skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my take:
1. Oracle wanted full control of the project, which was clearly unlikely once Kohsuke left Oracle.

2. Once the Hudson team started acting somewhat autonomously, Oracle tried to frighten them out of doing anything without Oracle's say by invoking trademark litigation.

3. Rather than have a protracted battle, the Hudson team did actually begin talking to Oracle about taking the project to a foundation, such as Eclipse or Apache, to ensure legitimacy of process from both sides. Those talks broke down. I don't know any particulars, but I can believe that Eclipse was rejected and Apache favored. If Oracle was truly agnostic about it, Apache should have been fine. This makes me worried that there may have been (and still be) backroom deals going on to ensure Oracle gets preferential treatment. Your guess about keeping control of the Hudson trademark might well be something that got passed around.

4. Oracle absolutely did not plan for the Hudson team walking away from the name, and were arrogant enough to believe that when they did, the Hudson brand would live on and Jenkins would fade away.

5. Once is was clear that the heart of an open-source project is its developers, not its silent users (big surprise, right?), Oracle have tried to backpedal and have run into the arms of Eclipse to try and bring developers back.

It won't work, and like another commenter said, if Eclipse does take them up on it, it will just look bad on Eclipse. Sadly, the Hudson name is completely tainted at this point. And its not correct to say "Well, that's OK, because users don't really care about all this stuff" because the users are developers, and they do care about this stuff. The rabble-rousers on the sidelines, like Sonatype, also look like jerks, but at least Maven is under Apache Foundation control, so while I can hate Sonatype, I can still use their product without too much fear.
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Ah, but HTTPS with unsigned certs are less secure than plain old HTTP.

Or more accurately, for all intents and purposes they are exactly as secure, but carry an unearned sense of security. Unjustified senses of security are a very very dangerous thing.
That may be true for a processor, but when talking about transistors, I think that clock speed and power consumption are the metrics to measure.
Even then there are some dimensionless numbers that you can't get rid of (the ratio between the strength of the gravitational and coulomb forces being one obvious example).
That reminds me of a story about Richard Feynman visiting a physics class outside the US. The diplomat types were very upset with him for pointing out that their books and classes were terrible, teaching things like the energy of a ball going down an incline without taking rotational kinetic energy into account.
Anyone know if the 3D structure is patented by Intel? If so, wouldn't this give Intel a monopoly on transistors given how much better this new design performs?
It's not necessary once your files live on ephemeral storage, but it would be necessary if you want the distcp operation to be fast. But again, the s3 block filesystem will not have this problem.
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Do your contacts count against your Gmail storage quota? I'm assuming they do, but curious to know for certain.
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question, what made you decide on the name?
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Congrats to Disqus guys. Presumably the $10M includes a couple million for the founders to cash out, which is great.

They seem to be in a pretty difficult position though. The product is the very definition of a "feature", and one that is most definitely a commodity.

Facebook Comments just launched and it's quite well done. Since most people are logged into their FB accounts all the time it means instant commenting with real identities. Exactly what most sites need to increase commenting while maintaining civility.

Revenue is also a big problem. Between Facebook Comments and other free competitors there's not much room to charge for pro features or add advertising.

I'm a fan, but don't really see how they're going to become a big business in the future to return 5-10x on this $10M.
It is sad to see that our dear political elites still don't "get" the web.

I doubt this will pass, because I'm optimistic at times, and we still have a relatively decent level of democracy around here, but the fact it's been proposed is still alarming.
The last two comments are true for CPUs, but I think they are only talking about transistor switching speed.
If you're bitching about nothing being done, you're not JFDIng it.
Physics, surprisingly enough.
A Chrome extension that I use pretty regularly for this sort of thing is Stay Focused:
http://goo.gl/gHWFQ
I had no idea that you could view demographic info of people that clicked your ads. In fact, I was about to request it as a feature. Even after I read this, it took me 5 minutes to figure out how to get there. Makes me wonder if they buried it on purpose, or if it's another example of very poor FB UI.
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No, it was:

1. You can do that and get to 1 cent clicks
2. Once you learn tricks, you can re-target your customers
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the videos are at the same time incredibly good and incredibly bad, thanks :)
rad, great idea
"No points for noticing that different levels of organization are structured differently."

You may want to reconsider this. I've seen it seriously put forth as a criticism of capitalism that within corporations and organizations they aren't run capitalistically, therefore it's obviously a failure. I consider the freedom capitalism offers to experiment with different organizations within its overarching framework to be one of the key reasons it is so much more successful than the organizations that include as part of their memeplex that they are the one true organization scheme for all purposes. I suspect most people in general have not thought about it enough to realize this as an obvious truth not worthy of "points".
That's an interesting point: a republic is by definition "by the people," so saying that it's the people's republic would constitute redundant piling-on. But since it's a lie, Mao or whoever named the country should be awarded the Goebbels Medal for Excellence in Propaganda.
There are several exponential growth laws in computer science: for example, Nielsen's law for bandwidth, Kryder's law for storage. It's misleading to address them all as Moore's.
this whole article is practically useless without data on how the incoming traffic ultimately converted on momentgarden.com. (how many sales did you generate from picture B over picture D?) just like eve online's a/b testing that led to using pictures of attractive, loosely clothed women indicates you can always increase click through rates by getting closer to porn. what good are CTRs when your traffic is more interested in the picture they clicked than the product you're selling?
would love to find out if in fact there is some encryption layer on this thing, cause if not, that opens a whole other scandalous can of worms
There was a previous HN discussion about this limit at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263093. It included some speculation about why Google would limit the number of contacts.
From what I've heard, using 50% as much power for the same performance as the previous generation still will not be sufficient to bring Intel's Atom performance/energy consumption ratio to that offered by ARM chips. However, it's a huge leap in the right direction. Add better-designed power-saving features on the next generation of Atom chips, and future process shrinkages, and it's easy to see ARM's lead getting chipped away until it's gone.
I have to echo ncash's comment. Don't let money stop you to choose a school that you are supposed to go. Any problem that can be solved by reasonable amount of money is not a problem. When you look back after 10 years, $100K is not much of money. Try to raise money by loans, working, and even from friends/relatives. No doubt this is not easy but you are young that got nothing to lose.
"the world's first 3-D transistors, called Tri-Gate, in a production technology"

I wonder if this is truly Intel's invention or not:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=tri+gate+trans...
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I'm unsure how well sortfolio will/can do outside the 37signals brand because I'm sure this is part fo the draw for people to use it.
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We support Rails at HostGator.com, either using cPanel-managed Mongrel or through a FCGI dispatcher (I personally assist with multiple set-ups daily). Perhaps not as ideal for a 100% Rails shop as Heroku, but the option is definitely there.
It's just not worth taking this out of my /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
There's an enormous difference between writing a paper on a design and prepping up to produce them at Intel's scale. Even if they didn't invent the object, they invented the processes to make it a reality outside of a lab.
Good call. The dataset was large enough that it didn't feel silly to use something like MapReduce but the same thought has been in the back of my head the whole time.
Brendan mentioned that he was wanting to keep # for something else and just adopt the coffeescript -> as the short form.

(x) -> x
(x) -> (x * x)
(x) -> {
for(let i = 0; i < x; i++){
console.log(i);
}
}

Was the set of syntax examples given.
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This Intel R&D paper sums the technology up and has a picture that makes it clear what they are doing: http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/integrated_cmos.htm

In a nutshell, the drain/source is a tall trace, the gate approaches from the side and climbs over the drain/source, covering it on three sides.
I've nowhere near completed the life that Derek had (I'm only 23), but his "last post" has really inspired me to pay more attention to life, those around me, and what is truly important. This was a really thought provoking post. Take the time to read it, the lessons he teaches are invaluable.
Curious as to what clock speeds will be available when Ivy Bridge is released in the first half of 2012? If one expects a 37% performance increase at low voltages, then what would be the performance increase at standard voltage? 20% or so?
> Content creators should have a right to decide how their content is disseminated - whether it's sold, shared for free, given free for noncommercial use, kept private, etc.

Once content is "out there", they have no such control, because people have the ability to disseminate the content without the creator's consent.

The only way for people not to have this ability would be to abolish the internet, ban general-purpose computers and replace them with locked-down equivalents; something like the iPad and Facebook, and make it illegal for anyone to produce freer equivalents.

Is that what you want? I suspect not. But that's the choice in front of us. It's not about whether people can get unauthorised access to content without paying for it, it's whether computers and electronic networks are to be a tool for freedom or a fascist jackboot stamping on all of us.
I can't find anything about the purpose of the site or what it is for outside of "hacker news and travel." If you want people to sign up, you should be a bit more convincing.
It will be interesting to see whether patents will make this a defensible innovation. Will AMD et all have to invent a similar but materially different technology in order to keep pace?
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LaTeX was part of a class I had to take in my freshman year of college.

This makes me feel even older than usual. See, it was a little different back then. You didn't run LaTeX and immediately look at the output in Ghostview or some other tool to see how it looked. I had to submit a batch job then wait up to 15 minutes for an operator to pull my print job off the big Xerox laser printer so I could see what it looked like.

I didn't have a lot of options to compare it to at the time. MacWrite and Microsoft Word for the Mac were the only WYSIWYG word processors available to me and those took fighting for time on a rare Mac in a campus lab.

I'm glad things changed by the time I got to grad school.
IMacs, Mac Pros, and laptops
Life is too short to spend any enormous amt of time on an OSS project. Invest your skills into your own business, and reap the rewards of it.
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I don't quite agree with the conclusion of the article ("you’ll come away with a better understanding of JavaScript"). The fact that CoffeeScript hides scoping and other stuff from you means you will never have to learn how JavaScript really works.

You can argue whether this is good or bad, but it's not giving people a better understanding of anything, it's just making them follow best practices unknowingly.
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Look, I could care less which side you take, or why you take it. I'm simply saying that just because you don't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Smarter people than you and me have taken different sides.

I could easily make a case for either side. However, this is HN, and this discussion doesn't belong here.
I'm thinking Naysawn might be trying to pull a "hipster" here--the site that got 10,000+ signups without people really knowing what it was about. Curiosity can be a powerful motivator.
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What alarms me is the kinds of people who have co-opted the term 'engineer' to describe themselves. For example, the guy in my company who's job is to verify that anchor tags inside web pages point to the correct URLs, confirm that a site's layout adheres to a .psd, and to make sure that jQuery-powered divs appear and hide as they should. His title?... 'Senior QA Engineer'.
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Atom is 2 generations behind in the manufacturing process compared to this. They'll barely start making them at 32 nm next year, and that will last for another 2 years.
Also (George) Gilder's law.
And it will be interesting to see if there is any change in the monthly revenue because of this post. As you're saying, the 37signals brand adds credibility to being seen on Sortfolio.
There's nothing here that couldn't have been done before the Internet; but the instant ubiquity of such well-written final words seems to increase the emotional immediacy of it, for me.

I was taken aback.
Your average thief is a kid looking for thrills.
It's probably easier to use that much less power for the same performance than to push the same power in and get higher performance. On smaller size scales power leakage and heat dissipation become bigger issues so you might not be able to push the same amount of energy through as with the larger scale chip.
It's true that ultimately for our product, conversion into customers is what matters in the end. But I don't think that makes this article useless.

Almost all businesses want to get people "through the door" to your website or product, and our experiment shows how you can do that for a relatively low price.

A logical follow on would focus on the landing page and conversion, but that is beyond the scope of this original experiment, which was to show you the mechanics of lowering your CPC.
All of those papers either post-date Intel's announcement from 2003 regarding tri-gate transistors, or are written by Intel employees. That search also brings up multiple patents held by Intel on the technology.
In Vancouver their is an organization called wavefront http://www.wavefrontac.com/ which provides this service to members along with other services.

you might want to contact them and get their feedback on how their program is going, what they'd change, etc. etc.

Sorry I don't have a direct contact for you, i'm not actually a member.
Exactly. I think this could still be a good opportunity for a buyer, but I don't think I would base my offer to purchase based on current revenues.
Gigabit connections to every home? Grab your sword, Reed Hastings.
Twelve.

The number of probable months since I've commented using Disqus.
There are a lot of trust issues in sending data that way.

1. First you have to trust the machine in the internet cafe. It might have viruses or keyloggers. You can maybe get around this by using your own laptop, but not allowed in most places.

2. Next you have to trust the network. It could be monitored or logged. You could be vulnerable to MITM attacks or DNS poisoning. SSL is not guaranteed to get you any real protection in this situation.

3. So you have a compromised network - you can get around this by just PGP encrypting whatever you want to send to the receiver (assuming you and your receiver have done some kind of sane, out-of-band key exchange), or using steganography tools to hide your video inside some other file, but..

4. Now you are uploading large encrypted files to 'innocently used domains' (whatever that means) from an internet cafe. And walking around with a laptop with either keypairs or steganography software on it.. That's suspicious.

It's just far easier to use an external drive with TrueCrypt on it to send your sensitive information. You can have a hidden volume containing your really sensitive data, and a main volume where you can store some files that are plausibly sensitive enough to warrant TrueCrypt protection, e.g. a porn stash or some confidential business data.
so long myspace music - the future is soundcloud - democratization / personalized experiences ftw
This is orthogonal. An ARM Cortex (or GPU, or whatever) on this process would see similar gains.

It's also worth pointing out that current Atoms in the market are still 45nm parts, not even 32nm. Intel, for obvious reasons, tends to prioritize production of high-margin desktop and server CPUs over low-margin embedded parts.

Really, this announcement isn't about ARM-based vs. Intel-based SoC designs. I think it's clear that Intel has some catching up to do there. This is about Intel cementing and extending its complete and total dominance of high end digital logic fabrication. At this point they look to be about a full two years ahead of everyone else. AMD, IBM, Samsung, TI, TSMC and the rest of that crew have to be more than a little worried.

Objectivity disclaimer: my wife is at Intel working on precisely this 22nm process. So I'm about as biased a source as you can find.
There was a report recently about one set of android handsets accepting a SIM styled based facebook set of apps which I believed enabled by SIM toolkit and so someone somewhere has done some new sim toolkit support in android. Anybody remember the article well enough to remember the firm name?
The reason why this discussion "doesn't belong here" is that people are unable to critically discuss issues which are so closely tied to their personal identity, like cherished religious beliefs, without getting too emotional about it. The HN community is just as vulnerable to this as any other, and this is unfortunate.
Funny thing that Blackberry used to have a great support for STK, then they broke it in the OS 6.
Considering Intel first announced the Tri-Gate tech in 2002 AMD would have to had been working on something for 9 years to be launching a competitor anytime soon.
This is so horrible its comical.
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1. Put HN on 'noprocrast' for 8 hours away, 20mins maxvisit (check the settings in your profile). This will let you check HN twice a day, which is enough.

2. Don't drink caffeine within 8 hours of bed time. You'll get better night's sleep. Helps to have decaf tea & coffee at the ready

3. Take a notebook, write down 'what can I achieve in the next hour', make it a realistic guess. Now, work for 45 mins, and when anything else occurs to you, like check the news, send an email, look something up on the web, just write it down on the opposite page. After 45 mins, spend 15 mins doing those extra things you wrote down. Rinse, repeat. This removes the discomfort of not satisfying your whims (you've noted them down, so you'll definitely get round to them), while letting you work in a focussed manner without task switching or timewasting.

I also do these things: don't care about Facebook, email, Twitter, but that's not hard for me admittedly. I barely care anyway. Also, before you start a messageboard/forum post, be aware it will probably cost you 4 hours or so before it's done with.
Intel recently announced that they're going to catch up Atom (semi-misleadingly marketed as "faster than Moore's Law") so they're at 45 nm now, they'll release 32 nm Atom later this year and 22 nm Atom in early 2012.
So sad. This made me even more grateful for the life that I have. The transient nature of life is difficult to come to grips with. I wish Derek's family well.
getting a good and cheap domain name is a real pain! I liked ArtSumo but also consider painthut, dailypaint, and theworldpaints. what do you prefer?
This shouldn't be on Hacker News.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

Also, please submit things by their original title unless the original title isn't descriptive.

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

I'm not saying this to be a jerk or to call you out, but because you appear to be somewhat new here.
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I'm pretty sure that number exceeds the human capacity to maintain discrete external identities for individuals we know, have met, or know of.

Interestingly, it's about 100x the upper limit for Dunbar's number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
You can peek into your Chrome'ss current SPDY connections (and other interesting internals) in their internal pages:

chrome://net-internals/#events&q=type:SPDY_SESSION%20is:active
How does that work? The dev team spends a day writing a mirroring script and setting up the svn server on someone's workstation, and then forgets the decision was ever made?
The perception of "cramming" is Linus's problem. The concrete complaint he makes (before his blanket statement that ethics should never be discussed publicly) is that people "push" the GPL as being "about 'ethics.'" Well, that is nothing about Linus, it is about the GPL, so he can't even claim it's personal. Plus, it's a reasonable opinion to have, especially since the person wrote the GPL did so to promote certain ethical considerations. It is Linus's fault that he is so sensitive that he can't abide somebody having an opinion that the GPL has an ethical side to it.

Then he goes on to say, "I really want to point out that it's not that the license is somehow ethical per se." So it's okay for him to have and express an opinion on that question. The hypocrisy is really thick there.

And here's the question that prompted that response: "Do you agree that there is an ethical content in the GPL?" Hardly a pushy question, and the interviewer practically apologizes before he asks the question. So no, there is no cramming, there is just a person who is extremely sensitive on an issue and responds to a polite question with an insulting rant about civility. There is nothing cool about that. He isn't dropping his brilliant technical judgment on an unsuspecting noob who will be better for it in the long run. It's just unpleasant behavior to no useful end.