skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I thought OpenMP's worker-pool management did do that? E.g. if you have an 100-iteration loop, and have your num_threads set to 10, then it'll start up the first 10 subproblems; the first thread to finish will get the 11th, etc. If one of the first 10 is really slow, the other threads will still move on to churn on the rest of the loop iterations. Or is that not how it works?
Also, they should get off your lawn? "The kids" have never been able to write a complete sentence. Until they get to the point where some of them need to - at which point, they do fine.
Wait... didn't he inherit a multi-billion dollar company?

That's called being born on third and making it home.
Very simple but great idea. Making doing good easy is definitely the way. People want to give - if it is not a big hazzle. And little sums simply sum up!
NVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis
if your going to create web apps, you need to know ajax, its the way forward for interactive rich apps, jquery is a javascript library(the most poplaur one i think), and it has built in ajax function. jquery makes it incredbily easy to deal ajax. so yeh defo learn jquery, its important and mad easy!!

EDIT: sorry i forgot to mention what ajax is, ajax is a way to communicate with your server without having to relaod the page, getting instant feedback i.e. like commenting on facebook.
When I first read this title, I thought "Why is Chris Dixon on welfare?"
Ask HN: Review My Startup - grep42, a freelance job search engine
Hey guys, I'm the founder of grep42 which is a freelance/contract job search engine. The USP of grep42 is to allow freelancers to spend less time searching for the right job and more time working and earning. As of now one can search from close to about ~40k freelance openings from different job sites almost instantly. The speed is here to stay :)

I had been freelancing for a while before working full-time on this, so I've built this to be a product that I would use. I really hope other freelancers feel the same way. ANY feedback and feature suggestions would be HIGHLY appreciated!

Eagerly and impatiently waiting till then! :)
This analogy has been explored in "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum" book by Alan Cooper. It's a good book, despite some deserved criticism ( http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285436217.html ) it raised.
No - live sports coverage will show up on whatever platform has the deepest pockets to buy the rights to show it.

Youtube's already done some large scale live events. They might find it amusing to come in and drop a huge stinking pile of cash to have your favorite sporting event be available only on Youtube Live/Google TV.
I used Yahoo Pipes in two clever, useful ways.

One: I would tweet announcements for @asuSoDA, the Software Developers Association I ran at Arizona State U. But these are easy to miss, especially if one doesn’t use Twitter, so I used Pipes to clean up the RSS feed Twitter published, stripping the redundant nature of each tweet starting with "asusoda:", for instance.

Two: A professor published homework and grades online, by adding a paragraph starting with date. I used another tool that scrapes HTML into RSS, then piped this into Y! Pipes, where I used regexes to not only give the RSS entries nice titles, but also linked to homework details pages, which had guessable names but the professor did not link to from the announcement pages. So if his note including the phrase /[Hh]omework ([0-9]+)/, I would wrap this in <a> tags as appropriate.
One thing that will be very important: XmlHttpRequest.

I recommend this post, it helped me to understand the basics: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2010/06/learning-ajax-after-ig...
The drivers are already licensed. They can drive wherever they want to, and pick up whomever they want to.

The specific legal problem that the article mentions is that operating the dispatching company is illegal.
I'd love your feedback on our copy and overall message at http://commerce.exorbyte.com - thx! (infous AT exorbyte.com)
Thanks!!!
You'll get more than Karma if you can help us!
> if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn’t that hard to build, don’t think twice. Take the money and run.

You hear that, Google? You should have sold!
Dilution hurts.
> I had no idea that there was even an argument that eating meat was cheap.

In Food, Inc., the case is made that it’s far cheaper (and easier, and more psychologically desirable) to get a 99¢ drive-thru burger than fresh vegetables. This is believed to be a significant cause of obesity (childhood and otherwise), especially in the lower classes.
Protip: Here's the bug I was referencing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583077 - it's already been patched and fixed, so why can't I take a peak for curiosity?
Check this Ocaml talk by Yaron Minsky from Jane Street Capital:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533275

He said, that unlike Ocaml, in F# you still can get Null-pointer exceptions, since it's based on .NET
We started SwipeGood to make it super simple for people to give without having to decide when/how much etc...you would simply sign up with your credit/debit card and round up every transaction you do to the nearest dollar and donate the difference. We are currently working on integrating different ccs/banks and thought Blippy might be a cool way to start...looking forward to what you guys think :)
I agree; the article is fluff. I upvoted for the discussion.

My partner and I are vegan and it has long been our experience that it's a cheaper way to live, especially given that vegan staples like grains / legumes can be bought in bulk at low prices.

The way I think about it is that meat eaters tend to eat herbivores, meaning that if you're buying meat you're paying for both the production of plant life to feed some animal as well as the cost of raising / slaughtering / packaging that animal. A plant-based diet will always be less expensive as you are just eating the plant material that would otherwise be fed to a cow, pig, or whomever (a simplification, but a helpful one, I think).

Where it does get expensive is with processed cheese/meat alternatives (eg, Daiya and Gardein). My gut feeling is, though, that purchasing these occasionally would at most make our budget match (not exceed) that of a meat eater's.

In the end, saving money is one of the many, many reasons we are vegan.
The State of Jay-Z's Empire
It's probably really emotionally satisfying to quit on an achievement, but I find it a lot harder to re-enter the next day without an unsolved problem. If I have an unsolved problem to start with I can build enough momentum to go into virgin territory, but starting the day without an unsolved problem can lead to hours of that blank page, writers' block, "what do I do now?" uncertainty.
I'm not saying the guy isn't smart. Just throwing out a little "outliers" to grease the wheel for the rest of us donkeys.

Sometimes reasons to hope are not best expressed by those who have nothing to regret. This is one of those times.
It would be better to compare direct substitutes, like tvp vs. ground beef.

The first google results find $3.50/lb for tvp and $6.50/lb ground beef (http://www.nutsonline.com/cookingbaking/beans/soybeans/prote... and http://www.amazon.com/Omaha-Steaks-pkgs-Premium-Ground/dp/B0... respectively).

So the conclusion might be true, despite an invalid argument.
I think "ignoring the law because you disagree with it" is called civil disobedience. Although the term usually means individuals breaking laws for moral reasons, not companies doing it for efficiency and profit.

Edit: I just wanted to point out that it is sometimes valid to ignore a law because you disagree with it. I'm not saying Ubercab is in the right.
I believe the loophole they operate under is that the ability to pick people up randomly on the street in SF requires a license, but picking people up who call ahead is simply a car service and not subject to taxi licensure. The fact that UberCab has made doing the latter effectively as easy and convenient as doing the former is indeed a challenge to the old guard, whom you can bet is working behind the scenes to close the aformentioned loophole as quickly as possible.

Taxi service in SF is truly horrible and is ripe for disruption. I hope these guys win. Go UberCab!
The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator
Yes, in the same way it becomes totally legal to sell cocaine as long as you only sell to members of your private club.

(Note: IANAL.)
kool app, do you think you can highlight(or bold) the search terms on your search results, so users can see where thier keywords appear on the results, it just makes it easier to look at :))
Great idea! Makes it so easy to decide when, how and how much to donate. I love the concept that whenever I spend money I also contribute to a cause.
Presumably these two issues would still exist:

- Its cars don’t have insurance equivalent to taxis’ insurance.
- Limos in U.S. cities usually have to prebook an hour in advance, by law
Ubercab is not a taxi service and does not own or operate limo vehicles. We simply connect consumers with existing Limo Drivers. We do make sure that all limo drivers that connect are properly licensed and have the appropriate insurance.
>We should ask our local MPs to do as the US have done, where government created IP is public domain.

Perhaps I'm making too many assumptions but I'm thinking that even if the data were PD it wouldn't matter. They still need to get hold of it in the first place. The data is continuously refreshed, presumably, even caching the data returned by the API (for more than a short time) would be bad - trains|buses are delayed, break-down, there are strikes and closures, etc. and so transport services are in constant flux.
January 05, 2010
IANAL, but AFAIK returning money means, legally, that you agree that you did something wrong, therefore if you return the money the investor might be able to sue you with further litigation.
Diplomacy scores very highly on that characterization (I'm not sure about 3).
Thanks! Great suggestion. I'll work on that :-)

Do you see yourself using it regularly?
I know...it seems that they might be the antithesis, but Reddit just never struck a cord for me.
The best argument I've heard against AirBNB is that some people are buying up property and basically setting up hovels that they're renting out. Unsafe, unclean, miserable places to live.

But hell, I've stayed in shitty motels where the only thing keeping the carpets glued to the floor was the roach shit.
And they people who do it usually plan to be arrested. Not sure that makes for a great business plan, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
"Its cars don’t have insurance equivalent to taxis’ insurance" is taken directly from the TC article.

As to the logic of "we are not a taxi service, we just make money putting customers into taxis", I really can't comment on how the law views this.

If the SF Metro Transit Authority withdraws the cease and desist order then please accept my apologies for making bad assumptions, but given the law enforcers say what you are doing is not allowed, I can only assume that it is, indeed, not allowed, regardless of how you word what exactly you do.

Either way, I hope you get it resolved (whether that means them backing down, or you agreeing to whatever they're wanting of you), other than this current situation your service looks pretty great, and I'm sure I'll use you some day when I'm on your side of the pond.
ubercab could relocate their business to russia.

SF customers and drivers could still pay for the app.

let's see them regulate that

I want to make a taxi dispatcher that is outsourced to an Indian call centre. These dispatchers don't realize how deeply obsolete they are.
But why in the world shouldn't sports be available online? Each large telco could have a box that picked up the sports streams then broadcasted it to its subscribers (so that it doesn't require as much bandwidth as sending from one place to everybody, and so that it runs on their own connections which is very cheap). The delays wouldn't be more than a couple seconds, which should be enough even for live sport.
I'm curious as to what libraries are available for linear algebra and numerical computation (free / open source ones) and how they compare to e.g. Numpy, mpj or colt on java, etc?
Oh? Perhaps it was 10.5 then? Or maybe due to upgrading. I've had to switch the default from 1.5 to 1.6 on my machine and on several other peoples as well.
I sent you a message asking for feedback on http://vendder.com

Would love to hear what you have to say

Thanks
But how'll you get the karma?
So is ubercab connecting people with "car services" that aren't licensed taxi companies?

Are these the drivers you see often in NYC when arriving at the airport? My understanding is that there are risks to using such services (like if you leave something in the vehicle you're unlikely to recover it whereas a taxi co. can usually track it down). True?
There is a reference to this paper in the article:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/pomegranate/
With all due respect to Mr. Lyons this paragraph insulted me - as a hacker/entrepreneur:

Can anyone create an enduring business on the Web, where it’s easy to build new companies, and when survival depends on the whims of fickle users? The big lesson of Digg may be simply this: if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn’t that hard to build, don’t think twice. Take the money and run.

where it's easy to build new companies?

A company that wasn't that hard to build?

How does he know that? Has he ever built a company?

I think that's quite contemptuous. This sentiment is exactly what Steve Jobs was referring to when he told that Gizmodo/Engadget blogger (can't remember which it was) that they should stop criticizing other people's work and create something of their own.

Goddammit this pissed me off.
hey KLbarry -- i'm a PM on mechanical turk. Did you end up trying the service? you can ping me at natala @ amazon dot com if you have questions.
I know what you mean about LCY - just a pleasure to use. It's a pain if you have to head over to say, Richmond or Ruislip, but for the centre or east of London, it's a dream. I choose it every time I go to London (which is always short-haul).

I also choose to travel Porter whenever it's possible when I'm going to or leaving Toronto - Toronto City airport is incrediby central (less than 1km from the central business district?), with added bonus 2 minute ferry ride from the city to the dinky little island.

Long haul from Europe into South-East Asia or the South Pacific/Australia from Europe, there is almost always a plane change.

Choosing between Dubai, HK, KL, Bangkok or Singapore is a no-brainer: Changi is hands-down winner. Long waits are handily dealt with by the free city tour or the short MRT trip into town to pop into Little India or Chinatown or the malls, or the beach or ... Airport facilities are generally awesome, especially the (groundside) basement Hawker food hall in the fourth sub-basement of Terminal 3. I love the rooftop pool on Terminal 1. And SQ is a good reason to choose Changi all on its own.

So yeah, I choose airports and airlines based on facilities and pleasure of use. For long-haul the differences can be a matter of only a couple of Euros, but the difference in the experience, the amount of saved time etc is significant.

Decent TGV services mean than I haven't had to use the god-awful CDG place for many years. I hope the same sorts of services will be implemented in the UK at some point.
Totally, there's a wide variance in cost of vegan diets, as is also true of vegetarian and omnivore diets, and that might be substantially wider than the cost differences between these categories. The cost of my vegetarian diet now is a lot higher than it was when I was a poor college student at my vegetarian co-op.
Actually if you believe the reports of what Reddit says their traffic is greater than digg's traffic.
Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but the argument "Companies have the right to ignore the law if doing so increases profits" seems rather...unconventional.
AdLee is different, in that they actually own all their cars (and lease them to their drivers) and they make guarantees on the quality of the cars, etc.

And while they're cheaper than black cabs, they're more expensive than minicabs (for non-londoners: Black Cabs can be hailed off the street, minicabs you have to call) which is a closer comparison.

What UberCab seem to be doing (I may be wrong as I've never used their service) is aggregating drivers from multiple limo services into an on-demand system. It seems that in SF that limo services have to be pre-booked an hour in advanced, which suggests that UberCab would firstly have to get a taxi service licence and secondly get all of their limo drivers licensed and insured as taxi drivers (as opposed to limo drivers). I imagine the later is the bigger problem than the first.
I think it's four or five steps up from the rogue drivers at NYC airports. The drivers are licensed limo drivers, and everything is official/on-the-books.
If Ubercab is civil disobedience, taxi drivers can drive without licenses and claim that they are participating in civil disobedience. The medallion cost is a huge component of the cost of a taxi (a NYC medallion is worth over $300K) so this is a big fairness-of-competition issue which needs to be addressed.
Competitors don't kill companies, companies kill companies.

Editor's note: By companies kill companies, I mean the company kills itself :)
I'm no expert on the matter, but from what I hear the APIs involve bridges to the graphics or windowing system. I do hope that a solid open JDK is built.
>If you can't balance a company's finances without saying "we won't follow the law because it's too expensive" then you're doing something wrong.

No, it's the law that is wrong. It is corrupt, it is repressive, it is evil.

First of all, you can't just "pay for a license" to operate a taxi in S.F., because competition is illegal. The industry is a closed, city-enforced cartel, and the taxi "licenses" -- "medallions" -- first of all, have a mandatory cap of 1,400 taxis, secondly, are "allocated to individual drivers on the basis of seniority on a waiting list":

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/02/24/feb-26-cab-industry-...

Your standard labor cartel.

Even better. They are piloting a program to "liberalize" the "licensing" (that SFBG news story), which mean under certain conditions you can actually "pay for a license" -- at a cost of $250,000 apiece. Although, naturally, the government quotas are still in effect, and you have to be a S.F. taxi union member to begin with, and who gets to buy the licenses is in order of seniority, etc., etc.:

>Under the pilot program, only certain medallions can be sold: those held by individuals 70 years old or older or who are permanently disabled and cannot fulfill the driving requirement. While no medallion holder is required to sell, only those who elect to participate in the pilot program have the option to sell at this time. The other set of medallions being sold are those in the possession of the SFMTA due to the death of a medallion holder or through revocation proceedings. The price for a medallion is $250,000.

>The medallion buyers are subject to the same rules as other current medallion holders, such as the full-time driving requirement and driving a San Francisco taxi for at least four of the past five years. Under the pilot program, available medallions are offered to qualified buyers in the order of seniority on the waiting list and after that in order of the driver A-Card permit seniority. The decision to buy is voluntary, but interested buyers had to notify the SFMTA of their interest in participating in the pilot.

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/apress/SFMTAAnnouncesFirstTaxiMedal...

More about S.F. taxi licenses, from the cartel's own webpage:

http://www.medallionholders.com/medallions.html

Many other union-infected city governments do the same thing. NYC stands out: its taxi "licenses" now cost $825,000 each:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/nyc-taxi-medalli...

Disclaimer: IANAL, all I know is what I read in news articles.
I have a bunch of paper with checkboxes. Two or three check boxes a day, make that tick, hear the MK guy. But next day I've got another empty check box that I'm going to attack.
Shouldn't take more than a couple minutes to look up online - or to call somebody who knew and have worked with that person before.
>Being part of the social web is not an indicator of professionalism.

Not at all?

I'm not saying you need to be tweeting what you had for lunch or anything but having some presence on the social web is probably a good indicator in a broad swathe of fields. For example if I'm after a graphic designer and they're on LinkedIn|Facebook|Twitter or somesuch then it's an indicator that they're clued in with modern advertising, likely to have their finger more on the pulse, likely to be happy corresponding via the 'net, etc..
Monday Note: Google’s Self-Driving Car
I should've mentioned this before, it's in pre-beta phase right now. Feature suggestions are welcome!
My 2.4GHz MacBook has been feeling sluggish lately... so I just ordered a 1.6GHz MBA. I expect it will actually feel faster for many tasks due to the SSD and 4GB of RAM (current MB has 2GB), but I'll let you know...
On the mac: IDE == Xcode. API's OpenGL, OpenGL ES (on the iPhone/pad), 2d there's quartz which is beautiful but generally too slow for games.
No-one talking about tequila? A good tequila is next on my purchase list for my spirits cupboard.

Generally, I'm a whisky man. Islay and Speyside particularly (Ardbeg or Caol Ila would probably be the desert island whiskies, though my guilty pleasure is a 12 y.o. Glenlivet).

Obviously, I mainly drink water. Whisky isn't what you go for when you need refreshing.

Also, is there a correlation between black coffee drinkers and whisky drinkers?
My first (quite pointless) Ruby website
Indeed, I'm glad I didn't miss that video, it almost got lost on HN.
There are few people over the age of 5 who have nothing to regret, and I don't think PB is one of them.
The problem I have with this is that you're extracting a formula (or non-formula rather) after the fact. It seems as if you lived your life like any other person, and things just eventually happened to you.
The regulations read that a livery services ride must be "pre-arranged".

We've not seen the hour prior requirement in any law. If it does exist please send it our way, (info@ubercab.com) but we believe that this is opinion not fact.
It was a good movie, highly recommended overall, but the idea long coding sessions are strongly associated with beer-drinking was one of the few false notes.

FYI, a pint in The City (SF itself) can range you from $2.50 to $6 depending on place and time.
Professional recommendations are formalities.
Yes. You're right for serious enjoyment of course but I really enjoy drinking whisky from a cut crystal tumbler for some reason. I like savouring the good ones from a proper glass, but there's something about the weight of a good tumbler...
I found this visualization to be really interesting, powered by Yahoo Pipes: http://www.xefer.com/twitter/ericflo
Ubercab is a great example of disruption of an inefficient, expensive system. The measure of whether something works has never been whether it makes some London official
happy. Of course they won't like something that's taking tax revenue out of their pockets.
Sometimes the best Karma is the private feeling of having been helpful :)
I think he means real life Karma not in HN
Anytime we push back on these issues they again threaten to suit

Sometimes threats are just threats. When I was starting Tarsnap, I spoke to an "angel" investor who, when it became clear that we wouldn't reach a deal, threatened to sue me to recover his "expenses" associated with considering an investment. A few months ago I got an email from an "inventor" threatening to sue me for infringing on his patent application.

In both cases, I responded that I thought they'd be laughed out of court; and I haven't heard from either since.