skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating, especially in the light of the Google Java issues right now- the performance graphs are just the icing on the cake.

Mono has traditionally had a reputation as being a lot slower than .NET- perhaps that isn't the case any more either? It would be great to see some independent third party figures on this.

It's funny that the MS created C# is one of very few languages that lets you make native apps in iOS, Android and WP.
How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook
The optimal price is obtained by maximizing price * number clients.
Sorry but I hate this.

Some people at my work do this with credit cards.

e.g. Everyone at the table puts a CC in a hat and you ask the server to pick one and that person pays.

It's pretty much stopped me from going to lunch with that group.
How We Added Time Travel to Paperless Post
Sorry, this is just a shameless ripoff of 37Signals and Rework. This whole "you only have to work a few hours a day" philosophy will only take you so far. That's just simple economics. If something is that easy to build it means there are very low barriers to entry. When there are very low barriers to entry, profits eventually get squashed to zero. The only exception to this is when you are first to market with something unique. It is virtually impossible to be first to market with something unique in the bloated project management saas space. Actually, this site is a perfect example- from what I can tell they went from nothing to competing with 37Signals in one year.
Looking forward to hearing the features the "database plan at or near this price point" will have. We would love to be able to connect to our database with other apps besides the main one - even if it ended up somewhere between the $200/month plan and the $15/month - it would be incredibly useful.
2000 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 mules through pulleys and levers. 500 years ago, machines did the work of 1000 mules through gears and belts. 100 years ago, machines did the work of 50 mules through steam and rail. 50 years ago, machines did the work of no mules through internal combustion.

Some people's marginal product just isn't enough to make employing them more useful than turning them into glue. In a metaphorical sense.
Diablo 3 to allow multi-region online play
Thanks for the comments. I created gzipWTF after being frustrated with not having an easy way to check for it. There was the Yslow firebug plugin, but that required some installing, and still I had to dig through to find out about gzipping.

I agree this would be useful as a browser extension, but I wanted to make it more accessible to simply anyone. There is an underlying goal of raising awareness of the importance of site speed.

I'm very happy and humbled to see people are finding this a useful tool, and will be doing my best to update it with future releases. We're also working on a possible paid version that will include an api. Perhaps another developer looking to help build an extension could leverage this?

Tyler/
gzipWTF
Then you should put your blog on your profile :)
Since we're comparing anecdotes, friend #1 went to Thailand for eye surgery ($5k vs a gajillion dollars), friend #2 went to India for Lasik (sic?).

Yes, like all other systems, universal health care has problems. Canada definitely has a shortage of specialists in rural areas.

So what? The USA has plenty of shortages.

If you desire "honesty" in a policy debate, I encourage you to start with the widely published, thoroughly vetted, and oft cited comparative studies. If you're feeling very daring indeed, and want to learn something, you could start with google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=health+care+costs+per+capita

http://www.google.com/search?q=life+expectancy+by+country

TL;DR: Canadians spend 1/2 per person and live 2 years longer.
Plus the cost of a server than can run Java applications that like memory, but yeah.
I must agree with the nullable one. Let's say the biggest failure that I haven't heard anyone else talk about.

As per your #2, that's what I was hinting at except that the implementation effort of final vs. non-final is negligible, thus making it harder to excuse as far as I'm concerned.
Not directly -- but will definately look into it.
Thank you for your contribution. It's great to see a giant, who's gained so much from open source contribute back in a significant and meaningful way! For those interested it appears it was open sourced under the "New BSD license."
Kickstarter rejects synergy aircraft.
Aside from all of the other possibly insulting remarks from the post, this particular one caught my eye:

"And a few girlfriends slept alone in their beds
While visions of exits danced in their boyfriends’ heads"

I'm male, but let me tell you that the above statement infuriates me as it perpetuates the stereotype that women are not entrepreneurs. I'm sure I'm not the only one who believes that my better half would be wildly more successful than I would be if she had an inkling to do a startup.

To reiterate, this form of sexism needs to stop.
Beta test an Android & iOS 3D Space game
Email test@door-6.com to play Atmosphere on iOS. We'll need your Device ID #.
Facebook Content Published Via Third-Party Tools Suffers 67% Fewer Likes
+1 for WordPress, I just applied as a Systems Wrangler a day or two ago (Sean P.)

Let me know if you want to talk!
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> buying what one would typically think of as a self help book.

Screw that. Carnegie's book is just like any other hacking book, except the OS is humans, the API is social interactions. It's not a manual, and is more in the vein of The Art of Hacking.

Seriously, worth reading.
Glad you're already getting it, but for everyone else reading:

It's not a self help book in the sense of helping out awkward people fake being less awkward. It's a classic on how to build relationships and should be part of every good business school curriculum. There's loads of good stuff in there that help you regardless of where you're at. I never hesitate to recommend it to friends who are looking to improve- whether they're already natural pros or introverts who have never put themselves out there before. PG recommends it too if that helps: http://paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html
Are you still on Play 1.2.x ? What do you think about Play 2?

(I personally would prefer Play! to just try to be the perfect Rails-like experience in Javaland, instead of something much bigger).
The Grand Challenges of the 21st Century [pdf]
Good reading for anyone who enjoyed Graham's "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" post. See the "What If?" appendix.
not sure that C# is the answer either, given that microsoft is trying to build a nest in the mobile space. that said, nice work.

poses an interesting question though: if google had to or wanted to switch platforms/languages, which might they choose?
And yet I felt the gaming I tried on mobiles and tablets constricted to poking and flailing with too little feedback, which was fine for slower stuff and puzzle games (and I can enjoy those, but they aren't all I really want). Until, that is, I hooked up a PS3 controller via bluetooth. Now I'm back to actually enjoying some racing games and replaying GTAIII just for the fun heck of some comfortably controlled nostalgia. A thousand game flowers blooming is nice and all, but it would be nice, imho, to start having some convergence toward good/better controller(s) (where good maps, for me, to something where form follows function relative to the shape of human hands and how I have lots of fingers and they still train moderately well to precisely timed coordinated actions using tactile feedback... oh and hooks into lots of games/platforms).
Ask HN: Canadians, is Rogers throttling your connection?
Lately it seems my internet service has been cut dramatically. Nearly all downloads are slowed to 100KB/s. I used to be able to pull down 2MB/s, it's definitely a large drop (20X). I can no longer play Youtube videos without halting to buffer every 20 seconds.

The Canadian internet situation seems to now be in very dire shape. We have a duopoly in control over all communications in the country, and they are now throttling down our connections while increasing our bills, and not improving (even decreasing) our service. I have been at a 95GB/mo cap for over 5 years now.

I blame the Canadian government and the CRCT for this situation. The telecommunications industry in Canada is a public cartel that clearly does not have users' quality of service in mind. The government is clearly working toward tightening controls and maximizing profits for Rogers and Bell. I just wonder when this madness will end?
That is the less humanist view, but I do agree with you. I just don't believe that route is evolutionarily sound.
Do those benchmarks suggest that XobotOS is faster for those metrics than vanilla Android? That seems like a very large performance gain, and I already wonder what the performance on a device would be like.
New clean Google SERP design?
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Interesting, but there's not a single mention of memory usage impact. Dalvik in particular makes some fairly severe tradeoffs to reduce memory usage.

OTOH, I've often wondered if those tradeoffs are actually worth it in the end. This may just be demonstrating how weak/slow the Dalvik VM actually is.
No, this is not true. Autodiff != numeric diff.

While we do support numeric differentiation, we don't suggest you use it. What we have is automatic differentiation, which is a technique to take exact derivatives without resorting to symbolic differentation.

Check out he jet.h file which is the core implementation of this:

http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/source/browse/include/...

The header comment has a nice description of autodiff.

In summary, Ceres supports three ways to compute derivatives:

(1) Automatic differentiation (easiest, fastest, most accurate)

(2) Numeric differentiation (easy, but worse convergence and hazardous)

(3) User-supplied jacobian (use a pen and paper then implement the jacobian for your residual manually)
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The article covers that, to some extent:

Unlike Sun with Java, Microsoft submitted C# and the .NET VM for standardization to ECMA and saw those standards graduated all the way to ISO strong patent commitments. The .NET framework is also covered by Microsoft’s legally binding community promise.

It's strange- with the work Xamarind has been doing, C# is one of the few language choices you have to go cross-platform and native- MonoTouch does iOS, MonoDroid does Android, and MS themselves do Windows Phone. I've not used any of these extensively so can't vouch for them, but it's an interesting development.
Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook Billionaire, Shuns Luxury For Startup Life
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Very cool. I am definitely going to check out CSS3 Pie if I go down that route. Thanks!
Mono is useful on its own, even if Microsoft "backs away" from encouraging projects like Mono to exist.
Where’s Zuckerberg’s Facebook organ donor status?
> I'm male, but let me tell you that the above statement infuriates me as it perpetuates the stereotype that women are not entrepreneurs. I'm sure I'm not the only one who believes that my better half would be wildly more successful than I would be if she had an inkling to do a startup.

Can you spot the irony in this statement?
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Had a similar issue with a Facebook recruiter, who was terribly unprofessional.
Some great suggestions. I am thinking that I will postpone the debugging and just put some sort of message for IE 8 and older browser users for now. Since I am just starting out, it shouldn't be that big of a deal and I can figure out a solution for the older browser people later. Thanks for the feedback.
But most of those black boxes only cover actions of the vehicle with said box installed.

With the amount of data required for self-driving cars, the entire situation could be recorded - things external to the car. It would be like the airplane black box, but for all the vehicles in close proximity too.
Samsung #1, Apple as a mobile carrier + tons of BlackBerry 10 news
Why the "Open Data Movement" is a Joke
OpenBSD 5.1 released
From the link, it seems to be :<
I was reading the wikipedia entry about C# a few days ago and was surprised to see the following bits:

"As of December 2010, no ECMA and ISO/IEC specifications exist for C# 3.0 4.0, and 5.0."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)

Does this mean newer syntax updates won't make it to Mono? or not as open as it used to be in terms of patent and copyright?
The worst part is that there was no Linda at the company.
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I wonder how often extortion occurs online as people share self-generated, sexually explicit media. I read something similar last year about Craigslist casual encounters, albeit in that case the extortion was perpetrated for financial gain. My guess would be that it is much more common than is acknowledge. The scammer exploits an inherently emotional and irrational process to gain leverage over a truly unsuspecting victim.
We used phph all the time in chem classes...funny no one ever mentioned that. Though with a group of high school students, perhaps it was for the better. Nice to know, thanks.
Cracking the Computer Code
Are you making a suggestion for how it should look or have some inside look at a future design. In either case, nothing earth shattering.
Standards take time, the ISO spec is typically 2-3 years behind the current product.

But cheer up, the ECMA team just updated the VM spec a couple of months ago and the committee is resuming work on new features.

We are all pretty psyched about the next steps for the ECMA standards.

As for Mono, we already have C# 5 and many of the new class library features. Having two independent implementations helps coming up with a better standard.
Agree, I'm just being honest about my knee-jerk reaction. I'm not defending it as logical.
I guess Google did make the wrong choice back then. I certainly prefer C# over Java any day, even by the most basic test like "language features". Using Mono would've certainly resulted in _less_ fragmentation than they have with Dalvik today.
The only VPN I know that explicitly guarantees no logging is the Swedish vpntunnel.se

They operate many nodes, and they tell you that due to data retention laws in the EU and USA, your traffic with them or any other provider will be logged for a period of time no matter what anyone says otherwise.... except if you use their Swedish endpoints because, apparently, Sweden has no and is subject to no data retention laws (yet).
Roll yourself a password
If your product needs zero rework for each sale (and scales easily), many customers is the obvious way. If it requires a sales process (even if it's as simple as signing a contract), less customers (paying more) is the way.

Personally, I prefer the "less customers" approach. I find it much easier to pleas everyone and feel like I'm not "working for free" when "everyone" is a relativelly small group and the payback is still high
As far as I can tell, most consumers will happily jettison the 'personal touch' in pursuit of lower prices. (See: Walmart)

The coldly efficient robot nurse who can handle all the mechanical tasks but doesn't have human compassion will be cheaper and thus wildly preferred by anyone paying for health care. And that goes double when government/corporate/payment indirection leads to a lack of real choice by the direct consumer of health care.

Similarly as soon as robots can match an $8 haircut (and those are nothing special), they'll destroy the low-end of grooming.

Teaching has a fair shot; it's not generally acceptable to pursue reduced education costs in a vacuum. But I wouldn't underestimate the for-profit schooling industry's ability to selectively report and lobby their way into pitching robot teachers as the key to more effective education.
This would have been so useful years ago. I think it was 1996 or so. Most of my friends were still in college but I had already had my startup running. It was early enough in the dot com era that my business was designed to make money, so I had a decent amount of cash in comparison to my universally impoverished university buddies.

Anyhow, my best friends were throwing this weekend house party where all the local freaks, geeks, and hipsters would be in attendance. So when my best friend called me to convince me to come in for the party that weekend, for whatever reason, I had this dumb idea. Perhaps this was a harbinger of the pre-dot-com opulence to come and the idea, of course, was on a much smaller scale but nevertheless, for no reason whatsoever except that I had for the first time in my life a bunch of cash burning a hole in my pocket, I suggested we get a mariachi band for the party. My friend looked into it. He found a group. He told me the amount for the basic band. I forget what was going to cost $250 extra to bring along as a musician (maybe an extra trumpet) but it all seemed very worth it. We needed the proper instrumentation represented.

When the band arrived with the party in full swing, they were pretty freaked out, since, this was not the normal kind of gig they played; no, not collage parties. So the woman dealing with the thing asked for half the cash up front. She also upped the price a bunch from the initial agreed upon amount but I didn't care. I was really just looking forward to seeing them play near the tapped keg around a bunch of mystified acquaintances. Now if I could have only gotten this done for $100, I would have filled the whole house with competing acts that night. Great work Über and thanks for bring back a fond memory.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA
IPv6 NAT (or, more precisely, PAT/NAPT) is pretty much identical to it's IPv4 ancestor. One external (globally routable) IP Address which represents the entirety of the internal IP address space. If you are on a corporate LAN, and your IPv6 address is from the RFC4193 range (it starts with "FD" e.g. FDC2:D343:1234:5678:..." ), and, you are accessing IPv6 resources outside your company, then some kind of PAT/NAT/Proxying is taking place.)

I'm sure it will be very popular.
For some context on how this has been tried before:

* http://yubnub.org/ - one of the first if not first to create a community around web commands. Primitive string substitution

* http://queri.ac (disclaimer: I maintained it for awhile) - a small community of web commands. Supported options, bookmarklets and more. Browser-independent.

* ubiquity, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity, - improved on web commands by having them written in javascript and had an awesome API for combining commands and rendering command output. However, it was firefox-specific.

The main innovation I see with duckduckhack is that they're using github to foster contribution.
My understanding is that Mono already supports C# 3.0; and 4.0 is underway.

I don't know how current that wikipedia article is.
Quite a few WF members here
>This raises some big questions, of course, and not the least of which is how this will affect the social and economic status of these professions. Nurses may be more valued than surgeons; kindergarten teachers paid better than university professors.

If we maintain a capitalist economy and a large number of jobs do become mechanized (and not replaced with new jobs) it stands to reason that competition for the remaining jobs will increase. Competition results in driving the market price for jobs down, not up. While human nurses WOULD be paid better than robot surgeons, I don't think wages would increase--they'd decrease.
My website http://flapcast.com has a social component that allows voting on podcasts and shows top podcasts among your friends and the world. The social part of the site hasn't really taken off yet but its still a great way to listen to podcasts.

Otherwise, if you do a search there are some threads on Hacker News where people recommend some great podcasts; there are similar posts on Quora.
Bank loans are all but unobtainable by many (most?) fledgling entrpreneurs. Credit cards fill the gap.

If you have a good enough credit score, one stategy is to continually try to transfer your balance to new cards with low (0% if you're lucky) introductory rates, while paying the minimum monthly requirement.
Windows XP still the most used operating system as of April 2012
That's how I interpreted it. They do attribute it all to "development costs," so it must mean something like that unless they brought in outside help.
Lessons I learned from an (unsuccessful) YC pitch
Pitched http://runnr.me to YC on Sunday with Graeham. Some musings I've had since (still fresh in my mind so probably missing some stuff). Congrats to everyone who got in, and thanks to everyone that helped us out in the last 2 weeks.
Good advice. Also read http://www.amazon.com/Friends-Influence-People-Dale-Carnegie....
In my experience, this is very hard to do well. What you'll usually get is either a lot of prospects that would pay for the high-tier end up paying less, thus dramatically reducing your profitability for the sake of "having an option for everyone"
Daniel Pink's Advice So Good You Didn’t Know You Needed It