skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hype cycle. It wasn't entirely a fad, but it was hyped up far beyond what it's ready for with current technology.
It's the only sane thing to do!
I live in the Netherlands, and bikes here are omnipresent. They also get stolen. A lot. Which is why most bikes you see in cities tend to be not too great looking.

About 10 years ago in the city of Utrecht the bike stealing was a really big problem. Here also the stealing of bikes is really hard to get caught with. The police used decoy bikes to catch thieves trying to steal those, but also this only catches small parts of them.

Ultimately this has been solved by also changing the way people handle this. If your bike got stolen, you just went out into the city, found a junkie, and often he had a bike for sale. If not he would have one 10 minutes later.

The police changed their approach to this, and started cracking down hard on the selling of bikes on the street. Not only the people selling them, but also the people buying the bike. Even going so far as police officers going undercover and trying to get people to buy bikes.

Within months the stealing of bikes dropped to near zero.
A datapoint, the desire to own a property is quite deep rooted in India as well.
White House raises average car fuel efficiency goal to 54.5 mpg by 2025
Living in a world where so much more takes place online and data being relatively permanent if one was determined how do we extend that rule. At this point a whole generation is already out of politics from scandalous Facebook photos and suggestive texts.
Augmented Reality has always been difficult, expensive, and very limited, but on the bright side, some really great work is being done on it.

Start Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk

You might also enjoy:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4423031
Returning to your "quick decisions in no-win scenarios", there are going to be attack ads based on whether Romney does and what they contain or whether he doesn't and what they might contain, and it's easy to come up with possible contents likely or unlikely. Maybe it's just me that thinks he'd be better served by the path of openness in this instance.

Of course, it's just his taxes, and I feel like the only reasoning people are upset with Romney over this is that they are thinking "What's he hiding? If you have nothing to hide..." which most of us probably dismiss as bad thinking in the usual context. If the People want to make it a law for candidates to disclose their tax information, let it be done, right now he's just breaking a 40 year old precedent. (It seems McCain did the same thing and only released two years--was there an outcry about that? I don't remember, there were so many other juicier attacks. If "you're rich!" is the only thing they can attack you on you're doing alright.)
But not-a-lot-of-right-angle-corners also makes it interesting, and well, cool. I think a little bit of impracticability in furniture placement is a perfectly reasonable price to pay for that. [Want to work in a castle? Awesome! But you've got to put up with cold stone floors in the wintertime. Throw down some more rugs]

I'll take cool and interesting over the usual banal office-park architecture (aka "mcdonald's architecture") any day one usually sees in SV...
Artist sells 'hairy Jesus' T-Shirt in real time on Twitter
glad i'm not the only one that noticed that. would be really great to hear why they weren't consistent for comparison purposes.
Hah. Well, you shipped something. I have to imagine that's incredibly hard.
"If there's no attribute on the window object, let's define a global"

In any other language this would mean a complete different thing. This can only be obvious in the world of Jamie Zawinski.
A classic early bug that lost me hours and hours:

if(true) // i've forced this to true now
{

// this code is never reached because of that comment on the if() line

}
Unfortunately not, they currently just let you pick which location (AWS US East, Ireland, Rackspace are the main options I think?) you deploy your app to. You could deploy the same codebase to 2 locations and use DNS to load balance / failover between them, but that's not great.
Freakonomics discusses the exact same factor with drug dealing and the oldest profession - adding risk to the seller results in increasing margins which attracts more sellers; whereas adding risk to the buyer results in the margins dropping too low to be worth even a small risk for the seller.

Also, when I see somebody on a re-sprayed bike, that hasn't obviously been re-sprayed with purely artistic intent, I want to beat them in the face until they die (lost too many bikes myself).
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Always walk in the forefront of fashion sports brand PUMA recently issued a New Year listed a few creative sports shoes, that deserves our attention is that this series of PUMA sneakers on design adopted nifty tetris broken lattice, very new. It seems fashion also considered to close the circle game.
I think the author could have chosen better data for this calculation. There are a few unusual factors:

* Why use average income? Why not median family income?

* Why use median $/square foot, and then assume a 2000 square foot house? Why not just rely on median sale price?

I looked up the data for San Francisco, where median family income is $81,136 and median home sale price is $705,000.

Using the same methodology but with these income/price numbers, saving up for the down payment on a home in San Francisco takes ~14.5 years instead of 20.6. I'm not sure how this compares to other cities, but I think it's a bit more reasonable of an estimate of how long it takes to "save up for a house" in San Francisco.
I'm currently reading a book written in the 1170s, so I can imagine that :)
AMD`s business and technology development failed.

Athlon era:

1) Got HyperTransport - correct

2) Memory controller/north bridge into CPU - correct

3) lower price point than intel

They had a better product, at a lower price == market share.

Mobile:

They missed (as did intel) the ultra-low power/mobile market

1) ARM owns the market here

Bulldozer:

Made their bet on a high throughput/high latency micro-architecture, which didn`t pay off. So their now stuck with un-competitive technology at a lower price point which to the market == cheap knock off.

To make it worse, their process technology is a generation behind intel which increases costs thus eats further at any price discount.

GPU:

Meanwhile, Intel is eating their "Fusion" style cpu/gpu integration with every release they make. Can`t remember the last time some buzz about AMD fusion but intel HD 2k/3k/4k is in the news all the time.

They should have made Pat Gelsinger CEO when he was turned down for the same job at intel.
I don't see conflating racism, sexism and ageism very useful. They all have different causes and validity, depending on context. Does attaching -ism after the word "nerd" make nerds suddenly an oppressed group?

There's nothing wrong with discrimination as such. Dividing two things into separate compartments gives us the ability to process their differences instead of trying to fit two thing together that do not go together, again, depending on context. But discrimination definitely is a very useful mental tool.

A word about racism. I see it mostly as an in-built defense tactic for territory and one's own genetic line. Is this outdated? Perhaps. Does this have anything to do with sexism? Not really that I can see. Other than the -ism at the end.
Cryptography in it's own principals are based on probability. If ignoring physical access attacks, social engineering attacks, etc are acceptable to you then yes, you can keep a "good" password for a long time. You also have to accept that out of all possible attacks accounting for nothing but brute force and basic dictionary attacks is 'enough' then you should also acknowledge the risks.
The same for me.
My wife uses Chrome and when I sometimes have to use it on her laptop it really makes me mad when I have to find a tab when the only thing I see is the favicon.

I tried Chrome on my linux and I much more prefer Firefox (aurora channel)
just a caveat; when = if. Houses may be overvalued.
Uhm. How about:

SELECT * FROM ARTISTS WHERE ACTIVE_YEAR > 1966 AND ACTIVE_YEAR < 1970

The Beatles and Sergeant Pepper (LSD) for instance.
For now...

I don't expect this to continue. They've picked some seriously big fights recently. From prior observation, I have always seen that it only ends bad.
Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cents Coins
(maybe there are only a few people employed?)
Slightly off-topic:

Does anybody know where the videos of Bill's excellent talk titled What if Leopold didn't have a piano can be found? I saw part of the lecture online several years ago and it was one of the most insightful things I've seen, The story of the sculpting instructor who did an A/B test on his students, grading half of them entirely on the cumulative weight of their assignments was particularly eye-opening.

I've googled many times since and never found the full multi-hour video again.
Thanks, and good question - it's a very old industry in the web, so the main benefit is ease of implementation (and about to get even easier), highly responsive support, great community and remarkably low prices :o) - that said, I'd love to hear any thoughts you have on other advantages that could be provided - hit me up on twitter @josscrowcroft if you have any ideas.
Shuffler.fm releases iPhone app for its music discovery service
I thought this was an onion article

I was dissapoint
Evidence?

It's not so simple to set up merchant accounts repeatedly and not easy to funnel large amounts of money. I call B.S.
Nice one bella, we are everywhere. Please continue to Post stuff here,I Spend a good amount of my time here and frequest your blog from time to time,thanks.
Twitter's Something Better
Yeah but (blind) IP spoofing over the Internet is infeasible nowadays. Maybe 15 years ago when ISN randomization was not the rule (successful attack described in http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/shimomur.txt)

But that's correct, in recent openssh versions, it seems that you can add specific-host-only rules for authentication etc.
Live Demo: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com

Very nice, but not quite enough distinction between different post types for my liking. Reading the blog page[1] I couldn't help but feel the Quote and Image post types blended into the full post above... I'd darken the separator lines slightly.

Love it otherwise, will definitely use on projects!

#edit: Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer. Sold! [2]

#edit 2: Gallery viewer screws up on latest Chrome/mac when scrolling the page up and down to view comments. Bummer.

[1] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/

[2] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-lux...
Most of the developing world, when it has a motor vehicle at all, it's a scooter or motorcycle.

So no, it's not a first-world problem to ride a two-wheeled vehicle in bad weather because you can't afford a car.

Try visiting Southeast Asia or India sometime.
Partial solution: it may be useful to use Host * and ControlMaster auto in your .ssh/config to reuse connection so you do not need to authorize all the time.
In the UK owning your own home is definitely "the dream", but in France, owning your own home is much less of a desirable thing, though it is increasing.

I don't know about the USA, but with current interest rates and the end of the housing boom a couple of years ago, in the UK it's often cheaper to buy than to rent, assuming you can get the deposit together.
Police stations in the UK will do this also, however they use some kind of UV ink as not to draw so much attention to it.
New Interview: Google’s Matt Cutts Explains Latest Keyword Best Practice For SEO
I don't know many people who want to cater to a market segment that will hate them as soon as they start needing to find ways to make payroll.

So therefore the multi-billion dollar question is, what is it about the ways that companies are making payroll from these services that annoys people and are there any other ways of making these kinds of services pay for themselves that are less intrusive and annoying. Is an extremely difficult problem, admittedly, and just solving it isn't enough, it would also have to be implemented very well.
Its called lousy writing.

They need to optimize Watson server side for it to become commercially.

p.s.: I for one welcome our new Blue Overlord.
A Dutch friend once told me that bike theft in Holland was pretty ripe, but it was more of a social norm; people wouldn't feel bad about stealing a rubbish bike and then leaving it somewhere for someone else to steal.. the bikes would almost become communal bikes.
[video] Hoverbike (aka Tandem-Duct Aerial Demonstrator)
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 2
It's better than the old theme, but the PHP code is still a mess, like the whole codebase of WP in general. For example, there's lots of duplication in the HTML in many templates. The functions.php still uses lots of global functions with long_underscored_functions_with_prefixes instead of a simple class with short method names.
As someone else mentioned further up: Tree Style Tabs
Inside the size overflow gcc plugin
Thanks for the well-thought-out and detailed explanation.
You need to compete on all fronts and decent UI is one of them. Firefox, for me at least, is still behind in this area (though I loved the Australis stuff that was being put forward).
You should read and maybe learn something on Salazar's education policies. The dictatorship was bad for many reasons, but as for education goes, you got it all wrong.
The regime built thousands of primary schools across the country, and made 4th class mandatory for all kids, girls and boys. Before Salazar, our country had a 19th century mentality, derived from monarchy, whereas girls weren't supposed to need school and only "doctors" would be put through it. The vast majority of the population was not educated in any sense. For all its faults, Salazar's regime managed to change that and raise Portugal to close to the european education standards. That change took decades, it's not something you can do in 5 years.
Just as a side note, the some goes for general infrastructures in Portugal. It was a dictatorship, yes, will all the crap that entails, but, after monarchy and the corrupt governments of the 10s and 20s that bankrupted Portugal, it was his regime that raised the bar here in Portugal, until we got fed up with the lack of liberty to express ourselves.
Go learn something, buy a book.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal)
Can anyone comment on the implications of hardware transactional memory here?
The Apple & Samsung Trial Results – My Take Now that the Jury is In
The verdict is in and Samsung’s got a lot of work to do. They need to do some hardware and software work as well as write a big check. Here’s my take on the trial results…
> Yes exactly my point. Were you expecting rocket science?

I was expecting a logically sound, coherent response - not straw-man appealing to mysticism.

My original question was I am having a tough time figuring out what is this Indian heritage, and I don't see which part of me comes from Indian heritage, and not from being a decent(or indecent) human being and common sense. The answer is none. It was as simple as that.

> Your heritage today includes a grand ability to argue, and to mistake articulation for action. You didn't come across as someone who wanted to leave it at that.

"grand ability to argue"

"mistake articulation for action"

Take a breath.

If you don't want to discuss(or argue as you put it), don't throw around bullshit on public forums. More importantly, don't add more bullshit on existing pile(mistake articulation for action? Where the fuck that came from?)

> I am glad you have those answers, but those are your personal answers.

Never claimed otherwise.

> I am not providing authority, I am providing history. You had a question, you got an answer.

No, I don't have an answer to my question that "I am having a hard time figuring out what exactly is my Indian heritage". For the nth time, when you specifically label something as "Indian heritage", it has to be specifically Indian and inherited, not something which is common among people worldwide.

> If you want your answer to be something else, well read through Indian history.

Now what on earth would that mean? If I want my answer to be different, read History? And get the fuck off your high horse. Reading a couple of books and assuming other people don't know about Indian history isn't a commendable quality.

> Your final para is about having normal standards to deal with people. Its a great system, stick to it. But again, your question was about heritage not common sense behavior.

Please stop intentionally misrepresenting my question and your answers. In response to what the hell is Indian heritage question, you had a blurb about helping north-eastern folks, to which I said is a common sense behavior and not some distinctly Indian heritage.

> I am pointing out as well, that the way that melting pot was bound together was often through mysticism.

If you are just going to throw claims around, have some citations for what is your mysticism and how it binds India. And no, "read history" doesn't cut it - cite me particular instances and occurrences. India isn't and was never bound(if it is bound at all) by religion.

EDIT: And if it's still too hard for you to comprehend why I was pointing out India is a diverse country, my purpose was to establish there is no "Indian heritage/culture/tradition/whatever". India is gigantic and diverse, and there isn't a common pattern significant enough to warrant a mention. When different parts of India has significantly different culture and tradition on macro(north-south) and micro(tamil brahmins and non-brahmins, castes within the same religion), Indian culture means nothing, and that is a good thing. Same goes for Indian heritage.
Heartbroken app-maker Qt sneaks into Android's bed
Id like to see your trusted doctor try Watson head on in a Medical Jeopardy.
Ask HN: setting up LLC in Delaware, need advice
I'm a non-US citizen, living outside the US.

Looking to set up a one-member Delaware LLC because my potential investor wants to invest in a US company. All this time, i've been running the startup as a sole proprietorship (using my name, american address and social security number).

I'm thinking of using http://www.incnow.com/ as a way to quickly set things up. Costs 300 dollars.

Any other advice, warning, resources?

EDIT:
the investor is a foreign corporation, and i also have interest from US investors
Iothrottler: Making Elastic Applications More Friendly with Go
Nice rant, but not really relevant.

Unfortunately, none of these are mainframes. Mainframes are a fairly different architecture and usually run OS/390 or z/OS these days. They really aren't about performance computing and are more oriented towards databases and IO.
I've fixed the page, it's now more focused on the content. Thanks for all the great feedback!
>> I put my mouth where my money is

It's normally "I put my money where my mouth is". As in, you're not just talk.
Intel details Knights Corner architecture at long last | SemiAccurate
In NONE of those cases did anybody use a pinch gesture to zoom anything.

So no. None of those legally count as prior art.
You might find the following interesting:

http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
Seriously, I'm tired of all this BS. What matters for a real company is how they stand to innovate, not how much they make. Right now, Apple's strategy seems to be more of 'litigate' than innovate. What's the use of all this market cap by exercising unfair, unjust monopoly by abusing the patent system with trivial, BS patents?

I know a lot of companies that don't make a lot of money but strive for true innovation (Eg. Tesla Motors). Money is not everything, you know...even a prostitute makes a lot of money..and that doesn't mean that the prostitute is better than the average, faithful woman...because she stands for something true, unlike the prostitute.
Am I the only one who is tired of being updated what Apples market cap is now bigger than?

At first they were interesting stats, but in reality it isn't overly useful information.
App has been updated:

http://litchie.com/blog/?p=406

Cleared of copyright issues.
One of the things I noticed when I was in Copenhagen for a week earlier this year was that people don't lock up their bikes as much. I saw lots of people leaving bikes unlocked when going into coffee shops, etc. when in the UK they'd be locking 'em up.

There were many bikes that were locked - but they looked more like "commuter bikes" near the metro and office buildings. Folk using them to get around during the day often seemed to leave them unlocked.
Mozilla is shining these days! Not to mention servo!!
Building School Seating Charts in Clojure and ClojureScript: Part 1
Memcached was the right choice
I think this is going to turn out to be a hoax
Read the OP. Its not about the best it is about giving all people autonomy.
In another talk he addresses your point specifically. He said, and I'm paraphrasing:

"It doesn't matter if you're using append only data-structures if your view of the world is update in place".

PostgreSQL exposes a view to the world of an update in place database, no matter what it's doing underneath. You could create a new interface to PostgreSQL's internals that doesn't and if you did, it would look a lot like datomic.
Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food
I don't think there is such a thing as an iterative design. A design is a design as it exists at a single point. You iterate because the design has some issues that are worth addressing.

The nice thing about iterative development is you can build amazingly complex systems that way, systems that are so complex they have no obvious deficiencies. Of course that's also the not-so-nice thing about iterative development too. But either way iteration is a development process. It isn't something that is a design characteristic.

I do think however that good design is flexible. It tolerates changes on all sides. Users can repurpose it. Developers can improve on it. Good design is robust in that it handles these changes. If you want to use that to iterate the design, go ahead, but that's the design principle.
But we're all secretly hoping it isn't, right?
Look in the 1998 video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo) around 4:30. You could perhaps argue that's 'scaling' not 'zooming', but that's a very pedantic position, and not one I personally would entertain.
Ok I didn't know this. Comment withdrawn :)
Or if you were programming on an 8086 in large memory model where int is 16 bit and a pointer is 32 bit (16 bit segment, 16 bit offset)

This makes me wonder if anyone ever did a compiler where malloc returned a segment + offset (I think that gives a 48 bit pointer) for a 386 class machine.