skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that people buy a high performance item for a low performance task does not make the item over priced it means they are over paying for what they need. There is a big difference.

Again, posting what you should be able to get is all fine but if you're comparing to a mac pro then until you post me a parts list for a workstation with the same quality of parts put together already then you're not really making your point.

You're not going to do that though because its time consuming and difficult to match up. Also you're ignoring the cost involved in the effort of finding/getting and assembling those parts. To be a fair comparison you'd have to go off one of the PC manufactures lists or at least add overhead for the labor.
Google Finally Starts Highlighting Its Indoor Imagery On Google Maps
I see. I still don't quite get how that addresses zupreme's idea, which had nothing to do with displaying galleries. He was suggesting that instafilter implement a potential performance optimization by caching images as they come in, so the same operations (to the same images) could be more quickly returned from any subsequent calls to the API.

In terms of leveraging IMGUR for hosting and gallery capabilities, yes that would work if all you need is a place to dump original and filtered photos. But my impression was that this API would be used by apps that integrate images into their existing service (whatever it might be). Imagine taking a picture in Instagram, choosing a filter, and being redirected to an IMGUR gallery with the result...
Great hackathon tool for iOS devs
An alternative might be for the user to be able to request that the block is cleared, and for that process to send out an automated email; if the user clicks the link in the email, the block is cleared.

It's no less secure than a password reset and would mean that legitimate account owners can't be locked out of their accounts by attackers.
is java still a useful language to learn or is it considered outdated?
Please, if you're writing req/resp benchmarks, please include 98/99/99.9% latencies. These are essentially the only numbers that actually matter.

At the mean, at concurrency 50, we have things like 37.5ms vs. 12ms. To a user, that is "instant" vs. "instant". Sure, if we stack a bunch up on a page, maybe we'll start to care, but..

Much more directly, in real-world scaling scenarios, it matters far more if the 98% number is 2s or 248ms than the mean is 37ms. A 2s latency means 2 out of every 100 requests (and likely > 2% of page views), the user experience will suck. And, all it takes is 6 requests to ensure that 25% of users experience this (your homepage alone probably requires 6 requests).

I'm not just raising this to be pedantic--I've seen plenty of systems that have been tuned to do very well on things like req/s or even mean latency but do very poorly for 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 (vs. being a very fair scheduler at the cost of overall throughput). We reward these systems by measuring and praising the wrong thing. (e.g. mongodb vs. riak)

edit: (btw, not intended as a specific defense of either go or java wrt the article, just a general statement about benchmarking these systems)
It would make the most sense to store nothing. As far as I can tell, it doesn't return a link to the filtered image or anything, just the binary. RAM would be the limiting factor here I think. The images would need to be decompressed to filter them (unless they're doing something very fancy).

Edit: welp, I totally didn't read the OP of this thread. Still, I think the storage costs outweigh the cost of just applying the filter each time. Also, people like to filter their own images. Nobody I know of shoves existing pictures into Instagram.
In Build and Analyze #50 ( http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/50 ), starting at around 22:30, Marco describes why he made these decisions.
By patenting it, they can prevent others from implementing it. Patents are often used to prevent activity.
Right now he's very likely been cut to pieces already, as previous bloggers have been in similar situations.
Very sad, but this is how things now work in Mexico.

The real name has probably been used as last desperate attempt to find any bit of information.
yes. It's a freemium model for dealerships ATM, but we reserve the right to change it whenever we feel like it! :)

The pay service allows dealerships to see data and have access to tools that help them be more competitive and make better decisions.

NO one ever gets to pay for placement or for access to our customers.
I think the point wasn't that Yahoo should show no ads. The point was that the ad was in a place where people were accidentally clicking on it and not knowing why a window kept appearing. This didn't add any value to the user, didn't add any value for the advertiser and over time wouldn't add any value to Yahoo because advertisers will eventually decide that clicks from Yahoo are worth much less because of the high bounce rate.
> Given that Apple failed on D'889 (and D'087, which was also about rounded corners) it's pretty clear that Apple does not own "rounded rectangles."

A couple things. First, you left out D'677 (which everything but the Galaxy Ace infringed). I was being generous in leaving out D'087, though I probably should have listed it for completeness.

Second, I believe that list is the design features were argued over at trial. The problem isn't just whether or not they own them, but whether they believed that they do. When they claimed to own them in court, that made it fair game for criticism.
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Especially interesting when viewed in the context of recent patent disputes in the tech world. To hear Teller talk and to hear his performances described conveys that ethereal, intangible quality that "the real thing" has and that knockoffs generally fail to capture — a quality that seems instinctively to be deserving of protection.
Actually, there are now more Chrome users than IE users (depending on which country you are dealing with). German users have been huge Firefox users since 2005. And the Webkit supergroup (add all the Safari, iOS, and Android browsers to Chrome) means even more of the market than you might think are using essentially “the same” browser engine.

(Quotes because, as PPK always reminds us, there is no monolithic WebKit in actuality.)

Edit in reply: Hmm, “currently… except for recently.” Then let my comment be in reply to “currently” and not “recently,” I suppose. Not sure if my parent was edited after my reply, or if I was really that bad a reader.
It's built-in! Right-click the search box and "Add as search engine". Then pick a keyword like... github. Then you can put in the omnibar:

github samirahmed

and it just works!
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should I learn css and or css3 ? if i learn css3 will i know everything that's in css?
Working directly with every candidate would be extremely time consuming.
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Decades might be right. I can't think of a compelling reason for anyone to learn C++ today, but having put in the time to learn it reasonably well, I won't be surprised if I find myself still using it occasionally twenty years from now.
Or that he might want to change it but knows that changing it will result in complaints and negative reviews because something changed?
I didn't work much in the the idea, but since I'd focus more in hte composition process, I thought of building an easy-to-use, graphic version control tool that integrates with common composition software (finale, guitar pro etc.).

This tool wold then convert the score / tablature into a single representation that would be used for storing, diffs and such. Perhaps this represantation could be text-based (lilypond [1]?) to use a mainstream VCS (git) as backend.

But I don't have the skills or time to do that, so it will stay in stand by until someone (me?) implements it someday.

[1] http://lilypond.org/
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the only problem i ever had with VM (recently switched to StraightTalk) was the phone selection. phones are getting better but you can't buy a different phone and just use it on VM. at least sticking with sim card phones you have other options.
I don't think people regret single event or one particular chance they missed due to some over thinking or inexperience. What they usually regret is the way in which they lived their entire life. They usually regret the framework they used to make their day-to-day decisions to choose their work/people/opportunities. That is something you can definitely avoid because you can always do something about how you live your life.
>>I ask because my brain really cant absorb too many languages, and I want to make some kind of pseudo-optimal choice

Am in the same boat. I moved to SF permanently 2 months back, after 15+ years in the east coast. Decided to pick 1 language, immerse myself in it deeply, & then start the interview circuit. The opposite approach would be to pick a bunch of languages ( ruby, python, jquery/coffeescript etc. ) and get a smattering of best practices in everything without knowing anything too deeply. Both approaches have their merit. In SF, I recommend the latter approach - you will find jobs almost instantly if you do that. But still, given my proclivity ( I would rather know everything about 1 thing than something about everything) I chose the former approach. I picked Scala, read every single chapter of Odersky's book, & subjected myself to 19 total interviews at 2 multibillion$ companies using Scala exclusively for a "new project built from scratch".

I got offers at both. Now am debating which one to join.

tl;dr Scala is that pseudo-optimal choice you are looking to make. In SF there are a few very-nice Scala jobs with 6-figure salaries & tons of RSU's thrown in...but only if you can hack it. The questions you will be asked in the interview are definitely esoteric & very academic ( difference between reader monad and writer monad, reverse a list without mutation using a foldLeft, kruskal's algorithm in scala, merging graphs with common edges where each edge is a tuple, etc. ) Its not web apps, its not "software engineering", and its not everybody's cup of tea. But if you like academic CS, Scala will not disappoint you.
Unless it's heroin.
Oh cool. How many bills are you going to show? Will there be histograms or some kind of visualization or just the lists?
Microsoft was deemed to have a monopoly in "Intel-compatible PC operating systems". An ARM tablet is not in this market; Microsoft has no monopoly in this market; Microsoft cannot be fined for abusing monopoly power in this market as it does not have monopoly power. They are free as Apple or Android to allow or disallow software on that platform.

IANAL.
Apparently HN is injesting a feed of:

select url from all_worldwide_blog_posts where content like '%MongoDB%'
I once had the same confusion, even as an iOS developer. That makes me try to offer individual buttons for actions that don't fit into a "share" metaphor I at least until I run out of space.
There's a difference between wearing you're religion on your sleeve (i.e. obvious to everyone without any effort) and wearing it on a necklace under your shirt (i.e. obvious only to those people to whom you show it or who make an effort to find it). GP apparently does the latter.
We use the term a lot in Australia. Seems to be of British origin?
Schumer Courts Tech with BRAINS Act to Help Startups Hire Foreign-Born Workers
does the vote counter get incremented atomically?
This looks really exciting. This seems more like what I wanted easel.io to be. I had actually started working on a simple html/css in-browser editor to use for mocks that could be taken into production, but looks like this might be what I was looking for.
So would you NOT buy stickers from them post investment? Isn't the bigger point of stickers to show the world that you support Github, rather than to financially support them?
I think we're talking about two things:

1. Did Apple think they owned the patent? Yes, you're right that they did. The fact that they lost still leaves them open to accusations of patent abuse, but statements like "Apple won on their patent for a rectangle" are factually wrong.

2. Does Apple think they own "rounded corners"? I'm pretty sure they didn't believe or argue this. I would love to see a citation that Apple claimed that rounded corners on a rectangular device, by themselves, was something that they could stop competitors from including.

Patents are a thorny issue, but the facts matter. HN can't have a meaningful discussion about them if we toss facts out the window because it makes a better narrative to say things like "Apple patented the rectangle." If the situation is really bad, there should be no need to exaggerate it or make stuff up.
Ask HN: What interview questions to expect from Valley-company?
I'm longtime member who is posting anonymously. I'm applying to big name companies in the Valley and landed an interview with one that said the interview would include cognitive questions. Has anyone had recent experience with these questions? and how can I best prepare? Very thankful for answers!
If it were that easy to identify good ideas/teams then venture capital as an asset class wouldn't have consistently negative returns.

To put it another way: If you think you can identify winning ideas/teams with even 50% accuracy, then drop what you're doing and raise a fund, because you're going to be the most successful investor of all time.
"A plurality of personas"

The patent system has become a joke. Only because of how it is being used, and it's one industry that is driving things to the point of absurdity. There is no integrity to the system, no matter how well-designed it is in theory, when they keep accepting nonsense like this. If filing for these was affordable for anyone, accepting them would have to come to an end. It would not be worth anyone's time to review.

"Social computing". In other words sending messages over a wire using a computer. No one was doing that in the late 60's, in the 70's or in the 80's or even the 90's. This is totally new. Totally fresh. Bleeding edge. Hot. And patentable!
The obvious solution: Get you business out of those countries with expensive litigations (or a patent system). I think, it will become a competition issue like we have with tax heavens.
This is painfully obvious.
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Your guess is probably quite accurate, is also probably mostly benchmarking the quality of the PostgreSQL drivers, the Go ones are good, but I'm sure there has been much more work in optimizing the Java ones.
The suggestion was for companies to forego doing business with certain people as a risk management tactic.

It's akin to Amazon pulling their affiliate program from California to avoid sales tax. I don't see how net neutrality factors in here.
TechCrunch "summarization" of the article http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/18/study-want-more-female-lead... "Study: Want More Female Leadership? Use Consensus, Not Majority Rule"
I started learning C and C++ about three months ago. My reasoning is, they're used all over the place. My operating system is written using C and nearly all the applications I use are too. I want to be able to modify the programs I use, and I want to be able to write native applications that run quickly. Those are my motivations. And I haven't been this happy learning a language for years.
Good question. Incoming votes get added to an in-memory array, which is then periodically flushed to the DB. During the flush, incoming votes are queued-up and aren't processed until the flush to the DB is complete.
It's not really looking like that's an option too many folks care about anyway, given the survey results so far.

As for the concerns:

1) The original audio did mention that there would be difficulties on the hardware side of that fence - leasing a car may have been a poor example, but it was just an idea of one kind of transaction a "smart property" system would be capable of.

2) There is actually one big benefit of adding Bitcoin to that mix: You gain the benefits of a publicly published block chain that's not reliant on any centralized source as is the case with traditional key signing. A bank could implement this for their loans right now, but it would be reliant on some centralized source to enforce the payment schema. With the bank as that source it would be a very lop-sided relationship with one central point of failure. With the Bitcoin protocol as the source of contract enforcement the balance of power between you and the bank is even and your single point of failure is now a distributed transaction network with tens of thousands of nodes.
All social apps end up becoming content apps, or else.
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Oh, I can't wait to try it. any chance I could get an invite? email: "jatinder" + ".saundh" AT gmail dot com
Exactly, I completely don't understand those complaints.

> 'There are lots of places where you can be anonymous online,' Betanews' Joe Wilcox notes. 'Google+ isn't one of them.' Got it. But if online anonymity is so evil, then what's the deal with Google's newly-awarded patent for Social Computing Personas for Protecting Identity in Online Social Interactions?

Because they didn't say it's "so" evil, they didn't even say it's just evil, nor did they ban it, they just want you to use your real name on G+. You're still free to post on 4chan from behind two proxies, to write on reddit and traverse irc under your pseudonym, even get a random gmail address, or send encrypted posts to alt.anonymous.messages. Does every community online have to be the same?
But my point is that matching specs is the wrong thing to do. I want a machine that will compile a large code base really quickly. I can do that for $800, and it will do it faster than any machine that Apple sells for less than $4800. (12 core mac pro with SSD). The $2500 Mac Pro is better than my $800 machine at many things, but my $800 machine is superior for my needs, and that's all that matters.
Because they don't sue everybody? It's widely understood that Apple is avoiding bringing Google to court, for example, for strategic reasons. And some "infringers" are just too small to sue. It's a cost benefit calculation, not an admission that Samsung is the only offender. And Apple certainly has sued plenty of other companies for similarly frivolous reasons.
I think we should have some kind of domain amnesty.

Every domain you are not going to develop & probably wont renew next year should be easily available. Parked domains should be forwarded to a hosted domain page saying "If you'd like to buy this awesome domain contact me on ..." "I'll accept [insert reasonable price ie $100]

Domains with no contact info, that are parked & have never been developed are so annoying.

Either develop them or have them forward to a decent sales page.
LOL, you made an effort? I'm honored. But you missed the point. Google and Facebook have naturally and unnaturally coerced people into living a certain online lifestyle. I wonder if you know the history of Afghanistan's Taliban rule and their policies towards the Hindu subjects, and how they forced them to wear a cloth of specific colors so they can be distinguished from the Muslims?

I am not making parallels but above is an example of unnatural and forced coercion into applying identities. The other is also unnatural but still a coercive strategy, perhaps just influential in method.

BTW, based on your assessment of my online identity, did you think I was a Hindu or a Buddhist? Because I'm neither.
Cost is an issue if you're deploying on large scale. The fact the source is not available is an even bigger issue.

OTOH if using a proprietary solution ($$ and closed source) was fine, I'd personally go with C# or F#. If you're fine using a closed-source runtime, why not just use a better language (not to mention Microsoft's products are free for startups via BizSpark)?
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This is very interesting and I think needs to be more widely known. There is a general perception of Bitcoin as simply a currency useful to criminals. The idea that it is capable of useful things that regular currency can't do helps to legitimise it.
Did you read the 2nd link? This is a problem even in C++03. The solution is to invoke the copy on the access of `t[1]`, which is what libstdc++ does. That was the whole point of the second link; that using any operator/method that returns a char reference (operator[], at(), etc) ruins COW.
Which bank are you with? One of the few things that annoyed me about NBNZ was the utter lack of security with setting the pin and online banking password.
Regret is different than doing something that didn't turn out well. I have made plenty of decisions that caused a great deal of suffering - but they made me who I am. I think what I would regret would be if I made decisions that didn't make me into a better, more interesting person. Better to have loved and lost, and all that. I guess that whether regret-minimization is a useful framework depends on how precisely we define regret. I am risk-seeking, I fall down a lot, but I never regret anything.
Regret is different than doing something that didn't turn out well. I have made plenty of decisions that caused a great deal of suffering - but they made me who I am. I think what I would regret would be if I made decisions that didn't make me into a better, more interesting person. Better to have loved and lost, and all that. Whether regret-minimization is a useful framework depends on how precisely we define regret. I am risk-seeking and fail quite often, but I never regret anything.
The fact the article disappeared interests me more than its content. How does Reuters go about deciding which articles to delete, as opposed to merely retracting or modifying? Is this an excercise in journalistic integrity, corporate bullying, ...?
I think any reasonable person goes for value in food. Take $ divided by calories. Then see if you can afford it.

Example: Grocery store sells these $1 one-serving cottage cheese cups and boasts they are "only" 100 calories. Let's see, I need 2400 calories or so to survive the day, no there is no way in hell I can afford $24/day food budget on a business analyst's salary.

For me one of the best values ever was discovering that I could substitute half and half for milk. I drink it by the 12 oz cup, great stuff!
Gerard Bakardy reuploaded his version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkq4XfFgCYs

The style couldn't be more different. The "effect" is the same, but the style is light years apart.

I don't believe you should be able to copyright an effect, and it's likely he's not even using the same effect.

I understand Teller wants to protect an idea he came up with, but I think it's protected simply by the grace and beauty of his version.
Correlation != Causation.

Too many variables.
> http://www.springsource.org/

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/spr...

Does that answer your question?
The SHIELD Act is a great step, but I wonder how this will fare against the patent troll practice of setting up separate legal entities specifically for litigating individual patents? If they lose, they declare bankruptcy and move on to the next shell corporation.
Maybe. I can't directly see an event disturbing a cause after the first message, but that doesn't mean there's not a way to make it do so.

Of course the cheap answer is that it violates SR (and common sense, given the complete symmetry of the situation) for A to be able to send an insta-message to B but B not able to send an insta-message to A.
May sound trivial, but if product decisions are based on the value of the data they produce, the feature pipeline for a product could look a lot different.
What Windows ARM browsers are there as alternative anyway?