skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how does this help us? The oil market is international. If we wait until everyone else runs out of oil, then start drilling ourselves, we're still paying ultra-high prices for it.

Of course, unless you are suggesting we don't sell any of our own oil at that point. Sounds good in theory, until you realize that keeping oil product for domestic use (at say $100/bbl) leaves a lot of money on the table when you can sell it to another country for $400/bbl.
> it is big and unwieldy and the documentation is a mess.

Only if you compare it to RC and then omit the enormous horrible undocumented copypasta mess that was RC scripts
Design looks nice but a few comments:

1) The above the fold graphic is way to large. (And I'm on a 30" monitor)

2) The featured items are also to large and the arrangement
doesn't allow for the eye to flow correctly from one box to another.

3) Might be an idea to try to have items pop up instead of another page.

4) The site response for me is way to slow.
Number of views indicator of application YC status?
From previous applicants perspective, did you feel the number of video views is a valid indicator of whether your application makes it past the pre-screening? ie 1 view = no go, 1 to 5 = maybe, 5+ = interview
John McAfee accused of murder, wanted by Belize police - Hacker News
Getting Back to the Atlas Shrugged Guy
The context switch itself is almost trivial at that scale -- a couple hundred ns per switch, with the occurrence interval in the 10s-100s of milliseconds, depending on the CPU scheduler. The part that hurts is all the cache invalidation. Unless you're actually swapping. Then you're really hosed.

Well, that and any particularly nasty plugins (cough flash cough) that don't like many instances at once.

Which OS are you running? I have yet to see chrome on linux have any hiccups on as many tabs as I throw at it. The only time I've seen hiccups are when the X server's busy on something else or I'm short on memory.

If you're on another OS, perhaps chrome's suffering b/c it can't share GDI resources (or mac's equiv) across tabs? I'm assuming it can't, as each tab's got a different process ID.
Must be a term in the contract to allow Samsung to do so. My guess: likely that Apple is ending the contract early, and the term is the way for Samsung to cover its investment in the chip plant.
That's why the blogger should be summarizing leaked info, not posting verbatim.
Looks like the fan vents alone are thicker than the entire ARM-based Chromebook when closed.
> google should understand that without giving hackers a choice, they can't go forward.

Why?
Bomb-diggity. I saw your gravatar and immediately thought "Omy is this an el-node projet!?" Sweet.
I agree.
http://climate.dot.gov/about/transportations-role/overview.h...
looks like maybe 82% if you include trucks with cars
According to the MarketWatch article, Apple tried and couldn't do so.
The lesson is simple--what constitutes true creativity is the openness and adaptability of our spirit. When we see or experience something we must be able to look at it from several angles, to see other possibilities beyond the obvious ones. We imagine that the objects around us can be used and co-opted for different purposes. We do not hold on to our original idea out of sheer stubbornness, or because our ego is tied up with its rightness. Instead, we move with what presents itself to us in the moment, exploring and exploiting different branches and contingencies. We thus manage to turn feathers into flying material. The difference then is not in some initial creative power of the brain, but in how we look at the world and the fluidity with which we can reframe what we see. Creativity and adaptability are inseparable.

What a huge load of bull (in the last paragraph) on an otherwise good story (albeit some inaccuracies) of how pg started YC.
Apple released iOS 6.1 Beta 2 (Build 10B5105c) For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch 
Apple released iOS 6.1 Beta 2 (Build 10B5105c) For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch
FYI: Dwolla says it will allow winners to accept their awards in the following formats: alive, meat, or cash equivalent.
Schemongo for Clojure: Practice safe mongo
I think pg once said something along the lines of "Most startups fail, so you have to do something different from most to succeed." At the time, web software was definitely "something different."
Advertising and Marketing.
Get some physical BitCoins

https://www.casascius.com/
Sure, it works. Until they decide to suspend your account.

Most people don't know paypal's history and many of the rest simply assume disaster will never happen to them.
btw I am "Dens" on the app. Task me anything!
Netbooks with an Atom CPU. Or at least my one struggles a little.
the title should be "Increasing battery life in linux with a nvidia GPU"

I got a Ivy Bridge Zenbook and i can get up to 7 hours battery life thie is even better like windows.

i use powertop to reach this.
The article claims that vim comes with man.vim, but this appears to not be the case on my Ubuntu and Arch systems. It would be helpful if the post listed some information about the package and versions of vim that were used. Also, the function needs a semicolon in order to be correct in bash:

man () { vim -c "Man $*" -c "only"; }
I for one was mislead - until I saw the comment above. While technically you may be correct, the acid test is whether a normal resonable uninformed person would be misled. This is probably not a community with too many of those - quite the opposite, and in a good way.
Seems like a netbook with a neutered operating system. Heavy like a stone, gargantuan and with no battery to boot.
If you had to fill out a YC application for ViaWeb back then when you initially had an idea and a working demo, how do you think you'd have fared?

For example, while it was very obvious that your team had high skill (given your academic credentials), you didn't have domain expertise in online commerce.

Would you have picked you? :)
And a Chromebook of all things. It isn't like this is a real operating system. For all the stuff you're giving up by having a Chromebook you'd think that it would at least be power competitive.
Besides the remarkable insight that went into Viaweb, which I think this article captures, the thing I most admire about what PG & RTM accomplished there is the hustling and knocking on doors they carried out to sell their application after developing it. Quite inspiring for modern-day B2B entrepreneurs I think...

ps. "You could value our current assets fairly precisely, but that would come to less than 500m." <--- elegantly understated; this is what success at the seed investing game looks like :)
Ducking Google in Search Engines
It's possible but a pain, you either get all subreddits at once, or you need to make a separate campaign for each subreddit.
it's simple to build a simple one... but the more polished takes more time. Why not just offload that work to someone else? That's our view anyway. We've chatted to some potential clients and other companies running their operations this way.
can anyone confirm my understanding of the basic physics here?

they are observing a transition from one particle to another that involves a process whose probability depends on "all particles" in some weird sense, because it includes particle-antiparticle pairs (so is affected by vacuum fluctuations?).

because of this, they have a weird situation where an experimental result depends on all possible particles (below some energy cutoff i guess).

and that is why it's a good test for standard model v super-symmetry. because super-symmetry (to be symmetric) predicts a bunch more particles. and if those are real, we would see something different.

i am not sure where i got this from, but it seemed to be implied by one of the links here...
Using our own oil last is more about military strategy and less about prices at the pump.
Condé Nast isn't their parent company anymore, they moved up to Advance Publications (the parent company of CN).

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.html
They should qualify their statement to indicate this resolution only applies when it is hooked up to a significantly better display. I don't think the anticipated typical use case for a Chromebook is to hook it up to better displays as some sort of media center.
DuckDuckGo at WaPo: Ducking Google in search engines
So it's very likely that Samsung did actually ask for the price hike as soon as they were sued, and Apple has spent the past few months looking for a new supplier.
IMHO this other use of Redis inside Crashlytics, doing heavy use of bitmaps, is more interesting:

http://www.slideshare.net/crashlytics/crashlytics-on-redis-a...
This would be great with a 2560x1600 display! That would explain the battery life too.

Obligatory questions: How much RAM does it have and what kind of CPU? (I know it says Intel Core but that doesn't mean much.)
There is no /proc/acpi/battery/ in my system. I do have acpi installed.
Do you want to be the one to report to your shareholders that you lost Apple as a customer and, as a result, quarterly profits are going to be absolutely destroyed?
> the cost and time involved in acquiring something as small as $3.99-$29.99 is quite high. It would likely cost as much as 10-50% of that cost in fees.

Where are you getting these figures? I can pay 0.5% in fees or less to purchase bitcoins on MtGox. Other solutions are nowhere near 10%.
Node Knockout Hackathon Entries
Samsung also makes other components, notably the flash memory, but it's not like they're the only game in town.
Brad Reese has made the claim that Cisco should stop infringing on their employee's "free speech" right. Perhaps Brad Reese doesn't know what the right to free speech entails, but I can assure him that it does not give employees the right to leak internal corporate documents and not get fired or prosecuted for it.

http://www.bradreese.com/blog/11-6-2012-afternoon.htm
Trick for turning DuckDuckGo into a replacement for Yahoo search in Safari
Wouldn't using bumblebee do exactly what this article describes, but automatically and with the advantage of using the nvidia GPU for specific applications?

At least that's what I've been using for over a year now.
Isn't this only for laptops with dual GPU (optimus setup). In which case, I guess the only "other OS" is windows that is (was) the only one able to switch on the fly which graphics chip is to be used.
Seems like if you can easily pop in an ssd and get a reasonably well supported linux distro on there than that could make for a nice cheap little netbook. No idea what the processor really is or how much RAM it has though so I won't be taking that experimental plunge but I'm sure someone will shortly.
Joel Spolsky - The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange
I would just like to take a moment here to draw attention to the fact that the planned Superconducting Supercollider would have been even more capable at probing supersymmetry than the LHC and had it not been cancelled it would have been operating for well over a decade by now.
That's a question we ask regularly.

We did have domain expertise of a sort: we were experts in generating web sites, which back then was a comparatively rare type of knowledge.

I'm pretty sure we would have invested in us, because we had a very clear thesis about what needed to be made, and ecommerce would have seemed a promising market.
Anyone got an IP they wouldn't mind sharing for ping/route testing?
"pgrep Chrome|wc -l" gives me 54 right now with 2 windows open (29 tabs + 2 tabs)
"decay", not "delay"
I'm not sure why you'd want to use PhoneGap if you're also using RubyMotion, but it seems possible.
Within Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives you should do

sudo aptitude install laptop-mode-tools

This basically does a lot of minor tweaks, like disabling finger print readers etc.
"Pseudonyms have been proven to improve dialogue because anonymity means honesty or at least a willingness to communicate without concern of reputation."

Have you been to Reddit lately? Pseudonyms has brought out the worst in many people, mostly because they know it's not attached to a reputation.

"No one wants their real names attached to their opinions on the internet"

Why? If you really can't stand behind your opinion, what's the point in having it in the first place?
Amazon adds down-under presence with new Asia-Pacific region in Sydney
Creator of protothreads here. Protothreads are not a hack.

Protothreads revolve around the concept of local continuations. Unlike traditional continuations, a local continuation only captures the state of execution within the local function in which they are created. I.e., a local continuation does not contain the call stack. This makes it possible to do things like invoking protothreads from multiple call paths.

The "hack" you refer to is just one possible implementation of the protothread concept, in which the local continuations are implemented by a switch statement in the spirit of Duff's device. This implementation technique allows the protothreads library to be implemented in only 7 lines of code (!) but it has a bunch of drawbacks, such as not recording the state of local variables. In fact, because of these drawbacks, the switch-based implementation arguably does not provide a fully functional version of protothreads.

There are other ways to implement protothreads. The original protothreads library contains an implementation where the local continuations are done using gotos and gcc's labels-as-values feature. This does remove some of the problems with the switch statement, but still does not record local variables. Others have implemented protothreads in C++, where a class object is used to store local variables, and by adding a C2C wrapper compiler that produces C code that stores and restores the local variables.

Protothreads were created to explore some of the finer points in the twilight zone between multithreading/coroutines and events/state machines. The intent was never to emulate continuations, coroutines, or threads but to find a less expensive way to achieve linear code flow. With protothreads, linear code flow can be achieved without having to store multiple thread stacks, which is important in many of the systems for which protothreads were originally intended. The switch-based implementation also has the added benefit of being possible use with any C compiler, which has been very useful as we have ported Contiki to a bunch of different platforms and C compilers.

But, yeah, the switch-based implementation of the protothreads concept can definitely be labelled as a hack. But - admit it - a beautiful hack! :)
On the one hand, I dislike this "cult of personality" trend in general culture. (Not infrequently discussed with family and friends.)

On the other hand, even and especially in the conservative, corporate cultures I've experienced, there has been a small minority of people who are an order of magnitude smarter and more capable than their peers. And... this tends to generalize. They have their assignments. But sit down with them for a more general discussion, and they often have a better idea than most of what is going on and of its value or cost, in areas well outside their formal assignments. Further, when they -- one way or another -- end up responsible for addressing something "farther afield", they often do so better, quicker, and more insightfully than the dedicated, "expert" staff assigned to it.

That's why I pay attention to people like Linus. In my experience, when people like him address a topic, even casually, they've often been paying better attention than many others, and/or their ability and experience enables them to quickly cut through the crap and see to the heart of the matter.

Even when they are wrong, their thinking often brings up some very interesting and relevant points.
ChromeOS is really targeted towards non-hackers who need a zero-admin system.

But in any case, they all have a developer mode which allows you to install other OSes including Linux. My Samsung ARM Chromebook sort-of "dual boots" (there is no interactive boot manager, so to boot to the other side I need to load up the active side and then run a shell script which switches the boot partition), but the system boots up so fast this isn't much of a problem.

It only has 2 cores, though and I don't expect that to be a spec that gets pushed up much in the near future since there are current practical limits on how much more cores will help a browser.
I'm running on a Fedora install with very customized front end here (basically ditched everything and built from scratch) which is very easy on the resources (about 330Mb of RAM usage after boot) and I'm getting between 2 and 3 hours of battery life. I've done nothing power management related though.

Windows on the other hand sucks the whole battery up in 2 hours tops. Still, I'd be very much interested in increasing my battery life. This is the only thing holding me back from doing serious coding outside.
You do realize that nobody's going to be keeping a live cow or pig in their apartment, right? It's most likely that they're going to give away a butchered cow.

Not that it makes it better if you don't support raising animals for slaughter at all, but you shouldn't worry that it's going to be more cruel to the animal.
just for the record and to please the prospective downvoting mob, in order to warn any non-westerners:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1127343?ln=en
Another product rejected by Kickstarter says "We will not be denied"
For the curious: http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/quickfacts.asp

Corn value of production (2011 crop year) $14.5 billion

Soybeans value of production (2011 crop year) $5.50 billion

Cattle and calves, cash receipts (2011) $3.41 billion

Hogs, cash receipts (2011) $6.70 billion
Isn't fracking terrible for the environment though? I realize that's not the point of this article, but it makes me wonder if we're setting ourselves up for even more ecological damage.
Is that somehow a reference to Philip K Dick? My mind goes to 'the man in the high castle' where CA is actually separated in North California and South California.
Anyone needing more power/flexibility should use httplib.
How Our Jobs Are Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Small Data Performance matters too
2006: laptop, dead motherboard

2008: 2x laptop, chronic overheating

2009: Netbook, battery failed

2010: Desktop, DVD drive failing to open followed by the front falling off (wish I made that bit up).
Guide Financial: Money management for all
"It's an overstatement to say that the idea of Viaweb was too strong to fail. We came close to failing several times." Sounds polite and down to earth but its very true. Google, Microsoft am sure they all had times when they came close to failing. That's the good thing about being successful. The hard times are forgotten by everyone (mostly the naysayers) else apart from the person/people who really felt them most thus making that success bitter sweet.
I'd like to see Google offer a low-cost laptop with Android instead of Chrome OS. It seems it would be much more useful. You can have Chrome in Android too, and a huge library of games and applications. If it had ssh access to the underlying Linux OS it would be fantastic.
Animated ‘Ubuntu For Android’ Ad
Exploring some of the math in HTML5 context transforms
My mother used to wonder why I seemed so negative all the time. "I'm not being negative, I'm just figuring out all the stuff I have to fix." I expect I'll be on the other side of that conversation in a few years.
Android is designed for multiple screen sizes and resolutions. The vast majority of apps can cover every variation with three or four sets of layouts and graphical assets.

Android API levels are also well-verified by compatibility tests, and so result in excellent app compatibility across devices that have passed those compatibility tests.

Hardware variations outside of screen geometry are covered by manifest declarations for apps that rely on certain hardware, or runtime tests for apps that have features that are conditionally available, depending on available hardware.

In other words, for 95%+ of all apps, device independence is readily possible, and if it isn't attained, it's because the developer did not use Android's features for managing variations between devices.

In most cases it is simpler yet: A port from iOS lacks the flexibility in layouts and use of graphical assets a native Android app would be born with. If you don't address that issue early in an iOS-to-Android port, you're going to have a bad time.
I've never had an article written about me or my products that didn't have some mistakes, I'm not sure why it's not standard practice to send a draft to the subject for fact checking...
Maybe I'm just anti-social, but I love that I can use driving as an excuse to ignore calls & texts, will envoke it every chance I get, and still haven't adopted a hands-free solution so I can continue doing so.
No Diwali Doodle: Google does not celebrate what a billion people celebrate
Samsung sees the writing on the wall: Apple is going to ditch them in the next few years and start building chips themselves. Since the bridge is already burnt, why not make some extra money off them in the meantime?
TL;DR: 3.8mm bluetooth device inside an optional custom wallet that allows you to track where your wallet is using an IPhone 4S, 5 or new IPad.

Personally I haven't misplaced my wallet since I was a teenager but I guess this might be useful to some. It's not clear why they're limiting the IPhone/IPad hardware requirements to just the newest ones.
I totally agree, tracking using bitmaps is something where Redis really shines and it is relevant for nearly every site.
> (but then again this is Iowa and these are farmers).

It might be surprising to learn but Des Moines is actually a fairly populous city with office buildings and fast food restaurants and everything! Few of its citizens are farmers.
Wait, what type of cow we talking here? Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein, Angus? Male or Female? How old?
Sorry, former dairy kid OCD kicking in from a state that has more cows than there are Iowans.

And a rooster? Can I get it processed (plucked, gutted, and in a bag ready for a pot)
Complex or decentralized?
Other companies have tried this; Android isn't good with a mouse.
I know Google is targeting non-hackers, and it is good. And that's the point I am elaborating. As an example, I a developer, need a light, fast, powerful laptop with 1650 or more screen width multiple monitor capabilities. I am not important as a target group but I influence hundreds of people around me. Now that I need to change my laptop, I have choices like MacBooks and Ultrabooks. I believe it would take Chrome OS forward quicker, if they offered a low profile powerful samsung chromebook for me..
I thought Firefox had already isolated tab processes a couple releases ago?
I'm not a Lisp person, but I understand that meta-programming is an integral part of Lisp. On the other hand, parsing comments to extract dependencies is special-casing shell comments for the needs of the init system. That's what I would call a hack.

As for matching the philosophy of the operating system, you go from one process which launches scripts which in turn launch programs, to one process which reads a configuration file in order to launch programs. That's a simplification. It also means that you no longer have an /etc/init.d filled with executable files. And the underlying mechanism used by systemd to order dependencies (blocking on sockets) particularly fits the Unix philosophy.

Mind you, I'm not really comfortable with systemd overtaking udev and syslog (resistance is futile...) but that's a different debate.
Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow