skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Die XHTML Die. No one wants you, no one loves you. Sorry... breathe

>> "Nothing that represents industry consensus about how the structure of web content should mature so that it is accessible to the handicapped. Nothing that makes it easier to markup content with its semantics in an extensible way."

Yeah just a lot of "useful" "practical" stuff like Audio, Video tags, postMessage, web workers, canvas, etc etc

HTML5 is about improving the REAL world wide web. Not the imaginary 'wouldn't if be nice if we started again' web. I think they've done a great job with the features they've added.

XHTML failed because it had a small subset of the functionality available with HTML, and gave no real world advantages. It made people obsess over validation rather than what actually works in real world browsers.

>> "so he could form the World Wide Web Foundation (ironically, an organization that can't put up a web page that is valid!)."

Case in point. If it shows up nicely in real world browsers, who cares.

>> "I have great passion for the X in XHTML - extensibility."

I am the complete opposite. I believe you should use a solution tailored to the problem. Not some multipurpose open ended general purpose 'can do anything' solution. And guess what... Extensibility is simple X* just makes it look really hard.

XML, XHTML, XMPP - they are all ridiculously over engineered overly complex things. They're the opposite of an 'elegant' solution.

>> "I assume those 4 out of your ~400 members were saying "hey, we don't want to implement XML-based semantic web. It's haaaaaard (insert whine here)"."

No, I'd expect they were thinking to themselevs "Make something people want". Why the hell would anyone using a browser care if it's XML-based semantic over complexity. They were more likely thinking about adding features PEOPLE WANT. Like audio/video/canvas tags etc Why would they do a ton of work to support something that has less functionality :/
On pubsubhubbub (Part 2) Get with it, PuSH, you’re supposed to be realtime.
I got a new camera, Adobe said "oops, you have to upgrade to the latest RAW converter to get it to work", I ran the software update, the converter said "oops, you have to upgrade your 1-year old Photoshop".
I like the rust cloud from the 59. Makes you wonder what kind of shape the car was in before they prettied it up to crash.

I drive 2 old aircooled volkswagens in the summer and am just about ready to give up the hobby because of this. I don't like the extra amount of risk the hobby puts on my life.
Does he call for further disconnection from reality?
According to the senior VP of the crash institute, the cloud was dirt from the 50 year old car, not rust.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/more-details-abou...
Bullshit, us pastaferians are not represented in the religious statistics! This is heracy!

On the other hand I am glad I'm not Aquarius because statistically speaking they are insignificantly less compatible with an Aquarius. His noodelieness has blessed me well!

RAmen!
You should think of CouchDB as the Web2.0 equivalent of Microsoft Access. It's good for running a simple web-app off, because you can store the HTML, JS and the data all in CouchDB (I think). So one use-case may be a simple billing system for your local surf shop that is sure as hell not going to store a lot of data or handle a lot of load. I got this impression from a Damien Katz talk. (I think the use-case they use is a recipe app.)
Still doesn't change the fact that the newer cars absorb the impact before the cockpit. That, and airbags/seatbelts, make the biggest difference. Two newer cars would most likely be unusable after a crash but keep the passengers alive, while two older cars would crash "uniformly".
Up next, a 1950s computer vs an iPhone, a TV from 1950 vs a modern day TV, what else can we compare? Everything! Technology has progressed, how about that!

Besides the omg look at the crash shock factor, what does this tell us? The only thing I get out of it, is to be reminded that we should rely on the insurance industry's crash tests, not the government's. The insurance industry is much tougher on cars.
Ha, that's funny. I thought I coined the term as well until a Google search smashed my hopes.
Shareaholic for Firefox: Add-ons for Firefox
Repost but Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the best treatise on writing (and by extension, creative expression) I think I've ever read. Here are some excerpts - I believe its worthwile reading the entire essay many times:

"I often hear people say, 'I’m not good enough yet to be published.' That’s quite possible. Probable, even. All I’m saying is: Let someone else decide that. Magazines, editors, agents. They all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job it is to read through piles of manuscripts and send you back letters telling you that you aren’t good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. Don’t pre-reject yourself. That’s their job, not yours. Your job is only to write your heart out, and let destiny take care of the rest."

"There are heaps of books out there on How To Get Published. Often people find the information in these books contradictory. My feeling is -- of COURSE the information is contradictory. Because, frankly, nobody knows anything. Nobody can tell you how to succeed at writing (even if they write a book called 'How To Succeed At Writing') because there is no WAY; there are, instead, many ways. Everyone I know who managed to become a writer did it differently. sometimes radically differently. "

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/writing.htm
Wikipedia suggests all three (and other sports) have a common history, and that the word "foot" in the names of these games might have originally come from the fact that these games were played "on foot," as opposed to horseback games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Etymology
What caused the Samoa islands tsunami?
Reading the Classics (UCB Course by Papadimitriou - mostly Game Theory)
Fun is good, but fleeting. Satisfaction and even money last longer.
Try to stay awake that full first day.

It's not a "hack", it's just simple advice that may or may not work; it depends on your body.
Here's the most important thing: Stay awake for the day in Bejing no matter what.
That means: Try to make it through the day and go to bed in the evening or at night. Regardless how tired you feel upon arrival don't give in and go to sleep at daytime.

If you're able to, try to sleep during the flight as much as possible. A Melatonine, or a mild sedative may be helpful.

Don't get worked up, though, if you feel that you're not able to sleep during the flight.

Experts suggest to avoid alcohol and eat light. Personally I like a couple drinks before nighttime, though.

Note that you'll still feel jetlaged for a couple days. But the earlier you can trick your body into the local time zone the easier you'll get through it. Thatswhy the emphasis on staying awake until night time.
Maybe, but esr is also against cloud computing, see http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=932#more-932 , which I submitted to HN, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=584293 , so the larger Open Source community recognizes the problems too.
It's just a marketing/catchy term for the trend to 'next-generation' (read: 'different') database engines. Since there is (in almost all cases) no SQL (the language) involved, it is a pretty appropriate name.
Apple reaching out to publishers in anticipation of tablet release
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? :P

Seriously, I have no idea what you're talking about :)
Trademark law generally requires them to defend their trademark or lose it. This means lots of letters from Apple inc's lawyers to small orchards in the middle of nowhere.

The general response is either to ignore it or send back a simple letter saying "thank you - we don't believe there is sufficent similarity"

If they mean it they will try an take you to court, then you can decide wether to fight or change your name. At the moment they probably don't expect you to do anything - this is just something they have to send out in case anyone ever does a direct copy of their software and calls themselves magnolia. In which case they have to prove they have always protested.
Take That, Twitter: Google Hot Trends Integrated Into Google Search
By the way, anyone catch Gaddafi's UN speech last week? I was thinking about all these .ly URLs...
Less fluff more facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation
You're still better off in a tank if you hit a telephone pole or a tree, for instance.
There is a list of readings in the philosophy and history of science in the web page.
Link:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/readings.txt
It's a common belief that old "solid" cars are safer than their light, flimsy modern counterparts. This test dispels that belief fairly dramatically.
Nice site. Thanks.
Stallman withdraws claim : No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X
I'm with you. It should be changed to the "NoMySQL" movement because that seems to be the only comparison that is made.
If I get to rewrite it in Clojure, I would.
Gah, as not to double post here. I meant to post the source url: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/mac-osx-mistakes-and-malfeature...
I do love XHTML. When each and every element is specifically "closed" the code is much easier to grasp for me.
There's a reason that Java is not called "NoPHP". While technically true, it's just not very descriptive or meaningful.
But tank chains are no good for the pavement.
Should be extended to all British citizens. Then those without British DNA can be kicked out.

That will get rid of a whole lot of useless <beeps> in the house of Lords with a 'de', 'le' or 'ville' in their names.

And it will allow a large number of new people in. After a few hundred years of determined DNA distribution through the empire there must be quite a few Indians, Africans and even Americans who have some English/Scottish or Irish in them (or at least their ancestors did !)
I would think "hacking" jetlag would be an unusual approach to the problem, like living on Beijing time for a few weeks before you leave.
Thanks for your hunch.
You have quite an impressive karma score considering your 68days old here.

Thankfully I enjoy this site for more than my karma record.

Does deleting it remove the lost karma?

Is the idea of negatively voting down a comment. ( Other than the obvious ) To encourage the user to delete it?
Oracle fined for violating TPC fair use rules
Do you mean a tank, literally, as in an M1 Abrams? ...otherwise, did you see the video? Crumple zones, passenger cabin intact, airbags, seat belt, etc?
Thanks for the answer. This is what I would have guessed. (The first thing I would try if my car was gaining speed too quickly would be the brakes.)

Forgive my ignorance, but is a "state trooper" a cop?

Yes.

I can't believe an off duty cop would let the car get up to almost 120mph. Aren't they trained?

I guess everyone can panic when something that they consider safe starts going out of control. You'd think cops would be trained to handle this, considering they are in stressful situations with a loaded handgun everyday.

I have a feeling that we are not getting the whole story here.
Analysis of airline performance
How Do Marathons Affect Your Heart?
Merry Certmas CN=*\x00thoughtcrime.noisebridge.net
i agree with data export point. @antirez if we could clone you and distribute to other KV projects then all KV datastores skyrocket in popularity. first and foremost issue in KV popularity is ability to try quickly. if there would be a small php script that converts an sql dump into a KV datastore (and vice versa) then much more people will be trying and they know that if it wouldnt work out they can easily opt out. i hope you'll continue to be thoughtful for others who are not C++ or Java wizards. thanks!
Ask HN: Have you received your Google Wave invite?
As most of you will have heard, Google is sending out 100,000 Google Wave invites sometime today (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/29/google-wave-starts-rolling-picks-up-over-100000-new-riders/) to some of those that signed up earlier this summer.

Has anyone gotten their invites yet?

If so, would you be willing to add me as one of your 8 lucky chums so I can have a go at it as well..

Regards
A better analogy IMO is Python, Ruby et al calling themselves "dynamic languages" to distinguish themselves from the popular static languages of the time.
I'm one of the lead programmers of Keyspace, which is a key-value store. The main strength of Keyspace is the consistent replication, but right now I'll tell you what my experiences are building a web app (real-time search) using Keyspace. In other words, what happened when I drank my own kool-aid.

1. Schemaless. This is a half-truth. In reality there is always some kind of schema, otherwise you'd get chaos. What works for us in Keyspace, where everything is a string, is to use "/" as a separator convention. So we have keys like:
"/user/id:001" => <data>

More complicated example:

"/user/id:001/view/keyword:keyspace/"

2. Listing. Since listing happens on a prefix basis in Keyspace (give me everything that starts with "/user/id:001"), if you just want to get a list of some properties of the user, you have to create the list explicitly, otherwise you'll get all the keys under the user. Eg.

"/user/id:001/views/list/keyword:scalien" => null
"/user/id:001/views/list/keyword:keyspace" => null

3. If you need to list by property X, you need to create a subtree for it, as above. This sucks if you figure this out at a later point, because you have to programatically parse your existing data and create it, besides adding it to the online code for new items. That's why RDBMSs are so good.

4. Backups. No good backup strategy at this point, hot or cold.

..

So why should anyone put up with this? You have to realize there's lots of hype right now, in reality KV stores should only be used by a small fraction of DB users. If an RDBMS is Java/C++, then a KV store is (can be) Assembly. You have much more control over what's going on. (You can of course get the same control by having a giant key-value table in your RDBMS.) You can put a cache layer in your stack more easily.

So you should think of a good KV store as something that you use under certain hi-performance cases, and even then, the KV store should offer some plus over having a giant key-value table in My/Postresql. Usually, that plus is some kind of distribution or replication that usually works. In case of Keyspace it's replication.

The other big plus is, as I learned, is that programming in the KV model is much much more natural then having embedded SQL statements in your code. A typical segment in my (Python) code is:

users = conn.listkeys("/user/id:%s/views/" % user_id)
for (...):

This is much nicer then having SQL statements, and since you're using a KV store, it can't get more complicated than this. As I said, I assume you're doing hi-performance stuff, in which case some crappy ORM layer is out of the question anyway.
One of the problems is that in education performance is equaled to students test results so as result teachers would have an incentive to be just "test-oriented".
I'm sort of gutted that they're leaving XHTML behind, if only because we were told it was the future of standards compliant web design at the start of the standards revolution. I changed my entire way of thinking for that movement. It's annoying that I have to go back (at least, partially!).
You may have misread the quote. It's more than a 0.1 standard deviation:

"At the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in comparison schools by 0.28 and 0.16 standard deviations (SD) in math and language tests respectively...."

That's 0.28 for math and 0.16 for language. I'd say that's pretty significant - especially for a large sample size. In this case presumably because of the sample size it's more than being about "power/tools/money".
Some readers on Jalopnik's site said that the cars actually weigh very similarly. So "lighter" is only perceived.
But I still want people to find me under the old name as well as the new name. I do not want to lose customers over a name.
Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com
Hi everyone,

About a year ago I created a web site to help people stay organized when looking for a job. Since then I've refined it to the point where I feel like it's now a viable product. I'm lacking two important things, however: a) a business model and b) time to market it.

My preference is to sell it, and I would greatly appreciate advice on selling a niche site like this. In the meantime I want to try and get some traffic to it, so advice on optimizing the 30 minutes a day I have to do marketing would be awesome.

Incidentally, I've been using the site to keep track of some of my marketing efforts. As I search for people to contact regarding the site, I'm storing their information and keeping track of the "next action" - review their site, email, etc. Do any of you feel you'd benefit from using a site like happyjobsearch to keep track of your marketing efforts?

A little more about the site: Its main benefit is providing a tool to approach job searching systematically. I got laid off twice in three months last year, and I found that it was very demotivating to approach job seeking in a sloppy, reactive manner. So I tried to take a GTD approach and do things in stages: collect, review, and respond. The idea with the site is to spend some time collecting job listings each day without spending a lot of time reviewing them, and definitely not spending time responding. Then, to spend time reviewing listings further and taking the time to send a proper cover letter and resume.

Separating these different processes and being able to keep track of which stage each job opportunity was in really helped me feel more in control and made me feel like I was actually making progress, because I could see what I'd gotten done. In the end that's what I hope it does for other people - help them with their job search on a practical level, but also help in some way to keep people motivated, because looking for jobs can really suck :D
Hi everyone,

About a year ago I created a web site to help people stay organized when looking for a job. Since then I've refined it to the point where I feel like it's now a viable product. I'm lacking two important things, however: a) a business model and b) time to market it.

My preference is to sell it, and I would greatly appreciate advice on selling a niche site like this. In the meantime I want to try and get some traffic to it, so advice on optimizing the 30 minutes a day I have to do marketing would be awesome.

Incidentally, I've been using the site to keep track of some of my marketing efforts. As I search for people to contact regarding the site, I'm storing their information and keeping track of the "next action" - review their site, email, etc. Do any of you feel you'd benefit from using a site like happyjobsearch to keep track of your marketing efforts?

A little more about the site: Its main benefit is providing a tool to approach job searching systematically. I got laid off twice in three months last year, and I found that it was very demotivating to approach job seeking in a sloppy, reactive manner. So I tried to take a GTD approach and do things in stages: collect, review, and respond. The idea with the site is to spend some time collecting job listings each day without spending a lot of time reviewing them, and definitely not spending time responding. Then, to spend time reviewing listings further and taking the time to send a proper cover letter and resume.

Separating these different processes and being able to keep track of which stage each job opportunity was in really helped me feel more in control and made me feel like I was actually making progress, because I could see what I'd gotten done. In the end that's what I hope it does for other people - help them with their job search on a practical level, but also help in some way to keep people motivated, because looking for jobs can really suck :D
The death of the “press embargo” (criticism of the TechCrunch approach)
All the international footprint video delivery networks support 2 mbps streams, and Akamai is not the only one (not even the first) to support the various flavors of adaptive streaming, from Windows Media "MBR" to Silverlight's Smooth Streaming to Apple's adaptive HTTP. Akamai's just the first to take what's been working great on all these networks for months or years and say, "Oh, we could press release this and because we say so, everyone will think it's new and unique!"

It's good to be the incumbent.
You didn't read the article, did you?

A patent troll is, basically, an NPE. In other words, it's someone who does not make anything, only patents or buys patents without ever attempting to make stuff. This shields the troll from any possible violation on its own part while makes PEs vulnerable to its lawsuits.

This guy patents stuff, but also builds things. He should not be considered a troll.

And, BTW, while obvious now, could not be so in 1993. In fact, I am unaware of any prior art showing its features.
You'd think that after 40 years of automobile safety innovation we could do better than this. In reality there shouldn't even be a scratch on the Malibu let alone even a remote possibility of injury to the passengers.
I feel you on that and actually had it on the list on my draft version of the post. However, in the final version I decided to limit my tips to things the manager likely had some control over.

What applications the team is going to work on is definitely a factor for how attractive a job is, but it really isn't something you can easily change just to get new people in.
gumtree.com: kind of a european craiglist
Here's the original poster from the SAS institute team - http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/posters/wicklin-alli...
The relative importance of face and body in judgments of physical attractiveness
I find this argument completely incorrect...
Was Google made for expert users? Were ipods made for expert users?
Providing an interface which allows users to accomplish a complex task and in the process users know what they are doing is the essence of the whole ui.
It's also horrifying because of how the government is using utterly misguided "science". It's like if they demanded everyone get homeopathic therapy.
How can you improve something if you cannot measure it? How do you know that you actually improved something?

Maybe tests can be improved - but it is currently the only reliable way in which the performance of students can be measured.
Kneale: Why Apple Is the World's Best Retailer
You ever take a physics class? There are extreme forces involved in a collision like this. The acceleration numbers alone are astounding. I'd say this is pretty darn good for 40 years of safety innovation driven by consumers who would rather pay for 1000 HP engines than safety belts.
New iPhone Forensics Tools Freely Available to Law Enforcement
iphoneinsecurity.com has officially launched and is now providing a suite of automated iPhone forensics tools to law enforcement agencies at no charge. A number of online WebCasts are available demonstrating the use of the tools, which run on all three iPhone models up to and including firmware version 3.1.
Gross Domestic Happiness?
Real-time just means that you can start ignoring it immediately, instead of waiting whole seconds for it to arrive in your inbox first.
Conservation of energy hasn't changed in 40 years. The force of the impact has to go somewhere, and consumers don't want to pay for a Titanium car. The driver looked like he was in pretty good condition.