skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To date, all Atom SoCs but Pine Trail (which has an Intel GPU) have used the PVR SGX. Cedar Trail is just another member of this family. It's a proprietary IP core with a GPL kernel driver but no free userspace. Intel provides the userspace libraries gratis for a handful of platforms (MeeGo, in this case) but sadly not all of them (my peeve is the lack of any x86_64 support).

So no: Cedar Trail is a poor platform to use for linux if you want accelerated graphics (but there are some cheap boards I'm looking at that seem really attractive for hobby projects). But it's not Intel becoming "more evil", they're just shipping the same stuff.

There will be a Valley View chip out later this year which goes back to Intel Graphics. Is that evidence of Intel becoming "less evil"?
Small bug: the fixed-position "See Plans & Pricing" link that shows up at the bottom of the page when you scroll is partially hidden by the fixed-position "Talk to Us" link when the browser window is narrower than 1245px or so.
While I personally have no opinion on the issue of post title moderation, and I'm actually OK with most of the things happening here, I agree with you that the community appears to have a need for these discussions and I worry that excessive attempts to curtail them will backfire in the most unproductive way.

I like it here. For me, it's not about the news (I get them through my feed reader just fine), it's about spirited discussions with bright people. We have to realize that overall the user base of HN is something extremely valuable. This place lives and dies with its inhabitants. So if there is a sizable group who wants to get a specific issue off their chest, by all means have that discussion and then move on.

Let's get back to what we actually enjoy on HN.
There doesnt seem to be any links to the study itself...
We've seen some fairly aggressive voting rings organized by publications with well known names. Only a few are actually banned though. Usually we just take away the voting ring members' ability to vote.
The Atlantic shows up WAY more often on HN than I think is likely, as well. I think on the New page, the user's top domains ought to be shown...
Well here is one that I started:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445017

And here is another "meta" discussion that I started:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2663717
Thanks, but this isn't really about me. I'm just sharing one person's (almost certainly not unique) attitude towards dealing with negative feedback / rejection.
Is this the sentiment about shared libraries on Linux world as well?
I also apparently got hellbanned and am experiencing the same effects as jcs for posting that gist mirror.

My comment that got me banned (Need showdead): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108123
That'd be my fault :(

Fix is forthcoming - thanks for reporting
There's a potential issue in that Reddit is owned by Conde, technically a competitor of The Atlantic, but I believe this to be the reason for TA's banning: http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...
Some things that would be banned under this bill:

• using a drone to patrol the freeway looking for drunk drivers (well, technically they could use a drone to look but they would not be able to send a ground officer to cite the drunk driver),

• using a drone to track the getaway car from a bank robbery,

• searching for a child who has been taken without authorization by a non-custodial parent.

In the first example, a drone COULD be used to patrol the freeway looking for disabled cars or accidents, but if any criminal activity were observed during such patrols the evidence from the drone could not be used against the criminals.

This is typical Rand Paul--it is designed to sound good and make it look like he is looked out for The People on some important issue, but the bill is written to be so overly broad that it won't have much chance of actually passing--which I suspect is fine with Paul.

Another example of that was an amendment he tried that would have made it so that former Congressmen who become lobbyists lose their benefits. Sounds like a good idea, right? Of course it does--but then when you check the details you find that "lobbyist" is defined so broadly as to include anyone who gets money from the Federal government or gets money by working for someone who gets money from the Federal government.

For instance, if a former Congressman is a physician, and after leaving Congress goes to work at a rural medical clinic--and that clinic accepts payments from Medicare, that physician would be a lobbyist under Rand Paul's amendment and would lose his benefits.

Of course that amendment went nowhere, but now Paul can paint himself if he wishes as a guy who tried to fight the corrupting influence of former Congressman becoming lobbyists.
I did do something about it. I installed OS X.
We have community guidelines, for crying out loud.
Was The Atlantic the site that had a fairly high level employee trying to semi-publicly game Reddit a few months back?
While the meta can get out of hand, the kind of petulant escalation and power-tripping mentioned here https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... (assuming it's accurate) is invariably bad for a community-driven site.
I haven't heard of that, but I'm sure lots of people would be interested in hearing about your experiences.
TheAtlantic pays people to spam the reddit with content, and buys high karma accounts to vote up content. Essentially, the companies being banned are the ones with shady business practices.
We brought on a dedicated sales guy last month and he's been using Olark. It's been successful and he's made sales right from the chat window.

We get about 300 uniques a day and he hasn't been overwhelmed at all.

The biggest issue (IMO) is making the distinction between sales and support. We don't use Olark for support (and don't want to). But for sales, it's awesome.
I call standard makefiles as a pre-build or post-build task in Visual Studio. The pre-build task even generates some source files that are subsequently used in the build.

Just make sure you have make.exe in you PATH and maybe defer the call to a batch file if it is too complex for VS. Or use the batch file to set up the PATH altogether.
The kernel module is GPL, but all (heh, "all" -- it's a very big driver) it does is do things like memory allocation and mapping, power management, mode setting and command transfer.

All the meaningful parts of the 3D engine (shader compiler, GPU code generator, etc...) are in userspace (in prebuilt binaries for MeeGo). The kernel doesn't do anything but take the output from those components and hand it to the hardware to execute.
That was odd to me, because even people at The Atlantic know that doesn't work here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285156
The Atlantic?

That's one of the best news sources on the internet. The only thing I could guess there is that The Atlantic /requested/ this.

Science Daily?

Also a fantasic secondary-source for science news.
Noel,

If the cost of offering chat is < value you get from chat it works out.

The trick is to understand that equation for your business.

We launched targeted chat to help you focus your chats on just particular visitors. One could argue that the value talking to customers who land on your pricing page, while ignoring everyone else always works out.
Seems like a purely anti-competitive move considering that Reddit is owned by Conde Nast and most of those sites blocked are direct competitors to Conde Naste's publications. Conflict of interest.
fix the 403 error that results from clicking on your "portfolio" link
Anyway to make it so that if a user tries to abandon our shopping cart by clicking back or X out of the page the chat box will popup asking if they need any help?
I think any site that "auto-submits" itself to Reddit will be banned. An editor for The Atlantic apparently submitted thousands of stories to Reddit all for The Atlantic articles. Probably automated.
As long as the good articles from The Atlantic (and many are quite good) keep getting posted here by regular participants who respond to other participants, I suppose it is okay for members of voting rings to lose voting privileges. I would hate to see whole publications banned just because of the actions of their paid supporters, when the same publications have willing readers who like the content of the publications.
Advertising. This includes questionable activities like Airbnb's Craigslist operations.

So-called "brute force" is only one method. FB had early success by having an extremely desirable social network. Which network would you like to join, the one with Harvard students or the one with students from a small, second-rate liberal arts college? I've heard that Linked-in grew this way too, by seeding the network with high-status people. This could be called the "brute status" approach.
Kind of like the XFL for video games.
The files you want to be reading are configure.ac (formerly configure.in) and Makefile.am. configure is compiled from configure.ac via m4 (no, really) and Makefile.in is compile from Makefile.am by perl. Makefile.in is used to generate Makefile at the end of ./configure (by config.status, actually).

Some configure.ac files are a bit hairy, usually because they depend on heaps of optional packages or because they test for all this obsolete stuff that autoscan told them to.

Have a look at libfake437[1], MudCore[2] or libtelnet[3] for some in-between examples.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/libfake437/source/browse/#svn%2Ftru...

[2]: https://github.com/endgame/MudCore

[3]: https://github.com/elanthis/libtelnet
Tech Agents: In action
Saw this post on a blog

Last Friday night I dropped by a Hackathon in downtown Palo Alto. Standard Hackathon rules applied: food and programing into the late hours in order to build something new and hopefully cool.

However, something stood out at this event. 2 tables full of High School kids who where all there to build on on ideas. A few of these kids started telling me what they where working on. Some showed me sites they have built in the past. After I finished speaking with one Junior, a woman approached me and introduced herself as the students mother. (Out here Friday Hackathons are the new movie nights for High School kids).

After introducing herself, the students mother, asked “what do I do”. After I responded, the mother states:” you are speaking to the wrong son. You need to meet my younger son, he is in Middle School and sitting over there”. She goes on to say even though her younger son has not graduated Middle School he is already a better mobile developer than her middle aged husband.

Obviously I spoke to her younger son. After he finished demonstrating/explaining what he is working on I started thinking. Although this kid could not be older than 13 or 14, he is already more articulate than 99% of people I meet on a daily basis.

Got post from www.legendarymoves.com
Unfortunately, the market dynamic is that there are lot more startups looking for funding that VCs looking for startups to fund.

The reverse rejection does not work in this case.
Mods - could you stop changing post titles?
I would ask that the unknown mysterious moderators of this site stop changing post titles long after they hit the front page.

The guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html state: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." but this should not apply just because the title submitted does not match the article. When the actual article's title makes no sense or provides no context, it should be allowed to stay changed.

A story is currently on the front page with a title of "Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots" which was just changed from its previously edited title of something about visualization.

"Where the Heat and Thunder Hit Their Shots", while actually the title of the article, says absolutely nothing about the content of the article. Is this an article about weather? Photography? Nope, it's about basketball. Why is it on Hacker News? Oh, the submitter liked the visualizations, which is exactly what the previously edited title said before it was changed.

Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875857 was a story about Light Table and the title was edited to reflect that until it had at least 100 points. Then a moderator changed it to the story's actual title of "On concepts and realities" which said absolutely nothing about it and probably caused lots of people that had already visited the link once to read it and think it was something else.

Moderators, please stop doing this.
This doesn't actually discuss how Facebook manages and maintains their 100PB of storage, rather just talks a bit about the namenode SPoF issue. Disappointing article for sure.
Ahh fair enough, I thought you were in support of the general principle. Agree it is Apple's policy, i presume there was meant to be a /sarc tagt in there some where :)

I was considering buying it, but I am not an Apple user and would have just installed Windows on it. BUT I can't afford to pay up front for things I may or may not use either.

I have refused to buy Apple for a number of years, because of things like not having a removable battery (which a lot of phones are doing now), no memory upgrade slot and biggest of all - iTunes!!!.I like carrying a spare battery cos it is not always possible to be by a plug. I like being able upgrade my storage because now 16gb isn't enough (and 32gb is much cheaper).

But better to be informed about this kind of thing before purchase!
What if mobile ads just don't — and will never — work?
According to this, then that's possible: http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...
I enjoyed reading the entries. When I keep choosing "Load More" I eventually get nothing but repeats. I can scroll up and see the same entries.
I had Olark on my site for a brief period to try it out. I really like the functionality that it provides and I think they are doing a great job.

That said, I ended up removing it after finding that the javascript service was rather unreliable and would cause delays for the loading of my site. I'm sure it was just a brief outage or whatever, but it does me no good if I can't get my pages to load.

I'll probably revisit it in the future as olark definitely had the best product out of all of them. The integration with jabber is key.
Many of the most exciting upcoming features in CSS don't gracefully degrade well. Variables are one, yes, but the same is true of Flexbox or Grid Layout, Regions, and others.

One thing that will help (once it's supported, heh) is the @supports rule http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-conditional/#at-supports . (Actually, it'll help even before it's supported, since you can put the "down-level" version outside the rule and then reverse the properties and do the new stuff inside the rule. The inner bits will be completely ignored in old browsers.)
PHP: the quiet powerhouse
So...? I guess I naturally assume that most companies with a marketing department try to get their content popular on social media. Sure some site users may break the ToS by trying to game it...so ban the user. A halfway-decent anti-gaming layer should handle stuff like this without an issue. It seems petty on Reddit's side to me.
I stare at Vim all day long and I can say that I don't give a shit what tools you use. Use whatever works best with how you think. Personally, I don't need to write a text editor because a group of people who more-or-less think about how to use computers the exact same way as me already did that.

I don't know why you took the parent post so personally; they never attempted to convince you that the command line is superior all the time for everyone. I can relate to it already. I saw a post on here a few days ago about shortcuts for some random new-ish editor (Sublime text 2?) listing awesome shortcuts that people should use. So what? None of that can compare to what is possible in Vim and it never will. I'm sure it's helpful for those who use that tool, but sometime soon there will be some other new tool that replaces it as the hot new editor for language x and those people will have to relearn it when they switch tools. However, that new tool will still use <ctrl-g> to find by line number.

Learning new tools on Linux is as easy as reading the man page or reading online and failing that I would dive into the source code. For example, I learned how to use rsync last night, but only enough to do what I was trying to do. Luckily, that knowledge will build as I require new uses for it. What makes this all worthwhile is that I can now make my computer do whatever I want and I am not limited to what others have built for a specific use case because these tools can handle almost anything.
That's basically my thought too. Seems like it makes more sense to penalize members or adjust the scoring of the source rather than ban it altogether.
The surprise and delight that users express when they realize a human is on the other end of that chat window makes Olark worth every penny!
This is crazy, Phys.org may be a little spammy but it's one of the best sites on the Internet. It constantly pops up in my Twitter feed and rarely disappoints.
Linkedin Passwords: is it over?
More reasons why both 'SLEEP MOAR!' and 'SLEEP LESS!' are misguided: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/12698511
My teaching experience has been largely the opposite. I often find students in a situation where they have a large equation, but don't know where to start in solving it. For instance, given

((3+7)*x)/(3+7+x) = 5

They'd grow confused on how to start. Should they combine the 3 and 7 in the numerator? In the denominator? Or should the multiply both sides by (3+7+x)?

Of course, it doesn't matter which one they choose. Any of those will get them a step closer to solving the problem. However, since they don't have the mathematics confidence to just play with the problem, they'll become paralyzed with the various, equally good options. On the other hand, if they were more comfortable with the symbolic manipulation parts, they'd spend less time worrying about trivialities and more time focusing on parallel resistors.
Government was the primary cause of unnatural death in the 20th century.
I hope this is a short-term salvo that leads to a better resolution; I enjoy a lot of the writing on The Atlantic, but I seldom go there directly.
Here's an article that was posted in that Reddit thread that explains what The Atlantic was doing on Reddit:

http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...
http://www.regardsstudy.org/

Doesn't appear to be published yet, just presented at the SLEEP2012 conference.

Ruiter M, Howard VJ, Letter AJ, Kleindorfer D. Short sleep predicts stroke symptoms in persons of normal weight. SLEEP 2012; June 11, 2012; Boston, MA. Abstract 0829.
This is basically how people use git-svn, because svn only understands rebase and not merge.

I'm a lone git-svn user in a svn workplace, and I've been satisfied following this basic workflow. I have my configuration differences, personal changes, and unfinished work in little commits on my branch. At the end of the day I rebase -i or cherry-pick onto the upstream git-svn branch, clean up the commits, and dcommit. At the beginning of each day I rebase yesterday's work onto the tip of upstream and continue working.
... wealthy people? You mean: technical contacts at large corporations, I think. They sound perfect for sending ... well, sending what to? 419 scams?
Here is my new, awesome, cross-platform development methodology: use a MOAI host for iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, or Linux (your pick), which simply takes its sources from http://somewhere.at/project.zip or thereabouts. Code on a local workstation (Windows/OSX/Linux), test the app, deploy immediately to a local Android or iOS device for testing.

http://getmoai.com/

Simply kicks ass.
Which seems a much better approach than outright banning/censoring domains.
See my other comments in the thread to find out about me.

1. This is true. Weeks to month(s) is usually enough to learn enough to roughly be aware of the kinds of problems you can solve with a tool. Finding the right and interesting problem is not quite as easy though. Usually after I know enough to have a feeling about the kinds of problems, I stop learning the new tool. It's not interesting to learn more just for the sake of learning. Once I find a good problem(s), I put months or years in learning the tool and solving problems with it. One of the reasons I moved away from medicine is because you can't learn while solving problems. You have to learn a lot upfront before you are allowed to the "field". This is really justified, but I lost interest.

2. This is not really always the case. There are fields (medicine for example), where true innovation is not always result of "deep knowledge". For example antibiotics, vaccines etc. In those cases true innovation happened because of trying to solve a problem (and quite accidentally), not because someone by his really deep knowledge predicted these phenomena.

I wouldn't try to judge which way is "better". And I wouldn't use the word "unfortunately" for these. Probably we need very much both to progress.
This is a pretty interesting move, but they really need to make sure the rules are ABSOLUTELY CLEAR to those willing to learn them.

I work for ForeignPolicy.com, which could loosely be described as a competitor to the Atlantic. To avoid being spammy/bad community members, we specifically don't submit all of our pieces to reddit/HN, or even all the ones we think are relevant (Virtually our whole site would fit, say, /r/worldnews. HN less so, but occasionally FP stories do rise to the top here). Most major things get submitted anyway, and often drive a fair bit of traffic.

That said, the tradeoff here is that we lose control of the headlines that we get submitted under, and the submission timing, and have to work quite a bit harder to make sure that we see submissions to get involved in comment threads when possible.

It would be nice if we could get some sort of account that would let us submit our relevant content, but without any special privileges a la' the publisher feeds that helped ruin digg.

We _could_ just get people with well-built-out legit personal accounts to trade off in submitting our stuff, but that still strikes me as too spammy.

I know in the comments thread on reddit Alienth said that this action will only be taken in cases where they can prove that the sites knowingly offended [1], but it really worries me that the lines aren't set in stone, and a competitor could potentially make a very compelling attempt at spamming all of our links and get us banned.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v03qc/physor...