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I think the crux of that conversion is:

«Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)

Fri, 26 Feb 93 13:32:09 -0800

Tim Berners-Lee writes:

> I don't want to change HTML now if I can help it, until it has gone to RFC track

I absolutely agree in all cases -- my purpose in suggesting IMG is that things are reaching the point where some browsers are going to be implementing this feature somehow, even if it's not standard, just because it's the logical next step, and it would be great to have consistency from the beginning -- so that when HTML2 comes along, we're all still in lockstep.....

Cheers,
Marc»

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0197.ht...

The HTML 5 designers/implementers fight has always been there, with implementers usually having the last word.

Mark Pilgrim on how much the WHATWG resembles the HTML 2 working group activity: http://web.archive.org/web/20110710091457/http://diveintomar...
Well, we need to define the attack if we're going to talk about what will and won't help. Generally when we talk password security, we assume the attack is to discover a large number of users' passwords, not to spoof as one. Additionally, it's more common to get read-only access to the data than it is to be able to execute arbitrary queries against the DB.
Let me guess, this costs quite a bit more than flying and renting a car for a week?

This is not a cheap stab at US rail, I looked into this on the similar service that the German railways offer - and it did not make financial sense over flight+rental.
Flexbox is the most underrated CSS modules out there. Making flexible layouts based on the size of the viewport without it is either a major pain or flat out impossible without resorting to JS.

I don't understand why all the CSS efforts are being put into elaborate effects (transforms, blend modes, compositing, etc) when we can't yet effectively create UI layouts. Other underrated property is the non-standard "-webkit-line-clamp" (or "-o-ellipsis-lastline" for Opera), that allows you to cut off with an ellipsis a block of text after a given number of lines.

It's such a shame that the idea of constraints-based layout (the UI layout method of OSX 10.8) in CSS was never adopted:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...
Hatred seems to be more universal.
Unfortunately there is a very, very, large set of possible situations a car may find itself in that requires 'user intervention'. Especially without much context-aware systems, or AI, the best error handler a driver-less car has is "stop, inform driver". Is there a curb to pull over to? What if the system is unable to determine if the path is clear because something like a branch is in the way?
They also include a "@2x" version for retina displays. Pretty nifty.
1) Obviously it's about tradeoffs - if you don't have the capital then operating with last gen environments is a perfectly reasonable decision. For others who do - it is not.

2) What kind of queries do you have that take that long? If it's scientific computing - no way around it. If it's just DB slicing/aggregating - if you use last gen structures you'll get last gen perf.

3 ) Cache locality on repeatable computable units on local in memory data do go better - continuous batched background updates to indices with a real time layer like the OP suggested will become the new standard.
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I am not convinced that flat design implies no visual clues about function.

Granted, the visual clues from bevels, drop shadows and whatnot had the bonus of instant familiarity to people not accustomed to GUIs. Nevertheless this might have been a sort of a crutch and nowadays people even if they expect the computer to emulate their home appliances, the appliances themselves have less and less buttons and levers and more and more touchscreens or at least touch-buttons.
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I just assumed it would be more useful, plus, in this imaginary world where money is no issues, you could easily run 5 or more lanes with no issues.

No one wants to walk 75 miles to get to the nearest stop when there car has broken down.
> Statewide gridlock due to DDOS.

Modern cars are 100% dependent on computers, yet this doesn't happen. Why would it begin happening in the future? Note that the Google car is designed to be autonomous, it has no dependencies on external systems - there is nothing to DDOS. Yes, you can blind/obstruct it's sensors in a variety of ways, but it's much easier to just aim a laserpointer to a driver's eyes today.
Easy on the pitchforks, man.

Maybe it's because I'm Australian and have got used to the free ride of healthcare and education, but I'd gladly take a minor tax increase if it means a significant portion of the population gets into an entirely new career quicker, instead of remaining unemployed and being MORE of a strain on the economy.

Career is a strong word, though. The sorts of people we're talking about usually have no other option, and education can change that.
I have no intention of being home every time I get a delivery.
I'm probably one of those visitors that visited your site on how to optimize my own blog.
"Otherwise, next week someone is going to suggest 'lets put in a new tag <AUD SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.snd">' for audio. There shouldn't be much cost in going with something that generalizes."

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0198.ht...

Well, maybe not next week, but certainly 15+ years later.
> The people using it look like the heaven's gate cult photos from years ago.

I was thinking more along the lines of Guantanamo, but... hey, it was good for a morning chuckle.
You forget about second order effects once again - HN/reddit facilitate low latency, high scale, high signal communication between millions of people everyday - that's a net positive.

In terms of diet, we tax cigarettes, alcohol and drugs (indirectly) - food that is net negative on society should have their negative externality priced via taxes.

It's pointless banning them (e.g. enforced diets) - see prohibition - leave it legal and tax to cover costs.
Closed communities are not very hackerish.
To each his own, but what makes you think you can't enjoy nature in the city? I had a backyard growing up, but my daughter in Chicago is going to be walking distance from a 1,200 acre park with a zoo, a duck pond, and a flower conservatory, not to mention a beautiful lake to boat in.

I personally find suburbs tremendously lonely and isolated, especially for families where the parents don't have time to drive kids to activities and friends. I grew up in a suburb and since I was old enough to take care of my little brother the two of us would just hang around at our house until our parents came home. Weekends became a tiresome exercise in our parents driving us around to activities and friends. And my parents had very little social life outside the family because there was nobody we could just "pop over" to see. Social activities had to be coordinated evenings and with everyones' busy schedules it happened once every month or two.

And once the kids are old enough to drive--well I don't want my daughter driving. The great thing about cities for people with money is that they can buy security from the risks of city living: crime, etc. Upper-middle class white or asian kids are about the safest demographic in a city. But you can't buy yourself security from the risks of the suburbs. Teenagers with cars are the most endangered demographic in a suburb.
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yes, but some people clean up their mailboxes. I know I do. Specially with something as spammy as FB email notification back in 2009. I did check my timeline and some messages there DO look like they HAD to be private - no way those kind of information would be posted on my wall. Unfortunately, i do not keep FB emails from 2009 anymore. I guess many can't prove because of this fact - deleted fb notifications from 2009/2008
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> but until we have HA computers that exist outside of a datacenter

We do, in many places - your car is one such place. Another is every single hospital in the civilized world. You know, there's a continuum of world between HA datacenters and your smartphone.
With me, it all began with a simple bible mistake. My brain was so far rotted away that I actually thought that the Bible was the God of the Universe's actual word. It was undeniably perfect. Anything that went against it was flawed, including science.

It all began by visiting a site that listed bible mistakes, then bible lies, historical inaccuracies, logical contradictions, impossibilities, and then it just escalated from there on. It wasn't until I realized the book was so flawed and wrong that I began searching for what was right. At first when my whole "bible world" came crashing down I went through an identity crisis, depression, and hunger for answers. It was only then that I opened up to science. And years later here I am, finally free.
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I'd rather be using Lynx on a 1200 baud modem. I was far more productive back then without the distractions of hacker news etc.
It's interesting to note that of all of the "missing" kids in your screenshot.. 3 of them were teenage runaways that were found unharmed by people that knew them, and two of them were babies that were killed by their caretakers.
Seriously. Not to mention even if his "960pix wide" site is displayable that doesn't mean it will be usable on a very small screen (or window -- being able to shrink one's browser window can be very useful, but many sites become utterly unusable).

My phone has high-resolution screen, but it's pretty small too, and it can easily display stuff that's a complete pain to actually read because the font size is so small.

His examples of "just fine" non-responsive designs in small windows are, well, pretty horrible.

I dunno if this guy is ego-driven ("I will never allow my beautiful site design to be besmirched just to suit its users!") or just lazy, but one thing is clear: he doesn't care very much about his users...
if you don't have the capital then operating with last gen environments is a perfectly reasonable decision.

I am indeed operating in an environment of limited resources. It's called "The Real World". Reading marketing language like "last gen" makes me lose interest in a debate very quickly.
Really like this, but noticed a few bugs with the drag and drop interface. Sometimes items wouldn't select and/or drop where I wanted them.

Other times, I'd take a look at the code and there were quite a few irrelevant divs.

Is there a way to make the html code editable to fine tweak the pages while still editing the page via drag and drop to get the big picture mockup?

Btw great work so far. I'm really loving it and planning on using it for several new projects.
I have a text editor I’ve been using myself that is so complicated it makes VIM look like Notepad — maybe I’ll release that.

This is interesting. Has Linus talk more about this editor he is using? Maybe if he releases it, the editor will be the new trend he's talking about :D
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I am currently in a remote location (Shenzhen) where it is pretty hard to find a startup-y job (Ruby, Python, etc.) that doesn't suck. Does anyone know job boards that are focused on startups with an emphasis on remote work? Otherwise, do you have any advice for someone in my situation? How much should I discount my salary requirement given that I am doing remote work in a far away country?

Shameless plug: Get in touch if you would like to hire a full-stack web engineer with 8 years experience (Rails/Node.js/PHP/HTML5/CSS/jQuery/etc.). I have built 3 startups, one of which got acquired.
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Well, selecting other - maybe a longer dropdown - entering how many sites (and what kind), bandwidth usage, visitors - rough figures obviously.

Some awesome features would be entering X amount of ip's (if you want unique or multiple), and maybe also add something regarding main demographic (should I go for a US provider, Asian, or European).

Should I go for a VPS? Or a Dedicated server? I know, it's tricky to calculate all of this - but it'd be awesome!

Last but not least, I'd only show these options if someone were to select a checkbox for advanced options.
Just as an aside, it is crazy that Bay Area prices have gotten to the point that you need to win in a startup to buy a house. It really seems like a much better decision to rent indefinitely or buy somewhere in the Midwest, where house prices are 1/20 the cost.
I find it strange that people talk about ray tracing as if it is the solution when in fact it's not even the best of the approximations to the rendering equation that we have. For example caustics can't be adequately represented with ray tracing.

Photon mapping, radiosity, etc can give much closer to photorealistic results.
Although I agree in spirit, I took a different design route in Ginger which supports multiple syntaxes and front-ends. By designing a generic syntax tree and defining its mapping into (a tight subset of) XML, I got away from the details of the back-end virtual machine. In fact Ginger has three very different back-ends, ported easily to another system (Poplog), and would be a days work to get it running in Java (badly - maybe a couple of weeks work to get it running well!)
The hardware/OS-providers will almost always do a far worse job though, because they simply don't have enough information. Just using smaller pixels or hardware scaling/filtering to linearly scale down a "big browser" site typically results in an unreadable page at typical mobile screen-sizes.

Useful size-adaptability is all about knowing what's important and what's not, and what constraints need to be maintained for usability. The site author knows these things very well, but the hardware / OS / browser do not.
I clicked your link and had to close the tab quickly - spinning background made my head hurt. Granted, it may by my fault, I can't watch 3d movies without nausea for example, but still - spinning background is just really, really bad design imho. As such I am less than comfortable with people responsible for it dictating the "new era in design"...
Eh, just put them in the hat. Looks like there's enough space.
I am not misreading it, and suggest you reconsider the comment above about 'reasonable doubt.' What you believe and what can be proved in court are two different things. Typically, (though not always) you have to prove criminal intent as well as illegal action, and that is often easier said than done. The pictures in the case you mention are circumstantial evidence, but not conclusive of guilt. Further, a competent defense attorney could would begin by seeking to exclude them as evidence. Cases like this are usually a good deal more complex than you might appreciate from media reports.
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I feel sorry for Tony Johnson that had "something very similar in Midas 2", as it's the Mosaic implementation that "won" :)
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Not really. Github represents the small fraction of developers who are into Open Source and who use Git. (and who honestly believe that they're "most developers")

So while I'm sure you'll find plenty of folks here that use it, it's probably worth taking on board that it doesn't represent a significant portion of the dev community in general.
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Consider the sarcasm as my playful contribution, as we both know there is nothing to contribute here because the goal is unrealistic.

The idea that homeless people, a demographic known for crime and drug abuse, can be tracked reliably by volunteers so that other people can give them food is laughable.

Not to mention if such a system did exist, it would be exploited by the people who would benefit by it, bored kids, possibly law enforcement, etc. etc.
I'll vouch for persona, it's trivial to implement and it's what I use on all my sites nowadays.
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It's one of the great cost distortions of private car ownership: Anybody who is parking a car in public, filled with surfboards and strollers or not, is actually storing private property (car and contents) on public space. And even worse, "regular" parking spots are often free, even though they minimize the number of cars that can be "stored" on a given surface area as opposed to garages. Thus, we incentivize wasting urban space that is inherently scarce.
If this stays the same, using a more efficient, stackable, standardized cargo pod that is auto-loaded onto your self-driving rental car, will be more expensive for you because you now actually see the cost.
This is one of the many hidden costs of driving that people will suddenly have to face with on demand automatic car rental.
Well, you want to embed the image from a source identified by URL, not refer to it. In fact, I wonder why we need to use href when invoking stylesheets.
I'm in a similar situation.

What might you use to implement functionality and data then? I'm asking because I'm coming from database development in FileMaker with limited traditional coding knowledge. While it's very easy and fast to build solutions in FileMaker I've been looking for a web-based alternative for ages. Of course I tried frameworks like Rails and Django, worked tutorials, understand the concepts, can follow along but it's a steep learning curve and I'm nowhere near the results I'm able to achieve in FileMaker.

I guess there's just no shortcut or easy way.
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I think you mean ostrichized, no?
minus the column mode part...
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What if you could get an SMS, or the email on your phone, and type 5 letters into a box on the website?

Normally this would be more work, but if you're away from your email it might be a good alternative..
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"Měťanský" should be "Měšťanský"
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I submitted a new version incorporating your suggestion. It should be on the market in a couple hours. :-)
Internet cross the line from data archival and broadcast.

if the video was only accessible via a link, it's the same a closing a library for having a book about some candidate a day before the election.

if the video was actively advertised in youtube or via adsense or banners, then it's the same as showing electoral message on tv during the black-out dates.
more relational -> neo4j perhaps? not sure what you mean by rotational media
Well the US has 15 times as many people as AU for similar landmass, so I give AU a bit more of a free pass for high prices. US however is terribly uncompetitive with the rest of the world.

In the UK for instance I definitely save money by buying my own handset. I use mostly data on my phone and pay £10 ($16) / month for my service. Contrast with the US where I was forced to have an $80/package to get any combination of voice/texts/data for my unlocked phone.

Even if I was taking the subsidy like a good American I would still be getting shafted to the tune of $1000 over a 2-year contract.
Now look, I don't want to defend Apple for everything they do, but now it's getting ridiculous. If the author would calm down first and think for a bit (and / or not being click bait addicted), he could easily find out that Apple does this for a (pretty good IMO) reason:

You can prevent users from using Safari through the restrictions. If you wanted to restrict them from Chrome as well, you would have to prevent any new App from being downloaded, including kids friendly stuff. Now with this update, your kids can still download the apps they want, but not Chrome anymore.

Doesn't that make sense? Through these measures iOS has become a pretty good platform for the first steps in computing, I myself wouldn't want to give my children unrestricted internet access until, say, 15. Before that they can use an iPod or iPad and a linux box with root access in a restricted network at home. If they do figure out proxies or VPN until then - so be it, at that point you can't really restrict them anyway anymore.
Imho, it does not sound like it's Torvalds.
I've never seen him talking about node or rails or any other web technology.
A link to the exact section: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html#history-of-the-img-eleme...
Sleeping in a public place? With a bag on your head (and you hands tucked into it)? Isn't that just asking to be molested or robbed?
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Now all that i need is a proxy, that reliable allows me to use my own domain as a tent server, proxying to tent.is. ;-)
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What's worse is that "provide a business model" is a link to the FAQ[1] which says it's broadcom:

But I demand the documentation for the chip. Give it to me!

To get the full SoC documentation you would need to sign an NDA with Broadcom, who make the chip and sell it to us. But you would also need to provide a business model and estimate of how many chips you are going to sell.

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
I agree. I took the headline as a hypothetical question. The system described is the most pragmatic of natural language processing systems, a lovely term that just means the input is natural language and there is some processing.

I'm optimistic, by the way, and think that though "objective" word meaning is a cognitive illusion, we will crack the code within the next 20 years. But there is nothing on the forefront of that work about this system.
Everyone else seems to have missed the irony here.

hackerne.ws is the social network for hackers. It may not be a traditional social network, but this is a place where you can share ideas, follow what others are doing, encourage interests, form relationships to benefit products and initiatives, share code, share the now and future of software, hardware, networking, all while we create and invent cool shit.

And for "build technology"... I guess that's what GitHub is for? :)
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It aggregate only remote job from other job board. The format sometimes(most of the time actually）is off though.
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