skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People didn't stop going to the movies when VHS movies came out.

People didn't stop buying CDs when MP3 came out.

Come to that, people didn't stop telling stories when books came out.
Perl is Not 8500% faster than Groovy
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People become unproductive for many reasons, maybe they just didn't keep their skills current, maybe they are disillusioned, maybe they weren't ever that useful to start with and got the job by other means. But such people are impossible to fire under normal circumstances. So a good manager "promotes" them to some meaningless post to get them out of the way. Then that manager leaves or moves, and someone who doesn't know the score comes along and decides that hmm, maybe the VP of Paperclips could be reassigned to VP of Operations. And now we have an utter incompetent in a position of real power.
It's extremely easy to pick up poor practices in Perl5 that make the language appear to be unsound even though it can be used extremely elegantly.

You might want to have a look at the libraries that are part of Task::Kensho to get a better feel for how 21st century perl is supposed to be written - at the very least, you might find some ideas to steal for your "sound" language of choice :)
I knew nothing of the Java API's but am able to use Clojure quite successfully. There are oodles of Java API documents and discussions online. I also use several Apache projects from Clojure, and haven't had too much trouble getting to know how to interface with them.
Genuine question here; does AAVE have an accepted grammar? I don't mean necessarily a written canon, but anything that's not "make it up as you go" ad-hoc style. (And yes, I realize all language has some evolutionary context to it.)

Without rules, there's no way to break them, and thus no meaning for "mistake".
The big one is that there's a pretty good chance FBSD will run on your hardware, and there's a really slim chance that OpenSolaris will. Solaris just doesn't have the driver selection that BSDs or Linux have.
"it's a company that rips you off"

Citation needed...
If it makes commercial sense, you don't have to legislate for it.
Really, everything else is insignificant in comparison.

The problem with these sorts of statements is that nearly everything is insignificant compared to something else. The UK shouldn't bother about efficient energy use or renewable sources as China is a far greater consumer and anything we do will be insignificant. I shouldn't bother insulating my house because my neighbour owns a mansion and heats it to 25 degrees C all year and keeps the windows open. There's no point in fitting loft insulation as my car wastes more energy that that would save. There's no point turning the tap off when I brush my teeth because the tap at work drips all day and wastes just as much water ... you get the idea anyway.

Millions of people doing small things in lots of instances creates a large(r) difference. It's a sort of bystander effect that prevents such things; no-one acts because someone else could do more - like #6, if everyone signs up for the renewable then they're not going to be able to meet the demand and will have to bring online more sources of renewable energy.

The reusable nappies issue, #9, is that they assume the nappies are not reused. We bought most of ours 3rd hand on ebay (some 2nd hand) and also used moltex nappies that can be degraded completely by vermiculture within 1 year (though we simply composted them) - our second child is now using the reusables (4th hand) so that makes manufacturing cost just over a quarter (due to disposable paper liners) what they were considered to be in the study mentioned. If you use nappy liners then cleaning is easier. There are other benefits including end-of-life reuse (floor cloths) too.
I saw it earlier on reddit, and when I noticed it on hn, I was about to flag it for being yet another trash story copied from reddit, but then I saw that it already got 15 votes. I must be too young for this, but I did't find it funny, insightful or engaging, thus I did't feel any inclination to read more than a couple pages.
Reddit is out? Heh - don't you mean redis?
Not true: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-...
Or elect to not have a child - something even more significant. Though arguably that is essentially 'freeing up' a permit for someone else.

It conflicts with our view of family values and wholesomeness, but in general a wasteful consumeristic childless individual is going to be more ecological in the long run than pretty much anyone with several kids.
I dont really understand this line
"Some registrars offer to hide your contact info, but then they will own of your domain." They simply create a alias for your details and show their own details. Just to hide it from public view. However when you will do business with some parties, e.g. payment systems etc, they usually want to be able to the proper whois details for a domain. And not a anonymizer profile.

I register domains via namecheap.com, decent service, reasonable priced only systems sometimes at certain times a bit sluggish. They also have a fun marketplace, where sometimes you can buy some fun domains for little price, 4 char .com domains etc

And i agree with patio11, start the aging process of the domain, the faster the better.
It's on the lines of Tao Te Ching, a great book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching
You're comparing apples to oranges. They share some features, but not all, and even not too many. Ebooks do share all the important features of books, at least when readers like Kindle are taken into consideration. Ebooks have existed for a long time without replacing books because the experience was far from similar, but that is changing now.
The JVM is a platform, much like x86/linux or PPC/mac. It's always advantageous to have a better understanding of the platform your code will be working on, but it's not strictly required to be an effective programmer.

With that aside, I think it's certainly worthwhile to take the time and get a basic understanding of Java, as well as survey what is available in terms of libraries (both standard and 3rd party libraries). Some of the biggest appeal of these languages comes from the fact that they're able to leverage all this existing Java code.
For vegerarians cheese is an important source of protein.

Sorry, but the vegetarian you talk of is doing it wrong.

My primary source of proteins is pulses. Especially the red kidney beans contain the same amount of protein as chicken, 24 gm out of 100 gm.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(food)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bean#Red_or_kidney_beans
As usual the single most important advice
is missing:

* Don't have (more than one) child. *

We could build an everlasting eden for humankind
if we could persuade everybody to limit
themselves to one child for couple for the next two or three
generations and then switch to two children for couple.

Lacking that we are doomed to damnation.
Website Wikileaks publishes '9/11 messages'
> ... when exactly is Perl 6 coming out?

Rakudo releases a new version on third Thursday of every month, as it has since December 2007.
Here's a simple one: parentheses never create rvalue lists in Perl 5. They only perform expression grouping.
Debian has it.

joey@mute:~$ apt-cache search yaws
yaws - High performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang
Media: A world of hits
I dont really understand this line "Some registrars offer to hide your contact info, but then they will own of your domain."

That's what I've read somewhere: since contact info associated with your domain points to your registrar (or web host), you have given up control. Is that correct, or you'll keep full control and ownership of your domain? Thanks.
Here is an excerpt from another page (http://www.loremipsumbooks.com/help/5000/):

For the past 6 years, our small independent bookstore in Inman Square, Cambridge has been a place for books, community, and innovation. We now face a difficult hurdle in a difficult industry in a difficult economy: the store must move—or close.

Luckily, we found a better space (more books! room for events!) but we need the funds to make it happen. Maybe you've sold books when you've had a cash crunch — well, that's exactly what we're looking to do now, only on a bit bigger scale:
Ten days. Five thousand books.

That's right — selling five thousand books in our inventory (of 19,000) will raise the cash we need to fund the move, hire staff, and set up bigger and better than before in a new location a few blocks away. (Don't worry, still in Inman Square area, and we'll bring the Chicken Machine with us.)

-----

A couple of thoughts:

A) This sounds like a much better presented fundraiser and is not terribly different from any other sales event where someone says "We are moving and we would rather sell our existing inventory to you at steep discount rather than move it." It still places too much emphasis on the pity factor -- on the idea that this is a fundraiser rather than a business model sales event -- and I still think that is a mistake. Most people are not interested in meeting the needs of your business so you can stay in business. Generally speaking, they expect you to meet their needs and for you to figure out a pricing model/business model that will keep the doors open so you can continue to meet their needs.

B) If you are serious about being willing to support them, you can buy a certificate online at the above page. There are a couple of places that indicate you can buy books through them online, though I am not figuring out how to do that. However, since you implied you would be willing to donate money and view it as a good cause, hey, here is your chance to do so: Buy a certificate and don't redeem it. Voila. Donation.
The most important revenue number
Errm... if you're going to quote me programming language statistics, please use my own: they're better than TIOBE's:-)

http://www.langpop.com

I agree though, that a cursory knowledge of Java is probably helpful in this day and age.
Nearest neighbour problem
Comparing music(ipods, mp3s) with books is really a broken comparison. The first reason is that switching between an album, CD, and mp3 I have the exact same experience. Reading a digital book and a paper book are still very different experiences to me. Physical books have advantages over digital books, no batteries, better type, the ability to read during take-off and landing, etc. CDs vs. MP3s are basically the same on all of those fronts.

You also have to factor in that books are usually single use, which means more people will go to the library or give their book away when they are done reading it. This is all legal now, as soon as it's digital they will become criminals?
Being the UK, I would imagine we're talking about cheddar, which occupies the lion's share of UK cheese production. Give me a good cheddar (Montgomery's is excellent), a nice bottle of wine, packet of biscuits and the complete series of The Thick Of It on BBC iPlayer and I'll do my level best to get through that pound.
Who's "we"? Bray has been muddling around naively because he's a regular guy with a popular blog. Academics are well aware of the literature. I was a lousy academic and even I can tell you the history as far back as the '70s. Frankly, I don't think it's that hard to write most concurrent code. Pick a concurrency pattern and stick to it. It's only in high-performance code that things get tricky.
I have several domains on netfirms.com. I'm not entirely convinced that their service is good. In fact I'm suspicious that they are perhaps overpriced and my websites seem to be slower than everyone else's... so I don't exactly recommend netfirms. But I can tell you that they offer a privacy setting for free at the click of a button. This hides all your information on whois.
> I don't think there's a Perl equivalent to scipy/numpy, is there?

There's PDL. Whether you prefer the Python equivalent to the Perl equivalent seems (to me, at least) to depend on what you think of Fortran.
Yes, and that's the subject of TFA.
Moreover, all these calculations of how much energy is required to grow meat fall flat when you consider grass-fed beef & pastured chickens (a la Saladin); unlike corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef can be self sustaining & actually rejuvenate the land.

Choosing veganism over corn-fed carnivory is the lesser of two evils, only because veganism requires less monocropping. However, at best it can only slow--never reverse--environmental destruction (without animals, the NPK source is petroleum).

From an environmental standpoint, the disease is "growing crops without animal input," and corn-fed beef is merely a symptom.

Ironically, the only way to turn veganism into a closed system is to avoid the large-scale monocropping of grains and re-introduce animals for a nitrogen source.
But ignoring Perl is my way of hating it. And it works.
How to Replace Oxygen Sensor
Maybe one thing that could help cut domestic energy consumption in the UK is the introduction of decent real-time meters. Getting a massive bill through the post once every three months doesn't really help you understand where your money's going, especially as they usually have confusing terms (kW/H, BTU etc) and strange pricing structures.

Look at these new ones from British Gas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8375711.stm

If you could see how much you were spending each minute, do you think that would encourage you to optimize your usage?
This VM implementation probably hit performance of Redis doesnt it?
IMHO, that kind of plan (flush old data to disk and keep new data) is too much work and likely to hit both performance and durability. I'd like to see redis adding more features for production ready such as this one (append only log file). The RAM usage really is not a big deal since most people have their dedicated server and can easily add more RAM.

Another question about the rewrite append only log file strategy. Will that have a possibility for loss data if the filesystem fails to recover from last power off? I mean, if you $rewrite$ a file, there is always a possibility.
Has anyone used the OpenGL Extensions with GOO?
Domain registration: Dynadot. Not sure if this is the best option, but they are fairly cheap and not as insane to use as godaddy. (Edit: By insane, I mean Godaddy's interface is very confusing.)

Privacy: If this is a real concern then pay the $2.00 extra a year per domain. You still own the domain.

Reliable mail + Hosting: webfaction, very straightforward hosting environment, I simply forward all my email to gmail, gmail simply acts as a proxy for my real email address.

Switching hosting: Most hosts offer a DNS service, you'll simply register the domain with the new host and supply those new details to Dynadot. (Or whomever you're registering with).
Of course. I'm just talking about the ones near me.
Beezid 60 Second TV Commercial (YouTube)
Try read it again. It really is a classic - tells of an age before everybody and their dog became programmers. It's a bit more subtle than the current fare and mixes humour and wisdom well.
It seems a little early to be making any committed switches. I think I'd wait until after I built something significant before I announced that something new was better than something old. Especially when betting on a combination of new tech such as Go and NaCl.

Most of the reasoning here that's not flat out wrong (such as to the reference to lack of Google support for Python, inability to secure the platform, ), seems performance focused, so perhaps that's a sufficient justification?
I just saw this while watching Bond reruns on Syfy channel. Kind of made me throw up my Thanksgiving dinner a little...
Hello, actually the rewrite happens against another file and only when everything is ok it gets renamed atomically and the fd for next appends switched.
Should Servers Come With On-Board Batteries?
Sony still subsidizing US military supercomputer efforts
A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer
I hope printed books will not die because there is a big advantage to having text that is readable decades or centuries later.

Much precious information will be lost to our descendants because the data formats of websites and e-books will become obsolete.

If you want to preserve data then emulate nature's approach to seed dispersal. Produce multiple hardcopies of your photos and writings and mail them to friends and relatives!
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Retail v e-tail in America: Bleak Friday
It depends: A lamp in the ceiling produces heat into the wrong place -- most of the warm air is stuck up there and not where people are.

And as other people mentioned, house heating is often produced with more efficient methods.
Have a look at this page; it is a decent summary of one identity masking service (given merely as an example, although I've been happy with namecheap). As they state, you retain ownership of the domain. They merely serve as a proxy public contact.

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/privacy-protection/whoisguard...
I use the otherwise useless CapsLock key as my compose key. Works like a charm: << « >> » ^0 ° ,c ç `e è "i ï /o ø
By switching this early to Go you'd have to write much of what is available as third party libraries in Python yourself.
Initially i was on shared hosting, then upgrade to VPS, within less than 3 months, and then upgraded to Slicehost. It's been more than 1 year, never been happier.

Dreamhost VPS isn't really a true VPS. First you don't have root access, hence can't install anything other than pre-configured modules.
Frankly, I found Simon Wilson’s response to my post more enlightening than most of this entire thread: http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/27/perl/
http://gitorious.org/shapado
Spain has just passed a law to regulate temperature in public places like government offices, bars and shops. It shouldn't be higher than 21ºC in the winter, it shouldn't be less than 25ºC in the summer. Of course, what it's being regulated is the heating or AC devices! :-)

Hopefully this law will prevent us to freeze in theatres in the summer. And of course, it will reduce energy comsumption. There are more measures like forcing locals to have automatic-closing doors.
Very nice interface!

Just curious, how do you get the locations of the ads? Is it limited in resolution to the locale it's posted in? (I don't see any addresses listed in a lot of them.)
Poll: Do you have an OpenID?
I'm reconsidering the authentication that I'm using in my Rails application, and I have a simple question for you all: Do you have an OpenID?<p>My application is targeted to developers, so the response here should be similar to what it would be for potential users of my web application (I'd think).<p>Remember that services like Google, Yahoo, AIM, etc are OpenID providers, so if you have an account with them, you have an OpenID.<p>Thanks!
Yes, and I know my identifier
Yes, I know I have one provided by Google, Yahoo, etc but I don't know the identifier
No, I don't have an OpenID but I might consider getting one
No, I don't have an OpenID and I will not get one.
Perhaps he assumed people would know who Messiaen was, given that he's one of the better known modern/contemporary composers of the 20th century (that sounds consecending, but I don't mean it to be).

I agree with your general point though, in particular I wish he'd be a bit more specific when talking about these examples of mystical beauty he finds so appealing in mathematics.

Unfortunately, as some of the other commentators have mentioned I can see why that kind of thing might be cut by editors - my parents watched the series he presented a while back, and sort-of gave up by the time the last programme was on, saying they didn't really understand a lot of it. Then again, maybe that's the problem! If he explained a bit more instead of briefly touching on the more complicated areas then perhaps they would have followed it better.
When Knuth looks good in an eBook, then I'll consider it.

Not that I actually sit around and read his books, but I think they're beautifully done, and in any case, I want to be able to read formulas, source code, and so on and so forth just as the author intended it to be read.
LG’s Java ME on Android
An Open letter to wikipedia editors
Yeah, this is my main reaction, too. I couldn't switch until something like scipy was available.
Seems like the author would really enjoy reading some of E. Tufte's works. "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" is immensely amusing, and his other books are inspiring and breathtakingly clear. The kind of thing you read to get ideas.
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Source?

oogle is smart enough these days to tell an "artificial" link from a "natural" link. As a result links from the sidebars or blogrolls of other websites, link from signatures and most links from profiles are not decent links and will do very little to affect the rankings of your domain.

This makes no sense. As a blogger, a link in my sidebar on every page is far more valuable than a single link in the body of a post.
The human social interface, why I love the Net
Ask HN: What would you build an email-heavy webapp on?
Hello!

I'm working with a friend on a webapp that involves sending and receiving copious amounts of email. While the application does have a web-interface, this interface is mostly used for simple CRUD operations on data that comes in via email (text and binary attachments).

I wanted to get the opinion of folks here on what is the best technology stack to go about this.

1. Ease of programming is more important to me than scalability (basically, I'm the only developer on this one, and I want to do as many iterations as possible)

2. I have worked with Django/Python, Ruby/Rails, and C# (and sigh... with Java too), and I'm comfortable with all these frameworks/languages. Posterous (also email-heavy) seems to be using Rails (from their ngynx server).

If you've worked on a similar application, or would like to recommend a particular stack, please help me out! :)

Thanks!
Of course, since the user already went over the "hill" and downloaded or maybe even paid for the app, they will be unlikely to back out. They've already put in effort and they don't want it to go to waste. The most powerful tools against annoying web signups are the back button and bugmenot, in that order. Neither exists for the iPhone. Amazing that you are not cargo culting a signup screen. Maybe save the email address once they first input it.
http://aaron.justaaron.com/

I hope openid becomes mainstream some day, I really like logging in once, and I really like being able to log in to a new site without having to register.
I hope it is not true, but apparently in normal circumstances, domain masking (privacy) works as intended, but only in disputed cases would ownership issues comes into play, for more details, see here: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081120_whois_masking_conside...
I have a pretty deep knowledge of mathematics and I watched those programs as well with my SO (who is not mathematical). We gave up watching them because I was able to understand what he was getting at because of my education and she wasn't because he was so unclear. I think it was a pretty poor effort.

There are some lovely bits of mathematics (such as Cantor's diagonalization argument) that could be explained to most people with patience and enthusiasm.
Print books aren't going to die. They will decline in popularity and eventually become a niche market. Very few popular technologies (and print was bleeding edge tech in its day) just die out completely. I have a huge pet peeve with this "death of ___" / "X kills Y" literal disease people seem to have these days. Think about what you're saying and you'll realize it's actually a very silly way to phrase what is otherwise a good point. It draws in the casual reader with drama but it probably makes a lot of people dismiss you as being naive.