skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Japanese Famicom didn't have a CIC lockout chip, which let you hotswap games and then soft reset, preserving all of the RAM (a power cycle doesn't decay all RAM instantly, but it deteriorates rapidly.)

People would play Mario, then swap in certain games (mostly Tennis), then swap back to Mario, and then try the trick where you hold select or whatever to resume at the level you last died at.

Depending upon the contents of RAM based on what the other game wrote there, it would warp you to all of these corrupted worlds.
It's interesting that, in this context, blame the victim isn't offensive.
No, not anymore. All you guys comment negatively and cowardly silently downvote and I'm sure most of you haven't even bothered to look into HHVM.
There is a typo in the about page, under "2013 Open-Source Donations", "Crytocat" should be "Cryptocat".
US to start testing universal Internet IDs to tackle fraud
Behind paywall for me, even when in Incognito
The London startup scene: Why we moved our company from San Francisco
IIRC, V8 had implemented optimizations that specifically target asm.js code patterns in the past (the performance gap for asm.js code between FF and Chrome definitely got a lot smaller in 2013), they just don't rely on the "use asm" keyword or do AOT compilation like Odinmonkey.
Bitcoin is the present of speculation.
Slightly OT, but the UK national mapping agency has created a minecraft model of the UK [1] (minus Northern Ireland).

[1] http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraf...
It was more fixing bugs in their JIT that were only really exercised by asm.js-like code.
Ankara, Turkey. FULL-TIME

UI/UX Developer.

Making enterprisey desktop Java applications beautiful, or whatever the in-word these days is for a UX-conscious person to say "I would actually pay money to use this."

If you wanna try to push the absolute boundaries of Swing and will get a kick when no one believes that you developed the application in Swing, this kind of thing is for you. Or maybe you think that the cool things the UX designer has envisioned can't be done with that kind of baggage so you will suggest an alternative that plays nice with Java tech.

You would be working mostly with a UX designer across several different projects in a 150+ employee company.

http://goo.gl/4zhqPW
Why not? It is a plain JavaScript compiler optimization.

Google could implement such optimizations as well, instead of spending their resources into NaCL and Dart VM.
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> Typically, server mods can take certain precautions to ensure that their particular areas of their Minecraft "worlds" can't be altered, but that would have destroyed the point of the creation. The original concept was meant to be educational.

I think they don't want to drop it and recreate it because somebody might have used it in the way it was intended to
Mostly the browser integrated RSS readers, I just follow a restricted set of sites.
NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks (DrDoS)
Volvo is the manufacturer with the highest market share, but it still "only" has 20% of the market, so it's by no means "most cars".

(source: Volvo Cars press release: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele... )
Ex-Googlers Create Zizooboats To Make Boating Affordable
Things like this always bring to light a particular side of the internet population that is fascinating to watch but very frustrating to participate in an activity "against".

These people immediately take an incredibly negative approach for their own short term enjoyment without any apparent thought of the longer term effect of their actions, and what people will do to counter that style of behavior generally making things worse for everyone, both grierfers and legitimate players.

I'd be curious to know what kind of "motive" for want of a better word underlies these kinds of actions, and why this destructive "fun" is so popular on these "infinite freedom" style games in particular.
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- Django

- Scripting: bash, python

Database storage:

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- Redis

- MySql

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- Nginx

- gunicorn

Deployment:

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- Also looking into saltstack for configuration

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For learning and documentation, sure. But as another native Portuguese speaker, keep your code and comments in English, please! I really don't want to have to learn another human language just to read someone else's code.

(I shudder at the thought of having to code in, say, G-Portugol: http://gpt.berlios.de/site/)
The Beauty Of Outsourcing and How I Make $20K/Month
Would be interested to know why have you put mongo away for the time being?
>With zero references to any data

The difference is that I gave objective and easily checkable statements.

References? I referred to specific items (hosts supporting it: just check the top 10 shared hosting providers), mentions of companies using it (how many have you seen on HN?), compatibility issues (those are documented on the project page), etc.

All of those are references to data sources you can actually check.
I'm not going to crunch the numbers for you, but unlike the parent, you don't have to take my word for it.

Pointing to the data themselves is actually more scientific than the "references to data", if by that you mean some websites and news sources feeding you with ready made data points ("20% of developers are thinking of adopting HHVM, we know, we asked 100 of our pals").
Oh I certainly think it's pretty screwed up that someone would do this, and entirely blame the people who did it.

Having said that... these kinds of things happen in to minecraft servers all the time. I certainly do not think they deserved it... but if you don't back up something important to you... you can expect to eventually lose it.
The hiring paradigm and why it needs to change
In short, "this is why we can't have nice things."
Only I compared PHP to Hack above. PyPy would be a better analogy to HHVM-PHP.
Very interested in this space and how it will end up. We have a big emotional attachment to cars evidenced by the fact that the annual cost of taking taxis everywhere is probably cheaper than the annual costs of owning a car if you live in a city. NYC habitants have probably made this transition already.

SO if we end up with self driving taxis then this form of transport will become ridiculously cheap as the driver's salary is now eliminated. The rationale to own a car will become harder to justify.

Also I read recently that our actual usage of cars is very low over a year. This means huge inefficiency. There is plenty of spare capacity per car to do alot more journeys. If we all start taking self driving taxis that run 24x7 in a few years time where does that leave the car companies. One assumes with far fewer car sales. Are they shooting themselves in the foot?
Try disallowing Javascript.
What's your point? Also, this looks like a new approach.
Automating CSS sprites for large organisations
Surely there is a backup. You can actually download the original world but it is about 1TB.

I think it would probably happen again if they restore the original version. Here is a comment from danish GeoData Agency spokesman:

"We consider that as a nature of playing Minecraft – elements are broken down and new are being created. Therefore we will not reboot the demonstration of Denmark in Minecraft. But occasionally we will rebuild minor areas if buildings are removed and nothing new is being created."
This paper is essentially about how Excel works.
If your a dev you type allow always and get on with your life, if your not then this might prevent you from getting phished. Facebook did something similar a while back after some phishing cases involving pasting JavaScript.
Bitcoin maybe is the future of money because:

- it's inflation safe

- no corrupt bankers or politicians can manipulate it (easily)

- there are no men in the middle (edit: or only for a short time. Of course you should not save your bitcoins in a marketplace for a long time frame)

- it's cheap for all sorts of transactions

- it doesn't know borders (in democratic nations)

When the next bigger inflation of Euro or Dollar will arrive bitcoin exchange rate will skyrocket. Though that only means you should invest in it maybe it will also become money with exchange character in future.
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'I don't think ARM really has any inherent "power advantage" over x86'

paper states ~ISA being CISC or RISC doesn't matter... performance differences are generated by ISA-independent microarchitecture differences".

So being ARM or x86 matters for "power advantage", but being "CISC or RISC" doesn't.
RSS won't be adopted by the tech-indifferent because it's a technology. It's not a service or a company and therefore doesn't have anyone with a vested financial interest pushing it as a platform. Also, it doesn't fit into the advertising-funded clickbaity world. It's therefore only adopted by people who think about what they are doing and what they want out of their internet, rather than people following the shiny path of least resistance and most popularity.
Evangelism VS Proselytism
It would be great if this could be formalised somehow. Like giving "via" and "source document" footnotes to the story [or perhaps an automated top comment that is visually distinguished as editorial] - if you'd not added this note I'd have missed out as I don't have access to tumblr. But it's more that such metadata gives the reader much more control of how they digest the information.

Gizmodo and Colossal both give "via" info.
I can't say much about about how Excel works, but there are many different ways to realize recalc :)
Alabama’s chief justice on freedom of religion in USA
I got the impression that the Danish model contained actual buildings and features, whereas the OS map of Britain contains just the geographical features.
>I don't see why it's not a fair comparison?

Because nobody (for large values of "nobody") cares for asm.js. 99.999% of Javascript code out there is not asm.js, and nobody really uses it at the moment for production/business. Some PoC games mainly.

So the fact that it beats V8 on something:

a) V8 does not implement,
b) requires specifically written (actually "compiled" from things like emscripten) JS code,
c) is irrelevant at the moment for JS performance on the web,

makes it pretty irrelevant itself.
Analyse the available facts and make a best guess, just like we do with private companies operating as regulated monopolies in e.g. water supply.
This story was submitted[0] four days ago, but got no traction and sank without trace. The only comment[1] was mine, and I repeat it here:

I know this is something of an internet meme, and hence
somewhat out-of-place here on HN, but, in short:

This is why we can't have nice things.

It would be really cool if we didn't need passwords. It
would be really cool if we could have globally editable
documents that stored and connected all our knowledge.
It would be really cool if we ... well, you get the idea.

What if clever people, really clever people, stepped up
and started to think at a level higher than the single
point fixes and managed some sort of meta-fix.

How clever can people be? Anyone care to speculate?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687378

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687637

Edited to correct tpyos.
This, very much. I often read my feeds while commuting, walking, waiting, etc. with a phone or a tablet. Then I read with one PC or another. If the reads wouldn't be synced, a lot of time would be spent just skipping the posts I've already seen.
Startup hiring plan till hockey stick
Completely independent of your post, I thought and posted the exact same thing :) see below.
Planck takes magnetic fingerprint of our Galaxy
Possibly right but unfortunately anonymity turns people into total dicks regardless of nationality.
NameCheap gets ICANN breach notice
"every major news site is broadcasting via RSS"

This is an exaggeration.

One of the biggest news sites in the world, bloomberg.com, serves up no RSS feeds.

Forbes.com doesn't have RSS anywhere on their home page, and has dropped it from, as far as I can tell, every single story page. They only have this page left: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.html which is a dying collection of years old RSS links (on a page with an ancient template design).

I deal with RSS feeds a lot in my business, and many of the top sites are a mess when it comes to keeping their feeds properly linked to their site structures as they update.
How about "it's not a comparison that matters"?

Nobody will see any benefits from JSCore being "faster than V8 on asm.js".

In fact, if JSC is slower on non asm.js code, the comparison would also be extremely misleading too, because 99.9999% of web code is NOT asm.js.

At the moment it's like saying "JSC is faster than v8 on a synthetic benchmark almost nobody really uses in the actual world, and v8 hasn't bothered optimizing for".
Reminds me a little of Alan Kay's VPRI paper on 'Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects'.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_worlds.pdf
Here Is Why Big Data and Healthcare Is A Powerful Combination – infographic
The article was written by

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Callas

He obviously thought a lot about the mentioned issues. A lot of very good points. Note that Google seems to have recently been started to make much more often their own new certificates -- it seems to be in the line of some of his ideas in the article.
Too unstable and too slow to actually replace money, but it's definitely got a future as a supplemental currency.
I like this idea very much.

Every language bears an philosophy of the world in it.
It is the metaphors and relations of language constructs to each other that is defining.

Using a different font is just painting the surface in different color. This could have some practical benefits for those willing to deep dive, though. Imagine what pearl could look like in an iconographic system and how that would change the perception of the code. ;)

For non coders (yes, they still exist! probably always will) looking at your code be it C, Ruby or LaTex is already like looking at character salad sprinkled with recognizable words and THEN they need to translate it into a model of what the computer/system will actually do, what the result will be. Magic.

So, why not use our own "typography"? What could be the symbols for IF and LOOP be? MAP? REDUCE? How would a truly iconographic code representation look like? What symbol "variants"/"adaptations" (like in Arabic or Chinese) would make it helpful? ("IF NOT"?) How about color, which usually is not used in human languages...

It's fascinating to see how concise a mathematical expression can be stated yet what it usually has to be translated into when implemented (verbosity of prog.languages is just one issue, i know). Our "syntax highlighting" is nice and helpful but I wonder if there really is no other way to represent code (NOOO Node-Tree-Editors are not it ;)

And then there is the conceptual influence of languages: input-processing-output with processing essentially defined by orders, commands... that's soooo western thinking ;)

How would programming look like, feel like if it was defined/driven by eastern philosophy?
More holistic? Less brittle? Less certain? Less precise?

Basically when thinking about programming languages in-confined by technical/mathematical issues and theories I think exchanging some ideas with the field of linguistic would be very fruitful...

Now back to your 9-5 C/Java/Ruby/Js coding ... with syntax highlighting ;)
Sure it is. It was linked from an older article about the company. (I didn't say it wasn't their app).
Sure, they write that. But why did the chose the acronym. Sometimes you pick them to convey two messages.
The creator points out they only initially intend to restore Copenhagen. As the data they have are stored in 10×10 km blocks, this should be fairly trivial to do.

I think the real reason they have been hesitant with doing that is because it was supposed to be used for creation purposes, that were at least educational.
Edit: the particular quote I objected to was edited out by parent.

I object to "all the dynamicness of the rest of the JS is what V8 excels at". V8 excels at a subset of dynamic JavaScript (namely those benefit from Crankshaft) and is not very good outside of the subset.

Typescript benchmark included in Octane benchmark suite is a good example. In Google's own words: "This test measures the time TypeScript takes to compile itself and is a proxy of how well a VM handles complex and sizable Javascript applications".

In particular, Crankshaft is not effective for this benchmark. (Check yourself by running it with Crankshaft disabled: the score actually improves because you save compilation effort.) And as you can check yourself or check on AreWeFastYet, JavaScriptCore beats V8 by 2x on this benchmark.

I admit Crankshaft subset of JavaScript is large and interesting (certainly compared to asm.js subset) but it is not true that V8 excels at dynamic JavaScript, for sufficiently large value of dynamic. JavaScriptCore does.
> Considering most of the world use a left to right latin script, I don't see how arabic would spread more effectively than English.

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That's a very cool idea, but its application seems limited to games with clear 'level' screens. Recently I've been watching speedruns of Ocarina of Time as well as Metroid Prime and neither of those have obvious indicators for most of the splits.
Rule n° x: turn display_errors off and log_errors on.
The UK map is 1:50, so it cannot really contain buildings. The Danish map is 1:1.
Most readers I've come across will let you paste in a url and it will try and discover the feed for you, which beats having to search for it. Obviously having the icon in FF helps you know if one is available.
>I know that's a neck beard comment but have things really got that complicated that computational power is required? I can understand mixing for helicopters but not much else.

Mixing is needed for pretty much anything and it sure as hell beats mechanical setup. For anything of even medium complexity it's a must. For example in a simple three channel glider (aileron, rudder, elevator) it's so much easier to just have 4 servos (1 on each aileron in each wing) and then do the aileron mixing in software. Otherwise you'll have to arrange the linkage geometry to get differential travel in the ailerons (for aerodynamic reasons you want more up travel than down travel) and then make sure the end points and central trim are all correct. Much easier to just stick the servos in the wing, set the linkage roughly and then trim it from a software interface. In the old days you'd have crazy stuff like left and right servos to reverse the direction of travel, now it's a software setting away.

And that's a simple example. Still in gliders a competition F3F glider will need much more mixing. You're basically doing laps between two pylons 100m apart. The world record is below 30s, so that's 120km/h of average speed including 9 full U turns. To actually be able to do those fast turns those gliders will actually move all 6 surfaces (2 ailerons, 2 flaps, 2 V-tails) at once, dropping the ailerons and flaps to increase the lift of the wing during the turn and using the V-tails as elevators. Then to land the plane you'll put it in "butterfly mode" moving the flaps way down and both ailerons up to get it nice and slow for landing.

R/C airplanes are actually very advanced stuff. The jets and scale stuff will have complex sequencing for landing gear retract, the gliders will do insane stuff like do over 800km/h dynamic soaring, so you need to have exponential mapping between controls and outputs to have precision in the center of the sticks. So radios have evolved to match those capabilities. Radios have been mixing for decades now, and have had replaceable firmware for a long time. It used to be that to get a really flexible radio you'd need to spend 1000$. Now you can get a cheap Chinese made radio for 100-200$ and put an extremely flexible open-source firmware on it that will do all the things the high-end radios do and more. Software is eating the world indeed.
Well, "published" here is used in the academic sense, so yes.

It's not about some random blog posts or presentations, if that's what you mean.
The backup is Denmark. They only have one copy, but the medium is extremely resilient.
reddit's RSS features are even better than that. You can feed off users, searches, multireddits, comments on a specific post, submission from a domain, and probably more.

http://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

http://www.reddit.com/r/pathogendavid/comments/tv8m9/pathoge...
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Do you like reading uncomfortably long lines or something?
Among the other parts of the Web which, ironically, don't have any RSS feeds: Google Plus.

But it's dead anyway.
Excuse me, but what is this based on? Do you perhaps mean small communities? Because I can tell you from my experience being Swedish in Sweden (~9M inhabitants), that your assumption seems to be false.
Fat JSON
To some extent, there is such a rule. But not all academics are perpetually 2-5 years behind the times by only getting updates from journals. Bleeding-edge researchers go to conferences, which can cut the latency down to as little as 6-12 months.
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Obviously, people using asm.js will benefit from JavaScriptCore being faster than V8 on asm.js.

Whether it matters is an interesting question, but V8 developers seem to disagree with you, because they included asm.js benchmark in Octane benchmark suite, which V8 developers use to tune V8.
I've also observed that, .com, .net domains rank much higher (even if it's not any good) as compared to less popular extensions (.me, .co etc).