skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The direction seems fruitful, but there was very little to learn in this article. More insight into what is actually wrong with hosting providers would have made this a lot better.

I now feel about Hacker News round about how I felt with TechCrunch a few months before I stopped reading it completely. I'm mainly here because of inertia, and because there is still great content from time to time and I don't want to miss it.

My attention is very much up for the taking. The moment something better comes along, I'd be the first to switch.

I wish PG put more love into HN. It used to be amazing, now it's just nice. At least, that's my opinion.
As long as my programmer idols Carmack and Persson use Visual Studio and Eclipse respectively to produce amazing stuff, i dont really care about changing to vim/emacs...besides i work mostly in statically typed languages anyway, so i would miss alot of the IDE features for refactoring.
This is one model we've explored. There are a few like this. What we're finding is that it comes down to distribution, really.

Also, tuning GPUs to work 'conservatively' is a non-trivial engineering challenge.
I haven't noticed anything and I use Safari/Chrome pretty heavily on my Touch. Under what conditions would this noticeably affect my browsing?
I wonder if Apple will selectively sue Samsung because it's a thin, rectangular, silver clamshell with black keys and a screen? (I like the Macbook Air btw)
For a hot minute this post was right above this post.

http://doctrina.org/Javascript-Function-Invocation-Patterns....

Had to giggle a little over this silly discussion of FP and are there design patterns or not. A strategy is the same intent whether you use a enclosed function or an anonymous object as the strategy. Remember the old computer programmer adage. Objects are the poor man's closure, and closures are the poor man objects.
I don't get this analogy at all. What is he saying, that consumers discriminate on the basis of price for both meat and hosting solutions? So what? This is hardly an insight. Most products and services are largely discriminated by price.

Meat is so cheap in the US due to a mix of lax regulation (around animal care, feed, bulking products, hormones etc) and various financial incentives (subsidies, tax benefits etc.). No idea what this has got to do with the costs of hosting or what the parellels are between the two industries.
look at a Stream/Recording of Minecraft creator Notch writing game code in Eclipse and i bet you will think twice before sniffing at IDEs like Eclipse in that way again.
I preferred the explanation below that explained it all without too much snark. I think being humourous is a definite value add in itself. My two bits.

>> Insulting your audience is never a good way to get a warm reception.

I wasn't insulting anyone. I was going by my own comment's previous reception. A downvote, and nothing else to say why so. You may have a point that I assumed the worst (about people not getting it), but neither does downvote w/o even a cursory explanation.

It is not as if we dropped out of our mothers and learnt to navigate the World A-class, from day-one.

Edit: I appreciate your trying to point out HN culture to me, but it could always be done without excessive snark (IMHO).
Canonical has specifically said that they're targetting the new users, and that if you're a power user, there are tons of other distros out there made just for you. There aren't a lot of choices for newbies, so that's the niche they're aiming for.

Out of curiosity, why do you say Ubuntu is a better server linux than it's daddy, Debian?
> Switching windows is a pain in the ass (different shortcuts to 'alt-tab' between windows of the same application)

This has been standard for many years: Command-Tab switches applications, Command-` switches windows within an app. If that doesn't work, it's because an application vendor has taken specific measures to break it - something which is possible on any platform and should be reported as a bug.

As for doing Unix work, again, this is just griping: you're blaming OS X for things which you either didn't learn or where the upstream vendor has hard-coded Linux-isms, which is increasingly rare. The combination of the command-line developer tools and homebrew means that for most people running linux in a VM useful only for final validation testing.
While I don't entirely disagree with your point about the "open internet" being another kind of walled garden, there are definitely companies and organisations that have taken steps to ensure that the open web is actually "open," and Google is one of them. Evidence: https://www.google.com/takeout, which lets you export data from almost all of your Google services.

Some major innovations from Android have inspired sister projects for the open web, like http://webintents.org/

Also, I think you're misinterpreting the term "open internet" ; it usually means "open" for the developer, not the user. However, it's still better for users, as competition between open standards and technologies means that they usually get the best solutions (exceptions being things like h.264) This is certainly better than the classic walled garden where one company gets to decide what developers may or may not use.

In short, it's better because it's:
- unfiltered (mature content, etc.)
- unrestricted in terms of technologies used
- partially open for users
> Any discussion of the hellban procedure seems a quick way to be hellbanned.

I haven't noticed this? I posted a few critiques on hellbanning over the past few weeks and since most of them got some upvotes, I assume I did not incur any mod wrath ;)

I was gonna say, maybe I've gathered sufficient points to get away with more, but then I took a look at larrys user profile page (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=larrys) and he has accumulated nearly thrice my score.

That's good. There's already sufficient naturally occurring social pressure that lets older accounts get away with more, no need to inflate the effect based on karma.

In larrys' case, I can't see anything that's remotely offensive in his last few comments, so I'm going to assume good faith and guess that the actual offending comment probably got removed entirely.

It's a shame we have to guess about these things though. Wouldn't it be trivial for moderators to leave a note about their reasons? Very short and to-the-point, like a Wikipedia edit-summary. It wouldn't even require extra code to start with, they can just edit it into the relevant post. I've seen very large blog-type forums work that way. It merely requires moderators to decide and agree to do it that way.

> There are other ways to punish and train bad behavior from legitimate contributors.

Yes. Problem is that while it does punish (in some sense), in no sense does it "train" the affected users, because there's no telling when/if they will notice the punishment, it could be many months, and even if by then the user takes the trouble to figure out what post caused this sanction, the complete lack in immediacy of consequence entirely negates any effectiveness in behavioural change (see: Operant Conditioning, there's a lot of research that is directly applicable to online community moderation).
I haven't updated to iOS6. I was worried that google maps would be deleted from my iPad and replaced with apple maps. I do not want this.

I heard somethings about Safari being buggy.. I didn't really want this either as I only really use my iPad to surf the web.

I was concerned about the memory footprint. As I understand it app's now download retina resources whether you have a retina iPad or not. I have limited space on my iPad. It runs fine at the moment. I didn't see any reason to update.
I'm pretty sure that's there to exempt things like seminaries.

>Subd. 4.Statement required; religious nature. Any degree awarded upon completion of a religiously exempt program shall include descriptive language to make the religious nature of the award clear.
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Apart from all the wonderful resources listed here, one thing that really thought me a lot was writing stuff without using a library like jQuery. Try writing browser-compatible event handlers (you'll find quirksmode.org an immensely helpful resource), an AJAX request, a simple pubsub/observer pattern, etcetera. This will learn you a lot about the language, and it'll be a lot of fun too!
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Thanks to both of you for your descriptions.
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related, our davidw's seven years old article that hosting is a market for lemons

http://www.welton.it/articles/webhosting_market_lemons
You won't find Java/Applets on your usual flyby website hoping to capture you in your procrastination time, nor in one the usual tech sites.
However, it's used in many more specialized areas.

Here's a few areas I've used it recently:

* HP integrated Lights Out (i.e. your server appears dead, you fire up a browser, gets a java applet with direct access to the server/bios)
* My bank. Seems most online banking here in Europe use java applets. This is a common case. There's millions of people, non-tech people, that wants online access to their bank.
* Provisioning a point to point radio link (the management app was a Java webapp - started with java web start, not an applet though)
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When government is "sufficiently small" then conventional colleges will be able to just pay ISPs to block Coursera.

Cutting out the middleman! I guess government is inefficient.
Perhaps you can help us all turn Quibb (http://quibb.com) into something like that?
I will be speaking to my state legislators about this as a precaution after first speaking to the Minnesota Department of Education

It's worth noting the perp is the Office of Higher Education, not the Department of Education: they are separate, cabinet-level bureaucracies. One is not a sub-department of the other.

https://mn.gov/governor/dayton/governors-cabinet.jsp
> the article above is about a very basic language feature of JS that hopefully anyone who has every touched JS already knows about.

Hopefully, yes, but I think reality is much more depressing than that. Unfortunately, the JavaScript programmers that don't know probably don't read Hacker News either.
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And trivially easy to shim for older browsers. I would really recommend using Function.prototype.bind instead of the 'var self = this' or library bind functions (such as $.proxy), it's just the way it should be written :)
> I haven't updated to iOS6. I was worried that google maps would be deleted from my iPad and replaced with apple maps. I do not want this.

I'm also waiting for 6.1 at least to see how Apple Maps will evolve, I have no sense of direction whatsoever so I need maps to show me where I am, and Apple Maps still seems a bit too risky for now. It's possible to use the Google Maps site directly, but in my tests it's less responsive and the geolocation doesn't work as well as in the application itself.

> I heard somethings about Safari being buggy.. I didn't really want this either as I only really use my iPad to surf the web.

I've seen developer reports, but no reports of user issues. Quite the opposite, webkit's been updated in iOS6 so Safari is apparently significantly faster.

> I was concerned about the memory footprint. As I understand it app's now download retina resources whether you have a retina iPad or not.

It's always done that (ever since the release of the original iPad and the creation of "hybrid" iPhone/iPad applications), the version of iOS you're running is completely irrelevant to that issue: if you're running an application compatible with all iOS devices (3GS to iPad 3 at native resolutions) it may very well bundle 4 different copies of bitmapped assets (or even 5 for e.g. startup screens, since the iPhone 5 has a different resolution than the 4/4S). I don't believe iOS AppStore bundles have every been stripped. I'm not even sure they could be since they're signed (unless you jailbreak).
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I'm not a fan (nor hater) of css grids because I prefer to make the html foundations for greater accuracy and control over the build. It's not rocket science, it's html and css! Second, you get a quality custom structure according to the spec of the website. You've placed HTML in specific configurations with ids and classes of your choosing, and the result can go beyond the grid! life outside the grid is good, a few dust storms and heatwaves, a bit of crime in the streets.
He was so much more likable as a pirate disruptor than as an habitual plaintiff.
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Quibb seems interesting, but from your homepage it's hard for me to get a sense of value. May I ask why you don't let me see your content?
Well, first things first, you must be aware that JavaScript is a bad language, broken in many ways and mostly executed in a random fashion (i.e. almost no platform follows 100% ECMA, and even some ECMA directives are retarded, like ECMA4 didn't force chrome to return object properties in creation order by default, whereas ECMA5 fixes that to the default behavior we've always seen and expected).

In that sense, writing good JavaScript is like writing good PHP or good C++, it's a lot about avoiding the broken features (for both those languages, there are a lot of features one shouldn't use, it's even more true with js).

That means you should only learn from people who recognize how broken js is, and thus of course js: the good parts sounds like the right direction, whereas I think Resig is a religious zealot and shouldn't be listened to (the guy actually thinks broken js as a first language is a good idea).

Lastly, js is broken in many ways, don't use it when you don't have to, that means avoid node.js and use a good server side language instead.

tl;dr
js sucks, don't listen to people who don't ack that, learn to avoid the sucky parts instead.

And more downvotes from the zealots... HN is so predictable these days.
+1 for taking the time to explain (without too much snark, like the other comrade).

However I merely pointed out that this whole thing is wildly OTT by quoting an old meme.

Other than this what else can someone add in matter like these? It would be presumptuous (in my World view at least) to mouth opinions on how the World ought to be run when it is very clear to me that most of these things are like random chance set into motion where things become apparent only in hindsight. One example of this is the Joshua Bell experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell#Washington_Post_exp...

Thanks again for pointing this.
Its called Padseeker, my first startup - http://padseeker.com/

It's a web app that makes building a website for real estate as easy as starting a blog. Plan is to enter beta November 2012. I was featured on Jason Cohen's podcast in a very long interview a couple of months ago - http://blog.asmartbear.com/sb-live-6.html

While not officially in beta if you want to try it out you can create an account. I would love feedback from HN readers. We are going for ease of use, you should have a site built within 10 minutes.

http://padseeker.com/signup
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No mention of strict mode? Come on!

'use strict' makes the this variable undefined in functions invocation.
So what does he plan to do about that?
I feel like they understand that the majority of the world wants to see something that they can consider to be a benevolent personality come into power in North Korea. I wonder how they will take advantage of that?
Read everything that Crockford has said about Javascript: http://javascript.crockford.com/ and especially don't miss his videos.
Took be a bit to realise this wasn't a Diablo 3 reference.
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North Koreans seem to like studying overseas in off-the-beaten-track places. I'm from Malta - Kim Jong Il was there to learn English once. It's a tourist mecca now, but was a bit quieter then.
Great! But why this doesn't appear here? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

Will try this later, as I had to install several 32-bit libs to use the 32-bit version on Fedora 64-bit
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I think the point was that the quality of both meat and hosting products varies greatly but is not easily understood by consumers. When consumers don't understand what makes something good, you're left with no choice but to compete on price, driving quality down even further. In the end you could get a market where most offerings suck, very little people are aware of it, and almost everyone is worse off.

I do however agree that the article provided very little insight.
Patents definitely have problems - I agree.

But they are here, now, and I hear patents are crushing startups. This article just presents that sobering reality and how an innovator might address the patent threat until this mess is fixed - which looks to be taking a while.
While I understand that you do not believe this is a big deal, I do not agree. I think this is a major problem. I too am a Minnesota resident and have always felt our state was very educated and progressive. This makes me ashamed to be a Minnesotan.

If you're an employee of the OHE, and you somehow think it's a good idea to go on record defending this silly statute, then you need to be fired. Period. No one at that organization should possibly think applying a decades old statute to a non-degree granting institution is the right thing to do.

Edit: I have contacted the source at the OHE and am waiting for a response. I'm hopeful this was all a misunderstanding, but one can never hope too much for the right outcome when dealing with bureaucracy.
good catch...that's last year's announcement. here is the IE8 announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-mod...
John Tromp is a very good expository writer, for a mathematician. You should read his evolving paper "" found at http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/cl.html Lots of ideas per square inch in that paper.
Positive rights are necessary because many natural rights have been taken away.

I think, as a human born in the U.S. I have a divine right to erect a structure to sleep in and keep the snow off so I don't die. But that right disappeared long ago.

Since the property-owning class (private and government) took that right away from me, they now have an obligation to provide me some things.

Or would you prefer armed revolution where I take back my right to establish reasonable shelter?
So part of the solution for meat is to "vote for a party that supports meat market regulation." But no such recommendation is made for hosting providers.

Regulate all the industries—except mine!

The first comment on the article is also quite lovely.
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As a code demo, awesome. However if you're old enough to remember the Nextel "walkie talkie" feature it's easy to see why quiet, asynchronous messaging is so appealing. Why do people keep trying to add voice back into the evolution of communication?
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Robocalls aren't necessarily interactive. You can't waste their time.
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No, Chrome already has Apps.

It means faster, native apps.
Check out the code in the open source project fabric.js http://fabricjs.com/ . It's written by Juriy Zaytsev who was a maintainer for prototype.js. I find the code useful for learning advanced object oriented JavaScript because:

1) It's self contained. No dependencies on third party OO libraries or frameworks.

2) The code is very readable.

3) It's a canvas library, so it's fun to work with if you're into graphics and visualizations.

4) You'll learn a lot about how many JS projects are built, documented, and tested, if you get it to build and the tests running on node.js.

Here is what I would do:

1) Check out the project and get it building.

2) Read all the files in the util folder. You'll see a lot of methods added to Object and Array.

3) Take a look at lang_class.js: https://github.com/kangax/fabric.js/blob/master/src/util/lan... This is how he does OO JS. It's very similar to John Resig's OO classes: http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/ and somewhat different to prototype's classes: https://github.com/sstephenson/prototype/blob/master/src/pro...

4) Then take a look at the base class: https://github.com/kangax/fabric.js/blob/master/src/object.c... and an inherited class: https://github.com/kangax/fabric.js/blob/master/src/line.cla...

5) Search for instances of the "bind" method, and see how they're used.

Of course, as you're doing all this, you'll need to experiment with simple language constructs in your browser's console to test what you think you know, and you'll want to read some chapters from a thorough JS book like, JavaScript the Definitive Guide http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805531.do

Finally, this is just a personal opinion, but I don't like Crokford's chapter on OO JS. I just don't think it presents your options well. If you decide to write a large project in JS using OO techniques, I think you'd be better off utilizing an OO library, compiler, or framework like TypeScript, Google Closure, Prototype or CoffeeScript, than you would charging forward armed with Crokford's chapter on OO.
Can someone enlighten me about the Pepper API? Could I run a server with it? What would sort of limits does the network connection have? How many requests per second could it handle? How many simultaneous connections? What about bandwidth? etc. etc.
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What's left for HTML5?
I don't know why people keep complaining that Google+ doesn't have an API https://developers.google.com/+/api/
Wanderlust 2012 is a nice Comedy movie.Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options,
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Sadly, there isn't enough energy in the entire Universe to cycle even a 16x16 black and white grid through all of its possible states.