skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically all non-netbook laptops sold within the last 6 months have a CPU that has on-die video decoding, but many (though still a minority) desktops don't. I'm not sure why you're bringing MCMs into the discussion, those were the norm in Intel laptops for about a year before that with the Nehalem chips in laptops, but right now the only MCMs being sold are server chips which don't have GPUs at all, but rather require more silicon than can economically be produced in one piece.
A sound wave could be considered an object depending on your problem domain. The point is that operations should be able to work with anything that has the operations it needs defined. A sound wave could have several operations defined on it, including one(s) that let it behave as a function.
How to Get Your Startup from Point A to Point B
Sure. It's just a coding standard like any other. Enforce it the same way you enforce unit test coverage.
Thank you for the thoughtful response, but you reached your original comment because of the author's post.

In spite of your reasoning (some of which I agree with), my point is that we're guilty of another thing -- parental judgmentalism, in which we impart the thoughts of what we as parents ought to do in the general sense, but try to apply it on an individual basis. And we impart these thoughts onto other parents, which is both presumptive and unrealistic.

With sincerity, I would caution about projecting your individual thoughts onto others (i.e., we haven't grown up ourselves). I for one won't claim to have mastered parenting, but I don't feel that I'm a parental failure either.

Doesn't mean the overall societal comments you make aren't valid, just that suggesting the tome for all parents is bad ju-ju.
His point is not "all derivatives are bad", but rather that some derivatives are too complex and hence might have hidden risks that are potentially catastrophic (as in the mortgage-backed derivatives crisis).

Stock options like standard puts and calls, though risky, are well understood in terms of the underlying.
I'm not sure step 5 has happened, and step 6 will never happen as written. There are way more people on Farmville than on Twitter.
One interesting fact from their study though was that results returned with the Google logo was perceived as better, even if it came from Bing. This is unfortunately why marketing is such a big deal.
Startups on Windows just got really interesting  (Build Keynote)
Why is Hyena's comment being down-voted? It's 100% correct. You are your own brand and your own product. Staying up-to-date with current tech is your own responsibility. Crying about falling behind won't pay the bills.
Instead of looking for fashionable languages, why not look for a history of creativity and a passion for learning? And you can never, ever underestimate the value of good communication skills.
Basically, he's saying that we should allow banks to go bankrupt instead of bailing them out.
I think this is the best summary of it. The author strikes me as insecure.
I really like this kind of stuff.
Did you know why dogs are fed sugar after obeying commands for some time? It's because a dose of glucose restores the willpower.

This stays true for humans. In supermarkets, we are offered sweet snacks at checkout—when we have little willpower, the reason being lots of choices we had to make while shopping. So both a) our brain requires more glucose and b) we can't resist sugar snacks anyway. No matter how junk that food might be.

And here's the key— ’Your brain does not stop working when glucose is low. It stops doing some things and starts doing others. It responds more strongly to immediate rewards and pays less attention to long-term prospects.‘

Unfortunately there are areas where decision fatigue might be critical: ‘In midmorning, usually a little before 10:30, the parole board would take a break, and the judges would be served a sandwich and a piece of fruit. The prisoners who appeared just before the break had only about a 20 percent chance of getting parole, but the ones appearing right after had around a 65 percent chance.’

Also, that might be the reason people stay poor: when you don't have a lot of money, you need to make much more tough choices. This depletes people's willpower, and consequently they are worse at other important stuff like education.

How to deal with decision fatigue? ‘People with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. <…> Even the wisest people won’t make good choices when they’re not rested and their glucose is low. <…> The best decision makers are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.’

Very interesting article, actually. A lot of interesting stuff there. Is there no workaround to access nytimes from your area?
Looking good so far.
This is what it all comes down to, whether at Bing, or at any other large organization.

This isn't just large organizations, but also small. I worked at a start up during the dot com boom that was the most dysfunctional I've ever worked at.

If you read bug reports you'd be amazed to see how much bugs jumped around. Devs had a motto, "No my bug" while imitating Neo of the Matrix dodging bullets in slow-motion.

And for a company that just existed a couple of years, they rewrote their core product like 3 or 4 times, because someone else wanted to be the hero.

Part of this is, as you point out, that the dot com bubble was coming to an end and people saw that all the hours they put in were coming to be worth effectively nothing.

I heard an anecdote about Microsoft before that when the stock was going up you could turn off the heat and no one would complain. But when the stock was flat/down HR would get complaints about how much it rained in Seattle and employees would say they didn't sign up for this many cloudy days.
The Advantage Of Social Bookmarking
Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites serve many benefits that can be very beneficial to a Web. Let's discuss the each benefit with example
AMQP is real interesting. I like to think of it as "email for applications". It lets programs send "email" to each other.

You could do this using regular email, but regular email is hard to wire up to programs and isn't very flexible (eg. it's relatively hard to set up new email accounts).

With these messaging protocols, programs can just create channels for themselves and set up all sorts of interesting communications protocols -- eg. point to point, publish and subscribe, one to many etc. And it's (relatively) reliable so you know the message is going to get delivered.
As a newbie coder I find this type of post very illuminating.
Programmers think that they hate politics but when it comes down to the actual technical stuff, they do politics as well.

Some programmers want to be "relevant" in the HN sense so they push new technology that they just picked up last week religiously (node.js for a CRUD app, which most websites are anyway, comes to mind) like it is the next big thing.

Or they just read 37Signals books and drank the 37Signals + RoR kool-aid and push 100% 37Signals mindset to the workplace that doesn't fit with that (different target, client base, market, etc). Come back in 3 years time and you'll see the same guy pushing for MVC in client-side/browser as opposed to stick with simplicity yet still pushing 37Signals mindset whenever he refused to do work that doesn't inline with him for whatever reasons (laziness, or else).

Or perhaps they came back from Agile meeting and think that Scrum is the only way to run a project that everybody else must follow it. (Hint: Scrum is hard to understand and to apply to a large group of people who don't know Scrum 100%). On the flip side, cowboy coders hate a single addition of "process" even if that process is called Continuous Integration. They'll do whatever it takes to make sure they can continue to code like cowboys.

Even the unit-test debate can be considered as politics. Some people want the company to rely on themselves so they prefer no unit-tests. Programmers are notorious with locking in the knowledge in their brain only hence no unit-tests, no documentations. Just Read The F... Code they say. C'mon, don't give me excuses that these are useless except for your weekend projects. We all know that most startups develop from prototypes. They almost rarely re-write their main (with odd codebase) products.

... more reasons to be an indie developer I suppose...
"Extraneous factors in judicial decisions"

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/29/1018033108

---

"The science of justice

I think it's time we broke for lunch…

Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack"

http://www.economist.com/node/18557594
Show HN: Multisell app source code
Apparently, not so many of you were interested. But in case anyone wants to see a solution, here it is:

http://www.kahusecurity.com/2011/deobfuscating-breakingpoint...
I follow my friend's hobby projects, but my news feed is 99% CoffeeScript updates. It'd be really nice to have more control over that view.
Or any other nation's law enforcement?
We used to do that years and years ago on VMS, NETMBX it was called there.
Compliance Is Not Security – Busted
> I personally have a hard time believing people can change that much...

On the day my kids were born, I felt my priorities and what was important actually change. Things that I had emphasized as important before they were born became entirely unimportant. Literally, felt it.

But here's the thing: call it schizophrenia or miserable emptiness or whatever label you'd like to assign, I don't care. I care about my kids more than things I did before I was a father, and the third-person observation that tries to impart some logic that doesn't include my perspective is, well, wrong. No fooling was involved, no tricking myself into believing anything. It just happened.
Thanks for the Seth Godin link, he's great.
Just an idea:

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-18-10-1076...
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http://www.khanacademy.org/
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www.classmetric.com
I work at Tsuru Capital. (Apparently we have a contributors file for the iteratees library, and I never added myself.)

Feel free to ask questions here. I'll try my best to respond to them. We're preparing for ICFP tomorrow, and my train back from Yokohama was pretty late, so I probably won't be able to answer right away.
The article was written by one of the coauthors of Willpower (http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...). I read this book last week and it was terrific. A great blend of fascinating studies and practical advice. Also, while many pop psych books rehash the same studies over and over, Willpower featured many results that I had not encountered before, like these findings about parole hearings. Highly recommended book.
I'm glad you posted this. I know it's obvious to most people here but I'm sure there's one or two people who didn't know.
How about different colors of lines for from/to?
Great concept. I'm curious to see how it all plays out.
党性分析材料
I love this. It just breaks out the truly useful information from GA and removes the clutter.

I wish it did some more analysis from all of GA's data, and presented more information in such an easily digestible form.
I'm certainly liking the idea.
Absent advanced news feed organization, - if it is found?

News feeds feel ignored programmatically, little extension seen on important sites.
Rightly or wrongly, I think my friends are (and consequently I am) more likely to switch to Diaspora than G+, at least if they can fix some of the remaining bugs and thus make it a bit less frustrating to use.
Delicious Data: Ethnicity of Computing and the U.S. Population
I missed that, now I see!

Then check that http://migrationsmap.net/#/SHN/departures is still broken.
Glad to see this starting off strong!
The Artist is Present (8-bit edition)
Building small things
Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management?
Learn REST: A Tutorial
Another imperfection to this otherwise interesting tool: it is hard if not impossible to click on small countries or islands. Good luck if you want to know who goes to Guadeloupe. Pascali Islands are hidden by the legend if I'm not mistaking. This is inherent to any "click a country on the world map" tool. A complex and not perfect way to fix it would be to allow zooming, but here I would add a drop-down with a list of countries.
I really love this idea.
It's never easy to hire smart people.
It's bewildering to talk about some kind of crisis when everything I've seen indicates that Facebook commands more and more of the average user's time online - http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/comscore-facebook-keeps-gob....

Of course, the article's conclusion isn't based on useful metrics, but on scattershot, poorly reasoned reactions to Facebook's product strategy. Like Google, Facebook is steadily simplifying and unifying their products and as with Google, journalists can't wrap their heads around it.

-Place-tagging is still in Facebook and is arguably more powerful than ever as Facebook has steadily made tagging people with you almost effortlessly easy on all platforms. Facebook's Places directory is probably as complete as Yelp's and they're doing some very interesting A - B user preference polling. I'd have a hard time finding a local restaurant or business without a well maintained Facebook page.

-Every social network has had a hard time encouraging users to "group" so it shouldn't be a surprise that Facebook is iterating/experimenting. Google's implementation really isn't that sophisticated - it simply forces you to group everyone and has a pretty UI. For all we know, this overly-involved friending process is why + is flopping. Smart Lists automate the process to a degree that Google and Twitter haven't attempted.

-Subscriptions looks like another well-measured shot at Twitter. The "subscription" model looks like a much more comprehensible model for following public figures than Pages, which have been quite successful in their own right (see Places).

I could go on, but suffice to say, I find a lot of these criticisms poorly reasoned.
I think it's a really great idea, but I was disappointed to see most of the offered project were really of the bottom-feeding sorts (many offered ~$100/day) as some here feared would happen.

I'm in Vienna (which is a much cheaper market than the US/UK/AUS) and even here I don't generally charge less than 300 euros a day (~$420) and received offers for as high as 500 euros/day (~$690) for contract work in the past.

I am sure the real pros who frequent HN charge a lot more than I do.

Programmers, don't sell yourself short! You are bringing down expectations and hurting all of us.
Hey Freshfey,

Over the summer I taught myself how to code (PHP). The route that I took was the following:

1) Watch screen casts without doing any coding and just understand the basic concepts and syntax. This was done via Lynda.

2) I then went to the tutorial Zend has on PHP 101 and did each and every exercise until I understood it.

3) Lastly, (this I am still in the midst of doing) is attempt to replicate a website or a certain functionality of a website. Meaning apply everything you just learnt from step 1 & 2.

By going through those three steps I've become pretty good at coding and now it's all about practising and to continue putting together things I've learnt into real stuff.

Some AMAZING resources that I highly recommend checking out (no matter what language you're learning is:

http://stackoverflow.com/ <-- Amazing Q&A site that SHOULD have the answer to just about any problem you run into

https://github.com/ <--- Take a look at other people's projects and see how they are doing things in the language that you are learning.

The last and final tip that I can give you is stick to it and don't give up.
PG's Rarely Asked Questions
I totally agree about the increased noise making discoverability worse. In fact, I have spent very little time on any of the new sites we're talking about just due to sheer exhaustion from market oversaturation. And that's crazy, because I'm probably their ideal customer.They definitely aren't reaching me, and they should be.

I tend to agree with you about curation versus AI, but I am not 100% sure. Years ago I was skeptical that collaborative filtering would ever work at all. As the poster below notes, it does pretty well for Netflix and sometimes for Amazon too. I could at least imagine some sort of AI recommendation system working for the masses, but I doubt it would ever appeal to the highest end customers.
There's no reason why you can't have many node processes per server. This also raises the fault tolerance per server.
scientific Python!
That line especially bothered me, it makes it seem like it's some divine or magical rule. If that were the case, I would hate for it to be used as if it were infallible with no actual understanding.
Wait, isn't WriteRoom ripped off from Vim and Emacs, making it sort of absurd to have an Emacs with a writeroom mode? What benefit does this have?
Thanks for the feedback. I think part of the issue is that I'm asking folks to give project rates and durations, and it seems (based on the projects submitted thus far) that the duration ends up being a bit of a misnomer. I think a project rate of a few grand for a simple prototype is probably above board, but if you add an erroneous or poorly anticipated duration, it suddenly dilutes the rate into bottom feeder territory. Nonetheless, I'll be revamping some of this so it's much more clear. FWIW, I rejected more projects than I sent out.
Latitude doesn’t exactly mean what I thought
Sounds good!

Looking forward to seeing how this develops.
Buena salud con sobre peso
At first I was really excited about G+, but that faded fast. Now the only reason I visit the site is to play poker. I don't post to Facebook either, and haven't for years, with one exception -- birthdays. I still use FB to wish close frieds and family many happy returns of their birthday.

If I have something to share online, my goto service is still Twitter.
Design of the DNS (Part VIII) - names outside the name system
Good riddance, shuttles. I wonder how much exploration and exploitation was held back by 30+ years of being stuck on manned low earth orbit.

No mission to Mars? Only a very few asteroid missions (why not dozens)? Only a very few ionic propulsion systems? It would have been nice to have permanent robotic geologic and atmospheric stations throughout the entire solar system by now, rather than playing around in orbit.

Want to learn about our planet? Observe what happens to other planets, in detail, when you change the size, composition or temperature, and put the data into a matrix or two to start solving for the variables.
Focusing on being a better coder and communicator is your best bet. It'd be more interesting to solve advanced problems and only know PHP than to pick up another language and never have really solves problems anyone cares about.

If you still want pick up a new language, in my work as a recruiter in San Francisco I see a shortage of web developers who are good with Ruby.
Probably Clojure - It's cool, has a webby angle, you can cherry-pick the good Java libraries and to quote Eric Raymond: "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."
I suspect the simple solution to that is to have low cost models in a range of sizes try on each item. Let's say it costs 100$ a per size * 10 sizes = 100$ per item in your catalog * 10,000 items in the catalog = 10 million. Which is within the range of a well funded start-up. So it adds 1k/item and some lead time it's also a huge barrier to entry and probably well worth it.

PS: Don't forget Zappos sells shoes online where fit is both harder to come by and more important.
Awesome Tool For Your MLM Business - Attraction Marketing
*If you're good at direct enterprise sales... Most startup guys I know prefer PR, metrics, A/B testing, etc. over this type of meat and potatoes type of work.
Famous People in History – Scientists and Inventors
So, if you want a promotion you should go in the morning to your boss?
C.

Understand the foundation and everything else becomes a lot easier to learn. And yes, you can do the web with it. Many still do.
It's only boring if your network is boring. I'll take a boring UI anyway if I connect with others in a way that wasn't possible in the past. Social networks are tools. How you use them and with whom is what may make them engaging or not.
The interesting fact is that the "fix" coincides with the ongoing huge advertising company for the Google Chrome browser on the major Russian TV channels.

Seems like the Google really doesn't want its browser to leak a share of newcomers to the Russian major search engine Yandex. A kind of optimization, yeah.
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A woman of extraordinary beauty is the target of assassins failing to hit than it was in the limo Accidentally throws the brunette Rita,
He's not arguing that "things would be better without government intervention". My impression was that his argument was that government shouldn't assume only the risks and not the profits. Quoting from the article:

"Whatever may need to be bailed out
should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be free, small and riskbearing."
I think the opposite is generally true--- traffic on HN is high enough that things are very heavily dependent on the randomness of whether it gets 1-3 upvotes in the first 15 minutes, when the submission is still on the top half of the /newest page.

It'd be interesting if we had some empirical data, though.
A point about vitamins vs painkillers. It's kind of ironic that we use this analogy because vitamins actually help prevent disease (well, some), while painkillers are just treating the symptom and not the root cause.
The KISS Principle
Circular dependency detected :)
Local-time effect on small space-time scale
People who like exploring statistics like this (as opposed to just being impressed by the nice technical implementation - which I love, btw) should take a look at GapMinder.

Eg:

http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly...

http://www.gapminder.org/world/#http://www.gapminder.org/wor...

The Hans Rosling TED talk is fantastic too: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
If the mistake is bad enough for you to go out of business, yes. Isn't that how it should work, you take the risk and you reap the rewards? As it says in #4: "capitalism is about
rewards and punishments, not just rewards."
I got the email, and I didn't take the "duration" as how long they wanted me to spend on it. I took it as more of a "When you start this, you should be done in X days because we want it by then."

Should I have read it differently?
How to Earn Discounts on Products You Love
Is it just me, or is fiddling with these bs "distraction-free" things just another form of procrastination?
Python is versatile, easy to learn and has lots of nice libraries. Check out Paul Graham's article about python and hiring smart people http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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