skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to check in with you: I too am in the midst of a total love affair with Lua/LuaJIT. That one little VM has really turned into something amazing. And now, the ways it is used!!! Phenomenal.
I first dipped my toe into C waters at 12 (years old) and very soon felt out of my depth enough to leave it alone. Cut to much later and I think I'm ready to try again.

I've no project in mind yet, but, Eric, your libtm plan caught my eye a few months back and if you've anything on github I'd be interested to follow along. I'm a translator myself and often find myself optimising how MemoQ could be matching segments.
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Yeah, the image concept only works properly when Smalltalk is the operating system, as it was originally developed.
Google said 50% better price/performance, and I believe Google's culture is less tolerant of marketing "exaggerations" than is Amazon's.

As a simple, concrete, example: Amazon's GBs are 10^9 bytes; Google and the rest of the world defines them as 2^30. That's why EC2 instances have such weird memory sizes. So EC2's "17.1 GB" is what the rest of the world calls 16GB.
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When someone wants to negate the idea of a sentence, the negation is often placed in a spot that makes it unclear as to whether the sentence is being negated, or merely a smaller part of the sentence is being negated. This is a common occurrence in many languages and dialects.

Of course it can be confusing, and sometimes even downright contradictory if you think too hard about it. But language is flexible, and most people just don't write with such rigorous logic. So, just mentally realize that, given the context, the most likely interpretation is:

"all calories are not alike" = NOT("all calories are alike")

If this is still haunting you, just do what Allie does:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Why not space?
I have just the thing for you. It's an app called TimeBend: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebend/id525224894?mt=8

Be sure to read the app description before you download, so you know how to use it correctly. It's simple, but really gets you motivated to get things done on time.
I use Latex, and with some tinkering you can render your documents to both PDF and epub. The problem would be with designers and people working with tools that are not as flexible as Latex.
I was expecting the book to be on a single page
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The First Music-Streaming App For 350 Million Feature Phones
Cold comfort, since the FBI will keep his servers tied up in knots until the end of time and most likely, refuse to pay for the loss of business.
IDM/VSO keys
Please can anyone out there help me out on keys to IDM/VSO softwares respectively?
There is no WebGL and other HTML5 features that Chrome has. Also, not only there is no V8 JS Engine support, but I suspect that Apple's NitroJS engine won't work in Chrome because it probably uses UIWebView to render sites.
No: hard drive manufactures and in fact most storage uses define gigabytes the way Amazon does. If you want to talk about gibibytes, please use tr appropriate terminology.
"What we don't know is if Chrome on iOS is still using the system-provided WebKit and JavaScript engine, or is using Google's own fork of WebKit and its V8 JavaScript engine."

It's definitely NOT using V8 or Google's fork of webkit.

This is still really cool though. I'm waiting for Internet Explorer for iOS now.
Hear, hear. No love for my toaster.
That sounds about right. Sandy Bridge is faster for lots of stuff than Nehalem/Westmere, but not radically so for typical server loads (the larger, full speed L3 cache is the big differentiator). I figure it's 10-20% faster than a EC2 medium, 10% cheaper, and has roughtly equivalent storage and I/O.

I don't think that margin is enough to drive customers. They need to be significantly cheaper than AWS.
Perhaps Google doesn't want to define their offering in price terms, but in terms of power. Their demo focused on accelerating computations that could lead to a cure for cancer.

I think pricing is just one of the dimensions on which AWS will be beaten. Google's pricing doesn't put them out of the game, and they can lower it later.
Establishing a connection and doing the full successful authentication through a client, pop, or web counts as a login.

Incoming mail or a simple ping to the mail server won't counted as a user view. With all the spam, fake mails, and mail bomb pings, views would then report bajillions of hits and nothing would expire.
i was thinking about sending sms without user's interaction rather than prompting user to send a predefined sms.

BTW email sent :)
And if this in Chile, it have to be big hassle? Fine, then entrepenuers will simply ignore this country. Simplez.
calinet6: the fact that you're no longer sending 'broadcast' emails, nor consciously updating people about the changes in your life, and that "no one cares where you work or what you're doing anymore" are just more examples of gradual but dramatic changes in behavior resulting from the use of Facebook.

Unless Facebook has made some truly ground-breaking advances in AI, the company's algorithms cannot anticipate how users might modify their behavior in response to the algorithms themselves. AFAIK, that's not possible today.

Over time, this utter lack of 'intelligent auto-incorporation of feedback' might show up as people sharing 'fake' instead of real feelings, or as 'social' graphs diverging significantly from the true state of real-world relationships, or as automatic sharing of 'relevant' information (like ads) that look great to the algorithm but in hindsight are misguided.

(BTW, in my view, this is one of the biggest long-term risks for Facebook's business: that society over time learns to 'route around it' and it gradually loses relevance for day-to-day use.)

FWIW, I do agree with you that no one knows with certainty how society will change as a result of Facebook and its ilk.
Telling a 3rd grader to think of it like an integral seems to be putting the cart WAAAAAAAY before the horse.

Edit: Also that's is hardly a more fundamental equation because you could also say e^(1024 pi * i) = e^(4096 * tau * i) = 1.
This requires calling a private API which means any app doing that will be rejected by the App Store.
If it's just a WebView with JavaScriptCore, what's the point? Is tab syncing the only benefit?
Indeed.

And the second is a Time Tracking app followed by a Project Management app.
I think the point he was trying to make is that the space is freaking crowded. Reminders with Friends is probably not helping.
outsource jobs to S.A, india, china...
bye bye USA, welcome USSA (United Soviet States of Amerika
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I disagree. A lot of the sharing I do on facebook are "neat" things -- things that would drive most of my friends crazy if I put them in an email -- but stuff that those who want to see "what I'm up to" can check out from time to time. If anyone emailed me all the top stuff on y-combinator I'd be upset -- I have no problem skimming the list and looking at what I find interesting.

I could use a blog + microblog for a similar way of sharing -- but most people aren't so interested in what I'm doing that they'll go and read some random links I've posted -- but when they have the time and are in the mood to have a look -- facebook works. Additionally I can post semi-private things on facebook -- because it has an authorization infrastructure in place -- I know most of my friends wouldn't be interested in or able to remember a set of credentials just to have a look at my microblog.

Personally I'd like to use a "homepage" (remember those?) for the same things -- and I probably will move to that eventually -- but a lot of people I'd like to keep in touch with simply don't have a reasonable way to "watch" 100s of activity streams from different blogs, microblogs, rss feeds etc. I realize many people use twitter for a similar reason.

My main problem with both of those are the same: the have broken a perfectly good distributed architecture by centralizing it -- and then worked really hard to make it scale again. Still working on a design for something less centralized, but still workable for those that aren't interested in technology.

The Diaspora "pod" concept seems likely to be the way to go -- in essence it's what all "micro communties" such as phpbb boards for teams/groups/clans etc are doing today. I'm not sure if it is feasible to make something "general" that also works -- but it'll be interesting to try. For authentication and authorization openid/google login and optional "local" registration combined with "friend lists"/"circles" should do the trick.

There still remains the problem of discovery -- "friend me on facebook" is usually quite simple if you remember the first name, and know someone in common -- "go to my blog, log in and say hi!" -- doesn't quite work. I do agree "send me an email" works better than both those -- it's a shame a lot of people simply aren't using email much these days.
Interesting you bring this up... I was working on one for awhile that hard a sort of social karma system built in. I wanted to try and reenforce people creating tasks in a game environment rather than just through self-motivation. You were awarded points for completing tasks and able to view accumulated points of friends. I hoped this would allow just a bit more accountability since all your friends can see that you just sat on your ass all day. Same sort of idea of the scale that tweets your weight. There really was no good way I had come up with to make a fair scoring system and to defer cheating. Had I finished it, what it definitely wouldn't have been is anything like this app which makes me feels very detached. I honestly think todos should be fun, otherwise most people won't stick with them.

For the record, this was just one of the smallest projects I could think of to learn a new technology. I think the space sucks but that's largely because everybody does exactly the same thing. It's kind of funny that I couldn't bring myself to work on something that stale even if it was just for me to see.
V8 requires just-in-time compilation, which is not allowed on iOS for security-related reasons.
not on the top end.

provider name cores ram $ / hour
google n1-standard-8-d 8 30GB $1.16
ec2 m2.2xlarge 4 34GB $.9
ec2 m2.4xlarge 8 64gb $.8

so if you're ram constrained, it's not obvious that google is a win. Still, it's really nice to have serious competition to ec2. Hopefully amazon will be smart enough to mimic much of the ec2 api, not because it's pretty or nice, but because we have huge investments in it already.
I don't know if it wins -everything-, but one purchase working on all my OSes? That's pretty awesome. And with the prices so close, I really can't justify buying Chocolat over ST2. :/
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Well, Mobile Safari's webkit version will usually be somewhat behind the latest six-weekly Chrome release cycle.
That shouldn't be that much of a problem as most of the pages on iOS are displayed in an in-app web views (in apps like: Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Ok, "bookmark-icons" will open in Safari - doubt it's a very popular feature though.
Yeah, no WebGL's a bummer. But at least it is close to the same engine.
What is modern Perl?
I'm very excited that it's possible to have normal hosting for shared SaaS, and dedicated deployment for enterprise accounts.
=)

Glad that's out of the way. I wonder if there's any opportunity for a business hidden somewhere in this ruling.

Bumper stickers for angry Republicans or something, lol
I wonder if the reason that they don't offer less powerful, cheaper machines is that Google itself does not use such machines; You aren't "scaling like Google" if you are not using the same types of machines as they use in their actual architecture.

Edit: You guys are right, obviously, they will almost certainly offer slower, cheaper machines at some point (even if this wasn't part of their original plan, there is a visible demand, which should motivate action). However, my real point is that I'm guessing that this initial roll-out does map more closely to what they use themselves than whatever their eventual full catalog of offerings looks like.
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The design of this app looks awesome, but I don't think we need more todo apps in the App Store. I have a huge list of app ideas with not enough time to implement all of them. Every few weeks I see one of my ideas, done by someone else, hit the top 25 of the App Store. If you're a talented developer there's much more creative things you could be buliding.
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First, saying it's completely useless is complete hyperbole. You can enter to do items through an application or web interface. That is a use. It may not be a novel use or a use that interests you in any way, but it's still a use. It's a disappointing fact, but the truth is that command line integration, scripting or a public API are not particularly mainstream features in an app.

Next, it would seem pretty fanatical to say "this app does everything I want to, but because the features weren't there in the first version, I refuse to use it." If the new functionality is well-integrated and not simply shoe-horned in, would does the first version of the product have any relevance at all?
is 7" really big enough for a tablet for most people? That's only slightly larger than my phone :/
Seriously, Sam. Reword the brief to not say "magical". It's annoying at best and insulting at worst. If it were ticking off "get milk" when you put a new carton of milk in a fridge, that could've passed for magical. Doing an auto background sync is not, you are late by few years.
Well, I think that's still controversial, but it sells hard drives. For RAM, I still buy a 16GB DIMM; if I buy it from Amazon I expect it to show up as 16GB, not 14.9GB. With EC2, that's not the case.

But the point is that I trust Google, when I see something from Amazon I know to check the fine print.
For all of you wondering "Can I really give up Facebook?" the answer is an emphatic "Of course, stupid." You got along fine before it existed and you'll forget about it once you're not refreshing your feed every 10 minutes.

The other day someone sent me an e-mail or text (I forget) to invite me to an event. They knew I had abandoned Facebook and wanted to make sure I was included. I felt slightly honored that they would go "out of their way" to include me, and it was much more meaningful than the average Facebook invite-all event listing.

Have you ever met someone you hadn't seen in a while, and they ask you what you've been doing, and you get a plethora of different reactions as you explain the ups and downs of your recent adventures? You don't get that if they're on Facebook. Human interaction is based on communication, and Facebook is not communication. It's the Reader's Digest version of The Truman Show.

Maybe I am a luddite. But what i'm fighting against is the replacement of emotion and social interaction with technology. Maybe someday soon, Google Glass will become so ubiquitous that we'll all watch snippets of other people's lives instead of status updates, and we'll never have to live life on our own again; we'll just live through someone else.
So thats the reason why all other Todo apps get abandoned after the first week? I don't ever remember lack of formatting being the reason why Things or Wunderlust never worked for me.
I see your point, cookiecaper.

However there are really three usage cases where I see this potentially becoming a problem:

1. Google sells data to advertisers directly, without anonymity.
2. Google is rendered insecure and the encryption they use is cracked.
3. Government forces Google to hand over data about individuals or large swaths of individuals.

The most likely scenario is number three, which already happens, and this can happen to any information stored anywhere (bank accounts, post office and online).

Google would face strong public backlash for selling data to advertisers (#1)directly and would have to change their user policies.

Google spends untold amount of money on #2. That's not to say they are completely safe or trustworthy, but it is to say they work very hard at protecting that data (for your and their sake). This situation could just as likely happen to any web provider, linkedin being a recent example.

My biggest fear is what happens if the government gets the power to subpoena individuals based on "categorizations" or "keywords". Then I think privacy becomes a serious issue for Google.
ill just use my phone as a hotspot, shouldnt be too much of an issue if you dont need it all the time.
"PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) are guilty too – recyclability is incredibly low (and very expensive) and they do not decompose. Why can’t use a biodegradable material instead of silicon?"

PCBs are NOT made of silicon. Integrated circuits are (but not their packages). PCBs are usually FR-4 material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board
I agree about the UI update. It looks nice but feels clunky and I get disoriented with all the swiping. It's too "swipey".
What are the odds Google did user testing on this before launching? On one hand, cards seems like a strightforward label for an atomic collection of data on a digital device. On the other hand users may bring with them all sorts of connotative baggage, or it just might not resonate with them.

In any case it's likely whether or not it will catch on as a term-of-art will heavily depend on whether people want to use the service.

Google doesn't have a great track record when it comes to designing new products / interfaces so will be interesting to see whether this takes off or not.
If only they would create a version with those features I'd be delighted to build it, sign it, and install it myself. Though I understand why they don't.
PDF is a pain to read on the majority of mobile devices. Even Kindle. Its lack of reflowing makes it impossible to adapt to various smaller screen sizes and efficiently use screen space and change text size. It's becoming a real pain point.
I'm sure these people we "instigated" had no personal motivations in matter at all.
I was just looking at reviews of this tablet. I really want one. It seems like it's got some pretty decent specs for $199
More so. But Apple tends to get good grades on the perception front, which is no less important for the general public than the technical front.
It also can't use iOS' JIT compiler nor can it be set as the default browser. The Chrome UI will need to be pretty excellent to compensate for those limitations.
Here's one that I was personally involved in:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/will-firefox-mobile-ever-...

Honestly, we are just as upset about Apple's restrictions on iOS, but we the Windows 8 case may prove different because of Microsoft past agreements with the US DOJ. If the courts decide that agreement should apply to Windows desktop on ARM then that provides very different leverage than anyone has against Apple.
Trying so hard to refrain from making juvenile joke.

probably will get downvotes for this. Totally worth it though.
I'm not one to be late on admitting I was wrong, and it seems I was here. After having searched for some, I realize that I must have mixed up criticism from Android-people with official Mozilla statements over the years. This is the closest I found:

http://www.quora.com/Will-Firefox-Mobile-ever-be-released-fo...

It's possible some of the blog entries/twitter posts I seem to remember have been lost over time, though. Excuse me, and feel free to downvote my original post. I should have done some searching myself before posting it.

EDIT: This is somewhat related, but more about pushing B2G as alternative than to improve the situation on iOS: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/mozilla-fires-...
Still doesn't handle YAML completely right. Try nesting quotes and using newlines within a single key- the highlighting gets completely confused.

Then try the same thing in BBEdit/Textwrangler to see the difference:

Chocolat: http://c.tkwa.re/2G1O2x3T2f1F1Y0I2G1t

TextWrangler: http://c.tkwa.re/3w1V1V2g0I0H0C2t422t
Announcing offline document editing and Google Drive for iOS
What a bunch of walled-garden bullshit. It's not even clear that having a full featured Chrome would hurt Apple in anyway
Yea, I agree that it is crowded. It is less of a simple to-do app and more focused on setting up location triggered reminders for your friends and family.

But it is a hard space because it is such a polluted space. we are thinking of possibly pivoting it and using what we learned building it into a new service that focuses on needs of businesses in regards to setting of geofences.
I'm from the UK, and good, mature cheddar is wonderful cheese, 'basic' or not. :P
Yeah, but any stereo system with A2DP does that for me already. You can get a good A2DP adapter for the media system you already have for $30.
Why would you want to kill email?
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IDM/VSO keys
can anyone help please. I need it
I did wonder why the app was orange, though, so I assume that's a symptom of the American cheese gap.
My guess is that an GCEU is about the same a single core 1.5ghz proc. Slightly more than amazon.
Just installed 4.1 on my Galaxy Nexus; confirmed it's installed as part of the default OS.
Nearly all features note: 'Only shown if location services enabled'
Can we have the title changed to: Chocolate, a text editor for Mac 1.0 released
Even business apps on mainframes were written in assembler... In fact a quick Google shows they still are! http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hlasm/library.html?S...
Quite possibly because they hired Vi Hart :)
Gave this a quick skim, matches with a lot of what I've been thinking lately. I particularly like idea of isolating modules from the DOM so they can be tested in the CLI-- could also enable reuse on server & client.

Look forward to reading the whole thing tonight.
sublime text 2 was not the intended comp; textmate was (hence the compatibility with tmbundles etc.)

i use chocolat and enjoy it (have been using it since it's early open beta). the intellisense (or whatever you want to call it) feature is nicely implemented. the vim mode, though shallow, works if you're used to those key bindings for basic movement and editing etc.

i like it, overall. do i like it enough to pay $50 for it? probably not.
Chocolat is supposed to be able to load in bundles and themes from TextMate. I'm not sure if this is implemented fully yet but I know that it's an option.
You're comparing a reply made to a Quora question by a Mozilla developer(sounds more like personal opinion) to a blog post about Windows RT on Mozilla's official site penned by their General Counsel? I don't see how they're remotely comparable.
I see a lot of comparison on CPU speed and RAM, which is fine, but it seems to me that EC2's biggest weakness is the miserable IO performance of EBS.

If Google has solved the EBS problem, then this could be amazing.
Thanks for enlightening me... updated my post accordingly.
Not suck up 3-4% of your CPU just sitting there, preventing the CPU in your laptop from sleeping and wasting battery life.