skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Media Is Always Wrong About the Value of a College Degree
Larry and Sergey started Google, at which time it was no longer a stanford research project, many years before AdWords.

In fact, they were very resistant to the idea of have any advertisements and were adamant in maintaining clean search results.
Because he hasn't come out of it yet; just look how impetuously he's attacking property owners.
We are doing pretty well right now, actually.
How does this site decide what to check for the use of a sample? We're at the point where sampling is so easy, so ubiquitous, that counting usage is impossible without some arbitrary selection criteria (e.g. "I've heard of it", or, "The people who compile <some chart> have heard of it").
Synchronizing efforts has both costs and benefits. Costs are frequently underestimated, especially if you're outside looking in and aren't the one paying them. Communication has the well-known problem of tending to scale like n^2 (though I'm inclined to think it's somewhat more like 1.6, it's still a polynomial growth), and synchronizing two teams often ends up building more than just a leader <-> leader link, let alone three or more teams. It's easy to say "it should be done", it's a lot harder to actually pay the costs. Benefits are often oversold, too; yes, perhaps in this case Google is missing out on some huge opportunity, but even if that is true (which I'm dubious about), it would be the exception, not the rule.

Sometimes the costs still outweigh the benefits, sure, but it's often a more subtle analysis than it first appears. Imposing excessive synchronization requirements is a seductively easy path to some bad problems.

I have no inside knowledge of Google, but the mere fact of their size and general success puts a bound on how much synchronization between teams is even theoretically possible.
It might just be the high school I attended but I can only think of one kid out of about 3000 in the entire school who was intimidatingly competent with computers. I can see where you're coming from. Making too big of a deal out of his age might be annoying to some people but with age comes experience and all the anecdotal evidence at my disposal says that most high schoolers don't have this experience yet. :/
Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in the Filter Bubble
Sounds like quite a party.
Maybe what we know as the internet is a woefully inadequate imitation of what it COULD HAVE been. If only some influential people at DARPA could have done a few things differently, then technological advancment would have happened an order of magnitude faster, and we would already be a space faring civilization.
If I've ever seen an efficient filter that "as a result you end up being dedicated to your tribe", Hacker News is one.
To be clear, the reason why I find this impressive is because I would assume it implies a significant amount of studying in his free time since computer architecture isn't exactly standard high school curriculum.
Even if there is a discrete unit of length (which is not known), an actual physical object is not a multiple of it (this is known).

A physical object does not have a sharp edge.
Theoretical, yes. No (current) evidence for it to be a base unit though.

But it doesn't matter, actual physical object do not have definitive sizes.
Apple does this on all of their products with "engineered in California"
Google is organized like software: modularized and broken up into autonomous units (like old HP). It's very likely nobody at Google has the oversight to see the big picture user experience and more importantly the authority to make it a good one. Who can force Youtube, Buzz, Reader, etc to work together to make one great voting feature?

At Facebook they have the correct view that their entire end-user facing experience is their single product with individual features simply being parts of a whole. Google should take this same view because users don't care how much Google engineers enjoy their autonomy or how cool it is to work there. Unlike Google itself, users see every Google branded product as using a single site or app. Users most likely use more than one component of Google and it's how those components work together that make up the total overall user experience of Google.

The excuse of "well that's another division" simply doesn't matter and is a poor excuse. Apple and Facebook don't seem to have this same problem. Apple has been around longer, and Facebook has grown faster.

So what's the fix? Create a UX design team with true authority? Is it well past time for Google to grow up and start acting like the billion dollar money machine they are? Or maybe I'm way off base. Google is still printing money even with their sub par user experience and total lack of social clout. Maybe they should just stick to what they're good at like Facebook and Apple seem to do.
I, for one, would love for Google to make a serious DVR.

In that space, you basically have two DRM enabled players (Microsoft and TiVo) who sell hardware/software that can be used with any cable provider for pay channels, and a variety of 3rd parties that don't have DRM support and thus have to resort to hacky methods like IR control, reencoding from analog, etc.

If Google could turn their GoogleTV into a DVR, and give it some new/interesting features (Streaming ala Slingbox to Android?) beyond the social stuff they're trying now, it could be a hit.
No. A carbon atom does not have a fixed size.

And especially when you attach atoms together the spacing between them varies depending on the strength and type of the bond.

Additionally, molecules are constantly in motion (heat) - one of the motions is changing the size of the spacing between them.

But even if you froze it to absolute zero (which is impossible), it doesn't matter, the size is not determinate, it's only probabilistic.

So a real physical object can never have a fixed size.
Spoilers: the media is usually wrong about anything involving statistical data.
Atomic Web Browser (http://atomicwebbrowser.com/) can identify itself as IE, Firefox or Desktop Browser and is available on both the iPhone and iPad.
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Please do not link to the print version of pages. Most of us are not reading on printers. If we do want to print the article, we are capable of doing so without your help.

The print version formatting generally makes the article much harder to read on screens. For example, the column width is such that the text is very small on mobile devices and the lines are long enough that zooming makes ot so massive horizontal scrolling is required.
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I've been wanting this for a while. Just tried it, it's awesome :)
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Most people are not hackers. If they've got evidence of wrong doing on their hard drive it's likely kept in Excel. Wipedisk - whazzat? I send my file to Recycle and it's gone, right?

If you think your suspect is going to execute a 'wipe disk' operation, then don't knock down their damn door, catch them when they're out and about and away from their computer.
This has been posted before.
And I say the opposite. If we want the article split across multiple pages and riddled with ads, we're smart enough to find it on the site. (Or hand-edit the URL.)
Semi-related: The YC application for Dropbox from the link above seems to have been taken down.

Does anyone have a mirror?
AFAIK, most track listings use this template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing. (Although you should check this!)

Actually, what would be very cool is a chrome plugin that allows you to play the songs listed on any wiki album page, with a click of a button. That would be incredibly cool.
Most of those units you see have been sold and are being sat on by speculators expecting them to go up in value since real estate is still appreciating like mad. Sitting in front of the news here in Shanghai this morning it posted a message that in 67 out of 70 cities home prices went up in May. That's even after government curbs and more restrictions being put in place on who can buy property, especially in the cities.

Most educated folks I've talked with here acknowledge they're sitting in the middle of a property bubble. They assume that the large down payment options will protect the banks and just hope that they got in early enough to protect their initial investment.
Quite a bit of stuff is done in assembly:

- Low level processor set up: MMU, TLB, caching etc.

- Early stage boot code.

- Using instructions that are not normally accessible in C. For example, SIMD instructions, count leading zeroes, some bitwise operations.

- Interrupt handlers, interrupt masking.

- Entry and exit to low power modes.

- Entry and exit to hypervisor and other such virtualized modes.

- Sequences to turn on/off MMU.

- System calls.

- Locks for mutual exclusion, critical sections.

- Instruction level optimization in some algorithms.

- Anything that requires stack control or setup (packing arguments, green threads, etc).

- Machine code generation in compilers.

Some people prefer inline assembly and a lot can be achieved by C macros and inline assembly. Personally I prefer naked assembly functions in .s file, it is more readable and requires less tricks.

I rarely see assembly being used for performance. Most of the time the use of assembly is limited only to hardware level interaction that is normally not possible with C.

Even though writing assembly is not that common, the need to read is:

- Debugging on-target code with hardware debugger without having symbols and source available.

- Low level crash dumps (CPU context).

- Staring at disassembly in general.
Matt's (submitter, author) point about pushing something, /anything/ out of the door by the end of the weekend is a great point. I had the pleasure of working with him at last year's SocialDevCamp hackathon and we ended up using MongoDB as a poor man's message passing system. Why not, we were already using it as a document store! Also, researching and demoing APIs that you might potentially use before the hackathon is very important. We wasted a lot of time fighting with OAuth to get Twitter's streams working.
> Putting the CPU+memory into 'standby' mode

> The solution was to ensure that all the code...was in the CPU cache,

Can you give some details for the idly curious (i.e. me).

My naive implementation would be something like:

; do stuff
jmp A
B: STANDBY
; bring memory back up
jmp C
A: ; shutdown memory
jmp B
C: ; continue as normal

Also, I'm surprised a processor with standby capabilites doesn't do all this in hardware rather than relying on the programmer to write an implementation. You call STANDBY, and the processor itself shuts down memory and then shuts itself down. Comments?
Right now its virtually impossible to create an HD DVR without DRM support. The only way to do it economically is via a cable card, the cheapest HD on the fly encoder I've seen is around $1000.

For GoogleTV to really take off they need to bring the price down at around $300 its way too expensive.
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Can't like and +1 mean different things? I mean, I might like the YouTube video about the rooster crowing for an extended period of time, but in no way would I +1 it.
I think that the DVR, and by extension cable/broadcast/satellite providers, have peaked and are going to be replaced with on-demand options. I'm in the process of cutting the cord and I couldn't be happier to have entertainment on my terms and not some provider.

Now, if they could take SageTV and mix it into GoogleTV then I think it would be much more interesting than another DVR product. However, it would have to offer more than Roku+Netflix/Hulu Plus to be a contender at this point.
Angry Birds Rio Carnival released in Android Market
With the new episode "Carnival Upheaval", Angry Birds Rio introduces 15 new levels in a cheerful carnival setting, and the new bird, "Blue".
How do the historical snapshots related in the interesting submitted article compare to the analysis of Charles Murray

http://www.openeducation.net/2008/08/20/charles-murray-%E2%8...

that what employers need is a signal of competence, but a four-year college degree is a very costly signal for a job-seeker to obtain, and only an imperfect signal of competence to an employer?

Isn't it possible that college degree holders are at an advantage in seeking employment by comparison to persons without college degrees even if students are learning very little during their four years of college?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/18/106949/study-many-coll...
Fidonet was my first thought as well. I remember with some nostalgia sending emails to England from Australia back in the Fidonet days. It took a day or so to be delivered, but it did get there. The only restriction on Fidonet was the cost of international phone calls.

I think, like the steam engine, inter-networking was a technology who's time had come.
The last part is interesting - you can't make a buck there (due to the taxes), but you can build a back-office.
Yep: http://mixergy.com/woothemes-adriaan-pienaar/
The Coming Tablet Disaster: Can Anyone But Apple Sell Them?
As stated by others in the article's comments, leaving the entrepreneurial stuff aside, this is really close to being bullshit.

It quotes Alberto Cavallo, who's father was the minister of economy that led Argentina to the 2000's crisis...

I live in BA and the situation isn't as bad as the article describes it.

Full article with comments: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/doing-business-in-argenti...
The DVR story is already over, it was a stop-gap technology. Google is entering the IPTV business which threatens the cable television industry and is the real reason ISPs are raising bandwidth costs and lowering their caps.
It can be done in SW and it removes the need to implement it in hardware. Most probably nothing is preserved over a stand-by in a CPU, and when a CPU comes back online, it needs to be set up from scratch.
"technics 1200s will no longer be made" trope resurfaces regularly and continues to be implausible and innacurate. its a huge cash cow, a worldwide standard, and well made to boot.
This is interesting...it's also something I have always thought about. Ever since the green revolution of Iran when the gov't shut down the networks, I had thought that the solution might be some sort of large scale mesh network that can be built en-masse.

The problem is, ok say we can get a mesh network using commodity routers within Iran up and working...how do the packets get out of Iran ?

Do you then setup mesh nodes/connections with the surrounding countries and then route traffic through their backbones ?

But what if those networks are also taken offline ?

I am not being sarcastic, but this is something that I have seriously thought about and haven't found a solution. If someone has a suggestion, that would be awesome.

Also, how do you build cross-Atlantic mesh networks with commodity hardware ?

i.e. say the underwater fiber cables to India are cut again, like they were last year or the year before, how does this system work in that case ?
Three or four strong companies emerging from the carnage of thousands and thousands of others doesn't sound like any more now fun than it was the first time.
If you are so smart, why can't you just hit the "print" link on the regular page?

How is it better to make those of us who want to actually READ the article go through multiple steps (dealing with the print dialog, then either finding a link to the regular page or hand editing the URL), as opposed to making you go though a single simple step of one extra click?
Oops I should have been more specific with my question. Am looking to analyze the product sales data with respect to vendor, location, type etc. (although for now data volume is not that much but expect it to grow in a year or so) and need to generate reports. After googling found Pentaho Mondrian Analysis Services and Apache Hive. Need to find out which one will be better. If you know of any other product, please post it here.
I think that the premise here, that by giving relevant results search engines will filter the diverse range of opinions which exist in the world, is intriguing. In the short term, I think it's unlikely that online personalization will be accurate enough to create the type of bubble Tim Berners-Lee is suggesting. In the long term, however, I do see this as significant and dangerous. Unlike the way current tribes work, in which a person needs to actively seek and follow their 'tribe', this is a passive action - over time web services get to know you and seemingly shield you from diversity. The passive vs active nature required to keep up with one's tribe is the part of his prediction which worries me.
> "take daily for life" pills work always

Sadly, the immediate fixes are not as sure fire as they are made to sound. Most people I've known on medications for depression and anxiety are juggling prescriptions and dosages to retain the benefits of the drugs. While SSRIs may not give you a "bad trip", they can have paradoxical effects as well as a host of terrible side effects, and withdrawal can be long and difficult. Benzodiazepenes are still widely prescribed and tolerance and addiction build rapidly in most people. For many people these work great but for many they do not, or never completely.
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I believe he said it was fewer articles (something like 10), but what I'm referring to is his comment about having never seen many of the shows. The minute you take a job writing about television, you get started familiarizing yourself with the most popular shows. When you're assigned to a new show, you watch one or two episodes. If you're covering some more often than others, you put that one on while you fold your laundry. It's not as if he has a job reviewing tourist locations. Point is, you become an expert and suck it up. Particularly in a field this competitive, you spend time outside of the actual writing getting up to speed. To suggest that's too much to ask lacks a certain professionalism.
Eli Pariser has a good TED talk along similar lines:

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
Professional audio apps use a lot of SIMD but almost always via compiler intrinsics. It's rare that somebody will actually drop down into raw assembly. Thanks to mobile you can't afford any more to assume that x86 is the only instruction set that matters so an extra shim via a library like iOS's Accelerate makes a lot more sense than raw asm.
Awesome! My favourite of the ones I've watched so far is #97.
The expanding-decimal notation is very appropriate for TeX, because its implementation is just converging to the behavior specified in the TeXbook (i.e., pi), not adding features.
I'm really not sure at whom this is aimed. Are there really people out there who think they've never made a bad decision?

I've probably made at least sixteen bad decisions already today, and it's not even sunset.
1. Are they moving to a seamless upgrade system like Chrome?

2. If not, will it be auto-update or opt-in update?

3. Are plugin writers going to have to update their plugins every time there's a new release?
Mika Mobile on selling Battleheart on iOS and Android
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It's also just plain frustrating to read. The first page turn moves the page controls over, and then every subsequent page turn takes almost an entire second for its goofy animation to finish.

Why do so many e-reader/document-reader sites/apps insist on replicating old paper books buy forcing you to pause and watch a dumb animation on every page turn?
I don't know about you, but a filter-bubble is for me a very difficult-to-visualise mixed metaphor.
I'm not sure why you think geeks unilaterally oppose protectionism (or that we'd even call it protectionism). Seems like a broad, inaccurate generalization.

Personally, I like keeping money in the local economy when it makes sense to.
Facebook's Internet identity monopoly
I wouldn't call running a shell over Windows 7 re-imagining Windows. I'd call it hacking Windows.
Optimizing the Google +1 button for speed
After seeing how slow the Google +1 button loads and how it can actually degrade your website’s overall pageload time, I started looking around for answers. First of all, I found that I’m not the only one complaining about the issue. Numerous others have started to point out the speed issues with the +1 button. My second thought was to perhaps remove the button from the site, although considering the effect the +1 button has on your website’s ranking that would mean less love from Google.
So what’s a developer to do? If we keep the button on our site, overall pageload times spike. But if we remove the button, or not add it, we might lose out on a potential piece of the social voting pie which most believe affects your search performance.
Point Pingdom at it and see if you still think that. I get at least one downtime notice a week.
I think the thing is that you get the feature done, and then ask the users how to polish. You have to come up with the feature yourself.
I'm not getting this "filter bubble" meme that's floating about of late. My site is dedicated to helping people filter information (www.filterjoe.com), though not in the narrow sense discussed by the "filter bubble" proponents. Many regular people I know are totally overloaded and overwhelmed by the web, and most especially the social web (email, facebook, twitter, etc.).

Which is the best browser to use? How do I manage 200 passwords? What's the best kind of AA battery to buy? How do I read web pages without getting distracted?

It can be pretty hard for a normal person to get good answers to questions like these. Googling won't necessarily get you good answers and many people won't even know to ask (many people don't know that their password practices are extremely risky, or that the little "e" they click on to access the internet is a browser).

What's needed are better filters. This backlash against filtering takes one very small subset of possible reasons to filter - avoiding contradictory information to controversial topics - and makes a grand leap to the conclusion that all filtering is bad.

By this argument, if I do a keyword search on "passwords," it would be best if I were served the random top 10 results that happen to have the word "password" somewhere in the title or one of the subheadings. That way I won't be subjected to harmful biases . . .

EDIT: typo
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Given the location, you might be able to get away with 40-45k for someone with very little experience. That goes for both UI design and junior development.

That said, if you're serious about having them make a career there, I wouldn't low-ball them too much - or at least be prepared to give them a big raise their second year. Within about a year, if they're any good at all, they're going to realize that they can make more elsewhere - especially if they're willing to leave central FL. I think Orlando would bring both positions at least 60k with a year of experience, and the last thing you want is to train someone for a whole year only to have them leave because they feel their job isn't competitive / is "dead-end".
In the short term, I think it's unlikely that online personalization will be accurate enough to create the type of bubble Tim Berners-Lee is suggesting.

The type of bubble TBL is suggesting is actually just the reddit hivemind. It already exists. People like it.