skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
replaceState still works for changing the hash-code without updating the history list, so you can stay on the same 'page'. You can then read the hash-code using browsers like IE, just not create new ones. I used this as a quick hack to get permalinks on http://ares.aylett.co.uk/xkcd/ -- when you move (on at least FF and Chrome, but not IE), the hash-code updates, and at least FF, Chrome and IE can decode the hash-code on page load.

Not to say that I don't agree with your conclusions about infinite scroll -- I'd much prefer sensible pagination.
Wow, I had no idea.

I guess that explains why they picked such an odd name for a twitter clone!
The previous system was easier to gamble. You put up a new app, pay for ads/bots/whatever, get a plenty of downloads and start showing up on the top for all the search queries (even if your app is crap), this in turn causes even more sales.

Also, in the previous system you could've positioned for a term completely unrelated to your app (e.g. you have a weight tracker, and you position for celebrity phrases because they're more popular). My guess is they try to stop that.

Oh, and even in the past it wasn't just popularity that guided the results. We did a detailed analysis of this ( techcrunch.com/2012/03/12/appcod-es-launches-app-store-prediction-tool-tells-developers-which-keywords-work/ )
If Bush's essay is the start of a trail, then Englebart's "Mother Of All Demos" is the next waypoint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs

This is great, critical history to absorb about our industry.

(As an aside, I feel that the introduction of the original iPhone is in some ways a spiritual successor to Englebart's demo.)
You are being needlessly snarky.
> would be trivial to make bundled linux packages for...

Boxer makes this especially trivial on OSX, there's no reason similar (or even the same) game containers could not be created for Linux.
Yes, more or less. Just read the source, all the game logic is client side. Line 132 in 1110.js.
"Consider some studies that show noisy, hard-to-read text (as on a
poorly-printed copy) is better remembered by readers than clean
typography. Apparently, the effort of making out messy printing also
strengthens the recall."

In the book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' studies are presented, that the
number of right answers increases if the question is harder to read.

The conclusion is, that if you need more effort and consciousness to
comprehend a question, than you are already in a mode of thinking which
makes it easier to reach the right answer.
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Pedro, use our tool like AppCod.es (ours) for tracking your position. It costs, but it will save you time you'd spend on scrolling :)
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"Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must
be a sign of superior intelligence."

and that is how we humans come undone: we worry too much.
But fewer people total would consume them, leading to less damage being done overall.
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The revised iOS 6 App Store app has disadvantages from a user perspective too. In-app purchases in particular are no longer prominently shown near the app name but somewhere below on the description page and it is therefore no longer possible to immediately see whether a 'free' app is actually free.
I see $17 and $12 correspondingly for the kindle editions.
If Kickstarter crowdsources funding, why not crowdsource manufacturing, too? Especially considering the increasing proliferation of 3D printing and the like.

I'm sure that many DIYers, hackerspaces, etc., have the ability to manufacture small batches of a wide variety of products; QA and final assembly could be done further up the chain, as a component of distribution.
Guys hang on. When Rails assets are compiled all Coffeescript is converted to JavaScript, which is then compressed and minified. So unless you are writing any Coffescript yourselves you will never have to deal with it. Asset pre-compilation has been a Rails feature since Rails 3.1.
It's amusing to see experts say it may work for STEM courses but won't work for liberal arts classes.

I'm finding Coursera's Modern American Poetry class to be extremely engaging, and it's entirely due to the quality of the instructor and his team. He's got endless enthusiasm for his subject, the method in which the class is delivered, and in teaching as many people as possible to love poetry.

It's a shining example of what's possible with the right teacher.

The lesser professors out there had better up their game, whatever their subject. The competition is here, and its fierce.
If I search for 'bing' in the iOS 6 App Store app, result #1 is 'Bing Get Me There' – a travel app for London … sidewards scrolling in the new App Store app is horrible but I made it to result #20 without any sign of a real Bing map app …
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History disagrees.
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"Processing's lack of modularity is a major barrier to recomposition"

JS has functions and objects. How is that not modular? The fact that many Khan Academy's example programs "are written as one long list of instructions" is another story.
That probably depends on the developers of the games. Some of the Humble Bundle games already list Linux as a "ValidOS" in the Steam database.
The interface is laggy and sometimes frozen (especially when I have updates in the background). It's a bust.
Making a choice (any choice) is often better than making no choice at all, although not choosing at all is itself an often overlooked valid choice ("A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"). There's an oxymoronic french expression reflecting that often overlooked possibility, especially in dire situations: "Il est urgent d'attendre" which could be translated as "it is most pressing to wait".
> Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must
be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered
that it was simply a bug.

I think this says quite a bit about chess as a game.

That a top player can't recognize a bad move near the final stage of the game.

In contrast, the game of Go is rich with examples where one player makes a bad move and the opponent takes advantage of it; and I'm talking about top players; not amateurs.

Following the opponent and/or always responding to his moves is considered a typical sign of a weak player. One of the things you learn as you get better is to never assume that the last move of your opponent is necessarily a good move.

Imagining that your opponent has a threat you haven't yet figured out is one of the bad habits that weak players must get rid of before they can become stronger.
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Yes we are probably talking past each other here a little, but I enjoy and respect your work on SuperGlue. Not having used Self I don't understand the distinction between it and Morphic.

There clearly is a distinction between textual and visual, but at the same time they support one another: text is made out of pictures, pictures can be described with text (e.g. svg). For me the aim of visual programming language research shouldn't be to disparage or get away from the composition of symbols, but to supplement that with mental imagery. As I see it, mental imagery and language are most valuable in combination.

I'll look into sketchpad and toontalk properly though, "truly" visual language is a fascinating area.
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Well, the inconsistencies between browsers is quite a good point if it would cause inconsistencies in user experience.

I'd like to point out, however, that FB already does some kind of similar trick with the URL hash when browsing photos: if you open someone's photo, it'll open in a modal dialog where you can navigate to other photos and this in-page navigation _will_ change the URL hash. If you go to that modified URL directly (or refresh the page) FB will show a different page (inside the person's "album") with that photo.

I'd reason that, for FB, a photo is more of a tangible thing than an item in your infinite stream, thus it deserves separate URLs when browsing the them.
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The ability of holding an invisible state is important, but at the same time you are mixing things in the learning process, and that makes learning hard. Try learning to speak a new language while learning juggling ... this is definitely difficult. By taking smaller steps, the learner is able to make better progress. First the tools... then the imagination.
It makes more sense now, it is just a non news then.
I have to wonder how much research the author actually did:

> Video-content owners, including...the NFL and Major League Baseball...aren't looking for a savior and ultimately won't be satisfied with anything less than an open ecosystem accessible by any device.

Well, MLB is already on the Apple TV, along with the NHL and the NBA.

> Apple's rejection of Google's superior maps is an obvious example, but it goes with the turf. Apple's spectacular success with devices naturally led to the temptation of a network-effects empire. To such empires, maps are just too important as a way to gather information about users and hit them with ads and e-commerce opportunities.

Does anyone else really believe that Apple switched from Google maps because they want to build a "network-effects empire" in order to show people more ads? Google is in the ad business; Apple is in the selling-you-devices business.

> Let it be said that some techies see evidence of a more rational impulse within Apple. They say Apple's browser and HTML5 support are conspicuously superior to Android's. Within Apple apparently there are teams committed to making sure Apple devices are competitive in the open-ecosystem world that is coming.

This...I don't even know. Steve Jobs himself said (albeit in relation to Flash) "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too)."

Apple won't come undone because their TV doesn't sell; Apple will come undone when competitors can consistently make markedly better products.
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The 'damage' described in the article is the result of mis-labeled products being sold to unwary consumers, not of properly-informed consumers experiencing negative consequences of risk judgments that they've intentionally chosen to make. This kind of damage is more likely to occur in a black market setting, in which the protections of law are unavailable, than it is to occur in an open and above-board market, in which participants have recourse against such fraud.

Consider also that suppressing supplements entirely also equally suppresses the benefit that consumers may enjoy from their use, and it's entirely plausible that the 'overall' reduction in benefit may exceed the 'overall' reduction in harm, so even if we were to use your purely utilitarian criterion as our only decision-making guide, such a policy might still be unjustified.
While I agree completely to Marco's post, I also want to point out, what I believe is, the underlying root of evil: "The iPad is easy" (or the X is easy).

Expecting that something is easy and always works is not that helpful, and to some extend removes responsability from the consumer (which is great for the consumer in the short run).

It doesn't help that we (techies and others) use catchy phrases such as "It's easy" to convince people to give it a try. Because, for some, it will be difficult.

When you tell older generations about something "new" (email, smartphone, tablet, whichever) and they're hesitant or slightly sceptical, it's easy to hear yourself giving the argument: "But it's easy, you just have to...".

Don't say "but it's easy" in cases where you should've said "but it's easy for me".

Should the iPad experience be better? Sure, and I'd love to see them continue to strive towards it. My point is the other end of the equation: the consumers.
I have a strong suspicion this guy is just pontificating without actually having spent any time with people in big content.

> Video-content owners aren't looking for a savior and ultimately won't be satisfied with anything less than an open ecosystem accessible by any device.

Big content doesn't give a fuck about open ecosystems. They care about cash money and to a lesser extent they care about control. What they don't want is a Netflix decimating and dominating the market. They may be wary of Apple because of their dominance in iTunes, but if they can grow the market (which their app store model seems like it has a shot) then big content is happy to play ball with them.
Agreed. So can you empower those great developers to take those great ideas, develop them to a certain point, and then help them find a competent team, give them some working capital, and see where they can take it?

I guess the biggest challenge is giving the person offering the idea package the tools to screen potential founders. Assuming it's even possible to do that effectively online.

Maybe it's a two phase process. You pitch to them, they pitch it back to you.
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You wouldn't call upon beta testers like this to decide upon hardware configurations. This beta process is definitely for a Desktop Linux client.

There is a chance that the rumours of a console could also be true as well though. There's no reason why they couldn't have a Linux console /AND/ desktop Linux support.
The problem is that paywall pricing is often wonky.

The NYT, for instance lets you read 20 articles per month for free. But wanna read 21? $15/month ($180/year).

[In reality, of course, it's trivial to get past the NYT's paywall, but that's not really relevant.]

If you read, say, 50 articles per month, that's about $0.50 per article ($15 for the 30 articles over your 20 free ones), which for most articles, even in a quality paper, is way too much.

I guess the papers basically reason that it's like a paper subscription but a bit less... but that doesn't really reflect the way people read papers electronically. When you buy a physical paper, you often read a lot of it, and it serves as a major part of your news. You feel like you got a pretty good value from your investment (and the physical medium aids that feeling, even if it's a waste). But people get news on the internet from tons of different sources, and the value of any one paper is a lot less, even if you like it a lot.

I value papers like the NYT because they actually do a lot of important things (e.g. sending reporters into war zones, and doing deep investigative journalism), but the gut feeling of "value" for their digital subscriptions simply isn't there in the same way it was for the physical paper.
Which kind of project was that? Was it just an experimentation, like the WebGL one?
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I will never try doing anything without a 3rd party technically guaranteing me payments (like the odesk.com which bills people automatically per-screenshot using money pre-blocked from their CCs - absolutely no excuse can exist to avoid payment).
I'm in the UK and I get "pricing information unavailable) for both of them.

EDIT: Using UK amazon I get this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Signal-Noise-Prediction-ebook/dp...) which shows £14.99 for me.

This is what pisses me off about ebooks. I understand that they can't be dirt cheap because you still need editors and proofreaders and setters and authors, and all those people need paying, but $15 = £9. (£15 = $24).

Amazon UK charges a 20% sales tax (VAT) for UK ebooks. (I have no idea if Amazon actually pay their tax or if they're the type of company using vigorous avoidance schemes.)
> This is a fairly large and very long play. Right now, two years after launching, OS X accounts for 4.36% of Steam users [1]. In another two years time I can't imagine Linux users accounting for even 1/1000th of that.

1/1000? That's just plain ridiculous, at the very(!) most OS X has 10 times the number of users(probably a lot less). Also Apple plain doesn't care about desktop gaming, the only reason they care about ios gaming is that it became extremely popular without them and now it's such a big draw they have to care. I would assume most Apple users don't care too much. OTOH linux users are exactly the sort of geeky audience that tends to be gamers or potential gamers.

Your point about the users who simply use steam games on a windows box/vm/wine now that wouldn't add much to the bottom line hits much closer(Although the convenience/reliability of being able to buy games for their main computer could help existing users spend more freely) but I think that it is missing some like those who might use consoles less or those who aren't currently gamers but have decent potential to become gamers and customers thanks to the convenience of buying games on their main platform/pc.
There was a music software language called Pyrite. It ran inside of Max graphic programming environment. It then evolved into SuperCollider which is now one of the most used music programming languages in experimental and academic music. Http://github.com/supercollider

But that pyrite hasn't been active for a long time.
About the load times, the could be minimized. If you go back to item #235 of your stream, FB could avoid sending you all the 234 preceding items.

Also, yes, i agree in that it could be perceived as a strange behaviour, but to me the current behaviour is also quite strange: if i'm scrolling down the FB stream, triggering a couple of stream sudden enlargements, then go somewhere else on that tab, and then go back to the FB stream, the browser will remember my last scroll position on that page and will try to scroll down to where i was, unfortunately that position does not exists when the page is loaded so it ends up scrolling to a seemingly random point in the middle of the stream (actually it's the bottom of the stream when the page loads, but that triggers a stream-append and then it's not the bottom anymore), not where i was before nor at the start of it (at least this happens in Firefox).
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Yeah, I would rather believe that way of thinking. Who knows what Apple and Microsoft may do next to lock down their systems further, and extract more "tax" out of everyone publishing applications or games? The only way for a company like Valve to prevent a direct attack on their revenues is to develop a solution for an open system. It may very well be that it is not necessary in the end, but they are just planning for future scenarios like any other respectable company.
It's getting kinda pointless. I'm suggesting something that might happen in a future where self-driving cars have completely disrupted all of transportation. You're countering "there's no dedicated space" - well, just maybe, that can change? It's not even a full space, it's just a "dock" to load the containers.

In fact, even today, people who don't have a dedicated space (even if that space shifts around a bit, ie. is a "pool" space on the street) can't own a car: Where would they leave it? People who are renters today already have to deal with not leaving stuff in the car, so this discussion doesn't apply to them.

Long story short: Your original argument was that not owning your own car will not be be an option for you, because you leave a lot of stuff for your kids in your car. My argument is that, with a bit of fantasy, maybe this isn't an insurmountable obstacle.

> I may need said stuff on my way to the drop-off.

Why would you drive your self-driving vehicle to the drop-off?
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I'm not aware of the move in question, but you are overinterpreting wildly. Of course top chess players recognize obviously bad moves.

In this case though Kasparov was trying to defeat Deep Blue with an anti-computer style, he had a particular model in mind for how the computer would play and when it didnt, he thought it meant that the computer was more far-sighted than it actually was.
> the clicking of the keyboard and the fans and harddrives of the laptops created a distracting noise. Tablets are specifically allowed.

Why not just ban the noise itself? Why deal with the inevitable complexity of attempting to capture the causes of the noise in a system of arbitrary categories, and suffer the collateral damage of suppressing activities and objects that aren't generating noise, while still subjecting yourself to non-laptop-related sources of distracting noise?
Google doesn't censor things because of the money, do you really think they do it because they're good people? In that case why are they always tracking us and spying all our data? why do they own all the rights over the info I upload to Google Drive?

Google IS evil
Nice article. The aerodynamics behind windmills are extraordinarily complex, so 500 Watts is a pretty good output!
I happen to like the fact that I can get hormones like melatonin and drugs like piracetam as dietary supplements without having to go through a doctor or have them approved by the government to treat a specific disease. I don't have insomnia, but sometimes I want to go to sleep at a specific time and melatonin enables me to do it. I don't suffer from any diseases causing cognitive impairment, but sometimes piracetam helps me think more clearly. I strongly oppose any legislative efforts to make it more difficult for me to obtain these substances.

That said, some companies in the supplement industry have, without a doubt behaved badly. It seems to me that there are three issues to consider.

* Advertising - making false claims in product marketing is already illegal.

* Purity - making false claims about what's in a product or selling a contaminated product is already illegal.

* Safety - if a substance can cause dangerous effects, the packaging should say so.

The first two are already the law. If there are loopholes or unreasonable barriers to enforcement, they should be patched. This doesn't require any major changes in policy - just fine-tuning to make sure existing policy can be enforced.

The last one is a bit more problematic under current policy. It's my impression that dangerous supplements can be sold with no labeling even when the dangers are fairly well known. The FDA's only recourse is to remove them from the market if they're found dangerous. I think mandatory warnings on packaging when there's significant evidence a supplement may be dangerous, similar to the black-box warnings on prescription drugs would be a good middle ground.