skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to be pointlessly negative, but this is the kind of post that makes me chuckle a bit at the idea of Svbtle being 'the future of journalism', and a hallmark for posts of a superior quality. There's nothing particularly actionable or novel, which would be excusable if it were at least interesting.

I don't mean to disparage Alex -- a lot of his posts have been incredible, such as how he implemented asynchronous image uploading (http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/svbtle-image-uploading) -- but this would benefit from showing it to an editor and asking for advice.
This has been true for quite a long time, and IIRC is why they're not more widely used. That and they're pretty complicated to implement properly.
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How is this different than hiring your company to develop the software/application which you already offer as a service through your company? What extra value are you offering for the equity?

I am personally not interested, but I think anyone that reads this offer would have the same question. Good luck.
My main display + editor, I use in two modes, 273 columns wide, or up to 410, both of which I feel comfortable with.

I'm guilty! I'll admit, When I know it's my-eyes-only, in languages with functional features, I tend to just brain-dump one liners if I 'see' them in my mind as one sequence of operations. It's easier for me to write, and much easier to read and parse later than multi line equivalent.

But I l also know that outside of private junk, this sort of thing is usually inappropriate, and downright harmful on teams with varying skillsets, where these lines can be impenetrable to some team members, and make the codebase far more intimidating than it needs to be. I segment and format anything above ~80 if anyone else is going to be involved.

So coming from someone who would violate almost any line length rule if no one was looking: I feel like a line length is appropriate in a style guide, or at the bare minimum a consensus on how much is too much.
Why is this an experiment in trust? Seems like trust wasn't isolated. Reading is hard enough, and even Schneier admits writing can be hard.
There's one advantage to this way of scrolling most comments seem to miss:
When you go to the next page by hitting Space or Page Down there's an interruption in the flow and you have to refocus at the top of the page once you're finished with the current page.

Here I like the fact than I can already start focusing at the top of the page while finishing to read the page at the bottom.

Weird, yes, but it has at least this advantage over classic pagination display.
The expansion of the universe is visible in the very very very big scale. The galaxies are generally spreading away from one another. But it is only the general direction. The gravity makes them move in complex trajectories so some of then are aproaching or even colide.

The Milky Way ~100,000 light-years in diameter, so this star is inside it. Inside a galaxy the movements of the individual stars are even more complex, so they get closer or more distant.
This style of todo list quickly gets out of hand, leading to more time required for maintaining a spreadsheet than actually completing tasks, leading to eventual abandonment. Stick with a pad of sticky notes and or notepad. Nothing else comes close.
...which is also no different than paper money, or the money we store digitally in our banks...
OT, but spaces are more common because they're strongly recommended by PEP 8, the community style guide for Python code.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
>Perhaps they should have done this up front, you know as part of the engineering, hence my point.

And you know what, I have a feeling they did have multiple people looking over the code, and it's been vigorously refactored over the years. Rails 3 is a somewhat different beast from Rails 2.

Careful auditing reduces bugs but does not eliminate them. Crowing about "proper engineering" is very nice but is somewhat farcical given the state of the art in the industry.

>Are you saying guarding against bad inputs and enforcing type is bad?

No. Of course you guard against bad inputs.

But that's wholly separate from enforcing the type of the objects. And it's not like people are eval()ing stuff willy-nilly.
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Is there a preview available somewhere? I am looking for a way to read HN on my Kindle.

Nevermind, found the archive at the very bottom of the page. I guess it won't work for Kindle, though.
i'm hoping to be able to offer student loans at some point down the road. with a developer's salary, it shouldn't take more than a year to pay back the loans. it will require partnering with a bank or other lender, though, so it will be a bit of work to get off the ground.
Current advertising networks use cookies for analytics and cross site profiling. While useful for advertisers it does have privacy implications and there is no, technical, reason why an advertising network could not serve advertisements without the 3rd party cookies.
I've kept a similar todo list in a Trello board since last year. It acts as an indispensable reminder of priorities and progress — like an analytics dashboard for life.

While it's somewhat useful as a reference and procrastination deterrent, I find the real value comes from asking myself the big, fuzzy "What do I want out of life?" questions more often.
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If only there were some way to learn from history - then it wouldn't take newly launched services decades to meet basic modern security standards.

Seriously, I don't see any comparison between this and a bank robbery. It's not like banks in 1933 were only just figuring out that they should lock the door where they stored the money, or that they should repair any holes in the wall, or even that paper walls, though they are quick to build, have a very bad record on security.
Nice! As much as I like the minimalistic approach, I feel this need a bit more explanation. What does "blog search" mean? Does it search for blogs or within blogs? What is the definition of a blog? Which blogs does it search? How does it determine whether something is a blog or not (my blog does not seem to be included) Why would I want to specifically search blogs and not just use Google? These questions matter and should be explained by the product itself :)
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Building codes (construction codes; how you must build), not zoning (what you're allowed to build).
I've given up on that and just put a large monitor further away.
They probably had a decent chunk in cold storage, which is why they can afford to 'cover the losses': "Before the wild speculations beginn, the service will be recovered and we pay the losses out of our own pockets." [0]

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135919.msg1448056#ms...
the extraordinary quality of Ordinance Survey maps suggests this was far from trivial, even if an iOS map app was a priority for OS, which i doubt.

Anyone from the UK already knows this but for those who plan to travel in the UK, these are the finest maps i have ever seen or used, and indeed have used them a lot. The 1:50,000 sheets for N Wales (Snowdonia), Isle of Skye, and Applecross, among many others, are treasures.

taking a casual walk with the family (e.g., around Langdale in the Lake District) with a OS 1:25,000 OS map is an interactive history less every step of the way--"oh look, says here there's a Celtic burial chamber just up ahead on your left"
2013: The Year of the Internet of Things
A USD has no inherent value since it is also a FIAT currency. At least BitCoin's algorithm is locked into a growth curve that eventually stops. The US can continue to print money. THe way I see it, BTC is going to increase in value.
I didn't realize this was sarcasm. Rare find on hacker news. Better access to the cookie controls without hunting in preference panels would be nice, but I'm sure extensions can fix that.
Lots of things aren't illegal everywhere, but that doesn't gets you out of trouble when you do them where they are illegal.

And there are often very good reasons why the rules for doing something in, say, New York City, are different than a rural community in Kansas, even if that isn't convenient for a company trying to do business everywhere in the world with a small staff that lacks the resources to know the law relevant to their business in all the places they want to do business.
What made you stop caring?
Sorry, that's just nonsense. A decision is an action. There is no such thing as "passive" deciding. If you expand the definition of "decision" to include "not deciding", you render the term completely useless.
I think you seriously underestimate the sheer quantity of people looking through it, my friend.

And if we're using that metric, it's extremely unlikely your average team member knows his or her ass from their elbow, either.
I dunno, I have tried it, and it was ok after a bit on the touchpad.
Then I plugged in a mouse. Did not work at all. I could not use it like that. So now I have scroll reverser[1] to scroll that way with just the trackpad. But really, I was flipping back and forth with the settings (there was something weird with the back/forward swipes for browsers) I don't even know which way it is right now. But it doesn't matter, as soon as I start moving it I can get feedback and do it correctly.
So I can get used to having it flipped on me rather quickly. I might make some false starts.

[1]: http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
If I'm interested enough, I'll flip the (physical) pages. But I have to be more interested than on a computer - despite having been heavily involved on my high school newspaper, I don't like the feel of newsprint, particularly during breakfast.
Interesting that the Chinese government owns a stake.
I'm always looking for ways to stay motivated and keep me focused. I've tried the Todo list before, but it always seems to fall by the wayside when the little things in life come up.

What have other's done that has worked for them personally?
This is cool! An interesting experiment.

I think a quick shadow does a lot to give the divider some heft and alleviate concerns about visual ambiguity between foreground and background page.

It would look something like http://cl.ly/image/2N3B2V2d2L3W (pardon the wonky #ss_topPage). It can be done in CSS (+ two empty divs, uh) with small effort. To me it feels like the most usable skeuomorphic hint you could drop.
Willing to relocate the right candidate from anywhere in the US! Great opportunity :)
The Dell has an Anti-Glare coating. These look sharper because they don't have one.
Yep, as far as I understand that's one of the criticisms addressed to Eiffel. Covariance and contravariance in a type hierarchy both have their usefulness in a type hierarchy, though.

I didn't know about Sather, I'll have a look at it. Thanks for that !
It would be perfectly possible to serve ads without cookies (they work just fine if you disable cookies, after all).

However, none of the big advertising networks is going to let the additional value of tracking customer behavior and targeted advertising slip through their fingers.

That's not the same as "needing" cookies for advertising, though, and it is indeed what the directive was meant to put a stop to (among other things).
i would imagine that the algorithm would gain a lot more traction if it actually came with an implementation
Yes! That was the 1st thing I thought as well. If you could make the previous text disappear or set it at 30% opacity it wouldn't even ned a divider. I like the way this reads. I'd like to see it as a feature for iBooks / e-readers.
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Thanks for the feedback. To answer some of your questions, soto searches within blogs, using the existence of syndication feeds as the criterion. We are currently still growing the base of blogs so naturally not all are included. I'll make sure to add some documentation.
just in case you're wondering why you were downvoted (I can't do that myself) -- size of code has almost 0 relation with CPU time. A small algorithm could be extremely computationally intensive
How are those "problems inherent in the peer-to-peer model"? Aren't those problems any business in the industry has to face?
>It doesn't really matter; my opinion isn't going to sway anyone. The university has largely already been commoditized and that's a part of why it's so vulnerable to disruption.

Ah, but that's what I'm saying. I would fully agree with industry not being the purpose of education iff the only people who went to universities had the financial means to not need to join industry afterwards, and our world didn't require highly educated people for something other than research and education. It is unfortunate that the two are so incompatible at the moment, but I think they will adapt to each other in the next decade.

To address the initial point, I don't feel strongly about it but I don't think programming Android or iOS apps in college as part of a curriculum is a bad thing, even if it is tied to industry. As long as it's used as a vehicle to drive home cs fundamentals and theories, that is. Best way to learn to code is to code and all that.
oh, you're right. sorry, i will fix that.
oh, no i won't - the edit window has expired. how embarrassing.
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> If such incidents become common enough, nobody will be willing to buy bitcoins

No, that would only be true if people were forced to store their bitcoins on vulnerable bitcoin exchanges, which they're not.
> Your alternate solution gets annoying if the page has a header overlaying the text.

So you're saying the working solution doesn't work on sites with completely broken UIs such as Google+? What a surprise.

That's like criticizing middle-click-to-open-in-new-tab because it doesn't work on broken sites implementing fake links via javascript, without actual links backing them.
100% awful. I can't move the text to centre it vertically on the screen.
You are wrong, bitcoins can be "tracked". The whole point of the Bitcoin block chain is to track all transactions. The community has developed a few tool to track "tainted" money.

Also, you already trust an anonymous form of money: cash. Why so? Mostly because insurance exists against cash theft. As the Bitcoin ecosystem develops, eventually an insurance market will develop too. It sounds like Bitcoin is too unmature for you. So, wait. In this theft case, the exchange itself is providing this insurance to you: they guaranteed they will cover the stolen funds themselves.

Also, the beauty of Bitcoin is that you don't have to trust an exchange like the one that was the victim of the theft. You can decide to take care of your own security by storing bitcoins on your own computer. There are a few efforts in progress to develop credit-card sized hardware wallet in order to provide extremely safe bitcoin wallets to non-technical users who are unable to, or don't know how to keep a computer secure for hosting a Bitcoin wallet. Again, it sounds like you need to wait for these efforts to mature before judging Bitcoin.
Seems like it's high time for someone to come along who knows how to do it right.
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This is nice for people who want it, and it might be better for reading on phones (but that will require testing to confirm.)

For reading on a large enough display (laptop, desktop or even any newer tablet), I think it's unnecessary. The way I read on these devices doesn't involve scrolling very often. I read like I do on print, but scrolling replaces the page turn much like it does on his. I don't read text while I'm scrolling usually, I'll read what's on the page, then scroll it to give me a new chunk to read. It's not a big deal at all.
> So technically that star is long gone now

That's not a very well-defined statement, since there is no absolute simultaneity between here and a distant area of the Universe.
In the comments one of the recipients notes that he only received the book in late November. This was just as people were getting into the busy holiday season. He really can't come to any conclusions yet as 6 weeks there has not been enough time for people to write their reviews. He acknowledges this, but discards it, and concludes in essence that most people are thieves who obtained the book under false pretenses. In a year he could make that case, and even then it would only be reasonable if he sent out a few reminders.

I am glad to see though that he did publish lists of the reviews he did find so that anyone whose review was overlooked has a chance to respond.

Unfortunately, his post there ruins the experiment.

I did not participate in the experiment but if I had and was about to go live with my review and then suddenly was publicly accused of being a thief, I would not go forward with an ordinary review publication since it would seem at that point to be trying to wiggle out of something. Instead I would write a blistering criticism of his methodology.

The claims and article are so shoddy in fact that it damages my opinion of his work overall.

I sometimes write book reviews on my blog. I don't accept free or discounted books, it's just books I've read. I have quite a backlog. Right now I have a stack of 30 books that I will read. Some of these I won't get to for a couple years. Not every one of them will merit a review. It's not reasonable for an author to expect amateur reviewers will get to their book within a few weeks of receiving it, especially when there is no stated deadline.

Additional thoughts:

* Reading further through the comments on his blog, in the first few comments I found 15 people who mention they are in the process of reading it, or who have not gotten to it yet but plan to. There were more; I just stopped counting at 15. There are no comments (among those first ones at least) from people gloating that they got away with an unwarranted discount. Several fulfill their obligation inline by posting their review thoughts right there in his blog.

* It should also be mentioned also that these days even hardcover books in modest quantity are very inexpensive to print when there's no color plates, so the $11 paid almost certainly ensured that money was not lost on the deal as far as printing and shipping costs goes.

* Deep down in the comments Scheiner responds to the comments and it seems he realizes he screwed up with his post and drastically underestimated the number of people who take a while to get around to and complete reading a book.
The book was originally made from the contents of his paper at the 2nd History of Programming Languages conference. He wrote another paper at HOPL3 (2007) which I linked above aswell.
I can only say that, scrolling with a touchpad gesture (OSX), I fully agree with pertinhower and completely disagree with yours.
Guess what? They did! :)
It's released under the LGPL, according to its COPYING file, by HP. I am pretty sure that means the patent doesn't matter; HP is granting you a license to use it.
What would happen if you just hosted your potentially patent breaking api from europe? Apart from 100ms lag?
I like it, but I think you need to play with the transition bar a bit more. I keep looking at it.
Interestingly, the trimming of toe nails can be abused with "up-coding" as "minor surgery". When I worked with a group investigating Medicare/Medicaid fraud, this procedure was a commonly abused (with up-coding).

The point being is that fraud is a significant problem, but it's not easily solvable.
hmm, If I can get Arch to install, I might give it a go. Ubuntu was a bit pants when I tried it for a month early last year (had installed Lion, was pants on the old machine, tried ubuntu before rolling back to SL.) Multitouch gestures for multiple desktops is a must now that I've got used to it...
I think most of those are past the "Risk your career over" stage. Most of those names are well known and past the we are going out of business tomorrow if we don't get outside funding stage.

However if you do find a company its _always_ worth risking your career for. Don't let anyone tell you differently If your in a big safe corporation your missing out on both life and potential profit.
This. This is what my point is. So if someone is going to go to a 200k 4 year institution, they should get their money's worth.

University is too easy. Pack in more info than is required by the accreditation. You might be able to learn to program iPhone apps in a weekend, but you won't understand the rationality behind a lot of the decisions you make. So professors should have their students watch the iTunes U iPhone course at home, then come in and work on an app, running through design decisions, data structures, what have you, all in the context of reality.

I think people have been told that you can't do both theory and actually build something.
Astronomers discover the largest structure in the universe
And anyone can enter? You don't have to be Dutch / speak Dutch?
And this point-by-point rebuttal would definitely interest you: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response
We are in the final years of our internet
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I'm not saying that you shouldn't mitigate this vulnerability immediately (which is not the same as upgrading to 3.2.11). People are asking why/how this kind of thing happens, and I'm pointing out that there are a lot of opportunities to make the wrong decision in this situation.
I believe it to be the only language with the following features:

- support on basically every platforms
- ability to write parametrized, typed, compile-time constructs
- speed
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Did you see how complex the data structure actually is? If I had to choose between implementing a Judy array and implementing JPEG, I'd much rather try to write the JPEG code.

Patenting a data structure sounds ridiculous, but it's a little less ridiculous once you consider how complex the underlying algorithms actually are.
This is a good idea. The problem I have is that I sometimes need basically all my RAM for simulations (yes, occasionally even on my laptop) and my current only has 4GB (with OS X eating up about 1.5GB on startup for "kernel tasks") so it's dangerous to run a VM with more than 2GB. New laptop will def have 8GB though, so this solution becomes viable again, thanks :)
I do the same with Trello. I have a "life" board. Easy to move things around as priorities change.
The difference is, you can't pay your taxes in bitcoin.
An alternate solution is to change the background for the lower order page. I do something similar for my terminal sessions. It helps me keep "prod1", "prod2", and "test" separate.
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I am strabismic too, but don't have problems with reading text. In fact, while strabismus affects 3d perception, i don't see how scrolling and reading are affected unless one has double vision.
Hmm, thank you. I thought about getting one, but I'm worried it's too materialistic. My current screen is fine, after all...
That's flippin' HUGE! If the Universe is about 13b years old, then this thing is essentially as about 1/3 the age of the Universe itself.
So... I can patent complicated math? This is essentially what you are saying, right?
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I have used interactivebrokers.com in the past. They have an API they make available (but you have to have their desktop client running). They are also a direct access broker so their fees are lower per trade ($1), their trades are routed more efficiently but they don't give you much tooling like the retail brokers.

Also, check out activequant.org. An open source project for high frequency trading. Several of the developers are either from Germany or German speaking. It's also pretty mature and has been actively maintained for at least 5+ years.
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