skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that this kind of technology can't be limited in practice and in the law to protect us from the downsides while giving us most of the upside.

We were able to develop a framework to protect telephonic communication (against the wishes of law enforcement I might add) and I think something similar can be accomplished with electronic records compiled by service providers. If the government can pass a law making it illegal for me to sell lemonade without the appropriate permits, they sure as heck can pass a law restricting the sale or distribution of personal data.

I want my location to be made available (to others) to serve ME, but not propagated wantonly willy-nilly to the highest bidder. That's REALLY the major issue here; if these records are permitted to be generated for "legitimate business purposes permitted by law" then it's a free for all, since those records can be subpoenaed. But if we make certain classes of those records "personal identifiable data" then it's easy to erect a barrier to that information legally. The cops and marketers will complain to holy hell about it but I feel like it's a necessary step we as a society need to take to prevent total abuse by the powers-that-be.
MX/A records can be useful for this as well.
Say the 'acutal' rating for an item is p. (ie, if you got an infinite number of people voting, the ratio of upvotes to total votes is p).

Now say your users vote, and they upvote with that probability p. The number of upvotes k you get out of n votes will follow a binomial distribution B(k;n,p). The binomial distribution has mean np and stdev sqrt(n p(1-p)), and is very close to gaussian in shape. Since the stdev is a rough measure of the 'width' of the distribution, common way to describe the error is (mean +/- lambda*stdev), where you can tune lambda to your desire. If you increase lambda you get a wider confidence interval, and therefore more certainty that a measurement will be within that confidence interval.

Now, say you measure k upvotes out of n votes. You can divide by n to get p0, your estimated rating based on those votes.

An easy estimate for the error of this measurement is to assume that p0 is approximately correct and equal to p. Then the expected number of upvotes would be n p0 with stdev(n p0(1-p0)). Divide this by n to get the fraction of upvotes, to give a final estimate for p of p0 +- lambda sqrt(p0(1-p0)/n)

Now, your estimate (p0) of p is not quite right, and therefore your estimate of the error (which depends on p0) is not quite right either. The wilson score attempts to correct for that. We don't know p, but imagine if we did, we would expect any measurement p0 to be in the range p +- lambda sqrt(p(1-p)/n). That is, we expect

abs(p - p0) < lambda sqrt(p (1-p)/n)

If you solve this equation for p in terms of p0, you get a formula given in the article, ie, the confidence limits for p given p0.
There is no such thing as "raw performance". It's all very, very application-specific.
Thank you, this is really helpful feedback. I can learn any technology I want to, but since programming is not part of my daily professional work I often have a hard time knowing what pieces are worth my time to learn. I've been thinking about Flask and Pyramid for a while, so I will check them out with an eye towards sharing them with students.
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a third option is less in development. GCC and especially clang these days seem to have some pretty heavy dev going on. It can introduce weird bugs/regressions like these. Conversely, if ICC has been pretty static lately than these bugs, once found and fixed probably stay that way.
No founder is so cheap as to have their time to be rented from. Besides, if I want to connect with some of the founders, all I have to do is send them an email.
Agreed, I think it's the first effort at article recommendations that's really worked for me. I think it's due to a pretty clever combination of social signal and machine learning.
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> When I played EVE, I always thought that a programmable ship would be fun. Although there is a risk that programmers will get an unfair advantage.

If programming is part of the gameplay, then being good at programming means you are good at the game. It would then be best considered an entirely fair advantage.
Two to give away as well. Prismatic is excellent.
Has anyone thought about "donotreply@xyz," and how it disengages customers? Would it be beneficial to have "pleasedoreply@xyz," and forward the replies to the social media expert or customer service? Combined with the system described by intercom, it may greatly increase customer/user engagement.
A few questions maybe some of you already know. What's the "instance" that is spun up...an LXC container? Also, is this only for Server or will also be available on the desktop Ubuntu? Cloud only or is this also for local use?
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The first 10 people to email hackernews@getprismatic.com with their twitter handle will get an immediate invite to our early access.

Edit: gone -- but if you sign up at getprismatic.com you should get an invite soon.
You have to put your email in your description, the one you put in your profile is not public.

edit: i have mine in my profile, I would appreciate an invite!
IANAL but it appears to me that Google lost because the court has taken the position that Google does more than publish the advertisements because Google uses algorithms to match advertisements with searches. In the original ruling Google won with the position that they were like a newspaper, simply taking someone else's copy and publishing it on their site.

It is a very interesting case and I am not sure where I personally stand on it.

Either way I'm sure we will hear more from Google on the matter, they still have an avenue for appeal. They can apply to the High Court which may or may not accept to hear their appeal, I am not sure on what grounds this is decided however.
I, for one, am glad that you appreciated and highlighted one of the key portions of my post. I spent a lot of time on it (relative to the rest of the post) to try and convey the point concisely.
Without any context for the name: maybe "sixteen (or hex-ten) to lightspeed"? Space game with a focus on the ingame CPU, seems logical.
Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours.
A package manager whose packages are all install scripts that depend on packages from explicitly-specified repositories for a lower-level package manager. Somehow I feel like this must have been tried already before -- maybe in the RPM side of the tracks, or zero-install, or klik?
But there are "iTunes for Open Source Content"s, at least two of them, and a barrel full of failed projects gone before them:

Songbird: http://www.getsongbird.com/

Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/

The issue isn't the software, it's the marketplace usage and the penetration.

Everyone uses iTunes because that's where all the content is, but all the content got there because people couldn't use their iPod (and later iPhone) without it. The hardware took the beachhead.

Nothing stops anyone from using Songbird or Miro today, except there's no good reason to.

You'd need a lot of content providers to not just promote one of them, but to actually pull their content from iTunes and offer it exclusively through the new app. Or, to have a compelling iPod/iPhone alternative piece of hardware to drive said adoption.

I don't know that NPR and the BBC and a bunch of amateur podcasts doing that would be enough, or if they'd just die quietly.
I hope someone comes up with something like "Spaceship on Rails"
You cannot call syscalls directly, as the syscall table is generated dynamically from the kernel source code on NT. The closest thing you can do is call the Nt* class of functions, which are often direct thunks to syscalls.
I certainly won't disagree with you there. I scrolled quite deeply through the list earlier and didn't see it, which is why I assumed it wasn't indexed yet. The searching could definitely use some tweaking to weigh the name / trend more heavily.
Because it gives a sense of transparency to the process, when in reality google is far from transparent. If they made a big deal about how no one could see the meetings behind the curtain, the secret mystique might erode some of google's goodwill in the eyes of the public - especially if the us govt got involved.

Most people, if they don't have a strong interest in tech & the Internet, only see the surface PR efforts, without having the background to notice that they're in fact heavily orchestrated PR.

The strategy certainly seems to be working thus far - but I feel they might be pushing it a bit recently. More people seem to be noticing and thinking about it.

Take a look at when google chooses to release news, especially "fun" news like robotic cars. They are great at the art of PR - which is not really a surprise if you own a tinfoil hat, because you never know - maybe they can get leading indicators through query & behavior mining across their dataset? :)
Asking questions unrelated to the duties of the job is pretty lame. Focus on a person's accomplishments and ability to do the job. Until you put someone to work, you won't know what they ate really capable of anyway.
Funny timing. I was designing a new space/SF computer game this weekend for a few hours. I tend to make one new one every few years. I saw a little overlap between his feature list and mine, but a lot of potential differences too, which is great. I may put it up on Kickstarter too if/when I have some proof-of-concept demos ready to show. So little free time though...
Prismatic is the next Google.
> I think you should read the M:N scheduling links. I'll leave it at that.

Of the links in that list, 2 worked for me, and both were from 2002. Not exactly up to date information. Also, Erlang, does something similar w.r.t. to multiplexing multiple processes onto fewer threads, so Go isn't exactly alone in this regard. Even Twisted, and Node use a weaker form of this, where everything runs on one thread.

> Read the comment at the top. Hardly trivial.

First, the comment's meant for language implementors. You don't need to read this comment to be able to do C interop in Go. Second, this isn't even that complicated... did you imagine C interop with other languages is done in a nice, simple way? Any language needs a way to translate calling conventions from the source to the destination and back when doing interop.

And, yes, please stop calling it Google Go. People hardly ever say Microsoft C# or Sun Java or Apple Objective C, or Ericcson Erlang, or Netscape Javascript...
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No, It's Java.

CPUBuilder is most likely a class with a single method:

buildCPU()

{

return new CPU();

}
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I hope the graphics don't suck, like they do in Minecraft. I know it sound superficial, but graphics do matter. Minecraft succeeded despite its graphics, not because of them.
Game developer salaries are flat despite rise of new platforms
I've done GLG (and other similar services) in the $700 range. It's not just for C-level execs at $5-10B revenue companies (I cofounded two venture-backed startups).

I started by charging $400. Then I realized that some of these calls last 15 minutes. At "$700 per hour" we're talking about a whopping $175 to do the scheduling routine (some back-and-forth), make time in my schedule, interrupt "flow", and take the call.

I now insist on a 1 hr minimum and bill $700 and do it occasionally when the offers come in (handful of times per year) because I like talking about the subject matter. It's not exactly the best use of my time.
Silex bootstrap
If you're releasing frequently, which you probably want to be, then that's a lot of weekends you've just ruined.
I cant get instagram on my htc wildfire and it pissed me off!
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Yes, but most MMOs simulate minimum wage busywork this one involves some actual skill/thinking.
That is what "system programming" means these days. It used to exclude operating system kernels, real-time components.

I suspect that it isn't so much that they aren't able to write everything in Go, but more that it isn't a priority for now. It wouldn't surprise me if Go wasn't eventually self-hosting.
I know Kenneth Stanley and loooove NEAT :)
Why can't someone taking parental leave be the best candidate? THis statement doesn't seem to be true at all and seems like somewhat good proof that we need such laws.
MMO to offer female players in-game discounts
It started out as a 6502 (https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/184910008037818369), so I'm sure they're quite similar.
Awesome - keep em coming!
Strongly disagree with this. Minecraft's graphics are a direct consequence of what the game IS (i.e. a world made out of large-ish blocks). More realistic (that is, less stylized) textures look strange on top of huge blocks, and anything that obscured the block structure of the world would have made Minecraft a worse game.
Citrix ditches OpenStack
This is a refreshing comment. We can say the same about a lot of websites. I should note, however, this runs abut to the concept of UI versus UX.
We are in the year 281 474 976 712 644, but there are only 16 bit computers on the ships? Anachronism!!!
Porn network Brazzers will sponsor a pro fighting-game team
Well they do have snippets for certain facts: e.g. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

which is almost certainly a broader algorithm that tries to semantically parse out factual information.
True, but I imagine their target market is not just programmers.

Perhaps there will become a market in the game for selling programs to run on the CPUs.

Some players specialize in programming, others in logistics , battle command etc.

Of course it will be an interesting microcosm of the software industry in such a case.

Will people care about piracy of their code? Will anybody start releasing under GPL etc?

As I have said elsewhere , most likely all the best code will end up on a wiki somewhere and everyone will use that.

Of course it depends upon the dynamic of the game. Whether it is like Eve where you just get one ship. Or whether people will build full automated fleets, space stations etc.

In the latter case they better be prepared to buy some serious hardware to run the server end of this on.
I don't disagree. But it is important to note that the minimum viable product for the creator of minecraft is significantly different from the minimum viable product for random internet denizen x. You are guaranteed a certain amount of customer engagement when your pre-existing customers have already begging for years to hear about your next product.
No. Either way you're going to have to launch an app in iOS to share a message to Facebook. You can tweet pictures straight from the photo gallery, but if you want to post to Facebook then you have to launch the Facebook app and upload the picture from there. Instagram doesn't really solve any issues because now you're just launching another application instead of Facebook.
siong1987 [at] gmail dot com

thanks.
Agreed, I have never pre-ordered a game in my life but I would certainly consider doing so with this.
The article says, "Google's conduct involved the use by an advertiser of a competitor's name as a keyword triggering an advertisement for the advertiser with a matching headline,"

I interpret that as, the advertiser defined the competitor as the keyword and that is Google's fault for not preventing it.

Isn't that the end goal of most advertisements (overtly or not)? Tempt a captive audience away from the alternative? Clearly I'm not familiar with nuances of advertising laws (particularly abroad). Interesting article nonetheless.
I've heard the idea that economically we are in an IP investment bubble at the moment due to the current IP arms race that is going on over smartphones and associated internet/tech bobbins.

This got me thinking that if we are in a bubble, what would an IP investment crash look like? And how would it be likely to start?
I just got hired for a gig as a rails developer, and I feel your pain. I got hired because I primarily work with python, and have good experience with Django, flask and the like, but I had never really touched rails. From the various comments I'd heard, I figured it would be a simple transition, but man has it been annoying. Just setting up their dev environment took almost an entire 8-hour day, and I was one of the 'faster ones'.

Not to mention that having to deal with rails legacy code, you quickly realize that despite the original developer's best efforts, the whole magical+'convention over configuration' aspect of rails just totally goes against the concept of 'self-documenting code'. Compound that with the fragile version requirements of both Ruby and Rails, and you have a recipe for frustration. Out of any given search I perform, about a third of the 'relevant' results are for incompatible versions of rails, making it hard to find anything reliable outside the official docs (which leave a bit to be desired).

I may just be spoiled by the relatively conservative + documentation-heavy nature of most of the python frameworks I've worked with, but considering the popularity of rails (even amongst non-developers), I guess I just expected the barrier to entry to be a bit lower...
So, any hints about the real reason for passing up libc? Sounds like an interesting story.
Ubuntu 12.04 will, when its released later this month.
Ambitious, risky, and likely to be ignored by YC, but I like the spirit :)

Would be fun to see them play this game with you though (I'm quite curious to see how you guys work things out if they challenge you to send an iPhone to Mars and back, for one example of many, many problems they could ask you to solve that you couldn't really take care of in 72 hours).
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The soon-to-be released Ubuntu 12.04.
Agreed, trying to find the actual court documents is annoyingly hard. It read like the court found issue with folks who use the search query to rewrite their headline (sort of the 'Find troll bugs on Ebay' when you search for 'troll bugs' kind of stuff)

It will be interesting to hear what Eric Goldman thinks too (he has followed all of the US trademarks vs AdWords cases which have almost universally gone in Google's favor)
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I disagree. The graphics in Minecraft match very well with the gameplay mechanic of working with a small, simple set of building blocks. It's a not-so-subtle signal to the player that the entire world is constructed with these blocks, and invites the player to see how they can be creative when given a limited, low-res set of building blocks.

Consider the common complaint about current-day Lego blocks: "Legos used to be simple." You can say that it applies only to the functional aspect, shape, but I think it also applies to their visual aspect. I mean, how many special blocks does Hogwarts or Prince of Persia really need?

And, disregarding all of that, there's a significant portion of gamers out there who will pay in both money and loyalty when you evoke nostalgia, which Minecraft does via pixellated graphics.
"Mature" and "high quality code" are largely unrelated attributes. Given that CloudStack was developed as proprietary code this criticism seems unsurprising.
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Sorry for the late response --

The format I'm planning to use as the intermediate is basically just a restricted subset of HTML. I'm primarily targeting fiction texts with this format, so advanced formatting isn't generally necessary.
USING Rails is a breeze. Getting it INSTALLED is the nightmare.

One expects a learning curve starting any new language, but I prefer that to start AFTER I've got it installed.
Not discussed in the article but I have read elsewhere that advertisers also used the competitors name as the title of the advertisement. This is I believe the "misleading" part of of the breach of the laws.
I want something like this that is compatible with OSX and Ubuntu somehow.
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Heh. You don't know the grandparent poster, but I'm the callow jacknape. He's slagging off everyone in the world, I'm only pointing out that it might not be the world that's the problem. And he's the upvoted one, on this thread at least.

What's moral courage again? It's saying what's unpopular, because it's right. And it's right to note that the holier-than-thou who seek to lecture the world on all their sins (real and imagined) are generally self-important jackasses rather than people to be respected, let alone imitated.
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Solving the problem of interplanetary travel would indeed be a tough one. Especially in 72 hours. :)
No. The ships were launched in the 80's, and all the tech they contain is 16-bit. Presumably, there are more powerful computers out there, but they are advanced enough that you are certainly not going to do anything useful with them.

(Let's just ignore that the tech ran without issue and succesfully woke you up after 281*10^12 years.)

I find this actually really clever. I suppose the less programmatically inclined will trade new programs from the people building them.
I think it's good that they kept the graphics basic for a few reasons.

Firstly the game is written in Java and hogs enough CPU/RAM as it is.
If they had started making high quality assets they would have had to maintain that standard throughout which would have made it much more difficult to iterate quickly which is something that minecraft is all about.

I think of it like Lego , Lego kits are nowhere near as pretty or detailed as other proper model kits but they allow many different possibilities.
I don't think that YC is trying to identify teams that can create the maximum amount of value in 72 hours. They're looking for teams that will create the maximum amount of value over thousands of hours (or more).

It's not at all clear that the former correlates with the latter.
Thanks, we hope they'll at least give us something. Even if it is to send an iphone to Mars :)
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This really sounds like a game for hardcore programmers (16-bit emulation, "assembly in space" as h2s called it.) Minecraft is far more accessible: will this really gain nearly as much traction?
I look forward to someone building this CPU in Minecraft.
I hope this doesn't ship for a year or two. I'd like to get more work done first :)
A CTR expirement
I'm going to do a little test with users willingness to click unknown bit.ly links (Don't worry it sends you to my iTunes page). In one week I will publish the statistics of my little study.

Happy clicking!
Link:
http://bit.ly/Hcx23V
Very cool. Haven't ever delved into this kind of code. Got any pointers/tips for me? :)
You cannot really do code-generation when all the lines have meaningful differences. What you saw was very likely the most compact representation of the VM -- any other form would likely be just as bad.
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Heh, not for Levar Burto....whoa, did Levar Burton write this?