skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people adapt this into a system they claim helps speed read [1], and while I don't particularly believe the speed reading claims it is true that you can actually read quite quickly with words flashing at fairly high rates.

There are various sites online that can help you play with this, but I can't get any of them to work on the machine I'm posting this on (no Java, zapreader.com doesn't work for unknown reasons).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentatio...
this is actually very exciting. I decided to explore the site a little and found this quote:

"most ambitious storage project undertaken since ZFS" (http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/why-is-acunu-in-kernel/)

it looks like they put a key/value store in the kernel and they came up with a new userspace API for it. i can see also see how getting something like this into the mainline kernel is going to be a big uphill battle, but it might actually be a really big win.
Where's the beef? There are no real details.
HTML5 video, I think. Even Apple is no longer promoting the QuickTime plug-in.
1) rather not say

2) gambling

3) 92%/2%/7%

4) Mar 12-Apr 11, ~46,000 visits. Other interesting numbers to jump out: Google's bounce rate 17%, Bing 28%, Yahoo 36%. The relative numbers haven't changed much going back to Jan - I'm not seeing any growth in the Bing or Yahoo numbers.
I looked at your products and they're not the Bing demo. Can someone get Wikipedia data? That I think would be more representative?
$87 Android Froyo Arm 9 capacitive smartphone with camera and GPS
The 35$ per transfer is normal, the 5% is not. It'll probably be cheaper to send the money directly in USD without currency exchange, the european bank will then deal with it and their rates are usually cheaper (at least for french banks).

You can also maybe suggest to the people you work with to setup a USD account with their bank. That's what I did with my bank in France, it was quite easy and allows me to exchange all the payments from USD to Euros in one go.

Another services I've heard some good things of but haven't tested is Xe.com Transfers [1] and Xoom [2]

[1] http://www.xe.com/fx/
[2] https://www.xoom.com/
I have a stack of printouts of xkcd's tech support cheat sheet [1], that I just hand to the person.

[1] http://xkcd.com/627/
A lot of instruction sets (including x86) let you encode branch prediction hints into the actual instructions to help out the branch predictors. But for x86 at least these hints didn't turn out to be too useful, so they're ignored (except on P4, I believe).
I... I feel quite pushed away now I can't see if people are liking my contributions. I feel as if maybe people aren't liking my comments, and I can't tell so I can't adapt. I post comments similar to those I know users like, in the hope that I provide value to others, without knowing how well a comment is being received how do I provide what users want?

I would like to see point display re-enabled for the owner of the comment.

Edit: hey looks like this happened, thanks pg :-)
1) raisethehammer.org
2) residents of Hamilton, Ontario / approx 1500 unique visitors per day
3) Goog/Yahoo/Bing: 92%/4%/4%

1) vacation home rental site (can't say precisely)
2) mainly residents of Canada / approx 700 unique visitors/day
3) Goog/Yahoo/Bing: 87%/6%/5%

1) contest site for kids (can't say precisely)
2) mainly kids in Canada / approx 1000 unique visitors/day
3) Goog/Yahoo/Bing: 82%/9%/7%

I realize these aren't big numbers in most cases, but I checked multiple sites and Google was never less than 80% and usually > 85%.
You and I won too, then.
Doesn't say anything there about customers needing to be citizens. Obvious next step is to go make a fortune so you can spend a chunk of it as a passenger.
I checked Apple Software Update on this computer and they are all unchecked by default.
Why is the order of comments so inappropriate? Is it based on Karma that a comment has received that you order them?
Step 1. Read Four Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank. Step 2. Realize you have no idea what you are getting yourself into. Step 3. Understand the market decides if your project is worth anything.
I was with you until this:

"My friend, a dear childhood friend of mine, went on a rant about "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" and how he was a Kenyan who wasn't born in this country, so "how could he be fit to be president?"

Not to take this discussion somewhere else, but: what's so wrong with Obama's middle name? How is referencing his middle name even remotely racist? I feel like when people get angry about this, it's because there is something to hide.
So each point is worth between $.007 and $.01 (based on the gift card conversions).

Assuming you make 50 searches per day, you'll make at most $.50 - is it really worth it for a half dollar a day?
> Any function that uses both of these violates strict aliasing rules

More specifically, any function that uses both of these to access the same data violates strict aliasing rules. But this would imply that the data is being loaded redundantly, which seems unlikely in an implementation where speed is a top priority.

For example, I do not believe the following function violates strict aliasing rules:

void foo(char *p) {
bar(UNALIAGNED_LOAD64(p), UNALIGNED_LOAD32(p+8));
}
> I would like to see point display re-enabled for the owner of the comment.

I second that.

Now, that up-votes are not visible, I have to write it out. Something that makes me wonder, Will this change increase the "me-too" comments count to show agreement, which in-turn would increase the noise in comments even more?
It depends, though. I've found that sometimes people can use me as a crutch and don't even try to fix it themselves before coming to me. And other times it's better to teach them how to find the solution to that type of problem than to just fix it for them.

So, yeah, I sort of agree with you, but the math can get more complicated. If it's me fixing it for them x 10 vs. them taking an hour to figure it out, then the first option might be more efficient and more gratifying.
Well, Apple seems well on their way to making their own curated internet, so don't give up all hope.
either way. not the kind of small letter bait and switch advertisement i expect from a company asking for my family info and DNA samples.
I can own a PS3 and an XBox 360 and a Nintendo Wii, but I cannot simultaneously be registered as a democrat AND a republican.
Soundguy?
All the Pragmatic Programmer books come with Kindle versions. I also have a peer who wishes he had a kindle 20 years ago. His bookshelf would be empty.
While I agree with the premise that voicemails that provide no additional information are not useful, the author is an elitist jerk. That being said, callers generally have no idea if you aren't answering because you're not near your phone, or because your phone is off/without reception/on a plane, in which case the call notification would never appear. Google Voice does a good job of solving this by includes notifications for missed calls, but everyone else has no way of knowing they missed a call.
Unless you can force folks to buy a minimum number of books, giving it away for free would just be too ripe for abuse. Giving it away at slightly below cost would make sense (and they might already be doing that, essentially.)
That article marks an important change in IE9: it no longer asks what search engine you want to use on first run (aka a new install or a new computer, not a browser upgrade), it defaults to bing without asking.

I think that's just unfortunate, though, and not a likely explanation of any change in search market share (IE9 has only been out for a month, after all).
I remember reading Pinker's The Blank Slate in college and being struck by how little parents mattered. The numbers were that roughly 40-50% of the variance in adult outcomes was due to genetics, 0-10% was due to parenting, and about 50% was due to peer groups.

Of course, one could argue that parents indirectly choose their kids' peer groups. So maybe the lesson is to lighten up on the little battles of parenting, but pay very careful attention to the neighborhood you live in, the schools your kids go to, and the activities they partake in. And make enough money to have options for all of those.
This just really isn't sitting well with me... so, warning. Total conspiracy-theory cynicism ahead.

These numbers are from a company that at least in part appears to generate revenue from supplying analytics, and helping other companies tune their search results. While that may put them in a good position to tally these kinds of numbers, it also strikes me that it puts them in a good position to benefit from a redistribution of search-engine market share.

I'm not making an accusation at all. I'm far from informed enough to do so. That said, I'd love some insight on this angle from someone who's more familiar with the space that Hitwise is in.
The correct term is logogram or logograph. Hieroglyphs more commonly refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing system, whereas logogram and logograph are more general terms. Ideogram/graph refer to a specific type of logogram in which the character represents a specific idea or concept, but only a small minority of Chinese characters are ideograms.

For more information, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificatio...
Wikileaks, where are you?
On the other hand, "disagree by replying" isn't always a good thing.

For instance, deliberate trolling is far better downvoted and ignored than engaged with directly. If a troll gets twelve replies going "Actually I disagree with your Hitler-was-great comment and here's a few reasons why..." then the troll has won.

Alternatively, a truly stupid opinion, even if honestly held rather than trollishly put forth, can derail a conversation. If every time the moon landing is mentioned it results in a big long conversation about whether it was faked or not (with the "yes" side argued by one random idiot) then that's not enhancing the discussion, it's just derailing it.

There are many issues on which sensible people may disagree, and many issues on which they may not. Sensible people should be able to figure out which are which, and downvote or reply accordingly.

PS. I think this comment is great, and I'm sad that I have no way of seeing whether anyone upvotes it or not.
Its certain that these are only estimates, however, Bing has been growing in market share consistently for quite some time now. If memory serves correctly, they have had month over month improvement for at least the last 6 months, if not longer. Bing was around 6% when it "launched." Not sure exactly what Yahoo! was at then, but it didn't sum to 30. Initially, Bing grabbed share primarily from Yahoo! searches, but more recently it looks like more has come from Google (though it hasn't been that significant). Interestingly, Bing even grew in January when it was accused on "copying" results.

Point being, while doubting the accuracy of the numbers reported is reasonable, I find it much harder to dismiss a trend.
What about the trends? Is Google losing ground?
I learned the other day that this is because technically ITAR classifies SpaceShip2 as a missile.

Because they've never dealt with a private spacecraft like this before, they haven't developed a specific set of regulations for a private spacecraft. This also means they have to be very careful about who can take pictures of the interior, etc.
I refer them to friends that do that for money. I've helped a few really broke friends though.
The rant to information ratio was too high--I'm not quite sure what he's complaining about.
I agree. I believe version 1.0 was very well thought through and just needed some polish instead of a relaunch. A shame that I did not mention the voting feature because I also used it quite a bit and found it useful especially for public open source projects to see what features people care about.
Thanks for your take. I quite like OCaml---it's syntax is a bit quirky, but I guess I've used it enough that I've mostly stopped seeing the quirks. I've wanted to use Haskell for a larger project for a while now, but the right project hasn't presented itself.

I'm curious what industry you're in that you're able to make significant use of Haskell?
It gratifies my intellectual curiosity. See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Who's version of justice is this?
Bollocks. You joined the political fray, now you reap the results. Academic freedom is not condition-free; the tradition that demands "academic freedom" also says academics should stay out of what they ought to consider "mere politics". I read the original op-ed, and while this is selective quoting it is selective to prove my point: "Mr. Walker’s assault on collective bargaining rights... Mr. Walker’s conduct has provoked a level of divisiveness and bitter partisan hostility the likes of which have not been seen in this state since at least the Vietnam War... Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy. Their political convictions and the two moments in history are quite different. But [McCarthy comparisons made anyhow]..."

This is a very partisan piece. I could probably rewrite it without much work to be a much more neutral-POV historical piece with the same basic content, but as it stands now it is not neutral-POV. (In fact I agree with the underlying premise that the Republican party's priorities have shifted over time, but consider it uninteresting. All political parties shift over time; the further back in time you go, the less related to a modern party it is. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, but... so what? It doesn't count as credit to the modern party, because they're only related via historical continuity, not by methods, persons, or platform. Democrats have shifted too, or should we pretend they are violating their core principles by not vigorously fighting for southern segregation?)

Academic freedom is the freedom to be free of mere politics in the pursuit of your academic studies. It is not a blank check to participate in political discourse from a privileged position above all others, with a unique defense not available to the rest of us. You have chosen to step out of your academic shield and function as a citizen.

That said, this is certainly a major overreaction from the Republican party. I don't see what they think they are going to get out of this. But this whole "I'm a noble academic under attack" is just BS, you simply do not get to run into a room, start lobbing "McCarthyite!", "Radical!", and a laundry list of other thinly-veiled plausibly-deniable political attacks worthy of any modern political speech writer around in a still-current political debate, and expect there to be no reaction from the political world. You jumped in with both feet. Stop whining.

(And yes, I know the entire linked piece is itself just the next level of political game, and that, itself, is shameful. This is not how academics should behave.)
Really? It says 8.72% for Bing for April 2011.
This is just how revenue is collected, no? I believe the Irish subsidiary must have a lot of american clients.
Hitwise has been around before Google. I've never known them to be in the middle of a controversy. It's always possible, but application of Occam's Razor wouldn't look favorably on your theory.
The point to cumulative karma is to feed the rodent-like portion of our brain which likes getting slow, semi-random rewards. There's a tiny amount of satisfaction you get every time you look at your karma score and see that it's gone up since last time you looked at it... and a tiny amount of disappointment every time you see it go down.
For anyone curious, on Windows:

- 7-zip is free and will open ISO files as archives and let you extract the contents.

- Virtual CloneDrive is a free utility which appears as a drive letter and mounts ISOs.

- Folder2ISO is a simple GUI-on-top-of-mkisofs which takes a folder and produces an ISO from it.

- DeepBurner is a freeware CD/DVD burner which can burn ISOs.

I think that covers most of what I do with ISOs on Windows using freeware which I use often, works well and hasn't bitten me.
Current numbers for the past 7 days for TheNextWeb: 95% Google. Hitwise snorting?
Find a product manager in the business to champion you. There are many regional meet ups for product management professionals such as this - http://www.svpma.org/
I don't mind doing it for family or close friends, but if it is some tangentially related person I tell them I charge $90 an hour. This really cuts down on the leechers, and you'd be surprised how many people will actually pay you.

p.s. I came up with this rate because it's the same amount that the local Subaru race shop charges to work on your car.
He needs to async load this script:

http://friendfeed.com/embed/badge/mikelmaron . . .

It took 4s to load, and the page was unreadable until it did.

also, is anyone still using ff?

[edit: 'ff' meant friendfeed, thought it was clear from context]
Around 10% of our traffic is Internet Explorer

This should already tell you that your traffic is not representative.
That's a fair question. Without knowing me, it's hard to gauge my integrity. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to speak with you.
Hit ctrl-z to enter pass through mode, and it will no longer interfere. Hit escape to exit pass through mode.
> It's important to note that Google made 88% of it's revenue outside of the US in 2009.

I don't think that's accurate. I read that article as saying that 88% of the $12.5 billion it made outside the US was booked in Dublin. Not that 88% of their revenue is from outside the US.
While I agree to it (I was gonna point it out myself), it is a (separate) problem already before the change. Showing the comment score change, is after the fact of (down)voting, after which not much can be done.

A better placed/sized voting buttons, should solve this issue to a large extent.
> screenshots

Use Gyazo ( http://gyazo.com ) and then drop in the Markdown for the image. Works just fine.

Also the UI for voting was very odd to me. There were priorities? I think labels can mimic priorities very nicely (I suppose without sorting though). I don't miss these features, myself.
My observation so far is that I am no longer voting any comments up or down since there's no feedback. Usually I would vote up a comment that was good and that didn't have the karma I felt it "deserved", and vice versa. Without that "putting things right" motivation, I seem to have stopped. Interesting as I wouldn't have predicted that outcome beforehand..

What would be interesting, though, is if posts didn't show karma too. In that case, I suspect I'd be more inclined to vote because I wouldn't know how well a post is doing and if I thought it deserved to be on the front page, I'd vote it up. All comments appear in a thread, though, so there is little reason for me to vote them up.
Designs That Leak State: Using Haskell Notation to Analyse C++ Design
Not sure if it is the silver bullet, but sure does put an end to the popularity contest.
This flaw was packaged in a doc and spear-phished to specific people to achieve a specific goal. You are confusing features like "embedded in a .doc" and "unregulated by things like flashblock or noscript" with a limitation.

While the initial attack is uninterested in you, these things spread widely. There is nothing that has been reported that suggests it is limited to this delivery vehicle - I would assume it is not. In my experience, 2nd or 3rd order exploitations will be active before an adobe fix is released.
he's complaining that the communities that do much of the work end up losing the rights to the data.
How the hell do you treat athletes foot?
It's called leveraging your monopoly. 9 out 10 desktops still run Windows. That's a lot of control. As a company, Microsoft should leverage this right up to the point where they might run afoul of the EU or US govt. That's just good business.
Could Bing Overtake Google in 2012?
And ITAR has rules about who can be the... pilot on a missile?
Particularly interesting because he and his team had to develop ways of analysing and visualising the 200Tb recordings, and then they started turning their analysis methods onto live TV and social media data.

Direct link to the TED talk without the blog post discussion: http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/10/deb-roy/
Arguing that Google stole the idea of 'Mapping Parties' seems a bit silly. Claiming that OSM invented the idea of 'Mapping Parties' is even more ridiculous than claiming that Apple invented the term 'App Store'.

The argument that MapMaker is harmful to open source efforts has a bit more merit. With MapMaker users contribute mapping information for free without the ability to actually make use of that data later on. OpenStreetMaps on the other hand provides a Creative Commons license for all of the map data.
Sony and GeoHot settle PS3 jailbreaking case
Meh, being a tourist doesn't appeal to me so much.

The obvious next step is to make a Branson-sized fortune so I can start a space tourism business in my own damn country and fly my own damn spaceship.
You should be asking the people to whom you think will be selling the product or service.
I think you misread the quote. 88% of the non-US revenue going through Google Ireland doesn't in any way imply 88% of the total Google revenue being non-US.

Bing results are total garbage outside the US at the moment, so it's no surprise that their share would be low. And likewise it makes sense for MS to concentrate on reaching a critical mass in a single market first, and only worry about the rest of the world later.
We're ready to blow the Scoville scale
I don't know... $0.50 (Bing) vs. $0.00 (Google). What is better for me when I can still find whatever I need to find in both?
I shudder to think of CTOs basing high-level engineering decisions based on such content-less fluff.
New Cheaper, Ad-supported Kindles
I assume the technical term is that only U.S. citizens can 'operate' a missile...
"They are specifically targetting govts and NGOs, offering to “map their country for free”, but keeping the results."

The problem is they're directly copying open data communities, and restricting the resulting data.

Mikel is a very prominent member of OpenStreetMap, which was largely credited with the mapping of Haiti after the earthquake. It may come off as a rant on first read, but he's not making exaggerated claims.
This appears to be spam and will probably be "dead"ed quickly but to add a genuine response.. bamboo socks can work like gangbusters with keeping various infections of the foot at bay because they're anti-bacterial. The other bonus is your feet smell pretty good all the time.
What is more desperately needed thanks to the Flash 0-day exploits flying around is for MS to add something similar to Office. I'm sure most people don't embed Flash in Office documents.
What to do with my family in London?
I'm not sure this will really work here, but I think recommendations from HN readers will be a lot more relevant to me than I'll get from guide books and online resources. I'm going to be in London with my family (wife, 18- and 13-year old daughters), and looking for suggestions for interesting, non-obvious, non touristy things to do, especially evening entertainment. Pretty much any music but classical and musicals would work for us. The older kid especially loves 40s-50s popular music.
I don't think that's what the Bloomberg article meant. They're talking about how Google funnels 88% of its non-US revenue (which totals $12.5B) through its Dublin subsidiary to reduce their tax burden.

Their total 2009 revenue was much higher, $23.6B (URL: http://investor.google.com/earnings/2009/Q4_google_earnings....) making non-US revenue a pretty big chunk at 53%.