skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing that NYC would do well to implement was the so-called "green highway". I bike to work every day and find that our separated bike lanes have longer and more frequent red lights than the lanes given to cars (we have a red light when they have a green light + left turn arrow). Most of the people who bike frequently in the city actually avoid the separated bike lanes because of the poor traffic light timing.
I'm actually in no position to be arguing this, but it comes up perpetually within communities. I don't have a CS degree, but I've been working with code for . . . well, I don't want to date the age of myself.

I don't like JavaScript. It's too garrulous, periphrastic, and it behaves like a puppet "director" attempting to recursively "show" the user where to look or go "next" on a page. Whenever I see JavaScript pages/ Django "hints" I'm like "SHUT UP!" I'm not an idiot. Most people are not as stupid as you're attempting to make them seem with those annoying little "hints."

Why not use design and fonts and style to "capture" the imagination and attention of users? Users will get it. CSS can and does this, in a subtle nature.

JavaScript wants users to sit through a PowerPoint presentation, shouting at 100X Decibels in their ears at all times, and to direct their hand movements via the mouse.

CSS "focus" handlers allows users to navigate at their own pace, the natural flow of code, quietly . . .

These are UI issues, but essentially that's the argument that most people who hail on the side of JavaScript take: in reality, they have only an illusion of control.

Quote:

CSS: Create a ton of elements to have a :hover style that adjusts the background image positions.

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Nope. The easiest way is to create one element identifier: either a #Div or a .Class -- and reference that recursively.
They might join something like http://301works.org, which aims to archive short URLs even after the company goes away.

Although I'm not sure why people are so terrified of short links breaking; long URLs are constantly disappearing.
Maybe it's because they were spending less time in the sun?

Please deliver my Nobel prize in the mail, thanks.
In practice, the meaning of "more highly evolved" is generally something like "more similar to the person using the phrase".
Another option: take a 1-2 week "vacation" in California and interview fulltime during that period. Set up the interviews before your vacation. After the interviews each day, in the evenings, go to meetups.
Most CSS rules work pretty well in emails, as long as you're careful. This list details how some CSS rules work in certain rendering engines:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
I like having the ability to include basic formatting in emails, like italics. What I really want is not HTML email, but Markdown email. That would be just about perfect.
> turn-lane indicators

Never seen those, but sounds cool.

> it's taken thirty some odd years to build out this infrastructure

Exactly - but the story is framed like "look, this city built this for a purpose, and it worked, now you do the same in your cities" when I believe the real story is that a bike-happy population worked with a willing city to slowly evolve an infrastructure with mutual benefits.
Addendum:
http://allpsych.com/disorders/personality/antisocial.html
(Actual DSM-IV reference)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_se...
Augh. Yet another! When will the madness end?
Your comment is both funny, and correct! At least, I think so.

But I seem to understand that here, that type of humor seems to be discredited even if its insightful (especially if its not).
Microsoft didn't seem to have a problem with going quite public with it.
ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
You sir, win my money.

I'm willing to invest $2 to see where this could go.
Twitter Launches First Business Features
She could also be a pathological liar, secretly a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man or the Emir of Groovefunkistan. Once we start discounting the facts presented as fact by a principal in the article we might as well just switch to floral teapots in low earth orbit.

This story doesn't pretend to be science, why are we comparing it to randomized double-blind studies?
Change Blindness experiment
>Maybe that's just a tongue-in-cheek reference to the founder's real gender. Perhaps the heavy masculinity of the Men With Pens site was designed to test/prove the theory.

It does seem to be a hyper-masculine design parody of men's magazines. I mean come on, the suede header background, hollow point bullet, chunky metalised writing, welder at the top of the page, "guns for hire" ... seriously? This is for real?

Presumably "Taylor Lindstrom" in their about us is a bloke.

Also, OT: design is completely broken with js off, right menu is broken with it on too (ff3.6, Kubuntu).
> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage.

Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook.

Versionate was a great product too :)
Odroid: all the open, none of the contract
IPhone Developers Class Action Lawsuit
If you are an iPhone developer who has suffered substantive business harm due to Apple's policies and behavior vis-a-vis the iTunes App Store, I would like to hear your story. Having suffered harm to my own business, I am considering leading a class action lawsuit on the grounds of anti-trust, business torts, and various common law doctrines which seem to indicate that Apple's behavior is illegal.

Although I have already consulted with one lawyer on this matter, if you are a lawyer, or know of a good lawyer with experience in these matters, I would also like to hear from you.

You can message me confidentially at apple.lawsuit@gmail.com.
Whilst this is amazing to watch, I have to admit I didn't even know that Octopuses could walk around on their tentacles like they do in the video.
How to recognise a good programmer (2007)
I don't think this was about success of her blog, it was about getting writing contracts. Although she might have mixed up things a little in the story to make it a better read (like in the end, suddenly there is this mystery top blogger who recommends her blog as one of the top 10 reads - might have distorted the outcome of her names experiment a little).
That's life expectancy at birth. The increase of life expectancy at birth may be due to reduced infant mortality. I'm more interested in the life expectancy of people born in the 1980s. Is that increasing?
The uncanny valley can be used to good effect though: zombies for instance. It's very hard to make a zombie scary if you've got it too low on the uncanny valley that people can't get past going "aww it's so cute!"

I haven't got the creepy feeling I have from other attempts, so I'd likely put them on the upward exponential out of the uncanny valley. I believe this may be greatly helped by the fact they're not supposed to look human.

It's like the aliens in the new Star Trek, the absolute weirdest was the comedic throwback of the green chick. The lack of prosthetics to modify her made her feel so much weirder than any of the others.

The fact that people are going to be going into the movie seeing spaceships and humans rendered in CGI before they see any of the aliens may help the aliens out of the uncanny valley. After wading through Disney Land and finding one of the humanoid robots they don't appear as false as the highly realistic androids being made in Japan despite not being of as good craftsmanship, why? Well I just walked through a mile of talking humanoid mice, anything remotely human is now believable!

However something to point out: Capgras syndrome gives the sufferer this 'uncanny valley' effect to anyone the person knows, they'll believe the person has been replaced by a duplicate.
His response is typical. He denies saying things which can easily be disproved. He makes basic factual errors and in the same sentence validates most of the criticism in this thread:

"Cappuccino. That's something built on top of Sproutcore, right? No need to get any deeper than that."

Of course, Cappuccino isn't built on Sproutcore, but even if it was this sentence illustrates the fact that David has long ago made decisions about what he perceives to be the state of javascript frameworks, and isn't interested in anything other than those opinions, however baseless those opinions may be.
I am currently a slicehost member, their articles are very nice. Thanks for the link though.

I just like how linode starts for the VERY beginning. :-)
Please add a feature to Read it Later via Instapaper, very key for me (just bought the app).
Not sure I agree there. He's an unapologetic Apple fan, but he certainly gives them criticism when they need it. See, for example, the 30 or 40 posts about App Store approval problems.
While I somehow sympathize with this idea I don't see the point. Canada already has a very straight-forward and clear economic immigration program, so I don't know why we would need a new visa program (I immigrated to Canada through the regular program).
A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds
They wouldn't have any way to know for certain if you could get to it, but they would be able to tell for certain if you couldn't get to it, because they can't get to it from anywhere on their worldwide network. Something is better than nothing.
If you're turned off by typing lines and lines of code with semicolons and complex syntax, then maybe the root issue is that computer programming just isn't for you.

...either that, or you program in Scheme. </snark>

Seriously, though, I doubt most programmers enjoy "semicolons and syntax" for their own sake; we use programming languages because they allow us to create programs. The purpose of making programming more appealing at superficial levels is not to banish the semicolons and syntax forever, it's to introduce people who might otherwise be put off by that aspect to get a taste of programming anyway. If they find they like it, the "serious" stuff will still be there.

There's a difference between "make this appealing to people who will never like it" vs. "make this appealing to people who might like it, but would be scared off by superficial aspects".
This is actually noted in much of the 'uncanny valley' predictions, in that the positive and negative effects are less severe. A static picture can look human enough to fool you, however a video doesn't take long before something clues you in and at 24fps you're likely to clue in fast.

However zombies don't look as horrifying in still pictures as they do in animation. Catching the bottom of the uncanny valley can have its benefit for directors as well.
Your points about the vagaries of activism and its targets are valid and I agree. However, you're still asserting that an entire line of conversation is impossible or without meaning due to the presence of, as far as I can tell, a single word.

I'd very much like to continue this thread but I'd ask you to please elaborate on your position or support it in some way or we'll descend into "does not!" "does too!" rather rapidly. Alternatively we can attempt to frame the discussion in another way that you find meaningful.
A Word About Twitter Commercial Accounts
The point, I think, is that you could still use the shortener to link to an intranet or similar site that is not available to the public web.
Plurk is Canadian, not Chinese.
Idiot proofing? I thought in computing that was wrapping bubble wrap around the sharp edges and praying they don't hit a button.
Hi, welcome to HN! I sincerely hope that you will bring a different tone here than you do on comp.lang.javascript.

People tend to measure the "success" of their libraries or other code based upon whether or not it accomplishes their goals. If your goal was to simply build a set of abstractions, continue support for ancient browsers, and ensure that it continues to work for future browsers, then you've accomplished it and that's great.

However, you fail then to recognize the goals of other frameworks and libraries which differ from your own. That is, they sacrifice compatibility with very old browsers for the sake of improved performance and support for newer browsers; or they sacrifice strict correctness for improved rates of development; or they sacrifice other aspects of Javascript-specific techniques for the sake of readability or establishing patterns familiar to novice programmers.

The authors of other frameworks can no more be criticized by you for failing to meet your goals, than we could criticize your library for failing to meet our goals.

Indeed, you're correct that I did not read every one of your more than 9,000 lines of code (almost 330K!) for the complete library. Rather, given your penchant for reading a few lines of some framework, critiquing them, and then declaring them to be no longer worth your time -- I thought I'd try the same.

...Actually, I'm being needlessly rude there. The truth is, I did attempt to review portions of code inasmuch as I had time for. Much of it was simply not notable; I picked out the camelization for one point because I had been tuning my own just a few nights ago.

Thanks (seriously) for pointing out the Safari 2 incompatibility. I'll consider whether adding support for Safari 2 is worth re-working that line. (Probably not, but maybe.)

We could continue to dicker back and forth on the relative merits of one bit of JavaScript versus another, but I'd rather keep working on mine, other people would rather start writing their own obvious unit tests, and you would hopefully rather update your library or something.
"but he's also a completely reliable Apple apologist"

You really should read him more regularly then, since that absolutely isn’t the case. He likes Apple’s stuff, that doesn’t make him an apologist.

This was written in _2002_! At that time all the speculation was obviously bullshit.

"Look to the recent kerfuffle regarding AT&T's network for another great example."

What did everyone say when the AT&T deal was first announced? "Oh no! Their network is awful!". Two years later… still awful, except now they’re trying to blame it on the iPhone. I have an iPhone, no AT&T where I live. Never had a problem and that seems to be a consistent experience for a lot of people. Purely anecdotal, so take it with a pinch of salt.

One final note: you really shouldn’t fall into the trap of thinking that everyone who likes Apple’s stuff is some kind of apologist/fan-boy. That is a fantasy invented by journalists and wannabe critics. It’s reductive and boooooring.
I get this, if I'm shaved I get ID'd in any liquor serving establishment on the planet, with a beard I've never been questioned. This worked amazing when I was legally under age as I started growing a beard at like 14.
The A-Z of Programming Languages: MATLAB
Presumably their previous "blunders" have worked to increase media coverage and thence signups. More blunders then = more users and presumably more revenue.

Either that or they're all pot-heads, http://i.imgur.com/IR0yn.png .
Oh, ffs. I wasn't suggesting the government sponsor a million programming languages. I was suggesting they sponsor Clojure.

Now, Clojure may or may not be a project worth funding. That is a question worth exploring. But what about say, making better tools for programmers? Building experimental user interfaces? Any of a million other things you or I could be working on that are hard to translate directly into cash, yet could contribute greatly to society.

Imagine being able to work on these things full time, with a steady paycheck; being able to freely share our code and discuss our work with one another, cooperating to make it better. Tell me that doesn't sound nice.

Hobbyists can only do so much in their free time. Full time development only gets done when it forwards a narrow corporate interest. And then you have the free-rider problem. But now I'm repeating myself, so I'll leave it at that.
That's got to be the most annoying voiceover I've ever heard.
If we assume that Universities try to pick students with the highest chance of being "successful" after graduating, maybe testing for the ability to pass "tests" is not a bad thing to do. "Success" is hardly perfectly correlated with language or math ability.

Doesn't being good at resume building, making an impression via various mediums (essays, CVs, interviews..) imply being good at the things required for being "successful" in many of the success-rich arenas (Politics, large companies, the NGO world, etc.)? If someone will work for some charity to suck up to a power-broker to get an internship to put on a resume to get into a college also likely to figure out how to do the equivalent for an executive position 20 years later?

The way I see it, you are presenting these kids with a puzzle. You're not telling them its a puzzle. You're telling them its not a puzzle. Some call it a puzzle & solve it. Some call it a puzzle & cry foul. Some don't call it a puzzle & solve it anyway. Some don't call it a puzzle & don't solve it. Which is most likely to be a judge in 40 years?

*I'm not American & never went through a US style admissions process so I just view it curiously. I imagine that if I had, I would dislike it more.
JungleDisk should also be mentioned as a competitive offering.
Under U.S. law, copyright protection automatically affixes to any original work of authorship that becomes fixed in any tangible medium of expression. It does not extend to ideas themselves.

Illegal copying can occur by exact copying of source or object code or by paraphrasing (misappropriating a program's structure or architecture, its inter-modular relationships, and/or its algorithms and data structures, at least insofar as these elements do not constitute unprotectable ideas - this can occur by copying the fundamental essence or structure of a copyrighted work even while rephrasing or restating it in immaterial respects).

Impermissible copying can also involve exact duplication of a user interface, or a "paraphrasing" of that interface (e.g., by creating screen displays and menu commands which are very similar but not identical to those of a copyrighted program).

Though interface elements can potentially be copyrighted, the advice you give is sound in most cases because of the courts' reluctance to give any party a monopoly on interface ideas in the guise of copyright (thus, Apple had sought unsuccessfully via copyright to gain exclusive use of a variety of interface elements, such as a visual depiction of a trash can). This is where "look and feel" cases become so difficult - who wants to give anybody exclusive rights via copyright, for example, to the basic ideas behind a spreadsheet? That is why many of those older cases failed.

In spite of this, I don't know that I would simply dismiss the look-and-feel aspect of this case based on the interface involved here. On its face, there appears to be more involved with this interface than mere ideas and, when there are creative forms of expression involved, and the copying is exact or so significantly "paraphrased" as to be almost indistinguishable, an interface infringement may have occurred.

All of the above, however, is based on a U.S. law analysis and may be irrelevant (at least legally) in China. If there is some way to bring U.S. legal principles into play, or anything analogous to them, then this would appear to be a fairly flagrant instance of illegal copying. While the costs of launching and pursuing a formal legal fight would be great, as long as you have a reasonable venue in which to launch it (i.e., one that respects IP rights) and the resources to carry it through to the preliminary injunction stage (usually 6 to 8 weeks into the case), winning a preliminary injunction would likely work its effect in causing Microsoft to fold, assuming it otherwise is willing before that to fight and is able to survive a horrible onslaught of bad publicity.
Plurk's blog page doesn't like being viewed at 1024x768 in Chromium... the left sidebar cut-off by the left side of my screen and the top-right Plurk logo is cut-off by the blog post.
Actually, the worst trolls are the ones that are knowledgeable and articulate, but are more dedicated to trolling than to any particular beliefs. Dogmatic trolls are at least somewhat constrained by their dogmas.
That's the first time I've really understood the difference between ZumoDrive and Dropbox. Thanks for calling out the sentence.
So, estimated release date for 6.14?

(I kid, I kid. This is great. and dynamic linking is wonderful indeed. old-gregg - it's not too hard to hack it in, I'm doing it in Hubris.)
There a good dozen or so companies all doing the same thing; how many more do you need before you call it a "space"?
That's like asking why the people in Star Wars speak English :) Although this obvious plot query is nominally handled in the film, the real reason is that Cameron is using his epic canvas to present an exciting metaphor for how he sees the world, hence the object of desire (over which the conflicts take place) being dubbed 'unobtainium'.
Your name would be appreciated.
Why would anyone want to use this rather than dropbox which synchronizes your files and stores a local copy?
Never Rest: No business can be termed successful
Why ask for science: because the story author and among others I think also you have started drawing conclusions from it ("society is still sexist", "women get paid less for equal work"). Where is the point in erecting this building of accusations if the foundations aren't sound? Unless it is just politics, which is OT on HN.
I'm no economist, but my suspicion is that the auto-termination is a key factor in maintaining a separate market value for this class of instances.
Like snakes, different species--or if you'd like, different cultures of octopus have different methods of locomotion.

Also, I don't know if you noticed but when it was walking with the coconut, it changed its skin color to the color of the ocean floor to mask itself, and then when it tucked into the coconut, it turned itself dark, so it was hard to tell it wasn't an empty coconut.
Not to detract from this business, but couldn't this just as easily be a checkbox on Dropbox?

Suppose Dropbox wanted to do this, how does YC react? Although I suppose there is lots of room for competition in this space...
Indonesian Mimic Octopus (mimics lion fish, sea snake, flounder)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc

Octopus as a coconut rolling on ocean floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgla5smg64

Opening a jar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWF6d0nelY
You definitely do not want to succumb and retaliate. There is no end game there, except that users leave both forums as they are spammy and unusable. There, all you've succeeded in doing is killing off two forums.

First, contact the admins and establish communication. Explain what happened, and ask if they would mind changing their ToS or put a notice on their board, asking their members to stop. From this round you can figure out if the admins did it, or if their users did it.

If it was the users, then you should probably look to technological solutions like CAPTCHA, user bans, IP bans, etc. Maybe require that someone be a member for X months, or have N minimum karma before they can PM someone else. Start filtering for certain content (URLs, names of other forums, etc.)

If it was the admins, you should plan on doing the same stuff, but you're probably going to be up against some more savvy folks. Start watching your logs seriously, and step up the tech filters. You can do things like flag suspect accounts, and filter messages to / from those accounts (if you do it silently, the other site admin won't realize his spammy techniques are ineffective).

Step 1: open lines of communication
Step 3: profit!
I am remaining anonymous for the time being, for fear of retribution on Apple's part. Once we've got more people on board, I'll be happy to unveil my identity. :)