skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a memorial to persecuted gay people it would be more poignant to choose someone that people have ever heard of in the style of the unknown solider in the cenotaph. The damage done to Alan Turing was shared by many people who have just as much right to be recognised. The tragedy is not the destruction of genius but the destruction of hope and happiness and life. Put Michael Causer on a bank note.
Glad to see things being fixed. Toshl is a very well designed app - a rarity in WP7 marketplace.
I was surprised by the best answer as it seems to me to be more or less wrong.

Let's ignore the discussion about dynamic range and bit depth etc., and assume that the volume control on your operating system controls the DAC rather than doing the stupid thing of digital volume reduction. The fundamental issue is signal to noise ratio on the analog line. If you turn the volume too far down on the computer and turn the volume up on your speakers, the sound on the analog line is too low with regard to the electrical noise and will be hissy. If you turn the volume up too much on the computer and turn the volume down on your speakers, then the signal will be so loud as to produce distortion either in the DAC or on the line itself. You're looking for a middle ground: as loud an output from the computer that you can produce without causing distortion in your loudest music parts. Once you've got that set, change the volume on the speakers to compensate.
I came in to say the same thing (having been in bands and recorded quite a bit and working with sound engineers).

On a similar note, I learned and practised all this in another country and I always thought it strange why when I, for example, flipped to American channels, the volume would increase dramatically. I think a similar phenomenon occurs in radio (Loudness Wars) and in malls, etc. Now I wonder if it occurs in American software.
For some phones at least it is not digital clipping, but speaker distorting the sound. A simple test would be to attach speakers or headphones. If it sounds bad both on internal speaker and external speakers, then, yeah, it's digital clipping. If only the internal speaker, then it's simply too weak to handle the signal, or phone chassis starting to resonate or something like that.
I have been working with Go for about 6 months now and I'm in love with Go. I find it simple, easy and fun to write in.
If the architecture is not good then people don't want to get familiar with it. I'm skeptical that even an "eventual" version with hundreds of cores would be worth using.
Assuming you're programming it in OpenCL, it's effectively a GPU with many more SMs but with a narrower SIMD width. If they were to give it, say, 16-way predicated SIMD with incomplete IEEE compliance on par with the Cell (~4M transistors per core plus a wider internal bus), it would become a very interesting processor IMO with ~1.4 TFLOPs per 64-core epiphany board. At the very least, they'd get bought out if they built such a beast and undercut NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. Just sayin'...

In the meantime, leave the fast atomic ops, ECC, and full IEEE compliance to the GPUs and Xeon Phis of the world until you have the transistor budget to go after them...

All IMO of course...
In most sound card designs I've seen there is a 'boost' switch on the output. In other words there is a toggle that enables a ~10dB boost on the output amplifier (or sometimes the DAC). The volume control is actually digital but when you hit a particular threshold the external boost is toggled on and digital volume adjusted to maintain a smooth level transition. If you keep going 'up' with the volume control your still changing the volume digital but you've now got an extra 10dB of gain on the output which can drive the output into clipping if the input signal is full range.

EDIT: Just to add. I would be extremely surprised to see a sound card that isn't a full on pro model have true analog gain control. I've designed a couple products with such controls (for pre-amp gain, but a similar concept) and you need digitally controlled resistors to accomplish it. They are large, expensive and touchy to route without inducing noise. As an example: http://www.analog.com/en/digital-to-analog-converters/digita...
This is true of every data center I've worked with. Also network providers: everyone has downtime and sometimes you learn the hard way that despite being written into your contract someone took the cheap way and ran your “redundant” fiber through the same conduit which a backhoe just tore up.
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I did my part. I'm very much the archetypal broke college student at the moment, but I won't always be. I have big plans in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning sectors, and I can't imagine a better, cheaper solution to get started on working with multi-agent systems.

I desperately want to see this sort of pricing for cluster computing available in the future, when I have the scratch and knowledge necessary to make these ideas into products.

I think that future is worth skipping the occasional movie or meal to pay into, and I'm looking forward to my somewhat unexpected end of year gift.
Using a full iPad to test how your app will look and feel on the iPad mini
The truly sad part of this is most Chinese people wouldn't really mind the site being blocked because of this, nor even be all that surprised to learn what the article said. They don't get offended and angered by their government hiding things from them or abusing their power in the same way people in Western countries do, nor do they have a strong desire to learn the truth. They just accept this as the way things are.

Yes, there are exceptions, but those who feel different are in the minority.
The Oracle lawsuit is based on the Java ME licensing restrictions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java#Licencing_restric...

A pure BSD license does not have these restrictions.
Horizontal Box: Polygon Intersection for CSS Exclusions in WebKit
To be fair, a few months ago Wall Street was pricing in a series of miracles. We are at a lower point in the tech hype curve.

Note: YTD AAPL is still up nearly 50%
The company I currently work for does exactly this for car dealer websites. We have separate tracking numbers which display on car dealership websites depending on the source.

We actually found another vendor that does this on a per visitor basis (ie. each visitor gets their own tracking number). While I think THAT is overkill, the technology is there to do this kind of thing without too much overhead.
We are making all of our vendors more than 1% and for some we've doubled their revenue using a Limited Supply strategy. They weren't a large store but we did make them several thousand more per month.
To all the 'justified in my bitterness' responses:

Yes, it's hard work being more knowledgeable, productive, smarter, better, than people around you. This is particularly a problem in software development since it takes an intense and often fleeting concentration to be really productive. Interruptions, especially those stemming from the ignorance or poor choices of others, provoke an immediate frustration and bitterness which seems (and probably is) justified.

Being justified, however, doesn't mean it's helpful. When I'm faced with these situations I often find myself analyzing in my head all the reasons that I shouldn't have to deal with this, why the person who brought it up is an idiot, how much better it would be if I could just be left to get things done. None of this thinking is productive, or even gratifying, except in the shallowest sense.

As hard as it is, the appropriate response to ignorance, idiocy, or other negative stimuli is NOT to be negative, but instead focus on positive solutions. Change the system where you can (as close to the source as possible) but don't compound wasted time by spending your energy being bitter about it.
Congresspeople, too. I'm sure they're extremely comfortable, and you'd find some of the ultra-rich in Congress, but I get the feeling they make less money than you'd expect for someone with a direct influence on a budget of several trillion dollars.
I've noticed this too. I suspect it is, at least in part, due to the poor quality of the DACs on most phones.

I used to own a Samsung Moment; trying to listen to music on it was almost unbearable due to the quality. It must have been dumping bits left and right during the conversion. I tried 320kbps Mp3s, Broadcast Wavs, Flac -- it didn't matter everything sounded like it was crushed down to a 32kbps.

I'd be interested in seeing a phone dedicated to high quality playback of music. As a somewhat audiophile-ish guy, I would snatch up such a piece of technology.
Totally misleading headline. This is using clustering so there are not 100000 pins displayed but low numbers of them. I don't mean to belittle the speed of the clustering algorithms (I have no idea) but I expected something much different.
Bad coverage in the UK? I live in the USA. For the past year, I've tried enabling 4g on my phone every time I go to a new city. I've never seen it work once.

Edit: In response to the dead reply "Even in the Bay Area?", since I can't seem to reply directly.

Yes, in all zero of the times I've been to the bay area, 4g has worked a total of zero times.
> I didn't know how to learn.

I'm not trolling here, but don't you think it's more accurate to say you didn't know how to work?
Fair point - everyone knows that retail is a razor-thin margin arena to play in.

I would argue that their profitability is a lot more stable than Apple. A few missteps and Apple is no longer the golden child. They have to continue to innovate or they lose their special status. Executing on a retail strategy is in many ways simpler than "build the next innovative consumer electronics widget...sell for astronomical price".

I'd take stock in Amazon over Apple any day.
I'm at a loss in these discussions. I don't understand this developer-point-of-view.

Can you specifically give me examples of why using a cloud provider is better for a startup than, for example, using a couple desktops in your garage?

You can't say it's because of backups because the cloud doesn't provide a backup (unless you purchase an extra data backup solution with your cloud provider?). And correct me if i'm wrong, but you still have to set up your development environment on your local computer to write the code, install libraries to test with, etc.

What exactly are the steps involved in "deploying" that you couldn't do on your laptop, or a VPS?
According to kicktraq, they're indeed trending towards not making it (trending to 651k, 86% of goal):

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-super...
Beckham has greatly advanced the art of football.
If you can't tell the difference by listening to it, it doesn't matter.
I pay £7.50/month (+VAT which doesn't count as I'm VAT registered) for 5Gb on a data-only SIM with 3.

Not LTE, but seeing those prices and I'm not going to be changing any time soon.
Has anyone played with the 144-core GreenArray's IC?

http://www.greenarraychips.com/
13" retina MacBook Pro performance (vs 15" rMBP and 13" MBA)
There's no such thing as "cloud downtime" - it's still servers, data centers, networks, same as everything else.

You need to decide how much uptime you're willing to pay for, how much your service can degrade for how long, and methodically address each level of the hierarchy between you and your customers – and it might be the case that you decide that the ongoing costs of your engineering support for e.g. wide geographic separation just aren't sustainable at the level your customers are willing to pay, particularly if you have something like a CDN helping keep your site partially responsive during less than catastrophic failures.
While I don't agree with everything you say(+), I'd like to thank you for taking the time for writing all this (your initial post and your comments in this thread) up. Definitely one of the more interesting reads on HN today.

(+) Web browsing is extremely complex: We have video, audio, js, plugins (flash, java, silverlight), changing standards for html, css etc.
Because of this, it's not very well suited for custom chips. For this reason, modern smartphones contain both custom chips for the "phone" functionaltiy and a flexible microprocessor for Angry Birds.

There might be other areas where a few custom chips might save a lot of resources in the long run, though.
The government's response to the petition says that it needs another 80,000 signatures to be debated by parliament. This is true, but on the other hand it already has been [1]. The role of this petition has always been to show that there is significant interest in having Turing on the tenner, rather than to reach 100,000 signatures as such. But if it does get that far, I won't be complaining.

For what it's worth, the Bank of England will "certainly be looking at him". [2]

Full disclosure: I was the one who started this petition, back in March. (You might like to note that http://turingonthetenner.com redirects to the petition page.)

[1] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/c...
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/apr/13/working-life-hea...
womp womp. what an assclown. also, the people who bought into ceglia should be arrested on the basis of also being assclowns, though the gullible type.
Show HN: Capsule introduction to wireframe 3d rendering
> I don't see what's lost by deleting it until someone's willing to put in the effort to write something substantial

He's mentioned as creator of Gravatar and co-creator of Github in their respective Wikipedia articles. When someone is mentioned as a prominent figure in connection with something that is Wikipedia-worthy, it is quite natural for someone reading that article to wonder "what else has this guy done?" and want to click his name to find out. Now people who ask that question have to resort to the search box.

Deleting articles like this also, I suspect, reduces the chances that someone will put in the effort to make a more substantial article. Someone thinking of doing so will see that there once was an article and it was deleted, which will discourage them as they might worry that their work too will be deleted. Better, I think, to leave it there as a seed from which a more substantial article might grow.
Latest update:

"At approximately 7:30am Pacific time this morning, Google began experiencing slow performance and dropped connections from one of the components of App Engine. The symptoms that service users would experience include slow response and an inability to connect to services. We currently show that a majority of App Engine users and services are affected. Google engineering teams are investigating a number of options for restoring service as quickly as possible, and we will provide another update as information changes, or within 60 minutes."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-a...
I think the first tweet i saw was 7:35 PST
Cucu: a compiler you can understand
Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence
GAE has been very good since I started using it. They entire internet seems to be slow...even HN
Exim4 in Debian/Ubuntu: Fix for a remotely exploitable heap overflow
If I use my computer for 20 different things, then that's 20 different fixed-function chips to replace 1 CPU. It sounds like the opposite of green to me.

Besides, you can already produce CPUs on old processes. There's a CPU in the remote control for your TV, and another one in your computer keyboard, and in your microwave. These have low gate counts and are built with off-the-shelf components. Replacing them with fixed-function chips would be an enormous waste.
Not to be a jerk, but if you had the inside track on a largish contract to launch yourself with what happened over 3 years that your lost a lot of money? Couldn't land other clients or did you get bogged due to contract that failed to outline expectactions.

Rule one is to always be working on your next income stream. As much as clients hate that behaviour from vendors that's the game. Either you play it or you lose.
Mail fraud... looks like some AG spent too much time watching "The Firm"
Did this line strike anyone else as pathetic?

In today’s press release, USPIS Inspector-in-Charge Randall C. Till added: “When Mr. Ceglia allegedly decided to take advantage of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, he underestimated the resolve of the Postal Inspection Service to bring him to justice for illegal use of the U.S. Mail.”

Ceglia is probably in the wrong and unethical. But the self-righteousness and pompadour of the USPS? Really?
This is a tutorial I made for a class I teach. I wasn't entirely happy with the existing online materials (e.g. Wikipedia's treatment is a bit scattered), and graphics textbooks typically do a thorough but quite in-depth job. I wanted something that was concise and completely self-contained, so someone could implement a wireframe renderer in software completely from scratch using it. The main compromise is that some of the derivations are therefore left out, e.g. the perspective transform matrix is motivated conceptually, but then simply given.

Clearly it could be improved with diagrams, and perhaps an HTML5 Canvas demo. Just haven't had a chance to add those yet. Other kinds of feedback that could improve the exposition are welcome!
Are you suggesting Turing is not in the highest class of contributors to the advancement of humanity?
A better question to ask is, "Why are developers grumpy?"
Even in the Bay Area?
And here we have another website that does something similar:

http://www.internetpulse.net

And according to them all routes are up and running just fine,not only that bit ping times aren't elevated.
You're right about Maxwell. The other two have already appeared on banknotes. (The ones highlighted in grey have already appeared on banknotes, though there's some inconsistency between the highlighting and Wikipedia's list of people on UK currency.)

Other scientists, mathematicians, and technical innovators already honored: Kelvin, Darwin, James Watt, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Alexander Graham Bell, and Alexander Fleming.
Even from NJ we're currently experiencing intermittent packet loss to some of our linodes hosted in the NJ datacenter... very odd.
I think it is also related to the fact that much of what software developers do is a waste of time. By this I mean that if the app or service was specced correctly the first time (by the end-user or project manager knowing what they wanted) then there wouldn't be so much backtracking or code getting thrown out. All that wasted effort tends to make one question what they're doing with their life and makes them grumpy.

The problem is that your actual job is different from what the people signing your paychecks and writing your performance reviews tell you it is.

You only think your job is to write code as specified. Really, your job is to make whatever people need to happen, happen. Not what they want, and not what they say they need. And so when you build what they say they want, and it turns out to not be what they actually need, you have to rebuild it differently.

Supposedly "Agile" fixes this when done right, but I get the feeling that doing Agile right is about as hard as finding a true Scotsman. :(
Think car dealership. The same general principle applies, but your data sources are dirtier, and the metrics are a bit different. You'd want to track things like cost per call, cost per physical visitor, etc. For effectiveness of online to call campaigns, you could use things like twilio or mongoosemetrics. Then, when sales happen, you could use phone numbers to trace back to the origin campaign.
Here's a zen koan for you:

If every website on the internet is hosted in the cloud, and the cloud goes down, is there an internet?
There is no SoC currently shipping that uses the A7 as the principal core. It's also considerably slower than the A8 in meaningful ways.
Considering that most of the messages in politics are false or distorted you could probably make a more informed decision knowing nothing about the candidates.
True.

But I have to show off mah fancy book learning somehow, dammit! :D
I already provided one specific example upthread: most domains people care about host applications with bugs that allow attackers to generate arbitrary mail from those domains. This is, please note, a very different problem than "being able to generate arbitrary mail under a specific signature". It is considerably easier to forge mail from BANKOFAMERICA.COM than it is to forge mail under the S/MIME signature of a specific Bank of America employee.

Domains simply are not a meaningful security boundary. At no point in the life of the commercial Internet have they ever been. Yes, there are security mechanisms on the Internet that are simultaneously (a) important and (b) misguided enough to ignore this fact. Fortunately, the most important of them are in practice difficult to reliably and scalably exploit.

This whole story is a tempest in a teacup. As Matthew Green said on Twitter: a 512 bit DKIM key says more about how little Google cares about DKIM than it does about any laxity on Google's part. Google is not lax about security.

Since this thread is also dead, we'll have to wait until someone else tries to get to the top of the front page with a DKIM story to continue arguing about DKIM.
For what it’s worth, Heroku’s PG Backups addon is free of charge.

https://addons.heroku.com/pgbackups
Well, 100'000 pins displayed simultaneously on a map wouldn't be very readable, would it? Out of curiosity, what did you expect?
http://sites.google.com/ was down too. I got monitoring report, but I first assumed it's false. Because false down reports are much more common than Google services being actually down.
This is enormous, this opens up a huge list of possibilities. Bravo Samsung!
Augmented Reality photo sharing?
I don't know how this exactly works but it looks cool!
Brown noise!
Micro SD Card Shootout: The Need for Speed
Well L4D2 has been ported, so I imagine it won't be long before the other Source engine games follow suit.
Not just in China, I'm sure if this was AlJazeera being blocked in the US the majority of Americans wouldn't care as well.