skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably autonomous cars would not replace the ones on closed courses, and you could still enjoy driving a car the way you enjoy all other pleasures which require specialized equipment and facilities.
That's a single microcoded instruction -- those are not typically any faster than a bunch of normal instructions.
Good question. I don't currently have a well defined strategy for finding these companies, hence my interest in HireLite. :)

I typically do short and medium term consulting projects, and telecommuting hasn't been much of an issue so far, particularly after demonstrating my abilities.

But, people seem to have a different attitude with full time employment where things aren't as clearly defined vs. shorter term projects.

Does the HireLite system currently filter by Remote vs Local candidates? I'd like to participate in the upcoming event, but I wouldn't want to waste any one's time if they are rejecting 100% of remote candidates.
"Cult" being the operative word.
If a business relies on stealthily moving payment information from the merchant with whom the customer is dealing and a 3rd party, then perhaps a "deal breaker" is necessary. A customer should be able to expect that payment information is only handled by the merchant processing the order. Throwing "click here for your FREE OFFER" pop-ups that contain "offer terms" signing the user up for 360 months of charges, or hiding "print tickets now" links amongst huge, blinking graphics about "E Z TRIALZ" that only serve to cause credit card charges should not be recognized as good business.

Having read through the bill[1], it seems narrowly-tailored just to prevent such annoyances. A merchant needs to understand that payment information is arguably the second most precious thing given by a customer, and that information needs to be protected. Yes, customers have options, but when every seller in a particular class--I'm glaring at you, movie ticket sales websites--has taken this scammy step, the "choice" is meaningless.

1 - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3386:
Any clue whether they are checking the destination URLs for malware? Using perhaps Google's Safe Browsing API ( http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/ )?
I believe the 6502 could do things faster than the Z80. I once implemented the exact same program on a 6800 and a Z80. The 6800 is very close to the 6502. Speed wasn't an issue, but the Z80 version was noticeably bigger. And also felt more quirky to program.
I'm from the DC area, but now live in Columbia, SC. Every time I go back I'm reminded of how many different cultures, things to do, types of food, places to have a drink , listen to live music, etc... there are. I love Columbia, but you can't beat living in a major metro area if you like to enjoy new experiences.

Now keep in mind that I'm 22. Maybe as you get older, small towns with only a Waffle House and Jimbos Sports Bar (which closes @ 9pm) become more appealing. In most of rural America, the people are incredibly nice, but the poverty, lack of education, jobs, healthcare, and public services is appalling (theres a reason rural Tea Partiers are so angry). With that said, every place is what you make of it.
The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in water droplets
"If there were efficient, cost-effective, and prompt delivery systems for local goods like groceries"

Wouldn't trucks work? It sounds crazy at first, but I suspect one truck making the rounds every day, like the postman, would still be more energy efficient than hundreds of cars going back and forth to the supermarket?
Second the bit about private calendars. To me this is about tracking my own productivity across all kinds of contexts (work, play, gym, diet); I can't even fathom a reason why I'd want to make data that span those contexts available to anybody / everybody.

The other bit of feedback - I have to wait a whole day until the app starts showing value. How can you make it add value immediately? What about sending me an email and asking me what I did yesterday? Or letting me enter it right on the site, since otherwise I gotta go fire up my email client?
Have you notified zoneedit?

I've had several problems when I was moved to the new site.. Hope they sort it out soon, or I may have to go looking for another service. (Any suggestions?)

FWIW, I can't log in at all right now, only getting the spinning circle.
Those buttons didn't show up for me until a good 5 seconds after the vertical scroll bar appears, so I did what any impatient user would do.

The fact that we're even having this conversation indicates failure on their part.
A service that would, once a month, deliver by mail ALL of your needed toiletries - toothpaste, shampoo, shaving cream, deodorant, soap, etc. These would be the products you use normally - Old Spice, Colgate, Gillette, etc. The prices would be equal to, or often less than the store prices.

Amazon Subscribe and Save already offers this service:
http://www.amazon.com/Health-Personal-Care-Subscribe-Store/b...
The truth is, we already have enough road. Compared to machines, our reaction times are very slow, and because of that we can't use them efficiently since we need to give each other space to slow down / change lanes. If the cars are able to communicate their intended destinations along with other things ("I'm speeding up, go" / "I'm slowing down, don't hit me" / "SYSTEM FAILURE") then we can pack more cars into the same amount of space.
Yeah, that page is sort of it, but it's buried and the distance between the before and after diminishes the impact. It should be front and center, and demonstrate that you can literally go from nothing to awesome in seconds. I want to see that so I "get" what the product is.

It would also be helpful to show case studies. Actual situations where your styles would be useful.
Yeah I'm probably going to do that at some point.
That's really quite astounding. Thanks.
how about sticking an image of what the calendar will look like on the main page? there is really all that much to explain about the site otherwise -- it's simple. (the mental energy of having to deal with one more site we hope is mitigated by the fact that we email you, you don't have to remember to check out our site.)
I have the same problem, and I'm at a loss as to what to do about it.
Redcar: It's time for a Ruby editor (in Ruby) [video]
Indeed,

The patent system only makes in a world in which you have a finite number of industries performing a finite number of useful tasks. Then the social context lets you distinguish useful and useless inventions. Even then, the GGP's point of nontrivial works naturally belonging to their inventors is balderdash. What you can say, all you can say, is, with physical inventions in a fairly static world, that society can somewhat coherently grant people monopolies on inventions for public policy purposes.

But in a world where every activity, including the modification of the physical world, is approach "information processing", the whole patent system is become logically unsupportable. In this information processing world, a patent is government granting people deeds to an ill-defined terrain. And it's fairly clear our world is getting closer to that, is it not?

And with a ill-defined terrain, common sense about what's useful, common usage, etc just go out the window. All patents approach the status of troll-patents.
If we can make food, medicine, and shelter almost free with the help of automation, then people would no longer need jobs to meet their survival needs.
kind of. it's not done on the front end (js) but rather using some service on the backend.

the phrasing of that is a bit weird, but they probably test until they no longer get a 301 or 302 redirect and save the result. they print this result on the front end as a title for the link and as an HTML5 data attribute "expanded-url" on the link.
Looks interesting, will definitely have to play with it. How does performance compare with cut,grep and friends on large files?
Update: SecondMarket has gotten SEC inquiry
Two excellent points. We'll most likely implement both. Thanks.
Nice catch - do you know how successful Amazon's program is?
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Cool. We'll do this. Thanks!
There are several issues with their methodologies. Basically, they measure data from toolbar installs, as well as some data sharing/sampling agreements with ISPs and other websites.

Most criticisms center around the fact that it is well documented that data from compete frequently doesn't match (or come close to matching) data in server logs. Because of the methodology of collection, the data has a tendency to be skewed. Plus, it's difficult to figure out exactly why server logs show such different data than compete, so it gives a not-too-trustworthy feel to many webmasters.

In addition, there's a potential conflict of interest -- if you sign up for their paid service, your site will get an analytics tracking cookie. From what I've read, people rarely see their rank drop after signing up for the analytics service. Gives the whole thing the feel of payola.

That said, similar problems exist with all the analytics type services. None are perfect, best bet is to poll a few of them and not take the numbers too seriously (look for trends, not milestones).
similarly, search.twitter.com has had this using "(expand)" on the end of links for some time. i'm not sure if this was part of the original acquisition for that service or if they added it in after.
I believe the 6502 could do things faster than the Z80.

Right, I was hoping someone might remember specifics. I don't think this is really true, in general.

The 6800 is very close to the 6502

Not really.
Steve has said that Apple intends to start acquiring more companies, larger plays rather than small talent acquisitions.
Zillow hits new traffic record
Anyone with a link to the bug on Google Code? It seems it was removed from the article.

I've never had this happen to me, but I don't text very much. It has happened a couple of times to my wife, though.
doesn't even load up well in Chrome. Pictures are all jumbled up. To "fix," one needs to scroll down with the arrow key, then scroll up with the arrow key. Then, it looks as intended. Considering Chrome is taking market share very quickly, I'd say this is REALLY bad
If your Hotmail disappeared, it should be back
Good example of an idea that mistakes everyday annoyances or obsessive-compulsive behavior with an actual need.
i'd throw ANDROID-1147 and ANDROID-1376 in the Android technical management "absolutely really just doesn't get it" bucket. otoh, the issue Charles Ying of Satine.org rages aobut, ANDROID-6914, seems much more questionable to me because the issue itself is really complex.

the two tickets, "Support for external keyboard, mouse" and "Browser doesn't render SVG images" both strike me as absolutely essential to making smartphones competitive with PC's. people have been happily attaching fold up keyboards to Palm Pilots for a decade now, SVG is perhaps the only sane route forwards for resolution independent apps and animation, and Apple has found religion on both these topics-- yet Android is obstinately behind.

otoh composited gpu acceleration is not nearly the huge obvious win C. Ying boasts it as. the gpu is more power efficient than the cpu for intensive applications, but a smartphones natural state is not intensive use. mr guy of android points out a number of complexities-- opengl drivers only supporting a single context, opengl acceleration proving less speedy than software implementations. it places huge emphasis on driver support, which any embedded wonk will tell you is a scary prospect.

although gpu acceleration is becoming better supported, keep in mind that the smartphone market expands, both up and down, with broadcom & others putting out chips designed for sub $75 smartphones. android is definitely not winning the race for the top atm, but performance has always been a rather lonely market-- that said, unsmooth experiences dont fly. software graphics focus insures a base level of performance for everyone, and strikes me as the right place to start to insure a speedy experience not subject to external interrupts.

the current silkiness situation is a little sad. it'll get better. more relevant to me is Android not playing in the ecosystem-- external peripherials, UPnP/DLNA, SVG-- these are the real things that will make or break not Android, but the open digital web, and Android is failing, badly, even in compare with non-web-enthusiasts Apple.
I've read a fair bit amount of literature on marketing but I've found that a lot of the books on the market are too high level. It was hard to translate them into immediately actionable steps. I think knowing what book to read at the right time is also really important. Also find the reading books can only get me that far but actually working on different campaigns with different clients will give me a wider perspective.
Agreed on all points equally.
The Special Relationship
This is a misunderstanding of the discussion at hand. The word driverless in the context of this article and the person I was replying to implies the lack of a human failsafe.

Schmidt and Matt address this in their arguments. For example, Matt mentions that the beverage industry will skyrocket because people can now "drive" home drunk. The human can't take over in an emergency in that situation. Pretty much every advantage of driverless cars that Matt listed are not possible if the human is required to be alert enough to take over. Further, the person I was responding to claimed he would never have to learn how to drive. If a human is going to take over in an emergency, s/he will still have to learn. Point being, the discussion at hand is about driverless vehicles without using a human as a backup.
The nice thing about markets is that people can put their money where their mouth is. I wonder if DHH, assuming he had an opportunity, would short facebook at $50 billion valuation. Investment banks have talented people working for them, and they have excellent knowledge on how different assets are priced, they may be wrong but it's very hard to tell exactly when they are wrong. I guess betting against them would be rational if DHH had some unique insight as to why $50B is too much. However a claim about the bubble 2.0 or frothy markets is not something unique -- I'm sure they have already priced this public sentiment into the deal.
In this case, the 'F' stands for Facts.

I know of at least two start-ups that are currently building advertising revenue streams on facebook apps and twitter that are also data mining like crazy. The goal is to replicate your "facebook friends" data and have it accessible on-demand without needing facebook. They also plan on extracting all your likes and interests. Then, if your friend (who is uniquely identifiable) buys something and its within your "liked" interests, you get a micro-targeted ad telling you your friend has bought it.

So, sometime soon, the Beacon-scandal from facebook (a few years ago, if people can remember -- users said that facebook "ruined christmas") is going to play out again on the greater web. And there will likely be no opt-out.

The company Gabe is afraid will come to be is already in the process of an alpha test. Consumers are largely ignorant of how powerful data mining software can be, and will continue to be until its "too late".
I agree. It is unlikely that the release manager would have been expected to generate a random number. I'd have expected, possibly, a pre-generated list of random numbers, maybe 1000 or so, so a duplicate is not unlikely, and cannot happen maliciously.

I find it most likely that the build process code was flawed. This sort of code is, in my experience, not written by your most talented developer (unless one of your top developers has a build fetish). All too often you only find deficiencies in the build/release process the month of release, when you have the least time to fix them.
May I humbly submit, for your theater-going enjoyment:

- Drink every time women are portrayed as inferior to men. Bonus points if it's done in narration. "...the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained."

- Drink every time a statistically improbable fictional example is used as the sole justification for an argument.

- The last person to shout an obvious counterexample from the industrial revolution takes an extra shot.

- During hero worship, toast to the virtue of the character in question.

- Waterfall during The Speech.
Samsung cared, and they spend X million dollars building new devices that made use of the hardware they had onboard because they cared. As a result they can run a browser at 720p smoothly on their phone.

Innovation doesnt come from asking people what they want. It comes from finding new markets and making new means.
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Studying the manufacturers data sheet for the chip you could in a short time know everything, and I mean everything, about the instruction set. You would never have any doubt about your programming language. That as least was some form of delight.
this appears to be a positive article to compliment the negative one from this morning
This is also called "flow" or being "in the zone" -- focusing on one thing, intensely, without interruptions. It's one more reason to lump programming in with the other creative arts.
I've written a lot of ARM assembler, and I think that could be described as a delight to program. An orthogonal instruction set, consistent naming, conditionals on every instruction, and a decent number of registers make it really quite pleasant (as these things go).

These days I'm writing a lot of code in Ruby and JavaScript on the JVM, and find myself considering Java my current equivalent of assembly. It's sad really, being so far away from what the CPU is actually executing.
Would be cool to allow people to assign a hot-key to a selection of barks, so they could create a soundboard of barks.

Other simple things would be "visualize this bark" where you have an audio waveform display of the bark (this has got to be easy to do programmatically) and possibly also a mechanism to categorize the barks by pitch or note. Then a user could find a dog with a deeper (or yippier) bark.
If the whole project is about signing code packages to prevent the platform being hacked, you would've thought the key generation would be considered a critical part of the application code, rather than a detail of the build process. Even if the code necessarily exists in the build script. The build script is the project in this case.

If a developer has ever even thought about generating a list of 1000 random numbers to pick from at a later date, then they shouldn't be developing production code.
Brad Templeton delivered a superb talk on robotic cars at the Singularity Summit 2009 (http://www.vimeo.com/7337628). It expounds on the technology's implications, supporting Maroon's assertion that even a small slice of the market will easily eclipse Google's stake in search. Of particular interest:

* Transportation is more dangerous than we think, and this is largely due to human factors. (Driver inattention is a factor in 80% of crashes; alcohol in 40%.)

* The purchase of private vehicles forces us into a "one size fits all" model. If someone goes skiing only once a year, he will purchase an SUV; if someone spends 90% of his mileage traveling alone to work, he'll still purchase a five-person sedan so he can haul around friends occasionally. By moving to a grid-like service that provides cars to us on demand, we will be able to choose the vehicle best suited to the type of trip we're making.

* Robotic cars could eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Energy usage would be dramatically lower due to people using a vehicle only as large as they need for a given trip. Vehicles powered by alternative energy have a chicken-and-egg problem -- no one wants to build the infrastructure to deliver energy until people buy the vehicles, but no one wants to buy the vehicles until a ubiquitous energy infrastructure is in place. Robotic cars, however, would have no qualms with traveling halfway across a city to refuel, nor with waiting two hours in a lineup before refuelling.

* The transportation infrastructure will also become substantially more efficient, as cars will be able to travel much closer together without compromising safety. As a consequence, energy usage can be reduced another 30% by having cars draft one another.

* Before robotic cars would be accepted by the public, they'd have to meet much more stringent safety standards than we apply to human drivers. No one would accept a robotic car that killed a human, even if robotic cars on the whole were twice as safe as human drivers. Templeton figures we'll need cars on the order of 100 times safer than human drivers before they will be widely accepted. To convince people of the cars' safety, Templeton proposes the "school of fish" test -- imagine walking out onto a track swarming with cars travelling at 40 miles per hour, and having every car swerve around you no matter how hard you try to make them hit you.

* Robotic vehicles will record video everywhere they go, for this will prove invaluable in determining the cause of accidents. Any modifications to the driving software will then have the ability to be tested on the "trillion mile road test" -- they will have a corpus of testing data composed of the recorded footage of every trip ever made. New software will be tested against every vehicle accident that has ever occurred.

* The privacy implications of this universal recording are disconcerting. Templeton raises the spectre of a situation like that in Minority Report, where police can remotely override your control of a vehicle, locking you inside and transporting you to a destination of their choosing.
I second this post and want to mention that support for this exists in Chrome as well. You don't even need to grab an addon. The searchable bookmarks site, trunkly, turned me on to this feature. I nearly posted a Tell HN when I realized what I had been shown.

Add Keyword Search In Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95...

Add Keyword Search In Firefox: http://lifehacker.com/397071/easily-manage-firefox-3-keyword...

Enjoy!
On2 was the original owner of Duck.com which Google paid ~$102m for in August of 2009.

Doubt this was related to fear of DuckDuckGo.com but that sure would be a nice domain pickup!

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/google-acquires-video-compr...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691
Does anyone know if there's a command to update your Gemfile to the latest available version of all gems used?

I'd prefer this b/c it's usually easy to roll back one or two before deploying if they conflict on my laptop, and having a defined version is preferable to blindly going with the latest.
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The distinction being, businessmen earn a living by serving customers, while the others do so by seeking 'rents' (i.e. special privileges) through political connections. It's entirely accurately to portray the second category as 'looters' or 'thugs'.