skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when C was first pioneer'd this was an issue. However this is the 21st century and yes we could have better full names but the standard from before is kept for consistency. I think deprecation and renaming of everything is out of the question at this point as companies and developers have invested considerable amounts of time in building applications using the good ole "fprintf" or "malloc".

I wonder what the ramifications would be if someone went through and properly named the functions.
Read his profile and you will see Java, Python, and C and he works at Google.
There's a link to a blog with some detail. Deployment of MongoDb to RH enterprise Linux and open shift.

http://www.10gen.com/partners/technology/red-hat
I came to say this exact thing. Please make this one into an MMO next.
How an Angelpad alumni got from 0 to 1000 paying customers
Show HN: Guess song titles with specific words in them...
More programmers===better programs. How can this be a bad thing?

I'm not sure this is true. Going with the articles example, that's like saying "the more people who know how to use a hammer, the better houses we will have".
Dumb question: so is this just a lightweight X11 WM or is it a brand new windowing system? Or just some sort of directfb hack-job?
From the other side, just because you have put in a lot of effort that does not mean you have a sustainable company either, however, your moat might be slightly wider, should you hit the right market.
Yep, but if you from this opportunity your next implementation will be a little shorter...
I was hoping this went the other way-- you were given an image to draw and it would image-search it and then draw the first hit pixel-by-pixel.
It really depends on the level of sophistication. The target market could be anything from people looking to become self employed all the way towards more serious investors who might want to consolidate multiple sites under a common theme.

I personally love for example reading the monthly updates on http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm . They are quite helpful to get a realistic approach towards the domain market. I am missing something like this for projects and would be even willing to pay some fee for "hard facts".
Almost all integers contain the number 3
OK, say there were only 2 people working on the (any open-source project). How do you think it would look today?

I think it pretty basic an assumption that the more eyes looking at something, the better the chances of finding (and fixing) mistakes as well as finding room for improvement.
one of the reasons to go high on IP addresses is because many devices don't release their leases properly, which can cause all sorts of havoc.
Yeah, that would be nice. :)

It's always encouraging to see how much traffic a post on HN can generate for a new startup.
One of the reasons it is different this time, but still a bubble, is that there is tons of cheap money flowing around the globe, and sophisticated investors are desperately looking for returns. Hedge funds have had big outflows in the last 3 years. That (risk-seeking)money has to slosh somewhere. The total size of the hedge fund world is larger than in 1999-2000.
Also, the concentration of advertising dollars that flows through a few key companies - Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc., is significant. Ad spending basically drives this whole thing from the revenue side. In 1999 there was less of this money in absolute terms and also the ad and marketing folks had not yet learned how to target ads to users online.

So ads + Quantitative Easing (hope I am not getting too fast and loose here but this is shorthand) means that worthless companies like Instagram can seem strategic to ad delivery platforms like Facebook. And there is so much extra risk capital chasing deals that $1B is nothing to throw away.

PG has been in the right place at the right time, but just because he and his partners do things differently in their business does not mean that the macro picture is not the most important factor.

edit - we have not matured we have just gotten better at online advertising and marketing. But that is arguably a great efficiency for the post-industrial service economy.
Mozilla is removing support for click-through EULAs
The 4 doesn't, but we're talking about the 4S, which does.
The ridiculously photogenic guy!
Tell Obama And Dodd: No Backroom Dealing, No New SOPA
The link is http://act.demandprogress.org/act/new_sopa/
Is it on the 30th or the 1st? The site shows 6PM on the 30th -> May 1st @ 1AM.
You probably meant to say "making laws against things that have actual victims," but this came out oddly appropriate...
This is great.

Interestingly, a capitalist economy might be provoking a modern version of the space race - i.e. companies competing to meet the contracts push hard on development and testing to win. Orbital's language in this article, for example, is very competitive.

This is cool; it's how we progressed to space so quickly in the first place after all.

Also:

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, or MARS, to give the launch site its proper name,

Someone at NASA has a sense of humour :D
Use Azure Blobs as Data Sources for Hadoop
The following tutorial assumes familiarity with Windows Azure blob storage techniques, but not with Hadoop on Azure features. Each of this tutorial’s downloadable sample flightdata text files contains about 500,000 rows.
That's true. but having dhcp capacity for more than 255 IPs is hard (or, expensive). for a 20-30 person hackday, the organizer shouldn't be worrying about overkill network provision, and should spend that time/money worrying about good food, or something else. (imho)
Sorry--you're right! April 30th. Updating post when I find the edit link.
20/30 people on a regular router that has an IP range of 255 IPs will quite often fall over, I've seen it happen more than once.
Modern HyperCard for Today’s Schools
The link is http://act.demandprogress.org/act/new_sopa/
"Everyone learns the basics in school"

i don't know about this...i'd say that the majority of college graduates have had no programming experience, not even the basics. programming wasn't taught in any of my schools growing up
I'd agree the press release is vauge, but the OpenShift thing could be really exciting. If you could run a mongo cluster that presents single system image, that would make mongo a lot more appealing.
If ~ PHP then ?
Why?
I believe it's only a matter of time before tablets become commoditized like the smartphone market is doing right now. Amazon is working hard on that.

Some will still care for the Apple brand and whatever quality advantage it has but in the end Apple won't be forever selling 5 times what it's competitors are selling.

You don't have to be the best at this point, just managed to sell enough to make some money per run.
Consumerism and its antisocial effects can be turned on -- or off
This is a really excellent example of the animation potential in CSS. I haven't looked, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so, a number of libraries are released with the sole purpose of helping actionscript-and-flash developers cross the chasm into CSS-and-HTML development.

Since I wanted to experiment with the parameters, I took the liberty of putting the author's code in a fiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/AAKcP/1/
Yes , brianck,I was able to mount the partition without a password once I reinstalled Ubuntu
How Instagram is Worth $1 Billion with No Revenue
for a 20-30 person hackday, it's not so much of a big problem. You wouldn't need more than a /24 for that, and you'd still be inside the * 8. But most tech events with more than 100-ish people I've been to have failed on their wifi at some point, and it's normally for this reason.
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right, I'm not so sure that's because of DHCP, though.
If you don't like it use a typedef to make your code more "readable". Or a macro that will replace every occurrence of mutex in your code with mtx.

However if you want to share your code with other people, I would go with the standard names.
C++'s const correctness rules?
I don't follow. Graphite doesn't "throw anything away". You define your own retention policy and Graphite follows it. You're free to maintain 1-second resolution for 50 years, if you have the storage capacity for it. But that isn't what this article is about.

The example covers a particular metric use-case for annotation-style details, and how to extract a meaningful aggregate from what is otherwise contextual data. Personally I love that Graphite lets me "hack about" with multiple functions. But I'm a data whore, YMMV. ;-)
Would have been more fun if it found someone to pairprogram with ;o
Also, that's mostly when you don't tell people "hey, can you not put your iPhones and Android mobile phones on the wireless?"
Actually, it made me think the same thing when I wrote it.
Per the docs[1], this can be turned off in the ini by setting expose_php to Off. So if you tell PHP to hide its presence, it will do so.

1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.expose-php
Judging from the wikipedia page it says it's a new WM but looking here: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/window... there's clearly some bits borrowed from x11.
If you're implying that `/e` is more dangerous in PHP than in Perl, then that is truly terrifying.
There is a simple way to summarize:

Attention/concentration strengthens neural pathways, and allows you to make further use of them. Lack of attention promotes creativity, i.e. creating NEW pathways and connections in the brain.

At least that's the way I think of it.
No its not a real testimonial. Thanks for the heads up. It was left over from our designs. We've changed it.
> I, for one, hate throwing an exception when an item isn't found. This sucks:

You can always do:

index = a_list.index(a_value) if a_value in a_list else -1
To read code (or math) I find life easier when I can "read" it inside my head. The terse and heavy symbolic syntax make understanding code less comfortable for me.

The other thing is that currying + lack of parens around function arguments makes it not visually clear where each argument goes or what expressions are part of what. Only someone familiar with each function and it's arity (in some Haskell-relevant sense) could read the stuff at a glance.
I'm not surprised. A big advantage of PHP's database layer is that it doesn't reinvent the SQL wheel.

[set Greenspun Cynicism Level to MEDIUM HOT]

Other platforms wrap up SQL to the extent that you are encouraged to pretend it does not exist. This is an irreplaceable killer feature if you are trying to encourage new programmers to design things that will eventually prove difficult for them to optimize, or are trying to drum up membership in the NoSQL-silver-bullet-of-the-month club, but in the end what was good for 1996 is still pretty good for 2012: Pull the data from the database using classic SQL from the 1970s, loop through the result set, paste each row into the template, and ship it out to Apache.

PHP does this transparently, which makes it relatively easy to figure out what is going on. Of course, what is going on may be "the novice PHP programmer is staring directly at the SQL but still cannot optimize it", but hey, at least now you can see the problem.

[set Greenspun Cynicism Level to LOW]
Uh, your testimonial contains an image of this lady:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/Samantha-B...

Is this a joke?
Off Topic

But Windle's Technometria is on of the better podcasts out there. Always great people being interviewed always great perspectives.
> Then why haven't anyone done it?

It's been done times and times again. Look at Sinatra for an example in the ruby world (http://www.sinatrarb.com/), I'm sure python has something similar. Maybe a static site generator such as octopress or push would be an option as well.

The problem is that the simple php approach does not scale. Sticking files in directories will only get you a small step, you'll need includes to share code soon. And then the mess starts if you're not using a framework. And good PHP frameworks go a long way beyond sticking a file in a directory - you'll have the same steep learning curve as with rails or something similar.
I wonder if growing up with a computer where you can poke bytes directly to its memory and video hardware makes you fundamentally less afraid or mystifyed by the technology
Medical device hack attacks may kill, researchers warn
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it was a placeholder. We fixed it.
Show HN: need a name for your new startup? We just launched a naming company
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I would expect some support from gcc and clang.
When visiting the homepage, I didn't realize this was an additional service to an existing (and unrelated) iPhone app. I just saw the unrealistic (albeit funny) conversation on the iPhone and the (real?) testimonial next to it and left the site. It wasn't until I read your comment here that I realized what the site is all about.

So, I think the idea is great, but I also think your comment here does a better job at explaining what the site does than your actual homepage...
I've spent the better part of the last year or so learning everything about naming, and this is the result. Creating a name is a problem that every new startup (or product) faces, and for most people, it's a time-consuming and difficult process.

There are a lot of naming firms out there, but almost all of them are too expensive for a small startup (most charge $10,000 - $20,000+ minimum) and have questionable results. So, I (along with a few part-time friends) set out to offer a better product for a reasonable price - $299 per project. Since we're just starting out, the first 10 customers will get 50% off ($149).

A common question is "why wouldn't I just create a name myself?". Our answer is: if you want to make your own name, go ahead - many companies have. Check out our site for some naming tips. But, the idea is that if you're an average person, it's probably a waste of your time and your company's time. Not to mention that it's probably not your expertise (naming is as much a skill as anything else).

Some quick math: let's say you're worth $50-100 an hour (an average tech professional). If you spend any more a few hours, you're losing money. As many founders can attest, it can take weeks (and sometimes even months) to run through the naming process and come out with a winner - and it might not even be a good name. It really just comes down to economics: specialization is vastly more efficient - you're good at X, and we're good at naming.

All in all, you get quite a bit for your money. Each project comes with a detailed PDF report that analyzes each of the 5 names according to our methodology, which includes every metric you could possibly think of.

----

I'd be glad to answer any questions here, or via email at (Contact at Nomvilla.com).

----

Some links (from the nav bar):

How we create and analyze names: http://www.nomvilla.com/methodology

Names we've created: http://www.nomvilla.com/portfolio

Case studies and other articles: http://www.nomvilla.com/case-studies

An example of the report you'll receive (PDF): http://nomvilla.com/wp-content/uploads/images/Nomvilla-Sampl...
It's a new windowing manager.
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> if a malevolent owner decided to change T&C

Why not mandate that contact in case of any change of T&C? Owners of any level of malevolence can change those, not just after a sale.
I like Haskell as much as the next hacker, but this is just a fluff piece.
Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times
Is Apple getting dinged for Java installation being too easy? That seems pretty easy to fix. Having Java on by default in Safari was a bad choice (just like disk images and packages last year). I hope they'll do a scan and remove with Software Update soon, if that's possible.
ChromeOS is based off Linux. Android and Linux are going to merge. Chrome is coming to Android. It's not hard to see imagine some interesting collision scenarios and user experiences.
Social Theory of Relativity
The way I parse it is he built something in html5, and showed it at a party.
Perhaps "throw away" is the wrong phrasing. The aggregates are always averages, no absolute counts. After a rollup, the maximum of some value will no longer be the maximum - it'll be the average of a bunch of maximums. There's no type information with which one can maintain this, and no observation/sum counting. For 'data whore' people like you and I, this should matter. :) (or at least, it does to me)

The article seems to be about trying to get an approximation of observation count data out of Graphite, which doesn't really store that.
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> “I have enjoyed every one of my 28 years with this company, and I leave it today in position for a strong future. I am proud of my fellow employees and I wish them the best,” Dunn said, double-checking his parachute as he prepared to leap from the burning airplane.
The comments on that article really make me appreciate hacker news. I had forgotten how bad internet comments could be.
I think this applies not just to motivation, but results/productivity. In 'The Fire From Within' (1984) Castaneda says that REAL learning (his emphasis) takes place only in a state of heightened awareness. The essential path to heightened awareness is attention; thus attention control is ESSENTIAL (my emphasis) to any kind of productivity gain or behavior change.

And sumukhi is correct - the pervasive marketing of instant gratification, whether from Madison Ave or Twitter et al is really creating a sort of de-evolutionary effect, whereby human behavior is often marked by self-destructive impulses, with the attendant lack of self-control.

Creativity may seem to arise during a period of inattention but has been well documented to actually occur (seemingly spontaneously) as a result of an immersion in attention (the "the harder I work the smarter\luckier I get" effect.
Would You Pay $850 for an iPhone if Carrier Subsidies Disappeared?
Essentially all of the commands on the device are translated into native OpenGL calls, so I suspect if you don't have a GPU you just get the default OpenGL software renderer.
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The first quote is from the forbes writer and not Kaspersky.
I guess he was misled by the URL and title of the document, both of which say Manifesto and not manifest.

On a less snarky note (sorry about that), it seems like a good check list for putting together an event I'd like to attend. As someone else noted, none of the demo-parties and hackathons I've attended have ever checked off every box. On the other hand, it might be a cultural thing -- I imagine these events to be more developed around the valley where they're more common.
I think this is a great idea with lots of potential, because one can easily put too much effort into the naming of things (as every hacker knows it's the only difficult thing besides cache invalidation).

But I have to ask: Why did you call your company "Nomvilla"? And am I right that it basically means "House of Names"?
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Why doesn't GitHub let me edit like that?

How can I edit like that, without a 3rd party?
I'm sorry but as a graduate trained social scientist (psychologist), this is simply not true (for the social sciences at least).

I do know how to program (R mostly, some python and java) but I am an extreme outlier with my field. In fact, people are ridiculously impressed at my use of awk and regex to extract relevant articles from a CSV file.

I would agree that everyone who studies the social sciences should have some familiarity with coding, but SPSS refutes your claim that it is a necessity. In addition, I had never coded a line before the age of 28 (I'm almost 31 now).
Bluestacks: Run Android apps on your PC
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Yeah, Dr. Web is very well-known in Russia, and among the wider security community. They have some very talented people working for them, and, as far as I know, Dr. Web is still one of the only AVs that can disinfect the Rustock.C rootkit/virus successfully.
Once Chrome becomes stable on Android and it replaces the stock browser, I don't know why you'd still want ChromeOS on a separate device, or say even dual booting with Android. Would there really that huge of a security advantage to do that, instead of simply running Chrome from Android?

Because besides the security issue, I don't see any advantage at all for ChromeOS in that scenario. And even so, the convenience of having Chrome in Android most likely trumps whatever security advantage ChromeOS has over Chrome on Android.
The biggest problem is as long as people think Macs are secure... they will never be.
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I'd be hard pressed to blame the CEO for the all of the ills that plague Best Buy, though I have to give the man credit for knowing when to step aside. After 28 years with the company I'd say he deserves a rest.

The problems that exist with the company, I think, mostly stem from the pool from which they have to select their work force. It's hard to keep up any sort of reputable service when you get so big. Saying that, Apple seems to be doing okay..
To comply with CAN-SPAM mailing list unsubscription can't require a password, which means there's negligible security on it. Sending an email confirmation acts as a safety check that person unsubscribing actually is the email account holder.
Management Science is a subdiscipline of management. Also known as Operations Research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research
mtx_init and mtx_destroy might. The rest of the mtx_* keywords don't seem like they'd be used for a matrix library.

(Keep in mind: identifiers ending in _t are reserved by POSIX. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh...)
Set of values: [ 80.1, 80.2, 79.8, 80.1, 80.0, 79.9, 80.1, 80.1 ]

New value: 80.3. It's a record high, but is it an extreme value? i.e., are record highs extreme values by definition?
Attempting to revert the PC revolution into centrally controlled display terminals is "pretty fucking behind". Microsoft attempted to do this a decade ago and was rightfully called out for it, but it seems most of the Apple community is happy to not own the devices they rely on. Apparently Macs really are not meant to be Personal Computers.
You could probably boot and shutdown ChromeOS 10 times in the time it takes Android to boot.
Yep, you've got it. Nom is the Latin root for "name" and the N-vowel-M form lends it to basically every Western European language (Nom in French, Nome in Italian, Nombre in Spanish, Namn in Swedish, etc.)

A villa is an upscale country house, usually in the Mediterranean or S America. Together they mean "a high class naming house", which is the brand we're trying to convey.