skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, do you mean Java or the JVM? Because here we're talking about the JVM; that means Java, Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Scala etc.

Sometimes the JVM isn't the right tool; Java the language is often the wrong tool. But when you need to write large, high-performance, backend software, the JVM is pretty much the only rational choice. C/C++ is too expensive effort-wise, in development, in maintenance and in monitoring. Erlang is awesome, but it's too slow for some things. .Net is not robust on non-windows platforms (I'm not sure about this, but this is the common perception). Go is slower than Java, lacks the huge ecosystem, and also doesn't provide all the JVM goodies like runtime instrumentation and profiling, hot code swapping, good monitoring etc. Rust is too immature (and won't give you those benefits either). So, pretty often, the JVM is the only choice and you think it's time to kill it?
Finally we've released it :>
So if I buy 1000 shares, I pay $10 in spread fees (1 cent per share)?
Yes, or maybe "interesting".
He gets to move to a longer term view than the next quarters numbers.
Why must Vim 7.3.584+?
I have no idea what a complex number is. I wish I'd paid more attention in school.
Or how chrome checks for malicious URLs
Some funny things I noticed:

It looks like they built in 2 or 3 car radio systems.
When the pilot is sitting in his chair he can't reach the controls in front of him.
The exhaust will melt the body.
The canopy doesn't give a clear view.
The central point I'm trying to make is this article is being disingenuous. Security is hard, but not so hard that a minute or two of thinking and filing a PR won't prevent the YAML exploits. I don't actually think the Rails community is dumb, that's why this whole thing pissed me off so much because the fact that it was even introduced and existed for so long tells me that thousands of Rails devs have just decided to turn a blind eye over the years.

I'm well aware the Ronin guys BTW, I have mentioned them in a comment in another HN thread a few days back and called for help for those 2 guys.

bauland42 who is behind http://www.rorsecurity.info/ also deserves an honorable mention.

Good luck Rubyists.
There's an official video here http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/02/286841/iran-unveils-...

Iran's state media is hilarious.
Yes, college is a poor, expensive employability filter.

Still, it hardly takes a $50,000 psychology degree (people just looking for a credential should be fine with a state school) to get a job in a high tech factory, a $10,000 or $15,000 technology certificate is a lot more sensible.

And I don't mean to argue that these choices are easy or that it is great that people face them, but going $150,000 into debt is not the only path out there.
The company's stock has been falling because investors think the PC is dying. His taking the company private means he thinks investors are wrong and the stock is undervalued. I never said this is a cynical exercise, but I think his incentive is purely financial.
Ergonomics experts always say the most ergonomic position is the next position. Getting out of the office chair that you use all other days of the year sounds like a win to me.
It reflects poorly on him. With Zuckerberg we know he has no respect for the Wall Street orthodoxy because he steadfastly refuses to wear a suit. I don't care for him personally but I respect the position he seems to be taking.

But Dell is wearing a suit which means that he in some way feels it's necessary to do so. But he does such a bad job of it that even a glance makes it obvious he doesn't know what he's doing. Or the person he paid to get him a suit did a horrible job. Given that he's "running" a $24 billion dollar company I would like to see better attention to detail on a thing that he must think is important, as evidenced by his wearing a suit.
Or, you could test that theory with some smaller primes and realize it wouldn't work.
The De Havilland Mosquito ("The Wooden Wonder", also known as "The Timber Terror") was a military aircraft that excelled in a number of roles during World War II. It was a twin-engine aircraft with the pilot and navigator sitting side by side. Unorthodox in design, it used a plywood structure of spruce and balsa in a time when wooden construction was considered outdated.
Also funny

I showed this picture to Science Editor Dr. John Timmer, who knows a thing or two about how science works, and after a moment of silence he responded by saying, "No f------ way."
MySQL 5.6 General Availability
Carving the Statue of David
Try badger.com - it's the only non-shitty registrar I've ever used.
Avon Sales Leaders Incentive - Double your money
It's difficult to offer a deep insight on this, because it's so patently absurd. The easiest way to understand why this can't possibly be a real aircraft is to look at photos of actual aircraft. Do a Google image searches for F-117, F-22, F/A-18, F-15, and F-16. Keep in mind that the F-16 is a very small aircraft. Now compare the proportions of the Iranian "aircraft" to any of these actual aircraft. Also keep a close eye on the surface textures, shapes, and connections on the real aircraft and compare them to the Iranian hoax. Reality quickly comes crashing down around it.
Then we will probably not ask them to exchange Mersenne primes with us either. :-)
People don't (and shouldn't) charge based on what it costs them to provide a service - they can (and should) charge based on what value they deliver to a customer.

That said, I believe in building long-term value for a customer and I do that by not charging exorbitant fees, but it's a reasonable and potentially moral decision to charge people a 30% fee in return for "never having to worry about it".
Exactly What Happened Inside SuperDome During Super Bowl...
Patent Trolls Pursue Midsize Companies
Fantastic. How can I reach you?
CSS grids seem to fall into that large category of "things software developers" love to make.

Cf. blog engines, URL shorteners, IRC bots, testing frameworks, pretty printers. The list goes on and on.
WAN Virtualization: Buttressing the Bridges Between Branch Offices
Ok, bad wording. s/become concious/acquire some higher functions of human brain/g
It's such a subtle thing. But to the powerusers that this is trying to attract, it's huge!

"I want the fastest updating HN app. Oh wow, even their website is at the bleeding edge!"
An implicit network, not overt racism, keeps tech writing dominated by white men
He just showed it to me a few hours ago. But I had fun building my own ;)
How do you deal with Entrepreneurial ADD, any tips?
Do you have Entrepreneurial ADD? Too many business ideas? It's okay, most of us do! Here are some tips my mentors have shared with me on how to get more laser-like focus.
When I made the leap from BigCo (ClearChannel) to startup, I got a 37% raise, better hours, more freedom, and the chance to learn more exciting things. True, the stock options may not amount to much, but I will consider them a gift if they do. The benefits are not the greatest...no 401k, only 2 weeks vacation, free basic health coverage, but isn't much worse than ClearChannel (aside from the 401k).
>Don't you trade for a different type of complexity in yield/resume?

That depends on the library in question. Generally the event/callback style code people are writing are only "yielding" at calls to the non-blocking version of otherwise blocking functions, like read type functions, or accept. Most userland threading libs I've seen make the assumption that you want that, and so you don't need to yield yourself. If you did want that level of control, it is still simpler than the event style of achieving the same result.

>Also you will lost some of the scalability advantages because you have to store context for all of the idle fibers.

The overhead is small, especially if you know you don't need much stack and set the thread stack size lower.
If for whatever reason you want to download the number, there are a couple of links here:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/digit/m57885161/prime-...
Complex numbers are just numbers that can have an imaginary component. Like 5+3i. All real numbers are complex (they just have an imaginary component of 0), but the converse is obviously not true.
Minority anti-social counter-point: For someone who enjoys a simple solitude while coding, this type of environment is anathema to everything that makes me productive. I admit that I struggle to find any appeal whatsoever in working in this manner, although I do love working remotely. Just not at a glorified fast-food joint... It's actually bewildering to me how you folks manage to get anything done. But I'm probably not their target market anyway. Just not for me :)
Agree, it's usually very hard to find a spot where your back is facing the wall. Especially as a single person. If you don't want to steal a 6-seater table the remaining option is usually the bar-window facing the street outside, meaning that everybody standing in line inside the cafe will have perfect view of your monitor.
I wonder how much Microsoft likes OpenStack... I can guess, given how much they and their customers like System Center.
Ask HN: Software Engineering Internships in NYC?
I'm a very well qualified college junior looking for an internship this summer. Software engineering internships are plentiful in San Francisco, but I'm looking for one in NYC and having trouble finding more than a few reputable companies to apply to. Does anyone have suggestions of specific companies or a good list?
CNET Downloads Now Come with a Bonus: Unwanted Programs and Spyware
I don't really care what he wears. But the fact that he wears a suit means he feels it's important, and the fact that it's very bad means either he or someone who works for him has atrocious attention to detail.

If you are going to wear a suit, wear one properly.

He would be ahead (at least in my mind, not that my opinion matters) if he just wore properly fitting slacks and a polo vs an ill fitting suit. He'd be better off wearing a hoodie and jeans too because at least then we know he doesn't have any respect for the idea of "dress is important"

EDIT: Fixed spelling
If JumpCrisscross is wrong, then what does that statement mean in the article that states "Michael S. Dell will contribute his stake [of DELL] of roughly 14 percent toward the transaction.."
The other difference is that North Korea is a Chinese buffer state and is explicitly enabled by the Chinese for their own purposes. The danger is that nobody really understands the power structure within the DPRK, if Kim or some crazy military faction decides that they can act unilaterally, anything can happen.

The Iranians at the end of the day are playing the 21st century version "the great game". They have strategic goals, and they aren't a 1984-style totalitarian state.
The MiKandi App Store has been doing this for years. It makes microtransactions a viable source of revenue for developers.
I was illustrating, by negation, why a $13.65 buy-out shouldn't immediately lead to the stock rising to $13.65 (because it would produce an arbitrage opportunity).

Note that today the stock did get bid up to $13.48. If the deal takes {90, 180, 270, 360} days to pay out, you would be borrowing from the market at {5.2%, 2.6%, 1.7%, 1.3%}. Add to that the cost of a call (to protect you from a rival bidder or enhanced tender) and subtract the probability of the deal falling through and you have a cost of capital. This isn't risk-free since 13.48 != 13.65, but depending on your time horizon, break-up assumptions, and the asset you're buying with the financing, it could still be an attractive proposition.
From half-brained to whole-brained: Why tech needs the arts
They sent me, a customer, an email announcing the funding. Congrats to them, but why are you emailing me...
Why sun's corona is much hotter than its surface
> You really think you have it worse than somebody born into slavery?

You really think we have it better than someone who owned a few dozen slaves, living leisurely on a huge plantation? History has treated some well, and some not so well.
In my experience the difference between being a public company and a private company is all about dealing with stockholders; what you have to disclose and how folks react. A company the size of Dell will deal with at least one and usually several shareholder lawsuits a year if their stock is at all volatile, they will have Sarbanes-Oxley rules they will have to audit for, they have to answer in the news when their stock goes down, they have to explain every quarter what they did and didn't get done in the quarter.

As a private company they can do a much better job of controlling the impression the publish has of them, they are less distracted by shareholder concerns, and they have a small number of shareholders to answer to and be frank with.

For a company that is self sufficient (which is to say doesn't need to go to the public to raise funds for operations or expansion) it is a lot simpler. It has been
stated that this is why Fry's Electronics never will go
public.
This is an excellent point, I've been thinking about setting up a commission structure. Say 5% commission from each product sold.

Do you have any thoughts on commission versus equity?
Darpa puts $3M into startup pushing big data in Python
Exactly. The claim was "We use it because we must, not because we choose to." This is not true because even in environments where we need not, some of us still choose JS.
After reporting the problem several times I simply added a line in my bash file to kill it when I logged on.

It would have been discovered sooner if you hadn't done that. :)
Workweek Creep Is Turning Leisure Into Weisure
It's obvious why these can't be used at Amazon's website from launch, but it'll be interesting to see whether they allow that if/when people are actually buying them. Could solve the issue of leftover credit.
First of all, why is anyone still with them? Have the years of bad service not taught people a lesson? Don't go with the cheapest service available. I learned that lesson hard (not with domains, but other services)
>Put that in contrast to the person who is calling somebody who is stating that the perpetrator might have been one (sic) female a ""conspiracy theorist"" and talks about "obvious truth".

all the while supposing that there is a consipracy among men to make women feel uncomfortable at tech conferences.

If irony had mass, this thread would undergo gravitational collapse and form a singularity.
>In practical terms what happens is that your clients need to have a real good mental model of what will block and what won't.

I don't understand. Who are "clients" in this context? You need to know what calls will block and what calls won't regardless of style (event vs thread) unless you are using OS threads or processes.

>Threading sucks.

Why?

>Which ones do you think are good?

The one that comes with ghc.
Mono isn't proven anywhere near as much as the JVM.

I don't know why this is being downvoted. It's true that the JVM is one of the things in the Java ecosystem that is looked upon as a massive success.
I believe it is currently an LLC, with a bunch of private investors (wealthy individuals, not VCs). I also spoke with a lawyer, and they didn't foresee any issue with profit sharing. Can you be more specific on why you think it might be illegal?
Good point, among certain communities, testing frameworks is a very good example!
I'm really a bit surprised that there's not a prominent fork of OpenJDK by now, concentrating on the VM and not the Java compiler ("OpenJVM").

Tail calls, value types, easier direct calls to C to process large regions of data without copying (e.g. lapack): there are many things which could benefit non-Java languages on the JVM like Clojure and Scala that are taking too long with Oracle stewardship (as they did with Sun's as well). Maybe these things are in fact too hard to implement for small or unfunded groups?

I hope not, I think it's high time.
BlackBerry Z10 “Off to a Better Start Than Lumia 920"
Out of curiosity, why not use Matlab?
Darpa shouldn't fund programs in primary or secondary schools
No, the left hand should not be squared. It's a special property of the Poisson process that applies to the numbers, not the units.
Instead of equity I've also been thinking of a commission on each product sold, once the product gets to market. Hopefully it will be ready for sale in 6-9 months, but there does appear to be significant demand for the product, so that might be a good alternative to equity.
You should read Scott Britton's blog life-longlearner.com. Its the best out there. It covers everything from cold emailing to how to do partnerships.
http://blog.mikandi.com/tag/virtual-currency/
Not entirely sure but perhaps to reassure you that they're doing ok and will be around for a while?
no link with me, working opensource only. http://lightjs.org
Requires. Acquires would be scary.
This is what I was trying to figure out. Say they get a quarter million signatures; does that mean Oracle will remove the Ask toolbar? I highly doubt it.
Trying to work with a laptop on a table in a coffee shop is either incredibly poor ergonomics or I'm doing it wrong, because it usually gives me back or neck ache.

I found the couches in some cafés work pretty well with a laptop, but they're always taken around London. Although there are quiet times outside of breakfast and lunch though.

I ultimately wish I could just work in a pub, but too many have been taken over by sports TV in my area.
In 2004, Liechtenstein issued a postage stamp with the 39th Mersenne prime number (2^13466917-1), this is the picture from a mathematical stamps collection:
http://stamps.postbit.com/photos/math-stamps-collection/liec...
I just bought this -- it's really nice.

Maybe you'd consider doing a free app store version with ads, combined with a $2.99 (reslly, should be more like $5-10 once you add more features) version?

Random feature ideas:

Filtering based on keywords or a tagging system or poster id.

Doing something which tracks your own comments would be nice. i.e. if you upvote or comment on a story, it somehow marks it in Hacky as well and keeps tracking.

Also, "show new comments since I last read the article" might be nice.

I guess this might go against the "simple, doesn't need to be logged in" design philosophy so far.
Id_aa_carmack comments on "John Carmack asks why Wine isn't good enough"
Stylish or Minimalist (which is what I use): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimalist-for-eve...
Then stop running it in the browser.

Do you have any idea how ubiquitous java is in the enterprise? Everywhere uses java.

Have you ever worked on anything that needs to be scalable, extensible and maintainable?
This thing has more in common with a homebuilt kit plane like a Vans RV-8 than it does with a modern fighter jet. No HUD, and the rest of the c*pit looks like it is made out of styrofoam and plywood. The exhaust doesn't even have a variable nozzle, let alone thrust vectoring. The exterior is absurd, I know that LO coatings and materials take special application, but they should at least be able to have a non-wavy surface. I'll second the opinion of most other people, I doubt this thing actually flies, and if it does manage to fly I'll bet its performance is dismal.
Open Source Release: postgresql-hll (postgres hyperloglog)
Advice for engineers: Don't just chase the glorified personal trophy
I fail to see where he pretended to impartially review anything.
If you haven't seen the old Improv Everywhere prank, you might like to see this happen:

http://improveverywhere.com/2008/02/25/mobile-desktop/
Squiz Matrix JS API Enhanced Mode Demo
Interesting real-time project management.  Launching soon.
What other read-later services are worth supporting? The built-in Safari thing seems kind of lame.
Apple’s 128GB iPad Goes On Sale, Just Ahead Of Microsoft’s Surface Pro Launch
Ask HN: What are the most demanded IT certificate?
Hey, I've given the "chance" to choose one IT Certificate from O'ReillySchool
(http://www.oreillyschool.com/promotion/february_2013.php) and I just wanted to know your opinion about
what you think it's the _most demanded_ IT Certificate of the following:

-Linux Systems Administration

-Python Programming

-Perl Programming

-Database Administration

-Java Programming

-PHP/SQL Programming

-Client-Side Programming

-Web Programming

-Open Source Programming

The ones I want are: Java, "Open source programming" and Python, what do you guys think?
Microsoft Statement on Loan to Support Dell Privatization
Can they be changed back to real currency? If not, is Amazon interested in gambling?
I've used netfirms for many domains. I would not say they are the best, I'd say they are slightly better than average. Reason for using them? Just few blocks away from them, in hte event of the worst case it's easy to show up physically.
Maybe you need a better job at a better company that hires better technical talent so you're not forever stuck on your legacy, xml configured Spring stack?
I'd think that if there was an incentive to mislead to avoid criticism from the opposition, it would be to make things seem better than they are.
The units are actually rates: sales per day.
Apparently (per the article) startups only employ people for customer development, copywriting, analytics and growth hacking. I wonder what happens when they decide to build a product or a piece of software. Or is it too old-school to actually build something now?
> The only way equity can have a positive value is if it generates ROI.

Yes, but If the company's value increases, that increases the value of shares, even in the absence of profits. This is one reason a no-profit business can attract loyal investors -- that and the promise of future profits, of course.

> No-profit-but-pays-the-salaries is a lifestyle business, which is great and all, but the equity is worthless.

Not so. A company's equity represents the company's value, not its present profitability (although some equity investors require profits, other are satisfied to see growth). One can grow a business by running at an apparent 0% profit in a way that causes the business size and customer base to grow over time. The argument can be made that business expansions can only result from profits, but this can be structured as essential equipment replacements, personnel increases and so forth, in a way that profits remain at zero.
Seconding iReader. A really nice tool, exactly right for the job. Works on virtually all sites for me.
Java bashing is the cool thing to do. And just to add more wood into the fire I'm gonna drop a quote from Larry Ellison himself that I think is spot on. He said something like the only industry more driven by fashion than fashion itself is IT.
Opposite viewpoint: my browser has much more functionality than any embedded browser-view could ever deliver (save to kippt, send to instapaper etc).

So I guess this should really be an option (the classic "do you want an external browser? If yes, which browser?" kinda thing).
Opening the Gates to the Tech World: A Proposal
I just spoke to someone at Namecheap and it looks like they didn't resolve the agreement issue over who owns the domains as despite becoming and ICANN accredited registrar they're still operating as an eNom reseller.

I guess they don't want to end up like Registerfly (a former eNom reseller, who got ICANN accreditation - which was eventually terminated) when eNom terminated their relationship with them, eNom gave Registerfly customers the ability to instantly push their domains into an eNom account through verifying and acting on the email sent to them including a free transfer so there was no fees to the customers.

Registerfly ended up losing the majority of their customers (through that and a ton of poor business decisions etc) & Godaddy ended up buying the remaining domains in Registerfly's portfolio [1] - it didn't acquire the company as ICANN was taking legal action against Registerfly for its continued noncompliance of the court ordered injunction.

[1] http://blog.icann.org/2007/05/registerfly-update-29-may-2007...
LLCs cannot issue stock.