skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's service also does some natural language processing. You can ask it to "navigate to <restaurant>" and it will look up the restaurant address near you and start up google navigation to that address. In other cases, google's search engine does the NLP. You can ask "What is the time in Paris, France?" or "What is the weather in New York?" and it will give you the answer at the top with search results below.

They are similar services, but Apple seems to have a greater variety of intents that it recognizes.
It is entirely possible there will be a "hump" in orders though. There was no build-up to the Fire, so plenty of potentially interested consumers probably hadn't even heard of the Fire until a while after pre-orders started.
Ah, well then! All the more reason to buy it on day one.
I'm not sure the .com is canonical. I don't speak Chineese so I don't really know what is going on with that site. the .org variant and his other pages are all returning 410 Gone.
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That's spoken like somebody who has never had his credit ruined on account of another's actions.
From an OS POV both of those tests are doing almost exactly the same thing: make a system call, have the kernel spawn a new unit of execution (whether it's a thread or a process), wait for the child to be scheduled, have it terminate, wait for the operating system to notify the parent process of termination. There's a little extra bookkeeping in this example for the child process, but not much at all thanks to copy on write. If you were to do something dumb from the child work like memsetting a 1MB buffer to 1, I assume the child process would be far slower due to page faults.

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to both threads and processes, but it's not really a fair comparison to claim that processes are as fast or faster than threads because you can spawn them at a certain rate. The performance cost of separate processes is something you pay gradually, every time you have to take a page fault and copy 4KB.
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You're right -- it's the touched pages that count. In many cases, that's a few MB per stack, which is what I said.
Given that the median farmworker (crops) made $8.98 in 2010, your experience would seem a little extraordinary. The better-paid median ranchworker made $10.56. $12 in 1999 had the same buying power as $15.71 in 2010.

Sources:
BLS http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#45-0000
http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=12.00&year1...
Let’s Do This Again, Tim
The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.
When will these idiots learn? I see this going down the same route the war on drugs has taken. Lots of harmless people going to prison, and very little success in actually stopping illicit activities. At least it seems unlikely to produce dangerous organized crime, as the prohibition and the war on drugs produced, but who knows?

The better solution would be for companies that produce music/films/software/etc to revise their own buisness models and adapt to the reality of piracy. Heck, some companies, like Adobe for example, probably -profit- off their product being pirated.

I much prefer the anti-ACTA. Overall, these days we probably need more protection from the companies, than they need from us.
Asimov thought that it'd be easier to make general-purpose human-like robots than to automate our machines one at a time using specialized automation hardware/software.

In this, he has been proven wrong, as nearly all machines of industry are slowly becoming more and more automated, using hardware and software specialized to that particular machine.

As far as I can tell, AI is turning out like Philosophy. Back in the day, all science was philosophy. As a particular field of philosophy became advanced enough that we can actually do things with it, we broke it out into a science, like, say, physics.

The same is happening with AI. It used to be that natural language and image recognition were AI. Now that we actually have that technology working to the point where it can do useful things, it's no longer considered AI.

Both philosophy and AI, I think, are catchall buckets for "We want to study these things, but we don't understand these things well enough to properly define them."

I mean, it's a useful catchall, especially at first, but I think that breaking down a poorly defined field into many smaller but specifically defined fields is a natural part of scientific progress.

My guess is that we will reach the capability to build something that looks like asimov-style robots, but by that point we won't see any of the technologies involved as "AI"
Mark Pilgrim's website is diveintohtml5.org. If you compare WHOIS information, it is clear that diveintohtml5.com is owned by Xiaokang Liu, not Mark Pilgrim.
I noticed this earlier, but it seems he doesn't actually run the http://diveintohtml5.com, according to a whois search. As macrael pointed out, the rest of the .org variants are gone.
But wasn't HAL ready on 2001?
<i>Honestly, there's still nothing wrong with XP.</i>

There are a number of ways in which XP is objectively less secure than successor versions of Windows.
Looks like one of his last tweets:

Hey everybody! Adobe has acquired another batch of awesome products that they will slowly ruin through incompetence and mismanagement!

From http://topsy.com/twitter.com/diveintomark/status/12091889959...
You could buy one on eBay unlocked for around that much, or breaking contract with ATT is only 325. 75 isn't much difference.
Doesn't it matter what they ultimately replace it with? To me the Start menu seems like a clumsy catchall from a bygone era when people were still transitioning from DOS. It's grown bloated over the years and it's original design purpose is long gone. Yes, you use it all the time, because there's so much essential stuff crammed in there, but can't you imagine something better?
But what about the 3GS people that are coming off their 24 months and were waiting for the 5? Those people might start looking to see what Android has to offer.
I host the text of this story that isn't broken up into 8 pages with ads in the middle:

http://simonsarris.com/lit/kurt-vonnegut-harrison-bergeron
I tried 5 of your domains and they all point to Godaddy parked pages. You should really place a lander on them - which shows the logo and either a link to purchase the domain or a contact form to get in touch. Personally, I would add something like http://themeforest.net/item/hanbai-multilanguage-domain-for-... which only costs $5 but even a logo and a link would be better than a Godaddy parked page which your domains currently have.
Alternatively, create the socket, fork N processes and have each of said processes run an accept loop. Assuming they're CPU bound, this is going to be pretty much just as efficient and you don't have to prat about with threads -or- evented I/O.

Ain't UNIX grand?
His github account is gone as well (http://github.com/diveintomark).

This is troubling. I'm glad I downloaded Dive Into Python 3, at least.
Chrome Frame?
Yes there is such a thing as a free lunch: it's called immigration
Agreed. If you have a network program that isn't IO bound, then in what meaningful way is it a "network program"?
_why 2.0.
@degusta Whether these leaders publicly eat their own dogfood or not is a matter of rhetorics and strategy. If that were your thesis and narrative, we would be having a much more interesting conversation.

However, you didn't entitle your article, "Google Management Doesn't Care About Google+" You said, "Google Management Doesn't Use Google+". The former expresses your perception of Google strategy backed by the data you've collected. The latter is merely link bait.

I do congratulate you. The link bait worked.
Sure: http://shomi.associatedtechs.com/

It's not precomputed server-side, it's precomputed when the fade effect is called in the JS. The value for each step is then stored in the task object that performs the fade. Which is cheating a little bit, I suppose, but this way, I can fade from any value to any value, at what appears to be the same "speed", without any glitching.
Yeah, 'cause it's not like the current CEO has tied every employee's bonus to Google's success in social, regardless of whether or not they work on the product...

Oh, wait.

http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee...
Looks great on my over 5 year old PC running Ubuntu 64 bit (yes PC != Windows!) with an nVidia 6800 and Google Chrome browser.

Both CPU cores were at 70% though.
His G+ account is gone too https://plus.google.com/111966606387715428604/posts
What a joke. In the month, I got sick twice, had two 'best friends' get married, had a grandfather die, needed a root canal, wrecked my car (even though I chose to pay the max rent and live 5 miles from work, it told me I still had to to have a car), had my sink break (and the landlord refuse to fix it), got caught hiding pets in my apartment (why do I have a pet? I can't afford a pet, that is just a bad decision.).

I get it, they are trying to make a point. However, the point they are making is crap. It is very hard to live on $9 an hour. However, making $9 puts you in the top 1% of all humans who have ever lived. There are lots of social programs that will help a little. They don't make you rich, but they help a little.

The first thing I ask anyone who complains about being unemployed or underemployed: "Do you have a TV? Do you have cable or satellite tv?" You wouldn't believe how hostile people are when you suggest that they might benefit from turning off their tv and using that time to study or learn a new skill. As a child my family was on food stamps and welfare. My mother raised 4 boys on her own. As it turns out, I am now in the top 1% of wage earners in the US, but I don't have time to watch TV. I have never taken a real vacation. I suffered through 6 years of Army Reserve so I could pay for college. Every free minute I have is spent working, hustling, studying, experimenting.

I don't believe the hype. If you are willing to work your ass off, if you show up to work on time and aren't high or drunk, and you don't steal, it is very easy to get a job, today. It's easy to get 2 jobs. Working 80 hours per week isn't something that you want to do, but it's a walk in the park compared to the conditions our ancestors lived in.

It's really hard to take care of kids when you are a single parent and you can't get childcare, especially if you don't have family that is willing to help. Maybe we should do more for people in this situation, not to help them, but to at least give the kids the opportunity to do better. For everyone else, I say stop whining, throw away your tv, and stop being so entitled and lazy.
The Kindle Fire supports VP8 out-of-the-box. Native Android support for VP8 didn't arrive until Gingerbread (2.3.3, to be exact). Even without official confirmation this is a pretty significant tell that the Kindle Fire is Gingerbread-based.
The difference though is people love their iPods and macs but rarely think about electricity and the lightbulb.
> ... to make sure he is ok.

Sure people aren't just being nosy?
If something happened to him, it is highly unlikely he'd remove his entire web presence.

When someone removes their web presence isn't the implicit message that they don't want to be contacted?
Nice work! Where is the music from?
Wow, not the feedback I wanted to hear, but I appreciate it. The key aspect to the new design is that it allows you to create a card from the landing page, whereas the old design requires email for registration. I could potentially bring back the old design and insert the envelope into it. I get the point about the website having character. I'll have to think about this.
Reddit account deleted too:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_...
February 13: Ten years ago I would never have walked into something like this. A bear trap so poorly camouflaged a child would have seen it. But I didn't. I pried it open and got my leg out, but there was no way I could make it back. I was prepared to die out here. And to be honest, I felt I deserved it. A man gets too old for a job, he should know it, and stop. But then Buck found me. I don't know how. No one knew where I was going, but he found me and carried me back. Three days over terrain a mule couldn't navigate, laughing his ass off the entire way. Riding like that, completely helpless, slung over Buck's shoulder and staring down his back, I came to understand two things. One, at a certain point in life a man's hips spread and there's nothing you can do about it, and two, there's a very easy way to define friendship. A friend is someone who won't stop until he finds you and brings you home.
That's too bad. I checked his Wikipedia page and noted that he requested that it be deleted several years ago, only to be denied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mark_Pilgrim_(software_dev...

The talk page mentions his involvement in a computer tampering case nearly 20 years ago...if it is the same Mark Pilgrim (and the ages seem to match) then he seems to have redeemed himself with his subsequent work. I had no idea.
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Well deserved. I think the list of achievements speaks for itself.

Congrats Paul!
Anonymous Threatens to 'Erase' the NYSE
I will be eagerly checking until midnight. Hope to see everyone on this thread there.
Could you take a look at SignalR?
(http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AsynchronousScalableWebApplica...)

* Since this is dealing with async operations, an IIS worker thread takes an incoming request and hands it off to be processed on the CLR thread pool. At this point, the IIS worker thread immediately becomes available for processing more requests

* Threadpool threads will not be tied up by open connections and waiting for IO. Only when executing actual code/work will they be in use

* To explain why threadpool threads are not tied up: Async operations use async IO. As soon as an I/O operation begins, that calling thread is returned to the thread pool to continue other work. When I/O completes, signal is sent and another thread is picked up to finish up work.
Sorry about the TLDR situation; it's on my list to revise the article by prepending an abstract. BTW suggestions and questions about the article are welcome.

@mjhall - you're quite right; the strange, phantom 65c02 operations dramatically expanded what I could do with this project. It's extremely cooperative of the CPU to generate a memory address while leaving all registers unchanged! Although it's true I could've used the PROM to map NOPs onto CMP or BIT instructions and gotten my addresses that way, that approach preserves the registers but still stomps the Flags. In contrast, the "LDD" operations are ideal for the job -- an opportunity handed to me on a silver platter!

-- Jeff
1- the story of the site has changed a bit. but I get your point. If nothing else the cartoon has personality.
2- I got a lot of feedback with my launch that the email-registration process was complicated, so I decided to offer this web registration as the primary way to sign-up. So the step-by-step instructions don't really apply now. 3- I could definitely make another video for the new site.

I'll definitely try to add an "about us" page with a few details. Thanks for your thoughts!
This ball is so much fun to play with! Single click to where you want the ball to go.

http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/easing_demo.html
I went to a school that was big into the wine industry and they said many farms in New Zealand and Australia use machines to pick fruit. That doesn't leave as much room for low skilled workers on farms.
Although people are saying this isn't that good of a simulation because of all the events that happen so fast together, as the saying goes, "There's always someone who has it worse." Just a simple what-if would be fine for this, and this was well-well done (note the double well :] ). Kudos to the creators. :)
I don't mean to valorize the 1950's generally, at all. Yeah, white privilege was encoded into law, but if you were a member of the ruling elite, that actually benefited you. The point about gender you make is well-taken.

There are two separate issues: consumer goods and actual well being. I think you overestimate the difference in consumer goods between the ruling elite in the Fifties and the contemporary welfare underclass: the latter rarely, if ever, can take advantage of commercial air travel and have severely limited access to open-heart surgery. And barrier birth control and abortion were readily available (albeit significantly more expensive) to the rich in the 1950s, while in the modern day they (especially abortion) are somewhat difficult, though far from impossible, for the underclass to access.

But quibbling over those details can make us ignore the more central point. Access to consumer goods is only part of the picture, because power is a very strong and often superior substitute good for most of them. Roombas are accessible to the middle class today, but they are inferior to an actual person cleaning the house for you, even with an antiquated vacuum cleaner from midcentury. The vast majority of the population can text each other now, but a well-off member of management could very easily have a secretary do the same through a messenger boy. The latter is slower, but in some ways easier: he (invariably a he) had at will access to an intelligence superior to the most advanced AI now, without the burden of having to hit tiny keys, save phone numbers, or remember to charge his phone. A member of the upper class in the 1950's did not have to worry about employment; about housing; about having interesting work; about getting fired for drinking on the job (hell, your company would pay for your booze and cigarettes); about worrying how to pay the bills the next month; about sending your kids to a school with regular shootings; about visiting the social worker to prove you had sent out pro-forma applications to jobs you're incapable of performing so you can get your welfare check.

Some tradeoffs are less clear. The middle manager in 1955 had to worry about global thermonuclear war, but not about catastrophic climate change or poisoned soy sauce from China. We have hormonal birth control, but also HIV.

All of us are members of the professional upper middle class, so we're certainly better off. But an unemployed single parent living on the bad side of Hunter's Point? If I were forced to choose, yeah, I'd definitely go with the rich straight white guy in the 1950s with massive social privileges. Even with fewer gadgets and less sophisticated technology.
Thanks for the heads up! I'm going to look into this and get back to you. Not sure how bookmarklets integrate with iPad.
> Is Mark Pilgrim pulling a disappearing act?

Shouldn't we respect his wishes? If he wants to pull the plug on his online identity, he should be allowed to do so without HN sending out an internet search squad.
Out of sheer curiosity - how do you tell how many sites (and which ones) are hosted on a shared server?
Kudos for identifying dilution as a way to take value from another while leaving their actual holdings untouched. It's a subtle point that most anti-copyright types miss.

And you're absolutely correct to observe that hard drives are material, and that the atoms they contain constitute the 'fixed medium' that provides the bright and shining line between ungovernable ideas, and the restricted world of copyright protection. But you're mistaken if you think you have any inviolable rights in your work. Copyright is a right in name only. In absolutely every other regard it's a privilege.

If you lived in France, things would be different. French jurisprudence includes "le droit d'auteur". That is to say, they recognize a moral right of the author to control the dissemination and development of his work by others. When the French say "I have a right" they're entirely correct.

Things are different in America, where lawmakers rejected that concept flatly. Regardless of the way you feel about it, Le droit d'auteur has never been recognized in this country, and at this point, it's safe to say it never will be.

So it's not that I 'believe' you have no rights. I KNOW you have no rights. Because you don't. What you have is a privilege that 's increasingly archaic, based - as it is - on a rapidly fading ability to produce more development than it retards in the "Useful Arts & Sciences". In case you didn't know, that's the Constitutional language giving Congress the power to issue the limited monopolies known as patents and copyrights in the first place.

In contrast with France, America (like England, which is the source of much American civil law) views copyright not as an exalted moral right, but as a necessary evil tolerable only to the extent that it clearly benefits society as a whole.

That's a big difference.

Wrap your head around the idea that you're defending a privilege - not a right - and I suspect that the whole tenor of your argument will change dramatically.
That's a really sad news.

He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. He last commented 27 days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MarkPilgrim

[I loved his blog and I wish someone has archive for it. I did not archive it locally because Mark used to write articles about long term archival of his data and I didn't think he would ever delete all his public writings.]
Oracle cancels Benioff keynote at OpenWorld
He expressed no wishes. I think that at this point, people just want to know what happened. That requires doing things like this.
Mark Pilgrim is an awesome dude.

I remember stumbling upon http://web.archive.org/web/20110724223826/http://addictionis... years and years and empathizing and feeling moved. I hope he's alright.
Experimental sub-$50 I-slate tablet proceeding to full-scale production
"Programming is a pop culture" strikes again, basically.
The internal Google+ network is huge and bustling. My Google friends who use it say that comparatively, the public version is very dead.
Yes, exactly what ams6110 said. The change tracking just isn't compatible enough.

If you have a completely plain vanilla document -- no formatting, no line breaks, no headers, no footers, no tables, nothing -- then OpenOffice/LibreOffice's tracking is good enough. But documents are rarely that simple. And, unfortunately, your lawyer or VC or potential acquirer really isn't interested in discussions about document formats. They have better things to do, and they expect you to be able to communicate with them.
That and a usability nightmare. Does anyone have a pleasant experience with the Wireless Connection manager in 2000/XP? I thought it was me until me less-than-super techy friend informed me that it plagued her and her mother and my technical father told me that he hated it with a passion as well.
If you want to send that message, why not make it explicit?
First of all the app was release free of charge so nobody is out any money. Second, this is a private business. Do you suggest that the government should step in and force a business never to stop offering any of its products?

That "Hello world" website you wrote a few years ago to learn Ruby? Sorry, you must pay hosting costs in perpetuity for that because somebody would be inconvenienced by its disappearance.

Soviet Russia called; it wants its ideology back.
I never used voice recognition on mobile until my wife picked up an Atrix and there was a little mic button on the home screen, I clicked it and said direction to Hatteras Flats and it pulled up Google's turn by turn navigation. From that day on, I have been waiting for that level of voice recognition to come to the iPhone. I would have never though that it would have been such a killer feature and now I feel like I am in the stone ages without it. To the point that I was considering switching if IOS 5 did not have it.
Respect his wishes, even his google accounts/profiles gone..

As far as I know he is still working at Google