skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, smart change! (see: http://www.canrailsscale.com).

Second, there is surely alot of rails-hosters out there, keep looking if you want to build your app with pure ror.But the beatuy of php is what you already have seen; it just works!
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Not sure I understand the question... I use CodeIgniter whenever we're building a bespoke site. It uses a Model-View-Controller pattern, like Rails. Is that what you were asking?
and mentioning android in the app description is in which way malware? i see the point in verifying apps that need security (banking mostly). but that doesnt account for 99.99% of apps. Plus, mostly what you hear about which apps where banned, it's not about security. It's about bookreaders that can show the kamasutra (which the browser can, too). It's about software that "replicates" apples functionality. You will never have alternative browsers or mail programs and be tied to apples mercy. I have the choice. Let's face it, the appstore is apples way to have control over its customers.
RTP is well known abbreviation
I'm no lawyer, but i think the apple developer would be sued and not apple. So it's definitely a bad excuse.
The appstore is merely the application that displays it, but you don't see MS sued when some webpage shows a trademark infrignement in the Internet Explorer, do you?
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Well, without "real credentials", it's a webcomic. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. I completely forgot this was non-fiction until I read the HN title again.
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Wow that was wonderful! Makes me want to cultivate my inner artist.

For the curious; there are 56 pages =D
Same with palm pre, except it's ipk files. You can also use a free application hosting version of their "app store", where palm hosts a link to your app, no approval processes/money necessary. It doesn't appear in the catalog this way although.
That's true. But if both developers are developing out of the same branch, and are checking in small patches at a time, they are more likely to notice the interaction as it is happening and actually talk to each other.

The more difficult problems come when each worked on it for 2 weeks, then they discover a month or two later that there is a conflict - after both have forgotten what they were doing and why they were doing it.
well, they are very valuable for me as this will the first time I hear about these in real (as in real world not from a computer screen), actually I will specificly come to SF for these type of events.
Exactly. There is an entire package of tools and development process which, combined, makes things work out. The fact that you need an entire package, and the difficulty of adopting multiple simultaneous changes to change how you work is one of the primary reasons that I do not recommend that organizations all rush out and adopt Google's strategy. There really is an all or nothing thing here.

As an illustration of the dragons that wait, what happens if someone adopts all of the tools and practices, but the product manager is still able to put real schedule pressure on developers. I guarantee that in the rush to finish features that anyone who holds up implementation with, "This code is crap and there is no way I'm approving it" will come under pressure to accept the crap code. And as soon as you cross that line, the entire strategy falls apart because, even though in theory you're following a good process, in practice you just lost a critical underpinning.
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Ok, I can figure out how to evaluate an expression, but how do I just run a file like a normal program, with console output, etc?

I think these cutting edge programming languages would be a lot more popular if they weren't so damn hard to get started in. A one-step installer is a nice start, but then they have to foist Emacs upon you.
Flash is also used to make that popping sound when you get a gtalk message.
As some commentars said, choose the language/framework that suits the problem.

That said, I have experienced and heard that the time made up by using Rails/Ruby, is much less than the time it takes to customize a Rails app to get it to do what you want. Especially when there's a lot of customization. What I like about PHP and frameworks like CodeIgnitor, is that customization is dead easy. You only write code for what you want to achieve, you don't need to work around the framework's preset functionality.

Short answer, it depends. A lot of customization, use PHP, something that fits with Ruby/Rails, use that.
> I don't want to play sysadmin in my spare time
collaborate with someone who does.
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Definately try http://heroku.com. They have an excellent free plan that is perfect for smaller projects and development.

Also, if you use git, it's really easy to deploy an app by just pushing up to Heroku.
Second. I'm currently developing an app on Heroku and have found the infrastructure, hosting, and deployment workflow to be fantastic.

Give it a try!
Yes, but there is similarity between the sliders in that picture you show here. When you make 9 different sliders, it distracts from the settings being modified, and directs attention towards the UI itself. This is probably one of the oldest no-nos in traditional design.

In the original example, the Color Balance and Layer Blending tools clearly should have been drawn from the same mold. Ditto for Brightness, Pencil Width, Blur Width, Layer Style: Scale.
Untapped asset : The $3 Trillion value of US Enterprise documents
The information contained within U.S. enterprise documents represents about a third of gross domestic product, or an amount of about $3.3 trillion annually
It costs, on average, $350 to create a ‘typical’ document
That is not the message of either Mark Pincus or Paul Graham.
I think you might be thinking of locking up the browers, rather then crashing it. You can easily create a javascript program that will run a loop that will make your browser non-reactive.

But this is very different the plugin actually crashes. The security issues comes in to play because when the plugin crashes it is doing something it wasn't designed to do. So (in theory) someone malicious could take this crash and make the flash player do something specific it wasn't designed to do like run some code outside of it's sandbox. Which obviously would be a very big deal.

This is different then the lock up/DoS case where a product is doing what it is meant to do, but will just take a very long time (maybe forever) to finish it.
You buy your hardware because it runs your software, not the other way around.
For my company, we are hiring largely due to global expansion. We write software that communicates with various power measurement equipment, and the protocols used to do so vary by region. As we expand into new countries, it is often necessary to support new protocols, and thus we need more manpower.
Didn't crash Gnash, but I'm not sure if it rendered "properly" either (I just saw a blue rectangle.)
are we talking getting documents from paper => digital or are we talking doing something with the data in digital documents?
It just shows how polish is invisible but yet it is everything.
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None of those experiments have proven reproducible.

Standing under a light bulb exposes you to EM radiation that's orders of magnitude more energetic than anything you will get from any type of radio transmitter.
Closures in Java, Ruby, and Duby
Alternate title: "If Flash game designers managed records preservation"
The state of document management at large companies really is pretty abysmal, and many haven't made much in the way of a serious effort to digitize stuff. My dad, retired from a large petrochemical company, still occasionally gets calls from current engineers there asking if he happens to have any documentation of projects he worked on years ago, and in a lot of cases his personal files seem more complete than the company's, which have been hopelessly shuffled and/or lost over the course of several mergers and moves.
Absolutely none of Lai's dramatic experiments with the rats have been reproduced. It's very safe to assume they're bogus.

Seriously... if cell phone radiation was harmful, don't you think the trial lawyers would have discovered it by now?
I saw a Nexus One the other day on one of my colleagues ... it's pretty awesome. Has aprox. the same size as an iPhone, and the apps are really OK.

The only thing missing is multi-touch because of Apple's patent, but I didn't saw much of a difference ... and apparently you can activate multi-touch support.

It's a pretty cool phone ... if iPhone wasn't the first to come out, the Nexus One would be an instant hit. Unfortunately being as good as the iPhone is not enough, but its real strength will be its openness ... for example you can install Flash on it :)
What an excellent analysis of your troubles, I hope very much that you will be successful in whatever you pursue next.

Your candidness and willingness to reflect and learn from your mistakes are a good indicator for future success.
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I think it is safe to replace 'sometimes' with 'almost always'.
Implying that Python FTW SUCKAS! ;) :D ;) would have been upvoted more than what you posted is IMHO quite insulting to HN posters.

It has its up and downs, but overall HN is a bit more serious than Reddit & friends. Humour will only get voted up if it's somewhat original/clever.
Garry Tan has a good take on it's draw. Ms paint on a cartoon website is the low-fi of today. "like owning vinyl records"
The RFCS are all in this format, and since this provides some continuity across the whole set, I'm all for continuing in this way.

Think about what would happen if they made them all spiffy pdfs and then some guy 20 years from now would try to read them.

ASCII is forever, and having a page header on every page is relatively cheap, and helps to keep the context of which document you're looking at clear, the header is never more than 1/2 a page away.

It's quite hard to make a scrolling window with a steady header on a piece of paper ;)
How recent? 4.0.4 crashed for me.
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The Firefox nightly (3.7a1pre) also crashed.
A closed source product built upon exploited open source code.

Can Pixelmator to do unto others?
Two Teeny Tiny Fonts
The Future of Kenai.com (it lives on java.net)
They reused the URL from their closing announcement (old discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095424 ) presumably to correct the "wrong impression" people might have got from the old text.

What are these people playing at?
Unpaid Techcrunch Reporter Sacked For Bribe Attempt
Access Google services over IPv6
If you're inclined to downvote this sentiment, at least have the testicles to comment why.
In Internet Era, an Unwilling Lord for New Age Followers
HN Argument: Main Reason Why Flash Will Remain The Preferred Online Video Tool 
Video bandwidth is expensive and unless the bills are covered there is no way of providing a quality service period...

Doc-film-Net is sticking with Flash.
Whoa, what happened to that site? It keeps loading and loading... Total page load time: 35 seconds.
I have high hopes for Duby becoming a viable alternative to javac! Since it uses the native typesystem and doesn't require a runtime, it is 'just' a Ruby-like syntax for writing code for the JVM.
err, HN has just cut out the entire content of the argument? what gives PG?
If you're in the UK, check out the ITC's mentoring scheme:

http://www.itcmentoring.com/ ( http://www.wcit.org.uk/ )

The quality of the mentors is really quite impressive, and we've got a lot out of the scheme.
The dark side of crowdsourcing?
You could try out webfaction.com;
It offers a control panel where you can add as much apps as you want (including Django, RoR, static PHP, Worpress, etc.). The only 'real' limitation you have is memory usage. I have about 15 different apps running on the smallest webfaction acocunt and it works great; comes cheap too and you don't have to update it because it's a virtual server but it is maintained by webfaction (not your version of RoR, but the system itself). If you take the cheapest package the price is between $5.50 and $9.50 a month depending on how long you want to use it.
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1 - You are being inflammatory and immature. You are welcome to raise your own opinions without questioning the testicular fortitude of everyone on this site.

2 - Pixelmator is reliant on ImageMagick, which is governed by the ImageMagick license. This license in no way prohibits commercial use of the library, and requires only attribution. By all accounts Pixelmator has respected this license.

3 - Not only has Pixelmator respected the letter of the license agreement, but it even widely advertises its use of open source components. How this is a bad thing for open source in general, only you seem to know.

4 - To pre-empt any Stallman-esque tirades about the evils of commercial exploitation of open source software... remember that no developers are in any way forced to allow others to commercial exploit their open source work. ImageMagick has done this out of their own accord, and it would be presumptuous to assume that people following their license are exploiting them in a way they did not intend. Furthermore, from what I can tell Pixelmator has added extremely substantial functionality to ImageMagick (a top-end GUI app instead of a command-line app, really?), and is deserving of whatever commercial success they may derive from this work.
Multitouch support was added with this week's update.
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The latest tech buzz which you are hearing now-a -days is the launch of I Pad by Apple. Only few minutes after it’s launch, the news went like a wildfire on the various social media sites.
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Ugh, I remember what they promised in Cairo. What was promised wasn't realistic; making it inappropriate to consider NT as having failed by not meeting expectations.
I've yet to find a download link for the first font "The Bee’s Knees".
Flash actually has one cookie & data store. It exists between browsers.

You can see your flash cookies at this website:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

You'll notice that they are the same no matter what browser you use.
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The article says: "At the time of writing, neither font is available for download".
You are right, but does the act qualify as bribe ?
In my opinion, it would be a bribe if the compensation was presented as a condition to write and publish the article. Otherwise it may be interpreted as a tip which is then not so obviously bad because it is a common practice.

The problem with tips, especially in the US, as far as I know, is that it is kind of perverted. It should be a free gift expressing gratitude and recognition, but it is often considered by the receiver as a due and even the amount is often codified and considered an implicit agreement. This is so strong that not giving a tip is socially considered bad.

In France and most European countries tips are thankfully not considered as a due and requesting a tip is even considered rude, especially if the amount is specified.

So what if the author (US) interpreted his compensation requests as a tip ? It could have been considered as normal from his perspective since it is so common.

The information that would help clarifying our mind on this is if the author has put the compensation as a condition to write the article or not. As long as we don't know this, making any judgment in one way or the other is just poor judgment, that's all I tried to explain in my previous answer. From this perspective the down vote is a bit disappointing.
Spherical cows help to dump metabolism law: 3/4-power law is actually 2/3
Or maybe he ended-up here by accident.
The original and best: http://minifonts.com/mini7.html

But not as small, of course.
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You need hawks and cats. Both are effective at squirrel management.
Yay, the "works on my machine" syndrome ... love it :-)
I did one of those in my Apple II days. Of course, the purpose was not to print it for future generations, but just to cram as much text as possible in as little pixels we had (a stock Apple II had 192 lines of 280 pixels)
I want all around a decent CMS, like joomla, or wordpress(which is more for blogging ofc).
so I was wondering if Djanga is any good? or Is it all just a hype?
I would love to see more Niagara chips. My experience with SPARC has been nothing but spectacular.
Although this approach creates an opportunity for much easier piracy of applications, too.
Nobody cares for Java in the same sense that Microsoft is dead.
Most/lots of people probably _aren't_ ok with Apple policies but accept it pragmatically because the device and the apps are that good. Now with alternatives at hand (Android/Palm Pre) and policies getting worse it's very understandable that there is a point people say: enough!
Still, for the longest time the main target demography of Mac users were designers who were primarily using Photoshop. Maybe Apple should present their Photoshop replacement asap.
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if ("Windows" == "controversial") views > more
Apple already invested a lot into Webkit. So it probably makes sense for them to push HTML5.
If you don't have the resources for fixing old known bugs, then you should remove backwards compatibility, especially since bugs are caused by buffers/stack overflows / segmentation faults ... which could lead to unauthorized code executed on your machine. How else do you think botnets are made?
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You missed the "post a poll to divert anyone from thinking I'd taking a 'marketing fee' and then push for the best possible rate knowing that people will consider the link to be all the more clean because of my bolstered reputation" option

;0)>

Edit: typo
Future designs on hospital beds
Professional designers will switch to whatever platform Photoshop runs in. For many of them, the reason they run mac in the first place is because it has better support for their design tools.
When someone is truly good they can really be creative in their methods.
It's good, but it's not a CMS.
How well, if at all, do these fonts scale upwards?
NOTE: I generally browse with ClickToFlash active in Safari. That of course prevented the crash (until I clicked).

With Safari 4.0.4 (ClickToFlash turned off) the browser was fine but the Flash plug-in died, and Safari informed me:

> Flash Player (Safari Intenet plug-in) quit unexpectedly.
> This report will be sent to Apple automatically.

PS: 10.6.2, FWIW
It should absolutely not be open-sourced. I know a few people in the car industry, and there is no doubt in my mind that in the long-term open-sourcing car software will make car-reliability worse.

1.Writing software for a car extensive domain knowledge about how a car works. Acquiring that knowledge is a lot more expensive than learning about computers.

2. It means writing better software helps your competitors. Cars are a red market, to get any market share you take it from someone else. Toyota is currently the market leader because they spend way more on engineering, and they work harder than the big three. I've talked to mech. engineers at Ford and Toyota, and there is no doubt in my mind that I'm safer in a defective Prius than I am in a defect-free Ford Taurus. Toyota does a better job than the big three at every step in the design and manufacture of a car.
i see the point in verifying apps that need security (banking mostly).

I don't understand how you're using "security" in this sentence.
There are however some good CMS's built on Django:

http://github.com/matthiask/feincms

http://www.django-cms.org/
> Or anything but just hand-hacking your own tokenizer.

I've only just got into parsing and I know for sure that there are more challenging problems, but for a dynamic language like Javascript there is a pretty major example of where this worked. JS Lint: http://www.jslint.com/fulljslint.js

1) Split source into lines

2) Run each line through a regex:
/^\s([(){}\[.,:;'"~\?\]#@]|==?=?|\/(\(jslint|members?|global)?|=|\/)?|\[\/=]?|\+[+=]?|-[\-=]?|%=?|&[&=]?|\|[|=]?|>>?>?=?|<([\/=!]|\!(\[|--)?|<=?)?|\^=?|\!=?=?|[a-zA-Z_$][a-zA-Z0-9_$]|[0-9]+([xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|\.[0-9]*)?([eE][+\-]?[0-9]+)?)/

3) Look at the resulting token character by character and define what kind of token it is.

Once it has these parsed tokens JS Lint then uses a Pratt Parser to check syntax and style, but you could easily use the same tokenizer and build a parse tree as part of a translator or compiler instead.
Yeah, but I built a CMS with it in 2 days.

Everything you need to get it up and running is already built-in (contrib.flatpages, contrib.comments, authentication, admin, I18N), and for more advanced functionalities ... FeinCMS, django-mptt, Pinax, and there are also already built CMSs available.

Personally I was blown away when I integrated django-mptt in my project, with a custom admin page from FeinCMS to edit a tree of links.

As a warning to newbies ... you have to be a programmer to use it. It's not a clicky-click experience as with Wordpress or Joomla. But it has a clear advantage ... for a developer it's extremely flexible (in contrast, customizing a Drupal website left me with scars :)).
Estimate the sphere to have a diameter of 50 cm. The volume is then (4/3) * pi * (25) ^ 3 = 65 450 cubic cm. One cubic cm of water weighs 1 gram. At one third full of water and clothes, the ball will weigh well over 20 kg - probably more like 30 kg if we include the weight of the plastic.

Yeah, let's see YOUR kids kick that around for fun, German designer wunderkinder...
cool off man! those people are just a couple of devs trying to make it.
Jonathan Ive was already employed by Apple before 1997. The Newton eMate, a sort of proto-netbook running the Newton OS, was designed by him.
Rugged software - security's response to agile programming?
the manifesto is cool. this is a great way to market writing secure code.
Not necessarily. Apparently, the justices are often toughest in argument with the side they are thinking of ruling for.
The TL;DR version of Google's IPO terms were "Investors can be our bitches and like it." They are not nearly as much under the gun as most public companies in this respect.
What part of that CV shows he is 'truly good'?
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Very cool, thanks for the pointer!

Extra stuff: when you click the "buy" link (in one of the last slides) it takes you to the book's page on Amazon. Now scroll down and check the Video reviews. You'll see a video of the writer interviewing her book, talk show style, with the stove in the background :)
Not at all of course, they're bitmap fonts that rely on subpixel rendering.
Temporal User Interfaces
Basically: This font is created such that it looks good when subpixel-rendered at a size of 3px. If you wanted text larger than 3px, you would not ever want to use this font, you would use something else that can either be regularly rendered at your chosen size, or subpixel-rendered at your chosen size.