skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work in the FPGA industry, and we had quite a few people looking at trying to do hardware acceleration of stuff currently done on CPUs. In short, it is hard.

There are plenty of suppliers who offer stuff in the market, for example replacing one half of a dual CPU system with an FPGA and in general some variant of 'pick a fast interconnect and stick an FPGA at the end'

I can't see why this offers anything more to the discussion over a product announcement.
...you're leaving out all the things that led to becoming a programmer. Which largely had nothing to do with merit.

Is your objection to the idea of "merit" merely reductionism?

I.e., merit (as defined by ability and willingness to code) is comprised of a combination of innate factors (genetic/environmental contributions to intelligence and demeanor) and social privileges (access to education, etc)? This is true. So what?

Ultimately, merit is merely a particular arrangement of atoms. It's hard to see how this reduction is useful.
Entrepreneurship as an art
Students go to UoP to get a piece of paper that helps their career ... while in exchange UoP is there to milk the students for every federally-guaranteed loan they can qualify for.

Wait, so just like a real university?
How do you deal with the profile of a key?
Profit. Maximization.
Check out http://sikuli.org/. It's visual based programming for automating task. I use it all the time and it's super fast to set up.
Not exactly the same, iOS is not and will never be open source. Google is only delaying the source release of honeycomb until they are happy with the product.
I was wondering about this in October, I guess the Vosao CMS needs to stop storing state in static fields now:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4028787/is-it-thread-safe...

Thilo added answer a few hours ago, pointing out the new threadsafe mode for GAE. That's why I like StackOverflow.
The wikipedia article on this directive [1] links to [2], which seems to give a fair amount of details on how exactly the directive is being implemented in each country.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_2006/24/EC

[2] http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Transposition
Honeycomb SDK time line:

27 Jan 2011: Preview released

22 Feb 2011: Officially released

24 Feb 2011: First Honeycomb device publicly available

3 Mar 2011: Fragments API for pre-Honeycomb release

So, there was less than a month before developers could even start doing any type of Honeycomb development before the first device was shipped. It has only been slightly more than a month before developers have had a stable API to use, and less than a month to have an API to try to do development that should work well on both tablets and phones.

So, I'm not surprised there aren’t more ‘native’ Honeycomb apps.
Google Maps, Navigation, Goggles, and Youtube are all available from the Android Market. Now the real question is whether Facebook would still be able to get access to the Market if they skip the rest of the apps.
Mobile Internet Market Size
I am not persuaded. You are essentially saying that any attempt to steer (rigorous, honest) research or research funding in the direction of maximum usefulness is futile. Pointing out instances in which predicting the effects of research is tricky does not get you all the way to convincing me of that.
I'm not a designer, but my limited experience with Photoshop et al. is that you really need the precision of a mouse pointer for single-pixel-resolution manipulations.

Can someone with more experience chime in and explain whether Photoshop on a tablet is really useful?
> Why don't just relocate them? He has the money.

Where?

Almost all of the comments on this subject are Western in the most offensive sense of the word.

We see elephants as wonderous beasts. However, we're not living with them.

For the folks who live with them, elephants can be horribly destructive. They don't kill many people, but they do cause food shortages and the like.

It takes a lot of nerve to say that our desire to have a cool animal somewhere else should take precedence over their lives.

Elephants in the wild won't exist unless they're "good neighbors". That requires making sure that they're profitable to the people around them.

Parsons paid them lots of money to kill an elephant that was going to be killed anyway. Realistically, his alternative was to do nothing.

What have you done to help those people benefit from living near elephants in the wild?
That's one reason why I haven't used Amazon Cloud Player yet. I'd rather wait a year or so to see how all this pans out before uploading massive amounts of "borrowed" mp3s...
They were only problems in so far as they damaged the Windows brand name and lowered consumer confidence. There's no evidence the same is happening here.
Microsoft's Google complaint not an April Fool
I think it would. It works nicely on reddit. A new subreddit is basically a new community, starting the cycle over again.
Only C# could make something so elegant look and work so ugly.
Samsung Crossed 100 million Apps Downloads
The Four Hour Sprint.
Yep, not the best title. I hate changing titles when submitting things to HN though.
Google Places puts QR Codes on the shelf
Oh, for the love of Pete.

I use namecheap for all my domains, but this sort of pandering crap may well be enough for me to transfer everything elsewhere. Don't know if I'm willing to use godaddy or not, but I must may.
Pull requests is an awesome way to fix errors and spelling mistakes, and the fork that is aiming to translate the book to brazilian portuguese is also very interesting.

What I really hope to see catch on though, is the format that this book is written in. There is definitely a shortage of technical resources that is longer and more in-depth than an online tutorial, yet shorter and more to-the-point than the full fledged 500-pager. I feel like reading this book gave me just enough info to make an adequately informed decision on whether or not MongoDB is what I'm looking for and worth looking into, or that it isn't the fit for whatever application I'm writing. Great work!
If it's not that big a deal why are Android users so vocal about not getting updates?

Even if that is true if you're Facebook or Amazon and you're looking to differentiate yourself in that way it's one thing. If you're a handset manufacturer looking to make a kick-ass Android phone it's another entirely and there it would be a big deal.
I apologize for any lack of clarity :)
Please reserve such comments for Techcrunch articles. Let's keep HN at adult-level conversations.
The article says two things:

1) The whole saga was caused by a bad antivirus alert. This story never even happens if not for that.

2) They checked a set of Samsung laptops and found no trace of keylogger software. See http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002132.html

Is there more you'd like to see be done?
AKA Spam-by-proxy...
I'm currently writing a "commercial" book (the redis book), and I'm every day more confident that the future of many tech books is self publishing. You get hardly rich writing a tech book for a traditional publisher, it is a lot of work for little money most of the time (you are not going to sell, usually, a large number of tech books, they are not "best sellers", and the percentage you earn is very low).

So after all, why not self publish? You have more control on what you write, you earn a lot more if you publish the book on the Kindle for every sold copy, you are free to provide the book for free on the web, and so forth.

From this point of view github is a viable way to handle the writing of a book. What is needed is a license that allows everybody to contribute, so that the electronic version is free for everybody, but only the "main" authors have the right to use the book for commercial purposes (Kindle, Printed, ...). Otherwise if the book is under a non free license it can be still interesting to use github in a public repository to get feedbacks, comments, and so forth.

We'll see what happens but my next book will be a self-published one for sure, written using a github public repo, if I'll ever write another one :)
Playstation phone postponed for some punters
Scientists eye curvaceous Earth gravity map
I think Amazon is going to win this one. The RIAA can't even win cases against grandmas or John Does. I doubt that Amazon's legal team is going to be easier to beat.

(The key argument? "We just transfer the bits." The ISPs' routers don't need music licenses, why should S3?)

If Amazon loses, I hope the RIAA goes after AT&T next for all the music that's inevitably caught in their illegal wiretaps.
This article mentions a Google product in development that would "scan a user's computer and automatically add any tracks that Google has licensed to that user's online locker" and an Apple product that would allow "unlimited music redownloads and streams to iOS devices" and then implies that since these would require licenses, so would Amazon.

I think there's a fine line that's crossed when you have to upload your own bits rather than re-use their bits.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391565

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391257

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390224
For what I've seen from the couple of papers our team submitted while i was working in a research institute, there is no negaive feedback on the committee member "farming out" the reviews if his PhDs screw up. Why would he worry about it?
I like this idea. It would also make it easier to see past who's hiring threads as well. Just go to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

and look at the submissions. Beats crawling through results on searchyc.com.
Boy, a lot of questions. I already mentioned that the different stores have different features. I wouldn't see Redis or Cassandra replacing each other for anything. HBase is a potential replacement for bigger MySQL-like things such as big joins across all user data, actions. M-R inputs are logs in HDFS, copied from scribe. RabbitMQ isn't involved in logging those.
I've no idea if it would be work, but I'd love to see a web app for authors and editors that used git on the back end to manage things.
For reference, other takes on this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391675

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391546

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391424

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391051

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390721

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390430
The slide that contrasts RDBMS and NoSQL DBs and asks "A step backwards?" reminds me of the rebuttal of MapReduce and NoSQL stores by Mike Stonebraker (copy of the article here: http://craig-henderson.blogspot.com/2009/11/dewitt-and-stone...)
Right now I read the code at the top which generally (>95%) gives you enough info, there are some keys I can't do yet.

I've trailed some heuristics to infer the profile based on the side view which look feasible but will require a fairly large validated dataset.
Please let people police the site with their upvotes and downvotes. Your highbrow analysis of my comment adds even less to the discourse.
writing != publishing.

Where does the publishing come into play?
Yes (I did see the link back to the original article). Specifically, I'd like some more information about their methodology.

1) How did they verify there were no key loggers (is their AV program set to identify StarLogger instances)
2) What subset of Samsung laptops did they check
3) Did they check from more than one source
4) Did they verify that the laptops they checked haven't been wiped & reimaged with the local store's base computer image (such as with Best Buy)

With out some of this basic data, their findings are perhaps more suspect than the original article (not that I believe Samsung is doing this, I just disagree that their conclusions are as cut and dried as they, and the link title, indicate).
IPv6 Address Format
The very important feature of the IPv6 address is that it consists of the address space which is quite and rather larger than other addresses. They are 128 bits in length.
App Store provides easy monetization and discoverability. If you want to make money off of a side project, I'd argue a native app is a far easier route to take than a web app.
Now we just have to figure out how to monetize viral links. Currently, the only way to do this now is to create a "popular link aggregator".

Site sources of many of these viral traffic is a Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am relationship with very little repeat traffic that's hard to monetize.

Or is viral content too chaotic to encase and monetize? Is it the 4chan of traffic?
Public universities have large numbers of lobbyists serving their interests as well.

UoP had about 400,000 students at the time the Frontline piece was produced - that's seven Ohio State Columbus's [http://www.osu.edu/osutoday/stuinfo.php] so number of schools is not perhaps the best measure.

Rightly or wrongly, because UoP has open enrollment they admit more students who are eligible for Federal Financial Aid than most schools because of the population they enroll.

And nothing in the Frontline piece accused UoP of being a diploma mill as was implied by the prior comment to which I responded. A criticism of their business model is a different indictment altogether.
Selective quoting much?
There are two groups of reasons to refrain from promiscuous behavior. One is the high-visibility, high-impact kind of reasons, like risk of infections. The other is the low-visibility, high-impact kind of reasons, like effects on morality, family relationships and whatnot.

Now the other group, being low-visibility, is much harder to convince people about, than the high-visibility group of reasons.

Whoever teaches people to refrain from promiscuity may be naturally fond on the high-visibility group of reasons as an easy argument. Should the high-visibility group be dismounted (by successful vaccinations, in this case), it suddenly becomes harder to get the message through. Which was expressed in a slightly roundabound way with, ``and by eliminating [[the highly-visible risk]] [[people may feel greenlighted]] for promiscuous behavior''. In short, a vaccine by itself isn't a message in any direction (it's neutral), but lessens one of messages left there by evolution (STDs).

Uh, that's my take, anyway.
True, and it isn't the full story of system dependencies. Data dependencies aren't really shown here and they are also tricky, although Cassandra is the the primary ("source of truth") for most things. So for example, if a user does something on the site such as Digg a story, you mainly write Cassandra (several times) but in some cases have to write Redis, as well as flush some caches. Meanwhile async jobs can be writing to HDFS and ultimately MySQL.
"All the app store is is someone that takes 30% of your money".

Would one earn the same money with a toy website, though?
The patient are well rewarded indeed, with asides such as note 12: 12 “Plaintiff beliefs [sic], when [White Zuckerman’s employee] used the word slander,considering the context of the comment, she really meant liable [sic]. Confusing liable [sic] with slander is a mistake people commonly make.” (2nd Am. Compl. ถ 56.) Confusing “libel” with “liable” is also a commonly-made mistake.
So do I setup DNSSEC or Not?
visually it's very nice! great job.

(but there are 400+ something groupon clones out there (and growing every day.) So technically it's not "all.")
"love deals, hate email?" then the first thing hitting me is a dialog to enter my email? Messaging seems disjointed.
According to http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002133.html , the "SL" path thing was exactly right!
Biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Ask HN: We're moving from a one-dev shop to a two-dev shop next week. Advice?
I've been the only developer on the team (online news team in a daily-newspaper newsroom) for four years. Next week a new developer starts (woot!).

Got any advice for making this transition to a two-dev operation smooth?
Google is axing support for QR Codes in their Places service
> "Google is using the only leverage they have (early access and the google apps)"

Walking isn't such a big issue these days. Which is likely why Google feels secure doing this. Windows CE is dead. Phone 7 is struggling. Nokia essentially gave up, removing MeeGo as a concern.

So where does, say, HTC go if Google pushes them to drop the Sense UI?

They certainly don't have the software expertise to fork and run. None of the Android OEMs do. At the rate mobile is advancing, they'd be irrelevant in 18 months. And there is literally no-one else who is delivering a product they can use to maintain their sales.

I honestly wonder if Google isn't more concerned about Amazon than the OEMs.

As for carriers... they're only a real issue in the US; where Android's growth isn't that strong anyway. I mean, is it even possible for AT&T and Verizon to support Android less these days? I haven't seen a single Droid ad since January.
Cool; interesting to see how it's done elsewhere. In go:-

http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/cmd/gc/go.y

/*
* Go language grammar.
*
* The Go semicolon rules are:
*
* 1. all statements and declarations are terminated by semicolons.
* 2. semicolons can be omitted before a closing ) or }.
* 3. semicolons are inserted by the lexer before a newline
* following a specific list of tokens.
*
* Rules #1 and #2 are accomplished by writing the lists as
* semicolon-separated lists with an optional trailing semicolon.
* Rule #3 is implemented in yylex.
*/

But obviously this is very language-specific and given the case discussed above likely not to work in quite the same way.
This seems opposed to my original impressions of the Android vision. I thought the original carrot/stick was the Android market.

But I guess with the new Amazon market the old Google carrot/stick is no longer as compelling.
I doubt it. I am sure that had it gone Android it would have been a high profile partner with Google.

I am inclined to believe Nokia went with Microsoft primarily because Microsoft needs Nokia more than Google needs Nokia, i.e. Microsoft offered more money.
Since when have these guys limited themselves to just being antivirus vendors?
Only C#? Sir, you obviously haven't spent any time with C++.
Alex Polvi, co-founder of Cloudkick (YC W09), on getting acquired by Rackspace
The comment states that the iPad is upscaling the iPhone 3GS graphics on the iPad, rather than just using the higher resolution iPhone 4 retina graphics at near full resolution.

I'm 90% sure that this is the case. I think that the main reason why Apple did this is because the iPhone 4 has 512 MB RAM, and the iPad 1 only has 256 MB(iPad 2 has 512). That could make performance with the higher resolution graphics an issue for the iPad.
I not sure the author disagrees with you here, however he doesn't specifically come out and say it and I can't really read his mind. So let me attempt to reword it anyways.

Being proficient with the editing tool(s) of choice is of significant importance to productivity and keeps the natural flow and rhythm of the thought process while working. Hunt-and-peck is absolute crap, however, likewise anything over say 50wpm in concert with solid knowledge of the shortcuts and meta commands available is going to be sufficient to achieve a good working rhythm.

The premise the author made that I completely agree with is that touch-typing (i.e., not searching for the keys) is not an optional requirement for a productive programmer. I am mildly shocked that there are people on HN (not yourself obviously, but I've read through some of the comments here, and in other posts) who get worked up about this and actually get up-voted for defending it.
When you select the state you're in, a city is automatically "selected" in the final drop down box. I was kind of expecting the page to automatically reload with the deals around the city it chose. You need to actually reselect the city to have the page refresh, though.

Instead of having the city automatically selected, maybe have it say "Choose a city." Or have the the page refresh right away for the default city selection.

I am also not a fan of the fade-in/-out the "DealPage" text does when you hover over it. Mainly due to the fact that you can hover over the text a bunch of times very fast and then have to watch the logo fade from white to black over and over.

Other than those small gripes, the site is very nice visually. Good job!
And this about the Plaintiff trick of a copyright app for the 1-line email:
"As discussed above, Plaintiff is incorrect
about the validity of his copyright because his listserv post lacks originality.
Nonetheless, Plaintiff’s originality argument was not objectively unreasonable. The
problem with Plaintiff’s copyright claim lies in Defendants’ obvious fair-use defense. A
reasonable person, particularly one who happens to be an attorney, would not have
pursued such folderol. Plaintiff’s decision to proceed with this patently meritless cause
of action supports a fee award."
Yep, that confused me too. Also, I would make the default USA.
Guys, this is the first one around of its kinds in the US?
I wonder this because here in brazil, where the group buying came some months after groupon, we already have something like this. Not only this, we have clone of these.
The biggest is www.saveme.com.br. It was already aquired by the biggest internet company in brazil, the buscape.com.br.

I wondered this because the major inovation here in brazil, arent inovation, just some "braziliatization" of US new startups.
Great Job Guys!
>The source will be released when Google is happy with the product. For people to be up in arms that they aren't releasing the source to an unfinished product is ridiculous. Seems like they are damned if they do, damned it they don't

The Motorola Xoom is already out.. so how is Honeycomb an unfinished product if it's in consumers' hands? The basic spirit of FOSS is that users and developers should be able to modify the code. The article you linked to says this:

>The lack of Honeycomb code availability is especially bad for enthusiasts who were hoping to be able to install custom firmware on their Android tablets. Without the code, it will be difficult for the modding community to produce custom builds that fix the software problems that plague the Xoom and other upcoming Android tablets. Users who were looking forward to better Honeycomb builds for the Nook Color and other budget devices are also going to have to wait.

>For now, only a privileged few hardware vendors will have access to Honeycomb while the rest are left with uncertainty about the future of the platform. Even after the matter is resolved, the fact that Google is willing to withhold source code at its whim for competitive reasons is going to continue to cast a dark shadow over the company's increasingly hollow claim that Android is an open platform.

I don't see how the above is wrong.

>The source will be released when Google is happy with the product.

Doesn't Android use the Linux kernel which is GPL'ed (among other parts)? Can they legally withhold code for a shipping product by saying the software isn't finished?
He isn't saying typing is a bottleneck, read the actual paragraph under the poorly written header. He is saying hunt-and-peck is terrible for productive flow and thinking and that touch-typing is important and valuable.

Even when pairing and taking time to think, obtusely slow typing from a partner is frustrating and distracting for me. If someone can't be bothered to learn how to use their tools well, they should find something to do they actually want to be good at.
Intelligent app search startup is looking for one http://iapps.in/jobs
But much more expensive...