skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly, the X protocol's asynchronous nature isn't without some downsides (though I think you could address the vblank sync without discarding it). However, I maintain that Xlib itself was a synchronous interface in front of an asynchronous protocol - which gives us the worst of both worlds and motivated Xcb.
Pretty much every game-changing web feature comes to Safari years after Firefox and Chrome. Yes, they are good at some things, particularly CSS, but not at the types of things that allow new types of applications to be built.
"The 'why' should not matter."

The 'why' absolutely matters - frequently, there are tradeoffs to be made in an implementation; if you don't understand "why" something is being done than it's difficult-to-impossible to evaluate which tradeoff is going to work.

In this particular case, the tradeoffs appear (based on the SO answers) to mostly revolve around how much text the technique is applied to and what the intended uses of that text are (doe selection work, does wrapping work, does accessibility work).
Drag and drop is popular. We are just less and less used to the paradigm, and don't expect it to work in the browser. I don't think there is much wrong with the approach, but there is a blur between app/OS interfaces and web ones. For example if that widget kit was a separate window like say the old Gimp toolset, it would feel okay to me.

The placement on the RHS is a little awkward, especially if there is scrolling required.

The commit process was confusing for me in trying to publish a page, but I found the CMS more intuitive than something like Joomla, that I feel out the box is a train wreck (it takes a good while to fit the pieces together/learn how to use).

There's scope for better CMSs that's for sure.
I get into it later in my comment: it must be an original concept because no loan words are used in the Somali legal terminology, I point out that might not be true.
That depends on the specific equipment intercepted and backdoored.

With a router on a key network segment, you're bulk-exploiting a large sector of the population (though there may be other means of doing this).

Generally, device interdiction doesn't scale, it's the sort of targeted surveillance Schneier more-or-less is supportive of.
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The catch though is that you live on an existential minimum throughout that time. Everything you earn above that very low level will go to the state, if I understand the system correctly.
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Defamation is so expensive to defend (and results so variable) that almost everyone folds in the face of a libel claim. Libel is a very effective way for rich people to silence criticism.

It got so bad in the UK that the US passed a law declaring UK libel judgements unenforcable in the US ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act ). UK libel law has recently improved very slightly, although not in Northern Ireland.
"Information made public by the subject"

... Isn't that pretty much the whole internet?
Would you say #6 and #7 are true generally, or Joshua's opinion?

To avoid inefficiency I find having people 'jigsaw-puzzle-piece' shaped helps - it means they're not always waiting on Bob on the desk over there to do the task that's blocking them (even if that task is only "Export an item from a PSD").
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to sum up the author of the news and recipient of the mail cannot read french correctly.

It is a cease and desist letter on the use of a name «lebonXXX.fr» that in all due respect seem is a clear parasitism of a registred brand: it bears a similar name, it is related to the activity of the original site. And le boncoin.fr is registered @ l'INPI (national registration office of brands).

In PI law, the infringement is about the confusion that results in the brand aka reputation and not on the use of an external API.

It does not mean I support leboncoin, because I could not care less. @ least I don't appreciate people misleading others based on fake victimisation.

Cher jonathan: en matière de droit «nul ne peut se prévaloir de ses propres turpitudes»
The proposed law is now open for public comments.
Hello,

I am now building some kind of (read) API to the website.

The work is in progress, and on a restricted area (one country) I am able to index all pages in near real time (near...).

Maybe someone of you may be interested into some info or collaboration ?

Here is my email jhin2g9e8o2ik7j at jetable dot org

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Speaking of geography, .au has at least some copper mines, and they're a reasonably advanced nation, so they can likely supply locally made copper cables, which might be more economic than shipping fiber and fiber gear from "somewhere" to .au. Maybe it would be more economical to export large diameter power cables to "somewhere" while importing fiber, but its not a total no-brainer and requires at least some research to determine the optimum.

.so doesn't have much for resources other than pirates and hungry people, so if they're going to have to import everything, may as well be the new stuff.

Another way to look at .au vs .so is .au is very sparsely populated other than coasts so "most people" will likely end up using wireless for everything, and copper only in unusual areas, and perhaps not so in .so where a very substantial fiber investment might be required to pepper the entire country with wireless towers.

Inherently fiber "should be" much cheaper tech that copper, but due to existing infrastructure and historical economic conditions, its currently applied the other way around, so expensive fiber is for big cities and cell towers, but copper is for providing DSL to that cattle ranch 100 miles from civilization. If .so only serves the rich in the big cities, they have no use for copper to feed the rural poor who won't be getting service, as a theoretical example.
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Good point. However the comment betrays a complete lack of understanding both when it comes to the point being made by the video, and the wider implication that "any other hip hop video" is riddled with misogyny and male chauvinism. It's a very poor comment.

But I stray OT.
Re: last paragraph, I agree; however, it's a cost / benefit thing. I work as a consultant, and while I want to make the most optimal software ever on the one hand, my customer also wants features. The more you optimize, the harder it gets and the more maintenance you'll need to do. It all depends on how much time (and money) you want to invest in optimization vs features.
Ah, what a loss.

I remember being astonished by Giger's vision in Alien. For years I hunted down posters, calendars, and books, which weren't always available or affordable. Like others here, I relished the Dark Seed game for its tribute to Giger.

This takes me back to an earlier stage of my life, and makes me very sad. What a vision!
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No, the biggest obsession you seem to have from your multiple comments in this thread is some sort of belief in absolute justice. Without the ability to forget our past mistakes, we are forever defined by them. You seem to be begging for that to happen.

You want to destroy someone's life forever. Everyone needs a chance to rehabilitate, whether or not they were guilty or successfully prosecuted or not.

Does it matter that this man wants to forget whatever shame this caused him?

I actually find it disgraceful that you have deliberately used his name in two of your comments. At the time of writing almost 10% of comments in this thread are from you.

What has happened to you to make you so broken and incapable of forgiveness?
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Same here. I thought it helped to dispel the conception that only Very Serious People should be interested in this stuff.
That's the one thing I liked about Typo3, that it insisted on heirarchical placement of a page in the nav.

I think to understand the reason for the above is that those systems appeared before 'tagging' and loose content relationships.

Working with Drupal, I know it can become confusing when you mix the two. Menus,tags or both? What if content should appear in more than one place? It's an area that is can be confusing for site admins and users.
Don't worry, git-annex uses SHA1 just as a checksum, not for cryptographic purposes.
What happens when you let employees vote on an open office?
I wasn't speaking about what is (or should be) required by law. I was speaking about our social reaction, which certainly has a relationship with law but is not the same thing.

If it's acceptable for a person, in the heat of the moment, to decide to save themselves at a cost to others (once they've considered what other options are available to the best of their ability), then it's acceptable to decide to put in place a system that does the same, assuming it is (at least) comparably capable of considering other options.

If it's heroic for a person to, in the heat of the moment, decide that it's important to save another person even at risk to themselves, then it's also heroic for them to put in place a system that does the same.

Of course, opting out of the whole thing and sticking with a human-driven car is also a choice, and once autonomous cars are sufficiently better than human drivers it may itself become an unacceptable choice.

In the long run, the law should probably catch up to wherever we've arrived at socially and forbid more egregiously unacceptable choices, but I don't see any reason we should start there.
Here's some computer generated art from the 50s:

http://translab.burundi.sk/code/vzx/index.htm
If they can get the content, then an Apple STB would be game-changing. Every STB I've used has awful UI - slow, unresponsive, unintuitive, uninformative. But it has to be able to deliver the broadcast TV programmes in realish time. If it managed to do that by IP (multicast?) seamlessly, that would actually be fine.
I also use the word sugar and safari in English. The origins of both these words are well-attested.

I know they are both Afro-Asiatic languages, but on different ends of the spectrum (Arabic is a not Cushitic language). It could be an original word, but I thought it was interesting coincidence. I only assume it is one because, as I said, because I did coursework in college and Somali speakers did gloss examples for us and I was surprised at how Arabic-heavy some vocab was. This does not make me an expert on the topic, and I would admit I know not enough of Somali to say anything definitive.

I just wrote what came to my head. Somali is very interesting to me, but I could not find any good etymology resources online.
You have a point, but even if the author rebranded his website, he would still violate the TOS when providing direct links to listings (and maybe when scraping the website but this is not clearly forbidden in the TOS).
The discussion is mostly about this (I think).
And now you can break your screen whichever way you drop your phone.
Because corrupt regulators.
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Hiding your content below the scroll and having a single, tiny, ambiguous, low-contrast visual indicator that more information is below seems to be "the in thing" in web design in 2014.
The court is making a distinction that may be hard to define because it is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. It's OK for this auction to be advertised locally, but not further from the area? Does this apply to any aggregation or reposting of data that is publicly listed somewhere else, if it mentions identifiable individuals?
Like the http://keracolor.blogspot.co.uk/ ? (1968)
Apple is operating in a low competition industry. It has a monopoly on the sale of Apple products.
Thanks for the great feedback, I'm so sorry that you got hit by the cron job.

> +1 for having a usable demo to play with off the bat.

Thanks.

The idea behind the versioning system is that for a lot of our clients, the people who are editing the pages are not actually allowed to publish them. Those users will not see a Commit and Approve button, they only have the Commit button. Later, somebody who has full privileges will review the commits (either in the History or in the Review Queue) and decide whether or not to approve those pages.

If you wanted to see the version that you were editing (we call it the working copy), you can click on the preview button located next to the Commit and History buttons. You can even test the form from the preview page and it will still work.

> Confusion lies in the commit part, or in the publishing process, order of process.

I think you are absolutely right that this flow is confusing. We will talk about how to make this flow better and more obvious.

> Some buttons looked deactivated

I opened an issue for that <https://github.com/fusionbox/django-widgy/issues/205>.
Ask HN: Do you earn income from your developer blog?
Many of us probably have fairly similar blogs - code snippets, conference notes, our thoughts on programming, etc.

Are any of you earning income through your developer blog? Not just by finding contract work, or by writing an ebook, but some other method. Maybe selling your libraries, doing training, paid access to "the good stuff".

If you are, can you share what you're doing, how you decided what to do, and how successful it's been?
good luck convincing etc corp. to run on Mono

Someone said the same about Linux too.
"I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN."

Social media / web blog / MMORPG code of conduct / Karma scheme / online digital currency / standards of behavior all belong here?

If, today, on eveonline, or any other mmorpg, enough people wanted to roll a system out for conflict resolution, well, here's a historical system thats known to work and be stable and well documented, or documented well enough anyway. It might actually transplant successfully.

Much as most social media is essentially workforce automation for grade school girl playground scale interpersonal relations, there are obvious startup opportunities to provide distributed worldwide mediation services using proven stable and successful historical techniques with a thin patina of CRUD web app and mobile phone data harvesting app smeared over it. Although this paragraph is hyper sarcastic its also serious, there are obvious startup opportunities for a proven stable and workable mediation system. Other than having problems educating the participants, I see no particular reason it couldn't scale worldwide for mediation. MaaS is Mediation as a Service? I suppose the startup would base their support call center in .so for obvious reasons? Its a very interesting idea and I'm almost sorry to state it publicly because I'd almost want to roll it out myself.
'Economy', not 'society'. China has quite a diverse economy.
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The name "Dick" last leaked in 1938, it will make a comeback in 2031 when parents decide en masse to saddle their poor kids with lifelong ridicule.
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leboncoin.fr is known for developing all necessary tools internally. So... they should hire this guy, that's all! losers...
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For heterodox economics without the signature Zerohedge apocalypse hype, try the ftalphaville blog: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/
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> A CMS must be able to display the same content in different ways, display content filtered according to relationships, and so on. Not to mention render in other content types than just HTML.

That's quite rigid. Good to ask the question: what is a CMS? It's pretty ambiguous.
Hundreds of millions? It depends precisely what number. Terrestrial macroscopic life is barely 500mil years old and 100mil years earlier the atmosphere would have been too low in oxygen to breathe. Land animals with larger brains are rather recent too, just 250mil years or so. But that still leaves a large margin for sentient life to develop.
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Kids get the coolest apps these days...
They dabble in scaling 2-dimensional objects by radius instead of the area, but not quite by radius. A ~40% (cumulative) increase in dollars is shown as a ~70% increase in pixel area (which is a ~30% increase in radius, not ~40%).
Isn't it the case that employees who have worked in open plan are likely vote against and employees that have worked in cubicle farms are likely to vote _for_ open plan?

The grass is always greener…
From the decision:

"... the activity of a search engine consisting in finding information published or placed on the internet by third parties, indexing it automatically, storing it temporarily and, finally, making it available to internet users according to a particular order of preference must be classified as 'processing of personal data' within the meaning of Article 2(b) when that information contains personal data and, second, the operator of the search engine must be regarded as the 'controller' in respect of that processing, within the meaning of Article 2(d)."

Hopefully replying to requests will be sufficient. Otherwise, even simply the obligation to detect that there is something the law requires to be removed will be a new burden on search engines and any similar services.
no need for techcrunch spam, the original source was already submitted and discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734418
You might have a point. Imagine that I am ashamed at having been ashamed, and I'm often ashamed at french being ashamed for random reasons.
Maybe we have too high expectations.
As an aside, i think the persistence approach used in Disruptor is taken from Prevayler:

http://prevayler.org/

Which perhaps got it from other even earlier efforts of which i am not aware.
A distributed social network would be probably part of it but still doesn't successfully describe my idea (utopia might be a better term..). I would like any service to ask permissions for any piece of data that I control. For example my bank wants to see my last payslip ? sure ask for the proper permission and for how long you need it. Dentist require a proof of my address ? no problems. It will allow me to change my address or phone number for example without having to notify all services (electricity company, bank, doctors, amazon, etc..). I'm actually in the process of moving house again and this is so annoying, why do I have to notify everybody to update the data they have about me ? Wouldn't it be better if they could just ask me about my data at the time they need it ?
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Translation of the NSA statement:

We don't deny altering hardware. In fact, if we (likely) install backdoors into hardware used by foreign intelligence targets; but don't worry, we're not interested in the casual user. As the US Government relies on commercial hardware, we make sure that only the US Government can access the backdoors. We're angry that this was made public, and we can't prove that it jeopardizes human lives.
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after thinking about this one for a while, it occurred to me that this really helps illustrate the point of 'Life May Be A Computer Simulation'. Take this world creation a step further, and rather than teaching a computer how to create rocks, each one slightly different, imagine creating humans, each one slightly different. If you think about 'God' as just some alien programmer dude, it helps make so much sense of the world. How can a caring God let so many terrible things happen to us humans? Well, how much empathy do you feel about each rock in this program? When you click refresh, and create a whole new world, do you stop and think about all the exist rocks you are 'killing'? If we are living in a computer simulation, perhaps our creator doesn't even realize we are sentient?
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much worse (dark pattern?): on my mobile it puts a Twitter share link exactly where my thumb is touching the screen for scrolling.
I didn't see the allegation of libel in this case. The plaintiff's house was sold at auction and he wanted links to the newspaper listing removed from Google.

Assuming there is a libel element tho (mentioned above in connection with UK law), what about the report of the case where libel was found? That's news, correct?

Well, maybe it's only the libelous statements that must be removed when liability is found - then the public would have incomplete reports of judicial actions. Isn't that a public interest weighing against privacy?
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If you had some extra cash laying around what would you invest or try to grow that cash more?
I would maybe buy some gold and sell it later?
buy used car and sell it?
what would you guys do?
Here I was thinking it was yet another bitcoin clone.
So, basically, any phone case can't be used.

Hopefully the unobtanium glass screens will be in production by then so it won't matter so much.
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pbsd investigated above[1] and found that the problem was the use of signed chars.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737582
sheesh. That's a bit much.

The site owner chooses a commenting system. People who want to comment, comment using it. Victims?!
Maidenhead Railway Bridge -- such a handsome construction. I distinctly recall attempting to ride a bicycle under it back in 2008, but was stopped in my tracks by the sight of it. I was a recent arrival to the UK so didn't know who Brunel was. I saw his name for the first time on that bridge's plaque. Fan ever since.

(The story goes the bridge was opened but its extreme flatness disturbed the locals, whom forced him to put the wooden supporting arches used during construction back under it, fearing it would surely collapse. He did so and the supports remained there for some time. It wasn't until he was he was allowed to take them down again that he revealed that they were put back without touching the bridge; it had been freestanding since being opened. What a champion!)
We use it all the time, with great success. We have one Dropbox (free account) for kids to keep their programming, drawing and other stuff in (one folder per kid). They lose their stuff all the time, in the most creative ways possible. Dropbox's 30-day version history can be a real lifesaver in those cases.

Although sometimes stuff is just gone and they're out of luck. I'm still not entirely sure what happens then, possibly a weird combination of everyone saving their project near closing time, the Internet connection maybe choking up a bit, and people shutting down their computer before everything is properly synced.