skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't see how it makes perfect sense for a value which is not by any stretch of imagination a valid octal number to be interpreted as an octal number. Imagine if `parseInt('foo')` gave 38274 — would you also think that made perfect sense?

The page specifically says that if radix is unspecified, then "If the input string begins with "0", radix is eight (octal)."

The page also says "If the first character cannot be converted to a number, parseInt returns NaN." so your example is also perfectly defined to return NaN (and thus bogus).

Also, that document says the behavior is nonstandard, so I don't see even how you can say it's behaving as specified.

It's a weird wording in that webpage, because ECMAScript 3 allows it:

"When radix is 0 or undefined and the string's number begins with a 0 digit not followed by an x or X, then the implementation may, at its discretion, interpret the number either as being octal or as being decimal. Implementations are encouraged to interpret numbers in this case as being decimal."

ECMAScript 5 no longer allows it. Given that your code isn't necessarily processed by an ECMAScript 5 compliant JavaScript engine, it's indeed behaving as specified. Maybe instead of "non-standard" a better word would have been "behavior varies between implementations".
Because in this case, "money grab" actually means "extortion". The original article mentions that NPR has registered npr.xxx, but they don't plan to do anything with it. They registered it strictly to prevent someone from putting up "adult content" that could be associated with them. NPR is not alone in this. I'd be interesting to see what percentage of .xxx domains actually have pornography on them.

Registrars always pushed their customers to buy multiple domains on different TLDs to "control their brand," but ICM is taking that strategy to a whole new level.
Yes, sure, you can always work out the numbers. If you skip unemployment insurance and some minor previdenciary collections you can get it to around 65%. But that won't make you attractive to the workforce in question. And, of course, you can always balance it with some contractors, at your own risk.
They want people to buy a newer version of Windows.
Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.
I have to say, this is what I come to HN for. I learned a lot from that link and doing wikipedia searches kept me entertained during lunch.
I prefer Chrome's dev tools, but there have been really nice speed improvements in Firefox 9 and 10 you should try out if you're thinking about giving up on it.
Wow! The wonders of such a storage technique! Hopefully the production of this liquid doesn't peak anytime soon... :)
Totally agree with suggestion #6.

If I landed on your site and I saw a group in my neighborhood, I would 100% look into them (even if I didn't know what the group was)
Me too; good advice.

My two cents:
Remember contracting is a decent bridge / fallback; maintain corporate relationships.

Get a revenue problem - multiple friends failed by obsessing over business structure.

Change attitude on risk/analysis; corporate often analyzes how things can fail while many successful entrepreneurs take uncertain gambles and pivot.
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I'm not even sure how a person keeps up with the mainstream. I've found a few entertainment magazines, but very few of the stories on the websites are interesting enough for me to grab the RSS feed or newsletter.
Another one: class variables!

# Define two class variables in two different classes:
class MyClass
@@base = 1
end

class OtherClass
@@base = 2
end

# Define it in the superclass too:
class Object
@@base = 3
end

class MyClass
# Magic! The subclass-variable has now changed!
p @@base # => 3
end

class OtherClass
# In both classes in fact:
p @@base # => 3

# And finally, let's reset this:
@@base = 4
end

class Object
# Whoops, this changes the superclass too:
p @@base # => 4
end

Explanation: Two class variables with the same name can't exists in the
same class hierachy. Therefore, class variable lookup (and setter) will
always traverse to the upmost-class where the variable is defined.

(Hope you don't mind that I wrote these in two different posts.)
there is a big difference between online booking and going for sale as per the title OP has used!
The problem is that you have some established brand with a .com domain name. Now, people will probably go looking for <your brand>.xxx. That means you have to register that domain name, or your competitor will buy it first.
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Slightly longer version: don't use metaclasses unless you really know what you're doing.
And the way to kill gdm/gui/login is by... Ctrl+Alt+Backspace kind of trickery?

Will definitely give it a try!
Wouldn't it be possible to challenge someone else's use of your name in a .xxx domain as a trademark issue?
Unrelated: Why on earth does Chrome not scale the huge SVG down to my browser size?

Every raster-image under the sun gets auto-scaled - and then it fails on the one format that was made for scaling...
Well, the author has at least been working at Basho earlier this year:

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2011/03/02/Mathias-Meyer-has...
So what? They also make worse mistakes that that harmless one (it's not like who made the original invention matters much, except for proper historical attribution: I think of it in the way we usually think about idea vs execution. The "original invention" is closer to the "idea". It's who put it on our households that did the actual "execution". I can use Linux GUIs, OS X, Windows but could care less about Xerox's original UI).

Also, for some profession or other, we're all laypeople, and make equally bad or even graver mistakes. But we don't care that much about those. A computer geek feels superior to other people for knowing that Xerox invented the modern GUI, but he doesn't feel stupid to believe any number of BS about medicine, economics, literature, etc.
...or that the chat logs being kept secret indefinitely was an important part of the strategy. After all, if the AI exploits some embarassing secret of yours to be let out, that wouldn't work if you knew the logs could be publicized some day. I think over-eagerness to claim things like "literally no conceivable reason" is one of the things that lets oddities like the box experiment work.
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yea i hate this, despite it looking pretty- where is 11-20? cant I see some data without having to click on each of the top 10?
Imagine a RepRap with NASA/RKA attention!
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Not yet, but if it's not very soon, I would be very surprised. ;)

Mark, Community Manager, Basho
Yes, I believe that the situation has changed since 2005. For the evidence, this thread is the strongest I know.

Yes, I know that Google, Microsoft, etc. should be using AI for ad targeting, search ranking, scam and fraud detection, etc. Maybe they are.

Still from the tech news it does appear that the best way to get paid for such work from such companies is to do a startup with such work and then just sell your company to one of those companies.

I still believe that the ability of US big business, with its many 'traditions', will have one heck of a tough time running projects with anything advanced technically and not already common in the company. In simplest terms, the existing middle and upper management has essentially no ability to work productively with anything new.

Indeed, broadly the leading US research universities are terrific at working, for as far as they go, with new technical ideas, and business is just AWFUL at it. So, super tough to get a business to buy a technical idea, but they will buy a business based on a technical idea.

Oh there is a history: Off and on for decades business has tried to make statistics, optimization, AI, etc. work. The pattern is some new buzz words, some hype, some projects, some project failures, and then all's quiet again. Thing is, of course, eventually the ideas have to work. Business doesn't know how to make such ideas work. Parts of US research, in or close to academics, is from a little better at making ideas work to much better. E.g., look up the video of Eric Lander's lecture at Princeton 'Secrets of the Genome' or some such and see what he made work with new ideas and new hardware.

In simple terms, 'business' gets a 'business model' that is working and then hires 'line managers' to 'manage' the execution of this business model. Typically when the model dies, the business dies. Doing well with work that is new and advanced within the on-going business is not common. Yes, one of the reasons is part of the tax code -- it can look better for a company's financial condition just to buy a business for, say, $50 million, than to develop in-house.

The good news is, this is a GREAT time for information technology startup entrepreneurs. Don't struggle against your problems; instead, pursue your opportunities.

Back to it.
I like Dwolla, I love the idea, I love no-fees-below-$10, I hate Paypal for all these reasons.

And I can only hope for Dwolla to become available to merchants in Europe, but I'm not expecting it any time soon :(
Again, maybe it's just me, but this is a free online course that everyone is doing for their own knowledge. There's no degree being granted and it doesn't count for anything. I wouldn't bother to read the rules and certainly not attempt to follow them. I would try and learn the material as best I could, however that is.
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According to Wikipedia, hydrogen is flammable in concentrations from 4% to 75%. Its likely any tank and transfer system for hydrogen fuel would be cost prohibitive or risky.

It's been a long time since I had chemistry, so I don't know, a lot of people are interested in hydrogen fuel. However, the original post about the boat succeeding at this seems unlikely with current technology.
From what I've seen, F# seems like a really nice language. It looks like the best of the MLs. If only it weren't so tied to the Microsoft stack and seemingly relegated to a supporting role for C#.
The only appropriate response to this is a message prominently placed on Google, Facebook, Youtube, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo and a Wikipedia blackout.
Why Didn't Your Write About My Startup?
Google has had billions of people asking billions of questions to it, and then has seen what answers (webpages) they find most satisfactory (i.e the navigate to from the search results).
It's targeted more for situations where credit/debit cards are not currently accepted. For example, large transactions for professional services. Think of it more as replacing checks, not cards.
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Numeric constants starting with 0 define octal values in many languages, hell they do so even in Java. Does that mean all those languages are buggy? I'd say you're going to find features that don't make sense to anyone who's never used them...pretty much anywhere.

I would think the issue is more the behavior of "parse as much as you can until you can't, and return what you got so far", which is what causes the unexpected result of returning 0 instead of bailing out. However that apparently wasn't fixed in ECMAScript 5, presumably for backwards compatibility.
Surely the kinds of things that a 3D printer can print don't have zero failure rates on the space station.
Nuclear weapons aren't possible with this technology, and to those of us in the HN community, that is obvious. But it's not obvious to the average American reader, and that's what troubles me about the headline.

Writing is an exercise in human psychology, whether intentional or unintentional. And the phrase "selling nuclear technology to China" carries heavy emotional connotations. Psychologically speaking, it's scary. The typical, quasi-informed, American reader will infer nuclear weapons, even if it's neither stated nor implied.

This is why I hate sensationalist headlines, and why I give journalists no quarter in my critiquing them. I get that it's all about pageviews, and sensation drives pageviews. But somewhere along the way, responsibility and integrity should enter into the calculus.
Nice! One super-easy way is to "sudo rcconf" and then just deselect gdm (and anything else you don't need).
> I very clearly pointed out that two people replied to you saying that your post is irrelevant.

So you're just repeating what other people said? To make yourself feel better? Still a bit confused.
Crunchbang is probably a good choice, but if you want to be really minimal

1) Install debian, but don't choose to install the desktop environment
2) Install the programs you want, e.g. 'sudo apt-get install xorg openbox chromium'
3) When you want to browse the web, run 'startx'

I've switched to running my personal laptop and work desktop this way. Granted I'm not a typical user, but it's surprised me how much of the modern linux desktop I can strip away and still have a pleasant experience.
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Similar to how Canadian Tire gives 'Canadian Tire Money' when paying some way other than credit cards.

The bonus is that a fair number of 'mom and pop' shops will accept Canadian Tire money as cash...
Facebook Timeline Launches on Mobile Devices, But Not for iOS
He previously worked for Basho, this is his own product.
>Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money.

The vast majority of people get most of their content legally.
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Ok, point taken. For instance, when somebody wastes everbody's time picking nits about oh, a comment about a bad title, I'll downvote them and post followon comments backpedaling and deliberately not getting the point.
CPU for the Aakash tablet is an Arm11 clocked at 366Mhz... This thing will be slow.
Basically, another Maylong M-150 (search for "worst gadget ever")

Their Ubislate tablet is better than the Aakash, though.

http://www.akashtablet.com/
Probably not. Trademarks are specific to a particular market or kind of product. For example, Apple Computer didn't really conflict with the Apple Records until Apple started selling music. So a porn company probably wouldn't legally conflict with your trademark.
I think "simplified" is a bit of a stretch. That thing lists minor version number releases for iOS as separate nodes!
So...if the ads are so unobtrusive that you don't see them then you won't block them?

More than a third of my current income is derived from "interstitials": After you play the game for a while, you have to watch something to continue. You don't like that, you buy the game (for a dollar!) and you get no ads. THAT's the deal. You don't like it, you don't play the game.
the longer talent stays in (kept in) the less of a talent it becomes. Been there myself and when interviewing people who've been long term with a big company, it is very noticeable how one sided their experience and thinking is. Changing jobs once in at least a couple of years keeps your mind open and up-to-date for the current technological developments.

Following the Adams logic of the opportunity costs, all these "stupid boss, performance review, process" reasons are there to help you to not get comfortable, to help you by providing a motivational nudge to make a move.
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> only except strings

A strange feature of the English language is that this doesn't work; you have to use 'accept' here.
I don't think that was mis-parsed - I think that JabavuAdams is (rightfully ?) cynical that the insurance companies will lower prices.

Rather, they will make the current price the standard for (self-driving cars), and increase the price for (human-driven cars), thereby ensuring more money for themselves.
"M-E-G-A. Upload to me today"... and now this is going to stick in my head for the whole day.

I hope Universal Music is happy with the free promotion that their takedown notice is going to give to this stupid video.
We will need a medium to discover what sites cant be visited so we can reproduce the blocked sites over the black-market under-the-table internet. A place where we can read about opinions and objectives that have not been approved by the riaa and mpaa for public showing.

Our internet is turning into fox news, with talking points, narratives, brainwashing and censorship. Not on my watch!

Do a google search for fox news sopa. Guess how many articles reporting on some of the most important legislation on the Earth today? I saw zero. corruption meter reading 100.

Who is up for rioting if this passes?
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Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!
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Notably Fedora has switched to systemd, which probably means we'll see it or maybe something like it in RHEL sometime in the future.
> Why IE6 instead of some sane browser?

Why a Motorola Razr instead of an iPhone 4S? Because the latter didn't exist. When IE6 came out more than a decade ago, it was the absolute best browser available. In 2004 when XP SP2 came out, it cleaned up a lot of reliability and security issues. You just have to look at IE6 with a 2001-based lens and realize what the alternatives were at the time.

IE6 was good enough to become the standard for slow-moving corporate types, and they're sticking with it. The every-few-weeks upgrades of Chrome and (now) Firefox are way too fast for them.

A lot of these big companies will stay with IE6 till the bitter end in 2014, when free XP support (security patches) goes away. I wouldn't put it past some of them to pay for XP support rather than switch to another OS, or to negotiate extended XP support into their Microsoft upgrade contracts.
See zerosanity's comment.
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Seconded for every part of your message. I've been a happy webfaction customer for a couple of years now and I'm consistently impressed with the stability of their service, the competence and helpfulness of their technical staff, and the excellent value for money.
I actually like KO better. The additional ViewModel part make organizing the UI code better. The data-bind at the html view location make it easy to see which UI elements have bindings.
A minority has always established and manipulated any political system that has ever existed in any modern nation to my knowledge.Tweaking funding rules or candidate disclosures is not admitting that democracy has failed, it is continuing maintenance on the inner workings of democracy.

I believe that any political (and judicial) system that delegates authority ultimately has to have an element of good faith from the people that receive that authority. It is unfortunate that it has to be that way, but I don't know what alternative is available.

In light of that I think that saying that the need to trust someone else is a "poor assumption" and thus negates any options for change may work as a rhetorical device to win an argument but it does not offer any way to make any progress. That makes such a position not very useful.
Your suggesting that all data is stored in the same database. In most large environments this is not the case, in many cases data is coming to and from many 3rd party systems and it is the job of the developer to make these systems work together.
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You can always download, unzip, and configure-make-install into your home directory.
What are you pattern-matching on? At least in OCaml you can do "if (test) then a else b", and I assume that holds for F#. Are you talking about "if (test) then a" without the "else b" clause? Because, while I agree that using only "if-then" introduces the potential for many bugs, the error talked about wasn't caused by that.
Does that cost more or less than 80 USD/year or whatever it is?
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I don't think that the two oversimplifications are on the same level. Lots of prominent GOP politicians espouse positions that are very openly against gay marriage (as do some Democrats, unfortunately). But you'd be very hard pressed to find many "liberal" politicians who are against property rights and an individual being allowed to reap the fruits of their labor. Yes, liberals are marginally more likely to see situations where public good might trump these to some extent (e.g. more progressive taxation to pay for a social safety net), but to say that liberals are "against" these things flat out is not accurate.

Finally, the fact that someone else made an oversimplification isn't really a great justification to do it yourself...
Note that these are not the most searched terms this year. They're the terms most-searched-for that had not previously been much-searched-for.

Ultimately, there is a certain amount of arbitrariness in this ranking, since they have to trade-off relative-to-last-year search frequency and absolute search frequency of the terms.
Similar, but for more exotic languages: "What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-...
I don't think it is appropriate to gloss over the fact that race and poverty are often correlated in the United States.

I can understand why you think I was insinuating that the OP was racist, but that was not my intention. My intention was to point out that his 'academic' question was incredibly callus toward a population that is regularly and systematically disadvantaged on multiple fronts. .
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There are 3rd party services which can handle this for you, but I can't think of any of them off the top of my head.

You can use the AWS api's to do your own self-monitoring and cut back or suspend services if you approach or hit your spending limit. EDIT: You'll actually need to do the calculations to match up the service stats with the billing costs, but that should be a fairly simple calculation.
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pharkmillups is the community manager at Basho, so the ";)" might have some meaning.
"Let's get some nerds in the room"

Now that's a disruptive thought. :-(
>One of the things that really blew my mind this year was a large ($40MM) software development project I became familiar with (a worldwide internal system for a multinational corporation) that concluded -- in 2011 -- and required MSIE 6. MSIE 6! Doesn't even run on MSIE 7, much less any modern browser.

This happens all the time at the hospital I work at. I'm constantly flummoxed by how behind the times software vendors consistently are. We're still stuck on XP for the foreseeable future because some of our vendors are still pushing updates that are totally incompatible with NT6 with no timeline for when it might work.

They've had half a decade to fix their software, and they just aren't doing it. I understand that Enterprise moves slowly, but you eventually reach a point of absurdity, as well.
What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?
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One additional challenge for large companies is the dilution of all actions due to the multiple layers. Many companies including Yahoo/GE have initiatives at the highest level that are aimed at correcting the issues highlighted, but the vision and the message gets completely diluted by the time the first line managers act on it. This dilution has to be stopped first for successful implementation of any retention initiatives.
it'd be nice if more people read patent claims before passing judgement

Unlikely; that would put a real damper on the amount of righteous vitriol people can muster.
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