skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, there is a major difference between MVCC and update-in-place that you can detect as a client, and that difference is that the problems that Rich outlines at the beginning of his talk do not happen: if one client edits something in the database, other transactions do not get an inconsistent view because the data on disk has already been permanently and irrevocably "updated in place". (Which, to be clear, means that modern SQL databases do not "expose a view to the world of an update in place database".)

Second, if all that is required to get his model is to add a command to an existing database (such as PostgreSQL, as I feel I know enough about how it works to be confident that this would be a reasonably simple task) "mark the current transaction read-only and pretend that it is as old as transaction X" (something that can be implemented quite rapidly in an existing system like PostgreSQL) we really aren't talking about something that is either very new, or that totally reinvents the "traditional database".
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Is there actually a public Lisp library to do that? Erik is no longer among us and brought his code with him; Tim Bradshaw had his version called TML/DTML that AFAIK was never released.
Mozilla is shining these days! Introducing awe techs (Not to mention, servo!!).
This is a neat idea. I think I'll sign up :).
Install a new instance! Its all disposable hardware.
fascinating to see this, almost, diary of drug taking. It's incredible how much his style changes from drug to drug.
Don't you need to login to do that? Using 2 factor auth..
Well, you'll see what you want to see, I guess - but 50 seconds into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo&feature=playe...

He makes a pinch gesture, and the circle on the CRT gets bigger and smaller. If that's not pinch to zoom, or the precursor to it, I don't know what is.

Which is the whole problem with Apple's case. They seem to like to pretend that they invented everything that's used on the iPhone, but this sort of research has been going on for decades.
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If your problem is due to US locale settings, the demo is set with European format, but the editor supports multiple locales. Take care also of task dependencies that can generate alerts while changing dates.
lol, what a pathetic person.

I laughed when I saw the photoshops.

I pity the fool, her career in technology is most certainly over at this point now that the cat is out of the bag.
Breaking news:
Apple sues Samsung for infringing on their patent to use trucks with rounded wheels to deliver money. More to follow
I had looked, prior to my first comment. Most of his Atlantic posts don't generate many or any points, individually. If his theatlantic post-frequency is our only signal, I'd just as soon have the same assumptions for nytimes, economist, or bloomberg -- look past the last 30 submissions. I still suspect we are only witnessing a guy who submits "all the things" from the homepage of <insert today's favorite source>, and possibly just got lucky, today, with a slow and late night; though, one of the submissions is pushing 60 comments, as of this post.
Cool? I'd think that would be depressing.
I don't know what to make of this change. I always assumed goto was something you designed into your language from day one, rather than bolted on in day 4000 or so. Can someone more familiar with language design (or the target use cases--I presume high-performance game programming?) comment on this further?
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I also believe that inline js code is cleaner and easier to find.
The fundamental problem is even though it uses MVCC internally, Postgres doesn't expose that model. Instead, it exposes an update-in-place model.
<tangential>

Let's say one could choose only one of the groups: either have Apple while MS, Google, Amazon, and FB does not exists, or there's no Apple and the rest is there.

Would anyone really choose the first scenario?

</tangential>
you are master with that ser???
can u help me?? even basic part of that..i am interested with that programming language
This. Clearly Apple is a hugely successful company. Are they ultimately more valuable than all of those companies combined? Not a chance.

The case could be made that those companies are undervalued or that Apple is overvalued but ultimately the comparison itself isn't very meaningful without any kind of opinion/analysis behind it.
Please see the response I left from ten minutes ago to DanWaterworth's similar comment (the one where I point out that, as a client, you can tell the difference between those two models by testing for some of the specific problems that are mentioned near the beginning of this talk; yadda yadda).
Apple has become the big bully a-hole company that Microsoft used to be (perhaps even worse). Apple always was the little guy and had it's faithful niche market. It was the "underdog" that everyone rooted (or at least deep down felt a bit felt sorry for). Now it has "sold out" and gone mainstream. It has become a greedy corporate giant and with it's figurehead now out of the picture - it's image has begun to tarnish even faster.

I predict that dislike or even hatred toward apple will begin to expand until it equals or surpasses that we see of Microsoft today. It will no longer be "hip" and once this image slips - Apple will plummet.

This coupled by other tech companies (including all other smartphone manufacturers) banding together and defeating Apple's garbage patent claims (they own a patent on a perfect rectangle as part of a UI design?) will spell an end of a great run for Apple where innovation boomed, but was overcome by greed -leading to their eventual downfall.
Used as a feedback tool you are way faster to understand what your visitors mean. Used as a bug reporting tool it's unbeatable: you get exactly what your testers / users see in their browser.
Please note that the Try-Me arrow is not part of usersnap - that's maybe the annoying part you are referring to?
What challenges would Gumroad face if it had to operate actively in India?
At least I avoid using it (even though I really like its design) because it isn't open source. I will not trust my data to something I can't even attempt to maintain myself if necessary.
I think in the basic example I gave, that's fine, but it quickly becomes unwieldy.

Take for example the A/B testing of pricing. I'd like to offer some customers an infinite free trial while others only get a month free after which time they have to upgrade. The email flow for each of these types of customers would be quite different over the first couple of months. Different actions would trigger different emails at different times. That logic is not really something you want deep in your app (as I say, that's more marketing logic than app logic).

Looking through the other links provided in the sibling posts I'm starting to think the right way of doing this is using an event tracking system (Mixpanel type idea, but maybe storing that information internally). Then you have a rules engine outside of the app to send out the emails. It then becomes trivial to segment as in my a/b testing example, or to not send out more than one of a certain type of email a day etc.

Thanks for all the thoughts on it though - it's helped to push me in the right direction.
Market cap means nothing though. Facebook's size measured this way was bigger than all the publicly listed supermarkets in the UK combined, yet Facebook makes less profit than each of them individually.
Ass move from the US government aside, what baffles me here is how uncivil Blizzard can be.

I mean, could it really have hurt to say "we are very sorry, but we were forced into it"?
On your sleep: good for you because I can't --> http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/the-department-of-homeland...

There are reports the TSA stopped UK citizens because of tweets mentioning some phrases you did just then. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/british_touris...

Sorry about any possible disturbed sleep.
Awesome news! This actually cements my choice of nodester for now :)
Yes, but I bet that you choose to drive a bike for all sorts of non-practical reasons, which makes it a luxury issue.

Anecdotally, my impression is that lots of people wear suits in both India and Southeast Asia. Maybe even more so than we tend to do in "the West". For lots of people it's not a choice, but a requirement to keep a job.
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If you are < 30 then it's not racism. It's profiling. The fact of the matter is that most young foreigners in Tokyo are complete hooligans. They're there because their families are on business or in the military. They freely roam one of the world's largest cities with almost no fear of the police. And, yes, they steal bikes with impunity, amongst other things.

Even if you do get stopped for genuine wrong-doing, the worst that happens is you get a talking to or a citation at the nearest kōban. Better yet, if you learn even the tiniest bit of Japanese that will generally set the policeman at ease.
No problem. We fixed it. Our blog is new and the moderated comments default was still on our wordpress. Fixed now. Thanks for heads up on the mayor's title correction.
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An interesting gotcha in Java unittesting
I'm no vocal artist, but I used to do a lot of audio engineering :)

The microphone is just as important as how you get the signal into your computer. Problem is that the built in microphone preamps have big trouble with noise, so I won't recommedning a microphone that simply plugs into your audio in jack as the quality will probably be terrible.

there's also the possibility of buying a "usb microphone". the good thing about those is that they have the necessary preamp and sound card built in and they are not too expensive. on the other hand the audio quality won't be as good as with a "real" microphone.
Some products i found quickly: http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATR2500-USB-Cardioid-Co...

the best (but a bit more expensive) way would be to buy a separate microphone and sound card.
the shure sm 58 is a standard mic because its good, cheap and almost undestroayable :)
other brands to consider: sennheiser, beyer dynamic
you can get usb sound cards for $50, probably even less.

oh yeah, there's a third option:
zoom builds mobile recorders that are commonly used by musicians for recording rehearsals and concerts.
they have usb and a built in microphone. the quality is quite ok in my experience (but not as good as the 2nd option).
i just saw that the zoom h2 (a wideley used device) is sold on amazon for $200+. in europe its ~130€ when i last checked.

hope that helps, martin
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It seems strange to say that it's so difficult to program for a GPU. It wasn't hard to learn or to do. The OpenCL specification struck me as quite accessible and straightforward; plus there are a plethora of SDK examples.

Sorry, I don't mean to detract from your excellent points. I was just wondering if there was some miscommunication. The idea of me (a self-taught 24 year old) being more competent than a postdoc feels absurd, so it probably isn't true. Yet GPU programming is very easy for me.

Just an interesting mystery. I would like to help people out if I can.
Can anybody say "bubble"?

It's clear to most people Apple isn't worth the money the stock markets assign it - well over half their cap is investment in the brand.

If they ever do anything to damage that or if they do something even remotely wrong, a whole lot of people are going to lose a whole lot of money.
first of all I don't think its wise to really say demeaning words about some profession (its the oldest profession and still running many people's house).

secondly, there is nothing like an obvious patent, if a patent is defensible then its very much obvious that it wasn't obvious. Remember, Apple hasn't won a case against a small startup. Samsung in itself is a pretty big company and has all the resources to fight Apple and hence I think its more just.

that being said, I dont think apple is all rosy, they do bad things but they also make really awesome product. If it were not for apple, you would still be typing on a physical keyboard on your cell phone.
Who cares?

The IDE is what needs demolishing and rebuilding properly.
And just as easily, the next administration can (and, if it's Republican almost certainly will) - walk this back to something more oil friendly.
Translation of the Chrome OS update
Translation of the Chrome OS update.
There's a bunch of references to scratch codes in the pam google-authenticator module, but I haven't actually tried to run the code.

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...
Possibly :) tab-completion will be substantially improved in an upcoming release :)
Does that imply they have a whole creative team ?
"A post to Blizzard’s message board by a company employee also noted that rules meant Iranian players would not be getting refunds.".

Isn't that the same as stealing? They are taking money in exchange for an service they do not provide.
I am pretty sure the post would be true if measured on profits, roughly.
Learning the syntax of programming for GPU is easy. The problem is porting algorithms to utilize the GPU most efficiently. This means taking into account SIMD architecture, warps, different kinds of memory, ... It's easy to port code to run on the GPU, it's not easy to actually make it run faster than a general purpose CPU.

If you understood this and still think it's easy, then congratulations you'll be able to pick and choose your jobs :)
And Samsung sends another truck without wheels on scates ;-)
cf. Kyle Bass had to have his banker get clearance from the Federal Reserve to buy one million dollars in nickels.
Many places in Japan are basically bike theft free. I used to live in a town in Kansai where people just left the bikes in the train station for their commutes without any kind of locks, and just found them in the evening when they were back. I was completely amazed by this. In Tokyo they mostly used basic locks that came with the bike, not sure what's the situation now, a decade later.

Now, some "gaijin" saw a business opportunity there and basically this level of safety is over in most big cities. I think it's totally understandable that they target foreigners. Japan is one of the safest places in the world and they want it to remain that way.
People really should do this. It takes 10 seconds, and eliminates having any paper to lose (or keep secure). Copy and paste, and you're done.
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Not innovating?
This year they've already delivered the new iPad, the retina MacBook Pro, and are set to announce and deliver the iPhone 5, the iPad mini, possibly new iMacs and a TV.

And the last five years they created or helped create:
The Smartphone market
The Tablet market
The App market
The Locationbased market
ditto. Sometimes a title is just title.
> If it were not for apple, you would still be typing on a physical keyboard on your cell phone.

No I wouldn't.
It used to be people hated Microsoft, these days it's Apple.

Interesting world.

I fully expect Microsoft to follow the IBM model and focus on services. I'm sure they'll still make an OS and hardware - IBM does too. But their money will come from services.
Yes Tree Style Tab is a must. Chrome and Chromium do not offer vertical tab support on Linux.
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>If it were not for apple...

If it were not for Apple, we would be seeing better phones than the iPhone with amazing designs (read as 'rounded corners'), without any limited functionality (Eg. Universal Search). I do not support Samsung completely, because I do believe they DID cross a line by making their phones resemble too similar to the iPhone.

But I don't agree with Apple winning based on a bunch of BS patents can be claimed as innovative. And I don't agree with Apple saving the market by making really awesome products. Nor do I agree with these patents being non-obvious. Rounded corners, slide to unlock, bounce-back...seriously?

If it wasn't for Apple, eventually someone would have made it, because the technology was already available before and it wasn't like Apple invented them all.

Here's an image that might interest you:

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/5195630_700b.jpg
I added support for yubikey to my installation. That thing's always on my keychain and can be used as second factor or otp generator (or both).
I'd like to shove in Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. Very readable, great coverage.
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Check out Capital Factory - http://www.capitalfactory.com

We host a number of startups and meetups in the space. You can learn a ton just by hanging around the co-working space.
Can you give an example of an algorithm that you feel is difficult to port to a GPU in a way that takes advantage of its capabilities? I'd like to try my hand at porting one. It's a lot of fun and hasn't been difficult so far. I'm genuinely curious whether it's odd that "taking advantage of the characteristics of different kinds of memory" is quite natural to me, or if I have a distorted view of my own capabilities. Either way I'll learn something, though, which is the fun part.

(Obviously something like scrypt would be difficult to port to a GPU since by definition it's un-parallelizable, but other algorithms should be doable.)
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We haven't released to public yet, still counting sign-ups.
EDIT: I see nothing innovative with the list of devices you mentioned - 'The new iPad', 'Retina MBP', etc. They are just iterations of previous devices with a higher resolution. The iPad mini is old news, because it is just following the path the Nexus 7 has set. Nothing innovative here.

Many talk about fragmentation on Android all the time, just wait and see how much fragmentation, nightmares and hell this Retina resolution would cause to designers.
Why the (1982) in the title? The original article is from 2007, and this is a revision from 2012.
Sucks to live in Germany sometimes :(
How can you actually try to defend prostitution?

Would you defend murder and rape too? Both are crimes, both are immoral, both are as old as hills.
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Is it really so clear? Anyone who thinks AAPL is overvalued (including you) can make lots of money by shorting or using puts appropriately. People aren't doing that, so they must not be very confident about Apple's stock price decreasing.
>in Europe, their insurance won't just roll over and pay their medical bills, either.

Sorry for being that European guy yet another time. But it is different in different countries. The Union's laws have higher priority than the countries laws. In this case though, the countries have their individual laws that go about giving everyone health care. So iirc correctly, here in communist Sweden no insurance companiy would be involved in the medical bills at all.
What originally prompted you to create an account?
Also remember that each GPU architecture will likely have different strengths and weaknesses, making optimization difficult. To say the least.
Thank you! Great hints. We gather enough evidence to remove second page and do some other changes.
Maybe I'm missing some assumptions of yours, but for me the reason to do that is to .. protect the ssh login.

Who talks about a machine that is owned? This is about an additional requirement to log on to a service, be it ssh or email. Whether you're reusing your password, sharing it or just use a really bad one this adds an additional step to impersonate you.
I don't like Zynga, but...

Why all this bashing? Not creative? Back in 2009, Zynga was THE role model for basically all viral methods on Facebook platform. You didn't have to do any R&D, just check out what they were doing.

That's creative allright in my book.
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You want to allow the user to press the enter key on the keyboard in order to confirm/proceed with the action. This plug-in doesn't allow this.

That's why I prefer Javascript confirm() confirmations.
Have you started benchmarking, yet? Just see if you a) can do way better than the CPU, and b) are competitive with other people porting to the GPU. Of course, you'll have to choose an algorithm that's already ported for the second comparison.
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What would you do with your own private satellite?
And reliability, aren't they?
I would, happily.

I dread the times we no longer have a choice to type on a physical keyboard. Not one Android/iOS phone would now convince me to throw away my N900.
You can measure the signal quality, but that doesn't buy you much. If you only ban unknown MACs, then he can just clone yours, and signal quality is easy to evade with a cheap (< $20) higher gain antenna.

In my home, I often get a better signal using my laptop with an external antenna two walls from the AP than with my phone just a couple of meters away from it.
Certainly not an argument where I simply wanted to defend an electronic brand I liked. I was applying for YC.
I was just trying to say that someone would have made touchscreen as primary input method. Sorry for the ambiguous statement.

But, I could've argued in your direction too - I really miss physical keyboard. Typing on touchscreen is just plain wrong, imho.
Absolutely everything on that list is iterative, not innovative. Including the TV. Even if it's got a sublime user experience, it's still going to be used for showing programs, films and acting as a monitor for games consoles (although probably also a mini-console, as it'll inherit the app store apps too).

Still, nothing actually innovative there.
They have also released Mobile Boilerplate v4.0.0 for mobile app development.
http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/
Yep. Q2 2012 profits:

Apple - 11.6 billion

Microsoft - 5.11 billion

Google - 2.89 billion

Facebook and Amazon both < 1 billion
Ahem. This is way over the top. Apple's global desktop market share is 6% to Microsoft's ~90%. Yes yes mobile is the future, but people worldwide still spend way more time using MS products than Apple products, even when you take that into account.

There are legitimate reasons to suspect that Apple's most innovative days are behind them. (For instance, my guess is that, barring the Apple TV which the late Steve may or may not have bequeathed them, they have no "next big thing" in the pipe.) But the ones you describe are not among them.
Skip the story, not a big hassle. There are lots of stories on HN I am not interested in, yet do not feel the need to write about it. This should always be a rule.

I think it is pretty amazing, and only recently remember when it was big news that Apple were worth more than Microsoft.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming...

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This is a great perspective that will have to be learned the hard way by digital hoarders.
Is all the cameras in the UK effective in any way? I mean, to know that the criminal wore a black hoodie and black pants at the time of the crime doesn't give more information than maybe sex, hoodie, pants and maybe a rough estimation of age.

Is it a potent law-tool for Londoners? What was the reasoning for getting so very many? How do people generally feel about them?