skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! The existence of something like a reliable Internet depends on some form of physical civilization with laws and law enforcement, not to mention food production and distribution required to keep the netizens alive.

Will some aspects of life move from the physical to the virtual? Sure; they have and they will continue to some extent. However, there is a limit. Cyberspace cannot exist without physical space. If you want to ascend into some kind of purely spiritual existence, you need to look elsewhere than technology.
From the mouth of Steve: "And once you're in this Web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place."

Riiight, Steve. "App-Store" as Democracy.
I was most taken by his ideas on education. The voucher system will never happen, of course, which is a shame. I also love the idea of small school springing up all over the place (I'm not a huge fan of the current education system, and I'd love to see it disrupted)

as for trying to teach computing in schools, well that's long been rant material of mine (ask anyone who's been unfortunate enough to mention to me how pleased they are that their school's spending money on a room full of new computers), so don't get me started...
Yes. There are thousands people in the world speaking Latin, but it is still dead language.
Well, that's the point. They don't want you considering their secrets.
This difference is plainly visible if you look at games you're still playing over and over again after you've 'won'. I have a copy of Master of Orion that I've been playing since 1991.
Link seems to be broken !!
er, no. I blame PayPal fully.
Little revenue potential? That's a crazy thing to say, anyone with 600 million users has a fairly decent revenue potential... Now what about when you know every single detail about those 600 million people's lives... HUGE revenue potential.
WebObjects now power the iTunes store:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects
yeah, what's the story with that? Shouldn't the money either be given to Wikileaks (unlikely) or returned the the donor? In what sort of world can the middle man cut one side of a deal out, and keep the money?
Ask HN: Agile for a team of 2?
We are a team of two (developer + UX/UI designer) working in a web app. We are just starting and we are looking for a way to work seamlessly.

What Agile practices would you recommend us to start with?

Thanks
Right my point was it does say something about the general sanity of the justice system for "terrorists"/"enemies of the US". I can certainly see how this guy could get the label "enemy of the US" and get a very harsh sentence.

You still didn't back up your claims.

>> (The track record I was referring to was prior convictions and sentences for people whose computer crimes included intrusion in .mil systems.)

> Right. Which ones?
Huge marketing opportunity for WePay! (and also a huge opportunity to do the right thing)
Already done when I first heard about it.

The link is useful though; I ended up using one from a different source because I couldn't figure out at all how to close my account
It's still a 'democracy' in the way you're describing it. If you don't like it, vote with your wallet.
Neat idea, but I couldn't test it out all the way.

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent. in /home/content/m/a/c/macman012/html/meetupmail/sendhtmlemail.php on line 69

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/m/a/c/macman012/html/meetupmail/sendhtmlemail.php:69) in /home/content/m/a/c/macman012/html/meetupmail/sendhtmlemail.php on line 72

Your 'send email' sends via GET. While that's not necessarily a showstopper, GET is to have no side effects, but you're changing state on the server (assuming you log what I sent).

If you're not already thinking about this, I would strongly suggest more security around the whole project. Sending mails is something that can easily be abused, intentionally or not.
3D and Me
How is that informative? That it supports your gut feelings?

There is nothing informative about that. It's notable that Canada is remarkably iOS centric (one of the most anywhere), so values here don't necessarily translate- http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-CA-monthly-200911-20101...
I'm opposed to the word "mathlete".
OOP was pretty big by the time of the interview, so what he says doesn't make sense, if he's talking about OOP in general.
The link isn't broken, but the site responding very slowly (took several minutes for me).

It's yet another blog that fails to do the most basic thing in the web: delivering small static content quickly.
The Tab has an IPS display as well.

Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspective.
IP.Blog 2.3.0 for IP.Board 3.1.4 Nulled
This is what I meant. You need something to force people to internalize externalities, and to provide goods that wouldn't otherwise get made.

Market failures are a real thing, and you need some sort of institution to address them. The internet does nothing to change this, except that it makes it possible to create more discriminating policies that are more efficient (in theory).
Here's one more people should know about:

11) Make ‘less’ behave like ‘tail -f’

less +F somelogfile

Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to ‘tail -f’. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt [i.e. Ctrl-C]. Then you’ll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.).

Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the ‘tailling’ [sic].

This is really useful for watching logs while debugging - if you see something interesting scroll past, Ctrl-C to freeze it, then you can use ? with a regex to search back for previous occurrences of the interesting thing.

To explain the cryptic +F syntax: anything you pass after the + is interpreted by less as if you'd pressed those keys while less was running, and Shift-F enables follow mode. So +F just puts less straight into tail mode.

Conversely, you can enable regular command-line options once a less session is already running, by just typing them. For example, I usually run 'less -i' for case-insensitive search, but if I forget the -i, I can just type -i once less has started to disable case sensitivity.

less is actually much more powerful than its standard use as a mere pager would suggest.
Rest of Asia and EU. Bunch of Galaxys here.
Exactly. Who's the criminal in this picture?
Why bother with GCC when the medium to long term seems to favor the LLVM compiler infrastructure? (and yes, I know you can use GCC together with LLVM, but for example, in Apple's case, XCode 4 now favors LLVM+Clang instead of the LLVM+GCC setup of XCode 3)
I especially like the first command "Like top, but for files". Unfortunately, you can't copy&paste this command into your favorite shell, because the apostrophes (') have been replace with some unicode characters (‘ and ’) which look nicer, but are of course unknown to the shell:

watch -d -n 2 ‘df; ls -FlAt;’

The correct command would have been:

watch -d -n 2 'df; ls -FlAt;'

This seems to be yet another annoying automatism of some blog software.
You probably won't find any statistics, but I can give you some personal anecdotes. I met my wife two weeks after she got a tenure track job at a tier 1 university. She spent 5 years working very hard - weekend, nights, no vacations - and got tenure (after writing a book and publishing a dozen papers). Part way through that process I started a company that grew within 4 years to 20 employees. From my perspective it seems like it takes similar effort and dedication. Or a my wife puts it "nobody gets a PhD and tenure because they think it would be nice to have. It is just too much work if you are not committed".

So if you are considering one or the other, think of them as the same amount of work. I would choose the startup. As _delirium says it is much easier to fail and start over with a startup than it is with tenured professor jobs. Some people don't get tenure, I personally know two people that didn't make it. Also consider that when you are a professor there are very very few jobs to choose from. There is only one university within a 100 miles of my house that my wife could work at, so how can she change jobs without us having to move? The number of academic couples that live in different cities for work is staggering. My wife was offered a job last year that was 2000 miles away which would make it a tough commute. For a final thought, I have tried to convince my wife to move to private industry for the past 5 years. She won't even consider it, but if she did move she would get paid much more and have many more job choices.
While PayPal deserves the negative rep for screwing their customers, it doesn't deserve it for being a US corporation, vulnerable to the US government. The bad guy here is not PayPal.
Whew, just in time! Paypal caved!
Considering PayPal is actually a real bank in many countries, can they really discriminate like this without a proper legal process first?
Since when can what Wikileaks does be considered criminal activity? I'd think that it's at least not clear cut enough that companies would wait for some kind of conviction before labeling it all illegal/criminal activity.
Also, erm… Python is not compiled to native code, so a gcc plugin doesn't really make any sense.
This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing the analysis.
Are WePay being used by Wikileaks?

How will WePay as a US company offer any real guarantee not to do the same?

Can WePay make any commitment or guarantee given that they are integrated into a system and other entities (i.e. Visa, Mastercard, etc) could pull their plug over this?

I'm really just curious. If WePay honestly will do the right thing and treat money as money regardless of how people choose to spend it (the whole thing here... porn, politics, etc) and to do so with a real guarantee that means this can never happen, then I just do not see how this is any opportunity for them.
Those aren't Möbuis strips.

They are twisted by a full rotation rather than a half. In other words, they have still two sides rather than just one side.
a.k.a. Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles (Canon 550D)
The ones in Angry Birds for Android show up as a banner towards the top right side of the screen. I imagine a good number clicks are accidental.
Yet more nifty commands http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
I met Dr Mitra a couple of years ago, in relation to the first Hole in the Wall experiments.

What struck me at the time was that he seemed to be quite mad. He seemed effervescent with novelty, full of grand and strange ideas about the future of education. At the time, he was working on a 'robot teacher' platform based around a radio-controlled model, a webcam and an IP control interface. He seemed quite confident that the next big thing in his work would be some sort of robotic telepresence, capable of moving around the classroom and performing simple tasks to completely supplant the need for a local teacher. The 'granny cloud' is the product of a long succession of very odd experiments.

It got me thinking about the so-called 'Nobel syndrome' - the tendency for newly appointed Nobel laureates to make controversial statements about fields unrelated to their own. Perhaps a certain detachment from reality is necessary to make real progress. Perhaps academia needs to be an ivory tower, perhaps it's for the best that scientists often have little sense of the practical applications of their work. Thinking about my own work, I'm considering instituting my own Googleesque 20% time and allocating a specific part of my working hours to a project that I believe has no commercial relevance whatsoever.
There was a SoC project for a Python front-end to GCC this past summer. I don't know how far it got.
The article is correct in saying that we have more choices open to us now than a few year ago. This is partly because of GPUs, and partly because of technological considerations.

However, the article seems to suggest that there is a dichotomy between modern CPUs and throughput-oriented architectures. This is not true. For instance, the Sun Niagra eschews out-of-order execution and branch speculation to gain throughput by executing 8 threads concurrently. This type of microarchitecture is still more flexible than your contemporary GPU, but gives you considerably higher throughput for I/O dominated applications.

In fact, I'll go so far as to say that although future architectures will be hybrids of low-latency and high-throughput designs, the high-throughput parts will resemble CPUs more than current GPUs.
That seems to be if you're logged in an other Google service in the same browser/session: if I open a browser I only use for development (and not for personal stuff, so it's not logged into any Google service) such as Opera, I get the message. On the other hand if I open the link in my "usual" browser it asks me to log into Google Groups (if I'm not already logged into it)
There's more to compilers than desktop/server targets. Although LLVM now targets a number os architectures, it is nowhere near what GCC supports.
That's why I put a cache in front of my blog. The cache is only invalidated when the content of the article changes, or a comment is added. Works really great, page requests take about 10 msec cached, 200 msec uncached (on a shared hosting platform).
The long-term goal of the Go frontend is to be usable with both GCC and LLVM. GCC has excellent medium to long term prospects, too, you know.
Because i know enough to "game" the system - and that "print" for many sites will give me a cleaner (flash-free, animated-gif-free) window.

OTOH: I've no problem with the print dialogue that opens along with the cleaner page. My "esc" key works just fine.
Have to disagree with that 100%. Maybe 110%, if I am allowed.

Bloglines is now a scraped "answers" website. If I took our old Threadwatch.org and did the exact same thing would Google let it rank based on existing link equity? If not, what would be the difference? Ask is a bigger partner so the editorial judgements are not made against them the same way they might a smaller player.

Google has frequently exercised editorial judgement against some folks, while letter other folks get away with doing the exact same thing in bulk.

Further, those who are creating original high-quality content have real business costs. Google paying scraper sites like Mahalo and Ask to borrow your content & wrap it in ads means that you are sometimes getting outranked for scraped duplications of your own content. That drives down publisher margins and pushes marginally profitable publishers into losing money.

That said, Google wants to get big into television ads. And that is going to mean having better respect for copyright. To some degree as we see the Google business model change we will see their approach of "paying anyone to steal anything & wrap it in Google ads" (to soften up copyright) change to a model where the put themselves as a gatekeeper on DRM content & push the "official" sources of the media (and try to make a cut of the profits).

Slowly but surely the search results will fill up with official hotel sites, official music sources, official video sources, official ebook sources, etc etc etc ... with Google putting a big foot on the gas.

As that shift happens the longtail spam model will lose out on its profitability because it will be forced to compete with higher quality content that is automatically mixed into the search results. (The whole point of universal search was to allow Google to short cut certain types of information right into the core search results...as they start making money from micro-payments and such look for that trend to accelerate).
The next stop would be check their database for all account that ever sent money to Wikileaks or the Wau Holland Stiftung and close those too. And then the ones who ever send money to those.
Remember the last Declaration of independence triggered a war. Don't expect the political to consider any accessible space off-limits.
Today is International OpenData Hack Day
How to Flattr someone
I am reading a lot of boycott statement against Paypal in the comments – and I fully understand – but guys... where have you been when Amazon refused to host Wikileaks? And what about EasyDNS?

Paypal is a company doing business and I dislike them as much as you do but please don't forget that Government >> Company. Always.
Julian Assange's son on Twitter
There's a mistake in this article: Wikileaks DNS wasn't provided by EasyDNS, but by EveryDNS.
Feds' Crackdown Of Online Counterfeit, Copyrighted Goods Meets DNS Backlash
Nfs undercover save car game
Bunnie explains the technical intricacies and legalities of Xbox hacking
It's not "agile" but very much suited to your situation, MVC, as a developer you would maintain the Model and Controllers. The UX/UI designer sticks to the Views. Apply agile methods around this. As to which, you will need to experiment and see what works for you.

And take the time to learn each others skill sets and talk about the reasons why you do things the way you do. Most of all challenge each other on a daily basis.

Oh, and have fun.
Writer Harlan Ellison on the culture of unpaid work
I have to wonder why there is a contention now though over if they want them there or not? Seems that making it all clear and documented would be very simple.

Perhaps they changed their mind and no longer wish them to act there? I want to read more into the issue, but all I can think is that if they withdraw their consent, then we should leave immediately.
The login form worked for me only the second time I tried it... First time just closed the window and didn't update the information.
Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool
Ask YC:  How many startups got funded for winter session?
You guys added Harj and PB, you also doubled the number of days you did interviews. I'm curious, how many companies got funded winter session.
Gotta give props to wikileaks for opening the eyes of many to the type of country they live in.
I really loved it.
http://benthebodyguard.com/
Market failures are an idea. An idea that the market is failing because someone isn't being provided with something that they want at the price they want.

You are saying that if a good isn't being provided, it's a failure. But who told you the market would give you everything you want for free? Who stops you from raising money for your pet project?
Not fair. Takes all kinds of software. The packages he ref'd were supposed to manage the process, but didn't deliver for $600. His script Did do what he needed.

Its an argument for homebrew over bloated packages, at least when dealing with process. And it was a great tutorial on Ruby for managing that.
Site is down for me. Here is a text-only Google cache version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DVyf69P...
"That bothers me."

So here you are, complaining about other people complaining when something bothers them. Do I need to draw you a diagram to illustrate your inconsistency?

"Seems people went to town downvoting me here."

Perhaps they enjoy living in a society where people are allowed to express disagreement.
Not really, considering they had millions of dollars behind them, while quake 3 was ported to android in people's spare time.
Even if you're not a programmer, if you're interested find a group and hang out!

We're also chatting on irc on irc.oftc.net in #odhd
Do our bodies' bacteria play matchmaker?
Yes, it's true. Amazon says February 7.

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxe...
While I don't think YouTube was nearly as explicit about it before Google owned it, it does at least now tell you on the upload page not to upload anything to which you don't own the copyright. In a quick glance at Grooveshark the only place I saw any mention of this issue was buried deep in their TOS.

They in essence encourage you to upload copyrighted works so you can access your music anywhere, and from a first glance at the interface it's not even excessively clear that you're sharing your music with others by uploading (as opposed to it being a private library).

This of course is all further complicated by the fact that they apparently have licenses with some labels, and not others. I would presumably be able to legally upload some music, but not all (I guess YouTube actually has the same issue there).

Add to this the fact that the RIAA has shown it doesn't mind suing end users at all, and I wouldn't upload anything to Grooveshark. Incidentally I also wouldn't upload anything copyrighted to YouTube.
It won't be bad if they start getting fan clubs, groupies and sponsorship deals.
watch -n 120 'lynx -dump http://news.ycombinator.com'
Switching from PHP to Ruby
Want to grab a beer?
CERN may extend initial Big Bang research phase
It's a fair question, but I think that comparing yourself to others success is a great way to make yourself feel bad.
Have you abandoned your desktop computer?
From Steve Jobs: "The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade."

Mobile devices have grown powerful enough in the last years to replace desktop machines at most tasks. So do you still find value of keeping around, upgrading or buying new desktop machines?

As an aside, have you delved into overclocking or case modding?
"My bottom line is this - if I say something to someone and did not mean any offense/harassment, did not consider it to be offensive/harassing - and someone else still wants to cry about it, then f-*ck them."

Hurting people accidentally and not caring at all. What is that level of lack of empathy and non-caring? Is that autism, or is it some kind of sociopathy or psychopathy?
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What a terrible article. It's oversimplifying the situation. There are many options for parallelism in programming, it's not just CPU vs GPU. They fall into the Nvidia advertisement kool-aid implying CPUs only have scalar performance and then neglect to mention the very importantant shortcomings of GPU cores (e.g. poor caching, no branching, dismal PCIe latency to main program on CPU.) Current CPU cores have big L1/2/3 caches, superscalar execution and SIMD. That's the reason for the big size.
Take the Good with the Bad......Actually Focus on the Bad
Er, PayPal has only ever needed vague suspicion to close an account and keep the money.
Helium.
The goal of the post was to drive traffic to the blog, and then to the main consultancy site.

Otherwise, the goal of the post was to generate dicussion in places such as HN.

Also, you are referencing the parent comment in response to RDP protocol tunneling only, fyi.

...and your account was created an hour after the original comment.

Just seems strange to create an account and then tell us the goal of the article.
Paypal is helping and aiding the bad guy. So what does that make them?? Minions ??
An image : http://milhaud.tumblr.com/post/2091089035/julian-assange-es-...
Doesn't work on the Galaxy Tab. Tried Browser, Dolphin, Skyfire & Fennec. Best I get is the spinning pinwheel after I pick a search.
Chrome Web Store launches very soon. Which apps will people pay for?
The Google Chrome Web Store launches very soon. Which types of web applications will people pay for in Chrome?
I'm finding the same exact reaction in medtech. Same foreboding myths, same massive opportunities, and same chance to build lean operations. We're grinding along but I'm surprised that tractable obstacles look scary to otherwise savvy investors.

Have you looked into government grants? It's a very different process and set of expectations than a pitch deck, but the capital is non-dilutionary and there is a bunch of stimulus money sloshing around. Obama seems to recognize that the future US economy will be in biotech and greentech.