skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"establish precedents with wins in court "

That's great for him personally. It won't help newegg sell any more product or make it a better company. If I was a stockholder in that company that wouldn't fly with me. It's similar (but not the same) as an ad agency doing a campaign to win an aware for their personal glory as opposed to what is best for the client.

Edit: By "sell any more product" I mean in a meaningful way. Newegg has thousands of customers. The amount that even knows about this and the amount that care isn't significant enough to move the needle. You can always make a case that doing something will increase sales or have a benefit. Would you spend money on advertising in significant dollars without analysis or oversight of the benefits?
I think in this particular case you should be able to actually use the coordinate system in the STL for that. most things for printing you'll likely want to see how it would be coming out of the printer so you'll have an actual up direction defined before you do this. Should save a lot of computation there.
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I love the idea of being able to autofill a form on page load using the browsers own history! Also, I'm highly impressed if indeed this is being added to chrome based on something Alex asked for.
Seems a bit unconventional to manually specify which index you'd like to use when writing queries. This would normally be something handled by a query optimizer.

Of course, many DBMS provide some facility for specifying indices manually through query hinting, but for non-trivial queries, the optimizer often can do a better job than a programmer at picking the most efficient query plan.
To parrot your sentiment, arresting random girls for wearing fancy dresses around the time of the royal wedding is ridiculous behaviour and should not be allowed (or encouraged) under the guise of "imminent breach of the peace".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/19/arrest-w...

My point is, please drop your anti-American superiority complex. You Brits do plenty of ridiculous things too.
So how do you blow on it? It's not an NES unless you have to blow on it.
They also use NetBSD internally, and indeed contributed a port: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips...
Oh, I understood your meaning, it was just similar enough to another theory of mine[1] that I sort of launched into that frame of mind immediately.

In short, people often expect other languages to act like C, and where they differ they get a bad rap (even through they often differ at that point for a reason, and it's often considered a strength by proponents). For example, caring about return context in Perl.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657901
> If you do more work than you take in calories, you will eventually die of that work.

No, you'll die of starvation. If you're not taking in sufficient nutrients, you'll die even if you do no work at all.
That's what I was thinking. Or some sort of non-profit that individuals and tech companies could support with donations. That would be sweet.
He's talking about the cost of RubyMotion - $200
The initial implementation appears to be targeted to e-commerce sites. Your username and password are not included in the fields that this can populate.

Here are the supported fields:

* Contact: name, tel, email

* Shipping: street-address, address-line1, address-line2, locality, region, country, postal-code

* Billing: street-address, address-line1, address-line2, locality, region, country, postal-code

* Payment: cc-name, cc-number, cc-exp, cc-csc, cc-type
On a related note: I don't believe that "you spend more time using the language than learning it". I need to think it about it some more, but I have a feeling that almost everything we do as a programmers is learning.

Yes, but how much of that is learning the language, and how much is learning about programming and/or computer science in general?
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Yeah, you also have to be able to stack two games in there on top of each other.
When's the last time a full-time artist, in the classical sense of collectable canvases, made something that was a major contribution to human welfare?

With older artists it's easier to see - technology and art tended to overlap because it was a means to express ideas. But more recently? It seems that art-based philanthropy as a utilitarian endeavour would be difficult to justify.
Silly me, I was expecting an emulator.
"Newegg and Rackspace are definitely building a reputation "

I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of their customers don't care about this and of the ones that do any a portion of them would be able to even change buying decisions over it.

If you are the IT director explaining to your boss that you want to deal with Rackspace or Newegg (and pay higher prices or get not as good of a product) because of this just won't fly. If anything it even makes your judgement suspect in the same way that wanting to give business to your brother in law might. It's not an arms length decision process.
Is it just me or do most of these sound like drug brands? My favorites include "paralytica", "effectiven" and "circumvenio".
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Yeah, it's interesting that this whole LulzSec thing turned out to be a "false flag psyop" by the FBI. This would mean that while "Sabu" was an informant, many of the hacks performed were sanctioned by the FBI.
I tried to make it clear in my original post that I took many pictures of my drivers license, but the submission process kept failing with non-informative error messages. I suspect part of it is that Colorado drivers licenses have some visual features that are intended to make them not photograph well, to prevent duplication.

I think my account now showing up as having no facebook or linkedin is a red flag and wish that could be addressed, but airbnb support was not willing to help with that.

I don't see how me making a video is a substitute for fixing a technical problem that has broken the connection between my airbnb account and my linkedin and facebook accounts.
Newegg still benefits simply from you doing business with them. Presumably they are not using a loss-leader strategy - so every sale is still profitable.

There are a lot of vendors out there, it isn't generally feasible to price shop all of them for orders of more than one or two items. So the fact that they are merely on your list of vendors to consider is a win for them.
Depending on what functionality you need, one alternative could be Tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) by HN's own cperciva https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva.
How often do iOS users update? - The Pareto Distribution
He just said he volunteered and nobody wanted to talk, there was even less talking than normal work.

He boiled your post before you even made it.
RethinkDB is looking great. The feature gap is closing, now I'm itching to use it in a real project.
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I got a pebble to try to build a specific app: electronic leash (using bt 4.0le) to a phone and/or laptop. It's pretty easy to do electronic leash of a Mac laptop (or Linux, or Windows) using an iPhone; hard to do for the iPhone/iPad alone due to Apple. Presumably feasible to do on Android, but most hardware still seems to lack 4.0le, which would kill battery.

Wouldn't wear it as my watch in general. It's really "tall" (not thick, not wide) -- I have decent-sized wrists, and the watch still bumps against stuff more than what I wear otherwise. I really prefer metal-cased watches with deployment clasps and tritium gtls, too, which would be difficult to Pebble-ify. The pebble is really well made for a kickstarter'd consumer electronics device, and well made for any non-Apple consumer device in general, but it's still not quite a $100+ wristwatch mechanically or aesthetically.

Otherwise, the "show a notification" thing is interesting, but I can feel my iPhone vibrating in my pocket, so if I have a way to tune notifications (like dnd mode) and lock-screen viewable messages, it's pretty close. I'd still prefer the Pebble for quickly glancing on public transit, or in any situation where I'd feel uncomfortable taking out my phone.
Both as a small child and as an adult, learning music I'm suuuuper distracted by the complexity and the badness of traditional music notation.
It sounds like you've made your mind up about how the world works and that's fine, but I think you'd be missing out on some great experiences by not doing at least a little travelling.

I've also had several months off doing nothing but relax and I can tell you none of them were as productive (for ideas) as travelling was. Part of it is meeting people with different views on the world means they present you with unique problems you would never have thought of alone. Part of it is in the act of travelling itself - how could you improve certain aspects?

Overall, it just opens your mind up to different ways of thinking, much like going to university does. I'd always recommend people to give it a try.
My favorite functional reactive programming library for JavaScript is Bacon.js: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js

"It's the _ of Events. Too bad the symbol ~ is not allowed in Javascript."
I dread what circumvenio would do.
Newegg is a private company, so its business is whatever its owners want it to be. I don't think this guy has gone rogue, I'm sure he has the full support of Newegg leadership.
It could be part of their portfolio. They are obviously willing to fight deeply on issues, nothing preventing someone like Amazon from hiring them for consultancy services.
Mike @ RethinkDB here. Great feedback-- while we've been a bit behind in rolling out releases to other distros and languages, we've been delighted to see the community pick up our slack:

- Our new build system has people successfully compiling from source and building community packages for CentOS, Slackware, Gentoo, Arch, and lots of other distros.

- One intrepid soul is porting RethinkDB to FreeBSD, where it builds successfully (almost ready to merge in): https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/pull/688

- We've seen an enormous number of client drivers for different languages pop up in a short time, with some impressive collaboration:

* rethink-net (C#/.NET): https://github.com/mfenniak/rethinkdb-net

* php-rql (PHP): https://github.com/danielmewes/php-rql

* rethinkgo (Go): https://github.com/christopherhesse/rethinkgo

* cl-rethinkdb (Common Lisp): https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-rethinkdb

* haskell-rethinkdb (Haskell): https://github.com/atnnn/haskell-rethinkdb

* lethink (Erlang): https://github.com/taybin/lethink

* librethinkdb (C): https://github.com/unbit/librethinkdb

* Lots of emerging efforts for Java, Perl, and other languages.

It's great to see people passionate about bringing our project to other platforms / distros, and we're doing whatever we can to support them. If anyone's interested in a similar project, shoot me an email at mike [at] rethinkdb.com
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"Quantum" is a bit of buzzword in a sense that people understand it in a very narrow sense. D-Wave's system is NOT a "classical" qubit-based quantum computer. What it does is essentially global optimization of multimode functions using quantum effects.
Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland?
Newegg just won my heart for what they did!
Autocompleting billing details without even having a form shown seems like a terrible idea. How does someone with autocomplete enabled not suddenly find themselves missing bundles of money?
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Really I was just suggesting trying the one tab approach as an experiment. You can't read in parallel, but I do understand the idea of backgrounding links to visit later - so you don't necessarily break the flow of the page you are currently on.

Back in the day of dial up, I'd use Opera and disable images - to make page loads quicker. I would connect the modem, go online, open as many links as possible in different tabs, and then disconnect. And read at my leisure.

It would force me to think upfront at what I wanted to look at, and in the main it was a pretty good system.

Pages back then would take a long time to load, especially with images - so background loading your next link, was a habit that you just got into.

I forget which browser has which behaviour with new tabs. Some place the tab on the end. Which makes sense in terms of using a stack. Your last link being opened being on the end. Firefox as it does tab scrolling, makes it hard to see what you have open. So I think now the default is to open the new tab next to the current tab. Which highlights another inconsistency in between application tab behaviour.

I used to have loads of tabs open of stuff, that I'd get around to reading at some point - but I'd basically never read, or it would become overwhelming - and I'd just periodically shut all the tabs and start again. Later I thought I'd bookmark anything that grabbed my attention, and go back to it later. Recent bookmarks can help there.

I don't see much difference between a bookmark and a tab, a tab though just feels a little more accessible but it's more expensive. Better bookmarking tools could make tabs easily redundant.

The 'group your tabs' feature of Firefox, just doesn't work for me, and other tab plugins haven't worked for me either. Opera has tab stacks, but I can't say I'm that fond of them either. I'd rather something a little more automated.

Anyway - way off the original topic...
Here's a paper that we felt answered this question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4595

Like you, I was worried about the snake oil aspects of qc, but ...well, I got over it when I looked into the science of the d-wave implementation and talked with folks like Sergio.

Please note,we're talking about a quantum annealer here, not a full on qc and we're okay with that :-) Also, disclaimer: I'm a googler who worked with our quantum folks and nasa to get the machine in place.
You have to admit, this is fantastic press that gives them incredible amounts of customer goodwill. See also: comment threads all over the internet with people swearing to spend money on NewEgg purchases because of their actions here.

Also, this is good long-term planning that is preventing them from being seen as easy targets by patent trolls. It could end up saving them millions.
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You may disagree, but it's not self contradictory to think that it's not the government's role to regulate business in this way.
Link points to the 11.0.2 download.

This got me to 11.0.3: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
what are the issues/implications of "just check out the subrepo directly into the superrepo, and rely on .gitignore in the superrepo to keep them seperated"?
Look at MySQL as an example of regulation not being for support.
sweet. I was hoping someone would build this.
Unfortunately, I sense that the majority of HN readers are still in the idealistic phase of their political views. As in, they believe in the ideals of a nation and not its realities. It can be very difficult, even traumatizing, for a person to transition from one to the other. Here is Aaron Swartz's experience: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany

You can only tackle a problem once you acknowledge it exists. Unfortunately, I have yet to see that critical mass on HN regarding the issues you are passionate about. Until that happens, you will just be seen as a pessimistic contrarian by such folk.

I recommend that anyone who fiercely disagrees, or is confused by, Michael's viewpoints on this issue to read Chomsky's Understanding Power.
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sounds great, a phone without blood minerals.

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> I've volunteered in the past for a local community garden. It's physically demanding work, but it was great stepping away from all the technology in my home, not have to worry about "leading", "driving", or "innovating" like I do at work, and just take simple orders to do grunt work with the end goal of making a community better.

When I was in college I was often taking 18-20 credit hours per semester while working 35 hours a week in an office job where I had enormous autonomy. I had a life outside of that as well, but I was still restless.

So I got a second job at Target, perhaps 20-25 hours a week. I can empathize with the need to not be in charge and let someone else give the orders. I happily did whatever I was asked and let my mind completely shut off. The extra money was nice but not particularly significant. Eventually they talked about promoting me and so I quit. :-)

Afterward, when I was feeling stressed out, I could mentally travel back to those evenings and weekends and "shut down".
It's also worth remembering that a complete exploit can often compose numerous "small" vulnerabilities into the realized breach. As such, it's easy to discount a seemingly hard-to-exploit vulnerability until you see it in action. It may be used in concert with other weaknesses or "widened" by an unforeseen technique.

As a specific example, check out the two-part wrap-up of the Pwnium browser hacking competition[1] [2]. It's a great illustration of chaining weaknesses together to achieve a desired exploit.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1.h...

[2] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-2.h...
Chrome displays a permission dialog.
Build fails on a "brew upgrade" for me.

http://pastebin.com/3GWetUTE
But how much of that learning is really empirically necessary, and how much is just keeping up with industry fads and trends just to stay marketable?

I've learned way too many languages over the last fifteen years just in the process of being a web developer. I'm not sure if any of them by themselves made me a radically better at web development. More frequently they were learned to get access to a bit of tooling or some other benefit that only one language had.

Think of all the people who learned Ruby in order to use Rails, for instance, or who learned JavaScript to do front-end scripting. Is it really something about Ruby-the-language or JS-the-language that made them so compelling? Not really. It was the productivity gains you could get by getting access to their ecosystems, rather than the languages themselves.

For this reason I have some envy for the folks you meet who've been working in Lisp, or Perl, or C, or COBOL, or some other language consistently for decades. They get to reach a level of proficiency and sophistication in how they use their tools that are out of reach when you're constantly bouncing from language to language.
ACID for your NoSQL datastore; Warp: Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores
Better Single-Table Inheritance
If you start asking for customer support as part of regulation, you massively raise the entrance costs for other companies.
I'm personally invested in HyperDex (the non-ACID open source portion of the project) using it for a project of my own and have been developing a set of Haskell bindings against the HyperDex client. I may also develop some Warp bindings later, but my project may not need the guarantees provided by Warp.

The Haskell bindings project can be found here: https://github.com/aaronfriel/hyhac
> There are several reasons why you might find subtree better to use:

> subtree does not add new metadata files like submodules doe (i.e. .gitmodule).

So instead you have to memorize the exact information that in the .gitmodule file and type it in every time you run "git subtree" and then out of band communicate this information to your colleagues.
I think it would have to be a per-project setting, since one might reasonably work on projects written in all of Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.
I would go as far as saying I am cross dominant, but I certainly have a weird mix in that regard. I tend to take watches off as soon as I am stationary (I've lost a few F-91W's this way). I guess you could just take the watch off when you sit down like myself.

Though to refer to your original comment I don't think you are too concerned either way.
google has done a great job so far of serving their customers and shareholders. do you have any evidence that forcing open-allocation on google as a whole will improve the results they are able to deliver?

are you a Real Googler by any chance?
Ok, you clearly just don't get it. People shouldn't have to work below market rate (or for free, as they often do) to implement their own ideas.

Because they actually care about their work, they'll be 5-20x more productive, and that's what the value of the equity (shared between them and investors) comes from. I argue that they should be paid at market rate for more typical work. Why should they have to pay me to work for me when they're already signing up to work 5-20x harder than typical corporate employees?

Yet sanctimonious VCs still talk as if they're performing a charity rather than investing. It should be a symbiotic relationship (a transfer of control over capital from those who have it to those who know what best to do with it) rather than this "I've got the money, so lick my balls" arrangement that currently exists.

My argument is that valuations should be higher in order to include a fair salary for the founders. In fact, given the monstrous amount of bullshit involved in raising money, I'd argue that an even higher salary is in order.

By the way, the reason VC is losing money is not that they valuate companies too high or that founders take too much out in salary. It's that they have a herd mentality and they suck at picking companies. Have you seen some of the assholes they fund? I could do a better job than 99% of those gatekeepers, and I don't even have an MBA. I'm just a far better judge of talent than they are. (I'm not a great judge of character, which is why I've worked for some horrible companies; I'd need to hire a partner for that. Judging talent and character are opposite skill sets. But I'm one of the best judges of talent out there, and almost certainly in the top 100-- at judging talent, not in having it-- in the world today.)

VCs are trying to put founders into a race to the bottom, not only on valuation/salary but more dangerously on terms (e.g. liquidation preferences) and autonomy; those are far more severe because they create an adverse selection where the best people avoid you outright. I'd do it very differently. I'd give very generous terms-- I would actually make it a fireable offense for any associate even to suggest participating preferred or multiple liquidation preferences-- but make a lot more money than any of them by not falling into the traps (mostly, social obligations to fund undeserving morons to return favors) that cause other VCs to fund idiots.
The Israeli military uses these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitznefet_(Israeli_military)

They're big floppy hats that go on top of the helmet to prevent the classic helmet silhouette look.

Works better because human bodies aren't quite as distinctive as TF2 classes :)
Does RethinkDB do multiple atomic updates?
I like quarterbaq and translucen