skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As narag says, it's only recently that this has become an issue. When physical memory size was orders of magnitude smaller than than the address space, it didn't matter that the kernel carved out 1GB of address space for itself. User applications still had the other 3GB, which was far more than any system had physical memory.

It's only during this limbo period when 4GB of RAM is relatively cheap, yet there are still 32-bit systems kicking around, that it becomes an issue. On a 64-bit system with a 16 exabyte address space, 1GB is a drop in the bucket. Once again, it won't matter.

(I suspect Linux allocates more than this for itself in 64-bit systems, but I don't know the details. At any rate, out of 16EB, even 100GB would hardly be noticed.)
RTF is a good format for editable documents, but it's not such a good format for documents that need to look exactly the same on all platforms. The format that PDF actually reinvents is Postscript.
october sky is AWESOME!

And did anyone else find it really sexual when Jenifer Jason-Leigh was plugging Jude Law in?

Don't forget the 13th Floor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor)

Let me know if you spot the 3dFx vs Power VR joke.
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I think they could make a whole series of prequels to the 5th element. I would love to see the adventures of "Corban Dallas"
yeah, fire the workers making more money, and keep the cheap foreign labor, it's the American Way!!!
Realistically, you should be scared when there is a new /back-end/. The front-end doesn't do much. When they change the rendering engine (which they didn't) or the javascript VM (which they did), then you need to extensively test it.
I'm sure there are people who would want to ban open source if they understood the idea. Fortunately, they are mostly too stupid to get it. Just as there are vested interests who would love to go back in time and kill the Internet (e.g. the music industry), but fortunately 15 years ago when the Internet was small enough to kill these vested interests didn't understand its importance.
Sounds right. The key problem for carders is the drop place and buying this way disconnects the card with physical address. Plus it could be used as a black market currency. Oh, and ideal for tax evasion at the micro level. The taxman is much better at tracking this type of scams than FBI, no CSI magic but plain old "follow the money."

Now, if I were an US three-letter agency agent, I'd be the top seller of this cards and track the hell out of it. I mean, it even gives a profit, no budget issues. Tracking email, IP, and making contacts would be trivial. Could even be done without a court order to PayPal or anything. Selling gift cards isn't a crime, so it wouldn't be entrapment by itself, AFAIK and IANAL.
They are making a full motion movie. Supposedly the downside is they cased Spike as Keano Reaves. (i guess when i think about a 'film nior' space-cyber-punk-black-belt, i do not think about NEO)
thats a hacker film. they had to find the signal, and then prove they were there!
Its a way to get around VAT for euros isn't it?
Does load faster the Firefox? O rly?

Firefox 3.1b2 opens in a fraction of the time IE8rc1 opens, on first start and on re-open.
I'm going to give this a shot. Not radically like the CR people I will just randomly skip meals and not eat after 6pm(good practice anyways).

Maybe it will break my procrastination cause my body begins to work harder to find food. Just gotta make sure my stomach doesn't grumble during the wrong times though.
Testing KDE on Windows
That's hilarious, you can buy like 20 different designs of stickers that are almost transparent to human eyes?

I'm sure the Ottawanian boy can still have a piece of the market for these things. At least until every dangerous window has a decal ;)
Interesting, but it reads more like a PR hit for Spotlight Analysis than a meaningful piece on the use of data analysis in political campaigns.
Excellent, should be part of Google! (e.g. "fact:Hackernews")

On index pages no inline links are visible.
e.g. "Illusion
a Polish band founded in 1992 in Gdańsk, Poland and defunct since 1999"

You can only click "Gdańsk" if you’re on the single fact page.
Looking to acquire.
Doesn't seem to have stopped Javascript from becoming popular...
From the way I read those comments, I gathered that the comments implied that Windows "consumed" two gigs of ram, where as Linux took 1 gig. I thought there was a dissonance between how people understood "virtual memory," which is essentially a mapping function, to "memory," which people assume to be the physical ram.
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Zed Shaw is so awesome he has two middle fingers on his left hand. Both of them have 'Rails' tatooed on them.

That's why he plays left handed guitar.
very interesting.
Could you tell me how its made?
can't upvote this enough.
As a matter of fact, there is a Greasemonkey extension for Firefox that achieves integration into Google search: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32352
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What I like about Iplotz is its ability to create multiple wireframes. But I hope either peldi or Iplotz guys replicate Omnigraffle's master/canvas feature. Have one master template and then create multiple canvases using this master. This is probably the single-most productive feature (IMO) in Omnigraffle for application prototyping.
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Rather, PageRank comes from a family of algorithms called co-citation algorithms which first came about in library science before being used on the web. In fact, most of the groundwork for web search is from library science.
what do you mean? like what it is built with (i.e. programming language, server etc)?
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I guess I misread axod as saying "how would they implement a nice PDF/Word viewer without using a plugin?"
at a certain point, prying into the man’s private life and reporting about a rumored surgery becomes a tad questionable

It was valleywag who reported this; the website whose entire purpose is to exploit and intrude into the private lives of others. The only way to stop the behavior of sites like valleywag is for people to stop visiting them, and for major sites to stop blogging about every controversial post they make. Sadly, that's probably never going to happen.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200812/financial-bubble...
I know that i can ask him. It's an expression.
Everything for your themed wedding
This online store has been a great resource for buying wedding supplies. It has items for the bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen and ring bearer. Also has accessories for themed weddings.
Can you afford a 3Ware card- even a used one? Nothing compares to a solid hardware RAID solution, in terms of quality, reliability, and performance. I suffered the failure of several RAID-5 software arrays in linux about 5 years ago (despite the failure of only one disk) and decided that it wasn't worth the trouble. I switched to 3Ware and have never had a problem since, despite numerous disk failures and replacements.
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich
Has anyone heard of this conference? I'm surprised I just found it. Seems to be Europe's answer to TED.
I've posted jobs here and would love to have comments turned on. People could ask questions that might be interesting to other folks on the site.

If people posted commentary on the company, I imagine they'd be downvoted if it wasn't interesting. ;-)
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Sony Ericsson W902 This phone is highly recommended for music lover. Besides, it does also will attract photography lover and the phone has included some features which attracts its lovers. The W902 has 5-megapixel camera with autofocus.
They were quite self-concious about not fucking up Youtube. They bought it because it succeeded in a way Google Video didn't even come close to. Youtube also had quite a few employees and built-up infrastructure by the time of purchase -- they weren't a tiny startup like most of Google's purchases. They didn't even move offices!
I'm sure at least some of these are going to people who are buying them with stolen credit cards or other scams. But it seems that there would be less fraud with gift cards, since they could be remotely disabled and are traceable. That having been said, who knows if Amazon and others actually help victims of fraud recover their gift cards or not..
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Given you don't reference what operating system is in use, you're probably using Microsoft Windows here. The implementation of virtual memory has common traits, but details vary by OS and even OS version.

Physical address space and virtual address space are two different aspects of system design, and it is completely feasible to have these values be the same, or to have either of the two be larger than the other. Yes, you can have a 32-bit virtual memory system and 34 or more bits of physical memory, and there can be good reasons to do that, too.

It's also feasible to have address "holes" in virtual address space, and "holes" in physical address space. Address ranges or gaps that are simply not implemented by the particular processor, or that are not instantiated by the memory controller. But I digress.

Save for low-end boxes, all current gear is 64-bit virtual addressing (variously with "holes"), and most current systems can have 48 bits (x86-64) or 50 bits (IA-64) or other implementation-specific ranges for physical addressing. Details vary by processor and by implementation. Available memory varies by budget - 50 bits of memory is expensive - and target market for the box.

And consuming address space is different than consuming memory. On various systems, address space is an inexpensive resource. And on a virtual memory system, memory is limited by physical memory and by backing storage and by your willingness to wait for the transitions between these two resources; for memory paging to occur.

And what your application thinks is in memory might be on disk. When referenced, the data is valid or is paged in and made valid.

Parts of an OS might be memory-resident, and parts can be paged. Applications tend to be paged.

If you're programming in an area that has performance constraints, knowing details of the particular virtual memory and physical memory implementation can be a key to success. Issues around data alignment, multiprocessor memory caching and data structure layout can all be relevant; having a large and improperly-designed data structure can lead to memory paging for each data structure reference, for instance.
Yep, I’m happy I found it, too. You want to look after your "shameless plug" on http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/. The link goes to broadersheet.com (w/o "www") which fails.
This post is way off base.

The VC industry is at the heart of creative destruction. And the job creation that results goes well beyond the jobs created in the VC companies themselves. There is a trickle down effect.
thats weird. If you go to http://broadersheet.com/ it works for me?
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The article argues the general conservative view of life, I believe. The valuing of customs and culture over the new. I can't say I agree with it, but I definitely understand it. There was a great TED talk on understanding the divide and each viewpoint: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_mor...
I have an account from right as they were bought out.

The phone number I got gets a constant stream of weird calls from voicemail systems and collection agencies. I had it forwarded to my office phone for a while, and I only figured out the reason for the calls once I started getting email notifications from GrandCentral about voicemail messages that the mystery callers had just started leaving.
The focus of Hacker News is going to be anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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I find rewriting is more necessary in some languages than others. In Java, a rewrite was common. In Lisp, I don't think I've ever rewritten: the first dumbest prototype is just one continuous refactoring away from the final product. Python and Ruby were somewhere in between.

I kind of have a vague feeling for why this would be true, but I can't quite put it into words. Maybe it has to do with how much structural stuff I have to write, or how directly I can express my program in the first place. Thoughts?
High in the sky above Mars, it is snowing right now. Very gently snowing.
Agreed, with the addendum that you should learn on Python version 2.6, which lets you import many of the features from 3.0 on a per-file basis to make the transition to 3.0 easier.
What about Google Finance and NY Times infographics?
Nope, not even a ping here. I’m using OpenDNS, seems like an issue on their side.
We just gave up on this. We serve professional photographers, who tend to be above average in terms of techie-ness.

We implemented PB Wiki for our support pages. No one updated it.

We spelled it out in big letters on the wiki home page. No one updated it.

We even had a contest. Every time you add to a wiki page, you're entered to win a prize. No one updated it.

Not only did no one update it, it confused customers. Customers confused the "login" link at the top of the wiki with the login area of their CMS. That simply resulted in more support tickets.

So, this year we simply moved our support pages to WordPress and only our staff can update them.

Since it appears your wiki is internal, maybe you have a better chance, but it would take some serious staff development in my opinion.
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It's popular wisdom that since the Dow has never underperformed treasuries or cash over any 20 year period, stocks are the best long-term bet. But the Nikkei's currently at about 25% of its 1990 peak; which makes me want to amend the popular wisdom: "Stocks are the best long-term bet, until they aren't."

I don't think it's time to panic, exactly, but it may be time to re-examine the cultural expectations of (endless growth|sudden apocalypse), and consider the long, bumpy decline as a possibility.
Great reading.
This notion of different "times" is very interesting, a friend said you can find this in JS Bachs music, as it doesnt follow the mostly human notion of time, e.g. it doesnt have a beginning, a peak and an end.
Or ban software patents altogether. That would probably be cheaper.
strange. I'll have to ensure my DNS is setup. Lots of my users will probably use OpenDNS - will do some reading! :)
"I mailed the slip of paper to the White House, mentioning that the Chinese restaurant was located within a mile of Nixon's original house, and I said, "I think a mistake has been made; by accident I got Mr. Nixon's fortune. Does he have mine?" The White House did not answer. "
Got to love this guy.
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I found a code sample much easier to grok quickly. Stumbled across this a couple weeks back when looking at the updates in the latest version of RESTlet.

http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/jax-rs-jsr-311.html#JAX-RS%...
I've suffered failures with hardware RAID, two different cards, two different manufacturers. I was assured by several people that software RAID is now reliable, so I switched from hardware RAID.

I note that you recommend the 3Ware card - not one I've used. Thank you for the information, I'll do some research on that.

In the meantime, more comments, advice, information and anecdotes welcome.
I'm guessing you've never seen the age-old "Internet's worst domain names" or whatever it's called this week?

Features the likes of PenIsland and TherapistFinder...
The problem with all of the syntax arguments is that they give away something significant to get something almost meaningless.

Accessible syntax is important. However, accessible doesn't mean/imply/require terse or specialized. Moreover, accessibility by programs is also important.

I know some amazing programmers but I've never met one who could write code, let alone good code, faster than a code generator.
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I think I'm with Wonkette on this one:

David Brooks comes from a magical time when people could have a single profession or employer for their entire working life, and might feel like their personal sense of self-worth was related to how well they did their jobs. (This was long before the invention of men’s room attendants, debt collectors, and fryolater de-greasers.)

http://wonkette.com/405797/david-brooks-explains-why-we-shou...
Why not do the "freemium" model and ask a fee for more selective searches or better features? He could incorporate a redesign as part of the process.
agree. it's full of people who ain't "wiki" enough, ya know...

(in their brains, I mean)
still a few more (some are in the works)

* Stargate

* "startup.com" - about the formation of 'govworks.com' i wonder what these guys think about Obama.

* Takedown - 'Kevin Mitnick's story'

* Serenity

* Star Trek: the Voyage Home

* The Last Starfighter

* Johnny Mnemonic

* Short Circuit 1 & 2

* Crest of the Stars (anime)

* Fahrenheit 451

* Equilibrium

* Batman (begins, dark night, the tim burten one)

* Edward Scissor Hands

* Space Balls

* Avalon ( http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-current/ava...)

* LAIN: The Serial Experiments (anime)

* Cherry 2000

* Dune

* Ender's Shadow (in the works)

* Ender's Game (in the works)

* Diamond Age (in the works for sci-fi, 'a young girls illustrated primer')

* The Arrival

* The Terminator 1,2,3

* The Sarah Conner Chronicles

* D.A.R.Y.L

* Flight of the Navigator

* Explorers

* AI

* Batteries Not Included

* Blade Runner

* IRobot

* Appleseed (anime)

* Bubble Gum Crisis (anime)

* Ergo Proxy (anime)

* Virtuosity

* Metropolis (all of them are good)

* The Last Exile (anime)

* Cherry 2000

* Robocop (this so hold up)

* Primmer

* Probe ( the TV series, it took me 3 months to find the copies of this Issac Asimov based TV series on ABC ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_(TV_series)

* Infest Wisely

* Logan's Run

* Planet of the Apes

* Star Trek: First Contact

* CQ ( if you get it, you'll get why this is a hacker movie , 'la resistance')

* Amelie

* 2046

* Trigun (anime)

* Escaflone (anime)

* Tank Girl

* Twelve Monkeys

* THX 1138

* Bicentennial Man

* The Philadelphia Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(fi...

* Seaquest ( some episodes )

* Strange Days ( new yeas hacker style )

* Freejack
No slums like bombay or Sao Palo or mexico city. Thankfully, our poor (even our rural poor) are spared the intense and catastrophic destitution of such places. America is not a classless society, but we have maintained a large and healthy middl class (that is less true now than it once was,) and as previously mentioned, our poor are better off than their counterparts around the world.
Why was I down-modded?
If you believe his observations about the differences between free and paid sites, it would seem very difficult to reconcile them into one freemium site. You'd essentially have two tiers of users, with separate pools of personals and at least some variation in design.

Another challenge for PoF is reconciling their business models. AFAIK, right now PoF makes its money from selling leads to premium dating sites. If they're going to run their own premium site, doesn't that risk cannibalizing that business?
Weak sauce.

Moving labor overseas has consequences. The labor pool here will begin ignoring Microsoft (more than we already now, but that's besides the point), since there aren't any US offices. This leads to the further development of competing infrastructure.

Next, you find Microsoft's products will take much longer to get certified for government use. Now that the core developers of the OS aren't U.S. workers, what's to say there aren't "backdoors" inserted by Chinese/Indian nationals? Oracle products sometimes lag for a year and a half because of its "development in every time zone model" when it comes to certifying it for our Defense Infrastructure.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is echo'd by "The market's are that simple". As HP's CEO said when "globalization" was a "new concept" it cannot be ignored if you want to remain competitive. But in actuality that means being competitive in job markets globally, and that can be done with H1-Bs.
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I used to actually enjoy skipping breakfast and sometimes lunch. I'm thinking at the moment particularly of college when I would be in "crunch mode". I'd get a bit hungry, but it somehow "felt" as if it lent itself to the overall push to get stuff done.

I'm generally an evening person, but I could have a very enjoyable morning by jumping, sans breakfast, straight into work while things were still quiet and somehow associate my work and progress with a certain "leanness" in the gastrointestinal area. I don't know quite how to describe it, but it was a distinct and useful impression.
Hey Daniel, I realized I was blowing off some steam, actually I'm just beginning with ASP.NET over a surveillance project we're doing. Coming from php background and watching Ruby people talk so much about, less code this that, I was really taking to views that were based over just a look at code.
I really love that comments you wrote, and that sets me a new way to think over things and be more positive, more importantly your comment encourages me to DO things FIRST and then comment, rather than being an observatory commentor.
Thanks :)
Just read what I wrote.

I think ideally that is what conservatives want to stand for, though in practice it may be quite different.
and, yeah I just tried out Mono on my ubuntu, I loved the way the code remained same on windows as well as *nix... It will be a great help in my project :)
I've always admired Markus. In part, because of his ability to run a very successful business by himself, but also because I tend to enjoy rooting for the home team; I live in Vancouver.

That being said, I'm not sure where he's going with this. In many ways this seems like the beginning of the end for him. Granted, he knows his industry better than I do, but here's my take:

1. He runs a free service, at huge profit margins. His competitors all run paid services.

2. The likelihood that people would view paid dating as a luxury they can no longer afford is higher than ever.

3. He's worried about "hundreds of millions of dollars" that he's missing out on - that's usually a recipe for disaster.

If anything, I think he should stay as static as possible. The odds that much of the paid traffic from his competitors comes his way in the next little bit is extremely high. Moving to a paid site destroys the only competitive advantage he has. It's suicide.

I've seen this move before with other entrepreneurs, and I've never really seen success from it. What it usually symbolizes is that the particular niche has reached its potential, and no real innovation is required at this point. The founder is basically getting bored, and looking for new challenges. What needs to happen though is that the entrepreneur him/herself needs to leave/end the business. You can't evolve into new markets and bring your business with you without destroying the comfortable fit that your brand already has in the marketplace.

From my 2 cents, he should be looking for buyers, not trying to become one.
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Unless the government was to engage in 'deficit spending' -- e.g. spending money it doesn't have by seeking loans from foreign countries.

Oh course, that would never happen. :)