skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was thinking too. What will they do when they true business men run off? Who will they loot then?
I like the notation "<-" instead of "." Here's why: "<-" looks like sending a message. "." looks like a scoping construct.

Thus, to my brain, "." implies synchronicity: Invoke this function and continue with the result, it's just that the language implementation will do some fiddly stuff to look up the function's implementation in an inheritance hierarchy at run time.

Whereas "<-" implies asynchronicity: Send this message to this independent entity that has its own memory, processor, whatever. If you need a reply, send a continuation along with it, a'la current Javascript style.
> REST doesn't mean each of your views is in a class and being GET-only doesn't mean something isn't RESTful.

So what's unRESTful about Django?
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If that ability was lacking, other people would be complaining about it. Abstractions should not prevent you from accessing the bits underneath: they should make it unnecessary. Which they never completely succeed in, because there are always fringe use cases you didn't foresee.
This was in October 2008:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-marke...

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"Developers will get 70% of the revenue from each purchase; the remaining amount goes to carriers and billing settlement fees — Google does not take a percentage. We believe this revenue model creates a fair and positive experience for users, developers, and carriers," notes Eric Chu.

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This statement was at that time interpreted, that Google is buying marketshare from the carriers.

I don't know if the sentence "Google does not take a persentage" still stands and how the transactions fee is splitted today.
Mine is about that, maybe a bit more. I have the best residential internet plan in the city.
One contributing factor here in the Netherlands is a huge lack of the type of investors I read about on this site. If you want to start a business here, there are two options, either go to the bank and get a personal loan with loads of interest, or depend on "triple-F-financing": friends, fools and family.

Only in internet startups that have international appeal do you find a little bit of startup funding, but these investors are hardly ever Dutch firms.
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Excellent work! reCAPTCHA is rather unfriendly to non-English users.
I don't think you're even close on the 3:1 visitor ratio. I'd like to see some numbers on this.
That doesn't answer the question at all. A dead hard drive will have an inoperable restore partition.

This seems like it will be a total PITA. PC restore partitions I've worked with always had weird quirks (strange partition types, special MBR boot loader code) that make them hard to copy/move to a new drive successfully.
It's more of a public health issue - analogous to building sewer systems and clean water supplies.
They don't need true business men when the oil is flowing.
Wait, what?

I'm not anti/pro america/europe. I'm also not very good at geography, but are you talking about the same Europe as I think you are? Are you suggesting that Europe, as a whole, is an economic model to follow right now? Or when you say Europe do you really just mean Germany ?
I can also confirm that a lot of interesting things did go on weeks or months ago for some people. More than that I can't say.
I think the reason for Silicon Valley being in the USA and their entrepeneurial approach is that the USA as a country of immigrants has got higher concentration of people with ADD. ADD people from Europe migrated into the USA since people with ADD are more likely to migrate.

Those people are responsible for the culture of impulsivness and creativity in the USA, kinda like role models. So migration is responsible for the lack of this kind of entrepeneurial approaches in Europe and responsible for the surplus of the same in the USA.

Simple, he? What do you think about this theory?
I don't know about you, but 99% of my objective C code is quite formulaic with regards to memory management.
You would not even consider it might just be a good example of the point the columnist is trying to make?
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The arguments over performance, compiler features, and the definition of garbage collection aside, I'm curious what members of the HN community think about the chances of Ruby becoming an iOS-approved programming language.

It seems as though the groundwork has been laid, and from an aesthetic perspective, Ruby seems like a nice fit for Apple. Plus, it's not Python, which is arguably Google's baby.
Sounds like dropbox, but one step closer to the user: instead of interfacing at the directory level, it interfaces at the application level.

Also underlines dropbox's tremendous success, to be casually mentioned by Jobs to define the problem/solution.
I have no comment on whether Europe needs to be more like Silicon Valley, but my gut feeling is that it doesn't. That being said, Europe isn't nearly as friendly to failure as the US is. Bankruptcy laws in the EU are waaaaaay more onerous than they are in the US.

The question of whether this is a chicken and egg problem WRT European culture is up for debate.

tl;dr: Cultures are different. News at 11.
Yes, doubling the number of registers and making SSE2 a requirement increased performance across the board (except for flash).
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-...
I've never heard of a processor architecture that got a performance boost from going to 64 bits except x86-64, though.
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When I was growing up in Germany I remember hearing this exact same complaint about lack of entrepreneurship a good 30 years ago. My dad, who is a solid state physicist, was a kind of cheerleader for modern technology and was exasperated how companies were not adopting and adapting more quickly. His predictions that the economy was going to go down the tubes while the rest of the world pulled away still ring in my ears.

Yet here we are and looking around my neighborhood in Oregon I see VWs, Audi's, Mercedes and Porsches, our dishwasher is a Bosch and any serious Oregonian owns a Stihl chainsaw.

While I agree that a shocking number of young Germans (and likely other Europeans) are looking for the security of a "Beamter" (civil servant) job, there are definite pros to the German system and I think to keep the balance maybe it's not so bad we have countries with different systems.

Here in the USA almost everyone is an amateur at almost everything we do and that breeds excellence from a few but also a lot of shoddy work. In Germany it's the opposite, the general skill level in industry, science and even culture is relatively high but there are few international standouts.

I think software and software entrepreneurship is particularly well suited to the American system.

Interestingly, in my work as an embedded systems engineer there are a lot of German companies offering development tools (Keil and Hitex come to mind) and other specialty hardware. Not everyone has to develop the next Groupon or Facebook, there are a lot of other possibilities.
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Sounds like a hoax to me.

If not, it's pretty mean to the advertisers (and possibly criminal).
Although I empathize with your wishes, your article is way too sensationalistic. Let me confirm (I’m not with Apple); MacRuby on iOS has _NOT_ been confirmed.
Sort of, but not really. The problem is that we don't pick whether we're going to use Flash or an alternative. The website does. And you bet that a lot of websites also aren't going to care about the tiny 64 bit linux segment. "Competition" in this case would have to provide an exact drop-in replacement of Flash, which I don't think will happen soon. (The open flash replacements mostly sucked the last time I tried them.)
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Yes, but remember that this requires the user to download a separate app in order to have the upload functionality in yours.

Your web application would have to be pretty damn good to get a user to go through that much effort in order to use it.
Not to make light of his accomplishments, but Bill Gates is only 55: A mere whipper-snapper compared to some of the grey beards that many of us have worked with over the years. Gate's blazed many a trail, but this wasn't one of them.
just to say thanks to everyone here - i applied for a tunnel with sixxs and got it working no problems: 10/10 + 10/10.
Be logical? No. Make sense? Yes.

You can make all the navel-gazing syllogism you want with pure logic, but if you want to make conclusions about the real world then in many cases (like the domain under discussion) you're going to need to involve math.
> So... what happens when you maximize the browser window?

And what happens when you minimize it?

That is Grubers point. Google wants to make the (their) browser to be the OS. Apple likes native applications. At least from John Grubers larger narrative. According to him (and I agree) ChromeOS and the Chromebook are feeling more Google-y than Android.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/open-house/id373474126?mt=8
I wonder why nspluginwrapper is not mentioned, which supports the use of 32-bit plugins with a 64-bit browser. In fact, when installing /flashplugin-nonfree/ on Ubuntu x86_64 it will nspluginwrapper.

It's not ideal, but works fine for casual Flash website use.
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enjoy:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-to-buy-skyp...
> any serious Oregonian owns a Stihl chainsaw.

Well, depending on which bit of Oregon they're from, they might abhor the idea of a device to "denude mother gaia's old growth forests" or something to that effect...

Said as someone who grew up in Oregon.
ok, as i'm currently starting my business in austria (that's in europe) i want to add my 2c.

the biggest obstacle is that the government won't go out of your way.

1. i could start my company now

2. but it would be stupid, as i would miss out on the "unternehmensgründerförderung" (start up support)

3. for getting "unternehmensgründerförderung" you have to attend a sh#tload of courses (for about 2 months) which tell you nothing about starting a business, but a lot of "what you have to do so that you don't get into trouble with the government later"

3.1. and they tell you a sh#tload of things about things you have to do to get a 'unternehmensgründungs' grant for your business

3.2. during that period your business is forbidden to earn money

4. as soon as you start your startup you have at least half a month of work outlined on what you now have to do to please your government

5. even if your company would just exists for 1 minute, you will get herrases by the government and insurance companies for the next 3 years.

oh, and every time the government discusses that fact that there are not enough new companies, they talk about another 'development program' (a.k.a. grant) which you then get educated about, if you want to or not.

sometimes i think i'm becoming an anarchist, an entrepreneur-anarchist.
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I should have said, "one known case." I researched the issue a year ago by extensively Googling to see if I could find a case among the top 4 password managers in market share: lastpass, RoboForm, 1Password, and KeyPass. I also had some direct communication with RoboForm and they claimed to have never received a report about a RoboForm database being broken into because a Master Password had been logged.

And please - if anyone is aware of even a single known case among these 4 market leaders, please tell us about it.
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How are the torrent videos made available in the first place? Are people just ripping DVDs?
How many time are people going to scream...bubble? http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/comic-reaction-after-drama...

Anyway, hoarding is not a problem. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/one-apple-today-two-apples...

Even if we need to use the satoshi(the lowest unit of bitcoin), we can extend decimal space.

Does anybody actually have anything new or novel criticism for bitcoin? Or are we going to repeat trending the same ground everytime a new bitcoin story come up?
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Some advantages of skype over the mobile phone:

- image

- you can call national and international for local fees

- no microwave next to your head
So what you're saying is you could listen to someone and agree that what they're saying is logical but it doesn't make sense?

I'm not being a jerk, but could you please give me an example of something logical that doesn't make sense?
Yew, you can see it for yourself if you play a flash movie you can tear off the tab into a window without affecting the video.
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In a lot of cases the "true business men" having their property confiscated by the government aren't much better, mostly being cronies of either a current or previous government themselves, or connected with organized crime. It's not like Russia's oligarchs suddenly sprouted business empires over the course of a few years through entrepreneurship and hard work. I tend to see it as basically conflicts within the ruling elite; sometimes one faction is in government, and sometimes another faction is, and stuff gets shadily privatized or shadily re-nationalized depending on how those power struggles ebb and flow.
Is the plastic housing strong? The first Galaxy S was nice but the thing felt like a childs toy that I would smash as soon as it was dropped. And the gps was 100% defective, really put a bad taste in my mouth.

G2 is extremely tough as its made of plastic and aluminum which I've used very often.
I specifically mentioned more registers

No you haven't.

Take a break from javascript and look up how
processor caches work

A personal attack doesn't do any good. There are techniques available to reduce pressure on the cache, but more and bigger registers gives you an immediate advantage that can't be replicated - some apps have speed gains just by recompiling. Also, 32-bits apps running on top of 64-bits are running in an emulated 32-bits environment and so they take a penalty just for that.

It is true in practice that 32-bits is all you'll ever need and you won't notice the difference, but modern browsers would get a healthy boost in performance (yes, 15% matters).
In the global race to have the worst economy, Europe (as a whole) currently has a significant edge over the US, although the US is certainly running the race with gusto. There's serious talk of having to break the EU up over the economic crisis it is having. The traditional "US should be more like Europe" rhetoric should be packed away in storage for a while, conditions are not ripe for it.
They had enough spare bytes to not have to pull that trick. It'd have been better to clean up some algorithms somewhere or reuse some code.

Prime example COS/SIN = same operation with 180 phase shift. I've seen BASIC implementations with two separate implementations...

Note: I've worked with very memory constrained systems in assembly before (actually hand assembled code on paper as well).
It's only slightly harder to exaggerate the strokes some small but random amount.
Not when that old growth is blocking the road after a storm.
Great presentation foreshadowing the iPod.
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“Right time, right place, right people on the team and whatever other circumstances you might want to describe as "luck" play a much bigger role than people like to admit because it would diminish their own accomplishments.”

True, but equally true is that initiative, experience, domain knowledge, persistence and hard work play a much bigger role in outsized success than most people would like to admit because it would diminish their own accomplishments.
Not defending BitCoin (I won't be buying any soon), but I think the author doesn't realized that BitCoins are divisible down to eight decimal places.

It's difficult for me to imagine a currency which is so divisible being "hoarded to death".
I am reminded of the concept of differential advantage. It's OK for the US to be entrepreneurial and for Germany to have a lot of craft-focused artisans who can take technology and refine it unto the nth degree. The world is richer for having the both.

It's part of the reason I think a lot of people over the decades(/centuries) who call for the US to be more a clone of Europe are calling for a really bad idea; it's more than just OK for there to actually be different types of countries, but they actually support each other and make each side wealthier. Diversity, real diversity involving significant differences, is good.
>In particular, we argue that the whole world can reach and maintain American standards of living with a population of even 15 billion.

That's one doubling away from the current population. There's no particular reason to believe population will never exceed 15 billion.
This is the same government that extended the patriot act. I may be cynical, but I don't think they have any respect for privacy or communication. In the day of no-knock searches and wiretaps, will these guys restrain themselves to their constitutional responsibilities? From one I've observed, no way.
Yes you should, and it's not hard. You start by refusing to take any more government money, then proceed to the advanced stage where you also refuse to pay them any. Involves a lot of travel, but who wouldn't love that? Entrepreneur-anarchists certainly do ;)
What's with the downvotes? This is a fact. If you set up a mail provider as Exchange they have the ability to wipe your phone. Google is a big place so while it's unlikely this would happen, it's not impossible. I prefer for it to be impossible.
By that you assume that there are good "true business men" (those who used to run Domodedovo) and bad "thugs".

This doesn't reflect reality much. Those are just roles. One day you're a business man, the next day you participate in state-owned enterprise, the next day you're the "thug".
It's wrong to try and separate good "business men" from bad "government men" because they're all drawn from the same pool.

Yeah, and both groups "run off" from time to time.

P.S. The notion that Domodedovo was the best airport compared to other Moscow airports seems to conflict with my experience. It wasn't worse but it wasn't much better. For example, during the ice rain of late December 2010 it failed straight on its face, losing power for several hours and being unable to perform.
Feedback and contributions are always welcome. Feel free to fork it and send pull requests.
I guess people like not being able to make anything out because the picture is overexposed?
AFAIK the limits are imposed by government, but the fees are totally up to banks.
I don't think so. After the collapse of Eastern Germany there was a rush on the western brands that were unavailable throughout the separation. Now there's a nostalgia for some of the old eastern brands that got wiped out.

I think brands are orthogonal to the question of propaganda in repressive systems. In fact, one of the main points of a brand in a free market is a kind of promise of predictable minimum quality. In a closed market that doesn't really work because brands don't compete and the feedback loop from the customer is broken.
the screen is the most vibrant ... I've ever seen on any phone

I compared the screens of my iPhone 4 with my colleague's new S2, and I have to say that the S2 screen is like a TV configured for store demo - way too much saturation. While colors on the iPhone look natural, on the S2 everyone looks like they've been out in the sun for a few hours more than they should have.
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Speaking for only myself, this is the first article that I have read which goes beyond the usual arguments made against Bitcoin. I would strongly recommend reading the OP again properly as the links you have posted do not seem to address the issues it brings up.
I'm curious, does anyone know what fraction of dollars are "hoarded"?
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It feels stronger than the HTC desire - the phone is thin, so there's no air/give when you push in the batter cover. It also eschews the shiny plastic back of the first Galaxy S in favor of a passport-like surface, which is a lot grippier.

GPS on SII works - see reviews.
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Here is another take on captchas, with the source.

http://jordan-adams.co.uk/humancheck/
Who cares about zope
To change it, Settings > Display > Background Effect. Switch from 'Dynamic' to 'Standard' or 'Movie' (same as a Sumsung TV).
Google Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GL14HXX...

edit: Is Ling a male or a female?
Link to the much longer blog post swombat refers to, which includes a nice case study on the point - http://blog.idonethis.com/post/4961556178/copywriting-as-sca...

In my opinion, if you have to explain the same thing to customers more than twice (ie, more than two customers), then you need to find a scalable solution. Sometimes this is code - automating a process step etc - but often it is related to human error or misunderstanding, in which case it needs to be explained better.

And one of the first rules of business - communication requires two parties, but when it goes wrong you are 100% responsible for fixing it.
interesting. Here is the report he refers to:
RW. Bussard, The Advent of Clean Nuclear Fusion:
Superperformance Space Power and Propulsion: http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.p...

also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283735
Actually, the claim that it will is the one not currently supported by evidence. The UN currently estimates the peak of world population will be 9.22 billion in 2075, followed by a general decline, assuming current trends [1]. Now, I'd like to think we continue to extend lifespan, but birth rates are dropping. Against all (first-order) biology, when humans become wealthier, they have fewer children, and this result is very robust now, not just the aberration of one particular culture.

[1]: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Wor... , second paragraph of the executive summary. Oh, and I'm just quoting the 9.22; I think that's an absurd number of significant digits but one should quote sources as directly as possible.
There's insider risk. Someone who's job it is to maintain security is most able to breach it.

There's also "hidden back door" risk. Programmers may code in means to get at data for code testing or government sharing purposes, which the security people may or may not fully understand.

I guess you could call these unwarranted assumptions (that insiders are always honest and that no back doors exists or are fully known if they do), but they don't seem amenable to mathematical modeling.
I don't see the connection between college graduation and terrible web design. Could you spell it out for me...?
I don't judge until i see the conversion data...Many times the crappiest sites sell much better than the nice looking ones!
The divisibility has no bearing on the hoarding.

The hoarding comes from the expectation of increased value over time, not the number of decimal places. If you have something that you think is going to steadily appreciate in value over time, why sell it now?
Female.