skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until "web workers" are generally supported by common browsers, there is no way to run more than on bit of Javascript at a time in any given tab. As all the code is running in a single thread it will only use one CPU core (or if the scheduler bounces the browser process between cores it will use at most one core/second worth of CPU resource per second).

Depending on the how much cross talk there would be between the threads, web workers might not be adequate for some algorithms anyway as the message passing (the only way web workers can communicate, there is no "shared memory" access or other such short cuts to communication) could add noticeable latency. Caveat: I've not used them for anything myself so I don't know if any such latency is large enough to be an issue.

You can create multi-threaded code using web workers, but you exclude your app from browsers that don't support them. The major laggard on the desktop is IE, which is due to gain support for them in version 10. As far as I know the only current mobile browser that supports them is Safari under iOS5, apparently they were present in Android's browser but removed/disabled in recent releases.
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off-by-1 errors."

Is there a better name for "programming language" that avoids the problem of association with natural language?
This whole scenario is kind of silly. I can understand the simplification in order to debate the merits of a free mass scale online education. However it's not realistic. No two candidates will ever be the same. Everyone has different levels of communication, most will think a little differently. If they're programmers, there's probably different levels of understanding of language concepts, or OOP concepts. In the scenario of one entry level candiate from a brick and mortar institution vs the candidate from MITx. I'm going to choose the person answers my questions most coherently, and writes the better code on my sample problem.

I'm going to hire the employee who i believe will work with me better, and who will produce a higher quality product. I don't care which school he/she went to.
What you say is good and true, but it's important to remember that even behind the subsidization aspect others allude to, more uses of RasPi -> more things the child receiving it can do -> more appealing the device will be in his eyes -> dedicate more time educating himself using it. (him/her of course)

At least that was the general theme of my computer usage as a kid. Games were fun, but they also drew me to spend more time and educate myself about "controlling the beast".
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I cannot, in good conscience, charge for just scraped content. I mentioned it before, but once I complete testing, I'll release the full source on GitHub
Well I guess it all feeds into the "buy every other Windows version" joke. By Windows 9 they'll have this integration sorted, maybe.
Is it sustainable for GitHub to host (static) sites for free?
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It should probably be noted that 'product' in this article only means physical products, eg the iPhone, iPad, MacBook etc.

It would be interesting to see how this relates to software. I might just have to buy the book.
This appears to be an attempt to make orphan works available to the public. While I might like to see adjustments more friendly to authors (a longer period before being appropriated, easier terms under which authors may retrieve distribution of the work on their own terms), I'm not opposed to this measure in principle.
The above is why this only applies to truly global multinationals that have their assets liberally distributed around the world. The risk exposure of a single government going rogue is mitigated by any particular government only having access to a fraction of the assets. If several governments go rogue at once then you have bigger problems to worry about.
Another relevant point: antitrust oversight of Microsoft started in 1998 and ended 12 May 2011, and Microsoft clearly doesn't have a monopoly in PCs anymore.

Imagine a world in which Apple was taken to court for including Mobile Safari on the iPhone, with talk of huge fines and company breakups. Consider having to make strategic decisions with those threats hanging over your head. Would we get Siri? Maybe adding Reminders counts as bundling? Maybe Game Center is anticompetitive against OpenFeint? Will the Growl developers sue over Mountain Lion notifications? What do you do when every improvement could become grounds for a lawsuit?

Of course, Apple doesn't have to worry about those things because they don't have any monopolies. Microsoft did. So competition from Apple may have made the difference simply in that Microsoft no longer has to worry about being a monopoly either.
sweet! the best thing about this book is that it led me to homoiconic! https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic
so much goodness there.
This will effectively limit you to making requests to services that provide an API that supports JSONP. If you're going to do something like this, why not just use Heroku or something similar? Unless you're relying solely on external APIs, you're going to need some server space sooner or later.

Github is good for static pages, like blogs, but I don't think a web application will work that well.
A branding expert recommends ignorance...call me a cynic.

What he observes is that people who are connected to their communities are happier. People who are disconnected (or even dislocated) from their community and obsessed with "stuff" are less likely to be.

The idea that people living in a favela are uninformed demonstrates ignorance in the same way that shouting at people who don't speak English would. They are simply informed about a different set of facts - and in general that set of facts may make their lives richer because it is about people they know - i.e. who their cousin has a crush on rather than the Jonbenet Ramsey's of the world.

I've seen escalator's, but knowing how to find potable water that doesn't come with a monthly bill would make me better informed.
I think Bible is the only self-help book I've ever need in my life.

Side joke: C# in the Nutshell 4.0 is way thicker than the Bible yet the technical book will be outdated soon.
I would really like to see a sane analysis of this law. From this article it could merely require registering your copyright to use it, if it's more than a decade old. Which I personally would consider a sane way out of the current mess when it comes to finding someone to pay when remixing, resampling and quoting outside of fair use.

However given the opponents this probably isn't the case. But this article gives us nothing.
I moved my blog to it some time ago and it's been excellent so far. I do kind of think this is out of scope for GitHub, and will probably move to S3 at some point.

I did switch from Jekyll to Octopress though (Octopress is a nice framework around Jekyll that automates the annoying manual bits involved with Jekyll). So far it's been great though!
The Zune failed because people didn't like it.

I think people actually did like it, and I think that people do like Windows Phone when they try it. Zune failed because of a lack of visibility in a crowded marketplace (well, crowded in the sense that Apple is taking up 90% of the room). Windows Phone actually has the same challenge, and MS haven't really stepped up their game with regards to promoting it. Yet?
If you have written a JavaScript library and it's hosted on GitHub, I wonder if you can somehow include the `master` branch in your `gh-pages` branch as a submodule. Do you get me? If the core repo is clean JS, but where your demo site might want to include that JS, plus some extra pages.
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Good points. Also MLK and Malcolm X could stand as pretty prominent counterexamples to my argument.
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Is there an open source hacker news clone? Have a friend looking for an up voting system to run semi-privately
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Anybody else having trouble with the videos? Can't seem to get them to play in FF or Chrome on Mac 10.7
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There you go again, trying to make everyone more informed.

Stop it.
Comparing the situation in the UK to the situation in Nigeria takes a
good deal of study. In the UK, infrastructure generally exists and if
some company invests in new infrastructure, paying for it is just a
simple matter of time and attracting customers.

In Nigeria, it's different. If some company invests in installing new
infrastructure like copper or fiber, it gets stolen. This also happens
in the UK and the US, but to a far lesser degree, and the damages are
typically covered by insurance. No insurance company is crazy enough to
insure infrastructure investments in Nigeria due to the very high
probability that all the expensive wires, fibers and equipment will be
stolen and sold for scrap.

It's not just communications infrastructure, the problem of theft also
occurs with power infrastructure. Nearly every country has a problem
with theft of valuable copper power lines, but in many parts of Africa,
the problem is a lot worse. In Nigeria, it results in an unreliable
power grid so running computers which are not battery backed (UPS
backed systems or battery powered laptop/tablet/phone) is a dodgy
proposition.

As for why infrastructure theft occurs everywhere, blame
greed. As for why it happens more often in some places, the answer is
economic disparity. Just imagine how tempting it would be to steal
wires where you live if you knew those wires were made of gold.
Considering the difference between your earning potential at a job, and
the earning potential of jobs for people in other places, gold power
lines is roughly equivalent.

You see, all the rules change when you have to worry about crazy,
desperate thieves cutting down live power lines in your neighborhood.

The other side is, of course, adoption rates and government regulations.
Japan is an excellent example of high adoption rates propelling mobile
data networks, and sane governance enabling advancements.
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I've read recently that Firefox is looking into building a Metro version of it. No word about Chrome.
If you're doing any form of traning, put the complete development/whatever environment on a computer and give it away as part of the course. Make a business setting up pre-packaged environments for various courses and fulfilling orders for training companies. etc etc.
I think they should clearly separate tablet and desktop interfaces and switch between them based on context (like what Canonical is planning to do with their "Ubuntu for Android").

That is: you get only a classic desktop (+ windowed Metro apps) when your slate is attached to a docking station and you only get the tablet interface otherwise.

And then provide a switch within Control Panel to get the hybrid experience, as it is now.
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Hotel room pc connected to the tv, for webmail etc.
Either brought by yourself, or supplied by the hotel

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No. And for most programs, 64-bit code is probably less efficient than 32-bit code. Pointers are twice as big and instructions are generally longer, so less stuff fits into cache.
Github already hosts lot of code and allows free downloads.
By hosting a static site, we essentially are hosting an HTML file which can be downloaded. Unless the site is of very High traffic, it is already sustainable for Github.Consider for example the amount of users who download Bootstrap from Github everyday.
I want to thank you too :) . You've been very supportive of everyone in HN, and give insightful answers to even obscure threads like my aborted attempt at a micropayments startup :)
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Not so in this corner. Use of the idea of fairness in argument is a red flag suggesting a lack of foundation by the person arguing.

I think this opposition suggests that the party takes its positions from who its opponents are, rather than extending from a coherent underlying philosophy.

The Pirate Party should take a strict line - abolish copyright altogether - rather than buying into the premises of their opponents but then trying to make a murky case about fairness.

The French law could lead to good things. I'm on the lookout for an event where a government makes a significant concession against copyright and then finds that there are trade advantages to it. A well-publicised example of this could cause the floodgates will open, and there will be a race to liberalise.

I see a parallel to the period of history where England lost the US colonies. They abandoned mercantalism for a free-trade model, and actually got richer despite the loss of a major colony.
And unfortunately that with outages like this, that number's probably not increasing anytime soon.
This really, really works, and these are great tips.

A couple of other factors:

* Write when someone is less likely to be flooded with other emails.

This is obvious but non-trivial. We are most likely to want to email people when they are busiest, because they have recently done something to get everyone's attention.

* Do some research to figure out the best means of communication. For Patrick, and for most people, it's email.

On the other hand, Nassim Taleb, an author, despises email. He is very active on his Facebook page.

And, a good chunk of the work I did last year stemmed from a cold call to a company's receptionist. They are small, and so I was only one step away from the person who could instantly make a decision. If an email would have been better, she would have told me so rather than passing the phone over.

You probably already know who the 3-5 people are in your field who could make a difference to your work. It only takes 5-30 minutes to write a good email, and there's no downside.

So go say hi.
If you have two candidates who appear to have the same skill levels and only one of them has had the distinct advantage of being to a top university and then it's surely the one with the more modest education who is likely to be most talented?
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Have a look at https://github.com/antirez/lamernews.

Live site: http://lamernews.com/
My company does a SAAS product aimed at banks. Everybody except the office manager telecommutes... sometimes. And everybody is in the office a large chunk of the time.

It's good to be able to concentrate alone, AND it's good to be able to collaborate in person.
I would just point the script tag to the raw file address on github (eg. https://raw.github.com/sravfeyn/SparkDC/master/.download.py), than using github pages!
And so are you.
I better not read the article then
Totally possible! My only knowledge of them is through the fine Walmart electronics department, though, which has no reputation for quality. :)
If you're willing to limit yourself to browsers that support CORS it's not an issue. I would personally get a VPS from prgmr.com but for an experiment GitHub is fine.
Of course people who bought the Zune are going to like them. They're a self-selected sampling... Even if they thought that deep down, the Zune was a POS, human nature is to defend decisions you've made, especially ones that involve money.

The real question is why was the Zune a failure. It was a failure because it didn't offer what the market was buying. The fact that the few who did buy the Zune liked it in no way confers any quality upon the Zune.
Why is everyone itching to get off of GCC? Or is it all just posturing, to get GCC to work harder now that it has competition?
Native code is still allowed, so it's technically possible provided they write new UI code for Metro. The main issue is "will Microsoft let other browsers in the store?"
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“Sautéing camel toes”. ha.
"Book Stores Will Shrink to Coffee Shops"

This could turn out to be true, i just hope that as paper books turn into history, we dont lose the quality associated with something going into print. The process of having enough confidence to "Print it" is pretty intense, and therefore the quality of a printed book v's any e-book or website will not match up without a significant amount of effort (which i suspect for business reasons wont get as much attention, because for business reasons you dont want to screw up a paper book)

Its an interesting concept, i think we're just not there yet. People like paper books, the only way they'll go away is if they become unaffordable or just stop being produced (in which case i'm starting a publishing company focusing on paper books!)
The "minority" you're talking about is not a minority in gaming. They are the majority.
"Education might be the stated aim of the project but its not the limit of the device."

Actually, I think it was the stated aim, but then they realized that, learning from the OLPC project, they needed to cater to the developers and techs that would buy these for projects.
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One of the things that RabbitMQ does which this doesn't seems to be much more support for variable topography. This seems to need to know of all receivers when you create a "speaker" which in dynamic networks doesn't seem like such a good idea. Of course you can have each receiver register with some sort of registry and have speakers interrogate that, but then you're back with a single point of (logical) failure.

Discovery and dynamic usage doesn't seem to be covered in many of these projects (cool as they are) which seems to me to be a more challenging and useful extension.
What makes you think this is faster than existing solutions? I see no benchmarks.
If the problem is orphaned works, why not simply turn them into the public domain, an let everyone distribute them? Why keep this quango as a monopolist over all orphaned books?

This is nothing but corruption, giving those select members of the quango a cash-cow at the expense of both the authors and society.

The article by the AFUL explains it well: http://aful.org/communiques/french-senate-proposes-to-legali...
"Same goes for Windows Phone 7, it is failing because people don't like it."

It's been out for a little over a year in a crowded marketplace. Microsoft's strategy is long term - there is little evidence to the contrary and their history is of taking such an approach (easier when the founder and CEO each hold more stock than any other shareholder).

Windows Phone is targeted far more broadly than the competition - from the 4G smart phones of Europe to the data planless feature phones of Zambia.
My guess is that they found in practice, employees trying to contribute to another team's project do more harm (in the form of distraction, politicking, and low-quality contributions) than good.
I just don't understand why any business would ever put their brand under complete control of facebook. That never made sense to me. When I think of all the posters I have seen that only tell me how to find the company on facebook, I shake my head and sigh.
They're not supposed to end up in the hands of hackers for $200+. They're supposed to end up in the hands of kids for $35.
Promise free food, and suddenly way more people are demanding it than the economy can support. Even if the economy can afford to give away food, society stagnates because there is no incentive to produce nor advance anything of value - be it making widgets, sweeping floors, or writing sonnets. Those who do produce the wealth unproductive others live on will decide to not bother (look up "go Galt"). We Americans are obsessed with jobs because we realize to not work leads to death, be it individual or cultural.
There appeared to be an agreement among vendors that nobody would acknowledge the existence of the Nvidia G84 issue because warranties had expired or were close to expiration.

My in-warranty (4 years IWS turned out to be a great decision) T61p had the same issue, and I too had in fact figured out what was wrong with it while my Thinkpad was still under warranty, but Lenovo did not send me a replacement notebook (newer model) until having replaced the planar twice with the same GPU, all of which that had ever been made were known to be defective.

Interestingly, the Nvidia GPU in the newer T410 I got is much slower than what was in the three years older T-series -- when it worked.
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Highlights of the less obvious but the most serious problems:

- By intentional design(+), it can't produce an executable which runs on Windows XP, because "you" really don't want the applications that run on the 50% of all PC's of the world,

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-XP-Windows-7-market...

- Keyboard macros are removed, because "you don't need them."

Oh yes, and they changed the color theme to distract the attention of the developers population from the mentioned serious problems.

Thank you, Microsoft.

+) They had to remove the code which already existed in their DLLs to achieve this and also to stop shipping you the procedure to build your own versions of the same DLLs.
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Soon, we won't even need to turn the phone on.
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I'm astonished at the terms of their API (so far). No limits and free to cache?

http://seatgeek.com/api-terms
[looks in desk drawer] What, doesn't everyone have at least two sets of barista tools in their cube?
Windows 8: "The graphical, consumer-oriented equivalent of Linux"
I think it's interesting that the #1 feature on their features page is labeled "Always up. Always on."
This question shows a lot of the confusion that people have around windows 8. I partially blame Microsoft for this, and I also largely blame uninformed comments on technology related websites that have, intentionally or not, spread misconception.

Don't expect win8 to suddenly transform legacy apps into 'metro' style apps. The current chrome experience that you have on win7 isn't going to magically transform to a full-screen, touch optimized experience unless google put's in the effort to develop the metro app (whether google is doing this work or not, I'm not sure)

Instead, the chrome that you are familiar with will run on the desktop, in the same way that it does on win7, in a windowed mode that you can click/drag-around/resize.