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It must not be that silly because 10gen hired the author of Mongoose ;-)

I find it weird that the author writes about one-liners in python without knowing about list comprehensions

Watching the Dragon approach from the point of view of the ISS is incredibly exciting in itself, but almost unbelievable when you think about the speeds they are flying at relative to the ground!

The question now is what will be the response of the leaders of the community fork Mageia? http://www.mageia.org/en/

MongoDB has good drivers for Node (as for most other languages) but also a fully-featured ORM that can save time in these kind of projects: mongoosejs.com

MongoDB also ships with a JS runtime so you can run map/reduce calls written in JavaScript entirely DB-side, as well as other goodies.

So it's fair to say that the language that makes the most sense when using MongoDB is JavaScript, even if that wouldn't be enough IMHO to justify using Node for a project.

... and your point is?

I wonder how they plan to recoup royalty losses from this? Is this just a marketing investment?

> Where's the Ruby version of this? The Python version? The JavaScript version?

heroku ? you don't even have to upload anything manually, a single command deploys your app.

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With latest Chrome, you get a nice 3d viz of the result.

I wonder how much speedup they could get from PyPy

"As long as there's no way for me to simulate a built-in browser in a web app, HNmobile will remain being a non-standalone app."

I'm not sure if you had a look at it yet but there is a PhoneGap/Cordova plugin called ChildBrowser that may do what you want here. I can help you getting setup with a PhoneGap project for your app if you want!

"Since it's hosted on another domain, the API supports CORS so that HNmobile can do cross-domain XMLHttpRequests."

Why don't you use JSONP?

I'm not 100% sure they already do, but will Apple continue using UDIDs in iAds? Because if they do that would grant them an incredible competitive advantage against all other ad networks...

Thanks, the headline made me think it was actually about BitCoin ;-)

The animation of the left sidebar on each page is really annoying.

Aside from that, it looks really clean!

Sacha presented this live at the latest parishackers.org meetup and it was brilliant. He deserves every bit of success ;-)

Nice, however on my Chrome Mac there's a flash each second with the re-render.

they usually embed little cues like this in their product announcements

Recaps of the 3 first meetups :

http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup

http://blog.medusis.com/second-paris-hackers-meetup

http://wazoox.posterous.com/paris-hackers-meetup-january-201...

TED doesn't charge and doesn't pay speakers. Same for all TEDx events. IMHO it's a large part of what sets them apart from other conferences.

Most interesting bit :

The principle is simple; a flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it, we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing the source of the DNS query.

The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers, instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will attack the root servers for us.

Note that $250m just seems to be the quarterly fee...

I'm not expert on the subject but one should also consider how it goes into countries like France where lobbying is already illegal, but still happening in other ways or channels.

Actually much, much less than $180: that includes the cost of all the parts, many of which are not produced in China.

yes to me this is the craziest part.

I strongly considered stopping reading at "Uranium is the heaviest element on earth"...

Gandi will also do it until Jan 15th: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3404854

> We should be able to answer a lot of questions by raising small mammals on the ISS.

I'm very curious on why this has not been done yet (or has it?)

genius idea is genius.

You're re-defining eCommerce? Sure.