skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what I mean by a 'dynamic' language. I know it when I see it. ;)

Well, less facetiously: if I can add in-language functions to the image, using the language facilities, while the deployed application is running/paused, I think of that as dynamic.

Data is an interesting thing. There's a crossover point between structured textual data that can be sucked in and when you want to start doing relational queries and stores. Then there's how data is handled in the program. The methods you describe above are very useful, but - insofar as I know of - I think they can be reimplemented without massive grief in other languages, depending on extensibility. Lua has a good reputation for speed; I take it you use it as a standalone?
When was this? I've been in Phoenix for 20 years have never heard of anyone here saying such a thing.
When to use volatile keyword in Java?
Is Atlas Shrugged the second most popular book next to the bible? A cite would be cool. Also, nobody likes people like John Galt or those who try to follow him; some of us think that there is as much blind faith to strictly follow economists silly models as it does to follow any other religion.
Kind of. Its called WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
Not being stupid on the Internet could be considered relevant for Internet entrepreneurs
XCode 4 will be free with Lion. Anyway, who cares? GCC version in 4 is the same as in 3.
It's not just a question of weakly enforced property writes. If you have the nicest shack you are far more likely to be robbed etc.

Social disorder feeds off it's self, when you live in a shanty town and are likely to be robbed it is much more reasonably to spend an extra 5$ on alcohol and get to enjoy it vs invest it in stuff that you might not keep for vary long, do that once a week for 5 years and your talking about 1,300$. Some of the hidden advantages of building codes are allowing people to build nicer houses without standing out from their community.
Oh, it's on the list, trust me. I've got fossil infrastructure in here over a hundred years old - in a way I feel like I should get some archaeologists in to catalog it before I get it all out.

The scary thing is that the basement lights are still on the old wiring - roughly 1920's vintage. Fortunately, no gaslights left, although I do have one fitting in the upstairs sitting room!
"Greg's expertise isn't."

ftfy
As a junior engineer I worked on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station: Units 6 and 7 or K6/K7. I assisted in control system designs for the reactor internal pumps (RIPs) including supporting seismic qualification of the RIP motor controllers. Later I was the lead system engineer for the Feedwater Control System for Lungmen Units 1 and 2 going up in Taiwan. No way to prove it so I could just be a dog posting on the internet.
It actually isn't a mistake so I can understand your confusion. #111 or #222 can often be used without losing readability but this doesn't mean black is a mistake. When's the last time you went to a website and said "This text is just too dark!". Hopefully I don't come off too rude, the idea that black as a text color is a mistake is almost offensive to me. Different perspectives.
Japan : Person Finder
I have avoided Quora because it seems to combine the drawbacks of Wikipedia with the drawbacks of social sites. It has the lack of respect for contributors of Wikipedia and the lack of respect for reality of social sites.

ADDED: My time is limited and I heed to apply it how I think it will be most useful. Since my major interest is in learning, I have been reducing my internet usage back toward books anyway.
It's really simple to program in ASM or using ISE/Verilog. going to a low tech approach it can be done on graph paper.

No reason why it's specific..Simple, 'easy to port'. I was doing a little bit of research about a theory I had but when I figured out enough I never fully completed that little project.+2 years prior.
If being able to update code from a REPL while it's running counts, then yes, though OCaml and Haskell (AFAIK, less experience there) usually involve more edit-compile-reload, to take advantage of the utterly superior compile-time checking. OTOH, Erlang handles "change-in-flight" even better than Lisp does. Of the four, I prefer Erlang, but they're all respectable.

I use Lua both standalone and with C. (Its convenience with linked-in C code won me over from Python, actually.) It's my favorite general purpose language. Nothing against the great performance, but it was a great language before LuaJIT even existed.

Datalog also has a lot of potential as a data format. The industry seems to forget anything invented more than a fortnight ago, though, so it's probably passe until somebody charismatic finally invents it.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/iptables/traversingoftables.html
Table nat is traversed <b>before</b> filter table.
Therefore, the rule iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT is unnecessary.
Earthquakes definitely alter the Earth's gravity field, because they change the Earth's mass distribution. These changes have been routinely noticed by people who track satellites.

In the early 2000s there was a mission called GRACE to precisely measure the gravity field and its temporal variation. It's important to know it exactly for all sorts of purposes.

Here's some nice results from GRACE:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/grace-images...

The second item there shows a change in the acceleration due to gravity that was caused by the Sumatra earthquake of December 2004. It is measured in nano m/s^2.

The movie above that item shows the changes in gravity due (mostly) to sloshing water on a global scale.
If you feel the need to justify nmap being writting in C, which you shouldn't, just remember: The people who wrote nmap know C, and managed to write fucking nmap in it.

If you want a better one written in something else, then get cracking...
Rather http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
This characterizes his entire attitude better than anything I've seen so far: "too much like stuff I did when I was 12". That, and some of my early Web customers in the 90's. I cringe just to read this stuff.
Good catch. How many people included in this 90% use, say, the official web client from the Apple store in a pinch or perhaps from work on the sly?
Wait until they figure out the mighty powers of rc4 and other shitty stream ciphers beware... once the info$ec experts start skimming wikipedia more for probability distributions and cryptography we are doomed! doomed!
Do you work in the field? I don't know that you actually "fixed" that.
I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. Are you an avid C programmer? Or do you just really like nmap? I am asking seriously.
The article is very specifically geared towards producing a prototype quickly, not producing a great design. Therefore, similar looking sites don't really factor into the issue being addressed.

You might also enjoy: https://github.com/mbriggs/zurb-awesome-buttons [demo: http://www.zurb.com/blog_uploads/0000/0617/buttons-03.html] - can be installed using bundler and is cleaner than the button gem.
I believe that claim is a reference to a 1991 survey conducted by the Library of Congress of 2,000 Book Of The Month readers, so take that as you will. Atlas Shrugged has sold around 7 million copies since it was published, which puts it at around half as many copies as The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
This has to be one of the biggest perks to being a Northeastern student. See some of you there!
Yeah, I remember the day when my default action on thinking up an "awesome game-changing idea" became immediately looking up who had already tried it and why it didn't work.

Older, sadder, wiser.

It gets better, eventually you think of an idea that some tried that did work and feel a little better.
Another way to get frontpage - blog about getting on the frontpage.
John Galt is a fictional character in Atlas Shrugged.

Rand's philosophy is not about economics - it's a complete system, with distinct metaphysical, epistemological and moral positions, all of which give rise to applications in politics, art, science and other fields of human endeavor. (Not unlike Aristotle.)

Here's the citation for Atlas Shrugged being only 2nd to the Bible in popularity:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U54zOrN...
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The Economist disagrees with the conclusion that higher prices are due to speculation: "Studies have shown that commodities that are not traded on exchanges have tended to rise as fast, and be as volatile, as those that are." http://www.economist.com/node/17913011?story_id=17913011
but when you buy the iPad, you have to sync it to the computer in order to use it right?!? I'll take the USB port any day over having to sync to iTunes...

and "if the package says Made for iPad buy it and it will work as soon as you plug it in" -> this is the whole concept behind having USB drivers for a certain platform/OS. if I have the driver for OSX, it will work...

Apple might never add a USB port.. but they will surely come out with a dongle sarcasm
Go to the CS department websites of universities that you respect. My two favorites are MIT (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu...) and Stanford (http://www-cs.stanford.edu/courses). Pick a bunch of courses that seem interesting to you. Download their syllabi, find the section that says "Textbook", and go buy it off Amazon. Read it. If you want, you may also want to download the lecture notes and a bunch of homework assignments and give them a try as well.

You're in a better position than someone who's strong in theory and weak in practice. There's a relatively straightforward roadmap to improving your theory skills - it'll take some time, your undivided attention, and intellectual engagement with the work, but all the steps are laid out for you in the courses and textbooks. There are often no such guidelines for improving practical skills, because most of the knowledge is locked up in the heads of practitioners, and they're only aware that they know it when it comes in handy.
For full disclosure, WorldVision is a Christian evangelical organization that only hires Christians for its staff: http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/about/hr-requirements...

I don't mean to deter anyone from donating. I just thought people might like to know about the charity before they donate.
Thank you goo-- we've had a number of complaints about the speed of the web app and we're definitely focused on speeding that up. What has been holding back that development is that all the buzz we've gotten thus far has been around the mobile apps, so we've been working on making those valuable and bug free. We will be moving up the priority of speeding up the web app.

Spreading our focus across three products and 50 cities so early on was probably a mistake, but we will make up for it.
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Flooring is the element which provides a better look and feel to your home. Woods plays a counterpart in our lives because we uses lot of wooden products in general lives such as furniture, building structure and decorative elements.
The global speculative frenzy sparked riots in more than thirty countries and drove the number of the world’s “food insecure” to more than a billion.

Sorry, they did no wrong. They live in the USA and they have the right to manage their trading/strategies/prices the way they like. As a Tunisian citizen, I'm looking for the government to secure food and energy for the population. We have enough lands and water. This is actually a good thing: Solve the problem once in a time and stop the dependency to foreign countries.

On a related note, what happened in Tunisia was a bubble and not a revolution. The bubble burst, destroyed the political system as it was intimately related to the economical one. I'll leave that for a longer article I'll be publishing this summer, which explains and reveals many facts TVs and media are unaware about.
"because none of the banks sell what they hold, the price goes up; because the price goes up, more people make money on their positions; because they make more money on their positions they buy more stuff and don’t sell what they hold; and on and on forever"

That is until the bubble pops, those who got in late and can't sell will make a loss. The bid-ask spread widens, in particular there is glut of people wanting to sell at high prices, whilst there are few cautious buyers willing to offer lower prices.
I'm talking about the OS, not an editor. If you have to touch mouse or trackpad ever, you're doing it wrong.

As noted elsewhere though, you do need to turn on keyboard accessibility. And as for what's missing--window sizing. That's a free or $10 add on depending on how slick you want it.
Introducing NowJS or "How to make a chat server in 12 lines of code"
> the primary culprit is the reinflating of the commodities market that helped drive the Great Financial Crisis.

The author doesn't claim any special knowledge, yet makes a rather vacuous guess: "The primary culprit [for the reinflating of the commodities market] is the reinflating of the commodities market"

He's arguing that the reason commodities (in particular oil) is so expensive now is that commodities are expensive.

There are many domains where I lack any sort of expertise, and I defer to the experts for their analysis and opinions. It doesn't appear that the author maintained the same restraint.
The VC "name game"
Out of the box means without third party add on. Changing a pref is available in the box.
i might be mistaken, but have you tried apple + ctrl + left/right arrow?
"Think about this, have you ever seen a single Xoom ad featuring a person actually using and enjoying the tablet?"

Agreed. The only commercial I keep seeing for the Xoom has a man walk up to the Xoom and touch it and then some soft of robot/alien ship materializes around him (transformer style), then it looks like he is piloting the ship somehow but he is really just swiping the Xoom with his finger. It looks like it is in the future, but it's dark and depressing.

The iPad commercial show grandparents laughing while they watch their grandchild open a present on their birthday via facetime on their iPad.

I honestly can't see why people aren't relating to the Xoom.
Not sure why I'm bothering to respond since you're being rather trolly.. but neither. I rarely program in C, and I rarely have a use for nmap.

Rather I just intensely dislike when people pick language choice to focus on. You pick your language based on what your team knows, and if you can ship with it. Picking it for any other reason just makes you come off in a PHB type of way. If you have real criticisms and suggestions to make, then do so and make the world a better place in the process.
It's not about a trade off between syncing or a USB port.

At least the Made for iPad is a program that places guarantees that it works, it's controlled and places confidence in the user that this product is pretty much worry free.
GNU is not a technology, it's a movement. And to get all Marxist up on this joint, the building blocks for a new movement is created long before the leader is conscious of the need for one; the status-quo automatically provides an anti- checklist to motivate mobilization. One only has to scream "down with the government!" in a poor neighborhood to prove this; no further deliberation is needed, as the audience comes equipped with its own reasons to revolt.
I agree that this can work for some things, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree on whether it can work on anywhere near the scale that ads work on.
"We can find source code for such things on the net to help us write it. It's just a few lines of code."
By the way, I didn't say Socialism wasn't defined. I clearly said the assumptions that he laid out were not defined. The larger ideas, like the goal of life. I don't think those concepts are addressed often, they are assumed. Meaning is more basic than truth.
Someone from Norway told me that Angry Birds became popular first in Scandinavian countries because of a famous athlete mentioned it in an interview after he had lost an important match. Apparently the athlete had wasted so much time on Angry Brids that he didn't practice his sport. Popularity then jumped from Scandinavia to the UK and finally to the US.
My iPad has a USB port.. it's a dongle, and everything from keyboards to headphones works.
hey, i'm in dallas too. we should connect.
Love the passion, but you might want to rerecord it. The high pitch squeal is unbearable.
I thing Pilgrim's Progress is number 2 in the States. At least I think that's still true.
You bring up an interesting phenomenon: well-developed open source environments share a cut-throat competitive culture for consumer mindshare rather similarly to multinational corporations. I wonder if there is a scalability issue in human management where at some point we go berserk trying to define the mainstream.
Good clean look, like the ability to instantly view without signing in, though I can see good and bad from that as well. First its a low barrier of entry to observe, but that could deter others from as openly engaging, and also was slightly confusing to need to sign in when it appear to already be live.

Also, is there a need to require a signed in user, or could you allow anonymous users as well? It seems like that would really improve engagement. Finally, is any ability for users to moderate/administer certain chats, it wasn't immediately clear that there was?
So, the only thing preventing the iPhone 4 or either iPad from being an FM radio receiver is software? a suitable antenna?

I doubt it's Apple policy, as the iPod Nano has FM and basic radio timeshifting capabilities
That was explained in a FAQ previously on the site. OKWS is meant for serving highly dynamic content, while they feel Apache is better at static and more modest dynamic content. Their original philosophy was that segregating dynamic and static serving improved security, stability, and speed, though that's mostly been nullified by cheaper hosting.
Of course, I've dealt with many search problems using A* (in particular, in the context of machine translation). I understand the algorithm and the proof of optimality. And I agree, the algorithm is very simple (not much different than uniform-cost search)--the complex part (in more general applications) is the heuristic function.

I don't see where I dismissed A*.
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There is definitely a correlation, at least recently, between availability of credit and the increase in commodity prices.

One way to explain this is to look at house prices, and how real-estate agents 'value' these. They will value a property based on the past value of this property, the general increase in price levels since the last sell, and the price of recently sold properties in the area. Properties are not homogeneous, however the 'value' of all properties in a given area will be affected by the price changes of those being bought/sold.
One difference is that the sharing is opt-in. You don't have to give up all your stuff, just to be "in". When it's part of a government, it's not optional.
How I Conceived A Simple WP7 App While Getting High – And Built It in 2 Hours
Ask PG: When will HN get https authentication?
I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page. When can we get https auth?
That report you linked also says that the number of smartphone users is up 60% vs. a year ago. So the negligible decrease of 0.3% is pretty meaningless when that ~25% is now 60% larger than it was a year ago.
Why Do Customers Buy?
I can't argue with that. I've personally tried to write a toy OS on the x86 architecture. The amount of processor documentation you have to get through is mind boggling, after which you're still left with documentation for the plethora of peripheral device. I view this as a failure of the PC architecture. There's no reason for things to be so complex.

OTOH, I know a few folks who work with all kinds of micros. Once these folks were trying to interface a SD card reader with a tiny LCD screen that had an onboard processor. They had (had to have, in fact) low-level access to the card reader. You had to know the ins and outs of whatever filesystem the SD card was formatted with because you only had raw access to the card. As in, you could go to an address on the card and do something to the bytes stored there, and that's it. After diddling the card reader interface for a while, they eventually figured out how to get data on the card, but there was a problem: sometimes the card reader wouldn't write the data to the card at all. After trying to pinpoint and fix the issue in code, an entire night of hacking later, the problem turned out to be a faulty power adapter.

It was a fun night. One that a "modern" computer couldn't afford you.
My kid's $69 DVD player has a USB port. I don't expect it to support a TV tuner, but it works with any FAT32 storage I've stuck in it.
DIY Music Management Platform Nimbit Raises $1.25 million
I guess getting a lot of exposure would result in to higher download numbers and possibly, they look at these (the dl numbers too) to gauge the 'featured'-ability of apps?
AnandTech's review of the newest Macbook Pros 13" & 15"
I've been waiting for a full detailed review of these puppies for a while now.
Interview About Redis, the Data Structure Server
Not many users know what "FAT32" is.
> All the things that use GPS and have some reason to expect Madagascar to be in a certain location would need to be updated.

In this case, various street turn-by-turn GPS based systems (for locations in JP) would now be off by 2.4m (assuming the article is accurate). Likewise the ground coordinates for runways would be shifted slightly (if I'm following this correctly).
i don't always have enough cash or i run out of cash in my pocket long before "cash" in bank

don't want to carry $2200 to unknown neighborhood to buy SV650

i like the automatic logging of purchases cash lacks

many other reasons cash is stupid
"Quite a bit" is very relative. I think there are a bunch of individuals who have developed apps and sold it for some decent $.

But on a larger scale, there are few venture-backed cos without formal API agreements who have not run into trouble. Those are really the ones I was addressing. Like you said, ones who succeed have an exit plan in which case they are not really relying exclusively on the APIs so it becomes a moot point.

A guy building an app on top of an API and the app taking off is still building "cute things" in my book. And yes, every now and then you can make a quick buck from the cute thing.
Why are websockets only useful to talk to servers? Why wouldn't the be good for p2p?
Yes. To have a great big banner across the front page of techcrunch would be cool, big out of the budget for the moment. Are you aware of a nice list of startup/tech sites..with marketing a new startup in mind?

Many thanks!
Nor can many figure out the ins and outs of which video formats their device will deign to play.