skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The lobbyists already sounded out (lobbied/paid-off/promised-job-in-future) enough people in govt to feel that this will go through, or at least there is enough chance of it happening.

I don't think that follows. AT&T / TMobile gave it a shot a couple years ago, and that was shot down.
Go to this link to discover if Linkedin ripped all your contacts: http://www.linkedin.com/people/contacts?sortAction=lastName&...

PS: I saw this link in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426733
If you are using FF or Chrome you can just make your browser run a js script after loading a certain page.

It's neat for small changes as you don't have to write a whole extension just a simple script.
Lung cancer and most other physical ailments have legitimate, objective diagnostic criteria. You get a test or two and find out if you have a specific disease. I.e., science.

Psychiatry, except in rare cases, does nothing of the sort. Most discussion about mental illness (including your post) is an attempt to induce people to apply fallacious reasoning about it - you've developed intuitions about cancer, now go incorrectly apply that intuition to depression/drug addiction/etc.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...

If you wish to argue that a given animal can fly, "penguins fly just like crows fly, they are both birds" is a fallacious argument. Similarly, "do X for mind disease just like you'd do X for lung disease" is a fallacious argument.
Zootool to shut down on March 15th, switched to read-only mode
Monte Carlo Simulations and Fibonacci: Why Developers Still Need The Basics
Venezuela anti-government rally turns deadly
Your first response to this clear case of injustice amounts to "well it's understandable, we certainly can't blame the authorities for being vindictive idiots who destroyed this kid's life over a throwaway joke."

If enough people did blame the authorities, we wouldn't have the horrible system we have. It wouldn't even have to be a majority; we've made progress in the past based on a principled minority of citizens pulling their heads out of their asses. Since you apply the blame that should go to the "justice" system to its victims instead, you are part of the reason the system does not improve.
We have freedom of speech. It's been established that apart from actual threats, or a couple of other instances (defamation, libel), this right is absolute. And this example is comedy, so it is clearly covered.
Too bad the cited example is the result of a patent.
Belief is no the same as faith.
Big money for a simple (lucky) project. I think it is time to move to another JS package registry.
Ask HN: Can a Stack Overflow moderator give us Stack Overflow back?
Stack Overflow is currently looking for moderators: http://stackoverflow.com/election/5

I really like Stack Overflow but I have noticed a few changes that I don't agree with.

- Fun questions are now considered to be off topic.

I don't understand why this happened. Work should be fun.

- Asking for directions is off topic.

Sometimes you need to ask which tool/product/etc. would be useful ... because comparing tools is boring and costs a lot of time.

So could a moderator even affect the direction Stack Overflow takes?
No.

How do you handle state migration?
For the most part, I don't mind w3schools ranking high in my search results when I just need to look something up really quick. I still believe they're basically a content farm, but on the other hand someone has to be the reference dictionary for HTML stuff. When I started out many, many years ago, I used a reference called SelfHTML which died out some time ago - and W3Schools mostly reminds me of that. However, my lookup workflow has changed, and I'm sure most other people are going in exclusively through Google as well.

I think most of these issues the article points out are somewhat short-sighted and superficial.

> They Use Classic ASP

I'm not sure they actually do, but even if that's true it's probably a choice they made in ancient times and they're sticking to it. And honestly, why not? It's not like we're dealing with a highly complex site that needs to be agile and extremely dynamic. They're probably just doing some light templating stuff and that's it.

> Script Tag Madness

That's a good point and it seems like an easy fix. However, most of these script tags seem to point to external vendors - most prominently Google - and that's probably why they're not messing with them.

> They Use Inline Styles

I agree it looks bad and it's also pretty easy to fix. On the other hand, those few extra bytes don't actually harm anyone. It's not pretty, but the argument that it makes the site hard to maintain is probably incorrect. I would think that no matter how many pages there are the number of actual templates used is quite small.

> They Use Ancient Float-Clearing Methods

Again, this is probably a hack from the dawn of time, and it seems to work. Would they do it the same way today? Probably not. But is it worth the hassle of taking it out for no reason other than pleasing nitpickers? Nah.

> They Use Tables for Layout / They Use <br> Tags Badly

Historically, for a while there that was an absolutely valid choice. Though I wouldn't write table-based layout code without cringing today, I have to take a stand here and assert that tables are not that bad of a tool. The standard argument that div/CSS-based table-like features are always better is somewhat hollow given the reality of actually dealing with the code. In practice, even CSS gurus do layout with HTML element structure all the time, they're just not open about it.

> They Have Duplicate Content

I'm not sure why Google doesn't filter these out. Not fixing that is somewhat of an atrocious move on W3Schools' part, but you can't really blame them for wanting the ad revenue.

> Their Embedded Code Examples are Ugly

That's true, they could do with an update. Syntax highlighting would be great.

> They Use Reflections / They Think “CSS3” is Part of “HTML5” / They Use the “keywords” Meta Tag

I don't care.

> Their Website is Not Responsive or Mobile-Friendly

Personally, I think that's a huge plus. I'm almost always annoyed when I get the mobile version of a site.
but... they only don't compete because of govt sanctioned monopoly status in the first place, no?
I think the jump from unreasonable to immoral is rather larger than you seem to imply.
> How many of these cool startups would be around without gnu/linux/freebsd?

They would be using Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, VMS, Windows instead.
Its a bit annoying that the input locks when you've been hit. You keep typing and even though you spell it correctly you're later in the word so its marked as wrong.
Is the response to MONLIST also sent as UDP? If so, why does CloudFlare even accept those packets to IP addresses used for web hosting? Shouldn't all legitimate traffic be TCP on ports 80 and 443?
Now you're on the trolley!
Learn to Code in 60 Minutes? UK Hour of Code Launches This March
Details on the SNMP amplification

http://www.nothink.org/misc/snmp_reflected.php
Fully agree, even when I bash C and Go design decisions regularly, I wouldn't care using them if that is what customers require me to do.

What matters at the end of the day is delivering working solutions to a problem, not how beautiful such solutions are.
If you are looking for a 'HTML dictionary reference' site, try MDN.
The fallback can be that you have to log in with a password. Which is bad, but apparently tolerable.
Seems to me like, you may not be as good as you think. If throwing a RSS feed at throws you then how you going to deal with real life legacy(sometimes not so legacy) crazyness?
Did your lawyer approve this comment?
I was of the same opinion and used Eco exclusively, but the implementation of Mustache in can.JS http://canjs.com/docs/can.Mustache.html is much better than anything I have seen.
Bollocks, Sony Ericsson was innovating, and I still feel that the M600i that I owned was one of the most innovative phones ive ever used. Still to this day no phone comes close in keyboard ability (seriously, go google the M600 or P1i), and UIQ3 was this wicked blend of smartphone power with a dumbphone-esque interface: something the iPhone did but improved on massively.

I use Apple everything. I love Apple products. But to say there wasn't any innovation happening before it in the phone sector misses some really cool things.

PS. I would pay all the money in the world for an updated P1i, same qwerty rocker keyboard, capacitive 3" touchscreen @ 720p running Android. One can dream, right?
I'm not, I thought I made that clear. I basically take the first reasonable-looking result on a Google search, as I believe do most people.
I built a large site using XSLT for the templating, and it definitely wasn't my experience that XSLT was a good way to "add intelligence to a template". I found it to be rigid, arcane and inflexible.

XSLT is great for transforming XML datasets to other XML datasets. It's just not designed for outputting web pages.
I'm guessing they aren't going to do tracking yet, but I agree the "we're going to start advertising for the users" presentation is super worrying. This is advanced doublethink. If they can't be honest about the most reasonable changes then I don't trust that they won't at some point make unreasonable changes and simply not mention them. It sounds like they may be trying to copy Opera so take a look at what Opera is doing to see where they might be headed.
> I wonder if we're simply used to games making hitboxes smaller than the avatar.

Yes, it's an often-used trick to enhance the feel of gameplay. Generally you want to make the hitbox of the player, and of the "bad" things smaller, and the hitbox of "good" things (items etc) larger.

This is all (just one) part of the philosophy that the game should behave as the player intends to control it, which is not always equivalent with the literal interpretation of how the player controls it.

Another example is jumping in platform games, if you walk off the edge of a platform, many games will give you a few frames of leeway in which you can still jump, even if the character is actually in mid-air. (alternatively a game can make the platforms' hitbox slightly larger than they appear, but in my experience the leeway approach makes for smoother gameplay)

All of these tricks basically make a game easier to play, but in a way that feels very satisfactory to the player. The idea being, you can always make up for the level of difficulty by making the levels harder, the enemies faster, etc. This shifts the balance from hardness by frustration to challenge.

The fact that Flappy Bird obviously subverts this philosophy, I think is part of its wtf-intrigue. Whether the author of the game did it on purpose or not, is another question.
Ubuntu: best booting sound and packet manager
Cooking with Docker and CoreOS on OS X
"Not asking for a password on registration means one needs to be emailed to the user, in plaintext."

Not really. You can just create the account without a password and let them create it with the 'forgot my password' flow later.
This has suddenly sparked my interest in it.
"Should a car manufacturer not employ someone who could do a useful job for them, just because that person lives in a big city and uses public transport to get to work?"

Should they not? No. Did/do they? Probably. Most people working at Ford own and drive cars, and they're almost all Fords. My understanding is that this has relaxed a bit over the years, but... working at GM and not driving a GM car was considered a mortal sin years ago.

Source: someone who grew up in metro Detroit.
JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America owns the federal
reserve which is a private owned central bank. They most likely also somehow influence the FED chairman selection. The FED sets the price of new money the interest rate. The interest rate in the banks favor is now close to zero. Low interest rate creates more new debt. Low interest rate eventually will create inflation as new money are put in the system, new money benefit those who get it first the banks and the one who are most at disadvantage is fixed income earners such as retired people.

If you want to know more about how JP Morgan and senator Aldrich who's daughter was married to a banker created the FED you can read more about it here.
http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm

Bitcoin may be a bubble, but crypto currencies are here to stay, banks fear alternative currencies because they can no longer control the prize of new money which is the source of the banks wealth. Current banks create money out of thin air by new debt creation.
I think it's still rightly so on Apple's part: Apple can set the rules however they like because the App Store is their playground. If you want to play there you have to abide by their rules - even if those rules are contradictory or arbitrary.

I do agree that developers should take their apps to other platforms (most notably Android). I don't expect Apple will change their rules, but customers may switch to other devices. I've personally switched from iPhone to Nexus 5 because some of the apps & features I wanted were blocked by Apple.
He's not in prison, he's in jail, and there's a big difference.

What?! Jail and prison are synonyms. There is no real difference.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/prison - A building to which people are legally committed as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/jail - A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.

Both refer to being detained both before and after conviction.
Don't you think that if your template is so complex that it actually justifies something like XSLT then you might be doing something wrong?

NB I've used XSLT a lot over the years (not client side though) and I have a healthy respect for what is possible with it - but as I rather prefer JSON to XML these days it seems a bit like overkill.
I hope you're not implying situations found in the Rwandan Genocide are typical in Africa.
I got the feeling that it was mostly PR to point out that his card was hacked. He was quoted as saying that had he used Paypal to pay instead of his physical card (which had extra security chip in it) he would have been secure.
>> Excluding a dominant group from a workshop is not sexism, the dominant group is not having its collective power threatened in any way

I am not a dominant group, I am an individual and I am excluded based on my genitals. This does not seem right.
You only need to associate 1 satoshi with
a 32-byte hash of your metadata (addresses,
certificates, private keys etc.) Metadata
can be distributed by any means, e.g. by
today's network of name servers.

If you store the hashes and rely on something else to tell you the metadata, how do you stop people deleting records from the past by deleting or blocking access to the metadata?

For example:

The legitimate owner of www.alice.com creates a DNS record saying "www.alice.com is owned by alice", then puts scrypt("www.alice.com is owned by alice") into the blockchain, then creates a DNS record saying "and the proof of this ownership is transaction e8a2e79eee906 which took place in December 2013".

You're on malicious coffee shop wifi. You don't have anything pinned. You make a DNS request and you get records saying "www.alice.com is owned by eve" and "the proof of this is transaction c8bb5f503dc26820 which took place in January 2014".

How do you find the first, legitimate transaction?
JS and Python are almost the same age.
JS is designed by a committee where the participants are pushing their own corporate agenda, similar to three horses pulling the carriage in different directions. It's unfortunate but that's reality of Web browsers domain. No amount of frameworks going to fix it.

On the server side you have one designer - Google and its V8 engine which caused an explosion in innovation.
The pythonic way of creating a Point like data structure is not

point = {'x': 0, 'y': 0}

but instead, this

Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'], verbose=True)

The resulting class, I believe to be more performant than using a dictionary - but I haven't actually measured this.
How is CL identifying you as an account-holder? Maybe you could just delete all their cookies? If it's by phone number, I guess you're out of luck...
CouchDB: Packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
Amazon's cloud becomes a favorite for hosting hot websites
You're forgetting about networking and the STG software divisions (e.g. firmware, some cloud software, the products that they acquired when they bought Platform Computing..)
If it isn't StackOverflow or MDN then I will not click it. I've had bad experiences with garbage linkbaiting.
The sermon: Your friends are not your market
> I.e. if you see 0.5% of active users use some functionality, you can remove it.

Grrr.

The implication behind this statement is that if most users don't use something, the one's that do don't find it useful.

I regard this implication to be false, and damaging.

> It can help rest of the users (make the app more simple)

If a user interface is well designed, then features that someone doesn't use won't get in their way.
they aren't typical but they aren't uncommon.

you could say the same thing about europe, though. especially in the 20th century, but there's time yet for the 21st to catch up!
I thought this was a parody. Obviously most well known and funded startups would have a large number of early users from SF / The Valley in technical professions.
Do we have an IFTTT recipe for this? I guess it's a pretty good idea to try this reverse search against all of our competitors to see if there is a pattern for our specific industry.
It's not such much what they left out, it's what they put focus on: quick and fast examples, which is what people mostly want (the "Try it Yourself" is also a huge plus here). If i want more detailed docs, i'm more than willing to scroll down the page.
This is pretty much exactly what I am talking about:

Your premise is that "building apps around event streams was the right model". Well, I don't buy that premise. I am open to it as a conclusion, but I don't buy it as a premise.

The examples don't support your premise, because they do not demonstrate that anything got simpler, at least not in any obvious ways. It's not less code, and the code isn't simpler in obvious ways. Saying that I would need prior exposure to F(R)P programming also does not help, it reinforces the point that this is more complicated.

The analogy to "imperative looping" also does not help, Smalltalk has had fancy higher-order loop constructs since the 70ies and is not FP and does not require FRP or "event streams".

Please don't think I am not open to cool things like stream programming, I did my own FilterStreams back in the 90ies. My initial version of Higher Order Messaging also lifted sequential message sends into streams of filters.

I thought this was way cool when I came up with it, but a slightly more mature me realized that it was not nearly as useful as it was cool. To me, the FRP hype seems a lot like that: yes, I can see it's cool that you hook something up over here and then it just keeps going, but the seasoned programmer in me is wary and can't detect the useful as distinct from the cool.

And, just to repeat, I am open to seeing the useful, I just haven't seen it yet.

Finally, we've had constraint programming also since the late 70ies (and spreadsheets as a form of constraint programming is probably the most popular form of programming), and I don't see what FRP brings to the table relative to constraints, at least after you strip it of the FP baggage.

See ThingLab, 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThingLab
Hehe, came here to say exactly that.
Is scarcity alone valuable? A social experiment.
>You've misread my comments and are trying to make them into something they're not. I wasn't calling you out for criticizing Go or trying to discuss its shortcomings. I was calling you out for being a dick to Enneff.

Well, we appreared as representing the Go team, and then rehashed the old "we're actively looking into it" response. I was not trying to be a dick, just wanted something more concrete than that.

Plus, I felt like he contradicted himself, when replying to another comment and said something to the effect that they didn't do anything about generics because they are busy building other things. So I had to ask, which was it, were they actively looking into it or didn't have time and had it as a low priority?
Tap to flap.
Show HN: link shortening API in Go
While this may be true, the guy who has worked a bunch with RSS feeds will ace this question even if he is a substantially worse developer. This wouldn't be a problem if said technology was what the company actually used, but in this case it was not.
"You showed two Reactive examples. One was written with Reactive Cocoa, and one was written with the normal Cocoa reactive API."

Exactly. Cocoa already is reactive.
Texas drops Algebra II requirement
By the time they get the chance to reject the packet it's too late. At that point it's already on their network and it's consumed their bandwidth.
i'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but suing people takes time and money, something most people don't have a lot of.
How we completely changed our internal comms in one morning (Campfire – Slack)
The packets have to actually reach you in order for you to filter them out. If you have a 300Gbps incoming pipe, and you're getting 300Gbps of attack traffic, then there isn't any space left in the pipe for your legitimate traffic. It doesn't matter that your router is throwing away the packets as soon as it receives them.

Also, web servers might want to consult NTP servers now and again.
Opera is really nice.
At least they could plot their feelings of rejection on the app Apple rejected.
Sure. Why should future unemployed, office drones, McJob holders, repair men etc, which comprise the 90% of the school population, need Algebra II?

That's for richer people's kids who get to do something interesting with their work, and for the ocassional very persistent smart kid.
I guess QUIC isn't mature enough yet, I wish someone would do the same with SCTP.
I was invited to a meeting at the Federal Reserve to talk about Bitcoin
Since Time Warner was rumored to be the partner of AppleTV TV content, ponders how this deal affects that. Was it a plan to stop that Apple deal to happen or will they benefit from that?

Ponders if this will pass the antitrust authorithy
First drop on Smartphone shipments in China in 2 years
It's mentioned in the article, albeit at the end.
"Master Password" Generates Unique Passwords You Cannot Lose
But isn't the whole point that no matter how low the P-value is, it is not a reliable measure?
> Does your local grocery store sell porn?

Yes? Pornographic magazines are very common in magazine racks...