skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds exactly like Strongtalk's optional type system.
I remmeber him from his tcl days and I love the guy.
PuppetLabshas found that #1, being a services company, really sucks. There's less of an impetus to do a good job at maintaining your community since you're directly competing with them. The realization that their documentation is somewhat sub-par, and that they haven't really built the community that Chef has is why they're shifting to being a products company with their hosted offerings.

Perhaps Nginx can learn from that, and maybe build out some hosted products, like selling self-scaling nginx ami clusters on ec2.

Webservers are a hard business to make money in. Look at Zed Shaw, he built the app server that made Twitter possible, and I'm quite sure he never saw a dime out of it, though it increased his reputation. Likewise Igor hasn't seen money out of nginx yet, but he's built software that also helps enable hundreds of millions of dollars worth of transactions per year of business. He deserves the opportunity to profit on the technology he's shared with the world for free.
The "Bash by example" tutorial linked at the bottom is also pretty nice.
Seems to be a coincidence for me.

If you do it only for Hollande and Aubry, now. The results are the same... Aubry 29 Hollande 39, difficult to prdict a second turn with more than 30% not turning up.

We'll see next sunday if it's a coincidence or no.
I assume you're talking about the e-ink versions of Kindle and Nook. The Kindle Fire and Nook Color are widely considered tablets. E-ink devices usually have the same form factor as a tablet, but their intended usage is specific enough to warrant placing them in a category separate from tablets.

It's really not as difficult or controversial as you make it sound. They're called tablets because they resemble stone writing tablets: they're flat, rectangular, have minimal moving parts, and are controlled by "drawing" (at first with a stylus and now with a finger). E-ink readers generally aren't controlled by touch, and even the new Nook and Kindle e-readers seem to use very minimal touch controls.

Are you really arguing that the iPod Touch, smartphones, e-ink readers, netbooks, and iPad-like devices should all be lumped into one category by tech analysts? Has anyone ever been in the market for a new gadget, but been unsure if they want an iPhone or an e-ink Kindle? That's madness. I can certainly see why someone would want a smartphone, a netbook, an iPad, and an e-ink reader, all at the same time for different purposes. But aside from developers or reviewers, I can't imagine why anyone would want two smartphones, or two netbooks, or two iPad-like tablets, or two e-ink readers. It's not tech writers that determine these categories, it's a combination of consumers' purchase patterns and the device manufacturers' marketing teams.
No they are cool. Apple just sold a brand people show in cafes for prestige, android is just starting in tablets, when stats start to change, I will see you are wrong in few quarters. , written from my samsung galaxy tab.
Absolutely not. Everything with LaunchDFW will still progress as planned. It's definitely not a 1-person effort.

I will still be involved as much as I can, but at the end of the day I have to do what's best for my company.
> the length of it just goes to show how complex the issue is.

http://xkcd.com/915/ relevant?
Scary/funny chart of the day: http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/07/what-cases-have-the-patrio...
How the Cloud Will Change Technology
Top Anti-Aging Skin Care Brands
An inside look at the unsettling perils of cloud computing—and how to avoid them
’Your Heart Running Around Outside Your Body'
Am I in a bubble, or is Microsoft?
CloudStack for VMware Virtualization Engineers
The difference is iPads in Apple's channels will almost certainly be purchased.
Nice post on blogger outreach Andy - would be cool to also see stats how those the blog posts you got continue to drive leads even if they level off after a couple months. I've also found that events/trade shows are an awesome way to meet influential bloggers and get them to write about you. Blog outreach is about relationships and sometimes all it takes is meeting face to face to develop that trust factor.
The stats are wrong. Android tablet's just launched in acceptable configurations, sony, samsung and amazon.. Soon android will dominate.
Every time you do a google search, try to think if anyone else might have searched for it before. I do a lot of google searching for specific programming-related questions, and some of my terms are long and obscure enough that I'm fairly confident the exact query was never made before.
135 Terabytes for $12,000
tl;dr: Firefox is 2, Chrome is 2.5, IE is 4. (Out of 4, of course. And assuming latest versions.)
Greed is not illegal and as long as you do not abuse it just like with alcohol, driving, etc. etc. You should be OK. You could say similar things about some drugs, some argue, unfortunately they are illegal, they can land you in jail, and they support a drug cartel.

>>"Better safe than sorry" is a platitude that can be used against any activity that entails some degree of risk.

But I wasn't using it for anything. I was using it for this specific case of doing illegal drugs. And mine was just an opinion, obviously nobody can stop you from doing what you want.
What would make you stick to it? Or am I asking the wrong question: Does it even matter to you that you do stick to it?
If this were our (Mozilla's) strategy, it's hard to understand why we'd release our code under an open source license, and why we'd insist on every standard we implement being freely implementable by anyone with the requisite chops.

Mozilla "conspires" to do almost exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Having lots of decent browsers available was our old success condition. Now the mobile world is starting to look locked up, so breaking that open to competition and free choice is our new success condition.
I'm actually worried the girl's going to shoot herself in the leg.

void foo(void)
{
int a = 41;
a = a++;
printf("%d\n", a);
}

She says 'a gets an undefined value' but that's not true at all. There are compilers that will look at that undefined function and omit the entire body, including the print.

It is extremely important to understand that undefined behavior can and will break everything, even if it appears to be behaving whenever you look.
Is there a list of posts by poster?
An additional consideration is the "dynamic" search that google implemented recently[1]. While you're typing, it'll guess what your final query is likely to be and display the results. Of course, the guess will usually be something that's been queried before, but if you are typing a completely new query then it will sometimes query a number of intermediate steps before you've finished typing. If this statistic includes queries of this sort, then this could contribute significantly to the number of new queries.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-tha...
I personally don't dare comment on the Dunning–Kruger because it's possible I'm not skilled enough to understand it.
Coffeescript/Sass in the cloud - Compiled, minified, and concatenated
I couldn't agree more.

I gave a talk about this very thing at PyCodeConf this week. Here are the slides: http://python-for-humans.heroku.com
> Good old Microsoft trash browser stats, just like the old IE is the safest browser one.

In fairness, running IE6 is soon going to be like running Firefox with NoScript, so it might actually be more safe, just like Lynx.
For the uninitiated: These articles are written by Daniel Robbins. He was the creator and past benevolent dictator of Gentoo Linux. He left the project years ago and then when he returned he started the Gentoo-based Funtoo Linux.

When he was working on Gentoo proper he wrote a lot of articles for IBM developer works[1]. He is a good technical writer in general and I found his articles on SSH key management quite useful. He is the author of the 'keychain' utility[2] for key management, too.

1: http://www.google.com/?q=site:ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2F+da...

P.S. Google is so freakin broken I can't figure out how to make a simple link. You'll have to press the Search button yourself.

2: http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Keychain
The scores are predetermined, according to http://yourbrowsermatters.org/docs/methodology.pdf

Most of the security features that were included in the score are publically documented by the browser
manufacturers and the presence can be verified directly through the browser itself. Additionally, tools
like the Sys Internals process expirer were used to verify the use of DEP, Protected Mode, and ASLR.
Oh ya. Here's another blog without any strings attached: http://pastebin.com
I'm moving off of urllib2 as we speak, to sit directly on top of httplib.

One thing at a time :)
Tweriod - One-of-its-kind Twitter analysis tool for sale
I've decided to sell Tweriod at the price listed. If it doesn't sell, maybe I will start it again in 6 months or so with a less annoying, better name. Would it make a good-come-back to the market? Have there been any examples of such applications(failures or successes)?
This code is likely a mish-mash of 'solutions', frankensteined together from StackOverflow.

It's kinda sad to laugh at crappy code from job applicants who may well be desperate for a job, but actually couldn't really program their way out of a paper bag, but, people should not underestimate the software-destroying havoc that such bad programmers can cause when they copy/paste from all over, like some nesting squirrel only happy inhabiting a nest of bug-ridden code.
I thought the point was that a simple status report is a cop-out.

That's his point, but I think it's overly broad. Just as axe murderers have a preference for axes, bad managers have a preference for status reports. That doesn't make axes or status reports inherently bad. I think, "do you send status reports?" should be an inconsequential step toward, "do you have poor communication with your management team?"
I agree with your diagnosis of the problem, but not sure about your solution. People start blogs because they want their own space to share their thoughts. If they wanted to share their thoughts on someone else's site, they'd comment on a post, use fb, or a million other things. I think you're missing a key piece to why ppl start their own blogs, because it's theirs and they have the freedom to do whatever they want, they have a sense of ownership. I signed up for your service but I won't use it because I want my own space. I'm starting a blog and will probably follow the path you laid out, but at least I'll have my own space.
I find it interesting that most discussions I've seen about this exact topic are about Arc and closures... instead of about the fact that this may well be an interesting programming thing to do but it's a moronic user experience thing to do.
I am one of your feed subscribers for 1-2 years I think and I am happy every time there is a new post.
Art With Salt - Steve Jobs
The current stable release actually has poster inside (and has for a while), but it's being taken out soon.
Mission humanitaire en Afrique au Togo
I hate Apple with all my heart but I still do not know of another option if I want a good tablet at that size.
While it's true to say "ECMA decided not to adopt", it omits the important information that most of the opposition came from Yahoo (AIUI Douglas Crockford was instrumental in this) and Microsoft, who might have their own motivations other than "preserving the feeling of coding javascript." And Google too, which is kind of a WTF given Dart.
I've read a few of the very technical responses and they are great, but, for me, the take away was the audience response. It's exactly what I look for when I write software. I want that gasp, that moment where someone realizes they can do a hard thing much easier. Where they realize that they just got a few moments of time back.
Vi intro -- the cheat sheet method
If your startup has 5-6 people, then you will have no problem getting a group health insurance plan in the US. Health insurance is really only a problem for very small pre-funding startups. In practice, it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. So far, the center of the tech startup universe seems firmly rooted in Silicon Valley and in no danger of moving to France, Canada, Australia, or Cuba, despite universal public health care in each of those countries.

This is a point that gets a lot of rhetorical attention with little substantial evidence to back it up. In practice, if you're not resourceful enough to figure out a way to bridge the 6-12 months or so you need to build your startup to a point where it can provide insurance, then you just plain aren't resourceful enough to be an entrepreneur.
Hacker News is open source

Is this true? If so, where can I find the code?
Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest
Okay, so the article has some valid arguments. But why use Steve Jobs to make a point about drugs?
Entrepreneurship and the Golden Rule
I never said I wanted to prevent the black market. I merely stated a scheme under which I would be comfortable acquiring such substances, and the trade-offs likely to be involved (high prices). As for the piece of paper, it was just a figure of speech; passing a law amounts to the same effect.
>>A greater percentage of water drinks drown than marijuana/lsd/mushroom users die from marijuana/etc usage

Is a fallacy or a false argument in the sense that you can say that about pretty much anything.

-Eat just meat for a couple of weeks and it will kill you

-Eat just pasta and it will make you sick

-cars kill more people than X

-etc. etc.

He is not providing a real argument.

Is like me telling you that aluminum causes memory problems
and you coming back and telling me that more people die from cars. What does that have to do with the first comment?

I was just providing an opinion about better not use illegal drugs because of all the physical and legal consequences they can have. Not sure what all the outrage is about and how can some people equate that with drinking water or alcohol, or even greed.
Installing Gentoo taught me a staggering amount about Linux. I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing to say about it as a distro, but I'm glad I did it.
Raycaster in HTML5 / JavaScript (new version)
I'll just add a second, conflicting, anecdote. Most of the iPad owners I know use them heavily for games. If you took away the games I have no doubt the my girlfriend, for example, would sell her iPad instantly.

Also the difference in the quality of games between the iPad and Android is huge, probably far bigger than any other app categories. Lost of big name studios like EA and 2K games and getting behind the iPad and producing games of a quality you don't even approach on Android.

Now I'll admit I have no idea how important games are, really. But if I was to go purely on personal observations I'd say it's highly significant.
i am sure 95% of school time diaries were also abandoned.. i abandoned mine at primary school.
Philosophically speaking, doesn't this boil down to having something meaningful to discuss? Otherwise you're just generating web noise but we're all guilty of that.
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Here are the actual research papers for this video:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/sparis/#publi2011

- Blur kernel estimation using the Radon Transform http://people.csail.mit.edu/sparis/publi/2011/cvpr_radon/Cho...

- Modeling and Removing Spatially-Varying Optical Blur http://people.csail.mit.edu/sparis/publi/2011/iccp_blur/Kee_...

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Machine drills square holes in metal (Video)
i find this statistics misleading, because one cannot get meaningful results from last minute submission rate.
You would get a TIN (taxpayer identification number), which is essentially an SSN or EIN for foreign taxpayers.
Jobs will be forgotten...
I prefer http://www.popbitch.com
;)
Avengers Trailer
The death of landlines...? [infographic]
I agree with you - just recently I spent WAY too long trying to find a good free sound sample for a notification chime and integrate it into a cross-browser audio object. Not sure if you are thinking of the implementation-end as well (aka javascript/HTML5/flash player of some variety) that can consume the api or just the api itself.

What would have been the ideal solution for me would have been a JS script I could have included then simply instantiated with a sound (like 'bell chime') and exposes simple javascript controls like goTo, play, stop, pause etc and worked seamlessly cross-browser with HTML5 and flash fallback. I know sound players like this exist (minues he included sound bytes) but they all have the overhead of the UI for player controls.
I have posted a JavaScript raycaster last week (disussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3070500) and have since updated it to a new render engine.

Instead of the grid-based level that supports only orthogonal walls, the level now consists of vector-based walls which requires a different method of raycasting.
Recently I discovered that there is a US work visa specifically for Australians (the E-3). Unlike the H1-B, the E-3 cap of 10,000 per year has never run out. Also, E-3 applications go under less scrutiny and are more likely to be approved and are generally approved quicker. It's worth thinking about if you are an Australian programmer interested in working for a US startup.
Actuarially speaking, young people just don't get that sick or need that much healthcare. Also, people doing startups tend to be risk-takers and are usually already risking their life savings. So this is really not a barrier.
Subversion 1.7.0 Released
What if Tim Cook Thinks Differently?
I learned from Gentoo too, after a failed start with RedHat. Basically you would learn from Gentoo's excellent documentation and from constantly breaking things and having to research how to fix them.

Though I'm not sure if the documentation and community support is as good now as it was back in 2001-2003.
shrug

I bet most of the people including JQuery on their pages only use a fraction of its functionality even though it all must be parsed. So what?
I'm surprised "does your browser's name start with IE and end with 10 (only valid data in between is \s*)?"

Double awesome points for checkmark for windows-only features on a mac.

I BET once that is discovered the site will browser-sniff.

The "known malware" is an interesting thing. That may be pre-canned inside the browser. I rather my browser have that knowlege, and update a master list hourly, than send info to google to ask "is this ok"... IDK what chrome does so can use some citation on this info.
It doesn't make sense to call any specific amount of traffic "normal conditions."

What's good about this technique, and about rapid prototyping in general, is that you can write an initial version quickly in very little code, then gradually make it more efficient as the demands on the app increase.

The rate of expired links says more about how busy I personally have been lately than about the desirability of storing state in closures.
Did you know 4.0 - Pretty interesting notion
Many years ago I used to have a 58-byte version, but around the time that x86-64 was being developed, Linux started examining (and thus validating) a couple more fields in the ELF header. It's really a shame, because the corner-cutting in the 62-byte version isn't nearly as impressive (in my own opinion).
You don't need one. Both Spotify and Rdio have ISRCs for their tracks (they got those from the same source), so they can resolve all those cases based on ISRC equality only. How they (or was it Facebook) managed to fail the described cases is beyond me.

As someone who implemented metadata matching of two distinct musical catalogs:
First you do search, then you do ranking, then you take the best result.
You need to take all the needle metadata (isrc, albums' upc/icpn, title, version, album, artists), and then

- If there are results with the same ISRC, it's cool. Choose the best matching album (by UPC, then by title, then by album version)

- If there aren't, match the track + artist pair and then choose the best matching album for it.

- If you don't have ISRC match and can not match on track title + artist, you should probably bail out.

This way you both won't miss a track in compilation, neither would you prefer The Hit Crew to the actual good performer.

Most international content has ISRC. Local, independent and DIY would probably not. But it's usually easier to match because it doesn't have dozens of different recordings for tracks nor endless realms of compilations.
Shows that their test is either shit, or misnamed. If their test is shit that means that this is looking for flags, badly. If it is misnamed that means that they are trying to see if they can execute a specific attack, which fails in osx good i guess...
Questions I ask when reading this blog post:

Why is this a list of questions without any further explanation?

Furthermore, is it really good design to have a big wall of text composed of similar-looking lines? Very hard to read.
Can Windows Phone become a legitimate No. 3?
The program that was previous scheduled to air in that timeslot was called "Can you live forever?"

#toosoon ?
Take a Break, Get Some Perspective
We all knew, or should have known, the point the article author was making. Who gives a shit if he wrote if(true) or while(true) in the piece, the same problem applies regardless of if "if(true)" is something you want to see in code or not.
Steve Jobs was a jerk.  Good for him.
Well... You can make all 46 drives into a zpool with raid-z and boot FreeBSD or *Solaris from it.

BTW, I can't see the vibration sleeves around the disks on the pictures. Vibration must be a problem when you pack so much rotating media in such a limited space.
According to the specs of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 [1] and the iPad 2 [2] the Tab weighs in at 565g and the iPad 2 is 601g. Are you seriously trying to tell me that an extra 36g (being just over an ounce) was a major motivation in deciding what to purchase?

There may be reasons you bought the Tab but (IMHO) 36g wasn't an important consideration (or even a consideration at all).

You and five friends own them? How many of you purchased them as opposed to, say, getting them for free from Google IO this year?

[1]: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec....

[2]: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Complacency Kills: Take a Risk
Ml-class.org vs. real world ML class