skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about this story is inspiring people to write smarmy comments and sign them with silly pseudonyms?

Bigtable itself doesn't provide a schema or constraints, but it provides primitives that would allow you to implement them AFAICS. That's why I mentioned the idea of implementing a MySQL backend that uses BigTable as its storage -- MySQL would contain the schema and constraint logic, BigTable would provide the sequentially-consistent data storage.
The pricing is far less interesting to me than the differences between GS and S3. In some significant ways, GS appears to be a much more technically sophisticated product. And there are some arguably less used functionality like BitTorrent which are removed from the picture.

The ACL scheme is significantly more flexible on GS. In fact, one of the two major problems I have with S3 is a non-issue on GS:

1. All files on S3 are not world-readable when they are first uploaded. You cannot change the default permission for a file uploaded to a bucket. On GS you can set the default ACL on a bucket to world-readable.

2. For me, the most incredible thing GS could do right now is add a callback API. I want it to notify my application when my bucket is updated, webhooks style.

With both 1 & 2 in place, you can build storage driven applications in the cloud that don't require constant polling. Man, that would sure be something.
YUI3 is more of a framework than a complete solution, but personally I prefer it that way. It offers more flexibility.

Here's a post on defining your template within the html itself using yui3. http://lostsyntax.net/posts/5

I will admit I had a little trouble with that approach, and ended up defining my "templates" as strings within the javascript itself for unscatter.com. That's how the paging works for javascript enabled clients.

If you are really after MVC, from what I've read of them I think SproutCore probably comes the closest.

I think though, you need to consider the environment you're working in. Programming a system that will run on a server is much different that programming an application that will run on a personal computer, laptop or even mobile device. You're generally bound to a single core with limited memory availability. Syntactic sugar leading to faster development time is generally a good compromise on the server side, but on the front end you have to be careful. This warning isn't an attempt to disuade you from the existing frameworks listed, or even to keep you from writing your own. It's just meant to advise you of something to keep in mind while you do your application development. Know your box, and excel inside it.
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angry birds uses local storage to remember which level you last beat. you can modify your local storage. move along.
Unfortunately, the system is setup to expediently counter attempts to change it. Why do you think we keep getting the same results after every election? If it was just a matter of "getting a democrat" in the office or "getting a republican" in office, then problems wouldn't exist, because we have one or the other in office every few years. It's a deeper problem in that the fingers that manipulate the puppetry and the machinery are so deeply embedded in the process that with very few outlying exceptions, little occurs which isn't vetted by the corrupt process. (Also reads: There aren't really many substantive differences between viable politicians.)

The few people with any power in politics are expelled by the system itself. They're either not viable to begin with or if they somehow absurdly get into the system, it marginalizes them. They're called crazy or otherwise derided and made irrelevant through all the modern mediums we have available to us and society itself is too pre-occupied with what church they go to or if they ever smoked pot.

I didn't say I have any meaningful way to contribute or improve the process. Nobody else really does, either. It's not merely as simple as "well, run for office and be the first honest person in the government!". Very few people can even stand up against a single company and fight injustices. What hope does anyone have against the corrupt government plus all of the companies - together?

I know, this is all very anti-American. We're raised to believe that there's always hope and "we the people" and "power to the people" and all. Just check the right box in the voting booth or volunteer your time to support the right magic politician that we've been waiting a couple centuries for.

There is a critical point past which an organism is so consumed with cancerous tissue that nothing can be done to save it.
Based on some investigation in Google Books, what books actually do is use a footnote:
"blah blah [sic] blah" 1

1 [sic] in original.

It's fundamentally the same thing as clarifying "blah blah blah" (emphasis added) or (emphasis in original).

Note that the purpose of [sic] is not to point out how clever you are to find an error, but to clarify for the reader that the text is copied accurately. Thus, the original question about putting a [sic] on a mistaken [sic] is not something that makes sense to do.
As somebody who worked at Google until very recently, I can assure you, 20% is more likely an overestimate than an underestimate.
Thank you, that's a nice observation
but does it tether?
Maemo is brilliant, except it's a dead end in favor of Meego, whose future is uncertain.
Dnode - language agnostic asynchronous RPC built on socket.io
Nope, it's minimalism all right :)
We are sick of it
I think I heard something about Warren Buffet paying the eleven-year-old kid of a relative to put up his site, seriously.
My own PhoneGap-based iPad app is going really well so far, practically indistinguishable from native, but for one thing: WebKit refuses to let you have manual control over hiding and showing keyboards. (I tried filing a bug, and it was closed as "works as intended".)

This makes me feel like I have one hand tied behind by back when creating UI flow, and it's maddening.
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Thus ideas, like music or art, were intrinsically valuable because only one person in the world could have them.

Sounds like a claim made by someone who has never had an idea that it turns out already existed or that someone else was already working on.
Any idea how I get the post to the "Ask" section and not just "New"?
If you have a high monthly revenue the 3.9% is pretty steep. The $60/month for paypal get's wiped out above $6k per month. It may be good for a small, low dollar value businesses, but as one commenter mentioned, net 60 days is BS.

There is no free lunch, payment processors get you one way or another.
All day today was spend configuring a screen to display visual studio in a pleasing manner, turns out it wasn't the screen that was at fault.
Yes.

There is even a free tethering solution. Install via Preware.
That is so wrong it is dangerous.
I suspect that a hybrid approach will win out in the in, with local (disk) storage so ridiculously cheap these days. A system should just local sync, but make it appear that everything is working off the cloud. No connection? No problem, just use the local data instead (and make it seamless to the user). A 400GB spinning disk large enough for all the data a user is likely to use with a cloud service runs ~$25 these days.
TL;DR: An old Facebook auth system included access tokens in app iframe URLs, which were subsequently leaked through the referrer to app advertisers, analytics, etc.
It was the first device to have WiFi tethering, so yes.
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you are confusing real world with a comment on hackernews. try and do a full recovery on innodb with real data and get back so uncle tuna can hold you tight and promise that will never happen again. hint: corrupted tables crashing mysql processes and you having to start it with innodb_recovery 4 for ro, dumping the table, reapplying it back.

-- Mel Gibson's surgeon on "Payback"
Several people have already pointed out the tenuous situation between Kevin Poulsen and Wikileaks, so I won't retread old ground; that said, Poulsen is really just summarizing a piece from someone else in the new statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/05/...

I for one have never heard of The New Statesman before, but that doesn't necessarily mean much. Of particular interest to me was this (linkless) passing jibe: "but on the other hand they make routine legal threats, especially against the Guardian" - the only results I could find about this were also from the New Statesman, and actually seemed rather to pertain to a claimed case of libel about Assange. Not any actual legal action, mind, just a twitter update from @wikileaks. And no indication of a routine about it, just the one hit - very clearly not what was being implied by the paragraph in the original article.

So I for one will be taking this "The New Statesman" with as much of a grain of salt as I was ready to do to the Kevin Poulsen piece.

Edit for links:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/02/...

http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/statuses/32867678527950848
I know it's not quite the same thing, but wasn't there a "startup" of sorts awhile back that focused on exposing documented evidence of different levels of corporate and government corruption? I can't remember what it was called, but I'm pretty sure the guy behind it had to flee the country and was charged with several counts of rape and a lot of the people he was trying to expose the information to about their own government said that they wanted him executed.

Anyway, there are certainly already-existing entities that serve the public good, but government corruption isn't irrelevant as long as there is government corruption. You can benefit social good all you like, but how exactly is it going to wholly displace the existence, expense, and function of a government office or committee?

The FDA example. Or the Goldman Sachs example. How are you going to displace the need for the FDA to exist or for the SEC and the Treasury to exist? Or the need for the military industrial complex? These are all functions that seemingly need to exist and be performed for the good of the people. The problem is that they require oversight. The public needs to be aware of the corruption and given the power to do something about it and it seems we either don't or won't. (And I'm part of that group, because if I knew how to change it, I would).

It is so massive. So complex. So layered. And so corrupt. I really almost can't expect someone busy trying to keep a roof over their head and their children clothed and educated to somehow be aware of many of these corruptions, much less have a way to change it (beyond the trivialities of voting, which mostly seems to just serve us as a way to make us feel better about ourselves).

When we have lots of regulation, we're told that the solution is to deregulate and then industries are singularly corrupt. When we don't have enough regulation, we're told the solution is to regulate. Then the regulator positions are staffed with people from the companies being regulated and corruption is there.

If there are some great solutions, I'm all ears. :)
You think that law firms do a good job of handling conflicts of interest? Really?

Let me give you an important example. David Bois won his anti-trust case against Microsoft, and then proposed a penalty that was a slap on the wrist. He turned around, and then was handed an endless stream of revenue from the SCO case. There is evidence that said legal proceeding was funded behind the scenes by Microsoft. Coincidence? I think not.

As for the argument that I said you would face, I didn't make it up. That is the bog standard argument that is always trotted out to support the standard practice of having regulators come from, and then return to, the industries that they regulate. In practice people really do get swayed by the argument that a person who knows the industry is at an advantage in understanding it well enough to get involved in regulation. Either that or they pretend to be while accepting donations, but it works out to the same thing in the end.
Gerhard Schröder, former chancellor of Germany, had a similar situation with Gazprom a few years back. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Gazprom
I was hoping for more of a side-by-side:

Invention - Date Invented in Fiction - Date Invented in Reality (if ever)

Knowing when someone dreamed it up is neat, but I was hoping to see how reality stacks up next to their predictions.
Happily, readers aren't fragile parsers, demanding escaping or special formatting. They can handle you making your meaning explicit, either inline or in a footnote.
I can't resist plugging audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/
It's flash, but it's mind blowingly amazing.
Way too much white space at the top :P
And when you calculate this out, you internally wind up doing the same calculation as the matrix method.
webOS 2.1 can be installed on the Pre if you make use of the Meta-Doctor.

Some additional hoops to jump through but it's entirely doable along with overclocking, you end up with a pretty snappy device.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_2_Upgrade
It sounds like most of these complaints are about mobile Safari and not specific to Sencha's libraries or PhoneGap.
Do you have a link to your app? I'm really interested in seeing web apps that work similarly to native apps, I've yet to see a great example yet.
You know, it's not my job to fix the problem. I have my place in society and I'm not about to start over in life and become a politician just to fix my perceived problem with the system. No more than I would start over and become a doctor because I thought that, say, doctors had bad attitudes. I'll vote the appropriate way but that's really my only recourse. I still have the right to bitterly complain about rampant corruption in politics and even be pessimistic about reform happening.

> There exist honest, well-meaning, hard-working people working in government and politics to attempt to fix these issues. Unfortunately they're outnumbered by people like you, who tar all of them with same brush you use for the most corrupt business lobbyist.

I don't see how the OP's attitude affects the good people working to fix the issues. They clearly want the same thing the OP does. If they think he's wrong--prove him wrong! Get things reformed in his lifetime.
Goldman Sachs is amazing. I follow articles about them since a few years and I must say, the ingenuity with which they act is inspiring, scary, terrifying...

Another evil master piece of them may have been the food market.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman...

The same dynamics behind the foot price bubble may cause the current surge in gas-prices
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315894

Also the Author of the article (Taibbi) wrote a book about the bubble:
http://www.amazon.com/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-Am...

All the information I have is obviously very biased towards blaming Goldman Sachs, yet if their involvement in the extreme price hikes in foot, oil, housing markets is only half as bad as it seems, they are the single biggest source for the worlds macroeconomic problems.

This is very disturbing to me, as I see myself as a strong advocate of the free market hypothesis. I guess if Goldman's involvement turned out to be as bad as I fear, it can be explained by them finding holes in the regulation where they were the only dominant player. They were able to act (as in the foot market) with no one challenging their doings. No regulation, no competition meaning they were able to game the system as they pleased.

Somehow I hope all this information about Goldman's involvement is correct, because it would give clear directions on how to fix the macroeconomic problems the world (not just America) faces. It would clearly show how to adjust the legal system, enforcement.
I dont at all disagree with what your saying, that is how I would usually approach things. In the context of some things mentioned on the thread I feel my sentence is appropriate.

Nobody on this thread could say/articulate a single point or argument that could possibly counteract the sheer amount of corruption that is occurring not only in the US, but everywhere. Hence my ears are essentially closed for business.

What I was saying was that the OP is absolutely right, and anybody who even considers disagreeing hasn't done their research or has not registered the seriousness of the situation when reading the comment. I was hoping to add weight to an already very good point, hence the seriousness of my tone.
Then he did a pretty good job.
It's called regulatory capture.

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

Also note the closely related concept of intellectual capture, which is why nobody in the government or the media (except Taibbi and a handful of others) is pissed off about this.
Yeah, it did, plus you were downvoted, so it seemed like other people agreed. Sorry.
People choose who to bank with based on marketing and suitability of product.

No one chooses a bank based on their balance sheet.
The Pre actually had decent hardware except for being light on mem. The OMAP chip was particularly overclock friendly and once overclocked along with some additional tweaks was nice and fast.

The problem was the earlier webOS versions had no GPU acceleration at all and ended seeming sluggish sometimes.
The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games]
I'm confused. Peabody is a real company. That site is directly representing itself as being Peabody.

How come Peabody hasn't squashed them? The First Amendment is powerful, but it has limits, and I think it is likely this crosses them.
Somewhat unrelated but the documentary 'Inside Job' provides a brilliant insight into the financial mess that unfolded in the past years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/
That is not true at all for Android. Ask any Android developer. it is entirely possible to code an alarm callback that will not activate the screen at all, but can use a network to send and recieve data.

This is done commonly by builtin services.
Also, a word about Consistency:

“There’ll be a time when all people are alike.”
“Which is precisely the ideal society. No mysteries, no romantics, no discussions, no persecution because there’s no one to persecute. When all have received the same conditioning, it will be like…”
“Insects.”
“Who have existed longer than ourselves and will outlast our race by many millennia.”
“Is existence everything?
“There’s nothing else.”
From what I read it sounds like their publishing partners bailed and it's not a problem relating to the platform per-se, but that they're being cut out.
Translation: Better lawyers.

Meaning: More money.

Reality: Impossible.
Remembering advice from zedshaw
I hope that this style catches on - better than the blog templates most people use. Being a bike store I would have thought they'd list brands and specialities though.. It seems the site would only be useful if you know the shop.
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"Google likes this. Excel screws up? Perfect, just use Google Docs. Mission accomplished. People are surprisingly flexible if you throw up a barrier. An hour or so of pissing off a customer is a exchange Google is willing to make if it give them a shot at a new Docs user."

I'm not sure I understand this, what he was saying is that someone sends you an excel document and all you can open it with is Google Docs then he'll run into issues. Believe me, it is definitely not going to make them want to use Google Docs more. We're not talking about Microsoft Excel screwing up, to the consumer it'll look like Google Docs is crap and not compatible with their friends documents.
This is quite sad, I only started using this service quite recently.
My wife and I highly recommend a nanny, even a part-time one. You can find them cheaper than you would expect. We were in a similar position as you, only we both ran businesses out of the home. Our solution, we hired a nanny who lived with us except on weekends. With a nanny your children are cared for in your own home, a safe place. You can also insure that they are cared for by your standards, and you can take a break to play with them whenever you want. You don't have to get a full time live in nanny, plenty of them will work 8-5.

Your best luck will be with high school graduates who are not immediately headed to college, and are the type that look forward to settling down to have a family of their own. Our nanny was a very sweet girl who had no means to attend college and I would guess wasn't a strong learner but she was clean cut, quiet, had a heart of gold and loved our daughters and cared for them so well. It worked out perfectly.
Maybe if they made a good device that was available for my carrier of choice I'd be more willing to consider it.

As it stands I have half a dozen android phones to possibly choose from and the venerable iphone. I'd love to have a webos phone if it was closer to the iphone in terms of form factor, resolution, speed, battery life etc but from what I've seen its not even close.

Top it off with the fact that it seems like HP hasn't advertised a penny for the thing compared to verizon's droid adverts plastered everywhere.

Honestly HP needs to team up with a carrier and make it happen in terms of marketing. Windows Phone 7 might beat out webos in terms of mindshare at this point.
Bogosort terminates with probability 1. Is it really reasonable to say it doesn’t guarantee termination?

Yes.

Particularly when done on real machines that use pseudo-random numbers that will repeat in finite time. For instance many use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister with a version that will repeat after 2^19937-1 steps. With a random array of 2500 elements, the odds are very good that bogosort will fall into a loop before it has successfully sorted the array.
Already mobile optimized!
Right, and there's also the ever popular "we'll donate to your favorite charity" maneuver (for a non-government example, witness the Captain Morgan NFL touchdown dance mini-controversy of a few years back).

It might be possible to do something about the friends/family issue with careful crafting of the laws - or maybe I'm just a closet monarchist. ;)
is there a dedicated screen for always on advertisement yet ? :)

And seriously I'd need at least ssh and rdp clients on this to even consider it
"This is very disturbing to me, as I see myself as a strong advocate of the free market hypothesis."

I always thought the free market hypothesis assumed the free and open flow of accurate information.

Goldman simply lied and conned billions out of their customers and the United States tax payers. They are a criminal enterprise whose ring leaders must be put behind bars if the rule of law means anything.

Free enterprise has nothing to do with it.
On the contrary, there is plenty of desire build cross platform applications on the web as evidenced by this article. How would this developer sticking to Sencha/Phonegap against contrary evidence improve the web for others?
It works in FF4.
If you live in a first-tier city (like New York City) and can afford an extra room for an au pair, then you probably don't need to worry about the cost of childcare.
Of course society gets this.

Ask any random sampling people on the street if they agree with your argument, the vast majority will say yes.

The only people who seem to strongly disagree are those in Obama's Department of "Justice".
Heh, my title "Most Important Book On OOP In 20 Years" got rewritten. Is HN taking a more hands on approach to editorializing?
Jem, you can find a nanny for less than you think. There are lots of young ladies out there with out jobs who live with their parents and are much more the family type than the career type. Those girls would jump at the chance to take care of your son and don't cost very much, probably comparable to what you are paying now.