skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all artificial values i.e. they are a niche and you have to find someone who wants to pay that for it.

Technically, my signed (by Bill Gates and Paul Allen) copy of "The MS-DOS Encyclopedia" was supposedly worth about £500 but it went on eBay for £25. And for that I had a nice curry.
I did that too, after 10 pieces (Mauritania was one of the hardest).
I don't think it works like that. The amount my house is worth is based on the number of rooms, the location and the condition, not the accumulated effort to build it.
That usually only applies to performance-intensive code like rendering, physics, pathfinding, etc.

The actual gameplay is often implemented using scripting. For example, with Unity you write games in C# (with Mono) using their engine, and it's still fast enough to work on cellphones.
You need to do more product research. What's the point of claiming a "lack of innovation" if you don't actually have a clue what innovations these products offer?
3 of the top 5 smartphone manufacturers are Chinese
I too feel a little put off by this. I find it immature and gratuitious, like others have said in this thread. This made me recall that in the examples they have HTML comments reading "le javascript" and "le CSS" if I recall correctly.

I have a personal pet peeve with people using 'Internet slang' outside _humor_ places on the Internet (some people I know overuse it to the point of annoyance), and so the discomfort I feel reading these terms sneaks up to my impressions of Bootstrap and its authors. Of course, rationally I know it's a good product made by outstanding people, so I still use it without refrain, though.
TL;DR: Both. Pointing your finger at someone doing something worse doesn't make what you're doing right.
We've got some form of carbon tax in Australia and people are up in arms about it. "How DARE they put my power bills up". "Why should we go first if no one else is doing it"? Everyone complains about global warming and wants something done, but not out of their own pocket. Any government instituting these kind of taxes will be booted out, and the opposition will come right along and repeal them.

It's ridiculous.
If thieves take your car for a joyride, do you email Ford to complain?
Would we know who he was or have as many of his works if they didn't?
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Seen over and over again in the comments on Charlie's blog -- and elsewhere -- is that the perceived center for the USA is well to the right of the center for the UK.

This may actually represent a basic difference of opinion, but I suspect it is simply another (set of?) chaotic attractor on the acceptable spectrum of debate points.
This looks interesting, thanks.

At the moment I don't want to use it as a single display, rather display 9 different things (and various permutations thereof).

I plan to hack something together, but I'm struggling to envision how it should all look, so this is a good start.
That's why I think open source ecology seems so promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggbUh3-8sY
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LCD's are still very reflective in sunlight. Only E-ink or PixelQi displays are really good in sunlight, but you lose colors. There was the Notion Ink Adam tablet. Not sure if they are still making new ones.
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[all the talk about microsoft really smells of 2007 :)]

> BSD freedom, on the other hand, is "lossy".

How so? I can still download the original BSD-licensed code without any loss.

> If I get BSD code I have a lot of freedom, but the next guy doesn't.

Why? In the worst case the next guy will just start from wherever I started.

> It's fairly well known that there is BSD code in Windows.

And be thankful for that - who knows what else could have crept in there.

> And obviously, whatever Microsoft did with that code, they have no obligation to release their changes.

And no obligation to release all the other unrelated code.

> Microsoft is still sitting on BSD code that is free for them, but it's no longer free for anyone else.

Apple too, but that's what the BSD license is for.
Seems strange to me since the spec says the following:

Represents an element with the att attribute, its value either being exactly "val" or beginning with "val" immediately followed by "-" (U+002D).

it should match text-foo or text but not textFoo
Oh, that's very cool! Do you have any recommendations for where I should read about Shakespeare's financial situation and his various motivations for writing his plays? In my mind, because my mind wants Shakespeare to be awesome in every possible way, I assumed that he created his plays with the idea that his work would reach as many people as possible. It never occurred to me that he'd be in it for the money or feel victimized when people valued his work highly enough that they would pass it along, share it, and perform it for others.
More like 1/3 is outrageous. Isn't it?
I'd rather like to see a version of this that lets me know which ones I've already seen so I don't have to waste my life watching them again.
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This is my experience too.

Whenever I enter a bank to deposit an occasional cheque they are desperate to offer personal loans, investment advice, mortgages, credit cards etc.

A polite decline is often ignored and they aggressively go for the sale.
The core jQuery idea - using CSS selectors to find DOM elements and then changing their properties and firing/monitoring events - fits so naturally with the HTML/CSS model that it feels like it should be part of the standard DOM API.

I'm not aware of any JS.next-type efforts to do this though :(
The important thing to realise about the GPL's freedom is that it is not so much "freedom for the developer" as preserving "freedom of the user". To keep software in the ecosystem free and to allow any user to see the source code of a piece of software running on their computer.

Of course I can see the value of both type of license and each has their place. In my lovely land of Linux/KDE/Firefox/GNU the GPL is fine for everything since you don't have to worry about pesky companies wanting to incorporate your end-user code into their products. However, for a library which you might want to be used by commercial game developers etc. a BSD-style license makes lot more sense as otherwise people will go elsewhere or implement it themselves. This is why a few years we switched the license of PolyVox (http://www.volumesoffun.com/polyvox-about/) to be zlib rather than GPL.
The idea that "parental controls" are needed is contradictory to the entire philosophy of Open Source and Free Software. Parental controls - or, as it should be called, parental censorship - is a "feature" that treats the user as an ADVERSARY.

It belongs in the exact same category of "features" as mandatory wiretapping on telecom networks and mandatory tracking on cellphones, and other inventions that treat the user as an adversary. It also belongs in the trashcan.

To people who want this to babysit their kids - no, you don't get to abdicate your parenting to a piece of code doing censorship.
The problem is that many many "developers" think that jQuery is a language. Just browse stack overflow and you'll see. This "developers" couldn't get a element from the DOM with JavaScript if you threw document.getElementById in their face.

So that's the point that OP is making. First learn JavaScript, then move to abstractions such as jQuery. That way you won't ask silly questions such as "how to write a if statement in jQuery".
It's like they're celebrating their release from 'Twitter' brand.
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I think many GPL-leaning people generally agree that BSD-style licenses are very useful for e.g. reference implementation libraries of open, royalty-free data formats. We want the open formats to succeed, so if we make it dirt simple to put support for it in commercial systems we help the proliferation of the format.
Commutes are less mentally draining if you're riding a bike though, you'll actually gain energy for working on challenging problems instead.
Sorting data in parallel CPU vs GPU - In which we show more graphics
For a car, no. But if your credit card is stolen and then used, then yes, you contact your bank and they tell the police the details.
I'm guessing he is a fan of these policies, "But we've somehow slid into a developed-world global-scale quasi-police state, with drone strikes and extraordinary rendition and unquestioned but insane austerity policies being rammed down our throats, government services being outsourced, peaceful protesters being pepper-sprayed, tased, or even killed, police spying on political dissidents becoming normal, and so on."
It's one point CS missed in this otherwise excellent article: the redefinition of words robs the public of the ability to discuss certain concepts.

In this case, the label "leftist" (= meaning "bad") is now commonly applied to people worried about issues of social and civil justice, people who engage in political dissent, criticizing corporations and their influence, being non-conformant with the all-pervading religious undertow, being wary of "law & order", or applying scientific methods and solutions to political problems.

As such, the leftist label is in common usage as a curse word that automatically taints dissidents, but from what I can tell it's happening in American lingo only.

I believe you can also tell public overexposure to Fox News by looking at the frequent invokation of Sharia law, as shown in this sentence which is somewhat resistant to semantic analysis:

> Instead of the laws being "inspired" by Sharia, now they are "inspired" by Sharia according to sunni islam.

It's ironic though that Sharia law is often portrayed as one of the main threats to freedom by people who actually favor the western equivalent of Sharia in the sense that they, just like islamic extremists, want a justice system that closely resembles a religiously infused small-town court system with broad powers to regulate everyday personal affairs, such as who you are allowed to have sex with and many other "morality"-based legal decisions.
This. Everything this. Find the pain points with JavaScript, then make your life easier with jQuery.
> But then again I am the same nationality as Charlie

I would point out that the Conservative party in the UK just voted 400-175 in favour of gay marriage.
I use the Windows keys for that as I have no other use for them.

Now you've mentioned it, I can make easily a lot of symbols I've never used as well: ₈8⁸ǫẹ. That might come in handy writing formula in plain text.
I am in two minds about the "community" aspect of Ubuntu. It is true that Ubuntu has many users. Subsequently, whenever you run into a question, you will get lots of Ubuntu-specific posts. The problem I see with this is, however, that with a higher volume comes a higher number of a) unanswered or b) duplicate or c) redundant questions/answers, and since Ubuntu markets itself as "the distribution for everyone", many questions are very basic (→ "signal-to-noise", etc.).

The Arch wiki, on the other hand, often offers in-depth writeups, guides and howtos, simply because that is its philosophy and it is geared towards a more proficient but therefore also significantly more specialised userbase.

Now, I use neither Ubuntu nor Arch, yet I find the Arch community's work infinitely more helpful and transferable than the documentation churned out by the Ubuntu machinery.

Size is a double-edged sword, you have a better chance of finding something, yet finding good solutions becomes substantially harder,
What's the point of this analogy? Technology has advanced and it's normal to expect geolocating. If it was a tesla instead of a ford, i 'm pretty sure the owner would call them.
Solar panels should be mandatory for all new homes - at least in the developed countries to begin with. Imagine how much carbon we'd reduce by effectively killing off the majority of power generation facilities.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this fat, I had noticed problems with transitionEnd sometimes not firing but never got around to researching it.
People in pain tense their muscles, they walk in a different way, they stop exercising, they stop moving around so much.

All of these things help keep pain going on longer.

For long term pain with no worrying cause you should carefully take pain killers and keep moving. Things like lower back pain (which can have serious causes, so get it checked) get much worse if you stop exercising, but get better if you get appropriate exercise.
I can do it one one.
I think you have to define scope though. MySpace isn't the definition of success but I don't know if it's the definition of failure either...
Excel is basically an extremely user-friendly IDE for a Turing-complete programming language.
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No no, my jeans are the commodity. Friends is just who i was addressing that sentence too. Read into the comma. Lol.
I might depending on the price. Even though I live in the city, it still takes ten-twenty minutes to swing by a station and fill up, and always at the most inconvenient times of course. Add additional fill-up/check of fluids, tire pressures etc. and it gets interesting.

But it would have to be absolutely automatic, zero-touch, f.ex. I wouldn't give anyone my keys and I wouldn't want to instruct anyone about where my car is parked at any given time.
The article is from 2007. What BSD code is still in Windows? I know the network stuff was, but I think they re-wrote all of it.

The EULAs used to include sections about the regents of Berkley, but I can't find that in the Windows 8 EULA.
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I concur. I use both Arch and Ubuntu in various contexts and the Arch resources are a vastly better experience. Not just the wiki and bbs but also (significantly) the AUR which is a superior experience to the rats nest of PPAs.
Just to point out that the House of Commons voted that way - that's the combined vote of all parties eligible. The Conservative party was rather split on the issue, I think only a (largish) minority of the Conservative party itself voted in favour (although I can't remember the split offhand). That's still rather better than you would have got a few years ago, but then the Conservative party is now basically split down young/urban/secular-ish and older/rural/religious-ish lines and votes on these issues tend to be somewhat predictable.
That's a really bad thing in my eyes. Why teach a beginner that consistency is something that does not exist?

Also, non-english variables are an abomination! I've worked with code with some finnish variables. Not only is it harder to grok, it's actively distracting.
It often depends on a customers needs. A VPS is fine if you're willing/able to set up and manage s server yourself. If you're not in a position to do that, then it's managed shared hosting or business hosting. Both are at the mercy of what the hosting provider feels is best.
People who want to see a reduction in human population relish the same things you do. We can consume as much as we want if there are fewer of us.

You can to almost anywhere on this planet and you can see human settlement encroaching on and damaging natural habitats. The magnitude of these effects are in direct correlation to human population growth.
This echoes a lot of things that Noam Chomsky talked about in Manufacturing Consent (both documentary film and book originally published in 1988) esp. the idea that one of the ways the status quo is sustained in a democratic society is to encourage vigorous debate but only within a narrow scope of acceptable opinions.
The GPL is better than BSD at starting a community of developers, in the same way that games with rules are more fun than Calvinball.
I like it, but I wouldn't mind an option to customize the line spacing and font colors (alternating colors, maybe?) - it's pretty dense to skim through.
Well within several modules of the same project, I guess it's inevitable, and not that problematic, especially not between several languages; but seeing (at the top of one function)

int my_counter;
char hostName[256];
double LIFESPAN;

doesn't make for pleasant reading, I'm sure you agree.
Not the same story, but very similar cases in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2074077.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223125/90-year-old-... (sorry for the daily fail link)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356388/Villagers-ou...
Not to criticize the blog's politics, but to inform:

"prison-industrial complex", "non-heteronormative", corporations as a primary source of harmful behavior, complaints about privatization, austerity is the problem not overspending

You can reach the same broad complaints about modern Western democracy starting from other political alignments, but the particulars he chose point to a left-of-center (but not communist) political alignment.
Here's an article on surname patterns in the United States, previously submitted for HN discussion:

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/19/156923573/when-hyphen-boy-meet...
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Can you describe exactly how this "filling up automatically" would work?
Thanks for your feedback! That's a good idea!
Take the DOM API away and JavaScript is a great experience!
Only partially. The layout and formatting are messed up in Chrome 24 and Firefox 18 and is unusable.

http://i.imgur.com/sbxDG4v.png
element.querySelector and .querySelectorAll [1] provide this functionality. Sizzle [2], the selector engine at the core of jQuery, uses it where available and works around some browser inconsistencies.

[1] http://caniuse.com/queryselector
[2] http://sizzlejs.com/
Fox News: Germany gets "a lot more sun than we do."
Liquid democracy (delegative democracy) might be a potential alternative. It has its problems, but it would at the very least be an interesting experiment.

http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi...

Liquid democracy is a hybrid between direct and representative democracy, that provides better incentives to vote. It was invented by G. Tullock in 1967, and it, and very similar ideas, are also named proxy voting, and delegable- or delegate cascade democracy. Its core idea is delegation. That is, citizens can either vote directly, or voluntarily assign their vote to a proxy that will represent them, similar to how this happens in stockholder voting. Also, as in stockholder voting, people can vote by themselves at all times. The selection of a proxy can either be pictured as temporarily passing on ones voting right, or as automatically copying the proxies vote onto ones own ballot paper. Another important property of TDD, and the one that makes it different, is that delegation is transitive, in the sense that the representative can, in turn, transfer his collected votes on to another proxy (...read the paper for more).
Thanks. I included Apache license because FSF copied the text regarding patents from Apache and copy pasted it directly into GPLv3 (they later added a trailing sentence about patent agreements).
Being a German, that so made my day. It really did, seldom was a time, were I could laugh that much.
I really hate this "My language is better than your X" talk. Remember that the reason that you find a language predictable in usage is often because you have experience using it, claiming that it's syntax will be clearer from the start is misleading.

Also, you could have structured the "supreme readable ruby code" much more cleanly:

https://gist.github.com/cronin101/7024c1c0dfa721ec1dab
You would if Ford had information about the current status of your car.

E.g. - If your car was a Tesla, then I guess that turning to Tesla would be just the thing to do.

When your cell phone get stolen, your mobile provider(s) are the right people to turn to.

Or what exactly would you do?
Because otherwise you'd have to pay for any transactions. The bank is preventing fraud, not tracking down thiefs.
People are talking about getting a warrant. Would police go to so much bother for such a low value device?

Especially considering how the new owner of the device probably brought it off the thief at a market or something. It is unlikely the thief is actually using the device.
"You're responsible" is a terrible thing to say. In "the real world"? So assuming you mean with non-digital/electronic goods? If someone steals my bag they don't go and register it with some central bag authority, so of course I don't go calling my bag's manufacturer. Of course I'm responsible. Unless it's on CCTV. I expect /those/ guys to be sane, to help me and to show the CCTV to the police. They have clear evidence of a crime sitting right in front of them - if I flag it up to them, it should be damn near their /duty/ to give that evidence to the police.

Surely Amazon have pretty clear evidence in front of them. Someone's reported their kindle stolen, they see the kindle registered in someone else's name shortly after that report, the police have contacted them. Amazon can surely create their own paper trail - verifying the identity of the police first.

Besides, the other post implies that they're saying there's no hard link between the kindle and the account. That's probably front-line support failing to get a message higher than their lazy supervisor.

Anyway, I disagree with the sentiments here and in other replies. There are privacy warriors - quite rightly so - but there's also blatant common sense. Amazon should be applying that here. Putting on a tin-foil hat and saying "but what if..." isn't always a sensible thing to do.

If you commit a crime and submit evidence of it to my web service, you can be damn sure I'm passing your details to the police, so long as it's legal for me to do so.
Of 303 Conservative MPs, 139 voted against and 30 abstained. So 44% percent of Conservative MPs were in favour.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9851322/Cameron-acc...
Besides the name making it difficult to come back to (google shows an older twig thread on HN) ... I come across various nice projects like this one, and "tig" and also "eg" (easy git). However, its tough to find a compelling reason to use most of these add on tools over some home-backed script or just the command line.