skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope people realize that these costs are embedded in the final price of the product. The only person who wins is Mr.Gowder.
Let's take the American custom of bombing other countries

You really believe that Americans regularly bomb other countries as a matter of custom? Or was that just a bit of hyperbole?

'Cause it makes your entire argument sound tilted.

I've never, ever heard a politician or political commentator recommend bombing simply because it is a custom, like shaking hands or putting up Christmas trees.
And then there's me, who purchased the game through Steam for full price months ago. During the sale, I dropped $1 just to be able to download the Linux/Mac versions which are normally available with the full price, but not if you bought through Steam.
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But I think most people "middle click" with the index finger. I know I do.
Video library software, footage library demo
James Jordan, head of Bold Endeavours US operation, introduces new add ons to the Big Easy Library software range.

James said "Many new companies and individuals are entering the market place. Some are film producers with a back catalog they want to monetize, others are marketers who can see a trend so I'm introducing specialist add ons to the US market
for 7, not sure what you mean by your "simpler sequence" obeying this - i don't see how that's the case. you can do this problem with elementary knowledge, however. as you imply, first transform it into an addition problem from a multiplicative one by taking logs. then just write out the sequence: a, b, a+b, a+2b, 2a+3b, 3a+5b,... and note that the ratio between the coefficients tends to phi alternating above and below.
like you said, there's limited options, and each one has its individual drawbacks, but header redirect fits my needs when i'm doing php development. ymmv.

plus, when making decisions, i tend to follow the "whats best for my users" test. in this case, as you've stated it, its seamless IDE integration vs having a consistent external link structure. a no brainer, imo.
Thank you for saying this more clearly than I could have. The HN fervor has demonized this practice, which is surprising to me as I had expected a more free market opinion from aspiring entrepreneurs. If price < chance * amount, paying to pitch is actually a sound investment. I assume that the numbers don't work out in this way, but we should aspire to have a reasoned opinion.
It is his blog. He puts quick stuff here, longer stuff at calacanis.com. This one has stuff about his vacations, his HOA, etc in addition to quick tech stuff.
Jamie Zawinski just drowned that kitten: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1108212.html
I can confirm he tweeted a link to it. http://twitter.com/Jason/status/5026167784
I'd like to know your thoughts on it.
Hyperbole, as you say.

Taken out of context it means nothing. Taken in context it means that as an American I acknowledge our actions around the world aren't always right and don't always make sense.

But this doesn't take away from the validity of the U.S. point of view in this case. Too often arguments bring in outside factors with generalized phrases: "Americans are always trying to control what happens abroad" and other such irrelevant phrases.

Put another way, if you accept that conference dancers are Taiwanese custom, you should also consider accepting that Americans would view this in a poor light, and object not that it happens in Taiwan, but that a U.S. company supports it.
From what I've gathered it will pack a Pixel Qi screen with along with a 200+ DPI when in black and white (sunlight) mode. Google would like to put it's book-scan settlement to good use.
But the amount of code, modulo repetition and redundancy, that you need to look at to understand performance remains the same. You admit that in C you have to understand the performance of a function to understand the performance of any line of code that calls that function. That's just common sense. In C++ you have to understand the performance of functions, member functions, constructors, and destructors. That's more different kinds of things, but it doesn't mean there's more complexity in the program to actually understand.

This is where the C++ problem comes to bear - I have no direct control and knowledge of all classes involved in a particular computation. Yes, I can look them up - but not everybody does. And I'm concerned with building shipping products with a normal team, not some hypothetical team of superstars.

There's no difference in time or difficulty between looking up a C function and looking up a C++ member function, constructor, or destructor. Working on a codebase full of C++ language constructs and acting like only C language constructs matter is passive-aggression and should be treated as a morale problem, not a programming problem. You don't need superstars, just normal programmers who are willing to learn the language features used in the code they're hired to work on. C programmers who are happy to take a job using a different language but refuse to actually learn the language is such a 1990s problem. It shouldn't be tolerated anymore. It was a big problem in the Java community, with predictable results, and resulted in all kinds of ludicrous complaints being leveled against Java (lack of macros was raised many times as a fatal objection to Java -- there were so many things you simply couldn't do in Java because of the lack of macros), but the problem was solved -- people learned how to recognize and not hire those people.
We had roughly 10k beta testers, many of which found eachother (we have team features and you can create accounts/invites for other people in your team), we used beta keys, invite codes, all kind of things. Twitter and blogs also played a big role. Big ones (mashable and such) gave us spikes in new signups, but other blogs (lifehacking.nl) and other more targeted sites gave us higher quality subscribers.

We haven't done any adwords at all, even though I have a bunch of free $50 adwords vouchers. It just didn't seem worth it for a private beta.

We plan to talk about this in more detail in a future blog post, when we're fairly certain that our approach was successful.
No, I'd say it's embedded in Amazon's stock price. They presumably already sell the Kindle hardware for a loss.
They already had eBooks store for some time
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/index.asp
What. Electronics are fragile. Nobody owes you $200 if you drop them.
The real question is whether it supports more than 2 finger touches at a time. If it secretly supports 3 or more, could be a submarine killer product...
Well, to start with, you shouldn't be letting your choice of IDE dictate your code architecture. IDEs are a developmental aid (some might say a developmental crutch), so if yours is getting in your way, it's not doing its job and you should reconsider your use of it.

When you talk about using "the PHP function header()", I presume that you intend to use it to issue an HTTP redirect response. Think about what you're doing: HTTP is stateless, but you want to preserve state across page requests (the privacy page is a different resource to the contact form, as your uneasiness about not changing URIs shows you're aware). The place to do this, generally speaking, is in the session.
Only two others would equal DJB in terms of having more than one major well known app (a mail server and a DNS server). In my experience, I wouldn't say djbdns is particularly widely deployed...

Linus Torvalds

* The Linux Kernel

* git

Fabrice Bellard

* FFMpeg (if you've done anything with video in the last 10 years, you've used this)

* QEmu (basis for QEmu emulator and userspace portion of KVM VM). Ubuntu's open EC2-API compatible elastic cloud app uses this, as does Red Hat Advanced Platform.

If there are any others, let me know. Mongrel's pretty popular, if Lamson does the same maybe we could add Zed.
No, my counterargument is to use the features of C++ when they help and not when they hurt.

That was Stroustrups reasoning: "Only pay the cost when you use it". In retrospect, believe that that's a bad choice for language design, because there's a good chance somebody will use a feature without fully understanding the ramifications it has over the entire code base.

C opts for the opposite and uses annotation to treat certain code segments as "special" and make them faster - "inline", and (in the distant past) "register" come to mind.

(or at least the cons)

I believe I do get the pros as well, at least to some extent. I've been using it since CFront came out ;) And I'd still advocate it for use in a small team (<5 people?) of experienced programmers - you can make it sing.

But gamedev engineering teams are at least 15+ people, with the occasionally less-experienced ones thrown into the mix. C++ is, in a sense, like a professional power tool. It sure can get stuff done, but the wrong person uses it and its a blood bath, and it's not appropriate for single small home repairs. (Gah. Bad analogy, but I can't come up with a better one right now)

This is just bad programming practice on their part. The performance cost of a destructor shouldn't be a surprise to the person who writes it

Possibly. I'd argue that it's hard to always keep all performance ramifications in mind. But let's for a moment say it's indeed simply bad programming practice - the issue that makes this a problem is that my code pays the cost, not the offending code. Which is a rather indirect.

C++ changes often have tendrils all through the system. It is easy to make inadvertent mistakes.

* but it is definitely "decent" in the sense of "adequate.*

It clearly gets the job done, yes. We are shipping games occasionally, after all. I'm looking for better ways to ship games, and I think that abandoning C++ might bring gains.

The second problem with C++ is that it's extremely complicated and takes a long time to learn.

That's what my hidden cost is referring to - C++'s complexity makes it hard to understand. You certainly can write code that performs well in C++, but it is arguably harder to get it right than C.

I like to think there's a better solution than either one hiding somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
Like the mighty mouse before, this mouse too is unusable for Unreal Tournament 2004 (and probably other games, but for me, only UT matters these days) as it does not allow the user to press both mouse buttons at once.

Keep that in mind.

Also: Why wireless only? I never felt hindered by the wire and I certainly don't see a reason to waste even more batteries.

Also, I feel much more accurate and comfortable using a trackball, but this certainly is a very personal point.
Is this functional programming?
Because Yahoo bought them for a whole ton of stock.
You are actually describing (part of) a perfect market - a free market is just one without economic intervention and regulation by government except to regulate against force or fraud.

(Thanks to Wikipedia for the description.)

I would like to see more perfect markets or near-perfect markets but curiously enough they tend only to be stable with government intervention. A good example is the UK retail DSL market which was essentially created by regulation and has a very high degree of competition (and low prices!) within the constraints of the wholesale environment that contains it.
You're right that there isn't much air in space, but bowshock isn't specific to "air". There most definitely is bowshock in space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock
Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun
Prostate Cancer, 5 Simple Lifestyle Changes To Be Free Of It Forever
Prostate cancer, the male equivalent of breast cancer, has many known causes. Before you can eliminate prostate cancer you need to know these causes. To successfully become free of the problem, doesn’t it make sense to identify the factors which caused it in the first place and remove those causes and allow the body to heal itself, which it will do.
Too bad they don't own the rights to their own fingerprinting software...

At this point, it seems Shazam isn't much more than a brand. Which, I'm sad to admit, they've done a very good job building.

(fair disclosure: I work for a company that sells a competitive product)
Oof. I haven't seen any definitive confirmation on one-lend-ever-per-title (they seem cagey about it), but looking at this purely economically:

This is by some measure a winning strategy, since if I only have one "lend", I will very likely want to share it to the person most likely to buy it and create an additional "lend" to propagate the book.

It does seem like they are missing out on the power of inter-consumer advocacy, i.e. "Everybody read this now!" They should at least re-credit you (if not several times over) if you share with someone who later buys the book.
I should add NetApp's internal OS is also BSD based - ironic since NetApp and Sun have been at each other's throats for years.
There's no difference in time or difficulty between looking up a C function and looking up a C++ member function, constructor, or destructor

There clearly is. In my hypothetical C example, there is one function I need to look up. In the C++ example, there are up to four classes:

* Anonymous constructor class
* Class for each in-parameter
* Class for the return value.

just normal programmers who are willing to learn the language features used in the code they're hired to work on

The problem is that the set of language features in C++ is huge. The issue is not programmers who don't want to learn, but programmers who haven't learned the whole language yet.

I can't solve that in the hiring process unless I exclusively rely on senior-level programmers. And those are hard to come by...
It's news like this that makes me wish that http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ had an RSS feed.

Edit: looks like they added one. Now I can allow myself to sleep again.
I'm very happy letting the Taiwanese have their own moral standards about lap dancers, much the same as I am perfectly happy with letting San Francisco have its own policy about sex workers.

I try not to get emotionally worked up about something bad, say the absence of women in IT, and then go on a rampage about some other tangential thing, like American companies playing into the cultural norms of some other country. In fact, I would expect American companies to be sensitive to local norms even if such actions were unpopular back here.

Haven't we had enough of telling other people what to do? Or are you specifically focusing on just the American company aspect of it, in which case how would you expect an American company to act overseas? How would you act? You personally? Would you go and tell the naked women dancing that they are degrading themselves? Would you protest the various phallic parades and such that other countries have? Would you make a scene over airlines that still only have women flight attendants in cutesy uniforms? Are you going to sacrifice your life's work because some other people do things that the folks back home think or strange or distasteful?

What I see -- not from you personally, but from a lot of commentators -- is people following a script for what to be outraged about.

I know I wouldn't feel comfortable with the dancers. So guess what? I'd leave. Easy problem. Easily solved. No need to wring your hands, blather on at length about sexism, or any of that other belly-button-gazing nonsense. If you want more women in IT, hire some.
After the user submits a form, it is usually a good idea to display a confirmation page. It might be jarring to go directly to the privacy page. I would set it up like this:

index.php?page=contact -> shows the form
index.php?page=contact-submit -> shows the confirmation with privacy policy text
Thanks, and congratulations on your successful launch.
Misleading advertising is considered unfair competition in the state of California [1]. If you are advertising that it can withstand a certain amount of force, and it can't, then you are certainly owed that $200.

[1]: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc...
accidently V3 was at bottom of my backpack (a thin tube of nylon w/ no padding) and i stacked up a bunch of groceries on it, droped it off my shoulders onto green line floor etc, also its fallen off 4 foot tables onto hardwood, no probs

OpenInkpot is kinda slow w/ PDFs tho, probably going todowngrade to factory Firmware
It does.

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml
Well, Microsoft and Compaq are more responsible then IBM.

Yeah, I guess, from a testing and support view, the game console maker's and Apple's model is better. There might actually be a business model for testing other people's apps on a variety of devices.
It wouldn't be a "seat license", it would be a redistribution fee or something. They really should have a version for businesses.

Actually, since it's legal, you could start your own company that sells Firefox to businesses. I think the only requirement is that you can't call it Firefox but have to call it something else (trademarks or something).
Exactly. If my screening process was so good and my investors were so active that I had a 70% investment rate, I'd happily put my price tag at the top of a page that had a list of all the funded companies and investors that put in $$. What Jason has dug up though is that the investors at these forums don't pay dues because the entrepreneurs aren't very good, just desperate. And since the investors don't pay, the forum has to accept any startup willing to pay the fees.
It sounds more like state policy on valid license plates changed, and the software that handles this -- somewhere -- hasn't been updated to reflect this. This sort of things happens at work too, depending on how hacked together your software is for each department.
Did you try tweaking ip_no_pmtu_disc and run your tests? I played a bit with the openssl test client/server and it seems to respect ip_no_pmtu_disc. Test goes something like this:

1) In one window run

openssl s_server

2) In another window run

openssl s_client -connect localhost:4433

3) In another window run

tcpdump -nvi lo port 4433

Try twiddling the ip_no_pmtu_disc sysctl and see what happens.
qmail has a good design, but most of this is implementation of an existing well known concept, Principle of Least Privilege. Similar apps like Postfix owe more to whoever came up with that theory than they do to DJB IMHO.
"Admittedly, if everyone did this it would cease to work, but..."

If there's enough people who need to do this to the point that it would no longer work, there actually would be a class action lawsuit.
I'm pretty sure the Firefox license allows it to be sold. The only legal problem here is that the people are using the name Firefox which is trademarked by Mozilla Corp.
The difference is that the API can change without visible API changes.

I don't understand this at all. The performance of a C function can change without any change to the function signature. Even the destructor scenario can happen invisibly in C code for any type that already has a cleanup function. No matter whether the cleanup function is defined as "int myproj_FooCleanup(struct Foo* foo) {...}" or "myproj::Foo::~Foo() {...}", you won't notice implementation changes until runtime.
Some people just can't be happy
Well OK, but speaking as somebody who got a quick free replacement when my kindle had a problem that actually was Amazon's fault, I still think it's sort of lame. In my opinion Amazon was demonstrating that the kindle is relatively durable, which I think is true after owning one for a long time. This guy dropped a bag with a kindle and a macbook in it. Like somebody in the comments there pointed out, that's not really what was in Amazon's video. For all we know, he dropped a macbook on a kindle, got $200 and a replacement, and that's 'epic'.
I used to recommend the white MacBook, but since it became clear that the top case nearly always cracked I stopped recommending them. Now I would say the 13 inch MBP is the most sensible recommendation.
Free is not equal to 'expires in 90 days'
Cycript is designed to bridge the gap between Javascript and Cocoa
I see stuff like this and I wonder about two things:
1) there is another open source (BSD) database - postgresql
2) why should it matter, since the whole purpose of the GPL is to keep Oracle from "destroying" MySQL. Didn't the GPL protect the users in this case?
Also, when you say "HTTPS servers set DF," are you observing from the server or from the client? Over the Internet, it's likely that you'd see different values for DF on opposite sides of the connection. Any router can set or clear the DF bit on your packets for any reason.
I really love the screen. And consider that it is 2560x1440 at 16:9 and only 160 pixel "shorter" than the 30" Cinema HD (2560x1600 at 16:10), and the $100 CHEAPER with LED backlight --- guess what a pleasure it would be to code on it! :)
FWIW: My Kindle2 stopped working a few weeks after I bought it (something weird with the screen). Not sure why it broke, if it was defective or if I dropped it (it was in my backpack with a ton of textbooks so it pretty easily could have suffered shock). I called Amazon, spent less than 7 minutes on the phone with them (including hold time) and they overnighted a new Kindle2 to me. They didn't charge my credit card (and said they wouldn't unless they didn't receive the broken one back within 30 days).

This was one of the top3 customer service experiences of my life. I was and continue to be a huge fan of Amazon, primarily for their customer service.

Just thought I would share my experience... :)
Yeah, I still run the first Apple flat 22" display which is decidedly low-res these days, but works great for my old eyes!
Troublemakers you meet in a start up
Pipelining and Real-time Analytics with MapReduce Online
> SQLite is also not as slow as people think it is; you can easily handle 10s of millions of requests per day with it

Scaling relational databases to the point of 10s of millions of requests is extremely non-trivial. Unless you can show me personally or can show me evidence otherwise, don't make this claim. You're doing a disservice to the people that have worked countless hours to eke every last millisecond of performance out of MySQL and Postgres.
Deal breaker for me is the lack of a clickly scroll wheel.
I spend a lot of time researching software and technologies for my clients. Many times there are two or more candidates that are very close in usability, features, cost, but if one of them has a posted phone number with easy to reach people on the other end of that phone line, they are more likely to get my recommendation.
This fails to take into account margins of error. An election won by one vote would result in suits over the count being within the margin of error. In some states any result within a certain margin is decided by other means, including runoffs or even coin flips (though I'm not sure how this would apply in the case of a federal election).

The hubbub over Coleman vs. Franken showed its not as simple as guy wins by 1 vote, gets elected.
I'm sure if Oracle abandons MySQL then after some initial confusion developers and users will settle on 1 or 2 forks and continue from there. Some are already forking MySQL to scratch their own itch.
dnstracer can show you that and much more. A great tool, shame nobody's heard of it.
How would systems running on petrol be carbon-neutral? Granted, you reduce one form of carbon emissions by presuming a clean form of energy and petrol generation. Use of the petrol, however, should still result in carbon emissions. Have I missed something?
What well known software did Bill Gates write? DOS was purchased from another company. The oldest parts of Excel maybe?
I did a couple of years ago when I was 42, but it didn't work out.

I think it's not common, but they don't automatically reject you because of age, either. At least I hope not.