skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad name. Read the url outloud, then tell me you didn't get a mental image of a toilet[1].

[1] http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=commode&tbs=...
Years ago I tried selling a laptop on eBay. The "winner" ended up being someone trying to scam me by having me ship before paying or something, I don't completely remember.

Anyway, the worst part is that eBay collected the listing fees before the auction was handed over to the fraud dept. I got my fees refunded, but in the form of credit. So now every month, for the past 10 years or so, I get a e-mail from eBay reminding me of my current account balance of -$26 and change.
When I tried to sign up, it refused to accept an email that contained a + sign.
> Despite all that, last year WWDC was sold out in under 2 hours.

...and I'm willing to bet that if Apple announced the time WWDC tickets went on sale in advance, as Google do, it would sell out a lot faster.
>you just have to write it up in HTML + JS, like every other app on the device.

Except the browser.

Mozilla could build Firefox for iOS using the technologies available to other third party apps on iOS. They (rightly) don't think that is good enough because it means they can't build a browser that is competitive performance wise with the built in browser.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-14013_3-57573440/mozilla-says-no-p...

The sticking point for Mozilla is not being able to carry over its sophisticated rendering and javascript engines to iOS. Essentially, the organization doesn't feel like it can build the browser it wants to for Apple's platform, Sullivan told CNET.
I'm willing to stand corrected. I had done a Dun & Bradstreet corporate registration search.

Duly noted!
I'd call "being wildly impractical from a performance standpoint" pretty effective at stopping someone from implementing a browser in an HTML5 canvas.
Yes, you can run any browser you want on Linux.
Their reaction was, if you can show there’s enough fan interest
to warrant a movie, we’re on board.

-

Q: Where is my money going?

A: All funds will go into a Veronica Mars Movie Project production
account which has been set up by Warner Bros. on our behalf.

-

Distribution is always a challenge with low-budget films, but
Warner Bros. is going to help us distribute the movie, and try to
get it out there as widely as possible.

There seems to be a significant amount of involvement from Warner Bros, although this isn't inherently bad it's a strange thing to be seeing on Kickstarter, it would be nice if they could elaborate on Warner Bros full involvement. Are Warner Bros trading ownership of the movie for permission to make it?

Also they've unfortunately restricted all the rewards to US only, even digital movie copies :|
Three people (including me) from my team were attempting to get tickets. We were all on the page 30 minutes before opening and entered the queue within seconds of opening.

2 of us never got anything other than the looking for tickets page multiple times.

1 of us got to the payment page on one attempt only to have it fail.

It's frustrating that we should each spend 1.5 hours of time to babysit what is essentially a lottery.

If it's going to work like a lottery, then just make it one.
I worry that most of the opposition to this bill is based on FUD that EFF is spreading. Having experience actually working in the security industry and knowing the limitations that this bill is trying to address, the ability of the government and private sector to work together to keep malicious groups out of their networks, I recognize the necessity and intentions of this bill.

This isn't about spying on Americans. This isn't SOPA with a new name. This isn't about stopping piracy or spying on your facebook profile. This bill is about letting government agencies share intelligence on network threats with private companies so those companies can protect their customers information. None of the agencies or companies involved want to share any private information about their citizens or customers. There are lots of lawyers involved in the process to ensure that doesn't happen.

I wonder if some of that exhaustion is also what leads people to not read the bill or understand the context and just assume it's another anti-piracy bill.
The issue isn't bookmarking and making that simpler. It's realizing that when we bookmark something, we often bookmark a sentence, paragraph, or area of a page that we have no way of easily finding of what they bookmarked mentally. Ever needed to go through dozens of link in a category or folder to find the "one". Having an intelligent search for the annotations of the web that you make live is invaluable for finding and sharing all the information you extract and want to save for re-use later.

If anyone can compare this to Diigo, I'd be much obliged.
I honestly thinks that's for the better. Basically, you patent, tells everyone how it works, and have the rights.

The move your described, you don't tell anyone anything and still have the rights... And that means i may be investing a lot of work on something only you will be able to profit from because i didn't know you invented it.

Basically this stops people from having the cake and eating it too.

Too bad about China.
> I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?

The suppliers of said social buttons do; every time you see one while you're logged into FB / G+ / Twitter, a hit of you visiting that site is registered at said parties, and they can all, thanks to the prevalence of these sharing buttons, track your internet usage.
Funny. From that angle is you are right.
Well, Netscape etc. cost money at the time MS included IE with Windows. They were using their market position in the desktop space to elbow into the browser space. That was a clear abuse of a monopoly. Mozilla doesn't have a monopoly, so they can't abuse it. And now, most of their competition is also free, so giving a browser away for free isn't anti-competitive.

Besides, the OS is literally a browser. The only way to avoid having a default browser is to remove the little Firefox-branded app that opens a new gecko window. That doesn't seem to promote competition at all.
Very useful feature. Could always do it with scripts(like cloudyscripts) but it seemed janky rsyncing files over.
Have you obtained a license to use the reddit name/brand along with the mascot/logo?

"For all of the above reasons, we require a license if you want to use the reddit brand in anything you do, both for free and for profit."[1]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/wiki/licensing
Because while I like android(which is half of my job) & Google related topics, my main interest is in game console hacks which is at best a grey area in USA's legal system. If by chance I saw people talking about dumping encryption keys from Wii U's Flash ROM then it would be a pleasant surprise to me and I'd take part in and/or give talks.
Interesting career choice.

Do you specialise in software patents?
Machines that exist only to turn themselves off
“What if Michael Bay did our developer recruiting video?”
You need a heck of a lot more than a legal hacker to get a Constitutional Amendment passed.
Nice to see the combination of a determined White Hat attacker and the responsive FB development team ready to fix vulnerabilities.
If only the morons that hire could figure this out. I almost NEVER use Java, but obviously I have and CAN use Java. Yet interview after interview demands that I use Java day to day in my current job to be considered. And this is for data transformation/analysis jobs, in which my use of Python makes me dramatically faster and more productive than my Java using colleagues.
> But that is on purpose.

Indeed, but I was pointing it out because it's important to be able to do it.
I doubt it. Just as with I/O, the ordering system is the bottleneck. If the systems could manage it, both events would sell out in mere minutes.

Recap of WWDC 2012 ticket sales: for the first time, Apple didn't pre-announce the WWDC dates or when ticket sales would start. People were quite upset because it was so sudden and because it was so early in the day – sales began at 8:30AM EST. Per John Gruber, on the day: "Sold out in two hours, before the U.S. west coast even woke up." http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/25/wwdc-2012
This is like reminiscing over days that seemed better but probably weren't. NT was fine, though I did get more bsods with it than I did with OS/2 during the time I used it. Wrote a lot of fun code using Windows 95 and 2000, but wrote a lot of fun stuff using DOS as well. Made about the same money with all of them.
Agreed.

The HN effect only lasts for so long. Once the flash crowd evaporates, prospects need more than such an unvarnished offer before they can act.

Cozy up to your prospects. Release some educational content. Give some examples of how you deliver value with your code reviews.

Going forward, a testimonial strategy definitely wouldn't hurt.
Can you confirm that Firefox sync handles the tags correctly?

I've had great luck with xmarks, which correctly syncs the tags. But I'd like to know that there is always an alternative for a feature that I've come to depend so much on.
This article renders as a blank page from Android Browser...
Look at who posted the link, who replied to you and what said those who replied to you.
I'm not sure what you mean. Apple rejects apps which duplicate native functionality. It took years for Google to get their Maps and Chrome apps into the App store. And guess what Chrome is on iPhone? It's just a wrapper around the native iOS webkit engine, exactly the same as the Firefox app is a wrapper for the native gecko on FirefoxOS.

Also, the reason you can't get good performance on a 3rd-party iOS browser is that Apple artificially restricts JIT to first-party apps.
Interesting link from the 'Talk' page there - http://www.technollama.co.uk/a-look-at-the-bitcoin-network-t...

This seems to confirm a lot of what people say about BTC - that it's a vehicle for speculation and hoarding, and that all the major economic activity is concentrated at the exchanges. Though it could be a little out of date now.
I think they use that word because of comedic value of the K sound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherently_funny_word). "Buick" might work too?

Hey author, please don't dilute our finite set of profane words. Inventing new ones is hard.
I was on the site at opening, got to the "looking for tickets" page, and never got further than that. I'm kind of pissed that they didn't price the tickets high enough to clear the market; I would've gladly paid more, but now I can't.
It looks like the dev team running Google I/O website also had issues to get tickets... for the Velocity conference. ;)
> I can’t remember the last time someone else used my computer.

Yes -- and if a hacker does his job, you will never remember it, because to all outward appearances, it never happened.

> And if someone hacked my computer from afar, I would imagine random cookies to be the least of my problems.

A random cookie or authentication record containing your logon details for an online site, with which someone could pretend to be you? Don't you realize what it means when the browser asks you whether it should "remember" your logon name and password?
Its on location in los angeles
Apart from the fact you had to reboot to change just about anything and there was no USB support, it wasn't bad for the era.

Stable where MacOS at the time was anything but, with the no-nonsense Windows 95 theming. As far as a desktop operating system, it was a pretty good package.

You didn't have the command-line tooling of Linux, but at least you could install it on your computer without having to dive into X configuration hell.
>"If you want another browser, you just have to write it up in HTML + JS"

So basically, with Firefox OS, you're limited to using the Mozilla browser. Sounds like Firefox is trying to lock you into their standards, exactly what they're accusing Apple of doing with the webkit engine in iOS.

Android and Ubuntu Mobile look to be the only solutions that give me the flexibility I want in a phone OS.
That's funny because Ctrl-f "Ctrl-f" is the first thing I did after seeing the shirt, which is how I came across your post.
> Except the browser.

Actually, Firefox on FirefoxOS is written in HTML + JS. Here's the source: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/browser

Sure, the HTML + JS runtime on FirefoxOS is Gecko, but that's an implementation detail. The browser itself, as users will experience it, is Just Another Webapp.
PCManFM Qt port is 85% finished
The trend that annoys me most right now is that image thumbnails never just point to the large image: instead they pop up some JS-based overlay that obscures the whole page. There are several issues with this:

* Quite often, for whatever reason, the overlay takes seconds to load (much longer than just loading the image)

* If the image takes long time to load, I cannot just put it in a background tab and continue browsing the page with the thumbnail while I wait.

* I cannot open several images simultaneously

* To close the overlay, I have to hunt down an 'x' button (for example pressing Esc usually does not work). The 'x' is likely camouflage dark grey in order to look good against the dark grey background, and placed creatively to make it difficult to find. Sometimes, the 'x' loads two seconds later than the overlay itself, to make sure the browsing experience becomes as frustrating as possible.

* Not uncommonly, the JS is so poorly coded that the overlay half-loads in my browser and cannot be closed at all without reloading the page. With JS disabled, trying to open the image might not work at all.

* If I react instinctively to the overlay by pressing backspace, it doesn't close the overlay; I get sent back to page before the page I was on.

At least the web designers who do this overlay crap are increasingly using JS for it, which is an infinite improvement over Flash.
I was victim of this too, i even set my clock ahead and attempted to register 5 mins early (which was working as far as i could tell).
(Sorry, I have to say that)

If you think that you have a poor understanding of the law.
The Importance of Being Ruthless
What's wrong with OS X in the enterprise?

Many large companies have ended up with large installations because of a choose-your-own-laptop policy.
I can think of plenty of websites that are crying out for a "twat" button.
This should be regulated somehow (yeah, I know, I sound like an 19th century guy). But probably lobbyist won't give up on that easily. I have disabled all that crap in my adblock, but there are millions of people who are not that savvy / aware etc.

My friend from Germany told me that in some (but not all) the pages, there are dummy social buttons loaded by default, you have to "enable" them. Try any article at [1]. It actually displays grayed placeholders only [2], and things are fetched from G/T/FB only when you click it - you can see in HTTP console.

[1] http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
[2] http://i.imgur.com/hkQXEiX.png
Unions. Corruption. Surely you jest.
"That's ok, we'll just make it up for it with a 12px font-size"
netflix needs to add co-watching where you can join someone else's watching session in real time and comment/chat about it with them like is in the xbox 360 version.
Yes, when I noticed this I stopped using bookmarks :)
How much does an MRI cost? In D.C., anywhere from $400 to $1,861.
How  the Newsfeed Redesign Impacts Advertisers
WRONG. You can run any browser you want on Darwin. iOS uses the Darwin kernel, but you CANNOT run any browser engine under iOS.
I watched the video they had linked for an intro to the KDE desktop. I must say, KDE has become pretty slick now, and OpenSUSE does a good job with their KDE desktop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqHppnzlXN4
I would love a veronica mars movie, but I wonder how hollywood accounting will gel with crowdfunding.
I wonder if Firefly could have been saved if kickstarter was around back then.
Yes but it's sad to see yet another OAuth SNAFU.

At which point should people consider not using a technology which has been repeatedly exploited and start using something where security has been thought about from the start?

Because we all know that the article "How I hacked FB using OAuth a 3rd time" is coming...
I'm still not seeing the social settings options in Netflix. Perhaps not rolled out to everybody yet.
I thought I had gotten a ticket. This makes me sad.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--gAC0BE9NrA/UUCiUYUp90I/A...
That's true. And I guess that's what "Meta" was supposed to be, but there's still a lot of the same handicaps applied there and "polling" questions (whatever that means today vs. tomorrow) get voted down to obvlivion. E.G : http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/138411/why-are-const...

So even in a place that's talk "of" the place still isn't safe to talk of.
Of the most-cited 20 papers in CS (from citeseer), the affiliation of the first author of all but four is with academia:

Academia
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1) Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the EM algorithm, 1977. Dempster, Harvard.

2) Communicating sequential processes, 1978. Hoare, Oxford at time of publication.

4) Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications, 2001. Stocia, Berkeley.

5) Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints, 2004. Lowe, UBC.

6) Induction of Decision Trees, 1986. Quinlan, New South Wales Institute of Technology.

7) Reinforcement Learning: An introduction, 1998. Sutton, UAlberta.

9) Graph-based Algorithms for Boolean Function Manipulation, 1986. Bryant, CalTech.

10) Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment, 1973. Liu, MIT.

11) The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine, 1998. Brin, Stanford.

12) A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems, 1978. Rivest, MIT.

14) A scalable content-addressable network, 2001. Ratnasamy, Berkeley.

15) New directions in cryptography, 1976. Diffie, Stanford.

16) Eigenfaces for recognition, 1991. Turk, MIT.

17) Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment, 1999. Kleinberg, Cornell.

18) Indexing by latent semantic analysis, 1990. Deerwester, UChicago.

20) Handbook of Applied Cryptography, 1996. Menezes, UWaterloo.

Industry
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3) A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications
in speech recognition, 1989. LR Rabiner, Bell Labs.

8) Optimization by simulation annealing, 1983. Kirkpatrick, IBM.

13) Snakes — active contour models, 1987. Kass, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research.

19) Fast algorithms for mining association rules, 1994. Agrawal, IBM.
If an invention is invented twice independently, it should by definition be "obvious" and not patentable.
Probably depends on what you're looking for?

When I'm googling for coding tips, I often find blogposts that are several years old simply because they're still relevant and still solve my problem.

Guess it's different for news ... but I wouldn't look for old news anyway. Or at least I haven't needed to so far.
That smacks far too much of "it's not wrong when WE do it." Microsoft ruined this sort of integration for everybody.
Author here. Thanks for all of your comments.

To clarify:

1. The article clearly isn't an attack on HTML5 itself, but of designers who happen to be building HTML5 sites with a lack of concern for the user experience. The gap between design and UX has hugely narrowed in the past decade, and I don't want to see it open up again. It is a plea of sorts, and I apologise if I've mislabelled the headline.

2. The article is a response to the many posts I see that hold up these sites as being "inspirational examples of HTML5 design". I'm afraid that I don't think many of these sites are inspiring, given the UX issues. And yes, they could have been built in HTML4, but they're using HTML5 / CSS3. Hence the headline, though no doubt I could have chosen a clearer one.

3. Yes, our site has all manner of issues, though I've yet to see it in a compendium of 'inspirational' sites. The roll-up is there because sometimes business goals sometimes kick UX goals in the face. The roll-up should not appear immediately and should not obscure all of the screen (please suggest a more elegant solution).

4. 404 pages. A lame point. My bad.

<returns to bunker>
A year ago the average total transfer was something like 937kB and now it's 1311kB, at least according to these stats: http://httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&reqTotal
This is something I dont like about Kickstarter - I cannot see the exact definition of success. Well alright, its reach 2m pledged. But after that?

With the track record of movies not getting the green light, what if the movie never gets made? What if Warner Bros. pulls the plug after 1m dollars is spent on script rewrites? What if the script rewrite fees goto the guy running the kickstarter campaign, and then nothing happens?

This could be an interesting way to fund a movie, but it is highly speculative and in a very very risky, cut throat business. I seriously doubt the 2 million will see the light of day again.

NB: I am not implying any fraudulent intentions on behalf of the producer here, I expect he is as he seems, enthusiastic and passionate. But imagine "stereotypical cut throat producer" - he just is salivating at a bunch of yahoos handing him 2million dollars for a "treatment".
If when you started your career, Windows NT was the shiny new thing, then maybe you would remember it fondly. You wouldn't know any better.

For me, Windows NT was like some kind of joke that nobody understood, instead taking it as a serious server platform even though it had uptimes usually measured in hours or, if you were really lucky, days. I'm pretty sure server admins at the time would be seeing Blue Screens of Death in their nightmares.
I read the implication 'that obvious' by the OP as being obviously in cahoots or as obvious derivative works, rather than independent works along the same line of enquiry and execution.
Several people at my work had the same Google Wallet problem. Most of us had a $900 charge that was later cancelled. Ultimate tease.

This was my favorite tweet:

"Another year, another batch of developers who will be sure to never ever use +Google Wallet in anything they build. #io13" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/seedifferently/status/311856162440093696
Not to mention the mental image I get when reading the acronym of the Total Integration Testing System out loud. I was thinking of forwarding the link to other developers in the company, but this stopped me in my tracks and made me wonder if the whole thing was a prank.
The answer is... idk, really, but I do know why the social buttons are often on the left side and are in a "fixed" div:

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/amd-360...
Way to go Wired: the video refuses to play on a stock Chromium browser (no Flash).

Geez: is is that hard to serve videos in a HTML5 format recognized by a Flash-less Chrome browser? I mean: many websites seems to be doing it perfectly fine...

(btw I didn't pay attention before clicking: when I see Wired, CNN or Fox, for example, I'm never opening these links : )
"Firefox is trying to lock you into their standards"

Yes, the purpose of the project is to promote open standards for phone-oriented web apps.

"exactly what they're accusing Apple of doing with the webkit engine in iOS."

iOS is not an open system and does not promote open standards. The point of the FirefoxOS project is to make interoperable standards that will hopefully be supported by every future web browser.
Maybe those earlier efforts didn't because it was too connected to the rest of the community? A completely different place to discuss "nothing but" may be what was needed and if the earlier efforts had more direction, maybe they would have seen continued adoption. It's pretty easy to get distracted on Reddit after all so complete self-study may not have been very effective.

I hope this does take off and incorporate the best of those.
How wasn't this discovered in beta? Why didn't reviewers catch any of this?
Improving organisational and national security with big data
Internet Explorer: How did IE get to be so bad?