skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with saying "Webkit is the new IE" is that IE was allowed to stagnate because it was a singular browser with a dominate position in the market. When that position was achieved, it was no longer necessary for the company maintaining it to continue to compete.

Webkit, in contrast, isn't controlled by any one company. The people using it have access to the source, and more often that not are contributing to the project themselves.

I don't think the competition is going to end, It's just going to change form.
Thanks so much! As for the competitors in the space, we have some things in the pipeline that will differentiate us quite a bit. We needed to at least catch up, and we wanted to launch as soon as possible.

Now that you point out the homepage, I agree completely. That will be the first thing we fix up first. Thanks for pointing these out. Adding examples is a great idea. I think we'll end up showcasing businesses built on top of Forge.

Thanks again!
This is a real classic. As someone who had only done imperative programming before reading this it really inspired me to give FP a try and led me down the road to trying Scala and then Haskell. However a year into this adventure, I still prefer "nouns". I think the human brain really does work imperatively for most logical problems. I can't deny that for a single problem the functional solution is often more " beautiful" , but the end user can't see the beauty of my voice and I can always think of an efficient imperative solution much faster. I hope one day I'll have a functional epiphany and be able to write Haskell as fast as I can write Java but so far I haven't had such luck.
twitter uses jquery.
Does this have a comparable add-on or plugin architecture?

One of the main bonuses of Heroku is not necessarily the web/worker process management but the easy ability to manage: email, SSL, nosql, and tons of other misc stuff you need for an app.

With limited dev resources, its way easier to just let Heroku handle all that config. The default app setup and sys admin is not as big a deal.
Hard to dislike a guy that writes so well, and I agree with the general premise of recognizing the human capacity, and necessity, for error.

But I do think it's a bit disingenuous to compare the "mistakes" of scientists to fabrication and deceit. Would Niels Bohr have been referring to the manufacture of evidence when he spoke of "all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field?"
Have fixed it scrappily for now! Hope thats alright!
He means that there are different parts of a browser you can focus on and innovate there. If the rendering engine was 'out of the way", and didn't have to worry about that part, they could focus a lot more on other stuff.

Right now Microsoft has to focus on making Trident catch-up with webkit, and it's still 2 years behind webkit in HTML5 features. Go to html5test.com and see how far IE10 is. It's more behind than Chrome 10 was when IE9 launched 2 years ago.
Thanks for the link, I did not know who he was previously.
Text of the Copyright Clause: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The first-to-file system merely states that the first inventor to file, out of a group of multiple simultaneous independent inventors, gets the patent.

So, for example: you have Inventor X and Paperpusher Y. X invents but delays filing for a patent. Y comes across X's invention, realizes it has not been patentend, and files the patent application immediately. Y cannot and will not ever get the patent, because Y cannot prove invention. If Y were to steal X's notes and other junk and try to use those to "prove" invention, Y would be committing fraud and would be subject to civil and criminal liabilities, including jailtime. X may still have the opportunity to file for the patent application, but it depends on whether other parties (i.e., Z) have independently made the same discovery during the period X did not file.
Or big companies, for that matter.
i'm honestly not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. if you are: heh, good one. if you're not: there's nothing wrong with putting some of your wood behind encouraging casual gaming and expanding your market, but putting ALL of your wood behind it? what else did they get accomplished in this time period? not enough other things if you take a look at how many people and how much money was being spent on R&D in that division.
Can anyone spell out the differences between the mac book air 13 inch (assuming I max the cpu and hd) and mac book pro retina 13 difference?
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Firebase is such a massive time saver! It seems every JavaScript developer I introduce to it love it instantly.

I wish I had thought of it :-)
Funny: this got upvoted, then immediately downvoted.

Come on, tell the truth: how many of you have had The Great and Powerful Oz for a DBA? (there's a wonderful BOFH episode about the BOFH vs a DBA - read when in a foul mood some time for a chuckle)
Your explanations of Haskell concepts have been impressing me lately. Do you write elsewhere?
Brad Feld buys KC house with Google Fiber, opens contest to live in it
It certainly was a "striking" mobile experience - I struck my phone repeatedly in frustration :)
This is an apology? "I screwed up, and I will focus on my mistakes by only discussing the FBI and forensic scientists."
Ah, that seems more plausible if the speed limit was 75 for that stretch.
Congrats James + team. I'm super excited to get this into Codiqa, I think the rapid development aspect is hugely valuable.
What about the obvious one. Buy gas at 6 cents and sell it on the black market.
The mouse model of inflammation is basically useless for developing new drugs
Foursquare started because Dennis Crowley wanted an application where he could share his location to his friends and have them meet up with him.

Instagram started because Kevin Systrom's current app was mostly being used to broadcast photos so he pivoted. He also had experience in photography which led to the photo filters being a key addition to the product.

I don't know enough about Vine to comment, but Foursquare and Instagram both provide a ton of consumer value. Based on how they tell the stories of their origins, it seems they were also "organic."

Lastly, social is not a trend; in fact I believe it is in its infancy.
That's a good point. Heroku is great because it takes away the pain through the add-ons.

Cloud 66 however doesn't end at the end of deployment. It actively manages the app by monitoring the processes, making it extremely easy to add load balancers, scale web servers or background processes, add SSL certificates, schedule backups with one click and a lot more.

It also has an app store which is growing. We would love to hear you feedback about those features.
yes, it would have to be a new Apple-TV with at least some more local storage. the current models have 8GB, I think. tweaking that up to 128GB or 256GB would open up a lot of possibilities without making a $199 price-point impossible. but hey, what do i know.
They have a contact page these days: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/contacts/index.shtml.
Yeah, but you can always have static methods, which let you call a function without creating an object.
"Apple also missed Wall Street's revenue forecast for the third straight quarter..."

Maybe Wall Street has no idea what they're talking about. Record revenue? Not good enough. Apple needs to work on managing expectations better.
for a still fairly new to intermediate developer like myself, this seems more work than running it on heroku. not a bad concept, but maybe for more advanced developers.
"Bing is a strategic asset, and makes all of our services better."
Exploit Sat on LA Times Website for 6 Weeks
Yes. Elastic Beanstalk is great for deploying your code to EC2.

However Cloud 66 doesn't end at the end of deployment. It actively manages the app by monitoring the processes, making it extremely easy to add load balancers, scale web servers or background processes, add SSL certificates, schedule backups with one click and a lot more.

It is also not limited to AWS and supports Linode, Joyent, Telefonica Cloud with Rackspace and Digital Ocean coming soon.

This is on top of having all this on your own servers if you would like to have dedicated or colocated one in a data centre for whatever reason.
Where do you live? I can't imagine how you're buying enough clothes to get through the week. You're spending $50-$150 per year?

Prices at Target.com indicate that I'd have to spend $65 just to replace my socks ($14 for a pack of 10), underwear ($28 for 8 pair), and undershirts ($23 for a pack of 6). And realistically, I'd be looking at another $23 for more undershirts because 6 isn't enough to get through a week. So I'm more than halfway through your maximum yearly budget and don't have any pants or shirts that are actually supposed to be seen. Granted, these things might not be fully replaced every year, but these are also just basics.

Also, how are you affording shoes? Even just one pair per year would eat up half of your max budget. Cheaper shoes can be found, but I find them so non-durable that it more than offsets the savings.

I don't think you should be embarrassed. If you can buy all your clothes for that price and not look homeless, good for you. I just don't know how you could manage it.
I have trouble with someone who is also a domain squatter: http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/
I think it would be helpful to explain how this compares to using Pubnub, Pusher, SignalR, etc for real time communication? What additional features does this have, etc
I'd say typical is something around 20Mbps down, 3Mbps up, but if you look it up you'll find an average quite a bit lower than that because a lot of the US (by land area) can't even get broadband.
I would agree with this... basic defgeneric/defmethod/defclass work is straightforward. It's when you start with the advice partial methods and the MOP that things get... exotic.

(I read the AMOP earlier this year and I'm pretty sure I haven't recovered from that mind bender).
Apple's Siri Added to Chevrolet Sonic and Spark
BT PC Backup Kaput
Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' NJ Governor Chris Christie
But his problem isn't that he is sloppy, it is that he is unscrupulous. This isn't some error in procedure, it is a deep character flaw. At best that takes years of self reflection and self refinement to remedy, not a simple list of rules. Rehabilitation for this is possible, but not probable and he should work in a different field that doesn't rely so much on personal integrity.
Modern Day VC: Great Things Happen When the Cycles Align
I do the same, but I have one thing I miss - an easy way to send the output out for graphs.

Tweaking and playing with gnuplot is a loss of time - if on a copy/paste excel and others can understand the data from the label and plot using reasonable defaults without many hints, certainly if columns are identified as datetime, labels etc. there could be a tool to use such hints and make a decent graph (to me, decent means giving a global understanding - sure you can tweak it to look good if you are preparing a report, but a lot of time is spent graphing thinks to figure things out and many graphs go to the trash in the process)

My dream is to do my select queries in psql and direct the output to that tool, never leaving psql - so it could be for example something that would be triggered on a new table creation matching a specific name like xx_, then it would simply require prefixing "select" by "create table xx_abc as ".

The best way I've found is to save the output to a CSV and pass it to other tools, but there are never quite user friendly and usually can't pick reasonable defaults.

There is an OSX psql frontend I tried after it was recommended here on HN (http://inductionapp.com/) but it was not that helpful in day to day operations.

Yet it seemed to be on the same problem - see this picture https://s3.amazonaws.com/induction/induction-visualize.png
I wish we'd been able to do that with sphere. Instead it was sold to outbrain, and our tech was way better.
Cool I must have missed that in the video. Thanks!
My little Einstein
Matt Thompson (https://github.com/mattt), also from Heroku created Induction (http://inductionapp.com/) to handle this sort of database administration around a year ago, but it seems like he's become pretty busy with other projects at the moment. I hope that he's able to pick up progress on it again as it really had a lot of promise behind it.
Probably just the disk drive.
What makes people think that Apple gives a damn about Wall St.?
Valve fires several employees
Forge - an easy way to accept payments online, powered by Balanced (YC W11)
Draft Preview: Uber for writing
Are any of the following possible or planned for development?

1. Hooks in the server configuration process that would allow you to do custom package installation and configuration. I know you can deploy to your own servers, but I'd rather specify configs in my app somewhere and have Cloud66 apply them as needed, a la chef recipes or puppet patterns.

2. Hooks into the deployment process to perform additional deployment related tasks.
I hope he follows it up with another apology about the horrible unreadable text on that website. Good luck with that career, though, bud. You're going to need it.
Where are their sellers? This is just a bad example of how they do not recognize their customers.
Chans of chans 999999999999kr
How is this different from CloudFoundry? Which does this for more than rails apps?
...but most of Barks’ comics about the Disney ducks centered on Donald, a character the DuckTales writers couldn’t use for reasons both corporate (Disney didn’t want to overexpose such a key character on an afternoon series) and practical.

And then Disney went on to expose Goofy in 'Goof Troop'.

Other than Duck Tales, I think what happened to a lot of those shows is their quality slowly went downhill in the race for syndication. A lot of them devolved into slapstick comedy that was 'too easy' for the more maturing audience.

As an example, in the beginning of TaleSpin, Don Carnage is a ruthless air pirate who almost lays waste to Cape Suzette with a lightning gun. By the time you get near the end of the series, he's simply comic relief.

I think the audience also grew up and moved on to the MTV shows (Beavis & Butthead, Aeon Flux), Fox's Batman: The Animated Series, and The Simpsons put the shows focus on Homer and marginalized Bart, which was genius.
Review finds Wikipedia UK board needs major leadership overhaul
It's not a directly comparable service, but serving 100TB/month over S3 would cost you more than $9,000 a month. On CloudFront, depending on object size and distribution area, it would cost more than $8,000

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
[Firebase founder here] We talk about this briefly in our FAQ [1]. Here's the quote:

"PubNub and Pusher are both great services that provide simple real-time messaging for applications with a “publish / subscribe” model. Firebase takes a broader approach and provides real-time updates, data synchronization, and data persistence as one unified service.

This unified approach allows for simpler application development. Developers who build their software with Firebase will automatically handle real-time updates, and their products will work in “off-line mode”, both without any extra work from the developer. More importantly, Firebase can serve as a complete backend for most applications—completely eliminating the need for developers to manage servers and write server code."

[1] https://www.firebase.com/docs/faq.html
http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/notebooks.html
Does my government know in which country I am when I travel?
Hmm looks promising... I just got subscribed to see your updates! :)
Based on what I have read on many HN articles, what Cloudflare offers and what you receive are two very different products.

From being shut off when you have a incoming DDoS of some arbitrary size to actually loading webpages slower than your server does vanilla, it seems the benefits of Cloudflare are mostly hype.
Is it perfect?
Because Wall St. owns the company. That's one of those crazy side effects of going public.
Connecting Learning Experiences: Tin Can API
I used to be a big fan of Unfuddle, and I still have an account there, but the reality is that all of the integrations I use (CI is the most recent one) work great with Github and not at all, or are much harder to configure, with Unfuddle.

Github is creating value with their ecosystem, which is great for them, and, since the code is all in Git, not a complete lock-in if you choose to move.
This was flagged to my attention and I've reviewed all the interactions between the author and our team. The site in question was using the free version of CloudFlare's service. On February 2, 2013, the site came under a substantial Layer 7 DDoS attack. While we provide basic DDoS mitigation for all customers (even those on the Free CloudFlare plan), for the mitigation of large attacks a site needs at least the Business tier of CloudFlare's service. In an effort to keep the site online, our ops team enabled I'm Under Attack Mode, which is available for Free customers and enhances DDoS protection.

The attack continued and began to affect the performance of other CloudFlare customers, at which point we routed traffic to the site away from our network. While we encouraged the site owner to take advantage of the Enterprise tier of service given their needs and traffic levels, the site would have been brought back onto CloudFlare's network if they had upgraded to the Business tier of service ($200/mo) which included Advanced DDoS mitigation.

To be clear, CloudFlare does not bill based on traffic. However, resources are not infinite and when an attack against a Free customer begins to affect the performance of other customers we will take measures to protect the overall integrity of the CloudFlare service.

Matthew Prince, CEO, CloudFlare, @eastdakota (Twitter)
Apple's Biggest Problem: Retention of Talent
That's fine, there are indeed more options! Nobody mentioned silence :)

You can start a newsletter, informing fellow inflicted customers. Tell your friends and family. Launch a slandering campaign on facebook/internet (within the bounds of law, preferably!). Support a competitor. Promote fewer business regulations, so there are more competitors. Post on Hacker News. Etc &c, depending on one's disposition.

But my blood pressure raises every time I hear someone's blood pressure fluctuated and they want to pass a global regulation affecting everyone (incl. me) because of it. No, thanks.
Congrats to the guys. I love Flowdock. We've been using it for two or so months now.

I really hope it won't be bundled and turned into a component into some enterprise bloatware.
Please submit this article as a separate submission to HN. I think it's a better article than the one kindly submitted to open this thread.
I like 'ctags' for the editor integration (vim) -- never got a handle on cscope's interface.
Same with FF18 on other platforms. (Iceweasel 18 on Parabola)
MacBook Air: thinner, lighter, comes with a 1440x900 workspace.

MacBook Pro: retina resolution display with IPS, faster processor (uses standard mobile Intel processors rather than low-power processors). It comes with a 1280x800 workspace by default, but since it's a retina display you can make the workspace larger without losing too much detail.

The MacBook Air is great for mobility if you need the absolute thinnest and lightest. The MacBook Pro's IPS display is going to have much better viewing angles and the processor speed will be marginally better. If I were purchasing, I would go for the MacBook Pro. It comes with 8GB of RAM by default (I'd have to add $100 for that with the Air), I like IPS displays, and I don't think I'd mind the scaling for a larger workspace (since things like text don't see degradation). The drop in price means that the price difference is $200 (assuming 8GB of RAM in each).
In other news, Mother Nature again missed TV Weather Presenter estimates and is under extreme pressure to hit tomorrow's call for sunny skies.
This is isn't mine. I'm sorry if I gave that impression (First submission to HN :P )
It was featured on dr.dk without any reference to source, so i dug out the embedded HTML, and thought it was really cool, and fitting for HN. http://filip.journet.sdu.dk is the author (Lecturer at a Danish University)
Sharing/communicating information/experiences/ideas will always be. And the tools to do it will change and adapt to technology. Google glasses will probably have an impact. Tablets are already having an impact. Surface tablets, e-ink, gestures will impact. Photos(moments in time), music, opinions, videos all need shared in the future too.
This is very cool stuff. Do you guys support (or do you plan to support) any type of cross-provider failover? I.e. if AWS goes down, auto re-deploy to Linode and handle the DNS re-routing, etc.?
it'd be fairly easy to make one, but i imagine it would have limited utility since the entire content of the page is rarely what you want. how would you go about selecting which portion you're interested in? also, i'm not certain a bookmarklet would have direct clipboard access due to security, i could be wrong tho.

feel free to open up an issue on github to discuss the idea and implementation details further.
Drag ‘n drop your photo (and leave the technical HTML5 details to us)
Because 68% institutional ownership and <0% inside ownership means that they are owned by Wall St, literally and figuratively.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=AAPL+Major+Holders
Congrats to the GroupTalent crew. Smart, hardworking group of guys.

edit: I guess I should disclose that I'm a founder of balancedpayments.com, GroupTalent's payment processor.
https://google.com/search?q=100tb

There are many cheaper options. The ones you mention seem to be the most expensive.
Do they get paid when something they write gets incorporated into the law?
The MBP retina has a higher resolution, and also has two Thunderbolt ports (on the same side as the power, which is nice if you have a Thunderbolt Display with the combined power and Thunderbolt cable). Also HDMI output and SD card slot on the opposite side. The top-end CPU is a bit speedier as well.

It is also a bit heavier, and is not tapered (which I find aesthetically appealing).