skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the idea that a language changes how you think. I think a more accurate statement is:

"A programming language teaches you to think like the language's creator(s)."

If you look at it from that more anthropological lens, then you start to see how you're not necessarily learning new ways of thinking, you're learning something more like a new language around a group of people who think similar.

Once you understand that you start to see that none of these are any better or worse than the others, and thinking like you learned some secret weapon at the Church of Haskell will really just prevent you from exploring other cultures.
Quickly reading though that, it doesn't strike me as convincing.

People drinking to 0.08 drove slower, braked faster (!), had normal reaction times, and got in 0 accidents. Yet the study says they are more aggressive because they followed the car in front of them by 9.5 meters instead of 10.3.

This study doesn't make me think hands-free sets should be illegal, but that the blood alcohol limit level is too low.
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TranquilMed has received Health Canada clearance on their new restless leg treatment: the Model 120 RL. Studies show a 52% reduction in RLS symptoms in just 12 treatments. Currently this treatment is for sale in Canada only.
I've suspected this for a while as well. I think many of the features we've seen released in tf2 has grown directly out of the development of DOTA2. Valve has practically admitted as much in the past by saying tf2 is a place where they experiment.

Let's consider:

* Replay system

* Training system

* Coaching System

* Microtransactions

* Trading interface

* Community Submissions + submission royalties

Who knows what else? At this point, I think tf2's success is going to influence DOTA2, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if DOTA2 is released free to play.

I probably won't ever play DOTA2, but I'm thankful for all the improvements to tf2 over the last few years. I'm just hoping for some mainly bug fix patches to be released soon as this point.
If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately hope this'll be some old school "let's open up IDA and see what's what here" article.
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It probably wouldn't be too tough to make an arm-band device which periodically pricks you, possibly beeping a few seconds before it happens. I'm not sure when diabetics need to calculate glucose levels, if it's either after each meal, or periodically throughout the day.
> For an organization who's sole purpose is the security of the American people

Their sole purpose is to make money. They obviously don't give a damn about security.
They also have a great iPhone app.
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Show HN: Passwords for the masses
Ok but exceptions also give you alot of context about the error like exactly where it occured. How is that handled in Go?
TF2 is a glimpse into that - you can pay for weapons that are different, but not strictly better.

The Degreaser flamethrower in TF2, for example, is a non-stock item that lets you switch weapons faster, but also reduces the burn duration of enemies you set on fire.

Hell, you don't even need to be trying to monetize to screw this up. See: Modern Warfare multiplayer and its propensity for handing strictly better weapons to veteran players, resulting in even more lopsidedness in matches.
One More Time, Google+ Isn't a Social Network
Front page of hackers news is essentially word of mouth marketing, which the author(Noah) says matters.

Not every kind of word of mouth matters. HN is not that big of community, and is comprised mostly of certain types of users that either don't care about 37's products, or know about them already anyway.

Based on the data provided Noah does not know if the HN readers who signed up for the free accounts are recommending the paid services to others.

Why, can't he check for affiliate links?

So the value is at the very least $300 a month, it could be significantly more than that.

Like a whooping $1000 a month?
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I've broken enough phones in my life to know that I need to have protection[1], and frankly, I love the rugged size of the otterbox defender on my Moto Photon.

I'm notoriously clumsy with my gear and would rather spend the $50 for a nice big rubber case (improved grip and drop prevention) than wait to drop it.

Beyond that, come summer time, I'm a big time beach bum, but I still have to run my business and that means bringing the phone to the beach. Having an "almost completely contained" case is a godsend to protect it from the occasional drop in the sand.

Frankly, I'd rather prevent than repair, though I'm not exactly afraid to take the phone apart should I bust the screen, but I might as well invest a few bucks to make it near-indestructible. It just makes me feel better.

[1] Broken two flip phones in half, smashed the screen on a few others, dropped two in water (one toilet, one lake, not that an otterbox will help that much), ruined the shit out of the buttons (power, volume, keys, whatever) from sand. I'm sure I'm missing some.
Should I Continue With This Website: Java Tutorials
An open letter to warby parker & classicspecs:

there are a lot of us out there who don't wear "hipster"ish eyeglasses that pretty much all look the same. please offer more variety.

thanks.
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You can ping us at support [at] sendhub.com and we'd be happy to talk through your options.
Haven't actually built an app yet, but two minor things come to mind about the pricing page:
- the comparison chart has red marks and dashes. Red = no. Green = yes. I'd use green checkmarks.
- $29 a month is an odd pricing to me. I don't get why this is a subscription service rather than a pay-by-app service.

Design looks clean though!
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Those are mostly oil tankers. Since 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz [1], the Iranians threat of closing that passage has petroleum prices recently. More analysis at The Oil Drum [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

[2] http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8956
I am tired to death of this phase of the web economy. I was downvoted in another thread for characterizing this dance as "charlatanism," but I will repeat it here. I hope to God I never need to monetize my HN karma because that would mean I have failed in the actual real economy outside the Peddling of Startups to...actually who are the end investors in these VC funds?
Facebook and Google employees and maybe some hedge fund managers who think tech is cool?

Downvote me now to show that you are smarter. To send a message that you will aggressively monetize your Javascript skills, and naysayers will be pushed outside the circle of trust.
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Not sure if you're serious, but most phones lack an x-ray emitter.
He mentions that his investment in Twitter is a lot riskier than Facebook, because they haven't found a way to monetize. I'd say that the biggest risk to Twitter's business isn't monetization, but replacement (dying like MySpace). Both risks seem slim right now.

Twitter has stated their business model is advertising. If I'm recalling correctly, the sourced estimates are that they're at a $200+ million run rate on sales. If they get to $500 million in the next few years, that's a great base, even if it's not on Facebook's level.
The Wikimedia Foundation is finally ditching Godaddy over SOPA support
This may be answered the developer guide, but what's up with the rate link in every message sent? I get that it's for recipients to gauge whether or not the sender is spamming, but where's the option to not include it?

If using this on top of an app I'm building, chances are I don't want to refer users to SendHub each time I send them a txt.
There is also nothing quite like regular expressions anywhere in programming.

Well, not really. How about BNF rules?
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I'd be very interested in ie7 support as well. As our contracts still all support ie7 (is there like an eta on ie7s death?).

But hey, if you fork it, post the repo here! Ill help test it :)
Why Your Qualified Leads Refuse to Sign Up: The UX of Plans and Pricing
There most certainly is a single OSM database, so I'm not sure what GP is referring to.

Here's the dump: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Planet.osm
This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations.

Nerd level: Extreme

Bonus points that you cite Calculated Risk blog.
it listens on 127.0.0.1, not not on an external interface, it is not exposed by default
It hasn't always been this way but lately it sure seems that you need a sensational, controversial headline to make it to the front page.
Some of the implementations in JS went wrong, but fundamentally it really doesn't have anything horrible going on for what it's meant to do.

Unfortunately some of the implementation details do allow for seriously horrible code and some seriously horrible traps. But if you can clear the fog, and use "the good parts", it's actually pretty nice.

As for the article, I think it's very well written and seems to have a good overview of the language. Also, the author seems to have an above average experience level in an above average number of programming languages (guessing here), so it might be worth a read.
Am I the only one who searched for the Steve Irwin?
New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11
Right. Because they don't have the cash to do these things. Expensive is relative.
Delighted for the guys, I met a couple of them while I was speaking in Cambridge, smart team of fantastic and enthusiastic people. It's a really good consumer play solving a very real problem. Funding makes perfect sense for them, in my opinion.

I can't work out why jpdoctor is so down on this, but each to their own.
I wish they would try politics next.
Meet Reddit’s New CEO: Facebook Alum / Quora Star Yishan ‘Sparklepants’ Wong
Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other things Invisible Children gets wrong)
Not strictly true. IE10 supports it.
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This model is also commonly used in the MOBA genre to great success.
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"Acquiring the team" usually means the investors make their money back, maybe with a small return.

In some cases they received Facebook shares. Eg, FriendFeed sold to Facebook in return for Facebook shares. Obviously they are quite happy now with the deal that they made!
Well, the university uses a crappy PeopleSoft webapp thing for searching for co-op jobs. It's slow, ugly, and it goes offline every night at midnight. It's terrible.

I got fed up with trying to use it, so I looked at the HTML and decided that it was easy enough to parse. I made the deliberate decision to link to the original job descriptions so that you'd still have to log in to find any real information about the jobs. However, a listing of {employer,job title,location} seemed harmless enough.

I wrote it such that it ran once and spat out a static HTML file so that it wouldn't be constantly accessing the original server. Then I hosted it on my university account and told people about it via Twitter. I had no intention of hiding it; I wanted it to help people! Also, I posted the scraping script (which required a university account to login before it could run) on GitHub for others to use or improve. Y'know.

A few days later, my account had been disabled! When I went to see the people in charge, they told me that I was violating their copyright and since I has posted my code to scrape, they considered me to be a malicious hacker. They also said that I could have single-handedly taken down the co-op program at the university.

For my formal response, I learned some obscure details about Canadian copyright law (like what I posted in the grandparent), and took the opportunity to educate the administrators on hacker culture (with the help of Eric Raymond). I also made sure to explain the implications of my script (runs only once, requires a login, links to the actual copyrighted works). Oh, and I used some of my connections with IT security and professors as character reference.

In the end, they decided to punish me for reproducing their data (which the login screen technically prohibits, but it's unrealistic- having the page in memory is a reproduction!) by making me take a business ethics course, which was actually a fun and interesting course. No criminal charges, no expulsion/suspension. I figured it wasn't too bad, though I would have appreciated an apology for essentially calling me a terrorist. ;)
Every language has its pathological corner cases. Modern C++ using the STL is almost as terse as modern dynamic languages but runs 100x faster.
> Neither NVIDIA nor AMD use it in their own marketing, nor does Intel for its Graphics parts.

Imagination Technology (the makers of the SGX 543MPWhatever), though, _does_. A particularly confusing usage; in this context it means 16 SIMDs. NVidia occasionally also refers to the Tegra 3's GPU as being 12 core; _they_ mean that it has 12 SIMD units.
The change happened earlier than 2008. It happened when funding was getting dismantled in Congress and subsequently a conservative ombudsman was appointed along with a guy to run operations that used to run Radio Free Europe. After that, it was National Petroleum Radio.

Republicans largely support the things that we're objecting to here, along with Obama.
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For the cautious, the above tinyurl expands to http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/today-in-travel/did-blogg...
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Well I'm British and I use it.. I thought it was a lot nicer than deadpooled or sunk...

whats the term yahoo used? Sunset
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Is the dual-core in the A5X faster than in the A5, excluding the GPU?
Tegra 3 vs. A5 benchmarks (Transformer Prime vs. iPad 2) http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-...

BTW: Apple claims x2 GPU performance over iPad 2 - suggesting the doubling of GPU cores to MP4 is the only source of increased performance.
Because the iPad 3 (?) has x4 the pixels of the iPad 2, half-speed seems expected (if using full resolution). The same thing happened for the first iPhone retina display, so not that surprising.
It's likely game devs will use the same solution as on the xbox360: less than full resolution.
I built an app that combines freely available AIS data with other relevant inventory data and sell subscriptions to some local oil-spill recovery companies: http://demo.dedicatedmaps.com/
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Actually, this is fairly common, about the third of CEOs have a degree in engineering.
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It is hackerish to the extent it demonstrates a knowledge of python's internals, however maybe it would better be described as being written by a former assembly programmer. Also, you might be interested in the fact that Paul Graham argues that his dream language would have inline bytecode. It probably wouldn't be written as a list of integers though.

As for this not being pythonic, at least its not self modifying or anything fun. I did once see a talk on obsfucated python that used decorators to implement a Turing complete language, so this is hardly the worst abuse of python ever.
Bring on the Stop Kony memes
I noted in my original answer that "this does not absolve them of...responsibility".

Some of the comments were implying that Apple didn't give credit because they have a culture that is insolent. I was just trying to give context to the decision.
I would argue that C++ is a pathological corner case.
I'd be really interested in where that data comes from. Mind sharing?
The first article doesn't talk about the final returns from any Sequoia fund but merely points out one was down halfway through its 10 year life.

The second does talk about final returns and says "UC investments in partnerships managed by Sequoia Capital (Funds III to X) have returned over $508 million on an investment of about $110 million for a 4.6-fold return."
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Remembering Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer
Well, obviously, but I believe what he's getting at is: if so many students want to take a course, why aren't they allocating more resources toward that course to support demand?
http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top... The top 8 out of 9 Chinese officials are scientists. Granted the culture and political structure are a bit different in the West vs China.
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No: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-anonymous-cant-ddos...
The current Chancellor of Germany is a good example. I think the US is a long way from that happening though (at that level).
As I said on the comments there, I'm excited about this change. I just hope they gave him sufficient leeway to do what he needs to do.
As regards technical publishing at least, you drastically overestimate the cost of printing. A $30 book costs a couple of dollars to print, depending on the size of the run. This is to say that removing printing from the equation has very little impact on the cost of professional book production. Editing and production are the real costs, and they're not insignificant.
I actually doubt its an accident. One of the problems you have to deal with when manufacturing in China is "substitutions". In China, the contract you sign is just a place to start negotiations and the prototype that they first present to you is considered a loose guide to how they will build the actual product.

As time wears on and numbers increase, you'll find all sorts of tweaks to save a penny or two showing up on your latest batches. They don't try to make your product non-functional, but they might make a mistake on a substitution going after that 1/10th of a penny.
Unfortunately things didn't work out with intovps. They're using OpenVZ (2.6.32 kernel). Apparently it's not possible to run truecrypt on OpenVZ, so I'm going to keep looking for a Xen VPS based provider, starting with http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProvid....
I'm using the cozy theme/setting and the padding keeps jumping from small to the cozy mode which is annoying. Anyone experiencing this?
Is Quora going to get the recruiter fee?
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I got the impression this open letter wasn't in response to the C&D (that was a while ago), but due to the fact that WP is apparently trying to sabotage Classic Specs's business prospects, e.g. by talking to CS's potential investors and saying unsavory things about CS. CS could run around trying to reassure their potential investors, or they could try and turn this into a marketing opportunity. Looks like they've gone with the latter.
One of my favourite tech entrepreneurs.

If any of you haven't read Michael Lewis's "The New New Thing" ( http://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/0393... ) its a great book about Jim Clark and the dotcom boom.
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>>>The real argument for the agency model is that the publishers own the rights to publishing and can set terms as they wish.

You lack knowledge of publishing. This model was struck down by the courts in the 1970s. Had it still been in effect, there would have never been a videocassette rental market -- which some studios, notably Warners, tried to subvert by tiered pricing for cassettes that were deemed "Rental Only."

Book publishing is trying that trick now too: Do you like the fact that Random House has jacked up the pricing of eBooks to extortionate levels to public libraries -- many of which are supplementary funded by tax dollars, perhaps even yours? It's the same damn eBook you can buy for yourself, only 4x or more in price. This while libraries pay far less for print books.

Listen, unless you've an understanding of the history of book publishing, all you've got as an argument is some ideology, not fact.

And the fact is that the current arguments in book publishing go waaaaay back in time, as far back as 1922:

Book Publishing: This Isn’t 1922 Any Longer
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/book-publishing-th...

The most damaging thing that ever happened to book publishing is something none of you know about. A change in the tax laws in the 1970s that classified book inventory the same way as factory inventory, thus making it no longer economical to keep books in print and in warehouses. This led to a sweeping change in the availability of books, creating shorter print runs and far less availability of books published even within a year.

None of you should be sympathetic towards the publishing industry. The obstructionism that is dooming them is the product of their own inaction and action.

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"On second thoughts, don't come work in New York, for it is a silly place."
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Ask HN: How do you deal with ruts?
Be it creative, intellectual, motivational, or just a general "meh" feeling, how do you get out of it and continue with your normal projects and routines?
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Understandable. Thanks for clearing that up.
The actual real blog which zdnet summarized from which is far more interesting:

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duq...
Playstation 2 had it's own devkit that was C or C++ I believe.

But yes, N64 games were written in assembler.
After making this comment I've come back to my 'comments' page from time to time and watched its karma value gyrate between positive and negative.

Do the down-mods represent people operating in good faith thinking I'm being mean-spirited, rude, and damaging the conversation? Or are they Apple fanboys upset by a little uncomfortable teasing at their expense? I can only speculate. :P
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What does that mean, exactly?

It doesn't mean anything, "exactly", and that is part of the point of the semi-vague wording.

Generally speaking when something is described as a "team acquisition" it means that the product they were working on was deemed unlikely to be successful. Technically what is happening here is some or all of the current team is being offered jobs at Facebook, quite possibly to work on something totally unrelated to whatever they were doing before.

Payments could range from nothing, to a token sum, to paying back the investors, depending on many factors. The founders may or may not get some kind of small bonus/signing bonus in the process.

These are usually regarded as "nobody gets rich, but maybe a couple of folks don't lose their asses" deals.
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