skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this article, neither of them: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

That article also links to a paper (http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf) analyzing the initial approximation constant.
Don't forget psyco's JIT which gives some impressive performance gains for a lot of different code. We use it while embedding Python in Counter-Strike Source and it performs admirably.
continued at:
How to Repair a Broken Financial World
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhornb.ht...
Facebook quietly turns off their paid polls service
These glasses have adjustable lenses that could fill most prescriptions. Also, $1 for a pair of glasses isn't affordable in the developing world. I would assume the wholesale price of the water-lensed glasses is way below $1.
Diverting talent out of Finance will revive Britain
Has anyone used either project before? I am wondering which is more stable. It would be nice to have a svn gui on all thee OSs.
It doesn't give you faith in the lead developers if they use words like "stunning user interfaces" and give those snapshots.
Almost certainly not more efficient, but growing plants can't use oil directly, and since we can supply enormous amounts of external energy by the standards of a crop plant, engineering them to be able to use it more effectively is useful even if the plant itself is less efficient overall.
i wonder if everyone takes a revenge on facebook, will it survive?
since nobody mentioned them before:

* workrave (similar to xwrits, but IMHO less annoying and better GUI support)

* swiftfox (has debian package, customized ff build for your CPU)

* worker (directory opus clone -- i don't use it that often, but it comes in handy from time to time)
Yeah, like I really want advice about fighting and arguing in a relationship from a guy who got divorced four times.
that happens with all shared hosts, the only difference is how early they'll pull the plug.
Arch Linux :-D

As much as I like ubuntu, Arch linux just makes more sense to me. It doesn't do anything you don't want it to.

Seriously though, zsh is nice bash replacement. VLC is a great media player and Enlightenment is a nice GUI.

Actually, check out Etoile (etoileos.com) too; its a really nice GUI that's based off of OpenStep and its really pretty and usable.
The number one article for that search "Why Dreamhost Sucks" has a whole bunch of referral ads for Dreamhost in it, making it ultimately not very credible. Just fair warning.
Man, what's going on with the UK? This is straight out of 1984. See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388300

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334321
Facebook and Twitter cater to complete different tastes of two almost entirely different audiences

This is the important point. Facebook will never be as succinct as Twitter. Facebook will never fit in the palm of your hand the way Twitter does. I use Twitter-Facebook integration. No one comments on my tweets in Facebook.
Is AppLoop Fading Already?
Dreamhost is unprofessional, has more downtime than I've seen from other hosts, and has wildly oversold accounts.

And I'd recommend them to ANYBODY.

Allow me to explain:

The very fact that they are unprofessional is probably the number one reason I like them. When they fuck up, they are right up front admitting it in plain english, detailing exactly what went wrong, whose fault it was, and what they're doing to fix it. I'd say that's exactly what OUGHT to be done, but in any "professional" company, there will be some smooth lie to cover up what happened, explain it as an "occasional service interruption" and move on. You'll never know why something happened, or what the chances are of it happening again. With Dreamhost, I'm always aware, and even if there are major weaknesses in their networks, at least I know what they are and what they're doing to fix it. (And who - by name - I can yell at for fucking it up.)

They have more downtime than I've seen from other hosts, but I'm willing to chalk this up to "circumstances beyond their control". Why? Because when shit went south, they explained what it was. Their datacenter wasn't up-front with them about its capabilities, the building generators weren't terribly reliable, all kinds of things that were out of their control. Sure it sucked for any Dreamhost user during that time, but it could have happened to any host, and THIS one had the temerity to level with us and explain exactly what happened.

And the oversold plans? Actually a feature. Honestly, I don't think I'd host an actual application on one of their $7/month plans, but that's because that's not what those are FOR. The cheapie plans are there for my personal website and my blog. They're there for someone who wants a site to sell handcrafted things. They're there for someone who wants cheap imagehosting for forum signatures, avatars, or funny pictures for friends.

Dreamhost sold me exactly what I expected, and has taken the time to routinely update me on the issues affecting them.

Now, if only Josh could get the newsletter out any faster than a month behind...

(Hm, before that gets misinterpreted, that's a running joke at Dreamhost, that each newsletter is dated for the month previous. They do like poking fun at themselves, another plus as far as I'm concerned.)
While I agree those features would be nice, I strongly disagree that the federal government should write laws requiring it. If you're putting your data on someone else's servers, it's up to you to have a backup, and to understand what export ability, if any, is offered.
I'm not sure that managed hosting == consulting, but I suppose that's a fair way to look at it.

Both Rackspace and Engine Yard have called me on the phone to alert me of potential problems. I'm not sure that's something a consultant would do.
The Black Book is available as PDFs from http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp

Byte.com hosted a copy for a long time, but that seems to have issues atm.
Not sure if energy is important part of the equation. Protection from diseases and weather doesn't seem to require energy, it's about chemistry and structure.
Seems like Spotify has the same problem as Pandora.
I do wonder if one was to purchase a Premium Account one could get the streams...
I've been using Thunderbird, and I hate it. I want a more functional UI and better search. Gmail is great, but I want my own local mail store. Any suggestions for a better mail client?
So don't go to college. Have you considered that? That probably sounds awful, but really it's not. Your alternatives are to take on debt that isn't worth the education you'll get, or to get a sub-par education wherever you can afford to go. (Not that there's a direct relationship between the two.) There's a lot to be said for working a few years, saving, and then paying outright. And there's always the military and GI Bill. It's not for everyone, but not every gig in the military is holding a rifle in Iraq or Afghanistan. Especially if you're smart.
Improving Your Memory
Email on Rails
Because it was bad, and the studio knew it?
There are a lot of stories about robbery, but in reality, human societies don't function when people steal a lot.

By present standards, society didn't function in most of medieval Europe, especially in 800. That's why the flourishing trade of the Roman era was replaced by subsistence farming. Banditry had replaced pax Romana.

The rich didn't ride in carriages in the period we're talking about. The roads were too bad. Carriages didn't come into widespread use till centuries later.
In the US or Australia you'd rarely see a man who's just had his legs blown off by a bomb, unless it was fictional. News organizations are loathe to show actual violence during wars.
For American readers: the City = Wall Street, not London.
The idea that human intelligence isn't so much a fundamentally new thing, but a mix of existing things, appeals to me.

I see two features: (1) that we can intercept senses, so a car, bike or horse (or spear, axe or hammer), is neurologically an extension of ourselves; (2). (I think) abstract reasoning has an identical neurological basis to that used by rats, crows and dolphins to solve puzzles, except over abstract concepts instead of over concrete instances.

> a possible test for whether a cognitive enhancement is likely to have downsides, is the ease with which it could have occurred as a natural mutation

Our environment is different today, and traits that would have often killed their possessors 100,000's of years ago could be beneficial today. I'm thinking things like Asperger Syndrome, even Autism (which might have factors that are advantageous in a different combination, like Sickle Cell anemia - one grant malaria immunity; two kills you).

Even the earliest agriculture could have profoundly distorted the fitness function, so we may been evolving very rapidly over our recent genealogical history (rather than stagnating as is often claimed).

Better short-term memory would increase effective intelligence (in my personal experience, anyway), and it seems that evolution could improve this without harm...? Or maybe that's just von neuman bias... it could be that short-term memory is intimately integrated with intelligence - eg. each chunk in working memory is connected to everything else in long-term memory, allowing you to recognize similarities etc. You couldn't afford many buses like that.
Yup -- while I appreciated the article I thought the tone was too adversarial.
Almost any sort of mechanical or chemical process is more efficient than plants. Photosynthesis is only 3% efficient; by the time the energy enters the plant, you've lost 97% of it. Then you figure various biological pathways, and you're down to maybe 1-2% efficiency for the best plants.

This, among other reasons, is why grain ethanol was such a scam.

The worst mechanical processes, by contrast, usually get at least 10-15% efficiency. That's what photovoltaics can do, for example. Gasoline engines have a thermal efficiency of about 30%, diesel about 45%. Granted, you lose energy in the extraction/refining/transportation steps, but it's still an order of magnitude more efficient than photosynthesis.
I've worked in Eve. 'Realistic' is not the word I'd use (it's a science fiction setting after all,) but it is indeed more a freeform and deep experience than many glorified level grinds out there, and it's true that it can absorb any amount of time if you let it.
Ask HN: Choosing a pricing model
Hi all,

here's the context of my question for you...

--- What I am doing ---

I am doing a code generator to help users kickstart java application.

Using a database schema we generate all the standard technical layers (maven/bean/dao/spring/hibernate/springmvc etc).

This is pretty standard, but what's different ?

We do it online. It's our purple's cow touch.
We focus on the integration within frameworks/layers which is a real pain to many.

--- How does it work ? ---

1. You reverse engineer your database using a tool available on our site

3. You upload the extracted metadata to our site

4. The site generates the source for a working CRUD java application

With best of breed technologies and best practices.
With *no dependency* on my service.

5. You download the source code and start your own project using it

You are on you own, no need for our service anymore.
However you may want to use the tool again when
. You add a new table/relation modify column (and do not want to update manually the source code)
. You want a new module available (hibernate search integration, new web layer)

--- My questions for you ---

1. How do you price a code generation tool ?

Would you charge per generation ?
Per month ?
Per user ?
Per database schema ?
Per number of tables ?

2. Would you give a trial version ? If so how ?

By removing generated unit tests ?
By forcing the package name ?
By adding a specific header in the source files ?

3. Would you forget the online approach and settle with

A maven plugin ?
An eclipse plugin ?
A standalone application like codesmith ?
How you would protect it ?

Thanks for your attention
Just a nitpick: the name is unfortunate, considering there is already a wxPython out there.
I just signed up for this.

Immediately the web server they gave me went down. Half an hour later, it is up again, but won't properly serve files:

$ curl http://danielerrey.com/lib.js

curl: (18) transfer closed with 19097 bytes remaining to read

Sigh.
Congratulations, you made a top Google search result for "Marle and Lucca":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Marle+and+Lucca
Article summarized by this quote from it:

"... nothing has been done to change that, or any of the other bad incentives that led us here in the first place."

The headline is a little misleading.
New crowdsourced fund, for entrepreneurs [canada]
Tips on navigating college costs in the recession.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."
"Better short-term memory would increase effective intelligence."

I'm not sure about that. On one psychologically administered IQ test I did really well; supposedly 99.97th percentile of incoming college students. I was 11; this was one of the final straws in my tenure in middle school. Shortly afterward, I took another test, as part of my case to get into college. Apparently, I did pretty well. In most of the sub-tests, anyway.

But then there was a digit recitation test, and a color recitation test, where you had to recite it backwards, forwards, and so on. I must has scored deep in 'idiot.' I could barely do it at all! The psychologist was astonished, and then postulated that I must be really tired, drove me to a cafe to get coffee, and skipped right over the memory tests.

On the other hand, I have a decent memory, even short term, in other areas, so maybe it's not so simple.
Apple Will Crush Amazon.com's Kindle and Complete Their Electronic Ecosystem
"we focus on the "? You left something out.

A better approach to figuring out how to charge for this is:

"what workflow do I anticipate my likely customers will have, and how would this product integrate into that workflow?"

You should also look at what other products are in this space, if any, and see how they price themselves.

All that said:

I'm not sure selling this as a service is the right approach.

You could set yourself up as a specialized consultancy (give us your tired old schemas, we give you a shiny new data-access layer using your choice of the current best-of-breed technologies), and just keep your code generator as your secret sauce.

Then you market your consultancy to various outsourcing shops, offering to take the initial persistence layer coding
off of their hands for their new projects. You can turn around better quality code for this stuff, faster, than any of the sweatshop operations, and you're cost-competitive with the sweatshops, too.

I know the dream is to set up a service, let it run, then sit back and collect the checks, but the consultancy route might be an easier route to monetizing this.

Otherwise, I would attempt to negotiate big-dollar site licenses with large outsourcing firms, who probably stand to benefit the most from this technology (b/c they are the ones who most often are given a legacy database and asked to build systems on top of it).

If you go that route, being available over the web isn't much of a selling point.

For a trial versions, making an unlimited use trial for N months (N = 1, 2, or 3) available after a phone call works:

* the phone call step slows things down, but makes it much more difficult to "farm" an infinite # of free trials (!)

* since the primary value-add for this service is at the start of a new project, and since the typical large outsourcing firm has new projects starting all the time, a short-ish trial doesn't run much risk of giving the customer everything they'd want from the full product (b/c it only helps them with projects that were getting started in those months)

(!) If you go this route, don't hard-code a time limit, but do set up some automated emails to remind you when a trial is coming close to wrapping up. It's helpful as a sales thing to be able to extend the trial a week or two (or, at least, it's terrible from a customer's standpoint if the trial cuts off hard right in the middle of something).
How to promote your mobile web site
WikiWarp - the Wikipedia Game
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I'd love to have the ability to meet a group of people and have their names and faces stored in the equivalent of RAM for the party (once I leave, the names go away - unless I try hard to move them to long-term).

I'm working on developing the ability slowly - using all kinds of memory association techniques but it's definitely not natural.
HN user jsomers and I threw together this site over the past few weeks based on a game we came up with.

Comments, suggestions, criticisms welcome. Thanks!
Never Forget Your Password Again | TechJaws
Flagged, not hacker news.
There are some torrents on piratebay
winning a domestic dispute

That sounds like an oxymoron to me. The other person's "loss" will invariably feed back into the system.
These oligopolies [the rating agencies], which are actually sanctioned by the S.E.C., didn’t merely do their jobs badly. They didn’t simply miss a few calls here and there. In pursuit of their own short-term earnings, they did exactly the opposite of what they were meant to do: rather than expose financial risk they systematically disguised it.

We've heard a lot in recent months about how the current crisis proves that "unfettered capitalism" doesn't work and that libertarian political philosophy is (intellectually) bankrupt. Libertarians, we are told, are running scared.

The quote above is one small example of why this claim is rubbish. The banking and financial sectors have been heavily regulated for at least 70 years; this has created the kind of cartel virtually impossible to form in a free market. And what happened to the SEC is so common it has a name: regulatory capture, the capture of the regulatory agency by the special interests of the industry being regulated.

There's plenty of blame to go around: the global financial crisis has many causes. Laissez-faire capitalism isn't one of them.
agreed. GTK is much better.
Why is Java faster than Python? Because Sun has invested m(b)illions in optimization of Java. They for example have around 50 people+ working full-time on JVM right now.
Promo code 202 is up to $30 now. I got a free domain name registered also. Can't beat the price for hobby projects.
Absolutely: yes! As said in the NY Times piece, Time to reboot America...

>To top it off, we’ve fallen into a trend of diverting and rewarding the best of our collective I.Q. to people doing financial engineering rather than real engineering. These rocket scientists and engineers were designing complex financial instruments to make money out of money — rather than designing cars, phones, computers, teaching tools, Internet programs and medical equipment that could improve the lives and productivity of millions.
Dynamic Network Infrastructure: IT's Biggest Hope
Samsung SGH-D900i pink Unlocked 
The Samsung D900i mobile phone is a boldly-coloured version of a phone that already stands out, thanks to its ultra-slim 13mm depth. In fact, it's been described as 'the world's slimmest slider'.
what about TortoiseHg? or TortoiseGit?
Using externally supplied fossil-fuel is kind of cheating. The energy still comes from photosynthesis, but the energy that was created over eons is used in (geological) moments.

It's somehow similar venture capital. It's a resource produced in older times that allows you to get temporary advantage compared to somebody that uses just in-time generated resources.
if anybody has questions, leave a comment, we'll try to answer them
Modern Icelandic is very close to medieval Icelandic as spoken by the Vikings. Apparently, manuscripts of the sagas can be read and interpreted by an Icelandic speaker with no special training, just as you or I could read an original printing of one of Shakespeare's plays.
It's weird how he talks about 'winning' a fight. The point of a fight is to resolve a disagreement, and when it's resolved both have won. If one feels disadvantaged at the end, both have lost, since the same fight will probably have to be fought again. One advice he could have given is that competitiveness is completely out of place.

A strategy he does not mention is refusing the fight by not listening, or going for a walk, and later pretend that nothing happened. A friend did this to me recently. It may even be justified, because I was mad at him for things that no longer matter.

Still, I think the problem could have been solved faster and with less grudges by a discussion on the spot. I prefer to call it a discussion. If you avoid broken furniture, insulting generalizations, off the topic accusations, threats, and all the mistakes Crichton points to, you can hardly call it a fight.
A Better Way to Load a Plane
You sound pretty knowledgeable on this stuff. Maybe use your smarts to offer solutions too? :-)
And Richard Stallman thinks free software is making good progress too, despite the lack any significant dent in Microsoft's market share

I disagree. Microsoft would love to get all those tasty Windows Server sales it lost due to the rise of Linux, not to mention 20% of the browser market owned by Firefox, which essentially killed Microsoft's initial attempt at controlling the "web runtime". And what about free software powered Macs, where only a miniscule percentage of the code shipped on the official Leopard DVDs is made by Apple?

In fact, free software is the only competitor Microsoft was unable to run over. Not Google, not Apple, but these "crazy socialists". Google&Apple merely repackaged and resold billions of dollars worth of code created by them.
Someone needs to upgrade pyscho for 64 bit IIRC
That's what has worried me most about google docs. There's no easy way to just "do a backup". Wish they'd get around to that.
Unfortunately, people have forgotten what the thin end of a wedge looks like. Example: the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 provided that security personnel at the level of "Chief Inspector of Police" or above could provide authorisation to monitor communications for the prevention of "serious crime or terrorism."

Actual legislation, as it now stands: officials in town halls up and down the country use the same powers with little oversight, to monitor people for offences as trivial as lying on their school application form, fly-tipping and (soon) minor traffic misdemeanours such as parking on a yellow line.

Unfortunately, we're not alone: this is an EU measure, and other countries such as India, Australia and the US are, let's face it, just as culpable and opposed to genuine online freedom.

BTW, I'd like to see them use these techniques (virus-laden emails, key-loggers, wireless hacking) to get into any sufficiently tech-savvy user's computer.
Well, finance may be dead but we still have two more talent graveyards to deal with: law and healthcare. These two fields offer generous paychecks without offering anything valuable to the society.

Yes, not all smart kids want to be doctors, dealing with blood, death and nearly ten years of school isn't easy. It's not doctors who I meant by "healthcare" - we're wasting a giant percentage of premium brain tissue on lawyers and medical equipment and drug sales force. There is a big, hairy and disgusting reason why a short stay at the hospital will cost you $50K in the US: the food chain of various middlemen that feed off your illness is huge.

"I want my kid to be a doctor or a lawyer" problem needs to be dealt with. A nation of lawyers and doctors isn't competitive.
IIRC (it's been a long time) the Cray 1 could do inverse, multiply, and square root in single cycle instructions. Isqrt would take two cycles as wood divide. (Back to the rocking chair.)
Be sure to check out the plugins available to gedit (http://live.gnome.org/GeditPlugins), especially the File Browser Pane, Session Saver, etc. They really add a lot of functionality.