skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used C++ recently, and never in truly large projects, but what I do remember is that that "build your code so that dependencies are simple" is not something you get for free, certainly not with C++.

I also think that Apple wants every compilation speed improvement it can find, so that it can improve syntax coloring and error highlighting in (almost) real time while you are editing.

Finally, I don't think this really is a proposal. Apple shows its intent earlier than they did with WebKit, but read that last slide: "clang implementation underway".

I expect they will listen to feedback and change this if people propose real improvements, but I think it is a given that this will be in clang soon, and also that it will be used in clang, LLVM, and WebKit. From there, chances are it will spread, either via tools that use WebKit or LLVM, or because of superior compilation speed.

How soon that 'soon' will be, I don't know. Implementation may not be as simple as it looks.
I have full confidence that, given enough time, Musk can create the technology necessary to ferry people to Mars and establish a colony. That's an engineering problem, and as we've seen he's very adept at building companies to tackle those.

But the key problem then becomes: why would people want to spend $0.5m to deal with all the inconveniences of being a first settler on Mars? It takes months to go there, and once you're there you'll be stuck in cramped quarters with only basic amenities. Plus the health risks of radiation and equipment failure.

So people need to be compensated for these inconveniences and risks with a salary greater than they could make on Earth. This means that you need a functioning Martian economy. People won't go en masse without it making economic sense for them to do so. But in order for that to develop, the colony needs to produce something of value.

To draw an analogy to the European settlement of North America, the first permanent European settlements were port towns for exporting resources like furs and minerals back to Europe. In this way, the North American economy was bootstrapped off of the European economy.

The same thing needs to happen here where we need to bootstrap a Martian economy off of the Earth economy by exporting resources back to Earth.
The same is true for me, I don't use FB but I've seen over the shoulder of it being used by people who would be on my friends list should I use it.

These are often pretty smart people but they seem to mainly use FB for cat memes , pictures of food and the sort of "nerd humour" you might find on reddit.
Looks like it: http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/maverick-ca...

Edit: NOT Mark Cuban.
I have a programmable coffee maker that is set to make coffee at 5:00AM. At 5:00AM, the world is pretty much shut off. There's not a lot going on on Facebook, Reddit, TIGSource, HN or anywhere else. I can't watch a movie or play a game either, it might wake my wife and daughter.

I get way more done from 5 to 7:30 than I do from 8 to noon. This month, I made my first computer game, which is about to be released on Friday. I have another one in the works that I fully expect to release on December 10th.

I used to try to work on my own projects from 9PM to midnight, but now I usually go to bed at about 10:30. After 8PM, all my brain wants to do is rest, and I'd rather spend that time with my wife.

Waking up at 5:00 works well for me. I'd recommend anyone try it. For me, it is much better than trying to work before bed. The programmable coffee maker definitely helps.
While I understand the desire for Kickstarter to police this kind of thing, the burden ultimately sits with the owner of the trademark being infringed upon to pursue legal action or risk losing the trademark. Frankly I'm a little surprised at the response here on HN given that Kickstarter is an early stage company with limited resources. Why should they focus on something where there are already laws in place and avenues to pursue infringement? Who's to say they should be the arbiter on what constitutes infringement?
Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
The responsible thing to do in this situation is to keep escalating at the bank until somebody listens. "Bank of America supervisor" implies a manager at a call centre. A few more escalations and you reach some pretty senior people with actual authority to change things.

A zero-day involving actual dollars (BoA) is a lot different than a zero-day involving email addresses (AT&T, recently). If this exploit makes withdrawals possible, and it sounds like it does, then you're making it easy to seriously mess up someone's life before it's fixed.
I found that my aTV, MBP (Lion) and iPad 2 were always connecting to the 2.4 Ghz network with my dual band Airport extreme as well. Setting them separately, I have forced it to 5Ghz.
I live in a condo building so 5Ghz has far less interference, so I don't understand the reason for the behaviour.
What makes Continuous Delivery for mobile different?
Isn't Mars atmosphere and climate unsuitable for humans? I don't think technology to "hack atmosphere" will be ready in this century.
Did you read the article? Because that's exactly what it's about.
You might want to check out Wheelmap, it is a very similar project ans they have already almost 300.000 points.
http://wheelmap.org/
The question was not "how do you do it once you decide" but "how do you decide on such an arbitrary replacement".

Also: "Do not be confused by the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout config item. The FIN TIMEOUT is not the same as the TIMEWAIT length." -- http://www.stolk.org/debian/timewait.html
"To extend this to a method of explicitly physiologically-targeted treatment underpinned by a nonsensical, non-scientific biological framework, however, is where the quackery enters the picture."

No argument there.
It looks like the old #include style will still be available where you can't use packages, and it seemed to me that you only needed the .h files for the generation of the modules, not the source .c files.
I'm wondering what the checkboxes are for in the demo.
Off topic: did Yuri Milner lose money on his Zynga and Groupon investments?
I've never understood why people view brushing their teeth before bed as a chore. We only have so many teeth, why is taking care of them such an inconvienience?
Hate to pile on but security & boa don't go together too well http://www.gosecureauth.com/blog/easily-bypass-bank-of-ameri...
*Houston
As part of the operation, federal law enforcement officers made undercover purchases of products such as sports jerseys, DVD players, clothing and jewelry from websites suspected of selling counterfeit products. If the copyright holders confirmed that the products were unauthorized, ICE obtained a court order to shut down the sites.

I am confused due to the way this is worded. Does this mean that sites selling second-hand, authentic goods (not counterfeit) could be taken down if the copyright-holder did not "authorize" the site to sell their goods?
This doesn't preclude a company from seeking funding elsewhere and I can imagine very, very few companies at this stage that could legitimately burn through $80k in 3 months. If that doesn't get you close enough to at least prove something that could be used as a basis for raising more, it's probably time to take a step back and figure out if that's really the best strategy for moving forward.
Be nice if they could pay a bit more attention to the things that matter to the little people, like fraud and spam.
I'm not sure if one amount will fit all startups.

Because categorization is important for organization, how about having startup brackets?

base: 80k
international: 100k
hardware:120k
...
Gas tanker Ob River attempts first winter Arctic crossing
The Fixed vs. Growth Mindsets
I wouldn't quite think about it in terms of a merchant accounts -- it's an old term in a changing industry, and it doesn't apply to Stripe users. They get the same benefits that they'd get with a merchant account (independent reputation, fund segregation, your own name on card statements) and none of the associated hassle.

In fact, thinking about merchant accounts for your Stripe account is like thinking about the physical address of one of your AWS instances - it doesn't really matter.
No they wouldn't, they'd still be there but in far less number. Legal weed is expensive, there will always be $20/8th alternatives out there from mexico to compete with $60/8th legal stuff.
It will be no different than it is in california. Adults buy the legal stuff, and unemployed people and highschool kids buy the mexican stuff.
I think the submodule system will help address this issue. People will often import the entire standard library just for one small feature. If submodules are implemented correctly we can reduce that.

I'm a little wary at such a major change to C, though.
Maybe all the things they figured out in pascal aren't that bad.
> I lost hours trying to set up Maven to download one library and build my project.

You should check out Apache Buildr (http://buildr.apache.org/). It gives you the power of Maven repos with a Ruby "front end". And, yes, I know it's imperative and not declarative but I find that the build files tend to be small and understandable.
It's not just BofA. I know of at least one other popular bank that uses the last four of one's SSN as the default password. They may also require a DOB, but that's simple enough.
eloquentjavascript.net says "I have published a revised version of the book on paper. The structure of this version remained largely the same, but the whole text has been thoroughly edited and updated."
Yes, this does represent a certain level of immaturity. The idea behind this originated as a prank, but it was meant to be a harmless one. We didn't want to dance around being politically correct so we broke some social norms.

However, we are not giving the homeless jackets because we want to laugh at them. We are trying to put a spin on the gamification of charity to see if we can get people to do more than they would otherwise.
I think the value of 20 seconds is arbitrary, but there's a good reason why they don't lower it any further. With a protocol like TCP that guarantees reliable delivery, sometimes packets get resent to the server. If the server receives this resent packet after the connection has been closed and a new connection has been opened, it is possible that the server will accept this packet. As such, as part of closing a TCP connection, the connection sits in a TIME-WAIT state for 2*MSL seconds (MSL = maximum segment lifetime).

If you decrease the amount of time a connection sits in a TIME-WAIT state, you will increase the probability that a new connection could receive a packet from a previous connection. Given the latency of mobile networks, I would expect the probability of receiving a packet from a previous connection to be even higher.

If you're interested, the beginning of the following paper provides a great overview of the problem: http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/infocomm99/infocomm99-web/
Open Source and Constraints
Mars atmosphere is also very sparse, almost like a vacuum.

"The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km above the Earth's surface." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Atmosphere
I think I'm going with Pinboard! Seems like the service I've been in desperate need of. Thanks
40 More Brilliant Mobile Responsive Website Layouts
I have a family of 4 and do not have 0.5m.

If those two things were not true, I would be heading for mars in a second, inconveniences be damned.

If he can build it, people will come.
People on HN are for the most part in awe of this vision(colonizing Mars). I find interesting to confront this vision with a mystic's opinion.
Why?
Because both scientists and mystics seek to acquire knowledge, although the path undertaken is of a significantly different nature. One seeks outside himself, the other inside.

Here is a rephrasing of a quote of Meher Baba (a respected spiritual master):
What will man find on mars? nothing but himself. (He said it about the moon)

I am genuinely curious to know the opinion of the HN crowd about the fundamental disagreement between these two visions?
Shigeo Hirose's ACM-R5 Snake Robot Goes For A Swim
Testing for Beginners
I wasn't suggesting they should have conducted the study differently, just that if they sampled businesses generally rather than startups specifically, their conclusions about entrepreneurs don't necessarily apply to startup founders.
Yes, I agree this is a terrible idea in some respects, and we're not certain if we're set on actually donating the jackets. One route we're actively considering is contacting the donors and asking them if they're open to the possibility of us directly giving the funds towards more traditional nonprofits, and refunding those against the idea.
> "the first permanent European settlements were port towns for exporting resources like furs and minerals back to Europe"

That, or fugitives (either criminal or religious). I don't see a religious group on Earth yet who wants to flee to Mars. The Raelians perhaps ;-)
Amazon DynamoDB
Also, why are they checkboxes if I can only select one row? They should be radio buttons. (Cool demo though!)
As Dr. Watson once said - No Sh*t Sherlock.
I haven't looked too closely at their tutorials. Last I looked they seemed pretty simplistic. Do they actually teach you objective-c? I saw maybe 3 or 4 pages of actual teaching, and then saw a link to some example, at that was it really... Maybe I'm wrong?
Walmart's Evolution From Big Box Giant To E-Commerce Innovator
I get why it's great for investors, but why is it great for founders? Especially when they could use the time to change plans.
Facebook to Use Your Personal Info for External Advertising Network
I think it more reflects the nature of the modern apparel market: Companies like Nike and Puma frequently don't make their own products anymore; they license or contract other companies to manufacture products bearing their logo.
Having gone through a company rename with much less history than the PostgreSQL name, I would say this is a shockingly bad idea.
"there's engagement with existing users who have indicated, through support and discussion channels, that they're interested in the product but need something more."

This heads toward what I was, perhaps inarticulately, getting at.

In order for your product to gain traction, that strategy requires users to suffer up the learning curve without your help, or it requires you to offer free support to non-paying customers.

It's a solid way to avoid getting to "No." I'm not convinced it's a solid conversion strategy and thus an efficient use of runway...at least in the free support scenario. On the other hand, a no-support strategy doesn't really sell what you want to be selling.

To me, as essentially a B2B solution, it's gotta' either worth money out of the gate, or considered a non-starter. If users can muddle along with it for free, then the value proposition of $10,000 a year in services is a tough conversion, particularly if it is targeted at small shops. If it is targeted at large shops, then it needs to be priced at $10,000 a month just to fund the level of support required.

To come back to my final question, are you going to use this PaaS to build the PaaS?
The ecosystem is the www, not Javascript and HTML, so those are all tweaking and extending the ecosystem.

The moment somebody writes the first Dart or NaCl based website or the first Pepper plugin, the world sees yet another (not the first) "must be viewed with Chrome".
Summary of Facebook's API and Social Sharing Features
I'd really like to know if the situation changes if you:

1. Disable your other airport expresses and the 2nd airport extreme

2. Place your iPad as close to the airport extreme as is reasonably possible (the one connected to the cable modem... just to try to get the max speed – it would be interesting to see what the speed dropoff with distance is in a second, separate test)

3. Try the different options again (especially connecting on 5ghz using a different SSID with the airport extreme's 5ghz network set to n-only)

It's not just the wifi interference (which shouldn't be a problem, but could you also post how many other wifi SSIDs are visible from your iPad?) – but multiple airport expresses mixed with an airport extreme falls outside the realm of what 99% of users do (I think it could be a bug when the airports interact).

As other posters have said, this kind of performance drop is abnormal.
We use Datomic
If you're going to do that, you have to be 100% sure that a person is a spammer. One bad comment a year ago doesn't make someone a spammer.
The thing is, most paperwork doesn't actually help eliminate fraud. It just creates inefficiency and friction.
Finally, i was never sure how to pronounce that damn thing! :P
Verizon Sued For Defending Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
thanks for replying.

currently checking is done on the fly to minimize the waiting time to see an available domain. Since, the results are ranked with good ones on the top, it helps in early engagement as checking all will be slower. I do plan to work towards bulk checking and optimization in future.
Filtering by length and extension hacks are great suggestions. Will include them soon.
Presumably Conway and Milner did not like how the initial approach was working out either and were looking for a change.
I get these too, except it's a cell phone bill for someone in Malaysia. I've tried repeatedly contacting someone at the company but all mails to them get returned as mailbox is full (it's 2012, how is anyone's mailbox full!?) and so they continue. I've even tried tweeting them but no luck. At this point I just mark it as spam, so sorry anyone in Malaysia that uses Celcom if your bills are going in to your spam folders.
Steve Blank: Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan
It's not much of a rename, though. Lots of people call it Postgres anyways. Besides, most people don't know how to pronounce PostgreSQL anyways, whereas Postgres is easily pronounceable.

I think it's a great decision.
As a citizen of the EU and a country with strong privacy protection, my privacy rights are protected by law, and neither Facebook's terms nor the fact that any other entity can collect certain information from Facebook negates that right.

The claims by Snopes are equally false: whatever Facebook terms a user may have accepted whenever, they are trumped by the law. You can't give up your civil rights with single click.
So Where Did The Fake Google Acquisition Press Release Come From?
An interview with Mozilla
This is not an announcement, and is a misleading HN submission. The history of that page makes it fairly obvious:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Postgres&acti...

The text is almost verbatim since it was written in 2008. The last discussion on this was 2007/2008, as I recall:

http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2007/08/postgresql-or-postgres...
Excel.

Someone save me.
I don't mean any offense to MakeGamesWithUs by asking this, you guys seem cool, but this is an honest question:

Why are developers, especially game developers it seems, so enamored with iOS? It seems like you'd get a bigger user base and less proprietary-API and marketplace-acceptance induced headaches if you developed for Android, Windows or browsers or something.

What is the draw? Is it just the thought that you might make more money on iOS?
It is actually into the hundreds of millions, and that is just governments killing their own people, not inter-state wars. Rummel puts this number at 262M.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide
C# together with visual studio solves this in an amazing way. You can browse .NET DLL-files as if they were source files, with only public members being visible and without the function bodies. Good for finding function names and constants.

I can't believe nobody else is using the same system, using "go to definition" on a library function is just as natural as using it on one of your own functions. Only difference is in the second case you see the actual code of the function instead of just the function header.

(Replace .NET DLL-files with these new "modules" to make this applicable to C)

Ps. even if you do have the source, in most editors you can collapse the code to hide everything so you don't have to "slog through all the source".
I can tell you that I've never shared what you're
searching for with anyone else; no one benefits from your
searches other than you.

That's reassuring! I suppose if you're suggesting dozens of domains to people, registering them speculatively would be difficult as there are so many options.

How do you search Sedo without telling them the search term?

(If you want to be pedantic, my query is revealed to Google+, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Kissmetrics, Facebook, Cloudfront, Twitter and BigHugeLabs - although I doubt facebook is in the business of domain name squatting)
Issues certainly create edges. They also allow for thematic grouping (which is good for editorial guidance).

Mainly though, they limit the number of times a reader is pinged. I'm a big advocate for grouping all notifications, not just 'content' — only notify me if #_notifications > x. Issues can be a kind of inherent frequency limiter.

That said, they're absolutely not necessary and most online publishing (rightly) has no concept of issues.

"However, couldn't you just create artificial edges? For instance, showing the articles for the past 7 days?"

Yes — and I think more apps should allow for this.

Facebook is a great example (IMO, but clearly not in the opinion of many others) of doing just this — taking a near infinite stream of one-offs and grouping them based on your Facebook use frequency / habits. Twitter's (Summify) summary articles are another good implementation of this: what happened in my stream yesterday?
I'm a 15 year veteran of the internet payment industry, I have yet to see a single cc transaction without a merchant account, as far as I know this is not some 'antiquated term', but simply how business is done.

> it doesn't apply to Stripe users.

But it does presumably apply to stripe.

I like stripe - a lot - but I really wished that you would separate marketing from fact here and make it plain whether or not transactions for multiple stripe account holders are passed through the same merchant account or not. If no merchant accounts are involved at all then that is also a valid answer but again, I fail to see how this is possible.

My direct experience is limited to:

- DMR (gone out of business)
- CCBill (barely survived after a buy-out but left
1000's of merchants stranded with their funds
confiscated by the card companies)
- Virtual Access
- PaySquare
- paypal
- and quite a few others besides on behalf of customers
- PayBuyNet (since gone out of business)

For most of those I have a pretty good idea of what happened behind the scenes. Either stripe has a new model or I am still not understanding you.

Thinking about merchant accounts matters because payments are the lifeblood of a company and not understanding how service provider implements such details can be the difference between surviving and getting caught up in something beyond your control.

Your AWS suggestion implies 'merchant account hopping' where transactions are processed through a variety of merchant accounts, is that what you are getting at?