skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it came out negative in a/b testing. Another possibility is that it could lead to significantly higher capacity costs such that an a/b test might need to be hugely positive in order to offset the higher cost. Just imagine all the users who don't click to page 2 but do scroll to the bottom of page 1 in order to see why this might be the case.
While there's a trendiness to the superficial application of the Bauhaus/International/Swiss style in graphical layouts, there's a timeless value in removing the separation between engineering and design and fostering cultures that encourage cross-disciplinary communication.
I read a reference someone posted somewhere once (sorry to not be more specific) that sounded pretty convincing.

Apparently it takes a minimum amount of energy to flip one bit in a conventional (non quantum) computer.

In order to brute force a 128 bit key, you'd need some sort of 128 bit register. Multiply the amount of energy needed per bit flip and the result implies there are never likley to be enough power plants on Earth to iterate through all the combinations (let alone perform the computations required to test the candidate key).

Hope this helps, perhaps this is enough for you to find the original reference.

Edit: perhaps it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle as mentioned below.
Great - now we only need a 'Why To Accept Bitcoin On Your Website' article.
I entirely agree. From their perspective though, it's more important to pick the hits than avoid the losers (within reason). An investment in Google while they were in a garage could happily pay for a dozen Webvans.
congruential? :)
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I totally agree. Where is the Amazon style user review/rating for insurers?
Yes there is a workaround: use the vmalloc=xxx parameter to increase it to a value greater than 128MB. This will work in most cases where the reserved virtual space can almost always at least be increased up to 256MB. I had to use this parameter myself 7 years ago when I was running 50-100 QEMU VMs on a 32-bit host with 32GB RAM and PAE.

The only cases where vmalloc=xxx won't solve your virtual address space is in exceedingly rare software/hardware configuration (more than 100+ QEMU VMs, more than probably about 4 Nvidia GPUs since they seem to use ~64MB each).

So all in all, yes for 99%+ of users not running these rare configs, the 3GB/1GB split is just fine. Which is why Linux never changed this default. Microsoft has more problem with a 3GB/1GB split because their kernel is less space-optimized (mostly due to bad coding practices because too many Windows drivers/kernel developers assume that 2GB is available.) I maintain my opinion that 3GB/1GB is a better tradeoff.
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You don't think this stuff is actually happening? That's cute.
How I feel has little to do with how markets work.

Putting a lot of effort into something means nothing. I can spend days digging a hole with a lot of effort and then someone with a digger does it in one hour. The only metric that matters is what buyers are willing to pay.

I'm curious what you have in mind when saying "more intelligently regarding business matter"?

As an aside: I always find it slightly offensive when someone speaks for me by using "we", "us" or "our". I may or may not share your opinions but I'd rather speak for myself.
Oh my... I had no idea he was still alive until now! Shame on me :-(

A while ago, I randomly bought a Dave Brubeck CD. I'd heard of him and knew he was a jazz pianist, but was not familiar with his work at all, so I thought I'd give it a try.

It happened to be this one: http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Impressions-York-Dave-Brubeck/dp/...

For the next couple of weeks, it didn't leave my CD player - I had it on constant repeat. It's just really good.

Funnily, I was into text adventures / IF at that time as well, so now in my brain the "Jazz Impressions of New York" are forever entangled with "A Mind Forever Voyaging".
PyCharm is absolutely lovely. I'd suggest the EAP program since it has a new new UI as well.

http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PYH/JetBrains+PyChar...
The problem I see with it is a scenario like this, which others have brought up:

1. User X (a non-technical) posts an idea that gets a little traction, but not enough for them to feel confident enough to build it out, especially when it means finding a team to do so.

2. Named Techie sees the project, likes the premise a lot, and knows User X doesn't have the resources.

3. Named Techie's friends post their concept with beautiful mockups and a more defined description and Named Techie highlights the project and it hits the front page -or- Named Techie's friends just launch the site without needing the validation, and through their network are able to have a fairly successful launch.

4. User X sees this, rages all across the internet, and you get bad press (and more trolls to boot).

In the event that Named Techie has the advantage of seeing all of these new concepts coming in and the public only sees them once they're approved by him, that's going to spawn some conflict of interests.

Even if all entries are public, you'll run into what we see on Show HNs.. like the one for 2u.fm yesterday where some idiot thought it would be a good idea to reply to as many people as possible who liked the concept to tell them that it was a complete ripoff of some other site (which it wasn't) or all of the people that constantly hate on the fact that someone would even think their project was a good idea.

Additionally, most of the concepts on the site aren't going to be exclusive to the person that's posting them, and having to deal with trolls or 'ownership' wars isn't something I'd want to bother with. Trying to fight this by only allowing members with some form of 'clout' to comment creates the issue I have with Kickstarter, where until you've put money into the project, you can't ask a question about it publicly.

I'm also concerned that too many people will place too much weight on the feedback they receive. The idea may very well be game-changing, but there's no way to know unless it's fully fleshed-out. Knowing how people react to having their dreams shattered, I just don't think this site is a good idea. If you really need validation, use a site like Reddit with a broad enough userbase (or a specific subreddit) to get the feedback you need.
This has the answer. http://www.quora.com/Prismatic/What-are-all-the-Prismatic-ke...

j/k: Jump to next/previous article
up/down: Scroll to next/previous article with animation
space: Scroll to next article
s: open share box for active article
o: open active article in new tab
b: bookmark active article in new tab
f: Go to search field and find new interests.
r: to recommend active story
gh: go to home feed
gd: go to your feed of saved stories
gr: go to your feed of recommended stories
gg: go to top news 'global' feed
Yeah DCTECH!
pg wrote on this extensively:

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
He already told you it stinks man. Don't be so annoying.
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It's kind of surprising that a used cigarette butt (as opposed to, say, unburned tobacco) holds enough nicotine to act as an effective anti-parasite material for a nest. It's at least a non-obvious result.

The article linked to another nature article about birds selectively choosing herbs that repel parasites to line nests, and using scent to know when to refresh them.

Given that cigarette butts are effective and that birds are known to pick nest material carefully, the conclusion that birds are introducing them intentionally isn't unreasonable.
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You need a render farm anyway.

No need to to have that be your primary machine. Or to burden your render farm with the task your table will be better suited for.
Ha, thanks for the comment. Funny seeing searches for "trout fishing" increasing on our realtime web analytics :) Speaking of which, we are pretty interested in things like trending topics so that you can see what citizens in a particular geography are discussing. This is a bit different -- and in many ways, more interesting -- than what Twitter does today in regards to trending topics based on location, because discussion on government social networking sites is actually about the region itself.
Here's a hardware solution to the "pseudo" problem: http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

It's a dice-rollingmachine "that can belch a continuous river of dice down a spiraling ramp, then elevate, photograph, process and upload almost a million and a half rolls to the server a day. I may not get nominated for a Nobel prize, but the deep rumbling vibration you feel more than hear when two rooms away is quite impressive."
I saw the words "curated tips" included on the title and promptly closed the page.
>> I think the market is fairly efficient, but it has it's downsides (e.g., the great patent wars - I'd hardly call that market efficiency).

I agree, but since patents are government-granted monopolies, that's really an example of government intervention rather than market freedom

>> I don't think the government has all the answers - but I don't think the market does either.

Agreed. By itself, the market can be ruthless. One proper role of government, in my view, is to ensure fair play.

Another is to provide incentives, when necessary, for research and infrastructure needed by society at large. ARPANET is a good example: a government initiative carried out by private contractors which never would have been undertaken by entrepeneurs.
We don't tweet when you don't tell us to. This is a case where there was a UX fail in the profile publication settings so some people get confused and publish all their actions. it's infrequent and we're going to chance the ux.
> That company, called Leaky, launched nationwide today to help people shop for insurance. Most online price comparison tools for insurance are just lead generation for the various providers, so Leaky provides value with its unbiased comparison, Traff says....The company will monetize by selling insurance itself and also through affiliate fees to insurers. “We can lower customer acquisition costs by 75 percent for an insurance company,” he says.

I see.
Because is not much better than eclipse. In fact, it is a bit worse.
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it's not a bug, its a setting. it's just evidently poorly designed. :\ we're fixing it.
It's not clear from the screenshots how the arrows map to the fuzz movement. I'd expect it to be like Google's Turing machine doodle: http://www.google.com/doodles/alan-turings-100th-birthday

But I'm not 5. Maybe kids will want to know what yellow does enough to fiddle around and find out.

Thinking about it some more, I guess the clear background means go until you hit a wall, and the colours mean go until you hit this colour. Better iconography might help ( ->| instead of -> ). I'd expect kids will grasp the meaning of symbols really well, but may be easily frustrated if the symbols don't differ how they expect.
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Ooh, lock contention on the hardware CAM table or the software in the switch that handles these updates? The first time I am hearing about this bug :-)

Thanks a lot for sharing this bug story!
This may not be a popular decision, but I chose to attend grad school. I now think that was the best decision I ever made.
BTW, Windows has been the market winner for good reason: more usable and universal than Linux, and cheaper than Mac. It's not my favorite, but there you go. IE has ridden Windows' coattails; few Mac users and no Linux users have ever used it.
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So it should really be "put jazz back in time" ;-)
yes you have to explicitly check this setting. but to be fair, it's on us to make the UX flows extraordinarily clear for such a hot-button social feature. we obviously need to redesign this and it sticks that we've caused a few users to spam a bunch of friends unintentionally. :\
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Because there are three levels of permission an app can ask for:

* Read only
* Read and Write
* Read, Write and Access direct messages

I think you are missing the intent of your quote, which is they won't _automatically_ tweet on behalf of their users. Using their site for only a moment, it is clear they will require writing tweets, upon users actively marking a twitter icon and submitting a share form.
Is the "read" tab on my profile a privacy disaster waiting to happen? Is there a way to clear that?
It's not illegal, but it's not very strongly settled one way or another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues
Yeah, sure, and a computer will never need more than 640K of memory. Back then Bill also though he knew it all!
> If there was a way to do the live markdown preview using the css

Render in an iframe with the right CSS linked?
Some good "Why To Accept Bitcoin" reasons in this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/16/whats-your...
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We have had a lot of similar MAC learning/CAM table issues on our Cisco Nexus switches as well. They are always a pain to troubleshoot, this AAR sounds all too familiar!
I signed up to see how accurate it could be - the interests outlined in the e-mail I received seem pretty accurate but the stories that are being displayed have nothing to do with those topics. There was a dearth of interesting reading material.
I see the setting now to not "publish" read articles to my profile, but no way to clear that I can tell.
This is awesome for a number of reasons.

The biggest is probably that you can now have people helping out without teaching them git. Like people helping with translation, they could just copy the original file and translate it locally, then paste it in to a new file. Way cool.
Also doesn't appear to work in Firefox/Ubuntu.
There are several ways; but I might ways using the current Github UI.
In a previous life, I worked with an online travel agent (you'll note I don't say for).

One of their major income streams was promoting certain providers in order to get more commission, so that if two providers had approximately similar inventory, then the one paying better commission typically gets placed at the top.
Is it possible to disable this feature so that people can't randomly commit code to a core repo on a team?
As a prismatic user, I think the product he's built is pretty far ahead of any competitors I've seen.

I don't think the fact that others have tried with limited success is an indictment of prismatic at all. If anything, that strengthens that argument that this project required a lot of NLP skill.
> TL;DR: Lock contention on the CAM table.

It's not really a tl;dr since (as far as I can see) it wasn't in the original post, though.
I swear I saw a story about Microsoft trying to patent the same idea a few months ago...
There is certainly news I'm more and less interested in.

I still think there is room for improvement over general voting systems like Reddit and HN. Something like weighting votes based on voting similarity between users. I don't know whether Prismatic will succeed but I think they are working on the right problem. I want the product they are trying to build, even if they aren't there yet.
Not quite...
You didn't bother reading to the end did you?

"Where do we go from here" #2:

> With this in mind, we are planning to invest in a duplicate of our network stack from our routers all the way through our access layer switches to be used in a staging environment. This will allow us to more fully test these kinds of changes in the future, and hopefully detect bugs like the one that caused the problems on Friday.
My PayPal strategy, which I'd reuse for Coinbase et al, is to just create a separate checking account for that with a few clicks. I think the most they can screw me over is one or two overdraft fees before I tell my bank to stop ACH transactions.
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http://gitimmersion.com/ - This is a lab taking you through everything. I found it very helpful when introducing Git to my team mates who had little to no experience with source control.

It's a bit light on concepts but is fairly practical.
Congrats to Bradford & his team. Good to see some real competition for Zite for a change :)
Is copyright a part of free-market capitalism?
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Each browser has their own way of handling this - public suffix is Mozilla's solution but I don't know if any if the other browsers are using it directly (I'd be surprised if IE didn't have their own approach).
Would you like to explain how?

I use IntelliJ every day, and I've found it to be fantastic. When I switched about two years ago, I was happy I switched within a few days (although at this point I don't really remember why I found it to be so much better).
"Surface doesn't solve a problem, except for all the ones it does, and we're going to hand-wave those away."

Office, printing, a real filesystem, multitasking, mouse support, legacy app support (on the Intel version), USB connection, etc.

While I am more friendly to Microsoft than most (not difficult to do), I am perfectly willing to admit the real problems with the surface (screen resolution, price, etc). "Not solving a problem" isn't one of them. I asked my mother the other day (who has used windows 8 successfully to some degree) if she would ever use her computer if she could print from her iPad. She said no.

Problem solved.
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Where is the search box?
This is a great space for growth; FOIA is getting more and more important and granular across all government. Well done
just to clear up a possible misunderstanding. only one remarkable computer scientist is stepping down (hopefully not completely): simon marlow.
Really love it when I stumble upon a new service that isn't only cool but also really useful. It's not common for me to add an app that I'll actually use daily or even weekly. It's also rare to see so many App Store reviews actually being lyrical.

Some (UI/UX) thoughts for you Bradford:

- Someone said that Flipboard looks better, I disagree. Flipboard (as well as Summly and others) might be a bit more "sexy" but Prismatic has better functionality + algorithm. Your funnel is really great.

- The flashing Facebook/Twitter/Google buttons are really annoying. It also makes me think that I'm accidentally hovering these buttons. Does this dramatically increase conversion?

- Someone mentioned here that your growth is not great (25K weekly). Do you think that only traditional sharing options will be enough to achieve growth corresponding to the goals this Series A indicates? I'm also thinking that maybe it would be smarter to focus on only one platform (i.e Facebook only) until you've figured out how to grow virally.

- The iPhone experience was much better than the desktop one. This may be because:

1. Your visual design is very different on desktop compared to iPhone. It's impossible to tell that it's the same service.

2. The desktop layout is confusing:

- The images are unnecessarily large (at least the really large ones)

- There's something about the font that's not great (take a look at Scala that the Stockholm/Berlin based Readmill is using)

- Seeing zero stars and comments on almost each article is a bit boring, it's not clear where the "home" button is (since it's located to the right)

- I can't see why there's such a distinction between "home" and "world news" - why not just get rid of "world news" and have a much more logical right menu

- "Your suggestions" in the right menu are great but it doesn't make sense to scroll horizontally.

Etc etc. (Should probably write you an email with screenshots + arrows instead...)

- The iPhone UI/UX has some flaws as well IMO. The menu is not always logical:

1. Since you've selected lots of topics in the funnel in order to add them to your affinity algorithm it's confusing that touching the suggestions in the menu takes me to a separate page instead of adding them. To add them, I apparently need to click the plus icon to the right. I'd suggest you to add an arrow to the left of each suggestion to solve this issue.

2. There's not a clear way to my "home" screen. "Home" is located under "Your activity" (why?!) and has some sub-categories; I'm still not sure why (in my case) Programming, Startups and The New York Times are located below the home-button.

3. The headlines are not too pretty (too bold/too big) and "Search" is slightly less bold which is not too nice (but obviously these are just details).

Well, thanks a lot for building a great service. :)

EDIT: Just saw that your designer Mikael is also a ~22yo designer from Stockholm, no wonder I'm a fan.
It was a lock that was being held by software but also prevented hardware updates to certain hash locations in the CAM. So MAC addresses that hashed to those locations couldn't be learned by any means.
Please disregard. Other copyrighted stuff was instantly detected.
The design is nice. The site is simple and easy to understand how to use, but the simplicity kind of leaves me wanting more. There is definitely something up with the interactive elements, noticeable delays on each page. Might be worth introducing some type of visual feedback that indicates the page hasn't completed rendering.
Why on earth do they default to sharing literally every action (meaning everything I even just look at) to Twitter when I first connect. I just lost followers because their app spammed about 50 messages in a few minutes. I think I'll pass.
Do you know of any good guides on how to use it? I know it's there but the last time I took at look at it it looked like I was going to have to spend a bunch of time to figure it out.
Only 3-6% of mathematics PhDs produced in the US are hired to government positions each year, with some large portion of that going to the NSA. While that is a lot (and doesn't include the mathematicians hired straight out of bachelors and masters programs), it's minuscule compared to the total number of mathematicians produced each year world-wide ("not even a little bit"), includes many that don't work on cryptography, and is dwarfed by the external security and cryptography community, both in academia (why on earth would you exclude them?) and in business.
I think that you have bigger problems if anyone anywhere has commit privileges to your repository. You must trust your commitors. Am I missing something?
so, no, you have no evidence, just a gut instinct. why did you even link to an article?
We saw him a few years ago at a concert at Ravinia (https://www.ravinia.org/) along with Ramsay Lewis. Dave was clearly not a full physical strength, and it seemed that he was playing fewer notes, but his enthusiasm was tops.

I recommend the boxed set http://www.amazon.com/For-All-Time-Dave-Brubeck/dp/B0001FGB9...
I really like this. How will it work in terms of intellectual property?
Excellent timing. One of the elements on my TODO list was to add the Github API to my app to create files that I can then have the user edit. Now I can just use a link instead.
I liked the "Battle Station Fully Operational" before.
True, I hadn't considered a Chromebook. It could probably do everything I need with EC2 or Linode, but I'm afraid that might up the learning curve a little too much since I'd be completely new to all of those environments.
How do you hide the top toolbar completely? (http://i.imgur.com/rhZQZ.png)
Wow, how did I not know about call hierarchy. Thanks.