skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He mentions friends helping him several times, but not crashing on someone's sofa, and a couple of times he specifically mentions that he wouldn't go to a shelter - I'm curious as to the reasons for this? The shelter maybe because he feared getting stuck there?
When using IPP, I had to rewrite the CPU detector, even for new Intel chips as they came out. This code should be better...really it should just benchmark all the options and catch processor exceptions to pick a supported path.

Instead, the idea is to do a static dispatch for 'known' chips, which is really bad. When the Core2Duo came out, the version of IPP we used reverted to basic MMX code instead of SSE2, about 2.5x slower. This is just bad code, and it's bad on Intel chips, not just AMD.

Also there is the "optimized for benchmarking" piece. It's not always good to use all your cores for one job, for instance, but a lot of these libraries make the assumption that your CPU has nothing else to do.
I think this is a great example of why print media should go out of business. This article contains no new information and no useful analysis. The author profits on the backs of all the people who have tracked down rumors. By virtue of her position at the NYT she can be the vessel by which this data is communicated to the masses.
Right and initially we're not focusing on providing a discovery platform.

We're simply providing a means to self-distribute, customized to the indie filmmaker's flavor.

The 90 minute low quality content is an extreme. I'm saying these guys have put effort into something and they will look for a way to distribute. They will try, even if they know their content doesn't have much of a market, and there will always be these films and people who make these films. These films will probably make up the majority of films produced. So this is simply one monetizable group.

This is in fact Lulu.com's business model. Lulu.com wants to sell a service to low quality content. Of course my ultimate goal is not just to cater to these people, but to target this service to content of all quality, and then create a marketplace later of higher quality content (once they come). I believe that with the internet, and with the speed of communication, managing marketing and distribution is accomplished much more easily.

So yes in a sense our immediate revenue model isn't too legit, because we don't really care if films succeed in making money, but our goal is to charge them very little, hope the volume makes up for the difference, and rely on the mass of new films that just don't make it to resort to our service.

Initially it will be do-it-yourself service for films that aren't good enough to be distributed otherwise, but the long term goal is to offer better films a more profitable distribution method.

And who knows, maybe one of these 90 minute low quality films that everyone ignores turns out to be a smash hit (http://www.theroommovie.com/).
It's interesting that both the Newton and Cube--which the article correctly points out as unsuccessful financially--still have cult followings. From what I've read, the Newton--which is, I believe, the first PDA--did many things better than any PDA since, including the iPhone.
I'm building a photo subject generating/photo sharing app for the iPhone.
"Only" benchmarketing? If any published benchmarks are affected by this misfeature, it's pitchforks and torches for Intel.
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As to it being anti-competitive, there's nothing stopping AMD from making their own compiler that produces more optimal code and trusts everyone's processors to work as advertised.

Sure there is: time and money. Huge companies that are near-monopolies have enormous reservoirs of both in comparison to the competition.

What Intel is accused of doing is considered anti-competitive because they are not actually improving their product. Instead, they are using their stronger market position to degrade the value of another company's product. This harms the overall market, and particularly the consumers. Hence, it's illegal.
MyPay demonstrates how not to do good security user experience .
Yeah, I could see this becoming a problem in the future. Imagine getting used to this, then for some reason, needing to drive an older car. "Oops, I didn't realize this car required manual braking".
Writing an e-book on managing your social identity.

Creating a twitter "I just had sex" bot.
Smile You've got cancer
Summary and delivery are valuable services.
and gcc is not that bad after all. I uses openmp to parallel my program on core i7 860 cpu which should support 8-threads. But using icc as compiler, it will only utilize 7 cores, and it does affect performance (about 10% slower (wall time) than gcc which uses 8 cores). I suspect that it has something to do with the dynamic linked openmp library for icc.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027418
It's not always possible. PR firms are expensive. They also can't promote to a mostly technical audience. That's why you should give talks about your research/development, blog/tweet, post on sites like this. I've found that especially with open source projects, once you get the word out others will be more than happy to be your projects' "technical evangelists" because they love using them.

That being said, if you're a company, can afford a PR firm and you have produced something worth promoting, it usually makes sense to pay others do promote. The Submarine article by Paul Graham really opened my eyes on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (ever wonder where feature stories in mainstream magazines about start-ups, showing happy hackers solving technical puzzles on white boards come from?)

However, I've also seen companies suffer because they've hired sales, marketing and PR staff on "easy" VC/parent company money before they had a working product.
While I can agree with the first part of the statement, the global meltdown was not "largely caused by US deregulation-driven con games". Regulation however well intentioned and in how it was implemented played a decisive if not the decisive role. Attempts to maneuver around regulation creating less transparency was causal. Government sponsored agencies also contributed heavily to the meltdown.

I also don't think it is true to say that there was a massive shift of assets from middle class to already very well off given that it is the rich who largely suffered the most from this meltdown (given that it was an asset pricing bubble and it is the rich who tend to be the ones who hold more assets). One thing you also notice that's really different about the US (and in many ways Canada as well) and the rest of the world is that the rich are pretty much the same people elsewhere, whereas there at least seems to be a lot more movement/mobility or the potential to be in the US.
> Just like it was criminal for car makers to drag their feet pushing out seat belts, air bags, and anti-lock brakes in previous safety fights

Apparently Honda couldn't get consumers to pay for ABS and had to install it by default at no extra charge in order for people to have it.
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Interesting piece. Thanks to colinprince for posting it.
"Could rival" articles are a great example of what's wrong with newspapers these days. A quick paragraph by paragraph breakdown of the content of this article should be enough to show anyone what's wrong with it:

P1: People are excited about Apple's rumored tablet computer.

P2: People were excited about Apple's rumored phone.

P3: The iPhone was successful. (Plus an irrelevant point about Apple's controlling nature.)

P4: Bloggers are excited about a possible tablet computer, but Apple has failed sometimes as well.

P5: Irrelevant discussion of other possible industrial design releases this year.

P6: Nothing.

P7: Nothing. (The entire content of this paragraph is an incorrect statement that tablet computers have been becoming more popular since the XO laptop. The article's author has confused netbooks with tablets. It's also confused the XO computer with the design concept the OLPC organization recently created that they will soon fail to implement.)

P8: Continued confusion of the tablet and netbook markets.

P9: The rumored tablet computer from Apple will be able to do stuff that you would expect a tablet computer to be able to do.

P10: The market for eReaders needs a messiah. (If I were being more snarky, I might say that the writer has never met an Amazon Kindle owner.)

P11: An extremely popular eReader would improve the demand for content normally used by eReaders.

P12: The rumored tablet will need a corresponding store.

P13: Nothing. (Plus an incorrect point about Apple's sustainability. Whether she means environmental or economic, there's no evidence to support either point of view.)
Nice app, but I'm not switching from my current scheme of a .txt file for local todos and Google docs for stuff I need to share or get from afar.

I wonder what it would take? I often have a list or two going, but .txt is just so convenient. Why leave emacs at all?
Taken out of context your quote does sound dangerous. If he were used to this and tried to drive another vehicle he may have slower reactions when braking is needed.

The acceleration in your quote is because the road ahead is now clear and he can accelerate up to his cruise speed unless he gets too close again. THe full paras:

>I pull onto a road, say freeway 280, and I set the cruise control. I set the top speed the car should ever go. Say 80 mph. But it doesn’t go 80 unless there’s no cars in front of me. Usually in Silicon Valley there’s traffic. So, the car in that case follows the car in front of me.

>But they just slammed on their brakes to avoid something. What does my car do? It slams on its brakes too. It is so reliable I no longer impulsively reach for my brakes. Let’s say the car in front of me speeds up after slamming on its brakes. My car speeds up too. It’s like there is a rope between my car and theirs. It is like nothing you’ve ever experienced.
Yes, but they are cheaply available now. If the "Paper of Record" can do no better they will be Telegram operators in a world of ubiquitous communication.
"the less you commit to specific dates, the better"
I didnt know this, I will have to read more about it. Thanks!
Sorry if it came out wrong, that's why I said essential "for me".
"Ford’s version of radar prepares the brakes so that all you need to do is touch them to get full braking pressure if the car thinks it’s headed for a collision."

That sounds like a really good way to get hit from behind. Does the system try to stop you as fast as possible, or as slow as possible while still avoiding the car in front? The second option is kinder to cars behind without such sophisticated safety systems.
Regular expression parser and compiler for a VM regex implementation similar to the one described in [1]. Part of a larger project, and the VM doesn't actually operate on a normal string data structure.

[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html
The author called App store a "successful exercise in design democracy", to which I can only say "what?".... the App Store is anything but democracy.
Would it be fair to speculate that he never foresaw the largest proprietary DB vendor eventually buying MySql?
Really? I find Intel's compiler to outperform GCC on pretty much all of the numerical work I do. I build with "-O3 -xHost" and make use of OpenMP.

Dynamic linking of the OpenMP library is almost certainly not the cause of the slowness you're observing. If you really want to force the Intel OpenMP runtime to use all 8 cores:

export OMP_DYNAMIC=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8
export KMP_LIBRARY=throughput

# "KMP_BLOCKTIME" is how long an idle worker thread
# should enter a blocking wait for more work before
# sleeping, in milliseconds. default value is 200ms
export KMP_BLOCKTIME=1000

# following are needed if you use Intel MKL
export MKL_DYNAMIC=false
export MKL_NUM_THREADS=8

For more info: http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/hpc/c...
My craziest bug was making text-only changes to an html file I'd edited for months, saving the file, then seeing no changes in the browser.

Somehow I'd opened a second editing window for the file, exactly on top of the first window - and the editor was saving with a slightly different name.
The Storagetek gear is at least #2 for market Share. (Good enough for Jack Welsh)

(Agree though - Oracle would want to keep mysql)
Twitter was the next big thing a year ago. At this time time they are officially a big deal.
Writing is choosing. You are continually making judgments about words, not least how your audience will read them. Is "nice" the neutral commendation of baby boomer's youth, the "finicky" of a couple of centuries before (Should any youth, worth making drunk, prove nice ...) or ironic term met since. A lot of new words and usages are not worth saving. In my high school days "hairy" was a general purpose intensive adjective (a big hairy knife/wrench/textbook/whatever), and at 14 I'd have thought well of myself for working it twice into a paragraph. How would that read now.
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check out this post from Marc Andreessen http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-pers...
This doesn't mean NASA as a whole uses it. It really comes down to who is in charge of the project.

Some NASA centers in certain departments mandate the use of certain technologies, for instance .NET and sourcesafe.

I worked on some internal projects at NASA and used git though. A buddy of mine at USGS uses git for all of his work.
I've been working on http://www.learnivore.com (my ruby/rails/iphone screencasts aggregator) - more specifically:

- an iphone specific version (using jQtouch)

- better ways to share the site (using topsy + facebook widgets, instead of addthis and sharethis that proved uneffective here after a few weeks of testing)

- a more responsive site (using google cdn for jquery for instance + other tweaks)

- some bits of SEO

Btw, I'm now tracking my time for this kind of side-projects using Freckle. Good to know how much time you spent at the end of the month!
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This is a six-month old article but I still enjoy it. What I have learned in my last two startups is that diversity is really important for success. Ultimately, your co-founders are the ones who would protect your proverbial back and the more that they bring to the table (that are not already on the table), the better. In fact, the less that you have in common initially with each other, the less baggage that you each would bring to the partnership. Over the years, I have learned painfully that in addition to learning to work with people who are different from you and would initially make you uncomfortable, we need to refrain from starting our company with family and friends. Starting a company together is the quickest way to destroy friendship. Starting a company with family (or hiring family into your company) is the surest way to alienate your business partners.

Sex and startups, two things in life that are best to pursue outside your gene pool.
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Not only is this useful for visualizing proggit but I am guessing it would work nicely for visualizing any other sub-reddit also!
Sorry Paul but solar (despite the massive investment) will still be a technology that is perpetually always twenty years into the future.

The winner will be the green nuke, Thorium. Once people understand that it has all the advantages of our current uranium based plants with few of the negatives public opinion will shift.
I'm working on a few things, both spanning at least two weekends.

The first is my baby, a project management tool built in PHP. Tired of messing with slow trac installs on PHP or fugly-looking/complicated PHP tools (I'm watching you, bugzilla!). It is mainly targeted towards the types of projects I've seen were useful for development with the clients and staff I work with as a student working in a university and freelancing on the side. It will definitely allow me to sleep a little better on the weekends and keep everyone on my team up to date as to what they need to get done and where projects stand.

The second is a generic file upload system that will likely be used within the android hacking community to track resources etc. This one is actually very far along it's development after only two days of real development, and I am quite happy with it. Hopefully it will be of use to people in other communities/companies looking for a collaborative alternative to dropbox. I'm a fan of minimalism, so while the app will have many features, you wouldn't notice them all immediately. Hope to launch this within a week if everything goes well with development.
True, blacks alone would not account for the disparity. As I mentioned, white Canadians are less obese as well.

But the disparity is much larger for blacks. I mentioned blacks mainly because I could quickly find statistics for them.
You can look here for ideas on minimalist design:

http://www.minimalsites.com/
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I've had similar thoughts, where small businesses in a local region could pool resources to help each other.

For example, a music school could offer notifications that contained links to regional performances in locations. A veterinary office could provide reminder emails alongside references to local trainers or other kinds of pet services.

I see some kind of business in there, I just don't know exactly how it would work.
I don't think social groups are linearly ordered, but they do have a partial ordering.
The address j@ww.com you mention in your profile gives a hit for an Amazon account in Kansas:

http://web.mailana.com/labs/findbyemail/index.php?email=j%40...

Doubt that's you though, probably just an MD5 clash, since it's a long way from the Netherlands?

I only see one other check in my access log from the same IP that checked for your address about an hour ago; mishu<snip>.com. That did find a flickr account, though it appears to be private, so not much info there.
I thought the 2000s were generally kind to Canada - certainly better than the previous decade. Americans may forget that the '90s (or the '50s, or '80s...) weren't a golden age for everyone. Many of the countries that did well in the last ten years were miserable during the '90s, but used that time to get their houses in order.
I suppose I would have to experience first hand to really weigh in on whether I would use it or not, but from an initial reaction standpoint, I would think I'd prefer an all or nothing approach. Meaning, either fully automated driving or don't help me at all. I just can't help but imagine that I'd never be able to get used to this type of selective assistance. Someone cutting you off doesn't necessarily mean you're headed for a crash and no cars in front of you doesn't necessarily mean you can drive 80 mph without caution. If you grow to rely on a system such as this, it only takes one incident where the vehicle doesn't believe it's about to be in a crash when you really are for it to ultimately fail. Or worse yet, for the car to sense you may be in a crash and apply counter measures which causes panic by the driver and ultimately leads to a crash anyway due to overcorrection or something similar.
Did you mean to link to the "MM" fragment?
Has anyone tried the Sun Studio compilers? They're free and supposed to be as good as Intel, but I've seen virtually no discussion of them.
I have tried many methods and apps but always return to scraps of paper.

Current site I'm using is:

http://teuxdeux.com

Figured a few people might be interested in taking a look at this approach which is different to most others I've tried and quite simple.
Offtopic: I thought that the market for to-do organizers is supersaturated at this points. Is it that there just aren't any good ones? What do you expect the marked for this thing to be?

Personally, I use a white board for lists of projects that need to be accomplished, and my e-mail inbox for the list of things that need to be accomplished soon. Not a perfect system, but at least I can glance at both quickly as I always have Thunderbird open and sit in front of my whiteboard.
No it wouldn't. All else aside, if this were the case every browser for the past decade would have been sued for including "Mozillla" and/or "MSIE" in their user-agent strings.
I guess he gave up on Make Poverty History?
So they didn't buy Sun to get the largest OSS database in the world?

Sun's storage products are top notch but I doubt Oracle specifically wanted to move into the field. Selling replacement SPARCs to the banks that still have Solaris won't last long, Oracle know that.
I certainly didn't say that it did...I only suggested that some sort of amusement (at the very least: discussion) might be an important part of interaction.

But, since we're making rhetorical straw men: what does their desire for users to interact more have to do with the site being useful?
New goal: Collect a sample of every element. =P
I agree that clothes aren't everything, they're really only a part of what makes someone popular in high school, but in a way what you're saying proves my point.

You say that nerds don't dress substantially differently, that's not true at all. I'm the son of a fashion designer, so I pay a lot more attention to what I and others wear than the average nerd, so perhaps I can help. Fact is, most programmers dress in clothes that could be at best be described as boring and conventional.

The fact is, if you don't really pay close attention to what people are wearing, stuff starts to look similar, if you do pay attention, you see lots of differences. Programmers generally look at clothes as functional items, they don't get excited at the prospect of owning some awesome piece of clothing.

I tend to buy my best clothes at sales at a 50 - 75% markdown, when they're usually a season or more out of style (so those $230 jeans get knocked down to $80), which is fine by me. Most programmers I've met would consider spending even $80 on a pair of jeans ridiculous. Now, money won't buy you style, I think lots of programmers who try and dress well just end up buying expensive crap, but it can help.

Plenty of stylish people dress cheaply, but doing so takes a lot of time, combing thrift stores and lower priced stores putting together clothes that look stylish buried amidst mediocre clothes. That takes talent and real time and energy.

Point is, style isn't something most programmers do well, because they aren't excited about clothes. If you can't be passionate about something, how can you hope to do it well?
Are you serious about the Twitter bot? That reminds me of the story of the best man who rigged the newly weds' bed to Tweet whenever they had sex.

http://mashable.com/2009/12/12/twitter-bed-sex/
The only thing we can speculate about is what we would have done in his shoes, unless he provides a convincing insight. If it was me, and I cared about a project of mine for the sake of the project and thought it was a vital project (as opposed to one of my tinker toys), I would have open sources the whole thing, no dual license. That way nobody can "steal" it from the community, by buying some company. I would also have tried to give it to someone like the Apache Foundation, so that when I die, my project does not.

On the other hand, if I thought my project was going to be a cash cow, I would have done exactly what Monty did, except the whining after the fact. I think if I buy a car, then sell it to someone and that person sells it later to my arch nemesis for a discount and he plans on wrecking the heck out of it, my screaming about how this is not right is not going to attract many supporters, is it?