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Most of us are too concerned (or straight up scared) of the JavaScript/HTML5 revolution that we can't see what is possible right now.

What I see in practice is the exact opposite. Everyone writing about "what is possible" with JavaScript (custom 3d rendering engine for every website!), very few people are concerned about architectural and practical issues of it all.

Web applications are only going to get faster, and if you want to keep up, you're going to have to do implement modern solutions like Battlelog and Google+ do.

I can envision a time when full page refreshes are the exception and that isn't a bad thing.

Full page refreshes are not what makes web applications slow. I used to browse the web on 133MHz computer over a mediocre modem connection. Today, despite all these promises of speed, many JS-heavy websites seriously lag on anything slower than 1.5MBps and 2GHz dual-core. (Try browsing via Kindle.)
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The outline and first section of the tutorial look really good to me, though the pages are taking forever to load.
CR definitely does have an affect on the market for some things, but maybe not such a large effect for phones and computers. Try ordering their top-pick refrigerator or washing machine about a month after the review comes out to see.
Same features. 4 SLoC of Ruby :)

https://gist.github.com/1367091
Dumb SEO gets caught in jQuery scam in the WordPress plugin directory
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Does anyone know why they've chosen to use the iFrame approach to loading JS, instead of attaching script tags dynamically, a la RequireJS?
58% Of Smartphone Users Use A Location-Based Info Service
Germs + toxic waste + pathetic smell + cattle = Garbage beef Made in China
China now presents to you the new of self-sustainable ecosystem where cattle survive on garbage eatables in the landfill, grow old enough to big size and are then butchered to be served up on your plate! This newly innovative shit comes from Changsha, Hunan Province, China and they very proudly call it as the Garbage Beef.
> Links to any blacklisted site will get removed from US search engines, directories, and maybe even blogs through lawsuits. Google, Twitter, maybe even HackerNews.

It doesn't work that way anymore. Google, fb , twitter etc operates across the world. Assuming the worst case, US residents will face the some error page like "This website is blocked" etc .. but rest of the world will be OK.

If even that is restricted, then this will raise a opportunity for clone solutions across the world. Like china has its own search, social software, blogs etc , now rest of the world will have a new opportunity. Many in HN would mint gold if this happens!

All in all this looks like the familiar path to take for US politician. (remember how the created the platform for screwing up the economy.

> Non-US sites can get cut off from US-based payment processors and advertisers. This will push sites you use into bankruptcy, and discourage others from starting.

Its the competition from US sites that is restricting clone solutions in local markets. US is not the target market for many-many businesses !( is it so difficult to understand)
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The human eye is capable of seeing very faint glows. We need an astronaut to answer this one.
I was thinking about this myself: people become more machine-like, being more fully utilized.

The article resonates with me because I work from home for several customers and I always have work tasks queued up. It takes some discipline to take time off.
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Yes, and the business-as-person thing get really annoying in the friends suggestions. You are friends with 5 local businesses that decide to setup as persons rather than pages, and then FB starts suggesting other people be your friends who are only friends with those 5 "people" and are otherwise strangers.
Node.js will be a lightweight solution for you.
And with spot?
No idea. Here they are for everyone's use:

ticks = " ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█"

I've included SPACE as well. That's an obvious missing one.
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Do you think it's beneficial to your browsing experience that your friends are able to use fake names? Genuine question. I know personally I would prefer my friends to stick to real names and avoid ASCII art, cute nicknames and such. But I might be in the minority here.
A language is mostly a tool to leverage the abilities of your team. I work best in a linux-based functional static typed environment, and I know OCaml well, so I use OCaml for web development. Other people are more productive in the Microsoft ecosystem with an IDE-powered, object-oriented approach, and that is what they should use.

I just tried various environments (Node.js, naked PHP, PHP-ZF, some ASP.NET, naked OCaml, OCaml-Ocsigen-Eliom...) before it became clear that one of them was best suited to the way my mind works. If you're interested, I could go into more detail about that.
That's called "Simulationism". I happen to quite like it.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/
I just remembered a "debate" Q/A about a chimpanzee vs bruce lee http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=567144
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I'm using play framework, with Java and trying Scala with it. Recently JetBrains announced support for play framework in next IntelliJ IDEA 11, I've installed Early Access version and so far it looks great.
Yea if you send coins to a new address no one can prove you own that address. You have to be careful though. If you send 100% of your known linked addresses to a new address it's pretty obvious that you own the new address too and have just moved your coins to it.

It's a pretty complicated area to reason about. I expect there will be a lot more research on it in the coming years.
They probably only insisted because they assumed it was an impostor who happened to have the same middle name as the famous author.
Beware hardcore NDAs
Woz's book describes a fairly technically involved young Steve Jobs back in the day. I can't recall if it was code exactly, but deep into technology. Not your stereotypical "sales and marketing" guy.
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LuaJIT uses NaN-tagging too.
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Android Market share doubled - Decline for all other smart phones
It's great to see the EFF, the Free Software Foundation, and other big freedom fighters opposing this bill. (See http://americancensorship.org/ ).

But are any of the big corporations fighting it? Google / YouTube? Microsoft? Apple? Come on guys! Step up! (or am I just missing their statements on this bad bill?)

I think a "Stop Censorship" black banner across the Google logo tomorrow would go a long way toward defeating this.
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I got the same response. At least they heard this message from many of us. Thanks for the template.
Ask HN: New York machine learning/functional programmer. What's out there?
I'm looking for contacts at the following companies:

Tumblr

SecondMarket

Tapad

... and any other New York companies involved in functional programming and machine learning.

I prefer to use personal contacts over job websites, because I find that to be more effective toward getting the first interview. However, I don't know anyone at these companies.
I've had a lot of fun with Arduino. It packs a nice combination of power, I/O and handy features (battery or USB connection, ICSP, ...) and there's a good community around it. And the GUI and runtime is perfectly workable.

I used an Arduino Duemilanove on my high-altitude balloon flight. It was the main flight computer and transmitted telemetry throughout: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/02/gaga-1-working-flight-computer.h... In my recent GE Color Effects hack I used an Arduino Pro creating a serial protocol via bit banging I/O ports: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/turning-ge-color-effects-g-35-ch... In my 'games console in a can' I also used an Arduino Pro generating a PAL or NTSC video signal in software: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/05/playing-pong-on-pair-of-candy-ca...

Currently, I'm working on an alarm clock that uses an Arduino Pro.
i upvoted you because HN is a dry humorless clone of /r/programming.
They don't map them
Sorry for the late response to this - yes.
From what i can see there is no pressure being put on Google from gpl-violations.org (presumably because the haven't made any violations).

Plenty of heat being put on manufacturers with Android devices but that is hardly Google's fault or related to the
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Indeed, it's been a Holy Grail since I showed up on the scene in 1979. I think I stopped using Lisp Machines before generational garbage collection was added to the ones I was using, which made them "less pauseless", but Azul's entire approach is novel:

Instead of deferring the hard cases as long as you can (e.g. in generational GCs doing collections beyond the nursery) at which point they're likely to be painful, concentrate on the hard cases first and foremost. Get those right and everything else falls into place. Here's their CTO discussing that in a short interview: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html

A relevant quote:

[...] Our collector really does the only hard thing in garbage collection, but it does it all the time. It compacts the heap all the time and moves objects all the time, but it does it concurrently without stopping the application. That's the unique trick in it, I'd say, a trick that current commercial collectors in Java SE just don't do.

Pretty much every collector out there today will take the approach of trying to find all the efficient things to do without moving objects around, and delaying the moving of objects around—or at least the old objects around—as much as possible. If you eventually end up having to move the objects around because you've fragmented the heap and you have to compact memory, then you pause to do that. That's the big, bad pause everybody sees when you see a full GC pause even on a mostly concurrent collector. They're mostly concurrent because eventually they have to compact the heap. It's unavoidable.
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I have to agree with you that "developing two applications" is actually simpler, especially if your application matures and when you want start developing different kinds of clients (e.g. mobile).

However, my experience is that it still has some mayor drawbacks. Javascripts frameworks (testing and otherwise) are still less mature, then their server-side counterparts are. It is not always as obvious how things should be done. There are still lots of incompatibilities between browsers. And when an error happens you can not log it (or at least you have to do more effort).
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So, because you can't deviate below the x axis this is really that much less useful?
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The more interesting point in his comment to me is that sometimes it is worse in the long term if your adversary restricts themselves.

Yes, if this passes it will wreck lives and businesses, but it might also just be bad enough to get ordinary people to start waking up to how damaging the copyright lobby is.

Now copyright and patent issues are mainly relevant to business and a small subset of people being pursued for torrenting etc. The pain point for average people have not been reached in any way - they don't notice.

But push far enough, and the backlash the copyright lobby will face may lay waste all of them.

Whether or not SOPA constitutes pushing far enough remains to be seen.
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Militant atheists often claim that religion, in the hands of the simple minded, is very dangerous. Thanks for providing an example on how this isn't unique to religion.
Shoot me an e-mail (in my profile) with your resume. I know a few people that will take a look. It never hurts to look :)
At work we use PHP via CakePHP. At home I use Ruby, depending on the project via Sinatra or Rails. I'd really like to pick up something like Haskell or OCaml, but they seem so alien to me!

All fan-boyism aside I've found Ruby/Rails/Sinatra to be much more pleasurable than writing PHP/CakePHP. I can write code clearer and faster than I do at work. Now a good part of this is the fact that I'm not very passionate about what I do at my day job also.
I'd like you to elaborate if you wouldn't mind?

The languages that interest me at current are node.js, closure and i'm even looking at python.

My mind does work in a few ways to be honest, i've developed in a few languages growing up so I have had mixed experience.

We manage our own servers so there is no reason we cannot virtualise them and put Linux on them as well as IIS. We are taking the mindset now that we use the best technology for the job rather than fitting the technology to the job
What I admire most about the author is the honest search for Truth. It is a rare individual that can approach this problem while relinquishing their biases. I can't count myself among their ranks. It seems the majority of people, believers and non-believers alike, tend to come to a decision about God after about an afternoon of thinking about it, at most.

And really, what philosophical question posed to us could be more important than the question of God? It seems that every human should spend some significant amount of time deciding where they fall on this problem before they do...well...anything else.
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> Ultimately the most common complaint is that intelligence (while hereditary) is not something you can accurately measure ...

Individual IQ cannot be precisely measured. However heritability and economics studies show that it can be measured with good accuracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
I predict the rise of Tor in the next decade. After that.. maybe a new free (as in speech) physical layer..

Something in the line of recently mentioned darknet maybe http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-...
"Indeed the idea that only stupid people do drugs is part of this propaganda."

That's not propaganda. It's numbers. Doing drugs = high risk. And it's stupid to take high risks with your body, unless you don't mind dying young.

I've never understood why many 'tech' people are so pro drugs. Why do you need it?
Worked on something similar with javascript, nginx, gevent, 0MQ, and a C backend. The only issues we had was with file uploads for transfers of large amounts of data.

How do other people do file uploads with an asynchronous web server?
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Crashing your server. Hacker News style.
Kinda interesting, sorta reminds me of Knuth's book on bible verses.
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Either the author of the comment I replied to ninja edited his comment or I need to work on my reading comprehension. I think it was the first thing though...
Though there are a bevy of Android smartphones out on the market, no one device by itself seems capable of taking on Apple's iPhone lineup.

s/Though/Because/
I don't think the root problem would be the money you directly scam from other users. I think it would be the huge loss in trust in the network once it's been seen to happen.
I was surprised to only see one brief mention of GWT in this comment thread. I use GWT on one of my personal projects and SmartGWT on two client projects, and even though the development process has some difficulties like long Java to Javascript compile times, it is great to be able to write/debug both client and server side code in the same IDE.

Something I read a few months ago: Thoughtworks paper on technology that described GWT as a bad idea, very well implemented. :-)
I am wondering if the benefits of Cuckoo hashing are due to the power of 2 random choices: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...
This is true. From the link:

> Then when participants turned 30, they were asked whether they had used drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the past year.

They only need to use drugs once in the last year to qualify.
I think all these "learn to code" messages to MBAs get it wrong. It should be "learn to think like a developer". An MBA should be able to determine the screens his software might display (thereby specifying the functionality and, loosely, the UI), then build a prototype in powerpoint if he must (heaven forbid)!

Technical cofounders: if an MBA can't even build a clickable prototype in his native language of PPT to sell you on his idea, run. Not because he is technically incompetent, but because he is an incompetent salesman.

But, more to the point, the concept that all you need is business acumen (MBA founder) and technical acumen (technical founder) is unbelievably wrongheaded. You need domain expertise. If you don't have it, you're probably working on something any bunch of monkeys could make, MBA-type or technical-type included.

Don't skip the part of the pitch where you have to say "why this management team can successfully execute this idea." That's what the investors say they look at, remember?
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The GPL v.2 was written in a time when it was rare that patents were wielded as weapons.
I should have added for people who are not familiar with GWT: you write your client app in Java, almost like writing a Swing app, and it gets compiled to 6 different combinations of Javascript. Google's setup code determines browser capabilities and downloads the compiled Javascript best for your environment. After that, the only data passed between client and server is model data for the UI.
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Just to clarify, "Closure" isn't a language itself, it's a set of JavaScript and Java libraries for web development. It's easy to mix up with "Clojure", a general purpose Lisp-like language (that runs on the JVM, CLR, and JS).
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It's intensely disappointing to see politics conforming to its stereotype, and making short-sighted decisions about this. It's wonderful to see calls across the net, led by the EFF and others, to stop this craziness.

That said - I feel like we've been here before. Bills that blindly support control of ideas and technologies seem to waft their way into Washington on a regular basis, and each time we're angry and afraid and annoyed.

What can we do to stop this happening again?
Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:

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His server seems a bit overloaded at the moment. It's usually much quicker to respond.
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why can't they write production code? if it works, it works. deal with scaling problems when you actually need to scale. in lieu of finding a 'technical co-founder' i taught myself to code and built our entire product. I'm now the 'technical co-founder.' JFDI
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http://www.playframework.org/ - this looks way too sane to be real. Thanks for pointing this out.
Nice but for personal use only - not commercial use. Looks like you have to contact them to find out how much it would cost for commercial use (usually means "not cheap")
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> On October 26, 2011, the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) was introduced in the House of Representatives...

Mmm, no. That may be the ultimate result (or maybe privacy died long ago) but SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, not Privacy...
I'm not against trying to eliminate piracy, but I don't understand how any politicians can back this with a clear conscience. A bill that does things without having to be found guilty is an obvious anti-constitutional bill and should be destroyed immediately. We are innocent until proven guilty in this country, or so we are led to believe.
I would suggest to use the nginx file upload module, which would only pass the file path to the uploaded file to your gevent/tornado app server.
Thanks for catching that. Fixed now.
Which is because a lot of the non-tech people have never actually sold anything, marketed anything, or operated anything either.

Not having technical chops doesn't make you good at "everything else."

There's so many skills that go into a startup that you can't have a specialist for each one.
You have vary close to zero risk from prior donor's. Sterilization tools are incredibly effective, and for hard to sterilize things like needles they just dispose of them.

Now reviving a donating is still risky, but usually it's a choice between death and some lessor risks.
Absolutely. I've never heard of pulse before so I went to the blog to find out what it was. But nothing. Same for the homepage. There is just a link to the blog post.
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Dealing with a shitload of emails is even considered to be the only social acceptable way to work in IT, so that losing time is now institutional. Rebel.
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Any launches planned?
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> Sharing templates server and client side is a magic bullet that everyone should be using.

Out of interest, what solutions are there for this currently?
A viral license actually could have been a much more effective carrot/stick tool for Google vs. their current situation (early source access, carrier contracts, etc.). Play ball with us (Market, etc.), and we'll give you a full closed-source license. Otherwise, we expect to see full source of your modifications made available per the GPL.
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Dunno about finding what you want. I have a reasonably high IQ, but I couldn't tell you the first thing about where to find a dealer. I didn't even drink before I turned 21, not for lack of wanting.
I'd say it pretty clearly does. If it were a rational decision with no mental illness involved, the person could realize they can just pull a real world "why_". Just disappear, go somewhere else, be someone else and start over where no one knows you. You're going to lose everyone and everything you know anyway, why do you need to actually kill yourself as well (and doing so isn't risk free)?

If the person is rational then problems can only be one of two kinds: situational (e.g. my life sucks because I owe more money than I stand to earn in 3 lifetimes) and health-related. The rational stance to the first kind would be to do as I suggest above. Obviously, in the second case escaping won't change anything so suicide could be a rational choice.
This is sort of the old Experts Exchange model, before they went spammy/evil, isn't it?
Well I did think this originally until I went to the actual site for it. I am interested in the language though
> What's the next study? People with brown eyes do more drugs?

Actually, that needs to be studied! Mutations in the melanocortin-1 receptor (the "red head" gene) affect eye color and also affect sensitivity to opioids (painkillers).