skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is part of their roadmap:

Component: Kickstarter
EPIC-8 As an open worm team member, I want to launch a fundraising campaign to raise money for the project

taken from https://code.google.com/p/openworm/wiki/Roadmap
ECMAScript 4 was cancelled.
They did hack into the Moscow Windows NT User Group to escape though.
Me too! Lightning fast. I actually run it still in XP Mode in Windows 7 (couldn't get it working natively) for my personal email (Thunderbird for work, like to have a clean separation), even with that layer of emulation it's the fastest thing ever. I also love the ability to alt-click on any field and have the messages grouped by that.
Closest I've found in Thunderbird (penelope extension is awful) is the Nostalgy extension, set up so that ` toggles between grouping messages by sender or subject based on the email you have selected. Not as awesome and not as fast, but still super handy.
Fly MV242i Price: Fly Dual SIM GSM Mobile at Affordable 
The new Fly MV242i is a latest GSM mobile phone with Dual SIM card support and outstanding features. It sports a 2.0 inches QVGA TFT display with screen resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The Fly MV242i phone works on dual band GSM network and comes with 2.0 megapixels camera with video recording facility. The external memory can be expanded up to 32 GB using micro SD card and also support 233 KB of internal memory. Other important features are audio/video player, FM radio, torch light, 3.5mm jack, remote mobile tracker, sound recording, big boom sound speaker, instant messaging and social networking apps like Google, Yahoo Search. The Fly MV242i offers best connectivity features like bluetooth with A2DP, GPRS, USB Port, WAP Browser, Webcam and Mass Storage. It is powered by 1800 mAH Li-ion battery which provides talk time up to 16 hours and standby time up 400 hours.
Mac Pro Goes Wireless With Airport Express—Extreme Card Not Needed
This is rather a short list hiding open alternatives to Revo works; the better idea is to read CRAN task views http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
Reading lsc's comment about the type of things SecondLife is/can be used for and then your comment about webcam parties makes for a combo which is hard to talk about in public.
Personally, I think the easiness of building in SL is its downfall. Users obviously do not care about polycounts and performance, and the FPS is very low as a result.
What does the DNS Changer Malware do?
> PHP is easy to deploy, as if that's an inherent property of PHP and not something that can be fixed for other languages.

Other languages can fix that (they haven't yet) but at the same time PHP is fixing it's problems at a rapid pace. It seems that PHP is making more progress fixing it's problems and including modern features than other languages are improving their deployment situation.

One advantage of PHP, in my opinion, is that it supports multiple levels of commitment. I recently created a static website for my business; I didn't want the hassle of using a CMS or Wordpress. But I used PHP to include the common headers and footers and handle my contact form. In any other web platform (including PHP with a framework) is terrible overkill for a job like that. But if I want to do something more significant in the future, I can.

PHP's work cycle is also great; if done right you should have no build step. Just edit and hit refresh. I'm currently doing ASP.NET and it's just not possible to iterate as fast during development.

But honestly, I've used a lot of different platforms and PHP just isn't that different. Why choose PHP over all your other options? If your goal is distribution of your app then you can't go wrong with PHP because it's installed everywhere. And, depending on your language experience, you might be more comfortable in PHP because it's very literal; there's no monkey patching or heavy use of dynamic features. But really, there's no reason not use Ruby or Python over PHP.
The first code I ever wrote, I wrote in Second Life.

The first interface I ever designed was for a HUD I built for the robot avatar I wanted to sell in Second Life.

The first time I ever heard the names Neal Stephenson or Charles Stross, it was in Second Life.

The first time I ever paid my rent based on work I had done entirely for and by myself, it was from selling hundreds of robots in Second Life.

I was 19. It was magic.

There's a substantial part of what I am today that I could not have become without what I learned from Second Life.

Yes, the developer tools are awful and the laggy experience can kill a lot of the fun. But fuck – I was selling killer robots to people and getting paid for it in what could become real money, somehow. Because that's how I wanted to use it. And it let me do all of that? Incredible.
Fast-forward to the point of actual space colonization. Should mental stability be a factor in survival in space I can imagine that it'll introduce a rather strong darwinistic filter. It's difficult to fathom but realistic that folks with a short fuse have a severe disadvantage. Would it be required to undergo a psychiatric test before you can buy a ticket to an off-world colony and settle? Will people with a genetic predisposition be advised not to have kids? Will earth be a safe-haven for loonies?
Believe it or not, it's possible to know what a demand curve looks like _and_ disagree with you.

We all want special treatment, but resent it when other people get it. When a government distributes scarce resources unevenly by providing greater access to people who are wiling to pay more on an unregulated market, we don't call that 'making resource distribution more fair by increasing options,' we call it corruption. It's quite possible to make a seemingly well-reasoned argument that corruption is fine starting from the same basis, but most people will find the idea as repugnant as ticket scalping for basically the same reason. In short, I don't think your definition of "fair" as pertains to scalping is particularly meaningful.

For what it's worth, I bought my tickets about a week after they went on sale and had no trouble.
The great thing about this model is that closing the tabs kills the processes and therefore frees up memory. Last time I used FFx extensively (6 months-1year ago) I could not say the same thing, even after they announced having a pretty major fix for leaks.
Well, the Hacker News traffic was more than my poor little webserver could handle. I can't even ssh into the machine to reboot lighttpd. Never thought I would see my personal blog linked on HN!

Would it be at all helpful to the discussion for me to copypasta the text of the article here, since people can't reach it otherwise?

In case the context is not obvious from the article, I have recently quit working for Mozilla, driven in part by the realizations I described. I've become quite disenchanted with the software industry and I'm not at all sure that software development is what I want to do for the rest of my career. I'm trying to decide what to do next. If anybody reading this has any similar experiences or perspective, I would be very interested to hear it. Thank you.
I think Second Life has failed. Sure, it lives, but in 9 years Linden Labs have been unable to make the client run any smoother or load any faster.
I believe your statement is therefore equivalent to the preceding one.
The law should be expressed in code and evaluated on a computer, with all dispute confined to the values of the inputs (e.g. time of commission of a crime, geolocation of violation).

It is currently written in legalese and executed by a judge. This does not consistently produce the same result for the same inputs at different locations in spacetime. If it did produce the same results, we would not need lawyers or judges to determine what was legal; we could simply make API calls and evaluate functions.

You could only realize a vision like this in a new country, but that is what seasteading is for.
Nice that they're going to write the connection part properly. I had to switch from socket.io to sockjs a long time ago because socket.io was just too flaky. The code was pretty ad-hoc with its state (mishmash of .reconnecting, .reconnected, .disconnected, etc. predicates), and clients would randomly get stuck in in-between states if they were on 3G etc.
When I was in secondary school twenty+ years ago, we had both: Design & Technology (AutoCad !) and a full metalwork shop with everything except oxyacetylene torches. There's nothing like hands on experience when it comes to making real things.

I'd love to know whether all that stuff is still there.
Gah. When are they going to enable this for public cloud customers?
Are you saying it's a bad thing?

I don't think it's worth halting technologic advancements and improvements in the name of saving (unskilled) jobs.
Could mining asteroids become a trillion dollar industry?
> Actually, that's because the designers of Android took the gamble of replacing the Linux userland with a touch-oriented layer built on a managed language runtime

No, I wasn't talking about the UI and the Dalvik virtual machine. I was talking about what's underneath.

That darn libc, for example. Every operating system needs some kind of user space standard library that deals with system calls and such. Android could have used glibc or uclibc like all the other Linux-based platforms do. But no, they wrote their own. To avoid GPL licence.

Which libc you use does not make a difference to your customers, so you won't be adding any value by rolling your own. Instead, you get decades worth of maintenance to take care of. And now Android has this crappy libc that they don't do a very good job in maintaining and lots of little things are broken. If I had to guesstimate, they have used at least a million dollars (and counting) worth of developer time on that libc with absolutely zero value created.

Android is full of these silly examples of things gone wrong. As a customer, you won't see them. As an application developer you might get a glimpse but if you stay within the Dalvik sandbox, you're relatively safe. If you go NDK, try to port an existing software to Android or work with the internals, may lord have mercy on your soul.

It's saturday. I don't want to talk about Android any longer.
Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels'
Even without structural changes, the new Apple has never been environmentally friendly. They "design for the dump" and bring out new versions every year, and quickly obsolete old versions.
I think you meant 830k (not 8.3M) troops.

Military size is only a small factor when comparing world super powers. Going by that Wikipedia list, North Korea's military isn't too far from the US military. But we all know how that war would go.
Botendienst Wien
Luxusumzug bieten Ihnen ebenfalls neben den standard- Leistungen auch Botendienst an.
Botendienst in Wien – einfach; schnell und günstig!
Egal ob es sich um ein einfaches Kuvert oder um ein Paket handelt ATH - Botendienst verspricht Ihnen pünktliche und schnelle Überlieferung.
Brauchen Sie einen Botendienst – zögern Sie nicht,
It sounds like products are certified on a product-by-product basis, and this decision was more about not wanting consumers to wonder/worry about why one Mac laptop was certified and another wasn’t.
While it would be nice to think of law as pure enough to be calculable by machines and algorithms, the reality is that the law is subjective...the inputs you speak of are too many and the situations that occur result in problems that are NP-hard.
But you cannot represent a company of which you are the owner and sole employee. So when a patent lawsuit appears, you can choose to try and fight it with a $50/hour lawyer... or pay the demands.
I hadn't previously seen this video, but it's a great insight into his slot machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9mkhI-KB_U
Nice little tool thanks
I liked the demo, but why do I need to purchase the specific webcam? Is there any plan to create a service that works with regular built-in (Macbook) webcams?
"SecondLife has 1 million active users" and "$700 million a year in virtual goods transacted" sound a bit strange together.

Users spend $700 a year in SL?
Don't be too married to the idea. I know many, many, many Amazon alumnus, and not a single one wishes they were back there. There are a few beacons of light in the giant swamp that is Amazon, but IMO there are very few redeeming corners of the company. Overall, in general, the place is a dump (employer-quality speaking, the work they do is unquestionably amazing). Try asking your recruiter about the average tenure of an Amazon engineer and see them scramble madly to dodge the question (I know the number, but for the sake of politeness I won't put it out there).

They are, culturally, very much a big-giant-corp pretending like they are a small nimble startup. Everything from the "two pizza team" concept down to "frugal like a startup" (read: this is code to mean that your dev machine won't have been built in the last 5 years) is meant to evoke it, but really just elicits frustration and anger instead. Even in the "good" teams it will constantly feel like your boss is waging an epic battle against Evil just so you can have the peace to get your work done.

Fun note: circa 2011 my dev machine was a Celeron 1.5GHz. My codebase took a whopping 15 minutes to build even though a $1000 machine could have built it in a tenth the time. I knew incrediby talented, amazing engineers who were given 2 15" monitors dating circa 2002 and told to live with it. I'm not one for exorbitant gear, but this is entirely indicative of Amazon's internal culture.

I'm glad I cut my teeth at Amazon out of college, but I am extremely glad to have graduated out of both Amazon and Seattle, and have found much happier employment and residence elsewhere.
I'm an active user of Second Life. I run a business in-world, which pulls in thousands of dollars a year.
HTTP is the ultimate API. Everything else is designed for censorship of 3rd party tools. (See twitter.)
In my personal experience, Mac computers tend to last much longer than their Windows counterparts. For example, my parents continued to use a Mac SE they bought in 1989 until about 2005, and I know several people who continue to use 8–10 year-old Mac laptops. My last two Mac laptops have each lasted 4–5 years, and the one I’m typing on is still going strong.

I don’t think a reasonable evidence-backed case can be made for your implication that Mac laptops are designed to be obsolete more quickly than, e.g., HP, Dell, or Toshiba laptops.
I was more referring to their mobile division, but it applies to some extent to Macs.
So own two cars, one at each airport? Or more than two, if you want to fly between more than two places?
Also keep in mind sim costs are very high, which means sims end up abandoned when folks decide that the few thousand dollars per month required to maintain the contract is too much.....
I can only suggest some things that have helped me become better over the years - and maybe they'll work for you :)

1. Scratch the really high level stuff and start digging into some C or x86 assembly ( with GCC and binutils), read the coreutils and glib source and program some of your own system tools ( like find or ls ). This will give you a really solid understanding of memory and hardware internals which you can use to your advantage in other software apps.

2. Start programming games. It doesn't matter if its in javascript for browsers or python but I would say do NOT use any external libs - program yor own solutions and read other libraries source for ideas. Nothing has helped improve my math and algorithm skills ( not to mention AI, physics, and graphics ) like programming html5 js games.

hope this helps and good luck!
I mostly use windows 8 now, and firefox there simply does not works! Maybe it is only on my machine, I don't know, and I don't really care anymore. I really wanted to test the new non-memory eating firefox, but if tabs are disappearing, and flickering in a weird way (some random image appears instead of the tabs), than I can't use it.
I so needed this service. When I heard the news they were acquired by Facebook, I knew it would come to that. It's really a shame. Facebook is starting to worry me. If they start to buy and digest every innovative service out there, thus preventing others to innovate in the process, they start to look more and more like a black hole and it's scary.
Who uses Linden Labs' client anyway? ;-)

To the downvoters: The fact is that among SL folks the clearest way you spot a noob is that they are running the Linden Labs' client. Everyone else is on a third party one in part because, well Linden Labs is better at many things than building clients for their system. The two biggest viewers seem to be Phoenix and Firestorm, probably followed by Imprudence and a few others.
Indeed. Of course all companies eventually mature so that their growth potential goes down. The logistic sigmoid is remarkably hard to escape.
Given that they're not 100% recyclable (electronics aren't), what do they do with the nonrecyclable parts if they don't dump them or burn them?
Ah, but then 3px drags are not allowed, which might ruin your web-based diagram editor or game. Also the granularity of the denouncing will change depending on the size of the click target, so it's really app-specific.
Really Complex Syndication made easy to extract links from sources without RSS.
Yep, it's probitively expensive to rent a simulator, no wonder projects like OSGrid get any support.
I wouldn’t expect that Apple is far from the industry norm in any of these categories. Most phones of every brand are replaced every 2–3 years.

If you meant merely that electronic consumer gadgets as a category seem to get dumped out too quickly, I heartily agree.
To be fair, at the bottom end of the market safes are competing against Kensington lock cables and hiding valuables on the top shelf of your wardrobe.

If anyone broke into my home I assume it would be a brick through the window then in and out in five minutes grabbing any laptops, jewelery and cash rather than a planned attack with thermal lances and diamond core drills!
EcoRumors
Asahi:150,000join Tokyo protest—Eyewitness:more than 100,000 people”
Is SockJS any better?
Ontario Summer Camps Learning Through Working
Onondagacamp.com offers an outstanding environment for children to play, explore, achieve and grow. We provide challenging opportunities for campers to participate in different sports and activities at Canada and Toronto summer camps. For more details about canada camps please visit our web site.
It is very much contextual.

At my current job, if my manager hands me the toy ninja, I would happily try to take pictures with it. Because my manager is very much knee-deep in the trenches with the rest of the devs, designers, and QA folk day in day out. He has, without fail, and repeatedly, shown that he understands the situation "on the ground" and has always treated our concerns with the respect and gravity demanded.

At Amazon there was not a chance - my manager was the guy barking orders from up high, funneling the whims of even higher management down with little to no filtering or defense for our ability to get it done. He was a straight pass-through, and it sucked. Him handing me the ninja would have been a damned insult (and it was).

The question is not job titles, it's entirely about the working relationship, and this is also why "inventing culture" fails. When you have an incredibly segmented workforce, where management is entirely separated from the grunts, and neither side have any respect for the other, any such "culture" is naturally a decree enforced from the top, rather than a genuine expression of what employees already feel.
It would be ironic if they scrapped TB to have more people working on FireFox, and then lost all their ex-TB employees to other companies.
is it complaining or is it bearing witness? By outing this kind of behavior, she is spreading awareness of what it means to live with pervasive sexism + bullying. Perhaps, through this openness + honesty, some might reconsider the effects that their words + actions have. Perhaps others might call people on it, both online + in person, when they see it happening. Yes, people have respnded by helping her with her documentary, but things do not end with a gift. Giving money is relatively easy compared to doing something about ones own behavior and the behavior around them.
How To Get Rich Online
Learning how to get rich online can be tricky. There are several ways to make money online but only a select few really know how to get rich online.
I prefer Sup to mutt. Labels instead of folders, indexing for super fast searching, it's awesome.
"$700 million transacted" double(triple, etc) counts most of the money. I trade you $1 you trade someone else that $1, that's $2 transacted.
Nice catch. No, they were on a totally different edge of SecondLive. I edited the comment.
If you could make it animate, rather than jump, I think it would work well.
Yeah, but exporting is not really an option... When you are running, have massive traffic, 100+ million api requests/month etc, it's not very interesting that you can 'export all data'. I need the services otherwise I need to rebuild them right? I would consider this a massive risk for my business. Which happens with most PAAS/SAAS thing ofcourse, but this seems to be very fundamental to my apps; I mean; apps won't work without this service.

I like the Ning proposition; if you want you just download the source + data and run on your own servers. Or there should be a buy-out for the software, maybe depending on the number of average monthly API requests you did until that time with some kind of minimum. For stuff this low-level I think a (restricted) open source model is the only way to go to prevent lock-in to be honest.
Fayetteville/Wade KOA - North Carolina
> By default Thunderbird tries to send all my outgoing mail through 1 smtp account.

This is the sane default. Your average access provider gives you an smtp server. Your average mail provider, if it provides smtp, may give you an smtp server that will rewrite your enveloppe and worse that is not available everywhere. So the smtp server to use should depend on where your computer is, not which mail account you are using.

> Not doing so can mark your "from" field incorrectly (has happened to me many times) trigger red flags (happened to me before) and make other email clients mark your email as "Gmail thinks this message is a scam".

See it is better to have only one good smtp server to configure to avoid those problems.
When I used Apps, I just created a new account and used a different browser window (in Incognito) to access Gmail.
Google Apps has aliases and catch-all.
> Wonder why Minecraft took off?

Makes me wonder, how would a crossover between Minecraft and Second Life do?
That's a big bummer! I was going to run a project on their API in about six weeks. :(. Also surprising given their announcement at acquisition they would support existing developers.
Anybody knows of a replacement? How hard is it to set up opencv? And how well will it work? I assume for the 60 million they must have some pretty good tech at face.com.
Diamonds all in my grill; nigga::.
I guess their purpose is to make torrent irrelevant but that may just work for "normal" users.
Do you know any good alternatives?
We at www.RealEstateDealStreet.com think that it is not laziness make them innovative but time they spent on thinking make them innovative and lay man thinks that thinking as laziness.
Oh, it's funny to see people trying to prove gamers harass Anita just because she is a woman. Or that many guys just hate women and stuff. This is not true.

People harass stupidity. If you do stupid things online, you'll be harassed. And it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. What you do matters.

People got sick of all this neverending sexism bullshit going on. Most people do not think it is a problem worth mentioning of even is a problem at all.