skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go is certainly a fine language. One common instance where I would prefer C++, though, is when you are writing libraries for others to use. A language that runs on a VM can not easily be used as a library inside a language that uses another VM. You cannot easily write a library for Python in Go or vice versa. If you use a VM-less language like C or C++, your work can be used (through various wrappers, like SWIG or that Apache thing) by everyone.
I prefer node-webkit to Chrome's Packaged Apps anyway.

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
Do many people listen to electronic music a track at a time? I only listen to mixes, which can be up to 2 hours at a time. Essential mixes are great for this.
Code Year: Why You Should Learn to Code
Obviously a type for sites.
I did this for a while and then I had a neighbor who'd use it for their torrent downloads (they probably didn't want to hose their own precious bandwidth).

I haven't found a QoS/shaping scheme that works adequately with DD-WRT, so I just shut the open SSID down.

Additionally, I believe that in the next 5-7 years, the US broadband ISP model will move to a metered bandwidth model, similar to what US mobile carriers are doing now. Just wait.

They'll claim its due to torrenters or some such nonsense, but the real reason will be to extract more profit from their customers. So, I think the whole "open and free" Internet thing will be a moot point in the next decade.
Yes, he spent 26 years studying Buddhism so he could get media attention.

What's with this dismissive attitude?
Hey, hey my story is like yours. My go-to project (ha) is one that I've written in Boost.asio though it was back when C++11 was still C++-0x, but I also switched to Go for the project and saw gains in how easy it was to write efficient code. To be fair, threading is much easier now, but then again, it's still threading...
Yep. It looked idiomatic to me -- and I don't even know C++11! I don't care for the unqualified access to join and transformed, though, even if it is more Pythonesque.
D'oh, it (of course) makes total sense for this to be I/O bound, I didn't read the code too closely or I hope I would have figured out that much. Thanks for the clarification.
You're right, they are different issues.

It's just the timing of bring such issues to the attention of the public that seems suspect to me - especially after I noticed how the downs in google stock suddenly became newsworthy.

IMHO, it's not a coincidence.
Yes. No offence on that. But if its with Chrome, users can install the app just visiting the Chrome App Store.
Oh, I don't want to criticize too much. I am just quite surprised the only all-out community Rails conference in Europe is suddenly non-Rails at all.

In any case, you are doing great work and I am sure that Railsberry will be a success again!
Ask HN: I own the domain ide.as - what should I do with it?
I registered ide.as for a project that didn't work. Should I keep it, sell it, give it? What are your experiencies?
SO now has new questions every 20 seconds or so (not an exaggeration - an understatement if anything). A high percentage are still answered, but in absolute terms, the number of unanswered questions is obviously increasing.
That stuck out to me as well. It's true. I think most are very aware of the non-privacy of Facebook, and act accordingly. There is a value in more personal communication, however, I don't think an ad-based social network can deliver it.
Well I have an idea - just Google to stop offering its service in France and block all french ips for a week or two. And give a proper landing page - sorry, blame Holande. It will be fun.
Just so we're clear, I have time to reply to these because I'm stranded in LA. That's also why I have to go back and edit my posts fairly regularly when I get better information out of NY. Pretty much everyone in NYC, such as the ops team, who could answer your questions, is very much not here right now. That's why you're getting odd silences: I'm happy to answer things I know or am involved with, but not to speculate.
French sites
Shop it. What's the worst that could happen?
Not necessarily. If they only have their setup in a single AWS datacenter, and it gets hit by a hurricane, then you still have issues.

The real issue is geographic redundancy, regardless of using AWS or dedicated hardware.
> Snap is well organized, but sometimes weirdly implemented around the corners (WAT? The templating library also serves static files?)

I don't quite understand what you're talking about here. Could you be more specific?
IMO, Apple has lost it's touch just as they almost won me over along with thousands of Android fan boys with the iPhone 5. I bought the latest 13" MacBook Air the day it came out. I was impressed by the form factor but that's about it. The stability and smoothness everyone used to rave about just isn't there. I refuse to upgrade to their latest OS.

That's not to say Apple is disappearing anytime soon, but I think they have lost their touch. I believe it will be a slow but steady decline in value, down to a more Google-like share price.
No, it's an analogy, not a theory. There are no hidden variables in the Many Worlds Interpretation, but it will appear to us as if there are.

The Bohm Interpretation is the experimentally indistinguishable dual of MWI that proposes hidden variables rather than the absence of wave collapse.

Despite the hidden variables in the Bohm Interpretation, there is nothing wrong with it, modulo Occam's razor.
Does that include the replacements and repairs, because I have had a 'new' nexus 4 times now.
Equivalent code written in D would look much more like the Python code than this.
Warning: do yu have an iceberg on your task list?
Seeing how this is Ycombinator, I should have expected this to be about a start up; however, I can't help but feel I was slightly mislead by the title.

Why was there no electricity? What about the crimes? Those sound darn interesting and I'm willing to wager that's the reason most people clicked on the link.
Essential mixes are great but I still buy a lot of single tracks (from Beatport) and create my own playlists in iTunes. Occasionally I find myself listening to single tracks (usually on YouTube) of newly released stuff I like.
Doesn't Go compile to machine code as well without a VM in between?
Japanese Android developers arrested for infecting 10 million users
They've thought of that. Kind of fun to find new sets of industrial pumps post-hurricane though.
5 months ago I transitioned from being a desktop C# app developer for medical devices to a Rails remote contractor.

This meant going from a dual quad core 3.33 extreme desktop machine with 3 displays (2 x 24 and 1 21) to an 11" Macbook Air with a 1.7 dual i5.

I'm much faster on the air. I have a tiling setup that I can quickly switch/move windows around, it keeps my vision and neck focused and reduces strain to both. It allows me to better mentally focus on what I'm currently working on, instead of having my IDE, source control, collab tool, bug tracker, etc, always visible at the same time. I'd rather do a couple quick chord commands than snap my neck 30 degrees one way for 15 seconds seconds then snap it back in the other direction.

As to heat/power? Spectacular with my MBA, this thing is as fast as last year's Macbook Pro and the iMac the year before. I've been writing software professionally since '96 and at least in the windows world, the tools have not changed a whole lot in that time period. The only advantage of a faster machine is faster compiles and db rebuilds/queries. And I'm not doing that enterprise level work of 300k+ code bases and 5 gig databases anywhere. But I did 15 years ago, and yeah, now something that would used to take over an hour might take 2 minutes. On my MBA is might take 5 minutes. For something I'd do a handful of times a day, not a big deal, but again, I don't do those types of things anymore.

Don't get me wrong. I'd appreciate more resolution. But probably more inclined to use that for extra clarity rather than increase my desktop space by a significant degree. There's a sweet spot where bad habits begin to creep back in, where just too much info is presented at one time that cognitive overload begins to set in. Just my personal experience, but I've had both setups and the latter works much better for me.
> Care to share why you think Windows 8 handles DPI differently than Windows 7?

I can't answer the to specifics of how rendering is different between 7 and 8, but the frameworks released with 8 have or are moving towards vector and resolution-independent rendering.
The projects located in London (in £GBP):

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/cities/london-gbr
Seeing as how Apple's "retina" displays are actually made by other folks (Samsung and LG for the 15" rMBP), I suspect we will see high-res panels on other laptops very soon.

In fact, Samsung recently demoed a few Series 9 prototypes at IFA with WQHD resolution (2560 x 1440, which is the 16:9 resolution you get from most 27" panels): http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/31/3282360/samsung-wqhd-2560-...
So it's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
You have literally zero code, and you're proposing people not only architect, but also write it for you? Seriously?
Agree as long as the domain broker doesn't charge upfront fees.
I'm sorry if you feel misled: that story is, in and of itself, pretty damn interesting. It may seem short sighted and even a little crazy, but when I think about all that stuff, I really do think about it in the context of "what did it mean for me as a founder" as much as "what did it tell me about life".
you mean sell it?
Is there any reason why kernel code still wraps at 80 characters? Or is that not true anymore?
My six year old can switch between my Transformer tablet and my wife's iPhone without even blinking an eye. Kids tend to not be set in their ways like us old people.
Damn, something exactly like this is one of the problems I've been playing with in my head for years, but never got very far on. Turns out it's been solved for four years. Very, very cool work.
I am planning on expanding the genres in the near future.
wouldn't a playlist feature be awesome on this site, if you like what you hear tack it to a list and show it off to your buddies or go back to it to buy the song or w/e.... thoughts?
I don't understand how you are mixing content with presentation by using a grid any more than any other method of design?

With bootstrap you mostly use CSS classes to dictate presentation so you can keep your HTML pretty clean.

If I wanted to make a website with perfect separation of content and presentation, how would I go about it?
Google Revamps Compose Window in Gmail
> Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor.

But that's not what makes a social network. User profiles have existed since the beginning of the internet. A social network is a place to see and be seen. But this requires people--the more the better (usually). Facebook for better or worse, has already won this game.

I don't really get this idea of facebook being "stagnant". Perhaps they've already refined the concept of general social networking to its peak. It's an odd idea in SV that a site has to constantly roll out new "user experiences" to remain relevant. Facebook is a platform for attention-whoring. They do that just fine. The users themselves create the experiences.
Good catch. Make it a forum so people can post ideas on what to do with it? Or a bit more useful: you could remake kickstarter, recreate something like DIY project sites (http://www.instructables.com/id/Magnetic-Rubik-s-Dice-Cube/), make it a specific-category site for ideas (home improvements, meal recipes, wedding planning, etc), list it for sale and see how much you could get for it, forward it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea - or some things that are a little more unique: make it a project listing site, allowing people to upvote projects, services, and devices they'd most want (similar to kickstarter, but no money involved, allowing you to get a reasonable idea for how viable an idea is in a rather refined market [techies who actually would go and read it]).
I've made an alternative, with a different UI approach.

jWindowCrop: http://www.tmatthew.net/jwindowcrop

Specify a target width & height, and users will have a frame that size in which they drag/zoom their image to make it fit. Very much like how Facebook's profile image cropper used to work.
Report: Forstall left Apple because he refused to apologize for maps
this is just an idea. I don't anyone to code for me. :)
I released free iOS calendar app like GoogleCalendar 4Weeks view. Thoughts?
Microsoft sued over Windows Live Tiles
Haskell is a lisp.

(With unconventional syntax admittedly)

Linked list as primary data structure? Check
Functional? Check
Macros? Check (Implemented as normal functions, since with lazyness you don't actually need macros for control-structure type constructs)
Think beyond phpMyAdmin to access MySQL on a shared host
Yeah, I'm always trying to get interesting people, but I never know ahead of time what they use. Feel free to suggest more, though!
CERT-Georgia Hacks Back: Catches Botnet Operator on Webcam
Nice, first track already a success. Thank you.
>Designers would LOVE to have this functionality built into applications like Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator.

Apparently people have been discussing how to implement it in Inkscape for some time. The fact that there's no way to actually implement them with SVG seems to be a hurdle.
As I noted above, you can if you're willing to endure lower quality work.
Could you substantiate, or even just explain, that in some way?

My take would be that children change so much and so quickly that they're very hard to lock into a device or a platform. The things they cared about last week they don't care about next week which means that their old apps are largely irrelevant to them, and their brains are so adaptable the learning curve on a new device is no barrier at all.

The kids down the road from me have iPod Touches, the ones with phones have a BlackBerry and an HTC Android phone respectively, they share the family iPad and both have or use Windows 7 PCs. They move between these without a second thought depending on what they're doing, what's nearest, their mood or who the hell knows what other reason.

Let children choose what they want to be interested in and encourage it without pushing any prejudices you may have on them. This is technology - how much of what we thought was a big deal 10 years ago remotely matters today? Anyone still fretting about Microsoft's monopolistic attempts to take over the internet?
Surprised to see the site worked on my iPhone. You must definitely need to make a responsive/mobile web version!
Cisco trucks help restore Internet after disasters
Post-Hurricane Emergency Roofing Repairs | All Roofing Solutions, DE/PA Roofer
Go has garbage collection, which I think some people confuse with using a VM.
Many thanks xvolter! I like the "ideas list" idea.
A couple of beers will definitely get the juices flowing, just as several more will tend to obviate any prospect of productivity.
He's 62. There's a chance he doesn't have a good understanding of written English. He types his name into a www Search engine, and sees results returned that are his name, and photographs of criminals, or his name and words like "gangland" or "criminal".

He fills in a form, but does so incorrectly.

IMO Google's notorious lack of customer support left them open here. Getting him and his lawyers in a room with a good translator and someone who can explain the situation and walk him through it may have avoided the court cost. This is cheaper than the $250,000 that Yahoo have paid him.

But then I have no idea how many people send valid (but malformed) requests to Google asking for tweaks to web-results. Maybe it's millions each year and there's not much they can do.

It's hard to tell from the linked article when the "now defunct" website became defunct, and why. Did it just close for normal reasons, or was it shut down because of legal action? Because if a website was closed for defamatory material, and Google still has a cache of it, and someone tries to get that cache removed (but botches the request) then really Google should try a bit harder.

Obviously my post contains a bunch of guessing, and Google is unlikely to release information about this, so I'm happy to accept that perhaps I'm wrong.
Until Facebook starts letting people make their profiles have white text on a yellow background with autoplaying music, I'm not too worried about it going anywhere.

If I deleted my Facebook, I would be cut off socially from so many people. My core group of friends would still be in contact with me, but the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time.

Even with the people I see every day, the ease of collaboration with events and groups on Facebook makes it more than worth it to have it.

If you hate the newsfeed, then don't look at it. If you're upset that not all of the people that "like" your page don't see your band's post, you're part of the problem.
Agree with that (have actually just posted similarly above), I was more thinking if all their friends are making movies with iMovie or whatever, that's what they'll want to be doing.

The learning curve is nothing at that age.
I saw the same thing once and it was quite a revelation for me. I experienced it positively, in the sense that I now see people's "crazy" party pictures in a different way. It made me focus on what those nights were actually like when I lived them.

There are always sporadic moments of fun, but also quite a bit of boredom and being in places I didn't want to be, later than I wanted to be out.

It made me realize that thinking that stuff isn't anywhere near as fun as it looks isn't about sour grapes or being a square -- it's true. I had always felt this way in the back of my head but something about the experience put it all together.
EMs are great, and I've listened to ~30 of them, but I feel like I'm 'out' of mixes to listen to given what my tastes are. My tastes are definitely pretty diverse, too.

I've been hitting youtube for mixes, and you'd be pleasantly surprised at the quality. Goingquantum is very good.
I've used .json files in place of a database before on a read-only site. It worked very well. I do believe that we over-engineer some times and use databases when flat files will do just fine.
The Highs and Lows of Side Projects
This seems like an especially egregious case. Where does one complain/appeal round here?
I'm an enthusiastic user of Pinboard but over the past few days I've been putting "permanent" bookmarks into Trello instead. This seems to be working out OK for me.

By "permanent" I mean things which I know I will want to refer back to all the time, rather than just things I might want to look at or read at some point in the future.

A good example of this would be a Trello board for recurring payment services, with a separate card for each provider (along with evaluation notes etc.).

I also have an extensive list of movies and TV shows to watch in Trello, and this approach allows me to categorise/rank/organise them much more easily than any bookmarking system I know.
How is that a tax fraud if it's legal? One of the goal of the EU is the ability to operate a business from one member state to another without any taxation or customs fees. So asking Google to pay these is ridiculous.
Wine and Water2 | Socyberty
I agree. Apart from learning new tech, it also lets you think about ideas that are outside your day job!
It is an interesting rant.

Pixel density affects many aspects of a system;

Storage - it affects the size disk you need/want because high resolution images / video take up much more space.

Memory - You need more memory to build up screens for a higher density display. Further you need the bandwidth to shove that data around.

Compute - If you want to 'render' to the display rather than just copy bitmaps around, or composite complex bit maps, you need to spend a lot of time computing which can make other things slow.

So when you look closely at tablets you will see interesting places where they have been adapted to support these densities.

But more importantly there is 'change' in the systems where there is new money being invested. So tablets are getting all of the 'change' now, less so with laptops, and hardly at all with desktops.

The reason this will change though is that I expect we've convinced display manufacturers that 'regular users' (the bulk of the purchasers) want 'high dpi' displays. Its not easy communicating with an entire industry but success Apple has been having with 'retina' displays, and the more recent Android tablets with higher resolutions, means more people will jump in to support them. And more importantly when the choice is available folks reject lower density displays. So in the great 'tuning' these guys do where they calculate how to get the most money out of each hour of running their factories, the equation is tipping in favor of high dpi displays.

That said, I'd love to have a couple of 32" 2560 x 1600 displays for my desktop, but I think that is still a couple of years off from being 'mainstream'
Leonardo Torres-Quevedo, Spanish inventor of the world’s first computer game
Mozilla! Ain't nobody got time fo that! Just index bookmarked sites locally so that I can haz search full text and show them hronologically! Please?
I must be in the minority for not thinking he was referring to Adult Friendfinder, Fetlife, or Grindr with this. I saw it more as Zyngafication. Pop-ups and badges and er, ahem, viral aspects and "achievements".
This is great thanks for building it. Where do you get the music from?
It worked well for me, and there's cabal-dev too. BTW, I think virthualenv is now called hsenv.
how is the music licensed?
Did Google avoid paying taxes through some loophole? If so, fine, charge them. But I fear this is just a scare tactic, or rather a punishment tactic from the French Government, because Google doesn't want to pay the French newspaper, and I know the Government wants them to do it, too.

So if they would be honest about this, they would go after everyone that uses the tax loophole, if there is one. But I think they only have Google on sight.
The site doesn't work nicely with on-demand plugin usage like click-to-play or flashblock, although it is possible that I could be doing something wrong.
More like FON
http://www.fon.com/en

But yes, OpenZone is very similar. OpenZone lets BT know the end subscriber, based on the user name of the device on the HotSpot.
From what I have read, and what I would also argue, buddhism makes the point that increasing your own happiness it is not a selfish thing because when you are happy those around you are more prone to also become happy. Like if you are happy and smile at someone and then it makes them happy.

So while maybe it could be argued becoming happy is selfish, actually being happy is not selfish. But then again becoming anything is selfish, I think the point is what happens after the point of becoming that thing. There is a lot of this logic in buddhism, which is why more importance is usually given to your volition for doing something than what it actually is your doing (think karma).
HTML5 ftw! In the workings.
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
Only if you decide that's what you want it to be by "liking" hundreds of pages.
I think the share price drop has more to do with Google's Nexus device announcement.
Ask PG: Preferred method of demoing iPad apps for YC Application? 
If we're applying for YC with an app not yet launched, what is the preferred way of submitting a demo for it on the application? We went with a short video but we didn't know if you had something like TestFlight set up.