skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, the Swedish government nationalized their financial system in a way to ease the pain from the credit crunch, and it worked out well.

The main argument against these series of bailouts would be that it creates inflation of the currency. Of course, this is only be thought of now when we're attempt to fix infrastructure across the nation, or saving the jobs of workers, instead of bailing out banking systems too large to fail.

American businesses are operating at an unlevel field, partially because the criminalization of vertical integration (the Japanese do this for their automotives), compared to other nations in the world.

My 2c.
Most people are incapable (either by lack of talent or lack of drive or lack of comprehension) of generating enough value in a 20 year career to feed themselves for the next 50 years.
I'm not sure why your title says "markup language" but then you include CSS, so I assume that you're talking about the combination markup+style. In this case I would say: HTML is quite OK, but CSS is broken. I would add functions and variables to CSS, so it allows you to write stuff like this:

.someDiv
{
width = $someOtherDiv.width - 150px;
}

.someOtherDiv
{
width = 450px;
height = min(300px, $someDiv.height);
}
When you click a link from a google SERP, it goes through a redirect script. They could easily be using that to feed Google Analytics.
jeez. i thought it was funny. im sorry for offending so many sensibilities :/
Ask HN: Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site?
I need some help navigating the SSL cert oligopoly. What vendor has a reasonable price while delivering a no-scary-messages experience in virtually all browsers?

Personal experience with various vendors and any gotchas I haven't thought are especially welcome.
When I was looking into getting cheap Adderal online after losing my insurance, several of the sites I researched were exposed as selling fake meds

One clue should have been the fact that they were claiming to be selling Adderall. Adderall is a Schedule II drug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sched...

These substances are only available by prescription, and distribution is carefully controlled and monitored by the DEA. [...]

Drugs in this schedule include:

Cocaine
Opium
Methadone
Morphine
Amphetamine
Methamphetamine

We are not talking about trying to import things - like cocaine, morphine, Adderall and any other Schedule II drug - that cannot be legally imported. We are talking about normal, legally-importable drugs such as Provigil.
1. get a shell account somewhere

2. use ssh + screen
> We'll the author says intent was to prove it is possible.

Which is a straw man - nobody's arguing that it's impossible. The argument generally centers around valid, web-tested, academic-approved CSS layouts being practical for use in the real world. I worked with someone who did freelance web design on the side and who said "I program for Opera and only test in Opera." Does anyone really need to wonder why he didn't have any repeat business?

I also worked in a slicing sweatshop, and using CSS to do layouts instead of tables tripled the amount of time it took to slice a PSD mockup. Department-wide adoption of the YUI CSS framework brought this down to maybe double, although YUI still has some of the basic layout issues that CSS itself does (eg the lead engineer on YUI CSS told me himself that the only way they know of to solve the equal-height column issue with YUI is using Javascript, and there is no equal-height column CSS hack that's anywhere near to understand or cross-browser compatible as table-tr-td-td-td). The greatest time sinkhole by FAR was CSS layout debugging. It was not infrequent to have someone's whole day go down the drain struggling with some god-awful cross-browser issue that would be relatively easy using tables for layout. So I've been there, to the point where I know that the only CSS books that aren't nearly completely worthless are _CSS Mastery_, _Bulletproof Web Design_, and maybe O'Reilly's Definitive Guide.

Doing a layout in perfect, valid CSS separating presentation from content (as much as possible, because I've never seen them successfully completely separated in a non-trivial project) is sort of like writing a book and having a sticker on the cover that says "This book has been validated 100% grammatically correct." Swell, but it really doesn't have anything to do with the price of spinach.

Just like how the fact that many people have a beef with using CSS for layouts doesn't negate the fact that for everything else it eliminates redundancies and is generally the cat's pajamas, the fact that tables look ugly doesn't negate the fact that in many cases they Just Work faster and are easier to understand than CSS for standard layouts like three equal-height columns.
OpenDNS is nice, but they give you their crap redirects instead of a proper failure message.

Consider the Level 3 dns servers: 4.1.1.1 - 4.1.1.6
That's a whole different kettle of fish altogether! If you're building an application that requires JS then you have the power to completely modify the DOM, reorder elements, position absolutely and adjust position based on screen size etc - in this scenario you are no longer tied to CSS limitations or browser inconsistencies :)

Now if only 100% of people had JS turned on things would be peachy :)
Heh, I was asked that question yesterday, and gave pretty much the same answer - get out of my way.

We both laughed, but he got the message loud and clear.
I learned this the hard way. The really hard way. :(
Verisign and move on, or use your hosting firm if they provide the service. This isn't a question worth your time, really.
I recently bought a domain from namecheap and got a 1 year SSL free. Havent tried it out though.
Is it the case that most people know just how much their brain will decline will age? If they did, I think most would consider early retirement appealing.
It's "she", if you don't mind; and nobody asked for a fluid layout. You're trying to point out flaws in an example designed to prove a totally different point.
emacs vs. vim.
GoDaddy is pretty cheap and I don't see why you shouldn't use them.
Oh, I know, maybe because Spanish is my first language and I took three years of Latin at high school :-)
Aha, "replaced by F -teur"
What about angel funding? Cnet News is carrying a story that sounds very scary (the news media thrives on scariness) about "Agnels flee tech start-ups":

http://news.cnet.com/Angels-flee-from-tech-start-ups/2100-10...

In the mean time, Mr. Megalomania Ray Kurzweil (who has yet to comment on how well his "house casino" hedge fund has been doing lately) said he's starting The Singularity University:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10155303-76.html?tag=mncol
Two points:

1. Definition: crackhead - n. - A person who's actually very nice and supportive, but ends up treating you terribly anyway. E.g. terrible organization, constantly panicking over nothing, etc.

Avoid crackheads. Just leave them be.

2. I believe Competent Assholes can be dealt with if you've got a good contract

You know, eventually someone's going to make some DnD style cards for different kinds of bosses. Would be great if someone made these for VCs :-)
You're assuming that prices are lower because somebody lowered the wages of his employees. Generally speaking, prices go lower because someone finds a way to optimize his supply chain, or a more efficient way to build a product, or by investing in automation. Lowering your prices by giving your employees a pay cut just makes the employees look for new jobs.
Something needs to change: Corporation vs Society
I'm in a similar boat -- I'll happily be an asshole to those on the other side of the line, wherever I draw it. Usually it's in defense of someone I know, but that's all a matter, again of where I draw that line.

But yeah, I can really be an asshole in those situations. On the bright side, fear of being an asshole has made me learn some pretty good negotiation/people skillz.
> The fact there are so many giant assholes walking around suggests that being an asshole works, at least sometimes.

So how do we raise the costs of being an Asshole?

I'm asking this from a serious, hacking-the-monkeyware perspective.
> The argument generally centers around valid, web-tested, academic-approved CSS layouts being practical for use in the real world.

Your argument, perhaps, but that's not what the post was about.
The corporation is quite a stunning document. Certainly the makers have their agenda but in spite of that the facts they document are beyond the pale.

It certainly changed my view of things.
Dude! I have spent ages in debugging IE shit as much as you have. And have lost much of my hair! But I dont think what everybody's discussing here is cross browser compatibility. When you start with CSS you know are very much aware that some browsers dont support it. Each and every tutorial, all those books, point it out. So why go back and complain CSS sucks.
Facebook ads have always been relevant to me. Just this weekend, I was browsing profiles on Facebook, and the ads were all, "DO YOU NEED A GIRLFRIEND?"

Totally targeted.
I love pharma-hacking, always looking for recommendations.

I have used QHI for Adrafinil. They also have Modafinil (Provigil). A lot of rec.drugs.smart folks use QHI: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.drugs.smart/search?group=...

RX-Mex (4rx) is good for other items. These are the lowest-price pharmacies, that are reliable and easy to deal with, I know of. (Some people complain about 4rx mass-emails. I haven't had any problems.)
I don't think you really want that.
and what exactly will you do once you retire early?

find someone to marry? although the statistics are shifting, odds are a lot more slim at 40+ than if you had the time to look around earlier.

play some sports? have some sex? hike the grand canyon? unlikely, as your body also deteriorates with age. if only you had the time to do some of that earlier.

have kids? sperm count and quality drops drastically across your 30's.

spend time with your friends? what friends? working the 80+ hour weeks means you probably didn't have much of a social life, and therefore don't keep many friends. it might be a good time to try to look for some, but most people in their 40's are now very busy with their own lives -- kids and bigger job titles means less free time.

i could go on, but i feel you get my point. time is money, and older people would (and do attempt to) pay huge sums to regain their youth.
Windows 7 to Ship In Six Different Versions
Some of what is described here sounds actionable to me.

It reminds me of some of the tactics displayed in the 'untouchables' movie.

You wouldn't want anybody to max out your adwords budget this month wouldn't you ?
If somebody works minimum wage, they can't save up enough by then. It is just basic math. Sure, some people can get rich off of stock options and so on, but that is not a universal principle. So yes, some people can retire by age 40 but it is an exception, not the rule. Really, to save social security we recently increased the retirement age from 65 to 67 and it will like increase again within the Gen X/Y working life time. I am 28 and do not expect 67 to still be the retirement age all those years down the road.
spot on, some combination of javascript and css would be pretty neat. Isn't it already possible to at least generate css from within JavaScript ?
Java enabled alternative to Amazon SQS
I'm amazed at how staunchly biased you're approaching this. Not only does this article take the first leap of paranoia in stating that Google is doing this to sabotage competition, it goes further to say that somehow Google Analytics will be untouched. It is as if that last one was added just to satiate the author's anger:

"I don't know how they're gonna do it, but...but...they're bad...'cause they're gonna hurt competition, so they'll find some way of not hurting themselves, they have to!"

Besides, the hashmark is a standard of its own when it comes to Ajax applications. Google isn't doing anything suspiciously new with that.
Casual gaming is huge. I never knew quite how big until I had an in depth look at one of the bigger players in this space and it completely blew me away.
My condolences - I too know the pain of IE debugging. But it seems you're making the same error that the linked article is. The relevant question is not "is it theoretically possible to do layouts in CSS?", it is "CSS-based layouts vs. table-based layouts: which is better for Just Getting Shit Done in the Real World?"

And in my experience, for reasonable client-acceptable cross-browser compatibility (ie IE6/IE7/FF/Safari), CSS based layouts often cause more headaches than they're worth.
Seagate releases 2TB enterprise-class drive
I wouldn't touch godaddy with a stolen computer to paraphrase the late George Carlin.
Is anyone not getting this on google.com ? It looks like it might be happening for everyone on google.com, but not on, e.g. google.co.uk or google.it .
50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets
I would it say, startup normally have just one product that means there are differences between master and sub-brand strategies.
The Google example is a bad one in my opinion, because google has a brand for search and nobody care about google what so ever. And by the way google was not a startup when they started side activities.
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Anyone has a clue of what's the company he's talking about?
Why not?

Plenty of (stupid) people join _ because they like the look of the uniform.

From the hacker side of things I don't think most people joined the NSA because of the salary and benefits. Doing a cost benefit analysis and ignoring the small things is missing the point.
Starting at a measly $200K, and up to $1M, I'd have to consult my financial consultant at the Treasury Department to see if I could scrounge up the funds.
Excel Spreadsheet editing coming to iPhone
:). It was just a careless mistake. And we really love it when someone can figure out CSS better than us ;).
You always learn from all types of experience. Of course you won't just learn how to do something by doing it wrong many times, but the reason for the "cultural fascination with failure" is that if you don't try you don't succeed, and if you do try but fail, should we say "well, you did it wrong?". No, learning from failure is an optimistic way to see failure, and it's perfectly fine.
The post is a bit ridiculous.
Singularity University: Preparing Humanity for Accelerating Technological Change
Agreed. This looks like it has the potential to be seriously gamed.
The speed with which storage capacity increases never ceases to amaze me, it's not all that long ago that I thought my 360K floppy drive was hot stuff.

The race is really on between flash and rotating media, it would be nice to see a graph of storage cost per bit for both media and a comparision of access times. I give it another 5 years before rotating media are only going to be used in specialty cases.
Tables were not introduced until '95. I've been designing web pages since then and I went all CSS in 2001. If you were doing serious design things weren't quite so rosy as the picture you paint. Hobbyists and non-designers don't realize what designing with tables was really like. There were crazy idiosyncrasies like whitespace affecting table layout. The late 90s an incredible amount of effort was dumped into developing table-based layout techniques. Tools like ImageReady evolved to make slicing images easy, but the underlying code was an abomination. Depending on your design you end up having to have tiny cells with tons of rowspan and colspan attributes or deep nesting. Neither one of those is maintainable at all, and when you bring a template-based back-end it can get downright insane. And once you get to those kinds of designs, things aren't nearly so predictable as some seem to think. Try fixing the width of one column in a table and then predicting the width of each of the remaining columns. The table cell width computation varies frustratingly between browsers and the particular content in the cell. Even worse, this situation will never be resolved because all development effort towards advancing the state of web design is happening in CSS. The abilities you have today are what you will have forever, except new browsers may introduce bugs.

The problem with this debate so far is the oversimplification of the issues. CSS was not created to simplify a 5-cell table layout by turning it into 5-div layout. These degenerate examples aren't representative of the real-world design issues that gave rise to CSS in the first place. It's like somebody saying PHP is a better language than Haskell because "functional programming is confusing"--sure go for PHP if you just need to get something done, but if you are serious about the craft of programming than you need to look to the state of the art.

CSS is far from perfect. But people need to have some appreciation of the facilities it brings to the table (despite imperfect browser support). The capabilities are much richer than tables (in fact they are a superset in the spec), and designed to solve complex design issues across a range of devices and media. This is all achieved in a human readable and editable language. Try writing postscript out by hand some time.
No. In my experience a mix of CSS and table based layouts work out fine. There are cases when floats and clears are overkill. But so is a complete table based layout.
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How could you use this?

Creative ideas please!
I'd say that learning from failure is the only way to really learn. Scratch anybody that's successful in business and all but a very lucky few of them will have 'failed' at some point or other.

You wouldn't be able to walk if you didn't 'learn from failure', it's our nature, pure & simple.
So basically, virtual memory and the filesystem become one and the same thing?

Very interesting concept, especially if you combine it with the soon-to-be-ubiquitous solid state drives.

But what happens when your system crashes? And the last state was the one that caused the crash...
> Your argument, perhaps, but that's not what the post was about.

But while your post was correct, it was a straw man - nobody makes the argument that it's impossible to do a markup-order-independent, three-column layout in CSS, especially when you only have to make it work in Firefox 3 on Linux and don't have to deal with equal-height column issues.

The argument that apparently half of HN is discussing now is "which is more pragmatically effective for client-acceptable layout: CSS or tables?" The post doesn't address this, because a layout that's only been tested in Firefox 3 for Linux would be completely unacceptable to any client I've ever done business with.
Or try learning latex!
Most of the resellers out there are reselling Comodo certificates. Comodo is probably the leader in terms of number of certificates issued and you can buy direct direct from them to save the middleman. They offer two classes of certificates but both are essentially the same. The difference is the amount of insurance Comodo provides you and the level of authentication you must go through to prove who you say you are.

You can check them both out at:
http://www.instantssl.com/ (the lower end)
http://www.enterprisessl.com/ (the higher end)
Cheers for this link mate, having a look now

Ive been struggling looking for a new projects domain for days now, snapnames, freshdrop, domainpigeon (from here), so hopefully you might have some suggestions!!
The Gooey Center of Marketing
cool idea. they should add a bit torrent link for downloading.
Write a better page rank algorithm?
> nobody makes the argument that it's impossible to do a markup-order-independent, three-column layout in CSS

The first post I quoted did exactly that. The OP argued that if you changed the order of a 3-column layout, it 'destroys' the presentation. Both my first and amended examples proved this wrong.

I work in web development. I specialise in PHP but I do front-end work on a day to day basis. I too struggle with the frustrations that half-arsed browsers such as IE present. Please do not assume that because I chose the side of CSS on this occasion to demonstrate its capabilities, that I do not 'get' what the css vs. table / developing for IE arguments are about.
There's one there already.
Already listed

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464236

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464001

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463600
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Exactly.

No startup should start side activities until they have the one thing they are focusing on completely in hand.

Disqus is blog a blog commenting system. One they get that figured out they can go and do something else. Disqus "the name of our second product function."
I would suggest dtach instead of screen. There is much less conflict between key bindings for emacs and dtach, whereas with screen I was always forgetting which program would get Ctrl-a and being continually surprised.
> No.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'm sorry to say your assertive "No" doesn't negate the fact that my experience is that CSS-based layouts are very often not cost-effective compared to table-based.

We had 15 people doing slicing all day, every day, 50-60+ hours a week. We weren't all morons. You better believe we figured out what works and what doesn't, and as I said, the switch to CSS-based layouts tripled the time it took to get a site to a client. If you want to believe that everyone in the shop just happened to simultaneously become mentally retarded at the exact time the switch was made, you're free to do so. Personally, I think Occam's razor suggests otherwise.
Yes, but in that case other web analytics packages will also have access to referrer that contains the search query and there is no problem.

I wasn't clear enough, sorry - I was concerned with how Google could be able to share the search query _only_ with GA but not other analytics tools, because it is clear that Google will not sacrifice GA usefulness to some ajax SERPs.
Very nice set... Can I use the FaceBook batch without being sued? Creative Commons?
The rush to get everything unto the iPhone often makes me wonder whether some of these applications they are putting on it are even necessary or even useful.

I for one cannot imagine myself spending any lengthy amount of time editing spreadsheets on such a tiny screen with the onscreen keyboard.

If I want to edit a spreadsheet, I will use my macbook. If i need to read an ebook, I will use my iRex Iliad.

I'm just waiting for someone to write a coding IDE on the iPhone now =P

Once again, it kind of remind me of facebook apps. The early adopters made money, when everyone else saw that, the rush to the gold created many apps which are a poor fit for the platform/device (Usually big companies) as well as other apps which are just downright bad in quality/stupid(script kiddiez?). We'll see how this pan out =)
I think an open source google could be a pretty great project, I would imagine its been tried before, but by seperating out the steps where these guys crawl, other people build indexes, and others handle lookups, it sounds more reasonable than one project taking on the whole thing