skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any reason you can't use an unordered list with one of the pre-made jquery tree plugin's to give indentation, collapse and expand?

http://jquery.bassistance.de/treeview/demo/
Technically, yes, but ad hominem circumstantial, as it is called, is generally acceptable in public discourse if the primary party making the argument will see direct gain AND the logic behind his argument is also reduced, independent of the speaker.

Say Joe (a libertarian) is arguing for legalization of smut films in public theaters. Frank (a smut rental store owner) is arguing the opposite case.

Joe may say, "you shouldn't tell adults what they can or cannot watch in a theater because that encroaches on their rights."

Frank will then reply, "Don't listen to him, he's just the quack libertarian 'round here, this is about protecting our public places for our kids."

Joe's reply of, "18+ theaters are out of the accessible areas of children and therefore his argument is flawed, and furthermore Frank is most likely primarily concerned about reduced profits of smut rentals due to market substitution towards theater movies."

Frank's original reply - That Joe is a "quack libertarian" is invalid because it exposes no hidden motive on Joe's part.

Joe's reply is valid because the public should understand all reasons why Frank does not want a public smut theater or they may fall for a "lie of omission" and because Joe attacked Frank's primary argument.
Well, most of what you say is true, but doesn't require immersion. For example, I have Israeli friends here in the States, and I keep in touch with a couple cousins in Israel. So it's possible for me to have real conversations (as opposed to contrived conversations with classmates or workbook exercises etc.) without actually going to Israel.

I found immersion useful because when you hear a language all day, every day, it seems to seep into your subconscious. Also, I think that language learning is a function of density rather than just volume, so to speak. That is to say, spending ten hours speaking a language every day for a month is more effective than speaking it for half an hour a day for 600 days.
In theory, it offers better separation of content from presentation. For example, a news article that renders in one column on-screen and two columns printed. Or that renders as columns for a sighted user but is read aloud in the correct order for a blind user.
I wonder how much Walmart adjusts working conditions to the local job market. Things like high turnover have significant real costs and adjusting the the local job market could save them massive amounts of money. There also seems to be significant differences in the quality of the store depending on the local economy.

EX: I walked though a Wallmart in Arlington VA that seemed to be struggling where the Wallmart in Charles Town WV was thriving. I expect they lose out on the "high end" items like HDTV's and high quality items when people have more options and cash.
Could there possibly be a better target for pirates?

Have you read the literature?: http://www.google.com/search?q=seasteading+pirates

http://www.seasteading.org/seastead.org/commented/paper/ocea...

Piracy is still a problem on the high seas, but does not seem particularly worrisome for a seastead. Much of it is small-scale theft - for example, of the 335 attacks reported in 2001, only 73 involved guns. 16 ships were hijacked, and 21 people killed (all but one in asian waters) [ICC2001]. Being above the waves and strong enough to withstand them, in addition to a small number of firearms, will make a seastead a rather difficult target for this kind of criminal. Also, since seasteads are residential vessels, they have a much higher population density than a pirate's usual target. If the seastead uses a tugboat, the tug will be much more vulnerable, and should be watched.

Some piracy is done by large organized groups who capture entire ships and their goods (often tens of millions of dollars worth) to be fenced. They use forged documents to obtain a new load of cargo from legitimate shippers, and then steal it too. A seastead should not be valuable enough for this type of theft, as it is not a cargo ship, and would be rather conspicuous in port. Why attack a platform of people who would be defending their homes when you could attack a cargo boat with lightly armed sailors who would much rather not die to protect some corporation's cargo?

The armed and organized groups which seasteads should be the most worried about are the navies of traditional governments. Seastead defense is discussed in the infrastructure section.

Besides that, pirates these day tend to operate near the horn of Africa.
Quicknet: What Might Have Been
Facebook COO "promised that users would be able to add more than 5k friends soon"
In my mind this leaves only two defenses for not having a website done in (roughly) proper CSS + HTML

Defenses? It's a crime now?
Whoops. Meant to say isn't sacred.
The author notes that he did not do this out of wanting to own a business. While I believe that, I also believe that many folks who start businesses do so out of the romantic idea of owning your own business. They may not love the business but they love the idea of owning the business. I think this generally happens with people who are nearing retirement and are looking for something to do when they are done with their 9-5.

It's almost ALWAYS a bad idea. One of the common reasons for their efforts is that they want to leave something behind...either in their name or a business that can be passed on to their children. Why burden YOURSELF with the hassles of a business in your retirement years let alone make your children feel like they have to take over when you can no longer work?

If there's one thing I'd like my parents to do in their retirement, it's nothing. Enjoy life. Relax. Travel. Play golf. Show me see how enjoyable my retirement years can be.
Yes. Lots of people are losing their homes to foreclosure.

Yes. A lot of their stuff ends up in landfills.

Those are bad things. I agree.

What you haven't showed is how realtors have anything to do with why people end up in foreclosure or why these people move out so quickly leaving everything behind. Foreclosures still take months to happen, people have months to get rid of their stuff somehow. If they don't, they are the irresponsible ones, not realtors.

People stop paying their loans, banks foreclose. Realtors stand a chance of profiting from two events they neither caused or influenced.
anyone have an idea how this might work in tandem with dd, for example dd if=/dev/urandom of=1GB.bin bs=1M count=1024
Nope. I don't use noprocrast, but I imagine that the set of people who do are heavily skewed towards the more senior members of the HN community -- so removing the override and keeping them locked out is likely to have the effect of lowering the tone of discourse here.
for the purposes of a conversation about loathing, i think you're presenting a false equivalence here. in such subjective terms it's hard not to admit that despite whatever flaws it may have, target has at least not had books written and movies made [1] about their misdeeds.

[1] on amazon, "target" had one result on the first page related to the company that was positive, whereas with walmart the second result is "
How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It" and it doesn't really improve from there
What caught my attention about this book is the Preface by Hal Abelson:

“Julie and Gerry Sussman and I are flattered that Harvey and Wright characterize their revolutionary introduction to
computer science as a “prequel” to our text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.”

This is next on my reading list, along with both texts you mentioned.
Public education often inadvertently acts as an amplifier for class differences, but your system seems designed to that end. What would be the upside of that? Upper-class and lower-class kids' paths would start to diverge at a very young age, and the kids couldn't very well be held responsible for the result. Anything that cements class differences like that would mean giving up the pretense of equal opportunity, which would create political pressure to officially recognize the existence of different classes with different obligations and different claims on the state. It sounds like a nightmare. Why not try to give a good education to kids even if their families didn't teach them the value of it?
OK, in the first chapter of the book (page 19), there is this paragraph (I'm not good in translating to English, but I'll try):

"Einstein said that the natural laws are revealing such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them."

The next paragraph explains that Flew has been influenced decisively by the opinion of Einstein. It informs that many people said Einstein to be atheist or spinozistic pantheist. Then it cites Einstein again:

"I'm no atheist, and I don't think that I could define myself as pantheist. We are in the situation of a child which enters a huge library, full of books written in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written these books, but doesn't know how. And it doesn't know the languages the books are written in. The child suspects being a mysterious order in the disposition of the books, but doesn't know which. This seems to me the human position, even of the most intelligent ones, in front of God..."

(there follow some other sentences, but this should already be enough).

Happy now? The book is full of citations and annotations (they are counted, and the last one has the number 529). The author collected the material for the book in several years, and he's a really meticulous writer, I know him quite well.
5 Things Mark Shuttleworth Has Learned about Organizational Change
The problem with these for/against arguments is that they are not mutually exclusive approaches. One one end you have pure web apps, on the other you have pure desktop apps and in-between you have a whole spectrum of hybrid possibilities. As developers, part of our job is to understand the options, what the trade-offs are and how they relate to the particular problem we are trying to solve, and to be able to choose appropriately.
After going through blueprint and 960.gs, I settled on malo as well. It's dead simple, light, stable, and can be learned in 2 minutes.

Its only gotcha is to adjust the negative margin value for IE6 if you change your default font-size. You can also add your own partitioning percentages. Lastly, the standard triggering of "hasLayout" for floats in IE applies.
That doesn't shrink the file size, but loading a single file is faster than loading one and the second. What does shrink the file size is getting rid of new lines, tabs comments and so forth. Note how a google result page is a lot of text, but actually typically 10 lines.

For the same reason jquery is offered minified and YUI offers a tool to "compress" javascript and CSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
I'm not sure pure CSS designs offer much in terms of usability and accessibility directly. It does help mobile devices, but I think that's still too small for many sites to matter. Plus with more devices that have full browsers, this will become less important.

But another side-effect of many CSS purists is also being an HTML purist. This leads to good semantic practices all-around.

Things like properly annotating title/alt properties. Or attaching checkbox fields to labels. Making sure the tabindex is in an order that makes sense.

As you said, with practice, everyone learns the benefits of each style and develops their own personal medium.
some [problems] such as fire not discussed.

Fire protection is discussed on the seasteading website: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aseasteading.org+fire

The structures are generally envisioned to be made of concrete (or cementitious composite), a fireproof material.

In 1988 a fire broke out on the piper alpha [+] platform in the North Sea, resulting in the death of 2/3 of the crew.

Perhaps oil had something to do with that fire. Are seasteading spars necessarily loaded with oil?
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Advertising and premium accounts need not be exclusive. You could try both with a freemium model (see Chris Anderson's recent WSJ piece). Place ads on the free version and take them away in the premium (as well as adding other features of course)
That's why I've never really liked about.com. Looking into it, it seems like all the content has been paid for by about.com. But content on their sites has appeared elsewhere, and it looks like they frame content, so it's just distasteful.

I do think it can be done well though. Isitfunnytoday.com
frames content. They are a web comic aggregator that lets people vote on web comics. On all their out going links, they have a very small frame that lets you vote on the displayed comic, vote on a different comic, and share the the comic on websites like digg. The bar is not invasive, and you can easily get rid of it by clicking the red x. It also helps that isitfunnytoday.com is actually sending more traffic to the other site.
At this point, it matters not what happens to IE market share. It will not ever get lower than 20% and it will not ever get higher than 90% again. As long as it stays in that range we can know with surety that a) all web sites will still have to be coded to work with IE
b) no web sites will be exclusively IE. Those days are over.

The only remaining question is how fast we can vanquish IE6 and thus rescue a small amount of sanity for web developers everywhere. The rest of the battle, in as much as it can be won, has been won.
I don't think it hurts your SEO–since it's framing your page at the same URL. Google is smart enough to know that the frame comes from your site/blog.

Honestly, I don't think you should be too concerned about it. After all, RSS readers, blog search engines, news search engines, meme aggregators, and other sites all scrape content and republish it (in whole or part) in their own pages–often profiting from ads at the same time. Is that any less shady to you?

I'd say just make sure your pages clearly define you as the content creator. People will get the idea.
Vista Fail. I've been using XP since Jan 2004 with no issues, no re-install, still works fine. Why the hell would I upgrade to downgrade my performance. Who needs a bloated candy-colored version of Windows? A new OS should be faster, not slower. Try again, Microsoft. Until then I'll stick with XP and OSX on my Mac.
1 - It doesn't hurt SEO. Sure, a directly link would be better, but a framed one is better than nothing. If it creates duplicate content problems, it's for the framer, not the framed.

2 - No. Why do you think it might do?

3 - No, I hate them too :) Except isitfunnytoday.com, because, you see... that's the problem. Sometimes you can clearly see value being added by the framer. But these are rare, most framers do it to stick the users, log activity or show ads.
I must admit, as someone who was born in the USA but is reasonably fluent in Chinese (can pass as a native in Beijing when speaking, at least on the phone, and can read/write at like a third-fifth grade level which is harder than it sounds in Chinese), as soon as I saw this I thought "why????". Still, the article did turn out to be quite interesting.

What I've also found interesting in my own personal experience with my parents (born in China, immigrated in their 20s) is how they go about learning new words in English. For example, I used to dismiss my mom's horrendous spelling as simply a byproduct of immigration, but only recently have started to think about it more deeply and I've noticed a couple of things. First, she tends to insert nonsensical letters (or miss extremely obvious ones) when trying to spell words she's recently just heard for the first time. This used to bother me a lot because it seemed like the mistakes were so obvious to correct, but now I've realized that because of how Chinese is designed, the concept of breaking a word down into pieces just simply isn't natural for someone who only started learning English in their late 20s. Not to say it can't be learned, but just that even after 20+ years in the states, my mom still doesn't default to "break it down" mode when attempting to spell words, partly because she never had any formal English training (my dad is much, much better about this, and I think it's because of more formal training in a university environment) and just picked it up.
Great explanation. I learned something.

So maybe my critique of her comment being an implied ad hominem is unfair

"Mr. Su is a real-estate consultant and a former REO broker."

Still, it's not obvious that he stands to profit off more foreclosures based on his status as a consultant, and the fact that he was formerly a broker seems to lend credibility to his expertise rather than detracting from it.
Dear pg, thanks for removing override
definitely enjoyed a productivity hit. Thank you.
>Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for every other one.

"...that has been tried." This is a crucial part because, I am sure, you can devise a better system - in your head! In fact, it seems to be happening as we speak.
There's one critical area where assessment of teachers varies from those in medicine, law, etc.: many states require consistent salary and retention policies across all their schools. Given the limited resources available to do any sort of meaningful performance measurement, that pretty much means that any "pay for performance" model will necessarily require a single set of standardized tests that can be delivered to every student in the state.

...and we all know how well those sorts of tests measure real learning and intelligence, right?
"Facebook frames the destination pages for all links shared on it."

Where does Facebook do this? I just checked it with a site for a food drive that I'm advertising on my news feed, and it wasn't framed.
Yeah, the problem seems to be incorrect validation rules in the code (assuming this "/" input was the real issue).

Both "TDD would catch this during coding" and "tests would catch this in regression testing" only hold if there is actually a specification of functionality with the correct input validation rules in the first place.

It seems more likely to me this is the more mundane situation that no one was paranoid enough about inputs in the first place.
Tables probably for cross-browser support with minimal code size.

Inline css and javascript for 1 http request instead of 3. Much faster, and less load. The content-length of the google home page is 2752 bytes (gzip).
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Agreed. I can't stand watching/listening people talk online in general: interviews, podcasts, lectures whatever. It always feels like enormous waste of time: I'd rather quickly scan the text of what they're saying, slowing down on important things and "fast-forwarding" water.
in the first chapter of the book (page 19), there is this paragraph [...] "Einstein said that the natural laws are revealing such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them."

Thank you. I included the actual Einstein quote, which is taken from his book The World as I See It, in my other reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462856

Here it is, again:

But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

The quoted text appears in Einstein's book immediately after the paragraph in which Einstein states that belief in God is naive and childish. Einstein's book is online at Google Books. This link leads directly to the page with the quote: http://books.google.com/books?id=JFXWosy8ywYC&pg=PA38...
Click on a "posted item" in your news feed.

Example:

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=52798147212&h=...

Instead of

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipes/gallery/0,28548,1708361,00....

FB adds a blue bar across the top with the profile info of the person who shared the link.
It seems the AJAX Search API now lets you get a machine-readable list of search results in a relatively straightforward fashion; I'm not sure that was true back when the SOAP API was canned. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje But the terms and conditions still seem to prevent you from using structured data to do anything useful to the search results. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html (see especially the start of 1.3)
Nope. Too sweet.
> A lot of arguments can be avoided by delving into the scary but true, raw but honest emotional side. I learned this from a great consultation.

I'm surprised no one has counter-pointed this yet, but I've found that a lot of arguments can be created by delving into the scary, raw emotional side. Although they are honest reflections of one's emotions, they may not be a correct or reasonable reaction to the situation. Such emotional revelations can provoke an equally emotional reaction from the other party, with similar reasonableness problems. This can then go any number of directions after that, from a new found emotional closeness to a guns-blazing tear down of one another. Whichever it is, be assured that the people involved are not thinking, only acting. Many more people are hurt or killed out of an outburst of raw emotion than are out of an outburst of rationality.

This also seems to assert that, by wanting to avoid arguments, arguments are to be avoided at all costs. If so, why? If not, which arguments are worthwhile having? I have seen a lot of good ideas, a lot of novel ideas, come out of an argument from two people who aren't averse to intellectual jousting. It seems unlikely these ideas would've formed if these people had spent their time instead making sure conflict is minimized.

> That is how people connect with each other.

This is not the only way people connect with one another, although it may be the most prevalent. Many of the connections I make with people are based on an intellectual rather than an emotional connection. We find enjoyment in discussing ideas based on their own merits and evidence we've discovered, not based upon the emotional reaction they invoke in one or the other parties. Knowing how people feel about ideas says almost nothing about whether they are correct, and that correctness is what interests me more. My goal in all my relationships I have is learning, maybe about the other person to a point, but also about the larger world with the other person serving as someone with which to test the ideas I come up with, and me likewise for them. Perhaps there is an emotional component there in the larger friendship, but it is not the facilitator of the individual conversations.

I hope you aren't making implications in this direction, but I can't help but feel that you are blaming the people who are less emotionally driven for the distance and disharmony in society. To quote the author Sam Harris, who I think phrases this quite well: There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. He is talking about religion, but I think it applies equally to all things.
Some people just learn better from hearing, so the lectures are better for them, even if they seem redundant. But reading the book aloud isn't enough. Effective lectures sound different from books: shorter, simpler, more repetitive.

Really, the right thing for a student to do is to read the relevant material before the lecture, then listen for nuances and ask questions in class. Of course, I only occasionally attained this ideal when I was in college.
It is shown when someone posts a link (not every external link)