skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This tablet is a killer device—love its form factor, check this real-size views of the Nexus 7, it's really slick:

Compared to an iPhone 4s:
http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-7-vs-apple-iphone-4s-64g...

Compared to an iPad 3:
http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-7-vs-apple-ipad-3-64gb-w...

(You have to click in the top-right corner to calibrate your screen)
I believe the author goes by "asmartbear" or something similar here on HN.
Code Something Even If It Sucks
I find it curious that Google has a very good translation software but they don't pass the generated subtitles through their language models to detect when they are gibberish.

It's not your fault, but YouTube's. I just find computer generated gibberish funny.
Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing
This would be very useful, if I used Google+ and knew more than 5 people who did too. But sadly, I don't. So I guess I'll just have to use the nearly-identical feature on Facebook.
Web Can Foment Openness as Corrupt Regimes Fall
"gallon" is the one imperial unit of measurement that's quite different in the US and the UK. Most other imperial units (e.g. foot, inch, acre) are nearly exactly the same (but not exactly the same!) to not matter for practical reasons, but the gallon is different by about ¼.
Google hangouts with a rear-facing camera would be a disaster.

Maybe the next version will have two cameras.
Depending on the goal you're trying to achieve, it could be a great tool, but I wouldn't diss the filesystem too much. You lose the discoverability of all your fs tools, a whole suite of APIs no longer becomes available (async IO, say), and you throw another access layer in front of your data w/ a corresponding performance drop.

Not to say that SQLite wouldn't offer lots of advantages, but I'm not sure I'd be in a huge rush to start packing all my game assets into a db unless I had some pretty convincing wins. I'd be much more likely to stick w/ the 380k in development and then pack into contiguous level binfiles before shipping. ( I'm totally armchair coding though, I admit :) )
All of those are to leapmotion.com, though. It's exciting to see a third party saying, "yes, it really is that good."

Because if this really is that good, and that cheap, they've crossed a fundamental line. We're looking at a hardware accessory that has a good chance of being as ubiquitous, and maybe even as revolutionary, as the mouse.
Rocking Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Features for your Smartphone
As I see it, the seeds of this user's disappointment were planted as soon as she starting gaming the system: "my posts became more and more filtered as the 'Friend' list increased. Now, they were getting the facade, the highlights because I donned the 'happy' mask. My closer friends were still catching the true story through instant messaging, text messaging and phone calls..."

The faint echoes of Gödel and Turing in the back of my mind say: no social algorithm can ever optimize its results to take into account how people will modify their behavior in response to the algorithm itself.
That's not the case, I'm sure.
Do you guys think it is pleasent to read structured documents (e.g. scientific papers or program code in PDFs) on a 7 inch device with 1280x800?

That's a serious question, not a complaint: I have made bad experiences with 7 inches readers for this kind of stuff, but then the Nexus 7 has a lot of pixels.
The leveldb page shows mixed results wrt sqlite3 - I would say that it is generally faster that sqlite3 based on the results. There is no comparison to sqlite4.

Most notably in large value operations, and also slightly in random reads, sqlite3 wins. In in other benchmarks however, leveldb is faster.

The leveldb page notes that they perform poorly with large values due to the increased I/O that is done. The relatively poor random read performance isn't discussed but my guess is that it's due to having to fetch a compressed page of data that contains values for other keys, thus leveldb is doing "more work" than strictly necessary.
> Because computers are tools, and we'd like people to be independent and to be able to use their tools efficiently.

Hence the drive towards UI simplicity.
Well. Think about it. Probably 95% of the instructions executed on your computer were generated by a C compiler or inlined withing a C program. Check out how many of your programs are linked to a standard or special C library. Perl, bash, Python etc. are written in C. Most libraries are written in C.Throw in what's basically C programming in Objective C and C++ and we're closer to 99%
This is more than strange for a page which has 'landing' in the URL (www.google.com/landing/now/). Vague video, vague texts and no hints as what am I supposed to do with this Now-thing, or even what it actually is. Left me totally clueless of what to do next.
Also, I wonder if Now is going to be available in the future for Google customers with devices other than Android or maybe even as a web-app or iGoogle widget.
What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says
I've recently started relearning my C skill, since I've had not touch it in almost a decade. I'm combining LCTHW, K&R and Sedgewick's Algorithms in C series in the process.

I have not had so much fun programming since high school. The general feeling of increased brainpower lurks with me these days mostly because of it.
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It's not so much that I disagree with it, as I just get tired of seeing it brought up every single time a blog post has a swear word in it.
The Blub Paradox is by far the most interesting ... ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_paradox#Blub

(its to do with programmers' views of other languages)
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Facebook already includes tools to solve your issues. Either unfriend the vague acquintances, hide all their posts from your feed, or hide the annoying posts following some criteria.
http://Masswerks.com/consultation.htm < clickable
10 Team Building Actions That are Louder Than Words
You should consider caching your post before putting it here. Google doesn't seem to have a cached version either and I'm unable to read your post because your site is down.
Google Nexus 7 Running Android 4.1 Jellybeans
As someone who's excited to be learning Python, seeing tools like this makes me even happier. Thanks! I have a feeling going back to PHP is going to be very difficult for me :)
Why are you facebook friends with people who post things you don't like?

I don't facebook often... don't they still have the ability to turn down how frequently you see posts from people? Can't you put them in facebook's equivalent of "circles" and keep their crap out of your feed?
When you are about to grant access to an application, be sure to read the policies and pay attention to your feed. Remove any unwanted crap.

It's like maintaining your inbox unfortunately.
Obama Health-Care Overhaul Upheld By U.S. Supreme Court
Sorry for Godwinning this thread, but “I didn't do it, I was acting in the name of an inanimate entity!” is up there with “I was just following orders!”

Non-monetary punishments would be warranted for abuses of police power, because they threaten the social contract, which brings them within the purview of criminal law (not to say there isn't a civil case as well).
I wonder if there's a legally creative way to keep the IP outside the US, but license it to a US company that acts as a reseller.
so what was the performance improvement of invoke dynamic in the end? there doesn't seem to be any benchmark on the web at the moment.
Spot on. A great illustration of this here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#2._.22...
Looks like the author has partially succumbed to Hello World Fallacy. His first extremely simple experiment (I'm reluctant to call it 'app') was successful and he is extrapolating this in slightly too optimistic direction.
4K TVs are coming, but they face an uphill battle in the home
You can debate about this forever. It's like reading tea leaves.

The real world consequence, however, is this: if you want to be able to update your device for as long as possible you should get an iOS device. I'm talking consequences, not so much intentions.
Actually I've discovered that the ads keep appearing even if you do hide all their posts from your feed.
This is one of the strengths Europe has right now: a somewhat less maligned patent system.
I saw the email thing as a non-issue - if you're looking at my info on FB, then the easiest way to contact me is on FB. It doesn't bother me that people aren't referred to my Gmail account instead.
Sure, but "make a ton of money doing what you hate, then do what you love" seems to be the advice that "do what you love" is intended to counter.
Amen!

Wont people talk about Invoke-dynamic? how did it work out in the end?
They don't post things I don't like -- they merely like things I don't like and the things they like post things on their behalf and without their knowledge.

Even if you put a person on "ignore" the ads will still show up.
Cloud Helps Europe’s Small Biz Smash The Economy
Burpsuite v1.4.10 Released
I agree. I am "resisting" to buy a tablet for years, but this hardware with pure Android (I have made a rule to buy only Nexus devices when buying Android phones, I hate the stress to get the updates on non Nexus) at this price point made it hard to resist.
Computers are not tools. Computers are platforms for which you can build and use tools. The programs, such as MS Office and Facebook, are the tools. Most people are content to just use tools, not build them.
Yes, I was thinking about people learning Python too when developing this. My daughter is 6 years old, and I suspect she will learn Python in a few years or even months ;-)
US Supreme Court healthcare rules Obama's healthcare law constitutional.
Here is an explanation from Matt Levine: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/the-tale-of-a-whale-of-a-fail... .

And one from Lisa Pollack: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/11/996131/too-big-to... .

The understanding is that the JPM CIO was writing protection on CDX.IG.NA.9, a synthetic credit default index.
I've been wondering about this, if I'm the only one going crazy or what. I don't think the ones that appear in your news feed are called "sponsored stories", but I could be wrong.

It's almost enough that I want to email my family and tell them to unlike all the crap they liked... Even trying to get FB not to display "likes" from that person fails to hide them.
Their language models might perform acceptably with text, but speech is much looser with structure and grammar. They may apply a bit of local expectation-maximisation but anything more strict or long-range wouldn't work.
Nope, the Nexus 7 is getting sold in a number of different countries to start.

It's the Nexus Q that's US-only right now.
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Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal”
Google Nexus 7 tablet hands-on: Is it special enough?
Not sure why they didn't include the option of 4G as being an advantage of those Apple devices.

The size advantage of the Nexus 7 is great for mobility (honestly dislike carrying an iPad in my bag) but the majority of areas are not going to have wifi, hampering a bit of it's advantage.
The hottest, new innovation? We've got one. Wait, two
How to improve Javascript cryptography
Street View already works in the WebGL version of Google Maps, with performance no worse than the Flash version.
You're mom is beautiful. WTF why isn't anyone talking about the fact that Google is releasing cool stuff developers actually want to use now!
Given that existing Android tablets from OEMs are not selling greatly, if this tablet is a success will it not be to the detriment of these OEMs already taking a hit on Android? So basically Samsung etc. are now competing with Google in the Android tablet space :-(

My personal feeling is that it was released in reaction to the Amazon Fire, which Google must be pretty pissed-off about given that it has sold well and is firmly on it's own Android branch, further deepening fragmentation. It's no coincidence that they are both 7" tablets for $200.
Boost 1.50.0 released
Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law
Google has far more information about me than facebook does. My search habits paint a far more detailed and personal picture about me than where I went or what I ate today. It is completely reasonable to be weary of giving even more data to google. I'd rather not have all my information housed in a single company. I trust google just as much as facebook (very little).
Great comment. Funny and true. A CEO's job is also to clean up the metaphorical shit that gets dumped: I had one of those days today. Someone's got to do it.
But they were never mass market in the same way. Walk on to the tube today and 70% will have their noses buried in an iPhone (or less often, a 'droid). That wasn't the case with either PDA's or pocket TV's. Possibly with walkmans/iPods.
Can someone tell me if it is WebGL capable?
Not "now"
Welcome to the infinite version.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-versio...
Supreme Court upholds Obama health care law
I'm positive you're right. Blaze is at home, so they are at bat in the first half of the inning, indicated by their row being shifted forward slightly.

I think its a pretty clever design.

Edit: Not so sure about it now. Its too bad it wasn't misaligned in the correct direction.
Australia does not need foreign investment. It's a reasonably developed country with a high standard of living and a small population (22 million). If anything they are better of discouraging foreign investment until after this boom as it drives up domestic prices and effectively acts as a loan which is paid back when the foreign investors pull their profit back.
Some feature suggestions:

Add collapsible comments (previously done here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2680632) -- this is my most-used HN browser addition.

Refresh the 'More' links at the bottom of pages so you never get an 'expired link' error.

Add username tagging. Easily one of RES' best features.
Thanks ! I am going to think about it ;-)
I feel stupid for not coming up with prominent examples like YouTube/Blogger, but these are less 'generic' than things like 'Glass,' 'Play,' or 'Plus.'
"This was the work of people frustrated that they still don't know the price or launch date of Microsoft's new Surface tablet."

I hope that's meant to be some sort of strange attempt at a joke...not that it seems appropriate.
I think Go, for example, performs syscalls directly.

> However, C requires you to know more about how the compiler is going to turn your ... into assembly code.

But does it really require (with emphasis)? The nature of some debugging and optimisation might push you towards that, but it's still a choice.

I feel your point comes down to the use of C as a "vehicle" to learn low-level concepts. Which is fine, but someone can also just learn them directly (upfront or retroactively) and use whatever progression of languages they want.
Ancient text gives clue to mystery 8th century radiation spike
"Nowadays, if you "Like" something, then that something can pay for the privilege to insert whatever stories it likes into your friends' facebook feeds, under the heading "so-and-so likes such-and-such" followed by your own message."

I find myself wanting to set up a Facebook account just to start screwing with that. Is it something that can be screwed with? ("jerf liked Crest brand toothpaste! He said: 'When you get home from a long day of work and just really need the unctuous feel of something smeared on your feet, there's nothing like Crest Toothpaste. Mmmm.... yeah.... oh my.... pics soon.'") Getting someone else to pay for that would almost be worth it.
I think I must be in the minority of people that doesn't use Facebook to brag or project a different side to myself. I think this is the reason I don't see it from the other side of the fence.

Some people use it to tell people how well they are doing or how much they love their loved ones. I text or ring my wife if I feel like telling her out the blue how much I love her. Others use the facebook wall to do it so everyone could see how sensitive they are. I think it's all bollocks really.

I do just use it as a tool, I plan events, I upload the odd photo and comment on others status' that I find funny / worth a comment. e.g. I uploaded a video of my little boy at the driving range the other night as I was impressed how well he hit it for his second time at golf. I did it for the benefit of my family and friends to see though. Nothing more.

Everyone else I just filter out or de-friend based on who they are to me.
It’s a really bad habit of certain financial types and inappropriate almost anywhere. Hacker News is not a financial hangout and the story is not even primarily about finance. Even a financially oriented news service like Bloomberg usually writes “million”:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:bloomberg.com+intitle:mi...
From CNN's live blog [1]:

Chief Justice John Roberts had noted that however that the
mandate would have been struck down based on the commerce
clause , saying it would "open a new and vast domain" for
Congressional power.
...
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a long opinion in which
he said the controversial individual mandate may be upheld
and is within Congress’ power under the taxing clause
rather than the commerce clause.

This helped me understand their decision. I'm still not sure what to make of the decision, personally.

[1] http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-...
I think people put too much emphasis on Facebook and what perceived problems it is 'suppose to solve' in their lives. You get out of it what you put it into it, just like anything else (mostly). If you don't feel connected with your friends, it's not FB's fault. FB to me isn't designed to make my connections with friends stronger, it's designed to keep lingering friendships going.

On a side note, why is it so important to declare that you are no longer using or on Facebook. This isn't limited to the OP either. I've met people in real life, who take great pride in not using FB anymore. I find it in the tech & podcast world too. It's a strange type of snobbery, between 'those in the know who aren't on facebook' versus the 'sheep who are on facebook'.

Well, I am no longer using brand name nasal spray. It wasn't fulfilling my life I like I thought it was supposed to. I used it like the bottle says too and while it does what it says it's supposed to, it's not what I want.
SCotUS upholds "Obamacare"
Supreme Court Upholds Obama Health Care Law
For compiling C++ code. Which gcc will start using. This is just a way to make compiling gcc take 20 times longer.
Exactly. Is it an Android app? A browser / mobile combo? Is there an iOS version? Where do I get it? If I can't try it now, when is it being released?
reminds me a bit of zazu
Google definitely do run aggressive ad campaigns, although so far it's been limited to Chrome.

They are selling the device in almost all English speaking countries.
How is email a "soulless money making machine"?

You have control over email: providers, client applications, encryption. Sure, many many people use gmail and gmail isn't too different to facebook in this regard, but email itself is an open protocol where you can use a competing service and still integrate with others.
>Google doesn't "read" your emails.

For now. But what happens when data mining technology increases to the point where they can deduce real facts about you as a person from all this data they're collecting. I think this is what people mean when they say Google "reads" your email.
Supreme Court Allows Health Care Law to Stand
This still counts as "reading" your mails. Google analyzes my email and comes up with a categorization, stored somewhere on their servers, attached to my account, that says something like "Show this guy ads about computer stuff". If that information is subpoenaed, it will be revealed that computers, programming, and other technical things are among my most frequently discussed topics.

By itself this information is innocuous, but in the right context and with just a pinch of the heartlessness of a giant computer system, the wrong set of categorizations could cause a really big problem.
The "mentorship system" you've heard of isn't a mentorship system. When it works it connects you with a friendly Chilean that can help you by picking you up from the airport, helping you find accommodation, introducing you to other friendly locals and showing you around the city. They are generally no more experienced or connected than participants in the program. Sadly it works less than 50% of the time - most participants rarely see the "mentors" they've been assigned to.

They could be more useful to the startups if they were provided with some mentorship training and if there was some light-weight facilitation like YC's Office Hours to help it along.
It costs far more than that. What's missing is the lost wealth due to things that weren't created but would have been, not only because people were afraid or unmotivated to create them but because of the money the trolls took.
I am reminded about this scene from Wall-E: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohcwksrvDOg
Speech may be much looser, but a classifier to (try to) detect absolute gibberish from real content doesn't look too far fetched to me. Its only action would be to disable the subtitles by default if gibberish was detected.

It may be computationally impractical though.
Cached version has finally come through: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Please explain what is new/interesting about this. It looks more like just another ad for a form of credit which is already proven to be bad for economy (through actual crisis).
"Of course, for most programmers(let alone people in general) this is nearly useless information today. It's obsolete. And that's good."

I'm not sure how you can say that knowledge of assembly/hardware is obsolete. Perhaps unneeded for tasks that most programmers have in our hip new ad-driven world, but someone still has to understand and write the code that runs the code that eventually puts the cat-based meme on your screen.

Engineers seldom use calculus, but they used derived functions every day. The same applies to programming, everyone who programs should be exposed to the low level innards enough to at least take the magic away and have a basic concept of what a computer actually does. You'll be better for it.
Then I retract my half-hearted defense that perhaps Google is invested in Flash.
No, in many countries bureaucracy is not part of doing business. Especially in Estonia where setting up a company or doing anything with the government public services, taxes, reporting etc takes a few minutes online and is never done on paper.
But there are strings attached, which somehow constitutes "force."
Where's Your Business Logic?
Direct link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.pr...