skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is actually a CA Historical marker for the site
from http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21522

NO. 836 PIONEER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LABORATORY – This is the original site of the laboratory and factory of Federal Telegraph Company, founded in 1909 by Cyril F. Elwell. Here, Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the three-element radio vacuum tube, devised the first vacuum tube amplifier and oscillator in 1911-13. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age. Location: In sidewalk, SE corner of Channing Ave and Emerson St, Palo Alto

I blogged about this in http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/11/05/steve-blank-on-secre... because Blank also anchored the start with HP.
Women 2.0 » Berkeley Pitch Mixer Makes Networking With Entrepreneurs Fun
How many times have you attended an entrepreneur focused event and felt drained afterwards? If you live in the East Bay you’re even more used to feeling drained, not only for the effort required to impress and introduce yourself to so many strangers, but afterward you probably had to drive across the Bay just to get back home before you had to get back to work in the morning! Doesn’t that sound exhausting? It is!
They are directly targeting the market that Point Inside is in. I'm curious why they did not just purchase them rather than building something that will need to gain traction?
Theoretically, businesses have the right to upload their floor plans. And, it's perfectly fine to draw your own and upload those.
This is probably only partially true. If the goal was really to confuse you, they would not put related products near each other (the cheese would be with the bananas, the milk would be with the dishwasher detergent, etc.) They would also rearrange the store every week, so that you wouldn't be able to learn where items are.

Honestly, I've never seen stores arranged for impulse buying except to have certain items promoted above others. Eye-level shelves, displays at the front of aisles, etc. Otherwise, the fruits and vegetables are together, the canned items are together, the milk and cheese are together, etc. Pretty much every grocery store I've ever been in has been laid out in approximately the same way.

So I'm worried that you may be propagating an urban legend.
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Basic quantum mechanics could be a high school subject. While solving the hydrogen atom might be out of their reach, some simple angular momentum operators and Clebsh-Gordan tables shouldn't be beyond the reach of a sophomore.
Why it's almost as if protecting IP rights actually is important to startups and developers.
To clarify: the clear English way to write that would be something like "Colliding passwords aren't a problem, because it's cheaper to search the password space anyway, so you can use MD5 there securely. But MD5 and SHA256 were designed to be cheap to compute, so they're easy to brute force. Use a password function designed to be expensive instead." Charging off down the jargon road can only complicate things. And doing so in a post about people being confused (!) about the subject is frankly hurting, not helping.
but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be

What the hell?

Are we judging content by URLs now? And engadget adds credibility? Last time I checked they merely copy/paste an excerpt and frame it with their ads. Are we talking about the same engadget?

Also whatever happened to: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."?

Guess where I quoted that from?
A conservative GC is easier to implement. No other reason.
Rehashing the famous story about Napoleon.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008061721542...
ClojureScript doesn't have all of Clojure's reference types (just atom, I think) nor STM (yet?) so yes, you do lose something. I would also guess that while (fib 36) might be faster, you would see different results for more realistic programs. Gambit Scheme's garbage collector might not be as strong as HotSpot, which I gather is quite good for long running apps. ClojureScript also doesn't have runtime eval, so you lose that too.

For command-line programs, this could be pretty rad, as is ClojureScript on V8. It's also just cool :)
This is great news. Last August there was an article on Phoronix about KDE hoping to migrate to Wayland for SC 4.9:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wayla...

Hopefully in 2-3 months, when SC 4.9 is slated for release, we'll have KDE on Wayland. X is aging and is not very lightweight. Wayland brings some nice innovations, like eliminating the need to switch between VTs to differentiate X sessions.

The FAQ is also worth reading:

http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
I wouldn't call users being used to give out their full AWS credentials "fortunate". I know that's not exactly what you were trying to see, but still the thought makes me shudder ...
"Not trying to hire Linus" is a bit of a straw-man. There are a lot of folks that fall between "Linus" and "have to actively look for a job". Probably tens of thousands of people in the programming field.

The important point that I'm getting at, however, is that the dynamics of hiring shift dramatically as you move up the skill / connectedness scale. As you move towards the higher percentages potential employees are not competing for employers, but employers are competing for hires. And the dynamics of hiring are dramatically different at that point. If you're designing heuristics for hiring, you don't want to create a low-pass filter, and I believe that synthetic puzzles are exactly that.

The point of raganwald's post was on the surprisingly high cost of false-negatives. What I'm postulating is that your suggestion is just yet another way to reduce the false-positives rather than a way to reduce the false-negatives.
I got out of the office at 11pm last night, and I moved to the other side of the charles river.... so, not much to damage :D
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Django[1] source is lovely, and they're pretty rigid about PEP rules, so it's a stellar example.

Flask[2] source code is also lovely.

[1] - https://github.com/django/django

[2] - https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask
Santana Row, in SJ, CA has theirs mapped in Bing, already, so presumably, it's not problematic, if the mall agrees.

http://binged.it/Hm8eN5

Or Roosevelt Field Mall, in NY

http://binged.it/I5TEGS
MI Republicans have ILLEGALLY passed over 96% of bills under “immediate effect”
O'Hare Airport had a map the last time I was there. I'm not sure we show indoor maps in the web interface, though; I can't find any, anyway.
Interesting, this means you can theoretically run Clojure code on the iPhone:

http://jlongster.com/legacy/scheme-iphone-apps.html
How would one disallow this? The DMCA doesn't cover "I don't want that information available".
Startups are a marathon not a sprint. It's so hard to appreciate that until you've been in that situation.
When Go gets a precise collector, simple implementations of this will work. Doing this kind of thing in Go requires importing the "unsafe" package, and any memory allocations done by code importing "unsafe" could be marked as possibly a pointer.

However, it would probably be possible to write code involving two packages, one of which does not import "unsafe", to lead to dangling pointers and eventual crashes. That is why you should be careful about code that imports "unsafe".
I'm going to take a wild guess that google has probably already made one for their own building.
If Twitter is marketing itself as an authorization service, then I am contradicting myself. It doesn't do that, however, and using it as a proxy for that is an unnecessary hoop for me to jump through.
Author here. I wrote this post in response to a confidential conversation I had with a friend about his company on the verge of going under.

Happy to answer any questions or feedback anyone has.
If you are asking for AWS credentials, you should really provide a IAM template that is preconfigured with all the "READ ONLY" access API endpoints that you require.
Man, any dutch corps or universities going to participate? I want to work on this!
You can always take the math and physics at UC after you are admitted. Universities tend to be pretty flexible about such things. You could also take them at a community college or other institution over a summer after you are admitted.

The first big thing is to get your associates and get to the university.

Good luck.
Exactly. There's nothing stopping OP from using this method to get a bunch of applicants while also using other networking methods to reach out to the current top talent.
"I had some poorly targeted ads, so a business that makes billions on actual CTR must be broken."
how do you know that i didn't, and this is just a diversion?
I'm already sold on ClojureScript. I can live without runtime eval, so if this is just another compile target I'm in.
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The Y Combinator (an explanation)
You need more than that. You need a server that regularly allocates large amounts of memory and then leaves them unreferenced so that the garbage collector can collect them. Then you also need the program to store data that you control, and to also keep references to that data--after all, if that data is collected, then the faux-pointers no longer pin the other allocations. Overall this does not sound like a common allocation pattern for servers.
Looks like I may finally get that decent, single-eye wearable display I've always wanted! I hope somebody makes them available for sub-$200.
Infinity Blade II Clash Mobs Update Revealed
So, the thing that always gets Haskell folks when dealing with an implementation (2) is that you can't get uniform data representation when dealing with things like arrays. It means you have to unbox things. Arguably, the situation is not much better in malloc land; if you malloc a large multiple of your object size, you're explicitly saying, "I want this to be unboxed", but by this point you've wandered into generics land.

(3) is annoying. Who likes 31-bit integers? Not I!
What are best practices for iOS universal release with pre-existing iOS apps?
I will be releasing a universal app next month and I already have iPad and iPhone apps in the store for the same app. What is the best way to kill one and have everyone from the other update to the new app?
Oh no, not Russia! not China! my government/media/neighbor told me they're Evil.

Let's keep the control to people like Lamar Smith. At least he's <insert bogus excuse with big words like "freedom" or "free speech">
Just to be clear, you're calling a multi-billion-dollar business completely broken because it showed you a few ads you didn't care about for a few hours?
Some thoughts on the new JOBS Act/Crowdfunding
1. It's probably a good time to start businesses that focus on doing due diligence on smaller companies/start-ups raising money. I imagine some sort of standard will prevail in a few years (think S and P ratings for start-ups).

2. I have a feeling a good chunk of investments won't be financially motivated, it'll be more like Kickstarter where people want to support companies they actually believe in. If a company is building something that would solve your problem, why not own a piece of it?

3. Start-ups will realize that investors aren't for them. I mean, how bad would you feel if you lost someone's grandmother's money? With Angels and VCs, you might feel bad, but they're big boys and can take care of themselves.

Care to disagree?
Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
I'd avoid monkey patching, it can confuse the programmer as to which module is being used. In a small program it's not a big deal but in large systems it can become an issue.
Bathroom scales cannot reliably measure body fat % from what I know. They try to measure impedence and it is affected by many factors - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysi...

10% is an extremely low body fat %. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage#Typical_bod...
That's not the same as Google making sure Google has permission to use them.

Standard AIA contract language allows the owner to utilize the plans to construct their project. The author (architect) retains copyright.
I'd assume, however, that a falsely requested (and implemented) takedown would expose the requester to be sued for damages.
My thoughs exactly.

If I'm contributing such stuff, I'll go with open street maps.
Apple patent suggests face unlock may come to the iPhone and iPad
Macy's New York, it appears flat in the web map, but works in Android, although I found it to be quite useless when actually within the store.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.750512,-73.988344&spn=0.00...
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Sorry, your registration procedure is a failure. Make a live-demo available right on the front-page.

Nobody in their right mind gives you their AWS-credentials just to get a glimpse at your product.
cool, link me to the dump and web interface so i can run my own!

/sarcasm (you never known)
What you're seeing is called retargeting. When you visit a site, they can cookie you. Then Google lets your serve up ads to those people you've cookied in the past. Sometimes companies do seem to be stalking you. I see ads for Storm on Demand (a hosting company) way too much.

Companies do this because they think someone who has been to their site and looked around is more likely to convert. It makes sense for them to spend some money getting you to return, than to get entirely new people. (Of course, this may or may not be true, but that's the feeling.)

I suspect Google especially uses retargeted ads on pages where there isn't a good inventory of ads related to the page. That is, they can't sell a good ad based on the content, so they'll sell based on who you are. I more often see retargeted ads (Hi Storm) on fairly lame pages.

Some companies seem to do this really well. Orvis will show you ads of specific things you were looking at in their catalog. It does tend to jog your memory, in a spooky sort of way.

It would be nice to have a "enough retargeting" button on the ad, so you could specify that you don't want to see more of these ads.

So their algorithm isn't broken, it is just annoying you in this case.
That's why DMCA takedown notices must be filed with an assertion, under penalty of perjury, that the request is legit (requestor is authorized to issue it, it is an infringement, etc).

Not perfect, but it does make a pretty big disincentive to being caught issuing fraudulent takedown notices.
yes I completely agree and understand what you mean because I know people who look athletic and don't only have incredible stamina but also unbelievable strength.
What I meant to say is that I don't want (and probably can't) look that athletic because I'm more of the bulky type (hate running, enjoy lifting weights). But I am sure many others do and many women and men find that attractive. I'm the last one to tell you how you should look and if you feel comfortable with how you look and feel that's awesome and you should stick to it. I just wanted to say that personally I did not find the end result appealing.
If you grew up in the bay then you should know that Asians and have plenty of opportunities amongst friends and around town to use languages other than English.

Then again, if you're white... you may not have been around during those times.
Viacom v. YouTube/Google Decision Set Aside
std.concurrency "is a low-level messaging API." The language provides low-level concurrency primitives. It is possible a higher level library providing "goroutines" might be made, though there is not effort or plan.
I've always found it a little depressing how many strength / fitness programs want to take the skinny, flexible guy and turn him into the Hulk, instead of taking the fat, inflexible guy and turning him into ... something other than fat and inflexible.
Diving into the linux networking stack
It isn't surprising at all that Linux is behind. Most linux graphic drivers are in bad state and are blacklisted by both Chrome and Firefox, I use linux by the way. As for iOS, Safari mobile doesn't support WebGL (iAds do), so neither are surprising.
My experience is the same. If I constantly change it up, I have no problems.

On weekends I try to hold to a more timezone specific schedule, but include odd naps at odd times to sort of keep the schedule of broken sleep.

One other aspect I've noticed is I used to feel more tired and people would always comment on how tired I looked. Now I feel much more awake and in the moment, although honestly I have no idea why this would matter.

I think I'm always kept at a constant state of having slept not all that long ago, even if it was a short period of time, and that helps? This is guessing.

The other aspect is, I try to keep my sleep intervals at an hour 30. so, 1:30, 3, 4:30 hours. Not sure if that has anything to do with it, but easier for me to wake up when I do that.
Why tech vendors fund patent 'trolls'
which is weird, because in the android maps application, SFO is completely filled in with a floor plan (and actually more detailed than the bing version, which appears limited to coarsely positioned rectangles for sections of the floor plan).

Is there some poor UI incantation you need to do to get this to appear on google maps?
Let's say you had all that information about me. What would you do with it?
Have you ever stopped to realize that there is a class of people who like solving problems like these that have a definite, deterministic solution but who are utterly incapable of shipping code or a working product?
Perhaps this is just another case where the Obama administration is "speaking in shorthand."

It sounds like the president is supporting SOPA, but in actuality he is speaking in some law professor dialect where words do not mean what they seem to mean.
Brain device gives Hawking hope of communicating
Head of the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) is appointed by Obama and confirmed by U.S. Senate.

The White House supports it because it is the White House.
Maybe that is a good thing.
Well what about the siesta? Or, before lighting, people more commonly had segmented sleep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

This seems to be a modern, social issue, not so much a physical one.
It greatly depends on what you call an A player. Linus is extremely talented and well known, but in some tiny organisations his actual programming talent may not be above average. Most programmers working for the NSA are probably about what you would expect at a large organization, but I suspect they have a few people that would rock your world.

And the thing is Google, Microsoft, and GM also have some amazing teams simply though blind luck. The kind of thing where a few friends all end up working for a manager they like on some interesting little problem.

Some people have only worked on such teams and don't understand why so many projects fail, and others have never even seen them and wonder how complex software ever get's written. But, so few people have a truly understand the range from inspiring though dysfunctional people and teams out there that talk of A, B, and C coders / rock stars becomes almost meaningless.

PS: One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day, he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. http://www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/Humour/R... or the modern equivalent http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
People in glass houses should not throw stones, smokinn.com. However, silly is unimportant. The host/domain primarily just needs to be memorable. Secondarily, it must be entered easily, not offensive, not unrelated to the subject content, and easily found via search. Then it is "good".
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It makes sense in certain situations. For example, if you're using non-blocking i/o with an event loop (using gevent or similar) then as soon as you have one blocking operation, performance suffers dramatically.

Monkeypatching gevent's socket globally allows you to use libraries and drivers like pymongo off the shelf, and they will be non-blocking by default.
Cam balkon
> Without a large community behind them, they will slowly fade away like D did.

This is a rather strange assessment. The history of "successful" languages has been a mixture of "cool jump onboard" and "who can stay alive the longest to get a community." D is in the latter camp.

It seems to me, unreasonable to expect a language to be coming out the gate with guns blazing. People expect Nukes now!
Amazon experimenting with front-lit Kindle display
Yeah, that's completely off (it would be a more apt description of the distinction between multiple cores and hyperthreading).

The important characteristic of quantum computation is not that it's faster or more parallel than classical computation, but that it's a generalisation of classical computation. The same way that classical mechanics describes a subset of quantum mechanics rather than disjoint phenomena, all current classical CPUs are technically "quantum" CPUs (the best kind of quantum CPUs!).

So, what does this mean?

Well, for all the software we have today, and for almost everything we know how to code today, absolutely nothing; in fact, most of what we can do on classical computers will be slower simply because it will be quite some time before a quantum computer is anywhere near as well-engineered as, say, a Core i7 – especially when you take into account that the properties of quantum mechanics make this engineering not only different but also significantly more difficult.

What we do get from the computational paradigm shift, however, is a broader set of operations which allow for a broader set of algorithms.

Take Grover's algorithm (the one mentioned in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grovers_algorithm#Algorithm_ste...

If you understand the notation, what you'll see is a series of linear operations (quantum gates) being applied to vectors (qubits (classical bits are scalars)) in a quantum circuit. These can all be used to describe any operation which would be performed on, say, an x86 core (albeit more verbosely), but can also take advantage of quantum mechanical properties to manipulate non-classical information (which gets complicated to discuss).

For the canonical example of how this can significantly change computation as we know it, see Shor's algorithm, which speeds up prime number factorisation from sub-exponential time to polynomial time, and thus could potentially break RSA encryption if we had a practical quantum computer): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm

Aside from that, I'm sure people much smarter than I am could go on in technical depth about how, despite not really being an advancement of mythical proportions in and of itself, this new class of algorithms would be able to revolutionise areas like search, machine learning, physical/biological/chemical simulation, and so on.
That the original commenter is pro-piracy does not follow from pg having voiced an opinion on copyright. Claiming as much only serves to mask the problems with these bills. Perhaps you meant to limit your statement on wanting more copyright infringement to pg?
Actually, the code sample in the grandparent comment obfuscates the memory address by subtracting 1. Even a conservative GC will be confused in this case...
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