skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities."

-- Bill Gates, 1998 a memo to the Office product group[2]

Seems like the guy in charge knew when to actively "stop putting effort into" things and intentionally sabotage the open web when necessary.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Read the Privacy section:

> Your tab URLs are never transmitted or disclosed to either the OneTab developers or any other party, and icons for tab URL domains are generated by Google. The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our 'share as a web page' feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the 'share as a web page' button.
"The nail in the coffin, for me, is the fact that this is set to be published in the Journal of Cosmology, a publication of questionable repute [2]."

So it's ok to go Ad Hominem against anything that contradicts our current knowledge? Ok, got it
Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs to stay open and might need to embrace DRM
(OneTab developer here): None of your tabs are sent to a third party server. It's all stored in HTML5 local storage.

The only way the one-tab servers know about your tabs is if you click to 'share as a web page', which transmits your tabs to our servers to create a web page you can share with others.
Edit: This is not meant to sound discouraging to the developer; I just suspect he solved the wrong problem.

I find it very strange that a tool exists to reduce chrome's memory footprint by closing tabs. This does not seem to be the right solution to any problem I can think of.

If memory consumption is what bugs you, maybe you should use a browser that consumes less memory per open tab.

If the number of open tabs is what bugs you, then you are probably using tabs as temporary bookmarks. There should be tools especially for this job. Some sort of "read-it-later" list comes to mind.

"one-tab" looks like some sort of read-it-later list that is labeled as a memory saver. Fascinating.
What is more believable is that spell check in the browser is somewhat of an edge case relative to general browser usage (i.e. web consumption) which Microsoft was historically able to address by allowing plug-ins. They rolled it into the development of their plug-inless browser and rolled their plug-inless browser into their not quite so backward compatible OS release.

I suspect that the corporate interests have long known that IE is not a sales critical feature.
OS X does have sort -u. -u is also in POSIX (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/so...).
Intriguing concept, but for those of us in offices an NSFW notice would not go amiss.
Reading blog posts like this makes me wonder if the author even considered using Opera at any point in his painful journey with Firefox and Chrome.
You're actually thinking about carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO). Carbon is just the atom (C), and both carbon CO2 and CO are carbon-based molecules.
No idea how this is better than Chrome's built in "Bookmark all tabs..." feature (Shift + CMD + D) and then just closing whatever you don't need open.
Only if you have an google account. With the user agent, you can now get this feature without one.
> Wealth is produced. If there were a fixed amount of it, we'd all still be nomadic hunter-gatherers. Therefore, the gain of wealth is NOT a zero sum game.

Sure, but if the 1%er have gains above average growth, they taking it from the rest. A simple fact, that has a lot to do with interest Tt doesn't make them bad people. It ist just a mathematical fact.

The US have a big problem with wealth distribution (the biggest in the western world). The US has a higher GDP per capita then Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Netherland, Sweden, etc. Do you really believe the US has a higher avarage living standard?
Yeah, I'm sure it's a cookie setting.
Extensibility in the Acme text editor
The question isn't whether wealth is zero-sum or not. It is already super-obvious that wealth is not a zero-sum game.

The issue is that a certain small percentage of people are using positions of political power and influence to capture an unjustly large share of the wealth that is created by others.

Or do you honestly think that a Fortune 500 company CEO's yearly marginal product of labor is actually an 8 figure amount?
Do antibiotics make people taller, fatter, or both?
For those on a mobile device (the "Join the Conversation" feature wasn't working for me on my phone), here is the top comment at time of writing this. User 'spm' writes:

I think people are missing the larger point these type of graphs show. Of course there has always been rich and poor in America. And the bottom poor in America are doing better than the "middle class" in Zimbabwe or some other third world country. But the real point of these type of graphs is that return on PRODUCTIVITY has skewed exponentially toward the wealthy. It's evidence that supply side economics does not work. THERE IS NO TRICKLE DOWN lol. The rich just get richer while inflation and stagnant wages make the poor get poorer. This is not political rhetoric or demonization of the wealthy. It's simply reality and can be substantiated with data and numbers.

People also need to stop with this logical fallacy about the wealthy working hard for their wealth. Typically that's not how it works , wealthy people typically increase their wealth exponentially by NOT working hard...instead choosing to use this little thing called....the stock market. The whole point of the stock market is to make your money work for you...and get more of it. That little 15K you've slaved to get into your 401K, yea someone makes that in a week....off of dividends lol. Even CEOs who make hundreds of millions of dollars do not work in the traditional sense. They get paid to make decisions, and often times those decisions are out right HORRIBLE affecting the lives of the middle class and poor who work under them(if they don't get laid off). Luckily many CEOs have golden parachutes which takes care of that pesky notion of accountability which they can then use to make investments(and continue to grow their wealth exponentially) in the case that they are fired
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Go
I've been through all of them, and in 90% of all cases woule recommend shopify... 80/20!
Firefox isn't ugly. Maybe the default style, but it's the most customizable browser in common use. You can make it look however you want with a few addons and config settings.
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
Excellent writeup. Thanks. Are you planing on covering
the "What else can you do?" stuff in more detail in another
post? If not, then adding a few more details/links in that
part would be an idea for improving something that's already
great.
Launching My Legacy - A New Release From Thomas A. Knight
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055227

General HN comment consensus is that the article is terribly poor science, published in a crank journal.
One gripe I have about this article is that it tells people to burn gas. Okay... it won't harm your lungs (so much) but will help increase global warming (nice). The contents are fine, though the annalogies are bad (a diesel engine indling in the room? common).

Anyway, people will keep burning wood in their homes, just because they like it. Most everybody knows the hazards of smoking and keep smoking anyway (including health professionals)...

I guess people banned public smoking because the smell is so ofensive to others, not because they were really worried about their health.
If you want to extract the most out of your batteries, wouldn't you use a boosting reg so can extract every last bit? I think for most projects, the uC uses far less power than the auxiliary components around it, like a LED. If you boost the voltage you can use higher logic levels. There are many examples boosting a "dead" 0.5V AA battery to 3V at a lower current.

If you use a buck regulator, you could use starting voltages beyond the chip's max voltage limit and burn the power past a typical dead cell's voltage levels -- start with a 12V battery using 1.8V logic and burn the battery down to 2V -- probably around 98% used.

I think you'll find that most projects out there use a voltage regulator because you can use up "more" of the battery this way.
Same goes for the camera on the Sprint GS3.
How are people shut out out of entrepreneurship now? They can still boot strap their own businesses just like anyone else.
Vagrant Tip: Sync VirtualBox Guest Additions
Opera does
I'd love to try and install this on my nas4free installation. If anyone has tried and wants to chime in…
Aww, history goes away. That might be a problem...
That is a typical explanation but there is nothing stopping you from using Sinatra for building large apps. In fact I find myself just as productive with Sinatra as I was with Rails for building very feature full apps.
OK, but we're not talking about classical logic, otherwise the question about whether the law of the excluded middle is derivable is uninteresting.
Judge blocks e-hail taxi app pilot program in New York City
There isn't one. "Kid" can mean the young of either humans or goats. "Child" is a bit more formal, but that's about it.
Clearly a secret CIA scheme to link personal details to bitcoin addresses.
Strangely this was one of the main reasons I switched off Chrome.

I found that this was not useful at all. My three main consumptions are:
-> Work Computer
-> Tablet and phone
-> Home computer

The tabs on my work computer are almost always not relevant for when I am at home and on tablet phone. There is also certain cases where I would not particularly want my tabs from my work machine (sensitive information perhaps) shared to my home computer or a mobile device I could get stolen and vice versa.

For any sharing of tabs I want, I just use pocket, as the tabs I really want to share are usually just articles that I want to read, either way pocket will take those links.
I've got always at least three different Google accounts logged in: personal one (GMail + G+ + Google Docs), professional one (Google Apps for Domain / Business : GMail + Google Docs) and a "fake identity one" (GMail + G+).

The way I do it very simple: separate user accounts on Linux. That way you're sure there's no way they're going to interfere with each other. Of course it helps to be using an OS on which it's trivial to have multiple indepedent graphical sessions and which allow (if you grant that privilege) another local user to display it's app on your graphical session.

The "temp" / fake identity account is actually running inside a VM (KVM) because I use to surf on untrusted sites and is really a "throwaway" account / VM.

That kind of blog entry is kiddie stuff compared to what's easily doable under Linux.
> So it's ok to go Ad Hominem against anything that contradicts our current knowledge? Ok, got it

The whole point of scientific journals is to change our current knowledge, so that's not really a fair criticism of my dismissal.

Read even just the Wikipedia article and you'll see that this journal has several issues: (1) the quality of its peer review is questionable; (2) it appears to promote fringe views; (3) it has been widely criticized by the scientific community.

So yes, after criticizing the research itself, I also dug around and discovered problems with the journal it was being published in. I don't see anything wrong with doing so. Had the data looked less bogus I probably wouldn't have been suspicious enough to investigate the source.
This is not an honest apology. It would be, had they offered full money back, not another game from their catalogue (hopefully one where they will milk you inside the game). While stretched a bit, its like your family dying in airline crash and the company is offering you a free tickets.

But no wonder they came up with something. Their sales must be hit real bad. At least 4 of my friends, hard gamers, told me they are not getting in. Later? Nope. They say they will pass until next version.
Note: It was about a different analysis of the same event, by almost the same authors.
"A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail" -- Charlie Munger
Thanks for the clarification, I should read more carefully.

Apologies.
I am the author of that post, and that is why I suggest this course of action. My post was not about "picking the winning language" but about getting moving actually practicing new languages. That practice helps us to get faster at learning. Once you have learned a few, you will be dramatically faster at learning new ones, and at programming in general. You will have seen the same concepts implemented a few different ways. It will be harder to be a fanboy of any specific one, because they all have pros and cons that have to be weighed.
Install isn't a link but a span, so you can't tell what it's doing/where it's going by hovering. Hmmm...Feels REALLY spammy, or is it just me?
Well. Some nitpicks: low income may not be causing depression, depression could be causing low income.
Secondly, just because low income is correlated with depression does not mean that there is not a genetic component. Germ-line genetic variations might also predict low income which causes depression OR predicts depression which causes low income. Implying that this somehow shows there is no genetic component is unwarranted.
IE's updates are always limited to what version of windows your running. In theory windows update should be good enough, but I know plenty of people who can't upgrade to the latest version of IE and see no need to upgrade there computer.
> Out of all the big browsers, Mozilla Firefox comes closest to being a web browser for the sake of web browsing.

There's a flip side to this coin; Firefox exists to support Mozilla's main business, which is the web.

This also means that Mozilla staunchly and without fail opposes any technological shift that could unseat the entrenched market position of the existing web technology stack, even if it would improve things for end users.

Google developed SPDY, NaCL, Dart, all in an effort to improve the underlying constraints of delivering code/information -- in any form -- to users.

If we only had Mozilla, we'd be locked into HTTP/HTML/CSS/DOM/JS forever. Technology has to evolve to move forward, but Mozilla has very little reason to want the web to evolve.
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Is it true?
Ask HN: RSS feed for a user's comments?
Is there currently a way to subscribe to a given user's comments? If not, is this feature perhaps under consideration? I imagine many of us would find it hugely helpful.

In a cursory search, I came upon this:

Retrieve Comment Threads for a user
URL: http://api.ihackernews.com/threads/{userID}
Method: GET
Returns: array of comments {children, comment, id, parentID, points, postedAgo, postedBy, postId}

but it seems to be down (based on the comments, perhaps for some time).
No, it's that an extraordinary claim that would revolutionize our understanding of the universe would be likely to be published in a high-impact journal, if it is backed up by enough evidence to survive review in that journal. When the principal investigator of a study is someone who has to publish in his own journal,

http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents11.html

(Wickramasinghe is "Executive Editor, Astrobiology" for the
Journal of Cosmology)

then you can see for yourself a bad sign about the strength of evidence for the paper.

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_...

for more details on identifying reliable sources.

AFTER EDIT:

The group blog Retraction Watch

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/

is an excellent glimpse into the world of scientific publishing, and shows how many low-ranking journals there are that are hard up for content. I think I learned about this interesting blog from another HN participant a year or two ago.
My trading platform, tradeking.com, has a web app called Live Trading. According to the task manager, it maxes out 1 of my cores, and makes Firefox's UI unusable in both my home and work computers. My solution has been to run that app in Chrome, and do my light duty browsing in FF. Chrome's CPU usage is also high, but the UI stays responsive.
Yes, I did. The closest I found was http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/fake.htm . Oh! Perhaps archive.org? Nope. It's the same.
This has come up before. Although this paper is considerably better presented than the previous one, the conclusions are still the same - the author is biased and the evidence is weak.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055227

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055547
Church of Gentoo
Just for laughs
This would be more aptly titled "Make Money While You're Asleep" rather than "Working".
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I knew about the Great Smog of 1952 from, uh, science fiction (Neil Gaiman's novelization of _Neverwhere_) but it had not occurred to me to wonder why my recently built flat does not have a fireplace.

Apparently my colleagues all know this — everyone just knows that it's OK to burn smokeless coal (anthracite) but not wood.
The GDP of the U.S. grows, generously, at 3% per year. Wealth is a zero sum game in that the 3% gain must be distributed amongst the 300 million people in the country.

When wealth is concentrated in too few people it does take away from others. Particularly since they get an inordinate share of the gain (in usual times). The distribution of resources, consumption of resources, and benefits of resources in the world is grossly unfair.

In your example of the Calligrapher the shareholders of Apple play the same role as taxpayers. It's just a matter of scale. It makes no sense to see a difference between the two situations. U.S. government is a corporation for purposes of the analogy. It has a revenue, shareholder, and expenses. It's not possible to say in one case it doesn't matter if such a position exists but it does in the case that it's government providing the paycheck.
Well, that's exactly what people were considering and what the article is referring too, a variant of classical logic where everything except the law of excluded middle holds true. I don't think this is uninteresting, which postulates are independent from one another is one of the core problems in logic.

Nice flame, eot.
Looks great and I would definitely put it to use, but on Ubuntu with Chrome 22.0.1229.94, I get "Installation failed either due to cancelling the dialog box or because you already have the extension installed" when installing from your web page. When I try to do it from the web store, I get "There was a problem adding the item to Chrome. Please refresh the page and try again".
Damn, this is some bad writing. I know we live in an age of post-editorial content, but can we please avoid sharing stuff with gratuitous comma splices and "your" vs. "you're" confusion? If I wanted to read shit like that, I'd open up the comments on Reddit.
One could argue the editor's paring down of Earth's entry in the Guide to "mostly harmless" is an instance of exactly the same thing.
It's an MVP. No point in writing all that validation code just yet - most people understand that you actually have to fill the fields in.
That brings back memories, used that to mess with friends back in highschool in 00-02.

"Weird, my cd drive just opened up."
Accurate, although my resentment against the elite is mostly not unconscious.
But, without pointer arithmetics or, despite many claims, pass-by-reference, Go's "pointers" feels like a more flexible form of Java/Ruby/Python/Node/....

It's not clear from the first example if the writer actually understands pointers. The example code passes a pointer to a function and then modifies the pointer, not what it's pointing to. It was no surprise to me that this wouldn't modify the original thing the pointer was referencing. If they wanted to modify the pointer itself then they should have passed a * * User not a *User.

Go does, indeed, have pass-by-reference (use a pointer) or pass-by-value (don't use a pointer).
> Chrome greets me with a fucking advertisement for a Chromebook

My solution for now is to use about:blank as a homepage.
How about just use Chrome?

1. bookmark all tabs ⇧⌘D

2. in the file dialog create a new folder e.g. "foo"

3. (later) with Bookmarks > foo menu open, select "Open All Bookmarks in New Window"

Voilà
As the author, I completely agree, good fundamentals are critical, and not be be neglected. I make the practice of fundamentals a regular part of my learning new languages. I just finished a project in Clojure that was implementing a variety of typical algorithms, but in a functional way. I now understand those algorithms far deeper, and with a greater understanding of their complexities and run times than if I had just done them in my "go-to" language.
How long does it take for an architect to master autocad

A hell of a lot less time than it takes to master architecture.

Would you expect to hire either if they didn't have mastery of those tools?

Back when I worked at a 3D animation studio they hired a a guy who had literally never used a 3D animation or modeling package before. He had however spent 20+ years doing concept and character design, sculpting, stop motion animation and model building. It took him about 8 weeks to become proficient enough at Maya to start turning out character models that outshone most of the others (admittedly at a much slower pace). He could also just look at other peoples models and instantly spot subtle changes that totally transformed the models.

Basically if you're hiring an architect or designer based or their mastery of software, you're probably doing it wrong.
It's funny that the article is hidden behind a paywall, but when you get to it and read it you realize it doesn't support the author views at all:

"we conclude that although there is a large and growing body of evidence linking exposure to wood/biomass smoke itself with both acute and chronic illness, there is insufﬁcient evidence at present to support regulating it separately from its individual components, especially ﬁne particulate matter.

In addition, there is insufﬁcient evidence at present to conclude that woodsmoke particles are signiﬁcantly less or more damaging to health than general ambient ﬁne particles."

That's a good lesson about science: just because an article has serious references doesn't mean it's not bullshit. Don't take the facts for granted if you don't actually read the references.
In heaven, conservatives are in charge of economic policy and liberals are in charge of social policy. In hell it's the other way around.
Congratulations! You have finally prompted me to register for HN, after over a year of lurking, in order to post the following comment:

Please put a NSFW notice on this title - or, if it's not feasible to do so, remember to put NSFW in similar future titles.

Otherwise, intriguing idea!
Yeah, I was wondering about this. Honestly feels like a design flaw. When I hit "restore all" I expected the tabs to replace the OneTab... tab. Other than that, and knowing that it's all in HTML5 localStorage, this will be replacing PanicButton!
Maybe this is a dumb question: Why doesn't someone (e.g. Google/Apple/Mozilla) just make a list of the uncontentious things like that which Flash can do and HTML or javascript can't, and then fast track those things to be put in HTML or javascript? Obviously it would require some writing of code, but it seems like it would be a good cause that a lot of people could get behind, including organizations that have coders and/or money. I'm just kind of surprised it hasn't happened already.
I really like this. It's fast, simple and easier to re-view the pages than bookmark all tabs. Thanks!