skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more a function of notoriety. I saw something on CNN a number of weeks ago about some comment Michael Jackson made six months before he died.
I'll have some of what you're smoking, while choosing CIFS in reality every time given this choice. WebDAV is a wretched, bulky protocol, and the world has been letting it die out for at least six years now.
I never used Buzz. It just confused me when I saw the Buzz icon like when the 'mark as important icon' was new in Gmail. Maybe it would have worked if people can use the chat box to share content and do their status update. And then the feed can all paginate in one or more email maybe right above the first email in the inbox. People are all used to chat and checking their mail, maybe even naturally 'Buzz'. Don't really know too much about uber bar.
Random articles from the "New" page could be occasionally inserted into the main page to see if they catch any up votes.
unfortunately author is wrong G+ did not remove feeds..

If you look at your G+ profile page in view source in any browser you will see a Buzz activity atom feed for it..
"When a hot body core issues a command to open the radiators and dump heat, the palm can override that command and order the radiators to shut down based on local conditions, i.e., if the palm touches a cold surface" - Damn, I was thinking that you could cool down by touching anything cold, apparently that won't work because the radiator shuts down if the outside conditions are too cold (so touching ice won't work)... Pretty interesting research, though - implementing something like this in some sort of "power suit" would be great.
ffmpeg already can transcode from alac to flac, I rip with itunes and transcode to flac for my Sansa Clip.
Why do they need to know my location to load my photos?
How do you propose to identify the user associated with an unidentified new MAC? Is there some way that isn't tremendously labor-intensive?
Bill Gates On ... Applying Computer Science To The World
This is just supervised learning. No need to be so fancy about it.
The quote is not by Eleanor Roosevelt. It goes back to at least 1901, in the precisely titled Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900. (Discussed at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt.)

Also, I don't think it's true. It sounds true because of the way it is formulated. But great minds often discuss all of these things. Think of, say, David Hume. Clearly a great mind, clearly (IIRC) interested in all three.
Exactly, you have nothing to say. He just bothers you because he's got standards and lives up to them.
Why not? Doesn't seem to complicated - you'll just have to find the best temperature for you and a way to keep it stable - a thermostat and/or variable amount of insulation should do the trick...
Como Eliminar las Estrias Naturalmente
If you make a billion dollars in a free market economy, you have also created a billion dollars in value for others.
Are rich foreigners the answer to America’s housing crash?
At the risk of overextending the idea (and definitely tongue in cheek), most everyone has two eyes and four limbs -- more money buys better-looking TVs and interior design for those eyes, and lots of fun activities for all those limbs, like really big yachts and private lakes.
ffmpeg renamed themselves to libav
I love vim more than almost any other software. But it really is not very discoverable 'by accident.' You have to read documentation and grok the system or you don't get much benefit.

Especially at the beginning, when you do something like starting to type words while in normal mode and the screen scrolls and a bunch of crap gets deleted, there isn't any highly visible way to see what happened and it's easy to get discouraged.

Accidents like that might provide motivation to find the correct way, but rarely much information on what to do.

Vim is excellent software and usable (as in easy to actually use, once you are at cruising altitude) but easily discoverable it is not (until you grasp the system's fundamentals, then you don't need to 'discover' much - you just express what you mean to do without needing to memorize 40,000 hand-contorting ctrl-alt-chords, or configure your text editor in LISP)
HN needs to grow a social graph in the background. Users often fall within the same threads and discussions without even noticing it. The graph should then be used to personalize results, on a group or individual basis. This a call for a fragmented view, but with a social touch, preserving the herds around multiple topics. A button could let you opt out the personalized view.
I wonder how much of the advantage of startups vs. BDCs is using Macs as desktop/laptops, vs. windows. Probably not as much as using Linux vs. Windows for servers, but still a big advantage.

I'd have a hard time working anywhere which required a windows desktop and blackberry. I could tolerate it as a consultant if I had a consultancy-provided iphone/android and mac, with client-provided onsite windows stuff, but that's about the limit.
Nokia Lumia 800 vs. iPhone 4S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II
Does this mean Bob would be able to alter documents you never explicitly shared with him?
Imagine though if we had a thousand Bill Gateses who each had a hundred billion dollars, and the brains and determination that got them that money, to throw at one or more of the projects mentioned above. Can there be such thing as too much resources being deployed for the advancement of the human race?
It's a longish article but it goes on about how he feels frustrated by the political system, educational and health systems of the country and that he and Buffet believe they should be taxed more.

Moreover it appears, that like Jobs thought, wealth, after certain point is redundant -and to them, it was a side effect of their pursuit of their interest. It seems despite Jobs' jabs at Gates, Gates is personally a quite normal guy, psychologically speaking -he's not the megalomaniac people kind of make him out to be sometimes.
It's clearly option B. Whatever answer you choose is either correct or false, hence 50% :P
I'd rather have $10mm in personal wealth and control of $10b for interesting investments/research/etc., vs. a personal $100mm.

Even $10b isn't enough to accomplish every large goal, but being able to do cheap LEO satellite launch (space cannon), real free trade zones internationally, and robotic space missions to mars, the moon, etc. would be amazing. Plus anonymous electronic cash, and trusted computing.
Example app using Appcelerator StackMob Module
On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector
That's standard in iOS apps...
Moving to the Suburbs- The Evolution of Bangalore
Is your open office too lively?  The ultimate Reverberation Time Calculator
Qitaro
http://www.qitaro.com/
Another missing feature is the automated grouping of similar posts. Having five times the same (tech gossip) news on the first two pages is annoying, even sad, considering the state of the art of computer science these days. HN could definitely be a better flagship for hackerness IMO...
>Does anyone have any opinions about whether this is a good idea

The problem is that flagging is used as a downvote mechanism. For example, I've observed that some anti-Apple or anti-Android articles(even if otherwise legitimate) are flagged so that they go lower into the page(you see articles with fewer points submitted later on top, so this is evidence of flagging). This kind of (mis?)usage of flagging can be detrimental to this method.
Poll:  Which social network would you rather give up if forced to choose?
They even state the temperature, between 18 C and 22 C. I'm thinking if you could find a plastic top for a gumball machine (or something like it) you would have a pretty good start. The vacuum could be done manually with a pump of some sort.

For the cooling part, you'd need to drill two large holes for a pipe to go through, which the hand would hold onto. Then maybe just have a water and ice reservoir that sits on top of the whole thing? That way, you wouldn't need any electric pumps or anything.

Then, the only thing left is sealing the wrist joint. One of those big rubber exercise bands might be enough to seal it off.
The app sort of pointless without the ability to jack into your social graph. Forcing everyone through Facebook is the fastest way to get this data into the app, for the user and the developer.
Your quote is here: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/READING/ARCH/road_...

Although not without subtle problems, the hardware was generally
straightforward, and not that expensive—the first commercial
64-bit micro’s 64-bit data path added at most 5% to the chip
area, and this fraction dropped rapidly in later chips. Most
chips used the same general approach of widening 32-bit
registers to 64 bits. Software solutions were much more complex,
involving arguments about 64/32-bit C, the nature of existing
software, competition/cooperation among vendors, official
standards, and influential but totally unofficial ad hoc groups.

I think it's talking about the MIPS R4000. It's nice to mention registers, but what about the increase in size of the comparators, adders, multipliers/dividers (ouch), cache system, bus interface, decoder, etc.? Perhaps the point is that being 64-bit compatible does not take a lot of surface, even though being fully 64-bit would be expensive. The article mentions how being forward-compatible can be a good thing (even if it costs a little performance), so I suppose it would make sense to support 64-bit right now and make it fast later, without breaking ISA compatibility.

Edit: reading about the MIPS R4000, it's definitely not a fully 64-bits processor. Some Wiki quotes:

The shifter is a 32-bit barrel shifter. It performs 64-bit shifts in two cycles, stalling the pipeline as a result. This design was chosen to save die area. The multiplier and divider are not pipelined and have significant latencies: multiplies have a 10- or 20-cycle latency for 32-bit or 64-bit integers, respectively; where as divides have a 69- or 133-cycle latency for 32-bit or 64-bit integers, respectively. Most instructions have a single cycle latency. The ALU adder is also used for calculating virtual addresses for loads, stores and branches.

The memory management unit (MMU) uses a 48-entry translation lookaside buffer to translate virtual addresses. The R4000 uses a 64-bit virtual address, but only implements 40 of the 64-bits for 1 TB of virtual memory. The remaining bits are checked to ensure that they contain zero. The R4000 uses a 36-bit physical address, thus is able to address 64 GB of physical memory.

(By the way, thanks for the quotation, that was quite an interesting read. I didn't expect forward-compatibility to be so cheap.)
So excited Google is keeping Punchd going.

SLO and Cal Poly represent!
Critically injured protestor is sys-admin for SF-based software company OPSWAT
Boomkat.com is an excellent source for lossless music. They offer almost everything as FLAC, which unfortunately I have to convert to ALAC in order to make it available in iTunes/on my iPhone.
Quobuz.com on the other hand offers ALAC, WAV and FLAC. Basic french language skills will enable you to buy music there.
Check out Social Passport (www.socialpassport.net) which just won Startup Showcase at the Web2.0 Expo in NYC a couple weeks ago. It has features such as digital loyalty cards like Punchd, but also enables a store owner to make coupons at whatever discount they'd like so it competes with Groupon in that sense because it is paperless + no minimum discount (like 50% off that Groupon/LivingSocial/etc typically require) + no commission (again, the big guys charged 50% historically). It also, most importantly, serves as a social CRM for brick and mortar stores because it leverages a visitor's social network to turn marketing to them to marketing to all of their friends through scanning their Social Passport.

Social Passport enables businesses to communicate their products/services to each visitor’s social network in real time. Their motto is “market to one, market to many” and Social Passport enables businesses to market to thousands of people instantly. It can be used via Dynamic QR, Reverse QR, and NFC.

For users, Social Passport combines all of your social networks, and also serves as a way to store digital loyalty cards and e-coupons. Users get rewarded by retailers via coupons, free gifts, and other promos.

Check out bit.ly/socialpassport for an <2min video that explains more about the service.

disclosure: my buddy is founder/CEO and i'm an advisor
Cut the number of words by 2/3 and this sounds surprisingly like PG:

I think most people who’ve done well have sort of found something that they just are kind of nuts about doing. And then they figure out a system to hire their friends to do it with them. And if it’s an area of great impact, then sometimes you get financial independence.

Edit: specifically the part about friends.
Is it something developers choose to request because they can, or is it because the previously saved photos may already have geocoded data in them, so the app requires that permission to access the files already stored on the device?
Cet hiver, nous ne se sentent pas le froid
I'm in attempting to learn objc, and iOS dev now, BTW :) As of that app for iPad. Well I have seen Codify yesterday, it looks cool & has a similar idea, However I can't develop for iPad, I have no real iPad, simulator is not the thing I need for development, real device is better.

Thanks for advice though.
When programmatically accessing the photo library assets, the app can read the location data embedded in the photos. The app can alternatively use iOS's standard image picker dialog without asking for location permission, but the standard image picker dialog can't be customized.
Perhaps the 'high quality' first year users left when they could no longer stomach the decline and only the 'low quality' first year users remain.
What would Amazon gain from purchasing webOS from HP? I don't see much webOS value for Amazon except Palm patents (to defend the Kindle Fire from Apple patent attacks). Amazon has invested in their own Android App Market and then the Kindle Fire. They have the talent and money to support their own fork of Android (which seems like a possibility) if Google were to stop open-sourcing Android.
CSNH – China Shandong (OTCBB:CSNH):
It's currently using a 6+ year old ARM11.
How does it compare to libevent evhttp server? Besides being written in C++...
Psychoacoustic models are very good, but MP3 has unavoidable coding weaknesses. Use a modern audio codec and you won't have this problem nearly as much.
Even more information: http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf

The answer is that there is only one 64-bit ISA, but all current 32-bit modes are still supported.
Aartivijay Gupta Interview, Part 2 of 3
I thought that initially, but long term it looks better. After all, there are lots of different book publishers in the programming/tech space alone and they're all doing OK. With their potential to reach even larger numbers of people further down the skills ladder, these interactive tuition sites are still at the leading edge of a potential explosion of providers (solely IMHO, of course).
he and Buffet believe they should be taxed more

The two of them can send their checks here:

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 622D
Hyattsville, MD 20782

I'm sick and tired of people who have already made enough income to last multiple lifetimes telling us that income taxes should now be raised. The government lets you tax yourself at 100% if you want. Ship them the money. They won't refuse it.

Enough with this "I'm feeling guilty, therefore other people should also pay more" nonsense.
That's why we should use feature-detection instead of browser/version-detection for web development.
"Many systems in society are basically poorly designed algorithms." - awesome quote
Google plus ripples
FCC Chairman succeeds in Internet Overhaul
I have no interest in actually using this, but WOW is it a beautifully done app. I'm extremely envious.
Very cool that he is very attentive to important things going on in the world and keeps a political notes log - I didn't know that side of Richard.

That was a good link.

I also agree with other comments here that the USA is in real jeopardy of losing Internet (and other) freedoms so Richard's life work for software freedom seems relevant right now.
The Long Road To 64 Bits [pdf]
A perfect way to cultivate an obsession
Am I missing something with the second formula?

h = (f - v)/(s * t)

The perfect flagger would have v = 0 and f = s. His total flag score is t = s + x, where x is the number of non-honeypots flagged. His score would be:

h = s/(s * s + s * x) = 1/(s + x)

As s => infinity, h => 0. This score would actually punish a good flagger over time, no? A perfect veteran flagger with 100 for 100 honeypots flagged would have a lower honeypot ratio than a perfect newbie flagger who's 5 for 5 honeypots flagged.
Facebook's Two New Security Features 'App Passwords' & 'Trusted Friends'
BSD wasn't completely open source until much later, so I would assume that NeXT purchased a license, just as they did for Display PostScript and other pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
I think this is correct. However, if you change (c) to 0% as some of the comments have suggested, it gets more interesting.
Open source, sure. But patent free?

Comment here indicates no:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166268

If AAC costs $1/device to implement, who exactly cares that the code is "opened"?
DeviantART announces Sta.sh (with dev API)
I actually already have a beta account and have checked it out. It looks promising, but this is one of those political situations. I think AppHarbor will probably end up replacing AWS as our second platform though.
I found this paragraph even more interesting:

“From the numbers of cameras ordered, we later realized the CIA had placed secret cameras in every Xerox copy machine in all embassies in the world – friend and foe alike.”
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I am probably being ignorant but why is sharing files among a team such a big thing? I understand the consumer side of things but the enterprise should already have at least one server and every desktop OS out there has support for NFS or some such variant. Why do I need dropbox?
Some of what has happened to Zed Shaw really isn't acceptable, it is straight up harassment and not funny trolling. It is considered acceptable to threaten men with violence because they are men; it's the same as the pervasive belief that men cannot be raped and the idea is funny.

If you haven't ever been afraid of being beaten, killed, or raped, that doesn't make you a man, that means you have had a very safe life. There is no necessary reason why women must think that. I am certainly not doing ANYTHING to make women rationally afraid of being beaten, killed, or raped, so why should my penis make me responsible for that? Some vague handwavey notion of 'privilege'?

What's up with the jaw thing? Women don't have especially fragile jaws. I guess you are saying that women have especially fragile emotions?
This is incorrect. In the past, Apple has tended to prefer patented formats, because they are the holders of many of these patents and so increasing their use benefits them. If Apple had preferred patent-free formats at the time of the iPod, they would have chosen Vorbis, which has an open royalty-free encoder that is superior to QuickTime's rather poor AAC encoder.

Since the Apache license grants a patent license, this development regarding Apple Lossless would seem to be a reversal of their previous stances. I'm glad to see it.

Edit: That said, I agree with Dark Shikari that it would have been better had Apple Lossless never existed and if they had just used FLAC instead.
Datapath is the comparators, adders, multipliers - see http://www.faculty.iu-bremen.de/birk/lectures/PC101-2003/02p... .

64 bit operations don't significantly affect the decoder (which isn't a big deal anyway). The option to pull 64 bits out of the cache at a time isn't a big deal given the ability to pull 8, 16, and 32.

> the MIPS R4000, it's definitely not a fully 64-bits processor

Sure it is. It does 64 bit arithmetic with a single instruction. Yes, instructions for different lengths may take different amounts of time, but so what?

I note that various 586/686 implementations have had faster operations on shorter data types (and in at least one case, had slower operations on shorter datatypes). (I'd argue that the first 386 in 32 bit mode was a 32 bit processor, but surely the pentium-class machines are.)

> only implements 40 of the 64-bits for 1 TB of virtual memory

No current x86-64 implementation implements more than 48 bits for either virtual or physical addresses.

Legal alpha implementations could implement as few as 43 bits.

Care to name an implementation of any processor that has 64 virtual and or physical address bits?
Two mistakes here:

(1) Apple Lossless, not AAC. Apple is not open-sourcing their AAC decoder, which is part of QuickTime.

(2) The Apache license grants a royalty-free patent license.
French Proverb: "Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics."
> I'm on a time of use, stepped schedule.

Why? My average is considerably less than yours.
Having a seemingly higher price might actually also make big businesses take a look at it more seriously. At something like $13 a month it's easy to overlook and aim for something that appears seemingly more big business ready.
Who is making these claims of hypocricy?

The complaint I recall was when Apple was violating the KHTML license for a while before releasing their source properly.
Agreed. I'm not claiming I wouldn't love to make a billion dollars, but I have a feeling that fixating on it is not the winning strategy.
"a bad cofounder" from what perspective?
They started enforcing this 3 years ago. Now they offer an option other than deleting your account, it seems. http://vimeo.com/blog:140
Appointlet - Allow your users to schedule appointments on your Google Calendar
The comments on the post seemed to hint that it was more of a semantic question rather than a math question.

I didn't want to ruin it for myself so I didn't read all the comments.

However your answer seems to make the most beautifully simple sense.

Thank you!
Open source yes, but not RMS's version. It is debatable whether Stallman was instrumental in creating the free BSD license.
> "The drugs that render patients unconscious also make them hypothermic. That’s useful because chilled patients bleed less during surgery ..."

Coagulation is an enzymatic reaction. You might not be surprised, then, to learn that low temperatures retard, not enhance, coagulation. Cold temperatures make the patient bleed more, not less. The article gets this part exactly wrong.
I wish more geeks become billionaires.
War of words breaks out over Silicon Valley diversity debate
I can donate money to the government. It would be to my detriment to do so. This does not negate the fact that I think the government needs to raise taxes. This is especially so since companies are sitting on record levels of cash and are not hiring. Added to this is the fact that taxes for the wealthy are at historical lows.

Maybe Gates is a hypocrite for not donating money to the government. Maybe I'm a hypocrite. This hypocrisy does not have anything to do with wether or not it is a good idea for the government to raise taxes on certain segments of the population.
The latter. I actually really want Apple to provide an option to request access to the photos without location, and remove the location data when reading in the photo metadata. But they don't — yet, at least.

(Disclaimer: I worked on Batch as an intern this summer, but I don't speak for them.)