skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We use a git-backed preview server that allows us to share versioned previews of graphics (any commit, any fork) and get feedback.

I'm jealous that this exists and I didn't know about it. Anyone aware of something like this that exists in the open-source/SaaS world?
It's interesting to get a rundown of Mongo's limitations from someone who clearly knows what they're talking about. Thanks.
Google X Lab should open up
Google X Lab should open up about what they're
doing in a public way. Create an open discussion
forum where the general public can comment.

Like kickstarter projects, they could even fund the
research with pre-orders or even donations. Sergey
and Larry have a brand name and could use it
by simply endorsing research and the money would
flow in.

They might have gotten the idea the secretiveness
is a good strategy from Apple, but that confuses
correlation with causation. Apple succeeded with
solid build quality matched with solid software and
some free marketing from early adopters fanboys.

So far, X Lab has failed to some extent. They've
produced no solid products. Google cars, google
glass, still nowhere to be seen. Opening up would
allow a much larger number of people to contribute.

Large orgs haven't realized that in the age of
limitless communication, the internet, the public
can be more helpful than paid employees. Google
should take the lead in encouraging the public
to contribute and showing the rest of industry how
it's done.
True, yet a bit more misleading in the tablet world.
Bitcoin would also enable payouts - globally. Payouts limited to US limits the possibilities of gittip.com.

And yeah, you could also kiss goodbye to chargeback, fraud etc problems. These are not a problem in a "hard" currency like bitcoin.
why do we have to have an assumption that personalised means doing so in a negative way like enforcing a political affiliation? perhaps the engine can be clever enough to realise that some things like localised weather are a reasonable personalisation, whereas politics are more dangerous and should be less personalised.

it seems to me that both google and ddg have problems here, ddg in not personalising at all, and google in personalising things that really shouldn't be.
How fast are those memory cards?

Another argument you could use is that the Surface doesn't have so many apps to install anyway... :-)

Edit: I might add re quality of arguments -- I answered someone that claimed real users didn't bother about storage space, which is hardly honest.
Congratulations Danielle, that's absolutely awesome. I'm still very sorry that you didn't get funding for some of your more off the beaten path ideas but this is as good as it gets.

If there is one person that I wish would find a connection like this it is you, I'm sure you'll amaze us all with what you're going to achieve now that your toolbox is filled.

This is really great news!
With different resolutions, different storage capabilities, different memorysizes and computational capacity. Some with mobile broadband, some without.

Which may be used with or without accessories such as a keyboard or stylus.

One thing indeed.
Microsoft does effectively include that software via DreamSpark: https://www.dreamspark.com
Meh it's just the typical argument Democrats always do to rile up the base. If it was going to be overturned it would have happened when Republicans had the Presidency, Congress, Senate AND Supreme Court in the early 2000s. It wasn't even brought up.

On the same token, Democrats are not going to ban guns or Religion, which is the Republican "base rattler".

I agree with Angersock that people let these types of issues get in the way of fixing the real big problems.
I think a bigger issue though is high clock speeds forced on the industry for marketing reasons. Current pipelines are way way to deep, but they can never come down because that would decrease clock rates and lots of people have been trained into believing that clock speeds indicate performance. If Intel & AMD could convince the world to ignore clock rates, we'd get chips that had slightly higher throughput with much lower power consumption and slightly faster design cycles.
From a Concerned Uber Customer (Chicago)
I was about to post the same thing. Kurt Bills also supports a voter id amendment. Klobuchar may not be a great option, but what else do you choose? It's like deciding between a bag of poop or a flaming bag of poop.
> "Cubby is not much different."

This seems to be the problem. Why?
If I've missed anything from the article, feel free to let me know! :-)
These claims, valid or not, are tangental to this situation, right? I mean, is there something specific to how Balanced handles payment processing that would be conducive to the kind of fraud alleged in the OP? It seems processor-agnostic.
Thanks dude :-)
I realize not everyone ignores it, but I was speaking to the question of law. It is perfectly legal to do things to a pig that will land you in jail if you do them to a dog. And then there's plenty of things that are not legal to do to a pig, that you can do anyways because the law isn't enforced.

It does pose an ethical dilemma. Of course we can reduce the suffering of pigs. Yet we choose not to. We choose not to, because we like cheap pork. This presents us with an ethical dilemma if we actually think about the issue. Most people make a significant effort to avoid thinking about the issue, because they do not want to consider the ethical dilemma of "if I eat this bacon I cause suffering vs if I don't eat this bacon I won't taste bacon". Treating pigs humanely would require a massive increase in pork prices, which would reduce the amount of pork related pleasure people can have, thus a dilemma of its own. Treating pigs as we treat dogs would involve not killing them for food, totally removing the pork pleasure, and again poses a dilemma.
One more try: dolphins may not be very intelligent because they cannot or won't communicate between themselves. Or their ethics are unfathomable to us because they don't seem to value dolphin life as humans do human life.

Got it? That's the entirety of the argument. If you'd like to address that argument, great. If you just want to agitate for dolphin right by shouting down argument, then fell free, I'm done.
What did you try? There's only really two verbs in iOS (tap and drag), and they both work.
'Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License' has a paragraph excluding warranty. Just copy and paste it: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
Whistle blowing is one thing, calling people names is another. It makes him sound vindictive.
I'm pretty sure that their concern is also not needing to do the dirty legwork related to these cases. The time they need to deal with these problems is away from productive development time.
You know, IIRC the first Rails demo actually used building a blog app as example. 8 years later and still no one has come up with a real Wordpress/Drupal/Mediawiki alternative - or at least none that's gained any significant userbase. I often wonder why..
Maybe he doesn't use threading.
This is snarcky but it points out as strongly as possible what is so wrong with prioritization of good causes, it should pop out automatically every time someone tries to discuss this. And I would like to add that there are enougth amount of humans for caring about all the good causes.
Allowing for introducing security vulnerabilities is not at all "reasonable", IMO.

How are end-users supposed to judge whether they just blew an enormous hole in their site, by selecting a plugin from the repo?
There is an excellent talk titled "Things CPU architects need to think about" from Stanford's ee380 class. Go to http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html and pick the Feb 18'th entry (click on the old school icon on the right). It will play with vlc on Linux and Windows Media Player on Windows.

Although the talk is from 9 years ago, the material covered is still very relevant today. It is also quite funny. One of the things talked about is the processing of instructions and chaos theory, including non-intuitive stuff like inserting delays to make things run faster!

It should be noted that x86 processors haven't executed x86 instructions since the early nineties. They are translated into risc like micro-ops. The translation takes a very small fraction of the die area and it gets smaller which each generation of chip/process.

The difference between x86 processor implementations and ARM is that x86 try to get the greatest throughput possible. This is done via techniques like having multiple execution units and executing instructions in parallel where possible (known as ILP and typical values are 2.1), executing instructions out of order where it doesn't make a difference to the results, executing multiple instructions in stages concurrently (pipelines), having tracking for branches to better predict if they will be taken, speculative execution of both parts of a branch at the same time and throwing away the one that turns out not to be taken, complex memory machinery to keep code and data flowing, high clock speeds for the die as a whole, and even higher ones for parts if not all in use and the list goes on. This is not a requirement of x86 implementations but is what most of them do. Intel goes very far down this road, AMD not quite so far, and some implementations like Atom do barely any of it.

ARM processors generally do none of that. It keeps them smaller and simpler, which means lower performance and less power.

For your final paragraph, the instruction set is largely irrelevant. While x86 does have some warts, ARM does too (eg condition codes). The thing you left out is compilers as they generate the code to be executed. Roughly speaking the answer is the winner will be whoever has the better compilers. BTW Moore's law predicts transistor doubling per area every 18 months which most paraphrase as performance will double every 18 months. Someone did a study on compilers and found that compilers double performance about every 18 years!

Because ARM execution has been so simple for so long (eg no concurrent execution of instructions) the compilers haven't mattered that much. In a maximum performance world they matter a lot more, especially with instruction scheduling. And of course most programs would have been compiled a while ago, and probably use conservative optimisations (more aggressive ones can introduce bugs). With Itanium Intel had the idea of making the chip 6 way parallel and let the compiler figure out how to use that (ie smart compiler, dumb/simple chip). It didn't really work.
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be giving this a try on a development app a little later today.

It'll be interesting to see if Rails 3.2.x apps truly are 100% compatible.
Moreover, why would a bunch of introverts want to get together for this? Why would they want to make presentations about what they've done? I'm all for clever ideas but there's so many social elements to this I don't see why I'd do this if I'm not doing hackathons. If you're not social, you're not social--the end.
Step 2: write some code that exercises all git features
I pretty sure she is using 'human' as in 'humane and caring', not just homo sapien. ;)
The bigger picture around SOPA is the attitude that large corporations are to be blindly trusted and given ever more power over individuals. No trend pushes this agenda more than privatization. SOPA has its roots in the privatization agenda (see http://torrentfreak.com/the-privatization-of-copyright-lawma...), which I would argue is more of a "big picture" issue where there's a clear ideological difference between Democrats and Republicans. Voting against Democrats, who are at least very skeptical if not opposed to privatization in many cases, in favor of Republicans who are usually 100% pro-privatization in almost all cases, who would also have the same or worse position on SOPA, is at best very ignorant.
Google sources think maps app might struggle for Apple approval
Should be raking in that billion dollars any minute now.
Observation Deck: Protecting Cities From the Disasters of the Future
`git checkout-index` allows you to run tests on the index before committing and without messing with your working tree. The only downside is that it might take a while for a large project. Example script: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/git_hooks/pre-co...
The Genius of the Electoral College
It is not super clear what the innovation is here as I am sure someone must have thought of storing compressors heat with water before.

I think maybe the novel thing is to pass the water as a mist through the compressor cylinders where it can transfer energy from air much faster than if, for example there was just a heat transfer closed circuit around the cylinders.

Their website states:
"We have achieved these high thermodynamic efficiencies at higher RPMs than many thought possible. This is crucial to achieving low cost: the higher the RPM, the higher the power of the same machine and the lower the cost per kW."

So basically you need fewer compressors and heat transfer systems for the same amount of power. I guess as long as the added complexity and maintenance doesn't add too much cost it could be more economical than using the higher number of compressors.

They do mention in the WSJ article that one challenge is preventing 'hydrolock' which, if I understand correctly, would happen if you accidentally injected too much water in a cylinder. Since water is not compressible, you could bend or break your piston rod, crank shaft or 'cause the cylinder to explode'.
Funny how poorly that page renders on an iPad :-) Wish they would break out 4th gen sales. I agree with many folks that first weekend bookings of a trendy device make for good press and poor investment research. The jan-mar quarter is a better place to try to divine how effective there strategy is wrt to the tablet market.
How about instead creating barriers by innovating faster. More Elon Musk and less Mark Zuckerburg. The world needs more inventors and less monopolists.
"easily deployable" for Clojure or Node isn't even on the radar for 99% of people.

I go to any $5/month host, check "install wordpress", and it's done. When Clojure CMS/blog apps have even 1% of the installability (as in, ability to be installed) by non-developers, perhaps they'll have a fighting chance.

I say this as someone who develops Grails apps all day long.
Would you like to implement it?

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14
I got your argument. And addressed it. In the first post. You have made two additional posts which have added absolutely no information to the first, and have not addressed the flaws of your argument. Again, there are many other explanations for what you observe besides "dolphins are dumb" and "dolphins don't care about each other". Given that we have evidence of dolphins being smart, and them caring about each other (and humans even), your assumptions are not likely to be correct.
Legitimate question: Aside from the obvious culprits (Android phones, tablets, Nooks, and Kindle Fires), what other devices are considered "Android" devices?
When you're done, just use Bernhardt's "run-command-on-git-revisions" to run tests on each of the commits to ensure they are all working code.

https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/ru...
Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958
The biggest advantages ARM has over Intel are all probably memory related. x86 will tend to have have more memory operations for doing a given thing, and with x86's stricter memory model it will be harder to design a system with lots of outstanding memory operations. ARM's simpler decoding is also an advantage from a power consumption standpoint, if nothing else. These aren't huge, though, and I'd give ARM a maybe 15% advantage or so? But remember that all things aren't equal, and Intel has a big lead in fabrication techniques over everyone else, and lots of huge teams of chip architects.
I'm not saying it's a proof by statistics. It's a requirement in order for the system to maintain logical consistency.

We can do whatever we want. We can give citizenship rights to gummy bears because they look like real bears and bears have two arms and two legs just like people. It would be illogical and counterproductive to any real advancement for society, though.
From an aesthetic point of view, I'd really want the Markdown code to be more visually distinct from the preview.

I'd love something like the "Oblivion" colours in gedit for instance, although I am aware that opinions differ on dark backgrounds :) It would give a nice visual distinction though, like the old "underwater" mode in WordPerfect.
I can't speak for every introvert, but I will say that, for me, introversion does not preclude me from maintaining a blog, Twitter, etc.

Yeah, I don't broadcast my life -- but I talk about things that are interesting to me, and the Internet gives me a nice medium that I can use without feeling the willpower drain that comes from having constant face-to-face interaction.
- or -

- Educate the voting public and bring them to your side
Looking Back on the 21st Century
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You are explaining the consequences of such a choice to someone who has done it.

It's not a matter of quality of life. That is the danger - the quality of life for the median citizen in the USA is nearly unmatched.
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Not really; GPUs have have hundreds of "cores" but only 8-16 cores.
Hi Gabriel. Glad you responded here!

I've been generally curious about DDG for awhile now and I'm still trying to figure out why I should make a switch. If I understand correctly; DDG is trying to solve a problem in internet search so that people can't find things easier on the internet without sacrificing knowledge about one's self or behaviors, and your organization believes that that problem is largely due to the opt-out nature (or rather how you are automatically opt-in'd to everything) of Google's platform.

Also, the filter bubble it is not an effective marketing message because it requires too much education given it is a complicated subject no one knows about.

I guess, I, like many others who have expressed interest, don't see the problems with this. More commonly, I can't say my mother or my boss or anyone else I know is encountering this as a problem or a challenge. I'm happy to be wrong.

I find this whole topic absolutely fascinating, especially after having recently read Nudge by Richard Thaler, which basically is a whole book which talks about the value of libertarian paternalism. In other words, how opt-out choice architecture can be much more suitable than having completely free choice. Would love to know your thoughts. Great blog, this is fascinating stuff!
It could be due to the Hulu videos loading in your Facebook News feed. This seems likely as the Hulu videos are interspersed with Facebook page loads.
Recruiters are pretty worthless.
I assume his processes have at least one thread.
* The US is a lot more free on paper, but has very little liberty in practice.

Germany is, in theory, a lot less free - however I have never been anywhere else that allows many of the sorts of things that are commonplace here.*

I have a similar understanding of China, based on several limited visits and conversations with extended family and friends there. They've got a lot of restriction in theory, but in practice, as long as you leave the oligarchy alone, they keep to themselves and ignore you.
Anonymous hack 30000 accounts and Social Security Numbers from 'Telecom Italy'
The ECMA-262 luckily(?) ignores leap seconds:

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.9.1.1

Time is measured in ECMAScript in milliseconds since 01 January, 1970 UTC. In time values leap seconds are ignored. It is assumed that there are exactly 86,400,000 milliseconds per day.
The Myth of Teamwork
> There is nothing to support the notion that playing with prey reduces injuries to the predator.

All cats play with prey. Thus, it is evolved behaviour. It has some benefit, otherwise cats would just use the killing bite straight away.

> Paws are able to be bitten [...] there is no benefit to prolonging the exposure to danger by keeping the prey alive.

Cats have 4 paws. It's possible for a 3 legged cat to survive. Hard, but possible. The cat prolongs the exposure to danger of redundant limbs in order to protect the jaw.

> A quick bite to the neck is the best chance of killing. Letting the prey struggle and escape to be re-caught is lowering the chances of getting food, not raising it. You are claiming the opposite of reality.

A bite to the neck is the method of killing. Small animals are quick, thus the cat plays with the prey to weaken the animal so that when the cat applies the killing bite the small animal is less likely to escape.

> They only do so when they are teaching young to hunt. They do not play with their prey when they are engaged in the process of "acquire food to prevent death".

This is incorrect.

EDIT: You are incorrect about only one research suggesting that play with prey is a defensive part of hunting behaviour.

Trivial www searching find many different researchers suggesting this.

Here's one:

(http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bne/102/5/760/)

> In this article, we show that feline predation involves a continuous gradient of activation between defense and attack and that predatory "play" results from an interaction of the two. [...] In such shifts, no sharp demarcation between play and predation was evident. [...] These results suggest that play with prey is a misnomer for predatory behavior that fails to escalate along the gradient between defense and attack. Movement notation analysis revealed that playful movements are adaptive in that they protect the cat from injury.
Since there are always bugs, all code is an opportunity for security vulnerabilities. Users take their site security into their own hands whenever they have to trust others' code, as well as trusting their own coding skills (if applicable).

Time to reflect upon a classic of the genre:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

There is an entire WP ecosystem of people having to judge whether they blew an enormous hole in their sites by selecting one of the zillions of plugins available, why is this one different?
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To me, it just makes them sound honestly upset, especially because this poster seems to have a history of reasonable discourse.

Saying what you think about someone is not, in and of itself, a vindictive act.
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I don't want to know these things about people on HN, so I flagged this story, unflagged it, hit my keyboard a couple times, and then flagged it again.

And I thought I was the only one who felt so painfully conflicted about the whole realm of politics on HN. I sometimes wish I could have HN-quality level discussions about real political issues, but I fear that's not realistic.
'The new abortion-absolutism says it should be "ubiquitous, easy, and subsidized"'

Must... resist... politics...

Okay, I can't resist. No one in elected office has said that they want to subsidize abortion. They probably should (at least for early term ones), but the fact is they don't.

Nor has anyone ever argued that abortions should be "ubiquitous." Seriously: can you provide a statement from anyone, ever, who says that every woman should be forced to get abortions?

Lastly: "easy." Okay, this is probably a position genuinely and widely held throughout the Democratic Party. Abortions should be easy: you shouldn't have to go through three doctor's appointments, have a rod shoved into your vagina, and be yelled at and have your picture taken and posted online when you go to a clinic for a legal procedure. That's an accurate statement of an actually-held position, but that position is hardly beyond the pale.