skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure of that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(graphics_chip)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)

The xbox 360 GPU has 48 shaders and the core cpu is a 3-core running at 3.2 GHz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_3

The tegra 3 is a quad core 1.4-1.6 Ghz cpu with 8 shaders. 8.

That's not console level graphics. Don't get me wrong, it's better than most phones might have, but it's literally half as fast, and has 1/6th as many shaders.

That's a massive gap. I can't help but think the stuff that runs on this phone will just be meh, especially on high res displays.

Edit: And just to give you some idea how distant that is from 'state of the art', the geforce GTX 690 is running 3072 shaders and has 4 GB of on board ram.
Paths and file names on Unix fundamentally do not have encoding: the filesystem represents them as sequences of bytes, and it is entirely possible to have a directory full of folders where there is no codec that is capable of faithfully or even reasonably decoding all of the names contained (or even that Unicode itself is capable of representing the semantically correct decoding of the filenames if you knew what theoretical codec represented them in the first place).

It is therefore a fundamental mistake and a misinterpretation of the semantics of filesystems by Python 3 to insist that file names are represented by Unicode strings with a locale-sensitive encoding; in fact, I question whether there are interesting security ramifications inherent in this mistake (such as allowing me to change the locale in which a process is running and thereby remap its import path; this coming up, of course, as this article is largely about sys.path and Unicode).
Hmm. A daily direct-mail, direct-phone, etc campaign that appears to come from him (paid for by The Committee to Teach about Lamar Smith), until people can't stand the thought of his name anymore. It doesn't have to be a hate-campaign. Make it reasonable, just non-stop.

I wonder if that could work or if it would backfire.
There is a typo on the 'Gridspot Safe' page.

Network proxying
While we allow Internet traffic from software doing compuations on our platform,

Should be 'computations'.
The person (Bruno) replying on behalf of Droplr is "in charge of the whole server-side circus — API server, system administration, web app backend —, the SDK libraries for third-party clients, the Windows app and the iOS app." http://biasedbit.com/about/

(I realize there is a risk of sending a mob by linking to his personal page, but I think there is evidence he is indeed "intelligent" and simply misunderstood this particular piece of the puzzle. He just need a bit more humility.)
Yeah, just not cutting it for me. I understand the workarounds but the reality is they shouldn't be required. I should be able to right-click a directory and "Add to Dropbox"
I agree, theres a level of trust when you use hosting providers like Amazon and heroku. With this, there's no way i'd do anything remotely sensitive with one of these boxes.
They seem to have removed most of the profanities since last time I checked. Linux is officially boring now :(
Ask HN: Kickass iOS/Mobile Dev Company needed
HN:

My company has a spin off application that we built an engineering prototype of that does indoor location (patent pending) and we have several very large tech companies in the bay interested in being the first client.

I have a spec and UI, mocks and story boards for the next client. We will be partnering with a dev consultancy to build the initial product and also build this out to a stand alone company.

There is a server, mobile client and 3rd party API integration required to build this.

Any HNers in the SFBay that have an iOS dev company similar to Pivital Labs that would be interested in quoting the work. (Must be a team - this is not a single developer type project)
These days you could simply cover the right side of your monitor with a small piece of cardboard and never see ads again. OR - simply don't look. A part of me thinks non-adword based advertising is going to implode because we are creating a generation of internet users that have been trained through high-use to simply ignore ads.
Using Memcache: An In-Depth Look at Example Code
Ok. Makes perfect sense for B-Trees (as long as you have enough remaining memory/machine for a decent size cache). I think for a game's partitioned scene graph, the change rate would be rather painful.
Cached Version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
It takes time and effort _for them_ to keep on top of, as they _don't_ just push any random ads. They'd rather use that time and effort on other things.
Number of startups is way up, number of financial events is up, number of links on the home page is still 30 ;)
New Zealand is a global corporate tax haven. They have leverage.
double submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226911
I feel sorry for the author here. Its very easy to criticise and hard to create. There are a lot of people here trying to tear him down. If you know better - stop sitting around on Hackernews and go make it. If not, then stop whining when someone is trying to do something constructive - or at the very least provide some points you think he can fix and be nice about it, not like a petulant 12-year old...
From the standpoint of their ultimate success, the key is their installed base. If they have say 20k or 30k machines out there, will developers care enough to target them?

It wouldn't matter if they were just another Android platform, they'll have Android games from the mass market. But if they plan to make money off revenue sharing with devs, they gotta have the machines out there.

I'm impressed that they're going to get this thing done, I just hope the get enough made to survive.
The NZ government froze $11m in NZ bank accounts. The US can't touch that without the NZ Govt sending it abroad, as far as I know.
I took care to read the fine submitted article (based on a press release) and most of the preceding twenty-some comments before replying here. Comments to the effect that we often see stories like this based on press releases that don't translate into clinically useful treatments are correct. Anyone who has been on Hacker News as long as I have has seen dozens upon dozens of stories about breakthrough medical treatments that don't turn out to be breakthroughs.

As usual, here in this thread I recommend Peter Norvig's article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" about how to read research reports in general.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Medical research is slow and painstaking. There has been genuine progress in medical research in my lifetime. (My mother was a nurse in our state's largest research hospital, and medical research was a subject of dinner table conversation in my home.) But false starts have been numerous. There are a great many medical treatments that have been proposed in my lifetime that have not been proven to be both safe and effective for treating what they purport to treat. Peter Norvig's article provides a good checklist of all the ways that optimistic initial reports can turn out to be wrong, of which "too few subjects" especially applies here.

I reply over and over and over again on threads like this here on Hacker News because I did grow up with a strong interest in medical research--and some anecdotes about medical research that went awry--and because I know that legitimate medical researchers sometimes find their work hyped by the university press office or funding agencies far beyond their own more cautious statements. But here on Hacker News we may as well learn how to be discerning readers. Let's not just believe what we want to believe, which is the cognitive bias all human beings have, but let's test factual statements for strong evidence and make sure that the experimental procedures reported in some new study mentioned in a press release really support a grand conclusion. It's too early here to say "Drug made from toxic weed kills cancer" in a way that is safe and effective for a broad range of human patients for even the one kind of cancer that is mentioned in the article submitted here. I'm glad someone is working on this, but it's way too early to declare that we've found a cancer cure through this work.
Google to pay 22.5 Million in privacy case
It seems BI has an exclusive interview with them:

http://www.businessinsider.com/ouya-raises-1-million-kicksta...
Of course, at the same time, given the history of phantomware in the console sector, I'll be a lot more impressed when the actually ship good, functional hardware.
Or at least purchase carbon offsets...
Conversely, only one public television organization was worth continual year after year funding.
If VMs are running on hardware Gridspot doesn't control, and if the filesystem isn't encrypted, how is my data secured?

At $0.002 per hour I'm actually OK with zero security, but it will limit the types of jobs that I'll use Gridspot for.
I'm fine with people pointing out the potential pitfalls. That's how I think about things myself.

The problem I have with the other thread is that the very first thing you read is "Looks like amateur hour."

That's a problem of tone, not content, and it's something that can be fixed at zero loss to the value of the site. By us, the users.

Discourage negative tone, encourage actual thinking.
This is a crazy thing to be saying at a time when everyone is questioning the price and performance of Surface.

Don't get me wrong. Surface looks good. But what is the impression after a week of use? Does the cheaper model compete effectively with the $400 iPad2? Does the more expensive model compete with an Ultrabook?

Really. Innovation is about competitiveness as much as ideas. And if the Surface is over priced without being as useful, then Ballmer's comments are embarrassing.
Lets be clear: Pig powers Yahoo and LinkedIn. Large enterprises. There's no question whether it is production ready.
The RAM argument amuses me since it has twice the RAM of the xbox360 and the PS3. And a dedicated console has different RAM requirements than a generic OS box. Also games have forever been making due with what RAM is available.

The DVD/blueray player IMHO misses the point. It's an internet download game console. It's now an all-in-one media box, it's one (cheap!) thing. Get a separate blueray/dvd player if you need (cheap too)

Ok I too wonder a bit about the storage but that mostly irrelevant if they have an SD card slot

Powerful enough video card? Well, it's playing android games and the tegra is the best android video card out there right now. I'm not sure you can just drop an off the shelf nvidia/ati card into and android/ARM setup and have it go with out some expensive driver development somewhere. The tegra already works, is ready to go, and gives the current best performance of the market and games they are targeting.

Controller: I'm pretty sure at over half a year out they can tweak that. And usually as with every other console there's a decent market in 3rd party controllers.

I think the $100 price point is one of it's best features and doubling it would be terrible.
Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You
Scientists have discovered what makes migration possible
Javascript errors in Chrome Dev Windows.
The major problem facing the world economy is excessive sovereign debt, and you cant blame the banks for that. Nor for the many other structural problems in the economy, or for shortage of natural resources, or AIDS, or wars, etc.

What people do is focus on one visible failing of the financial system, then assume everything would be rosy if not for that problem, ergo the banks are a drag on society. And then just devolve into a generic rant about the public being screwed by The Man.

The net outcome is whatever benefits the current banking system (or whatever aspect of it you're discussing) has brought minus whatever problems it caused.
UBeam Raises 750K -- recharging gadgets via ultrasound
Tao: Cambridge U. Press Launches Open-Access Journal "Forum of Mathematics"
There's never enough RAM. :-) I do hope that it can run some AAA games because I want it to disrupt the market that the big 3 dominate.
It's supposed to be an open hackable plateform so you can root it easily and even hack the hardware. So that mean you can add RAM, a more powerful video card, use your own controller. Even if you're not a hacker, it comes with a USB port so you can plug-in your usb stick or your 1Tb external hard drive if you need a secondary storage. Also, regular people don't need all that extra stuff or know they exist.
Wow that's a bummer I would have loved to at least see how far that money stretched (ie. places visited).
Sorry all, we've put up a cached version on the live site, so it's loading now. We'll also post details of the flights here so you can see how the trip was created.
When people say "it's not backed by anything", they need only compare it to mainstream currencies - they're not backed by anything anymore either.
Yeah, I get the events on iOS if I turn off touch scrolling, but I don't get the nice, smooth scrolling. I don't know how it works on Android.

However, on iOS, I can't seem to disable the bounce scrolling of the entire screen if I have any scrollable areas on the screen. So I ended up writing a decorator for overflow:auto elements that re-implements touch scrolling. And does a preventDefault() as necessary to prevent the bounce of the app.

Here is a gist of the decorator:

https://gist.github.com/3086981

and I've updated the original gist to include the ScrollController.

It works on the iPad, but I can't vouch for android. (This code is from a little weekend project.)

Edit: I didn't implement rubber banding or anything. It's just a quick and dirty scroll with some inertia based on a weighted average velocity of the last two touchmove events. It doesn't feel too bad, but it isn't perfect.
I don't think you are responding to the grandparent's argument. He's not saying no one would buy it, but that it will be very hard to deliver on the promise of a $100 console. The weakness of the processor is the least of his worries.
I hear from a person inside of Dropbox that they announced it early when they'd all gotten drunk and edited the planned well-written blogpost to go up immediately with the new prices.
Because sometimes authors have ulterior motives that you have to watch out for.

I'm not saying this article does have ulterior motives, just that acting as if every article has no author and hence no motive behind its writing is naive.
how about 3 folks @ $10,000.

Its great to see that KickStarter has such a network effect!!
Hmm, "hack" seems to return a few results...
it's almost scandalous how poorly Unicode has been implemented in the most popular development platforms.

Java, for instance, implemented 2-byte encoding and uses surrogates for the higher planes, which means you get the worst of both worlds... You double the size of ASCII text (that is, half the speed of bandwidth-limited operations on text) and you've still got a variable length encoding... but you've got lots of methods and user-written code that assume that the text is fixed length encoded. what a mess
working for me..
I think the point is that because the number of startups & startup-related financial events are higher, those 30 stories contain more startup-related financial event stories than previously.
This is explicitly part of their pitch to users. From TFA:

> Gridspot is perfect for jobs that:

> • ...

> • Aren't privacy sensitive
Tunes / Demo 5
I can't believe anyone would install their software without having any idea who this guy is.
I've not been able to find any analyses about mortgage borrowers being adversely affected. Regardless, they are not the targets of the fraud, so the idea about libor rate fixers robbing the public is disingenuous.
But that's the great thing about time. It will tell.

The majority of the comments in the previous thread was about the hardware which as always is a bad indicator of success. Just go revisit the original geek comments about the iPads configuration when that came out.

Wrong axis to judge somethings success based on.
How do you feel about putting company data on a service like Dropbox which is arguably wildly insecure?

I originally used it for sharing company stuff, and then I read up on their data storage practices and moved my work stuff off there as quickly as I could. The only data I keep on Dropbox now is data I don't care really care about.

By insecure I mean that people at Dropbox are able to look at your data if they wanted to (it's against their policy, but they are physically able to). If they can look at your data then someone who hacks Dropbox can look at your data. This is placing your data at the mercy of the dropbox security team, and the ever mounting threat that the more popular they become, the bigger a target they are.

Contrast that with somewhere like SpiderOak or Tarsnap: all encryption is done on the client side, they have no idea what your data is and no one at the company can find out. This means you get to control your security (picking a secure passphrase etc).
I see the page and the prices but their website literally does nothing...
Just checked that one out, and I'm somewhat floored that it isn't obvious to you that it reimplemented the scrolling behavior: the rubber-banding and acceleration curves are wrong, and it scrolls to logical pixel boundaries (the native scrolling can move one physical pixel, while this framework moves by two as the minimum step). It is much better than what I've seen previously, though; makes me wonder if the CPU on the 4S combined with the latest WebKit+Nitro really is now enough to emulate scrolling well (assuming someone attended better to the details). Thanks!
I agree hence my personal 3 rules of feedback :)
> If it's late, I might send my friend an email instead of an SMS because I know that the SMS will probably wake her up, and the email won't.

> Being able to control this is a good thing.

those are great points, and a solution that can really replace the 18 methods we have of sending messages today would take that into account. Email today has this lame "importance" flag nobody uses but certainly, if we could get over the familiarity hump, having a unified kind of message where we can configure how it travels and how it alerts the receiver (not to mention, that the receiver would be able to route these various classes of messages in any way he/she sees fit) is not a huge technical issue.
I used to have good feelings about Dwolla.

Until they dumped Bitcoin.

Now I have bad feelings.
For the cheapest route ($1,730), here are the cities visited:

Depart New York
- Georgetown (South Am)
- New York (North Am)
- Berlin (Europe)
- Agadir (Africa)
- London (Europe)
- Turkey (Europe)
- Tehran (Asia)
- Kuala Lumpur (Asia)
- Perth (Oceania)
- Bangkok (Asia)
- End New York
Let the ass kicking begin. Great idea, goog should fund em because this is one of the ways they can one-up iOS.
The thread on the Kickstarter itself has significant discussion on that question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223627
In a customer-service system, a ticket should only be closed when the customer has acknowledged that the problem is solved or can't be solved, or it can be aged out to closed after the customer has been non-responsive for a suitable period of time. If your metrics depend on closing tickets rapidly, you are measuring the wrong thing.

I don't know that this is supposed to be a customer-service system, though.
There's the problem of regular expressions not dealing with matching parentheses, for one. That makes a lot of questions about code hard to express in a regexp, even something as simple as 'find foo(anything) + bar(anything)' is busted. False positives within strings are also an issue.

I did a code search thing, (which I don't claim is anything more than a hack) described over in this HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113348 but yes, the syntax wasn't quite 'a string', you'd type the code you're looking for with parts wildcarded, but parentheses in what you typed had to match.
The Crazy World of Code
Boom, nailed it.

What a joy to read, this article was.
Very true, in a way Xbox Live Indie Games is a lot like the Android Market Place. You have a wide variety of apps that are really very good but you also have a lot of complete crap. If Microsoft would ever actually follow through with it's experiments then it could really become a true power house again, it seems that Microsoft tends to innovate but then burn out on their innovations (keep in mind that Indie Games launched in 2008, right around the same time that the Android Market Place was really blowing up). I just wish Microsoft would give Indie Games the attention it desperately needs.
Adding more ram isn't going to help the 99.999% of games with target the launch hardware.
hah, doh. Thought the article linked to the homepage, still think they should have a link from the /compute/ page, people might be interested in both using and being used for this.
Good points there. Will people, not on Kickstarter, buy it if it can't play movies off Netflix? They will only have the budget for one console. I suspect that people will want to run it as their media player and other things, so more RAM the better (plus it will make developers happy!). This is the trajectory of the XBox 360 and the PS3 (as media players). I want this console to disrupt the current market so it has to match those machines. What's also important is a wired network port. Ok, I can forgive it if it doesn't have a DVD player but add several USB ports please! I don't want this console to be a curiosity shelved one month after purchase.
For quite a while, HN has been dominated by negative comments in general, many of which are also simply ignorant. Occasionally, you'll see an old-time comment, full of relevant facts (and generally with some balance, since it's usually hard to be 100% biased when using facts).

Therefore, I mostly avoid the comments on HN these days. The stories themselves can sometimes be interesting, but now I'm finding ol' slashdot is better for that.

My suggestion to fix this is to focus on stories that are "intellectually stimulating" and dropping topical news altogether (or having them in a separate frontpage).

"Industry News and Gossip" is part of the problem, I believe. It doesn't promote discussions that are intellectually stimulating, and it doesn't attract people who value intellectual stimulation. There's a thousand other news sites - it's never what made HN valuable.

Sadly, HN has that pesky "news" in its name, despite the guidelines seeming to not be about news: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Snake house. If they (US gov) cannot win, they will delay as much as possible just to warn others: even if we are completely wrong and fucked up, we still can messed up your life for X months or years!!
If anyone wants to have a play with this code, http://jsfiddle.net/SukX5/1/
How is this different than buying an around the world ticket through an airline alliance (e.g. OneWorld, Star)? Those tickets tend to start at around $2000, sometimes less: http://www.oneworld.com/flights/round-the-world-fares/onewor...
What do you mean by "strand of cancer"? In any given tumor, there are multiple cells lines each with their own set of mutations. That's what makes curing cancer so difficult.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/04/05/so_you_thoug...

This is a review of a very interesting paper recently published. 50 women with breast cancer had their tumors sequenced. The result? 1700 distinct mutations and the most common three mutations only showed up in 10% of patients.

My personal belief is that cancer will never be "cured" in the literal sense of the word. Many cancers will become chronic conditions like AIDS where life expectancy is reduced, but people diagnosed will still get to enjoy a majority of the average life span.