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I'm glad the JSGI spec is fleshing out, the web connector API will allow many more frameworks to get started easily, rather than forcing Javascript programers to hack on java or C to build a webserver first.

Once JSGI is done, it really will allow the experimentation you see from Rack and WSGI in the respective Ruby and Python worlds.

I guess its about time to update my old mod_v8 to support jsgi :D
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408707
Ahem.

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/strict.html
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis.

They only died out 12000 years ago. I wonder when our most recent common ancestor lived - surprisingly, Homo floresiensis wasn't mentioned in The Ancestor's Tale.
They claim to be generating the revenue, only to have it stolen by Google and others. If this was the case, /robots.txt could go a long way towards preventing billions of dollars from "leak[ing] onto the Internet" each year.
> how many computer-illiterate people even know what version of ie they're using?

This is important. Remember, most people don't even know what a browser is. Internet Explorer is very cleverly named: people don't think they're opening a browser, they think they're opening the internet.
It doesn't say they have to be calculated from the input.
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Wow:

"Some groups of teenagers in Harlem use the messaging website Twitter, via their mobile phones, to organize street fights and other shady activities."

Future long headline will be: "Crime in Harlem down 70% as criminals use of social networks to promote criminal activity rises; IQs fall."
So this is not true ?

If you mean the bit about 7.0 not being vulnerable, yes. The exploit code posted is slightly buggy, which is probably responsible for the false positive.
hmm, not to sure about automatically showing all commits .. the repo just imported has 4739 and growing, with only mine being marked as reviewed thats alot of initial reading

How about an option on import like "mark all as read" otherwise i see people with massive git projects having a moan.

edited to add idea..
Aside from the false premise at the outset, which others have noted, there's also a simpler explanation for lower job satisfaction during downsizing. It's been observed that even the employees that "survive" bad layoff rounds become less happy as a result, presumably because they feel threatened that they might be next, because they feel they have no control over their situation, or because they feel their former colleagues were treated unfairly. As a result, they either work harder than they did before, in an attempt to please their superiors, or they resign in their mind. Neither makes them happier. The theory in the article inadvertently touches on the aspect of perceived loss of control, but I think the author reaches the wrong conclusions.
Corruption and greedy are so banal.

I liked your analogy to witch doctors better. Where do we turn to understand the universe and frame our decisions? Science. And why do we vest science with such authority? We trust it. We trust the scientific process, we trust the Space Shuttle and our little iPods, which seem the very embodiment of science's revealed truths.
a field where stuff either works or it doesn't

What field are you talking about? I don't believe such a field exists. Not one that is worthy of the name "field".

It certainly isn't user-experience design, where there is obviously no bright line between "what works" and "what does not work", and where the value of a diverse team is easiest to appreciate. ("What, you mean the word processor user hasn't bothered to learn how to use a DVCS from the command line? Were they born yesterday?") But we needn't go that far. Everything that the hardest of hard-core geeks talk about all day long:

What language should we use?

Should I use emacs, vi, Textmate, Eclipse or Notepad?

Should I use Mac OS, Windows, or Linux here?

What database architecture is right for this task?

Come to think of it, am I even working on the right task?

...are choices between a bunch of options, all of which will "work" in one sense or another.

Even down-and-dirty C hacking requires an endless series of decisions between things which will work and things which might work better on one axis or another.
Two things about the community page and user pages in general...

It would be nice to see a "More..." or "All..." option to see more than just the top 25 users, in case someone wanted to see where they fell for instance.

Also, the user pages: the URL has some GET information that seems sorta odd... like the latitude and longitude to some location (theirs? mine? not sure) and a "comingfrom=..." field that seems to change nothing when modified. Not sure if you care at all about those things, but just seemed like weird information to be passing via GET on every page
would be nice to be able to somehow mark all existing commits on import as reviewed. not going to review every commit for the last year!
Ask HN: best simple 1U server to purchase?
I would think this would come up all the time for web startups, but searching HN mostly turns up discussions of virtual hosting, not physical hosting.

I've got a 4U, $200/month, 2Mb/sec sustained bandwidth (works out to 650GB/month) slot at Pair Networks here in Pittsburgh (great folks, by the way), and am only using one 1U space so far.

So what I'd like to do is buy 2-3 basic 1U servers and treat them like interchangeable blades that I manage myself. (1 hot spare--make sure everything is always backed up enough to bring up the spare in a few minutes.)

So the question naturally arises: Is there some obvious standard for 1U servers in the Intel 2-3GHz CPU (2/4 core), 4-8GB RAM, 100GB disk range that will run a standard Linux distro like Ubuntu 8.04LTS?

I know there are zillions of options, but the more I look, the more I'm confused.

Anyone have any quick advice before I spend a few $K in a handful of servers?

(Yes, I've weighed the advantages of virtual servers, but I just can't bring myself to pay for service which would buy a physical server in a few months, since I'm already paying for the slot at Pair.)
I have no idea what your point is. People write in Java, Ruby, Lisp, Javascript, and any of 50 other languages to avoid writing bare-metal C, too.
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"No deals around you, redirecting to New York City"

That's my first interaction with the site, after opening it in a background tab: it created a focus-stealing window to inform me that it couldn't help me.
Hey, I'm in Amherst, NH right now and since there's nothing up here it sent me to NYC. However, you have some content in Boston which is much closer and hence more useful to me.

If there's nothing in the detected area, can you move to the closest bon instead?
Why is this controlled from CSS?
I would like to see a study that shows if the increase in women in other science and engineering fields can be attributed to anything those fields specifically did to attract more women or if it can be attributed to something else entirely.
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I used meditech as a medical student on the wards. Very painful experience. I'm sure it was really slick 20 years ago, but it's painful now.
Are you saying that you think this article is an example of "paranoid conspiracy theories"? I'm sympathetic and partial to the view that AGW is probable but I'm not married to the view. I also question the policy prescriptions based on the underlying science given the costs.

It strikes me as somewhat arrogant and insulting though when others ask seemingly legitimate questions, "scientists" and policy advocates attempt to crush those who ask them instead of at least attempting to make a reasoned response. Immediately they label these people as "deniers" / "skeptics" or even paranoid. Now we learn that one of the leading climate institutes (not just some university in the UK) didn't keep/destroyed original data sets and even a number of their defenders are calling for heads to roll (e.g. George Monbiot).

From TierneyLab @ the NYT (http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/hacking-the-c...):
"I’ve long thought that the biggest danger in climate research is the temptation for scientists to lose their skepticism and go along with the “consensus” about global warming. That’s partly because it’s easy for everyone to get caught up in “informational cascades”, and partly because there are so many psychic and financial rewards rewards for working on a problem that seems to be a crisis. We all like to think that our work is vitally useful in solving a major social problem — and the more major the problem seems, the more money society is liable to spend on it.

"I’m not trying to suggest that climate change isn’t a real threat, or that scientists are deliberately hyping it. But when they look at evidence of the threat, they may be subject to the confirmation bias — seeing trends that accord with their preconceptions and desires. Given the huge stakes in this debate — the trillions of dollars that might be spent to reduce greenhouse emissions — it’s important to keep taking skeptical looks at the data. How open do you think climate scientists are to skeptical views, and to letting outsiders double-check their data and calculations?"
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Very cool tool, but I don't like how it automatically marks commits using the repo owner's email address as read. It prevents other people from reviewing code that I write :/ not sure if they've fixed this or not.
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seems like it marks older ones as reviewed actually. I only get about a page of unreviewed ones
Did you read the article? The last example pretty clearly explains why it's a presentation concern.
I would use Silicon Mechanics or Dell
http://www.siliconmechanics.com/
http://www.dell.com

Both of them have 1u server builds pretty cheap, with 2-4 SATA or SAS disks depending on your needs.

Most everywhere else will be the same prices or more expensive for the base servers.
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The radiation involved means that you probably couldn't shield a human well enough to be close enough to one of these black holes to feel gravity. Not to mention tidal forces.
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I've had good luck with options from SuperMicro and the configure-it-yourself stuff at TigerDirect/GlobalComputer (forget what brand they sell it under).

Also, you'll often find a huge price difference between a 2U unit and a 1U unit of the same specs (2U being cheaper...). Might be worthwhile to spend a little more on a 2U unit (mostly for more RAM) and get more bang for your buck and run VMWare on it. That way it could have a couple of different recovery images on it, or possibly room in the chassis for mirrored drives or something.
I have, but I still think that putting stuff like this into CSS is a bad idea. Though it solves the problem mentioned in the article.
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Funding things collectively has benefits only if I want the same things as everyone else. And I do to some degree. But anyone who decides to live his life a little differently than the majority knows about the massive drawbacks of pushing collectivism too far, as has been the case in Europe.
Thanks, but I go to the Dell site and them am immediately overwhelmed with literally dozens of base options, and then I have to customize.

I want to buy something I know that a standard Linux distro like Ubuntu will support 100%.

I suppose I could go to one of the Linux hardware companies like PogoLinux.

Yes, I know Dell supports Linux, but not the distro I'm interested in. (Ubuntu 8.04.)
"Localhost vulnerability" is a meaningless term. It's called a local root exploit.

EDIT: Since I got modded down for saying this, try to Google for it. There are less than 300 hits for "localhost vulnerability," with this article leading the charge. It's simply a mistake by someone who doesn't know the terminology.
I agree, although OS processes, job queues, and libevent/libev can help in many cases. Erlang is also an option for when you need massive concurrency.
strict is a standard perl module. HTML::TreeBuilder seems to work just as well with malformed HTML.
I think this post contains an un-intentional poke at the concept of libertarian free will. That is, you must have an alternative in order to be free (and feel free, therefore faking satisfaction).

But what makes that funny is we all know that just because you have a job alternative, it doesn't make you free or happy. What truly makes you free and happy is to do what you really want to do. It has nothing to do with having an alternative.
Well, I certainly enjoy the social environment of my grad program more because it has a well-mixed gender ratio. But besides my own enjoyment of my course of study, if we are setting up filters besides "good at computer science" for entrance into computer science, then we are doing ourselves a disservice.

If I could offer another anecdote and unsupported hypothesis, I suspect our grad program has a better mix because it is more foreign, and foreigners have a different perception of the gender stereotypes surrounding Computer Science than we do. There's a lot of non-Americans on hacker news, perhaps one of them could comment.
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There's another form of accountability: when irrelevant, these comments get downvoted.
If anything, we should be more skeptical than most. Lorenz pretty much founded modern chaos theory when he learned how ridiculously hard it was to simulate (and therefor predict) weather. The whole butterfly flapping in China thing isn't a cute little metaphor, it is a very real statement about how complicated weather truly is.

We might be able to make some observations about trends in the weather, but we don't have long enough baselines to really be able to tell what is going on.

I'm not saying that I think the whole anthropomorphic global warming thing is completely false, I'm just saying scientists who point to what is essentially noise in our woefully short record don't do a good job of convincing me.

I'm a fan of sustainability, and mining economies make me edgy. For that reason, I think a move away from fossil fuels is the obvious choice.

I'm also a fan of not screwing up the environment, but most of the green movement ends up as barely disguised anti-corporatism, with a fair amount of dead-horse beating.
'All' on the community page might be a bit of overkill. Perhaps I should just list you (and your rank) on it ...

As you seem to have guessed, comingfrom is useless now. Just a remnant of an earlier iteration. I'll get rid of it ASAP. You pass (your) latitude and longitude to every page so I can (possibly in the future) customize pages for you based on where you are. Looking up lat/long take forever - so I just do it once when you visit the site for the first time and cache the results (and pass them around as GET parameters). It may make more sense to send them as HTTP headers (via cookies) though ...
Technically, by the laws of kashrut, I'm fairly sure it would, since I don't see how it can be classified as meat. Or, alternatively, it can't be kosher, because I cannot see how it can be qualified as food.

It's real fun when 6000-year-old laws meet science, isn't it?
I like this article because it points out women are also geeky and that it's OK to be geeky. Women just may tend to have a slightly different way of expressing that geekiness.

You want girls to feel comfortable because you want the girls who are good at CS to go into CS. This is independent of how many women go in total. But since we're at it, let's talk about the biology arguments:

http://geekfeminism.org/2009/10/17/how-does-biology-explain-...

http://www.mun.ca/cwse/Cannon,Elizabeth.pdf

according to the above study, undergraduate women in engineering showed comparatively a higher interest in math than men though slightly lower interest in engineering and yet lower interest in physics.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/gendergap/www/papers/

Through additional work CMU increased their percentage of women in CS from 8% to 1995 to 42% in 2000. One thing I recall is that women were not as experienced when they first got into CS and had to work harder. However they believed they had caught up by junior year.
The lack of women in CS is a problem because the CS field is missing out. There are a whole lot of intelligent women that could make important breakthroughs. The field is slowed because half the population is discouraged from joining it.
Explain why you think it is a bad idea. I'm interested.
But it's also important to realize that even if Climate Change isn't man made pollution still is and we need to do our best to reduce it.

It's not that simple. "Doing our best" to reduce pollution is a process that carries staggering costs of its own.

It is not realistic to achieve a pollution-free lifestyle across all segments of humanity, so we're going to have to decide where the lines are drawn. That, regrettably, is always going to be a political process, and not a scientific one.
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Ouch, should have RTFM. Thanks for the pointer.
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So for years most newspapers have been little more than AP aggregators, offering local opinion pieces and a few local stories. Then the journal comes in, with a bunch of specialist content, and respected editorial bits, makes a profit selling this, and somehow is in the same market? Isn't that like saying Google and Dell are in the same business because it is computers?

Vaguely related: what ever happened to the micro-payment idea?
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The obvious followup is to try to figure out what it is about the Star Wars posters and messy environment that makes women uncomfortable.

My guess is that women feel like they are biologically different than men, and geek paraphernalia is seen as a signal that the environment will be dominated by men who don't understand women. Any women here want to agree/disagree?
What use cases are you envisioning where threading will be essential? Or aiming in the opposite direction, what use cases are people envisioning for server-side Javascript at all?

I presume its anticipated niche is as a CGI-type replacement --- relatively light-weight 'programs' executed per request. If that's the case, is there much need for multithreading?
The CommonJS module system is really a step forward.

For the last two months I've been developing a webapp on Helma NG and I like it very much. Parts of the framework fit together nicely. The community on IRC is very helpful and provides answers in the rare cases where source code and documentations is not enough.

I also want to praise the project developers for their code quality -- even though I use a version from git I haven't had a single problem with frequent updating and re-building it.
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I'm a doc, and I want to agree, but I know we can do better:

- Culture: docs use Macs. 40%. Well above the general population. And my experience has been they have a clue. These are the people doing data analysis, writing research papers, etc.

- Disasters: the military uses computers in disasters all the time. As a prior Navy line officer with some disaster response experience (http://nielsolson.us/Haversian/science/social_science/disast...), I think I can safely say computers can be hugely leveraged in disasters. In fact, the military's medical record system is deployable: you can clone a segment of the database and ship it with the unit into theater, then merge the changes back in.

- Time: thus far, I agree with you. The Navy's surgery program in San Diego is actually on probation for being over on work hours and under on patients. The AHLTA system is fantastically inefficient (apparently the implemented the whole thing without understanding HL-7 messaging). I experience this every day. The paper charts are much faster. And our ER scans there notes. That would be fine by me. Run OCR on the scans.

-Money: barring some major paradigm shift affecting the relationship between doctors and hospital administrators, I suspect this will be the last thing to be saved.

-Bugs: happen. We rely on computers in healthcare all the time in real time, from your vitals in the ER to the Da Vinci machine.

-Proprietary data formats: there are growing standards:
-- http://code.google.com/apis/health/ccrg_reference.html
-- http://medical.nema.org/

Overall, I really hope this problem gets cracked. Soon. Because if you've tried to go back through a hard films x-ray room that's three blocks away and locked at 2 am because you really want to know WTF is going on with this patient, you realize paper is crazy.
I saw this passing by and was immediately reminded of patio's landing-page bug @ http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=898854
as a commenter below me pointed out, there is node.js which got some attention recently.

there was a rather long concurrency discussion on commonjs http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs/browse_thread/thread...

there was no consensus and the topic was delayed for later discussion - but it seemed the promises idea got most attention (my pov) http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Promises
Climate change, pollution, and global warming are all different issues. Should not be confused.
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By "make it all female" she means, fills the room with only females. The nerdiness of the room remains the same. The implication is that the percentage of women in a CS class matters less than the decorations on the wall.
Sports stars are a cherry-picked counter example to Adams' argument. Would LeBron play basketball for a mere $100K/year? You bet -- if that was his only option. It is that every team would like him to have lots of fun in its uniform that drives up his salary.
Just wait till someone makes news.gangsters.com. Their crime productivity will be destroyed.
I really need to get into HTML5, I hadn't heard of "appcache" before. Can anyone suggest a resource on this?
"It is now known that any prolonged human presence deeper in space would need to be behind a shield of the effective strength of two feet of lead, which would weigh 400 tonnes for a small capsule."

Uhm, the first thing that comes to my mind - regardless of whether this black hole propulsion might actually work - is the amount of lead we have available. Just building the spaceship seems to be just as much a problem as accelerating it..
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Little dated, but very interesting, especially the comments