skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge red flag. To me that says there's something that would emerge during the due diligence process that Zynga does not want people to know about. If I was a gambler I'd short them hard in response to this, my hunch is that the firm is on its way to de-listing and collapse.
How to turn off Amber Alerts on an iPhone
I just got an very annoying Amber Alert on my iPhone. Here's how I turned them off:

Open Settings

Select Notifications

Scroll down to bottom

Set Amber Alerts to Off
Mass Message Amber Alert Across Southern California
Are there any good stories from workers at Amazon? Conditions, pay etc? I hear lots of bad ones, but given how big Amazon is, there must be good ones too?
The book has tons of code listings that make up the majority of the pages.

It used to be 53 pages, but is now somewhere over 100 pages, according the new updated site. The original's code listings are in Ruby; I can't help but wonder if he just redid them in Java to make the book longer. Seriously. And no, I'm not picking on Java.

Here's the old version:

https://anonfiles.com/file/e98ca909d4e62fb0d6f59f67bf0bfaf6
Same here, it was a loud screeching noise, not what I've come to expect from my iPhone. I didn't even know phones had this ability (not an SMS or push notification). Is it just smart phones that have this capability?
they have been effective in AZ
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What if the "info" is in the heart... And for those who downvoted, you need to read more about the functions of the heart besides blood pumping. The heart has neurons too and an electromagnetic field far stronger than the brain's.

Update: some links

The little brain on the heart: http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/Suppl_1/S48.full.pdf

Does changing the heart mean changing personality? A retrospective inquiry on 47 heart transplant patients: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1299456
Hmm, my girlfriend just got that too. Interesting.
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There's a great clojure parser combinator library inspired by parsec as well: https://github.com/blancas/kern
Probably a combination of the sheer volume of the drug trade (you can't catch everyone) coupled with the high demands of the market (busting one cartel would cause a supply "vacuum" that would be quickly filled).
The question I have is, if OMGPOP had been left to their own devices, is it likely that they would have been able to churn out more short-term hits?

We'll never know, since Zynga effectively kneecapped them.
I got fed up waiting for Google to push tweets to YouTube videos so I created 1
I think the JVM TCP stack is extremely mature, but I'm really surprised to see that Go is ten times slower.

It would have been interesting to have a C/C++ benchmark for reference.
It may have changed in the past 31 minutes since you posted, but currently the price is in the copy directly above the buy button. Still reads as scammy, though.
Additional details - http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=9a5a45a2046760c...
Religion didn't always exist. In fact, I would guess that it didn't for the majority of human history, although it's ultimately speculation on both of our parts.
I also got it, it's a California state wide amber alert. iPhone 5 iOS 7 [1]. Two children were abducted after the murder of their mother in San Diego [2].

It looks like amber alerts were pushed out in an AT&T carrier settings update back in June [3].

[1] http://shutter.io/img/43sosz/raw

[2] http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=9a5a45a2046760c...

[3] http://blogs.att.net/consumerblog/story/a7790136
It is part of iOS. You can enable/disable "Government" alerts through Settings->Notifications (at the very bottom).
Additionally, the proxy server I'm behind (at work, oh no :-( ) is showing me a "malicious downloads" warning.

It's very likely a scam.
I don't think there is a procedure that you can follow, but I think that if you assemble the right team and strike gold once, you can keep the gravy train rolling.

I'm using music as my model here. Some bands never make it (those guys who played your highschool house party in exchange for beer), some bands get lucky once but just didn't have the right team to keep it rolling (one hit wonders), and other bands get lucky once and do have the team to keep that sort of momentum going (I'd say The Beatles fits in here. Nobody really cares about their first hits, but they were a band for a while before 'getting discovered'.)

(In extraordinarily rare cases you have bands that arguably didn't strike gold through luck alone, but they are probably rare enough to right off.)

So OMGPOP got lucky and hit gold once. Maybe they had the right team to keep that rolling, maybe they didn't. Acquihiring surely puts a breaks on the possibility of having the right team to keep it rolling though.

I don't think "being acquired" (getting signed) kills a band quite like it kills a dev team though.

...maybe the trick is to acquihire dev-teams like labels sign bands.
Why did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post?
Now that we've had a day to digest the news, does Bezos have a master plan that's much larger than the obvious things that come to mind at first glance?

What do you, the HN readers think he bought it for?
If you want a very well written book (donationware) by an expert in the area on how to create your own language go to http://dslbook.org/
I got something similar a while back for a weather alert: http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2012/12/16/2/iphone-emergency-...

Looking through the iPhone's notification settings there are new "AMBER Alerts" and "Emergency Alerts" settings along with all the apps.
FYI: The setting to turn these off are in Notifications -> Government Alerts. The piercing siren seems a little excessive for Amber alerts...and doesn't even go quiet in silent mode. It's the default option on iPhone 5 AFAIK.
I'm a fan of Freenet, but it has some core (and extremely longstanding!) usability issues that Tor has proven are unforced errors.

The restrictions on JavaScript is the biggest one. The complete inability to run server-side code in a trusted context makes JS more necessary on Freenet than the HTTP web; it's absense makes developing a useful Freenet site extremely difficult. It causes interesting Freenet projects to be deployed as local applications (which necessitates auto-update to be practical). This represents an absolute trust of unknown service providers and is vastly worse than running untrusted JavaScript. It also makes maintaining parallel Freenet and HTTP sites impractical in practice (when only reader-side anonymity is needed), something Tor got right the first time.

Secondly, Freenet's JavaScript exclusion relies entirely on filtering code that's specific to Freenet and thus not anywhere near as battle-hardened as browser JS engines. You don't need a Chrome zero-day to circumvent Freenet's reader anonymity, you just need to find an edge case in its filtering code against the moving target of a self-updating browser.

Freenet's core feature of anonymous distributed hosting (as opposed to just Tor's distributed proxying and Bittorrent's bandwidth sharing) is still a relevant technological frontier that's long overdue to see the light of day, but that's not going to happen until it stops tilting at windmills on some of the crazier technical decisions.

Edit: While I'm complaining, I'm unclear on the real-world threat model that the friend-to-friend Darknet is supposed to protect against. Proving out that globally routable friend networks a la "The Crying of Lot 49" actually function is neat scientific accomplishment but it does nothing but help the Global Passive Attacker and probably makes things easier for more mundane threats too.
I hope they can make a Wi-fi ac one next year, or maybe even ad? That's faster (7 Gbps 60 Ghz) and should work well for this type of use case, but I guess your router has to support it, too, and I'm not sure if ad will catch on that much.
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Same here. Got it on my Nexus 4 (T-Mobile) in SF.

I hadn't noticed this feature before either, so the first thing I did when it prompted me was to disable it, then when I thought about it for a few seconds, I realized it was actually a pretty smart/useful feature so I enabled it again. I hadn't even realized this was an android thing, but if it increases the likelihood of helping people out, I have no problem with it.
I can't wait til a movie theater erupts with the sound during a suspenseful moment in the film. You can't be embarrased about your phone making that noise if everyone else's did too, right?
Yeah, I followed up on it, and it's very obviously real.

I rushed to get a picture of my phone alert online, but am now writing my thoughts on the uses of technology in situations like this and potential downsides.
What is your consciousness, separate from a subsumptive architecture of event loops that react to recognized stimuli in response to goal conditions?

Which is to say, if you remove all your goal conditions, all your reference points that could be moved away from center to provoke response -- if you are reduced to http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orgasmium, in other words -- are you really aware any more?
Your comment makes me wonder whether it matters on which JVM the benchmark is run. Are Oracle, GNU Classpath and Dalvik equally fast?
Isn't this more like a comparison of the JVM's TCP library vs Go's TCP library... not so much Scala vs Go?
For those interested, this is what the push notification looks like. http://cl.ly/image/2T19133Y1P22

It didn't link to anything, seems like it could be improved. This is the first one I've ever seen.
Me too. I'm keeping it on.

iOS people are reporting it too. Looking through twitter it's pretty far reaching.
Justice as it was meant to be (John Rawls, Kant, et all): "Entitlement to legitimate expectation."

Justice as it is practiced: "Legitimising the expectations of the entitled."
With Go using 20 times less memory, I'd take Go any day since I can just throw in 20 more processes and up my throughput 5-10x. But of course, scaling like this takes a bit of design and the processes have to share nothing.
I wonder how many highway accidents and fatalities are likely to have been caused by that loud shrieking sound and everyone in the state of California looking down at their phones at the exact same time.
There's a five percent chance I live in a "future" computer simulation as I write this. False - to run simulate sentient beings with so much suffering would be cruel.

So you mean the chance is much higher?
I have no idea if this book being offered in this posting is good or not. Echoing some of the comments in this thread, here are some alternative resources.

The following book [0] popped up on reddit [1] the other day. I'm not sure how it compares, but it looks like a decent option. Surely better than the suggestion in this thread to "get the dragon book" which I feel is too obtuse of a recommendation.

My favourite free resource in this area is Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation [2], which has video lectures [3] from the online offering last year. Udacity also has a programming languages course in the vein of building a web browser.

There were also two interesting videos from PyCon USA 2013, All-Singing All-Dancing Python Bytecode [4], and So you want to write an interpreter? [5].

Some of the above are not precisely for creating your own programming languages, but they are great resource in the general area.

[0] http://nathansuniversity.com/step.html

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jnd95/pl101_cr...

[2] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

[3] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/Videos/

[4] http://pyvideo.org/video/1777/all-singing-all-dancing-python...

[5] http://pyvideo.org/video/1694/so-you-want-to-write-an-interp...
Seems like it would be reasonable if they're going to blast a message to everyone to give people some sort of action to take. Like, "if you see the car, call 911" or "if you see the car, don't approach it" or whatever is appropriate.
If the JVM and/or the Scala runtime does user-space buffering and Go forwards straight to the read/write syscalls, that alone would probably sufficient to explain the difference when reading/writing buffers this small.

If you don't do buffering in user space, the context switches in/out of the kernel will kill you when you do many small read or writes.

No idea if that's it, but that's the first place I tend to look when troubleshooting networking app performance as so many people just blindly use syscalls as if they're free.
Ref: http://www.lessig.org/2013/06/on-bilderberg/
I got one of these last week in Texas. They are fairly jarring. It is nice that the amber alert website lists all active and closed alerts so you can see what all the hub-bug was about. Also, doing a google search for "amber alert" or "amber alert <state>" will give you a card at the top of the results giving you the details about the alert (the google card only shows up for active amber alerts).
NASA says (possibly) YES:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warpstat_p...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-sp...

http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on...

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/nasa-warp-drive-not-s...

http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-wa...
What's that? Like emergency notification on mobile?
Speaking as one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp, they take a very different curricular and pedagogical approach than this course. The emphasis is 100% on fundamentals and Rails is used only as a means to that end. Curricularly, Rails isn't touched on until week 7 or so.

This seems like a fine thing for someone who just wants to learn to sling together an app and learn some of the "Rails incantations." If they're self-directed, maybe they'll dive deeper. DBC eschews that -- one of the first things they try to unteach students is that programming is about memorizing a bunch of magic spells.
I rushed to get a picture of my phone alert online

Why?
My save to read it later habits, visualized as an infographic
[2009], for the confused.
I like the JSF plug at the bottom that ends (kills?) the thread. If JSRs were people, JSF would be in Pelican Bay.
Interesting, 4s here in silent mode and it just had a prolonged vibration.
There was a very interessting article once (shame on me that I didn't bookmark it...) comparing the strategy of Apple and Amazon. Main point was that Amazon pursues a low (zero?) margin strategy.

Guess that's what commerce should be about, cash instead of margin. Aldi, a pretty big german discounter of grocceries, works that way and became huge. That they are loosing right now against "new" entrants is a different thing.

But having seen time and again profitable companies struggle in time of crisis simply because they run out of cash, I'd rather back a company like Amazon.
Who cares? It's not like we'll notice. The scary part is if their equivalent of 4chan gets a hold of the controls.
I like the newer Scala frameworks, like Slick (http://slick.typesafe.com/). They work with tuples rather than classes. Fits much better with the relational model.
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The low cost of sending BTC (packets, I suppose) is one of bitcoin's greatest strengths. I wonder if it that feature is strong enough?
Well you could verify the patents for yourself, you could cross-check the opinion of the Convergent Semi analyst for yourself, and you could reflect on the fact that Kleiner Perkins is a well-established VC firm, and a bunch of other things.
Serious question: What are you supposed to do? Find the vehicle they describe? Run away from it? Ignore it and figure someone else will know what to do?

Can someone explain what this "Amber Alert" is because I have no idea and all the comments in this thread so far seem to assume everyone knows what is being discussed. Is it some sort of opt-out government alert system to help keep panic levels up between terrorist attacks?
By the title I thought you were talking about the next Windows Phone update.
[Edit: Self-righteous anger caused me to stop reading parent post mid-way through and start replying furiously. Nothing to see here.]

Crazy anarchist.

Because there have been no extremely intelligent, logical, level-headed and productive people who are also anarchists.

Start with this guy and get back to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard

If you said "crazy statist" I could maybe agree, since statism is kind of crazy in my opinion, but I think attacking any ideas by disqualifying with adjectives like crazy is extremely narrow-minded and leads to poor results, even if you're talking about statists.

Just because you've never heard of something, don't be so immature to dismiss it without thinking it through... you expose yourself as ignorant of the hard work of many intelligent people that have come before you.
I actually skipped the course, but grabbed my used copy from the old Powell's Tech before it closed, as well as the O'Reilly Flex and Bison book. It felt like I had the nuclear reactor manual! I also got really into writing interpreters, mainly in Ruby, after reading probably too many ICFP papers on the subject (and even shipped one to solve an ad targeting problem.)

I always try to dive headlong into literature for concepts like this, knowing I won't understand everything right away. Implementing the concepts with my tools of choice has always been a great way to prove my understanding, and push myself.
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Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean anything. I don't mean that to be snide, but just to point out that you may have encountered a limit in your own knowledge. I've known about memristors for years and have been waiting to see a product come to market. They're interesting devices, you should read up on them. Also, search back through HN as there have been several worthwhile discussions of the technology.
What I am saying is that few product people have the vision of what is needed - and have the right vision of the end result. Most product people more of iterative meandering tourists with vague idea of the end result rather than captains that have exact understanding where they ought to be in a week - as per having a useful and usable progress that moves everyone measurably closer to successful product.

Maybe I ask too much of my product people, but that's the reality - there are only so many steve jobses out there. People like to believe they have the traits but often lack similar "from the early years" experience of being in the whole basics of production to managing part that jobs had.

So to sum it up, too much of Wrong kind of technical debt. Sort of buying a ferrari when you need a house - because your wife will have a child soon ;)
the most obvious would be to split on both. Or allow a deposit kind of thing for the renter's half.
I enjoy eating meat. Deal with it.
It is an alert system mostly used for child abduction emergenencies: "An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert system. Originating in the United States in 1996, there are now similar systems in a number of other countries." (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBER_Alert)
In your self-righteous anger, you clearly missed snitko's sarcasm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089775
For those interested, Feedly gave 5000 lifetime license to certain backers for $99. However, once these were taken up, the rest of the customers still have to pay a monthly/yearly amount.

Feedly has probably used the lifetime license as a promotional method (and apparently very well too) and not as a sustainable business model.
The benefit of go is the cheap threads and CSP which make it scale well for complex servers.

I think we'll see the Go runtime gaining Single System Image distribution, performance improvements and libraries not services (e.g. groupcache) making it a very different world to develop in than Scala.
That sounds really disruptive. I'm on WIND Mobile in Ontario, Canada with a Galaxy Nexus, and get AMBER Alerts through a standard SMS message. Combined with a Pebble watch, I don't have to worry about disrupting class/a movie when I get them, and I can read the alert without having to take the phone out of my pocket.
The first time I got the alert (non-amber) it took me by surprise. Having never seen/heard of it I thought it was mistake/joke.

It was a flash flood alert in Las Vegas, a desert. It happened again the following day but this time a friend shared with me a pic of a flooded Caeser's Palace casino. It helped me avoid that area.
Got it on my HTC One (Sprint). At first I thought the fire alarm was going off.
I would turn to the Racket community first to learn about creating programming languages, they kind of have a thing for it.

Here's a start:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896
The FCC filing for the Chromecast shows a slightly different piece of hardware, with an external ribbon connector on the board. It's the brown & black part on the underside of the board. You can also see where the RF/heatsink can was cut to make room for a flex cable:

http://9to5google.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/innards.png

Perhaps the pads are still there and can be used to jump JTAG or a serial line out of the board.
I'm not really interested in giving law enforcement special control over my phone.
Sort of, it's a system for alerting the public specifically about kidnapped children. The alerts show up on billboards and they're broadcast on TV and radio, generally within a single town or small area. I think it's in use throughout North America.

Usually the idea is they'll send out a description of a car and a license plate, and if you see it you're supposed to call 911 (emergency response number).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert
Primarily because I thought other people would be curious as to why their phones were going crazy.

This is has never happened to me or anyone I know before, and I think it's a very interesting use of technology with several positives and negatives.
... that the Go server had a memory footprint of only about 10 MB vs. Scala’s nearly 200 MB. Priceless!

200Mb for such a crappy server with only hundred connections.

So, it is not about whose wrapper around epoll is thinner, but about how the data are represented and copied.
To remove another competitor from the market
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Does that mean that they brought Microsoft's problems to Google, or that Microsoft is having problems because they left? ;-)
I wonder what was exactly happening at Amazon here.
$17.75 million invested is probably beyond the stage of "fledgling". Perhaps "middling"? I will agree that founders' large salaries should come from profit, not investment.

Also, you have to imagine that the valuation of the company is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4x the amount invested, if not more depending on how recently the last round was. And as a founder it seems reasonable to assume around 10-15% equity remaining after a couple rounds, also assuming a couple other founders with similar stakes. That pegs his shares' value anywhere from $5-10 million. It may just be on paper, but you still count it in "net worth", a term readers of the Financial Post are probably most interested in. And definitely warrants, if the product is successful in its own right to any degree, feeling a bit of "breathing room".
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What do you imagine his role is? Editor? Tech journalist?
> The experiments where performed on a 2.7Ghz quad core MacBook Pro with both client and server running locally, so as to better measure pure processing overhead. The client would make 100 concurrent connections and send a total of 1 million pings to the server, evenly distributed over the connections. We measured the average round trip time.

Another let's rape localhost:8080 on a MacBook Pro™ benchmark
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Or it could just be you don't want to introduce more competition with already a solid brand and revenue, unless they are willing to pay.