skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making a point for ignorance and masquerading it as a legitimate disagreement on "fact", which has no variation. People who disagree with fact are literally mentally ill; delusional, not crazy like a fox.

To your second point, it's a work in progress.
http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#code_kq...

kqueue()'s support of process monitoring on OS X doesn't allow for tracking of new processes that are created, and automatically attaching to them.

There are also differences that make it more difficult to port various kqueue() features from one platform to another. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes to you.

The documentation on OS X is also lacking, for example EVFILT_USER is supported on Darwin/XNU but it is not documented in the man page for kqueue.
Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations Leave Our Universe
Flaw in Java 7 allow to bypass all security defenses implemented by Oracle
i'm not asking for 10 years, just more than ~2

there is no technical reason why the latest iPhone SDK cannot run on Snow Leopard[0].

this is purely apple forcing users into the upgrade cycle and everything that comes with it - the App Store, code signing, etc.

[0] it has been backported and works. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9613565/is-it-possible-to... amongst others. It is as easy as copying the library over.
A frozen Object iterates 98% slower on V8 js engine
This is great. We discussed this way back in 2009 and am extremely please to see something like this finally get going.

I would urge any new venture to give this serious consideration. The NYT isn't just a media company - they touch on a lot of different areas and there is a large range of business opportunities lurking under the hood.
Ask HN: How to protect yourself against patents from your own product?
Imagine a company that comes out with a great product with some interesting ideas, but nothing Earth-shaking, just a better combination of the known things.

A patent-troll realizes that the ideas were not patented, he files for the patents, receives them and sues the company a few years later for big money.

How can one possibly defend themselves from such scenario? (Let's suppose the company wouldn't like to spend money on their own patent-applications.)
Nope, I'll be upgrading! ST2 is great (even without ARM support). But I'll second the request for an ARM/Linux version. I just got my ARM Chromebook set up with Chrubuntu and I'm already missing ST2 (using Emacs for now ...).
Neat. When explaining myself with MBTI terms, I usually say that while my default state is introverted, I have 'learned' to overcome this and act extroverted in many situations.

With the Big 5, I would instead classify myself as an introvert with a high degree of "openness to experience".
Octopart Releases iPad App
And I've found that the low-profile Apple keyboards are the very best. I simply cannot stand long-action keyboards. An Apple keyboard feels like I'm walking on water. Long-action keyboards feel like I'm wading through mud.
As another poster said the other day, Ireland isn't part of the UK.

Other than that though, good work.
We've done some preliminary testing, and this AWS Transcoding service is very fast. It's good enough to the point where I don't even care to consider this a factor in our AWS vs Zencoder comparisons.
I remember being told a long time ago by our graphics programmer that the result of a floating point operation might be different depending on the state of the FPU. A quick internet search brings up things like this: http://www.codercorner.com/FPUFun.htm which talks about setting the default rounding mode of the FPU. Not sure if that's what he was talking about, but it certainly bears no reference to my issue as I'm certainly not explicitly setting anything like that.

That being that case can you give a reasonable explanation why carrying out ( x * y ) then later that function / y gave a value for x that casting would keep as x, when leaving the y division until sometime much later during the run resulted in a value of x - 1? There must have been something different between the two runs apart from literal time, but if nothing is hidden, then what is the difference that made the difference?
What's so great about JavaScript Promises?
I would love to have my sales guys using it but they don't have Macs =/. Going with ringdna+salesforce for now
What's your opinion based on?
Not bad at all! I like having all the contact options in one application, and I find it quite useful since I don't have to deal with multiple apps/devices to accomplish a big task.

Since I haven't played with it yet, what number does it call people with? Would each user would get a new one, or would it be per plan?
Nexus 4 back in stock in US
Show HN: Social networking to share and improve your apps ideas
I think this is pretty subjective and personally I disagree with it.

I have a both a MacBook Pro for work and a personal 13" MacBook Air. I use both connected to external monitors but with the internal keyboard and track pads. The keyboards seem pretty similar to me.

I touch type with a non-qwerty layout (so no point hunt-pecking) and I find I really like the short, punchy travel of the keyboard. For comparison I also have an IBM M keyboard that I no longer use.

I guess if you want long travel keys they're not for you but it's, like, just your opinion, man.
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
I could have done that but, but I decided to build on the server for a few reasons.

1. I wanted to keep this custom service similar to other dotCloud custom services where they build on the server.

2. I didn't want to have to worry about trying to build on the client, there are a lot of unknowns, where as on the server I know what is going on and it is in a controlled environment.

3. I'm still new to Go, and I wanted to keep things as simple as possible to start.

I'm not opposed to doing the cross compiling on the client, I just needed to make a choice, and I picked the server side instead. If I hear from people that it is better to do this on the client, I'd be happy to accept a pull request to change it.
As one answer, I do remember an advice from years ago:

1. Write down the ideas and some of implementation details in a book.

2. Submit it to Lulu or other self-publishing site, order a few copies to yourself, but don't open some of them.

3. If the case comes to court, you can provide the package with the postal stamp on it, and the content of the book shows that you were aware of the idea before the patent-troll filed for the patent.

One issue with this is that the court might reject the package with the postal stamp, so it might be useful if you have a copy with a notary signature or like that.

Please let me know if you see any flaw with this approach or share if you have a better one.
I love Sean Lock's comment on 8 out of 10 cats, comparing tax evasion with farting in an elevator. Sure, it's not legal ... (link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAcjntGQuCU)
All models fall short of reality, it doesn't mean they aren't useful models. Saying something isn't useful because it categorizes people rather misses the point of modelling in the first place; of course it categorizes people, that's the point, to simplify reality.

It doesn't matter if the model has 5 types or 200 types, if the model is useful in grouping like minded people, then it's a useful model and the number of categories is simply a matter of how accurately I want to measure. I can create a model of 2 kinds of people, haters and non-haters; this is a useful model. Meyers Briggs is also a useful model especially as shorthand for Young's functions, which are also useful models.

While the big 5 might map closer to reality, it seems a less useful model precisely because it doesn't categorize. Giving me 5 scores on a scale isn't very useful in finding like minded people because I can't say "what's your big 5 type?" It doesn't simplify enough. Knowing I'm an INTP on the other hand, is very useful in finding like minded people.
Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs' TED Talk on tracking
Well, Unity was always easier to use. They focused on slick editors and tools early on.

It used to be that Torque had higher-end features, better performance and source access.. while Unity lacked many graphics and other high end features (they still don't have a great networking solution AFAIK), no source access but was way, way easier to pick up and use out of the box.

Now, with all the investment Unity has put in, I think it has most or all the capabilities you could want... and lots of other great stuff like first class cross platform support, including mobile. And it performs pretty well, at least as well as Torque by now, I imagine. Still no great networking, and still not even available source unless you pay huge (six figure+) fees.

Hard to argue that Torque should be the choice, at this point. Unless you want source access or a free solution. Unity has evolved into a pretty robust engine over the last 7 years, and its out of box experience and ease of use have always been pretty amazing (and fun!).
Someone already did, like a year ago:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/
Learning to build
OS X is less of an entertainment platform than Windows and it's also less of a business platform than Windows.
For those interested in the interview between Mark Suster and Jody, it's a good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5c645Uexx0
Both Mac and Windows are supported natively. Once you signup, we'll detect the right OS and start the Windows or Mac download accordingly.
Sure! You might be the one my brother-in-law talked to. He says he met you at Manitoba Ag Days. Were you there?
Zapier: How One Startup Weekend Team Became a Successful Business
HDDs with an SSD cache, but rather SSD/HDD hybrids that intelligently move data from one to the other)

Sounds like a cache. Care to elaborate?

yes, we're sadly not using ZFS but that's in all likelihood due to licensing restrictions, not because Apple thinks HFS+ doesn't need replacing.

With the amount of cash on hand that they have, this does not fly.

Can we stop pretending that Apple's tech is as good as their design and marketing? It's okay to have average tech in a nice, well-made package--the rest of the developers aren't going to make fun of you, don't worry.
Minecraft LARP.
Tl;dr: Use

int i = round(f);

instead of:

int i = (int)f;
Change.org Hires Google’s Jennifer Dulski as President and COO
Seems like the reason is no default libc++ install... which sucks because libc++ can be installed on 10.6 just fine.
We automatically provision a phone number from each user (and you can choose a different area code or country code) or we can port in an existing number.
Wrong. There's a big difference between taking $20-50K less per year in salary and chugging away for years with little or no pay. Whether you're full-time as an entrepreneur trying to make a startup or slaving away in your free time, when you could be out partying, there's an inherent risk in time and money that is not the same as a simple pay cut.
"Every day, hundreds of millions of people go to work and hate the piece of shit software they have to use to perform their jobs."

The problem is: they will hate it no matter what. Realizing this is the most important step - IMHO - to understanding why enterprise software sucks so much, and nobody does a thing to fix it (or isn't able to).

When you build Facebook, your users are voluntary. If they hate it, they don't use it and you end up with only the ones which happen to like it.

When you build an accounting application for some corporation, your users must use it to perform their jobs. So... since most of your users would rather be doing something else - anything else - than using your application, you see why they have absolutely no good feelings towards your application, no matter how good it is, no matter what you do. At the very least, for the nicest of your users, it means work... it means no fun at all.

This is why all enterprise software sucks... People simply give up trying to build something nice because, in the end, it doesn't matter. Your users will never love your application, they won't even choose it.

Too negative? Well... just look at any given corporation and cry.
>>>an entertainment platform or that features are getting "dumbed down"? No examples are given

One thing he mentioned was keyboard shortcuts removed from iPhoto.

"iPhoto — arbitrary removal of keyboard shortcuts and similar made a slightly useful program into a useless toy."
It's like behavioral economics (Freakonomics, Predictably Irrational, etc..) but focused purely on how people are influenced by information, specifically accounting information.
yes, we're sadly not using ZFS but that's in all likelihood due to licensing restrictions

What lead to that conclusion? You are aware that their are several commercial products available or that have been available that were based on ZFS, right? The CDDL license includes a patent grant.
It would be cool to isolate yourself just to return and be blown away by all the technological advancements made. Probably not worth it overall though.
Probably talking about the old carbon threading apis, which were depracated along with the rest of carbon in 10.8. I'd be surprised if anyone has been using them since 2006.
End-to-end checksumming, encryption, compression, no fsck required, etc.?
FoodSpotting aquired by OpenTable
According to the blog post in a link from this thread they are using https://code.google.com/p/gritsgame/
Cool, thanks! Perhaps an inclusion of such tips on the site, then? Definitely useful!
VI Gang Sign
I see this as a defensive move against Surface Pro.
Opentip - An Open Source JavaScript Tooltip Framework
My opinion is based on that flow chart. It looks like it might be a bit time consuming and contain difficult steps. but it does not look confusing. I am not confused. In my opinion, it is not confusing... certainly not "insanely confusing."
Half-Life now runs on Mac OS X and Linux, we assure you
It's disappointing they're going to have ads on these paid videos. Like with Hulu+, I see no point in paying if the experience is still shitty.
I think unrestricted travel on the planet should be a basic human right. There is something seriously wrong with someone telling another person he/she must not move from a certain place.
Go is for open source
Sorry I am obviously new here.
I did Logo programming in elementary school around 1997/1998 using MicroWorlds on the Mac.
I'm liking create.js and easel.js
Good point! Also, humans do not run very well in snow (bipeds, too much weight per surface area, too high center of gravity and stride length...).
How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle
Both you and greghinch seem to have a very negative association with that word. Maybe having grown up in the church, I don't see that word from the same angle as the two of you.
Yeah I was checking them out when I was getting my RAM, I'm just on the fence on how long I want to keep this computer.
How do you handle web leads? Is there some form of form creation tool for generating that info?

How do the leads get in the system to start?
Detroit's Property Tax Black Hole, in Map Form
As far as I understand, you are not sure what your code does when. If you'd follow the steps of the code you wrote, you'd see that when the same values travel the same code paths they end up being always exactly the same. In programming the different results can come only from the different steps, unless you change the environment (which would be your intentional rounding mode change or if you read some uninitialized memory).
OpenTable Devours FoodSpotting for $10 Million in Cash
Damn. I was hoping the code had too much magic.
How to manage beta feedback (and keep your sanity)
It's tiered storage, previous only used in extremely expensive enterprise storage infrastructure. The canonical location for frequently used blocks of data is the SSD, and no data is duplicated on both drives (except while copying of course).

I have one in my new Mac Mini and I'm very happy with it. Combined with Time Machine backups it makes for a very efficient, very reliable consumer storage setup.
Horoscopes base their descriptions on time of birth, Meyers Briggs on actual answers from you; they are hardly comparable.
We've got an API you can hook up to your web form - http://developer.close.io/ (email me if you have any issues)

And a bulk CSV import tool (from the dropdown in the app) http://help.close.io/customer/portal/articles/965955-bulk-im...
Sure.

Open source by itself isn't a tax-exempt action, but for many it's an important part of releasing free software for the public benefit. Services for the public benefit that are open to all can generally be framed as tax-exempt activity, but the lawyers at the IRS who review 501(c)(3) applications are tax attorneys, not software/tech specialists so a lot of confusion ensues.

Our review came back arguing that providing open source software is not only non-exempt, but actually provides a competitive advantage in the market because some companies would be paying for the same service, therefore they are at a disadvantage — even though they would have the same access to that free software as anyone.

Talking to other nonprofit directors and experts it seems like the arguments around open source are inconsistent at best. It makes sense because the IRS generally fast-tracks more common arguments and passes off specialty cases (think software) to individual reviewers. As enough case-law builds up they'll provide a more consistent decision based on internal protocols.

Out of the scope of your question, but the end result for us is that we're doing a bunch of legal wrangling, establishing more outreach and education efforts (which were always part of our mission) and getting ready to re-apply by year's end. It's not unrealistic to think a full ten years will pass from the start of the organization to the point where we get 501(c)(3) status.
eh? From the bottom of the Amazon.com homepage ...

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AbeBooks

AfterSchool.com

Audible

BeautyBar.com

Book Depository

Bookworm.com

Casa.com

CreateSpace

Diapers.com

DPReview

Fabric

IMDb

Junglee.com

MYHABIT

Shopbop

Soap.com

Vine.com

Wag.com

Woot

Yoyo.com

Zappos
Additional storage is not enough to make a professional tier iPad that qualifies as a full-time workhorse device.
> Sounds like a cache. Care to elaborate?

Data is duplicated with a cache, so you lose disk space. Edit: explained better by simonh.

> With the amount of cash on hand that they have, this does not fly.

Regarding licensing issues, here's a source: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-m...

> Can we stop pretending that Apple's tech is as good as their design and marketing? It's okay to have average tech in a nice, well-made package--the rest of the developers aren't going to make fun of you, don't worry.

I'm not sure I understand this comment.
We didn't evolved to sit in an office 9-to-5.
"I don't think he's the target user TM was designed for."

Because he has a lot of drives? What?
"I literally fucking exploded like a WWII bomb at the clueless peon who made that accusation."

I'd watch the blood pressure there (I've been teaching for 24 years).

As you are now on the management: Is there (safe, filtered) Internet via wifi and BYOD for the older pupils? Cheap android tablets for shiny media but also hackable? Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) on the PCs? Basically what policy innovation/leadership have you contributed?

Not challenging here, I'd really be interested to know. Having documented examples to point at really helps in situations where you have to be diplomatic with idiots.
Conveniently, AWS has just made a case study on Fashiolista's setup, which will save me a bit of typing: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/fashiolista/

We run PostgreSQL and use its built in streaming replication.

Deploys are handled with Fabric - this includes AWS API actions (e.g. removing instances from the ELB while updating them) as well as pushing code.

We use Puppet as our config management tool, in combination with AMIs. If you just use a vanilla AMI and do all of your configuration on boot, autoscaling takes a long time, so we use Puppet to configure instances, then make AMIs of those. We also run Puppet on boot to do some runtime configuration.

This is automated, I'm planning to put the code on github once I have cleaned it up a bit.

We operate in eu-west-1, so have thankfully been relatively unaffected by the problems in us-east. Typical pain points are lack of flexibility in ELBs and variable performance on EBS - nothing that can't be worked around.

Setting up was relatively straightforward - AWS is well-documented and easy to experiment with. We did not have Puppet in place before moving to AWS - that is one thing that would have streamlined the process greatly.

I'm currently working on a book about AWS sysadmin/devops topics - some parts of the Fashiolista infrastructure will be used to demonstrate concepts in the book, but I'm always on the lookout for interesting architectures to write about. If you are doing something interesting on AWS and think it would make a good case study, I would love to hear about it.

ETA: Oh, and CloudFormation. Lots and lots of CloudFormation. I can't stress how useful it is. Our infrastructure configuration lives in the same github repo as our code and Puppet config, and is deployed using the same Fabric process. This makes the sysadmin in me very, very happy.
This woman is more of a man than any man I know

What do you mean?
I think that's kind of a cargo-cult answer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_publication http://www.defensivepublications.org/defensive-pubs-faqs for modern approaches.
That case is also potentially problematic, but perhaps better solved by having float division / and integer division // as separate operators.

Perhaps my "never" was too strong.
I agree some things here aren't backed up, and there are half-truths. The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoint form.

HOWEVER: He's totally right about everything behind all this. Apple is really fucking up OS X, and clearly it has no desire to keep any users that don't see their iMac as a giant iPhone.

My wife just got a brand new MacBook, and I was disgusted by the way the OS behaves now. There's NO way to get to the hard drive: they just hide everything and give you Documents, Pictures, etc.... The OS itself has removed hot keys and functionality in favor of "ease of use" but really, it's just being dumbed down.

The Mac OS was always for casuals, but when they added Unix, it changed and both casual and hardcore could love the same OS. But clearly the hardcore are no longer of any interest to Apple. It's a real shame because the Mac OS was very stable and useable for many years. Now, it's just a toy.

Oh, and Apple changed it so you need an Appstore account to update software. Real pain in the dick.

And finally, Apple doesn't need ZFS, necessarily. They need a standardized FS though. HFS+ is ghetto, and a drive formatted HFS+ is essentially useless to any other type of machine.
I would follow the steps again (I am genuinely interested in learning why it does what it does), but I ripped out the scaling factor a few days ago and reintroducing it in the hope that the same thing happens would be a lot of work, hence asking if there was some obvious reason that might be causing what I'm seeing.

There must be some step I'm not appreciating or some state that's different. If something like this happens again I'll take a closer look into it.
There will always be illegal immigrants. Do you know what happens when you exclude a group of people from using the legal system? They create their own.

If illegal immigrants can't get car insurance, they drive without car insurance. If they can't go to the police without the risk of getting their family deported, accidents turn into hit and runs. And when people can't go to the police, they turn to less reputable people for protection.

Do you think that this is preferable?
Are you using Twilio?