skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a new nice largeish 2 bedroom apartment with backup generator, swimming pool and gym(small) for about $450/month. You could also get something much more cheaper at $100/month which would be really low. The tradition is that the security deposit is 10*monthly-rent and paid before you move. Also its always month to month so there is no 1-year lease like in the US.

A new decent car will run you $8000 but you could use ezdrive.in or some cab service. Or you could buy a Nano for $2500 (or a second hand car) and get a full time driver for $140 a month. Maintaining a driver is a pain in the butt I've heard. Or you could just use Autorickshaws every day at $1 each way for a 45 minute trip. ($50 a month?) but they are a hassle.

Traffic is THE horrendous pain in the ass. Make sure your not driving at 8:10am - 10:30am or 4:30pm - 7pm.

Cellphone - you can get prepaid with the same number of minutes as Rupees. So 300 minutes would cost you $6. Also calls to the US are Rs.7/minute or 14cents/minute.

Vegetables are cheaper than the US. Fruits are about as expensive as in the US here unless they are in season. But you get exotic stuff from jackfruit to lychees.

Internet is like $30/m for really fast access. And Electiecity about $20/m max. Cable is like $10 for a bunch of channels including HBO.

Clothes and such are about 50% the cost of india for mid-range stuff. All medium-high to high end stuff is the same cost or more expensive than the US (and usually slightly cheaper looking for some reason).

Bangalore is full of pubs and clubs. I dont know about hte dating scene as I've never lived in Bangalore per se.

Interest rates are high. You cna get like 5% in a bank savings account here but I dont know if you can take it back wtih you and so on. You'll have to look that up.

Thats about it.

You should start applying before you move here so at least you have a process started. Also to get a VISA to work in India you might need a job offer. I dont know.

My brother works at zynga (in bangalore) so email me if you have a strong resume and want it forwraded. The decision to forward would of course be upto my brother based on your resume.
When they find the remains of midgets 10000 years from now would they also call them 'other species'? I never read any real proof of other 'human' species. Only 'possibilities' and 'believes'.
OK, maybe I wasn't explicit enough, then. I wanted to stress the fact that, even though most atheists completely accept that humans are animals like any others, just with "bigger" brains, there is still vestiges of the time where we thought it was not the same at all.

Some of those vestiges can be found in our language. Here, it was saying "human and animals" instead of the more correct "human and other animals" (without the emphasis of course). This kind of phrasing tend to promote the higher status of humankind as self evident, while frankly it is not. (I've read once that Dolphins may be almost as sentient and sapient as we are. In this case, they should have right they currently don't have.)
That idea was from a concept I came across somewhere on the web; "No one wants to read your s--t" . I think it's something of a mantra in the advertising world.

It struck me at the time as I was working with a CEO who thought length == quality in communication, both writing and discussions. I think that he wrote things for his own gratification, it probably gave him a feeling of productivity. Sadly a lot of what he wrote wasn't read, or not a carefully as it should have been. It takes effort and generosity to write for the reader.
"Unlike existing virtual shopping that shoehorns 2-D photos on top of body snapshots," ... this tech shoehorns 2-D photos on top of a 3D video of yourself, in real time.

I couldn't believe how lame they looked posing with purses that looked like paper cutouts. I can't believe it'll work for purses, and I surely can't believe it'll work for actual clothing.
Hey if it is motivated then how could you say it HACKS?
Generosity! There's something to meditate upon ...
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This looks like it has the possibility to dramatically increase the efficiency of motors and engines.

Also, if they could capture the heat coming out of a nuclear reactor, they could both avoid meltdowns and not require proximity to a large body of water.

Edit: Disregard this. I don't know thermodynamics as well as I thought I did.
RIM's market cap is $15 billion, so buying them just for the patents would be like burning $100 bills. As a comparison, Nortel's 6000 patents are apparently getting sold for less than one billion. Does RIM have a portfolio anywhere near that size or quality?
SQLite for everything in our case - why is this choice overlooked despite its excellence and popularity?
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If by "dramatically" you mean "by 0.004%", then yes.

More information:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/i6pfi/new_alloy_can...
too late to edit my comment but an interesting analysis which does consider the quadrants: http://zodiackillersolved.blogspot.com/2008/12/340-cipher-so...
I believe you missed the point, this is to help users start interacting with the app, it's not on the homepage. So as someone visiting the site you would see if you like its idea or not and then, if you do, you would for instance try a demo. That's where this kicks in, it helps you with your first actions.

It might make sense for some apps to use this directly on the homepage but that would probably be the exception to the rule.
This will only work if there are penalties levied on ISPs for not blocking. As anyone using Tor will be able to circumvent such a block the ISPs will always be liable thus destroying them and net access in the UK.
Weirdly on that demo it derived an average color of green even though the pic looked to be 80% blue.
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In order of scale of usage:
PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MySQL(not to very much though).
It's (still) in an awkward position for some of the people who might need it the most. My elderly mother, for example, doesn't have the range of motion in her arms to reach up that high.
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I may have been too optimistic. But 30% is still quite a bit.

Modern gasoline engines have an average efficiency of 20%. Say you put 100J into one. 20J of useful work will be produced, and 80J of heat. Now if 30% of that heat were captured, that's another 24J of useful work. In effect, we've doubled the engine's efficiency from 20% to 44%. That's pretty dramatic.
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Hmm, where are you getting 30% from? The paper says 0.004%, if I understand it correctly.
This doesn't lower the temperature of a nuclear reactor or any heat source. The new material will still experience an increase in temperature, and the same amount of heat will still be released into the environment.
Bingo. It is all very well to say "I and my business buddies only use 10 apps". Go have a look at a random teenager's iPhone and if they are not full of game apps I will eat my hat.

And yes there are a lot if kids with iPhones out there, either as full phones or without phone service. Where do you think all the previous generation devices are going?

In a family the app-store represents significant lock-in, both in collective $$ spent on apps and media, but also in the device hand me down chain. I bet there is a lot of pressure against one of the parents switching to an N9 all of a sudden.

Brand new smartphone users or company issues are (maybe) a different issue.
none of this is relevant. if you don't know, I have you know in US there are tens of thousands abortions legally made every day. There are thousands of court orders to separate natural born children from their parents, legally, every day. What on earth would made you think someone at DHS or ICE or BIA would cry a single tear over this or another person's story?? this is United States of America! We bomb foreign countries in the name of peace in US by using remote drones killing hundreds of thousands mothers, fathers, wifes and children. If the world is like a school class, then US is a bully rich brat that can do whatever it feels like and there is nothing you can do!

but rest assured the party will be over soon. thanks to its foreign predator policy, us always had 40% less expensive oil than others, so this could be so called "dream land" because human dreams are made of pleasures and needs, and both are cheaper in us than anywhere else. once dollar weaken even more the euro/yun basket will replace petro dollar and noone will be interested to discount cruide to us. thanks to supply and demand, within couple weeks you will see prices of everything, starting with diapers, ending on houses skyrocketing. the country will literally implode. game over! but this is already another thread...
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Is there actually a demand for killing off snakes, rats and cockroaches entirely?

I'm sure if we really thought long and hard...
FWIW, the Clang compiler does warn about this situation:

undefined.cpp:4:13: warning: address of stack memory associated with local variable 'a' returned return &a;

Edit: So does gcc.
This comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/i6pfi/new_alloy_can...

Which says that the efficiency could reach 30% with some work. I assume that %30 is not a typo.
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Can startups handle women? That's a more important question, IMHO.
"there are so many security holes in web browsing already, why do you begrudge us a few more?"

I think this is a valid argument.

You see a lot of arguing about things online where something being slower, more expensive, harder to use, less secure, more radioactive etc. is presented as a case-winning argument, without anyone bothering to quantify the problem or put it in context.

The world isn't build on absolutes, unless you can guesstimate how much less secure or more radioactive something will be (a banana worth or a chernobyl worth) then why should I care? If we're really taking the absolutist stance that nothing that introduces a potential security issue (or the slightest additional radioactivity) is allowed then we might as well abandon all technology and go back to living in caves.

At least try to make a case that WebGL, if not strangled at birth, will create a noticeably less safe web than would exist in a world with all the current issues, all the ones associated with Silverlight and Flash using GPUs, and all the new issues from whatever other features are added to browsers, computers or smartphones over the same timeframe.
Exactly. I didn't mean to imply that pointers are evil or should be avoided. That was supposed to be the point of my dynamite analogy, but I guess the comment made elsewhere on this topic about the inadequacies of analogies holds true here.

So, for the avoidance of doubt, I believe: pointers are awesome, powerful tools and you can do some great things in C/C++ using them and I sometimes miss them (a little bit) when using other languages. But you can also do some terrible things with them - and I have done some spectacularly bad things with them in the past. But that doesn't mean they are bad - it just means that I am reckless.
Except that bad programmers in other domains will typically shrug and say "so what" when you point out the lack of code quality while enterprise programmers will try to convince you that their twisted ways are actually better. IME, ofcourse.
You could put your idea on MySocialVenture.com and get feedback and find partners. Maybe a good way to get started
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Javascript hardly changes. For beginning, that is perfect. There is also http://eloquentjavascript.net/ great for beginners, but too much yada yada for my tastes. Books recommended:

David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Crockford, Javascript the good parts

J Resig, Secrets if javascript ninja

J Resig, Pro JavaScript Techniques
We're now purged our systems. We've traced every filename, grepped every file, and generally undertaken the mammoth task of removing anything that someone not steeped in hacker culture might find questionable

If I was a federal agent, that'd be the reason why I'd get suspicious. Why are you destroying evidence that you did not violate any laws?

As for avoiding upskirt (at least the name), you're in good company. The geek feminist community also hates the name (which I can understand of course).
One application of the alloy is automotive, but there is other work being done in this space:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687439
Pretty funny that a tech company is patenting a way to cripple their products. Probably a 'fuck off, stop whining, here's your protection' parent to quiet down the movie studios.
It seems from some of the comments down the thread that the idea of writing over memory in C++ is new to many people. Let me introduce another couple of concepts.

You don't have to stop with writing over the variables. You can write over the return address of a function, which is stored on the same stack as the variables. If you write some user-supplied buffer to memory, and you didn't carefully make sure that the memory is allocated for this purpose, the (malicious) user can supply you with data that will set the function's return address to something in his buffer, and the function will go on executing his code. That's called a buffer overflow vulnerability, and it's been well known and exploited for decades; half the patches you see coming down the pipeline used to be for this.

Now, there are good ways to protect against buffer overflow vulnerabilities. If you make the stack and data non-executable, and the pages containing code non-modifiable, then seemingly there is no place for the attacker to place his code and get it to run. Modern processors support this in hardware.

Except that some people came up with something called return-oriented programming. This works by finding little pieces in your code that do something simple like increment a register or write a byte of data, followed by a "return" instruction. These tiny pieces of code are called "gadgets". You can usually find enough gadgets to make a Turing-complete language. Then you write a compiler which transforms your code into a stream of calls to the gadgets. Now all you need is one overwrite of the return address on the stack, and you can start playing the application like a piano, without ever executing data or modifying code. There are now tools to automate all this.

I don't want to reveal anything about where I work, but we write applications which need to be reliable and secure. We have regular meetings to discuss vulnerabilities and security techniques. At the meeting where we discussed return-oriented programming, when we asked what we could do to protect from it, the consensus answer was "You can't. Don't make any buffer overruns." The problem is it's not clear that anyone ever wrote a program free from those.

Since hotel analogies seem to be so popular, here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(film)
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Well, anyone who looks at Facebook or reads their email at work is technically misusing company resources. But when smokers take a 15 minute break every hour, I think a company who fired you for poking someone would find itself staring down the wrong end of a tribunal.
My summary: collaboration between individuals is a strong Darwinian driver of competitive advantage between species (or other large groups). Homo sapiens individuals were more efficient at collaboration due to language and other social cognition. And yes, we (likely) killed the others off, like we have (possibly) killed off other large mammals (american giant ground sloth, perhaps).
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The reason there is that until very recently the only way to make a believable alien in the TV was to dress up a human in a costume.
Animals in the English language already means any living thing other than humans.
Offering embeddable, shareable HTML versions of games in the browser that are available in the App Store seems like a great way to boost iOS sales.

Has anyone used their Creator app for Mac? How does it compare to building 2D apps with cocos2d/Xcode?
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haha that's awesome, man. I converted it using http://userjs.up.seesaa.net/js/bookmarklet.html

The points are missing though.
It will be great if it was possible to be set by devs. Somebody wants 15 minutes, somebody wants 1 day or even one month.
If that is the worst XML that you have experienced then you have been very very lucky. I've seen stuff that:

- Has been built by string manipulation and therefore isn't well formed and needs hacky preprocessing before being parsed (no not HTML)

- Is full of redundant information (e.g. count attributes giving the number of child elements)

- Makes evil use of vast numbers of namespaces where the element names are all the same

- Is a basically a container for delimited or fixed format data

- Had attributes that contained entire encoded XML documents

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There are probably some other horrors that therapy and/or alchohol have let me forget (like systems doing SQL queries doing string compares on lumps of XML).

I really like JSON these days...
Oh, I think 30% is the theoretical maximum. He says they can reach 3% with years of work. It would be great if they could achieve 30%, but I doubt it.
It's also relevant because there's people lambasting Nokia for abandoning Maemo and wasting a couple of years on Meego with little to show for it.
Both can be used. CUDA is not that different from OpenCL.

Your underlying question seems to be "is it best to use ATI or NVidia cards for a render farm", I don't know the answer to that. Probably depends on the specific rendering software used.
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Hey folks, I started this Toronto JS Hackers meetup group to bring people who want to hack on open source projects together. I'm particularly interested in testing what you build and teaching people how to pair program while coding JavaScript.

I've set up the first meetup date as the 11th of July and if you're interested in hacking for a night at our office you should come by.

I'm also interested in having other people set up events in Toronto which involve learning more about JavaScript and the thriving eco-system surrounding it.

Sincerely,
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This is really cool. How long do the URLs last?
My point is more does a render farm necessarily need to be one of those options? Actually I thought render farms were exclusively used by large 3d only productions rather than simple broadcasting networks that mostly deal in normal video? What kind of GPU based operations would such an organisation benefit from that they would need an in house permanent render farm?
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Excuse me, but we (humans) are apes. We are not that extraordinary creatures to put ourself outside the biological taxonomy tree.

So it would be more accurate if you had written "humans and other apes".
What are Hulu's owners really selling?
A reading comprehension test (re: http://News.YCombinator.com/item?id=2670876)
really? you have not seen this list then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google.
Hm I guess for high-resolution image/video manipulation, compositing videos, rendering intermediate 3d animations/effects, and such. But you're right they won't need more than a small render "farm". They don't need to render Pixar movies...
killing off spiders would be a god terrible idea. then who would kill your bugs?
Cheetahs are less genetically diverse than humans
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cheetah+genetic+bottleneck also due to a severe and recent (on an evolutionary scale) genetic bottleneck
The WSJ interview of David McCullough got a fair number of comments here recently (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670876), and the interview prominently mentions the claim that "Just 2% of [US high-school seniors] understand the significance of Brown v. Board of Education."

This Language Log article dissects that claim.
Indeed it snows :) Funny! But seriously, the cold in Toronto is as bad as New York.

Also, programmer salaries aren't exactly the same. A top notch coder in SF Bay area or NYC makes x2-x6 than a Canadian. Apart from money, I felt that there were few hardcore jobs that would improve my skills. Nortel was an exception before it closed down.

That said, Canada is a pretty nice place to live. Immigrants aren't expected to assimilate. Rather, society is supposed to be enriched by your diversity. My family immigrated to Canada when I was a teenager and I've always been grateful to the country for accepting us. It's unfortunate that I've had to leave her to pursue educational and professional growth opportunities in the US. Not sure where my future lies ... but I miss Canada dearly.
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I feel like I must be missing something here; how is the 2/3rds that don't use Mac OS the smaller market?

And as others have pointed out, the market doesn't just consist of GitHub users, or even Git users. In this case, it's developers who use an RCS and need a good desktop application to go with it.

In any case the point may be moot; judging by the rest of the comment you quoted they're not ignoring other platforms at all but rather just using Mac OS as a first step, which I can understand.
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The others were tasty.
"These criminal enterprises infected the computers of innocent victims with malicious scareware, and then duped them into purchasing fake anti-virus software."

What if they just resold non-fake anti-virus software? Infect someone, then sell them a 'legit' tool that removes the infection, and make an affiliate sale?
Any chances this is the operation behind the Pinboard.in (and friends) servers being seized ?
That would at least somehow explain the "don't want to take any chances and take the whole racks" part.
I'm guessing its applications would be more in the line of powering remote devices then anything more substantial. I could see the point of replacing a photovoltaic panel with a hunk of metal in a seismic sensor or something like that.
Do you mean as a database engine using the ODBC driver for Excel or as a database-like application?