skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd flip it around and say the opposite, myself!

Browser vendors generally seem to be working pretty closely to build a consistent platform. While they've all got their own priorities, as ever, there's lots of collaboration in many areas. We've got cross-platform graphics, WebGL is almost useable, CSS support is good… and so on.

Compared to a few years ago, when we had to build sites that scaled from IE6 all the way to the iPhone, the web is much more uniform and pleasant to work with.
I have no hard data on this, but dry-erase markers seem to be used up more quickly than chalk.

Chalk is also less expensive. As one data point: 48 sticks of chalk for $4.30[1] versus 12 markers for $7.74[2]. I'm not sure about the bulk-price comparison, or if colleges can get dry-erase markers for cheap. Although, many of my professors carried their own supplies as markers left in rooms were usually stolen.

There could be a health comparison to be made between dry-erase marker fumes and chalk dust, but I know nothing about it off-hand.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Non-toxic-Anti-Dust-Chalkboard...
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Expo-Chisel-Erase-Markers-80001/dp/B00...
Dangerous web, information security: less virus, more scams
Because Most Americans Are Cowards
http://s3.thinkaurelius.com/docs/titan/0.5.0/changelog.html
All I know is that weeks after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan, a section of major highway that was destroyed was completely rebuilt and supporting full vehicular traffic. Meanwhile back in Connecticut, the construction on I-84 never, EVER seems to finish and there's always jams and slowdowns because of it.
On my macbook pro (2011), things were much smoother in FF31 than Canary. The complex stuff did show some stutter though.
The source webm and mp4 files are all returning with status 403. I sent an email to the author to let him know about the problem.
I haven't read [1][a] but I highly recommend b & c.

The Non-Designer's Design Book is what got me really understanding design after a decade as a developer.
Because most people and organizations will get more return for less effort from pasting third-party ad-units into their source codes. It's not just hosting costs; there's a time investment in creating content and running web services. The Kickstarter approach of creating and promoting videos and giveaways just makes that time investment bigger.
How was the move from C++ to C#? The last time I seriously touched C++ was 10+ years ago. I've been doing almost all C# (and a bit of Java) since. The only reason I feel like I'm sticking with Unity is because of how familiar I am with C#.
> in exchange for some of their attention.

As well as information about what they look at, what they buy, where they go, what they eat, who they associate with, what kind of medical conditions they may have, not to mention the contents of every work document, personal document, love letter, baby picture, vacation picture, nude picture, food picture, work discussion, personal discussion, etc. And they monetize all this, because after all they'd never spend the money bankrolling the internet unless they made more cash from the endeavor than they spent.
Ask HN: HELP
I've never asked anyone for help in my entire life, so this is a very hard thing for me. I have a job, a family, two dogs, a mortgage, and things were going very well until about a year-and-a-half ago when my father-in-law passed, and left my mother and sister in-law with a ridiculous amount of debt that no one knew about. My mother-in-law is retired on a fixed pension, my sister-in-law is in school and is generally a drag on the families resources (good kid though).

To help them out, my wife and I used our life's savings (~$90k) to negotiate settlements with their creditors, and get rid of all the debt. It damaged her credit, but at least there are not any debt collectors after her.

What the big problem is with their house; she's not ready to sell it and get something much more reasonable or move in with us.

Her pension isn't much ($2k/mo), and just the mortgage on this ridiculous place is ~$4.5k/mo which we've been covering.

After everything, I need to dip into my credit cards for about $500 to maintain our reduced lifestyle to take on this extra cost. She realizes she needs to sell and move on, but it's been very hard for her, and we don't want to push her.

All in, we're about $8k in debt (a lot for us, considering how much we make and how much it costs to run a family with 3 kids) and increasing at about $500/mo (borrowing from the left to pay the right at this point).

I'm not looking for any handouts, I earn my money, and just want something where I can make a couple extra dollars while my kids are asleep (I already work a full-time job, and a part-time job).

I don't code, so there aren't very many opportunities on oDesk or Freelancer (I've tried), but I can wireframe, design interfaces, write user stories, or anything on the product definition side of the equation.

I have some domain names I could sell, no jewelry, equipment, nothing else I could flip into some cash hence why I'm here.

Thanks for any help/advice.
Let's say for someone you think is competent.
There's a couple of ways of doing it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
AFAIK there was a issue with Apple holding some copyrights on the api,might have changed.
> but the web is now looking more fragmented than at any point since IE3 vs Netscape

Is there really need to engage in hyperbole? The situation is bad enough without having to resort to exaggerations for effect.

The IE6 lack of support for transparent pngs and a host of other incompatibilities also fragmented the web and in effect the situation is much better now because most sites just work in IE 11 even though developers only tested in Chrome and or Firefox. This is true unless you're using features that haven't made it through the standardization process yet like webrtc. That sites "just work" in the latest version of IE without testing wasn't the case 5 years ago, or even 3 years ago.
Georgetown law grad here who maxed out loans, worked during school, and put the excess capital into my first startup (cheaper than a small business loan!), which was law/tech-related. Not that I recommend that approach... I'm now back in software product management, which is what I did before law school.

I tell people law school is a bad book club. You read a crap-ton of mostly boring books, talk about them, and usually take a test at the end of each course. Occasionally there's an amazing instructor to make a subject enjoyable.

I'd prefer in the US we keep law as a graduate program, but tear down the antiquated 3 year system. Law school should be one year, with optional "residency" and specialist training like medicine. You'd get the research, writing, and basic subjects in that one year, which are all you need for most actual lawyering. Residency would be the hands-on training you never get at law school unless you had an amazing clinical program. Bar exams should be 1 basic exam covering that 1-year curriculum, and additional exams if you want to be certified to practice a specialty.
> "Spy" on people at a public event where there are thousands of people taking pictures and posting it online.

The people in those pictures are not being identified, and it's not being done by a law enforcement agency (or being considered as an option by a law enforcement agency).
> I don't recall disingenuously talking about nuclear power from only the technical side

I apologize for my wording. It wasn't directed at any specific individuals.

> "Technology has failed to take certain kinds of failures and human errors into account, therefore technology can never be expected take enough failures and human errors into account to be made safe" is a very defeatist attitude

I never said that. I am not personally anti-nuclear, but I do tend to see people pop up that sweep issues under the rug in their pro-nuclear comments. To be fair, these aren't necessarily the academics that are working in the field. [

[Also to be fair, I think that it's worth taking people whose livelihood is tied to the industry with a grain of salt too. Sure, they don't want the industry to sink, but that doesn't mean that they won't sweep issues under the rug that they don't think are relevant or that will "Never Happen" or that "The Liberal Media Will Blow Out of Proportion."]

> Straw man.

I wasn't intending it to be. I was just stating a fact.

> 3. How is that relevant to commercial GMO development?

Well, GMO stands for genetically-modified organism. It's not always food-/crop-related, so I tossed that in.
The problem with that approach - encrypt only things you need - is that it signals to the adversaries (whoever they are) that this is the piece of data they should try to get. By encrypting everything, you make the adversaries spend enormous resources just trying to figure out which data is worth spending resources on.

But I honestly don't know which approach is better in lieu of TFA; however I'm leaning towards encrypting (almost?) everything.

P.S. Someone above me mentioned, bugs and complexity only get noticed and fixed if there are enough people using encryption, and I think that's a great point too.
Ask HN: Remove language from titles in editing?
Seems like every hot new language comes along, and a bunch of posts spring up, "how to write a blog engine, in GO/Node/Ruby/Haskell" -- I think the editoral process should probably remove these unneeded language shout outs, and let the projects stand on their own.
It helps that PEP define that spaces is explicitly correct as well.
Interestingly, you state #1 as an absolute universal truth. In this, I think that your position is self-contradictory.

There is a reality that exists. Statements are true or false to the degree that they conform or fail to conform to the reality that exists.

The problem is knowing to what degree a statement conforms to the truth of what exists...
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1. How do I know they don't have ICBMs? Bill O'Reilly hasn't told me that yet.

2. Or, we don't have ICBM's yet. Hoping that part of the plan will work itself out. Step 1: Collect underpants ... Step 3: Profit!

2. Maybe this terrorist is just working from home and trying to understand the larger plan. Or he could be brainstorming for a future powerpoint presentation on the subject.

Just having some fun with the idea.
This might a stupid question but is this competing with Neo4j or Giraph? I didn't see a mention of comparison with either in the docs. I believe graph data storage and graph processing are two different things - is TItan doing both?
As a former graphic designer and current programmer, i eould say forget about design for hackers and learn design as such.

The most important aspects of design are communication, composition, visual structure and the skill of mixing colours.

Learn to simplify the message to a few elements, make the most important things to really synd out. Also learn about desining with grids to make the result clear, pleasant and harmonious.

Learn about golden section, and how it relates to catching and guiding the viewers eye - look at the works of master photographers and renaissance painters.

To learn about colour theory, go to library, find a classic book(!) about the subject and grab some colour pencils and mix some colours! In short time you will develop an intuitive understanding of using the colour sliders in graphic programs to design harmonious or disharmonious colour scales. Also learn about complementary colours.

If you want to learn to draw, also learn about perspective and valeur (shadows amd lights) and try to imitate different textures.
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Btw, anyone has a list of subset tasks on this Project Euler more related to pure CS/Algorithms rather than Math? Preferably mentioned the level of experience. So far, as I can see, it is aimed for very beginners, right?
> Sounds like always wearing sunglasses when in public should be a basic measure of getting privacy from the government

I've heard about that solution, but I wonder if it really works. For example, using just the shape of your sunglasses and the shape of your chin, probably you could be uniquely tracked if not identified. To identify you, other physical features may work (nose, chin, gait, etc.).
I'm tired of the Headline "SF housing/rent too expensive" articles. Move to Oakland, Berkeley, South Bay anywhere else but San Francisco.
> Much of the post-9/11 response to terrorism fits it.

Naturally; the "1% Doctrine" was formulated very shortly after 9/11 and, while the quote articulating it addresses Pakistani scientists aiding al-Qaeda, the significance is that it was a critical framing mindset from the highest levels for the Bush Administration policy on terrorism.
Isn't the actual origin a cop murdering an unarmed black kid? If that didn't happen, none of everything else wouldn't have happened. So what is that one side "reporting" again?
Yes, hence my point about how the comparisons feel "intentionally cultivated." She may be going a little too far in that direction, and I'd agree that the black turtlenecks are a little too on-the-nose. Anyone who's ever worn a black turtleneck knows they're not the most comfortable garments in the world, least of all in Palo Alto in the summer. If you're always posing in black turtlenecks, you're doing it for a reason. :)
I went to a for-profit law school and it is not a "scam" as the article suggests. The law school described itself as the school of last resort for those wanting to go to law school but not able to get into more exclusive schools. They would take almost anyone into the program, but the grading was rigorous: 1/3 flunked out the first year, 1/3 flunked out over the course of the program, so only 1/3 of entering students graduated. At least they were given the opportunity to try.

The problem identified in the article is not the for-profit schools. It is rational for private enterprise to respond to government incentives. The problem is the excessive government incentives. There are too many lawyers, so the government should not be subsidizing legal educations. That is the solution.

By the way, my for-profit law school has a four-year part-time night program so I worked as a paralegal to pay for my tuition. I only took out a small loan to take time off to study for and take the bar exam, which I passed on the first try.
A VPN would be better then.
In the case of Jules Verne, it was truly a fantastic predictor.

But it's been downhill from there.
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Odd. They were working for me right up to when I posted this.
> We really need to get a handle on what exactly government agencies are doing. Not just thinking about it, but actually acting on public concerns about how this technology is going to be used against us, and actually passing laws that restrict some of the ways.

Ever since the ruling shooting videos in public is a constitutional right is going to make this extremely difficult. Especially so when you consider human ability to recognize people has always existed meaning this is only a more efficient version of what police/private businesses can already do.
How do you do this internally, without sending team members off to "camp"?
| BigLaw firms profit immensely because they have a massive supply of new lawyers who will take anything that's given to them.

I've had this situation described to me a little differently by a friend who has been in the field since the late 70s. Over the past several years, there has been a shift in the general relationship between lawyers and clients. Back then, it would be unheard of for a client to pick through or question the bill from a prestigious BigLaw firm-- that was considered to be an insult.

But recently more clients are contesting the bill, specifically, "Why are we paying for hours from these associates you hired six months ago? We want the 40 and 50 year olds who are in their prime." BigLaw can't as easily bill hours for newbies who previously would have been trained on the client's dime, so they just hire fewer of them.
Nuclear fusion is a good investment for the world. Truthfully, fusion power is the final answer to our future energy needs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8n7j5k-_G8
There are already options for getting tests done without a doctor visit. For example HealthCheckUSA which uses LabCorp to do the testing.
One thing which makes me sad is the lack of structure of the Javascript API.
Everything is now built using Javascript and the JS VM is not following any UNIX principles in its implementation. I would really like to have a UNIX-like JS API.

A small example: let's say that you want to redirect the error output to the standard output.

Since everything is a file descriptor on UNIX, you can just call dup2(2) and this won't have any repercussion on other parts of the program. You can also redirect any error to a file just by using this on a file descriptor you got from open (2).

But in Javascript, everything is different, you have to redeclare console.error and hope that this won't break anything if some library is doing exactly the same thing as you somewhere.
This is also the same problem with XMLHttpRequest and various javascript APIs. (including the File and Blob API to read files on the browser).
This only makes sense. The amount of multi-million dollar seed rounds has increased and people want the best office space to attract employees. The more competition in the market for the best office space, the more people can charge and then boom you get what you have now : hyper inflation in costs. I actually wonder how long until people start looking at the north bay like San Rafael for office space just to save on cash. I know people are already targeting Oakland.
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I think you've reached a slightly perverse conclusion.

From the source:

>Pointer events would likely never supplant touch events on the web (especially without support from Safari). Since touch events are here to stay, supporting another largely redundant input model has a high long-term complexity cost on the web platform.

Sounds to me like the Blink time is trying to use their say to reduce fragmentation and they've taken the side of practicality. Rough consensus and running code indeed.

The other points seem equally sensible to me (at least at first glance) - and a long way from "ignoring each other as much as possible while pursuing their own improvements"
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> One big problem is that people take the idea of "better safe than sorry" as a way to avoid thought.

Sure, and while things like responses to terrorism are rather dramatic examples of that, "zero tolerance policies" in general are also a place where this manifests.
I'm using 2013 late rMBP 13inch .
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On the off chance that other comments here haven't made it clear what it's about, or that you haven't already looked it up, they apparently have a Wikipedia article about them:

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

"""
Project Euler (named after Leonhard Euler) is a website dedicated to a series of computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs.... Problems are of varying difficulty but each is solvable in less than a minute using an efficient algorithm on a modestly powered computer. A forum specific to each question may be viewed after the user has correctly answered the given question.
"""

There are also several Github repos out there that have both the problems and hashes of the answers. (Some have the actual answers, as well, or used to in the git history, but presumably anyone interested in solving the problems is more interested in the process than the score.)
Sure. Maybe you weren't looking for constructive feedback, just members? I don't know. I have a number of projects but nothing I would call "a startup" and although some of those projects are location-oriented, nothing is really location-based per se because the plan is to make money online. So I am, unfortunately, not a good candidate for joining your site. But I like being helpful and I know sometimes an outsider perspective is a good thing. Thus, the comment.

Best of luck.
From a comment in /r/Stlouis[0] (because I live in another suburb and have been watching developments closely)

> A shooting is a disproportionate response to someone walking in the road, riots and looting are a disproportionate response to an unjust death, militarized police is a disproportionate response to riots and looting, and Molotov cocktails are a disproportionate response to a militarized police force.
> A cycle of violence will continue to escalate until one side will take a step back and often it takes a third party like the Missouri Highway Patrol to make that happen.

When a conflict is escalating, there are multiple layers of disproportionate response that allow outside observers at any point to interject how the people worrying about Layer X are ignoring Layer X-1, which allows other observers to interject that said person is ignoring Layer X-2, ad nauseum.

It's somewhat the inevitable result of people trying to process a complicated tragic situation with information overload into simple understanding that are inevitably influenced by their pre-existing biases and experiences.

[0]http://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/2dlq8w/the_first_ni...
That could be the subject of many volumes. Most popular hypotheses:

- corporate sponsorship dried up

- it wasn't open source, and by the time squeak came around, usage had dried up considerably

- it was actually too hard to learn

Although, it's unfair to judge it by today's standards. The sheer number of open source programmers just didn't exist when Smalltalk was popular.

You see some vestigial remnants of smalltalk in modern languages (in ruby, everything is an object, dart allows you to snapshot the object memory, the idea of a virtual machine, etc, etc) but having all of them together made smalltalk quite groundbreaking. We haven't really learned all the lessons quite yet, either. (Just my opinion). One of the biggest misunderstandings was that object oriented programming is really about message passing, not about encapsulation.

For more: http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
Honestly, this isn't a bug. Auto increment fields make no guarantees about skipping numbers, just that they increase monotonically. Code that relies on an increment of 1 is broken. Also, there's a command line argument to make it work.
What you are talking about aren't JavaScript APIs, but browser APIs.
After reading Bug's other article I certainly agree with you.
>This time is probably different, the company said.

Chuckle.
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Read down a little further:

> But, as with anything, the specifics are somewhat irrelevant—consistency is key.
Was anyone else surprised to find that sunscreens absorb UV rather than reflecting it? I'm curious why materials science facts led to that.
Sorry to hear that :( In the last couple of years a number of developers flooded our town with cheap student housing units so the market has kinda been upended, much to our delight.
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> I don't understand what would make someone think that possibly-compromised security is worse than no security.

False sense of security - you think your communications are secure but they're not.
What idiotic politician(s) thought that unlimited guaranteed law study loans was a good idea? I guess if you own such a for profit law school it is a good idea. But it's dreadful governance. I'm not against helping people get a decent education but infinity is not a reasonable limit.
Some benchmarks against other graphdbs (but it was with Titan 0.3): http://euranova.eu/upl_docs/publications/an-empirical-compar...
My thoughts exactly. I don't understand why they feel forced to live in such terrible, expensive conditions. Sure it may be temporarily inconvenient and difficult to move, but wouldn't they be far better off somewhere else?? I just don't get it.