skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no plausible 'consumer protection' story that would explain why building codes for permanent residence are not good enough for temporary residence as well. The law is there to protect hotel operators from vacation rental competition.

This is not a very thoughtful comment. There are obvious reasons why properties zones for permanent residence aren't appropriate for transient residence; the latter type of occupancy is accompanied by crime and abuse.

You seem to be falling into the trap of considering "consumer protection" only from the perspective of the tenant.
There's another one in Warsaw, Poland, in the city's arguably most slumsiest estate comprised of three low-standard blocks of flats with no infrastructure:

http://free.art.pl/zmiana_organizacji_ruchu/Watts.html
I bought the book a couple of years ago. Extremely useful because it shows how to implement a lot of algorithms (e.g., inner joins, outer joins, etc., etc.)

Saved me a lot of time n a large customer job.
If you want the world to scroll in a new way, you need to support mobile. Desktops are quickly becoming legacy devices, especially for reading.

I undertstand from the comments that it does something differently when you have a scroll wheel, but since I am on a touch based device I just see arrows for forward and backward and a remarkably small amount of text on each "page". It's infuriating to use.
I like the idea of individual neurons as competing for resources. I wonder how economic supply and demand will be applied. Will marketers start using demographics like "People with a 55% to 80% neuron-approval of using our product instead of the leading competitor"?

The "cultural treasures" model seems to be analogous to our physical "treasures", where few families pass down anything because all our treasures are easily replaceable. Also, it seems ripe for a contrast to Sturgeon's Law [1].

I don't understand the part about free will at all, probably because I've never really been interested in philosophy. Any illumination would be appreciated.

In watching my friends' Facebook posts, most involving "god", "Jesus", or religion in some way are using it as a simplification of: probability, specific friends and family, high-level abstract concepts, or other parts of reality which are difficulty to process or hard to enumerate. Additionally, a non-real person, such as Mickey Mouse, is guaranteed a certain level of respectability, as he'll never be arrested for driving drunk home from the club.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
And this is why I would NEVER in 10,000 years trust an anonymous form of money that can't be recovered or tracked to a group of average developers who in this case are obviously are amateur and don't even respond to massive critical security updates. I'm sure all the rest are like that to some degree as well. No thanks, I'll stick with cash under my matress before ever using that.

I feel bad for anyone that actually got screwed because of this.
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Same here.

80 columns-wide have another huge advantage: 3-ways merge fitting on one screen.

Even with "only" 100 columns wide it's hard to do a three-ways merge side-by-side without wrapping on a 1920x1200 screen (I basically have to temporarily use a smaller font to be able to do my three-ways merge).
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I was born with pretty severe strabismus and underwent a few major eye surgeries throughout my life.

One of the side effects of being born with this condition is missing lines when reading a book. Growing up with computers, I always found it a little difficult to follow long lines of text or the next line as I scroll.

I'm a lot older now and hardly have these problems, if ever at all. I've pretty much perfected guessing varying levels of depth perception, I guess, as this effects my stereoscopic vision. I'm not sure what goes on at the neurological level or 'lower level', however.

Anyway, you don't know how natural it felt to read this. It almost worked too well, so I would like to test it out a little more before, just because I'm a natural sceptic.

Regardless, kudos on this great work and creative thinking.

And yes, it almost did feel like words 'moved' a little sometimes when I was a child and was still developing strong optic/extraocular muscles. It is difficult to explain/articulate, especially since it happened such a long time ago and I'm working from memory, though.
how come? Apple is not nearly that old.
It slowed down the update (to 3.2.11), but it didn't prevent us from removing the XML parser from DEFAULT_PARSERS immediately. I'm not defending anyone here. I'm simply pointing out that the scenario wasn't exactly status quo. This has all moved very quickly.

EDIT: I guess that qualifies as a mitigation strategy, but when I said that, I was talking more along the lines of the patches, or like another person I know, even more dramatic steps like forking Rails. There are regressions in the 3.2.x updates since 3.2.9 that affect some sites.

Bottom line is that there was a lot of bad timing here that sucked up a lot of time in securing a Rails site.
Another Proposition HN: Invest $8000 and I will build your MVP
Just saw the proposition by Hmexx and it is good for people who can code. So I thought to create one for people who can not code but can sell.

So deal is:
1. If you have an idea and you think you can market\sell it but find difficult to build MVP.
2. The MVP should be able to build in 2-3 months by 1-2 developer\designer.
3. You will be closely working with full time dedicated developers\designers. so they will be your remote co-founders.
4. you will be having majority stack in the company. My company and developers will have minority stack.
5. Not required to quit your full time job as of now.

Why this Proposition:
Don't let any idea waste like sperm, even if you can not code.
Give opportunities to Indian developers to work on cool ideas rather than just doing some maintenance work and waste their talent.
Or no table changes with http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Pess...

but in this specific case `affected_rows` works better as long as you know its reliable.
(edit: meant as a reply to the comment above by rayiner, which I agree with, incase it's not clear)

No one likes to pay more in taxes. But let's not confuse our whining and bellyaching for sound economic arguments. As one could expect, there's been such a flurry of these pieces with essentially the same argument, only different levels of histrionics. "The negative effects of higher taxes on investment growth are exponential.", etc
Chef's knives are excellent for cutting all sorts of things that don't require an extremely sharp edge, but they're just not good for cutting paper thin slices of very hard ingredients like lotus root, and my personal experience with using a chef's knife to slice tuna belly was not so great. By the same token, I would not dare use either a nakiri or yanagi blade on a chicken carcass or to fillet a whole fish, because you risk damaging the extremely sharp blade.
you can post it on my ex-prj.com if you like.
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>what the heck are you writing that needs to be 120 chars wide?

Ever used java?

private static final Map<Class<? extends Persistent>, PersistentHelper> class2helper = new HashMap<Class<? extends Persistent>, PersistentHelper>();

if ((string1.toLowerCase().equals(Localization.getString('Yes')) || string1.toLowerCase().equals('yes')) && Cleaning.Verifier.isSafeInput(string2) && Cleaning.Verifier.isSafeInput(string3))

The first one I found on google, the second one is based on something one would normally expect to find in an average java codebase.
So, nobody should learn a language unless it's the "default language" for a platform? What is Python, Ruby or PHP the default language of? Should anybody be learning Perl, Haskell or Objective-C in your opinion?
Yes and it is not exactly that bad, as this at least works wherever Java works, which includes Mac and Linux.
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Right on. That was the right call to make.

I wanted to be careful not to point a finger at you; it's just that this is exactly the kind of crazy mistake I can see a web startup making.

Obviously, the timing sucked, but nobody had any control over that.
UPDATE! Unicode issue fixed: http://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng/commit/?id=297514d6e6c42057ee...
Unicode issue fixed in the repo.

http://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng/commit/?id=297514d6e6c42057ee...
This isn't a scroll interaction, its a pagination interaction. I don't think that this breaks up reader's flow any less than scrolling down a page, or turning a physical page in a book. The creator's assertion that "its better, deal with it" is detrimental to their credibility, IMHO.
Plex and XBMC would be ideal candidates for this API, each user could easily maintain their own pointer to the data set, and their synchronisation would be faster and more efficient than it is right now.

There's also a provision with the API (for personal use, so far) which turns a filename (and metadata, if you have it) into a JSON hash (or msgpack, of course) of the episode, show and season, etc.

This is also a potential avenue for being more widely made available.
Some users would fill them in believing their comments to be civil, well thought out and sincere, regardless of their actual content. Trolls would be perfectly happy to fill them out and then troll anyway. Then a few will just have a script bind to the select button that auto-ticks the checkboxes before submitting.

I don't think this is a problem that can be engineered away so easily.
The point of scrolling would be to exploit the visual/spatial center of the brain to give you a sense of context. You know where you are, relative to all other content.

This experiment feels like set of slides, and i don't necessarily feel where I am as I click back and forth. I feel lost.
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Use tabs to align stuff on the left. This means putting some_key_1 on the next line. Also move the closing brace to a new line and add a comma after some_var_3.

Added advantage that you can move all of the lines around, :sort them or comment out individual ones without breaking anything.

Use spaces to align anything after the key, I usually align them with a tab stop so that several blocks line up.

thing = {
[->]some_key_1: some_var_1,
[->]some_key_2: some_var_2,
[->]some_key_3: some_var_3,
}
> tends to encourage future robbers

If only people would understand this about school shootings and the like
"Also, we'll be sending you another email soon which details our changes and additions to KHTML and KJS. I hope the detailed list in that email will help you understand what we've done a little better."

Interesting, anyone have a handle on this list?
If you don't want my cookie, feel free to not use my website which is provided to you free of charge (and ironically, if it was not free you would definitely need to accept the cookie). It does me no good to provide you a service when I can't monetize it.

I don't understand the sense of entitlement. The result is annoying, but that's because of the poorly thought out law. If you don't want annoyed, use this extension.
1. One downside of this interface is that it's difficult to keep track of where you are. The scroll metaphor is broken and the pagination metaphor is not fully implemented (you need an indicator of where you are, like pages in a real book). The percentage indicator doesn't cut it.

2. Control feels too fine. It's too easy to lose your place and mental effort needs to be devoted to properly placing the page divider. I would like to see a version that scrolls in discrete steps by line, perhaps with a little smoothing by way of animation. This would also give you a new feature: using the divider as a reading aid as people often do with rulers and real books.

Think of it this way: you have two controls, page turn and pixel-advance. What is a control with granularity somewhere between those interfaces that combines some of the advantages of both for navigating?

3. I'm not convinced by the divider. I think it either needs to communicate a visual metaphor, perhaps implying that the new page comes out on top of the current page using shadows, or just needs to be softer using blurring or fading the adjacent text out to white. And I don't think you should be able to cut a line of text in half (addressed in (2)).
>Let's say a bank has all its assets in cash in a single branch location and that location is robbed, meaning the bank now has no assets left. //

Governments can and do offer an insurance system whereby they will ensure that customers receive a substantial part of their monies back - this aids against bank runs (where customers panic and all try to withdraw their money as cash and so cause the bank to implode).
I think this would be very nice in an ebook or other long form writing where I need to backtrack to find some earlier reference. Where it doesn't work well is in hierarchical data like HN comments. I installed the chrome extension and used it to read the comments on this posting and it was nearly impossible to use. With things that are arranged hierarchically, such as comments, a single page works better than this, but I do think this will be nice on longer articles or with ebooks.
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I thought it was pleasant enough to use. I actually have my middle-mouse button remapped to PgDn, so this is more or less how I navigate already.

My system doesn't need to use 2/3 of a page for two buttons though.
That's great! I'm pretty sure there are some other impressions going on in there, but I can't place them yet.
The MacOS running is Rhapsody running on a Bochs emulator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_%28operating_system%29
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

Not much to see here, sad that you have to jailbreak a Microsoft Surface tablet to run open source software like Bochs on it.
Vircurex developer Kumala says on the thread that they will cover the losses:

"Before the wild speculations beginn, the service will be recovered and we pay the losses out of our own pockets."
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Only in astronomy can you "give or take 700 million years".

Geologists must be jealous, lol

So technically that star is long gone now, these are just distant pictures from history.
Have you ever tried reading a web page over a person's shoulder while they occasionally scroll up and down? It's really jarring (though turning on Firefox's "smooth scrolling" helps.)

I'm not sure that I like the results of this experiment, but I completely understand the motivation behind it.
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"It might take you a second or two to get used to it but it is better." Says who? While I'm not trying to debunk the claim, I'm curious if there is there any real evidence or proof on this or if it really is just an unfounded boast?

While I agree that stationary text may be easier to focus on the words themselves, I personally find the "magic-scroll" effect makes it harder for me to read. I tend to move my content into the middle of the screen and will occasionally jump back and re-read a paragraph, both of which magic-scroll seems to prevent.

Perhaps it's a user adaptation problem, but it just seems more constrained and less natural to me...
+1 to that. My little clone is 2 years old now and I'm already starting to ponder whether she's old enough :-)
Again, you're seeing this dangerously wrong. This isn't an employment opportunity, this is a startup where one of the founders is using an interesting way to find a co-founder and the idea itself. You bring the idea, he brings the cash.

He's not giving you a job, he's playing the role of seed investor and co-founder.
I like it, but few lines at the end of first page are truncated. But rest of the pages are just fine. Good work though.
Mainly from HN and other newsletters, but it was also mentioned on Smashing Magazine and a couple other popular blogs.

I have thought about a daily edition, but after doing some surveys it didn't seem worth the effort as there wasn't much interest in it.
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* ability to delete account

* ability to delete comments

* ability to edit comments after a month
I don't think "Rails generation" means only Rails. I think the idea is that we're so dependent on frameworks these days, there are massive pieces of our application that we have no clue how they work, and worse, we trust the framework authors implicitly. More and more we're seeing the downfalls of this. As Rails is essentially the best known and most deployed, hence the name.

Think about it: for most apps, probably 95% of your code is a framework that you didn't write. When this is criticized, the response is typically "open source unicorns! speak no more!" Moreover, there seems to be a different level of forgiveness just because it's open source. If ASP.NET WebForms had the same level of security holes in the past years as Rails ... just wow.

I love frameworks, and I think an average team would on the whole write less secure code than an open source framework would. If we want maximum transparency into our code, we'd go back to CGI written in C, but our productivity would tank, and looking back, the boom of recent years never would have happened.

However, we need a different attitude. Let's be honest: the arguments about open source are mostly a lie. Yeah, I went there. No, I'm not advocating closed source. Too many hang their hat on the ideals of open source. We're not talking ideals. We're talking rubber meets the road, cash leaves the bank reality. "Anyone can view the source - many eyeballs makes it more secure." The truth is, there aren't that many eyeballs. How many download, or (for the real technology ninjas) git clone, and trust what they're working with (whether app or framework) by a faith that rivals any religious organization?

As an industry, we need to read more code. We need to push back against the Barnes and Noble developer, the one who paid $29 for a book and now calls themselves a developer because they finished it front to back. Not everyone needs to be a senior engineer, but we have too many with that title after 3 years of building framework apps who couldn't code their way out of a CS101 class if they had Donald Knuth and Dennis Ritchie as their personal tutors.

This is pure supposition, but I think if at least 10% of those who used Rails read Rails, it'd be far more secure.
Like, you'll get used to inverted scroll in Mountain Lion?

Innovation takes getting used to, evolution doesn't.
> No bank in the US would ever dare run a stock rails site, I would bet they would be rightfully sued.

Why so? Even banking websites build on frameworks and if you'd have chosen Spring for example, there was a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in 2010. And even if you roll your own framework, you're just as likely to introduce a critical flaw. The Dutch governmental DigiD service runs rails [1]. The critical difference between the BC service and a bank or the government is that a responsible party would have secured their app immediately. The DigiD service was taken down pretty quickly and stayed down until patched. There were multiple workarounds that did not involve major patches and even if you didn't know which of your apps was vulnerable, you could filter the payload at your load-balancers if you had some [2].

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/532224/
[2] An xml tag with the type "yaml" was required to trigger this. It's a pretty specific payload that is very unlikely to be used in a regular request.
You guys do understand this is a joke, right? It's a (cool) example of stupid things that you can get up to in ruby. See the ruby con talk for other examples. Enterprise Ruby is my personal favorite.
Let me know whats your thought on this proposition.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043742
Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking [pdf]
I think it's important to use language that's fair and reasonable when arguing your point.

When you say "There is no plausible 'consumer protection' story for preventing licensed (sic) livery cab drivers from picking up curb hails" (I think you meant unlicensed) it's easy to dispute that point.

Here is the first hit on Google for "cab rider ripoff": http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/taxis_taking_wBtAr13EzaKS... - "At least a dozen hacks have been caught hitting unsuspecting passengers with pricey tolls for bridges and tunnels that the cab never actually crossed".

And the result: "We are confirming these data, and if appropriate, will likewise seek to revoke their licenses," Yassky said. "We will continue to comb the GPS data for any similar incidences."

That type of legal solution is not possible if taxi drivers are unlicensed.

And the well-publicized instances of Airbnb problems (e.g. prostitution) are already demonstrating that at least some of the regulations are in fact necessary.

Finally, the point about consumer bank regulation is, if your bank account does get ripped off, you're insured to $250K by the FDIC, which BitCoin doesn't have. Though perhaps that is a market opportunity for an aspiring YC company?

In any event, you're overstating the case to make your point -- keep the language reasonable if you expect to make your point.
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You may value that prioritization, but that isn't strange as you are a renter and so prefer things aligned as close as possible to your personal benefit.

That is simple egoism, don't coat it in nice language.
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All the more reason to route all your traffic through a VPN or SSH tunnel. It's so cheap these days to get yourself a VPS in Europe or Asia. Comcast (or whichever ISp you use) will never know what you're doing over their pipe.

I find the best deals on lowendbox.com. Servers can be had for as little as $15 a year.
Ah, I didn't realize this about the cropping. I guess I'll have to wait for these new less-cropped backs to be three or four generations old then. :)

I'm still hoping someone makes a practical large format back at some point.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002974

seems like a nice starting point for thinking about projects

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5005707 you could see if Bill Walsh actually knew what he was talking about
http://pdfcrowd.com/

Note: not affialated with them; just one of the top Google results. Also, I'd take a screenshot (and then export to pdf if an image file wasn't acceptable) since the pdf conversion via pdfcrowd splits it into multiple pages.
Does flux practice readable colors on their own website?

It seems like they do - I just returned to HN from reading flux's pitch, and my eyes did not take too well to the higher contrast on HN. Can anyone confirm if the colors on their website change over the day?
Just water.
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Can't attend but here's a free idea for you all.

Can someone make a weird sports rule dictionary/feed that looks for those strange rules. So when i go to whattheheckjusthappenedsports.com It takes a look at all the games happening in realtime and explains to me like a 6 year old what a balk is, and what its outcome is on the game.

"If you're watching the Cardinals/Jays game securingsincity that was a balk which is X, and that has Y impact on the game."

Would work well for those strange replay rules in the NFL and now MLB. Hell even Michael Vick could have used it a few years ago when he didn't know games could end in a tie.
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It's not a question of Silicon Valley "absorbing" the tax.

Businesses and individuals will always act in their own self-interest. That has meant locating in California. I don't see this as changing that; the advantages of being in California are simply far too great.
I hadn't even tried to scroll!