skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read write system memory at addresses that fit in 32bits even when the Kernel has crashed.
To sum it up here :

Most important : "[...] it looks like the most notable change is the addition of "Tessellation Control Processor" and "Tessellation Evaluation Processor"."

aand

"Most of the improvements in GL 4.0 are incremental. Apart from the obvious inclusion of tessellation support (which is perhaps the most important DX 11 feature), it includes:

- Transform Feedback Objects

- Sampler Objects

- Cube Map Texture Arrays

- Block Sampling (textureGather)

- Multisample support in fragment shaders"
iDesktopVR provides the effect for free, but for simple targets only
If multitasking comes, apps will still have to interact with everything else through well-defined, public APIs

I think that's how it should be!
The exact number is a little controversial, but there's pretty universal agreement that most of your cells wear out, die, and are replaced within your life time. I didn't elaborate, because though it's useful for illustration, my point doesn't really depend on it - even if we had the same cells throughout our lives, we could swap them out one by one and still be us.
I think this is nice as a proof of concept, but there's really no meat to it. I could see some pretty innovative games being possible with these methods though.
I worked as an applied physicist / engineer at a smallish engineering company directly out of college, where about 50% of the employees had PhD's. When I decided to quit to get my PhD, the VP in charge of my boss gave me a 30 minute lecture about how a PhD would stifle my creativity and that some of the best people they had didn't have grad degrees. I was a little skeptical of that claim, as the only technical person I could think of without a graduate degree was that VP. He was very impressive, being both extremely intelligent and clearly someone who just absorbed technical material (he had two bookshelves full of grad-level math texts and seemed to know something useful on almost every topic).

Looking back, I feel that I would be much more useful to that company after a few years of grad school, receiving a more thorough mathematical and physics background and experience leading my own research projects. Of course you could attribute some of that to just "experience", which I might have gotten just the same at that job.
Single Unit Value Is More Important Than Growth
The two differences between financial speculation and gambling are your odds and whether you wear a fancy tie.

The odds are the more important one. If you can make statistical methods that show the risk of loss, you can then assign a premium to that risk and put it on the market. Whether it will get enough liquidity to get past the smalltime remains to be seen.
Perhaps we need a professional degree for research science. A JD is different from a Law Ph.D. and an MD is different from a Ph.D in Medicine--so it stands to reason that we could have a professional degree as a professional rather than academic qualification.
It's not worth a HN post by itself, but for those who know me from HN or various startups... I'm joining Mozilla too! http://www.google.com/buzz/mbrubeck/9zWURcvonqi/Mozilla
Bah! I guess I was thinking a YC startup.
Just the other day I watched a very experienced programmer who already had an IRB session open (not to mention a bash shell and the availability of a python repl, I'm sure) start up that very calculator to do some quick calculations.

While I agree about being faithful to expectations and see value in that, I also believe that metaphors can sometimes continue to live past the time they should be expired due to sheer laziness. There's only been one generation (ish) exposed to that physical interface for a calculator- it's not like it's a permanent beginner metaphor.
LispWorks for example is installed with one of the usual installers. Including documentation, icons, data files, etc.

On the Mac I would use LispWorks to create the usual application directory that can be dragged into the systems' application folder - the usual and easiest way to install applications on the Mac.

LispWorks has a delivery guide that explains how to deliver applications on Unix, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/DV/html/delivery...
Agreed that you couldn't actually get a perfect copy (e.g. exchanging accuracy in momentum information for accuracy in position information), but it really doesn't matter. You change on a more dramatic scale when you go from a cold room to a warm room, or when you scrape your elbow, etc. Details at that scale are pretty irrelevant to you.
Ask HN: Help me choose a mathematician to write about
I have the option to write a paper about a mathematician for extra credit and I don't personally have a favorite. So, who's your favorite mathematician I should write about from these three files, and if they are not in one of these files, I'll ask my teacher if I could write about that person. Thanks

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctMmFiZGI1NGUtYjE5Yy00Nzg2LThkNmQtM2JlN2U5OWY1NTJm&hl=en

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctOGJiZTRjZGQtYjVjMC00ZGEwLWFmMmMtNjA2Y2MxODE3YTdj&hl=en

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctYzcyMjY0NzEtMjBhOC00OTY4LThmMzktYWUxOGJmZTUzYjIx&hl=en
But with the App Store approval process, no version of pizza delivery with the blonde and the "bow-chicka bow-wow" soundtrack.

Rule 34: someone will do one as a Web app.
Clickable
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctMmFiZGI1NGUt...

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctOGJiZTRjZGQt...

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ydcK31R-ctYzcyMjY0NzEt...
Mostly working on the Awesomization Process.

Out of curiosity; if you applied early, did you get some preliminary contact from Y-C?
I wasn't sure whether to put that at the top -- one the one hand it would solve the problem you describe, but on the other hand, most of the readers of my blog already know about Tarsnap and it rather interferes with the "flow" of my text.

But judging by the comments here, it sounds like I came to the wrong conclusion -- I'll edit that post to state my conflict at the top.
Yes, the piece is definitely short on evidence and high on anecdotes, but you know there's a grain of truth to it.

In the UK if I told a random person I was starting a company, I'd be met with a blank stare or maybe I'd be told "wow, you're brave" or just "you're crazy". Actually I don't think it's much different in most of the US. But in the Bay Area, there's barely anyone I can talk to (in the 'scene' or not) who won't have a word of encouragement or a useful contact. I'm not kidding - I've talked to people who, from their lifestyles and interests, I would assume would have no connection whatsoever with startups - but almost invariably that's nearly impossible in the Bay Area.

If the US had universal healthcare I think it'd be more appealing.

I couldn't agree more. The US healthcare system is cruel, unfair, arbitrary, random, and very wasteful. If Grayson's bill passed, I would buy into Medicare in a heartbeat. I could talk all day about how shitty the current situation is ;)
Who Fatally Wounded Microsoft? It Was Bill Gates.
No offense meant. I was really talking about the whole thread.
Indeed, the story at the beginning has little to do with the actual point of the article except in the most general sense, and moreover it baselessly seems to imply Steve Jobs doesn't care about data.

Weak linkbait.
How does it compare in capabilities to Selenium?
If you do, then you can give it away free, because their book is under the Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike license, being a modification of Wikipedia.
The Third Wave of Single Serving Sites
This is basically what everyone always says when someone suggests that it's possible to be successful in the music biz without being signed to a major label. Every time they say it, the list of exceptions gets longer and the bands get smaller. At what point does everyone realise that the emperor has no clothes?
UK minister aims to reassure photographers
As we already know that physical access = game over so design your systems accordingly.

Plan 9 does this by having a central auth server. You lock the it a cupboard and add some armed guards if you need. In fact, booting a Plan9 terminal doesn't even need a password. However if you want to connect to the other systems you're going to need an auth ticket.

Other systems should be using something like Kerberos or a domain controller or whatever schemes are available.

If it is likely someone will have access to your terminal and they might steal from you, storing passwords there is d u m b.
hands down, John von Neumann: the greatest mathematician of the 20th century. Information theory, computer architecture, quantum mechanics, game theory, pure math - he did just about everything.
If I was actually able to downvote I would. Completely crap title for the article... "Why web developers have more to learn from Wall Street than Steve Jobs"
also, paulson was one of a long line of people that bet against mortgages (subprime in particular). shorting is very timing dependent and paulson himself almost ran out of money before the crisis hit.

hard to believe any industry would have very much to learn from the street.
It's not only linkbait, it's also offensive that anyone would suggest we have anything to learn from Wall St during the current financial crisis we find ourselves in b/c of Wall St.
Identity is indeed elusive. I tend to think of myself as a process too, i.e. a braid of selfupdating information embedded in space-time (did that make any sense? (-: ).

What puzzles me the most is the permanence of identity despite the siscontinuity of the conscious experience. Why and how am I still the same person in the morning than I was when I fell asleep?

One could argue that the abundant neural activity that happens during the night preservres yourself...

What about deep phenobarbital-induced general anesthesia, which induces a flat EEG? No more neural activity... Your self is preserved through the "structural" properties of your brain.

Which leads me to another point: the structure/function distinction is a false dichotomy, an artefact of the human thinking process. The concept isn't new for the many Lisp hackers around here, but the idea can be extended to the organisation of the universe. The (neuro)psychologist's structure is the neurologist's function. Recurse up to elementary particles whose dual wave/particle nature has been extensively documented.

Physics will not be complete until the nature of subjectivity is understood. It may never be complete, for that matter.
John Paulson is not "Wall Street". He's an individual hedge fund manager who managed to profit from the idiocy of most individuals who comprise "Wall Street".

And, of course, what the others said about the poor choice of title.
It would actually be kind of cool if it followed the link graph for the article a couple articles deep, so you could get a customized book of concepts clustered around a main topic.
Entrepreneur DNA
you can setup a http://redmine.org instance . I've done it recently for my company and it hasn't broke yet :)
if you n€€d help let me know :)
I'm often told that people are resistant to change, but I think this isn't entirely true. People are resistant to sudden and dramatic change. Small changes over time often go unnoticed, like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water.

You want your first calculator to look a lot like an abacus, but have a few new features which introduce the user to the new capabilities of the new technology and ease them into change.
How can it "measure the movement of individual air particles"?

I'm guessing that it measures the phase shift of received signals between measurements across the device and uses this to triangulate the origin of the sound. Their website doesn't give much insight.
How the Campuses Helped Ruin California's Economy
It may be a dupe, but this article has some interesting statistics of how their album sales have increased since making the video embeddable. Anecdotal, sure, but interesting nonetheless.

The article linked to above is just a short blurb..
I'd contend that the reason HTML5 actually paid attention to video and vector graphics was that Flash made them popular. I don't want Flash (or equivalent) to die because I want to see even more innovation from them, all of which eventually makes its way to standards.
Strange Maps
Smart datacenter placement and video encryption algorithms tuned to their problem mitigate this somewhat, but it's going to be an uphill battle for them.
http://ostatic.com/blog/a-bright-future-for-drizzle

I guess this is old news but this is basically a much moreand flexible form of what I was thinking of (I was only considering the infrastructure/fault-tolerant portion of an RDBMS). You could definitely design a well-scaling horizontal cluster using this design; even if the stock components don't support what you need you just modify stuff outside the microkernel.
I didn't realize that was a dedicated calculator application for a few paragraphs. I thought it was just an interactive interpreter for some languages.

These days I use irb (Ruby) or ghci (Haskell) for all my calculating needs. For me, defining functions and being able to map and fold are very important.
How to Archive, Organize BlackBerry App World Software
Not to mention the article is missing a HUGE part of the story! As in how Paulson was on the ASS END of the stick in regards to these sub-prime-shorts until very late in the game when he started cherry picking trades from Michael Burry...
Airport Codes: A History and Explanation
Really interesting article. Sunyata makes me think of string theory for some reason.
To give another perspective on 'we are not matter', we can view ourselves as a configuration of atoms.

And if you zoom in more, those atoms (carbon, hydrogen etc.) are just different configurations of electrons, protons and neutrons.

At the end of the day, string theory zooms in even more and says that those particles are made of just one thing - a 'string'. And the different particles are manifestations of strings vibrating w/ different energies and patterns (like how a musical instrument makes different notes w/ different vibrations).

That idea paints the universe as as one grand orchestra. Each string not really different from the next (fungibility) and somewhat interdependent. In short, Sunyata.
Why wait?

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
You might find David Friedman's chapter "The Economics of Love and Marriage" interesting
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Cha...
... with the notable exception of (most) of your neurons. The only exception happens in the hippocampus which is involved in long term memory.

(As a side note, a reduced turnover of these neurons is associated with depression, but I don't know what's the cause and what's the consequence.)

Some cells have a much higher turnover(almost daily). I think of the immune system and of some epithelial cells (especially in the digestive tract).

Your ten years figure seems to be a reasonable median, but I don't have any data to back it up either.
+1. Changing the spacing in a file using sed is cool! Never knew this.
A Designed Startup
I don't mean to suggest that I hold you personally responsible for submitting rubbish to Hacker News. I neither hold you responsible -- because people ought to be encouranged to share interesting things -- nor think your link was rubbish!

However, I personally don't find any of the individual maps particularly clever. It's originalish, but I prefer

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

It's a blog of real maps, so a slightly different idea. I've just submitted the latter, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of response that gets.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184439
"Traditional" marriage definition is a reproductive (baring health issues) couple

IOW, it's not simply about reproduction. I'll reconsider taking that claim seriously when its proponents suggest that sterility should be a diqualification for marriage licenses (for extra credit, they can call for revoking marriage in cases where sterility sets in afterwards). Until then, I can only conclude that reproduction is an excuse to distract from their real reason.
You are correct.

Amazon(book publisher in question) != Wikipedia
Unless you are claiming the "primary demographic" are a bunch of monomaniacal fruitcakes, everyone here is part of your "secondary demographic".
"Some say our memories are what make us us, but basic physics dictate that our memory has finite capacity. New memories supplant the old and the strongest are those recalled and refreshed frequently. Given a thousand years to live, you could conceivably forget everything you now know. Personal history is a revolving door."

Some people have a weird condition where they remember EVERYTHING from a certain point in their lives, they never forget anything. I'm sure they have a finite amount of memory, but it's so big it's infinite in practice.
The problem is that TLS is not the right way to encrypt stored data. It's a transport mechanism. It comes with extra baggage by default, such as all the cert parsing stuff and built-in root CAs. That's the root of Colin's "what about China?" complaint.

ZumoDrive sounds like a poor design. It uses a strong transport channel with extra baggage (certs, ASN1, many cipher suites) to move data to a server, where it is in plaintext form until it is encrypted by some unknown program that uses AES in some unknown mode. When I see a design like this, I say it doesn't "hang together" well. It has a number of links in a chain, and any failure compromises your data.

Colin's points are right on. Thomas is also right, but he's picking a different argument (that roll-your-own crypto would have been worse than SSL). But both of them also missed the point that ZumoDrive apparently roll-their-own in the server side component that encrypts the data before storing it. It's AES + mumble mode + key generated who knows how + no mention of integrity protection.

Following both Colin's client-based design and Thomas's insistence on off-the-shelf crypto would have been possible and straightforward. Generate a PGP key pair for each client, encrypt/sign the data with it, then upload it to the service. The service wouldn't even need a login component -- you just register your pub key with the server when you sign up and all files signed with that key could be stored in your account. Instant strong authentication on a granular basis.
Very interesting. The example for a young man that wants to get married between 20-39 is to date until 27 and then marry the best partner that exceeds it.

In the case of a woman is different. Assuming her prime is between 20-33; her strategy should be to date until 24 and then marry the best man that exceeds it. right?
edit: grammar
To clarify: these quotes are coming from several authors in omnigoat's link below and not from the actual article.
Hope is not a strategy, unfortunately.

The counter-argument to 'hungry' is to stress that hungry entrepreneurs generally want to take smaller acquisition offers than their VCs - and if the VCs block a life-changing deal for the entrepreneur, they'll be stuck with an angry and demotivated executive team.

Certain VCs are quite receptive to this argument. One of our own investors often complains that one of their investments exited too early, and that they should've just given the founder(s) a million each so they could buy a house.
There is a typo in the name leaseweb atleast once in the page.
The precise form of the debugger is not specified, but a debugger is described in the standard in chapter 9 and its behavior is roughly outlined in the description of DEBUGGER-HOOK and INVOKE-DEBUGGER.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but they don't. They lack the 5th amendment right against self-incrimination, among some others.
There are official test suits to go with CSS available from the W3C - here's the latest snapshot of the one for CSS2.1:

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/20100127/

This version currently has 8777 tests, covers most areas of the spec but isn't complete.
With Xbox Live you're getting something for your money that you otherwise would not have - social networking capabilities, multiplayer matchmaking, etc.

With this... all you're getting for your $15 is the privilege of playing games that would otherwise not cost extra to play on other platforms.

It's a little bit like the Steam argument - Steam DRM is "worth it" because it confers features you wouldn't have otherwise (no more disc juggling, serial numbers to remember, etc), whereas normal DRM is just pointless.
It was the event handling side of things that I realized were going to be a fair bit of effort - all standard graphics stuff, but not things that I was particularly interested in writing at this moment in time.

Having said that, if you do have something along these lines I would love to hear about it.
One thing to add to the list is being obsessive.

I have a hard time switching my brains off. Even when i try to sleep. The problem is that having this ability is what gives me my technical abilities so its both a blessing and a curse.
Apologies, it's been fixed. & thanks!
It's not just a lack of demand for PI's, it's a strong demand for lab monkeys aka grad students, like yours truly. So long as (1) most research labs require many grad-student-level-trained hands for every professor-level-trained supervisor and (2) grad students continue to be deluded about their chance of securing a tenured position in the future, the situation will continue.
And so, of course, there is also a typo in your comment. Is there some law about this?
Thought the same. It doesn't seem it has historical value either. For that, a microfilm would've been enough --the objective should be to preserve, not to fetishize; but this looks like a relic of the Secular Church of Science. Come to touch the same pages which Einstein's Divine Pen wrote onto!

Seems that, for all our skepticism, enlightenment and theories of relativity, we just went and exchanged atheist saints for religious martyrs. The irony is delicious...
Android Developers Win Smackdown Vs. iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile
I wouldn't go so far as to say "friendly", but sed is considered an absolute system essential by most (all?) Linux distributions and, therefore, is found under /bin instead of /usr/bin. Just like 'ls'.

It's hard NOT to like virtually guaranteed access to the power of regular expressions at any command line.
(And to get things started -- we got a Skype interview with Harj, who is a super nice guy.)
Internet censorship started in Estonia
On 10th March Estonian Tax and Customs Board sent out a secret list of domains of online casinos to ISPs that have to be blocked.

It took only 24 hours after they had to make the list public - http://www.emta.ee/index.php?id=27399&tpl=1049

What makes things a bit quirky is that there's only one local online casino that managed to get the license and even more interesting is that they opened their online casino just few weeks ago. :S
My argument would be amoral but straightforward: a politically-significant % of people want gay marriage, and make a strong case for it. You could reasonably implement it as "two persons" and go home. The % of people seriously agitating for polygamy is much lower so you can safely ignore them.
Run CouchDB on Android, Win Nexus One Phone
It is easy to criticize something without providing an alternative.
Anyone know if you can do anything like Silverlight's Smooth Streaming with HTML5 video?

Everyone I have showed it to has been really impressed with the experience you get with Silverlight watching the NFL on NBC online.