skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not quite the same as the old Motley Fool as it focuses on Global Macro only, but there is Macro Man. Now written by Team Macro Man, a group of macro people that work in London (perhaps elsewhere for a variety of investment banks, former investment banks and/or hedge funds. I highly recommend it; not quite the same but of the same gist.

http://macro-man.blogspot.com is their URL.
It's always seemed intuitively surprising that there's no feedback mechanism within neurons to aid learning. What's the currently favoured mechanism for learning, neurons feeding back to previous neurons?
Why are people still blaming Apple in this?

It's the recording industry that is the root of the problem.

Apple is very, very late to the game in terms of trying to own ideas and sell über-cheap copies of information like physical products.
It also looks like he swaps out some fairly readable awk for some arguably less readable shell script.
Wow, I gotta give mad props. Very awesome
I keep getting 503 on the site. Here's a coral cache:
http://blog.devicerandom.org.nyud.net/2011/02/18/getting-a-l...
A Web GL version of that model would be very welcome.
He does not use a JIT, he translated his code into C by hand.
It kinda creaks along on my iPad. For one thing, the site doesn't seem to be nearly as nice about making you wait for buffering video.
You can scroll the text on the iPad with the buttons. :(
They should separate their marketing and support departments.
I use openid.
I've heard it mentioned on HN that big companies use mass layoffs in bad times to cut a lot of people that the don't want but can't fire. Unless a whole department gets axed, the valuable employees are usually retained.
Who said anything about cat pictures? And why are they relevant? But what is pretty fucking relevant to tech and business in general is how the US's attitude to foreigners/visitors will impact investment and trade.
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OMG, what if he were a pianist, or a doctor?
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.nicollet.net
That's not entirely true. With cloudfront, you were able to set that when you goto http://example.com that it would send you to http://example.com/index.html. However, it would not support you when you accessed http://example.com/dir/. That would not redirect to http://example.com/dir/index.html.
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You know what I think should be off-topic here? Most stories about politics. Also crime and sports. Unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I'll go you one farther! If they'd cover it on TV news, I think it's probably off-topic.
I didn't think this was new... I remember hearing about this effect last year and having it attributed to Oligodendrocytes, I believe.

That said, it's a very important development, because until the last few years the glial cells have mostly been considered to be support cells (e.g. supplying nutrients to the neurons, removing waste products and dead cells, myelinating axons, etc.). But, now we know that they can affect the surrounding neurons and may play a role in things like learning and memory.
Sure, but at least there would be something to try for.
Safari sort of runs on windows. But that sort of is a stretch.
Every language should be faster* than C in some way otherwise no-one would use it.

Scripting languages are faster to code in.

Fortran is faster at complex matrix maths.

Lisp is faster to code in and faster to run for a large set of computing problems.

C wins the trade-of of speed-to-create vs speed-of-execution for most system programming tasks but usually when compared to bare assembly code. But there are a large number of problems that it is horribly unsuited for. Hence we end up with c-programs with accidentally embedded lisp implementations.

* - where faster can also mean faster to code to a secure standard.
FSR == Former Soviet Republic
grooveshark.
Incredible. The diameter of the HIV virus is ~90nm [1]

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=90+nm
All of the SmartPhones Revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011
Many Smartphones were announced at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barecelona Spain 2011. Many of the smartphones are running Android 2.2 Froyo or Android 2.3 Gingerbread. We have compiled a list of the Smartphones that were announced at MWC 2011.
This always impresses me, but the important question is: did it work, i.e. did the Duke employ him? Wikipedia says "Leonardo continued work in Milan between 1482 and 1499" but otherwise is mum whether he was sponsored by the Duke or not.
Apple was financially discouraging developers from porting their apps to Android

This is an interesting statement because if you remove the word 'financially,' they have done that by disallowing development with cross-platform tools.

I'm sure somebody will try to sue, but I actually think that it opens a big hole for someone like Google to gain an edge. It's even possible that Google could put out a device that has far more content available than would be available on the i* because content providers won't want to play with Apple any more.
Yes, and what useful relevant information did you gather from this submission? That immigration officers are often incompetent? That once they damaged some guy's camera? Let me inform you further: the airplane food usually sucks and US time is, annoyingly, 6-8 hours behind central Europe.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Now Hosts His Blog on Amazon S3 and So Can You
Not just any tabloid, but that bastion of professional supermarket journalism, the National Enquirer!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

http://rimuhosting.com/howto/memory.jsp

Scroll down to RESOLVING: HIGH APACHE MEMORY USAGE

EDIT: I realized after I posted that simply posting two links might seem snarky. I don't mean to be. I know these links because I've been in the same spot you are. I think we all have. That's how we learn :)
There is an older 3d Java simulation at http://www.mcld.co.uk/hiv/?q=3D%20HIV
This is a good outline of a problem, with absolutely no insights into any possible solutions. As far as I'm concerned this is a half finished post. It's not enough to simply complain/outline the problem. You have to use that personal experience to offer up some kind of personal redemption or possible global solution to really keep the conversation moving.
What's the current status of porting SparkleShare to windows?
Why don't we just band together in a private mailing list and leave it at that? I'm pretty sure we'll lose the arms race on organized voting.
Reading this article makes me realize I certainly picked the road not taken. Last year I quit my job as the Director of IT at a small pharma, dropped out of a company-paid MBA program, drastically reduced my expenses, and started doing independent research. A lot of people around me thought I was crazy especially since I wasn't going the PhD or startup route either. In my mind though, it seems pretty logical - I want to do real computer science research without all the BS that goes on with academia or corporate research lab.

I'm more productive when working solo than in teams. And I already have a specific research project in mind. All I needed was to plan my life so I'd have 50-60hr/week free after my bills were paid. For the past two months, I've been working on my research project diligently and without any external delays. I know I won't get a degree out of this and I doubt I can get published but since that's not my end-goal, it doesn't matter. I am looking for a hardware hacker if anyone is interested - it is a very fun/rewarding project: http://ktype.net
If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place. If you walk around town with a little shovel, you'll just end up digging thousands of little holes, not one big one.
Feel the same way, but it seems there are quite a few people who are happy to put there email address just about anywhere pretty :)
Angry employees tattling on companies that violate software licenses
There have been recent discoveries about synapses as well. It turns out that synapses are pretty complex. Lots of single celled organisms seem to have pretty "smart" behavior for their size. It turns out a lot of that data processing happens around the cell membrane. These mechanisms are the evolutionary roots of synapses.

http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/2008/12/6/surprising-...
I installed third party roms such as Bugless beast, and Cyanogen, I over clocked the stock 550 mhz processor to 800mhz, but in doing so I took a chance that my hardware would never work again, as a well as suddenly relying on these third party developers to keep me up to date, and secure.

But close the camera app, and try to use it again later, and it was a 50/50 chance, at best, that the program would crash upon starting. Even if it did start and you took a pic, occasionally the photo wouldn’t save properly. The droid camera is just buggy and slow, and I believe it was on the hardware level, not the software level because these problems occurred in every camera application I used, including the default one.

I think the first quote negates the certainty of the latter. I find it a hard stretch to blame the device when you have installed custom ROM's. Unless you have pulled dumps and logs off of the device and stepped through the code to find the issue and isolated it for certain, the first suspect should be your modification to the device, not the hardware and not Android as installed by the manufacturer.
Oh no, not again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228842

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228854

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230042

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230361

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230497

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230702

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234776
Ask HN: who would you recommend for failed hard drive data recovery?
I have a physical hard drive failure. Google search for data recovery brings up a zillion services proving data recovery -- they all seem to smell fishy. They all have some sort of Class A or something clean room facility.I was on the phone with one service -- their quote was from US$3k to US$7k. Is this normal ? Also is there anything else I should consider while selecting a service.
Guess The Venus Project is not so far fetched as it seems: http://www.thevenusproject.com/

But.. do we have the will and determination to dodge our own demise?
People point to Microsoft's $16 million license fee as evidence that they were trying to kill open source software but ignore the $9 million paid to SCO for a similar license by Sun. Why? Because saying "Sun tried to kill open source software," just makes a person look ignorant.
It is a matter of finding balance: finding the right advisor, keeping some time for your other life (your girlfriend, your friends) even if you will have deadline rushes and think about your problem under the shower. This is a common problem to all passionate people more than only "scientists". It just seems that you find a lot of passionate scientist in academia.

This writing seems about right (except that I didn't experience that much bad collaboration/competition though, even if I know it exists) to me, a second year Ph.D student in AI applied to RTS games. I don't really like that you have to work 24/7 to not be left behind, and I don't work that much indeed. Life is too short to have yours dictated by the actions of others. If you want to stop at 50hours/week while doing research, just try and make it so (focus your topic and focus on your advantages). But I'm happy pursuing a Ph.D. I don't have a fixed mindset/idea of what I would like to do next though: a startup? Working at a big firm? Seeking tenure? All options will be considered, but right now: I enjoy being paid (not much, particularly compared to my Masters prom comrades) to work on interesting topics and sometimes teach guys at the University about one of my passions (CS), with a great advisor (I picked him socially great and scientifically sharp, the mid-low h-index and the beard are byproducts), and so much intelligent people all around.
The problem is that I need to maintain the resume in doc format. Copy and Paste from OpenOffice into Word screws up the formatting so I need to spend time correcting that, but then adding or changing information also requires I have Word. Might as well just shell out the money.

Also, FYI: OpenOffice.org exporting to Word Doc includes the revision history. Make sure to clear that if you don't want potential employers snooping your resume back in time.
See my remark below.
How do you track that?
Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?
Google v Oracle - progress at last?
"Unfortunately, people who state that Java's dead are not the people who use the latest Java technologies day in and day out."

The 'cutting edge' stuff - scala, groovy, etc. - is used by a comparative handful of people, but is the stuff those people really enjoy using (when I have to do a Java project, I do it in Grails).

The predictions of Java's death seem to be based on a Java 1.3-1.4-style Java, and that does seem to be dying. That doesn't really mean that Java itself is dying, although many people did leave the 1.4-style stuff and jumped to other languages altogether (C#, Ruby, etc). This is all anecdotal on my part - just based on people I know and stuff I see.

I could say the same thing about PHP (from experience). Many people got frustrated with it 6-7 years ago and jumped ship to Python, Ruby, etc. But 'modern' PHP (while still having much of the stuff people love to hate about PHP) can provide a much stronger base to build on that 7 years ago. Likely the same could be said for 2000-era CF, 2000-era Python, and other camps.
It's pretty funny that even though this was an interview by SupportBee, he keeps mentioning that they use Assistly, a clear competitor of SupportBee, and how awesome it is...
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Skeuomorphs, or why innovation is also a throwback
No, you're actually right. The comment above links to a list of visa-waiver countries, whose citizens automatically get a 3-month (IIRC) visa on entry to the US. Tourist visas are NOT limited to these nations, it just means that if you're from another country (like me) you need to get in before you leave to the US.

OP's original statement that he requires a business visa to attend & speak in a conference is just ridiculous.
It's been cached at http://www.nicollet.net.nyud.net/2011/02/objective-caml-web-...
I'm not sure there actually are that many people that haven't discovered the joys of virtual cabbage farming that might be persuaded to do so. They claim 320 million people have tried a game, which is a staggeringly large proportion of free internet users. The amount of worldwide free time spent on Zynga is so ridiculously huge I genuinely can't see the potential for upward trends to continue (other than cornering the Chinese social game market, which will be tough). Unlike Facebook, I don't think it's fair to say they're only scratching the surface of their revenue-generating potential either.
Neat story - he was systematically applying optimizations that compilers could do if they had full knowledge of the semantics of the program. By transforming the program into continuation-passing style, he performed a very similar step that modern compilers do when they transform a program into static single assignment, then optimize the program. For a full treatment of what I mean, see A Correspondence between Continuation Passing Style and Static Single Assignment: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/suresh/502-Fall2008/papers/ke...
I had seen this before on one of the Hyper Island[0] classes.

[0] http://www.hyperisland.se/
Might I take this opportunity to recommend:

http://www.cherokee-project.com/

as close as you'll get to Zeus Web Server for free.
Flagged for linking to a completely different story.
Are you just doing research for researches sake? If so good for you. If not, why try and do it independently? Don't you think you deserve to be rewarded for your work? i.e. compensated either with prestige or money? At the very least would you like to be compensated for you contributions to the field?
Clickable link: http://www.sess.in/
Really? I get 408 Timeouts.

Anyway you can access it at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... as well. And I believe OP is working on bringing the site back online.
Thankfully this guy figured it out when he was only 30. He's still got lots of time to figure out new ways to use and market the skills he has acquired.

New thought: academia isn't broken, there are just too many people who want to be academics. What do people think?
Just after posting that link it stopped working for me. Strange.But yeah, your cache link is better.
It’s nearly impossible to change your address
'A weapon of mass destruction was found in the U.S.'
I disagree. The web exists because browsers and servers communicate based on open standards. The HN server doesn't know or care what OS or browser I'm using. I could be sitting here typing in my GET requests manually if I was fast enough. Nobody cares. It's a protocol.

When the web relies on a technology where the "protocol" is "first install this proprietary plugin, if it's available for your setup, and if not, screw you," it is antithetical to the protocol-based approach.

Look at how much browsers have improved in the last few years, making new things possible on sites. This happened because anybody can write a browser that conforms to HTTP protocols, Javascript specifications, etc. Do you see the same kind of improvement in Flash players? No. Because there isn't competition.

The web is better off without Flash. Or anything else that can't have 100 competing implementations.
>Any suggestions for how to get back to having hacker news on Hacker News?

I try to go to http://news.ycombinator.com/newest and upmod tech-related submissions once in a while. I should probably do it more often. Also, flagging stuff that could be on TV or Reddit.
At least the quote you got is more honest than many. I tried one once that quoted a reasonable fee but once they got their hands on the drive it appeared that (despite the telephone conversation lies) the initial fee was for an evaluation only - now they wanted the big bucks.

Interestingly, I declined and asked for the drive to be returned - when it came back I found I was able to mount it and extract the contents - it turns out the journey was good for it. I am certainly not advising giving the drive a good shake but it worked for me.
The author made that point exactly at the end. I have found that extremely tailoring a resume and cover letter for the job works for me.
I don't really like the "ideas vs. execution" debate either, largely because it reaffirms that an idea and the execution are separate things. I think that by the time an actual application is written and deployed, the idea and execution are nearly inseparable - in other words, it's nearly impossible to determine what is idea and what is execution.

In this sense, I'd say an idea for a piece of software would be much like an idea for a novel. The idea is formed through the act of writing.
I've observed that success in an academic environment requires more than simply scientific acumen. It also requires relentless self-promotion, networking and a passion not only for science, but for winning the academic game.

There are a lot of good science minded people, and there are a lot of good, driven self-promoters. Most successful scientists you encounter (apart from the odd genius) belong in the intersection between groups.
2-5 k is normal if the drive is so far gone they need to take it apart to get to the data.

CBL Data worked for me in the past but That was a few years ago. They will evaluate your drive for free and tell you what they can get off data wise and the cost. If you want to proceed they then do the work if not they send you drive back. They were suggested to me by a seagate support person at the time.

Have you tried to pull the data off with a recovery software using the drive as a slave.

Are you on OSX, windows, or Linux?
It’s Official: The Computer’s Smarter
Just to put it in perspective, I'm sure it's a real curse to have to spend the rest of your life doing something you purportedly absolutely love to do in a hell-hole like Pisa, Italy. That said, my heart absolutely goes out to this person who is apparently really depressed. Hope he can find his happiness in life.
Normally, the manufacturer of your hard disk drive provides data recovery services for a fee. You should contact them first since they should be the ones whom you could trust to be able to retrieve the contents of your hard disc.
Anyone else immediately jump to PTSD when they read this?
Prestige and compensation are two ways of being rewarded. Another way is to just see your work make the world a better place and feel satisfied.
Just flag them or ignore them - they will go away in the end.
Of course I had to come across this on a foreign news site and then several others. Did anyone else miss this interview? I watch and read several news sources everyday and didn't see this.

The idea for the interview seemed to have stemmed from a report that was in the Wikileaks cables leak.

I know this isn't real "hacker news", but as many in the community are in CA, it may be of interest.
Ah, that makes more sense now (I thought 'Four State Region'). So, what's up with all the passports? I wonder if I'm missing out (mainly because it could be handy to have a backup in cases where one has to mail a passport to an embassy to get a visa).
Thanks, but this is not "live" enough.

I'd vote for an integrated search rather than relying on external services with unknown cache intervals.
Are cheap static sites really that big of a break-through? Whether a site is 50 cents a month through Amazon or $20/month for dozens through Linode (with the option of non-static), doesn't seem to matter that much to me when most people spend well over $20/week for coffee. The lowest-paid programmer in the US can make $20 in an hour. Anyways, love all the services that Amazon puts out and this is definitely a nice option, but I don't see it as exciting news on an individual basis. Anybody agree?
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What is the ultimate goal of your research? If you are simply doing research for the fun of it, then you can only continue it without funding for as long as you have runway capital. I ask this question because I've thought about doing the same thing, but I'm not sure I could productize the research I want to do, so it scares me to begin and basically throw away my savings for no tangible benefit. I'd appreciate your thoughts.
This makes me so nostalgic. Ah, to be back in school when the hardest thing I had to do was math, and I didn't have to worry about anyone wanting to modify my code or coming to me saying, "Hey, dkarl, we just signed a huge contract, and part of what we promised is that a 2 in the hundreds place of the left operand will be treated as a 3 when we do multiplication for this customer. What base? I don't know, rebel base alpha. I'm just the project manager. The product manager answers those kinds of questions. And make sure it's configurable, because the customer has been going back and forth a bit about the specifics, and we don't think we'll be able to nail them down before we deploy."
In a perfect world, the growth in automation that improves efficiency should create more places for people who can engage in academic research for more longer term goals. Obviously wealth distribution is far from perfect.

I think it's really a wasted opportunity that so many are ready and willing to devote their lives to research and we can't make the economics work for it.