skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe it needs to be re-tested in court with a nice egregious example. From your wiki link:

Although border-searches are exempted from the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement, they are still subject to the amendment's reasonableness requirement.[3] Whether a border search is reasonable depends on a judicial analysis that balances the intrusion into an individual’s legitimate privacy and dignity interests against the government’s legitimate interest in the subject of the search.[4]

If Mr. Ioerror's reading and can figure out who to sue, I'm good for a few hundred bucks on the legal fund.
The emails don't read 'fake,' writes Henry Blodget

Really. How exactly? Blodget appears to qualify this claim (in the Business Insider article) by basically saying "well, they haven't been proven fake yet, so we are suspicious that means they are real".

Ahem.

To me (bearing in mind I'm theoretically supposed to be good at this stuff :D) they look like they are probably faked. The language similarities between the two examples are extremely telling; for example, the odd punctuation (or lack of) visible in both emails strikes me as identical.

I think "suspicious until proven real" is the right approach here.
Despite all of the weirdness of JavaScript, the lack of implicit return is it's biggest design flaw imho. The functional/scheme-like virtues of JS are well touted, but this small missing feature means implementing them always requires the slight but constant overhead of ending every expression with 'return', which then means that programming in a way which should be natural to javascript, isn't.
Looks amazing!

On the Rock Melt browser the search function on #filter-store disappears if I hover in the input field. Just a heads up. :)
I agree, this will only make unscrupulous users create new accounts to get more attention to their links (if they don't care about karma).
Total energy consumption of the world: 474 exajoules.
Total solar energy absorbed by earth: 3,850,000 exajoules

But your argument is even more rudimentally answered as such: energy captured by solar panels is still in the Earth's atmosphere. It'll appear later as heat anyways, once its energy is used practically. If you want to counter global warming with solar panels directly, they would have to be situated above the atmosphere, and NOT transmit any energy down to the surface.
Before viewing the article I thought this was referring to the iPhone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicwin/id372927221?mt=8
Everyone has already addressed the duplicate card issue, so the only beef I actually have is not being able to hit the arrow keys to select the stores that turn up in a search.

For example, I type "Amazon" and I see "Amazon.com" in the drop down, so I tap the down arrow to select it but I can't seem to.

Other than that, love the site and its design. Good luck!
In Python (yes, the heresy of using Python in a lisp article), you can define a closure this way:

def foo(x):
y = x
def bar():
print y
return bar

>>> z = foo(1)
>>> z()
1

The value of y is preserved, even through it is not assigned in the function bar (outside of its lexical scope). You can pass bar around all you want, and it will maintain its value of y. Even if you create another instance of bar, they will retain their individual values of y.
Surely the development efforts on Kiln have been to counter this assumption, no? Have you used Kiln, and if so, what are your thoughts?
It kind of says a lot about the language when you need to invent another language to make it safer and more enjoyable to use.
Don't know if it's legal or not, but would be fascinating if he snagged an audio recording of the entire process next time.
I don't see anything in the GP about being offended. And I totally agree; I automatically and almost unconsciously take an article less seriously if it's got glaring and common errors.

I also disagree with your characterization of the amount of work that went into the blog post. From the number of screenshot examples and the overall structure of the piece, it looks to me like the result of a significant amount of work.

That said, direct feedback (like through the links provided at the bottom of the article) is probably a better way to let the author know about (and correct) the mistakes than a comment on HN.
Since fogus is responding here: Other than hitching your wagon onto the fantastic hype storm that Node.js has generated, which I must say is a good move overall, reading your target description, why not start with Haskell or Erlang? You could start from there and mutate out but actually have a library base to start from. Or one of the languages sitting on top of Erlang like Reia. (Or discover that you don't need to mutate away after all.)

Starting from scratch is going to be difficult at this point; by the time you even have a half-decent stack you're going to be way behind.

(At the very least... you do realize this has been done and you don't have to start from scratch, right? Rather a lot of Node.js users have exactly the cognitive holes I'd expect from not knowing that Node.js is at best "keeping up", rather than being anything like cutting edge. And I'd say this style of programming was actually on its way to the dust heap of history before being brushed off and gotten a shiny new coat of paint sprayed on... it really doesn't work very well....)
it seems it does have something like that, at least from what I can understand from techcrunch

> Amazon says it will be pushing “special offers directly on your Kindle”, including things like $10 for a $20 Amazon gift card, and $6 for 6 Audible books.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/amazon-announces-ad-support...

EDIT:
ah, it was at the end of the amazon page actually :)
RTFA

"Facebook almost certainly has a forensic analysis of Mark Zuckerberg's hard drives and email boxes from this period, because these drives would have been the same ones analyzed in the Winklevoss lawsuit," writes Blodget. "Perhaps the drives show different versions of the emails in question--or no emails at all."
Some combination of #4 and #5 actually happened to me once. Naturally I quit, and despite giving notice to two separate departments, HR didn't know to expect me for an exit interview until I contacted them.
How about Node.as? Flash doesn't get much love these days but I've always thought ActionScript 3 would make a great server side language. It's more like other OOP languages, has an event model like JavaScript (sync or async), and doesn't have many of JS's idiosyncrasies.

Edit: http://haxe.org/ is based on AS3
Thanks for the compliments on the design. We'll fix those two issues.
What the hell is this crap doing on Hacker News?!?!?!
I think maybe you mean to say that you wish JavaScript had block scope. Lexical scope, it has.
Farewell, Flip Camera
I believe changing the arrow to a plus (or another symbol... circle?) that would change colors (highlight?) when clicked would fix the "no feedback" feeling.
I was pretty shocked that New Twitter has a meg of custom js - the new UI doesn't seem that complex...
More the latter, I suspect. Your file is flagged "up to no good". Nobody wants to be the official that let the terrorist get away, so they all do sufficient screening that if anything happens later they can say, "There was nothing I could do to prevent that. We questioned him for a few hours, but without a warrant we needed to respect his rights and let him go."

The officials are thinking less about how this process inconveniences the traveler and a lot more about the shit storm that will ensue should they let another underwear bomber on a plane.
It being a browser extension has got me thinking a bit more.

Having done some google apps integration myself I understand why some people are going down that route, but on the other hand I wonder if it's really a good trend.

How long is it going to be before some extensions start stepping on each others toes by accident? Kind of shows google really need to start letting developers have a bit more flexibility. The most annoying thing they do is shove your app in the 'more' dropdown, vastly decreasing visibility.
More like a "seed-stage screenplay fund"
"I'd (personally) prefer it if it worked like C, and a variable was defined from the "var" statement until the next closing brace."

It does work like C. The scoping you're talking about was introduced in C99.
Physician Recruiting
"That which convinces is not necessarily true, merely convincing" -- Nietzsche

Because this article is not about succeeding in business, but in management consulting...
Well, the wacky coercion rules are just one of many Javascript gotchas. I agree that most of them won't affect an experienced javascript programmer, but that doesn't mean its not a language fault. For example, in C, most programmers will know to check bounds or to use strncpy instead of strcpy, but a lot of C code that has buffer overruns still slips through.

My point is that any language fault can be memorized and worked around, but that doesn't make it go away. Also, I've noticed a lot of non-experts using javascript, so if the obvious solution isn't the correct one (using == vs using === for example), then that does cause real problems.

Note that I'm not saying Javascript is an especially bad language, just that it has, in my opinion, some severe faults.
Just use PHP-FPM instead, it's easier and scales better.
I run PHP, Django/Python and Perl without a problem at a single domain.
NGINX allows to run almost anything as long as you are able to attach the socket of what you want to output towards NGINX.
The problem here is it is somewhat obvious that someone waited until FB was worth something before putting out the legal claim(the lawsuit)..What?

Look at the tone of the emails back and forth between MZ and claimant...given that tone would not a reasonable person make a legal claim when FB moved to CA?

That means there is quite a bit missing in the story on both sides...so it comes down to who has the most to loose...FB or claimant..

Since FB has the most to loose if this gets into full court
hearings I see FB making an attempt to settle..Why?

FB at several 100 billion dollars in valuation probably does not need the disclosure that valuation may be in error due to past behavior of the founder/CEO not to mention the obvious decrease in stakeholders values if the claim is true.
Wow, what a great service - it's nice to see that there are other .Net devs out there in the startup world building cool stuff. I'll be using this for my next site!
Sliderules can be useful, if you're proficient, for performing repeated calculations where only one variable changes. You can slide the indicator along and produce a series of numbers quickly and easily.

I have my grandfather's sliderule as a keepsake, and got fairly decent at using it a few years back. I've fallen out of practice now, so if I wanted to produce a series of numbers it'd be quicker for me to write a little python program than try to remember how to use the sliderule.
The New York Times was writing about concentrated solar power as early as 1868, in the context of the imminent exhaustion of coal.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A10FB3854...
I suspect that homeland security does not fall under FoI but I could be wrong
Why do people keep doing this now? Just posting quotes from the article on their own as comments? I cannot see any conceivable point to it. You could not get closer to noise unless you posted bytes from /dev/urandom.

Please stop. I've read the article. I don't care in the slightest which part you found most amusing.
VMware livecasting developer-related announcement
GoPro and Flip were never competitors. If Flip got killed by anything, it's by smartphone.
The Zuckerberg in that email sounds exactly like the Zuckerberg in "The Social Network."

In other words, like a fabrication.
The Cocoa Text System
Good point, I was trying to shorten the subtitle of the article into something less than 80 characters. The end result could have been more precise.
Hmm. It seems like all it does is take the existing canvas API and let you chain your calls together into a big non-debuggable wad. It just seems like a way to enable bad coding style, rather than adding any useful functionality.

Can anybody who's used this tell me if there's any advantage to using this library in terms of actual programming (like the helpful object stuff in http://easeljs.com/ for instance)?
From the business insider article "[if they were fake] we imagine DLA Piper's investigators would already have exposed it"

I agree w/Biz Insider - A big tech law firm that is almost certainly working on contingency rather than billing $500/hr is a fair indication that there's some meat to this case.
When two crappy trading engines merge, what do you get?
I like Stephen Fry's take on grammar and 'correctness':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
Slide rules enhance understanding of the functions used (mostly logarithm & trig) and require keeping mental track of orders of magnitude(so they help avoid _big_ mistakes in quick calculations).

Slide rules are primarily visual and manipulated non-digitally. Using one is quite relaxing. The calculator interface demands "numbers as a sequence of digits" and you must type each digit and operation. But with a slide rule, numbers are values (usually 3-digit) on a number line instead. The analog nature of the computation fits the human brain well IMO.

My favorite was a circular slide rule since it eliminated multiplications (logarithmic additions) that were off the scale (which on most slide rules mandated a shift of the slide to the opposite side).

One of the initial attractions of electronic calculator when they first became commonly available was the increased number of significant digits, yet it is amazing how much was done previously using only three.
Notes from Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror) on his detainment in Texas this morning
Yeah I mixed my units. We'd have to assume that's a peak figure and that it continued for a full second (or equivalent) to fix my comparison. I suspect the peak output was much briefer than a full second. Probably best to throw out my original comment.
How long before we see a completely free Kindle?
Aha, okay, originally I thought you were saying, "Just bootstrap and quit whining," but now I see your point was much more nuanced.

I guess it all comes down to individiuals making opportunities within a system that is dysfunctional (to whatever degree).

Personally, I don't see it as socialism vs. capitalism but more of a self-interested bureaucracy vs. "good government" problem.
PrivateFlock, 1 week of zero downtime..on the Twitter API
You would have to prove he lost his rights for saying stuff. The govt would probably respond that he lost his rights for associating with and participating in a movement with the purpose of undermining the government.
The Airport of the Future: The Aerotropolis
It is an open program. Newbies as well as professionals are welcome. There's a dedicated support team helping you out with any kind of affiliate questions regarding this program.
I also doubt DLA Piper would file this without some due diligence
IIRC, he has done both. They refuse to release the contents or even tell him the name of the right file to ask for.

The EFF and ACLU have both tried to get something to happen here...
So first of all, the demographics may be at play here.

Second of all, if yahoo is "powered by bing" that basically means that bing in itself did not win anything, they just took an entire existing user base and replaced one engine with another. Its like if secretly all ford engines were replaced with toyota ones, and toyota claims to have gained market share. Its true technically, but on a user level its not users flocking to them, its just the fact of life that happened due to a takeover. Note yahoo allowed paying to get better rankings, so those who used it were already used to shit results.
Right, I wouldn't mind the first option. I'd almost expect it, but there is something about giving me ads from things completely unrelated to books that gets me.

Not that it's a big deal; I will not be using this option. Just wanted to make a point of concern for when a website over-reaches its verticals.
"So yes, reading a bottom-up program requires one to understand all the new operators defined by the author. But this will nearly always be less work than having to understand all the code that would have been required without them."

I think this quote (from On Lisp) is not true in practice, for most people. People find it easier to grasp an instance of a pattern or abstraction they already know, than to grasp a new abstraction altogether. It's only after a certain amount of repetition of a new pattern of instances that the need, and understanding, of the new abstraction is understood. Below a certain multiple, it's better not to use the more compressed encoding.

One measure of how maintainable any given piece of software is might be the average portion of the whole one needs to understand to modify a part. There's a tension between reuse (of all kinds) and modularity; reuse increases dependencies, while modularity bottlenecks them. Modifying something that has a lot of dependencies is a hazardous undertaking, because you need to understand more of the program to ensure you get everything right. A piece of software without such intense reuse, with more redundant encoding, is easier to modify without understanding the whole - and will probably be less work to modify too, as the less connected nature of the dependency graph will reduce the impact area.
Crockford wrote a book titled "JavaScript: The Good Parts", which more or less implies there are bad parts as well.
I would imagine that they find it easier to compute the aggregate and display it rather than maintain different values and display it to people (probably helps them at the scale at which they operate? -- lesser things they show, lesser damage it does?).
VCs never talk about these two things, but they happen all the time
I would have liked to see this go to trial and set a precedent. That's probably why Sony settled - it saw that the opinions were running against them.

Consumer rights have been taking a beating lately.
In Czech localization, the button actually says translation of "recommended", as do the message that gets on you wall by using it. On the other hand, comments, wallposts pages and what not use wording with equivalent of "like".
Can he not get a restraining order against CBP? I say this, obviously, in jest, but one wonders: how exactly does the rule of law protect against this?
Could an incubation program work at the Fortune 500?
Do you know how equity works?
Yes... but still sceptical. I'd like to know what due diligence was done, and by whom. And exactly what they did (i.e. to the computers, these emails etc.).

It would certainly be possible to fool someone that such emails were legit depending on what sort of verification job they did.
All the movement in question does is publish stuff. See my Pentagon Papers supreme court cite above/below.

As far as associating with a movement.. it's legal to be a Nazi if you want. There's a supreme court case for that, too.
Asus' ProArt 24-Inch Panel Brings P-IPS Quality To a Reasonable Price Point
"Good keyboards aren't cheap... high-contrast high-resolution screen... lot of RAM..."

You want those things. I do not disrespect that. It sounds like you are a serious user. But you're asking students who will effectively throw these things away when they are done taking their remedial college math courses to spend $100 for those things. Why should they do that?

Also, we are talking TI, not HP; as I recall those keyboards sucked 15 years ago and I doubt they got better. Even then, the TIs felt like toys where my HP felt like a real tool.
I agree. I had to go back from AS3 to AS2 for a project and it felt like a step backwards, and AS2 is more like Javascript. Adobe has also open sourced the AS3 runtime. But of course the practicality is that we have Javascript in browsers, and there's a big get-the-job-done benefit to using a common language.
Python does this as well.

Personally, I would like to be able to choose the capture method, but having value capture the default. Most of my code simply wants the value, but occasionally, capturing the variable is needed.
I just use http://pinboard.in for bookmarking stories.
Yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430465

ioerror: I'm flying back through Texas in a few hours from Serbia. I wonder if this article or any of the others will change the way that Customs and the rest of the Federal Government treat me?
I'm guessing "no" - care to take any bets?

Oof.
It's really a cool pitch in itself, but i think that the Tesla Ride example points out the limitations of the Zaarly concept.

What if you have an accident? Zaarly did not provide any kind of contract that would guarantee the lender that his car has to be returned in prime condition.
What if in the accident someone is hurt?
This has serious implications depending in which country you are.

Lending stuff is in most cases harder to do than they think it is. Atleast if you don't want to end up creating a black market.

But well, i live in germany, we have a different attitude towards regulation of this kind of things than americans seem to have.
I suspect it only feels this way to you and me because we know better than to treat anything on Facebook as private, whereas email still feels like it at least should be.

But for my older relatives, and also for a lot of my friends on Facebook, I suspect there is no difference in their minds.
The mob only makes noise when shit hits the fan, the majority is either willfully ignorant or overly paranoid. Even among techs.
I thought the green might be trying to encourage engaging with those users. When I was new I never used my account because I felt like a nobody.
The Flip's strength is it's simplicity. Sorry, but I don't buy the idea elsewhere on this thread that Camera phones (w/ video recording) or GoPro's have captured this market. Yes, they both cover some of it, but lets face it we're the geeks - we're likely to spend money on the latest gadget.

The use case I want to suggest is my parents (in their early 60's). They both have cell phones, but they are not smartphones (they're as likely to get an iphone/android device as they are to go base jumping). They got a Flip about 2 years ago and have recorded over 1,000 hours of their grandkids (my kids) on it so far! It's easy to keep in a pocket or a bag, there's an on/off switch and a big red button to record, and of course it easily plugs in to their laptop (mom) / PC (dad). It had made a massive difference to them, and I think they're more likely to record stuff on the Flip than to take a picture of it :-)

Sad to see the Flip go.
Take a look at this, I am sure it has been posted on HN before:
http://beamjs.org/

This allows you to trade off all the cool speed of V8, but running node.js singlethreaded, for running on an alpha port of V8 for the Beam VM. If you want to sidestep the problems with Node.js, but keep the good parts, this might be a way forward.
Additionally, JS on the Beam VM can seamlessly interact with any other Erlang code, so you get all kinds of other benefits that are erlangy.
I love the idea. A few small comments:

- On the front page, the little arrow-in-a-circle image rotates on mouseover, and rotates back on mouseout. This occurs whether or not the display is down. I think it makes more sense only to rotate when the item is actually expanded (if you want to indicate it's clickable, maybe you could use the color change thing for that purpose).

- After doing a search for amazon, it found nothing, but... (\) there was still a horizontal list of letters A-Z, and I have no idea what that's supposed to do, (\) the most prominent link on the page is the "back to top", even though I'm at the top already, and (\*) there's no obvious way to re-search other than to click on the search bar at the top. I would think that, if nothing was found, you should have a "search again" box with the cursor already in it.

I absolutely love the sliders for the amount of discount. Very nice.