skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the guy has a huge banner with a picture of himself on every page of his website. He seems to think that developers who are into music creation are unique to Rails (it's been my experience that there's a high correlation between programming and enjoying creating and playing music). He seems to be the stereotypical Rails developer - arrogant, full of himself, convinced he's one of the normal, cool guys who programs and that people who use other technologies, like .Net or Java (who are a dime a dozen) are just dorks with no style.

I'm sure there are plenty of Rails developers who are good people, they're just eclipsed by guys like this shouting about how awesome everything they touch is.
The number of replies strongly implies "interest".
Basically this cross-browser, cross-device form-styling, am I right?
Why Riak and Node.js Make a Great Pair
If this were to gain momentum, then I think the exact opposite would happen. Crowd sourcing is like a human map-reduce. The bad patent is "mapped" to people who know something about the subject and each searches independently sometimes sharing results. Analysis is done to "reduce" the result to provable prior art. Further, I think they should remove the award. I would do this for free. Sites that pay people to contribute almost always fail (think Mahalo vs. Wikipedia).

Patent trolls affect all of us. This is something everyone could get behind.

Edit: by "exact opposite" I mean crowd-sourcing could produce good results faster, with greater urgency, than any expert.
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The Credit Card is the New App Platform
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 million
Does anybody other that clueless managers actually make tech decisions based on search popularity? I can see some limited value in choosing one project over another because of popularity in general, but as long as there are more than 10 projects using it, popularity is irrelevant compared to other criteria, like the actual quality of a tool.

Seriously, this popularity contest between node and rails is getting annoying, open source is not high-school, quit obsessing over useless numbers and write awesome code.

It's 2012, you can get away with using whatever you like, even Haskell or Lisp, choose whatever works best for you. On the internet nobody(relevant) cares if you're a dog(to paraphrase the popular quote).
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How to Get National Press
This is true, and I should have chosen my words better. My intended point, however, was that unless Google is attempting to deliberately sabotage the performance of Javascript-compiled Dart applications, there are practical limits to what they can achieve via translation (or so I assume, correct me if this is misguided).
Let’s have a look at Mr. Braithwaite’s résumé: Hmm, he won a Jolt Programmer Productivity Award for leading the JProbe team. Fine, let’s see how much JProbe costs: $3,000 for the multi-OS concurrent version.

Haha, he ought to know better before quoting Mr. Spolsky!
There's plenty of software that falls into the 1k to 75k range. Off the top of my head: any professional embedded C compiler or IDE license, MATLAB, MathCad, Adobe CS Suite, various CAD packages. These are all used in engineering environments where maybe a handful of licenses are purchased, at least in the environment I'm currently working in. We don't get salesmen calling us and pushing new releases; we maybe purchase every second or third new version.

Joel writes "You need purchasing managers and CEO approval and competitive bids and paperwork."

I think this is a bit over-reaching. Sure, you need manager approval, but that's been pretty easy to obtain in any engineering environment I've been in. Most of the time the software vendors come up with a new file format that's incompatible with the past, so you're practically forced to upgrade. Never have I seen bids or CEO/CTO approval on the software I'm discussing.

I think perhaps a more relevant range is 5k-75k or even 10k-75k.

(Sorry if I'm doing it wrong, this is my first post here.)
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Yet another way China and Google are different
Low budget! Sweet!!
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Smashing Nodejs JavaScript Everywhere
I've reenabled Firefox's minimum font size; it's a bit buried in the preferences (fonts->advanced) but it's more effective to fix sites where the sizes lack consistency. For most sites NoSquint works well.
Even if that's correct, that doesn't mean that what Kim did wasn't illegal or wrong. Kim wasn't simply engaged in "file sharing" he ran a multimillion dollar parallel distribution system. He wasn't sharing, he was basically using file sharers as a Mechanical Turk to scrape the Internet for content which he then monetized at a large scale.

If you think Kim was in the right, then why not Amazon? your cable company? Why does Valve even bother paying Bethesda a share? Etc. File sharing is highly tolerable as a small enterprise, even if it is aggregately large; it's not tolerable as a highly profitable business model.
While this article didn't show anything, the mainstream argument about minimum wage causing labor surpluses is well enough explained on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Economics_of_the_m...
I find this true, but its also true of other languages. Like first commenter noted, closed minded Rails devs are usually close minded.
Duh, its evolution. You make it sound like a war theatre.
Ask HN: LLC Question
I just sent in my LLC registration form (Illinois) and I'm curious if there is a website out there for a list of dates that I need to keep in mind for taxes and other required things to keep in mind.
Perl comes out best according to Tom Christiansen (author of this Perl Unicode Cookook post).

See his Unicode Support Shootout - The Good, the Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly presentation at OSCON 2011 where he gave a comparison of Unicode handling in Javascript, PHP, Go, Python, Ruby, Java, and Perl.

ref: http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html
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Is your startup cool?
> There aren't even sharks in the daytime waters.

That's actually a downside.

Sharks are cool and they're almost never dangerous, at least to divers.

Yes, things are different for surface folk who insist on looking like a seal from below.
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Ask HN: Concerned about .com takedowns. ICANN mtg in my city soon. Can I help?
I am concerned about the growing trend of second-level domain-name takedowns that skip due process, or that apply one country's laws to businesses from other countries. There's an ICANN meeting in my city soon (ICANN 43), for which I've signed up (as a member of the general public). 1) Is there any way I can make a difference there, regarding this issue? (As secondary questions: 2) Have any of you attended these meetings before? 3) Have you seen any ICANN policy change significantly because of comments made in the public forums?)
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Great concept! I've been waiting for a technology like this. Event based seems like the right way to go and I've often wished an app like this existed for my private events.
Two points:
1. We've been saying "the next version of javascript will result in world peace" for years now...
2. Dart does more than Harmony. A simple example is integers of arbitrary size.
If only defending a patent suit was as simple as finding the prior art. Most patent trolls will happily invite you to take your prior art claim to court, knowing full well you can't afford to do it.
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200 visits is not really much of anything...I think I've averaged about 100 visits per point...so 10,000 visits for a story that manages 100 votes. HN does from time to time bury submissions that break a rule (dupes, for example) but getting votes seems to be a combination of good content and traffic conditions.
And on today's episode of Prelude to a Downvote: How to be snarky and add nothing to the discussion!
Hey, I'm the author of this blog. Much of my previous deanonymization research has been discussed on HN; see http://www.google.com/search?q=33bits.orgsite:news.ycombinat... Also, if you find the premise of the blog interesting check out the sitemap linked from the page.

But since this post is about the About page, let me share a couple of lessons I've learned from the blog, which has been more successful in communicating my research than I'd dared to hope for when I started it 3.5 years ago.

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How do you plan to handle trust metrics, reputation metrics, and of course, verification?

I hope that's a good question, but it's really the first thing that came to mind while looking over your site and trying to understand what Exex does. If you'd rather not answer for competitive reasons, I'd totally understand. It's just an area that I consider fascinating.
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I think I have seen this argument before, that X is somehow obscure, in the sense that all those lame workaday cororate drones don't use it, so it must follow that all the most awesome people gravitate towards it. I'm not sure I buy it. Sometimes stuff is obscure because it sucks. It would also follow that using the most obscure language possible would make you the most awesome. Sort of like inventing a sport in order to ensure you are the best in the world.I'm also ignoring the fact that there seem to be a million rails based sites out there, they were not all done by an elite cadre of the best of the best of the best were they?
It definitely belongs here. Science is awesome and this story is remarkable.
HFT given dim verdict in government review
http://www2.illinois.gov/Business/Pages/default.aspx
The Windows 7 suggestion come naturally because ReactOS isn't ready yet. :)
Wouldn't SBCLs type inference(+ type hints) help with this? I'm no compiler expert, but i think clojure(with the possible exception of multimethods, which are slow even on the JVM) would map well to CL(maybe even better than the JVM).
Perl is definitely bipolar in this respect -- I've never had an easier time of dealing with Unicode issues than in Perl, but I've also never cursed Unicode so much while dealing with it in Perl.
I think the solution needs to be more ambitious. What if the "invention" is not prior art, but other people can come up with the same idea on their own? Does that deserve to be patented so that the company that was one week late will need to pay patent fees? Maybe the whole patent process should be crowd-sourced and patents should only be granted if no one can think of the same idea.

(I discuss this more here: http://zappable.com/2011/08/how-to-fix-the-patent-system/)
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The way any sane company would. Imagine you host a file locker service, and there are ten copies of a given music video on your service, which due to deduping (also what any sane enterprise would do), all point to the same physical data.

You recieve a DMCA for one link, and do your duty and take it down. You do not take down the other 9 links, because you are in no position to know if the other 9 are infringing are not.
The line that really got me was ".NET developers are a dime a dozen".

If this were true my current employer wouldn't have spent the last six months trying to find a good senior-level ASP.NET developer.
> when was that last time that you were able to take a pass on understanding while debugging?

When I run a program I've written in C or Python, the only program that's really running is written in x64 machine code, because that's the only language the processor understands. But I can debug my program without having to understand the x86 instruction set, because high level languages abstract it out.

But if the abstraction was leaky, OTOH, I would still have to understand the details of what's being purportedly abstracted out, so the abstraction wouldn't be properly doing the job of an abstraction.

That's why leaky abstractions are a bad thing.
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The actual interview was already on HN last night, so this is a 'sorta' dupe. In any case, what he has to say is interesting because of the situation that he is in. It perhaps gives us some sort of idea of how he will pursue his defense against these charges.
PyPy is not just an Python-Interpreter. The PyPy Team build a Toolchain that can creat a JIT-Compiler out of a Interpreter (read some about the pypy project and you will be enlightened. Such a Toolchain does not exist for Common Lisp.
> Can they sue for damages? And if so who pays?

The entity that they sue pays, if they win.

So, who do you think that they can sue and on what grounds?

The MPAA didn't shut down their company or arrest them and doesn't have the power to decide whether someone else will do those things, so it will be extremely difficult to hold them liable.

Prosecutors and police are almost never liable.
Location-based Document broadcasting? WTF
You've heard of broadcasting sound and video but never broadcasting a document into a location where everyone in a 15 mile radius can get instantly and talk about it. Go to www.doccaster.com to see a cool product video and to sign up for the MVP releasing this month.
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Q: do you think the designers of TCP were thinking of the constant that they started with in the first place? Or do you think as computer scientists they said "some integer n > 0 so that we can achieve the exponential effect."

While we're modifying the initial constant, why not reconsider the exponent? Or the shape of the equation itself?
The Girl With The Penguin Tattoo.
Humans are dying at a rate of 1.8 per second, and every human death is a tragedy of greater magnitude than the extinction of an insect species.
Didn't Facebook just announce a group to help tackle that problem?
About doing this for free: thought the same. Receiving money might even complicate things wrt tax or other employment contracts.

I wonder if they'd allow one to surrender any payments, instead having them directly donated to EFF, FSF or other non-profit organizations that are fighting with or are endangered by (software) patents.
Creative Commons: the 'Everyone licence' and DLR’s content
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Downvoted not because I disagree with you but because you failed the "meaningful contribution" test.
I had the same thought reading the article. There are risks either way; bureaucratic deliberation has costs as well as benefits. In this case, the relevant experts, in balancing those costs against the benefits, would definitely not have dithered for two years before acting.

We've definitely lost something here. As Peter Thiel noted: [1]

There are ways that the government is working far less well than it used to.
Just outside my office is the Golden Gate Bridge. It was built under FDR's
Administration in the 1930s in about three and a half years. They're currently
building an access highway on one of the tunnels that feeds into the bridge,
and it will take at least six years to complete.

I wonder what it might take to get that back.

[1] http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1187