skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>gravitational force is a Natural Law, whereas Moore's Law is based on human actions.

you treat human actions as free will. I treat them as a consequence of the natural law of increasing entropy with system following the gradient of the fastest increase. [ Under the 2nd law - closed system has non-decreasing entropy - the non-increasing result can be obtained only if nothing happens, in all other cases it is always increasing. The "live/organized matter" is the fastest way of increasing of the entropy/chaos because of less than 100% efficiency of any act to increase order - ie. any act to increase order (which is always only a local effect) results in the even bigger increase of the chaos, ie. acts of matter organization result in more chaos total across the system than the baseline "nothing happens". I'm personally fascinated that the top achievement of our civilization - computer - is a straight 100% input energy to heat device, and the ever growing ratio of the energy produced by the civilization is being directed toward computers]

>I.e. If every person on the plant stopped going to work in the morning gravity would still happen, but the number of transistors on a chip would stop increasing very suddenly.

while i completely agree with this "if A then B" statement, i pretty much doubt the physical possibility of "A". The physics/science is full of well proven "if A then B" while we don't really know whether it is "A" or "!A".
Yes, this is correct. (Though I haven't looked to see which problem this is, I can pretty much tell it's that one.)

If we're not through 1.3 yet I'm not far behind! Will try to plug away on my 1.2 problems in between bugfixes.
this link is some tech blogger's recapitulation of a Forbes tech blogger's expose of a Daily Mail article announcing Chitika's press release.

how is it any more trustworthy? at least Chitika's page has a graph on it (though they're tight-lipped about what that graph represents.)
If you are looking for a mass delusion we all participate in but understand little, look no further than the money in my pocket. OT, this article has some interesting insights on how organized states (and armies) actually led to less violence historically: http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
This is incredible. It doesn't make any sense. How can you do that kind of display with 2½KiB of RAM? 320×240×8 bits for the framebuffer alone would be 75KiB. Is he re-decoding the images from the SD card with every screen redraw? At 12MIPS with an 8-bit ALU? Is there a couple hundred K of RAM hiding somewhere? I can't find the BOM.
Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective would be more appealing. You can write a comment to highlight the part of the book that you like
I love my Windows phone especially with the new update. The software actually makes up for the substandard hardware. On that note the new Iphone is pretty damn awesome.
re: brand new: fine, wait until it isn't brand new

re: lock in: I'd think Mozilla isn't really locked in as long as there is a cross-compiler. If you decide the the code bloat isn't worth the speed improvement (for the sites that run dart code), yank the VM and no harm done

re: opportunity cost: well the code from Google can be dropped in, unless you really feel the need to rewrite your own version.

re: "free lunch to a competitor": it sounds like if there is is potential for another "browser war", it's coming from that sort of attitude. In fact, that sounds counter to the whole concept of open source.

re: "It doesn't matter how good Dart is.": well, that's a shame. I'd like to think merit counted for something.

Overall, maybe I don't know your world and the politics etc, but it just sounds like a lot of "not invented here" syndrome to me. And I say this as someone who genuinely admires your work and really likes Javascript (and am especially pleased that Dart looks enough like Javascript to be comfortable to me).
Ask HN: Your perfect coding/work machine setup?
I am getting a new iMac that I want to dedicate only to my dev and design work. The goal is efficiency and speed. I work mostly in PHP (WordPress) (starting RoR) and do most of the front end dev work (jQuery, CSS, etc).

So far I have:

MAMP
TextMate
Transmit
...

What is your ideal coding setup, why, and what will make it run super fast?
I think the bit.ly-esque URL shortening and tracking is going to be the next twitter "partner" to have their business consumed by Twitter.
How does this compare (feature wise) to the poster library? Are they about the same? I've used poster some, but not requests... I'll have to try it now. Just curious how it compares to poster.
This will change as more and more artists go label free. The labels are clearly making a stand here - against the artist.
Re. A: what else is left? They dropped physical products to go after services. The cloud is one of them, so why would they drop it?
This is so true. While i'd love to have a new 27" IMac I just can't justify getting rid of my 3GHz 2008 since it still works so well. It's like I just took it out of the box.
I do not work at Facebook or even know a single person who does. I've never even talked to someone — including on the Internet — who works for Facebook.

Your personal attack was incredibly uncalled for. Just because I do not feel Facebook is evil does not mean that they are paying me to say so.

(As to your actual point: yes, it actually does. The claim I was refuting is that Facebook "steals" contact information on your device. Well, in fact, it doesn't. It makes you confirm that you are okay with sharing this information with Facebook.

What else could they do? The only other thing I could think of is Facebook not offering this feature. They are doing quite a good job here making it clear what happens to your information if you share it with them and you have to explicitly give your okay.)
Simple explanation:

1970s saw abuse of CIA/FBI power concerning spying, etc on US citizens.

Late 1970s laws passed curtailing that power

911 happens same agencies decide to broker a push to get those powers back..thus we have the Patriot Act
For us it was a battle of making the application better versus submitting earlier. We decided to make the application better and then submit yesterday, rather than being one of the crowd working up to the wire.
Good luck with the mass volume of apps pg and friends! We've been doing a lot of updates in the last couple of days, esp today (did the final re-submit), but we initially submitted quite some time ago. I hope you all find the latest version of our app.
Facebook's Cross-Site Tracking and the Potential Impact on Digital Privacy
Parking is a big part of this not really mentioned, if there was reliable free parking in the city (Melbourne, Australia) then the commute wouldn't be nearly as bad. As it you either need to skirt the law in regards to time limits, be lucky to find that parking at all, pay high daily amounts or get an expensive permanent park.

I don't think I would drive anyway (usually take the train) but on the off chance I want to the stress of finding/paying for a park puts me off.
Dart is the language a Smalltalk VM guru would build after getting fed up with trying to make Javascript go fast. The semantics seem very well-selected to include only dynamic language features that we know how to make fast.
Google Payments (https://checkout.google.com/inapppayments/) has no transaction fee, just a flat 5%.
Why Innovatio's Wi-Fi Patent Rampage is a Good Thing
I think it depends largely on the pair of devices. Both the cells and the local device need to support higher speeds. Here in NYC I have tested 3 HSPA+ devices and only one of them gets close to 14.4Mbps on AT&T (probably due to radio differences in the devices). Outside the city, it's never that fast (probably the cells are slower).
Shoes of Prey with specs to match [submarine]
This is obviously a specialty book. Small audience. He probably should have charged more.
Bjork's 'Biophilia': Interactive Music, Pushing Boundaries with iPad
The Daily Mail (and Sunday Mail) is a right-wing, racist, anti-science paper which goes out of its way to seek out inflammatory and exaggerated headlines to scare the public and sell more papers. I wouldn't give them the time of day.
What an asshole, he wouldn't even let Linus get more than 10 words in without saying something. He needs to shut his mouth and let him finish with the answers
The first named element of a structure is required to be located at the same address as the structure, yes; but I'm not aware of any requirement beyond that.

Can you point me at the relevant paragraph?
I thought this was going to be Linus calling out Stallman for his recent remarks about Steve Jobs.

Turns out that it's an old interview where he simply states his impressions of the two people. (Spoiler: Jobs and Stallman are actually pretty similar people.)
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Can anyone give more information about the thread lock in class initialization that he's talking about? Is he talking about static class initializers?

If so, I agree with him that these definitely seem like a terrible idea, along with destructors in java (in c++ they are fine because you call them explicitly). I wonder if anyone has actually found a good use for them.
All the commentators on this post including yourself are the experts regarding the actual tech they're using. I don't know enough about their technique .. and probably won't unless I make new friends ;-).

Perhaps, the way to look at it is that these guys seem to have put in a lot of effort and heart into it. The music's kinda nice too.

May be you all should leave a comment on their page so that the improvements could be implemented. Am fairly sure they have the raw footage, so like software, they can release a new version :-).
I don't think Go lets you take stack addresses. If you try to do that, it will copy the data structure onto the heap.
Agreed. Here's my take on it: http://wegetplus.net/2011/10/10/google-traffic-down-60-or-up...
Preemptive note for those who are concerned that ISO charges
money for the final official text of the standard [...] the
final text where ISO asserts copyright.

Why are ISO standards copyrighted, and sold for money? Isn't the ISO mostly funded by member nations? How is this helping to promote the actual use of these standards, at all?
some of the interesting bits:

"turned two years old on Saturday and in that period customers had designed tens of millions of shoes, which involved more than 20 million minutes spent in the site's shoe design software... Fox said the next logical step for her company (Shoes of Prey)would be to start selling belts and handbags. She said she was not yet planning to sell men's shoes on Shoes of Prey because research had shown men don't love shopping and may consider designing their own shoes a hassle. ..."

interesting to read alongside http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
:) We decided to apply early on, but wanted to have a working prototype out. Still a couple of days away from something demoable; applying in the next 2 hours.

(Node.js starts off as simple. And then as you start writing serious code, the flow control and nested callbacks begin to bite. You get back on track once you figure out various patterns of flow control (or libraries like async and Step). )
2 hours total is not a reasonable level of fitness. That's an exceptional level of fitness that would out you well outside average. Most people cannot bike 20mph for 60 minutes, or anything close.

As for not needing a shower, I'm wondering if you're the stinky guy at work. An hour of hard exercise will make anyone sweat. Wicking clothing will help but not eliminate this. As for the bacteria, those are on your skin. They reproduce constantly, and showering beforehand will not change that. You need a shower afterward to clean off the ones that have grown on you during your 20mph bike ride. You at least need to be taking a "sponge bath".
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/archive/1223.ht...
>"doesn't mind killing people" //

You're not correctly quoting the parent comment (I'm not sure you're quoting anyone, it looks like you're erecting a strawman), he said "willing to kill".

There is a lot of ground between being willing to kill, for example to save the lives of others, and not minding killing.
Google+ traffic down 60% Or up 480% Or maybe flat
MTMJ, emacs, lots o' memory
Sounds like http://www.lovemachineinc.com/
classic blunders of writing a quicksort

Actually the classic blunder of writing a quicksort would be writing a quicksort. It's not something you'd normally do in a real code-base.

Likewise the classic blunder of these puzzle-tests is that they don't select for the skills that you need to fix real bugs. My first stab at debugging a sort-function would be to write a unit-test. Wonder if any of the candidates did that in the 60 seconds that they were given...
My shrinks made me a psycopath. They do nothing but lie to me and stage skits I have to endure. They are in cahoots with my parents and I feel so betrayed. My parents are like the metal robot in Terminator 2--objects to me. I don't go out much so a high percentage of the times I leave the house, the shrinks are controlling the people around me. So, everything strange I say "just the shrinks". Everyone is a God damn puppet I'd gladly run-over if I drove -- manikins. Enemies. Everyone.

They are evil fucks, the shrinks--push buttons:
http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur...

God says...
C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

d his speech until midnight.

20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were
gathered together.

20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus,
being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he
sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken
up dead.

20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,
Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and
I would say that we communicate with other humans at least as much today as in the past. We just are spending more and more time using "high-tech" communication mediums that filter a lot of the nuance and nearly all of the non-verbal cues from conversation.

Arguably, the need to pick up on emotions through text- or audio-only communication might make empathy more important.
Nice interview, but I wish she shared more technical details on what they actually did, what worked and what did not.

Especially on bootstrapping a recommendation engine from sparse data set, which is a very common challenge -

It was definitely hard in the beginning because we had lower density of data.
As more people joined, however, we got increasing insight into how the graph
connects. We were then able to look at several things people have in common.
More and more signals began to appear.

Would be great to see what data they had, how they prioritized which signals to use and how they evolved their algorithms as more data was generated.
The Video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HqVFEzY2U
I sense some intentional stubbornness here.

Just because you don't invite people over to your place doesn't meant that I don't. In fact, I do, regularly.

Also, if you put the pieces together, the fact that you have a device around that you're comfortable reading on most of the time doesn't mean that I do. My phone is a terrible device for reading on (as is my laptop, honestly), and the only one that I have around as often as I have a book in my bag.

Giving someone a book has an emotional connotation that loaning someone something on an electronic service does not. That may change in future generations, but for me, and my ilk (most of whom also don't read books on electronic devices), giving someone a physical book means far more than loaning them something with an internet service.

I have no problem that in your social environment that Kindle books are superior to physical books. But you said that you can't understand why anyone else would prefer physical books, and it seems the simple explanation is that, well, everyone isn't you.
I live within 1.3 miles of my apartment, but I think there are a lot of good points being made. It's bad to make tradeoffs you don't understand, but they really are just tradeoffs. You really can't always prioritize a short commute. It took me 10 years to reach the situation I have now, and I've known I hated commuting since before I went to college.

At one point, I made a conscious trade-off to live in the city, even though I was working in the burbs, because it was closer to my friends and things to do (and I am a single man). I had a 30-35 minute per day commute through annoying Boston traffic but it was totally worth it.

As for the sweat issue, I have been cycle-commuting for well over a year and often it doesn't matter how slow I go, I will still sweat during most of the seasons around here. Genetically, I'm a moderate sweater. In the colder months, it's really hard to balance against biting cold and sweating. In the hot, humid months it just doesn't matter. After 5 minutes I'll be sweating, backpack or no. Luckily, I don't really care and am fine sitting at my desk in an undershirt while I cool off. I keep a change of clothes in my desk for meetings. Not everyone has that luxury, though.

I went through a phase of 9-mile cycle-commuting and there's absolutely no way I would have been able to show up without stopping by the gym to take a shower first. There is no pace slow enough that I would not sweat through at least one layer of clothes. Believe me, I tried.

Incidentally, being in shape or not has nothing to do with it. I've been active my whole life and have always sweat-- and know people who sweat much worse than me.
well the argument of number is tricky since nobody has the number except Google. But another product of google's own, Google Trends, do help to see the decline. See here:

http://bit.ly/rlq9aR
This is a late response, however, to Stallman's credit he acted on his convictions of free software, invented GPL, gave away gcc, bash, emacs, libc, binutils, hurd and hundreds other pieces that enabled a kid in Finland to cook Linux. Stallman's core is exposed which cannot be said about the man who estranged his own daughter (and he did rectify it after two years of denial) and maintained secrecy around all aspects of his life and work.
> It doesn't all revolve around home ownership.

Agreed. I live in a flat in semi-central London and I cycle to work in a little more than half an hour. Life is good, but during weekends it really rubs me that I have at least an hours worth of travelling to do before I can get to some uninterrupted countryside.
> On the day they opened the floodgates to the public, traffic immediately spiked by 1,200%. These new people were mostly enthusiastic new users. But a minority was tire-kickers who didn't stick around.

> When the dust cleared, total traffic was nearly five times higher than before the doors opened.

A 1200% to <500% drop is categorized as a "minority" of users leaving?
Talk at CCC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25EkdWLU1k*

That was slow to get started, but became very* interesting quickly. Thanks for posting it.
I imagine the homestead exemptions (terminology?) are a close second. Most places you get a property tax break on property you live in. Landlords, and therefor renters get to make up the difference.
I was asking HN some time ago if I should wait for Y Combinator, or...

Well, i did not apply anywhere else, and it seems i waited until the very last day. I'm glad I waited, though as 7 days ago my application would contain a totally different app. :)

Good luck everybody!
You can say the same about reducing car driving fatality and injury statistics by not doing stupid things like driving drunk too. The relative risk profiles would be the same.

What increases the risk profile with motorcycles is other cars hitting you directly while moving. Inattentive elderly people, young people, people in a hurry, whatever, it's something you don't have control over or an obvious indicator such as bad weather.

I too rode a scooter w/ armor for a year during my student days in a Seattle climate. It is somewhat fun, but there are more fun physical activities out there with less of a risk profile and non-regular occurrence. There were many times I wish I could be driving a car instead.

To me, it doesn't pass the 'Would I regret doing this if a somewhat uncommon screwup happened' test? Especially if I had to do it repeatedly. It's like having casual sex without a condom. It feels better, but your going to regret it majorly if you got a girl pregnant who doesn't want an abortion. Your going to fucking want to kick your past self and tell him to wear a condom. I would feel the same if I got into a major motorcycle accident.
And the even sadder thing is, even if "Google+ now opens to everyone", the search term of google+ has retreated to near the low level of post-launch. sigh ...
my downvoted comment days ago saying the same thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085955
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The compiler is free to optimize this how it sees fit. Taking the address of a value doesn't necessarily move it to the heap.
Yeah we'll make sure it happens =)
Thanks Yishan, re:launching, we're working on that now. any day
How bad do you want success?
We agree on Java the language being mismanaged. Especially in comparison to C# (see a recent InfoQ interview with Neil Gafter). But the JVM is in better shape.

I despair of your reading comprehension, though, when it comes to what I have written about the leaked memo's Dash strategy. I never wrote that JS can be as fast at Dart-to-JS code as a native Dart VM could be. Not ever -- quite the reverse.

Now if we on TC39 had the benefit of Google's Dart expert input any time in the last year, we could have possibly worked harder on guards (optional type annotations), branding (aka trademarking, nominal types for use with guards), bignums, classes, or other proposals that have suffered in comparison to those that clearly made it into ES6. FYI, these were all strawman-status on http://wiki.ecmascript.org over the last year or so.

Some Googlers on TC39 did work on a few of these, in most cases too late for our agreed-upon ES6 proposal cut-off date. We did hear a dire warning from one Google rep in May 2010 that if two of these proposals were not promoted to Harmony status, JS "would be replaced!"

So your complaints about the ECMA standard not progressing fast enough come with ill grace from a google employee. Google has a lot of power and it has not discharged it responsibly, in my view. ES6 would be a better Dart-to-JS target language, including draft specs and prototypes in V8, if it had made a concerted effort.

Contrast this with Mark Miller (Google) and Tom Van Cutsem working in the open, and very effectively, on ES6 proxies, already prototyped in SpiderMonkey and V8. Or the module system designed by Dave Herman and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt in the open, which you overlooked.

Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy! In this case, you are not even predicting the future, you're misstating the past.
I know that you were not trying to praise Gilad, but I found that article really insightful and it gelled with my experience with CoffeeScript.

In CoffeeScript compilation is entirely local and highly modular.
I wasn't trying to "prove" you wrong, I was just irritated with the picture you painted of bike commuting being a major pain in the ass.
What makes you think you'd have made more money if Spotify didn't exist?