skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at ABC as an example. You can watch their video content via a Flash plugin, or via a native app for IOS. They do not let you watch their content via a browser without Flash. This is fairly common for media companies.

Now think of the implications of not having EME. It creates a situation that pushes users away from the open web and onto native apps and proprietary plugins. EME is needed so that users don't move away from browsers to native apps. Users will go where the content is, no matter how vigorously you shout your ideology.
Nor in Django, right? HTTP GET requests shouldn't have side effects.
what is stopping them from moving to a scanner and e-fax based system? you can still use the phone lines and print physical copies if you want. seems like you could save a lot of paper and space.
Actually sharing quotes is a good place to pick ideas for new books to read.
Revised Idea: A fitbit-like device could be distributed by health insurers just like Progressive's "Snapshot" program. It would discern which patients led healthier lives, and give them discounts.
Olmstead v. Federal Trade Commission

http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2010/sc08-1009....
Update on Proposed Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Policy
I upvoted it purely for the crushing sense of bitter disappointment.
TypeScript. Fastest JS parser I've seen (at least in JS compared to coffeescript, esprima, narcissus, etc), bootstrapped in its own language, great type checker/inferencer, easy to follow codebase.
For some reason, I felt it necessary to click every link on your website.
In future, there won't be any need for interviews and resumes. just send your genome for admission to harvard or a job a google!
Thank you so much, I posted like 5 times about this nuanced point in the law, everyone jumped all over it down to calling it legal malpractice. You seem to be the only person to make the distinction between: Company liable for Owner Debts vs. Owner Liable for company debts
Smartphones come to Ugandan farmers' aid
I'm amazed Taibbi could write an entire article on this subject and not mention Jon Corzine.

Oh wait. No I'm not.
Except to twitter
I don't want to start a browser flame war, but for me these are clear victories and explanation is unnecessary. Their combination is sufficient for me to vote that Chrome > Firefox, and this as a person who used to use Firefox religiously until Chrome completely changed the game.

Usability (configuration, ease of migration of configuration, etc): win

Developer tools: win+++++

Extensibility: win

Speed: win (JS + speed of rendering, though this is a lot closer than it used to be)

System footprint: win

Availability of experimental features in beta: win (though from time to time Firefox does some crazy awesome shit in beta builds, Chrome is more consistent)

I've long said the only browser remotely close to Chrome is Firefox, but for me, they are a clear leader. It's unfortunate to see Mozilla behaving this way in public. I take Opera's choice of using Chromium as a validation of my assertion, and I really believe if they had chosen to use Mozilla's software instead of Google's, that Mozilla would be fairly silent right now.
> I can't think about a case that WebKit "bosses" won't like a change from another party, but that might happen.

Such things already happened, for example Google wanted to add changes to WebKit to support another VM in the browser (for Dart). Apple devs blocked the attempt for technical reasons, but some speculate political ones were relevant as well.
No, I have never read Ayn Rand.
Steam terms are highlighted in the post.

Bitcoin is an area of interest to the wider community that effects the removal of financial services terms.

The example highlights that simplistic financial services sometimes fail to meet consumer expectations.
Holy smokes, is Fast Company's mobile site supposed to be usable? I couldn't even get it to scroll until I switched over to the full site (which worked fine).

And yes, having outside motivation almost always works best - just ask weight loss groups, al-anon, paid trainers at gyms, etc. Avoiding having to tell someone "I didn't do it" is a strong motivation.
Show one single famous language that doesn't have that.
Competing browser engines and using Javascript frameworks to normalise quirky behaviour sounds like the best of both worlds. Any bugs (i.e deviations from the spec) are quickly patched by the framework until they can percolate down to the browser engine. Of course, note that I consider writing raw HTML to be 'low level programming' ;)
Namecheap is beginning to look bad in my eyes with all this.
Raw data!

http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/2012/01/first-public-r...
I did check their release dates. I don't consider multi-month releases of minor versions "rapid", and major versions were shipped yearly.

That rate of development with the resources Microsoft had to get the best developers available is really unacceptable.
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Can be, just seen the number of 125 in some study. By surgeon I meant a PhD doing operations on humans, but I guest somewhere it means a a nurse.
>[1] - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotopakismo/1182625591/

Why? I mean, what cultural precedent causes this?
Lawsuits (or filing charges) may be insanely expensive, yes. But I really doubt they are as expensive as never bringing charges against anyone or suing anyone, and the damage that eventually causes due to pervasive, unchecked corruption of the entire system.
Aren't those plugins used already by those who rely on DRM? So what do you prefer, to make DRM (a dying unethical trend) part of the HTML5, or to retain its area of influence to plugins? Users know that plugins should be better avoided. They represent external, not very trustworthy entities for the web experience. This goes along with DRM which should be avoided for similar reasons. Pushing DRM into the browsers would only obscure this matter. EME is therefore not serving any good purpose for the open web and should be opposed. It's not like users who use DRM will suddenly get pushed into plugins or external applications. They already use them! And those who don't use and don't want to use DRM don't need that junk in the browser.

And for publishers it should be a lesson to stop using all that DRM for good if they want to be part of the open web.
fuckit.js: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
Check following link and you tell me http://jster.net/.
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Awesome work, obviously author has spent a lot of time on this and thought it through. Even with advanced GIT skills, it made me think about few things.
I've found that opinions that run contrary to the group leanings often do well on HN. Its still a pretty intellectually curious place.
I think the issue is that the cheap cost of operating infrastructure for most small tech startups means a lot of deadpool candidates continue to live on longer than they should. The duration of existence might expand courtesy of how far $100k (etc) goes, but the number of failures will trend toward the average given enough startups.
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Haha, it strikes again!
IPython Notebook is an amazing tool. I used it a lot while presenting examples during my GSoC project. It was easy to clearly present the features I was adding to the library as the project progressed. I also used it regularly as an REPL, though I would prefer lot more keyboard shortcuts be made available.

Some examples:
http://rhoforsympy.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/week-8-trace-imp...
This Biotechnology Company Run by High Schoolers is Developing a Flying Syringe
Creating Jobs: Steve Jobs' Return (1997)
Likewise Andrew!
Form with target=“_blank” behavior changed in IE 9 and 10
Yup. Just because you're old and crotchety and refuse to change your ways doesn't mean you are more experienced or right.

I am sympathetic, I used to read all my email through a terminal client, and I fought the bottom-posting good fight on usenet back in the day. But those norms aren't today's norms. It's a different world and those arguments don't hold the force they used to. It's time to move on. If you insist on being cranky and uncompromising about something try picking something that actually matters, there are lots of choices.
This thesis is the kind that I might wish was true. And in select cases, survivor bias has and will make it seem to be true for a lucky few. For most of us, even finely honed skills built over decades will have very little consequence unless somebody with a specific need for those skills meets us and hires us. I'm out of stock on clever or inspiring ideas for apps, websites, or revolutions. What I have are keen programming, debugging, and testing skills. In a vacuum, without a job, that's a lot like not having those skills. I wish I had a lot more warm connections than I do, because going through the interview process with new folks over and over is really a slog.
Makrr
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"Doc, it hurts when I go like this."

"Then stop going like that."
Not sure I understand the US landline vs Africa mobile example.

The US is a completely mobile nation, and it also has land lines. There are more smart phones in the US than any other country (China will or has passed that, depending on whose stats you go by), and around 200 million cell phones. The penetration rate of both are radically higher than any country in Africa.
Exciting. Something you are super glad you found.
Email is in my profile, let's meet up.
d3.js (http://d3js.org/) is the king of visualization libraries
This is what I like about old-fashioned business. You can tell when the business is a failure: you are no longer able to meet your obligations to creditors.

Usually this happens when you run out of cash. It's one thing to have a solvent balance sheet where assets handily outweigh liabilities. It's another entirely when bills fall due and you have no cash to pay them.

The classic example, to me, was SiCortex. They had a fantastic future A/R on sales pipeline in a growing segment. But they were also slowly moving from cashflow negative to cashflow positive, which meant they needed regular injections of cash to execute their plan. The GFC struck and cash stopped being invested; and that was that.

This particular example sticks in my mind for two reasons. The first was because it was such a vivid illustration of income vs cashflow. The second because of the amount of beard-stroking BS about how they were a victim of x86 blah blah blah. Seriously, no. They ran out of cash.

And generally that's what happens. The difference now is that lots of startups have short cashflow cycles. If they bill, they bill monthly. If they're on advertising, it's probably paid monthly. They frequently use Pay-As-You-Go services to run their business, and most PAYG providers bill ... monthly.

So when the cash runs down to zero, there's really only a month of obligations to meet. In fact you can bail out a month earlier and never have to go through the very unpleasant and often very public insolvency dance.

Meanwhile, most conventional businesses have lots of long term A/R and long term A/P. Cashflow is locked in months in advance, so if and when a crunch arrives there's very little to be done about it except to go to a bank or investor with a cap in hand. Sometimes they say "no", or worse, "we've already given you $X, and now we want it back no matter what". Boom, you're insolvent and people can see it because your creditors took you to court.
http://sugarjs.com/

From the site

"Sugar is a Javascript library that extends native objects with helpful methods. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code."
People on HN have a warped view of how leverage works in American politics. The prevailing meme of congresspeople who are bought off has a lot of appeal, but its far from the facts. My wife was a lobbyist so I have a bit of insight into the situation. Fact is, the usual suspects don't need to bribe congressmen. Who needs bribes when you have beliefs? You just need something like the heritage foundation or AEI to say that suing banks or regulating them will cost jobs and boom: you can count on tons of votes from people whose ideological interests are aligned with those of the banks.

Corruption in the US looks different than in say China. Its puritan corruption. Convincing true believers that what's good for big corporations is good for everyone and for the all important jobs. Everything starts from there.
I'm confused why anyone would think it would make it more profitable. You do understand that any content which is unencrypted is mind-numbingly simple to copy, right? That's how bits work. If you think DRM stops any copying or piracy for digital media, you're very confused on how technology works.
The delayed launch death spiral
skrollr is pretty badass, IMO.
There's No Protection In High Ports Anymore, Son. If Indeed There Ever Was.
pre-digital, yet modern white collar office practices...it's not that much different than your typical office in the 1970s

http://serendipityproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/dec-11-20...

hell, if you can organize and run a major international military offensive and an empire in a paper-based office, why would you ever need to move on?
Can Iceland lead the way towards a ban on violent online pornography?
Once upon a time there was a local search algorithm It was called GA and then it mutated and became a Global Search Algorithm. The End.
Where do you read that it's so awesome? He doesn't say that at all, just that technology now routes around it for the most part. Try reading before responding.
Agreed..I am starting to feel that you can't even do node right w/o it.
* CPU speed will get vastly more ridiculous, but battery life probably won't improve significantly (on x86 laptops).

* ARM will have around 50% market share as tablets become ubiquitous and laptops move to ARM. Those laptops will run some form of Windows, but Windows will continue to sell poorly on tablets.

* Reliable, reasonably fast internet will be available to almost all of the US.

* Cloud computing still won't be fully adopted. More computer users will do most of their work in a browser, but smartphones and tablets will still run many apps locally and desktop OSs will still be structured similarly to today's.

* Something huge and crazy will happen to education and Khan Academy will be involved in it.
This S3 is set with signed URLS. You should use the signed one to get them.

iPhone

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/...

MacBook

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/...
I would like to put aside the fact about DRM and how I do not agree with what it represents. What upsets me here, is the article it self. It is very sloppy, no thought in it, no details. Basically worth of a tweet. I would really enjoy if people would put more time and work into what they are publishing.
Why Women Aren't Funny (2007)
>> No salary. At the very least quote a range. The Qualified are probably working and need to know whether it's worth their while to jump ship....

This alone is a one of the biggest inhibitors for some great people I know. These days all startups claim their culture is as cool as any startup culture can get. So, I feel there isn't any differentiating factor in quotes like 'disrupting something' most of the time. I believe a good advert would be one which gives sufficient information that motivates good candidates(who usually have good jobs already) explore other options.
Nothing stops anybody who wants to use those systems. I love how fax-centric Japan is, because it means living here I can do so many things by email using a fax<->email service. (I use JFax, or whoever bought whoever bought JFax... Been using the same fax by email number for 15+ years.)
Singapore dorms foster entrepreneurs
In the matter of talking about bugs, I try to use terminology influenced by the SEI.

"It's crashed" --> "It has failed".

"It's behaving buggily" --> "There is a fault / it is faulting".

"It's a bug" --> "It's a defect".

The one to me that really matters is "defects". It's a matter of taste, but I find that the term "bug" implies mysterious agency. "Defect" correctly describes that ... there's a defect. Something is wrong and it can be fixed.
Why your Javascript form submission is annoying your users
Likely referring to web-apps that require Javascript support and have no fail over code.

This is more a problem with the developer of said site and not an issue with XMLhttprequest as you can build apps that are progressively enhanced for it and don't fail completely when JS/XMLHTTP is disabled.
A random thought: I work as a software engineer. Also, I can think about 3-dimensional structures and sketch them on paper sufficiently to record the idea for later thought or sharing.

But, darn, all CAD software seems incredibly tedious to me -- even that which people say is "easy" to learn. It kind of reminds me a lot of every time I try to use IDEs for developing software (I'm the sort of person who likes a good text editor and the unix shell for software development.)

I'm wondering if this represents a valuable insight into what is lacking in existing CAD software, or if it's an just a necessary learning curve I haven't climbed that's inherent to the problem space.
This is highly contextual. If the US were to go to war with China, can anyone imagining the USN being more productive by saying to its sailors "Choose what you want to do and how you want to do it".

Or on a smaller scale, professional sporting teams are much more effective when they're able to work to a common plan than just being a bunch of individual stars. The teams of individual stars may feel better because they each get to behave the way they want to, but overall they're less productive.
> There's another reason bottom- (or interspersed) posting does not work well in corporate email chains: Outlook flatly doesn't support it.

Yes, I remember this now. It was an item on a long list of reasons I gave up on Windows years ago. But I'm not sure it counts as a "reason", because it's more an uncorrected defect. Even if you have good arguments to top-post, Outlook takes away your choice. Like Windows itself.
I'd vote for AngularJS. It's just very clever. Kudos to the Google folks who came up with it.
Awesome, this kind of things really amaze me. I'm just curious what are the possibilities once they have everything scanned. Yes we can probably cure some disease or fix some stuff, but that's kind of old news, I am more interested in what they can actually do. Can they upload new language into your brain? or what else?
I know this is a crap answer to this question, but for me what is "cool" is what can easily do things that I think are awesome. For me, that's Angular.js.

http://angularjs.org/
Angular UI is amazing http://angular-ui.github.com/
And Angular for Bootstrap is also amazing http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/

I'm not a great programmer, so that's what excites me. It's flexible enough that as you get better as a programmer, you can plug that right in.

And that's what I think is cool.
I like TinySort which is a no-frills jQuery plugin to sort HTML elements. Great for data tables -> http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/

Speaking of data tables, I wrote a little function to make table headers sticky so they stay at the top of the viewport as you scroll down a large table. https://github.com/kingkool68/stickyHeader No options, just include on the page, add a class of stickyHeader on the table and you're done.
Here is a TED talk about this research: http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_t...
underscore.js has so many useful helper functions while being lightweight and unobtrusive:

http://underscorejs.org/
That thing about Perl is probably being said since the past 12 years and the needle doesn't seem to have the least count distance with regards to that.

People are learning Python? Really? That was probably true in 2006-2009. Python is no longer the new hotness. Scala and Clojure may be.

The fact of the matter is Perl has a massive niche(Text processing, Unicode, CPAN, Regular expressions, Fast prototyping, TIMTOWDI, Ability to add new syntax rapidly[Moose, Devel::Declare etc], Automation, Testing culture, Documentation, Unix, Parsing, Getting things done real fast... I can go on.. but I will stop here), If you look at what Larry Wall has been saying over the years about Perl 6 in various talks you will note that he designed Perl to fill a niche which continues to be totally unoccupied till today's date. The only competitors Perl has in its design space are tools like sed and awk with a additional few Unix utilities thrown around. In other words Perl doesn't have any credible competition. What's more? Any language that is designed to replace Perl will largely look like Perl(Read: Ruby, Perl 6). And yes, Php and Ruby do have their niches.

Python doesn't have a niche. All Python has is- "Tab indent your code." And sorry to break the bad news to you. Merely forcing indentation on a bad programmer doesn't magically transform him to a good programmer. Rather it make the situation more worse. It gives him a free pass to sit amidst good programmers.
Agree. d3 looks awesome. See these great video tutorials for it http://vimeo.com/search/sort:alphabetical/format:detail?q=%2...
Rohan,
Pretty difficult to parse "coolest JS library". The "42" for that question came up as "it depends for what" ;-)

Anyway, I use this site as a quick reference to see what is new in JS world. www.functionn.in
The author seems to be pretty meticulous in his updates, so there's a lot of interesting libraries. Seems like a labour of love for him. (P.S: Thanks, Hirvesh)

There's also Hakim who comes up with some interesting stuff from time to time www.hakim.se

Here's another that came up on radar lately -- http://soulwire.github.com/Makisu/

Subscribe to the smashing letter magazine's newsletters for a periodic stream of latest "cool" into your Inbox.

Hope that helps.
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