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linq.js has been doing this for years now. Its a mature library, flexible and light.
I use it for every web project, wouldn't know what to do with out it.
http://linqjs.codeplex.com/
Examples: http://neue.cc/reference.htm

Features
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implement all .NET 4.0 methods and many extra methods
(inspiration from Rx, Achiral, Haskell, Ruby, etc...)
complete lazy evaluation
full IntelliSense support for VisualStudio
two versions - linq.js and jquery.linq.js (jQuery plugin)
support Windows Script Host
binding for Reactive Extensions for JavaScript(RxJS) and
IntelliSense Generator -> see documentation
NuGet install support(linq.js, linq.js-jQuery, linq.js-Bindings)

90 Methods
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Aggregate, All, Alternate, Any, Average, BufferWithCount,
CascadeBreadthFirst, CascadeDepthFirst, Catch, Choice,
Concat,Contains, Count, Cycle, DefaultIfEmpty, Distinct, Do,
ElementAt, ElementAtOrDefault, Empty, Except, Finally, First,
FirstOrDefault, Flatten, ForEach, Force, From, Generate,
GetEnumerator, GroupBy, GroupJoin, IndexOf, Insert, Intersect,
Join, Last, LastIndexOf,
LastOrDefault, Let, Matches, Max, MaxBy, MemoizeAll, Min,
MinBy, OfType, OrderBy, OrderByDescending, Pairwise,
PartitionBy, Range, RangeDown, RangeTo, Repeat,
RepeatWithFinalize, Return, Reverse, Scan, Select, SelectMany,
SequenceEqual, Share, Shuffle,
Single, SingleOrDefault, Skip, SkipWhile, Sum, Take,
TakeExceptLast, TakeFromLast, TakeWhile, ThenBy,
ThenByDescending, ToArray,
ToDictionary, ToInfinity,ToJSON, ToLookup, ToNegativeInfinity,
ToObject, ToString, Trace, Unfold, Union, Where, Write,
WriteLine, Zip
The first thing I thought after watching the video was how much money will they make with pre-orders on this site and how much would they have made with a kickstarter campaign?
I think http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Programming_languages has a better list of programming language quotes. As this list, it contains a lot of ha-ha jokes, but at least it contains more of the "good" quotes too.
Agreed. I monitor about 100 domains, mostly small business websites here in the US and none (I repeat NONE) have Chrome anywhere even close to Firefox, let alone IE which commands the first spot on almost every site.

I don't know where or who these Chrome users are, but they certainly aren't visiting your bread and butter small biz websites.
That sounds very promising. Do you have a time frame for this release?
What are hub, switch and router
"no one needs to look at mail headers and it should be the job of the user's mail reader to display it in a human readable form".

Exactly...

Who reads email headers? Maybe some server admin who's going through some backups of emails looking for something. He might even appreciate having a date format that's lexicographically ordered for his searching purposes.

Having a human readable date is like changing HTTP Content-Length to say "one million four hundred and fifty thousand and sixty four" so that when I'm reading through my raw server logs I can easily see the magnitude of the length of the responses.
I wrote a Chrome extension to do what you describe, it breaks almost the entire web. I am experimenting with a generic rule set with a view of forking Chrome with a better default privacy and security policy.

I totally agree that users shouldn't need to know the details, but there are some things, like third-party cookies, that needs to be explained and simplified. A bit like not clicking on an exe email attachment.

I think the equivalent could be that users white-list websites, or 'install' them, if they trust them, which allows those sites to execute third-party cookies. Everything else would be 'incognito' by default.

But I am not entirely sure what would work, hence my experimentation at the moment. I know that the answer definitely isn't DNT.
Any idea what the tech behind it is? They're very vague on the website, and my patent searches are turning up empty.

I guess some kind of infrared thing?
Yes, I probably worked harder at my startup than at school. For people that love school, maybe that's a better choice for them, it wasn't necessarily for me.
It's a good song too. Sadly I don't think anyone has ever chose a browser based on a TV commercial.
The original article is about generating date strings, and I would give it more credence if it mentioned the RFC 3339 profile. (edit: I just noticed you're probably the author; please excuse my abrupt tone)
Stop PSD to HTML Spam
How many journal articles are not just tweaks on conference papers and the like that are already available on-line?

This is a serious question. Back when I was seriously tracking a couple of areas, I didn't care at all about journals because they were about a year behind.

Public access to data, that would be something.
Some relative of Kinect if I had to guess.
This website doesn't seem to think bylines are very important.

The author is named Peter Faulkner.

No, a tag blob not a substitute for a proper byline.
"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
- Donald Knuth"

This is so true. It also applies in any factory and any construction site and any dorm-room.
You're right. I posted it because the Myspace<->FB comparison is often used and I wanted to illustrate the trends for something that grows/saturates/declines.
Great link, which (oddly enough, because I don't think this was your intention) backs up the OP's point.

Out of that list of a dozen managed providers, 3 are officially out of beta. One, no.de, the OP talks about. One, Heroku, is listed an using an ancient version of Node.js. The other one looks like an interesting platform.

There are certainly a near infinite number of unmanaged providers, but the OP stipulated (potentially rightly?) that he really prefers a managed solution. Can't say I blame him - having all the infrastructure take care of for you lets you concentrate on code.
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You have to enable the meta character in your terminal or iterm settings.
I think we'll end up seeing a few more of these stories before we get sick of the trend and bury them.

Facebook's only real profit driver at the moment is advertising to it's captive user base, however the ad's aren't that good to start with. It feels half hearted like they've gone, 'hey we'll stick some ad's....there', that's great they're all in one place at the right where I can ignore them.

I think a lot of people will start revising how much money they want to spend in terms of advertising and pull back from the least effective, which could very well be Facebook.

(interesting side note, the most effective corporate Twitter accounts I've found are the ones that don't bother trying to sell the product every 10 minutes, see Betfair Poker and Waterstones UK for good examples).
I signed it, that only makes sense If the public is going to fund it, then they should be able to see the research. To be honest, I didn't even know that publicly funded research wasn't all public.
English came from French (& German).

(For relaxed definitions of 'French' and 'German')
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I wasn't familiar with the concept, so I googled 'dark patterns' and found this great intro. http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home

Worth a watch. I also just submitted it.
Who said inline styles? A class and an ID on a span tag inside a larger block would be all that's required. The clicking stuff would be applied outside of the document editing area.

This is the sort of reaction that makes me hesitant to even attempt to fork/patch it, because if this sort of thing wouldn't be accepted back in to the main trunk, I'm stuck maintaining a separate branch.
introduction to "dark patterns" in design
Introduction to the idea of dark patterns in design.
We had a similar level of traction adverstising nametoolkit.com (shameless plug but we all do it on HN). The visitors we got from Facebook seemed completely lost, but yet the cost per click (CPC) we ended up paying was notably higher than the CPC from adwords.

We tried Bing also, and they were really great at customer service; some guy talked to me for over an hour about various things we could try and they always got back quickly, but the CPCs were absurdly high.
Ha! So, I can't count apparently. That was 15 million as the final number in the table.

The Amish don't get to 1.5 billion until 2186.
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In fairness, x86-64 Linux has supported running 32-bit x86 processes from the start (likewise for PPC and PPC64). It just so happens that the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit CPU modes is quite significant on x86. So this new ABI for using 32 bit pointers while the CPU is in 64-bit mode is really Intel/AMD's "fault" more than Linux's - the 32-bit mode's register starvation is particularly crippling. (Actually, if anyone is to blame, it's Microsoft "fault" for tying consumer computing down to x86)
If you would be happy with markdown, you'll be happy with a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer. HTML santization is only a hassle if you take the blacklist approach in an attempt to allow lots more than what markdown can do.

I've used antisamy, but there are many others and I don't know which is best. But I would call the whitelist approach in general, best practice.
Clearly this is insufficient, it needs a pound or two of HMX. At a detonation velocity of 9100m/s, it should take care of the data (and everything else) just as fast.

On a more serious note however, how hard would it be to break the encryption, especially if one were able to develop a sufficiently advanced computer in the future (ie. quantum computer)?
Kinect is using stereo-vision using 2 cameras...I don't think they have the same technology here
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It's interesting you wish to ban the article while ignoring the facts which come from a reputable source, statcounter. So even though the data is correct, you don't want to see the article published.
The article doesn't mention the fact that ISO8601 strings will also sort correctly in chronological order, or does this not matter since epoch-seconds do as well (as long as there are enough leading zeroes)?
You can already buy a Lexus which parallel parks for you. Don't know which, if any, elements are patented though.
Interesting point, however the main difference between a printed book and the app store is that the product on the app store can be constantly changing based on the user feedback. If reviews are inherently prejudiced in one direction, does that leave much incentive for developers to improve their app?

On the other hand, a private engagement directly with developers could prove to be more beneficial since it allows developers know of shortcomings/user-expectations without negatively affecting the overall ratings. This way, they can improve the app without having lingering negative comments affect the perception of their updates.
Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley
Doesn't work very well when zooming.
Heroku seems to allow specifying a version of node:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-versions

You can specify anything up to 0.6.17 by the looks of it, Although the default seems to be the ancient version you mentioned.

I've used heroku for a python app in the past and it was a great experience. If the node support is even half as good it should be a solid option.
Chrome's not open source, Chromium is.
Nice overview. Have you ever looked at knockout.js?
What do we do about date calculations that cross an epoch wrap?
I guess the problem is not just about PSD to HTML but anything. The web is getting littered all over by low quality spam articles that have only one intention that is SEO back links.
It sounds like you are having issues with your computer. Perhaps you need to take it the the Geek Squad and have them look it over. You can always find someone who has issues with everything. Most people don't have any problems at all.
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This varies a lot between fields. In palaeontology, conference "papers" are only 200-word abstracts with no illustrations or references, and are not considered to be science. So papers are everything. I believe it's less straightforward in maths, for example, where conferences are much more important.
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This has nothing to do with Facebook. They just picked the wrong marketing channel. How do you expect a "great" response for a packaging business (that too B2B) on facebook.

There are effective two modes of advertising on the internet:
1. where the user seeks (search ads etc)

2. you push the ad on the consumer (content ads, facebook ads as of now)

#1 is clear and has a good enough match always.

To be on #2 - you got to appeal well to the audience. Facebook works wonders for food, travel, gifts and more. All things that qualify for impulsive buys. It is important to understand the marketing channel.
I can certainly understand the author's frustration with Facebook advertising, and for what he's selling, it does make more sense to use Google than Facebook or Twitter.

I don't think that's an indictment of the site, though.

Facebook and Twitter are mediums for sharing and discussion. Traditional commerce feels a bit off, at best. If you want to use them to promote a business, you have to be participating in them on the same level.

I've used Facebook ads to promote a magazine and a podcast. In both cases, I saw much higher returns than with Google. I was asking people to come to the Facebook pages for the magazine and the podcast, and each page had a healthy amount of discussion and community because there was content for people to coalesce around. In our case, the ads did act as a primer for a more viral expansion, because there was something people could do and share on our pages.

I don't think Facebook is ever likely to become a good place for a 150-year-old B-to-B packaging service to do business. That shouldn't spell doom for the packaging service or for Facebook.
Motions like using a mouse or a keyboard are not a single bit more intuitive for flying planes or shootings guns. It just an issue of familiarisation with the interface as it was with the mouse, as it was the keyboard.

Beside that, it really doesn't matter as these were only two examples of a large variety of possible applications. If it doesn't fit the need - don't use it. There are other interfaces. There is no need for one interface to rule them all but for interfaces that really hits the spot for particular applications.

Regarding Leap: Looks really promising. Though i would prefere if it would be "hidden". Anyhow, can't wait to get my on it. Or over it.
Wow this sounds cool... definitely worth playing with.. Would love to see some nifty Call now from webpage features on sites.
At the bottom of the article is a short bio of the guy. A bit further down is a proper "About the author" box with a picture and his Twitter handle.
Yes. But NIH is one of a dozen US Government departments that have research budgets exceeding $100M per year. And so far it's the only one with a public-access mandate.
Actually main line kernel support is one of the last things that's been needed to get this going. gcc 4.7, and the latest glibc and binutils have had support for a little while. Now it'll still be a while before distros start supporting it as a first class citizen but the pieces are now there.
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So, as a matter of corporate finance, the bankers did right. They got the most financing for their corporate client. But as a matter of overall fairness, this IPO drove an even sharper wedge between the haves and have-nots in our society.
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I agree with your statement as it perceives to larger companies, but for start-ups, if I were an investor, I would actually want founders to "cash-out" at least a little.

Assuming I've done my due diligence on the dedication of the team, the last thing I want is for a founder to be focused on personal finances. Otherwise, they might be too focused on immediate monetization instead of growth.
Not especially large ones, but yes, using it all the time. Want to exchange information between Active Directory and a relational database? Between Net::LDAP and DBI, Perl makes it easy. Need to rewrite quantities of old HTML to clean up unsupported tags? HTML::TreeBuilder is your friend.

In general, CPAN is a tremendous resource.
Ha ! Truth spoken on HN propaganda machine. Unlikely !

This page will probably be taken down to avoid conspiracy theorists like me.

The bubble is coming folks.

Dear Trolls,

Time for a lolocaust on HN.

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."

Copy paste the above !!
+1 if you use sock puppets.

Seriously, you are affecting people's life you don't confess about this hideous fad and the devil's nest(VC's).

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."

"Long live the neckbeard.
Down with the startup scene."
I am reading the notes taken at his !college! class posted about a few days ago. I am on the 6th lecture, and just realised that while thinking he was a douche I was quoting him, so I have to take back my negative thoughts about him and say he seems to have some good ideas and the notes are well worth a read.

Anyway, I got the impression from the lectures so far that his problem with college would be more due to the tendency for students to associate 'difficult' with 'valuable', and he was really railing against a handful of so-called elite institutions.

Arguing that you should avoid any formal training is pretty daft - you can learn a lot by yourself but self-study tends to anti-select against important-but-boring stuff (I've recently changed from self-study back to programmed-study and have to begrudgingly accept that I am consolidating my understanding of certain issues only since).
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I think the use of the word "killed" here doesn't mean "not alive", but rather "no longer useful", which is a common usage. Considering it was declared a complete loss and sold off, I'd say it was killed in the sense of "this project has been killed".
have started by fixing a windows fallback font for the text so that it's not Times!
If reviews are inherently prejudiced in one direction, does that leave much incentive for developers to improve their app?

Well these aren't fake reviews that appear out of thin air. The reviews may be "biased" but they're still written by real, mostly happy, users.
I used AirBnB a couple of times, I think is a good idea. Prices aren't cheap at all, but you get an appartment with utilities and not a B&B room. However, I too keep wondering on the risks associated with renting. They are just difficult to estimate. The renter may put a bomb in the appartment, how do you protect yourself financially from this?

For this to make sense the number of the appartments (or cars) destroyed or damaged must me low enough that the cost for repairing is way lower than AirBnB revenues. Not sure this is possible with only 10% fee on renting although.
Signed 64 bit seconds since epoch is enough.
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It could also be a simple matter of investing in the founders. Give them "Enough money to take money off the table", in the words of that "The surprising truth about what motivates us" video. If you've been working hard for eight years, and it's going to be another five before the "liquidity event", I would guess it can be nice to be able to take any financial issues off the table permanently - and it's probably a also good thing for family support that your founders can afford to go on a holiday every once in a while without having to count every penny.
Semi-related question for you experts out there: how do these frameworks fit into a multi-page web app (ie: a typical Rails app)? They all seem to target the single-app market and the examples are always so simple that I have yet to figure how to build a larger application with either Backbone, Spine or Ember.

Is the idea to treat each page as a unique application?
Don't really like the Google+ UI... I guess its ok till its contacts and calender... but changing the Gmail UI would be really a suicide.
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> With all the buzz and hype around Node JS, it seems reasonable to think that there’d be plenty of cloud providers out there offering Node JS hosting services.

Node hosting is not your grandpa's Rails hosting anymore— deploying Node is much easier. If you want to be really quick and deploy to the cloud, take AWS and you are done in 13 steps:

http://www.tulek.org/2011/03/08/installing-node-on-aws-linux...
(just one example showing how easy it is)

Maybe the simplicity is the reason that there's just no business modell for one-click-hosters because it's too easy. The added value putting some wrapper around AWS is too small to establish a dedicated business.

And BTW: check Rails automated hosting providers like Heroku: there're just a very few and Rails is there for 7-8 years now! There're just EngineYard, Brightbox, Heroku and maybe two more. And you definitely need automated hosting with Rails like Heroku or you die. Or check Java hosting, I don't know any one-click-hoster for Java and the JVM. If you want the classic PHP and LAMP stack hosting where you put files via FTP on a web server you are not the right target audience for Node.

> Where Are The Community Meet-ups?

Node.js meetups are often integrated in local JS meetups; with conferences it's similar—a JSconf heavily covers Node as well.

> As a rule, Node JS’s target audience probably doesn’t know enough to safely and securely run their own Internet-connected servers.

Sorry, but this is a stuck-in-the-mud view on hosting web apps. With Node borders between web server and app server blurred. Node devs have to know more about deploying and hosting when they code in Node because it's integral to Node (Node is more low level than other stuff). A dedicated sys admin or an automated environment like Heroku is nice but you won't die without one and AWS for example IS already managed hosting and that's all you need. And if you would have your personal sys admin—what should he do? Look that you created the http server one liner in Node right or that he knows how to scale your Node app by modeling how nodes and childs interact with each other? No that's exactly the Node dev's jobs, that makes Node so special. If you face heavy traffic it makes sense to dedicate one engineer just to hosting and scaling but until then AWS or Nodejitsu is your friend.

Server vulnerabilities usually come with complex standard deployments like LAMP stacks, Wordpress installations etc. The less you have on the server the safer it will be. The OS stack comes from you hosting provider like AWS, is managed and is safe and the rest (Node) is so simple and little that you get it managed yourself.

> We’re just outside London, which is a veritable hive of startup activity these days.

London, a hive of startup activity?

> I’ve recently built a product in Node JS, and it was a very positive experience

If you really liked it and if you agree that there's is a lively ecosystem for Node (just check all the 9,000 modules, this is also the ecosystem) why don't you just help/contribute/improve Node's ecosystem instead of ranting (or kind of)?