skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I accept that there's going to be rejections, I need to keep up the optimism. So I play games, code, or whatever I can do to lose myself. Sometimes I have a whole stack of movies that I've been considering to watch for something non-interactive.

If I was going to be with people I know; spouse, partner, etc, I'd talk to them about exchanging motivations and staying strong (movies, coop games, etc). And to be someone I can get off my chest.

To add, I would print out a sheet along the lines of "You're going to enter a period of many rejections. Stick to the plan. I even added predicted breaks. Don't give up until the same duration of rejection afterwards has passed."
I supposedly have unlimited LTE, as well. Droid Bionic
http://hpaste.org/52109, in case one prefers to be more explicit.
Politicians created the problem by creating IP laws. If they "solve" it, they will undoubtedly just introduce some new problem.
You'll get some subject matter information from the teacher that you'll be required to barf back on an exam. That's useless (as is almost every subject matter I studied in college/law school, in my experience. Statistics, a philosophy course in symbolic logic, and calculus excluded.)

What you gain (if you're lucky) is the meta-lesson of how to think like an economist. Meaning that you'll understand the reasoning methodologies. This will give you an ability to understand real life in ways that mere mortals cannot/do not. I can't say whether "thinking like an economist" is better or worse. But it will give you perspective and an understanding of how large groups of people behave.

Same deal with law school, in my experience. They teach you to think like a laywer. That's the useful part. Hint: If you are trying to figure out an answer, spend your time working out the correct question to ask. Then the answer comes almost trivially.

Second hint: law is binary. The answer is either "yes" or "no". Phrase your question to elicit an answer that is "yes" or "no".

I'm sure the same holds true for engineering and other disciplines. Yeah sure you'll learn some "stuff" but more important you'll learn how to ask a question and solve a problem.

I haven't looked at khanacademy.org's economics stuff. But I'll bet you won't learn the meta-skills there.

Go take the class. And demand a lot out of your professor.

(Disclaimer: econ major in college.)
Interesting that it has transaction support... I don't believe many of the mainstream NoSQL options support transactions.

Having had the joy of installing an Oracle database in the past I nearly spilt my tea when I read "Easy Administration"
Now. One thing to keep in mind before everyone cringes hearing Adobe.

Adobe has always been a very web friendly foundry. They permit things like Cufon use under their standard EULA that covers hundreds if not thousands of fonts. Few years ago, when asking a foundry for a web license would typically produce "La-la-la-la. Can't hear you. Web doesn't exist.", it was unbelievably liberal. It wasn't a fluke either, it was an intentional decision driven from the inside by those from the font group.

In other words, if there is a larger company that I would like to see acquire Typekit, that would be Adobe. They may have screwed few things here and there, but they totally get the webfonts.
HN traffic seems to have crashed the site - getting a DB error page.
Digital distribution of music has been catastrophic for music labels. The foundries are doing OK today. Why would they embrace a new model?
New Bill in Congress could allow robocalls to mobile phones
Right, let's just stop talking about cool new technologies since some people might misuse them. Does anyone want to help me debug my webapp? It's written in C.
Is Apple be about to give iPhone users an AI personal assistant?
> US and most other European countries package phone and services together. Whereas in a lesser sophisticated market like here in India phone and services are independent of each other.

A lot of Europe also purchases the phone and the services separately.
I just got progressive lens glasses for the first time a few months ago. And made the mistake of using them while working on my PC. Result: BAD recurring headaches for the first time in my life. I switched back to my old single-vision glasses til now, but all the providers I deal with are pushing "computer progressives" as the default solution; they look at me like I'm crazy when I ask for a single-vision prescription for use with the computer.

Any experiences with "computer progressives" out there in HN-land?
I'm not a lawyer, so my question is simple - say that you receive a citation from Innovation and you simply ignore this. What then ? They will actually take you to court ?
We've actually taken a pretty homebrew approach and aren't using any external frameworks - just Tomcat and MySQL. On the hardware side we're using Linode shared servers so that we can quickly and easily scale up or down as needed. The game code is pretty efficient - we've run tests with thousands of players and had no problems, on modest hardware, so we're looking forward to growing quickly!

It's true that we've had some stability issues at times, but we're trying to cover a lot of platforms (Android, iOS, webOS, web) and add a lot of new features to improve the game. Now that we've officially launched (on 10/1) stability will definitely our #1 priority, though.
There are rumors of a 4S, though, with the upgraded A5 inside an iPhone 4 form factor. Which, in such a situation (and I agree it's not likely), could go to the other carriers and make the 5 a Sprint exclusive.

(Again, doubtful, but it would address that problem.)
I guess that means they'll be sunsetting this guy:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/...
I imagine that converting between currencies is by far the smallest part of the problem. Much more important are complying with the various regulatory regimes that exist for credit card transactions in different countries.
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... in the USA. But yes, seems unlikely.
American cars need to maintain 45mph or so at a 6% grade to be allowed on many interstates. Your 15 year old car does not need to meet 2011 emissions and safety standards.

edit Also, the EPA has changed to more aggressive testing procedures over the last 15 years. What was a 45MPG car in 1990 (Toyota Tercel) is now "35MPG".
Interesting sidenote on that...
When the BBB contacted us the first time, they referenced that they searched through their records and couldn't find a company named xpay... pretty funny that they didn't realize that xpay was a pseudonym (even though I made that explicit in the blogpost)

They also spelled my name incorrectly (2 different ways!). A classy organization all around.
While the ability to write your own shaders is awesome, I'm actually most excited about the built-in options. The ability to add a non-crappy (read: not a simple box) dropshadow with one line of CSS makes me jump for joy.

If they pull this off it'll remove one of my biggest sore points from transitioning from Flash. Flash had these filters, and they were incredibly useful (color transform, glow, blur, and dropshadow especially).
Thanks for all the comments!

It's not about traditional or simplified. It's about which first. We are rolling out to all languages world-wide and wanna start with the most relevant ones for getting high reach fast.
and you pay rent?
NoSQL? Nope.

I just need PostgreSQL and SSDs.. done!
Joel Spolsky has a reputation as a programmer, blogger, and entrepreneur. His recommendation of microeconomics

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html

is striking for its clarity and strength.
Bldr - Minimalist JSON templating DSL
Countless Hours Of Work Just To Be Invisible
Win7 overtakes Win XP in global marketshare
Agreed in full - you are an exception to the rule.

We've tested across general ecommerce, direct sales sites, lead generation, etc, etc - always comes up with the win when you're testing that "trust symbol" real estate . . .
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This sounds pretty scammy to me. The good news is that I found a company on the Internet that lets you report scams: https://www.bbb.org/scam/report-a-scam/
With Shooting Caught On Officer’s “Chest-Cam,” Tech Precedent To Be Set
Scaling Out with Scala and Akka on Heroku
With linked lists, bi-linking = bi-winning
the funny thing is that initially, we (feefighters) didn't plan this to be an investigation. we just kept hearing stories from our customers about how credit card processors would rip them off, they would complain to the bbb, and nothing would happen. finally, we decided to take a stand.
Google has Chrome OS, so where's Facebook's Face OS?
Could they fork a release of Chromium and customize it?
Starbucks collect $5 to help stimulate US job growth.
Sounds like he is bemoaning the technical debt problem, writ large. While you can't resolve this from the gate level on up overnight, you can create your own "technical oases" that are largely free(er) of technical debt than the crud they float upon.
Launch of iPhone 5 Will Be Successful
Oops, thanks for correcting me. I think the original article claimed it did use it, or at least something very similar - it looks like Herkou has tweaked their article and pulled that link.
Nice use of the twitter bootstrap, I just started using it as well to kick off new mini projects. Just gave twitter a whirl, looking forward to seeing the export.

Also saw you are using gauges, how do you like the reporting?
How a particle can also be a wave
nice strawman.

my point isn't that you shouldn't build up buzz. it's that, when buzz exists around something, your job as a platform implementor includes making people aware of the things your product can't do well, and pitfalls the end-user might run into.

saying "well, it's their own fault for not being clueful enough to know what they were doing wrong, this technology is for pro hackers only!" is developer-hostile.
For Gmail, you can withdraw your emails out via IMAP/POP. You can export your contacts.
Any decent troll needs a nugget of truth at the bottom to hook people in.
Looks like a great talent acquisition. PhoneGap is a temporary (albeit, dragging on for years) solution. How long before the browsers adopt a common interface for mobile capabilities that will render phonegap obsolete...
In other news, I'll continue to revel in unlimited data and Android updates on the Nexus S.
BBB is totally useless and corrupt. Used them before with a complaint and accomplished nothing but a waste of time and effort. Great job FeeFighters!
Something's gotta give: reflections on being a sole founder
Look at Google's ad for Plus via their search engine page. It's pretty powerful.
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Microsoft announces massive Hotmail update to better combat Gmail
This is exactly what I have been wondering. The case has no merit: they can't sue me for buying a Linksys router, can they?
Embedded MySQL in Java with Connector/MXJ and 64-bit Linux
The codecommit article is a good intro to H-M as in Haskell, OCaml, F#, SML (AKA Damas-Milner by at least one dev I respect), here is codecomit guy re: why Scala can't use HM / DM, rather, Scala is flow-based, or "local type inference".

http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/scal...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3689407/disadvantages-of-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7234095/why-is-scalas-typ...

this sentence in OP objectionable

Erlang and Clojure: two other functional, concurrency-focused languages which many developers find inscrutable.
Clearly invalid. Prior use dates back to X BC when gestures by cavemen were used.

[Edit] Or are they going to be chasing anyone that uses light in some fashion?
API that lets you check the earning expectation of your lottery numbers
Here's one of their suits: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fia700405.us....

I don't know enough about the details of wifi to say whether the patents in question actually apply, but it seems plausible. Here are all the patents listed in the suit:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=zi8SAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=0W-qAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=89fGAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=rlHHAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=HQwgAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=i9UYAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=Uz8JAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=f6mwAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=YxQcAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=unMYAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=yPcOAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=zDQSAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=Bkh4AAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents?id=vfnOAAAAEBAJ
Thanks for the link. To be honest though, I feel quite overwhelmed by what I perceive to be an incredible increase in js frameworks - has anyone seen an article comparing different alternatives and their pros and cons?
Good Error-Tolerance in Fuzzy Site Search a Must for All
Four Hot Majors for New Technology Graduates
What's sad is the absurd claim that Apple customers believe that getting more for the same price is a bad thing. As for the next point, whether providing alternative DVCS access leads to greater fixed infrastructure costs or not, that seems like a completely orthogonal point to the "race to the bottom" topic that the OP raised. If all players involved reduce their prices (and therefore top-line revenue) to near zero, it doesn't matter how low the infrastructure costs are -- everyone is still broke in that scenario. So no, not all points here seem valid. Far from it: by my count, it looks like 0 for 2 so far.

One point, however, rings true: competition is good for we end-users, and it's certainly exciting that Bitbucket now offers both hg and git access.
Well, if you ignore it and they get a default judgement against you (i.e. they find that you are infringing) then they can do lots of things to make sure you pay up. IANAL so you would want to talk to one if this happens.
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People are going to look back at this as the 'golden age' of the web. Yes, things are a little screwy all over the place, but you can do ANYTHING you want now. NONE of the perfect software has been written. It's all waiting for improvement. You can do anything you want and profit from it.

And people just complain that life isn't easy enough. Psh.
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HTC Android Devices are Leaking Sensitive User Data
Microsoft board gives Ballmer a 2% pay increase, says he’s underpaid
I definitely think the iterator case needs work:

https://github.com/koush/node/issues/2
https://github.com/languages

http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

I wonder what made Lua take the leap.
Patent trolls may be evil, but they're not stupid. The best we can hope for is for them to sue a close friend of a congressman or judge.
BillG's Rule #11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one
I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA
I'm Kenneth Berger, I work in product management at Adobe driving acquisitions and partnerships. I helped build the business cases, perform due diligence, and plan integration for both deals. I've been working at Macromedia and then Adobe for 7+ years. Very excited to work with both these awesome teams! Obviously I can't reveal certain details, but ask me anything, I'll answer as best I can.
Frankly I never quite understood the appeal to diggnation. Back when Digg was hot stuff and reddit was just nipping at digg's heels, I gave diggnation a shot and found it really difficult to enjoy since it seemed like it was a big circlejerk revolving around digg, the internet, Kevin Rose, and Alex Albrecht.

Does anyone else here share the same sentiments?
I wouldn't think they could ever win anything. One of the rules with patents is you can't just kick back and wait for your competitor's product to grow and sue 10 years later.

Considering WiFi is almost 20 years old, and has practically surpassed 'ubiquity', I'd say that ship sailed.
I always get a little suspicious about how little Twilio talks about their SIP stack. Barely a mention of it except for 'Asterisk/FreeSwitch/JSR289'. All of those ostensibly can provide the same functionality (SIP, Sip Termination) yet no mention of why all three?

I mean, this is their core businesses/functionality.

EDIT: I didn't mean for this to imply I think something sinister is going on, or that I don't think Twilio is really cool! I'm just curious of why they went with what I would consider an unorthodox technology stack (the combination, not picking any one of the three).

I mean, wouldn't you guys think it was interesting if Github made a brief mention of the fact that some user information was stored in Oracle, others in MS SQL, and some in Postgres? shrug
Gnome 3.2 More Evolution than Revolution
The probably easiest way to do so is by supporting your local Chanology chapter. Ask them what they need and to provide some address where you can send the stuff. Keeps you hands clean (e.g. you won't have to reveal your identity) and even in a hypothetical worst case you just supported some anti-Scientology movement - something that won't give you any bad rep even if it would make the headline of your local newspaper.
It's always good to go back to the start and remember how much worse things have gotten since any arbitrary time in the past. Before complaining about this rant, go out and explore some of our history:

[1] Sketchpad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA)

[2] The Mother of All Demos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs)

[3] Hypercard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qth3mrbwc)

[4] Ward's Wiki (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki)

Then ask: what are we doing that should get added to this list?
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Wouldn't any accomplished professional look at their own industry and feel this way? I can't imagine any medical doctor who would look at state of the art in health care and say, "Our industry is perfect!"

I think sometimes as developers, we need to cut ourselves a little slack.

Sure we need to continue to move the state of the art forward. But sometimes we do get stuff done even in spite of our industry's imperfections. And some people find software pretty useful even with two different versions of PNG image loading code.
The nine circles of IT hell
The issue is what happens when you write that CPU intensive task. If you do it in idiomatic Go, that same server will keep on responding to other requests in the meantime. With Node.js, that is not the case. You have to do things like, well, what this article does, to get it to work.
Sean Parker is now on Twitter
pypy 1.6: 5.0 sec

python 2.6: 58.2 sec

python 2.7: 49.8 sec

python 3.2: 51.4 sec
Error pages and chunked encoding – it’s harder than you think
The view count shocks me, as does the comparison to Oprah - I've personally never found Kevin Rose to have said anything substantial, and watching two middle-aged guys drink beer and talk about nothing holds absolutely no interest for me. But I guess there is, or was, a market for that.
Flashdrive Linux Saves the Day
I don't think it's fair to compare record labels and font foundries. The labels are basically glorified middlemen, and they're middlemen who had been overtly price gouging for many years before the Internet came along. The foundries typically are the original sources of new fonts and do actually pay real money to the staff who work on them.

Even then, I think you're overstating the case for the music labels.

> Digital distribution of music has been catastrophic for music labels.

They bitch a lot, but Big Media still seems to make an awful lot of money, despite obvious competition in the Internet age from both less than legal alternative channels for the music and from other ways people can spend their leisure time and money.

Considering the amount of rip-off pricing that was going on prior to the Internet age, the fact that the Big Four still make as much as they do today is remarkable. And that's on top of Apple, Amazon et al making a fortune off it as well, which obviously cuts into the profits of the record labels themselves, and on top of all the other smaller players like Spotify who are redistributing music via different channels.

Digital distribution has been catastrophic for bricks 'n' mortar music stores, but that's about the only group that has lost out disastrously AFAICS. The rest is just a bunch of middlemen who don't create anything themselves finding that their services aren't as valuable as they used to be.

> The foundries are doing OK today. Why would they embrace a new model?

Because otherwise competition from cheap/free fonts and the illegal black market in pro fonts could seriously hurt them. Unlike Big Media, most/all of them are far too small to actively hunt down sites using their work illegally and take the necessary action to get some money out of enough of those sites to survive.

Or if you prefer a more constructive view, because they could make $#!%loads of money selling web fonts, probably at far higher prices than they are making for the equivalent usage via services like Typekit, if they stopped worrying about the people who are going to rip them off anyway and catered for the people who are willing and able to pay them hard cash they won't otherwise get.
No offense intended, but you seem naive.

I really disagree with a lot of his solutions, and I think his argument is muddled and unclear, and I hate the idea of moving toward languages like PHP that cover for programming errors (that often mask logical errors you want the compiler to check) but I see where he's coming from.

My complaint is that a lot of the measures he proposes (self-modifying code? seriously?) are going to make the problem a lot worse.

Across the industry as a whole, 80 to 90 percent of software engineer time is spent cleaning up crap (sometimes one's own, but this is at least educational) that wasn't done right in the first place and, yeah, it's frustrating. You need to have an unusual degree of autonomy (effectively your own boss or at least CTO) to be able to create such "oases".
Think Google App Engine with more languages, with real database access (bring your own db if you want, or they can host it), dozens of add-ins, and a sane pricing model.
I get a blank page when I click that link, so maybe a better publish button is in order.
Steve Jobs, the Perfect CEO
Apple Losing Indian Smartphone Market to RIM
Does it really matter? It works doesn't it?
I bet there is no iPhone 4S, unless...
I didn't make the comparison, you did, so I'm going to refrain from pursuing this thread.

I think foundries are as likely to lose money to web fonts as make it, because the people who truly value distinctive typography already pay for it, and the mass market uses Papyrus and Comic Sans.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...