skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the "in between" -choice just as likely as the other two? Since no one knows, I can't see why we shouldn't listen to all opinions.

Unfortunately technology can't save us from our whole economy collapsing, were that to happen.
"The biggest enemy is tap water."
OpenDNS helps complete your Web connections
Even if this is ever rolled out to modern browsers, IE6 is still (according to w3schools) at about 17% of the market.

We'll never lose IE6 entirely, due to the plethora of small/medium/large business apps that only work with it (and won't even work with IE7).

IE6 is trending downward at about half a percent per month. That will likely plateau, but if it does continue we should be IE6 free in three years.

The key, like always, will be to develop two versions of your app: One that's shiny and works in new browsers, reverting to traditional html and anchors for any other browser.

I'm actually seriously considering treating IE6 as if it does not have Javascript support at all, in the future.. and if users want the full experience, they should upgrade their 8 year old browser.
The typical arguments are that the indentation style is more compact vertically and that it is used in a number of popular publications and projects (e.g. K&R, the Linux kernel).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#K.26R_style
I joined the National Guard and am now eligible for Tricare Reserve Select. Approximately $180/month for the whole family [wife,kids,self] with a low catastrophic cap.
PageRank is more about content than style.

Additionally, PR doesn't really have any value by itself, it's only marginally interesting if you're trying to pass links/SEO credit on to another site.

What's most important is where you rank for given terms you want to be found when searched on. I've seen many cases where a page with a rank of 2 outranks a page with a rank of 6 for the same term because the PR2 site is deemed to have better content for that given term.

So, as long as the content stays relatively the same from a bot perspective, your fancy styles will be happily ignored.
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You've mixed together a lot of stuff here. your Foo data type is recursive. I can achieve something similar in C++ without infinite template recursion, but I have to use pointers to do it. (Your Haskell has pointers too, they're just hidden from you.) Also there is nothing 'runtime' about the example you've got here. I can do the same thing with a tagged-union type in C/C++ and a switch statement, which is what your Haskell compiles down to. Maybe you were thinking of existential types? http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Existentially_quantifie... . That's something C++ can't do.

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Edit: nm I see what you did there with the Foo a = ... | Blah (Foo [a]). That would probably break C++.
From the product tour, this looks like a well-executed product which definitely can bring value to recruiters. Two things stand out to me:
1) charge more per contact or consider a different model, the value you are providing is definitely above $1 per qualified contact
2) please look into getting a copywriter to rewrite your website copy - currently the text gives a distinctive non-native feel
This is a really good point. The brain changes as a result of input... why not on a large scale that is reflected in structure, if it happens en mass on a small scale at the individual neuron and pathway?
a combination of ebay and adsense – where you would put your auctions on other peoples’ websites as ads

I think this a great idea. Have you thought about trying to partner with other ad networks as a quick way to get access to content publishers? That could go a long way toward solving the chicken/egg problem of how to attract sellers to your marketplace.
Well-reported? I rather hope people were misquoted.

While this is undoubtedly a very interesting field, I found the article as written rather misguided. You need a brain scan to tell if your child is timid? Seriously? Oh and you would shout at your child, if only you hadn't been handed a scan at birth telling you your child's brain is such that it shouldn't be shouted at?

As for the advice about using this kind of information to affect how to raise a child, it runs contrary to all the best current child development advice. The child psychologists maintain that you should in every way avoid pigeonholing children (eg "she is the adventurous one", "he is the creative one"). If that is so, I can't imagine anything worse that "he is the one likely to get addicted to drugs".

This kind of thing is a small glimmer of understanding. Let's not rush to speculating about applications until we've thought about it a bit more, eh?
One easy thing to do in this situation is add medical payments coverage to your auto insurance. It's maybe $20/6 months, and covers what is for many people the most likely cause of injury.

Injury only or highest-possible deductible health insurance is also a good option if you're generally healthy.
not worth reading. the article is poorly written, the content is completely summarized by the title and the 'data' the author has collected is merely the result of him crawling a few job search sites.
I should certainly hope not.

While he's certainly mischievous and possibly malicious, he didn't actually do anything that I think should be illegal. He merely used Amazon's flawed system against them, at considerably personal expense. He hacked them, in other words.

I can't agree with his aims in this case but you've got to hand it to him really - you don't have to like trolling in general to admit that was an amazing troll. It shouldn't be illegal and he shouldn't be able to be sued. Society would be worse for it, counterintutive as it may seem.
I doubt naive gif encoder will do the job.

in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format
it mentions:

"The algorithms used to select the palette and to perform the dithering vary widely in output quality. Additionally, dithering significantly reduces the image's compressibility and thus works contrary to GIF's main purpose."

So to goal is to get the best color palette that satisfies

1. The resulting image quality is close to original image,

2. The compressed image has to be smaller than original

3. The color quantization can be automated without too much human supervision.

I think the general color quantization algorithms may solve the point 1 and 3 but not necessary point 2.

Never mind, I am an idiot sometime.
Taxes alone don't necessarily make it EV negative. For me it wouldn't be since I already have substantial gambling income to deduct from. (Unless you're a professional gambler, you can't deduct more than you earn.) But you're right, for most people that one particular wager would, assuming they were going to get a 1099 if they won. (Most money made from gambling goes unclaimed, as it doesn't take place in a casino.)

Startup investing is somewhat the opposite I suppose, where taxes actually makes it more profitable. If you lose, you can deduct the loss, if you win, you usually pay the much lower capital gains taxes. (Unless I'm misunderstanding the tax ramifications of a losing angel investment, which I may certainly be.)
I for one hope he does. He's not some internet freedom fighter going up against the man, nor is he a legitimate security expert in any way. He did it for the lulz, I hope he gets his ass sued off.

He's like the kid dropping rocks off the overpass for shits and giggles - pathetic.
If you really create "the most amazing thing in the world" you'll necessarily get mentioned in places that matter if you give it some time. If the places that matter repeatedly fail to mention "the most amazing things in the world", they'll get taken over by competitors.

As I see it, the most obviously amazing your thing is, the easier the word will spread for the same amount of effort.
I thought that professional groups don't have such plans anymore.
I don't know what this was downvoted. Sounds like a sensible plan to me.

I'm currently in a company that has IE6 as its browser installed by the IT department. Most of the intranet would be broken in IE7 and especially IE8. The current techniques for handling IE6 should be emphasized to any newcomer to web development.
I think Twitter has much more value as a conversational tool and to some extent (thanks to services such as TwitterFeed) an RSS reader replacement (social feeds if you will).

I've tried using it as a "microblogging" tool, and to be frank it helped me realise I was pretty boring. If you have a super-duper interesting life (e.g. if you're Stephen Fry) then sure, otherwise I feel that it, combined with search and hashtags, has much more potential for people to discuss things publically.
PHP modules implemented in Java for Quercus: http://tusul.net/I2KmMk

Caucho says that the real gain is taking advantage of built-in advanced features of Resin App Server like load balancing. Without porting MySql, PHP on GAE means little.
"levitating" would be a lot more accurate, since to me, flying implies using its own power to generate lift.
Three start-ups attack Twitter Search
If you're changing the style by CSS (as you should be) then really the content shouldn't be affected, unless you're changing the actual structure.

I've never really seen the point in PR tbh, as far as I know it isn't much representation of how many hits you'll get from Google (and that's dependant on keywords anyway).
Great. I've sent you an email.
> Which is why any sane health care reform will likely include a mandate requiring people like you to carry coverage; insurance works best with a large pool of risk, where coverage isn't biased towards those at most risk of making claims.

The point you make is technically true, but seems a bit bizarre.

It's like saying "if we had an financial instrument that paid for people's airline tickets, we wouldn't want to allow people to choose to join or not join - if we did that, we'd just have all the people who like to travel a lot join, and it would cost a lot! So what we really need to do is force EVERYONE to contribute, so that there are a lot of people who get no benefits who can subsidize those people who draw a lot of benefits".

Yes, you're right - unless we do that, people who draw a lot of benefits will have to pay for a lot of benefits.

...but it seems a bit morally autistic to me.
not sure what you mean. I wasn't being critical, I was actually encouraging the development of such sites. And I fully believe in the feasibility of eventually using all those different metrics I had described. It's doable, and I want to see it.
Salesforce.com launches Mobile Lite for iPhone
e.g. make it easily possible to solve a puzzle in 50 moves, but more advanced players might find a solution in 5 moves. Give rankings for how few moves are used to solve the puzzle. (see: World of Goo's OCD objectives)
G20: Global "Undo"
Downvoting on HN
I've observed (on multiple occasions) that my comments get down voted only because it goes against the popular viewpoint.

For Example - I gave an example of how little press cares to check authenticity of your comments and the fact they worry only about making interesting stories. I got down voted by everyone. I've gone through the guidelines and I don't think I've said anything that goes against it.

Have you also observed similar behavior on HN?

I got -6 for this - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559651 - which I believe was a very good example.

Guidelines on Comments - I don't think I am violatig any of those
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Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile.

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
The Java style guide from Sun does this:

http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc5....

The PEAR PHP coding standards recommend this:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

And, as has been pointed out, if you don't do this in Javascript the JS interpreter will helpfully insert bugs for you (in the form of extra semicolons).

When Ruby uses braces at all, opening braces are placed at the ends of lines. (Usually the closing braces are on the same line, though... most multi-line Ruby blocks use the "do...end" keywords.)

The issue doesn't come up in Python at all, right? Likewise Lisp.

So it seems that only programmers who take up C as a first language will be exposed to the opening-brace-on-its-own-line style before they become used to the other style.
Here's a rebuttal:

http://bryant.livejournal.com/672165.html

While the method is plausible, the rebuttal is plausible as well. Who to believe?
link to the tutorial itself: http://buildinternet.com/2009/03/sliding-boxes-and-captions-...
FYI, if you ever bothered to submit something from a site other than your own, or if you participated in discussions, I might actually click one of your submissions one day.
I don't think this is particularly evil, it's actually rather expected. If your product is exactly the same as something that people get for free, you are going to identify the free stuff as you "enemy". How you deal with that is another thing completely. (For me, it would be, "get out of this silly business", but most people don't have that much sense.)
Ugh, no custom objects!

They're going to have a bunch of their smaller customers using unorthodox/not-ideal rollouts (like using "Opportunities" or "Leads" for something more complex with a totally different structure.)
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

ahem.
I think that positioning could be better. Sure, it's cheaper than GitHub, but is it cheaper that Gitorious?

Maybe add adjectives like "professional" and "high-volume" to your positioning so that you don't seem to be competing on price only.
> he didn't actually do anything that I think should be illegal.

Registering multiple false user names?

Giving false feedback?

Restraint of trade?

I'm not a fan of government prosecuting someone for registering on Facebook with the user name "Joe Schmoe" in order to blog anonymously about their crappy job at Microsoft.

...but I have no problem at all with the government enforcing laws against using aliases to log into a system and inject bad data in order to create a public relations firestorm?

> He merely used Amazon's flawed system against them

I'd be somewhat pissed if someone used my flawed front door lock (pickable by anyone with a set of picks, 60 seconds to spare, and decent picking skills) against me.

"Oh, all I did was hang a sign in the window saying 'A child molester lives here' - what LOLZ!"

Yeah, OK, great, that's a wonderful "hack".
You know how we have P and NP problems when it comes to algorithms? Well we need the same thing for real life problems/questions. Some questions are just too difficult to answer in polynomial number of years.

Yes I'm studying for a fourth year algorithms exam! :)
Yes, but if any other vendor decided to implement a half-assed and incomplete subset of a spec and tacked the name of the spec on it, you would be jumping in anger. MS's POSIX compatibility layer gets all the ridicule it deserves, so Google shouldn't get away with calling a bad subset of Java "Java".
We got a Kaiser HSA. If you live near a Kaiser hospital they're a pretty good deal. I don't have any kids, but they seem like they're much more family friendly than some of the other low cost HSAs. They cover full maternity, and cover a few well checkups a year for kids, and one for adults without hitting your deductible.
Nice! I'm considering moving to CA to work on my Startup. Tonik seems decent for health and dental, at least it will fit in my budget even though with a big deductible number. Thanks for sharing.
People use shortened urls as a throwaway resource. I doubt that they attach much importance about their permanence.
My order of language takeup: C++/Python/Lisp.
But yeah it's a C thing. Never the less, this{

} Is an abomination!
The recommendations are misconceived, but they are useful if interpreted properly. All of those things happen naturally if you feel a certain way about the person and the situation. If I am not getting along with someone the way I want, I ask myself, "How am I acting with this person, and why? How do I feel about this person and situation that makes me act this way?"

Whether the feeling is boredom, distaste, fear, or inferiority, once it is identified, the next question is whether the feeling is appropriate and whether my desire to get along with the person is appropriate and realistic. If my desires are inappropriate (such as when trying to get a phone number from a woman I dislike) or my feelings are inappropriate (such as when I feel anxious in a situation that isn't dangerous) then I concentrate on dealing with the inappropriate desires or feelings.

If both the feeling and the desire are appropriate, then that's a different situation that requires acting. This is rarely strictly necessary when socializing, though it might be an optimization. In general, most social difficulties in social situations are best dealt with honestly.

Your post seems to say that there's no point in trying to be friendly with people when it doesn't come naturally. I don't think that's always true. Everyone has some leftover knee-jerk reactions that aren't consistent with what they have learned rationally. I often find myself behaving rudely or distantly toward people I want to be friends with, because the way I learned in adolescence to intuitively categorize people as "potential friend" or "probable enemy" or "waste of time" don't work reliably now (in a different environment and a different time in life.) Paying attention to how "likable" my behavior is helps me realize when my adolescent gut has categorized someone as an enemy when my rational mind knows he is a smart and decent person.
weev interview: http://www.corrupt.org/act/interviews/weev

What a whackjob. Quotes:

"I contend that trolling is the chief moral arbiter of the Internet. I see little difference between the methods performed by trolls on the Internet when they ruin the lives of furries and pedophiles and the methods used by Moses when he ordered the idol worshippers killed. Martin Luther contended in his tract "On the Jews and Their Lies" that if Moses were alive today he'd be busy burning synagogues. I'm inclined to agree; the only thing keeping us deriding furries on the Internet instead of going to their furry conventions and rapidly exterminating them is the Jewish influence upon society."

"I used to be for the mass extermination of the physically disabled, but my business associate Claudia reminded me of how the ancient greeks made an effort to find means of living for their disabled; Homer was blind but still managed to become a defining influence upon Western civlization. I believe that without the narcotic of state welfare these people would find a positive means of living."

"Upon some timeline Protestants are going to have to stand up and admit that it is their belief system that made their nations so great, and that without their persistent influence they will degrade into the third world shitholes from which they began."
> Our society as a whole benefits from diversity

I'm pretty sure that society doesn't benefit from all possible diversity. (And then there's the small details that humanities isn't all that diverse and we can get its diversity from a much smaller population.)

I note that "mother nature" weeds out most mutations.
Anecdotally, most Ruby blog posts I've seen describing how people are "doing it wrong" are just introductions to a gem or plugin on someone's Github account.

Seems to me that you're just taking a cheap shot at Rubyists. :)
Pick your busts with oFrameBust
yeah this was a pretty lame introduction, but there are several BIG ideas in lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics that I think would be entirely appropriate for HS - in fact the earlier people are exposed to these the better.

(1) The local motion always "chooses" a path which optimizes a "global" property (the action). A system which follows only local rules can find a global optimum. This is a very important idea. I think this point finally made it into a nobel lecture for economics maybe 200+ years after maupertuis, d'alembert and of course, lagrange.

(2) Knowledge of the conserved quantities completely determines the motion. Conservation laws take on their simplest form in the hamiltonian formulation. I was very fortunate to have a high school teacher who introduced me to these ideas then. It's probably the reason I decided to study physics!
Here's why the current government won't back PG's startup visa idea: Walmart is hated by too many in the Democratic party. A program to create a bunch of Walmarts owned by foreigners will be even more hated.

A distinguishing characteristic of a start-up is that it has the potential to make big profits for its owners: either by creating an new technology (like Google did), or by drastically reducing the cost of an existing technology (like Microsoft did). Walmart is an example of a company that made its founders rich by reducing costs. Walmart is also hated by many Americans and their elected politicians because it causes many employees of its competitors to lose jobs. I don't think that a government program that encourages foreigners to come to America in order to create businesses that make its owners rich by drastically reducing costs (including labor costs) will be any more loved by the Walmart-hating crowd.
Spaces destroy the planet
A response to the coding horror article.
Um, riiight. Are the kids doing differential calculus in high school now? Or is there another paper entitled "Ordinary Differential Equations for High School Students"?
In New York State, try the Freelancers Union. http://www.freelancersunion.org/insurance/index.html

I used this a few years ago while working for a startup and I got a full plan (comparable to the average full-time job's plan) for half price (at that time, around $250 a month).

Worth a look. They are always expanding and trying to provide more and more benefits for the W2-challenged.
Much of you decided by your genetics, news at 11.

Sorry about being so cynical but seriously that article's not exactly insightful. Was there ever an HN full of much better articles and never such as this one? Or it just my memory and wishful thinking fooling me into believing the old times were better? I bet that's genetic too.
Well, yes, putting the sarcasm below aside, I agree that this is Really Cool Stuff.

Reminds me of the bit in Anathem when Fraa Erasmas teaches Barb about Hilbert Spaces because, dammit, he was ready, and why make somebody go through the pain of doing it wrong when they're ready to learn how to do it the easy way?
Here's mirror: http://sandbox.enjoybeing.net/amazonfail-author.html