skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that the USA has managed to take the killing out of their borders, but aren't any better. This lets them portrait themselves as innocent.

Your quality of life is product of a market sustained by wars and extortion of other countries. The quality of life of the chinese that live in cities are sustained by the rice pickers of the countryside. THAT is the real difference.
<rant>

Oh, well ...

The Lua port of Richards I've seen is naive and nobody within his right mind would write Lua code like that. As has been pointed out elsewhere, Richards is a very atypical benchmark and different implementation styles have very different performance characteristics.

In fact, PyPy wins ONLY on Richards by 1.2x and ONLY for a specific iteration count. But LuaJIT wins substantially on ALL OTHER BENCHMARKS where something is actually compiled (i.e. not regex stuff). Your paper clearly shows that in the appendix, but no matter what, you're still pointing out that one little result.

And, even worse, you're trying to draw conclusions from this outlier. I have absolutely no idea how you could possibly come to the conclusion that this makes PyPy more suitable for 'large scale' programs? And that LuaJIT is not? That's not just unscientific -- it's dishonest and disparaging.

Also, constantly repeating that 'hand-crafted JIT compilers' are somehow inferior to PyPy's overly complex approach is getting really old by now. LuaJIT runs on more architectures and more platforms than PyPy ever will. And it's vastly ahead in terms of optimizations. Now, please compare the timeframe all of this was implemented and the size of our teams. Ok, so what was the better deal, again?

And, no, the semantics of Lua and Python are not that far apart as you'd like everyone to believe. Dispatch is more complex in Python, but that can be taken care of in a central place in the code. Most library code can be written in terms of lower-level code. And so on. There are simple solutions for all of that. And none of that warrants a clumsy meta-tracing approach.

</rant>
Nokia Lumia sales beating expectations
"Should" is the important word in that sentence - there doesn't seem to be any guarantee, here.

I totally agree re: data storage, for serious crimes at least.
10s of kilowatts, not 10 kilowatts. And that's for a huge, delta-shaped blended wing aircraft. If you take the takeoff power of a 777 and distribute it over the entire cross-sectional area of the plane you'll end up with several hundred kilowatts per square meter.

Even rounding down to 100 megawatts and then assuming a 70m x 60m triangle (2100 m^2) you end up with about 50 kilowatts per square meter. Now consider that the power gathering equipment not only needs to be extremely efficient (as even 95% efficiency would dump enough heat into the plane's structure to cause it to melt fairly quickly) but also needs to be built extremely carefully as any imperfection that resulted in a drop in efficiency for any small part of the plane would result in catastrophe.

And, of course, as mentioned there would be the problems of bleed-over and so forth. You want to be able to fly planes over populated areas, most likely.
> "For those that are learning Scala just for the hell of it, great. But, don't intend to make a career out of it unless you've checked into other languages first, like Ruby, Python, Haskell, Go, Clojure, etc."

I did, and am currently making a career out of Scala.

> "Play v2 killed all chance of it becoming a decent web developer's go-to language"

We're quite happy with Play2, don't know why anyone would even consider picking Play v1 over it...
thanks! Will look into OWL.

There is something for 20 keywords as well - http://www.namemesh.com/company-name-generator.

It's mainly for mixing words, phonetics and simple permutations. Please do let me know if it works for you.

I created NameMesh (.com was available) using the same algorithms. I think it's possible to find 'available and brandable' .com domains. That's why I built NameMesh. Cheers!
I've built quite a few Rails-based APIs recently, and one of the major pain points (for me) has been the performance of generating the actual JSON in the payloads. I've ended up with a modified JBuilder gem and using a subset of its render methods, but performance is still pretty lack-lustre. Compared to to_json, it's absolutely glacial!

I'm wondering how the serialization in rails-api performs in this regard? I'm assuming as this is a core part of its differentiation from rails base, and so it should be better than JBuilder. Has anyone run any benchmarks for JSON rendering?

Forgive me if this is a naive question, this is the first I've heard of rails-api and I haven't explored the source or tried it out as yet.
I never want to be dead. Ever.

I know that at some time I have to die. Perhaps it's easier for some people to fool themselves that they accept death because they know it's inevitable. I find it hard to imagine that if actually given the choice all that many people would choose to have a limited lifespan. I'm not saying that they wouldn't, I'm saying I find it hard to believe or understand.

To me death is the greatest injustice of existence.
What you need to do now is start a lawsuit against your friend and HN, demanding a removal of all related posts and comments, saying your project's privacy has been compromised. Then you can boost your exposure with the Streisand effect.
Brains Got Game: The Amazing Minds of Freestyle Rappers
I would be somewhat more tolerant of "required to wear RFID badge" if it were done for safety purposes -- for instance, to maintain accountability over a group 5-6 year olds, or on a trip, or if someone was "special needs" (emotionally/mentally disabled) and prone to running off.

There are lots of advantages of RFID/NFC over magstripe or 2d barcode, even for simple applications like cafeteria payment -- faster reads, and the readers themselves are far more robust.

Issuing the cards with an RF shield envelope pretty much solves legitimate complaints. It turns it from a passive monitoring technology to something active, and it's maybe ok to require people to badge-in to get access to places with expensive or stealable assets -- badge into the computer lab, library, etc.
Great suggestion. This way people can use their existing server-side payment integration if they need to, manage stock levels, sanity-check the customer address, run fraud-checks or whatever they need to do before the order is processed and payment is taken. It should virtually eliminate the js security flaw. Or at least give the chance to eliminate it.

It makes implementing a cart on a website much simpler because you reduce the interface points between the client and the server to one (at least as far as the actual cart needs to keep itself updated).
Mostly

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...
The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal
Yet another package manager? :)
I've yet to see something that does a better job than http://paludis.exherbo.org/
And that is not to say Paludis couldn't be improved. But I don't get why people devote time to the community to work on stuff that has been thoroughly solved.
Summer browser add-on gives you info on people mentioned on news sites
Touhami Moualek : Blog à part | Tout ce que l'on ne vous dira pas ailleurs
>Has Apple released any "original ideas" in the past 3-4 years - I'd say no, they haven't. The iPad might have been the last really "original" concept (if you can even call it that, but hell with it, they can have it).

The iPad was LESS than 2 years ago. April 2010. See how fast the spoiled consumer takes things for granted?

And you sure as hell can call it an original concept: No tablet had succeeded in the market before it, other companies started making copycat products immediately after, and it still commands the huge majority of the market, to the point that most of the competitors are statistical noise and the best ones are at 20% at most.

>The iPod, the iPhone - what else? The GUI, no. They didn't inven the laptop.

True, some guy in the seventies invented the laptop, I'm sure. It was like 80 pounds, with a 6 inch black and white display. Should I care about _that_ laptop?

As for Apple they just made the best, or some of the best, laptops (at least according to most reviews, judging by most alpha geeks at programming conferences, and by a certain Linus Torvalds).

Oh, and in the same 3-4 years, they have brought to the mass market: Hi-DPI displays, SSD drives, thunderbolt, unibody construction, ultraportables (the Air defined the category, and had Intel offer a bounty of millions to PC manufacturers to copy it). Oh, and Siri and a Cloud offering, integrating file storage and backup across a range of devices.

Not bad for a stagnant company.

>Microsoft. They might be considered more "creative" (by Woz) because of their departure from the desktop with Windows 8

Departure? They kept the whole desktop, and merely added a gimmicky (and poorly favored in reviews) tiled/touch interface on top.

>- so in essence, they're being more "creative" because the ideas are more original than iOS4>5>6, iPhone 2>3>4>5>5S and iPad 1>2>3>4 (all refreshes)

Windows 8 is Windows NT -> XP -> Vista -> 7, with a thin new facade that you venture off of every time you actually use an app. All refreshes here too.

>We also have the new voice recognition initiative which, if successful, will be a big game changer for Microsoft.

That's a big if.
I principle you are right. However in practice there is a sane point where there are so many competing solutions that you have to question why people don't spend their time improving existing solutions instead of adding to the fragmentation.
It does feel a bit like it can become a platform independent alternative to something like Cygwin. Along the lines of ActiveState perl, but a whole GNU environment instead.
It's also VERY important to note that the key part of this statement is not "Being a game developer" but "as a business".

I'm a professional filmmaker. I happen to also be the kind of person who hears the phrase "owner/operator of a taco truck" and immediately thinks "ooh, that sounds cool. I'd need to optimise the menu to minimise ingredient costs, obviously, and - ooh - I wonder if I could use extremely locally targeted Adwords stuff to market it and -"

(I've never even eaten a taco. )

Nonetheless, I also know a lot of other people who make films. Many of them don't have the particular bit of their brain that automatically starts writing a business plan when it hears any cool idea. However, they still make films - often really good films - and enjoy it. Sometimes they enjoy, or at least appear to enjoy, making their movies more than I do.

A very large number of those people also have an actual bill-paying job.

There's nothing wrong with creating just for the love of it. "Amateur" - one who engages in an activity for the love of it - is not a dirty word, and contrary to popular belief is not automatically inferior to "professional". You can achieve a pretty astonishingly large output if you're focused - I have a friend who was averaging >1 (published) novel a year whilst also running his startup. You can create great work. And you don't have to make the inevitable compromises that you do have to make if job #1 is "make enough money off this thing to live".
And if this were from 2012 said DB would be on an encrypted hard drive that can only be unlocked by typing "password".
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell." - Buddhist proverb, via Richard Feynman
OpenXava 4.6 released: Rapid Java Web Development
I hope this causes a surge of interest in gnu guix, nixpkgs, and package management systems with these nice features in general.
Research in this area should have happened since yesterday, but deployment and testing?

The probability of something big hitting us is really low, coupled with the fact that we can see it coming since all objects in space are visible. Miss-calculating a trajectory could indeed happen and we may not notice it if it's coming from the direction of our sun, but the probability of that is even lower.

So why would you spend tons of natural resources, time and money for a machinery of dealing with a problem that we may not have in the next 100,000 years? And what should that machinery do in the meantime?

Personally, I think our world has to solve bigger and more imminent problems that can lead to extinction too ... hunger, disease, overpopulation, economic recessions, natural resources running out, global warming, the destruction of the only habitat we know that can sustain life, nuclear wars and the list of things that can happen in the next 400 years can probably go on. Heck, we came closer to extinction during the Cold War than we ever ever did from a comet passing by and the only thing saving us was the few reasonable men in charge, but we may not get so lucky next time.
I think we should be grateful it's on the interest of a big company like this to have a free and open internet.
There won't be any real move if it's not the case or if there's no real pressure by the mass. For this second solution, it will need a lot of time and effort to educate enough people about his issue.
Compile Time Loops in C++11 With Trampolines and Exponential Recursion
Well there is already nixpkgs which has existed for a while with core features that I saw mentioned. I would be happy if there was increased interest in both and their feature set.
Help us save the internet The whole internet? Yes, the whole internet
Very much depends what sort of game you're considering. Anything approaching the AAA space, agreed. But mobile games / Web games / anything with carefully controlled scope, not so much.

You may or may not have heard of the 48-hour game development event GameJam? http://globalgamejam.org It's possible to create something playable even in that time.

Also, Minecraft was originally developed part-time, according to Wikipedia.

Working on something serious part-time is hard, and I'm impressed by people who manage it. But it's doable.
Please, utilise the word "use".
In general you can't, but at the time I wrote that reply the item had received no upvotes at all.
I THINK I,LL KILL MY MOM
Agreed. My main worry is that he will artificially cram too much in those three, real time events.
Pakistan suspends mobile services in many cities.
Here's the last part of my comment again: "..unless the fairly obvious potential negative consequences can be shown to be resolvable"

Demonstrate that you have a credible strategy for managing the fallout and I'd back you up myself. What you don't get to do is just charge ahead on a wish and a prayer that maybe you can mitigate the consequences. Show some responsibility and actually address the issues, and who knows?
That's a clever concept.
https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim
Saving endangered fish with the SafetyNet
Which would reveal a filesystem with the plausible looking content, while having typed a different password would have revealed the true contents of the message.
Fair enough. Confusion remains, but I'll not enquire further. Thanks for the reply (and the exceptional upvote).
They already track our mobile phones - what's the big deal?
A simple licensing and complaint system is all that is necessary.

That doesn't work very well for tourists, who are the most likely to be scammed, and whose money is highly desirable as it represents an input to the local economy.
A dangerous future of killer robots
Previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756263
Can you vote in or out Google's directors?
The paper in question: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1110/1110.2798.pdf

It is written in comic sans and one of the authors is using a yahoo mail. Maybe I'm just being an elitist nerd, but really...
SORM – An elegant and scalable way to do persistence in Scala
They should pass laws to emancipate dogs in the West - your move Saudi.
FWIW, you can use http://ddg.gg instead (think of it as "DuckDuckGOGOGO!)
Craig Mundie: How Tomorrow's Technologies Will Shape Your World
I cannot agree more!
couldnt agree more. skip the article and read this comment instead.

and also, coursera and scala for impatient are definitely must check.
Not in the current incarnation, the HTM buffer is too small.
Actually when I just looked, there was not a single obvious porn site.
Great idea! Keyboard shortcuts for the interface would be really nice, since I end up "nexting" a lot of questions before I tend to find one I want to answer.
The Surprising Secret to Selling You
What I Would Do to Improve WordPress
You forgot to mention that many nonviolent crimes in China carry sentences we would consider extreme. Depending on the quantity, rather harmless drugs such as marijuana, shrooms, and MDMA can get you executed. Civilian ownership of firearms is also restricted. Then of course there's the Internet censorship and monitoring. Don't forget the banning of various books.

If your idea of libertarian is "bars stay open all night and I can smoke anywhere" then you might want to consider Las Vegas. It's much more permissive than any place in China and you won't even have to learn a new language.
> Tackling an extinction-level event is not something we want to scramble for at the last possible minute

I am not sure if this is in line with Agile principles like YAGNI.
> But then, most people live crap lives.

And this is the really sad part.

If one does not believe in another life or an afterlife, life itself might be the most precious thing there ever was.

Just think about the astounding circumstances that have brought your or my specific mind into existence.

Given the uniqueness of every mind on this planet we all should feel honored to be alive with them at the same time.

But what do we do? We make people lives miserable. We waste lives in wars. We let children starve before they even have to chance to use this ordinary gift.

I think future generations will judge us for this.

Edit: Phrasing
Surely the "evil shadowy governments" are not meeting under the explicit auspices of "curtailing internet freedom." What are the "pro" arguments for the meeting?
I use it but only for personal projects, nothing commercial.
How jQuery and JSONP Data Format can work simultaneously
Very impressive Maarten.

I especially like your localisation efforts! The unique URL's fitting for each language are amazing. Do you feel this is a big boon to spread fast? Are you yourself a good speaker of those languages, or did you ask external help for the translations/domain name suggestions?
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

#passive-aggressive
As I pointed out, this was a while back. Things might well have changed in the business these days. The lower order teams were "perceived" as being less likely to consistently finish, may have been a better way to have expressed my earlier comment. I don't think that all components are standardized. e.g. gearboxes? Again, I don't have any contact to the business anymore so I have no idea what it is like today.
Evidently neither do title writer's
"The BBC...when is the BBC going to "discover" the famine they caused in Ireland in the 1840s?"

Oh look, the BBC already did and you didn't even bother to check (although how the BBC caused it is a mystery to me, given that the BBC is a Broadcasting company formed in 1922 and the potato famine happened during the previous century).

Such self-righteousness that assumes wrong-doing without even checking. It's the worst kind of ideology; to not even care enough about the truth to check. If reality conflicts with political opinion, it's not opinion that's wrong; it's reality that's at fault.

This is just the first google hit, but the list of BBC pages covering it goes on and on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.sh...
The options were covered in-depth on http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/multicore-programming... , posted here a few months ago
Who said anything about a plan? It's just an hypothetical question.
MacOS style login form error handling
One Of Oldest Digital Computers, Gets Reboot
But no sales(not shipped) numbers to date. Just expectations and projections for next year.
Great effort, definitely bookmarking this.
> Your quality of life is product of a market sustained by wars and extortion of other countries.

Their cost of war probably outweighs by far any direct/indirect profit they can expect to get out of them. In addition, there are plenty of prosperous countries that are not involved in any wars.

> The quality of life of the chinese that live in cities are sustained by the rice pickers of the countryside. THAT is the real difference.

Fixed pie fallacy. Rich people are not rich because they exploit poor people.
Well if you expect zero, everything is beating it. Unless we have real sales figures it is hard to tell what is going on.
META-II in C
If you're not worried about the payment then what is it that bothers you about the legality of the client's business or his identity? Provided he's not selling illegal firearms, performing scams or distributing child pornography I don't see any reason to worry about it. On top of that you will see his site, so you will know what kind of business he is in from the start.

It's not like everyone is googlable or should be. I'd say being able to google somebody's name and get tons of results is the exception rather than the rule (and thank $DEITY for that).

Your concern for getting direct access to his website is valid though. If the customer is not using any VCS I'd suggest to him that he starts doing so - there are plenty of options.

If the client can provide you access to a testing/dev environment, where you can safely play with things without breaking production, I'd pick that option as well.
I'm from ex-USSR and have never been to the US, so my view is kind of balanced. I think the US was able to come up with the most universal product of all times: the american dream. Everything else is just execution.

There were wars throughout the history, but previously there were no ways to make another country people wish to change their believes and become the consumers of another country way of living on a mass scale.
When all you have is a flatMap, everything looks like a nested list ;).

(The author seems to be shoe-horning a lot of different concepts into flatMap via traits. I count several different Monads in there.)
Works fine here as well.

Chrome Version 23.0.1271.64 / Ubuntu 12.04
Also see: http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html for an introduction and tutorial to META-II
META-II paper: http://ibm-1401.info/Meta-II-schorre.pdf
5 Powerful Social Media Marketing Tools
The context for this is the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 [1] to be held inn Dubai in December. A major purpose of the meeting is to consider updating the ITU's International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) [2,3] to include an internet governance role for the ITU.

Its not very clear what the detail of the proposed changes actually is, but the Internet Society have a summary [4] that suggests a takeover of technical standardisation efforts (e.g IETF and maybe W3C processes), the regulatory functions of ICANN/IANA, and maybe oversight of the regional IP registries.

One point of view is that this is a power grab by the ITU, who see this as a last chance to remain relevant as the networks they used to regulate (traditional voice and data comms) are absorbed by the Internet. Behind it are various ITU member states (principally China and Russia) who hope to use an enlarged ITU as a proxy to control the Internet to further their domestic and international agendas.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication...

[2] http://www.itu.int/oth/T3F01000001

[3] https://fileshare.tools.isoc.org/groups/comms/public/Publica...

[4] http://www.internetsociety.org/wcit
I speak Dutch, English and reasonable French. For German and Spanish: Google translate to the rescue :-)