skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfect example of such devices are cheap Chinese replacement chargers for just about anything. Anything that contains oscillator radiates RF and when the device switches relatively large currents periodically (like for example switched mode power supply) it becomes pretty good transmitter unless adequately shielded and filtered. Another significant source of EMI is almost any kind of digital sequential logic which contains signals with very sharp edges, which are mostly synchronized with each other.
I'm going to switch my analogies to roller derby. At least nobody here will know when I'm wrong. :)
Wow, what memories, the very first line of assembler code I ever wrote was on a C64. Had one for years! Now it's going to be super hard to get another one.
For anyone who missed out on the Commodore computers (I had a zx81; then used the family's Sharp MZ80K) there are some modern hardware versions.

(http://www.c64upgra.de/)

(http://www.syntiac.com/fpga64.html)

etc.
>You say you can use type-safe urls, but you aren't actually doing it

I'm not because I don't want them. If I did I would be using blaze-html and web-routes.

>But Again, this is just one example.

I politely and genuinely asked that you provide those other examples, as the one you did provide is obviously bogus.

>But you chose to give us zero feedback until we make a 1.0 release announcement

Actually, I did ask in IRC about a year ago. And two days after I asked you offered up the same response you have been giving here: "hamlet is perfect and you are wrong for not liking it". I also got similarly slow and unhelpful responses with other issues, like how yesod used to only work on ipv6.

>and then come out of the wood-work and pic at every nit you can find in the comments of the release announcement and state some other framework is better

If you were a little less defensive and a little more reasonable, you might see that I never said anything of the sort.
Scratch what I said. I thought his was a direct response to your comment, not untog. That changes what "this" means. I eyeballed the alignment wrong.
I'll take more inefficiency for more stability any old day.

As would all of the newspaper classified ad salespeople, VHS tape manufacturers, blacksmiths, haberdashers, etc.

I see where you're coming from, and it's a valid perspective, although I don't know how realistic it is. All of the attempts to stabilize skills/wages seem to lead to guilds/cartels which keep prices artificially high and harm innovation.

If anything, this economic reality makes the case for a strong social safety net. If someone's livelihood is profoundly disrupted by technology, they should be given a meaningful opportunity to retrain and/or pivot onto something workable without suffering complete and total financial (or physical, in the case of losing one's health care) ruin.
In many (pretty much all) funds, you can't re-invest capital earned from the fund.

I recommend checking out the book 'Venture Deals' by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. They explain the various structures of funds, why they're structured that way, and how it influences the decisions the investors make.
Despite all the people saying this is not a bubble, it is. Small businesses like this would not have got money a while back. This is not a technology business, it has no first mover advantage, it does not require large amounts of capital to make stuff, maybe it will take off as a product category, but without a bubble it would not get $3 million, or indeed want that amount, being the sort of business you would grow organically. The bubble is people throwing cash around, not a bubble in startups, which have always been created.
Firearms are reifications of information, while hacking tools are information left incorporeal. Arguments founded on their equivalence are as devoid of meaning as those equating bits on a computer to cars on a lot.

Consider the following question: how long does a wire have to be before its ability to transfer information to me places that information in my possession? From both a philosophical and legal point of view, this question seems to permit no satisfying answer.
Are We in a Bubble? (2011)
Financial pundits view on Instagram acquisition and web 2.0
Raw power comes with a price: the learning curve for building classic FF addons is steep and confused.
But with better compensation you would have brilliant minds who are only interested in a paycheck looking into the data as well and they would still produce results. Frankly, I'd rather these greedy minds look for cancer cures than into creating new exotic financial instruments.
Did you ever stop to think that insider traders may have spent endless nights building their companies, selling them for profit and are now simply taking that money to invest?

Money is simply a medium for exchange in this case.
What makes you think that it added to the cost of the deal? If anything, a better case could be made that the Instagram shareholders gave up $50M.
Not surprised since Overon was invented there...
> Don't talk about things you don't understand.

Fair enough, but you do realize that not everyone will optimize inner loops after switching to C/Java? Certainly not to the extent of scientific computing or even the language shootout snippets.

Also to address the power usage of one server. The 6.6 tonnes number seems to come from having the server drawing 1kw of power continuously for an entire year. The biggest server I could find on Dell's site (E910) comes with a 1.1KW power supply. This DOES NOT mean that it draws 1.1KW continuously. Indeed, outside of peak usage hours it probably draws much less. This is amortized over many users as well. Even slow, interpreted languages can serve hundreds of users on such a server.

Compare this to driving 10 miles/day in a medium-sized car. This produces 2 tonnes of CO2 annually, and unless you're diligent at carpooling, probably serves one person. Even a small car will still use half of that. If some new software helps even a small number of people telecommute instead of driving, the result is overall positive. For this to work, such software has to be cheap (certainly cheaper than driving) and for that to happen programmer time must be conserved.
Except that because they'll get paid x% in FB stock, the life of this investment is now extended until they choose to sell the FB stock, which means the return could go up (or down!).
I negotiated terms Friday evening, we signed docs Sunday night, and announced Monday morning.
I've been a paid Nexflix users for maybe 30+ months now. I like, love, the service. This is unfortunate, the only thing that I can do is see how it plays out over the next cuple of weeks and move my money out of the service if necessary.
Private Flickr bookmark with a browser that signs you in automatically?
You wouldn't have array mutation in this case, since that isn't a very parallelizable operation. My question is if we could construct a usable language where every operator in it is a parallel operator, in which point the optimizing compiler is trying to find situations where it can just treat values as sequential code, not finding situations where it can treat sequential code as parallelizable.
Anyone interested in contributing should go to http://www.opequip.org/forums/ and create threads for your area (if not already there) under organizing, volunteering, donating. Say what you can do and promote locally. Also if you have ideas about broadening the goals of the project, go to http://www.opequip.org/forums/ideas/ !!
I totally do not concede the point that IAMEXEC.COM looks conspicuously weak and unprofessional. Exec's site looks better than Angie's List, for instance, which looks like a 2008 Themeforest template but still manages to engage normal people just fine.

The bar for web design excellence on HN is way out of whack for what the bar actually is in the real world.

This matters because I think lots of people talk themselves out of launching out of concern that some web design enthusiast is going to come out of the woodwork and accuse them of being "conspicuously unprofessional". Trust me: people have driven a shitload of business through sites that I'm sure would make you throw up in your mouth.
By your logic, isn't this post itself an instance of bikeshedding?
AFAICT, Netflix has said nothing about supporting SOPA-like legislation with this PAC, and indeed has said nothing about FIXPAC's agenda at all. It could just as likely act as a net neutrality advocate. Stow your pitchforks, at least for now.
You can not "switch" to an imperative style in C++. You are always in imperative land by default in C++. You can "switch" to a functional island in the middle of C++, but it will forever be a foreign body in the greater C++ program, and a mere moment's inattention will quickly re-introduce imperative side-effects into your purely functional code. Or you'll use some library that re-introduces it, or somebody else on your team will use your putatively functional higher-order function to do something imperative.

C++ is a particularly awful language for trying to manage side-effects in or maintain a purely functional constraint on your code, because it offers so very, very many ways of performing side effects without meaning to, and only the thinnest possible compiler support for maintaining those constraints in the face of temptation (const). To be sure "a = b.c(d, e)" is a purely functional statement requires understanding arbitrary amounts of code to be sure that none of reams of code that can invoke accidentally violates your constraints.
Yes, what they are describing is participating preferred, not liquidation preference.
Popular Computing Weekly from 1983 - not a lot has changed when you read it.
How to Write a Functional Program with IO, Mutation, and other effects (scala)
Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start.
volunteering time! :)
If it turns out that Netflix does in fact financially support these types of initiatives, I will have no choice but to take my business elsewhere. Let's see how it turns out.
Can you critique anything beyond the visual aspect based on that single static image? You can't because there's no data, no testing done, no brief - no context.

Meaningful feedback and constructive critique could be provided if the site was live, if we can see some hard numbers or we can do some user case studies as they use the site.
Just get a digital photo frame that does rss, point it to your flickr account. She doesn't need to do anything, latest photos will show up on her frame
Facebook HAD to do this. They couldn't fight off mobile photo-sharing without an autonomous brand and autonomous app. Great acquisition.
Fabrik : an impressive 4k Javascript invitation for demo.js 2012
Wasn't the Atari ST during his tenure as well? That was an excellent little machine that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
Slow Hashing
There are two contradictory forces shaping a language: effectiveness and clarity. Languages walk the narrow path between those two. Sometimes languages move in one direction, sometimes in the other direction. A loss of specificity (like the disappearing distinction between “it’s” and “its”) increases effectiveness (for the writer) at the cost of clarity.

I’m not sure with what justification you can call that devolution. It’s a change that affects clarity only minimally: There aren’t many situations where using “it’s” instead of “its” is confusing and doesn’t communicate what the writer wants to communicate.

It just makes sense that every flourish in a language that adds rarely needed specificity will be ground away with time.

Stylistically you are certainly within your rights to call it a devolution (I also don’t like it aesthetically), but that’s very subjective. I don’t think that pointing at specificity is the way to go here, though.
Other than in this article, and those like it, where exactly does it say that this PAC will be pro-SOPA? I haven't seen anything at all from Netflix saying as much.
There are different trade offs for each technique. Aside from ensure that native code functions properly (e.g. Android NDK)

How about running dalvik in x86 and just emulating NDK calls? Should give a nice speed boost while still supporting native ARM code.
I always found nettuts (net.tutsplus.com, note that there are multiple sections) pretty useful.
Yes it is. Memory allocators are heaps not queues.

Things like network connections, logfiles are used all the time, so they won't be swapped out (actually file handles are kernel side so never swapped anyway). You can free the command line parse after setting the options.

And clean shutdown is overrated: long running programs can just terminate fairly gracelessly if necessary, the OS cleans everything up.
We should always be cautious about the use of "Giblets"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2008/03/07/the...
Jeeves Framework - Python IRC bot framework
"what lawmakers consider a dire problem in the States: online piracy."
> Scheme shares Haskell's unsuitability for production code

It's rather unfortunate something like that gets voted to the front page, though I tend to learn something from the comments to these kinds of submissions (scripting in Haskell! your slides). Cognitive dissonance.
Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met
Language popularity: It’s not about search engine result counts
Very good read. While I do think that the amount of code sharing between the client and server is not big the fact that you are using the same language reduces friction and helps a lot to avoid 'context switch' issues.
Why $7.99 beats $0.99
Couldn't agree more. It seems the title was poised precisely to make it seem as this is a stupid idea, while is really far from it. I also own a dog and I can't wait to use this service. Last year alone I spend over $2,780 in dog hotels.
Yeah, the headline is very cheezy and makes it seem like that. An X for Y Gets Z million. But in reading the article you can see that it's a pretty solid business and there are probably millions of people willing to pay for a service like this.

Maybe it has the potential to become a billion dollar company.
PHP projects buying them
I remember people saying the same thing about Youtube and that Google will not be able to profit off of it's purchase.
Paul has additional credentials besides being a shareholder. See his profile.
"They use Node.js because that language is JavaScript, and JavaScript is fun."

Which is why one of the most widely used node.js applications is an alternative language that keeps you from having to write JavaScript.
The reality is stateful on a macro-scale. I find the idea that the universe is actually stateful, and we do not completely understand behavior at quantum level far more parsimonious than the converse.
While we're at it, let me throw out a shoutout for Learn You a Haskell For Great Good. One of the best programming books I've read, Miran is excellent at explaining programming concepts.
Well the ST definitely got alot of love from musicians due to the MIDI ports that it had.

Now that was forward thinking -- brought MIDI sequencing to the masses.

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[Additional Edit]

The C64 is also getting alot of love today from musicians due to the wonderful soundchip it had.

There is a great company called "MidiBox" that provides kits for you make your own "8bit soundmachines".

http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html
It is very profitable now, however it wasn't when the purchase was made -- therefore it was a wise decision.
Do you believe this about bottom-up programming in general, or is your concern specific to parsed DSLs?
ThinkRelevance Podcast Episode 008: Michael Fogus
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57364074-93/google-nearly-d...
It's people like Jack Tramiel, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others that remind you that individuals, even within powerful teams, can be extremely innovative and important. When that carries from company to company and industries it validates it further: Commodore, Atari, Apple, Pixar etc.

I spent about 2 summers at my friends house playing Summer Games on C64 and wrote my first lines of BASIC there, at school I used an Apple II.

We need more people like these guys for the next wave.

READY.

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Is it really "investing" in this case? What was being exchanged besides pure profit?
at this point measuring users or user bases is impossible.

i argue it is also useless.

compared to Servlets+JSP/Rails/Django all of Haskell's web frameworks are smaller-then-tiny.

but: functional programming is on the rise, haskell has become fast and robust, haskell's static typing is seen as an advantage... people want to use haskell for web programming; so haskell web frameworks are seeing growth.

to me Yesod seems to have the edge currently: it is most actively developed and discussed.

i used snap, and liked it, but having tried both i feel yesod makes more sense (maybe because i'm coming from rails).
I was mostly thinking of the likes of Violin, FusionIO, and the countless companies proposing the definite cloud storage like Scality, etc.
The article lists photobucket as having 25 million uniques in March '07. Looks like it has 16 million today and in a steep decline.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/photobucket.com/
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OK, I'll explain this as you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. When one commissions a server or server farm it is done against a service non functional requirement. For example 1 second page serve time at peak load. This means that a lot of the time the servers might be waiting but not a peak load. Never the less, modern servers will clock down if waiting. Now, what sets the peak load is the efficiency of the software and the number of people using the server and/or the run length of the batch jobs. The more efficient the software the less servers are required to meet the peak load and so the less power is used all the time. Further, the more efficient the software the less often servers will have to clock up during off peak times. Do you finally get it? If not - I suspect you have zero idea about large scale computing and are here only to defend your lack of ability to program anything other than scripts.
Like many others here, my first computer was a Commodore (VIC20 in my case). Whether I owe my career to this man I couldn't say, but I owe him my gratitude. RIP.
Or even worse...end up in Google, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, or anyone else's hands.

This was purely defense just like YouTube, and Diapers.com & Zappos for Amazon.

Brilliant move all-around.

In a few years, this price will seem like a steal...much like the $1B that Yahoo proposed for FB a few years ago seems laughable now.
As an iOS dev, I can tell you, I would much rather be doing my perf optimization on real hardware than on an emulator, even one that emulates clock-for-clock (and I highly doubt that the Android NDK does, although perhaps they ship a tool that lets you extract this information).

Just for starters, if I am profiling code, it's probably because the code is slow. (Infamously, for awhile we had a 13-hour unit test). If a quad-core 1ghz ARM device is slow, the last thing I want to do is throw an emulator into the mix.
Found this today and it is totally great. I absolutely love it. Thanks, reader_1000!
So does this demonstrate that
(1) Myspace had terrible taste
(2) People have made expensive mistakes in photo-sharing sites before, will again, and might be right now
(3) We will forget about this acquisition, as we forgot about that one

or all of the above?
Highly relevant:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819221
You didn't say "the favorite hacker dynamic language" though :)

I'm a huge Python fan, but I'm also a realist: the Python ecosystem (in terms of vendors, products, customers and professionals involved, as well as libraries and tools) is nowhere near the mainstream Java/C++/whatever-Microsoft-is-pushing-this-year. Python is not the language of choice on any mobile platform, for example; it barely registers in the humongous "enterprise" space; SDKs for most hardware devices (or anything else, really) will usually list Python as the third or fourth choice, if at all. It's doing reasonably well in scripting, automation, Linux administration, 3D and web, but that's a far cry from being a clear favorite for "general-purpose programming".
You are right, I went a bit too far, but it's scary that developers are more and more at mercy of platform gatekeepers, completely dependent on their arbitrary decisions.
r4vik's solution makes it foolproof for her. As far as making it automatic for you, please check out OurDoings Dropbox integration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r93TDJeZyI&context=C4a04...

OurDoings has RSS better than Flickr.
I am confused by this, if this is true.

Can someone explain why they would want to do this?
Inside the failed patent litigation of Rambus
Detroit makes pitch for ousted Yahoo employees
it is not like they support it correctly in one single platform. Also it is not like the problem isn't relevant with using QEMU, it remains relevant.
Yup. Cognitive science people even have a fancy word for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Justice is something we have to bring to the world, its not anything we should ever expect to find there naturally.
This works once you have created your own list. I do something similar. There is not only the programmers way but also the marketers way.
Oh man. I could have made a billion dollars by making stuff like this. Instead I am building a long term value company like Apple. Steve Jobs may have been proud. :)
I'll never forget my first computer. Rest in peace, Jack Tramiel.
http://imgur.com/GYHVR
http://twitter.com is a nice example of bootstrap of course ;)
BLDGBLOG: Desert of the Real
Left in 2007. Started an online education company, built a highly profitable business, scaled to 20 full time employees, sold it in 2011. Started Spool (www.getspool.com) with a friend from college. We're now at 7 people full time and on a very nice growth trajectory.

Many other Xooglers have had similar paths...start a company and try to change the world.
> I don't think the ECPA is/needs to be overridden by this law.

Well, the EFF seems to think it creates a giant exception to pretty much everything so long as you're dealing with network security and I've read those "notwithstanding" clauses for myself, so we'll have to disagree on that. It has a huge catch-all net and we both know that there's always some joker trying to exploit random machines on the internet and you'll catch plenty of automated attempts if you watch your IDS & firewall logs.

Insofar as the law is unnecessary, that's all the more reason not to pass it in the first place. You may very well be right about it being a favor for whomever. But it is the burden of the proponents to make the case that it is necessary and I've not seen anyone do that.

I haven't seen anyone running through the streets shouting that the end is near, here, but I didn't bother to read any Wired or TC pieces on it, either. There's no reason we can't calmly explain to our reps that we oppose this unnecessary bill. I have no interest in defending whatever hyperbolic articles you've read. I haven't even bothered to read much of anything except the bill itself and the EFF piece.

Even so, I find it to be a poorly considered law and I see good reason to calmly explain to my reps that I oppose it, even if nothing comes of it in the end.
Based on the commentary, I'll wait for the next high-performance web framework in ocaml. ;)
This most likely stems from a partial support of SOPA in the past, in that Netflix said something along the lines of supporting some of what SOPA does, but not supporting the way in which it does it. I'm afraid I can't provide any sources, as I heard this second-hand myself, but that's how I understand it to be at the moment.
It's called Oberon!