skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How good is go compare to c/c++ ? ( in terms of speed especially ? )

Can we now say that Google Chrome can be written in Go and it
will be faster and/or stable ? ( not saying it is not already. ).

Congrats to the team, just started using go yesterday and loving it.
EUROCOM unleashes the beast, the Panther 4.0 teaser is live
> In almost all states, if the wife gets pregnant by another man, the man is still on the hook for child support for the next 18+ years... even if she divorces him and marries her lover.

This is a complex situation; it's not an anti-male law, but an attempt at a pro-child, and pro-relationship, law. Read this article for a discussion of some of the difficulties: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22Paternity-t.htm... . The issue is that when a man has started raising a child, and treating him or her as his own child, he has an obligation to that child. Even if the parents end up divorcing, he has still committed to raising that child. In some cases, he can end his obligation if he also ends his relationship with the child. But in many cases the (non-biological) fathers don't want to do that; they want to have their cake and eat it too, still acting as the father while not being financially obligated to support the child.

Part of the issue is that the law is just outdated. As the article above points out, it is based on the common-law assumption that a child born in wedlock is the husband's unless he's impotent, sterile, or "beyond the four seas" when the child is conceived. Now that we have better methods of determining paternity, we can do a more accurate job, but you still need to take into account the impact on the child and their relationships with their parents if you suddenly declare that the man who raised them is suddenly no longer their father.

And yes, this is pretty off-tangent here. Just because there is a different sort of injustice elsewhere, doesn't mean that an on-topic, relevant injustice is invalid or should be ignored. We are discussing sexist behavior in the workplace among programmers, a relevant topic, which doesn't really have anything to do with paternity laws.
Google begins giving you more insight into your Account activity
Satellite-jamming becoming a big problem in the Middle East and North Africa
Steve Jobs Was Against The Name “Siri” Before He Was For It
>Comcast’s FAQ strongly implies that Microsoft is compensating it in some fashion for the new service; the document states several times that the Xfinity app is only available to those with an Xbox Live Gold subscription

>For companies like Comcast, which has railed against the concept of being a dumb pipe, Microsoft’s decision to pay it for free access for Xbox Gold users is a major coup.

Why does the article take as a given that Microsoft is paying Comcast? What if the arrangement is that MS gets more value added to XBox Live Gold subscriptions and Comcast gets more value added to it's TV service? Now this may not be the case, but doesn't seem any less likely than the article's assertions given what we know.
I tried the referenced app, it pulled up a description and I clicked "Meh" then it didn't do anything. Meh.
Has anyone opted in and received their first report yet?
Unless you were trying to compete with them and don't want to move there (decent country), does it matter?

It only takes one country to host it, any other country can download from it.
He actually has a REQUIRES file that's in requirements.txt format, so it looks like he kind of does.
How The Retina Display Will Fundamentally Change The Internet
The language is interesting, at the very least -- concurrency primitives are nice, and the interface-based type system works for most cases (generic containers notwithstanding).

The major speed problem right now is GC, but that should be improving quickly.
One thing that Google knows: other accounts you have with non-Google services. For example, when you setup your G+ profile, they offer to link a Twitter account that they suspect is yours.
What's brown and sticky? A stick!

What's green, four-legged, and would kill you if it hit you falling out of a tree? A pool table!

Where does a general keep his armies? Up his sleevies!
How Microsoft And Intel May Miss The Opportunity Of The Decade
I was about to get really angry that management hadn't done anything when she complained, but she doesn't specify whether she talked to her manager, a superior or HR at all. If all she did was ask the guys who ran the bot, this is not enough to resolve the issue. On top of that, adding a new bot to antagonize the guys who wouldn't relent only creates a more hostile environment without working out the issues at hand. Bad for any kind of grievance at work.

If she did talk to management and HR and still nobody did anything, that place fucking sucks and she should keep fighting or leave. Only the biggest assholes would ignore a person who was offended by an official work bot that makes sexual commentary, about men or women. That shit needs to stay outside the workplace.
Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets
Hi! Startup cofounder here. Working in and with startups since Web 0.8. I see you're a student, so I want to take the time to be clear:

Suppose you worked at my startup. Suppose further that you suggested to one of your colleagues, as you did now, that they quit because they weren't inclined to put up with what they saw as a hostile work environment. You know who would be gone? You.

Startups are a team sport. We don't require suits, because how somebody dresses won't change the quality of the product. However, driving off perfectly good people because they're different will definitely change the product. The same applies for a culture where people don't feel respected, or aren't encouraged to fix the problems they see.
You better convert it to $ fast. Otherwise, you many not have been paid as much as you earned.
The Moment You Become A New Yorker
An XML-syntax language? Like XSLT? Yeah, that's thriving.

The awesome editors and tools that are supposed to grow around any XML-based syntax (after the hard part -- parsing -- is taken care of), are like the modern version of the "sufficiently smart compiler".
> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development

Would you care to elaborate on that? Have any of these smart web hackers used web2py for real web development? I ask because web2py has had thousands of happy users building and maintaining web applications for several years now, and in practice, no one seems to be having the kinds of problems one might expect from a "fundamentally incorrect" approach. What exactly is fundamentally incorrect?
Do you agree with the conclusions about it being better to change the law (since it is supposed to work for all of us) rather than attempting to subvert it?

I think eventually some smaller nations will catch on and become secure offshore data and processing hubs, just as today there is an entire economy around offshore finance. We will probably look back at DataCo as being a few decades ahead of time.
How would a similar extra-legal data haven work today?

Let's say cost is not an issue - some people with deep pockets have things they think are worth it to host outside the law, and will pay you with bitcoin (run through a bitcoin pool operating on the extra-legal territory itself).

How do you get around the fact that all your internet links will be run by companies in real countries subject to legal orders?

How do you get around the fact that any ragtag band of pirates can board and take over your "island" nation? Do you hire a team from G4S to guard your ship? G4S or any other security entity would be subject to laws and court orders, too.

If it's not a ship, but an actual island, you still have most of the same problems. Even if it's populated to provide some measure of physical security (you can't bomb an island with innocent civilians on it without a lot of bad press, not that other governments would need to bomb to shut you down), won't the existing government care more about protecting tourism and/or the interests of the natives before they care about protecting a data haven?

http://imageshack.us/f/546/havenco.jpg/
MatchFWD Coming out of private beta Word-of-Mouth Platform for the Job World
I don't understand why you presume it's a need to defend and justify it to others. Getting a PhD from MIT isn't exactly a walk in the park, I imagine the person got it BECAUSE of a pleasure to tackle complicated problems in the first place.

If I really enjoy dealing with complexity and you give me something really simple to do, well I'm gonna go ahead and have some fun with it. It's not a matter of justifying, it's just that simple stuff is boring to somebody who enjoys complexity.
The New Go should do.
This quote summarizes how terrible the article is:

> If you need to follow a prescribed process in order to be in any way an effective coder then you are mediocre at best and so is your work and your project.
I don't think you follow what he is asking for. Jekyll uses CLI-based software to output raw HTML files that can be served to website visitors. Why not create a database (or flat-file) driven CMS, with nice features (e.g. wysiwyg) that then outputs raw HTML files?

So basically just a UI for writing and managing the posts that sits on top of Jekyll.
notoriety? Are you saying google is notorious for having a minimalist search interface?

I think you mean prestige.
Why do we waste TVs on video?
A September 2008 price sheet for Level 3 priced 10 Gbps at $6/Mbps [1]. The same group projects 2012 transit prices at the minimum commitment around $2.34/Mbps and decreasing at about 60% a year [2]. Another source pegs this at 30% a year for the single price blended rate [3].

In the US we pay about $3/Mbps [4], suggesting a healthy minimum 1/5 profit margin. This happens to be around CMCSA's 1/5 operating margin (suggesting the transit price is lower) [5].

I couldn't find data for internal transit prices, but assuming everyone runs with about a 1/5 margin on transit costs as well (likely too dear) we can take $1.9/Mbps as being a decent relative estimate of internal costs. This is a $0.45/Mbps or 15 percentage point to revenue difference.

[1] http://drpeering.net/AskDrPeering/blog/articles/Peering_vs_T...

[2] http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...

[3] http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2011/papers/sigcomm/p...

[4] http://dailyinfographic.com/internet-speeds-around-the-world...

[5] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ACMCSA
Thank heavens! Er, I mean thank you (the OP) for this tool. I already wrote scripts that renamed files to something sane, but this will make my life so much easier.
Hacked eInk Kindle Touch Playing Hitchcock's Rebecca Movie
Is Your Dating Site Selling Your Profile?
I excluded people killed in that war.

I'm counting people killed in purges and the Ukraine famine before Josef and Adolph got feisty with each other in 1940.
Cloud Monitoring Early Access Program Opens Its Doors
It can probably build a very extensive list of skills (what languages you know, spoken or programming), preferences (habits, sexual, etc), hobbies, a full social network map (from emails and social networks), character (from analyzing emails, searches, etc), amongst other things.

I'm not necessarily saying that this data is already compiled somewhere - but Google being a data-oriented company, they could most likely do all this if they really wanted to.
"Fallacy" implies it's a bad idea, which implies hindsight, which is itself a fallacy.
Thanks a lot, does it skip downloaded videos in next run?
You're shocked it took this long for someone to write about it.
Struggling, Giving up or Waiting?
I'm already using it, after sometime I got a connection forcibly closed by remote host error. I can't access the Coursera website either, not sure why though. (mayhaps a bunch of people suddenly using this script crashed their servers? or they blocked us)

It's back up, must have been a small glitch. Might I add that I love the fact the script picked up on the video I dropped earlier.
Kripes! If a person can't find an Angel round in Palo Alto, CA, where can you find a round?

What chance does an entrepreneur in Milwaukee, WI, have? (that's where I'm at)
That brings up an interesting question: how do you verify Anonymous' identity?
I opted in, and I get a notice that it can take a couple of the days for the data to appear. An email notification should be sent to me at that point.
So what? It doesn't absolve the team of the fact that they're doing Agile incorrectly. Call them whatever you want, they're still Doing It Wrong.
Ask HN: What if online music discovery started with the lyrics?
I'm sure my opinion is going to be very unpopular and result in some down votes. That is sad... but it doesn't really matter to me.

While a very heart stomping tale, it doesn't change the facts. The article even says the lawsuit and patent look solid. Even the mother says she doesn't care about the legality of the app. People are so quick to jump on the sympathy wagon and rail against the big bad corporation for profiting from all their work. But how many of those people would hold the same view if THEY were the ones who's hard work (protected with a patent) was being used without permission? It really scares me when I see people thinking they are entitled to something for free just because they need it and it costs too much. I think $12 for a movie ticket is way too much but that doesn't make it any less illegal to download a bootleg of it. Do I do it? sure I do. But if I got caught I'd take my lumps like every other "criminal". Sure that isn't going to get the sympathy that this girl will get, but at the end of the day it is the same argument (without the emotional appeal). The ends do not always justify the means. A man who robs a bank to feed his kids is just as much the criminal as the man who robs a bank to buy crack.
>Yet another common trope in gender discussions is this idea that people shouldn't complain about sexism because there are more important things to worry about.

Haven't thought of it that way, but sounds like a reasonable general guideline: don't worry about minor things when there are important things that mess with your life and your society.

Oh, and I see what you did there --by adding "sexism"--, whereas my comment was about issues like the "That's what she said" in the story and such, which I'd hardly call sexist at all.

It's not like I said we don't have to worry about men and women not receiving equal pay, or about rape, or freedom of choice, etc, which would be REAL sexist issues to worry about.

>We are complex machines that are capable of worrying about multiple cultural issues at a time.

Really? That must be way every fifth post is about how to focus, how the "get things done", etc. Well, if we are "capable", we sure don't seem like it. Check those kinds of blogs: people that post on such things rarely post on more important issues.

Besides, even if you are "capable of worrying about multiple cultural issues", by worrying about both trivial and important things at the same time, you confuse your priorities or get paralyzed.

>Don't try and derail this one, because it's relevant to many, many people, and it's a serious issue in this industry.

It's only a "serious issue" in that it's being discussed a lot. It's not a serious issue in its manifestation or it's consequences at all.

As for women in IT, well, ever considered they just don't like it that much? It's not like being a man or a woman only affects your tastes towards some industry due to the sexism (or "sexism") in it.

Besides possible differences in inherent tastes (due to evolutionary traits), society also shapes men and women differently. For example, women being given barbie dolls and men Lego by their parents might be a much more important reason for them not liking IT, than any sexism in the IT industry.

When students pick up a university course, for example, they hardly have any idea about how the industry is. In my country at least, they don't have any idea at all --almost no one works as an internet or similar anywhere before graduating from university. Still, that doesn't prevent women/men applying to study IT in university being around 20:80. Other fields are Math, Medicine and Physics, which are like 50:50, and Biology, with is like 60:40. You think any of these has anything to do with the sexism in each industry? Like, male doctors are less sexist or something?
At Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet, Mobile Is Taking Over
Yes, people just drop into the IRC channel and ask questions. The worst thing that can possibly happen is you hear no answer (mostly because no one might be around).

The node mailing list is a good place for asking questions too. Often, the more focussed your question is, the better it is. So, instead of asking something vague - ask about specific areas you are facing problems with. Also, when asking a question, explaining what you tried to do to solve the problem yourselves helps people better understand your problem and offer constructive help.
I can see a definite advantage in cooling being that close to the North Sea.

How far down did the towers go? Was the entire hollow space within them basically inhabitable (if uncomfortable)?
I have nothing to say but to offer words of encouragement in your effort to write e-books to undo some of the damage.

It breaks my heart to see something that emerged from technical people to make their lives better and make them more effective be co-opted to the point where it's scorned by the same technical people who have the most to gain.
I don't see why Argentina shouldn't do at least as well as Italy if corruption is the only thing that hinders it.
No, that's a reason to turn back. We're talking about the opposite - why someone would not only try, but keep going even after countless data points indicate failure.
Hitting 1.0 should convince more people to use it in production. However, getting any new language in an organization is always a struggle. Is there a list of organizations that currently use it in production?

[Update]

A few high-tech companies were listed. I was hoping more for big pharma or finance? There are some super convervative firms out there. Even Google, for example, will only allow a few languages in their firm.
A Sealand/HavenCo timeline

1942: Roughs Tower constructed off the coast of East Anglia.

1948: Roughs Tower abandoned by English government following World War II.

1966: Pirate radio entrepreneur Roy Bates occupies Roughs Tower.

1967: Bates declares an independent Principality of Sealand.

1968: Bates acquitted of British firearms charges, causing Britain to adopt policy of leaving him alone.

1978: German-led coup takes control of Sealand on August 10; Roy Bates retakes Sealand in dawn helicopter raid on August 15.

1987: Britain extends territorial waters to 12 miles, encompassing Sealand. Sealand claims its own 12-mile territorial waters.

1999: Sean Hastings and Ryan Lackey conceive of idea for HavenCo.

2000: HavenCo launches to massive press hoopla.

2002: HavenCo taken over by Sealand after commercial failure and mounting tensions.

2006: Sealand badly damaged in generator fire.

2008: HavenCo website goes offline.

2009: Sealand launches Twitter account.
> Yeah, nobody is going to do that.

I do. Once you force yourself to do it once or twice it is actually pretty quick (2 keystrokes), but you rarely need Flash today anyway. There are far too many web rootkits going around for it to be worth running flash and java (OSX and windows)

see: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/10/java-a-gift-to-exploit-pa...

If you spend any amount of time on the web there is a chance that you have visited a page running an exploit pack. Their penetration rates are 10-20%. There is even a chance that you have been exploited right now and don't even know it.

Any extension that claims to block in Chrome doesn't actually block, since the extension API doesn't allow that - it is only hiding using CSS or some other Javascript trick that still leaves the plugins vulnerable. Flashblock for Firefox also doesn't prevent exploits of vulnerable browser plugins.

All those plugins create a false sense of security
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It seems to.

Edit: Tested, yeah it does, and won't skip a video if it was only half downloaded.
I've been putting together a small blogging application with Go just for fun on the side to pick up the language and work on my web design.

Its a great language, I'm not using it for half of its capabilities but it very much feels well thought out and the community is very helpful.

Key pieces:

-My code isn't much more complex than my ruby or python.

-The stdlib is pretty fantastic.

-Right now tutorials and 'blogs' are all over the place with compatibility for go, rule of thumb if it says "goinstall" in the guide probably a good sign its an older guide.

-All network communications use epoll in the backend so you get lots of the fun things you would normally get from something like node.js without callback soup.

Ideally go would probably work for a web service or building some backend networked code, or even a simple command line utility. Right now there is not much in the way of GUI code outside of websites which is unfortunate cause I'd like to use the goroutines with some graphics ideas I've had.
In real life you usually know at least 1 or 2 of these:

- what the problem is

- what you want to achieve

- what the constraints are

- what works (a means to know when you have found a solution)

Without that, you have an undefined riddle and you can try to do something original or clever and see how that goes. Obviously the less you know the less convoluted things will even occur to you.

If you give a bunch of numbers to mathy people they will very likely try some math. They will expect it to be math. That's not loss of creativity, that's reasonable expectations.

In real life, if I'm given a pizza and told to divide it in 11 equal slices I'm pretty sure I can achieve reasonable precision without any measurements. 1/11 is just slightly more than 1/(4*3) which is easy enough to figure out. At most I'd make a few tentative marks before going ahead and cutting it. When you give a problem like this in an interview, you can assume you're expected to prove your relevant skills to the job. In a software company that would be math, algorithms, etc. not just problem solving. If your objective is to get upvoted, then maybe you should try something clever and accessible.
Developing a Modular JavaScript App With RequireJS and Backbone.js
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Mad Props!

Propsed Theme Song: I got my Go, Go, Go, Go (gadget flow) ... Lupe Fiasco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCf-ffDzopc)
For hosting static data, it's trivial to build a distributed cryptographic system which is arbitrarily censorship resistant. The trivial way is to distribute a large file encrypted, then once it's widely seeded, publish the key. It's really hard to censor a short string, basically as hard as censoring an idea.

For transaction processing systems which need to be durable, I'd go with something with multiple levels of indirection on the network, using links which are locally secure for short periods of time. Sort of like tor/onion routing with hidden services.

You might still put your processing nodes in a concrete fortress of some kind, but they're basically anonymous data processing equipment. Use tamper-resistant technology and the worst that happens to them is denial of service.

The point of having a published high profile physical location (like Sealand) is to claim jurisdiction there, and thus get some legal benefits in interacting with other jurisdictions. To the extent that everything can be done on the Internet, you don't particularly need that.
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