skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like Go's low memory footprint could give it an important advantage in this area.

You know that there is a C++ version of Lucene?

http://clucene.sourceforge.net/

There's also Xapian, which is built in C++:

http://xapian.org/

So, if Java's footprint is a concern, there are alternatives.
Inside OS X Mavericks
I've lived and worked on both costs and in the midwest and New Yorkers are some of the nicest folks I've come across.

I think it's more then just tourist getting yelled at that confuses the outsiders but also the tendency of new yorkers to chew the fat and joke around with one another, or be straight forward. Something which would be fairly alien to most people from the west coast.
I'm not American, so I'm not well informed on this, but is the basis for federal prohibition of narcotics not the Commerce Clause? Doesn't that mean that, constitutionally (as far as the USSC is concerned), the states have no right to overrule the federal gov't?

What does this mean for other state nullifications of federal law, like attempts to ignore Obamacare or gun control? Can the states use the USG's acquiescence to state nullification of federal powers ensured by the Commerce Clause in this instance to establish precedence for nullifying federal law in other areas?
Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Invest in Foursquare
> but given iOS is such a closed locked system, it is
> meaningless for users

As if it is any different for non-programmers on any systems, open or not.
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It is not a stretch. These programs slow down the users browser experience. Though they may not be actively in collusion, more and more of these tool bars are installed and the browser almost grinds to a halt. I have opened the browser on my parents laptop to fin the top half of the screen cut off because it was full of tool bars. While they may not be intentionally malicious the result is malicious. Therefore they are malware.
This.

I was corrected a while ago on a different site that the Obama administration has been very two-faced about progressive MJ laws. I don't know if a lot of people are aware of that, I certainly wasn't.
Sorry, *10 Second Roguelike.

My brain hasn't fully recovered from LD27 yet.
"Closed, locked, walled garden, proprietary, owned by carriers (false - android is restricted by carriers, not iOS)", etc.

And yet strangely, I use open source libraries on iOS all the time.

Open source is completely and utterly irrelevant to end-users. It is only meaningful if you are able to work with the source code.

The only thing stopping you from doing that is not wanting to pay the $100 developer registration.
downloading and executing code on the fly as in the web browser its a broken design problem..

browsers are being patched for a long time now.. to fit into sophisticated models.. it came all over here, by using duct tape.. but now it can be patched anymore to get into the next level.. it cant reach the next level because its broken by design.

how long until people face the reality?
Would you say that immigrants from certain countries are by nature more violent? If you don't believe that, then there must be something else involved. Maybe, it's that they have incentives to become criminals, because they are being denied legal opportunities to work. Maybe, it's because the police is not interested in protecting anyone, but rather is interested in catching illegal aliens for the sake of it and applying violence to them.

Nobody asks you to invite immigrants to your backyard. Let them live in their enclaves and don't show up there if you think it's not safe. It doesn't mean both communities can't benefit each other. But what makes you think that somehow you have more right to all the land that doesn't directly belong to you than some guy from a different country? Why do we even have these arbitrary borders? Why is it considered moral to deny people an opportunity to travel and settle down where they like?
It's on YouTube, although I don't know if it's complete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
Yep. I got the same thing and just backed out.
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Not unless you create the new job!
I'm not talking about a letter intercepted en-route. I'm talking about a letter once it has been delivered to Google and is sitting on their premises, like your e-mail does once it's delivered via the SSL connection. The government can subpoena those papers just as they can subpoena the papers relating to your financials held by your accountants, etc.
If this is just about you saving $100, why all the rhetoric about walled gardens?
Hard to follow running 1024x768: http://i.imgur.com/rVVrZCc.png
Lost in slashes here.
You're most welcome. At the time there was a rather stupid magazine article titled, "Will Success Spoil Paul Lutus?" When I saw it I laughed and said, "I hope so."
But... It's here? http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
It all sounds quite like Wikipedia, which has its official hierarchy of admins, and then its informal hierarchy of admins with clout. Despite its advertised openness ("the encyclopedia anyone can contribute to") a lot of stuff over there runs through back channels; that is by design. The project has a reputation of being poorly run.

Run for the hills!
no, it's users. https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...
http://www.ibtimes.com/i-have-dream-speech-full-transcript-v...
Only about 5% of prisoners in the US are housed in private prisons.
But you don't invite them to your house. What makes you believe that somehow you have more right to land that doesn't directly belong to you than another human being from Earth? America is a big country with plenty of land where many more people could live not bothering each other.
Microsoft's corporate strategy is well outside of my control or understanding. I only mentioned being a Microsoft employee because in conversations about my company, I have to tell people that I work for them. That said, I was speaking in the general sense, not in the specific sense of Microsoft
I started TouristEye.com 4 years ago with Symfony 1.1. We kept pace with the new releases (updating when 1.2.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.2 was out). Last November we decided to simplify our website and completely change our website, so we felt it was the right time to do the migration. It took 5 months (myself as the backend of the website & api, and another developer as the frontend). It was a big rewrite, but the code now is so much better to maintain and learn. We are right now using 2.3, and I'm way happy coding :)

About your case, I agree with you that the best way for you is to add component by component, extracting and encapsulating functionality so you can use Symfony2, Zend or whatever framework you want in the future. Go for a service oriented architecture. And let's hope you have everything tested!
Why should I spend $99 on this when I could spend $15 for a similar theme on ThemeForest or a site like that?

(Not being snarky, I've never bought a theme on any of those sites and don't really know about how the licenses and stuff work.)
Oh awesome implementation!
Hi all! I'm the developer behind ChUI and I'm here to answer any questions.
I'm pretty sure you literally said "popping up shareware nag-screens at random intervals" instead of "that's equivalen to", but whatever, I'll take your word for it, in good faith, that you did not edit your post and that I read your post wrong.

Wait, what...

You edited this line into your reply hours after you initially posted it. Hoping I would miss it or something?

And in this very edit you have the nerve to suggest I edit my comment after the fact to spin shit around?

Look at the position of the 'popping up' phrase in my post. How would saying it in any way other than it's written make any sense, syntactically?

And why would I claim passenger pops up literal nag screens, when everyone knows that's complete nonsense?

I do appreciate you showing your true colors in this thread. I'll make sure to link to it every time I run into one of your 'PR excursions' in the future.
In Gonzales v Raich[1], the Supreme Court affirmed the government's right to control drugs grown domestically within a state and sold to state citizens. The states, however, are not violating Federal law in non-enforcement. The Federal government is free to enforce its laws against violators of federal laws in its courts (District/Circuit). States are basically declaring that its not a priority or objective of its state police officers. It's not nullification, so much as it's "That's your law; you enforce it."

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html
Quite an odd statement, that. It seems like an awfully blunt tool to use as a form of social control.

You wish to disenfranchise students who get a subsidized student loan and spend all of their time on their studies?

To disenfranchise farmers who get subsidizes for fallow land (no "crops of any type on this land, for each year of the last 5 years") where the farm isn't in operation?

To disenfranchise my disabled and retired father who gets subsidized support from the government?

How much work does one need to do to be worthy enough to vote while getting a subsidy of some sort? One hour? One day? Does it matter the type of job and the amount paid?

Should someone making $1 million per year have a higher quality and quantity of votes than you do. How many votes should Bill Gates have? If there is an upper bound, what is it, and why?
What an interesting coincidence, the Now I Know newsletter this morning was about a neat Bezos story and contained a link to this talk: http://nowiknow.com/the-lichen-loophole/
Sates could raise a defense of laches, which is a legal doctrine that basically says 'you had your chance and let it pass.' Although the rules regarding timeliness of litigation are fuzzy, courts take a dim view of attempts to 'turn the clock back' if people have had time to get used to the new situation.

So a state passes a law that the Federal government or some group of citizens dislike and a lawsuit rapidly ensues, that's a fair enough controversy and it may even be possible to have the law held up by injunction. But going back to challenge a law that has been around for a while is not so easy. Other factors include whether the challenge is coming from above or below (it's easier for a powerful body like the federal government to marshal the resources to sue, so there is less excuse for a delay in doing so) and whether the aim of the lawsuit is to expand or constrict freedoms (in general, expansion is viewed with greater favor).

IANAL, and no citations will be forthcoming for general remarks, since exceptions certainly exist.
> is the basis for federal prohibition of narcotics not the Commerce Clause?

Most likely, along with most federal restrictions. However, if you're making a constitutional argument, the Commerce Clause only regulates interstate commerce, not intrastate commerce. The federal government has no constitutional grounds to regulate anything created, sold, and consumed within the bounds of a state. Hence why Prohibition required a constitutional amendment. If you're looking for precedent, there it is.
I have a friend who styles himself as a "professional code deleter" and who loves to post his diffstats when they're very large negatives.
It is random. I lived about two blocks away on 18th place.
haha. Yeah, these guys have never seen a java spring app.
The link is going to the wrong place.
If you don't trust the server, you're screwed anyway.
Vim can't be an IDE (it lacks the most important aspects of an IDE), no wonder your attempts failed.
"The product side needs to provide a set of requirements, and the development side needs to find out what the client needs, and how to deliver it. The development side has to have enough product knowledge to determine the actual need, not the stated want"

disagree with that statement.

"The product side needs to find out what the client really needs and build requirements out of it. The development side has to determine how to deliver it."

Fixed that for you.
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There is also matter of perspective here. Woz is that hardware/software genius and hence what he means by "knowing to code" is really different than the person who asked the question. Woz seems to have interpreted it as "knowing some programming language to the extent of making some significant contribution".
Tweetping
Such as when Jobs got Wozniak to create Breakout for him and took the entire bonus without telling Wozniak.
Any examples of what the "Skeuo" style looks like?
I think most likely reason for this one is pretty obvious. If we do not hear any social effect contributing to the explosion, such as China or India adding massive numbers of people, then my money would be on somebody getting a massive botnet on TOR.
Kind of strange the bots would spike you. Wouldn't anything on a page have been used before and thus cached on your server as a file? I've written all this stuff before as well, including overlaying site logo on images that were hotlinked to boot, but I always cached to the file system anything I had to generate the first time it was requested and simply served it after.
It would probably be easiest to extract them directly by running the OS in a VM. But I suppose crawling them is your next best option.

Fedora:
http://linuxmanpages.net/manpages/

OS X:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
It's not about $100 a year, although that's a real barrier. It's that you and I are not in control over what software our hardware we own can run. Do I lease my smartphone from the company or do I own it, because it sure doesn't feel like I own it when I have to pay someone a $100 a year to run my software on my device. It feels like I'm being robbed. Robbed of money, robbed of choice, robbed of control.
Indeed. Incredibly humble of one of history's greatest painters to simply state he can paint as well as any man.
> The United States has spent more than $500 billion on intelligence during that period, an outlay that U.S. officials say has succeeded in its main objective: preventing another catastrophic terrorist attack in the United States.

We hadn't had a catastrophic terrorist attack even approaching 9/11 prior to that date. And I'm guessing we've spent more in the past 12 on "preventing terrorism" than we had in the 225 years prior to 9/11.

My point: we may have overreacted.
Don't Just Throw it Over the Fence
Browse through here:
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

You might be able to pick up a few things you want to predict based on the datasets here.
Unlikely, given that the DoJ unveiled a plan to hugely reduce the number of drug prosecutions, avoid mandatory minimum sentences through procedural means etc. What's 'sickening' is you mental picture of what could happen, but there's no great reason to believe it actually will; don't mistake your bias for reality.
I don't think so. I distinctly remember discussing it multiple times throughout grade school and watching it at least once.
A tax on corporate profits?
The audio latency of the new Nexus 7 (2013) is not 40ms
I clearly slept through my government class. Where does the 26 states requirement come from?
I'm confused. I was pointing out that you cannot do something simple like count LOCs, run a CASE tool that spits out cyclomatic complexity, or other things, and instantly measure productivity. How is that not what Brooks was saying? You don't bean count your way to better software, you manage the inherent complexity. Daily, hard work, understanding all of the parts, and so on.
Poverty causes a 13-point drop in IQ (due to stress)
This is a very nice project - bookmarked. Did you consider making the sliders vertical, so all of them could fit on a screen without need for scrolling?
At first I thought he just had a basic overview of what the NSA does, but if he's getting down into the specifics of what the USA specifically does in other countries he will truly have fucked the USA over diplomacy wise.
I don't see why you can't do your own verification today, although you'll have to track future protocol changes.
In Wickard v. Filburn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn), the Supreme Court pretty much ruled that everything is interstate commerce. That case involved a farmer growing wheat for consumption on the farm. The court ruled that because the grain he grew was grain he wouldn't have to buy, he was having an indirect effect on the interstate market for wheat.
Congrats on the most obtuse post of the day... content-free.

So, you support the power of the state over the idea of the fourth amendment (warrant process)? Ok, stating that fact would be more effective than this "that's just sad" tripe.
Not all minutes are created equally. Spending 100 minutes in a row on code is usually pretty useful; coming back to it for 20 minutes a day is not, especially if we're talking about upgrading to a major upgrade of a framework, which we are.
That precedent seems rather circular; it effectively says "intrastate commerce affects interstate commerce, thus we can regulate intrastate commerce". That seems like a rather blatant license for arbitrary regulation on an ends-justify-the-means basis: we can't do what we want under those restrictions, so we don't have to follow those restrictions.
I don't know about you all, but public school did an abysmal job of teaching me any US history post-WWII. It's like nothing has happened in this country since the women's suffrage movement, with WWII a hasty footnote. Honestly, I think the politics were too hot to handle through the 1980s, when cultural divides arout Vietnam were very fresh, and those from King's time still not too distant. What is being taught in high school nowadays?
So two teams build identical databases in identical time frames. One becomes popular and has sells in millions of dollars. The other flops, with sells in the hundreds of dollars. Sure there is a difference in business results but I fail to see how the two teams were not equally productive at creating software. Sure I don't have a good definition of software development productivity but this is open to so many non software development productivity elements as to be nonsensical.

Basically I see this as marketing. We may not be the fastest but who cares about that we have the special insight to build the hits that keep you in business.
For those that haven't read "The Overachievers", if you liked this story, give this book a read. In particular, the trials and tribulations of "AP Frank" will be of interest.
How to Be Happy....and Successful.
I wonder if they're trying to sell off remaining inventory before the rumored Nexus 5 later this year.
The problem with half of these is the unnecessary use of spatial metaphors.

Flipping, scrolling, or otherwise moving the un-highlighted text to make room for the highlighted text doesn't accomplish anything – it's the same text, just with a different presentation.

Save these spatial animations for progressive disclosure. When you want more information to pop out of something, or you want additional controls to present themselves when the user has entered a specific context, that's when you should consider scrolling and flipping your elements.
I'm familiar with the precedent, and I'm aware that the federal government has interpreted the commerce clause as carte blanche for arbitrary regulation; I'm arguing that such interpretation seems blatantly wrong to me.
Alleged Affair of Google Co-Founder Brin Raises Ethical Issues
And yet text is necessarily limited in it's audience, based on the people who can read it.

Every physical electronics device that I've seen and has a power related button and was created within the last 5 years has had the IEC standard button.

At a certain point this is a training issue. I think universal symbols have value. If we can standardize on a few for extremely common concepts, I think it's worthwhile to do so and train those that don't know them.

The radioactivity hazard sign[1] is a good example of this. At one point (prior to 1946), people didn't know what that meant, but people learned because there was value in knowing.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol
The number of directly connecting users from Russia does appear to have doubled [1], but this can also be seen in UK user numbers [2]. For such an increase to be seen globally my hunch is that this is down to either the Pirate Browser [3] or some other software release - not necessarily a response to a particular law being passed, NSA leak etc.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-0...

[2] https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-0...

[3] http://piratebrowser.com/
Yeah Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God was in my textbook in American lit (~2001).
Amazing, servicing thousands of users for $150 a month.

I'd clearly start writing my own indexing engine instead of using Posgresql, or maybe switching to digital ocean/hetzner.
The Product/Market Fit Mirage
Just out of curiosity, why it is messy? And you can as well hire them as contractors. This should be much easier, shouldn't it?
Someone is building the next Google!!!! And they're scraping everything, even top secret documents!
There are always going to be cases where the interests of the employee and the organization are aligned. I do not think it is illuminating to call that "a kind of loyalty". When I am loyal to something or someone, I will defend their interests even when doing so goes against my (other) personal interests.

Also, you're ignoring my point that certain organizations have the option of intentionally causing (via e.g. paying commissions on sales) a broad alignment of personal and organizational interests, but spy agencies (and police departments and court systems) do not.

And just because paying someone obscenely well succeeds in getting them to increase whatever source of organizational profits was increased in the Libor scandal does not mean that paying Snowden obscenely well would have succeeded in getting him to ignore the broad public-policy implications of Prism and such (or paying a cop obscenely well would succeed in stopping him from brutalizing people under his power or stopping him from doing other things against the long-term interests of his department).

Finally, since Hacker News (measured in the scores of my previous comments of this nature) does not value long series of back-and-forths, this will probably be my last response in this thread.
Disclaimer. I'm the creator of GitSense which is working on building advanced power tools for Git and GitHub.

The diffing problem is solved quite easily with the Google Diff, Match, Patch algorithm and our Smart View technology. When GitSense was created, it was obvious that we all work differently and we all have different needs which was why we made it insanely customizable. If you are not familiar with the Google Diff, Match, Patch algorithm, you can learn more about it here:

https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

I've also put some screen shots of what the diff results for two markdown files would look like at:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/google-diff-patch-match.html

The context aware source code that is used in GitSense to display the diff can be found here:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/google-diff-match-patch-inte...
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The problem wasn't the "extreme & foreign environment", the problem was that you thought wrongly that you could learn Vim as if it were a regular editor.

Learning Vim is a side project: something you do casually, slowly, until and if you are able to do the actual switch.

Those braindead distributions are just smoke mirrors for lazy and pressed people: they provide training wheels but they actively prevent you from actually learning core Vim. They make people $distribution_name users instead of Vim users.