skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a magic. It's just an optimization. Prefixed strings are organized to the radix tree for fast configuration lookup.

But the only way to deal with regexps is to execute them sequentially.

btw, the official doc is here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#loca...
And even among those who do, a lot of that will be purchased music, movies etc that they can dedup.

edit: not to mention shared folders. 45 GB of my account is a shared folder from work, which is probably shared among 10 users who all have to pay for the same data
Did you mirror a fullscreen h264? That's probably not an ideal use case. You can AirPlay directly from iTunes or by using AirFlick and AirVideo server which may suit your needs. They're both free.
A normal yoga class, I agree. I get the impression this is an employer sponsored class that takes place during the work day. Lots of job related things can pop up, and to assume that cell phone use in class was trivial is an odd assumption for the instructor to take, IMO.
If I can expand on your "HTML mail from idiots" -- HTML mail from non-idiots is pretty much a non-issue. A textual document with minimal markup renders well in a standard console email client. It's when an idiot sends you a highly-formatted email which is all-but-unreadable as straight text, that you've got issues.

I'll add: the same highly-formatted emails are very likely to break horribly on handheld devices as well, which are pretty much limited to presenting a small amount of information with minimal formatting -- normal, italic, bold, and possibly some colored text.

And dittos on K9Mail.

For IMAP: offlineimap seems to be a good solution (though not so much on mobile).

Directories: really should be a solved problem by now. I still find myself generally maintaining my own .mail-aliases list though.
"But colloquially, the word “hack” seems to have lost its way syntactically. What once stood for elegance and rebellion under the hood of the machine has since taken on a new meaning; namely, in the form of mashups, toys, and even life as a whole. It’s as if for the first time, every problem is an engineering problem."

I don't think the word 'hack' has lost its way, but rather it has expanded its meaning. Every problem is not an engineering problem, but I think that the expansion of the term reflects a cultural change where we are looking at the world around us and ourselves, and seeing (where we didn't before) engineering problems that actually have been there all along. It's a shift in perspective, and without even speaking to whether or not that is a good, bad, or neutral thing, I do think that there are many aspects of our lives and world that are engineering problems that were not looked at this way before.

"Life is not always an engineering problem. Love, happiness, and free will certainly aren’t."

Obviously (to me anyway) life is not always an engineering problem, but happiness often is, by any definition. A patient seeking treatment for clinical depression is the very portrait of 'happiness as an engineering problem'. Outside of the medical field, there are entire industries devoted to 'self help' and improvement of one sort or another. Millions stacked upon millions of people walk into stores, pull a manual off the shelf, and follow instructions on how to attain happiness. I think happiness as an engineering problem is actually a lot more common than it seems at first blush.
It's useful for games that aren't possible today.
Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"
It's tricky. A notarial act is not a "public act" under the Full Faith and Credit clause because Congress has not defined it as a public act for purposes of the Clause, nor has it set forth rules for proving the public act. (A public act for Constitutional purposes generally means an official act performed by an elected or appointed official, but this definition is expanded by statute to include actions performed by other persons acting in the capacity of the state.) Nonetheless, despite Congressional authorization, it is generally treated as a public act by most state and federal rules of evidence.

States still can and do reject out-of-state notarizations if it fails to satisfy procedural requirements for notarization in that state. Notarization is a formal process--it has very little actual substance--so this effectively swallows up the impact of the Full Faith and Credit Clause.
I wonder how comfortable it'd be if the controllers were split in the center and the resultant looked like dual nunchucks. You could join them by a cable and add motion detection too. Since the left and right hands are essentially now independent to move, the developers have a lot more creative freedom with movement controls.
Why doesn't android make apps runnable completely on SD card by default? When I was testing a samsung galaxy s2, I was constantly frustrated by the limited amount of space on the phone, and the fact many apps couldn't be transfered to the SD card.
Horrible site. The text is served as jpg image.
This guy can't get the basics right but it's designing "experiences"....
That's actually what Maemo5/Harmattan had on my N900: all contacts and conversations across different media were nicely integrated through the Telepathy framework. It was probably the best app on the platform, although it took ages to develop and wasn't very easy to extend.
Ack

If you’re a programmer and you don’t know about Ack, you need to start using it now. It’s far, far better than grep.
That's why I'm using both Dropbox and Skydrive now. --If I'm likely to need to access it on my phone, I put it on Dropbox since the app is nicer, but I joined Skydrive early enough that I have 25GB free, and if I really need more, adding 100GB for $50/year is less than half the cost of what Dropbox charges.
^^ most epic response ever.
Yes, if you are a CALIFORNIA NOTARY than you must follow their requirements. NOT if you are a Virginia Notary, then you follow Virginia Law, and your clients, wherever they are in the world, adhere to your Virginia requirements.
I've met Ben last week, he is an awesome person to work with. He has a beard, a great passion to work and a neat information management platform polished in tiny details. Strongly recommend to apply until I haven't made my mind, really tempted regardless being a bit away from his needs.
I can't recall of it was Dropbox or one of the other services, but I read they blocked up the files into blocks of a certain size. As long as the MP3 header doesn't change size (they usually contain padding or are at the end of the file to avoid this) it would just be one block that changed.
Code Is Power
Android VS Windows Phone from a developer’s scope
Definitely. Drives me crazy when people are closed-minded about adopting the right technology to address a particular problem.
GE gives us far more control, far more logging and auditing (which is the real key), as well as nice things like LDAP authentication that make adding and removing users from the system far, far easier to manage. There are real reasons to use it besides just wanting things in house, although for a software company who needs to keep their software secure you shouldn't use anything except Github Enterprise. We all saw the bug that happened just a few months ago- who knows how many people were using that maliciously before it was made public.

I will say though, there have been a ton of improvements in Github Enterprise. We rejected it after getting a trial six months ago, and gave the sales team a huge list of problems (it was kind of disgusting, actually). Since then they've actually addressed the vast majority of our list (certainly all of the high priority things), which prompted us to look at it again. We're pretty happy with that decision.

That being said, if you're too cheap to buy licenses for all of your staff then you shouldn't use the thing. That's not a Github Enterprise specific issue though.
It doesn't.

I had to switch browsers and start doing NoScript Bingo until the damned page rendered.

I want those 60 seconds of my life back. It wasn't worth it.
"the highest form of artistry is the application of pragmatism to manifesting our dreams"

Have been sitting on that sentence just waiting to use it or are you feeling particularly poetic today?

Thanks either way. Very nicely phrased.
I'm pretty happy with vagrant images.

Ultimately, putting your dev environment on a server image makes way more sense.
Barnard invested $7,000 to build this app. It’s the best timer iOS could ask for.

I don't think so. Based on the screenshot from the article, I would rather use the built in timer rather than search through a bunch of pre-defined buttons for an arbitrary time.

Why aren’t iPhone users downloading it by the thousands? Because they can’t find it.

Maybe. But I think the author should seriously consider the possibility that users simply aren't interested in paying $0.99 for a timer app when the phone ships with a perfectly functional timer already.

Here's the thing about the App Store, especially as it stands in 2012. Certain app categories are massively oversaturated with too many apps offering essentially the same thing. Think flashlight apps, lock screen apps, converter apps. Even if you have an amazing app in one of these categories, you're going to have a lot of trouble making any money. I would definitely put timer apps in the same boat, especially since the phone already ships with one. If you're looking for success in the App Store you should probably turn towards a niche that has been under-filled and find a way to offer significant utility to those potential users.

That said, I do agree with the general premise of the article that App Store discovery needs to be improved.
Half a meg each? Even my cell phone takes 2-3 MB photos. And then if use iPhoto or something, it stores the original and edited photos separately. My humble personal iPhoto library is 65 GB.
The National Tobacco Association claims that cigarretes aren't cancerous. The secretaries of state license notaries, so this is no different than an interested trade group pushing the economic interests of its members.

Despite the NASS stance on out-of-state notarization, the states themselves, and the courts, actually get to decide whether an out-of-state notarization can be used in the jurisdiction. Many routinely reject out-of-state notarizations which fail to satisfy the standards for notarizations within that state. (Federal courts are different--they will accept notarizations if the notarization would be valid under the laws of the forum state.)
We can't get this damn audio/video conferencing thing to work
I think you may be reading this article far more harshly than I was. For one, I do not think the person sitting at "sorta works" is necessarily a 'clueless hillbilly'.

In fact, I suspect most serious developers travel up and down this pyramid all the time. Sometimes they are trying to push the state of the art forward, sometimes something that "sorta works" and ships ontime is just fine.

As for "beautiful code" being fault tolerant, it could be argued that any code which is not fault tolerant is not beautiful. I am not sure if that is right or now, but beauty tends to be somewhat subjective and that seems a valid interpretation.
You're right that there aren't many truly large-scale seamless MMOs out there, and I agree that this project would help servers scale their worlds.

Sorry if my previous post came off as dismissive, as a game development enthusiast I was focused only on the application to games rather than the technology itself. The point I was trying to make is that even with this technology, we are unfortunately not closer to being able to create real-time action mmos. For an advancement in this area, we need a leap in network capabilities, rather than server efficiency.
Thanks for clarifying the question.
I think some further case history would help nail your case.
Sadly I don't have it on hand but the assertion above that miss-selling isn't lying is invalid.

Miss selling is just a way to put it across creatively without getting decimated in the press.

Aside from that there are clear cases where the banks lied.

Frankly the only thing that saves them is the inability of other intelligent people to believe that this actually happened. "no it couldn't possibly be that! People are just grinding their axes."

Except every time you hear of the banks in the news they've managed to pull off yet another scam, which just got out in the open.

You know the one simple thing which we should stop offering banks? The option to just pay the fine and get out of a trial.

Barclays got fined - but it's not stood trial - they fessed up, and got off on good behavior.

Only Goldman recently was arrogant enough to believe that they could win a case in court.

Ah cases: the magnetar trade, and abacus.
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-magnetar-trade-how-one...
Social coding rarely means working on the same file at the same time. In order for work to proceed efficiently, there has to be some separation of work and responsibility.

I do think, however, that this will be great for code review and teaching. None of our developers are in the same place. We use Github and Gists to collaborate, escalating to a MeetingBurner session if we really need eyes on a conflict all at once. Those instances are infrequent, but on the business side, the sales and marketing teams use Google Docs to great effect when collaborating on their documents.

The ability to see someone else's cursor and watch their edits in real time is a major force multiplier. Documents reach a final stage much more quickly than they do with the old "track changes and email" approach. I can't help but see parallels in the dev team's approach, even with Git.
Fair points, but the fact is that the app was selling more when it was visible in search. When it dropped out of search, it stopped selling.
> A program that simply switched according the command line arg and then printed…

Of course making programs do less can improve speed, and a great way of doing that is compile-time computation via macros! You can finish the program before it's even run.

> Is "a more clever Ruby programmer" some kind of equivalent to "a sufficiently smart compiler"?

No, since we assume human intelligence here. :P As the Graphics Programming Black Book puts it in the Chapter 1 title, "The Best Optimizer is between Your Ears".

> When is a Ruby program fast? When it's written in C ;-)

I'm going to use this one.
They do have 'Selective Sync' but those folders do have to be in your Dropbox folder for that. So not exactly what you are looking for unless you re-organize to use that structure.
Why on earth should you have to recreate your sever stack on a desktop OS? Seems like you're just begging to be bitten by some OS-specific bug or quirk.

It solves the problem of Rails being hard to install on OS X... because it obviates the need to install Rails on OS X. And there's no new OS to learn -- the VM runs the same thing as your server. If you don't know how to use the OS that's running on your production server, that's a bigger problem.

I've been developing this way for years. Additional benefits include: you can easily have multiple VMs with different configurations, you can snapshot/backup/restore a VM very easily, crashing a VM doesn't crash your computer, and it's relatively easy to share a fully configured VM with another developer (even if their primary OS is something totally different).
I could be off-base, would guess that part of the issue is that his choice of names is also a keyword for every one of his competitors: "Timer." It's like trying to Google yourself if your name is "John Smith" -- good luck with that. On the other hand, "Apple Paltrow" will have no problem finding herself in the future. I could be wrong, but if I were him, I'd rename it to something like "SuperMegaTurboTimerDelux++"
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Why should the city have poor quality equipment? Besides things like reduced support costs and that Macs only made up a very small percentage of the city's computers, don't you imagine there are city jobs that would be better served with a Mac? I'm sure there are web and print designers on SF city staff for example.
I think your statement is open to an interpretation you didn't intend.
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I want the online content I like to be able to pull revenue.
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Apple has calculated that design is better than ease of recycling. They have been moving this direction for a while, but the completely non-serviceable Retina display MacBook Pros are what likely tipped the scale.
Hi, GoToMeeting does work on the new MacBook Pro with Retina display, it just hasn't been optimized for it yet. This will be addressed with an update to the GoToMeeting software that is currently in the works.

@GlennDCitrix
Is this an all-or-nothing thing? All other Macs are just as hard or easy to disassemble as ever. And iPhones or iPads are much harder to disassemble than the Retina MacBook Pro.
I had the same initial reaction ("why complain at $5000/month?") but it is obvious that search doesn't help his app at all. In fact, it is probably the weakest link in acquiring those 5000 sales. So I think the point still stands. But yeah, I would call this a successful project otherwise.
The government has a mandate to buy a certain percentage of technology that falls under EPEAT standards - something like 95% to account for tech that can't meet it. So it may still be possible for federal agencies to buy some Apple devices, but many will probably refrain from doing so just to help make sure they stay within the law on this.
Google plays Conway's Game of Life
Translating PostgreSQL upsert to MySQL (verdict: don't)
...that's what it is to be a slave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS0Rc45tj60
As I read it I felt that if the yoga student could not spare 30min without connectivity, then perhaps the class was not a suitable fit in his schedule. Perhaps such a student is not ready for yoga or other meditative practices at all.
Hi HN, others and I have been working on this inside Motorola and can answer any questions you have. You can also join us on irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/#montage :)
That is incredibly myopic. Almost to the point that your statement implies you are above civil servants.

I certainly believe that some city workers would benefit greatly from macs. And how about programmers? Web and graphic designers? Not everyone in civil service is a case worker.
I suspect there is a disconnect between what you want and what the general flying public / airlines want. I come to that suspicion by the route that there has been a huge amount of innovation in airlines (even with regulatory drag) which apparently you are not acknowledging.

The whole fly-by-wire / auto land thing which would make a remake of "Airport" much less of a thriller. Its taken a long time to get these systems certified but they have changed the way these planes are managed.

There has been a lot of change in entertainment and communication options, from a single four channel radio phone of the 90's we've now got multichannel live satellite feeds and internet access. Per seat entertainment choices vs one VHS tape for everyone.

Speed and range gains have also made it possible for smaller airports to support non-stop flights to distant destinations. While people near SFO or NYC may not see a change, the fact that you could fly from Reno to Tokyo non-stop is a big change.

Finally you have to realize that a plane is a 20 year investment by an airline so you'll see changes on the order of 10 years not every year.

The 787 is a pretty amazing piece of gear, full up replacement planes are a slow process.
My beef with Google Drive is that you can't symlink. I don't want to use my petty internal laptop hard drive for all the space. I need my external drive to be the "muscle." Google Drive won't let me sync that.
Don't be a dick.

Purchase cost is a tiny fraction of the lifetime cost of a system. Your IT department's time isn't free.

A single incident could cost several hundred dollars when you count lost productivity and technician time. Each time you don't have an issue you save money.
There is nothing wrong with that. In that case saying yes to as many people as possible means allowing phones.

It’s just the justification (“We want to say yes to everyone!”) that’s so odd. If there are good reasons for actually allowing phones then say that, not that you want to say yes to everyone.
Uber currently has a $15 minimum total fee in DC. They charge a $7 fare (the "flag drop" rate) and then $3.25 a mile after that. The proposed amendment, if I've read these articles correctly, would have raised the "flag drop" rate to $15 and then any mileage charges would have been on top of that. For comparison, the flag drop rate for taxis is currently (and would have remained) $3.
The AF447 inputs were averaged.
Isn't the "search for developers by GitHub profile" what GitHire.com was doing? And then they realized that it was "too hard" to find devs in the SF Bay Area, where they're in high demand?
Or the lead may just shrink more slowly.
The major problem with this is that the article assumes that this app being "the best" timer available is an infallible fact. Perhaps the reason that this app isn't being downloaded by every user imaginable is that they are either content with the stock Clock app or the other timer apps better suit the needs of consumers.
Unicode is, in 2012, still “cutting edge.”
Tumblr Vs. Wordpress - The Better Blog
I'm looking to start a blog and the hope is to get it popular enough to be able to put ads on it and make some extra income.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to which one is a better solution? Ease of use? Social Integration? Customizable?

thanks:
Jesse Epstein
Website: Loveopolis.com
Email: Jesse@loveopolis.com
Maybe qq66 is the kind of boss who gives you a 2004-vintage Windows XP machine that's so full of dust you can't even tell what components are inside and expects you to work 16-hour days on it without overtime.
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Erik Meijer started a discussion on Domain Specific Languages
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Are you referencing the work for free portion of my post, or a general liability that taking a new person onboard entails? I am not familiar with California's laws on the former, but would certainly want to be in compliance. My choice of the word 'free' was to highlight that I am looking for compensation in the form of learning and connections rather than money. Not sure how the latter would work exactly - I would hope to demonstrate to anyone interested that I am competent enough to not interfere with the status quo of their business and the legalities surrounding it.

Thanks for raising this issue, I hadn't considered it before.
(I'm the author of the post).

These aren't blades and I dislike blades for the hardware/vendor lockin reasons you mentioned. Blades usually share power, network, etc. These only share power + baseboard management controller. We can lose a single power supply and still keep on going. We've distributed the applications over multiple chasis, just in case though.
I know that MS Entourage keeps its attachments in a database, though I'm not clear on how it presents them to the user.
No, as long as you followed the UI guidelines the mini could just use your image-ipad.png -- the 44 point minimum will be smaller than on the big iPad, but it's the same physical size as on the iPhone and so still usable:

http://castirony.com/post/26466421254/the-case-for-a-7-8-ipa...

The only issue is if you have UI elements that must be an exact physical size (some sort of measurement app with onscreen ruler). Not a very common situation, as far as I'm aware.
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