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Brad Feld's take on HN
That would only be true if systems are only capable of running a single program. Luckily I think there will be utility in running 10,000 processes on a box at the same time.
For those interested, there's also a post on Tech Cocktail describing Brad's vision for the community:

http://tech.co/brad-feld-startup-revolution-hub-2012-12
TL;DR: Snake oil productivity tips and security/privacy hysteria get page views
To be fair, they changed the font.
In the Shadow of Giants
The update was listed as available in the normal "Updates" section of iphone app store. When I went to update it through there, it was instantly saying it's no longer available.
It took manually searching for the app and then hammering on the retry button as the first 4 attempts failed.
This is most defiantly looks like an apple problem.
No-one seems to have mentioned that cross-winds would be tough on this bike, with its wide flat panels.
Steam's Big Picture: A super small-form-factor "steambox" build
A superficial issue I'm sure, but the abundance of pink is somewhat offensive to the eyes, a lot of things really need to be toned down.

But content is what matters, and the content seems alright.
That is certainly a possibility. However contamination of Mars will make coming to that conclusion, if the evidence points to it, a great deal harder.

(Well, obviously contaminating Mars is itself panspermia, but not really of the interesting sort. A confirmed instance of "natural" panspermia would tell us a lot about what we can expect about the distribution of life throughout the universe.)
It was The Texas Tribune, a non-profit, online news organization that covers Texas state politics.

http://www.texastribune.org
I always start in my head with the goal of the speech, then I sit down and make a quick outline.

I use the outline as a skeletal structure for my slide deck, otherwise I spend hours tweaking font size on the slides instead of understanding the overall goal of the talk. Once the outline is done, I add in a bit of muscle to the talk - one to two sentences per point to the outline. Then I go to the slides and add full-pages images for each slide, with short topic headlines for each part of the talk. Then I memorize the gist of the outline sentences and embed those mentally into the slides (making the slide deck a memory palace). When I get up on stage, the slides remind me of the storyline or topic I'm on, and I simply tell the story.

I have written out some talks before, but I only use that method to practice the talk as if I were speaking it out loud. I write with the same tone of voice that I speak in, and write it to get it out of my system. I don't look back to the write-up afterwards.
I like this idea so much. Any plans to scale up the Hacker School? In particular, it would be awesome if there was more Hacker Schools in different locations.
It's been my impression that, MWI aside, quantum mechanics being probabilistic does not imply that the processes it models are probabilistic. The map is not the territory, and a map that is known to be incomplete is especially not the territory.
There's a lot of thinking in the comments here which is good for what it is, but which lags far behind engineers and scientists who have thought about it for years.

Get your hands on this book and read.

http://amzn.com/0684835509
I'm slightly confused about all of this. The DEA can still come after dealers, no?
No disrespect to Brad, but just "Brad Feld" in the title as someone everyone should know? I can see that he's an insider and all, I just have never managed to hear much about him.

Should I be familiar with him?

The site looks great, though, although the white-to-pink contrast is pretty bad. The more HN alternatives, the better.
That's not actually true. Case in point, cfcs.
Very useful tool. In my opinion filter by (or order by) released date is a useful feature.
Seems like Apple hasn't mastered video streaming compression as well as OnLive. OnLive seemed pretty playable to me when I tried it.
"I would rather consolidate my data using personal cloud solutions like Tonido rather than spreading my personal data across multiple cloud storage services."

You see what you just said? You said a perfectly legitimate alternative that most tech-savvy people (i.e. most of this site's userbase) will understand. That ditzy girl you hit on last week at the bar, some weird fruity drink in one hand, iPhone in the other? She wouldn't understand. She does, however, understand using her Dropbox to store all her photos from Instagram at the push of a button on Instagram's website...or some other possibility, I don't know.

I'll never have the cloud as my be-all end-all backup for media and the like but your average moron who dabbles in ten different applications' "social networks" will eat it up.
Simulating a large world seems like a textbook example of an "embarrassingly parallel" problem, doesn't it? At least that's true for cellular automata.
An alternative to Google Calendar would be nice.
The site says you shouldn't host your private data on certain free services because they show you ads, so they recommend instead using free services that don't show you ads?

Come on HN, you know how this works. If a service doesn't show you ads, and doesn't charge a monthly fee, how do you think they make money? Either they're not, so they'll go out of business when their VC funding runs out, or they're selling whatever they can glean about your habits to third parties.

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Additionally, the article conflates two very different concerns under the banner of "privacy".

If you object to advertising, then many free services also have some sort of paid tier. Send then $5 a month and they stop showing you ads. Problem solved.

If you're concerned about third parties having access to your data, then your only practical options are to either host everything on a computer you own, or encrypt your data before it leaves your desk. Both options are significantly more complex than using free hosting, but can provide stronger guarantees about the safety of your data.

The advantage to encryption is that you can decide on a file-by-file basis whether it's important enough to protect. Maybe you're OK with Dropbox/Google/Box.net/etc being able to see pictures of your cat, but don't want them to see your tax documents or medical records.

Of course, the main problem with taking security seriously is that you are placing yourself into a very small, difficult-to-please market segment. Most companies will find it easier to simply ignore you, so they can make their products work better for people who don't particularly think about data security.
Super Massive Black Hole
It's perhaps of questionable importance, but while virgin usa used to be a sprint partnership mvno, sprint bought them outright in 2009. Sprint also owns 54% of Clear.
"Show me the gender distribution of my friends" - 178.72% Male
Wow. If your company provides worse customer service than Best Buy, this is certainly a problem (especially when it's a long-term customer who paid extra for an extended warranty)!
I am not sure what made them such a success (Soundcloud is awesome, I am just wondering). I think marketing and then prominent artists played a huge role. Soundcloud also seems to have a very open policy for mix-sets that use non-free music (legal "grey" area).

Sites like http://be.electrobel.org/ , http://archive.org have been around much longer (I do not know how they worked 5 years ago and for some sharing music might ((have) require approval by mods). And of course more local ones like http://www.dogmazic.net/index.php?op=edito&choice_user_l... or http://www.myownmusic.de
What level of programming knowledge do you prefer incoming students to have? I see a couple testimonials that mention people new to programming, but your code requests and FAQ lead me to believe that's a rare exception nowadays...
Gmail is great on Android tablets.

There might be an overarching desire to not make the Gmail experience too good on the iPad.
Structuring a Backbone.js Application
Using the flag feature on my iPhone stars the email. I'm using the Exchange method of connecting to email.
You seem to be wallowing in all-or-nothing thinking. "Hate," "absolutely ignore everything else," skip showers. Nobody is saying these things to the extremes that you're interpreting them.
Also I would want to fall from that bicycle even less then from a normal one.
I don't know how else to put this but local, compiled apps run faster than web apps. And the problems laid out in the article are indicative of development choices, for example not being able to pick up where one left off in a local app as opposed to in a browser app in the NYT example.
Not shocked by the self-promotion Dass has here, considering where his interests are, but his point is ultimately a good one.

I think Filepicker is neat software, but can't wait for a more open solution like Web Intents to mature.
I read someone arguing that what Obox has done is much better than what WP-SVBTLE (a free Wordpress theme) did, because at least Obox made some minor changes and didn't use the same name. To me, those reasons are what's _wrong_ with what Obox has done, along with adding money into the mix..
"The audience is different – I’m focused on entrepreneurs who want to engage in discussions about creating the companies and startup communities, having an awesome life, and exploring better ways to be effective as entrepreneurs,” Feld tells Tech Cocktail. “I’m less interested in all the current tech news / issues discussions."

Sounds like they are going to concentrate on what I would characterize as fluff stories. I realize those are important to a lot of people, but some day I would really like to discover a friendly hacker community where the focus is on, well, hacking and making things.
Protip: Take a couple shots of something strong before going on.
Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Camera users get free 50GB of Dropbox storage
He hasn't worked at MS for 3 years. He's been the CEO of http://www.facebook.com/findood for that period.

I would not be surprised if everyone there used macbooks, even if they had windows installed on them.
Andrew Godwin wrote an interesting piece for the [Lanyrd blog](http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/lanyrds-big-move/) where they talk a bit about putting their database in read-only mode. I know this doesn't cover your situation but it might help ease the transition of what to do while you are starting your migrations.
Then why on earth did they name it Play?
Coursera launches Career Services
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Photo Time Capsule to Outlast Earth
I think that line should be prefaced with the assumption from the previous slide that CPU and GPU would merge.

Anyways, fact we only have ~16 core CPUs today just means he was off on the timeline, and got a slightly bit more "free lunch" for a few more years: a single threaded program gets 12% instead of 5% of a CPU's capability.

The underlying "we're screwed without better tools" still stands. Besides, the work required to take advantage of 8-way concurrency on mutable state is the same required for 32-way.
Thanks!

We might expand someday, but we're still far from perfect with only one location, and we want to stay focused on making Hacker School in New York the best it can be before expanding to more locations.

In the meantime, we've had good success with people moving to New York for Hacker School. About 20% of our past two batches have come from outside the US, and the majority of our last couple batches moved to New York for the batch.
For $10,000 an Hour You Can Talk to Mark Cuban Too
Sorry, but no. While the content may be the same, the format is entirely the opposite of what I read HN for. Even given the same quality of discussion and links:

- The thumbnails add nothing useful

- Fewer headlines are visible without scrolling

- Insipid 'social' functions showing me everything going on down the right pane

I read Reddit and HN, but I read them for different reasons. I'm not looking for a Reese's-esque solution, I would like my chocolate and peanut butter decidedly separate.
I believe Ruby core team member Aaron Patterson actually learned Japanese so that he could participate in the discussions happening in the Japanese Ruby community. This is a great example of someone stepping up on their own, instead of complaining that someone else isn't doing something for them.
I have to agree...and I'm a proud owner of a pink iPod and pink tablet case. At first giant, it looks like the color scheme of various fashion blogs
Since empathy is feeling someone else's emotions as your own, empathy seems to presuppose emotion.
I think you're right about the industry part, but during a research internship I did two years ago I worked on SAC [1], which is a high-level array-based functional language and which does implicit parallelization. Okay, it's not really a general purpose programming language and more of a DSL for nurmerically intensive computation, but the auto-parallelization does work.

[1] http://www.sac-home.org/
No, I've not send any emails. Court asked to give the email account's details (IP) and microsoft was happy to give.
Surely auto-parallelization is exactly what CPU pipelining and branch prediction do quite effectively?
Neil Patel recently wrote some helpful advice for public speaking, even if you hate it

http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/12/03/how-to-speak-in-public...
Nope it doesn't, since that speaking out would still be just as necessary, all of that nonwithstanding. If the police you pay for does stuff you don't want, the solution isn't to ask someone ELSE to not provide them with materials. This is not about hackers, this is about citizens, and not everything that has the word "malware" in it is automatically relevant. It's not complicated. No need to project your brainfart-ness onto me, either.
This is exactly the question I had when they renamed it in the first place -- "play" is an inaccurate term for their intended usage of the store.
Many UK sites will start by asking for a postcode, which then lets them offer a drop-down of usually less than a dozen properties to fill in the rest of the address, guaranteed to be in standardised form.

The databases aren't always as complete as the developers believe them to be though -- sensible operators will leave a way to override the lookup, others lose out on custom from people living in new estates.
I wonder if they fixed the constant notification spam on this one.
VMware announces Pivotal Initiative
Regarding your first point, I've lived in small apartments with high ceilings (12 ft) and small apartments with low ceilings (~8 ft, if I remember correctly). The low ceiling'd one actually had higher square footage, but felt noticeably smaller and more cramped.

Yeah, the space isn't useable, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful to the psychology of the human's occupying it.
Related: The director of Twitter's Application Services group, Raffi Krikorian, gave an interesting talk about the architecture of Twitter's real-time delivery service at QCon in October. In the talk he discusses in pretty good detail the ways in which Twitter uses Redis to cache copies of users' timelines as tweets are made.

Here's a link to a video of the talk: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Real-Time-Delivery-Twitte...
I agree on the second part, I can get interviews with google/microsoft/facebook, etc, basically the big tech companies. But its far more difficult getting interviews from start ups in SV
JSConf Launches the #15ForAda Campaign
Also, on the first visit I'm urged to "log in to start earning great rewards". No, thanks.

To build a Hacker News competitor you need to build a community of equal value, not some 'rewards'. The reward here comes from having intelligent people read my comments and write intelligent responses. Build that and it'll be worth checking out.

And, making it look like a pink version of Digg circa 2007 isn't enticing me at all. I do not need avatars, lots of whitespace, fancy fonts, etc. And it has precisely the horrible thing Digg had: two clicks to read a story (one click to get to same lame summary of a story, another to read it).

Hacker News is all about respecting what Shannon told us so long ago about noisy channels.
Found two bugs in the sign up and took me 5 tries to get through the form:

1. The about me field and uploaded image input reset themselves whenever your form is invalid.

2. When signing up with Twitter, the form doesn't register that your image is already set via Twitter and forces the user to upload one locally.
That's a good point that I didn't consider. I'm using Gunicorn and now that you mention it, I dunno how much is or isn't dynamic, but my process is dynamic so it takes seconds to happen and may or may not be throwing errors.

I've never noticed any errors deploying as described, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything in light of this information.
Unless the breakthrough involves making arbitrary-thickness chips, it's only going to be a modest improvement; the best possible density/frequency for any realistic material isn't that many half-nodes better than the best for silicon.
It works like this: Grade school kids running around have puns pop into their heads, so by the time they get to high school, they're over the obvious ones. However this only works for their native language.

This is why translated puns can sound very stupid. It's also why you're likely to sound stupid when you try to pun in Chinese.
Culture is also a big reason. People at Waterloo talk about engineering/CS/whatever non-stop. A colleague of mine went back to do his PhD at Western and his biggest observation was that the kids in the hall weren't talking about what project they were working on, they were talking about parties and clothes and whatever. While selection certainly helps with this, the culture of a school also has a huge impact in this regard.
Its been a while since I watched that episode, but that was built with a steel superstructure surrounded by lego right? The lego was only partially load-bearing?
Spamming moderation doesn't constitute an argument either, clowns.
Also I'm not sure how useful CO fuel would be if you had electrical power already. Maybe splitting CO2 into CO and O2 only to later recombine could make sense as power storage? Maybe if you are using solar power and regular batteries aren't feasible for some reason, or maybe in a vehicle?

There might be uses for burning CO on Mars, but not as the byproduct of CO2 splitting for breathable oxygen.
Good grief that is a hideous website
Don't all Google products support application specific passwords? Without built-in support for two-factor auth, it's cumbersome since you have to generate a password on your own, but anything with a password box works.
The Smartest Virtual Brain Yet
Doesn't it undermine your preconception, in that this conference serves just a niche of Ruby development, has fewer speakers, and yet was able to find non-token minorities to serve as panelists? Seems like the twitteraphere that you refer to was right
I already have email on my own domain, even though I currently have it pointing to Gmail (for spam filtering and webmail access), I can point it to any server I want in the future since I own the domain.
> You've got it wrong.
Mars is further from the sun.

Actually, this has been studied. There's enough sun with the right timing and thermal balance (provided the right kind of greenhouse) to grow food.
Cosma Shalizi's "null model of scientific inquiry" [1] seems relevant here. Basically it's a model where all published findings are due to the file drawer effect [2]. In such a model, scientific results will indeed have a "half-life" until they are overturned.

[1] http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/698.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
I too had the same problem, but off and on I did find movies that were really good but were hidden somewhere. The only way I could explore it was by building something of my own. After writing this app I have been able to discover some really awesome stuff on Netflix. Really glad that you liked it. Thanks.
For some odd reason, www.about.me/myusername is not a valid webpage. I'm a bit pissed with the sign up. Third time in a row I can't sign in.
How so?

I think they meant play as in playground
I am still getting a "The item you tried to buy is no longer available." error with this link. I've never installed the GMail app before.
"I'm not good at this"

Out of all the garbage that you've written, this is the only thing you are right about.
Running a compiled app instead of a web page, as laid out in the post, would have that benefit.

The central theme of the post is that the local app and the webpage are disconnected - the fact that you can't pick up where you left off in the other is not a development choice.
Right, which is inappropriate for a business-oriented device or service.
178 is the number, and 72 is the percentage. Unfortunately the comma is easy to mistake for a period.
Thanks cheae !
This bicycle is designed in SolidWorks, the software I make :) ... Just saying ...
No, not X-Originating. Prosecutor asks to Microsoft to give all the details of xxx@hotmail.com. Microsoft sends all the informations of xxx@hotmail.com to the prosecutor. Google does not reply even.
Hey there, I did Hacker School this past summer. I was one of the most beginner-level programmers in the beginning. I never opened my terminal, never heard of functional programming, and didn't even know how html and css worked. I was a noob. The only things I could do were solve project euler math problems, which was enough to know I loved programming and wanted to commit to improving. Despite my initial skill level, I found a full-time job shortly afterward as a developer.

TLDR: if you can code fizzbuzz and know you love programming, you're good enough to apply. :)
Very awesome:) It's _almost_ fast enough to feel like you're modifying it in realtime on my macbook air. This is a great demo of what might be possible with this responsive programming approach.
i guess it comes down in-part to how you consume music as well. i will agree though that on soundcloud, where much of the music is unofficial releases and remixes, cover art is typically lacking in quality
While I think HN could use some UX improvements, this attempt adds too much noise while adding little value.
This is one of the most active sites: http://waterlootechjobs.com/
How I Got Unbanned from Hacker News
legalisation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/us-usa-marijuana-l...
1) Battery drain. 2) Your phone isn't a great router. Having dedicated hardware to do this would be far better.