skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many bugs in Google Group search! It should be an embarrassment for a company which was founded on search and still has the best web search. I had assumed that Google had just written off Groups as a loss and moved all the developers to profit-making divisions, but evidently not, given this announcement.

Even worse is Google patent search. Two months ago, after the Gelernter/Microsoft patent decision, I searched for inventions with "ininventor:Gelernter". Nada. Zero. I reported this via http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?contact...

I tried it again today. Still broken. And a search for inventor Dean Kamen yields 10 patents, as opposed to 113 on the uspto.gov site.

Is there anybody from Google reading this that has enough influence to at least suggest that these search problems be investigated?
It's definitely Reddit most of the time. It's a larger site.
I recently met one of the 9 Americans to ever summit K2 where for every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying. He quit after his friend didn't make it home.
It looks like the sliding transition may also mask network latency; clever.
My take was that low-lighting allows me to pack in more information without cluttering the page, so all can be fit into one page.
Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack
Just shows the importance of context. Knowing this, it makes you sound like a smart guy picking founding over angel investing for now.

The title makes you sound like some sour angel investor.

Of course both things could be equally true in real-life. But not equally communicated by a title or an article.
I'm a developer and am always looking for the next big platform to develop for. This sounds absolutely perfect. I definitely agree though that if there is no text editor local to the machine I wonder how well it could be used for development, but overall I think it would be interesting to test the device.
Your site is broken in IE7. http://min.us/mvbDq8b

As sad as it may be, IE6 and IE7 are still the most prominent browsers used by corporate America. If you are building b2b apps you must be conscious of these antiquated beasts.

Best of luck in your freelance endeavors!

EDIT: I have found this tool to be pretty useful in testing against various versions of IE, IETester http://goo.gl/4Egz9
XDiff/XMerge to diff and merge code that has been moved and modified
> particularly where unlike cross-bred bananas, plants are being "enhanced" with genes purposefully to make them toxic to certain species.

Folks cross-breed, look for, and induce mutants (via radiation and other means) for exactly the same purposes as they use gene-splicing.

It would take longer to get round-up resist corn via cross-breeding, but folks would be trying to do it if they didn't have gene techniques.
...but perfectly acceptable in many cases.
It benefits people by letting them know what to look into. E.g. if you have an inflammatory condition like arthritis, and you read my comment that says marijuana is an anti-inflammatory, then you realize that if this is true then maybe marijuana would help. So then you go and do a Google or PubMed search for Marijuana + Arthritis, or Marijuana + Anti-inflammatory, in order to find the relevant scholarly research.
This http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/index.html#drm and this http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/check_for_paymen... might be useful here...
I don’t know if you’re looking for photographic composition advice, but generally, I’d say: (1) cut out elements extraneous to the core concept of each photograph, and as one means to that end (2) crop closer and fill up more of the frame with your subjects.

My favorite shots were these:

http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/randomone15.jpg • http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/light2.jpg • http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/randomone16.jpg •
http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/people1.jpg • http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/randomtwo2.jpg • http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/randomtwo5.jpg • http://ivzhao.com/photography/pics/randomtwo7.jpg •
Especially considering that HotSpot and V8 were designed by the same person.
In no way am I suggesting that it's an equivalent editor, but you may want to take a look at Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin).

https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

If I get the chance to be a Chrome OS tester, I'll be giving this a thorough try.
I found that matches my experience fairly well.

I haven't found Apple's documentation to be significantly worse than Android. Parts of the documentation are sparse at best (the Cocoa layer is great, lower-level stuff less so), but overall both systems have good documentation.

Fully agree about Apple's certificates - it feels like I have to spend an hour or two every few weeks trying to figure out some provisioning profile problem. By now I think I've gone through almost every possible thing that could go wrong with them, so it's a lot faster to fix, but it was incredibly frustrating at first. Apple automated some of that through XCode a few releases back, but that stopped working after a few months and I haven't been able to get it to work again - back to doing everything by hand.

Also fully agree about the Android emulator.

All in all, the two platforms are very close in terms of difficulty - they each have different downsides. I'm a lot more familiar with the iPhone, so Android development goes a bit slower, but I suspect with similar amounts of experience there shouldn't be a significant difference in development time.
Ah no. that's the day when i'm leaving to Geneva! :( that's extremely sad!
idea is just awesome!
I think that would be good if it was 'eyeover' rather than 'mouseover'. But requiring the user to expend effort just to read is frustrating.
LOLapps gives an inside look at the success of social game Ravenwood Fair
When hasn't he?
Except on mac your data can leak into tmp or swap.

I was going to go on a rant about how encrypting home directories is practically pointless, and you really need full disk encryption if you're worried about people snooping, but was glad to see that the developers know where your info can leak...
Ah, got your point now. Cleared my comment.
Actually I don't think that's necessary - I'd much rather they focus on making individual loads very fast, instead of pre-loading data. 9 times of out 10, I'm not going to peruse the ENTIRE directory structure even one level deep, so it should only get the data I want.

Also, they would need to store that, and I don't necessarily want my browser storing my entire directory structure (and possibly file contents) for any amount of time other than when I'm actually browsing it.

Try it out, it really is very fast without having to eagerly load anything at all.
But people with tablets or Mobile phones won't be able to do that.
I am aware of the Ruby on Rails' scaffolding, CRUD, DRY and MVC stuff. Matter of fact, I am currently self-learning Ruby on Rails.

Yes, it would be nice to have some template to start with. I have used YUI CSS framework, Reset, etc. to start off applications. I guess that's relevant to templates you are talking about.
> Why do you think that? What constraints do you believe limit the number of threads you can use?

Virtual memory address and context switching overhead. On 32-bit platforms, if each thread has an 8 MB stack then after creating a few hundred threads you run out of VM address even if you don't actually use that much memory. Most OS schedulers also don't like dealing with tens of thousands of threads. Furthermore each kernel thread takes a small amount of space but kernel memory typically isn't swappable, unlike userspace memory.
I'm not sure what your point is. I have a ~$300k/30 mortgage, and I'm not paying less than I would for a 1 bedroom apartment in San Jose.

Even if I could, though, so what? Again: you can live in SV on $19,500/yr. People do it. That doesn't make $19,500 a reasonable comp package.

In discussions like this, people tend to talk as if there are two alternative comp plans: either (a) the package where founders build their own futons out of cinderblocks and shipping pallets, or (c) market salary.

There is, believe it or not, (b): significantly lower than market --- which for a startup founder in SV is probably north of $120k/yr --- and significantly higher than subsistence. The (b) comp plan is the rate that would allow a startup founder to:

(1) Rent (or make mortgage payments on) the same home they had prior to starting the company

(2) Continue making car payments on the car they bought last year

(3) Maintain all previous insurance levels

(4) Maintain phone, cable, and Internet

(5) Cut meals out by 50-75% but keep the grocery list approximately the same

Every one of these items is negotiable, but so is having a private sleeping space. If you want all of them, though, you're paying substantially north of $50k/yr in SV. I'd think $75k is closer to the mark.

The median income in SV is $85k ($96k if you're tech). People judge the quality of their lifestyle based on their peers. It's hard to argue that you'd feel just find with $40k after tax.

I'm getting sucked into what I admit is a very boring discussion, I know. I just wanted to make the (a) (b) (c) point.
Back then it was possible to rent cheap in NYC without having to worry about bedbugs. I don't think I'd be willing to rent in w-burg again without paying for an inspection on any place I was serious about.
I agree in general, although I will point out that virtually no C developers use PGO while it's on by default in HotSpot and now V8. (Of course, it looks like Java needs PGO just to try to catch up with gcc -O3.)
NASA surplus computer sale compromised data security
Might I suggest making it 1024px friendly?
Noah Kagen (AppSumo) on pivots at plusconf
A great conference for Noah Kagen @ plusconf. He managed to pull it off from vacation in Costa Rica too!
Glad you like the photos. However I usually don't associate concepts with my photos and like to response to scenes instinctively without thinking too much about composition. Thanks for your advice nevertheless.
Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
For starters, you're comparison is completely off with what Jason said. A business might need electricity, plumbing, or furniture to operate, but how are these the same as a website? Are you saying that a website is equal to a chair at your doctors clinic? Saying a website is the same as utilities and structural needs of a physical space is a bit irresponsible. Second, what does whatever 'software' tools you use or if you're a developer/engineer have to do with a company being in the software business? They're not mutually inclusive, nor exclusive for that matter.

Most businesses with a website are in the software business the same way most businesses with personnel that deals with clients are in the customer relations business and the same way most businesses with a product are in the marketing business. Using whatever tools you use to create a piece of software which you later put at your clients disposal automagically enters your company into the world of the software business. Granted most companies have simple websites that you don't really need to give much thought to after launch as a company, but that doesn't exempt you from the fact that you're offering a service based on software the moment you put that website up.
Very nice, but I wish they would cut the animation.
In 1999 I used to ask (on usenet), but it has been at least 5 years since I've encountered a problem for which there was no solution on the net. If you know how to search, almost all problems already have solutions on the net.
I'm a little irritated by the end of this quiz telling me I'm "addicted to my desktop" and "why not switch to online alternatives?"

Hey Google, why don't you make it so I can indent lines with tab in Gmail, or give me some confidence that my e-mails will be properly formatted (i.e. as required on some mailing lists)? Why don't you make it so I can watch Netflix in one Chrome window without stuttering when I do some other browsing simultaneously in a separate window, or make it so I can use global hot keys to control music playback from random music players in a browser window? Why don't you make Google Docs work offline? (Announcement of "early 2011" posted today, at least.) Why don't you make it so I have confidence that I'll be able to get online and get at my data wherever I am, whenever I need it, without paying a fortune?

That's why I'm not switching to more online alternatives: the desktop applications I still use provide a better user experience and are more reliable. Google, your question reads like I'm the one with the problem.
It's a poor man's CAPTCHA.
The best transitions are those that mask loading of something else. Ever think of why icons on the iPhone explode out when opening an app or the app image zooms to the front?
granted, feral cattle can be quite nasty (wouldn't want to meet one in the wild)
Conway's Game of Life in Erlang
It's only 'ultimate' if dying is the 'ultimate' bad thing that can happen. Most people at most times and most places don't think that's true, and I agree with them. Not living is the ultimate bad thing that can happen, and respiration and living aren't the same thing, in this context.
QEMU is a truly awesome piece of code. Everything Fabrice Bellard does is incredible.

You could well be right that they're not using it correctly -- that sounds entirely plausible. I guess my point was more that, whatever the cause, the net effect of it is that the Apple Simulator is unrealistically fast, and the Android Emulator is unrealistically slow. Neither really encourage great development if you rely on them.
Where are the flaws in CoreLocation or the documentation? CLLocationManager is instantiated like any other NSObject. CLLocationManagerDelegate returns asynchronous results like any other protocol in Cocoa/CocoaTouch. CLLocation, CLHeading, CLRegion are about as close as you're going to get to get to C-style POD structs in Objective-C.

The documentation is all here and the API is about straight forward as it is going to get.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreLo...
For patents, search on the USPTO site, then take the patent number to pat2pdf.org, which will give you a nice free PDF of the patent.
Materials isn't the problem. No amount of warm clothes make you feel warm when your body is losing oxygen.
Okay, I guess I could rephrase that. Try this experiment: respond instinctively and take a picture, and then move about 30–50% closer to the subject and take another picture. It is my guess that viewers (including yourself) will like the results noticeably more. (The pictures I linked are ones that I wouldn’t necessarily benefit from the closer crop, but most of the others on your site would, IMO.) If in the experiment you don’t like the results as well as your original instincts, then, of course, trust yourself.

(For what it’s worth, the vast vast majority of my own pictures suck; it’s only through culling and cropping, and lots of practice, and hundreds of hours spent staring at prints, and then more culling and cropping, that anyone ever ends up with anything presentable.)
First off, as others have pointed out you can successfully run thousands of threads, so the default 256 does not mean much. Also, HTTP pipelining is not what you think it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining
Agreed -- I just wanted to defend QEMU (and my own work, by extension) for a moment.

Also, code can always be made to go slower so I'm not sure if "unrealistically fast" is as bad a "unrealistically slow."
Also, tiny grammar nitpick:
"all the times"

I think it should be "all the time" or "at all times".
I might be wrong though, English is my 4th language :)
Geminid meteor shower, best of the year, peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th
Not a "brain scan" in the usual manner: It was a conventional MRI, not a functional MRI. You don't see blood flow that indicates brain activity that you do with a fMRI.

A more honest title would be "MRI image of child being born" or something along those lines.
You're right. It is a boring argument. Every time I get into it, I realize that most people don't even know what saving money is. Saving money != spending like an average person so I don't know why you would quote the median apartment price. Obviously, you would try to find a cheaper one.
Yes it is:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbadbkkklnhamjjeag...

(Mibbit Chrome app, free version, ad supported)
Maybe it's time for Google to just declare defeat and hand off the Usenet archives to the Internet Archive.
I like your site. I really like your decision to quit school. I quit college after a single semester to freelance and haven't looked back. I'm not saying quitting school is good for everyone; but there's some people a university education just isn't as helpful for.

Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to chat, take on some of my workload or anything else. Best of luck.
I've benchmarked Google Chrome 9.0.597.10 and 10.0.603.3 (with Crankshaft) and the latter is 30% faster. See the detailed results: http://dromaeo.com/?id=124912,124913
The Common Sense Party - what do you think?
Traffic Camera Enters Drivers Who Obey Speed Limit Into Lottery
Yet another reason Chrome's rolling release auto updates are glorious. (When the protocol is fixed, Chrome users will all have it within a day or two; Firefox users, not so much)

Additionally: Nochum's comment is concerning, if accurate:

>This is gonna suck since the feature detection will be totally thrown off.

>E.g.:

>if (WebSocket in window)
> ...
Who will need database administrators in 2020?
Freeciv.net in Chrome Web Store
Asynchronous Cellular Automata in Erlang
There are several trademarks for "nothing but net". I didn't find any for "nothing but web" but there may be some in process applications that I can't see.
One potential gotcha: if bundle install fails for ruby-debug19 and its dependency linecache19, citing missing headers, you may need to install and configure separately with the option --with-ruby-include.

This can occur when using RVM; 'rvm info' will help locate the headers.
Yeah, I hear that. It was/is awesome for us to have you as an investor. Good luck with your new venture. It sounds interesting. You should stop by the office some time. Get a hold of Tommy or me and swing by.
Find A Flight Buddy app on Facebook
Find A Flight Buddy allows you to find interesting companions for your flight. Just put in your flight details to find out who else is taking the same flight and connect with them. The benefits of finding a Flight Buddy :
- Turn a boring flight and the wait at the airport into something interesting.
- Save money by sharing a cab to / from the airport.
- Connect with like-minded people who are travelling to a concert, sports event, academic seminar or business exhibition.
- Flying to a place for the first time? It is easier with a buddy.
- Who knows - you might find someone special !
It's actually much easier to "virtualize another OS" than to virtualize a hardware platform (and associated OS).

If you are running guest code that matches your host architecture, QEMU can run the code natively. If you are running foreign code (e.g., ARM on an Intel host), it has to dynamically recompile the code, which will hurt performance.

kb
By context switching overhead, I assume you mean the overhead of faulting data into the cache from a thread that had been sleeping. Evented systems have this overhead too when switching between events related to different requests.

Stack size I've discussed in another response. It can and should be decreased if you plan on working with a lot of threads.

I can't comment on the Mac OS X scheduler. The Linux scheduler handles it just fine, and my understanding is that the Windows one does OK with it too.

The small amount of kernel memory that isn't swappable likely isn't your system's overall throughput constraint, but if it is I stand corrected.
I don't think this is true. Do you have a reference for that?
Isn't this all to rushed? NodeJS conferences already?
1 in 10 is the stat over the past 50 years or so. The past
10 years has seen major changes to Everest summits that make that number much, much lower. Fixed ropes are much more prevalent now which has made a huge difference in keeping people safe, as well as reducing bottle-necks so that climbers spend less time in the dead zone.

Last year there were 330 summits and 5 deaths, so roughly 1.5%
He quits grad school (he has a degree already). Big difference.

No, I'm not trying to knock you off either.
Does anyone know why the "upscale" grocery stores in the US (e.g. Whole Foods) don't try to sell other varieties of bananas? It seems like they could charge quite a premium for the "exotic" bananas not available to the people of Walmart.
Scandalous.
Did not work on a server running Debian Lenny with 2.6.26-2-amd64. Worked fine on Ubuntu Server 10.10 with 2.6.35-22-generic-pae though (got root shell).

The comments mention that the exploit for CVE-2010-3850 is limited in regard to Slackware, Debian and Red Hat "in the interest of public safety". Interesting.
Are overlapping or tiled windows really that useful for web apps being squeezed in to a low-end 12" laptop screen?

They've got a system for chat windows and notifications to show up on top of the main window, and they've got a full-screen button to hide all the window decorations. The only real use a more complex window manager would have is enabling you to show two documents side by side, but I doubt that the horizontal screen resolution is high enough for that to work with most web apps.
I get this tingle in my mind when I think about Chrome OS and it's netbook. Happened when I first saw the Nexus too.

A chance to present the world with a unified device that access the internet, doesn't cost much, and is very portable.
Nobody represents the American people
I don't think so, but as far as I know the same can be accomplished with the NoScript addon.
Creating the missing Instagram web interface
>Except on mac your data can leak into tmp or swap.

Only if you let it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/118...
I can second this one thousand times. I developed the blip.tv Android app. It runs well on the Samsung Galaxy S phones, but crashes on startup on _all_ other Android devices. No clue why.
Chrome Web Store Launches With 500 Apps, Some Quite Stunning
this is the worst thing eswat has posted yet.
Could have said "nothing but 'net".
Awesome tag line: "any sufficiently advanced hobby is indistinguishable from a job".
Ditto on the mouse over, it's very annoying!
is it true that knowing someone there helps? i notice the difference bw media lab and other schools.
so someone who knows how to show off might have a better chance than someone really good at it?
Without getting into value judgements about financial planning: what you don't want your comp plan to force founders to do is move to a new apartment (unless subsistence wages is part of your strategy).
The server gives an intermittent 503 for me, so just in case:

http://cache.historious.net/cached/1204/
When are you applying to ML? I saw you've worked at Eyebeam! Awesome, how's the place?
Is this what it is supposed to look like? http://imgur.com/LOHRG

For somebody like me (I have pretty terrible vision), this is almost unreadable.
"Having local variables is good"

Reading sentences like this scare me because it reminds me that some people don't know what the 'var' keyword means or think it's acceptable to shove everything in window or global.
Anyone know why they switched the shortcut for "view shortcuts" from the Gmail/ Google Reader "?" button (shift+/) to "Ctrl+Alt+/"? Seems strange to me, as "?" makes intuitive sense and adding a modifier key (like ctrl) would be sufficient to distinguish between shortcuts in Gmail and those in the OS.