skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would understand the term "monomorphic specialization" to mean "can be many dynamic types, but in practice only has one dynamic type". What I'm implying is that the vast majority of values only have one static type, if your static analysis is good enough.

The question of "which is better" wasnt really a factor in my decision to build a static compiler instead of a JIT. Building a JIT as a solo effort for a complex language like PHP would probably have prevented me doing enough research to get a PhD. More importantly, I wasn't interested in JIT, I was interested in static analysis and (static) optimization.
Information vs. creativity?
Houses can be about status too. A lot of things that most people spend their money on is, or can be. Cars, houses, gadgets, clothes even holidays can be "sold" based on what your friends will think.
It's more a UI/UX issue. You want to make it clear that the guessed location is only a suggestion so people don't get confused if it's wrong. You also want to make it just as easy to change it (if it's wrong) as if you weren't providing the location suggestion at all. Difficult? Maybe. But not impossible.

And really, it's just balance -- maybe some people will still get confused. But maybe the benefit gained by the people who get their location guessed correctly outweighs the detriment of those who get a bad guess and get confused.
Telus, a major Canadian telcom, is doing evil SEO (search "roaming")
sigh Google, please test this stuff out with non-Googlers first. We understand that you haven't learned yet about how social media works, after several tries...but we like your ideas anyway. Just let the unwashed masses sanity check your stuff first before you roll it out to everybody and their mom.
"Anal-retentive is another such term that's been co-opted, although I think it's still in current medical use."

It's a Freudian term, so to whatever extent it's still in clinical use, it's barely even in use. There are few Freudians left.
I just don't see how this kind of passing, topical crap that goes on at the shallowest level of politics is worth discussing somewhere like TED. This is the kind of crap that blows over in a couple weeks--and if you want to make a statement about how useless this surface level political dialogue is, there are better ways of doing it.
Is there a reciprocal duty on the part of responsible climate change supporters to admit that data has been destroyed to prevent it from being analyzed by skeptical researchers, and that there has been a explicit, documented campaign to destroy the professional reputations of journals which publish papers critical of what is often called the consensus?

If there is no such reciprocal obligation, I'd be interested in knowing why not, because both of those are documented in the "Climategate" emails and subsequent follow-on investigation. (e.g. The data that Jones threatened to destroy rather than allow to get hit with a Freedom of Information request was indeed requested and is, indeed, beyond recovery.)
To make a reservation (a pledge) of future purchase, the potential buyers are charged small fee. This makes the reservations a bit more reliable, as no one throws money just like that.

The seller doesn't consider these as actual purchases yet. It is only a demand aggregation, meaning grouping people that care strongly about the price. After the deadline or max quantity, the item closes. At this point the seller gives real payment instructions, but at a different price. Of course there is the risk that not all will complete the purchases but isn't that already included in the price? The seller can count lets say a 50% completion rate already when making the prices?

What you described is awesome and a real hacker's view. I think it is very cool and have to admit I have been thinking similar in this direction at the beginning. But.. I have an obvious problem getting this solution explained to a hacker community (see my comments here). I wonder how I would explain the solver to consumers and sellers. :D I need a solver for a headache later.

Thank you for awesome reasoning and comment! For sure will think about it deeper now.
Well I think that if you cater to your users with soft hyphens but show the unhyphenated content to Google, it wouldn't make sense for them to look down on that. But a possible risk is that they do scan for cloaking and automatically deduct for that. Though that would be a rather sophisticated system. Then again, they are Google.

Oh yeah, Google's tech support system sucks btw. Someone would make big bucks if they found a way to make that fun and efficient for their tech support staff. Tech support in general. It's rarely fun to call in to tech support. Shouldn't it be fun? Zappos style. Duuude: SMS text support. Text your initial question, and someone calls you. Kinda like Aardvark except now.

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even non-programmers can understand this

Isn't that the Python fallacy? (Take away the curly braces, anyhow.)

Programming is a lot more than syntax. How many non-programmers do you know who understand the semantics of mutable assignment without having it explained?
exactly, that is the one I had in my head ;) but still made a correction bellow...
The method's for a password, not passphrase. If more places allowed passphrases, then yeah, of course I'd go for that.
As someone who deeply respects David Brin (the author), I am deeply disappointed in this post.

The tipping point was the tired dogma of the Fox-Limbaugh conspiracy. If they say something that's wrong, it's wrong because it's wrong, not because of who said it. The so-called "conspiracy" of "Saudi princes", "Russian oil interests" and other "petro-moguls" is just populist claptrap basically.

It's far easier to kill the messenger. As Homer Simpson said "let's go burn down the observatory so this never happens again" (after the meteor strike).

Not that I'm saying Fox isn't or can't be biased but to dismiss everything they ever broadcast just because it's Fox is a far more untenable and ludicrous position.

The bias here is even more obvious when a comparison is made between those skeptical of HGCC to the tobacco proponents of years gone past.

Apart from the obvious emotional connotations this attempts to conjure let me put it this way: the Roman Catholic Church was wrong and Galileo was right. But that doesn't automatically make Catholics wrong in any subsequent dispute.

The biggest fallout from the CRU email hack was how it shone a light on what is basically a subversion of the scientific process: prestigious journals failing to enforce their standards (Nature requires publication of raw data but published AGW articles without it and ignored requests by third parties for Nature to procure it from the authors), blacklisting of journals that publish climate-skeptic works (mcCarthyism basically), failure of the peer review process, selective sampling, obstructionism and deliberate efforts to defeat FOI requests.

This alone should be serious cause for concern from anbody regardless of their position as global policy and billions of dollars are being committed to what is at best a questionable scientific process.

The onus isn't on skeptics to prove AGWists wrong. AGWists have postulated an hypothesis and the burden on them is to prove it. Creationists fall victim to similar fallacies.
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Cloud Culture: the Promise and the Threat 
These cloud capitalists are the new powers behind global cultural relations. Their rise has sparked an increasingly vicious civil war with the media old guard led by Rupert Murdoch. This battle between old and new media powers however has distracted attention from the question of how these companies will organise cloud culture on our behalf.
I really really like how they actually spent time thinking about how people will use the device instead of spending man years being concerned about how the bezel looks with aluminum hi-lights.

Trackpad on the back? Brilliant!

Pixel Qi display so I can read in sunlight? Awesome!

3 USB ports, why? 1 for keyboard, 1 for mouse and 1 for a thumb drive. Fantastic!

Now sell it for $250 and I'll have it in my backpack tomorrow.
Revisiting the click track
Samsung i8520 'Halo' Android 2.1 phone with pico projector
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The idea is that a compiler is, loosely, a self-reproducing program and is therefore in a position to propagate malware in a very subtle way - by modifying the binary version of future versions of itself.

From a security perspective, this is different from a compromised (say) Debian mirror because it's not a question of, "does this binary match the source I downloaded from?" but, rather, "does this binary do the right thing when I use it to compile my system?"

Think of it this way: you and a friend both compile GCC. But the native code which results is not necessarily the same - it depends on details of your machine and your existing compiler tools. So there is no way to say what "the binary for GCC 4.4.x on i686" should look like, so you cannot tell if your friend modified his compiler's source code just before compiling it. This is (sort of) the problem the paper is solving.

I am not an expert, but I hope this is clearer.
So if someone who was considering buying a house in Sydney (well, an apartment) in the next year or so - because it seems prices just go up and up and up and up and they feel like it will just be completely unaffordable if they don't lock something in soon - what's the bottom line? Should they not buy until after this correction? Any informed HNers want to tell this hypothetical person what to do, since they're only just beginning to seriously start looking into it? ;)
>> how about all GOOG employees release exactly the same information on themselves that they released on others without their permission.

If they use Gmail, didn't they?
Very true, it depends on your product though. If your getting a lot of your business through things like adwords/search and occasional articles/ recommendations your exactly right. Although if your developing something big the first impression is going to mean a lot.
Take something like Google Buzz (admittedly even bigger than the range I'm advocating it for), I think that kind of first impression, where the service is all over the tech media and being talked about in social media, the first impression is going to mean quiet a lot in terms of future adoption.

Another example, Age of Conan, great game idea, early execution was off and it set them on a path where they were never really going to get back to initial subscription numbers no matter how much effort they put into the game.
contact us on http://twitter.com/js_fiddle - working on mine on similar system
To make the line numbers in JS error messages more informative, you could make the line numbers coincide.

i.e. by minifying the JS where coffee:js lines are 1:m and adding blanks when m:1, instead of always pretty-printing.

It's a trade-off of js-readability for error-readability - a hard call, but very cool to be able to go directly to the line in question.
I dare them to announce that it's based on Java. So long as Apple isn't involved then it will an insignificant platform. Even the other app store clones combined will be tiny compared to Apple's.
Sure. Their entire drive recently has been to prove to Apple and the rest of the world that they're worth keeping around. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this release has been pushed forward by a few months.
This is exactly the kind of presents I like to give and to receive. Good chocolate, a pack of good tea, a bottle of very good olive oil, nice bottle of wine.
I hold a 24" monitor in my lap and read e-books in a 6 pt font. I context switch far less than I would with an iPad ergo my lap monitor > your iPad.

I do not understand what your point is beyond fanboyism.
I mean, you've got to watch it, as in reality, shared hosting providers have a reputation for providing a lower level of service, not because it's difficult to provide a good shared hosting experience, but because they make most of their money off monthly fees rather than per-usage fees (as the more 'cloudy' shared hosting, like google app engine does) - so traditional shared hosting places have an incentive to oversubscribe their services, and to lose their heavier (cpu and I/O) users.

But then, it's pretty cheap and easy to have two shared hosting accounts, and to switch between them with DNS as required, and that solves a whole lot of those problems.
I'm more interested to see if Android users are willing to deal with the crashes and slowness for the convenience of having Flash.

Mac users deal with it because they have to, but Apple decided otherwise for the iPhone.
Yeah, games are quirky in that ongoing development on them is largely a lost cause (sole exception in the industry: Blizzard) and that they have a shelf-life measured in weeks. If I were head of a game studio my first action would be to fire myself because everything I know is wrong for them.
This "shallowest level of politics" is the shape of our entire cultural landscape being formed, man. Comics just tell it like it is.

Is it worth talking about at TED? I dunno. What really is? Some dude leaping around going "BAAAM" while the crowd figures out how to sing along? Leaders of influential companies talking about products? Why don't we discuss how very much against slavery we really are?

Sarah's commentary on politics and how people with unfortunate genetics people are unwitting pawns in a disingenuous political dialog that has the potential to deadlock our government? Seems fine to me.
As a general rule, buying something because prices just go up and up and up is a good way to get thoroughly shafted.

At the very least consider the following:

a) What is your rent currently compared to your mortgage repayments? If you're going to be paying more, just rent and invest the difference in something else.

b) Do you have ambitions of quitting your job and starting a company? If so, having a large mortgage is only going to hinder that goal (it's far easier to make the plunge when you don't have to worry about servicing a large debt, and it's much less painful to downsize between apartments when you're leasing.)

c) Consider whether you're going to want to do the place up, which can be a huge black hole as far as money is concerned.

d) Finally, if you're living with a partner, consider whether you're willing to have the added financial entanglements that owning a house together will entail.

(I personally rule house ownership out for reasons a), b) and d))
You say this like a man who's never been stuck in stop and go traffic for 3 hours a day for 5 years.
As someone who supplies $400 hammers to the government I assure you that $395 of that is the cost of all those man-hours needed to produce all the docs and ppts needed to explain why they need that hammer, what kind of nails it can pound, why we built it the way we did, and how it is intended to be used. It's not nearly as much of a ripoff as most people with an agenda would like to think.

Your tax dollars hard at work, I suppose.
I was actually a teenager when I wrote my contribution to that. Okay, not an ordinary teenager, but I didn't exactly grow up into an ordinary adult either.

Remember folks, growing up on the Internet is like walking around for the rest of your life with your baby pictures stapled to your forehead.
40% for me with Firefox on a 2 yr old bootcamped Mac book pro and XP.
Well, you just convinced me you believe that, thereby demonstrating that "b" is easier than "a". Congrats!

However, you are still wrong. At one point the US National Government spent $1/4 mil per year in attempts to convince people who had bought American-made cars that they had made a good choice. (I don't know current stats, and know that I don't know them.)

Think of it this way: If you can convince people who bought your product to feel good about their decision then they will speak well of your product to others. Reputation and word of mouth are both powerful and worth investing in.
Favit makes the web more transparent - stats launched
favit is pioneering a stat module providing detailed traffic statistics available on each shared item and public profile. This way you can monitor popularity trends and dynamics for your personal profile, groups, bundles and filters – every single item on favit.
I actually should have been programming instead of playing video games. Am I doing double layers of procrastination?

Seriously something programming is very hard, like tracing down an elusive bug or getting the performance to go higher. These things are what make or break a product. Doing the programming is necessary.
I dunno, maybe they all opted out during the dogfooding.
Sailormoon,

I can't answer your question but interesting things I have learned reading around this subject :

- Since WWII in most of the west house prices have risen in real terms (meaning as a percentage of average wages, compared the food bills etc, so not just inflation.

So many people think that's the way it works, but data on the price of housing going back to the 1600s says this isn't
the normal state of things, house prices stay constant in real terms.

- Check whether you are relying on the 'bigger fool' principle. If you could rent a nicer place for less (don't forget maintenance and taxes) but are only buying because you think someone else will be willing to pay even more, even though they could rent somewhere nicer. Question whether that's sustainable.
Orkut engineering is in India and Brazil.
It's actually not a bad problem to have.
Well I am not sure it is 100% consensus (there are dissenters); so this seems to fall for some of it's own fallacies. :-p
Email sent to a developer on supporting 10.6 and up
There's a possible comparison to supporting various web browsers in web apps, but I'm not sure the correlation between upgrading and spending money on software applies.
Yes, there have been mistakes and imperfect scientists working on climate change. But you can find such foibles in nearly every scientific field—and very rarely do they shake the foundations.

For example: evolution. I hope we can all agree that evolution and natural selection form a stunningly successful model of the diversity found in the natural world. This is the position of virtually every biologist and is really only opposed by fundamentalist crazies. Despite this, there have been many mistakes in the history of evolution (for example, the Piltdown Man) that have served to weaken its public credible. However, despite these errors there was never anything fundamentally wrong with the underlying theory.

Scientists make mistakes, for both good reasons and bad. But to use a few isolated incidents to cast aspersions on an entire field suggests that you have already come to a conclusion and are looking for evidence, however tenuous, to support it. Your criticisms are at their heart intellectually vacuous and are not sufficient to cast down decades of research by thousands of very smart, dedicated people.
I gave it a bit of a thought. Maybe this can be done post-reservations. The solver would consider how popular the item was, the prices at which people accepted to participate and the lowest achieved price. According to all of this, the solver would calculate the suggested item price.

That's cool, I might do that, just for fun.

I wouldn't limit the usage to only manufacturing and operations management. I am trying to keep it as a universal tool.

Thanks again for valuable thoughts.
On the one hand, I have to salute them for diversifying their offerings and broadening the reach of the Flash platform. Like it or not, there is still a lot of Flash content that's actually worth having on mobile devices.

On the other hand, I can't help but think that Adobe is sacrificing depth for breadth, and spreading their resources thin across all the areas where they are trying to compete. Considering how poorly Flash runs on Linux and OSX, I'm nervous about this devolving into yet another "write once, debug everywhere" nightmare.
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As someone who, like you, is trying to figure out the right thing to do in Melbourne, it's hard to say isn't it. On the one hand things seem so ridiculous in terms of debt. On the other hand we have strong population growth and demand here it seems. Although, I have no idea what our growing population is doing for jobs.

Because, things are very centralized here, the options for buying are getting further and further out and the public transport systems doesn't look like it's going to be upgraded to match any time soon.

Inner city apartments are currently pretty small and expensive too, which hopefully changes with some more supply.

Wish I had a crystal ball on this one. All that said, Melbourne still rocks :)
No. Human beings make mistakes. It's a known quantity in any and all research done by human beings.

Does anyone have to open up a lecture about geologic features on Mars with preliminary statement...

"At one point during the Mars data gathering process a probe was programmed wrong with incorrect Imperial/Metric conversions, a probe crashed, and therefore none of the measurements we give of anything on the Mars surface can ever be trusted again."

No.
He's using the walk as an opportunity to raise money for Swags for the Homeless, a bit of very cool bed/backpack engineering. http://www.keenwalk.com.au/homelessness/
5 Reasons Silicon Valley Might Stumble Coming Out of Recession
Theoretically, they can also be statements that are testable in the future.

Ex: At 25C and 1atm, oxygen is a gas, not a liquid or solid. No matter how many times you test that, it will always be true; hence, it is a fact.

Of course, if you ask enough questions (How do you know it is 25C? Why are you confident that instrument is accurate? How do you establish the temperature scale in question?) the person claiming it is a fact will eventually get confused (it is was something they didn't realize they didn't know), send you off to ask someone else (if it was something they know they didn't know), or bored (if it was something they know but they are tired of answering your questions) and you will be free to think the fact wasn't really a fact after all.
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And that is why people who do well in hard sciences deserve more pay than people who (are otherwise equal and) don't.

And they usually get it.
There's not 100% consensus the sun will rise in the morning or that Earth is round.

Not to mention the embarrassing fact of how many Americans truly believe dinosaurs and cavemen were on the Earth at the same time about 6,500 years ago.
I don't use it, so it's not a big loss.
My favourite of these tools in Centreon. It is an unholy mix of just about everything (nagios snmptraptranslator etc) and would be awesome if only a few more opensource developers would work on it.
Please, don't do that.
That would just tell you the size of your red slice compared to other people, and you would be discriminating in favor of things that are relevant to your life. I true perspective of how much you don't know you don't know would have to take into account the possible sum total of all knowledge; good luck with that.
I wonder where the problem that engineers have with business people comes from. Is it because on average business people get paid more than developers even though it is easier to measure the contribution of developers? I would really like to know.