skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear from this whether or not Python would have to change the name of the programming language if they didn't get the trademark, or whether this UK company would just have the right to call their products "Python" too.

Early in the article it says: "There is a company in the UK that is trying to trademark the use of the term "Python" for all software, services, servers... pretty much anything having to do with a computer.".

And later it says, where the Python foundation is soliciting comments: "your view that another company using term Python to refer to services, software, and servers would be confusing".

I for one hope the Python foundation doesn't get an exclusive trademark for all "software, services, servers" in the E.U. Outside of software "Python" is a well-known generic name for an animal, I don't think the EU should be protecting such generic names.

But on the other hand it would also suck if this U.K. company gained exclusive use over the trademark.
Isn't the main purpose of HipChat to interface with Jira and the rest of the Atlassian stack? That's the real win.
> In many ways, the street kids seemed to be having a lot more fun than us.

This is key.
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this isn't a good analogy. Rails is a software development framework whose users are programmers. iTunes is a media player whose users are non-technical. in other words Rails is a tool while iTunes is a finished product. you wouldn't compare a hammer with a cabinet, would you?

if zero-framework development is a hammer, then development with a framework is a power-tool combination drill/hammer/driver. the power-tool does so much more then the basic tool that it feels "magical". its not a meaningless term then. its a description of the power of the tool.
I have both Linode 512 and DigitalOcean 512 VPS. Both VPS are running the same version of Debian, same version of Apache (Apache/2.2.16 (Debian), same apache2.conf files, list of loaded modules are same. For benchmark is used same web site on localhost. (simple joomla site).
Results are quite different and I can't figure why. Linode has much more "Requests per second".

#linode London
Server Software: Apache/2.2.16
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 7483 bytes

Concurrency Level: 20
Time taken for tests: 33.140 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 8037000 bytes
HTML transferred: 7483000 bytes
Requests per second: 30.18 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 662.791 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 33.140 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 236.84 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 2.1 0 16
Processing: 118 658 1143.2 487 19006
Waiting: 113 655 1138.1 485 19006
Total: 118 659 1143.2 488 19006

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 488
66% 563
75% 616
80% 658
90% 779
95% 932
98% 3635
99% 6406
100% 19006 (longest request)

#DigitalOcean Amsterdam
Server Software: Apache/2.2.16
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 7483 bytes

Concurrency Level: 20
Time taken for tests: 118.087 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 8032000 bytes
HTML transferred: 7483000 bytes
Requests per second: 8.47 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2361.734 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 118.087 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 66.42 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 4.0 0 33
Processing: 1256 2355 234.1 2284 3604
Waiting: 1256 2328 232.5 2264 3604
Total: 1256 2356 234.1 2284 3604

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 2284
66% 2328
75% 2412
80% 2500
90% 2666
95% 2768
98% 2877
99% 3204
100% 3604 (longest request)
For the same reason people spend time and money climbing difficult mountains: because it's there; because doing so engages and inspires and satisfies; because doing so is meaningful to some people, who don't care if it's not meaningful to others.
Yes but I think it's been well established that the reporter did not think he was being logged.
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There's already too much pedantry on HN; please don't contribute to it. Broder clearly was able to control the temperature, whether it was via a rheostat dial or a touchscreen controller.
When I saw the design of that site, I thought it was a scam :-( Anyway, I'm a EU citizen, so I'll definitely contact them.
> Tesla would not be able to build their cars with oil products.

Petroleum is so ingrained in our economy, most people would have to make a concerted effort to fart without having used oil products.
lawyered.
You are exactly right, but I would hope that someone wouldn't be using Node at all if CPU bound requests are even remotely commoneplace on their app. But of course, if they built their app to spawn processes when this happens, you end up with a case of a need for intelligent routing.
Researchers demonstrate that quantum cryptography can secure the power grid
We offer this deal until end of February. Happy to welcome you if you want to use Userlike.
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I'm not worried, judges in Europe are usually quite reasonable. Ask the judge for the python.co.uk while you're at it. I love Python, best of luck!
CISPA = legal immunity to Corporations who abuse your information (Infographic)
You know, I get it that we shouldn't declassify our secret military tech and cede any unnecessary advantage to the Red-Commies (nevermind the fact that they had KGB agent working at Avro), but I'd bet that a lot of research conducted at the behest of the military has commercial value. I'd also bet that we spend a lot of effort inventing some of these things over again. It seems like a huge waste to keep these types of projects classified so long past their relevance.
Yeah, I don't think that's very prudent of them. This happened seven years ago, and as they say, many of the involved people left. What if one of them did have a meeting with this guy?
Like another commenter on this thread, I've lived in the Haight for the past nine years. And while the article is interesting and informative, it doesn't quite paint a full picture (literally—the pictures aren't representative, that girl is not a typical street kid by a long shot, she hasn't slept a day outside in her life. Think camo and combat boots and pit bulls, not peace signs and hacky sacks) of the underside of the street kid scene. There is also a quite a bit of violence and a lot of negativity to be had, both to each other, and to the community that they're visiting.

I see the street kids as guests in our extended home. When everyone is peaceful and respectful I don't really have an issue. But when they are violent, or a health risk (defecation on the sidewalk and on the stoops is a real concern, and it happens all day every day), or harass my family or my neighbors, I do take issue, and believe we need to set and enforce limits for the safety of everyone.

As far as it being a lifestyle _choice_ for some. Indeed it is. But not for all. It's a spectrum. Overall it's a good article, but it's not the whole story.

Edit: And to the author, try walking around and doing those interviews after dark some night. The perspective would be ... different.
How is using the word technology to describe the GPS network and smart phones absurd? You are the only one here talking about vegetables.

Modernity is not Facebook. Facebook is pop culture, and we're already aware of the anti-pop-culture movement: they're called hipsters.
I think it's a wholly useful meme. And I think the intention is not for it to educate those of us who understand the complexities of this business; rather, those who don't understand how companies can squeeze non-monetary value from users in exchange for a "free" service.
Excel wasn’t the problem at JP Morgan. There was a reckless culture that thumbed its nose at rules, ignored the guidance of review committees, and tried to sweep things under the rug when they got caught. That would have happened whether the models were written in Excel or Ruby.

If anything, Excel promotes transparency in finance by allowing more people to read the "source" (even the bankers). Cutely named forgotten programmes written in J were a more fecund source of problems.
What did the site look like before? Can't find anything in the Wayback Machine.
Good point! I guess it would be fine as long as the UK company does not gain exclusive rights to Python, I don't think that would be possible with EU law though, I'm pretty sure you can't get a trademark for the name of an animal.
This is blowing my mind. I had no idea this was possible on x86.
It's all open source: https://github.com/anvaka/jsruntime . Allows you to find objects by their property names/values in runtime. It crawls the entire reachable javascript objects graph. So be careful in what you are searching - might take a while.

It might be slightly more convenient than a regular code search, since it finds dynamic functions too and let you set breakpoints there. Hope you find it useful too. Link to plugin in chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/js-runtime-inspect...
That comparison is ridiculous. It's a free service, either click two buttons to revert it to the previous state without ads, or delete your account. Move on with your life and stop the entitled whining.
HP bids adieu to WebOS, Windows RT, and says hello to Android
I wouldn't change anyone's website to say they haven't paid a bill. It won't let you collect any easier and you might get sued and lose.

At some point you have to say no more work until we get settled up to this point.
This simplifies the general problem of homelessness, which in reality makes up a large number of people in drastically different situations. Some are families, some are mentally ill, some are sex offenders or felons, some are career homeless, etc. DC's homeless are pretty tame compared to those you'd encounter in Florida, for example.

The article was a neat little look into a single park's homeless culture, but it can be really rough if you wander into the wrong park or alley. Or just taking a bus.
That's been my experience too. It actually saves a lot of time figuring out how to make fancy graphs and sort/filter/pivot functions--I just make nice semantic HTML with <table>s of values. The users can point Excel at my URL and it'll automagically turn it into a spreadsheet they already know how to use.

One thing I haven't figured out how to do is have a link on my page that triggers an Excel HTML import operation on the current page.
HipChat uses XMPP, so you can already use it with Adium/Pidgin without much trouble. The only things that are really missing by default are the syntactic sugar for @-mentioning people, HipChat's custom emoticons, and inlining of image/link previews (many of which you can fix with already-existing plugins).
I think this is a great idea. FWIW, Couple (http://trycouple.com) seems way more complete than the OP's twosome.
Format the cell as Text first? Enter the UPC with a leading ' to force intepretation as Text?

If you're changing SKUs anyways you may want to change it to have a letter to that Excel "guesses" correctly by default.
Most American LSD is distributed through the "Rainbow Family" distribution network. Basically the same people you see on the streets of San Francisco. It's a stretch calling these people a gang. It has zero connection to drugs like heroin, cocaine, and meth.
hahaha this is eerily similar to the story of my life before Balanced - love their team & the product is beautiful.
Actually while the compiler will not explicitly output instructions to access these 160 registers, compilers can and do take advantage of the fact that under the hood there are 160 registers instead of a dozen or so. They do this with "instruction scheduling" which carefully orders the instructions in such a way that at the end when the hardware is done with it they can be executed in parallel and thus need more than the dozen or so architectural registers.

So in a way "Compilers will allocate our local variables and function arguments to these registers" is correct.
Hi all,
i am the person behind this project. If you have any questions or ideas feel free to contact me (wf@inventronik.de). The project started in 2003 and is still alive :-)

Greetings from Germany

Wolfgang
Got a techie beloved one?
I used it for five minutes and found: There is no way to search for a person in the Lobby and you can't reorder the tabs. These are two things I do a lot.
I learned about this before and this made me explicitly modify settings for blogs I have. I turned it on for two small projects and I would be happy to share results in a month if anyone wants to see (unless thats against TOS)
Yes. When you write a controller action, you have access to what appears to be a hash called `params`, which is a representation of the parameters that the user passed in their request. It could be GET query parameters, or POST parameter data, or a parsed representation of JSON data. All of those different mechanisms are abstractions that Rails transparently provides. There are perhaps better examples in ActiveRecord, but that one seems more relevant.
Tesla vs NY Times: A deeper look at the data
As a resident of Atlanta, I am strongly in favor of any reform that miraculously puts me in a blue state...
I think the states of Ozark and King might rival Shiprock for being the poorest.

It seems weird how many cities are at the very edge of their large states. I know that's common for real states because rivers, but it seems to contradict what they're doing here. Aren't they trying to keep regional economic patterns within the same states? Springfield MO seems to sort with Tulsa, Topeka, or Columbia MO (we're not very original with our city names are we?) far more than with Little Rock or Memphis. Lexington would be more naturally included in any of the nearby states rather than in Blue Ridge.

Also it's hilarious that Toledo isn't even close to being in Maumee. Fort Wayne is the single point where that state intersects with the Maumee River's watershed. A more suitable name for that state would be Wabash or Ohio or, to go by the highway signs, Lincoln.

Still it's all good fun. You could use this as background for a dystopian (or not, depending on your politics) scifi story. Much better than "District 12" or whatever.
Can anyone comment on the battery life for the iOS client in comparison to skype? I am a heavy skype user, and it doesn't seem like hipchat has a lot to offer than skype does not. Not to mention the inertia that skype has.

however, I would totally consider it, if i could keep it on my phone all day and not have 10% battery by 2pm.

also, curious, does it do group video chat, ala skype?
This is a company I worked with through their first 1.5 years. It's nice to see some of that work open sourced! The video is particularly impressive. Building games in the browser is just a better way of working, if you can get away with it.
I'm not saying this is how every car is or should be designed, especially a Civic. You're also in the vicinity of the car - either you're sitting inside it or you're using the keyfob within visual distance.

But if you're locking/unlocking your car over the internet with this funky API and want to be sure it's locked, how do you do it? You don't hit the solenoid 20 times and say "well, good enough".
Interesting. I only checked it on a desktop and it was fine.
"The way it butchers postal codes that start with a leading zero, like the town I grew up in (Granby, MA 01033 USA)"

Excel, by default, treats any numerical object as a number. Numbers don't have significant leading zeroes. You can change the default data type, i.e. "format", to text or even postal code to preserve leading zeroes.
> If the car's climate control is controlled entirely by a thermostat, then setting the temperature up to 90 will warm it faster when it's cold, but once it's warmed up the cabin, you set the temperature to something comfortable(say, 70). You don't turn it off, because the climate control system is supposed to be doing that automatically.

Hi, I live in Michigan. You do turn it off. Your theory sounds like it could be good on paper, but in reality, humans behave a little differently. Our winters are brutal. At some points in the winter time, it's a horrifying proposition climbing into the icebox that is a car's cabin. Reflexively, many people just crank the heat up as high as it will go and blast the cabin with warm air as soon as it's available. As much as you can, as quickly as possible.
What tends to happen then is that at some point, you realize that you're hot. You've been blasting the heat, you weren't paying attention (listening to news/music, concentrating on the road, on your phone, etc)and when it suddenly occurs you you that you don't need the heat to be blasting anymore, it's because you are uncomfortable. You're still in full winter gear in your car, you jacket is smothering you, and the cabin is now hot with you in your coat. People aren't always thinking "Ah, let me just lower the heat to a more comfortable level," they're thinking "OMG turn this thing OFF.
Could the climate control handle this in theory? Sure. If human psychology and behavior weren't continually getting in the way.

No telling what any given person would do when you don't have the data, but I can tell you what people do do in reality. They crank it then turn it off.

Also, I'll never purchase another car without heated seats in Michigan again as long as I live here. What was I (not) thinking?
Silicon Valley tends to be warm and bright. Hmm.

Another layer of clothing and a lamp for increased productivity? It's worth a shot.
This might have been about average for an HN troll if YC hadn't in fact funded Airbnb.
Oo, some companies are definitive assholes. I am in the US but I run a company in france that does software development, will try to mail you a letter.
Pathologically sure, I'd say. He attempted to change the Wikipedia article for Chrome OS to include his name, and has been spreading stuff all over the Web saying that he created Chrome OS. In addition, his "blog" only includes one page, and that page only describes his relation to Chrome OS. Also, if he really did work on the project, why would the senior chief engineer have no idea about him?

Something is definitely not right here.
Yeh, South West Founders seems to be consistently pretty popular. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely something that I'd love to happen.
I have worked in both a bioinformatics lab at University and a medical devices company. At both places, I have seen excel used for a HUGE amount of tasks by biologists, business people, software testers (from non-programming backgrounds) and programmers. It was used as a tool, along with perl, php, c/c++... depending on the level of complexity. Its just damn useful and everyone knows how to use it.
Oddly, you've been working on something very similar to a small project of my own. www.javascriptoo.com. Great work.
I've seen that thing flying in documentaries well before 2012. It certainly didn't take 11 extra years to learn of it. IIRC, it's called the Avrocar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

(Or am I missing something obvious?)
Should NPR Start an Online Dating Site?
Thats because Canonical paid the extortion fee for that privilege on your behalf.
I am a big fan of Tesla Motors. However, it should be noted in the graphs that the car's "Rated Range" and "Distance" do not decrease 1:1 as they should if the "Rated Range" was accurate.
My solution would change the car's "Rated Range" actively with data on recent power levels and actual distance traveled. This would take in effect heating and other accessory's usage.
>I don't think SO's modding is any worse than Wikipedia's

I agree, it isn't any worse than one of the biggest examples of biased, overzealous, insular, clique moderation online. I think setting our standards a little higher than that is pretty reasonable though.
Why is hipchat comparing to Office Communicator rather than Lync? Lync has Android and iOS apps.
Wargaming buys Gas Powered Games following failed Kickstarter and layoffs
In 2006-2008 the crusties formed a gauntlet between Cole and Clayton on Haight. They were rude and aggressive and always had at least one rottweiler or pit bull. The locals and tourists could not stand them and the only reason they lasted as long as they did was because they were white. Eventually everyone got too fed up which is why the no sit laws were passed.
> There are many other options between staying in the ivory tower and playing homeless.

Yes, there are. But one advantage of "playing homeless" is that you might run into actual homeless people and find out about their lives.
This is unprofessional.
Did you consult an attorney before doing this? I'm curious what the ramifications are. Back in my boutique days, we were stiffed several times, but I never wanted to pull a stunt like this for fear of legal retribution.

Instead, I hired some very good collectors, and had a stipulation in my contract that the customer was required to pay collection fees for invoices over 60 days late.

This resulted in my company getting paid in full all but twice.
You consider the mechanical state of the lock mechanism to be non-deterministic. The sensor has no state, it's an observer.

You do not trust that because your boolean in RAM says "locked" that the door is locked.

Now whether you trust the sensor to be functional or not is another story.
Next time a lawyer, a doctor or an architect tells me his/her professional opinion, I'm going to answer them "sorry GEEK, that's the way it is!"
That's not how the open-source movement works. You can't start excluding people based on usage you don't like. If you do that, you're explicitly not following open-source ideals.
Now Quora reminds me of "Experts Exchange" and other spammy Q&A sites. Just because they hide the questions.
Broder's reply (posted just now): http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...
I'm pretty sure calling them 'thieves' is libel.
I think they are saving its release for the SteamBox.
I cloned your project on git and would like to say wow! Really good work, I've been working on something similar with both JSC & v8 (JIT, Jailbroken devices only). My question is are you seeing odd depth or CULL issues on the examples, running for example, "lesson4" or "lesson5" results in what appears to be some sort of depth buffer issue or culling issue. I'm very interested in this project and would like to help you out.
Only if there's a whole lot of downhill!
Indeed! And here's you've given a perfectly good theoretical answer for why cars do the verifiably incorrect thing. The problem here is your handwavy use of "as they can" to invoke some kind of hidden expertise that doesn't actually exist in the real world. The car has some vague idea of what the current fan outlet temperature is, based mostly likely on one or two thermocouples in the chain, or maybe just on the engine coolant temperature. And some egghead firmware engineer somewhere built a very solid, justifiable model of "rider comfort" and optimized the control response to that, thus giving the theoretically optimal experience for...

Nah, forget it. Theory is always wrong. I spend an hour in my car every day. Don't you[1] dare tell me how best to warm it up. Just don't.

[1] To head off the wounded screaming: no, I'm not talking about you personally here. Just the idea of "firmware knows best".
>VisiCalc inspired Lotus 123, a similar program for IBM PCs. Bosses were much more willing to order a PC for their staff than something built by California hippies. As they used to say, you’ll never get fired for buying IBM.

Is this really true? I don't remember this being a widely held viewpoint but then again I was 10 years old. Back then, normal people didn't know who Steve Jobs was, never mind his damn-hippy ways.
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