skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even not considering financials, I'd expect at least 1 death from people looking up medical information and not being able to get it if Google was entirely gone for a whole day.

EDIT: Of course most reasonable people will contact a medical professional rather than an internet search engine, that's why I guessed "at least 1" instead of "at least a couple hundred".
"Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust"
Very good point, it's about Silencing Online Publishers.

If only it was about Stopping Online Piracy, which it isn't and which it can't (and arguably shouldn't anyhow.)
I'm married. I have an amazing wife and want kids. One thing that is killing me is that I now have the whole kids plan on hold. My wife is supportive of me, but she's hurting that we need to hold on those plans for now.
Ya, the author loses a lot of credibility there. Especially when a lot of the points apply to mobile development on _any_ platform.
Improving the QR code experience
Those entrepreneurs with more 'entropic' and 'diverse' social networks scored three times higher on a metric of innovation, suggesting that the ability to access 'non-redundant information from peers' is a crucial source of new ideas

Correlation <> causation alert. Perhaps entrepreneurs who are open-minded and not narrowly focused in a small handful of disciplines are more innovative, and this generality shows in their social circle.
I think you overestimate number of people who use searchboxes int their browsers - how many times we saw stories about people typing 'facebook.com' into Google?

I think the majority of users, especially non-technical (and I think majority of people that should see this message fall in this category), still uses google.com as a place to begin their searches.
A lawyer or copyright expert can correct me if I'm wrong, but a sufficiently novel use of public work, or fair use of private work, can be copyrighted. So the original source material doesn't belong to the King estate, but its use in the context of the speech does.

If I make a collage of other people's works, the other works still belong to them, but the way I put them together belongs to me. Actually, this doesn't seem terribly "nuanced".
I'm pretty sure there are other search engines that would still be available.
This sure makes it sound to me like he was more concerned with the civil rights movement of the 1960s than with the copyright status of his speech in 2025.

EDIT: Come on, downvoters — do you really mean to suggest that King would have wanted a civil rights memorial to have to pay out his family before it could celebrate his cause?
I think is a combination of things. In the first ones, inexperience above all. In the last 3 I simply couldn't generate enough traction.
Health Insurance (in the US) requires significantly more capital than a startup is ever likely to acquire. In addition, large financial reserves must be maintained - most of the cash cannot be converted to rocket fuel.
When you have a medical emergency, you call 911 or go to the emergency room, not peruse Q & A sites for answers.
Surely the best place to find medical information is via your GP / doctor, not Google?
Original url here:

http://www.gilzilberfeld.com/2011/12/4-warning-signs-that-ag...
He has a lot of overhead.

If you want to do something to 1/2 of an MxN matrix join rows so x from top to x from bottom to get a constant amount of effort per Unit work + 1/2 unit effort if there is an odd number of rows. Basically, worst case is you have to wait for one core to process a full line when every other line is already finished. But, while you can cut the matrix into smaller chunks that tends to add overhead which is not worth it for large matrices split among a small number of cores. outer loop is x: 0 to N/2, worker does row x and row (N - x ).

Now, in his case he wants a single number, that is the count of the number of comparisons over a threshold. In his example he works out that What about per-thread count arrays? but forget's that he can just keep a separate count per worker and then add it to the total when that worker finishes. Which is far less code.

PS: Cache coherency can be improved by splitting rows into 2d shapes or grouping rows into wider bands. The second option is a lot simpliar for a similar speedup.
Oh sure, shot me a minute and the ask for $9 for the full thing. Are you out of your mind?
Giving the ability to do system administration tasks on a device you own is not treating people like system administrators. It's giving someone the ability to work on, modify and learn about (and break (and fix)) their device if they so choose.
Warning sign 0: When it became Agile-with-a-capital-A

Capitalization means it's become a proper noun. A specific Thing. And everything that comes with that: canned methodologies, books on how to implement specific "Agile" processes, management retreats, certifications and all sorts of other senseless bureaucracy.

In other words, processes, tools, documentation, contracts, and plans. Not quite the kind of agility they were talking about in the manifesto. ( http://agilemanifesto.org/ )
Russia elections will be monitored by AllOfMp3's founder webcams
> A modern hotel situated in a dynamic, historic conjures up all that’s best about London’s past, present and future.

$18mill should buy some pretty damn good proof readers, no?
He's saying, (to paraphrase) "When Google was four servers at Stanford, Google didn't have shit." He wonders if there is any way to tell -- today -- what the next Google would be, by looking back at Google's experience at that time, or knowing if you are currently working on the next Google, based solely on the numbers in front of you and the trend these numbers are taking. Oh, and the false premise which is the mentality around here that making numbers go up is all that counts. The answer he comes to is that no, there is not.

Without specifying his false premise, however, he comes to a false conclusions. The truth is that there is more than just making numbers go up, and the truth is that it is easy to tell when you're working on the next Google. (As a rule companies on hn are not).

* edit: there's nothing wrong with building a company on numbers, instead of building the next multi $B company
Surviving the Wikipedia blackout: Mirrors, caches, apps, etc.
http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html KerTeX is nice and small.
The short answer is that one probably doesn't exist. Health insurance is largely done on a state by state basis. There are good reasons for this. Mainly, the biggest benefit of any health insurance plan is not the insurance itself but the negotiated discount for in-network care. You get this discount even with the cheapest high deductible plan. Also, for major procedures and extended hospitalizations the insurance company workds closely with the health providers and it helps to be local. And going with the cheapest provider usually means cheap customer service as well.

People like to be critical of health insurance companies and I'm sure it is well deserved in some cases but when my daughter was in the NICU for a week after she was born the health insurance company was the most efficient and helpful part of the process. And it ended up costing me several thousand dollars less than I thought it would.

Here's the only way I could think of to make a larger plan work. Work with the existing health insurance companies to get to use their networks and their claims processing. Pay them a percentage. They may just work with you since there is no risk to them, the multi-state company is the one paying the claims.

Of course, the capital required to start an insurance company is immense. I personally would never trust my claims to a small startup.
TrainSignal IT Training Doesn't Support SOPA
How to: Upgrade to FreeBSD with VirtIO in the cloud
I think it does what Instagram and Hipstamatic do
RingGuard stops volume buttons having effect on the ring volume until you confirm with a screen tap on a popup dialog.

Your example is a very weak premise to hang a conclusion as strong as you have on it. I can make phone calls on my non-rooted android phone, for example; that's a use, and directly contracts your claim of "useless". Less hyperbole would improve your argument.
As a SendGrid Support Technician, I can tell you our Parse API retries for 72 hours, same as our outbound mail management. We use POST params, not JSON: http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/
Our Parse API is complimentary, and doesn't use any credits.

We also have POST pushing of live data such requests received, deliveries, bounces, clicks, and opens down to address/link/time-specific detail. This is offered as either JSON strings or POST params: http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/event-api/

- Jacob
Please indulge my ignorance... Maybe a chemist or someone better versed can answer; are we close, or is it plausible to construct a star trek like replicator to rearrange atoms to form new substances such as water?
Frankly, we don't see feature removal nearly enough these days. A move towards simplicity seems like a win.
Last time I looked "Google" was one the most searched for items on Google due to people typing it into browser search fields to get Google so they can search for something on Google.

I've watched people do this.
It took me 2 years to find a job that I really liked (and remotely, I'm in Europe too) and during that time I made sure to have a job that paid the bills and spent a lot of time on learning more stuff and doing side projects. The side projects didn't go anywhere but they sure where a learning experience.

Keep it up and try not to judge yourself too much - constructively critisise and not overwhelm yourself.
Doctors use Google, too.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/study-nearly-half-...
This article (http://swombat.com/2012/1/17/army-of-one-entrepreneur) seems to have some application to my situation.

To quote "If you want to maximise your chances of running a successful startup, where success is defined as achieving at least the "survival" level outlined in this article, and ideally the "comfort" level, it makes a lot more sense to invest your time in many ideas at the same time, test all of them (in parallel or one after the other) and then pursue the one or ones that are most promising."

The question is whether or not I'm at a point to start narrowing to the "most promising."
While true, I'm sure that there are plenty of users who search for information about something they don't think is an emergency, and then find out it is.
Silencing Online Publishers in America.
I'm glad you brought this up. It can be unhelpful/damaging to tell someone "this is the way." It could cause cognitive dissonance, confusion, and conflict for many between one's own previous experiences of what they are currently capable with and what is being stated they are required to do to be successful. I go through this very often. The latest being the push that's going to around, mainly that VCs and incubators perpetuated, that you need to find technical co-founders. This mainstream idea is promoted because it reduces the risk for those who will profit/benefit from reduced risk in their investments. Likewise, people who are, as you call them, hyperproductive, will probably have more successes from having more experiences and also be the personality to be vocal of their methods and will have more experience and success to be vocal about.
Weak. Google should participate in the blackout.

Twitter seems to not care about SOPA, but Google claims to be actively working against SOPA - they should walk the walk if they are going to talk the talk. With this "message" on their homepage (which as jaysonelliot pointed out is not even seen by many people) they get the branding of being in support of an open web but don't have to actually take action the way Wikipedia, Boing Boing, etc are going to.

Just window dressing from the PR department. Disappointing but not at all surprising.
You sound like you've burnt out. You're liable to make bad decisions when you're worried, but more importantly, you can't really build anything if you're worried about rent. Rent is a more important problem.

There's nothing that will really shake you out of it, you're going to have to wait until you heal. This is the fastest way I know of that helps you do that.

1) Don't take yourself so seriously.

2) Workout hard

2) Get a real job.

On #1, don't beat yourself up. Won't help any.

On #2, I suggest just doing burpee intervals. Check my comment history, I put up a sample workout on another thread.

On #3, just get any job that will help pay bills and more importantly, allow you to get some savings for when you get back on to what you really want to do, which is become a successful entrepreneur. Move back with parents to save money. It's not going to take forever, at most, like a few months while the next best thing comes along.
We'll probably end up using just MPI at Exascale. I was at Supercomputing 2011, I swear half the speakers might have just gone up on stage, stuck their fingers in their ears, and yelled "NAH NAH NAH CAN'T HEAR YOU, MPI IS ALL WE NEED NAH NAH NAH".
Do you know about Forrst?
I was pretty floored the first time I was diagnosing a server problem and it turned out an Ubuntu update had pulled the Sun Java out from underneath the Tomcat server that was running and replaced it with OpenJDK, which didn't work for the big webapps that were running. That was last year, though - maybe that was it moving to partner and now it is moving again? I wish they would restrict this funny business to distro upgrades, which people expect to break things.
Having moved to Los Angeles only 7 months ago, I was really surprised to see fixies as a dominant mode of transport, especially within the Latino community (colored, deep-V rims are a huge trend). And even though LA tops the chart in terms of # bikes for sale, that doesn't mean it's a high percentage of people biking (very unfortunate). LA's trying to add more bike lanes, but it's a pretty dismal situation here.
Jailbreaking an iOS device is often not a dead simple process, unless you can show me how to to jailbreak my 4S. I've been waiting for a jailbreak there for quite a while....
I'm open to relocating for the right opportunity. My main focus is on finding something i'm interested in/passionate about. Also open to remote work.
Another take on advertising for small mobile app vendors - AdCento
Obama Admin. Declares War on SOPA; SOPA Author Caught Stealing Work
If the site cost 18M, it does not mean all 18M went to developers (total probably includes other planning & logistics costs). I say "if" because the article from the econsultancy link provided in comments here states 18M without any source to confirm that figure.
WSGI supports native in-proc middleware for stuff like caching, but instead the author is accepting extra process boundaries between the HTTP stack and the remainder of their applications. I've never understood why I'm supposed to prefer that, so I would have liked to see a rationale.
Did you ask them why?
Management Lessons From The Overhaul Of Android's UI
Plenty of people don't know any other search engine but "the Google".
MPAA Response to White House Position on Anti-Piracy Legislation
I've been an editor on programming books. Believe me, most programming books have two editors - one for the spelling and grammar side, and one for the technical side.
Sometimes is better to do both.

For example: Intoxication by adulterated liquor can cause strong headache and (permanent) blindness; but if you search in Google you may find out that drinking pure Whisky right away can neutralize its effects.
Is "Agile" is still the best out there? If I have a team of 4-5 bright people, the best way to get them working as a team to produce software for a limited group of people is agile/scrum, right?
It will give greater legitimacy to other sites protesting, just from news reports including google on the list of companies taking part. I'm guessing the news stories will end of having much more influence than whatever google links to.
if people are looking at google for medical information during serious cases, we are in a very bad state.
I've heard of brick and mortar activities protected with similar counters. There was a raid at a local venue where the police were stopped when they discovered that the back of the building had a different street number than the front, and so was not covered in the search warrant. Designer drugs were used to counter anti drug laws in this way.

Perhaps the comparison isn't pleasant, but there might be an instructive precedent.
What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago
> With this "message" on their homepage (which as jaysonelliot pointed out is not even seen by many people)

How is 64% of their traffic (89 million visitors in 2009)[1] not "many people"?

[1]: http://blog.compete.com/2009/04/21/home-page-visitors-top-pu...
Online or rather Objectionable
Jailbreaking an iOS device is not a dead simple process. First, you need to worry about versions. Did you get your phone when the latest version was not yet cracked? Do you have to worry about the irreversible change of flashing ipad firmware onto your iphone? What about tethered jailbreaks? What is that even?

Then are the updates. You can't just update to the next version of iOS when it comes out. You often need to wait many many months for newer versions to be jailbroken. There is always the threat that you will never be able to break the next version due to the security race between hackers and Apple.

The end result of all this, and I've seen this with every single jailbroken phone user, is that users who jailbreak don't often update, if they ever do. This is not a very ideal situation for something that should be available officially and by default.

And finally, you won't often find reputable software developers distributing applications that require jailbreaking. On Android, a good example of this is Skype. It's available through the market, but easy to install outside the market. It's also a top notch company and product.
Certainly, but there are plenty of situations when people will consult Google before figuring out that they are having a medical emergency. Someone could for example google for "vomit like ground coffee" and realize they are probably bleeding inside and need to rush to the ER.
What's a "marketing" core?
now it will be like who will do the blackout next.
Facebook, twitter, yahoo, aol etc
Of course, this would need to be weighed against the probability that if SOPA passes, someone _else_ could die from not being able to look up some information because of SOPA.
>For those unfamiliar, a fixed gear bike requires riding in a single gear and the only way to stop the bike is to pedal backwards to help skid the bike to a halt.

Lack-of-brakes do not a fixed gear make.

All bicycles should have at least two ways to stop. Fixed gear bicycles are no exception.
This was the first web blackout on record, taking place 17 years ago to protest the Communications Decency Act.
It looks like glut and opengl are included with the standard libraries. Unfortunately I can't find any building information so I can't do anything with it.
Good introduction to using OpenMP for scientists, but I was confused by his terminology. He kept referring to his Python code also as the "pthreads" version, presumably because Python was using Pthreads for the parallelism. That confused me, since I had assumed he meant that his "pthreads version" was C code only, that directly used the Pthreads API. It's worth nothing that gcc's OpenMP implementation is also using Pthreads.

edit: I think he's missing "count++" inside the inner if-statement in the "Amdahl" and "Using many..." sections.

edit the second: I also think he has an unnecessary critical section in the "Amdahl" section. Assuming the correction above, this should work:

#pragma omp parallel for private(count, target_index)
for (query_index=0; query_index<N; query_index++) {
count = 0;
for (target_index=query_index+1; target_index<N; target_index++) {
if (tanimoto(fingerprint[query_index], fingerprint[target_index]) >= threshold) {
count++;
#pragma omp critical (add_count)
counts[target_index]++;
}
}
counts[query_index] += count;
}

Because query_index is the induction variable for the outer-most loop, we know that only one thread will ever see any given value for it. In other words, the iteration space of query_index is completely partitioned among the threads. Hence, accessing an array using query_index still gives use independent iterations of the outer-most loop, and we don't need to wrap the array access using it in a critical section. The above is a more involved case of the canonical example:

#pragma omp parallel for
for (i = 0; i < N; ++i)
sum[i] = a[i] + b[i];

The iteration space for target_index is not completely partitioned, so the critical section is still needed.
Wow I am surprised by that. I stand corrected, my apologies. That is what I get for taking anecdotal experience and extrapolating ;) I can't remember the last time I went to Google.com, but evidently heaps of people go there.

But I stand by my opinion that this is a weak response from Google.
Maybe a nice way to "blackout" Twitter is don't tweeting or just censoring our tweets. I just started to spread this tweet (with #twuserblackout as main hashtag):

Don't force Twitter to close tomorrow. Just don't tweet or ██████ yourself #twuserblackout #SOPA #PIPA #ACTA
> What's wrong with the Naive Bayes classifier?

The problem I found is that it mixes up the binomial and the multinomial event models for the naive bayes (See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~knigam/papers/multinomial-aaaiws98.pd... for reference). It computes the probabilities as per the binomial event model but doesn't include the probabilities of missing events. This was my understanding from reading the source code.

> Plus you get to work in Python, which is a big advantage for me.

Indeed. I so wish someone would build a dependency parser on top of pfp so that I can ditch Stanford parser. I have used https://github.com/dasmith/stanford-corenlp-python for interfacing with Stanford toolkit but it is somewhat brittle.
Can a Few Years' Data Reveal Bad Teachers?
Thank you for finding this.
I think it auto triggers their threshold checker ... becoz it must be suspicious that my subs jump from 20k to over 100k ... but i have explained that to them ... plus they have a string of interrogation questions i have to answered ... i have been a loyal customer for over many years ... and they just suspend me over the Christmas weekend ... it took them 3-4 days to just reply me and finally many email bouncing back and forth ... i had enough ... i just paid over $1000 / month to get treated like this!!!
Take a look at the following link, it's exactly what those guys made: http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/
The Facebook Data Team just released a study that draws a different conclusion to this article (disclaimer: I'm an employee of Facebook).

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/rethinking...
Isn't there lots of Thorium, and other fissionable and fusible material on the moon?
I prefer the CS model in some ways, but there are issues.

* The review process for conferences is necessarily compressed relative to journals. This usually lowers the quality of reviews and also limits paper length.

* It is difficult to "grow" a highly selective conference, so the acceptance rate is usually quite high. This means that archaic tenure review committees evaluating on where you publish instead of what you publish will ascribe little weight to your conference papers. If people are not submitting their best work to a conference, it can't afford to be overly selective. This is much the same problem that new journals have, but worse because conferences usually have to reach a critical number of people to be considered a success.
great flashback, all it's missing is a few <blink>'s