skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember colored scrollbars in IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms531155%28v=vs.8...
Google still didn't kill Talk which is XMPP conformant and even federated. But their Hangouts protocol is different and their Hangouts client doesn't use conformant XMPP. And since many users automatically got switched to it, they became cut off from their non Google XMPP contacts.
Pretty sure the "D" in DHTML stood for "dynamic"
In which version of Mathematica will the complete language be available. I can't seem to use the Classify function in my Mathematica 9.0.1 Student Edition.
You are correct, it was, as my dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's doorstop on the subject (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do) can attest.

Hey, there's another one for the list: only '90s web developers know what it's like to have to learn new technologies by going to Barnes & Noble and buying a book about them.
Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.
He's shockingly naive about forced labor. It's a shame that someone of his stature could claim that slavery "ended."

Furthermore, although there's nothing wrong with AJWS, I question his choice of charity given that there are so many non-profits whose sole goal is the elimination of forced labor.
I only wonder if putting a marquee and a blink tag on your blog will cut your pagerank.
Are you really trying to prop this up as some sort of conspiracy?
Tesla will reach $500 per share within 3 years, if not sooner. When Gen3 comes out, it'll basically be the iPhone of cars. Everybody will want one.

The stock does seem a bit overvalued currently and I wouldn't be surprised to see some drops in the coming weeks. But regardless, $500 within 3 years. Mark my words.
Gmail used to be great. It's becoming horrible.

Many things have changed:
- Drive integration broke attachments, downloads, etc.
- Editing is broken. Sometimes the cursor jumps for no reason.
- etc.
Oh yeah the dreaded 1x1 pixel gif. Some genius motherfucker used one of those beauties in a large corporate site I was working on and was using it to indent header text - with javascript.

I just about went blind trying to find it and swore if I ever found that guy I would fight him. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy we've moved on to bigger and better things.
Maybe the joke just isn't funny any more.
I don't think this is what I'm suggesting at all. If a popular majority of miners agreed to accept transactions double spending the original coins, this would be tantamount to generating 750k new Bitcoin, not initially invalidating any blocks or other transactions.

With forensics on the initial theft, miners could then tree-traverse back up to blacklist future transactions on stolen coins. There are probably lots of ways to accomplish basically this. This would render all stolen btc dead in the water, hence the "force Gox to repay legitimate requests for reimbursement of those who transacted for stolen coins."

That second part, though, isn't crucial to the idea. The community could just double spend the coins to mitigate harm done without attempting to stop the stolen coins downstream.
can't you make your to-do list short?
I use Hangouts because of work, but otherwise it's clunky and really bad UI.

A lot of people talk about EU using WhatsApp, but it's a huge hit in Asia too. My mom is on it, so are her colleagues (we're talking 50+ year olds here) which is very different from FB or twitter adoption. WhatsApp made it simple enough for a very broad audience-range to use

For now FB messenger is reasonably useful messaging service. It's not perfect and I hate HATE their new update (with the round floating avatars) but it's still marginally less annoying than G+
I'd love to have a go at this but I haven't a clue where to even start. Any tips as to where I should start reading?
Yeah, I used to lose sleep over it. Now I've got a big release going out tomorrow, and I'm not the least bit scared. Will something go wrong? Maybe, I can't be sure. I tried my best to get everything right and ready, but no big deal if something goes wrong.
Space Kraken, the punisher of cheaters? :).
What I wonder, is if Apple can be held responsible (to some extent) for damages that resulted due to this bug for app developers like a bank whose customers were robbed because the bank relied on the secure connection as it should have been provided by the Apple API.
Clearly, the attacker is still the person to have exploited the bug but I think a developer should be able to assume that Apples security relevant API functionalities are indeed secure.
This should be the companion reader to the HTML Horror page[1]

Speaking of SHTML... has anyone else always read it as "shitmail" in their head?

[1] http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
Doesn't the US Treasury have a history of going around and seizing gold coins?

I forget exactly why but I think it was because they were all recalled when we went off gold standard?

I vaguely remember people finding these in deposit boxes, sharing it with the news and then magically losing it all when the treasury shows up to seize them.

Ah here we go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

not really related but still gold-coin mind-blowing fact

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobo...
edit - oh wow I just read what this fix's. Will be updating asap

I haven't upgraded to Mavericks at all yet because I'm worried that it will break software I depend on a daily basis. Can some please confirm if upgrading has a significant risk of breaking compatibility with things like rails, mamp, netbeans, android studio, golang, vagrant, virtualbox, docker etc.

Thanks
We weren't web developers back then, we were webmasters
> When you invest in an electric vehicle you're investing in the future of renewable energy.

Yeah, that's a bit of a stretch. Renewable energy doesn't need electric cars to take off, buying an electric car is not an investment in renewable energy in any real meaningful way. In the meantime, the US grid is currently 12.x% renewable, so you're running on 85+% non-renewable (2012). Not to mention the fact that running all those vehicles off electric would mean adding a huge amount of capacity.[0]

So yeah, powerful electric vehicles that enable you to continue to drive around like mad people while actually feeling smug about it is terrible for the environment. Buying non-powerful, non-oversized cars and using them a little bit (or a lot!) less is. We're much better of using the renewable electricity we manage to generate in other ways.

[0] To elaborate, electric power makes up about 40% of the total energy budget of the US, transportation makes up about 28% (2008 figures).
I have a feeling that almost nobody in North Korea would even know what a USB drive was, let alone have a computer to read it with. Sending small amounts of currency/printed text sounds more viable.
Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...
Informative comment, thanks:

By superconducting qubits I assume you're referring to a general approach for creating qubits that you can use for computation (I'm also assuming the 'superconducting' refers to getting some material into a superconducting state at which point the physical/quantum properties are useful). Is that right?

And when you say the inventor has abandoned their qubit design, do you mean the person that came up with that particular approach? Or the credited inventor of the d-wave? Or something else?

The small amount of stuff I've read examining their claims definitely made it seem like they were weasel-wording things, but I've never understood enough about quantum mechanics (or quantum computing) to attempt to examine them directly. Thanks.

I hadn't realized that annealing could be done in an analog fashion - that's pretty cool. I can see how in that case an ASIC could actually dramatically outperform a digital model, then?

Also, 'room temperature' - does the D-Wave have to be cooled to some absurdly low temperature to work? I can see how that would be necessary if it relies on superconductivity.
Is there a v3 theme? Would love to drop that into our internal system april 1.
I built various quake2 clan pages in the 90ies with humongous table layouts and cgi scripts to enter clan wars...i wish i would have saved that stuff somewhere...
Zach doesn't look old enough to have been able to understand HTML in the 90ies though imo ;)
Basically, they took chunks of what they already knew was a very old (~3.6 billion years old) rock, ground them up, separated out the zircon grains, and dated many (100's to 1000's) of individual zircon grains.
Stick with value investing (or index investing if you don't have the skill/discipline/time for it).
Not a Telsa but my Chevy Volt lease payment after rebates etc. is less than my cable bill; plus I get carpool stickers which down here in SoCal are priceless. My first American car after many Japanese and one German, and it's the most solid of the lot.
Respect.

<p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"></p>
<!-- lol yeah i'm base64 encoding 1x1.gif isn't that fucking dope? -->
You are assuming that the thieves stole the bitcoin and just put them into a wallet somewhere.

Consider this simplified example:

A Gox thief sold the bitcoin on another exchange. Then I unknowingly buy that very bitcoin from that exchange. Now the blockchain is rewritten and my bitcoin is gone even though I am innocent of any crime.

The MtGox situation is tragic. But when you start messing with the fungibility of bitcoin, you introduce new consequences that reach much further into the ecosystem.
Show HN: Aspects for .NET
Now that is a true hack. Brilliant!
Nuh-uh, Allaire Homesite was the true editor!
Pretty sure that was part of the joke.
> A little regulation and over sight might have prevented all this.

A little regulation and over sight would have prevented the industry from even existing.
Telegram is owned by vkontakte, so you're trading facebook for the russian version of facebook.
Ahem. My take on it is that, in order to write Neptunes Brood, he had to learn a lot of actual macroeconomics and also learn about cryptocurrencies. He is now an opponent of Bitcoin because of the very real problems that the wide-spread adoption Bitcoin would entail.

Maybe in the end it boils down to this: Either you believe that insight can be gained from what Economics has to offer, even though you always have to check the underlying arguments, due to the different schools of thought out there. Alternatively, you can wave it all away as needless nonsense and trust in the collective cognitive power of young men high on technology.

Your choice.
I finally got to see someone ask for Godel's incompleteness theorem in the wild. I've heard about it but never saw it before.
> The thing that still infuriates me about the new hangouts experience is that they still don't understand the difference between status and presence.

The critical thing to consider with hangouts is this: it is not Talk/your regular "synchronous" IM system. It is an async system, an extension of SMS (in terms of use case). As such "staring into the screen" is not using the system correctly, since it's a fire-and-forget system that will push-ping you back when the other side replies. Once I acknowledged that, I basically signed out of Hangouts-via-Talk on my computers and happily use it almost solely on mobile, with conversations synced across all devices (the conversation holes themselves in a XMPP client provide for quite an uncanny experience, which is also why I like the SMS/Hangouts split conversations instead of transparent fallback that becomes obvious once you swap devices).

Since it's a significantly different product, I don't know if they had better completely split Hangouts or outright kill Talk, because as such they used network effects to convert people from Talk+Messages Plus+Android Messenger (or whatever it was called) into the unified Hangouts. What I wish though is that they provided extensions to XMPP allowing existing XMPP clients to implement reasonable feature parity for text chats (I could care less for video+audio in my XMPP client of choice, especially given the increase in dependencies and code complexity), so that the experience would be more seamless and more async overall instead of the XMPP-is-sync/hangouts-is-async beast we have to handle, without having a browser plugin overflow into my native OS.
A unique choice for "best overall" gets Consumer reports a lot of press coverage and traffic. There's probably not much meaning to "best overall" anyway, and its great for them to pick something flashy and new.
>"Also, try to avoid putting comments inside a function body: if the function is so complex that you need to separately comment parts of it, you should probably go back to chapter 4 for a while. You can make small comments to note or warn about something particularly clever (or ugly), but try to avoid excess. Instead, put the comments at the head of the function, telling people what it does, and possibly WHY it does it."

The code example being discussed has comments sprinkled throughout the functions, and the "good style" / standard also says try to avoid not avoid at all cost. Also, something about blind adherence to rulebooks.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
What stops someone from just spamming popular beacons? Or is there a full authenticated handshake?
90s? I was still building "DHTML menus"[1] with IE filters[2] in ~2003. Don't know if proud or ashamed.

I used to use an editor called Arachnophilia [3], which surprisingly is still in development. Way better than FrontPage.

[1] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsslidemenu/index.html

[2] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsimageswapmenu/index.htm...

[3] http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php
A ship is sinking

with humans: we must rescue them whatever it takes!

without humans: oh well, cost of doing business.

Drones have an acceptable failure rate.
How I love irony...
This. I didn't even need to learn this the hard way, just had to read back some of my earliest teenage code (obviously not for any type of "production" setting) and hear enough of these scary stories to decide once and for all, it's really not that hard or big of a deal to be professional about these kinds of things.

Same goes for code comments. Unless it's a really, really good joke that won't offend if it happens to show up anywhere, or over your shoulder.
Tables + 1x1.gif don't really seem much simpler than CSS with flexible boxes.
What do you mean? The <hr> tag is a semantic, valid part of html5.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/hr.html
Of course we don't. A more accurate statement is that it would supply the world's present energy needs for 30 millions years.
>The only alternative would have been to delay the iOS release

Right. This is basically Apple violating their own "responsible disclosure" policy and announcing a 0-day vulnerability in OS X.

They should have delayed the release of the iOS patch until the OS X one was ready. This is the whole point of responsible disclosure: maybe the vulnerability is being used in the wild, but by delaying release of it until the vendor can patch it, the potential for expoitation is greatly reduced.

>All this did was make more people aware of it, and only then for a few days.

You say that as if it's not a big deal...
Needs a section on the joys of tables.

Possibly my favorite bug ever: HTML has a weird relationship with whitespace; usually it doesn't matter much, except when it does: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/html_no1.htm

This is one of the few bugs I've encountered that still makes me angry to this day. I spent so much time trying to figure it out.
They are bankrolled by vkontakte.
People had apparently been complaining for awhile (search for the bug thread on this); for instance: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.chromium.bugs/1815...
I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it would get to the maxpages front page and that at one point all the front page links were pokemon websites.
Satoshi's motivations were political, his first message in the blockchain makes that clear. He hasn't shied away, he's disappeared for obvious reasons.
> Basically, you can only reasonably hope to verify a patch if you're not already owned, so you also have to assume you're not in order to verify. It's as if there was a contagious disease that has a good chance of killing you after a number of years, but the diagnostic tests can only be counted on to work if you don't have the disease in the first place. So then why would anyone ever bother getting tested? Our current situation is that uncomfortable.

Being owned is less like having a virus and more like having schizophrenia. You can't ever expect to self-verify yourself, because if you're suffering from it, everything you're perceiving is being filtered through a compromised and untrustworthy system.

You have to trust some third-party that you believe to not be similarly compromised to do the verification for you.
Not letting decisions getting kicked up is a never ending struggle. Everyone can learn to make better decisions and do more without assistance, but that's not going to happen if it's "more expedient" to throw someone a fish than teach fishing. I think a large swath of managers feel decision codependency is job security, but it's really a hallmark of missing larger opportunities.
I believe it, I've just been skeptical of their reviews. It's good to know their auto reviews have credibility
I used Dreamweaver and hosted in AngelFire, and later on Hypermart. Optimized for Altavista. Signed up for link exchanges. "Submitted" my site to the 1000 search engines. Good ole days.
Just 1933 Double Eagles ($20). It's actually a fascinating story ... I'll dig up the link and post an edit shortly.

Edit: the essential story - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_double_eagle

Edit 2: Quick aside: I know the guy who found the 10 additional coins in his vault (Roy Langbord). Super nice guy. I remember when a mutual friend called me up one day and said "So Roy just found 10 1933 $20 gold coins in his vault. Are those worth anything?" ... Gulp ...
First of all DHTML stood for "Dynamic HTML" not "Distributed HTML", and it's not true that "To this day [space gif] is the only way to vertically center elements."
I used to love the <HR> tag. Has anyone invented a better way to break up sections?
Show HN: A website architecture and onsite SEO analysis tool.
> don't understand the difference between status and presence

That just taught me to use Hangouts for conversations where I don't need (but might welcome) a realtime reply. Hangouts are in a nebulous zone between chat and email for me.

For me, if I absolutely need an instant reply, I really need to call the person. (Even presence indicators aren't a promise that someone will prioritize your IM and reply. There's no indicator for "desperately wants to surrender absolute attention to you no matter how insignificant your topic.")

With Hangouts, they stay "open" in the background, so I can have an idle conversation with new notes every few days, it doesn't bother me. I can have a hangout with multiple people when some are online and others can catch up with the conversation later. And it's less formal / less work than email.

This all comes down to use case. I'd probably grant that Hangouts is a terrible new ICQ. But I've found it to be a great improvement over email for close friends.
What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive?

[1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Great read. Awesome product!
Could really do with a "night mode" like feature.

I wish a lot of websites/apps provided this to be honest, reading black text on a white background is awful
<HR>
<CENTER>Don't forget page dividers!</CENTER>
<HR>
Looks like they still support 10.7 and 10.8, but they finally ended support for 10.6.
Airpnp: Airbnb for finding a place to pee
Well the postmaster looked after sendmail, that being the old word for the man in charge of the post office. The hostmaster looked after DNS because it rhymed, and they needed a word for the guy who looked after the website.

It was a very different meaning from today's "rockstar ninja".
Oh, middle school souvenirs…

88x31 :-D

I think it misses the fact that JavaScript was mostly used for stuff like rollovers on images back then. Oh, and customized scrollbars in IE! Haha! This post is such much fun I can't stop smiling! Thanks for sharing!
Why would you ever go public with this sort of discovery? Seems like it will just create one hell of a headache for the couple who discovered the coins.
Remember when grey was the default background for pretty much all browsers? Then one day Netscape (I think) came out with a new version and the default background was white. Just like paper. The future was upon us.
I can't happen but notice the "village" button on the bottom on your site. I used to write "news" for that site. I still talk to the original owner of that site today.

ahh... memories :)
I have been working on an SEO / internal link analysis / site architecture tool for a little while now, and it's getting to the stage where it is ready for some hardy early adopter sorts to have a play with it.

Here is some example output that the tool generates: http://metaforensics.io/dashboard

Any feedback would be gratefully received!
Damn... I remember learning about yahoo.com for the first time at a Barnes & Nobles when I was actually looking for books about the WWW haha. Two other guys in the same aisle were exchanging bookmarks in person. Anybody else remember writing links down on paper?
Tables + frames!
Well that's exactly what I'm asking right?
Agda has proof search, yes. But for example if you write down the expression for `and` with type holes:

and : Bool -> Bool -> Bool
and a false = { }0
and a true = { }1

It will deduce the following which is well-typed but not correct.

and : Bool -> Bool -> Bool
and true false = false
and false true = false

If the types are precise and highly constrained it works well, but it's imperfect.
> They talk about it being haphazard, but the quote about evaluating people based on your "full-of-shit-meter" is almost spot on.

>

> Why do we keep insisting that hiring not be based on people?

You need to combine the best of both worlds. Hiring, especially for startups, is stressful for both parties. Having a process makes it less likely that things like reference checks will get dropped and gives everyone a checklist and timeframe for making a decision.

That being said, the process should incorporate the "full-of-shit-meter" to stop wasting everyone's time as early as possible in the case of a bad match.
Easy to understand definitely drives the reporting.

Compare the reporting of this to the Chrome vulnerability in TLS patched yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295785
How much did you lose? I'm sorry you got burnt, but in the end, maybe it helps to think of the BTC and money inside that wallet as never having existed in the first place. After all, it never was possible to withdraw all of it in Dollars, so it really wasn't the equivalent money.

He has been warning about BTC in general and there are many, mainly speculative, aspects of Bitcoin that are prone to people getting burnt.

To very many people, this is no surpise. At this point, these people are quite grumpy for having been laughed at by some members of the Bitcoin community.
Hello Kraken
Cutting edge for email is responsive design with media queries and... tables for layout.
Editing pages with notepad.exe