skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site down, here is a mirror: https://www.readability.com/articles/r9i55x6e

cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8xjwEj-...
...it's even harder to hide from global crossing, juniper networks, and the like. or verizon.
Googlecache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=opera...
Sure. But JVMs haven't. (Unless you paid for something like JRebel, which has its own issues.)

Thomas is a genius and extremely nice to boot. He deserves to be more widely known.
this makes me wonder if music is about to be unlocked. all it really takes is for one of the majors to realize that music is a service and not a product and completely disrupt the music industry. similar to the monetization strategy of social games -- spend money chasing the people who will pay by giving them reasons to buy rather than throwing good money after bad by litigating against people who won't pay in trying to recoup some silly notion of a 'lost sale.'

then again... this is the self-destructive music industry we're talking about here.
PowerPoint is fine if the discussion is so light that there's no need to write things on the board in real time... But anything that requires visual references to draw it all together, PowerPoint just isn't dynamic enough.

And really, if it's that light, couldn't you have just had the discussion via email?
Start to program audio with processing and beads
I could see them adding ARM processors along side x86 so you can run iOS apps on Mac OS X natively.
Just 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com (and others) in your /etc/hosts
Perhaps just as interesting as the article itself are the comments.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/0...

It's interesting to hear the varied opinions from residents of NYC, some of who are angry about public dollars going toward a private institution while the public schools in NYC struggle. Also interesting are the varied opinions on competition in NYC: some love it, while some wish the money went towards the incumbents such as Columbia, etc. Personally, I think that the competition could help raise everybody's game in Applied Sciences area in NYC - at least that's the hope.
These are the blogs, not the business review itself. I understand the quality standards are lower in the former.
KGPU — Accelerating Linux Kernel Functions with CUDA
Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521802

Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520685

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511721
Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521586

Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520685

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511721
Your readability link redirects me to readabilities home page.
While I understand your points, I still think embargos still have value -- especially from an entrepreneur's perspective. As someone who has worked for TechCrunch and now have since started my own company, I completely get the power of press and how hard it is to get if you're not a Quora, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

When you have news as a burgeoning startup, it is like gold. Your startup's traction may be in large part due to having people just know you exist -- which if you've ever started a website/company, you know how hard that is.

That being said, for the press to break embargos just to have reported the news first seems sort of unfair to the entrepreneur who worker his/her ass off to get to the point to even be in a position to have press. Usually the reason the press breaks embargos is so they can "break the news first". Then, no other blog/press will cover it because its "dead news" regardless of it may have value to their readers -- even if they're a few minutes behind.

Obviously, its a bit of a gray area. However, to me, the majority of the time its competition amongst the press to "break the story" that really ends up hurting up-and-coming startups.
Yes, there are a ton of other overlays that do p2p. The advantage of a browser is that no one needs to download/install any software to avail p2p features.
You seem to have failed to grasp that the slides are arguing for RAII. While admittedly mildly trollish, it disparages java along with C#/ruby/python implicitly in favour of C++ only because C++ has the most 'correct' implementation of RAII.

There is no argument against try/catch/finally, the argument is that the most common usage of try blocks is for dealing with resource management, not actual exceptions in program state. Given exceptions should be used to expression 'exceptional' program states, that is a significant downside to code readability.

Syntactic sugar like using/yield/with blocks improve the signal to noise ratio of try block usage but still rely on programmer acceptance of that idiom. Ideally, the responsibility of cleanup would be moved entirely to the class implementation rather than the consumer. C++ did this with destructors. In a managed world where maybe you don't always want an eager dispose, rather than syntactic sugar in the caller, move it to the signature of the dispose. Something along the lines of

public scoped void Dispose() {
....
}

Alternatively, @Scoped or <Scoped> if you don't want more keywords. The topic is partly to blame but RAII is orthogonal to whether a language is garbage collected or not. It's sad that in an age where PLs are undergoing a sort of renaissance period, mention of C++ causes everyone to circle their respective wagons.
Google offer opt-outs for their stuff.

Bu that's not the point, the point is that if people are really that concerned about internet privacy they could install privacy software the same as with parental control software so their is no need to pile more restrictive innovation stifling laws.
AST of an example page is the interesting bit:

http://sweble.org/crystalball/result?query=ASDF&format=t...
CCAvenue.com Payment Gateway Vulnerable SQL Injection
But there's a big, big pile of gold (normal iOS or even Mac users).

Developer tools can't be an easy market to succeed in. You aren't going to get many impulse buys.
I beat google on Upload to the same server:
(316mb down/ 165 up / 3ms latency)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1284509371.png
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I have a 13" Pro with a Vertex2.
My Dad's MB Air 13 feels faster (synthetic bench states mine is about 5-10% faster).

The weight difference is tangible.
Once the Thunderbolt Air arrives, I'm switching.
I have an app called SongCleaner (to delete double MP3s) that I sell at $5. It floats around in the top 20 of the Music Category. Peaks at around #14 then goes to #30 and so on.

I make about $35 a day on that app. Peak was $70 and bottom was $17. That's about 10 downloads to 20 downloads a day.

I'm quite satisfied with the income considering it took barely 2 weeks to develop (part-time), but consistently brings in a steady income.

There is a competitor who sells at $20 and also does the same floating around that my app does. So I guess he's making 4 times as much money as I do, but I personally don't think $20 is a fair price for something you use once or twice.
big difference between MB and Mb but in any case I guess being in America I'm shafted when it comes to internet speeds.
"... and would make them more vulnerable to security threats."

This claim has nothing behind it. Is it just FUD? If not, what's the argument?
I played the original civ, and have played freeciv. Back in the day it was interesting enough, but I no longer find it very interesting due to one thing: I have no interest in learning the underlying algorithmic rules of a simulation in order to do well in a game. If I need to do that, then the simulation is a failure. In a game that relies on a simulation to the degree that civ does, this is crucial.

Please note that I'm telling you why I, personally, do not play any more. I'm somewhat doubtful that following my advice will actually make freeciv more popular!
I've taken Groovy's with... syntax and built utils that are ie:

public void withConnection(Callback<Connection> callback) {
Connection connection = createConnection();
try {
callback.call(connection);
} finally {
connection.dispose();
}
}

Once Java actually gets closures it'll make this soooo much nicer.
Who’s In? U.S. Solar Industry Bands Together To Cut Costs, Make Panels Better
I wasn't sure whether to put the Hacker News reference in there, for fear that people might come out of the wordwork trying to game HN after reading this.

That's why I also put in the line about not spamming. I can get rid of the HN link if people think I should.
> In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB

. . . well, unless you move to Bradwell Abbey or Highams Park: then you should soon get FTTP at about 100Mbps. An Openreach guy was telling me this afternoon it should just be a few months.
Selling Your Business: 2 Most Important Ingredients
Read the slides again. The author isn't concerned about deterministic memory performance. He's concerned about the fact that that you can't do RAII in Java and therefore any method that allocates resources, performs an action that could throw an exception and then deallocates the resources must wrap the action in a try...finally block. This is overly verbose and the compiler won't tell you if you forget to do it.
This is really great! On the Analytics end I'd add the following services:

Omniture (Adobe) Site Catalyst. This can usually be detected by looking for a request to the the *.2O7.net domain (though not always, some Site Catalyst users CNAME their own tracking domain to 207.net, in that case it's harder to detect)

ChartBeat (static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js)

Some others: WebTrends, CoreMetrics, Hitbox, Performable
Apple’s “Get a Mac,” the Complete Campaign
More Bandwidth Doesn't Matter (Much)
Important to keep in mind with respect to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521231
Forged memory fools antimalware: A new development in rootkits
Microsoft attacks Google Apps with “Google Tax” claim
It's worse. The MediaWiki PHP code doesn't implement a proper scanner and parser, it's a bunch of regexes around which the code has grown more or less organically. Silent compensation for mismatched starting and ending tokens abounds, and causes problems for all consumers of the markup, in the same way that lenient HTML parsers have. The difference is that Wikipedia, as the sole channel for editing markup, could have easily rejected syntax errors with helpful messages instead of silently compensating.

If it was anything else, I'd say "who cares," but this is "the world's knowledge" -- we absolutely should care about the format it's stored in. I'm glad to see people tackling this problem.
Important to keep in mind in regards to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521231
dito (because upvote doesn't suffice anymore)
what about offline events? Are they effective? I recall Yelp did a lot of that in the early days.
All p2p tamper-proofing schemes reduce to the Byzantine Generals Problem. There exist working algorithms, and the math was figured out a long time ago.

There are two wrinkles, though: BGP solutions are kind of slow. Worse, it is impossible for any BGP system to function securely if more than 1/3 of the nodes act in bad faith.
Apple forked Webkit from KHTML. Google contributes to Webkit.

So? I don't get, why this "forked form KHTML" comes up so often, and how is it relevant. Did Apple ever claim to invent Webkit? Not to my knowledge. What I do know, that a few years ago when Google had no Android and no Chrome Apple was already making Webkit the best rendering engine out there.

But that's completely besides the point. I just cannot imagine someone working on the same project and ready to sue fellow developer's company just because they did not release the source on the same day.

Then they can relicense the code whenever they want.

If other comments are right, LGPL does not say they must release the source together with a product.
I think, that much more important to Apple is to migrate off their antiquated Objective-C.

In the next 5 to 10 years developers will move to new modern and shiny languages and new CPU architecture will not help there.
The copyright issues are exactly the same -- nonexistent. This is really basic stuff.

Why all of the sudden do I feel that this whole thread is just an attempt to get notice/attention for these sites?
See the recent news about Lithuania, FTTH 10Mb for ~$6/month up to 300Mbps for ~$35/month.

http://bit.ly/infdfc (apologies for URL shortener, on mobile).
How to Use Dribbble
Thank you for posting this -- very informative!
Still gotta fix GC fragmentation before I'll never have to restart my JVMs.
I think the punishment for breaking embargoes is that they won't be getting the news early next time. They'll get an email an hour before the embargo, and that's all the extra time they get.

If you want to embargo something, someone breaks it, and you send them embargoed information again... then that's your own fault.
> outliers do not follow rules.

True, in a way: the take large amounts of coherent risk. That is, a man who wants to be the next Bill Gates may risk his college career to do a startup or make bold promises to get a contract, but he won't avoid showing up to board meetings to practice with his band in the hopes of becoming a rock star. He won't piss people off for no good reason, or for any reason other than which he's focussed on.
Hackapalooza: Lollapalooza Launches an API
Why pile new laws? if people are really that concerned about internet privacy they could install privacy software, the same as with parental control software.

There is no market failure to justify new regulations and advertising is what pays for the internet, new laws will just increase the barrier to entry and stifle innovation as everyone will need their lawyers present before launching anything.

Also this do-not-track concept doesn't make much sense, with phone marketing people didn't get anything in return here they get free content.
San Francisco does not currently enforce this tax, and it does not currently collect any revenues from it, so there is no revenue to be made up. No one was even aware of it until it was discovered recently.
Since I first heard about CUDA and ran the N body simulation with hundreds of bodies in real time on a cheap GeForce 8500 I became aware of how good of a parallel processor these things are.

Of course, had I learned about how the rendering pipeline for graphics works it would have been obvious, but that only came later.

After that, I've always wondered how feasible it would be to write an OS for regular users (there are CUDA supercomputers, but that isn't very representative of how most people make use of computers) that makes use of the GPU for various computations other than graphics. Hopefully, this project will shed some light in that direction.
Well, other than crypto what is there really to do that is more efficient in the GPU?
Ok, advice taken. Thanks a ton! Your advice has been valuable.
What is going to happen to the Postal Service? In 10-15 years, dead tree mail will be an anachronism. Mass mail campaigns will be much less effective because the current buying generation will have grown up ignoring letters. Will the post office be able to continue to function after losing 80% of it's current volume? Does this mean that we'll be trusting one or many startups to deliver important information from the government?

I also wonder how a world with a much smaller post office would look. I know there are already several startups operating in this space, but it seems like there will be a large opportunity in "replacing printed mail" in the near future.
Interestingly markdown has the same problem.

Another example of the imperfect but working implementation winning.
> In my opinion, the fact Apple has posted any code for iOS 4.3 at this point is a big step in the right direction: they're not perfect yet, but at least they've got 8/10 of the projects up.

The truly weird part, to me, is that with as much (L)GPL code Apple releases they don't seem to have an automatic, systematic system in place to handle that. Even for a project as big as iOS.
But the conditions of the (L)GPL is that they are _required_ to do so when they release the source at the same time. Releasing it later is more open than not releasing it, but it's still not allowed with the (L)GPL.
Fails the same test. I build what can be considered bots for a living, though they have nothing to do with spamming or otherwise shady reasons.

Part of the process in building the bot is to send exactly what a browser would send, and we do this by actually making the requests in a browser and viewing the raw request. If my browser doesn't send a honeypot captcha, neither does my bot.
The author says on page 2 that TechCrunch randomly breaks embargoes with impunity. He blames this on the "newsmakers" for not carrying through with punishment.
Of course it's fast. They cache the whole thing :)
Even if you were wrong, I don't think you need to apologize. Almost all of his comments were trying to promote something rather than provide meaningful discussion.
Every site with karma is gameable.
Book Review - Idea Man - By Paul Allen
The W3C is broken: it has spent the last 10 years standardizing ideas instead of existing practice. This is totally backwards and leads to standards that are too complicated, unrealistic, and in many cases not needed at all.

The W3C was originally created to standardize HTML, which was already being used by many vendors and users but in incompatible ways. That is exactly the right situation for creating a standard. It leads to standards that are realistic and motivated by a demonstrated need.

Unfortunately, almost everything else the W3C has ever done has happened in the opposite direction: in response to an idea or a perceived need, some people theorize about the best way to solve the problem and then write a document that a bunch of vendors are supposed to then implement from scratch.

This is how we ended up with the XML stack, which was designed to solve the data interchange problem but ended up being a disaster of complexity, inefficiency, and ad hoc implementations.

Even the case of CSS (which has been quite successful) is sub-optimal IMO, because it didn't choose to standardize the existing practice of how people were using tables for layout. The CSS box model makes it stupidly difficult to do things that are trivial with table-based layouts, like a a three column layout (which is considered a "holy grail" by even CSS advocates: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail/).

CSS could have used a table-like layout model that makes it easy to arrange <div>s into rows and columns, allowing a smooth upgrade from people who were using the <table> tag. Instead they invented something new that was much more difficult to design for, creating an unnecessary tension between web standards advocates and people who just wanted to get things done.

Standards should codify and refine existing practice, not attempt to invent new things.
"I can barely find the stomach to blame Apple's engineering team for prioritizing strict and timely license compliance somewhere below: Making their boss Steve Jobs happy, releasing features that paying customers care about, and sleeping."

Sleep is an important function the brain and body must perform to survive; I would never advocate sleep deprivation.

However, no, Mr Jobs and everyone else can wait as there is a legally binding license governing the release of the code. This is a rare completely black and white issue. The binary is released without the source -> license violation.
Unless the bill prohibits loyalty cards at VONS, too, this is just old business astro-turfing against internet businesses.
> you're not going to get the same performance out of the usb ethernet adapter

3rd party gigabit USB adapters are surprisingly fast. They combine multiple ethernet packets into a single USB packet.
It would be great if you could take a pic of a tree leaf, and i will capture the geoloc of the pic as well and plot where that tree is on the map - and start tracking where all types of trees live.
I was a little off-put by the inclusion of that phrase.
I suppose if you are one to consider that and other performance boosts a main feature, the MBP makes a lot more sense to purchase. I'm not saying that the Air works for all people for all reasons. It definitely shows when it's struggling with something, and this is why I have other machines to offload things to. I don't use the Air as a desktop replacement although I do about 80% of my work on it, and that might be key to this discussion. Performance trivialities are no big deal when I can easily just head home or to my office and use a cheaper-priced desktop that still blows any MBP out of the water.

> I guess it depends on how you're using it - I don't really notice the weight in my backpack, and I don't walk around with my laptop otherwise.

If there is one thing I really hate about being female, it's the inability to get away with walking around dressed nicely with a backpack on. But even when I do use backpacks, it's usually the case that 1.5lb and a slimmer laptop is nicer to have and I definitely notice the added weight and subsequent strain when I'm lugging around a work laptop or my 13" or 15" MBPs instead of the Air.
Have you considered using Scons as your build system, instead of Automake?
Puppet or Cfengine to actually run the updates on the machines. Then you can run a vulnerability checker, such as nessus, to verify that the updates are installed.
Mirror of the mirror:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2577298/The%20Parser%20that%20Cracke...
Delta Starts Tracking Bags
Which makes its repeal a priority why, then?
Second, the letter points out that the four leading Web browsers—Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome—already offer various means of preventing advertising companies from tracking users.

Perhaps I'm wrong, and please correct me if I am, but I don't think this is true -- is it? I thought that features like Private Browsing (Safari) and Incognito (Chrome) only prevented the browser from recording page and search history (or using form autofills) on your local machine. This is the first I've heard that it affects user tracking by advertisers in any way, shape or form.

EDIT: And the more I think of it, the stupider this "solution" becomes -- basically, they're asking users to forego recording their own browsing history to avoid being tracked! Well, where do I sign up?
Microsoft Research: How to Improve Social Search
Pardon the off-topic complaint, but why on earth would anyone put ads on a company developer blog? Isn't the business rationale for a blog like this to advertise the technical prowess of the company? In that case, is the ad money really worth significantly cheapening the experience of reading the blog?
Virgin 100mb is coming to my area soon :D The schedule for roll-outs across the UK is available here: http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/100Mb-r...

BT are also bringing 100mb broadband in, at which speed I'm sure you'll be able to hit their ridiculously stingy monthly caps in mere minutes.
Almost every modern smartphone writes EXIF - including Android and iOS.

In fact, EXIF is so common, and so poorly understood by thieves, that your only main fear is image hosts stripping EXIF, or the firmware failing to include serial in EXIF (which is less likely the more expensive the camera).
It's not from a dc to the speedtest node; its from the campus. It wouldn't matter anyway. I work at Cisco and I have gigabit link to the core from my laptop. Problem is the speedtest nodes can't push the traffic fast enough to fill the pipe which is something I regularly do when working with campuses in MA and NC.