skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, perhaps it's not fair to say XML itself has failed, but the idea of XML as the data format to end all data formats seems to have fallen flat on its arse.

I too like the ability to validate XML against a schema and found it invaluable when dealing with a set of (needlessly) complex ant-plugins a couple of years back.
Every time someone reads this, a kitten gets run over:

"Instead, I found myself maneuvering around slower cars. Now, I normally spend most of my time on the New Jersey Turnpike out in the left lane going at least 10 or 15 miles an hour faster than I was in the Model S. But sitting in the middle lane, I was keeping up with traffic. I certainly didn't feel out of place -- except for the fact that I wasn't burning any gasoline."

It's supposed to be a performance car. A proper review should imply hoonage and speeds likely to raise the author's insurance premiums. It shouldn't take the Consumer Reports first impression of the Nissan Leaf as it's model. The Tesla S is not a fucking Prius.

The only thing more dull than hypermiling stories are hypermiling videos, and the only saving grace of this story is that we are spared those.

How Musk can act incredulous over assertions that the Model S is impractical for US intercity travel while acknowleding one hour fuelings every three hours is beyond me.
How to use custom maps in an iOS application
I would prefer it if you could collapse comments. Often the top comment has like 40 replies which makes it difficult to spot the next top level comment.
Why mobile money is no big deal
The Edge Conf 2013 videos are online
depending on their living circumstances, they'd have a much easier time in the EU than the US.

In the EU "human rights" extends to the right to respect for private and family life[1], meaning that there are much different rules on unmarried partners than in the US.

[1]: http://echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/77A6BD48-CD95-4CFF-BAB4-ECB...
What ever the case maybe its clear Tesla cars are not ready for the real world. I'm little saddened by this as I was hoping to get one in few years.
What's the difference between this and Amazon's RDS or S3? Is it just data storage with an easy way to query the for-mentioned data?

Seems like an "odd" product that kind of compete's with Amazon's existing offerings in many ways...
Why are the trajectories straight?
Looks like Google Plus is down
What you could do is price based on the value you provide.

You could price per request that you serve for your customers. Of course that just puts the perverse incentive on your customers, since now the service provider is bearing the cost of a nonoptimized application. The client doesn't care much about the weight of a single request, since the cost to him is the same (well except for latency).

So what you could do is define a 'typical request' by running a suite of open source web application on the service provider. This way you see how much hardware is required for a given throughput of 'typical requests'. Put a price tag on that. Now pricing also becomes much clearer for the customers: they know that if their application's requests are roughly of the same weight as open source web application X, Y and Z, and if they serve N requests per month, then their cost will be roughly N*(price of 1 typical request) per month.

Now the service provider has the incentive to optimize its hardware and services, because then it can run more typical requests at the same cost. The client has the incentive to optimize his application, because then he will use fewer typical request units, and hence pay less.

You could also determine the cost of a typical request by averaging over all of your clients' applications, instead of a suite of open source applications.
At $3-5k a month Heroku may as well start offering a consultancy service rather than hosting. Wanting unlimited scaling without needing local talent is a reasonable thing to want, but its unrealistic to expect if from one single platform.
Is 2013, the year of Linux gaming?
I'd like a "hide until tomorrow" feature.
Top examples of JavaScript
But how many of us thought it would become proliferous as a global community? At the time it was locked down to each college (you had to have an @college.edu address to even register), and it wasn't until 2005 or 06 until high school kids got access, and then their parents, and Facebook tore down the dividers of their walled gardens.

Then again maybe he was just a big fan of his MySpace page at the time.
OT: I went to the website, had my eyes assaulted with multiple font colours and sizes and left immediately without even trying to read.

People, there is a compromise between Google "brain dead" simplicity and MySpace pages "psycho" look, that is easy to read but still functional.
Why do people attend events?
you can add one or more TURN server(s) into the mix, but apart from that there is no other way using just Javascript.
I think it would be damaging to the community, that is what HN is. We collectively curate the (to borrow from reddit) the "front page of the hacker internet", HN isn't your news reader it is a community driven homepage. If there were things that people were not seeing due to personal filtering they wouldn't be exposed to the "tone" of the site.

There are certainly things that show up on the homepage that I am not interested in and don't always read about but occasionally I am exposed to something that if there was filtering I may not have seen and learn from it. I believe that being exposed to the other things people are interested in is important for both the community and each of us individuality.

I think it is this global exposure that has helped tune HN in to the grate community that it has become.
Perforce: Linux, Open Source Commitment High
I don't think people should be encouraged to break immigration law.

People would say similar things to me: "such and such group does it and they never get deported, why don't you?" not realising that what they're advising me to do is risk my family and livelihood based on their unfounded (and often slightly racist) assumptions.
Surplus, profit.
Farmers these days tend to grow a lot more than what is needed to self-sustain or to sustain a small village/tribe.
AFAIK, you will be/are able to add TURN server addresses to the mix. It is possible that chrome uses google's TURN servers by default.
How could anyone (that seems to be selling cloud servers) think this is a good business strategy. I really don't get how some people think about the software industry as a whole I suppose.
If we take your very narrow definition, the chances of any programmer to be (exactly) average are zero, if we relax a little bit we're back at tautology.
According to the article, "Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal", and "Background radiation levels in Chelyabinsk remain unchanged, the Emergency Ministry reported".

I am no physicist. But assuming that we can take these reports at face value, doesn't that rule out the possibility that the meteorite was intercepted by a nuclear device?
Perhaps what actually happens is that the people who actually care, the ones that have a strong opinion either way, will take the time to vote and comment. In terms of this feature, if it is done correctly, those who don't want to use it, won't find their experience changing much, those who want to use it can. Perhaps implementing it, even with an "opt-in" option for a short time will allow for a better poll. "Do you use the feature?" rather than "would you?". I can't really see a negative effect of adding this feature. Just a positive for some, perhaps many.
Creating offline applications with HTML5
Microsoft Makes Retail Versions Of Office Single Install
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Before the EWT they were expected to do this, and were losing pay, and had little recourse.

The EWT comes in, and now they have legal protections.
Plugging in overnight would have made the NYT review a non-event. In fact, it doesn't look like the CNN review involved an overnight stop at all.

NB: Tesla claims you don't have to plug in overnight. Whatever other problems the NYT reviewer had, he wasn't cheating by leaving it unplugged overnight.
I agree. Comment thread collapsing would provide the most bang for its buck. It'd help facilitate more threads of discussion immensely.
Is there a place for Java?
I've started to rely heavily on the Chrome plugin: Hacker News: Mark All Read. Wish it could since between computers. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...
I use Firefox Nightly and the latest Chrome stable. You're just plain incorrect. The Firefox user experience is very different to Chrome. Sure there are similarities but it's ridiculous to claim it's just a copy. They've taken a completely different approach to their built-in PDF viewer and as a developer I can tell you there's a huge number of differences in the way that FF and Chrome handle networking and interface standards. And, yes, these are noticeable to my non-developer friends and family.

The reason so many non-techies are using Chrome is that Google has a much stronger brand presence than Mozilla and has, at least in the UK, spent a fortune on advertising.

I love both of these browsers for different reasons. Please don't claim they're the same just for the sake of making a point.
Does anyone know why XML was so hyped when it came out? I remember reading article after article about how great it was and how it was going to revolutionize everything.

Looking back on it, it all seems kind of silly.
One weird thing. Site is hosted in sites.google.com, and content is published on 2004, however Google sites launched in 2007, which came from acquisition of JotSpot, which was launched in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sites
A lot of times I think I'm not interested from the title, only to find that an hour later a submission has 950 pts and 65 comments, so then I end up checking it out.
JQuery toggle() is slow, JavaScript to the rescue
Can anyone explain why I see so many dashcam videos from Russia?
This seamlessly integrates with existing Data Warehouse software solutions and Redshift handles everything you'd normally had to configure, import, read, query yourself using RDS; plus it uses S3 to store its backups and let the client restore their datasets from it. So it doesn't compete with it, my understanding is that it might as well utilize both but in a ready made package that integrates with existing data warehousing solutions.
For what it is worth I did appreciate it.
Random fact: Switzerland actually fits inside New York State 3.4225505632 times … :)
Why Social Networks are Just Like Punches
Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
Awesome youtube comment for those who get the reference:

"EMERGENCY
AN ANGEL HAS﻿ BEEN ENCOUNTERED IN THE VICINITY"
Also Half Life 3.
What chef cooked him lunch that day?
Death in Singapore
People trust authority. IIRC, the WTC building occupants were told to stay put initially. Many folks listened to that.

For better or for worse, I assume that incident management folks are full of shit when they say things like that, so I boogey asap. I've been in office buildings where the fire alarms didn't sound properly and announcements came over the PA saying something like: "The roof is on fire, do not be alarmed and do not evacuate at this time."
> object-relational mapping has gotten vastly better than it was in 2004

Maybe so, but it still seems like it's only good for prototyping. With each new version of ORM i get excited and try to implement it, but sooner or later it comes to bite me in the ass, and long term maintenance becomes more painful than not using ORM with all the low level hacks that need to be added and tricky management of the mapping config.
Terrible roads, terrible cars, terrible drivers, a lot of alcohol, and terrible insurance companies mean that people want dashcams to try to help present their side when there's an accident.

Youtube is full of really scary Russian dashcam videos.
That functionality is already present. Go to your profile, you'll find a link to your 'saved stories'. Every time you upvote an article, its link gets added to your 'saved stories' archive.
Internet Explorer only? IE doubt it
The big difference is that although Firefox is abiding by convention, all of these things are pretty easy to configure. I show my status bar, full protocol in the location bar, and so on. I can refresh with F5 or Command-R, things like that. I don't know how many times I've had to use Chrome and been frustrated with something as simple as F5 not working.

Observing the activity on interesting support tickets, I believe that Firefox designers/developers have generally been far more responsive to user requests than have the Chrome designers/developers.

I think those are the two reasons why Firefox is so important: It is a true community project, and it is a browser suitable for power users.
They flag compilations on iafd. Let's pretend they mentioned that in the article somewhere and I didn't just happen to know.
In #2 isn't he describing wordpress.com? You see, wordpress is a open source plataform, but people pay money to have their blogs on it.
That's very true, good point. I that this was a case of being mostly right and not realizing just how right he is in certain respects:

> most small development shops would pay a monthly fee not to have to administer the apps themselves.

and

> But would an external dev team trust some big company like Amazon with with their intellectual property?

and

> So I predict that someone will come along and offer an innovation hosting service, and make a lot of money off it.

OP had his finger on the pulse of tech, though, that much is certain.
I believe it is a defense against deliberate accident and injury extortion.
It's not about quality of life. It's about fitness, in the evolutionary sense.

Agricultural lifestyles support an order of magnitude more people per unit land, and therefore are more fit, even if they're "worse" in subjective terms.

Also, the "mistake" didn't happen immediately. It's not like hunter-gatherer nomads immediately decided, "yep, we're doing this farming thing" and started domesticating crops and animals. It happened gradually, over thousands of years, with various intermediate shades where a group would do some of both. Over time, human societies got to a point where abandoning agriculture would be impossible, while hunting and foraging became more discretionary.
That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t (John Broder's Response)
The real truth is, there's a wide range of porn catering to a wide array of interests and you're narrowly focusing in on a very small slice of that array.
Is that the minimum size of display required to use Windows 8 effectively?
My bad, JotSpot existed in 2004, so this might be legit. Spooky accurate predictions though..
For the simple reason that US culture/politics/news etc. can be so tempting to delve into needlessly as a non-usasian (and it rises to the top so consistently because of userbase), when it often doesn't have any impact on my life outside of boards such as these, I'd appreciate the ability to hide such distracting content from time to time.

Not a blanket filter, just a "yeah that sounds interesting/topical but I'd rather hide the noise (as it relates to me) on this one".
>> it would almost certainly poison the minds of the people who have no interest in it

> ...what exactly do you mean by "poison the minds"?

Not the OP, but I think he's afraid that the level of education provided for coding will be like the level of education currently provided for english or math. How many people do you know who claim to hate classical literature? Many of those are probably because they were forced to churn through and regurgitate about grommets instead of just enjoying a book. How many people claim to hate proofs because they were forced to write down "a straight line is straight" a million times in basic geometry?
Well that's a relief.

A door to hell is a lot less scary than a meteor crater.
I couldn't find the source (website appears to be down) but here is a bookmarklet that gives you an ability to collapse comments http://pastebin.com/382fvsqt
Optimize your delegate usage; Avoid this pitfall
> how it was going to revolutionize everything

I think it did.

The Java->XML->XSLT->HTML or Java->XML->Webservice framework was pretty big news in 2001. It meant you could transfer data between any number of services using the same data set. You could take that XML and send it to a java servlet or you could render it to html using xsl and give it to the users. You could also flat out dump XML and have other services use it. It was the first generally accepted webservice standard done over http.

Before XML exploded information was transferred between companies (that I worked for) by moving CSVs around, then putting the csv into the database, then reading the database back out... compared to that xml was an absolute godsend.
Did NASA have this on their list of objects they were tracking, and did they see it going down as it did? (I'm not suggesting that they should have been able to predict it.)

It's amazing that we have so much coverage of this.

I really hope someone somewhere is making a life size mockup of this object, and then showing on a map what damage would be done by bigger objects.

"This is what something the size of a car would do"

"This is what something the size of a house would do"

"This is the average size of the biggest 5% of the objects that we track in Earth orbit, and here's the damage that'd do".

(A bit like that atomic bomb map).
Instafeed.js is a dead-simple way to add Instagram photos to your website
Did you miss the part where I mentioned that oil is also a STRATEGIC resource and not just a commodity?

Why else do you think we've committed our military to the purpose of securing supply?
Mexico Will Lead Innovation in Agricultural Development for the World
I get nervous every time the federal gov't tries to mandate things in school. It always seems like something from either the 50 facts & fallacies of software development and/or the mythical man month. It's as if they realize things are screwed up so they try to slap some tape on the side and hope that fixes it.
Another important thing to keep in mind here is that IAFD only tracks movie releases afaik. They don't have data about scenes that are available on the web only which is a considerable amount of porn. I bet if you take those scenes into account the percentage will be much higher.
The problem is the ranking system and algorithm itself. The karma system incentivizes posting similar articles to the top articles either on the same day or a few days later thus creating a front page covering the same topic. And people seem to up vote every article on the topic ...

In a strange positive feedback cycle, the fact that the poster's karma is considered in placement effectively ensures that the voices of a few (the top 25 or so based on karma) dominate the flow (both of comments and of posts), rendering HN the front page of the few with sufficient karma.

I am unable to find the link at the moment, but tptacek explicitly noted that one of his comments were pegged to the top but some other comment, that he admitted was better and should have been at the top, wasn't rising naturally. That type of situation should never happen.
2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. github?

Wordpress.
The article doesn't say what the 28 people on staff did. Even if the cost-per-employee was only $50k/year, that would be an annual bill of $1.5m. A staff of programmers would cost more than 3 times that.

It doesn't really explain away a recent $5m funding round, but there doesn't have to be much of a drop in revenues for monthly payments to 28 staff to start eating away at your bank account very quickly.
Read the title, this is from 2004, which makes it incredibly prescient. Even Zuckerberg didn't realize what a big deal FB was in 2004.
Seems like some of these WTFs were just kludgy fixes, like replacing a broken a tile with one that was the wrong color. Sure it doesn't match but its better than showing a cement floor.
Why I love Surface Pro
Funny, HackerNews is what came to my mind for that point. I assumed by 'you and I' he meant developers/entrepreneurs/hackers.

If he was in fact referring to the mainstream, then Twitter would be another great example.
Shining Light on Microsoft Propaganda Against Copyleft
Because android has the Linux, We already have dominating Linux games - right?

Microsoft has been crushed in the mobile game space by Android/Linux.
I made a Chrome extension some time ago (HN HideIt) that does that + comment collapsing:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-hideit/dibillba...
Sorry, I didn't see this.

What I mean is, the whole point of choosing HTML5/JS is that you can write once, run everywhere. The non-GPL license forbids you from writing your game and releasing it for the browser.
I use http://hckrnews.com/ as my front-page interface, which also has a browser extension that does this (as well as highlight new comments since you last read the page).
Sitting in traffic with your A/C and onboard computer on drains the battery more.
Probably best feature request
Enterprise Software Lessons:Stickiness Doesn’t Make Your Product Defensible
I made a Chrome extension some time ago that does comment collapsing + hide stories:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-hideit/dibillba...

But there are many other solutions around, including bookmarklets, etc. to do it.
This is the kind of thing that you can code yourself.

Or you could even ask someone on Bountify to do it for you, I guess.

There are already extensions for thread collapsing. (I'm using one, and it's pretty neat.)

(https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027)

etc etc.
How robots are eating the last of America’s traditional manufacturing jobs
... or recent travels or instruments they play or people they've seen or concerts they went to or adventures they've had or sports they play or side projects or dates or ...
This is really impressive. Soooo close on the XML database thing - just substitute JSON (which hardly anyone knew anything about in 2004) for XML and he nailed it. Just one great call amongst many here.
> If your users map is similar to a population map, then it means you're appealing to a broad slice of the population.

Er, no, it just means there's no geographic component to your appeal within the limits of the map. Could be a very narrow slice, but even distributed in population.
Hide is a bit messy. I would prefer a link on each comment which scrolled the page to the next comment in that comment level.
I would love this level of study of bankers. 10,000 bankers and their careers. HSBC drug cartel bankers get extra points.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-t...
True tho perhaps you need some folks closer to the edge to ensure the avail of substances people further out won't touch en masse. Ultimately some edge players are needed to give everyone access which ensures the greater scene. Legalize and this wouldn't need to be the case
I had a similar impression today: that you either need to be among the first to post a comment, or must comment in reply to an already highly placed comment, lest your comment be relegated to scroll-bar irrelevance.
Clever use of slow-mo for official Chrome commercial
100,000 rows and postgres 9.2
Unless the work from rate is vastly higher or mass transportation vastly better where you are than me, 90% of jobs requiring a car is a huge understatement. People own several cars over their lifetime and it's one of the largest purchases they will ever make. Mistakes in a car are far more dangerous and expensive than mistakes with a computer.

You know, maybe bringing back driver's ed wouldn't be a terrible idea after all.
It could be easily implemented that you have your own "hidden submissions" page that will let you review what you have hidden, and "unhide" when you change your mind.

"hide" could even work as a downvote, which we don't have now for submissions.