skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had read the bug report and the discussion below it, you'd know that chunks of virtual memory (VM) are not freed to the OS immediately after they are empty, but are only freed after 3 GCs. That's actually an optimization; allocating VM is expensive, and doing it just after you've freed some is plain stupid.

The problem with GCs is not that they don't actually work, it's that they are suited to a specific task. If the user is surfing the web and constantly opening/reloading pages, then GC will be ok. However, if you close most of your tabs and only leave a few open, then you might have to tell the computer that you won't be needing more memory soon and that it's welcome to free as much VM as possible. That's what those buttons are for.
Also, religions have historically been particularly focused on helping the poor. One can argue if they're being effective, you can argue if they're doing enough, you can argue that they hold on to too much wealth--but many religions do in fact have a mandate to help the poor. Whether this qualifies as a "gold-into-anti-poverty engine is somewhat debatable.
This gives new meaning to their motto: "Cisco: The Human Network".
Do you have anything to back up that claim?

My sister is in that range and she and most of her friends pay for content when they can, or so she tells me.
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Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Startup Backtype (YC08)
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BackType (YC08) Has Been Acquired by Twitter
I'll conclude by asking:

How is that different from the way your own brain stores memory? Do you really think your brain is like a hard drive, storing permanently without rewriters, amnesia and other dysfunctions?

I suspect the two are rather similar...
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No, this is the result of US law. Google can't legally collect information from children, they have no choice but to remove his account.
The section of the Tau Manifesto on the area of the circle (which the author describes as pi's coup de grace) was the one that convinced me tau makes more sense.
Jakob has been writing Alertbox columns since 1995, clicking Alertbox takes you to an index of all the columns. Reports are long format studies of usability issues that are available for purchase. Click any report title to see a summary, TOC and purchasing options. There is a horizontal rule separating media mentions/interviews and the lastest on his events. I find nothing about this confusing, it's quite usable. It's not pretty though.
srsly it is becoming a little ridiculous. http://bit.ly/mKEveX
If these sites are in the jurisdiction of the US, aren't they also entitled to the same right of due process? Have any of these seizures been challenged in court? And if so, what's the status of the cases?
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Same here, actually. I did get themes turned on as per by srdjanjovcic's comment, but the new themes aren't available. Odd.
I get that they can take the domain away, but to seek extradition and US charges in court seems absurd.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act

70 year-old senators should not be allowed to influence technological law.
.Net has GCHandle [1] and I believe the JVM calls to JNI have a similar mechanism (GetXXCritical [2])

[1] http://www.shafqatahmed.com/2008/05/memory-control.html

[2] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/v5r0/index....
Twitter acquires YC-incubated BackType - TNW Industry
I'm going to assume you're not in the 15-25 set, by even claiming there's wide commonality between people 15 and 25 years old. 18-25, perhaps.

The first major difference is that people approaching 25 have a great deal more money than people at 15.

All that aside, I for one notice a huge predilection in my peers (of the 19-22 set)to buy into services such as hulu and netxflix, and to look there first for their media. Why? Because the services are instant, cheap, and of much better than most pirated media.

FYI, netflix charges $8 a month...significantly less than the 20 you site.
Everyone else claims .us is in the US jurisdiction.

How will this stop anything? Wasn't .com handed to the UN to manage?
I do not condone any lulz that may result from this, but this is the equivalent of dropping your soap in prison.
Barnett, assistant deputy director of ICE: "The idea is to try to prosecute."

If I remember correctly, in the few cases that the domains were confiscated, there was no prosecution, no courts involved. The owners of the domains had practically no means to question or challenge the seizure. At least that's what the media reported at the time.
Is it not? Passwords are in plain text in a database; I didn't see any comments where he said CSR's don't have access to them, he merely said that CSR's don't need access to them to muck around with their stuff.
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[ YC08 ]

BackType has raised a total of $1.32m according to http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype

No speculation as to the size of the acquisition, but I guess anything between $10-100m is possible, which would give YC a return of about 3% (6% adjusted down to 70% twice) of that, or somewhere between $300k and $3m?

"YCombinator: turning $15k into $300k in 3 years"

Not bad.

Edit: This is based on the idea that BackType is successful, and had other options (which may not be the case, since their QuantCase/Compete graph is going down)... if they were about to go bust, the price could be considerably lower... but if they were doing well, I imagine investors would have blocked a sale lower than $10m.
That economic argument against paying to help the disabled access services is the reason why the ADA was passed.

It's a tough decision where to draw the line. A purely economic decision seems soulless; accommodation of everyone will bankrupt you.
Thank you for that clarification. That has improved my understanding of the situation.
+1 for having more than one domain for your (user content generated) startup.
Yes! I didn't think I would say this, considering Google's track record of social in the past, but Google+ actually is quite compelling.

It combines the discoverability/accesibility of Twitter with the social networking of Facebook and adds some original, useful spin.

A competitive niche, so we'll see what happens, of course.
I think it comes down to whatever is easiest. If $20/month gets me the shows I want when I want, I'll do that. If it doesn't? Bittorrent it is.
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Amazon.com appstore not so amazing
Services such as Netflix and Hulu are not available in most countries, and if they are, selection is terrible.
I see clear hierarchy, descriptive titles, good placement of standard elements (search is at the top right, contact info is at the bottom), appropriate font sizes and good contrast.

I really dislike the visual design but that doesn’t make the website unusable. It makes me less happy when using the website but I don’t think it impedes my ability to go where I want to go and to do so quickly.
Are there addresses that no country can't claim as in their jurisdiction?

Seems to me that you have to be in jurisdiction somewhere. Not to argue that American jurisdiction is necessarily the best..
> A billion-dollar investment does not buy much influence in a site expected to be worth a hundred times that when it goes public.

Really? Facebook is going to be worth a hundred billion dollars?
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Way more 15-25 year olds pay for content than you would think, just less so in the 15-25 techie crowd.
The comment I posted to NYTimes:

The motivation for this legislation actually passes the common sense test: it's absurd that there is only one company in the country allowed to process scanned checks. But a law that excuses the financial industry from business method patents is not the correct solution.

Any industry can be subject to this kind of absurd restriction. Financial services just happens to be the first industry where business method patents were invented. Some industries, like programming, are even more heavily affected.

The correct solution is to eliminate business method patents for EVERYONE.
I agree, scope can change so drastically. Consider the difficulty in cloning twitter (pretty simple for basic utility, easily done in 3 days), versus a new CRM (many moving pieces, high bar of feature set to be considered competitive).
I'm currently working with a freelance Rails dev on an hourly basis to build my MVP and the thing that bothers me most is not knowing how much time it will take to get to the point I want to be. I have every screen mocked up in Illustrator and most of the pages coded in HTML/CSS.

Depending on how much work had to go into the app, I'd be willing to pay $5,000 or more for a service like this. The challenge would be putting together a structure that allows for payment flexibility according to how complex the project is; comparing any two projects side-by-side, the amount of work required would vary greatly and it'd be hard to be able to throw out a universal price for everyone.

Check out http://ibuildmvps.com/ , it looks like this guy is doing exactly what you're proposing.

If you're looking for some work get in touch, I'd be interested in hearing more about what sorts of projects you'd like to work on and what your capabilities are. Email's in the profile.
I fail to see how this is an all hands abandon ship issue. If its a critical issue in all 3 interpreters they should be fixed asap if possible. At worst with a flag.

If rubinius/ironruby/jruby have no issues, this may become moot eventually as rubinius is gaining lots of traction recently and is becoming faster by the release outperforming standard ruby vms in many cases.
> Part of our mission is to enable participation by the community, and that requires doing our work in the open and talking about it in public.

I completely respect that, and I have nothing against your philosophy whatsoever.

However, I assume that Mozilla provides those who prefer to stay up to date using the dev builds with information about significant releases via other channels. Moreover, while Firefox obviously has impressive numbers of people who do stay at the bleeding edge, is that not still only a small proportion of the total user base?

If HN winds up being that channel for every major OSS project that a few HN readers use, it will look like Slashdot a few years ago -- that is, the Slashdot that many people abandoned for a while. All I'm asking is that we leave specialised discussions about in-development features to more appropriate forums, and keep HN to mainstream announcements of wider interest (such as when an important feature actually makes it into a production build of a major product) if we're going to have feature announcements at all.

Given how often my original post has been both up- and down-voted, this seems to be a fairly polarising view, however.
Along with Ataraxy here: What is a prototype?

I think you could easily get into a situation where you spend more time in disputes around a misunderstanding of the deliverable than you do earning income.

For example: How many bugs are you going to fix? If the prototype requires a dataset, do you populate one? What if it needs at least two people from every known area code in North America to work (hypothetical here)? You going to populate that too?

I think the need is probably there, but you'd really need to target what the deliverable is so there is no room for error.
> ...unless facebook's only interest is to make bucket loads of money

Aren't they a corporation? What other interest would they have?

And Facebook is probably going to lose quite a few users to Google+ anyway - I can't think of anyone who would eschew Google+ for Facebook, but then suddenly quit because China invested.
I would potentially go for something like this, assuming I could then use the code as a basis for ongoing tweaking. $1000 seems reasonable, maybe higher, depending on how much is getting prototyped.
Print this out and give it to your boss. A must read.
Verisign is operator of the authoritative domain name registry for the .com and .net top-level domains. Verisign is headquartered in Virginia, and as such, the "property" of the domain is located in the United States and is subject to the jurisdiction of our courts.

This isn't new, and it's why anti-cybersquatting legislation (15 U.S.C. §1125) can be enforced.
Steam.

FTFY.
Three days may be stretching it. Even having a template for a website without a back-end made a while back, I ended up sending over 70 emails discussing details. What will you do if you produce something that the customer finds not quite right?

I love the idea, but just a warning on the time frames.
The facts in OP lower my opinion of FB even more.
"Developers chose the wrong license."
The Art of Being Right (Schopenhauer, 1831)
Suddenly I am happy only the .org was available for my new project.

I am wondering though: Couldn't the US make similar claims on .org and .us (and .edu, .biz?) domains?
These are also available, complete with amusing illustrations, at http://logicien.fr/extension-schopenhauer.html
Not sure that I understand the point of this... but it works well. I particularly like your date/time picker. I think the design would benefit from centering and better margins. "send Feedback" should be "Send Feedback" and shouldn't be flush with the left side of the page.
You can also jump WSJ paywall with a quick copy paste of article title into Google search.
http://www.bamf.de/DE/Migration/Arbeiten/arbeiten-node.html

In the middle of the page, "Hochqualifizierte (§19 AufenthG)": Highly qualified people like scientists, technical specialists with a wage of at least 66.000 € can immediately get a work permit.

Unfortunately that portion of the site hasn't been translated to English yet. Use Google Translate or call the BAMF for help.

An EU-wide effort called Blue Card is also on the (legislative) way.

The possibility that getsat mentions in a sibling comment to this one is described at the bottom of the page under "Selbständige (§ 21 AufenthG)". This possibility actually refers to founders of a company, the one described above is for employees. It's not 500 k€ though, but 250 k€. Still a lot of money. :(
I have to disagree with you quite a bit... the 15-25's care immensely about this. They might not express it the same we do, but media consumption (and in some cases production) is their entire life. They want to consume as quickly and easily as possible. BitTorrent and other "black market" sources are currently the easiest and fastest ways to consume their media.

My sister also (like my sibling comment) tried Netflix, Hulu, and the other streaming media systems. Netflix doesn't have the content they care about, Hulu was great until they were flooded with commercials. The first media business that figures out how to sell to this generation will get adoption quickly.

This isn't a new story. They've been trying (and getting close: look at the SNL digital shorts and marketing campaigns like the Old Spice Guy) but so far haven't quite won over BitTorrent et al. yet. The longer they wait, the closer their product gets to the $0.99 song from iTunes in that the average consumer won't be willing to pay much more than $1 for it.
I'm 24, and yes, there is a wide commonality in this group of people.

15 is usually around the age that kids start getting proficient enough with their computer that they can figure out how to bootleg movies. 25 is about the time that they mature out of it.

>The first major difference is that people approaching 25 have a great deal more money than people at 15.

Do they? Most of the people that I know around that age (I'm that age) have very little disposable income. While netflix (which doesn't have even remotely close to the same amount of titles as TPB) is only $8/mo, that $8/mo is a 12 pack of PBR.

>All that aside, I for one notice a huge predilection in my peers (of the 19-22 set)to buy into services such as hulu and netxflix, and to look there first for their media.

Are your peers mostly wealthy (relatively) computer programmers?

>significantly less than the 20 you [c]ite

Netflix and TPB aren't competitors. Do you think that major movie studios would offer all of their titles for $8/mo? There is already several massive experiments (netflix, hulu) taking place to test this, and the result is: no, they wouldn't.
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The practical problem with tau is, as was pointed out in the article, tau is already used for other things. Shear stress, torque, time constants, you name it.

pi is a notational freak in that it represents something so fundamental that few dare tread upon the usage---pi truly is a globally reserved name. To a lesser extent, the same is true of e, but even a number as important as i doesn't enjoy this property: electrical engineers use j for sqrt(-1) because i is current.

So let's say we all start using tau. Then I decide I'm going to do some basic rotational mechanics, and now I have two taus, one for torque and one for 2pi. OK, that's a no-go. How about we just redefine pi=2pi? Well... how do we know whether someone means pi=~6.28, or pi=~3.14?

It's just no good. Tau is not a viable candidate name for the constant equal to 2pi. Find another character in another language. How about Pei (Hebrew)?
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"we will discontinue the BackType product and API services"

Besides Google Alerts, what alternatives are out there?
I think it is more sub $10M. Their product will be discontinued, so it appears they are buying the team. Bactype looks like a company with a handful of employees so you probably want to count $1M/engineer or maybe $1.2M.
I wish that when a headline announced "Big company acquires little startup you've never heard of" that it would be accompanied by some explanation of what the little startup actually does, and why it is interesting.
I don't think that detracts from the argument. The fact that she is a woman doesn't change the perception of how other women would view that name.

Now the way I understand it, it was probably a cultural difference, or perhaps an honest mistake. Someone who speaks English as a second language might just not realize that the word has a different connotation.
Shows are cancelled because the people are not watching it. What is the logic to dont watch it because it can be cancelled? If everybody do this every show will be cancelled.
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Centralised DNS = bad. That's the issue.
I would really appreciate an invite if you are still giving them out! My email is my hn username @gmail.com
> Is this still the case?

It is.
I think it's more the have a full time professional income set vs not. I used bittorrent a lot as a student, but nowadays half the time I don't bother and pay for it anyways where in the past I would spend the time to search for it.
Great idea. I would pay $2000 or even $4000, depending on the technical difficulties of the prototype.
I agree, Studio 60 was awesome (I don't follow their rule). But at the same time, I feel very unsatisfied that I got so little of the story arc with the cancellation.
> Should companies be held accountable if foreign governments use their products for political suppression?

How could a company be responsible for something like a computer, which is capable of doing an infinite number of things? If America feels that strongly about the human rights violations going on in China, I feel that the only way to prevent American made technology from being used in that fashion is to prevent the sale of all technology to China. I'm not saying this is the right thing to do, but it doesn't seem possible to expect technology companies to police how their tech is used in foreign countries.
The interest here (for most people I assume) is the YC funding they got in 08. (Or "O8" as it seems to be written in the headline.)
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Congrats to the guys of BackType.

I have been very tempted to apply to their internship during the winter.
> No refund policy --> is this even legal in the US?

Sure. There's nothing illegal about 'all sales are final'.

As far as the 'refund gets you a free app' concern: paid apps from Amazon and come with Amazon's DRM. Google provides a way to do license verification with paid apps in the Android Market. Google also allows a 15-minute window to get a refund. So, presumably, Amazon not allowing refunds is a decision that is not based in purely technical grounds.
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berlin?? everyone is leaving berlin. It's the worst place to do business in. it has been mismanaged for decades now. crime rate is high. public schools are a disaster. if you are 20 something you might find the dirt and parties hip, but as soon as you have a family it's the worst place you could think of (unless you have a lot of money). for a tech company better cities are munich and hamburg if you really want to relocate your business into a country with high taxation and burdening regulations...have fun.
Not really. China will get non-voting stock. I'd pay money to see a Chinese representative trying to explain to Mark "I'm the CEO, bitch" Zukerberg why their minority non-voting stock means Facebook MUST follow Chinese laws OR ELSE.
I was using some of BackType's API's myself. Now I'm taking a look at http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/.
Give or take, that's the latest figure being tossed around. I believe the last second market buy-in was at a valuation of $87.5 billion, and that was in May (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Adding 10s of billions of implied market cap a quarter. The bubble knows no bounds. Interesting product, interesting stock. Regardless, does anyone else think this is going to go down as the biggest tech stock blunder in history? Can anything from 2000 touch this? It's madness, and infinitely intriguing.
Also Sports Night from the turn of the century, two seasons of fantastic writing and amazing characters. Check it out if you haven't seen it - although I do have a friend who's also a big Sorkin fan, and loves WW and S60, but didn't particularly like Sports Night, so perhaps it's not as good... but it was the first TV I saw from Sorkin, and I still absolutely love it.
The logic is - not everybody do this.
One, to my knowledge, and ICE and DoJ engaged in some... rather dubious behavior in response to the target attempting to discuss the actions in good faith.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110613/12021514673/rojadi...