skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it was only after the community's rejection that the decision to continue perl5 happened.

The lack of any usable Perl 6 implementation by the time of Perl 5.12 did more to promote the continuation of Perl 5 as its own project than any specific rejection of Perl 6. When the plan was for Perl 6 to replace Perl 5, the idea that Perl 5.12 would migrate to Parrot as a VM so that Perl 5 and Perl 6 code could run in the same process.
I wouldn't be so sure. In addition to Ron's stats shown on the list, SV Angel also has not participated in a Series A since January 2013, but was on a regular 1-2 Series A deal a month pattern before that (in addition to tons of angel). http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/sv-angel

With David Lee moving to LA and Ron Conway much more involved in politics, I'll be watching
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Totally. Given the smaller footprint of Puma there is a win available there too as long as you can use JRuby or Rubinius
Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
Are you asserting that computer scientists know more about economics, and particularly currency systems, than economists?
How's this for clear: you get double the CPU share. Happy? :)
You are probably right. I just hate saying I'm better than that guy or that girl. Because programming is so complex, that I might be great at doing some things, while others might be great at doing others. Does that mean I'm better? No. That means I have to improve to learn what others do better than me. There is no way to talk about this without sounding weird. (:
That MTV video... I'm choosing my words very carefully here. That video says something about the company. That's the point, right?

I imagine the notion of having a) a launch party, b) a launch party with burlesque dancers, c) a launch party with burlesque dancers filmed by MTV was not an accidental choice by the company. Perhaps jellifi is aimed at a particular submarket in the event planning space which is very interested in the glitzerati world of fashion models and reality TV celebrities. If so, that video isn't completely insane. If you're not aiming to cement your reputation as that sort of business, I would strongly reconsider having that video on your home page.

In particular, in picking who to show that video to, I would note that it is going to be positively radioactive to multiple, independent, broad swathes of people in the tech community.
Absolutely.

On the other hand, "convicted of" is something that matters to the government, not to the rest of us. I'm not going to pretend that someone didn't do something just because a jury never returned a conviction, if there's enough evidence to support the claim in question. Likewise it's possible for a jury to convict people of crimes they've never committed; I won't deign to consider someone "guilty" of something they obviously didn't do just because a jury and legal process said otherwise. I'll leave the splitting of fine hairs to the legal process.
I'm hardly a supporter of efforts to remove HH reservoir in the near term. But... surely "we have to keep on importing water from two hundred miles away because the water all around us is a biohazard" is a less than ideal state of affairs, no?

ETA: of course, the biohazard aspect is just one of the reasons we rely on HH and not even the biggest. But it plays a role.
that first article is fantastic.
My elementary school teachers used a similar metaphor with alligators. But I never could remember which number it was that got eaten, so I just figured the bigger side was for the bigger number. Since an equal sign doesn’t have a “bigger side”, it would imply that both sides are the same. Then I wondered why they didn’t just teach that. Then I liked school even less.

(Oddly enough, my childhood intuition about equals signs isn’t historically accurate—the equality is actually supposed to be represented by the equal length of the two strokes.)
Around 28,000 rivers go missing in China's lastest waterway survey
On a side-note, I have made a movie web-app where you can just enter movie name into URL to get it's rating & trailer, like www.instamovi.com/#<ANY_MOVIE_NAME_HERE>. It works for keywords as long as they are spelled correct...like http://instamovi.com/#bourne
They are doing a mistake ....

Never ever ever use robots.txt to prevent indexing.

Robots.txt is only for preventing crawling. Rather detect bots from the user agent and throw a 404 header with a die and include a meta noindex as well just in case. Facebook recently got millions of secret URLS indexed in Google with emails in them - and yes crawling was blocked with robots.txt.
Ok, so the Technology Review guys are hit and miss, but I found this article pretty insightful. I've ridden in both a Fisker and a Model S and found the operational difference to be quite noticeable.

But the thing that really struck me about this article was the "design" question. And I put that in quotes because the guy that designed the Fisker initially was working for Musk and then bailed on him to do their own car. The hubris here was stunning but not atypical of what I see in start ups.

The way it works is that a category of product becomes commoditized and then focused on the design aspects. This happened to cars, engines (diesel or gas), suspensions, transmissions, all are complex but pretty well known kinds of technologies. So the people who are the 'stars' at the car company are the designers. They are the people who put people in your particular Taurus shaped car vs Ford's version. The bits underneath are just "details."

But when your really being disruptive, the "win" is how it goes together, the design has to be good but the technology has to be the focus. We saw this once before in the car market when Honda came in and revolutionized the drive train in small cars in the 80's. Originally derided as 'gas powered roller skates' by the driving public, the key was that they could run efficiently on gasoline for long periods of time with less maintenance. Doing that and keeping things light was disruptive, the design of the body around the drive train only came later.

My point is that reading this I thought, "Here is a good example where design doesn't trump disruptive engineering." and it's important to keep those examples in mind when deciding how much to invest.
Same here. Chrome on a Nexus 7.
If you were planning on buying $50 worth of BTC last year, you can buy $50 worth today. Don't think about buying "one or two". There's no benefit to having whole numbers.
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I had to test in most of my installed browsers before I found one that actually animated the icon - Firefox. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have all decided (rightly, you'll probably agree) that allowing animated favicons is not a good idea.
As a potential client, I want a simple scheme to protect my wealth. I don't want to rely on keys, or crytography. I see no such thing akin to the FDIC. Why would I trust bitcoin? Also, why couldn't another digital currency simply obviate its existence?

I'm not arguing for it or against it, I agree with you that it is fascinating. However, my casual observation is that the pro and con of being in the wild wild west is that you are in the wild wild west.
It's not a shield, it's a sign. I'm working with limited public data trying to create something new and I'm working on improving it but it takes time - making this post alone was a labor of love and I realize this kind of analysis still has a long way to go. One of the best ways to get data to make these lists better has been to publish what is available and get feedback on what is wrong, where to look, who to ask etc.

When I make these posts suddenly people start returning my emails requesting data.

It also occurs to me that we have no problem judging and speculating about startups based on nothing more than a TechCrunch post with extremely limited public data. It's funny that it is so much less socially acceptable to do this with investors. Maybe I can change that.
First page without scrolling down I see:

"Online tools makes it easy to plan your next events."

There is also a big green button that says:

"Plan event free"

So I'm not quite sure why are you are confused about, the site is about planning a events!
Does that use any of Twitter's API's? Because we know how credible Twitter has become with access to their API's lately...
I think this has been posted on every bitcoin discussion so far:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CompetingMoneySupplies.ht...

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.htm...

so here it is again
BitTorrent Site IsoHunt Demands Jury Trial
So there you have it: The government is the people, and to oppose mega-banks is to oppose democracy itself. Pretty sure I read that in the Federalist Papers.

1. Is "the government is the people" meant to be a criticism?

2. Interesting that in the quote from Felix Salmon that this is criticizing, Salmon never mentions mega-banks or that the size of the bank is related to their civic responsibility. It's the author of this piece who is inserting a bias against "mega-banks", and assuming that anyone who is pro- the existence of banks in democratic society is also pro-mega-bank.
We seem to be in a midst of a bitcoin article bubble.
What would you do in real life if you found a vending machine that was somehow locked into giving out free drinks if you pushed a button, despite listing a price for each soda?
Yeah, 20% is even quite low estimate. Here's 1.0.3 vs 1.1 from just now (request worker (wrk) and Go http server running in separate machines)

https://gist.github.com/errnoh/5320784
It seems that something triggered rate-limiting of anonymous logins.
We're also in a business world where we can't be upfront with our insecurities, worries, personal failures (unless they somehow lead to you becoming Herculean thereafter), self-doubt, etc.

No, it is not healthy, and imo it contributes significantly to the detriment of our mental health.
I thought SV Angel does mostly seed rounds, not series A... seems to me alot of the names on this list are firms that specialize in non-series A deals but might have occasionally thrown a series A into the mix. Flaw in the methodology, I think.
Yeah, I wanted buy them and then just see what I can do with it. It just looks fun to have them and play with a digital currency.
The domain is blocked on the corporate network of one of the Silicon Valley companies mentioned.
Magazines are definitely surprising in their longevity. I still get people signing up for my service from a small mention in a magazine in 2009.
Coke, Pepsi, and Passover
As far as I understood, Aaron Swartz was also not given access to the MIT network.

I.e. he was kicked off of two different nets, MIT's and JSTOR's.
I don't think it will change my mood ;-) But it was an important point, thanks.
As someone who recently came back to Java from a 5 year stint with Rails, I can safely say this is not true by any stretch of the imagination. If you stick to those tools in the Java ecosystem which meet your requirements, you can be incredibly productive.

The problem is that the Java world is full of over-engineered solutions which are really targeted at extremely large enterprise applications surrounded by a community of folks who like to menturbate about them. As a startup, you don't need to focus on those solutions. You'll not need 99% of them.

However, you can choose bit and pieces. I'm using Vaadin, JPA and Guice and finding it incredibly productive and am able to deliver functionality in far less time than it took me in Rails. I'm not using 90% of the Java EE stack, but it's available to me if/when I need it.

Rails was a great thing for the software development world. It drove convention over configuration and caused a lot of the competing technologies to pause and question why things were the way they were. But IMHO, managing the whole Rails stack (rails + coffeescript + css in our case) across a group of people became a chore. YMMV, but the statically-typed nature of Java along with the very capable technology stacks you can assemble have eased our daily jobs tremendously.
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Inode can promote your products.Close to 1 mill mobile downloads a day
If your startup has a product service that can be marketed in featured phones we can promote it with close to 1 million mobile downloads in emerging markets
Make a free accelerated web development course for these folks and in a matter of months they'll be no more a concern and you'd have done something right
New gyro and servo stabilized camera rig could revolutionize cinema
A fractional-reserve BitBank will only be noticeably inflationary if it can take a substantial amount in deposits, then find some people to borrow them. Since most of the "convenience" arguments for keeping traditional currencies in a bank rather than under your mattress don't seem to apply here, the only reason anyone's going to make a deposit is if the interest on offer appears to justify the risk. Without the backing of a government deposit insurance scheme, I reckon that translates to both a high interest rate AND probably some degree of transparency to convince depositors it's not a complete scam.

Could be an interesting project, but hard to see it causing a major shift in BTC values.
Brilliant. Takes guts to call out VCs like this. Now, I don't think your 6-month time period is the right data point to measure if they are a zombie or not. There are a lot of different reasons why VCs take short investment breaks, and the 6-month period does not allow for that. I think 18 months is more in line, because it allows you to see more of the failed investments and results overall. A zombie VC should be defined with a ratio of failed (money lost) VS. successful (money gained) deals. If they have a lower than average ratio then we can say that their confidence (and the confidence of their bankers) is down, and they are operating in Zombie mode.

But I'm probably wrong, because I am a value investor.
I'll have to look again, the JWasm needs a linker too. Sadly, I think it was the ld.exe from MinGW that I had problems with in the past :( .

Yea, I'm really just doing this for the fun of it, not any actual needed reason. If the "flat" version you're talking about is the old 16-bit .COM format, then yes it will not work on modern 64-Bit windows. That was the first method I tried with an old version of MASM as it was really easy to assemble directly to a program back in my Assembly class days.
Being wrong on technology as an economist isn't an indicator in this case. Bitcoin is intended as a currency, his skepticism is directed towards that. His background as an economist and success/failure there should give weight to his views.
Dark Sky definitely knows you're getting value on those notifications. Popular apps get positive ratings from happy users. Dark sky doesn't need a specific metric to tell them the notifications are working; having a bunch of people 5-star your app saying "I love the notifications!" is sufficient.
Ask PG: How do you stay focused while reviewing YC Applications?
I recall reading that YC partners read around 100 applications a day over a 10 day period. That seems incredibly draining.

How do you stay as focused for the 100th application vs. the first? How many hours a day are you working? Do you take multiple breaks? Do you have a set schedule?

If other YC application reviewers are reading this, I'd love to hear your response as well.
Economics concerns subject matter that is far too complex to analyze without making simplifying assumptions. If you want to argue that they make the wrong simplifying assumptions, fine, but what evidence do you have that Computer Scientists are going to do a better job of it just because they have proved the asymptotic bounds of sorting algorithms?
and if you want a laugh while you're on the command line, try `$ npm install -g giggity` and then `$ giggity` https://github.com/niftylettuce/giggity
> Every time we consider rewriting it in a new language, the scale of the task puts us right off.

It should put you off. Don't do that. Rewriting -- as a single effort -- a working, large enterprise system is pretty much guaranteed to be an expensive failure.

Instead, as it becomes necessary to make changes to components, look for opportunities build new components using modern technology, in a way which lets you decommission components of the existing system in favor of interfaces to the modern components.

Eventually, you may end up rewriting the whole thing this way, but by rewriting in distinct bits (and focussing on the parts that would need to change whether or not you were changing the underlying technology) you avoid throwing out the parts that are good enough, and you keep the scope of individual work efforts to manageable levels.

Its probably easier to get buy-off on this, since the risk involved with using new technology for a component upgrade with limited scope and cost is a lot smaller than the risk involved with committing to a full rewrite that ends up an all-or-nothing proposition. And once using the new platform for a component proves itself once, the fight to get to use it for the next bit that needs upgrading should be even easier.
Yeah, I had the same thought when the discussion came around last time. I actually took the source to the simulations (thanks for sharing, rapgenius!) and did some experiments on how random routing performs if it's routing to backends that can handle various #s of concurrent requests.

Here's the writeup: https://www.appneta.com/2013/02/21/the-taming-of-the-queue-m...

(Spoilers: turns out it gets a lot better very quickly.)
This issue was one that I was very surprised with when I first came here myself... I lived all my life pretty much in NYC (Bronx and Manhattan) and at one point it was bad as well but around the time of Giuliani terms', the total visibility of the problem had dropped... but like said from SJ to SF, it is something to get used to...
Ah, gotcha. I agree with you that spreadsheet formulas are a limited form of first-order functional programming. But the memory model with which they are coupled is just as important (I have in mind the grid addressing system and dataflow semantics) and this does not fit as nicely into the FP paradigm. But I'm repeating what I said in other comments.
Again no mono with ServiceStack! It boggles my mind...
Man I wish more employers in my local area (Calgary, Alberta) would read this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000050.html

Every place I interview at thinks:

- developers want to work in fishbowls ("fast paced environment")

- thinks old/used furniture from the 80's is suitable for developers

- assumes we want stock options as compensation (in a "start-up" hell no, give me actual stock or a real salary)

- assumes 40-60k a year is a good salary for developers. Yeah, no, not in Calgary. ("but we're not Oil and Gas so we can't pay as much..." deal with it buddy)

And since this isn't exactly a tech hotbed, most of us are forced to nod politely and take what we get offered (and maybe negotiate a third week of vacation if we're lucky).
Or maybe the similarity is a wave of speculative frenzy in both cases, inflating prices to unsustainable levels. The factors you mention (low storage and transmission cost, anonymous ownership) make speculation easier, not harder.
P2P frameworks sound interesting, but I'm very skeptical of any "browser OS" since we already have browser tabs.
Their repo at https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks is open for pull requests

I don't think they have anything against C#, probably no one just has committed C# version to be benched.

(edit: whops, linked fork first)
Neat! I wonder if it would be possible for them to do 1/2x dynos at 256MB for lower end uses?
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Embedded Linux video repositories
This has always worried me about news/media. When ever they cover anything I have the slightest background in, they get something, or everything, about it glaringly and completely wrong. So what else are the getting wrong the rest of the time? My guess has to be everything I suppose.
But if ten thousand fundamentally good people go fishing in a river with nine thousand fish, that fish still goes extinct.

And that doesn't account for the one ass who decides to overfish.
Bitcoin is at the brackish between macroeconomics and cryptography. Macroeconomics, despite every reporter professing to understand it to a T, is immensely complicated, in both its theoretical and empirical aspects. Cryptography is similarly esoteric (and subject to popular Dunning-Krueger effects) within the tech community.

Thus, we see a lot of tech journalists busy making a trash job of nineteenth-century economics while FT Alphaville finds its analyst who made easy work of dynamically-tranches credit products stumped by cryptography 101. It will take time for the theoreticians on either side to get a handle of things, and a good deal of hot air will be expended in the process.

I can't say I'm not excited about this - it's a grassroots experimental verification of a lot of economic theory. But if people are ploughing savings they cannot afford to lose into the currency out of anger against the present economic situation, ideology, or a mis-understanding of economics, that is a problem, and it is irresponsible not to at least try and give fair warning.
Oh for god's sake HN, learning to code is not the ultimate and perfect solution to every problem. It's not just a matter of providing training and jobs, you also have to treat the substance addictions and mental illness that run rampant in the homeless population.
What everyone needs to know about disruption
its a card. its their own apis. the apis twitter have been killing are 3rd party access to content, not 3rd party supply of content.
This is a... very dry joke?
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