skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, the Fed printing money doesn't "stimulate" anything except the balance sheets of its own member banks and their friends. It is functionally equivalent to counterfeiting on a mass scale. Why do you think counterfeiting is illegal? It gives the counterfeiter a (stolen) financial benefit, then dilutes the value of existing money. Anyone posting on a hacker forum should understand this basic functional relationship. It really isn't hard to grasp. Inflation doesn't create wealth. It transfers wealth. It's not very difficult to see which direction it's being transferred. Trying to stop this is not 'crazy'. It's common sense.

International food prices recently hit an all time high. Americans really need to wake up from their fantasies quick. Their incredible ignorance of how their leaders operate is costing the world a nearly unimaginable toll of suffering and death, and it's getting worse every day.
Apple could easily leverage this to their advantage by selling an optional external drive and marketing it appropriately.

Or they could design the bay to accommodate an optional battery that would be factory installed.
Hey guys, first off, congrats!

You'll get many snippets of advice here, and tons of web resources to chase down and read.

If you want to revert back to a live site quickly, may I recommend direct help? I'll step in first and offer my services. Or ask here and I'm sure other HNers will step up as well.

I've troubleshooted MySQL slow queries. I've done memcaching and static file hosting on CDNs.

If it takes a ton of effort, we can figure out compensation once the site is back up and running like a charm. If you don't have any money, list my name somewhere and help me build my personal reputation. :)

HTH. I've also sent an email to Dan.
if Android and Apple both integrate QR code scanning into their native camera apps, this problem would be solved.
Awesome tricks! Is there a general rule of thumb as to how far apart emails & phone calls go? I want to be persistent, but I don't want to piss them off.
Thanks
We chose to use Code 128-C one-dimensional barcodes--the same kind the United States Postal Service uses for Media Mail ZIP+4 routing--for our payment system (http://www.facecash.com) because they're cheap and easy to read. I can't imagine why anyone would want to use Microsoft Tag. Normal barcodes have done quite well since their introduction in the 1960s.
Don't worry, QR Code took over the rest of the world already.
My hunch is that there is a threshold for social news sites of this general model (voting on items on a "new" page) where the volume of traffic swings the balance of power sharply in favor of upvoting cabals. (Rapid fall of items off the "new" page dilutes the power of the ordinary voting user, but has less effect on the targeted actions of cabals.) After that point, the site's "market" gets severely distorted. Deliberate manipulation by disparate parties all motivated to redirect the maximum number of eyeballs to their site, and this tends to pull excellent sites strongly back towards the average.

This would also imply that upvote cabals can manipulate conditions at a given site in their favor simply by submitting more links.
Syrian Bloggers Arrested: This Week in Online Tyranny
Wow. My next computer might be a mac...

The auto-versioning got me thinking of how to do this with git. You could have a cron job come by while you're working and if anything has changed, add and commit it to $CURR_BRANCH/auto. Then, when you're ready to do a real commit, you `git merge --squash`

I know that real git users commit about as often as they save, but would this make sense as a workflow for those of us who are still used to committing only when it works? Or would all of the autocommits make things overcomplicated?
"Everything happens to the best of us, but it happens more often to the worst of us."
Microsoft's long view vs. the iPad
Startups woo computer science students with paid internships
In their T&Cs it says the host is responsible (last I checked)
Media Queries—A Collection of Responsive Web Designs
Also available at the Gutenberg project, here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

It seems to be a rather nifty book.
Tech Start-Up Exclusively Hires People with Asperger's Syndrome
I don't really care about retargeting in the current sense, but I would advise BuySellAds to PLEASE proofread what you post. Many typographical errors to be found on that page.
A new economy: the rise of publicly funded projects.
It seems pretty small-minded to blame the user for "doing it wrong" because an application used up all his hard drive space with no way to disable it. What would "doing it right" consist of? Just not using the application at all?
CSS3 click chart
I used both Debian and Arch Linux for a while, and was able to get both running from a CLI install (but am by no means a power user.) When I tried freebsd for my Dell laptop, I couldn't get the wireless working. It has some cool features though, and it's fun to see the logic of how things work (different filesystem layout, ports and such.) I recommend playing with it.

It seems to have good support for KDE though---http://freebsd.kde.org/
The new SDXC slot is limited to 64GB. That's an odd limitation given that Lexar has already released a 128GB SDXC card. The spec tops out at 2TB, so this slot could have provided a great way to load huge filesystems.
What Losing TechCrunch Disrupt Meant to CloudFlare: OMFG
> so, according to you, the data level parallelism at the instruction level i described isn't a case of instruction level parallelism?

Correct. The GPU article on NVIDIA's website uses ILP incorrectly. They are describing SIMD operations - single instruction, multiple data - which is data parallelism at the instruction level. This is inherently different than ILP, which is when you extract parallelism from a sequential stream of instructions by executing them out-of-order. Of course, it's possible to exploit ILP on a stream of SIMD instructions.
C# Compiler as a Service Update
That's good advice. I need to ramp my efforts and expect to be denied. I think I'm at the point now where I can take off all of my other hats and focus on just trying to sell this thing. I've just been stuck in the trenches for so long, it's kinda like...what now?
Thanks
I have done some fairly extensive work building out a retargeting platform for the BI Engineering department that I currently work in. At times, it feels very sleazy to be tracking the user behavior without their knowledge in order to show them Ads which they are more likely to click.

I think the main question is, does the retargeting deliver any value to the user besides subliminally convincing them to go back to whence they came. I think it is possible to improve a user's experience with retargeting, especially if content is involved. Sometimes people get fixated on Advertising when discussing the concept of retargeting, but it is a concept that can be leveraged in many different ways.

For instance, if a given site knows that a user has been visiting the manufacturer websites for different types of laptops in the recent past, I believe it improves the user experience to personalize the content on your site automatically with articles on the best laptop manufacturers, the top 10 laptops on the market right now, etc. This can be done through the same retargeting that is used to decide which Ad to show to a user.

In the case of advertising, if a user is being retargeted, I also believe that it is helpful to that user if the Ad they are shown involves some type of discount or special offer. Yes, the end goal is to incentivize the user even further to move from the consideration phase to the purchasing phase by clicking on the Ad, but at least they will be saving some money when purchasing something they most likely were planning on purchasing at some point in time anyways.

In general, I think the question is around the added value to the user. If seeing a relevant Ad, possibly with an additional discount or coupon, helps the user make a decision, I don't see any problem with that.
in theory i don't have a problem with these minority report scenarios. i do think at some point advertisers need to stop thinking with their proverbial dicks and start thinking about dinner and chocolates. there's a reason i didn't get that leather jacket, just like there's a reason you're not getting laid on the first date. continuing to ask me won't help.
Any street address in the US.
Have a raffle, winner gets a trip to space. Or have a subscriber-only raffle for the same prize.

If the project succeeds, you have an awesome commodity- the ability to send people to space (and hopefully bring them back safely). Some people would be willing to pay a lot for this. So I would play around with models that sell this commodity.
that's where lightpeak/thunderbolt steps in.
Check out the Wikipedia page for DisplayPort, as it has a good explanation of the bandwidth requirements for video.

It lists 2560x1600x30bpp @ 60Hz as using just over 8Gbps, so any one consumer monitor will work fine over Thunderbolt.

The 17.28Gbps speed would only be needed for multiple monitors or a high-resolution, high-color-depth, high-refresh or 3D monitor. Thunderbolt and full-speed DisplayPort both have enough aggregate bandwidth for four 1080p streams.
great analogy about the codes being like URLs.

those tags are like the AOL keywords of yesterday. No matter how much they advertise it on TNT, it's dead.
This doesn't seem all that different than Twilio sending you POST requests when you get a call or SMS. Very cool application of the concept though - I like it!
I found this interesting, apparently Dino A. Dai Zovi (http://twitter.com/dinodaizovi) and Stefan Esser (http://twitter.com/i0n1c), two security researchers (hackers) have apparently received invitations to try out Mac OS X Lion with some strings attached that they can't talk about the as of yet unreleased OS:

https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40903620438269952

https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/40905883584180224

Question related to this:

https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906705118175233

https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906796650471424

https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40909480342331392

If indeed Apple is moving forward and opening up dialogue with external researchers this is a good thing. Hopefully that means that Mac OS X Lion will finally join the ranks of Windows 7 and Linux in having full ASLR available and more sand-boxing of the various components so that it becomes a much more hardened target.
NeuAer uses radio signals to make your smartphone smarter
Microsoft - Rebranding the wheel
Ten years on: why a complete human genome mattered
She was clearly trying to upset the viewers and nothing more. If this isn't evidence for the Westboro-is-just-here-to-sue-anyone theory, I don't know what could be.

What can be done in a situation like this? Legally, they seem to be using all the loopholes under the sun. Any attack of other kind is instantly ignored or leveraged by them and ends up as more press and message spread.

I'm all for free-speech, but they are going out of their way to push messages on people's faces and upset as many as they can. This is not free-speech, this is harassment.
The page I got when I clicked on the link doesn't have anything about Asperger's at all. Then I clicked on it again, and this time I got the article.

Is this the "Hash-Bang" screw-up people were talking about some time ago?

1st click took me here: http://uk.gizmodo.com/#!5769261

2nd click took me here: http://gizmodo.com/#!5769261
Specify any geographic constraints when posting
There are many posts of the style "service for checking X for your address", which turn out to be US only. Please state that as part of the title, so the 6.4B people not in the US can save themselves some time. Thanks.
The forum doesn't exist.

Isn't it possible they are only doing this because 10.7 is a beta and they don't want to receive bug reports for that reason?
Sounds similar to the tactic of submitting fake profiles to dating sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065604
I can't count the number of times my father, when using my name, starts out my brother's name and corrects himself midway through. I've done similar things with pairs of friends I met at the same time and know in only one domain.
This thing is so broken its not even funny. I tried it when it first came out and not a single one of the wired providers it listed will actually serve my address. The two that actually do serve my address weren't mentioned anywhere. Now when I search my address it doesn't show anything at all.

I'm glad we spent $200 million on that.
It's not first party, but Barcode Scanner is very much a standard app for Android.
JDK 7 Developer Preview, but Licensing Concerns Persist
there is a selection of positions they do not understand at all. Worse, by definition they do not understand what they do not understand and so cannot avoid them.

This is almost certainly true for humans too in terms of general problems rather than specifically chess. There are probably concepts which we have so little understanding and comprehension of that we can't even see our own ignorance. Rumsfeld's known unknowns.
Show HN: My 8 hour hack job for deducing Las Vegas hotels
I've been lurking around here for the past few months but have only posted once up until now. I like the vibe here and I also enjoy hacking together web apps. This one is fairly simple but sprang out of a personal need.

I like to travel a lot (specifically Vegas) and I have a reputation amongst my friends about finding good deals. At least once a month I'll have someone ask me to help them plan their trip or to find them a good deal. Generally I go through Hotwire or Priceline and use information available on the internet to deduce the hotel I'm likely to receive. I wanted to make this process a little less tedious.

First step was obtaining a Hotwire API key and gathering up some known hotel data.After about 8 hours of work I have a way to search hotels by date, rooms, and travelers. The results are what you would see on Hotwire for the same query but many of them have "Probably Hotel(s)" listed along with them.

This will likely be an evolving project as I add more features (adding links to Trip Advisor reviews now, next direct links to the hotels). I am not sure if anyone here will find it useful but if so, enjoy!
Great idea in theory, but unfortunately there are a few problems:

- There is no scheduled date for when the first manned launch is (It's ready whenever we damn well feel it's ready, and safe...)

- The people riding the rocket will most probably need to go to a physical check. It's a hard ride.

- There are probably a ton of legal implications that have to be worked out.
Sources reveal Apple's new-look interface for Mac OS X Lion
I haven't seen many of this posts here in HN. And when there IS one, it can always be flagged into oblivion.

But I share your pain. Second class citizenship is an abomination.
Regarding Optimisation:

You can't make a computer work faster,
you can only make it do less.

This code isn't optimal, so it hasn't
been optimised. It's just less bad
than it was.

Regard the work ethic:

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
(Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

And regarding luck:

Fortune favors the lucky.
The fact that a 1920x1080 is only available on a single production laptop, the Sony Vaio Z and a small number of 17" laptops (possibly some 16"ers too) makes me suspect that the market for high resolution screens is very slim.

The best I can tell, the availability of high resolution screens on laptops has actually dropped over the past few years rather than increased. It seems rare now that screen resolution is even an option on laptops.

Personally I'm one of the people who is in the market for high resolution laptop screens. Unfortunately its a choice between high resolution and durability or size. I'm never traveling with a 17" screen again and I don't really want a poorly engineered Vaio Z.
This is the kind of startup that doesn't really need the early adoption of others in the tech/startup scene though. I think the idea is great, when placed in the shoes of an advertiser, as an end user though I agree personally.
Uhh...? http://grab.by/98T3

Totally broken.
Drugs? Someone else's stolen cards or ID?
Wireless depends on the chipset that is in use. Atheros still has by far the best support. Power management there are some, it is still hit and miss. My old laptop is fully supported, which is pretty awesome.

As an X desktop you can run gnome, kde, xfce, xfwm, or really anything. Some components are Linux only (Xfce was recently bit by this) and thus may not work as expected or poorly if there is no abstraction layer that allows for us the use of devd(8) for example.

FreeBSD is my favourite OS for servers, it has good hardware support there where it matters most, and best of all is extremely stable. If Linux has met your needs so far, or even Windows, then stick with it. You won't find anything new and exciting and may even find it frustrating that certain things don't work as expected due to differences in API's that are available.

If you want a distribution of FreeBSD that is pretty well geared towards desktops, may I suggest taking a look at PC-BSD. They generally are not too far behind the official release of FreeBSD with their FreeBSD version, and it is an KDE environment that is easy to install.
Facebook Adds Reporting Tools, Seeks Journalist Program Manager
Payvment launched their social (Facebook-based) online shopping mall
Looks like you probably can.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2009/07/30/setting-up-me...
This claim that Microsoft's custom tags are "killing" other codes seems a little weird to me when I don't recall ever having seen one in the wild.
I've been lurking around here for the past few months but have only posted once up until now. I like the vibe here and I also enjoy hacking together web apps. This one is fairly simple but sprang out of a personal need.

I like to travel a lot (specifically Vegas) and I have a reputation amongst my friends about finding good deals. At least once a month I'll have someone ask me to help them plan their trip or to find them a good deal. Generally I go through Hotwire or Priceline and use information available on the internet to deduce the hotel I'm likely to receive. I wanted to make this process a little less tedious.

First step was obtaining a Hotwire API key and gathering up some known hotel data.After about 8 hours of work I have a way to search hotels by date, rooms, and travelers. The results are what you would see on Hotwire for the same query but many of them have "Probable Hotel(s)" listed along with them if a match was found.

This will likely be an evolving project as I add more features (adding links to Trip Advisor reviews now, next direct links to the hotels). Right now there are a lot of obvious oversights (no validation, etc). I am not sure if anyone here will find it useful but if so, enjoy!

[1] fixed spelling
Thunderbolt is the coolest thing here to me.

Same here. For years, my biggest compliant about laptops has been the speed bottleneck between my laptop and large external storage devices.
And the macbook air has a higher resolution in an 11" form-factor
Out of curiosity, have you had any legal trouble with Facebook, given that they've trademarked "Face" and associated common nouns?
Who is giving out free drugs?
It's not the absence of a status, it's a new one being posted. When somebody switches from 'in a relationship' to 'single' it shows up on everyone's feed. They do want people to know that information.
it's pretty much alive and i have no wallet to prove it (was pickpocketed last week, 70% sure of it)
http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=102338
Kasparov is spot on in that Watson's DeepQA has yet to prove itself in a meaningful way. If it proves itself as an effective medical advisor, that will be far more impressive than the Jeopardy win (as impressive as that was in itself).

I think everyone was disappointed in the applicability of the Deep Blue accomplishment in other fields. Were any of the special purpose ASICs used to defeat Kasparov used in any other application? As far as I know a significant part of the Deep Blue development team left IBM relatively soon after the accomplishment.
You are missing the point entirely. As was mentioned, the vast majority of "political crap" does directly affect the tech and startup world... especially something as widely used as PayPal... so this submission is entirely relevant to and valid for HN. Now, I agree with your sentiments on some "political crap"... submissions solely about Sarah Palin's stupidity or along those lines probably have no place here. But you expressed your disinterest in a submission about PayPal and their actions (of which strongly infer their detrimental stance on the progression of mankind) not because it isn't relevant to HN, but because you don't agree with the majority of the comments here. If the majority of the comments supported PayPal's decision to hold all donations made to Courage to Resist, I have a feeling you'd feel much differently about the submission.
The entire bet for EPIC was that a sufficiently smart compiler would mean you could free up die space for processing transistors by ditching branch detection, prefetch logic, speculative execution, caches etc.

As you point out, the SSC has yet to appear. Just look at that layout: it's dominated by cache.
17 years old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"
| What is a slow query log?

It's basically a log kept of queries that are running slower than a set threshold.

Read through this for the details to set it up and access it: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/slow-query-log.html
I used QR codes to get data (usually text or URLs) onto my phone all the time. I've never once thought about using a 'ms mobile tag' instead. And I don't know anyone who has.

The death of QR is being greatly exagerated.
They give you 1099's, taxed as regular income.
By-Group Processing, the R data.table and the Power of Open Source
If you don't make things happen, things will happen to you. - Robert Collier.
A lot of the outcry reminds me of when Gmail first announced that they would serve ads based on the content of your e-mail. A lot of people freaked out at first but these days few care.

Once people understand what's going on I don't think it will be a big deal. The technology has always been there, it's just recently it's been widely adopted enough to be noticeable.
Carnegie Mellon startup experience course
While that's true, that might change and Sharesquare is betting on that. It's still too early to tell where this market might end up (in the US).

In Japan it's as common as putting your website on an ad or business card.
That's correct it's just a guess.

And of course this is just a guess too - "It's been long enough now that lots of people have moved their projects over."

Maybe we could step from wag to anecdote if there has been a straw poll at some recent Ruby conference asking which version the attendees were using?
Care to give any examples?
HPC work involving easily parallelised problems have been the major market for Itanium. I suspect that GPGPUs will steadily eat this space up, though.
Same here. I have a $250 FireWire audio interface that imposes basically no load on the system even with upwards of 10 channels in use.

I chose FireWire over USB because of all the complaints I saw in the Amazon reviews for every USB audio interface I looked at; many of the FireWire audio interfaces had absolutely glowing reviews.

I've had similarly excellent experiences with disks connected via FireWire.