skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solaris vs. Linux: In-depth comparison for large systems
Not to be snarky, but what is impressive about tagging your question with "SSL" - the exact keyword is in the question. No semantic analysis or NLP required - just simple keyword based entity extraction.
This makes me wonder what the conversion efficiency and price per watt for a tree is.

Trees (plants in general) already do photosynthesis really well, so why can't we genetically engineer a tree that produces electricity?
> (Is that an acceptable expression around here?)

You're new around here, so I'll explain your downvotes. It's not that a particular phrase is or is not unacceptable here, it's that your comment as a whole did not add to the discussion. Use the up arrow instead of writing a reply if you think a comment was a good contribution.
This is fun, maybe I can get my points into negative territory!
me: Why did google pay so much money for Aardvark, the company made by the mechanical zoo?
aardvark: Got it. I'm sending your question to someone who knows about Aardvark.

(Type 'tag' to fix that label, 'more' for options, or 'cancel'.)
Sent at 2:51 PM on Thursday
aardvark:
(Update: No response yet from people who know about Aardvark -- but I'm still looking. Type 'tag:' followed by a different category to try other people.)
Sent at 3:01 PM on Thursday
aardvark:
(An answer just arrived... From Derek P./28/M/Brookville,PA, Re: Aardvark)
That's what I'm trying to find out. I tend to hate services like this, that are for people too dumb to Google. ... WAIT A MINUTE?!
(To reply, type 'Derek:' followed by a message, or type 'flag' if this answer is inappropriate. Type 'more' for options.)
IllumiCharger Extracts Solar Power from Interior Lighting to Charge USB Devices
I found this interesting piece "... the update runs quietly in the background protecting your system."

Hopefully it really doesn't mean some kind of active protection eating precious resources.
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That's a good point, I was implicitly assuming that the lost power due to efficiency losses would be greater than the gained power due to cheaper costs.
A brief history of your investors (and their investors)
Another great post!!
Neutral Money Network - a business idea
>Also, please explain why you think it's important for parents to push children when they run into difficulties.

So the child can learn that the limits of their ability are beyond the limits of their self-perceived ability.

We're talking about passionately applying oneself to an activity. This does not limit the locus to recreation IMO.
Game theory is great for predicting the behavior of game theorists (see telecom auctions).
Since I can't actually respond to any of you directly (thanks HN commenting code!)... [ugh. now the reply links are there, my bad?]

It's illegal to resell beef to consumers which wasn't slaughtered at a facility with a USDA inspector. If you buy the whole animal, like bmj does, then it can be slaughtered by anyone who knows what they're doing and packed (cut and wrapped) by any competent butcher. You then cannot resell that meat (and, in fact, all of the packaging should have not for retail stamps on it).

Now, personally, having actually toured a slaughterhouse (the one in Fresno, CA), I've got no problem with them. I definitely take issue with the "enormous horrible disease-ridden" characterization. Most of the food safety problems have been artifacts of the high volume hamburger production process. If you buy steaks, or even hamburgers made by butchers from whole cuts of meat, you should be in the clear.

I was merely trying to point out, somewhat obliquely, that unless you're slaughtering an animal you own and then buying all of the cut and wrapped meat, any beef you buy in the US was slaughtered at a huge slaughterhouse. That's just the reality of the situation, and it's a combination of regulations intended to keep you safe (having a USDA inspector on site is really, really expensive) and the continued consolidation of the packing industry (enabled by the government, NIMBY organizations, environmental groups, etc).

At the same time, as an Nth generation cattle rancher (where N > 4), I don't want to discourage anyone from buying locally raised beef. ;-)
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Google boots music blogs, claiming copyright fouls
Well, I read that as "If you have that kind of sciencey/geeky mind, you'll see math everywhere - even in some dumb plastic pony".
yes true, I miss the esc key. Next release coming soon.
Like delicious your tag and suggested ones are not related (neither suggested)
Classical game theory is useful in some circumstances if correctly applied. Correct application, however, requires understanding that your opponent is not perfectly rational. This does not enter into most of the game theory exercises I've read.

On a related note, Combinatorial game theory (John Conway's study of a very restricted set of games) was described as being the most totally useless branch of mathematics. Conway was very proud of this.
I see. Thanks for letting me know.
As far as b) is concerned, it says if it can't connect to the validation server nothing happens. No penalty.

As far as a) is concerned, call customer support. It says you might be able to get it for free if you are a victim of fraud, and if not you should be able to clear it up. You can easily bypass the activation limit by calling support, so something like a false positive should be easily correctable.

I really don't see any valid excuse against this unless you pirate. And if you don't like the system for any legitimate reason, don't buy Windows.
Regulatory uncertainty: How to derail an economic recovery
Aye. Webkit's Inspector coupled with the SpeedTracer Extension for Chrome will give you even more information, and very powerful controls of filtering that information, which is the whole point, really.

And speeding up a web-site/app that is slow is always harder than building one that is fast, so better delegate that task to a pro.
Number of test-takers who fail A.P. exams is growing
IBM also said "But this is just a start. More improvements to power conversion should be possible." So now that the poc is done they can refine it and make it better.

Also I agree with @machrider its all about the cost per watt. Thats what is going to make it popular or not.
Bit of a dense read but I think there's something here. The business idea starts with Chapter 5. I've been studying the case for demurrage (carrying costs for money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29) for a while now and I think it could be the beginning of an idea for a startup.
Building , as in assembling ? or building as designing those system ?
As far as iTunes goes, they've been going towards less control what with removal of the DRM and all.
YouTube launch Video Speed History
You are right - both are projects of John Nunemaker.
Why Bad Things (Like Recalls) Happen to Good Companies (Like Toyota)
I think you're missing the irritation though.

Surely it's like the girl who sleeps with the boss gets a promotion. Sure, if you want a promotion you could sleep with the boss too, but it'd be nice if everything was just fair and done on merit. Not everyone wants to sleep with the boss.
Well in this case, the consequence of failure is the ridicule and embarrassment, so the risk calculation is affected by the dancing guy's perception of those consequences. This isn't exactly a far-reaching effect.

In other cases, the risk may be greater - when thesixtyone launched a full interface redesign, they could have sat on their hands indefinitely, not just because of stage fright, but because something that they put a whole lot more of their life into is on the table than the opinions of other shirtless concertgoers.

I think it's related to a lot more than inhibition, although I would agree that the risk-taking personality trait probably spans both situations.

And to be fair, Seth also said we need more leaders(1) and artists(2) - encompassing all three of the core team, really. Also, it's worth note that a stoned customer is still a customer :)

(1)http://amzn.com/1591842336
(2)http://amzn.com/1591843162
Overcoming Creative Block
Opera 10.5 Beta: The Fastest Browser on Earth – WebWorkerDaily
Interesting, must be a Chicago vs SF Bay thing, definitely no choice meat in Whole Foods here.
I'll definitely agree with that. Google seems to have a hard time creating a community with their offerings.
Why do you need to genetically engineer it? Grow a tree, cut it down, burn it. Done.

Or grow switchgrass and burn it instead of coal. Or burn corn. And ignore the stupid ethanol thing.
At the PAX 2009 Saturday night concert, my 5+ friends and I were people watching. There really are some odd folks at any big geek convention.

While we were waiting for the next act, someone brought up the story of the shirtless dancing guy and I jokingly challenged my slightly drunk friend to be that guy. He said "I can't dance." I told him "Dude, just do the Hokie Pokie."

He started singing and dancing and we all backed up a few steps. He was joking, but he soldiered on to the second verse, and then the third. During the 3rd verse, we kinda felt bad for how ridiculous he looked and people were watching us. So I and a few of our circle started in. Then, a girl in a giant dragon costume ran over to join. As soon as the dragon girl showed up, everyone was watching. We started the song over, expanded the circle, and before you knew it, there was 3 more people running over. By the time we actually made it through the whole song without having to expand the circle, there was almost 40 people doing the Hokie Pokie!

The weird bit about this story, however, is that doing the Hokie Pokie in a circle limits how far you can grow. As the circle kept expanding, it became less and less space efficient. People were excluded simply because there wasn't space for them to join. At almost 40 people, the Hokie Pokie circle had effectively collapsed under its own size. Maybe next year we'll try a dance that scales better.
Yellow fat can indicate a lot of things, most of them not good:

1) The animal was old.

2) Worst case: the animal was losing weight when it died. This will make the meat taste sour (as best I can describe).

3) Best case: it's grass fed and not grain finished. This fat will usually be hard. If you're in the UK (guessing because you said "mum"), that's probably what you got.

4) It's dry aged beef. The outer layer will turn a bit yellow, but otherwise the fat is going to be whatever color it was before aging. Temperature and duration of aging has a lot more to do with how tender the cut is going to be.

Really, it's the spongy feeling stuff you want to avoid. If you're in the US, and it's not marketed as grass fed, it's almost certainly from an old dairy cow or an animal which was sick when it was slaughtered (and losing weight).
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Suggested tags, in delicious, are tag from community, in the drop-down hare your tags; it may not intersect.
I've got a TON of filters that "mark as read and archive"
integrating off the shelf robots, computers, machine vision software to create a specific 'automation machine' for a specific production line
150% ROI to be exact, which is more than "a little more than 100%," but certainly not the order of magnitude more the VCs were probably looking for. Based on your assumptions though, is it fair to say the founders probably exerted quite a bit of control over when to sell, and if so why do you think they would do that? Desperate to return to Google? ;)
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Most people here seem to think that startups are more net productive / innovative / whatever than large corporations? Even if this is true, that doesn't mean that everyone should join a startup.

Big companies like Goldman, McKinsey, and Google provide value not only to normal people, but also startups. Google builds tools and infrastructure that help power the Internet. There are probably tons of startups that rely on Google products like Gmail and Google Maps, and without smart engineers working at Google, those startups would be worse off.

McKinsey provides consulting services to companies big and small, including startups. Some startup engineers may not have the best knowledge for how to best access a foreign market, and companies like McKinsey, who do this research all the time, provide valuable business advice about how to set prices, enter new markets, structure growing organizations, and all kinds of other business questions that startups may not know how to answer.

Even Goldman Sachs has something to contribute to startups. GS financial advisers (as well those other banks, obviously) are the ones telling large sovereign wealth and pension funds to diversify their allocations into categories like venture capital. This money is critical for lots of startups to grow.

Maybe these companies aren't completely necessary for startups to start and grow, but they do have a lot to contribute to this space.
You can do both of those things. You can file out changes and you can use text files to load in and build an image, it just isnt very commonly done.
Ditto, my taxes are about a third of my gross, but I do save about half of my net, making for about a 1/3 savings rate overall.

Honestly, I haven't hut to cut on many things to get here, so I'm pretty happy about it. One key thing has enabled this:

No car. None, no desire for one. I pay extra to live centrally in the city near good public transit, but the extra I've paid (compared to living in a burb) is a tiny fraction of the cost of car ownership.

By my estimates that alone gets me an extra 10% savings rate at the very least. I have all the spare cash in the world to travel, buy cool toys without ever digging into the rainy day/startup fund.

Being childless certainly helps, too.
I find having a live interactive debugger on the actual data makes it far easier to 'get the state of the system' rather than some text files which have very little to do with the state of the system and usually just represent code whereas a 'system' is a combination of code and data.
If you read the comments, quite a bit further down, a colleague (Rowley) pipes up with this:

The data that put a bullet into Segas plans came from a study they commissioned to be done by SRI. Very few ever got to see those results since I don't believe Sega ever released them. But some of us got to be privy to the findings.

In brief there was a small percentage of folks who retained depth perception issues for periods of time ranging from 15 minutes to a couple of hours. SRI determined that a small percentage of that group could suffer permanent loss of depth percentage. The potential liability issues were staggering and the plan to put headmounts on the worlds game playing kids was killed - kaput!.

This seems believable, and SRI is a reputable company.
I know, it's not brilliant, but SSL wasn't in a particularly special place in the sentence or anything that would make it easy for a computer to figure it out. Compare that question to something like "I am using Rails. How do I ...?", where a computer would have a pretty easy time of figuring out that Rails is important with some simple parsing logic.
Your hokie pokie story reminded me of this video: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1912826 (Sorry for the collegehumor link, it seems to have been removed from youtube.)
You're right. I guess I don't factor taxes in at the time, since I pay them out of savings.
There are some good points about how many people use images in this avi bryant interview that is completely different from the 'steroetypical' idea that many people have of how 'everyone' uses images:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/bryant-smalltalk-dabbledb
Unfortunately, there's a reason why banks and other financial institutions tend to batch transactions together and settle them overnight: liquidity requirements.

Basically, the shorter the settlement period, the more cash the banks need to keep immediately accessible. The increased liquidity requirement carries with it the opportunity cost of keeping that cash available at-hand instead of in more productive investments. With end-of-day settlement, each bank only needs to transfer the _net_ amount (outgoing transfers minus incoming transfers), which is -- barring a really nasty run on one of the banks -- an order of magnitude smaller. So there's a tradeoff between settlement speed and transaction cost.

But this doesn't prevent the bank from immediately notifying the recipient of the funds that a transfer has been made. It's just that the funds aren't available for use until after settlement.

For some interesting details about the tradeoff between settlement delay and transaction costs, I found http://ideas.repec.org/p/bca/bocawp/06-20.html to be an interesting read.
A diamond in the rough! (in the literal sense)

Great to see the spirit of curiosity and intellect alive in the most unlikely of circumstances.
S H E N A N I G A N S. I just called Whole Foods SOMA, and they have not one but one hundred and three POUNDS of prime ribeye roast, and prime ribeye steaks cut on display. Yes, the rest is choice.
So do you believe there is a critical mass for following or is there a critical follower? The dragon girl.
As a Christian, my answer is: not very.

There were a few orthodox Christian signatories of the Constitution--notably John Witherspoon-- but the majority of them were Deists. This is not difficult information to discover. If you read the writings of these men, you'll note copious references to "Nature and Nature's God" and theories of a clockwork Universe.
You can file code in and out of every smalltalk I've ever used. Its just a pain compared to getting an image. Or on most smalltalks now, you can just load monticello packages in ( its a smalltalk code & object distributed versioning system ).

While file in and out is a pain for large amounts of code, monticello and metacello make bringing code in and out of an image quite easy.
Crunchgate
Awesome idea! One of those 'why wasn't this done before' ideas.
Recipe Redux - Chocolate Caramels, 1881
Another tip: WRAP THE PAN HANDLE IN SOMETHING HEAT PROOF

In the frenzy of mixing things and moving ingredients around you tend to forget the pan is still at ~500F.

This tip has been brought to you by the scar on my left palm.
It reads very similar to how people objected to "fast travel" in the past (ie speeds at which we call "slow" in a car or train now) - people honestly thought they would go insane for reasons like sensory overload.

It happens to anything new going mainstream really: predictions of doom.

The article doesn't talk at all about evidence of this - the closest it gets is to the lack of evidence that it is "safe".

Gosh - I can imagine this guy at the invention of the printing press: "people who read these words, and imagine fantasical worlds in their mind, will not be able to get up and walk as their mind adapts to the lack of physical stimulus while reading and imagining)."
I always believe in a good foundation.

For building something for demo purposes, you can hire anybody to build it. But when it's time to build the app for real, the app that your target users will use, an experienced developer is important.

If not what your code will be hard to maintain and it may be difficult to add new features and/or scale.

If you have a weak foundation, if you put stuff on it, it will collapse at some point.
You can turn off public visibility of your contacts in your Google profile page. It's on right at the top.
SQLite, MySQL and BerkeleyDB are databases - not "in-memory databases."
The whole argument here is based on the questionable assumption that coaches and players are actually trying to make decisions that maximize the team's score. An individual might do something that's "perceived to be less risky" because if it doesn't work, he can't be blamed for taking too big a risk.

I don't know a lot about sports, but this is clearly the case in corporate environments where the incentives of the individuals deviate from the good of the corporation.
Of course, the people who are actually using it aren't the ones raging about it. That doesn't really prove anything.
Because that would be maximizing the price!
They don't mention traffic volumes at all. I would assume they're getting more traffic from Google than from Twitter. More importantly, this is from a blog for ubervu, which is a product that tracks the social web...has it occurred to them that perhaps the demographic that uses Twitter would be more amenable to their message than the broad demographic Google services?
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really thought this was going to be a Fake Steve Jobs post about Jonathan Schwartz: http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/02/my-little-pony-a-look-back....
I hope Eric Schmidt and the rest of Google mgmt reads this. They need to get back to focusing on their mission and stop trying to do everything in every space.
Do you mind elaborating? You know something I don't, obviously.
ah I see I thought that was suggestions to test it out
Using a fully relective image based system like various Smalltalks provide can be very disconcerting at first when you are used to files.

I wasn't particularly comfortable when I started. It was new, foreign and none of my tools that I was used to worked. I couldnt find all instances of string 'XYZ' and replace it with 'ZYX' in the ways I was used to and it bothered me but if you give a system like smalltalk enough time, you will see the advantages.

I have a hard time now when I'm working in ruby, perl or any other language where I don't have a debugger that can halt at any point in running code so I can examine everything about it: all my data, code, everything. I can run snippets of code against that data to verify results and then update my code right then, hit proceed and my bug is fixed. I never liked debuggers before smalltalk and now I know why, most debuggers are just too limited. I remember the glorious C days of finding the suspected cause of a bug and then recompling to test to make sure it was it. I remember the web app development days of logging and print statements.

What I have now when I do web development in Seaside is the ability to drop a breakpoint into any location in my code, get the debugger and quickly see, test and fix any issues I'm having. I love it and don't want to go back.

There are, however, tons of things I want to change about Smalltalk and the various communities that surround it, but for me, the core experience is second to none that I have ever experienced.
Actually, I am using it, and I find the intrusion into my mailbox very irritating.
Named and Unnamed state.

"It seems that we need to have and not have named state at the same time. How do we solve this dilemma? One solution is to concentrate the use of named state in one part of the program and to avoid named state in the rest. The bulk of the program is a pure function without named state. The rest of the program is a state transformer: it calls the pure function to do the actual work. This concentrates the named state in a small part of the program."

This very closely resembles the philosophy behind Clojure.
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And vice versa. Knee-jerk tech-blog posts are no real barometer of how the Gmail-using public views Buzz.
Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
"If Google cared about its users, it would recognize a major pain point for us: we have too many messages being flung at our footsteps every day, each demanding a response."

Sure, if by "us", you mean the 0.1% of people who are tech journalists, A list bloggers, or other people who populate the noise machine.

It always amuses me whenever I see a screenshot from facebook taken to demonstrate something and it has something like 300 unread messages and 80 pending friend requests.

The average person does not experience technology the same way that you do from inside your exclusive bubble.
Yudkowsky Speaks with Jaron Lanier
I recommend the Electric Slide for this.