skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it relates to law, just common-sense after decades of terrorist attacks in London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_...

I'm guessing that the risks are far lower in the US
don't worry, PG will make sure Flash still gets some use, along with table tags -- http://www.startupschool.org/2012/zuckerberg/
Clustering isn't exactly new or exciting. I was expecting what was mentioned in the title, actually.
No, analogue signals do not have a limited range. Analogue dynamic range is only limited by the noise floor of the cable and the resolution of the DACs/ADCs. The DACs/ADCs will probably do 24 bits.

Audio recordings typically do not go beyond 16 bits of dynamic range after mastering. And even before that, microphones can't deliver more than 20. Neither can ears. So that part of the system won't likely be a problem.

Reducing the signal gain in the analogue domain does not decrease its dynamic range, it merely shifts it to a lower range of the same width. Of course, this will only be true in the operating range of the op-amps, but that is typically not a limiting factor.

After the DACs, the signal will likely go through another pre-amp, then main amp in the sound system, then some analogue filters, then loudspeakers. All these are analogue and not usually limiting the dynamic range (though they will add some distortion). Finally, the signal will enter a room with noise aplenty, which will limit the effective dynamic range of the signal significantly. But that is out of control of that volume slider we talked about in the beginning ;-)
Have you actually held a Nexus 7? I was surprised at how little I cared about the plastic casing. Also, physical buttons present something of a slippery slope: realistically, I'd like more buttons than the iPad. About 4 is sufficient (plus power and volume) based on other Android handsets I've owned. But trying to find a non-awkward place to put four hardware buttons would be an exercise in frustration. Especially when you support two orientations.
The same Preet Bharara did just come out with a suit against Bank Of America:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-hustle-progr...

Not that more oughtn't be done.
Hopefully these high resolution tablets and phones will lower the prices of these panels and will create this trend in laptops, too.
Pentile? Bleegh. Hopefully the many pixels can mask that deficiency.
HIPSTER OVERLOAD!!!!

(Seriously though, amazing work on the video implementation. I already thought the panorama idea was executed nicely, and then the people started moving. Big kudos here.)
Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X
my exact thoughts. literally every single person is a hipster.
Question Based Selling is a great intro book on how good salespeople approach sales. It has good detail in it as well. Tested Advertising Methods is a must read for learning how people respond to copy (can be applied to ppc ads, direct emails, etc).
New urban migration patterns shaped by the youngs
Okay. I'll work on the name. Any ideas?
I registered Stanfrd.com and want to give it to you
I've seen on numerous occasions, an anti-conservative post miraculously parked on the front page above other posts that have twice the upvotes, twice the comments and submitted more recently. If that isn't direct manipulation, then their algo for front page content is completely backwards.
You're not lazy if you bothered to post that link :-P
Focus on Trader Joe's. Their stores are smaller and easier for your shoppers to get in and out of, with a much more concise number of items. People trust the brand and are much more likely to try something out just by seeing and reading about it. Trader Joe's = Big time success.
Paypal is an established service, and you can check its track record. Coinbase is a new site, so we have no information about its track record.
Would Apple still exist without Wozniak? Nobody knows, which is why such arguments are always about sour grapes and nothing more.

I do have high expectations from engineers who should be knowledgeable enough to know that revolutions and hurricanes happen not because of a single reason, but because of a sequence of events and fortunes that happen at the same time, and if you analyze this, trying to get to the root of what led to the rise of an industry, you'll end-up like Mandelbrot, discovering fractals, which is otherwise in the curriculum of universities these days.
Does anyone know if the Go standard library implements RE2? I'm asking because I know that Russ Cox is on the Go team and the documentation mentions RE2: http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/
Almost Famous: Inside social media's fake fan industry
Huh. They've picked up over $50K as I've been watching. I think they'll make it, at this point - they're over $700K.
to me, this nicely portrays the difference between sv and ny.
This made me grumpy.
No idea. Lots. Paypal invests a lot in security. It's not reasonable to simply say, "if Paypal does X, it must be safe to do X"; for that to hold, you have to be putting effort comparable to Paypal's into security. Most startups don't, and can't.
Those "stupid on-screen virtual buttons" are smart

* They conserve bevel space and let you have a larger screen overall.
* They're only visible when you're using apps that need them.
* When you're doing something which needs the whole screen, like playing video, they're hidden giving you a larger usable screen area.
* Because they're implemented in software, their behaviour can be changed later and they can also be context sensitive.

The non-existent microSD card is just Google's way of trying to get people to use more of their cloud based services (Drive, Play, etc) and has been a "feature" of almost all Nexus devices till date. This is one of the biggest negatives about this device.

True, SAMSUNG devices feel like cheap plastic, but the same cheap plastic becomes very helpful when you drop your device: I've dropped my cheap plastic Galaxy Note several times with nary a scratch on the thing, but a friend's iPhone's cover shattered with a single drop.
It's not just that Paypal is established; it's also that Paypal has put millions of dollars into its security program. Most startups haven't even seen the amount of money Paypal spends on security in combined revenue and investment.

I trust my banks with all my money. That doesn't mean it's safe to trust any company with my money, simply because banks manage to do it. I don't trust arbitrary banks, either.
Take a look at Grails before you do. Very similar to ROR but runs on the JVM. You can leverage your existing skill set and all the great existing JVM libraries.
I'm really impressed with how smooth this is. No slowdowns on my 2009 MBP running Firefox 18.0a2 (Aurora).
Agreed completely. Great writeup on that topic (which was posted here a while back)

http://www.figarospeech.com/teach-a-kid-to-argue/
YES!

There will be a big "Bitcoin Friday" sale on Nov 9th.

http://bitcoinfriday.com/

Cups and Cakes Bakery in SF will be participating as well.
I have 5.8.8, and I have 5.14.2. I've also taken the liberty of converting the string of a?'s into a{0,27}.

I recognize that you're trying to demonstrate pathologically bad behavior, but as written, you've got a pathologically bad regex.

Note the speed up from 24 & 30 seconds to seven one-thousandths of a second in both cases. Again, I like the idea of a regex engine with different design considerations than Perl's.

Your article would have been much better if it has used a class of pathological data with real world examples, and not used contrived examples that I rewrote in less time than it took to run.

So here's my results:

5.14.2:

$ time perl -e 'print "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/ '
1
real 0m24.227s
user 0m24.210s
sys 0m0.008s

$ time perl -e 'print "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /a{0,27}aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/ '
1
real 0m0.007s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s

----------------------------------

5..8.8:

$ time perl -e 'print "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/ '
1
real 0m30.065s
user 0m30.046s
sys 0m0.016s

$ time perl -e 'print "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /a{0,27}aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/ '
1
real 0m0.007s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s

--------------------------------
As Tumblr, Dropbox and Google App Engine come back to life, Facebook goes down
Given the resolution, it's not going to be an issue. It isn't on the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus10 is at a much higher pixel density.
Hacking hardware isn't just cool - it's also good business
Great job. Everybody looks very happy.

How long is the video playing before it loops ?
I unboxed that about 10 minutes ago. :) Now I have to race to Best Buy to grab a dual-link adapter.
A Tech Geek on Why We Need the Humanities
It's exactly 10 petabytes. Giga/peta are SI prefixes and hence are in base 10.

BTW, take google's conversions with a grain of salt. As I understand it, google's conversion was just a minor project and not something that is maintained at high quality. For these things Wolfam Alpha is almost always better because it's the kind of thing Alpha was designed to do.
"Well, don't use bitcoin then?"

I don't use it in the first place.

"And there has been some bitcoin services which have been pretty stable and solid all the time. They just don't get in to the news..."

As far as I am concerned, it's just a matter of time before the trading platforms get hacked. Tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands, have been stolen in Bitcoin hacks. Online banking is not easy for large banks to defend; I have little confidence that an indie team can perform as well as a major bank.
I wonder if archive.org actually deletes things when taken down, or just makes them inaccessible? Likewise for when archive.org takes content down due to a new robots.txt file that didn't exist on the original site, as often happens with domain squatters.
That is a 10 year old codec, not a DAC, a DAC is only one part of a codec.
The 'e' represents times 10 to the power of the following number. It's a variant of standard form, here's what Wikipedia says about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation
broken link...what's going on, guys??
How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews
What on Earth do people put on their SD cards? I use Subsonic, I give it the whole phone as a cache storage and I stream my music over 4G. Anytime I don't have internet, I have 16GB of music at my finger tips.

Unless you're out of Internet range for days at a time, I don't understand the need for over 16GB of local storage.

I don't know what people are talking about when they talk about build quality anymore. My Droid 1 was TOUGH. I dropped it repeatedly and it never broke and it held up for 3 years. But even when it was new, they were inconsistent. The sliding action was different, the button quality varied from one to the next, but it was heralded as tough and "feels good". On the other hand, my Galaxy Nexus has no flaws and has been dropped just as hard (I slung it out of my hand across a concrete parking lot once on accident) and has never had a case on it and is in pristine condition.
Oh interesting, thanks for that tidbit of knowledge! I always thought they all (mega, tera, giga, etc) went off the powers-of-2 system.

Also, you have a typo, 1 Petabyte = 10^15 bytes I believe.
China blocked Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's sites two years ago when the Nobel commitee awarded Liu Xiaobo the peace prize.
"- If you do come in close contact with someone you would like to meet, don’t be intimidated, approach them!"

This line pretty much sums up the entire article for me. It takes a "all about my wants" kind of approach. It never takes into account how the target of the meeting would feel. I for one, would be pissed if I was at a charity event and people came up to me asking about their own thing. Just doing what you want with blatant disregard to people's feelings is definitely a way to meet any person you want, but I just don't think the outcome would be the same as in this article.
> On Thursday, 25 October, hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated addition of the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte to the Archive’s massive collections.

So, I bet everyone is dying to know, what was the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte then?
> "A million more pixels than the iPad 3/4"

I know it's something of a running joke that people like to see escalating numbers on spec sheets, regardless of what they mean in objective reality.

But in this particular case it strikes me as particularly silly.

The entire trumped-up definition of the "Retina" classification is based on the idea that the human eye literally can not distinguish individual pixels beyond a given threshold (at a given distance). Striving to go beyond that limit is... quite an interesting endeavor.

Not only does it sound particularly pointless, but actually self-defeating as it would seemingly only add busywork to the GPU.

* For most people, natch. I'm sure the discussions of devices at "higher than retina" resolutions will fill up with people claiming better than 20/20 vision, or uniquely short arms, or whatever.
We use a ton of booth. I really enjoy coding in Groovy but wouldn't want to write everything in a dynamic language. That is what is great about Java and the JVM. You can easily switch to and integrate with other system components written in a static language like Java or Scala. With Rails this is more difficult.
If you look closely you can see it reverse. So I think it's in an infinite loop.
Can someone explain how the economics of scaling this type of business works now in 2012 when it failed in 2001? (most famously, Kozmo). I thought the problem was that the all-in cost of delivery was greater than the flat delivery fee added to each purchase. What's the trick to make this type of business work now?
> The only reason to migrate away from GAE would be if you find out that your application doesn't work well on it (pricing, scalability, etc) or if Google decides to kill GAE entirely. Hopefully you do the analysis of your application before you decide to use GAE (ie: you can't blame GAE for you deciding to use it)

This seem too simplistic. Off the top of my head, you may leave because:

* you want to do something new in your app that is not possible/effective to do within GAE
* you find another option that is cheaper
* you find that some of the assumptions and architectural decisions you took on day 0 no longer hold
* you did the initial analysis, and it was wrong

I do agree with GAE being awesome and lock-in not being so bad, but I doubt the "you have it all figured out before building it so it's going to work forever" idea.
In what way? And is that even a good or a bad difference?

I'm pretty sure both areas are filled with well-dressed 20-somethings capable of sitting still for extended periods of time.
How to Master the Art of Selling Anything - Tom Hopkins

Here is a URL to the book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Master-Art-Selling-Hopkins/dp/0446...

It is also in audio tape form as well.
There is not a think, it is an overall weariness of issues. Reddit founders admitted to creating their content originally when starting up the site. While not a massive manipulation, they pretended to be original posters (with separate user names) when it was not.

The key points here are to take everything with a grain of salt. There are known organizations developing user names on all sorts of forums and social media sites and selling their utilization to people.
framebench.com does this for video, PDF and images.. syncs pan and zoom position as well. In private beta, collecting some great feedback for now :)

Great to see people building apps which leverage the power of sockets and enable real time interactions on the web. A trend which is much likely to catch fire soon.

(yes, I work with Framebench!)
They also have a very impressive Jobs page http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs, the last one in the list labeled "It's fun!" has a couple of cool things when you hover over the links.
With the Java API you can write code that is standard (JDO/JPA for database stuff), that works across any Java environment. So it doesn't lock you in if you write your code in a smart way.
Tomasien,

Sounds promising. I am currently in the last quarter of college and working on some software ideas in Bioinformatics of my own. Depending on how things go, I might drop out and pursue this full time if I could find a way to commercialize it now. If not, I will finish my degree and return back to my country (Singapore) and continue working on it. Either way, lets keep in touch and find ways to work together - if you need extra coders and are open to doing this remotely, let me know what language you are using and I can learn it (planning to master Python at the moment). Been reading up on the founding of Google recently and my eventual goal is to find a co-founder (or two) to work together on 1 big idea like Larry and Sergei. Much easier if everyone is on the same page and location.

Cheers,

GengYang
Well, I guess it also depends upon "where" on Earth people put stuff on their SD cards. The (mobile data) speeds I get here (in India), even on 3G aren't good enough for streaming video. Keeping that in mind 16G isn't too much.
You're conflating two distinct ideas: optimizing for the success of an idea, and optimizing for the success of a startup. They're not the same thing, because a startup can switch ideas. In her talk Jessica mentioned OrderAhead, which went through 5 ideas before the current one.
Youtube video speed changer bookmarklet
Yes, I agree.

I do think that a lot of Hacker News contributors have blinders on, wherein they devalue the work a big, established service has done, and compare smaller, less-established companies favorably to the same, because they have this narrative of young, smart developers "disrupting" old and established businesses. Its useful to remember that sometimes those big, old businesses are not actually brittle and incompetent, and may actually know more than you think.
Don't fall into Dunning-Kruger.
All I see is just a bunch of people in their 20s/30s...
Yep, I'm affected by this bug too.. Thankfully nothing important, but makes me wonder if I should leave my truecrypt folder on DropBox.
I think it's clear why it's convenient to be able to instantly verify a bank account, and that instant verification is the reason you want account information. What's not clear is why that makes giving bank account information to a startup a reasonable risk.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you genuinely buy the self-aggrandizing hipster bullshit that is so common in both cities.
In the UK the supermarkets offer a delivered groceries service themselves. Is this something that US supermarkets don't offer? Or is Instacart's selling point the rush delivery?
Btw, mtgox for example employs something like 15 people nowadays, and they mostly focus on the security I guess. (At least they are not focusing on new features, since the service has been the same for last year or so...)

Edit: And you are sure that they will all get hacked? You sure have faith in the big organisations...
dear dude in the middle wearing the echo nest t-shirt -- WHO ARE YOU, we'll send you a later edition
CERN has a variety of techniques to access, store, and backup their data. I know from experience some experiments, or at least some parts of experiments, use layers and layers of abstraction, like scalla/xrootd which operates on clusters of servers directly or with nfs.

In addition to this, there's levels of processed data. For example, raw data is usually level 0, and basic processed data is level 1 Processed and calibrated data is usually level 2, etc... but experiments often have different definitions for each level. Reprocessing of any later can happen at any time, although level 1 reprocessing is usually an extremely intensive operation because it operates with the largest amount of data.

Level 0 data is usually heavily compressed when it's left on disk, because it's typically the largest amount of data, but also least touched.

Most scientists will use level 2 or level 1 data. This data will be on low latency clusters.

So, while CERN has petabytes of data, typically a fraction of that will be accessible.

In the past, level 0 data was often left to tape. While the raw data is still backed up to tape (I know this is the case for ATLAS), for many experiments with large amounts of data they might leave it on lower cost HDD in simple RAID arrays for redundancy and not worry about performance so much. The BaBar experiment has done this for their long term data analysis.

In addition to all of this, it's still occasionally easier to transfer large amounts of data via tape instead of the internet.
It crashed my browser :( Firefox 16.0.1 on Ubuntu. My CPU went up to 100%, and stayed there for a minute until I just killed the process.
Pretty much makes it impossible to add or remove people from the Team.
That is certainly one approach and for some thats more than they need.

Thing is when it comes up towards election the various parties wake up and startup the PR spin and with that you get more and more targeted via the communications tools at hand. This has always meant manipulation for PR gains nomatter the form of communication, be it twitter or Facebook etc today or the Newspapers of yesteryear. Nothing new.

If people want to base the vote over advert based timespans then they will, though I always found it better to look at what they have done outside that PR window and not on the PR spun, vote for us ones. In the UK last election I saw the concervatives saying they were about local jobs in a leaflet from my local candidate. Said leaflet was printed in another county and with over 5 local printing companies I did see thru the PR spin on that one.

Personaly if you vote based on what your told by the salesman only then you are opening yourself up to mistakes. If you do your own research and look at the history of the product or party in this case and what it has done and is doing; Then you see the true picture.

Whoever wins I hope they don't suffer the act of children fillybustering and turn the seats of power into a school yard name calling session. In the UK I watch the parlement channel and the way they act at times would not be tollerated in a School Playground, fine examples. But it is the same when you get people fighting for there party and not the greater good of the country it serves. But humans are not perfect; Though we do aspire.

So for me politics can do blipverts and 1 character information posts as I do my own research and make my own mind up based upon actions and effort and not the one year running up to an election, pile of spin. Whatever form they pick.

I guess in that sence, less information from parties blowing there own trumpet is more politics being done instead of being talked about.

Be nice if they could agree on a few more things so that at least those can get actioned and things done that need to be done instead of being blocked just because the other guy came up with the idea, thats my dream and I had it.
The full data are available on Hofstede's site, too

http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Funny. Larry Summers was fired from Harvard for saying something very similar.
No it's illegal to make copies of copyrighted works no matter how transient other than allowed under fair use.

And (I might be wrong here) but to be a legal device that can play DVD it has to have licensing and keys to get past DRM (legally).
Except that the source code specifically tells you to report bugs to him.

We all write code with bugs and flaws and we sometimes release it online.

'Fix or deprecate' is not an unrealistic obligation on a technology journalist with a public persona and a large readership.
Spoofed MD5s are a vulnerability when you execute software blindly, but the padding is obvious if you examine the source data.
How do I find out who they all are?
For one thing, San Francisco has a lot more mustaches.