skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be frickin' awesome if GPU access became standard for Javascript through a standard API (OpenCL?). A COMPLETE Flash-killer.
Old School Soul Music Is So Awe Inspiring
Soul music never stops attracting more fans. Today soul music has become one of the most popular music genres throughout the world. The music industry makes a lot of business through soul music. Many new soul musicians are coming into the industry to add more beauty to this genre of music and to keep soul music live. However, it has to be accepted that today what we have as soul music has come a long way from where it started. It has also adapted to the modern day music in subtle ways without losing the essence.
The Forfeiture Racket
That was pretty much it. That and the idea, mentioned elsewhere, that when something is wrong it just has to be fixed. She's my wife, I know she's a smart lady and has every potential of doing this well. If I could just show her a better way, how wonderful the world would be.

Well, that's the theory anyway.
I think we're talking about different parts of 'open.'

I'm taking about access (sanctioned and encouraged), for regular users. Basically, the front end. In the backend, low level stuff these things take on a different meaning. You're probably right about the business decision.

In the sense that I'm talking about, Android or ChromeOs may be closed. I'm probably using the wrong words and being confusing, but I think there is a relevancy here.
Heh, I grew up in the days after they renamed it "peach" but somehow independently figured out that was the closest they had to caucasian skin color so I used it. Or if I didn't have that crayon I'd just draw black people.
I thought at first that the article was sarcastic :-| I mean, what's taking time is not whether you use ruby python or c++ but the http request, request to the DB, IO or javascript loading..

And anyway, the part that really need to be optimized can still be done in C even if you use python.

There was a time I was a C++ guy who wanted to control memory and everything.. but now, I've got other things to do. If I can write 1 line that is more readable and cost less to type, why should I use C++ ?

And by the way, C++ isn't a verbose python. And, even if I once thought that boost was the best thing ever made, I feel that it's a waste of time. Instead of using meta-programming hacks to use lambda in a clumpsy/ugly way, why not simply use python or scheme ?
That wasn't my point -- the impression was that questions get marked as answered as soon as you've read it and either replied or picked an existing answer. While you may be the sheriff, judge, jury, and executioner of your product; you aren't the arbiter of the asker's mind. There's a reason none of the existing systems work this way: not even YA or SO fucked this up when cloning Ask Metafilter.

I checked back and it looks like you've refrained from insta-answering discussion questions where you're having a back-and-forth.

I think a much better model would be to make the answered flag normally asker-only, or do away with it all together.

Instead add a [staff] flag on questions that staff have answered in, and when you think a normal user has already answered the question effectively (with or without approval from the asker), you should explicitly call out their answer as good (which then causes the [staff] flag to be added).
Poll: Is paper outdated?
In light of the iSlate (or whatever it is going to be called), do you think the paper is dead/will be dead this time tomorrow?
http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg82811.html

Setting the HPA (immediately after secure erase) ensures that some LBAs always remain unallocated and should give the GC more candidate erase blocks to work with, increasing random write performance. Or at least that's how I understand it.
I don't have any experience with it, but I'm under the impression that MSVC / C++.net has all the goodies you'd need to do the easy frontend stuff also?
My first SSD (first gen X25-M) died in ~9 months. Still not sure if it was the controller or just mass failure of the flash mem. Either way Intel sent a new one in just a few days.
Understand that, but my other blog (http://www.jeffmould.com) has not been indexed either. Ironically, the Program Manager for Bing's Webmaster Central acknowledges there is an issue ina thread he created on their forums. He is working with site owners to get their sites in the Bing engine. From what I understand from reading his responses and looking at other threads is that Bing only naturally indexes sites that have numerous backlinks already in place. The mystery is exactly how many backlinks they are looking for before indexing the site.
Pay them more, and offer a promotion path, and you will get better candidates.
The fact that very little of the kernel isn't

A> Drivers
or
B> Ports to new systems

Makes this not surprising in the slightest

--An ex-"paid kernel developer"
As the adage goes, "The plural of anecdote is not data."

Neither you nor your parent have any statistical basis for your estimates. As of early this month [1], there are over 100,000 applications in the app store. If 1% were rejected, that means that 1,010 apps were rejected. Your two apps could easily fall into that category.

Basically, all we can know is that many apps get accepted, but not all of them do. Any more clarity than that requires Apple's intervention (which I don't expect to see any time soon).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Number_of_launched_ap...
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Well, yeah, we'd need an emulator :)
I just drank a couple of Pliny the Elders with my neighbor, and now I read this. My head is definitely spinning now.
A good way to end or reduces these geek mannerisms: Dale Carnegie's "How to Make Friends and Influence People"
No, a little is worse because secondary particles are worse than primary. The best thing to do when caught in a solar event beyond the van Allen belts is to hunker down behind a big thick shield; Heinlein covered this in Podkayne of Mars.
"Hashed page table"; it controls virtual memory mappings. See Power ISA Book III-S 5.7.7.

http://www.power.org/resources/downloads/PowerISA_V2.06_PUBL...
> I thought at first that the article was sarcastic

This article definitely is sarcastic.
I highly doubt Microsoft will switch to cash purchases. That way, they need to transition into a more paypal-like system, with more regulation.

With points, no currency is actually changing hands. With money, it becomes more complicated.
Facebook quietly begins rolling out apps and games dashboards
Ex-IBM exec tries to reboot U.S. patent office
I love you guys, but there is something to be said for using words like other people in the industry use the words.

The first time I noticed this was wrapping my head around funnels, which is a subject I'm fairly deeply experienced with. The three magic words in that documentation are funnel, step, and goal. In every other analytics tool I've ever encountered, the word "goal" is synonymous with conversion: somebody went through the funnel and reached a result which was positive for the business. In Mixpanel, goal does not mean goal. Goal apparently means "step name": for example, the first goal of the seven step funnel that represents the core interaction for my website is the Dashboard goal. The second goal is the new card goal. The third goal is... you get the general picture. This breaks my brain every time I directly touch the API or docs. I wrapped it in my own API and try not to think about it too much.

That is the prelude to me saying: your A/B tests are something potentially wonderful, but they're not A/B tests. You're going to suffer an impedance mismatch when explaining them to anyone who knows what they're doing in testing because when you say the words "A/B test" we're going to think of something else.

An A/B test involves:

1) A user interacting with an element which is subject to the test. An element can be almost anything: a design feature, a bit of copy, an entire checkout workflow, whatever.

2) The user being randomly assigned into one of two groups and shown the appropriate variation on the element.

3) The user does some stuff.

4) Hopefully, the user converts.

5) You compare the propensity for conversion among the populations of users in each test group to see which performed better.

The solution you have delivered is different than A/B tests in many ways:

1) It does not randomly partition users into groups. That is, presumably, something your customers have to do prior to firing an event with the property (or super-property -- I forget what you call it) testWhatever: "alternativeA".

2) A/B tests are cool not because A and B are cool letters but because they make statistical significance testing really easy, so that if alternative A has 20% more conversions than alternative B you can quickly tell whether that is solid evidence that A is indeed better or merely a possible artifact of random variation. Your testing feature does not implement significance testing.

3) There would normally be some halfhearted bow in the general direction of independence at this point (we mostly gloss over that and hope people forget stats 101 since, in practice, just wishing this requirement away tends to actually work acceptably) but the entire point of your stats feature is, as far as I can tell, taking the independence notion and beating it black or blue or purple and then seeing how that choice of color interacts with six other things.

Again: I like the feature. I think that given an hour or two I will probably even be able to do something with it that will eventually make me money. But if you try to communicate this as A/B testing you're going to cause a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I think there are various levels of "badness" when it comes to theft:

1) When you steal your neighbour's car, that's the worst because you're completely depriving your neighbour of the exclusive use and enjoyment of their property.

2) When you copy a digital product that your neighbour has created, and then sell it for profit without paying royalties, then that's pretty bad, but less bad than 1). Your neighbour can still sell / use their works but you have deprived him/her of exclusivity in selling their works.

3) When you copy your neighbour's digital product for your own enjoyment, then you are depriving your neighbour of a potential sale. Still bad, but less bad than 1) and 2). It's only when everyone does it and your neighbour loses all their potential sales does it become as bad as 1), i.e. tragedy of the commons.

I'm not at all suggesting that reproducible digital products are public goods, but they share some similar characteristics in the context of piracy that I think are interesting, namely non-rivalness and non-excludability. And as mentioned before, a tragedy of the commons scenario occurs when everyone (or lots of people) engage in piracy, just like what happens when all fishermen over-fish a lake.

This obviously suggests that some kind of regulation is needed, which I suppose is the point of copyright laws. But what I'd like to know are the economic effects of piracy, for example:

What is the "piracy elasticity of demand"? In other words, how does demand for a product change as piracy levels change? Obviously as piracy levels approach 100%, the demand would be near zero, but what are the changes between 0 to 100%. Of interest is if there are any "sweet spot" levels of piracy where demand actually goes up.

I suspect there's a possibility that at low levels of piracy, the positive effects from things such as word-of-mouth marketing, early adoption / user familiarity (particularly in software) and try-before-buyers could offset the negative effects of lost sales. (Has anyone done this research?)

Anyway my point is that I don't think all theft is created equal, and that some kinds of theft do not dis-incentivize producers as the OP has asserted.
If He Walks Like A Ruby Developer But Talks Like A PHP Developer, What Is He?
From the article:

I gave a tongue-in-cheek talk on how C++ can fit in to a web application.
There's definitely some movements out there for a genome collaboration project:

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/health-medicine/open-sourc...
I've always wondered, even after adjusting for inflation wouldn't it make sense to adjust for population as well?

In 1939 the population of the US was only 130millon, and a large portion was rural, which meant they had poorer access to theaters. This makes the returns of Gone with the Wind that much more impressive (although of course TVs/misc. entertainment devices didn't exist, which compete against movies.)

Perhaps a good way to measure the success a of a movie would be the percentage of the population that has seen it.
Note that this is only domestic US grosses.

As a matter of personal preference I'm more interested in worldwide grosses.

(Not a US citizen)
Ending up at C++ because of design constraints is understandable... starting there is idiocy.
A Failure to Imagine the Worst
Summary: if you horribly mismanage a newspaper, you will lose readers.
tool for producing content

I wrote a four-line HN comment from my Kindle the other day, because my cell phone ran out of batteries. It was excruciating. T H E L E tters appeared one at a time with enough of a pause in between them that even with the non-standard layout of the keyboard I had queued up two sentences and then had to wait for literally 45 seconds while my Kindle caught up to me.

The thought of writing a substantive blog post on the Kindle scares me.
Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin and talks about fear of failure
I remember a moronic high school English teacher that didn't know what "umber" was and marking me down on a paper ... "burnt umber" of course being a Crayola color...
won't driving without a license plate just single you out as a celebrity then?
Thank you. I've been trying to convince people that inflation really makes the current ranking quite useless; plus that Titanic was released at a time when people didn't go to the cinema as much as today.

But of course, many people won't believe something just because it's not in print.
"because we all know it can work and that it will be faster"

Speed of execution depends more on the programmer's expertise than the language used.
The comment was by someone else, but I think he/she meant C paired with any dynamic language vs. C++ alone, not C with Lua specifically.
Sort of - I don't think that the web templates and CodeDom are there like they are for VB/C#. It's also kind of a mess going between managed and unmanaged code, which you'd be doing extensively if you want to use the System.Web namespace. Managing references on the managed heap is an extra hassle that has a fair amount of complexity. To top it all off, the support for the managed C++ extensions has been lackluster.
DIY manufacturing, open source hardware, and the New Long Tail
Yes, but the stalker/paparazzo/divorce attorney won't know which celebrity.
I doubt it takes seconds to test a hello world program in Ruby. However, to test a hello world Rails application is a different story, as you have to start up the web server, which takes seconds (even though it eventually just serves a simple page).
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/vbs/
You can call it a false assumption if you want, but the fact is, an un-jailbroken iPhone is a pretty safe device to hand to your grandmother.
I can't speak for thras, but if I can't do software development on a device, that's a pretty big problem.

I'd love to replace my netbook with sleek little tablet, but the odds of Apple selling something that runs Java, Ruby, or emacs is slim-to-none.
Hah - kids don't buy textbooks because they want to. It has nothing to do with paper pulp, and the universities are hurting for cash lately.
So, serving web pages from an embedded device? Have we finally got to the "your washing machine is on the Internet" era? :)
Keep in mind this list is only for domestic. While many films on this list came out before international distribution, Avatar has been particularly successful internationally.
Yes, at least in my case, it is so. I was approached and asked if I had an answer. Being that at times, it was part of my job description, I would come up with the best answer based on the knowledge I had at the time. Later, more information could lead me to decide I was wrong, then I would go back and explain why I was wrong and what the new "right" answer was.

At first I felt like I was being wishy-washy (changing my tune) but I later understood it as just an attempt to be right and not give out wrong information. I felt giving out wrong information and not correcting it when I found out it was wrong was breaking the "trust" relationship I had with the people involved.

Even though I am still in that type of a position and still delivering those types of answers, I now attempt to couch said answers in language that shows "this is what I currently believe, and this may change if I get contradictory information."

Also, I notice I am much pickier about correctness if I have recently been programming. My wife likes to point this out: "Oh, you're in THAT frame of mind."
That's not what the post is about. He's surprised how different C seems now to how it seemed when he was younger and new to programming.

(C would definitely not be my first choice for a compiler, though.)
Creating Cities From Scratch
Inflation. ;)
The Least That You Should Know About Programming Languages On Your Resume
Please explain the point of this link? Why is it here on HN?
How much is "not much?" How many "values?" If stored as byte strings delimited by \n, how many lines? (I don't know if these are even answerable questions at this point, just wondering.)
HN is turning into Reddit.
Here’s the Biggest Mistake You’re Going to Make…
Language {x} would be good as a next generation web app if there was web app libraries. Typically those are not {x}.
If you're the movie studio, revenue is your concern, so then it only really makes sense to adjust for inflation.

But yeah, if you want to gauge the popularity of the movie, the best measure is probably something along the lines of tickets sold per capita.
i was just watching this the other day... it's so savage
This doesn't account for the fact that Avatar on 3D IMAX costs more than an average movie. They're using $7.35 as the ticket price, not the $17 I've seen as the actual price. From the article: "Inflation-adjustment is mostly done by multiplying estimated admissions by the latest average ticket price."
So is an Android phone. You're conflating two different concepts, as I've explained. Openness leads to good security; possibly better security than being closed. We have many years of evidence of that in desktop and server systems (where Apple does not have the best security record, by a long stretch).

iPhone can have good security, and be a walled garden. But, the two are not closely related, and it's disingenuous, or at least misinformed about computer security history, to suggest that they are closely related. Open systems can have good security, and be very open. They are orthogonal issues, and I'm surprised that people here would make the mistake of believing they are the same thing.
and comments like this one (and unfortunately, mine) do not help the situation. Constructive comments, criticism and information is all we need to avoid becoming reddit.
Arel, a composable relational algebra for Ruby
DPL-N2000 HAND-HELD DRUG / NARCOTICS DETECTOR
A billion dollars of profit is still a billion dollars of profit. Adjust all ya want.
Ask HN: Paul Graham Post on disconnecting computer
This mixergy video references Paul Graham's post about disconnecting his computer from the internet in order to work: http://mixergy.com/linchpin-lizard-seth-godin/

Anyone care to share the link to Paul Graham's post?

Thanks
Australian Google row over missing Aborigine flag
There's an attempt to write a complete replacement for the OCaml standard library, actually. I know I'm not the only person who finds that deeply weird.

I think you're absolutely right about Python (and Emacs, etc.) being good enough to prevent many serious competitors.
Congress writes the laws about copyright. All of the laws about everything, in fact.
Takeaway: 300k pop. city to go from drawing board (2001) to completion (2015), planned from when it was a reclaimable mudflat 40 miles from Seoul. It's intended to be an "aerotropolis" using Incheon airport to plug it into Asia's trade routes.

They're taking advantage of the fact that it's new build to make it dense, energy efficient, and very, very heavily wired and networked as well, and the article mentions Cisco an irritating amount as the lead partner on utilities and services.

What I found most interesting was the idea that they're using the experience they've gained so far to do the same thing elsewhere, faster. The idea of building a 300k city in under a decade on 1,500 acres (6 km²) blows my mind, and if this can be done (and it can) it makes Charter Cities suddenly more believable.
I understand exactly what you mean and I started doing it at a very young age. The end result as you described is the alienation effect you described.

The other interesting thing I found is that if I deal with somebody whom I don't need to switch too much, I find it relaxing and refreshing in some sense. But sadly it doesn't happen very often.
Why you should start a company in.... Seattle
Alive, but gradually slipping towards life support.

Right now my daily habits include regular trips to Borders to browse the books for the price of a coffee. But in another year or two I expect that I will have switched to toting around some kind of tablet/ebook device to get a more flexible reading experience. I've already started feeling constrained by the selection available from a single store. I'm waiting on the technology to settle down a little, work through the early-adopter headaches, and present a really solid experience before I switch, but once I make that switch I'll have no reason to prefer Borders for coffee drinking - I could go anywhere to do my reading. I know I'm not alone in this behavior. I'll buy newspapers sometimes while I'm out, but that's about it.

Borders is already a company in trouble, and I don't see any reason for their fortunes to go up unless they make a drastic business model change to reflect the rise of e-reading. It won't be much different for other booksellers; niche literature will last for longer since they won't be digitized for a while, but mainstream publishing is about to get clobbered.

Paper for writing, sketches, and other creative tasks will stick around for a long time to come, though. I can buy a tiny pocket notebook and pencils for ~$5, and they'll continue to beat out the high-tech stuff for a good many years to come.

The "iSomethingSomething" might be that killer device, or it might wait for another generation or two. There is no "if" in my mind about the overall direction of things, though.
Not necessarily, since Cisco is a hardware/networking company, I would imagine that a lot of that data is VHDL (or some other hardware descriptor language), schematics, and even compiled binary images. They would also be storing the tools they use to build the products themselves in there (compiler, linker, assembler, etc).

I would also wager that a lot of the 15TB of data is historical in nature, a lot of that for products that aren't being made or sold anymore but for which the source code, compiled images, etc is still stored there.

Version control is not necessarily just for source code or text files, and what better place to store these extra version-specific artefacts than in the version control system.