skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point but sorry, its nonsense when talking about "webapps" - as opposed to anything largely text based and with very limited user interaction. You are going to have to rerender the page for every single user action. The feedback the user gets is going to be ridicously slow for marginally complicated apps, creepingly slow on low-bandwith devices.

Just deleting an item in a paginated list will require posting data while maintaining the query parameters in the url, running a possibly very complex query on the server again, recalculating and rerendering the page and then shoving that data all back to the user via expensive TCP cycles - huge waste. A "webapp" on the otherhand makes a post to the server gets a 204, and on the client side simply removes the corresponding dom element.

As an example, think about implementing MS Paint and the corresponding user experience - using what you're talking about.
Because it's describing two different (but related) things. Jekyll blogs are static sites, but not Single-Page Apps, as an example.
> RF would be a problem because cancer.

Could you provide some evidence for this?

Also, isn't magnetic induction basically RF?
Prop 8 was part of a long-running--to this day--national campaign to create and maintain this separation across many jurisdictions with different takes on marriage and civil union. The campaign has employed every negative tactic imaginable. You have to look at it in that context to understand why it's still an issue, even if it seems okay on the level of one state.

The trouble is, it's easy to give one class new things that the other doesn't get, making them unequal again. Making marriage equal ensures everyone acts fairly when modifying the legal institution of marriage.

edit: Since HN won't let me reply to bluntly_said --

Trouble is, the fight to move those rights to civil unions and properly separate church and state is a decades-longer fight. I would like to be able to get those essential legal protections within my lifetime. We can finish the job in a few years when marriage equality is universal.
> His actions show otherwise.

Those who know him say he treated everybody equally. He set policy & a supported a system in Mozilla that promoted equality. His heart is in a decent place. We all have moral blind spots. He has his past. We all need to grow in some areas.

Painting Eich as some "extremist" is disingenuous.

> How well do you think a CEO would do if it came out that they were donators to Stormfront?

Prop 8 had 52% of the vote. It is a mainstream opinion. Stormfront is a fringe group. Eich does not seem to belong to any other extreme group. He just supported a Proposition.

Numbers does not mean morality, however it does indicate that someone is relatively in line with the rest of the population.

I struggle with this because there are things that most people are ok with that suppress rights of those who don't have a voice right now.

Whenever I bring up those issue, I face the risk of ostricization. That is why I oppose ostracizing Eich. That behavior opposes equality & tolerance. It make it "ok" to be kneejerk judgmental.

If there's one thing that we learned from gay rights, black rights, & woman rights, it's we need to be more tolerant as a society. We need to treat everybody with respect.

> He was asked, multiple times by multiple people what his true thoughts were and declined to elaborate.

Over a period of a few days? He did apologize for hurting people.

He obviously felt strongly about this issue. It's coercive to make him change his mind from social pressure. Actually, it probably meant he would have to lie. He chose to not talk about it, as it would have cause more emotional distress. Given his position, he acted in a respectful manner.

> I have skin in this game.

We all do brother or sister :-)

> I see the behavior of people like Eich as a personal affront to me and people close to me

I see public shaming and bullying as a personal affront to me. I've been unfairly bullied online (and offline). The problem with online bullying is the target's motive & the truth does not matter. Only perception matters.

When you damage someone publicly, you are assaulting them. Especially today where things online stick with you forever. There are also emotional consequences to being bullied.

I have some opinions that are not mainstream. I want to be heard without being disrespected.

I want tolerance. Seeing people act like bullies makes be nauseous.

You can't deny how I feel about your opinion, just like I cannot deny how you feel about my opinion. However, if I don't like your opinion about something, it is not right for me to label you as a bigot or some other loaded term.

Let's not hate people. Let's understand that people live within a context. Let's change the context.
Modify JS AST with a sane declarative interface (DOM like).
Did anyone experiment yet with a tree-like comment system (just like the one on HN) that completely hides comment points (even in the profile pages and to the users themselves)? To me it seems that, contrary to the intentions to achieve high quality comments, the crowd often optimizes for low effort and high score. Maybe the lack of publicly visible reputations points could reduce that high score mentality. Maybe we are all wrong with this kind of behavioristic approach.

Spam and trolls would still be punished and one would still have the benefits of having the most favored comments at the top.
It'd be absolutely necessary that voting was anonymous.
A demo mode for browsers.

Incognito / private mode kind of solves this, but form autocompletes, and browser history when I enter a URL doesn't always contain stuff I want to show in front of my clients.
>> "Sure, for the hardcore fans, the noise just isn't the same"

Hardcore fans don't care about this noise. They're there to watch a race not listen to it. Sure it enhances the atmosphere but it's the racing that's important and judging by todays race that's only getting better.
A way for me to organize hundreds of gb of porn.

Seriously, porn organization is the 1 thing I haven't been able to master over the years. A way to detect what your current preferences are and map them to a video or image set would be revolutionary.
iOS app is US only and the website is broken. When I click on the play button it redirects to the home page.
There's a fundamental difference between supporting the government's authority in the realm of marriage, and supporting the government's authority to ban homosexuality itself. One can, for example, easily oppose laws which ban homosexual cohabitation, while also opposing government having any role in marriage.
I'd say the lesson is that, Despite evidence of overwhelming hypocricy amongst one of the biggest and most vocal supporters, LGBTQ's in the valley will form a mob and start boycotts that prove to be just as damaging and counter-productive as anything the conservatives and white power idiots can do.

Another lesson is that if I started a company in the Silicon Valley, released a combination AIDS/Cancer vaccine for free, and used the South Park Redefinition of "Faggot" (referring to insensitive harley motorcycle riders), I would destroy my company and people would boycott the cure for AIDS and Cancer.

Another lesson is that Silicon Valley is just as socially intolerant as Utah, but like most geographically-distinct cases of bigotry, the "lower class" is different. in Mississippi, it's African American crack users. in SV's case, it's anyone not 100% in-step with GLAAD. one is no better than the other.

(disclosure: I'm an lgBtq that thinks that marriage should not be a government institution. if you want tax breaks, incorporate.)
>I see the behavior of people like Eich as a personal affront to me and people close to me.

Yet you aren't going to get fired for having expressed those views five years ago. How would you feel if your boss decided to fire you over your personal beliefs, overlooking your professional merits? Do you really want McCarthyism again?
How about tab grouping? Or multiple windows?
It didn't when I wrote that comment. It works much better now.
That's actually brilliant, thanks for sharing!
Actually gmail proxies all image requests from emails so they would see it too. But yes, point taken.
Ask HN: Validate my storage company idea
1. Snap a photo of the stuff you want in storage

2. Van rolls up to your house and picks it up

3. Driver hands you a key / welcome package

Upfront fee would be based on volume, maybe pickup is free under a certain volume.

Still considering full or self service. Revenue would come from end users and partnerships with storage companies for customer contracts.
Agreed. kintamanimatt jumped to that conclusion.
No, because it doesn't close the feedback loop: It neither encourages good writers to keep writing, nor does it discourage de facto internal spammers.
Im having trouble organising the information I consume. I have tried using a mix of Google Bookmarks, Youtube's watch later, GDocs, Evernote, Pocket, Dropbox (for pdfs/books) and tldr.io.

There has to be something that encompasses the full 'learning process': find content, read/watch/listen it, summarise its most important points, list actionables, revisit it in the future...

This maybe too personal to standardise, but even a 'convention over configuration' approach would keep people like me from feeling stuck.
This might be relevant:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mimototech/mimoto-smart...
Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page
Anti-tech protesters have gathered around Kevin Rose's house (presumably in San Francisco) with a large banner. Kevin tweeted that he acknowledges the problems with housing here.

"Greetings Your neighbor at [redacted] a man named Kevin Rose, is a parasite. Perhaps not of you, but of us. This is why we are here: to reveal him for what he is.

As a partner venture capitalist at Google Ventures, Kevin directs the flow of capital from Google into the tech startup bubble that is destroying San Francisco. The start-ups that he funds bring the swarms of young entrepreneurs that have ravaged the landscapes of San Francisco and Oakland.

With each new tech corporation comes a wave of fresh techies, who on average earn four times more than a normal service worker. We are the ones who serve them coffee, deliver them food, suck their cocks, watch their kids, and mop their floors. Nearly all of them are just like Kevin Rose and we are tired of this miserable and untenable situation."
A lot of people didn’t agree with slavery abolition, too. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good thing.
A voting system based on the Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System behind Bitcoin. The major reasons votes couldn't be conducted electronically is because of trust issues and today we have a technology that solves that. I think this could potentially disrupt voting if properly executed.
Thanks for voicing your concern. Several applications out there (e.g. Mailtracker, Streak, etc.) provide tracking capabilities that include details on the recipient’s location, device, and number of opens. We at Pluto decided to only track the time that the email was first opened because we calculate some expiration times based on when the message was opened (e.g. email expires 1 hour after open). If we did not display this information, the user could always calculate it anyway from the email’s time of expiration.

David and I are both concerned about privacy, however, so we may implement an option to obscure tracking details in the future.

Lindsay,
Co-Founder @ Pluto Mail
Are First/Last names personal information in Spain too? So a customer list would also have the same protections?
The issue isn't just about the internet echo chamber though, it's a more fundamental thing that people seek out news sources and opinions that reinforce their own biases - totally the right thing to tackle, but it's not just about internet communities.
The IAC senior leadership has no (0/13) people of colour, and only one woman (thats 1/13). And in fact, they don't even have anyone who wears glasses. IAC is the owner of OK cupid, and Sam Yagan is on the parent company's wesite here:

http://iac.com/about/leadership

Google at least has a much more diverse company leadership teams. Ya know, men and women and people who wear glasses and hair color other than "middle brown".

For Yagan to take on his own Board as a subordinate, calling them a bunch of "racist bigots" --not for their private beliefs, but for their "public" actions-- as witnessed by their hiring policy, would be quite a stunt.
Facebook Groups work well for this for me. Twitter too. And IRC...
Making a Game Larger Than Life
Doesn't Chrome have a guest session kinda thing? And Firefox Mobile?
Gee, aren't you an outraged little fella.
Why is that hard to believe? A lot of people demonstrably oppose calling it marriage, even when homosexual couples already have the same legal rights and benefits as heterosexual couples.
The great thing about a static app architecture is that for things like administrative functions you can usually easily build an entirely separate interface and application utilizing the same back-end resources.

Security through obscurity is never sufficient, and static architecture makes you think through those concerns more thoroughly before deploy. See http://www.staticapps.org/articles/authentication-and-author... for more on that subject.

As to development vs production, minifying etc. that's something we're trying to solve with multi-environment hosting at Divshot.
"Also, this is why the ENTIRE PREMISE of implementing your own reallocator speced to just the realloc prototype doesn't make much sense."

If you're reimplementing realloc() it's pretty easy to know the size of the allocated regions - you just need to store the size somewhere when you allocate a block. One common method is to allocate N extra bytes of memory whenever you do malloc() to hold the block header and return a pointer to (block_address + N) to the user. When you then want to realloc() a block, just look in the block header (N bytes before the user's pointer) for the size.

The block header can store other useful stuff, like debugging information. I once implemented a memory manager for debugging that could generate a list of all leaked blocks at the end of the program with the file names and line numbers where they were allocated.
It's been done. Wolfram Alpha[1] specifically.

Also look up "linked data" (I'm not sure if DDG uses linked data or not[2]).

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+people+speak+B...
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=linked+data

edit: so "Hacker News" doesn't allow even basic HTML? Meh meh meh.
Developing a site conducive to good conversation, in general, needs work.

It's not just the echo chamber. It's the spam, the repost/duplicates and the following discussion, the trolls, the downvoting-for-disagreeing, gaming-the-system-for-'karma', the caring-about-karma, the offtopic-but-'funny'-jokes, paid-posters, etc.

The fact that every site fails when it becomes sufficiently popular says that good conversation is hard, and harder still while maintaining anonymity - and even then, exorcising anonymity doesn't seem to have helped the quality of Youtube comments.

There are various measures like hiding comment scores or capping karma that help but there's no site out there that combines them all.
It is interesting because the transaction log inconsistencies can often be resolved technically and because of the regulatory framework. Overdrafts can be "solved" in business sense.

Now imagine something like an bitcoin exchange and bitcoin transaction log. Transaction errors cannot be fixed easily. So overdrafting an account means never getting the money back. There a single account would need to have ACID properties in way.

It seems ability to deal with and tolerate data conflicts and inconsistencies is different for each business. There was some interest in CRTDs (data types that can automatically converge after a conflict occurs, like imagine a max() function or a set union operation) but still means shortly there could be an inconsistency in the system and sometimes that can be exploited and is just not an option.
>No, I think you've decided that when democracy doesn't cater exactly to your personal morals, it must be wrong.

Which is what every loser in a democracy thinks. At least every time it's a wedge issue like this.

>cast hatred

Huh, saying someone has no business running an equality-focused company is "hatred" now? Saying someone is a bigot is "hatred"? Yeah right.
> "I'd really love a browser extension that could keep track of how the user reached a given site."

I used to love to have this. I called it "browser history", but then Mozilla decided it made the browser so terribly slow that you can now no longer really configure how long history is retained. After a while it just disappears.

I used to have my history all the way back from 2006...
Nope. Not one bit. Shitstorm like this just reinforces my people that all people are equally capable of evil and good. This time with emphasis on evil.

I don't get what does his private belief have to do with making Firefox? Seriously, what?

Also replace this scandal with person X becoming CEO and then media discovering he fucked a cat once. Do you think he'd really rise to top ranks and suddenly turn the firm into a place for cat orgies?
where I work they do and they require online training and signing (electronically) a statement to the effect that you understand. of course that doesn't mean it doesn't happen all the time. Your suggestion is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard I'm afraid.
So you're single issue when it comes to private citizens, but multiple issue when it comes to elected officials?
Let me stoop to your level for a moment:

Yo, FUCKHEAD: You claimed appropriating marriage was a band-aid. BUT... you ALREADY HAD THE FUCKING RIGHTS. You JUST WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT WHAT MARRIAGE IS.

FUCK YOU. You don't give a SHIT about the rights, because you don't even know that you already have them. You JUST WANT TO FORCE RELIGION to let you call it marriage.

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

---

And we've already had the separate but equal argument, don't even fucking bother with it. You can't stand that you can't make a coherent argument here, because you're a bully. A fucking FUCKHEAD bully.
Funny you mention that. There was an article a few days ago that TaskRabbit quietly shuttered their 'for business' offering and rolled it into the general service. http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/01/taskrabbit-for-business-ser...
I agree with this point of view, and have always been a bit skeptical of the gay marriage movement because of it. But on the other side, it sounds like Prop 8 is the exact opposite of what we're talking about - a measure to codify the definition of marriage and define it as exclusively heterosexual into the constitution. I can't think of any decent reason to support it.
you are also missing the point. If you considder a salary where the government have to subsidize to make it possible then by definition you cant live of your salary. It doesent matter what you can live off in other countries, as a society you have a problem. A problem caused primarily by technology.
Prose is seriously awesome! Thank you :-)
Open University.

A massive repository of all books needed for any career.

No teachers, no videos, no homework, nothing, just the books, free, forever.
perhaps a followupthen for tabs?
Lars may be an asshole, but it is unfair to say that he made less of a contribution to the writing that Cliff did. Lars has writing credits on 8 tracks of Kill'Em All [0], 8 tracks of Ride the Lightning [1], 8 tracks of Master of Puppets [2], and 9 tracks of ...And Justice for All [3], whereas Cliff only has 1, 6, 3, and 1 tracks on said albums respectively. Furthermore, James wrote nearly all of the lyrics himself, so I really don't see how Cliff can be considered the driving force behind the writing of Metallica's early music.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_%27Em_All#Track_listing

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_Lightning#Track_listin...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Puppets#Track_listing

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_Justice_for_All_%28album...
The 0.1% aren't sitting on stacks of gold bars. The money is still flowing through the economy, it's just in the form of stocks, bonds, and real-estate. I've never heard a convincing argument for why the 0.1% is harmful to society.
This looks to be the latest that is being worked on, but I could be wrong https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
I've always wondered about fuel efficient trucks. A number of 'design the future' efforts include them but they rarely make it to the road. The industry doesn't seem to care enough to make the investment.

I really think that self driving fuel efficient trucks on their own "truckways" would be a pretty good way to boost transport infrastructure quickly.
1 million more...

Given the source is open, it may be more like curating a list of children's programming torrents and providing a delivery system for people to add their own child appropriate work.

I wouldn't be opposed to ads but not the sort you currently find on kids tv hawking toys
blink and sound when the pedestrian is detected is way better for him/her and the driver.
This would require a full blown company, and a big one at that, to get it right. Not really a hackable idea that a reader could do in a few months of spare time.
Or, perhaps, the wages of the companies C.E.O.
Items like this are making it less and less likely that I read HN. Is it of "deep intellectual interest"? No doubt it is to some, and I'm content to believe it has an affect beyond the microcosm that is SV, but I'm tired of reading this sort of thing.

I haven't flagged it, because it would seem that the wider HN community wants this sort of item here, but I don't want to read it, so I will be reading less. There was a time I would watch the "newest" page to upvote good stuff and flag the inappropriate. Of late it's making me feel grubby, so I won't be doing that much now.
129 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared.
And turn off video controls. They get in the way and lack of them never hurt gif.
Fair! Thanks for your response.
The Noble Geek
And now Ecclestone is hinting at mid-season changes that FIA should pursue to wink protect the other teams.

I say tough. They will catch up eventually. But there should be no drastic changes that hurt all the work Mercedes put in.
I've recently started something like this, but so far it's in German only, and only recognizes zip codes from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (it does a proximity search, not strict search by city).

The main problem is getting the data. I thought that ticket affiliate programs would give me the data in machine readable form, but so far no luck (one of them does, but it's far too expensive).

In case you're still interested, it's http://konzertgeek.de/ (source at https://github.com/moritz/soonish-p5 ).

If anybody has ideas where to get the data from, please tell me!
I at no point in this entire discussion insulted you.

And this is in case you delete/edit your comment:

http://gyazo.com/780f9733394829fce3b5577edf4091b5

Like I said. We're done here.
I'm seeing a lot of disagreement over the facts of Proposition 8. Several people are saying that homosexual couples in California already had a legal partnership with all the same rights as "married" heterosexual couples.
From what I've read, they were preparing some statement, but they apparently never did because B. Eich quit and left Mozilla under pressure.

Right now who knows, maybe he was intending an apology, but if I were him this ordeal would have left me really bitter at what was the supposed cause.
Search friendliness is probably the biggest problem yet to be completely solved for static apps. There are workarounds, but they are admittedly less than perfect.

However, given the general web development trends towards JS-driven interfaces and upcoming standards like Web Components, I don't think it's going to stay unsolved for much longer.