skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that dynamically linking libraries into your program almost always uses more memory than statically linking your program.

If your metric is the memory usage of one arbitrary program. If your metric is the total memory usage of the system, it's likely that dynamic linking is a win because many applications can reuse the same pages in memory.

Most systems (including Unix, which did not have dynamic linking until late 80s/early 90s) worked just fine without it.

That's neither-here-nor-there; most systems worked just fine without operating systems until those were invented, too.
bad_user, how is what you mentioned beyond mathematical modeling?

Something else you may have neglected in this response: the software doesn't have to just make a recommendation. It can present you an array of options which you filter. A dynamical interface.
- browses web? check.

- runs the latest fad games, like Angry Birds (and more soon thanks to WebGL)? check.

- can connect digital camera and upload photos? check.

- can browse facebook, twitter, youtube, gmail, hotmail, etc? check

- can play flash games & netflix, hulu, & other crap? check.

This will satisfy the needs of all my immediate non-techy family members. And I won't get the monthly calls about malware anymore.
It looks like fun, but I can't sign in as I don't Twit or Face.
It's neither coincidence nor nefarious. It's the same agency model in both cases.
The acer chromebook has HDMI http://www.google.com/chromebook/chromebooks-acer.html#
Corporate clients wouldn't use skype just because google started using it. They sure as hell would if Microsoft started using it, though.
If the hack is successful, either you are right or they are idiots.
With comparable battery life, it has a huge upside over the iPad: Adobe Flash.
I don't see Facebook comments either. Are there any examples you have that should have comments?
assiotis, have you tried giving a bazillion data points to an SVM? One needs a sensible kernel as well.
I'm sure this works great, if you have:

a) A diligent secretary who stays on top of things for you, and

b) Tenure

Even (b) might not be enough if you're just a regular tenured professor rather than Donald Fricking Knuth.
> Don't call it Linux.

That happened a long time ago. Google is already activating 400,000 Linux computers every single day for people all around the world. They call it Android.
Ask HN: What kind of prize would get you to enter an online contest?
What type of expected value would you need to have to bother? For example, For 1 minute I would need to have an expected value of at least $1 (where EV = probability to win * prize value)

would you rather have a higher chance to win a smaller prize (like a technical book) or a smaller chance to win a bigger prize (like a macbook air)? Assume the same expected value

What are some examples of prizes that you would want to win?
Computational Culture
Eh, the fact that Apple has been "great for developers" is largely an accidental consequence of the fact that their platform has a lot of users who are willing to spend money. Apple attracted the users because Apple wanted the users, not because they wanted to help developers out. Without the userbase, iOS would be relatively unattractive (and I don't think Apple would feel like it could pull this kind of move).

A large portion of what Apple does that's specifically targeted at developers these days is negative. The NDA, rules so broken they were never consistently enforced, arbitrary rejections, retroactively rejecting apps when they decide to come out with a competitor, etc.

Also, I dispute the claim that this rule change was "entirely predictable." Can you show me somewhere that you or anybody else predicted this rule change before it came to light?
Still, doesn't make up for hushing up the fact that police arrested people at random under Section 60 for things such as wearing zombie paint, protesting against the royalty, filming the police, on the 29th.
I wrote a Chrome-only web app. It's a packaged app (installs on the user's computer). That means:

1) My hosting cost are $0.

2) I don't have to implement my own payment system.

3) Users already have a payment account with Google, bringing down friction to purchase considerably.

When a cross-browser solution for those 3 points comes around I'll be glad to support other browser users.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzNn3YKbvR4

This is as good an overview of the software as I need. Looks good.
Flash on ARM still isn't there yet, unfortunately; by using x86 chips, they can use a much better version of Flash that's available now.
Actually, I had a major problem with that as well, especially this sentence: "He concluded that one of Skype's key assets -- its peer-to-peer technology -- was a mismatch for Google, which worked on the newer paradigm of cloud computing."

I think the underlying problem is voice-recognition technology. I read somewhere (sorry, no link right now) that Google is using Google voice to hone in on their voice recognition technology, which we are now starting to see in Android. P2P kind of side-steps the Google servers (or, to phrase it more appropriately, avoids the MITM), thereby not providing any real use to them.

Remember, Google's business model is data. Control, collection, mining of lots and lots of data. P2P just doesn't facilitate that, so that's why Google chose to reject it.
Looks great, and it's a shame I can't sign up, since I'm in Canada. Is it just the need for a US bank account that's holding me back?
Reallllly slow in Chrome 11 on my mac. Maybe 5fps.
Nikki, I would argue that it's not a case of "maths in general can't do this" but just that you may be using the wrong maths. You can't "just apply SVD" and expect that to work super well.
Static types can encode a lot more information than that.

For example, suppose that you are compiling an AST. You start with an AST whose leaves are of type String (identifiers). You want to slot in something else, like pointers to a link table, or values, etc. Maybe some identifiers are builtins which will modify the AST, or user-defined macros, so the transformation will be non-trivial.

In a static language, this transformation would be typed as `AST Identifier -> AST Value`, or the like. This guarantees that you haven't missed any identifiers.

The guarantees provided by static typing tend to be somewhat orthogonal to the guarantees provided by testing. Testing ensures that, in some particular cases, the function works exactly as it should. Types ensure that, in every case, the function satisfies some properties that it should. The ideal would be every case and every property, but this is only possible with complete proofs.

In my experience, types catch more bugs with less effort than tests.
I've been using (and loving) vim-update-bundles for about 5 months now. I'm not sure how the two compare in terms of features, but the core functionality is the same.

https://github.com/bronson/vim-update-bundles
Are you guys PCI compliant?
You are one of the first users, why not comment on a video yourself?

http://tvdinnr.com/#/v/HAxfh8ukosQ
It is not supposed to be chrome-only, the web store is just a convenient way to manage your web app. Web apps are not like regular web sites and need a better way to be managed. I love the apps icons on my new-tab page in Chrome. That+pinned tabs+chrome webstore make for a great way to manage web apps. Maybe IE will get there one day.
Are Publisher Replicating the Original Sin on Digital Platform?
but, i do care, and i don't find them to be sexy. i don't have one, and don't plan on buying one. i'm not particularly more interested in a chromebook, but its in the same ballpark as the ipad for me.
There are much better devices for consuming content.
Unknown Viral Startup Gets $100 Billion?
Mobile Phones Are to Blame For Killing Off the World's Bees, Scientists Claim
I assume this is not the same as "DeviceDoctor.com"

You might want to be careful about the branding.
This looks pretty interesting. I was using membrr with opengateway for an expressionengine membership site (which requires a merchant account).

Pintpay looks like a great way to test the waters without needing a merchant account.

Best of luck to you guys!
PhpMyAdmin 3.4.0 is released
They can, if you choose to implement it that way:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/apps.html
adw, no-one wants iron ingots either but that constitutes a finished product.
Our lawyers are looking into the international payments, but the honest answer is that it adds a ton of complication so we're only accepting US merchants at this time. Sorry, but if you email us at feedback@pintpay.com we'll keep you posted about when we intend to support Canadian merchants.
And Apple does? Apple hosts and distributes your apps, yes, but you still need to have additional content/features (global high scores, etc) hosted somewhere else. How is this different from Chrome App Store? If you build a true packaged app, Google's App Store will host it, won't they?
Today I learned Hacker News is filled with libertarian ideologues.

It's amazing that people who pride themselves in critical thinking and problem solving (hackers), can actually be so naive as to believe this nihilistic Ann Rand crap.

HN is starting to look more like Reddit every day.
Not sure about the percentage, but I agree, a good portion of it feels like a waste of time, which is similar to how I felt about time spent at school and college.
Good question. From the FAQ:

Do I need to worry about PCI Compliance?

Nope! By using PintPay, you never store credit card information on your servers. In fact, that information isn't stored on our servers either.

(Edited.)
Since we have no family living in the area, I'm hoping that some responsible, hired help can fill that void.
>Really? Hardcore gamers are the last people who would use this, and the first people to recognize that.

I don't know if you really understand how many people play WoW. Most of the avid WoW players I've known have not been "hardcore gamers" and they've played WoW on really crappy computers, with Intel GMA graphics and everything. There are many normal people that wouldn't drop the cash on a video card that play WoW.

Also, you didn't address things like downloading pictures from a camera, syncing with an MP3 player (not necessarily iTunes/iPod), or any of the other local, non-browser stuff that a normal person does all the time.
Complete specification is impossible with tests, except for functions with finite domains.

Testing is about reducing bugs to a certain level. Entirely different techniques - namely formal proofs - are required to eliminate bugs. Strong static typing is more effective than tests, in terms of cost/benefit, at reducing bugs.
If my project was farther along than a gleam in my eye at the moment, I'd consider trying this.

But while I was considering it, one thing I'd wonder about is how serious and long-lived the service will be. There's nothing to indicate that you aren't serious, but I do wonder about this when I see a new service for something important; will the service go away after I (and my customers) have relied on it?

Do others have this general concern? Do you hesitate, or just go for it?

For site owners, do you think about this? How do you convey seriousness on your site?
Came here to post this. I'm really sad to see this kind of practice going on in Google now. Moreover, the fact that they cooperated with an article about it is slightly disturbing. How are all the other people involved with the deal going to feel when they find out they've been had?
Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Hustling
Heh, the life of the systems person.

Employee, "How do I know I'm doing a good job?"
Manager, "Nobody is complaining."

If people can't be bothered to understand how the folks in operations are making their lives easier, then they probably should not be judging their contribution. Everyone has an opinion of course.

If you work in an operations group (and especially if you are working for me :-) you should have two things on your plate at all times:

1) A situational awareness of how things you are responsible for are going.

2) Project(s) for providing either data or analysis on how things are going.

It helps if you understand a risk model about things and can prioritize your attention using that model. (if system x breaks the product for the company stops earning revenue == high priorty, system z breaks and nobody will notice for a day or two == low priority)
It's called getting an SSD...
So it's a less redundant, less mature, less documented, more expensive, 5 year late, and invite-only version of S3 that doesn't have one-click CDN enabling?

And it's built by a company perpetually embroiled in privacy and data retention scandals?

Sign me the fuck up.
It's clearly a 'v', the marker was just a bit dry. Go do something productive.
flagged for source (Daily Mail, trashy tabloid, tenuous relationship with the truth).
Install Ubuntu and you won't have to clean up crapware. LibreOffice definitely has better MS Office compatibility than Google Docs.
If they trust you, and you deceive them, then maybe neither?
Not to mention, she brings him printouts of the urgent e-mails. So how exactly, is he not using e-mail? Just because he doesn't use an e-mail client doesn't mean he's not using email.
I have to say I don't understand what you mean by "the time value of money".

For the record the 4 year is based on using that brand for some time. They actually can go about 4.5 years but after 4 years we consider them a loss. I can't imagine Chromebooks are going to be replaced more often than every few years.

On the Asus even if a few break (and it happens) the cost is spread over all the rest making it negligible (less than $.75 a month in my experience)
Guys, net 60 payment on other people's money is absolutely absurd, beta or not. It's obvious you're attempting to bootstrap by using the cashflow of your clients payment processing to grow, but that's not ok in this niche. Raise capital or self fund and do Net 7 max.
Then what is the point of the frontend app?
with https://picasaweb.google.com/home

as demo'd here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzNn3YKbvR4&feature=playe...
Thanks chopsueyar!
Will Google's Electric Car Scheme Kill the Road Trip?
exactly. There is nothing official about this article at all
MVC - How is it evolving?
Do you mind linking to it here? Those three points sound pretty enticing.
Real time monitoring PHP applications with websockets and node.js
Ok, but imagine for a moment that you use the wrong-facing slash like so:

...suppose I write a letter from me /[sic/] [sic] to you.

What now, huh?

...suppose I write a letter from me /[sic]\[sic\]/[sic] \[sic\] to you
"The worst algorithm in the world?"
Looks very nice, I like being able to design your hosted payment page. Does the "thank you page" redirect pass along enough information to be able to associate the subscription with a user account? Also, do you plan to do some kind of URL postback for when a subscription's status changes?

I was a little bummed to see that your ToS doesn't allow adult, but I also have a dating site client who will be needing subscription billing soon. :)

Edit: Ah, yeah the net 60 is kind of rough.
> How do you get J. Random User to use Linux?

Why do you want them to use Linux? Is it about the linux kernel? Is it about the GNU userland tools? Is it about Gnome/KDE, the configurability?

Android is 'Linux', but it's missing most of the Linux bits that I want. (ChromeOS is also missing most of the bits I want too.)
Humorously enough, this kind of dynamic is why Skype at Microsoft is probably doomed.
Do The Work Wednesdays: Resistance and Addiction
I found a Chrome logo on level 16.
How about this. Read reviews of the cr48 and then read them for the iPad. If you don't sense a difference in how they're perceived at a base level then just consider me a bozo.
I would accept any payment system which works for my country
Here's a link to the study: http://www.springerlink.com/content/bx23551862212177/fulltex...
Hi, the net 60 is just during the beta period and really there to combat fraud. I assure you it is not to help "bootstrap." We intend to lower it later to 30 days.

Edit: if you email us at feedback@pintpay.com we would consider lowering that number from 60 for approved/verified merchants.
Cool. I got all excited when I saw this, because I'm starting a new project and need recurring payments right now, so this would have been absolutely perfect.

Since you guys are very experienced in this area, is there a competitor that you could recommend in the meantime? Maybe one that's not as bad as the rest, and that would perhaps slightly reduce the big effort of switching payment providers in the future.
Sonatype Donates Maven Java Repository to Eclipse Hudson Project
Seven reasons why I'm not buying a Chromebook.
Firewall Builder v4.2.1 released
unfortunately his rapier wit also demonstrates an internal bias. if he feels the need to put down people with nontraditional sex lives maybe he shouldn't be judging a case involving such things.
c) Your purpose is to think about fundamental concepts independent of anyone else

c.1) You have made an insane amount of money, fame, and influence doing so already
It fails miserably when I want to do any development though.

Can you expand on this? I've read that they're 'great' for portable web development, for some value of 'great'.
Richard Stallman wins again -- the question usually refers to GNU/Linux not Linux. Chrome/Linux and Android/Linux already have hundreds of millions of users. GNU/Linux is still in the millions and it's still an unanswered question of how to increase its growth rate.
It probably wouldn't have worked out that way if Google didnt clone S3's API.
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I submitted my blog post here as I'm curious what people on HN think about the effect of Backbone.js, et al. on how the traditional way of building web applications using MVC is changing.
Can this put music on an MP3 player? Just how is the real filesystem abstracted away in Chrome OS? If you buy music from Amazon MP3, can you run their downloader? (If you buy music from iTunes, I am pretty sure you are SOL already. ;) )

There's a lot of uses that still require a real, local desktop, and I think once you give this to all of your non-techy family members you'll start to run into them.

I don't understand why those complaining about maintaining Windows don't just put on Ubuntu. LibreOffice is certainly more familiar to Office users and more compatible with existing Office documents than Google Docs.

If you haven't considered Ubuntu yet, why do you consider Chrome OS? It's not very hard to teach even the least technically literate person that they just need to click the big multi-colored circle to get to the internet, so it seems weird that abstracting that one step away makes everyone go wild about giving their mom a Chromebook.
At a glance -- and it was a glance 'cause I barely go on YouTube and I refuse to get on FB -- I love it as a conceptual data structure. Firstly, tying two APIs together with a smart client is a freaking great idea, although if this were a for-profit project, you should probably worry about either one locking you out, and how long it would take to notice oddities and rewrite if one or the other changes its API overnight.

In a broader way though, I'm really interested in the idea of using client-side processing for infinite scalability. Even/especially in secure apps, where no hacker's gone before. There's no reason a secure P2P protocol can't be developed in JS that lets an application layer ride between peers, having minimal interaction with any central servers. This gets into telephone poker problems and all that. But it's solvable. The first person to solve it will end up with the largest server farm on the planet... seems worth it to me...
The title is hyperbole (I'm sure that I've written much, much worse algorithms, many times), but the breakdown of Fibonacci sequence algorithms is really enjoyable.
It doesn't work like that, at least not for me. My perceived chances of winning first prize of a £1000 laptop is always going to be less than 1 in 10,000.

I assume the competition promoter is making a profit out of it somehow.
> If 1,000 people die, is the company held liable by the government?

Intentional or negligent killing is prosecutable. I doubt, though, that not requiring bonding for a money-transfer startup will cause the deaths of 1000 people. As to businesses generally, tort lawyers as a class make a pretty good living holding businesses accountable. The Ford/Firestone controversy comes to mind. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controv...) In that controversy plaintiffs suing Firestone and Ford alleged that people died because tire failure caused rollover accidents in Ford Explorer SUVs. As a result, both Ford (maker of the vehicle with the defective tires) and Firestone (maker of the tires) had to pay a lot money and their stock price suffered. Also, one of Firestone's tire manufacturing plants was closed and Ford and Firestone no longer do business together. So there are consequences when private companies screw up.

On the other hand, when government screws up and thousands of lives are lost, like when it holds up the sale of a new drug, fails to defend the airspace against terrorist attacks, or goes to war on bad intelligence, there don't seem to be consequences.
What Boston Devs are working on: Using node.js for the Wii
Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping
New App Engine pricing model is totally broken for python
I wonder what office could officiate the official announcement that cell phones are killing bees. I would assume this would be some kind of department of natural resources or environmental protection agency, yes? This office would not likely be the trashy British tabloid the Daily Mail, right?
Awesome. Doesn't have a way to generate revenue, but hey that doesn't matter to Silicon Valley!

I bet you could go sell it for $10k
Yes. I meant get them to use it on a desktop computer. A computer that goes in your pocket is not, to my generation, "a computer", it's "a mobile device". If it's not a fullsize or laptop x86 machine (or sparc or whatever, not ARM) it's not "a computer".
I personally find the Angry Birds-Facebook-Netflix picture of the future of computing extremely depressing. Where's Google's suite of content creation apps that "non-techy" people can explore to express their creativity?