skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way we browse the Web is fundamentally different from the way regular applications are used: we explore several paths at the same time, branch, backtrack, revisit, keep things open as reminders... Tabs make this navigation visible and enable the conscious building of a trail, which can be a very useful aid when browsing and when trying to make sense of the collected information.

Tree-style tabs (Firefox extension) are an even better solution: each new page becomes the root of a "tree", and the tabs that are opened from it become "branches". There is also a very interesting contrast between following a link (so the previous page is available on the Back button, and therefore either accessed right away or soon forgotten) versus opening it in a new tab (so the parent remains visible as a remainder of an interesting place or a branching point in the navigation).

Since we don't use desktop applications this way, I don't really see why we should modify our existing desktop window managers to accommodate this style of navigation. If anything, we could think of doing it the other way around and fitting desktop applications into a browser-like navigation structure like the one described above.
I'm sure you know, but rms agrees with you. "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free software portable phone".

It's nonfree, but better than anything we've ever had, with the possible exception of the couple of GNU/Linux Nokia phones.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.htm...
That's why, when Hachette's contract expired, all of their books were listed as "Out of stock: ships in 1 to 6 weeks" - that's how long it takes Hachette to deliver stock. That's slow as hell.

I find this hard to believe, but do not know about Hachette specifically. Amazon isn't the only one who can do PoD. In fact, Amazon tends to carry so little stock that many of the publishers drop ship books for Amazon when an order comes in. They will show 1-3 day availability and not 1-6 weeks.

This tactic is typical push a vendor over the cliff mentality that has been shown by Amazon time and time again.
If they're supposed to be secret, they're doing a fairly poor job of it.
Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.)

Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?
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The bad thing about WeHeartIt is that people post images on it without sourcing them. So if you're searching for where a specific image came from, and somehow end up on weheartit page, then tough luck. Worse yet, they're often reposted to Tumblr which only increases the spread of unsourced images.
The Last Question was really nice. What a twist at the end.
To me, it doesn't work at all. The whole point is that they are not-meat talking about meat. In the sketch, they look very meaty indeed, and their speech sounds like flapping meat, so that it does not work at all.
In terms of impact right now, the app permissions thing is a much bigger problem, yes. People get scammed by apps every day, whereas this doesn't appear to be being exploited in the wild at all.
IIRC, ground penetrating radar has poor performance in clay or generally wet soil, otherwise it would probably have been done already as the technology has been somewhat widely accessible since at least the 1980s.
That's showing incredible restraint (and, might I add, virtue) from them, considering that their ideological enemy, Israel, has nukes and is more than willing to use them.
>I feel Amazon really supports authors more than any publisher. I'm actually working on a project that will help authors on Amazon find an audience.

That's what a publisher does.
503 Service Unavailable... anyone have a copy? It's not on wayback machine yet.
To me, browsers defaulting to the Downloads folder improved the user experience. You might care much about where exactly your files are going, but I generally don't. Of the two, I think "not caring much" is the default option. If you do care, right-click -> "Save link as...".

It's also incredibly arrogant to say that it's not acceptable or justifiable that Firefox does not exactly cater to what your personal opinion on "usability" is.
Achievo :http://www.achievo.org/

We've been using Achievo daily since I joined my current employer in 2009. It's also web-based (residing on the intranet, but with a global hook).

It might be worth checking it out as an alt + it's been Free for as long as I've known it. It Open Sources as well, and those with experience of ATK would easily join dev.
I was talking about online casinos. Sorry for not making that clear but I forgot that OP ventured into F2P as well.
Whenever I see frameworks like this I immediately try and work out whether it uses mixins or classes to achieve layout.

I have it ingrained in me that css identifiers (classes/ids) should be semantic to the data and not the visual side.

I know this isn't a big factor for some people, and on that front it looks super and design philosophy is very cool (lightweight is great!).
I find it interesting that no group (to my knowledge) has tried something similar to [Do Deep Networks Need to Be Deep?](http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6184) for ImageNet scale networks. There have been several results which show that the knowledge learned in larger networks can be compressed and approximated using small or even single layer nets. Extreme learning machines (ELM) can be seen as another aspect of this. There have also been interesting results in the "kernelization" of convnets [from Julian Mairal and co.](http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3332) that, accompanied by the stong crossover between Gaussian processes and neural networks from back in late 90s, point to the possibility of needing different "representation power" for learning vs. predicting which may lead to the ability to kernelize the knowledge of a trained net, ideally in closed form.

I am doing some experiments in this area, and would encourage anyone thinking of doing hardware to look at this aspect before investing the R&D to do hardware! If this knowledge can really be compressed it could be a massive reduction in complexity to implement in hardware...

I am a bit biased on this topic (finishing a talk about this exact topic for EuroScipy now) but I find the connections interesting at least.
Interesting, JVM + Java 8 required and:

> Because Wyvern itself is an evolving language and we believe that the techniques herein are broadly applicable, we have implemented the abstract syntax, typechecking and elaboration rules precisely as specified in this paper, including the hygiene mechanism, in Scala as a stable resource.

Source code here [1]

[1] https://github.com/wyvernlang/tslwyvern
Twitter style iOS Splash Screen - Cocoapod
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/private/baremetal/art.html

It doesn't contain the pretty css, and I probably fixed a tyop or two when posting, but the content should be 99.9% same.
60 * 60 * 24 = 86,400

60 * 60 * 24 * 7 = 604,800
Barring significant new physics, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. And that's really a very probably no - although you see popular science stuff written like it can solve the problem, it doesn't, and we have no real expectation that anything will.

Dark matter, if it is matter (and there are good but not totally confirmed reasons to think it is) is just that...matter. It would really be not that special at all, except that it doesn't interact electromagnetically, but this doesn't particularly have deep implications - we already know about particles like that, neutrinos, but they happen to be lighter than the ones that would make up dark matter.
> I'm certain that nearly all one-syllable pronouncable words in English have some sort of "bad" meaning

Yes!

(Narrowly edging out 'this', because I don't want to do, uh, that.)
There is a very interesting concept that indicates that the limit of speed is not light, but the space itself. Space itself is such that it cannot let anything travel faster than light. It's like check points in space which slows down light to it's speed we call C.

May be somewhere in the universe, or within the black hole, space is malleable enough to allow faster than light travel. It's just a concept, but a very interesting one.
That is what I am talking about. I downloaded a silly entertainment app. It has no need to my browser history, my geolocation and all the apps I have installed on my phone. But it still requires those permission to show me ads.
My company also open sourced our time tracking application (it can do more, like vacation requests and invoices). Right now only the backend API is open source, you can find it here [1] and documentation here [2]. It is a REST API secured via OAuth.

In the next few weeks we also want to open source our main client application, an AngularJS app.

It is probably a little too much tailored to our needs to be used somewhere else.

[1] https://github.com/techdev-solutions/trackr-backend
[2] http://techdev-solutions.github.io/trackr-api-documentation/
SShhhhhhuddup man. I'm halfway through Excession!
My interpretation is that OP means that there could be some dislike function on Github, to hide uninteresting projects when browsing... maybe?
I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'm a Turing test.
Is it a coincidence it looks like a CD-ROM?
That was kind of the point! A Unix for the folks who didn't want to (or couldn't afford) licensing fees for AT&T.
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Only Google makes pennies from Android. Samsung makes the $multi-billion.
Hognose playing dead- kinda funny
Patents that kill
When I teach basic accounting to colleagues, I usually start with the accounting equation:

Capital = Assets - Liabilities

Then later I go on to explain that you can rearrange that equation:

Assets = Capital + Liabilities

One way to think of that is that the sum total of everything the business has (Assets) has a claim on it from either creditors (Liabilities) or owners (Capital).

So, it's really true that the company owns nothing for itself.

A lot of people have difficulty getting their heads around double-entry and, therefore, accounting in general. Different explanations seem to work for different people.

For anyone looking for an intro to accounting, I highly recommend Frank Wood's "Business Accounting 1".
Well, I now probably have an example of H) Someone was discussing downvoting

...and the downvoter didn't deign to explain his downvote (on a post explicitly asking for explanations).

Edit: and downvoted as well. I thought a "meta" discussion such as this would be the appropriate place. It seems it's not.
> None of these require a publisher.

I'm on the side of Amazon here, but let's not get carried away.

The books in your local library have largely come through a traditional publisher. Those blogs, forums, and author websites are going to be biased (not in the perjorative sense, but as in selection bias) toward titles that have come through traditional publishers as well.

The closest we can come to seeing a world without the influence of a publisher is Amazon's self-published titles, and they're really not good on average. I don't have a huge number of data points myself, but I haven't heard anyone rave about the quality of a randomly selected self-published title.

I think there's still a valuable role for the publishers to play. However, that role is quite a bit smaller than it once was, and the publishers are currently entrenched in a position of taking the same high cut of the profits that they've always taken, and that's going to have to change in order for them to do well in the longer term.
You say there are internship possibilities, but on the jobs page you link to, it says there are none available. Is this the case? Or can these be arranged informally?
As I see it, Amazon supports authors, but not the best ones.

Amazon basically wants to condition people that the price of an e-book should be no more than $9.99 max. That is good for basically all except the most quality authors (and publishers), who don't necessarily need Amazon's marketing, but want to price their book higher.
You couldn't travel in 3 dimensional space faster than the speed of light, but you can travel vast distances faster by taking "short cuts" through other dimensions.

I'm guessing the author used 'C space' as a way of describing '3 dimensional' (ie a = 1, b = 2, c = 3). So 'C space beings' would be limited to light speed travel (unless we build meat containers that could manipulate or penetrate 'D space')
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Sounds pretty real to me and the theory behind it is written up very nicely.
I wonder: would this work the other way round? Take a (stereo) recording of thunder and an exact time measurement between the flash and the first sound and plot the flash from that. If that worked, you wouldn't need a huge high speed camera mounted on a truck in order to record how a flash propagates...
> My understanding is that if you don't wait for multiple confirmations, then it's not particularly challenging to double spend bitcoins.

That's incorrect, there is a significant cost associated with executing a double-spend attack. For small transactions, it's uneconomical to mine an alternate chain in order to execute a double-spend attack.

If you trust the miner a little bit, you can assume that a zero-confirmation transaction be part of the common blockchain. Now it's not advisable to do that when selling somebody a Ferrari and letting them drive off, but it's probably less risky than accepting a credit card payment.

Regarding reputation: I don't quite understand the point. You'd just have to sign your tx with a private key that has a corresponding public key with some reputation attached to it. This is pretty independent of bitcoin itself. You could even build a system where you deposit some amount with a third party (or multiple third parties using a MULTISIG tx), which will reimburse the vendor with that amount if a double spend is executed.
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But authors and other cultural producers tend to be individuals who enter into contracts with corporations to 'outsource' the routine stuff (publishing, distribution) and to smooth out income variations (advances against royalties).

As a first gen post here has pointed out authors have no control over what is happening in these essentially corporate negotiations.
Oh that's also pretty cool! Props for open sourcing it
>We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?

I'm wondering if we can fix that one.
> The way we browse the Web is fundamentally different from the way regular applications are used: we explore several paths at the same time, branch, backtrack, revisit, keep things open as reminders...

I disagree: if I could I would do all these things also in desktop applications. Web makes it easy to do, but that does not mean that we do not have the same needs in other applications.

I explore several paths also in my email application: indeed I open messages and thread in separate windows, now that Thunderbird allows me.

I branch and backtrack my terminal: I often open a new windows just to run a command and see its output, then I close it and go back to the original window. If my window manager could track that and visualize it for longer-lived shells it would be great.

I keep many applications application open as remander, yet I would like to close them if I knew that there were a simple way to recall them, or if the system would remind me about them.

I would love to bookmark application statuses and store them.

All these needs are present in the web and would be nice to have in desktop applications. My point is that tabs are not required to support these needs, a good windowing manager and some synergy with apps is all is needed.
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You forgot about the memory. Also, I don't think that specific machine had TCP/IP networking support.
It's a nice story, but not very logical

If meat thinking beings were so unheard of, you'd think they'd be all over us, trying to get to know what makes us tick, and why not, talking to us.

Like if we'd find a talking dog.

Maybe a more logical conclusion would be if they'd go: "Oh, it's just another meat civilisation. Just let them wander around in the dark like all the others, there's no chance they'll ever find anyone". Not as funny, but more logical :D
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"It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate."

Not true. There are many western RPGs that do that: Albion, Wizardry, Ultima, Arcanum, Might&Magic and that's just of the top of my head and some of these are whole series of games.
That is not the point. Both are very serious issues. But one is a usability+curation problem, and this is an unpatched security exploit. Combining the discussion on these things in this thread is confusing and unhelpful to both issues.
Which dissidents in particular?

Generally dissidents have more in common with the country they're fleeing to than the one they're fleeing from but that's not the case with Snowdon. He's not a communist sympathiser, he's closer to being an American patriot who has done something his government may disagree with because he wants his country to be better. Simply put he's in Russia because it's there or Guantanamo Bay.

On the Russian side Putin has no sympathy whatsoever with the principals Snowdon stands for. Putin is a former spy with a penchant for locking up or oppressing those who oppose him. His logic runs no further than my enemy's enemy is my friend. If Snowdon was had revealed similar information about Russian intelligence Putin would be first in line to have him locked up or worse.
I'm totally with you on this - I hate seeing column/row references etc in CSS identifiers. With the ease of use of Less/SASS etc, there's no reason not to have the grid rules in a mixin and reference those from semantic identifiers.

We do it this way, it was a piece of cake to set up the initial mixins and we haven't had to think about them since. Just reference something like .column(3) and bam, that element spans 3 columns.

That aside, this looks like a nice alternative to Bootstrap/Foundation.
Who exactly was being exploited here? Everything was completely transparent.
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Well, other than space itself, hence the whole inflation idea when the whole universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
Wrong. Under this law, every internet provider must be able to provide a list of users using its service. Which automatically rules out any unrestricted public wifi.
> At a time when OpenSSL just suffered one of its worst bugs in history, forcing small sites to assume the risk of running code like this, which they inevitably will get wrong, materially worsens security for all, it doesn't improve it.

OpenSSL is not the only SSL stack you know. I run one of my websites on Tomcat so I can benefit from the pure-Java TLS stack it uses (the default one actually). Something like heartbleed is impossible for such a stack.
> […] reason you do double entry: error detection

This is a misconception and if you think about it, it doesn’t make a lot of sense since the two records are generally generated by a system that gets a single value from the user, so it would be a software error if they did not even out.

Accounting errors are normally human errors, e.g. entering the wrong amount or specifying the wrong account, none of which are errors that double entry accounting will catch.

However, double entry accounting gives us an audit trail because it tracks how assets are moved between accounts, so if the balance of an account is not as we expect, we can go back and see exactly why it is what it is.
That's not the point of the story. The point of the story is to question your own assumptions.
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Right... exactly the way Europeans approached the Africans.
I started this project with a colleague near the end of 2012, and I've continued development on my own since 2013. The first months of development implied a lot of work, but then just a couple of hours a week to fix bugs or improve some mechanisms.
Not enough pictures of his gadgets. And what is pictured doesn't seem particularly beautiful to me.
I don't know why you were downvoted.

The quote Peter alludes to is "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

Interestingly, it seems it's not a direct quote from Voltaire, rather a comment by S. G. Tallentyre summarizing his attitude:

http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/about_voltaire/didnt_say...

"What Tallentyre wrote was: ... Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. ‘What a fuss about an omelette!’ he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning (of a book). How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,’ was his attitude now"

I agree with that attitude as well, I identified what I consider only two possibly valid reasons for downvoting, and I usually don't apply them (racism/sexism, which others say would be more appropriately flagged, and "cool story" useless comments, which I try not to flag either).
sadly, that is more logical ..
> I don't think we've come anywhere near seeing the full consequences of it.

If you dig into how it works and really grok it, you can do some outright crazy stuff with it. For example: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2011/01/13/10115642....
I was under the impression that skeleton is no longer actively developed? Looks like the last commit on their github repo is from 2012.
What if we found talking poo (kind of like Mr. Hanky) Wouldn't the entire idea that such a thing could be _sentient_ be more than we could handle. Re-Read the story again, and substitute "poo" for "meat" and maybe you'll get a feel for it.

After all - a talking dog is really just talking meat.
Read the Baez blogs. Read the Discovery mag blog that shows that this is barely "NASA". It's really a few fringe scientists who have a reputation for hyping pseudoscience.

When they had a chance to look critically at their own experiments in their report, they spent effort and text hyping theoretical applications or something like that. They deserve some "go back and do it right this time, junior" criticism.

I'd rather they not waste our tax dollars on this kind of nonsense.
Firefox does this already, if the web site has a <link rel="search">. Go, for example, to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, which I know has that, now click on the drop down to select a search engine, there's a 'Add "Bugzilla@Mozilla"' item.

Sure, discoverability is left to be desired.
It appears that the equivalent of NoScript for Android WebViews could be quite useful in protecting against this sort of thing, although no doubt there would be a massive backlash against it since I'd bet most of the time this is being used for showing ads...