skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 386 was not the first processor with a modern MMU; you have to go back to the '70s for that. The 80286 could thread. The 386 didn't have virtual machine support (you may again be referring to the MMU). And the first generation Core processor is a drastically different machine in almost every respect from the 386.
Yes, it's one of English's many confusing edge cases, as normally an apostrophe does indicate posession - you would say "David's book", or "Sarah's pc" - so this catches many people out (including me, quite often).
Ask HN: Is it worth pursuing an idea ...
Is it worth pursuing an idea that could be easily implemented by a big company (Google, Facebook, etc)?
The title of this post seems to be a reference to the famous paper of Wigner titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences." It is a very readable paper and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...
Be aware that since all of these are very Javascript heavy, their performance will depend a lot on the browser you use. For eg YUI data grids lets you reorder columns by drag and drop - try that in IE 8 and you will see what I mean. Off the ones in this list that I have tried, SlickGrid comes head and shoulders above others when it comes to performance.
Thanks man! Lot's of great advice. You can count on that coup of tea :)

Regarding 15; I don't eat meat :)

I'll be coming back to SF in September with my friends, so I'll probably concentrate on the hacker-ish things now, and leave sight seeing (such as golden bridge) for September.
You know what last.fm is for me (and the majority of last.fm traffic)? Free internet radio.

Your site, as far as I can tell, is _not_ free internet TV. So to most people I wouldn't call it last.fm for TV shows.
Despite the title, this post is a great thing for meetup. It sounds like they took the classic advice - they launched early with a minimalist feature. Now this post tells them exactly how to improve it.

Of course, thousands(?) of potential advertisers are reading a "very unhappy" review, but I think that's overstated. The review is clearly positive on the idea, and on meetup in general. With a few tweaks, this sounds like a useful platform.
Are you implying that a Broadcasting Corporation ought not to be concerned with technologies for transmitting video over communication networks?
Concerned with? Sure. NIH on the taxpayer's money? Probably not. Not like the BBC ever had its own homegrown tape format or anything, it got it all off-the-shelf.
I say "Yay!" for number 3, the carve-out for employees when their shares have been diluted to worthlessness. That actually earned me a bit of cash during the dot-com flame-out era.

Also as a counter-example to another point, I was at a company where the stay package was 4 years. It has expired, and all 5 founders have stayed past the 4 years. I think a large part of this is due to the quality of the acquirer.
I would still like to have had the success of YouTube. And I bet if you look hard enough, you'll find some niche where someone has followed those steps, but with #4 - Profit!
They could probably keep them running for the price of some football pundit's yearly salary.
This is some truth to this. FB is a walled, semi-curated, subset of the internet. It has inertia and, for all those who don't want the general hassles associated with the internet at large, may be a perfect 5-minute solution.

The local red-neck bar has a FB page. Think about that.
See https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
Steel production in the US is one tenth the level of steel production in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_prod...). Perhaps I'm naive, but I'm inclined to believe that their industrial manufacturing level now vastly outstrips our own.
I see the temptation with using a grid like css system as it gives you really great control over the layout. On the other hand I really despise the classitis that's being enforced on a user of any grid system.

Not only that - the classes are as non-semantic as it gets.

Is this really where we should be going? Now that we got rid of non-sematic markup and heaps of tables and spacer images? Now we are going back to

<div class="grid_2">

How is

<fieldset class="container_12">
<div class="grid_2"><button type="submit">Button 1</button></div>
<div class="grid_8"><button type="submit">Button 2</button></div>
<div class="grid_2"><button type="submit">Button 3</button></div>
</fieldset>

better than

<table width="120"><tr>
<td width="20%"><button /></td>
<td width="60%"><button /></td>
<td width="20%"><button /></td>
</tr></table>

(of course, playing devil's advocate a bit. fieldset > div > button is more semantic than table > tr > td > button, but it's far away from perfect)

Now if we had something like SASS where we could say that #sidebar is to be rendered as .grid_2, yeah - better, but as long as SASS is just something we bolt on as a compiler on deployment time, the code we are throwing at the browser is just as ugly as the code we threw at the browser in the dark ages.

This is why I'm not touching grid systems for my work, so if there is a class-attribute, then it usually has (aside of IE hacks due to .not.supporting.multiple.classes.selectors) semantic meaning.
I was one. Everyone who could've been YouTube, were it not for the fact that they disdained Flash Video and were looking at a "more elegant technology."
These are pretty graphs, but without a discussion of how the data was collected and what it means, i find it somewhat difficult to determine if the blog author's analysis is correct.

Even hitting the original homepage for the data isn't very helpful (at a cursory glance): http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO

What counts as being manufactured in America? Does US assembly of parts made in other locales count?

Because if it were to be the case that automated assembly of things made in China count, then productivity/efficiency could be seen as increasing, even though the majority of a product was created and built elsewhere.

Anybody know?
Completely and totally agree. It's total manufactured bunk.

Even technically...to make "dual-core" apps work on single-core processors? Weak.
Agreed. I know many ppl who send 1000 or more texts per month. But I don't think there exist many in the world who make that many calls for personal use.
Still waiting for my N1 (T-Mobile) to get 2.3

My colleague actually still has 1.6 on his Motorola Clique (T-Mobile)
If they haven't done it yet, then yes. Then politely allow them to acquire you for something in the low 8 figure range.
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bq. Why not climb on their shoulders and adopt the WAL approach

The WAL approach solves a different problem: "how do we provide durable writes with minimal performance impact?"

WAL is not queryable, so the question of "how do we efficiently provide random, indexed access to data" is a separate one. (And the traditional answer of B-trees is working increasingly poorly in the face of a growing capacity:seek time gap.)
US accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb in the ocean (11 atomic bombs have been lost by the US total). Taking the opinion of fishermen, pilots, Navy officers, weather men etc, and simply averaging their estimations on a map the bomb was found in a day.
Was there a particular part of the spec you found illuminating / readable?
> Some potential employer could see him complaining publicly about one of his former employers and decide that it's a bad idea to hire him.

I find this very unlikely.
This is absolutely the number one error people from non-bicycling nations make about utility cycling.

Don't want to get sweaty? Just use your gears and slow down. You don't run to the corner store, you walk. Likewise with cycling to work - it's easy to travel at a comfortable pace that won't leave you sweaty or out of breath.
> is add any search engine that comes up in meta tags automatically

Won't it possibly lead to adding phishing entries (silently waiting for cases users won't notice the right one and add the wrong one) in future?
Yes, but he got lucky. How well would such a scheme have worked if he had done it in Germany? Or Japan? Or Russia? Or Italy? (Or maybe France?) Outside of the US and the English Commonwealth, where would such a scheme have worked?

The US is almost unique in going 200 years with consistent growth, no invasions, no hyperinflation, no confiscatory dictatorships, etc. There's a serious issue of bias here - where are all the bequests which didn't survive 200 years to impress us? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_finance)
I would have bought basketball.com. Looking back, it was a deal back then.
The only reason the checks and balances were added was because the Founders knew what the Gracchus brothers, Sulla, Marius and Cesar did to the Roman Republic.

Look there is no way to say this nicely, but if those people can't get over their issues of the lost paradise thats just too bad. There are plenty of hands-on jobs left: snow needs to be removed, toilets cleaned, windows polished, etc.

And no these jobs may not allow you to live a middle class lifestyle in 2010-2020, but they will allow you to live better than in the sixties.

Half of the houses then didn't indoor bathrooms and medical care for something like cancer would be a joke compared to what we can do today.

But hey lets all go and complain.
You could argue that tapes are not broadcasting though - whereas if I recall, the BBC was quite involved with early Television research and development.

Personally, as a British citizen and license-payer, I'm quite happy for the BBC to spend money on research and development (if well-thought and efficient; perhaps in this case it was misplaced), and I'm glad that the BBC is pushing technologies like video-over-internet compared to some of the more dinosaur-like traditional media companies.

Time to go watch some more BBC4 streaming over IP.
Like others have noted, there is a lot more "extra" in the JPEG file format than just the EXIF segment. Colloquially, these segments are referred to as "APP" segments; EXIF being just one out of sixteen total APP segments, of which others include f.e. JPS data, thumbnail data and ICC color profile data, to name a few. I've been using this one for a few years: http://stolendata.net/~djinn/code/appexifstrip.c
Actually, it's a miasma of incandescent plasma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA).
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RDBMS have consistency guarantees that require the engine to fsync at each commit. This ensures that if the system crashes after a transaction no data is lost, but the transaction throughput is limited by the disk writes.

Conversely Redis (with BGSAVE or diskstore) and other systems only ensure integrity, which means that if there is a crash you don't end up with a corrupted database, but you may lose the latest data that you wrote in the DB because they haven't yet been committed to disk.

Relaxing these guarantees completely changes the rules of the game, so the tradeoffs that work well with RDBMS, such as WAL, may not be the best fit in this world.
Can anyone point to a good CSS resource with more detailed explanations?
So TweetRoost's search monitor used in conjunction with its permanent database provides an archive of all Twitter chatter (mentions, tweets, etc.)?
Hi everyone, so i'm the founder of followmy.tv

Very cool to see followmy.tv suddenly appear on hackernews.

Thanks for the feedback so far, about the scrobbler question, we are planning to integrate with a bunch of software to make it easier to "check off" episode.

Keep the feedback coming, it's highly appreciated.
The jobs have gone into the service industry, which has caused a drastic decrease in wages because the government has let it. If Walmart and McDonald's jobs were unionized like they should be, then decent wages would be paid, putting upward wage pressure on all similar non-unionized competitors. It would also make it much easier for the Mom & Pop stores to compete with the big boys.
Thank god for Greasemonkey.
It took so long for the 386 'protected mode' to work well that we had one engineer that called them "real mode' and 'imaginary mode'.
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No offense but someone willing to steal $50k is not likely to suddenly change their mind because you showed up in person.
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>>>If we can only push our concept to one in the near term, iPad seems like the best bet...but is it???

I would suggest webOS. The field is less crowded, you will stand out, and make iPad and Android people say, "Why don't you do that for us too?"
Just from my experience/research, it seems to convert pretty terribly to sales. Certainly in Patio11's experience, FB ads don't convert at all.
Because Oracle is behaving like bully we don't need much of a pretext.
Some decent Unix systems programming tutorials
I recently built a simple site on this library (my experiences described here: http://www.thurn.ca/version_10_of_the_ackbar_blog_engine) and found it quite pleasant to work with, although there were a few Google API problems. GCV was also very helpful about answering my questions about the framework.
I wouldn't be surprised. Chip problems are very common - some examples:

- The pentium f00f division bug
- AMD Phenom TLB bug
- The intel 6xx chipset SATA degrade bug
- Radioactive cache chips in the Ultrasparc 2 (see here: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/at_the_mercy_of_suppliers )
- Bug in the Ultrasparc 1 that allows malicious user processes to stall the processor in 64-bit mode.

This isn't a new issue, and will continue. Processor's are very common, and errata is quite common - here's 52 pages of it for the Core i7: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/320836.p...
> Sometimes inefficiencies are good (see the U.S. political system of checks and balances, redundant systems in engineering).

Those aren't good analogies. The "inefficiencies" in the US political system aren't actually inefficiencies in the long run. They remove the need for revolutions/coups to depose autocratic rulers. Same thing with redundant systems in engineering - in the long run, they are the most efficient approach to the problem, as they reduce rates of catastrophic failure.

However, indefinitely preventing technology from advancing civilization is the exact opposite. For the short term "efficiency" of allowing those workers to keep their jobs, we are tolerating the permanent inefficiency of clinging to old technology.

I don't believe that there needs to be "a viable option for 'hands-on' people to earn a livable wage." Our ancestors all used to be hunter-gatherers, but we have somehow managed to survive in a world where hunting/gathering is nonexistent. It is the remarkable adaptability of the human race that has brought it so much success, and I believe we can continue to adapt to whatever new technology we discover.
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Yes, exactly. In addition to mentions and tweets and messages, you can turn on a search monitor (save a twitter search first, then enable it as a search monitor), and all output from those searches will be saved. Good for saving brand hashtags, etc.
Did you ever ask your parents why they named you and your sister like that?
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Are Bloggers an Aberration?
For a while they had a Unix some wanted and nobody thought at the time that there will be a free better Unix variant one day. Then GNU/Linux came along...
I disagree with the notion of holding back innovation around productivity in order to just keep a particular type of job (we shouldn't eradicate disease because then what would all the nurses and doctors do?). It might look like the right thing to do in the short term, but will hamper further innovation in the long term.

I don't think everyone enjoys or is cut out for computer based or intellectual work and there should be a viable option for 'hands-on' people to earn a livable wage.

There were probably lots of people not cut out for factory work when the shift happened from farming to manufacturing. The big difference here that I think most people miss is that it isn't the change from factory to knowledge that's the problem, but the speed at which the change has happened. This speed of change has caught many older workers off guard, whereas in the past the change happened over a generation or two.
Is it easier for mom and pop to compete because they already pay a higher wage? That is, mom and pop pay a higher cost of labor compared to the big boys?
Your point about Dirac is entirely irrelevant to the OP, which was about the Beeb embarking on a spree of wilful destruction of content.

All big organisation have areas of waste but content is the BBC's raison d'être, not something that should be discarded to save money.
What this post also misses is the declining socio-political power of manufacturing jobs. Two more charts are necessary: 1) the declining share of the total workforce made up by industrial labor, and 2) the declining share of unionized labor.

Even if the absolute numbers of manufacturing jobs had remained steady from the 1950s to the present, the stagnation in absolute numbers would simply be hiding a rather large relative decline.
I haven't looked at it in detail yet. But first thoughts, lose the name. It's highly forgettable and ugly on the tongue.

EDIT:
For a second i was confused, was i supposed to enter some words or a URL. So i tried random words, hoping it would give me stories classified accordingly. Tried "django", and some others. It classifies everything into sports.

Seems to do a decent jobs with some random URLs i threw at it. Seems to get startup news into the Business category, which is fine.

Gets technical articles wrong, but those are tough: eg. http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/07/pymotw-subprocess.html
No, it has to be the slowest timeframe with actors/agents/people in it, because they're the ones who are setting limits on what interest can be by being the most productive.

Let's take an example - imagine our slowest timeframe is at X and our fastest timeframe Y is dilated to 1/10 of X. And let's say the current ROIs per man-year in X are at 3% (it's a mature well-developed economy, the home planet) but ROIs in Y are an amazing 20% per man-year. X bankers will still prefer to lend to Xers rather than Yers. Imagine they lend to a Yer. 10 X years later (1 Y year later), Yer repays the loan with 20% interest. Great. But imagine they had lent to a Xer. 10 years later, the Xer repays the loan with 34.39% in interest! (3% compounded annually.)

And the exact same logic applies if the banker lives in Y. Xers are still better investments. A Y banker loans to an Xer for 1 Y year, and a year later gets the loan back with 34.39% interest, as compared to the best his fellow Yers can do, which is just 20% per year.

So interest rates need to scale with the dilation. If they scale too little, then all money will flow to the slowest timeframe. If they scale too much, the money flows to the fastest timeframe. Modulo the cost of moving between timeframes. (Imagine if Yers got returns of 40% per Y year/per 10 X years. Then X bankers would be clamoring to lend to Yers.)
Both are communication channels. 160 characters is enough for most thought to come across. Therefore SMS can replace email in most cases (though not all).
Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript development?
Maybe it is all in my head but I find that every time I come across a interesting code sample or solution to a problem, it is only usable if you I am willing to commit to a JS library such as JQuery or ProtoypeJS - or re-write it mysel in plain JS.

It seems it is not enough to know learn javascript, but then you have factor in the many variations in syntax that result from using the current flavor-of-the-week library.

This list is far from complete and seems to be a small subset when you think about Backbone, underscore, coffescript, xui and more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks

I'm not complaining (yet) but it seems that every week there is a new choice, especially now that you have mobile specific ones. I'm concerned that this might be a problem very soon... or do HN readers feel it will eventually consolidate a bit over time?
Given that I have to include jQuery for using Less Framework anyway, isn't it always better do just use jquery-mobile-960 instead?
I agree. Long term, a society that values 100% employment over technological progress will be stomped by the society that allows its industries to automate themselves.

There's probably some good stuff to be repeated from "End of Work" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work). Has anyone read it?
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I think there is a possibility, considering that a lot of tablets being manufactured would be aimed at consumers who doesn't have the means to purchase an expensive gadget like the iPad.

Far away in the Asian region, I am pretty sure they are already concocting a tablet running Android that would only cost less than $100.
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of X" has become a snowclone (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.h...).

Check Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22the+unreasonable+effec...)
The revenue share model is going to be your best bet until you are capable of determining your lifetime value for a user.

It is rather impossible to speculate without knowing the niche and the price point for someone to subscribe. Even then things such as conversion rates, landing page sign up process, and website copy all have influence on whether a campaign is going to be profitable (read: worth the time) of a proper affiliate marketer.

It can be somewhat tenuous going down this route before ever even doing in house testing so my advice would be to start there first before approaching affiliates/networks if you are serious about going down this route and succeeding.
There are many ideas that a large company could implement on a whim.

However it is often the case that due to internal politics and bureaucracy a company might have many reasons not too - or be slow to adopt - or have to hobble with perceived business goals.
So many apps and sites lack this "feature". Because of that, now I need to call it what it isn't.
flavor of the week libraries? jquery has been around for a long time and is pretty standard now days. my guess is, the average web developer probably won't understand backbone.js, but jquery is pretty simple yet useful.
New media outlets are always abused blatantly before they are used properly. As a site about a phone, the Xperia Play "site" (it's only a facebook fan page) gets an F. No photos, no technical specs... if you are looking for information about the phone, about the only thing it does is get in your way. You have to like the page just to see it's only video. It's as if Best Buy made me call a friend just to look around the store. To hang around long term, these brand pages will have to start offering genuine utility of some kind--and that's the same challenge for every site or trend on the internet.
It depends on what your time-to-market looks like. Right now there are no real competitive Android Tablets in the market. So if you're launching soon, definitely aim for the iPad and it's huge current install base.

If you think being first-to-market is important in your niche and your time-to-market will coincide with some competitive tablet launches, then go for Android.
No, they pay higher purchase prices due to lack of economies of scale and lack of access to Chinese labor (see post above about China not wanting a billion rioting Chinese laborers).

They probably also pay somewhat more because Walmart doesn't care if they lose people to turnover, while a small store does. But that's not what's putting the small stores out of business.