skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is exactly what we need. Stupid casual statements made in the presence of other men are "tests" to gauge the acceptability of the behavior. That is the critical point in time when this behavior can be stopped, and the socially dangerous individual conditioned to live acceptably in our society.
I sent them an e-mail telling them the price point is all wrong a while back. The majority of smart phone owners aren't going to pay over $40 for a smart phone toy.
My story of learning to code to build a side project.
Not really. Siri understands German and French.
How have these claims been verified?
Their mistake was to join the Euro.
Yes they're a pain in the ass, but a necessary one.
`uname -s` obviously doesn't cater for the divergences and bugs within a platform.

Have a look at gnulib for things one has to deal with.
BTW, one can just use gnulib and forget about lots of portability issues
Wage stickiness is definitely[1] a problem: when you have 20% unemployment (40%+ youth unemployment) wages simply have to drop. Otherwise wages only go up in good times and stay stagnant in bad times.

Austerity may be a given politically, but economically speaking it doesn't make much sense, and it's definitely not in the best interest of the EU (or the world) as a whole.

[1] Not definitely, as some people pointed out below.
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The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence
Reminds me of GoneME (http://www.akcaagac.com/index_goneme.html), though I suspect this will be more successful.
Pen & Paper or Screen: Context Switching in Design
Rails needs to do a release solely focused on speed. Dropping 1.8.7 is a good step for a lot of people, but I feel Rails itself has gotten slower since 2.x and I know a lot of people would agree with me.

I do a lot of work in CodeIgniter as well as Rails (w/ Ruby 1.9.2 in production), and there's no doubt that my CodeIgniter apps on slower servers with little-to-no deliberate optimization are faster than my Rails apps.

For just one particular example, I have found rendering partials in Rails are such a point of poor performance that I have often found myself avoiding it.

There's this red herring (and a pet peeve) that making the framework 'less bloated' by dropping components or making them optional equals performance. You'll even see a comment on this blog post asking which components to remove to improve performance! It doesn't work that way when the core components of Rails remain slow.

While the speed of Rails had Ruby 1.8.7 to blame for a long time, now that it's being dropped I think 4.0 has a unique opportunity to optimize for 1.9 and make a big difference to the overall speed of the framework.
Blacks chosen by universe to kill child and take PS3 as reparation
Wow, overreact much?
Daily Mobile Minute #78: A clean sweep, not a sale, is what RIM needs
Juggling. Chess. Coding.
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do you have a textual transcription of this video ?
Is "lack of documentation" what you really mean?

Do you mean something more like, needs more howtos and sample apps?

'Cause backbone's got some pretty extensive documentation both in terms of the API (http://backbonejs.org/ ), the annotated source itself (http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html ) as well as a big pile of references as well as tutorials here: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/wiki/Tutorials%2C-...
Yes, IMHO this should be the goal. Coupled with directly elected European leaders. This election campaign would be a hit. Of course,... writing a post is easy. Getting this done requires a political genius.
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Thank goodness for RVM. Can't imagine what I would do without it...
the facebook app does suck, but you'd figure a lot of people download it because it's 'facebook'
I would be surprised and confused to see how one would use Ember alongside Backbone. Both Ember and Backbone have separate notions of how models should be handled as well as having separate routing systems.

I'm not entirely clear what you'd be mixing and matching.
> How can they release Playbook OS 2.0 without BBM, email, etc?

There's multiple Youtube videos of people running native email on Playbook OS 2. I think the article or the anonymous source is calling into question whether email is better on a BB10/Playbook OS 2 or the existing BB devices.
Ask HN: A good domain registrar/ssl cert
I currently use GoDaddy to manage our domains/dns and to get ssl certs. I recently found out that GoDaddy actively supports SOPA. I have decided to take my business elsewhere.

The one thing about GoDaddy I like is their DNS manager. It makes it easy to just add A/CNAME records.

Any suggestions on a new DNS host?
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Disagree completely: the language is there to make programming the computer easier for me, the human. If I have to parse it in my head, it has failed at that, at least for 'everyday use'.

In particular, one place where Erlang gets in your way is if you swap two lines of code, there's a good chance you'll have to check the "ant turd token" at the end of the line, and change it.

It's certainly not an insurmountable difficulty, but it is an annoyance.
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Dynamisk markedsføring er alle de gratis markedsføringsmuligheder, som du kan benytte online. Skab opmærksomhed om din virksomhed og tiltræk flere kunder.
Or you can just go for Octopress(http://octopress.org) ;D
When using ree, the time to load an empty rails app is half that of ruby 1.9.3 (for both 3.0.x and 3.2 rails versions) https://img.skitch.com/20111206-xt99xy9m5wsejknn4dnxng1g9m.j...

I haven't compared performance of an application in ree versus 1.9.3 but I have seen reports that 1.9.3 is slower than ree for many apps.

So rails dropping support for 1.8.7 is a bit worrying for me.

Btw ruby 1.9.2 had a huge performance regression related to loading files which made rails apps very slow. This has been fixed in 1.9.3. So you are better off using 1.9.3 if you want to use ruby 1.9.x
Interesting. That certainly is cause for caution. Their tuition, afaik, is the same as Code Academy (~$6,000) - so not exactly a trivial expense.
That's the point of the doc, I think.

* Call them, ask them to withdraw SOPA support. They might tell you (Like Kaspersky did) that they are not.
* Edit the doc.
Siri sucks in french. Many of the queries available in english are not there. Query responses are also slower in french especially on a slow connection. The local support is poor in Europe: if you asked for a nice restaurant, it says "sorry this service is not available in Belgium"

Siri is not even available for many european languages. It's not surprising the 4S sells better in english speaking countries.
Wasn't there an article some time ago here that busted the "Microsoft, Apple & coare are behind SOPA, because they are in the Business Software Alliance"?
This is a common misconception. CoffeeScript's "class" keyword is just JavaScript prototypal inheritance. They work and are used in precisely the same way. There's nothing here to "miss".
Akamai Buys Cotendo for $268 Million
is it easy to add an extension to hiphop? i.e mongo.so
Major fact check needed regarding your assessment of the 30s. Govt spending increased dramatically during that time. The "austerity" of the great depression was caused by economic ruin, not govt cuts. A good analysis is here: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj16n2-2.html
You should consider Spine as well.

Backbone has concepts of Models, Views and Collections (groups of Models) vs Spine that has concepts of Models and Controllers.

Both additionally have client side routes.

Spine abstracts away prototypal inheritance a little more regarding "super".

Spine has localStorage support natively.
I used to dislike the use of different punctuation characters as they make it "difficult" to re-arrange code. I've, however, grown to love them as they are very explicit and gives the reader a good indication on what will happen next (f. ex. an alternate function clause).

All in all, I pretty much love Erlang's syntax. It's the perfect mix of readability, terseness and structure; and it has that cozy nerd-air about it, the one that makes you want to sit up all night dishing out code.
I guess my giant question is why didn't they make a C#-like scripting language first?
I think it will be a great idea to call the companies you've been customer(s) of. Like I was thinking of calling Microsoft and Apple as I use both of their products.

So, when you call, mention that you are a customer and would love to keep that relationship alive. Maybe if a few hundred calls go this way, some of them will budge.
In-depth analysis of CouchDB's database file format.
Dear Jamie Dimon
I don't think overt sexism is any more prevalent at tech conferences than it is in any other predominantly male gathering. In fact, I would bet it's actually less prevalent at tech events: for every aggressive jerk at a tech conference, there are 10 quiet geeks who would be scared to death to talk to an attractive woman. Try going to a male-dominated sales conference for comparison. I'm not condoning the behavior, only pointing out that it is hardly unique to tech.
Las tecnologías que cambiarán nuestras vidas de aquí a cinco años
The most recent class was 65/2000 (source: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83135286/)

I think I am up to 4.... nothing yet, but boy am I appreciative they said no (I have learned so much in the past two years its not funny)

I'll put it to you this way, you need to come at them with something with traction at this level of competitiveness, and don't think the question about entry level isn't important, I feel recently guilty as something I made during a hack day last month eclipsed a funded startup with a few people working on it (almost all Ivy Leaguers too, they are smart people... I like their site in case they are reading) (link to ongoing viral news coverage https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GPCK_enGB425&gcx=c&...)
You can have both. 용 in Korean spells (with three letters) "yong", means "dragon", and fits in one box.
Yea, I thought so too.
Perhaps we should update the title, since someone did solve it for n = 4.
var is not extra in JavaScript the way nonlocal is in Python. var is a language construct that any good JavaScript program must use.
As a Playbook owner running OS 2, and a software developer, I agree that there isn't room for a fourth ecosystem of 'native' apps written especially for BB devices.

__Blackberry should stop running to where the ball is, and start running to where it's going to be__

What I would like is the ability to run web apps as proper apps. Ie: make Playbook the best way to consume web apps out there.

- Apple's trying to push native apps that are iOS exclusive.

- Android is from Google, a Java shop.

Both require web developers to shoehorn apps onto them via Titanium or PhoneGap.

- Awesome HTML5 support. PB OS 2 currently has (308 in html5test as of last night)

- Left/right gestures swapping web app windows like PB OS 2 currently swaps between desktop-style apps. No desktop-style tabs.

- Use the high resolution icons on my site, rather than snapshots of the UI.

- Focus on webworks as the primary SDK, ditch Air & Java/Android completely.

If you wrapped up the mobile gmail this way, it'd be as seamless as a 'native' app and a better experience than competing tablets.
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
Midwesterner (Indiana) here. I've never heard anyone use the "lark" pronunciation.
There's also rbenv, which doesn't override your shell functions or require modifications to your deployment code. Patching basic shell functions like "cd". In 2011. I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

Here's the rbenv project page: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme

It's functionally equivalent to rvm minus the aforementioned negatives.
Again, economically speaking, the problem is austerity and wage stickiness put together. Austerity with nominal wage flexibility is fine - real wages will drop, employers will hire cheap employees, and there will be no unemployment or recession.

Since austerity seems unavoidable, why aren't you and other people who buy into Keynesian theory pushing for wage flexibility?
The idea of a united Europe scares me, actually.

Whenever there is fiscal union comes the notion that there should be some control over how money is spent. Germany and Greece and Spain and Sweden and Italy and every EU country will want a say. After all, it's "their" money.

So there are going to be fundamental game theory problems unless all these different places can agree how money should be spent--and ideas about how money should be spent are a big, deeply embedded part of culture. If a fiscal union happens I would venture to guess one of the following will happen: one, eternal squabbling; or two, a partial homogenizing of European culture. I don't like either outcome. Differences are good.

No, no amount of high hopes or good feelings will save you from this. I don't understand the urge to yoke societies together in unhelpful ways any more than I get why incompatible people enter bad marriages. It's always been obvious to me that takes more than love to work together, and often people work better together if they intentionally keep their independence.
I'm guessing that the silent downvoters are reacting to the "wage flexibility by fiat" paragraph which might be construed as a political viewpoint rather than an economic one. The widely-accepted narrative at the moment is that the bankers caused the crisis, and the rest of us are victims, so why should we be subjected to more pain to fix the mess they made?

It would at least be polite for people to say why they don't like your opinion, rather than just bitch-slapping you into silence.
they should make these into car wheels and drive cars with smartphones
Akamai is acquiring Cotendo for $286M
Very compelling story, I appreciate the amount of detail you went into to explain your adventure.
More documentation can be found at

http://backbonetutorials.com
It's absolute nonsense to say that 'HTML5' dominates Flash and many developers switched from Flash to HTML5.

It's more of a case that developers have become more accessibility and SEO savvy and now render things like carousels, galleries and news feeds through JavaScript and libraries like jQuery, which is nothing to do with HTML5.

HTML5 elements such as Canvas, Video and Audio will have minimal impact towards the direct switch from Flash, until developers fully understand their potential.
Single currency without a single fiscal policy.
As the number of Rack middleware pieces in a base Rails app grows, it gets slower. MRI and YARV spend a lot more time doing GC as the stack depth grows. Aaron Patterson mentioned that he was working on a modification to the Rack API where each piece of middleware did not call the next piece, reducing the stack depth and drastically improving the runtime performance of Rails apps.

Here's the video where he talks about it (towards the beginning): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOAHIpmLAI
There are a lot of not-so-great blog posts and tutorials out there for Backbone, so I'm not entirely surprised to hear that you found them "useless".

It would be great to have a more step-by-step in-depth tutorial available on Backbonejs.org, and if I don't get a chance to built one out soon, I'd be glad to merge a branch that adds one.

Tutorials aside, is there something more in the way of API documentation you'd like to see, that you aren't finding on Backbonejs.org?

Finally, there is a long list of real-world apps available, many of which have viewable source code that you can examine and learn from:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

... and DocumentCloud.org, the original application from which Backbone was extracted, has all of its JavaScript available on GitHub:

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/tree/master/p...
This could involve auto-submitting every blog post to HN once it gets a comment which might be slightly better.

Best case would be to check if the article has been submitted to HN and if not default to the blog's own commenting system.
Agreed. Having used VBA in Access back in the day, I can attest that JS would be a godsend.
...or take your jacket off, or take your belt off.
Scaling Caste Walls With Capitalism’s Ladders in India
Towards the Best Collection API
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I must have been using gnome the same way as the gnome developers, as the gnome3 interface basically gives me a setup I enjoy without the added configuration. I really like the dynamic virtual desktops, and the expose-style overview. Though I haven't written any myself, the framework for writing plugins looks nice as well.

Like the Windows anecdote, we have to account for the inherent confirmation bias. People who find the new environment adequate don't go online to rave about it and counter the negative opinions. The users giving the impression that this is "the most hated 'upgrade' ever", may still be the minority overall.
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That is a really nice summation.
Ruby lesson: Scraping a jail's website
How does hiphop performance compare to fastcgi + opcode-cache (with stat turned off)

I remember reading that on paper it seems it should be faster but in reality not so much.

Ah okay, hiphop IS faster:

http://php.webtutor.pl/en/2011/05/17/drupal-hiphop-for-php-v...

environment [req/sec][ms/req][%]
Regular PHP	15.10	66.242	100%
PHP + APC	46.90	21.321	310%
HipHop	77.01	12.985	510% (1.6x faster than apc)

http://huichen.org/en/2010/06/wordpress-3-benchmark/

wp3+php+apc 30.86 32.400
wp3+HipHop 43.50 22.990 (1.4x faster than apc)

Maybe multicast could be used on the intranet for distribution - but 500mb monolithic binaries sounds kinda insane.
Did you see the original title before the OP changed it?

I thought dextorious's comment was intended to satirise both the people who complain about sexism in hacker culture, and the people who insist there's no sexism in hacker culture.
Better yet, leave poor reviews on online rating sites for their product/service.

The network itself is not the place to be stopping criminal behavior. The place to stop it is at the source, with due process. Prosecuting the humans involved. If those people are overseas then guess what? You cant prosecute them because they never agreed to your laws.
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Киселото мляко е традиционен у нас млечнокисел продукт, любим на поколения българи. Той често е включван в рецепти благодарение на добрите си вкусови качества.
The infographic stated that Greece is wholly excluded, as they never reported properly anyway, enabling them to join the union in the first place, and broke the rules all along. Though I too wish they were included at least for some perspective.
Here: http://usuryfree.blogspot.com/2011/01/money-as-debt-ii-trans...
Transcript: http://usuryfree.blogspot.com/2011/01/money-as-debt-ii-trans...
I was going to say the same thing. Seems silly to link to ./ instead of the article.
It is heartwarming to read that he says that he has never had a million dollars all at once in his life, and yet he has donated $280k to charities from the sales on this special. He was looking for worthy overseas charities that accept paypal on Twitter a few days ago, and I see Kiva and charity:water amongst the beneficiaries.
While that's certainly 'possible' it doesn't seem particularly logical.

Why would "nearly every" intelligent civilization have evolved millions of years before ours?
I've always found these large organizational analyses to look completely sound and well-reasoned on paper, yet never really align with reality when deployments start going up.

IIRC, the City of Los Angeles did a similar evaluation, yet they shuttled a migration to Google due to security concerns.

In less-public implementations, I've seen planned migrations from MS to Google Apps dropped after pilot tests, mostly due to user complaints about usability.

I don't fault MS or Google in any of these areas, but rather those conducting the analysis.
BlackBerry 10 is a failure that won't be able to compete, company source says
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I think part of the problem is also that Backbone made some backwards incompatible changes as the framework developed. I found that a lot of the backbone tutorials were out of date - the &Yet blog had a bunch of good tutorials but were quickly out of date, and the posts were never revisited.
I doubt that Norway wants or has any chance of getting a say, due to minor reasons like not being a member of the EU.
Seems like the U.S. and UK need to wake up and realize that crApple ain't the way to go...
and well-factored code has very few variables in the top-level scope -- and they're all things like namespaces and class names

Unless you happen to embrace JavaScript's functional side and write lots of top level helper functions (in a closure of course after which you export)

shadowing the variable is the wrong answer. It completely prevents you from making use of the original value for the remainder of the current scope.

This smells of static enforcement - strange for a language expounding JavaScript's dynamic nature and an odd departure from "it's just JavaScript".

Shadowing doesn't fit well in languages with closures-by-default

Not sure what evidence this is based on given the heap of great languages with closures-by-default that give programmers more control over scope without introducing goofy constructs like special assignment operators or global/nonlocal keywords.

CoffeeScript breaks the one real form of encapsulation (which includes the power of naming) that JavaScript has - function locals.
In regards to 'wages rose and rose in Spain' and are now not competitive with Germany: I would have thought that wages in Spain pre-1997 were very low compared to Germany, so if they rose it was to become comparable. How does this then make Spain less competitive with Germany? (I may be completely wrong and am neither an economist nor aware of what the wage gap is/was between eurozones).
In Britain jurors can ask questions of witnesses and the accused. At the end of a trial day, the judge will ask if the jury has any questions. When I was on a 3 week trial, I had a page-full of questions every day. I identified issues that both the judge and prosecuting counsel missed.
Sorry -- that was supposed to be a friendly tweet-sized response. The discussion about this "feature" is always good to have, especially because it's one of the most rightfully controversial changes that CoffeeScript makes to JavaScript semantics.

There are dozens of lengthy conversations about this in the CoffeeScript issues, if you'd like to take a deeper look.
http://www.fffuu.com/ Put it on there for now.
Awesome idea, might be nice to include a ajax pop over or some type of modal so they dont have to leave the page to find out what SOPA is ... and maybe a link with that website that gets you contact with your senator/congressmen(/women)
Have you heard of "radicals"? You can guess what a Chinese character means without being able to pronounce it.
Missing from this otherwise good infographic: the role played by private-sector financial firms, which are tightly interlinked with each other in a massively complex global network no one really understands, even today. The structure and behavior of private-sector financial firms appear to have been a major destabilizing force leading to the crisis.

A (relatively tiny) number of reputable economists are starting to look beyond these current-account imbalances to the disproproportionate growth and destabilizing role of the financial system -- a welcome development IMO.

Here's a recent example (in lay language):
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/7446
The code base for Backbone is small and hugely documented. Take 1 hour, read the code, feel good, learn techniques, let it sink in for a while and use it.

Seriously this is better than any tutorial you can find out there.