skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good cross platform alternative to store your data.
I know there is a joke about event driven programming in here somewhere.
For those looking at Dancer as a framework, be aware that there is a Dancer 2 "rewrite" project. The purpose of the new project is to "fix" the use of globals and also to have a consistent core API.

http://advent.perldancer.org/2011/8
s/modern/playing catch-up/g
Ask HN: What do you think about the website?
I am curious on what you think about the design of our website www.confusinghomework.com? Any suggestions to make it better?
Errr, I should be more clear: the Japanese public schools don't actually teach English as we know it and I assume this holds for the all important test to get into a university. I.e. you can get high marks in it but you will be functionally illiterate unless you seek additional education, and if you do that while you're still stuck in the Japanese educational system you have to keep the two dialects separate in your mind.

South Korea may teach it poorly, but if they're trying to teach something recognizable as English they still ought to be doing it better. And then there's the close ties between our countries of various sorts, your Samsung example may not be apropos given all the other ways Koreans learn and practice English, in the military, I assume to some extent, which is not small in South Korea, in the flow of people to and from the US, etc.
How to Master Python: An introduction.
probably a rough guess based on the stock value of other employees from the same period as him that still work at facebook.
That is a distinct possibility. Gives a new meaning to "General Store" if they can print anything.
I'm not so sure if lack of English skills is one of the reasons. Koreans and Chinese have the same issue (koreans more than chinese) and they seem to do okay.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580986
I've been using xmonad on arch linux for five months now and it's been amazing. Rock solid stability and no wasted space on the screen, no wasted time arranging windows. Multi-monitor support is second to none. I can't go back.
IBM's market cap is now what MS' is for a different reason. When it comes to the PC war and the bets that were made, IBM lost. The lost so bad in fact, they had to completely scrap their entire PC business by selling it off.

IBM now makes most of its money through consulting, software services, and enterprise hardware and software.
That's Catalyst. Dancer is Sinatra. I don't know anything about Mojolicious. Is that Node?
It was, for a short while a few years ago, where I had the most interesting conversations and met the most interesting new people.
Elite was released in 1984 and did not have realistic movement (Oolite, an open source game in the same vein is well worth checking out ). I think you are talking about Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters
> Errr, I should be more clear: the Japanese public schools don't actually teach English as we know it

I'm fully aware of how the Japanese teach/learn English.

> South Korea may teach it poorly, but if they're trying to teach something recognizable as English they still ought to be doing it better.

The South Korean educational system is no better when it comes to teaching English than the Japanese system. They pretty much use the same methods, many of which were taken directly from Japanese practices.

> And then there's the close ties between our countries of various sorts

There are close ties between Japan and the US as well.

> your Samsung example may not be apropos given all the other ways Koreans learn and practice English, in the military, I assume to some extent, which is not small in South Korea

It is actually quite small. The only significant group of people in the Korean military that gets regular English practice is KATUSA[0], and they are expected to have a certain TOEIC score just to get in.

The fact of the matter is South Korea visibly scores lower on tests of English proficiency than Japan, so I don't understand why you're so eager to state that their proficiency is actually higher than that of the Japanese.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KATUSA
Mojolicious implements whatever is trending lately on Twitter. I joke but the gist is that the rapid development is both a blessing and a curse.
The amount of energy needed to refine crude oil is much less than the energy it takes to synthesize it. Think about it: people refine the crude, transport it, and use the end product in an energy net positive manner. To synthesize hydrocarbon fuel, you need to put in at least the amount of energy you're going to store, and with current technology probably 2 times as much at least due to inefficiencies. Then you need to still account for building and running the nuclear reactor. Try to imagine the systems as a whole, the number of steps and losses at each step. The scheme does not make sense.

1) uranium -> nuclear power -> expensive synthesis -> local transport -> fuel

2) uranium -> nuclear power -> transmission lines -> charging batteries

3) crude oil -> refinement -> transport -> fuel

EDIT: Found a reference from another comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process... It says that the input energy is 2-4 times the stored energy for synthesized hydrocarbon fuel.
"There is no god but the Market, and Milton Friedman is his Prophet!"
Unless your on an old version of windows or have installed a DOS emulator you are not running DOS programs. Alpha Centauri for example has been updated several times and includes a windows application now. Starting a program from the command line has nothing to do with whether its a windows or dos program.
'If God exists then P=NP. After all, if God is omniscient and omnipotent, He could solve all NP problems in polynomial time. :)'

Great quote! I will take it.
There is another possibility besides growing old.
New material may replace silicon
Doing business is very difficult and I believe there would always an opportunity cost in every decision we do.
I think you are forgetting an important part of the equation: the interior market. In France it was much easier for entrepreneurs to move from the Minitel to internet, than for people to trust a new medium over a trusted one that worked seemlessly for decades.

So while your average American was emptying his wallet buying stuff on the web, French were still checking their bank accounts on the Minitel. That makes for a slow start, but eventually we moved on and there has been a lot of successful web startup in France (that usually end up either moving to SV, and/or being bought by American giant, but that's another story).
Also, do not take your legal advice from a random blog.

Talk to a lawyer. Many have open office hours or offer first hour for free. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain.
I'm not as pessimistic as you are. It seems to me that making up a word with an illogical spelling is, from a linguistic perspective, the most quintessentially English thing you could do.
Indeed. We basically wrote our own version of jQuery, backbone.js and a whole functional toolkit with 150 functions and 30 client side controls and a validation framework about 5 years ago and it even worked on IE 5.5...
Courts will subpoena financial records. I don't know the details not being the one that provides the information but I know we have received requests in the past.

I'm going to see if we can set up the same thing. I wasn't aware of this service but definitely support the disclosure when it can be legally provided.
I am not sure what you are asking. If you "could see" the behavior what is it that you do not understand about what happens?

Not trying to be a nitpicky jerk, genuinely interested in answering your question if I can.
Google mobile app predicts what you want
This has pretty much the same end-user experience as OpenID, unless I'm misunderstanding something. The user still has to sign in to the IdP.
The Case Against Patents [pdf]
Why do name-brand glasses and sunglasses cost so much?
I thought this was just an allusion to the 5150 in the error message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peavey_5150

So rockstar in this context is spot on.

But otherwise, that terminology is complete shit, yes.
It may simply be that testing for maleness is the easiest way to prove that the cells are of "foreign" origin.
I think the limited scope of Twitter is/was one of the strengths of the platform. Unlike the various walled gardens growing out of every corner, trying to be everything to everyone, Twitter was very effective for a specific style of communication.

They should monetize access to their API with some sort of tiered data-volume scheme. Under a certain amount per month = free, over that, begins to incur charges. They could also allow anyone to develop against it, with a license which acknowledges a cut of revenue over a certain amount.
MySQL 5.6 RC - Improved InnoDB efficiency/concurrency
https://www.webkit.org/blog/ isn't good enough? These guys go into great detail about what they're working on and have always helped me out quickly when I've run into bugs with Safari.
another reason not to fly on the 787 until it's been in use for several years...
What exactly is the drawback of executing arbitrary VM code on an end user PC? If there aren't security flaws in the VM, then the code is sandboxed, and worst case you extract a really big file or hang WinRAR.

Now, if there's a security flaw, that's a different story. But it looks like the VM just gets to play around with memory and registers and doesn't get any libraries or IO, and doesn't rely on type safety for correctness -- which eliminates the typical sources of security holes in more complex VMs such as JVM. And if you don't need great performance, then you can put bounds checks everywhere.

Safe as houses. Unless someone screwed up.
checkout this new upcoming thingy.. https://catchuphere.com/pages/beta
And I am so coldhearted that I would emigrate from any country with this policy, when I get old.
Surge Conf 2012 Interviews
It's not the spelling that's the problem, it's the spoken word. I just said there's no mistake in the spelling so that people wouldn't think it's a typo that I made.

There's a difference between, say, spelling "tumbler" as "Tumblr" and coming up with a new word that sounds weird to native English-speaking ears. Apparently one of Mikitani's longtime native speaking employees, Kyle Yee, told him that it sounded weird, but Mikitani went ahead with it anyway[0]:

> "That word 'Englishnization' -- Mickey invented it," Yee says with a smile. "At first I wanted to say that the letter 'n' was a mistake. But Mickey said it was the word he chose as he wants everyone to always remember it. One day he'd like Oxford to put it into the dictionary.

This sort of insistence that they're right when it comes to English even though they're clearly not, seems to be a pattern, as it's also something I came across in a book about working in a Japan conglomerate[1]. The author, a native English speaker working at Mitsubishi, told his superiors that they had made some mistakes in an English-language document. Their response was to suggest that he had lived in Japan so long that he'd forgotten English!

0: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/09/features/man...

1: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Eyed-Salaryman-World-Traveller-Mi...
At the bottom of the article, there is a link to the original paper:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

...which can be downloaded (i.e. not behind a pay-wall). From the abstract:

"In this study, we quantified male DNA in the human female brain as a marker for microchimerism of fetal origin (i.e. acquisition of male DNA by a woman while bearing a male fetus). Targeting the Y-chromosome-specific DYS14 gene, we performed real-time quantitative PCR in autopsied brain from women without clinical or pathologic evidence of neurologic disease (n = 26), or women who had Alzheimer’s disease (n = 33). We report that 63% of the females (37 of 59) tested harbored male microchimerism in the brain."
Jacobs analysis doesn't extend to public drunkenness.
Inseparable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
And you can be sued by a nut on day one, for any reason. I've read that if an LLC has only one member, judges are free to ignore the "limited liability" part. It might be necessary to incorporate.
They have some here for around E40k, but more in niches (maybe there too); for film/games you have specific grants while 'more boring' (however with a higher probability of success) companies have to fight harder. Maybe in Denmark it is a bit easier.
By "are regulated" I mean that there are laws and enforcement of those laws. I don't mean only that there needs to be more regulations. (Even if we agree on that, I state it now because I see that it wasn't clear.)

Yes, the FDA is charged with enforcing those laws. I think it's done a piss-poor job in doing so, as several of the links which I and others have provided show. I think there's not enough funding for its mandate, I think there's political pressure both to minimize funding for any government oversight ("let the free market fairy decide"), and I think there's political pressure specifically regarding supplements, as described in the linked-to article.

You are disdainful of existing research but you don't say why. I've asked for clarification, but you only say that they are full of crap, without explanation. Observational studies are done all the time: with people, whales, forests, hurricanes, volcanoes, galaxies, cosmic particles, earthquakes, and more. Are you saying that all of those observational studies are inherently incorrect?

If not, what makes these specific supplement studies full-of-crap while not the ones which don't involve people? What is the methodological error?
Right, they make nice glass, nice sensors, and nice processing chips. But once you've taken the shot, you use Abode Photoshop to do the editing, and share it using a PC or Mac.

That is, assuming you didn't shoot with your iPhone.
I read the whole article, but stopped taking it seriously at: "a vicious collection of roadblocks"

I think it's fine for people to desire quieter neighborhoods in this era of high population density. I don't think that the people in all of those examples were pursuing change for the financial gain.
This can also be done with entirely Free Software (for those that care about such things) by combining things like OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/) and MediaGoblin (http://www.mediagoblin.org/), and maybe PageKite (https://pagekite.net/) if port forwarding is not an option.

I think OwnCloud has a mobile interface and syncing features as well now.
Yeah, a lot of research software in academia is written by grad students with no formal CS education who're just interested in completing their dissertation and graduating. After they've graduated and left, the codebase just languishes until the next grad student comes along, who spends a couple months trying to figure out all the spaghetti code and ridiculous hacks used by the previous student to complete their thesis in the fastest time possible. After this process repeats itself 3 or 4 times, the codebase is pretty much useless and has to be thrown out.
I'm not saying their proficiency is greater (since prior to this discussion I had no knowledge of it), I was just saying it's possible. I hope there is English proficiency outside of KATUSA soldiers (only 3,400 as of 2012 according to Wikipedia), i.e. how are higher level officers going to coordinate with their American counterparts? But then again South Korea is I gather more and more confident of being able to handle threats by themselves (and perhaps less and less confident of meaningful US help ... and I'd assume proficiency is higher in the Air Force (English being the official worldwide language for air traffic control) which is what we could surge the fastest).

Anyway, to clarify my point about Samsung, if there's a greater pool of good English speakers to pull from (even if in general the pool is poorer ... especially since in either case there's little to chose from being functionally illiterate vs. even more functionally illiterate???), it could explain their being able to pull it off. They must being doing something right....
A few things:

* You're using what I would assume to be your hilight colors a bit too strongly. It is great to use the orange for your CTA, but the orange and the green in the table are a bit overbearing.

* Your table columns do not align, making it potentially confusing to others that view your page. They might not understand you're making a comparison, which can be ploblematic.

* Your subheading font is too heavy, making the text less readable.

* The copy at the bottom could use some work. The messages are too wordy. Ideal copy in those areas should be simple, not too wordy, and really push your product. Potential users read this to judge your product if they haven't already been snagged by your CTA at the top of the page.

* Testimonials always look better with a picture. Even if you have to use a stock photo, it adds credibility.

* I just noticed, your page doesn't have much of a headline. Compare to http://artistsnclients.com, a project of mine. At the top of the page, there is a very obvious CTA, along with some persuasive headlining text. This should, ideally, explain your product in one sentence, and then make the potential customer feel as if they owe it to themselves to sign up for your product.

There's probably a lot moreto be said, but I can't be getting too nitpicky here. Good luck!
One way is that reallocating money is wasteful. It requires administration and encourages wasting more money on lobbying for your entitlement.

Even though it may theoretically make sense if the reallocation is frictionless, that's not how it turns out.
Someone whose model of business is the same framework as penises is probably not going to fit in at a large company marketing department.
I hope the node installation never did one of these:

curl -s -L http://nodejs.org/some-script.sh |sh

I have never understood why people install software like that. I can not remember which project it is that uses this in the installation.
Absolutely. When my friends from the US come to visit me in Tokyo they almost always want to visit Akiba. I tell them, "You wont find cheap gadgets (the exchange rate is against you) and you wont want to buy anything that requires software (because it won't be localized to english and will be too hard to use) but you should still go because it's a mind-blowingly weird place." Most people go there and buy a wierd iPhone case, USB gadget or something retro and cool. I try to get everyone to visit the AKB48 theatre or an photo/video game arcade or something non-tech too so they get that half of it.

Akihabara is now the mecca of a small sub-culture of Japan. Most people here never go there but its influence is felt. I think most people here view it like Hot Topic at your local mall although maybe slightly more legit than that because it has roots in a very old tradition of hardware engineering.
> My point is, was always, that the functionality of the dos command prompt, the very API, was not abandoned, and exists even to this day. Here are a list of Windows commands: http://ss64.com/nt/ Most of these were taken from, and have the exact same API as the old dos commands.

The majority of that list are applications provided by the standard installation. Those commands are not features of the command line interpreter. A comparison to other OSs would be BusyBox, GNU coreutils, OSX command line developer tools, etc. As for the API remaining stable, not really, here is a comparison: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchcommands.php

> There is a whole set of functionality not possible on WinRT. For example, one cannot write a memory profiler like this in Metro: http://memprofiler.com/.

You can actually, it just wouldn't pass MS's review process and make it into the app store. That isn't a software change its a policy change.

> It might not be binary compatible with all existing Win32 programs, but it will exist, and it will not be Metro.

It would be binary compatible (assuming compilation for the same architecture). The executable format hasn't changed, they are just in-acting policies regarding what API's can be used via their app store review procedure just like apple does in its app store. Note that this is not the case between DOS programs and win32 programs, there is a complete binary compatibility break there.
I can't think of a period when humans have NOT been a war with eachother. I'm sure when we get into space for real the wars will come with us.
Trey Smith's Dollar App Report 001: 50 different ways to monetize an app
Ptv's Official Website
I agree, there are no more cushy jobs, or at least, not in the amount it existed once.

But the constant renewing of abilities is more a characteristic of IT. In the majority of professions this is much less pronounced
CUDA development on UNIX is arguably easier than on windows, I have no clue where you got your information but it definitely isn't accurate. None of it. Where did you get that you can't use a card that powers the display? That works just fine. They have good driver support. You don't need to use graphics concepts, yes, there are still some remnants of that (for instance, in naming conventions) but for the most part GPUs are best described as coprocessors that happen to be able to drive a display.

You can use them for chemical or physical problems just fine (provided you are willing to do the programming).

What a load of nonsense.
Having a society where the elderly are not just left to wither and die benefits everyone, even those who are not (yet) elderly.
Isn't this to some degree a matter of fixating on consumer brands? To my understanding Japan still runs a massive trade surplus in high tech equipment and parts and has many super profitable firms making that stuff. The parts that go into or make your phone or TV comes from Japan. This is just what I hear.
Wasn't experimental support only announced just over a month ago?

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/aug/19/experimenta...
Node would be POE.

Just like Node is Twisted in Python or EventMachine in Ruby.

So it's not exactly a new technique, "just" a new technology bringing a lot of fresh air. :)

I don't think anything like Mojolicious exists in other programming languages. It's a mix of a lot of concepts, while still being standalone, while still providing everything you need and while still being fast. I think everyone that isn't forced to use something else should give it a try (maybe even reimplement something in a different language), because I never saw a quicker way to get where you want.
OK. What they have in mind is that what they think is an accurate representation of what is best for everyone and represents the majority's preference. So no need for further research or polls.
Stunk and White, the bane of descriptivist linguists everywhere, strikes again! I'm disappointed in Zuckerberg.
you again, Russel ;). come on man. don't you get it: his point is to inspire the likes of us. It's up to you and I to do something with this. If you're not the one up to the task, fine, but stop putting forth a mindset that won't inspire others to do something with this, e.g. TEST IT!

also, the stuff will work. It's dead obvious that it's the future. Take a step back, take a breath, open your mind and stop trying to backup your initial point about "where's the evidence?" and just agree this is magical and some big things will come out of it.

if you can't see that, and can't allow yourself to be wrong for a second, then fine, you're a regular guy--not someone we expect to see making the amazing startups that will put Bret Victor's stuff to use.
Some US states require that you caption your streamed content to comply with the American with Disabilities Act.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-22/business/32352980_1_di...

I'd honestly say it should have been a blocker but at the least it should be high priority for next release.