skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assigning a moral value to Google's algorithms here, or to personalized search in general, doesn't make sense. I like personalized search - when I change main operating systems, as I do every few months, my information for debugging is always for the right os. If I look up hashmaps, it usually gives me results for the programming language I'm using that day. In the middle of a study session for linear algebra, I can just search for inverse and get a useful wikipedia page.
If I want results that are not personalized like this for some reason - more balanced coverage, I actually want to know about pythons, whatever - then hopefully I have the discipline and ability to go to incognito or another search engine. Maybe I don't know about them, in which case if I'm politically engaged I will find out from a fearmonger. But the reality is that there are two products, each ideal for different people and use cases, and neither of them is evil. It has always been difficult to get 'unbiased' information, whatever that is. With Google, I have a chance to see beyond my local papers and the people I know in one way, and with DDG it's another.
Is advertising any worse than blindly accepting what you've "always done" ?

That's like people voting for one party because their parents voted for the party.
Note that actual CPU designers spend a significant amount of time doing routing and other tasks that you might think would be completely automated. So while you might have a block of verilog code that specifies the RTL for your decode unit, and you can certainly reuse that, each new chip will require you to redo routing at different levels which will require lots of engineering time.

Spending time on that might be fine if x86 ISA was getting you a significant performance advantage, but since it is not, the extra NRE you blow on physical optimization of decode logic is just wasted effort that could be better spent elsewhere.
I was wondering the same thing a couple of days ago. The iPhone5 hasn't got the buzz previous releases had, and the iPad mini seems to be less and later than comparable android 7" tablets. Apple is also putting increasing energy into patent lawsuits, which is another sign of a company resting on it's laurels. And of course they've lost Jobs.

Having said that, although I think it likely that Apple has peaked, I wouldn't short it just yet. I had the same opinion about Microsoft ten years ago during the years bewtween XP and Vista. Linux was surging ahead, Windows was going nowhere, lawsuits started flying and Bill Gates stepped down. Actually, now I commit this to text, the comparison is spookily similar!

But my point is that it took about 8 years before there was any effect on their share price. My experience is that what seems obvious to us now takes years to filter through to market sentiment. So if you're going to short Apple, do it 10 years out (if that's possible).
I am shocked, shocked to discover criminals on boards dedicated to hacking.

Just kidding, but it is funny how outsiders might not understand why you are surprised to find criminals in the "hacking" world.

Even so, a significant proportion of the people who go to something like DefCon have done some low-level fraud with credit cards, and some have done much more than that.
Well lets assume they want a markup of 40% for profit, that would bring the cost to 420. The price I am seeing is $550 on amazon. This brings the cost difference at $110, and IMO this could easily be chocked up to R&D and other misc costs.
Apparently you're unaware that extremetech.com is not a part of Google (and unaffiliated with them, as far as I know). All of those quotations are from the article, which Google didn't write...so I fail to see how any of this is "Google announcing its dominance" (as opposed to ExtremeTech announcing their perception of Google's dominance, which is a VASTLY different thing).
Just released Instagram Profiles on the Web
I spent 0.00001 second reading that
A Top Android Executive Admits Google Bought Motorola For The Patents
Assuming the it was stable, I don't think it would be noticeable while driving. I suspect moving the rear wheel placement would be far more noticeable especially when backing up.
Benedikt - I bought and loved Instadesk many months back (before I got the Nexus 7, which is now my primary Instagram browser). I really hope this doesn't hit you too hard and wish you the best for your other products :-)

That said, I really, really hope they don't allow people to post or register from the web. Spam is bad enough already.
Hero of the day: Australian federal judge rules against ratings agency on CPDOs
I didn't downvote you, but there is research from Intel, IBM, and others showing that very deep pipelines (they disagree on the exact numbers) are indeed optimal if power isn't a concern (which it wasn't until ca. 2003). http://web.archive.org/web/20021211202017/http://systems.cs....
AppliedMicro Shows ARM 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip Hardware and Software
Tim Cook may be no Steve Jobs but he's no Steve Ballmer either...

(Though on the other hand as cash cows go the iPhone and iPad are no Windows and Office).

That said I think the whole Jobs thing is overstated at this point. It's not as if they didn't misstep with Jobs at the helm, and it's not as if they've been turning out bad products since he went (not to mention that everything "post-Jobs" they've done so far was in the pipeline while he was still in charge and would have had his blessing).
That's a great point. And perhaps working for cool people is better. Maybe the doors it closes are doors best left closed.
In the same way that magnetic toys are a novelty that can cause injury or death to young children, vitamins that look like candy (but is treated like prescription medication: packaged the same and stored in the same place. Treated with the same paranoia by parents.) and candy that looks like prescription medication (think: tick-tacks) cause harm. Specifically they cause harm by contributing to confusion between candy and medication among children.

This is not a concern I have invented: http://www.ncpoisoncenter.org/body.cfm?id=115 http://voices.yahoo.com/separating-candy-medicine-prevent-me...

They specifically call out parents calling medication "candy". This is apparently something that parents do with enough frequency to warrant calling out. As far as I am concerned, candy-like vitamin supplements are no better.

I would suggest that prescription medication manufactures stop making medicine in bright colors and fun shapes, however I suspect the harm done by such a suggestion in the form of accidental adult poisonings would outweigh the benefits.

I would therefore argue, were I inclined to, that candy and vitamin companies should modify their products. I would not advocate prescription medication companies altering anything.

So my thesis: confusion between medication and candy kills thousands of children every year. There are trivial things we can go after in an attempt to curb this phenomenon (to repeat: tell vitamin and candy companies to knock it off). Nobody is calling for these trivial measures, even though they seem greatly concerned about a problem with much smaller magnitude. The reason for this incongruity is that candies and vitamins are familiar, while magnet toys are new and striking.
If I think of the platonian ideal of a blog, it has comments. And Trackback or Pingbacks. A "blog" without them is just a website someone normally updates regularily. Of course, that can have its merits, but it's not a normal blog.

And btw, I "need" comments in my blog. I like them, they add value to the articles and if an article results in a good discussion, to write him was instantly more worth it. How can you for yourself come to the conclusion that no one needs them?
Why I Ditched Rails for Octopress for my Company Website
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Wow, you guys sound awesome. What do you do on backend that makes you want Haskell/Scala expertise? Ever heard of Nix?

If I weren't currently quite occupied...
World's largest electronic drum machine is not what you'd expect
Perhaps people are not confused simply because those older processors are no longer sold. AMD certainly felt the need to fudge their frequency back in the K7 days (although megahurtz marketing may be specific to the desktop market).
The work happens at https://github.com/habari/system, which is very active.

I can't answer for @ringmaster, but for me it's client work, though it's a sideline to my main job at the moment.
Will law school students have jobs after they graduate?
I think it's more of a final nail in the Flickr coffin. Pinterest is a completely different vertical (it's not even pictures necessarily, it's lots of random stuff on the web)
There's no such thing. "Guys", plural, is sometimes non-gendered, but I have never heard the singular refer to a female person.
I don't really know how you could expect good customer service to come from someone as arrogant as Mr. Grant.

"@dhh You're right, I don't fully understand it, but honestly would like to. We are a tiny startup - what's wrong with a quick & dirty test?"

Curebit has already been caught in the past stealing assets and designs from 37Signals, and then played it off with the response above.

It seems that laughing things off just happens to be in his nature...

While I think that your blog post is mainly you just whining, I think the response was typical from him. It's apparent now that he is just as arrogant as the day he copied Highrise.
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel Chips for the Mac
Jive Software acquires Meetings.io (YC W11)
He wasn't saying that they actually do that. He was saying that people frequently make these claims with only anecdotal evidence and therefore he's sceptical about him. Effectively, his entire post amounts to a [citation needed] :)
For what it's worth, I wrote a letter to Feinstein protesting her support of SOPA/PIPA, and the form letter her office sent back to me made it quite clear that neither she nor anyone in her office actually understood the issue or the consequences.

I don't know that I'll be voting for her opponent, and I don't think she has any chance of losing, but the fact that she could be such a strong proponent (she co-sponsored Protect-IP) of a law that she so clearly did not understand has put me off the idea of ever voting for her again.
MSFT is a software company. AAPL is a hardware company. Does the same mindset apply?
Does that banner* need to be in place if no one has voted "It's broken" for the latest version of WP?

*This plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Jesus, it's a short, nerdy wiki article. I wonder what you must think of Hollywood?
I'm not sure that your conclusion necessarily follows from your premise. We got a bunch of new people (mainly tea Party types) at the last Congressional election and if anything they've been more obstructive than the 111th Congress.
Tweeting != broadcasting your life publicly. At least, not necessarily.
It's interesting, because from my observation a lot of the crowd who popularised systems like mongo were those people who weren't willing to think* . Learning the relational data model + tooling was too complicated. Now Mongo has a big ol' list of caveats you ought to understand before you can start chucking data into it too.

I'm a total RDBMS nerd, and it's amazing to me how few people truly care about their data storage. They just want it to work - and, I suppose, it's hard to blame them for that.

*Not that I mean to say that this is the only reason to use a NoSQL DB - it doesn't seem an uncommon one, though.
A good tutorial but there some missing options or remarks that are very handy like:

- -A is equivalent to -X displaying the payload of the packet in ASCII format. If you want to do some scripting based on a payload, that's very handy for matching specific pattern (don't forget offset notation '[a:b]' is limited to 4 bytes block in the bpf filter)

- -tttt if you want to print the complete time-stamp per packet

- Don't forget that TCP offloading might have an impact when doing packet capture (and analysis) http://sandilands.info/sgordon/segmentation-offloading-with-...

- When capturing on a long period of time, the -G or -C helps to rotate capture files while capturing. tcpdump -i en1 -s 0 -G 60 -w tst%y%m%d%H%M%S.cap (if you want to rotate the file every 60 secs) or -C to do the rotation based of the size of the capture file.

- There are many tcpdump forks (OpenBSD tcpdump is slightly different than the tcpdump on Debian)
Having worked in several retail, wholesale, and restaurant positions with a variety of POS, I think this is a very interesting space ripe for disruption from multiple angles. Marketing seems to be the differentiating factor between the major players at this time, as the article states.

What I think the article misses to point out, is the great variations in actual usability of the systems. POS analytics and systems with robust central backups are not new. Having so many UX designers now able to participate, and being able to rapidly iterate versions with fixes users actually need, is very new. Without saying too much, I am very excited to be moving these technologies forward at this particular time.
When preparing a series of commits in a branch, what is the recommended method for editing non-HEAD commits? I know how to git commit --amend the HEAD commit, but how would one modify an earlier commit and rebase/replay the subsequent commits? git checkout the earlier commit and create a new branch from there?

In Mercurial, I would use an hg patch queue to hg qpop, qrefresh, then qpush.
That naked feeling of leaving the corporate world
You made a blanket statement that multiple-basis currencies cannot and haven't existed.

I showed two counterexamples.

I'm not sufficiently versed in contemporary currency matters to discuss the feasibility or actuality of significant currency bases presently. But that wasn't the question.

With regards to governments deciding on currencies: it's not that alternate payment methods cannot be considered. It's that a payment in the legal tender for a debt cannot be refused (without prior arrangement) without voiding the debt. If you make a credible offer to pay in legal tender and the payee refuses, the debt is void. Doesn't mean you can't make payment in gold or cowrie shells, so long as you both agree to that. Including to the IRS (e.g.: property seizures to pay back taxes).
The JS assets 4 through 8 all commence loading at the same time.
Panacea is when more artists can give more music away and still profit. Freemium based on consumption, or increased reliance on alternative revenue channels. Either way, IMHO the technology exists today to disaggregate the middlemen in music, lower the price point for customers, and still net profit to artists. In particular, I believe almost every function of a label can be crowd sourced or productized. Vested interests are what have gotten in the way.
The Zabbix mongodb plugin also looks like a good option:

http://code.google.com/p/mikoomi/source/browse/#svn%2Fplugin...
I didn't mean to imply this one is different.

But with web programming, if you're not good at it, but you have the perseverance to bash on code until it's "good enough that it works" (which is admirable, don't get me wrong), there's a very high chance it's got some major holes.

This is a real consideration to me, cause I'm working to teach kids technical computer skills, including programming. If I'd teach them PHP, I'd have to wall off the server, because many of their projects are bound to be full of holes, and we can't take the chance that one of those would affect our organisation's website. It's volunteer-based, so there might not be money to get a separate hosting package. Same if I were to give them all their own WP install, some of the projects are going to be forgotten, and I'm not going to be the one making sure they're all being kept up-to-date and secure for the rest of their lifetime.

And that's a cool article you linked. I already knew it, but for those who don't: it's worth reading, check it out!
The aesthetic similarity to Facebook is pretty striking. Now you really can see why Instagram was bought, and where it's headed.
Or it could be a wake up call for Flickr.
PayPal says alleged Anonymous attack did not happen
People are obsessed with command line tools because they offer the most basic interface, which is not likely to change. One of the commonly cited programming aphorisms is to "Program to an 'interface', not an implementation." Learning a GUI tool is usually easier in the short term, but becomes less flexible in the long run. As you become an increasingly skilled developer you realized that you gain order of magnitude more productivity by working at increasingly higher levels of automation and abstraction. This can be very difficult with a graphical interface since it would likely take much more work to create an adapter which will allow your code to work with the GUI interface than a command line one. GUIs are also likely to be complex and thus have the potential for bugs and performance costs.
Ok, this much I understand, but I wouldn't call this overloading on return type... It's - clearly - overloading on input type, either implicit (wantarray - I checked the docs, it seems to be a variable set automaticaly depending on context by the interpreter) or explicit, but input type nevertheless.

So, the short answer is - as I thought previously - that no, you can't have implicit dispatch on return type in dynamically typed language.

Contracts are probably getting close, but you still need a version of apply that will get expected return type and a bunch of functions to introspect (or a macro that would do the same, but let's not wander there, as lispy macro systems are equivalent with static type systems anyway).
And for Constitutional amendment you still have to vote yes or no.

I vote for opponent to my Senator, not because I agree with her, but because I don't think the current senator represents me. If the next one does the same I will vote against her too in next election.

If I'll leave the current senator nothing will change and will still get same s*t all over again.
"git rebase -i" is what is commonly used instead of hg patch queues. You pass it the name of the last unchanged commit, and it opens an editor where you define what operations to do on it : fold commits together (fixup, like qfold), stop for editing a commit, reorder them, change their description, etc.
There is a ticket for compression of both keys and values https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-164

The Mongo team seem somewhat reluctant to implement it.
My own crazy green energy idea is . . . harvest energy from lightning! Apparently other people have thought of this too, and it doesn't look like it'd work. But if someone could figure it out, it might not be the most steady source of energy, but it'd be the awesomest.
My initial thought was "Wow, they really ripped off Facebook. How can they get away with this?"

Then I remembered...
You might take this as an opportunity to disable Instagram access to some of the apps made redundant by this new feature: https://instagram.com/accounts/manage_access.
Code is maintained in https://github.com/habari/system
aashay is hardly the first person to decide the distinction is meaningful:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shyness+vs.+introversion
I also chuckled, but he has a point: we shouldn't let CNet "launder" Mueller's analysis onto HN. Also, it's frustrating to me that I haven't seen any coverage of this issue that's both detailed and "unbiased".
The recording part is cumbersome. On these systems there's hardly any writable disk space and I'm not sure if NFS or SMB client is built in. tcpdump is often a quick alternative to capture just the packets I'm interested in in clear text. That requires knowing a little bit about the filter syntax.
I never advocate GUIs as the primary means by which a developer works with version control. Sure it might be OK for some things like browsing history (GitX) but most GUIs often abstracts away much of the underlying complexity, which is absolutely great if you're a designer without much command-line experience, but absolutely a disservice to your in-depth knowledge as a developer and the tools you rely on every day.

If you write code day in day out you SHOULD be comfortable on the command-line. That's why I highlighted in the article that I need two tools to do my development: an editor and version control. You use these tools every day--EVERY day. There's no excuse for not knowing them intimately. They are the foundation for doing your job.

GUIs also aren't always available across platforms, either. For the most part, all the git CLI commands port from Mac, Linux and Windows (msysgit). Also, have you ever tried using a GUI when SSH'd into a remote server in a pinch? You can't. And you'll really wish you invested the time to learn those underlying CLI commands.
Slightly unrelated https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoad...
I don't see how inverting the props is necessarily any more efficient.
Very cool. I love your work.
The most important thing would be a really good extension system - the wordpress plugin system is so massively broken and there are so many bad plugins - this crap must be sorted out - but it is a good place to study how to produce bad code.

Extensibility is the key factor for any modern web framework / language / system.

Also Wordpress is last-century with deployment options - there are no (built in) options for deployment and a smooth upgrade process including backups and optional rollbacks. The "automatic updates" claim by WP is btw. a good example for the limiting view of marketing jargon and how technical terms can be abused and this way educating millions of flies to eat tthe wrong food. Upgrade without rollback of course does not make sense and is no way "automatic".

Please, if you build a new system, study modern web frameworks before and please do NOT use PHP.
chrome/os x - this happens when i command+ zoom. it wraps and then unwraps and then wraps again with each successive zoom.
In the 50's, people were actually dreaming of the future! Today, everything seems so depressed instead.
If this car (and a budget) was available I would buy one just to support the technology, like many electric vehicle owners do today.
Yep, I'm fully aware of and completely understand the psychological definitions of the terms, and studied them a great deal. I still identify as on the introverted side of the scale. And I hope my post did not appear to be attacking introversion or introverted people, because it's not. I just want people to understand the labels and make sure they're not limiting themselves by self-reinforcing or groupthink.

Thanks for all the links, great definitions and resources there for people who may not understand the differences.
It's possible that Apple and Moto are both being evil here; just because Apple lost doesn't mean Moto's policy is justified.
As I understand it, those 4 still think there are 5 nodes in the set (just that one is down) so you can still establish majority voting because the set size is 5.
"The paper includes a working pre-authentication remote root exploit that requires zero-interaction, and could be wormed within the next few days. I would suggest administrators deploying Sophos products study my results urgently, and implement the recommendations."

Ouch. That's pretty much the definition of an "oh crap" vulnerability.
At a glance, yes.

I'm not actively trading, but my "system" would have suggested to consider shorting them on 9/20 and again on 10/23.

I think you're right about public perception. For that reason, I think heavily about any signals with a technical base.

I've had some sense of a perception shift since summer when the price was in this area previously. Though, I haven't taken a real position on AAPL since it was going sideways around $380 almost a year ago.
Sen. Graham: Obama move on defense layoff notices 'patently illegal'