skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for 2d work, ati should be just fine. The biggest advantage for Nvidia is when playing games, or even setting up more than a single monitor. I've had many issues getting two monitors to work on an ati card, but the setup is cake to achieve with nvidia's twinview setup. As for kernel panics, I've never had that issue with my last few nt cards, and ill usually see wine crash rather than the desktop or kernel.

All that said, I wish ati developers the best of luck on making the open source drivers competitive with nvidia's binaries. I'd love to see them put some pressure on nv so it's not just a one horse race anymore...
I am only speculating, as I am not into single-race dating sites (and for some reason, have never seriously dated anyone of the same race; but that's coincidence, not preference). But I think the issue is that there is absolutely no rational reason why you could possibly not want to share a public space with someone of a different race. When you're on the train, you don't have to interact, you just have to sit there. So the fact that other people are there is irrelevant, which makes their race even more irrelevant.

Dating is different, you are going to be spending most of your time with this person, and you are going to be putting parts of your body into parts of theirs. It would be nice if everyone was so enlightened as to not care about race, but there is 10,000+ years of evolutionary pressure pushing things the other direction. So while I wouldn't limit myself to one race, I am not going to look down on people who do. What matters about "racism" is not what you think, it's how you act. You may hate all $foo people, but if you hire a $foo person because he is more qualified than the $bar people, you've done your duty to society. Who you choose to fuck, though, is less important to society as a whole, and your deeper thoughts become more acceptable to act on.

Basically, it doesn't hurt anyone to discriminate against who you date. There are 5.9999 billion other people the person you discriminated against can date. But if you open a public establishment that only white people are allowed to visit, then you are hurting thousands of people that don't have the option to just go somewhere else (geographical reasons or otherwise). Harming other people is what's bad. If you don't harm anyone, then you aren't doing anything wrong. (Sure, it's bad if you walk past a dying person and don't help them. But it's not as bad as shoving your knife into them and taking their wallet.)
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More times than I can count. Usually pthreads, a few times with Python threads, and also with various proprietary threading systems. Both for work and pleasure.
Skepticism is not the default answer. Skepticism is what happens when you don't like the conclusions given.
This is just a startup asking help from members of the community
"iPad a Kindle killer", as the article states? I don't think so. Nothing beats e-Ink for readability in the bright sunlight outside. LCD's are hardly readable under such conditions, especially if they have a shiny finish. [well, maybe a book or a newspaper beats an eBook reader ;-)]
You clearly do not belong to any minority

Unless you're demographically perfect in some way, everyone belongs to a minority in some way or another. I'm a rare southerner in a northern town - I don't want to socialize with "other" southerners, because that has nothing to do with my identity. I don't see a need to fraternize with people who are "like" me, beyond sharing a language and them not being religious nutcases.

The niche dating sites we were discussing aren't discriminating, they're targeting a niche, and that has to be ok.

Even when they say things like "exclusively for black people" (e.g. http://allblackdating.com/)?

Some people likes blondes. Some people like brunettes. Some people like black hair. Is that bad?

You can exercise preferences within open systems. It doesn't require discriminatory silos. The concept of a dating site "exclusively for blondes" is as ridiculous as a dating site "exclusively for whites." If you have preferences (and, sure, we all do) you can filter and exercise those within larger, non discriminatory systems like OKCupid.

Some people like whites, some people like blacks, some people like asians. Is that bad? Is that racism?

Often. If I didn't want to hire an Asian because I didn't "like Asians", that would be racist. If I didn't like a particular Asian for some reason, that's not (necessarily) racist.

I understand that people might have preferences on the race of people they date, but closing their minds to even seeing people of other races come up on their dating site sends a bad signal.
Embrace all your users, even the pirates arrgh
Flawed Security Exposes Vital Software to Hackers
http://www.astorybeforebed.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917235
What makes your comment like a TechCrunch comment (and this one even more so) is that instead of giving the startup the benefit of the doubt, you do the same thing in the other direction.

And that's particularly easy to do with a newly launched startup, since the right way to launch most things is to launch very early-- way before what you've built is formidable enough to stand up to determined criticism.

Why don't you try giving the founders the benefit of the doubt instead? I can assure you they'd give a project of yours the same.
"The McAfee paper focused on issues in the popular system made by Perforce Software, whose customers include Google and many other technology companies.

"McAfee said it intends to review other SCM systems, which include the free program Concurrent Versions System, Microsoft’s Visual Source Safe and IBM’s Rational."
The design of a functional thing may be covered under a design patent; and indeed the Coke bottle shape is covered by such a patent.

Trademark law refers primarily to the design of nonfunctional things such as logos, the Deep Note sound, etc.
Heroku is a YC company. Crunchbase suggests W08. Can someone change the title?
That works for either the "nerds vs. the world" or the "stop being such NERDS, NERDS" lines I've seen, lately.
Ironically in Vancouver it wasn't
They couldn't hire enough minimum wage security guys so a lot of city+provincial workers got seconded.

Because they couldn't release people actually doing any
day-day work they had to use managers - including my boss and his boss.
So a lot of the security guards, helpers and people on the street have $100K salaries.
I stick with browsers (software in general) until I have a bad experience which prompts me to explore other options. I don't recall what version of IE that was for me (probably 5?) for FireFox it was the dreadful early 2.x releases. Safari hasn't pissed me off yet so I'll probably stick with it. I've been using Chrome, in conjunction with Safari, for the silly reason that I like having two logical groups of web pages under different Dock icons.
Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
Good points, but #3 isn't universal. Rather a few better-socialized nerds get annoyed at anti-social nerd behaviors.
It depends on what you want to do with your ideas.

If you want to just give them away and see where it gets you, then go with that option.

If you want to pay somebody or share the development of a project with somebody, then find that person, and do that.

If you absolutely must get something done, then do it yourself.

That is how I got started in programming. Every programmer I spoke to about a project told me it couldn't be done. I didn't believe them, so I learned how to code, and built it myself.

It worked as a program, but failed as a business. Now I have the skills to not only build my own projects, but to help others.
Well there another well known problem of stock options =
upper management, when granted buckets of options starts seeking short-term way to pump-up the value of their options, and they do not really care about long-term consequences.
So Canada as usual, boring but prudent.
Congrats! My interview with Garry Tan (founder) from three days ago: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/garry-tan-on-get...

I'm interviewing Satish Dharmaraj (lead investor) on Monday. These interviews are on getting traction.
By similar logic, I'm forcing you to read this comment.
The C++ mutable modifier is pretty cool
It would be a pretty strange mutation if you didn't have that bias

Since this is potentially a sensitive subject, I'll preface my question with the assertion that I'm not offended, just curious.

I have no such bias; why do you consider it a "strange mutation?"
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That...doesn't answer my question(s) at all.

Should I just ram through and keep hacking away on the projects or should I take my ideas to people who can do them/like them and sit back and watch?

If the latter, where should I present my ideas and how?

You pretty much just restated my post in statement form.
I'm quite surprised that this idea got YC funding. They must have a great team.
Seattle gaming startup Offbeat Creations acquired by Playdom
Free Android-apps categorized to organize your Droid life
All You Need For Your Smartphone Is On This Big List of Free Google Android Apps for your daily life with the Droid-phone
Apple did not steal from Xerox. They licensed the good parts legitimately and made substantive improvements. Xerox's stuff didn't draw overlapping windows properly, for instance; redrawing to an occluded window surface was a problem for them and in order to redraw they basically had to redraw the entire window stack. Apple's menu bar (at the top of the screen, where menu bars belong) was a huge usability win over the context menus Xerox employed, enabling -- among other things -- the UI to be manipulated with a mouse with a single button. And on and on.

Look, Apple defines entire classes of devices. That's what they do. Look at the history of PCs, media players, and smartphones: everything that came before Apple's entry into the market was a rough prototype, and everything that came after was a knockoff. Their IP claims are not overly broad for a company whose work shapes the entire industry.
It's a browser plugin, right? Click install, money trickles into the charity. I would probably use this if the plugin runs on my OS of choice. Why not give a bit of free money to charity?
Offbeat was one of my customers at my old application management company, BitPusher. We've seen a good number of our Facebook gaming customers go through acquisitions recently as that market grows and consolidates. My most sincere congratulations to Chia, Robert, Tom, and everybody else at Offbeat that we've worked with. Great job guys!
No one's pointed out yet that this video was uploaded in October of last year, long before the iPad launch. This is something Adobe's had in the pipe for quite a while.

I hate Flash as much as the next guy (more!), but Adobe's smart enough to know when to hedge their bets. This could be pretty awesome.
Skin color isn't any more an indicator of class than shoe size or fingernail length. To show this, one need only think about the consequences of skin color actually being an indicator of class.

Given a random sampling among a race, if skin color was an accurate indicator of class, you should be able to predict the same class (other than middle class) for each sample, and ultimately be right more than you were wrong. But you can't: http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf

Furthermore, I posit that class isn't even a predictor of behavior in the macro-sense. That is, across all classes the proportion of people who behave foolishly, is a constant. The difference money makes is in the degree of associated risk with the behaviors that occur, not in the number of occurrences of the behaviors themselves.
I would not mind someone rewriting links on my site. I am too lazy to join an affiliate program, so nobody gets any money from my links. But since merchants are willing to pay you a certain amount of money for providing a link, it seems wasteful to not collect that. This plugin lets charities get that wasted money -- no effort for the site owner, minimal effort for the user, a bit of money for charity. There are worse things on the Internet than this.
This is very similar to what a local startup here in Ottawa is doing. http://dogoodhq.com/ , they replace your normal advertisements with calls to actions, green initiatives and campaigns from charitable organizations. They also have been nominated for a web award at SXSW for technical achievement I believe.
Two parts to this really - will it be better and would you use it if it was?
By the look of the current alpha/beta stuff, it's just barely competitive now, on very selective benchmarks. When it comes out it will be competing with Chrome 6 and Firefox 4, probably. It'll be good by Microsoft's previous browser's standards, but not good compared to the competition, I imagine.
Will I use it, if it is competitive? Would I use it if it was actually the best browser available? As a Linux user, unlikely. As a web developer, yes, but only in a VM; I hope it runs on a nice lightweight Windows XP VM, although I doubt it will, somehow.
I'm sure they will eventually. However I fear that just like with a lot of other Microsoft implementations the IE Webkit will be bloated, processor intensive, and generally a painful thing to use.
If they get on board with HTML5 (including goodies like canvas and WebSockets), we'll talk. In the meantime, I'll stick with future-facing browsers, as a user and as a dev.
14. You will not offer any person or entity any consideration or incentive (including any money, rebate, discount, points, donation to charity or other organization, or other benefit) for using Special Links (e.g., by implementing any “rewards” or loyalty program that incentivizes persons or entities to visit the Amazon Site via your Special Links).
The Facebook Timeline, HTTP request by HTTP request
It's already in clear violation of the Amazon TOS.
RESTful Web Services: Preventing Race Conditions
It'll probably be most rewarding long-term to keep hacking away at them, especially if you've already taken the first step to begin.

If you're getting stuck at specific blocks, it's likely that you'll be able to find some resource to get you through it.
Political stunts don't deserve the attention they seek.
"And the women who love him. Today on Jerry Springer."
you are not your fucking khakis

anyone care to opine on a massive question i have: does body language precede mentalization? discuss.
No, because it won't run on Linux.
i hear there are some books though. for example, _Impro_ by Keith Johnstone.
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Want to hear about experiences that people have with different banks regarding merchant accounts and Authorize.net. We have one with Wells Fargo currently but are in the process of doing a C-Corp and moving accounts. Would love to hear experiences that SF Bay Area folks have had with different banks.
Hard to believe that you're serious.
I'm pretty sure that the GPL 2 also ensures that you can compile and run the software... It just doesn't explicitly grant you any transferrable patent rights. So the issue isn't for you per se, but for anyone that you give the software to. And that's only if there is any patentable IP in the source code by the authors. Also, the GPL3 doesn't protect you from patent infringement if the authors didn't have the IP rights to begin with.

There are other open source licenses that have patent grants, Apache 2, if I remember correctly... so if you are GPL-adverse, you can still be covered by good open source licenses.
This reminds me of a wonderful site from a few years back: http://carfree.com/

The basic premise being to deliberately create small, architecturally distinct neighborhoods with swaths of greenspace separating them, then joining them all together with a highly efficient public transit system.

It's an interesting read.
Congratulations posterous! I switched to you guys from Tumblr as a way of cross-posting to various services (IMHO the most awesome part of the service), and love it.

I hope you can use some of that money to put together a new iPhone app with more capabilities. Even just posting status updates would be nice. :)
I find this silly and hyperbolic. I will use IE 9 because a significant portion of people using web sites I design will use it. I doubt it'll replace Chrome as my preferred browser, but it's not going to hurt me to use.
The ideal part of Slovianski is that it is primarily a WRITTEN LANGUAGE and not a spoken one - although it would be quite easy to do so - and phonetically, in either latin or cyrillic letters (we use both).

Blagodarim vam!
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html

An interesting video interview with Robert Sapolsky on Toxo
I used to work at Yahoo. This guy was a tool. A cursory search on Google explains all.

http://images.google.com/images?oq=gurb&sourceid=chrome&...
While I agree that the media and politicians are now feasting on Toyotas failures, the fact is that Toyota really botched this. Had they taken the reports seriously earlier none of this would have happened, and lives could have been spared. Apparently they never thought this story could spiral out of control.

People seem to forget that this only happened until after Toyota had repeated recalls, each promising to fix the problem.

Is there a ghost in the machine? I don't know, Woz certainly seems to think so. Replacing floor mats and then gas pedals seems awfully like what happened with the Therac 25 radiation overdoses in the 80s.

(The Therac 25 manufacturer first added an extra hardware switch to the radiation therapy machine and claimed it was "an order of magnitude safer". When more people died, the quick emergency fix was to remove the "up" button from the VT100 console.)
I meant this, specifically: "it tracks not only how much you brought in, but how much everyone you've invited brought in, and how much everyone they've invited brought in etc."

Obviously if their viral loop works that will make the product. I'm saying the above will have no impact on whether their product is viral or not (speaking from experience). I'd even be willing to bet on an A/B test against their viral coefficient.

I read the original comment to say, "We are different because we show you the number of dollars your whole social network brings in." That's cool. I like numbers. But that feature isn't rocket fuel.

Instead I should have taken it to mean, "We're not that different in principle, but we're focused on making charitable giving viral, like Causes for the web at large."

So mea culpa.
An HTML5 Offline App Example
Success: it's not about any particular secret of success, it's about avoiding enough causes of failure.
That rant was pretty non-scientific and was probably written while on drugs.

I'd say I'm on the Yes side of drugs for recreational use (in this case, for creative and problem solving).
I've had problems with IE6 on live.com and bing, so you may be correct...
In America, skin color is a good predictor of class. The barometer isn't being right more than you're wrong; it's being more accurate than assuming everyone earns the average income. You will be able to make a more accurate guess of an American's income if you know their race.

When you add in clothing, hair and accent, it'd be pretty difficult to misidentify someone's class, or more importantly, culture. Identifying members of subcultures with criminal tendencies is a skill that anyone who has walked around in a city late at night has put to use.

Class isn't a great predictor of behavior, but culture is. Moreover, I think it's safe to assume that people with lower incomes commit violent crime, for instance, at a higher rate than the rest of society. All other things being equal, the better the risk to reward ratio of an action, the more likely someone is to take it.
I totally agree! Press is press.
Why are there so many photos of him without a shirt on?
I don't see what's unserious about it. It's an incorrect explanation of the effect at work, but it was still a valuable comment.
Why do you think they will? When has MS ever done something like this?
i'm on the yes side too!
If you use the plugin, I think it could work. The loop is not great right now, but the two hooks are email importing and Facebook feed posting.

Obviously Causes works, although the donation step occurs at a different place in the funnel, but I don't see in principle why it couldn't.

It'd be like Beacon, but you only broadcast messages saying you donated XYZ to ABC charity via Browsarity.
No, most people are walking or riding trains. Very few people have cars.

Small businesses were about as common as in US suburbs.
B2B ideas are sorely missing from the list, yet these are the customers that have problems they are willing to pay real money for.
yes, but i don't have the edit button right now
The video's look impressive as hell. With a lot of work and usability testing, they could have a killer product.

Just imagine how natural and fluid your work could be - mocking up UIs, keeping track of work items, sketching class/module diagrams etc etc. This is the first thing I've seen that has the potential to be better than notebook and I really do hope they realize that potential.
This was already posted once before here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159438
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Drugs are part of the human being since its very existence.
As does bazaar :-)
(It would be a pretty strange mutation if you didn't have that bias.)

Humorously enough:

I have one of the most common white genetic disorders on the planet. It is homozygous recessive, so daddy has to contribute a gene for it to be passed on. The odds of someone who is neither white nor ethnically Jewish carrying the gene are substantially lower than the odds of a white man carrying it. I have tended towards getting involved with non-whites post-divorce, in part because the idea of having a second child with this disorder is one of my worst nightmares. I have already raised one child with it and he is remarkably healthy. But he and I have a relatively mild form of it. Having a second child with the disorder by a different father might mean having a sicker child.

So it really does give me pause when some white man starts making eyes at me. And I'm mostly Irish-German, so I'm quite pale. Close friends who know my situation have joked about getting me a t-shirt "to go clubbing" (which I don't do) which says something nasty and discriminatory, like "No white meat". I don't automatically rule out white men, but, yes, I do in fact have a "strange mutation" which does actually give me a bias in the opposite direction.

:-D
here's the direct link: http://stevetarzia.com/sonar/download.php

worked for my XP box and is highly neat. Kind of aggressive at the beginning, as the maker said it would be. (my god, he's made a settlers board postscript generator too!?)
I didn't know that it is.

But anyway, I guess society is real, that is, "a sum greater than it's parts". By sticking to the rules, you signal conformity with society. If you don't follow the rules, but still dine at the table, you might just be a parasite of society.

That's probably not the real reason, but that doesn't prove that there is no reason. Frankly I am surprised that nerds would give up on questions like that - I thought they LIKE puzzles?

Things like that are often being studied in economics, I think. Personally I think it is pretty fascinating. (Forks are maybe an especially stupid example, for example dating and gender roles are more relevant).