skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew that "23 being the number" was familiar. All throughout I was thinking "This is just a poor rip off trying to imitate Hilbert's problems", and sure enough there are 23 of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems I think I'd rather people pursue the (in my view) more clearly worded list of friendly AI problems: http://friendlyai.tumblr.com/post/11957913150/yudkowskys-sin...
These GPUs are cheaper since they are directly integrated in the microprocessor. Performance wise, I think they are still better than the GMA line of Intel processors, and they provide support for latest DirectX out of the box.

With the HD 4000 I heard you can play some of the relatively recent games at lower resolution and low details.
Did you mean "hn"?
To Phoronix people: Please do not use terrible link ads.
Node-MySQL and better performance
Science!

We can tell how much dark matter is out there because we can "weigh" it through indirect measures. And then we can take different theories of dark matter (such as, say, the theory that it's all just a bunch of interstellar orphaned planets and "black dwarfs" and what-have-you made up of ordinary matter) and figure out what sorts of implications that would have, make predictions on observable effects of those different models and then test those predictions. And that is precisely what happened about 20-30 years ago. A lot of work was done to pin down what type of dark matter makes up the majority of it out there.

For example, you can point a telescope at a set of neighboring galaxies and look for brightening effects due to gravitational micro-lensing from a chance alignment of a "macho" (e.g. orphaned gas giant planet) along the line of sight. Surveys were set up and indeed found that there were orphaned "macho" objects in our galaxy, but the statistics showed that they were orders of magnitude too rare to make up the bulk of dark matter we know about from other studies. Another line of evidence involves studying the large-scale structure of the Universe (e.g. the layout of galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc.) and comparing it with various computer simulations of models with different assumptions on the composition of the mass of the Universe (e.g. 100% "ordinary" baryonic matter, various percentages of "special" dark matter such as cold and hot dark matter, WIMPs, etc.)

From this and many other lines of evidence we came up with very strong evidence that the vast majority of the mass budget of the Universe is in the form of so-called "cold dark matter" which is composed of weekly interacting massive particles other than neutrinos (neutrinos are dark matter, but we've been able to place an upper limit on how much they contribute to the dark matter budget of the Universe, because they are detectable to a degree, and it's only a fraction).

So that's it, just a simple matter of comparing the predictions of different theories with observations and eliminating the theories that do not predict what we actually see out there in the Universe.
I don't get the antagonism.

Well, in a democratic society with the rule of law most laws are, at least in theory, supported and agreed on by most of the population.

When someone says they want to be free of the rule of national law that might mean they want to violate a law that I generally support. Maybe they want to provide untracable anonymous phone numbers to robo-calling telemarketers, or tax avoidance services to shady billionaires, or subpoena-proof corporate records for companies running unsafe chemical plants.

That has the potential to be antagonizing - although the potential is not yet realized.
Yeah we do have to root the phones but given the opensource aspirations of the project itself, Android was the most suitable.
They're not meant to do anything other than exist. It's used as a low end way to make a PC actually have a graphics card, you know, that can display Microsoft Word prettily enough with Aero. That's what Intel cards started out as.

Moving forward, they're giving the cards enough power to help render movie times, playing games such as League of Legends casually at low (think 1366 by 768, not 1080p) resolutions and medium settings, etc that can satisfy 90% of user needs.

Maybe in a few years Intel will make their own graphics cards that can compare in power to current Nvidia and ATI cards. Until then, these cards serve as cheap stuff that can be found on every computer.
Modern food can be so fantastically calorically dense that it's depressing to sit down (ha!) and compare food taken in versus the amount of exercise one can reasonably perform. Anybody who has ever done so will have immediately realised how much pedalling a slice of pizza or a donut can be equal.

You may have heard that "abs are made in the kitchen", or "you can't outrun the fork". And this just shows that it's true even for very physically active people.

I train in Olympic-style Weightlifting, probably one of the more demanding physical activities. Elite international-level athletes in Weightlifting can be visually categorised into two groups: superheavyweights and everybody else.

Why? Because superheavies don't need to make a weight class, there is no incentive to strip down fat. So they eat heavily to support maximal hypertrophy and training intensity.

Whereas weightlifters trying to squeeze in at the top of a weight division will often have very low bodyfat. How is this achieved? Through a tightly controlled diet.

We are talking about athletes who in all other respects train the same way. A Chinese superheavy trains the same way as a Chinese welterweight. A Bulgarian superheavy, same as a Bulgarian heavy. And so on. Literally every day, racking from hundreds to thousands of calories of exercise. But they eat differently.

And the results speak for themselves.
P. 23 'please accept my thanks for your help ?'
(Much) Improved Space Invaders Game [in TCL/TK] – TSpace
Yes, it is. http://www.solarstorms.org/SEUavionics.pdf
No. "n" would trigger autocomplete (for "news.yco...") from Chrome's history and since everyone spends hours per day "being busy" here, it would pop up first.
So, interestingly enough the leading theory for the identity of the bulk of dark matter is the "weekly interacting massive particle" (or WIMP) the neutralino, and there has been recent evidence from the Fermi gamma-ray telescope that supports the theory that the neutralino is the primary component of dark matter.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1003

http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1045
Omg  Pull Request
You appear to be asking:

"I am unable to remember the address of a website I visit five times per day. How can I fix this problem?"

You have three options:

) Remember the address of the site. Or just remember that it begins with 'n' and, as Stratoscope says, Chrome will do the rest

) Set up a local DNS server so that www.hackernews.com -> news.ycombinator.com

) Ask pg to buy hackernews.com

I would strongly recommend the first option.
Weighing molecules 1 at a time
Thanks jiffyjeff. It was tricky deciding how much detail to go into on the legal/financial details, because it's hard to write things that are globally applicable and also useful. However, the plan has always been to add support for other geographical areas in 1.0 (as well as a bunch more general topics), so thanks for the US-specific book tip -- should come in handy.
This doesn't happen to me, but assuming you will never want to go to "www.hackernews.com" and that you will be able to update this record when/if the hn IP changes:

sudo bash -c 'echo "174.132.225.106 www.hackernews.com" >> /etc/hosts'
For me it's an optimal solution. Apart from an occasional game of quake, all my activity is in the terminal / browser / media player. Having 3d support is OK, but buying any serious graphics card would be a waste of money. And it's still better than previous i915.
I find many similarities to cooking and project management. Apple's success, and the level of polish, are a testament to skills along these lines. The components maybe commoditized just like ingredients available to anyone cooking. How to treat those ingredients is what determines greatness.
Also, he went to Choate, which is the most elite boarding school in the country.
I have it in my top sites. Click top left of the grid when I want to have a read. The N enter thing is pretty elegant too.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4432894

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Aarm...
Although I'm sure the guidelines did not specifically state the antenna should be made from Ikea straws, this line made me smile:

So in keeping with the guidelines I've made a new antenna
of the same 1/4 wave design out of Ikea drinking straws
and copper wire salvaged from this project.

GAGA-1 was great, I'm looking forward to seeing how GAGA-2 fails.

Would you mind sharing approximately how much GAGA-2 has/will cost?
They'll be bared from entering into a rounded orbit.
"POST is insert - PUT is update" is the norm and HTTP compliant way of doing things. Why not reach out to Trello and ask why you can't do the due-date on POST?
How often are you selecting span elements? They serve different purposes. Do you due diligence of course.
Because while it may have been obvious that it would happen eventually, nobody wanted to bet on when. It was safer to build the next iteration on known tech rather than gamble on being able to force the market.
Rewriting published history in Git
Intel's only three generations into on die GPUs - starting with the 32nm Westmere dual core chips.

They don't even have DRAM on the chip yet - normal graphics cards use monstrously high bandwidth connections (10x higher than DDR3) to stream in textures. HD 4000 et al just access main memory, competing with the CPU for bandwidth.

They might be unimpressive now, but it's a focus of Intel to keep improving them, and that will happen significantly faster than Moore's Law.

Also, it's wrong to compare them to discrete graphics cards. They're cheap and low power, used in the MacBook Air. They replace the much inferior Intel integrated graphics and nVidia chipset graphics (used in the original Air).

They're now nipping at the heels of low end discrete graphics chips (especially on laptops). That's a great thing.

As a game developer, I'm excited by them. My games will run badly, but at least now they'll run on even the cheapest computers.
And in countries like India, the belief is neither considered outrageous nor is it hard to follow. In fact, Jain food is readily available and basically the same as typical Indian vegetarian food minus the root vegetables plus replacements. It is often hard to distinguish.
With credit cards, your money is also (temporarily) gone until you notice and complain: you have less credit available. This can be an equally big problem.
That's fairly weird to benchmark. Why not check for video acceleration and that kind of stuff? Actually realistic use cases for those chips.
They're meant to differentiate their CPUs, and find a good use for the billions of transistors that their process technology allows them to include in their designs. So the question is, what's better: more cache, more cores (diminishing returns after 4), or a specialized accelerator for 3D, video and generic heavily parallel computations (GPGPU)?
Sounds quite similar to Italy. About politics: you can loathe it all you want, but unfortunately, you'll need to get your hands dirty if you want to fix things - and even then, even if the laws and economics are better, it'll still take time. Just leave the actual discussion of politics to some other site:-)

They finally passed a very weak-sauce, complicated version of a law that some of us are pushing for here in Italy: reducing the costs of creating a limited liability company ( http://www.srlfacile.org ), but it does show that if you work at it, you can accomplish things.
The 's' on the end of verbs has no relation to the plural 's'. It's simply how regular English verbs are inflected in the third-person singular.

The link provided by jacobolus should tell you all you need to know.
The things you say only apply to the U.S.; in most of Europe, debit cards are significantly more secure. And since debit cards are the most common payment method, the sort of crazy behavior that was described in the linked article is actually pretty much non-existent.
In Opera you can so easily enable those things on a per-site basis, it is wonderful. Rightclick on page -> Site Preferences -> Content
> what's the difference?

In general it is a good philosophy if the school are not under the influence of economic forces, like Apple or Windows ...

* If school would use GNU/Linux instead I thing the students would get a much deeper understanging of the OS.
* A lot more peaple would use Linux and thus GNU/Linux would have a much wider spread.
* The school wouldn't have to pay for the OS.
"For both rich and poor teenagers, certain family characteristics predicted children’s maladjustment, including low levels of maternal attachment, high levels of parental criticism and minimal after-school adult supervision."

'maladjustment' seems quite a strong word, but I have seen this pattern with some teenagers I teach, including the ones whose parents have bought them cars, iPads, clothes &c, but don't seem to spend time.

A handful this year decided not to go to University (UK: 18 year olds) but to get jobs or training positions in a different city. Sounds hopeful.
There are other abilities that are not measured by tests, such as the ability to get on with people, humility, courage, willingness to learn from mistakes, insight, etc.

According to Robert McNamara, JFK's ability to empathise with the Russians' position was very important in resolving the cuban missile crisis.
As was his courage in facing down the military who wanted to attack cuba.

Presumably he had also learnt from his mistake in authorising the Bay of Pigs invasion, a project he inherited on coming to office.
or, you could buy an AlienWare Aurora mid-range, where $2200 gets you the following:

4.1 Ghz 4 cores.
16Gb 1600Mhz memory
Dual 1.5 GB Nvidia 660's
1TB SATA. If you want to spend $75 more you can get a 1TB RAID0 SSD/HD hybrid.

Of course, if you're willing to spend about $4000, you can build a Linux PC that will smoke any Mac product by a 2:1 margin in performance. This is coming from a Mac Pro user, Apple's neglect of this line has disappointed me. When I bought my 2005 Mac pro, it was the best quad-core system you could buy from a cost/performance. Now high-end rigs are ridiculously overpriced.

The only thing you lose with a high end Linux PC is the Retina display and portability, but I do most of my coding at my desk, and I'll take a 30" non-Retina display any day of the week until someone can ship a 30" Retina display. I prize actual number of readable windows I can cram onto the screen over minor improvements in e-Book reading.

Honestly, I'd buy two machines. The cheapest MacBook Air for moving about (or just use an iPad), but a Linux Desktop for real work.
I still use ODBC. Didn't find the argument convincing."off-putting" describes that blog you linked. The hipster/programmer attitude is like smelly feet.
For the same audience (copyists) JDownloader has a huge install base as well.
The instancetype keyword in Objective-C
Not Java's fault I presume.
Well, of course. But we end up with such laws because the politicians don't have the technical knowhow do understand the full implications and the lobbyists don't really care as long as it's in their advantage.
What you are talking about sounds more like windows developer than windows hacker. Still, almost all of my programming experience has been based on greping source trees in place of documentation. When I do get good documentation (it does happen) I don't know what to do with it and still look at the source.

What really sets open source apart for me in terms of hacking is that I can change the way any component operates, instead of having to jerryrig what would be a simple change using external APIs.
Not sure the causality here, and I can't verify the citation on wikipedia, but from 1918-1928 2/3 of Choate graduates went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. Presumably by 1935 things were much the same. The number I would be much more interested in seeing in the context of this is what percentage of Harvard applicants were accepted.

That said, Harvard, 1935 was far different from Harvard 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06brooks.html
Final version of the ver 2.0 Understanding free and open source software.
On notebooks they let you save battery life by not using the discrete graphics at all for a larger proportion of desktop graphics activity. On desktops and notebooks they make the graphics not completely suck without having to have a separate GPU, making low-end computers be cheaper.
It's a matter of degree, with plenty of "outliers" on both sides, of course, but it is there.
Off topic, but the right side of the paragraph is cut off on Android.
TechCrunch: The (HTML5) Game -- A failed attempt at TechCrunch coverage
I heard the emacs guys made their own version, it just reads "emacs.".

(PS: I don't hate vim :) )
I second that.

Considering the amount of attention Ayn Rand's ideas have been getting in the news lately, I expect plenty of potshots like these to come along.
As soon as WebGL gets mainstream a certain amount of graphics power is mandatory for every Computer out there just to be able to surf the web. If it is not WebGL some kind of other advanced 3D technology will be used in future web applications.
Yup! From Vista onwards the various incarnations of that started being more effective for me. In the case of incompatible programs it points you at the latest version of that program, if that fixes the problem. When applications crash and you send the report to Microsoft, I've had fixes come back in some cases including telling me to update a particular driver, or even giving me a Windows hotfix specific to that problem.
Looks like the Mythbusters will be invited for this next product launch and they will bring a lot of explosives with them.
Assuming you want to visit the site, why not:

(a) Have a bookmark?

(b) Have a clickable icon?

(c) Just leave the browser window open?

Another solution is to stop visiting. Then you save both the typing time, and the reading time.
Not to down play the consumer experience issue, but I couldn't help but chuckle a bit when the author spoke about the issues on NYE.

"Consumers who were used to easy clicking missed the notice and became (reasonably) upset when the bill arrived."

I wonder how many drinks those consumers has consumed when they were ordering their ride home.
Just a few clarifications here...

> Not based on a 30 year old codebase designed in and for an era before color displays, mice, touchpads, graphics and unicode?

* That codebase also runs on: variety of UNIX/Linux distros and their terminal emulators; MS-DOS; Windows; etc.

* Emacs supports mice: both scrolling; clickable hyperlinks; drag regions; buttons and other widgets.

> Not using a god awful Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp) at it's base?

* Touchpads? Do you mean tablets or laptop touchpads? That's a HID device and works the same as a mouse does...

* Graphics? Yes, Emacs supports graphics and can indeed render PDFs/LaTeX documents using external programs; native image support is usually compiled into Emacs.

* Unicode? Emacs has more complete unicode support than you'll find in any other editor out there. What editor let's you open up a subprocess to a commandline tool and have it set such that stdin is treated as UTF-8, but stdout is Cyrillic?

> Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs?

* Emacs-Lisp isn't great, but Emacs and elisp is the closest most people will ever get to the spirit of a Lisp Machine. Elisp isn't perfect, but for many it gets the job done. It is also incredibly flexible and its "naff" implementation with dynamic scoping improves the spirit of hacking in Emacs by encouraging people to hook, tweak and inject into Emacs's core.
> Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs?
> Having things more integrated than independent elisp plugins that hardly know each other and don't really collaborate?

* Design could be a lot better, but that's what happens when you support the same product for a long long period of time. I know Emacs/Vim will be around in 10 years; will Light Table? Will TextMate?

* Most plugins do integrate quite well actually into major modes (the programming modes) such as: Eldoc mode, find-function mode, TAGS support, Imenu, etc. -- it's not perfect, but then again: nothing is?

> Rethinking the keyboard shortcut design?

* That's just blasphemy. You should observe an experience Emacs guy using Emacs and I think you'll find they're more than capable of accomplishing what they want in few keystrokes. It's different from Vim, yes, but then Emacs isn't really modal.
Even airliners start having issues at 30000 ft.
Many thanks to Norm Matloff for making this available, I'm tiddling about with R now and the simulation models in chapter 2 will move me on from the 'pretty pictures' aspect.

"The materials are continuously evolving, with new examples and topics being added.": Warning: the pdf does not appear to have a version number or date of issue present (only just started exploring the file).
They are tiny as well, so in one launch you could put a LOT of them up there! For some kinds of operations, it's better to aim for 95% reliability and put quite a few in orbit, than to go to the expense of 99% reliability.
I liked the answer to "Why do you want to go to Harvard?" Shortened:

"Several reasons: Harvard is cool. Harvard is really cool. My dad went to Harvard. And then I could name-drop Harvard too."
Why are all the quotes the same one?
How high is high enough and the trial has being going on for fucking 18 months. In what unicorn infested world would Apple "leave it alone" and what constitutes "double down"?

AAPL will at least pop briefly in a few hours, seems like you have no problem making a profit on the back of a company you have a ethical disagreement with, can you justify your behavior to not riding the AAPL train further?
Of course it is. Families like that don't think in terms of a single generation. Joe Kennedy knew that putting his kids in Ivy League schools meant that his grandkids had a very high probability of being in Ivy League schools, simply because of the connections you make with other wealthy people at these universities.

Joe didn't care whether his kid was in Princeton or Harvard, as long as it was one of them. Once you've made more money than you can count, the next step is to focus on your legacy.
Anec-data: with no other changes to the amount I work out (a lot), how much alcohol I drink (I don't), or really the amount of food I eat (6 small meals a day), weight just started falling off when I stopped eating sugar in the form of cakes, candy, and donuts. Also my skin cleared up, and my eyes stopped being shot.

My (far from proven) theory is that refined sugar in enough quantity to give you a slight buzz is the almost sole factor in weight gain in many individuals.
I really dislike "<Over-reaching statement>, here's why" headlines. Attending to the actual content of this article, I summarize it to be "I think Google+ will be big because universities are telling their students to use it".

I don't think that's the way the world works, but apparently we won't have to wait to long to find out.

I'm not against Google+ at all, I'm against attention grabbing headlines. I dislike myself a little for upping the comment count.
you forget the time when json was usually called with exec...

But mostly it is buffer overflow bugs that get you now.
Smooth (and blured) slot machine reel spin in Chrome