skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw 18 cores and 16 L2 caches. Either two cores have no L2 or the L2 banks are somehow shared. From the article it's not clear if two cores can access a single L2 cache concurrently. My interpretation is that the transactional memory works for all cores in the chip.
Does someone have a mirror of this? It's down for me.
In theory there are only two options for this.

A. Something that is better than Twitter comes along and people like it more.

B. People no longer find Twitter useful/interesting/whatever makes them use it in the first place.

So basically, irrelevancy by competition or by societal shift.
What's your logic behind this number? Do you think Microsoft made all those billions selling crappy software to geeks like us?
I'd like to know both.
No, if you read the article, contracts are enforced at runtime!
Not hardly. The runtime can detect that a function invocation violates a post-condition only after all of that function's side-effects have been run.
Yike | An elegant "Like" button for your HN posts and comments
This is only because the Finder/Explorer has been made harder and harder to use. Apple's OSX Finder is a shocking UI abomination.

Their old MacOS Finder was clear and simple - my wife would spend hours arranging her work in coloured folders, each of which opened in a window whose shape and position she had chosen, and was meaningful to her. It was a powerful tool that enabled her to arrange and group her work.

Now, both Apple and Microsoft compete with each other over how bad they can make their file system interface. Microsoft wanted to do away with the filesystem in Longhorn, and Apple have actually done so in iOS.

Is this progress??
I actually changed industries (I was a semicondutor design engineer) for learning new stuff in software. I was really worried if people will see this sudden change and gap in my employment as a bad sign. But now I don't really care what they might think. If I am learning new things and building something, how can that ever be taken as a bad thing?
"The Blueprint" by Kasparov, Levchin and Thiel
Wow. Elegant: Yes. GIGANTIC: also yes. Who needs a like button THIS BIG?
Groupon isn't going anywhere in the same way that Facebook isn't going anywhere. They're big companies that are generating gobs of revenue.

But the investment and IPO expectations are based on more growth, when in fact there are signs that there may not be any more room for it.

Groupon isn't going to disappear; but it may be a $1BB company rather than a $25BB one.
That's an unfortunate coincidence, but not irony.

Like rain on your wedding day.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/isnt-it-ironic-...
“iTunes Match stores your complete music library in iCloud, allowing you to enjoy your collection anywhere, anytime, on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or computer.

iTunes Match beta is currently available to developers in the United States. Beta subscribers will receive iTunes Match service during the beta period plus an additional 3 months for free with their 12 month paid subscription.

To get started with iTunes Match, download the current version of iOS 5 beta and iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 with iTunes Match. Once installed, choose Turn On iTunes Match from the Store menu, and click "Subscribe for $24.99."

Please note that you must maintain a local backup of your iTunes library as well as any music you add to iCloud. Apple will periodically reset your iCloud library during the beta and it is critical that you backup your music regularly. Some features and optimizations of iTunes Match will not be available during the beta.” - e-mail from Apple
If you're talking about Yike, thats not the actual like button :P That's just the title of the site. Once you enter an item id, you will se an actual like button.
This is great, it's like Google's compiler library[0] but with run-time checking! Coffee script is still very hard to debug, this should help avoid about 80% of the mistakes I normally make when coding.

[0] http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/
The section on staged shellcode payloads reminded me of bombers, replicators, and scanners in corewars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War#Strategy)
I'd hazard a guess your Android experience was a year or two ago. My Nexus 1 lasted barely a day when it arrived, but now lasts 48 hours on Gingerbread (2.3) with everything (including wifi, bluetooth and GPS) on.
The stats are just proof of how successful the war on terrorism has been! Now stand in line and let the high-school dropout security contractor cup your balls like a good American.
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Participating in later rounds with a few big name internet companies that WSJ readers would recognize isn't the same as playing catch up. Even a quick glance at their portfolio shows lots of internet companies at early stages - Path, Spotify, Klout etc.
Apple opens iTunes Match beta
It wasn't working when it was first posted, but just now I was just able to get it to load.
That content is still in there. I just don't want people to think of this book as a one-trick pony :)
The book is being published by Manning, so probably not :(
getting permission denied errors
To me, what you said seems like the other technical people that don't write code would be considered "non-technical", which doesn't make sense to me. I, for example, don't write code but I'm far from non-technical. So... I'm still confused.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but the 'pinch with 3 fingers and thumb' gesture seems to be practically impossible on the older macbooks with a separate pad & button - there just isn't the space.
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Mention at the top that this is "according to PrivCo" without citing any other sources.
Long quote attributed to... some guy at this same PrivCo.

Stay classy, marketers.
1) Thanks, we do have a 100 files limit per folder, this will change soon.

2) Agreed, we will work on communicating more clearly!
Unfortunately, storing a phone number is necessary for this to work. We are open to suggestions for any better solutions
anyone may have.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bwunp13...
That's the problem. Even small startups use them. Imagine a 4-person startup with 2 co-founders, another engineer and another designer. No full-time support staff, so everyone jumps in from time to time. Unless you make a generic agent account (which is lame for assignment/follow-up), you're talking $100/mo for support.

I don't discount the value extracted but to me it reeks of enterprise, per-seat licensing a bit.

I just think an OS, unlimited agent option would be nice for small startups.
Thanks for the comment, hope u give Minus a shot! :)
Notch has a similar attitude, as expressed at http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp,

specifically "once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source."
The source code will be shared source, not open source; it will not be something which people can freely redistribute.

I wrote Bravo. One of my big supporters is a guy who has been involved with Mojang's inner workings for a long time, and who has told many a horror story about the inner circles of MC communities. (Name withheld for privacy reasons.) There are Mojang employees, like mollstam (the webmaster), chilling in our IRC channel, but we're really not able to get much information transferred back and forth. Things like on-the-wire exploits and data leaks aren't received by upstream in a reasonable timeframe, which makes it painful to do good security.
I hate the ribbon. It was the final push for me to abandon Word and learn LaTeX. Really.

I also use the shell for almost all file system manipulation, on OS X and on Windows (via Cygwin) so I know that puts me in a small minority of users.
They did exactly the same alarmist (and inaccurate) linkbait with a Facebook story not long ago: http://www.allfacebook.com/whats-privco-and-whys-it-worried-...

EDIT: Please flag this story to remove it from HN. They don't deserve any of your eyeballs.
This is silly. There are a number of ways to try bugging emails; this uses one of the oldest, and it doesn't work in much of anything anymore by default.

On top of that, SpamAssassin hates it:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.7 required=5.0 tests=HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_08,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS,T_DKIM_INVALID

...so they didn't bother to MIME-format the message correctly with a text component. I know from experience that this can cause your message to be blocked completely by some email services.

Phooey.
Well, to answer the question:
What are you doing now or what's happening? you could have users wearing glasses that collects video and sound from the environment and sends it into the network for recording and broadcast. The glasses may also have an inbuilt screen and headphones that can receive from the network. Getting lifestreaming right.

The glasses could also detect a user's emotions by their eye state and voice (or pulse.) It may autodetect location and detect sounds to attach environmental metadata -- so great metadata. Think The Terminator combined with Brainstorm.
How do people start up with less than $20K? That's barely enough to cover basic icorporation + lawyer + equipment + website graphic design. If you need to hire somebody professional (like sales guys), what do you do?
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There is not enough ups for this
Now just make a kick butt flash implementation and you'll get $1M internet dollars!

No but seriously, this is super cool.
The difference as far as I know, is that apprentices have normal working hours, while residents are sleep deprived to counterproductive levels and they could be barred from becoming a doctor at the end of it. If residents had normal hours like the rest of the doctors, I wouldn't nearly be nearly as apprehensive about it.
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Yes, let's get rid of advanced features, because a lot of people don't use them.
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This looks really good! Would you be interested in some freelance work? I have a pretty small budget, but would love to talk further! Feel free to email me at kaufmanjohn719(at)gmail(dot)com if interested.
What steps have you taken to protect this information?
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there's www.guerrillamail.com for that!
Oddly, Microsoft used to be app centric and moved to being file centric with Windows 95. The idea being that you cared less about the app and more about the document you were using. Apple is going back and saying you care about the app as the dominant focus.

This is interesting. For example, my mom knows the document she wants to open is her 2009 tax return document. The fact that it is a PDF or she reads it with Adobe Reader -- I'm fairly certain she doesn't know. If I were to layout every application she has installed and told her to find the one to open to access her tax documents I honestly don't think she'd have a clue. She'd probably try Word. I suspect she's not alone on this.
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Lots of things are "better" than Twitter, for almost any way you could measure "better". The only thing Twitter has going for it is size - everyone is on Twitter. Also they are now really fast and pretty reliable, but even back when that wasn't true, they were still growing like crazy.
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Removing trap templates - excellent idea. Thank you!

Spam - good point. We need to work on verification. Currently, it only works 20 times per IP address. But that's 20 times too many.
Until a law is introduced making it illegal to have an unsecured wifi access point.
IANAL but I would assume the Government's argument would be that the crime is ongoing and that after becoming aware of the coins they made efforts to recover the property.

It is a pittance of gold but thats not the point. The Mint believes these coins were misappropriated and it's their duty to secure the money supply. If I were the Government I would offer $20 per coin, as thats the face value of the coins. Although that might not be possible if that technically monetizes them into legal tender.
Incorporation is basically free because YC does it in bulk, and uses their own in-house lawyer for it.

Equipment is free because all you really need is your own laptop and Amazon EC2.

YC companies are usually started by hackers who don't outsource graphic design, or if they do they do it cheaply because they do much of the implementation themselves.

The $20k goes mostly to living expenses for the summer. You're expected to raies further capital after that.

(As a side note, thanks to Yuri Milner and StartFund, you now get easy access to an additional $150k, but I can say from experience that's far from necessary)
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe YC provide an in-house lawyer for incorporation etc.

They're probably expecting people to provide their own equipment, every company gets offered free hosting and they can also take a further investment if they want it
I think the argument is less "noone but power users would need this" and more "only power users will know how to apply 'Invert Selection' to get the behaviour they want".

ie there's an inductive leap between "I want to delete all files except this one" and "I can select that one file and then invert selection before deleting". At minimum it requires you to know what "invert selection" means. Ordinary users may take a different, more fiddly, path.

I don't know if that's the case here. My intuition says it is. However, in my optimistic heart I hope Microsoft did a bunch of usability testing and determined that ordinary users do grasp an "invert selection" concept more often than not.

That's how design for mass-use user interfaces works, right? By evidence-driven testing, not by what the programmer/designer thinks makes sense? Clings to idealistic belief.
The people (administrations and congress) foisting this on us do not have our interests in mind.
It's certainly possible to have that control via assembler, where folks are programming in that. So strictly speaking, yes, your "may" can be true.

For C or another language, here's some related reading on that topic, and where you can get into deep trouble with this:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/pldi05...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/reorde...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-217R1.pdf
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf
Ok, I think we probably need new words.

Picking the perfect font, colors, making the perfect graphics is an important and in my opinion completely different task, than making finding products easy by for example reducing the number of clicks required and such

Let use Vim as an example, the design of the interaction between the author and text is completely separate from the colorscheme

Interaction design, is not the same as Look and feel design is not the same as graphic design

I notice that most of the time, we speak of all design categories collectively, which really hurt the debate

A good interaction designer is not necessarily the same person as a graphic designer
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電子書籍のePUB形式が最近話題になっています。
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All manner of people have suggested and planned ways of doing this, but as yet, none of them are really any good.

See: http://nascent.freeshell.org/programming/TagFS/
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/WinFS

and many more.
Show HN: Calendator - Generate awesome printable calendars from your browser
Check out my weekend project, Calendator:

http://leandro.me/Calendator

Calendator lets you quickly generate printable calendars right from your browser. Great for sketching your schedule, drafting estimates during a meeting and as a regular calendar that you can stick on your wall.

It's a pure client side app using Twitter's Bootstrap toolkit, the Less CSS preprocessor, Date.js and jQuery.

It's open source and you can get the code on GitHub. You can read more about it at my blog, here:

http://leandro.me/posts/calendator-my-latest-app

I built this app to scratch my own itch, and I hope you find it useful as well. Any feedback is of course more than welcome.
The shuttle costs half a billion dollars per launch and the Soyuz has been rock solid in terms of reliability, present issues excluded. I don't think there was anyone seriously proposing keeping a shuttle around as a backup for the Soyuz.
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Can I get a credit downgrade, too?
Seriously... hacked into his sons computer and took the code. Why in the first place would your company develop all this code and then just send it to the owners son....
Can anybody that is in or has been through YC answer these questions:

How difficult and costly is it to find a place in SF for 3 months? It seems like a large part of the YC money would get used up for the founders basic living expenses.

Do most YC company founders go in debt / use savings / use most of the YC money, to cover personal expenses while they do this?
Library author covers the relevant history here, http://disnetdev.com/blog/2011/08/23/Contracts.coffee-Contra...

This Lambda The Ultimate discussion on Benjamin C. Pierce's (Types And Programming Languages) talk Types Considered Harmful is also of interest - the gist being that contracts are useful because sometimes static types are just too damn hard - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2828

EDIT: Might as well link to Brendan Eich's talk Proxies Are Awesome!, http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/metaprog-5303821. I haven't really been following the Proxy thing and they seem quite useful. It's nice to see them applied so powerfully here.
Should we be trying to dismiss terrorism by suggesting it is as equally threatening as bath tubs?

Lets pretend I'm a terrorist who is trying to make a point. You're telling me I should be ignored because I haven't killed enough people. Logically (or as logically as one who has justified terrorism can be), I need to kill more.

Is this the goal we're trying to achieve?

I'm not suggesting that billions haven't been misspent, but if this argument catches fire, it will be added to the wiki entry for Pyrrhic victory.
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Just as an additional anecdote, I've heard this sentiment repeated just about everywhere in SF, especially where companies try to involve developers in support in a rotating fashion.

Like I said, definitely contact me, I think there could be something very interesting for everyone here :)
They're two completely different products. With instapaper, you visit a page, click a bookmarklet, and the page is saved to your instapaper account. You can then go back later and read the article. It's basically a huge "read later" list. There are a couple very cool features (read text-only, export to pdf|epub|other, iPad/iPod apps, ...) which really make it very good at doing what it does.

RTM is a general purpose to-do list. Theoretically, you could add a to-do with the URL and have it function as a read later list. However, the software is designed to be a to-do list, and the added functionality of instapaper will not be there, and if you ask the developers to implement, say, a preview feature for a URL they'll probably look at you funny and ignore you.
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SERPs & Spyders SEO card game is now under Creative Commons
Most new founders don't live in San Francisco. YC encourages you, and rightly so, to live in and around Mountain View, where rent is much, much cheaper than the city.
I don't see any need for this, especially since it can be so easily defeated. But then again, I fall firmly in the "e-mail should just be plain text" camp.
I'm not sure. I haven't yet seen any companies that officially eat dog food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_a-gn0dYmk#t=1m14s
It reminds me of why I stopped using vim after switching to Dvorak.
this is one the reason why i didn't went with sparrow mail client even after my friends recommended it for ease of use and eye candy.
You think RISC sounds like a good idea now.. wait until you read about "return-oriented programming" with variable length instructions!

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/talks/blackhat08.html

The short story: arbitrary computation by finding 'ret's wit short sequences of useful code before them. Finding them in your code, and they need not actually be 'ret's thanks for the same reason this stuff works.
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WikiLeaks 'insurance' file has not been decrypted
To our knowledge, the only way someone could access this information is if the web server itself is compromised.

We checked all entry points and are confident that no one will ever get access to this db.
Billions? Try trillions.
The SERPs & Spyders cards, designs and rules are all under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence.

You can download all the cards from my flickr account: http://goo.gl/XGS9r

You may use the game for commercial purposes, and make adaptations as you wish. All the licence requires is attribution to Jason Comely via a link.

Note: SERPs & Spyders cards/gamepacks can still be purchased at The GameCrafter for those who just want to play: http://goo.gl/15kIG
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It begs the question though... other than children, how many "new" computer users are there?
Is there any way we could get a peek at that checklist? Feel free to drop me a line at mf(at)appharbor.com
> note:hack will be fixed soon utilize it as soon as possible. good luck

Seriously? This is everything that's wrong with the Internet. Everyone from Hackers Bay should be ashamed. Flagged.
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I've been quietly hoping that perhaps Google's Authenticator app might provide this for us... If there were a way for one of my websites to seed the Authenticator, I could provide an RSA-token-like 3rd factor to my logins effectively for free (at least to anyone with an iOS/Android device).

(I don't suppose anybody's more up-to-date than me on if/when that'll be possible?)
What is "something to say"? It sounds like it doesn't make sense to go unless you have an idea or have something in the oven. Thanks for the input!
After 10 years of Linux/Unix/some Windows administration i'm learning assembly. That's mainly because i've switched to working on a Z enterprise platform. :)
Great topic for a book, just ordered it. To support embeddable menus for Real Time Farms we went with:

- a script include that is very lightweight and only

- document.writes an iframe and

- asynchronously loads a helper script to deal with cross domain communication so that the frame can change height when the menu tabs change

See it in action here http://www.northernspyfoodco.com/menus/dinner

it eventually loads the iframe with this content:

http://www.realtimefarms.com/restaurant/northern-spy-food-co...

The benefit of using an iframe so far has been much easier reuse of code for the widget content. However, we've had a few folks request to use their own stylesheet which can't be supported (instead we offer a configuration of the embed snippet to style a few things like menu width, fonts family and colors).

In any case, if we learn even a single helpful trick about embedding rich content from this book, it will have been money well spent!
Why yes I think we should make an effort to (relatively) ignore the things that kill fewer people. We have some inborn biases to give disproportionate attention to some rare threats (terrorism, penis amputations) and to ignore others that are truly dangerous (worn-out tires and fatty burgers).
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"How to Pick the Right Idea for Your Startup."

For some people, the issue may not be that they don't have an idea, but they have a few and need to choose the right one to push forward.
This reminded me of an excellent read: http://www.damninteresting.com/a-fluke-of-nature/
it doesn't conflict with the prototype operator?