skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a consistent distinction on those. The OED lists greater-distance meanings for both words, and has quotations going back centuries for both (Shakespeare used "further" for distance). Spot-checking on Google Books, it looks like "further away" and "farther away" have roughly equal contemporary usage, as well.
Wealth creation seems to be focussed increasingly on metropolitan areas and the rural manufacturing and farming areas seem to be going through population decline.
So are we ruling out target practice for the sake of target practice? I go shooting around once a month for the sole purpose of making a steel plate ring. I have no intention of hunting animals or killing a human being with the firearms that I use; The sole purpose is recreational target shooting. Of course, in a wild scenario such as home invasion that would be a different story, however the same can be said of any object used for defense purposes, be it a knife, pipe, flower pot, etc.

And lets be honest here, you would most definitely use a knife in self defense if it came down to that. It's a preposterous argument to say that in a life or death scenario, you'd opt for a lesser source of protection in order to not use a sharp object.
Yet mod_redis seems more complete than Webdis. Hopefully competition will help pushing both further.

There also is a nginx module compatible with redis2 protocol :
https://github.com/agentzh/redis2-nginx-module
CSS fail, unfortunately, which is likely not the author's fault. The included style.css sets "vertical-align: baseline" on pretty much everything, including sub and sup.
Yeah, I’m not saying remixing isn’t important and valuable at all. A lot of languages have arisen to fill the wants and needs of their designers, then gained traction among like-minded folks. C++ was Bjarne Stroustrup’s take on “Simula in C”. And hell, I make one-off experimental languages for fun all the time, so I can’t blame you. I just have my own preferences, and I gave my honest critique in the hope it’ll be helpful.
This is a fantastic idea! I'm hoping it ends up being held in the bay area.
I really think you should consider using a shorter identifier than function. def? Or take the dart approach.
Yes. We don't have a definite date, but soon.
There's a low intensity war going on between Motorola (Google) and Microsoft. Motorola apparently wants tens of dollars per product for a few standard patents when thousands of other patent holders combined get much, much less.

"Microsoft said Motorola Mobility is seeking $4 billion a year for licensing 50 patents on video compression. The entertainment division of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft generated $8.9 billion in sales last year. Microsoft’s total revenue was $69.9 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011.

The software maker said it pays $6.5 million a year to a group of 29 companies with 2,339 patents that cover the same industry standard. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-02/motorola-mobility-w...

Microsoft had to move it's distribution headquarters out of Germany because of Motorola lawsuits.

So, grab your popcorn. There is no love lost and no "good guys," just companies trying to profit and ideally drive the other out of business.
Almost all politicians in power today (1) didn't grow up with a pervasive Internet, and (2) truly don't understand information technology. For example, the median age of US Senators is currently 62 years [1], and not a single one of them is an engineer (let alone a software developer) [2].

Consider how the term "dangerous hacking tool" sounds to a 62 year-old person who doesn't have even a basic understanding of how software works. No wonder they want to outlaw these "weapons"!

Alas, it's probably too late and too difficult to teach these old dogs new tricks. Realistically, we should expect more idiotic political decisions to be made... until a new generation of politicians (with a better understanding of software and the Internet) gradually takes over.

I wish I could be more optimistic about this.

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

[2] http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/R41647.pdf
read this, in Hungarian

http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2011-05-16-i%27m_leaving_on_a_jet_...

google translate:

rapid help deszantosokként trapped in the trade analysts,
If any one is interested John Diamond was a journalist who wrote about his experiences in his newspaper column as he was going through treatment. I remember reading them at the time and being affected by them, it's easy to be flippant about other people when your viewpoint is purely superficial.

Here are a couple of good articles about his experiences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1198541.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/04/features.review1
Yeah I lived in a small town in Midwest and then in big cities. But maybe I never experienced try truly rural US (as in you have to drive 40 miles to do grocery shopping).

I am sort of afraid that the last point holds for me and I just got paranoid and old and people don't want to be friend with me. To me, it might seem like it is a old-world vs US or other such things, but it could be just me rationalizing all along. That is why I am interested in getting others perspective on this.
This is awesome! I'd love it if this happened!
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Laid-Off OMGPOP Workers Got Hired Back Just In Time To Cash-In On The Big Sale
Were they really inspirational?

I remember my first walkman fondly. But I think that it was always a small cassette player to me.
We need to start "finishing" stuff
Driverless cars ready to hit our roads
Sceptical about autonomous cars? Too late. They're already here – and they're smarter than ever
Just a small typo: the 'associative' link links to the Wikipedia article on communitivity.
Startups Win by Cheating
ASLR support needs to be stamped in the PE header. You can enable it globally, but the randomization space is smaller than it should matter for this.

It's definitely something to investigate though.
Hey @drothlis, make a proposal on the site about what you'd want to see, others will pitch in no doubt
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Given that recent flap about the guy not joining the party because he didn't like Zynga's ethics, and then the founder coming out and saying that guy was actually a low performer, this is an interesting flip side to the story if it's true. The strangest part is how all of these sides can co-exist and all be true.
What is the point of using "var" declaration in your language?
agumonkey, everybody is welcome :)
Take a look at ECMAScript quasi-literals -- they are solving the same problem that you're trying to address:

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:quasis

http://www.2ality.com/2011/09/quasi-literals.html

I think they are going further because they can do auto-escaping. From what I see of your language, you still have to do html:"$var". What happens if you mis-type the prefix? Do you get incorrect escaping and a security hole? Some web devs won't even know what language they're writing in.

FWIW I don't think it's worth building an entire language around this concept. It's a feature, not a language. I think using Python plus a template language with good escaping basically solves the problem.

Also, it would be weird if html: and sql: are built in to the language -- that should be a layer on top of a smaller language (just like quasi-literals).

Also, a server-side language with special escaping support doesn't seem compelling, because these days you would want special escaping support on the client too. I'm not sure of the status of quasi-literals, but if they make it into V8 then Node.JS will have this feature on the server.
argh, option b. because i am part of this equation too.

because its the one I can live with better. the surviving couple may disrespect me, never see me again, hateme, but are likely to be happier in the long run, and the other, dead couple will not me around to care that i ignored their wishes. and I will live knowing i kept one couple i care about together instead of destroying two.
in short, i would take the selfish approach, because i have to live with myself.

given more context or a different situation with a similar concept, or more coffee, i may have a different answer.
Inform HN: Placehold.it on the fritz
fixed.thanks for noticing.
That makes sense. That said, I see Exec being positioned more on the basis of things like transparency, quality, and personal connection, though I could be wrong.
The Low Orbit Ion Cannon isn't a DDoS tool, it's a crowd sourced network stress testing utility!
This seems like the obvious ban. If you outlaw computers, honest people won't be able to use them, leaving no systems for the dishonest people to hack into.
The original EXEC page is much better.

First, current tells me EXEC will do anything for $25/hr, yours tells me they will buy my groceries for $25/hr (cutting the mass appeal down IMMENSELY)

Second, and much more importantly, EXEC's current design works within real constraints. For one thing, you mocked up all this social proof that likely does not exist for an early stage startup. That takes up about 50% of your design.

There are some things you improve on (more frequent calls to the primary action etc.), but the problem with doing design like this is you end up focusing almost entirely on aesthetic stuff, as well as cookie cutter things you can plug into any site (ie: testimonials etc.), instead of the real task at hand. If you want to improve your design skills you have to get some real constraints. Design without constraints isn't.
hmm, judging from swagapalooza.com, it's clear that you don't have a taste.
> "you'll understand when you're older"

In order to know this you had to be young and "get older". Social networks are only 10 years old, approx.

What social network did you use 25 years ago?
Reminded me of the quote from Blaise Pascal [1]

"..I would not have made this so long except that I do not have the leisure to make it shorter."

[1] http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=177502
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Check out the hotels that are available on, and how much each night in a hotel is: http://spg.com
You can get some really great hotels for 7000-10,000 points per night. Every dollar spent = 1 point, and that can go up as you spend in different places.
AMEX is very startup friendly. This particular card has free employee cards. When you get going further in your business, look at a few of their charge cards (which are not credit cards - you have to pay them off in full each bill). The AMEX Gold is one of them.
so in some sense you can look at tagging as a core operation - if you want a quick hack solution, restrict the vocabulary that you are allowing for tagging s.t. each unique term is an instance in some ontology, this allows you to build subsumption hierarchies etc. I'd just read the regular RDF on rdfabout.com and understand that really, deeply then define a namespace that is like http://yoursite/tags and then write an OWL or RDFS ontology in Protege, which is free and open source and evolved into a tool I worked on for a different company and they have a free version called topbraid composer. I'd highly recommend you move off of the microformat/RDFa solution and hack in your first draft using simple tags that you then describe in an ontology. Referential semantics is actually complicated so don't get discouraged and work up incrementally.
The long tail is dead: meet the wide tail.
>> you really believe that the yesod guys are marketers?

> I didn't say yesod had the best website, I said they put the most effort into marketing. Michael and Greg do a lot of talking about yesod, and are the only haskell framework attempting to draw in people from outside of haskell. You seem to have interpreted this as an insult, it was not. Usage increases with awareness.

There was a heavy implication that they market at the expense of engineer.

> Unless you are using your RDBMS like a dumb storage system, then persistent doesn't provide the tools to access it. We're not talking advanced stuff here, the most basic fundamentals were done incorrectly: it requires int primary keys on all tables for crying out loud. Obviously multi-column foreign keys just went out the window then too. Of all our apps here, not even the most trivial could be ported to yesod using persistent.

Fair enough. We try to stick to the "dumb storage system" model because it gives us a lot of flexibility and makes scaling easier. If you're integrating an existing DB, yeah, it sucks. If starting from scratch, its pretty awesome. But remember, Persistent != Yesod. You'll notice yesod-core doesn't depend on persistent at all.

> Certainly. But the major difference between yesod and snap initially appears to be "yesod provides high level DB access and snap doesn't". This may be true of mongo DB (I have no use for it), but for an RDBMS it actually ends up being that neither provides high level DB access, and you have to use something from hackage.

[[citation needed]] I think the principle difference is that Yesod plays to Haskell's strengths in being "radically typesafe". The amount of errors we see in compiled Yesod code is shockingly minimal.
Other way around - I can see zero point in paper reference books. Having all my reference books sitting on my hard drive and using Spotlight works far better than actually grabbing the right book and finding the right page.

E-book has far less advantage over paper when the material is being consumed sequentially.
I have cheat sheets hanging on the wall of my cubicle at work. They're printed out on regular letter sized paper; larger sheets are printed on multiple pages and taped together.
However, this is not a clear message. It's full of visual noise that provide little insight.

For example, the 3988 employees in the D.C. headquarters have an average salary of $103,852. That's $90,304 if you take out the single person who got paid $5.4 million. (Who was it? It's only mentioned as an anonymous statistic.) I also found "Total compensation for federal workers [in DC], including health care and other benefits, last year averaged $126,369, compared with $122,697 in 2009."

This seems to imply that TSA workers at the DC headquarters are being paid less than average for a federal worker in DC, so isn't that a good number?

The timeline towards the bottom is meaningless. Nothing happened in 2007 or 2008, and there was a rush of events in 2011? Not likely! It's only the things the author wanted to use. Plus, the length of the connectors between the dots doesn't mean anything. Oh! And why isn't there a connection from 2011 to 2012?

Then there's the strange insertion of Ron Paul into the discussion. So what if he raised $250,000 in three days? Lady Gaga's bracelet raised the same amount in the same time for for Japan Relief, and gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna did the same for his race. Does that mean that I should send money to Japan, or support McKenna for governor?

The claim that we could save $1 billion in hiring private security for the 35 biggest airports is quite suspect. The TSA budgets for FY 2011 was roughly $8.1 billion, of which $4,809 million was for 'aviation security.' The argument is that private security can reduce the price by 20%? By only changing security at 35 of the 450 or so airports with TSA staff? Color me doubtful.
Where did I say that anything in particular is likely?

If the "horrifying...total surveillance" remark put you off, that was not at all meant to imply "ubiquitous networking must be bad because of this story, so let's prohibit it!".

In fact, in the story the smart dust, via the backdoor, provides the ability for the hero to break the (very, very nasty) oppressive regime.
Indian government get access to BlackBerry messages
Isn't the "gold club" positioning counterproductive? How does it benefit EXEC to claim exclusivity? They're as-yet- unchallenged in their market. Their goal should be to broaden their base of customers as much as possible and establish the normalcy of their service; in other words, to give the kinds of people who do not have Hertz #1 Club Gold membership permission to give EXEC their money.

This design does exactly the opposite. It suggests that EXEC is something I might pay attention to at approximately the same time as I start to consider time-sharing private jets.

That aside: pitching entire redesigns over the HN transom is a great way to start a meaningful conversation about positioning and branding, so, do more of these.
I think of Scotty as the Sinatra for Haskell: https://github.com/xich/scotty
I think your approach is both a nice idea and a nice result.

Alex3917 might be true but I think the superfluity of Bootstrap designs might slowly become deterrent to any first-time visitor. Of course, the functions are important but so much in interaction design is about colors, structure and individuality.

Let me give you an example. As a programmer, you come into a room and you often don´t care if it is furnished yet. All you care about is the room arrangement, electrics, the light, how fast you can access which room, what is nearby etc. You focus on functionality. The inside might look like pigsty headquarters but you can still imagine how it can look like once you do the interior design. In a nutshell: The average HN reader might be this kind of visitor.

The usual -non HN reader- visitor cares about functionality too, but he does´t want to enter a construction work. And as he does´t want to challenge his imagination, he might expect good impressions, giving him the incentive to visit this place again.
RIM to pull BlackBerry PlayBook away from "chaotic Android cesspool"
Does this violate YouTube's TOS?
A pair of geologic clocks get updates
As Javascript's is cannibalized by node, jquery, ember, etc., etc., etc.
Timeline Remover
Fun while it lasted. Flew around a bit, was very impressed, then looked toward a teleporter and froze my whole machine. Presumably a Google or Apple/NVIDIA bug (Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on a mid-2010 MBP with a GeForce GT 330M and fully-updated Lion).

Disinclined to try again since I've got work to do. :P
Downsampling images before a blur seems to be a pretty standard technique to get more perceived bang (blur) for your buck. If you don't downsample the image too far, the blur adequately covers any artifacts the downsampling (and re-scaling) would have. The result is, an N radius blur can be stretched a lot farther, because the downsampling (and re-scaling) itself adds an blur of its own.

This performance optimization doesn't really work for variable-width blurs (like depth of field) on 3d scenes though, because some parts of your image need to be crisp, while others blurred. Downsampling the entire image would lose resolution on the crisp parts.

3d depth of field blurs are actually pretty interesting though. They're variable width, which is just another way of saying that each pixel on the final image might be blurrier or less blurry than another pixel. Implementing this kind of variable blurring is a tough task, and typically done by scaling up or scaling down a disk of random sampling coordinates for each pixel. When the disk of coordinates is large, the sampling coordinates sample further from the pixel its centered on, so the resulting pixel has a bigger blur. When the sampling disk is small, the surrounding coordinates are closer to the center pixel, creating a smaller blur. The size of this sampling disk is controlled by the depth of the pixel from the near and far focus planes of the virtual camera.

I've glossed over a lot (like the artifacts that can result from 3d DoF), but Nvidia's GPU gems has a great article on the subject http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch28.html
Save Everything: Delete Everything
I'm pretty sure getting quotes from people like Paul Graham and early interest from a bunch of early adopters is well within the "real constraints" of someone like Justin Khan. Social proof is easy when you're the founder of Justin.TV and SocialCam and a YC partner.
Yahoo files e-book advert system patent applications
The author, as it seemed to me, opened the topic of three semi-related issues -

people who've done an incredible amount,

social media and how he reacted to growth,

and how life is after you've reached (what seems to be) your highest point

- all of which are fascinating, yet did not wrap any one of them up.
"right" needs a definition. true enough for these teasers in many settings, but mathematically, irrelevant, no?
Scenario #2:

You and your wife have a big argument. She storms out of the house, and says either:

A. "I'm going to go hang out and watch a movie alone with Dave."

B. "I'm going to go hang out and watch a movie alone with Sally."

Still, no difference?

I get that people can be open-minded and trusting, but I think there are some basic things that most people just don't do. And those things have everything to do with the underlying assumptions about the relationship between a man and a woman.

Sure, there are exceptions. But in general, there are more problems with platonic opposite sex friendships than same sex, and I think there always will be because of the scenarios I've mentioned.
It depends on how much time in the test chamber you need and how many retests. It can be many $10k-$100K.
But since you can't really test until you have a production PCB layout and then you might have to move tracks or add caps/inductors/ground planes - the costs of a redesign are normally much much higher than the testing
The Transparent Language Popularity Index is an opensource alternative: http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/
Behind the Scenes at 9 Hot Tech Startups
Use of Common Pesticide Linked to Bee Colony Collapse
Just because you have income without a lot of effort does not mean you have a sustainable company. Granted, you don't have to make 30k a month for all that long to get to years of living expenses in the bank.

If you really want a lifestyle business you need to be able to survive even if you have to pay for advertising. As to ad-words, there are plenty of forms of non Google advertising out there. If your site is so dependent on new search engine traffic it can lose 98% of it's visitors from a few changes in Google's algorithm you have not created value your just doing arbitration. Arbitration opportunities are always short lived, that's not to say they are not worth perusing, but don't think they are anything but a quick windfall.
Nope, YouTube blocks some videos from being played and I'm not getting around those in any way. Some videos have ads in them that come up from the bottom, those are preserved and not touched.
In the book, wireless power was provided externally via microwave bursts (thus, requiring the government's being convinced to deliberately deploy it).

I believe this part (or something very much like it) is actually already feasible today).
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or any sequence, no? not without context.
90% of my reasons for running Flashblock is so that my computer will not start making random noises during a meeting.

Please stop auto-playing sounds.