skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it requires big integers. If you do it with machine words, the overflow/underflow will exactly cancel out so you will be fine. I think.

If that's not true, then adding each x and subtract i as you process it is sufficient to ensure you only need integers comparable in size to N, not N^2.
Do you have a screenshot of Google with a background image? I don't recall ever seeing one.
This story has been cut-and-pasted countless times: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
Twilio Rising: Microsoft Inks Deal to Offer APIs To Azure Developers
Why do you think nix has a toolbar on top? There's no "nix interface". There are thousands of them. And most of the interfaces allow you to change the location of the panels. I laughed out lout at what you said.

Either way, IMHO those two desktops look similar.
Philosophy and religion are really easy to draw a bright line between when viewing them from 30,000 feet. It's a lot harder to draw a bright line on the ground. Sure, there's some things that are pretty clearly one or the other, but there's a lot of really fuzzy stuff in the middle that's harder to characterize, especially down in the area of the axioms you take.

In this case by religion I mean the sort of things commonly associated with religion, minus the "clearly" religious stuff. For instance, consider utilitarianism. It's a "life-guiding philosophy", which is already treading into religious waters, but the real killer is, what utility metric do you use? Many people who claim to be one or another variety of utilitarianist often try to use some sort of global metric that accounts for not just their own subjective utility, but that of others. But... why? Why not just act based on your own utility? (Including an enlightened utility metric in which one understands that harming others is generally not the right answer due to retaliation or general degradation of the local environment, so not just stereotypical selfishness.) It's awfully easy to call that a sort of non-god/non-spirit religious decision, because there's no objective rational basis for that metric. (And there's not necessarily an objective rational basis for choosing any particular metric when it comes down to it.)
It's a good strategy when your competitor is consistently making changes which long terms users hate.
Yeah, but who spends a billion dollars on a datacenter??? Only a company with more cash than they know what to do with.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3918443
The First Ever Data Scientist
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371
Prezi Passes 10M User Mark, Debuts New PowerPoint Importer
c9 has one big advantage - before I was granted admin privileges at work, it allowed me to get started with some node work without having to install anything.
This ain't no Daily WTF. This is an Epic Annual WTF!
Here is a piece that offers some more info on the announcement. http://bostinno.com/2012/05/02/harvard-mit-announce-edx-a-di...
i imagine that the technology which allows immortality will do it by genetically andor mechanically modifying bodyform at will, shifting & accellerating evolution into conscioussness driven process.

you can draw / buy and grow or modify your body or transfer the mind to a completely new one... i guess whatever is less jarring to the consciousness continuity - your preference from an assortment of options changing & increasing with technical progress and price.

i imagine entire industries around custom bodyform development - design/mod/grow your own or purchase like an ingame avatar.

humanity will evolve by competing on 'fashion' aesthetic and functionality. accidental deaths prevented by raid'ing consciousness stream. a very pretty version of 'individual hive' borg. ... <just guessing and seeding the future>
[followup] Quantified Self: Vitamin D in the Morning & Sleep
Nokia cites 45 patents in lawsuits against HTC, RIM, Viewsonic
And to advertise for Edial: Gidsy is in Berlin, but the founders are Dutch, so you won't have to speak that strange language they have over there... :)
I don't care about a person's religion unless it negatively affects their words or actions. However, I don't see why you ask here, as I don't see anything religious in this story.
Well, that depends on the subject of the book. For example, "Ender's Game" is a great book that I really enjoyed reading, which had many good lessons in it. "Speaker for the Dead" on the other hand, by the same author, was one of the worst pieces of science fiction that I have ever read, largely because the author insisted on waving religion in the reader's face in a most unconvincing way. I've never met anyone as analytical and free-thinking as Ender that wasn't an atheist, so turning him into a practicing Catholic was really hard to swallow.

The worst offenders are self-help books. The moment the author starts rambling about spirituality, religion or other nonsense, it immediately destroys the author's credibility for me: how can I trust what someone is saying when they refuse to apply the rules of evidence to their world view? I'm forced to step back and evaluate what they are saying with more extreme scepticism, and in the end I'm left feeling like I may as well have just thought through the issues myself rather than reading the book (note, thinking for yourself is a good thing - but you don't need some dumb book filled with religious rubbish to give you permission to do it!)
My issue with this interface is the following:

You either have round tabs or rectangular tabs. Firefox used to have rectangular tabs, Chrome has rounded ones.

The new Firefox ones has, well, I don't know. It's a mix of both, please choose one, and I prefer rectangular. Seriously, they are mixing rounded and rectangular, it's ugly.
It's not lucrative, but for most people, optimizing for Google = optimizing for Bing and most other search engines as well. There's really not much difference - maybe you need to come up with a different sitemap, but that's it.
Careful. People are inserting and executing their own JS on that page.

I got several popups (alerts) with the word Faggot in them in my browser after I let the page sit for 10 minutes.
> The only difference between Chrome's tab design and Firefox's is that Chrome's tabs have rounded corners and Firefox's tabs are rectangular.

While I'm overall not a fan of Chrome's UI and this may speak correctly to the present state of affairs, I feel there's something worth adding to give credit to Chrome for advancing the state of the art: They implemented a bunch of smart behaviors Firefox later copied. Good piece on this: http://www.theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08/chrometabs/
Please show some respect. I don't think it's appropriate to make these kind of jokes.
Flapping Robotic Birdplane Lands Right on Your Hand
Things such as this ultimately prevent small medium company from entering the market. The wall is getting higher and higher.
I really don’t see this as a move towards trying to become a ‘retro Google'... Looking at where MSFT is heading with a unified design across all its products and properties, it looks to me like a natural evolution of the page becoming more ‘Metro’ (simple, clean, intuitive). And there are really only so many ways to display text/links in a 'minimalistic' fashion while keeping the basic functionality people expect...

I’d guess though that this is a first in a series of small, gradual, changes to the site geared toward 'metrofying' it. I bet we’ll soon see Segoe replace Arial as the predominant font next.
> That they fail to quite reach it (for most people) is obvious, but that doesn't make the attempt worthless.

Most of them are way off. Not even close.
The most interesting piece of this is that Yahoo! managed to launch something. Speechless.

On a serious note. I can't imagine sinking time into any new service Yahoo! comes out with. I'm not a Yahoo! hater by any means but they've done nothing in the last 3 years to assure me that they won't just shut this down.
Let's worry about the first, "real" evil right now, rather than a hypothetical one in the future.
WebGL Grand Theft Auto
Because not all of us are affected emotionally to the same extent as you?

I can agree that the person telling the story did a good deed without feeling overly moved by the story.
Here's something oft-understated:

As a web developer, you sit on the intersection of engineering, design and art. You're lucky enough to live at a time where there are numerous production-ready tools with which to do your job. If you choose a tool that you're excited to explore, with an active and fast-moving ecosystem, your excitement and enthusiasm will make you happier and more likely to do a better job.

Someone down the thread said this:

> So far I don't see any benefit in node.js over mature enterprise frameworks.

If I was only allowed to work in ASP.NET, I'd be looking to change careers pretty fast.

Don't underestimate the value of enthusiasm - especially if you're a boss.
Static analysis is a method, not a goal. Static analysis in compilers is done for the purposes of optimization, so it is meaningless without a compiler. There are commercial and open source products that do static analysis to find logical errors and security vulnerabilities in your code like Klocwork, Coverity, or Gimpel Lint. There are formal verifiers. Decompilers, indenters and obfuscators can be considered sort of static analysis tools too, although on a shallower level.
because it probably is not true

edit: it seems to be true in the sense that the guy wrote it in a book years ago http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cabbie.htm
Why Amazon Reserved Instances don’t make economic sense for startups
Show HN: Our weekend project - Pinstagram.co
Do you mean companies using it? Look for SimpleGeo. Do you mean librairies? Look for Express or Restify.
I'm a pragmatist, so anything which makes survival easier has value. Everything else is fun and games (not important enough to build businesses around and charge money for). Personally, I think it would be good to have two economies - a 'core' economy where there is a gold standard, currency can only be traded for essential goods and patents and speculation are strictly forbidden. Then a 'extra/luxury/optional/nice-to-have' economy for all the rest which does allow a more fragile currency, speculation and what-not.

If you want food, produce something which will help someone else survive. If you want want to play around and relax, create something which will help other's do the same. Trade what you produce for what you require.
Google added it as a "feature" and made it a default for a short amount of time to market the background customization option:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-im...
I would rather say they dismiss it as dangerous overall. Religion is many things, and some of the things are good: it provides community, a sense of perspective above the rat race, and an answer to the questions that don't really have answers, like "why are we here". But to do so it requires obedience to a lie, and there are those who believe that truth and reality are too important to allow a comforting lie to have primacy. For them, religion is not worthless, as in "having zero worth": it's worth less than nothing; it's harmful. I can see both sides, but I think I agree with the idea that ultimately it's easier to provide community and consolation to an atheist than to replace the understanding of reality that most religions deny to their adherents.
Jonathan Corbet sometimes posts LWN articles on reddit, this is how I found this one.
Ask HN: How long is too long for a startup domain name?
I’m currently working on a project and we’ve reg’d the following domain: taskmessenger.com (comes in at 13 characters).

Is this too long?

What is too long for a startup name? Can you guess what our product does from our domain?

Thanks,
Alan
Scala runs perfectly on Android
You kind of allude to this with the identity bit, but to spell it out I remember reading in their docs that part of the original motivation for the large button was the idea to establish a cross-platform "keyhole shape" element (formed together with the forward button) there to identify Firefox by.
Thanks!

The ultimate aim is to be a better experience for both landlords and tenants, whatever that takes. We feel we have a feature set which makes the lives of tenants and landlords much safer and easier.

It's more than being a better agent, it's being a marketplace where rentals are made simple. Landlords don't need a fully managed service in a lot of cases, and tenants are crying out for something better. There are a lot of pain points in the current system which we aim to remove.

I think by being a tech startup we have a few advantages, but clearly the biggest challenge is getting landlords on board with the concept. We will do our best in that regard, and hopefully one day, renting a property won't be such a painful experience!
Yeah, it's either really dusty or someone in the office is cutting onions.
That is flat out untrue. All of the people you quoted are well aware that religion provides some value/worth alongside the costs. They're all highly intelligent people who are able to perform basic cost/benefit analysis like the rest of us.

What's the difference between an "atheist" and a "new atheist"? I've found that religious people use "new atheist" almost as a derogatory term, but I just don't get where the insult is supposed to come from?

[edit] Ah, I looked up "new atheism" on wikipedia and got: "New Atheism is the name given to the ideas promoted by a collection of 21st-century atheist writers who have advocated the view that religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises."
Copyright as it stands today would only be a stopper if you tried to grab the actual implementations from that era, which wouldn't even run without serious work. Reimplementations would be clear.

Copyright even as Oracle is grabbing at it would only be an issue if you cloned those old APIs, which is probably also not what would happen, as the APIs wouldn't translate to anything today either.
That's my worry. They could always find some technicality to sue over.
I think it probably is true, but there's not enough evidence either way to allow that to be a factor.
Tutorial: developer mode of OpenAphid
Not even just 'worthless', there's a growing anti-theist movement. Whether those above are a- or anti-theist, I can't say for sure, but anti-theists would claim religion is not only 'worthless', but indeed actively harmful to people and society.
Richard Dawkins calls himself a "cultural Christian" and agrees with teaching the Bible as a literary/historical work. I'm not too familiar with the beliefs of the others you mentioned, but Dawkins certainly does not dismiss religion as _worthless_. Unless you define religion as "willfully acting irrational" or something.
Has anyone watched both? Are they significantly different?
link: http://www.pinstagram.co

So what do you get when you combine a billion dollar company (Instagram) with a $500 million company (Pinterest)?

The background:
My cofounder Brandon and I were having a discussion on startup pitches, especially the ones that go “we’re an X for Y” and thought a hilarious VC pitch would be “we’re a Pinterest for Instagram”. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. I liked Instagram, and this was a real need for me. There was nothing like it out there that I would use. So last weekend I decided I would make it a weekend project.

I spent a few hours putting something together using my design and front end skills. I was able to show the popular feed in a Pinterest-like UI. I showed this to Brandon which quickly convinced him this was a good idea and together we started clobbering together the project. By the end of the weekend we had something that basically worked. You could log in with your Instagram id and view your feeds, your photos, what’s popular and search.

For those of you interested in how it was made. It’s a very simple Ruby and Sinatra app. It doesn’t even have a database. The front end was built on Twitter Bootstrap. Haters can hate me for not building the html from scratch but I prefer to build my house using off-the-shelf tools instead of having to go and chop wood in the forest. The Pinterest style layout was built using Masonry, a very useful jQuery plugin.
You're biassing the test towards small files and particular file systems that don't deal with them as well, and edge cases where you think the db is highly optimized; I'd imagine that's because you know outside those bounds the raw file system will kick its butt, especially given the tools that let you avoid the application entirely by streaming the file from disk.
that would be neat :)
only for USA .. ( I could not registrate ..)
> Don't underestimate the value of enthusiasm - especially if you're a boss.

Indeed, and your advice is wisely directed at bosses. However, it's a bit harder (though not impossible) for a developer to use this argument successfully: "Let me use Node because I'll be more excited about the project."
Hi Andreas,

We don't have yet any data about this. We are in private beta phase so we just got started. We track our visitors/users very carefully, so by the time goes by we will definitely see some numbers that we can share with HN and Betalist communities.
The Wire.
I had that experience a few years ago, when javascript execution engines where not optimized yet for speed. Today, I have the same experience with apps built using flash, where there is an annoying delay when hovering/clicking. A mature webapp running on a fast javascript engine does not give me any noticable delay. The "feel" is just the same as a native app.
A couple of interesting ones on that list. Best wishes to them. Question regarding your site, StartupPlays.com: When did it start (cause this is my first time seeing it).
The whole point of node.js and it's ecosystem is to avoid anything that looks like an 'enterprise framework', rather it's a collection of lots of little modules that each do one thing and one thing well and that can build on top of each other (turtles all the way down).
Oh, I see. The article specifically mentioned thread-safety annotations, and I was wondering if that part could be run without actually compiling the code.
I'm the developer behind understoodit.com - any feedback on understoodit.com would be much appreciated!
I love that this started with bad use cases.
Live press conference video stream: http://www.edxonline.org/
That's to make sure that the verdict only affects Germany. With their European distribution center in Germany, they couldn't sell in any European country. With this reorganization, they just can't sell in Germany (and any imports will be destroyed by customs if found).

(it's also a not-so-subtle hints to politicians, that Microsoft would prefer to have a special exception to the usual rules, otherwise JOBS ARE AT RISK!!!11)
Bruce Schneier’s final thoughts…
What I took away from the story wasn't so much related to death, but rather its great visceral conveying of the point of the golden rule. The author says he treated her like he would want his mother to be treated. Many of us apply these sorts of rules, but we tend to do it much more rigorously with people close to us, because they are already more similar, and thus fit easier within the "do unto others" formulation (whether you use the positive or negative).

It isn't great moments that catch us unaware as he says, it's that our life is a constant stream of such moments, usually unbeknownst to us. It's only occasionally that we realize the sort of impact we have on those around us.

This story reminds me to continue applying these principles (within certain limits, the golden rule isn't a moral panacea) to every interaction, including the most incidental. The feelings expressed in the story are exactly the sort from which I derive my compassion and which I use as the intuitive component of my ethical reasoning. It reminds me to consider the side-effects of not just my actions, but also how I express my internal states to others.
>Please don't confuse your personal opinion of the advertising industry with 100+ years of empirical evidence.

It really depends on what your definitions are. My personal take on it is that advertising is duct tape for a broken economic model. If we have an entire economic system where one of it's pillars is something so asinine (psychological manipulation with no opt-out for certain flavors like billboards), perhaps we should rethink the model.

So, from the perspective of a business which is trying to find clients/customers, sure, there's a tonne of value. From the perspective of trying to move humanity to bigger and better things, it has a huge negative value, again, IMO.

>"Entertainment" is doing fine. The current industry establishment is not. Not the same thing.

I actually wrote "entertainment industry" in my post :)
That does sound true, although in some cases, "It will help with recruitment" might help.
First off, my own anecdotal findings are that atheists are some of the best read people on religious subject matters. So I would say many of them have no qualms with reading religious themed work.

Secondly, at its core Zen Buddhism is more philosophy than religion. I'm an atheist and can still agree with most of the concepts found in Zen Buddhism. It's not about worshipping gods but more about the philosophical teachings of Siddhartha who most Zen Buddhist regards as having no particular supernatural powers.

I would hope most non religious people have no bias against it and if they do I would recommend they give that a second thought.
Are you sure? I do remember a mockup from that timeframe that showed all platforms on one page, and was static rather than interactive. Given the greater sophistication in these and the fact that they're still linked from their wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Theme_Refinement_a...) I had assumed these to be recent.

Edit: The older set I was referring to: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-pre...

Edit2: The OP links were added to that wiki page in an early March 2012 revision.
LWN articles are opened up ~1 week after they're published. So you can wait a couple days until then. They also have a mailing list where they'll send out an email with links once an article becomes available.
Hangouts with Silicon Valley figures won't do anything to drum up interest in G+ except as a novelty among those that already know about it but don't use it.

Google should take the biggest stars of whoever wins the NBA Championship next month and do a hangout with them. Or have the stars of twilight/hunger games/{generic blockbuster} and do hangouts as part of their press junkets. Google may end up with a bunch of incredibly insipid hangouts but that's about 90% of "social" anyway.