skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem with distributed compilation is not the distribution of jobs (there are tons of ways to do that), but resolving the dependency information correctly. I founded Electric Cloud (http://www.electric-cloud.com/) to solve this problem and we ended up needing to:

1. Completely understand the build process from the build script (e.g. Makefile)

2. Write a parallel distributed, versioned file system so that we could automatically spot the dependencies that were not mentioned in the build script.

Once we'd done that we were able to get very high parallelism from unmodified build scripts which was impossible with tools like make -j, distcc, etc. The reason is that almost all build scripts assume serial builds and thus do things like reusing a temporary file name which breaks parallelism. Or you have nightmares like a shared precompiled header file that everyone is updating.

Once you crank up the parallelism then you can start worrying about disk latency, network latency etc. That led us to do everything in RAM on the worker nodes, our own binary protocol with compression, and peer-to-peer communication inside the worker node cluster to maximize switch utilization and minimize master load.
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I don't think they had those in medieval times.
It appears to be multiple patents, virtually all obvious and with significant prior art:

• 5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames

• 5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames

• 6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations

• 6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer

• 6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database

• 7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes

• 5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior

• 6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information

• 6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device

• Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;

• Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;

• Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;

• Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and

• Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-sues...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

I really hate software patents and the trolls that abuse them.
Erm, how would that work? Apple is just shipping PowerVR chips. Presumably PowerVR has the proper licenses, or a cross-licensing agreement with S3.
Google Blocks Millions of .co.cc Domains, attackers now using .co.tv
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I'm planning to launched a promotion for a free movie ticket if they invite 3 friends and upload a video of something they want to sell. What do you think about that?
And just as they blocked the .co.cc, the attackers are now using the .co.tv:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/google-blocks-co-cc-attackers...

Never ending battle...
"The hoodie's centrality to tech culture..."

Heh, journalists.
> I recently looked into getting a VPN provider; it is simply impossible to research them without being showered in pages that are either outright spam or merely search-engine-optimized out the wazoo (pardon my French)

I recently did the same thing and didn't have a hard time finding a provider. Both StrongVPN and WiTopia showed up at the top of the SERPs (and StrongVPN also in AdWords), I went with WiTopia after then searching for reviews of both.
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You can add secondary (non-Google) e-mail addresses to a Google account, which should then all be associated with the same calendar.
True. And that's what the PSF said when they refused to censor the name.

But using the offensively-named software or not using are not the only options. Another option is for the author to use a non-offensive name. Then EVERYONE wins. Fortunately, that is what happened in this case.
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>...if I don't mind heating up my house (costing more in AC costs) and dealing with the noise of the computers running all the time.

Have there ever been any cases of miners being raided by the police? Because these sound like similar problems faced by another profitable cottage industry that crosses my mind...
Not proof that araneae's statement is accurate, of course, but a demonstration that science continues to encroach on the domain of philosophy in ways that the philosophers of old could never have imagined:

Back in the 17th century there was an argument between Descartes and Spinoza about how knowledge was formed. Descartes said that we heard a proposition, judged it on the evidence, and then either believed or rejected it depending on its merits. Spinoza said that, instead, our tendancy was to at first believe anything we heard and then only later reject it after some reflection. Over the centuries most people agreed with Descartes, but recently neuroscience has shown pretty conclusively that Spinoza was right. [1][2] So be very careful in assuming that science will never swallow any particular part of philosophy.

[1] http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/Gilbert%20et%20al%20%28UNBEL...
[2] http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/Gilbert%20et%20al%20(EVERYTH...
Yeah, absolutely. I'm always open to chatting with HN people. I would absolutely like to get in on a study group situtation for LPTHW like suggest below.
Thoughts on presenting software as a poster at a conference.
Am I the only one that expected an article about adobe flash? :-)
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but it can’t tell me under what circumstances it would be moral to take money from the wealthy (or, heck, the middle class) in order to feed starving children.

Sure it can. Take north western Europe, notoriously secular (when compared to the US) yes quite socialist with an extensive social safety net. Economics, sociology, etc, all help you identify what you need to do to reach what ever goals you are aiming for.

And ethics and fairness have been studied and are well known in other social species, like the great apes. They are not uniquely human.

Morality is just the formalization of a whole set of instinctive emotional desires for fairness. Most often it is enforced by using another emotional foundation, the respect for alpha leaders, as in it is God's law you do this and that.

There is no domain which will eternally be out of the reach of reason and science, not morality, not love, not spirituality, nothing. I find this wonderful!
I admined Postfix with a bunch of web GUIs, some of them fairly "Outlook-like". I made my living doing that and I'm still happy to consult on email & deliverability.

Having said that, my professional advice to you is DON'T.

If someone else wants to admin your email for a fee or for free, LET THEM.
This might not be fair in dialectic, but I assure you that attacking the ethos of an opponent in rhetoric is fair game. It can be tricky if you only focus on that though because it does not make the audience believe more in your point... But of course, forget about this silly rhetoric thing, Hacker News is all about pure logic :-)
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I do not think appealing (or trying to) will get you anywhere. But you might try contacting them (http://www.google.com/contact/)

If being searchable through Google is really important for you, get a new domain. If the contents of your site where that important, Google will index it and will be available sooner than you think.
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Ask HN: A way to follow G+ users through code?
I was looking for a Google+ API so I could scour through the folks I follow on twitter, find them on G+ and then follow them. So far, no dice. Has anyone found a way to follow someone or search G+ through code?
If you guys figure something out for a study group or IRC chat, email me! I would love to have some people going through LPTHW with me to keep each other at it. Like a lot of people, I always find myself starting the learning process with enthusiasm, but then dropping the hat when other projects come up. Really need the support to help make programming a priority.
PageRank is one of more than 200 metrics Google uses in its search engine. Your presumption that it is the foundation, or even the most important metric, is unwarranted.
In addition to the block reward (currently 50 and approaching zero) the miner gets any transaction fees for transactions included in the block. At the present, the block reward massively exceeds the transaction fees, but that will eventually skew the other way.
On your stream page just type a message in the share something box "Hi." for example. Then in the sharing selection box put in their email address. They'll get a message with a link to see what you shared with them and for whatever reason that seems to have a much higher success rate though it can still take several attempts at clicking the link in the email before they get the sign up instead of the we're full message.

Also, if you are sharing with a circle you have to make sure you check the little box during circle selection that says "Also email X people not yet using Google+" or they won't get the email.

About 90% of the people that I've sent invites to are signed up now.
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Perhaps I should have said I work for a large educational institution. Microsoft was free and Google was going to cost around $200k.
uhm. this "revelation" was already written about the first time jailbreakme did this, at least a year or two ago... Why is this news?
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Yeah, at least one: http://esspe.net/bitcoins-and-weed
It's an ugly cheap kludge. Furthermore it is a kludge which raises a question about how good Google's new singing dancing search results filtering algorithm really is, if it can't separate the wheat from the chaff at /co.cc/.

<Google directed cynicism>The cynic in me sees the timing of this as the first salvo in an effort toward the monetization of the coming proliferation of new commoditized top-level domains. When search results are nothing more than an advertising platform, why should a search engine return your results unless you are paying for the screen space? Perhaps, /co.cc/ was not encouraging the use of Google Analytics or promoting Adwords sufficiently.</Google directed cynicism>
Religion ended slavery? Please explain (I'm genuinely curious).

Philosophy went nazi? No, nazism went philosophy, and poorly too. They raped Nietzsche's philosophy until it fit their needs, with the help of his decadent Missgeburt of a sister. Heidegger is perhaps a much more problematic case, but also not a matter of black-and-white.

Philosophers _produced_ logic? Wittgenstein is lolling at you in his grave right now.
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Thank you. I appreciate your responses (and your patience with me).

When I originally read "the poor do not want to work," I mistakenly (and hastily) interpreted this as a criticism of the so-called underclass or working poor (decent folks who are honest and hard-working but who are broke after life throws them a curve ball like unemployment or health problems).

Of course that's not who you mean. In my mind, I think your definition fits the "technically poor," not the socially and economically marginalized.

The technically poor would be those with substantial assets like a paid-off condo or house, with a six-figure 401k, good credit and family with substantial means, who suddenly become unemployed and so meet the income criteria, if only temporarily. Some of these people are low-skilled, and some are high-skilled.

For those folks, it certainly could be rational (if demoralizing) to stay on unemployment, because their real safety net is tapping into their assets at some point, e.g. when their benefits run out.

In my limited experience, the "working poor" are very demoralized by government assistance, accepting it as a last resort, and they tend to want to get back into a job for reasons of pride and ego.

The people who are morally corrupt and willing to exploit the system have absolutely nothing to do with poverty. They exist at every income bracket, and I've met plenty of middle class and high net worth individuals who would qualify :)

I apologize for jumping to the wrong conclusions and for my initially antagonistic tone. I regret the error and will not repeat it.
Its hard for the fish to recognize the water. Seeing the whole transformation happen (having been alive in 1982) this has largeley happened.

Houses are built with home-office space, with network wiring throughout, with attention to where light will interfere with screens. TV/monitors in every room, phone wiring all but obsolete.

SO houses are not a totally different shape or anything, but they are different. And who would buy an old house with a parlor, a sleeping porch and summer kitchen?

Amazon started with a drop-ship model where books were ordered/printed on demand. Their volume outgrew this. So its been transformed twice.

And you don't think young people divide the world into 'those who text/twitter/facebook' and 'old people'? Maybe you don't select friends based on class, but its happening anyway.

I think bloggers are maturing right now. Traditional media is in decline yet we have hardly any way to select quality blog sources, there are few 'big names' that last long enough to become entrenched in society like WSJ or the Times.

I'm astonished by the article for an entirely different reason: how was it so easy to predict all this so well?
A search for people on G+ can be done like so: http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en-US&tbs=p...
> Lucky for me I'm a bit of an adrenalin junky.

I'd wager most shy people aren't. I'm not. I met a bunch of redditors after moving to New York, but only after meeting them all in IRC first. It would have worked out fine, but it saved me a lot of pain and effort.

Yes, you need to learn more skills, but you can wade in instead of going for the high dive right off the bat.
It seems like a shame that all that computational power is being wasted. I mean other than generating some hashes, what good does that really do? I think it'd be cool if somehow it tied into the folding@home type of stuff. Where the computations solved something meaningful, but there could also be some "monetary" incentive.
So? Motivation matters and it shows in his content.

I can trust that someone who profits directly from the Microsoft ecosystem will tell me to use Microsoft products.

This article is really two parts.

1) Why he is switching away from DropBox. Fair points, but none of it is new information that we haven't seen posted here 20 times the week the security vulnerability occurred.

2) Why he is switching to Live Mesh. This is an advertisement. It is not informative, it does not compare other syncing products, it does not add anything beyond the Live Mesh marketing information.

It isn't even a review of Live Mesh
Yeah, I'm sure the ads will be similar to Facebooks soon. But possibly less annoying/more personalized.

I think this is the real concern for Twitter. G+ can kind of do what Twitter does, and G+ is much easier to monetize.
If Apple made an official jailbreak they'd stop getting all this free penetration testing.
Yeah, I noticed that after I've decided to use the name. There's also a magazine called "Startups" from Entrepreneur (the magazine that sues entrepreneur http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578592).

It is actually really hard to find a good (and memorable) magazine name with available domain name. But instead of keep looking for the perfect name, I've decided to stick with this first and focus on producing the magazine.
> How could this be solved though?

We aren't talking about tornadoes or earthquakes. Let's remember that spammers are people.

How would we "solve" people who spread toxic waste on city streets?

That is exactly the way to deal with spammers. They have names, addresses, bank accounts, finally bodies. All of these could be located and dealt with if law enforcement officials felt like it.

Until spammers are dealt with in exactly the same way as other types of miscreants who love to piss in our collective soup, the problem will persist and grow arbitrarily worse.
Microsoft is already willing to license its patent to Samsung, and for a price that is known.

If the court didn't issue an injunction, Microsoft would not really be harmed - if Samsung lost the case later it's quite clear what the damages would be and Microsoft have already made it clear that just financial compensation would be acceptable.

If the court did issue an injunction, then Samsung could be irreparably harmed - and if Samsung subsequently win the case then it would be very difficult to make them whole again.

IANAL. I don't see why any sensible court would issue such an injunction.
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There is essentially no one to appeal to, unless someone on the Google webspam team takes a personal interest in this when it hits the top page of HN. (Which has been known to happen.) That will be to avoid the PR hit rather than out of the moral persuasiveness of avoiding collateral damage. Google does collateral damage on a fairly frequent basis.

They prefer to deal with it by "scalable communication methods" rather than by speaking to you about it. For example, to a certain philosophy within the borg, that blog post should teach you your lesson about being in a "bad neighborhood." (This euphemism has become a term of art in the SEO community. Google recommends you not link to websites in bad neighborhoods.)

how can I recover the traffic that was previously coming from Google before they removed my site?

You seem to be under the impression that that traffic was yours to begin with. I think the borg believes it is their traffic, though they would be circumspect about saying that in as many words. They'll sell it to you, for example. (Google makes scads on selling brands their own branded keywords.)

Most professional SEOs of my acquaintance would note that, if one has a site burned, redirecting that site to a new site is a fairly risky endeavor for that new site.

P.S. If one needs a new free web host and one is worried about getting smacked down again for being in a bad neighborhood, a cynical person might recommend blogspot.com. You'll still be in a bad neighborhood, but you'll be in a bad neighborhood which is highly unlikely to get hit with the orbital ion cannon.
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register new domain
I have abandoned other sites entirely. I even get impatient at my family/friend's postings on Facebook - too much 'me too' and 'cool!' noise.
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Well I mined about 10, bought another 10, it's just speculation right now.
In that case, shouldn't the author put his money where his mouth is and put the article on a site that has a +1 button?
He mentions the power usage, people do get reported over that. However the police also check for unusual heat signatures coming out of buildings at night, that could also have been what happened.

Interestingly, in some jurisdictions (notably canada) looking through someone's roof with an IR camera constitues an invasion of privacy, and requires a warrant.

Looking forward to the future when Bitcoin gets banned, and we see documentaries with police officers breaking down makeshift barricades to gain entry to innocuous looking barns way out in the countryside, pulling back layers of plastic sheeting to find a state of the art datacenter inside, with racks of clustered GPUs, and one very dishevelled looking vietnamese nerd sleeping on a bare mattress.
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We tried doing something similar at XMarks (a bookmark sync service) when I worked there. We figured bookmarks were a good source for mining quality websites and hired some very bright people with a search background to build it. For some searches, it gives pretty good results. Here's the one it gives for VPN providers:

http://www.xmarks.com/topic/vpn_providers

It was an uphill battle for us, which ultimately never worked out. Early on, we did a usability study with users to see how they use search engines and the people we interviewed tended to think that google was more of an expert than themselves and if they were having trouble finding things, it was more their problem than google's.

We ended up trying to take our data and tried decorating it directly on the google search results page to start getting usage, but it was really hard to get any traction and build any momentum. For most searches, Google is good enough and only a small number of our current users started using our website for search/discovery.

We ended up spending a significant amount of time decorating the ads within search results and after a considerable amount of logging and number crunching, found that decorating those ads not only increased the clickthrough rate of ads we decorated, but also increased the overall ad clickthrough rate. That's a huge win for a search engine and worth a lot of money, but ultimately google just did it themselves, and for other search vendors that had ads on their pages, they were basically handcuffed to google's contract which wouldn't allow them to use our technology.

TL;DR - Competing with Google is hard.
Read Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus if you want to read a remarkably bug-free "program". It reads like code.
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i'm sure an organization wouldn't appreciate their users forwarding company emails to a personal gmail account. in almost all cases, it is probably against their policy. it would actually be a burden for the user to have their email configured the way you describe, just to get access to a couple consumer features before they are hardened for enterprises.