skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately it's not up to you or the vast majority of people to decide what is or isn't a waste of time for me or anyone else.
If it wasn't for a lot of people investing significant chunks of their lives in something they were passionate about there would be no systems at all today.
Bullshit. If somebody broke UI rules in as brilliant a way as Cummings did it, Apple would accept the app. Meanwhile, publishing companies reject poets with shitty punctuation every day. The fact that Cummings was published has a lot to do with the fact that his punctuation was awesome. (Also, Cummings wrote more typical sonnets before he started experimenting, so there was precedent.)

If you want to be experimental, be it online. Nobody can deny access to your HTML5 creations. In fact, Apple's one of the biggest pushers of compliant modern web browsing.
Power in the street = muscle

Power in politics = money

Power in physics = watts

Power in computer science = FLOPS

Different meanings for different contexts.
It's not that it's unserious, it's that parts of it were clearly written to get a rise out of people. Maybe "flamebait" is a better term.
Is any of that so remarkable that we should presume catch23 doesn't know?

A charitable response would help catch23 understand what's different about this one problem from what we can sensibly presume as common experience - not Sun Java, JVM trig functions.
The headline was a bit off -- the document was about Oracle's overall technology strategy w.r.t. the Sun acquisition.
Strange. I can't image running heel-to-tow on any distance. While I usually walk heel-to-tow -- running this way just feels painful. By landing on the front part my muscles act like a spring upon impact. I find mid-foot strikes barely acceptable.

Edit: Re-read the article. I guess I just ran in cheap "minimal footwear" all my life. Now is this a good or a bad thing?
If they've blogged about it, it's highly likely they are well in to the development phase this feature. Second, the challenge in most features is in implementing it on their infrastructure in a scalable manner. Scalable implementation on Google infra is their core competency. I find it hard to believe they would want/need to talk to you about their core competency.

It appears that you are alluding to the recently-announced ability of Google Reader to track pages which don't have an RSS feed.

We're talking about a company which came up with an ultra-efficient way to send program updates (which involved disassembling an EXE, custom diffing considering jmp offsets, followed by reassembly).

Could you explain what unique unreproducible technology you have which Google might be interested in?

Best case scenario I foresee is a tiny "employment by acquisition" deal, if you can charm the right people. Good luck!
Is a h.264 license more expensive than the extra bandwidth that would be necessary for Theora?
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? [video]
This makes me wonder what may end up being the "auto worker" job in 2035? Software/web development? University teachers? How do you even prepare for such an eventuality?
This is also a reminder that for those struggling during this recession, it would go a long way if those who are not reached out to help. That way we don't need to rely on ever more inefficient gov't programs trying to help. Private charity is good for the giver and receiver (most of the time).
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That thing just looks depressing.
I'm fairly decent with Java, so I guess working with java libraries shouldn't be a problem.
http://vimperator.org/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891
A couple of recent HN threads about barefoot running:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082153

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056665
read about STM

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/10/05/the-cambrian-period-of...

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.h...

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/36_Click_fastbcs.pdf
> No low gluten diet, Jenny McCarthy BS,

I wouldn't link a low gluten diet with "Jenny McCarthy BS". My wife teaches autistic children and she told me that all the children, not most, all children in the classroom have had improvement when put on low gluten diets.

I don't pretend to be as close to the issue as you, but you would be wise not to dump on an issue just because it didn't work for you:)
I would be ok with this nonsense if it were a debate but it really isn't. It's science on one side and hysteria on the other. One side says show us the evidence! The other side points to dozens of papers showing no link whatsoever. The other side doesn't say anything and then goes to another tv show and says show us the evidence!

It's ridiculous but it sure does teach you a lot about herd mentality.
I have as basic a setup as a dual monitor can be. A laptop connected to a second display, http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png

With this Ubuntu will,

1. Get the initial display order wrong 50% of the time, (The monitor which was on the left will be on right on next startup.)
2. Wont get the the larger monitor to display in its full area, if I plug the second monitor and enable it to already running laptop, some part of display area will be blank.

Admittedly, both of these are possibly fixable via modifying xorg.conf, but if I boot to windows, it gets it right, every time, without any modifications. :(
The true scandal was the championing of the original story by the UK and worldwide media. If it had been reported responsibly and not sensationalised hardly anyone would have heard about the supposed link between vaccines and autism - read Ben Goldacre for a good discussion - http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax.
I dare to bet that the Chinese will be the first to put a human on Mars: They have something to prove and being second on the moon just doesn't cut it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_sale

Wikipedia has a very nice description, if you look up sample sale.

Sample sales are used by retail businesses in order to discard excess merchandise. Sometimes these samples have been used by agencies to sell products that they will distribute to local vendors. Sample sales are often associated with the fashion industry. These sales are an opportunity to get near perfect merchandise at a fraction of the price. It is often difficult to have information on the date and time of sample sales, although there are websites which list information about sample sales in on line diaries. They are also used to draw in new clients, hoping that the new people will return to the company's store and buy more merchandise. While many sample sales pop in various locations in NYC, there are a [very small] handful of companies that have a permanent location. Clothingline.com is the longest running sample sale company in New York City.

Recently, a number of new online businesses have emerged that offer the sample sale concept to an online audience. Well-established in Europe with the original creator of online private sales, vente-privee.com[citation needed], this trend moved to the United States in 2007 with the launch of companies such as Savvy + Co., Gomatta Girls, Editors' Closet, Beyond the Rack, RueLaLa, Gilt Groupe and Ideeli. These businesses offer access to those living outside of the traditional sample sale markets of New York and Los Angeles the same access to designer fashions at 'sample sale' prices.
Since there is an infinite number of licensees, yes, definitely yes.
They wouldn't attack an inferior species. (At least I hope so.)
I wouldn't consider my safety razor, or a cut-throat, as disposable though.
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I agree. It seems like a lot of functionality was sacrificed to try to make it look like a shed.
Interesting. How do they deal with regulatory capture?
I found this comment to be most helpful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503
The funny thing is, the problem auto workers face isn't exactly new to America. I remember when there were massive auto plant layoffs in the 1980's, yet new people must have been going into that line of work.
I'm confused but happy, because your "pessimized Twofish" is basically bcrypt, which is inherently "salted".
I have a 30 inch at home, it is awesome, I like to use it in addition to my laptop screen. I run firefox on the laptop screen emacs on the big screen. When you move to a large screen, window management become even more problematic. Fitt's law falls apart at 2560x1600.

I recently moved to stumpwm, and I have been having a blast. Stumpwm is a tiling window manager written in Common Lisp. I tried xmonad and awesome, but stumpwm just made more sense to me. I think that all of the tiling window managers are a bit clunky now, but they have a lot of potential.

The next time I see 30 inch screens for less than $900 on outlet.dell.com I plan to buy 2 and mount them in portrait mode.
Personally, i'm waiting for:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/samsung-and-ati-team-on-s...

6 x 30" (2560x1600) for $3,100 seems like an amazing bargain.
Ask HN: What's the difference here?  (HP and Apple multitouch)
Or maybe the culprit is a corollary of Moore’s Law, the idea of exponential advances in technology over time. That might suggest that innovation and automation displace more and more workers by the time each recession rolls around.

This is also Marshall Brain's thesis in Robotic Nation:

http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

In the broadest terms, automation and computerization increase productivity, which means fewer people are needed to do the same amount of work. Conventional wisdom holds that new jobs will be created for displaced workers, but it's as yet unclear what those new jobs might be.
Really, why is it that this:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/index.h...

caused so much less of a splash than this?

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

It's a given that Apple is better at marketing. But what else? I can envision doing some serious work on the HP devices.
Google seeks DNS protocol extension to boost Web performance
Why Mahalo (and Other Content Scrapers) Render Google's Spam Team Flaccid
"Web development" quite possibly. However, one of the reasons I chose my career in programming oh-so-long-ago is that I don't forsee the end of programming coming for a long time. Or, if you prefer, "automation".

Our level of abstraction that we operate at may rise ever higher and someday we may all be programming nanobots instead of "computers", but until full and true human-level AI comes along there will always be a need for programmers to be programming something, and while I doubt the nanobots will be programmed in Java there will still be significant carry-over from current skills. And sort of tying into the recent discussion about how the iPad is for "everybody else" who isn't a programmer, the idea that everybody will want to be programmers or will be programmers is clearly false. The iPad is apparently forcing some people to face up to that.

And since "full and true human-level AI" is basically the Singularity, I haven't tried to plan my career past that on the grounds that it's totally impossible to make plans.
If we end up forming a union against all odds then yeah it could happen to software developers.

Right now software development is highly skilled labor that charges a high premium for the service. If the demand drops then wages will drop accordingly and less people will get into the field over time. Right now the software market is largely a free one so it can correct itself naturally as demand changes.
Now there's an idea for healthcare reform: pay doctors the months that you're healthy, and not when you're sick.
Right, I don't agree with this one either. He suggests sending your Linkedin profile. I actually attach a PDF export of my Linkedin bio (formatted much like a resume.) I'm sure a startup doing hiring doesn't want to spend a bunch of time logging into Linkedin and browsing through profiles until something interesting enough comes up to warrant further digging.
http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm

A carefully designed study,

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

rather than anecdotes, doesn't support a conclusion that gluten-free diets are helpful for autism. Nonetheless, the study reports,

http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm

"even after being informed of these disappointing results, some parents opted to keep their child on the GfCf diet."

Patient human interaction with autistic children does seem to be helpful, and my cheers to anyone who is providing that.
I was at CES this year and those monitors were amazing. We asked when they were going to be released the Samsung guy said later this year.
Quiz: What were the first products from today's biggest tech companies?
Use Webadmin to monitor Rails "delayed job" processes (or anything)
How do you define "cloud computing"?
One thing Congress could do immediately is cut the minimum wage. It is now at $7.25 per hour. This is a price control on labor. You can't make a worker's $5.00/hour skills magically worth $7.25.

They could also make it cheaper for small businesses to hire people. That $7.25/hour labor really costs $14.50.
I am just as tired about the persistence of iPad stories everyone else. That being said, what CEO in competition with Apple is going to say they were impressed.
CQuery is directly colliding with Yahoo's YQL (http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/, look for "CSS Selectors"), which was there loooooong before cquery.com was even registered.

Idea about "tracking changes on pages" was there for ages. For ex. http://searchenginewatch.com/3574636 (Jan 2006)

You won't convince Google to change anything. It's still "Go" language despite huge PR coverage and years and books behind other "Go" language.
I was just about to post that link but you beat me to it. It's more than a little unfair that Wakefield is being blamed for the MMR scare when the mainstream media in the UK did everything they could to fan the flames yet remain for the most part innocent
You never listen to mp3s while surfing the internet?
The iPad has Adobe's Flash on Apple's video
Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer
I think many colleges will indeed disappear. It's only natural that the college bubble will burst as the number of 4 year colleges has exploded in the last 50 years. But I think universities will be relatively safe; at least the big, prestigious ones.

Universities only partially exist because of education. Most of the hiring is done based on research, and a lot of the funding comes from grants. Yes, part of the money comes from the students. But the movement of the Ivies towards needs-blind admittance in addition to grant-only financial aid (i.e. no loans) means it doesn't matter as much as it does to other universities. And of course, the Ivies have that intangible and resilient allure of prestige. The upper class will always pay for that.
Why Hurd?
There's always JavaScript.
that's not a comment that's the Iliad and Odyssey of cloj tutorials
I agree... the open-source idealist in my likes the open-source stipulation, but I think the prize should be an order of magnitude higher.
What is that technology in the wall in the last picture?
I do not know if you're being funny or not, because there is indeed a study of the minimum raw energy requirements for a given computation in our universe[1], so it is technically possible to rate the amount of computation something requires in terms of joules or your choice of energy unit. So I don't know if you know of this and are confused, or if you're trying to make a bad joke/pun on "power" (seems to be lolcraft's theory). Since there is a serious angle to your post, deliberate or otherwise, a serious answer:

Because encryption difficulties tend to scale exponentially as you add bits, it is relatively easy to make encryption that brute forcing would require more energy than exists in the known universe. As big as the Universe is, exponential is "bigger".

That's why even now the real problem is algorithms that have something far more clever than "brute force" available; we could already guarantee that even a post-Singularity adversary can't brute force our encryption (assuming they don't get new physics to play with), what we can't guarantee is that such an intelligence couldn't find a far more practical attack.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
Wow, that's really thorough. Thanks for digging it up, I didn't find it in my own search of HN.
Firstly, the low gluten thing, if it didn't start with Andrew Wakefield (the guy getting once again slated for his unprofessional and fraudulent behaviour), it became big because of him

Second, reviews of the evidence show no evidence of a link, and suggest that the weird diets can actually be causing harm.

So feel free to dump on this issue.
I agree, that would be a bad idea. I should have read the original more carefully.
The problem is not with vaccination - but the amount of vaccines (which is getting pretty ridiculous).
Well, the good news is that this paper is old, and bcrypt is readily available for most languages, including Ruby, Python and Java (and of course C).
From the submitted article that opened this thread:

"The Lancet itself said in 2004 that in hindsight it shouldn't have published the paper, following publication of a retraction by 10 co-authors on the paper."

The Lancet editor commented on the 2004 retraction that the Lancet needed to change its editorial policies, which I think has happened since.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC381161/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086458
Would be interested to hear your take on Django+CouchDB - are you using a library like Couchdbkit, or rolling your own? Are you connecting it to the built-in admin?
Even if they sell it at 2x that, it'll still be cheaper and potentially more capable than the iPad.
They did address that: the sheds can be arranged in little neighborhoods to facilitate comms.
I can't even imagine how to make this commercially viable. Even if they reach breakeven, I can't imagine a process that would take less than a minute to reset the reactor for the next run, given the incredible precision necessary with the target, and I suspect my "minute" is grotesquely optimistic.

I guess what this goes to show is that "breakeven" itself isn't even all that interesting. "Commercially viable" is what we are looking for. Here's hoping Polywell works out. Vaguely promising signs seem to be coming from the project but it's hard to see much detail through the Navy classification.
I think marketing and a focused message. With the iPad, you know Apple is going to iterate until it gets the experience right. As a consumer and developer, you're willing to invest your time to learn the product or develop applications for it. With HP, you're not sure if it's a novelty item that they'll cut next quarter.
Exactly! Many people don't want to accept the reality. We have been enjoying a really high standard of living which we can't really afford. But now we have to perfect storm and people don't want to accept that they won't be able to buy a 50in TV or a new car every 3 years.
It is commonly accepted wisdom that the higher quality job you pursue the longer your job search will be; this makes sense as the matching problem becomes much more difficult.

Therefore the more skilled the labor force the longer time "between jobs" is going to be optimal from the job seekers perspective; it's worth it to get the match right.

I'll let you make your own conclusions on what this implies for the percentage unemployment rate after recessions.
in the whole thing about Obama wanting to clip NASA's wings and push privatization of space travel, no one seems to be asking the obvious question: what if there IS no way to run a profitable business around human space travel / going to the moon? Or, what if it's going to require another 50 or 100 years of technological advances by government space programs before that becomes commercially viable? Even if you are for commercialization of space travel, you ought to be against what Obama wants to do here, because it's possible we could be pushing the commercial human space travel baby bird out of the nest 50 years too soon and shooting the mother.
The Lancet is a widely respected and peer reviewed medical journal. It's hard to impeach or blame them, they're going to get a few things wrong. This particular article was one of their most controversial and severely criticized. It may be one of The Lancet's poorest moments.
Man that's frustrating.

I'm in the same boat as the other poster in this subthread, nvidia all the way and that may be why it works so well.

You may want to specify your PCI devices in the xorg.conf instead of leaving it to auto detection, that is one way to lock things down.
You forgot doing all that while listening to mp3s and driving a 60" tv as a second monitor showing a movie.
It may not be fair to critique aesthetics, since they're blogging the first one they ever built, and they're purposely leaving some of the aesthetics up to the occupants. Remember, "if you're not embarassed by v1, you shipped too late".
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Ah. I drilled down and found the original article.
And your point of view is that people who are passionate about hacking are obsessive-compulsive with an antisocial attitude. Nice one!
My point of view is that you really hate the fact that the people you've always regarded as losers because of their introverted nature can play the technology game better than you. Your only hope now is for the rules to change to your advantage.
Interesting article - thank you. The comments are especially enlightening, demonstrating that people can't express themselves clearly, and can't read what others have written. Thus they go around in ever decreasing circles, with the occasional bright spot.

<sigh>

Other submissions here on a similar theme:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070604

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071734

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086556

(edited after reading more of the comments)
PBKDF2 uses HMAC. What's the issue here? A PRF seems the right tool for this particular problem, and HMAC happens to be a PRF that has well understood properties.
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Just as a quick counterpoint, I'm using an ATI card for dual monitors on my desktop, and have an nvidia card in my laptop. I find Ubuntu's monitor settings app easier to use than nvidia-settings (though both get the job done) and the ATI drivers more stable.

The ubuntu configuration app has evolved significantly in the past two years; connecting multiple monitors on ubuntu is now about as easy as doing the same on Windows.
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This is already the case with the iPhone vs. iPod Touch.
Unions like minimum wage too much for that to happen. They've historically used minimum wages to try to drive up wage rates for their members.
> If that is worth a tax of 8-9$/month will vary between users.

And between teenagers who may or may not have access to dad's credit card, or between countries who may or may not have access to that program ;)

This also means that a user won't be able to install some software with a single click ... he'll have to first go through the registration process, with a valid credit-card, and some time on his hands.

I really don't know why people try to downplay this. If this model gets popular (and it already is to some extent because of the iPhone) ... devs and many regular users simply get proper fucked.