skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In regards to your last question, I have had similar thoughts. I no longer like using the phrase "speed of light" because it's most commonly used to reference the maximum speed anything observed can attain. It's very clear this has nothing to do with light itself but is derived from the medium itself, space-time.

One analogy that occurrs to me is movement through a fluid. There is almost always a terminal velocity. We can transmit waves via a fluid, and particles through it as well.

I would like to know what vacuum looks like at the Planck scale. Perhaps entropy increases slower or faster based on interactions at the smallest scale between light/matter and whatever space-time is. Movement through the medium at higher speeds decreases these interactions, maybe by skipping over them. Less interactions, slower entropy, slower apparent time.

Perhaps c is the terminal velocity of space-time. The air/water analogy breaks down easily, since we can travel faster than terminal velocity in air. But it's a different way of looking at the question.
Predictions for the blackberry playbook
Have a look at this thread - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=765561 . The title of the blog post retorts what is generally said in that thread (No, you can't run 18 static sites on a 64mb VPS). It's a (more detailed) reply - nothing more. The offers (which, LEA most likely doesn't make money on - just the sidebar ads) were there about a month or so before the post. So, what else is wrong with it?
Substantive exchange of knowledge especially that which is based on experience is the most favored kind of post here.

Satire, at least of the internet variety, rarely has anything to contribute except in the form of noise.

I'm not a pedant, I'm helping you understand the people here. Your ungrateful and angry attitude only proves my point.

I've been here for nearly three years now, I'm not going anywhere and neither is the rest of community which has the values I've just described.

You might enjoy reddit.com/r/programming more, they seem to value humor more.
Like I said, franchise agreements are hardly uniform and the large telcos can often muscle the politicians to doing things their way. Add in tax revenue promises and other inducements to side with the telcos and it's easy to see where the loyalties of our elected officials lie.

I wish it was different but telecom market domination is close to network neutrality in being out on the minds of the citizenry. Unless you can connect it to jobs or taxes, it's unlikely to interest any outside of a select few.
Wow, that one's actually quite useful.
Vlad refined this concept well. Let me change "rate of entropy" to his clearer distinction.
It's polished, but the game does not have marketable unique features. i.e. it would only see success if the market were to go through a very long period where no or few new matching games are released.

Right now that market is congested with titles, and to break through the noise you would have to substantially raise scope and provide more content and IP(story, characters, elaborate level design, etc.) or more features(multiplayer, level editor, additional game dynamics like the RPG elements of Puzzle Quest et al.)

If you want to break through without raising scope, look for a niche that hasn't been well-covered, and prototype it a few times until you hit on one with a good dynamic.

For example, matching plus tower defense. Will it work? The examples I've seen are few and do it in the crudest way(minigame + minigame - never a recipe for success). Find a way to change their mechanics so that they integrate better, and you might strike gold. Even if you fail, you'll still accumulate design ideas that can be fed into the next game.
Time in physics is not the same as the psychological arrow of time that we experience (which in itself may be related to the thermodynamical arrow of time). Time is a dimension of a 4-dimensional geometry and thus a quantity of the physical world independent of our perception. The laws of mechanics don't even distinguish between past and present.
This got me curious: what does pi sound like? And the answer is that it's actually surprisingly tonal. The opening "31415" firmly establishes the key, and thereafter there's sonorous intervals to keep everything fairly well-behaved; the few out-of-place notes can be dealt with by an appropriate sort of rhythym. If you're gonna try it I recommend it as far as:

31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751

So that you get a nice 5-1 ending.
there's a chance that what they jump to won't be controlled by Microsoft.

... like HTML and jQuery ?
I didn't know there was much steel in laptops.
I have been standing to work for about a year, and I will never go back.

The biggest difference for me is that I'm now much more mobile. For some reason, the simple act of getting up out of a chair is a significant barrier for me, to the point that I'll be stuck in my chair all day, forsaking food, until I am forced by urinary needs.

But standing at my computer, my entire life exists on a single eye-level plain. The activation energy of rising from a chair is no longer a barrier. I step, pace, turn around. I walk out of my office every 15 - 30 minutes, usually just to look out a window and then promptly return. I talk to my colleagues more. And my body stays warmer; I used to wear knit caps all day in my office, but no longer.

A couple of other thoughts:

Legs swelling is a serious problem. The first clinical symptom is pitting edema, and the severity shocked me when I first noticed it. Turns out, your legs depend on regular contractions by the big skeletal muscles to pump blood back up toward your heart. Your veins are equipped with check valves for this purpose. Standing still puts the worst possible stress on these veins, as it both maximizes hydrostatic pressure and robs them of the muscle-pumping. I don't know how to stop this other than to wear compression socks, which in turn requires me to always wear pants to appease my vanity.

The low-back pain I had from time to time previously is gone. Not just better, but gone.

I had a lot of low-back fatigue (different than the chronic pain that previously afflicted me) for the first two weeks, roughly. After my back got stronger (or something), I can now stand for as long as I want. I'll work a 16 hour day with zero back fatigue. I do get minor pains in my feet and more significant pain along the medial aspect of my right knee, which I think is an old MCL injury that's being aggravated by my pronating foot. The more I move, the less these are a problem.

Edit: I use wire shelves, like a bread rack, for my standing desk. The kind where the shelves are adjustable in 1 inch increments, and you can add as many shelves as you want.
I'm sure the title meant professional, established scientists, not that he didn't use the scientific method.
Worse is the tldr is straight from the last paragraph (I only know because that's all I read). Unuseful.
Terminal velocity is a really good analogy. Light is just a ripple in space. The ripple will continue forever until it gets absorbed by other matter. Space-time does seem to be an actual substance. Perhaps the proponents of the Ether were right except that now we call it space time. Space-time seems to be made up of super tiny particles were all other particles ride on.

One more thing, if we were to discover that light actually accelerates to c when it is first released by an electron then that would be strong evidence that the upper limit on light velocity is just something intrinsic of space-time. Nothing is ever instantaneous and I have a feeling that neither does light go from zero to c in zero time.
First are the apps that are built in to the device. The Zune Media Player coupled with a Zunepass lets you download almost any song in the library directly to the device. I've been able to consistently name a song, look it up on the zune marketplace and listen to it 30 seconds later.

The Office hub integrates with Sharepoint Online allowing you to collaborate on documents from your phone. Make annotations etc. Included in this is OneNote which becomes a portable notebook.

The Games hub has full Xbox live integration with games from the major publishers made specifically for the phone.

Facebook and Twitter both have multiple clients both "Official" and third party.

Netflix, Kindle, Youtube, and a number of other major media outlets have native clients.

4th and Mayor is a foursquare app that was written as an example app by a member of Microsoft's platform evangelism team (http://www.4thandmayor.com/)

So far there hasn't been a case where I wanted an app to do something on my phone and couldn't find multiple examples both free and paid. The ecosystem is very robust. Microsoft just released tools to simplify porting apps from iOS and Android so it's only going to grow from there.
ICloud's first privacy stumble? Past Purchased List in App Store
Users should be able to delete purchased history from the list. There's tons of disposable apps we don't want to see on a regular basis that we'll have to live with in that list otherwise.
>I am constantly reading that information cannot travel faster than light

(I am not sure if this analogy works - if it is flawed, please help me fix it until it is correct)

Lets assume that you are on a computer connected to another machine that is at the exact furthest opposite possible on the globe, via fiber.

The remote machine will display a question, which you have never seen before and do not know the answer to, but you can read the question and then the answer to the question will be displayed.

Is it impossible that you could not derive an answer to the question fast than the answer could be displayed?

Thus, information (your derived answer) arriving in your head faster than the information arriving on screen as delivered at the speed of light?

My assumption is that information can be derived/created/transferred/understood faster than linear light travel as the processing of thoughts in our minds is semaphoric/symbolic and parrallel - light transmission is serial.
I'm still not sure that makes any sense.
Overview of the new instructions (cutted and pasted from the PDF):

AVX2 promotes the vast majority of 128-bit integer SIMD instruction sets to operate with 256-bit wide YMM registers. AVX2 instructions are encoded using the VEX prefix
and require the same operating system support as AVX. Generally, most of the
promoted 256-bit vector integer instructions follow the 128-bit lane operation,
similar to the promoted 256-bit floating-point SIMD instructions in AVX.
Newer functionalities in AVX2 generally fall into the following categories:

• Fetching non-contiguous data elements from memory using vector-index
memory addressing. These “gather” instructions introduce a new memory-addressing form, consisting of a base register and multiple indices specified by a
vector register (either XMM or YMM). Data elements sizes of 32 and 64-bits are
supported, and data types for floating-point and integer elements are also
supported.

• Cross-lane functionalities are provided with several new instructions for
broadcast and permute operations. Some of the 256-bit vector integer instruc-
tions promoted from legacy SSE instruction sets also exhibit cross-lane behavior,
e.g. VPMOVZ/VPMOVS family.

• AVX2 complements the AVX instructions that are typed for floating-point
operation with a full compliment of equivalent set for operating with 32/64-bit
integer data elements.

• Vector shift instructions with per-element shift count. Data elements sizes of 32
and 64-bits are supported.
Ask HN: Do people still program in machine code?
"Looking at a program written in machine language is vaguely comparable to looking at a DNA molecule atom by atom." - Douglas Hofstadter

I am curious if there still are a few, select number of people who write machine code for a living. Is there a need for machine code, or even assembly code, to be written when new pieces of hardware come out?

And also, does anyone here on HN have experience with machine or assembly code?
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The whole point is that rather than the state happily collecting their income tax on any income generated by state residents, which they have always been able to do, they are attempting to levy a tax against all Amazon commerce transactions based on the fact that they have affiliates operating in the state.

DanielBMarkham is not making a case that IL isn't entitled to tax his income from the Amazon affiliate program. It is taken for granted that they will tax the additional income, as they have been doing since before this new budget/law. What they are attempting to do is tax more than just income generated by affiliates living in the state, which is where the argument that they are not contributing to the flow of business which would warrant that.
Whole careers are made on improving some existing process by a few percent. Kudos to that guy.
Why would you buy a lump of steel?
Yes because it would break Causality, you would have the broken cup along with the intact one. You may ask "why have causality"? Well, it's your pick, either FTL, or Causality.

btw, a great book about time (and time loops) is Igor Novikov's "River of time"
And actually, if hacking with computers wasn't so common, it would be perceived as quite awesome, too.
There is indeed some speculation on my part...but it is based on diving into what is publicly available. There are threads where people have dissected the leaked builds and shown how to create apps using the same apis that you use today for Silverlight. I personally have not downloaded any of them (though I'm significantly tempted).

True, Silverlight apps may not port directly, especially if you break out of the sandbox and do things that aren't supported within the platform. But because of the fact that Silverlight compiles down to IL...all Microsoft needs to do is bring the Silverlight VM over and boom it just works.

Basically what I've done is looked at the current state of the ecosystem and what has been revealed publicly for the future and connected the dots. If you look at the demo video and observe some of the animations and rich interaction being shown, it's obvious that it's not just HTML on display there.
I've got a bamboo chair mat that I stand on when working at home, which wouldn't be particularly good except the floor in this room in my apartment is, for lack of a better word, lumpy. It makes the chair mat contour almost perfectly such that I can stand barefoot comfortably.

I don't actually have a standing desk, however. I have a two-level seated desk, with the monitors on the upper level.

The solution? Boxes and a wireless keyboard. Stand up, bring the keyboard up--sit down, put the keyboard on the desk itself.

It's like I'm in college all over again.
> They continue to use konquerer and KJS (built into the core desktop) rather than webkit or V8.

FWIW, this is somewhat incorrect.

First of, Konqueror is an application, not a browser engine; you're thinking of KHTML.

Now, it's true that KDE is still developing KHTML and KJS (and it has to, considering KDE commits to ABI/API stability within a major release series and the Qt port of WebKit wasn't close to ready by the time KDE 4.0 was released).

However, Konqueror offers support for using either KHTML/KJS or QtWebkit/JavaScriptCore - technically, both are just KPart components, along with the Okular PDF viewer and various others Konqueror embeds to display documents of various sorts - and some other parts of the "core desktop" use WebKit exclusively (e.g. the Webview and Web Slice widgets).
I believe assembly language programming is pretty common in embedded systems programming and for some performance critical parts of games programming.

MenuetOS is entirely written in assembly language http://www.menuetos.net/

I haven't done any assembly language programming but I enjoy reading about it because it's good to understand what a computer does down deep.

Jeff Duntemann's Assembly Language Step-by-step: Programming with DOS and Linux http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Step-step-Programmin... is a great book.
I've seen that explanation over and over, but I don't see why there's a problem with something arriving at B before B sees it leave A. We have the same situation with faster-than-sound travel, but it doesn't appear to be impossible.

It's a subtle point, and it's very difficult to explain in layman's terms. On the other hand, it's very easy to explain once you know how to draw and interpret a Minkowski diagram.

But basically, special relativity means that if you can travel faster than the speed of light then you can travel back in time. An explanation of why that's shorter than a full explanation of special relativity will seem unsatisfying.

So instead of reading handwavey explanations on the internet recommend going out and properly learning special relativity from a textbook. (D'Inverno is pretty good, though it's only one among many.)

A philosophy lecturer of mine said that nobody should be allowed to graduate university unless they understand (a) relativity, (b) quantum mechanics and (c) Gödel's theorem, and I'm inclined to agree. You just can't consider yourself educated in the 21st century without a basic grounding in the important advances of the 20th.
Giant Chinese Infrastructure Projects (keep scrolling down)
Qubes: an open source OS with strong security for desktop computing
PulseAudio has been one of those love/hate things. Per application audio is great when you want to mute an application that you can't mute otherwise (like a flash application for school simply won't shut up).

I hate how it keeps touching the volume level for the system/hardware.
Related HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320207
What a surprise that an implementor would think implementors are the most important people in the world.

Of course, in most cases management has the exact opposite view -- implementation is an unfortunate cost of doing business, maybe we can get some people in India or Russia to do it on the cheap, while the important functions of business (marketing and sales) are done here.

IMO, if you call yourself an "implementor" then you have already lost the battle against being commodified.
I'm still waiting for mobile computer interfaces, a la some combination of Terminator vision glasses and Minority Report hand gloves. Standing at a desk is better than sitting, but why do we need a desk at all? I'd much rather dance while coding.
See my comment elsewhere in this thread, but the answer is yes but I can't explain why in anything shorter than an entire textbook on relativity. If you've "always wondered" about this, then this is the universe telling you to go and learn relativity (at least special relativity).
This is a fair point. The risks around committing to market a product for which there has not (yet) been established that such a product can work, is the risk that start-ups take. They believe in their better mouse trap and generally see it through to production if they can.

Then there are other risks which everyone is afraid of, like the risk of running out of capital before you're done (perhaps exemplified as the risk of pivoting) and one that is more damning in start-ups the risk of not having enough capital after you release, and your idea fails, to do another idea. While failure is always a possibility, it always hurts.

I accept your premise that humans, in general, are afraid of risk.

Perhaps I should narrow my claim to specifically say that large companies are more afraid of 'new product' risk than companies that aren't currently shipping any products.

I've always felt (but have no direct knowledge of) that Microsoft's initial failure to capture any sort of tablet market was their fear of creating a "new product" that would compete with Windows. I used one of the early Toshiba tablet PCs and was always saddened by what looked like a lack of commitment on Microsoft's part to the notion of a tablet in its software stack. When I used an iPad for the first time I didn't feel like it was a less capable version of MacOS.
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The title and text, etc. are all directly responsive to the linked contemporary WHT thread where someone asked about a 64mb plan on this specific service, and if it would be enough for 18 static sites. The WHT commentators all said no.

I'd be inclined to believe it is not spam. Mainly because sites designed as hosts for ad-articles/spam don't tend to build up communities or stick around this long (this article is over 2 years old).

But also because the site covers multiple providers, not just this one, sometimes favourably, sometimes not, always without any real benefits to the owner. It does provide a (presumably no longer valid) referral code for the particular service discussed in this one article, but it's an extra click away from this page, and the site goes to very large pains to point out it is a referral code: http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vpslink-february-sale-and-10-o...

Also, to my knowledge, that is the only time this site has ever used any sort of referral code, and it was fully highlighted and explained. It also wasn't an affiliate code, it could only have been used to cover the site's hosting fees with a service the site owner had been using for the last 5 years.

Basically, it doesn't smell like spam to me. But, I have been enjoying the site for a number of months before it appeared here, so I'm less suspicious.
"the nice guy finishes last. it's common knowledge."

It's an old, tired cliche.
HN, you dropped the ball here. Even Reddit would spot a comment like "Nailed it" and see that it doesn't contribute in any way.

This community should try to stop a decline in quality...
Assuming that space and time collapse into/onto a one dimensional membrane

And why, exactly, would we assume a thing like that?
Nice try, VPSport.
Ask HN: Best Practices on creating video for a startup?
It would seem today you must have some sort of a youtube video (vimeo btw, does not allow uploading of 'commercial' videos, many startups may one day find a dead video on their homepage) describing your service or app, so what are the best practices?

Do you just display it as is? Or use illustrations and flying text bubbles all over?

A single narration voice? Or voice actor for each character?

What about background music? Visual effects? Any recommendations on software? I guess windows movie maker won't cut it.

Do you make your video public or hidden? Send fake traffic? You don't want your video out there with 17 views.
You're basically right. On the other hand (as should be apparent on HN), "implementors" don't always need management. Business does always require some sort of product.
I can get the same list on my Amazon account.
Pi actually reminds me a bit of "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma variations. The opening is only one note off, and then many of the later sequences in pi have the same large jumps that Nimrod does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE
A summary for those of you who don't have time to wade through poorly-written articles: PageRank, like almost all machine-learning algorithms, has some knobs which you can tweak to get various results. This guy, as an algebraic topologist, hates knobs and calls that "bad math."