skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard to overestimate the importance of this decision.

Had it gone the other way it would have been an utter disaster and contrary to every common sense

Still it concerns me that 3 judges sided with the publisher. In such a landmark decision even 6 to 3 seems to close a margin for comfort.
It is great to have a stable version with fast count indexes see https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1752

Best feature for me
Ah, gotcha.

If, under load, you can gracefully return an error and your user will just come back later (like the twitter fail whale), then you might as well keep your queue lengths short which close the window where a waiting user will hit refresh.

If you have some requirement that prevents the above, and have large queue lengths, then this may be very useful for you.

As well, some server configurations might not like getting the first part of the HTTP response much before the rest of it. Nginx will just buffer it all before returning the entire response to the client so it doesn't affect packetization of the response sent back to the end-user.
Greater-fool Economics
I appreciate how you compare the value add relative to the cost of the time it would take your own engineers to do it themselves.

If it isn't strategic or core to your business, don't be afraid to consider outsourcing it.
Miguel de Icaza: From "Anti-Apple" to Helping Windows Devs Go iOS/Android
MailChimp’s redesigned terms of service and privacy policy
MailChimp is one of the few web-based tech companies that's local to me.
There will always be an incentive to commit fraud as long as there's money to be made. Why doesn't a robber of houses move to a new city each time they commit a crime? There are costs to all crime, especially in the setup. If you raise the input cost to generate a reward, then you make it less attractive as an avenue to fraud. At least among the unskilled criminals.

I'll totally admit I'm skewed by operating on the data side and want to believe that my work has some lasting positive impact, and isn't a band-aid.
We offer strong_paramters as a gem for Rails 3.2 apps, and generally tell anyone doing greenfield development to start with it to make the transition easier, and because it's simply better.

You can check the upgrading guide for more details about what's changed, and a third party is selling an ebook that has a ton of good info as well.
Potentially relevant bit from the Higher Opoprtunity Education Act's textbook provision:

http://content.efollett.com/HEOA/library/HEOATextbookProvisi...
Provision C.1.c:

Publishers are required to provide [to the professor or other book chooser]...

>A description of the substantial content revisions made between the current edition of the college textbook or supplemental material and the previous edition, if any.

I'd like to see this information made public in a reliable manner. It's well and good that the professors should be enlightened about the relevant content changes, but the spirit of the HOEA is to make textbooks more affordable and purchasing more transparent. If that's really the end-goal, then forcing publishers to make that information public and consumer-facing should be the true requirement.

Until students have that, they're beholden to the professors (who may have ulterior motives) when making the purchasing decision.
The publishers will just make sure to produce a different textbook between different regions now. Just re-order the chapters a little and re-order some questions/assignments. So even if someone ships in the foreign book it will be as useless as a previous edition.

In general the whole textbook industry makes me sick. But fact is that lecturers are entirely responsible for it. The publishers can only do what the lecturers let them do, and either through apathy or greed the lecturers have shirked their responsibility to their students.
Yeah. You see that sometimes in modern JS, e.g. when pretty-printing JSON:

JSON.parse(object, undefined, 2);
This will push textbooks more heavily toward digital distribution, where the content will be "licensed" to an individual user, without resale rights.

While I applaud digital distribution, the lack of consumer rights comparable to the first sale and fair use doctrines is a large and growing problem.
A Good Look at The Real World by Marek Denko
Let me see...

Ca-ching sound vs. boring rationality... How can rationality work if nobody can know how those weard hackers think? Ca-ching for the world! (Yeah, in case you are wondering, I know what is wrong with that, you don't need to point out.)

Anyway, the most likely explanation is that Legal is following their procedures, and as usual for procedures, there can be no exception (or rationality).
Perhaps. Or have multiple domains and DNS providers and point both status subdomains to statuspage. (We created status.phaxio.com and status.phaxio.co after the whole Zerigo fiasco last year. co is on zerigo, com is on Route53 )
This is good news. Publishers charge US students much more than students in other (even high-income) countries. At least they shouldn't be able to legally prevent people from buying international edition books. The publishers often change the questions in those books, but there are ways to deal with this.

The old-textbook publishing market will probably decline in the near future as people move to digital and interactive options. This will be a big improvement, but the publishers will once again have control. There will be many free options available though.
While(1) printf(“Something’s wrong with FB News Feed \n”);
And Google Glasses? Chromebook? Nexus? Jesus this guy is plainly wrong.
I have a mid 2010 mbp with 4gb of ram and it runs pretty fast.
No it can't. The server is an inanimate object. It's like saying a broken lock can give consent for someone to enter.
I have not looked into fan-subs in a few years so you could be right. However, I have not seen a significant increase in the amount of anime translated so are you talking about 'rights' or the 'option' to buy said rights. Because, it seems odd if companies are paying significant amounts of money for distribution rights just to sit on it.

PS: Though if there is some great streaming service for anime I don't know about feel free to fill me in on that one.
Do you mind sharing the average and standard deviation for the number of bookmarks? I know this sample is not representative of the general public but I'm still curious.
http://rootkea.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/while1-printfsomethi...
Ha ha. The foreign_key_check command is going to be a lifesaver for me.

I run with foreign key support disabled, because the referencing ("child") rows might get inserted before the referencing ("parent") rows (I don't control the order of inserts).

Now I can just run a periodic scrub job with this command to clean out rows which didn't successfully transition from "violating foreign keys" to "satisfying foreign keys", instead of writing my own code.

Neat. SQLite is an awesome database library.
People who are forced to eat ramen breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not going to be able to afford multivitamins. Your idea is severely flawed.
I have heard a lot of complaints from UK nationals not being able to bring over non-EU partners if you earn under £18,600 a year. That can be tough if you are moving from your partners country and wages are not high.
> All work done by an employee on company time or using company resources is 'work for hire' (a term often misused in the software contracting industry, where it rarely applies), and that IP belongs to the company.

Even if the company is friendly today, it's worth noting that one should -never- use company-owned resources or time (including laptops) for personal projects. You can get into a situation where the a claim could be made that since company resources were utilized, that real financial value was contributed by the company towards its creation, and some ownership could be claimed.

Whether or not such a claim would eventually prevail in court is orthogonal to one's ability to fund the experience in discovery.
Actually, my friend's dairy is quite a bit larger than the average herd. It is not the largest operation that I know of, but its up there. I grew up on a small dairy operation myself and looking at other herds, the care doesn't really seem to degrade with scale. If anything, the care has improved because their scale affords more comfortable amenities that we could not afford.

Today, I have my own very small hobby grain farm. The farm next door is run by quite possibly the largest producer in the province. Other than the fact that his tractors have considerably more horsepower, and the implements are significantly wider, we do everything exactly the same way. With that, I have to say that I fail to understand what "industrial farming" even means.

With all that said, the media I have been exposed to has all been centred around the USA. Perhaps the US specifically has a real animal abuse problem on a grand scale. My exposure to farms in that country is admittedly limited. But if that is the case, why are we trying to take down the rest of the world with the faults of one country's policy on the matter?
The repost-detector has a bug that causes old posts to not conflict. Some view this as a feature to allow a new discussion after a good period of time.
Vitamin deficiency to the point of ill health effects is not "fairly common".

The persons who claim this are usually trying to push nutraceuticals at the same time.
One problem though it that it's modifying the opts parameter so it might create unwanted side-effects.

var myopts = {foo: 1}
foo(myopts)
console.log(myopts) // => {foo: 1, bar: "baz"}
Agreed. It's the perfect thing to pay someone else to run for you. Someone who's very focused on making this service great.
A little confused here...is Pastebin the communication method of choice for the President of MIT? Is this a re-posting of a letter? How have we verified that this is indeed from the President of MIT? All I see is a Pastebin guest account pasting a message with a text signature, and I don't see how that can be considered a verified communication to be commented on. I might be missing something; if so, someone please enlighten me.
How Swatting Works
So, will IP on physical media be subject to this ruling? Will this accelerate us away from being able to even buy physical copies of these items?
Customize your IRB
And don't forget to mention Google Shoes :P

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/google-shoes_n_2853...
Daily Deals for Web Apps
Or 1990.....
Because it's not okay to access data you know you shouldn't look at and threaten to sell that data to parties that would use it to harm others. The fact that nothing is stopping you from doing so does not make it okay.

The world is full of sensitive information that's basically protected on the honor system, for the same reason the world is full of unlocked doors: because we assume some assholes won't come around and abuse the situation.
You make it look like poor people are not saving because of ill will. In my experience, poor people don't save because they don't have any discretionary income, as in, you need to eat, have a shelter and clothes, and your income barely meets those needs.
The only saving grace of digital distribution of textbooks is that it (often) allows easier pirating. The availability of inexpensive used textbooks is less crucial if free PDFs are available.
I don't.

But this is analogous to TV advertisers complaining about TiVO and the ability to skip commercials. Can't stop it!
To the uninitiated, and those who like sports analytics (specifically the NBA), you should absolutely follow Zach Lowe's articles on Grantland and elsewhere. He's the best sports writer on the subject, and probably the only coherent one at that.
I installed it a couple weeks ago, and I would not recommend this yet. I have appreciated the frequent and easy update process during the beta. But, wow, still a long ways to go performance-wise. In the working copy view, where I spend the most time in ST, most clicks take seconds to respond. I'm optimistic it improves, I've been a fan of the Mac version for a while.
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The point is not so much that "megadoses" are healthy, the point is that at BEST they're wasteful.
If they are hearing the same complaints murmured (muted, more anonymized and filtered) inside the company, but saying, "whatevs, they'll stay for the paycheck", and people start walking away from the paycheck and announcing it, it might sink in.

Of course, when leaving Google for Microsoft, it's hard to claim that culture/mission/vision are really the reason for leaving, as opposed to: MSFT offered $X,000, and GOOG managers said "you're not worth that to us"
Somewhat related, I released the first version of http://datafa.me . It is a web app where you can paste data and generate a chart. Not exactly a charting library, but it will certainly evolve to provide some of the same functionality.

I actually submitted a 'Show HN' at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5401057 but it seems to have not picked up.
The MongoDB staff had said they're mostly adding text searching to satisfy a repeat request that they've heard over and over - but they've said that anyone really wanting to do text searching at scale should use something like Sphinx, Solr or ElasticSearch.
I like that - dropping the "m" in .com would retain a sense of ownership of the url.
Correct although I'd revise it to quantities not just that it exists. You can have a perfectly healthy diet while consuming around one pound per year of corn syrup. Unfortunately, you simply cannot have a healthy diet while consuming 40 pounds per year per person of corn syrup (this no exaggeration BTW since roughly 30 years ago, not 200 years ago, coincidentally about when people started getting real fat)

Also if you're a starving roman legionary living outdoors and marching 15 miles a day thru Gaul and doing hard core military training when not fighting pitched battles then what little wheat and corn you can get will not make you fat, but it doesn't work so well when you eat even more grains despite a lifestyle of sitting in a car for 2 hours a day and then at a desk for 10 hours and then watch TV for 6 hours at home on the couch and for a variety of lifestyle and economic reasons that isn't changing any time soon, although IS feasible you could maybe put down the six frosted filled donuts for breakfast and eat two sliced apples instead...
Not necessarily. I was from a modest family in Asia and went to high school (actually, I skipped most of high school as I studied on my own). I remember paying a few thousand rupees for a textbook. Most of these were printed on low quality paper and had soft or generic covers. I never thought that these books were cheap ... until I moved to North America. I noticed many books for my undergad costed over a hundred dollars. They were usually on better stock paper (I mention the paper quality not to justify the price difference but rather to describe to people who may not be familiar with the cheap books). Clearly, the North American textbook prices are higher than developing country prices.

Ultimately, I benefited greatly from the cheaper books. I doubt the end result is going to be a net-decrease in the price of books. Rather, some books might become inaccessible by the poor in developing countries. But what about the poor in developed countries, you ask? Hard question to answer.
Don't you pretty much get document level locking by using multiple $<update> modifiers in a single query?
Justice Dept. to Congress: We want greater snooping powers
My Chromebook and Nexus are full of ads.
Different premise. The inside of my home is private, and you are not allowed to look or be inside without my permission. Not to mention, you are trespassing.
Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with lock screen bug fix and more
Ironic that it's poorly designed. Arbitrary use of color, pixelated graphics, poor contrast, no responsive layout, etc.
Back in the day, I created a font on a Tablet PC using 'My Font Tool for Tablet PC' (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/powertoys-for... -- though download seems broken, you can fish it off of CNET, etc.).

Depending on your i18n requirements, it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a simple English font to match your requirements.
That would take a bit of coding, so I can't right now, but I'll see if I can hack something together later.
I see stuff like this (The original JSLinux, not the de-obfuscated one) and am simply in awe. Guys like Fabrice Bellard are on another level completely.

Someday, I am going to have to produce an emulator, just to see how it is done and to try prove that part of me that thinks maybe I am just not good enough, wrong.
> EDIT: I guess it's worth pointing out, however, that Google Now doesn't show ads.

Not yet.
Google Now shows unsolicited restaurant recommendations. They might not be paid (I don't know), but they are certainly ads.
Where's the apology? I'm just seeing general info about chartjs. Maybe there has been a change of heart?
I agree with everything you said.

Well, one with clarification. Using an epsilon only partially solves the problem. It improves the situation, but there's still an unstable region where compiler quirks will flip the results of comparisons. The only way to avoid the issue is, as you said, using a more appropriate type like rational.
7 emails!? You need to send hundreds, if not thousands.

You also need an inside journalist contact - that's how a lot of people get press/articles.
A Smuggling Trick
It looks like it is back up.
Just got an update through:

This morning a routine email was accidentally sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making them visible to anyone who received the message.

We have stopped the remaining messages in the email batch from being sent, and are investigating how this happened.

We are very sorry that your email address was accidentally shared. Your GitHub Enterprise installation is unaffected, and no license keys or any other data were exposed during this incident.

We are investigating the root cause of this email issue and will update our blog with our findings.

Again, we are very sorry this happened. Your privacy is very important to us and we will be making changes to ensure that this does not happen again.

If you have any further questions please email us at support@github.com
The new text book thing isn't a requirement — but (a) professors get copies of the new books for free and (b) the publishers make just enough changes between editions to make it hard to use old versions (different question, vocab words, etc.), so that teachers prefer all students to have the same version ... and this is only an option for the new books.

Text books are somewhat irrelevant however — the Court upholding the first sale doctrine is fantastic, and hopefully will open the doors for lots more exporting / importing.
"Why aren't liquid foods like this being supplied to under-nourished children in the 3rd world already?"

There is an abundance of food, it just doesn't get to where it needs to go because the rest of those governments' infrastructure need to be fixed along with the starving children.
Chart.js is back online
Yes, from the viewpoint of a game developer, the DOM is extremely, painfully, awfully, ridiculously slow and completely useless other than static HUDs. With the DOM, we can move only hundreds of sprites at 60 fps (on the latest Core i7!). HTML5 Canvas can achieve thousands but it's also far from native (and the function of Canvas is very poor).

WebGL can gain acceptable performance in many situations, but there is still much overhead.

I suspect today's most web developers don't know the true performance of computers they are actually using.
Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product
Pretty much everything. Slow to load, slow to refresh, slow dialog boxes.

Other stuff on my system is quite fast.
Agreed, I have team members that are still struggling with Git after 6 months because of issues remembering the right command line and needing to jump back and forth between CLI and Git Extensions for various use cases. Having one interface will make their lives easier. I'm hopeful for a performance boost from ST before I recommend it though.
It should be pennies to an NBA franchise (when they are spending millions on players who don't play). Unfortunately, owners like Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling are notorious for refusing to spend on marginal upgrades like a quality visitors locker room, or a a full support staff. Even Paul Allen has a reputation for refusing to pay for a high quality training staff in Portland - probably a bit undeserved since he seems to spend on other important things and I can't imagine why training staff would be something he ignores. Also, there is a floor for player salaries that must be met.

The analytics vs. coaching issue is a real one too, but don't discount owners being cheap.
Either get a thicker skin or stop sending unsolicited email. The general etiquette is to organically share the link via social media -- at worst, @reply key people asking them to take a look.
That there is quite scary! May have to investigate "NoScript" a bit more closely...
In this case, I think the "if you're under 18" thing is something of a red herring. I agree that they should have been tried as adults, but I don't know how much that would actually have changed the outcome. The minimum sentences set by the judge are, sad to say, actually comparable to what many adults convicted of rape eventually serve.
Poemizer - A tool for remembering poems
I'd misunderstood some of the issues I wrote about earlier in regard to the library. It is now back online for good, licensed under MIT. Sorry for all this kerfuffle.
This proposal isn't remotely believable. Quoting from http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120813/srep00572/fig_tab/sre... some 4.8E11 kg of tephra and lava came from the eruption.

That's 480,000,000 tons, or 1/8th of the world's production of concrete.

So, let's build a cover which can hold down an eruption. That will need to be stronger than rock, and able to withstand the force that can eject 250 million cubic meters of tephra up to 9km above the ground. How much material do you think is needed?

Think of it this way - the entire mass of the volcano isn't enough to keep the eruption from happening. The ice cap on Eyjafjallajökull wasn't able to cool it down enough. Human-produced dry ice certainly wouldn't be anywhere near enough. And if it were enough, the sublimated CO2 pouring off the side of a volcano near Mexico City would suffocate many more people than Lake Nyos ever did.

Even if it could be covered and cooled down, there's a lot of energy underneath the surface. If it's blocked, it will easily find a new route.

Which means that this is, as is obvious from the first glace, a bunch of architects who had a chance to ignore reality to make something which sounds cool.
The supreme court does not "side with" any particular party (ideally); they "side with" a specific interpretation of the law.

If you read both the court's opinion and the dissenting opinion, you'll see that the dissenting opinion is strictly based on interpretation. The supreme court not only attempts to interpret how to apply the law, but determine what congress' intent was when enacting the law.
You can always go to the [enlightend] source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/reif-letter-swartz-docume...
> The only guaranteed antidote to this kind of fraud is performance advertising (pay per sale).

It's guaranteed, but it probably won't work: "Thanks for doing business with us -- by the way, where did you hear about us?" "Online, but I forget where."

Advertisers need to be able to associate an advertisement with a result. Otherwise the effectiveness of advertising is a myth.
Reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's an incredible novel, but very dense and over 1000 pages. It's a trek, but has been so worth it so far.
SSD or platter? I use a hard disk, so that might be the cause.