skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silly is very offensive and dismissive of how big flash gaming really is

I think you're much closer to it than I am, though I admit I did mean that comment somewhat dismissively.

IMO, Flash is dead. It never properly innovated into the mobile device market, and it frankly never even innovated properly into OS X. There are lots of flash games, but probably even more annoying-as-fuck-all flash ads.

I think there is a huge opportunity for someone to create a new iteration of the flash concept, but one that is properly multi-platform enabled, and gives users more control and abilities to prevent cookies and unwanted popups.

This remote desktop as a service just to get flash content thing seems like, to me, a prime example of "you're doing it wrong".

I agree that gaming is huge, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But Flash gaming is a concept/technology that is over.
It's difficult to keep track of all the various branches, is there a reason you haven't transferred the project to someone who can create a new proper release, update the website, etc?
Since the existence of intelligent life here is established and unquestioned, it is fair to say that it could exist elsewhere as well. In the case of a deity, the mere existence of even one out of the thousands of proposed throughout history has not been established.
No this design was developed back when I was in college, the revolutionary change here is that Intel has a process to actually manufacture these things effectively and get decent yield. IBM had these things built in test cases back in 2007 but didn't have a manufacturing method.

Intel will likely not patent or reveal the manufacturing method thats how most semiconductor manufacturing technologies go. They tend to be trade secrets that are a combination of process and machinery which your competitors are unlikely to ever reproduce exactly, so no point in patenting it.
I personally find the way 37signals promote themselves to be often distasteful, but I still pay for Backpack because it does what I need it to do, and almost nothing more.

Sure, some of the interface and features feel a bit dated, but no other similar service I've tried is as simple, elegant, and devoid of unnecessary, distracting, fiddly bullshit as Backpack. Honestly, is the fact that it's not a trend surfing web developer's wet dream preventing it from being a useful tool?
That's a first world problem of ruby devs I think. When you're used to it, you never forget to write return statements.
Who else do you think has great labs pages?

Obviously Google has a hugs Labs culture at http://www.googlelabs.com/

LinkedIn are doing a great job as well with http://www.linkedinlabs.com/
Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the technique, just a big technological head start. From the Anandtech article on this:"Intel isn't expecting its competitors to move to a similar technology until 14nm."
EHarmony like B to B matching - does it exist?
i'm looking to match B to B event sponsors with event delegates based on certain weighted criteria. Does something like this already exist?
This is a big win for graph DBs that need to scale up rather than out.
Why Mobile Users Aren’t Checking In.
How decompilers work
Intel is projecting to be at 10nm in 2015, way ahead of the industry lithography roadmaps published five or ten years ago.

Below 10nm, Intel and other fabricators will start looking beyond CMOS, perhaps to carbon based structures.
LOL. It is always fun to use their site. I like the whole monkey stuff. They do it in a way that is fun and still keep it professional. Very nice.
Ask HN: What should a Front-end engineer know?
Let's say a publisher wanted to make a book, and focus on the job of a front-end. What should that book talk about? What do you think the responsibilities of a frontend are?

Is the job clearly defined, or is it still something that people disagree on. Is a FE someone who only works on JS, HTML, and CSS, or do they do some kind of server side scripting as well?
I wear a Halo UNSC hoodie around and people always ask what it stands for, or what branch of the military I am a part of. I tell them it stands for the United Nations Space Command and it won't exist for another 150 years.
And it really bothers me that I have absolutely 0% chance of seeing the year 2160.
Someone Else is Already Working on Your Idea
Paintings and photographs are not the same.
No, that limit has been hit by the physical structure of Silicon itself. The perf has to do with more transistors per square area, thus you could fit more "cores" into a single chip or for example, it takes me 2mil transistors to make a 5 clock cycle multiplier but I could get a 1 clock cycle multiplier if I used 5mil transistors. I didn't use to have the physical real estate to do it, now I would, so I'd do the same operation in 1/5 the time.
If you think you can get a better conversion rate and get more profit from that, round up some money and take over :)
Does the Android SDK support everything you need to write the required application? Just write it!
How to create a Portfolio Website Design in Adobe Photoshop
My significant other was very happy with SmartGit on Windows before she switched to Mac. (Since SmartGit is a Java application, it should work on all platforms with the JRE and git.)
By far, anti-Haml people seem to be more likely to proselytize than pro-Haml people.
I've used ORMs before i worked at myspace. NHibernate specifically. I've also used sql alchemy on the python side. NHibernate was in a professional environment, sql alchemy was a bunch of stuff I did for evaluation purposes, so you can discount that if you like.

And i'm not working at a data warehouse.. why do you think that?
Sony: 'Very Professional, Sophisticated' Attackers Responsible for PSN Hack
After getting into the site, and seeing that's basically App Sumo for Art, I'm a bit torn.

The name seems really off considering there is already a company with a very similar name in the daily deals space. Also, I feel like by using such a similar name you set my expectations for design and functionality much higher (and they were let down).

Seeing as you are running a daily deals site, why do you need the invites system? I would think that you would want to reap the HN traffic and launch traffic instead of coercing people to invite their friends.
+1 .mobi for kindle

avdi: let me know if you'd like any help packing a .mobi, I'm working on a quick-tutorial post.
'Autism Epidemic' Challenged by UK Study
All scientific results should be reported this bluntly.
Ryan Dahl – Data Throttling in Node.js
If you can't come up with a good offer from the numbers they gave you, you're probably not their target market.
Try using Facebook Comments as a large publisher. There's quite a few powerful tools that we (Disqus) provide that Facebook hasn't yet.

Granted, they might in the future, but commenting is our sole product right now, and you can bet we'll do the best we can do make it awesome :)
Google has lots and lots of storage. The TL;DR version: Contacts are more about bandwidth and processing power. Follow my reasoning for a minute if that seems like a leap.

One of Google's features is that it attempts to build a social graph based on your contacts from its various services. Have a look at the Dashboard ( http://google.com/dashboard ), which tells you what Google is willing to tell you about what it knows. You may notice a lot of data that you didn't give Google. Scroll down to the "Social Circle and Content" section. This is the interesting bit: http://www.google.com/s2/search/social . These are the people you email using GMail, the people you speak to on Google Chat, people you interact with on Reader, Latitude, Picasa, etc. No big deal so far, until you get to the "connected accounts" section.

Google will let you connect your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc., accounts to your Google Account. If you don't connect these accounts, though, it will use what it knows about your social graph to try to find your account. I discovered this when I logged into my GMail account and made a stop at the Dashboard, to find that it had guessed my Twitter account, and this despite the fact that I had used a different email address and a name totally unrelated to the one I used for GMail. It did this, apparently, by comparing my social graph to the people I followed on Twitter. Per Google's help page about this ( http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... ), Google finds this out using "[s]imilarities between your connections. For example, Bob's Google Contacts have names that are very similar to the names of people he follows publicly on Twitter." (You'll need to click "Learn how Google matches an account to you" to get that text to appear on the page.)

Google also does this if you have multiple Google accounts, apparently. Via http://gawker.com/#!5637234 , "with a friend's consent, he pulled up the person's email account, contact list, chat transcripts, Google Voice call logs—even a list of other Gmail addresses that the friend had registered but didn't think were linked to their main account".

So, Google's paying Twitter and Facebook (among others) to scrape accounts, which was big news for both of the social networking sites, especially Twitter, which lacked much solid revenue at the time. Google keeps a social graph for all of these other sites' users, and compares them to the social graphs of its own users and, if the above quote from Gawker is true, also against its own users to see which Google accounts belong to the same person. Facebook alone has 600 million users, quite a few accounts to try to match against each of Google's users, and there are a number of services that Google scrapes. The number of contacts you have (which are shared between GMail and Chat, as well as the partial overlap with contacts in Buzz, Reader, Youtube, and others), 500, 25k, or whatever arbitrary number, take up a negligible amount of storage compared to the amount of processing power and bandwidth required to scrape, build, and compare hundreds of millions (if not billions) of social graphs for accounts across dozens of services.
Short answer yes.

Thats how transistors work in general, but the problem is you get small enough and its like the transistors want to turn them-selfs on, luckily the smaller you go the more leakage you get into other areas of the chip so those extra electrons just get seeped into there and ground out which mostly causes you to pull more power per square area.

You real issue is if those "jumping" electrons get wedged into corners near gates, then they can leave a transistor on permanently. But that's all part of the chip design process to avoid that kind of thing.
I think they're selling because they're not trying to do everything that makes money, but to concentrate on the things that are the most profitable. For example, you could make money washing dishes, but for most people, there's more profitable work that they could do, so they don't work as a dish washer.

To prospective buyers- would you rather be a dishwasher or try for something that's even more profitable?
Nuclear fortress? They're talking about using these floating reactors for civilian use. That's very different than putting one in a military naval ship.
The site is daily deals for art. Screenshot: https://img.skitch.com/20110504-qapc7hwhpyaf2gapbg67bd375e.j...
I tell all my friends on Facebook how to install ad-blocking, which considerably improves the user experience there.

Update, after I posted the submitted link on my Facebook profile: A friend just replied to my profile post of the link by commenting, "I recently went without ad block plus and I was really irritated by the ads I saw over and over again. Ad nauseum."
I love git myself, but sometimes reality gets in the way.
Here are some things I do:

1) One task at a time. Hint: Use a todo list to break things up into individual tasks.

2) Don't be a perfectionist. Hint: Just get it working - make it fast/scalable/sexy/whatever later.

3) Separate work and play. Hint: VMWare and GNU Screen are awesome for keeping your work in the state you last left it, and sandboxing it from play.

4) No distractions. Hint: If it doesn't write code, read code, or play music, it gets closed. My phone gets put on silent and hidden.

5) Get plenty of sleep.

6) No caffeine for the 8 hours before I go to bed.

7) No computer for the 2 hours before I go to bed.

8) Exercise every morning.

9) A post-it note in the middle of my desk that says "DO IT NOW."
Congrats guys. Terrific stats and incredible growth.
As a consumer he might not have any good reason to do so, but look at it from Intel's perspective: They're potentially not getting the best return on their R&D investment by encouraging customers to regularly skip generations.
Agreed. It's all magic to me but it seems like, if this breakthrough can keep Moore's Law chugging, it's worth a pretty penny. I'm surprised their stock isn't up more today.
Nanovaults used to prod immune system to fight cancer
Corporate Designer vs. Startup Designer
i think i like dailypaint better. artsumo reminds me of appsumo
I wouldn't have said Pi was a physical constant - it's not like we actually measure circles to derive it empirically.
And indeed Steve Jobs is pretty quiet, and often criticized for it.

He also never talks about himself but only about the results of his company, and even then only a couple of times a year. Given that he's the CEO of one of the most successful companies in history, it's hard to imagine him being any more quiet and still doing his job.
Thanks Xiamai. I did what you suggested and saved $40 per month at Comcast!
I think the parent is right: Businesses don't just want to get people through the door, why attract people who will never buy anything at all, ever, and moreover will drop their food wrappers, mess up the produce abuse your staff, etc.. I think there are similarly toxic customers for online businesses (though I'd guess they tend to waste less resources) - e.g. those who will use things and return them for a refund even when they're not faulty.

Slightly aside, aren't the ads targeted to Pakistan cheaper because the ad costs as a proportion of revenue per item are likely to be far higher if the ads are simply charged as if for a company operating in a "richer" nation? Isn't ad competition higher in richer nations?

To make it clearer - using the Big Mac index - Denmark comes in at $5 and Malaysia at $1.50. I'd expect advertising costs to people in Malaysia to be at least a third of those to people in Denmark (barring other over-bearing factors).
This is the piss poor attitude that makes HN a better place. Not that the other comment was the most clever thing I ever read, but please.
Summary: the CA system is so broken that Google decided to hardcode a small list of CAs for google.com etc. "High value sites" can request the same treatment.
I've heard that Verizon is a good choice for this. I'm going to be looking into this soon.
Oh, I think I get what your confusion is now. The signal doesn't have to travel up and over now any more than it did when everything was flat. The signal will travel up a few gate widths to the low resistance metal interconnect layers, travel a few tens or hundreds of gate widths sideways to get to the next transistor, then goes down again to make the connection. Going to 3D doesn't change this except to make the up and down slightly longer and sideways much shorter.
The term 'destructor' alone feeds in to the C++ conflation. In C#, this syntax is more specifically sugar for a 'finalizer' if I'm not mistaken.
EVONY, not Eve.
Thanks for posting this...so moving.

The strangers around us, even those we brush against on the web, are all fighting hard battles at some level. Compassion in the midst of our sometimes misguided inclination toward competition can keep us human, and sane.
Pretty sure any time a guy with an Arabic name posts on a forum asking how to avoid being detected by "US intelligence" he just about ruined his chances :-)
I'd guess that they're not just going to jettison it to the highest bidder. I imagine there will be some kind of arrangement between them and the eventual buyer that 37signals will help promote it in some way. (Obviously this is purely speculation on my part, but it would make sense.)
No, that's a good idea though. What transpired was SVN use became deprecated, and the entire group had to learn TFS (TEE-CLC).
Thanks, that makes sense. I did find this patent from Intel about manufacturing the 3D transistor: http://www.google.com/patents?id=1D2gAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
Even stock apps on Android are fragmented (UI)
Definitely that's the reason the ads are cheaper in less developed and less wealthy countries. It's simple supply & demand: obviously there are more people targeting ads towards users in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.

We touched on a lot of this in the article, and in fact the title clause "(and why you might not want to)" was referring specifically to that point!

That being said, there is a tremendous amount of useful techniques you can learn from this approach, and you can choose apply those towards whatever demographics you are marketing to.

It's up to each person to decide the specific goals of their ad campaigns, but I'm hoping this article outlines some techniques that will help you achieve those goals.
This is what I do, working in a company with an open plan layout:

* Disable all notification software (growl, etc.).

* If possible, find a quiet place where you won't get disturbed. Otherwise, wear noise canceling headphones or something else that blocks out noise. If listening to music, pick something ambient that won't distract your attention (some ideas: http://xerxes-music.com, http://ghosts.nin.com).

* Have a place to dump thoughts that occur out of context so you can focus on the task at hand. This can simply be a notepad.

* Take regular breaks and don't forget to take care of yourself. If you're hungry, take a break and get a snack.

* Recognize when you're not being productive and give your mind a rest by doing something fun. This doesn't have to be unrelated to work. I have a list of "fun tasks" that are low priority otherwise.
I am not sure how helpful most of these supplements really are. I'm more into exercising and "eating food, mostly plants, not too much". Beyond that, is there really that much that supplements can do?
This sounds like a job posting in disguise.
Intel Announces first 22nm 3D Tri-Gate Transistors, Shipping in 2H 2011
>Build a browser that does wire compression before sending it down

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514020

I don't know whether Android's browser is using SPDY yet, but it seems like an obvious step.
Well, the handset makers seem to like world dominance. Also, I'm not sure userland access is enough for this kind of thing.
Osama bin Laden filled a gap left by the Soviet Union. Who's the baddie now?
Regardless of how you feel about the article, the wikipedia link for Technological Singularity is just facinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
If you want a message queue bounded to length N, then make the messaging protocol such that the sending process sends up to N messages without an ack.
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Fried always says they are looking for people that are good at their job and want to keep doing that for many years.

So if they provide no upward mobility, do they give raises annually ?

At the very least to keep up with inflation or from time to time to keep people encouraged and wanting to come to work ?
How to Use Asana in 2 Minutes
"The 411 Parable": Goog411 vs Bing411 - Make sure you are playing the same game.
If you enjoyed this, you might like Adam Curtis' documentaries, such as The Century of The Self - a documentary about the rise of mass consumerism[1], or The Power of Nightmares - an incredible 3 part documentary on how the neocons needed an enemy in the east as much as Osama needed an enemy in the west in order to strike terror into their own sides[2].

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM

[2] - http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
Osama ain't dead, he's stalking our site!
Was tracking visitors on our site today during a conference call and look who decided to stop by. If this is OBL, I'm telling the president. Osama, we are not making a video for you.

Coincidence? I think not! I'm going to go ahead and say this is sufficient proof for at least Trump.
Ask HN: Where to find a good deal on a new iPad 2?
I want to start developing apps for iPad 2. iPad is a great device, it's userbase is obviously willing to pay for quality apps, but the initial cost of an iPad still seems expensive. However, since Apple has no real competition for iPad they can charge whatever they want.

So how can I get a good deal on a new iPad 2?
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This article should have been tagged as being a video.
Could AR client apps use QR codes as markers but also fetch animation details from the URL in the QR code?
The article doesn't actually tell you what happened. They found the black-box... they need to send it to France and then we'll know.
Another remote desktop file access solution for Windows Phone 7
A crude implementation of Get-shit-done in Python. https://github.com/dananjayavr/get-shit-done
Sounds good, I'll look into it! Thanks, man!

K.
I've hired several front-end engineers in the past that didn't work out, due to a gap in their skill set.

Beyond the technical requirements of cross-browser front-end development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, a front-end engineer also needs to:
- Know how to use various source control systems. This is huge. You can't ship what you don't commit.
- Know enough about various template languages (for Ruby, PHP, Python, etc.) to wrap your UI around dynamic template code. If you only deliver static pages, someone else has to do all the integration work.
- Be able to do basic image manipulation. Stopping progress because you have to wait to get an image resized doesn't work anymore.

Someone with these skills, by the way, who is efficient, knowledgable about good CSS/JS practices, and can work with a variety of template languages, may be the most in-demand position right now. This is certainly true in the bay area. In fact, if this is you and you're looking for work, drop me a note!
Awesome explanation! Thanks.
I'm 41 with a wife and kid (another on the way) and not crazy technical: http://pricetack.com
If you're a programmer and your program relies on the premise that you have infinite storage then your program is probably not going to work too well. Presumably you're assuming zero seek time too?

Wasn't that the GP's point that to make the transition from CS to programming some knowledge of physical realities of computers might be useful??
Technology Hucksters
What this really does is bridge the gap between Flash-and-mobile for the many companies & devs who created the mountains of games in Flash and will likely continue to for several more years even if Adobe continues to screw everything up - if Flash is doomed it's going to be a slow, slow death because in spite of Adobe it is a massive platform that's not going to disappear overnight.

But beyond that if these guys can make it bi-directional and pull mobile games to web then they're going to have an absolute killer product. If they can also go mobile-to-mobile then it'll just be crazy - publish to a platform, publish to all platforms. Streaming games, weird as it seems, looks like its got legs - onlive etc are doing it, it's really only the scale of the games that is changing.

As far as ads go I don't think that's even worth exploring (although that's in large part my bias towards games) - they have such short shelf lives they can adapt to new platforms without even considering legacy material.