skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The transparency with which Chrome did this was actually a problem for me. Google Docs/GMail did not work for months on my school's ethernet connection until I read about SPDY being implemented; sure enough, launching Chrome with SPDY disabled fixed the issue, and that requires a command line option. I wish Chrome were less transparent about this and added a few Preferences options, at least.
Again one of those "I bet AnandTech has the best description out there" and I go check and am pleasantly surprised.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4313/intel-announces-first-22n...
oh no !! i checked the list of sites being blocked, now have more of them to check up on ....
Genuine question: Can you provide an example or explain what exists that cannot be represented by symbols?
Cool to see mine still mentioned :) I'm happy that others are continuing the good work
The Mathematician as an Explorer
Co-founder of Disqus explains why they raised a $10 million round.
Can't even get to the cache.
I think he's a bit too bullish on Closure Compiler's advanced compilation mode. It's nice, but if you don't have an extern file for each additional third party library you use, or forget to use dictionary syntax to access properties that CC doesn't know about, your code will fail cryptically and almost silently.
They also use those rooms for tourists as well in the summer.

http://search.tourismpei.com/accommodations/search_operator_...
If you can't be bothered to learn the behavior of keywords as fundamental to JavaScript as "var" and "this," then yes, you'd better be using some wrapper. Items (3) and (5) seem to be the only valuable features demonstrated here, and (5) should be present in the ES Harmony (it is already present in JS 1.7).

The article states that

> It’s about more agile code

but I find this claim dubious when the best JS tools are for JS, and not CoffeeScript. I believe that the features provided by the Closure compiler are more beneficial for stable JavaScript development (annotations, etc), and carry a significant performance incentive.
You can do what you are looking for with AppJet.jar. It has a built-in RESTful dispatcher. In your example you would write a JavaScript function like:

function get_c() {
if (request.params.p == '0')
print 'abc';

if (request.params.p == '1')
print '123';

if (request.params.p == '0')
print ...;

You can also respond to POST, PUT and DELETE request with put_c(), delete_c() and so on.

It is a setup-free server in a jar with a persistent object store and many more tools. https://github.com/dvbportal/appjet
Ask HN: girlfriend reminders
This sounds really terrible, I know.

But when you're focused on your startup or just in general in the code "zone" for 12 hours straight (or a few days straight), it'd be great if something could remind me to text my girlfriend and say hi, or see if she wants to grab lunch.

Kind of like dailyburn's app reminds me that I haven't eaten or worked out.

If I could set up a recurring alarm on my phone to ping her once every couple of hours (or even just check my damn phone in case she texted me). I usually keep my phone on mute, so I'm not bothered by messages, but push notifications tend to have a noise.

I could extrapolate this into "remind me to call my parents once a week" or something.

It's easy to lose yourself in code :)
Yep, this plus look at the ones for sites that are similar to yours. Of course, you cannot copy those but they can give you ideas of areas specific to your app that wouldn't be covered in the WordPress ones.

This is one of those things that took longer than I expected and still am not sure I got right.
I understood him. There isn't any evidence for intelligent life anywhere else in the universe, but wouldn't you say that it's fair to say that it could exist? Furthermore, until we've searched every planet, would shouldn't rule it out.
I'm sure other manufacturers would stop imitating Apple if Apple failed.

But that's an incredibly negative view isn't it? By imitating Apple, the other manufacturers simply aren't contributing anything meaningful. It seems unlikely that Apple's failure would make them suddenly unleash a wealth of creativity and contribution on the world. If they had it, why wouldn't they be using it right now?

Wouldn't it be better for Apple to succeed, and the imitators fail? That way, we'd get the best of both worlds. Advancement of technology from Apple, and a clear marketplace signal that imitators are not wanted.

New companies and investors would who wanted to succeed would no longer be tempted to imitate but might actually innovate.
37Signals is not selling Sortfolio to make money - clearly they have enough - but because they believe the product deserves a better home.

I believe they won't accept the highest bid as much as the most interesting offer. I don't mean to say they'll give it away to a small, poor startup group; but I do think their preference would be that the next owner take it to the next level both in terms of direction and financial success.

I'm actually more interested in Sortfolio now than I was before. 37Signals is in a position to be as choosy as they'd like with the future buyer. I wonder who they will choose....
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The number of things of a given size you can fit on a plane within distance R of you is proportional to R^2. The number of things you can fit in a three dimensional space is R^3. So as we utilize 3D more and more things will tend to be closer together.
Safari users might like http://www.mindfulbrowsing.com
For everyone who's interested in Yurii's book: if you go to http://leanpub.com/erlang-recipes and enter an email address, you'll get automatically notified when the book is first published.

Thanks!
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Signed up, looking forward to trying it out.

However, once you sign up for the waiting list, you seem to be locked out of the About page, which would have been nice to see again.

Just making sure you knew! Thanks.
HN feature request: Make the color of links I've already read something other than semi-invisible grey. Currently when I'm looking for a link I just clicked on, it takes me a very long time because it's so anti-eye-catching.

So, in particular, when I click on a link to read it, then hit back to upvote it and/or comment on it, it takes a long time to re-find it.

(Yes, I could open it in a new tab, blah blah.)
I'm working on something similar here - https://github.com/joerussbowman/Scale0

I'm still in the phase of documenting how I want it to work, trying to include things like failover servers for the primary broker and a protocol for applications to communicate with so it can tell backends to move to other servers and such. I'm going for a fully service agnostic approach, which from what I gather from your docs yours is too.

I'm also plugging in a LRU queue and a queue for waiting replies to route a little more securely (response not in a wait queue, discard it).

I was just getting to the point of trying out some code to wrap my head around everything when my schedule changed and I ran out of time to work on it. Going on a vacation sometime soon and planning on spending some quality time on the project then. Vacation will include no internet access so I got to do something to keep my brain busy :)

Being able to add/remove workers without having to change a config is also one of the pain points I'm trying to solve and was one of my first motivating factors, glad to know I'm not the only one who wants to fix that.
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I find that K&R uses some really stupid functions to do things, and as a result causes many OTHER people do do some stupid things to do things.

I find that makes it wholly in adequate for thinking in C anymore. The "Never trust data" mantra which is now part and parcel of C dev is not at all shown in K&R.
Will it blend? That is the question!

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video...
This is the piss poor attitude that kept us stuck on IE6 for 10 years...
Thanks for the heads up Jon.
High clicks alone, even if they don't turn into customers, are worth something in that you can bid less for advertising. Depending on the numbers, it may be worth styling the ad and targeting the ad partly to include those high clicks even if they aren't turning into customers. You'd still get to bid less than if you just targeted for whoever is most likely to become customers. You'd have to crunch the numbers to see if it is worth it, however.
Disqus (YC S07) Raises $10M In Funding
Good point. I'll take care of it.

Thanks for letting us know!
I don't mean to trivialize this, but "reinvent" sounds a little strong to me. This is a modification on silicon design, and a great one, but is just another notch in the miracle of Moore's law. It's more evolutionary than revolutionary.

See 2007 for a similar announcement and reaction:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/01/27/1614207/Intel-IB...
Try text only http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
The idea is ok, but the implementation he demonstrates would not fit in iOS.
I only used git GUIs for nice graphs, but now I have this in my ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
graph = log --graph --all --pretty=format:'[%h] %s (%ar)'

and typing "git graph" gives me a nice text-only graph with short commit messages: http://i.imgur.com/pXfWD.png
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When I went to print this article, I saw something I hadn't seen before. I was redirected to license.icopyright.net and given the following options

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And the cops aren't there to stop you based on ethics. In fact, they have no right to stop you on ethics.

EDIT(oops accidentally pressed send), anyway...

They're there to stop you based on applicable laws, the minute you start to base such things on ethics is the minute you become vigilante.
A large number of foundries currently make ARM CPUs, and a number of companies make ARM CPUs for in-house manufacturing. Intel could not get an absolute monopoly but rather a technical superiority advantage such as it currently has over other x86 vendors.

It has been speculated in the financial press that Intel might try to offset its huge annual capital expenditures by offering as much as 20% of its fab capacity as foundry services.
Lol. I would write an simple console app in C# that would use the speech API to tell you messages. It could read from an .xml file to know reoccuring times (every day at 3pm, every other hour etc.). Happen only once times could be set by typing them like

> ----------------
> Enter a command.
SET

> What time would you like to set in military time?
1800

> What is your message?
Call girlfriend for dinner plans

> OK, at 5:00pm I'll tell you
> "Call girlfriend for dinner plans"
> ----------------
> Enter a command.
I have a friend who runs a blog about netbooks that is also in a similar situation. Somehow the net is catching original content sites as well.
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This is not a "startup" as we have come to use this term on HN. Hell, it barely qualifies as a business in my book.
Python Bloom Filter
It takes a little over 20 lines to demonstrate a Bloom Filter in Python: http://bit.ly/bloom_filter

See the wikipedia article for a short and well-written discussion about how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
RewardJS is giving prizes to people that close bugs.
I think $1M would be a reasonable offer. I just don't have any ideas how to grow the business. Traffic has been on a steady decline:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/sortfolio.com/

And without a steady stream of traffic from 37signals properties, it could go bust.

Maybe it would be smart to evolve it into a portfolio site.

If I were interested, I'd offer 15k + 50% of the rest each month, and sell them on my vision. Too bad I don't have one.
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Someone please tell me what Hadoop, PIG, HIVE, Cascalog, et al. are doing that is fundamentally new? Reinventing the unix FILE, unix pipes, lisp, awk, sed, grep in a new "distributed bash shell"?

I don't think this stuff, while brilliant and clever and useful, qualifies for a MacArthur grant when one is standing on the shoulders of N CS giants reimplementing their ideas with few truly novel improvements.

MaCarthy, Kernigan, Thompson, Richie, McIlroy etc are those giants.
I definitely agree. It all comes down to user intent: Either you can try to sell Facebook users on your product in the small ad space that they probably end up ignoring, or you can get them to your site first and convert them into customers once they are on your website.

Personally, I think the latter approach works better. Get lots of cheap clicks to your site, and work on conversion when they are there. It's too hard to create a convincing pitch for your product in the tiny real estate provided by Facebook's ads, when the users' attention is already distracted by a lot of other stuff going on.
This is really rather shocking to me. I always figured SSDs were as reliable as SD cards or other Flash based items like MP3 players or phones. Where you practically never see a failure due to the memory going bad.
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He was just referring to packing more transistors in a given area. The theory is that the far transistors of SRAM cache are closer than they would be at a lower density, and that difference might make a performance difference.

I'm not sure what the electrical propagation speed is in modern ICs, but let's assume its about 1mm per pico-second (3 times that of vacuum). So for each mm we move our cache elements closer we gain 2 ps in round-trip delay. On a 3GHz processor you've got 333 ps per cycle, the i5 die is about 13mm across, going from 32 to 22nm process might shave as much as 3 or 4mm of the longest path. Giving a 6 to 8ps gain, potentially a 2% improvement. Interesting.
If I understood right, he is just saying that moral capacity is innate. This seems to me pretty obvious.
Disqus already has a freemium product (Disqus VIP amongst the potential for other things) and Disqus has said that in fact Facebook Comments is increasing their potential Market via validation and growing awareness of 3rd party commenting systems.

I don't know why you think Disqus is a feature - it's a product growing into a company. It seems like a no brainer that Disqus will take over the web in the same way Facebook Connect has for registrations. Its simpler, faster and superior to what websites can offer themselves.
As others have noted, this could have been written against many VM/GC based languages and not just C#. That said, it's the FUNDAMENTAL difference between the 2 types of languages and thus the comparison is moot. It's like getting into a limo and saying it doesn't feel like a motorcycle. I'm not convinced the author understands this...
Out of curiosity, why did you stop working on gitx? I love gitx and use brotherbard's branch for the easier remotes amongst other features.
They're closer together, but the distance traveled in total is the same. Imagine the transistors are pieces of paper, and you're drawing a line over them. If the paper is flat, then you're drawing a line of distance n, and the points are n apart. If you fold the ends of the paper together, then the points are 0 units apart (or near enough to make no matter), but that line still has a distance of n.
To make things easier, you could leverage Google Calendar and schedule the reminders. The 'reminder' part will be then taken care for you.
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I think the question is exactly that: what would you give?
I find tortoise git to be fairly useful for basic commits.
"Performance" doesn't really mean anything by itself without more details in this context, its just a vauge marketing phrase. Go look at the switching-speed/voltage tradeoff charts that pilom linked to at Anandtech to get some meaningful but still very impressive information.
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Annoying messages are good when it is vital that the user be annoyed (read: informed).
Perfect, the pastebin someone posted below works as well.
Second. I use GitX daily, it's been great!
Obviously, Arrington's article was just a fluff piece. 30 is not over the hill. 25 is also definitely not peaking. It is true that a 25 year old is more willing to take a risk on a startup than a 30+ year old (which I have learned first hand), but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's all about the person. I'm 27 and am about to take a huge risk with a startup. Maybe i'm still in the "peak age" but I don't think at 30 I would think any differently. It's all about passion.
I don't know if it can be considered "unknown", but vnStat is another cool CLI network monitor.
yep, pure gold of a punchline
All I'm thinking is that people should start using JSLint instead of making up languages on top of JS. That will catch most of the bugs due to common misunderstandings of the language.
Nice article Trevor. But you could have avoided the last statement creating unnecessary FUD in the minds of Rails users.
For the same reason I have something similar, though it also includes '--decorate' for colorization of refs.
For me, the big win are the source control DAG visualizations. `hg glog`, `git log --graph`, and `tig` are great 80% solutions, but at the end of the day, I strongly prefer the displays provided by MacHG and GitX.
Is this really worthy of HN frontpage? Seriously, who among us couldn't write something similar in 5 minutes or less?
I think this is inherited from the mathematical side of computer science. In mathematics, there's a strong sense -- and it's even true to some degree -- that all progress across the history of mathematics rests on the shoulders of a few great mathematicians, prodigies.

But you are not a computer scientist. You are a software engineer.

The accomplishments of engineering are not built on the inspired work of a handful of geniuses. They are built on the careful toil of tens -- hundreds -- of thousands of good enough engineers. Every day you use dozens of pieces of software and hundreds of real world objects designed by an endless army of good enough engineers. Engineering is not like mathematics. You don't create timeless works which will be a monument to your greatness for all time. You create something which will be serviceable for a few years, and then replaced. Even if you are perfect, the best, and create the best possible program or device, the world changes around you and your device is no longer needed or new computers change the constraints and let you write an even better program than was previously possible.
Unfortunate fact of "home made" apps/websites
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Without agreeing or disagreeing with your conclusion, I'm not sure I understand what you're reaching for with the opening sentence: If you can't be bothered to learn the behavior of keywords as fundamental to JavaScript as "var" and "this," then yes, you'd better be using some wrapper.

That seems to be trivially true, but in context it only makes sense if you're implying a bi-conditional, namely that the only reason to use a wrapper is if you don't understand var and this.

I believe that to be false. There are many reasons to use syntactic or semantic sugar even when you understand the underlying language very well. As a demonstration of this, I give you that most tools of this type are written by people who understand the underlying languages incredibly well and design such tools for their own use as relative expert users.
Saw a rumor recently that Apple would be getting Intel to fab ARMs for them. Seems unlikely, but could potentially give Apple a lead (for a while) in one more area of their vertical integration play.
Why do you need to keep up?
The linked example, http://maxvoltar.com, works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.
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> Smarter people than you and me have taken different sides.

The existence of other people's opinions doesn't mean I get to abdicate my responsibility to form (or share) my own view.

> I could easily make a case for either side.

I'm not sure you could easily make a case for either side. One side requires faith, and making cases on that is notoriously difficult.

> However, this is HN, and this discussion doesn't belong here.

I think I most disagree with this point. Any reasoned conversation belongs on HN. We're all being reasonable here, so far. I'm more than comfortable being disagreed with, and as long as we all have the same comfort, it's all good, no?
Tell HN: chrome://net-internals
Okay I'd never heard of this before:

chrome://net-internals

Only in Chrome/Chromium
Direct link: http://developers.aviary.com/effects-api

Does anyone know the pricing levels beyond the free 1,000 photos a month?
JSLint can't solve the "I forgot to include a frickin' explicit return again" problem, can it?
I forgot all about that, I actually stayed in one during a visit a few summers ago. Very nice, and pretty cheap, esp considering the fact your close to downtown Charlottetown.
You may want to try tig (http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/07/31/tig-the-ncurses-fron...). The main view has the same info (may have to hit g to see the graph), plus it lets you drill down into each commit. All without leaving the comfort of your terminal.
Why wouldn't they have been?
Be extremely careful about using WordPress's terms of service; there's a real danger, IMO, that they could self-destruct. I posted an analysis a while back at http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2010/05/using-wordpress-coms-...
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If they paid a single developer/designer/salesperson around $80k/yr to maintain it, even after all the perks and insurance and taxes and whatnot, they'd still end up on top if that developer did nothing other than maintain the current number of paid customers.

What could hosting an app like this cost? Very little, I imagine. I'd personally find a service like Happy Cog Hosting (http://happycoghosting.com/) to manage it for me.

Makes it feel like a steal for anything under $1mm (that's approximately 5x revenue), even without the promotion through association w/ 37signals.

I haven't read anything convincing me that this isn't a great deal for an eager entrepreneur.

EDIT: "They" in the first paragraph refers to any owner of Sortfolio. If you take it to mean 37signals, that's fine, but I doubt that Sortfolio has the sort of growth potential that 37signals' other apps still have, and so is not worth the effort to maintain.
The previous commenter wasn't talking about this transistor 3d feature, but about stacked transistors. Just like a city full or high-rise buildings can pack a lot more people in per square mile, a stacked transistor IC could pack a lot more transistors per square mm.