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> [The police] don't realise that false positives happen.

Rather, they don't care. Neither do the prosecutors. They don't want to imprison innocents, but they also have a strong incentive to look the other way. That's why, for example, prosecutors fight hard to block initial DNA tests on those already imprisoned. (In the US anyway.)
Near London, UK here. Almost exactly realtime for me.

Mind-blowing accuracy actually. Sky is clear out so I just looked out my window, saw two planes going in opposite directions.

Looked at the site, and there they were. Really cool!
Ah, a breath of fresh sanity from someone who knows the industry. That is very welcome, thank you.

The semiconductor industry is brutal in general. Selling to consumers is worse, but the worst by far is the part that sells any type of memory. Forget the conspiracy theories. This space is full of dead companies. Someone will eat you.
Which is why it would have been really nice if the journalist would have found a way to work in the IEEE designation.

Oh, and thank you :)
Forensics is not my field, but genetics is. Restriction enzyme digestion and gel electrophoresis seems to be the technique that is still being used for forensic DNA matching.

To my mind, it would make a lot more sense to simply genotype a few hundred well-chosen (highly variable) SNPs on a standardized array. Since there are premade arrays that give you tens to hundreds of thousands of SNPs for a few hundred dollars, you should easily be able to unambiguously identify a single individual even if (non-monozygotic twin) family members are in the haystack.

Obviously this says nothing about guilt, but from the DNA matching perspective we can and should do better.
From what I've heard withholding test cases is actually official Oracle policy, unlike, for example, the lack of updates to the launchpad repository. There wasn't any deliberate attempt to without commit history from launchpad - they were just slow in updating it.
>DNA testing and forensics in general is a complete scam

What? Every single one of those links either supports DNA testing or doesn't mention it.

It's certainly true that a lot of forensics turns out to be borderline pseudoscience or superstition (everyone should read the newyorker link when they have time) but don't just lump everything together.

(Also don't lead with a link to alternet unless you want bias readers against you!)
3) They feel they are far enough ahead of competitors that they can afford to "drain the pipeline of flash based products" and still come out ahead in memristors ultimately.

I agree a purposeful delay in order to try and squeeze some drops out of existing stock / sunk costs would be risky, and likely stupid. Clearly no corporation has ever made short-sighted, stupid decisions like that before so this would totally be a first :)
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My first answer is that it's because Democrats don't campaign on these things, stuff like homophobia.

The wider answer is simply that people don't hear about these things as much. Maybe some Democrats do campaign with far-right policies, but... I'm not aware of them. Wesburo Baptist Church for example, I've never heard anything about their members being democrats, though I would query that claim given they aren't a political group, so even if some of them are, likely not all of them... not to mention Wikipedia tells me their general opinion is that Obama is going to hell for being "the antichrist".

End of the day I've heard plenty of data points for Republican wackos, and few for Democrat ones, so that's where my opinion comes from. Maybe it's because I'm English that I haven't heard a different story, but plenty of Americans I know have the same opinion.
How do you explain removing access to the source repository then?

I can easily explain it, because it never happened. Access to the MySQL source repository on launchpad is available for anyone to browse. Oracle is occasionally lazy about updating it, but they've never removed access AFAIK.

Or the fact that the documentation is not free to redistribute?

The documentation has never been free to redistribute, it was that way under Monty, it was that way under Sun, and it remains that way under Oracle.
I don't think Percona sees itself as a fork: it is just MySQL + special Percona patches.
I agree, but is this really something that needs to be a blog post? You could have easily commented it on the HN post or sent the author an email. This brings to mind the recent discussions of negativity on HN.
Very few companies are even considering jumping in on 802.22.

I am pissed personally as the new unlicensed "Super WIFI" would be a great addition to the currently allocated spectrum.

IF YOU WORK WITH A WIRELESS COMPANY, PLEAD WITH THEM TO @LEAST TRY!
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Ask HN: Finding a pair programming partner.
I like to learn & work collaboratively. I miss my Pair Programming days from back in school.

I'd like to find some one either local (Bay area) or remote who would like to pair program.

My specific interests: Data mining and visualization, Design, Workflow. JS and Python are my preferred languages.
It's because "how to make a website scale" depends heavily upon which website, what it does, and how big it needs to be. Making a messaging queue like Twitter or G+ scale is very different from making Google Search scale. Hell, making the indexing system of Google search scale is a very different problem from making the serving system scale.

You can't really avoid having a patchwork of technology, because it's a patchwork of problems. Instead, there're a bunch of tools at your disposal, a few "best practices" which are highly contextual, and you have to use your judgment and knowledge of the problem domain to put them together.
Matt Brown's resume template[1] really gets around (which is no bad thing, I use it myself[2]). I hope he realizes how widely it's used.

1 - [http://resume.github.com/css/resume.css]
2 - [http://www.holehouse.org/CV.html]
I think real Silicon Valley start-ups are generally serious organizations with very rigorous hiring requirements. There have been more and more second-tier city "Silicon Valley" startups, but many are not really comparable to typical Silicon Valley startups.

I think there is probably more a bubble in New York and London than Palo Alto. Inexperienced investors can give anyone some money, but that doesn't mean they will succeed.
p-values must be the most mis-interpreted statistic in the history of statistics. As an example of the trouble you can get into with p-values see recent discussion over misreporting of the LHC experiments (a good starting point is http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-higgs-boso...). Every time I see p-values reported in A/B tests I get leery -- people are trying to adopt a scientific mindset but the tools are leading them astray. (Disclosure: I work on an A/B testing product, called Myna [mynaweb.com] that adopts a different approach.)

The other point I particularly like is the discussion on mean values and robust statistics. Most analytics packages just report means, losing so much information in the process. Again I bet many bad decisions are made due to poor tools.
I think it's a great suggestion, but TBH if your seven-figure hiring manager is making a snap decision based on a username and a single tool when she could look at your Github profile directly, I doubt the Github Resumé software is the "weakest link" in this decision-making process.
I am the one who originally added this sleep call to WebKit, when we first imported TCMalloc to use as our custom allocator. It was indeed there for a reason, but that reason is not applicable to WebKit's allocation patterns. TCMalloc was designed for a server workload, over time we have adapted it more to the unique needs of a browser engine. This change may help other operations, but probably not as much as the GC benchmark in question.
Yeah, I'm most interested in the per-chip pricing, as well.

I ordered a couple boards anyways. For $5 a pop, why not?
There are literally millions of people who are capable of having transitory relationships that end with a manageable amount of drama.

Really, this is not an issue at all.
Additional and relevant marathon running time lying:

http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/08/31/paul-ryan-says-hes-r...

I am not sure why people lie about running times.

But I've run a few marathons and you definitely remember the difference between a 4 hour pace and a 3 hour pace.
It'd be great if this could work with libraries of UI elements, so we could load in Twitter Bootstrap elements if our site uses that, or have the ability to create UI libraries of our own.
Just to clarify. This isn't a false positive in the sense that the DNA test is flawed. The guy's DNA was transferred to the crime scene because he has a skin disorder which causes excessive flaking. But it can happen to anyone.
I find it odd that I have to, other than 7 and 10, which I'm not saying are necessarily always good advice, the rest are just terrible advice that I think are self evidently terrible advice. Experience has taught me nearly exactly the opposite; the advice strikes me as bad programmers who only know one language generalizing their poor procedural skills across domains they don't understand.

Of course, that's the point of the article, "Really" controversial. Seems most people voted those opinions down as poor advice, which they're correct in doing.
There's plenty of energy aimed at these institutions. Matt Taibbi for one example. There's a lot of good investigative journalism around.

Problem is most Americans does not seem to care based on the votes they cast for the politicians who keeps the status quo.
Not much experience with ocaml, but I'm a FP guy. Contacts in profile
The submitter is probably using it to track hacker news visitors (especially those using https).

The submitter is the owner of the blog.
"Every single one of those links either supports DNA testing or doesn't mention it."

Did you read the NYT article?

Also, the issue isn't whether DNA testing could work in theory if it were done by academics under ideal conditions. The issue is whether or not the DNA testing that's actually done by forensics labs is A) accurate (not contaminated, read properly, etc.) B) used correctly by the courts. It also assumes that the police aren't planting evidence against suspects, either purposely or accidentally, that the chain of custody is maintained, etc. There is very little reason to think that these things are always the case.
Every time the operating system decides that it’s time to run a different process, all caches are invalidated (on account of the virtual memory system).

They what? I know most processors will blow the TLB, but I don't think any processor would toss out megabytes of cache.
Try reading this:

http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/133179.html

It's a comic about Schizophrenia.
ViewModels differ from Views exactly in this: they own states, methods and properties allowing the views to be logic-less.

If you consider, in Backbone.js, that your templates are the views, then the Backbone Views are a kind of controllers. What are the advantages of Knockback.js here? I'm sure there are but it's not clear to me given the description.

Alternatively in backbone.js you can create object models related to View but that are not part of your business logic.
TI sites states a €4.40 per 1000 units:
http://www.ti.com/product/lm4f120h5qr#samplebuy
I assure you, I still have all of my hair ;)
Thought the same thing after a quick scan. This is kinda how we do EA already...

However, EA literature often repeats the obvious, maybe we're not the right audience...
This is awesome — I just recently moved out of my parents' home for the first time and have been doing my best to adjust to life "on my own". Thanks for posting this.
>Did you read the NYT article?

Yes. Could you point to the specific part you feel is relevant?
> Even better: Don't use sessions. If there's data you're caching in a session, pre-compute it and store it in Redis (or other suitable NoSQL database).

What do you mean by data you are caching in a session? Session is for maintaining state viz. logged in or not, language preference etc.

How is storing in Redis(or any other data store) any different from storing in Memcache?

> Going statless wherever possible almost always wins.

Using sessions with a data store which can be accessed from multiple machines(no files or in-memory stores) is stateless. The simplest implementation will have a signed cookie with a session id. Your application will have a hook to load the user session from the backing data store before processing the request.
As a point of fact, it is not a single pass compiler.
Great site, One nitpick: I found the font used for each section a bit hard to read. If I'm focusing on it, it's fine but when I'm scrolling through the page just skimming it's a lot harder to decipher.
HTML5 QRcode-Reader (Demo)
The advantages of memristor technology are many. In ordinary conventional non-volatile storage it offers densities higher than flash and speeds approaching SDRAM. I'll let you work out the implications of that on your own.
icewm, fluxbox, dwm. I prefer dwm, but fluxbox and icewm are more often available.
Claiming to run a sub-3 hour marathon was not a verbal gaffe; it was a deliberate statement intended to fortify his image as an athletic over-achiever. The candidate claimed it was a "verbal gaffe" only after being confronted with its falsity.
SQLite is not a real solution for anything needing to support more than one user at a time. It's fine for things like managing bookmarks within firefox, but not for a full relational database replacement. The write access is single threaded (at least last time I used it).
Template Meta Programming is Still Evil
Forensics is a total sham. http://lst.law.asu.edu/FS09/pdfs/Koehler4_3.pdf

The error rate of fingerprints is at least in the single digit %, but everything else is double-digits. Moreover, while DNA is theoretically extremely reliable, the error rate of DNa testing is dominated by lab error and is on the order of 1-2%. Yet, juries are generally not told this overall error rate, but rather just the theoretical probability of a false match (1 in trillions).
I love this: two very well capitalized companies competing to create useful AI-enabled systems.

You can reasonably argue that Watson is not a "real AI" but anything that pushes forward AI research is a good thing as far as I am concerned. BTW, I don't spend time worrying about 'evil AIs' running amok like some of the singularity crowd does.
Thanks for having a look! I guess I was not clear... The point of the first video was to show that the moving image is the only thing missing from the Neonode prior art.

The point of the second video was to show that moving an image on a touch screen with a finger was known to the industry before the iPhone was introduced[1].

This means that Apple's slide to unlock is nothing more than the combination of two known concepts: swipe to unlock and moving an image with the finger. Certainly not worthy of a patent in my opinion.

[1] Linking to the MS video was a mistake of mine, since the device was actually introduced after the iPhone. But please, do have a look at this wonderful summary of the history of multi-touch technology (especially the list of devices in the second half of the page): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wetIwsR...

There's also an impressive TED video from early 2006: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_tou...
I haven't seen any lab demonstrations of multi Mbit devices. Until we see that this is years away from production in my experience as a device physics researcher. All storage technologies so far have taken 10 years plus to have large market share and I don't see this as an exception.
This subject keeps coming up and just won't go away, the problem is that most of the points raised essentially come down to funding, if we really wanted to go there (or the moon) and setup a base, then we would have by now.

Other than SpaceX does anyone know of any private organisations trying to do this? I for one would quite happily get involved, as I am sure would others, happy to setup a Kickstarter page...
You need the data sheet of the micro:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm4f120h5qr.pdf

The schematics of the board:
<not yet released ?>

And a toolchain. Usually you work in C, TI has a tool based on eclipse and gcc, TI Code Composer Studio:
http://www.ti.com/tool/ccstudio

BTW TI Stellaris MCU comes with some really good libraries that are included in ROM.

Usually what happens with this boards is that they're used for a lot of different projects by hackers. Expect to see a lot of activity in space like you can see on hackaday:
http://hackaday.com/tag/launchpad/
I'm not sure, but I would imagine not (but it would be easy to test). However, there are other alternatives at that point. Somebody may have built a clone service (Prowl appears to be a Growl-like app, for instance) or the app could have a small, always running piece that polled on occasion (not ideal for battery life reasons).

I agree the real app store would be better for many reasons.
> I'll let you worj out the implications of that on your own.

If those are reasy HP and partners can sell them at a premium.
Disappearing Mothers
I did specialist maths during my high school years (~16-17 years old) which was quite involved and covered vectors and lots of other interesting things. One of the few good things about high school in Australia. Oddly enough the maths in Computer Science at a University level was much easier.
I wouldn't use the past tense ("was") talking about Wolfram Alpha. I have spent some time with the free tier of Wolfram Alpha APIs (wrapping the Java code in Clojure) and it seems really useful. I would hope that it just keeps getting better.
Wouldn't it be the defense attorney's responsibility to remind the jury of the error rates time after time?
You are operating under the assumption that the performance of an average piece of software is algorithmically limited, this is almost never the case. In average software the core performance characteristics are typically bound by far simpler issues, such as excessive database queries.

A profiler is not good at speed up an algorithm, but a profiler is THE tool you need to speed up a system, and most optimization in the wild is system optimization, not algorithm optimization.

This particular example is a perfect case study in how excessive focus on computer science can lead you astray in software engineering.
If you can't opt-out and a service "blames you" for something that went wrong, i think it deserves a little more than "a comment".
I've seen a pretty complex app which had been implemented a both a native iOS app, and as a PhoneGap app. The PhoneGap version launched faster and was smoother.

I suppose the lesson of the story is that the developers matter more than a the framework used.
You should probably have raised an issue or debugged this; TBH I think this post is doing you more damage. Rather than fixing something, you moaned about it.
Wow, now I'm glad I read comments before the article. This article is really out of date. They've come a long way since this was written.
This is a problem that affects a lot of people that post on HN -- as in, their websites blame the user -- so the blog post helps everyone, right?
I fucking hate that mods keep doing this.
Probably the better move would be to go to SSD-backed High I/O instances. Netflix did: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...
Congrats! Think it looks great so far!
Why I Stopped Pirating Music
That's a good point. Yes, it does break down in certain specific conditions. This causes transformer explosions when there's overload and such. Of course, oil being oil only intensifies this problem.
It looks like a nice 32bit ARM microcontroller, so its great for small projects like talking to sensors, running servos & motors, etc. Compared to other microcontroller platforms like Arduino, this Stellaris chip is much more powerful (32bit vs. 8bit, 80mhz vs. ~16mhz, floating point support, etc.) so perhaps it can even run an embedded linux operating system like the Beagleboard, Rasberry Pi, etc.

If you just want to make an LED flash and play with a couple buttons you don't need anything else--the development board includes everything to hook it up to a computer and program it using Stellaris' software: http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/microcontroller/arm_stellaris/code...

If you're totally new to electronics and microcontrollers, Make magazine has a good book to check out: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Pla...
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It also alludes to the separation of concerns in forensic examinations creating a new set of problems. For example, the DNA testers had a sample to test, and little to no knowledge of the greater context.
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When did addiction become a good thing?
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Where can one read about the machine learning technologies that ibm is working on?
It's pretty cool how nowadays Redis can cover several of those concerns quickly and simply (open schema, caching, replication..)
I think you're over-reacting a bit. Github Resume isn't an official Github service. Some guys created the account "resume" and are using that to generate resumes: https://github.com/resume

So, while the critique is certainly valid and this needs to be addressed, so I think "I never asked to have a github resume, and I can’t opt out" is a bit of a hyperbole (because Github isn't putting a "resume" button next to your account!)
If you're interested in the development being done on Nautilus (which is bring renamed to "Files" in GNOME 3.6), see these two blog posts:

http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2012/08/01/cross-cut/

http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/08/30/on-nautilus/

See the post discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465904 for more changes in GNOME 3.6.
Well you could have just posted this as a comment in the previous discussion. However, it does bring up the good question of how do you pass the blame around when something doesn't look right? You dont! No matter how many times you tested your algorithm, never assume it will catch a culprit with 100% accuracy and please don't make a program to accuse someone of something. It is embarrassing when you have a false positive and you accuse your paid customers of piracy or when a potential investor gets his email auto-returned accusing him of being a spammer.
Ask HN: Are people still afraid to buy online? Why?
Are people are still afraid to buy online both in the US and abroad?

Which are the reasons and the possible solutions

Do you think that a startup working on this field would make sense?
There is a theory which states that if investors ever do manage to accurately model and predict market behaviour, the markets will vanish and be replaced by something even more inexplicable.

There is a further theory which states that this has already happened. Repeatedly.

--- bastardisation of a Douglas Adams quote.
As someone who uses Fireworks everyday, I can say that a tool like this is much needed. In fact, I have been cooking up a similar concept. Would love to connect to pursue a potential collaboration.

By the way, put a form on your page ASAP to let people opt-in for updates.
How about adding a tag line in the header saying "Fresh hip hop music, news, videos and more" ?

I couldn't understand what the site was about. I'm still not sure.

What is it?