skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, my mistake. I meant registers, not buffers.

:help registers

As to your "I'm curious" question, I use both. Mostly arglist, and I resort to buffers when the arglist has gone squirrely (editing an additional file after starting with a number of files, e.g.).

For example, edit a small number of files (vi *).

:files will show you the list of files.

Repeating :n will take you through each file.

:e newfile to create a new file

:files will show you the list, with newfile at the end.

:rew to rewind the list

:n will get you to the last file on the original list, but not to newfile.

:bn will then get you to newfile.
The OA makes it sound like it is.
Is an 85mph limit significant?

On what U.S. roadway is it legal to travel any faster?

The fact that cars are starting to sell with built-in speed limits could lead to a mandatory limit for all cars. It's a bit of a paradox that manufacturers are permitted to build cars that go faster than the absolute maximum limit allowed on any roadway given the other areas of strict safety requirements in the industry.

When one considers the fact that car accidents lead to more deaths than homocide, it wouldn't be unreasonable to hear calls for all vehicles to be limited in top speed.
No RDBMS. No SQL. No joins. That's the main adjustment for me. But after you adjust to that, it's great.
This can only end well for them

It's hard for me to ever read a phrase like this in a sincere way.
I read the article more as "Things to consider if you don't want to run your really great technology into the ground". It shows how a community that has a great thing can sit on it's laurels and let the rest of the world pass them by.

It happened to Common Lisp. I personally think PLT Scheme rebooting itself as Racket is just the kind of break-with-the-past mentality more projects should embrace.
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If it does, it's because developers let it. If HTML5 is superior to Flash from a development standpoint, developers will still have the option of going that route with this. I believe that Google's announcement on this really only benefits end users: either way a developer goes, they're going to get a better result.
Are you ready to process 15 petabytes of data that LHC is expected to produce annually?

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Computing-en.html
Cold startup sucks - it's horrendous for Java and just bad for Python.

If you have a popular app, this isn't an issue. If you don't, it hurts.
Most stock usage isn't sunsets - how many sunset photos do you need?
It's smiling attractive people sitting at desks, or smiling in front of power poles wearing hard hats.

There is still a business of stock photos for people that want it. You just have to know what the market wants - and it isn't another misty dawn view of the Golden Gate.
I agree with that, but also offer another option, local artists. In every good sized city, there will be an arts community. And within that community, there are events, art fairs, local shops showing art, galleries, etc. In Minneapolis, there is the North East arts district, http://www.northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.com/. Also check out local colleges. Most should have an art department that have a end of year student sale. There can be some great finds in those.

I have nothing against Deviant Art or Etsy or SupermarketHQ or any other site to buy great art for the artists, but don't discount the local artists.
I thought NoSQL was a selling point these days?
Reconstructing The Smashed Watch
Is it a feature or product?
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I agree campaignMonitor has some great analytics / at the link below you can view a good screen shot of the analytics page..

http://imgur.com/uq9zn
The tort is "breach of fiduciary duty", and again, I'll ask you, do you know of ANY cases where a corporate officer has been found guilty of this tort when they took an action that was in the interest of humanity?

It is my understanding that breach of fiduciary duty is very difficult to prove and it is usually included along with several other claims (breach of contract, fraud, negligence, etc) when there is already wrongdoing.

This is why you don't see successful prosecutions when an officer donates company money to charity, for example.
At a language design level, what in Javascript do you prefer to Lua? I know Javascript has more familiarity (no doubt due to this "web" thing I keep hearing so much about), but Lua seems to me like a far cleaner iteration of the same kind of language. Circumstance froze Javascript's design before it could have some major issues worked out, while Lua was able to develop more organically. They have a lot in common, though, particularly what Crockford calls JS's "good parts".
I've used more than few languages professionally or academically (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scheme) and it still seems to me that most languages are still trying to catch up. This isn't to say I don't enjoy these languages.

But to say that things have moved past Lisp, that's laughable really. I mean, I don't even have garbage collection on my iPhone (and I really dig Objective-C).
I think the best example of just how fast evoltion can be is the domesticated silver fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrLSfxTqZ0&feature=relat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxFKKf5B2BE
Were they a part of W10 or will they be part of S10?
Tell HN: the Milky Way has 16 smaller galaxies orbiting it
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Yeah, despite the protestations, I think in a lot of relevant ways the amateur stuff is up to par these days. There is plenty of professional photography that really is unlikely to be replicated by amateurs, but from a market perspective, the photographers' biggest problem is that they don't have a monopoly on the profitable mid-range stuff anymore. It used to be that to have even a decent looking shot of like, a computer on a desk, you needed to pay a professional. Amateurs owned the "shitty snapshot" market, and professionals owned everything above that. But these days there are 100 decent shots of computers on desks on the internet, and professionals only really still own the high-end market, which is much smaller.
Perhaps, but the question I was responding to was about "pain points". All I was saying is if you're coming from an RDBMS background, as I am, then there are growing pains in adjusting to using BigTable. If you don't have the time or patience to make the adjustment, then this will be a pain point. Otherwise, perhaps it's a selling point.
Thanks. I've read about that experiment before, and I thought it was fascinating. But I had never actually seen the domesticated foxes, and I hadn't realize how freaking adorable they'd be.
Tell HN: I'm making a FAQ app. I want Your input. 
Does your site use FAQ? I'm looking for early adopters and I think HN is the place to find some.

If you have these issues, I could help you.
- You get a lot of emails from customers.
- A large portion of the questions has already been answered(over and over again).
- Your site's FAQ page is a basic jot of questions.
- You have trouble making managing the FAQ page.

Sound like you? Send me an email(hajrice@gmail.com), I wanna get your input on my solution(I'm really not looking to upsell you something).
"So, keep calling for online APIs. But ask for downloadable datasets too."

It is not a case of one or the other. APIs are useful, but so are datasets. Why not provide both?
I get a huge amount of satisfaction making things that serve functional needs. It's an object I can point to and say "I built that." Even better is when an individual can't determine the make, and enquires about how much I spent/where it was made.

My first decently large, and thus far only major, piece of furniture is a cat treehouse my girlfriend and I built for my cat. I was disgusted by the price and the poor construction quality of the pieces sold in pet stores, and I didn't want to pay shipping for something better.

So, I looked at the design, figured out what I would need and went at it. It took about a day using the university shop, and I was thrilled to bring it home and watch my cat jump on, claw at, and sleep on it.
Wait, no Heroku? It should definitely be listed in the Price-Scalable Hosting section. Like AppEngine it's also free starting out, and super easy to scale. Plus it's all rails, so you don't even have to learn any App Engine API.
ask your questions either live or at foundersmix.com (tag it jason-fried) mixergy.com/live
Ah, but the nice thing about an electric car is that getting stuck in traffic doesn't hurt the mileage. In fact, I would not be surprised if it gets better mileage in stop-and-go than going 70. Especially since the 100 mile range they are advertising is based off of a test designed to simulate driving around downtown LA during rush hour (I'm assuming if it got better mileage on the freeway they would be advertising it's freeway range).
let me know if you have any questions about the funding. happy to lend advice to this community if i can.
One thing to remember is that with an electric vehicle there's no such thing as 'idling'. If you're stationary in a traffic jam the car isn't going to be using much juice (stereo, etc only) so that really shouldn't affect the range...
That's a good point. As someone who does most of my shopping online I sometimes forget about the ability to purchase from local artists. In the past I have found a lot of local artists to be to expensive. Perhaps I should check out student sales like you suggest.
Can't you have a standard for reddit ads? I would like to support reddit and view ads, but I feel you broke your covenant with users when you allowed flash-based blinky and moving ads, so now unfortunately your site is adblocked.
A funnel gives me precisely the opposite connotations as filtering.
Stuck in traffic isn't really an issue for an electric -- there's no idle cost (apart from environmentals and, of course, the head-splitting and door-rattling stereo). And how many times have you had an immediate need to drive 200 miles out of your way so quickly you couldn't rent?

[EDIT-ADDED] And the sockets are there already in a lot of places (think Michigan, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, most of Canada) it's just a matter of not turning off the switch at the end of February.
Are there really that many angel investors that fall within the 1M to 2.3M net worth range? My initial gut reaction is that this seems to be a bit of an overblown issue. In the bay area at least, virtually anyone with a home on the peninsula probably has a net-worth of around 1M. If the average angel investment is around 100K (not scientific, just a hunch), someone with a net worth of 1M would be investing 10% of their net worth in a really risky investment venture... I would think, therefore, that most angel investors have a significantly higher net-worth in that case.
Phone Halo launches automated loss prevention system
Here is a longer list specifically for web publishers: http://publisherapps.org
With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content.

Sounds like the initial release wont be sandboxed, but later versions will...
Don't even really have to read, it is a bullet point

"With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content."
It takes five seconds to upload the pdf to Lulu yourself and you can take advantage of their discount when buying a book that you yourself produced.
The founder of MO was on the SO podcast last week ( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-86/ ), and they didn't seem to have any problem with it. They're pretty easy-going. That said, SO is trying to get VC funding, and their investors may not be so charitable.
Cold startup is almost unnoticeable for Python apps (bite my lip! see update below). On the Java side it can be an issue but, as with most things, if you dig around, you can find some acceptable workarounds.
Just so you know you can still remove flash from chrome if you want to, even though its "integrated". Just go to about:plugins and disable flash or any other plugins.
Well, you could have found another niche/problem to solve with a new website.
Then find a niche which doesn't interest the guy at other end and grow from there.
re: Jim or Lua - Another possible option would be Io (http://www.iolanguage.com/).
VanyerMedia invests in Venmo
Anyone who's seen a new york city rat ascend from and descend into the cracks between the tracks at just the right time to avoid being squished can attest to this as well.
It can take a lot of digging to find good local art that isn't expensive, but it is out there. Generally, if you hit big art fairs, you have a better chance.

My wife is a photographer/artist so I have become very familiar with the local art scene in Minneapolis and have gotten my hands on some great art. Some pricey, some very cheap.
March 2010: seven more new Cisco vulnerabilities
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Here's hoping the new API allows muting audio in background tabs/windows.

Edit: It does! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PepperAudioAPI
Great article.
Unfortunately most of the real discussion will be lost in a flood of worthless HTML5 x Flash war discussions by overexcited zealots, but this is great news both for developers and users alike: not because of Flash integration itself (although it's good to have a plugin always updated), but because of the new browser plugin api being proposed. This is something that has been long overdue, and something that will benefit users as a whole in allowing a more tight control of what a plugin does, and how. Think of all the interface integration problems we currently have with plugins (any plugin), from performance problems (when a plugin can't have control over what kind of resources it actually has allocated), to input problems (should/can the plugin trap shortcuts and special keys, or the scroll bar?), to device control (who controls the volume of the sound used by the plugin?). Hopefully, these will all soon be a problem of the past, as Chrome (and others) adopt the new plugin API, and we can all move on to a more well-integrated web experience.
Good story, absolutely horrible generalization.

"Shitty sticks" are usually a result of disadvantageous power dynamics, often set in place by the mistakes of previous generations, and therefore not so easily flippable, given the massive number of people who benefit from keeping them in position.

Take, for example, the relationship between VCs and entrepreneurs. VCs make entrepreneurs pay legal expenses, often ask for outrageous terms and returns (participating preferred, multiple liquidation preferences), and tend to demand such a degree of power as to ruin the company. That's, without debate, a shitty stick. The simplistic solution, "become a VC", doesn't make any sense. 1. Most entrepreneurs don't want to be VCs, and 2. most of them can't join that club.
Data mining big graphs - an evaluation of the state-of-the-art
I my experience, Tcl\Tk is the easiest way to make a small executable app with GUI.

You can execute the script in most Linux/Unix platforms and make an .EXE for windows with no effort at all.
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It's not just the language, it's the ecosystem and community around it.
Even if the overwhelming majority of potential angels were worth more than the new base threshold, the 120-day SEC review period remains deal-breaker enough.
It's a rather humble chapel, considering. Particularly if you see it immediately after seeing St. Peter's Bascilica, which is mind-blowing.

But that's part of what's amazing about it. It's not a large chapel, but then you look up and see one of the most iconic images in Western civilization.
Crowdsourcing the Filter
My understanding is that the $1M requirement was signed into law by Reagan in the early 80s.

$2.3M is that amount adjusted for inflation.

You can make a case that the $1M limit was too low (at the time Reagan signed the bill), but imo it doesn't make sense to argue that - in general - any limit should not be adjusted for inflation
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Just wanted to put up another vote for name.com. They're quite good.
I think this article does a good job sparking discussion. I.e. What do you guys do to balance working on your product verses talking to customers? How do you manage customer service in small teams?
Will This Startup Event Suck?  A Servicey Guide.
How focusing within a niche can have huge results
Extremely impressive. It took me a few minutes to catch on to the fact that everything was flat, and all of the intricate woodwork I saw around the windows and awnings was, in fact, painted.

Further in the Vatican tour, after the chapel, there's a room which has its ceiling similarly painted to look like woodwork. There is no illusion; you see it immediately for what it is. It helped to demonstrate to me how good Michelangelo was.
I wonder why you're running a clean site like vimcasts.org on a full-blown CMS. Imho this scenario longs for simpler solutions. Static site generators - in the Ruby universe: toto, nanoc, webby - come to mind.
"So for the cost of a one-bit flag per string you can assume two bytes per character in your string operations for the overwhelmingly general case."

Thank you for that clear and concise explanation of the dangers of using UTF-16.

Yes, I know that wasn't your intention, but it was the end result. One of the most dangerous library failures you can have is a function that works 99.99% of the time. Or in this case, 100% of the time on the input the English-speaking developer provides but distinctly less than 100% in the field.

In this specific case, you can't actually optimize anything because all your optimizations are bugs. You can't just divide by two for character count; that's not an optimization, it's a bug. You can't just multiply by two for a substring operation, because you might chop a character in half, that's a bug. And so on. You'd need a separate type that indicates you've scanned the string to verify it never has split chars and now you might as well be on UCS-2, and that has its own dangers w.r.t. working 99.99% of the time.

Much better to use UTF-8, where the dangers are much more apparent, all you have to do is leave the base ASCII case and you're testing UTF-8. Even I, an English-speaking developer, manage to test that case (once I know it exists, anyhow). There's still ways you can screw up but you're off to a much better start.
If that were the case, why is Wall Street lobbying against the Financial reform bill ?

Most expectations are that Wall street will spend tens of millions of dollars against the bill
I can't seem to get to the site at work, but someone posted the missing images (from the On Lisp book) a while ago ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079973
There's no lock-in on the Java side. Change a few lines in
jdconfig.xml, add the datanucleus-rdbms jar file, add a JDBC driver jar file and you're app will run on Tomcat or Jetty with MySQL or any database with a JDBC driver.
I think the geohot hack is just a red herring given that the PS3 Slim was released months before this hack happened and that it had no provision for Other OS installs. It is still terrible that this happening though.
It's ironic that the first thing I did was bookmark this page on delicious because I couldn't read it all right away. As I'm finishing it up later on I notice he's a big fan of delicious.
A lot of the local artists are a bit insane with how much they're trying to charge for their prints. I've seen moderately interesting prints that cost >$500 and are from people who do photography as a hobby.

I'm not saying artists shouldn't be paid, but when I cannot tell the difference between a $20 print from Target or a $500 print by some unknown artists that I bought off the wall of a coffee shop, I'm probably going to either just go for $20 thing, or spend $50 and print some of my friends' photos.
Ah, I see. I highly recommend reading the document in full. You may find, as I did, that Wikileaks' description of the contents was inaccurate.
Right. From what I have seen, the majority of Java code out there is broken in exactly that way.
HTML5 is not superior to Flash from a development standpoint. Flash comes with a nice, integrated IDE that allows quick production of visuals and scripting. I think it'd be hard to make an argument that HTML5 development is equally assisted for most use cases.

The real question is whether developers hate Adobe/Flash/proprietary standards enough to keep promoting HTML5. I think they do for now, but unless someone comes out with a Flash-esque development environment soon, the fervor will eventually die out and people will settle for the path of least resistance, which is Flash.
Thing is, < 200 million US$ frauds aren't systemic risks. Yeah, we need to police them, but they don't threaten the system. Madoff's only did because he was such a "pillar of the community" (of Wall Street).
I can imagine it's much more satisfying enjoying, or watching someone or something, enjoy something you've made than something you've bought.

I'm curious how your venture beyond a cat treehouse goes. Would love to hear/see more about your experience making your own furniture.
Who's saying it's not bad for many if not most companies?
Horseshit.

> Merrill Lynch forex trading algorithms crawl the internet looking for every possible source of exchange rate data

No. What happened is someone wrote an Excel VBA macro that hits your API. This happens all the time.
"Still"? Flash is not sandboxed today.
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No - I've seen 'Hello World' style apps take over 4s to cold startup. For example http://timezonetimezone.appspot.com/iscorrect?query=EST

Took 4.67s to render http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100306_5PZ7/1/details/

I monitored cold startup for a month on one of my apps and some times see 10s cold startup. http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100309_5TDW/

This is after profiling, reducing imports, caching, using app appstats, etc.
The 30 second per page limit can be a pain too. If you need to manipulate (i.e. validate, import, export, etc.) more than a few hundred persistent objects, you'll need to write your code to do it in chunks.
Went and checked out selenium based on your recommendation. Gotta say its REALLY nice. Thanks for the link!
The fact that you're even considering that sort of hack probably means that you should be more strongly considering looking elsewhere.
I don’t disagree with what he says here but there comes a point where you just have to ask yourself whether it’s worth arguing with certain people. He quotes a hypothetical critic of his theory as asking “Why should human wellbeing matter to us?” and I’m sorry but if you don’t understand that you’re just a fool. You’re someone who literally can’t see the forest for the trees.

Yes science studies nature and nature is indifferent to human suffering but humanity created science because we are not indifferent to human suffering. Our whole goal is to counter nature’s indifference by finding ways to improve human wellbeing. That’s the whole damn point. If you’re a scientist and you don’t get that most basic point than I’m not sure there’s any point in trying to argue with you.
There are much more typographically useful symbols. I made a Google spreadsheet to keep track of the ones I use:

‘ ’ “ ” — … • ½ ™ Ⅳ and lots of other ones that are much less useful.
Actually, the real problem is mixing Windows-1252 and UTF-8, while working with tools that assume your Windows-1252 is really ISO-8859-1. ASCII, after all, is just a subset of UTF-8, so there's no handling required for it if you're already assuming UTF-8.
TrackPoint is the one reason I'm really reluctant to get a netbook. I'll just stick with my X41 (or maybe get a used X60 or X61) until they get a netbook with TrackPoint.