skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes scaling continuations based web apps can be a big headache. I think this is why the Seaside developers have been scaling back continuations and making them optional in the framework: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/seaside/2007-Dec...

Coroutines are an interesting lighter alternative (though will still suffer from threading & session affinity issues).

See coro based libraries/frameworks influenced by Seaside like Continuity (http://continuity.tlt42.org/) & Nagare (http://www.nagare.org/) (which I think uses coros?).

Here is a fulling working Continuity example:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Continuity;
use HTML::AsSubs;

Continuity->new->loop;

sub main {
my $r = shift;

###########################################
# helpers

my $update_billing_info = sub {
return 1 if eval { $r->param('updated') };
return;
};

my $display_update_billing_info = sub {
$r->print(
form(
input( {type => 'checkbox', name => 'updated'}, 'updated?' ),
br,
input( {type => 'submit'} ),
p( "No. of tries thus far - $_[0]" ),
)->as_HTML
);
};

my $render_checkout_screen = sub {$r->print("Updated after $_[0] submits!")};

###########################################
# business logic

my $count_tries;
while (not $update_billing_info->()) {
$display_update_billing_info->( $count_tries++ );
$r->next;
}

$render_checkout_screen->( $count_tries );
}
No one is saying that it's not a bad idea. I'm just quibbling with the superlative-inflation going on in the headline.
Wow a lot of good responses here.

One thing I didn't see though is that most fraternities assign you a "big brother" as a sort of mentor and helper through your pledge process. Hopefully you have (or will get) a Big Brother who you can ask for advice and direction through the process.

The rest of it will come naturally if it's what you really want. Don't get too hung up on the details, just let yourself actually enjoy the experience. If you do, I'm sure you will learn a lot, teach a lot, and make friends for life.
If he was supposed to be doing work for hire for them, but instead implemented the same idea for himself, I think that can be accurately described as stealing the execution.
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You're making a lot of claims that don't make sense.

"A large part of 20 somethings use this as their main news source."

I'm a 20 something and know quite a few of them. You'd think that if this were true, my group of 50 or so would show at least one who treats TDS as anything more than a comedy show. They may use it as a starting point for stories they didn't know about, but you would be laughed out of the room if you tried to claim any portion of them treated Jon Stewart as a news man.

"It often cuts video tapes completely (usually making fun of someone whose ideology differs from that of the viewers), uses video out of context, have interviews under false pretences and does not give fair coverage."

Just like a comedy show. Even "news" shows do this, so I don't see why you single out TDS for it.

" It must choose, either one or the other – either it is a news show (and should subscribe to journalistic ethics) or it should be a comedy show (and try and involve itself in politics)."

Again, why single out TDS? All comedy shows dip into politics, and do a poor job of representing things.
I re-added the redirect. Redirecting "Programmers Day" to "Programmers' Day" seems perfectly reasonable, and I'm unsure as to why it was deleted in the first place.
HFT traders are essentially just market makers

The systems you worked on may have fitted into both groups, but your grouping isn't quite right.

High frequency trading is a broad term that encompasses anything that involves computerised algorithms interacting with a market, and with short position holding periods.

MM is a set of strategies which generally requires HFT if you're to be competitive with it on electronic markets.
There is nothing that I was not able to do in pubic life because of who I am, or specifically what my last name is (last names are give away your caste and geographical location).

presumably except dating and marriage - which is still beholden to the very hard lines of caste.

disclaimer: I am an exception to that rule - but just barely made it.
It seems to work now.

It is a major peeve that Wikipedia does not redirect the browser eg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers_day to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer\s_day properly. So if you copy an URL you end up with the link that will redirect, not the "proper" page.
A bit complicated actually. According to the state government of Kerala, for purposes of reservation (a form of positive discrimination), they are classified as a 'Backward Community'.

The line is so blurry atleast in my part of the country (Kerala state, South India) that it is increasingly difficult to say whether a caste is lower or upper from day-to-day life.
Practical Attacks on MIFARE Classic (non-contact ID / stored value cards) [pdf]
This is engineering: Landing F-15 with one wing
That wasn't their business model - it was a mistake that sent them bankrupt.

This is a new studio who took over development.

ArsTechnica has the complete - and quite incredible - story: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/the-death-and-reb...
I hope I'll get flowers...
The OS isn't Windows 7 - it's Windows Phone 7. Very different UI, just some marketing in the nomenclature.
Maybe you should try to use the simpler storage API like localStorage as it is more widely supported?
More precisely: Creating a Chrome extension that functions just like a bookmark on a fixed web page [EDITED to clarify: that is, one whose content is fixed] is almost as easy as just making the web page. In other words, "hello world" is easy.

It's nice (and maybe important) for "hello world" to be easy, but this really says nothing at all about how easy it is to make an extension that actually extends the functionality of Chrome.
It works now because someone has set up the redirect.
According to the article, there is a 1.8 million viewer base per night. So a large part of 20-somethings is innacurate. Maybe a large part of 20-somethings you know?

In any case, this line is a brilliant response to your claim:

“We’re not provocateurs, we’re not activists; we are reacting for our own catharsis,” Stewart says. “There is a line into demagoguery, and we try very hard to express ourselves but not move into, ‘So follow me! And I will lead you to the land of answers, my people!’ You can fall in love with your own idea of common sense.
You got my point exactly! :)
When 3D Relms went under Gearbox picked up the rights to the Duke(so there might be future games) and all the work that was done on DNF. They are going to finish it up and ship it.
That's awesome. Thanks for the lead. I'll try and implement that tonight :)
> I'm a 20 something and know quite a few of them.

Quite a few of my friends view this as a "serious" news show. If you do not believe this, look at any large social site such as Reddit (where the Daily Show is taken as a serious news source).

> Just like a comedy show.

Of interviews with politicians which they obtained under false pretences? The objective of the Daily Show is to make one ideological grouping laughable. It is inherently a political show that parades as a “quasi-news” show and uses the “comedy show” excuse so that they do not have to show any integrity (journalistic or otherwise).

> Again, why single out TDS? All comedy shows dip into politics, and do a poor job of representing things.

That is quite debatable. Most “comedy shows” do not dip into politics. If it is, it is mostly human interest (and around election time).

The Daily Show also parades around CNN International (a “news network”). Why is it on this channel then?

But I guess that this is just how real journalism fades. Papers become bankrupt whilst people read online “news sources” such as Huffington Post or Alternet. News networks like CNN become Twitter Crazy and airs shows like The Daily Show.
Deleted. Not Deleted. Peace and Happy Programmers Day!!!
I don't have a problem with them wiping my phone if I leave it in a bar, that's what the feature is for.

I have a problem with them, having on their screen a message saying "User X connected an unapproved device to Exchange", choosing to clicking "wipe", knowing they might destroy my personal stuff, instead of writing an e-mail telling me to get off the Exchange within 24 hours, and don't ever do it again, or face a remote wipe.
I am a 20 something and my main news source is Hacker News :). By that, I mean that I try to avoid conventional news sources on purpose. As far as I can tell news divides into two categories: sensationalist murder stories (which depress me) and political theater (which mostly bores me). Having said that John Stewart to me is just like Bill O'Reilly but funny.
Rethinking the mobile web
And here is Amazon Instant. Don't tweet me job offers, Email instead.
Benefits of Link Diversity
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It amazes me how that scene today still looks realistic.

It reminds me of Alien 1's ship interior built with spare parts of vacuum cleaners I think, it just brought so much more details that you couldn't get from CGI for at least 20 years.

I miss these old scifi movies where the special effects were crafted by hand. They had a real feel, that I still don't get from 'so clean yet dirtied' CGI.
What happens though when it becomes uneconomical to produce much of the software we take for granted? Sure to an extent the race to the bottom can be sustained due to a large ecosystem of developers but eventually something has to give, developers have to put food on the table.
loewenskind was talking about two thing: Zuckerburg being a jerk, and the vision. Bmelton was replying only to the jerk part.
a) Incorrect.
b) Easily checked.
c) Numpty.
America needs more holidays like this.
1-bit symphony: An electronic composition on a single microchip
We're not going to get anywhere with dueling anecdotes. And you're referencing things I don't recall, and I've been watching TDS for years.

"But I guess that this is just how real journalism fades. Papers become bankrupt whilst people read online “news sources” such as Huffington Post or Alternet. News networks like CNN become Twitter Crazy and airs shows like The Daily Show."

Journalism is doing fine. You're just looking in the wrong places.

"Of interviews with politicians which they obtained under false pretences? The objective of the Daily Show is to make one ideological grouping laughable. It is inherently a political show that parades as a “quasi-news” show and uses the “comedy show” excuse so that they do not have to show any integrity (journalistic or otherwise)."

You are once again making bold and seemingly ideologically-driven claims that don't reflect my own observations. Can you cite something?
Sure, the longer more in depth work most of the time must be support in a more financial way, contrast the number of people happy to give away essays of a few pages length for indirect or no benefit to those prepared to spend a year or more writing a well researched book for the same reasons.
I guess I will be heavily downmodded today.

> According to the article, there is a 1.8 million viewer base per night.

It gets viewed more often than that (through video streaming). It also appears on CNN International at different times (WTF?). Many people also watch it irregularly.

> In any case, this line is a brilliant response to your claim:

He just confirms what I've said, but put it more eloquently.

> And I will lead you to the land of answers, my people!’

> You can fall in love with your own idea of common sense.

Usually rational people form conclusions (i.e. reaches answers to questions) based on an objective discussion from all angles/sides to a story. Does this happen on the Daily Show? No. Does the Daily Show go into depth (from all sides) to complex and important news topics, allowing the viewer to come to his own nuanced conclusion? No.

Does it quote people out of context, have interviews under false pretences, cut tapes to put people in bad light, add questions which the interviewee was never asked and break all rules of journalistic ethics? Yes.

The idea of the Daily Show is simple – they would make fun of groups such as the Republican Party (through some of the methods above). Their audience laugh – not because it was really funny, but because it reinforces their own ideological bias.

PS: I am not American, and that show completely irritates the hell out of me. The whole of CNN for that matter went down the drain. If you want (somewhat good) television journalism, it seems that only Al-Jazeera can provide it.
Moving to Windows phone could be worse than even trying to make Meego work in my opinion
Funny how he actually struggles to smile while saying that.
> Oh, Stewart & Co. enjoy a lowbrow laugh as much as the folks over at South Park; heck, next week they’re publishing a book that includes some excellent masturbation jokes. But Stewart and The Daily Show became America’s sharpest political satirists by aiming at least a little bit higher.

Oddly coincidental that if Matt Stone & Trey Parker of South Park fame read this, their response would be "Thanks for the kick in the nuts." As per one of their video interview, this is their usual response to when people categorize them into the same bucket as Family Guy by saying something like "South Park and Family Guy are the only shows I love." Why does the author feel the need to compare South Park and Daily Show, so as to make Daily Show come on top? I would rate both of these shows as the best of their respective genres, neither aiming higher or lower than the other.
Two shorter Blade Runner clips can be found here.

http://douglastrumbull.com/videos

The one about how they filmed the blimp was pretty amazing.
My daughter is 8 and has to take the late bus home, due to our work schedules, giving her about 45 minutes of waiting around after school for the bus. At the suggestion of her teacher, she's gotten into the habit of going to the library and doing her homework there, before she even leaves. There are a few computers in the library to use and there's a teacher around to help answer questions. She does the work there, then brings it home and we check over it. It's a good balance of self-discipline and supervision, I think. In fact, giving her the freedom to initiate the "doing homework" on her own rather than having me tell her to do it when she gets home has been good for her. It's nice to see her taking responsibility of her own accord.
His girlfriend's commitment is something I like alot. The amount of dedication to follow him through with his ideas and travels is just amazing.

As much as Mark has gone through mountains and valleys, I am sure Priscilla has had her hills and dips as well (no comparison intended).
I turned down a good offer from Lehman Brothers front office to continue working on and launch my first startup. That startup flamed out within 3 months of launch, but I have never for even one second regretted that decision.
The last time I listened to some recruiter he added a line on my resume indicating how many lines of code I've produced. While highly inaccurate, every single interviewer who received that resume correctly questioned that line. I listen to what recruiters have to say about this (---) much.
That's if the Exchange server hasn't been configured to ONLY allow ActiveSync connections.
This is more or less a correct interpretation (the physics are definitely right). Importantly, the behavior is seen in electromagnetism, which is much easier to think about than general relativity, so people should start there.

(But no one will ever read this comment because the topic is 5 days old.)
I have a similar story -- 5 years at a company where I ended up being bored and not caring about the work. But I learned a lot during those 5 years, and was able to take advantage of several opportunities that may not have otherwise been available to me.

And like you, I'm now at a startup, that I love (heh, most of the time), where I've been for the past 11 months. It's all about timing, I guess.
Can you store email/attachments/other information outside of the application? If so that application is a massive security risk.
Let people email a resume to apply. Don't make people fill out a 20 minute form that requires retyping your resume. And if you do have such a form don't make "desired salary" a required field.
Science vs. Religion
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Who told you that politics is off limits for comedy? I have literally never ever heard that sentiment expressed.
I did about two years ago.

I took a 50% paycut to work at a company that was "re-inventing" itself and starting up a technology organization. I switched jobs, because my current job at the time was moving from building new stuff to maintaining old stuff, and the new job was all about building from the ground up and learning new skills.

I loved the new job, but then due to severe fiscal mismanagement multiple rounds of layoffs came about and the remaining people got their salaries cut by 20%. I went from cashflow positive to cashflow negative. With a mortgage to pay, I went back to a job with a high salary (and more boring actual work).

Without the salary cuts, I would still be at the job. Too bad, I really liked it. However, the family's well being comes first.
From what I hear this is a pretty powerful data mining package (developed at the faculty I attend). Personally I haven't gotten to play around too much with it, never had the time to figure it out properly.

Protip: use it as a python library, a lot of stuff doesn't make it into the GUI.
With the afterburner on the plane can basically fly with no additional lift, so with a nose-up attitude you can get all the lift you need from the downwards component of the thrust and the lift from the main fuselage (which is why modern jet liners fly "nose-up" these days - extra lift from the body). The flight surfaces in the tail give you pitch, yaw and roll, so flying isn't really the problem.

Landing. That's the problem, and as the saying goes: take-offs might be optional, but landings are compulsory. Part way through I was thinking that the flying would be possible, but the landing not.

When he mentioned the tail-hook and cable I still thought "no chance," but the tearing out of the tail-hook will have bled enough energy from the system to make it work. I didn't know the F-15 landing gear was so far inboard.
Not his fault, i tried to post this too a few hours ago but removed it because something seemed to be going on with the redirects, basically there are two pages, one with 's and one with s'... and at the time of my posting the links were continually swapped.

Now that's here, can some russian HNer provide additional info on this? Looks like is legit, but i doubt it is celebrated as it deserves in Russia ;).
Good thing my alma mater is ranked at something because the "nationally ranked" football team is absolute crap this year.

// not bitter at all about 2 losses in the opening season.
> Journalism is doing fine. You're just looking in the wrong places.

Nope. Journalism isn’t doing fine. The majority of papers that do good investigative journalism have serious financial problems.

> Can you cite something?

Here is a good example: Daily Show of 13 July 2010. A large part deals with racism in South Africa and race relations. The author paints a completely wrong picture (of an incredibly difficult and nuanced subject – which involves language and culture rights, economical aspects and poverty, land ownership, illegal immigration, and xenophobia, black economic empowerment, etc…). In that he made a 6 hour interview (under false pretences) with a person with a pretty nuanced view (he only aired snipped parts out of context – his whole interview style was baiting).

The whole fucking video pisses me off – it is such a complex subject which he is making light of (and painting a wrong picture). WTF? But yeah, let’s make fun of extremely complex and delicate subjects because our viewers will laugh!
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Yeah his refusal was an interesting one. But was it his choice? Who owned how much at that point? It's possible the VCs wouldn't let him.
Mother's Day & Father's Day -
Their times per year is one,
But every day is Programmer's Day
If you want to get anything done.
> Making a decision on many, or even too many data points is always better than a decision made based on only 1 number.

No, it is not always better. There are many situations where more data leads people to make non-optimal decisions. This is well known.
I have a feeling we're going to see a great wave of applications coming online aimed at creating realtime versions of the stuff that's already popular out there. Think of node.js Ebay bidding, project management, dating sites, etc.
And So You Code [video]
I checked with Fiddler and it's client side only - no outgoing traffic back to a server!

Still, I don't think this is a great idea. You could harvest a lot of passwords with a page like this.
I read the entire article just for this line

"There’s discussion of a possible Stewart-Colbert public event, a parody of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. “Maybe we would do a ‘March of the Reasonable,’ on a date of no particular significance,” Stewart says."

If you guys haven't heard, we are trying to start a reddit powered pseudo-revolution and I am really glad that this bit made it into this story.
Are you saying that they couldn't add text to the page (outside of images) in a day?
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Hacking the Emotiv EEG headset
"Nope. Journalism isn’t doing fine. The majority of papers that do good investigative journalism have serious financial problems."

I did say you were looking in the wrong places. You said you weren't in the US, so I wouldn't expect you to know about what local and regional papers do. Journalism does exist, but you have to go to the locals to find it. By narrowing their focus, they're able to limit the costs.

They have one beat, and it's usually in their own neighborhood.

"Here is a good example: Daily Show of 13 July 2010. A large part deals with racism in South Africa and race relations. The author paints a completely wrong picture (of an incredibly difficult and nuanced subject – which involves language and culture rights, economical aspects and poverty, land ownership, illegal immigration, and xenophobia, black economic empowerment, etc…)."

I can't find any reference to that day's episode or the clip you mention. Can you be more specific by providing a link?
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I do try and avoid these arguments for obvious reasons but one simple point I'd like to make:

At no point did Stephen Hawking say "God did not create the universe"

He did however, clearly state that it is not necessary to invoke God into the creation of the universe, meaning he believed there is now enough information to quantify the beginning of the universe without being mysticised by the process and assuming some greater power must have been involved.
"It's like trying to order from a waiter who keeps finishing your sentences while ramming spoonfuls of what he thinks you want directly into your mouth"

I love CB.
Well, since they're not, why say "forget the frat"? That's what inboulder is replying to.
tptacek always posts about Matasano, when there's a "who's hiring" thread. http://www.matasano.com/careers/
Yes, or at least a traceroute of boards.4chan.org resulted in a destination of as29761.ae1-320.ar1.lax1.us.nlayer.net for me. One hop from dfw1 (Dallas/Fort Worth) got me to lax1 (Los Angeles) which according to their network map is their western most core node after the Bay Area.
Ask HN: What are the benefits for incorporating in Delaware?
Every one says it's awesome for internet consumer company but I have no idea why. Hoping the HN could help me out.