skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks interesting, actually. I may give it a try, along with haXe's Java backend (if/when it gets released).
living in Germany, with a company in UK

Let me guess, you're not paying any taxes? :)
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I would add:
* Build a translator from JavaScript (ES3) to said bytecode
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Line-by-line staging and built-in diff is planned in one of the next updates.
- For simple 'syntax checking' compiles, compile only the module ('.cpp file') you're working in. This requires a proper IDE or at least some editor support - for VS it's ctrl-f7.

- For 'whole-project' compiles, limit the amount of them to the absolute minimum. Use unit tests to test fundamental functionality rather than running the whole program.

- Use a compiler that supports precompiled headers, understand how it works and use it as it's designed.

- Pay attention to your #include graph. Only include headers where they're used (i.e., in the .cpp file and not in the header where it's possible), use Cheshire cat where possible, and put as much into the precompiled header as possible.

Doing all of these things make C++ compilation bearable, but still it's a nice change when I write code in C# or 'scripting' languages and compilation times disappears. It's one of the more annoying aspects of C++, but despite it and a bunch of other nitpicks, it's still my favorite language.
I don't think his beef has to do with server vs. client side scripting. Rather, its strange that you compare Node (a set of libraries that augment and enhance v8 -- the actual interpreter), to Rhino (an actual interpreter written on top of the jvm). Its kind of like asking "do you prefer to write asynchronous apps, or run on the jvm?" (two orthogonal issues). The way the question is worded now it seems like its just asking "so is everyone just using node.js or what?".

If you actually want to ask which server side interpreter people prefer, the list should look more like []v8 []jsc, []rhino, []ironjs, etc. (and not include node). Ask this question if you want to know things like "which implementation of js do you feel more complete", "which interpreter has the best memory characteristics", etc.

If you then separately want to ask what "platform" people are using, then it would be []node.js, []whatever else there is out there. Ask this question if you want to know things like "what methodologies do you prefer for your server apps".
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That wasn't my intent. I was trying to be funny rather than "pay" for the vote.
Wow.

OpenResty seems to offer considerably lower app connect time compared with bare PHP in a FastCGI process manager for this "hello world" benchmark, in addition to some unbelievable throughout.

app GETs/sec throughput time to 1st byte, min/mean/max, milliseconds

Nginx + PHP/FPM 5,941 65KB/sec 0.72 / 1.63 / 6.75
Node 0.6.1 10,242 123KB/sec 0.08 / 0.92 / 14.24
OpenResty 27,924 335KB/sec 0.07 / 0.26 / 5.36

The default config for OpenResty does not even use LuaJIT.

Data rounded for easier comparisons. See the gory details at http://openresty.org/#Benchmark

Thanks for the pointer!
Also! CPU microcode and "Reflections on Trusting Trust"!
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"GoDaddy's interface may be user-friendly" ...

...huh?! The single worst thing about GoDaddy is its user interface.

When you choose a registrar, pick the cheapest. Honesty, how often do you muck around with your domain settings? Once a year?
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Great stuff! Some of it is applicable to non-Node.js web apps also.

I bought a book on Node.js and it all looks good, but the competitive performance with Ruby + Sinatra + Thin has kept me so far from using Node.js in anger.
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Sounds like an opp for someone to build and market via the upcoming windows app store, no?
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I did worry that people might feel I was trying to get free tech support. It's not really a problem I need to fix - I bought another adapter. I posted because though the behaviour seemed illogical to me I figured that there were people who could make sense of it.
This is exactly why Apple needs to release "Siri in a Box" --

"He plans to sell a "plug and play" box that will ship early next year and allow anyone to hack their iPhone 4S Siri app."

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/siri-dramatized-in...

Apple needs to do it first.
I just noticed that Firefox now gives you a way around this
I'm not so sure about that. At the time Joe H. wrote the original iPhone Facebook app, it was considered by many of my friends and myself to be a gold standard. It was limited ... sure ... but quite elegant for an initial version. I don't know the details but the App seemed to get buggier as FB started adding more features and changing things. Also, I believe Joe H. moved on to other things at FB. When I complained about how the iPhone app had started to suck, I was told to use touch.facebook.com - at that time, this was a sucky experience and HTML based. None of the subsequent iterations of Facebook's mobile app approached the design eloquence of the original (IMHO). Oh well ...

[FYI: I have no association with FB. I was just a big fan of theirs at that time.]
But the point is that some domestic problems (not all, of course) can be solved at a European level, with the right legislation that national parliament are then forced to adapt to...
Lua uses memory efficiently at scale.

I have used Lua at the command line on machines with 64GB of RAM to do ad hoc data mining that would have otherwise required several days of prep time for writing and debugging C before each run.

Using Lua, I could do things in hours that used to take overnight, or several days.
About the only thing I'd add to roel_v's excellent sugegstions (to which I cannot reply) is the use of ccache, distcc, and if you can use it, the gold linker. For larger projects, they make compile times bearable. In fact, I usually complain about time spent in linking, rather than compiling.
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This looks like a pretty good last resort.

I find that majority of iPad issues can be solved by just resizing safari to the iPad dimensions. Most issues I come across appear on both platforms so troubleshooting isn't too bad.
Kindly contrast the effects of the crash in Canada, where banking remained tightly regulated, with the effects of the crash in countries where banking was effectively deregulated.
You mean "profitable side-project"?

"Startup" usually means a company that fulfills a few of the below:

- something the founders do full-time
- less than 3 years old
- in a bootstrap phase or burning VC money
- in search of a business model (not yet profitable)
- has the potential to grow
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What baffled me when I visited Spain was that everything was translated - for instance I went to a cinema and all the movies had voice doubling in Spanish, whereas in my country the norm is showing subtitles, but leaving the audio unaltered. And this happens at all levels; for instance cartoon characters that are called like Pedro Picapiedra instead of Fred Flinstone, or El Pato Lucas (or something) for Daffy Duck. Also the doubled voices are terribly bad. In all seriousness, movie makers should sue for copyright infringement.

My road took me through Barcelona and I couldn't get by with English. Maybe it was just my luck, however I met more people that understood some Romanian or Italian, rather than English.

In Italy, I happened to travel to Livorno, staying there for a whole month. Again, all movies are voice doubled. But at least in Italy educated or younger people seem to understand English a little and a couple of them spoke it fluently. However while I stayed there I found it easier to learn some Italian instead, instead of bothering with English.

(I'm from Romania)
+1 purchase. Look forward to it ;)
I'm British, I prefer this identity to being European. You can see with the single currency that one size doesn't fit all.
Flying under one giant flag reduces individual states ability to stimulate their economy and promote a certain sector to grow.

The EU isn't bad and I certainly wouldn't want Britain to stop being a member however - economic woes aside - I am generally happy with how things are currently. Europe doesn't need to become the United States of Europe to prosper.
Surely it only has to fulfill one of those, that it's relatively young?

A profitable startup with a great business model which doesn't need to give away ownership for VC money is the perfect startup.

Any business that's new counts as a startup for me.
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Yeah, I've reached a special place. Modafinil to work days on end without sleep, grass to force myself to sleep when I know I really need to.

I definitely need help, and I know it, but in the UK, the social stigma attached to seeing a mental healthcare professional exceeds that of going insane.
I agree with TFA: actors model is the way to go if you can swing it. However, when you are implementing the actor model, you are limited by the throughput of each actor. If the service that needs to be performed by the actor is CPU bound (say file compression), your overall throughput will also suffer. In this case a work queue and a set of workers may be more efficient.

I disagree with the statement that programming with plain threads and locks is somehow archaic. No, it is simply programming at a lower level of abstraction. In some cases it is more efficient and your specifications may require it. Think of state-heavy applications, and the interface between the module modifying internal program state (which may be done using actors or STM) and the module that performs external IO. In this case, you may need a lock to get a consistent snapshot of the data from your program's state to export it to an external source and in some cases it is more efficient to do so by locking the structure in memory.

Finally, locks don't always grow your complexity exponentially. What grows your complexity is when you have many different types of locks. Let's say we have an address book database program that implements concurrency by using threads. It is simple and inefficient to have a single global write lock. On the other end of the spectrum you have the ability to lock any field of any record, or the whole record, or a set of records, or a set of fields of a set of records, or records that don't even exist yet (gap lock) or the whole database. In-between, you have the ability to place a lock on the entire database or on just one record. You have to make the tradeoff between your time as a programmer and the efficiency of the code.

STM is a cool tool, but does have performance penalties [1]. It may be appropriate in some cases, and inappropriate at others, just like the actor model.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory#P...
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The weakest part of a laptop is usually the AC adapter cable. Been there since day one.

Not sure why over all these years they haven't made that a replaceable component, but it is the cause of failure of many an expensive power supply. Stings even more when even Apple compatible AC adapters are in the $50 range.
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Sorry about that, the video being private in Vimeo is out of my control :-(
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"A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty." -- Eric Ries
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My guess would be machismo, mixed with an American Dream mentality.

Here the Zeitgeist here in HN: you own your own destiny. If you succeed, you made yourself. If you fail, that is your fault. If you have a problem, do not complain (it's not productive), just suck it up and go solve it yourself. We could go on inserting typical right-wing libertarianism here. Sure, not everyone here thinks that way. But many do.

On to why this article was flagged. Simple: It responded to a man which told women that their low salaries were their fault, and that solving that problem was up to them. And it was written by a woman who simply said they tried and it doesn't work because it is largely men's fault.

In other words, she dared complain and made excuses for what cannot be but her own failures (or so would tend to think a typical right-wing libertarian male). Also everyone knows that the flag link is meant to be used like Reddit's down arrow (even if it's false).
It works well, except when you have to deal with a really mobile specific stuff (e.g. -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio, -webkit-text-size-adjust) then you're left with no choice but to debug it on actual device (or in a simulator) although using Firebug on a small screen device is really awkward.

WebKit Remote Debugging[1] would be an ideal solution when it lands. For the time being, weinre[1] looks like a good (stopgap?) solution.

[1]: http://www.webkit.org/blog/1620/webkit-remote-debugging/
[2]: http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/
Cracking the code leads to this page: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp
which in turn links to a job offer for "Cyber Security Specialists".

Details of the job aside, the salary offered (£25,446 to £31,152) is incredibly low and is below what you would offer to a graduate on his first job. I expect that actual code breakers could ask for twice that amount, and don't see anyone applying with this kind of offer.
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I'm trying to think of a dollar amount high enough to let somebody stick a tube into my jugular and extend my circulatory system outside my body for hours. I don't think I can count that high; unless I needed the money for fairly immediate survival.
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You are nitpicking and not delivering answer even if you are right. What if I have officially registered company that fulfills all of your points but full-time?
Decision:

http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/economic_liberty/NOTA/no...
Doing a startup is 90% waiting, and 10% doing. It's perfectly possible to do one on the weekend.

Especially since coding is a tiny iota of actually doing one, most of it boils down to marketing anyways
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In that sense, all citizenship is temporary. Only a question of _how_ temporary. :-)
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I thought this story was a repost, but it's just been covered many many times here and elsewhere. I dug up a few of the older stories to evaluate whether I was crazy, and decided to drop them here while I had them.
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http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/16/photo-tour-of-facebooks-new...
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What exactly does CMD+Z do for a push?
We use Weinre for remote debugging of iPads and it has worked out very well for us.
There was a similar discussion (on side-projects) on HN a while back - Perhaps it will help the discussion?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795760
I pay full taxes. I am employed by my UK company, this means that I pay all the German taxes on my salary (health &employment insurances, pension, etc.) and of course pay the corporate taxes in UK. I did it for two reasons:

- simpler to manage a UK limited from anywhere (we tend as a family to move quite a lot, so the limited is a fixed point for my customers.

- the German limited is not "limited" if you run it alone. If something goes wrong, as you run it alone, you lose defacto the limited liability.

So, all in all, better to go this way even if sometimes it costs more (2 accountants one in UK and one in Germany). As said, for me the goal was and is not to pay less taxes. I am happily paying taxes. If I pay a lot it means I make a lot :)
I started StyleFeeder in January, 2005, built it into a profitable company of 8 people and sold it to Time Inc in January 2010.

From January, 2005 through May, 2006, I worked on StyleFeeder on the side - while I had a pretty demanding day job, mind you - as I built up the basic business... until I had invested so much time and effort into it that I was maxed out and needed to find a way to work on it full time with the help of others.

I don't see any plausible way that I could have made it into anything significant while at the same time working a day job. I think some people can do it with some businesses, but I think it would have been impossible in my case.

But the bootstrapping phase, yes, I think you can do that while working a day job. That's very common.

More details here:

http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2011/08/05/stylefeeder-histor...
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I made this site over the past year in my own time, http://bizspeaking.com/ , the Twitter for deals.

I'm going full-time on this project and sincerely seek all suggestions on building a viable business -- partner, funding, mentor, referrer, designer, developer, legal, anything.

Technically, this site is mainly made with the Pyramid (Python) web framework, PostgreSQL as relational db, MongoDB as document store, Redis as cache/queue, and Solr for search.

Do follow our AngelList page http://angel.co/bizspeaking , and official blog http://bizspeaking.posterous.com/

Thank you!
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I was in the former East Germany for a while, now in NRW. Anywhere outside Munich (way too expensive) is a good place to be to run a business in Germany.
Clickable links -- http://bizspeaking.com , http://angel.co/bizspeaking
sshfs does that, and you don't have to use emacs. Gnome's VFS also does that, with its own protocol that gets exposed as a fuse filesystem for non-vfs applications.
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Business, design, development. We all have day jobs but plenty of time to work on something new.
No evidence yet that this information is being sold to third parties, or even used internally for sales purposes. Although the latter would be pretty obvious and not surprising (to me at least). Is there something buried in the TOS that alludes that they may do this?
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I don't understand why our expectations with mobile phones should be any different.

The vast majority of people receive their cellphones under subsidy- signing up for a cellphone contract and getting a discounted price. In effect, you don't "own" the phone until the end of that contract, because they could (in theory?) take that phone away from you if you stopped paying every month.

Now, I'm not saying I agree with the line of thought but it's there. At the very least there should be the ability to root your phone after contract, or whenever you want if you buy the phone full price. Sadly, that doesn't happen often. But when I bought my Nexus One outright, it was very simple to root it.
I'm doing that right now. My startup is selling you, your kids and the girl next door. Heck, I can even sell your grandmother!

Advertising agency's (my day job) can rent them for a fixed price. Royalties included.

(I'm not spamming. You're not my targets and only Dutch people can read it anyway). But have a look at the several hundred people that signed up if you're interested: http://royaltyfreemodels.nl/zoeken/page:11

(It's run on CakePHP for the interested).
Hey - we're building a similar site (fashion search, UK based), and yours has always been one of our comparison sites. Nice job, didn't realize you were a HN'er :)
the source link[1] doesn't work for me. anyone know where i can find this document?

[1] http://jekor.com/vocabulink/vocabulink.pdf
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It pushes previous commit ID into the remote branch.
Yes. In particular, we need to prevent the european 'unitary patent' project from allowing software patents in the EU. Recently, this project achieved the nect step, the EU parliament voted to open negotiations with the national governments. So both the EU and national governments need to be lobbied about this.
Good luck to you with your new venture! I'm easy to find online and will be happy to answer any questions if you like.
Perhaps your pornography collection isn't on a topic that's socially acceptable. Lets say... scat?
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Raises $625 Million
There is no cash crunch for Silicon Valley’s 1 percent.

The billionaire Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has raised $625 million for its fourth fund — larger than than his first three funds combined.
What is it about European countries that make them so reasonable and open to progress? This is great news, because for once there's actually a law on pirating that's based on research, unlike US laws centered around "job creators" losing money.
I did. My iPad app was at $19,000 in profit before I quit my job to focus on it. The details are here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238834
Care to tell us what that way is?

Bit rude of you to link to that without warning. (The natural assumption is that the link is to an explanation/discussion of this problem, not an instance of it.)
The "bootstrap" part can include initial phases being funded by a day-job or consulting though. People don't always quit their jobs right at the beginning, but might if it starts taking off.
While I don't mean to make light of the effort and prestige behind earning a PhD, I can't be the only one who expected this article to be about how a medical doctor originally invented the technology behind AutoTune, possibly to help people who had trouble hearing certain types of audio.

Still an interesting background for the tech, mind you, but not what I was expecting from Dr. Andy Hildebrand (rather than Hildebrand, PhD).
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I think that you're talking about a very specific type of startup business.

People start and build businesses while employed all of the time. Some of those businesses require that the owners devote their full energies to them at a certain milestone.

Others do not -- plenty of software and consulting roles do not require 100% commitment, particularly if you have a flexible employer and can bootstrap. Many college professors have side gigs, for example.