skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. It's saying use standards when there is a standards compliant alternative, because it's both better coding practice and because it means you won't be screwing over your users and you won't be screwing over developers who wish to write alternative implementations.
This is SO NOT like that in A LOT of ways.
Apparently it increases pageviews to talk about patents and Apple in the same post. It doesn't even need to be accurate.
Are you saying that C with neither pointers nor arrays would still be Turing complete? I am skeptical.
Front end developers should be including unprefixed declarations along with the prefixed. That's common knowledge.

But the real issue here is how damn long it takes for declarations to become standard... border-radius is just now reaching that point and how long has it been?

And sure there are plenty of historical cases backing up how long these things take, but we should be out of that now. We use git. We're agile. We iterate. Why don't the folks making the browsers, and more so, the folks making the rules catch up?
Tweet Lanes development halts
Aaron Stannard on founding a startup and Windows 8 development (podcast)
He also says something of a little more substance that, maybe, lines up with the deeper HN sentiment:

"Our individual goal in life ought to be for us to seek virtue and excellence and recognize that self-esteem and happiness only comes from using one’s natural ability, in the most productive manner possible, according to one’s own talents."

I would argue that no other politician could state such a clear and meaningful fact. The guy is as sincere and level headed as they come, which is what makes the media's portrayal of him so tragic.
As someone that comes from a small town, I think you hit the nail on the head. It always felt so rude to not stop to listen to these people. It took me years to learn how to just keep walking without feeling terribly guilty. It helped when I realized from experience that the longer I listen and/or talk to them, the more likely they'll get pissed off if I don't give them something or buy something from them.
> In China far more people die from eating food laced with toxins than do in countries with food inspectors.

Citation please...
Question: What is the innate security risk of using airport wifi? From the article's conclusion:

It takes just one mistake — forgetting to use Tor, leaving your encryption keys where someone can find them, connecting to an airport Wi-Fi just once — to ruin you.
> Your explanation ignores both externalities and transaction costs

Well, handling property damages in court is deterring "tragedy of the commons" by making putting the commons-over-user at financial risk.

> ... more subtle things like information asymmetries and cognitive overload.

You pay someone to give you information. We do this now: our taxes fund the EPA and they give us information.

> You can't just ignore the parts of economics that don't fit into your ideology.

I'm not a libertarian. To the best of my understanding, there are some things that really should be done by the private sector and not by the government (airport security, for example). There are also things that really should be done by the government and not by the private sector (the trend of privatizing prisons disturbs me).

You asked a question, though: how would a libertarian society's environment be protected. I offered up an option.
With out getting too specific, there is a vulnerability the buyer can exploit. The sales man has spent ages with the buyer rolling out his well learned techniques. This is helped if the buyer uses up as much time as he can bare. Which means unless he makes a sale, he has totally wasted his time. Time is money.

So, just at the point where he has totalled up his oh so great deal for you, and just as you are about to pay for the items, stop. Turn to the sales man and offer a deal of your own.

Two things happen. You have just taken control back of the whole sales routine, which suddenly changes your position completely not least because it refreshes your own sense of control. And second, the sales man is totally set off balance and facing the loss of the sale and his time. You can give a whole load of his patter straight back. "Because you are such a great sales guy, I would hate for you to lose this sale", "This offer of mine is a one time offer, could go home and order this lot much cheaper on line", etc.

At that point I start by offering 25%, yes 25%, and seeing where he wants to go. My reasoning for the low percentage is that is sends out a message about how much I value the product, and that despite everything the sales man has said, it hasn't worked. But, I might buy at a value I feel is right for me.

Having done all that, the pressure is off you, and you are freed up to make a rational decision, and being back in control makes it much easier to say, "No, thanks, but I'll pass today."
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> Because having a simple and logically consistent system to decide what is right and wrong in any given situation absolves one of the responsibility to make complicated moral decisions on their own merits.

But libertarians are the ones who want to take direct moral responsibility for their circumstances; it's statists who seek to outsource that responsibility to distant formal institutions or systems of pre-defined abstract rules.
The only plausible interpretation I see is that the event had costs that were counted as liabilities, but that the revenue from the event was not yet recognized as assets.
There's a little more to it than that. If your not priced to keep users long enough to get addicted to your offering, the cost of churn and marketing spend trying to get fresh customers will kill you.

There is a lot of choice out there. Everybody is executing nowadays, and it's the same sort of apps that are flooding the market. The advice in this post is not helpful.
Pretty cool, reminds me of this:
http://al.chemy.org/
One of the biggest upsells I ever had launched on me was when purchasing a new car. After signing the purchase agreement they immediately put me into a different office with a stunning looking blonde woman who upsells additional protection products such as 5yr warranty extension, window tint, fabric protection etc. Trying to say no to all of it is extremely difficult at that point.
This is pretty old but still pretty fun. http://new.weavesilk.com/?cz33
You would version the Preferences / Settings - User file, which overrides defaults in the Preferences / Settings - Default. I found a decent overview of how to store these in drop box with symlinks, but also describes where these are stored - http://wheels.onebuttonapps.net/2012/04/use-dropbox-to-store...
"Let Me Google That For You"
"I challenge you to give me one very specific example"

I see your challenge went mostly unanswered. Unfortunate because I really would like to hear from the "Ron Paul is crazy" crowd since this is the first I've heard that such a crowd exists. Whenever I hear Ron Paul speaking he sounds very smart, educated on the topic at hand, and possessing of a much deeper insight than most.
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As a similar Indian born in Britain, I agree with your observations about the paradox of violence inherent in the movement. I should add that non-violence only works when governments are vulnerable to moral pressure and this was not true in Zimbabwe and it is not true of Israel.
What programming language should I learn?
I know it depends upon what my goals are, but I'm a novice programmer who is simply learning HTML/CSS through CodeAcademy. I plan to move on to Ruby on Rails next so I can be proficient in web development.

Does anyone have recommendations for languages that are important to learn for web development? I'm thinking of an ecommerce platform currently. Also, is codeacademy something y'all would recommend, or is there something else I should take a look at?
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Portugal: Activist blog silenced by Google
RubySource | An Introduction to Celluloid, Part IRubySource
This is my reason for preferring tabs. Plus changing indent levels is faster via arrow keys.
This comment is well intentioned but fails to compel any non-libertarian to consider Paul's opinion. It is true that Paul is unfairly (perhaps unjustly) portrayed by the media as, to put it plainly, crazy but whining about how unfair it is won't help matters.

Ron Paul's message places personal, financial and social liberty at esteem and condemns government encroachment on these liberties. His career as a congressman is consistent with his message which is saying more than can be said of any other politician. For these reasons, the man deserves to be heard and he deserves your respect.

The least anyone could do is read the actual transcript of the address--techcrunch doesn't do it justice.

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/transcript-ron-pauls-farewel...
Great story and photos.
Thanks. That is what I was asking.

It sort of comes down to the question of what's really being learned here? Are they modeling some inherent process of topics becoming popular (or memes spreading in a population) that could be used in other situations, or are they just modeling some arbitrary algorithm that twitter uses to mark some topics as "trends"? If they're just modeling twitter's existing algorithm, then it's less interesting because that algorithm already exists. Since they're able to detect the trend before twitter does (well, before twitter announces it anyway), then it seems like they're probably onto something more fundamental.
Arrest at Oakland Airport over odd watch
Right! Just by removing "Lato" font in body {} and no more configuration, "Hevetica Neue" looks very nice to me.
first off... a big hats off to you, fine sir. thank you very much.

i'd love to know more about the stack, it sounds interesting. if you ever get a chance to talk about the project in technical detail, that would be awesome. i'm sure there was a lot to it and a lot of fun stories. let me know if you ever get around to it!
Uh, not on the mobile. They're talking about Windows Phone 8, which has a derivative of IE10 running on that phone OS.
> Webkit is in use by more than one competitor.

As was IE6: maxthon and some other browsers used IE6's engine. And Maxthon users loved it because it was innovating.
Hard not to enjoy the schadenfreude of a company begging developers to support web standards after holding the entire web hostage for years due to outright cynical negligence. Must be very tasty medicine for them.

They do happen to incidentally be right that we should try to adhere to the standards but to compare the state of WebKit today to the darkest days of IE6's reign is pure chutzpah.
Very interesting. It's random, but not enough to keep you from controlling the brush to create natural images.

Trunk on fire:
http://new.weavesilk.com/?cz63

Flower: http://new.weavesilk.com/?cz7z
You have to actually read the article, because it's a little different than the (kinda linkbaity) title implies.

The root issue isn't about market share, it's about writing browser-specific code. That was a bad idea in 2002, and it's an even worse idea in 2012 now that we have the benefit of history and are so many polyfills.

Writing --webkit-only code doesn't stick it to the man, it sticks it to the web ecosystem that we all swim in. I had long and frustrating arguments a decade ago with web developers who enjoyed writing IE-only code because they were upset about a Netscape bug they'd hit last month. They were sticking it to... everyone, a few years later.

Bottom line: if you're a professional web developer, act like it.
Gecko is also open source, and the same Webkit-only mindset that breaks new Trident (IE10) and Presto (Opera) also breaks Gecko (Firefox).
Apple patents the page turn. At first I read "Apple turns the patent page." But I guess this is not likely to happen any time soon...
I have an apprentice question. How did this article get to HN front page on 4 points?
Whenever you use a WLAN (or any network, really), you're more or less at the mercy of that network's administrator(s). In the context of the article, it would be easy for whoever is in charge of airport WiFi to connect your MAC address to the Gmail address you thought you were using anonymously.
It was pointed out that my comment on Ember's support was inappropriate and I agree. It was based on a days worth of support checking and at the moment speculation. Redacted.
The main problem is the CSS prefixes. Since features under them might be different, they need to exist separately, but developers tend to use them even if they aren't fully standardised yet.
> It's unfortunate, and I'm having a hard time finding a way to put it nicely, but other issues seem to take up most of that party's time.

Agreed. This article was the second suggestion I read recently on how the Republican party could improve its brand. The other piece, courtesy the Atlantic, seemed more pressing, and might be one of those things that's hard to put nicely:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-gop-...
Great. When will the decryption implemented?
Here's my (rather opinionated) setup. I'm quite visually impaired, so getting my editor just right so I can code comfortably is important. Most of my changes have to do with making things easier to see.

http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/29158801106/sublime-text-...
There is already chrome for ios, give Google a year to make it for Windows Mobile.

If IE wants to stick around it needs to come up to HTML5 standard, not drag everyone else down to their level.
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Browser shells don't count. We're talking rendering engine here. Trident (IE6's engine) was fully controlled by Microsoft and until Chrome Frame came out (and promptly not adopted at all) there was no way to change the rendering engine in Internet Explorer.
That sounds strange. Why would I eat where people are getting sick all the damn time? Is the alternative (avoiding restaurants) worse?
Reminds of people using "standard compliance" when "boat anchor" is meant.
You're right in saying that the libertarian would say that a person is responsible for their own actions, but your argument lacks completeness. A company which pollutes water at large would suffer the consequences of its own actions. People aren't stupid; they'd notice the contamination and act.

Your argument implies a lack of faith in a single person or a small group of people to effect change. Do you believe that only government has the ability to keep our water clean?
Example, please
Chrome for iOS is not Chrome. It's Safari with a reskin and worse performance.
At least Amazon prime streaming works on Linux (if Flash can be called "working", but at least it's better than the abomination called Silverlight).

The only reason why I still use Netflix is that fact that I get a MacBook from work (didn't get a choice in that matter)... And even then I am considering canceling the streaming subscription.

I don't get Netflix... Or maybe I do. Isn't their CEO on the Microsoft board?
Show HN: my first open source project - Mixpanel simple Java API
This app is consuming my soul: http://new.weavesilk.com/?czkk

And Ctrl+Z would be nice.
Most of the money in the economy is tied up in the capital structure -- ie, it's not actually in the hands of consumers, it's in the hand of producers.

Producers can and do pay a lot more for goods and services if it helps them to make a profit.

The market for todo apps and other consumer software is, you're right, absolutely a mad scrabble for volume.

The market for intelligently targeted vertical segments is juicy and prime for picking.

I know where I'm aiming my current venture.
It's actually very feasible; I once spent a summer riding close to 100 miles every day (and often more) and I don't consider myself extremely athletic (although I obviously got into pretty good shape that year): http://bybike.ca
I like it. Seriously, 12 years is a long time to be milking stuff.
From the end-user (very casual gamer) standpoint, good riddance. When it came out as an a feature of the "upgraded" AuroraFeint, I chucked the game I spent most of my gaming time playing, and have since avoided everything that used it, regardless of how nice the game may have looked.
What if you use a VPN?
I've been tweaking my Sublime for 5 months or so, and this is how my config file looks so far.

"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme",
"detect_indentation": false,
"detect_slow_plugins": false,
"font_size": 10,
"highlight_line": true,
"highlight_modified_tabs": true,
"margin": 0,
"move_to_limit_on_up_down": true,
"remember_open_files": false,
"shift_tab_unindent": true,
"tab_completion": false,
"tab_size": 4,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": false,
"word_wrap": false

I'd suggest going through the default settings file to see what options there are to change. It's pretty darn configurable.

I'd also like to suggest the plugins Bracket Highlighter and Emmet (previously Zen Coding). I also use Package Manager, Sublime Linter, and FileDiffs as mentioned in the article.
>I suspect the national parties (or perhaps especially the GOP) will have to devolve into more than 2 brands for healthy regional competitiveness.

I think you're underestimating said bias toward two parties. Unless we switch to approval voting or the like, you'll never see a stable third party in this country. The simple math makes it so that given any three parties, the two most similar parties have the incentive to both back the same candidate, because the alternative of running opposing candidates invariably leads to those candidates splitting the vote and giving the election to the least similar party. And by the time they're both backing all the same candidates they might as well merge into one party.

The thing that can happen, and could achieve a significant improvement, is for a new party to come about that replaces one of the existing parties. That allows you to throw out the old leadership and start over with a clean slate.

The biggest difficulty is in building a stable coalition. If you want to eject the religious zealots and the climate change "skeptics" and the imbeciles who want to keep government out of Medicare then you need to replace them with something that supplies an equivalent number of votes and/or campaign funding.

Tech is a good start, but it might not be enough on its own. But the nice thing is that once you've decided who you're not going to invite into the tent, you know exactly whose ox to gore. I have to imagine a fiscally conservative-leaning party would have a lot easier time capturing the votes of centrist Democrats if they were pro-choice, pro-science, pro-education, pro-alternative energy, etc.
It's not hard to get to the front page if your article is fresh and it's night.
I think the word nerd is like that other n-word. It's fine when it's used inside the nerd-dom, but it is offensive when used by someone who is not a nerd themselves. At least it is for me. Maybe it's just because I grew up in the 80's when being a nerd was not nearly as cool as it is today. Being obsessed about computers and science was a very negative thing socially for me.
Nice article, but not really a "Show HN".
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The algorithm, from what I understand, assigns positive acceleration based on upvotes over time, relative to other articles in the same period. In other words, at this time of day a few upvotes in a short period of time will do wonders.

EDIT: As far as the actual article goes, I would have found it more valuable if it had named some of pg's teachers and mentors, rather than just dancing around the idea that "everybody is an apprentice at some point".
The libertarian viewpoint is very simple and not the dog eat dog world people here are making it out to be. Libertarians such as myself believe that people should be left alone to make their own decisions and live with the consequences, except that you need laws to stop one person from hurting another. Does that mean everybody for themselves? No. Before the creation of the welfare state we had mutual aid groups where communities would help each other. The groups could be based on religion, ethnicity, occupations, etc... People naturally took care of each other.

Would a simple world like this work today? No. But you can still use the guiding principles to form a freer world. That's where Ron Paul went wrong, he lived in an idealistic world. We have legacy costs and promises that must be kept.
That would break binary compatibility with all existing programs, though. So I guess the claim should be that it's impossible to implement a practically useful system without a de-facto recursion depth limit.
This should help.

https://apps.facebook.com/get-spotify/?fb_source=notificatio...
`border-radius` has been usable for about a year on everything except IE. `-webkit-border-radius` has little reason to exist, and is only around for token backwards compatibility.
I find that a lot of the time spent wandering is finding the "big wins", actions, situations communities etc that give a huge boost to your skills or perspective.

The two I can name off hand are installing Linux and finding this site. One of the things I'm looking for is the next big win. I still haven't found a way to ask people about them or where they might be.

I'm fairly sure that if if I knew where they all were in advance I could hit "master" without putting ten years into it.
He rephrased his question, and he shouldn't have, because his original one works pretty well. Can you name a single instance of a harmful monopoly that didn't either form or persist because of government backing?

No goalpost-moving this time.
>They do happen to incidentally be right that we should try to adhere to the standards but to compare the state of WebKit today to the darkest days of IE6's reign is pure chutzpah.

In fairness, that appears to be what ars is saying, not what MS is saying.
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Yes, I think you are right about this particular article, and maybe also about the other examples you list.

But I am not sure I agree with your conclusion that "nerds are actually doign pretty well in popular culture right now." To me it seems like your examples are the exception rather than the norm. Too many times I find myself reading the exact same stereotypes repeated over and over again: yes, a lot of technically inclined people are shy and their discomfort around other people shows in non-standard behavior.

But instead of showing empathy toward otherness, this and other cliches are too often used as an easy to hit target for laughs and ridicule.

Not so much in this example. Perhaps not in some of the others you name. But as long as "the nerd" is presented as some kind of peculiarity of society, as long as we get described with the same stereotypes again and again, as long as we're not accepted the way we are, I think it's worth pointing out that we don't like to be stared at, we don't like to be laughed at, and we don't like to be labeled. We deserve better than being looked down on as "just the tech guy" who's just good enough to help set up the new wireless router.

Again, I agree that this article is for the most part actually pretty good. We need more articles that portray us fairly. But even this one still yields to the temptation every now and then, for instance with the choice of the photo, an allusion to table-top RPGs ("Hatch was playing the role of dungeon master") and the n-th iteration of certain cliches ("He, too, has a memory that all nerds share: Late at night, light from a chunky monitor illuminating his face, fingers flying across a keyboard, he figured something out.")