skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but on the web, there is no street on which to see sites next to each other.

I knew a jewellery company once which had two sites. One was all red and gold and stars and flashing things, the other was all purple and white and curvy things. The items on the purple posh looking one were 15% more expensive. Same products on each - heck, it was the same database, product description and images on each site!

Point is, this is the internet, you can do that kind of thing.
"Cloud" itself is often misused to the point where it simply means "the Internet".
Toyota Prius to Become Japan's Best-Selling Car Ever, Unseating the Corolla
Interesting excerpt: "They may decide to, for insurance purposes, blame some huge downtime expense on you. I can hear it now, "When we detected the intruder, we promptly took our system off-line. It took us two weeks to bring it up again for a loss in wasted manpower of $2 million." In some cases you might be better off just using the company's payroll system to cut you a couple of $10,000 checks. That way the government has a firm loss figure."

How insane.
If you ask for the authoritative servers for wikileaks.ch today, you'll find no fewer than 14 different authoritative nameservers, spread across eleven different autonomous systems, in eight different countries, from Switzerland to Canada to Malaysia. And if you ask any of those 14 servers where to find wikileaks.ch, they'll point you to one of three differently routed IP blocks, containing web server IP addresses with diverse geolocation: 78.21.16.0/21 (originated by Serverius, in the Netherlands), 46.59.0.0/17 (originated by Bahnhof, in Sweden), and 213.251.128.0/18 (originated by OVH in France).
There are -webkit- prefixes everywhere in the CSS. This isn't a cross-browser site.
I understand your points and pretty much agree with them. My issue is with the term "bubble," because it means different things to different people.

Originally, "bubble" means stock market bubble, and when one of those things bursts, it's really bad news.

You're using it to mean a relative handful of private investors who may be over-investing. That does not have the same kind of consequences.
For a bit more background, Parker Harris is one of the co-founders of Salesforce.com and responsible for all of it's technology and software development.
They boycott itself was deemed illegal, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott

> Under a 1921 ordinance, 156 protesters were arrested for "hindering" a bus, including King. He was ordered to pay a $500 fine or serve 386 days in jail.
Hm, SNES eh? I do believe I was cutting class to go over and play the Super Mario World demo at Target. There was a time limit on the demo where it would restart automatically, however I discovered it was controlled by external dip switches on the side of the machine. I have no idea how many people were standing behind me waiting.

One day I came back and found the dip switches epoxied in the 2 minute position.
Entertaining, as a lot of Heroku's infrastructure is built on Erlang.
Asking "how much should I expect to pay for editing, design, and layout" is like asking, "How much should I expect to pay for a software developer?" It depends on the expertise and experience of the person you're apt to hire, the size of the project, and a number of other factors. Not the least of which is "How awful is the text to begin with?" and "How much formatting is necessary?" and "How much of a PITA will this client be?"

That said, I'm a professional editor (as well as writer) who has bid $4,000 or so for a project that sounds similar to what you describe (though that was a full-length book). I'm an eensy bit well-known ::cough:: so I expect you can pay less; depending on the expertise of the book editor, you might need to pay more. (And I'm too busy right now, so that's not an offer of assistance -- just a ballpark number.)
> I think the scale of this attack is larger, but still

That's a pretty large but, when a DoS is, by nature, all about scale.
and what does it do beside let me make a comment?
Ignoring the ethical/moral/legal side of the matter, there a lot of sites that launch and create controversy. Even FB has significant controversy from time to time on their actions.

I think there are two kinds of "bad publicity". An example of the first would be as in the case of the DecorMyEyes guy. This guy was doing something completely illegal and taking advantage of customers for his own gain. This type of "bad publicity" was obviously warranted and resulted in him being arrested. This is truly "bad publicity" in my eyes.

The other type of bad publicity results around people not agreeing with someone else's moral/ethical views. Just because you or I may view something as being morally or ethically wrong does not make it illegal in the eyes of the judicial system. The press will run with stories that create controversy, and this site stirs the pot for sure. A lot of sites stir the pot though and cause debate in society. The fact that this guy was able to launch a site, get some traction, and generate attention from at least one major media outlet (there could be others, I just saw the Washington Post story though) is what makes the site even more interesting. The publicity he and his site are receiving, good or bad, is a testament to his ability to launch a product, gain traction, and generate publicity. In this sense the publicity is not necessarily "bad", it just isn't "good" either. The publicity has probably had the opposite effect in that he may now be getting requests from students at other schools, etc...

So to answer your question, yes there is such thing as bad publicity, but I believe you have to look at whether that publicity is a result of illegal actions or just a debate over whether you agree with someone else's moral/ethical stance.
What advantages does your search system have over better search systems than Lucene/Solr, such as Sphinx?
I'm glad that the Heroku team will continue running the company with some degree of independence. They've done great things for the community, and have amazing vision for the product's trajectory. Congrats, guys!
Am I the only one who doesn't think programming language when I read natural language?

I speak 4 at the moment; I would like to be able to read French since it was the international language up until 200-300 years ago and maybe some Greek to be able to read the ancient texts.

In terms of useful languages, I think Italian is the most enjoyable language although I know it I would like to master it.
wow. this is surprising. they are RoR honchos.
What I learned doing support for SyncPad
Yeah, I updated the title to reflect the update on TC.
Well not quite. Now you can laugh in people's face when they ask you to fax something and they will look sheepish rather than glaring at you.
I was 15. I was trying to run a small bbs on my Commodore Amiga. We were learning Turbo Pascal and wondering if this new "object oriented" approach to programming was going to catch on. (I think TP5 was the first realeas to include oo extensions.)

The wall fell. I was in Germany. It was nuts.
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No. I think with the purchase of Heroku it's clear they are betting big on Ruby.

I hope this is good for the Ruby community. It could go either way.
I'm not sure I agree with the blog post then. The Android docs certainly do not detail this kind of information either.

In fact, I've found the docs for Android to be of the "broad but shallow" variety. That is they cover everything (thanks to Javadoc) but they don't necessarily provide usage guides on the various APIs.

My opinion on Android development vs. iPhone is:

a. GC is convenient

b. The developer docs on Android are not nearly as good as Apple's

c. XCode (while not perfect) is less buggy than Eclipse for basic development activities. Eclipse just gets in the way most of the time and can't keep up with my typing speed which is really frustrating.

d. I like ObjC's dynamism a lot more than Java. This is a personal preference.

e. Its nice to be able to peer into the OS source on Android as the definitive answer for API questions but I suppose if the docs were better you wouldn't need to do that.

f. The Android APIs are full of pattern inconsistencies with their implementation on the whole compared to UIKit which make them more difficult to learn.

g. UI Layout on Android is abysmal compared to using Interface Builder.

i. Again - this is more of a Java thing, but Android lacks the ability to do conditional compilation. You have to go through build system/scripting gymnastics to get what you would get from a simple #IF statement in C.
I said I agreed with both of the parent's points, namely:

1. That's under "Ideally", not "Requirements".
2. I think that's a great idea.

:-)
By the URLs of some resources it looks like this is Skimmer 2.0 or something like that (e.g. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/webapps/skimmer/2.0/build/app-s...)
Happens everywhere.
We were told by one government customer that they weren't happy about the ethnicity/religion of our receptionist.

Not telling us to fire them of course - just a 'friendly briefing' of their 'security concerns'
Who's reading your Twitter DMs?
Why did US outpatient spending take off in 1983?
Resizing the window messes up the layout. Then it hangs saying it used too much memory.
I think it was 1992 that TBL was going around selling the WWW to different organizations. That's the year I worked on MIT's TechInfo, similar to gopher. TechInfo had great tools for information providers, but it was still an uphill battle getting departments to keep their info up-to-date. Since the WWW required a lot more knowledge and effort, it seemed hopeless to think you could ever base a campus-wide information system on it.

I didn't see TBL's pitch myself at that time, but the senior people on the project did, and they showed me the lame terminal browser. NeXT was the only graphical browser available. I agreed with them that hypertext was too unstructured. Give it to regular people and you'd have chaos.

When Mosaic introduced the IMG tag and people could actually embed images in hypertext, that's when the demos started to get impressive and the web took off.
Doesn't answer the question, but I wanted to mention that Chris Okasaki was (by a HUGE margin) the best professor I ever had in my life.

I took his Programming Languages and Translators class at Columbia where he basically taught how to rip apart languages and build some crazy things. Postscript compilers, Lambda Calculus interpreters, Regex parsers using lazy evaluation in Haskell, and other mad scientist stuff.

You were dazed and confused by much of the material (he'd expect you to learn a new language and a new way of thinking almost every assignment). At the end of the semester though, it would be hard finding something that intimidates you. I actually TAed the class the next time he taught it, just so I could interact with the material some more.

He's over at West Point now, which might be a better fit for him anyway (most of us tended to whine about how hard the assignments were :)).
Because upholding our American values -- freedom of the press, and the law holding people innocent until proven guilty -- is far more important than the government's preferences.
I saw it by chance while driving in Tampa and because of the "missile off California" hoopla convinced myself it was a contrail. Always nice to see a launch, even if not close up.
looks like Google Code is down. They said it would be readonly today for maintenance. So hopefully it'll be back up soon.
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As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the first web browser was indeed written in Objective-C, using the AppKit framework.
I'm wondering, as I'm not making any money (devoting time to a startup idea) right now, if anyone would be interested in a similar service for the markup?

I'm really quite good and would charge $15/page. I can offer impressive turn around times and even CMS(WordPress) integration for an additional flat-fee($250?).
I was 23 and I was starting my final year at Computer Science in Milan Italy. The last chapter of my paper work - finalized almost a year later - would report of a new software tool to browse information on the Internet called Mosaic. Since then I was using Gopher, WAIS and Veronica (was that the name?).
I was working on MIT's "Lucy" question/answer system for the deans, based on Sun RPC. It generated reports using LaTeX.
I think we all accept that another outcome can happen.

But the likelihood of independent growth for a platform of any type is incredibly low. For each Google how many Herokus and Friendfeeds are there?

The driving force behind very few independent companies is a lack of an IPO market. Without a payoff for VCs you have to grow organically through customer funding or sell to a big acquirer, or in rare cases pay off investors with debt.
While I understand the logic of your point, I think the assumption you make is that MasterCard will add in the costs of a possible DDos attack when considering whether they made the right business decision.

And I think the answer is no, although it's arguable. There is surely a point at which MC will try to do the "right" thing instead of the profitable thing, and it's easy to see how that point is between cutting off Wikileaks (which arguably is harming US national interests) and changing business strategy to appease hackers.
Is Copyleft Really Right for Open Source?
Somewhere in Europe I think.
Normally, I find the remains of partially-deleted comment threads on HN disruptive and irritating.

Normally.
Every Google code page is throwing 500 or 502 errors at the moment.
> This is demonstrated by the fact that they are using these apps on a daily basis

That's not true. People are using apps on their phones, not webapps. They're using apps on their TVs and tablets, not webapps. And people are actually paying for native apps, something no one is doing for webapps.

Seriously, you don't see any parallels between now and the late 90s? You don't think it's going to get drastically cheaper to produce native apps in the next couple years? The same thing happened in web development, a combination of better dev tools, more code libraries/frameworks, and more labor supply will drive costs down.
I believe that this is the point of what they're doing. They're hoping that this damages paypal to the point that merchants like you move to other payment processors.

What is happening to you is horrible. I'm sorry.
Law has always been "mob rule", with competitive courts competing to define what this entails.

Exactly. In the US we have a system of checks in balances to pit competing mobs against each other in a way such that it is sufficiently difficult for a mob to rule over a large population. But if the mob gets sufficiently large, they can rule. And likewise, for small geographic regions we often do have mob rule.
Interview with Taskforce CEO... "not another Twitter fart app"
Ever heard of graceful degradation?
While it was wordy, the use of www and "world wide web" added a certain cuteness and folksiness to the technology. This, along with the very simplicity of setting up a web page, helped fuel its adoption. WWW indicated that the technology was about community and universal access, and early art appearing on the web fed into this. The smiling-fat-spider-on-a-web and the Earth-meshed-with-circuits may have not seemed so inviting if it were just a web and not The World Wide Web!

Plus it sure was enjoyable to watch people on television stumble through double-U double-U double-U dot...
It seems very likely to me that the JVM is recognizing that "bar" and "baz" don't do anything and (after some warm-up) optimizing them away. Microbenchmarking JVM is hard.
For those who don't know, Lightning Source is owned by Ingram, one of the largest (if not the largest) book distributors.

Additionally, anyone interested in publishing should probably subscribe to "Book Business" magazine, a free trade publication.
Also had him, PLT and SoftE. I regret not "getting" what the was talking about at the time, also having the "dazed and confused" experience, as it was so at odds with most of the "Java school" stuff I had experienced in the program up to that point.

You might want to see http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/pubs.html for updated publications from him.
Private meaning only authorized access. Is there some form of privacy that includes unauthorized access?
Possibly East of Paris?
Where did you get that from? The link worked for me this morning but now doesn't, which makes me worry that google have killed the posting for some reason!?
I'm actually really excited about it as a customer. Heroku's solution is outstanding, but it was clear that they were having trouble scaling up customer support; this acquisition makes it more likely that they'll have the support staff needed to serve their customer base.

Big congrats to them!
Wikileaks cables on GitHub
'Gross insecurity' of high-tech locks exposed
I used to think the exact same thing. It looks insane from the outside. But when you cause a real incident at a large company, a good chunk of those loss numbers are easily traceable. $2MM on manpower alone is spectacularly high, but remember that a fully-loaded headcount/week could easily range from $3000-$4000. A company with thousands of servers will lose far more than 2 weeks in forensics work after a genuine breakin.

We're talking about companies with cash flows in the tens/hundreds of millions of dollars per day. It doesn't seem real to the kind of people who break into computers in the same way, say, a nuclear reactor does. But it's real.
They should highlight this to new viewers, I was about to complain about the lack of scrolling.
Show HN : Playing with GAE Channel API
I really don't like the "I stopped reading after that line" meme. It's basically a way of saying "I am militantly ignorant about the article under discussion because of my knee-jerk reaction to one sentence early in the article".
A developer with the abilities to create an app with the capabilities of FaceTime.
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I'd say they were similar to the credit ratings agencies* in the obvious conflict of interest in taking payments from the entities whose creditworthiness they "objectively" rate, except a little more willing to give A+ ratings to entities that don't even exist and rebill scammers. They're a non-profit, so there's probably nobody raking in particularly large sums of cash from their shady or sloppy ratings, but it would be daft to rely on them.

*who, if there was any justice in the world, would have become the first casualties of the credit crunch, along with their business model
That requires you to maintain a mail server of your own and everything that comes with that. I prefer to have pagers go off at Google's HQ instead of mine when something happens.

What features are you using in Gmail that I'm not getting in Google Apps? I have priority inbox and all the latest Labs experiments. I haven't heard of anything I'm missing.
Seattle Police Using Twitter to Recover Stolen Cars
yes, it really was! TBL's been trying to 'put the lid back on' and get the web closer to his original vision ever since!
Yes, Google code search: http://codesearch.google.com
Or a fishing boat. Or Hell, a small motorboat or even a rowboat.
A PSD file does not a web design make.
Flurry Secure $15 Million in Funding Led by Menlo Ventures
www.builditwith.me is a place I've seen and liked.

Getting involved in open source projects is another way.
Future of Rackspace Cloud Products - VP of Product weighs in
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Would you be cutting it up onto a 'backbone' of our choosing (like 960.gs or blueprint) ? (Obviously this will depend on the overall design, but hopefully the idea is clear).
Does Super-High IQ= Super-Low Common Sense?
502 -- bad gateway.
Google's 20 year archive has a lot of fun little posts like this.

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
to get a design for <$30, your not going to notice a huge difference in acquisition for the $5
That's quite a bold move. Lucene after all has the best part of a decade's worth of enhancements and optimisations.
I don't think the $5 makes a huge difference: and this way, the designer has more chance that people will allow him to post the design into his portfolio.

I'm pretty sure he is not doing it for the money, but rather to get some experience and build up his portfolio.
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Well, as you said, you had "this crazy idea"
sounds crazy indeed!

Hope to see some designs in the lastest section ;)
With all due respect, the current problems with terrorism have roots that go much deeper than the recent activities of our government(s).

A lot of, if not most of, the current tension in the Middle East dates back to just after WWII, when someone decided it would be a good idea to stick all the people that no one wanted (but wouldn't come right out and say it) in the middle of a bunch of people who were ill-prepared to absorb them (and didn't particularly want them, either).

That pretty much paved the road to our current little slice of Middle Eastern hell.
Glad you find it helpful estherschindler.

To date, I've sold maybe 500-600 of Zero to Superhero, mostly the ebook format. I marketed Zero to Superhero through the website and blog (won't mention the urls because I'm not trying to sell anything), and answered questions on related discussion forums (I put a link to my website in my sig).

The most sucessful of these marketing vehicles was the blog. I "linkbaited' posts I thought were compelling on Digg (which was huge at the time).

Sales for Economtricks, on the other hand, have been quiet. I've sold maybe a dozen. Then again, I never marketed it in any serious way - just a landing page and some SEO.
The even cooler thing is that to this day browsers are correctly displaying the page.
(define (error . args) #f)
(define (class x y z)
(lambda (d)
(case d ('x x) ('y y) ('z z) (else (error "Invalid slot ~a" d)))))

(define obj (class 'this 'is-a 'test))
(display (obj (read)))
(newline)

The Stalin scheme compiler, if I read the output correctly, makes a
separate type for 'x, 'y, and 'z. Then it does the dispatch using a
switch statement (in the c code) over the three symbol types. This seems
quite resonable to me; The C compiler will probably produce a jump table.

Note that I was unable to get the compiler to produce dispatch code at all
without dispatching on the result of READ.
The quickest you can complete SM is about 1:50 or so...
Well technically you don't have that assurance right? Since anyone can hit your app's "store" URL from any browser.