skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stackless works fine for this kind of thing.
People have already got Vert.x running on OpenShift and Heroku, and CloudFoundry support shouldn't be too much longer.
> Patent trolls aren't illegal, but they're evil

If you use Douglas Crockford's JSON library, then arguably its license could make you turn them down on legal grounds: http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions =)
> Also, protip for criminals: make your own circuit boards without identifying marks.

Why? This seems like the perfect sort of thing to buy with someone's stolen credit card - it provides a red herring for the police to chase after, and at least in this case, gives the thieves a warning that an investigation is in process.
Not so much confusion as setting off by BS-alarm.

It's basically like calling a taxi a "driverless" form of transport, just because you don't do the driving.
Not a problem, I'll just commit my crimes in stairwells.
And if you're not into credit cards just by principle, there's always Perkstreet's debit card. As their tagline goes, "No fees, just perks." (Perks being gift cards or cash back.)
For this specific case, they'd probably need to keep that accounting information for filing taxes. I'm not sure about the U.S., but in Canada we need to keep tax-related records for 7 years (I think).
Just off the top of my head, stacking row upon row of toolbars and metadata on top of every repository, so the first real file is actually 500px down the page. Also, excessive use of icons where text labels would be much clearer, as other commenters have said.

There were several posts on HN over the last couple of years where people complained about these and other issues.
It may be theoretically possible, but it's probably more hassle than it's worth. It's easier for inventory tracking if you have a paper trail (or equivalent on disk). It's also good to have the receipts if you're ever audited.

It's also inconvenient for the 99.999% of customers who aren't trying to cover their tracks, because without the info they wouldn't be able to check their order history.

And it's not simply a matter of telling the law enforcement agency "We don't store that information." You most likely have to jump through the hoops to prove that you don't store the information.
I can see that the initial two step installation process can be confusing. Can it be reduced to a single step?

Otherwise, great idea!
I didn't know about CodeShelver! Thank you.

I'll give it a try in a few days, but just a question: what happens if www.codeshelver.com dies tomorrow (assuming they save shelved repos on their server) or their Safari extension be buggy and it removes/corrupts all my precious repos (assuming it's the extension that saves the repos)? Will I lose everything?
Go out to somewhere urban late at night and find a spot where you can watch people and cars go by. It should be late, maybe an hour before most places close. Then listen to Kind of Blue. If it doesn't move you, it could just be you that you're not a jazz fan.

Or try listening to "A Love Supreme" early in the morning before you leave the house. This time of year is a perfect time for it.

Or if it's raining, put on "Blue in Green" from Kind of Blue.
PR Cards are canada are pretty close to citizenship. PRs get subsided educations and are treated like citizens for all rights and purposes. Other than voting, political office, passports and other standard citizen benefits I don't know how Canada's PR is any worse than a US PR.
It was a combination of dissatisfaction with multiple inheritance (see Perl 5, C++), interfaces (see Java), and mixins (see Perl 5, Ruby), as well as an acknowledgement that aspects (see Java) and multimethods (see Common Lisp) solve part of the problem well and part of the problem poorly.

Then Allison and I saw Dr. Black present the Smalltalk traits paper and she realized that their formalism was exactly what I'd been talking about informally, so we borrowed that instead.
Node's API is async. Under the hood everything is done via threadpools, same as in Java or any other stack. Your hardware knows how to run threads; that's all. Whether or not that's what's exposed to you as a programmer is a different story.

You don't actually get a performance boost from Node being "async". Node's async abilities simply give you transparent access to threads that are otherwise unavailable with javascript, and it's the threads giving you performance.
IMO its not Miles Davis that deserves all that credit but Duke Ellington.
So here is the question, do dole and chiquita get away with this because there is nothing else for these people to do? Or do they get away with it because they have created a system which effectively creates indentured servants? I am not familiar enough with Honduras to comment on that.

I noted in the article that the proposed city would have room for the entire population + 2 million. So if this city provides opportunities for the people who now labor in the fields, and they all migrate there, Dole and Chiquita would be out of workers would they not?

If this is how the Hondurans envision it working it seems that they are trying to 'get off the backs' of the labor pool.
If a company gives that response law enforcement will just come back with a warrant. You might say that's the case. But from their perspective it sounds fishy, and their only way to be sure is to take your servers and find out for themselves.
Everything about this is awesome right up until the part when they're purple and littered all over my dashboard.

The post is a legitimately good read, though.
As stated by the grandparent:

> Unicode code points do have names and standardized meanings, so it's not a good idea to abuse them
Even the Pentagon Wants in on the 3D-Printing Craze
Mixing Helpers & Presenters in rails
That may be true, but Davis really was a genius.
Same here, I look forward to checking it out though
How did things get so bad? Patagonia's founder on the end of nature.
I'm curious if the problems he mentioned are applicable to IPV6 or not.
There are apparently less than 400 Pebbles left[1] before they sell out at 85,000 watches[2]. If you wanted one and haven't ordered it yet, your opportunity is almost gone!

EDIT: (30 minutes later) There are only about 150 left.

EDIT: (60 minutes later) They're past 85,000, but the announcement they made said "around 85,000 Pebbles"[2] and not exactly 85,000. They could disable the preorders at any time, but there's no way to predict exactly when they're officially sold out.

EDIT: (70 minutes later) They've just created a $1 tier that provides 0 watches, and they set all the other tiers to eventually run out.

[1] http://computingeureka.com/pebble/

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
> Perhaps that's because Github would like to switch from text to icons eventually?

Like Gmail's new icon-only interface? I hope not! It's difficult enough for people to figure out what Gmail's icons represent.
> forcing the entire ecosystem to be async too

You say that like it's a good thing. I'd much rather have the choice between async and sync.
Some months ago, I googled up a number of "dollar a day" type food sites. There is lots of good stuff out there on the topic. I also like this one and have posted it elsewhere.
I for one cannot believe that we (Sweden), passed on this opportunity.
What Every Programmer Should Know about Memory
It seems like it would be difficult to run a business without keeping basic information on your current and past customers. Or are you suggesting lying to the police? That doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
Those who are interested in this stuff should checkout previous discussions on HN. There had been quite a few when the plan to open source the compiler was announced about 4 months ago. In fact I remember a thread about pathscale planning to reverse engineer the runtime and compiler, this is also referenced in the current post.

I would also recommend keeping an eye on the manticore project, they have had some success compiling nested parallel constructs into GPU instruction that is very competitive with hand optimized code. Though this seems such an obvious thing to do, it is deceptively hard, very hard.

Links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351967

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1458922

https://plus.google.com/109384228201962198714/posts/LzQDmzTf...
Depends on what you're doing. Shoving a numpy array with 10^7 elements over the wire isn't going to scale nicely at all. There are still a lot of computing scenarios having shared memory is the best approach.
Even though I consider all of these musicians to be greater than Miles Davis, it was Miles Davis who, as a band leader, let these individual members not only play in his band, but also shine by letting each of them solo on pieces instead of just him.
"An interesting startup idea might be providing some kind of financing for higher quality goods."

That's basically what layaway was. Now, that's what credit cards do.
I paid for the disc. What are they yelling at ME for?
Totally agree, I was going to say the same thing, but I didn't want to come across as a curmudgeon. The idea of Timeline is brilliant, but the zigzag implementation is such a violation of the user experience (in my opinion) that I have no idea how it made it into production.
It has created by NeXT, which was bough by Apple, thus Apple holds the language copyright.
I use node but I kind of felt that this sort of scenario should be pretty obvious before you use it. I never use node to serve up static files, I use nginx instead. Small static files will be cached by the OS, as you said, which makes subsequent reads really quick. Since this is a small text file, it compresses really well over the wire too, so the time to serve up the request is lowered too. There's simply not much I/O to be a bottleneck in this benchmark scenario.

I wouldn't say that this is an unfair benchmark. But then I don't use node because it's "web scale". I use it because using javascript on the server, client, and on the wire (JSON) is pretty damn slick.

I'm interested in checkout out vert.x. But, this goes to everyone,let's not let this whole affair degenerate. Right tool for the right job. This particular benchmark scenario is explicitly the wrong way to use node. I'd suspect that if you were to change the readFile into an HTTP request however, the numbers might change. I also wouldn't be butt-hurt if vert.x still came out on top. There are still a ton of things to love about node.

Let's get on with our actual work now, shall we?
I'm interested to know how vert.x compares to industrial-strength "traditional" servlet containers. My guess is that vert.x would outperform them under certain conditions, but all in all they would scale better.

I believe servlets are still the most scalable web stack out there.
One Chapter From Upcoming eBook: Ruby Under A Microscope
IIRC, in the later Wolfenstein games, id doesn't use the swastika or any other explicit Nazi-related material.
Clicked link excited to read a tale of a cowboy startup, sticking it to the man and laying waste to patent troll scum. Instead was a story of cowboys settled on the ranch, freely doing business with all types of trolls. Not what I wanted to read personally, but it is a path that many large, successful companies have followed.
Oblig. cartoon: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
Much of the high-end outdoor gear industry values quality and durability. For example I bought my MSR backpacking stove in 1994 and it still works as well today as it did then. I've had to replace a few o-rings, which the product is designed to make pretty easy. It will most likely last me the rest of my life.
People still buy DVDs? How quaint.
Why are you married to the back-and-forth thing anyway?

Is it just because facebook does it, or do you have some other strong reason for using it.
I'm wondering if they track unique MAC or IMEI numbers for devices involved. A Bluetooth module would have a unique MAC ID, but I've never heard of that ID being used for network admin or security. MAC for WiFi or Ethernet is used for DHCP and MAC address filters.

If the investigator were smart enough, they could ID the other coupled nodes connecting to the BlueSMiRF device. This technique is done to locate a WiFi node.
If you like the old Wolf3d you should check out catacomb abyss which was the predecessor to wolf and had many of the same devs (including Carmack). A very underrated game.
Why are they threatening the people who actually paid for the product?

This feels pretty relevant as well:

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
The only explanation I can come up with is that they are targeting the people who are ripping the DVDs for distribution. So 5 people on the whole world. Sounds reasonable :/
It's usually less of a bandwidth issue and more of a configuration problem - e.g. default Apache tries to spin up some 50 processes to handle requests, which can drive a small server into swap space.
You can achieve the same experience by ripping the discs you've bought. The question is do people actually do that?
I think the difference with the restaurant analogy is that the dress code is applied before you enter and are seated. Thus you'll be turned away outright for dressing improperly.

Compare it to this, where the issue only arose because the customer made clear their intention well after signing up.

I'm seeing the main issue here being that enforcing their own ideals, so they don't serve the customers they want, involves waiting for the to contact support, lest they violate their own ethics re: privacy and data protection.

How many new customers will they get when they earn a reputation of applying a personal and undisclosed set of ethics and ideals to customers any time after they sign up?
I guess I was hoping for an outcome other than, "Well, we decided to go ahead and help him out, anyway. Luckily, he just kind of faded away on his own."

Oh. Okay. That's good, I guess.
The real way out of poverty is self sufficiency. This TED fellow is doing that in Africa, creating self-sufficient villages: http://workingvillages.org
Ah, those who are already aware of, and unconcerned by, the warning.
Fonts are not behavior. When the web was made of pages and style was secondary to content, this wasn't a problem.
And I would doubt that anyone who's ripping professionally is unaware of the (potential) legal consequences, should they get caught.
I suspect that the police in this case have no idea how big sparkfun is or how much business they do.
Why a Developer Laptop?
Reminds me of the VS11 beta icons, although not quite as bad that. (The promised VS11 RC icons are somewhat of an improvement. There must have been a big outcry. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visu...)

I agree the idea is very good. Are flat icons a current design fad?
cool that the search expressions are s-expressions:

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/o...
Good engineers like solving interesting problems. You didn't talk about the problem you solve at all. You didn't talk about how your approach is interesting at all. Big fail.

As a result, people like myself who have your needed skill set covered (and then some) have no reason to be interested at all. In actuality I'm not really on the market (I have a sweet job!), but I'm sure other people feel the same way.
Here's on possible way it could help Obama in North Carolina.

Assume his 2008 victory was based on winning in the counties with the big cities, and losing in the rural areas.

It seems likely that the rural areas are going to go big for not-Obama again in 2012. Those there who will be pissed off by him supporting gay marriage were going to vote against him anyway, so he's not really going to hurt himself in the rural areas.

In the city areas, his problem is going to be keeping the independent voters and youth voters who came out in 2008 for him. Supporting gay marriage will help him with these voters.
The infrastructural barriers to entry are nontrivial, to be sure.

Further restrictions -- for example, kneecapping pricing structures that companies can use to differentiate themselves -- will only exacerbate that, though.

Another thought is that with the right market dynamic, I have more variety than it seems at first blush: cable, DSL, fiber, dial-up, satellite, WiMax, 3G, power lines, and possibly others. There's a variegation of technical specialty there that lends itself to horizontal competition by many companies. For heavy usage, several of these are currently poor... but looking at our present options and determining that only cable and fiber matter, for instance, is selling innovation short. It's surprising what can crop up out of nowhere when someone sees an unexploited opportunity.

The reason there hasn't been a mass flight from the standard telcos yet, I think, is that packet profiling has largely taken the form of capping torrents for heavy users, which is a small minority of the market -- and they're arguably being capped for the benefit of the majority. If the telcos make a gamble on harming access or speeds for the majority, there will be a scramble for alternatives, and they will present themselves.

Legislation is too often proposed with the deeply flawed assumption of an inelastic economic model.
The problem is that they didn't follow convention: they didn't think through the icons' purpose & over-did the design. Create New should just be + sign, Account Settings should be user head, and so on.

I like thinking up icons just like any advanced UI/UX guy, but rule number #1: if there's a standard you use it. Even if that means using something as archaic as floppy disk for Save.
I wouldn't say I'm married to it. I actually like the Facebook timeline, and it is what inspired this project. I wondered what my github feed would look like in a timeline/filterable form. So I built it.

The main goal is to be able to take anyone's public github profile and assess what they have done in the open source world. For example, a job candidate who gives sends along their profile. Right now their public github profile page doesn't do a great job distilling that information.
I have been waiting for an account with them for years - I really hope this means they are close to a public opening
As ICE Director John Morton announced in a statement yesterday, "Law enforcement must continue to expand how it combats criminal activity"

Does anyone else think this is a terrible allocation of resources?
Gitup - 20 line bash script to update git repo and all git submodules
But if you are connecting across the public internet, surely your connection will cross paths with someone using traditional TCP.
Ever wonder where the term "Banana Republic" came from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Honduras Cuyamel Banana Company literally staged a coup to install a more friendly government in Honduras.

edited because I had the wrong banana company. Lest you think Chiquita is innocent, look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre and a more thorough description of Honduras in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras#International_influen...
It looks like this type: http://www.amazon.com/Alvin-Co-DRAFT-MATIC-PENCIL/dp/B001DKI...

But that's just me doing my best to read the side of the pencil in the photo, but it looks like the one!
Wow and I had expected it to take a while to break the $3.3 million record that doublefine set on the site. It's honestly amazing what some of these are doing financially.
Is there a name for this kind of behavior? I've known about the project since day one and didn't feel like buying one, but now that there's only a few watches left, I bit the bullet and gave them my credit card.
This is simply stunning. Fantastic work, can't wait until I have a good reason to use this.
Christopher Tappin claims he didn't know the batteries were going to be used for evil.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/chris-tappin-den...)
That's not how game theory works.
To be honest, the best way of dealing with this would have been to price the customizations out of the market. You're selling a service, so price it accordingly. :-)
It just seems like there could be a simpler system to me. (Simpler in terms of properties and such, as opposed to syntax. Also, variables and stuff in CSS would be nice obviously). But I agree, inconsistency is always frustrating.
Perhaps because it's clearer than the rest? But yah the weights are off and it seems sharper.
I wonder why IF closes with FI, REP closes with PER and LOOP closes with POOL, but SWITCH fails to complete the series: it closes with ENDSW...

Why not go all the way with HCTIWS, when you've already abandoned your sanity to Cthulhu?
Isn't SVG universal?
A sigma here, a sigma there...
I think that creating some sort of "collective marketing" term or group maybe for kids programs that are like this would help reach an underserved market -- someone vetting iOS software and certifying that it is "Kid Friendly" (no ads, no IAPs, no way to exit other than home button, state clearly saved, etc.) would help parents quite a bit. You could charge developers to be listed in a directory (or do it as a public service) and sort of further curate the App Store, as a lot of the kids stuff in it is frankly exploitative and also frankly, not fun.
Paper stirs up controversy over the nature of the quantum wave function
Mac OS X 10.7.4 released
I recall hearing that it's to try to make piracy be seen as less socially acceptable.
Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity: A Trialogue
totally agree. The words Kleiner and Andreeson make me yawn. Tell me what problem you wanna solve.
Marketing types call it the "Bandwagon Effect".

http://www.marketing91.com/bandwagon-effect/

84,600 customers all can't be wrong, right? The project is a guaranteed success (or so you would believe) and if you don't buy now, you will literally miss the wagon...
Nice preview, but their JavaScript is messed up. I attempted to connect to beta in the Sign Up tab of their pop-up, but the error message for already having an account says, "Sorry, [object Object] is already registered with another account".
I think we will see this being used in lot of 'web infographics'. I personally was never fond of infographics in the image format but it helped spammers derive SEO juice which is how the whole infographic mania started.

Infographics meant for web consumption should be made using HTML, CSS and JS not images and this library will help a great deal.
Welp, that's changed.
Zuckerberg's hoodie rankles Wall Street
Is it possible that both things are true? That the current conditions in Honduras are the result of a legacy of imperialist and corporatist exploitation, and that part of that legacy is a system of laws and customs that retards economic development and condemns many of its people to a life lived in shacks or subsistence farms?

Your whole comment can be right on the money (I'm inclined to think it is) without saying anything about Romer's belief that the best vector to improve Honduras is "special economic zones" with different laws.

(We had to read Eduardo Galeano's last Memory of Fire book in high school; probably the most memorable and durably changing experiences I've had with any book. I'm guessing you're being charitable about how bad Honduran history has been for Hondurans.)
This is stunning. UX metaphors can work in number of situations.
Implementing Facebook’s Notification Widget in Android
Cute. One thing that would improve it would be keyboard shortcuts. The editing of the number in the middle feels a bit awkward too. I guess it might make a nice replacement for a slider in certain circumstances.