skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I want my bytecode to look like this: `iadd`, NOT `(a+b)|0`."

That isn't enough of a reason to forego backwards compatibility. It is a hack, to be sure. But there are all sorts of suboptimal things that we deal with in order to make sure that technologies survive in the real world. Especially when it's really just a question of what the encoding looks like, which is not something that's that important.

(Besides, it turns out that making a multi-language VM that performs as well as a custom VM for dynamic languages is an unsolved problem. Many language implementers, Mike Pall of LuaJIT fame for example, don't believe in it. The closest thing is probably PyPy...)
I'm going to ask my manager if I can write a letter on behalf of us, we're in the TeliaSonera family of companies.

But I also think you should hawk some merchandise. T-shirts with the snake, or the Python logo. This would even help your case if people around the world were wearing them or sending in photos wearing them.
There is a ready component (http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/mac-os-x/controls/obm...) that you can use to create a menu bar application which can be dragged out to be a regular window. Just remember to keep states and stuff.
Seems useful.

Not too pretty though :-).
> but it's still just as corrupt as it's been since the collapse of Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union you not only bribed police, but the grocer, the mail man, your child's principal, and the list goes on.
NASA follows Asteroid fly-by
How is it better then iChat?
Elon Musk and How Not to Handle a PR Crisis
I use HackerNode, a brilliant app.
Singapore has done that, and it has very little rape cases. Which is cool for a small island of 5m.

Not sure if there is a correlation....
I'm biased (since it's my thing), but Uptano is probably a good fit here. https://uptano.com/
Let me give some more information on that: It is true that pharmaceuticals, personal care products and endocrine disruptors are not really addressed by clean water rules, but that doesn’t mean that they are ignored. The reason that they aren’t regulated is, to quote EPA: “To date, scientists have found no evidence of adverse human health effects from PPCPs in the environment.”

Of course there are a lot of substances in the water, their concentrations are rising and it is difficult to assess their effects on humans. However, there is also a lot of dilution in the water system and the concentrations found in drinking water are still far from the concentrations where we would expect any adverse effects on human health. In fact, one of the reasons that PPCPs have become an issue is that improved measurement technologies make it possible to detect them at the small concentrations (some parts per trillion) that they are at.

Some PPCPs have now entered the EPA contaminant candidate list (CCL), which means that they are evaluated in more detail and a maximum contaminant level (MCL) might be enforced in the future. The issue is not as simple as adding more regulation, doing a bit more treatment and be safe. There are hundreds of different substances and most of them are difficult to remove. The most effective treatment method, reverse osmosis, is extremely energy intensive and thus very expensive. It is also important to know that “removal” doesn’t mean that we pick the molecules out of the water and disassemble them into their atoms, it usually means that we transfer them from one medium into another. They still have to go somewhere and likely they still end up in the environment.

So, to sum it up: PPCPs are found in water at low concentrations which are a problem for aquatic life and this problem cannot be solved easily. There is not a lot of evidence pointing to human health problems at the moment, so expensive, somewhat effective treatment methods aren’t enforced at the moment. The problem is not ignored however, the EPA regularly reevaluates the issue and research is being done on possible health effects.
What ux recommendations do you have for this original oil painting website?
I haven't read Thurrott too often, but in the few times that I have, I've actually been somewhat relieved that he does maintain some degree of cynicism about how the company works. I am a former Microsoft employee and I get irritated about a lot of MS boosterism I see on the web in recent years; it's hard to read and more dogmatically pro-MS than most MS employees I know. But Thurrott doesn't strike me as one of those people. He knows where some of the bodies are buried and isn't shy to voice concerns.
http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/integrate-jackson-w...
http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/download-xml-file-f...

This got me up to speed pretty quickly to learn JAX-RS providing XML and JSON.
Presumably, if it was a blob, it could also be stored in local storage/indexdb/filesystem API? Is the internal format supposed to be architecture neutral, or dependent? I can see arguments for either, but if it were neutral, than the blob conversion could be done offline/statically on the server, and downloaded by the client dynamically (e.g. XHR to fetch function blobs). If it were architecture dependent, then I could see advantages as well, letting the browser vendor choose the optimal form of the blob. This would potentially yield better performance, but you wouldn't be able to host blobs on the server.

Anyway, cool idea.
Apple Patents Solution to Shaky Smartphone Camera Syndrome
Technically he could be forming a logical argument with only his personal opinion as backing axiom. It wouldn't be a good argument, but it would technically be an argument.

Not that this really matters. Evidence or "GTFO". Even then though that doesn't mean it is a valid plan. I could have all the evidence in the world that sending all men and women to separate prison camps would reduce domestic abuse, but that does not mean such a proposal, correct as it may be, is acceptable. I get that Iceland is their own country with their own laws and standards, but to my American sensibilities this seems to be clearly crossing the line.

In other words, you can form a real argument with undisputed facts, but even that is not sufficient.
Well it goes back at least a few years, if not decades. Iceland may well claim the title of the world's most femin(az)ist country: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/25/iceland-m...
This isn't journalism. This is a flamewar. Its not even a very good flamewar. No popcorn for me.
El secreto del MLM
I would try it out. I'm also going to take this opportunity to make a shameless plug: answering the question, "Should I build this?" is precisely the goal of LaunchSky.com.
Nice one. What do you like about that one? Seems like there's a lot of people who've downloaded it.
> I want my bytecode to look like this: `iadd`, NOT `(a+b)|0`.

So build a front-end! I actually thought about doing this myself, because I knew we would get people confused about the difference between syntax and semantics. The syntax is not important to the computer, and it's generally not important to a compiler either (codegen can output whatever format it wants).

Note that the bytecode for the JVM and CLR, for example, don't look like `iadd` either. They're binary encoded formats. The format is just not relevant.

> Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but running bytecode through a text interpreter, which is then compiled again to machine code (possibly via another bytecode) seems like a horrific hack.

Never has to pass through an interpreter at all. It does not pass through an interpreter in our implementation.

You seem to be very hung up on surface syntax. The importance of a VM is not the syntax of its language but the semantics.
Also, isn't this 'degrading porn' meant for people who identify with the person being degraded?

I'm not sure I understood you correctly. Are you suggesting that "Hot Japanese Girls [sic] gets fucked and abused in every way" is marketed primarily to people who identify with abused women?

But again, the videos that explicitly and specifically portray violent and/or degrading male fantasies don't bother me as much as so-called "normal" videos that seriously misrepresent what is enjoyable to most women.

Whether you like it or not, the power dynamic is an integral part of human sexuality. That you see this in porn is just an effect of the phenomenon, not the cause. It's completely natural and benign. People saying that this is "wrong" and taboo are doing far more harm than good to the women and men (!) who enjoy being on that side of the power dynamic.

Something tells me that men and women who enjoy being on the submissive (or "less powerful", if you prefer) side of the power dynamic are still the minority of the market. While I'm sure that there are people who watch Mandingo videos because they identify with the lady or because they enjoy watching big penises, I'm pretty sure that most people who watch it are men who like to identify with Mandingo and fantasize about having a penis that big.

So, to sum it up, I don't claim that it's wrong or "taboo" to be on the less powerful side of the power dynamic. Hell, there's nothing bad with fantasizing about being on the more powerful side or about having a huge penis or what have you.

Secondly, porn isn't meant to be realistic. Complaining about that is just like the people complaining about violence in video games and movies. People are perfectly capable of distinguishing reality from fiction.

I wouldn't be so quick to equate these things. It's a lot easier for kids to confirm that the world is not really violent in the same degree and way as videogames than it is for them to find out what women find enjoyable in sex.

The way to go here is to improve sex education, not to blame porn for not being sex education.

Precisely, but how? How do you improve teaching kids about sex in terms of pleasure, not only reproduction and health, which seems to be what most sex ed focuses on?
> Yes, but: Mozilla disagrees because Eich disagrees

Mozilla is not a dictatorship - it's a nonprofit open source project. Obviously Brenden is a pivotal figure but people have many opinions on many topics, just read the mozilla mailings lists (which are public).

On this topic, AFAICT the great majority agree with Brendan.
The trick is not that the information is available but knowing where that information is, so that if needed, one could look it up.

I tend to want to remember the places (in this case, blogs, books, articles,etc.) where I could start looking to find a piece of information as more important.

A simple example of this is me wanting to learn Backbone.js. I have been following Addy Osmani's blog and know that he can be considered an authority on Javascript.

I am now following his Developing Backbone.js Applications book online - http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/#mvc-appl...

I trust that I have picked one of the top people in this area to help me learn this. If I just Google, just the sheer amount of links to blogs, training sites, videos, etc. would be overwhelming. It would be likely that I would pick a resource that is not the best.

With the information overload that we have, you now stand out by being able to find (and apply) the information in a timely manner.
It's a lot harder to cure the causes than the effects.
President Obama Admits That Patent Trolls Just Try To ‘Extort’ Money
I would not say 'drastically'. I guess arguments from the monolithic vs microkernel discussion can be recycled. Basically, security is one of the main arguments for the latter [1] and a lot of OSs that require high security are in fact microkernels. But yeah, implementing the Linux API in the browser does in fact sound like a rather sub-par idea but I was not arguing for that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel#Security
Nice one. Just signed up. When are you launching? Looking forward to seeing how the platform will work.
Good advice but they're basically all the same thing: think. It's way too easy to get into a habit of hacking away at something without actually give it a moment's thought.

Reminds me very much of the Feynman story "He fixes radios by thinking!"
> Being a "Lisp" is a very broad category and I always wondered about people calling Lisp a functional language.

I don't understand how anyone who has studied programming language history could not understand that Lisp, and APL to no small extent, are the languages that initially defined what it means to be "functional".

Scheme, which is a hugely influential dialect of Lisp, is unambiguously functional, and Lisp in general is clearly derived from lambda calculus, which is the origin of functional programming.
Introducing the jQuery Learning Center
It is probably hard for people to give you recommendations if you don't give any details about your usage.

But I've used maxcdn[1] before but they seem to have changed their pricing recently, but they do allow you to pay upfront and they do email out cheaper deals about every month for large-ish amounts (5TB and up).

[1]: http://www.maxcdn.com/
News:yc is a "decent" Hn app but it is not the perfect package, it lacks a lot in design fundamentals to create a great user experience.
Actually, in Soviet Union you did not have any reason to bribe any of them.
This. The medium of communication really depends on the type of content and it's priority.

High priority: call me or use some other synchronous communications protocol.
Everything else: email, ticket please. Async is better.

I'm used to working in geographically separated teams in different timezones, so starting my day 2 hours ahead of everyone else is no different than me working in a different timezone. Once you solve this problem, you have solved the majority of your communication difficulties.
13 ideas for YAPC::NA 2013 (and other news) [Perl]
This is an unsubstantiated story from the Daily Mail which is not a news source.

Iceland is pretty pro free speech generally eg see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Modern_Media_Inst...
I'm a psychiatrist and I work with an addiction population. I think many of them would be glad to have this as an option. It's certainly not perfect, but it would provide an additional layer of protection to people who struggle to maintain sobriety. I think it's sad that the first reaction to this is to think of it as something from "dystopian" science fiction. The oral medication disulfram shares a similar mechanism of action, but it has to be taken every day. When a patient begins to struggle they often stop the antabuse, losing the benefit. At least gives them a few months of protection and if after that they choose not to resume it sounds like that's a possibility.

With proper informed consent, it's a welcome tool to a common and potentially devastating problem.
I'm not questioning the validity of the research. I'm questioning that one statement (a statement similar to one that appears in so many pop-sci articles).

The £5,000 to £100 estimate is based solely on the hope that the raw component costs will come down (through bulk-buying and the natural trend of micro-electronics to get smaller, more powerful and cheaper). Unless I missed something, this is not because they have some groundbreaking method that will reduce the number (or price) or components — it's just because there is an assumption that they will.

Any IT researcher can make similar claims so they are essentially meaningless. A comparison between the £5000 and the component cost of a rival system would be more valid and would allow those of us who understand the possibilities for future component cost reduction to extrapolate.

However, there is no guarantee that component costs will continue to fall indefinitely. Who knows what wars or shortages may befall us in the future. Prices may even go up.

As this system relies on an Apple iPad does this price calculation assume that in a few years Apple will be selling a model for less than $50? I would be extremely cautious about making such an assumption.

This cost also doesn't take into account the reliability level of the components that would be required to run such a system on a daily basis. You can put together a working prototype system for £5000 but as soon as suppliers are providing components that are mission (and life) critical there is no way that they will that cheap: the insurance each supplier would need would make a huge difference to the price. Add to that the high quality control & testing and the price is unlikely to fall much over the next 10 years.

Common sense also tells us that we'd never be able to buy a system for so little. $150 is around the price of a replacement battery for my car or two cheap tyres. I cannot buy a replacement CD/radio for that much. This is for a car that is 7 years old. Surely over the last 7 years my car parts should have got cheaper?

Newman and his group know all of this — and you know this — but you choose to ignore it as it doesn't make a good quote of a Pop-Sci article. Promising excited less-technical readers a self-driving car for £100 is just too tempting.

As I said, I don't blame Newman (although I do think it detracts from their real achievements), I blame the reporter who should have gently called them on it and clarified what they really meant.
We have a 4yr old product like this that has been used by 50 sports teams.

http://fanmaker.com/photos
Asteroid impacts: How to avert Armageddon
What are the best options for clickstream tracking for storing in a data warehouse?

I've looked at Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) -- is that what most people are using, are you rolling your own, etc?
Well, some people think the same about the US from stories they hear.
sounds like a well spent youth to me!
Hadn't seen jetstrap before this. It's going to be a hit at hackathons! Nice work.
Native Mobile Apps are the New Flash
In the article that I linked an adviser for the Interior Minister is quoted. Your down vote (assuming it was indeed you who down voted) is unmerited.
The Evolution of the Mac, Pt 2: Touch Screens
Awesome new stuff guys. Here is my wish list for 3.0:

* Backend support (maybe via backbone+knockout)

* Themes

Thoughts?
Just because you make it illegal, doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.
This is all good advice. When I taught algorithms, the difference in performance between students who stepped through the algorithms by hand on small examples and students who just memorized pseudocode was tremendous.

One thing that can make "talking and writing" even more useful is to do it on a whiteboard in front of someone. Then, not only are you practicing the algorithm, you're also practicing whiteboard coding, which is useful for interviews and a lot of day-to-day technical communication.
Sure, go on. The hardest part, designing it, is already done! Take a look at HNKit an news:yc https://github.com/Xuzz/newsyc for a head start.
From my experience both first hand and watching other relationships females are waaaaaaay more interested in abusive, degrading sex than guys.

In terms of why a large amount of porn is like this, its simple, its theatrics. Emotion and body language is exaggerated to capture an audiences attention.
It's also open source, so you can help improve it (if that's your kind of thing)! https://github.com/Xuzz/newsyc
Number of Teslas registered in Norway: 15 in 2010, 48 in 2011, so they sold 33 Teslas in 2011.

Source: Statistics Norway[1], the official state agency for everything statistics.

Compared to say ~300,000 registered Toyotas (2011), I guess it depends on how you define "big" :)

But we do have a somewhat sizeable enthusiast "electric car" community. We deal with the cold by plugging in whenever possible, and most electric cars are used only for local transport.

There's apparently two Tesla S in Norway at the moment. It has generated interest here as well, and we have articles like "How to charge the Tesla Model S" [2] on a site that translates to "charging-stations.no",

[1] http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/Default_FR.asp?PXSid...

[2] http://www.ladestasjoner.no/nyheter/75-hvordan-kan-tesla-mod...
If by "startup" we mean "technology company" I feel comfortable arguing that if "most" companies aren't in Silicon Valley (in fact they probably are), they are at least mostly in the US, where equity financing for startups is the rule, not the exception.

In the US, it is very difficult to get bank debt financing for startups, for the same reason that service providers price your imminent demise into their contracts.
It's not like the new new media are doing more fact-checking.
It's a pet peeve of mine when articles quote their own paragraphs in big bold headings immediately below the paragraph itself.

"It's a pet peeve of mine when articles
quote their own paragraphs"

After all, didn't I just read that?
I was the first one, when the NYT article was linked to here, to say:

"Be careful, journalists love to fake car reviews to display cars they don't like in a bad light"

Car journalism 101. Even journalism 101.

I consider CNN and Fox to be propaganda. Now I'm badly losing faith in the NYT too... Unless they react swiftly and promptly: public apologize to Tesla and firing of that journalist.
Structure of the Earth
+1 about the Daily Mail. Harry Potter is more credible.
? You flat out missread that. The idea is while the rate of violence will not change google glass style head cams will become popular AND increase the amount captured on video. Much like cellphones increasing the number of videos where cops beat someone. People don't buy cellphone to capture vides of copes beating someone, but if you can capture a video and can see such a beating you may upload the video.

PS: Clearly, dash-cams in Russia are primarily used to deal with specific problems mostly related to corruption / scams. But, they also catch interesting videos like this meteor.
Good thing this didn't exist in the 20's.
Joint effort snares gangs of cyberthugs
What's with the broken link?

I'd pay Remember The Milk 99¢/month... but I already pay them $25/year.
> you can probably assume that 1 upvote = 1 yes

I upvoted the post, but I wouldn't use this if it was built.

I wouldn't use it because I prefer to interact the web with my web browser, which is always open, already on my desktop, and I enjoy polling HN to refresh it. Tab-management feels different to me than window-management, and I like my current way of organizing HN content from within my browser.

That said, I think it's a very cool design demo, and I think the author deserves feedback from HN.
Thank you for sharing, my very first question was going to be about antabuse and how this would differ in mechanism.
You have a free data upload link from your car?
Thanks! We plan to go live with our beta in 3-4 weeks, and we're already accepting pitches from our beta list. Email me at info@launchsky.com and I'll send you a beta invite.
Anyone know (a) whether 23andme will pick up the natural genetic mutation mentioned, and (b) whether you can have varying degress of this condition?

Just curious: 60% of the time, alcohol makes me feel terrible every time...
> He argues that easy access to online porn increases the frequency and severity of sexual violence against women

There's more evidence that porn reduces sex crime than increases it. (Obviously "more evidence" doesn't mean "is true.")

Slate had a good write up: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2006/1...
Wow, sounds like a foolproof idea! Wait, maybe the bad guy who's broke my window and is repeatedly punching me in the face will just grab the dash cam.