skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really neat. I got it up on a 27" iMac and let it play. So great. Thanks for sharing.
This is where entrepreneurship comes into play (at least in the long run). Many older enterprises become uncompetitive because of the chaotic absurdity of their systems. This allows upstart new entrants or innovative competitors to eat their lunch.
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Thanks for clearing that up, my google foo is weak when they use the wrong names.

Still, it looks like they really do design for benchmarks: "Xeon E5 delivers up to 2.1* times more performance in raw FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second as measured by Linpack) and up to 70 percent more performance using real-HPC workloads compared to the previous generation of Intel Xeon 5600 series processors." 110% on benchmark = 70% in real world apps.

Granted, if this works out great, I have seen Intel blow to many new 'high performance' chips to expect much still they might just pull this one off. Unlike say the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium etc

PS: I always look at what Intel get's x86 to do much like how Microsoft could develop software, it's not that the capability is awesome so much as watching a mountain of hacks dance. They have a huge process advantage and can throw piles of money and talent at the process but they are stuck with optimization's made when computers where less than 1% as powerful.
I'm guessing you use Windows. Flash is kind of OK on Windows. It blows elsewhere. It drains my MacBook Pro's battery, it makes my computer uncomfortably hot, it still hangs and crashes more than all the other software on my computer put together, and it has a much higher propensity than HTML5 solutions to break standard things like Services, bookmarking, right-click and the back button.
Not to be mean, but I got bored about 20 seconds in and now I'm not sure what your company does or sells.
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The comment you guys are responding to was in jest. I wrote the original post in this subthread. My point about Tineye was that it's obviously capable of picking up duplicates (which is the immediate question I was responding to) and equally incapable of determining which of those duplicates are licensed.
In-fact you're only giving access to the Public folder. The idea being that if you're willing to share it publicly ... well you're willing share it publicly : )

In any case, it's obvious that I haven't communicated that clearly enough. Thank you for the feedback : )
Well played, MS and Apple.
Obligatory Tao of Programming reference (by Geoffrey James) <http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html>...:

There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: ``Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?''

``An operating system,'' replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. ``Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system,'' he said.

``Not so,'' said the programmer, ``when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design.''

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. ``That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?''

The programmer made no reply.
There's room for disagreement, but I think it's not such a good idea to take 30 units per semester even if you can ace the exams.

It's like everything else involving time: The secret to life is not to work N hours per week, but to work (N/2) hours per week on the right things.

For example, courses with middling-to-poor teachers are just not worth your time: You can watch better lectures online, instead, or just read the textbooks out of the library. And on the flip side, if you find a course with an excellent teacher it's probably worth your time to take that course seriously: Do the readings or the labs, and if you're some sort of ungodly speed-reader do extra readings or labs in that course. (Ask the teacher what else you can do. They will fall over themselves to tell you. That is why they are excellent.)

And if all your courses require no brainpower you need more challenging courses. There are always more challenging courses. After all, even if you're some kind of super-genius who has taken every course and is now bored, you can always invent new courses.
This is a red herring. The shared context of two documents is the schema that they both declare and nothing more. The promise of linked data is that a lot of the relations will (and does now for example in music) allow discovery of interesting relations.

As for library science, yes, it is a hard problem.
You wont get rid of the xray scanners even if all employees have dosimeters and understand the dangers. You just increase their salaries through hazard pay.

What blows my mind is that the masses care more about cellphone electric fields more than DNA mutating rays. I blame popular brainwashing news stations like fox, msnbc, CNN. Etc.

We need to make it in the best interest of news agencies to drum up and manufacture some panic about this.
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We've the data (lots in fact) and your role would be to design the product that would help companies find their best match easily. Easier said than done, there are a lot of challenges.

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I'll give everyone a great example of why I hate Flash:

So I downloaded the new Flash 11 and installed it, the 64 bit version so I can now use 64 bit IE. I have IE 9 set to not accept third party cookies. In Flash, I don't want cookies set either so I go to the global settings and make sure no sites can save anything on my computer. Now Flash doesn't work at all. No where. It should work on some sites that don't require cookies but it won't even load. I'm not sure why this is but the only solution I've found is to completely uninstall Flash, restart my computer and then reinstall it and allow every site to store Flash cookies on my computer. I've replicated the issue with Firefox and Chrome.

Strangely enough Youtube worked during these issues - because of HTML 5.

Also, there's a bug in Flash 11 in Windows 7 where for some reason the taskbar doesn't get hidden when you full screen a flash video.

Flash could've been useful, but Adobe's coders are the worst in the business. All they had to do was make it small, efficient and easy to use. Essentially they did the exact opposite and only had a business model because there were no competitors. In addition, they have security issues and all these random strange issues which should never happen.

I liken Flash to Blackberry and how RIM is allowing Android apps on it's service. It has to do that to stay relevant because no one is going to use it otherwise. Adobe Flash would be dead within 5 years if they didn't switch their tools to work with HTML 5.

Now the question is, why would developers create two versions of the videos - one for Flash and one for mobile HTML5? Why wouldn't they just create an HTML5 video that plays on both mobile and standard browsers?
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Oh jeez, that is annoying. My apologies.

Here is the better answer: http://pastebin.com/rEZhXv1z
Two Senators, one Congressman. If you live in one of the 50 states, you have three federal lawmakers who represent you.

If you have multiple residences or an office in another district, you might have more relevant congresscritters who you'd want to call, even if you can't directly vote for them.
Thanks for mentioning. I have heard of the site, but never checked out what it was for. Looks nice, I'm going to try it out.

Does anyone know how they handle lossless? It says in the FAQ they support FLAC, which all my music is encoded in. Google Music transcodes it. I can't seem to find what Audio Galaxy does. I'm assuming they do something similar, but they don't say to what or what bitrate.
Totally agree with the premise that user actions should provide responses instantly, I was building those kinds of responsive UIs 2 years ago. But, I have a problem believing that the future of web applications is based on serializing all ajax requests and duplicating model validation on the client. Come on, this is 2011, this technique isn't new. Let's work on things that will really change the state of the art.
I have a friend working on CloudAround for Android. They support a variety of cloud file hosting platforms.

TuneBox is iOS though, so I will definitely be checking this app out since I have an iPhone!
If you can only sell the DVD but not the copy, then the original owner paid more for it, ends up with less value, and the new owner, if they wanted to sell it, would have the same issue. Further, you have to transfer a physical product, which at the prices of used DVDs makes very little sense and has a minor impact on the industry. Being able to sell a copy that costs nothing to make or ship is more damaging. It's not that they wish you couldn't sell your DVDs, too, but it's not as important a fight as digital copies.
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My understanding is that the wireless router broadcasts a packet and that packet contains the SSID and MAC address.
Do we REALLY need any more fetishization of startups and founders? When did entrepreneurship become a spectator sport?

And, why go to Kickstarter? I'd be weary to invest in anything startup related that can't find real funding... its not hard for someone who's "done a bunch of startups."
It's an invasion of the privacy of the owners of said access point because they neither asked not intended for their SSID and location to be put into Google's database.

It's as simple as that. In most Western countries, a citizens right to determine what happens with information about them is considered a fundamental right. The fact that the information is publicly available and easy to collect does in no way diminish that right.

It's what is done with that information what matters. And no owner of a WiFi access point ever intended their SSID to end up in Google's databases, and especially not related to their geographical location.

It crosses an ethical and possibly legal line that may not be recognized in the US, but is pretty plain and solid in many other countries. And these aren't technologically clueless countries: net neutrality is the law in the Netherlands.

Google knows all of this, and yet chooses to publicly tell these countries to go fuck themselves. Smooth move.
I HAVE FEET Why didn't I think of that?
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Moultano: I 100% believe google keeps ranking changes siloed from the ad side, but Google 100% favors its own properties within its search results so you can't be surprised that someone thinks this way? Here are some examples for you that need major changes in my opinion.

www.google.com/#hl=en&q=san+francisco+restaurant+reviews
www.google.com/#hl=en&q=hollywood+cauldron

-when i previously used google for retail reviews I would just bypass all of your results to get to yelp. sometimes trip advisor.

-look at those youtube video results for the 2nd query. So off the mark, but you guys keep them in there because it is good for google. it doesn't help your users and makes you look bad. I don't know what you guys are thinking.

I use Bing for 95% of my searches now. For tech searches I still think you guys are better, but for everything else I use Bing.
I get a feeling that we've seen peak Firefox a year or two ago.
This seems like an appropriate place to write this.

I'm a self taught programmer. If it wasn't for the internets I would be a pretty poor guy. Spolsky gave a nice answer on SO about teaching a newcomer how to program. He listed SICP, k&R and Code. I read SICP online and I downloaded a version of K&R. Both books had a fundamentally awesome impact on me and I just decided I should buy them along with Code.

All the tech books I've ever read I read online with the exception of The Definitive Guide to Action Script 5, which cost me 50$.

SICP is on sale for 80$
K&R is 50$

If I'm poor (or: a kid) I don't have 50$. Denying me the option to steal this books without harming anyone will just make me less educated.
Can you give a top 5 reasons NOT to move to Bangalore? I know if I was moving there I'd want some detail on what to be careful about.
Definitely has the potential to be popular among the lolcats crowd (or anybody that likes computers _and_ scrapbooking). What is the revenue stream?
> But the parser Readability created under the Apache license is being used by Apple and Amazon in millions of devices, neither of which pays a dime in licensing fees to this small startup.

Presumably it attained that level of awesomeness due to the efforts of volunteers who donated their time to open source. That's the model -- no fair complaining a posteriori when your app blows up and people start making more money with it than you are. It was never "yours" to begin with.

(Not that Arc90 is doing this; in fact they seem to be going out of their way not to.)
Yes. If it passed, it would hurt my startup; all the code I've typed would be thrown away.

I've wanted to understand better what are the chances of passage. So far apparently in the House it is still in committee,

Yesterday I left messages against the bills on the phones of NY20 and the two NY senators. Fred Wilson says that Schumer's for it, and Wilson is "pissed" about that and knows that Schumer knows that.

Still, before I send letters to my three, maybe something should come out of committee and be in line for a floor vote? Else maybe my guy in NY20 might not even know what I am objecting to.
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You can say truth 90% of the time and still be considered a liar. The value of your feedback goes through the floor if it doesnt accurately reflect the state of the system. Telling the user that something is done when it isnt is plain and simply wrong.
Chrome is by far the best browser imo. I am surprised it has taken so long to get here to be honest. I guess people are just too lazy to switch sometimes.
Actually, it is feasible. It is possible to do this still. Solve it with a model to start and chain the calculation events. You can re-iterate based on the different situations. The design, when thought through, can be accommodating such variations. It is definitely a lot of work (dont get me wrong). If this was not feasible, there would be no Payroll vendors. :)
> What is the revenue stream?

None yet... I'll figure that out if enough people find it useful. Probably along the lines of selling virtual and physical merchandise with Bumblies on them. Physical postcards are a real possibility - I'll probably ask Brezina if he'll do a Sincerely deal with a web app. I'd like to avoid advertising and keep the site clean and fast.

Quickmeme has ridiculous traffic, and Memegenerator and Memebase aren't far behind. I wanted Bumbly to have a more sophisticated tone, and hopefully appeal to the female / BlueMountainArts / Pinterest crowd.
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I'm sure there are other ways we can indicate that an email that was supposed to have been sent was sent without blocking the whole UI. I think that was the point. Don't block the user from getting stuff done.
Web companies should know how to write a readable text, it's pity they could just come up with something like that.

This text is not coincise, it doesn't draw the attention of the reader to any specific point and it shows several other shortcomings, if the message ever comes across I am pretty sure this page won't help.
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> Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly.

From what I gather from TFA, they are nowhere near what the industry could consider a good faith effort. They basically need some way to invalidate the original file (and any illegitimate copies of it) while keeping the legitimate copy valid.
So not only is this incredibly cool to watch, but it illustrates how the lenght of the day and weather changes throughout the year. I could see this type of project being replicated for various biomes and used in student materials. Brilliant idea!

Also, it was nice to learn about MobyGratis.com. I've always like Moby's music, but the fact that he makes his music available like this for non-commercial use is just awesome.
'help rid the world of HTML purism'
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Is this the right argument? Should the bill pass once the requirements are there?
The use of temporary GUIDs might be ok when those are used INTERNALLY only and not exposed outside.

What happens with Spine, though, is that those IDs are used in a URL.

So in the example I get the URL for the newly created page: http://spine-rails3.herokuapp.com/#/pages/34B3CC88-32CC-4D08...

Who of you can actually access it?

That isn't right. The GUIDs should be internal only.

This leads us to the complexity of the "Async" UI in general.
In order to redirect (navigate) user to a proper URL you DO need to wait for the response from the server.

But the real async UI should just allow user to do something else. It doesn't mean it should not WAIT for the server response.
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You went as far as copying his buttons :)
I participated in the beta. This is a nice app, well done. Dropbox and music - two great tastes that taste great together.
Yes.

I agree that maybe the more likely danger would be something a little bad instead of something horribly bad.

But, consider my (humorous) scenario: First-cut, the worse the Hollywood Dream Act is, the more donations get from people who oppose it!

Yes, there's a danger some such nonsense might pass. But there is also a chance, while some people will take the bills seriously, nearly all the attention is just to a scam. E.g., on the debt limit debate with the threat of no Social Security checks, my assumption all along was that both sides just wanted a lot of free publicity, and that's basically the way it came out. Yes, such scams are dangerous if only because one might get passed.
I know Fernando, and I'm hopeful that this will be a very cool project that could further spur entrepreneurship in the US. The key will be to demonstrate not just the successes, but the toil too! I hope it's not just a glamorized view of Silicon Valley. There is so much selection bias via TechCrunch and whatnot that I think so many people think it's all "champaign wishes and caviar dreams." This could be a real opportunity for people to see what really goes into building a startup, not the Social Network.
Knowing Fernando, he'll do a great job. Good luck!
I'm curious about the small dips you can see in the long term view of Firefox's browser share.

They all seem to match up exactly with a bump in one of the other browsers' share (mostly IE or Chrome). Is this because Firefox users are prone to temporarily switch to another browser and back again whenever a new version is released?
Something EVERYONE can use...?
This is simplistic, but I think the people who make the technology work need to (find ways to) stop providing support -- stop enabling -- the Luddites who seek to monopolize it for their own gain.

Simply/simplistically put: Unplug them. We'd all be better off.
That's a huge leap from the facts. There are 50,000 applications on Kongregate that happen to be made with Flash. Whether those apps would have existed without Flash is a different question. You might as well say that Microsoft Word wouldn't have existed without Xenix (since it happened to originate there), but I think probably Microsoft would have gone ahead with the DOS version anyway.
I think that in 100 years, we'll all look back at this time period of intellectual property hoarding as something akin to the dark ages.
"There’s a big flaw in the bubble argument, though: things may look grim for college graduates, but they’re much grimmer for people without a college degree."

No. There's a flaw in the reasoning above. For years in the US, society has perceived that there is something wrong with a young person who did not complete high school. Want to find a good mate? Stay in school. Want a decent job? Stay in school. So, young people, fearing societal judgement and the accompanying disadvantages, stayed in school. Given these judgements, those who did not complete high school likely indeed had something wrong with them or came from families without means. So, a simple comparison of the outcomes for high school graduates vs. dropouts usually has shown significant differences. What percentage of these differences can be explained by the selection bias of the sample pools vs. actual effects of the treatment (a high school diploma)?

The same selection biases hold true for a college education. Few with ambition have considered skipping college. Without any metrics on the abilities, goals, etc. of those skipping college, we can not determine whether differences are the result of selection bias or treatment.

My Hungarian in-laws "dropped out" of high school in 1956 to come to the US. During the revolution, they escaped across the border into Austria and eventually got to the US (Green Cards effectively handed out when they got of the plane). My father-in-law attended a few night school classes over the years, but never obtained any formal degrees. He retired as the CEO of a small manufacturing organization for which he still consults -- a good outcome for anyone by most accounts. The difference between him and the average middle class American teenager was that it took a certain level of ambition and risk tolerance to decide with only a few days notice (the revolution was sudden and short-lived) to leave his home country for an uncertain future. Not entering into a degree program was an active choice -- not a passive result of low ambition.

I am annoyed with the popular press's continued assertion that education has value simply because the outcomes of those with education are better. Unless someone measures various personal characteristics and then randomizes the treatment (education vs. workforce entry), I won't buy into claims about how valuable education is.

Ironically, I have two graduate degrees.