skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since all of these compile down to javascript, they all suffer from at least some limitations of javascript -- the main one being performance. Yes, all browser manufacturers are trying to make it as fast as they can, but I sincerely doubt I will see the day javascript can run as fast as a statically typed and (jit) compiled language that isn't being executed by the browser. And when I say that, I don't mean little synthetic scenarios where some piece of javascript manages to be faster than something gcc spit out. I've already seen those, and they don't impress me any more so than a hummer being able to look like a ferrari if you get the angle and lights just right.

I'm a fan of P/NaCl for this reason. Their approach goes directly at the problem instead of banging on a square peg for years and years until it barely manages to fit through a round hole. By the way, that is the only way I can describe using html/js/css for application development at this point. If it makes me sound bitter/angry, it's probably because I've been doing it for too long and grown tired of how tedious and limited it is.
Kickstarter takes 5% of successful projects: "If a project is successfully funded, Kickstarter will apply a 5% fee to the funds raised. If funding isn't successful, there are no charges."

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq#WhatFeesDoesKickChar

That said, it can still make sense to "pay the difference" if the fee you pay (5% of the remaining amount) still leaves with enough money after rewards to successfully complete the project!
ASP.Net also requires POST for web service calls, so this sort of include doesn't work.
There were plenty of RCSes out at the time, and I knew about them, but didn't use any of them. It was still a pet, personal project and I didn't consider it important. I had used VSS at my previous job and hated it, and I hadn't taken the time to learn any of the OSS VCSes at the time.

It was laziness, nothing more, and I got burnt playing with fire.
Site's down, kind of ironic, but content is available from google cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Try it then tell us.
Without the Web:

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

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

"The Minitel is a Videotex online service accessible through the telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services. It was launched in France in 1982 by the PTT (Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and La Poste). From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to that now made possible by the Internet.
In February 2009, France Telecom indicates the Minitel network still has 10 million monthly connections, among which 1 million on the 3611 (directory). France Telecom is mulling an end of the service in September 2011[1]."
The sample seems a bit odd. Reading the comments it seems that a disproportionate percentage of the subjects were into meditation (a number of them report "increasing meditation"). I haven't read the study but it seems to me they'd have a hard time publishing their conclusions as they stand now.

I'm particularly skeptical of medical research. An ex-girlfriend was a student at Harvard Medical School and worked in three different labs on drug development. Two of the three studies all the labs published in a year contained data that was either pruned or simply misreported to exaggerate the effect of the drug. I know that's anecdotal evidence, but there's a lot of grant money floating around in medical research and all the incentives are skewed towards positive results, which often leads to bad science. I fear this may be yet another example (speculating, admittedly).
Vector extensions are terrible: they're too high-level an abstraction because they don't expose individual instructions, and SIMD instructions are "weird" enough that you can't get reasonable performance by expecting the compiler to magically do the right thing. There's no gcc vector equivalent of psadbw, for example, and I doubt the compiler is even capable of generating it.

Intrinsics are passable, but still have two core problems. First of all, the compiler is atrocious at register allocation: it will often spill far more than necessary, and even when it doesn't, it will usually spill the wrong things. Secondly, they're way harder to write than straight assembly, far less flexible, and are nigh-unreadable, so why bother?
BBC radio one recently had a pretty good programme on the Amen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011nyd1

It is a shame that the true pioneers of the break were only briefly mentioned. They would be Equinox, Bizzy B, Breakage, Fracture and Neptune, Chris Inperspective et al.

Around 2006 there was a boom in what has become the "choppage" subgenre of drum and bass, revolving around the Scientific Wax, Inperspective, Bassbin and Mu record labels and the Technicality and Bassbin nights run at Herbal in London. It is a shame the R1 programme did not focus on any of this at all as alot of what came out of that pushed the break to it's listenable limits (Breakcore just baffles and confuses me).

If you want a regular dose of Amen, catch Equinox and the Scientific Wax show playing on jungletrain.com every other Sunday. He will draw some of the ruffest badman tunes you'll ever hear. He is one of the worlds most highly regarded connoisseurs of the Amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTeToyyYwQ&feature=relat...
I'd imagine that clusters could be interconnected by fiber optics. That's the beautiful thing about current internet; it doesn't care about the underlying medium. Your packets may travel through a POTS network to satellites to fiber optics to ethernet to DSL until it reaches your computer, and it's all rather transparent.
Posterous: Add affiliate links, special marketing deals with brands

Tumblr: Premium themes, featured directory listings, "digital stickers"

They could probably earn a lot more if they started with ads or premium accounts. Right now it looks like they're focused on acquiring users, the focus on profits will likely come later.
I just tested with Firefox portable 3.0.0 and it looks like it was already fixed then (June 2008).
It is incredibility poor form that websites are still vulnerable to these attacks. Django made CSRF protection mandatory back in 2009.

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CsrfProtection

and if you operating a website that is still is use today it must also guard against these attacks. See

http://www.squarefree.com/securitytips/web-developers.html#C...

there is absolutely no excuse for this other than incompetence or ignorance. Take your pick.
There was also Prestel and Teletext in England. Time, Inc. invested a ton of money here in a teletext startup. I don't know why they abandoned it but "who owned the VBI" (vertical blanking interval, which would carry teletext) was an issue back then too. AT&T also had NAPLPS in the works. Times Mirror and at least one other company I can't recall (in Florida) had NAPLPS systems up and going. Time Warner had Qube on cable in Ohio (Columbus?). None of them had the life or vibrancy or innovation of the BBS subculture.
Most of the interesting stuff did not use the amen break, or used it originally. It is true that a lot of DnB and Jungle was awful and repetitive, but that's the case in most electronic genres. OTOH, timeless (Goldie), Modus Operandi (Photek), New Forms (Roni Size) were going beyond the cliches while staing in the genre in the mid-nineties. And then you have the really good stuff like squarepusher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yA8MRphI8w), the early Amon Tobin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_IjGVWtVY) or Spring Jeel hack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di6Mrr6yuF0&feature=relat...).

A lot of hip hop originally used the funky drummer beat as well, but it has ceased to define the genre a very long time ago.
Also there are newer artist still wrecking shop with the amen such as Dub One and Nebula. Much more soulfull and heartfelt music than most drum and bass.
Great, compile a whole list and use it it dictionary attacks!
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grandchildren to breathe better air, now is not an option we want to recycle and care about the environment, is an obligation and a necessity for government, industry and citizens to become agents of sustainable development and fair, and promoting
That cannot be the whole story because even if they get the money interest-free, investors are not going to invest in start-ups or venture funds unless they believe they can a better return there than they can in other investments.
Thanks for posting the cached version. I'm working on getting the server back online. Did not anticipate this level of attention :P
Sega attacked, hacker group offers to take revenge
Essentially you could yes. Even with the top 50 list given there you'd be guaranteed quite a few hits, I'm still shocked people think it's fine to use 1234567890 as a password...
I think these are all very legitimate concerns. We specifically switched from a "Type an Artist" search to a channel-based music selection process because people were not getting what they expected. That being said, the reason why Adwords has proven pointless for bands (a HUGE small business market) is because nobody is searching for band names they have never heard before. But, people search for good "speed metal" all of the time. We may not end up in a place where we can play Black Sabbath for people who search for it, but we meet the needs of people looking for "Southern Hip Hop" every day.

As for making sure artists don't fall victim to bad campaigns, we aren't expecting them to be SEM experts. Our team puts them in the right channels - so poor keyword selection is not an option (as in first time Adwords users). Additionally, we intend to provide not just reports, but optimization recommendations that will make it easy for an artist to turn off an underperforming song, and so on. And, for the sake of our listeners, we'll be deactivating songs that are performing very poorly on our own. We hope to avoid that by screening for quality, but sometimes a song does end up in the wrong channel. At the end of the day, we'll be benefiting from the understanding of search marketing, but be building a tool that serves artists.

As an aside, I have had zero luck on Pandora building me a good Black Sabbath station! And don't try to build one based on Blind Melon either. ;)
Doing business in Argentina: A constant feeling of crisis
This is a non-issue if you use JSON-RPC.
Don't find your business partners at a startup weekend
After I went to Bonnaroo and saw people doing every drug imaginable, I read "Buzzed" [0], which is written by several Duke professors and covers just about every drug out there. It was really fascinating, and I was surprised to find that many drugs are not that harmful, or at the least not nearly as harmful as I assumed them to be.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Buzzed-Straight-Abused-Alcohol-Ecstasy... (not an affiliate link)
ok - back up. thanks again!
Thanks for taking the time to reply again, I hope you'll give Labradoc a try.
The Internet was alive and well before the web came along. It was certainly a different beast at the time but the author is spot-on when observing that the distributed, anarchic nature of ARPANET lies at its foundation.

There is also an alternate scenario that might be interesting to speculate about. Before wide-spread internet availability a lot of people were connecting to (mostly) privately run BBSes. Inter-BBS networks like FIDONET were developed for passing email between FIDONET nodes with gateways into other systems (including, IIRC the internet).

In a world without ARPNET based internet it's not hard to imagine commercial services being built around this. Given enough volume these services would start setting up dedicated links to each other. Enough services start doing this and it makes sense to set up exchange points. All these services rely on the same protocol to communicate over exchange points and that would make proprietary protocol changes difficult so a more-or-less open engineering consortium would be the next logical step to push such changes. Real time communication over this network would be a real commercial selling point (hello chat systems!) so next thing you know you have 'special' emails with high priority and some extra flags that don't end up in email boxes but are sent to end-user programs that only send and receive the 'special' emails. (Hey there protocol selection!).

This wouldn't get us the web any time soon (this kind of network wouldn't have room for arbitrary data floating around), but market forces + social momentum could conceivably build an alternative version of a global data communication network.
Yes, it was called PageRank.

surely google's real "plus one" is it's page rank. a mechanism which is far more sophisticated and less prone to fickle bias.

why do we need an additional method to say "i like this website". the backlinks and google's original algorithm back in 1996 was supposed to be this innovation.
Highly illegal once grown! Had a friend's pet dealer get life, but that was for a couple pounds; he sold them at festivals. [US]

*by pet, I mean animals
On one level, money is much less motivational to me than praise. On another level, there is a direct path between "Be generous with what I know" and "Sell more stuff." See the iceberg part of the speech. Every time I am cited I get a bit better SEO juice for bingo.

Similarly, some smart people trust me regarding knowledge, execution ability, and character. This is largely a function of being generous with what I know. If you were hypothetically in Ogaki and bought me coffee, I would happily talk about your problems until I ran out of breath. There exist people who are happy to buy that, and they generally pay substantially more than coffee, for example to guarantee availability or reschedule the chat from ogaki to 18 hours east.
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I've worked on some larger applications in javascript (though nothing incredibly large), and I can tell you if I had the choice of using any language that offered static and strong typing I'd take it in a heart beat. A small change in one place often means an error in some part of your code you didn't even think would be affected. I've loaded 65k LOC JS files in firebug and webkit's debugger chasing some error down that was happening in some piece of code that I've never seen before. All because that's how far my screw up managed to travel when there is no type checking or strong typing. In that particular case I had set a string value to something that was supposed to have been an array. Something like that would never have happen in, lets say C#, but "crap"[0] or "crap".indexOf("c") or ["c", "r"].indexOf("c") are all valid JS.
Haha, I was just thinking of this!
SalaryMania: Android app for searching salaries
It's not that easy :) The "take daily for life" pills work always; you can have the crappiest day of life and take a pill and you're happy. That's why they're addictive, even stuff like cigarettes or alcohol -- always work, always calm you down, bad trip impossible.

Psychedelics require preparation, and active cooperation on the patients side. If you think you can be depressed and suicidal and eat a mushroom and have it all gone you are in for a world of bad trip, that will have consequences after the bad trip: insanity, panic attacks, anxiety, and symptoms of PTSD. Basically, psychedelics aren't an immediate fix, they require preparation before and taking actions after the trip.

Psychonautics requires learning; experienced and knowledgeable people can guide their mind to benefit greatly from a bad trip, but most people are not be able to handle it, and delve even deeper into depression or whatever. Some killed themselves afterwards or during. Some have peed their pants while crying and shaking throughout the trip but came out better. Some had absolutely wonderful experiences with psychedelics.

From personal experience, your set and setting will determine whether you discover the wonders of the universe or hallucinate a penis staring at your face, thinking you are being raped for 8 hours. I am not joking.

People like immediate fixes, hence why psychedelic therapy doesn't get much attention.
Uh, no, not really. They are shipping 4 versions a year, so if they keep the current pace, we in fact won't see version 1243053 until the year 312774

Granted I hope we have transcended browsers by that point.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
Checkout the Amen Break iPhone app too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7HnNLKh6Q
I suspect the waveform is so non-sinusoidal because the eye is approximately log-sensitive. So if you want something to look sinusoidal, you should really physically output exp(sin(w*t)+c), which looks approximately like the output on the scope.
why not to be taken seriously?

There was a movement by AT&T to block research and implementation of internet or have you forgotten. In fact they wanted the infrastructure done their way not decentralized, etc. Than there was FIdonet, etc.
It's the same release model as Chrome. Chrome doesn't go from 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3... It's a time boxed release. 4-6 times a year you get an automatic upgrade and the version number is increased. They could have chosen the smaller increment like 10.01, 10.02, ... but then we would never have a major upgrade, and I think humans prefer the major upgrades numbers. In reality, it's just a number. They could have started with 3.14 and added the numbers of Pi, but that's already been done.
Am I missing something? The default area where the book loads is way to small to read anything, and it may be the fact that I'm so zoomed out, but this looks like it was scanned it or something. Blurry and not leveled...

Direct link to a PDF: http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/Smooth%20C...
Just as we did in 2008?
http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-p...
I'm not sure you looked at what I posted. __builtin_ia32_psadbw is right there on the list of builtins. I've used __builtin_ia32_psadbw128 in GCC myself. It compiles directly to PSADW instructions. Perhaps you confused what I was talking about with GCC's auto-vectorization?

edit: Just realized that you're the x264 guy and it's unlikely you misunderstood me. Still I think my point about psadbw stands.
Wireless community mesh networks are really cool stuff. The problem I think is that there seems to be very little cooperation between different networks. Many seem to run completely custom/unique software/hardware/protocols -combinations. Of course I realize that this is quite bleeding edge stuff, so some experimentation and exploration is necessary. But I just hope that some day (not too far in the future) the necessary hardware/software -combination to connect to such networks would be commodity and for that we need standardization.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_routing_protocol_list
It's amusing to see a die-hard libertarian like ESR describe a dystopia where online services are being developed by private entrepreneurs rather than the US Government.
until adwords, what was the Google business model?
Not this again, we were just over this a few days ago [1]. And even if I granted that Apple was solely responsible for WebKit (which is beyond absurd)... what is your point?

Apple has a WebKit browser. They ship it. They shove it down your throat if you're an iTunes user... and yet it has pathetic share. It had a huge head start on Chrome and it's bundled with the OS on laptops that have exploded in the last few years. Yet Chrome beats it.

Chrome iterates faster. Chrome has forced others to up their anty. Chrome has a better auto-update model and a better, richer extension model and ecosystem.

So if we're being thankful of browser vendors for really pushing the web forward, even if we pretended that WebKit was all Apple's... it still doesn't make sense to be so snooty about thanking Apple.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631084
Then you'll have to get clever and run massively parallel wireless links on adjacent frequencies. WiFi is not the way to make a single true, real mesh internet all over the world.

Of course, suddenly I find myself considering something... wireless uses wildly more power than wired connections. Is a global wireless mesh really a responsible goal?
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Two of Tumblr's three sources of revenue (featured directory listings and digital stickers to put on directory listings) are no longer after they ditched the old directory system a few months ago in favor of a curated one.
Cool isn't really well defined but then again neither is passion.

But if you look at the definitions:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cool

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/passion

And lay those definitions side by side then I can easily agree that, yes, 'anything that betrays real passion is by definition uncool'.
It's amazing just how bad your code turns out to be as you grow and grow - my software's been in a constant state of revision for 2 years now, it screams along now yet here I am on a Saturday night once again ass-deep in my source shaving more queries & time off of it all.
Thank you, I appreciate the time you took to respond! I imagine our homepage will do the job of clarifying the benefit to the buyer, buyers will be those in the market for a new/used car.

I saw several forums called 'petrolhead', which do you suggest?

Yes, we have several dealerships right now who have utilized the alpha. They do have access to car buyers but wouldn't dare distract them from purchase to help us test our site. Yes, we can control who sees what. However, there isn't a benefit for one dealer to encourage one customer to go to Bidzuku if there aren't other competing bids?

So offer the dealers actively utilizing our alpha and providing feedback with future incentives like discounts on our service?

Thanks again!
I don't understand where this idea comes from that ideas can be owned by anyone.

Intellectual property is not about owning ideas. Consider that if you read a book and take in it's ideas, you have not violated copyright, because it applies to the text of the book, not the ideas. On the other hand, if you just take the text and print your own books, you have violated copyright even if you never read the book at all and have no inkling of the ideas expressed. Again: it's not about owning ideas.
This analysis is a fairly straightforward Austrian perspective. I would only qualify it to say that this would apply to publicly traded stocks. It's been observed throughout the 19th/20th/21 century versions of the business cycle that stocks tend to rise along with the boom only to seriously correct in the bust.

The funding prior to this latest IPO spree is largely the result of capital not having a lot of good homes in the US economy these days. This is partially the result of low interest rates but also having a heavy regulatory burden on new industry which doesn't exist in IT.