skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieval...

I'm waiting to see ASRS systems used for (de)racking in a datacenter. When that happens, maybe datacenter techs will become wage slaves as well.
Makes sense, but at least www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/ shouldn't time out ...
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On a similar note, Cisco predicts that "in 2015, wired devices will account for 46 percent of IP traffic, while Wi-Fi and mobile devices will account for 54 percent of IP traffic [globally]."

For more stats and figures from their Networking Index Forecast, check out http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...
A lot of people think playability = gameplay = fun (more precisely _their_ concept of fun). Games are very personal. People take them personally, for some reason think their way of having fun is the only way, and are very vocal about it.
could you please expand on this?

I find the idea interesting, how normal is it as a workstation? Can you run X with a windowmanager and a graphical browser at a decent speed?
Ah, right, thanks for that.
Would Apple really release an iPad 3 without a home button?
If we could just make numbers cheaper teaching kids maths would become easier too.
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I think she tried to make a joke (not very funny, but whatever). I feel a real lack of sense of humour here.
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yes, thanks for that, :)
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That's Australian dollars.

The $AUD is worth more than the $US, but tech goods always cost more in Australia than they should.
make your HN app better than other HN apps and charge for it - add some features like "Don't show posts about x" and "Hide stories after reading". Offline capabilities

If you already have these features, promote them.
"So basically, it is a crappy, overly slow, wrong architecture, barebones media streaming computer."

Funny, that's exactly why I want to buy one. Have you priced set-top boxes lately? The cheapest Roku won't stream from another machine on your network and can't do 1080. Apple TV can't even to MKV for $100!

I'm really not sure why you posted this. On the surface, it sounds like you're jealous. Judging by your username "norasppi", I have to assume you're trying to protect your identity, which would lead me to think you're working on/for a more expensive competitor and are bitter that Raspberry Pi is seeing so much success. All smells really fishy to me.

At the very least, do you have a better alternative with comparable specs for the same price? Complaining without providing a solution is probably my least favorite thing ever.
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There is nothing of value or worth in this post. It is flamebait. Please don't feed the trolls.
Given the large amount of worry on this thread about getting one of the first 10000 I'm really looking forwards to seeing hundreds of blog posts and stories about people doing really interesting thing with their hard-fought purchases.

I'm only being half sarcastic. I really would like to see people do cool things with these. And I will be disappointed if it turns out that 9500 of them end up in a drawer after the first weekend.
I recently found something similar, yet on one side powerful (bigger CPU, more RAM), on the other less accessible (only HDMI and USB interfeace). It's called CStick -> http://www.cstick.com/ yet it's cost is about 100$. If someone is interested...
Not exactly. Let's tweak your example to create a new object in your method.

def foo s
s = 'foo'
end
a = 'bar'
foo a
puts a
# => bar

The assignment in the method doesn't change the object you "passed" in. Rather than passing by reference, think of Ruby as passing the value of a reference.

For more examples and explanation, see
http://khelll.com/blog/ruby/ruby-pass-by-value-or-by-referen...
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Why disappointed? It runs XMBC and decodes 1080p. That's pretty much all I need from a media center PC.
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Kim Lewis will be an new 2012 activity video providing David Lewis typically the heroic character involved with Edgar Almond Burroughs.
So... where to, then?
Exactly. People - we computer programmer magicians included - understand new things by relating them to other things that they already know. I expect there are readers (or viewers) of the BBC or The Guardian who only know that programmers do things with computers. That is the entire breadth of their knowledge of computer programming. These metaphors help them frame this new information in terms of things they already understand.
Probably they're talking about the implication of errors such as in the result of http://api.thequeue.org/v1/clear?url=http://news.ycombinator...:

Warning: file_put_contents(db/aHR0cDovL25ld3MueWNvbWJpbmF0b3IuY29tL2l0ZW0/aWQ9MzY0NjYyNw==.clr) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mackh_vps/api.thequeue.org/v1/clear.php on line 27

Warning: file_get_contents(db/aHR0cDovL25ld3MueWNvbWJpbmF0b3IuY29tL2l0ZW0/aWQ9MzY0NjYyNw==.clr) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mackh_vps/api.thequeue.org/v1/clear.php on line 31

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mackh_vps/api.thequeue.org/v1/clear.php:27) in /home/mackh_vps/api.thequeue.org/v1/clear.php on line 55
aHR0cDovL25ld3MueWNvbWJpbmF0b3IuY29tL2l0ZW0/aWQ9MzY0NjYyNw==Invalid URL

Also, maybe turn off display_errors and turn on log_errors in your php.ini.
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I think they want it so that if they send an Accept header in the request that asks for json, you reply with json, instead of using a query parameter to specify the format.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTTP/Content_negotiation has more details about the accept header and its use.
I use my Beagleboard like a normal Linux workstation - yes, it runs X (has 3D acceleration also), the browser runs quite fine, and I have all the normal development tools onboard. The Beagleboard is quite a capable little computer, and for us old-timer Linux guys, is more than enough horsepower for a bit of compiling here and there. As someone who cut his teeth on Linux by compiling the kernel and X server on a 386 with 8Megs of RAM, I'm not in the least bit swayed by "its too slow to do anything serious!" comments .. in fact, its quite fast enough to do quite serious things, as long as you pick your tools wisely, and don't expect to run a massive bloaty IDE like Eclipse or something ..
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You are right. I'm painting with a brush MUCH too broad. And a LOT of this is personal.

Being a feminine little guy my whole life, I had a LOT of friends that were girls, had I been gay I think they wouldn't have pulled away from me when they got boyfriends and we still would have been friends. So I began to have more friends that were guys and this allowed me to get a good look at both the female and male worlds.

And after seeing both sides of the gender spectrum and seeing how men treat and talk about women behind their backs and how women treat and talk about men. I have to say there is an INSANE amount of sexism on the part of the men. Not the blatant "go to the kitchen and make me a sandwich" kind. But a more subtle kind that has to do with blame, anger direction, and superiority. And every single male I know is just completely oblivious to it. They just don't see it. They can't.

"It's a bunch of fans expressing their dismay". From my personal life experiences, dismay expressed towards a girl is much worse than a guy. The girl won't get up and kick your ass, the guy might. So when women mess up, it's much easier to go bat shit crazy on them. There's lots of examples of it happening the other way around but for me, my particular life experiences have shown heavily that females just get yelled the fuck out for things that men would get a slap on the wrist for.

Look I'm not trying to be a "oh the poor women victims, look at me on my white horse coming in to save them" and all that bullshit. I just wish just once, every man in the world could be aware of his male privilege and inadvertent sexism. I see it so often, I see it in my friends, in my FATHER, in my neighbors. I'm so sick of this thick headed male I didn't do anything wrong / I don't know what you're talking about crap. Seeing it a few times and it annoys you, a few years and it bothers you, seeing it from a young age to an adult and it drives you absolutely insane. And that's what it's doing to me now.
Julia is the subject of today's http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/

The webcast is delayed and there's always something interesting that happens after the camera goes off.
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According to their website -
"""
The way we plan to achieve this is by providing a subset SQL front end with limited guarantees
"""

If your making something to parse and validate SQL yourself which is what it seems like they are doing then why go through all the hassle to run it a second time through another SQL parser. Also since your mandating everything have a "Key" why are we not using a "Key-Value" store.

I am not saying this is a bad project or a bad design decision I am just curious why they made those decisions since at first glance it makes no sense whatsoever.
thanks, will send you an email.
What other protocols can developers use this new method with?
1. The chief problem with government sponsored startups is - the government is terrible at allocating funds. A scrappy startup with a disruptive plan will not get any funding. A startup with a well presented plan (but entering into a crowded space) will get more funding. If you want to hire engineers, you'll be competing with the government, who can pay more than a small startup, but puts them on useless projects.

2. France ranks 29 on doing business, and 25 on starting a business. Not ideal, but not bad. It takes about a week, in total, if you know your stuff. I don't know much about it, because it's all in French. C'est la vie. http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings.

3. Total tax rate is high. Labor tax is outstandingly high. But salaries are kind of low (because high taxes = low wages).

4. No idea. All countries have talent. You might struggle for people with lots of web startup experience.

5. France's labor law looks a little scary.

6. Yeah.

Overall, the problems are that the government sucks all the good people into its inefficient investments, and that French labor law is more suited to large companies. Its health system is an advantage over the US, for SMEs though - everyone pays about the same amount (through somewhat high income taxes - which is really the employee's problem).

I'm a fan of safety nets, but not of officious labor law.
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I plan on running one as a headless server at home, yknow, a bit of file storage and whatever I can manage to put on it, not just because of the low price but because it draws a lot less power than my current setup.

35€ for something I can tinker with and basically leave running all day is pretty good. Not to mention at that price I can easily replace it.
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Weird, we have a couple of respectable (80+ requests per second) services running on azure in the SE asia zone, and I can't see any problems at all.

That said, we only rely on table storage and our instance count is mostly static.
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If there was even an easy way to get involved in OpenSource development in general - this is it. It's pretty much a list of trivial 1-line bugs to fix!
That sucks, we have a bunch of media stored with them and we're looking forward to using the cloud for some .NET based intensive processing (reporting).

A bit off topic: I've been trying for days to get Azure to work with .webm or .ogv files. Maybe I'm using the wrong tool (CloudBerry). I want to be able to deliver HTML5 video from the cloud but I'm without success for FF users. Luckily, my video player features a Flash fallback which is awesome.
a little more, or a lot more?
This either means that they have passed on inventory risk to their partners or are using a different and more expensive manufacturing process
> As a non-American I just have to ask, as I see his name thrown around a lot, is Obama really the one making these decisions?

Would you have asked that question while Bush was president or if McCain had won?

FWIW, Obama campaigned against some of those things. (McCain also campaigned against some of these things, albeit different ones in some cases.)
As soon as I saw the HN tagline, I wondered if anyone here had read Ecclesiastes. Good for you.
As a believer in solipsism, I would much rather live a lie and be happy than be miserable in the 'truth'.
I would say that one must remember that knowledge isn't an end in itself. If you waste your Saturday reading Wikipedia or Quora without purpose, that will make you unhappy, because you are wasting time. So some portion of the happiness equation comes from acting purposefully.
The most 'culturally accepted' form of the expression in America is to say 'hari kari' instead of 'suicide'. For two examples:

Representative Joseph Cao said to BP America CEO Lamar McKay: "Mr. Stearn asked Mr. McKay to resign. In the Asian culture we do things differently. During the Samurai days, we would just give you a knife and ask you to commit Hari-Kari."

Glenn Beck: "There's not enough knives. If this, if the IPCC had been done by Japanese scientists, there's not enough knives on planet Earth for hara-kiri that should have occurred. I mean, these guys have so dishonored themselves, so dishonored scientists."

I believe the difference is that, in the US, suicide has a strong association with moral and internal failings, while 'hari kari' is associated with honor despite external failure.

In either case, and as you rightly point out, this is your own opinion. It does not appear to be outside the pale to the US at large, else the above two quotes would have been major reports.
One of the metaphors that I think is most damaging is inherent in the way most decision-makers think of programming languages-- the decision is treated as comparable to the selection process for natural languages, which is trivial and obvious for natural languages but very complicated for PL.

With natural languages (a) there aren't order of magnitude differences in power or quality, and (b) the switching costs associated with becoming fluent in a new one are very high, so businesses usually default (without conscious choice) to "the standard", which is the language most familiar to the people in that location. (In New York, that's English; in Tokyo, it's Japanese.) For natural languages, this is the obvious right decision.

When this metaphor is taken literally and applied to PL selection, it results in Java and C++ being used, because those languages are "the standard". The difference is that, (a) there are languages that are orders of magnitude better-- just compare Scala against Java-- than mainstream PL, and (b) switching costs are a lot more moderate. Using "the standard" in PL, for a new company, is a horrible decision; you won't even get off the ground if you start in Java or C++.

Oddly enough, the term "programming language" is, technically speaking, completely correct (a PL is a language) but metaphorically detrimental.
Right, because ~$20 is a lot of money for an embeddable device. If you're looking at this as a desktop replacement/barebones media streamer, then your post might have SOME merit. But frankly, most of us have other plans for these little guys. You sound bitter for some reason.
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1. The beach, where my 5-year old paddles in the water, is also the ocean floor. Can get fairly shallow.
This seems to be about some odd certificate issue, not the network, which caused Microsoft to take access to its service management system down.

From the article itself:

> It later added that less than 3.8 per cent of hosted services had been affected.

If this was about Google or Apple, this submit would already have been flagged, taken off the front page, and several accounts would have been hell-banned.

</endjoke, but it's really true>

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft expands on this issue and if we can learn something about it... Perhaps other datacenters are also vulnerable to cert issues in their management systems.
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This is what she wrote:

> I came into the job out of a love of writing, not a love of playing games.

She then goes on to enumerate the many ways she isn't good at playing games. I don't mean to be rude---but I doubt she plays very many games considering her dislike of them.

That said... if you want to say she may help move the industry forward I agree. Though story-driven titles are nothing new (see: interactive fiction for the deep end of that), its really rare to see an AAA title put so much emphasis on story.

That said, personally, I feel that the Bioware games of the past were more open ended than those of the current generation.

Ironically, by having more 'story' they've made it into less of a game---something akin to a choose-your-own adventure novel with inter-spaced action sequences.
Maybe they forgot to account for leap year in their programming :/
ViralBShah: your account was shadow-banned in the last discussion 10 days ago.

(No reason I can see to ban one of the authors. Check logged out or from another account with "showdead" on.)
No more torrents=no changes anyhow
Google finally incorporates another obvious feature, obviating the need for a silly chrome add-on. Yay.
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A cheap NAS made from a Raspberry Pi model B (the Ethernet one) and an off-the-shelf USB external HDD.
I think maybe you missed the point. Its not supposed to replace the P4 with an 80 gig SATA you found on ebay for $50. Its a computer that you can program with a ruby on rails stack for the price of an Arduino. Its the same size too.

It doesn't replace your laptop, it replaces your Arduino. Your hardware projects just got awesome spilled all over them.
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The author also makes Caustic, probably one of the best music apps on any mobile platform.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=317623&pos...
Information and emotion are orthogonal. If you want to connect them you can, but you don't have to. In other words, you can use more or less information to make yourself happier or unhappier.

The ability to manage your emotions is different than the ability to process information, but it can be learned just as well, they just don't teach it in school.
A Raspberri PI based gaming console.
was the media stored in blob storage? From the article it looks like storage accounts weren't effected, just the management api and ~4% of service accounts.
Very good comparison between all the languages, and like other people said: a nice Rosetta stone. With that said, it would be very useful to add a comparison of the database layer syntax as that it is, at least for a me, a common task in all of the scripting languages. I also agree with the comments about adding the features that are unique to the languages, as that would be extremely helpful.
I'm baffled as to why you even bothered to post this. Unless Apple have quietly bumped the CPU or other subsystems without being noticed by the trade press, there's nothing new here.
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Very cool. I could totally use it in a future iPhone app. Pinterest fever alert! :)
What are the reasons those apps can't use all CPU cores? Is it possible to develop multi-core JS apps on recent browsers like chrome?
So the author's conclusion is that we should temper our unhappiness over the state of the world, because the facts are that we live in the "best world" that has ever existed. I can't disagree with that, because I enjoy being happy, but I think this is an easy pathway to apathy. I also think that one of the very reasons we live in the best world ever is that we are so well informed.

It's easy to send warriors off to slaughter a village if you never have to witness death. The last century has seen an accelerating increase in the connectedness of the human race. When a single man's life is threatened on the other side of the globe, it's possible for millions of people, thousands of miles away, to learn about it. Our natural empathetic instincts kick in, and that simple knowledge causes a stirring discomfort within us.

Most people I've met don't really want to be uhnappy. So, once we have this knowledge, we have two choices. We either do what we can to stop the source of our unhappiness -- injustice, war, abuse, etc -- or we become apathetic. Because I am an optimist, I believe most people will chose the former, and I believe that is why our best days are ahead.
8,16,32 bit retro game console, made in conjunction with this project (http://code.google.com/p/pixel-kit/, use google translate as it's in Russian).
Right now no one knows when the release will be. What we have here is a limited beta release to 10,000 people or so, not the actual product launch. That will be coming at an unknown point in the future, probably. People are frustrated by this realisation because the makers claimed it would be the real release. But I think its been obvious for at least 2 months that it would exactly what it is today (no one expected the website to die of course but the product selling out in seconds they predicted correctly).

They deserve criticism for getting the launch wrong. Until the hardware gets tested we don't know if that works. My fear is that the hardware shows the same lack of attention and it doesn't work very well. It needs to be called what it is, a potentially great product with a disastrously bad launch.
The US does not have exit immigration.

That's not entirely accurate. Since the arrival of the US-VISIT program, visa holders need to record their departure. At least at some locations and times, this was done with a mobile "pseudo-checkpoint" near the gate area. You weren't required to talk to them, though.
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Actually it's $200.
People can diss the raspberry pi as outdated, underpowered or whatever, but it's good enough, and $30 is revolutionary - the key is it's pocket money.
I would fear more that 9500 of them end up on eBay at $200 per unit until the next batch comes along. I really don't like people profiting from squatting.
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Maybe Satoshi is a Google pseudonym. Nobody really knows where Bitcoin came from...
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