skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I keep seeing is that the Fermi video game cards (GTX480) is faster than the scientific computing minded (Tesla C20) cards. According to those graphs, the difference isn't trivial either, which is kinda surprising.
This still happens. I've been asked (and refused) to send certain things on 'official letterheaded' paper. They weren't interested in signatures, just the letterhead.

The only information content is the company registration/tax number and contact details. When I've offered to send the same information by email, including a logo, people usually realise how ridiculous the request is.
Good & almost balanced writeup comparing between Ruby & Python
Imagine if google required you to sign up before you could search for anything.
Ask HN:Confused About Contest Rules
I have been working on an Application (http://www.taggedback.com/) since Mid December. I recently entered it in a contest (https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/)
Before uploading my work, I read through the rules again, and came to a confusing part.
Here is the link to the full rules:
https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/public/fulfillment/rules.pdf

The part I am confused about is on the bottom of page 2:
"Uploading a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such Submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If necessary, entrant will sign any necessary documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible or misdirected Submission, which are disqualified."

To me it sounds like uploading my App gives the Sponsor the right to do whatever they want with all of my hard work!

If that is the case, do I submit all of my hard work for the past 8.5 months to Microsoft?!?
Any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
It sounds like we agree - programs aren't theories. Something else is required that relates the program to the real world. Note: you could have a programming language whose semantics specify a proposed relationship to reality, just as we posit such relationships in natural language. But most programming languages don't allow such things.
But from what I hear in the Linux world, having GPLed code didn't make all hardware producers write their own drivers and publish them. Some did, others released only simpler versions, and other didn't release anything and it was up to volunteer to do it.

Between this and a Darwin world where the latter group would release good drivers but keep them close sourced, I don't think there's any advantage for the community either way.

While I do agree that Apple is most definitely not trying to build a healthy ecosystem around Darwin (or in fact _any_ ecosystem at all...), Apple itself still publishes all of its Darwin code, and hence it would have complied with the licence had that been GPL. (the only exception being drivers but that's not up to Apple, as the situation in the Linux world showed).

Apple could have still kept Aqua and the rest closed source. So using Apple as an example of a company that took but didn't give back because of the licence seems wrong.
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Lord Sri Krishna was born on Ashtami day or the eighth day after Raksha Bandhan during the Hindu month of SHRAVAN. Krishna is always shown with his flute or "Bansuri". Sri Krishna is Lord Vishnu's eighth avatar (incarnation) on earth.Kansa, the king of Mathura was a very cruel tyrant.The cowardly tyrant immediately threw his sister Devaki and her husband Vasudev in prison so that he could kill all the sons born to Devaki.He was also asked to bring back the baby girl whom Yashoda had delivered. At Gokul, under king Nanda's protection, Krishna got the loving affection of King Nanda's Queen Yashoda whom Krishna looked upon as a mother.A major event in Krishna's later life was that he was the adviser to the Pandavas during the Great Mahabharat War between the Pandavas and Kauravas.
Agreed, for the most part. Although when it comes to child day care, there is another factor. Any job dealing with children puts a man at serious risk to any accusation of predatory behavior, and he'll have great difficulty defending himself. Not really worth the risk, even if you like children.
Hmm...

I would like to put across a slightly different perspective:

First, I am a guy, I admire people of all races, sexes, abilities, depending on what abilities they show and what achievements they had, that I admire in people

There are quite a few women in my life whom I admire:
1) my mom - she keeps learning new things and is ready to remold her beliefs even when she 60

2) my sister - I am not close to her, but find her inspiring in what she has achieved, used that inspiration in getting my own life on track

3) a colleague - she is super efficient, super smart, extremely capable, would put many men to shame

4) a few seniors in the company I work in who have reached very high positions, some very fast, found their advice and perspectives highly wise.

There is a common pattern among all the women that I admire, they are often simple (and quite often elegant) in how they look and dress, indicating they don't spend as much time on vanity as the average woman.

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Now consider this: two people, forget about their sex:

Person 1 spends more time on activities that help her/him gather information in a field of knowledge(field 1), whether it be through first hand experience, reading books in that field, talking to peers and experts in that field.

because of this she/he will have more information, so when given a task in that field, can try/perform a task with more confidence than one with lesser information or experience in that field.

because she/he will have more confidence about that field, she/he will take up more tasks in the field, continuing a cycle of knowledge accumulation, increase in confidence and taking up tasks.

Now what would be the state of a person 2 who doesn't spend as much time on field 1 and spends time on other fields, be it beauty, sports, parties, gossip, etc?

They will have more confidence in dealing with these other fields than field 1, because that's where they have more knowledge and that will likely continue the cycle of knowledge accumulation, increase in confidence and taking up tasks in that field.

Now its a matter of which field pays more or has opportunities for self-sustainability, not that beauty and social skills have no value, they can even be critical sometimes. But then, everything is relative.

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Of course, we have to keep in mind that women are under the burden of all our collective expectation, that they look good and that they are supposed to look good, from their mothers, sisters, friends, boy friends, husbands. So, please don't consider this as a judgment of women, its just an observation that is applicable, between men, women or between men and women.,
People can be declared mentally ill. It just isn't easy. And that's good. In the case of the person you are describing it would be pretty difficult to get him to be committed in most jurisdictions, especially if he didn't want to be.
Although I disagree with greenlblue I'm pretty dismayed that (s)he has -4 votes. We shouldn't downvote people for stating their opinion, we should downvote people that don't contribute meaningfully to the discussion.

The essence of greenlblue's post was that it would be better to list how we could help women rather than lashing out at them which could further alienate them. Which contributes the the conversation.
$750 for a logo/business cards/letter head

There may be reasons not to add it to the brief. If the brief is a simple logo then that's a quick way to assess what kinds of things you want from the designer before getting into a longer discussion.

As an aside, what you've listed can be collectively called 'Corporate Identity'. I know at least one designer that works with companies on their corporate identity's and he charges a lot more than $750.

Edit to add:

re: #9. $100 of sticky notes is somewhere between 6000 and 9000 notes (depending on the brand). Even as an approximate figure, $100 seems way off.
Ironically while arguing one side of the case he becomes an example supporting the other. He sounds so grumpy and closed minded. Who'd want to hire him?

His thesis that technology hasn't changed is false in any case. E.g. while the fundamentals of algorithms haven't changed, that sort of knowledge is less central than it used to be; for better or worse, software development seems to be evolving into something where you glue together building blocks made by other people rather than writing everything yourself.
I just started doing this myself a few days ago. I've found that I've bloated up a little bit at first (as water is prone to cause) but at every meal I am feeling 'full' earlier and not eating as much. My body seems to be enjoying it as well. I definitely say give it a try, the most painful outcome being an increased number of trips to the bathroom - the bladder can only hold so much liquid.
What's old is new again. Tabs at bottom reminds me of how interesting it is that the tab abstraction is successful in spite of the presence of a fully capable window manager.
Browsers that don't support media-queries, like ie8 and below, simply ignore everything inside inline media-queries. This means they'll use the default five-column layout – which is more than sufficient for desktop usage – and ignore everything else.

the 5-column layout is 768px wide is default fir older browsers. Which means i get to see 768px wide layout even on my netbook which easily supports the usual 960px?

Guess 960px would be fine as a default. I hope this has some kind of custom layout generator like BlueprintCSS which has Blueprinter.

But other than that, this is actually uber-cool.

P.S: Thanks to the site designer for mentioning the names of the typefaces used on the site.
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I'm perfectly fine with idea of losing 5 users out of 100 - because 95% of my target base will use modern browser(or less because someone that doesn't use a decent browser will very likely be unable to benefit from my site in first place - specifics of my target group I suppose). Anyways It's not like i'm going to block anyone - I just don't want to support hacky code just to make IE users happy.

It's not like the website will be non-functional to IE users - it will probably just be ugly, thats all ;-) Which I guess is fine because its purpose is being a tool for webdevelopers and programmers.

Also some features just don't degrade at all ;-) like canvas (unless i use something like excanvas), but this part is competly optional to use, so not a biggie.

Think like https://developer.mozilla.org - being made to work in IE ;-)
I have to agree with jacquesm here. You're right that many homeless individuals can't produce a minimum wage's worth of value for an employer, and you're right that the requirement of a minimum wage then makes it nearly impossible for them to get work that has any chance of improving their situation.

However, jacquesm is right that the minimum wage exists as a lower threshold that prevents the exploitation of workers, and that's as true today as it was in the 1920s. Reducing or abolishing the minimum wage would certainly lead to powerful economic deflation, and while that looks great on paper, in reality it leads to lots more homeless and poor people.

In practice, game theory does not apply to economics as often as theorists think it does. For example, you'd think that if some employer wasn't offering a decent wage, then they'd be unable to get workers, so they're forced to maintain the same wages as everyone else. However, eventually there will be an economic depression like the one we have now, and that will result in huge numbers of able employees, and a ripe opportunity for would-be employers to exploit that situation in a way that wouldn't fix itself for decades.

I am an employer. And, yes, although my margins are ridiculously thin after you count up all the money that goes in to everything, the truth still is that I do make sure I get multiples of value from my employees (or contractors); otherwise, I simply wouldn't bother having them.

Homelessness and the problems of the poor are something that I think about a lot, and as I said, I have no idea what the solutions are. I do know that merely reducing or eliminating minimum wage requirements -- even only for their specific case -- is not a viable solution.
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I think he isn't offered opportunities in other people's startups because he doesn't seek them out. Does he expect the world to come banging down his door because he was an early blogger and blogging tool developer? Other early bloggers went on to command much greater audiences.

Who in their right mind thinks JavaScript is a "gratuitous reinvention" of C? They're more different than they are alike.

Maybe he should learn how to build LAMP server farms if he wants to work in startups doing them. There's no reason he can't start his own and work with people who aren't ageists.
On a slightly related note I used to maintain highly manicured gardens for people in wealthy neighborhoods. A lot of these people were anal-retentive WASP's that scowled from their high perch as they surveyed a neighbors over-grown garden. They especially liked my leaf-blower because I could get all their hard surfaces perfectly clean. Many of them would also not hesitate to let me know I missed blowing a few pine needles. That job started to make me neurotic after a few years.
I'd like to know how much obesity is caused by a structural "finish everything on your plate" problem. By this I mean the tendency of certain folks to finish everything that is served, no matter what their hunger level is. Also, I've heard it said that people who eat from smaller plates will consume fewer calories over time.

In the study, the group given water also had their food portions slashed by a substantial amount. What happens if the portions stay the same size? How many people will read or see re-hashed versions of this study in their daily papers or news and simply prefix a large glass of water before their dinners, only to find that it has made no difference?
I do believe you are reading far too much into my comment. It was merely a stated fact.[1] Given the way Rush Limbaugh is viewed I thought would be mildly amusing to make a slightly off-topic reference.

1. You can search for "amazon" on this page: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/16/magazine/the-rush-hours.ht...
You're probably right in some sense, but there are many laws --- liquor licensing, health inspection, and employment, in particular --- that are actively enforced and a day-to-day reality for restauranteurs.
I give up. Good luck holding onto those attitudes and please make sure whatever you do is as inaccessible to everyone else as possible because what is the point of being accessible and open to outsiders when those outsiders are not interested? Everyone in this thread is just talking past each other and it's pretty obvious almost everyone is a nativist of some sort so good luck guys and I sincerely mean that. I hope all your workdays are full of clones similar to yourself.
The application shouldn't be doing what it's doing, but it still is kind of hypocritical to complain that someone else is doing exactly what grub is doing. There is no reason grub couldn't make a little partition for its data (except for inconvenience). It wouldn't even have to know how to parse a partition to get to its data, it would just be there to mark the area on the disk as its own.

We've solved the problem of data contention on a disk a long time ago...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your main point is that capitalism takes as an axiom that people are naturally selfish, while anarcho-socialism takes as an axiom that people naturally are altruistic.

So I have a question: What motivates you to help other people?
Because rsf includes building common spaces, which tenants are in fact renting. This is not complicated.

Yes, it does appear plain that this "common spaces" business is a fig leaf that covers annual rent increases. And yes, that's dishonest. But it's of no practical import, since every tenant knows their rent is going up one way or another once their lease expires.

We're really making a big deal over whether "rent increase" is called "rent increase" or not.
Your puzzlement is predicated on the assumption that dreadlocked hippie activists are automatically unclean.
It's very easy to buy unlocked phones in Germany and, from what I hear, most of Europe. Even data roaming prices within Europe have come down to very agreeable levels. I'm with O2 Germany, and IIRC I can use data roaming anywhere in Europe and never pay more than 60e a month for it, which seems very fair to me.
I was just thinking today how wonderful it would be if my web browser let me navigate tabs with the same key bindings as screen.

If I had a nickel for every time I've done "select all" when I wanted to quickly switch back to the last active tab.
I immediately thought "no hire" after reading the author's comment about Javascript and C. The rest of the paragraph strengthened my opinion. Age is not the issue here.
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Television?
The book still had a huge impact, so it was a success in terms of the values Hoffman espoused in the book.
So going back, you need to solve:
[ A(1-x+x^2)+B(x+2) ] / [ (x+2)(1-x+x^2) ] = (3x-1) / [ (x+2)(1-x+x^2) ]

As I said, the denominators are already equal, so you need to make the numerators equal.

That means you need to make this:

A(1-x+x^2)+B(x+2)

equal to (3x-1). Expand this - you already know that the second part becomes B.x+2B - and have a look.

Then think - what can you set A and B to be to make it equal to 3x-1?

What if you set A to be x?

What if you set B to be 2?

What if you set A to be -3?

What if you set B to be 2x?

Try those, try more, see if you can work out how you can get 3x-1. Here's a hint: when you expand you'll get one of the terms as Ax^2. How can you get that to cancel out?

Try things. Tell me what you see, tell me what you get.
Meant to upvote you and fat-fingered it, sorry.
Not really contributing to the arguments...

But rumor has it, Etsy have female (Python) programmers and they make boring online shopping experience fun with their creative UI.

See: http://www.etsy.com/color.php or http://www.etsy.com/time_machine.php or http://www.etsy.com/geolocator.php

Imho, female input is valuable when it comes to software design especially UX.
I wonder if it's possible to write an open source hotspot app and then just deploy it to your own phone via developer signing. It's $100/year but I'd think there's a fair intersection between those who'd use a tethering app and those who are already developers and there's no risk of bricking.
Just to add another question - why is that funny? A and B represent polynomials - why should this be funny to you?
Change the C-a binding to C-z.
QuickSpec. Guessing Formal Specifications using Testing: PDF
The death bed feeling of having spent too much time on work with the excuse of talent and not enough time with family, friends, and loved ones is probably going to be prevalent amongst the HN/start-up crowd. Let's not make that mistake.
I may be mistaken, it's my understanding that the video game cards are designed to be faster at the expense of accuracy, whereas the scientific computing cards are designed to have better accuracy at the expense of speed.
Universal Android Root seems to be the best answer for now. It's as easy to install as any non-market Android app. Of course, it may get disabled by OTA updates.

Barnacle seems to be the wifi tethering app of choice, as it's free and works on almost any hardware.

I'd really like to see Google start using their certification process to stop telcos from pulling this crap. Data is data. You're a dumb pipe. Get over it.
Being a resident of a developing country caught in political turmoil, I can identify with this story.
Western media often has inaccurate perception of things going on in other parts of the world. I have found that, at times, seemingly trivial events are blown out of proportion while imperative issues go entirely unnoticed. It might not be a premeditated or deliberate exercise, but it certainly is a big failure in part of western media in grasping the ground issues.

There can be no gainsaying that Twitter did a great job of spreading the news about Iranian protests around the world, but it's very much plausible that Twitter was largely of no consequence within Iran.
DuckDuckGo on This Week in Startups
Had a great discussion of Gabriel, the founder of DuckDuckGo Friday... podcast is up.<p>Gabriel is a great entrepreneur... really enjoyed having him on the show.<p>show notes here:
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-startups-72-with-gabriel-weinberg/
You are talking about locking up people without them committing any crime, without any trial, without them having any appeal or defense, for a week, or a year, or their entire life.

Not at all. In Canada, at least, people in psychiatric institutions have ample opportunity to challenge their detention. Their cases are reviewed and they are considered for release far more often than those who are convicted of crimes are.
Why haven't more successful startups emerged from Los Angeles?
A lot of japanese downloads.
Are the game cards not following IEEE floating point spec? I really should ask this on the nvidia cuda forums to get a really good answer.

Edit: Wikipedia says that the Tesla cards have 4X higher double precision performance than the game cards, so that could be the explanation.