skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the new updates in recent Redis releases are related to cluster and replication, I would like to see new commands and structure types.. I like the SCAN and MATCH...thanks for all hard work..love Redis..
What Good Is Inspiration?
This is how you create customer loyalty.
I think jQuery and Bootstrap are "developer ready". IE , easy to use. The easiest lib/project to use will always be the most successfull one. Doesnt mean there is no place for competition, and it doesnt mean it will always be the framework everybody use. Furthermore this is "Twitter" bootstrap. Most people have no idea what Zurb is.
Take a look at this:

http://jsfiddle.net/RfZed/2/
A shell made in a pure functional language... It does not look apealing (the main use of a shell is to create side effects), but I'll sure try it.
how can you be so sure of that and even if i will come up with crappy apps maybe some big professional company comes up with something that you will end up using you never know...;)
That used to be true, but considering that hard drive transfer rates cap out around 200 MByte/s, you'd have to send a large bunch of drives that must be read and written in parallel to be faster than a network connection.
I saw the code and a whole lot of -webkit- flags so I tried it in firefox, and it still worked.
Why do crypto people only want there to be a single C implementation of everything?

Because it's hard, and if you make a mistake, it means there is no security.
Interactive Infographic showing 50 year of Dr Who's time travel
> since it misses basic pipes

To be fair, you don't actually need them

lelf:~/srcs/hell$ reverse <$> pwd
"lleh/scrs/flel/sresU/"

But yes, right now it's just a bunch of renames.
Sex is part of human nature. It used to happen before Humans invented the notion of marriage. The church is trying to stop something that is intrinsically a part of us, that is a bad strategy and is actively making the world a WORSE place.

A better idea would be to encourage people to use condoms. This does not circumvent human nature and has a much better chance of working.

Don't defend ill thought out policy with bad logic.
Hacker News loves North Korea.

It can't get enough of the place.
Agreed, this is silly but it's like Ember's hamster,it's a hit or miss. While the design is great, you might or might not dig the mascot.
I hate using javascript where CSS would suffice. It is more "natural" and efficient. The resource consumption is less intensive.
So the guy is selling the card for 38k and the card can't even be used in tournaments?

Seriously, I'm sorry for who really likes this game (I'm not one), but 38k for a card is inhumane and irresponsible.
"Dart meanwhile is Google’s open-source Web programming language, which has an ultimate goal of replacing JavaScript." Good luck on that. On my side if I were to see JS replaced I would choose Lua as a replacement.
Congratulations, you got the sysadmin executed.
Thanks, I spell-checked the body of the page but forgot the intro! Updated now.
Thanks, that's not a bad idea.
Xbox One launch: faulty drives, scratched cases, and misplaced test discs
The Secret to Getting Great Press
We can push single atoms around in the lab, so I don't think there will be too many problems in testing this experimentally.
Most languages, go included, are hopelessly unsuited for writing crypto code, which cares about precise processor behavior in a way that no other problem does. Honestly I suspect with the current state of C compiler optimizations the only language suitable for writing crypto primitives is assembler.
IDE Battle Vote
The square-cube law would probably end up being a problem - there's only so much current that can flow through a one- or two-dimensional conductor even with zero resistance.
While I hate camelCase, i have to agree, javascript core lib uses camelCase and PascalCase , so should 3rd party libraries.
Nestle Patenting Fennel Flower?
Web developer - jsp/ Java for start up
Comeand work with us at Screen Library. We've got lots of projects, are building out an exciting video/ metadata platform and need help. As a start-up options are on offer too.
Programming is easy, after all: all you need to understand is conditions and repetition.

If you believe that you have never tried to teach a class of non-programmers.

Instead, programming keeps getting harder on new computers all the time, especially ones made by Apple

Apple have made a lot of efforts to bring programming to the common user: Hypercard, Applescript, Automator. They are abandoned because no-one was interested in using them.
https://encrypted.google.com doesn't have the doodle, if that helps in the future
why not byte code then we all get what we want.
To counterbalance, it is important to know that the structure of fullerenes strongly affects their chemical properties and hence toxicity. It does not immediately follow that just because CNTs are rolled up graphene that graphene will be just as toxic.

C60 for example not only shows no indication of toxicity but also appears to have health benefits. My general understanding is while relatively little is known about graphene, what is known suggests it is much safer than CNTs [1]. As well, CNTs are most dangerous when inhaled. CNTs can do damage once inside a cell but breaching membrane is a special enough cirscumstance to make it relatively easily solvable compared to how to mass produce the fullerenes in the first place. The asbestos like quality also seems to be length dependent [2] and most risky to workers - which is a more controllable environment. While it is important to know how harmful these substances may be to us and our environment and I am a tad wary of CNTs, one must keep in mind that the setting of these experiments tend to be exceptional. The fear mongering on this seems like it will end up like GMO, vaccines and fission; yet another inappropriately maligned technology of great potential.

[1] The results show that GO [digraphene oxide] has a moderate toxicity to organisms since it can induce minor (about 20%) cell growth inhibition and slight hatching delay of zebrafish embryos at a dosage of 50 mg/L, but did not result in significant increase of apoptosis in embryo, while MWNTs exhibit acute toxicity leading to a strong inhibition of cell proliferation and serious morphological defects in developing embryos even at relatively low concentration of 25 mg/L

[2] The apparent similarity between multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and asbestos fibers has generated serious concerns about their safety profile. The asbestos-like pathogenicity observed for long, pristine nanotubes (NTlong, see scheme) can be completely alleviated if their effective length is decreased as a result of chemical functionalization, such as with tri(ethylene glycol) (TEG).

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11426-012-4620-z

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201207664/ab...
Baseball cards regularly sell for well over $100k and on a few occasions for over $1 million. Even if he gets $38K for it, it isn't that much as far as trading cards go.
It only went live last night, so far "dribble" rather than "flood" would be a good way to describe it, although that is (perhaps better) than I expected anyway. I wanted to complete it before I started promoting it, so there would be no pressure to get it finished by a particular deadline (I know this works for some, but as I mentioned in my intro this book has to fit in around my "real" life).

I've been watching Nathan's posts on here, they are very interesting. I have no "name" out there, so not all of what he's acheived is applicable to my situation right now (perhaps my second book maybe!). It's something I probably need to work on, blogging may be the way forward on that front.

Your comments on consulting are interesting, working up that trust without being a "known quantity" I suspect maybe hard though.
If you are constantly mirroring your media drives with multiple redundancy, you can just unplug a set and post them.
The more interesting details aren't on this page. The license and the costs associated with the license.
There's also scsh, which uses Scheme:

http://www.scsh.net/
Please feel free to submit things that you think are more suitable for Hacker News.
Ukrainian Twitter Map of Euromaidan‬ protests. Realime social media analytics
Ionic – A front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps in HTML5
Why don't you use your browser's search bar? I hadn't seen this doodle until I saw this post on HN because I never ever load google's homepage anymore.
The real difference is not between outbound and inbound. Classical firewalls have been blocking outbound connections depending on ports since forever.

Firewalls for Windows (I first saw it in ZoneAlarm) introduced application specific filtering. So you can allow one application to connect to HTTP servers and disallow another application from doing the same.

Edit: I was just reading this article an hour ago, about how to programmatically add rules to Windows built-in firewall using Delphi:

http://theroadtodelphi.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/using-the-wi...
? Of how little javascript you need to get a whole bunch of things done. In this game, you could efficiently generate several different objects of various animations doing different sorts of stuff simply by putting in the least of javascript. It is less resource intensive and more natural to the browser because it leverages things it expects.

Several years ago, this game would be very resource heavy and use lots of JS, but as more common uses of JS are merged into CSS, JS is less and less relied on.
Thanks for the tips, the conferences idea sounds interesting (though my employer has no budget to fund conferences related to my work let alone anything else, so I'd have to cover the costs myself).

Not sure about the real-estate idea, I guaranteed my wife that any money-making schemes would be strictly low-risk!
I think they're just fun little hacks. I personally find more interesting than the typical; "How sleeping only 20 minutes a day helped me sell my startup for 100 million dollars"

I suspect the community feels the same. There's always something beneficial that comes out of these for me. Whether it's seeing how *not to do something or picking up a little piece of code that can be repurposed somewhere else.
A look at the suprising second life of the PlayStation Vita
But did you not take into account that they might prolong your life and then kill you?
So far it seems like the "Wolfram System" and the future "Mathematica 10.0" are the same thing (see: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/WolframSystem... )

Licensing doesn't seem to have changed: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SystemAndLicense...
Yup, Dulles is definitely less costly than on-Metro living. If you go with VA, check out http://www.cit.org/.
You might consider buying and reading Nathan's book, Authority:

http://nathanbarry.com/authority/

Here's my review of it:

http://blog.liberwriter.com/2013/11/21/nathan-barrys-authori...

It's aimed pretty squarely at someone like yourself and has a lot of good advice.
Programming is as easy as painting: either your brain is wired correctly or you work hard to re-wire it.
"This Site Totally Doesn't Work Without JavaScript.

Like, at all. Sorry. If you enable it and reload this page you'll be good to go. Need to know how? Go here." Okay, that's funny.
When Javascript is on: Ah, Nice little game. Interested how it needs a .js file with just a comment. Can we improve this to remove it?

Edit: oh, so maybe the overall website need JS, not the game(?).
I feel you are overreacting if you consider the other poster's attitude "sociopathic".
Hey @mherdeg. I thought this was a really good idea.

I just checked to see if the domain name was available mtgox.com, but some weird fake money site is using it for what looks like a pyramid scheme.

Considering these pyramid schemes always come crashing down at some point, maybe we can grab the domain after them?
10 startup problems I need your help with understanding better.
The main use of Haskell is to create side effects. It just does so in a principled, constrained manner.
But it's cumbersome to have to change lots of code just because a property of some object became computed instead of directly stored (or vice versa). And it's unfeasible to do so if you're developing a library (for external usage, or internal usage within a company)... you can't just go and fix all the code that used it.
Depends on the space; if it's big enough you can get away with more people (remember, they can shuffle). Sound-deadening floor and ceiling material helps a lot. The most important thing is still attitude toward your cow-orkers, though.
Doctor Who was first broadcast in the UK on November the 23rd 1963. To be accurate the Google doodle shouldn't be visible in your country before the 23rd. That said, it is early afternoon of the 22nd in the UK, the doodle wasn't visible on google.co.uk late morning but it is now.
So it's "A New Kind of Marketing" ?
That was one of the most uninteresting things i've read in my life.
2 minutes in heaven are better than.. 1 minute in heaven.
Heard from someone who has done that kind of thing: it's really hard, it mostly fails. When you see the pretty images, they are the results of months of frustrating, mostly-failure lab work. Surfaces are hard, because everything affects everything, and changes ripple around moving the stuff you just placed.
The original article, not the comment I was replying to
How grad student trying to build first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
Let's hope they have no version control history...
Why I never used Apple products in the first place....
By ohm's law, zero resistance means infinite current. I don't know anything about super conductors, but I thought that was the appeal? If not, what replaces ohms law in a superconductor? Or, put differently, how is the current limit defined?
I'm not disputing that - just pointing out that I'm surprised they didn't include the US in this one since there's a non-trivial percentage of the population that would have enjoyed it.
Simple version on the author's website

http://nojsgame.majorov.su/
I've started shying away from Angular a little because it's not very simple to work with existing JQuery and JavaScript components with having to re-wrap everything in directives (and supporting it when the underlining components change) has become a huge-PIA....
Ubiq simplfies analytics for MySQL(on cloud or your laptop)

Use cases:
For Saas/Apps - Find out which features are used more and iterate faster. Track conversion, retention and other metrics in real time.

For E-commerce - Find out top customers, products & categories. Create better marketing campaigns. Perform customer segmentation & cohort analysis
Any relationship to the cloud IDE Brightly that seemed to have been killed somewhere in 2011-2012? The leaked 'Future of Javascript' Google memo from 2010 mentions they expected Brightly to be the first app written in Dart (which was called Dash at the time).
At my previous two companies I've found that HipChat is generally much more accessible to non-engineers. Ideally there aren't multiple communication tools for the same purpose, so I'd rather have HipChat than AIM + IRC.

Additionally, it has some nice features like cross-device chat history, various embed support, etc.
Someone got sent to the gulags for using javascript in places he shouldn't have. Who said programming wasn't dangerous? :P
I think Google needs to start their own campaign to counter Microsoft's 'Scroogled'.
May I suggest 'Microfucked'?
On chrome, same same. Default blank tab is image.
more like Google Helpouts
What does Harvard have to do with any of this?
There's a misunderstanding at work here about how Haskell actually regards side effects. In a few words: It provides an API for declaring side effects, and forces you to use this API when chaining them together, but it does not refuse to acknowledge their existence.

Haskell's reputation exaggerates how this API was less powerful, or missing altogether, in early versions of the language. But its reputation is not what you write programs in.
If they can do better than a product/procedure, their duty to their company is to make that improvement in private.

I might be misunderstanding, so please forgive me if I am.
Am I the only one that finds "impenetrable" a funny selling point? It makes perfect sense but still sounds funny. I'm surprised they didn't go for "unbreakable".
Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 08 - Smalltalk (1981)
Programming is easy to the programmers.

Art is easy to the artist.

Writing is easy to the writer.

Music is easy to the musician.
Electrode recreates all four tastes on your tongue
Reddit: the front page of the internet
In all this talk about Ansible, Puppet, Chef, I wonder why nobody mentions cfengine. When I explored configuration systems my conclusions were Ansible for small systems (<100 nodes) and cfengine3 for larger systems. cfengine has very little dependencies (no Python/Ruby/etc) and a solid theoretic foundation (Promise theory etc).
Any sufficiently fast language that allow the user to focus on the problem rather than the syntax or semantics will do better than its peers. I for one am looking forward to Julia maturing.
Culprit: time zones. Not Google.
They'll just switch to port 80. No one is going to be willing to block that outgoing.
This one A/B testing case study will leave you smarter and wiser
Testing whether confidence intervals overlap is a poor test for statistical significance -- confidence intervals can overlap and still represent a statistically significant difference between groups.

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/significant-differences.h...

Skimming through the paper, it appears they did not correct for making multiple comparisons. That will raise their false positive rate. Oh well...
She's well off as well, yet she won't pay? Lol
It could have been worst, imagine if the author instead had spent some of his precious time whining on a forum about how other people should spend their spare time on stuff he considers to be more valuable.

Hacking things to make them do something they were not designed to do is the life and blood of all things computers. It's just so damn fun.
Serious question - is Mathematica popular outside of academic circles? I remember being blown away in college but haven't used it since.
Actually, it wouldn't be trivial, especially since this is graded and certified by a third party. I've seen quite a few attempts at fake trading cards. All are noticeable to the trained eye.

There's a lot that would be required to accurately recreate any collectible like this. Paper stock, size, printing process, etc...
How can I convince my boss that I should clean some part of our code base?
I say this as a bit of a closet NK watcher and as someone who visited DPRK back in August but in all likely hood there most likely were / will be very very real and unfortunate consequences for whoever was responsible for this. I'm trying very hard not to do the moral high horse thing but maybe chill out on the jokes a bit?
I bet you'd like this, then:

> "Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review"

Most ingredients they studied had studies saying they increased the risk of cancer, along with other studies saying they decreased the risk of cancer. Combining studies, the overall evidence was basically zero.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/97/1/127.abstract
Ask HN: When to give up?
I recently launched my first SaaS.

I have received positive feedback from one or two people but I don't really know if it solves a problem that people are willing to pay for.

To what lengths should one go to validate an idea? At what point would you give up and accept that noone is interested?

EDIT: It's http://crawlspa.com.
Why the hell does the go argument parser insist on that silly single-dash-then-key-then-equals-then-value syntax?

Is it Rob Pike doing that thing that "different because I said so" thing that he and djb have been pioneering for years?
To me this looks like a Lisp variant with a large set of utility libraries.

Am I missing something? Is the point the quality/volume of the support libraries?
I would be careful about overselling the Meteor as well. Not all projects are trivial web-apps, some enterprise clients will benefit from strongly typed languages on server-side as opposed to legacy ones.
I am torn on this. On the one hand, programming is empowering, so everybody should learn some programming in school. On the other hand, a powerful tool is also dangerous. Look at the financial sector using complex Excel sheets nobody understands anymore. As the world gets more and more dependent on software, we need more professionalism in software engineering.
Show HN: beep.c - it would never stop.
i have one ... but dont want to signin with that :)
If you abstain you have no chance of getting pregnant. It depends: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3167/do-condoms-... .
When I was a student and working with Mathematica 5 and 6 a lot, I was always amazed about its simplicity and power. I had just two windows: typing in a white document window without any toolbars (only zoom control in the bottom) and having another window with documentation. And the documentation was great: you could evaluate examples right inside the doc page, play with parameters, like in your own document.

The design of the language, user interface and depth and clarity of documentation makes me think that Wolfram Research is even more design-obsessive than Apple. Stephen Wolfram takes credit for too many things (like Jobs), but he also delivers amazing stuff.
The question is wether this post will start a flame war in the comments.
I think the amount of time spent talking about this topic is bad for employees, bosses and productivity. Its been beaten to death and the truth is everyone is different so there is no ONE solution.
This is one place where I'm happy for subsidized phone contracts, since I don't have to agonize over the price when I'm buying a new iPhone.
Part of hacker culture is an appreciation for problems solved under arbitrary, weird, and usually difficult constraints. Practical this is not, but it's a cool demo that might inspire something useful.

If you lose that sense of playfulness with tech you might as well go work in some other field, because tech is about using things in ways they were never designed to be used... because it's fun first, and later because your under a weird constraint and you have this corpus of seemingly useless (at the time of acquisition) knowledge to draw on.

Things like this only promote a deeper understanding of what can be done in pure CSS. Yes he took it too far, but that's the point.
I'm terribly sorry in advance if this sounds dense, but what exactly do you use Redis for? I've been trying to work it out for some time... pointers to documentation would be fine :-)
Actually, Magic is one of the only games that never lost popularity. Being part of the industry, I've seen a few dozen games that were billed as the "next game to kill Magic". All of them have faded into obscurity.

Blizzard had a Trading Card Game for quite some time, first produced by Upper Deck and later by Cryptozoic. It was popular for a time, mostly due to in-game redemptions for World of Warcraft. It has been set aside for their online game; Hearthstone.

In the case of this item, it's become more like a baseball collectible; a part of the history of the game. Also, these items pop up from time to time, but the market for such an expensive card is very limited.

My company recently had a full set of Alpha in excellent condition. We listed it for auction and it failed to meet reserve. We are likely to break it up for the individual cards.
I'm pretty sure it is codepen.io that needs javascript to run the other guys website within their own.
Is really hard, but there are experts who specialise in really hard things. My point was that it is not harder than many other hard things that people regularly accomplish.
The Urinal Problem
This Tech Founder’s Blind Spot: Building Over-Generalised Products