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These talks are about the STEPS project from former PARC and ARPA guys, how a modern computing environment from the metal up can be reduced to a mere 20KLOC, about a factor of 1000 code reduction with the use of carefully designed DSLs

They also redefine what an OS and the Web (Hypercard style) means by removing as much accidental complexity as possible.

"Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The "Personal Computing Experience" Be Programmed?"
http://vimeo.com/10260548

"Alan Kay: Extracting Energy from the Turing Tarpit" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8jyPqsmxE

"Alan Kay: Programming and Scaling"
http://www.tele-task.de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/

"Ian Piumarta - To trap a better mouse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeN2IC7N0Q

Papers here http://vpri.org/html/writings.php
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Any good developer should recognize that encoding. :-)
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I know that %98 of times all you need is download jQuery, but you can learn some little things of how frameworks work making your own tiny-framework.
And more RAM. It's be awesome to be able to dock to 128-256GB of RAM with my Macbook Air.
I've made a backbone adapter a while a go:
https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie.js/blob/master/stuff/back...

shouldn't be hard to make one for Angular. Happy to help
Will pulling AppGratis from the App Store create a true meritocracy?
> Oh, a hipster framework.

Never attribute to hipsterism what could adequately be explained with picking priorities :)

The hoodie backend works anywhere node and Couch work (anywhere, really), it’s just that the local dev setup with the fancy domains and everything is tailored to Mac OS X. We have Linux support in the works.
1) The risk profile of small investors and large investors is different. Large investors, due to the fact that the utility curve of money is not linear, are more prone to risky investments with a part of their portfolio.

2) High risk investments are needed to get out of local maxima. One easy example is electric cars. They're obviously inefficient today, because oil based transportation is a local maximum for the utility of cars. In twenty years? Probably gasoline powered automobiles will be a minority of sales. Another easy example: private space exploration (spaceX, Virgin Galactic and such). Hardly profitable today, probably very profitable in a few decades.
HTML5 Feedback Form with CSS3 Transitions
There's no "there" there.
Nope. Not a joke. Lots of love from all over the world: http://lod-cloud.net/

The number one difference between RDF and CSV (TSV in you case) is that it's understandable by a computer. CSV is simple parsable, while RDF comes with all the meta data the computer needs.
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If you provide a /search?query=%s endpoint I would build an Alfred V2 Workflow for it. Downloading the whole documents.jsonp file each time is slow.
You can buy excellent support for PostgreSQL at quite cheap prices actually. Especially since you just have to pay for the support and not any license.
Your account is 20 days old. From the HN Guidelines: [1]

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just use the instance storage instead of EBS. Then write a script to move the AOF file from instance storage to EBS/S3
Internet Explorer supports the installation of additional scripting languages ... or at least it used to.
Oops! Thanks for the correction. I guess I missed that detail.

$9/home/month or $110/home/year for 5 years is even more manageable, though!

Edit: I see now where militiaman21 requested that the title be updated to "over 5 years" per new information. When I posted my numbers, the title said annually. I thought maybe I had missed something in the text.
I think companies are starting to take advantage of what has always been a "look the other way" loophole in the system. In the past internships led almost directly to jobs, now they essentially lead to nothing, with companies saying that they are offering valuable experience. Internships used to be about giving new hires a place to start in the company, and work their way up. Now internships are essentially unpaid <12 month contract jobs that are revolving doors for young people with no chance of a job when the contract is up.

Young people are now hopping from unpaid internship to unpaid internship, creating a new kind of working poor.

The situation can't last, I think this is just the start of a pushback.
Responding to trolls probably does more to decrease the quality of discourse than the original troll does, since those typically get voted into oblivion relatively quickly.

Tossing in a belittling jab at another website to boot doesn't help either.
eliben is right. Last year the visas were available until June. The year before that it was sometime in November, and the year before that it was sometime in December. But, based on last year's pattern all attorneys predicted it would be reached on April 1st this year.

IIRC, it was in 2007/2008 when the cap was reached on day1.
In the US, I would never say "The government have shut down" or "The team have lost." I would treat them as singular entities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_mergi...
Actually, submitting the slides is the norm. I just find it odd because when I actually read slides, and then walk the talk after, I notice that the slides alone don't cut it. I'd rather listen to the talk instead.

But I guess it depends on the person
I'm glad that someone posted this :) See also a longer spin of of this talk at the more decent dotJS conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8
> putting the graphics card off-motherboard.

Honestly its still not very good at that. Its 'doable' but for intensive applications, it can't come even close to internal connections. For comparison a PCI Express 3.0 x16 link provides 16GB/sec in each direction to main to memory. Thunderbolt '1.0' only offers 1.25GB/sec in each direction per channel, use both channels and you get to 2.5GB/sec putting you in the neighborhood of the old AGP x8 protocol in terms of total bandwidth. Double it for 'thunderbolt 2.0' and its still only 5.0GB/sec. And then there is latency....
CouchDB has validations, we just don’t use them yet, you are welcome to, though :)
Ron Johnson (former Apple retail chief) out from JC Penney
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What about industries such as design, crafts or acting? They also hire H1Bs but cannot afford as high salaries as software engineering firms.
> She is essentially the reason the UK still uses Pound sterling and not the Euro.

How so? She was out before Maastricht was signed. Germany wasn't even unified when she was around.

She lost her job because frankly she presided over 3 terms in which she completely lost her mind part-way through the second and into the third and had to be removed by her own party who saw the writing on the wall. We don't have a term limit in the UK (and perhaps we should), but I still remember the "We have become a grandmother" moment which may sound trivial but was a shining example of how mental she became towards the end.

I would say if anything the thing leading to her being stabbed in the back was the way the poll tax was handled. The conservatives knew that if pushed through it gave Labour a credible chance of re-election, and that her reactions to it rendered her completely uncontrollable. They needed someone that senior tories could manage, which is why we had John Major (who for my money was one of the best PM's we had in a long time).
I honestly don't know about the economics of it. But threatening to leave a whole city (Liverpool) to rot was typical - and the fact that she is still sung about at football matches over 20 years after she was forced out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x...) shows how deep the scars run.

Some people think she was involved in a class war - I don't, I think she honestly believed in social mobility (unlike the current government which is rule by the rich for the rich). But she did devastate huge parts of the country and just regarded it as a fact, not even something to be regretted.
I think it is more like %68.5

>>> 85.000 / 124.000
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24 hours of ambient engine noise from the USS Enterprise
I am in Europe and, yes, I'm free to deny the holocaust publicly and I'm free to sell WWII memorabilia. Portugal does not suffer from public order problems with neo nazi groups.

It will take probably one more generation for Germany to be able to lift those restrictions. WWII was a big event, and it is emotionally charged still today. I think their approach to limiting free speech is an extraordinary measure to deal with extraordinary circumstances. It is not an easy decision, was heavily discussed among Germans, and is widely accepted by the population. While not ideal, it's acceptable and well managed. And limited in time.
The big data lock and key
The article claims it is possible to know who makes transactions, but does not explain it. Anyone have any more detail?
That's already how Google Fiber works:

https://fiber.google.com/how/

A neighborhood has to reach a critical mass of reservations before Google will commit to a rollout.
I opened a Simple account with $500 and have not done a thing since then. Anything I need to do I can do fine with Chase, Wells Fargo, and my normal credit cards that accumulate frequent flyer miles. I also have an online savings account at Capital 360 (used to be ING Direct).

There are two reasons I haven't done anything with Simple: (1) getting money in and getting money out seems to be a bit of a pain (or at least I don't want to spend the microseconds required to figure it out); and (2) it's not a joint account with my wife.

Oh. And I like the frequent flyer miles that I get on my credit card. Three reasons.

And my current banking is acceptable, even if it isn't overwhelmingly fabulous. Four reasons.

And Chase and Wells Fargo have ATMs everywhere. Five reasons why.

/cue Monty Python etc.

One of the credit unions down the street from me rebranded itself as Simplicity Bank. http://simplicitybank.com. I wonder whether simple, minimal, etc. is all a fashion trend that will come and go.

Any bank that acquires YNAB http://www.youneedabudget.com and hosts it internally on their servers will get my business. THAT would be great.

However, the frequent flyer miles. I keep coming back to that. We run almost all of our business expenses through credit cards every month and as a result generate a metric ton of frequent flyer miles therefore free flights to places. That's real money.
Putting Strayer and Phoenix in charge of immigration is not wise.
Unfortunately I doubt that would work very well, even thunderbolt 2.0 is no where near the bandwidth of internal RAM and more importantly for many applications, the latency would be terrible.
What do you find is complex about cherry-picks?
An example scenario might play out thusly: Fred checks in the production configuration credentials (lets say mysql configuration for this example) in a file called passwords.php. Senior developer Bob Van Gogh checks out the project but needs to connect to his local mysql instance to develop. He edits the configuration file and hacks away on his feature. Somewhere along the way he accidentally commits passwords.php with his changes. Eventually his code is deployed and suddenly the app servers can't connect to the database. Bob's no good at football but he's a good developer and now thanks to that accident his reputation is tarnished beyond the football pitch too.

Configuration like that should be managed by something that isn't susceptible to these accidental changes.

As you mention it, security is an issue too. The fewer people who know the passwords to anything the better and the more you can keep the passwords from going over the wire the better.
You need a professional to make sure you get everything that you're entitled to and someone who knows how to negotiate so she gets the most appropriate terms.

For example, if she does this on her own, she might be well compensated but also unknowingly give up her copyrights in te deal. A good lawyer will be her advocate and make sure she understands everything she is about sign.
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What do you mean that git is used by expert users? Expert in what, git? If that is true, then I agree with you that you need to be an expert in git to be able to use it efficiently and not second guess yourself constantly when you come across a problem.

I agree that git's internal design is very well thought out. Its interface is very inconsistent though.
Chrome has been doing this a fair while now, not very well in my opinion either - the option to enable secure content is hidden away in a tiny silver shield at the right of the URL bar.
Indeed, most of the benchmarking of the core PostgreSQL team is done on Linux. Some of those optimizations also benefit Windows but there is little dedicated performance work for platforms outside Linux as far as I can see from reading the mailing lists.
some still don't...

Most still don't!
I'm ok with saying it can't be sold. Note that a lot of writers, for example, don't sell copyright outright. They instead license somebody to be, say, the US hardback and paperback publisher for their work.

A lifetime standard is only as capricious as life itself. Given that the laws are made to serve human needs, I'm ok with it drawing a distinction between serving living ones and dead ones.
>But the point is: if google fiber in 3 cities means comcast gets better in 1000, that's a win for google.

Unfortunately, what it means in practice is that Comcast will get better in exactly 3 cities.
On the one hand, adding to standard browser engines support for multiple scripting languages, instead of just Javascript, is a cool idea, and something that probably should have happened a long time ago.

On the other hand, the fact that this currently requires the user to install it first, seems to make it less portable than a compile-to-JS solution like Opal (http://opalrb.org/). At least until standard support for multiple scripting languages actually does get introduced to browser engines.

Cool project, regardless!
Off-topic:

Your landing page video is about 1:30 too long. After 40 seconds conversions take a dive, and people just leave. Are you testing this?I would also add a description in text, for those who cannot or will not watch the video.I do like the graphics, and the product might turn out to be something.
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Ex-Apple Retail Chief Ron Johnson Out at JC Penney
Your story doesn't back up the claims you're making.

To be honest, I'm surprised you got any developer position at all with a physics major. If you wanted to do web development, why did you get a physics degree? It's like saying "I want to be a doctor" and then getting a law degree. College is training, and you trained to be an entry level physicist. There are plenty of recent CS grads looking for jobs, and their major is at least somewhat related to the job they're applying for.

Yeah, it sucks you had a hard time, but it's not surprising, and it's hard to feel bad for you given the choices you made.
That is correct, 2007 was the first year this whole mess started, and resulted in the creation of a lottery system. It was the year I got my H1B, and I didn't know until late June - early July if I made it or not ...
I wonder what they used to make that noise? It sounds a little like being inside a jetliner.
Water is both a matter of public trust and run by the town, at least here in Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), North Carolina USA. It never gets shut down (unless you don't pay for 2 whole months, and even then only if you're under 65 years old), they send out water tests every quarter, and about 5 years ago they switched over to smart water metrics using Aquasense modules.

We as taxpayers subsidized fiber in this country, we should (as they have in England with BT) force incumbents to share those subsidized lines to competition. Let the competition worry about the last 200 feet leading to my house. Because Buddha knows the incumbents aren't too worried about running it.

For better or worse, we actually are trying to do something about universal care. It's just that there is a particular generation of voters and lawmakers that are truly afraid of losing their level of care to cover who they view as younger and less deserving generations/cultures/people.
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A month ago this would have seemed perfectly sensible, but if this is just a platform for experimentation and data-gathering, why do another city? Austin is apparently similar in demographics to Kansas City, so I'm not sure you'd get considerably different results, and I can't imagine KC is too small to provide a reasonable sample... seems like there has to be more going on here than that.
> This isn't correct. Aereo only rebroadcasts local market channels to local market subscribers. I in SF can't get NY based content, this would get shutdown quick (See Ivi TV [1])

You're missing the point. Cable companies also only rebroadcast local market channels to local market subscribers. The difference is that they pay the broadcast networks for that right. But if Aereo can get away with not paying, so can they.
That's not universally true: some states (e.g., California) take a wider view of freedom of speech beyond what first amendment allows and protected freedom of speech in certain kind of privately-owned spaces (e.g., malls open to the public). Supreme Court has upheld this, in a case that happened a few miles from my home:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Ro...
Ask HN: Trending technologies worth learning now?
As a computer scientist, If I want to start learning a technology whose demand is and will remain increasing, be it software development, artificial intelligence, or computer security for example, which one should it be?
You're assuming the problem is "run everywhere all the time."

Plenty of projects are underway to get code that runs on "some of the machines very well all the time". asm.js, Google Native Client, and now that Blink has become a thing, I'll bet Dart gets it own VM in the most popular web browser in the world.
Authorization is hard, so why bother doing it at all?
Hmm, and a rumor came out yesterday on Mac sites, from a source that "has been correct in the past", that the new Mac Pro will be announced this month.

If that's so, could it have this? Check this comment again on April 30th!
Do the affected pages currently show a warning in Firefox 22?
Media in general tends to revolve around scandal and outrage, including the scandal and outrage over how the media revolves around scandal and outrage.
Honest question: what are the security concerns here? Ruby's $SAFE isn't really that great.
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IE7 and IE8 will download stylesheets that use protocol relative urls twice.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4831741/can-i-change-all-...
Yep, I use FF Nightly and Pocket's bookmarklet, noticed that the bookmarklet broke in this new version, and notified Pocket Support.
I also use the cli heavily for the reasons you've listed. I also use vim as my primary editor so the prompt is only a ctrl+z or :sh away.
This is no where near fast enough for RAM, for DDR3 you need at least 50Gbps for the slowest PC3-6400, while for much more common PC3-12800 your looking at 100Gbps.
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I don't know the specifics (obviously) but this reads like creating a better index on an existing table.

The gross part is (I'm guessing, obviously) that now each write to this data store incurs an additional write and some cpu load on the data store servers (you mentioned it was done via a trigger). But now the value of finishing the migration that you started is just recovering this extra write and cpu.
Err, this is about CocoaPods. You can go to ADC for AVFoundation.
Gmail was released on April Fools Day - Official Press Release
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Its not the library (well, 70 years of back catalogue quality helps) - its the production. Both Netflix and Amazon know this, and are starting up as production companies. Now put that against an organisation who has been world leader since the industry was invented.

We have somehow ended up with a jewel that keeps producing fantastic quality work. It will find a way to navigate entertainment for the next 70 years too, I hope.
What browsers actually support this?
Hoodie devs: Just out of curiosity, what frontend framework (if any) is used on minutes.io?
Additionally, if your data is highly graph-structured and not trivially shard-able, merely selecting a valid subset can be complicated.
Chrome Web Store - Postman - REST Client
I think trust was intended, from the context. It's not a monopoly, it's an oligopoly.

But it's also a bit wrong to argue that capitalism is at fault here. It appears it's rather the rampant and ubiquitous corruption, greed, and incompetence of government at every level, coupled with the fact that $$ == speech in the USA.

This isn't going to change into a publicly-run publicly-funded enterprise anytime soon, so our best bet is a company that has yet to be wholly consumed by evil (Google, in this case, though they're on the fast track to it by trading our privacy for money from advertisers). I'd be OK with a country-wide investment to help Google deploy Fiber as quickly as possible, but I'd want some kind of guarantee that at some point the entire infrastructure would revert to public control, just to prevent Comcast 2.0 from forming. It would be rather funny to see a kickstarter hit $11B, too.
Aero must be really shaking up the cable companies for this degree of response. Its the cable companies pulling Fox's tail that's causing the outcry.

I'm currently in the sweet spot for Aero. I live in the Suburbs of NYC and I have to have cable because the over the air signal is weak in my area. That combined with the fact that cable companies own pretty much all of the suburban news channels means that without cable I don't have access to local news. There are millions of others in the same boat.

I heard about Aero about a month ago. I'll be dropping my cable television package over the summer.
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." - Mark Twain
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Note that both Chrome and IE have been blocking this for some time now. IE did it first.
Cool, thanks for the explanation. I usually have the development config in the repo and the deployment script overwrites it on the server.
The business model is brittle in the sense of trying to capitalize both on free unencrypted OTA and also cable retransmission, no doubt. But either business model by itself is quite reasonable.
No, I'm from New Jersey and it wasn't an insult - it was an observation and something that I myself experienced as a Mac user.

(I wonder if you're thinking "He's not a Mac user." - Are you? I'm betting that you are because many, many Mac users don't consider one a true user unless they're gushing over the product and company.)
Any format other than PDF and the large numbers of citizens will not have the proper tool to access it - e.g. a person using a public computer in a library.

It's not malice even if it hampers outside researchers. Any format other than printed (e.g. PDF) is going to require the user to deal with the meta-data in order to extract useful information - that's just the nature of data.