skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fedora/yum has a kick ass killer feature, which is called "presto - The delta RPM" . I live in a developing country where the internet/bandwidth is costly. Presto saves my bandwidth and money. When i last updated my F13 Presto reduced the update size by 83% (from 194 M to 33 M). For this i will stay with Fedora for ever.
It's extremely confusing. A simple email anonymizer seems like a better option in every case I can think of.
I moved back to my native USA from Australia about a year ago, after living there for 6 years. I also spent two years in the UK in the 90s. Some contrasts were interesting.

Majority rules in Australia and the UK. In the parlimentary system, the potential for gridlock is far less (Yes, the Aussie Senate does slow some things down.) However, the major candidates do have to say some specific things in order to get elected--because they then go and pass them into law. Look at what the UK is doing to their budget. Couldn't happen here. In the US, gridlock is so endemic elections are much more about personality and/or voter disgust.

Mandatory voting in Australia. A good thing I think. A lot of American politics seems to be about convincing you to stay home because your candidate is a louse. In the USA, you could have Ghandi running against Mandela and there would still be mudslinging and scandal mongering.
Might be true. But the only way I'll ever use git is by writing my own svn-like wrapper scripts.
hm.. "the problem of having prisoners live" doesn't sound right.
I would expect this has something to do with the browser and where it indexes the results (pull this rate from) from to start with. As Firefox can deliver results from many search engines, I would love to know if Devin knew what Firefox was searching with at the time, Yahoo/ Bing or Google. If set to Google this could be a fantastic bench test to see what results are actually delivered from both browsers connected to Google.
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Ask HN: Review my startup, Leasely 
http://leasely.com

It works like so: the broker creates a rental and gets a unique URL for that rental to hand out to potential applicants. The applicants go to the URL to fill out an application which then the broker can review and accept/reject.

I made a test broker account for HN users: un:joe@broker.com, pw:broker.

I also created a couple of rental URLs managed by joe@broker.com:

http://www.leasely.com/apply/XQaKx/

http://www.leasely.com/apply/ArFiJ/

You can register as a tenant/applicant by visiting either of those.

Thanks!
Researchers tout unique automated firewall fault fixer
I didn't look at the source in detail, but almost all face detection systems today (including those implemented in hardware in cameras) use a variant of Viola and Jones' Haar-Like Cascade Detector [1].

The major exception is work from CMU and PittPatt [2], which uses Neural Networks [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola-Jones_object_detection_fr...

[2] http://www.pittpatt.com/

[3] http://vasc.ri.cmu.edu/NNFaceDetector/
if the low turnout meant proportionally more of the winning party voters turned out

But you did say "people in general", not "people likely to vote for party X", so your statement only makes sense if you think people in general vote for party X, which is the same as saying that party X would certainly win if everyone voted.

Maybe you misstated what you really meant to say, but I think the inference from what you actually did say was reasonable.

I almost didn't read any further when you began accusing me of making up straw men and being a professional (troll, I assume?). That certainly was a neat trick. :)
I like this deck because it gets right down to the current health and state of the company. Too many pitches leave that out -- focusing only on the future, as if things will magically come together once X million dollars are stirred into the mixing pot.

Ideally, the story you want to sell is that your company doesn't need the money to survive. Your company needs the money to scale more quickly than you could by bootstrapping. (And hopefully that story is true).
Codename: "ThighScorcher" [Or are they running cooler now?]
The Story of Lexra Computers [MIPS competitor]
Clickable: http://www.leasely.com
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Simplified explanation: Unreliable email, so the recipient can pretend they never received the email but still act upon it's contents.

i.e. so you can tell someone that they smell, or their partner is cheating on them, without having to have the awkward conversation that both the sender and recipient would like to avoid.
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"on osx"

lol i have the same situation
An effective way of dealing with spammers is letting the community moderate it. You can add a "Mark as spam" link to every post and only make it visible to users with a certain amount of karma or whatever metric. Basically giving trusted members the option to moderate.

On top of that, record the IP address of the poster, and display the post but only to the spammer. Basically hiding it from everybody else. The spammer will think the post is still active. Everybody else will not see it.
Extra neutrino flavor could be bitter end to Standard Model
The Future of Web Analytics is Social and Customer Focused
Mac OS X, Google Chrome, all up to date stuff. Both run exactly the same.
It's meant to test some of the more extreme bounds of the system. Filling the event queue faster than the code can handle it, for example. Clicking in odd places at strange times and seeing unexpected behavior.

Monkey testing is going to expose things that you never anticipated in your test spec. It's a stress test.
I was trying to turn on some applers to the joy of svn, and the tools at the time were immature, though that was two years back. Tortoise was great on windows though. I thought GIT didn't play well with windows - so a git-tortoise would be welcome.

The article at least implies that you'd be better off on the command line and it's not that bad. But my experience is that to others it can be a turn off.
I currently work directly on the code of a commercial operating system but, for the life of me, I can't figure out Office 2007.
Karma's really a proxy for community participation, albeit kind of one-sided since you don't get increased karma for up-voting someone else (and rightfully so). I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that if you don't participate, then you don't get to solicit the help of others.

But the bar is much lower than that. For the purpose of just keeping spam accounts out, I think the combination of a karma threshold with average non-karma accruing activity over time (such as upvoting others, clicking through on articles, etc) could be an effective filter.
As I understood it, the APB that launched was far, far beyond an MVP. It was the game equivalent of a deep-feature-set, enterprise-class product launch that simply hadn't been well-architected.

In APB's case, it likely would have been vastly preferable to launch with an MVP two or three years ago, the minimum viable product of APB being a game that's low on content but high on playability. Just as with non-game software, they should have concentrated on user experience first, with a small feature set, and have launched something that left the audience hungry for more, rather than deluging the player with content that isn't fun to play.

You gain a gaming audience's trust much faster promising that a fun and short game will get longer than promising that a long and un-fun game will get funner.
I don't think anyone meant personal assistant. The acronym "PA" means "production assistant". A good description is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_assistant
Legomindstorms - once they kids get older.

Don't you find lego is very kit-based (you buy a box and get to build a specific "thing" - wouldn't it be better to buy some building toy which allows one to build whatever they want).

How about meccano? (again not the kit based).

What other construction toys?
There's a coffee shop called 'Coffee Groundz' that bills itself as the meeting place for the Houston start-up scene. I don't live in Houston and have only been once, but there were plenty of people there on laptops.

I think there's also a co-working space in Houston called the Caroline Collective. Never visited, so I can't say more than that.
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Now possible to compile Linux without BKL (big kernel lock)
Cue the PPARMSFM (please post a Rate My Startup for me) posts :)
An option might be to send RMS posts from users with low karma into a slashdot-esque crowdsourced moderation. Randomly show it to 10 users with a high enough karma on any of the list pages (frontpage, newest, classic, etc.). It's then only made public if a high percentage of such "moderators" approve of it (not necessarily counting "approval" as an upvote, just meaning "this is legit"). The percentage could be pretty high, say 80%, and it could optionally be log(karma)-weighted or similar. 100% might be risky; I have no idea.

I have to say I'm not a huge fan of the slashdot moderation system in general, but it could work within this sort of limited scope. Allow people to opt-out altogether via a setting if necessary.

Tangent: I was amazed at the first spammy RMS submission I encountered. It had actually been upvoted. Spammers self-upvoting, or people wholesale upvoting any RMS they see without looking at it first?
You could ask if the user wants to use the standard, or custom and then capture the keycodes for up/down etc.
A two step process seems like more effort than different email addresses per user. Thankfully you can use the from header as long as addresses are suitably unique (hey, it works for flickr, wordpress and countless other sites that host much more sensitive data, why not yours?)

Assign each user an email address that's based on (and I'm sure the likes of cperciva or tptacek can improve on this) an email friendly encoding of an scrypt or bcrypt derived function to generate a unique email address.

This can then be added to the user's address book under an alias for your service. You then store this value and the username in your app. When the email is received, you look up the unique source address and translate it to the user. Problem solved.
I'm about 2 months away from having something to rate, so I started commenting/writing/posting just so that when the time came I wouldn't be "that guy"...
This reminds me of an old Joel Spolsky blog post [1] about exactly this for programmers. The gist is that for tasks that require a great deal of attention and focus (like programmaing and, here, legal analysis), task switching is extremely expensive and should be avoided whenever possible. A bit of management advice from the post regarding this principle:

Good managers see their responsibility as removing obstacles so that people can focus on one thing and really get it done.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
I see a few things happening: we've got a separate link for "Ask HN" topics, another one was created for "offer HN" topics, and now we're talking about having one for RMS topics.

Perhaps it's time for a more generic categorizing system of some kind? You could make it so that people can't post in certain categories without meeting a certain karma threshold.
Some of these seem like genuine weekend problems: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6841/is-there-a-w...
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I'm also confused, but somehow intrigued at trying to decrypt the puzzle that is the idea. As an alternative to chancemail, why wouldn't I just use an anonymous email service? I can't tell from your description whether the message is anonymous or not.

If it's NOT anonymous, is the value to be able to send someone an email with you identified as the sender but with ambiguity about whether the email was delivered? - so that changes in behavior aren't assumed to be linked to the message?
The tablet would essentially be a big screen with no guts.

This is a pretty interesting idea because it speaks to the tight integration within a Android or iOS system. For example:

* The shell tablet would also need a way to pipe multi-touch input back into the core system/phone.

* The core system/phone would need to support an entirely different screen size/resolution.
What advantage does this have over anonymous messaging ?

It seems like a lot of use cases of this product are what people use the anonymous feature of formspring for.
What about just requiring a certain number of active days being signed up? Is there data that shows spam is ever posted by long running users?
According to the article the sales they lose were due to customers who didn't understand the form and therefore filled in the wrong information, not because people couldn't be bother to provide the data.
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Or "lp0 on fire"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
Or just buy a US layout keyboard and use that! It's much better for coding anyway (especially for ObjC and its square brackts - these things aren't even labled on most international keyboards). Also it allows for much faster zergling production!
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Love the idea -- details are important here.

I've tried a few other services for my properties, but the UI tends to be really sloppy for other "apply online" web services. You need to make it easy for me to use and inviting for my potential tenants.

One thing that would make me almost certain to try it is if you could bundle an affordable credit check into the application process. Any plans for something like that?

I'd be interested in helping beta test this if you have a need for that.
I have a ludicrously busy month, but every sunday I'm going to be working on my as yet unnamed movies to see before you die project.
Originally posted here: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face...

What are the rules re: reposts of vias?
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Phone+shell would always be in sync. Two devices means constantly looking for apps, books, media, etc. and realizing, "Crap, that's on the other device. Gotta download it/sync it." For the same price, I'd rather have a phone with a tablet "dock" than have two different devices. Sounds like a great product to me!
Why So Many Startup Founders Get Divorced
No.

There are no close races where I care about the outcome in my district. There are no initiatives I care to support or oppose.

I have fairly equal and tremendous disgust for both of the majority parties. On the issues I care about, I've bashed my head against reality enough to learn that the parties are indistinguishable in practice. I'm not going to trot down to the polls to give anyone a little thrill of excitement that they've gotten another vote for their preferred team.

Nor am I going to throw one of a handful of symbolic votes for a minority-party candidate for any office. The mainstream takes no notice of or interest in "third party" results, and any other interpretation of the supposed value of a symbolic vote is essentially an argument for magic.

I am not superstitious.

As for mandatory voting: Fuck you. I am not your mule; carry your own damn partisan water.
Adding to the mystery, I read the newyorker article (2009) linked from wikipedia on Eurisko, and it seems Lenat forgot the winning strategy Eurisko developed, or the first article is wrong.

"Eurisko, however, had judged that defense was more important than offense, that many cheap, invulnerable ships would outlast fleets consisting of a few high-priced, sophisticated vessels. There were ninety-six ships in Eurisko’s fleet, most of which were slow and clumsy because of their heavy armor" - 1984 article

"astronomical number of small ships like P.T. boats, with powerful weapons but absolutely no defense and no mobility, Lenat said. They just sat there. Basically, if they were hit once they would sink." - 2009 article
CNN's crappy rip of the image cuts off everything past October losing some of the most important data (the lead up to the holidays and Christmas Day). They also cut off the months at the bottom so there's no way to accurately tell what is happening in what month.

Here is their source site which has a better version: http://www.geekosystem.com/facebook-breakup-graph/
But the interactivity is really cool -- not only can you pan/zoom, you can click on any function, and it'll take you to the exact file(s) and line where the function is implemented.

I wouldn't want to do that in a PDF reader.
I'm smalter's co-founder. We would love to have you beta test, I'll email you at the address on your HN profile.

As for credit checks: yep, that's our next step.
Why do you want/need an MBA? That's one of the first questions asked on entry essays.

Yes, you can work at a start-up without being a coder or having an MBA. Right off the bat I see sales as your potential fit. Don't expect much in terms of compensation. You're likely looking at commission plus bonuses for meeting targets. Could be a very lucrative fit if you a) pick the right start-up for you, and, b) really rock at sales. BTW, sales could be in the customer service branch in which case you may be able to wrangle a small salary with bonuses for upselling.
As a fellow hacker in the trenches I like to see what others are doing. The rate my startup posts are a great way to see what is going on and some of the current trends. I have learned a lot from the posts, not only evaluating the site myself but the feedback that is received. Some of it has been spammy or half-baked. Maybe a karma threshold is in order. Better yet as a site of mentors maybe a RMS should be sponsored by a “senior” member. Karma of the sponsor would be on the line if it is spam as judged by his down voting peers but share the rewards of karma if it is a worthy site.
I can't read text on image in some places. Too small image =(
>"Depending on the actual CPM, financially they are doing at least two to four times better than they were before."
A million $ gross: This online clothing business uses WTF moments as strategy
Good point ilamont, I wonder if they have a'users vs risk' load balancer built into the search for the rate. For instance if 100k people tried for the same rate at the same time, would it randomly change the rate to balance the risk?
What does YCombinator give you?

-- Access to advice from more experienced people (in many respects: programming, architecture, business model, user acquisition, usability, user experience. It's rare for any startup to have 2-3 founders that together are rock solid in all these areas)

-- A name-brand incubator that helps you attract talent

-- A name-brand incubator that helps you attract high-value first adopters

-- Networking with other very talented YCombinator applicants and alumni

-- Plenty of news coverage from tech pundits and other journalists because of the YCombinator brand

I would bet you that the overwhelming majority of YCombinator applicants do not apply for the money. They most likely apply for all the other intangible benefits.
Find friction in your conversion process. Profit wildly. Rinse and repeat.
IE6 from a non-government email address and/or not during normal corporate business hours = dirty overalls + straw hat
No, he isn't; you entirely missed the point. Cache misses are expensive. Given that he specified integer keys, it's not a bad guess that a hash function will run fewer than 300 cycles on the specified Nehalem. If your association list has to run across three cachelines but your hash implementation runs across only two, the hash wins under these circumstances. Add a couple more cachelines and hashes start winning for more than just integer keys, too.

Times have changed. Incidentally, the same may be true of some of the tree alternatives to hashes, too; used to be log n lookups would beat the O(1) lookups of hashes in many real-world scenarios because of the big constant on the O(1), but running across log n cachelines vs. O(1) cachelines (without a big constant) is a different story. The gulf between computation and memory continues to widen.
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Totally agree. I did some of my earliest engineering work at 10 yrs old with Legos. Now I use code, but it's still very much about how things go together.
This is actually a case where "Cue", not "Queue," is correct.
While playing with myself... ahem... I noticed the html side being a little laggy with key presses. Any speculation as to why? Freaking awesome work!
Talk to your child. Share experiences with him and talk about what you've experienced. You'll both learn a lot.

When my daughter was in the early years of elementary school I was just getting started with web development. I was working at home and she showed an interest in what I was doing. I tried to teach the basics of html so she could create web pages. She definitely had the intelligence to succeed at it but it didn't appeal to her. I didn't push it. We found something else to share: reading books and visiting bookstores. She's developed a broad intelligence that is helping her have a fulfilling life without a line of code in sight.
A person reacting to emotional propaganda is much worse then someone voting by dice.

A large group of people voting by dice do not effect the out of the election. A group of people reacting to emotional propaganda may very well vote all the same way and effect the election for irrational reasons.

The group of people who decide to self select themselves out of the voting process by ignorance are allowing the group swayed by propaganda to have a larger control of the vote.

Therefore do to the above mentioned effect and the Dunning-Kruger effect it is only rational not to vote if have evidence that your vote will do more damage then a random vote.
Yep, and advertisers can now target readers that are willing to spend money online.
That's the whole point. The value of the degree is the inverse of its scarcity. If you have 50% of people with degrees, it's more useful than if you have 80%, which is more useful than if you have 95%.

The value of the degree, to you, trying to whittle down applicants, is inversely related to scarcity. But not to the degree holders. In fact, as the scarcity decreases, the cost of not having the degree may increase.

There's effectively two states: (1) Have the degree (2) Don't have the degree.

In a world where the degree is scarce having the degree may provide more value over the average person (although if it is too scarce, the value may actually diminish, as it may also hinder its credibility or recognition). But at the same time, not having the degree doesn't reduce your value as much versus the average person (since its rare, no one notices its absence).

When the degree is common, the opposite is the case.

What I'm trying to say is that scarcity matters to you in a very isolated activity (whittling down applicants). Outside of that, the role of scarcity plays both sides of the fence.
From the other perspective, as the new york times puts it:

"More Than 100,000 Pay for British News Site"

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/business/media/03newscorp...
How about just a regular docking station for my phone?

We already have phones with 1Ghz processors, and web apps that are reducing the need for big local resources. How soon before I can just have one single device and nothing to sync?
"Minimal viable product" is context sensitive and dependent on competition. A hunk of sharp flint lashed to a stick might be a good minimal viable product in the ax market in 15,000 BC, but it's not today. The MMO space is filled with quite a lot of very robust, very polished competitors. To compete you either need to match that level of production quality or have a unique experience that is compelling enough to make up for it.
Not to mention users who are identifiable down to address and name level, instead of mostly on an IP-only basis.