skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can. Use the mprotect() system call: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/mprotect.ht...
There is only so far you can go with selling books in India.
Windows, Linux or OSX? I'm curious because on Linux, threads and processes are essentially the same thing - they're the same data structure in the kernel. But as far as I know, that is not true on Windows.

I also find his conclusion a bit disingenuous: I never have more than ~10 tabs open. I'm more interested in the performance around my actual usage, not an order of magnitude more.
We launched an online service for people investing in stocks called Portfolio Numbers http://www.portfolionumbers.com/ It's an risk analysis tool that helps you calculate your stock portfolio risk based on historical data and statistical methods.
Anyone care to share how their usage patterns lead to having hundreds of tabs open at a single time? How is it even feasible to find a specific tab without doing a time consuming linear search?

I rarely have more than 4-5 tabs open at a time, so I'm honestly curious.
I'm really not enthused about bringing multiple column layouts to the web. Yes, they are a staple of print - so is getting newspaper print on my hands. Should we be building USB fingertip-dirtyers? Multi-column layouts are a case of humans having to adapt to the constraints of the medium; as we move to the future, our content should be bending to our will, and not the other way around.
Those sound like ideal examples to me!
"free online IQ testing" as the source didn't give it away?
Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
Except - as multiple people already mentioned - this article is about the Firefox Nightly, which currently means Firefox 8. There are huge differences between FF 4 and FF 8 (or 4 and >5, for that matter).
This is why I use both Chrome and Firefox. I am a big, tab user, and Chrome doesn't even provide decent tab management with large number of tabs, so I have not been able to even test it properly.
So Chrome is my default system browser for quickly opening a link, that I get through chats, email, etc and for quick browsing and google sessions. It starts up fast and is well 'fast'. For serious research/reading/browsing sessions I prefer to use Firefox. Synchronize bookmarks and yay, you have the best of both worlds.
Secondly browser use is often contextual. I have reasons for using most major browsers, at any given time I may be falling into any demographic... I'm sure many here are the same.
I'm skeptical about this talk of raising money from a marijuana tax. You might be able to raise a little money from taxes but it's incredibly easy to grow very high quality pot in your backyard or balcony, especially if you are blessed with a sunny climate. You can't really compare it to tobacco which is a lot fussier to prepare for consumption.
I'd also assume that the author was using a new profile with no cache for each test run.
I love this article! Only had a chance to skim read it so far, but it looks along the same lines as a lot of things my friends have been discussing at the moment about making a worthwhile impact with our lives, especially the focus on NOW and starting small.
John Carmack's Tweet on the topic:

"Re Euclideon, no chance of a game on current gen systems, but maybe several years from now. Production issues will be challenging."

https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/98127398683422...
Be careful with that reasoning. You may find something which takes a lifetime to build but only seconds to destroy isn't worth your time to worry about.

Go out there, build a great company and let the PR people worry about your reputation when you drink margaritas on a nice beach in Thailand.

That doesn't mean that you should do things that you consider wrong or immoral. Just don't give a hoot what people say about you.
Many comments from when this was last submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098332
Renters From Hell (Airbnb and the Limits of Trust Online)
I'm guessing people are mostly just using them as a reading queue. (Middle-click everything, then Ctrl+W to advance.) Of course, tabs aren't actually built for this (mostly; I think Apple has realized that people do this, as the newest Safari seems to unload the render state for tabs that have been in the background of a window for a while; everything reflows when you actually switch to the tab.)
That article is bullshit:

Ruby is a denser functional language than LISP.
This is just not true! Sure sometimes you have syntax suger in Ruby that makes something smaller but othertimes you don't in lisp I can always make everything smaller with macros. I would bet that Ruby is not shorter for most programmes.

His hole argument is based around that in lisp you have wo write (lambda ....) and in Ruby you don't.

Ruby gives you about 80% of what you want from macros
Ruby may give you some of the power but there is a lot you cant do in ruby and its much, much harder to do those things.

Ruby’s libraries, community, and momentum are good
Thats nice but has nothing to do with being lisp.

Not saying anthing against ruby but this article is just very strange.
Save yourself the embarrassment with this android app.
They have shown animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF8A4bsfKH8
I think the mental confusion that arises shows how powerful branding can be.
Do you use script loaders?
Take a leaf out of Derek Sivers book on this. Would not signing it cause you to end up in jail, get a fine, or suffer a loss? If not, no need to bother with it for now.
I don't know where you're coming up with this impression at all. Clojure has Leiningen and Maven, Racket has PLaneT, CL has QuickLisp, etc. In my experience Lispers do not waste time solving solved problems.

Certainly Github does not in anyway support your claim: https://github.com/languages/Clojure
I've seen tab enthusiasts. They are incapable of tracking which tab they already have open and reopen the same one over and over again.
Changing your name is not an option for many people:
1) In many parts of the world, this is a complex process in and of itself. Often you need to petition a court, and to place notices in local papers.
2) Names have reputation. Just because you want to not be listed in background check sites, doesn't mean that you don't want your professional reputation, that you want the hassle of explaining to an employer why your references are for a different name, etc.
3) Names have meaning. Even for those who have never changed their name, their name will mean something to them. To hear it said can be frightening, or arousing. It can be a mantra of strength, and give a sense of self. And for those who have already changed names, this is even more so.

Even if changing name was an option, there are many means to link an old name to a new one. Many organisations keep both on file, even when they shouldn't. And combining public records with statistics can show that someone still is the same person.
This article has no substance. It's another "omg peoples from teh internets" scare story.

airbnb has proved phenomenally safe for what it does, and will be safer in future.

I don't think the comparison with ebay is fair either.
It already worked for him (well, if it's true). "Day Two: Google Contacted Me. Well, that was quick."

http://matthew-epstein.com/land-a-job-at-google-journey/
Ron Wyden Puts Hold On FISA Amendments Act
I was skeptical. A lot of the clients I work with are pretty damn intelligent, the only difference is the lack of experience behind a computer. Most use an outdated version of IE, a lot IE6. In fact, I don't think it's even normal for a medical doctor to have low intelligence. I imagine this is the case for a lot of other professions, where the average intelligence is generally higher.

Either way, I the study was pretty silly. I really don't think anything like that correlates to IQ.
It's not unusual to sign a broad non-disparagement agreement in exchange for a substantial amount of severance money that isn't in any existing contract. (In the US, for example, most employees are "at-will" and are not owed any severance pay, whether they quit or are fired, with or without cause.) It is unusual to sign a broad non-disparagement agreement gratuitously.

My guess is that somebody in HR figured they could probably get something very valuable out of you for free, just by asking for it.
As you say it is an indicator not a guaranty, and a really good one when you look at a long enough history. a family crisis during my degree which several impacted my performance I would say that it is a pretty good indicator of how you behave in the future if those circumstances happen again. What is dangerous is not using enough data to make the determination. Your friends A-levels is just one data point, making a judgement on one data point isn't going to make a good choice.
Usually at my company, if there's a layoff, anyone laid off is offered a contract saying similar things to what yours says. The catch is that if the employee does not sign, they don't get their severance pay or benefits which can be sizable. Everyone is allowed to sign or not sign but the contracts are 2 way streets (both sides get something). I've never heard of a contract being offered to those who are voluntarily quitting a job where they were an "at will" employee.
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Title is terrible, so here's what it does:

"bytNotes is a simple notepad application with a very handy twist. It allows you to create notes and link them to multiple contacts from your address book. If any of these contacts calls you, the related notes are displayed in an overlay for you to read before you answer."
New image sharing site lets you paste images directly from your clipboard
Wouldn't a fractal voxel octree generation algorithm technically be "infinite", though? You could zoom into objects as far as you pleased, and never run out of detail—which seems to satisfy any practical usage of the term "infinite detail" I can think of.
Even if it wasn't a hoax, it's still fairly meaningless. It doesn't seem unlikely that more intelligent users would be more likely to look for other options rather than using the OS-provided default. For the sake of illustration lets simplify: Users with an IQ over 100 look for alternatives, below 100 and they do not. Even if 80% of the higher IQ users ultimately choose Internet Explorer (which would indicate that it is very high quality), there would be a very significant difference of average IQ between IE users and users of other browsers.

I also find it very distressing that the BBC, CNN, and a whole slew of other outlets all reported this without carrying out the kind of basic checks I do when presented with new information, and I'm not a reporter!
Have always been curious about the details. Thanks for these posts
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"Rising" sophomore (or junior or senior) is a common U.S. expression. It just means he'll be a sophomore when school resumes this fall. There's no self-promotion, it is just used by students during the summer break.
"I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users."

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
I think it's more subtle than that. An interesting program usually contains parts that are "easy" (e.g. interfacing with a database) and parts that are "hard" (e.g. complex algorithms). To be productive, you would want to get the easy bits out of the way so you could concentrate on the hard bits.

Making Python or Scala talk to Oracle (for example) is so trivial you can write that bit of your program in no time at all, then get onto the interesting stuff. In Lisp, you have to spend significant time on this trivial stuff. So if you are writing a program on your own PC for your own use, then Lisp is fine. If you are programming anything that is going to run on existing infrastructure or interoperate with other programs, it's very difficult to justify the additional effort of using Lisp.

And I know a bit about this: I wrote Oracle bindings for OCaml! It was fun, sure, but can I justify it when there are already Python bindings? Hmm.
It's a text-shadow. I remove those via firebug.
NM, it does. Thanks~
Yeah they do - There are employees from ~40 different nationalities. The IQ test is pretty simple, but that's just a small part of the process.
It's there, thanks!
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Twitter about to kill its older version this week
As far as I can tell, Air is designed to only run on Linux systems with the Apt, RPM or YUM package managers. I had tried to set it up on Slackware using some workarounds (see http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Adobe_AIR_Application_Instal...), but never got it to work. The .bin installer would just produce cryptic error messages and fail.

I did succeed in installing Air by using rpm2tgz on the RPM package, but installing an Air application still fails.

Am I the only one with this experience?
""The review pointed out that if you have a situation where 90% of your population is doing something, then it's not really a very good law," said Simon Levine, head of the intellectual property and technology group at DLA Piper."

No sh!t. So decriminalize "piracy" too then.

Overall, I like what they're doing, and I'm glad they are deferring these cases to the Court and having them go through due process, rather than trying to pass a law so they can automatically take down these sites, which is the direction USA has been taking lately.

They are not there yet, but they are definitely moving in the right direction, like allowing more freedom to remix other people's works, which is what the human kind has always done anyway, regardless of it being legal or not. The illegality of it came only with the lobbying of the copyright industry to turn copyright into "property" that only they and they alone can have so they can squeeze directly as much money as possible (disregarding the fact that creating an external culture outside, but around, your works might make your works even more popular).

As for CD's and DVD's - it's the perfect example of why the Government is so slow to react to new technology. CD's and DVD's are already becoming obsolete and people are starting to use only the Internet, and they are passing this law now? They should've done it at least 5 years ago. Unfortunately, this only means it will take another 5-10 years to reconsider some of other things that they now think it's "piracy", and "illegal".
I get:

"Your browser (Internet Explorer 6) is out of date. It has known security flaws and may not display all features of this and other websites."

Which is funny as I have the latest Firefox...
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What an intelligent reply! I'm interested in knowing what particular book would you recommend for someone who is a Computer Science graduate and planning to enhance his mathematical skills in linear algebra?
If there is more than one, I'll be glad to get them all... So, any suggestions?
It DOES matter who you want to be and healthy ambitions never hurt. There are so many examples that hard work and time investment made someone a completely different person.
Unhealthy yet totally not surprising. From lowest-common-denominator pop culture all the way down to some obscure programming language community you see the same thing.
I think the biggest problem that people aren't talking about is that LOD for geometry simply isn't as important as texture quality when getting close to a surface. I'm pretty sure the reason they have so many duplicate objects in the original presentation is because they simply ran out of memory to store all the texture data for the scene, because you need really high rez textures to be able to zoom in so close to each object.

Notice that most demos which zoom in on the model don't use textures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpEpAFGplnI, because they don't have textures with high enough resolution.
While I agree that people should look for alternatives, I do not necessarily agree with your analysis. I do research in Physics at the University of Sydney, and the proliferation of Internet Explorer is quite high within the research staff, and I can assure you that the IQ's there are not low...
Give the guy a break, come on!
He's so happy to have made this money, he doesn't count the work he has to do in order to provide that service.

It's a good story :)
That's hilarious. What a good high profile prank that was. Well done to whoever perpetrated it :)
It's not plagiarism if it's attributed.

(edit: looks like the submission url was edited. I guess it wasn't snopes earlier.)
On Sunday night, Betabeat blundered into #bitcoin-pit, an IRC channel “for professional trading,” and found a surprising number of Wall Street professionals, including “Bill,” who declined to give his name but proved his employment the next day with a furtive call from an empty conference room at Credit Suisse. He had just sold 400 Bitcoins, he told Betabeat, which he planned to buy back in the morning. Given that the third-largest Bitcoin exchange, Bitomat.pl, had just accidentally deleted the 17,000 BTC it had in deposits at the same time another popular Bitcoin service shut down—possibly because its owner decided it was time to take the money and run—Bill was betting the price would be right.

“Bitcoin is like Wall Street was 15 to 20 years ago when I entered,” he said. “Fragmented markets, wide spreads, manipulation, the trading stone ages.”
You're objecting to the idea of a litmus test. Forgive me, but that's really just pride giving you inflated confidence in your abilities. We all need checks and balances, and sometimes those checks and balances seem rather ridiculous (especially when imposed on us by those not directly associated with us).

I can't really comment on the legitimacy of the M&Ms thing, but multi-million dollar international operations aren't sustained by sticking to practices that don't work. That at least gives us a hint as to its effectiveness as a means of safeguarding the performers and audience.
Empty page :(

Here was yesterday's post Internet Explorer users have lower IQ says study which they've now updated: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878 (which I posted here yesterday - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2838110)

Update: This is also being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840626
I'm getting a 503 error. I would hope Google would hire people that can keep a site online.

I know, usually it would be very mean. But given the purpose of this site, for it not to be able to withstand the "HN effect" (is there a term for this? Penny Arcade have "wanged", which is my personal favourite) seems like a fairly gross oversight.
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This gets into subjective perceptions of the detail in question. Mathematically, you are correct that fractals have infinite detail. Visually, however, it's noticeable when you've run out of interesting fractal detail and that the technique has failed to produce more detail (that the brain will acknowledge as such.)

Had they said "fractal detail" not only would they have received less grief for it, but they would have provided us with an explanation for part of their system. That last part seems to not be something they're inclined to do.
The value of those intros you made will be all the friends you will now have in the industry that owe you a debt of gratitude, if nothing else.
Do you use or plan to use Kaspersky 2012 products?
Which is like a huge warning to get the fuck out: They're just looking for volatility. Not something you want in a currency.
"...had invited 100,000 web users to take IQ tests..."

Besides the hoax, someone forgot about: "Voluntary response data are worthless." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772603

Because of that, this should have never even been published.
It's common? Where? I'm from the US and I was put off by the statement as well.
The topic itself is very interesting, I find that excelent libraries (i.e.: NetworkX) in a language (i.e: Python) can be quickly ported to other languages. It's a pity that those libraries can't be isolated and translated to many languages without an important extra effort. In the case of graph algorithms we have libraries for C++, C#, Python, Ruby, Java, etc with different features and qualities, but the weakness is that the library comes attached with a single programming language or VM.

It's an important trend to look and hope HaXe to be just one example of a project going in that direction.
As far as continuous text goes, you're right. These features probably will get used in horrible ways. But even without these features available there are already many well-designed column-based layout examples out there.

Not to mention, "constraints of the medium" could take on a whole new meaning as the wide array of display sizes continues to increase. It will be more and more necessary for web designers to create designs that easily adapt to various displays. They call this "responsive web design" and if you are practicing it right now you are an exception. Soon it will be a necessity and these new CSS capabilities look to be well suited to this purpose.
Even back to the days before Chrome was released, many many people used to complain that Firefox grinded to a halt when they have 250 (!) tabs open.
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Yeah, just like the OP asks "Why should I sign this?". Why don't you just ask the HR person that question?

"Why should I want to sign this? What's in it for me?"
I'll give you one case when this is useful. Let's say that you have to select 20 titles out of hundreds of books. [1] If your browser allows it, it would be convenient to open N amazon links (for N in (100,999]), and then eliminate books as you go through them by closing tabs. In the end you may remain with 20 books or so you shortlisted.

1. I have a similar usecase for http://anynewbooks.com, even though the process is quite different thanks to a ranking algorithm that preliminarily sort the books in a sensible way.
Why would there be any expectation that sales would spike in the proximity of the app being a featured freebie?

Not necessarily. But then again maybe. This information is useful to me because it changes the expectation value of the outcome of that marketing strategy. Without it I'm just guessing, and laying the odds at 50-50.
Positive news finally. I'm not for or against piracy but that covers obvious legitimate use, although I think my Windows Media Centre/Sony TV setup is going to break the law still...
"reduced corporation tax revenue"

Since when do criminal gangs pay corporation tax?
You could always invert it. Any situation that requires a lot of logic but not much interfacing could be handled with haXe - maybe you need a particular algorithm, in JS and C++. Rather than try to interface with JS or C++ in Haxe, could you "write once" the library you need in Haxe, compile it down, and interface with it?
If you feel the same way and you are in the Java world, consider also switching to Groovy. It gives you all the dynamic type checking goodness with a smoother learning and adoption curve, since you can start from 100% Java and work your way up into closures, dropping types, simper syntax, etc.

#1 is a bit unfair now, as there are plenty of things in pure Java (Guice, Spring Roo) that don't require ridiculous XML files.
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Did I miss something? How are Adobe front and centre? They don't have a browser... I'd say Google/Apple/Mozilla are taking front and centre, with Adobe trying to come up with new tricks to fend off the inevitable death of flash.
Chrome also gets to a usable state much slower than FF for me (osx10.6 - mbp 13"). The window opens faster, but it just hangs for a heck of a long time (10-15 seconds). FF is slower to paint its first window, but is usable much faster overall (meaning, I can type in to the web address bar).
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