skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the Geolocation API the Marauder's Map team at PennApps used this to build a virtual Marauder's Map? If so, now it suddenly makes sense how they had time to make the awesome UI design. I definitely agree on the feedback looking for examples. I'd love to see some open source Cloudmine apps.
I strongly think Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Amazon (not AWS) should all proceed with the nuclear option on the 18th, even though congress has temporarily shelved SOPA. The reality of the situation is that very few people outside of the tech community have any idea about SOPA and PIPA and how it jeopardizes the Internet.
No.

The aim is to get people to contact representatives. Wikipedia is an excellent tool for procrastination. You need to remove Wikipedia (and as much of the rest of the WWW as possible) to ensure people actually follow through and call or write their politicians.
Whining about whining: how meta.
Isn't all this fuzz just Microsoft's history hunting hem?

I mean, where's the Ars Technica article about how it's not possible to install Android on an iPhone? So unfair!

Nearly all phones and tablets (typically the devices with ARM cpus, which must be Microsoft's reasoning too) only run the OS they came with. Surely phones and tablets with Windows on them aren't the exception.
Heh. Well, mine wasn't completely arbitrary. If I remember correctly I was trying to trade off server CPU usage with memory usage. One chunk at a time is buffered on the server, so I wanted to keep it small enough that I could have a bunch of ongoing transfers on my puny t1.micro. However, too small of a chunk size resulted in too many roundtrips and lots of CPU load on the server. I settled on this value because I was able to pump a couple megabytes per second through it using one stream, which seemed reasonable.

Also: in further testing, it looks like Safari works with the drag and drop, but not the uploading. I purposely disabled all socket.io transfer types except web sockets in order to encourage adoption of modern browsers. Unfortunately, since I used such bleeding edge, unstandardized technology (drag and drop, file API, and web sockets), the browsers have changed and broken my implementation, each in a slightly different way, such that none of them work end to end anymore.
> I don't own much physically. I spend my days volunteering and traveling living a pretty simple life.

That's the nub - you don't live a simple life, you live a very complicated life where the "stuff" in your life has been abstracted out of sight.

To define ownership by physical possession is utterly facile. The economic decisions you make result in great mountains of "stuff" being made and used and consumed. You haven't structured your life to have less "stuff" in it, only that you avoid having to carry it.

Aviation fuel is stuff. It has mass and volume, it smells and tastes of something. Huge facilities have been built to extract and refine it, and vast areas of land and sea have been irrevocably damaged by that process. Very real, physical wars were fought over it. Your plane ticket is a stake in all of that, a fractional ownership of the machinery that puts a plane in the air.

Viewed from inside your head, your life seems minimal. But from a bird's eye, it looks like a bulldozer on the rampage.

This community is one of hackers, people who strive to look more deeply, to understand how things work at the most fundamental level. If we do not understand the deep impact of the things we consume and the lives we lead, who else?
JSON will be a core type in PostgreSQL 9.2
I think you misunderstand the purpose of getting a Like in this example: it's not for social proof, but to create a more direct relationship with the "fan" so that when you post on your Facebook page they become part of the conversation.

Think of it as collecting an email from your customer, it's disruptive to the process of trying the app and some users will not do it, but it allows you to talk to the ones that do submit, helps build a better product in the long run and keep those same users happier.
While startup CEOs are scrubbing toilets, CTOs are building things
(author here)

I was writing this more in the sense that kids at BioCurious (and the DIY Bio Movement in general) are doing electrophoresis to transfer DNA from glowing jellyfish to bacteria. This is just a few (two?) years after someone got a Nobel prize for that.

That's progress. If stuff that used to be hard falls into kids hands, you're gonna see impressive stuff happening.

However I fully agree that it takes more than that to build a company (Also I wouldn't try to compete with 2012 Google using 1998 technology)
Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday
MoveOn.org is a blatantly left-wing organization, whereas supporters of a free Internet come from the left, the right, the center, and the north (Libertarians, if you're using the Nolan scale). Even if MoveOn.org were to embrace the tech community and Internet freedom, they support a whole boatload of other causes that many Internet freedom supporters, myself included, disagree with, and use rather tactless advertising strategies.

If we are going to start an organization dedicated to Internet freedom, it needs to be focused solely on that issue, or at least similar issues such as freedom of speech in the general sense, and not get into the other controversial topics like health care and foreign policy that have the potential to divide us.
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/checks if Nasa are taking applications for astronauts
I think the article was more about "Google the search technology" rather than "Google the company". It wasn't about startups or entrepreneurship but rather about technological progress.
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Looks like we've reached Godwin's Law. That's didn't take too long.
It is indeed! Marauder's Map runs on CloudMine.
I really wish this was done to globally to protest against internet censorship of any kind instead of being such a US centric thing. It feels shortsighted.
This is how the Lisbon treaty was ratified in the EU after the Constitution was shot down by voters. The two documents overlap 99%.

Question: Do people oppose the bill so fiercely because they are worried about censorship, or because they don't want to pay for stuff?
You realize that the whole premise of selling a company for 10-100x is that the buyer believes the dividends will in fact exceed that, right?
And yet, both can be legitimately called (a form of) "minimalism". Just depends what you're minimising.
Just a thought with regard to ARM hardware. Don't most Win7 slates on the market have an ARM alternative that runs Android? If that's the case, that means that manufacturers are already providing two different versions of the slates on the market: amd64 and arm; and, that means that manufacturers are already making special modifications just to provide to both markets.

Given this information, why would it not be possible, even likely, for manufacturers to continue to do this with Win8 and Android? Have slightly different hardware and sell both. Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you run a more hardcore linux on an android device? I believe I've seen an original G1 running ubuntu (not a hardcore linux, but moreso than android).
This is actually a very interesting article.

Jack Dorsey's quote is very true.
> Though the administration's chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy

Funny that this Freudian slip has shown up in more than one SOPA article.
"Google" + "bleeding edge hard drives"

hehehe
My brother, currently running a non-profit abroad, utilizes a similar lifestyle. Everything he owns he can fit into his small backpack.

I learned a ton from him about the benefits of mobility--something I would have thought the lean, mobile startup crowd here on HN would've related to more.

Attachments--to belongings or business plans are a source of strength but are also over emphasized. I admire what you've done and think we could use a lot more of it.

Cheers!
Talk about a quick opportunity for improvement! Instead of displaying:

"Oops, try again."

Code Academy could type your statement:

"A large part of learning to program is testing and debugging. Please see if you can figure out what went wrong and try again."

It's all about setting expectations.
> users who don't know/care about RSS will no longer be confused when clicking a prominent icon

Pandodaily is a site about startups. Their audience definitely knows about RSS.
>Can you tell why the EU requires Windows to display a browser selection box on first boot to Europeans, but is okay with iOS totally BANNING the use of non-Safari browser engines?

Your information is very old. The App Store has approved third-party web browsers for over three year now.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/third-party-web-br...

>Why is it not anti-competitive for Apple to ship their hardware with a completely locked bootloader?

It is. Don't confuse "anti-competitive" with "illegal." If you want the DoJ to pursue an anti-trust case against Apple, you're free to push for that. The market realities will make it a hard sell.
Jekyll requires deploys to publish new content, and deploys were down for 76 hours. So, partial outage.

My point is if uptime is your goal you should go with a proven solution. Relying on an unproven custom setup to be 100% mistake free smacks a bit of young engineer hubris.
I'm the author of that post. With respect to power and performance, there is a large amount of overlap between the kind of design you want for the audio layer in your laptop and what you need in your phone. The PulseAudio API and architecture make it extremely simple to extend it for embedded-specific use cases (and we've been seeing these sorts of changes coming back to PulseAudio upstream, and being used in generic situations.

Both Nokia and HP built products using PulseAudio (MeeGo and webOS use it). It's a shame these platforms are in the state they are, but it does show that it is very much feasible to build your audio stack using PulseAudio.
I can't believe this guy is representing part of Austin, where many web-based companies are located. I have to wonder why he authored the bill.
yeah there's like a whole field of research and a profession devoted to the topic: computer science education
Kudos on the site!

In an earlier version of Sendoid, we were doing exactly this to handle the "larger than reasonable" in-browser sharing issue. We had some privacy concerns at the time with still requiring what was essentially a data proxy server in the middle and eventually removed the functionality when the desktop application was released.

WebRTC is really exciting from a private data transfer perspective and will hopefully start getting us out of the "server-in-the-middle" architecture that we've had to live on for so long with in-browser data transfer. As an added plus, it would be another nail in flash's coffin for live video chat, which is really just a live data transfer problem after all.
Technology might allow to produce 1000-core computers but does Market need it?

Will they be common enough? Or like with dirigibles other solutions will dominate.
What? Break it down for me here, in what way is he arguing for more quote "powers"? The power to not indefinitely detain people? That's a really brutal one, favorite of dictators everywhere. I shudder at the thought of someday being not-detained.

I mean, I really don't want to carry Obama's water on this one given that he did sign the bill, but you're just engaged in some sort of silly deliberate misinterpretation of the paragraph you quoted.
Murdoch on Twitter tirade after Obama comes out against SOPA
something of a side issue, but when was there a trade-off between static checking and performance? fortran and c have pretty much always been the fastest languages around, haven't they? is he referring to assembler?
At our startup we are creating our own many core processor SiliconSqueak and VM along the lines of David Ungars work. Writing non-deterministic software is fun, you just need to radically change your perspective on how to program. For Lisp and Smalltalk programmers this outlook change is easy to do. We welcome coders who want to learn about it.
A talk by David Ungar on this very subject is available at CMU-SV Talks on Computing Systems website: http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/news-events/seminars/2011/...
America has a secret weapon called the H-1B (visa)
http;//domai.nr/ does this fairly accurately it seems.
I wonder if SOPA will help unite some of the web big guns, obviously they are teaming up to call out SOPA but maybe this will help develop further relationships and we'll see some partnership projects grow. SOPA could end up doing more good than it does harm, assuming this backlash see's it off.
The internet might not be as tightly controlled but think of the Great Firewall of China. In addition, it's an excellent tool for surveillance.

People periodically realize that they are being screwed over, yet most of the time after the initial outrage nothing happens. There may be some scandals but wait 6 months and it's all forgotten.
Works fine on my windows phone; remembers my login info from IE.
Linking to Reddit page as an already smart discussion is going on. No, it's not my post :)
If anyone cares, I found out what the problem was. Chrome updated to a new version of the web socket standard back in version 15 or so. I wasn't aware of the change and so didn't update my version of socket.io which supports the new standard, thus an incompatibility. It should work now.

This just goes to show that you have to be vigilant if you are building sites with the latest and greatest, as they are still under development and likely to change out from under you.
>>This is winning a battle, not a war. There is going to be more legislation, both in the US, and the World.<<

Good analogy. They are simply retreating to fight another day. And perhaps with more reinforcements and new lessons learned.
You have probably been downvoted for not adding anything to the conversation, this is not Reddit.
A 14-year-old could probably do it using her mom's credit card too.
Fair enough. The title seems a bit link-baity, I think something along the lines of "the infrastructure of 1998's Google" would have been better.
Learn to Be A Better Activist During the SOPA Blackouts
If enough people start to use this, it could really change the dynamics of the dedicated server market. For example, I never knew I could get a dual core server with a 40GB SSD for $75/mo -- something tells me that box would be tremendously faster than an EC2-based box for database activity.
> only maintain libraries for your SOAP endpoint (at least for now

Check. This was the decision that came out of today's product meeting after reading responses here.

> Put up a form...

Check. Already did this a couple weeks ago at www.interfax.net/en/dev/rest. Already got a few bites.

> Just because someone on a survey said they wanted REST instead of SOAP ...

I agree. However, we ran several variations of the survey including one where developers had an opportunity to say that not having REST is a show-stopper for them, which got us worried.

Strangely, most of those who insisted on REST develop in environments which have the strongest SOAP support, like C#, PHP, and Java. This got me thinking that we might be dealing with fashion issues more than practical issues...
I wonder how many hours would pass before you caught this and set up a new server? What if you're on vacation?

Honestly there's a little bit of "because I did it myself and I'm awesome it won't fail." That's hubris and very typical of young engineers.

Letting someone else manage it for you is probably the right thing for a startup to do. You just need to choose someone with a good, proven uptime record. That is what should guide your decision.. with so many things in engineering.
This is sort of thing that happens when developers start thinking that jQuery is "bloated" and that they can do better and start ripping out code without fully understanding the expected behaviour. Nothing in jQuery is there without good reason.
the way i imagine this working (please correct me if wrong) is that there is quite a bit of speculative computation, and that various things get thrown away. given that, what happens if you measure speed in terms of results per watt, rather than per second? does the per-watt value tend towards a limit, even as the per-second value increases? if so, will the re-introduction of determinism (via some new mechanism) be necessary to improve efficiency, down the line?
Comparing 1998's problem set with today's tools is not a good comparison. The tools are cheaper but problem sets are also much bigger.
Slightly offtopic: I also have a non-programming girlfriend and she recently expressed an interest in learning what programming is all about. This is because she often sees me coding, knows that I like it and that it's a big part of my life, and feels bad when I start talking about how I started some new project and she knows that I cannot tell her in detail what it's about because she wouldn't understand me (I ususally like to make stuff for developers, like libraries, tools and so on, not stuff for general public).

So I've been pondering what would be the best way to teach her a bit about programming, just to give her some general idea on what programming is. Should I just make a simple website with her and show her how to do basic stuff using javascript, or should I start with some theory first (I'm not thinking here about teaching her theoretical CS, just some basic OO principles). Anybody has any advice?
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I do programming for work and for fun. When I'm relaxing at home, I like to fire-up LoseThos and do neat stuff, like ASM programming where I can tinker with system instructions. That's why I made LoseThos ring-zero-only. I want to play with the cool instructions... in fact, why would I not want all instructions available! Heck, I never need ring 3. It's my own computer and my own programs, of course I want full access at all times!

I put all code in lowest 2 Gig so I only need CALL REL32 for system calls. I don't bother to learn how you have to do it from ring 3, not my problem. That's fer peons who don't have full access.

It's a blemish on 64-bit-edness that I impose "all code in lowest 2 Gig", ugly in a way, but nobody will ever need more than 2 Gig of code and it's very nice what you get in return. By the way, there is no "kernel" or "user", it's all ring 0. It's single-address-map, too. Virtual, identity mapped to physical.

Do this benchmark, heh heh heh:

for (i=0;i<1000000;i++) printf("%d\n",i);

three seconds! I beat Linux and Windows by an order of magnitude.

The C64 was ring-0-only and single-address-mapped. Trust me, it's not dangerous.

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We'll leave impotence in God's court. He's just.

God says...
everythings_a_okay you're_no_fun et_tu vermin rip_off thank_you_very_much
thats_just_wrong Yawn big_fish wastoid astronomical resume
jobs oops I_hate_when_that_happens let's_roll delicious
do_I_have_to lift BBC not_too_shabby no_news_is_good_news
what_a_mess on_the_otherhand I_love_you I'm_good_you_good
can_you_hear_me_now California no_news_is_good_news whazza_matter_for_you
it's_my_world these_cans_are_defective do_you_like_it
Vegas caution tree_hugger manufacturing cosmetics Oy I'm_busy
slumin industrious in_theory huh Ghost adultery BRB that's_for_me_to_know
prosperity naughty

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Just kill them, God. They are stupid. People that stupid and stubborn don't deserve to live! Please?

God says...
commanded sad let's_see thats_right chaos wastoid okay how_about_a_comic
naughty I_gotta_piss what_the_heck whiner repent laziness
unsung_hero employee not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer
epic_fail how_come I_got_your_back how_do_I_put_this holier_than_thou
Give_me_praise God_is_not_mocked go_ahead_make_my_day
hate scorning joker didn't_I_say_that surprise_surprise
do_you_want_another honesty WooHoo you_better_not adultery
a_flag_on_that_play Percival I'm_God_and_you're_not once_upon_a_time
I_quit do_you_get_a_cookie anger you_should_be_so_lucky
how_hard_could_it_be why_is_it

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LoseThos is 130,000 LOC including compiler. Linux is 15 Million. That's two orders of magnitude.

LoseThos printfs to 1,000,000 in 3 seconds. I think Linux and Winwods take at least 30 seconds.
Does this apply to all wikipedias, or just the english-language wikipedia?
My email client is pretty much I/O-bound.

My word processor is perfectly well able to keep up with my typing speed.

My web browser is largely I/O-bound, except on pages that do stupid things with JavaScript.

There is no reason to try to rewrite any of these to use funny algorithms that can spread work over tons of cores. They generally don't provide enough work to even keep one core busy, the only concern is UI latency (mostly during blocking I/O).

Compiling things can take a while, but that's already easily parallelized by file.

I'm told image/video processing can be slow, but there are already existing algorithms that work on huge numbers of cores (or on GPUs).

Recalcing very large spreadsheets can be slow, but that should be rather trivial to parallelize (along the same lines as image processing).

...

So isn't the article pretty much garbage?
Don't most Win7 slates on the market have an ARM alternative that runs Android?

No, because an x86 motherboard is 10x the size of an ARM one, so the internal design needs to be completely different.

Win8 and Android... Have slightly different hardware and sell both.

This is more likely, so you'd have a choice between locked UEFI and locked U-Boot. Jailbreaking will continue, of course.
They didn't even bother to change the indentation whitespace...
No, because even if the law is something US-specific, its effects (should it pass) are not.
There is also this org2blog(https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog) which lets you publish directly from Emacs’ org-mode to WordPress blogs.
> checked his employer's database against outstanding warrants in the US ... That is how bad some people are.

Helping to serve justice is now a bad thing?
the party may still suffer long-term consequences

Two party system, long term is only long enough for the other side to screw up, so 4 or 8 years tops.
jimmy_wales: Student warning re SOPA blackout
Interesting. Being able to output the results of a query as JSON will be useful when running something like Node.js. I can't shake my feeling that something like this doesn't belong in the SQL statement, though- choice of output format seems like it's something connecting libraries ought to do.

That said, having seen 'core type' I instantly imagined being able to query based on JSON properties, which doesn't appear to be the case. Not surprising, because it would be a huge amount of work.. but it's nice to imagine.

(before anyone says anything- yes, I know NoSQL exists. But a hybrid solution using Postgres would be very interesting)