skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the comments, the original author of the Haskell code (Richard Smith) pops up and offers a terrifying 'golfed' one-liner version ...
If the ipad could make (regular voice calls, no need to point out the voip possibilities) voice calls and take voice calls from the network in the 3G version it would be a lot more useful as a device.
"Google has blocked some tablet makers from installing the marketplace app on many devices larger than a mobile phone."

Why?
I don't really understand why I would want to use this. Why wouldn't I just use SQLite3, if that's what's powering the SQL searches? (maybe with a pretty layer on top for external access.)

The KV/document stores that have been coming out are trying to address shortcomings, perceived or real, with RDBMSs. I think some explanation of the trade-offs which each part of the "mullet" make and how they would be obviated by this system would be helpful. Right now there are a ton of KV/Document stores as well as SQL databases, and I don't know how this is going to be different or why I should pay attention to this project.
Agree. If she doesn't use HP products, why does she care what they charge? That Excel-generated graph is terrible too.

Like others, I bought a cheap wireless Brother B&W laser for around $125 over a year ago and I'm still on the included freebie toner. Got a replacement as I thought it was getting low but the tape-over-the-hole trick has made it last months longer. I love being able to print from any laptop around the house.
Probably I'm not smart enough, but I cannot find the license this was released under. So what I am NOT supposed to do with the code?
This is the main reason I think we need distributions (in the Debian sense) of gems. It needs to be ok for the gem authors to go ahead and break compatibility if they need to. App maintainers also need to know that they are safe unless they choose to opt in to breaking changes. A distribution would act as the go-between.

If you've got sane library management processes, you're pretty much safe, but that's a huge amount of wasted effort - everybody has to figure it out for themselves. Right now, it's downright dangerous relying on upstream gems directly unless you know exactly what you're doing, and a distribution layer would let everyone share a common knowledge about which gem versions go well together.

It would also give a handy insertion point for backporting security fixes, which currently doesn't happen very often.
So... does this mean that the MulletDB slogan will be "business on the frontend, party on the backend?"
About your first scentence ~ I think so too.

Absolutely no offense taken. This is "let's get out" iteration (public release was this weekend). I believe we will produce reasons with future iterations :)
I've never found that argument very convincing. I just sat here and ran the following two commands a bunch of times:

time wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.google.com/

time wget -q -O /dev/null https://www.google.com/

There is no obvious difference in time taken to serve those requests.

Obviously there is an overhead, but to me it seems insignificantly small in comparison to the overall request.

I bet 99% of websites out there could convert to SSL, and then pull back the performance lost by just doing a little site optimisation.
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Yeah but the sale date was several months back, wasn't it?
No in this version not. But it is coming since a noticeable part of beta testers already need it.
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What, seriously?!
1700n. It was new, not refurbished, and came with a toner.
If there is no license attached, then standard US copyright applies to it. In short: all rights are reserved to the original author (Google Inc.) and you're not allowed to reproduce the text anywhere.

Of course, then you get into Fair Use and private use, and a million other legal conundrums. But, yeah, not open source.
Objects are experts
Grellas posted this yesterday too. Weird, google still shows it but on grellas' submission list it's gone.
big fan of e text editor. I have been desperately trying to compile the new source code releases for ubuntu but not too successful. (Not to familiar with linux programming/building).
It works on wine though.
Tell HN: Senator Dodd Has Mostly Listened Concerning Regulation D
Recent (sometimes spirited) threads on HN have highlighted the potential risks to angel investing from provisions in the Senate Banking Bill that would have (at least as interpreted in a worst case by the Angel Capital Association):

(1) altered the definition of "accredited investor" by increasing the thresholds for an individual from $1 million in net worth or $200K in annual income to about $2.3 million in net worth (excluding value of principal residence) or $450K in annual income; and

(2) subjected many Regulation D to filings to SEC review during a mandated 120-day wait period and also opened up such filings to all sorts of new state regulation by removing federal preemption in this area of private placements.

These provisions posed a potentially serious risk to startup funding. ACA, for example, estimated that the "accredited investor" changes would cut the number of qualified angel investors by an estimated 77%. Many in the startup community wrote to Senator Dodd and others strongly urging them to fix these provisions.

It appears that Senator Dodd has mostly listened. Last week, he joined with Republican Senator Kit Bond to offer a bipartisan amendment to the banking bill that represented a significant compromise on the Regulation D issues.

The Bond/Dodd amendment does the following: (1) leaves the definition of "accredited investor" basically unchanged until at least 2014, though the $1 million net worth threshold must now be calculated without including the value of an investor's principal residence; and (2) deletes the 120-wait period and blocks increased state meddling with Regulation D offerings.

This news is HUGE for startups. The result is not perfect but, compared to what might have been, this is a significant reprieve for Regulation D that will allow funding deals in the startup world to continue largely unabated and that defeats the deal-killing rules that otherwise might have passed in this bill.

I had been looking for a simple reference point on the web where this had been cleanly reported but was unable to find it - hence this post.

At this point, the Senate version of the banking bill is as noted above while the House version makes no changes whatever to Regulation D. The good news, then, is that this bill should pass either in the form summarized above or with no changes at all to Regulation D should the above Senate provisions be dropped altogether in conference.

I will link to some of the partial reports of this in a comment.
I would hope it would be the other way around :)
Well, it's more curious that Google has prioritized this result over the actual site.
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This is similar to how I usually solve problems: I start writing a group post or email and by the time I've provided enough information and explanation, I've arrived at an answer.
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I'm interested. Any time after July 4. I understand that Buca di Beppo at Station Square has a banquet room for groups of 15 or more. Also Del's in Bloomfield. We'd have to do a little more planning than usual - a reservation and a guaranteed count, but we should be able to do that. Maybe even bring our laptops and stay for a while.

http://www.bucadibeppo.com/banquets/
If your product changes from a tool to an avenue for consumption, the users who gave it life will leave for another. This has happened so many times, you would think it would be written down in a playbook or engraved on plaques at businesses.
Kudos on the move. How's skribit doing btw?
Agreed, but it seems unlikely that Google will actually care. Namco might, though.
Any group meeting in the bay area between the 5th and the 10th? I'm going to be there and I'll love to meet as many people as possible
Also check out this video about the situation in Japan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C_roXUPYbs

But the thing is certainly happening in other countries too, like the recent situation in France where in a couple of months there were 24 high skilled workers from the same telephone company committing suicide.
Close. It says "SQL For Business, NoSQL For Partay" right on the front page.
Heh, replace Mexico with Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil... we're all fanatics "down here" (South America)

Offtopic: the Mexico-Uruguay match will be fun :) (yes, Uruguayan here)
Thanks. I'm the author and started developing this in April of 2002. I like Sleep, even now that I know more about languages and I know its warts, I still like it. Every language has warts. They're almost like a person, they grow up, they have experiences, and these experiences shape what they look like as an adult.

Sleep started its practical life as an embeddable language for an IRC client. My goal was an LGPL library that others could easily add new constructs to make the language feel like a first-class integration with the application. If you ever used mIRC, I was going for that type of integration and reaching that level of developer (very novice). I was inspired by other scripting languages I'd used, especially Perl. http://jircii.dashnine.org/

I continued to develop the project and took it with me when I was a researcher. I did a lot of fun stuff after I added serializable continuations to the language. I demonstrated some neat dependable and self-organizing distributed systems and also developed some pretty cool simulations all built on Sleep.

After I left my scientist life, I started work on After the Deadline and Feedback Army. Feedback Army is just a web application. It's built-in Sleep too. After the Deadline is the software service grammar checker used on WordPress.com and available in other places, guess what it's built-in? http://open.afterthedeadline.com
If your first tip consists of a technique that has no effect on IE<8 (as it doesn't support the inherit value) and don't mention it, then the article is worth nothing.

Looking at the rest of the 'advice', I'd say that's a reasonable conclusion. Skip this article.
SSL is not the only way that by which google hides referer from google. For sometime I was seeing urls like http://www.google.com/#q=searchterm
Even this will hide queryTerm from websites.
The way I read the article it sounded like he was downplaying the usefulness of even healthy amount of testing i.e. writing tests along with the code your writing.

Certainly, all his arguments downplay TDD in general
I wrote a response to this on my blog

http://www.scottschulthess.com/coding/?p=143

Basically, there are other benefits to TDD than just preventing regression.

Documentation and ease of debugging while your writing code being the biggest ones.

In a non-compiled language it can serve to verify that your at least runs without gross failure a little like the compiler does.
Well I first thought it was dummy, old or expired. No body would paste it in public! But it is terrifying that the numbers validate.
I remember seeing the announcement, checked the apple site and it was completely up and running with all the relevant info there, it was a product.

Dell announces this thing and their website doesn't even mention the device. It's such a total waste of good press.
That was me.

I was referring to Open Coffee on wednesday mornings. They are usually in the iGluu (Jansdam) or around the corner in the Brandmeesters.
http://opencoffeeutrecht.nl/

There was also this:
http://bluwiki.com/go/Hackersnl

I couldn't make it that day and never heard if it was interesting, if people did show up etc.
One would hope this will cause banks and the like to rethink disabling having the browser's password manager enter your password. On sites where the browser normally automatically fills in my password i'd immediately be suspicious if i got a screen without my credentials already filled in. My banks, however, always require me to fill in the fields so i wouldn't be any the wise.

My bet though is they won't become so wise and will instead just rely on displaying my private image and phrase on the login screen.
emacs (including xemacs), Visual Studio if I'm doing C#, vi now and then.
Why not point out the VoIP possibilities? I believe Apple/AT&T changed their terms and conditions and now permit VoIP over 3G.

These days even your land line calls are often converted to VoIP the moment they reach the local POP. (E.g. BT's C21 packet switched network.)

Give it another couple of years and it'll be all-IP all the way to the handset. The telcos will do it because it'll cut the cost of the equipment required in the cell towers and local equipment rooms. IP switches are going to be needed anyway, and it's cheaper to have one kind of router than two.

Latency and jitter will need to be improved but that'll happen eventually.
Google has the best reputation of any company in the world - report
If they're test data it's awfully realistic.

http://pastebin.com/search?cx=013305635491195529773%3At-lahn...

Same shit on pastebin.

I think you've caught a bit of the underground market here using these sites as dead drops.

Once, about a year ago files.ww.com was abused in the same way for all kinds of trash. It took quite a bit to get rid of it too, those guys are pretty persistent.
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No need for apologies, I find this kind of stuff fascinating.

"In 1906, Fred Marriott drove a steam powered vehicle built by the Stanley Brothers to an amazing speed of 127.659 MPH."

http://www.steamcar.co.uk/lsr_history.html

I think this is amazing considering the time it happened.

Henry Ford himself experimented with corn oil and ethanol as a fuel source for his vehicles in 1942:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Interest_in_material...

It's amazing that cars evolved to run on refined oil at all! I know I've gone completely off topic here ;-D
Here are some relevant links about this across the web touching on the effects of the Bond/Dodd amendments:

http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/resources/public-poli... (statement by Angel Capital Association with links to primary sources)

http://dodd.senate.gov/?q=node/5629 (statement from Senator Dodd's website)

http://www.reit.com/PolicyPolitics/FederalNonTaxLegislation/... (with links to primary sources)

http://www.thecorporatecounsel.net/Blog/2010/05/prohibited-u... (with discussion of certain remaining problems with the amendment language)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395790457525... (WSJ editorial entitled "Angels (Back) in America" - behind paywall)

http://martendale.com/government/article_Adams-Reese-LLP_101... (excellent technical discussion on where this stood a short while ago just as the amendments were being introduced)

http://www.pehub.com/71242/up-the-bracket-dodds-discriminato... (a strongly expressed negative view of the compromise, arguing that excluding value of principal residence is harmful and emphasizing that the accredited investor rules should be liberalized so that more and more people can invest - strongest point: the same people who block small investors from investing in startups also strongly push state lottery systems that do far more harm to small "investors" than startup investing would ever do)
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I've moved around a lot, but bigger distances (Asia, a lot within Europe Europe, Africa), and one thing I've noticed is that the more you move, the more you abstract away the particular details of the place and focus on a start of bigger picture.

For example, if I move now, I'd focus on food (supermarkets, restaurants) and transport, and once I have understood, I'd be basically comfortable already, and I'd just let the gaps like neighbourhood and so on fill themselves out automatically.

It's a bit sad in a way - that sense of seeing something new and unexpected is now lost to me. All my recent travels are just a variation on something I've seen before, even if to supposedly exotic places.
I found one or two to not be so bad:

> Elements can take more than one class

This is pretty worthless for anyone who has ever looked at CSS. What's less obvious (and the article doesn't mention) is that you can select elements with more than one class using .classA.classB

> Relative and absolute addressing represent powerful magic

This is really, really important. But the article doesn't explain it well at all. Read this if you're interested: http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/posit...
It's a little sad watching people who live in the Perl echo chamber convince themselves that Perl use hasn't declined in the last years.
Scribd is talking about its HTML 5 move right now
I always imagined that this would work by doubling up the hardware, requiring two logic units to agree, if they didn't then computation work would be redone, much like a branch prediction failing.

This would obviously not help power consumption at all, but freqeuncy could probably be scaled up quite a bit.

It also assumes that if an error happens it's unlikely to repeat in the same way in the second logic unit. But that may not be a reasonable assumption.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

If the majority of your article is spent saying "no, really! We're still relevant, I promise!" then you should take a step back and decide if the group you spend all your time with is bias'ing your views.
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"We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible."

The terror of being caught screwing up destroys more creativity, drives more behaviour underground and fuels more petty politicking than just about any other corporate imperative I can think of.
Could this be the start of Google getting into casual online gaming? Take on facebook?
Finally, a CSS submission to Hacker News that has modern, and more importantly good practise suggestions. More of these please!
This article showed up online the same day the magazine arrived in my mailbox.

So I read it online, since I was busy at the computer doing other things.

So, Wired, why exactly do I need the print version if you're putting everything online at the same time? What do you tell your advertising clients?
After sending an email on Sunday evening it was fixed for me within 24 hrs.
Too bad their developer site will most likely spend more time convincing me about their "solutions" than showing me what it means in code.

If MasterCard wants me to commit to their platform, give me a Rails plugin (and SDK/plugins for other popular platforms/languages) and show me sample code. Show me how simple it is. I think this is generally applicable to a lot of APIs offered by established companies.

In terms of payment APIs active_merchant is the gold standard: http://www.activemerchant.org/. It took me about 20 seconds to be fully convinced that it was what I wanted to use.
I want to quit my job to go for MS this fall, but there is a service agreement binding (2 years) that makes me work for them until Jan 2011, otherwise I need to pay a huge compensation for the bond breakage.

curious to know, is it only in India that I see such binding agreements, or are they prevalent worldwide?

UPDATE:

they reason because we invested money to train you, we expect you to serve us for 1 year after the training.

after a generic training, you need to get trained in any specific technology (which you don't get to choose). I was forced into mainframe; I have a web app development background from college, and due to lack of interest in mainframe and eventually realizing how tantalizing it could be to do something you don't want to do, I decided to apply for MS, and got decent admissions, and now I am not able to go.
> What's less obvious (and the article doesn't mention) is that you can select elements with more than one class using .classA.classB

...Except in IE6. It's great otherwise.

Relative and absolute positioning (and floats and display values) are the hardest parts of CSS. I wrote a three part explanation about it two years ago that also explains CSS's concept of "flow": http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/css-xhtml/understanding-css-po...
One of the nice things about Vim in particular is that it's incredibly uniform across platforms - far more consistent than Windows keyboard shortcuts versus Mac shortcuts versus Linux shortcuts. Vim's download page is quite... extensive:

http://www.vim.org/download.php

Another advantage of learning Vi is that since it's been such a popular choice for decades, there's a reasonable chance of a "vi emulation mode" being available in other environments; the Komodo IDE has one built-in I believe, there are third party solutions for Visual Studio, Outlook and Word, even a system-wide Input Manager plugin for OS X.
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I especially hate Hotmail.com who never seems able to remember my data, even if i select remember me.
I bet it's only an email away to be opensourced...
I found out something that makes life on HN better.

To avoid the [language war] trolls in stories about Perl, I mention Moose.

Since it is a better OO system than anything in the competition, they generally go away... :-)

Edit: I really wish Lisp was the competition today, I always loved it. :-( I've never used CLOS, but afaik Moose is directly inspired by it (MOP, right?).
email address in profile
Hmmm, I have it in my profile, but I guess it's not displayed to the public. It's lwang at you-can-guess-the-rest.
PEG is the abbreviation for PolyEthylene Glycol. Just a chemical they add that makes the transformation work more efficiently.

DNA, as you probably know, is a double-stranded molecule, and the strands have complementary sequences. When the overlapping pieces are joined, one strand of one molecule overlaps with its complement on the other piece, and vice versa - the pieces aren't just joined end-to-end.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous_recombination for all the details.
I must confess I 'cheated' - I picked this bank because their web site seemed well done (worked in FireFox with no Flash, etc). Also not too intent in nickel-and-diming users.

Actually, besides uploading a pic, they also allow text or a doodle. In case anyone is curious, it's here, in Portuguese: http://www.banif.pt/xsite/Particulares/Banifast/ServicoBanif...;

Their 'password' security is pretty good, too. They have two levels of 8-digit PINs (one to 'read' the account, then another to 'write', i.e. move money out). They only ask for input of 4 out of those 8 digits (randomly, e.g. 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th), using a on-screen pad (defeats key-logging).