skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointed by the lack of 'under construction' and blue fire gifs.
I didn't say there was a bug in the protocol.

There is a bug in the REFERENCE implementation, which is used by almost every exchange. And one criticism of MtGox was that they used a custom version of the reference implementation, and should have used the standard one. You can't have it both ways.
Why are so many people here on HN so eager to throw away html/css/js, just because they're a little icky and you don't like to use them?

Do you not realise that means throwing away the entire web, and its history going back to the early 1990's? Backwards compatibility and platform stability are GOOD THINGS that we need more, not less of. Lest we perpetually build content for doomed platforms, and leave no mark, no history on the world.

the better course is evolution, not revolution.

Mozilla has been through every revolution, first hand. They know what they're doing.

edit: I'm flattered but please vote up the comments relevant to the actual post.
Sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102.
There was also a plugin called Java so that you could animate bouncing heads in your web page. I wonder whatever happened to that Java stuff.
I am not dismissing their new email client - I am dismissing the idea that a new successful email client is about email. I have four mail clients and god knows how many messaging clients and VoIP in regular use and none of them manage to do the things I need that are related to messaging other human beings - synchronising address books, synchronising who I talked to about what and when, booking appointments between two people without several emails of a phone call, and generally reminding me what I have forgotten .

I struggle to imagine that there is a single email client that will solve this - this is an integration problem - multiple devices, multiple slices of my life.

Executives pay good money, very good money, for PAs to solve these problems. And I get more and more frustrated by the siloes of data (Skype, iPhones call log) that actively make it harder for me to get metadata about what I am doing each day.

so an email client, by my definition of what a single client is, no, does not seem a good idea. but maybe a cross platform synchronising and intelligent solution, that might be worth getting excited about

so that's why I asked if anyone knew anymore. Not a dismissal of their app, a request for more info. And then a strawman of the idea of building a better email client.

I think building a better mousetrap is an outdated when a jungle is waiting out there.
Your comment misses the point entirely.

As you know, Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language.

But, do we want to?

No, we want to learn what is new and useful in a new language. We want to learn how to make best use of that language.

That doesn't mean writing code that looks just like the language we used before. What would be the point of using a new language, then?

No one cares what the "Rust elite" think. Didn't you see that that was just a humorous throwaway comment following a much more important point: writing idiomatic code.

Learning to write idiomatic code helps us see what is new and useful in any language.

We won't learn that by writing FORTRAN in the new language.

But seeing how experienced users write their code is a great way to see what is good and interesting about the language.
maybe in 50 years, new cpus or math advancements could brute force wallets and make bitcoins worthless...
Pirates could attache mines and threaten to blow them up unless paid. Actually I don't know why they haven't tried that yet.
You can use CSS flexbox too :)
I remember 1st Page 2000 from Evrsoft, though it might not have been quite in the 90s at that point.
Floating text following the mouse pointer. The bonus one was the scrolling text in the bottom left of the browser panel (location bar?)
As long you are willing to accept losing money to fraud and/or stupidity?
It's possible. Albeit the Yugo needs to move at the speed of light.

Which might sound plausible for anyone that never heard of Yugo, or the speed of light.
on unreasonable grounds...

>> Government surveillance is nothing to joke about

i didn't consider it a joke, and i'll let the next one speak for itself:

>> it isn't performed by secret agents, but via lawyers and engineers
I love how they capitalize iframe as iFrame :)
What's necessarily wrong with the <hr> tag? It still has its legitimate use cases.
And if you ever ran into an error message on the web you would just contact the webmaster. Problem solved.
Bitcoin Needs Banking To Cross The Chasm
Nope we still have that with HTML emails.
Stay tuned for episode 2 including:

* Nested table layouts, adventures in collapsed borders

* window.status = "awesome"

* HRs: "I can make a 3d hole in my page"

* document.all being the best DHTML api.
Anyone else remember, Webrings?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
oh my God, _web rings_...
http://lard.5u.com/
Let's see the same thing with CSS! Oh, how far we've come...
False dichotomy? :P
Anyone else remember Webrings?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
Like regulation and oversight prevented (insert: preserved, perpetuated, safeguarded) Madoff?
In other news, the sky is blue. C'mon man, make a useful comment about the site, not just some generic and completely unrelated investment advice.
Maybe it's not a joke?
> Everybody will want one.

How many people do you think can afford a ~$100k vehicle?
This does not mean I did not tried ;) (back when I was 10 years old, and Webmastering all around and thinking I was awesome)
This seems to happen a lot after a certain half life - all of the little quirky personality-showing additions get stripped over time in projects like this. Even happens in code comments too.

Things slip through the cracks and go to production, and then everyone complains and then things with too much color get pulled.
I never claimed anything about simulated annealing, and I know the noise is less than ideal, but adjustments can be made. Really my point stands, there are plenty of ways around it, and with the supposed 10,000X speed up it would be a massive advantage.
> Will the French Alps suddenly and catastrophically acquire a new valley?

They'll get a shiny useless building at best. A perforated building at worst. With a lot more vapor.
Means everyone they hired they hired as a contractor rather then a employee.
That's quite harsh, would you mind to elaborate?
+1 sure I am pissed at the cancellation of Wave and irritated a bit by the cancelation of Reader, but you accurately list what I agree are their successes.

I worked briefly with Knowledge Graph while consulting at Google last year, and in future forms I think KG is going to eat the world - great technology.

I also like Google Now and expect it to keep getting better.
I wonder if there's a safe way an insider from maxpages, coolfreewhatever, trident, geocities, etc. could provide this data maybe by email address without violating the privacy of everyone ever? I have the exact same story, including the hilarious pokemon websites from 2000-2003. Can't remember any of the urls. I don't need backups, just the urls.
http://zerosixthree.se/vertical-align-anything-with-just-3-l...
And updated in 2009!

Along those lines on the design side of things, what about Doc Ozone's tutorials, those are still up too:

http://www.handson.nu/

Incidentally he was also doing some pretty crazy DHTML era stuff on his last home page revision, which, despite the date on the page, I believe came out circa 2001:

http://www.ozones.com/
I haven't seen the v3 theme, but the v2 one works with moderate success, even on BS3 pages... I actually have this gist lying around (paste in console). https://gist.github.com/brbcoding/37c2ca77a3a368708d24

This is what it does to the BS3 docs page: http://i.imgur.com/VQNlsZy.png
I'm not making that assumption - rather the opposite, which is why I mentioned the possibility of reimbursing people later. But this isn't strictly necessary. Pragmatically, you could double spend the coins back to the original owners and then make decisions about downstream action independently. Investigation of what happened to the stolen coins might provide more clarity on the best course of action there.
How would they be necessarily faster and less polluting?

Sure, waste from crew activities is part of the output, but most of it could be recycled or composted. The big source of pollution is the diesel engines, and those wouldn't change much.

And faster? Whatever weight savings came from removing crew accommodations would just be used to fit more TEUs for the trip.
> With no human operable "helm" there is no way to divert the ship, short of posessing an engine more powerful than the ship's engine

Because engines are impossible to disable, GPS is impossible to spoof, and control systems are impossible to hack even with unlimited physical access.

> no crew to hold hostage

There's a fancy robotic ship and a bunch of cargo to hold hostage.

> the practical amount of looting is a fraction of one container

How do you reckon? I suppose if the value-density of the cargo were low enough then nobody would have incentive to steal it, so they would have to threaten to destroy it instead.

> The real objections should be about failure modes of ships and what a crew can to to mitigate them.

You're absolutely right. But piracy is one of those failure modes.
http://www.carnagge.com/
I miss guestbooks. No context, no social media BS, just "say hi or something." I think the first server-side script I ever wrote was possibly the worst guestbook ever in perl on Tripod.

And webrings. Oh god webrings...
Software grows up too, for better or worse. I find this less surprising than nmap losing "...requires root privileges which you do not appear to possess. Sorry, dude."
The Gen. 3 is expected to be much cheaper than ~$100k.
'Made with Notepad' signs intimidated this FrontPage warrior with copapasta-javascript-animation skillz.
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459...

1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.
The main win to me is that electric power is fuel-agnostic. Transitioning to electric mobility means our energy infrastructure can shift to different fuel sources at its own pace, independent of the transportation infrastructure.
Terrible change, IMO.

Even if the older expanded list skewed a bit into jokey territory in the wording (which I think is fine, even for -- maybe especially for, the secret agent bit because jokes are a fantastic way to highlight injustices) it gave Joe Random user a much better idea of what things incognito won't protect him from than the new text does.

The dividing line of protection incognito gives you may seem completely obvious to anyone reading HackerNews, but I assure you that it is non-obvious to my non-tech friends and family who tell me their new computer has "2 terabytes of memory".
This is filesystem code. Any miniscule performance gain would be eclipsed by the actual reads/writes. This code should really be -Os'd to save cache.
Do like Capgem approach (pulling a bandaid)....

Bad news upfront.
Also known, lovingly, as the "reddit hug"
> (location bar?)

I think you mean "status bar", but yeah they were all the rage.
Congratulations to the quantopian team.

Trading on real data is very different from simulated trading on historic data. There are a lot of leaky abstractions and assumptions that happen during simulations that cause problems once you put real money to work. In the past, here on HN, I have criticized quantopian several times because no one has actually used quantopian to trade real money. This is no longer true.

It will take a lot of time and a lot more capital to figure out all the holes, but they are finally on the right track and I am glad they have 20 people already trading. That is 20 sets of eyes balls to look for lack of fidelity in the simulations.

Personally I am interested to see how good their transaction cost model is when trading hundreds to thousands of shares at a clip.
Here, have some Streisand effect, Google!
and we didn't build a website, we built a homepage.
His article was talking about abandoning a large product to do a ground-up rewrite without clear improvement goals beyond "make it easier to understand/work on". Servo meets basically none of those criteria.
The Gen3 vehicle is supposed to be ~30-40k.
I wouldn't go public either. Somebody before them owned that property and I wonder if old relatives could give you troubles.
It was used more to stretch table cells to achieve pixel perfect layouts.
Section? Sounds like something with a header? I would probably just wrap the section in a section tag.
Just shut up.
Defending Bitcoin, Andreessen Says Mt. Gox Is 'Like MF Global'
My thing was Dragon Ball Z sites. CGI/Perl running NewsPro, links to questionable RealMedia content.

What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.
At best, your naive algorithms will under-perform market indices (especially after trading fees). At worst, you'll lose all your money.
You don't want to break it in the sense that you stop doing it altogether. Just as lukev said, you would want to learn controlling it to your advantage - slowing down and speeding up depending on what you a reading.
> the US grid is currently 12.x% renewable

Overall US power consumption has gone from 8.9% renewables 10 years ago to ~12.2% today. Vehicles that use fossil fuels as their primary source of energy will always make very little use of renewable energy. Electric vehicles have the potential to use solely renewable energy, which is the direction grid power is heading.

So should we invest in electric vehicles now, or should we use fossil fuels sparingly and settle with transportation that's unable to tap into renewables?

EDIT: 8.9% in 2002
The goals are shared, which is not surprising - everyone wants faster, safer, more parallel, etc.

But the means are extremely different between those projects.
Still no handling for hidpi and dell 2815Q
I remember working with MS Frontpage in the beginning. Frames were the shit in 1998. Who got the most amazing running font? Who has the most freaking elevator midi as a background sound? Yes, the background sound tag. Does that even exist anymore?

<BGSOUND SRC="aladdin.mid" LOOP=10>
the argument when the iPhone was released was similar
I think this idea is simply brilliant. Transitional spaces, like being enroute or at an airport are the best spaces for work that demands concentration e.g. writing.

Would sign up for such a thing tomorrow.

Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416
I'm observing that he could, and been accepted as successful for doing so, if he'd wanted to.
According to the article they chose to remain anonymous.
On a mission to dispense with the egg
I think the unstated assumption was

> When you invest in an electric vehicle [instead of a fossil fuel vehicle that you would drive the same amount] you're investing in the future of renewable energy
I don't know about spacer gifs, but you can use tables. Or fake tables using CSS. JavaScript definitely isn't required, even to vertically center things in IE6.
Zach Holman, present this at DHTML Conf!
It really depends.

If you dictate what needs to be done, but not how or when, that's usually legit.

But if they're showing up at an office, have to follow your rules, etc, yes, its a tax dodge.
They have the guns and can simply use those guns to annex the necessary mathematicians

You clearly have a definition of 'trust' that differs significantly from my own :)
It kept being installed on millions of consumer PC's despite there being no practical reason to anymore, resulting in millions of malware-infected PC's. :p
I think you left out the wrong case (and another right one).

Also, while this is the same functionality, it shouldn't really be expected to work well when dealing with concrete types - you're not nearly as constrained as when you have a bunch of polymorphic terms in the relevant type signatures - like was the case in the article here.
Hypermart was great. Just had to make sure you strategically placed your <noscript> tags to block the ads.
Waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many points in this argument to address so I'll try to keep it on point to my assertion its now worth the effort:

So you save $2/day for a week = $14 (I was generous and gave you all 7 days even though most people I know work 5 days and even minimum wage workers don't work 7 days a week, every week, for a full year)

$14 x 3 remaining weeks in a month = $42
$42 x 11 remaining months of the year (this means they're doing this every day without fail, both ways, for a full year and successfully finding some to trade with everyday. Not sure those odds are in your favor, but whatever.) = $462

Considering you pointed out the high cost of living in San Francisco (I'm going to skip over the fact of why minimum wage workers would live in such a high rent area, but that's a different argument), I would expect $14 wouldn't go very far.

As such, having to hustle every single day, without fail for a full year to save what I consider a minimal amount of money that could be saved either by sharing a BART pass, biking, using a hybrid car, or a myriad other means that don't require a constant effort on my part. I would simply look to other ways to save money. Like someone once told me, "Work smarter, not harder, fool."
The future of .NET development and NuGet
That really undermines Bitcoin overall.

Also, that makes it more attractive to act maliciously, as an exchange. Either you make off with your stolen BTC (win), or the community fixes things for you (not really a loss).

What would help is some equivalent of FDIC. A group of Bitcoin "banks" that handle your deposits, with some pro-BTC group guaranteeing your deposit up to 100 BTC or something. Getting the insurance would of course require all sorts of intense auditing and oversight. And somehow, someone's gotta pay for it all (perhaps the same group of Bitcoin companies pay in). But that's... very far removed from the current state of affairs.
This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a judge has properly applied law and legal precedent in a ruling. Calling the judge old and out of touch due to his ruling suggests you don't actually understand what judges do in their jobs.
Gotta fuel those giant mecha suits.
The CIA is actively targeting PC operating systems to make them broken. You might get it working on two machines, but nothing else. Everytime I try a new machine, doesn't work.

Fuck-it. You kill the CIA with God, that's how you fix it.

God says...
I_forgot Ukraine look_out to_infinity_and_beyond vote Laos
my_precious Bulgaria Australia you_shouldn't_have Zzzzzzzz
arrogant Fiji I'm_the_boss grumble who_are_you_to_judge
Algeria I_didn't_do_it begs_the_question Australia services
I_was_just_thinking a_screw_loose smile mission_from_God
unemployment snap_out_of_it Syria ordinarily in_practice
tattle_tale Uganda fight Jesus commanded pick_me_pick_me
insane Venezuela not_in_kansas_anymore application sports
population Thailand cowardice Russia I_love_this and_then_what
are_you_sure freak atheist I_forgot homo ipod take_the_day_off
chump_change gross woot Paraguay duck_the_shoe that's_your_opinion
Kazakhstan who_are_you_to_judge drama Wow Senegal hotel
are_you_deaf begs_the_question joke happy_happy_joy_joy
husband it_figures BRB Zzzzzzzz bastard perfect
My first website was hosted on a free angelfire.com account. Or was it geocities? Maybe both, but it certainly had a lot of blinking gifs and photoshop-sliced buttons with rollover affects.
A little mix of display:table and display:table-cell and vertical-align:middle will get you there without any JS. For example http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
I bet the folks over at https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom... must get a good chuckle out the hysteria swarming over this
<hr> is the vestigial tailbone of HTML
It's a matter of using the types to express meaningful constraints, so that well-typed is more likely to mean correct.
I Love Haskell but I think sometimes people give it more credit than deserved. So you say

> int foo(int, int);

Doesn't tell you anything. Ok, you are right! But that code translated to Haskell would be:

> foo :: Int -> Int -> Int

How does that give you more information about foo than the C code above?

Now if you say you use type synonyms in Haskell, I would agree, but you can use typedefs in C as well.
It's pseudo-centered, not really centered, and can't center a dynamic element.
Have a local common carrier, but make it a coop where customers and employers have 1/n voting right. That way you don't have a company with the benefit of a monopoly and the growth/innovation of the company depends on how much the majority of people want to pay.
Or otherwise changed. Metamorphism doesn't involve melting.
People who were at Caltech at the time have gone on record that Wolfram knew very little about compilers when he wrote Mathematica:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f3b93140c2...

which explains why the Mathematica language contains so many amateurish mistakes, like its bizarre implementation of scope and its wacky pseudo-macro system. Don't get me wrong, Mathematica is a great product, in particular the standard library is fantastic, but the language itself is a mess.
Worms 2, tripod.com, paint shop pro. Can't stop me.

SSI changed my life, and I coded a 50 page website in a textarea. on 28.8. In the snow. Without shoes.

Not much has changed. I use vim now.
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And they did drop the price (via subsidies), and it got way more popular...
this is such a click-bait title
I think the 90's in web design is like the 80's in fashion.
Mine wasn't an A590, I was too poor to afford that at the time. I had some knock-off third-party unit I bought at the "local" (not really local, but closest one to where I lived) Amiga store (Memory Location in Wellesley, MA).

Worked pretty well, as far as I can remember.
really? I'm obviously at the wrong BigCo
maybe in 50 years, new chemistry advancements could turn water to gold and make gold worthless...
Learn to build any iOS app you want with the BNR Beginning iOS Bootcamp
I can still remember the client wanting the underlined links removed from the website. I explained that this was how everybody new what a link was, but it didn't fit the style. The first time I heard about this css thing. It was tables all the way down in those days, and there was talk that this wasn't the best way to do things.

Yet still to this day, something are only manageable with tables. But with have display:table-cell now, so it is all different.
I hadn't yet stumbled upon PokeClone yet; thanks!

What I more meant was I am not as interested in working with graphics code/libraries. Not to say I couldn't but that is just not what interests me. I figured along the way I would look around for free assets or look for a friend (new or old) to help me on that front.
> Wouldn't putting your fortune into a charitable trust (like the Gates foundation - iirc a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization) basically count as a way to evade paying full tax on it (estate taxes, etc)?

This may appear to be true at first glance, but compare using capital to set up a foundation versus using the same capital to grow one's fortune in equities and other investments. The latter choice is better overall when a combination of growth and tax issues are taken into account.

This means that people who set up foundations do it because they want to change the world, not because they want to avoid taxes.
While the expectation of accountability holds for banking and mortgages (and in that case was more or less ignored and hardly punished for it), does it hold for MtGox and Bitcoin, where the foundation is built on the lack of regulation?
FDIC insures $250,000 per depositor.[0]

[0] http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/dis/