skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal sync is available with Xmarks. I've been using it for years and it's great.
We reserve instances to guarantee that we will always have the minimum number of servers available to run our site. But where these price drops really matter to us are for Cloud Front and S3.
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This is not possible with the device as it stands BUT:

A possible solution is to extend the multitouch area around the sides and back(to sense the grip) and cancel out any grip finger movements.

So floating pointing finger still is sensed but slight movements in gripping hand should not wreck things.
We use londiste (from SkyTools). It's excellent. From what I've read, londiste already plans to start offering streaming replication (vs. trigger-based replication) for the transport mechanism.
I have been using Five Fingers for about a year. I initially used them to help me rehab a muscle/nerve injury in my leg. I have found that after learning to run in them my legs and feet never hurt like they did when I ran in my "running" shoes. I used to get Iliotibial Band Syndrome when I ran over 5 miles a day. I have yet to have IBS come back after I switched to the five fingers. You learn to slow down, cut your stride down and pay attention to where you are placing your feet.
This is actually the second round of standards. The first had the GM/Hughes inductive paddle charger, which turned out to be really neat technology but a bit of a boondoggle in terms of cost. I'm not aware of this one still being used in any significant numbers.

The second was this huge ugly square thing made by a company called AVCON for conductive charging. This is the connector being replaced by the new one, know as Yazaki after the company that designed it.
I remember several years ago when 37 Signals abruptly changed their web site, The issue came up in their blog comments and was covered by Copyblogger here:
http://www.copyblogger.com/the-37-signals-approach-to-copywr...

Bottom line: 37 Signals didn't do any testing. I know they've reported headline testing results, so maybe they've changed their practices.
They had to build iTunes and Safari for Windows somehow.
Unfortunately, I've been informed that HR will not allow us to consider remote candidates for some asinine reason. So unless you're able to work out of our offices in Silver Spring, MD I'm afraid we're stuck. :(

(I'm hoping we can get around this somehow with Discovery's other offices—which are literally all over the world—but we'll see how that goes.)
Why's a picture of the tip of an iceberg with some penguins on it at the top of HN today?
Nice to see, but in my mind this is just "Oh hey look at all of the FOSS software we are using but not providing back to."

Sure they did do CUPS, but what else has apple given back to the open source community, besides another source mirror?
So now Google needs to become a SSL CA and at least self-sign certificates for its own domains.
>lay into you with a subtle ad hominem

This is the pedantic reply in which I suggest that you might actually be thinking of argumentum ad verecundiam rather than argumentum ad hominem.

Edit: this is the edit in which I italicize the Latin terms above to make myself sound more erudite.
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Objective-C has bee around for a long time, and certainly isn't just for Cocoa/Apple.
Aside from the long hours, low pay, soul-crushing monotony, enterprise Java, cultural issues, and debugging code written in Bangalore by people working from a design document translated by Babelfish, it has been a wonderful experience.
I do own "Marx demystifies calculus" (not as ridiculous as it sounds nor as profound) and 3 soviet era math books (published through MIT press -threadjack: has anyone else wondered if MIT ever felt any heat circa McCarthy as they did a lot of collaboration with soviet scientists not to mention the cybernetic work of werner/stafford beer)
Naive use of nice can kill performance. If you have any sort of shared resource on your system, you're begging for a priority inversion. Much more useful is the Solaris Fair Share Scheduler.
the whole point of being above the fold, is grab the user's attention in the first few seconds.

The stuff below the fold, only gets read if a person is convinced by the stuff above the fold to continue reading.
The deciding point was that I had a chance to team up with great editor, Mira.

You might want to correct that (with a great editor). A tiny thing, but as your post is meant to be verified by your own service...
Egan's law
Gotcha. The machine is for one purpose only. And it is running on FreeBSD, not Solaris. I was careful to try to not be so naive about the values.
It's not bad design but I have to point out that he's following in Dustin Curtis's footsteps quite closely. Each article is complete with its custom design and an obvious amount of effort goes into the look of each one.

http://dustincurtis.com/

He calls it a "blogazine" format. Dustin is the first person I've seen do it, but I'm happy to see it catch on.
Objective-C only continued to exist past the 80s because of Apple/NeXT. And the closest thing it has to a formal definition is the source code to Apple's GCC fork.
WebKit, MacRuby
It's also fun to go to the iPhone's page:

Settings > General > About > Legal

Lost of licenses and attributions you might not otherwise expect!
OK, so I update my search preferences to make "wp" the Wikipedia key word. (I think, ok, maybe "w" was too short or something.)

Close the browser. Reopen. Check the options again. (Still there.) Type wp (so far so good, the Chrome hints drop-down looks like I'm going to hit Wikipedia) space, "San Francisco" (no quotes) ... and oops, the hints have changed to "Google Search" (as soon as I type the first character.
Interesting experiment, but I wish they had a feed just for these stories, as I don't want to pick through all the Inc stuff.
I am somewhat amused by the irony of your comment. :-)

It took only a few minutes to read the article in its entirety, and although it was maybe a little longer than it could have been, it wasn't bad as is.

So, if even HN readers don't have the attention span for something like this, then where does that leave us?
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It's important to note here that JSON is essentially XML without the boilerplate - and in fact was invented at least partly to address this very XML pain point.
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Why have you put up with it this long?
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They also require everyone to rotate being "on-call". I went to Amazon's party last week (the "100% Peculiar" party), which was awesome but it was a Saturday night at 8:00pm and one of my friends who works there got called in. They had on-call rooms at the party.

This is a great policy. At some companies there is a lot of finger pointing, but when the devs share the pain of the ops guys, everyone knows they're on the same team.
"Oh hey look at all of the FOSS software we are using but not providing back to."

This page is just a central place for Apple to publish the corresponding source code for all of their released software. Among other things, this is a simple way to comply with licenses that require source availability, like the GPL.

"What else has apple given back to the open source community..?"

They released all their work on WebKit (including a whole new JavaScript VM) since forking it from KHTML, and have also done a good job of managing it as a real open source project (i.e. accepting outside bug reports and contributions, and giving commit privileges to people outside of Apple).

They've also made major contributions to LLVM, and released Clang (their LLVM-based compiler for C/C++/ObjC).
Sounds good. See you there. I have red glasses and a beard.
Stupid ideas
I'm a little surprised at the tone of your observation. I thought U.S. citizens were the most empowered on the planet.

More transparent government is clearly the desirable. If the outcome of this case can determine that, then the outcome should be in favor of transparent government. If the law of the land doesn't agree, then it's time it's changed; isn't it?

Well that's what it looks like to me trapped under an oppressive government on the other side of the globe, idealizing the freedom of American citizens.
This is the comment in which I say something which is totally irrelevant to the topic and end up contributing nothing to discussion
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Maybe my problem is that I use Python a lot and I never have a problem with there being "one way to rule them all". I usually find more elegant ways to do thing the more of the language I know. On the other hand, even if you like to read creative code, the more standard idioms you use the faster you're able to build on it. Contrary-wise, there are situations where the standard idioms look like obfuscation. It's all about balance.
That seems very unlikely. Effects like the ones in the article (which is great, btw) can't be "fixed" simply by moving the data. In the first example, there's simply no way for any runtime environment to "know" at creation time that you would be walking the array in 16 byte strides. And if it tried to reorder the data dynamically, it would obviously have to touch all that memory, thus invalidating whatever caching could be done anyway.

Where JVMs beat naive C, it's almost always in the locking and synchronization code. See the Sun paper on Biased Locking for an example of the kind of tricks you can do by (for example) "guessing" that newly locked objects are only ever going to be referenced by one thread.

But memory is memory. The JVMs view of it lacks a raw pointer, but is otherwise pretty much the same as C's.
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I completely agree with Vaskel on all the points. All through my visit I was searching for examples of previously proof-read material so that I can judge the quality but I couldn't find any.
In what way have they changed your life?
QED?
Then perhaps you might be serve better by the linked article, which is kinda the "dumbed down" version of the Drepper whitepaper. But I don't see why detail is bad. The Drepper paper is pretty much the only place, short of JEDEC specs and manufacturer datasheets, where you can get an exposition about how modern DRAM works.

(FWIW: his similar whitepapers on ELF shared libraries and glibc TLS are equally great, and also pretty much the canonical review documents on those subjects.)
Sample diffs are going live this week, too.
One thing I have to say about this: This would be the time to really bring in Radial Menus.

Edit: Especially radial menus that sort the rings on usage (IE, high use programs closer to the center of the disk).
This is the ashamed reply in which I falsely reinterpret my original sentence, claiming that I intended both argumenta. This is the sentence in which I emit additional additional argumenta, which I just looked up in Wikipedia.
Are you inside or outside your relationships?
Sounds like your apps were made to run on *nix.
I used to be a 'wizard' (player admin) for Yegge's GMUD, Wyvern (he mentions it occasionally in his newer world-facing blog; it can be found at www.cabochon.com). He doesn't just make predictions like this, he actually bets on them.

For example, he bet that people would want to play a game with deep and intriguing gameplay regardless of the graphics. Then he bet that people would want to play it on a handheld device (specifically, he targeted the Sharp Zaurus, but the game is compatible with some other palmtops of the same era). I think he's right on the first count, but too early on the second (targeting the iPhone, for instance, would probably have been more successful).

There are a number of other reasons the game didn't take off, but the point is that he's not an armchair pundit, shouting that we should all listen to him and take action based on his foresight. If anything, he's taking action, and just logging the predictions that prompted him.
Yes, I did consider that his health might also be an explanation. Probably should have mentioned that. Regardless, the impression I get from watching the demo is still the same.
This sentence is an aloof expression of awe at the intensity of the reaction to an obvious troll.

This sentence cites an obscure [Russian expatriate|investigative journalist|fringe physicist|absurdly cross-disciplinary|Eric Scott Raymond|Theodore Dalrymple] author with a coherent yet slightly cranky theory that [explodes|confirms] the argument of the blog post. This sentence was originally a veiled insult directed at everyone who hasn't already read the book, but was edited.

This sentence is an admission of the irony inherent in laughing off the subject followed by arguing about it.
Ouch, and you just won a discount...
I don't really see much value in keeping a branch around after development is complete (or defunct).

If the work is complete then merge it (with no-ff if you want to show the merge explicitly). If it's defunct then delete it. If you want to keep it around but discourage further development then tag it or come up with a naming convention.

That you have the ability to mark branches as closed in mercurial is mainly paper over their odd decision to not allow deletion of branches.
This sentence is the beginning of a long and tangentially relevant argument about the Crusades.
Which one did you get?
There's a good reason why most affiliate marketing landing pages, especially for things like e-books, are eighteen bajillion pixels long. That's what's been tested and found to work for that particular audience.
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Is there a (developed, or developing) country in the world right now with a healthy respect for education and intellectualism?
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Heh, I always get down-modded for saying bad things about the use of force.
People do not pay for technical advancement. They pay for solving their problems. If you need 500 well written words to nail a job, a promotion, a contract, or a term paper, you will darn well pay to make sure they are perfect. People would pay for Twitter if it credibly promised jobs, promotions, contracts, and term papers.
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I found this page on Brooks website very interesting. They invited an assortment running "experts" from various backgrounds to give their opinion on barefoot running.

http://www.brooksrunning.com/About+Brooks/On+Barefoot+Runnin...

The consensus seems to be that there are proven benefits to running barefoot, but that it is not always the most appropriate choice. They caution runners seeking to transition to barefoot against doing too much too soon.
Maybe one of the reasons is that there is not a definitive diagnosis/screening, hence a significant rate of misdiagnosis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#Screening

I've even seen claims of 1 in 120 people having some degree of autism which I find ludicrous:

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/penn-study-discove...
"Is there a (developed, or developing) country in the world right now with a healthy respect for education and intellectualism?"

Both India and China would fit I think. As would Japan. Large chunks of Asia certainly.
You're explaining that poorly, I think. As written, that's only true if 99% of all software is written using poor algorithm choices. Maybe that's true in some regimes, but there is still a bunch of performance-sensitive software written in C/C++ by developers who make good algorithm and data structure choices.

And so when these people get to looking at performance details, they're looking at constant factor improvements. And as described in the article and elsewhere, the constant factors due to cache effects are often on the order of, say, 6 or 10. The penalty to poor cache design can be huge, and it's important to know how they work to avoid that.
This is a comment in which I haven't read the blog and make some wild rebuttal of a completely irrelevant point based on the title of the submission.
I wonder if there are any other lessons to learn from those?
explain why it is not misplaced in your last sentence

Good catch. I was trying to give a reason for this misattribution and not justify it.

But back to the larger point. It strikes me that intellectuals who have racked up the greatest kill-scores have done so because of their views in humanitarian fields (politics, philosophy, etc.) I am yet to see a genocide in the name of math or art. One exception I see is the misrepresentation of climate data to support global warming (if indeed that is true).
I do this too, partly because when I have branches and revisions as actual directories and files, I can use the usual Unix tools on them, instead of having to use a parallel set of tools provided by the version control system.
Very interesting. (Link: the main illustration of the different running gaits is at http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/3RunningBeforeThe... ). I'm surprised to see that they didn't find a difference in kinetic energy between heel and forefoot impacts; my naive assumption was that the "rolling" motion of the foot in a heel strike would result in a higher-energy bound forward...
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Recent stuff: Clang, Blocks (in llvm), libdispatch (Grand Central Dispatch services), OpenCL.

Of course WebKit.
"The lawsuit argues that public places are not covered by this law."

What if they were? Could the local news do a live broadcast from the street without fear that someone would walk up behind them, shout something, and then claim that his rights had been violated?
Well, for our purposes a group based chat is much, much nicer. Especially with logs. People drop to IM at times (or private messages in IRC), but we seem to get more out of the virtual watercooler/mass meeting room. The one on one stuff generally works better through email, where it's less transient and people can easily reference it later.

If you have people who haven't touched IM before, you should definitely checkout Campfire. One mass "company" room can get crazy so you can always fragment it off into a couple of area specific chats alongside the primary.
He did all that under the theory of Communism, though.

"Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung) About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, military strategies, and his brand of Communist policies are now collectively known as Maoism." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

(Wikipedia, the true sign of a lazy citer. :) )
Police officers do have the same rights as every citizen when off-duty, but when they are acting as agents of the state they should be held very accountable for their malevolent actions (not mistakes, intentional ones). For instance, calling an officer a dirty name is not cause for said officer to demand identification and threaten you with arrest (happened to me when he was acting exactly like said name). Unless there are reasons for privacy, while working as agents of the state they shouldn't get any unnecessary privacy. The vast majority of (US at least) police are laudable, but not holding the bad ones accountable kills their reputation. We should be encouraging citizens to tape, not intimidating them.
This is the comment where I express appreciation for the post in a single, bland remark free of real content.
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"It is staggering to contemplate that all the great works of literature can be derived from the letters I use in writing this review."

However the author of the review left out the letter "z". Thus none of the works of e.g. Zola can be properly derived ... or is that the review writer's intention?
"Trivializing it like that will help hide the true situation from you. Look back on the twentieth century. Find the five largest slaughterings of human life. Intellectuals claiming to be in the service of high intellectual ideas will show up in at least two of those (Stalin's farm purges, Mao's political purges). Hitler's purge would be debatable, though I'm willing to agree that simply fancying oneself an intellectual is not the same as being one. Some of the other largest slaughterings that don't make the top five, but still involve hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths, have intellectual roots."

I fail to see how intellectuals are deeply at fault in your list of Godwinian examples. Each nation's military was far more deeply involved in all of those horror stories yet we love our troops and our military.

Furthermore, all 3 men in your example were, strictly speaking, populists who crafted themselves as intellectuals only through propaganda. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were never known for their intellectual prowess until they took power and their respective propaganda machines rebuilt their image.

And your central claim, that contemporary distrust of intellectuals is somehow rooted histories butchers begs the question: why isn't anti-intellectualism more widespread, especially on the populations most devastated by these monsters?

The type of anti-intellectualism outlined in this thread and news story is a distinctly American version. Yet in your rationalization of this view you name none of the cultural causes in the US for this view.
Unfortunately, Atom uses two weeks worth of spanking energy to get that week out of ARM.
I'm probably around then.
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> Are they so concerned that Apple will dominate the metal that the web is viewed under that they have to take matters into their own hands? It seems a bit extreme.

Why so? Google depends entirely on the web, it makes sense. Also depending on a third party/competitor for accessing your very business is a very bad thing, especially when this competitor is Apple. It's better to depend on as few parties as possible.
You know you sound like you're trolling, right? Clang, MacRuby, launchd, WebKit - that's just off the top of my head.
Anyone who beats Facebook is going to have to offer nearly all of Facebook's features and some killer-app features of its own. So any Facebook-killer will make it similarly easy to integrate a FBKiller-Connect feature.

Examples of this? Mature market leaders are not usually unseated by someone out-doing what they do best. They get blindsided by new approaches or market shifts. No one is going to out-Facebook Facebook, their engineering operations are truly truly amazing. The agility they demonstrate at that scale is mind-blowing, making Google's operations look easy by comparison. That doesn't mean they are invulnerable, just that a head-on attack isn't likely to succeed.
So it is essentially XML except for all of the things that make XML any different than csv or some other text-based representation?
Does anyone know how many other browsers have the CNNIC as a root CA?

Given the demographic of Firefox users, I think that this could end up being a huge PR problem for Mozilla.

Edit: After some checking, CNNIC is a root CA in both Windows and Mac, so I don't think that there was much avoiding this for Firefox.