skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've formatted three books self-published by my wife. The first in Pages (better than Word for nearly everything except document interchange), and the latter two in LaTeX.

I'll take LaTeX. It's more reliably reproducible. Once I got the basic format created (for her second book)—which took about as much time as it took to format the first book in Pages—the third book took about a tenth the time. My tooling was in place.

It's not for everyone, and you really have to either dig deep or find a macro set that does what you want (or both—I'm using a macro set on top of scrbook). There is room for something better, but that something better is not Word (or Pages).

(I'd almost say that what LeanPub does is good enough, but their LaTeX typography sucked when I tried it almost two years ago.)
Assuming it was in the dictionary. We're not talking about a time when going to webster's dictionary website was really an option, as in the internet wasn't really much of a thing still, at least not in my area. They had the ability to dial into their e-mail (a BBS called First-Class) via modem, that was about it. The dictionary in the library was about 5 inches thick and probably 25 years old, I doubt it had 'quark' in it.
Unix was here before all those conventions you listed. So go back in time and tell Windows and Mac software vendors to stop making everyone change their muscle memory in order to use some new software...

But seriously, this is a complaint I hear from undergrads in CS all the time. My answer is the same every single time: stop whining and get over it. You're a professional now, you use professional tools and sometimes they work differently, that's just the price of admission. Nobody whines that driving an 18-wheeler is different from driving a compact car, they just suck it up and train for a CDL.
Yes and source code only tells you how it does work not what it should do. I find it tricky to follow a call path through polymorphic and mixin based code.
Unlike late 20th century, Writing in the 15th century was rare and a costly endeavor. It is possible that it is an expression of whimsical fantasy. But it would be highly unlikely for this reason.
I'm here in USA on H1b. I'm 29 and I've only arrived about a month ago. Coming here has been an extremely difficult and long process for me, with thousands of job interviews ending with the first question -- "do you have a work permit". Presumably I'm not exceptional enough to just get a job with a company like Google, so it's supposed to be this difficult for someone like me.

But articles like this still make me feel very sad.
To be fair, he may have tried that. The site is completely unusable on a phone as it seems to make assumptions about the minimum screen resolution and doesn't allow you to zoom out like most desktop sites on a mobile screen do. In fact it's one of the most poorly designed sites I've stumbled upon in a long time in that regard (which is a great pity as the content looked interesting)
Exactly.

Imagine if that was written a few centuries ago and was recently discovered without being able to know who wrote it or be able to replace it within its context. I'm pretty sure all sorts of people would speculate wildly about its hidden meaning.
It makes $20 million in revenue. I've read that they're profitable, but never the number.
doing adblocking in a browser is not unix philosophy in my book.

I run privoxy (http proxy) for that.
Cool app. I see it makes good use of the three band equalizer audio unit in iOS. This app would be great for hearing impaired.

Shameless plug: My start up also concerns audiology apps. Like the founder of SoundFocus, I've had hearing issues all my life- just had my second typmpanoplasty in November. Right now we have two apps that address tinnitus on iTunes. Check us out, www.bxtel.com
Steve Jobs may appear on U.S. postage stamp
>a loss of many of the best women for the traditionally-female professions

I'd really disagree with that. It means the best women are heads of those departments, not that they are lost from the profession.
Well, it certainly point toward a rich patron in any case, someone who could afford all this manual labour.

But what is more likely? That this is a forgotten language of which only a single mystifying example exists (ignoring the completely unlikely plants being described in the manuscript), or that it is a work of fantasy that has merits of its own?
<marquee direction="up"><marquee direction="left"><blink>Look at me gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>
Imagine for a second that Lebron James were to create a Kickstarter for a cookbook he wanted to make, which was funded to the tune of $100,000. Obviously, much of this money would come from people who didn't really care about the superstar's take on the perfect omelette, but valued his athleticism enough that they wanted to support him in other endeavors. Is this reduction of James to nothing more than his basketball skills equally problematic? If not, what do you see as the difference that makes this latter example of objectification ok?
Agreed the OP was harsh in response but the point made regardless. Your caviler attitude in this thread, and overall post, makes me question your maturity as an industrial grade programmer but that moves towards ad hominem instead of healthy debate...this is not a sleight and will agree I lost the debate before it started.

Do keep in mind that modern software as you state are great tools for completed tools but very little options for those that create the tools themselves, IDE's for example but not limited to that concept. This leads to my point:

To paraphrase the OP, maybe some things should not be fucked with for "code purity" in the name of functional purity. If you vehemently disagree, make a better product. Critical mass will replace the failed ideology that ultimately leads to a better technology. All the flame wars in the world won't change this fact and ultimate outcome.
I feel slightly ill now. I once did this on my netscape binary:

perl -pi -e 's/<blink>/\0/'
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Did Apple seriously just reveal a fundamental bug in their SSL certificate validation at 5pm on a Friday? I'll shut up about this soon...

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So at this moment it may be possible to eavesdrop/inject data into secure connections made by like 99% of the iOS devices in the world?

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Ok, I know what the Apple bug is. And it is bad. Really bad.

@matthew_d_green
I'm not going to talk details about the Apple bug except to say the following. It is seriously exploitable and not yet under control.
As new PC technology evolves, Project Christine can evolve with it.

I read that and was taken back to the early 90's and Zeos PC's with CPU daughter cards that would protect my investment according to the glossy ads in Computer Shopper. Then there was the 487 socket for upgrading 486SX CPU's...by disabling the FPUless chip completely for the fully functional chip that should have been bought to begin with. Not that upgrades were ever done in significant numbers.

Of all the forms of premature optimization that occur in computing, non-standard upgradable hardware is among the most persistent.
I'm a Finn and although I didn't truly grow up there, I've always considered Finland a Scandinavian country. You can be pedantic and say that because of geographical and linguistic reasons, it's not Scandinavian, but outside of those specific contexts, no one really cares.
Pygments is a Python tool, accessed through RubyPython* (for which I should really make sure it still works with Ruby 2.1 and maybe start trying to figure out how to make it work with Py3.)

We have a few crashes that I can't figure out (but am putting in the test suite).

* https://bitbucket.org/raineszm/rubypython/src
Sometimes laziness beneficial for the world. Maybe not for the agency.
"What would be much smarter is using your own engineers to build that next disruption"

Could they, though? Facebook's DNA is information accumulation. As is Google's.

WhatsApp is the antithesis of this, and the likely outcome of this acquisition is the gradual decline of the product as people flock to whatever new, unburdened, anonymous replacement comes along.

But for a while it will boost the stock price because it keeps user engagement seemingly high.
SF and predicting the atomic bomb
I wrote a dissertation, two theses, and a bunch of papers in latex and I never ever ever ever did any graphics that weren't imported as eps or, later, png.
This is the embodiment of the phone-scanner-mapping thing from The Dark Knight. Fascinating!
I am somewhat inspired to put an easter egg in my current project.
Mid Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
For books, Amazon's ASIN is just the ISBN-10.
In case anyone is interested in the numbers, USA produced in the region of 50,000 Sherman tanks during the Second World War. 5-10x more than Germany. Plus the British tanks. It didn't take all that long to reach Berlin!
WhatsApp had revenues of $20 million last year -- clearly much lower than their userbase -- and from reports on here most people were unaware any $1 per year thing even existed. Their site doesn't seem to even mention the $1 thing, but instead declares -- without time restriction -- that it is entirely free.
Drop the a,b,c... just timestamp it.
You're missing the now-deleted context, which is him accusing me of talking my book because Stripe. I was pointing out that, if anything, my book would be in the other direction.

I'm still flummoxed that people keep thinking I'm part of the Global Banking Conspiracy rather than, say, a geek who makes a living on the Internet who came to his own conclusion.
I just came out of doing that. The first question I got is "That's nice. But can it also do X?". On days like these I consider myself lucky that my boyfriend is also a programmer and we can pat each other on the back.

Having said that, I (in management mode) make an effort to applaud individual success in front of whole team. It's great to get cheers all round from everyone and I feel that it really strengthens us as a group.
If you Build It, They Will Come: Brand Tribalism
OK Glass, this is the voice I use to tell you to change settings
Very nice compliment right here.
I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser.

You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed <blink> support a while ago.
These are all excellent suggestions. I initially built it to just gather data about where I am, but these are great ways I can use this data.

Gonna have to learn a lot to make this real.
Blogger page views
How are these blogs in blogger.com getting these random page views.
I just started a blog yesterday and i didn't share it or promote it but still i got around 50 page views in under 8 hours.
Most of these came form U.S.
Any idea?
Crawlers ?
Interesting, because I am also using Firefox and I see the blink tags.
I see the blinking. Firefox 27.0.1 here
So Y Combinator is slightly harsher than an island full of cannibals?
In my opinion, the theory is just as accessible as the practical side.

If you need the structure of a degree program, that's great. However, the typical programmer, who by the nature of the job needs to be a life-long learner, will tend to have what it takes to learn it on their own already. You are going to struggle professionally otherwise. And so that structure is not necessarily an asset.

But I do agree that learning the theory is valuable.
Did the binary still run after you did that? (I assume you actually replaced <blink> with 7 NULs?)
This is what happens when you run the internet
I want to believe. But a smaller amount of people making exponentially greater returns means luck is the new god.
Latecomer!

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Refusing to hire only based on name is as bad as hiring only based on name.
Maybe I would have upgraded to python 3 by now if I saw any compelling reason to do so (like, say, getting rid of the GIL).
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes (visualized with sound)
If they aren't, it's quite a coincidence ;-) Curl relies on third-party libraries for SSL.

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/28/darwin-native-ssl-for-...

Secure Transport by Apple is also known as Darwin/SSL.
It always seemed to me that investors who believe in bitcoin startups but don't invest in bitcoins themselves are buying into the concept of a cryptocurrency and what its infrastructure makes possible.

In other words, they're not in it because they think bitcoin's value vis-a-vis the US Dollar is going to increase, they're in it because they believe that cryptocurrency is here to stay, and when bitcoin's price stabilizes and its use becomes mainstream, then the startups they invested in will be in a leadership position in the marketplace.

It would be like investing in banks while not hoarding cash.
This! I live in Poland, where sun usually raises 2-3 hours before i get up and leave house. It was such a joy to visit st petersburg, where days were shorter in theory, but mid-winder sun set around 7pm, so i actually had more time to enjoy the day.
It's implemented using a CSS animation that's decorating all of the <em> tags (which is what Google uses to wrap the matched search terms on the page and make them bold.)

This is why the word "html" also blinks on that page.

CSS animations are a more modern feature than <blink> tags, of course -- are you using an old version of Firefox?
It doesn't use the blink tag it uses css animation:

animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;
Something like _Voynich Genius_ ?

http://rapgenius.com
Currently scared
I prefer sun later in the day too. I moved to Japan three years ago and sunset in the winter is as early as 4:30 but sunset in the summer is never past 8 while the sun rises just after 4am.

I lived in the Canadian north when I was younger and used to love the summer nights when it would stay light until 10pm.

The sun rising at 4am sucks. It's a waste of daylight for 99% of the population.
Yes, anyone will be able to extend vim without knowing vimscript exists.
What the Whatsapp acquisition tells us about Facebook's mobile strategy
Odd. Apple updated iOS 7 and iOS 6 but didn't update Secure Transport in iOS 5? I wonder if the bug was introduced between iOS 5 and 6.

Background on Secure Transport:

"At the bottom of the TLS stack on both iOS and Mac OS X is a component known as Secure Transport. Secure Transport maintains a per-process TLS session cache. When you connect via TLS, the cache stores information about the TLS negotiation so that subsequent connections can connect more quickly. The on-the-wire mechanism is described at the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Resume...

"This presents some interesting gotchas, especially while you're debugging." More at: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/AdvancedU...
Why in release note of Apple it wasn't mentioned?
ya it is,
But maybe because spammers and search engine spiders.
Google in talks to acquire WhatsApp for $1 billion (2013)
There are companies that make you sign an agreement saying if you produce something while they employ you, then they own that product. Microsoft is one such company.

Fortunately (or unfortunately?) I don't work for one of those. I just try to make sure I don't use any company resources (time, equipment, etc) when I work on my own stuff and I work on stuff that has little/no overlap with any of my employer's businesses.

If you have questions, you should review the documents you signed when you started working for your employer, and clear it with your management. Yes, talk to a lawyer if you must, but that would be due to an abundance of caution.
If my filtering proxy caught <blink>, I'd get everything bolded instead. ( http://i61.tinypic.com/20i77kl.png )
The multiples on valuation still has my head spinning. Blink and I'd say $3B was crazy, but this. makes. no. sense. Especially now that you see that it's a lose lose situation for FB. Market irrationality undermines my confidence in my own work. I don't like it one bit. Thanks for the post.
This reminds me of the old days. http://www.liu-may.com/notebook/html/01marquee.htm

Fun and simple.
Commissions do not really motivate after a while. I was a straight commission outside salesperson for 10 years. The money was not the motivator for me, it was the contests. The desire to WIN was much stronger than the desire for a bigger paycheck. Fortunately winning the contest also resulted in a big paycheck.

Winning was much more satisfying than money. This system works better for a company if the sales team is evenly matched. In our 7 person group there was only two guys I really competed with - one left to start his own company (and I later worked for him) and the other guy became my manager. Having a manager that you have bested in every sales contest is not good. I was RIF'd on Feb 14th 2000.
Happy to add my congratulations to the wave of orange users already doing so... it's clearly reflective of the impact you've had on so many YC startups. Thanks Sam and can't wait to see where you take YC next!
Can you email me. I can't find any info of yours online. Would love to use your solution.
Do you know of similar cases that they have refused to investigate?
Google search for marquee html and you shall see that the result count being displayed as a marqee
I wonder how intrinsic motivation is developed or cultivated. Another question I have is if intrinsic motivation can he created by external influence.
Things to watch for are:

A) You signed a contract that explicitly assigns ownership of anything you create to them
B) You created it on equipment they own, or used any of their resources to make it
C) You created it in time you should've been working for them

Generally speaking, the best way to avoid legal problems is not to piss people off too much. So don't build a direct competitor to them and you're probably fine. If you haven't done any of A, B or C, you'd probably win eventually, but could still end up spending money on lawyers just to make it go away.
Definitely true to a certain degree. But I also think that having the experience of being forced into new friendships in first year gives people more confidence to meet people later. Its a snowball effect of sorts.
Actually, the US produced 102,000 tanks and self propelled guns, while Germany produced 67,000.

Russia produced 105,000 which was the real difference.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wo...
How many pornography images do you see on the internet that are taken in black and white? How many are modified so that the people involved look like the hulk? An algorithm like this does not need to be 100% bulletproof in every situation imaginable, it just needs to work most of the time.

Think about it.
"I just looked it up, $70 is way out of my pay range. I'll convert when I have a full-time job."
Huge congrats and well deserved!
Thanks for all the advices when I was going thru the bottom of my roller coaster ride.
Don't remember where I read it at least 12 years ago, but someone talked about an April Fools prank where they released three pigs in their high school, with numbers 1, 2, and 4 written on them. Allegedly the administrators spent weeks looking for number 3.
<IANAL>
If you signed a contract stating they own anything you create on company property, on company time or with company resources, well there you go.

If it's worth it to them, they may try to claim it anyway. Depending on applicable laws. Or how far they think they can strongarm you.
</IANAL>
So, he eates cannibals for breakfast [until they are all gone and he's king!]?

;0)>
The video offers very interesting view on how he approaches the problem and proceeds to solve the problem. From scientific point of view it just seems like guesswork, but as video goes further it's clear he has a real methodology to it. I was also very impressed how he all the time seemed very objective and used words like "probably", "could" and "possibly" to communicate that his findings still need further review.
Oh fun. Chuckled at the COBOL snippet.

001300 IF WANT-FIBER = 'Y' AND GOOD-FIT = 'Y' THEN

001400 MOVE 'FIBER' TO PORTLAND

001500 MOVE 'GOODBYE' TO COMCAST

001600 ELSE

001700 MOVE 'SAD' TO PORTLAND

001800 MOVE 'PAYCHECK' TO COMCAST

001900 END-IF.

002000 STOP RUN.
Ask HN: How much is my webapp worth?
www.bitflop.me

I've been made an offer by a development company to purchase my webapp for 25k. The software took about 4 months to write (weekends only). I'm just curious how much webapps like this usually get bought for. It's built in node, and used WebRTC to create a video link between players at a poker table.
I don't think it's actually self contained in the sense that the pump, fans, and radiator are also duplicated in every module. The would be a terrible waste of resources and the modules don't look like they have any room for the radiator (which would need to be exposed to the outside air to work).
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As low as it seems to those of you commenting, I'd love to see Jon Mills sit in jail and NEVER join society again. That would be fine with me. I spent years of my life building Motionloft, and it was thrown away but this selfish asshole.

There are a lot more interesting things to come with this case, this is only the beginning. His doctor isn't the only one he has scammed.
From what I've observed, most people don't actually bother learning the theory. Industry seems dominated by populism more than anything else.
Is it possible that the the author intentionally duplicates word for the sake of obfuscation, thus leading to the information density problem?
I wonder what Justin would think of Scala?

I've seen rails programmers put Scala Play apps together at a good speed. While Scala doesn't enforce Haskell's pure functional paradigms, it does allow them. And it almost goes without saying that type safety was a top priority in its design.
Yup. Another example of this (from economics) is danariely.com.
There's lots of felonies the private sector commit anyway. Industrial espionage is already a major market in the world.
But ... pizza boxes are square.
> Word is easier to use (which, by a long, long way, it it).

Definitely initially for simpler.

But what about using it collaboratively, merging changes and comparing between versions? Especially large documents with a multitude of authors combined later (think journals).

What about documents with programmatically generated content?

What about consistent formatting for your documents?

What about when Word gets confused by some element in the xml not visible to you?

Sure Word may be easier but there are limitations to it's use.
Um, I meant "recalibrate yourself"... terrible spelling.
I'm not supporting shit, I'm just saying whether you like it or not, the technologies eventually going to get to the point where you can't prevent it.

Whether it's incredibly small drones, nanotech or your own cellphone, operated by either the private or public sector. Public sector information surveillance is just a small part, a minuscule part of what's possible.
Reference: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/axgKD
Unfortunately, no blink there, btw.
Yes there are a huge amount of sequences out there with no special need of being sequential. Apple store invoices. UPS tracking numbers (sharded by shipper). Lots of similar things that can provide a glimpse into the inner workings of what are often publically traded companies with good reason to not leak such information.