skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be to make pages more composable - so at the top level you can specify what order block A and B are stacked, and within A and B you can independently specify what order the blocks that make those up are stacked.

This way you can change the relative order of A and B without worrying about how those blocks are internally structured, and whether they use z-index themselves.
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Great! I'm off to bed now, so please, post here or email me, let me know how it goes!
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Exactly. RedHat was able to grow into a publicly traded company because they happened to be in the right place at the right time and were lucky and were smart.

In the years since, people have made money on FOSS. But nobody has come close to making money from FOSS at the scale of RedHat. Making money in a way that scales off FOSS is hard enough that it put Sun out of business.
That actually does sound likely, knowing the internet.
My investing bona fides:
https://angel.co/chrisyeh
Experience with a language or technology improves performance by a significant amount. Your research is incorrect.
Maybe this is naive of me to say, but wouldn't it be wise for Facebook to focus on new/different products, some of which may not be directly or even tangentially related to its core product. Isn't the goal to eventually diversify your revenue streams?

Granted, 95 percent (or more) of Google's profit comes from search, so they're not exactly exemplar of diversification. But they do have a range of products, some of which are beginning to generate solid revenue (Google Apps comes to mind).
A common thing I find many people don't realize is that they accumulate too much stuff, find their home is too small, and then move to a bigger home. They are accumulating stuff often thinking they are saving money (e.g. buy wholesale from Costco), or not throw old stuff that still has some future utility to them. The money they are subconsciously paying just for the space for these things may actually be more than their worth.
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A friend of mine actually started something like this, it's called meetcute.org
I'm trying amn't I.

It is not science and it's not a question of beliefs.

You should not lie to kids. By telling them about creation in science classes, you lie to them.
Ah, I see. Thank you.
I think that's a false dichotomy. It's possible to make the network and the attached services more resilient to a DoS without making it less open.
People that want to teach creation along with evolution in the classroom truly think that evolution is a weakly supported hypothesis that does not fit the scientific evidence

I think you're giving way too much credit to science deniers. There's no amount of physical evidence that can fairly compete with the argument of "well, the creator of the universe wrote this book and it has to be correct"
I am looking for a mentor to help me learn what I need to know to compensate for a lack of a computer science degree-based understanding of programming. I still learn from Stack Overflow and books, but I am not rapidly growing from them the way a mentor can lend with less effort. I've been trying to get work for 5 years. I briefly worked for a start up started by a fortune 500 COO but my time was spend on many things that I feel were/are wasteful - like weeding through tons of confusing disorganized team emails ( I didn't get paid for that). Plus it was on spec (they need to hit $40,000 revenue before I am to get paid) and there were some other issues. My "accomplishments" while there included styling a pop up widget, brute-force dissecting a JQuery plug in, researched various problems/solutions for product promotion and doing HTML/CSS work to reflect PSD files. Anyway, it all amounts to about $100 worth of work ($12/hr plus hours of "free" research) over the course of 4 months of asking,waiting,doing and playing along. But in terms of getting a more robust foundation for what I want to do - it won't happen tangled up in "busy work" and without a mentor. Thanks for the feedback.

btw - I have an idea I'm working on . I always have an idea I'm working on. That's just a given. :)
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The installer screenshot seems to be for the software at http://www.babylon.com/. I think Patrick's point was that InstallMonetizer is promoting some scuzzy companies.
Heh, I can see that. We already have some legacy IE6 internal webapps running on Citrix.
I see an obvious solution to this without disabling JS...
Yes, this is (was?) a long standing problem, they are called "zombie events". Here's a famous post on the issue: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/09/15/zombies-run-ma...
In these modern times, Craigslist, Ebay, and Amazon exist as wonderful ways to offload items that may contain value for someone else that no longer contain any value for you. Goodwill stores exist as great places to donate things that have become clutter that will not sell quickly. When I have children, I plan to regularly donate or sell toys that are no longer played with. The old legos will of course be added to the standard Giant Bin of Legos.
Exactly, save creationism for a world religions class and evolution for the science class. They cannot be compared in the context of science because creationism is outside of the scientific process.

This popular image says it all:
http://punchkids.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/science_vs_f...
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Nice. It inspired me to spend some free time I had today doing same thing in perl 5 & 6 - https://gist.github.com/4542918
They've 'taken off' because they are the only game in town. A real test would be to provide such a 'curated' store alongside an open economy. Then that claim would mean something.
It seems to me like Zack Kopplin has the spirit that is so often idealized around here, he's just not applying it to the market.

He saw a problem, he saw that no one was fixing the problem, so he set out to disrupt the status quo and fix it himself.
Agreed, though they are notably not open to all US citizens...
Oh, pish. We're more than happy to condemn young cyber-bullies who hound kids to suicide without blaming the person committing suicide. If the act of making someone's life unbearable is enough to blame bullies for a suicide, then surely it's the same for the prosecutor.

Note that this doesn't rely on the victim's age: regardless of whether a 26 year old can be blamed more for suicide than a 16 year old, that doesn't change the fact that we should give similar blame to the external factors in both cases. Indeed: most tormentors of teens are themselves teens, so they, if anything, deserve less blame than a sociopathic adult prosecutor hellbent on career advancement, damn the consequences.

Also: the implicit attack on Aaron's character is uncalled for. You know nothing at all about the quality of his character. You should keep in mind that many of us here did know him. If you feel the need to engage in "man up" rhetoric in some pointless display of how hard-nosed and pragmatic you are, you should keep in mind it's a reflection more on you, not the person-object you're leveraging to establish your own status.
I can't recommend this strategy enough.

I run a weekly (free) newsletter, and spend a lot of time putting together the content, getting it proofread (something I suck at), etc.

But when I need help with something, I have a legion of people — many of which I consider friends — who tell me what I did wrong, offer to help with SEO questions (thanks, Charlie!), and provide honest feedback, often with purchases, for the products I work on.

Give away what you're good at for free, build an audience, deliver lots of value and the benefits will pour in.
I don't find it acceptable to budle up issues of creationism/evolution and climate change. Writer is being devious when he's doing it so lightly as he did; especially when climate change wasn't mentioned in the title.
Yeah, how silly to disable anonymous remote code execution by default. ;) Flashy pages that eschew compatibility and separation of concerns (even accessibility, seo at times) are the new standard, get used to it.

Would you accept a Word.doc that required scripting to display itself? Shouldn't the response to a non-visible blog post be WTF?

(Strangely enough, I am able to read the page w/o js, but responding in general to this type of comment I see on HN frequently.)
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Teaching creationism would lend it credibility. A lot of people are just impressed by authority/teachers and will believe what they are being told.
I don't mind creationism being taught side by side with evolution

I guess I value your opinion, but I do mind, and I have the establishment clause of the first amendment of the United States Constitution with me.
People have done this, and one guy actually documented the experience. I forgot the reference, but the idea was to appear more picky and popular by getting lots of messages and not responding, in order to get the "responds very selectively" red light. The effect turned out to be a lot more views and messages.

This doesn't consider the algorithmic effect of doing this, though. Although it is probably very achievable.
I think "very unlikely" might be an understatement.
Sounds like you are unpleasant for other reasons. Typically, though certainly not always, when I engage random strangers in small talk I see smiles if I engage them confidently with something a little more interesting than "how's the weather". YMMV, etc
In case you haven't noticed, between ages 15 - 25 or so, even a somewhat above-average-looking woman wields sickening power over men. They're approached anywhere, any time, and they only have to.. exist.

Eventually this power wanes and she'll get approached less and less. This is the time when she might actually have to do something to find a man, and this is the phenomenon we're talking about.
Actually, I think Harry Potter has a pretty strong opener:

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
I don't see how it is at all related to privilege; in almost every case he cited, it's cheaper to go minimalist. Let's look at his (perfectly reasonable) list of examples:

- Rent a furnished apartment.

This one you do need more $$ for. I don't have a furnished apartment, but I've spent less than $100 on my furniture (including getting some off the side of the road). I will feel no qualms about leaving it on the side of the road when I move.

- Use car sharing services

This depends. If it's more economical to use a car service, do it this way. For me it's not, so I own a car (but not a nice one, which keeps insurance and body-work costs low).

- Buy ebooks instead of physical books

Here there's no privilege either, since in my experience e-books cost about the same as regular books. (Maybe slightly less, but that will only offset the cost of the reader.)

- Use Netflix/Hulu instead of owning a tv

Again, no privilege. A reasonable cable subscription in the US is going to be $30, a hulu plus subscription is $10. Plus, you can sell your TV.

- Use pdf digital signing software instead of owning a printer/scanner/fax

This doesn't work all the time, because you still do have to print stuff every once in a while (trust me, I've not owned a printer for the last 7 years). However, usually you can just print stuff at work, or in a pinch, at kinko's. I've probably spent less than $5 over the last seven years at professional printing places, and their printers are much nicer than the crappy ink jet you get at best buy.
But when HSBC helps Iranians launder money, that gets a free pass?

You said "I'm not saying he deserves life in prison or anything..." that's exactly my point. Important People get a free pass. Low-level geeks get crushed under the full weight of the law.
Horrible article.

Most of it seems to be written from the view point of that random unrelated lawyer they decided to interview, Jeff Ifrah who's connection is that he "has been following the case."
I don't know why this was downvoted

1) Your comment is politically loaded

2) Your comment contains little actual content outside the political payload.
The millions of people who believe creationism IS science are wrong. It's imperative for people to let them know (politely, of course) that they are wrong, especially in the science classroom
What have you spent money on so far? 500 bucks out the door before development starts seems pretty large, unless I'm missing some consulting time, or tools?
As I'd mentioned on an earlier submission about W3C's site being inaccessible:

A cool thing about Aaron's activism was that it involved building things, circumventing censorship, and spreading information, rather than sabotage and denial-of-service.
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His very large book was the "gift" to the public. Now we just need to find the "rule" that explains the universe.
> People that want to teach creation along with evolution in the classroom truly think that evolution is a weakly supported hypothesis that does not fit the scientific evidence.

That would make sense if they didn't want to replace it with creation. This is a good opportunity for them to learn how science works. It doesn't even matter if evolution is wrong -- that doesn't make creationism right.
You do realize it's perfectly plausible that they did want to bully him into a plea bargain and that they also didn't want him to commit suicide, and do feel empathetic towards the situation?
I'm sorry what? 35% federal income taxes on earnings of 150k? No.

Over $85,650 but not over $178,650 -> $17,442.50 plus 28% of the excess over $85,650

Total federal payment: 17.4 + .28(150-85) = 35.6

35.6 over 150 = .23, and that's before factoring in the deduction you get to take for your California payment, or the standard deduction if you choose not to itemize.
What you need to do is tak eon freelance projects. Working with real world stuff with help you progress more than any mentor. Should be dead easy to get work in the bay.
Exactly. edw519 more or less said Aaron's privileged and made money in the past so he doesn't need help from the community now. He rallied the community against supporting Aaron making an assumption that Aaron didn't need the support.
> some sort of market

Garage sales! Seriously, though, garage sales exist because most stuff is so cheap and disposable to begin with that if you tried to sell it for what someone would actually pay for it, you'd be lucky to break even after any shipping, transaction fees and the value of any personal time/effort you put into the process. So, you have a garage sale: you sell it (or at least show it) in all bulk, all at once to minimize effort, with zero transaction or shipping fees. Of course, making the effort to visit a garage sale has a non-negligible cost for the (potential) buyer.

There are already thriving markets for stuff that's not cheap and disposable - electronics/phones, recreational/sports equipment, furniture, cars, etc.

As for the compunction against discarding something that still works, my solution is to donate it to Goodwill (whatever you do, don't throw it away if it's "perfectly good") and take it as a lesson learned - think harder before buying this item, or an item like it, again.
zalew, try out the Chrome dev tools (hit CTRL-SHIFT-I)
We have two simple tests.

1. Are they a cock? If they're a cock, or they exhibit signs of being a cock, they fail the test. Signs of being a cock include:

- Lying on the interview
- Being overly confrontational
- Irritating people
- Being extremely fixed in their ways

Good signs include, but are not limited to:

- Decent sense of humour that fits in with at least one other person and doesn't irritate anyone.
- Positive attitude towards work and people in general.
- Is able to tell us about things that interest them with some energy and passion (but not to the point of boring us)

The other thing we do is we take people to the pub after the interview finishes so they can meet everyone. It's almost technically part of the interview but the main thing is for them to see as many of the people they'll be working with as possible and vice versa. Even if someone passes our cock test, we don't necessarily pass theirs and the important thing with hiring that I've found is that the person is the right match for the company at the time.

The day after the pub I'll generally ask what people thought of the candidate in the pub, and afterwards I (or whomever's hiring) will give the candidate a call and see what they thought of us.
Trust me, they're well aware of their problems with most or all branches of science.
I paid that to the developer for him to get started. :)
> People that want to teach creation along with evolution in the classroom truly think that evolution is a weakly supported hypothesis...

That's fine and all, but why are these people getting jobs as science teachers where they will have to teach this theory that they believe so wrong? Even if they have the book knowledge down pat (Which honestly I doubt. Not believing in evolution if you've been fed distortions and lies your whole life is one thing, but not believing it if you actually have an accurate mental model of it is an entirely different animal...), how could they possibly be good teachers? Unless they are also great actors, I don't see how they could possibly impart that same essential enthusiasm for science that good science teachers do.
If you like jQuery and DOM use Backbone. AngularJS does a lot more than Backbone and Angular forces you to do things its way, meaning to avoid doing DOM manipulation outside of the framework, which isn't necessarily bad but requires more of a commitment and learning.

AngularJS is great for simple apps but once I got beyond that I ended up fighting how to makes things work with the ng-* attributes often having to resort to $apply. Things that are simple with underscore templates and jQuery (the Backbone way) can become very frustrating in AngularJS.

AngularJS reminds me of ASP.NET controls with repeaters and coding through attributes. That works for a lot of people but I'm more comfortable with templates and jQuery.
Really?... It's not their battle. Why does a student at MIT have to have a position on this at all?
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> To make it simple, just let the kids choose and decide for themselves...

No, that's not how it works. By that logic we also would have to teach about ghosts, dwarfs, <stroke>astronomy</stroke>astrology, or just claims made by other religions or folklore. There's a reason we teach our children sciences. They are objective, observable, testable, falsifiable, etc. We want a rational society, not despotism.
Norvig (Director of Research at Google, and author of the most popular AI book [1]) has written a criticism of Chomsky's linguistics in relation to AI: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

tl;dr: Norvig argues that language is best modeled statistically, Chomsky's model is deterministic. He also disagrees about what makes good science (usefulness for engineering is a valid criterium & gathering facts over developing theories).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence:_A_Mode...
Add it all depends on what state/provinces you're comparing. I would fathom to guess that the lowest in Canada vs. the highest in the US isn't all that different, especially if you don't take advantage of country specific deductions.
I play minecraft iOS version on the bed for about 20 minutes to relax. Works like a charm.
The U.S. is not a country that really believes in the idealistic rhetoric about academia that people sometimes indulge themselves in. Universities are, in the U.S. firmly entrenched in various massive complexes: defense, pharmaceuticals, agriculture. They are cogs in the engine of industry. Anyone who thinks these major research universities are anything other than the establishment are naively optimistic. Nobody gets a billion dollars of DOD money each year without being thoroughly part of the establishment.

Now, that does not mean that MIT does not or cannot foster a culture that encourages challenging boundaries. It just means that there are firmer boundaries further out from the playground in which the undergraduates play.

MIT says: "MITnet is an open network. There are no network firewalls, or network filter restrictions, and computers connected to MITnet are given network addresses that are accessible by the public Internet." (http://ist.mit.edu/security/authentication). This is the soft boundary. They're not going to prevent you from running bittorrent. But that doesn't mean it's unregulated. It has terms of use: http://ist.mit.edu/network/rules. Of the six central tenants, one is: "Don't misuse the intellectual property of others." It gets higher billing than: "Don't use MITnet to harass anyone in any way." That's the hard boundary. Better not use bittorrent to download copyrighted materials!

I think that explains MIT's reaction in this situation. Going into the closet to plug into the network came too close to breaching that hard outer boundary for the University's taste.

And to circle back to my other point: MIT's status as massive defense contractor colors how other people perceive what happens there. When the prosecutors in the DOJ think of MIT, they don't think of a place where students are encouraged to "challenge boundaries." They think of it as a place that does critical research often on very sensitive subjects--a vital part of the national infrastructure. Please tell me you understand why someone would be more sensitive to a network intrusion at MIT while operating under the latter premise than under the former.
Which is strange because many other frameworks will end up popping elements with postprocessing effects to the top of the stack, rather then rerender the entire stack.
"Aaron was killed by the government"
I wouldn't accept the word scripting because I don't trust their security model; I expect there to be a very high chance of getting a virus from MS Office scripting. I see a very low chance of getting a virus from js; there have also been 0-day exploits from <img> tags, why do you feel OK with images enabled?
I live in the Midwest and do not own a vehicle, some cities here have pretty good public transportation!
Mathematica provides symbolic computation, R does not.
> Meet in real life -> Add on facebook.

This is facebook's core value prop though. To flip is would be fundamentally flip what facebook's good at - creating a deeper digital connection with ppl you meet in real life.

Meeting ppl on facebook became weird and creepy when they became too open. It wasn't an issue so much when they were closed to college networks. They sacrificed privacy for growth.

On the flipside, consider LinkedIn, where it's not considered creepy to reach out to a complete stranger (recruiters do it all the time). But b/c LinkedIn has a focus (careers) and has more privacy, this is acceptable in their ecosystem.

Net net, I think the only way facebook can be about meeting new ppl and do it well is if they sacrifice openness. Otherwise the creepy factor will undermine success.
He didn't change the markup. He changed the CSS. He didn't add a property to an element. He added a property to a rule.
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Wasn't that NKS?

Seriously though, he did seem open to the idea of at least partially open-sourcing Mathematica during a recent AmA:
http://sx.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfra...
I wouldn't be surprised to see some up front cost to a developer as a deposit. I always collect them, especially if I haven't worked with the client before.
Sorry, did I go over your head?