skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asserted nothing of the sort. Regulation is just a part of it. Again, I could go on for days. It's the result of both employer subsidized health insurance and bad regulation. I'm not against regulation. I'm just against stupid regulation and there's a ton of stupid regulation in the health industry today. Prime example: not being able to purchase health insurance out of state, which forces insurance corporations to setup shell companies in every state complicating the claims process and creating a ton of bureaucratic waste. On the employer provided bit, by having the employer negotiate the terms of the coverage, it removes the insured from the process. I, as an individual, have nearly no choice in the matter. I either go with the employer provided plan or I go with an ubsubsidized plan where there's nearly no competition in the marketplace, among other things (so rates are ridiculous).
2012 and we still don't really know what time is. The fact that we can keep track of it, even with all the problems, is quite amazing.
I have watched most of these as well. I took a course last semester at Auburn University that was based off this one and is nearly identical, we even used the same book listed on the site, written by these guys at MIT. They literally wrote the book on the subject.
Taking startup advice seriously is a bad idea if you get it from blog posts. Most of it is blind leading the blind. I think Max Levchin's startup advice response on quota is more interesting than the average.
Could he be a chance at Person of the Year?
It's the Ecosystem, Stupid
In the mobile and casual computing landscape there will only be three major players: Apple ($AAPL), Google ($GOOG) and Microsoft ($MSFT). Why? Because they have and are continuing to build omni-channel, multi-device ecosystems.
Markus Kuhn proposed something similiar:

"UTC with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS)": http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/utc-sls/
Or just remove your Facebook login credentials entirely, thus rendering the app unable to do anything? (I don't have that exact model but I think this should work, no?)
The real solution is not to use broken NTP: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
Impact of Google+ History, the Newest Feature to Be Released by Google
Good thing I'm not using Facebook or its mail service then.

My statement was about email forwarding from my domain... D:
Yep, sorry. Ever since the crazy mods took over I've been having issues with reply links disappearing or linking to the wrong comments.
A: To have something to lord over the other baristas.
We may actually see them both happening at once; one of the things R. Stanley Williams talks about in his excellent memristor talk is a method they developed for stacking hundreds of chips on top of a processor, which he says may end up providing just as much benefit as the memristor itself.

The possibilities that could be opened up by having a terabyte or more of extremely fast non volatile storage attached by a bus as large as you care to make it directly on top of a CPU are mind boggling.

Then when you consider that you can use them as FPGAs for computation instead and dynamically reconfigure them... wow.

Memristors are only a year or two away from commercial availability, though it will probably be a while after that until they live up to the hype. We live in exciting times.

The talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
Read the linked article.

> The work-around is to just turn off ntpd. If ntpd already issued the adjtimex(2) call, you may need to disable ntpd and reboot to be 100% safe.
Uh...

Red Hat gives its source out for free as it is legally obliged to do (which CentOS and others take and build).

To get official RHEL binaries (which also come with support), you must pay for a subscription.
I gained all of these above qualities by working for 6 years, becoming jaded and burnt out, leaving the PhD program, and then finally repurposing myself. Other than the projects you specifically worked on and the papers you published what can you say the greatest advantage over someone in my situation would be?

I understand the grind as a tool for personal sharpening better than a successful graduate would because it is all I have to take from the experience - no plaudits, no social or familial approval, no resume bullet (rather more like a gaping resume maw, depending upon the attitude of the person reading it).
People really hate uncontrolable spams. Think of the email spams we have to deal with over the decade.
I fail to see what that technical detail matters. IANAL but the practical effect of this move is to intercept private communications they didn't see before without explicit permission from the user. I'd love to see a lawyer have a good go at this one.
Caseorganic is a woman, by the way.
Good to know, I figured as much just to be on the safe side.

Strike "supposedly".
Stargate (best sidescroller ever), Galaga...most video games from 1981-3 were amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_video_gaming
No, that's the problem here: I had definitely hidden my @facebook email address (setting it to be visible to only me) when it was first created. After a number of people posted this story, I found that the email address was suddenly the only one showing. That's what is so nefarious about this. I had to go and reselect the options I had already chosen, and the only reason I noticed it was because of the press. Really slimy.
Well, a new accelerator Acceleprise (acceleprise.vc) just started up to tackle the space. At the very least, it might be worthing reaching out and talking to some of their mentors.

Note: I have no affiliation with Acceleprise
Perhaps. But perhaps that wouldn't have done any damage either as it technically doesn't discourage:

"If [Biddy Baxter's] letter had shown any hint of ridicule or disbelief I might perhaps never have trained to become a medical scientist or been driven to achieve the impossible dream..."
Easy to use GPU accelerated neural networks - Torch 7
StatCounter sees low usage from China (in page-views). The great firewall certainly plays a role. I wonder if said firewall doesn't also play games with the user-agent header, though.

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms#incorrect-wei...
A few years ago, there was talk of producing chips with three dimensional stacks of NAND cells (for example, http://www.semi.org/en/node/38361?id=sgurow0811 ). Has there has been any movement on this front? Every article I can find on the subject is a year old or more. This strikes me as the ideal way around the limits of individual NAND cell size, with an obvious proviso that drastically new manufacturing techniques would need to be perfected before this limit is hit.
It doesn't work like that. The mass of water displaced is equal to the mass of the floating ice itself. Melting a piece of ice has no change on water level.

so yeah, nothing changes.
Anything is worth the hassle if the rewards make up for it. If you don't believe me think about cameras and photo fanatics. You just have to beat someone at something to give yourself an edge. Then work that edge.
From the FAQ http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_faq.html: the data comes from a sample of 600 million requests (out of two trillion (?)) to mostly US sites who are Akamai customers.
FWIW, although it is no doubt not an apples/apples comparison[1], todays faster SSDs (~500MB/s) have roughly the same bandwidth as pentium-era PC-66 ram, while todays faster DDR3 is >12GB/s (which i guess doubles with dual channel). So its not 100% crazy.

1. no doubt latency etc are much better for RAM.
I just can't wrap my mind around it: a discussion complaining about excluding people from entering the tech world with a comment ridiculing people in the tech world. Who should I sympathize with?

Personally I can not see anything negative about those Google programmers. Their office looks disorganized? Really? Because women are always tidy? And even so - are you saying that people who don't organize their offices well should not allowed to become engineers, because it harms the engineering occupation? Or that people who look like programmers should not allowed to be programmers? Or that programmers who look like programmers (whatever that means) should be made to not look like programmers? None of that makes any sense to me.

What makes sense to me is that people should mind their own businesses. If you want to become a techie and like an organized office, organize your office. I don't see the problem.
It was my personal site that I recently "scrubbed" off the web. I updated my profile for my business site. Thanks for the reminder.
I guess that makes me sexist for assuming male heh, what a plot twist! I'll leave my post as is for posterity.
The perceptual performance increase from a SSD in a laptop or a desktop is tremendous, and there's no going back once you make the leap. Hopefully, HDDs will shortly follow DVD-ROMs down the memory hole for portables.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-12-02/
I think you'd have to show they accepted the email, then chose not to deliver it to the user.

I think this is just incompetence. hopefully, it's coupled with a little incontinence.
Not sure how the facebook app integrates with the contact list, but isn't it only a projection of information that facebook servers publish? I.e. it's not "your personal contact details", but rather an entry that you accepted as being presented by facebook?

It would be disturbing if they changed an existing entry that you created yourself, but if it's only an entry bound to an external (facebook) account, I'm not sure it's that bad. Which one is it then?
Even if that's so, we are not getting the second "back". This leap second is a second added to UTC, to adjust for the slowed-down earth rotation. There was never a leap second that removes a second from our UTC clock so far (it may happen in the future).
I am starting an "enterprise" software company. I agree that often enterprise software is complete garbage, and the reasons organizations purchase said software is not because it is actually good, or even does what its supposed to.

But I don't think that should be a deterrent to building an enterprise software startup--there's room for disruption, and room for good software, good people, and good decisions. There are good organizations out there to work with.

Smart startups can beat the big entrenched code.

That said my co-founder is a great salesman (I'm the techinical co-founder), and having a sales team is high on my priority list.
It was an itch I wanted to scratch. I’d been tempted to convert my entire (Django-based) blog over to something like Hyde[1], but wanted a bit more flexibility than the framework provided.

In most applications I work on, I lovingly use and abuse Memcached, Redis, and Varnish. If you’re working on an application that warrants using a live website and the whole application server shebang, then yes, I’d agree with you.

But for something like my blog and other non-dynamic websites which don’t update very much at all, I’m not sure if I see a pressing need for an application server. My blog previously ran varnish-nginx-uwsgi-django, but I was moving off of a VPS and it was the last thing left on that server. I got curious.

In the case of something like the L.A. Times’ Data Desk[2] projects (who use their own django-bakery app), if some views are very expensive/slow to generate, you can offload the work from the application server and do it in advance. (This makes sense if you want to just render everything out on a fast workstation or if you have a local database of several hundred gigabytes that you don’t want a live server querying to crunch the data.) It’s not out of the question to pregenerate HTML pages, JSON for visualizations, and simple image files (generated in PIL).

In any case: it’s not so much a question of “high traffic apps” as much as the tradeoff between (computation cost + server maintenance cost) and (app that is server-side dynamic or updates frequently). Most people don’t want to configure and maintain an app server (with cache layers and all) for a simple app and those that don’t seem to have uptime issues the moment they get any legitimate traffic: see [3].

So:

* I decided I didn’t want to maintain an app server for my blog, and my historical average for updates is about once every four weeks (or even more infrequent).
* People seemed to be big fans of Jekyll/Hyde, Movable Type’s static publishing mode[4], WP Super Cache, etc.
* I felt a Django-friendly analogue to those would be cool.
* Like any developer tinkering with their own blog, there didn’t have to be a point.

[1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hyde/
[2]: http://datadesk.latimes.com/
[3]: http://inessential.com/2011/03/16/a_plea_for_baked_weblogs
[4]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/18/brent-baked
Basically, pandas, numpy, and matplotlib give me everything I could have wanted out of matlab from a numerical capabilities and graphing perspective.

In my opinion, matlab's excellent object inspection and debugging capabilities can be replaced with strict testing standards in your code-base.

On top of that, I get to use a whole slew of libraries that are non mathematically related -- frameworks for web services, accessing ftp servers, sending e-mails -- a lot of automated "utility" stuff.

And it is all "free". Fantastic.
Actually, IMO the Nokia lawsuit is a great example of why everybody picks on Apple and how Apple has changed the rules of the game.

The old rules of the game were that

1) all the big guys cross-licensed each other's patents
2) the big guys got together to create standards and used patents to monetize these standards.

Note that the old rules of the game weren't particularly fair to the little guys, but at least they weren't the mutual destruction that Apple has started.

Apple is a big player in #2, receiving a fair portion of the MP4 licensing profits, for example.

But of course, Apple being a relatively new phone maker doesn't have any skin in the "phone standards" game, and has to license them from the older players like Qualcomm, Nokia & Motorola. The standards agreement force these guys to license in a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory fashion (FRAND).

Nokia said that a patent cross-license was FRAND. If Apple were good guys, they would have agreed -- they could get these phone-essential patents for less or even no money. However, they were reserving these patents for offensive purposes, so Nokia & Apple couldn't come to an agreement, essentially forcing Nokia to sue them.
What I would like to know is what are the expected future prices? Are they expected to continue to fall, level off, or is this expected to be a temporary low?
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Supermarket food is grown in the Central Valley, which is at least 100 miles from L.A.

Only Farmer's Market foods are grown in quantity close to L.A.
So where's my 1TB solid state disk to replace the 256GB one I've been using in my laptop for 3 years now? It seems as though all innovation in storage stopped in 2009, and we've been coasting ever since. And don't even mention there's still no 4TB hard disks. My blu-ray rip collection isn't getting any smaller and our storage systems aren't getting better anywhere near fast enough.
Well that makes easy to understand - thanks.
Now's actually a pretty good time to tackle these problems since "users" are becoming accustomed to using tools they like. You just have to be clever about how you tackle a particular problem, you're not going to take down PeopleSoft by trying to sell companies a PeopleSoft replacement. Rather, you're going to build something like Expensify that saves individual employees from some of the more irritating things they may have to do with PeopleSoft.

A good general trick is to build something that solves some portion of an enterprise's need, make it free to try out and cheap to use at work. There are a huge number of people out there that can pay some nominal amount for a service and expense it, it's just a matter of finding some need people with that level of autonomy have and getting them to pay you to fix it. Easy, right?

I wouldn't start by trying to navigate the maze, just avoid it altogether until you have a compelling reason to take that burden on.
Why is he only working 27 hours/week? If he's serious about raising himself out of poverty, finding another part-time job would seem to be a priority.

Maybe they won't let him work more hours per week? Many businesses do just that so they can claim the worker as "part-time" permanently and not pay for their benefits or give them leave.

As for a second part-time job, as others have mentioned, it's hard to look for work when your commute can eat up to 5 hours of your day and you don't get off work until 1AM.
Woah, for some reason I always thought Xevious was from 1986 or so. I'm kind of shocked how many great games came out from 1980-1982...

To that list I'd add Spy Hunter (don't want to think how many quarters I sank into this without ever getting very far) and Gaplus (my favorite of the Galaxion spin-offs).
Why? I see no net benefit to the general public.
So people who look like the ones on that jobs page should not enter tech? I really don't understand your point.

I also don't understand the entitlement aspect. What I experienced is that skilled people get respect. Nobody gets respect for having started programming at age 6. But most of them probably became good programmers, so they get respect.

I can't imagine really good people looking down on others. If you enjoy programming (as an example), why wouldn't you want to spread the joy.

Why don't you just avoid the nasty people. And, to be honest, perhaps see a shrink about your self-consciousness (sorry, but there seems to be an issue and you are shifting the blame instead of confronting yourself).
I think you're both talking about different sides of the same problem.

Visualize a single SSD cell as a bucket of electrons. If it's full of electrons, it stands for 1. If it's empty, it stands for 0. Reading this is fast and unambiguous - there's either lots or none. (Single Level Cell type)

Now visualize a bucket that can be filled with no electrons, a third full, two-thirds full, or full of electrons. Now you've got 4 possibilities, so you can encode 2 bits! (Multiple Level Cell type)

Most consumer SSDs use the latter kind, MLC. It's slower to read and the results have to be amplified with better error correction, but you get so much more storage per chip that it's usually worth doing it this way.

The problem is that once you've cranked each of these cells down to 18nm or whatever, you're talking about holding and measuring (at most) 100 electrons per cell. What's that, 0, 33, 66, and 100 electrons? Crank it down even further and you can hold even less.

I think I pulled the numbers out of my ass, but the idea is essentially correct. We're close to the point where it's too difficult and error-prone to get a good read on a cell, requiring too much error correction to make engineering sense and rendering the MLC technique infeasible.

Also going below 18nm is going to be a pain in the ass for other reasons. So it's sort of a mutual dead end.
What if you don’t have control over your hosting environment? (Or don’t have an application hosting environment to work with? Or don’t want to provision one?)

What if you don’t want to use your own infrastructure? (See Ars Technica’s WWDC liveblog[1], which polls JSON files that are in the same directory and appeared to be periodically updated during the event, by some software that a reporter was using. Ostensibly because the feature is short-lived, super-high-traffic — likely thousands of concurrent users — and should be as low latency as possible due to the nature of the event.)

Not to knock on Varnish, because I use it on plenty of larger things and love it. I just think that there are usecases where you can rationalize not even having an application server to cache in front of.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/liveblogs/wwdc-keynote-2012/index.h...
That doesn't tell me how much money Google makes from it, if any.
Drive speeds have increase, capacity is slowly rising. Why compete on capacity when hdds still dominate it. But yes, this industry is still slow in it's evolution.
You know your value system sucks when the question "does it matter where you go to college?" is automatically assumed to be about salary.
Other than the projects you specifically worked on and the papers you published what can you say the greatest advantage over someone in my situation would be?

I have no idea -- that's why I put that parenthetical caveat in that paragraph :)
There are 1TB SSDs, but not many. I guess few people want to spend $1,000 on a single SSD.

Seagate has a 4TB disk; they were probably about to release it when the floods hit so I guess they decided to wait.
These are all good points that I generally agree with. It is also the case, however, that experiences do vary. For example, my supervisor was hands off to the point where I had to largely fend for myself. The quals and proposals were more things that got in the way of research rather than helped. This was the case so much that I ended up doing my proposals long after research was underway.

The thesis and defence is useful in the same way that publications are. However, even there, if you get a bad committee with political or personal axes to grind, it can be very much not that helpful. My experiences with publications are the same. I've had good rejections that help me improve the work as well as several bad rejections (from conferences where you cannot respond) where the reviewer simply did not understand the research.

In short, for some people a PhD is very hands on rather than overly formal.
I got my PhD in English so when there's an emergency and someone yells: "Is anyone a doctor!?!?!" I can reply: "I am!" And then I start reciting one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets. (Bonus points for anyone who can guess which one.)
Not really, Instagram was not.
Overcoming Bias : Good friends can make bad business partners
The way I copied facebook contact information was to sync to yahoo contacts, then export yahoo contacts, then import into google contacts.

I'm not sure how this would work on/in the mobile ecosystem, but I'd have to imagine that getting on your desktop/laptop computer for a few minutes would be worth the effort of backing up the information.
If your HN contribution is nothing more than a catchy meme, you're gonna have a bad time.

(So am I. I'm aware.)
It sounds like this is iOS's built-in Facebook integration that was blindly trusting Facebook's data.
College doesn't fucking matter in any way, shape, or form in the context of reality and actually doing good, productive things. Nor do people who base hires / who they like on where those people went to college.
In MeeGo they used an RDF triplestore for much of the personal data.
I, as well, have set the @facebook.com address as hidden and set my normal address as visible and public. After the story broke I found my usual address "hidden from timeline" and the @facebook.com address visible.
So much cheaper and environmentally better to tax people for having 3 or more kids instead. Get the population down and we don't need to mine so much. Rockets pollute our atmosphere.
Hmm, so the idea is that a company will actually sell below the price you'd later see in a competitive market? That's an interesting proposition, but it doesn't hold water.

Is it possible in theory? I doubt it, but I can't disprove it off the top of my head. But it just doesn't happen in the pharma industry. When a drug patent runs out, generics come out and the price drops dramatically, every single time. It is true that name brand prices do actually increase when patents expire, but not the generic prices, and that means that quantity supplied will certainly increase once generics are introduced.
What metrics would you use to determine quality of education? (I assume, like me, this is what you were hoping this article would be about.)
I have the Facebook app forced on my Nexus One (thanks, Google!) but I never logged in and it didn't touch my contacts as hoped.
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