skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because 'use signatures','use Function::Signatures','use Method::Signature::Simple' and 'use MooseX::Method::Signatures' all exist, and work well, but the CPAN cage match still continues for the One True Way.

And since that effectively means that adding it into core would merely be an optimisation, it's preferred to wait until a standard has been settled upon so we don't end up having to maintain compatibility with something people have since discovered is a bad idea.

The keyword parsing hooks added for version 12 make adding new keywords to experiment even easier, as well - so I think you can expect some signature form to go into core by v16 at the latest (2012), with the advantage that because the current solutions are CPAN modules your code using signatures of one of those sorts today won't break if/when that happens.

edit: and as for chromatic's tweet, this is not "apologetics for lack of a feature", this is a personal explanation of why I haven't attempted to write a patch for this yet, but will be seriously considering doing so at some point unless somebody else gets there first.

And as schwern points out, there's movement towards a unified syntax for invoking such things that we can quite possibly repurpose later.
It would better to present the data in this article alongside data about upward mobility. For example:

Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution, versus children of the rich who have about a 22 percent chance.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/04/b1579981.html
great, getting to understand how to use cassandra was a quite time consuming without a clear documentation. great work!
"It was only reinforced when the invention of the placenta and the mammary gland gave male mammals a gigantic prize to compete for: nine months and several years of somebody else's bodily efforts."

There are plenty of species, humans included, where male parental investment, over the life of the child, is comparable with that of the female. The average human child receives significant investments of time and effort from his or her father, not only in the form of playing catch and going on trips, but also because that father will spend a good portion of his working week earning resources to be used for the child's benefit. And weigh that with the fact that, until recently, it was even impossible for the man to know for sure that the child was his.
I wonder if this is the full transcript. Assange comes off as a real douche here.

Sure, he's concerned about the leak to Newsweek, but he also completely and totally disregards questions and comments from the other Domscheit-Berg.

If this is the real transcript, Wikileaks is done for.
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Fellow Washingtonians, let's consider not discouraging profitable business from moving to the state and stop encouraging profitable businesses that are already here, e.g., Boeing, to move more of its operations out of state.
This site has some nefarious cloudflare thingy on it that tells me that my machine is infected. I am quite sure that is not the case. It will not let me access the website in question unless I enable third party cookies which is something I don't want to do. Please don't use services like cloudflare.

Edit: Why the downvotes? This is what I am seeing: http://imgur.com/YlLWH.png
I've always kind of disliked Arrington, thought he came off as a douche on a lot of occasions.

And yet, I'll give the man props. He started a business, hustled his arse off and made a big sale. Haters gonna hate, but good job.
One of the things he mentions that I found interesting is in relation to Erlang's type system; more specifically, he claims static type checking would have made dynamic code upgrade virtually impossible. Can anyone shed some light on why this is the case, or perhaps give me a reference to a good paper on the topic? From looking at the example he gives it seems to me all you need is first class functions.
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Screenshot of the font used as body text on Wikipedia: http://imgur.com/912V0
How do you specify which version you want in your program?
There is still enough contrast as to be readable, but the contrast isn’t as harsh as black vs. white.

Still readable, yes, but I find the black more readable. Taking webpage design cues from schools of painting is a fine strategy as long as you remember that webpages have a different goal from paintings. This implies that everytime you transfer something from a school of painting to webdesign, you have to ask yourself "Does this principle undermine the purpose of a webpage?"
What is the license for this font?
You seem to be confusing tax revenues with fairness.
By a similar argument, at least half of all natural numbers are completely random.
That's a fine sounding sentence, but what do you actually mean by that? Do you mean the wealth distribution when subtracting out the equity value of financial businesses? Or ignoring the net worth of individuals who happen to be currently employed in the financial sector? My first reaction is that your comment is suspiciously vague, and might be confusing income with wealth.
A final word from Strafach: “The most interesting thing about the new AppleTV OS is that all binaries are marked iPad-compatible. I do wonder what Apple is planning…”

Curious indeed.
I hadn't actually noticed that, thanks. I tried it quickly and it seems that web pages are not so easy to read with it. Simply too much stuff around the actual content for the small screen. RSS feeds might be better as there is only text.
I like it, nice and clean.
Agreed, but it's your job as a citizen to try and pay exactly what you owe by law. If what Arrington did was legal, it wasn't wrong of him. No one should be paying more taxes than what's legally required. If there are any loopholes (so to speak), it's the role of the citizens to "exploit" them and the role of law makers to close them if necessary.
Is Google Instant a Flop? Google Trends seems to say so
> Otherwise she will be just as beholden to said developer as she is to Microsoft.

She can buy a book and learn how to bend the program to her will. It may be a daunting task, but it's possible because she has the source code. In the Microsoft product case, she can't because she doesn't have the source.

Actually, she can, but she will have to learn how to program, apply for a job opening at Microsoft for the desired group, get hired and then convince the product manglers the change she wants deserves to be included in the product.

Reading the book doesn't seem that daunting now.
I completely agree.

Options, options, options. The internet is all about options. This stems from the fact that people would prefer to "Have it their way"... still waiting on BK to deliver that.

When people online don't have options they feel alienated. It's the expectation at this point.
It's important to note that people who say they'd like to see a more equitable distribution of wealth may not necessarily be saying they'd like to see more redistribution of the wealth created by the top people, they may be saying that they'd like to see the bottom people become more productive.

Suppose a freak disease killed off everybody with an IQ below 120. Obviously society would take some time to adjust to the new reality, but once the adjustment occurred, what do you suppose the weath distribution would look like? Significantly more equitable, I assume.

We don't have a bad distribution of wealth, we have a bad distribution of talent.
Thanks, that's very close to what I was looking for.
I would think it would be possible to do the sequencing in an HTML5 interface, then export a WAV file using more precise timing.
Are you sure? What if the middle class is doing okay AND there is large wealth inequity?

The United States doesn't exactly resemble historically tumultuous places where there is widespread abject poverty and a few wealthy nobles.

I can't think of any society where most people had A/C, cable TV, two cars, and a college education that revolted because some people had a bigger house, a bigger TV, a more expensive set of cars, and a slightly better education.

Interestingly, to the extent that there is social unrest in the United States today, it is a revolt against the would-be equalizers and the centralization of power.
I wonder how many more Armstrongs can show up on HN's front page? Maybe get something about Hellcat Records on here and we can have two Tim Armstrongs!
I'm reluctant to trust 3rd-party traffic numbers, but it this was true, then why? Gizmodo and Engadget all but post identical content. I'm not sure why anyone would prefer one over the other.
Regardless of how, say Microsoft, uses or doesn't use its patents, they account for a substantial percentage of its value on the books.

I'd need to see some evidence of this assertion. When I was spending a lot more time researching tech stocks than I do now (now I spend 0 time researching tech stocks), I never saw a patent portfolio as a significant portion of the value of the companies I was investing in. Revenue and growth is king in tech company stocks. Book value is pretty much considered a big goose egg in software companies because they tend to have so little of it compared to old blue chips that have factories, brick and mortar stores, or infrastructure that has real world value. I'd be absolutely stunned if marking down their entire patent portfolio had more than a 1% impact on their market value, because I suspect even less than 1% of their revenue comes from patents...and revenue and growth is how people value MSFT.
You really think 10% of the users will donate? I'm thinking more like 0.01% will donate.
"UBUNTU FONT LICENSE Version 1.0": http://gist.github.com/601425
We have one of these at the eBay/PayPal campus in San Jose. It apparently powers almost the entire green building and I haven't heard of any issues yet - though I imagine the setup here is recent anyway.

I am all for green so it's an awesome initiative and I bet the government subsidies don't hurt either.
I was taught in CS101, as I think just about everyone is, that the & operator means "the address of."

So parsing &x + 1 into English becomes:

"The address of x plus one."

Except that, more explicitly, we should say:

"The address of x plus one times the size of the type of x."

What you should say is so far removed from the C code appears to say (add 1 to something) that confusion is inevitable.

That the second term should depend on the implicit type information from the first term, especially when the "address" operator has precedence over the + operator, seems backward to me.

To me an address is just a number, it carries no type information. Translate to s-expressions:

(+ (address-of x) 1)

Does it make sense that the 1 would change value based on the result of "address-of"? Not to me. I think it's bad design. Now, if it were taught differently:

(+ (typed-reference-to x) 1)

Then it makes more sense.
That should be workable, but if you have tools to do something useful with a rendered wav you probably don't need an html 909.
Guns are also a social issue, where in the United States it is our right to own guns and nothing can take that away, except using them as a tool in illegal acts. Queue the downward spiral where non-felon criminals already use guns excessively, so felon criminals obtain guns illegally to use excessively.

Guns aren't the problem. It is how us Americans perceive guns and our rights to own and use them that makes an issue out of owning them.

There might be a loose connection with crypto, where if all schemes have backdoors, only the criminals and "bad guys" who wish to send messages securely without government eavesdropping will implement or obtain ways to do so without backdoors.
And the point that was made in the other branch of this thread is that if the author intends to guard against None (who knows why?) then he should say, explicitly, "if L is not None". That's what PEP8 recommends precisely to avoid ambiguities such as these.
How is a study of how people perceive wealth distribution anything but a giant strawman? It's akin to showing non-programmers source code listings of merge-sort, quick-sort and bubble-sort and ask them what they think would be fastest, and then try to draw conclusions from the answer.

In the beginning of the 20th century, class warfare was apparently imminent, but the difference between now and then isn't wealth distribution, it's wealth - period. Being poor then meant worrying about whether or not you could shelter and feed your family, today and tomorrow, not to mention over the winter, and the way to do that was more often than not through long hours of backbreaking work that might very well kill you. Being poor today means worrying about an entirely different, and much more comfortable, set of issues.

And that's just being poor, not even thinking about life in the second and third quintile.

The rich got extremely rich, while the poor got very rich. Life in general became much cheaper, safer and more comfortable. I'm sure you could find plenty of fifth-quintile people in 1915 who'd be happy to switch life with first quintile people anno 2010.

And the short version: Marx was wrong about a lot of stuff. Let's quit being surprised when reality doesn't fit Das Kapital.
Higher than 2.2? I highly doubt it. Every designer I know uses 2.2, which is the standard for the web. Windows has been 2.2 for years. The only hold-out was Apple, who used to be 1.8, but switched to 2.2 in Snow Leopard. Before SL, designers would regularly calibrate to 2.2, of necessity.
What happens when you acquire your 4th client?
Well, it's a lot like any other web development client.

Specifically I'm reminded of a situation at a company I worked at where a group of senior employees wanted a Sharepoint Wiki set up that it was impossible for anyone to print, email, or otherwise share the contents of. We couldn't very well say what we were thinking, which was "are you stupid?"

So we gave them a wiki, told them that people would be able to share the contents of it, and let them have at it. There's no point in arguing when a client gives you legitimately impossible requirements. You just say "That can't be done." and let the client deal with it.
can this technique be used also to anonymously track unique users of a given web site?

It the browser implements an autoincrement cookie could that solve the anonymousness issues for end users while providing meaningful statistics for site owners?

Or the web scenario imposes some other requirements?
Sure AOL is not what is was before, but even when you put aside it's dying internet subscription model, it's media branch(es) still do well over a billion in revenue per year.

I had a college-bound relative bring up some random web startup he heard about from Engadget's comment section. I'm sure he has no idea that Techcrunch even exists.
He doesn't even mark up the press release with semantics. Not even header tags for subheadings. What is this?
Sorry. The word 'fair' tends to get me going slightly, because I'm a competitive person. That word tends to be used by people as a crutch. For more: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/ and specifically: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/intermediates-guide.html

If the state of California didn't think what Arrington did was right, there'd be a law. We've built up a system of rules, we all have to follow them, Mike did, so he's in the clear.
Sure, as long as all government encryption has to use the same setup.
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What the law would do is make everyone using an encryption tool (Such as OpenSSH or GPG) a criminal... It's like the Eric Schmidt Quote:

" If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. "

The laws that would arise would make anyone with a desire for REAL privacy an immediate criminal. I don't use Twitter but if I did I'd tag this with #fail.
Consensus amongst my hacker community: sellout. But we all drunk some haterade this morning.
That may be, but I think most would agree that law-abiders should not be, ipso facto, barred from activity that is not necessarily immoral/unethical/bad/evil.
Wealth inequality (at a big enough level) is the difference between a land of opportunity and a land where the rich get richer and everybody else gets stepped on.
I'm not taking a position on Arrington. I just object to the idea that legality implies fairness, by definition.
That was a saying that the FDR welfare reform was for the rich rather for the poor. The poor in 1910's had little social safety net and were susceptible to violent uprising. The welfare reform pacified generations of poor and made them docile these days.

That's why progressive taxation is a rational solution. The rich are benefited from an stable environment that they can make their wealth. It's only sensible that they pay to upkeep it. In war and violent uprising, wealth can disappear overnight.
You also have one of the biggest housing bubble in the world.

I grew up in Vancouver (now in CA), it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but million dollar average home values are not sustainable when the average income is $68k.
Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male
That's clearly the "why". He (and I, for that matter) want to know "how".
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If you can afford it, travel somewhere far away, and learn the language and history of wherever you go.
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The state of the ruby/rubygems distribution is clearly not viewed as a bug by its maintainers, which is why neither hard work nor a bug report will fix it. Let's give discussion and attention a go.
<object <embed bgsound etc etc

It's not like audio didn't exist before HTML5...
I'll just link you to _delirium's response here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736325
We don't. And I suspect that most HFT firms don't. There are both market and regulatory risks in placing an order you don't want to fill.
I agree. I-1098 also cuts the B&O tax and helps fund education. Employers need educated and skilled employees.
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I'm a libertarian with agorist tendencies, so I believe that anything that doesn't harm another person or another person's property against his will should be legal.

I believe the role of government should be to protect me from other people, not from myself.

If I want to buy crack, and someone wants to sell me crack, you shouldn't be able to stand in my way. If I want to take out a short term loan a a high percentage rate, Cringely shouldn't be able to stand in my way.

I don't want a third party eliminating choice from my life just because a hypothetical victim may exist. I'm an adult of sound mind, and will make my own decisions.
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Agreed. Also, how many of the 800 apartments were booked for the Denver DNC?
Personally, I couldn't care less about how much the next guy makes. My father grew up without air conditioning, any sort of decent medical or dental care, no college education, and (often) poor nutrition. I may not have had cable TV or name brand clothing, but I have had a much better life than my father did. Hell, I have two degrees and work indoors. And lord knows if I have kids they will have a much better life than I did.

Every now and then an article calls me a rube for not voting for the redistributionists (who have so many other things so horribly wrong with them). But I'm not buying it. I'm honestly not envious of how much the next guy has and I'm very grateful for what I have.

It's not my relative level of wealth that concerns me, but the absolute level.
What we need is an API which lets us somehow shorten our hugeurls...
You probably don't realize how many AOL sites you interact with regularly. They don't do a lot of 'hey this is an AOL site', so I suspect just like TC, you won't be aware of any major changes.
For me what killed C++ above all else is how incredibly 3rd-party-library hostile it has turned out to be.

The article covers a bunch of stumbling blocks that are external to the language, but there are at least as many in the language itself.

It wasn't deliberate of course, but a million little decisions and unadressed problems in the language ended up conspiring to create a miserable experience when assembling systems from libraries. This may not have been a very big problem 20 years ago - I suspect the current culture of many small libraries as building blocks didn't really exist then - but today it's a show stopper.
Years ago, I bookmarked expansively. I found I never used most of the bookmarks and many of the bit-rotted silently so that, when I did try to follow a bookmark, it no longer worked.

I found googling worked better than maintaining personal bookmarks, so Google has become my "bookmark" service.
Nice, I wasn't aware of that one!
I guess the mind control lasers are working. Assange seems to be paranoid and has a messiah complex. I'm sure he's under an incredible amount of stress.
There is no supporting evidence. That is part of the problem. The FAA has enough on their hands trying to get the air traffic control system into the latter half of the twentieth century, without trying to test for every stray signal and how it might affect the navigation. A blanket policy, restricting all devices does that.

The wiring is shielded to an extent but there is no special safe room for the avionics. A lot of it is in the nose, right in front of the crew. It is, after all, a very thin tube of aluminum we are all shooting around in. Weight is something to be avoided.
Congrats to the TechCrunch team.
On my monitor, the black text was more readable as well. The brown text required perceptible effort to read. I agree with scott_s. If you goal is to deliver information, the black text is superior.
If you own and operate a node of which someone is using to route their packets through, you can effectively listen in on that communications. TOR does encrypt its communication between nodes, but it is decrypted, inspected, then encrypted in order to pass through a node, so any packet on a node is for a moment, unencrypted, if the original communication did not have any secondary encryption applied to it.
Could it be the bubble caused by the 2010 Winter Olympic? Now that it's over, things should simmer down.
is there any evidence that top 1% have higher IQ than bottom 99%?
A search for "google instant" on Google Trends doesn't really reflects consumer reaction, right? People searched for it a lot when it was news but now people just use it because it's awesome.
Is that a consensus of one?

From a business perspective, this is a successful exit, though I seem to recall $100m valuation about a year ago.

From a hacker perspective, I don't really think much about TC. They aren't a technology company, though they've done a really nice job with open data on the crunchbase.
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There's something thuggish about saying "Give us your stuff or things will get ugly. Don't forget, we poor people are very impulsive".
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