skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, they could get nice PR points by 1) announcing "we patented this to keep anyone from using it" and/or 2) donating the patent to the EFF or someone similar.
Of the add-ons I used to have only 1 (RDS Bar) is not supporting FF 5. But, that's in addition to a couple that don't support FF4 yet.
Clever! I didn't actually notice that when I read through it.
And you should probably take a closer look at Figure 8 - note that the non-pro version of Scala that did not change the fundamental algorithm is still faster than the non-pro version of Java. The version you're mentioning is not in Figure 8.

Again, I agree the results are confusing.
Apple's new 3TB Time Capsule: $499.
مشاهدة مباراة الأهلى وإنبى
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى وانبى اليوم
مشاهدة مباراة الأهلى وإنبى الآن 21 يونيو
رابط مشاهدة لقاء الاهلى وانبى فى الدوري المصرى الممتاز
موقع مشاهدة قنوات اذاعة مباراة النادى الاهلى وانبى على النت مباشرة
شاهد اتفرج على ماتش الاهلى مع نادى انبى اليوم الثلاثاء 21-6-2011 الان اون لاين
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=26098
(I'm French)

As explained in the source article on PCInpact, the proposed project has been assessed by the CNN, which is a (relatively new) consultative committee whose members include representatives from ISPs, high traffic French websites (dailymotion, meetic and deezer are on the list), a few software editors, representatives from ecommerce sellers, etc (and no music/film industry representative, for once).

Unsurprisingly, they argued against it (one of arguments is 'the EU has to be informed', which is an interesting trick to gain a few months, imo). (Can't find any non-French source for that, but it has been officially done).

What's more surprising is that they were officially asked what they thought about it in the first place. I don't think the government had any incentive to do so. What were they thinking ?

If they have any respect for the CNN (which the president created just two months ago), they will forget the law.
Otherwise, they will have explicitly ignored the opinion of the ISPs. Which isn't very wise when you want to enforce filtering and blocking of websites.

This doesn't makes sense to me.
They're not paying enough so no.

But in most of the US, that scheme doesn't apply.
Apple Stuffs A 3TB Hard Drive Into The Time Capsule And Prices It At $499
Yes, that's why I was asking. Unless you're under 18, you can drink whatever you want and enter bars, in France.

Mais alors avec modération, n'est-ce pas.
Teenager arrested on suspicion of hacking
Hmm.... I wonder what the political situation is inside Nokia, are the Trolls fighting hard for position or is it coming to them?
Yes, the linked document is really just notes the existence of the situation. It links the Register article that has more detail:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/startssl_security_br...
It will be interesting to see how sustainable his success is. I bought one of his books for $0.99, well below my impulse buy threshold, and found it to be worth about that. It wasn't a really bad book, but it wasn't much better than what you find in a college creative writing class.
tl;dr: The Actor model of concurrency used in Erlang doesn't lend itself well to key/value caches.

The fact that Mnesia isn't mentioned once indicates the author is insufficiently knowledgeable about Erlang to write an informed article. This isn't an ad hominem attack because he didn't even mention Mnesia, hence this is an attack on the content of the article rather than his credentials.

(This rather anal mention of ad hominem is relevant because the author brings it up in the comments).

To those that follow, you'll learn more reading:

Erlang - mnesia (Erlang documentation)
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html

CAP theorem
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/CAP_theorem

And, of course, if you want to use something that someone has "just done", you would simply use Riak, which uses Erlang to implement an Amazon Dynamo type distributed key-value store:

http://wiki.basho.com/

Not that difficult. A few Google's and you're set.

EDIT: On reading my post I realise that Mnesia is an OTP application, rather than an Erlang built-in, and that Riak is an Erlang-based 3rd party library. However, using canonical libraries is part-and-parcel with learning about a language, IMO.
> you can't say the government exists in a vacuum

I'm not saying that govt exists in a vacuum. I'm saying who is responsible for what it does.

> I do not like the way city hall is run either, but it's a two-way street.

No, it's not. The way City Hall works in SF is entirely the responsibility of the voters of SF. As long as they insist on setting it up so it can be bought off, it will be, and that's their fault.

No, it isn't the fault of the people buying. Not one little bit.
What, questions like that aren't allowed? I wasn't being snarky. What is it that makes Opera so fast that Firefox can't do also? EDIT: And I want to be clear too: I do not use the Turbo feature of Opera.
The AOL buyout has really pushed me to stay away from anything they write. While the quality of articles and writing was dropping pre-buyout, it has definitely gotten much worse post-buyout.
I think it will be in english as we have a few live-abroads (skylar or mrspeaker)
> doesnt seem like a large assumption

It is for the reason I've mentioned before: XNA abstracts out pretty much everything. With XNA you're not programming to the metal anymore, which is unfortunately true with WebGL. The greatest concern seems to be with the way OGL handles various buffers. For example in WebGL it is possible to create bufferData stating that it's of size X and provide Y values with Y much smaller than X. What you get is a buffer full of stale data from the memory. Bad idea.

Also there's much less "stuff" you can break in XNA with lower profile levels (feature sets) which are suitable for the web. E.g. you can't write shaders for the mobile devices today for both security and perf reasons. You get a preset amount of them and that's it. Yes, it's limiting, but you can't choke GPU to death and you can't submit shader payload that's known to crash given driver.

It's all about false equivalence that author makes in his blog entry. Problems exist with pretty much every piece of advanced software. But you can add small attack vector, or a large one. They are not equal and making it seem otherwise is bogus.

JS is amazing and I love 2D canvas. But WebGL is trying to put low-level stuff in the high-level code. It's awesome in terms of performance, but is inherently fragile and may be abused easily. It seems that it's not sensible programmers MS is afraid of but malicious attackers. And it's very unlikely that WebGL won't be happily abused.

As for Carmack, he stated at various occasions that he's closely following web graphics. He's also more than knowledgeable about the issues with drivers, how they can be hit even accidentally and how (un)likely it is for hardware vendor to fix them timely.

Also aside from the security, drawing from my experience, it is extremely difficult to make semi-advanced graphics code perform well and look acceptably similar on different GPUs. This is something APIs exposed in the high-level languages (which JS I think undeniably is) should hide from the developer, not dump on him. The fact that there are two different 3D canvas contexts - webgl and experimental-webgl - doesn't really help.
it's a pretty small shop seeking a wordpress install and some maintenance. They required proposal, I scraped one together, but thanks anyway!
I agree, although its the 'light users' thing. I see folks who own iPads as fashion accessories and have no use for them at all too. My claim was that if that was the only category of user, then the overall sales figures would be much smaller (the 'fashion' user base is limited). I've seen business folks (sales people for example) come to meetings with an iPad as their only tool, they type on it like they might a laptop. It doesn't seem to be 'fashion' for them.

And there are folks who use them as color e-readers too. I've got my entire O'Reilly book collection on mine, not something I thought would be useful but it is. And there are the kids in schools using them to replace textbooks.

Its hard to get real data without actually polling those users to see if they are 'just experimenting' or if they have changed their workflow to require an iPad or tablet. If its the latter the change is durable.

Sales volume of 15 million for the iPad 1? [1] And more than 20 million projected for the iPad 2? That many 'light' users who have $500 minimum to shell out for a fashion accessory? (if they are re-buying and the bizjournal article says they are) then really that is over $1000 for that accessory. So I'm interested in what the actual use case is that it putting iPads into people's hands and keeping them there.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/03/14/apples-ip...
True, not middle click on Firefox, but ctrl+click.

Also, the typography choice is awful http://i.imgur.com/lNV5U.png
It is completely unacceptable that their website loads that slowly.
Maybe they could save this article for after the CA Bar exam this July. Must stay focused.
Digitization has reached the Pearly Gates.
Have you read Steig Larsson or Dan Brown? Poor writing skills don't disqualify one from selling millions of books at a much higher price point.
Not at all. Going after child porn is both popular and safe.

The feds like to go after (some) copyright infringement because politically connected industries want that.

The ideal crime, from the feds' perspective, is one that combines all three characteristics.
also we'll send codes to the building by email so please register :)
I can't say as though I share the OP's sentiment wrt the Amazon API, or at least the boto Python bindings. It's a bit silly that I have to fetch all my instances (or, at best, all instances in a region, but all ours are in a single region) to operate on a single one. Other than that though, what functionality I've used in boto has been straightforward.

Also I kind of lost the thread on what this blog post was about. I'd have liked to see firmer examples of economy of words/commands in API construction, as I'm working on an API myself right now.
From a personal marketing perspective i guess they do this version rush because the dummy "consumer" looks at a big number for comparison. Chrome started pulling big numbers to surpass IE, and now firefox is doing the same.
The French government has been going this way for a while now.. they also tend play heavily on the "think of the children" emotion which annoys me.
How about this:

1) Describe a system similar to the patent that is compatible with chunked-HTTP downloading from multiple mirror sites ( which has been around since before the patent )

2) Ask for declaratory judgement that such a system does not infringe on the patent

3) The troll will fight back, let them 'win', i.e. make them prove the system you describe is the same as their patent

4) Reveal the system is prior art => invalidate the patent

5) Profit?

EDIT: IANAL, but just thinking out loud....
it almost looks like PHP there :)
Unicahome's USO Drive
I've just signed up (I'm currently in Paris, but returning to the Netherlands tomorrow, but I'll be back for the event). Would love to do a short Clojure-related presentation, even if I'm relatively new to the language.

Off topic: does anyone have a suggestion for a place to work (primarily on open source stuff in Clojure at the moment) here in Paris? Preferably somewhere where smoking is allowed or with an easily accessible smoking area (e.g. balcony or street). The internet connection at the apartment my girlfriend is renting here is abominable and there is not really much room to sit.
But you need to define "for years." Since before 1997? If so, then it becomes significant. If not, it's just another infringer.
"PocketLoot sports an innovative subscription model. You only pay when you want to, how much you want to."

Interesting approach, care to go into more detail on why you chose that way?
On a totally unrelated note, that may be the best restaurant website I've ever seen. Just gave me the facts, no Flash, I could see the menu and it works fine on a mobile phone. I wish all other restaurants would copy this template.
And you wonder why people are going to your competitor?
I can't wait to see some case studies about experiences with Scala over the term of a long-lived, large project.

I like the language, but sometimes it feels like it promotes a lot of "creative" coding. My concern is that the idioms for dealing with things like collections seem to change with some frequency as more and more features get added to the language.

It's possible that my concerns are misplaced, I've written < 10,000 lines of Scala so I'm certainly a neophyte. It's just been troubling to find so many suggestions for doing things like folding/reducing.
Fun, too! I just spent a nice few minutes in the Chrome debug console brute forcing it.
+1 for the good guys!
Just off the top of my head, because it's been a while since I rolled a list like this. One is a complaint from friends of mine that I haven't personally tripped over; others are my own issues from assorted hilarious Failures Of Graphics Programming.

* A total lack of typing. Everything is a GLuint. By the time I've bodged together sufficient type safety to be comfortable, it looks like DirectX.

* Extensions suck. Abjectly suck. While Direct3D has its problems, it does a pretty good job of saying "you must support these things". OpenGL attempts to vaguely say the same thing, but the difference is that Direct3D enforces support of things I want to use. It seems that you end up with many more code paths for OpenGL if you want to properly handle a lot of stuff.

* Difficult to query about GLSL problems, if possible at all. (An older example that's stuck with me is the noise() function, which nobody implemented the last time I dealt with this stuff. They returned a constant. Detecting this failure mode was nontrivial.)

* Tooling. As usual, Microsoft is way ahead in this area.

A project of mine uses OpenGL instead of D3D, but that's primarily because I'm not the graphics guy on that project. My own stuff just uses XNA, as it's 2D stuff I want to deploy to the 360.
Weird, I am actively using it right now with FF5.
Still, Chrome's updates tend to be measured in kilobytes, and the update for Firefox 5 was a few megabytes. There's room to shrink things.
App tabs seem like a pretty cool feature.
I can somewhat confirm this as well:

Ran Firefox, went to the about window and it was already downloading the update. It also does autoinstall, but you will get notified if you still have the default Vista/7 notification settings (i.e. 'Blah wants to run this. Yes or no').
I believe that is only true for specific GPU/driver combinations with known problems in their OpenGL driver.
Design of the front page is quite well-done, I think. Validation messages about required fields in registration form are a bit unfriendly (consider adding `required` attribute), but overall—good work, Matt!

And the video is right in place, IMO. I doubt that the concepts of a product like yours could be explained briefly and clearly enough—submission text above failed for me in this regard. (BTW, Fog Creek's site redesign shows that people do watch videos: http://blog.fogcreek.com/our-marketing-is-up-fog-creek-and-w.... Yes, I believe that also applies to videos without Joel.)

Also, the first time I see ‘100% beta’ stamp. Awesome.
Why perl has separate arrays and hashes: It's as if they thought it through
As of yesterday, the option is there, but is unchecked by default.
HTTP is an application layer protocol and not a transport layer protocol. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the transportation work that networking entails - those jobs rightly belong lower in the stack.

If its error handling doesn't work for you, either write your own application protocol or use an existing one that fits your needs better.
I know at least GetRight was first released in February of 1997[1]... dont know if there is anything older than that... probably some command line tools though...

Also usenet downloading by parts has been around before that, from memory at least 1994-1995

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetRight
The peak always comes just before the decline. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
I'm hoping to attend and my French is quite rustic (i.e. horrible), so that is at least one non-French speaker for you. As to the age thing: here in Europe, nobody will check your age when you enter a bar. If you look particularly young they might not let you order personally, but they would probably serve beer to a 12 year old if one of his parents would order it for him. I'm not sure how old you are, but I think the legal drinking age in most European countries is 16 (and 18 for strong liquor).
Airbnb referral program could double member base
But whatever change personalized search makes relative to generic search, the opposite change will occur going from personalized to generic. To penalize personalized search when the change is of equal magnitude going either direction doesn't seem fair. As long as the personalizations are just a transformation and not a subtraction, the two options are just mirror images of each other. They have the exact same kind of failure condition. The question is just which one's failure conditions are more likely to occur.

As a counter-example: Suppose your searches are primarily academic. Let's say that whenever you search the term "momentum" you are looking for something scientific- ballistics, elementary particles, whatever. But most people aren't looking for scientific info, so you constantly have to dig and dig to find anything relevant on Google. The point is, if the search technology is too impersonal, you may not find the info most relevant to your interests.
Great idea, thanks!

Reading the invite too fast I thought it was today (Jun. 21st)...! But it's not and that's cool;-)
What version has this? I just tried 12, 13 and 14 (Canary) and I don't have that option. I have "Tab Overview" as the first thing in flags. Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?
iMacro? Rhino?
Sorry about that. I updated the about.

(Right now on mass transit, at least I put some urls in).
Machine Learning Cheat Sheet
Ask HN: Should my start-up pivot?
Over the past few years, I've written about 60 small Facebook applications -- mostly having to do with enhancing productivity -- and recently, I gathered the 10 most useful and packaged them in a bundle:

http://fab.pressbin.com

Although the apps should appeal to just about anybody, they would likely have special appeal to people who manage Facebook Pages (e.g. small-business owners who are trying to market themselves).

It strikes me that I might also be able to charge this segment more than I would the general population -- but if I were to pivot and market the apps specifically to this segment, I'm not sure the price premium would offset the smaller pool of potential customers.

What do you think?

Would I have better luck with the status quo, where I'm targeting all Facebook users, or should I pivot?
I'm surprised that the bittorrent patent issued because the patent looks like it claims what the digital fountain patents (now owned by qualcomm) claimed several years previously.

google "digital fountain".
Sure, but the order of evaluation do change something. For instance, infinite lists won't ever terminate, but taking the first 42 elements of an infinite list will terminate in Haskell, and not in ML. If you want to fuse the whole thing, it won't change the Haskell program, but it may change the ML one, by making it terminate an return the correct result!

That's not an optimization any more, that's a language feature.
Have you tried La Cantine?

http://lacantine.org/

It's cosy, cheap (Not that kind of cheap, Paris' kind ;), and you can smoke outside.
That would be nice!

Concerning a place to work, I only know the co-working space named "LaCantine": http://lacantine.org

You'll never find a place where smoking is allowed, but you can smoke outside buildings.
Had the same problem although Firefox usually crashed before I got a few days out of it.
Not sure how relevant a question that is. Apple explicitly chose to be on AT&T and no-one else. I'm sure Verizon would have put their phone on the network, just not on terms Apple wanted.

Being exclusive to AT&T was as much Apple's choice as Android's was to be on them all.

Yes I'm sure it impacts adoption rates, but we didn't see a huge rush to the Verizon iPhone. But, as you say, the real test won't come until people's contracts end over the next 2 years.
This callout is absurd and misplaced. Entrepreneurs do not owe TechCrunch their scoop. So Caterina left Hunch 6 months before it was announced? Really? Well then guess what Mike - she had the info 6 months before you did. Why does Mike Arrington deserve right of first refusal on anything that goes to print? Call founders or don't call founders but don't cry foul just because a founder wants to control his or her own (in this case personal) story.
I use both. Time machine in my home to back up mine and the wife's macs and Arq to offsite backup a subset of my home directory (docs, music, photos, settings).
The thing about this which makes me think it wouldn't be something Apple would implement is that Apple's priority (after doing what's right for Apple) is what's best for the user over what's best for third parties (most notably the networks when they launched the iPhone, stopping their "value add" customisations) and it's hard to see how using this technology to implement a kill switch benefits the user.

Even Apple's more questionable moves are, based on Apple's view of the world, based on improving the lot of the end user. You can talk about how not being open doesn't benefit the user but Apple clearly disagree - they're not walling off their phone because they're fascists, they're doing so because they believe that provides a better experience overall. You can disagree with that but I see no rational argument even if they do you disagree with their approach which takes you from the walled garden to this sort of kill switch.

Plus to implement such a thing would put them at a significant commercial disadvantage against Android and other smart phone platforms at precisely the time when their advantage is shrinking (if not gone altogether). Certainly if they implemented this then my current iPhone would absolutely be my last.

But just because something is technically possible it doesn't mean it will happen and this would seem to be one of those cases.

Unless someone can come up with a realistic scenario where Apple benefit from this? And please no shadowy conspiracies - if that were the case Apple wouldn't have publicly patented it and it wouldn't just be Apple, after all, the Man doesn't just care about Apple customers...
TL;DR Bitcoins are possibly even more flawed than any other kind of currency. There is one person who controls the flow of Bitcoins and can unmake transactions it doesn't like.
Nokia unveils first MeeGo smartphone
Boire ou coder, il faut choisir.
That's the problem - if it only existed on the iPhone you basically have no significant suppression, particularly once it's known.

Going to a protest, take your Flip, your camera, your Android phone, whatever.

Unless it's almost universal there's little or no point.

And Apple just patented it so no-one else can implement it....
Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?

I believe so, I've been using sidetabs since they were released in Canary one year+ ago and I've never figured out how to get it to work on my Mac
Faster Firefox cold startup (2x), now in nightlies
Whilst yes the UK govt and/or LM are to be criticised for their lack of security, LulzSec or whoever don't need to actually go post all the data for the world to see. If they want to prove they've done it post re-dected samples. It's childish, self-defeating and insanely irresponsible to publish them.
Google should invite Pariser for an Authors@Google event with Cutts conducting the interview.