skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to support a particular OpenGL standard is dependent on the hardware (software implementation aside). It is not something that Apple can choose to implement on less capable hardware. That's almost certainly why both Windows and Mac are running OpenGL 2.1 - OpenGL 2.1 is all the hardware will support.

On the other hand, based on your report it appears that NVIDIA has invested more effort in the performance of their Windows driver than in the performance of their Mac driver. Given their economic interests and the fact that many people using their hardware under Windows are NVIDIA customers whereas the vast majority of people using their hardware are Apple customers, it is hardly surprising that they would do so.

I will point out that for people who give a high priority to 3d graphic performance, there is little reason to select an Apple product - a meaningful range of hardware options simply does not exist and the drivers simply receive less attention. Keep in mind that one of the major differences between workstation class graphics cards such as NVIDIA's Quadro and gaming cards is the quality of the drivers - the same GPU's are often used in both segments with driver performance justifying much of the cost premium workstation cards command.
ahoy-hoy. would greatly appreciate an invite from anyone who can spare it, thanks. email in bio.
I don't get government debt.

How can every country be indebted? Don't mutual debts cancel each other out? How can the whole world be in debt?

Whom do they owe that money? Whom do they pay the interest? Does a government debt mean that each citizen has a debt? Does it mean the government owes that money to its citizens?

If anyone has insight in this, please enlighten me!
It's a great book! Here's something really cool: ultra-linguist and general bad-ass Sean Burke went through it doing all the examples in ... Javascript!

http://interglacial.com/hoj/hoj.html
So this is sort of like Zaarly? Except targeted instead of broadcasted?
I can't speak for Sweden, but for Switzerland where your pension rests on three pillars. Two of them mandatory and one where you're free to invest, but receive tax benefits if you do:

Pillar 1 is called AHV (AVS in French). This is the responsibility of the federal government and there are no plans to privatize this; ever. Since there is a maximum payout, which is quite low it has a certain wealth redistribution component. That is: When you make a lot of money you pay a percentage into the fund, which is a percentage of your earnings. So, a person making a lot of money pays more into it, but since the payout is capped at a fairly low level, he may get the same benefits as somebody who earned much less and thus payed much less into the fund

Pillar 2 is the actual pension plan, which is mandatory. Every company must insure their employees and big companies run their own schemes. While those funds are privately run, there are strong restrictions in place how they can invest the money of their insureds. The difference to the AHV is that the payout depends on the amount you payed in over your lifetime as a worker. Payout is based on a formula and the age of retirement can be dependent on the insurer. Employees don't have a choice about which pension plan they have and there are differences in quality. I could imagine that the system in Sweden is comparable (private, but very restricted in how they invest) but must admit that I'm assuming here.

Pillar 3, incidentally called pillar 3 (3. Säule) is not mandatory. You can pay a maximum yearly amount into a fund, a bank account or to an insurer (~ 7500$ if employed ~ 38000$ if you're not part of a pillar 2 pension plan) and this amount is fully tax deductible. The string is that you can only get it out when you turn 60. There are ways to get the money out before that. Either when you invest in a house, or apartment or when you leave the country for good. Same goes for the pillar 2 assets accumulated.

There's no such thing that a company can legally pull an Enron and invest the assets of their employees into their own company.

I know that the Swiss system is considered excellent. The dutch system is considered even better, but I have no expertise to discuss it.
Through the '90s, it didn't matter how good a
machinist you were - if you lived in the Detroit
area, your employment prospects were poor, just
because of the glut caused by hemorrhaging auto
industry.

In that setting you have to do one or more of retrain, move somewhere else, start your own business. Except the presence of a minimum wage makes two of those three more difficult than it would otherwise be.

there is no economic evidence whatsoever that the
presence of a $7.25 minimum wage has had a measurable
impact on employment.

That's hardly surprising, as you can't reliably measure any economic effect in a complex economic system because there's no mechanism for getting a control.

But your logic is attractice. We'll just move the minimum wage up to a thousand dollars an hour. We can all be rich together.

What you had to say about history of minimum wage in America is interesting, I'll read up on that.
Looks very cool and i like the idea, up until i saw the log in with Facebook button.

No thanks.
I love those rules. RIP Robert Morris.
I remember viewing this presentation months ago, in which an ex-googler presents the idea behind social circles:
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
Please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder.
It traps people with low skills out of work

What exactly are these skills they lack that are needed in order to get work? Putting together a sandwich? Stacking boxes of food on a shelf? Putting dishes on a table and collecting them after they've been used?
I think that setting visibility of pictures and status updates to "friends only" should hide them from non-friends. Yes, I meant lists, not groups.
Geez, I've been using Django since 0.92 and there's quite a few things here I never knew about. Good stuff.
Government debt, while not intrinsically bad, is completely unsustainable. I imagine the US is planning the dollar will fall and it's debts will be essentially leveled. Maybe the US should adopt BTC?
At the moment it's just a lookup to the database. It does have the ability to save and show more fields than whats on the signup form (see the demo - http://localyser.com/demo.html), that form is mainly tailored to match the how PAF data is returned for an easy drop in.

good call on open street map, i'll try and get in touch.
Government debt works like any other investment.

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tbills_gla...

Debt serves an important function in modern economies as a safe place to put money. That's why this debt ceiling showdown is a problem. Investors will take their money somewhere else instead of putting it in T-bills if they think the US might default.

Trillions in debt looks ominous, but it represents the trust (and wealth) of thousands of investors.
Any YC startups using this (and willing to talk about it)?
Great Great article. Just started using Django and this basically covers every single pain point that I've had thus far.

Thank you so much.
Doesn't the new Photoshop have a "Dark-magic" option that does this? ;)
Actually, I do know that JavaScript was originally meant to run in a browser. I also know it can be run "server side," or even just used as a general programming language. My mentioning of the web server was similar to my mentioning of Ubuntu, to try to ensure that the reader knows I'm not a complete computing dweeb.

I also know that one can just embed code between <script> tags, and I know that one can reference code in files elsewhere. But that's inefficient for actual learning. I was asking for a more effective setup without having to download, compile and install huge numbers of extras.
Why are there no 16, 32, 64, and so on, dimensions of numbers? Would multiplication not be invertible with them? Is there a possibility of things that are distinct from our concept of numbers but are none-the-less useful being discovered in the future?
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From what I've seen it has the potential to dethrone Skype but the major issue they have to overcome is that Skype is a household name when it comes to video calling. It's similar to how everybody still says 'Hoover' when really they should say vacuum cleaner.

It will take a lot to shift the mass market away from Skype.
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Not sure what you mean here, but you automatically get invited (no confirmation) when someone invites you, regardless of the number of people who sent an invitation.
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I give it maybe a week or two against a good cryptographer. You never, ever invent your own encryption algorithm.

Don't rule out the possibility that the botnet code was written by a good cryptographer. It may be that they're using a well-designed algorithm that these researchers didn't happen to recognize.

Even if the encryption algorithm happens to be secure against differential/linear/slide/boomerang attacks, I bet there will be an implementation flaw. It's really hard to get implementation right on those things, even if you have an almost perfect algorithm.

Sometimes something that would be bad as a standard building block can hold up in a specific use case. Maybe this thing really only needs to obfuscate the communications.

Not that that all really matters -- anything that it's encrypted can be decrypted since they key lives on the computer -- but the fact that they created their own encryption algorithm gives some insight in to their minds. Namely, that they they they are smarter than they really are, and that despite all of that, they don't know enough about security to stick with AES.

I wouldn't underestimate the Russians and Eastern Europeans like that.

[...] Either (1) this botnet is really weak or (2) the writers of this article have distorted the truth.

Probably both, at least (2).

It's really really hard to write technically accurate descriptions of these things that are also accessible to a wide enough audience that you reach the people you need to reach.
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Really good article. Another way to improve your programming skills would be to teach someone else. I find this to be one of the best ways to solidify your understanding of something.
That's not granular enough an explanation. They were strategic about who they let join and when, and that strategy involved admitting entire social groups at once.
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No idea, as no commercial-scale production has been attempted. This is all still lab-scale.
Has any botnet ever been written by a good cryptographer? I remember Vern Paxson getting a whole paper out of supposedly-skillful botnet authors not even being able to generate random numbers securely.
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>If the private sector wants a surplus you have to have a government debt.

This seems to ignore the ability to add value. The sum of material possessions is determined by the amount the market would be willing to pay, but the market doesn't have to actually enact every transaction for that value to hold. So if I build a house, I still have the surplus value of a new house, even though the exchange of goods was only for raw materials.

I get that technically money is either in the hands of the government or the people (or foreign entities) and so debt and surplus must match between these two (three) groups, but that does seem overly simplistic given that the worth of our material possessions increases as we had value to raw materials.
Why do you need to save every receipt? Can't you just look up your order history on amazon.com?
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Companies often don't pay interns for 2 reasons:
1. They don't think they can afford to give them responsibility, and with no responsibility = no pay. This is a terrible relationship. (no pay = no responsibility as well)
2. They know that if it's unpaid - it's likely that only people very interested will apply - and this signal is, supposedly, very strong.

The 3 MAJOR problems are:
1. The company is sending a signal that says, "we don't trust you", "we don't think you can do valuable work", "and we don't value you enough to pay you"
2. The company gets lower skilled people, because the good ones get the jobs with good experience AND pay
3. Have you EVER tried to get a volunteer to do anything?! It's impossible. Incentives are not aligned.
This isn't quite about gifting because a gift is given only expecting goodwill in return. This is more like an "on-demand personal assistant", which is a cool idea but would be even better with a name that conveys its true purpose.
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A general tip that has served me well: use tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). My typical environment consists of a a few vertically stacked panes. Up top is my vim session, below that is a shell. Below that is a horizontal split with runserver on the right and cake watch on the left.
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Google releases Orkut, their social network service on January 24th, 2004. Orkut gets popular in India and Brasil. On February 9th of 2010 we got Google Buzz, which was criticized over and over again. In the meantime, Facebook and Twitter conquered social media and are probably laughing at Google which services keep stumbling.

But now, Google has some new shiny technology in the form of Google+, a set of services that should get you into Google’s social networking world. Unfortunately, it won’t. You won’t.
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At least the international Galaxy S.
Myspace & Mr Timberlake.
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Like another botnet! :-) Sometimes botnets actually will clean and patch their target machines.
postcode -> lat/lng is open data already, what this does is postcode -> full address.

each postcode in the UK has multiple addresses, but generally a postcode + street number is unique. this data however is held by Royal Mail, and costs a lot of money to license. we believe this is incorrect and are hoping to crowd source the same data for use for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_bond

A lot of government debt is held by private entities. You're thinking about the national debt, and here is a long detailed explanation:

http://internationalecon.com/Finance/Fch5/F5-9.php
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You can never downvote a reply to one of your comments, or a comment to one of your submissions.

There is a karma threshold for the downvote to appear. It is currently at 500 karma points.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

I was tempted to say "Here, let me Google that for you" because it's not too hard to find with a search. I resisted, but let me ask - what searches did you try before you asked?
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really? what phone are you on?
Mine didn't work. I've resent a request after adding some information to flesh out a google profile.

I received this http://imgur.com/u5vEI
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Hi, we wanted to invite a few of you into our private beta. This is still an early version of our product, but hopefully there's enough functionality that some will find useful.

CoderBuddy is free for commercial, non-commercial and open source projects.

There were a few posts on HN about having a web-based way to use Google App Engine for static sites, and that's one thing you can do with CoderBuddy.

You can build and publish web-based applications in Python on Google App Engine. CoderBuddy comes with an instantly updating test environment and integrated publishing
to App Engine. we're starting to roll out a more advanced editor, the 'New Editor (beta)' link with tabs.

We invite your suggestions of who we should test this out with, and your top 3 feature requests. We've tried to make it really easy for someone to get started coding
and publishing. We'd also love to hear from folks giving workshops soon who might want to try this out there.

Thanks, -Adrian (Napster founding investor, founder of social networking pioneer Ryze)
I used tmux for a while and it's great. I've since switched to DVTM + dtach because they're more lightweight and simple than tmux.

I never used 80% of tmux's features, so the simpler tools are better for me. If you're a tmux power user DVTM+dtach might not work for you.

dvtm: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
dtach: http://dtach.sourceforge.net/
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Yeah I knew a lot of these tricks. But I've been considering learning chef and I didn't know about Vagrant. Now I know what I'm doing this weekend!
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Hacker news is for Hackers. Programming languages are heavily influenced by Category Theory. Hackers use programming languages and love to learn new ways to become better hackers. Look up the reason why pg called his incubator YCombinator. Its a complex programming theory based in lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator
That is the current alternative to sending invites...sharing posts/comments which gives you an invite when you go to view.
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I think at a point they think the site is broken and leave. I know my wife definitely clicks away really quickly (compared to me).
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Because it comes on most PCs, runs most applications, and on the whole works "good enough (TM)"

The fact that the malware has to bury itself so deep into the boot sector actually says some pretty positive things about Windows security. Nothing like those heroics would be needed to target Linux for example (I don't know about Mac).
We haven't launched yet so no startups are using it yet. If anyone is interested please ping me directly at ben@leanlaunchlab.com.
I got an invite and I have to say that Google has a GREAT start here. They are doing a lot of smart things like making the UI very clean and nice. It isn't nerdy at all. It looks like a product that is trying to win at being a social network, not at trying to be search advertising or a "twitter killer".

It's as if Google realized that they succeed when their products are genuinely good, not just "good enough" and pushed out to Google's massive user base via their massive advertising platform.
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Back in school, about halfway through my course in DSP, my teacher realized that none of us had any idea what he was talking about...so he went back to basics and explained Imaginary numbers much like this article for a whole day. Things started to make a lot more sense after that, but he was shocked that nobody had taught us that in any of our classes before.
technically, you are when you are looking for a job. You need to market and sell yourself to the highest bidder.
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Great article, but I'm still not sold on using Vagrant. Is there a case where it can help if I'm not deploying one app per vm? I often host multiple apps on the same VM slice.
One thing that irritates the hell out of me every time is meeting a 'business' guy with the world's best idea, who is prepared to let a lucky developer have 10% of the venture in return for building the damn thing.

I am yet to meet a developer who has not had this very same experience.
>In that setting you have to do one or more of retrain, move somewhere else, start your own business. Except the presence of a minimum wage makes two of those three more difficult than it would otherwise be.

Without savings, how do you pay for retraining? Without savings, how do you pay for relocation? Without savings, how do you start a new venture of your own? Without a minimum wage, how does a person on the very bottom of the social scale accumulate savings? Without a minimum wage, wages for the lowest skill jobs get driven down to starvation wages. At those rates, its very difficult for people to accumulate enough capital to make the necessary improvements to their situation.

>But your logic is attractice. We'll just move the minimum wage up to a thousand dollars an hour. We can all be rich together.

Right, and while we're at it, we can move the top tax rate right down to 5%. The extra money freed up will generate so much economic activity that government will end up making money in the long run.
Just to be clear about what I thinking, because I'm not sure I expressed myself well:

If I type in a postcode and house number on a site using the Royal Mail PAF, then it goes and gets my address. Currently, your service won't. But if I enter my full address once on one site using it, it'll then be keyed against my postcode and house number and appear automatically on others.

That very first time I enter a new address you could probably do various clever things to make entering my address easier. It shouldn't be difficult to map any postcode to a country (Scotland, England etc.) and other larger regions. In cases where it's not 100% possible you could probably return a (potentially incomplete) list of nearby streetnames, towns etc. which could trigger an autocomplete when the user starts typing the first letter. Once they've chosen a streetname then that may in turn dictate the rest.

Most of this data could be extracted from OpenStreetmap or directly from the Ordnance Survey Open Data, particularly Code Point and OS Locator, meaning you'd only need users to confirm a street name, and enter a house name or number to get a full record.

(It would be nice to allow users to report errors in the OS Locator street names too. There's been a few errors found in both sets by comparing the OSM data against the OS.)
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Ack! You're right, but why is this the case? JavaScript obviously has comments, so someone must have made the decision to deliberately leave them out.

What possible reason could there be for that?
Also, if I recall correctly from my humanities days, similar approaches have "proven" that different people wrote Paradise Lost and Paradise Found (John Milton wrote both and there is no serious argument to the contrary).
But when you click through, I get the Join Google+ button, but that links back to https://plus.google.com/u/0/up/start/?sw=1&type=st where it says 'Keep me posted'.
> Why are there no 16, 32, 64, and so on, dimensions of numbers? Would multiplication not be invertible with them?

Yes, this is exactly why the 16 dimensional sedenions are not in the same category as the others. For it to be a division algebra, you must be able to reverse any multiplication that isn't by zero. This is just the normal concept of division in the real numbers. It also allows us to define division in the complex, quaternion and octonion numbers. However, it is possible to multiply two non-zero sedenions together and get zero. This breaks this property completely.

> Is there a possibility of things that are distinct from our concept of numbers but are none-the-less useful being discovered in the future?

Absolutely! These four numbers systems are a tiny portion of spaces studied by mathematicians. There are a lot of interesting things that can be said just by generalising a few properties of numbers (e.g. without requiring that we can divide, or without requiring that we have both addition and multiplication). There are groups, fields, rings, algebras, topological spaces, and all sorts of interesting things that aren't 'numbers' as such.
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This

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

gives me about 30 MBytes/s from a micro instance in EU-West