skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disqus is currently using some Redis AFAIK, but probably not to store the bulk comment data (and probably for good reasons since I can imagine an enormous difference between working set and total data set in this case of Disqus).
> Microsoft Patent Shows It’s Working On A Google Glass Type Device Of Its Own

It only shows that Microsoft calls dibs on this newfangled idea of wearable display. I don't see any invention described there. Rather just an idea.
If you have a standard then you've already picked one, there isn't any argument at that point.
Because the guys in this story are actually scientists, doing the discovery and research, as well as engineers .. and it is 'implied' that scientists can do engineering also, so I guess its Venn diagram time .. ?
There's a lot of confusion in this thread. The courts agree that accessing any internet computer in excess of any sort of actual access restriction is a crime. There was a question - can this be stretched to fit violations of terms of use? That is, a user unquestionably (in the case at hand) has 100% access to read and write on a particular forum, unless they post hate speech (private terms of use of the forum). Now they post hate speech. Does this TOU violation constitute a Federal crime? And the courts seem to be coming down on the side of no, despite the language of the law that would seem to say yes. It's just a little too much of a stretch for the courts to make any TOU violation into a Federal crime.

On the other hand, violating any sort of unambiguous access restriction is clearly illegal. Suppose you start work at a new job. The boss tells you not to read the files in the "BOSS" directory on the webserver, which is connected to the internet and not password protected. You read them. Have you committed a Federal misdemeanor? Yes. No court disagrees. Many people have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms for extremely similar behavior (often involving employees who take files with them when they leave employment, or similar).
You might like this video, too:

http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/05/plurality-an-amazing-short-f...
The island now has a wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island_(New_Caledonia). Created today.
I smell a feature addition that polls for some virtually-always-online internet resource, such as google.com, to routinely distinguish between the various values of 'online'.
That's hilarious. There's hardly anyone who runs java on a Raspberry Pi and popular platforms like Arduino don't even support it. The dream of cheap devices that run Java natively never really materialised and now that embedded devices are becoming hot again, there are plenty of other languages available. Arduino has a Java/C-like language that compiles to machine code for its micro-controller and most tutorials for programming on the Raspberry Pi are in Python or Ruby.
A good start would be to have a JIT compiler so it actually runs acceptably fast: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/91/is-there-a...
Hard drive maker OCZ says facing SEC probe
it seems that it's just overloaded.

EDIT: back for now
I trust Google right now to anonymize the data they get from me, and to hide it from their own employees.

What I wouldn't trust in this future is the Government to have easy access to this data, to see everything I've been watching and doing, and passing new laws to access this data even without warrants.

To me that's orders of magnitude scarier than a company using the anonymized data to send me more relevant ads on web pages, on which I'll probably still be able to use Adblock.
To be fair, using varnish and proper cache modules with drupal, you can make drupal very immune to this sort of traffic.
From the comments:

Is it me or is it slightly worrying that they seem to have implemented these changes at a client level, meaning that someone could by-pass them with custom software, instead of doing it properly and having the server refuse to send out messages once the phone has been wiped / unregistered?

Surely all of this is a backend thing and should not have any client component at all.
Pedant calling - Erlang is a functional programming language that has been doing very nicely thank you in a lot of big companies (Amazon, Facebook amongst others) for a good while now.
Absolutely. The problem is that the project is driven by Sergey Brin, who trusts his company completely.

Privacy would have to built into the project on many layers. Without a push to do so from above, they won't.
How to deliver high quality content with CSS?
I wonder how you are thinking of generating revenue from people who are waiting? Particularly since many (most?) of the people there are either below their cognitive average or distracted by herding children.
That is 6x improvement in speed. Why cant some of these become default?
Sounds familiar to me too!
I'm Portuguese.
Social was a hot topic. Mobile and tablets are a hot topic and big data will become a hot topic.

Did many dive head first into the social and mobile bandwagon? Sure. But to say there is no bandwagon or profit to be made in these niches is not realistic.

Everyone knows there is a hype, but that hype is based on reality. Big consumer data already has a value per GB.

Some say Big Data is just Business Intelligence over a large amount of data. I don't disagree and I see a solid future for BI.

Managers and consultants should prepare for the big data storm that is to come. Learn about the possibilities and impossibilities of cloud computing and Hadoop. I believe in a few years even tech-savy consumers (who now own an iPad) are able to use Big Data on their own data. Anyone can already rent a few Amazon resources to compute, and work with technology invented at Google a few years ago (MapReduce, BigTable). Or if you don't want to reinvent the wheel, go for Big Data as a Service, like Cloudera or Splunk.

In exchange for discounts, consumers will hand over their data to companies for free. Coordinates or purchasing behaviour: everything gets stored. Companies are busy exporting old data from tapes, so they can run completer aggregate queries.

When more big data analysts emerge, some companies will be ready: They'll have datawarehouses filled with data. If you do not invest in big data, you'll soon lose your competitive edge in regards to BI and consumer data.

The people that are extolling the virtues of big data are usually external consultants. They were the same that told companies to focus on mobile apps, and before that, to create a social presence. You can rail against that, but that is merely an epiphenomenon of every hype: Not what is really about.

All big tech companies are preparing for the future of big data (Amazon, Akamai, IBM, Microsoft). Facebook has the largest known Hadoop cluster in the world (over 100PB). Google might process around 25PB of data each day...
Gravity waves?
aha I see ! That's what I thought.

If you don't know the game, chances are that you'll not understand what the purpose of this lib ^^
Student Member Develops Device That Mimics Brain
Windows (and other OSes) already do this: http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-aware...

Basically, systems looks up a particular domain name and then requests a text file from that server. It then also checks if another domain name resolves to a hard-coded IP. If both checks pass, you're on the internet.
what is big data ?
I think we'll start seeing a lot of ES6 to ES5 compilers.

Then it's going to be a question of how to load the appropriate logic into the web page based on what it can do.

I have mixed feelings about this one, but I'm definitely looking forward to the new features.
Looks nice :-)

The filename "Broken Forest Redux – 09.jpg" failed the upload. Once I've renamed the file to (ironically enough) "fail.jpg", it worked: http://www.pixbin.us/hw2yfv
The band has uploaded a version to Youtube, but it's a "music video" version with a much slower intro, so I opted for the album version. Perhaps that was a mistake.
A Programmer's Thanksgiving
Wasn't that the reason Java was created in the first place? Like 20 years ago. It was marketed as the software for intelligent toasters.
It's the subject of the mailing list message (the [Haskell] being the mailing list subject prefix). I was able to piece together what it meant, but I know that a couple of key people for ghc work for Microsoft Research. I agree in general that it's confusing, but it's not like this is the subject of blog post that was poorly chosen. The 'real' subject is just "Leaving Microsoft".
I ended up writing a blog post in response to this: http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/11/22/design-standards-vs-code-...

Synopsis: I like Michael Feathers’ comment that having Design Standards is much more valuable than Code Standards, but they need to be reviewed regularly in order to prevent stagnation and much of the same detriments mentioned in the OP.
The Django documentation page is fantastic. Also, djangobook.com is an awesome site to visit. One of the best tutorials I've ever read. I was building a prototype site with Python and Django at work and I finished writing it in a week without any prior experience with the language or the framework.
Well the biggest thing you need to do is not use ints to store pointers, and use things like size_t, etc. This accounts for the majority of C programming bugs when moving from 32 bits to 64 bits.

As for making assumptions, this is only natural, and programmers should be aware of the basic differences so they can correct their assumptions.
You're right, many "news" articles don't follow that traditional format. The difference is that your examples are not the primary news article about an important event. They are either commentary / color on an important event, an opinion piece, or human interest piece about something interesting (but not really "news"-worthy).

Of course, much of what is in the paper is not "hard news" so some sort of automatic summarization could be useful for those pieces.
Were the police able to track the stolen phone down? How did they know iMessages were being sent to the stolen device?
3000 years is 100+ generations. That's a lot of time for evolution. Russian researchers turned wild silver foxes into tame pets in far fewer generations than that:
http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/46555.asp...
Nah, it means that Simon Marlow harbored a latent desire to go code in PHP.
Being packed or not has no relation to profit.

If they can increase their revenue by 10%, and it cost them 5% of their revenue to do, then it's worth it.

You're missing what they'd do with that data.

Keeping track of what you buy means they can email/text/whatever to say 'hey, this %reallyinterstingthing% is on offer'. And really interesting thing really is interesting to you.

It's like an article I read a while back about how supermarkets can predict if you're pregnant by the things you're buying before you've even told anyone.

That's valuable to them, although extremely creepy. They can start bombarding you with vitamin supplement adverts or books or whatever and you're more likely to buy as you actually want those things.
I assume it's blacked out because their geospatial data shows that it's land but they don't have satellite data to cover it.
Core Drupal caching can handle a lot (my blog has handled the top spot in HN a couple times with only that without issue), and adding Varnish alone can scale it to huge traffic levels. The GP comment is just FUD.
A Superior Home Theater Network for 1080p Media Streaming
No, I'm taking the side of "people have two eyes, but a small percentage of them have one or both taken out or not functioning".

And the side of "yoghurt is a specific thing, and products based on yoghurt don't get to redefine what it is, even if they are sold under as members of the "yoghurt" category, the same way that chocolate milk being sold in the "milk" section does not get to redefine milk as having cocoa".
Review my splash page
Hi,

Currently working on creating a splash page. I had some illustration work done for it, but I am definitely no web-designer.

To you, the end-user, does it illustrate my service in a manner what would entice you to sign up? I tried to focus on clear desciptions and CTA's.

Also, if you are a web-designer and are seeking some work, give me a shout.
EU Parliament Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet
Well the strong type system ensures that no collisions are possible. GHC is quite the software gem. I love haskell more and more. Everything that is so simple to write, has no right of being so fast.
"Whether you agree with my thesis or not, please keep my predictions in mind as you read through the papers. Look at the pages of the business news today (whatever day it is you read this). Which company is showing one of the five predictions to be true? I bet you there is one."

For any five predictions that are even remotely possible, any business newspaper from any day in history will contain at least one example of a company that meets one of those predictions.
Just wondering (I'm not necessarially objecting to your statement):

* what would you see as the right they of app for Django, if not this? Obviously Django is handling it, so what's the issue?

* what is the right tool to build a distributed comment
system?
Ideally the people creating the content, but realistically the people distributing that content for the creators.

cstross makes good points about all the other people involved in publishing - especially editors. I'm not sure this argument is as strong for music, but maybe I'm wrong.
Using MOOCs while in grad school
Calvin and Hobbes on disruption
I can't trust a website with lousy stock photos to teach me HTML5
democracy is failing.

people realised they can elect those who give them the most, so the politicians promise the world and give debt. not much longer until it all implodes.

(inspired by some guy in the 19th century who studied democracy since the greeks - i don't have time to look for it - he said it takes about 200 years for democracy to implode)
IIRR Falcon patches improve 'require' speed which is significant only when you boot up. I think some variation of it will be in 2.0
From the EFF, regarding the "Patriot" act:

"At the very least, this change means that the government can use a pen-trap to see the email addresses of people youre sending email to and the addresses of people who send email to you, along with the timestamp and size in bytes of each email. The FBI can monitor the IP addresses of all the computers you interact with over the Internet, or capture the IP addresses of every person visiting a particular website. Under the vaguely written statute, it may even be able to capture the URL of every web page that you read, although the FBI refuses to confirm or deny whether it has done so."

Sure, I should have inserted the word [can], but it hardly changes the point. Given the direction laws have taken since 9/11, you would be foolish to rely on your search activity remaining anonymous.

http://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/214.php
I love the spin. This is a non story.

This is how invention and innovation works; multiple parties come up with the same idea. Not to mention that the idea of augmented reality glasses has probably been a childhood dream for many.
I am very impressed.

I think some people have a natural "salesmen" inside them and when it comes to salary negotiation always do well. I don't feel I'm as fortunate, but am definitely working on it. :)
Sorry, we found the problem and we're working on it now. Thanks for feedback :)
Or that they will be, or that FB wants to create its own language ala Google.
Unheap, a tidy collection of jQuery plugins
Because lawyers are allegedly trained, ethical professionals that are granted a unique license in every jurisdiction to exclude nonprofessionals? A nearly universal aspect of most bar associations (ABA, state, local) is a statement of professional conduct requiring members provide competent representation.

Are you saying that these NPE patent portfolio trolls have legitimate claims and that nearly everyone else is wrong or are you saying that patent/IP lawyers lack the competency to recognize patents that are junk prima facia and advise accordingly? In case you are not following recent events, most of the activity of NPE trolls happens outside the courts because the attorneys involved know full well their paper is worthless inside. So they target precisely those firms who cannot afford protracted legal proceedings and avoid those that can. This is not professional conduct and if it is, the profession has the wrong name.

Their clients will not sue for malpractice because they are benefitting. Judicial sanctions are not an option for activity that occurs outside of any proceeding. Where is the control and check on such clearly unprofessional behavior, the only defense for which is that it generates income, if not the body responsible for policing its own conduct?
Bah, for ten thousand Raymonds you get one Stallman.

Both approaches are needed. Diplomacy will get you further short term, but unwavering commitment will be able to change things in a more sustainable way, longer term.
Understanding Productivity
Google "Evacuated Tube Transport" (ETT) or "Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies" (ET3) (trade marks of ET3 Global Alliance, and et3.com Inc.) on google and youtube -- watch the videos to learn of more advantages. Read the first US patent (5,595,543) to learn exactly how all of what Musk claims (and much more) can be accomplished. NOTE: ET3 (tm) is the product of over 200 experts, companies, and institutions in 18 countries. We hope musk joins our efforts to implement ET3.
ET3 is optimized to accommodate BOTH cargo and passengers in car sized vehicles. Initial (local) routes will be at 300-400mph, and ET3 will accomplish over 50 times more transportation (ton-miles and passenger-miles) per KWh than the most efficient electric car or train.
Mostly from home, some clients I've only spoken to via email, not even a skype call. Others I've had meetings at their offices, it all depends on the client.

It's an interesting, in fact it's a fascinating way of working.
Ask HN: My friend runs a niche interior decoration business, need to make app
For example, we thought it would be cool to make an app that overlays curtains on pictures of your window on your smartphone, or comes up with a list of curtain recommendations based on surrounding color scheme using ML.<p>My question, where does a small business owner in a suburban town go about getting an app built? Are we talking thousands of dollars or tens of thousands?
Please note that this difference is only in this scenario (rake routes), it largely varies in other ones.

Also, a big part of falcon patch is the ruby 2.0 garbage collector, which obviously will be available in ruby 2.0.
While awful, that is not in any way the same thing as ISPs storing our search history. It means that the FBI can monitor internet usage on an individual basis, not that the ISPs are tracking and storing everybody's internet usage.
Switch IDE: a Backbone.js IDE with a Twitter Bootstrap interface builder
Picking one and sticking with it is what a coding standard is.
I'm waiting to hear that an airliner disappeared over the 'island' and the crew and passengers are now Lost.

In seriousness, I'm wondering why the trip took 25 days. Flying over the area would likely be more (of) a reasonable option.
I agree this is more about scala than system programming..

I was very happy back then when scala shows up..
but with time i think computer languages should just get out of your way.. be simple as possible..

nowadays im more a Dennis Ritchie/Ken Thompson fan..
they had make simple tools with C and Unix, that just worked..

This is also the Go language school of thought..
Languages must get out of our way, get things done in the simplest way possible..

Functional language people , are more passionate about proving some theoretical points
like using immutability all way down.. even if this will blow out your memory resources, or make your code longer..

i think language designers need to be more pratical, and i like when the simplicity way of thought like the one seen in Go comes around the table, to make discussion a little bit more interesting..

We nee more simplicity, work less, so we can be more with our children or family.. and spending less time on our computer.
This is incredibly unfair. None of us (I work for MSRA) are doing research just to collect patents, we would totally like to change the world, like any researcher (e.g. in Google or Microsoft).
Idle - A dead simple jQuery plugin that check if user is idle
That's part of the problem, in times of war the US Government would ask that data for "national security" sake and once they got it there is not turn back.
I was really hoping they would call it Microsoft Monocle.
Some of the more utilitarian features are kind of nice, but I'm not sure how I feel about the module and class support.

I understand that the current situation is a bit annoying, but one of the attractive things to me about ES is that you can fake near anything using the prototypical nature of the language--adding this other stuff seems to me to be bloating things for the sake of a little less effort when trying to use ES like Java or something similar.

ES is an ugly little language, but at least it's little.

EDIT: I'd rather they simply standardize a lot of, say, the underscore.js functionality into the core APIs.
Creating CSS3 opening effect for music gallery + PlacerAnything
10 reasons to avoid talking on phone
I am afraid there is no graphic designer among us. We are all IT guys.
I think it was made to proof you can successfuly sell any piece of shit with a great promo video.
Yes, it does lack common sense but they were companies (publishing,pharma, resources) where current profits are driven by investments made decades ago by investments into assets that only one firm can own. Plus one had 34 employee grades plus another 12 for execs, that the system was a major failure was invisible to the exective class.
5 Key Players Already Onboard with NFC Technology
I believe, when they first turned it on and it powered up and booted after not really having been booted for decades .. this is a fair spring, dear fellow..
"...your license terms may conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of those Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS that you use."

That appears to mean that you can release a GPLed application if you use pre-existing GPL code, but you can't just decide to release your application under the GPL because you want to. In the latter case, there's no requirement "by the FOSS that you use", so the anti-reverse-engineering clauses kick in.

But I guess that's purely academic, because if it's your own code, you can release the binary on Microsoft's terms, and separately offer the source code under GPL.
"GHC Developer Simon Marlow Leaving Microsoft"

:)
You are correct that reasonable people do not fear what is safe. Phobia rules the minds of the irrational. Many refuse to fly in a commercial jet in spite of the fact it is 1/15th the risk of driving in a car the same distance. 1/3 of Americans have never been in an aircraft of any kind, and another 1/3 fly less than 1 time per year. Americans fly more than most other nations, yet air travel in the us is only 7% of passenger miles.
Others have phobia about being in a small enclosed space like a car, and even more people have unfounded fears of being in large vehicles like trains, planes and buses with hundreds of strangers, however the unreasoned fears do not prevent the success of our transportation modes (even relatively risky modes like bikes).
That is still how it is for nearly all musicians. Even a platinum record will not make as much money as the accompanying tour for many bands.
I think they might be. Bryan O'Sullivan has been working for them for some time now.
I'm not listening to it right now. They are totally screwed.