skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another possible response might be "Negative, I am a meat popsicle".
even Deckard thought he was human, and we don't know if he passed the Voight-Kampff machine test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner#Deckard:...
It's a great idea, but free operating systems running on x86 are in practice the easiest test environments to source.

It's environments like solaris-sparc, irix, hpux and aix which are harder to rustle up with limited resources.
This is far from the only study that's been done on the matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_contr...

"However, an article in 2007 by Vain found 692 research studies focusing on GM crop and food safety and identified a strong increase in the publication of such articles in recent years"

Though the veracity (and funding sources) of said studies is a different matter entirely.
Technically you are throwing money at the problem (or someone is, for you).
In the tech field, dying for a large company generally means becoming a follower rather than a leader. Being defined by trends rather than defining them. Talking about future innovation, while others actually innovate.

It's ridiculous to think that MS is going to die-die in the next couple decades. It's equally ridiculous not to acknowledge that their influence is greatly diminished and is diminishing. That doesn't mean things won't change, and it doesn't mean there are no markets around an MS ecosystem.
Circumstances can make the benefits of tweaks and performance improvements in this particular field evaporate anyway. Too much of the work involved makes the effort expended rarely worth it unless your whole business is app deployment or you're Google.
Ask HN: tips for improving scheduling estimates?
I'm part of a very young team of about 10: 7 engineers, 3 product/design. This is the first or second real programming gig for most of the engineers; product side is a little more experienced, but not by much. One thing that we consistently run into is poor scheduling estimates-- something takes just a little bit longer than expected, and this has a cascading domino effect that far exceeds the initial misstep. We've tried to apply the old adages-- take your best estimate and double it, remember that the last 20% of a task takes 50% of the time-- but things still seem to unravel with each sprint.

It seems like estimating time is one of the less talked-about skills of the engineer, but one that's at least as important as cranking out good code, and maybe harder to master. So for the more seasoned engineers out there, or anyone, really: how did you learn to look at a project, break it down, and attach time to the pieces? I find our team struggling with 2-week sprints, but there are clearly people planning things out months in advance-- what steps do you take? What about making or validating estimates on aspects that you don't have expertise in (for instance, estimating a front-end task when you're mostly on the backend)? When starting with no history, how many weeks of concrete scheduling data do you need before your estimates begin to hold water? And on the softer side, how do you (gently) nudge someone in the right direction if they are consistently off in their estimates?

Lastly, a couple ideas I've heard of but never tried:

- Planning poker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker

- Use fib when assigning hrs to tasks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13h etc

Anyone use these with success? Perhaps suggestions for lightweight project management tools?
Preparing you for these (transient) negative feelings is a standard of Buddhist meditation teaching. At least it's in the foundational texts and it was mentioned in the few Buddhist groups I've attended. It would be unfortunate if modern meditation guides would leave that out.
My first thought was how it would look like in comparison to gun ownership rates/laws.
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
As an aside:
"You can pair an inexpensive motherboard with even the slowest and cheapest triple channel compatible i7-950..."

Inexpensive motherboards are a terrible idea, they can cause really weird problems that look like issues with other components. I've built a few computers and since sworn never to buy a cheap motherboard again.
Instapaper is fantastic, but focusing on an article has nothing to do with meditation. An article is someone else's thoughts. Meditation is stilling one's thoughts.
Has anyone here used this?
I'm a big supporter of not letting open platforms/systems/etc turn into digital ghettos. The "anything goes" approach is just a little too self destructive for me. Often it ends up just forcing people into a more closed platform. In this case FireFox starts crashing constantly so how do most people react? Go back to IE? Probably.
Ask HN: How do you learn?
A lot of you on Hacker News are successful, particularly academically, so I though I'd ask some advice. How do you learn? How do you study for exams? How do you learn every little fact or understand every physics concept?

I read this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125742) and it got me thinking!
Infographic: Looking back at Wikipedia's evolution
Nope. Both RAM and disk are asymptotic. We're getting to the point now where the laws of physics are preventing us from getting much smaller. Now, all of this is only applicable to the current paradigm; an entirely new kind of RAM could mean vastly higher ceilings, but if we keep making it the way we've more or less been making it for decades, we'll hit a wall.
Clickable: http://nextcoast.com/
One of the things we do to make it easier is our support for basic authentication when pushing. This removes any requirement for getting SSH to work on Windows, which is usually the issue you'll run into.
Can you show any evidence of Microsoft .Net or Azure gaining popularity? I admittedly have no evidence other than my own social circles and preconceived notions.
SCO and Novell square off at oral argument: Groklaw weighs in
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>I read this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125742) and it got me thinking!

I think you've just answered your own question in a way. People who learn a lot tend to do a lot of reading. Reading and absorbing, reading and absorbing. It's a process that you repeat ad nauseam (not literally, as most people who read a lot enjoy it).

To expand on this, as younata mentioned programming, learning some things also requires a liberal amount of practice. That is especially true with programming and many other tech-related fields.
My first thought looking at the transcripts was that seeing "IndexTank" as the screen name answering the questions rather than a person's name would make me suspect "robot" at first too. Either way, I agree that introducing yourself to the user with your own name will do a lot to reduce the suspicion.
Are you serious? The Bush Administration knew far less about the world...
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better code (algorithms, performance, memory usage) is amortized across the life of the rest of the system. fixed-cost upgrades will eventually be caught up to. so it's not bad to think like that.
Far too much text on every single page of your site. I clicked through them all but didn't want to spend 10 minutes reading just to figure out what you do. Fix this with a big, catchy headline along with a short 2-3 sentence description of what you do and a video or screenshots of your software.
Please only post links with titles in English. I also see that the site you're linking to is written in Japanese. Although many of HN's users are multilingual, this site English-only.

Edit: Thanks for revising the title of the post. Now I see that it's just some kind of spam, "herb man."
"However long you expect it to take, multiplied by four" - Paraphrased from Scotty.

All joking aside, my "custom" (as in I came up with it on my own, others probably came up with it as well) system is to break down the task as much as possible, then depending on how complex they are, give each subtask either an hour or a day.
Then, multiply that amount of time by four.
Interesting. A citation would be informative. I tried the usual keyword searches of "memory disk space barriers asymptotic ceiling" but couldn't quickly fine anything. I'd be interested if you could provide us a pointer.
For the record:

We settled this over tacos and beer. True Ventures is not trying to compete with the likes of Facebook for top technical talent. That seems to be a misleading spin added by the authors of the article at TechCrunch.

True Ventures is instead trying to find people for whom the value of a summer spent working and learning at a start-up and building relationships within the firm is greater than the $12k+ pay delta. I agree that this can hold true for certain individuals, especially people looking to found their own companies in the very near future. I imagine there are many struggling start-up founders who would be willing (not that anyone would offer this deal) to pay $12k for the sort of access a TEC participant has.

Unlike what the TechCrunch article implies, this does not do much to solve the recruitment problems faced by many start-ups, nor is it intended to do so.

Thanks for the tacos, Adam!
One advantage of this setup not mentioned in the article: you needn't be afraid of ${airport_security} searching your laptop at the border.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125742

your link is clickable.

I learn by doing. If it's math, then I'll get a textbook, and just go through the problems. Then I'll check them. If it's anything programming, then I'll find a tutorial and then build stuff from there. If it's writing, then I'll write and ask others to critique it.
I tried checking the source but it made me fail. So I picked up my ps3 controller and started playing an emulator.
And who never needs to search for information on Google to develop a feature. I want my whole platform written on the whiteboard first please. No Googling for you.
Why Startups Move to Silicon Valley
Hi

i'm in a similar situation for the last 9 or 10 years. What I do is not develop anything (not a single line) with either the time or the resources of my current employer (a Greek university).

If you are involved in any kind of contract as your company's employee, don't include your IP as background IP. It is better to declare none.

Also you have to rule out all previous (if there are any) employers from any demands. You have to make clear (through a legal document) your conditions on the fair use of your IP as well as your obligations and benefits.

-kavi
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Eric Schmidt to Sell $335 Million of His Google Shares
That's a great catch. We chose the name for the account when we started using Olark, and labeled it with the company name. We decided initially to have only three accounts and rotate them among our team, so all of the accounts were given IndexTank labels. As we are expanding our use of Olark, we will give each of our developers their own account, and they could put in their first name there.

We will test it out. thanks.
That rule of thumb is from Jim Gray:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)

It's held true for a long time. Like any rule of thumb, at some point it may no longer be correct, but we're not at that point yet.
It really depends on what the business model is. I'd say no because they are the hardware manufacturer and will be able to subsidize the phone expecting to recover the money with the games, which will, possibly, not run on other devices, despite the Android OS.
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Not them in particular but I'm currently testing Chartbeat and Reinvigorate (both Woopra competitors it seems) on my blog until I decide which one I like more. To be frank I don't like either. One is only about what is happening now (chartbeat) and doesn't tell you things like how many visitors you got in the last month. Reinvigorate tells you those things but all the data is spread out over tons of pages and you have to click around several times to get what you're looking for. I used to use Mint for all this (but not as realtime... you need to update it to see new numbers) but it needed its own database and I wanted to go with a much more simple setup on my jekyll site. No sql anymore!

chartbeat screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/o0-4.png

reinvigorate screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/mrva.png
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If the businesses were worried about cash flow, I think the 75% haircut would be the bigger issue. Also, they will likely be pre-paid for a large percentage of their Groupon patrons (I have many I haven't used from months ago) and not everyone ends up using their coupon.

Businesses flock to Groupon because its popular and puts them in the spotlight for a day to tens or hundreds of thousands of local people on their mailing list and twitter followers.
This kind of things is cool, except the vast majority of apartments are not listed on Craigslist or Google or anywhere online.

One of these sites needs to use Mechanical Turk (or similar) to pay people to walk around and find "for rent" signs on the street, call the number, get the details, and data entry them into the site.

Then have a "did this number work for you?" thing on the site, and you don't get paid until someone successfully calls the landlord and verifies that it's a real rental. Or maybe do a double-check kind of setup where some AT users create listings and other verify them. Some way to handle fraud.

That would be an insanely useful apartment site. That site would become a household name.
So he's the new Jerry Pournelle, is what you're saying?
The plural of ancedote is not data.
The video could be made more visually pleasing and the shapes easier to identify with a little filtering. Perhaps a Gaussian blur followed by edge detection and contrast enhancement, maybe with some false color added for fun.
With 24 Gigabytes of memory I could even avoid to use the hdd.
http://blogs.forrester.com/application_development/2010/02/f...
Right now DDR3 is made on a ~30nm process. We can't really shrink that too much more without the various pathways bleeding into each other. We're just running into insulation limits. They'll still be able to shrink it a bit, but this holds true for CPUs as well, and is one of many reasons why we're increasing cores in pursuit of higher performance.

We're scheduled to hit 11nm; after that I'm not sure. See the Wikipedia article on quantum tunnelling for an explanation that's mostly above my comprehension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

edit: To get an idea of the scales we're talking about, 11nm is only about 50 silicon atoms wide.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=11nm+/+width+of+silicon...
Oracle may remove JUnit from NetBeans
Well I think there are actually two questions in your question. First you're talking about learning, then you're talking about studying for exams.

For me those two are distinctly different concepts.

As far as learning goes, I usually take the route of reading a lot about a subject, dabbling with it, trying to find a pet project to do in the field. Usually just going through a bunch of wikipedia stuff and trying to mingle with the people more knowledgable than me. This process can take months, sometimes years or decades. But it is very effective and it plays to my eternal learning and slight polymathic side.

Then there is studying for exams. That is a short term process (and the knowledge is a lot more superficial and short term ish). This involves a lot of quick reading[1], cramming as much wikipedia in my head and doing as much practice as I can to get a good enough grasp on the subject to pass. This usually takes a few days, a few tens of hours that is. Depending on how difficult I find the exam/subject.

[1]my method of quick reading is a very simple subvocal technique, I can only do about two pages a minute. Not something fierce like some people can. It also involves first going through the book just reading the titles, then just reading the first paragraph under every title, then the first page under every title. Then the whole book (twice-ish). This structurally builds up the data in my head well enough that I can then at least sort of know what I'm looking at when taking the exam.

And now some anecdotal evidence that my way of studying for exams works: Last year I passed 8 exams (more than in the two years prior to that), while also doing a startup full-time and part-time freelancing.
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Yep, I have used it on a couple of sites now.

It is great to be able to see your traffic in real-time if, say, you have just been techcrunched. But day-to-day, I found the Java desktop interface pretty hard to fathom.

It looks like they have a new web interface now though, which could be much better
I think the impressive thing about the story is that he'll still own over $5.4 billion in Google shares which represents 2.7% of the company.
I've been using Mixpanel, but Woopra looks for powerful out of the box, at least for my needs. I've installed the tracking code and will play with it tomorrow.

I haven't tried Chartbeat or Reinvigorate.
On the other hand, I know people who will never buy expensive server mainboards ever again as they are produced in so low numbers that bugs never get ironed out or programmed around in operating systems, unlike widely distributed consumer hardware. (Cheap consumer mainboards still sound like a bad idea, though).
I was just thinking it would be better if the timer wasn't there :)
Thanks for the reply. That sounds great and should definitely address one of my two major problems with git on Windows.

The second one (with \'s vs /'s in paths) can iirc be fixed with some simple bash aliases for the git-console, so it should probably work out.

Looking forward to try the service out :)
The paper itself says it can't separate out the effects of the pesticides on the corn (or produced by the corn) and the GMness of the corn itself - you think greenpeace would fake a paper this inconclusive?

(That said, I have no special knowledge of the concept or this field.)
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Where I come from, if you say "A is clearly false" means there is evidence to support it. I have never heard of any evidence regarding spiritual or religious beliefs; maybe the OP has some. Until he presents some, I'll dismiss his claims as 'clearly false'.
$299 for 24 gigs of ram is ridiculous. I thought for sure that had to be the per-stick price, or something. Prices sure have dropped a lot since the last time I built a system.
Very cool. I was looking for something like this.
So he's more social, while believing in protecting artists. That doesn't make him a "shill" per se. One might find his politics naive but you're accusing him of being disingenuous. Everything I know about him (admittedly not a great deal) says he's at least consistent.
Google provides new answers on H.264, WebM/VP8 and YouTube
OK, I'm on right now, and this kicks ass. This is exactly what I wanted at my last company. When you're dealing with relatively few (but very important) visitors, having this kind of real-time awareness is gold. I can't wait to try it tomorrow when more people are online.
You can use the freed-up engineer time to write better code which you can also keep for the life of the system though, though. It is not too hard to think of things which you could do in a few hours that would pay for RAM upgrades in perpetuity, even at BCC's relatively small scale. (Say, an A/B test which resulted in a 1% lift on my AdWords landing pages.)
I'm trying out the web interface and I like it so far.
A back of the envelope calculation says that a linear shrink with a factor of three means nine times as many structures on a given die area. This is consistent with the factor of ten in a decade. There will be hard technical problems lurking in the details, but the end is not yet nigh.
Awesome UI screenshots from applications running on Symbolics Lisp Machines
Lots of half-gates means lots of pulldown/pullup resistors. Probably uses a ton of power (per bit, or whatever.)

We had to build a full 16-bit machine in school. Thankfully, we were allowed to use 290x ALU slices.
What's happening is pretty self evident, esp with the knowledge that Schmidt is selling as much stock as he possibly can. He's cashing out big time.

He obviously has strong disagreements with the founders, and believes that their direction for the company is fraught with risk of some sort of cataclysmic failure.

If you're a shareholder and care about profits, you probably want the guy who can be 'a bit more evil'. The world is a crappy place, and nice guys don't often finish first. My money's with Eric on this one.
There's definitely a desire to build out more environments. Just decided to get it up and running on x86 first with both 32 and 64 bit architectures on a variety of Linux distributions.