skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little bit silly. I agree if you're not beholden to support old versions of IE then there may be some overhead in full jQuery, so it's worth pointing out there some lightweight alternatives that have a similar API, e.g.

* http://zeptojs.com/

* https://github.com/mythz/jquip
Clearly, the YouTube home page screenshot there has mangled HTML and was not what the page originally looked like on period browsers. And the "dating fields" were probably just an ad that was misplaced by the same sort of rendering errors.

Just sayin', it wasn't that bad.
"People in San Francisco really saw the vision more," he says.

"New Yorkers tend to be a lot more competitive whereas people in Silicon Valley, I think of them as more ambitious."

--

One thing I noticed when I moved to the bay area from New York is I experienced something similar. A critical part of my process is running my ideas and designs by "normal people". It's easy to get caught up in a technology-centered idealistic mindset because it surrounds San Francisco like a bubble. There are some ideas that friends in San Francisco might say "Oh that sounds great! I know of an API/Library/start-up doing something that might be able to help you!" but friends in New York might say "People want that? You can make money off that?"and that is healthy. Sometimes those questions are asked much too late in the process.

In SV you get an insular market of products where you have start-ups that serve needs that really only other start-ups have. Or you end up building your product only for the tech-savvy folks you are always surrounded by in the valley. And that's not necessarily a bad thing but I think many of us hope to serve more people than what is essentially a tiny swatch of the world.

On the one hand, like the founder of that quote, I think it's nice to be surrounded by the ambitious atmosphere of SV. But it's also nice to be surrounded by a money-centric cynical realism that comes, I think, from NY's finance roots and the skepticism & cynicism in it's blood.
>> The language is so permissive that it allows newbs to write bad code but still obtain results

I can't see any relevance for a professional choice if newbies can shoot bigger holes in their foot with a certain tool.

That is a natural result of a powerful tool.

>> Perl experts seem to delight

Anecdotal. Ten years old description of half humorous use (and exercises). Also very different from best practices even then -- and especially different from how many/most work today.

Let me also note: If Perl wasn't better in many ways, you trolls would make serious arguments instead of "experts seem to delight"... [Or as you wrote above "Twenty-five years already? Now it can retire with full benefits."]

But I'll bite a little. Perl has the best OO system of all the scripting languages (Moose). The CPAN is the gold standard for scripting languages (and probably everything else). The testing culture is afaik second to none. The same goes for Unicode support. And so on.
They aren't, but it still affects the decision makers at the top who are supposed to be driving the vision of the company.
Freelance iOS Developer here. Just quit my job last month after nearly 4 years of full-time iOS Development to become independent.
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This is ridiculous. If you don't like services that require your full name, don't use them. It's clear people like those services. The biggest appeal of Facebook is that you can connect with people from your past by typing their names into search or being connected to them through your current FB friends. If half the people on FB have pseudonyms it will make the process of reconnecting with old friends and family frustrating to the point of uselessness.
Fats are a great source of energy and very satisfying. I would worry more about the extra sugar.
It also seems that you can throw it over the left or right wall when you get it above the top wall.
Alternatively you could just return them back inside the game rectangle when you see that their coords are somewhere outside...
Or improve the collision detection / collision mechanics...

EDIT: You also seem to scale the game considering only the width, when it is decreased then user can see higher. Suggestion would be to check the height as well and make sure that all users see the same area.
If by "features" you mean the ability to achieve the same result... Well, obviously.

However, jQuery's main feature is having a nice interface that is much more consistent and usable than many of the native APIs. The "fluent interface" or "method chaining" style is especially nice.
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When looking at social networks, always remember to look for applications other than "sharing pictures of my lunch with friends".

Participation in FB is voluntary, but also one of the few ways to quickly reach an audience of millions worldwide to promote your cause. Imagine people in Syria or Egypt wanting to communicate their plight anonymously with the world. If Facebook applies its ham-fisted "real name" policies, this can result in very real and deadly consequences for them.
Work stuff is mostly Ruby, Python and PHP. Entertainment is Clojure (mmmmm.... Lispy goodness) and Haskell ATM.

But for my own stuff I still reach for Perl. Best testing infrastructure on the planet and that, in combination with CPAN, lets me get shit done.
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Fantastic, that'll come in handy for the 8,500 people who were shot dead last year.
Most people will respond with "law is law". The more interesting question in my opinion is "should there be laws regulating voluntary agreements". If somebody has a problem with Facebook, they can just not register. Some claim "everybody else has Facebook so I have to use it as well", but if you equate societal pressure to involuntary action, you are opening a can of worms.
It's worrying when someone is exited to kill people.
Dokuwiki is a Free / open source Collaborative Wiki

Etherpad has various Wiki functionality available by enabling plugins

Etherpad also has WikiMedia/Wordpress etc. integration
Modal GUI elements are creativity sappers
Does Facebook actually have offices in Germany? If not does Germany really have jurisdiction.
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Why not use one LED and just vary the brightness?
"Prior to 1.9, an ajax call that expected a return data type of JSON or JSONP would consider a return value of an empty string to be a success case, but return a null to the success handler or promise. As of 1.9, an empty string returned for JSON data is considered to be malformed JSON (because it is); this will now throw an error."

That one is gonna cause some headaches, I've abused this behavior for years, as recently as yesterday.
"UV Labs will partner with universities and other higher education providers to build products addressing a range of issues, from accessibility to affordability to accountability."

From that description it doesn't sound like a startup at all. More like a consulting company. Maybe it will be helpful in introducing the startups they are funding into universities and making it happen.
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I have a vague recollection that it was fixed or mostly eliminated in Quake 3. It was definitely still an issue in Quake 2, and one relatively well-known cheap trick was leading people towards particularly architecturally dense parts of the map and using a weapon such as the hyper-blaster, which was a high rate of fire laser gun for some unfortunate reason was implemented as a discrete particle/projectile for each shot. This would sometimes slow down the opponent(s) significantly enough to make a difference.

There were also special moves, especially rocket jumps, and double-jumps that were impossible <60fps, and got easier towards 100+ (This being in the days of 200MHz pentiums and software rendering, "Monster 3D 4MB", and intense envy of those who could afford 2x 12MB Voodoo II cards.
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Luckily the thing that all websites are missing when they ask you to fill in a name field is the ability to verify whether or not it is actually your name.
What does it mean to operate in a country? I don't think running a website that doesn't block access from a particular country can be interpreted as operating in that country. Maybe Facebook does more than that, e.g. sell advertising in Germany.
All open protocols do is a create a race to create the cheapest product for service providers. If they were beneficial in any way for business, we would see far more of them.
Absolutely. As a techie I have regeer.org registered, so bertjw@regeer.org can be move anywhere I want.

However I was simply bringing up that it isn't easy to move email providers.
Tested and love it.
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I have to agree about the lack of a compelling use case for the ARM version of Surface. The Surface Pro, which is non-ARM and runs the desktop version of Windows 8, so it can run "legacy" Windows 7 programs, but the drawbacks are that it has worse battery life and costs another $400 more. At that point why not just get a laptop.

I actually think Windows 7 is great, it is the most useful, customizable, business-appropriate, and non-broken version of Windows in a while. I was really impressed with Microsoft when I got my corporate box updated to Windows 7 and Office 2010. I thought they were on the right track. But with Windows 8 they tried to fix something that wasn't broken, and abandoned their core market in the process.

They really should have forked their OS product line. Windows 8 RT should have been called "Windows Touch" for tablets and phones, and they should have continued to iterate Windows 7 as "Windows Desktop" for business/productivity users. There is no need for Windows 8/Metro/Modern/whatever on a desktop computer, because vertical touch screens do not work ergonomically.
Axiom 1: Company is collecting and storing personal data that you voluntarily provide

Axiom 2: Company does not charge you for this service

Axiom 3: Company has no other visible means of income

Axiom 4: Company has non-trivial operating expenses

Given that this covers a huge amount of "our digital life", there are a few possible solutions:

- Keep getting services without paying money but paying with privacy

- Identify another way to get the services we rely on to be paid for

- Hope that a large benefactor company will buy the services we use and write the operational cost off out of the goodness of their hearts
can't see how this won't become a shitstorm
I too got my first break on 'cracking' the code to coding on code academy.com. I did Udacity's stat101 which forces you to use python which is also fantastic. Good Luck!
They don't need to, there are plenty of people doing it for them.
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>If you don't like services that require your full name, don't use them

Except Facebook has a monopoly, minors are using it, and so on. Face it, in Europe we have a different understanding of the role of the State and if you want to do business in here, you'll have to abide by our rules.
CPAN might be centralized, but Java libraries are far superior. This is not a pissing contest, but a fact. The java runtime makes everything else look amateurish and unprepared. Debugging, profiling, introspection and distribution, all built into the platform. Attach to any running process and analyze away. Perl is good when it works, but when it doesn't, it's cryptic stack traces and `exit -1`, nothing meaningful.
Cython is good, but sometimes it's a bit tricky to bend it to do exactly what you want[1]. You'll probably still want to write that hot piece in C... But gluing it with Cython is IMHO much nicer than using the plain Python API.

[1] - on the other hand, it comes with a tool explaining exactly how each of your lines of Cython looks in resulting C, with color-coding for high level overview of which pieces translated smoothly
Half the people I know on Facebook have changed their displayed name to some combination of their first, last, middle, or other name. They still appear to be 'valid' names, but I reckon they'd get asked to change them if Facebook ever demanded they provide proof of identification.

Not sure what to make of your claim that it's "clear" people "like" Facebook because of this requirement. People put up with it, perhaps, but I know plenty of normal everyday people on FB who aren't really playing by the rules.
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Actually, it's NSCounterIntuitive
When I do think about what I'm eating, I use the "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" rule.

Ready-made meals frequently don't quite meet the first criteria for me, so I couldn't care less about 10 grams of fat.
It can do things other than be a candle. For example, you can hook it up to your tinderbox and have it alert you when the build fails, with each LED cooresponding to different thingies. If you wish.
>So Instagram is now going to use photos taken by its users in advertising, and they may or may not disclose to viewers when the advertising is happening.

No, they are NOT going to do that.

It's 2012. Why are people --and especially someone like Wheaton-- behaving like it's 1994 and they are learning this "web" thing for the first time?

I've seen the same bloody story play up 10 or 20 times. They made a BS change on their license terms, they are is gonna be a small fuss from their users about it and they are gonna revert it.

It's not like Instagram-the-company even intended to do that in the first place -- most likely they screwed up the phrasing but meant something extremely more limited (like: we'd have be able to use your pics when advertising Instagram-the-app itself).

Instead, people are acting like Instagram was really going to sell their photos and not pay them, and like this thing won't be revoked in less than a month.

That is absurd.

Why?

1) The backslash from the users, especially with 2-3 active competitors against the company (Twitter, which added photo filters to its app, being the latest heavyweight).

2) The lawsuits from users their photos they did attempt to sell.

3) It's not a way to make money, anyway. Instagram is not a Getty Images like company -- and limited size pictures with cliched filters is not exactly a stock image market. Getty actually partners with Flickr, which has actual photos of ALL kinds and PAYS the photographer if it uses the pictures, but it's not like anything lucrative came out of it, for either Flickr, Getty or the users.
> The more interesting question in my opinion is "should there be laws regulating voluntary agreements".

Yes, and they serve important function -- leveling the playing field in case of strong imbalance between the parties.

Consider for example employment -- in many cases, employers have stronger bargaining position against singular employees or candidates, and could strong-arm individuals into one-sided deals. Thus most countries have certain degree of regulation of employment, providing some basic standard for the employment deals.

Having said that, I still can't reconcile with the idea of every website being subject to local laws of every country it is accessed from, merely by the fact that somebody visited the site from within this particular country.

In case of using a website, the active party is the user, and the website operator is the passive party. If anything, local law should bind the users, not the operators.

How about the German government went instead, ``Under penalty of XYZ, citizens ((of Germany)) may not use social networking website which require disclosure of real names as a precondition''? While this apparently puts pressure on users alone, Facebook would have to weight the real-name policy vs. losing a large, country-wide market.
Isn't it possible to use app.net to build an Instagram-like network without this whole monetizing problem?
> Except Facebook has a monopoly

No they don't, especially not in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StudiVZ
I guess you could make a case for FB being a de facto monopoly on connecting with friends and therefore needing to behave in certain consumer-friendly ways.

Alternatively, "you want to do business in our country, you must follow our rules".

Not that I agree.
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As far as I am aware they operate out of Ireland, that means they need to follow EU laws.

I am not aware if that gives Germany any power over them or not, but if Germany can prove that the same laws they are referencing (and the data protection laws are the same across the EU, so I am making a big assumption here that it is the case) they could make Facebook follow the EU laws.
How Instagram uses celebrity photos is not at the top of my list of concerns.
"just selling ads"

"Just?" That's their whole business. If they're selling ads in a country, then they're "doing business" in that country.
It does. Facebook is a company operating in Europe as well.
At that point they are required to follow German laws. Don't like it, remove your offices from Germany :P
Interesting--there are other countries where you are required by law to register with your real name (and national ID #) on every site. South Korea had such a law until it was struck down in August of this year. The perspective on whether anonymity online is a right differs very much by local culture and political climate.
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xlrd is going to get Python 3 compatibility:
https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/pull/21

Once that's done, someone has volunteered to add Python 3 support to xlwt as well. openpyxl isn't a direct replacement: it uses the XML-based xlsx format, whereas xlrd/xlwt use the binary xls format.
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Interesting.
There are a few things though :
- Facebook did prove it : most users dont read/care about TOS ( CGU here ), as long as they get stuff for free. You can do the most outrageous things with user data ( google ), people dont mind as long as they get value out of the service.

> Seth Green walking through an Urban Outfitters, does that mean Urban Outfitters can take that image and use it to create an implied endorsement by Seth?

- Unless walking through an Urban Outfitters requires agreeing with TOS before entering it, the exemple is irrelevant. When you sign up for facegoogram , you basically sign a binding contract. Wether the terms are fair , or even legal or not, it is another issue.
I'll be honest. If it wasn't for Big Bang Theory, I'd have no clue who this guy was. Even with reference to Star Trek, I can't remember his character. Not sure why I'd care about his opinion on a semi-tech related topic (I know, not about me and my own opinion).
If there is a hell, then God's love is not unconditional.
> The backslash from the users

Yes, this backlash from users is exactly what's happening. You can't simultaneously try to dissuade the backlash from happening and depend on it to prevent the undesirable events from taking place.
If people going through the hassle of signing up for your service isn't an indication that they like your service, we're all in a lot of trouble here at HN.
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Your definition of a monopoly in Europe must be very different than ours.
The fact that it's clearly possible to use a pseudonym on Facebook makes the German complaint even more silly. But the fact remains that Facebook has decided to have this rule because they believe it makes the product better. That decision is theirs to make, and people can flaunt it (as many do) or decide not to join.
Quote from article: "The study does not attempt to look at how often the meals are cooked - if they are part of people's daily diets or just dishes for a special occasion."

The recipes which one puts into cookbooks are intended as the center-piece meal of special-occasion a dinner party. More importantly, PORTION SIZE is something that is up to the cook as well as first, second, and third courses.

The last thing we need is the already dysfunctional eaters of English speaking countries to think that they're somehow better off with a TV-dinner.
This thread reads like a giant love-letter to Amazon. As well it should.

Amazon is one of the best companies in the world . I've been buying physical books from them for the last 8 years. I've recently started buying audiobooks at Audible, and have even more recently purchased the new Kindle Paperwhite, and have been burning through many, many ebooks. The one time I had a problem with a physical shipment, they resent the book, no-questions-asked. From the looks of this thread, their customer service has stayed amazing.

My favorite Bezos quote, showing an approach that, over the long term, is amazingly profitable: "There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp."

By the way, I agree with the OP, asking a simple question to verify the credit card number would not hurt the customer service process, and would probably prevent some fraud.
Axiom 1: Company is collecting and storing personal data that you voluntarily provide.

Wil's entire point stemmed from the involuntary nature inherent in much of public photography today. There's a reason that TV shows blur out the faces of people who don't sign commercial usage waivers.
But that kills any hope of having an email client attach files made by other programs with the current implementation.
A blog post musing about the threat to agency posed by free to use services that rely on farming personal data for revenue posted on … Google Plus?
Loved the quiz:)
Finished it, even though it's the first time i've ever heard about puppet.
Unless I've misunderstood there's no suggestion she acted improperly during the trial - the information that suggests the foreman was essentially biased based on his previous experiences only came up after the trial.

At that point Koh is essentially in the same position as the rest of us - she has to judge the information now available to her which she's done and evidently decided it's not an issue.

But she has nothing to be defensive about and I see no reason why another judge would need to look at it. She could declare a mistrial without it looking bad on her in any way at all.
Perhaps a little misleading but it is a standard measure of productivity.
they do. studivz plays ther same role os/2 and or anything else played in the microsoft monopoly era. they are at this point a niche site that is almost dead.
> most likely they screwed up the phrasing but meant something extremely more limited

I'm a pretty firm believer in Hanlon's razor ("never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"), except when it comes to lawyers. They tend to put a lot of thought into what they write, and understand the ramifications of their words.
I think it should be a rule in the internet that users should have a right to use whichever pseudonym they wish. Anonymity would be great too, but obviously it does not work in certain cases.

I for one won't use Facebook or any other social media as long as I can't use a fake name. At times it feels a shame, really.