skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in case that wasn't clear: there is already a japanese version of Facebook, and many (probably most) people have heard of it at some points, but in my experience the only people who actually register are people learning foreign languages or living outside Japan.

Mixi can be used to meet new people, but most of the people I know only use it to communicate with their real-life friends, and using nicknames isn't a showstopper. Friend on mixi is usually closer than friend on Facebook. Photo sharing isn't very popular (they usually post food...) but the 'diary' (a blog with comments essentially) is.

It's possible to look for someone by name and/or location on mixi, not all people write their full name but they'll tell you what to look for otherwise.
I buy and read about 2 books a month in addition to using the local library so I share Tim's desire to keep the pipeline full of interesting things to read. Publishing has been a good business for centuries, but we do need a way to encourage writers given lots of free material on the Internet.
Bottom line: If there's any there, it's not safe to eat it. If they're all gone, then they would have been safe.

Next chapter, how to test for witches by the flotation method.
Note that his example is about a processor that can only execute one thread at a time, switching on a cache miss. This is not SMT.

The main problem is if the working set size of the single threaded code fits just in cache, but the combined working set size of both threads does not. In this case the threads are competing for the shared L1 cache instead of doing useful work.
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We have looked into that, but that is not our strategy. If we knew that SMT (in an x86 architecture) could lead to an "always better performance" environment, it might be more applealing. But the fact that the performance aspect becomes application dependent (and there are possible stability situations), we defer to no SMT.

If future implementations do a better job it would be something to consider.

For now we believe that actual cores will drive better performance. If I can put 12 cores into the same price and power envelopes (or even lower) as my competitor's 6-core with SMT, I end up with a better processor.

Cores vs. SMT breaks down if your cores are consuming significantly more power or you are driving your cost up. But if you are not doing those things, than cores over SMT becomes the right call.
> Such statements also come out of biologists discussing evolution

This is only the case when the opposing person is pretending to be a scientist but is really a creationist. Scientists tend to make arguments based upon facts and experiments. They start to get really mad when people don't follow the rules and start bringing non-scientific "evidence" into the argument.

There is plenty of things up for debate about how evolution works, but these are the details of the theory. Due to overwhelming evidence, the debate on if is over, however the debate on how is very much alive.
First, markets move on information.

That's half true. Markets move from capital flows of institutions on much larger timeframes-- those flows are what create trends. There is an underlying auction process that facilitates trade and capital flow-- the auction process is the short term noise that is dominated by the larger money about 30% of the time.

Yesterday was a great example. Yes, the market had a big move on the news, and capital flows moved quickly out of domestic equities. But we also had rate problems coming out of China and weakness in European credit markets. To say that the brunt of the market movement was caused by a political speech does not correspond to reality.

it's informed speculation, or entertainment.

Yes! And the WSJ generally avoided that, until recently.

I think serious investors let this type of entertainment roll off of them

That is not reality, unfortunately.
And BR is saying that he is moving WSJ from "essential" to "infotainment" pile, so you're not particularly disagreeing (ISTM). BR's point is that in the past, WSJ wouldn't indulge in this kind of speculation outside its opinion ("cartoon") pages.
No he doesn't. He provides nuance, as follows:

<blockquote>
This isn’t a politicization of the Journal, it is more accurately described as a tabloidization of it.

....

I am willing to give the Marketplace and Money & Investing sections the benefit of the doubt. But it seems weird to me to say that I am now sequestering the OpEd pages AND much of the A section. Once the political motivations of the owner leave the Opinion pages, it is a slippery slope down towards yellow journalism.
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I would assume the patch was making its way through QA, though there was probably a delay in there from MS deciding whether they wanted to fix it.
No, it has more to do with the inconsistency of SMT in an x86 environment. If we were always getting consistent performance gains and expected stability it would be a consideration. That might change in the future, but the technology needs to refine first.
I've actually never heard that statement coming from biologists. Usually they just say "learn more about biology, look up $SOME_SPECIES on wikipedia."
Even with a survival manual it's easy enough to get one harmless food source mixed up with another look-alike harmful one.

It's widely speculated that this happened to Chris McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp, who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness back in the 90s to get away from it all but ended up dying from either starvation or eating something poisonous which contributed to his starvation..

I guess the point is get ready to kill some small animals and go fishing. The idea that a couple of "Castor bean seeds" could be fatal is enough for me to consider all plant life poisonous unless I'm 99% positive it's a lemon or an apple or something like that, something well known...
I think "retract" would be an overstatement.
great stats!
The point remains that the WSJ was unique in providing rock solid objective financial journalism, and now it is sliding down to the same level as "every other news institution".
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Granting Boskin an editorial is a problem because he was a direct cause in the financial collapse, and it was a followup to a few other posts he'd made.

There are brokers on the trading floor, you can ask them why they're selling

Traders on the floor and in the pits trade in reaction to price, not the news. News can be bad and price still go up-- just watch the futures market when jobless claims are reported in the mornings...
In theory, anyone can sue me regardless of how big the site is, right?

I think you mean that since its a small site, no one is going to waste the time and money to do it?
The reasons I commute by transit in Toronto (despite the very accurate drawbacks mentioned above - bring in smart-cards already!) are because it is faster and less expensive. Arguably Montreal's system is better on both counts. The people on the transit system here are the same people you see everywhere in the city.

One note: Toronto never ripped out its streetcar lines. I have always wondered why Toronto's streetcars were spared while most other cities in North America lost theirs.
What is interesting to note - the date of the article is "Feb 1, 2010". :) I guess Inc. released the article earlier than planned.
In my opinion, it's more like checking if a key exists in a hash, if you know that there's a 99% chance that key hashes to one of 50 possible values.

There are only a few incriminating apps, such as Zoosk (I use "incriminating" in the lightest sense possible of course), and you can just visit the pages for those apps individually.

I've been a pretty harsh critic of Facebook regarding privacy lately (see my previous comments) but I don't think this specific instance is a privacy fail, unless you are arguing that it should be possible to completely prevent people from knowing what apps you use. And that's fine, but app install visibility is one of Facebook's less flagrant privacy violations when you look at the whole picture.
There is no general solution, of course. Every city is different, and cities in the USA are very different from the cities in Europe, and so on.

I'd like for the public transit to be seen more as a public service than just another private business. After all, transportation is a vital part of the city, and something that the local authorities simply have to manage somehow. It also affects every other aspect of the city life.

I believe that the actual question should be much more like "how would you like to your city look like?"

To offer some "solution". I'd try to abolish the fares. I'd try to reduce maximum velocities for the cars, make more one-way lanes, narrow some other lanes, and so on. I'd try to bring new development into the brownfields inside the city (every city has them). But, there is no general Solution for everything. After all, it's not a fight between public transit and individual cars, but aim should be to provide the best service for the lowest price (to bring that viewpoint here too).

And after all, things will simply change with the time :-) I expect, one day, that all those disgusting highways around and inside the cities will turn into parks or something similar, as the old city walls from the middle-ages did. :-)
The look and feel of the landing page, the woman's photo, and the GUI screenshot give me the first impression that this is some type of professional audio software (like Audition).

Keep in mind, though, that I'm not in your target audience, which appears to be gamers.
The problem with that is twofold. First, the Wii doesn't support absolute 3d positioning. So it can't map an in game object 1:1 with the controller. From there, it is left looking at your acceleration data and then after the fact matching it to a predetermined set and playing the move. It becomes a weak substitute for pressing a button.

The second one is how to handle tactile feedback. Ideally, when your sword hits another sword, you'd want the player's sword to stop. You might be able to vibrate as a cue to stop moving, but hard to say how that would work. You could work around it by having the on-screen character tween back to the real-life position after a period of time, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.

Long way to go before you can sword fight realistically in a game.
Many wild plants are bitter while being perfectly edible - pokeweed, for example, is widely eaten despite being rather bitter without preparation (it is still edible even raw, I've munched on it often when hiking as a teen). Others are perfectly tasty while being poison, some will just make you sick, but wild almonds are supposed to taste like domestic ones, but have enough cyanide to kill a child outright.
There are also a lot of new ways to make money now.

10$ a month for a high-speed WiFi access on all trains and busses would be a no brainer for many people.

While it would cost more (and annoy people who want free access) you could also do the same thing with power outlets.
> When you say "someone else" in this sentence, you have to mean someone different.

I mean someone not part of the cultural, language or national grouping.

> I disagree. I believe someone with a different skin color or a different culture would fight for me and protect my rights

That may be a nice sentiment, but historically this has not happened (you also conflate skin colour with ethnic, cultural and language identity). Probably the best example where “other people” did not fight for a certain group’s rights is language rights.

In Eastern Europe, many Russians are finding their language and identity marginalised.

Tibet is another example where the majority does not protect the language, religious and cultural rights of a minority.

Other historic examples are the Basque in Spain, Pigmies in the DRC, Tamils in Sri Lanka, people of Chinese ancestry in Malaysia, Kurds in Turkey, etc…
#1. It's based on posts, and who the hell posts from the admin account?
Agree with most other guys here. What is it? I have no clue what this program/service is and I'm not gonna download it and figure it out. Some clarity on the front page is needed without doubt. I think the site looks cool so I don't think a change of color is needed.
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Depending on climate either shelter or water is the most urgent. Most people can go weeks to months without food if they must.
They should promote them as stackable too. Imagine these developer cubes filling a warehouse.
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I am not sure what exactly the original poster is referring to but the main feature of svn that git can’t do is treat each directory as its own repository.

So if you make a repository like:

src/
libs/
my_debug_lib/
my_core_lib/
etc/

In svn someone can checkout libs/my_debug_lib and treat that as its own repository (ignoring the directories above that level).

A secondary thing is “externals”. With svn you can add another repository as a directory. Git has submodules, but it is not the same and more cumbersome (for example each time the remote repository is updated, you need to perform a local commit to bring your reference up to date with the remote).

I guess a third svn feature is file properties.
Understood.

However, when making a comparison it's generally safer to take into account the context of what you are comparing. In this case the effort, both private and public needs to be presented within the backdrop of what exactly is happening.

Because as you analyze the effort and its accompanying effectiveness you're also going to have to put that effort in context. If in Haiti there are X number of injured people treated and in Katrina there were Y number, how do you establish a direct comparison? Like what percentage is Y in relation to total injured? How's X compare to that?

You can go down the list, and you'll eventually have to come to quantifying the catastrophic event in order to put the response in perspective and measure its effectiveness.
A caution here is that some fish, especially in tropical areas, are poisonous. Any mammal or bird can be eaten, some reptiles are poisonous though - box turtles, for example, can retain poisons absorbed from their food.
How is this different from Lustre (lustre.org) ?
Ok, that's absolutely not true in the tech world. I was chatting with some friends that also speak frequently to developer-centric audiences and we were all commiserating how hard it is to get basic necessities when speaking - it's a challenge finding conferences that will pay for a hotel room, let alone actually pay you to speak at the conference. Really the only time you can ever expect to get paid to speak is if you're doing training or a workshop - conferences are a complete wash.
If you're saying that markets do not move on information alone and then several sentences later saying that serious investor _do_ let this type of information affect them? Looks suspiciously like self contradiction.

And I'll bet the WSJ has always done this. Pick up an issue from 1950 and see if it isn't tying current news stories to the market. It was the same then.

This seems to me to be another version of "things were so much better way back when and now it's all garbage"

But I'll bow out. I didn't RTA. Just found your comments popular yet (to me) seemingly uninformed.
Thanks Davide! If there are any specific numbers you'd be interested in seeing, let me know.

Like I said - we have usage data from 30+ million users and 1+ billion downloads. What kind of questions would you ask if you had that data?
md5, sha, blowfish, bcrypt... name your pick. i didn't mention a specific algorithm. either way, you're still not saving the password to a database.
Sure, it all depends on what's most important to you. The important thing to realize is that the art/not-art distinction is completely fabricated -- everyone means something different when they say "art."
Hmm, nobody mentions eating the insects or digging for grubs but I've seen this done on "Man vs. Wild".
>If they're all gone, then they would have been safe.

WRONG. Birds can eat a lot of things that would make you very sick.
No, they just don't work very well.
Is it just me or does it look an awful lot like the firefox logo?
There are a lot of books with this advice in them. It could even have been cribbed from my Boy Scout Handbook from back in the 1970s.
What's odd to me is that the OP sued them, won, is offended by what they did... But won't reveal any of the company names, or executive names.

That seems like it would be the most effective way to keep them from doing this again.
As I've posted elsewhere, the project to support Python 3 on Parrot is Pynie. Its repository is: http://bitbucket.org/allison/pynie/

You can see the entire list of languages supported and in development on Parrot at: http://www.parrot.org/languages
They're in the Amazon, not Soviet Russia.
Unfortunately the public domain concept is not recognized in all countries. If you wish for your software to be truly available in these nations you will still need to apply some sort of copyright license, no matter how liberal.
I think it's more of an explicit "just because it's free doesn't mean it sucks" policy. Most organizations need to learn that lesson and it's much quicker to have the head of the org communicate it than to wait for the IT people to convince everyone above them in the chain.
In general, science hasn't been as reproducible as one would like it to be, there's so much tacit knowledge that's necessary for experiments, many unknown variables, so many demonstrations are so complicated that hardly anyone even goes through the motions. In general there are many more people writing in detail than there are people read and understand, many more people focusing on some narrow branch of their discipline than there are people with genuinely strong interest and understanding of the fundamentals.

My point, primarily, is that the danger of people using tools that they don't understand is an old one; possibly worsened by the narrow focus of modern science, and how easy computing tools have made simulations. But it's been here all along.

As far as sticking your nose into sciences, your nose is invited into any domains of knowledge of mine, but do keep your voice down: there are too many people making too many bold pronouncements without real knowledge; persistent, diligent, and quiet questioning seem to be much more effective at getting the heart of the matter.
How would new people get known? HN is a great place for that.
I didn't read every word on the site, and I had similar comprehension problems.

I think it's some kind of voip conference-room alternative with plans for a darth vader voice changing button.

Maybe it's like gotomeeting but with an audio quality like google chat, and for video games.

Also, this:

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-8076995-sexy-headphon...

threw me off. The headphones are very confusing.
There's the blog post that goes along with the visualization [1] (although the server appears to be pretty slow right now). It's not so much about the data, but how the graphing framework itself works. Pretty interesting stuff.

[1] http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2009/10/31/visualizing-his...
Honestly, SAT scores vs. Performance is the type of (mostly bad) research I am talking about. The SAT is not designed to test math ability. It's focus is on how likely a student is to finish their freshman year of college and it does that fairly well. You can do a lot of useless research in this area and it tells you next to nothing. If you want to predict a highschool students ability in advanced collage math classes you could design a test that did that. But, people have easy access to SAT data so that's what they look at.

If you want to see real and useful research look into how long the optimal study period. There are significant and useful study’s which suggest 2 hours of nonstop instruction is less useful than two one hour periods with a moderate break in-between. Yet how many collage lectures follow this approach.
I saw a show on monkeys once where a species of monkeys discovered that by eating the wood charcoal from nearby villages they could eat more of a plant that was normally somewhat toxic to them, the charcoal acting as a filter for the toxin.
Just wanted to give a bit of feedback on the attorney situation (I am not a lawyer - my wife is an employment and labor attorney).

Lawyers working on a contingency basis on what is likely a fairly small matter are going to put as little time into it as they can. You'd be surprised (or maybe not) how little there is in a case like this, a few letters and memos that they likely bust out in their free time. Unless your damages are significant expect a few hiccups in the road.

Also your state bar is usually a good resource to start when looking for attorneys (here's CA's). Also with the glut of attorneys out there (my wife, sister, cousin and the best man at my wedding are all attorneys) are usually great places to start when looking for recommendations. For example I had a friend with a small business who was dealing with a lawsuit who went to my wife's firm for help (through my wife) they were too expensive but were more then willing to recommend a smaller firm - and the smaller firm was more then happy to help (and kicked ass).

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_generic.jsp?cid...
No, the government can't limit speech in the same manner as a private individual. See Pickering vs Board of Education; it was not permissible to sanction Pickering (a teacher) for his speech (as a citizen) criticizing the Board of Ed. They could only sanction him if he criticized the board of ed while carrying out his teaching duties (which he didn't).

Similarly, if my students criticize me during class, I can say "shut up unless you want to talk about linear algebra." If they criticize me on ratemyprofessor.com or in the hallway, I'm out of luck.

Google, however, can fire their employees even for complaining about Marisa in a bar.

As for whether students should be permitted to shout "nigger" out their window, the answer should not change if they should "asslicker" out the window. The government can ban shouting out the window, they just can't ban shouting certain things but not others. They can even ban fighting words (shouting strong insults at a specific person) as long as they do so in an all-or-nothing manner (they can't ban "nigger" but not "asslicker").
Assuming the data was some sort of financial time series then that means lots of people already have the data (or something close enough to it). So even though he can't publish the data he can say what the data is and when and how it was collected and that should be enough for most people in the field reproduce the results.
Very true. He was probably confusing Open Source with Public Domain there.

I also don't like how the article speaks about financial benefit. I mean, that's more the smaller part of the benefit you get. Oh well..
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Right, I got the feeling that there were some common use cases, especially around gaming. I'd like for those to be spelled out explicitly. The copy is very heavy on features of the product but could use a lot more copy about me, the potential user. What will I use it for? How will my life be better?
I've always wondered how that would shake out. My guess is that roads are subsidized more per trip but less per mile than transit, because road networks are huge and trips are long but drivers pay for the vehicle and labor. I have no doubt that car trips cost more because drivers pay for their own vehicles but the economic advantages of point to point travel are tremendous and generally worth it in a society that's wealthy enough to afford cars and doesn't have parking congestion problems.