skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does the constitution have anything to do with this? Why bring the Canadian Constitution into it? Finally, you have a misunderstanding of a right. It isn't something you need to be given via a law. A right is something you have despite laws. The US Constitution doesn't give you the explicit right to "think whatever you want," but you have it.

As for rights, he's referring the right of a developer to use whatever programming language he wishes to developer software on different systems. A closed system prevents a developer from exercising that right.

It's even worse when a system establishes itself with certain restrictions and freedoms, and then changes that later on. In fact, it's called Bait and Switch. Apple had certain rules and requirements, and certain people bought into that idea. Now they've changed that. You can argue with they are allowed to, but that doesn't diminish the criticism thrown at them. Just because they can do something doesn't mean they should do something. There are a million examples to demonstrate that.

For a long time, a lot of intelligent people were saying that Apple was inching closer and closer toward restricting rights of its users more and more. People disregarded us, and said "Hey, Apple can do this!" While they might be legally able to, this doesn't mean they should. They restrict the content. They restrict how you display that content. They restrict more and more. I have no pity for Apple supporters anymore. And when Apple restricts that thing you hold dear, you'll cry. Or you'll do what others have done: decide what you wanted was wrong, and you shouldn't have wanted it, and Apple was right.
Donald Knuth's 1963 PhD Thesis - Finite Semifields and Projective Planes [pdf]
Isn't he looping many times in this example. In an imperative language I would loop through the records once, find savings accounts, get balance and add to total - all in one loop.
Let me guess, you get it by spamming web sites like hacker news.
Shareholders used to try to improve a company - it was quite popular in the 70's and 80's. Ever watch the movie "Wall Street?

What happened since then is that legislators and courts have become hostile to corporate raids, and have mostly made it toothless. We would have plenty of shareholder activism if it wasn't for that.
Direct and Indirect Effects of TDD
Banning things like Flash to iPhone app compilers won't make apps like sound grenade, various boob jigglers, and background/ringtone collections suddenly go away.

There's already a process for eliminating poor quality applications for the iPhone. It's just not used to a good enough effect. Jobs said the iPhone has over 50,000 games -he left out that 45,950 of them suck. Mandating use of the official SDK won't change that.
The first chapter of this really reminds me of Alejandro Jodorowsky's and Mobius's The Incal graphic novels.
I think some of it comes from confounding a moral system (i.e. a system for evaluating the morality of an action) with a system which acts in a morally correct manner.
Knowing when to stop... [software design]
"Embeddability" is IronPython's great feature
Nice win for the plink guys... Google is clearly headed that way, good for both parties!
However long he worked there, he didn't bite the hand that was feeding him, but when the party was over he did turn around to bite the hand that fed him.

Being moral about the NDA does not weigh up against working there in the first place, and I don't know what $16 K means to a high profile Dubai consultant, it may have been substantially less than the severance pay he was entitled to anyway.
There aren't enough words to describe the happiness I'd feel if HTC bought Palm and made more WebOS phones.
Moonshine with a Keyboard
but trusting your bank AND mint with your credentials doubles that risk.
World Peace is a Marketing Problem
Maybe Adobe will buy them and give Flash a true mobile outlet (and maybe use some of those patents to work out a deal with Apple).
Isn't it intuitive that browsers, which for the most part are available for several different operating systems, is a separate market from the operating system itself? Seem like two different markets to me. Of course, on the iPhone there is so far no browser market, but that would be the exception, no?
I think both authors are right. It's not a right or wrong between these 2 companies. They are big companies doing what's in the best interest of each. At the same time, no matter how the saying goes, business is intensely personal. Steve Jobs didn't call Google's, "don't be evil" mantra bullshit for no reason. The man has done and seen a lot of things over the years, you build up a think armor during that time.

At one point Adobe and Apple were closely aligned. Adobe saw the writing on the wall and bailed on Apple. Jobs came on board introduced OSX and things were whisper quiet. I was there using 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2, it didn't get "good enough" until 10.2. Adobe didn't move most of their products to OS X until CS2, dropped SKUs for some items, and froze development on others <cough>Flash</cough>.

If Jobs learned anything it was never let another company direct your product development. Because Macs were used in creative design markets most users didn't see a need to upgrade from OS9. Photoshop wasn't on OSX, not was Flash, Illustrator etc.

I don't agree with jobs, but he is correct up to a point. He won't let Flash hinder the development of iPhoneOS. Developers are caught in the middle though. He could have singled out Adobe and let developers continue to use Mono, Unity, Titanium. But contracts are quite blunt instruments, define it to narrow and companies can walk around it; too loose and you get the current situation.

Anyway it's like investing in the US. Everyone will bitch about the terms but they'll continue shoveling money (or development time in this case) until there is no money to be made.
Also, in theory you ought to be able to use the Android NDK
to get the native C versions of Ruby and/or Python going.
It’d be a slog, but the idea doesn’t seem insane.

I'd be really interested to hear about anyone doing this. Seems like you pay a heavy price for dynamicity on Dalvik, because introspection is expensive.
He's saying that since Einstein wasn't a rich man, by the author's logic, he couldn't have contributed much to society.
Review of E.O. Wilson's New Novel
Come on. Apple has an effective monopoly on mobile mini-computers. They have essentially created their own category, as the iphone was such a game changer. I would not consider anything pre-android or windows mobile 7 competitors, and perhaps regulators would too.

Imagine the uproar that would have happened if Microsoft had said you can only write windows apps in assembly.

It's not about Adobe. Or titanium. Or unity. It's about abuse of a monopoly in a category they created with a business decision that only serves to extend their monopoly.

In my opinion that's exactly when a regulator should step in.
For Nuclear Reactors, Metals That Heal Themselves
That's encouraging, thanks.
He is still making it too complicated.

I use Notepad. I edit a file called todo.txt. I've been editing this same file for many years.
What the iPad means for the future of video games
I think these comparisons are a little off base. If i am not hungry at night, I normally skip the dinner. If I am on a lazy mood on a weekend, I skip my shower/shower in the evening. You don't have to question everything, but you shouldn't do anything that doesn't make sense to you. and that's barely the case in big business environment.
Yeah sure.... it is much harder and involves minimizing the number of relations across shard boundaries. Not easy. However, to call a system that only allows depth 1 traversals a 'graph database' is slightly pushing the definition. To me, its more a "key value database with relations between keys".

Everyone has different requirements though, if depth 1 and huge scale are what you need, flock db might be for you.
Flask: a micro web framework for Python
MI5 staff who lack computer skills made redundant
sounds like what I did at accenture
Along these same lines, Firefox users have reason to stay behind on upgrades. Speed is always a concern, but if an update breaks a critical extension (we all know how much we love extensions) then... might as well stay behind.
My week with an iPad
That probably vastly under-estimates the number (depending on whether you call babies "people"). The population in 8,000 BC might have been 5 million, but each of those was probably the one surviving sibling out of 6 or so.
regarding your last question and depending on your definition of "on par", my bet is currently on www.notionink.com.
Are storage admins getting automated out of their jobs?
Can you tell me Why?. How can you morally judge a person without knowing him?,If his story is true, he gave up a $200,000/Annum Job.
Fooled by Complexity
Engineers turn noise into hidden messages
I find your position to be tenable at best, what is and is not an addictive food additive? What recreational drugs are and are not good for the public health? All these are arbitrary decisions too.

I doubt you would suggest the US should get rid of the FDA. It is not such a jump to conclude that if drug companies must be watched for practices which damage consumers, why not a retail firm? The line America has drawn for regulation is just as arbitrary as the one European countries do, Europe is just a bit more suspicious of laissez-faire capitalism than America.

And I highly doubt they are baby sitting this app because of quality.
Thanks, will fix. It is actually a permission getting denied for the demo account (there is an error message being obscured by the progress dialog).

Note that it should work fine when you run as administrator.
Does your ERP system run your business?
Thanks !

I went to http://mozillalabs.com/bespin/ where you have a "Developer Resources" menu but it only links to the bespin client, not server.
Urban Decay
Please be careful. "Oh, come on" is patronizing. Did you mean it that way?

An "effective monopoly" is not measured by market share alone, it's measured by barriers to entry. Ok, there are 130,000 iPhone apps, and that's a draw for iPhone. But how many of those are de-facto standards people cannot do without? I would argue that none are. Consider the Office Suite. What app for iPhone is just like Office Suite, one you have to have and can't get on any other mobile device?

What blocks developers fromn developing for Android, Symbian, or what-have you? Nothing. Can I buy a "mobile computer" from another carrier? Sure. Doe smy carrier (Rogers/Fido) lock me into iPhone? No, they are happy to sell me a Blackberry.

There is no monopoly.
Is this the same group of guys who built an EEG headset that shocked the shit out of the user if they started thinking too hard? If so, that was only a few weeks ago, they're making some pretty quick progress.
Mr Yunus has got a point.. Recently read an article about SKS lending no longer only for make-a-living activities like buying a rickshaw but also for consumer products like gold and TVs.
Yes, there were many dead babies per living baby, but if each pair of parents only had one child, the population would halve each generation.

More likely, there were some families that had a higher survival rate and kept the death babies in check.
I think the main reason people mind so much that dirty tricks work on women (and forget that even simpler tricks work on men as well) is this idealization we culturally have of women as far-away difficult perfect prize-worthy things.

If you look at women as people you stop being surprised by these things (like that story I saw on reddit a few months ago about a research on "why women have sex"). I find it sad how sexist the whole pick-up scene is in this smug superiority they seem to teach people to approach the whole business.
It's really irritating when scientists "rediscover" what people have known for years. Yes of course psilocybin can give people intense, potentially life-changing experiences. Did you think we were making all that shit up?

And it's not even that there is now empirical evidence to make it "true." These guys aren't the first to do these sorts of experiments.
you need a mac & MacVim. Works great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

http://www.skepdic.com/forer.html
No multitasking for old iPhones
Hey this "friend of mine" subscribes to Playboy and in this months issue there's a pretty decent article on the use of MDMA, LCD etc. for people who are dieing and need "end of life treatment"
Please don't take this as knocking your hard work and I like your product, but I don't think another admin interface is not truly what the market needs.

PGAdmin does pretty well and the only significant feature that I see in your front end over PGAdmin (in my very limited exposure to your product), is that your product is web based. While a good feature, it is not the killer feature that knocks the competition dead. I can easily manage my off-site Postgres databases with PGAdmin.

To me where many of the tools that support the open databases are lacking, is in the analytic department. This is truly the hard stuff to do in the database world. adding features like telling me my longest running query, my most CPU intensive query or my most memory intensive query (etc. etc.) and providing a clean UI to display and refine (make recommendations) this information goes along way to helping developers and pay for themselves rapidly. These features sell themselves. Provide these in a good UI and I would definitely look at your product given that Postgres is my turn to DB any time I have a choice.
The growth from 1950 to 2002 is staggering
Fine. Back to the original discussion, I will be left guessing why languages like Lisp and Pascal were left out, even though they may be as efficient as C. Let's say, for example, because of the lack of iPhone-specific infrastructure (APIs etc). Supporting 5 rather than 3 languages would be too much, I guess, considering the 2 are not terribly popular.
Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model
Corrupted Callings: Finding your life's work vs. loving your life
You are wrong. Market position isn't a bad thing. Monopolies aren't illegal in the US. However, the actions you perform can be, and this is what MS did. It wasn't it's position, but how it used that position to stop competitors.
More than 3,000 people have paid their Mercedes-Benz lease through iPod, iPhone
Rather than linking to a paragraph on someone's blog, this ought to link directly to:

http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/

It looks like in addition to jemalloc serving FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mozilla, it is also used for Facebook servers:

Since 2009 I have adapted jemalloc to handle the extreme loads Facebook servers commonly operate under. Facebook uses jemalloc in many components that are integral to serving its website.
Not sure if I get your point here. My response to a flawed statement is flawed?
Actually, it's hard to be caught when nothing is public.
By the looks on the code this isn't really a graph database. It's more a graph database emulation built on top of a SQL database. For distribution it uses sharding so it isn't really distributed either, at least not like Cassandra or other distributed databases.

I think Redis would perform a lot better than SQL for graph like structures - since sets are a native datatype in Redis. And you can go A LONG way with just one Redis database (currently we are storing over 20 million keys in our Redis database and I know some that are storing 100 million keys on _one_ server). And with the new Redis VM coming up, I would guess that scalability of Redis is going to be even better.

Other than this, neo4j seems very interesting and would probably also have been a better choice than using a relational database.
Male Studies: Small step for men
I had the same problem as the author with my HP 1020 LaserJet, except it was using it with a Mac ;)

First I upgraded my AirPort Express and I lost the ability to print via WiFi.

Then I upgraded to Leopard/i386 and making the printer work was akin to voodoo — I had to go through some tedious process of first installing the PPC drivers, setup the printer, and then overwrite the drivers with i386 versions. This got weirder and weirder, and eventually I gave the printer away and bought a Canon.
What's the advantage over CherryPy? And furthermore why bother since there's Django that is not any more complicated than your homegrown framework?
Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between...
I honestly can't see how you think it's ok for apple to try and lock people into developing for the iphone. If that's what you really believe then please explain why you think that's ok, especially that in their segment they are by far and away the market leader.

The only devices comparable at the moment are android, and with a quick search iphone have slightly more than 80% of the market.

>An "effective monopoly" is not measured by market share alone, it's measured by barriers to entry.

One such barrier to entry is the lack of cross-platform applications. Another is Apples patent portfolio. Another is metcalfes law and how it relates to revenue of application developers, and their willingness to switch. Why would developers develop for symbian when they can make a killing on iphone applications (either writing for hire or selling)?

80% share, huge barriers to entry. Are you sure there isn't a monopoly?
How about the non-importance of material things? I guess that is sort of #1.
Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) was an executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990. He is most famous for founding Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November, 2004.
If my Japanese classes from high school serves me correctly, the translation of "bakadesuyo" means "idiot indeed" or its a forceful way of saying "idiot".
Before XML, you either had completely plain text-files, like INIs, or even JSON today. That's great for humanly editable files, but defining complex types in such files is a bit arbitrary, and there's room for lots of ambiguity. What are the valid fields and values?

On the other hand, binary file-types usually mapped to C structs. This results in files that are near impossible to read or write if you don't have access to those structs. It was also vulnerable to encoding issues like bit-order.

XML bridged those extremes. When using XSD etc. correctly it's possible (in theory) to validate locally if a given file will be read and understood by any and all other software implementing the same standard. It removes (in theory) the ambiguity of the plain-text formats, while still resulting in an output that's (in theory) immediately readable and editable by a human with no external references.

The promise of XML is to replace the big, proprietary binary files, not to be the end-all be-all of textually encoded data. Small, simple RESTful webservices has no need for XML. Big, complicated ones might not, but once you've coded up against an advanced WSDL API, and the generated stubs just worked, complete with types and pre-wire validation, it's not hard to see the value.
Fury over sky-high Adobe Creative Suite 5 international prices
Steve Jobs reportedly says no more support for iPhone 2G
Story 6 is about the worthlessness of wisdom (Prajñā) without compassion (Karuṇā).

In Mahayana Buddhism, both wisdom and compassion are necessary for the Bodhisattva path: wisdom brings enlightenment, but compassion keeps you "in the world" (either literally or figuratively) to help guide others toward enlightenment (thereby liberating them from suffering).

Perhaps because of its deemphasis of the supernatural, Zen in particular emphasizes that enlightenment without compassion is possible, but useless, and not a worthy or admirable pursuit.

Compassion is seen as necessary to temper enlightenment, to keep oneself from becoming a nihilist or enlightened navel-gazer.

(Zen/Chán has historical basis for being concerned about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_in_Buddhism#Hui-neng)

The woman in the story sees that the monk's wisdom has liberated him from suffering, but his lack of compassion means that no one else will benefit from it.

She's angry because she thought she was investing in the monk to the betterment of mankind, but instead she finds that her donations have only benefited the monk.
Hmm. So ... other developers might turn to old-school analytics packages, which install on their own LAMP / AWS / etc?

It's interesting to get all the data yourself, but it's a nightmare for client projects - suddenly you're manually responsible for supporting + maintaining all client projects ... forever.

(I made one last year, and I've only been using it for my own apps - it's very similar to Flurry - but I never liked losing the data to a 3rd party. Private - I didn't think anyone else would care enough to NOT use Flurry :))
Striking fear into the heart of a self-important consultant?

Priceless!
When a sales lead isn't a lead
U.S.: No ACTA Transparency Unless Other Countries Cave on Substance
MDMA was also (at its outset) used (in small doses) during relationship therapy and PTSD with great success. There's been little ongoing research since it was relegated to Schedule I, but there's been some at least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#Therapeutic_use
You should also visit this website which is in the same vein :
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/

"this Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song is represented in 1323 different programming languages and variations. For more detailed information refer to historic information."
It doesn't piss me off, because I think it has more to do with the quality of the platform, and I don't think Apple owes anyone a cross-platform dev environment.
XSS seems as good a definition as any - everyone's calling it lots of things, JSONP or AJAST or whatever - but setting up data feeds inside javascript function calls specifically to do ajax-Y stuff but getting around the cross-site security model built into xmlhttprequest.
There are lots of little cues like this. The car you drive, the cut of your suit, the watch you wear. It's funny because this is an industry that everyone is aware is awash with charlatans, so everyone is looking for clues that the person they're speaking to is credible. Which is something that can obviously be hacked. Having said that, it does basically work. A guy wearing a huge Rolex is probably faking it, for example, it's just too obvious.
"Innovate or die, bitches."

Adobe isn't perfect by any means, but their business decision to focus on one platform rather than another is no more selfish than any other software company I've seen.

Apple having a "quality control" platform that keeps their proprietary technology from being effected by other proprietary technology is all this is about.
This kind or argument is very common, you shouldn't make money of the back of poor people.

However I can't stand that - he who assumes that attitude essentially says "I know what a person whom I have never met and who has a life that is very different from mine wants better than he himselfs does". If you can make money of the poor such that they are in a better position (and that seemed to be the idea behind microlending in the first place) then all the more power to you.

And if you can't, well then it is your money to waste.