skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author has a valid point that the "conservative" garbage collection approach has a flaw in its assumptions about the behavior of C compiler optimizations, and it doesn't sound like something easy to fix without a rewrite (i.e. switching to "accurate" GC). This sort of flaw will continue producing new surprising bugs, potentially any time the code is changed, or any time the compiler's optimizations change. These sorts of bugs are frustrating to track down, because they depend both on details of code optimization, and on details of memory allocation/deallocation history. If you compile with debugging options, you may change what optimizations are used; if you insert debug prints for some old-school log-based analysis, you may change the allocation/deallocation history, so the GC gets triggered in a different place.
Clojure on Heroku
I agree with the mentality to some extent, but taxes actually matter when you try to bootstrap without a steady income backing you

I'm bootstrapping in NYC, for which there are a multitude of taxes and other costs:

- Rent is insane, of course :)

- LLC Newspaper Publication requirement (why this exists is beyond me)

- Large sales taxes (although ST 121.3 ensures you are tax exempt on hardware)
AFAIK here in Germany you can get in trouble for linking to illegal content. That includes linking to software like AnyDVD that cracks encryption. I think heise.de, a big German tech-news site, got in trouble over that.
I should have put quotes around everything following the first sentence and attritubted it to a hypothetical (and straw-man) tinfoil hat-wearing tau advocate.
Seems to fail when you enter an empty string.
It's misleading if you don't know what it refers to - it makes one think it pertains to something that they need to be aware of, perhaps even something dangerous... maybe a security issue or something like that.
A cynical person might say that the design was intentional, to vacuum up a few extra subscription fees. Especially when the actual login button is shoved all the way at the bottom of the screen and significantly smaller (due to a lack of a background shape) than the other two buttons. Buttons don't shrink on their own accord, especially when it comes to interface design. Whoever wrote the app had to have the stakeholders sit down and give input on the look and feel - I doubt they'd miss something like that.
The links all point to files on the host mit-only.mit.edu, which would suggest a source IP restriction...
It is a billion times better than decentralized DNS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#History
I like it (UI-wise). As an experiment, I updated on both Facebook and G-Plus that I just celebrated my wedding anniversary (yay!). I also tweeted it, for good measure.

results:
Twitter: 2 @replies
Facebook: 8+ likes, 3 comments
Google Plus: Nothing

I have ~80 people who have put me in some sort of circle (versus 200 or so facebook friends).

So how do I feel about Google Plus's efficacy as a place to share stuff? Jury is still out, but it doesn't seem too promising.
Yes something similar has happened in Argentina as you mention, however perhaps you are not aware of the negative side, I would recommend you read FerFals blog-

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

You'll note the current entry, 4th July 2011 is "10 Things you must know about Home Invasions" proceeded by "Survival Kits" and a little further down "Armoured Vehicles", or perhaps if you're interested in how business is conducted after such a collapse you might read this article about doing business in Argentina-

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/doing-business-in-argenti...
I'm not sure he proposed a causation, but he did show a negative correlation with an increase in minimum wage (which suggests not causation).
Customs is used to seizing things, so if you want something seized you call Customs.
How could a company be responsible for something like a computer, which is capable of doing an infinite number of things?

I don't think that anyone is saying that Cisco would be responsible. But that's no reason to make things easier for the despots. If they're working with Cisco, it's either because Cisco can do it better or cheaper. Wouldn't someone with a conscience desire to make it either less effective for China, or make them pay more dearly, for such a system?

If America feels that strongly... prevent the sale of all technology to China

How does "America" feel anything? We're a nation of individuals, we do not all feel in unison, or even in agreement. That is why, when somebody feels something, they need to take whatever action they can themselves -- and that includes the Cisco management, board, and stockholders. Conversely, because the government cannot speak for the morals and values of any particular American, regulations like you suggest will always be purely political efforts, easily co-opted by special interests.
While true, I think that until a link for something downloadable at http://www.perl.org/get.html appears, it's not going to be considered "real" by many. I know of at least 2 large companies that restrict its use for precisely that reason.
I searched for C# / C Sharp and I got recommendations for K&R, a Book on Cognitive Science and a book on rock climbing.

Looks like it's missing reccos for Django, Dot Net, C#, etc. and some rather specialized stuff like neurology/neuroscience which I didn't really expect to be on the list anyways.

Good effort thought. I'm going to bookmark the site for future reference
There's a slightly hidden list of all the topics: http://bestintrobook.com/all

I'm working on a suggest feature. For right now I'm logging the queries, so I'll know what there's a demand for that I don't have.
This made Google Chrome Renderer eat 20% cpu, so no thanks.
I'd really appreciate an invite as well, id is in my about.
England, February 2014: In other news, the Internet Service Providers' Association announced today that no major English ISP now relies on Verisign, the US company formerly responsible for administering major domains such as .com and .net worldwide.

This follows a ruling at the European Court last year that Verisign's actions in blocking the domain of German business Musikjetzt GmbH constituted an unlawful restraint of trade, and a subsequent European decision that all primary DNS management should be run under the newly formed United Nations Internet Oversight Service.

The Musikjetzt service allows music fans to stream their favourite songs on demand under the new copyright collective licensing regulations introduced Europe-wide in early 2013, and has sharply increased the consumption of music by independent artists.

Shares in major US record labels have fallen over 40% in the past year, which industry insiders have repeatedly blamed on the way that Europeans "don't respect copyrights." As one CEO put it, "If they won't respect our rules voluntarily, we have to make them respect them."

A spokeman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said "Economic attacks on fundamental US industries are a bigger threat than terrorism, and we will always respond accordingly."

No-one from the Recording Industry Association of America was available for comment.
And the really bad part is that in Java XML has always been extremely painful to work with.
This was the last straw for me and my Google Apps account. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but I'm sick of being an afterthought. A couple nights ago I migrated everything over to my @gmail account. I even moved my phone over, which meant I had to wipe it completely and re-buy a couple apps! But it's all done, and now... I feel... good. I'm a first-class Google citizen again!
Not bad, but I don't think I'd want to use something like this very frequently, as it's fairly intrusive. We typically use Pines Notifications for most of our work. Very flexible.

http://pines.sourceforge.net/pnotify/
Wordpress 3.2 has been released
I'm guessing it's Ron Paul and I'd be shocked if he has an inkling of an understanding of the technology.
How are you constructing the list?
2011 Gothic Hairstyles
Typical gothic hairstyles model themselves, among others after the new wave and punk sub cultures of the 80s. Goths are well known for the fact that they have stayed true to their style over many years.
Mumbai, India
Director UI/UX at Webklipper.

Webklipper is building a customer engagement tool for website owners called WebEngage (http://webklipper.com/webengage). More details about the job - http://jobs.hasgeek.in/view/cn5eh
Patriot Act vs. EU's Data Protection Directive
Ok nice! Thanks for the quick answer, waiting to see this!
Well said. I think you need a little swagger to handle the overwhelming odds against you as a startup. What you don't need are assholes.
I can't find any specific mention of his position on the topic, but I'm guessing parent was referring to 75-year-old Ron Paul
Maybe all those .ly domain names aren't such a bad idea after all...
I would consider tapping Quora for this unless you have a rolodex full of experts on such varied topics as carpentry, light infantry tactics, contra dance, or conflict de-escalation.
Its a great thing you're offering, just keep in mind that alot of people with ideas, don't really have "concrete" ideas. If ONLY they had specs of functionality, or screens, their projects would have a much better chance of success. But many people don't even have that, so.. that's the bigger problem. Its more of a communications problem, not so much the actual implementation (which they could easily pay for if they had better communication)
I've heard a couple reports about issues in IE9, I've been trying to install it on my windows machine but I've been having trouble. I'll keep trying and get it fixed for IE9
tl; dr

ICE spokesperson: All your domain are belong to U.S.
This is a pretty good guide, but it's marred by one major error:

"the index is your staging area where things go after using git add before they get committed."

That's not right. The index is where things go after MAKING EDITS IN THE WORKING DIRECTORY before they get committed. (What does "after using git" even mean?)
Hackers need to learn powerpoint?
Netflix Hires: Senior Java Developer - Personalization
International body ICSPA to fight cybercrime globally
The Joplin Perspective. Work as if you will live forever but live as if
Seems like you are looking for an App Store for SaaS apps, like the Chrome Web Store, but more general purpose and less Chrome specific.

Edit: as much as I despise the term, Social App Store. You would need algorithms like Pandora uses, that tracks how often and for how long a user uses certain kinds of apps, and through categorization, tailor a "Recommended" page to popular apps in the same category, as well as ones that "friends" use on a regular basis.
The Mainstream Media and That Word: "Hacker"
> 7 billion people having an unlimited number of offspring

This assumes that literally the only change will be that we won't die. Society changes to accomodate technology.

Or do you have 13 siblings to help you work the family farm?
So that Google can automagically create your "Work" circle? :)
Good Plan. Keep up the good work!
In a P and Q situation, the appopriate thing to do is what I did: ask for precision. Does P imply Q? Does Q imply P? What is the relationship between the two.

This is especially relevant when P and Q have diverging connotations. Usually one would expect not to say something is both misogynistic and childish. The meanings are not completely orthogonal.
> Human society and psychology is has evolved within the confines of a 50 - 100 year typical lifespan.

Wasn't the average life expectancy for a pre-agriculture society under 40? We somehow made it over that huddle, nearly doubling our lifespan.
Yeah looks like there were a few bad geocodes that I didn't catch. paulitex's idea further down about a standard format for these things would be really nice to see b/c parsing out the locations in some cases was kind of a mess.
The best intro book for Rails should be Michael Hartl's ruby on rails tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
If we continue in recent trends, people are having less and less children. We're heading towards negative population growth.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/04/19/population_cra...
The two-glyph thing is a matter of description length and parametrization. 10+2 is an expression, whereas 10 is also a constant that is the base of our number system. Thus, 10 carries more meaning than 12, even though both are constant - 10 is potentially the aforementioned parameter, but what is the 2? With sufficient study, 12 becomes a number of important constants as well (such as the number of inches in a foot, or the integral of a centered quadratic function), but not ones considered fundamental.

Essentially, it's about the difference between a concept and a measurement, or the difference between (x+y)/x and 1+x/y. 2pi is an expression, pi is the concept.
FYI, .com/net/org have always belonged to the United States.

In the same way that .ca belongs to Canada, com/net/org/us belong to the US. Think of them as the sponsoring organization that originally created them.

The only thing the US government has ever given up is control over the registry and DNS management. Under a MoU[1] that facility was handed over to ICANN with the understanding that they would select US based private sector companies to take on the duties.

Other TLDs that are sponsored internationally but managed in the US (like .me or .ws) is a whole different issue, but this one is pretty clean cut.

1. http://www.icann.org/en/general/icann-mou-25nov98.htm
Please take a minute of your time and go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins and report that they don't work with latest version.
Two easy steps to fix the patent system
I imagine a decentralized DNS service based on the bitcoin network would be kinda cool.
San Francisco, CA.

Formspring is looking for Engineers (front-end, back-end).
http://about.formspring.me/jobs
I guess the pertinent question is whether this stimulates your intellectual curiosity because you find it to be an interesting question, or at least because it raises interesting questions, or whether it stimulates your curiosity because you think it's exceedingly important and making this change will have big consequences.

I think the dismissive types see people obsessing over it as the latter, and this is, at least in my opinion, way more than is called for. There's nothing wrong with considering the consequences of such a change just for some mathematical fun. (After all, who here hasn't drawn out a complete system of units based on furlongs, fortnights, etc. as the fundamental units, rather than mks or cgs? What's that? None of you? Oh....) But the original manifesto seems to be overstating its case severely in terms of the consequences of such a change, and I think that's what others are reacting to.

Ignoring the boring costs of switching the installed base of mathematicians, software, etc. from one constant to the other, the benefit of a switch seems to be that certain things become easier and other certain things become harder. At best, there's a small net gain. Hardly seems worth the discussion when considered in that light.

If you're considering it as an interesting exercise to extract meaning from equations, well, go for it! But that seems to fit more under the banner of "What would happen if we switched this?" rather than "It would provide enormous benefit if everybody switched this!" as the original manifesto seemed to be saying.
Using Javascript postMessage to Talk to iFrames
I like.. do you charge for those discussions too?
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Ask HN: Is there a search engine which understands regular expressions?
Are there any general purpose search engines which allow searches to be made using regular expressions?

I know http://www.google.com/codesearch allows them, but it's a special purpose search engine for searching through source code. I'm looking for a general purpose search engine, like Google/Bing, that can search through all the usual document types using regexes.
(NP and NP)'s sounds more natural to me than (NP's and NP's). We say "Jack and Jill's story", not "Jack's and Jill's story"
It's not that they don't care they just can't afford it. If you restrict yourself to legal stuff you have to consider the price and you may have to decide. If you can get everything for free you take everything.

This is very obvious with music. Everybody I know has a music collection far bigger than what they could reasonably afford.
Fully Bayesian Computing
People have vastly curtailed their childbearing world over: http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/30/world-fertility-rates-...

Even with no death from aging/age-related diseases, insurance company actuaries still see you dying around 500-600.

These two things together make me think this is all okay 1> Especially if fertility/birth defects no longer get worse with age, people will hold off on having kids. 2> It won't swell the world population as much as many think it will due to the fact that costs still limit people.
The other side was rich. The defendant was not. Don't you think that makes a difference? They weren't on equal footing, that's the whole point.
I searched for "Wine making" and got results for:

wine (appreciation)

jewelry making

creative writing

whiskey

the middle ages

management

web usability

Seems pretty hit or miss.
I guess Nielsen is aware of this issue. “Alertbox” is the only headline on his start page (save for the actual title of the website) that has a subtitle: “Jakob's column on Web usability” – a quite succinct description of what the Alertbox actually is.

Calling it Alertbox is certainly more about branding than anything else. (People don’t read on the web; the subtitle is not going to help much, right?) Nielsen has been writing his column since 1995, renaming it “Jakob’s blog” or “Jakob’s column” or something like that at this point in time would be extremely stupid.

Everyone who was somewhat interested in usability during the last decade knows about the Alertbox (if only because they were annoyed by it). It’s a brand. All the noobs (who this website isn’t really targeting anyway) get the subtitle.
Nope - rcavezza@gmail.com
As his first post reveals, he started writing the blog a week after his libel suit was dismissed. It's never too late to correct what you believe are inaccuracies that hurt your reputation.

Everything he's posted since then has been fascinating technolore, worth reading.
I don't agree. I think the problem is that people tend to think they need to do things a certain way instead of believing in themselves, understanding that programming is about evolving ideas and code in tandem with reality, and just understanding the problems they are solving. Most programmers just attempt to map problem to solution directly without first understanding the problem. Which is okay for trivial problems, but a bad idea for anything that is more complex.
.com is managed by US company VeriSign with oversight from ICANN. Some people want to turn ICANN over to the UN or ITU, but the US Dept. of Commerce has held onto it with the argument that the UN allows evil countries to vote and we wouldn't want to give them any level of control over ICANN, however small.
On Honesty In Startupland
Hands on with Windows Thin PC and RemoteFX
Also, GOG. It doesn't even use DRM.
My wife and my. Correcting grammar isn't cool.

Any chance there'll be a `Best free intro book` link of sorts to curate all the textbooks available in PDF form? Sometimes it's hard to find quality free content like `Linear Algebra Done Wrong.`
Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push
That is a horrible principle. It is fine if you don't want assholes (and I agree with that) but without egos all you get is a bunch of yes men who fundamentally don't care (they have no skin in the game) whether your company does great or not.

What you really want is people who are not assholes, who have strong opinions backed by good arguments (ie they prefer mac over linux for a reason, but are not blind devotees) and who can be persuaded by objectively good arguments.

There is nothing wrong with big egos, so long as they have the ability to back it up.
The first hit for wine making is (and has been) a wine making book. Check again.
It does seem problematic that all the generic TLDs (whose value over ccTLDs is obvious) are US-controlled. Maybe the imminent explosion of new gTLDs will help.
> The Java language does lead to unnecessarily verbose code, but not shockingly so.

I guess that's where we'd have to agree to disagree. It sounds like you are concerned that providing more expressive features, such as closures, will tempt bad programmers, of which the Java community has plenty, to write bad code. I take the view that there are also plenty of competent and some very good programmers out there, and that Java does not let these people get much useful work done as easily as more modern alternatives.

For the competent people, Java is horrendously verbose, and the evidence suggests that this does have a significant impact on the pace of development and the robustness of the finished product. Google Scholar will find you a wealth of reports about this if you're not familiar with the research, mostly based on controlled and fairly small-scale academic experiments, but in some cases looking at industrial case studies as well.

As you suggested, the solution to this is often to use other languages that also run on the JVM in preference to Java itself. I just don't see what redeeming value Java has at that point, unless your dev teams are composed of lots of incompetent devs, in which case frankly you're in trouble whatever language you choose.
Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Criminal Charges In Mississippi, Alabama
An imho better poll would have looked more like this: "a) Google+ > Facebook b) Google+ < Facebook c) Couldn't try it out yet d) Don't care", since the way mrspeaker asked the question, a lot of people get left out.
There are people that will use the service, but his pricing has ensured that those people will tend to be among the most pathological customers.
Google Shutters Realtime Search, For Now
I'm confused by the numbers here:

"$65.8 billion in liquid assets at the end of March that have probably swelled to more than $70 billion by now."

"COO Tim Cook pointed to the $3.9 billion Apple prepaid last summer to three unnamed suppliers for new process equipment and tooling"

Why would apple save all of that money to direct towards these goals instead of half or a third of it? It seems like it might be being wasted, at least partially.
I'm 24. I have only one friend who will pirate movies and tv if they are also available via a convenient legal means.
Would it make sense that unemployment is the fault of the government's institution of minimum wage? Legally I cannot hire a 12 year old to mow my lawn for $3 / hr. Therefore, only the wealthier are hiring 12 year olds and the rest are still playing tons of video games while many, who have zero income, would love to even make $3 hr.

I realize this is a microcosm of the larger issue, but the minimum wage is an encroachment of my freedom to hire and jobless youths to make cash.
The challenges of streaming real-time data
First impressions of OS X Lion
I like the idea... searching for "economics" gave positive results, but "how to start a business", not so much...

http://bestintrobook.com/books/how+to+start+a+business