skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, instead, you should try using a better spam blocking system. Gmail's system works quite well.

I personally wouldn't touch Spamhaus with a ten foot pole. From everything I hear, they seem seriously biased towards incorrectly blacklisting IPs than letting a few bad ones through; more highly favouring false positives than false negatives in terms of identifying malice, in other words. Thing is, I believe most reasonable people prefer the reverse trade-off; they would rather get a little more spam than risk losing email.
Came over to HN for answers to this WTF. But even here we have none.

AV is snake oil. What do Intel have in mind?
They might be doing that in the background. I imagine that creating new tools from scratch (or heavily modifying existing ones) is a n time consuming process.

In the meantime, Flash is all they got to go on with.
Games are a totally valid business and solve the problem of boredom. It seems like you're dismissing games as a category of business and that's silly. Just look at the giant video game industry.

I don't think that's all a location-based service provides though. It always seemed silly that everyone has mobile phones, and yet I have no way of knowing where any of my friends are without polling each one individually. So far they haven't helped since most people I know and care about are not on them yet.
Totally - though I'd say it doesn't have to be hard core coding. It could be design stuff, blogging, video work, etc. You've got to be a builder, not an "extractor".
Hmm... I'm getting an error on that one.

cat: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted

Edit: even as root
You wouldn't happen to be in the business of providing paid email accounts, would you?
Even if the .ly domain signifies Libya, does purchasing one count as "trading with Libya"? I'm not a lawyer so I don't really know, but I'd think not. Seems like the sort thing TC would jump all over if true.
212 Lust: Old Phone Numbers Are New Thing in Tech Scene
Will this be recorded for those of us who can't make it down to the bay area?
It's worth killing the tree for.
I would usually agree with you and hit the "flag" link, but having paid full price for a few of these apps, I think it's such a surprising deal that it's worth talking about.

(Full disclosure, I'm a friend of Noah's.)
Right in time for election season.
Yes, they have. It's called D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d

It doesn't have an automatic translator, but it's design does follow a rule of "If a piece of C code is dropped into a D compiler, either it compiles with the same semantics, or it doesn't compile."

BTW, Someone needs to fix the CSS for this text-entry box. Someone set the text color to black, but forgot to set the background color too. So on my light-on-dark system, I get Invisible-text-syndrome and have to edit in notepad and copy-paste into the text-box. Wheee!
Good day to go sailing, if you're a dick
Wouldn't you expect both efficiency and total capacity to increase exponentially in the first half of a sigmoid adoption curve without taking into account any exogenous factors? Today most electric power plants are still run by steam engines, so it's likely that that exponential increase is still continuing.
Some of my experience with adobe 10.1 has been mixed. Some of the games on Kongregate have been very usable and cnet tv played pretty smoothly. Going on the daily show's website and watching movies showed a horrible frame rate.
Astoundingly successful ad system?

I have found the ctr painfully low.
Intel Buys McAfee for $7.7 Billion
> To help prevent this problem from happening in the first place, many people elect to alias the rm command to a script which will move files to a temporary location, like a trash bin, instead of actually deleting them.

Whatever happened to backups?

To help prevent this problem...

KEEP A BACKUP.
Concrete5 CEO, Franz Maruna, Stops By For A Visit
Charles Hugh Smith - Nothing Has Changed
I've been going at it only one year with http://hockeybias.com and am not even close at this point.
Manual memory management is always possible in D, and if you really need to, the GC can be ripped out.
http://linux.die.net/man/2/fcntl

actually it could use row-level locking since it uses row-oriented storage and fcntl locks can be applied to a set of bytes within a file. it could also do file-level locking on tempfiles with names derived from the table name and primary key of the row.

anyone with actual knowledge of it care to chime in with what it does do?
What kind of speed increase are you talking about? Your comment's logic seems to suggest that, for instance, C (a language without templates) is inherently slower than C++, which is not the case. Can you back your statements up with evidence?
Silicon Valley Medical Services
Greetings gentlemen,

We are starting a service that provides free colonoscopies to patients.

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gcc and llvm don't have a technique with that name, but it sounds a little like an implementation detail to me. What is it prior to and/or integrated with?

gcc supports profile-guided optimization just fine, llvm has some code for it but I'm not sure if it's hooked up. Neither of them use iterative techniques for optimization - they're already too slow as it is for most people, anyway.
Last years talks were live streamed if I recall and are still accessible at: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool. I'd say its safe to assume that'd also be the case this year.
I don't know man, getting rid of a solid engineering talent because he is socially awkward doesn't increase my confidence in a company.
http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html
Chris Anderson: What I Read
We have good information, but not good structure. Structure encourages high-quality contribution and eases querying of the information.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Small dip??? Intel lost $3.5 billion in market cap on the news. McAfee gained $2.6 billion.
THree Simple Ways to Verify a Team is Self-Organizing
Good thing I know how to ctrl -, otherwise that would have been unreadable (tiny screen here!)
Are there many webcams that do 1280x800 resolution? Or is it more likely a photo?

http://plastik.hu/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/cinke.jpg

Occasionally an ant or fly will crawl across my security webcam and scare the heck out of me for a moment.
Adobe CS5 has some rudimentary HTML5 Canvas export capabilities, and from what I've heard, they plan to develop HTML5 as a fully-supported platform in future releases. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69S22ZBBqA
One could argue (and probably someone has) that the web boom of the past 10-15 years also benefits from weak intellectual property. Imagine the pace of progress if, for example, Experts-Exchange were able to sue Stack Overflow for cloning their idea, or Quora were now in litigation over Facebook Questions.
One comment...Wall Street doesn't have a choke-hold on technical talent. For instance, most (I'm confident to say above 90%) people recruited by banking programs cannot write a single line of code. Excel macros don't count.
Rumour: Hackers Crack PS3 Copy Protection
Org-mode is great. I'm using it now to organize an intro to CS class at my university. I write the lecture notes, pass exercises, give grades, etc.

There are so many things org mode can do I'm still frequently surprised at how useful it is, even after using it regularly for 3 years.
Would a single member of the team (the release manager) be doing it all though, and the rest of the team would only be pushing to the development branch? The release manager would maybe pull for hotfixes, but it would always be the release manager doing the work (or his proxy).
The implications of P=NP being true are much greater for modern computing. Proving P!=NP would therefore result in many researchers whose life's work is in trying to prove P=NP moving on to something else.
If I recall correctly, that's a bug that is preset on a particular kernel from 6-9 months ago.
It would be cool to try something like this, but I also wonder if the web is "it". With all this talk about net neutrality, it sometimes gets lost that the cool thing was being able to invent a new service on a new port. Would the web have been here if the net port restricted like it does today in the days of gopher?

If you were going to do this.... I would probably go with something more persistent in a protocol (more X windows than http). Flip the axis (0,0 top left) and ... well a lot of things from display postscript ... might be fun,
No, he's just a troll. Expect him to delete his postings in a couple of minutes, he pulled that trick the other day.
What an awesome site. I especially enjoyed the first slide, doing something unexpected for a friend or a stranger.
Clearly they should be doing just that, if they're not already working towards that goal.

But I have rather low expectations. If Adobe's theoretical HTML5 tools are anything like Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG HTML editor or, worse, GoLive, they'll produce bloated, terrible code.
I posted this particularly because of point 17:

"Innovation" stays safely corralled in the realm of toys, gadgets and social media. Real innovations in education, governance, the legal system, etc. that threaten the status quo fiefdoms and Power Elites are smothered at birth.

What are your thoughts on this? I know that I've had this vague sense of disappointment that the biggest, most recognizable 'innovation' we've seen this year is the Ipad - which, let's face it, the hardware has been around for years; it's just the slick iOS that brings it all together effectively... And I'm not ready to view programming as innovation, necessarily.

So what are your thoughts on this? What can be done to foster some real innovation?
I would prefer not calling any branch master when using a specific scheme like this. It's confusing. Master of what? The master development branch? The master release branch? Better to name each branch specifically.
Even in current JavaScript engines, drawing with canvas is still pretty slow for the types Flash applications they'd like to promote. Maybe they'll port things in the future but it doesn't seem ready for prime-time now.
You beat me to a response. Here's some more info: http://ajaxian.com/archives/html5-tools-from-adobe-html5-pac...
Chrome to Firefox is, what IE was to Netscape
Don't let it happen again! Support open source and use Firefox.
Let me simplify your thought process here: it does more harm than good.
Yeah, i think he misunderstood my point just slightly, which is really that there's not enough serious dev talent that in NYC that actually wants to go into startups. Wall Street is not the only cause, but is a major factor.

Ironically, I intro'd that reporter to 60% of the people in the story he quoted, including Carter Cleveland and Cody Brown.
Paid acquisition is a very popular way to get apps traffic. CAC is less than ARPU for those who use it most. The brand advertising is some of the most engaging on the internet. The amount of money means it is successful for Facebook. The rate of increase in spending means it is successful for advertisers. That Facebook hasn't turned its whole site green for the next shitty Hulk movie makes it an effective success for the user, relative to others.
I assume he meant for Startup Bootcamp
Apparently he created Emacspeak.
A few interesting new speakers this time: Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun), Ron Conway, Tom Preston-Warner (GitHub) and Brian Chesky (Airbnb).
It is debatable whether that ETF holds as much gold as they are supposed to, as IOUs of gold from other institutions count as "gold" for their accounting (as I understand it.)

This is the real problem we've seen in gold bull markets in the past, and currently the derivatives trade far exceeds the global supply of gold. (And an "IOU" is a derivative)

I'd recommend either holding physical yourself or holding allocated gold on account with a trustworthy depository.

The ETF, however, is probably good if you want to try an option strategy.
It's always interesting to see the business press scratch its head after baffling acquisitions like this and try to spin a coherent explanation of how the two companies fit together. The same thing happened when eBay bought Skype, but wishing didn't make that deal logical either.
Hospice for Dying Publishers?
Do the videos need to be optimized for mobile because of API incompatibilities, or just to make up for dearer machine resources (CPU, RAM, network etc.) available on mobile? If the latter, wouldn't it presumably be just as possible to make HTML apps that don't work on mobile for the same reasons?

Ditto for the game control issue - if someone makes an game that's designed for keyboard control (or a site dependent on "hover"), it won't work well on mobile whether it's implemented in HTML, Flash, or whatever else, right?
Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think
If direct use of a handful of simple statistics could get a risk-free 4% return, wouldn't automated trading have arbitraged that out by now? My impression is that the quants now have to rely on much more complex models than the traditional technical analysis statistics to get any sort of reliable return.
Anything planned for the Midwest?
If you can show me how to make audiotool.com or even something like captainforever.com in HTML5 I think I'll begin to see where you're coming from, but there are plenty of things Flash does that HTML5 does not. To flip the switch from Flash 10 to HTML5 would be cutting off a lot of functionality.

Saying HTML5 should replace Flash is like saying HTML5 should replace JPGs.
Most phones only have hardware H.264 playback, but flash supports many other formats as well via software rendering. My bet is that it was forced to use software rendering on some videos.
Or, if you want to really delete a file, use
#shred filename
command

#man shred
SHRED(1) User Commands SHRED(1)

NAME
shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it

I especially like the -n option!
Whenever people ask me who does our PR, I just refer them to Matt.
Just a little anecdote about how good spamhaus really is. I used to co-locate in Toronto, right next door to a bunch of heavy duty spammers. It so happened that there was a class C split in to three subsections, two of them belonged to the spammer and a tiny 16 host range in the middle that belonged to us.

Spamhaus figured this all out by themselves and took great care not to cause any collateral damage while going after the spammers. Pretty impressive, especially since that would have been very hard to figure out from the outside.
Formula One simulation using Racer (source code available)
Yeah, I misread. Apologies. I too am interested in the speakers for Startup Bootcamp
A deeper understanding of the program - which is what verification brings to the table - may be useful; even if it is too slow for most code, it can occasionally be used to detect bugs/speed up the most critical parts.

It would also be rather useful, although probably quite a bit of work, to have a "verify the optimizations you did" mode. While most errors aren't compiler errors, gcc has been known to optimize bugs into programs...
Except for the part about WebKit being open source... And the Chromium project...
Yes, that's the point. The author is saying that if you have to go through and convert your existing Flash content to work on a mobile device, why not go the full distance and convert it to HTML5?
Also note that the author of the article is also the author of D.
From the selfish viewpoint of the researcher, open access seems to be generally considered to increase citations and the general impact of a published paper:

http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
This seems to allow backups only, not homebrew.
Interesting photo, bad statistical analysis.

The probability of a bird flying in front of the camera exactly as it takes a photo is in no way dependent on how long the camera has been running. Every image capture is an independent event.

There are also many, many webcams in existence, and while there is a low probability of a bird appearing in a photo captured by any specific camera, the probability of some bird appearing in front of some camera at some time would be much higher, and would likely have resulted in a similar amount of attention from bloggers.
Facebook Platform Roadmap Update (dozens of API methods deprecated)
It's got some flaws, but it's one of the most pro-individualism, pro-production, pro-creativity, pro-persistence, pro-hard work, anti-politicking, anti-corruption works of all time. Her characterization of the people she's opposed to is a bit juvenile, but there's a lot of really good and valid stuff in there too - it's the only book I know of that acknowledges the phenomenon where a man works really hard to provide for a bunch of people who think he's not doing enough (Hank Rearden). Also, the opening chapter where everyone is looking to cover their ass and Dagny says she'll accept responsibility if something goes wrong introduces a very strong female protagonist who does business, travels, and lives her life in a strong way.

It's not high literature, it's got some flaws, but it's got some great messages - it'd be a shame people who have contradictory politics just throw all those great messages out.
(This was going to be a response to someone else but figured that it might be useful as a stand alone comment on the safety of gold vs the safety of cash or money markets)

Inflation is more than %4, so you're not actually earning anything. Gold, is pretty steady, so you can dollar cost average in if you think it is at a local maxima. It benefits from being immune to inflation, plus it is entering into the bull market phase.

The way I know gold is just beginning its bull market is that your percpetion that it is "scary" is very common. (and understandable) It will be scary for a long time before it becomes "a can't lose proposition that everyone has got to get into!" We are at the "Awareness" phase where it is not uncommon to hear that you should buy gold.... but it is not a mainstream investment yet.

When it becomes one, and then enters a strong bull market, people who bought now will benefit greatly from not only the inflation protection, but this additional demand.

Unfortunately, that mainstreaming and additional demand will cause prices to go very high, resulting in people advocating it from a momentum basis, which will cause momentum to accelerate and gold will lift off and become a bubble.

Since we've all just lived thru the housing bubble we should be able to identify it. That's when you get out (and no need to try and call the top, getting out early in a bubble is fine... so long as you've identified a fundamentally undervalued sector to move into.)
Lots of great advice on things that count from entrepreneurs and a killer design. Thanks for sharing!!
HTML5 is cool but it's not the end-all. You have a whole set of new issues to deal with when you use HTML5. You have to worry about cross-browser compatibility and specific rendering bugs, whereas Flash authors don't. You have to rely on the slow JavaScript VMs included in even the fastest browsers (even the "fast" JS VMs are still rather slow), and then you have IE, which is still used by > 50% of internet users, of which much is IE 6 or 7, which are outdated and _extremely_ slow. You have audio synchronization issues. There is no ready-made IDE like Adobe's Flash IDE, meaning HTML5 development is much harder for many people. There are other issues too.

The fact is that HTML5 is not a reasonable general replacement for Flash. If you want your thing to work for most people, you are going to have to write in Flash anyway. Realistically, only a relative handful of people could run a HTML5/JavaScript program at Flash-equivalent speeds. And that assumes that you just want something in Flash that HTML5 could do; there's still RTMP and significant swaths of other stuff that Flash does and HTML5 doesn't.
The sequel is already covered:

http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
100mbit unmetered will cost you less than $1000/month.
If you look at the treasury auctions very closely you'll notice that over the last 9 months the buyers of the bonds have been (unreported and obscured) the federal reserve. Which means that the bond auctions are a direct monetization scheme.

This is keeping bond yields low (and below inflation anyway).

When it comes to light or has to stop, or the remaining foreign buyers all quit (Because yields are low and the market says they should be higher) then yields will have to rise.

When this happens previous bonds that have low yields will have their values drop....
Do you think one particular party would benefit? I don't.
Sounds like you got listed on the PBL. SpamHaus lets anyone delist their IP from the PBL...
patio11 highly suggests Crazyegg and I was thinking about getting it for the $10/mn or so that it is, but this deal is amazing. For someone who has never done A/B testing or website optimization, this is an amazing deal to help get my startup off the ground!

My question: Is this really legit? It sounds too good to be true.
Thanks. I try to model my interviews on JL's work.
Ecch.

Let's stick with the Lord of the Rings comparison. If Ayn Rand wrote it, Aragorn and Gandalf would have just hopped the first boat west and let the world fend for itself, because hey, what's the world done for them?

If you were born in America with access to a good education, you're in the luckiest 1% of anyone who ever lived anywhere, and that's all before your 10th birthday. The message of Atlas Shrugged, that these people are 100% self-made and the world owes them something for their hard work, is entitled bullshit.
The much glossed-over answer is that JavaScript and HTML just isn't a good environment for rich app development, for many reasons. One "elephant in the room" kind of issue is that JavaScript's object system is not acceptable to most programmers, and most programmers require classical OOP.

Even prototype system fanatics probably would have to admit that the current state of JavaScript doesn't work very well, with its warts like the "this" keyword behavior, and the tendency for all framework authors to role their own mutually incompatible systems.

Even Google seems to have backed off from this space recently - have you heard much mention of Chrome OS lately?
If you want to see it, put this in your address bar:

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After base-64 encoding and including whitespace, it's still only 408 chars for the PNG.
Try the Mercury browser app. I'm not sure why it would be the case, but their tab implementation seems much less eager to reload tabs.
Where the author says conservative, he means liberal.

(From afar, I understand my Colonial cousins' struggle with these two words.)
Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe
> where a man works really hard to provide for a bunch of people who think he's not doing enough

Isn't that the plot of every Charles Dickens novel ever?
But that's begging the question - there's still no reason to do that unless you already think Flash is a dead end, the future is HTML uber alles, etc. Which this guy apparently didn't, since at beginning of his article he writes, "I’m the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that “Flash has had its day.” I took it as nothing more than showmanship ... " until he tried 10.1 on Android.