skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Despite what the article says, if you're using floating point numbers you're already using sloppy arithmetic. That's not just a sarcastic point, it's actually important; given that you're already not being precise it isn't necessarily surprising that you can trade away even more precision for speed, rather than it being some sort of binary yea/nay proposition that cracks numeric algorithms wide open.

So it appears in this case that they are doing what you guess: low-precision, high-dynamic-range calculations using normal computing hardware. But it's not at all clear that errors introduced by floating-point calculations (which are rounding errors, not physical errors) are equivalent--from an engineering perspective--to hardware which accepts physical errors in exchange for performance boosts. It's conceivable that future computing technology will yield dramatic speed advantages on error-prone hardware in a way that no numerical tricks on error-free hardware could duplicate.
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Would like to have indented bullet points. Yes I dent check FAQ. Thanks
Then that's really odd, the way any business would normally review a year's performance is to compare December/December, because that's the best way to get a decent comparison without being influenced by factors such as "Our traffic is usually down in Dec." Same thing for other time periods - if you want to see how good traffic was over a weekend, you don't compare Sat/Sun to Thur/Fri, you compare Sat/Sun to the previous week's Sat/Sun.

Our traffic is usually down in Dec.

Oddly, I've found that to be the case every year, across a range of non-business for-leisure websites.
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The current search situation as described by such posts seems analogous to the search quality deteriorating during the emergence of blogging. Google stepped in and cleaned it up rather well. I'd trust them to do the same with whatever tricks the rehash sites are using.
Visual and Graphical Abilities Are Latest Computer Metric
Outstanding Book on Software Development
Having come back to London after the holidays today, the tube (metro) is plastered with adds for Chrome again (they've pushed it quite strongly before, but this seems to be a new push).
I'd pay a 100$, if they would engrave my name on that monolith.
This bug could potentially hit any language. The issue lies in the parsing of the number. The fact that php triggers that parsing implicitly is incidental. It could just as well happen in e.g. Java using an explicit Double.valueOf(vulnerableString)
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>No offense, but this is like programming 101.

Thats a bit harsh. You could have happily posted the above (useful) comment without that dig at the end.
There is also the vaultingly ambitious employee. Someone who is both clever and also prepared to do anything to get a promotion or pay rise - even if that means causing chaos, using other employees as collateral damage, etc.
Ihre Karriere Chancen 2011 » Warum?
With http://searchyc.com/ or with google: "search term site:news.ycombinator.com"
Scott Kurnit Adkeeper Raises Second Round Of Vc Money - Entrepreneurship
Groundhog day, anyone?
The Hiring Mistake That Could Bring Down Your Startup
The Top 50 Startup Blogs To Watch in 2010
Define 'alive'. All you can be sure of, is that your consciousness exists somewhere.
No mention of revenue or profit or how many millions they're paying Amazon for hosting.

Traffic is great but profit is better.
I'm surprised that the whole AI argument made in this post centers around self-driving cars, when the fact that google can recall for you very relevant results from its multi-billion page memory in a jiffy doesn't seem AI enough.

As for self-driving cars, it seems to me that public transport can provide much of what the poster wants. I travel by bus for about 2 hours every day -- seems taxing, but I'm productive on my rides since I always get a nice seat and can hack on.
Lenovo’s IdeaCentre tries to cash in on the mad rush to all-in-one desktops |
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I recognize that this author's proactive use of sex-neutral (or more like sex-diverse?) pronouns comes from a good place. But intermixing he's with she's, him's and her's the way he is is sometimes just confusing.
There is a thin line between "fighting for what's right (privacy)" and "building paranoia to earn profit" and I think DDG just crossed it :(

I like the search engine and I wish them all the best (seriously), but this method of advertising is bad.
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Windows TV to launch at Microsoft CES 2011 keynote? - SlashGear
We're a B2B company. We charge other web publishers a monthly fee to access our content API. Depending on what kind of content they need and how big they are, the pricing starts at 1K/month to 5 digits/month...
Is that legitimate value -- the only thing it changes is making the page easier to find? It seems to me that the site is ugly, gives no way for the user to become part of the discussion, and full of 'share with your friends' links and adverts...
Competition Mounts For iPad From Tablets Expected At CES2011 |
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While I don't believe GS is immune to errors, I don't think it's that unlikely that they might have foreseen this. It's such an ugly hack that they couldn't have expected it to go unnoticed, especially since it seems to me they (directly or indirectly) were the ones to tell the press about it. It feels like the Media/SEC reaction is, so far, playing by the book, utterly predictable.

So the real question is, did they let Facebook know this was going to happen?

If yes, then perhaps this is a media coup to frienzy up interest into the soon-to-come IPO. Perhaps they'll cancel the whole deal now, but the $50b valuation will remain in people's heads as a "good deal" that "high net worth individuals" were willing to invest at. This might help drive a traditional IPO price upwards.

If no, then perhaps this is GS's attempt to force Facebook to IPO, so they can make a few billions along the way. It's always nice to have a billion or two extra on the balance sheet, even when you're GS. Then again, it's not good business practice to screw over your clients, and somehow I don't think that's what happened.

In either case, I think the SEC should look long and hard at its rule book and see if there is any way it can bar GS from being the senior lead in the IPO. Oh wait, the SEC is made of former GS employees. Nevermind.
I thought the story was that PG wanted his own subreddit where nobody could downvote, you said no, so he built HN (this is a paraphrasing of hazy memories)

edit: If memory serves, Steve mentioned this offhand in a video interview I saw somewhere. I think this one, but I could be wrong.

http://blog.hipmunk.com/mixergy-interview-with-steve-huffman...
Since I never wrote timing-critical code for the 6502 (apart from "make it as fast as possible") I cannot recall many specifics. Since you did, you certainly have a better understanding of how it worked.

I am restoring a 65c02-based //e clone, so, I may be able to properly measure instruction timings, but I won't hold my breath.
CES: Spot Connect transforms your smartphone into a satellite messenger -
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Firefox overtakes IE in Europe
Main Rant Round up 2010
I'm in Russia. They seem to classify me as a European and issue prices in Euros. I see "Only €10.91" in the ad text, and €9.71/year when I click on the yellow offer and put "Standard (Turbo) SSL (1 Year) (annual)" to cart. That might be excluded VAT, because Russia is outside European Union.
Samsung's new 9 Series LED-backlit 3DTV goes for asymmetric beauty  --
i read this and immediately tested 3 to go off, one each minute after i read it.

worked fine... latest iOS build.
HP unwraps Sandy Bridge, Fusion-powered notebooks at CES 2011
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Have you considered contacting your existing clients, telling them that you want to create a showcase of people using your styles and asking them for links/examples so that they can be included? I think there'd be no better way to show off than with real-life examples :)
Returns on stocks do not compound. If you bought a stock at X and sold it at Y your gain/loss percentage is simply Y/X. There is no reason to use the Pert formula.
This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, pedal on the floor
Lost my discretion
It's not what, I'm used to
Just wanna try this bimmer
I'm curious how you
Caught me speedin'

I paid a bribe and I liked it
The price of a new macbook
I paid a bribe just to try it
I hope my lawyer don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in jail tonight
I paid a bribe and I liked it
I liked it

No, I don't even know your rank
It doesn't matter
You're a corrupt cop
Just human nature,
It's not what,
Good cops do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey

Us yuppies we are so loaded
Soft money, red bimmer, so predictable
Hard to resist, so profitable
Too good to deny it
Ain't no big deal, it's innocent
Our Brains Are Shrinking. Are We Getting Dumber?
Writing about front-end: taking responsibility
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Too much FUD.
Does it really matter that DDG works around the referer header when embarrassingillness.com/herpes has your IP address, and anything else your browser sends to them.
It's a tangential question, but why shouldn't insurers be able to know a fair amount about you to assess risk?

If you're endlessly searching for cancer cures, perhaps they should be aware of that.

Of course the solution is the US is universal health care for all. But that's never going to happen.
Ye well, it could be C64-specific quirks since it shared the bus with the graphics hardware.

Sounds like a fun project.
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The built-in alarm on my Android failed some time ago, too. Since the last update I got, if I set two alarms in the morning, only the first will sound. I think with Androids I'm still in the early adopter mindset, willing to put up with bugs and workarounds, whereas iPhone is very much a finished, polished product designed for non-geeks, who don't want that sort of hassle.
what is your definition of "Digital goods" ?
software? like misv stuff?
YouTube - "Drop The The" (The Social Network Song)
http://www.seekway.com.cn/e/3d/h32/video.htm

Amazing video here!

Before you wonder about the 'crappy resolution' do the math, 32x32x32 is 32768 individual leds. The video appears to be of a 32x32x16 array.
> Kanye belongs on your iPod

Certainly not mine. ;-)

> not in your Forbes opinion piece

It's an opinion. His opinion. And he's free to use whatever quotes he wants. The worst that can happen is that it shoos away those who cannot deal with something they don't like and cannot read the article past the part they don't like.

The rest of the article is pretty interesting (and I have met people who fit in all 3 examples).
My girlfriend and I set our alarms when we went to bed on the 2nd, expecting to wake up around 8 am CET. She's got an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1 and I've got an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2. None of them sounded the morning of the 3rd.

We are now proud owners of two analog alarm clocks.
I have to agree with guelo. The services you describe are unadvertised for a reason. You're effectively asking someone from a lower class to possibly break the law (by getting paid under the table, and presumably not reporting the additional income) and possibly get into trouble with their employer because they want your extra money. If that's not a class issue, what is?
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Ask HN: 20+ Postings in 20 minutes of HN. Is this considered spam ?
Reminds me of this best man who setup a Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds were having sex (recorded using a pressure sensitive device):

http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
Instructables has pulled a 'scribd'.
When a problem is described as an optimizer issue, it usually means that the code is making some unsound assumptions that happen to be true when compiling without optimization. Of course it's easier on the programmer's ego to blame it on the compiler...

(I haven't looked at this particular issue; maybe it really is a compiler bug. But the odds are against it.)
I found the entire book in scribd.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47180/Paul-Graham-Hackers-And-Pain...
Technology don't die it just re-emerges in other shapes.

The problem with these kind of discussions are that they confuse the product with the technology.

The real discussion they seem to be having is whether open is better than closed and we all know where that kind of discussion leads.
i have this one
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbow-cube-kit-rgb-4x4x4-...

I've put it together but haven't had the time to test it out. It also requires one of these:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbowduino-led-driver-pla...

So it is most definitely programmable, It was a bitch to solder together though.
To quote Dr. Gregory House, everybody lies (and hides the truth). Especially during dates. Why do you think the cliché advice for dating is "be yourself"?

For an amusing view of how the world would be without the lying, watch the movie The Invention of Lying.
Look at the link in the footer. Do you usually flood HN with postings at this rate ?

http://www.webcitation.org/5vU30ydvF
So it's also in the 5.2.* branch? That can't be good.
I would dearly like to go back several years and explain this to the authors of a transaction processing system I once worked on. It stored all its currency values (for very small units sold in large quantities) with floating point data types....
>No offense, but this is like programming 101.

It might be if you grew up in a C/C++ environment, many people these days start with scripting languages and don't venture out (myself included, but learning C is my new year's resolution).
I suggest you actually learn about the platform before performing the argumentative equivalent of throwing bits and pieces of monkey scat into the fray in the vain hopes of upvotes, or just out of sheer orneriness and wrong-headedness.

http://source.android.com/
That's really a short-sighted way of seeing things. If you lie to your sister about her not looking fat in that new dress then that's not morally wrong. If a girl goes into a relationship with you after you used this trick then she still did it willingly.
I do this - I set 5 different alarms, each spaced 2-3 mins apart.

If I'm going to bed and need to get up after only 3-4 hours sleep, I will do the same, but also set one 10 mins later, 20 mins later
Might be true in general, but when the creator of PHP says it's a compiler issue it's hard to 2nd guess.

He also later added:

We still need to fix the code to make it immune to compiler switches.
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For perspective, the first-gen iPhone and iPod touch are perfectly responsive, even though they're ancient in gadget years. When there are Android phones which feel as slow as crud despite featuring the same (or better) hardware as an iPhone 3GS, you have a big problem.

Google has done a lot of cool stuff for developers in the last few iterations of Android. The NDK has evolved into something quite decent, definitely good enough for writing games now. But responsiveness is the major user experience issue that they've completely failed to address.
1. Could have put some more movement in the camera work to show off the parallax.

2. Next: RGB for 4D.
Or take a look here

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=10smom
Really bad song, but good concept I guess :)
Stealing the United States Government by stealing .gov
Because if there is one library that needs to be conservatively packaged, its libc. A critical flaw in libc pushed out around the world could cause nightmares too awful to contemplate. Our entire modern world literally depends upon it.
They're good for Goldman Sachs.
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Technically, it would be correct to use 'he' everywhere, since in English that is what is considered the neutral gender. Second best is using He/She to satisfy the PC folks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
The suite guide would indicate that this is considered "bad form".
Two faces of Android
The conversation claims that "humans" have lost an equivalent of a tennis ball volume of the brain. But perhaps a more revealing measure would be weight of brain lost in proportion to the body mass.

Elephants have a much larger brain than us, but smaller when compared to their body mass. (Side note: they are one of the few species that can recognize itself in the mirror)
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The problem is that we are (mostly) programmers and the temptation to automate this sort of thing is quite overwhelming :)

Well we use tools to automate the reading of this site, why not the posting too?
I've been working on something[1] very similar for some of my own apps. It is available under the MIT license. What license are these recipes released under?

I decided not to mask the icons and opted for pre-masked PNGs because I couldn't match the style as well as I could in Photoshop. Yours is looking very good though. Maybe we should merge?

[1] https://github.com/briancollins/BCTabBarController
It's not alarming at all. That's the problem!
A better fix would be to use "-mfpmath=sse" to disable x87 math - this also makes your program slightly faster, whereas -ffloat-store can make it much slower.
You might as well say that every day you find another reason to not go dating, at least that's how I feel about it. Saying that "not everyone you like will be attracted to you" is a very nice way of putting it. In my experience, most people are attracted to stupid things. I've tried the classical "acting like a charming douchebag" routine, and I've been horrified at the rate of success in the traditional meat markets.

The point is that dating outside of your social circle is a numbers game. You will be seeing the averages most of the time, and most people are simply not worth your time. At least that's the impression I've been left with after playing around with this stuff in different places the last year.

As to whether playing games like this is pointless or not...if you're looking for the love of your life, then probably yes. But if you're looking for sex and short-term, uncommitted relationships, games like these are the best way to get what you want! I see this as just a natural extension of all the phoniness that happens in night clubs. The point is, playing games works! You'd be horrified at how many women, especially under 30, treat dating as a game..and have the most stupid reactions as a result. These people are probably not worth investing too much time in, but they do represent the average person you will meet. Which is really sad, but it's the impression you'll be left with after going out a lot.
How i met your mother full episodes
how i met your mother full episodes - When Marshall and Lily fear they will never get pregnant, they see a specialist who can hopefully help move the process along. Meanwhile, Robin starts her new job, on the next episode of How I Met Your Mother.During the (actual) Super Bowl, Neil Patrick Harris did a promo shot for the show and network, in character, as Barney Stinson
How i met your mother,full episodes
That was a one off alarm.
This probably results from a collision of the submission bookmarklet and an RSS reader, perhaps combined with someone's massive morning cup of coffee.
Sure I can bulk dump entries from my feed reader to HN, but that doesn't mean I should, right ?
Ah, your point is correct. In my defense, I was just tried to be conservative.
Y combinator encourage posting news by their rating system. Nothing wrong here by doing exactly what YC encourages. Why not post if I find good news? They even make it extremely easy by their bookmarklet. Also it gives me a great way to keep good news in one place: my profile! :)
An entrepreneur is someone who starts a business and assumes the risk associated with it. That is all.
That would be all well and fine in the idea world, but this is the PHP core team we're talking about here. They don't give a shit about security, and you have to publicly humiliate them into taking things like this seriously and doing anything about security.
This is about as original and interesting as a Cosmo sex quiz.
Not really trolling, at least not intentionally. The parent was glib, sure, but I see comments such as that all the time in more technical discussions on HN and they pass unremarked or even upvoted. Yet when it happens in a political discussion people lose their shit because we're all expected to be a bunch of little Montesquieus around here nowadays. Fine, GS is not literally immune to US law, but surely you can imagine how someone might think that, in certain respects, they may as well be or they appear to be. And there is nothing wrong with making a snarky comment to that effect when it is clearly not meant to be taken literally.

I don't know if HN was always like this and we have more political links on here recently, or if it's a change in membership composition, but from what I can tell the range of allowed opinion in political discussion has greatly narrowed over the past six months or so compared to that in technical discussion. And that's too bad.
The thing that I do not like about it is that it floods out other submissions from the "New" page. Surely there are better and less disruptive ways of keeping track of news you find interesting.

Maybe something like a cool-off period, similar to what is used for deeply nested threads, will be good.
Generally the unspoken rule here is that if you are taking up most of /newest you are posting too much. Sorry that's unintuitive; it's quite weird that Hacker News has lots of secret rules.
What is meant by "target" sites?

Do you mean a site that uses a third party authentication?

If we need every website out there to code security checks for these third party systems, I doubt we can rely on that
Corporate-land is still IE in the high percentages, including IE6. Hoping, wishing Chrome's new "ready for business" features will dent that...
As for the remarks about the he/she pronoun thing in the article, I think the last sentence would have been much, much stronger if they had used "one" instead of "her" and it simultaneously would have side-stepped some of this issue:

That’s fine, but remember: you can only hold the bus for one.
Does anyone know what this bug stems from? Why is 2011 so special?
"I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers." -Rasmus Lerdorf
NO that is not my primary reason. Primary reason for posting is it is Headline news and would be posted anyways. Why should I not be able to post? It will be posted sometime in the next 2 hours anyways.