skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I await the days that doing that is possible, my understanding is that FPGAs have a limited number of flashings that are possible. Similar to how Flash-ram has a limit on the write cycles.

I personally would love to have one for doing just this kind of thing for dealing with old software. Think of running old MAC OS stuff on one of these, or even like he's doing right now with the microbee. If done correctly it'd be hardware "accelerated" virtualization of some of the really old hardware.
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Many believe that it is the technical expertise of the web designers of the company, others point out to the functionality of the website that they are able to provide while some say that it’s the aesthetic aspect that attracts the visitors.
Another tip:

open vnc://[user@]host[:port]

connects as user to host on port with Screen Sharing, and, more generally, "open URL" works for any URL scheme registered with Launch Services, including, but not limited to, the obvious ones.
No problem. I looked it up last week because I thought this was the release that was going to have the new fix for add-on-related memory leaks[1], but it turns out that's not coming until Firefox 15 next month.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-15-to-Fix-All-Common-...
It's true that MS is not great at naming. Windows Live Mail is newer than Window Mail but runs in conjunction with Microsoft Hotmail, previously known as Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail. Oh, and not to be confused with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.
If you built a client on top of email, you could add PGP encryption as part of the service. Getting and accepting friend requests performs the key exchange handshake needed and voila! encryption. There's some nuances here that would need to be addressed, but nothing particularly showstopping.
GPG/PGP keys were the greatest missed opportunity for social networks. For example widespread acceptance of gpg/pgp would have been a great way to reduce spam.
LAST.FM : http://www.last.fm/api
Not an elegant/clean API, but the results are amazing. I've build some really fun personal apps with it.
We, the software development professionals, have learned some things about the properties of OO techniques and should share that knowledge.

People use OO as a way to attack good design and defend junk. Here is an example:

> We believe bound method references are harmful because they detract from the simplicity of the Java programming language and the pervasively object-oriented character of the APIs.

From here:

http://java.sun.com/docs/white/delegates.html
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Ask HN: How do you watch for follow-ups to a HN comment without hitting refresh?
If you make a comment on Hacker News, is there any way to watch for replies or follow-ups without constantly hitting refresh?
Depending on your body, even when you're sitting, having them at the same height can be uncomfortable for extended periods of time.
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If you are looking for Classic and rare cars in Australia, Automarket.com.au can provide you a better solution as it is a well known automotive portal where you can find a wide range of new and used Classic and rare cars for your choice.
Good point - it took me a while to realize that the book was also free online. I must say that I just spent over an hour reading through almost all of it (skipped a few sections) - good advice on running a SaaS business, and I didn't mind that it was partially an advertisement for their consulting services. Good read.
Governments/ISP/School/Company could ban obvious encrypted SMTP message.

Encryption should be done in a obfuscated handshake way. That's what this paper lacks (and this really matters.)

Also if you have your own IMAP/SMTP server running, you should really think about some kind of TOR-like relay network to hide your server IP.
I've honestly never heard of this pastime. Is this a non-US or east coast thing? Can you elaborate on what goes on?
Trolling would be quite a different thing

Not really. "Trolling" is also a type of fishing:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trolling
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Do you realize the mid-90s was almost 20 years ago? Are you only hiring 40 year olds? No significant minority population in your country?

If you don't think the brotastic world fostered in our industry is relevant, well, I guess (like the author) trying to expand our profession and tone down male-centric views just aren't for you. Kudos to you, I guess.
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About ten years ago I had two customers who liked us to all encrypt all email. It was easy to do and fairly transparent - strange that this never caught on, at least in my experience.
Cute to quote a troll comment. However, you can see it's a MacBook Air - those start at $1000, as it appears to be an 11-inch model. Moreover, the article never mentioned being unable to afford; he mentions lack of space.
From the faq:

Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.
International might include not in the US.
I actually think that post-ICS and especially with Jelly Bean that Android is a superior tablet OS to iOS, at least for me. There's basically no feature on iOS that I miss when I'm on Android, but a few (eg. custom keyboards, the overall intent system, etc) that I miss when I'm on iOS.

iOS still kills Android for app availability though (especially when it comes to "tablet optimized" apps) and between that and iOS ecosystem lock-in, Android/Google still has some catching up to do to make tablets a true two-horse race.
All of which are soon to be superceded by,

Windows Live Hotmail Outlook Mail Infinity Express (WLHOMIE)

MS will continue to support all prior versions in addition to this one. Five years will pass and 7% of MS users will have switch to WLHOMIE. Then WLHOMIE itself will be superceded.

Edit: Better Acronym
Where the (freezing) hell? Not even in the Uruguayan Antarctic base does it get to -55C (my personal worst has been -17C, and I've been to Canada and the Austrian Alps).
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I am often guilty of that. In this case, I actually read the whole comment. Apparently I'm not comprehending something.
"If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest doesn't it mean that they _weren't_ interested enough in CS in the first place?"

Why do you think that is? The money isn't good enough? The life and hours of a developer aren't good enough? Women aren't capable of understanding programming?

Step back, man. You read like yet another HN poster.
Interesting idea! Though as I understand it, the limiting factor atm would be that FPGA cores are considerably slower than real silicon. So even if you had a huge FPGA, loading an identical circuit to a modern processor would not be anywhere near as fast.
In what sense is gentrification a serious (by which I presume you mean "bad") issue?

As far as I can tell, "gentrification" means people like me--who make a decent white collar living and don't cause trouble--moving into poor neighborhoods, often crime-filled ones. Why should I be unhappy about having a nice place to live?
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Hacker news talked about this problem recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987660. Unique hardware is always difficult to emulate, and that's why you cut corners. Cutting corers in this field has gotten us quite far http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=graphic-sci....

But the OP of the article is ignoring the philosophical problem at hand: would a perfectly simulated brain bring about sentience? To me the answer is no. A machine can fake it, but its the complex noise of nature that gives us our qualia.
Not at the moment, but I'll probably add it at some point.
If a package manager is needed then it is needed. Let's do it the right way.
Awesome work, I wrote my first ever program in Microbee basic, in 1985.
Dtrace.
As an aside, in Lion at least, you can download high-quality voices for dozens of languages in Speech Preferences (including the ones Apple uses for Siri in several countries).
> Instead of waiting, consumers are buying MacBooks, iPads, Google's Nexus 7, and large-screen Android phones.

Yet the author offers no data that supports this conclusion. No real insights here.
As another person who's spent some time thinking about this: I disagree. Why couldn't a machine simulate the noise as well?
ugh, sorry, but why go into such a saturated market already full of dozens of niches?
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"A while" and "a new URL" suggests they're going to break every link that ever existed, which would be a loss to posterity and disappointingly predictable from Old Media.
Yes, the author is seizing on the profound drama created by Microsoft appearing to bet their company on Windows 8 and its Metro UI. This bet has certain presumptions, one of which - that Windows 8 will be popular - is not yet testable.
Author does not understand OO, or argues against strawman OO:

> In an OOPL I have to choose some base object in which I will define the ubiquitous data structure, all other objects that want to use this data structure must inherit this object.
I hadn't heard about this.

I'm kinda hoping this means American Express will have to fall into line with the other providers on pricing. I'm tempted to enable an AmEx penalty, since it costs more to process AmEx than Visa and Mastercard...that'd probably mean many customers would choose another card, even though it's probably our most popular payment choice right now (I'm pretty sure small business owners have AmEx cards at a higher rate than the average consumer, though I'm not entirely sure why).
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Awesome! Now if Google can just distribute it beyond the initial five launch nations, create meaningful product support, rework a half million third-party applications, and answer growing malware concerns they'll have a sweet two-month sales window all to themselves before you-know-who barges into their market.

I want one anyway.
I've thought about this for a considerable amount of time last month and decided the simplest way to do it was to use Enter and Exit in our upcoming sports app, because they have real world connotations and also have meanings and symbols that are easy to get, even by utterly non tech savvy people. Hope that doesn't end up introducing even more confusion.
Oops, downvoted you by accident. Sorry.

The issue with CMU is that, essentially, they don't have much money. Their endowment is much smaller than most of the schools they compete with. In terms of the "top" CS schools, they're probably a bit of an outlier.

That's one of the reasons I ended up not going to CMU. Well, that and the fact that I didn't want to trade the Bay Area for Pittsburgh :P.
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yourUserName

Assuming you mean without having to watch the individual thread. Shows the comments you've made, and replies.
I use my Login to Log In.
I tend to agree with you, but you can do things to change this. Take up snowboarding as a hobby; it seems to require a decent amount of income but you'll learn there's a leisure class on either end of the income spectrum. Go in on a ski house and don't do it with just coworkers. Or do something cheaper like surfing. You'll meet a ton of people that aren't in the same vc/startup world.
I'm a Grails developer but when friends asked me to develop their web site for an association, I had to learn PHP. Why? Economic reasons! Web hosting pricing are divided by three (3$ vs 9$) between PHP and Grails/JVM website hosting.
Before that, I'd prejudices on PHP like it's ugly, inelegant. And it can be that. PHP is like C language: you can do bad code, ugly implementation if you aren't rigorous.

And it's your project is a "standard" website (i.e. only display page and make some SQL queries), PHP is good enough. No need to use a canon for killing a fly.
Thanks for pointing that out and the suggestion, but couldn't we be opening ourselves up to litigation from the toymakers?
It was probably still a Markov chain. But when Markov chains are used in this way, they are usually referred to as n-gram models (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram) where "n" is the number of previous items you investigate (in your case, a 2-gram or bigram model).

Ideally, you would want to go back infinitely many times. My understanding of why Markov models are great is because they reduce the computation required, by not looking back too far, yet they still achieve good results. The more you look back, the more possible combinations (in this case, of letters) there are to consider. As the number of possible combinations of letters increases, the chance of each combination appearing in your training corpus decreases.

N-gram models are often used at the whole word level. That is, instead of the "next letter", they are interested in the "next word". This leads to interesting ways to perform spell checking, based on the context of the surrounding words. For example take the following sentences:

"I did that to"

"I did that too"

The to is a spelling mistake, even though the word is an English word with correct spelling. Imagine how many times the phrase "I did that to" occurs in a large enough corpus, compared to "I did that too".

My understanding is that Google has the largest corpus and largest "N" (they have a 5-gram model). The cool thing is that they have released it under a CC license (http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets).
That's right. My wife has a wonderful Logitech bluetooth keyboard/cover for her iPad 3, that she hardly ever uses despite its obvious utility for word processing - for that reason. Its just a bit too heavy and she uses the Apple Smart Cover instead.

But for those few times in the office when she needs a laptop style device, e.g. conference room meetings, she takes the Logitech keyboard/cover along and it just magnetically snaps together with easy-to-type-on keys. She switches rapidly back and forth between voice dictation and the Logitech keyboard with a function key.
I like modules that are more like objects. I would like to supply parameters to their constructors and be able to refer to them via names.

Languages without modules, like JavaScript, support that kind of thing.

http://wadler.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/objects-as-modules-in-...
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It seems like the article is talking about close, meaningful friendships as though they're the only kind[1]. But you'd be lucky to have a handful of such friendships over a lifetime. Most friendships will be based on mutual-advantage or simple pleasure. (Nothing wrong with that, and they shouldn't be dismissed.)

All the subjects in the article are very concerned with what they need, what they want. I think it's telling that they don't voice concern over whether they might be capable of being such a friend to someone else.

---

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philia
Looks like it's https only
It's very common in Portland at least. Any night of the week within any three mile radius there's a bar somewhere hosting trivia.

It's just people who come to a normal bar once a week and play trivia. Think Jeopardy with teams and booze. Sometimes there are prizes for winning/losing. There is an entry fee that goes toward the prize pool and compensation for the person running the trivia.
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I think this could be a part of the solution to the 'replace email' theme by PG[1].

Since their API abstracts the email sending/receiving details away AND gives specific tags to work with [SHARE, LIST, GET, WAIT], one could for example write a TO-DO app or maybe a bug tracker that notifies and updates when a mail with a specific tag comes in.

As I understand it, the problem with building smart mail clients is that there is no standardised format that all clients will agree upon. Using this API circumvents the problem, as the mail client does not actually perform any actions. Using this API's capabilities for "smart" mail clients instead of "social" apps could be interesting.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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It needed to be said, and the style was intentional. Statements like the one you made sound right and are easy for readers to accept as fact. My comment was intended to make people go back and reevaluate yours. I think it was accurate, effective rhetoric. It wasn't intended as a judgment of your worth; just as a judgment of that particular comment's worth.
A fair review. It is really a good move that Google offers a device to him.
How is this going to mix with the user's other email? I certainly wouldn't want to see all the Mr. Privacy messages in my mail client and while I can easily setup a filter, many users would not be able to do that.

end to end GPG encryption also seems like required feature. Then your details really are secure from all the intermediate parties.
The title is wrong. The debate is about Login/Logon not Login vs Log in. Could someone change it?
I want you to know Im exercising so much restraint to hold back my reddit impulse to quip,"Yo Dawg". Its amazing how easily we have come to change behavior, attitudes and expectations from other members as we move from one online place to another.
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The saying goes, keeps your friends close, enemies closer :)
protip: meetup.com

It may not fill the cockles of your heart with technical wonder, but like Craigslist for classifieds, it's where the "market" is.
Thank you, and I agree that this problem is less important than our team and what we do, hence my attempt to crowdsource the naming decision. 2 for transformer is a good lead I'll be pitching the team tomorrow. Transfund, Transfunding, or Transfunder seem like worthy competition?
Is this honestly something "hackers" care about? German separable verbs, maybe, but that's probably more of a signifier of the kind of education you had than business viability or hacking anything even remotely useful.

Please downvote me if I missed the meat of what this was really supposed to be about. I think maybe I just don't understand the HN community most of the time.

Also "sign" vs "log" and "in" vs "on" are A/B testable.
Yeah, the only real hints that it was fake were the bits about people volunteering to be infected with them, and the part where the foundation doesn't take donations so they can remain non-partisan.

But, in all seriousness, I think we should at least sequence this thing's genome before we purposely cause its extinction. Who knows if some enzyme it secretes might be valuable to modern medicine?
I just implemented that in a fork: https://github.com/danielribeiro/WebGLCraft/

Only works in Chrome for now, if you enable it in chrome://flags. You don't even need to be in full-screen mode, at least on the latest version.

Pull request is here: https://github.com/danielribeiro/WebGLCraft/pull/1
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Apple's profit margin on the iPad is 30 to 50 percent according to an article also posted on Hacker News today, though these estimates are only for component costs and not anything else.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/...
It automatically sets up a separate folder and routes all Mr. Privacy messages (there is a specific format for these) into that folder. If you wanted to see them, you could. But normally, they wouldn't crowd your inbox.
Sports n Pics - Timeline of Sports in pictures
The morning after euro2012 final happened, I woke up and was curious to see how did people around the world reacted before, during and after the match. I am sure there will be mixed reactions, exciting moments, celebrations for some and sadness for some. I can get all these in the form of news articles or boston.bigpicture or something like that.

But I wanted to see the real feelings of people, their preparation for the match, their arrangements and cool merchandise bought, funny hats, happiness in their faces, love towards their favorite team, heartfelt situations during the match followed by elated moments. Finally celebrations in winning team and other team's feelings for their defeat. Every moment mentioned above is felt by all football fans, I wanted to see them in personal.

Best way I found is Instagram! People post every activity as mentioned above, which is a huge resource for fulfilling my request. But there was no way I can see them as a sequence in a nice UI where I need not do many clicks or run through several pages.

With this pain point, I decided to develop an application which would solve this purpose. You can select your favorite league and filter the teams, select a team to see a timeline of pictures being listed and will keep on coming as you scroll down - that's it - select a team with single click and watch a huge set of pictures from all around the world depicting different feelings and moments of every one's life for a given sports event or a team.

Link for my application is http://mycollect.in/snp

Now this application hosts all teams of MLB, NFL, NHL, MLS, NBA. So this would be a treat for fans of baseball, football, hockey, soccer and basketball!
Whoah, there's tons of new ones since last I looked, including numerous Android 4.0 models, with seemingly pretty good hardware.

I'm almost at the point where I think I could use one of those as my primary computer...plug in a mouse and keyboard, a big 1080P monitor, and do everything online. The ssh clients for Android, so far, are insufficient, however...but, I guess I could use OpenSSH in a terminal if I were using a full keyboard. That'd be an interesting experiment.

If only I didn't need to occasionally do compute-intensive audio and graphic work...
I loathe PHP's documentation. I've written elsewhere why, but it comes down to two factors:

- The site's colour of orange on gray is impossible for a
colour-blind person to read.

- The comments are not authoritative, so you get well-meaning
but ignorant comments that are incorrect.
Looks great, Travis.

One thing: you should consider building this on jed/dynamo-client[1] instead of jed/dynamo. I refactored the former out of the latter last week, adding exponential back-off retry and the ability to specify custom hosts for better testability. Also, I'll be refactoring jed/dynamo myself in the near future, which will introduce breaking some API changes.

[1] https://github.com/jed/dynamo-client
It looks like deep links will not redirect or break, e.g., http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231761/
Why after a few years is noone able to build a 10 inch tablet? I honestly don't care how good an Android tablet is, I'm just so accustomed to the iPad form factor that I won't give it up. To get me interested, an Android manufacturer needs to come up with a bezel-less 9" or 10" tablet with more screen real estate than the iPad.
It might help to be more specific. Memtest86 has run on every Intel Mac I've had. Ive got no clue what PC Doctor or UltraX are, but I see no lack of diagnostic tools for the Mac.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to ask "What are some diagnostic tools for the Mac?" as you clearly haven't done much research yet.
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