skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really awesome. I wonder the complexity of the algorithm used behind it to identify the objects. It works fine, except when the length of the legs are too small or the angle between them is too wide, it walks like a retarded. But that's fine. Really awesome work!
I don't know what his reason is, my reason for thinking she is a bad choice is that she has no experience running a hardware company.
A quick tip would be to run everything process intensive in the backend, don't waste frontend resources with API calls, data processing etc, got something that takes more than 200ms to run, place it in a job que and do the processing later.

Some tools for the job:
https://github.com/defunkt/resque
https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job

Also don't forget to cache. You shouldn't worry too much if you do these two properly.
I'm sure the HP board is full of smart people, so my question is: what's next? Over the past decade they've seemingly made so many more poor decisions relative to good decisions, I have to imagine they feel a lot of heat to do something... redeeming?

I mean, they're still a very large and very powerful company, and I think predictions of their impending doom are highly overblown, but they've certainly been dealt some serious PR damage. Do they swing for the fences with some "revolutionary" device/system/platform? Do they limp along (are they really limping in any sense other than PR?) hoping to heal as they go? Do they follow the path that's been set by the previous CEO, or do they reverse those moves?

It's going to be an interesting year, that's for sure.
Considering ebay sends me other marketing emails with links in them, I'm not sure if its anti-phishing. Ive already been trained to click on ebay links.
Probably they are trying to prevent phishing/scamming.
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Assange received an advance for this book which he has declined to repay. He could hand the money back and then have a morally defensible position with regard to it's publication. As it is the publishers are entitled to recoup their investment and Assange is a whining hypocrite.

EDIT publisher's side of it here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/22/julian-a...
This article (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5in1T5nvGNc...) mentions previous results and that they were thought to be due to measurement error, but claims that these readings had a speed of c + 60 nS, with a measurement margin of error of +-10 nS.
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The dumpster. No reserve!

If it's not broken or worthless, charity.

Nothing I have that I don't need is worth the trouble* of selling it.

*ebay
Far too many "Paypal killers" coming about which lack one thing that could actually help them usurp Paypal...international support.

Stripe, Weepay, Samurai - all look amazing, but it is SO frustrating to seem them all release their products and pretend they can challenge the likes of Paypal whilst disregarding the rest of the world.

I know people are promising international support, but are they really going to make the jump after everything gets all cosy with a US only audience?

I've recently deployed 2checkout (I'm UK based). It's not pretty and it's not fully integrated with an API, but it's damn easy, doesn't require Merchant accounts and people can pay you with credit cards or Paypal.
It's just like the whole "engineering is not for women", which successfully discourages girls from entering technical fields.
> Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries.

Generally speaking, intelligent plugins/buttons already do that for you. If the article hasn't been submitted already, they let you submit. If the article was already submitted, they let you upvote.
They do auctions? Thank you, I never realized that.

Hey downvoter, thank you for showing your ignorance. In case you had not read the craigslist faq let me help you out here:

"No - craigslist is not an auction site."

So me not realizing that wasn't all that strange, it seems they really aren't.
I'm not sure how that would factor in to most people's decision of whether or not to use WordPress.
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Python or PHP?
I've been a web developer for a long time but I'm still stuck with this one big question. I really love PHP, esp. its fast overall development and deployment cycle. But people I meet have been arguing with me to switch to Python, which I'm yet unsure of. I remember having seen somewhere that Python is even less efficient performance wise. So why should I (if at all) move to Python?
Great article by Cappuccino creator and 280 North founder, Tolmasky.

Some relevant links:

HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3024342

The article: http://joehewitt.com/post/web-technologies-need-an-owner/

The original Post on TC: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/joe-hewitt-web-development/
There may not be any codified rule, but it does seem to be the rule.
The idea that HP is a technology company is sadly out of date.
Suffers the same problem: long on words, very short on evidence. It's theology.
Spotify and Rdio offer a comprehensive and open API to all developers that lets you stream their music to your own player, among other things.
Not a good move.
He started his job by doing some hard upfront decisions that he hoped will play in HP advantage in the long run.
And the board cut him off at the point when he didn't even started the transformation.
Now, who knows what will happen.

The other possible explanation is that he knew that he is going to be scraped, and had enormous compensation for receiving the blame.
Or you end up with something really solid and enjoyable to work with, like Flask. Which is just a combination of Werkzeug and Jinja with some glue and excellent documentation.
at least everyone will finally get to see that she was successful with eBay because of luck and not skill
Really hard? It's virtually impossible. It's incredibly hard to even detect neutrinos, much less block of filter them.
Or: "How to prompt Facebook to fix this immediately"
I thought so too, but after refreshing my memory, I think it might be similar, but not exactly the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat
I'm not saying only disruptive companies are successful. Nor am I saying first movers are. I'm saying that it is more difficult to be disruptive if you aren't among the first solving a particular problem.
It seems like a solution looking for a problem.
OKay, lets assume it is. Why can't I be presented with my balance after logging in? Why do I need to navigate through three menus just to pay them.

Maybe they've fixed it. I havent used ebay in a long time. It became scam central a few years ago and theres no "dont take bids from people with less than 10 feedback" option. Half my shit was bought by someone with zero history who never bothered to contact me.
They weren't "hackers", but Joe/Brian were both great designers as well as pure embodiments of hustle. I went to school with both and they had a knack to transform the administration to suit their needs. e.g. Brian had the Mayor of Providence RI as the guest coach of our school's club hockey team. They may not have been able to code, but they could creatively solve just about any problem you put in front of them.
One of my co-workers did this in the early 00's, but for the opposite reason: to pay off $50k off capital gains task. Worked quite well for him.
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When the wheels come off a cart as big as HP, it's pretty awe-inspiring. I wonder who's next? Certainly Dell isn't going to get anywhere becoming a "services" company. Too, how many "services" companies does the world really need?

Rhetorical question, I suppose.
"Cache everything you can"

This is terrible advice. Telling developers to cache everything is like walking into a rehab clinic with Lindsay Lohan's purse.

Cache what you can measure as having a performance problem, which can't be optimized in another way. It should always be used as a last resort.
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ticket revenue does not go to the police department == solved problem
That's equivalent to asking why people don't just get together in person and talk about what they've been doing, rather than posting updates on facebook.
Insurance actuaries are catching on to how big the IT security problem is
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Do you really believe that facebook will be around for 4 consecutive generations while retaining the data that was entered there?
Given Whitman's scummy behavior at Goldman Sachs around IPO practices, I have to ask: does HP make planes? Because they just flew one into themselves.
I think Google's Native Client is our best chance for something like what he describes.

It provides a sandbox for executing untrusted machine code (or PNaCl for more portable LLVM bytecode), downloaded on the fly, which would enable efficient implementations of things like HTML/CSS/JS.

I look forward to the day someone gets a browser rendering engine compiled and running in NaCl.
"A while" being days, assuming Yahoo counts.

Of course, there's the ongoing smaller trainwreck waiting to happen called RIM.

--edit-- let's not forget Netflix either.
No you are talking about different ways you could speculate to fund a startup. Thats not arbitrage.
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The models are secret... wait, seriously??
There's probably a breakup fee. A huge one.
Using neutrinos, which rarely interact.
Auctions are just one way of arriving at a price for a used good, haggling is another. The question isn't "Where can I auction this old stuff" it's "Where can I sell this old stuff".
This will certainly help her replenish her coffers after her $100+ million depletion on last year's failed gubernatorial bid.
Care to elaborate? I feel that I went out of my way to provide a number of pertinent examples.

I pointed to the trend of traditional web properties moving to native apps when it came to mobile. Things like nytimes, economist, and even Facebook.

I discussed how most new social networks on mobile that have gained any traction or attention (such as FourSquare and Path) were largely a native phenomenon (even Google+ chose to have a native iPhone app).

I talked about very real examples of how Flash was important in the development of the web.

I believe that there are a lot of valid counterpoints to my argument, and I'm actually really interested in hearing and thinking about them. However, I don't think hand-waiving it away as "theology" is one of them.
Repeating. It's 1.000051292929292929...

edit: sorry if that's incorrect in this case. "1.000051(29)" is one of the formats of indicating repeating decimals, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Notation
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I'm not sure, but I think it represents uncertainty over the last digits.

So 1.000051(29) would be equivalent to 1.000051 +- 0.000029.
Yes. It's implied that you must first be accepted before YC can benefit you in any profound way.

I'm willing to meet you half way. The stat is misleading because it implies causation. But that implication makes it no less accurate.

It could be that being accepted to YC is just a good indicator that a company already had the necessary faculties to become successful. Even if that's the case, I imagine a control group of companies who were accepted to YC but chose not to attend would have a lower probability of being successful.
Because people love revisiting the past.
HP's board might be full of smart people who make stupid decisions. HP's board started the decline by hiring Carly Fiorina, being a part of the pre-texting scandal, hiring and then firing Hurd, and now hiring and firing Apotheker.

Perhaps it's time to clean house at the board level.
And adding my phone number / credit card to 'verify' my account will aide in creating an app how?
What would be great to use the timeline to create slideshows with the music you were listening at that time. Like a life radio station.
Keep going with it. I started a similar (short-lived) site a few years ago.

At the time I think I got too caught up on the idea of it being all my own data. You could easily make it pull in data from Facebook (as well as your own data and other places). I think the gain of a dedicated app is that it won't change when the next idea for a profile comes along. Also, you can probably do an even better and more useful job if that is all you are focussed on.

Good luck!
And hackers do pet invites faster :)
Those figures are being provided because they were measured, but they are within the expected experimental error for the device.
An auction is a totally different thing than offering something 'for sale', auction sites typically allow people to make bids and enter in to a contract which requires them to take delivery. If craigslist is the equivalent of ebay to you then that's find with me but I think that craigslist and ebay are substantially different beasts.

Also, plenty of the stuff sold there is not old.
Is that even close to reality? I'm in San Francisco and haven't even ventured to the valley yet. With funding seemingly readily available, how many serious entrepreneurs or programmers are unfunded/unemployed in their field?
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I think "this is interesting" might be a better introduction.

Also, in my experience, when people (especially teachers and professors) say "this is tricky", it is often in part or in whole because they are only giving you a partial explanation -- part of the picture.

It's "tricky", because they are telling you to accept certain things prima facie when actually (for me, at least) they'd make a hell of a lot more sense and be easier to absorb with a more complete description/explanation.

Some of the time, this is because they don't really understand the topic themselves. Other times, one or another pedagogical inclination or requirement makes them avoid a deeper discussion. ("I don't have time" or "We don't have time" or "That's beyond the scope".)
Very interesting. Given the regional differences with providers, this caveat may in effect geo-fence sharing by country.
I disagree. How do you provide evidence of something that doesn't yet exist? The tech industry thrives on innovation and change.
Could be explained if the photos leaving the source look like this: :::::..... and arrive like this: :::::.::, where the 'tip' folds back on itself to become visible, still before the original bulk of the photon cluster.
All the laws of physics are closely interlinked. Generally, an event or situation that violates one law of physics must also violate many others as well. For example, instantaneous teleportation would violate conservation of energy (because the departure and arrival points would have different gravitational potentials), relativity (because of faster-than-light travel), and conservation of momentum (because you need to adjust your velocity to match the arrival point in order to arrive safely), among others. This doesn't mean that teleportation violates the laws of physics in three separate ways. The three violations are all different ways of looking at the same physical impossibility.
HP does a lot of hardware on the consumer side, but they've been doing quite well in the enterprise without much ballyhoo. And the margins are way better in the enterprise than on the PC side (not counting "the ink is worth more than unobtainium" side of their business).
A RIM trainwreck would see QnX in new hands, that would be interesting.
> a world class team

who exactly?

> a product that is renowned for putting usability first

which one, exactly?

> You can multi-task and prioritize

Hence the ability to read HN while at work.

The requirements part is populated with irreconcilable keyword-heavy statements. World-class organizations don't use Gmail drops.
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Agreed. It's surprising how nice the YC alums are actually. I've reached out to a few and very rarely have I not gotten the answer I desired. And I've never been flatly ignored. Be direct with your question though. The hustle that likely made them YC alums necessarily means they're probably super busy. I have been politely turned away. :)
Actually it works just fine ;)
I know people are complaining about not being available in Canada and/or Europe, but the fact that you have Canada in your near future plans gives me hope.

I've added my email to the Canada list, and I look forward to the day you arrive.

Best of luck!
In short, you are trying to guess as to what the reviewers are thinking or what they are looking for. It's one of those rules that I was taught to never do - never pretend you know what the other guy is thinking because everyone is different. The guidelines are there and if you follow them and be succinct in your answers, your accomplishments alone should make you stand out. I know it doesn't sound like 'great' advice, but it's better than trying to rack your brain to make your app 'something that they would like to read/hear' Just be true to yourself...and put that on paper!
"And of course the consequences can be very serious."

Understatement of the century.
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lol, I love the guy who commented: "Awesome post. Now do monads please?"
It's still gonna be less than Autonomy.
Good point. I'd use FastCGI (or equivalent) if I had a significant load; but my CGI programs tend to execute only a few times per hour, so forking is cheaper than keeping a process running.
Sure, of course, premature optimization is the root of all evil and all that. I presume you're reacting to a bad experience in the past you had with some young developer not understanding database indexes or memoizing everything unnecessarily or something. I certainly don't want to create another one of those experiences!

That said, he asked about how to get web application speed. One major answer (as discussed elsewhere in this thread) tends to be "add a cache somewhere." Of course, you have to architect things right so the cache works (possibly with a layer of indirection like app servers, or figuring out where a cache would be helpful, etc.) and the code that the cache is obviating needs to be slow in the first place.

That said, the general rule (add a cache for speed and scalability) has been the case from Slashdot to MovableType/Wordpress to Facebook to App Engine.
"You reap what you sow", "Live by the sword, die by the sword", et cetera...

I understand Assange's distinction between goverment/corporate privacy and personal privacy. But did someone who's placed themselves in the position he's in expect anything different? By being the public head of Wikileaks, he put himself out there. He's made himself a target to those he attacked.
Headline is wrong - this experiment has nothing to do with the LHC
I like your second explanation.

A cynical person would surmise that HP knowingly hired Apotheker to be a sacrificial lamb. A lamb that would make a few unpopular board-supported decisions (to the public and stockholders) yet leave the board's hands clean once that lamb was fired.
But it might be more than Palm.
It's really easy to write your own implementation of the Image interface. At the moment the majority cases are covered. I could see something like what you describe coming in the not-too-distant future, as we see how people are using the package.
This seems to be solid work. First, the group proved that the neutrino speed can be accurately measured in OPERA:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2822
http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/5/053051

Second, they compared the neutrino results with light results. Third, they ask to replicate the results in some other environment. This is a normal scientific procedure.

Please also note the number and variety of authors on this work. They will make sure that there is no overstate, understate, secrets, or head scratching.
You're right. My sister lived on Northwest St. up in Portsmouth for a number of years. I'd visit about 3 or 4 times a year. Never once visited the Albacore. I just have no interest in subs. But I'm sure Peter's Palace around the corner saw many visitors.
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There's often cases of the data literally being measured in tera or peta bytes. Releasing the raw data isn't always feasible.
this isn't about adjusting c, c will always be c

the speed of light in a vacuum is a known quantity, it isn't changing. this is about relativity being void
They get the benefit of knowing what was cool and what wasn't, and more importantly, what could have been cool if it had been done better. Putting one big photo up there is a nice design touch, letting people edit HTML and embed auto-play videos and spyware - not such a good customization feature.
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Maybe the board took his column as advice?
I've thought the same thing before. I get the feeling cops don't like traffic ticket writing, so having money going to the department ensures that their managers make sure they write tickets. This makes me think the tradeoff is between very few tickets being written for the cases where it is dangerous vs. writing tickets when safety isn't a factor because it generates revenue.
Considering just how fundamental conservation of momentum is, that would be quite unexpected.

It's even more fundamental than conservation of energy.
Note: If you remove the action from one of your apps, the timeline goes away, as well.
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This is further evidence the industry should be regulated and taxed in the US. The amount of money following around the poker/betting/online gambling industry is immense and there's no reason with a little oversight that this mess can be avoided.
I wonder how hamstrung Bartz was by the board of Yahoo, and perhaps the culture of Yahoo itself.

I don't have any knowledge of Bartz's experience at Yahoo, but I can definitely say that it's very hard to make systemic changes when you're not given the tools to do so.
General performance comparison. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...
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Hi gush - Definitely the way things are written and presented can use a bit of polishing and help adoption. I sent an email to your notifier along the same lines. I do have a dropbox account and don't use it very much.

I think overall the concept is very sound, however the details need work and perhaps slowly on boarding the user by proving utility before (seemingly) forcing another step.
Sure. And you should certainly think about all the failure conditions listed in the man page and make sure you're handling them sanely. Just make sure that you don't forget to include the

default:
err("Cannot open file");

case.
http://www.numericana.com/answer/rounding.htm#significant
Seeing how they keep failing to find the Higgs boson, I guess they felt they had to do something to generate buzz.
Regehr's current project is, essentially, fuzzing C compilers. His blog is very much worth following, if only to disabuse yourself of the notion that GCC is infallible. (Not that the others are better, mind.)