skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
container.clear();

No need for looping :)
$10/mo for that joke - come on.
The entire Web is a test page for this one, and I have come across numerous stories similar to my own. If you have the problem on your machine, you can't miss it: basically any time you see a capital T there will be an obvious kerning problem.

I have no idea whether a specific bug has been filed. I'm afraid I have given up trying to help Mozilla, since they seem to do just about everything possible to make it difficult to do so (insanely overcomplicated bug tracker, can't even download the past few releases any more, etc.). At current rates, I expect them to last about as long as RIM, so I devote my limited spare time to helping other projects instead.
Also Rhino has access to the JVM, which means it can do Parallel processing just fine as Scala's parallel collections[1] can be used on any of these languages.

You can even use ForkJoin Parallel Array[2] implementation, which is the engine that powers Scala's parallel collections.

[1] http://dcsobral.blogspot.com/2011/05/scala-29-and-parallel-c...

[2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/fork_join
Cool! Have you tried free running sleep to measure your natural circadian rhythm? [1,2]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-running_sleep

2: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Free running sleep
fixing the text issue, thanks. What's wrong with the design?
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Techcrunch UK did review the site. See http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/gmbhnews-turns-any-blog-... (old branding of the site).
Can you name a school that teaches a student only one CS course expecting them to be a programmer?

This is never explicit, but the reason many schools make Java the default language is because it's more "employable" than Python or Scheme.

If you're a CS major, you've probably been exposed to Lisp or Python in your AI class, C in your OS course, and ML and Prolog in your PL class and the "default language" matters, from a CV perspective, a lot less because people've been exposed to more languages. The default language matters in this way for those who take one or two CS courses and then try out for programming jobs in the future.
It's hard to believe, but TechCrunch actually did cover them: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/gmbhnews-turns-any-blog-...
Haven't got the chance - would love to do so. No blocks of two weeks without fixed time commitments.
Some of the feedback I’ve received has been excellent, and I plan on sharing it with my team members. The ability to download all the feedback for a submission as a .txt or .pdf file would be very helpful.

http://karmurl.com/give?s=9okt8061otbq7o56 if you’d like to leave feedback for http://www.localphone.com/
I help run an organization, radicaldesigns.org. We work exclusively with groups (mostly nonprofits) that have a mission we believe in. We've been around for 8 years now. Some advice, from my experience:

1. Long term support is what organizations need.

It's a rare software project that doesn't need some kind of support. If there's no one to call when it breaks, or needs to scale, or when a new staffer shows up and the previous one didn't train them (happens all the time), then they will stop using it. It's possible for a well meaning developer to hang an albatross around the neck of an organization by building something they depend on, but not have any support plan worked out.

This can be mitigated by hosting the applications for the clients, in exchange for a hosting fee. If you don't host it yourself, then you have to deal with sysadmining unfamiliar boxes in a crisis situation, where the problem could be a change anywhere on the system. No fun!

Along with hosting, offer a help desk at an hourly rate. Nonprofits really benefit from this because they have a lot of turnover, and you end up becoming the institutional memory for the organization's tech. Even if you have turn over too, chances are there's a better understanding at your tech shop of what is going on.

2. Cheap is better than free.

Pro Bono sounds noble, but I've found it leads to... bad things. There's something that changes in people's mindset when something is free. Client expectations can become extremely unreasonable, and it's hard to polish something when you're not getting paid. Where "done" is becomes extremely vague, and you would be surprised at how doing someone a favor can end up making everyone unhappy. So charge money. Be cheaper than industry standard, much cheaper if you can, but make it a real project with a real budget. This helps everyone to prioritize.

3. Nonprofit might not be the best business model.

The main disadvantage on being a nonprofit (at least in the US) is that you cannot work on political campaigns. We're a workers co-op instead. It's been working out pretty well for us. However, we've never tried to be donation driven, so I'm not sure how that would factor in. I think you should look at a balance of donations and charging for labor, and find the business model that supports both. Or have two organizations, a nonprofit and a co-op, to handle the two different revenue flows. It think getting direct donations and grants will be hard. At any rate, that money will come with a mandate of some kind. So I would encourage you to cast a wide net, have a look at co-ops and other business types as well, and make sure you pick a model that can support all the revenue streams you want.

Cheers,

Ted
In Windows 8 you can two apps running concurrently, but only at screen size of width of something like 1366. So many tablets won't get his functionality at all.

And multitasking on Win8 seems much worse than WP7, although that's not a scale issue. The WP7 multitasking seems better almost regardless of size.
Anyone has screenshots or photos? I want to see how it looks on a mobile phone...
The most successful consultants I know charge ~80% of max(RATE), and bill 40-60 hours per week working for a few clients. They have a very good income compared to people who concentrate on trying to make max(RATE), and to people who work full-time jobs.

The consultants who make the best living also have a spouse who works and provides health benefits.
I've always thought this was an old wives tale--Someone looking away isn't a reliable indicator that someone is lying and someone looking you in the eye and saying something with seeming authenticity is not enough to verify truth (Watch a politician lie or have to back pedal and see if they look anywhere but directly at the camera--"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"...) I think it's more accurate that not looking someone in the eye suggests nervousness, so the question becomes are they nervous because they're lying or nervous because they're socially awkward in general or ...

For this particular story though, seems like the facts don't add up, I'd be pretty hesitant to give this guy money... Although kickstarter seems pretty safe now, people will take advantage, and I'm interested to see if things like kickstarter, airbnb, bitcoin, etc. will be capable of self-regulation in the long run. I give it 50/50.
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Entrepreneur walk of fame dedicated in Boston
I also don't know much Eiffel, but I believe this 1988 article is the canonical pro-multiple-inheritance-in-Eiffel piece (by Eiffel's creator): http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/bmarticles/...
It's sort of Go-specific, but the same style is also used in Haskell using typeclasses, Scala/Ruby/etc using mixins/traits, and C++ using templates.

Rather than inheriting from some base class, you just make sure your class can do certain operations and then other stuff works on that- it's good way to decouple algorithms, containers, etc. from the types they work with.
I've been using Karmurl for the last couple of days. It's the simplest and most useful app I've seen posted here. I've already exchanged 30 pieces of feedback.

Feel free to give me some more and I'll return the favour -
http://karmurl.com/give?s=uyg28o3kbh94lszw
Dynamic mixins in Clojure
Militaries commonly use giant, easily-hit vehicles. Aircraft carriers and cargo planes are obvious examples. Militaries find practical use for such vehicles by defending them against attacks.
maybe you are wrong about Techcrunch and Killerstartup not reviewing me, maybe you just miss the reviews...well, as for the testimonials, for me, it's indeed obvious that the New York times didn't write them as well, as it is for you, so I don't get why "it's misleading", could you please elaborate?

Check Techcrunck UK , and look for GmbhNews: Old Brand.
Check Killerstartup, and look for GmbhNews: Old Brand

Check the press section, you will find some of those infos. Thanks for your great feedbck, I'll create new facvicon, I wasn't aware that those favicons are exclusively NYT favicons (it's a suggestion of the designer)
Journey away from the center of the Earth
Did NJ election officials fail to improve security of elections?
Count me in for backend work (Perl, mostly) and anything database-related. My location varies, so I'll have to be remote, but I'm good at remote. Email in the profile.

Oh - I will, at least, probably be in Europe for a year or two starting this fall. So that's better than the US, anyway, in terms of remoteness.
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Im a web programmer and social entrepreneur currently developing django driven web sites for a few non profits. Im also hoping to develop an incubator next year to help get more technology driven non profits off the road. Im always looking to connect with others interested in similiar.
There is an xkcd strip for this: http://xkcd.com/320/

I always thought that it was a joke, but you can seriously try it and tell us how did it work.
2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R ABS Specification
2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R ABS Specification starts with the smallest and lightest ABS unit ever built for a motorcycle, one Bosch designed specifically with sport bikes in mind. It’s nearly 50 percent smaller than current motorcycle ABS units, and 800 grams lighter
Exactly what I wanted to comment on.
Hey congrats this site looks awesome! I did DomainPolish and I'd love to talk some time about what you learned from it if you're interested. I love what you did with the design.
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The answer is obvious - use an ODBMS instead of an RDBMS. No more imedance mismatch. The issue is that there hasn't been as much development, particularly high quality OSS projects, of this type. For example, I can't even find one for PHP.
I totally feel you. I coded a portfolio website for about 35$ recently. At least I had a shelter, all i needed was food :) Bad things happen.. Good luck!
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Could you accomplish this by just starting with the URL as your first step? #1 - Enter your URL, then if you like what you see, enter your email, etc.

I didn't give it a try because the signup form looked daunting.
Arsenal fail against Blackburn
Arsenal record defeat No. 100 as a guest of the establishment of the Premier League. Arsene Wenger's team lost 3-4 away at Blackburn Rovers in the first leg of the program of the 5th round of the English football elite.
Or you could just change the header to say "NOT Featured In"
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"readability < does it work"

No. In a professional setting, readability ~= does it work.

The code presented works almost by accident. It is clear there is no thought put into it at all. It is confusing, and subsequent modifications could cause errors very easily. It is not acceptable code.

Of course, code needs to work. Of course, if this .Clear method is a memory leak you wouldn't use it. Of course, we need to consider these things. But there is no situation in which this code is acceptable. This code would not even warrant a passing grade in an "Introduction To Programming" class.
You are right that it is a better term, and I should have used it. I disagree that there is no link between being risk tolerant and risk seeking, though. It would be an interesting study to see if entrepreneurs engaged in high risk sports such as sky diving more frequently than others.
Isn't everything about Windows considered dangerous anymore? Has there ever been such problem-stricken piece of software?
Use javascript to automatically extract this information from the URL that they enter.
I'm always impressed by people who programmed before the answers to programming questions were so easy to find (basically before stackoverflow :).
I use Pentadactyl with Firefox. It allows you to use familiar vim commands to navigate the web completely without mouse. It's really fast way to search for things and lookup information (which I do a lot), but it also supports limited set of VIM commands in text areas, about 60 or so commands. It's useful when you don't want to edit in external VIM process (which you can do as well, this is configured out of the box).
I'm very interestedin this too, I'd like to volounteer if it's possible.
Could you link to the reviews from your site? Preferably directly from the "As Featured In" banners. That way there's absolutely no question. No doubt. Credibility can be proven without requiring a search or investigative discussions on HN.
The alternative and more flexible approach is to use a software package with the Data Mapper pattern. It differs in that one is no longer tightly coupled to the actual database tables. Instead, you can create whatever views of the data make sense to your application. Even though it seems like a higher level of abstraction, you actually have greater access to all the features SQL provides, almost in the form of an SQL builder.

One example of the Data Mapper pattern is in python's SQLAlchemy. Another is in perl's DBIx::ObjectMapper.
3-7? Are you crazy? Your body hasn't adapted to anything, you just don't realise the effect it's having on your learning capacity. Get your sleep kid, trust me, it pays off.
"Can be viewed only with the Chrome browser".

Are we back to the "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" days? Does the functionality really need Chrome?
A Silky Smooth Experience for Small Payments
We have a site where visitors can pay 99 cents for a service. It would be cool if the user experience were similar to iTunes: the user clicks one button, doesn't have to type in credit card info, confirms with another button, and then the transaction is over.

Seems like the way to get closest to this is to support a few different payment services (e.g. google in-app payments, amazon fps) then offer the most suitable one to the user -- the one that makes the number of clicks as low as possible. For example, if the user is logged into Google and has a Google Checkout account, offer Google In-App. If the user is logged into Amazon, offer Amazon FPS.

Any examples of existing web apps that do this in an awesome way to make small payments as frictionless as possible for the user? We need some examples of state-of-the-art solutions, given current payment services.
Check Scratch (MIT) out at http://scratch.mit.edu/
Study: 92% of Music Fans Still Prefer Ownership.
What's up with all these people who "JUST SHIP" and are shit at everything they do?
A Journey to center of Redis
Redis is great but it was missing a feature; I always wanted this post covers and provides you with a Redis fork that give you a new feature of PUBLISH event on key expiry.
As the paper mentions, latency of this magnitude is already available to HPC using RDMA on top of InfiniBand or 10GigE. I don't think 10GigE will be a special purpose interconnect that much longer and IP over OFED (OpenFabrics, the very low-level API to handle these kinds of devices) is terrible, so I wouldn't be surprised if we see some applications start looking at OFED (probably initially via MPI because that exists and is stable, but eventually via new communications libraries) for achieving very low latency using RDMA and polling instead of OS primitives.
+1.Completely agree for a feature allowing response to given feedback.
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> "such a high percent of my budget (over 70% of spending) is consumed by rent, car, and food that other household goods just don't matter relatively speaking."

What percent are you saving? If it's 5%, then the remaining 25% you're spending on everything else is significant -- cut that a little bit and you could double your savings. Cut it by a lot and you could maybe triple or quadruple your savings. That matters, especially if you're paying down debt.

I'm not saying you should neglect the big stuff. If you can cut your rent by a little bit, maybe that will triple your savings too. And if you negotiate a better salary, maybe you could save ten times as much. By all means, do these things!

I'm also not saying you should waste time on low ROI stuff. I'm just saying you should do the math. How much is eating out costing you, and is it worth the savings in time or effort? How much could you save by switching to store brands (which don't take any longer to buy)? Clipping coupons isn't always worth it, but I find I can often save $10 for less than 5 minutes of time by focusing on the good stuff; that's the same rate as if you make a quarter million dollars a year after taxes, which isn't too bad.

Having a sane budget is about the total picture. Too much personal finance advice focuses on the little stuff while ignoring the big stuff, but don't overreact by ignoring the little stuff entirely. Keep perspective.
Yes that's the whole point - ORM is a crutch developers use to avoid learning how databases work. Yet weirdly they're happy to learn the ORM! Hell in Hibernate you have a query language called HQL, why not just use SQL!

Said developers will never take the next step of swapping out bad ORM-generated SQL for good hand-tuned SQL. The app is therefore doomed.
I've often regarded this as one of the main cultural differences between Americans and Britons (with Gabriel being more like a Brit in this particular generali[z|s]ation).

And my conclusion is that this phenomenon cuts both ways. There are benefits and downsides to being highly enthusiastic or being reserved and I'm glad that there are different kinds of people on this planet. Kumbaya.
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ORM isn't a pattern. Most people complaining about ORM libraries are complaining about Active Record. I thus automatically assume anyone making this claim is misinformed, and roll my eyes.

Active Record is a pattern. Ruby's ActiveRecord and Django's ORM are implementations of that pattern. The Active Record pattern has some of the problems mentioned in this article, with convenience being the major benefit.

Data Mapper is another pattern. Python's SQLAlchemy and Java's Hibernate are implementations of that pattern. These will get you a lot farther without bumping into limitations. And honestly, I've written some terribly ugly queries in SQLAlchemy and it still worked. I've even started with an ugly query I wanted to make in raw SQL and then made sure that it was possible using just the library and no SQL strings.
sure; i don't have any alternative to offer and i don't know much about children. i just felt sorry for them...

(but anyway, don't you find that you end up living in a middle-world that is not as comfortable as either? this seems to be common amongst ex-pat adults)
This requires me to sign in to a Google account (I don't have one). Bring back usenet!
Not viewable on iPad !
Is there anyway you can do a group email list or a google document or something for people interested in this to stay connected?
Ask HN: How to setup one set of nameservers for all of my servers?
Starting a hosting site and I want to guarantee a simple experience by allowing shared hosting clients to use only one set of nameservers no matter where they are in my network of servers. For scaling purposes. Thanks!
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Yeah sure, :) , but I meant for those other cases when there are no Clear() method. :)
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I don't know about other desktop browsers, but there would be no way to run this on an iPad for very simple reasons, you can't resize iPad browser windows, and have multiple on screen at once.
Ask HN: What tech podcasts do you listen to?
My current list looks like:

- Tech Zing [1]
- Java Posse [2]
- Mixergy [3]

I enjoy TZ the most with its combination of tech ("let's drill down on this Node.JS event system for half an hour") combined with humor and great chemistry between the hosts. Java Posse, for the first 5 years, was a stable but has really strayed considerably from its roots into a show of 3-5 guys sitting around, drinking and interrupting each other constantly.

Mixergy is solid when talking with tech founders, but understandably Andrew doesn't want to spend all day drilling them on implementation details.

I also tried This Developer's Life and found it a little too high level.

Any other recommendations and maybe a quick "why I like this" would be much appreciated.

[1] http://techzinglive.com/

[2] http://javaposse.com/

[3] http://mixergy.com
I'm reading that it works under Chrome, IE9+, FF5+ on windows and Chrome, FF5+, Safari5+ on mac.

It uses lots of popup windows, so that's why it isn't iPad compatible.
Remove W3TC and replace it with WP Super Cache. Verify that the .htaccess rules are installed correctly through their test and ensure that the W3TC rules are removed completely.

Most caching ignores surfers with cookies (i.e. logged in users) which then points to the plugins you might be using when logged-in surfers visit your site. Category with counts, Tag Cloud, the Post Calendar are the three most expensive queries in wordpress. WP-Statpress is also a huge performance problem - you can just put indexes on the tables to get reasonable performance out of it. Some of the related posts plugins are problematic as well.

Profile the site, figure out which plugins contribute to the problems, see if there are better/acceptable replacements.
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It's an interesting study, but the article is somewhat lacking. First off, the title is imprecise. This is specifically about epigenetics (DNA methylation). "Hidden code in DNA" is very vague, and can also apply, for instance, to introns, which are also fast evolving.

Second, it is questionable to what extent the term "evolution" can apply to DNA methylation, since these changes are usually lost within a few generations.

Third, epigenetics are relatively inconsequential for animals, for which the Weismann barrier is hardly ever penetrated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weismann_barrier
Facebook Rolls Out More Google-like And Yes, Twitter-like Features
Why all the "WPF/SL is gone" claims make no sense
There is the problem for me. ORMs (well maybe Entity Framework with LINQ) don't attempt to be an abstraction. They are more like sprintf. Knowing sprintf doesn't free you from knowing what numbers look like as strings. ORMs don't free you from knowing SQL. They free you from having to write some tedious shelping rows to objects.
< I have no idea how you think ActiveX could ever have become "ubiquitous". >

You know what, scratch everything I said about ActiveX. I didn't think about it very much (it was so awful, I can't bear to), and you're probably right.

< I don't see much evidence of this. >

Really? To my mind the industry is more hacker-centric than it used to be. For example, there's a spectrum of how open and sharing Google may turn out to be with Dart. Some points on that spectrum are better than others, but nowhere on it is the possibility of an old-school closed-source implementation. That's a major change from how things used to be.
Definitely need to be able to edit/add to your response and would love if you could respond to others feedback. Maybe it's just me but I feel like the 1 to 1 feedback system is a little tedious and could lead to feedback like "Great site" so whoever it is can see somebodies feedback on their site. I'd love to see a gallery view as well where I can see a screenshot of the site and click it to give feedback. What's the business model?