skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is strange he proposes a HTML4.2 without any hint of what it actually will contain, except fluffy words like "simplify", "streamline" and so on. This is actually what XHTML and XHTML2 attempted - by means of the draconian error handling all parsing ambiguities would disappear, making parsing much simpler. By eliminating all legacy presentational HTML, the vocabulary would get much simpler and so on.

The problem with XHTML was that is was too simple and elegant, and didn't consider the actual state of the web: There are already billions of malformed documents, and they dont go away just because you declare them illegal.

HTML5 on the other hand accepts and embraces the actuale state of the web. By declaring rules for how to parse malformed HTML, it attempts to solve the major source of interoperability problems between browsers. But this also requires a much more complex spec.

I don't like peddling conspiracy theories, but I have to mention that Crockfords attack at ECMAScript 4 only succeeded because of backing by Microsoft. Microsoft supports Crockfords notion that JavaScript absolutely does not need high-level features like classes, type annotations, packages and so on - we are fine with a minimal language, thank you! While at the same time focusing significant ressources to support C# (a much larger language than ES4) as a client side language through Silverlight.

Crockford worked in secret with Microsoft on ECMAScript 3.1 before it went public, and I suspect this announcement means that they are working on a HTML4.2 proposal. And I am pretty sure this HTML4.2 will not cointain features like canvas, audio and video, since these features is a selling point of Silverlight relative to HTML.
I'd be quite interested in the data set if you're willing to release it
S3 isn't about cheap, S3 is about reliable and scalable. Yes, it's inexpensive, compared to how complicated and expensive it would be to setup multi-site failover and support nearly unlimited scaling.
Either way its what someone does, not the values of the bits that matters.
The physics of dolphin bubble rings and how to make them yourself:

http://www.deepocean.net/deepocean/index.php?science09.php
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A doctorate in some areas of the humanities is worse than useless, because it opts you out of most of the jobs that can be gotten through the resume-and-interview process. You're overqualified for everything except laughably scarce tenure-track teaching positions.

You don't have to look at it that way, though. A PhD in a quantitative social science, or maybe a media studies program would be in a good position to start founding startups...
Much like some of the other Vim users who've commented here, all I can say is, "So what?" I don't know if I'd call this "power user". Unless I'm mistaken (going on replicating this functionality in Vim), any beginner with a bit of determination and a browser can download and configure plugins to resemble this somewhat.

Now, it's highly possible that this guy is very proficient at using Emacs, but I'd have preferred a screen cast on the _editing_ features of Emacs over replicating TextMate. For example, I would love to see someone re-do some of the bigger coding screen casts (such as the Ruby on Rails blog engine one) using Emacs. It has the potential to not be useful--I know my Vim configuration is different from the standard and that there are a wide variety of ways to do things, but it might be enlightening to someone like me.

I have to say, aesthetics make a big difference to me. I liked the icons in the project pane (though, with a mouse? Really?) and all, but that environment was far too spartan--uhh, ugly--for me. I use MacVim, and with a bit of color scheme tweaking, a nice font etc. etc. I have a pleasing environment to work in. Note I know you can do the same in Emacs, but the point was MacVim--it's the pretty scroll bars, the OS X anti-aliasing and all that makes it nice. I can't use Vim in a terminal for long periods of time. Obviously, this is definitely just me.
I was just checking the Sinatra docs and the Juno examples on the homepage.

Suppose I want to do mydomain.com/username,
Sinatra supports doing:

get '/:name' do
#matches /username
end

but in Juno the route is set earlier itself, and hence seems like can't be done without a controller name (as it's called in cakephp)

@route('/hello/:name/')
def hello(web, name):
return 'Hello, %s' % name

Or if I'm wrong... can I do this?
@route('/:name/')
def index(web, name):
return 'Hello, %s' % name

Also, i've been used to PHP and would like to use Django or Juno or Sinatra or Rails or anyother language's framework. But the thing that puts me off is how do I start the webserver when using Sinatra or Django?

P.S: I love the routing system in Sinatra and Juno. Too friendly and no tinkering with regex directly
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A lot of those have probably only recently moved from CVS to Subversion, it will take them a long time to move to git (or anything else).
Mice + Text Editors = Better editing.

You can move to a specific position easier & faster in a mouse. When you're not in raw typing mode, you're mostly browsing and editing. Mice are useful for that, and the time lost in hopping over to the mouse from the keyboard is well worth it.

I can move a mouse very quickly, and I can be very accurate about it. Text cursors are harder to predict, and they jump around (as the page scrolls), making them harder to track than the mouse.

What really sold me on the idea was a good amount of time using a macintosh. A properly mouse-friendly environment makes you appreciate how useful the mouse can be.

Even back on a decent unix, I still love my select and middle-click to paste. Scroll wheels are also pretty wonderful.
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The opposite of "hapless" is probably "lots of gumption".
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It seems that statcounter was having trouble figuring out Opera usage, check out the wild swings in this graph:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-2009030...

Either IE dropped by 15% overnight, last September (with Opera taking those 15%), or SC figured a way around Opera's IE cloaking. Or maybe a new version of Opera came out that had Opera set by default as its UA string? Anyone know?
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I've just finished a phd in the humanities at oxford (full-funded, took four years to the day), and overall enjoyed the experience (I also used the flexibility of my schedule to get involved in start-ups and recently sold my first one in a modest trade sale). What astounds me about the US system is the amount of time it takes to do a phd - the article said 9 years is not uncommon. Regardless of whether there is or is not demand for humanities phds outside or inside academia, I think 9 years is too long - I mean your going to be a student in your 30s.
I believe the (poorly explained) rationale behind the alert is that the CSRF allows the attacker to brute force the password without triggering a captcha, as happens on the main login page after a couple of bad logins.

If you sent out spam containing a CSRF link that tried a dozen or so of the most common passwords, you might get a few hits, though I don't know why anyone would bother. Still, if I were Google, I would just fix it.

I'm a bit surprised that Google doesn't have a generic authenticity system for all of their forms, or if they do, why it would be omitted from this one form.
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Not redundant; there are lots of things you can grow on a farm in Nebraska. (As a kid I grew up on a farm.)

But it is a fun opening line.
Interesting history of TV-B-Gone; all the way from inspiration to recommendations of good Chinese contract manufacturers.

Also a good caution about not warning your credit card processor if you are going to be exceeding your stated velocities. When he first set-up TV-Be-Gone website he thought he was wildly overestimating his first years sales when he told them $100k/year. Three weeks later he had orders for almost $300k - good problem to have, right? Well the credit card processor was worried he wouldn't be able to fulfill all those orders so they told him they were holding back the money until he did. The trouble is he needed that money to pay for the shipment of new stock, almost causing the exact problem they were worried about - He was bailed out by a loan from family.

TV-B-Gone now employees 11 people!
I think your right.

The last request for spamming HN I came across was worth about $1,500 and up for a front page spot.That's a lot for a single link.
As I understand it, you can lose both versions in #2. The rename drops the refcount of the old file to 0, freeing its inode and associated file blocks. If you're lucky, they haven't been overwritten and can still find them. Not easily from an app though. On the other hand, the new file might not have been flushed to disk yet.

I suspect this could be solved fs-side using a journal that doesn't just store metadata (as most do) but also file content. Slow, though, as files are effectively written to disk twice.
This is probably a better solution to the problem that is already implemented in one, albeit unpopular, browser:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Yeah, absolutely, and I thought the same thing when listening to Bruce Sterling's SXSW talk. I don't know the technical name for it - it's the professorial thing where the speaker lowers the tone of the voice at the end of the sentence (like the opposite of what you do when asking a question).
My guess is the rename must occur immediately or he would have covered it.

But even if it doesn't the write and the rename are not correlated so it's still not safe. e.g. the move does not occur iff the write completes.

Is there any way to queue the move as a system call?
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Only because gmail enforces somewhat safe passwords. Does it look them up in a dictionary though? You could probably harvest even long-ish dictionary-based passwords this way if an attacker manages to embed this in a sufficiently high traffic page.
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But do we react to the underlying physiognomy or the muscle tone (posture and expressions on their faces)? It would be hard to separate these two factors, but you could start by generating 3D faces with different physiognomy but the same neutral expression.
I am surprised that he says he is still focused on having more users.

Twitter already has, in my opinion, a quite large (mostly techie) user base, the numerous whales would approve.

Figuring out how to make money out of it would be nice for them now, probably with advertisement tweets.
Does anyone know more about this movie? The trailer isn't especially informative (nor is the press kit), but it seems like the movie will be low on content (excluding stuff that Kurzweil and others have been saying for years) and high on self promotion. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it would just mean that I'm not the target audience.
It's not the kind of thing typically posted, and I certainly don't want cute animal stuff on here in general, but I think this video is, if not appropriate for HN itself, then at least appropriate for the HN demographic. I can't imagine how anyone interested in intelligence and in the mind could not watch this video and question whether dolphins are sentient. Maybe it's similar to a dog fetching a ball or whatever, but I think things like that require training, and I'd assume dogs get an instinct-based payoff (maybe it's similar to chasing prey) and/or payoff from the compliments of their owners. The dolphins seem to be doing this of their own volition, for their own entertainment, and I can't imagine how this behavior could have been trained.

(I don't own a dog, and don't have much experience with them, so take my comparison with a grain of salt.)
Right now we are generating PNG graphics using a Ruby library, but I'm looking to move to either Flash or Javascript-based charts.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of Javascript charts vs. Flash? Are the JS charts compatible with Safari and IE? (have had other javascript compatibility issues with them so far)
I guess the film will be to spread the Singularity ideas and theory for the masses and get some news/press coverage similar to Michael Moore's films.
Hopefully the movie will contain a subliminal message which implants itself into the brain's of all its viewers. The viewers then will then go out and simultaneously engage in activities that serve to bring us closer to the Singularity.
Call me crazy, but if someone wants to give me a quality comment I don't mind having their name link to their (legal and non-offensive) referral link in return.
It's horrible. I like Kurzweil and singularity doesn't seem so unlikely - just the trailer is unbearable for me, for too many reasons to count (like cutting from Captain Kirk to "The Singularity Is Near" lieing on a desk).
Yeah, I guess. A kind of intro to the Singularity for your mom. I suppose that's worth knowing about.
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Not everything is a conspiracy. They were right to nix ES4.

Javascript has prototype based inheritance: adding classes would only further disguise this, confusing people more. And javascript is a dynamic language, this isn't something that needs to be fixed any more than Ruby or Python do.

Javascript is basically a cross between scheme and self, it's actually a great language. Why turn it into C#? Especially when C# and a billion languages like it already exist.

Perhaps what we need is for browser developers to actually use the language attribute on the script element so you can program in the language you want rather than trying to change javascript into that language.

(BTW the more believable conspiracy theory is that all these suggestions add up to ES4 looking a lot like ActionScript and that ES4 was an attempt by Adobe to do an end run round Microsoft.)
I'm sure the actual movie will be much better than the trailer. 95% of the the content of the book can be summed up in about 10 line graphs. They probably just haven't hired someone to take those and make them pretty yet.
According to this article, Gmail disallows weak passwords. So brute-forcing is going to be relatively ineffective.
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doesn't Google do a pretty good job at answering facts?

eg: http://is.gd/mnQw
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If google allows strong passwords such as "Password1" then I'm sure quite a few users would pick such a simple password, and I'm sure attackers realise this.

It would be wise if google forced the user to enter the capcha on password change.

Disallowing GET would be good as well. Otherwise attackers would would have to use POST, which would mean tricking the user to submit a html form, and I'm unsure if you can send multiple POST requests per submit.
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From what I understand, this sort of thing is common in departments as diverse as English, math, and various foreign languages; the reason is that those departments tend to teach a lot of low-level courses, so they need a lot of TAs. (I'm a PhD student in a math department, and my department doesn't do what you describe, but some of the departments I considered were like that which is why I didn't ultimately choose them.)
As far as the New York Times is considered, only the humanities exist. No, I'm not bitter. (I'm getting a PhD in math.)
Long URLs don't bother me. The actual URL is an implementation detail for the computer. As a user, all I should see is an underlined description of the link. When I click it, the computer takes me where I need to go. It doesn't care how long the URL is, because it just doesn't matter that much.

I have successfully cut-n-pasted long URLs into IRC, Email, and IM, and it has never not worked. It may be a bit ugly, but who really cares?
For a system like this, I've been trained through repeated disappointments to ignore hype and only look at results. I might also be influenced by knowing a bit about AI.

it doesn't use natural language processing, it *computes* the answer.

Gibberish
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I hope it fares better than numenta.
Those pills those guys were taking ... they think that they will make 'em live forever ?
No, but the pills are supposed to give them better ods to live until 2040-2050 where they think the Singularity will allow them to transcend their human bodies.

Other people prefer go and live in Florida or Spain :-)
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I live far, far away from Nebraska and I have no idea what kind of farming they typically do there.
I'm sort of assuming that its going to be an extension of the online data sources that Mathematica introduced a little while back, with perhaps a natural language interface.
Most of the examples are compatible with IE6+ which is encouraging...
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Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
(Web) design is hard. For us programmers, it's a pain in the ass, and
when it comes to create UI elements for a (web) app, we are stuck with two
choices:

1. create something very basic, or

2. spend countless hours searching the web for Photoshop tutorials on how to create a bubble or depth
effect, then spend even-more-countless hours fighting with Photoshop to implement it, and finally,
maybe adapt the image with some external tools to make it be a CSS sprite or whatever)

Yes, 1. is not necessary a bad thing (HN is a good example :-)), but we all
know that for most softwares, some attractive eye-candies are useful. Even
GMail uses more than a simple <input type="button"> to display
their buttons.

So here comes Da Button Factory. It aims at making it easier to create
pretty buttons, which are one of the key elements of an user interface
(especially on the web), in an quick and human-friendly way (not tons of
options/menus/concepts like in an image processing program).
And because using plain image files on the web often sucks, it (will)
provide solutions that makes good use of CSS.

Currently it's just a beta. There is only a very simple CSS solution
implemented. It may looks ugly in some browsers. Things are not polished.

But I would be very glad to hear any comments of yours on this "draft". Do you
find it interesting? Do you have any critics/ideas about it? Did you notice
any bugs or problems?

Oh, and I am french, so please excuse me for any grammar/spelling mistake in
this post, and don't hesitate to correct me, of course :-)
If there is only one answer to one factual question, why not have it already written and available like wikipedia?

Practically speaking, static content that doesn't change often is better served by models like wikipedia.

If Wolfram knows all the answers, write them all in static html for the world to use, search, browse, replicate and extend instead of stored on semantic databases or ethereal brains.

I am not pissing on their parade, I know the scientific work is commendable, but practically speaking it can't compete with more efficient models.
Amazing; For a moment, I thought it's a hoax. A quick googling has thrown up all the details including the physics behind it though.
I predict this product will score at the very least 3 cuils.

But heck, I wouldn't even be surprised if they push the scale, 7 cuils anyone?

http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
Actually, he says green are on the front page and red are not. They could have been on front page at some time.
Or it could be as unimportant as Powerset. It's best not to hype it up too much since the odds are that it won't be a panacea to everyone and a lot of people will be disappointed.

Products that tend to be modest initially and improve and prove themselves rapidly tend to do better than products that are hyped up beyond all proportions.
I'm more amazed by the fact that dolphins mastered the technique of creating bubble rings. And if the description in this video is to be believed, they also pass on this technique to other dolphins.
He says that the software is the problem, but isn't it the hardware (wiimotes) that really differentiate the Wii from the other platforms?

I am currently working on a project that uses the wiimotes to get 3D motion tracking for a demo game as well as artists interested in animation. The fact that the wiimotes come with 1024x768 hardware interpolated 100 FPS wireless cameras is something that can be continually improved upon. Does anyone remember Johnny Lee?
Sounds like another Cuil hype type campaign. When Google came out they didn't make any claims. Only factual performance counts.
Nice and simple to use. I can certainly see myself using this a lot.
Twice this refers to "this paper". What paper? If it's referring to itself, then it seems content-free. If it's another paper, where is it?

This seems a complete waste of time, reiterating material that's pretty obvious to a moment's thought. If I've missed something then I'd be pleased to have it pointed out so I don't feel like I've just wasted five minutes trying to find some value in this.
I like the robot analogy.

Applies to other programming problems as well, I think I'll use this when I next time see someone "optimizing" SQL database transactions.
"They're riskier - so you just have to spread your money more broadly."

Where have we heard that before ? Oh right the financial crisis.

I don't think more startups translates into more good ideas. Just in more copies and more bad ones. Therefore the cheaper and more plentiful companies get, the more risky they are, and the fewer chances (less funding) really, really good ideas get.

But it's fashionable to startup. So a number of people are putting their "look cool" money (which is often the same type of money Obama spends : someone else's, and therefore plentiful and worthless to them) into little startups who are very sure to fail.

You're heading for a massive bust.
More information about the movie here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/

The book (The singularity is near), which serves as the basis for the movie is one of the most thought provoking reads I have had in a long time.

He looks at various trends throughout history (like Moore's Law) which follow an exponential curve, and he extrapolates the curve into the future.

There may be some arm waving here and there, but there is definitely something to his theories.

Summary: "Most people overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term".