skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> V8 uses cons-strings internally

Ohhh. I had no idea. That makes the next point a lot more understandable.

> '~' as a prefix means non-optimized function.

Where does ToNumber come from? It sounds like the kind of thing that ought to get optimized!

> Those are functions that force object from fast-mode to dictionary-mode

You mean, if you use delete, getters, setters, seal, or freeze, then the object will use dictionary-mode thereafter under he covers?

> if you "misuse" arguments in a function it will not be optimized).

What constitutes "misuse"? Anything other than .length, [i], and applying a function to it, I guess (e.g. passing it to some other function such as Array.prototype.slice)?

> I have not seen any real world code that suffers from this problem.

So it exists theoretically? The benefit of being implemented this way would be that creating closures is a lot faster and they use less space.
Read the last sentence. This was a pretty good troll - I know I found myself agreeing with him, nodding my head a bit. Then I saw the last sentence and had to laugh at myself for falling for it.
I think that was simply "/b/" talk, not homophobic as such.
Code is patentable, but articles are not.

What type of language do you use in your contracts to enforce this?
It would be double-awesome if he submitted under the pseudonym "Chane Markov".
That's the point; it uses DNSSec instead of the CA system.
Ads are one thing. Manipulating user content for profit is seedy
How did you find working with Firefox's AudioAPI and Chrome's Web Audio API, how do they compare? What drawbacks and advantages did you find working with each of them?
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I enjoyed the view into what you're building with and why. It was an excellent articulation of the core technical concepts while still being an easy read.

I look forward to the next one.
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We're all using rhetoric here. Calling a digital pattern "property" doesn't really advance the discussion either. So long as patterns are a criminal offense I will continue to be wary of engaging in thought-crime.
sqli's are pretty much the current definition of skiddie. You don't even need to look for them or work them by hand, they have automated tools for that.
How is Spotify different from Rhapsody, which has been offering subscription streaming in the US for almost a decade?
jcol -- you've been here for 10 days, and in that time you've contributed stuff like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601356

Linking to a bunch of "let me google that for you"? That's about the least productive answer you can give some one (not to mention it's incredibly rude, and incredibly unwelcoming to somebody asking a question); come on...

Not to be a jerk, maybe you have more than one account or something, but I don't really know that you can start getting angry at the HN community for not being up to your standards just yet.
Perhaps they should use message authentication codes instead of hashing :)
Holy jesus christ, where did you get those numbers? That is deeply concerning.

Not only are they career politicians, but they can't do anything else but lobby to take taxpayer dollars? Are you kidding me?!!
I think you just described my new life philosophy.
Well your journalism school by definition is ageist.
Agreed: what you do largely shapes who you are. Or who you are greatly influences what you do. Or both. Or something.
What I've been trying to express is not that this law in particular is nessisarily wrong, but that laws have no value beyond their place as instruments of our societal will.
He may be determined to be an employee by the IRS. He would then lose all IP rights, but would receive a tax refund, while AOL would receive a tax penalty.
What corporation would ever trust a 'free' security consultant?
Startups are getting more support in Europe. There are a number of good accelerators: Techstars has affiliates in Europe. Startupbootcamp is creating a network of Accelerators in Denmark, Ireland, Spain and others. Hackfwd is mentioned in another post. I work with LeCamping.org in Paris.

European governments see that startups create jobs. France (believe it or not) has a whole range of support services and cash for innovative startups.

It is still harder to form a company, open a bank account and get going. In America it takes a credit card and an hour. In France and England it takes more time and effort.

Another believe it or not - salaries for engineers are lower in France than America. Education is great and there are a large number of people that want to work for a startup.

There is no Palo Alto of Europe - Yet. Many locations are trying to win that race. Overall there are many opportunities.
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We just set another VPS up. Everything should work fin by now.
> Where does ToNumber come from? It sounds like the kind of thing that ought to get optimized!

ToNumber comes from Number(l). I can't see how it can be optimized (l is a string so parsing is unavoidable).

> You mean, if you use delete, getters, setters, seal, or freeze, then the object will use dictionary-mode thereafter under he covers?

Yes.

> What constitutes "misuse"?

Your understanding of misuse is correct.

> So it exists theoretically?

Yes.
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Creating content online is NOT a viable business model. Recent history is littered with new content creators, and they've failed. The viable business model is either to host other content - YouTube, Hulu, Pandora, GrooveShark, Earbits, etc - Or to create content that is agnostic as to their use - Hollywood Studios, NY Publishers, Music Labels. - So either AOL should transition to a creator, or transition to a online host. It can't expect to have a viable future by creating content for online only. This is true of AOL and any other business model that tries this. JustinTV - Hosts, ESPN - Hosts, The WKUK - Creators, Monty Python - Creators. So please, once and for all, let's stop imagining these Online Studios, or these Online Magazine, or even worse, these Ipad Magazines. Instead think Vice. They've got music, magazines, tv, movies, and they don't care where you see it. http://www.vbs.tv/ - http://www.viceland.com/ . Just a bunch of Canadians that thought that they could rewrite the magazine business model by giving away their magazines for free. And look where that's taken them. So to recap. Make your choice, either host or create, and abide by their distinct rules.
I just read up on this and it appears you are right, my issues are fixed in more recent versions of PostgreSQL. Apologies.
I'm trying to understand why is so difficult for Netflix to add captions when sites like http://www.cuevana.tv have had subs for quite some time now.
The unintended consequences are often the point of the law. By being "unintended", the crafters of the law creates a small intellectual barrier to understanding the ramifications of the law that perhaps half the population fail to overcome. This is enough to get just about anything through without considerable widespread public opposition.
Read it. Again. In it's entirety.

All will be revealed.
Yeah, and you're talking about it emotionally, by painting the other side as 'religious' and setting yourself up as a paragon of reason.

If you were talking rationally, you wouldn't need to do that.
Good point. However, "geographically remote" today and "geographically remote" within 10,000 years might not be the same thing.
was, sadly
It's important context. It tells you a lot about the events that a person has lived through that inform their opinions. I'm too young to have any real memories of stagflation and Reaganomics, for example, but I can tell you all about the NASDAQ meltdown of '01...
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The Motley Fool also uses automatically-generated articles. For instance if you google the phrase "Being able to retire rich, or at least comfortable, is the goal of almost any investor" you'll find hundreds of articles from fool.com, each posing as an analysis of a particular company, and all generated with an algorithm which is fairly obvious after reading a couple of 'em.

They're not completely worthless, though. Real data + automated analysis is far better than no data or no analysis.
Perhaps anon was also pure lulz with absolutely nothing else behind it. But I vaguely recall their writing to be strongly pro freedom. And their most prominent vandalisms seemed to be an attempt to make a point about basic rights and freedoms.

When LuLzSec state that they don't care, and don't even care if they get arrested, that's definitely nihilistic and kind of sad.

Certainly they too in their juvenile ways were close to making a good point. A point about shocking incompetence when handling and storing sensitive customer data. A point about unethical behavior in government. And I believe them when they say they have stuff that they've chosen not to release. So they are not in fact true sociopaths or true nihilists. I guess that makes it even sadder when they say they don't care about anything but lulz.
Still looking? I'm looking for a roommate. It's $600 to share a huge room in a house in Palo alto. There will be 5 other guys. All guys but one (who is a student) are software devs working in the area at startups.
I guess it's time for me to start giving Apple the benefit of the doubt a little more often.
That's a good point that I hadn't considered - in fact, after reading some of the responses here, I'm rethinking my original position on the issue. While I may prefer the music locker model, that certainly doesn't mean Spotify is any less relevant for everyone else.
Confirmed, it works after restart.
How to know if a VC is *really* interested: "scheduling-altering behavior"
Plenty of folks are making money by creating and serving content online.
I think "Markoff Chainey" might be more suitable :-)
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It's the same thing in Firefox, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665000
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I wonder if this is jedburg of reddit. I only say because he said "reigned" in his goodbye post today, and this pastebin said "reigned" too, when they both meant "reined". Also the writing is very similar. Similar number of sentences (48 vs. 54) and words per sentence (15 vs. 12) too. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, or it's a glitch in the matrix.
"The Amazing Number π" by Peter Borwein,

http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/deel01/sep2000/pdf/borwein...

one of the leading researchers on π, has a history of investigation of the number and formulas for calculating π to increasingly accurate place-value approximations.

A very interesting secondary school textbook in English from Kerala, India

http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/englishmedium/mathseng/te...

shows the same visual representation of π on the number in section 3.1 of chapter 3.
Nope.

http://www.cojk.com/icann-issues-a-timeline-for-approval-of-...

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-7-en.htm

I'm not invested in the domain marketplace, but somehow this gives me a bad feeling about exclusionary access to what is sure to be a land grab. Who is going to get the .music or .law domains, for example? I understand they want someone who is capable of operating a domain registry and can put up $185,000, but there's a rather disheartening 'pay to play' feel to it.
If you do anything on the (global) Internet, you're subject to US law
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Possibly but it will only make them irrelevant faster. The fact is I have and use WebGL today in Safari, Chrome and (sort of) Firefox, for better or for worse.
I haven't checked yet, but I'm hoping they've done something with multitasking and home-screen web apps; right now web apps reload from scratch every time you re-enter them, which makes for a pretty terrible user experience compared to native.
What is with these submissions? Flagging this.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"So this is a massive jurisdictional and sovereign disaster waiting to happen. Basically, the US appears to be claiming that if you do anything on the internet, you're subject to US laws. That's crazy and is going to come back to haunt US law enforcement. Do they not realize that this is the same thing that other countries have tried to do to US citizens? The US even passed a law, the SPEECH Act, to make it clear that US citizens were not subject to the liability of other national laws, just because such things happen on the internet. To then turn around and pretend the opposite is true for everyone else is just massive hypocrisy."
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Is it just me, or are we reaching the point where every other day there's a major news story about the security state and the continued criminalizing of civil matters? You could almost devote a website to it. Lots of new material.

What it looks like is that we've reached the point with the legal system that the trick is to make huge swaths of behavior illegal, then selectively enforce the law. This is basically like having no law at all, only instead of a central ruler we distribute it out to thousands of various prosecutors (and their associated political parties.)

I don't want to be all "the sky is falling" but heck if I can see where we can continue like this for a lot longer.
Actually, we're using audiolib.js, which abstracts over the Audio Data API and the Web Audio API, so your question would be better directed to the audiolib.js author :)
host -t cert imperialviolet.org

imperialviolet.org has no CERT record

Still LOLing
Neither of these claims were made in the linked video btw. I would definitely recommend the linked video.

I am not sure when or how he made the LLVM claim, but I would understand Zuckerberg claim. Eben considers the right of anonymity a very important right and facebook has made the biggest assault on anonymity on the net ever. It is actually erie how they have managed to remove anonymity from a huge swats of the net without the users complaining at all.
The question is can it be optimized? My knowledge of this stuff is very limited but I assume javascript object wrappers for number types and lack of SSE/SSE2 instructions will be the biggest blockers to performance.
It's like the Chuck Norris list..but smellier.
Another twist: what if the >$2500 profit was unintentional? Not a stupid question.

I once posted an AP photo on my website. Just a minor "fair use" thing for a few friends. Longer story short: within hours, DrudgeReport.com linked to it, AP lawyers threatened me, and traffic was so heavy I couldn't even access my own website to remove the pic. Had I adwords or some such to generate a few measly dollars to offset pocket-change costs, and rendered the image as a video instead (sensible for the content) the sudden attention could have easily generated a felony-inducing profit.

Unintended consequences indeed.
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I have trouble seeing why maps.google is such a meaningful step from maps.google.com.

Less to type... Maybe non-technical users who never understood why the hell everything ended with ".com" will be more comfortable.

Reminds me of when the W3C decided we should be able to do <header> instead of <div id="header">.
He's speaking Lulztongue
It's easy to be a sociopath on the Internet where humanity is lost.
Even starting a new account doesn't work (at least it didn't in a previous instance where I notified a false positive). You also need to use a proxy. So to phillijw, email PG or start a new account using a proxy :)
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The example always given is a youtube video. Why is Youtube not liable??
Apple develops shutdown technology for iPhone camera at concerts?
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I just wanted to remind everyone about the HNSearch API contest coming up this Monday:

http://www.hnsearch.com/contest

Voting for the contest will be via a 24-hour HN community poll starting Monday June 20th, at 12:01am EST.

So far we have received 15 submission for the contest. I just sent an email to all the contestants so if you haven't received an email then I don't know about your app. To submit an app just send me an email (hnsearch@thriftdb.com).

If you've been thinking about building something for the contest there's still time!
This is exactly the kind of qualitative fear mongering I was referring to.
They should probably stop sending Netflix $8 per month and support a competitor instead.

It's absurd that a private business can be forced via lawyers to offer a particular product. "We don't want to" should be allowed in a free society.
As long as they are being sent to the same endpoint I don't see the problem.
I had a blind (legally, but not completely) roommate in college, and he found my dogmatic adherence to widescreen movies annoying, because it made everything smaller (on a 4:3 screen).

I did, however, get in the hang of navigating apartments in the dark, and relying more on spatial memory and less on my vision for finding things (e.g. picking up your toothbrush and toothpaste).
Are you saying that banks which provide the same security and insurance for Bitcoin are not possible? Why not?
Next question: Is it possible for a piece of string to be pi units long? How do transcendental numbers translate to the real world?
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Am I required to change my product to make everyone happy, or capable of using it? It might make business sense, but it very well might not.
The irony of this not being viewable in WebM is pretty thick.
Those promises never hold weight though if the letter of the law allows that prosecution. I remember a certain presidential candidate saying he wouldn't go after nonviolent pot offenders.
How is this manipulating user content?
.yc ?
In SF? Need a dedicated desk to work from next week? Take mine.
I'm going out of town next week and want to give my space to somebody who could make use of it.

I co-work out of Citizen Space in SoMa - it's a great space for getting things done and meeting cool people. I've been here for about a month and it's an awesome space for when you're between gigs or trying to figure out your next move.

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He has one of the most difficult, stressful jobs scaling one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world.

And I'm sure the bitching and moaning whenever there's downtime doesn't help.
Just one more way the feds can go after a group of people they don't like. It is like all of the mobsters getting charged with tax evasion instead of their actual (if any...) crimes. The same will hold true in the future: XYZ leader of ABC "radical" environmental group was put in jail because...he/she had a parody video mocking Exxon on their website.
How many businesses have to succeed at it before it's considered a viable business model? How many have to fail before it's not?

And where can you see Vice TV other than online?
Since our son was born, we had to turn down the volume of the TV and rely on the captions. Too bad sometimes even pre-recorded cable movie would not have them (SHO or Starz I think). Or broken captions (It could be our digital box, that's doing the rendering of the captions). I'm missing every 1 out of 10 captions while watching prerecorded Game Of Thrones on HBO.
I'll second that.

While it was certainly a loss when the other guys left, I definitely felt this one the most simply because jedberg was always popping up in the community, and seemed more visible than the other admins, though I'm sure the impact is also deepened because losing jedberg means the old guard have all moved on now. He made an excellent whipping boy, and played the role quite well.

Jeremy, you have my sincere thanks for helping make reddit such a welcoming and entertaining environment. I wish you nothing but success in your future endeavours.
Doesn't seem like it. A web app I tried just reloaded when quitting and relaunching and it simply crashed when I used gestures to switch apps.
I suspect that there's a fairly interesting blog post with samples of the gnuplot output waiting to be written about this.
From the perspective of brands, this may be a big deal. $185k is a drop in the bucket, and large organizations with marketing budgets held in different divisions often have very different infrastructure (sometimes because those divisions are separate companies that have been acquired, have a separate P&L, etc). New product launches have to deal with domain availability and possible trademark squatters. Some brands have different websites for different segments of their audience. Some brands launch websites just to support a specific marketing effort, such as cause marketing or event support.

This is absolutely a head-scratcher for small orgs, but is pretty convenient (a convenience easily worth $185k) for the big brands. I think their example of .apple is a silly one. A better example might be P&G, J&J, Pfizer, The Pepsi Company, etc.
Maybe they're not motivated by money. Maybe they'd rather make $35k doing what they love full-time, rather than only do it as a hobby.
In the SEO world you come across entire forum sites of imaginary users all talking about $SEOTarget product and how create $TargetWebSite is all amongst their little markov robot selves.

The goal is to create links which rank highly and raise the target in search results for search engines.
Just as difficult a question: Is it possible for piece of string to be 2 units long?

In the real world, you always run into limits on how finely you can measure things before you run into quandaries about number theory.
Someone knows if there is a relationship between this or BDD and a rule engine used by expert systems?
Seems a little high on the fear mongering and a little light on the details.

I fail to see how a Greece debt restructuring would negatively impact the US economy except to cause a little more fear on wall street.

Also - anyone else notice that the only people who seem to give praise to Greenspan are his ex-colleagues in the central bank?