skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The likelihood that this tax would drive startups out of the entire SFBA seems very low.

Absolutely agree. The likelihood that it would drive startups out of San Francisco proper is very high. We are discussing what the city of San Francisco needs to do to not force companies to move out of the city.

> Meanwhile, the tiny city of San Francisco proper is likely to remain well stocked with upwardly mobile tech company employees whether their employers are in SOMA or San Mateo.

Also likely, although there won't be as many of them. Another big issue is that the city of San Francisco will lose out on significant tax revenue from companies based here, since they will be forced to leave.
... We’re starting by running a NYC organized effort to steal Boston’s best and brightest.

If NYC was really so much better than Boston, there would be no need to "steal" talent. You would have to build fences to keep people out.
Future of Smartphones:Paper Phone
The Cognitive Cost of Doing Things
A single core can hash (checksum) 5 GB/s using murmurhash. The data you checksum is probably already in L1/L2 cache (write to RAID) or going to be used by userland, and us reading the data will just mean userland process gets its data from cache instead (read from RAID). You can get maybe 2-6 GB/s to GPU. Add the latency (sync, etc.) and GPU time to calculate the hash, you've probably radically slowed down the process. Additionally, assuming DMA transfer, your memory subsystem is more stressed due to both CPU and GPU reading same data.

Oh, and simple xor? Well, assuming data is in L2 already, Intel i7 can xor 10+ GB/s using just single core, between 3 buffers, aka minimum RAID 5. Fastest RAID adapters can achieve only a fraction of that speed.
Non-slideshare link:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws...

Edit: Warning. Actually seems to cut off some of the slides.
Internet at work: 100mbps download speeds when downloading ubuntu.

Its the nature of the game. My company and google both need high speed internet and they will pay for it.
Seems strange to me. The latency overhead of just calling a kernel is pretty large, so even if you can get higher throughput this way, it seems it would increase the latency by a lot.
You're braver than I. :)
Icrontic review: Sentey Burton full-size tower PC case
Facebook Product Search Engine = Good Advertising
common error.

typeof bar === 'undefined'
The author is 100% correct -- it's amazing to me that so many techies who should be detail oriented get this wrong:

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

"In typography, a font (also fount) is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface."

Why is this important? Now that typefaces are embedded in the web we'll see the typography become more and more sophisticated. So it's important for techies to really learn the language of typography. Also since we're seeing amazing advances in screen resolution we can really start to show several weights of a typeface at a very small size.

In fact my bet is that as we see resolution increase we'll start to embrace vastly improved typography. In the old days the cut of a typeface at 72 points was different than the same typeface at 12 points -- so the typeface wasn't just auto-scaling up and down in size by stretching it. My bet is that we'll see a real revolution in the next few years in this area.
This is a conspiracy from Skype to make us upgrade to the latest version of the Mac client.
A lot of the core components of government are subject to well-known areas of market failure, examples include a well-regulated militia and the justice system.

When were market solutions ever tried for these problems? Not being an ass, im just looking for info.
JQuery 1.6 Released With Performance Upgrades and Breaking Changes
The best way to find a good SaaS service that needs doing is to find something that bothers you, or which you want to have available, and then make it happen. Mine grew out of my hobbies, and was first just a solution to my personal needs. Having a solution in search of a problem is a somewhat silly way to approach it.
Consider this question: Let us say the cost of an infrastructure at google HQ is X. X is the cost regardless of internet. Now let us say you have Y which is the price of an average inernet connection for google offices. Or you pay 4 * Y to get that connection. Ok lets make it 10 * Y. Whatever. The point is that if it makes your workers a bit more productive (5000 people?) lets say 3%. I think that 3% productivity on developers translates to WAY above the price of that connection.
Ask HN: Review my startup Sharepad (Collaborative contacts/email for Gmail)
Skype Security Blog: Security Vulnerability in Mac Client Has Been Addressed
Mark Zuckerberg buys his first home: a $7 Million Mansion
I agree, that response was out of line on my part. There were many better ways to phrase that.
Thats cheaper than my 10mbit connection + phone + basic cable in new york.
Oh, they have "White Sun of the Desert" there - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066565, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yia2azQd4GY

This is the movie that is traditionally watched by all departing space crews on the night prior to the launch. This has been going on since the early days of the Soviet space program and it appears to be continuing to this day. Great movie, highly recommended.
Looks like it has been addressed:

http://blogs.skype.com/security/2011/05/security_vulnerabili...

I submitted here as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522808
My guess is that this is related to the Webkit component Skype 5 on Mac is using for the IM window. So Skype 2/Mac should be safe, as are all other OSes.

Also, it's obviously not "root" unless there's a separate privilege escalation bug in OS X.
No. I worked there for over a year.
The irony of the words contrasted with naming the file human.txt is not lost on me.
Awesome!

How hard is it to add other apps to the interface?
I agree it's hugely light on technical details. But, if the exploit gains shell access to you own account, and the exploit can occur via simple message sending in Skype, and it is possible to script Skype from the command line (Applescript perhaps?) then I can't see why an appropriately crafted exploit couldn't message all your skype contacts once you get infected. This would spread rather fast :-)
OP asked for an opinion, so I gave it. If you have a better one, then you are welcome to add it, but your quips don't help anyone.
What's up with the highlighting?
It seems that you guys are misunderstanding my point here, I take this VC's point of having to show a proof of somewhat the business be profitable. I understand this very well. If I am positioned as himself, I would be asking the same thing.

What I don't like about it is the business plan that he's asking us to write.

I know getting money from people is hard, I am not expecting him to write me off a $100k check based on what I have. My point is that is it necessary for a business at this point.
Alabama tornado creates Mechanical Puzzle
Then perhaps the flow should be amended: Alert the public after the fix, or after a week, whichever is the earlier.
At rest I'd say 50mW (we could trim this if it was really important,
but it gets a bit fiddly below this point), under serious load
(original XBox class graphics or 1080p30 H.264), 700mW.

I wonder if this means you actually can power it from HDMI's 5V pin (which is limited to 50mA ie 250mW) for some uses?
Customer Development: notes from the front line
Hunting down browser tabs or detached browser windows is not my idea of a good chat user interface.
In DHS Takedown Frenzy, Mozilla Refuses to Delete MafiaaFire Add-On
The main problem is that I feel developers don't look for apps on the Mac App Store. And being a cheap app in a niche category doesn't bring money.
Google chat uses Jabber, so any Jabber compatible client will work (ie all of them)
I don't agree that gaining control of the user account is that much smaller of a concern then root access. You can do a lot on a Mac with just the user account. And then, local exploits providing privilege escalation are relatively common.
This is almost certainly nuts.

The latency to and from GPUs is awful. I've been hacking GPGPU since before CUDA existed (worked with an early beta of CUDA and the GTX 8800). You can do some great throughput-oriented stuff there, but the latency issues meant that GPUs were useless for small-to-medium tasks. It's partly an issue of latency and also an issue of getting 'enough data to make parallelism useful' - we had a pattern matching task that hit peak throughput at about 16K threads which required, of course, a big pile of data.

Things may have improved in terms of latency since then, but we're talking multiple orders of magnitude off (back then) for network processing tasks, much less kernel tasks. And the issue of needing 'big piles of data' to work over isn't going away. This is algorithm-dependent, of course, but lots of data is the easy way to find data-parallelism. :-)

Most of the papers published about GPGPU are either larger data sizes (where GPGPU is a legitimate tactic) or do some really serious handwaving concerning latency (e.g. the GPU routing stuff, 'packetshader'). Just because there are a bunch of people who can get interesting papers out of it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Tapbot's blog [1] is nice. Not make-you-weak-in-the-knees-pretty, but it looks interesting enough to raise curiousity, which is what you appear to be after.

[1] http://www.tapbots.com/blog
with either intended or unintended partners, hmm?
I know that not to be true, unless there was a fallow period between the time that my company paid ridiculous $/sqft for space in SF to be among the VC-funded idiots of the time (2001) and today. But I don't buy that there was such a time. And, if anything, SF seems to have gotten even trendier since ~2005.

If you want to make the point that the particular wave of companies domiciled in SFBA are now anomalously likely to be going public, I won't argue with you, but that's a narrower point than the one I feel you originally made.
Beyond death of employees, the issue of bereavment for 20-something startup employees is something we don't talk about much... but sadly it happens to a lot of us. I went through this with my mother-in-law last year, and it was very hard. My company was very supportive and did the right thing for me, which was basically "we support whatever you need to do" and then checking in with emails every couple days.

For me, it was the first close family member I've ever had pass away, so I hadn't even thought about what I would do in the situation and I ended up planning a funeral.
There's no indication that a file transfer is involved, only 'an instant message'.

You can set your Skype to disallow messages from accounts not in your contact list. I've had trouble with this not working in some way on Skype for Linux, though.
Given that -- unless you're literally cutting and pasting things together -- you require a corresponding font to create something in a given typeface, I don't see any point in pedantically distinguishing between them.
They're still too inconvenient and specialized. Waiting for GPS signal = fail.
True. A talk I recently attended quoted results of a Gammatone filterbank implementation for audio processing using CUDA (which was properly parallelized) and compared it with IPP (Intel Integrated Performance Primitives) on the CPU, which turned out to be a lot faster due to the cost of transfering the data to the GPU in the CUDA implementation.
Evidence of Dark Matter Found in Minnesota mine
I never would have thought a whole django app to be that small. But then, the second you start to add routes, views, helpers, etc. it quickly become exactly like the "standard" django.
They're not fonts... and that's why you have no friends :P
Nowmov - Mobile Software Lead Engineer
Did you know that people spend more time watching video than they spend
on all other media, combined? Yet watching online video accounts for
less than a tenth of the total -- why? Because the current online video
discovery experience is terrible. Bad as discovery is now, it's only
going to get worse; every minute, more than a day's worth of video is
uploaded to Youtube alone.

Nowmov is building "Pandora for videos" and is dedicated to solving this problem.
Our current product intelligently programs a list of trending videos and
ones shared among your social network.

Our founders are two ex Apple employees: Thomas, who was responsible for
Apple's H.264 implementation; and James, who built the video processing
systems for the iTunes Store. We are Y Combinator graduates (Winter
2010) and angel funded. Our seed round was led by SV Angel.

Requirements:

* Shipped and iterated on iOS applications

* Willing to lead our mobile effort

* Great hacker with an eye for design

* Rails and Android experience a huge plus

We are a very small team of engineers and you will be our first mobile focused engineer. We strongly believe mobile devices will play a huge part of our success and you will be leading that effort.

Interested in changing the world of content discovery? A short resume with links to your projects emailed to iwantin@nowmov.com would be a great start. Still not convinced? Please check out what others have said about us at https://twitter.com/nowmov/favorites or drop us a line at founders@nowmov.com and let our founders convince you :)
As much as I wanted to like jabber (I gave it a fair chance with openfire for almost a year), there are multiple problems, namely:

1. Audio and Video calls do not work with "any compatible client". I have in fact never gotten them to work at all.

2. Most jabber clients are awful and buggy.

3. Jabber support in multi-protocol clients is even more awful and buggy.

4. Nobody uses it, at least over here in europe.

5. Everybody over here uses Skype. If there was a reliable way to bridge jabber<->skype then I would bite and switch again.
I'm not sure crowd-sourcing this problem to youtube was the best idea, but I like his humility. I pushed it to my twitter/facebook to give it the viral-nudge.
Strolling through “Nigeria’s Best Buy” (A Photo Essay)
I loved the YC alumni dinners, and there are a lot of interesting possibilities for themed private dinners too.
I dunno man.. I really love the weather (and laid-back vibe) in cali
"Boy", no. "Guy", yes. I guess I should be calling them "gals", instead.

I'm sorry, but it just doesn't have the same connotation. "Girl" is not sexist and I'm going to continue to use it, even in a professional setting.
Great idea. It would be nice if there were links to read about the projects with which you're not familiar (I don't know the details of django-annoying, for instance).
Could downvoters explain what's wrong with link to webcore trunk?
Oh, and an extra bonus for Windows product blogs matching the criteria... though I doubt there are any.
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 140
It's non-obvious because it's a bad idea. This paper comes from a wacky world where latency and power consumption don't matter. The comparisons between CPU vs. GPU aren't that compelling just on the surface of it. The latency/power consumption numbers (compared to dedicated ASICs for this sort of thing) are just laughable.

Being the most compelling 'software router' is sort of like being the 'tallest midget' but even in this domain, I think their alleged advantages over CPU-only are mainly due to carefully massaging the presentation of the data.
A bit on the evil side, but thanks for sharing. What about cross-promotion? I believe already-proven entrepreneurs have multiple channels (online and offline) to promote subsequent ventures. Also, controversy is popular, but is it viable in the long run? There is a line between disruption and controversy, and many startups prefer not to cross it (i m hopeful they choose so for ethical reasons). There's more to make out of a startup than money.
I've been looking for a good reason to convince my team to switch from Skype...
A curious number exploration
Good question. I don't know. But I'll share a bit of speculation and you can tell me if there are holes in my reasoning.

With out going into specifics there was a lot of effort at Google going into pushing 'popular' videos closer to the likely place they were going to be played. Any caching system or content delivery system, is by definition limited to the amount of edge cache it has and its ability to predict where that content will be.

One of things putting pressure on that cache is probably Google's efforts to put 'premium' content near possible subscribers. Clearly people who are paying money have a higher expection of people randomly watching the latest cat pratfall. So if you're Google and you're doing more "TV" like things, you may have reasons to reserve some of that cache space for your premium content whether or not folks have asked for it from that part of the network 'yet.'

Another interesting area is in transit networks. Generally the tier-1 networks who provide peering connections have done that on a quid pro quo basis (basically I'll peer your traffic if you'll peer mine). However as web 2.0 companies like Google or NetFlix start creating very large flows, suddenly if you are 'peering' and your peer is putting a LOT of traffic on your fiber but you have relatively little for their fiber, then maybe you start thinking you want to be compensated for that. We talked about Level 3 and Comcast going at it in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954077

So an explanation might be that your transit network is 'throttling' its peering relationship. I could easily see someone agreeing to 'peering' terms where they take the traffic they've sent and use that as a 'credit' and provide full rate service for an equivalent amount of traffic coming from the peer, but excess traffic might get throttled rather than being 'free.'

This is a very active discussion in some circles. I would not be surprised to see it come up in any discussion of throughput to 'YouTube' vs local throughput.
How long until Skype fixes it and we see the details? Skype seems really bad about fixing/disclosing things. Anyone else remember this? http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=17fbdf08801503eebf66d315f...

HN page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656174

Edit: woops, my bad, apparently SkypeMate is independent.
شعبي كوم
So what happens if you start using your internet connection at full capacity 24/7, and so do all the other customers of your ISP?

On the kind of fast connections you have over there, you could easily run up hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bandwidth charges for your ISP. Will they just operate at a loss, or will the government step in and pay the bandwidth costs, or will they throttle your speed down?
I go for the cushy chairs.
Superb -- fun app while hiking with my kid. I grew up in another country, so a lot of trees where I live are unknown to me.

Thanks
I think by "lower-level" he means "having to manage resources by hand that could be handled automatically", not "close to the OS".
Kinect Projects: First Five Months [Video]
It is not addressed until they release a fix for Skype 2.8 or explain that it is not affected.

Every Mac user I know is still running 2.8 and avoiding Skype5 like the plague because of the broken interface.
As there were no reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, we did not prompt our users to install this update

I don't think that qualifies as logical risk management. To me, it's like saying, "I haven't been in a car wreck so far, so I wont use my seat belt".
I got to ask Steve Wozniak a question today
Thank you for sharing your story. I love the product (and love the website too, by the way. Beautiful design, I think.)

If a Russian version of TripLingo is release, I suppose I'll be picking that one up as well.

Tschüss
Some companies do offer 100Mbit packages today however it's mostly a gimmick. They would face a much bigger challenge/cost to offer every single customer 100Mbit. There's a surprising lack of demand for customers who are willing to pay more for faster speeds. It seems the $50 or less per month price point is what people want.
I understand the bulk mailers make up a good portion of their income, and effectively subsidize regular mail. However, I don't think it's an acceptable tradeoff. You can makeup for the difference by probably dropping a single day of delivery - my guess is postage wouldn't even have to raise if you dropped to either 4 or 5 days a week.
What Do We Mean By Program?
I love the robot bird. It looks awesome.
Your homepage is a little bit too busy. I was never sure what to look at and found myself jumping all over the place.
I wish your screencast was bigger too. I found it hard to tell what was going on.
New layout of Google search results being rolled-out?
Isn't that still in beta?
Looks like a lot of extra whitespace to me.
this design only appears when I am logged in.
It's 2.16 GB/hour at the highest bitrate Netflix streams HD. That's 115 hours to hit 250 GB. At two hours per movie that's 57 HD movies a month.
This is a good example of a meta-data injection. Not clear yet what the outcome will be on the overall system. Kind of like auto-complete for places.

The scary thing will be creating need feedback loops. So club A tries various marketing strategies and compares that with its rise (or fall) in the 'destination intent' index. These then trigger more specific marketing but then carves out a population which is responding to the messaging.

Combined with groupon style offers its going to be an interesting couple of years.
I contacted the author asking him to verify the claim of "root" access, since it makes a difference to those of who know what that is. He replied with an apology and updated the headline.
Why is this a warning to mobile app developers? The article is about the Mac App Store.
Web setup question.
how about you get servers with supersonic speed
and you get them to serve cashed pages. then you can inject some commercials over the build in commercials.

and make money on that. Or could you sell a subscription?

Could Cloud computers do this?
"CIA's June 1988 Employee of the Month Killed By New Employee of the Month"
Tagging?
GitHub Merge Button - What Were they Thinking?
Done: "In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB"
I'm seeing eight results per page, which fits all results perfectly on my screen. The whitespace makes it much easier to read the page titles. So far, so good.

Someone on twitter mentioned dashed separators between results. I'm not seeing any — are you? I wonder if they're doing some AB testing.

EDIT: Seems like the number of results changes based on the search terms.
People love to get clever with links. But it just confuses people. Links should be underlined and a different color. If you really want people to know it's a link, make sure that color is blue.
I think I have this.. You might have it too.
I'd argue that it's much more than 12. That would be ~20 GB/movie. I don't think Netflix's HD streaming is anywhere near Blu-ray quality. My roommates stream Netflix all day long and our usage has yet to break 200 GB. Not that I'm defending Comcast...
That's true for standard WebKit, and even the Mac OS X version, but not for iOS.

For example, the latest iOS JavaScriptCore release (4.2, http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/JavaScriptCore/JavaSc...) has no Xcode files like the one you linked does.

I haven't read the LGPL lately, but is that a violation? Do they have to provide enough information to build your own copy?
iChat works well for that.
It doesn't seem too hard to understand what the service does, and they do explain explicitly in the homepage. Why all the hate?
Have you ever heard of HTML5? It is fundamentally a codification & standardization of existing practice (<canvas>, parsing, short encoding meta tags) — and when it isn’t doing that, it addresses actual needs (like how to handle video and audio).