skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was assuming that my private key would be stored locally. And the encryption code, too. As I said, doing this securely and usably would be hard.
I think SPARC has always had register argument passing; it's practically the design thesis for the processor.
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Has Amazon learned not to love APIs after all?
Clickable: http://www.dashler.com/
More colleges need these types of events. NYC schools like NYU and Columbia definitely have an advantage by having direct access to the NYC tech scene.
The kind of diversity being fostered today (at least in education) is really nothing more than racism.

The diversity system today consists of giving preference to those with dark skin, while handicapping asians. But how much diversity are we really getting, when the only criteria is race?

If we were really interested in getting a diverse mixture, we'd be seeking all kinds of dimensions:

* city people / country people;
* protestant / catholic / jewish / muslim / buddhist / hindu / agnostic / atheist;
* rich / poor;
* lovers of the visual arts / bookworms
* introverts / extroverts
* organized / chaotic
* vegans / carnivores

And so on. As far as I can determine, the race-based diversity really aids nothing, but does serve to preserve enmity between the protected and handicapped races. If we want diversity, we need to look deeper than the skin.
Unfortunately untrue.

Many military robots are purely remote controlled, but many others integrate often substantial levels of autonomy. Most UAVs provide autonomous navigation and stationkeeping, for example, and often much more; other military robots operate with no human in the loop whatsoever (eg, AUVs).

It's also interesting to consider the autonomy of fast-react weapons-in-the-loop systems such as AA/SAM sites and ABM installations (eg, Patriot), and the contribution of that autonomy to associated friendly-fire incidents. Methods normally considered AI---probabilistic filters, reasoning, and data fusion, in particular---are fundamental to such systems.
That's totally off-topic. It's illegal to smoke tobacco in most workplaces in North America. I don't care if the plant itself is illegal. That's totally irrelevant. The point is, if you go to work and smoke tobacco at work you'll be fired instantly. The reason for this is that your second-hand smoke causes cancer in other people. That's a safety concern.

Even if ganja were legal, smoking it at work would still not be legal. This whole comparison is absurd.
I'm at lunch but will take care of you asap.
It takes all kinds. Without things like this, there would be less interest in some of the new stuff, and more might fail to be investigated further. And "improvement" in a brain is a pretty difficult thing to measure; at the most objective, you can do an FMRI and check overall bloodflow, but that's not conclusive either.

I would really like them to have more concrete information more often though, I wholly agree there. It'd go a long way towards capturing people who are more skeptical :)
For the record: the Leanpub ebooks included in the Appsumo bundle are not excerpts.

Startup Lessons Learned is 798 pages, and covers August 2008 - now.
The Venture Hacks Bible is 1406 pages, and covers March 2007 - now.
Best of Andrew Chen's Blog is 984 pages, and covers 2006 - now. (It was 1700+ pages unedited, but it's curated.)
Sean Ellis's book Startup Marketing: Unlocking Startup Growth is 168 pages, but that's all the content there is.

So even if you ignore the pages that are bogus (TOC, index, etc), you've got about 2500+ pages just for the Leanpub books. These PDF books sell for $29.99, $19, $19 and $19 regular price. The ideas in them are worth a huge multiple of $42, imho.

The really good thing is that all the content in all these books is available for free on the authors' blogs. Part of the inspiration for Leanpub is Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters, which followed a similar model, but was published by a traditional publisher. We're doing the blog-essay-into-book thing for self-published authors.

Hackers and Painters is worth the money (either as a PDF or as a print book), since you think more deeply about the content when it's in book format than you do when it is on a blog and you're distracted by Hacker News and ooh there's a new Twitter CEO and look a shiny toy and kittens. That's the Leanpub value proposition, and why these books are worth buying. (It encourages you to fully read the archives of these 4 blogs, all the way back.)

Now, Leanpub is actually a system for writing and publishing in-progress books, not for just selling exports of blogs. Authors can sell books before they are finished, and when new versions are released the readers can be automatically emailed.

We launched our new version last night at 3 AM which included the first versions of features designed to support better communication between authors and readers, etc. However, the Appsumo bundle promptly crushed us.

(We're spinning up bigger servers today and temporarily disabling some features for Leanpub authors to cope with the Appsumo email blast that will go out tomorrow. Leanpub is more than the not-fully-baked-and-slow site that you see today.)

Later this year we're rolling out features including a good way to do online/offline editing for nontechnical users, etc. The architecture already supports this now. This will also include EPUB and MOBI generation, etc.

So, anyway, the timing could have been better for us, but the books here are good and are worth reading. If you have any issues, please email me (peter@leanpub.com) or phone me (604.916.8017) and we will ensure you get your downloads etc.

Thanks,
Peter Armstrong
Leanpub Cofounder
The async and defer attributes are great. Don't forget to added them to your disqus script as well.
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This excellent book explains many of the same ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Shoulde...
What does a CEO do besides think on company wide strategies?
We offer these benfits and these numbers are in the ballpark without using a PEO (think "collective bargaining union of small companies").
I know many of my classes required that I own and use a TI throughout high school. Other types of calculators where not allowed.
Just wanted to point out that it's pretty silly to talk about an AI's APM, since its APM is infinite (bounded by hardware limits like clock speed, etc).
If you're referring to .NET's UpdatePanels, they do send the entire post data, yes. But the response only contains required HTML to rerender that area.

ASP.NET can also take any "web service" (i.e., a bunch of function you define and mark as directly callable via XML or whatever), and VS will generate JavaScript proxy objects for it. Then you get lightweight calls (only send and receive parameters and response), but get IntelliSense and stuff on them.

Hotmail might do something stupid and be slow. I don't know or care, but .NET offers plenty of options.
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Yes, the tablature data is scraped from existing sites. There is a credit to the original page on the top right of every tab.
If I were to recommend only one Java book, it would probably be some kind of "Ruby for Java Developers" book.

I kid, I kid. Kind of.
He's also a compulsive liar, attention-seeker and conspiracy nut (you can kind of tell already because "Suvorov never misses a chance to point out that most of them are (paid by) Soviet political/military figures"). Half the facts in that book are rumors he overheard from colleagues or things he made up based on seeing something he didn't understand (the "backwards-print shoe" is pretty hilarious, for example). Try tracking down any of the sources he bothers to cite and see how he misinterprets them.
The real subversion of economics is at a higher level. This guy is just exposing (in this article and in his film) the patsy and placing all the blame on the patsy.

It is the federal reserve and the government that engineered this financial crisis. It was obvious there would be a housing bubble in (at least to me) 2001, before the bubble really started, when they forced interest rates below the rate of inflation- meaning lending was incentivized because the cost of money was below zero.

I knew about it early enough to profit from it on both sides, on the way up and on the way down.

But the heist of american money was a two-part job. The banks set it up in partnership with government which created freddie mac and fannie mae-- and then the governmetn actually stole the money with the bailouts.

If the government hadn't bailed out these banks they would have fallen and more worthy banks would have grown to take their place.

Instead we have institutionalized corruption. The concept of "to big to fail" is considered legitimate, and moral hazard is now standard operating procedure.

So long as everyone pretends like the bailouts where a natural consequence and not the largest theft in american history.... we're set up nicely for them to do it again. And again. And again.

I suggest people who are genuinely interested in these things should read The Creature from Jekyll Island by Griffen. It covers the history of the federal reserve, and how they play the bailout game every other decade. Each time the amount is larger and the audacity and greed on the part of government and bankers is larger... and then when we've forgotten about it, they do it again.

You might be wondering how government profits form this. The individuals in government profit financially, though of course the money is laundered as cushy jobs, book deals and campaign contributions... but they also profit by gaining more power over the economy.
Nice list, thank you.
Well, part of the reason why TI hardware is required and not just graphing software is that students often need something they can take home with them.

Laptops running GNU/Linux, despite having no software costs, will still be significantly more expensive than even $140 calculators.

What is needed is an open source, cheap hardware calculator, and as far as I know, nobody has anything like that on the market.
I've many friends with dreads and with the best will in the world, something you wash every few months if that, doesn't meet normally accepted standards of hygiene. That's true of whites with dreads as well, so it's not racist.
Really? I'd be curious why this is so epic. 3dogmedia (the company that was acquired) has less than 50 followers on Twitter. That doesn't seem very epic.
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Very nice - My wife is the graphic designer for a nonprofit that does significant fieldwork, and just spent the weekend lamenting the shortcomings of Flickr and photo database management software in general.
HAHA thanks for that link. Fantastic bit of parody/sarcasm!
Speaking of sarcasm, I think you missed the parent's.
I've recently switched to Blogofile for a couple of my sites, one of which was previously using Jekyll (a similar blog compiler written in Ruby). Blogofile has been great; I'd love to see it grow.

I've actually written code to add static pages to Blogofile. I've been meaning to contribute it; I hope I'll get around to it soon.
Rockstar vs Daily Star: a landmark moment in games coverage?
145 words[1] of blogspam. Article it links to: http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/goldman_downgrades_...

[1]: from wc -w of copy/paste of the post.
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Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"?

A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)
Thanks, and thanks:-)
It differs from slavery, in the sense that these people are still legally people.

That's not some trivial fucking difference.
Google Analytics, Quantcast, and Chartbeat are a good start.

Google Analytics gives you the ability to slice and dice your visitors. Quantcast gives you demographics. And Chartbeat gives you real-time tracking with historical playback.

Between the three of them, you can discern almost any information you'd want to know about your visitors short of business logic tracking.
Not likely. If he'd talked to people in SV at any time in the past he'd have found they despised politicians as much as they do now, and that did not turn out to be a predictor of the rise of a third party.
I've been hit in the head with a mcdonals bag filled with leftover food.

An acquaintance was hit in the eye with an egg from an oncoming car, and lost the vision in his eye :(
And thus opens the "in order for you to have privacy, we must be able to identify you" argument.
Underscore.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/) provides great Templating support and the ability to customize your templates through the use of _.templateSettings. This would allow you to use <% %>, [% %], or pretty much any symbol combination you prefer.
I would have loved to see the new website design while I was eating lunch today, but it crashed my iPad Safari browser -- TWICE!

The first time I visited the site, my browser crashed. I didn't think much of it. Hey, things crash. I started Safari back up and I was still on the 37 blogs site (where I was before the crash, when I clicked on the 37 Signals link). Cool, I thought. Safari remembered my place and all my other windows were saved too.

But the second time I clicked through to visit 37 Signals Safari crashed and lost all of my other window information. That's a bummer because I still had some stories I wanted to read.

37 Signals, please test on an iPad.
They said it would be available in September. Now they say it will be available in October. To me this seems like vaporware, specifically to keep people from buying AppleTV. They still don't have any content deals setup. I haven't heard any big players other than Netflix, which is already available on any Bluray player made (practically).

Where is Hulu? Where is ESPN? These are the networks they need to beat Apple in this market, and they're conspicuously absent. Even Youtube is supposed to have TV rentals "really soon now," but I haven't heard much about that recently.

Why does it seem that the only thing Google can do now is say "me too" whenever Apple releases a new product?
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The surgery is easily reversible without leaving permanent damage. That's the main advantage it has over laser surgery. Its not exactly a contact lenses though, its a ring of plastic that stretches your cornea. It also only works for low prescriptions
This is pretty cool, but there's at least one piece of data you're throwing out from your scraped pages.

Compare The White Stripes' "Offend in Every Way" tab on your site (http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-str...) and the scraped site (http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/white_stripes/white_blood...). xguitar is telling you where the chord changes happen by placing the chord name over the lyrics (e.g., on the first line, you play a G when singing "plan").

Also, on your blog pages, the top header links to http://blog.cleantab.com/blog/ , which is a 404. You want to link to http://blog.cleantab.com/ .
I wonder if this is more for the sake of C++ than C, where primitive values are more likely to be 'boxed' into a struct/class along with some methods. For instance, with a typical non-debug standard library, vector<int>::iterator has one member - an int*. It'd be a shame if that couldn't go in a register.
This makes me admire Mark Zuckerberg more as he is heading such a big empire at such a small age! Facebook for sure had lot more challenges than Twitter for their Privacy issues and many new releases. Mark stood strong in all those incidents, and didn't give up. I remember his talk from StarupSchool, and how he was so supportive of Mark Picnus's advice on why founders need to be CEOs of their company.
The new site crashes hard with Safari on iPad 3.2.

If I manually type in 37signals.com it loads fine, but if I follow a link to 37signals.com, either from that blog posting or from Google, it crashes Safari every time.
This seems really odd to me because I've been using Netflix with Chrome for at least a year now, and I didn't do anything special, just installed silverlight and it worked.
What is HTML5?
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really good stuff! it's nice to see colleges finally adopting a new type of student and entrepreneur!
Javascript templating isn't really scary. I've used two different engines in the last few months. That's not my concern. More it's that the syntax needed for a small template is going to be very different from a full js application. And both of those are going to be different from a server side node.js template.

Having options is a good thing, and I worry that jQuery with it's dominate position could become the defacto standard even if it is not the best choice for all projects.
I have fairly long dreadlocks. My job is at a desk but I have done my share of moving, carpentry, welding etc outside of my job. He just needs to keep his dreadlocks tied back, covered or whatever to keep them out of the way and from getting snagged. They are no more or less dangerous than anyone else with long hair - except they get caught on velcro a little easier.
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Maybe never :( it depends
STFU Facebook couples.
On a related note, HackNY is next weekend, and I'll be there along with a few of my friends.

http://hackny.org/a/
Having a standard that says "employee hair must be clean, neatly arranged, and safe for physical work" would probably have been fine. That's not what happened here. This candidate offered to conceal his hair and was told he had to cut it.

I have friends and professional colleagues with dreads and will tell you that none of them are unhygienic. Is it harder for them to keep their hair clean than it is for me? I don't know, because that's none of my business.
Reminds me of the Taoist phrase "Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know." We're fascinating self-deluding machines...
So someone could fork OpenJDK indefinitely without merging and be protected?

Where is all of this documented? Where is the primary source on patent/licensing dangers of (writing/forking a JVM|creating your own "version" of Java)?

I don't like asking a lot of questions, but I don't know where to look.
I am not sure I understand what you mean with this:

"that just means that while humanity understands it people don't."
I'll try this as soon as somebody proves to me it doesn't immediately send my GMail password to a Russian spam factory.
I re-organized that section to remove the ambiguity, thank you for the pointer.
I don't think it's the hardware but getting your TV/movies from "ten-foot" web sites competes with Playstation Network.
Vancouver suffers from many problems but one really big one kills startups. Primarily, risk adversity is a common trait in investors and founders here. The Lean/MVP model does not lend itself to building BIG companies because its a bit (not totally) absurd to think that a company that needs 10-30 MIT gold standard engineers to conceive can be bootstrapped. Talking about the "startup scene" is a waste of time until real efforts are put together to make real companies that solve hard enterprise class problems or uncover 2-5 year forward looking, undeveloped markets.

In America, as pointed out time and again by the upper echelon in the Vancouver startup circles, people actually take these forward looking risks because the payoff is just too sweet if it comes through. Bootup is notable for pushing the boulder up the hill, Danny R and Co. are a scrappy fighters thats for sure.

For instance, even a SR&ED/IRAP intensive startup with a potential BIG idea (which is a stunning program @fiveo from the standpoint of the unemotional-observational economist) meets the common phrases that investors in Vancouver rely on to skate away. "its too early" "i need to see a working prototype making profit with tons of traction" "its not scalable". And kudos to them, they worked damn hard to build a life(style) here and don't want to burn their precious money into cinders.

As a proven and skilled technician, I can say that I have met many talented PhD's and engineers in Vancouver, now in Palo Alto. Someone with 2-5 years success in technology is worth about 90k a year, and that wage is nigh unachievable in B.C. Too often we leave for the states, myself included, because their are too many tagalongs who don't actually understand the minutiae involved in how specific technologies create value across international markets. Too many evangelists and mentors, not enough mature engineers who work with tenacity, intensity ,focus and audacity.

Perhaps this type of discussion can be better studied by a thought experiment. How would you start a company like the awesome Palantir Inc in Vancouver? Give us a thoughtful, unbiased analysis that spells out to investors the reduction of risk and the chance to make a 10X exit in a tough hostile and messy business environment. This is a good case study for MBA types.
Really great app, but really disappointingly appends "Sent with Sparrow" at the end of sent messages, with no preference to turn it off.

Massively uncool, even if I can delete it myself.

EDIT: Found this on the author's Twitter feed. Weird interface for what is an otherwise intuitive app: "Open the preferences window and double-click on the account. You'll be able to edit the signature."
Michaël, PicsEngine looks AND feel awesome! Have you used any additional libraries like CappuccinoResource?

Did you ever consider using other tools for making fancy UI, like the UKI javascript library (http://ukijs.org/)? I have site on heroku, in Norwegian, with handcrafted gradients and sidebars, wanting to switch to something more robust.
I also agree, but my point is this, using a framework like Phonegap or Rhomobile etc, will give my mobile application access to some features of the host platform like notification, file access, events, sound, video, audio etc, if required. this is something a web app cannot do on a mobile device.
Suppose the US passed a law in 1850 saying that slaves are legally people, but no other changes were made (i.e., the legal person slaves were still forced to perform labor for their masters). Would that also be a non-trivial difference?

Being defined as a legal person is nice, but it doesn't change the fact that you are forced (under threat of violence) to work for someone else against your will.
They need to fix the card reader.. seriously takes at least 5 swipes to work properly, even with the recommended and annoying pinching of the reader.
Computer science is the study of algorithms, the study of algorithms fits the scientific method. Programming and electronics is not computer science. QED.
A nice little preview. I can see its appeal although I'm not sure I'm ready to make the switch. One little pet peeve though. Why do so many Mac apps want to create a menuling now? It's not the Windows system tray. There's no good reason why this mail client needs a menuling. It can communicate everything through its Dock icon.
Have you tried Little Snitch before?
I think they learned that giving away reviews was giving away free content, and wasn't helping drive more people to the Amazon site. Can't say that I blame them for pulling the plug on that.
Ask HN: How does a JIT-compiled function communicate with a bytecode function?
consider we have two functions compiled into bytecode first. if the first function is JIT-compiled, how does the second function call the x86 code of the first function ? how does it extract the results ?

basically how does this leap into the "x86 land" and from there back into the "bytecode land" occur ? also how is the "x86 land" stored and accessed ?
How exactly are Django templates hideous?
Interesting that HN is missing, I've seen sites launched (not always voluntarily!) by a single posting to HN, and I've seen how much coverage you can get from here when announcing my 'two week' project reocities.com .

That seems like an oversight.