skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can only imagine what ordinary folks who thought they'd be on the bleeding edge in accepting bitcoin think of all this.

All this talk of spamming block chains, miners, soft-hard limits - word that mean nothing to your average cowboy - can't be good for bitcoin's near future.
I usually upgrade as soon as it's stable. There has never been a downside as far as I can remember, because the old stuff usually just keeps on working. Whether that's been good for the language itself is debatable, but I imagine it sure helped adoption since they almost never break anything when they push out a new version.
It's hard to love a Surface
The bright side is that no-one holds onto their phones as long as they hold onto their PCs. A given phone has a ~2 year lifespan thanks to carriers subsidizing upgrades. Now if only they would stop selling Android 2.x phones.
>I've had articles I've sent hours writing and issued DMCA takedown notices

Just because something took you hours by itself doesn't mean that it's protected under copyright law.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

Of course, if someone copy pasted your writing, you're entitled to protection. However, that is certainly not the case here. This is just about similar icons(some of which actually resemble other works) and colors.
Text at link: This is a complex image. To get a readable shadow your light source will need to be pretty far away to get a flat pass through. Perhaps someday I'll do a version with transformed geometry, matching specific close-up point sources.
>That said, I'm running 5.3 in production and have no real plans to upgrade to 5.4 anytime soon.

May I ask: why not?
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that the consensus here is that LV isn't allowed to assert that they own the rights, and therefore may be perjuring themselves.
Just read a book like Practical Common Lisp, Land of Lisp or Learn Haskell for the greater good, you will learn how to do some interesting programs and you vision of side effects will change. I am trying out Go now, it is really nice too, if you want to read some code check out http://github.com/lamg/md2sexp, it is really easy to understand (but it does not work yet).
How can you have a viable worldwide currency subject to "spamming the blockchain"? The nice thing about gold and USD is they have no viable DOS attack vectors.

What implications does this have on the future of bitcoin? Is it even possible to have a reliable currency if anyone can create a crippling load on the system?
Fair enough. But my experience tells me that large corporations + many policies = many missed targets.
in the end, designmodo paid layervault for DMCA takedown notice for publicity.

now err body's gon use flat ui. great marketing.
I'm sure you are very wrong. Again, tons of sites a framework is counter-productive, not helpful. Do you think a framework makes sense for a 99% static site that just wants to use include($header) and have an email contact form? Or any of the tons of random admin interfaces people need to write for things that don't fit in to the assumed database backed web app mold?
Yes, it would replace APC. Unless you are using the user-caching of APC it should not affect you.
beautiful!

where's the source though?
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Here's one:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-...

Can't comment on the credibility though, nothing solid has been shown yet.
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It's understandable to think that, but look at it this way: If Git did this sort of thing Hg would have won that battle hands down. I realize designers don't have any alternatives and this is one of the first solutions out there, but it is really important it be well built or at a minimum that they, LayerVault that is, provide a solid backup strategy to ensure they protect their users.
What is the deal with this?

It was posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321603 a few days ago but that link is now dead. is this the original one on github or something?
I've only looked at it but I know people who are into it and I'm not aware of Angular compiling anything. There's this crap they do with the "DOM-compiling" or whatever but that has little to do with rewriting JS or compiling AFAIK. That's just Google engineers wanting to feel like they have their big boy pants on when they talk about their JS framework.
The RFC for including ZO+ outlines some possible reasons: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus#advantages_of_optimiz...
Joint and several liability = almost everyone.
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Quit university and went on to make this game
The total number may not be higher. But you may have one manufacturer that introduces a bug in a firmware update that kills a huge number of people in one go. The next week they issue an update to fix the problem.

Does it make sense to increase the driver's insurance premium because they (unknowingly) bought a faulty product?
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They were removed in 5.4 [1]

[1]http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php
That's why I asked, I really hope they ship APC within the core aswell if Zend Optimizer doesn't provide a data store. To be honest, I find the data store that APC provides way more important than opcode caching.
What are the biggest challenges that open-source game developers face? Can open-source games ever approach "AAA quality" game designs or art?
Just like with human drivers: insurance companies. It's just the same as no fault auto insurance always is.
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Yes. Many people supported dcurtis and were angry at the blatant rip off. Also, many people were annoyed at dcurtis and felt he brought it on himself by acting like an idiot.
We are a bit behind on one of our client's projects and need some help to get it wrapped up. Does HN have any suggestions as to how/where we can get some coders (mostly frontend/HTML/CSS) and 1 or 2 PHP backend to come in to our office (SOHO) and work for a week? Thanks.
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The original was on DesignModo's Github account, but was taken down due to an unjustified DMCA takedown request from LayerVault. Github's DMCA policies prevent that from being made available again within 10 days.

This version is hosted on iurevych's (the original creator of Flat UI) Github account.
https://www.google.com/search?q=flatui%2Blayervault
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and it doesn't have the -W flag either.
The advantage of the fifo is that you don't decompress the original file to the HDD, and because of this, it's faster and you save on disk space. You can also use mknod for this. Glad i could help :)
Wow, that's just silly then. The user caching part of APC is practically the sole reason I use it; it's by far the fastest (non-distributed) caching mechanism available for PHP right now, several orders of magnitude faster than memcache or redis since the round-trip time is zero.
Why would the manufacturer be liable? An automated car crashing isn't necessarily a design defect. driving inherently creates risk, whether automated or not, and that risk should be carried by the owner of the car and his insurer.
this is not a problem because if other cars with the same program don't crash it's not the programmer's. The owner of the vehicle will pay.
But if others also crash with similar situations, then the programmer/company will pay.

That said, I will never get a self driving car. I like automation in everything except cars. Driving should be a fun experience.
An answer and a question:

Re: "The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.", you can also do `open somefile' to have that file opened in its default app.

And does anyone know if there is anything for OS X that clones your current directory between a terminal and a Finder window? That would be amazingly useful.
There is a surprising amount of euphemistic handwringing in the comments here. I can't do better than Sam Harris:

"It is no exaggeration to say that for decades (if not centuries) the Vatican has met the formal definition of a criminal organization, devoted not to gambling, prostitution, drugs, or any other venial sin, but to the sexual enslavement of children."

The essay from which this is extracted is worth reading:
http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/brin
It's hard to use Prolog without understanding its evaluation strategy, but what trips up beginners coming from other programming language is mostly getting the declarative reading correct. Ordering effects are not, in my experience, all that counter-intuitive, but Mercury removed multiple clauses to solve this problem.

The actual language certainly does have a lot of complexity and mastery depends on understanding it, but this isn't really all that different from other systems, it just presents a very early stumbling block to seasoned programmers. You could still stuff fifteen Prolog's worth of complexity into C++.
None? The same could be said if the WoW servers get shut down tomorrow. Game over and move on. It's probably in the Eula you agree to at first login.
Not on android either. Even if you dissociate your account from the device, the apps live on (you don't get updates though)
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You can use it this way. But what does the data tell? Group A is definitely performing better than group B or better it is not a random coincidence that group A is better performing.
In theory, self-driving cars should all perform equally within the same range and, probably, within the same manufacturer - you'd assume they'd put the same system into each car, and keep it updated to their latest best effort. In fact, this principle should perhaps be enshrined in law.

Therefore, individual owners do not need to be taken into account. Simply calculate the average cost of an accident and multiply it by the likelihood of that maker's system causing a crash, and send the owners a bill each year.

It doesn't even really need to be determined who "caused" the crash in each specific instance. It should be plainly obvious, statistically, which self-driving systems are more likely to be involved in accidents - premiums would be weighted to reflect that, and this would encourage a virtuous cycle of improvement incentivisation.
An HN member created a new blog thing; invite only; very designery. They were trying to build a brand for great writing. The way it was presented to the HN audience was sub-optimal - "Here's the great new shiny thing. You can't use it, you're all stupid."

Someone very quickly ripped it off.

There was intense discussion. Some people felt it's fair game to rip off the design. Other people felt it was a poor copy. Others were angry that it was such a blatant rip off (especially because it was so bad).

I've tried to describe this as neutrally as possible, but I understand it will sound pretty biased.
Why not just respond to the initial dcma rather than playing a game of cat and mouse. No one is going to use it while it has dubious copyright status anyway.
Your analysis of the benefits doesn't seem to be very favorable to PHP, so I am still confused as to how you came to the conclusion that using anything other than PHP is basically impossible. Again I feel the need to ask, what is it you are choosing PHP for? We were making a language choice for building a large web app that is the basis of the company. PHP rated terribly for that purpose. Setting up a blog for someone would presumably have PHP rating much better.

>In general terms I think it might be easier/cheaper to launch an MVP in PHP with a sensible framework (like Yii) and then migrate to Python + web2py or Django for the "real" product.

Why do you think that?

>I'll venture the thought that most PHP-only programmers are really bad programmers

Obviously.
If he manages to grab a printed copy of Stack Overflow, that'd be great :D (for non programmers: this is an internal joke)
Your anecdotal experience says absolutely nothing about the progress of HTML5. Other folks with lesser setups aren't having the same issues as you (me included) so I suspect there is a problem with your rig.
For those wondering what the new features for PHP 5.5 are at this point, here is a small (not complete) list:

Large language changes:

* Generators and coroutines (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators by me)

* `finally` blocks (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally by laruence)

Syntactic sugar:

* Support for function calls in `empty()` (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs by me)

* Support for `list()` in foreach (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist by laruence)

* Constant array/string dereferencing (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constdereference by laruence)

* Getting the fully qualified class name using `ClassName::class` (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class_name_scalars by ralph)

Standard library:

* Simplified password hashing API (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash by ircmaxell)

* `hash_pbkdf2()` function (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/hash_pbkdf2 by ircmaxell)

* DateTimeImmutable, which is an immutable variant of DateTime (by derick)

Key anti-features (aka BC breaks):

* Dropped Windows XP and 2003 support (by pierre)

* ext/mysql deprecated (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation by aharvey)

* preg_replace /e modifier deprecated (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_preg_replace_eval_modifier by me)

* Logo GUIDs removed (by ajf)

For the beta 1 (the next planned released) at least two more things are planned:

* Bundling of ZendOptimizer+ (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus by zeev)

* Allowing non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreach-non-scalar-keys by me)
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I'm going to change the landing page to call this out more clearly.
so join the manufacturer as a defendent or sue for contribution. Self driving cars would not be the first time in history where a third person was injured by a defective product used by a diffrent person.
There is no real compelling reason for me to upgrade. The short array syntax is nice but it's not worth spending a day or more interrupting everyone's dev environments and building packages and introducing (potential) instability into something that I live off of.
It isn't that hard to factor the downsides into the price you are willing to pay.

The internet whinging machine should focus on clear statements of what the product does and consumer education. EA should only get in trouble if they fail to make it clear that the game requires a network connection or if they fail to provide servers for the advertised period.

Selling a game with online features should not have to be a commitment to provide those features forever, so finding decent middle ground is the only solution.
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I'm collecting links to student blogs/twitter accounts/g+ feeds in data analytic disciplines. I want to highlight their contributions and hopefully help people find active students for jobs/Ph.D. programs/etc. Thanks for your help!
There's more options than $ 1,99: pricing in the App Store
You can run SQL on TB's of data if you throw fast enough nodes at it, it's not purely a data size issue, but more of a scale-out issue.

Things like joins and foreign key constraints can be very slow on widely distributed relational databases, so you end up dropping more and more functionality from your SQL to keep the performance to a maximum.

Eventually you pull out so much of the functionality from your relational database, that you end up running individual very narrow queries, and very short transactions, that you more closely mirror a key/value store than a traditional RDBMS like Oracle.

Of course, when you're someone like Amazon, then TB's of data is considered fairly small.
They did. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2013-03-06-LayerV...

Mirroring it while Github drags their feet reenabling seems fair enough.
Its funny that Mirror's Edge has been brought up. I literally completed it yesterday. I am trying to go through my back catalog of unplayed games. Ran through it on the PS3

I think it had the makings of a fantastic game and was let down by pretty much every element. Initially I found the game was pretty exciting, unfortunately getting shot at made it tedious. There was a point where I got ran over by a train and fell off my chair. First game that made that happen. (I looked left, looked right, no train. Stepped out. HONKING TRAIN! Scared the crap out of me. I play games with the TV really loud)

The cityscape was bland, the story was meh, the free running was trial and error, getting shot at constantly was pretty tedious and combat was awkward. That said the idea's in the game were good. I feel it could be rebooted into an excellent game.

I enjoy Fifa and Battlefield. I am sure there are many more in the list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games

Worryingly though EA are getting pretty good at breaking franchises. Age of Empires, Ultima Online and Sim City specifically.. Fifa on the Vita severely damaged that franchises reputation.
Thank you for your reply! I saw that you sent an email out last night, which is great. I was thinking the same thing. "I added my site and it says everything is OK on the dashboard... but no tests have been run."

Anyhow, thank you for taking my advice into consideration. I will take a look at the selenium tutorial you linked in that email.
if I were you, i'd sue them, or would send some request to the right place, for taking invalid actions towards you.
Or do what most tech savvy people on this forum who know about all of these standard launch day problems should be doing IMO. Wait a few weeks until after launch for things to calm down, monitor the status updates on the website and when the scalability issues are resolved then buy the game and happily play with minor problems for the next 5 years.
is liable for providing faulty equipment.

If a street racer modifies their car? If you didn't perform routine car washing so the sensors where unable to sense? The car was in a wreck last month and the repair shop didn't do as good a job as they should have? The car is 30 years old and stuff naturally wears out? There are so many variables that manufacturer pays maybe a first approximation to an answer but no where near the whole answer.
Vaccines don't compare to cars as much since the mere exposure to cars don't really cause injury or death. Unless they're in motion or were in the car while running (carbon monoxide poisoning).

Although so many people drive, and there are so many accidents, it isn't an imminent threat to all people. The mere exposure to a disease is often all that's needed to for it to spread to an individual's family and their families/friends and so on until we have an exponential infection rate. This puts vaccines on the critically needed list so the government stepped in to mitigate the greater harm of lacking them altogether.

I still think it will be a case of shared blame for driverless cars, although my hope is that blame would be largely unnecessary. If driverless cars can reach the same reliability of autopilots in aircraft, this will save lives.
That's quite the accusation. Any evidence?
Apparently, a petition has been started on change.org to refund SimCity customers :
http://www.change.org/petitions/electronic-arts-refund-simci...

There is another hn thread about it :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5343715
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mate and that's actually DOES NOT changes his point =) grammar Nazies should stop reading hacker news
Its hard for IT folks NOT to 'Download & Apply' the latest release to get 'that' feature. I have learned over period off time to wait for a stable release. Its possible that Car Maker releases a bug, which lets say " doesn't apply the brakes" in time. What happens say 100,000 ppl 'Download the latest automatically at night 3:00 AM " ? Who is responsible ?
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I don't think this feature is that big of a deal. I can't think of a broad audience use case.
I get that liability rules would not be simple, but how would they be different? If a car manufacturer sells cars whose brakes fade quickly and a collision occurs as a result of a driver not being able to stop fast enough, whose fault is it? It's not immediately obvious, but we have a ton of existing law to deal with situations like that.

I mean go through your examples. If your self-driving car crashes because you maintained or modified it improperly, it's your fault. If your maintenance shop did the bad maintaining or modifying, it's their fault. If there was a design or manufacturing defect, it was the manufacturer's fault. If it was nobody's fault (e.g. meteor hits car) then the insurance company pays if you insured against it and nobody is "liable" (i.e. property owner takes the loss) if you didn't.

What's the new thing? Why is it different that a car crashed because its computer improperly decided to turn left vs. because its mechanical steering mechanism failed?

This seems like a situation where something has been discovered to have a computer in it and now some people think we have to throw away the existing rules and start over for no apparent reason.
Is that what you've found running memcache/redis on the same server? I've never actually used APC for user-caching.
Vim-voogle
That's not fair to Github, IMO; service providers have next to no discretion in DMCA issues.
I was able to see the homepage but then the site went down before I could get any further.
% open .

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EDIT: And you can drag the little thumb icon in a Finder window's title over to a Terminal and it'll insert the path corresponding to that window at point.
I tried this on slightly older hardware [1] running Linux Mint 13 x86_64 and here's what I found:

First, even scrolling the website itself was slow and jerky in Firefox 19.0. When I switched to Chromium 24.0.1312.56 the website scrolled nicely. The Flash version of the game ran somewhat choppily with Flash 11.0.1.152 and I could see distinct seams in the scrolling background [2]. However, it had sound and was overall playable. When I tried the HTML 5 version it ran smoothly but felt too fast (seemingly faster than the Flash version would have been with a good frame rate) and had no sound.

The total memory/CPU usage as reported by Chromium's task manager is higher with Flash [3]. Unfortunately, it doesn't report the frame rate for Flash.

Edit WRT the game's design: when I first played the game I went to grab a power-up and my ship apparently got enveloped in some sort of a bright and colourful energy ring. I couldn't tell whether that was a good thing that happened because I picked up the power-up or a bad thing caused by an encounter with a nearby enemy bullet. I had to watch the life counter in the top right until it happened again to know for sure that that's what it looks like when my ship explodes. The explosion looks bright, colourful and pretty, and it's not immediately clear it indicates failure.

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61s; mine has an L7500 CPU.

[2] http://imgur.com/qpOIwUt

[3] http://imgur.com/gRfi5KV,E6B1oeG
and it's dead.. means it's not ready for hacker news invasion =))))
Wow that is a really interesting concept. I particularly like the way it could be deployed incrementally. I'd still have concerns over the durability of the road (especially electronoic components). Theft might be an issue too.
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Looking at your known languages my advice is:
* don´t make a world of objects and patterns
(the gang ...). These stuff is advanced and you should be
careful, there is no magic to solve all your problems.
* KISS principle
* do some data driven programming