skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are maglevs so much slower than airplanes? We're looking at a factor of 2 difference and airports don't take over 30 years to install. Isn't the point of a maglev to reduce the friction against the ground, so aren't both planes and maglevs fighting primarily against air resistance? Or is it not that they can't go faster, just that it's too loud or they need to turn too much or something?
Looks like Algol68 with some OOP.
Hey Daniel,

good points. I agree that when there are MULTIPLE English speakers in the group, it's almost impossible to slow them down. I also agree that it's unlikely to be arrogance in that case.

Perhaps I was mostly referring to one-to-one communications.
I think there's something specific to English though, especially the pronunciation part.

As an example, I have heard multiple times from Japanese and Russians that learning how to pronounce Italian is quite simple for them; I also was often in situations where Italians were thought to be Russians because of the way they would pronounce English.

This means that some languages are easier than others, and I still think that English is not that great from this point of view.
Nice to run into someone else using firehol! I've been using it for years but it doesn't seem to get much love.
Seems like 'in general' this is a good practice. you need to know 'what's inside' if your writing bank, finance, health-care, etc ... apps on top of other peoples code. besides as a developer you want to make sure running 'npm update' does'nt change a foundation library in a negative way. the best practice in enabling this is still up for dispute.
Yep. They have no clue. I've come to the conclusion that trying to get people to see reason is futile, but old habits die hard.
It's really hard to take pictures of the NSA and I wish I was joking. When you drive past it, on say MD's Route 100, there are signs stating not to stop or take pictures and police officers with their lights on at all times on the side of the road. You can't stop here unless it's an emergency. I'm not sure about the laws that back this up but I've never tested them.
What do you mean? As far as I can tell, it is freely available on NSA's website:

http://www.nsa.gov/about/_images/pg_hi_res/nsa_aerial.jpg
A versioned JSON API is awesome, I am not denying that. I also don't deny that the current state of the HTML markup on most sites is semantically rubbish.

Regardless of this entire PE debate, we would still have a problem, on the web, of data being out of reach due to walled apps that only serve rubbish HTML.

The problem of open + semantic data is very relevant to this discussion but we're pretending that one "side" has all the answers. I want a better web -- more open -- more semantic -- and maybe some shimmer of a truly semantic web[1] will emerge in the next 20 years.

So, yes, a 100% JS App is 100% awesome if, IMHO, it has:

* A publicly documented and consumable REST API

* Semantically enriched data through that API

* Some kind of degraded state NOT just for search-engines but for older devices and restrictive access (e.g. behind national/corporate firewalls)

I am not interested in being one side or another regarding this PE feud, and I am sure you're not either. I am trying to question what is best for the web and humanity as a whole. I don't think we have a silver-bullet answer. I do think it's necessary to dichotomize walled web-apps and open websites, and the latter deserve additional thought regarding usability, accessibility and semantics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
I think the problem relies on getting curated updates of other people's lives through Facebook.

It gives a very biased impression on how life should be.
Due to the ease of iTunes, Apple users have it way easier in having directly usable credit for the App Store. Besides, they already paid premium for their devices so it is likely they have additional money which they will spend on third-party applications for the iOS platform. Android still has this "It is cheap and free" imago so they are not heavy spenders and will not grab their wallet fast.

I don't have any data at hand to directly back this up, but my guess is it will be roughly like this. It would be valuable to have a report on how the high-end pricey smartphone owners (HTC One, Galaxy S4 etc) are spending more or less than the budget Android devices.
Oh I know, we could use iptables!
*is (Sorry, wrote this on my phone and didn't see the typo until it was too late to edit.)
The American government is collecting as much data about as many humans as it can, which I find morally repugnant. I support efforts to make that more difficult, even if it weakens the American government.
Could I email them? Sure, but that's broken and impersonal.

How much more personal can you get than one person writing a message specifically to one other person?
In poor countries, children are an economic win because they can be made to work for their parents. In rich countries, children are an economic loss because they can't be (both by law and because child labor is not in demand).
I don't have a facebook account, and I find the idea of using it for keeping in touch with past acquaintances not very alluring and frankly a diatribe.

You're not supposed to focus so much on other people's lives. Instead of people growing into better people through self defined improvement, people now seek gratification through others and their acknowledgment. Instead of going to a concert with a few choice friends and living in the experience, some just anxiously try to record the moment, which has ironically been lost with the vision of the future.

Don't ask me what the optimum amount of social contact and level is for a person, but suffice to say what people are currently doing is not it.
crypto "breakthrough" post and this is the most important comment?
I think maglevs are actually quieter and have reduced rail\line wear than conventional track already.

Though i think a partially evacced tube would be amazing as well.
> Some people simply love to nest callbacks... Anytime I see that it drives me crazy....

This is the correct reaction to heavily nested callbacks.

https://github.com/caolan/async provides several excellent functions to make readable code instead of callback soup.
Stallman's criticisms are accurate, but irrelevant. Real people tend to like and want the service that Facebook offers (frictionless connection to loved ones), and they deliver. Any anti-Facebook sentiment from the FOSS community that is not an attempt to create a free and humane disruption is merely wasted breath (or worse, an in-group shibboleth).
A manifesto for entrepreneurship and innovation to power growth in the EU
Facebook is boring after so many years. The problem will be solved by itself.
Most of the visuals in the video are webgl demos:

http://glsl.heroku.com/e#457.0 apple by iq

http://glsl.heroku.com/e#10809.0 by tigrou

http://www.backtothepixel.com/demos/js/webgl/704_webgl.html by paulo falcão

http://threejs.org/examples/webgl_custom_attributes_particle...
English is to spoken languages what Javascript is to coding.
did the author say something we all didn't already know?
WikiLeaks will file criminal complaints concerning seizures after cablegate
You don't have permissions to see or consume this API.
The less time you have left, the less valuable you are to a new employer. Hiring someone who can work for 6 years makes sense. Hiring someone who must leave in 18 months is much more of a risk. Therefore you are at an increasing disadvantage in any negotiation where your best alternative to agreement is to seek alternative employment, e.g. Salary increases, change of project.

You're right about the green card, however even if you can get the employer support you need, it takes years and further restricts your employment options in the meantime.
They've written up a case for ECC. More elsewhere in the comments, but a key point is "RSA's really slow if you want 2^256 security": http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml
Can you give a better alternative even with 20/20 hindsight for Korea..?

And Libya is far, far from perfect. But they don't have a Nero-copy as dictator, which would have murdered a lot of people if he had won the civil war...

Civil wars are always a horror.

Edit: Re Syria, arguably the world is a better place if a regime that use chemical weapons is bombed to Hell. To lower the risk that the next mass murdering junta also use them..
RP would probably have made a lot of regressive changes at home. He's not very good on women's rights or other issues.
No, altgr basically is not used while I still use it to have Russian over Ukrainian which has just few different letters іы їъ єэ ґ:-D

I could set up a lot of symbols though altgt but they won't mostly much English layout. But I don't need to because languages I program in are English based.

If I knew German, I would use exclusively German layout as apparently you do. But I need actually 4: En, Eo(that not much but still), Uk, Ru - those two every day. So I contracted it to 2: Latin/Cyrillic. :)
... Which was pretty much won by the USSR.
Because I have to look up their email (jabberwocky586@yahoo.com) and deliberately send them an email length message. On Facebook, I see their real name, their photo, their about page, and various recent things about their life. If I want to talk to them, I tap the chat bar and say two words.

Email is extremely cold and impersonal compared to Facebook chat. Most "normal" people don't use email outside of business or more specific uses.
From your own statement, I think we can deduce that the NSA isn't too happy with having its picture taken.

It's a pity that I can't source this specifically, but I vaguely remember reading in either James Bamford's "The Shadow Factory" [1] or his "Body of Secrets" [2] that the NSA once leased an entire office building that had been built near the edge of Fort Meade, simply because the top floors could see onto the campus.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Secrets
The problem I see is twofold. Like Disney, Nintendo is in danger of recycling its old franchises again and again. How much innovation has there been to the Mario franchise? Do we really need another hundred or so Pokemon?

Like Apple, Nintendo has seen great success by adopting the Blue Ocean Strategy with the Wii, but now is expected by the public to repeat that success with further innovation. Innovation is hard, and WiiU isn't very innovative.

Neither of these are insurmountable challenges, partly because the public (either kids or adults) is full of casual gamers who don't really care for a lot of innovative in either their games or their hardware. But it's a bit disappointing.
What nonsense. You've way overcooked your metaphor.

Way to read your own ideologies into my simple statement. It's unnecessarily arrogant to think you can glean so much from a two-sentence remark on your attempt to belittle state-based innovation and oversimplification of reasons behind contracting corporations for state needs. Nothing in my simple statement precluded recognition of economic complexities or suggested the state was in charge.

We can disagree all day long, and you can go about your business suggesting the state is a monstrous oaf stealing money from people with jack-booted thugs, giving it away to get votes, and the persons from whom they stole the cash got absolutely nothing out of the 'theft'--but piss off with this patronizing bullshit of calling a different view that of a child.

You've heavily laden a ridiculously partisan view of economy with a ridiculously partisan view of the state, and ultimately say nothing helpful or enlightening.

For someone who allegedly sits so high above, fathoming complex adaptive systems, you sure relegate the state to a role of simplicity and hand-waving, touting garbage as incontrovertible truths.

The state takes everyone's money by force without trading anything for it? What a useless view that shows no comprehension of political theory and the complex adaptive systems we establish in social and political institutions as actors who engage and transact.
http://wikileaks.org/Press-Release-WikiLeaks-Launches.html
There's some choice involved in whether to have children... until you have them.

There's also some choice involved in whether you are making enough money to support your children -- but not that much.
I'm a fan of:

while true do
puts 'lol'
end unless true

but seriously, I like postconditions. they're also handy for encoding intent, if you have a pattern of the left-hand-side being the primary logic flow.
And make it available in as many countries outside NA.

I would also like:

- LTE,

- GPS,

- a good Lumia 1020-esqe camera,

- Thunderbolt port.

Basically, a state-of-the-art machine (Not that above technology makes it really state-of-the-art). This is MS Research's time to shine.
Seriously, the bar for attention is incredibly low these days.
3D @Minecraft map of Alcatraz Island
You seem to have come the closest to my actual meaning, while still missing a point of subtlety that perhaps I did not convey.

Given your dichotomy, my statement would fall under the banner of B, however, what I am really driving at is the fallacy of the inherent trust that we tend to place in institutions and political actors that are supposedly 'on our side'. This is a vector that can be exploited and as such, must be minimized at every opportunity. I am playing the role of skeptic here to contribute to a mainline of skepticism that may serve to ultimately enhance the authority that the EFF asserts when they claim to 'speak for us'.

You say this is 'obvious', however, I would argue that it can never be obvious enough and that it is not actually as obvious as you might think. I am very often bewildered by the trust people are willing to place in institutions. I am disturbed by this trust — by this weakening of the foundations of authority. My comment came from these emotional and intellectual underpinnings.
I doubt devs are "ashamed" of making js web apps. The main issue is that it takes more effort to do so than a traditional web app. There are browser specific quirks. Frameworks like rails are so well-integrated with the db layer that it will be difficult to match that productivity with pure JS apps. And finally, a lot of devs don't want to take the time to learn, when the current standard is perfectly acceptable for most use cases.
It always surprises me how people are eager to project the foibles of people of all eras, onto modern technology.

Suffice it to say that the right amount of social contact a person wants varies, and finding your place free of loneliness in society has been a challenge since well before Facebook.
The Mythology of Evolution
I see a lot of similarities between the two companies. A willingness to think different in pursuit of their own hardware standards and form factors (remember how the Gamecube used mini-discs and had a handle for carrying?), huge success from pursuing the Blue Ocean Strategy, the capability to inspire consumer cults (possibly because they are seen as somewhat "purer" than their competitors), and even similar aesthetics (clean off-white plastic-porcelain hardware, the lower-case letter 'i').
But what if someone else posts that they watched all the way to the end??
Can you explain why it "doesn't pass the laugh test"?
Not an anthropologist, so take my casual observations with a grain of salt, but I can think of quite a few examples of latter day stone-age societies that are notably bloodthirsty. The few remaining indigenous tribes in the amazon, for one. 'Headhunters' in Indonesia, for another.
Some anecdotal evidence: I took over a restaurant a few months ago. Half the surveillance cameras don't work. I don't have video for every incident I know occurs there. But just having the cameras look like they're kind of working is enough.

I had an employee that stole a bunch of cheese and pastrami (I know, right, what's the point of stealing $50 worth of cheese and a block of pastrami?) inside empty pickle buckets he was "taking to the garbage bin" but really took to his car's trunk until said cameras were installed. A couple weeks after camera installation and a couple weeks of my eyeing him suspiciously, he quit saying that all the changes were annoying him and that the cameras were the last straw.

Currently the employees don't even dare to shift the blame for things that go wrong - not to mention I try to cultivate a culture of just being honest with me and giving people a pass for most offenses. They really seem to believe that I'm watching them when I'm really just occasionally checking the cameras for activity at night when the restaurant is closed. I think it also helps that I'll occasionally use the camera and the footage being recorded when a customer is being an asshole - to support my employees.

While I hate the idea of surveillance especially en masse, it seems like certain groups of people are willing to be a lot more honest and hard working when they think someone is watching and when it helps them too.
>if you have to walk out of the house with only one gadget on you

When would you have to walk out of the house with only one gadget?
As a rule of thumb, I don't take any article that refers to Snowden's leaks as "revelations" seriously. The only new information Snowden revealed is that their programs are called PRISM, upstream and xKeyscore; and if a journalist learned the details behind those programs from Snowden -- when they've been going on for at least a decade -- they clearly don't know much about the subject.
Internet advertising is doomed
Often, I'm busy typing on it.
So, Deus Ex had a wonderful story and world, but you could have changed a lot of the items and themes around and still gotten the core gameplay: explore a place, solve puzzles, shoot enemies, navigate areas stealthily. The fact that it had a really solid story behind it and lots of fluff was icing on top--had the gameplay (the combination of movements, game rules, and objectives) been lackluster, you would've stopped playing (probably).

Compare this with games like Tetris, Mario, or even Starcraft: there are people that will wank on and on about how great the stories are, how rich the worlds are, how awesome the symbolism is--but the core act of playing the game is what makes them last for so long.

From the FPS genre, we see that Half-Life and its sequels had pretty flimsy stories (despite being regarded for having such great cinematic experiences for the time); however, their use of tight, solid gameplay (both in combat and in puzzles) are why they're loved so much today. Indeed, the better storytelling in Portal 2 was greatly offset by the more-restrictive gameplay it had compared to its predecessor: Portal was much more free-form in portal placement, and did less to hint what the obvious move was.

Bioshock Infinite was a masterpiece of storytelling, and had a genuinely thought-provoking ending and plot. Yet, the actual gameplay was not crazy far ahead of what we've seen in its contemporaries, and that's why it's probably not going to go down as one of the classics of gaming for this era.

~

The big problem with emphasizing story and narrative over gameplay is that it is very easy and seductive to write a rich game world with lots of symbolism and all the rest--but it's hard to see when you're not good at it, and you end up creating kitsch intellectual garbage. Gameplay, though, is easy to test, harder to create, and is what actually ends up immersing your audience and bringing them into your game.
It’s a myth that if you use a client side MVC framework
that your application’s content cannot be indexed by
search engines. In fact, Discourse forums were indexable
by Google the day we launched.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/19/adding-support-for-search-en...

They are probably a good case to follow, if you want to see what people's experiences with SEO for JS-based services are.
Just to clarify, I was a paid user, and am still yet to receive my refund. As I've recommended Spideroak to my clients, and several of them are also paid customers of yours, this puts in me in a difficult position.
At some point recently, the browser transformed from being an awesome interactive document viewer into being the world’s most advanced, widely-distributed application runtime.

This is the key sentence in the article and this is why I was motivated to become a web developer. Recently someone asked me if I felt like I was missing out by doing most of my programming on the web since desktop apps are "real programming" and I said no because the web is the best environment for writing apps today. I don't have to choose whether I want to write for Mac OS which I use myself, or Windows which most consumers use or Linux which hardcore techies use. I don't have to choose if my mobile app is iOS or Android first. Sure there are still tradeoffs, and sometimes a desktop or native mobile app is still going to be a good choice. But the browser today is an amazing environment that everyone on the web has access to and it's only getting better. And we should be excited about leveraging everything modern browsers can do to make great software.
WWI, then?
I have to assume, in Google’s case anyway, that they are indexing according to ‘what the user sees’. Not to do so would means lower-quality search results. Users don’t care how the page ‘happens’.

I make this assumption because most of us don’t actually know how Google works, acting as a user’s proxy is in Google’s interest, and it is certainly within their technological capability. (Let me emphasize assume, again.)

This would require that the crawler actually renders sites, indexes the resulting DOM, and clicks what can be clicked. A headless Chrome, perhaps.
Real people

Yes, because Stallman is fictional. I'm fictional. Anyone who isn't on Facebook doesn't count as a person.
Is offering a free version of your webapp worth it?
Just read https://medium.com/on-startups/bfab146c47c8. The author gives compelling reasons not to offer a free version of your webapp, and the approach seems to be working for his startup. Do any of you out there have any real world experience on this subject?
Absolutely Adorable 4y/o Apple Genius
Ahh for some reason I just assumed XK. My bad. That makes sense then.
"""living in the experience, some just anxiously try to record the moment, which has ironically been lost with the vision of the future"""

Louis CK illustrated something close : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpAwhSSe7F0
You seem to be suggesting that you have to pick some interpretation. Am I misreading? Why do you have to take any interpretation seriously if it does not imply any observable consequences?
You're right to point out that the current best practice is to use HTML as intended, including semantic markup for links and buttons. Still, some developers attach mouse and/or touch events to semantically undistinguished elements without providing appropriate markup. For instance, the TodoMVC examples do this (including the Ember.js one). I guess it's time for me to start submitting pull requests.
The problem with your world view is that it doesn't take into account any major negative influences.

What if you gained 20 pounds? Or lost your boyfriend to your close friend? What has normally be associated with the family is now associated with the village, and that adds a lot of stress to people's lives.

Another problem is the us versus them that this group has enforces on people like me. I think I'm a pretty cool person, but if we met, I wouldn't have a facebook account to share with you. Would that affect your opinion of me? Maybe not, but I've had people comment negatively to it, and have even read articles proclaiming it affecting people economically due to potential social expectations now set by employers.

To me, it's a destructive force and a tool. A real-time chatting/messaging service that connects to an address list. And a new social experiment leading people down a path of "true" social alienation and narcissism.

I don't doubt that some people can use the tool responsibly, but it also leaves much to be desired for.