skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be terrified even by a little one(consistent with the current size). If it had teeth, or that spinning balance beam had blades on it and they get maneuverability down...boy. Here's hoping DARPA doesn't fund the project to turn it into a weapon.

(edit: just to be clear - i can't run anywhere near as fast as usain bolt, so it wouldn't have to be ostrich or car sized to catch me)
What a great addition to the Meteor ecosystem! Just one piece of feedback if I may: I looked at your pricing, realizing beforehand that a great majority of your target market will most likely have to come from individuals, small development shops or startups.

I was looking at your "Startup" plan features and pricing, and was wondering if you may want to reconsider this package. I read that one of the most important key performance metrics of an SaaS product (like Kadira) is "churn". I believe you can attract MORE customers and keep them if your "Startup" plan is packaged and priced attractively.

I want you guys to succeed, so here's my two-cents' worth or unsolicited advice for the Startup Package:

1. Offer Data Retention for 1 month (4 weeks)

2. Set the Price at $9.95 per month per host (remember, a customer will most likely have more than one host over the long-term if you can keep this customer)

This packaging/pricing also helps enhance the entire Meteor ecosystem. You also help small developers like us be better Meteor developers.

(As for the "Pro" package, have you thought about renaming it (perhaps "Enterprise")? To me, "Pro" means an individual developer.

Thanks, Arunoda, for another great contribution to the burgeoning Meteor ecosystem.
Yes it was entirely covered by that :)

I think it was covered by "naive memory management" and "shitty outsourcing". I'm paid to fix their stuff.
Eh what? My wife is running Mavericks on a 3 gigs 2007 iMac and it runs at roughly the same speed as SL.
Do you have a legal precedent to point to? The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the constitution) didn't even apply to state governments until the 14th amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...
Nice, but they should open up everything more and let people install any search engine. Apple did open up quite a bit today (in terms of letting others access their platform in places where Apple previously was the sole decider), so it’s not unlikely to eventually happen.
What are some of the rules that people often violate?
I think the analysis of the article is not really well worked.

For example, failure to provise to benchmark. For example, no real statistics or survey. For example, not everyone cares about internet. For example, paid internet is usually not really good...
food is almost certainly steeped in petrochemicals.

So is automobile production. So the analysis is flawed.

Which is fine, but it's also false once corrected for capital intesity (and depreciation).

So the result is lame. It is not counter-intuitive or even...interesting. But YMMV.
The whole point is to be closer to the "metal". Doing that across GPU vendors would be, well, OpenGL. It's the same as the native interfaces for the PS4 and other consoles - it's supposed to be platform/GPU specific. There's a limit to how much performance a general purpose graphics abstraction can enable.
https://github.com/sytelus/HackerNewsData
I think we all know the answers from day 1
http://urlte.am/ was a URL shortener rescue project but it appears to have stalled.
> subtitles: "do not exercise your 1st amendment rights or else."

Thank you for this textbook example of the common misunderstanding that the 1st Amendment protects people from all consequences of their speech.
He says he uses Windows 7 as well, FWIW.
We could put a stop to marketing redirects tomorrow if we didn't allow redirects to set cookies.

(Or perhaps only allowed a cookie if the redirect was served by the same domain as the target domain.)
Just read the first paragraph and conclusions if the have them, of each chapter. This will give you a good idea of what's there when you need it. Then I'd jump straight into tutorials.

Honestly skimming 500 doesn't sound horribly hard to me. I've done that a few times to pick up something new. As ap said you won't learn the language like that but you will have a good reference to go and learn from after the fact.

After that you could probably work through the examples in said book, or at least the interesting ones.

P.S. above steps is all I really learnt from my cs degree.
> Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content.

These are all good reasons, but are there any real users who are actually being affected by these issues? If it is just a theoretical concern, then I don't think it is reasonable to call the situation "officially out of control".
I've already seen people confusing features touted for the original Swift language (e.g. good for parallelism) as being pertinent to Apple's. Surely, the good folks at Apple must have been aware of this name conflict.
you mean like "Three finger drag" in the first tab of the Trackpad preferences? :)
Mavericks introduced a lot of tangible under the hood improvements that perhaps you missed, Ars did a thorough review, perhaps start with how the OS was changed to improve energy consumption: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/12/#energy-sa...
http://www.rubymotion.com/ ?
Impress by All the announcements for developer in the WWDC.
But taking the perspective of a enduser, there are key features i was hopping to get in iOS 8 that i didn't:

-Spotlight Integration For third Party Apps.

-Multi-User Support Or Guest Mode

-iMessage For Android

-App Trials

-Fixing The Music App ( Artis-Album View is broken)

-Third Party Default Apps
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836067.
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If it's actually faster than Objective-C like Apple claims, then I'd bet on it, yeah.
Great article. This bit is especially interesting: “The key is intermittent reinforcement,” says Cloninger. The brain has to learn that frustrating spells can be worked through. “A person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they’ll quit when the rewards disappear.”
This is propagated by people not really understanding URLs and blindly reposting links that have already been wrapped in a URL shortener through services that wrap them in another one. Whenever I repost links, I repost only the URL of the final page, stripping off anything unnecessary. Sadly, the trend of browsers hiding URLs or pieces of them is not helping the situation either.

I don't think this can be solved technologically - HTTP redirects are not difficult to detect but a lot of these shorteners (and becoming increasingly more common) use Javascript and/or meta tags to accomplish redirection. The solution is better educated users that don't create chains of shortened URLs.
True, like every other Bluetooth feature on Windows.

The stack that I know works is the Broadcom / WIDCOMM one.
VMs are equally reproducable, e.g. through Vagrant or similar. This doesn't even include using tools like puppet or chef within either containers or VMs, and cloning for either.
In my opinion, this sort of data needs more than "we double promise we'll store it securely".
Crap, I should have done that. Oh well, 4 USB sticks was only $24.
If the HTTP spec added 2 new VERBS (SHORT, LONG) as a method of shortening and elongating URLs then many things could be done.

1.) The browser could pro-actively lengthening the URL and the same way the server can respond 302/301 now the browser could cache this.
2.) The server could hand-back the final long URL with out needing to redirect the URL multiple times
3.) We could create services that can be integrated into the server software that integrate 3rd parties.
4.) Each domain could create their own shortened URL domains and mask it in a better way.
I can shorten that list;

1. I don't care for change, everything is terrible as long as I can pick at least one problem.

3 and 9 clearly contradict! This is garbage.
Yes, and I use it for that, but:

• This requires JS enabled. Which I disable with ScriptSafe, so for a typical site, it's: enable JS, reload site, hit "read now" bookmarklet, pray that it actually opens.

• The page doesn't always render. In too many cases, the site simply fails to provide content to Readability. And since Readability's hidden their "feedback" button, I've got to hunt for that (or email them, which is better, since Readability doesn't provide feedback on feedback, even to the extent of providing an ack of your submission). After a few rough words with the crew I seem to be on better terms with them (and I really do love the tool and concept).

I realize this isn't the sort of thing that can easily be accomplished client-side, though sometimes I think it's still worth trying. People do the stupidest shit with HTML markup.
I looked at it before, and it was, indeed, neat. But, I'm not sure that a project that spent 30 years in development before an initial release can really be said to have "died".
Could a URL wrapper service follow a URL through its redirects only wrap the final address?

I'm not a networking expert, but it seems viable enough to me. Shoot out a GET request, wrap the final address with your shortener. Cut out the middlemen.

It's an idea. It might fail at scale. And might not be feasible.
In a comment above you said that you're still using Snow Leopard on at least one machine and I can't recall if it works there (though I don't remember the last time this feature changed and I've been using since 10.1)...

Command-Shift-` will reverse the order
Command-Tab will flip back and forth unless you exceed the delay while still holding command, at which point you can cycle through the stack. Holding shift reverses the direction.

That being said, I agree that swapping back and forth in between windows of the same app is very useful and it's a pity that the two features aren't made to work in the same way. I'd like to do a quick Command-` to toggle two windows, or hold it down to see the list of windows for the current app.
Being "another walled garden thing" will hardly be its death knell. Proprietary single-vendor APIs are already common on games consoles, and it hardly seems to have caused a problem. Look at DirectX, even; not quite single-GPU-vendor, but hardly renowned for its portability, and popular nonetheless. These things will succeed if the platform is popular, and other factors are pretty irrelevant.

I suspect iOS is popular enough to make this work.
Epic Games makes the Unreal Engine.
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I wrote a test app with the newest Xcode and simulator. It does work with iOS 7, with iPad Air, iPhone 4s, iPhone5, etc. I would imagine that it will support at least 6.0 and maybe even back to 5.0.

EDIT: Tested with 6.x and works.
That will break just about every affiliate program that I'm aware of. Of course this is your intention but there will be a very large number of websites that will see their turnover plummet if that should happen.

I personally would not mind but I'm pretty sure that a lot of monied interests would not like to see this happen.
The last release of zfs on Linux was Aug 23 2013, should I be worried?
I don't think Theo would be too happy about your calling OpenBSD a truculent OS...
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Given that this was published in PNAS and edited by someone from Princeton, it's safe to assume (unfortunately it's paywalled so I can only assume) that the authors know how to perform a significance test.
Don't get me started on sites that hijack l/r arrows to navigate between pages on the site rather than align text on page.

Fucking NY Times.
In Start-Up Chile's 9th generation right now.

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It does. We probably changed the url of the other thread; I don't remember (there have been so many), but we usually add a comment indicating what we did.

On the other hand, the duplicate detector is also quite porous—in most cases a slightly different URL will get through. That's by design: we want the best stories to have multiple cracks at the bat. It's easy to abuse, of course, so we ask people not to abuse it. A small number of reposts is ok.
It certainly helps that Microsoft actually has Software for enterprise. Apple killed the Server stuff years ago and there have never been strong provisions for managing client installations.
The coinpocket html5 web app renders this issue moot.
Scala doesn't have a metric ton of problems. It has some problems, sure, but it has a lot of nice features as well.
I’m with you, and that’s one thing I really don’t appreciate about Obj-C and Apple APIs. You find yourself looking at classes with names like UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout and methods called minimumLineSpacingForSectiontAtIndex.

I’m not a one-character variable name type of person, but this makes my fingers (and my brain) ache, and for me makes the code harder to comprehend (wood for the trees, I guess, or something like that)
That could break a lot of bad-yet-benign code.
I wonder if an i3 has enough grunt for ZFS. I definitely notice the difference between a middling i3 and my i7 2600k.
It does look a bit like Dylan. I wonder if it has more than a passing resemblance. Also I wonder if they are doing SBCL real time compelling.
> It has the concept of explicitly capturing variables from the surrounding context inside closures, like PHP does, instead of keeping the entire context alive forever like Ruby or JS.

Just as a point of fact, javascript -- at least the v8 implementation I'm most knowledgeable of -- doesn't "keep the entire context alive forever." Only variables used in the closure are allocated into the closure (i.e. on the heap), the others are allocated on the stack and disappear as soon as the function returns.

I don't use iTunes so can't read their book, but I wanted to ask: you say that ARC is still their GC strategy, correct? So reference cycles are still an issue? I'm surprised at this. I can see reference counting being a strategy for moving a non-GC'd language to GC (like Objective-C), but to start a new language with that constraint is surprising.
The similarity to Rust should scare the hell out of Rust's creators and proponents.

Swift could very well render Rust almost totally irrelevant within the OS X and iOS sphere of software development. If we end up eventually seeing Swift implemented for other platforms, then the chances of Rust's long-term success diminish even more.

Things might have been different had a stable, even if somewhat imperfect, initial version of Rust had been released by now, thus allowing it to gain some adoption and traction.

I hope that the "But Rust isn't targeting those developers!" argument isn't used to try to justify this mistake, as well. Rust is already facing stiff competition from languages like Go, C++11, C++14, Scala and even Java 8.

With the announcement of Swift, Rust's niche and audience are getting smaller, further preventing the widespread adoption that's necessary for a programming language to become truly successful.
VMWare + Vagrant + Puppet + In-house APT repository = fully reproducible

anything + external dependencies = incompletely reproducible

PS: "Please note Docker is currently under heavy development. It should not be used in production (yet)."

PPS: Docker runs anywhere as long as that anywhere is Linux 3.2+ on x86. So to run Docker contained apps on my hosts I'd have to run a VM anyway.
Do you have a link for the confirmation?
This is classic "Tragedy of the commons" behavior where each individual group with a link shortener is benefited by encouraging and enforcing its usage (ability to kill malicious links easily, user tracking, etc)

I'm not sure if this can be resolved until users are educated sufficiently on the long-term adverse effects of link shortening services (link rot, privacy concerns, slow/broken redirects, etc).

For change to happen the demand for direct links (generated explicitly by things like this blog posts, or implicitly by higher bounce rates due to long loading times) will need to be enough to outweigh the benefits to organizations that are building them.

Edit:

Even if there is evidence that shows this, why should _I_ be the one to give up my link shortener service when it will have no significant improvement to the overall problem which involves tens or hundreds of these services?
Yeah, it's a huge difference, and all you need is high school chemistry:

- gas is CH4 (four hydrogens for every carbon). Oil is approximately CH2 (in reality, it's slightly higher than two). Coal is approximately CH.

- a CH bond has about 410 kJ / mol; a CC bond has about 350 kJ / mol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond-dissociation_energy)

- thus, you can calculate approximately how much energy is stored in each of the above fossils per mole of carbon dioxide:

- methane = 4CH = 1640 kJ / mol CO2

- petrol = 2CH + CC = 1170 kJ / mol CO2

- coal = CH + CC = 760 kJ / mol CO2

This is obviously a gross simplification, but hopefully you'll see the outline of why gas is much cleaner than coal. Methane, since it's a gas, also burns much cleaner than liquids or solids since you can better mix the fuel with oxygen, so methane tends to produce much less particulate matter, soot, and other products of incomplete combustion.

EDIT: spenrose below has a great point about uncombusted methane in the atmosphere. Methane is a NASTY greenhouse gas, so it's absolutely worth taking into account how natural gas production affects methane levels in the atmosphere. Namely, there was a worrying metastudy a few months ago about how natural gas production is quite leaky, which has nontrivial greenhouse gas considerations: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/methane-leaky-ga...
I'm not sure how you make 'the British elite inner circle' and 'a privileged, decadent society' two different categories :)
That's really unfortunate. And it's not just performance, it really messes around with OS-level URL handling protocols like Android intents (and possibly FB's app links and iOS's new Extensibility).

I recently found this happening with Twitter's Android app. The user sees a link to player.fm and thinks it will open the native Player FM app if they have it installed, since it's registered to handle that URL pattern. But instead, the OS offers web browsers and Twitter as ways to open the link, because it's not really a player.fm link as presented to the user, but a t.co link. If the user then chooses a browser, the browser immediately redirects to the correct URL, which then pulls up the intents menu again.

7 redirects could potentially be 7 popup menus for the user to navigate through.

The OS could pre-emptively follow redirects, but that would of course introduce considerable latency since normally the menu is presented without any call being made at all. Maybe the best solution for OSs is to present the menu immediately but still make the call in the background, so the menu could be updated if a redirect happens.

"I don't see any work happening in HTTP 2.0 to change it."

Probably the best HTML standard for dealing with it is the "ping" attribute which allows a way for servers to be notified of a click without actually redirecting. However, that's HTML and not HTTP, and these days, apps are more popular HTTP clients than browsers, and apps don't manually bother to implement things like that.

So there are probably things that could be done with the standard. Perhaps using some distributed lookup table to ensure at most 1 redirect (by caching the redirect sequence and returning it with the first request). That does ignore any personalisation that goes on, but generally these should be permanent redirects without personalisation anyway.
It's interesting to read that, aside from actual design "mistakes" this article also includes some, I would say, etiquette based suggestions which seem innocence/naive in hindsight. It wasn't too much earlier than this that registering a domain name carried some sort of responsibility to create site that was appropriate for it. Boy, those days are definitely long gone!

Not using link-bait titles, always including a biography,not jumping on buzzwords, etc. This is definitely still fine advice for a quality site. At the time I certainly didn't image the future web would be cluttered with sites doing absolutely anything and everything possible to get clicks and views.
What are currently the top startups in InfoSec in Europe/ Israel?
As per the title.
Pretty sure I called this one a few years ago.

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
They need to check out www.microlaunchers.com who can get their satalites into orbit at a fraction of the cost from other companies.
Anyone know how Swift might achieve its claimed speedup vs. Objective-C? I can't see how it could get the advertised numbers without method inlining, which appears to be incompatible with the dynamic object model that it inherits from Objective-C
Which is more likely everyone involved in publishing this study is an idiot or the difference is non trivial. IMO, this is much more likely that fixermark is suffering from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect, but I have also not read the study.

Edit: That came off as overly harsh my point was the chance of 3 is not close to zero.
Seven redirects to different domains means seven new TCP connections being established, very likely over a crappy mobile connection (see twitter usage numbers from mobile). The user experience is definitely being harmed here.
It all looks very cool, but that 12 minute battery life :(
Did Bret Victor work with Apple on the design of Swift Playground?
A measuring cup is not valuable than a nurse. Hundreds of millions of measuring cups serving hundreds of millions of people, on the other hand, IS more valuable than a nurse