skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of issues other than just wages in a lot of this manufacturing. I think environmental and other compliance costs are a major factor for a lot of manufacturing, and for many forms of electronics, being near your suppliers is a big deal -- and now china has reached a critical mass of subcontractors and suppliers, such that it's easier to build in china.

I actually have some hardware projects I want to build over the next decade, and I'd prefer to produce them in the US or UK if at all possible (they're security devices). Should be interesting seeing exactly what can be done. I believe if you can solve the subcontractor/parts problem, modern automation should make US production competitive, as long as your production process isn't terribly polluting or regulated (which I wouldn't want to be responsible for even if it happened in China). Some place like eastern WA or TN or something might be a great place to manufacture high value products again.
Runtime Dynamism + Performance: Have Your Cake And Eat It Too
In reasonable key representations, k would be constant and hence ignored in algorithmic analysis. In 32 bit integers, for example, 0 takes just as many bits as 2^32 - 1 and you have to compare them all each time.
While I do agree that you many not be able to handle a 2400% increase in under 43 seconds I don't think this is a realistic expectation.

I don't think that all products will have to deal with the 2400% or even a 100% increase in traffic. It really comes down to what the product is. Most products don't even reach such gains. So while there is a 0 chance they can take the increase, there is a low chance (probably under 10, maybe even under 1%) that the traffic will ever increase.

Basically: optimize later.
Feasible to build a Dropbox alternative on top of this?
First, 'hash table' isn't a sorting algorithm. If you apply 'hash table' to an array the result is not a sorted array.

Second, assuming that numberOfYearsOld takes on at most 100 unique values (which I think is reasonable), the best you can hope for is for every hash table insertion and lookup to require you to traverse an average of 5000 students (because on average you will have to look through half of a list of 10,000 students). If you used this as an intermediate step in a real sorting algorithm, your sort would take O(n^2) time.
Company raises major funds from Gates, Brin for ability to read brainwave data
Dating advice, fashion advice and matchmaking for hackers
Sony says 25 million more users at risk in second data hack
I would have to assume that bin Laden was always armed given the price on his head.
That's actually a very interesting and scary point. What we have to do now, and is the original point of the article, is to make sure that no one is able to say that we somehow don't have the rights to our own genetic material.
Need some help with Ms Project 2010
in my organization i've been put in charge to manage a group of around 45 people and give them some structure. currently projects come and go without any proper way of resource management.

i'm trying to use Ms Project to handle the situation.

these 45 people are spread into 5 different groups (QA, coding, designer, helpdesk, operations).

at any on point any of them could be working on multiple projects.

is the best way to handle this to create one project and treat all the projects these people are working on as "tasks" under the umberella project?

i would greatly appreciate some input.

thanks
Wow those colours in the first one are amazing!
Feels like they're providing canary builds in a backwards order. First Windows, now Mac, and hopefully Linux soon. Seems like Linux users would be the most tolerant of failures and most likely to report issues accurately. Maybe Chrome has some awesome auto-error-reporting that I'm not aware of and they're just targeting market share?
What you are calling "recruiting" I was assigning to HR.

If engineering wants an ad run, then HR can help as long as they don't touch the real content of the ad. When resumes come in, they can hold them up to the light, read them upside down, wave them with a magic wand, but under no circumstances should they make any significant decisions on the content. HR couldn't tell the next Turing award winner from a grade school video game player.

Who does college scouting for the NBA? College cheerleaders? Not exactly.

E.g., there's Gleason. That's A. Gleason. Since he never got a Ph.D., he shouldn't be a college prof, right? I mean, ask any college cheerleader! Instead, early in his career, maybe before he finished his Ph.D., he knocked off one of Hilbert's problems and was made a Fellow at Harvard and remained at Harvard for the rest of his career.

Just cannot hope to find Michelangelo to paint the ceiling if have house painters doing the first cuts on the applications.
Man, it's good to see Perl's barrier to deployment slowly coming away. Feels like CPAN has been both a blessing and a curse to Perl in this regard - it's obviously a feature that gives the language the ability to punch significantly above weight, but has also traditionally made simple deployment of Perl apps a PITA. cpanm and PSGI are big parts of the puzzle.
Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases
cough Phone Gap cough AppCellerator cough
What's the complexity you're referring to? I don't see it.

Having lots of choice for window managers is decades old and completely normal. It's modular and it continues to get easier. I don't see any burden but perhaps I misunderstand.
I am using SL Cloud currently and I can back up the reports of slow io and clumsy control panel. Uptime, however, has been great.

We're going to try moving to their "Bare Metal" cloud db offering To take advantage of local storage (10x faster writes in my tests)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_acoustic_oscillations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_rad...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Galaxy_clusters_and...
Why Clients Love and Hate Us (and Other Consultants)
I would say that their metrics are more likely to show the majority of dev-channel users are on Windows, purely because of volume.

Might be a smaller fraction than Linux users, but the actual figure would be larger.
Or you could just enable TRIM [1] on your 3rd Party SSD under Snow Leopard [2].

[1] http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322

[2] http://imgur.com/gKtL6
Actually, for intelligence (vs. law enforcement), you'd just take tapes (well, SANs, probably) of raw data, with a custom search interface.

It would be unacceptable to an intelligence agency to have to ask for individual records in many cases; the list of names they're looking for would leak a lot of information. They want raw data so they can run their own queries in-house.

Same thing applies to any other provider. Western Union used to deliver actual tapes to the CIA daily. It's either done by the company officially, or by an employee at the company, usually an ex-military/government person working in the security department or otherwise placed to have access.

Sometimes intelligence agencies set up "captive service providers" who bid exceptionally low to win access to juicy data streams (Israel and phone billing...).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_an...
I wonder if you could flesh out your thoughts on Gnip and other licensed API syndicators such as datasift/mediasift.
Start with this one : http://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Greatest-Phi...

Will give a picture of different philosophers of their time and then you can pick up whatever philosophy you like to read further.
I am interested to get on here and take a poke around, and possibly increase the developer presence. Any fellow HN people care to vet my invite?

http://forrst.com/i/5u2
>thousands of times the available energy of the known universe.

the pieces of Universe that is more than 13B light years from us are moving with speed faster than light relative to us. The machinery behind it is space expansion. And by definition that is using energy less or equal to the universe's energy. So that is the start. The Alcubierre drive is the idea of how to use the same principle on much smaller scale. It is very doubtful that it would require more energy than moving the whole galaxies [which, let me repeat, are moving faster than light relative to us and to each other]
You may find the Dialogues of Plato rather entertaining - http://www.classicallibrary.org/plato/dialogues/

The funny thing is, they were written more than 2000 years ago, and no one has been able to add anything substantial to the subject since then :-)
Sony has repeatedly stated that its PSN servers and SOE servers are not part of the same network, so it remains unclear just how these two attacks are tied together

then Sony says:

"While the two systems are distinct and operated separately, given that they are both under the SONY umbrella, there is some degree of architecture that overlaps."

This my friends is back-peddling 101. Also known as "Sony can't give a straight answer on whether their PSN and SOE networks are connected or not"
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born
I meant a top level comment :)
Maybe hushmail.com ...
anarchy, state, and utopia:
http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/...

or, if you find yourself particularly liberal, a theory of justice:
http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-Original-John-Rawls/dp/...

thank you for the moment of nostalgia -- CC was a formative class in my college experience: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/cc.php
Fedex and UPS would likely reach similar levels of efficiency if they picked up from and delivered to the same locations every day. The dabba wallahs would likely have a lot more errors if you wanted lunch on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday on the last week of the month and lunch on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday on the other weeks. Or, for that matter, only on demand when you call that morning to arrange a pickup.

Also some of the comments in the article mention that one of the keys to their success is getting rid of bad customers. Is the customer always several minutes late in having the meal ready to transport when they go to pick it up? If so, they're holding up the line... require that it be prepared on-time or stop transporting their meals.
I thought that was just an extremely subtle comment on the source you recommended.
Ask HN: What are the hottest topics in the mobile space currently?
Now, the good answer, and essentially what the grandmother gave, is essentially just old radix sort like punch cards were sorted.

Radix sort? Take a deck of punch cards with a non-negative integer in base 10 right justified in some three columns. Run the cards through the sorter sorting on the least significant digit. The sorter puts each of the cards into the right one of 10 pockets, one for each of 0-9. Or just imagine that it builds 10 'linked lists'. Then move the cards back to the input, 0 pocket first, then the 1 pocket, etc. Then sort on the 10s digit column. Then repeat on the 100s digit column. Done. Just did the work in time proportional to 3*n for n cards.

If have a sorter with 1000 pockets, then can do the sorting in one pass. For the ages, such a sorter would sort all the input in just one pass.

Also cute, radix sort is 'stable' which means if card A starts before card B and if these two cards have the same value on the sort key then at the end card A will still be ahead of card B. Stable sorts are nice because they can permit sorting on several keys separately and, then, have the whole list of records in sort on the 'hierarchical key' made from 'concatenating' the separate keys.

Again, can do it all playing with pointers and linked lists.

It remains, for short keys, radix sort is faster than the (n)ln(n) sorts.
These things are fascinating to me. They're like mind-viruses...hacking our belief systems so effectively that they spread with amazing speed and ease, and persist with incredible resilience.
Gilles Deleuze: Something short, Postscript on the Societies of Control https://pdflibrary.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/deleuzecontro...

Or you can listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIus7lm_ZK0

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gilles_Deleuz...
But Shahrukh Khan carries his plastic tiffin packed by Anushka Sharma to work in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and his coworkers are in awe!
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Re...). A tour de force rebuttal of the watchmaker and other creationist arguments. He did not allow it to be published during his lifetime for fear of the response it would provoke. A classic Philosophy 101 text too.
I'm no networking expert, but don't they also note the mac addresses and generally use DHCP for open wifi? If so, they could totally identify folks with that info...
I think a passion for your field or industry could show up in private life.However, some jobs are jobs because nobody wants to do them... even though they provide value.

My dad works in the aerospace industry. Specifically outer space. His company builds rockets. And you know what? He LOVES outer space. He watches the ISS when it's visible over head, records the shuttle launches, and he browses the NASA app on his iPad, FOR FUN. You know what else? He's VERY good at his job.

But then, some professions aren't necessarily fun. CPAs exist to remove a problem. It might not be the most glorious job, but it's a tough job that not everybody can do, so they are compensated well. I doubt they crunch numbers for fun. But you know what I'll bet they will do for fun, check up on the latest financial news.
Bitcoin in a Post-scarcity World
I honestly don't understand how this is a scandal at all. Sure, it's a mild annoyance to receive 27 reply-all messages. Newsworthy? Not in the least.
I understand the argument, but this isn't about logic. Context matters. Sexism directed by men against women (well, "heteronormative" to use the jargon) is "worse" than the reverse because it exacerbates an existing situation.

It's easy for a typical man in our society to shrug off a comment equating his looks with his worth. It's much harder for a woman. "Should" it be? Of course not, but that's sort of the point: let's try laying off things for a while before demanding logical equality, OK?
Firefox nightly updates pretty much never hurt your data and very rarely are broken significantly enough that you can't use them for your daily work. I haven't had to revert more than two or three times in the last 5 years because of nightly bustage.

If you're really that concerned, just create a second profile and shortcut to Firefox with the -P "profilename" option and you're all set.
The books that made me decide to be a philosophy major:

Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Ishmael

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethinc for Beginners

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
I own a Xoom, and while I agree it is nowhere near the iPad experience, the device is not THAT bad, your comment is way too harsh. There are 64 tablet specific apps. And you are lying about seeing individual pixels, it has a higher pixel density than the iPad, on par with an iPhone 3G.
I may or may not have snuck into platinum hockey seats. When standing room only tickets are over $100, I couldn't imagine forking over the cash for platinum seats.

Side note: How about integrating selling your Premium seat half way through or maybe trading?
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus) and Philosophical Investigations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations). The former was a keystone of the Logical Positivist movement (and accepted by Bertrand Russel as LW's PhD thesis). The latter is its comprehensive dismantling (in note form only). Russell thought Wittgenstein had gone mad. We know otherwise :)
Are you using wkhtmltopdf for the generation?
Let's say you check your blood pressure at a machine available in a grocery store. Should the store be held responsible based on your interpretation of the results? Or if you use a blood glucose test? Or a thermometer? Or any other device used for home medical treatment?

These companies aren't dispensing medical advice. They are simply providing a service that decodes your personal genetic sequence and allows you access to that information. Why should I need to jump through hoops to have access to the ONE thing in the world that is provably and irrevocably mine?

Also, no matter how hard you try, you can't regulate intelligence. In 1000 years, stupid people will still be doing stupid shit.
Great--they should fix Linux Chrome's full-screen address-bar issue now.
‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
--Martin Luther King, Jr
The Slow Death of Cable Television
They've got way better than GoPros. You just wont see the video until election time, when it's 'leaked'.
My impression is that Honeycomb's problems stem from the fact that there was a hard deadline: they wanted to get the Xoom out before the iPad 2. If that's not how Google normally operates, that would explain a lot.

This.

Also, I've heard that Google developers didn't know the deadline until after the Andy Rubin demo (which was a few month before launch)
sonic.net is amazing, especially if you get the two line bonded Fusion service. We've got it at Sunfire, and get 25/4 for $130/mo business; I got it at a friend's house too, for $70/mo. Instant response from customer service, actual clue on their part, great network peering and transit, etc. I like having Comcast Business Internet as diversity/backup/etc., but if I only had one, it'd be the Sonic.
I read a lot of God's essays.

God says...
summit females enquiry liberality teachers once field
trees brows hale five reproved Ambition waver what's LIABILITY
sinner tumultuously Dakota Ordainer decrepit falls distracting
equably rejoices aright husbands owe assurance poison
mighty throngs watch bemoaning Idaho withering mule slow
able Passing both looking Difficulty Creusa's framed thereof
expectation phantoms recorded regeneratedst hearers forgotten
patience hushed power borrow desireth presumed notorious
unintelligible Only objections fixing enacted keeps inward
day painful vanished Instantly sacrificed sayings forgot
Up vessel eminent based claim mingled increase singular
trust directly deceiving exultation healthfully own walked
engaged powers purely rehearse capable sawest intense
turn checking safer fairness nets bubblings vindicating
Each Wondrous obstinacy fostering filleth original position
loth Soft tip oratory decree quickness lighted curiously
affirming furtherance equals Men abiding commanded genius
after aside songs deserted pricks dreaded trailed vaunt
Law of crookedness tumbling sighed ceasing also Latins
delayed magical shapen contradicting tastes frightful
inclination immense deferred required meditated theatre
swerving
You'ce going to love the word "meme", then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Interesting, but extremely shallow work by the author. You checked some quote sites? That's the extent of the research done for this piece? Not taking into account the idea that they are maybe just misattributing it?
Yeah, I think he may be confusing "return policy" and "warranty". Just about all SSDs (at least from the major companies like OCZ, Corsair, Intel) will have a 3 year warranty from the manufacturer.
Penn invented the quote, sort of.

First: https://twitter.com/#!/pennjillette/status/65132242770464769

Followup: https://twitter.com/#!/pennjillette/status/65246380024807424
Ask HN: FeedBurner Alternatives, Other RSS Options, Pheedo?
So, what are people using for feed processing and monetization?

I'd long had a custom feed, no ads, but also partial. I was going to move to a full feed, and I had assumed I would move to FeedBurner which can also include Google ads for feeds.

In looking around, people seem down on FeedBurner these days. I know Pheedo also exists, but there's been little talk about it in recent years.

Anyone have any recent experience, recommendations?
I totally remember seeing these dudes when I visited India. Dabbawallah roughly translates to "box guy" (or in context, "lunchbox guy"). They also have these guys called subgiewallahs who are basically walking farmers markets...
Looks like most of it IS an MLK Jr. quote, just not the first sentence. See, for example, http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/r/returning-hate-for-hate-m...
Further, he attributes this site:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23924.Martin_Luther_K...

[Edit] Sorry, no.. He retweets the attribution, and admits the full quote is likely false.

[Edit] Further, here is the user who added this quote to the site.. Err, just 2 hours ago. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5286778-tatyana
And I bet it's simply another form of age discrimination.

People like to pretend that keeping up with the latest trends in computing takes a lot of time. But, mostly it's new people falling in love with old ideas. Consider, from a C background Ruby would seem extremely innovative, less so if you know C and python, and if you know C, python, and Lisp it's just not that novel.

PS: Sometimes people are not exceeded about bulb because they have never heard of it. Other times they know more about it than you do and are simply not impressed by yet another remix of really old ideas.
CLR, JVM... what's the third?
I had no idea there was so much work on the subject. Thanks!
Study: Children's Brain Size and Autism
Education Essay Should Focus on Specific Area
There are many ways in which to write an education essay. Students will be able to discuss the importance of a good education, the types of education or any other topic which pertains to education with careful consideration.
There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds!

You don't need to be on a cloud to support that. Dedicated is so much cheaper/more powerful than typical cloud machines that you can have a surplus of machines ready for your bidding and still pay less than the cloud +end up with way more processing power.

Also, you don't need to own/mange the hardware- Hosting companies will lease it to you + repair it when things go wrong
Outlook does that. Also messages when you email large mailing lists (exchange) or people outside your org.
Also, it looks like Amazon has some decent ones in the ~$25 range.
ISRO Builds India's Fastest Supercomputer
More to the point are there any short books that will get right down to the nitty gritty and spare me all of the examples, 'proofs' and old-fashioned language?
Dehydration absolutely can kill you during a race. Ask most (if not all) race medics and/or first-aid volunteers and they'll tell you dehydration is by far the bigger issue at marathons.

You took that quote out of context. If you're an elite marathoner trying to run sub-3:00 pace, then I stand by my comment to get as much water as your stomach can handle. Hydration is the limiting factor.