skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ok, sure. point is our engine beats the pants off a dogs no matter how you slice it.

no. point is whenever we have even a little more biologically advanced brain, like Einstein's (noticeably smaller than typical human's one, yet more densely packed with more energy supplying cells), it easily beats typical human's one. The Einstein's brain is still human (had it been even a bit more biologically advanced than it was it would be hard to call it human), yet it shows how inefficient the typical human brain is.

>like I said, debbie downer. you have this absurd fixation on killings.

no, i just have an ability for analysis, and keen interest for QM and biology.

>Yes, it's continuous bloodshed. You know what? It's not your right to determine that what people fought for was meaningless, or too "violent" for your modern middle-class tastes. It's not your right to prissily look down on the human race from your ivory tower of Math and grumble about killing.

that is my point. Human brain has unique ability to put "meaning" into killings which aren't necessary for satisfaction of immediate food or self-defense needs.

>What I see when I look upon our history is a series of people taking their actions seriously. I see a series of people that slowly, agonizingly, painstakingly turned away from violence in order to serve those 'side-effects' that you think we killers disregard.

that agony is exactly manifestation of the fact that i talking about - mathematics and physics aren't natural for human brain. Reasoning for violence is.

>And that's the crux of it. Do you really think you're any better than the killers you despise?

i'm human. I'm a specimen of a species which evolved as a pack hunting predator. It has beaten all other predators (including other species of humans) through evolutionary advantage of extensively evolved brain which improved pack hunting (through communication/organization and weapons - thanks to the ape's ability to grasp a stick or stone) at the start and later discovered that unmotivated aggression, ie. striking first without being in immediate danger, toward others predators is evolutionary advantageous if you have much better communication/organization and weapons.

Like any other human, i have ideas when i think violence is justified even though it wouldn't serve my immediate food or self-defense needs. Like any other human, i'd like to mislead myself into thinking that my reasons for violence are "valid and justified". Well, i have a human brain.
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Ok, so Paypal was told by a high-level Federal agency that Wikileaks was illegal. Freezing the account seems like the safe response to that.

I'm sure, by now, Paypal has figured out that Wikileaks isn't illegal - based on all the calls by lawmakers to ban it, if nothing else. Have they restored the account yet?
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I knew about 'Mystery Meat Navigation', but this site offer 'Mystery Meat Text': Text that only becomes readable if you hover over it.
I'm sure that you have an implicit statement about the constants when you imply that O(log_{k}(|T|)) is an improvement over O(log_{2}(|T|)), but log_{2}(|T|) = {log_{k}(|T|)} / {log_{k} (2)}. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in terms of big-O notation, I think this makes O(log_{2}(|T|)) the same as O(log_{k}(|T|)).
Judging from the linked article's text, the answer is: who knows - we're not told.

Judging from the submitter's previous submissions, the answer is: repeatedly post nothing but your own blog to Hacker News.
Yes, you are right. If we assume an increase of the value of $3M between 2008-2010, then a pre-money of $8M in Series B, then the Heroku share would be 20.9% and pg's 1.3%. pg's multiple is 162x.
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http://djangy.com is one
It's actually his first name :x

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kte...
The problem with any debate is that idiots exist, and they also choose sides.
Google App Engine is similar, but not identical to normal Django.
First sentence begins "4chan, a hacking web site..."

I stopped reading.
Now database.com makes more sense.
Canonical are a for-profit company IIRC, however they are not publically traded and not "cash flow positive" ;)
this would cripple companies in the long run.
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In case you want to see comments from earlier submissions of this, here are a few links.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782171

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 <<<-- This one has the comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370134

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376655

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383943

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388904

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389955

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390588

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397443

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408731

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410992

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439939

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466084

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640824

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728970
It's also insanely expensive. What are they going to get from their money but letting you die on Mars?
I was exactly searching for such a tool and ended up building an FF jetpack adddon a couple weeks back. I'll find sometime this weekend and push it online.
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> Where is the email client back? On the phone. People want access to their email if they don't have an internet connection.

Can still be accomplished without being native.

Listen, it's clear we aren't going to agree. But the simple fact is, unless things change, going the JS and HTML route for apps is best for the vast majority of applications people use on a daily basis. This is demonstrated by the fact that they are using these apps on a daily basis.
Dailybooth, Simperium & PagerDuty were pretty well known before YC.
You're saying this establishes the high value of EngineYard, since it is similar to Heroku?
2 Years ago, I might not have imagined this if you have asked what wildest thing Microsoft can do? Bravo! IE9 Team
I strongly suggest you read book written by Aaron Shepard on self publishing ...

Visit : http://www.newselfpublishing.com/ and http://www.newselfpublishing.com/books/PODProfit.html

I would also suggest to go with Lightning Source as your POD provider as most of the big names go to them directly or indirectly (very few people know this and that's the reason you should read that book by Aaron) - Good Luck
Actually, MS Word have such functionality, and TortoiseSVN allows to see diff between versions of Word document
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About a year ago, some of my friends wanted to use one of SalesForce's extensions to start taking payments for their telephony business. I suggested they use Heroku's pricing page as a template for how to design excellent service pricing.
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Due process for a private company deciding who to do business with?
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If they're still at the 40k daily rate like the launch rumors (or worse), can they ever really catch up?

I can't think of a single example when a high-quality free OS (Android) has gained significant market share and then been upstaged by a commercial OS (e.g. look at the proliferation of Linux on servers).
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Indeed.

Congrats Nick, despite my flagging your spammy submissions, you finally made it to the front page with one of your useless articles.
If I don’t see myself finishing an online article in one reading, I’ll just Instapaper it and carry on with my Kindle, where it will save where I’ve left off.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted here. I suspect it's because people are using the down arrow to disagree with you. Whilst I personally don't agree with your PoV, you raise a perfectly valid point: who is to blame for the heavy-handed treatment of a media outlet (wikileaks).

I think it's a great loss that HN has degenerated over the last few years' from a place where you could openly discuss a variety of PoVs in a friendly progressive way, to a place where uncivil rudeness is rewarded and opposing PoV are silenced.

I also think it's ironic that in a thread about openness we punish opposing PoVs.
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Seems like an awful lot of feigned shock about paypal.

Paypal has a long history of closing account for arbitrary reasons or for no apparant reason at all. This is especially true of accounts for taking donations (rather than ones selling physical products). If you Google around you can find dozens of people complaining about closed accounts who were taking donations for completely innocuous projects.

By comparison, "because the gov't told us it was illegal" seems like a pretty solid reason. The cost of just paying lawyers to figure out if Wikileaks might actually be breaking any laws surely costs more than Paypal is likely to make in transaction fees.
Groupon is bordering on spam.
I think what is required to even get the change to summit Everest weeds out any people who are just there so they can "pretend they've lived a better life".
Great tips.

Git is arguably one of the best pieces of software created in the past decade.

Its learning curve is definitely steep, but it's exactly tips like these which give a perspective of Git's true power.
Nobody doubts that. Insisting on due process (wait for an official subpoena form a court) would be the legally and ethically correct thing, especially if you want to avoid bad reputation. But wikileaks is pissing off an incredible amount of people, and it's probably a bad idea to stand in the crossfire, so their reaction to try getting out of the story is understandable.

IMO the argumentation of PayPal is pathetic. They did not even have the balls to admit that they just wanted to stay out of trouble and trying to shift the blame to someone else.

On the other hand, from what I know they don't have much reputation left anyway, so it's a bit of a moot point.
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> But is there any value to the customer?

Yes.

> That was until you started to read all your email on your phone that you carry with you all the time.

What does that have to do with web apps and native apps? Maybe your assuming that these web apps being discussed are merely that: on the web. The real fact is, you can load these apps locally, and use them without an internet connection, with local storage.

> Right now it is still the primary for many apps like Facebook and Flickr. That is changing.

You assume this is because native apps are better. This is not true. All your mobile apps aren't native because it's better to be native. They are native because they can get into the app store to be sold. And how do you get into the app store? Well, I guess you gotta learn Objective-C. And even then, the quality of the apps is questionable compared to the mobile versions.
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I don't think that's true. Most people aren't watching the status bar, they're waiting to see a page appear.

Also, I can make the status bar say "Done" before my page is actually finished loading.
"so closures can be, and are, used to implement very effective objects with multiple methods"

I don't really believe this to be efficient. The linked text by Kiselyov implements the dispatch via Scheme's (case ...) expression. Efficient dynamic dispatch means one indirection through a vtable, so one load instruction more compared to a normal function call. Which compilers for functional languages can perform this optimization?

Since we are talking about Scheme here, we could compare the dispatch to dynamic languages like Python or Ruby, where the dispatch means looking up a string in a hashmap. I'm willing to believe that Scheme's case can keep up with that.
Maybe I do; it would be folly for me to claim to know you, based on a few HN posts. Maybe you did mean these two words in the same way that others here inquire about a linked list or the Riemann hypothesis; with a genuine desire to be explained and to know; topics that in these circles would be considered 'Worthy' of knowing, I feel. Wanting to know about things, all sorts of things, is the quintessential trait of the Hacker, after all.

That said, the tone (as far as there can reasonably be understood a 'tone' from two words) and the upvote the post had when I posted my comment did not, prima facie, lead me to believe that the purpose of the post was to be informed about who actually Justin Bieber is. A 5 second google search would've shown more than enough to be able to understand what the GP (and following posts) are complaining about. So, all these circumstances combined, lead me to believe that there is at least a core of truth to my post, even if it's not as dramatic as spelling it out like I did makes it seem.

Then again, me making these ridiculous multi-paragraph posts on a topic that is wholly devoid of any intellectual value would probably rationally be considered indicative of me taking pride in some sort of meta-pseudo-intellectual snobbery; so am I sticking up for pop culture because for the right reasons or for vain self-gratification? Does it matter? I don't know. And I think it doesn't matter that I don't know, either ;)
I haven't found that even with the large MPixel size that camera phones don't do a good enough job colour/tone/gscale wise. But for most people these camera phones are probably good enough.
> Yes they can. Things can be pre-loaded in the background. Data can be queued. Storage can be local. I know you can find some package or framework somewhere that attempts to do these things in a web browser, but its all hacks. Stateless HTML is not a application development platform.

I think you fail to realize this can be accomplished using the tools in the article. They have access to things like this, including cameras and what not.

You keep saying things that make no sense in context.
I'm completely against making WL into a terrorist organization. But that's where we are headed -- or something very close to it. They're not publishers -- at least not in any normal sense I can fathom -- but they are certainly not terrorists either.

My point being: if PayPal and others want to play hardball and refuse to shut down their payments because WL aren't criminals, the other side will just up the ante by making them criminals. This is a no-win situation for PayPal and other vendors associated with this CF.

Ironically, the vendors who are voluntarily shutting off WL are probably doing the most to help the cause in the long term by not pushing the matter. WL supporters should really hope for a long spell of lowering the volume and everybody behaving like adults for a while. Probably won't happen, though.
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Re.P.P.S: I've found it possible, enjoyable, and even personally enriching to strike up conversations with random people on NYC subways. I'd imagine San Francisco would be similar. Here in Tampa Bay, however, striking up a conversation on public transportation is only interesting for a mental health professional practicing his diagnostic skills. A certain concentration of interesting people is required before one can have a chance at finding one who isn't busy updating his facebook status from his phone.
Programming has become an empirical science (video)
Who cares about oil? Oil is important for moving vehicles, but not so much for global energy consumption, like say, electricity.
?? I admit the last time I really coded in Obj-C was for NeXTSTEP. But back then init ultimately called malloc, and release ultimately called free. In any case, yes, a good GC can be faster as it takes advantage of cache effects.
The other view of this is that it's the point at which OSS hit the mainstream and was adopted as part of the business model of major for profit corporations as part of their offerings.

Realistically the world wasn't going to divide neatly into OSS and closed software, but merge as companies picked the best model for each sector, product and market.
There's always people who don't have large screens (even on desktops) or who don't have their browsers expanded to the size you are looking for. The goal of a website, before any sort of graphic design, is to communicate information to as many people as possible. By making the website difficult to read (or completely impossible in many situations (IE, iOS, etc)), you're alienating people. If you're freelancing, that's definitely not something you want to be doing. You never know who's going to be coming at you with a work offer.

Cross-browser/cross-device compatibility is one of the most tedious things about web design, but if you're trying to drum up business, especially _for_ web design, you need to demonstrate your competence at it. Your portfolio is really the best place to do this. I'll be honest, if I was thinking of hiring a web developer, I'd be put off by your portfolio, because you're putting form before function.
Awesome - they've fixed C-n since this was first posted on HN!
Or more likely distraction from their core CRM business would have made it difficult to compete, Siebel and SAP would have taken their high-end customers and Zoho their low end customers. Stuck between a pincer market move they would have been forced to sell to Oracle for a few hundred million dollars.

Salesforce five years wasn't anywhere near enough in the position that they could afford to throw tens of millions of dollars into a non-core product (which Amazon could easily do).

It easy to point out opportunities missed without looking at the cost of those opportunities.
> ...typed the person into his quantum-mechanically-mediated instantaneous conversation with ten thousand of the best-educated technologists on Earth.

Are you referring to HN?
Maybe the calculations should also take into account that the chances of the equity becoming worth anything at all is probably higher in a company that is able to bring in one or two rounds of financing. And that the exit value hopefully is higher. All the owners are in most cases diluted equally, including the ones making the decision. The total worth of your shares should be higher even counting the dilution, or you are working at the wrong company to begin with.
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when has paypal been known for defending their users? or even going the extra mile to talk and try to figure it out themselves? ... it's not only a nightmare to work with them as developer, it's also one to have them as a general service providers.
2.9% plus 30 cents a transaction wouldn't buy a lot of loyalty from me, either. If the Internet cheering squad sent them six figures, that would just about cover what it cost to ring legal and schedule, but not actually run, a meeting to decide what to do about this. Legal would, predictably, say that Paypal was not in the business of taking on risk for people whose business model is trolling Joe Lieberman.
>Have they restored the account yet?

Are you kidding me? That Machiavellian sanity-grinder gave Notch, a legitimate indie developer selling a game about digging through dirt, Hell on Earth just to get his money.

PayPal doing the right thing, snorts I'll sprout wings and shave my eyebrows off first.

I'd sooner trust the IRS to do right by me than PayPal.

Disclosure: My first entrepreneurial effort was annihilated in concert by UPS, PayPal, and eBay.
Except that Heroku for Django in the long term is likely to be Heroku (given they've said in the past they plan to expand to other languages).
Not passing W3C validator check can hardly be called sloppy and unprofessional. Try running Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Google, hell even super simple sites like Hacker news through W3C and see if they validate (hint: They don't).

Agree with point 2 though, that one should be fixed.
Good work, Heroku!
I wouldn't say better. I'd say those that thing something else is better are missing out on key elements that made "worse" superior. Basically, the "worse" option is worse in areas that don't matter, and the "better" options are better in areas that don't matter.

I'd be more inclined to question those baffled how something is "worse is better." Did they really understand the technological needs?
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Heroku wants to sell to salesforce
I think the claim is that Wikileaks is getting a crapton of publicity and hence donations and isn't really a non-profit organization, but in fact is designed to make the Wikileaks founders rich.

I think the solution to this claim is obvious: Wikileaks's budget should be 100% transparent to everybody. Is it? I don't know where it is. If it turns up somewhere, then we can judge for ourselves whether it is a scam; if it is not available, then Wikileaks is a hypocritical organization and the claim is probably true.
and heres the link to salesforce blog : http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2010/12/what-i-love-about-hero...
I disagree. Most of the time when people do stuff like this, they do it just so they can tell other people that they've done it. They don't do it for the experience, they do it for the bragging rights.

Note, I'm not talking about everyone that does it, just most people.
They give you free-ness up to a rather large number of pageviews/users/whatever, right? Could the process be smoothed to make the workflow as smooth as Heroku makes it, or do the differences in Google's infrastructure make that too much of a pain to automate?
>Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next?

Shut up before you jinx us all.
Just wondering: I can't find a date for those tests.. (testing was done on a 600 MHz Ultrasparc and most sources are from the 90s?).

Also i am wondering why pyparsing[1] isn't even mentioned in the "other parsers" section. Or boost::spirit[2].

[1] http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
[2] http://boost-spirit.com/home/

edit: Ok, i see. It's not about a standard module for parsing in python but they tried to find a good solution for parsing XML in PyXML. It recommends YAPPS as standard parser generator for python in the end. I guess one would have to redo this _today_ to come up with results on a modern machine with currently available libraries.
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I love Obj-C dearly. But Obj-C's reference counting scheme is, and always has been, much more cognitive load than a GC. In Java the above would be roughly:

public myObject(Number aNumber) {
someField = new SomeObject();
someOtherField = aNumber;
}

...and that's it. No dealloc, no forgetting to release, no forgetting to retain objects you hold onto, no trying to figure out how to handle cyclic references (or indeed if certain references are cyclic at all). Just set it and forget it.
Microsoft has a startup program called BizSpark that gives you access to nearly all of their software for free.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

Overview of the software packages included
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/4/15454442-CF17-4...

I believe last time I checked it was $99 and you could use it for 3 years before having to upgrade.
Sun and Novell were in the process of a pivot whereby they would have set their business model around open source. They just didn't do it well enough.
News release: SalesForce.com Acquires Heroku
I thought Salesforce's strategy was more to use force.com developers to build apps that add value back to the core Salesforce product. Trying to compete with AWS as a cloud for the masses is kinda pointless in terms of making any profit for your company, isn't it?