skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the idea doesn't matter, the method of getting the idea should matter even less. What's important is whether the team can a) respond to feedback on their idea and b) code quickly and effectively to put that response into action.
I can't judge the MEP's intent, but my best guess is that tobiasu has it right on the money when he says it's "toothless feel-good" stuff.
There are several blog posts about deploying with Juju, I think this was just an announcement about the Charm Store going live. There are some posts on http://cloud.ubuntu.com/tag/juju/ and examples at http://juju.ubuntu.com/
Extreme pressure could force hydrogen into a high-temperature superconductor
Google Chrome network internals chrome://net-internals/
Hidden feature in Google Chrome : AWESOME !!
One word, Dwolla.

It depends on your startup and what it does if iowa is a good choice. Funding isnt easy no matter where you live,congrats!
I'm just hoping slimming down memory usage won't go at the expense of speed... my systems have 16GB of RAM - I want Firefox to use as much memory as possible to speed up my experience. So if slimming down FF will make my disk trash more, that's the wrong direction to take.
I wish I had time to write a more thorough response right now, but I just did a short test with Debian sid and its GCC 4.6.3 on a modern Xeon machine under Xen (so, not the best performance testing device, so take this with some salt).

At -O9, the compiler optimizes a masks-and-shifts swap of a uint64_t into a bswapq instruction identical to the one emitted by the GCC-specific __builtin_bswap64; this can be coupled with an initial memcpy into a temporary uint64_t. Loading individual bytes and shifting them in emits a pile of instructions that take up 16 times as much code space and ~35% runtime penalty (2.7 s versus 2 s). This is measured in a loop decoding a big-endian integer into a native uint64_t and writing it to a volatile extern uint64_t global, 2^30 iterations, function called through a function pointer.

Aligned versus unaligned pointers seem to make no real difference on this CPU, using a static __attribute__((aligned(8))) uint8_t[16] and offsets of 0 (aligned) and 5 (unaligned) from the start of the array.

I also tried a function with the explicit cast-shift-or that uses an initial memcpy into a local uint8_t[8] in case the compiler was doing something strange with regard to memory read fault ordering as compared to the explicit memcpy in the two bswapq-generating versions. This resulted in some very "interesting" code that shoves the local array into a register and then very roughly masks and shifts all the bits around, at about a 100% penalty from the bswapq functions. :-(

If anyone's interested in the details, reply and I'll try to put them somewhere accessible, though it may take a little while.
Styli present a smaller "meat pad" area to the projected capacitive screen so either the controller or the host driver need to be adjusted for that. Apple may have also written their drivers to reject touches that small to avoid accidental extra fingers or hovers from being detected.

If Samsung's pixelsense technology (CCD built into the LCD) takes off, then you could just have the stylus be a passive IR emitter and the thing would work with a point of any size.
In the case of my country's government (or Chile's), you can get a grant for your startup without having prior contact.

However, in my country at least, I do know they give more weight to applications from people they know (I don't know how, the others might get processed later or whatever, or they skew in their favor).

So, you might get funded without contacts, but it's less likely (I guess you have to be outstanding in some sense, either killer business plan or credentials).
The Galaxy Note stylus uses Wacom technology. I don't know if it qualifies as "active" but if you say that it makes the phones bigger and requires bigger batteries then that fits what I know about the Note.

edit: here's a video with someone using the pen from an HP/Wacom "pen-abled" touchsmart tm2 convertable tablet computer with the Galaxy Note:

http://youtu.be/IKeb3j2K4WM

Even the pencil tip eraser works.
IANAL, but it sounds like Facebook's own TOS require them to close the account of users who have given away their password, whether to an employer, spouse, friend, or anyone else. Obviously Facebook would be killing its' advertising profits with that course of action, given the number of accounts that would purportedly need to be closed.

Asking for access to a prospective employee's Facebook seems like asking for access to their car trunk or their home bathroom. Why don't companies try this?

Is your Facebook account your personal property? What about your information after you've placed it on Facebook?
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It's still surprising that arxiv is that high up. You'd think most people would cite the definitive publications, not the preprints at arxiv?

Anyway, given that in some fields _everything_ that's written goes to arxiv, arxiv will [by definition][1] have a very high h-index. The thing is, the h-index was conceived to compare individuals, not journals.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025
If this is happening in Firefox, it's usually because the JS file couldn't be parsed correctly. In my experience this is usually because of partial/interrupted download of the code.
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So it went from 150-200 MB to 350 MB? That's still too low I believe. People shouldn't worry about their storage days into using their device. A lot of regular folks won't even know how to use App2SD. It's silly that at this point users still have to ask developers why their app is so big at 10 MB and why it isn't just 5 MB, or whatever. This really constrains developers, and it's not fair to them.
I guess this is one benefit of a NoSQL database...
You can teach kids programming.
If they learn to make small games their parents might pay you some money.

And material you create while teaching kids can later be converted into book form and published.
It's things like this seatbelt comparison that leave me scratching my head about politicians sometimes. How can you even argue with people who lack the most basic appreciation of the issue at hand?
Why all the fuss? Photo sharing/uploading and fancy camera effects, there are dozens of apps already :o

I mean (from the frontpage):
"Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too – it's as easy as pie. It's photo sharing, reinvented."

All that's been easy enough on Android with the sharing/intent system for years...
Random thoughts:

* O2, as a company, would sell more of their products if more people worked at home

* "claimed" is an interesting word choice in "one-third claimed that they actually got more work done"

* This may say more about the working environment at Slough than the advantages of working from home (what would be the US equivalent of Slough I wonder....)

* This was "a pilot that required them to work from home for one day" - not one day a week, not for extended periods, but for one day...
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They still have a way to go to hit "pretty." Sadly, it's a lot harder to measure than "fast" or "slim". I wish I had the language to describe why Safari's font rendering is so much better than Firefox's; it's "visually obvious", but I just don't have the vocabulary or expertise to analyze.
I heard somewhere long ago "double the estimate and add a unit". Two weeks ==> Four months.
Yep, I used to have a few problems with my addons. Various windows would stop appearing or only partially appear, tree-style-tabs would have funny behaviour. I would assume it was because I was running the latest FF and the add-on hadn't caught up yet...

However, simply creating a new profile solved all my problems. Now, any time I run into an issue, I just create a new profile.

I know some people will simply suggest switching browser, but nothing handles hundreds or thousands of tabs better than firefox, and I'm not looking to change how I browse the web just to go easy on my browser...!
OK. I feel better now thinking it's just a useless law that will change nothing.
Seems to be the idea behind http://quantifiedself.com (in case you haven't heard of it before).
Yes, that is the money!

The stylus looks exactly like the stylus from the HP tx2500 I owned. I don't actually know how large Wacom's technology is nor how much power it draws - I assumed phone manufacturers weren't including the best touchscreen technology for a good reason.
me and two of my friends developed battleship game, it have 60k+ downloads in three months.
money is low, about $120 total for three months
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LILkillaWA...
Rob J Hyndman has a very nice review on Google scholar metrics [1]. Here is his ending quote:

In sum­mary, the h5-index is sim­ple to under­stand, hard to
manip­u­late, and pro­vides a rea­son­able if crude mea­sure of
the respect accorded to a jour­nal by schol­ars within its
field.

While jour­nal met­rics are no guar­an­tee of the qual­ity of a
jour­nal, if they are going to be used we should use the
best avail­able, and Google’s h5-index is a big improve­ment
on the ISI impact factor.

[1] http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/google-scholar-metrics/
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Nonsense. As such tools cannot be used to find and patch vulnerabilities. And even if banned, real hackers can code such apps themselves, while sysadmins are not that skilled and will be stuck with no weapons at all.
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"making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful."

We implemented this where I work many years back, and as long as you are keeping on top of the errors this isn't a problem.

If you are having to buffer your errors before sending them off to be logged because you are noticing a drain on your resources, you're doing it wrong.
There is a preference icon left-docked on the 'description of work'-section. It allows you to change currency to: EUR, GBP, and USD.
How to get people for your startup (and compete with MegaCorps)
The government most likely. There are several places in this world where startups, and businesses in general, almost drown in free money like this. The downside to this is that in order to get this free money, you first have to go through a senseless amount of paperwork, bureaucracy and bullshit. But, to be honest, it's a small price to pay for what you get.

Northern Ireland for example is a startup paradise. InvestNI, the government body in charge of giving away free money, recently had to give back a whooping £39m (that's $62m!) because it couldn't find enough businesses to give the money to quickly enough.

Sadly, many entrepreneurs in these places have never experienced what doing a startup in the "real-world" is like and they don't realise what an incredibly competitive advantage these grants give them. So instead of leveraging this opportunity, many spend most of their time whining and complaining about the paperwork and bureaucracy involved.
"The lottery is a tax on hope" - David Mitchell
Context:

For those who are puzzled (as I was) as to what this CPU is for, I found this:

> Notch's next game, 0x10c, "will allow players to create their own spaceship in the far, far future of an alternate universe ... More exciting - especially for those versed in programming languages - is the ship's computer. It's a fully-functional 16-Bit CPU that controls the entire vessel..." http://www.dealspwn.com/notchs-space-trading-game-real-calle...

Also:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/4/2924594/minecraft-creator-n...

http://0x10c.com/
Yeah, protocol buffers are a bit heavyweight, a bit harder to read than a language feature could be, and add an extra dependency. That's why I don't necessarily disagree, though the reason I asked is it occurred to me that any time I have personally needed to deal with byte ordering has been code that can easily justify a heavyweight solution (unlike regex's which end up in tiny scripts that may only be run once) and they have also all been places where being able to easily interact with with the same data in other languages would have been super useful, as would being able to easily add to the format without a versioning headache.

... of course, now that I write that I realize a language feature could actually provide all of that, too.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
I don't think most startups and medium sized require that you have a CS degree. Find an environment that is appealing to you or create one.
Some options:

Apply to a couple startups even just as an intern to see whether that floats your boat.

Find a good(!) co-founder and start a company.
or
If you feel that the problems are deeper than just not wanting to work in a traditional environment and you have a bad outlook on live seek advice of a therapist.
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Here is my concern: that the EU will make an exemption for security researchers/white-hat hackers, but only those recognised by a certain qualification or professional body. Governments around the world already mandate professional licenses for many industries, and IT is so critical that it's only a matter of time until we see a 'License to Code'.
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Please note that you can call assembly code from Go easily.

The runtime needs to break the abstractions Go provide, it needs to break Go's memory model, it needs to be aware of the garbage collector, it needs to be aware of stacks, stack growths and switch them, and it needs to do other things: http://research.swtch.com/goabstract.

C was chosen as the pragmatical choice, they could have done it all in assembly (various bits are written in assembly), but C is a portable assembler.
I'm a self-taught programmer, and don't know much about CPUs. Would someone mind putting this into relatively plain english, I'm quite curious to know the practical implications of this. Can we expect to see Python running on it in the near future for example :) ?
I am about to leave a well paying job to go live in my Campervan and travel around Europe and Morocco. The more work I can do on the side while away means the longer I can stay on the road.

I am quite interested in helping teach or working with voluntary organisations if I can make enough money for Diesel and food.

It is both exciting and scary at the same time.
They didn't adapt Android user interface guidelines. Example, menu and search buttons are useless; not using share intents, etc..
Here's a crazy idea: start working on your startup now and try to gain traction. Apply for YCombinator again next season and show them that you've actually hit on something that's becoming popular. This is actually how a lot of the most successful Y-Combinator alums got in themselves.
I don't know why you got downvoted. Your idea is valid and people may not have realized that htonl has friends an relatives that totally make the issue of the article moot.

#define _BSD_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <endian.h>

uint16_t htobe16(uint16_t host_16bits);
uint16_t htole16(uint16_t host_16bits);
uint16_t be16toh(uint16_t big_endian_16bits);
uint16_t le16toh(uint16_t little_endian_16bits);

uint32_t htobe32(uint32_t host_32bits);
uint32_t htole32(uint32_t host_32bits);
uint32_t be32toh(uint32_t big_endian_32bits);
uint32_t le32toh(uint32_t little_endian_32bits);

uint64_t htobe64(uint64_t host_64bits);
uint64_t htole64(uint64_t host_64bits);
uint64_t be64toh(uint64_t big_endian_64bits);
uint64_t le64toh(uint64_t little_endian_64bits);
Like you, I was once in the same position. Extremely poor, I literally hand drew business cards and cut them out of cardboard and walked around the city to hand-deliver them. This helped as someone eventually gave me a chance, but I'm sure it's because he felt sorry for me. I had no experience and learnt how to code from making free photo copies of the pages in the visual basic 6 book at the local public library.

Where I'm from (South Africa), internet was expensive and not accessible to all at the time.

Some advice for your situation:

- You are at the bottom, your only way from there is up - this is something to be excited about.

- Fake it until you make it. When meeting potential clients, talk the talk and do the walk later.

- You'd be surprised at how many SME's need IT services and don't know it yet :) You can simply walk in the door and have a chat to them.

- Put your ego away and always be aware that in order to eat, you need to sell. Selling is actually pretty simple if have a bit of confidence.

- Look after your laptop with your life, it's your key to getting out of your situation.

- If you can write code, it most likely means that you can solve problems logically - this doesn't only apply to coding, figure out where you can use that and make a bit of money.

- Don't be afraid of charging for your time. Poverty is also a mindset, as soon as you realize that, you are one step closer to getting past it.

- Just ask for help. You are not alone and most people will be sympathetic when they are asked.

- You don't need to prove yourself to anyone in order to survive, simply do what you do best and the rest will follow.

Goodluck!
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Yes, please add it to your website. Or even better to your HN profile page.

I'm in Iowa too and I wanted to give you some non-public, very specific (and hopefully helpful) feedback.
Product == market
I guess it depends on what you mean by "ready". For instance, Go 1.0 was released just last week, but people have been building useful things with it for a long time now. I suppose it depends on how much instability you're willing to put up with in order to use the shiny new thing.

As someone who follows the project closely, I do think that almost all of the core concepts will be present by 0.4 or 0.5 at the latest (fingers crossed), which would probably be the best time for eager early adopters to dive in. Also consider that Mozilla will be using Rust for experimental prototype browser engine implementations soon, likely even before 0.3 is released.

But if you're looking for some semblance of stability, I'm not sure what advice I can give beyond "wait for 1.0"--which has no definite timeframe. The Rust devs don't even schedule minor releases more than two in advance, so Rust might jump directly from 0.4 to 1.0, or from 0.9 to 1.0, or from 0.367 to 1.0. But don't worry, when they do make the jump, I'm sure you'll hear about it on HN. :P

If you'd prefer to track the project milestones yourself, check out the Github issues page[1] and browse the currently scheduled milestones from the dropdown in the left column.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues?milestone=&sort=c...
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That is exactly my point. Feature-wise, the bar was not particularly high for competitors.

Yet they were able to let the Android product gestate for over a year and when they finally flip the switch they pick up a million users in the first 24 hours.
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It's not even such a "similar concept". SL's "resources" are just... money. Real money. And it doesn't really have any inherent "gameplay". It's a pure sandbox -- with dollars for grains of sand.

Notch is talking about real resource management issues, combat as an inherent part of the game, random AI encounters, etc..

This is a game that happens to share some SL-like properties. SL is just a framework. Arguably that makes SL more interesting in some ways, but it's also a lot harder to "get" something out of SL other than pure socialization.
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>I came up with an interesting idea — a missing bag.

I would assume that Lego precisely measures the individual bags, not the entire set. What the author said about a missing bag pretty much confirms my suspicion of this. They must have some QA measure to determine the number of bags included, but weighing the entire box will result in less precision than the individual bags. Not to mention, if it does show up as less weight, the entire box needs to be checked out, not just one bag.
I'm one of those 1m, but just to see what all the fuss was about. To be honest I'm still a little bemused as to what unique problem it solves?

Maybe sharing of photos on iOS was a chore, but this is built in to Android by design.

The filters are all rather "meh", not especially outstanding or creative.

It's really frustrating because normally if I don't use or even like a product and I can still rationalize and see why others might. But I just feel like I'm missing out on "getting it" with this.
None of the other apps have quite nailed it like they have though. Its hard to see their considerable userbase going elsewhere for this type of app going forwards.
Interesting idea, and the time is right with Kickstarter achieving some of it's largest funded projects yet with all the video game developer hype as of present. I hope it will contain aspects of a self exploratory nature as well about their own attempts at crowd sourcing funding. I'm interested in seeing what other methods there are to raise large sums of money via crow funding other than Kickstarter.
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This release has triggered an interesting reaction:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/iphone-users-disgust...
This is really just an example of lawmakers not understanding what they're legislating. "hacking tools" are also known as 'development tools'.

This sort of proposal is only made when completely oblivious about the operation of computers/the Internet/two-side coins.
I disagree. They could have gone and shot a bunch of dogs and posted pictures on the internet. By your measurement 'many more people are already talking about them...'. Is this example extreme? Sure, but the point is that the measurement is not if people are talking about them, but if they get closer to their goals.

How can they take advantage of this to help them? The first step is do a 72 hour hackathon on any problem and produce results. Then come back, and say, "Show HN: We did the PG challenge anyway!"
I like that they added 'chosen'. Wish there was some kind of official Bootstrap 'add-on' or recipes repository.
Time to start denying you have a Facebook account all together, hook it up to a specially made email account for Facebook, don't add a profile picture & don't add friends from work to your network I guess.. Where's the world coming to?!

I might be mistaken - but doesn't this break the United Nations Agreements on Human Rights?
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Das megatron.ch Ferrite- Um dies fortwährend zu gewährleisten, wird ein faires und offenes Verhalten angestrebt, aber auch erwartet. Bereits innerbetrieblich soll durch die schlanke Organisationsstruktur und ein gegenseitiges Entlasten Ferrite, Permanentmagnete
Converting TOR packets into Skype-shaped UDP packets is an interesting idea. What does this do to latency? (isn't it a bad idea in general to run TCP over UDP?)

Now that everyone will be eyeing Skype packets even more closely, which Internet services will TOR mimic next?
This is my view on this matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/04/04/arts/JP-SAGMEIS...
Meanwhile there's the disruption to your life while you're being collaterally investigated, until/if you finally get a judge to say "Oh, right, we weren't supposed to be investigating you. Our bad."
Okay so I'm just a simple PHP dev, would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction to start learning what I'm going to need to write for the in game CPU, so I can try and get a jump on things?

(0x10c.stackexchange one day?)