skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little misleading to say that GC makes "attractive user interfaces... significantly harder." For any business application, for example, using GC is a no-brainer. That's why I mentioned .NET in my response.

Android games have been known to struggle with GC sometimes. However, garbage collection has gotten a LOT better on Android over the years. I wrote a small game in Android 1.1, back when GC pauses were anywhere from 100ms-250ms, and avoiding allocations was VERY important. Nowadays, most pauses are less than 5 ms, and the NDK is always available if you want to write native code and avoid GC altogether.

In general, the game industry seems to be moving towards a model where you have "engines" and "level packs." The physics, graphics, etc. engines are developed by a small group of people in C or C++, and the level packs are in whatever scripty language you want.

The development of the web reflects a similar split. You have the C/C++ engine, and the HTML/CSS/ECMAScript content. C and C++ have low programmer productivity and a lot of odd quirks, but nobody cares because the bulk of the development has moved higher up the stack. So attempts to replace C or C++ get a "if it's not broke, don't fix it" type response.

This is one reason why golang, for example, has seen more users come in from the scripting and web development community than from the C++ community. C++ projects tend to be old, conservative projects that are at the bottom of some giant stack-- like Google's infrastructure, for example.

Rust has some interesting ideas. The typestate concept in particular is interesting. I also do kind of get what they're going for with the 3 different memory types. I guess we'll see how it all works out.
VMware.com is likely storing plain text passwords
It does load the profile of the person you reply to automatically now (refresh your chrome extensions page).
I also have conflicting options about the issue. On the one hand, yes get out of the way and let things evolve. On the other, how sustainable is a city that only the wealthy can afford to live.

My husband and I loved living in SF, but left because event though we both have great, well paying jobs, we can't afford a place large enough to be comfortable, let alone have a kid. So we moved and many of those we know have done the same.
> From the outside, C++ appears to be such a mess

Implying that you don't exactly even know the language, if it really is such a mess you think it is. I bet a bunch it really isn't.

> I actually cannot tell whether C++1 made it better or worse.

This really just shows the fact that you are clueless about C++ and what C++11 brings to the table. Whatever you think has no relevance. Not because your opinion would be less valuable, but because you can't be objective about something you don't understand. You just follow what you hear from others - often times those who are in the same situation. Hooray for circle jerking over how C++ sucks. This leads nobody nowhere.

This is a major problem with C++, but it's mainly a problem for people who don't write any C++.

So what does C++11 bring to the table? To mention some:

Safety
- Standardized smart pointers, nullptr, better type-safety

Performance
- Rvalue references, move semantics, constant expressions with constexpr

Concurrency
- Standard facilities for threading, async, futures

Language features
- lambda expressions, support for UTF8/16/32, uniform initialization

Libraries
- std::chrono for various time handling facilities, standard random number engines and generators, hash tables, regular expressions, tuples

There's also plans to introduce more libraries to C++ next year, and evolve the language through libraries rather than the core language specification.

Many of the problems people face with C++ can be avoided, and people know it. Many of the problems in existing code bases are fault of poor design. (Blaming C++ for multiple inheritance because the designer shot themselves to the foot by not being competent at designing software is a prime example. It's not like the same functionality couldn't have been implemented via policy-based or component-based design for example. Easier to blame the tool than the user, I get that.)

Of course, those who use the language just avoid them and those who don't use the language keep bitching about them. Strange.
Its been brought up in the SV circles and on HN several times in the past year or two.
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https://twitter.com/PubNub/status/251440715572326400/photo/1 - Team Photo [IMG]
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It looks like Facebook allows businesses to add their products into their "Gift Store"

https://www.facebook.com/help/444702442234880

This might be a great way to get your physical product in front of millions of people.
Awesome. So now developers don't even have to bother with making Windows 8 apps. They can just make Android apps and reach a big portion of PC's, too.
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Now I'm really going to have to worry about leaving my account open on my devices. They didn't show it but these payments need some type of password protection.
I agree to a degree, but at the same time simply choosing one distro to succeed is also not beneficial in the end either.
Thanks! That's something i'm looking at.
I don't really understand what point you are making. Do you think that $1k is too high to be the "high end laptop market"?
I'd have to agree with this. It's a beautiful video, but from an advertising standpoint it provides literally nothing. I know absolutely nothing more about the product than I did before I watched the video.
_"A large part of this is due to the fact that nginx only uses HTTP/1.0 when it proxies requests to a back end server, and that means it opens a new connection on every request rather than using a persistent connection"_

Have you tried using upstream keepalive http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#... This should help keep the number of connections, and thus ephemeral port and tcp memory loading down.

As for node.js, core only ever holds a connection open for once through the event loop, and even then, only if there are requests queued. If you have any kind of high volume tcp client in node, this will also cause issues w/ ephemeral port exhaustion and thus tcp memory loading. Check out https://github.com/TBEDP/agentkeepalive in that case. Related to tcp memory load issues in general, this is a helpful paper http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/infocomm99/infocomm99-web/
Yep, that's in my to-do list.
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Is group buying inherently social? I've never participated, nor has anyone in my circle asked me to. Maybe I'm just in the wrong circle.
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Asserting that unsigned numbers are >= 0 is a good idea... if you want to write code that ends up on thedailywtf.com.

I think we're done here.
That's an interesting insight! I'm curious, does anyone know how much more valuable a user is (in $$$) if they have a confirmed real name + address vs. unconfirmed?
XmlSerializer Memory Leaks
I would love to hear more, if you have more to share.
The 8g, 6g, etc compilers operate on a single .go file at a time. You're welcome to invoke them directly if you want.
On a related note, what is your experience with mind mapping and outliners on Android?

I was using FreeMind until it became Mindjet.
More than signs: https://www.facebook.com/blake/posts/466860813344232
SEO is not about an unfair advantage. If that were the case, then Google itself wouldn't offer a free guide to SEO.

That's simply an unfortunately common and ignorant misconception. It's like saying that knowing HTML design requirements is an unfair advantage in making web pages.
It doesn't have to be skyscrapers. Raising height limits even modest amounts would help. There are places within a block of the BART station at Mission and 24th that are restricted to 40 foot tall buildings.
Quick! Pocket the karma and run!

Seriously, don't sweat it. We've all been there.
I have a weird problem that when I'm around people I fall asleep before midnight, when I'm alone for several days I start staying up way too late (1:00am and beyond).
Normally after work (which can be anytime between 4:30pm and 6:00pm) I have to start winding down and stop thinking about all the work I did and have to do. I either read for 1-2 hours right after work or exercise such as yoga, running or soccer. That calms me down mentally and I go home, cook dinner, watch one tv show or play on my 360, shower and then iron my clothes for the next day. Showering and ironing clothes send a clear signal that it's time to go to bed.
Facebook users still claiming to see private messages in their timelines
Why not just have a phone with NFC instead of cards?
Except when you have a really really good reason to do so, you shouldn't limit your app download countries.

Even for apps requiring physical or legal presence in the country (specific store app, subway guide, bank etc), you still have a chance that the people using it set their Google Play account to another country or use foreign billing information. Expats and tourists are an obvious case, using the billing information of family or friends abroad is another one.

Setting multiple account in different store countries is a major PITA, and getting updates for apps downloaded on mostly unused stores is painful as well.
> But they have no business telling people that they can not buy/eat this or that plant.

Yes, they do, because part of the FDA's job is looking after idiots. That's because looking after idiots is part of society's job. It's why highways have guard rails: You can't expect everyone to be perfect all the time.
Can you be more specific as to how you find the LastPass UX lacking?
Getting UX right is a priority for LastPass too!
Ask HN: Most Innovative Web Frameworks in 2012?
Almost all of my software development over the past 3 years has been spent building web applications. I build mainly small to medium scale sites (read couple hundred to several thousand daily hits), ecommerce shops, the whole gambit and along the way I've used and tried out tons of Framworks, CMS solutions, etc. I like Rails, Play and Symfony2, and have recently discovered Lift (still haven't made a project with it) but it looks promising. The thing is you can basically build anything regardless, but because I build largely interactive apps ( ajax, server pushing, parallel page rendering, etc), I'm always on the lookout for a good fit in this sector. Anyway, I'd be really interested to know what toolsets (front and backend), my fellow hackers use now in 2012 to build RIA :)
The best one by far is the Harvard Law Review article. Very fair, very deliberate, and in my opinion does a good job at presenting both sides.

I diffidently agree that there are major operational differences with these organizations, and even within the Wikileaks community, some dissent and division (most likely due to being open in nature).

It's not a white or black issue. While I think that there have been faux pas on both sides, IMO, the US gov should be the bigger man and just tighten it's security and not make so many outrageous and scary threats all the time. It makes them look bad and incompetent. Fix the security problem and move on. I also personally feel that this NGO (Wikileaks), has the right to exist. Read up on the awesomeness that they helped facilitate in Iceland! Some of that info is contained in this documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk

Cheers
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This is interesting but I'd like to know a few more things :

1) Does submission of prior art guarantee it will be looked at and considered ?

2) Must a prior art submission always be associated with a particular patent or set of patents ?

3) Can one submit prior art for a patent that does not exist yet or is in pending stage.

4) Do things like video clips (say of movies), showing objects or devices that don't exist, count as prior art ?
I think we are building something more ambitious.

http://myownstream.com
Just revive it April 1st 2013 and you can put it all down to a plan so cunning, you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel!
Have you never worked for a large corporation that owned or was owned by another entity. I have and I can tell you that while we were owned by someone else we still operated as an individual company. Their may have been some changes, but day to day operations were very much unchanged.
There are ~32k ephemeral ports. Typical servers have ~32G of memory. It's certainly not hard to imagine a request architecture where a single request can be handled in less than 1MB of per-request memory.
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Yup, it's less obviously progress for people whose rents spike up, because that is objectively bad, as I said. But long term it's better to have people moving back into urban centers than the massive outflow we had in the 1960s, which did not create a utopia for the largely poor and minority residents who remained, in fact crime and joblessness skyrocketed.

It's complicated and there is suckage all around, as I tried to acknowledge, but having tech companies clustered in the urban core is better on many levels than having them dispersed out into suburbs or the midwest or whatever the OP was envisioning. Was Mid Market REALLY better off with just strip clubs, liquor stores, greasy spoons, and scattered social service agencies than it is with some of those things plus Twitter, a VC firm, and some other tech startups? Really?
I think it could be fairer or it could be a way to get stuck with a broken monetary policy forever.
Then I guess my question is more about the failures of today's journalists. Is the implication that the Times knows about these plans but refuses to talk about them?

I'm trying to wrap my head around just what wikileaks is doing differently here, regarding BEFORE and AFTER. It would have been nice if wikileaks had told those photojournalists that the gunship was coming BEFORE they were killed, instead of posting the video of the event AFTER it happened.
The ideas of Go are new to the mainstream, and at the end of the day, that's what matters. It's a programming language, not a PhD thesis.
My favorite part is that they shut off their code signing infrastructure "within minutes". Good job Adobe! They are also saying that the root cause was essentially "somebody didn't follow procedures for setting up secure build servers, and we didn't catch it." Such a typical security threat: humans doing the wrong stuff.
That's because it's a >200kb 2000x1000 transparent png file. Yea, it hogs my CPU as well.
There's got to be a technology that allows attaching message to the said cupcake.
Possibly. I think part of it is cultural though. My wife grew up in a little Midwestern town with 2,000 people. It's got this perfect little 10x10 street grid, because the townspeople wanted to be prepared for when it became a bustling metropolis. I think some people see development as a source of pride, and others are more whimsical and see it as losing the character of the community. And I don't think the mix of those attitudes is uniform across the country.
"...pay more attention to privacy issues..."

I doubt it as Zuckerberg has never cared about privacy.[1]

1. http://pleasedeletefacebook.com
Tasker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
It's available to any user with an email address -- you don't have to limit yourself to users that have, and are willing to use, a Facebook or Google account.

Versus rolling your own, you don't have the friction of account creation / password management for new user signups if the user has ever used Persona before, and we'll be dramatically improving first-contact before the end of the year. You can completely forget about storing passwords. You don't have to send email verifications or handle forgotten passwords.
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(1) Nobody calls it that.

(2) Definitely move here. Chicago is a fantastic city and the reason you don't hear about it more is that it's underrated.

If there's a kind of neighborhood you're interested in living in, I'm happy to help point you in the right direction. You should have no trouble finding a place.
Look at the new Myspace product demo or the reason why Kickstarter stopped allowing these types of conceptuals on certain product types. How do we know that's really the experience we can expect? You can fake anything in design, and that might win you the bid, but what are you going to do when you can't build it and your shareholders are breathing down your throat? You also can't expect people to understand good design when they see it. Some of the most well-produced project prototypes I've seen have been trashed because someone above the designer decided an alternative direction was better based on subjectivity alone. It isn't guaranteed and it often isn't worth the heartbreak.
It's not overlapping windows, but a similar concept. From folklore.org (awesome site, by the way; it made me a fan of that Apple):

Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get
them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscured windows.
Bill Atkinson did not know this, so he invented regions as the basis of QuickDraw
and the Window Manager so that he could quickly draw in covered windows and
repaint portions of windows brought to the front.

On Xerox, Apple and Progress: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_P...
That kernel/bitcoin link is something I haven't heard of and pretty interesting, do you have any sources?
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From that perspective, one wonders if they are instead aware of attacks on the other three and designed the fourth to withstand those attacks (but look suspicious and be unappealingly slow).

Overall, the mental game is quite taxing, so I'm going to plead "bureaucracy."
Worked for me with an AT&T micro-SIM.
Looks like http://www.treater.com/
There's some good info in here. We ran a flash hotel sale a while back. Only lasted for 60 seconds but with about 800 booking req/second. Discovered many of the same issues but I never quite got iptables stable (hash table flooding, then other issues) so I ended up getting it to ignore some of the traffic. Will try out the solutions in here next time to see how it goes.
NZ: 51st state of the US
There were details here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2998463

It wasn't overlapping windows, it was the ability to repaint a partially-obscured window without user interaction, plus some confusion because the Xerox Star did not have overlapping windows.
There's always at least one person whining about certain cosmetic characteristics as though they are cultural treasures. Characteristics of neighborhoods are always changing. In the past they changed over a generation, now technology and a rapidly transforming economy create changes in decades and half-decades. This isn't a bad thing.

All the little things the author opines romantically about are relatively recent developments that were decried by earlier generations no doubt. OH THESE FILTHY BUTCHERS HAVE DISPLACED THE PICTURESQUE HUNTSMAN AND HIS MEAT CARRIAGE WHICH USED TO PLY THE STREETS OF MINE YOUTH. You see what I'm saying?

This woman has no idea. She's all shriveled up and unstuck in time. She can't see things with a long lens. All she knows is that things she is comfortable with are changing, and she doesn't want to learn to see something beautiful in what is still to come. She wants everything to be frozen in crystal for all time.

These people are spacewankers of the worst sort. Don't let the fact that they are good at writing English seduce you to this stupid hipster way of thinking.
Worth noting that the paper is from the same two professors who published "Against Intellectual Monopoly".

It's a very small clique of people who produce much of the anti-patent literature. That would certainly leave it open to manipulation (just as if you want funding for a paper attacking global warming you'll find plenty of money to do so from the oil industry). Whether that's the case here, I don't know, but I'd hope that this topic can be studied by more people.
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There is already plastic sleeves [1] with the same effect. The primary goal is to prevent interferences between all the NFC cards you'll have in your wallet (Yes, that's not a problem to have in the US for a few more years)

[1]http://flux.bz/whatis.html
This is why Facebook acquired Karma.
They were, however, in danger of criminal proceedings.
Might want to check out Contactology. They'll cover you on c and d pretty well. 10 million contacts in one go will probably choke their web interface, but it sounds like you want to move away from that anyway.
Live Chat on the web is broken (well, mostly)
This sentiment is common, but I don't see what makes an open application bus useful.
And why would they not try to tease you letting you know someone has sent you a gift? I wonder if at some point they'll have a malfunction that tells everyone a gift is waiting for them, and so they need to fill in their address details..
People simply need to be very very careful about protecting their email account. Use two factor authentication, use a PIN on your smartphone, don't type your email address password on random internet cafe computers, etc.
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Get rid of humans: problem solved.

At least that's what the singularity will think.
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Nope, HN is written in Arc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
I would love to have your feedback on thoughts on sprmarket.
Blizzard definitely struggled with what they were trying to accomplish in attempting to create genre-busting character-centric RTS.

WC3's a great game, but the released product seems to be a backtracking from what they were trying to accomplish. DotA strikes me as having gameplay closer to what Blizzard was striving to create.
Origin of the name for the curious - "Niantic was a whaleship that brought fortune-seekers to Yerba Buena later renamed San Francisco during the California Gold Rush of 1849." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic_(whaling_vessel)
If you want to control the character of what gets built next to you, buy up that property. It's an abuse of zoning law to zone to keep your neighborhood from changing. The purpose of zoning is to have orderly segregation of industrial and residential areas, not to put neighborhoods into a time capsule.
Whilst this adds no additional information this editorial is from a provincial newspaper in NZ. It is notable as it could be seen to represent the sentiments of NZ's agricultural 'mid-west' towards the actions that have occurred in NZ at the request of the US.
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It is not the German parliament, it is the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.
This town is flavorless, There's many things that are great about it, but there is simply no vibe...IMHO.
I've been a fan of your work with Ikea trains since my kid got a set