skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how Microsoft refused ES4 because it came from Macromedia/Adobe ,yet now it pushes a language that looks like its own JScript/AS3
Unfortunately, I need a solution that can track metrics for each individual customer and display results to them. Not an overall site tool.
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How could a bank be so careless
I'm wondering how to make use of an existing object system. We already have a JS framework that simulates classes and inheritance in the Java-style OOP.
Goldman Sachs statement isn't that surprising when you think about it from the perspective of countries and country size. Of the major oil producing countries, the only one larger than the U.S. is Russia (Canada's reserves are mostly natural gas). In addition to this midwest boom, the U.S. also has large reserves in Alaska and in Gulf Coast and it makes sense to deploy newer more expensive technologies to extract new oil reserves because the consumption is happening so close to the source and a stable political environment makes it worthwhile to make long term investments. Also, the difference is not as big as I first thought it was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produc....

On the pricing, I'm speculating a bit but I don't think the refineries issue is that major an issue for gas pricing. If you remember, during Hurricane Katrina, a number of refineries were shut down or damaged and prices did bump up a bit, but not dramatically so. I think the biggest factor is there's a lot more demand for oil on the world market. We typically hear about the growing number of cars in China and India as people's income rises and car costs drop but the same is happening all over the world. This week the BBC had a good article on the 180km traffic jams in Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19660765.

Oil is a global commodity and is fairly mobile so a demand increase in one part of the world raises prices everywhere. A sustained increase in demand all over the world raises prices a lot more.
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Here are some off the top of my head:

1. Lambdas (as you mentioned) are not only shortened syntax, but also capture the `this` variable automatically for you. Try typing in the following at the playground in the body of the `greet` method to see what I mean (http://typescriptlang.org/playground):

var x = a => this.greet();

2. Classes with inheritance are a big one, implemented using the IIFE pattern as well, with support for static and class members.

3. Interfaces with duck typing are very lightweight and easy to use:

interface IGreeter { greet(); }
class Greeter /* implements IGreeter */ {
greet() { ... };
}

4. Extensive type inference. In the following example, the function greet will be typed () => string:

class Greet {
greet(x: number) {
var s = ' greetings';
return x + s;
}
}

Static and member vars, return types, local variables, all are type inferred.

5. Javascript is TypeScript, just without typing, so converting your codebase is instance, and then you can begin adding type annotations to get more robust checking
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I recall pg initiating a discussion highlighting the declining quality (S/N) of comments at HN, and struggling to find a scalable approach of tackling it. Afaik slashdots approach has been published and works for them, so maybe that would be a good place to start looking?

See http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml and http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml
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There is pypy-dev discussion about the subject that starts here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-April/007139....

It's a long and boring read, but here you go.

As in the actual complaints, as far as I remember, but this was a bit ago:

* our versions got rejected because they perform slower on CPython (while being faster on PyPy) and because they're 'unobvious'. At the same time, the C implementation of a lot of things there is very unobvious.

* we were not allowed to use array.array module, despite being in standard library.

* you can use gmp library for C, CPython, but not PyPy via ctypes

* C can use a bad random (that's fast, but also gives a really bad distribution), while PyPy not because Python comes with a random in stdlib

* custom malloc libraries for C are fine, tuning JIT parameters per-benchmark is not.

And various complaints like this. After some discussion, Isaac just kicked us out alltogether. Overall, my personal impression of the experience was that shootout is there to showcase things that are predetermined and we're trying to attack the status quo. This is obviously very personal, I don't have any actual data to back up this claim.
Tying email addresses to a user's identity is a terrible idea.

- I don't want to give my email address to every site I use. It should be available to the site only if I approve their request.

- I use a unique email address for every site that needs one.

- What if I want to start using a new email address?
Another similarity between Hacker News and early Slashdot (I'm user #173) is that both, despite being link aggregators, felt like primary sources due to the commentators. For a time Slashdot was read and commented on by all of the primary Open Source figures and and Linux contributors (Alan Cox, Bruce Perens, ESR, Miguel de Icaza, to name a few) and a lot of other random technical people (I seem to recall John Carmack would occasionally post). For pretty much any technical story there would be someone relevant on-hand to comment.

Of course, at the time there was not really a well-developed online technology press and there was minimal blogging, so that degree of centralization can probably never be recreated. Still, Hacker Hews has a bit of this--certainly for anything relevant to startups or Silicon Valley. To some extent reddit does too vis-a-vis their IAmA threads.
Yahoo! login bug has been fixed.

Teaches me to try and get Yahoo! to behave with https. If anyone wants a great example of why to use Persona, try using Yahoo's developer apps interface...
I've been writing large-scale JS applications with SproutCore since 2007, and not once have I been bitten by a bug that would have been caught by static typing.

Same with Objective-C and my iOS and Cocoa development (since the OpenStep days).

I do use Scala on the server side though, and it helps there. But application development is, IMO, hindered by static typing. It's a lot more work to set up, and provides essentially zero benefit.

And I love static type analysis (I use it with C stuff all the time). +1
You're defining capitalism, charging what the market will bear is basis of the western economy.

Using the data stored in a cloud database as you suggest would be illegal.
All of these compile-to-JS efforts are great, and as much as I love things like CoffeeScript I have to say I definitely worry about language fragmentation.

JavaScript is full of flaws, but its monopoly in the browser space has brought about one intriguing and welcome side-effect: a VERY efficient market for both employers and employees.

It's easy to overlook how important this common denominator has been for everyone involved. Employees have a tremendous amount of mobility within the industry: don't like your current JavaScript job? No problem - just about every dot-com needs a JavaScripter. Similarly, companies can today tap into a tremendous pool of JavaScript developers.

In today's fast-paced development environment, the ability to hit the ground running is key, and I worry that fragmentation will introduce unnecessary friction in the industry.
You may want to start with the earliest Linux kernels as they will be considerably smaller and simpler. You'll also be able to fit the whole kernel in your head.

From that point you can look at yearly diffs to find subsystems that have changed of interest. (Are 4 rewrites of USB interesting?)
Did the same, btrfs for everything but home and will switch to ext4 with 12.10 because it feels much slower then the ext3 i had earlier.
But i'll be sure when i upgrade.

To be honest, what do i need btrfs for? I don't (and likely wouldn't) use all of its advanced features anyway..
In all the benchmarks ext4 seems to be a reasonable choice in terms of speed and stability.
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I actually just recently saw that movie. To be honest, I couldn't help but wonder the entire time whether he really was the happiest person he could be while making sushi, or if he just couldn't bring himself to let it go. The scene where he visits his friends for example, is in my opinion, the happiest he appears throughout the entire film.

Obviously his lifestyle is one that I won't ever understand. I suppose some people's minds just work differently. But then again, studies show that the happiest people are those that have warm networks of friends and family that they speak to regularly, and I can't imagine that making money for your family (at least past a certain point) is better than simply spending more time with them.
Understood. Just in terms of style, you may not want to mention this in your listing. It seems to suggest the "paranoia and cynicism" you mention and that's not a great first impression- it semes like you're complaining about the price before you've even been contacted! I know you're well intentioned, I just want to share my reaction with you. :)
Edit: Found someone. Thanks HN!
I second the wish to see PG supported here!

I wanted to use Redis for my SaaS product (I have been using it for behind-LAN apps for a long time) but realized that in 3 setups I studied (RedisToGo, DotCloud and a third I can't remember), you are (if I'm right, and by default) basically exposing the Redis instance to the internet directly, which is not advised at all [1].

So having the PG option here would be fairly interesting.

Please note that the above is just my current comprehension after some research in limited time - I'd love to be wrong here.

[1] http://redis.io/topics/security
I'm surprised your account hasn't been shadow banned. HN usually doesn't allow meta-HN conversations. I suppose it's on topic here, but watch what you say.
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firstly I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem,
secondly I wish I'd found this before renewing my apple dev account :( 60quid down the drain :(
Nonetheless, interesting disclaimer text spotted there. Raises a good question... would that text be there because somebody in the industry analyzes your code?
If you have a small sample, you could try it out in the playground (http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/) and see what TypeScript can recognize. Generally, I've seen TypeScript plays well with other OO forms and gives you intellisense on quite a lot.
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But Escape on those old terminals was where Tab is now.
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Ask PG: Hacker News running a bit slow this morning?
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"takes a bunch of code to do anything at all."

I presume you mean the boilerplate code to bind variables and such. If you're not a fan of OCI why not use JDBC, ODBC, cx_Oracle etc, you don't need to use OCI, there are many other interfaces that make life easier. OCI is the low level interface for programmers not scared of a few lines of code. You'll find that you quickly abstract away the boilerplate in your application, and it's really not that hard. OCI has been around for a long time...
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I don't understand what these "tags" are that they are referring to? I guess I really just do not understand what this product does. Anyone care to enlighten me?

EDIT: Thanks to everyone who replied, I do have a cleared idea now. This video was particularly helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvbFpeZ11Y

So the way I'd describe this to myself to make sense of it is it's a content management system for third-party Javascript code snippets. The focus appears to be on Google services (Analytics, AdSense, etc.) but from the video it appears you can use third party code as well.

I find it slightly odd that it's "pitched" to marketers (I'm quite certain none our marketers are going to do regex matching to contextually place snippets on certain pages), so I'm more interested in whether it adds benefits to the developer and/or the end user.

Does it slow down or speed up page load times and responsiveness? Is it configurable for more "complex" snippets (both sync and async, etc)? I'm thinking about chartbeat e.g., where you have a snippet that runs at the top of the page to grab a timestamp, and the rest of the snippet runs at the end.

If it really does help wrangle and manage all of these code snippets without harming the user experience it might be worth investigating...
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What is Pandodaily talking about? This has certainly been a PR nightmare for Apple, otherwise Tim Cook wouldn't be "extremely sorry" about it.

Customers won? That must be why only 1 in 25 iOS users is using Apple Maps right now:

http://gigaom.com/apple/after-fast-uptake-apple-maps-use-plu...

I don't think most people will easily trust Apple Maps over the next few years because of this "map-gate".
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I've written a LINQ style library for TypeScript that allows you to write something like this:

from([1,2,3]).select(n => n * n).where(n >=2).toArray()

which outputs

[4, 9]

Hoping to open source it soon.

Edit: typo, n * 2 should have been n * n, sorry for the confusion
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I really like the Modules feature, it allows you to quickly namespace your classes.
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> True, the fact that URLs identify them confuses some people. However, http:// being usually superfluous, I don't see why roger.example.com is more confusing than roger@example.com.

Because "roger.example.com" is a webpage, whereas "roger@example.com" is an addressbook entry. Very occasionally, "roger.example.com" is a blog or personal webpage and thus probably refers to a single person. Maybe.
This same fear of fragmentation is what kept Java from progressing for so many years and look what happened there. Things 'fragmented' by people just switching to other languages. I say roll the dice and see what happens.
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It's good to see sharp developers like Anders Hejlsberg spearheading this. I really hope this means we'll get LINQ sometime in the future; good to hear generics are on the way.
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Anecdotally, I can say that I've seen the issue with QA causing code deployments to take far longer than they should. For example, right now we have code (one small feature) that QA wants almost two full weeks to test. I was just telling one of our QAs that I hope we start getting much better automated test coverage so that manual QA time can be brought down to a much more reasonable day or two before releasing code to the public.
Yes because there is no evidence that such differences are anything but a result of variables such as socio-economic status, how stable your upbringing was and the amount of calories you had as a child.
This is great to hear. I have only just started reading up on TypeScript. But I would love to know if there will be support for a decimal type. I have been following Google's work on Dart and it doesn't look like they will be implementing it last I checked. Such a feature would be a great differentiator.
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I wouldn't actually say it's a terrible idea, for 99% of users it should work better, faster, and easier for them, since -very- few people have the same habits as you.

However, having said that, I do otherwise agree with you, I also don't want to give my email out to all of them, and when I do, it may be one of a few address, depending on how much I trust them, or care about the responses. I'm given very little option in that regard.
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I have an iPhone 5 that casually tells me to make a left against traffic to a 25ft drop to the freeway below. I'm not quite sure I'll forget that a product like this shipped out of Apple anytime soon.

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Javascript is dreadfull , and its flaws are counter productive
and intolerable. It has good things like closures and first class functions , and that's it. Most of js developpers hate javascript , but are forced to work with it. So they dont care what they use as client language provided it gets the job done. few people cares about Javascript. most of the devs hate it. But the browser as dev plateform is a fact.
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I also think the site doesn't explain very well the idea. Take a look to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvbFpeZ11Y should be easier to understand.
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additionally, it may be example.com/roger or example.com/openid/roger, the regularity of it is small, and people already know what their email addresses are.