skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It appears that their orders cost BTC 0.75 and his own meal cost BTC 0.7 and nobody has bought anything with Bitcoins at the Meze Grill since then.

Or the grill owner periodically generates a new address with which to receive coins.
I thought they already had this feature forever?
Not related with the pricing, but do consider these 2 things :
1. MongoDB's 32 bit limitation --> http://wkp.me/wkwIs)
2. AWS, MongoHQ uses EC2, do confirm the instance type. As small instance only comes for 32 bit. (http://wkp.me/wkwIt)
If you have the webpage open on your desktop/laptop, you can easily open it on the mobile browser by scanning the QR code.
Or even better,come to Canada and claim refugee status when you arrive, you get social assistance payments and free dental and health care while you are processed through the queue to determine if you are legitimate, takes about a year. Apparently its quite a popular vacation option for people from Mexico, there is even a "how to" guide online.
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
It's not a UI problem, it's a user problem. Users will always click "Yes, allow" to everything without even reading it, be the message in dialog box or notification bar or a demon holding a flashing neon sign.

It's a big problem, but it's more about users compulsively clicking Yes and not so much about Chrome's UI.
No little plans
I recently saw Something Ventured, which is a very entertaining documentary about early silicon valley venture capitalists. http://www.somethingventuredthemovie.com/
Somewhere around perl or python likely.
1 seafarin' vessel, 1 island, and 1,000 startup pirates
Not sure how legally feasible this is...

Suppose the (ex-)employee sells the company an option on his options.

If he exercises prematurely, the company sits on its option and the employee can't flip the shares onto the secondary market. When the company exercises, the employee is compelled to exercise to cover his position. Figuring out the strike price on the options could be tricky, but it removes the incentive to quit and force the company to scoop the shares.
I'm one of the volunteers in Appsterdam and I can tell you we will do all of it, and more ;) A quick list:

- Creation of a community with meetings and drinks.

- Weekly lectures about technology that will also give speaker training.

- Provide legal and local information to people that will move here, like immigration policies and the like.

- Arranging of venues to work in and be around with other developer: we have the Appsterdam HQ; Igluu and Vodafone will offer a work space for a good price and with facilities like a lab with smartphones for testing; we will locate developer friendly cafes with free wifi.

- Family get togethers in the weekends, so our partners/spouses/children can create a network too.

- The university is interested in creating a course where developers are professors like in (if I'm correct) Berkeley.

- The government is interested in giving money for tech projects.

- At the party Mike announced that there will also be a fund for startups (called Appsterfund).

Maybe I'm forgetting something. Soon the video of the keynote will be online.

Edit: formatting
Hi-

I think the differences you find can me mostly attributed to whether the DB plan you are looking at is multi-tenanted or not. MongoLab (I'm from MongoLab) has inexpensive multi-tenant plans and dedicated plans (alpha right now). In the former servers are shared (and can thus be cheaper), in the latter you get your own VM (on EC2 or wherever). RDS gives you a VM. I have not clicked on all the links in your post but I am betting that is the main difference in price strata you see.

-will
Thanks for those links. I wish there was cheaper SQL hosting.
See the NPR link and the associated book.
Mergers were denied and anti-redlining probes were launched if you didn't make a certain percentage of ultra high risk loans.

Since neither I nor most other readers have access to Morgenson's book, would you please provide links to documented examples of agencies forcing financial institutions to make "ultra high risk loans"?

(And by documented, I don't mean some guy on National Review asserting that it happened. Agencies are required by law to document such actions and, in most cases, that documentation is public record.)

Just to be clear, I've analyzed this issue in more depth than the typical person making assertions (on either side of the issue), though I am by no means an expert on the issue. As such, your assertions do not comport with my understanding of ether the CRA's imposed requirements on financial institutions, or the CRA as a cause of the financial crisis (to any degree).

Also, at the risk of sending this off onto a tangent, please also explain why it took 30 years for the CRA to cause the financial crisis.
Fair enough. Were I in his position I'd likely feel uncomfortable with the public persona that had grown around me and the expectations of the geek community.

He received a lot of flak for settling with Sony when many of his supporters expected him to "fight the man"--and win. It was likely a smart decision for him personally. That said, he took donations from people who expected that those donations would be used to defend our right to pull apart anything we buy. I guess the disappointment in geohot comes from seeing someone (rightly or wrongly) who championed the values that a lot of us hold weaselling his way out of the fight. Joining facebook is a fairly ignominious end to that tale.

Maybe he didn't want the publicity, maybe he didn't want to be an activist, and maybe he resented the expectations that were placed on him. We (the geek community) had expectations of geohot, not George Hotz. It was the character, not the man, that we liked. Maybe he was just tired of playing that role.
End of active development of c:geo for Android
Setting Up a Killer, Local Web Development Environment on a Mac
Announcing Ozma: extending Scala with Oz concurrency
I've used both methods of inheritance.

Prototypical inheritance in the IO Language is a beautiful thing.

Not so much in Javascript.

Class based inheritance in Smalltalk and its dynamic mind-children Python and Ruby are similarly elegant and flexible. Not so much in C++ or Java.

The problem isn't with Prototypical inheritance, its with the implementation of it in Javascript.
Seems you are right! I could've sworn I've seen them before, guess my memory got mixed up there.
Um it most certainly isn't Win-only. 1Password has fantastic Mac and iOS apps.
In absence of money, he would be unable to help the relative. The reason why he helped is because it's human to do so. The reason why that was an option is because he had money.
True, but that doesn't make it a lesser experience for those who are doing it. I doubt many lifestyle designers do it because "it's the cool thing", they're doing it because it can be an amazing adventure and experience. It's only natural to want to talk about the great experiences you've had.
Yes, it is. Use 1Password or KeePass because they aren't centrally hosted. 1Password even provides a little security through obscurity by using DropBox for its optional keychain syncing. People store a lot of uninteresting crap on Dropbox, filtering through to gather .agilekeychains would be a real PITA.
The supernode architecture is mentally straightforward and has been the solution used by a number of previous P2P networks - eDonkey, Gnutella, and Skype come to mind as using supernodes or variants thereof. If you want to seriously criticize Bitcoin, one ought to have more than FUD and 'you haven't proven the opposite!'
Travel the world and seven seas for business is no fun
Sofa contributed, but they are not "the founders" and this is not a "product" at all. Moreover they are moving because they have been acquired, so it has nothing to do with Appsterdam (apart of telling that this city is a fertile ground for good companies).

More on the subject on this post: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=156
More Golang adventures
Can anyone recommend a rails utility with similar functionality / UI ?
Do it for yourself. Why do u care what the others are doing? Its for broadening ur horizon and put urself in uncomfortable position everyday
He's wright, apart from pidigits the V8 execution is within the same order of magnitude as a Mono execution.
You should try reading what I wrote without projecting ridiculous assertions onto it.
Zed will be Zed.
This is the kind of thread that would have benefited from seeing Karma... just saying (and I thought the vote a few weeks back indicated they were coming back).

Ah well.
Self promotion, but at Blogic we hope to make it super easy to add a blog when your startup has a site already (we'll match your site theme automatically).
This got me thinking -- I wish there was a browser extension that would create a QR code for whatever page I'm currently on. (Why? Because often I want to quickly open the URL on my desktop on my mobile.)

Turns out there is one -- looks pretty handy! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bcfddoencoiedfjgep...

I wish someone would create a browser extension (Rapportive, this one is for you!) that would create a QR code for contact info from a person's email signature. If I want to quickly add someone's info from an email to my phone and call them, it's so much easier to scan a QR code than to deal with Address Book and then sync my phone.
PCI SSC Releases Virtualization Guidelines
For Java long start time is because it initializes big amount of RAM at the start, but thanks to this creating objects latter is fast.
Additionally measuring of start of program is meaningless, what this say to us? Nothing. OK, maybe something, something like "write programs/scripts which execution is less than seconds in languages like ....".
But for most of programs it doesn't matter.
What the difference if program starts 3.1-3.2 seconds and 0.05 second? If execution time is longer than minute human will not see difference.
Unless I'm mistaken, the "Bash" benchmark is actually just measuring the amount of time it takes a C program to read an argument and print, instead of just a C program printing.

Assuming the bash program was: `echo "hello, world!"`

Edit: I likely am mistaken. Chances are this was done using the builtin 'echo', not '/bin/echo'. The builtin is always faster (though putting them in a file (as is the only fair way to do it) slows them both down of course).
Show HN: My weekend project, Footnotify –Footnotes improved.
That cookie law, for those just scanning the comments, is EU in origin. All member-states have to implement. Nothing's really being done about it, enforcement-wise, from what I can tell.

The UK has just recently given all businesses an extra year to get their stuff together. The law, by the way, is only restrictive to analytics cookies, basically, if that analytics service is from a third-party.

You have to get express permission from the user if cookies are being used to monitor their activities in ways that are not essential to the site i.e. you don't need to ask for permission if you're using cookies to implement an online shopping basket, as that's essential fairly essential to all online businesses. A blog monitoring user activity, however, would need to get express user permission.
Google Extends Prerendering To Chrome Location Bar
isint that what the vesting is for, you can buy back everything unvested, so worst case the employee does not walk away with a chunk of the company.
"Optional Parameters and Default Values"

Since JavaScript will still invoke a function call even if the number of arguments don't match up, parameter defaults will not completely eliminate all the problems he lists.

function(a = 1, b = "Smith", option = {}) { .. }

Will still break upon trying to invoke it without parameter 'b' since param 'option' will just take its place while option will become an empty object.

Furthermore he argues against "option = option || {};" only to do the same thing in the function header: "function(a, b, option = {}) { .. }"? What difference does that make?

The whole section in my opinion is negated by passing object literals to functions. Stuff like:

func({ a: 1, b: "Smith", option: { .. });

That makes it easy to read and easier to handle since names are agreed upon by both the caller and the function handling the invocation:

var opt = config.option || {};

This is a common practice in JavaScript already, and it beats the solutions he wished were added to the language.
Am I the only one bothered that the bullets are out of order?
if you're running android, give chrome to phone a try. just 1 click and the site will open on your mobile without the hassle of opening a camera app to load the QR code.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oadboiipflhobonjjf...
I'd like to know what version (and vendor, especially in the case of Java) of each he was running. I've heard time and time again that "Java isn't as slow any more" and maybe that is the case with the "newer" Sun (and Oracle) versions.

However, as one of the later mails[1] says, "such a short program doesn't give the JIT time to warm up"—"Hello world" is a poor comparison to real-world performance.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...
Is Adobe’s SEO company planting links in blogs?
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For Java long start time is because it initializes big amount of RAM at the start.

Why would this take so much time?
If bitcoins came from a central authority and were available at fixed exchange rates, relative either to an existing currency (dollars, euros) or commodity (gold, oil) that would be a lot more fair. But then they wouldn't be bitcoins.

Ideally early adopters should not need to be rewarded for taking a risk because there would be negligible risk.
New Is Not Better
Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth

OK. So It's not quite a documentary... but a wonderful introduction to Campbell and his ideas taken from interviews with Bill Moyers at the end of his life.
He got the command wrong but his point stands:

find . -name '.py' -exec grep -H import '{}' \;
I could stay in pretty nice hotels for the price of the rent I pay for the Helsinki flat. Most interesting cities are nowadays so expensive to have a home in, that hotels simply start sounding like an affordable alternative. And even more so if you want to stay in cheaper countries
IE9 hasn't been out for 'years' though.
Armadillo is even more real: they put cameras on the soldiers helmets and filmed a real shooting with the Taliban soldiers. You see the Danish soldiers shooting Taliban soldiers, and you see the Danish solders dragging the dead bodies out of the hiding place. They even show a shell shocked Danish soldier after he was hit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_(film)
The film won the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. It created a huge debate in Denmark about the engagement in Afghanistan.
Mystery File System
Based on one thing I saw, I think you may be right. One of Curtis' documentaries linked the Scottish (anti-)psychiatrist R.D. Laing to the cold war game theorists of RAND as if they were collaborators in social control. You don't have to know much about Laing to know this is spurious.

It's a pity, because I've learned things from watching Curtis. The Bernays-Freud material at the start of Century of the Self is riveting.
Wait a minute, what the hell do you think got them in the habit of compulsively clicking "yes"? It's interfaces like this, which offer a question for which the correct answer 95% of the time is to click "yes".

I'm not saying that I have a better idea about how to do it, but this is UI designers reaping what they have sown.
Ask HN: Are there any open-source projects related to cancer research?
1.

>blaming individual Arizona officers (and their families) for a state senate law is as wrong-headed as holding a single US army private accountable for the entire Iraq war.

2. Blaming senators for the law is wrong because they only expressed the will of the people. So who is to blame? As according to rule 1. the people, even the ones who actually performs the evil acts and receive direct material benefits for doing it, can't be blamed.

It is like in Bush's tortures - lawyers said its ok to torture and can't be punished for that, torturers acted based on lawyers advice and can't be punished for that... It is human nature that dropping personal responsibility unleashes all kinds of evil.
The Great Escapist: Viruses, Mutations and the Flu Vaccine
"There are a lot of good ideas in Bitcoin, but the truth is that its raison d'etre is to enrich early adopters-- the definition of a pyramid scheme. (It's not a Ponzi scheme; that has a technical definition and Bitcoin doesn't qualify.)"

Kind of like how all monetary systems work? The closer you are to the source of the money the more it is worth because you can control the velocity.
Shameless self promotion.

But http://www.weekendhacker.net is also a place for people to meet co-founders.

Currently there are approx 6000 designers and developers, 70 projects posted and all got help so far.
javascript:document.write('<img src="http://lilqr.com/qr>)

;)
So, 2.4GHz can transmit through trees?
Interfaces should cater to users. It's not the users' fault your interface isn't intuitive—it's yours.

In this case, "Load anyway" is a poor label. "Load potentially insecure script anyway" is better (if a bit long-winded).
Good to know about that treaty. It could make it easier for Dutch startups to attract talented employees from the US. If they eventually want to start their own company they have the option to stay in the Netherlands.
I recently saw Morgan Spurlock's latest, "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" about advertising and product placement in film, and found it unbiased and quite funny. It's also got a pretty clever recursive theme that I think a lot of HNers would enjoy. (edit to add, in case anyone doesn't know, it's a movie about securing funding for a film about product placement through product placement)
He wrote: "[...] it's pretty important when you are writing shell scripts / cron jobs / random commandline utilities.".
I have a bias against Bronowski from years ago, when I heard him say that man is unique among animals because only man plays, and science is his play. I remember thinking - good lord, man, have you never seen a cat?
The ethics of sunscreen
I thought this was funny:

http://appsterdam.rs/events
Starts: Wednesday 06/29/2011 - 19:00
Ends: Wednesday 06/29/2011 - 19:00

US-dates coupled with "Americans can visit for three months without a visa. Pack up the family for a summer vacation in Europe." make me wonder how much this thing is targeting Americans over, you know, us Europeans who don't already have a Silicon Valley.
At Hive13, we are putting QR codes on equipment description pages using a wiki template - http://wiki.hive13.org/Equipment. Our next step is to print the template info to a sticker, which is placed on the equipment described. Then you have an easy link using your phone to further information directly on the tool itself.
Amsterdam is neat but the Dutch hackers I know all choose to live in California because of the weather.
The XServe line was shut down (although you can still buy the OS X server edition).

The Cube was a failure, although I'm not exactly positive it's exactly within 10 years.

.Mac (or MobileMe) hasn't been as successful as I think apple believed it would be.
Two Guys on Mobile Ep20: Camera is the killer app, Shazam FTW & do we need NFC
I rarely use find because zsh has great globbing. I really wish zsh were the default shell everywhere, most people wouldn't even notice if you changed the prompt from % to $
Hehe, thanks for the heads up, just changing it now! :)
His talk at TED was also quite interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/morgan_spurlock_the_greatest_ted_ta...
Trust Australia to introduce the beach-proof banknote.
when will people stop comparing languages based on their runtime speeds?
1. The Alioth results are not necessarily final - they compare a single JS engine, and we have several fast ones now (SpiderMonkey with type inference can be significantly faster on some benchmarks, for example). Even so, the median speed there is 2X, which is fairly close. Admittably there are some bad cases though, in particular pidigits (badly written benchmark code? bug in v8?).

2. It is true that JS on Mono has had far less work done, and that the DLR exists. However, the fact remains that dynamic languages are a late addition to the JVM/.NET model. For example, one very important thing for dynamic language performance is PICs, and to my knowledge there is no good example of fast PIC performance on the JVM or CLR. In fact, we don't even have a good example of a generic virtual machine that can run multiple dynamic languages fast (Parrot exists, but is not that fast) - all the fast dynamic language implementations are language-specific, so it shouldn't surprise us that VMs built for static languages don't do that well either.
He's talking about gnome-shell, not a gnome terminal.
Here's the best documentary I've seen in years: Please Vote for Me, a film covering 3rd graders in a Chinese primary school running for class monitor:

http://pleasevoteforme.org/

(Available for streaming on Netflix.)
Not exactly sure if this is what you're looking for, but it's the best I could find :P http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-IN-Open-source-Cyber...
yeah this is acceptable
When computers are infinitely fast.
I've done a remote C++ work on decently sized projects (across us states and international one project taking 2 years to complete) it really depends on your skill set, reputation and who you know I guess

there is a lot more to the world then silly websites
Sounds like a pretty smart tactic, there's very few legitimate ways to get keyword-specific links - any natural link you get is in my experience far more likely to use your domain or company name rather than describe what you do.
This has been submitted many times in the past few months, with the same point and counter-points rehashed endlessly. Do a search for Conrad Wolfram to see what I mean.

I'm not going to repeat my arguments. For some people he's right, for others he's very wrong.
Hi Antonio, thanks for the comment.

Yes, I think there are just so many benefits to it that it can't be ignored.

Thanks, your book idea sounds awesome, will definitely check it out! :)
Yes, hostels through most countries, but hotels in Asia. I live pretty cheaply, but I've actually eaten out every night of the trip. I love the minimalistic lifestyle, having 100 things and living out my bag - I hope I never lose that.
Great for long articles/videos with nasty urls, ...