skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rapidly invoke an editor to write a long, complex, or tricky command (bash)
"For best performance, it is expected that clients will not close open connections until the user navigates away from all web pages referencing a connection, or until the server closes the connection. Servers are encouraged to leave connections open for as long as possible, but can terminate idle connections after some amount of inactivity if necessary. " it's basically a "long connection" scheme, the servers will suffer. But skimming the spec, I can't find a TCP preferred port nor an URI scheme, how do I start a connection ?
Sensationalist.
> The library is quiet, is designed to provide work spaces, far larger, and generally very pleasant to be in.

Not my experience at all.
In the future we won't buy computers, we'll buy services.
Space Exploration is Not Just for Astronauts
School: It's way more boring than when you were there
Opera doesn't have the other concerns raised here. They aren't vendors of anything else themselves, and have no particular reason to use their data to further other goals they may have.

The question of whether this technically "works" is uninteresting. The answer is yes.
Bringing together creative thinkers, causes and people with a passion to help.
Is the developer I'm hiring as good as he says he is?
How do you know if the person you are interviewing is as good as he says he is? Is their some sort of standardized test for code writers that a business could use to help out in this?
Cool widget. A list of what licenses score what would be pretty neat. The unlicense (http://unlicense.org) gets 244.
Would running Windows in Virtualbox be an option? Then you have the full power of a unix-like system, yet, you still have access to windows.

If not, and you really wish to go the other way around, then Debian is the distribution you're looking for. It has all the basics, apt included, without all the bells and whistles you don't neccessarily need (but, if you do want them, they're an apt-get install away).

I do believe that a linux host, with a windows guest would feel superior, if you were missing the unix background.
Would there be much overhead from increasing the expiry time to 3 hours or so? After 3 hours I wouldn't care about pagination, but it seems to be less than an hour currently.
no, the whole nook ecosystem is US-only. we don't even get it in canada.
Obligatory link to Paul Graham essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known," with advice on how to do deal with boredom in (high) school:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

This essay was the second essay (after "Why Nerds Are Unpopular) that made me aware of pg's interest in education policy.

See also the book The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom for ways that school could be done better.

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education-Class...
Evri's new iPad app looks to reinvent the news experience
Even if a binary DOM was the same size as HTML (it would actually be much smaller), eliminating the cost of parsing HTML (forgivingly) and serializing it into a DOM would be a significant improvement.

Similarly, even if JS bytecode was the same size as the JS itself, eliminating the cost of parsing, constructing an AST, (possibly) transforming the AST, creating bytecode, and (possibly) doing an optimization pass on the bytecode would be significant.
I don't think so either, but I do think that leaving it just at "Unix is an operating system" is likely to generate a good more confusion along the lines of "wait, I just have linux, where can I get unix?", "what do you mean linux is unix-like?", and of course "I thought I could use OSX for this".

It should be strongly mentioned that "unix" best describes a class of operating systems including "proper" unix systems like OSX and the "unix-like" systems like linux.

It's also important to divorce the students from that layman perspective of "operating systems are all that graphical shit I see on my screen". In fact, I think that might be the most important part.
Relevant xkcd comic on avoiding the most obvious upward next step: http://xkcd.com/761/

Trying out a lot of things for a bit before commiting also seems to be the approach we use as children, I wonder why we forget about it once we're about 20.
That's an interesting point. Most WiFI APs are pretty snappy. Optimizing EDGE connections and weak cellular signals are one thing, but how much faster can it really be on my a 10GPS down connection?
I have bought all humble indie bundles so far. I was always paying below average.

I didn't have time to play any of the games though so I have probably not exploited anyone's hard work (yet).
You could try a virtual stock exchange game - http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
Which Social Networks Fight for Your Rights?
Some evidence that you've actually read what you're replying to would be nice. I made your own point better than you did when I went into more detail on the problems with paper voting!
"will establish secure connection from … cloud to the site … on your behalf"
As long as you don't really need to interact with windows more than a shared folder I'd go with virtualbox headless.

Since it is a laptop you can set it up to have one network card be NAT for the internet and the second be host only so you have a dedicated local ip to hack on no matter what network you are on.

I believe my setup when I did this was the first card was NAT with dhcp and the second card was a static ip and I believe all you needed in debian was to specify the address for card 2.

vmware has the option to start on boot though and it might work better for headless servers, I haven't used that in a long time though.
Protest Is Good, Disruption Is Better
Is it? Sounds like a strong privacy argument to me. Especially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out. There will be wayyy too much useful data in Amazon's lap for them to simply ignore it.
Yep, not much logic in this article. 'All of this on Google's dime'? ZNope, it's all on Amazon's dime, server-wise, and there's very little association between this supposed web-crawling effort and Android.
How good is HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript support?
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what makes Box so special. Is there anything behind it that a hand full of us couldn't replicate on the amazon cloud in an afternoon with a couple laptops and a pot of coffee?

Plus, isn't the file sharing market going to be shrinking as more of these documents are going to be created and collaborated on in an application native to the web?

And the Google Drive stuff that got leaked?

Salesforce/Marc have made some good investments with Heroku, Mashery, and a list of others but I'm not so sure how long box can keep this up. I know they're hiring aggressively though.
maybe luxurious is the wrong way to put it, but the iPad has always been marketed as a luxury-segment product. it is promoted as being something special, not just another everyday CE device.

the iPad is like a backyard swimming pool - you don't need one, but it's fun and all your friends will be impressed. the kindle is like a washing machine - you don't need one, but if you don't have one you're going to be going to the laundramat/reading paper books like a barbarian.
In the best case, you can look at their contribution to open source software (their github/bitbucket/google code/etc profile). Those are, in most cases, very telling. Sadly, it's not always an option.
No, Opera Mini and Opera Turbo works a bit differently. While Turbo provides compression the actual rendering is always done locally. With Mini on the other hand the rendering is done server side, and then sent to the Mini client using an Opera Mini specific markup language.
Atul Gawande Thinks You’re Not As Good As You Think You Are
Most tablet makers would kill to have this much developer interest. I'm fascinated by Silk and have wasted the better part of the day trying to figure out exactly what they're doing.

Here's an independent description of Silk behind the scenes:

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/09/amazons-silk-web-browser-ad...

I am hoping that Amazon gets a developers guide up soon that fills in more of the gaps. Already on EC2 and I want to start experimenting.
Full text from bottom of that page:

What about handling secure (https) connections?

We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to
the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites
using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com).

Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between
your device and that site. Any security provided by
these particular sites to their users would still exist.

Seems similar to what Opera do.
Same price as a Prime membership. How long 'til they say "aw shucks, we'll just give every Prime member one"? Maybe fulfilling the theorized "free Kindle by November '11" prediction? (Price drops vs. dates graph is near straight-line to there.)
Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Sure it is; if it succeeds it will encourage more app developers to target Android.
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I feel much guiltier in public libraries than in coffee shops. Very often not a great use of money. Everybody pays; few use.
Just in case it wasn't clear, this opinion piece was written by a service provider with a different business model than Zynga, that advocates real money gambling in games.
This post is completely ridiculous.
You got me; I didn't realize I was reading an elaborate advertisement until the very end.
I agree, but there are a few potential drawbacks.

There are more coffee shops than libraries. Your path to a coffee shop is generally shorter than your path to a library.

This problem gets even worse when you add the dimension of time. Libraries are closed a lot. Philistines keep cutting their funding, and they respond by shortening their hours. Unless your working hours coincide neatly with library opening hours you'll sometimes need an alternative.

Finally, there's the social dimension. It's not easy to start a random conversation in a library, and it's essentially impossible to answer the phone. (Unless you are a big jerk and your local librarians are insufficiently ruthless.) Now, if you're trying to program such an environment is a godsend, but if you're trying to run a business programming is often the least of your problems. You have to do sales and marketing and client management and the occasional round of procurement or insurance shopping or whatnot, any or all of which may require you to talk on the phone occasionally.

That said, whenever I'm near a library during its opening hours I head over there instead of towards the coffee shop. Here in Boston the library situation is good: The public libraries are fairly numerous and popular, and some of the more enlightened universities let civilians into their libraries, which have longer hours and better study spaces.
Barnes & Noble also has in-store cafes and their in-store Wi-Fi offers Nook users free reading and coupons for goodies in the store. I'm not sure how many people take them up on it, but it seems like they are at least playing with a business model.
This doesn't even rate on my list of worthy causes. The developer of TextMate got paid when I bought a license for that software. He runs/owns a business running for profit and he has the means and expertise to make that. And indeed he will if he gets a second version out.

There are countless NPOs and registered charities that require donations and spend the money on running wholly unprofitable services to people who have no way of paying the organisation back. Services that, as a result, would not exist (and be actively avoided if they did) if left to the free market.

They deserve whatever money you're willing to throw away a hell of a lot more than a developer who has trouble keeping his shit in order.
The way I overcome this problem is by using ReadItLater.
1) Open Page 1.
2) Open new tabs of all the links I want to read in that page as a new tab in the background (I use Opera). This leaves me still in Page 1 while the other tabs open in the background
3) Repeat process for next few pages
4) Finally, go to each tab and click on the ReadItLater Add bookmarklet.
5) Close all tabs. (I don't close the tabs separately but move on the next tab as I find it more efficient that way)
except the Jesus topic, because of all the godless heathens in SF and NYC
Interesting how median lifetime revenue increases with the number of developers on a game up until 20+, where it dips.

From this it would seem 10 to 20 person teams are the sweet spot for mobile game development.

Now I just need to find 9 to 19 more developers for my project :)
I'm not arguing that this price is correct, just that the OP was over the top. (In fact, I'm a strong believer that the correct economic equilibrium is for the grants to pay for the publication process, with all publications being available free of charge.) If Six Flags amusement park takes advantage of their local-monopoly by charging $3 for a Coke on a hot day, this is an inefficient situation but it isn't appalling. A bit of perspective!

On the other hand, if the university was charging the students $10/hour to access journals they needed to read to graduate, that might indeed be appalling. But, as I originally emphasized, students don't have it that bad!
Our goals are all the same: we want free software to succeed.
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There is a manufacturer's guarantee that the system will still put out 80% power in 20 years, and is guaranteed for 25 years. If, the manufacturer stays in business...
"This is about an OS-layer API, not a windowing toolkit API"

What does that even mean? Of course you can have single-threaded UI applications in Windows, the majority of them are. Have you ever written a Windows application in C or C++?
I now own over a dozen books that are more expensive than a Kindle.
Chart: 1.5 Decades of Computer/Phone Industry Value
Shocking "BBC Trader" Talks About Himself (I dream of recession)
if g is true call the function R with the parameter a
Using Twitter's Bootstrap In The Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
I'm not even sure if this is possible but I would pay a lot of money for a color screen that can switch to e-ink and back depending on what I want to do.
I personally know plenty of indie game successes so it's definitely doable.

Generally:

* Keep things small and focused.

* Make games, not game engines.

* Keep control of your revenue streams early on. Sell the game yourself and consider platforms such as Steam or XBLA bonuses. If you can't sustain yourself without those platforms you probably won't make it. Use that extra revenue for expansion of your studio or your ambition.

* Marketing and PR should be a primary focus, alongside game development.

* Scope scope scope. If you're first product is an MMO you'll fail. If you think your first few products will be able to compete with anything on a store shelf you'll fail. A good game with personality is not dependent on your underlying tech nor does it require novels of content. That's why many of the successful indies start with 2D games drenched with style. A good game is a good game.
For hobbyist investor it's tempting to short some stocks which seem to be priced outrageously high.

In the past I've heard the term "Short Squeeze", but did not really pay attention.

This article demonstrates one of the risks of shorting.
I doubt end users will care as long as the TOS aren't absurd (e.g. Amazon has the right to sell your non-anonymized data probably wouldn't fly). People _will_ care that their Silk browser is screaming fast, though.
I recently got a Kindle subsidized with 'Special Offers'. I expected to hate it, but got it anyway to save a little and satisfy my curiosity about how and whether it could work as an ad channel.

When I put the cover on my Kindle, I thought to myself, "Ha! They paid me to see their ads, and yet with the cover I'll never see them!"

And yet: I do see them, every time I open the cover. And they linger for a couple seconds as it turns on. (I could avoid them with a bit more discipline – power-on then open cover – but that's a little less natural.)

They haven't been very impressive ads – perhaps because I've only been occasionally wireless-active for updates. (The ads I most remember are for some TV primetime soap premiere I'd be unlikely to ever watch, and AT&T, a company who I'm already a customer of but despise.)

But they also haven't been very annoying. Very easy to ignore, not adding any noticeably delay to my use, not distracting from usual use at all. So I actually think they have potential. They haven't made me feel, per Arment's labeling, 'uncivilized' or 'without self-respect'.
At Heroku, free applications get idled out when no request comes in for a while. As a result, when the first request comes in after some time, it can take a few seconds to find a piece of iron to run the process on, run it, and hook up all the tubes.

The advantage is you get to run arbitrary code rather than, say, serve static pages, though.
Yeah, I was taught roulette wheel at university but I think that tournament is a much better way of doing selection.
No problem. Thanks for showing me something cool to put on the site. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation
The same applies to i--||+a in the first loop.
Damn, I just saw your post.. how was it?
Btw, I got my ticket for DWS, looking forward to it :)
They could get the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. (Or nearly equivalently, Ashton Kutcher.)

"Dude, you're on Fire!"
Pretty weak stuff, here is a counter example http://blogs.computerworld.com/17941/android_ios_app_profit
That kind of reasoning kept me away from taking the leap, but now I realize how flawed that kind of logic is. Yes, most startups fail, but it's not a lottery. The success depends on you. It's sort like saying "only 25% of students end up graduating from college, therefore going to college is a bad idea."
For State Department Employees, Freedom Isn't Free
It was probably an easy answer, really. It's better than HTTP, is included in Android, which they chose as a base platform, and they don't have to worry about Windows compatibility on their own hardware.
What's the difference between Git and Mercurial?
From another daring-fireball article:

Q: How many times does the word “Android” appear on Amazon’s Kindle Fire page?

A: Once, in the following sentence: “Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android.” It’s a Kindle tablet, not an Android tablet.
Google does index "display: none"/hidden divs:
http://www.google.com/search?q=De+eerste+stap+in+het+generer...

<div class="webinar-blurb" id="bot-164716" style="display: none;">
De eerste stap in het genereren van websitebezoeken met AdWords is
...
</div>
I buy as much as I can on Amazon now - with Prime it is a no-brainer...

This is after wondering why I could order books from Amazon and they arrived 9am the next day (the joys of living in a teeny country like the UK :P) but when I ordered X other thing from different sites it took days, and was full of mistakes.

Amazon have absolutely nailed the shipping side of online retail - which is usually what people most complain about in retailers, after all!
AMA: Sued for over $1.2mil and now being bullied by Craigslist & their lawyers.
[Android] Ice Cream Sandwich two-minute tour, via lucky eBay shopper
Don't get the negative vibes here (complaining about the number of games included, for example).

I watched the trailers and videos for that game [1] and _wow_, this will be the 3rd? 4th? (got every one so far, I guess) bundle I'll purchase. It's quite on topic as well, in my opinion: The idea is so frikkin' simple. Well executed (didn't play yet, but the videos and reviews so far are promising), this is a well played "launch". I'm impressed.

1: http://www.frozensynapse.com/media.html
I think you're misinterpreting the original paragraph, which is admittedly quite terse, even telegraphic. Read the lines that follow:

they can intermediate user click through on Google search results so Google doesn’t see the actual user behavior. Google’s whole play of promoting Android in order to aggregate user behavior patterns to sell to advertisers is completely subverted by Amazon’s intermediation.

Google's business model is to spend a metric ton of money on servers and software in order to deliver a better search engine than anyone else. They do so in order to attract users. Part of the payoff is that Google gets detailed data on user behavior -- what they search for, what they click on -- and uses that to increase their value to advertisers.

Well, now Amazon has a brand-new potential business model: They've put a man in the middle between the customer and Google. They serve the customer the search results that Google is paying to generate, and they capture all the same data about customer behavior that Google gets. To the extent that Google's tracking data has any value, Amazon has just acquired that value, all in exchange for merely proxying a search engine that Google builds and maintains "on Google's dime".

Of course, any browser vendor could do the same. But if Apple built a phone-home feature into Safari that uploaded your clickstream (including, perhaps, the decrypted end of your SSL connections?) directly to Apple headquarters they would be roasted alive -- rhetorically, anyway -- by every geek on earth. Presumably we should give the same scrutiny to this move by Amazon.
CA repealing sales tax law means reinstatement for Amazon affiliates
> Yeah online privacy is nearly non existent. Especially so when you are reckless and use connected identity systems. That doesn't mean the message should be "give up."

I don't think the question is over whether it is worth it to fight for online privacy, but rather if online privacy is the right end goal to begin with.

People are very uncomfortable with radical openness and transparency of their personal lives because it is a radical departure from the way life used to operate. People have always been uncomfortable with technologically driven cultural changes (easy examples would be the original Luddite movement or luddites today), and probably always will be. Online privacy gives an ironic twist on the situation since many hackers, the people who should be pushing the world forward, are disturbed by this change and want to hold it back.

Facebook, and more recently Google (with their real name push), have moved to envision this different mode of human interaction. In its extreme incarnation, your digital and 'physical' lives are inextricably merged. I don't think this is a trend that can or should be fought: it would mean fighting the integration of technology with day to day life, and so would eventually be analagous to fighting the benefits technology can bring to human life. With this integration, though, your personal life accessible to those who want it. Yes, having everything be open is very different and uncomfortable. But look at the environment created by allowing total anonymity: 4chan /b/. I feel comfortable saying that I would rather see human interaction move in a direction where you are responsible for all of your actions, rather than one where you can avoid all responsibility.
Do you think that this blog needs a forum? - Linux notes from DarkDuck
Yeah, one is truly a lonely number especially when you consider there needs to be game design, art, sound, music AND code.

Luckily, we've found that if you start, Fate will lend you a hand and deliver some needed help.
Anyone with half a brain has seen this coming for years.
Which means those norms are not necessarily unsustainable according to my statement.
Pardon my ignorance: why would a project want to be moved to the Apache Software Foundation?