skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if such accuracy is necessary for emulating newer systems. I don't think my PS3 games are updating the graphics hardware mid-scanline. If modern systems have more relaxed timing requirements, then a much simpler binary translation may be enough. You no longer have to model the hardware, just the abstraction layer that the game itself is written against.
Of course it doesn't, but if 10 years of experience results in domain expertise somewhere else, but some cherry-picked detail about storage engines is missed then there is probably a good reason for it.

In my experience, someone with really strong domain expertise in something like bioinformatics, doesn't actually have 10 years building websites on MySQL.
Out of curiosity where does the "hundred-billion-dollar" estimate come from?
DEFCON Round Up: The Good, The Bad and The Underage
I think part of Mark's point is that they need to reserve funds for the portfolio companies which will need another cash infusion. They've already invested x in company A. If company A needs another 2 million to reach profitability, they may not be able to raise it from another firm. The VCs are being prudent and cautious to ensure that they can keep their existing portfolio companies going.

Remember, they aren't looking for 10x returns, they're looking for 100x+ returns. They know their is risk for their portfolio companies and need to make sure they look after their current investments before bringing on any new investments.
I enjoyed the article, and I think I agree that most of what's described as gamification is bullshit. Which is a shame, because I think there are areas where it's a genuinely useful, meaningful idea, and those have been drowned out by the tides of PR.

In a similar way, the word 'sustainable' -- which could be an extremely useful word -- has been abused into total semantic oblivion (such as the UK government's recently introduced presumption in favour of 'sustainable growth', by which they mean nothing more than 'growth').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
Okay, I'll bite. I just finished dissecting Chrome OS for end-users; it's a Gentoo derivative which hides behind a browser window.

What would Google do which makes their flavor of Linux better than others?
Aren't they technically the same thing? Either way, you're uploading bits to someone else, right?
Create fluid width videos for your responsive designs
"In the UK people are not allowed to own fire arms"

That isn't strictly true - just that the licensing schemes are very strict and licenses will only be given for certain types of guns (e.g. shotguns) for certain reasons (hunting or work).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_King...
Mbt cipo árak
Honestly one of the benefits of getting into computer programming was to never get involved in tons of repetitive work.
(This is exactly the reason Brendan Eich has said he prefers the "compile to JS" approach to incorporating other languages of a VM into browsers.)
I would be interested to hear other people think are some examples of good software experiences that cover the whole curve.

Maybe Lion could be an example because of Launchpad, but not Snow Leopard.
Good question. Has Donald Knuth ever written a web app? Mobile app? Embedded app?
I think I might have hit a sore point there.
And along those same lines, adds more weight to the implications of the Great Filter argument. That is, if the early steps in the path to intelligent life are really not that unlikely, then the later steps to advanced intelligent life are more unlikely.
Stypi (YC S11) Is Etherpad Reborn
Wonder how these numbers look when weighted by page views. Should be a good indication of what "happening" websites are made of.
Arduino,an open-source electronics prototyping platform
Apple briefly the largest publicly traded company in the US
So confused.

> Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.

Underscore is both a utility belt and a bowtie?
A Max Minute: Bon Breads opens at Town Square LV
"Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure"
Props to the original poster--I've never thought about looking at a situation from this perspective before, and while it's not scientific, it's an interesting and unique way to look at a situation and certainly adds a new layer of dialogue.
People have thought my really chunky viewsonic g-tablet was an ipad

That would suggest that Apple is correct, wouldn't it?
> I did a Sega system on an FPGA in 2003 as a one-semester senior design project.

The article was about achieving extremely high compatibility by emulating hardware quirks. What advantage would an FPGA be? Easier synchronization?
I don't see any striking legal or logical clarity in these writing samples. What I do see is a thinly veiled attempt to celebrate her ideological positions.
Meego is better then WP - says Nokia / Microsoft
It's more memorable if you say 'Tee Double-Ay Zee Arr'.

But it really sounded foreign, and that's a bad thing. When people think something is foreign, they give up -trying- to understand or remember it before they ever start.

Oh, and you may have change the domain name, but you didn't bother to update the text on the page.
I'd be extremely surprised if there was very little life on other planets. I'd also be extremely surprised if we could recognize it as life at a glance -- my guess is that it's so likely to be so completely different from us that that even knowing what to look for is going to be hard.

Life is probably not that rare. Familiar life probably is.
I imagine if you're the programmer-designer and hire recent university grads, current students, or young people in underdeveloped countries for the assets, you could get away with a lot less than $100,000.
Raymond's semi-recent writings on super: http://rhettinger.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/super-considered-...
As a recent Tab 10.1 owner I am not sure there are enough design similarities with the iPad to warrant a ban.

However this may be a wake up call for Samsung - it is hard not to see their products as being influenced by Apple without any uniqueness to balance the experience. Motorola's product experience for example has a certain Motorola culture in it and doesn't feel anything like Apple. Likewise for HTC.

This may not justify Apple suing them - but in my mind being a copy without it's own unique traits is the worst thing that could happen to a brand. (Everyone copies but successful brands retain their uniqueness.)
C doesn't know the meaning of "private" or "protected" (SFW, poetic)
To me this smells of a couple possibilities. This is the first tablet to my knowledge that Apple has gone after in this way, though it seems the scope is wide enough they could have used it against several others in the market. Makes me wonder if this is the first product that Apple is somewhat worried about? Why this one and why now? The added interest is that Samsung, being a major parts supplier for Apple's products is being singled out despite this.

I don't know what it would mean fiscally for Samsung but I would think they have some leverage in the "Well, if you want to be that way about it" department. Apple may stop getting priority consideration for parts orders over other companies. Also Samsung's product range is wide enough they could easily pull the same move against several of Apple's other products like monitors.
What happens if the $30,000 goal isn't met? Does everyone who contributed lose their money?
Sorry, it's "than", not "then".
https://code.google.com/p/pihipi/
I bet those Congressmen were using Blackberry for Tweeting, too!
I guess that your tone used when qualifying it as fad was what gained you the downvotes.

It read like you were just trying to make waves around the subject just for the sake of it.
Looter in action does not deserve to die?

Why not?

If looter was caught and is on trial - then few years in prison would be enough. But being killed while looting when police is overwhelmed - that's only fair.
What Rutan Did
BlackBerry blog hacked as RIM lends support to London police
"...this is NOT an actual RS232 port..."

Correct

"...it is a software emulated RS232 (serial) port..."

Incorrect. It's just TTL. You'll need to use something like a MAX232 to convert to RS232.
But there's decent research on how taller men fare better on reproductive fitness and attributes can change meaningfully even in just 7 generations. I'm not saying it's the main cause or even a significant contributor (although it could be; I just haven't done the research), I was just surprised it wasn't even touched upon.
Free licenses, no strings attached. I'm a member and I'm pretty happy with it.
It would also mean that any tablet would be considered infringing on the design of the iPad.
Atari 2600 hardware expert debunks fake game screenshots
Feel the collaboration! stypi.com/pi2o36wr
DJ Patil Lands At Greylock Partners As “Data Scientist in Residence”
This could actually be an interesting machine learning problem. Train a system to classify incoming customer emails, and automatically respond with the email template that matches the class of question, and watch your support team get more and more free time.
Another sad bitcoin story. Is it really all that surprising that if 'real' money was available to be stolen from non-bankers (who have a huge network of enforcement types at their disposal) that folks will come in and walk out with the money if they can?

I've not been following bitcoin closely, mostly just seeing the major screwups. But has anyone even started the process of a 'best practices' tutorial on keeping a bitcoin bank secure? (and these are depository banks, call them 'enthusiast websites' all you want but if they 'hold' a quantity of a good for others which has monetary value then they are a depository and should arm themselves appropriately)
or illness.
Top 8 hidden billionaires
and you can do it recursively! What a great waste of time...
After reading that, I wondered if github added an option for turning off pull requests. Apparently not.

https://github.com/phusion/nginx/pull/1

This would be useful for mirrors. Please add the option to disable pull requests, github!
Good News The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped
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it has earned distinction as the top-grossing documentary ever in the UK, an audience award winner at Sundance, and a top critical favorite Stateside. With Formula 1 fever at a high in Hollywood
A raid in this sense is a start-up venture or any development job I guess. And the advice is to not try and develop the next Google because most attempts are unsuccessful. And that if you're capable of developing the next Google you should just spend your time doing something else because you wouldn't have to work very hard.
Citation needed, but pretty sure I heard of compatibility issus that the clones had.
I think Apple is getting angry about its partners taking what they've learned from Apple and using it to compete directly against them. From the article:

The injunction comes as the latest blow in a tit-for-tat legal war between the two companies, who have otherwise enjoyed a solid working relationship: Samsung produces many of the components used in both the iPhone and the iPad, the design of which it stands accused of copying.

This is the same type of dynamic that led to the falling out between Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, when Schmidt, as a board member of Apple, used his inside knowledge of iOS to radically change Android's UI and functionality to compete directly against Apple.

Likewise, this reminds us of Steve Jobs showing Bill Gates the Mac GUI, and then finding out that Gates used that knowledge to revamp the Windows UI to directly compete against the Mac.

Apple has a problem in that it seemingly cannot partner with anyone without those companies then turning around and using their knowledge of Apple's software and design to compete directly against them in the same space.
You would think that the OEM's are leaving a fair amount of money on the table by not offering a true software emulator.

Have you heard of anyone from Nintendo getting involved (in a positive or negative way) with Byuu's project (or maybe they already offer one via the Wii--not sure)?
Bravo for Apple. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Air... has been a truly amazing decade!
This clearly shows how afraid Apple is of Android devices.

They do not have any shame in denying a developer his application on false grounds and then copying it over a few iterations later.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/40465/apple-allegedly-copies...

They want to copy notification system from Android. At the same time they want to sue Android for copying context menu.

Now they want to sue other devices because they are rectangular in shape.
If this is Apple then I will prefer an Apple free world.
The New Mobile Workforce
Thank you to the original poster.

I too suspect this is mostly people wanting to protect their homes and shops.

I sincerely hope, though, that this is not used in pro-gun rhetoric here in the US.
France’s latest green idea: underwater nuclear reactors
Because using force to restore order has worked so well for Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Syria?

A lot of that unrest is because of rent-a-mobs hired by military juntas. "Force" does not work because it is not supposed to.

IIRC, one of the accomplishments of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution was to intercept busloads of rent-a-mobs and pour immense amounts of free booze into them before the opposition figured out what was going on.
Completely dependent upon environment. EMC, Netapp and HP all make a great solution, you just need to know how to combine them. I feel a good integrator may be your best investment
I believe Britain already has restrictions on knife ownership.

This is sad. Honest people resorting to ordering baseball bats on a website for their defense. Imagine that that was your grandmother left with no other option.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." --Ghandi
A better desktop environment.
People have said the same thing with the Chrome browser before. "What would Google do which makes their flavor of a browser better than others? Well I guess, a lot.
Gamification Is Bullshit
Musk: Starting a company is like eating glass [video]
When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying — What Then?
Chromebooks are now available starting $349
SFW, and pretty awesome.
Black Hat USA 2011: Jeff Hudson - CEO - Venafi
Hackerspace Passports
"One of the fun aspects of a cartridge-based system is that you are literally plugging a PCB directly into your system. Thus, you can put extra coprocessors, often digital signal processors, right inside of the cartridge. This gives you an extra edge against your competitors' titles. The most popular SNES coprocessors were the SuperFX for polygon rendering and sprite rotation (used in Starfox and Super Mario World 2) and the DSP-1 for 3D math (used in Pilotwings and Mario Kart.)"

Very interesting. I never thought about this even though I've recognized the differences between games. I just attributed it to better game software, but it could literally have been better hardware available to certain games. You can't do that with CD/DVD/downloadable games.
It's an interesting experiment in re-inventing currency trading. The lesson I'm taking away: if a currency can be stolen, it will. This is in contrast to the ACH transfer system, where fraud or theft can be reversed with some effort.

Perhaps there is no way to build a sufficiently secure untraceable, non-undoable cash system.
To be strict, a completely successful theory of the origin of life would mean that God was not necessary to explain that. He could still be necessary to explain other things.
He's not a developer. He's a computer scientist.
Cool. I was looking into Cloud9 yesterday, but Stypi really does the rick, due to the syntax highlight and collaboration (cloud9 did not work for me), non signup required and ease of sharing (simple url).

Great job guys!
Numerical Control (history of)
Not to be a dick, but who cares? This just seems like a lame proprietary rip-off.

Etherpad is alive and well, and it's totally F/OSS - Etherpad Lite was just released and it's SUPER easy to embed in your own apps: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite
Some enterprising financial writer should take this opportunity to identify what the most valuable company currently listed on the exchanges= is, taking into account dividends payed out to their investors (which typically reduce the value of the stock by the amount of the dividend)

It's not Microsoft: http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2010/08/microsoft-sh...
No..ppl believe any tablets are ipads since Apple was first to make the tablet popular.

There are standard shapes and sizes for a lot of technologies.
Ask HN: Is HN slow for anyone else?
I have noticed that the response times of HN has been rather high today, anyone else having the same experience?
Now You Can Upload Photos Into Twitter
As of now, there's 7000% increase in the sales of military police telescopic tonfas.

Apparently they're out of stock of them and the link is no longer working on their site.

The original link to the item is here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Military-Police-Telescopic-Tonfa-21/...

You can search for the link in Google to check out a cached copy.
Samsung already sued Apple in more countries than Apple did to it. Pissing contest and such.

HTC's tablet is also under ITC's investigation, initiated by Apple.

Except the A5 SOC nothing Samsung makes for Apple is unique enough. And TSMC is actively testing mass producing Apple's IC.

BTW: Apple's utility model of essentially a giant iPod touch is ridiculously hilarious.
Downloadable source for the passports; includes PSDs, stamp designs, original InDesign illustrations all under the CC Attribution NonCom license: http://har.ms/blog/downloadable-source-for-hackerspace-passp...
King Abdullah II Interviews with Jon Stewart
Are you sure? I thought the nice clean knockout was a TV myth, and that any blow to the head strong enough to knock someone out is just as likely to kill them or give them serious brain damage.

Basically, don't hit someone on the head with any baseball bat unless you're willing to kill them.
Yes. It is very slow. This happens.
Stick to WSGI - you don't need a replacement
NASA: strongest evidence yet for existence of liquid water on surface of Mars
> . . . in contrast to the ACH transfer system, where fraud or theft can be reversed . . .

I am not sure, but I think Bitcoin transactions can be reversed, too, if enough nodes want to do so.
The 2nd in the list has: "Usually dispatched within 4 to 6 weeks"

That's no good, at least not for the implied use case!
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The version I've heard is that you should bring some when travelling, so that if you should be stranded on a deserted island, the backhoe driver will rescue you.
Netscape went public 16 years ago today -- here's a copy of the prospectus.
腿抽脂
When did the notion of copying being evil become so mainstream? Copying should be culturally commendable in my opinion.. but maybe that's why I'm not a central planner.
I find your comment quite disturbing. I can get behind leaving a looter (slightly) bloody and bruised, I suppose, but the nonchalance with which you proclaim these other humans "deserve to die", and state that it's "only fair" is ... well, disturbing. That's the best word. It's disturbing.

The whole damned thing is disturbing.
Ah, Peter Garrison, not only a great aviation writer, but a great writer, period.

I still remember his article about the original BD-5, and about his self-mantra ("RPM, RPM, RPM") and death grip on the collective during his first flights as he got his helicopter rating.

He is the kind of a guy who, in an article about flying gyrocopters at El Mirage dry lake, could turn it into poetry and write, "Only the soul survives loss of rotor at altitude."
Is this not hacking of the legal system?
It is quite the dramatic claim to say Microsoft, Google, or Samsung used insider information to copy Apple when all of the copied products came out well after the Mac, iPhone and iPad were publicly released.
Ironic how the people defending their territory are not indigenous britains, but rather Turks.

Guess Turks have more of a right to be there since they actually protect their land.
I'm super psyched about these guys - what they're working on has all kinds of potential that ether pad never had. It's one of the missing kinks in the modern development toolkit. I hope we'll get a chance to look into the API soon - I know they're working hard, but I don't want to be patient :) we have visions to fulfill!
So this also greatly decreases the risk that this person will hit back and possibly kill you. During self-defense my primary concern is my own safety - not the safety of my enemy.
Anonymous recursion in PHP 5.3
Testing a HN text document on Stypi (YC S11)
Here, we're referring specifically to annual revenue of event-based service industries. (Catering, Venues, Photography, Decor, etc.) The global market size for special events industry have been estimated to be around $500 Billion. Our initial focus is in US, which is THE top consumer for event services.
It's Amazon.com, not Amazon.co.uk, so no.
LetterBomb Wii hack
http://hackmii.com/2011/08/letterbomb/
This was indeed the case as early as the N64 - the technique was referred to as High Level Emulation (HLE).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraHLE
While I would also love to see a documentary about that.

Just because Tesla is still alive today, doesn't mean he was lucky. When you look at all the events that took place in between 2002-2008:
+ Having to sell cars during the 2008 depression
+ extreme difficulty finding investment
+ millions in sunk costs on inventory which they threw out (under the first CEO)
+ going through a divorce war during the IPO.
+ hiring a designer which started a competing company
These events don't seem very lucky.
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It's also interesting to see how, despite one of the initial design objectives of bitcoin being a currency beyond the reach of government intervention, users now want the police to investigate bitcoin related mishaps.

As Kim Stanley Robinson might have put it: "That's libertarians for you — anarchists who call the police to get their bitcoins back."
And the a few days later we get to read a story about a family who had their bat order canceled getting beat near to death in their own home. Brilliant.
It doesn't use CoffeeScript's syntax, but I work on Pharen, which takes a Lisp dialect and compiles it to PHP: http://scriptor.github.com/pharen/
Hilary Mason has a presentation about this, "How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script"[1]. Recommended.

[1]: http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-how-to-replace-you...
Presuming, that is, that delivery is running normally.
Apple Now World's Most Valuable Company
If anyone has been looking to get into bitcoin, the spot price is a lot lower at the moment than it was a few weeks ago when all the media was focussed on it. (I increased my position over last few days at slightly lower prices.)
One of the major advantages bitcoin has is that it is decentralized. Placing your money in a bitcoin bank is simply unneeded.

Sure, keeping your BTC in an exchange's account may make it faster to exchange your BTC to USD, and you may see less transaction fees, but at the end of the day it means you have to trust the exchange to do the right thing.

Want to keep your coins safe? Secure your wallet.dat.
Nokia to retire Symbian in North America, going all-in on Windows Phone
I forget where I originally read this, but I heard a suggestion that if you're going to go with a creative misspelling for a company name, only make one spelling change, not two.

So, either double the a (Taazer) or drop the e (Tazr) but don't do both. (Think Digg or Flickr.)