skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's always a good idea to have your site degrade gracefully. This will help users enjoy your content even if their browser doesn't have compatible JavaScript implementations. It will also help visitors with JavaScript disabled or off, as well as search engines that can't execute JavaScript yet.

I'm glad that they included this.

I get that Javascript is required to make certain sites work the way they do, but I'm appalled by the number of sites that require Javascript just to display static text.

Google themselves are guilty of this. Google Groups is (for the most part) just an archive of email mailing lists, but try reading a thread on Google Groups with Javascript disabled![0]

There are very few sites that cannot gracefully downgrade to at least some degree, and there are very good reasons for doing so. A major one is that AJAX-heavy sites tend not to perform well on slow connections[1] (again, assuming essentially static content here). If you want your users to be able to access your site on-the-go, graceful degradation is your friend.

[0] It's especially ironic now that Google Groups is the only place to read many old Usenet archives going back as far as the early 1980s.

[1] Try browsing Twitter on a slow (ie, tethered, or "Amtrak wifi" level connection). For a website that originally originated as a way to send messages over SMS, and is still used that way in other parts of the world, it degrades amazingly poorly over slow connections.
Because he's aggressively making the same claims in many threads, the discussions in those threads suggest that people have found fault in his arguments (e.g. they think he's misrepresenting the law).

Because of the way the threading works people are seeing his N repetitions of these claims, with rebuttals, before seeing this post, so naturally they're down-voting it.
I believe all NTSC equipment is required to support Black&White System M signals, which are exactly 60Hz[1]. It probably made their equipment much simpler to forget about colour encoding entirely. (And it made the 44,100Hz fit too)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR_System_M
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URL seems to be http://elixirconf.com/ (not .org)
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With Browserify you have extra steps as well. Install browserify. Install a watch thingy (in grunt or gulp or write a shell script or whatever). Remember to run that watch thingy every time you develop.

That's why I prefer client-side loaders. All you have to do is copy the loader into a folder and create a .html file. I have my dev folder hosted by apache so I don't ever have to worry about starting some process, running npm install and watching it install the entire internet, etc.
no. however it already clicks things.
I'm sorry, but the difference between $12.99 and $9.99 is precisely a cost (hurt) to the consumer of $3. It's certainly a reduction in consumer surplus and, when multiplied by the millions of books sold every year, is a meaningful impact.
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You are describing symptoms of depression and some mild or severe psychotic symptoms, combined with the very risky and assertive decision of self-medicating.

A bipolar disorder would explain these symptoms. Also bipolar is a very common comorbidity of ADHD, with overlapping symptoms. At the very least, the social problems that come with ADHD predispose for bouts of depression.

Taking destabilizing drugs like Ritalin or Amphetamines is also known to trigger manic episodes or other psychosis. Which is one of many reasons why medical professionals won't tell you to start at the final dose for the first few weeks...
preme, listary, cmder/conemu. that's a good start.
> Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with.
The thing is, they don't. Amazon is like Walmart or Google. The reason everyone uses them isn't that there are no other options. There are. The reason is that they're better at it. A monopoly is, for example, Comcast, because there is no reasonable alternative provider for the same service.

Talking about "hurt a publisher" is broadening the scope too far of what a monopoly is. A large retailer taking your products off of its shelves will hurt you in the sense that you'll make fewer sales, but that doesn't mean they have monopoly power. All it means is they have non-zero negotiating leverage with you. If you don't like it, go sell your books on Barnes and Noble or eBay or direct to customers on your own website.

Think for a moment about why we hear all this wailing about Amazon in the book market but not in the market for e.g. AWS, even though Amazon has a large market share there as well. It's because in the book market the publishers are also Amazon's competitors and they're the ones wailing. Because Amazon wants everybody to buy eBooks, the vibrant success of which gives authors significant leverage over publishers once it becomes viable to forgo a print edition entirely unless publishers provide sufficiently attractive terms.

That puts the squeeze on print publishers from both ends. Amazon is demanding lower prices from them and authors are given leverage to demand higher royalties. That's the natural state of the market when your product requires you to operate an industrial scale printing facility and have a significant unit reproduction cost for your product and competitors are providing similar customer value by copying bits. The print publishers are screwed and they're trying to figure out how not to be, but they're already dead and they just haven't hit the ground yet.
Yeah for me there is sort of an illusion going on where the hexagonal patterns that I'm not looking at directly seem to be growing...kind trippy.
AFAIK, the ground temperature will be the average air temperature over the year. It's certainly not 58F everywhere, because in Siberia there's permafrost, and in Denmark might likely be less than 58F, too.
Not to mention that the require('path/to/file') "sugar syntax" is hardly mentioned anywhere and you end up having to track your imports 1 to 1, in order.
I haven't looked at Amazon's numbers, so I don't know the actual values involved, but "profit" includes money that is then "invested back into expanding the business".
These articles can really go either way, but NYT seems to continuously go the publisher side. Theres not a single Amazon statement in this article.

Remember that the majority of publishers just recently colluded with Apple to essentially fuck over Amazon. Why would we afford them the presumption of goodwill here?
conemu provides the drop down natively too :)
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Love these kinds of houses, however getting a construction permit is hard. First there is the "is it structurally ok ?", but cob houses can be build correctly. And second is getting the "looks" approved, all houses have to look the same and all that :(
Their theory and practice seems quite sound. I tend to agree with Mr. Adams that this could very well be a failure, though I certainly doubt it is a hoax of any kind. These people seem to really believe in the technology they are creating and they want to test the scale of their theory.

One draw back to this is their Indiegogo campaign production quality is a bit lacking. I would love to say that you should not judge a book by its cover. But let's face it, just about everyone judges a book by it's cover! A general face lift to the campaign site and more scientific information would significantly increase the credibility.
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clarification :
The difference seen in the expected % is because the method used for calculating was not that one of the candidates did not respond but was based on the number of exchanges we had with them and if did respond. One of the candidates later stopped replying after a few discussions. So when we did
(No that we got response)/(No communications) * 100
we ended up with a 98+ value which we rounded to 99.
:D
I would say a lot depends on reason why you dropped out of colleague. Even Zuckerberg was very reluctant to do that, but Facebook growth took too much of his attention. That much different than lack of self discipline/just getting bored.
I was surprised, its kind of old news. There is useful JS to look at when you're crawling a web page. Its also a useful way to detect malware on a page.
1) Idiot bosses.
2) Concern over job security.
3) The fact they aren't perfect and bugs happen.

:P
If the patent portfolio of these companies that go bankrupt sold at auction to satisfy creditors? Who buys these, other patent-trolls?

That might be a problem right there.
While correlation isn't causation, it is certainly evidence for causation.

Plus, in many cases, careful analysis alone can reveal the presence (or absence) of causation with great certainty.
I'd wager Denmark never gets anywhere near 100F...
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It's pretty obvious that they need to do this, whether reported or not, in order to handle some very easy spam attacks. E.g., replacing keyword-baiting content with, say, an advert for something totally irrelevant.

So this isn't really new or surprising
I always thought those things were impossible to run in because the rotational inertia of the wheel is way higher than the inertia of one running in it. That requires you to run at almost constant speed (if your foot stays a bit longer on the ground, you do not decelerate the wheel much, but your feet ends up a few centimeters backwards. Repeat for two or three steps, and you lose your balance).

That changed when I saw the Ukrainian entry for this year's Eurovision contest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DhH0jWyfk). On the other hand, that wheel is smaller and likely has way less rotational inertia than the ones one finds in the typical playground, and probably also has less rolling resistance. That guy must have trained, if only to make it look effortless, but it may be easier than one would think it is.
> The paperback edition of Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” — a book Amazon disliked so much it denounced it — is suddenly listed as “unavailable.”

I like a conspiracy theory as much as the next guy but couldn't the book just be... unavailable? If they wanted to impede its distribution why are they still selling the Kindle, Hardcover, and Audio versions?
> All cancers use similar mechanisms because of concept known as convergent evolution.

First of all, this hypothesis is still highly contested in the literature. There are no doubt certain pathways (usually part of cell cycle regulation) that happen to be used by most cancers, but there are hundreds of genes involved in the cell cycle and we aren't even close to enumerating all the ways that it can malfunction. The fact that most cancers use similar pathways is no doubt reflective of the fact that they are the easiest pathways toward malignancy, not the only pathways.

Secondly, say we do take the top N common mechanisms and create a bulletproof inhibitor. Now your statement about convergent evolution is no longer true. Anything that kills cancer cells (excision, radiation, chemotherapy, something targeted) exerts selective pressure, and you will instead start seeing cancers that utilize the (N+1)th easiest pathway, (N+2)th, and so on. It's like trying to stop all the ways that a car could break down: possible up to a certain point, impossible in the long run.

I also contest the statement that "you are basically reverting its evolution to day 0". Germline predispositions for cancer are an important part of the disease and not selected against in a society where people have natural-born kids between 20 and 40. If there were a cure for cancer, it would probably involve genetically engineering humans that are extremely unlikely to get it (and also age very slowly, etc.). But then you are looking at a totally different kind of society.

> genetic transfer to different hosts via some infectious vector but that is probably highly improbable

This is not only probable, it is known (so far, 12% of human cancers). Viruses linked directly to cancer include HPV, EBV, HTLV, and polyomavirus [1]. A virus that causes cancer can be a very successful virus, depending on how long the infectious/replicative phase is compared to the symptomatic phase. Replicating infected host cells = more viral production = greater likelihood of survival and transmission.

There are some researchers that think that all cancer is caused by viruses that have yet to be identified. I don't think that's literally true, but we can find all kinds of remnants of ancient viruses in our genome, so in a way, they might be on to something.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus
Moreover, patent lawsuits have a high probability of engaging a single programmer's responsibility, since all contracts engage the programmer not to use derivative works of anything else and not to use patented work. So I would think it's only fair if the counter penalty were directed at the CEO in person instead of the patent troll.
But how does it know when to take the snapshot? A clicked link can do all sorts of asynchronous things and Google is unaware when the new rendering is "finished".
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As long as it doesn't eat through the can, I don't see a problem ;).
See, this is why I really strongly suggested that you read the link I provided. Monopolies are not, strictly speaking, about "not having any other options". I phrased my point carefully... the fact that Amazon can incur great pain on someone like this, combined with the fact that they have, strongly suggests something that may be actionable under monopoly law, regardless of what other definitions may or may not also be something you could choose to apply, but I did not.

If customers in practice had easy and significant choices, they'd just go elsewhere easily and the publisher would feel no pain.
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I know a lot of people work that way (using new technologies in their day jobs) but personally I take my day job too seriously to do that. I learn new technologies by doing side projects. Then once I feel comfortable with them I can start using them in my day job. I don't want to look my boss or coworkers in the face and say "Yeah that fuck up was because I was using this project to learn a new thing."

I think you're over estimating how much time you need for a side project. You can even just spend a couple hours on a couple weekends a month on something. Or even every other month. You don't have to work on it every day or anything. That's the great thing about it being a side project. There's no rush. No timetable other than whatever you choose for yourself.
Yes. I've encountered them. My anecdotal evidence is that all who dropped out because of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill gates, or Peter Thiel showed them 'a different way' have completely stagnated.

On the other hand, anecdotally, those dropouts who put their heads down and got stuff done, some of them did pretty well.

Finally, anecdotally, in my experience, people with college degrees got hired faster and in times of woe, are the last to be let go. In fact, many SV companies (Google, for example, but funded startups often work the same way), won't hire you without a college degree unless you've done something notable. Being notable, by definition, means you are in the minority of any group. making dropping out to achieve success a risky proposition.

Of course, your mileage may vary. ;-)
Why not use Oauth to verify someone on Twitter instead of having someone post a tweet?

How many people are automatically logged in?

The only thing is that you would see the keybase message that you didn't send but it is Twitter and most people don't look back on their recent tweets.
Looks like the publishing industry needs to consolidate further.
Same. I didn't it because as far as I could tell at the time it would have 0 impact on my income one way or the other so why spend the money & time at a rate of lost salary + tuition.
There are certain children who even at this age are extremely uncontrollable. From the outside, this is mostly ascribed to bad parenting, like "What else could it be?"

Well, it turns out, these children often can't be helped by "good parenting" or non-pharmaceutical therapy. They are still destroying their homes, terrorizing their parents and peers. And even though they are the aggressors, they suffer immensely, let alone their parents.

Also, even in much milder cases it has been shown that beating or otherwise severely punishing children (emotionally might count, too), actually increases the behavioral problems in the long term. If ADHD medications helps these children to actually choose peacefulness, I'm not entirely against it.
Actually 44.1kHz is unhelpful for that... a lot of infrastructure exists that expects things to work on 10 and 20ms intervals (and multiples there-of), e.g. the normal windows audio apis work in 10ms chunks.

10ms of 44.1kHz is 441 samples, which is odd and thus a not really fantastic size for easily implemented factorizations.

Of course, if you can pick your own analysis interval you can pick some nice power of two or other very smooth number. But thats true regardless of the sampling rate.
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Anyone has luck with Browserify + TypeScript while keeping source maps pointing correctly back to TypeScript? (or any other JS transpiler)
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I suppose tango doesn't work so well in direct sunlight?
Reminds me of "Googlebot Is Chrome": http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

Obviously the claim probably isn't literally true, but it they could certainly share a JS engine (V8) at the very least, and the idea that the motivation behind developing that JS engine may have been spidering JS-dependent pages doesn't seem too far-fetched.
It's big, so you can resupply it every now and then with 20+ beer cans. Basically, it has much bigger buffer than your fridge.
> Theres not a single Amazon statement in this article

From the article: "An Amazon spokesman declined to comment"
Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible. This means weighing merits of different solutions and choosing one. I am a really hesitant decision maker, resulting in more wasted hours.

This time is not entirely wasted. Even in the worst case -- where the code you are so carefully writing winds up not being used after all -- you are getting good practice in code craftsmanship. The next time you are faced with a decision similar to one you are making now, you will make it more easily: not only have you considered the issues before, but you know how one of the possibilities actually worked out. This is how one builds experience.

I usually find that writing code slowly and carefully is in fact the fastest way to get it done, because it minimizes debugging and rewriting. There are exceptions, such as exploratory programming, when you know you're going to throw the thing away anyway, and in small utilities built for personal use; and there are times when getting something working quickly is important (for a demo, for instance) even though you know you'll have to rewrite it. But these are exceptions. When you're implementing important functionality that's going to be in the product for the foreseeable future and that others will have to maintain and build on, the slow, careful way is best.

It seems to me the real problem here is that although your managers value your work, they don't listen to your architectural opinions. That's a serious problem. Maybe at some point you'll need to tell them, "if you want it done that way, you'll have to find somebody else to do it". Pick your battle carefully though -- it needs to be a case where their way is clearly and substantially suboptimal.
Anecdotally, the only people that have been laid off/fired in IT at my current $DAY_JOB are people with degrees.

I think the fundamental issue is perception matters. The perception of having a degree matters to some people. To some people, its about performance metric X instead, etc.
It always comes up at some point in discussions about education. Zuckerberg is a particularly poor example because he really doesn't strike me as a transcendent genius like Gates or Wozniak or Jobs, just a guy who built the right thing at the right time.

I think for the vast majority of people, self-education is really, really hard. Even now in 2014, the material available online is very limited in scope and depth. Maybe some people could grab a college curriculum, get the lecture notes, buy all the books, and then sit down and truly learn all that material by themselves. I certainly couldn't.
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I can't seem to do it right.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newslogin?whence=news
Well, I love StP, there are a lot of awesome people here and so on.

But political situation in Russia bothers me (I don't like Putin and our corrupted criminal government. I don't like current situation in Ukraine. I don't like extremely high level of corruption and so on). Stupid laws being adopted every day. Bad standard of living, a lot of bureaucracy...

If you don't have a lot of money and powerful friends - it is almost impossible to live here. If you want good medicine help - you must give bribes etc.

I understand that life in other countries is not a paradise. There are a lot of problems too. But I think that I can always come back to Russia and continue living as I am living now. And if I don't give a try - I won't know for sure.
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I just entered `whois google.com` into Terminal, and it produced this:

GOOGLE.COM.AFRICANBATS.ORG
GOOGLE.COM.AR
GOOGLE.COM.ARTVISUALRIO.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.CN
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.HACKED.BY.JAPTRON.ES
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HK
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.LASERPIPE.COM
GOOGLE.COM.LOLOLOLOLOL.SHTHEAD.COM
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.MY
GOOGLE.COM.NS1.CHALESHGAR.COM
GOOGLE.COM.NS2.CHALESHGAR.COM
GOOGLE.COM.PE
GOOGLE.COM.PK
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.SHQIPERIA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SOUTHBEACHNEEDLEARTISTRY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPAMMING.IS.UNETHICAL.PLEASE.STOP.THEM.HUAXUEERBAN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.VABDAYOFF.COM
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEHOCA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEKIRBAC.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.HAVENDATA.COM
GOOGLE.COMMAS2CHAPTERS.COM
GOOGLE.COM

Anyone have an explanation?