skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that its not the BBC's project doesn't hold water, you are using someone else's web server technology (Apache?), someone else's programming language (Java? So, Sun... now Oracle), another company developed the hardware, doubleclick to serve your ads, pulse for your surveys, why not also jQuery for your js library?

You also did not need to branch jQuery, as if you had contributed to it then screen reader support would already be in its core now, or available via plugins. The point is, that with libraries that are truly open source like jQuery, all that work put into glow could have been put into jQuery. No branching necessary.

If jQuery chose to drop support for a browser you felt was necessary, you could have simply not upgraded to the next version of jQuery or complain about it and offer to do the work to make it compatible with those browsers.

Plus you would have been benefiting from the serious testing that the jQuery team puts jQuery through. All that testing and bug fixing is work the Glow team does not need to do, or at least bugs that the Glow team doesn't need to fix themselves.

I've used jQuery as the example here, because I feel its the best choice, but Prototype, Dojo, Mootools, ExtJS, could have also been good choices, though only Dojo of the four has such open contribution to the core as jQuery.

On a side note, something you guys may want to look into is concatenating, minifying, and gzipping your js and css files. It could reduce the js/css file size and number of http requests by as much as 2/3 on your pages.
I found the last paragraph to be especially thought-provoking.

He talks about the trap of talking about the work you plan to do at the expense of actually doing it, which is something I find is easy to fall into.
A small, gentle question that could change your life
In the rest of the world too. Just allow me to put my own data SIM in it.
it dropped...
BeepBeep, CouchDB and a Trivial Blog
ouuuuchhh.

That sounds prohibitively expensive for things like news.yc (does this site produce money at all?), or my blog, or fark, or any other site that isn't backed by some sort of multi-million-dollar corp. and generating a couple million uniques a day (or more).

My prediction is that, especially at that cost, this will fail MISERABLY. .com will still remain the brand-name, and anything else will be a generic.

Similar to .net, .biz, .tv, .anything other than .com

What really needs to happen is for icann to have a review board that can determine if cyber-squatting is taking place or not.

The board needs to exist because a 16 year old sitting on theirname.com because they haven't bought hosting or anything yet, and a company that is sitting on a few hundred THOUSAND domains hoping to sell them are drastically different. I am perfectly fine with the former, and believe that the latter is a cancer on the DNS.

Basically their needs to be a terms of use that prohibits cyber-squatting.
Link:http://doleaf.com
It's way too easy - #beijing is full of spam and reporting it via block or @spam seemingly doesn't help

I've been working on a tool to solve this problem for myself where I can mute bad users or only show known good users : http://tweetbe.at/
I don't trust credit unions per se, I trust small companies far more than I trust large ones.

Small companies are more transparent. They are built more on personal relationships than global branding campaigns. When you're small, most employees share the vision of the founders, because they work with them every day, and because the founders wouldn't have hired them otherwise. And because small companies simply cannot afford to seek short-term profits the way large companies can. There's no reward for that.

I'm sorry in advance for sounding like a prick, but isn't that obvious?
Ask HN: If ideas are overrated...
Why do we still see people not openly discussing their startup idea ? Why all the 'stealth mode' & secrecy ?
I think making a claim like users don't have to deal with viruses, malware, and security updates is potentially more dangerous than having an OS with a less robust security model.

Even linux and BSD systems are vulnerable if malicious programs are given the necessary permissions to run. If a casual user hears something like, "This OS is immune to viruses", they're likely to be a lot less cautious about running programs that might auto load from websites. By now most Windows users know better than to click OK when a website wants to install something on your PC.
Nice, Clean app. So the feedback.

Help link doesn't work

The info overlay on the photos are excellent. But I would prefer it to be more visual than the black-white - eg: Full Sun - Yellow Bright sun, indoor - a green house?, for the growth- something that stands out - may be a creeper(of course colored)... you get the idea.

Just a thought(for my eyes), I felt that the grey menu on the left seemed bit bland, given that you have green and white as your colors.
just curious - is this a rails app? what db?
New York Times to decide how to charge for its website by August
I agree with the locality part. I'm just starting to plan for landscaping my yard, and I'd love to be able to put in my area so I could browse plants that grow well here.

I know next to nothing about this stuff, except that to have someone else do it is expensive, so it would be great to have a site to make DIY easy, along with the option to go ahead and order my plants without having to visit the nursery (of which, there are strangely very many within 2 miles of me).
i would buy it immediately if is supported chinese
Coincidentally, I happened across this older HN poll for Myers-Briggs types on the /best view, yesterday. Referencing for whatever interest it may be.

It looked to me to be a rather interesting thread; I mean to go through it in more detail, as time/energy allows:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240
i believe this is a good idea on a phone, but not on a computer screen. the problem is really that if you do this, then when someone is logging in with someone else with them - then they are out of options. it's easier to watch characters appear one at a time than it is to watch someone's hands on a keyboard.

for example, i have a media center setup in my living room. sometimes people are over, or my housemate is down with me, and i need to sign into netflix so we can watch movies online -- or I'm shopping with someone and now I need to sign into newegg or amazon...

I like the idea of the compromise with Jakob Nielsen's idea -- which is to have a button on the page that says like "hold down to reveal password", or "press to reveal password". i'm going to experiment between 'hold down to reveal' and 'press to reveal' next time i make a login page -- i like hold down, but maybe there's a problem with that i'm not realizing yet.
I think his point was that the example in the article makes little sense -- if you're typing "match.com" into Google you clearly haven't forgotten that the domain name is "match.com" ... You probably just don't know that you can type it in the address bar.

The example would have made more sense if the author had said people type "Facebook" looking for "Facebook.com"
Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 1)
I think the big miss here is any reference to the sexp navigation functions -- forward-sexp and backward-sexp. These are very useful when programming.

I've been using emacs for close to 20 years. I've had more hand pain from too much mouse use than I have with emacs' traditional shortcuts -- assuming the control key is remapped to the caps lock location next to the "A" key.
"Your style is...unorthodox."

"But effective."

- Enter the Dragon

I'll add some more politically unorthodox commentary: from what I've seen with family and friends, many women don't know how to be loyal, supportive, and understanding of ambitious men. Hard work and delayed gratification are seen as being self-absorbed, instead of necessary investments for a better future.

Also implicit in your comment, but it should be made explicit: be with someone who has a good relationship with both parents, especially Dad.
The antivirus problem isn't a resource consumption problem. "The halting problem" is a CS synecdoche for the limitations of static analysis and the fundamental generality of what a "virus" is.

He's saying, "we mathematically figured out a long time that trying to look at a computer program and predetermine what it will do before running it is a task that reduces to the halting problem."

That this is a stupid way to look at the antivirus problem is besides the point here.
good idea. spam filter for hashtags
It seems like random tlds would produce some seriously confusing site architecture.

If you were to pick .companyname as your tld.. then what would your homepage be? home.companyname? Where do you go from there? home.companyname/contact or contact.companyname? what about a sub-page of that page? What do you put in an ad? just go to .companyname? or go.companyname? the possibilities are endless.

Every site would likely use their own rules. The simple tlds we have now are confusing enough for consumers.
..:: Rebind CapsLock ::..

Windows users, use SmartKeys[1] to redefine CAPS LOCK to Left Control.

I makes the frequent use of the control combinations a lot more bearable.

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[1] http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html
because there's always the chance that someone can execute it better than you?

who would be so bold as to assume they're the best at developing a product.

or that someone could take your idea and run with it and just get luckier than you.
It's just other peoples' ideas that are overrated. Mine is pure gold.
im stuck in level 2..what do i need to do to go to level 3...thanks
Allowing friendly programs to access resources but disallowing unfriendly ones is impossible, because it is impossible to distinguish between the two without some form of enforced signing that is impossible for the user to subvert(and who wants that?). And no, defaulting to reduced permissions for some programs is insufficient. People will still click "Ok, allow higher permissions" on programs if prompted.

What's the difference between 'rm -rf foo', for example, and 'run-virus'?
You've been interviewed by a reporter, yes? His very next sentence could have been something like, "It's not going to be virus-proof, but I'm glad to see they're thinking about security early. There is still a lot that can be done at the operating system level to improve security for the user."

The reporter would have cut that part out. It's not controversial enough. You could do the same thing with his blog post on homomorphic encryption if you took the phrases, "Gentry’s scheme is completely impractical," and "I think he’s being optimistic with even this most simple of examples," in isolation from "practicality be damned -- this is an amazing piece of work," and "I never expected to see one [a secure fully homomorphic cryptosystem]."

I don't understand this need to pull Schneier down. He's a smart guy, most of his writing is good, and he helped design a cipher that came pretty close to being selected for AES. Anyone who enters the media game is going to end up getting a bit caricatured.
none of those hotkeys work on mac safari. cmd-L is location bar and cmd-opt-f for search
> vastly prefer living as a Software Engineer than my days studying Computer Science, because it's not all sterile, formal, and rigorous, but is open to more complex analysis, more open-ended, and always with new things to learn.

I would slightly beg to differ. Computer Science as a science is filled with interesting problems, is open ended, and will never be short on things to learn. It is however different in kind than the problems and things to learn that Software Engineering focuses on. It is more akin to mathematics (some would say perhaps correctly that pure computer science in this sense is a form of mathematics).

>our traditional educational path has a serious mis-match for people who want to be Software Engineers

This I agree with. Computer science as taught in most universities is a strange mismatch of hard theory and practical skills in coding, but very little in terms of some things that a practical software engineer must have such as gathering requirements and working on teams of programmers.

I think it might be wise to split software engineering into a separate (but closely related) degree.
any hint on level2, i'm stuck there..thanks
These sorts of arguments really make me facepalm.

Listen, Bruce, they don't literally mean that their OS will be completely and 100% totally impervious to any sort of malware or virus attack of any kind ever to exist ever in the future ever ever ever to infinity times infinity.

They mean that their OS will be considerably more resistant to any sort of reasonable malware attack in the foreseeable future, and they're 100% correct.

Windows, even just because of its target market, will be the low hanging fruit for as long as I think anybody can foresee. Simply because of this, linux and bsd-kernel based operating systems that are using proper user isolation (meaning not running as the freaking root account by default) are going to be more secure than windows.
Got a confirmation, but it said that I missed something, and so it continues!
Yes, it certainly is overdue for modernization. Speaking as someone who has had the misfortune of interfacing with it, nothing would make me happier if it went away.
What Services Would You Pay to Use?
I do this fairly reguarlly. I often miss type domain names, but when I do this in google they will correct me.
By now most Windows users know better than to click OK when a website wants to install something on your PC.

Have any data to back that up? Because my impression is the opposite.
Hands-On with Adobe Browserlab
What do you mean, this rules out news.yc? That already works:

$ ping news.yc
PING news.yc (174.132.225.106): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 174.132.225.106: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=204.946 ms

In fact if I was PG I'd deny access to any other host in the request headers .. that'll keep out the proles.

Anyway, I think the new gTLD scheme will be a (qualified) success. Just not quite for everyone. But a lot of people will snap them up. http://www.ibm/ will be irresistable, and there's a lot of interest already from cities, etc (.paris, .roma, etc).

On the subject of domain squatting - all I wish they'd do is massively raise the prices on .coms. It is ridiculous for people to be able to squat on them for $7 a year. And if they are sold, or for sale, the owner should have to pay property tax at the sale price for the duration of his ownership.

I don't mind people owning and trading "investment grade" .coms - what I can't stand is people buying tens of thousands of the damn things and then just sitting on them because they're so cheap.
Hacking and electronics comic book
I'd compare it more to Paul Buccheit's gmail story, where users kept asking for a compose button but actually wanted a faster interface. What users say and mean are two different things.
The land of "cybersquatters and big companies" sounds anything but sexy, though.

Maybe madeupname.com will sound hipper and sexier as a result of big companies moving to their own domain?
My Code or Someone Else's Code?
Kdenlive: A Video Editor in the Spotlight
writing by hand might actually be the lazier option, apart from it being more personal...
Yeah, I think a lot of it are delusions of grandeur and fear that people will mock the ideas. Note--stackoverflow.com was very open all along, very successful, and as far as I know virtually no competition.
Just report, don't scoff experts. It makes you look stupid. Now what was the context? Ah, I see you were so busy trying to claim intellectual superiority (failed) that you forgot about that.
I like the look and feel. I was confused. I went to buy Lungswort (http://doleaf.com/listings/11-lungswort) and it costs $6. What do I get for $6? Clearly too expensive to be seeds so it's a plant. Do I need my own pots? How will it be shipped?

Those were a bunch of questions in my mind
I have a Treo 650 right now, and it does have this functionality. Even though web browsing on the old Treos is pretty dismal, the older smartphones still set up a lot of the groundwork that the iPhone needed to be successful. And indeed, the iPhone has made a lot of breakthroughs in the smartphone world, but it still bothers me when it gets credit for features borrowed from its predecessors.
> They mean that their OS will be considerably more resistant to any sort of reasonable malware attack in the foreseeable future

By the way, that's what Microsoft meant when they released Windows 98... and 98SE and ME, and 2000, and XP, and 2003, and Vista, and 2008, and 7.

Pointless claim. Just deliver and we'll see.
Youtube phasing out support for IE6
As someone who has spent hours whois'ing for domain names coming up with a name for a new project, I couldn't agree more with the statement about squatters being a cancer. On the other hand, my guess is that squatters make up the lions share of registration fees...

Hard to bite the hand that feeds you. (ICANN does get a big chunk of the reg/maintenance fees, right?)
You'll note that I didn't comment on his post about Gentry's homomorphic encryption scheme, for two reasons: (1) homomorphic encryption is a very boring topic, and (2) I don't feel like I have an authoritative argument for Schneier not being qualified to talk about it. Having dispensed with the straw man in your second graf, I'll take the 1st and 3rd in order.

I have been interviewed by reporters. And I have, in fact, made lots of mistakes with them. Security researchers are unnaturally attractive to trade reporters, and there's business value in cultivating contacts with them, and I've definitely let that process run too far in the past.

So, a mistake is a mistake. And thus, regarding your first graf, two responses:

(1) I stand by my original argument that Schneier doesn't appear to be close enough to Chrome OS security to comment on it, and his comments appear to misconstrue what Chrome OS is aiming for, and

(2) I stand by my original argument that this is an example of Schneier's business objective of inserting himself into every conversation about computer security again coming at a cost of his credibility.

Finally, you want to understand my need to pull Schneier down. I don't care if he's smart. I care that he's a guru. He's listened to uncritically by lay professionals, and his opinions about the problems they face are often not valuable. I'll add that Schneier's reputation in cryptography --- a field I am not a part of --- is not ironclad. If you want to stick up for a scientist, start with their citation record. Let us know what you find.
I think it'd be sweet to have some kind of wishlist feature. Not like the Amazon wishlist where you link to items that are for sale, but where buyers can declare what they are looking for with the hopes that sellers will fulfill it. Nothing fancy, just maybe something that sellers could access when working on submitting their inventory.
How about the price depends on how many names you have? That way the little guy can have his $7 domain but if you want to buy thousands of domains each successive one is more expensive and having millions of domains is prohibitive (as there is really no good reason to have them anyway).
I agree. Excellent final paragraph.
Regarding the symbols, I have been playing with Programmer Dvorak lately. It swaps the position of the symbols and numbers, such that you hit shift for the numbers and get the symbols without shift. It also moves commonly used programming symbols around so you use the first three fingers more, and avoid the pinky.

You could do something similar without using dvorak of course.

Link to layout: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
Yarr, smooth use of an affiliate tag there, kirse.
Having password fields in plain test is just ridiculous on regular computers. Even when I first saw how iPhone's password field works I though "What are they thinking".

The only reason it is useful on iPhone and other touch-screen devises is because touch-screens do not have same feedback as buttons. They need a way to show that you have entered the letter that you meant to enter. Sometimes, with long passwords it can become hard to even know that when you touched the letter it was entered into the field unless it gets shown.
I saw the movie Waterworld and I dont think I want to live that way. I've become quite fond of trees, mountains, open spaces, and long hikes without a lot of people around.

Anarchy sounds pretty silly to me. Friedman already says they will need police to make sure they aren't harboring terrorists. Sounds like laws and government to me. Building codes? I would think you would need those on a floating community. Maybe a fire department too. Probably like a community maintenance fee. Sounds like a tax to me. What do do with those citizens who cant care for them selves, the sick, the mentally ill, the young, the unskilled? Row them to the mainland ald let some government care for them?
What ChromeOS is (not)
(Sigh), yeah so in this case they were off by a factor of 3, not pi. I was close :)
End the Corporate Income Tax
That this is obviously true has, I'm sure you can see, no bearing on the original argument.
The interview, sans cruft and sped up a bit: http://2009.s3.amazonaws.com/buffett.mov
i'll paste my comments from the other post on the very same topic:

i believe this is a good idea on a phone, but not on a computer screen. the problem is really that if you do this, then when someone is logging in with someone else with them - then they are out of options. it's easier to watch characters appear one at a time than it is to watch someone's hands on a keyboard.

for example, i have a media center setup in my living room. sometimes people are over, or my housemate is down with me, and i need to sign into netflix so we can watch movies online -- or I'm shopping with someone and now I need to sign into newegg or amazon...

I like the idea of the compromise with Jakob Nielsen's idea -- which is to have a button on the page that says like "hold down to reveal password", or "press to reveal password". i'm going to experiment between 'hold down to reveal' and 'press to reveal' next time i make a login page -- i like hold down, but maybe there's a problem with that i'm not realizing yet.
Anyone using emacs would be well served by the Kinesis Ergo keyboard -- Ctrl and Atl (and a bunch of others) are at your superstrong thumbs, not your wimpy pinky:

http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm
Anyone know why they chose these countries specifically? Just curious.
As I was looking over the site I was thinking - I know you're just getting started but there is a real lack of plants. And then I got to thinking why can't I sell my plants on DoLeaf? Just my two cents - but what about making a "sell your plants" section?

edit: I found your "Sell With Us" link. But I guess I was thinking more of - any could sell a plant - that might help you get a larger selection. But I guess there are issues with that model.
Wait...you're telling me techne and episteme aren't the same? And that it's hard to reconcile craft and science using the tools of science alone? Whatever will we do?

As a fun aside, Connell's misunderstanding of the Church-Turing thesis is cute (though perhaps a little insulting to all of those computer architecture researchers in CS departments!). "All computing hardware is equivalent". I see -- I didn't realize that my 8bit 2-register CPU with 4KB of memory can do anything my 64bit 32-register CPU with 4GB of memory can do. But of course it can, because the lambda calculus can express any effectively computable function. Right, I see that now.
Quibbles With Quants
Good Programmers Don't Need No Marketing
Partly paranoia, and partly because overrated doesn't mean worthless. I occasionally advise startups we've funded to keep some part of their plans secret. (You never want to keep everything secret, or it just advertises you're keeping a secret.)