skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subhakar Rao Surapaneni 
As Chief Executive Officer, Subhakar Rao Surapaneni helps define marketing strategy and drives innovation across the marketing outsourcing industry. As an evangelist for what's possible, he pushes companies to stretch beyond its current capabilities, not just in marketing but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models. He is a Sales and Marketing Pioneer, Investor, Technology Champion, Philanthropist and Leadership Mentor.
True, why not utilize OpenCL but invent another alternative?
Sketchpad - The program that started it all
>I predict future successful social networks will be somewhat like HN or reddit--semi-anonymous, with no real connection to real life. If they can surround you with peers clustered around your interest profile, perhaps we could grow organic communities around professions and hobbies that dynamically or elastically determine membership and open channels of communication (as opposed to the current process of self-selection and direct messaging). I don't know, I'm rambling now.

Isn't this problem already solved by discussion boards? :D Or is your idea different from them in some way? Please feel free to share your views.
Yeah, you're probably right. I was hoping for the simple solution, but came up short. I can say that I personally wouldn't mind sacrificing my own karma to downvote someone who really deserves it.
At least according to the Wikipedia “Greenhouse gas” article, it’s hard to measure exactly how much each gas contributes to the greenhouse effect, because different gases absorb and emit radiation at different frequencies.

Regardless of how you work out the proportions, there used to be a homeostasis, where the biological and physical processes that put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere balanced the processes that took them out. The additional CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O from human activity is upsetting that homeostasis.
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After all, one can't always tell with certainty which immigrants are the "good" immigrants and which are the "bad" ones, in advance.
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Well you certainly can't tell if you don't even try.

The only good solution to the immigration mess is to just let people buy their citizenship. Put a price on it. Then people would see more clearly that those who jump in line are thieves. Those who want poor immigrants can sponsor them.
Clisp FAQ's Zionist agenda
Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination.

EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578
I agree that an incumbent is very hard to be beaten head-on. Examples: Google on search. Microsoft on OS or Office.

Over time monopolistic players start to be everything for everybody. This may be just fine but in addition to that they promote bloat at the expense of their main product's usability. That's when new players emerge.
They disagree about what ? What does happen ?

As far as unpopular idea go, I think "immigration is good for the economy" is pretty unpopular nowadays in France (and most European countries).
With qualifications, I assume? Mexican druglords could certainly afford to buy citizenship.
Lessons from the Lawbreakers - what entrepreneurs can learn from the mob
An electronic version of Ivan Sutherland's doctoral thesis:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf
Time will show if this statement will be true.

They've put weight on Silverlight as well and now they're ditching it for HTML5.
When theat models collide (IP in movie theaters)
Version 12 and still no print preview?
The “Cape Wind” project saw massive opposition from residents of Nantucket... but they failed to block its approval.
C++ is the wrong choice for many applications, and I'll reach for a higher-level language if I can, but if you need the low-level control of C and need some tools for better abstraction C++ is your only real option.
Ahem, who has all the guns and tanks and helicopter gunships in your country? I'll bet it's not the phone company. A corporation has 1% of 1% of the real power of any government.
This article, and it's source article, fail to reveal the new adoption rates. It's one-sided, and I agree with makeramen, it's linkbait.
[video] Scaling Facebook With OpenSource Tools
It looks like you post an awful lot of stuff from your own site, maybe that triggers something.
Carmack: Next consoles in 2013, 10x the power
Because that would make it easier to port things away from Windows.
Steve Jobs the Comic Book Hero: An Exclusive Look
Of course... but we're probably getting just as many drug lords now than if we didn't have qualifications.

BTW, I got the idea from Gary Becker...

http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/06/22/gary-becker-immigrant...
I agree. Microsoft's childish attitude towards reinventing the wheel and hijacking ownership is adversely affecting progress in technology.
WebGL – More WebGL Security Flaws
Piryx Is Reborn As Rally.org With Top Investors In Tow
Agreed. I like spending face-to-face time with my friends not so much because I expect them to say something really new or surprising; we know each other too well at this point for that. I just happen to enjoy their company. A firehose of trivia from their daily lives is just an annoying distraction.
I had a customer project two years ago: Import data that came out of SAP HR-PT into a MySQL database. HR-PT is the SAP personnel time recording system. This thing generates plain text tables with each entry having a fixed-width data type which has a peculiar German name. The 21st century solution for this would be an XML file. So the impression I got is that the whole SAP codebase seems to be stuck in the 1970s.

Working with this stuff is so complex that in Germany, it's an often-told inside joke in the IT industry that some small and medium sized businesses actually became insolvent by moving to an SAP-based system.
RSA Animate: "The Paradox of Choice"
Sales Manager
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnP-XzB_U0

Ignore the stupid, racist comments.
Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen
the virtue of contributing to an existing standard

What are you saying? They have been "contributing" to standards since they were founded.

Of course, not when they can force their own standard down on people's throats and get away with it, like they did with Direct 3D, which eventually won (on Windows anyway), but if you are talking about HTML5, remember that they tried their luck with Silverlight first.
If you're looking for a literal stock exchange game, the Wall Street Journal runs a reasonably good one called the virtual stock exchange at http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
I'm finding Twitter of at least some limited use too. The big difference is that I don't follow my "friends", I follow people that know a lot about things I find professionally and artistically interesting, most of whom I'll probably never meet in person.
That seems to have been a long time ago, and the same can't be said of me. I've triggered it now twice by submitting direct links to YouTube.

Not conclusive, but it's a start.
I got it once when I tried to post an Apple Press Release when iCloud was announced...
Sales management is attainment of an organization's sales goals in an effective & efficient manner through planning, staffing, training, leading & controlling organizational resources. Revenue, sales, and sources of funds fuel organizations and the management of that process is the most important function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_manager
I forget the name of the company, but some guy is working on electric cars with swappable batteries: the idea is that instead of plugging your car in overnight to “refuel” it, you would take it to a service station and change the discharged batteries for charged ones.

Now imagine that the outlets for charging those batteries were connected to a wind-powered grid, where the power company charged a lower rate in exchange for less reliable availability. That kind of service would suck for running, say, an Internet data center, but it would be adequate to make sure that all the batteries that came in by 6:00 pm were fully charged by 6:00 am.

Voilà! Two problems solving each other.
Reminds me of the link last week re: 130% effective spam filter.
Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style".

I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.
My impression of the Tier-1 ERP systems is that they are effectively software mainframes.
For an explanation of why I didn't submit the direct link to the YouTube video, see here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660975

For the actual talk, and other references, see here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22The+Paradox+of+C...
Facebook is going to have to be a lot more than Evite++ to justify its valuation in the long-term though.
AMD's GPU support for Linux has always been spotty. How much does this depend on their hardware drivers?
By all accounts Microsoft is irrelevant in todays technology landscape. Hard to see how they adversely affect progress in any meaningful tech sphere
Yes, there is oversimplification, but one observation I believe is correct:

IPO in 2012 is too late.

People will cash in their options by the dozens and move on. If you IPO at peak, this effect is multiplied. If you IPO way before that peak, some might leave, but since the stock is still going up, they will continue to work those 12 hours a day for you.

However, I'm no expert on this stuff! It's just what I would do.
Nobody care at Facebook
Everything Bloomberg talked about is correct except it applies to LEGAL immigration. ILLEGAL immigration is the problem.
Maybe, but what does that have to do with the discussion? Only because there are copying garbage collectors, doesn't mean you have to use one.
Incase anyone reading this isn't convinced that recruiters really are the biggest problem with jobs boards you could check out Tobin Harris' write up of his experiences here http://wip.engineroomapps.com/post/3927805265/hiring-without...

For my part, recently I was in conversation with a friend who'd advertised a role themselves. They were getting calls from recruiters saying unless they took their candidates through them they would actively contact those candidates and tell them not to apply. They said they would tell the candidates that they'd already put them forward and not to bother applying. Jobs Boards without recruiters can I think benefit candidates and employers. The only people who wouldn't benefit would be the recruiters
I create a "task" (you can do this with any todo app, but I use taskwarrior) for every change I make to my css, ie:
"more appropriate top margin @ index". Then I solve exactly that problem, change the selectors/properties I need in my stylesheet, and review the solution (to see if other rules are affected or overwritten).

define problem -> solve problem -> refine solution -> commit/save changes.

might sounds slow, but really isn't, and keeps things clean.
Downvoting is used often for dissenting views nowadays. Personally, I don't care that much if my comments are downvoted. This is just another forum on the internet. I'd rather voice my opinion and get downvoted than not voice my opinion at all.

That being said, I'd like to see the downvoting be removed.

Go ahead and downvote my comment.
And, additionally, if nobody uses it.. It's just the work of shutting it down. No big harm made.
Firefox 5 beta users will be upgraded to release candidate. I am not sure for Firefox 4. On Firefox 5 final release(June 21) Firefox 3.5 users will be auto upgraded to Firefox 3.6. More details here
http://www.browsomatic.com/2011/05/mozilla-plans-to-kill-fir...
gDEBugger was a cross platform opengl/opencl debugger before amd bought them. I am surprised/disappointed to see them offer only a windows version.
Don't be butthurt over one downvoter. Here, I upvoted you.
It's there, but not yet enabled by default.

If you want to try it, go to about:flags, and set it to enabled.
Nook Touch Rooting: June 16th News (Source Code Link?)
No, OpenCL's been out for a while now. AMD just announced they were releasing a new set of developer tools for OpenCL.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660904
Rabbit on a Leash — Rate Limited AMQP subscriptions
Examples are indeed thin on the ground but they do seem finally to me making a serious effort to produce a standards-compliant browser. Maybe I just want to find something nice say about an old, toothless bully.
A friend of mine once said: SAP sucks the blood out of the mittelstand.
The Sickness Beneath the Slump
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In Comments

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Please don't bait other users by inviting them
to downmod you.
Ways for Usability Testing to Play Nice with Agile
RSA submissions on Thursday afternoons from accounts less than 2 years old are banned.
This is great, future enhancements I would love to see:

Subject filter (filter Ask HN)

User criteria - 'always on' or 'always filter' by user (always show from rmontanaro/never show from cyanbane)

show/filter x levels of comments
(ie show 'bitcoin' unless there are 4+ levels of comments at some point)
I know there is a list of domains that are have been banned maybe youtube has now made the list.
Exactly, like myself, i've noticed a lot less noise from my friends on facebook. In my circle people use FB considerably less than when I first used it 5years ago.
Rapid Prototyping with FlickrBomb
"Randomly selected moderators assign points of either −1 or +1 to each comment, based on whether the comment is perceived as either normal, offtopic, insightful, redundant, interesting, or troll (among others)."(Wikipedia)

Interesting approach...
Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?
Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png

And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png

You can clearly see what I was talking about.
Wow, thanks for contributing this to the thread. I had not seen this before. That has to be the best explanation of the tradeoffs/benefits of ORM I've seen anywhere. Most of the content isn't "new" in the sense that if you've done both a lot of SQL and a lot of ORM work, the issues are pretty obvious. But it does a fantastic job of showing why there's just no simple answer currently.
Formula One team uses rapid prototyping machines at the racetrack to make parts
Apple Back to School Deal Includes $100 Gift Card
How to Double Your Subscriber Growth With 10 Minutes Work
This is like a booby trap in a language. Presumably it can be solved with optimization in the compiler at some point (according to the thread, turning on optimizations improved performance somewhat, but replacing for with while made performance identical to Java).

Personally, I don't like languages to have a whole bunch of slightly different iterators for specialized purposes, but having for turn out to be dramatically different from while performance-wise violates the principle of least surprise.
Same as the downvoting threshold (500).
"Facebook is about people you were friend with, Twitter is about people you wish you'd be friend with"

-- approximate quote from someone I can't recall

This is not quite exact in reality, but I think it captured the difference in essence between the two social platforms.
Informative. Anybody know what the status of D is? Have people started using it in their projects hobby or even commercial?
"The media" has their own agenda. If they wanted to, they could make a fuss about scientific findings.
Long story. Older hardware, doesn't do flashy stuff, helps stop me procrastinating, runs lots of low priority, background tasks that will get broken by upgrading, and so on.

The fast, whizzy machines with new OSs and up-to-date browsers get used for serious, work-related stuff. Not for HN.
It depends on your definition. As I understand it, mainframes are a 2 tiered approach (client-server). SAP, like most systems today are built in a 3 tiered approach (client-application-server). So much of what changed in the mainframe days shifted most of the processing to the application layer, rather than logic purely built on a massive database.

The software is good in a sense that it gets it's job done. For example, should an application that completes financial transactions for one company be any different for another? This is why companies continue to buy SAP. Usability is a big issue from the client side.
OpenCL is equivalent to OpenGL -- runs on Windows, Linux, etc. (even coming to smartphones soon).

C++ AMP is based on the DirectCompute APIs in DirectX 11.

My $.02 -- maybe the target audience for C++ AMP is different than the target audience for OpenCL. Before it was released, I really liked the idea of OpenCL but in practice it doesn't really deliver very well (performance-wise) compared to alternatives like nVidia CUDA, AMD APP (formerly Stream), and DirectCompute.
People feel sick because it add and adds and adds and become too much to handle. UI become bloated. And after some time you're done.

What you described as future SNs are actually more history Usenet, IRC, Well, Prodigy, AOL, Geocities and so on. Yes communities will always be there but SNs are solving a different problem. SNs are more about socializing with your friends than talking what's happening with Rails project lately.
I don't know if it's accurate to say this is a competitor to OpenCL. We don't have full details, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was implemented using OpenCL. OpenCL is relatively low-level. It's quite un-friendly for developers to use directly. It's much more reasonable for compilers to generate it, or for libraries to build abstractions on top of it.

My dissertation work did a similar with with OpenMP-like syntax and semantics built on top of the Cell's native API: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/cellgen/ (And, actually, my compiler generated code for a library that was a thin wrapper on top of the Cell's native API itself - it's so low-level that it was easier to have another layer of abstraction between my generated code and it.)
> I'm not quite sure what the government can even do to "civilize"

Nothing that would make anything better, and everything that would mean they have more powers.
LulzSec Possibly Subject of Framing Attempt
> the software industry as a whole would be better off if […]

Ultimately, Microsoft could be better of if they manage to impose their new proprietary wannabe de-facto standard. It doesn't care if it wrecks the whole industry in the process, they care about money.
Why does the server in a websocket request have to answer a challenge?
Most of the big car companies are experimenting with some sort of battery swapping concept. The problem is that they all have to get together and agree on some sort of standard interface, power ratings and dimensions. If a service station has to stock dozens of different models of batteries then the idea has basically failed before it even gets started.
I got the same message when linking to a Youtube video.
HN karma would be a great metric for vetting experience and track-record. It's one of the trickiest things when trying to hire above-average talent.
May I recommend using jobberBase (http://www.jobberbase.com) as a platform? Also open-source, with a great community around it.

Disclaimer: I've built jobberBase, so I'm biased :).
My friend writes:
Also, the 10-12 year cycle of sunspots does not have a significant effect on climate. In fact, the climate scientists desperately trying to find other causes of global warming investigated them thoroughly, studies show that the change in solar insolation to be roughly one and a half orders of magnitude smaller than needed to be comparable to the current temperature changes. The temperature decrease from even the little ice age was less than a third of the temperature increase we've already experienced, and you know we're in for another three times that best case scenario. A little ice age now would be a wonderful coincidence, but would hardly change the dire outlook as the heating well surpasses it. That fortuitous event would only effect the price we put on carbon by ~1/31/3.
This recent spurt of articles about how Facebook is supposedly declining is based entirely on the Facebook self service ad tool as far as I can tell. An initial study of the numbers that the tool was reporting back was compared more recently and the differences supposedly indicate drop off in numbers.

None of the subsequent articles that I've read seem to mention how the data was gathered, just that Facebook has lost X amount of users in Y country. I for one dont think that Facebook's publicly accessible ad tool is a very sophisticated or accurate way of measuring FB's user numbers.
PixelJET - Dreamweaver meets Firebug, in JavaScript
I agree with rimantas. Views and Stored Procedures should not be used to perform business logic stuff i.e. I should not have to create a view with massive joins just because a logic need requires it. And I should not have to dive into my database when a business rule changes!!! Views and Stored Procedures are useful when you lack a layer of abstraction (e.g. An MS Access FrontEnd) where you may want to put security restrictions on the data that is exposed to a particular group of users, OR for performance reasons where a reasonably complex query can be run faster as a stored procedure. Of course this is my personal view, and is definitely a point of contention for many people.

The whole point of an ORM is to abstract the data from application code. Business Logic can be built on top of it with minimal knowledge of the underlying data storage system except in exceptional cases. ORM frameworks aim to simplify the process of writing these boilerplate code and continue to fulfil most common use cases.
Rhetoric vs Data, and the Gender divide in Tech
I've found http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php quite useful.

It lists all the skeptic questions, and investigates the science that relates to each one in some depth - at either "Basic" or "Intermediate" levels.
I'm not sure what you mean by binary divide, but the reason why some is introverted versus extroverted fascinate me. It's a pretty basic question - learned behavior versus instinctual/genetic behavior. Maybe it's somewhere in the middle?

Here's what I think: as a young kid, you get exposed to things that shape your attitude. If your early experiences are negative in social settings, perhaps you grow up to be introverted. But what happened first - your negative experiences, or an attitude that pre-disposed you towards negative social experiences? Can little little kids have attitudes like that? Hard to day - how do we really know?

I don't care what physical science has to say on it regarding brain maturity, neuro-pathways, etc - unless we can communicate with infants, we don't know if they have pre-disposed attitudes or thoughts.
It's in the goddamn name. «Lulz».
Apple files patent to have the ability to block shooting mobile video
completely OT:

> Side note, first time I'd seen Namesake and it's kinda cool.

This reminds me of convore. Does anyone know who was first?
Debugger Canvas for Visual Studio
I don't think any legitimate study disputes the fact that the planet is getting warmer and polar ice is melting en masse.

What is in dispute are the reasons why, and what to do about it, if anything.