skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't have the same email in more than one Stripe account. Should make it so you can switch companies or something while logged in.
Dimissing Erlang and Haskell with a wave of the hand, while seriously considering node.js? Carry on, nothing to see here.
I think it is more interesting that folks that graduate from college don't know how to budget. A surprising number of young people I've interacted with were astonished at my 'you can leave easily on $500/month for food' comment. [1]

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atwe7dq6iPQHdDU...
I think the point is that he knows while he still has many years of his life ahead of him, eventually he'll be faced with mortality, and when that time comes, he would like to have pushed humankind's ability to reach Mars to the point where he could step foot there, live for awhile, and eventually be buried there.
If this model were actually accurate, Zandi would be sitting on a throne of gold.
Ah, code comparisons. I don't see much difference in the Go code vs Javascript, except for the extra comments and logging in the js. How about this?

var cluster = require('cluster')
, http = require('http')
, os = require('os')

if (cluster.isMaster) {
os.cpus().forEach(cluster.fork)
} else {
http.createServer(function(req, res){
res.writeHead(200)
res.end('Hello world')
}).listen(8000)
}
Too goddamned bad. If you're stuck on WinXP / IE8 and some old email system, stick with appropriately old shit. No one cares about these people.
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What to expect in Rails 4.0
Ansible: Pure SSH config management, deployment, & command execution framework
While true, I'm still interested in how a model with this many variables is created and run. It seems rather difficult (read: impossible) to model a global economy in my opinion.
White House asked YouTube to review anti-Muslim film
Let me say that LoseThos is far and away the most impressive operating system I've seen come out of the hobbyist scene. I don't think anything else even comes close and for one man to do what you've done is no small feat. I'd love to help you out in anyway I possibly could, I'm no Terry Davis but If there is documentation and a TODO shoot me an email at nicholas.jeffs@yahoo.com
Corrected that part. Thanks.
If I may ask, why Go? As an excuse to exercise your Go skills, or did you pick it for some specific reason? (In other words, were you doing this for Go, or doing Go for this?)

All I saw on the entry was a blurb about its concurrency features.
KiteDesk Goes Where Greplin Failed: Aggregates Cloud Services
reminds me a bit of the gdb bugs they had for a very long time.

http://reverse.put.as/2008/11/28/apples-gdb-bug/

well it's lldb nowadays, but anyway
Boom (iPhone 5 has Lightning instead of Micro USB)
I know this hardly spurs discussion, but god I hate google groups.
Well you're just mister sunshine, aren't you.
Underemployment: how about the difference between U6 and U3? That seems like a reasonable first cut, and this guy seems to possibly fit.
Stupid question from someone that closed the site after noticing a lack of 'for iOS' in the title (in other words:I'm not the target, no iOS device):

Can't you add email addresses to your iPhone contacts? Would it be impossible to pick friends from the phone's contacts (maybe filtered to entries with mail address) instead of from a scary big Farmville provider?
Ultra-HD Video of Curiosity Rover’s Landing Is the Best Yet
I'm in love with Go. I'm very close to deploying it in production.
ah, so, I don't think I wrote that section particularly well. I hold Erlang and Haskell in very high regard; I was really trying to mock my own superiority complex, which I think is fairly common in the Python community. I guess what I was really trying to get at is that Go is verymuch an industry language. Haskell I would argue against being an industry language not because it can't be used in industry; that's not at all what I mean. I don't mean to compare them on their technical merits; what I mean to say is that Go has a broad appeal, in that it is welcoming to beginners, it has large corporate support, and that it is also technically capable. Of the programmers that I know, the Haskell programmers are typically capable of solving the hardest problems, but they also tend to be the most academic. The Erlang programmers typically build the most stable software, but I think Erlang is intimidating to less-experienced programmers (the same is true of Haskell, actually).

That could have been written better. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks. I imagine this varies a lot with app category/demographic.

I'm not a gamer, but I've heard that many gamers have a large, ongoing appetite for new games, and perhaps this makes them more sensitive to price. Even a $0.99 price tag can seem high if you want to play a half dozen new games every month. Meanwhile, a non-gamer who downloads that many apps in a whole year might not mind paying as much.

Also, gamers seem to often be power users, so it doesn't surprise me if many of them are technically savvy enough to know how to pirate. I would imagine that apps meant for garden variety Android users might be less widely pirated.

I mean, FWIW, of the friends of mine who I know use Android phones, I estimate 80 percent would have no clue how to download a pirated app if the thought even were to occur to them. And most of the other 20 percent who are tech savvy enough to do it are probably unlikely to find it worth the hassle.
It's so great to have the design notes posted with the slides. I'm in the middle of creating my second presentation for my current company, and I've gotten very positive feedback about the elements of "Slide Design for Developers" that have been incorporated. Will definitely continue to draw upon Zach Holman for inspiration.

Also very topical as I'm leading the charge for creating onboarding scripts. We won't get to a GitHub level of automation overnight, but you gotta start somewhere. His point on slide #64, that new hires can be productive on Day 1, is something we've felt acutely as of late when hiring talented generalists to work on more specialized problems.
Just watched In Time [1] huh?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
I can't speak for @ak217, but for me Go hits a bad spot on "expressibility". Some of the nuances of static typing are mitigated a bit with features, yes, like the type inference on local variables, or the automatic interface detection (i.e. no explicit "type X implements Y"). But overall, i think the chosen type system is lacking on expressibility. Having no parametric polymorphism in a static language is a deal breaker for me at least. No way of doing type-safe parametric container types for example.
No one's mentioned it but iPhone to iPhone the best alternative is iMessage.
This is awesome! Would be nice to export things from jetstrap to Bootsnipp =)
10 Lessons That Made Dimeword's Kickstarter Campaign A Success
>In Go, the coroutines are in the same thread.

.. until you set runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
The graphs show both search volume index and news reference volume.

While I think your point should be considered, I not sure if those distortions are presented in the graph.
Google is still serves as the quick navigation point to get to the social networks.
Agreed. There's no way he's getting accurate results.
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On the assumption that people will be living on earth for some time, Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop. He won’t share specifics but says it’s some sort of tube capable of taking someone from downtown San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. He calls it a “fifth mode of transportation”—the previous four being train, plane, automobile, and boat. “What you want is something that never crashes, that’s at least twice as fast as a plane, that’s solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time,” Musk says. His friends claim he’s had a Hyperloop technological breakthrough over the summer. “I’d like to talk to the governor and president about it,” Musk continues. “Because the $60 billion bullet train they’re proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They’re going for records in all the wrong ways.” The cost of the SF-LA Hyperloop would be in the $6 billion range, he says.

The estimated cost projections for the bullet train project keep getting bigger. I've seen estimates as high as $68 billion: and that is for construction alone (not including maintenance, etc). If Elon Musk can come up with a better idea, I hope we can remove enough of the red tape (that incidentally makes endeavors like this so expensive) to at least let him try.
GDP relies on energy. Energy is getting scarcer and more expensive. GDP stalls and won't recover. This is somewhat oversimplified but resumes what's happening.
Yes, that's a good way to look at it. Its really important to recognize the crux of rscale's point though - you have to render the high barriers to entry condition false. If you can't figure out how to enter, the remaining conditions don't really matter.
>Give me a link to a PDF, which Preview.app handles in wonderful fashion any day.

Really? I can't stand that. My download folder ends up cluttered with (inevitably weirdly named) PDF files. Worse, I suddenly am switching between programs and tabs, rather than just tabs, and the two programs have very different search interfaces (and Preview.app's is downright clumsy). Since I rarely look at a PDF if I'm not researching something, navigation and searching are really important considerations.

I'm quite happy with the Chrome PDF viewer though.
Project Eternity - old school RPG by Obsidian (ex Black Isle) on Kickstarter
Good point - I thought about this a bit and figured I could take one of a couple of approaches 1) log scale (probably a bit confusing / harder to implement) 2) a switch between personal and business (could do similar switches for other settings like region

thoughts?
You're digging in.

> Haskell I would argue against being an industry language

FYI, the problems the Haskell community has been working on are things like scalability, performance and safety because they're critical to industrial problems. Toy approaches don't work at the scale we operate at -- you need real computer science.

You want 1,000,000 Haskell threads in your app? You've got it. Want to write numerical models that compete with C++ code, in a fraction of the development time? Done. Want to guarantee the app won't crash? Solved. Run models over 10,000 cores? It happens.

Because we put the work in.

---

/me wanders back to a multi-million line Haskell codebase running systems in 25 countries, processing billions a year in financial transactions.
Azure has had this pricing scale for a long time.
At first I thought they were talking about Elop from Nokia and I thought to myself 'yap, we could send him to mars tomorrow'.
Mobile Database for Android released today, by IBM
you mean namecoin?

http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alter...
Python Annotations decorators: e.g. [at]parameterTypes(int, str)
https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing

note, it was largely adapted from the pricing page on database.com
Jobs was never a cool guy in my book. For me, Steve Jobs was an egocentric and self-centered. Elon is a visionary, just read this quote:

“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

Steve isn't even near to the impact of what Elon will have on humanity.
"... as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman ultranerds, smarter than those childish Rails/JavaScript/PHP/whatever developers that couldn’t write a bubble sort or comprehend even basic algorithmic complexity, but more in touch with reality than the grey-bearded wizards of Lisp/Haskell/whatever that sat in their caves/towers/whatever solving contrived, nonexistent problems for people that don’t exist, or those insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long."

This made me laugh, thank you.
If someone created a debugging environment for Go based on a VM, which also let one recompile source from within the debugger then continue execution, then it would be, for all intents and purposes, as productive and immediate as the old Smalltalk environments. You'd have the same small-grained cycles of inspecting state, modifying code, rewinding the stack to the place of your choosing, then getting immediate feedback.

Source code changes could be saved as log-structured patch files, which could then be thrown away or applied to the source tree as desired. One could also steal some ideas from the Smalltalk Change Log tool by adding similar editing, search, and filtering commands.

With tools like this, one could recompile for "interpreted debug mode," have complete visibility and control of runtime state to debug a problem, then take the resulting patch file and apply it to the source tree. It would be a best of both worlds scenario -- all the enhanced debugging of an interpreted runtime with the type safety and speed of compiled code.
I haven't been using Django for a while, but I know there was no way built into the framework to do it. The complaint isn't really that it's too hard, it's that there's too many decisions to make, because it's not supported at the language level.
This is sort of a tangent, but why don't more people use Amazon FPS. I know it requires that the customer have an Amazon account (which many customers do have), but it is supported in many countries. You can at least have it has one of the payment options.
Big difference is that D did not have a Google backing it and D had a fairly major falling out by different factions.

This was a great pity because I think it probably is one of the best languages ever made and didn't get the take up it absolutely deserved.
International payments are hard; here's an article from The Economist that describes some of the difficulties: http://www.economist.com/node/21554740.

TL;DR The international interbank system was designed to move large lumps of money rather than a high speed trickle of micropayments. Additionally, fraud, already a big problem with online payments, is compounded by cross-border activity.
Presumably, judges need to assume that granted patents are valid and defensible. On the other hand, Eastern Texas probably gets a good amount of revenue from allowing this sort of nonsense to be litigated.
Even the most pessimistic climate change predictions don't have Mars being more habitable than Earth in any imaginable future.
This is the government, so it's practically guaranteed that there's at least two layers of firewalls between any internal networks and the internet. If any of those layers was installed by an average IT consultancy then they'll have used NAT (because that's what you always do, right?) and hidden 51./8 completely.
Well google's guava library[1] has been on stackoverflow.com for a while and they encourage users to post question in stackoverflow rather than posing it to the google group[2].

"To get help on a specific question or problem, post a question to Stack Overflow with the tag "guava". We monitor these questions using this RSS feed.)"

1. https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/
2. https://groups.google.com/group/guava-discuss/
I sometimes use Gryphn to send super secure messages like giving a client my bank account #.
The point is that Go is more accessible than Haskell, not that it's better.
It's just that on Linux open source development tools [and libraries] work out of the box. Sudo apt-get, and you are in business. Not the case on Macs. Apple tend to break things with every xcode/clang release. And things tend to stay broken.
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>The insight to async I/O is that this server, for this I/O bound task, will perform as well as your GOMAXPROCS example:

Will it?

Luvit, which is implemented on Node's libuv outperforms Node in the trivial case because of higher lua performance (and lua->c interop performance).
>The highway guard rail was obscuring the speeders plate though so they just sent it to me instead.

Speed cameras are akin to a lottery tax system where by motorists are randomly chosen to pay an extra tax and it's justified by the fact that some of them may have been speeding.

Sounds more like an implementation problem than a problem with enforcement cameras as a concept. A software patch would correct this.
Cool feature, pretty basic requirement for this type of app.

I'd really like a Brands feature (sub-businesses). In real life I have 1 LLC that runs 4 different non-competing brands. I want the brand name to show up on the CC statement, not the LLC name, and I don't want to have to activate 4 different Stripe accounts.
How about if you could double click on the slider to enter your own exact value. Also maybe throw in a checkbox for reduced redundancy?
This is why organizations should pay $1 per year for each IP address they own.
Ah, very interesting.
Only if you live in an area covered by LTE. In my area, city of ~250,000, there is no LTE or plans to implement but I usually have four to five bars on 3G. Seemingly the 3G connection strength would be a good thing but I get 3G data speeds comparable to dial up. If I am not connected to wifi, the data features (Siri, dictation, pic/vid texts etc. etc.) are virtually useless. Trying to browse the internet is also a pointless task about 75% of the time. The unlimited data offered by Sprint is moot point if you can't use LTE.
> /me wanders back to a multi-million line Haskell codebase running systems in 25 countries, processing billions a year in financial transactions.

Curious... Can't be a bank, too conservative. Hedge fund? I know Jane Street love their OCaml so functional does have a place in that world. But 25 countries? You'd have to be huge.
What you can surmise from that is that they've both probably taken some acid in their lifetimes. If Jobs were alive and younger, he too would probably have been at Burning Man, place of many a revelation to the technologically inclined.
If I was on a Mac, I'd install OSXFUSE[1] and mount the server share through SSH. I must admit I'm a bit wary of poking an SMB hole in my server; maybe my fear is unfounded.

[1] http://osxfuse.github.com/
People please .. stop the four line code comparisons. Write something serious instead and then see how it compares.

Like for example show me how to suspend the HTTP request and wake it up later when you receive a message back from some long running process.

Or simpler: show me how to start a long running async task from a request handler.
This comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523530
... indicates that won't happen, as Straight-Talk won't offer NanoSims
This common argument is a good illustration that econ is a soft social science with low standards. For one thing, it ignores that people aren't just producers but also consumers. And those with lower salaries unfortunately need to spend a larger percent of their incomes on necessities.

I'm reminded of this political cartoon... (http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0508toon.html)

It all depends. For instance, corporations may be able to punish populaces who successfully campaign for a better minimum wage, with attacks like capital flight. If successful, the unemployment rate may indeed increase. In other situations, it may decrease.
well, the complaint isn't entirely that it's hard, per se, but that there are many different ways to do things concurrently in Python, and that it presents too many choices to be made for the novice programmer. In Go, you just say `go myfunction()` and you're done. There's a lot of value in that.
Thanks, his uneven code comparison was bothering me. The main difference I see is that the nodejs code is easier to read.
Google isn't ending support for IE, just IE 8. If you're on XP and can't get a newer IE you can certainly use another browser. The number of people locked in IE and XP and are completely cloud based is probably very small.
Seriously, what kind of goofball decided this would possibly be a good idea? "Yo dawg we heard you like.." is an overplayed meme, not a legitimate strategy for surveillance.
The argument is that if our government disposed of this 'asset' now, they'd rake in almost £1bn.

IPv6 is still not mainstream, so this figure can reasonably increase over time with the increase in IPv4 scarcity.

Thus it stands to reason not to sell out just yet.
Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.
Tax simplification doesn't win votes. A complicated tax system does win votes. Is your campaign weak with car wash owners? Add 2k lines to the tax code and make washing your car at a car wash tax deductible. Can't seem to get over the hump with the dog walker demographic? Another 1200 lines to the tax code will ensure their votes when you give them tax deductions on dog doo bags.
Yeah. 30GB of rather expensive SAS-based storage on a SAN. After having operating levies fail and seeing state funds radically cut we're pinching every penny we can. Every little bit helps.

I'd love to use something like ZFS to handle this storage, at which point this wouldn't be an issue, but I have to work under the constraint that various teachers acting as Windows admins need to be able to manage the servers. More money would solve this problem for me.

Money aside, it's galling that the developers aren't building for the enterprise deployment case. I WANT to run Chrome _badly_ in corporate environments but it's not engineered for my use-case.
>is there something about Facebook that frustrates average Joe?

Feed spam.
>But the fact remains, almost every other platform is less hackable than linux.

Was that a typo? If not, do you have any sources to show this? I don't know or have an educated opinion either way, but that statement does contradict common perception.
So does that mean that only the prescribed "methods" for accomplishing a goal can be patented?

If so, could you ever have a UI patent (such as the rubber band effect), or just patent methods to accomplish a rubber band effect?

If it's just the methods, then doesn't that make it incredibly easy to work around? Or would any set of methods that accomplish the specific effect be legally equivalent to the patented method?
You could make one but the audience would have almost no cross-over with WhatsApp.

Your app would have a nice geeky audience of tech nerds who would drool over how secure it is and how smart they are.

WhatsApp on the other hand "just works." It requires zero setup, zero technical understanding, and is available on almost every platform (at least the "biggies" anyway).

I would say its audience is teenagers, and the less tech savvy consumer in general. I cannot see them wanting to switch to something else unless you make come up with a USP which appeals to them (i.e. security is not a USP that they're interested in).
It's also a "business competency" thing. Which, sadly, does not overlap very much with "technical competency" in many organizations.
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Stripe is a startup. Everything you wrote applied equally to Stripe two years ago.

In a year or two, a company formed today could be the equally formidable "established company" that is intimidating startups in your country.
Have you seen this picture on Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CERN-cables-p1030764.jpg
Not exactly. It would if we redirected the user's data. Since Chrome Frame isn't a freestanding browser, though, it's really not necessary to redirect the user's data. That's likely what we're going to end up doing, once we fully test it.

If Google got SSO to our SAML server working for Chrome Sync this would be a non-issue but, apparently, we're also the only people in the world that want that functionality, too.
Big Data. New Physics.