.

If you don't mind sharing, how does the playlist selection algorithm work?
This is in fact the intent of Gmail's spam button design. Gmail's definition of spam isn't tailored to Federal law, it's "whatever messages our users are likely to mark as spam"
Back to the topic - (not SO) - I'd agree with some of the other commenters on SO that high-turnover isn't the engineers' fault; it's obviously a management issue.

Most engineers that I've worked with would trade a good work environment & office culture for more pay / "room to advance" any day.
Is the complaint here that Mac OS (any version) isn't Windows?

The alt key on Windows doesn't do the same things the command key does in Mac OS, because they are different operating systems. What an utterly vacuous point.
Nothing lasts forever, and as far as industries go, Tobacco has done very, very well.
If I find myself in possession of a cocaine brick that I did not ask for, I will indeed worry. The point that the article made (as a tangent, admittedly) in regards to cocaine possession is that, should that situation arise, I can't take my cocaine to the police without risking arrest myself, and that's absurd.
Does that mail get labelled Inbox, or Spam, when it is first delivered?
Great link.

"Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”"
> I'm sorry you feel that way. We just happen to disagree then.

This kind of thing really annoys me. What do you mean you "happen to disagree"? Bakkot pointed out a fundamental contradiction in your whole position. You're not agreeing to disagree, you're ignoring a totally valid point, apparently because you simply don't want to hear it.

I am not sure what your fruit story is trying to prove, it is near-meaningless to me. But here's a metaphor for how you are conducting yourself in this discussion: You are playing a game of paintball. Bakkot has just shot you square in the chest. Everyone saw you get hit, and there's paint all over you, but you refuse to acknowledge it and keep playing anyway, ruining the game.
I'm not sure about RubyMotion, but I can speak to Titanium as we use it to build our TripLingo language learning apps.

Appcelerator Titanium does not compile down to anything - rather it bridges a JavaScript runtime to the native layer: either iOS or Android. It's not as fast as coding in ObjC or Android Java, but we see performance which is very close to that of native and have the entire underlying native SDK available for use.
0-downtime deployment with node.js Clusters
Israelis race to stay ahead of the global 'start-up’ pack
And I'm a member of the tautology club because I'm a member of the tautology club.
I saw idreambooks when it was presented on HN - the search still seems to be broken, neither "Algernon" or "Flowers for Algernon" results in the actual book. And not a single results for "galaxy"? Weird.

And I don't think that the naming-policy is based on the audience being more literate - after all, I think most of the people complaining about Google Plus' naming policy were of higher-than-average intelligence. Maybe people are proud of showing off their reading skills?
Gold mine. Under CAN-SPAM, spam is worth $500 per message, if you can identify the sender.
Are you seriously suggesting that it's OK to spam, not bother with proper security or privacy controls, or treat your employees badly, just because you're running a start-up?

Most of these things already come under "legal limitations and restrictions", and if a start-up can't disrupt a market or create a viable competing offer without breaking those rules, then perhaps it deserves to fail.
Big deal, sir.
Well, that's why I was asking for the general case. I couldn't find where the event was being emitted. It was somewhere in the passport code that called my code that implemented an authentication strategy, and it was calling with the email rather than the id.

And I was trying to figure out where the code was coming from in passport. The only tool for that was "grep emit". That's ridiculous.

The problem went a level deeper, but that's irrelevant to the task at hand -- I was overriding the prototype (as per the passport example) and yet my code wasn't being called, and there was some order of execution issue going on with how the initialization was interacting with express, which is when I decided to scrap the code and rethink the implementation.

And for multiple reasons, I'm rethinking that implementation in Scala instead. :)
Have you ever used a playlist sharing site like 8tracks or songza.com?
well i've only just begun so no doubt it will change a lot. but right now it's a combination of scraping/crawling for tracks and manual curation. i actually listen to all the tracks and nuke ones that don't measure up and change the order to mix it up a bit. the goal is to have a playlist every day of some quality tracks that you can consume in a sitting and hopefully walk away with two or three you really liked.
The technical term for the baby boom thing is demographic window.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_window

E.g., Brazil is in the demographic window now, and labour participation has recently peaked. Most Western European countries are past that window, as is the US. If they have an uptick in labour participation, I'd guess it's due to immigration.

Another factor is simply the country's economic development stage. In poor countries, lots of people are working on subsistence or otherwise low-tech agriculture so they cannot retire early.

Not clear why you think 76% for female labour participation is infeasible. They have to work.

Some speculation: as for men's rate decline, I'd guess it's mostly due to women's rate being on the rise (in the long run)? Men have to work less if their wives are working. And in the US, you'd probably want to look at the incarceration rates too.
Not everyone. A few blowhards with blogs. You were just following what seemed like an universal truth. There's nothing really wrong with that.

Most of Vim users simply take it as it is and don't waste other people's time misleading them.
Couldn't disagree more neither.

1. OSes have poorer ways to manage more than 7 windows; things get lost quickly.

2. Native apps crash often. In Chrome, you usually just lose the current tab and reload and go to another functionality of the page easily.

3. Native apps tend to be slow and clunky especially when dealing with online data especially when you are mobile.

4. Native apps are definitely a bigger threat to privacy; They have more access to your hardware and OS.

5. I want the best integration possible with the Web.

In addition, (6) Different inconsistent releases across different OSes, (7) Native apps are usually poorer in functionality than web counterparts (8) Native apps are poorer in integration (sharing, social integration, pinning) (9) Native apps can't link (10) Native apps can't be searched and indexed - they are opaque silos (11) Native apps don't make their developers any money as of 2012 (12) Native apps are terrible way to allocate company resources for most online businesses - supporting min 3 releases on Apple, some on Android, WP, BB.. (13) Native apps get mainly coded by retarded development tools - Objective C, Java, C# - It is a hack to code with Ruby, Python, Haskell, or anything more pleasant - though some options exist (RubyMotion, rhodes) (14) ...
Hire a barista.
(I wrote the original blog post.)

You're right that things like PhoneGap give access to native features. However, the Native-API-implementations in these frameworks are
1) typically significantly behind the native OS (release date)
2) tend to have less-than-feature-parity

So, often you're stuck writing your own native bridge, or tweaking the portability framework's version, which is time wasted (IMO) vs writing to the native framework. As an example, just try and write a PhoneGap app using Bluetooth: The Android implementation is incomplete, and the iOS version is non-existent.

Also, there are a tonne of performance issues you run into with the HTML/CSS/JS + Framework + Native solutions. As a thought experiment, consider how you'd build Instagram in one of these frameworks.

1) Image filters in HTML/CSS/JS land? Slow.
2) Thousands of images in a continuous virtual scrolling window in HTML land? Slow.
3) Fetching a binary blob (the image) from the OS, and throwing the resulting blob back-and-forth to web-land (for example, to use HTML5 offline storage) ... hellish slow.

Compare that to native... it's just one example of where the theory of HTML for UI and native for logic breaks down when you start to push the platform a little outside it's comfort zone.
That actually doesn't matter. You're advocating someone bear the risk of a ruined life over a single mistake, and given the number of takedowns needing to be filed there will be mistakes made. Someone will have to bear the cost of that risk.

Of course, this is all leaving aside larger reforms - I just think that harsher liability is not an obvious band-aid; it has issues too.
Gotta love the irony in being charged as an adult for making child pornography of yourself.
i used to run a site called skreemr.com, and our API helped power sites like songza (long before it was a hit ios app), playlist.com and even short-lived Y-combinator graduate mixwit.com
My friend and I always talk about how, given our salaries, we could have both bought houses by now if we weren't living in the Bay Area. A tempting idea is just to save as much as possible for a few years and then move someplace cheaper.
"It has a Node.JS backend and uses a web wrapper to load it in, they even wrote up a blog post about how they squeezed every ounce of performance out of the web UIView and I think it works well."

Can you give a link to that blog post? I took a quick look at LinkedIn's corporate and developer blogs but couldn't come across it.
Domain seizures, server outages, flaky browser support for standards, client side javascript execution, text rendering engine differences... web pages give developers different control over their product - whether or not it is more or less control than native apps, who knows.
Create and share beautiful animated presentations on the web
I've had more than one question closed for being too close to a discussion on Programmers. It's very tiresome.

What's a good alternative for asking meaningful questions and having a quality discussion with people who have words of wisdom to spare? Quora? Reddit? HN?
If you're already working on what you like, then why chase after money to... have the luxury of working on what you like?

Note that I'm not saying this is how everyone should be (I'm not, myself) but its a perfectly reasonable lifestyle.
Try reading the code of an open source project that uses OOP.

or, maybe it would help to first learn about functional programming. Then, you will see that polymorphism is just a poor man's closure.

Anyway, the most important thing is: don't try to fit your program design into the oop model. Instead, model your program in the way that makes most sense to you. If that's not OOP, then so be it.
I think I'll stick with wget and git clone for this. Feels kind of unnecessary to use a external tool for something this simple.
(I wrote the original article.)

You're absolutely right about open platforms and protocols being about lots of people taking risks and building hugely valuable things. My point was that when the core OS is innovating like mad, you need to be close to those OS's to build the best apps... The innovation on the desktop slowed to a crawl years ago, and the majority of innovation has moved to the browser and web-app layer. In mobile, however, there's a LOT of innovation still happening right at the OS level w/ Android and iOS, and so all the frameworks that exist above the native SDK's are going to lag, and not take best advantage of the innovations being released at the OS layer.

The speed of mobile OS innovation will invariably slow (like it did on the desktop), but until then, philosophy about open platforms aside, iOS and Android show no signs of being displaced as the real mobile OS / platform drivers... and so, native's going to lead HTML5 / other "open" platforms for a while.
> In fact, I don't think there are any provisions for punishing fraudulent Copyright claims.

Well, isn't making false claims for monetary gain itself fraud? I think there are provisions for punishing that...
Yup. But this certainly isn't unique to consciousness: In theory the axioms of Turing machines can prove that our best-candidate BusyBeaver(6) runs for around 10^36534 steps, but that doesn't provide an explanatory ontology. But you don't need to invoke magic for the theory to be true.