skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken, but small beer IMO; I use parens in boolean expressions because I can never remember the precedence of && vs ||, so would naturally use them here too.

And I don't buy the fact that << is somehow off limits because it's used for bitshift; the domain of usage is usually disjoint, although one would have to squint to grok the outputting of a bitshifted value to a stream - but how frequent is that?

Yes the << notation isn't perfect, but it is much nicer than named functions (and certainly superior to < (which Stroustrup initially considered)!). Adding arbitrary operators to the language would have required mechanisms to define associativity and precedence, which would have added a weight of complexity disproportionate to the reward.
Summly shutting down, better alternative comming soon
It seems like some context might be missing here.
What if this had been Akamai and not Cloudflare? Would we even hear about it? Why is Cloudflare in the news regularly and never Akamai? Do they just like drama? Is that good or bad for their business?
I am pretty happy using Debian testing with xfce4. It also gives you a minimalistic and traditional desktop. It's perfect for me because I am actually too lazy to configure some fancy window manager and other stuff. Also, everything just works out of the box.
... and in the darkness bind them? Let's hope so.
>I bet Formspring STILL, TODAY, weeks before shutting down, has more DAUs than Quora

Of course, Alexa numbers require a grain of salt, but it looks like Quora's traffic has been higher for a while: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&h=220&o=f&c...
Wow, this is great. I feel like stuff like this can change the web. Have you thought about building a CDN with it?
That can't be it; there's nothing in there about repayment or treating the loan as equity rather than debt.
Check mark means image loaded. Color indicates source. Sorry for bad UX. I was lazy and didn't find a good UTF symbol for X.

It's using the https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.URL.crea... API to get data on page, so not slow and inefficient like data urls
That's what

$ gitk

is for.
Just use AppHarbor.
http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v...
Oh, I just noticed that it was listed a second time in the drop-down and when I choose the lower one it worked. Yay, now I get to explore the website!
Since these benchmarks are so wide-ranging, I agree. But that means setting up an entire new testbed on Windows, and then trying to make it comparable to the other platform testbed; possibly tuning. You need a Windows expert to do this. My question is, why aren't Windows experts setting these up?
Good thing you opted against sensational journalism.

About the cost per additional line of code for PHP, it mainly comes from not having an opcode cache and having to load and interpret files on every visit. mod_php was and will always be trash. I commented earlier about it too.

In case of Ruby, and talking about Rails, even when using Passenger, the rails app is cached via a spawn server. That's not the case with PHP.

Similarly, Python has opcode cache built-in (.pyc files). Also, I am not sure about gunicorn but others do keep app files in-memory.

Servlet does the same about keeps apps in memory. You get the idea.

Frameworks definitely have an impact but it's very hard for one person to know the right configuration for every language. You had done some good work there, but it will take a lot of contributions before the benchmark suite becomes fair for every language/framework.
Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M
A more fitting analogy would be:

"Gee, why doesn't Google not sue people who created their own MapReduce (which Google has a number of patents on) implementations?"

Of course the problem with that is they don't sue others who use MapReduce, because while they aren't perfect, Google is pretty good about not abusing the legal system (unlike quite a few tech companies I could name).
Yes, but one-on-one counselling is expensive and error-prone. In an ideal world everyone had access to a doctor that has the time and spirit to treat all of his patients with dedication and positivity.

In the real world enrollment to medical schools is heavily throttled and doctors in cities have many more patients then they can cope with.

There might be enough psychiatrists and other therapists, but they are not believed to be able to cure physical pain (even though they are), which renders them less effective. This is why these therapists rely so much on these medications that seem to have little effect over placebos.
I agree. Thx.
There as yet to be a third flight. DARPA is surprisingly open about the Falcon HTV-2 test flights. The releases have included more info that I would have expected.

DARPA was actually live tweeting the 2nd flight.
And yet by participating in this society you are directly supporting their ability to make such decisions, whether they side with or against you on a given issue.

If you actively pursue one of the many methods available to effect change, you can only do so via the same channels that allowed others to set up the status quo. Even securing a constitutional amendment against such laws would just underscore the right and ability of others to pursue their own amendment to overturn yours.

The only way to secure your victory would be to end representative democracy. And of course no other method of government would deliver a guarantee to respect your freedom to make such decisions free from their meddling.

So all that's left is no government.
You might want to check out the NANOG mailing list. There is also a list of Internet exchange points [1], these pages are packed with details about how many of them function.

TCP/IP and Internet topology are different things. Think of it this way, internet topology is the highway, and TCP/IP is a vehicle that travels the highway (along with UDP, ICMP, etc).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_point...
Around $220K. Less than a third for a decent condo in major cities.
The Scala compiler takes so long in comparison to javac though
Wow, that's by far the best looking Linux distro I've seen. Judging from the screenshots, Fuduntu, like most distros, is pretty fugly. ElementaryOS actually looks like it has someone making UX choices and creating a consistent design language. The system font isn't great and type could really use some font smoothing, but that's the case with all Linux distros I know of.

They're even working on a curated App Store: http://elementaryos.org/journal/introducing-appcenter

I think this is exactly what Linux needs to become a platform consumers like to use. Once it's out of beta, I'm definitely going to install ElementaryOS.

Screenshots: http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready
still skeptical, but looking forward to this. Like the functionality n design. Could ease a lot of things for me...keep on going guys
I imported data from facebook but the button still says skip. I think it's done but I can't tell. I'll push the skip button but hopefully it doesn't actually skip anything.
> Diehr, 450 U.S. at 188-178; establishes that if the patent is for a particular application of an abstract idea, but not for the abstract idea itself, it may be patentable.

So what does that mean, "a^2 + b^2 = c^2" cannot be patented, but "using 'a^2 + b^2 = c^2' to find the length^2 of the hypotenuse of a right triangle" in theory could be (were it "invented" today of course)?
Swear like a sailor? Don't sweat it.
It is currently enabled in nightly (Fx22) and Aurora (fx21). No promises it won't get turned off in Fx21 before ship but that appears to be the current target release.
> And the reddits, Hacker News and open sources folks of the world will complain

So here is the problem. People on Hacker News and Reddit will complain. But people at Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc, keep filing tons of patents. From the perspective of judges and Congressmen, it seems from the outside that everything is fine (every industry, of course, has its discontents).

That's the basic problem--until you can get the big players on board, nothing will change. The Federal Circuit has its biases, but it's not necessarily a "pro patent" bias. Instead, its a pro-Big Science bias. There's nobody on the Federal Circuit from a startup background, but there are judges who used to be engineers and scientists at DuPont, Monsanto, etc. Engineers in Big Science have a different view on patents than startup folks. Their big worries are stuff like: if the Chinese blatantly rip off our technology, can we fight them in the ITC? They don't care about frivolous patent law suits, because a few million dollars here and there isn't even a drop in their legal budgets. This is not a value judgment, it's a description of the state of affairs: the balancing that seems reasonable between defending real innovation from copying and protecting small companies from frivolous lawsuits seems very different when engineering as you know it is Dow, DuPont, etc, than when it's Rackespace, Redhat, etc.
If you're going to quote Elon Musk, you might also quote him pointing out that there is a good chance we have new future hydrocarbon fuels sources (fracking, I think, and its cousins) that will ensure cheap fuel for a very long time. Limited sources of fuel is not a good argument.
How many rural villages in China were polluted from a nearby factory producing components of the computer you used to make this post?

Every single person posting in this thread is guilty of consuming far more resources than a majority of global inhabitants. The time and energy to even have this specific debate is mark of privilege. What's the solution? A global return to agrarian subsistence living?

I get where you are coming from, but I think the battle is already lost. The "haves" have always, intentionally or not, screwed over the "have-nots", and while it varies by degrees based on how little or much you "have", it ultimately comes down to the innate selfish nature of creatures living in a world of scarcity.
Thanks! Right now, our seed investments per startup have ranged from ~$100k to over $500k. We have publicly announced about $4M of FundersClub investments. The $26M figure is the total capital going to our portfolio companies--other VCs frequently lead, co-invest, or follow-on to our investments, leveraging our own capital. We have invested in more than 8 startups but have not yet announced them publicly.
It was suggested long ago (I think it goes back to Milton Friedman, even). I don't think it's a terrible idea when you compare it with the current alternatives: equally large student loans with sky-high fixed interest rates that you have to pay regardless of how unsuccessful you are and which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy and will destroy your life. A tithe of your income sounds like a much better alternative.
1) The link does not talk about Summly shutting down, SOURCE?
2) The linked pages says "a clone of Summly is coming soon, give me your email address" - hmm, NOP, you gotta fight harder to get mine
3) You're not bringing any value with this link, why even put it on HN?
4) your title: comming soon, it's only one "m"
5) Thanks for wasting our precious time
Telnet spaceclaw.net
Great post. When will search engines start punishing keyword stuffing below the fold - hell, below the footer? For example, Google 'flowers' and scroll to the bottom of the top three sites. Other than bots, no one reads this 8pt font noise.
IGDA draws backlash, member resignations over female dancers at GDC party
That was a very nicely worded response that echos what, I hope/believe, most of us think.

Plus; that was in ASCII. Damn. :)
It seems like my system is more prone to breaking when I use obscure distros. I might think a distro's choices were totally awesome but if not many other people are using it and/or the development is not that active, and I expect it to 'just work,' then I'm going to have a bad time.
Should have transformed into a dating site. Could have made millions.
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Master List of HTML5/JS/CSS Resources
So it's just about desperation? We're witnessing another respected technology company morphing into a patent troll, like it happened to SCO?

That's incredibly sad.
Ask HN: How can I complete a project?
Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to this.

I am a self-taught programmer. I used to teach a PHP/MySQL course at a community college. I currently work in technical support for a web hosting company. I'm really good at fixing errors in other people's code or adding new features. I suck at taking my own projects from start to finish.

I will start a new project and make tons of progress. Then, I won't have time to look at it for a couple of days. When I try to continue, I can understand the code but I have no idea where I was going with it. I'll either want to rewrite large sections of code or start over.

I document lines of code as I write them but I have no idea how to plan or document the project itself. I started using an IDE (Netbeans) but I still use it like a plain text editor.

I've used frameworks including CodeIgniter and Laravel before but I still end up with a mess.

How can I plan/organize my code/workflow to become a professional programmer? Any websites or books you could recommend would be appreciated.
I like this other quote by Sam better: startups: growth solves nearly every problem, and if you don't have growth nothing will solve your problem.

(Ref: https://twitter.com/sama/status/289918007151583232 )

Corollary: if you don't have growth, endurance will not solve your problem.
a red checkmark is bad to indicate failing, you should use a red X instead..
This incident drives home the fact that there is no one entity responsible for "The Internet." It is run by a network of for-profit companies, governments, and non-profit public and private standards bodies.
Context: http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw...

" I mean business when I say I’ll take anyone on who wants to fight me. You think you can take me, I’ll pay to rent a boxing ring and beat your fucking ass legally. Remember that I’ve studied enough martial arts to be deadly even though I’m old, and I don’t give a fuck if I kick your mother fucking ass or you kick mine. You don’t like what I’ve said, then write something in reply but fuck you if you think you’re gonna talk to me like you can hurt me."
"In the second case, you're not patenting the algorithm, because people remain free to use the algorithm to do things other than sorting lists of restaurant recommendations."

That doesn't make the situation any better, in my mind. In fact, in many ways that makes it worse.

Step 1) File patent for using algorithm (everyone knows) to do (some obvious application of that algorithm).

Step 2) Wait around for some other poor sucker to do the hard work of actually implementing "your" idea.

Step 3) Profit!
Could you patent the application of a law of physics/chemistry, where a new one discovered? Or could Feynman have patented using Feynman diagrams to visualize interactions between particles?
Math can't be patented and yet you can get a patent for code snippets? This sounds absurd since all code boils down to mathematical manipulation of binary numbers. I guess if you abstract something enough you can get away with patenting it? Can we patent methods of preparing food now? How about ways to put something together (think ikea)?
Why hasn't anyone patented something like the smartphone yet people can patent something as arbitrary as memory management techniques?
I would say I hate our patent system but I'm just too damn confused by it to form an opinion or explain why I hate it.
http://peerkit.com/
Who is guilty of the sensationalized piece? My impression was that it was cloudflare itself.
Yes, I'd definitely like to see Slim tested as a light framework. People keep mentioning Silex as a "light" framework, but I've found it to be almost as heavy as Symfony2 (which isn't much of a surprise considering it's just Symfony2 components strapped together).
It's not April 7th.
So patents solve the incentive problem, just like copyright. Copyright solves the incentive problem when "writing masses of software" is the hard part. Patents solve the incentive problem when "figuring out what software to write" is the hard part. Take things like garbage collectors. Even the most complex are only 15,000-20,000 lines of code. Writing those lines of code was the easy part--it was figuring out what that code should do, and doing all the testing to figure out what worked and what didn't that was the hard part.
Cloudflare uses it as advertising. "Look at this attack we mitigated for our client!", which then gets picked up by HN and similar sites because Cloudflare does write fairly good blog posts about it. As others have said, Cloudflare does a fairly good job explaining parts of the internet that most of us don't get to see, so it gets attention.
I want China and India and Africa to have first-world standards of living, with similar per-capita GDPs. That will be awesome, both for them as well as for the US and Europe.
Yes, 10,000 years is a long enough time to create a whole new species under normal circumstances. Under the forced breeding that people do, it goes even faster. But normally a species is pretty well adapted to its environment and does not have trivially obvious improvements to make, and therefore changes slowly.

Therefore the the average mammalian species manages to survive mostly unchanged for about a million years or so (figure shamelessly stolen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_extinction_rate - and they cite a 1993 study for it). Thus one would expect, on average, that 97% of the mammalian species that were around 30,000 years ago that to still be around and recognizably be the same kind of animal.

This is not actually so, and the main reasons are extinction events caused by people, and the effects of domestic breeding on chickens, dogs, carrots, tomatoes, and so on. But outside of types of things created by humans, there aren't a whole lot of new species running around that didn't exist in pretty close to their current form 30,000 years ago.

For example there is likely less genetic difference between you and our ancestors 30,000 years ago than there is between you and an Australian aborigine.
I'm Josh, the author of the TechCrunch article. I've updated the post to reflect the differences between equity crowdfunding and the online venture capital model FundersClub uses. I've also noted that WeFunder takes the broker-dealer route.
Word. Respects given to serving in text/plain (as is proper in this context).
1) In theory you wouldn't be able to file patents without a working prototype--we've unfortunately gotten away from this requirement;

2) That assumes "implementing the algorithm" is the hard part.
I'd add Mozilla Persona, it's very easy to do.
Definitely good for their business that many people think it was a groundbreaking attack and CloudFlare stood strong against it.
He is actually a very nice person to be around and work with. Besides being professional and experienced he is also outspoken with a firm opinion.

You might think that's being a jerk, I think that's honest and reliable.
The Point Of A Startup Is To Make Money, Not To Raise Money
Why Play benchmark is running on Resin? Shouldn't it be directly on top of Netty?
I hope this turns out well. As a dot-bomb survivor I recognized that a big chunk of that bubble was gullible 'retail' investors and unscrupulous people happy to separate them from their money. One CEO at the time remarked "these folks have more enthusiasm for the company than I do, that seems backwards."

My worry is that we'll get a race of people who have only seen (or read about) startups that when from a hundred thousand dollar investment into billions, dumping money they cannot afford to lose into these things. That would trigger a bunch of excess capital seeking outlet and result it being used inefficiently, and when these folks learned about the "9 out of 10 start-ups don't make money for their investors" truism, they will be angry and litigious. The latter because it was shown in the previous bubble that someone who invests 25,000 in a company with a sock puppet spokespuppet, loses most of that investment while the CEO gets a nice golden parachute package, is an easy mark for a plaintiff attorney looking to drum up business. Its a circle of pain.

So knowing it can go wrong and be painful, lets be smart about avoiding that ok?
As much as I don't like stuff being hidden from me I think this is a good move. The title made me think it was a permanent move but it's just till this update is completed. The bad part of this is, that it's obviously a very serious vulnerability...
"Do you need to create a business dashboard for your company?..."

It seems very a-typical for a funded company to be offering consulting services. I guess if you are out of money, your investors would probably rather see you survive with some consulting, but as long as you are funded...?
This is an interesting tradeoff between responsible security and open source transparentness that the Postgres team is facing. I personally think this is a good way to handle a situation with a serious bug, but there are some questions it raises...

Is Postgres working with downstream teams to have everything in place to do a coordinated security release? For instance, are they working with the likes of Debian's security team (for example) to not only make the direct source pullable, but also have releases available to as many users as possible in the platform preferred formats?

If they are, how do they do keep this under wraps? It seems like the kind of thing that would require a fairly wide "pre-disclosure", and managing trust in a large network gets hard.
Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
drpeering.net

I like his map of US peering as well:

http://drpeering.net/white-papers/shared_images/USInterconne...
Mozilla has a submission process for Firefox extensions wherein the extension is manually reviewed by a Mozilla developer before being allowed in the add-on marketplace. I know from experience that extensions with XSS vulnerabilities fail inspection and are not hosted in the market until the code is fixed.

As far as I can tell, Chrome lets you upload pretty much whatever you want into the Chrome webstore.

I'd be curious whether Firefox extensions have these issues in even close to the same proportions as Chrome extensions.
IMO/IME, implementing is always the hard part.

I agree with your #1 though in that I think you should absolutely be required to have a working prototype to file a successful patent. A lot (though not all) of my objections to software patents would go away if that were enforced.
Except when it does. Many/most startups experience the trough of sorrow ( http://andrewchen.co/2012/09/10/after-the-techcrunch-bump-li... ). Hard to know when to throw up the white flag... But the ones that win certainly refused to do so when all/most of their data showed them that they should.

tl;dr irrational (at the time) perseverance is a necessary but not sufficient trait for startup success.