skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be an issue of timing. Online shopping only took off in the last decade; the batch of consumers born after 1990 will have been exposed to internet shopping since childhood and will need much less convincing of buying anything online (than those who grew up used to buying things in stores).
The U.S. government takes extreme interest in all alternative currency schemes. Google "e-gold" for more information. There are two areas of human experience all governments consider their own domain: the use of force and the creation of currency.
It's a gedankenexperiment and he's invoking ceteris paribus. It's no different than isolating the velocity of two balls rolling down a slope by opting to ignore things like friction & drag in a physics problem.
In the same boat. The can i upgrade... entry at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/faq suggests that you could just as well do a clean install.
ActiveState Releases Stackato 1.0 Commercial-ready Enterprise Private PaaS
Microsoft Flight released today
A completely different product than before, and seemingly more of a game than a sim, but Microsoft released Flight today.
Yes it's quite funny. Just like people debate Apache vs. Nginx back and forth here while Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank taking almost all the profits from the web server market with IIS.
Dragon Age 1 stands alone in quality writing. It's not fair to compare DA2 or the ME games to it.
Apple for one: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-iclo...
This is weird because we're using GitHub for hosting.
The rebirth of the Firefox mascot
Hackers need intuitive design tools. Nothing's more intuitive than drawing with a pen on some cards. No commands to remember.
Good god, that is the fattest rails app (by number of models, views, and controllers) I've ever seen. A 2 MB routes file?!? I'd love to see a gist of that.
Could you explain what you mean? I've done my best work in coffee shops, hands down. I've also had the most enjoyable time doing it. It's way nicer than a library or an office or a chair at home. When you have a collection of other caffinated people working near you on different projects, you are often more motivated to work yourself. The atmosphere is ambient and doesn't offer much distraction, unless you want it to.

I only get to spend about 3 or 4 hours / week in cafes these days (I have an office job) but those are some of the best work hours I get. I wish I could transition full-time to coffeeshops, and if I get a startup going I might try it.
Legal Censorship: PayPal Makes a Habit of Deciding What Users Can Read
Really, can't you think of any use for a powerful, small, dirt cheap ARM computer?
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And if we return our attention to VS 11, the main topic here, and MSFT who produces it, they already hold enterprise market, and now they want to ignore it because they expect to be better Apple than Apple? I suspect they are making themselves less relevant by such moves, actively stimulating enterprises to consider alternatives. How about making a successful consumer product instead of trying to make the established Windows to be everything for everybody including enterprises, making Windows more "consumery and breakable"? I am talking about "Professional" and "Server" products now, not about "home" ones.

Maybe they should rebrand VS 11 to "VS 11 Home."
I think the idea is that you carry your tablet with you, then plug it into a dock with a keyboard/mouse when you are at a desk.
mcu is a Python developer too...
i feel like microsoft shouldn't have tried to include the classic/desktop mode. Metro is cool, commit to it. re-work office to exist solely in the metro interface, add a launcher to make AAA PC gaming titles compatible with metro. then, refuse to continue selling windows 7 to laptop OEMs. enterprise is going to hate metro anyways, keep selling win7 to them, but commit to metro as the way forward for consumers.
I don't believe there is a magic formula.

You should definitely find out whether there is a market for an idea before building it. But, I am not sure if a LaunchRock page is going to help with that. I suggest directly speaking to your target users.

5 direct suggestions from potential end users are better than 20 signups on a launch page.
Do people really need your idea?
You are going to find problems in any framework for a program of that size.
Apple blocking books that link to Amazon
If .com domains weren't considered to be USA based though then a USA citizen would be the one that was being charged for breaking the law wouldn't they?

Flip it around. Suppose someone is selling online under a Somali .so domain rather than a .com; the law should operate in the same way as long as the web servers themselves aren't located in USA.

Isn't it the assumption that any transaction with a .com is essentially under the purview of USA law that is at issue?

This just emphasises the need for .com to be considered neutral territory. It's only a redirection mechanism - USA can have and apply their laws to .co.us and of course any server that is based in USA.
Bovada.lv has been active since November; but even before then it was operating all US activities from Bodog.eu. The dot-com domain name has been 'dormant' (i believe it redirected to one of the two).

The dot-com domain name seizure is symbolic and will hurt their SEO; it will have little effect on their business.

[but indicting 4 top-level execs and aggressively pursuing their payment processors, however, will certainly have an effect]
All of your examples concern people solving their own problems, not solving other people's problems, or providing infrastructure/tools for solving other people's problems.

People who "read their own legal papers" should be commended for their diligence - but unless they've spent hundreds or thousands of hours studying the specific field in which they're signing papers, chances are there's a ton of meaning in those papers they don't understand or even recognize. Sometimes what's not present is as important as what is present - and sometimes the person who drafted the papers has included terms and conditions that sound innocuous but are incredibly important, or are completely unenforceable but sound scary.

The example you pose probably isn't "fear", it's economics - e.g., "I don't want to give up having the other things in my life I'd have to sacrifice to have money for an attorney . . . and this dispute isn't really that important to me, so I'll just let the other guy win."

I think it's a good thing that lots of minor disputes aren't litigated fully.
It's not unusual for my sysadmin to be waken up in the middle of the night
You can now click in the left column to do the same thing.(Images, Maps, Videos, News, Shopping, etc.)
This is more detail than I have ever seen on this topic. Is anyone sure that this guy actually knows what he's talking about?
If anything I think I would expect this to help Arduino by expanding the overall size of the market.
I fail to see how this is a problem. The point of presence notifications are to inform other clients that you're available. Google chat is just following the spec.
Reality is a myth.
There's a couple of unofficial ones available already. Don't forget to check the SHA-1 sum after completing the download. https://thepiratebay.se/search/windows%208/0/99/0
Commercial suborbital balloon flight facility takes shape
Mathematica has always had a command line.

MathKernel -script "foo.m" -noprompt

As to Mathematica being a pain to write code for: I've found it to be a pretty nice language, certainly a far cry better designed than MATLAB.
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Hihi. Have you ever been to 2XC? It's full of crazy Men's Rights Activists and there is always someone who will say "But what about the menz?" It's not hard to find sexism in 2XC.
Hypothetically, I'm gay. If I have sex with a man, I'm "breaking the law" in tens of Islamist countries. Are you proposing that they should be allowed to extradite me for breaking their law?

Because, that's really what's happening here. Bodog is a non-American company, operating outside of America, with assets that aren't in America. Please elucidate on how exactly you think they are subject to American law before you give a smug "well, don't break the law then" response.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Molten Gold Woman.
Today in this Photoshop Tutorial, we will see how to create a Molten Gold effect using the image of a woman. Some might believe that using only filter and coming out with an effect is really not a big deal. But as far as I know, it’s not that easy to use Filters and give a desired output, you need to research a lot.
More specifically, ten domain names were seized in May [1] including doylesroom.com and truepoker.com, and i think it was 4 or 5 in April's "Black Friday" (domains of pokerstars, full tilt, ultimate bet and absolute poker). The former 2 have been returned.

1: http://pokerfuse.com/features/in-depth/a-whos-who-of-blue-mo...
What a horrible article. Complete lack of in-text citations. There's no way of verifying any of the claims there, unless one goes through all of the listed references. To me it seems like the article was created by someone with very mild depression, wanting to back up his subjective feelings on the matter with vague citations.
I agree with some of your sentiments, but you'd make a stronger point if you didn't play math games.

You are citing Dow Jones Venturesource exits. First off, they are tracking venture-backed companies. So your denominator in that particular fraction isn't people shooting for M&A someday-- it's a tiny slice of companies that get VC dollars. How many TOTAL VC backed companies exist? 5k? 50k? I honestly have no idea, but comparing it to people getting struck by lightning is just silly.

Second, you mention an 8 million dollar sale as your example. $71M was the median in those 522 exits (http://www.dowjones.com/pressroom/releases/2011/01032012-VCE...).

All that aside, I think this whole argument just shouldn't be happening. I think we're all in agreement that the funded path is higher risk and higher reward.
AFAIK tools to develop for XP are free (VS express). They are certainly pushing you in their direction, but it's not an ultimatum by any standard.
Rails Development on Windows. Seriously.
No no, the post-PC era has already arrived and the PC is all but dead already. MS is years late.

(sent from my PC)
What they meant to say is: we don't believe anyone on earth is outside our jurisdiction.
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You can do HFT in Austin - http://www.rgmadvisors.com/

Edit: I see the discussion has passed me by. I'll add that I'm really enjoying working at RGM, and would definitely recommend it for anyone who does not have a strong preference toward living in SF or NY.
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Agreed. At this point he needs to start looking at SOA designs and figuring out if he can break this application out into services that can be individually tuned and managed.
From what I understand of the Pirate Party's mandate on copyright law, it seeks only to reform -- not abolish -- current copyright shenanigans. I got this information from the Pirate Party of Canada (but I'm pretty sure it's a universal mandate).
I missed the whole thing where .com was managed by the US, i thought that's why the .us domain was invented... i don't think anyone outside the US associates a .com meaning US based.

Regardless, stupid law, Team America strikes again!
I loved that story of how iOS came to be. He ended up making the right decision.
Interesting article but one thing is bothering me: Rails 3 being far from offering the same perf than Merb can offer.

Isn't that essentially comparing apples to oranges? People seem to think that Rails being "slow" is just the symptom of a bad code base and awful design choices by the developer team. Why not put more emphasis on the fact that the two frameworks cater to different people, make different assumptions and decisions in terms of design?

That aside, there's one point where that article really shines: paying hommage to the wonderful Aaron "@tenderlove" Patterson for investing loads of time on the innards of Rails to try and hunt performance issues, squash bugs and question the framework's architecture every step of the way.

This is especially important I think because it goes to prove that "fixers" still exist. In a programming world where everyone would rather roll out his own code base then try to fix, patch or contribute to existing and established projects and frameworks, it's very comforting cause that's obviously when the community as a whole yields the best immediate results.
Those people are not a minority. They are the clear majority and until a few years ago dominated everything.
The entire concept of variable-length C arrays is at best iffy, but including them in structs is pretty crazy.

Consider these two questions:

1) What is the sizeof a struct containing a variable-length array?

2) How do you create an array of structs containing variable-length arrays?
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The US government has always had dominion over .coms (and .nets). Verisign manages .com's through a contract with the US Department of Commerce. That's where they get there authority.
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They routinely seize assets without filing criminal charges as well.
How to Grab and Hold Website Visitor's Attention
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Hacker News itself is open source. AFAIK the source is available (minus the antigaming measures) along with the latest release of the Arc language.
Pictures Are The New Words
mate, you chose the wrong path. no framework is a silver bullet. some are better for specific tasks though. You need to choose carefully. Unfortunately for you, looking at your numbers, you've made about worst choice.

PS I personally would never be a customer of that bank/cc company you described
CoffeeScript doesn't inline the calls. V8 is pretty good but functions still have a discernible overhead. ClojureScript compiler macros are a pretty neat solution around this problem. Inlining can happen where you like yet you don't lose the generality of functions.
What about .org, piratebay uses that right?
Oscillating between Singleness Bliss & Singleness Angst
I might be being too presumptuous but, I think that, for those of us in the singleness club (and I mean truly single, not dating but unmarried), there are two dominate phases we oscillate between: singleness angst and singleness bliss...
Seconded. I love .NET, but I hate how MS's not-invented-here syndrome repeatedly (albeit unintendedly) kills great open source projects. (point in case: NDoc vs Sandcastle). Really hope this won't happen to Servicestack
Who Deserves Credit for Lean Startup?
That was only one of many charges.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/02/ccips....
Justin Kan Launches Exec (YC W12) For Real-Time Mobile Jobs
The interminable private beta is offering SNI based SSL for $10/month and IP based SSL for $100/month.
Hey, if I could plug my iPad into a dock and get full OSX rocking Photoshop and XCode, I'd be all over it. Who needs a Macbook Air?! That's the dream of Windows 8. iPad for the road, MBP for home.

The real problem with Windows 8 is that it, ironically, doesn't work very well with a mouse. Even if you docked your Win8 tablet and tried to live entirely in the Desktop mode, you can't. You'd keep getting a jarring fullscreen animation bumping you into Metro mode. Reading an email in Outlook on the Desktop? Whoops! You just clicked on a link that opened up Metro IE instead of Desktop IE. Cue fullscreen page transition... Gestures that are simple and intuitive with touch are hidden and awkward with a mouse and keyboard.
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For almost every architecture out there the transition to 64-bits made existing code run more slowly for the reasons you describe, but on x86 the 64 bit transition also doubled the number of registers, guaranteed that SSE2 was available, and did some other stuff that actually made most code run faster.

However, I believe Google is working on some program to let people use all the goodies in x86-64 while also using 32-bit pointers.
We we're pushing our blog over to Tumblr, but this feature has been down on tumblr over the last two days. But yes - soon! Thanks!
I haven't used AirPlay for games yet (waiting for the iPad 3). But from my experience with a PS3, HDMI and TV post-processing can add a lot of lag to the output. You'd thought a modern standard would've taken this into consideration...
I've been using rails since 2005. Here are my random observations:

I've never been a merb user, so I cant speak for how much I miss merb. Sinatra seems to take the place of merb.
I do like the result of the merge, rails 3. Yehuda Katz did a hell of a job making rails easier to understand and modify under the hood (with railties, engines, stuff like that). Bundler works a lot better than config.gem. Adding in rack was huge.
I'm still not a huge fan of the sprockets asset pipeline. Jammit could be a better solution.
I dont understand why @tenderlove replaced josh peek's router and replaced it with journey.
Rails generators for coffeescript should generate tests just like the ruby files do. Something like phantomjs seems to do the trick.
Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
It's also possible that there's a co-factor: TV appeared about the same time as reliable birth control.
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Yes, I'm really afraid that if the dumbing-down trend continues I'll be able to spend even less time in their new IDE.

Visual Studio 6 (released 1998) has keyboard macros, as well as every version that followed, until now, when VS 11 from year 2012 doesn't?

I've read somewhere that they "measured" that too few developers use macros. I guess they use metrics which you have to accept to be sent to Microsoft, and that the very same people who use macros simply do not want to have the IDE sending metrics over Internet at the times they don't control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

Disclaimer: I do use macros, that's the first thing I add whenever I install Visual Studio. It seems that unless something changes, I won't be able to use them on VS 11.
The gambling charges are pre-internet jurisdictional law. By doing business with citizens of Maryland, you bring yourself within Maryland's jurisdiction, at least to the scope of that business. Domains have nothing to do with why Maryland can enforce its gambling laws against a Canadian company.

The internet-age wrinkle is that by virtue of ".com" domains being property located in the US, they can be seized pursuant to these charges. Jurisdiction over property is very specific to the locality where the property is located. Maryland couldn't, for example, seize the company's real estate assets in Canada pursuant to its criminal charges for violation of Maryland law. Since all ".com" domains are logically located in the United States, that becomes a pretty substantial piece of leverage the U.S. has over other countries.
Why do we need to bother reading it when half the Apple blogs are just re-writing and regurgitating the book anyway?
It's not information that's to blame, it's the condition of the world we live in. Knowing about glaring inequities will either

Cause resentment because one is at the bottom of the pyramid

OR

Create guilt because one is at the top of the pyramid

Add to that the realization that very few people are "self-made" and timing, family, culture and conditioning play a huge role in success and you have a recipe for self-doubt/flagellation.

In my case, I just hit a wall when self-preservation kicked in and said "I WILL BE HAPPY, DAMMIT!". I still work at projects I think will make the world better, but don't let their success or failure cloud my feelings. I'm content most of the time.
Given that the floodgates on new TLDs are opening, it seems quite possible that a TLD operator could run afoul of the law and put thousands if not millions of domains at risk.
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New six-year tech high schools in Chicago to offer associate degrees
Not anymore, they use .se now.

EDIT: This is wrong, see peteri's post.

.org is essentially the same as .com, owned by the US government and managed by Verisign.
If you want Python, just use Python ("There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." - PEP 20). Very central to the Perl philosophy is that TIMTOWTDI (though I'm not sure if this is canonized anywhere as clearly as for Python), so your suggestion is ridiculous. I for one found the bless mechanics extremely enlightening with regard to the semantics of object orientation. The feeling I had when I first got that was akin to when I first realized "to be" lumps together the semantics of identity and attribution in the english language.
Verisign added NS records to the .com zone servers, not to the root. The root has very little in it, basically just pointers to the TLD zone servers...
>There might be a boring stuff nobody cares about channel, but I've never seen it.

C-SPAN?
Understanding Information Architecture by Peter Morville
Interesting, the only company in the world that bends over backwards for backwards compatibility gets slagged when they break it once while all the other software/hardware makers that drop support in a pinch get a free pass. What has a monopoly got to do with it anyway? Apple does it very frequently and EOLs software in a mere few years.
Ah, I hadn't heard about 0MQ yet. Just glanced at it and it looks quite similar, but with very different communication primitives.

I certainly need to play with that to find out more. Thanks for the mention!
I have an awesome domain perfect for a ticket site I'm currently doing nothing with, I'd like to make it into a working ticket site using your 50/50 splits with as little work as possible.

1. Do you do white label?

2. Do you have anything I can just point my domain to and earn in some revenue on ticket sales? If not, could it be considered?
I'd assume Firefox Mobile supports them, since AFAIK they use exactly the same JS engine as regular Firefox.
> On my 64bit win 7 install, C:\windows\SYSWOW64 takes up 1.4 gigs.

For the uninformed: on a 64bit Windows, SysWOW64 (i.e Windows On Windows 64) holds 32bit binaries while System32 holds 64 bit binaries (whoever pulled that April's fool prank must have laughed out himself to death by now)
This is probably going to devolve again into a long discussion, but here's the books with an academic bent that I was most impressed with (many of them 25 years ago, of course):

"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman (a.k.a the "Dragon Book")
"The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald Knuth
"Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation" by John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman

An amazing book, despite the fact that the core thesis of the first edition, that we were on the verge of permanent world domination by RISC architectures, turned out to be dead wrong:

"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

Two books by Niklaus Wirth (A bit out of fashion, maybe because they were written in the "wrong" languages, and maybe because they were TOO concise in today's world of shovelware books. Wirth is the Strunk & White of CS writers):

"Algorithms and Data Structures" by Niklaus Wirth
"Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth

This book might be the one that impressed me most in my undergraduate studies, although I can't say I've done much with what I read there:

"Parallel Program Design: A Foundation" by K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra