skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It surprised me reading this BBC article, as we hadn't heard anything along those lines here at CERN. In fact, the Director General sent a note (http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/msg-dg-1003...) to all CERN personnel, very much cheerful about the future, without mentioning any kind of unforeseen interruption in operations.

All levels of management at CERN are very open, both about successes and failures. Even more so about the latter: bad news travel fast and all that (and we are a quite close community here on-site).
That argument only works if you assume they can make their products without infringing on any of ATI's or NVIDIA's patents.
I'm not advocating the tactic at all. I'm simply predicting that she'll get a significantly better deal than $12/hr because only one employer has to step up and make a reasonable offer. You don't have to get the best offer on average, you simply have to get one good offer from one employer.

Some people assume that because she states she's willing to work for $12/hr that's automatically the best rate she's going to get offered. I think it will affect her average salary offer, but I don't think it will affect her best and worst offers much if at all.
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It doesn't tell anything, as you don't know why people failed in the first place and if they learned from their mistakes.

Maybe, people able to learn from mistakes are able to recover them before their business fails...
Unlimited details, the end of polygon based graphics ?
All issues of Popular Science Magazine from 1870-2000 scanned by Google.
Zoho Projects in integrated there. Similarly, there are other project mgmt apps.
Or, far more likely, that ATI or NVIDIA license the IP, or buy the company to get the IP.

That doesn't happen without a patent, and that's what patents are for... To ensure that the big players can't simply steal the game-changing idea you've been working on.
A query for "Tiananmen 1989" (in Chinese):

h^ttp://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门+1989&btnG=Google+搜索&aq=f&oq=

"据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。"

"In accordance with the laws and regulations of your land, certain search results are not displayed."

Some of the pages are completely blank.

E.g., h^ttp://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=天安门+1989&start=20&sa=N

(Please remove the ^s and paste in links yourself... I didn't really want to send a bunch of referrals from HN to those queries).
Anyone successfully opened a US bank account with Citibank in the UK?
Nature? I doubt that. It's probably a cultural thing, because I find that it's almost impossible to get into a fistfight if you don't want to.
> you're probably going to have a hard time finding a job doing web programming in COBOL

Nah. See http://www.coboloncogs.org/ . :-)
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I think that even in practice being able to determine the Kolmogorov complexity exactly is very decidedly not the usual case; you need to know that every program shorter than your candidate fails to do the right thing.

Your general point is very much correct, though. A clearer-cut application: In general, one cannot prove that a program does what it's supposed to; but if doing that is important, "all" you have to do is write it in a way that makes a correctness proof possible.
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Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179970
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Yes and no. In my experience it is usually a mistake for scientists to try to write fancy prose like a novelist. I would much rather have a dull but comprehensible paper (all short, plain and simple sentences) than any kind of highly literate ambiguity, or indeed the over-formal pomposity you rightly complain about. A scientific paper should not be a work of entertainment or showing off, but an attempt to communicate an idea.
Remember that a paper is written for several audiences, and the annoying crap that you don't care about might be of vital importance to someone else. Having said that, it is nice when a paper is well arranged so that you can find what you want, but too often you just have to develop your cherry-picking skills.
I haven't found it so bad and I'm not great at networking. I just use consulting agencies, that's the only way I've ever had any luck. It's easier to get into a company via someone who knows people there, than just some resume in an email.

The trick is just to remember these guys are extremely busy. If it's more than a week old it isn't relevant anymore, so get a contact within lots of different agencies and contact them on a regular cycle (once a month is probably ok).
Many smaller companies make all salary information publicly available, and otherwise it leaks out anyway. The moment she figures out she's earning half the money her peers do she's going to feel taken advantage of and hurt her employer out of spite when given the opportunity to do so. Or she'll get a raise and then still resent her employer.

If morale is bad already and turnover is high, then sure, take the jackal approach. Otherwise you're better off with happier and more productive employees.
"The Baltic states , Baltic Nations or Baltic countries are three countries in Northern Europe.."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states
That's a good point and since I pay it, I should have thought of that. It does seem more like a tax, since you pay it for having a T.V. regardless of weather you watch it or not.
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I totally agree.

Yet he asks for it. Moreover, he's wiling to leave there anyway. If I won't pay him he might ruin the whole thing.

He's expecting me to "think of a reasonable rate"
Here is another link with a little bit more info.
http://www.somedude.net/gamemonkey/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&...
Well you can't blame the reviewer. The whole MT's business philosophy is the antithesis of 37signal's. As somebody said (it's a famous quote, forgotten its origin though):

"Don't expect somebody to learn something when his stomach depends on him not learning it"
I find it surprising that we have discussions about this in the public. To speak about ripples back in time in a non-SCI-FI context is a bit surreal.

Although perhaps science is the new boogie-man. It's no longer the gods tearing down something, it's ripples back in time :-)
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The problem here is that we essentially have snake oil and vaporware. As a result, all the comments are angry and quite empty too. It seems like their idea could be interesting, but they should really do a proper presentation and tech demo before saying they buried traditional ways of rendering 3D graphics
Take Alex's, Alexi, Alexim, Alexen, and boxen out back to be euthanized along with the awful virii and anything else that would lead Cory Doctorow to chortle while typing.

Hackanonical, however, is without flaw. It should be in the name of this site!
TV series like Band of Brothers are not history, strictly speaking. They are fiction.
I'm fine with this as long as they promise to resume operations on December 23, 2012.
Interesting...although it is obvious that if BT were required to terminate the contract of anyone who ever downloaded a song or movie, they'd be out a large stack of cash.

Livingston would much rather keep the contracts (and the money). And the gov should be happier with another tax.

But can you imagine how jammed up the courts would be if everyone fought it (which they would)?
Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages
I find myself frequently bumping into comments (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178984) indexed in Google and wanting to read the root submission. But I annoyingly have to click through a series of "parent" links to do so.

Could we get a "root parent" link there, in addition to the already-existing "parent" link?

EDIT: djg suggests "top" is a better name and it sounds good to me too.
Sounds great. I'd love a feature like that.
That's always been true if you spell it like a westerner.

If you think about it at all, it's a very organic result. Chinese people don't link to stuff about what happened on the square 20 years ago nearly as much as they link to stuff going on there normally, because they live there and it's an enormous public plaza.

Americans, on the other hand, don't mention it for any reason other than in the context of China's embarrassment.

Aren't the censored results always annotated as such anyway?
I've mounted wheels under an armchair. It's really good. For me at least.

For years I had an old office chair. Got it used from a bank. I was happy with that. But eventually it was worn out. Tried a lot of office chairs. Never found anything like it.

One day it struck me. This armchair of mine, which I used to sit and read in for hours, why not put wheels under it. I did. Four sturdy rotating 4" wheels. Made the chair a little higher which is perfect.
"I worked for decided to build their new task system in COBOL" - this cannot be true .
Single-page link:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/03/10/world-wide-web-cons...
I do not think they can run an uncensored google.cn as per the law stands. All the posting say is that they will spend few weeks trying to find a way to do that. These things take time. Let's hope Google is trying.
Maybe I am being unfair, but that accent seemed a bit fake.
I'd say that for languages such as Python or Javascript tracing JIT compilers are the only viable approach. Because the languages allow anything you can't make any sensible predictions about types and call graphs at compile time (people tried; didn't work well). The incremental-JIT approach (LuaJIT) has less information to work with, and it's not aware which parts of the program are bottlenecks, so it can't intelligently decide which parts parts need optimization most.

The tracing JIT is such an obvious tactic that it should be part of any dynamic language. Measure which parts are slow, then optimize those parts using the parameter type information gathered at runtime. Fall back on original code on type mismatch. The implementation is hairy, but it's a no-brainer conceptually speaking.

I suspect that dynamic languages will evolve over the next 10 years to allow for really efficient compilers, but for the current languages such as Javascript I doubt we're ever going to see massive performance improvements.
Does anybody know if there is an Etherpad-like service that allows to draw charts/tables/`free style' stuff? I was thinking that that might be useful during brainstorming sessions to help crystallize ideas...
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Uh? Where did you get that from? The Band of Brothers series is based on true stories from the men who fought in 101st. You even see the interviews with the guys now (10 years ago). Maybe some parts of it are romanticized but definitely based on true stories.
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The contacts page lists "Greg Douglas" as CTO - sounds like it might be this guy: http://www.doolwind.com/blog/game-developer-spotlight-greg-d...

Also, the same name appears against:

- A C++ R-Tree ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree ) implementation:
http://www.superliminal.com/sources/sources.htm (towards end)

- A contributor to the GameMonkey script engine.

I think it is legit, but the other shoe will drop when we see which knob got turned to max. at the expense of the others - My initial guess covers pretty much what others have pointed out - materials, lighting, compression. The example scenes look instanced to all hell (ie: the scene is a DAG).

Edit: Also see:

Bruce Dell's comments (and one from his dad!) in:

http://www.tkarena.com/Articles/tabid/59/ctl/ArticleView/mid...

Comments from a 'Greg' - I assume 'Greg Douglas' who reports seen the inner loop:

http://www.somedude.net/gamemonkey/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&...
I can say it is nothing new. I have written and seen many patents that describe systems that do that.

As far as the "predicate they are searching" the video mentioned nothing about the predicate other than it is for things that are visible, and that is nothing new.
You're forgetting the fact that there's already a very active market of addons for Microsoft Office applications.
If your private school is oversubscribed, and your entrance tests are basically random, why not just raise prices?

I could understand a proud parent enjoying the kudos of having a child in a school that selected on IQ (even if we all know it's a dodgy measure) but why be proud of a child being selected on entirely arbitrary standards of compliance and obedience?
> Livingston would much rather keep the contracts

Sure, but regardless of his motives, his line of reasoning can stand on its own very well: to continue the speeding-fine parallel, you would need very direct evidence of someone speeding before you could take their driver's license away. Many people depend on net-connectivity for their income, in the same way that many depend on their driver's license - thus it shouldn't be too easy to cut anyone off.

> But can you imagine how jammed up the courts would be if everyone fought it (which they would)?

It depends - as long as the amount fined is reasonable, the cost and effort of appealing would stop people in most cases. On the other hand, if the rights-holders would be unreasonable about it, by pushing the fines too far or disregarding fair-use, they'd find themselves in court all the time - which is arguably a good thing.
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Good news, let's hope they spread it to Europe soon. While Techcrunch proudly post that 50+ million people bike in the US, that's only about 16%. Here in the Netherlands it's almost 100%.
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This is not too surprising, since piracy is the killer app for broadband. (Similar to Apple's promotion of "Mix, rip, burn" -- Apple has iTunes to be able to pretend that their hipster twenty-somethings are filling those gigabytes with tens of thousands of dollars of legitimately purchased music -- and Youtube.)
Made me remember this:
http://jinternets.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/yo-mama-got-jinte...
http://fibresystems.org/blog/2008/04/40g_connection_used_to_...
An "experiment" done in 2007 by Peter Löthberg (to publicize DWDM technology in sweden i guess) installing a crs-1 at his mother's house :)
Think of a typical divx movie at 700MB.
This thing could route 60,000 movies per second. Go Cisco.

according to CISCO

The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System.
With up to 322 Terabits per second, which enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second.
Every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously.
And every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.
I think these type of links are generally labelled "top"
So he needed only 4 tweets to make a coherent argument on Tweeter. Not bad.
Very cool, though I was hoping it have an option to take into account the terrain, especially in San Francisco...

Or perhaps just a heat map showing hilly areas would be good enough.
The underdog can "usually" win if they try an unusual (but effective) strategy. Karate kid didn't use a dirty trick (actually, the other guy did), he fought in a very standard style. The last second of the fight (when he surprised his opponent with his ability to kick with just one leg) may count a bit, but he wouldn't get that far.
/threads has it. it's called, on: <root title> - shouldn't be a lot of work to put it into each comment...
Ask HN: How do you capture and analyse usage patterns on your RIA?
Hello everyone,

I want to answer the question: "What is the user activity most likely to lead to the user upgrading?"

What are the best practices for capturing potentially large amounts of usage data (e.g., perhaps, capturing every click on every button?), storing it cost-effectively without swamping your main app db, and then running reports/analysis on that data?

Is it best to log this stuff to text and then run a parser to load it into a separate db? To use external services (which ones work best? why?) To store it in your main db? Is it best to capture ALL the data and then figure out what you want to extract out of it later? Is that practical/realistic? Is it better to just focus on specific hypotheses and just record those specific data points?

I'm particularly interested in these questions in the context of a Rich Internet Application - i.e. something that looks more like a desktop app than like a website. Website analytics are fairly well documented, with plenty of articles tools, etc, but I haven't found much on the topic of doing this kind of tracking for complex RIAs that don't have simple and/or obvious conversion funnels.

For example, if you built an application like Huddle, how would you record data to figure out interesting usage patterns and which ones are more likely to lead to a purchase?

Thanks for any input/insight!
I wish I could say the same about my Steelcase Critereon Plus. I purchased two of them, and have had them both repaired 1/2 dozen times each. Very poor construction quality, especially given their specifications.
Who wants to have spent years working on this only to find out that octrees, which are probably crucial to this technique, have already been patented several times over?

"Patent 4694404 covers the use of octrees to implement a nearer-object-first painting order. Patent 5123084 describes a similar nearest-first octree graphics method. Patent 5222201 also concerns octree graphics methods, and describes a heuristic for speeding up the conversion of objects into octree representations."

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gina/quadtree.html
Does anyone have a link to the full size image?
Getting the algorithm to run on an unreliable parallel computer (i.e. a video card) is pretty hard.
I don't think that is science from academia, but rather popular science that is trying to be speculative so Discovery will be tempted to make a tv-show about it..
OK, someone here apparently thinks that having 2 or more app stores for a smart-phone is obviously silly.

A smart-phone is a computer. A damn computer. Would you want to have only one app store for your desktop? Like, you have to get Microsoft's seal of approval before you can publish any program at all? Would you like to be unable to run Open Office? GNU/Linux?

The "only one app store" thing is good old "Trusted Computing" (I should say "treacherous", by the way). Now, anyone, please prove me that the size of a computer is significant enough to warrant lock-down in some cases, and not in others.
Sridhar- I think that was a great comment by you when you mentioned that you do not have an ego at Zoho. It was in response to Andrew's mentioning of Zoho members being able to use Google to login to Zoho.

I would also imagine that allowing members to use Google login on Zoho would somewhat beat the competitive advantage that Google has in this regard- in allowing their members to share one login across all of their apps. Good move.

I wonder how Zoho is able to manage so many apps. Do you have many different development divisions? You mentioned that you have over 1,000 employees. How many does it take to maintain just one of the apps? I'm sure it will be dependent on that app itself, but if you would allow us an estimation merely for the insight.

Thanks
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That's more or less what I do. Not everyone cottons on to this scheme though. With the logins I might use once every 6 months or so, it can still be hard to remember which variation I'm on, especially if it's a "three tries then you're locked out" system.
I'm using jquery and google analytics to track this. Tie the interface actions into different analytic tags and use google to store and display the activity.

http://www.thewhyandthehow.com/tracking-events-with-google-a...
> as we lack those social skills

OT but two suggestions for social skills practice. 1) To attend a political networking event (politicians are skilled at working the room) 2)Sign up and go to a speed dating event (first impressions - challenge is to connect on superficial than not so superficial level, the real test is working the room when you are not speed dating)
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You are touching a controversial topic. Everybody knows we are not generally doing it right in computing education. It's a world wide mesh of trial and error. For a broad overview of the problem space you might find this informative [PDF]:

http://www.acm.org/education/future-of-computing-education-s...
I always have the feeling that battery technology is holding back mobile computing. I can only play about two hours of Plants vs Zombies on my iPhone when it's fully charged, and it's not 3D at all. Imagine how long this Windows Phone can stand 3D gaming ...
I don't entirely agree with the author. It all depends on how you interpret the films. For me, the karate kid did not make expertise in karate look easy, but simply possible. It is important for people to realize that, given the appropriate training system, they can achieve anything, and that no domain is the exclusive preserve of the very gifted.

In my case, the film motivated me to put in the necessary hours, and to pass my black belt in shotokan karate in my early thirties, after eight years of almost daily training, the equivalent of about 5000 hours at that stage.

I don't think I was ever under the impression it was going to be easy; but I always did hold on to the belief that it was possible. So all in all, these films were a positive influence.