skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call bullshit. Outside of a death penalty, government does not threaten you with murder, but with prison in the worst case. Government will actually try not to kill you, even if you resist arrest (note: I was once arrested - or is it detained? - for political reasons. I'm not sure about the legal terms in English).

Obviously, if you barricade yourself in with machine guns or more, it might come to a stand-off where you are killed. But ask yourself this: If it comes to that, how many people will still think you were acting reasonably relative to any standard?

The only way you could possibly talk about a threat of murder by government (in countries that do not have the death penalty) is if you're essentially saying: "There is a possibility for me to behave in a way that is so far out of the social norm and involves my own use of physical violence to such an extent that some government agent may end up killing me. This is what I mean by 'threat of murder'."

But then the term "threat of murder" becomes entirely meaningless, because by that standard, virtually every person in the world threatens you with murder every day. Think about it: There is a possibility for you to behave in a way that is so far out of the social norm and involves your use of physical violence to such an extent that any random stranger may end up killing you - in attempted self-defense against your own violence.

So: Do you believe every person in the world is latently threatening you with murder? Because if you truly, genuinely believe that government generally threatens you with murder (independently of a death penalty), then you must logically hold that belief as well.

Now to be fair, I think I have some understanding of where you are coming from. I got acquainted with some far leftist/anarchist groups during my undergraduate. This feeling of being up against an all-powerful and overreaching evil can be a powerful social glue. This is what they felt, and I suppose it affected me as well, though to a smaller extent. But I grew up.

I sincerely hope for your own sanity that there is some part of your mind that recognizes how ridiculously extremist you previously stated position is.
Git humiliate - to be used with caution ;)
It seems to be JavaScript, not Java.

Semi-colons are great for real programming. They help deal with ambiguity when you want to split something over several lines yadda yadda let's not have the debate here.

But I don't see it's utility in something like this. It becomes one of those "just because" answers if someone asks why you need to put a semi-colon at the end of the line.

I could understand it if it was pitched at an "almost ready to write real code", but from what I've seen, and looking over the chapter headings, that doesn't seem to be the case.

I guess really I'm trying to look at the balance between using a DSL in a real language and using a toy DSL with a simple syntax when introducing basic concepts and shaping how people think about problems.

I use "real" to mean anything written outside of the CodeHS playpen.
Do Netflix or Apple license the content, or just offer some kind of revenue share with the publisher? In the music industry it's the latter.

That model has been a disaster (for music companies) as they take all the risk for the failures, while Apple gets a relatively large proportion of revenue from the winners.
Consider realloc. Seems like a sensible function, with its ability to extend memory blocks in-place. Except, you can't try to extend a memory block in-place, but not move it if it can't be extended.

malloc and friends really are a quite poor way of managing a memory space if you want to do even slightly clever things I find, unfortunatly
Sure, I don't disagree with Startup == Growth. I disagree that it means anything but (such as outside investment, winning the startup/facebook lottery, compounding, putting insane life crushing hours, etc.)

There's a reason PG formulated it thus simply. It would be odd if for instance in the case of Viaweb (a startup without outside funding) PG would disqualify himself from having done a startup, but then went on to define startups...
Smaller cars actually tend to do better in heavy winds than tall, heavy vehicles, as there is less surface area for the wind to buffet.

Also, being buffeted by the wind is massively affected by the suspension design. If the car is on soft, wallowy suspension, high up in the air (think Toyota Echo), you'll be fearing for your life. However, bring the car a little lower, improve the shock absorber design, work on the steering and suspension geometry, calibrate the tires to the car (not too wide, but not too narrow), and you can significantly reduce the effect of wind.
My understanding is that 3-D printing is still only optimal for prototyping. Once you get into production of any size, traditional methods are much cheaper per unit.
Canada’s top science prize goes to Stephen Cook
Do you have any examples of live web-based games that are doing this with Node?
Yeah, I definitely agree that this is a big step from anything I've seen thus far.

This was more to kick off a discussion about "are we there yet?", and if not, what is still missing?

I mean, I know what I think is missing, but I've not tried building HTML5 games to understand if HTML5 is the bottleneck, or if other dependencies are the bottleneck.
Agreed. Cincom Smalltalk (ParcPlace's VisualWorks) is certainly not dead. Its a powerful system and keeps getting updates. Gemstone Smalltalk: there is nothing that competes with this unique approach to DB and code execution in a somewhat seamless server cluster.

My guess is that after a 10-15 year lull, Smalltalk is growing a bit. I'm very happy to see Pharo chugging along. I think that by 2014, Pharo 3.0 will be a hit. Pharo 2.0 is already very compelling for many use cases.

Smalltalk didn't really die. It was the Smalltalk vendors that died. There were three++ viable Smalltalk vendors when Java came along. Java did not have a tech advantage. Not even close. Java was crammed through the industry by big players that didn't own Smalltalk implementations and Sun was in a position to give Java away for free. At that time the Smalltalk vendors had old-school business models whose investors did not allow them to turn the corner at the dawn of the Internet age of the mid-90s. Had either Digitalk or ParcPlace given a free license to embed Smalltalk into Netscape's browser instead of Netscape/Sun pulling the Java applet and Javascript move, we would all be writing browser apps in a clean consistent language, instead of Javascript. This is not speculation. I was in the room when such an opportunity was discussed. It was soon dismissed as "our board won't allow it as it would destroy our current business model".
As it stands now that would only hurt Samsung. Who wants to buy a phone with no apps? Samsungs brand is strong, but it's not strong enough to make a fledgling OS ready for the limelight.
>> "They can blame piracy or the internet all they want but really it's their product that sucks"

I think more and more they're having to make product/music that has mass market appeal and the internet's making that worse. You can make the world's worst song and pair it with a stupid viral video and get a number 1. Making good music doesn't guarantee success. Making something that can go viral does.
I use Trello and would love to see some basic stats. I've thought about writing something against the API that can output stats such as how long cards are staying in specific columns but I don't have the time to do it right atm.
“If there is a lesson to take away, it is probably that the earlier you can embrace new business models and services, the better,” said Paul Brindley, chief executive of Music Ally, a consulting firm in London.

Oh really? That lesson wasn't learned when VHS was created? Or cassette tapes? Or CDs? Or DVDs? Or e-books? Or when millions upon millions of their customers preferred to download music instead of purchase a disc? What the hell were these guys doing for the last 15 years?

It's great that they're "embracing digital". That phrase is used by every aging exec in every industry now. The real question is how will they handle kids who create youtube mashups of songs. I guarantee they still file DMCA takedowns for years to come when in fact, THAT is yet another "new business model and service" that could help the music industry.
Friends of my age who were drawn into programming did so probably because when you turned on the (8bit) computer it was waiting for you to write a program. It was the default action. How would an iPad user be naturally drawn into coding? If you don't have friends around you who do it and serve as an example (or a classroom where you are presented with that possibility), I think few would come up with the idea of writing programs themselves.
This article doesn't even want to make the argument that is in the title. It's winking at the reader the whole time saying "Not Really".

I grew up around Detroit and there's a big difference between a city that has some tough times and a city that basically falls apart because of it. Detroit's industry fell apart, and then a hundred other factors (like race riots) led to the city no longer being a nice place to live. Even if Silicon Valley's tech industry were to fall apart, a lot would have to happen for it to start looking anything like Detroit.
There's a fairly detailed writeup about the making of the previous video:

http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks...

Only a few things have changed since then. I've done some more work within Cinelerra (I wrote a new resampler and a new color grading filter for it this time around). I'm also using a pair of matched suspension microphones (AT853a Unipoints) instead of the Crown boundary piezeos, which I've decided just aren't suited to anything I do.

Cinelerra is not for the faint of heart, and I don't casually recommend it. It is very powerful, rather unfriendly, and picky about the formats it uses. However, it will do things none of the other FOSS editors can.
Techcrunch:

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Definitely the best browser multiplayer game ever.

And nice to see that it's build on Node (among other tech).
Stuxnet 0.5: The Missing Link
36 websites selling credit card details shut down [video]
The hottest gadgets at world's biggest mobile technology show
It looks incredibly cool when rubber band scrolling kicks in. Well done!
Pride, avarice, sloth and wrath. Did I miss anything? ;-)
Come on guys, he's a comedian. Live with it. I'm surprised that someone even took the pains to verify his claims to disprove them. He didn't deserve all this precious time and attention.

Just look at his twitter feed, I'm not even sure if he thinks he's clever, doesn't understand sarcasm, or if he's just 'living with it'.
Okay, and then they negotiate for better pay deals because proven directors have negotiating power. This isn't a contradiction to what I was saying, but I predict I'll get downvoted because Hollywood accounting makes people angry. But people who are proven assets in moviemaking already know how to do an end run around it. The predominant situation in film is that those who marshal the resources to make movies are highly skilled and get payment and/or ownership. It is not the case that the Hollywood corporate mechanism only exists to "market movies", as the OP claimed. That is the point of my post.

I also dislike the implicit assumption that the category of "people who make movies and TV" is "directors". Some directors take a major role in production. Others are tools in a chain, albiet important and highly paid ones. There are lot of people who bring about movies and TV that aren't directors. Vince Gilligan rarely directs, for example.
I'm so sick of online American-bashing, which is a fad. Please stop. Where someone has lived has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

27% of the entire economy shifted entirely to government consumption? That's a humongous amount of the economy. It's almost 1/3.
Delphi was the first "real" platform I used (version 1.0 on Windows 3.11) and it wasn't until much later that I realized how good I'd had it. In addition to the rather obvious idea that the GUI should be designed graphically, it also had a fast compiler and a good integrated debugger. If I remember correctly the entire Delphi IDE was itself developed in Delphi.
The question is how you'd compensate. I don't know of any widely-deployed variable-strength suspension. There is tech around to do it, but I don't think it's generally available.

I'm guessing you wouldn't want to do it with the steering or brakes...
Some assembly required? I can't imagine (at the moment) printing a device with many moving parts "in situ" as a finished product.
I couldn't get the special moves working. Anyone else have any luck? If my memory is still correct (and hundreds of hours of gametime means it probably is), Away->Down->Towards->High Punch is Sub-Zero's freeze.
The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired
Stuxnet worm targeting Iran in works as early as 2005, Symantec finds
NodeJS about to pass WordPress in number of extensions
Node Modules: 23 771

WP Plugins: 23 778

Cue flame war about how this doesn't mean anything.

Sources:
https://npmjs.org/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

* Used "Tell HN" format because I wanted control over the title of this submission
No moulds, primarily, and the fact that your build sequence for every single plastic part is identical.
9 Entrepreneur Skills Which Drive Team Leadership
It's a console game at heart though, my earliest games of bomberman were on the SNES I believe. It just has much better feel on a gamepad. There are also APIs in browsers to support gamepads now.

There are quite a few PC games with gamepad support, about half of the games on my Steam list are playable with a gamepad.
Because definitely a great way to ensure the best people are handling the difficult task of prosecuting criminals is to cast aspersions on everyone who's ever done that job.
What the hell were these guys doing for the last 15 years?

Lobbying.
The Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents were about not paying taxes.

The Supreme Court said "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." In these cases, heavily armed agents raided homes for want of $200 in NFA manufacturing taxes; whether heavily-armored men crashing thru windows carrying automatic weapons actually fired the first shot, or baited the occupants into "threatening behavior", is irrelevant: the government killed people who didn't pay taxes.
The advantage of a three wheel car is that it is not a car for regulation purposes, it's a motorcycle. Same reason there are tons of small motorcycle manufacturers.
Predicting the Future of Google Glass – “Home Video”, Dating, and Beyond
I can confidently say we'll never use Trello if we can't host it locally; integrate it into our directory system, back it up and manage upgrades on our own timeline, and have the assurance that it will continue to be accessible even if you as a company are not.

It's unfortunate that there's no meeting in the middle.
Fear, incompetence, risk aversion, agency problems, etc.
Did you care to calculate out how much $8B is when it is spread out over 270,000 people and 5 years? Apple is a big company, no doubt, but it is not an economy...no matter how hard their PR department tries to spin their "study"
My only query with things like this.

Sure PC sales are diving, but is the number of PC's actually owned going down?

You know, less PC's being sold, doesn't mean people are getting rid of the PC's they have.
Even for new music, I remember in the same timeframe always saying that there was no need to buy the CD, I could just turn on the radio and hear the song I wanted to hear within five minutes. The internet was an easy scapegoat, but I agree that broadcast radio was the real downfall of the industry during that time.
Interesting. I have to admit I haven't tried it for a while, because it was always so bad in the past. But I'm also on Linux and not on MacOSX, maybe the situation there is better.
Windfarms adversely affect global climate
Answer: because these people think that gluten will slowly change gut lining and immune response to the point that they will develop celiac disease or other illness if they eat gluten regularly.
Marketers like to stick to 65-70 characters for what its worth.
So, in other words, instead of pioneering the digital age of music they spent the better portion of last 14 years fighting it.

If Sony couldn't embrace digital music when it first arrived in the 90's, then I guess we shouldn't have been surprised that less technically forward thinking firms didn't jump on board readily.
As much as I respect and appreciate Pypy, BIND is one of the core foundational pieces of the internet. It needs to be bulletproof and robust. I don't think Pypy itself qualifies as a mainstream enough language for them to build BIND on. This isn't a slight on Pypy, because the core problem is simply that it hasn't been around for long enough and subjected to enough stress to earn entry into the highest of the high tiers of reliable software. That's not a bad thing per se, and it can be fixed, but in the meantime, ISC has to take the situation as it is now, not how it might be in five years.
Super Sync Sports (Chrome Experiment by Google)
To be fair compare it with how long it takes to make a traditional car.
Ah, I like this. I'm going to cavort off with these ideas and put them to good use in my rubygems environment switcher gemenv.
It's really confusing to have capitalized title with name that is also a verb (and the surname being a city name didn't help). I had to read it several times before it clicked.

> Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to Samsung’s competitors:

would be much better.
This actually appears in music much more than games.

With music, discovery is a major problem, and pirating allows for music to be heard by a larger audience. Some of those people become fans and ultimately buy tickets to concerts (artists accrete more money this way, incidentally)
Are You Feeling Facebook Fatigue?
I wonder if these numbers take into account direct sales to musicians on services like bandcamp. I assume the article mostly (entirely?) refers to publicly reporting music distribution & publishing companies. If so, there's a significant part of this story missing.
there is support if you pay for it. in general whenever I file a ticket I get a response within hours. that's at least as good(if not better) as working with any other vendor in my experience. So... where's this 0 support you are talking about?
We do live in a society based on evidence gathering, and thus market behavior should be based on it. My attempt to address the issue is mostly to point that out, and then do some observation regarding the market. Observation is the first step before evidence is gathered, while theory/best practice is the last step after Observation, evidence and analysis has proven something to be "true".

When people give out best practices, or gives out necessities of the market based on nothing but opinion and theory, it become pure myth and superstition. Sysadmin work which is my line of work, has a bunch of myths. Some people still making firewall rules against win95 ping of deaths, even if everyone in the company is running around with this years gadgets.

But you did ask if I have any evidence of my own, and here I relied on common sense and observations. DRM cost money, in both time, effort and support. Additional, I looked at the indy crowd of movie makes which has only has weak/no DRM, and the indy crowd of games which has all from strong to no DRM. What I can see, there are no major difference what so ever, and both groups often suffer from low revenues in products that later get critical acclaimed as a master piece.

But Im sorry, no, I do not have any research paper to support that observation. That would be the second step, through one can glimpse some truth by checking if anyone are disagreeing with it. Also, since DRM cost money, it should naturally require a higher burden of evidence to become best practice or necessity in the industry.

Minor note about Blade runner: It took several years before the movie reached a cult status. By the time it did, people started to have dual VHS players at home or could call some dude in the campus to do a copy.
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Now this is a good reason to prove if farts can be created by placebo effects and superstition.
I disagree. The article makes sense to me and could be also applied to a lot of situations. Certain career paths shouldn't be pursued with depression unless they got help first. Would you recommend a depressed person pursue becoming a mortician, skydiving instructor, or prison guard just because they wanted to?
As far as I can tell they don't offer either SSL or SSH tunnelling, so there's no way you can securely connect to the database remotely. Without those you're sending your password and data unencrypted over a public network.

By default Mongo uses MD5 for password hashing (with username as seed) so it's not secure to use it over a public network.

(if your server is co-located on the same network as MongoHQ then you can probably hack it using network access rules)
Netflix is at least not available in Germany. ( And AFAIK iTunes can have regional limits.) So there is no truly global distribution channel. ( Except torrents.)
I agree. One of the things we'll do with MindMup is create a story line of ideas, that could be then exported into a slide show for expressing it. I structure my conference presentations using MindMup, but the final version is with slides, not with a map.
Ahh the perils of being a customer of Google.
Unless you're the most complete full stack engineer ever, at some point you're going to be relying on a magic black box. The trick is to know what is acceptable as a black box or not. At this point in time, I'd say most memory management systems are pretty competent enough to warrant usage.
Experimental Firefox OS software for Xperia E available for developers
Usability testing myths
Whenever I hear the word "supercapacitor" I'm reminded of EEStor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor), one of the biggest vapor wares a few years back. It sounded too good to be true and it was.
Do you have a different broadband conenction for your xbox and your pc? No, you have one for the house and then share it. Likewise you only need one portable network connection (your cell phone) and all your other devices share it. If you own and cell phone and have data enabled devices (tablet, laptop etc) you're doing it wrong.
I've paid over $50,000 a year for Google Maps. I assure you, their support sucks no matter how much you pay them. We pay a small fraction of that for AWS, and Amazon's support is infinitely better.
Ask HN: Where do you get your ideas?
I want to start programming but I would like to learn through doing instead of just following meaningless tutorials or reading boring books. So HN, where do you get your ideas for projects?
Beyond fantastic. I could just hug whoever made it!
Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered
Node.js is stupid and so are you
If we're gonna go there, lifestyle businesses solve real customer needs, usually for other businesses. Startups collect lyrics for hip-hop music. :-)
The induction phase of Atkins is pretty much alive with the name of Keto(genic) diet.
Finding problems that need fixing in the world, creatively solving them with technology.
Nate Silver Offers Up A Statistical Analysis Of Your Failing Relationship
We are in the middle of getting Safe Harbor certified, which allows us to comply with all EU Data Protection laws, so that should no longer be an impediment for you.
N of 1?
Marissa Mayer Is No Fool