skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evolution of Renderscript Performance
That's why someone created http://isthereagiantsgametoday.com
Thanks! We're really trying to focus on making the experience as unobtrusive as possible.

What kind of things would you expect to see in an enterprise version?
That's really weird reasoning. If we applied that reasoning to highway construction areas, you'd see "vehicle-free zones" for fear of somebody speeding.

But we don't, so instead, we just have "traffic fines double in construction zones." Which makes sense, and presumably people drive more carefully in construction zones.

If you want to double the murder punishment in school zones, there is your deterrence. Preventing law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves & others in the statistically most-likely place for a mass-murder makes no sense whatsoever.
This is the third time this article has been posted to HN. See prior discussions here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689274

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028939
I can see why Stroustrup finds so much C++ criticism annoying - language design is all about tradeoffs and many of the less elegant parts of C++ are compromises made to preserve performance. Stroustrup himself has said there's a cleaner, simpler language trying to get out of C++. C++11 seems like a good step in that direction.
It make no sense for most people to pay off their house aggressively. Refinance periodically if you want to lower your payments, but blowing a lump sum on your mortgage principal over a compressed time period is almost always more expensive in opportunity costs.

Quick question: I put $100k in your pocket right now. Would your life be more improved if your mortgage principal was reduced by $100k, or if you went and did something else with it? I think most people could find something better to do -- start a company perhaps? Invest in a rental property? Start a kids college fund?

And again, if you did want to put that into your mortgage: refi.
Or "San Frisco"
"Copied" credit card numbers, etc... (FTFY)

Fraudulently charging a card is prohibited and addressed in other laws. Copying isn't injury on its own.
You'd be surprised. There are a lot of small to midsized companies with data-intensive products. There are a dozen different fleet-tracking-as-a-service companies, several thousand inventory-management, medical-billing management, etc.

The Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is not where the bulk of data usage happens.
I think the scarcity also made it more newsworthy. I remember seeing blog posts and news items with comments like "I finally got one!".
have you seen Elasticsearch API?
I like the livery (unlike Curtis, who calls it "patriotic lipstick" but ignores the positioning statement it makes, or the fact that the new livery is much more easily identifiable than the old one, which just set the logo on the tail and gave the planes racing stripes).

I hate the new logo.
Why/When is this better than Time Profiler?
I think there is a real distinction between language features / design patterns / idioms that are enjoyable and efficient to write, and ones that enjoyable and efficient to read. And it's usually (for me at least) pretty hard to tell, except in hindsight.

The general thought I try to keep with me, is that code is much harder to read than it is to write, and that if you need to be 'this' smart to write something, you need to be '>this^2' smart to read and comprehend it 6 months later.

So you might think some code is a super clever trick now, that it solves your problem in a way you think is elegant and clever. In 6 months though, when someone else looks at it, they may come to a wildly different conclusion.
Why I Started Blogging
Is it possible to need C and not know it, or if I need it will I know it? Because I can't think of anything I'd use it for. You guys speak of it and other higher level languages as if you use them interchangably for the same tasks.
Take advantage of Android’s GPS API
Copyright infringement is already illegal without the CFAA.
Just a quick note, but implicitly asserting that xterm is a very secure program will weaken your argument. From http://st.suckless.org/ :

xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here’s an excerpt from the README:

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here

This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of
the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage.
Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014
subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to
clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.

Needless to say things have not changed, it’s still ugly. It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need. The popular alternative, rxvt has only 32K lines of code. This is just too much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it’s yet another example of code complexity.
I agree with most of what you say, but with two quibbles.

The punishments suggested by sentencing guidelines encapsulate what precedent says is "reasonable limits". Thus the sentencing guidelines in some sense are the definition of what our society thinks of as reasonable limits.

That said, you go on to say that that sentence is way beyond reasonable in almost anybody's estimation. If your circle contains lots of people who understand technology, that is obviously true of those you know. If your circle expands to include random lawyers, judges, politicians, and the uneducated public, there will be lots of people who think those limits are reasonable. That is how they came to be what they are.
How to transfer files to your Android device via WiFi or mobile networks
Recruiters crawling/scraping github. Is it highly targeted spam?
very conserved...anyone culated (´･Д･)」
Isn't the major property of the entire CFAA is that it makes civil torts into federal felonies? It's not about focusing on just the property crimes, but any other crime done by exploiting a computer. Crack a hospital and shut off a ventilator? That's murder 1, 2, or 3.

As for pure computer tampering, what should the appropriate criminal penalty be for say breaking into HN and putting a banner at the top of everyone's page? Sounds an awful like misdemeanor territory to me.
OT: I haven't touched Ruby for 5 years, but I thought JRuby had really helped the whole performance thing?
very conserved.
I've lived in a Austin (5 years), NYC (6 years), and recently moved to SF. In my experience, Austin has many more attractive people, in general, than SF. NYC has more than both of them, but also 10 times the population, so there's that...
Say Hi to The New Google Chrome Beta, It’s Listening
I like how you phrase it: We need to give ourselves permission. I think that sometimes, we're afraid that someday "they" will discover the imperfections behind our code, infrastructure, etc. that lies beneath what we build. I suspect that ofttimes, the 'they' is really ourselves.

A shame, really: The very thing that drives us to be the best ends up holding us back.
This statement about inflation contradicts a variety of recent economic studies suggesting that the CPI understates inflation by a percentage point or so (thus inflating the cost of inflation-linked things like Social Security). Any particular source for your sentiment that it's "increasingly under-reported"? http://goo.gl/wbnUu
He said 2M from each of the people who complained ...
OK, I'll stipulate that you don't feel threatened by the CFAA. In what sense do you feel protected by it?
Google presenters don't care about you unless you're running Chrome and have a keyboard.

Pro-tip: If you load it with JS disabled, all the slides show up as plain text. That might let you at least consume the slides' content.

EDIT: Pro-tip #2: It looks like if you tap the edge of the next/previous slide, it should scroll onto screen. Kind of tricky, though.
Time Profiler is a sampling profiler, this one is instrumenting. They're both useful at different times - we find this one useful for

* Thread activity graphs with drill-in

* Seeing accurate counts of calls

* More precise per-call timings of messages

* Measurement of messages with highly variable performance
Facebook's New Graph Search Is Google's Nightmare Come True
FYI: https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/288684922217041920
According to the Glock company's official story, that's correct.

The Glock 7 is a fictional weapon, it doesn't cost as much as John McClane said, and a gun barrel is still made of metal to deal with the explosive pressure of rapidly expanding gases.
Show HN: A website to sync your online profiles
Is Facebook Finally Useful?
SELECT * FROM post
WHERE id IN
(
select post_id from post_tags
INNER JOIN tags ON post_tag.tag_id = tag.id
WHERE tag.tag in ("foo","bar","baz")
GROUP BY post_id
HAVING COUNT(*) = 3
)
AND author IN ("Joe","Jane")
ORDER BY post_date DESC;

Of course normalizing tags is silly as they are natural keys so it should be as you first stated:

SELECT * FROM post
WHERE id IN
(
select post_id from post_tags
WHERE tag in ("foo","bar","baz")
GROUP BY post_id
HAVING COUNT(*) = 3
)
AND author IN ("Joe","Jane")
ORDER BY post_date DESC;
Let's not forget "Ignore the fact that we are using drones to kill families in other countries without declaring war and denying US citizens the right to a trial by holding them indefinitely"
Yes, assault weapons and magazines are what I was referring to. I understand the objections, and I sympathize; I don't really have a horse in this race either way (I'm keenly aware that if so inclined, The State will happily squash me like a bug, whether or not I own a fully auto AK-47 that fires armor-piercing bullets).

My point is that there is clearly a policy distinction between what liberals are calling "common sense protections", and legislation to _proactively take every gun from every gun owner_. There is a spectrum of opinion wider than [x] gun-grabber [ ] non-gun-grabber, and I don't believe any opinions should be dismissed a priori. There are real arguments to be made in favor of gun regulation, even if those arguments are wrong; holding such opinions does not necessarily mean one is secretly in favor of repealing all gun rights.
It's entirely due to Google's client-side redirects. Which are stupid and annoying and Google should fix them.

But since Google doesn't care, the Detox extension works nicely. Though it's always somewhat sad when you have to resort to browser extensions to work around web programmers' stupidity.

EDIT: Also, I just tried your suggestion of a different browser, and tried Google's own browser. The stupid titleless redirection URLs are still there, cluttering up your history. So that doesn't really fix it.
That's a start, but it's a pretty roundabout way to do it.

You can just use https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s directly :)
Can you provide more detail on your feedback model?

Are you crowdsourcing feedback?

How many people are spending how much time/effort per song?

What criteria are songs judged on and how complete is the feedback?

What is the minimum amount of feedback artists can expect?

Basically, make it clear what the $20 is buying.

If you would like to talk more about any of these things, feel free to email me (listed on my info page), crowdsourced ratings are kinda my thing.
My sister is an artist (https://soundcloud.com/hannahwerdmuller) and I would like to front her $20. The website as it stands looks like a lottery, mostly because of the "if we like it" component. How can I reassure her and get her to agree to submit her music to you?
Ex-CEO: Apple should focus on cheaper iPhone, developing markets
Ask HN: Reliable vps?
Looking for a cheap and realiable vps service. Not looking for linode or a cloud provider as they are too expensive
"real inflation to the money supply"

Inflation is what happens to prices, by definition. "Inflation to the money supply" is nonsense, like if you said int x = "foo" or talked about installing new RAM to store your photo album.

Also, the notion that banks can cause inflation by not spending reserves is baffling.
Imagine a very angry 22 year old is fired from his IT job at a hospital, has his credentials revoked, and uses his knowledge of vulnerabilities at his old work site to log in and rm a bunch of servers. Imagine that as a result, the hospital is unable to enroll patients or to get MRI results back or things like that. Without CFAA, what crime has been committed?

The appropriate penalty for defacing a website should probably be very low. Defacing sites should be criminal, and probably a felony, but the bulk of the remedy should be civil.
Aaron Swartz's Father Says Reddit Co-Founder Was 'Killed By The Government'
Is there a way to buy it using PayPal? Am not to keen on sending a credit card number...
I posted a link to this same thing about a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4954033

Guess I should have made a blog post about it :P
I came from the Southeast, and I haven't exactly. I get crabby, but the beauty of seeing Rainier and all the ecotourism and density makes up for everything. Plus, before I moved I didn't get much of a chance to enjoy the beaches and outdoor areas because I was too busy being stuck in traffic and sprawl.
Um... he did post to HN... so... yeah, I guess maybe he could be doing that from the public library.
How to Write Kickass Sales Emails
Is Netflix's Cash Cow Dead?
I'll be less terse: the odds that any American's life is going to be disrupted by someone who would violate the CFAA is much higher than the odds that a federal prosecutor would bring a CFAA case against them.

I am not arguing that the CFAA doesn't badly need fixes. The zeitgeist seems to say that the big problem is criminalization of ToS violations (which was in the wake of Lori Drew inevitably going to stop being the case anyways), but I think the real problem is the sentencing rules that follow CFAA convictions.
Netflix reveals top UK ISPs for movie streaming... Virgin Media the best
It does, AFAIK IB is respected more than AP on campus. Of course, the more rigorous subject matter will be better for her in the long run anyways.
Are subselects still ridiculously inefficient in MySQL? It's been a long while since I've used them. I do like how those queries read, though.
I noticed that message last month when I was interested in installing it. Sadly I do not have the skills to takeover such a daunting project, hopefully others in the community will come through.
Examples combining C++ and R: The Rcpp Gallery
On the front page right now there's instagram-engineering.tumblr.com, erratasec.blogspot.com and tech.blog.cueup.com. It seems to be a based on a domain whitelist. Heroku should definitely be on it.

Personally I'd just show the whole hostname and maybe prune a few common subdomains like "www.", "www2." or "blog."
This is what YC has come to? Funding pay-to-be-discovered scams? Because whichever way you slice it, this is pay to play. Sad.
I use Ruby for things that deal with the web, for utility programs, and (most often) for software I'm not going to need to support long term, such as clients for bizarro network protocols I encounter on penetration tests.

I used to use C for everything else; I'd reach for Go first now, but I still love C.

One way to think about C vs. (say) Python is that it's like the relationship between an FPGA and an ASIC: you prototype in a high level language and you write C when you really know exactly what you need your program to do. C is not a great exploratory programming environment, but it is excellent when you have a specific plan.
Red October hackers also used Java exploit for spy campaign
Well, being an artist IS a lottery - an occupational hazard, if you will.
This.

(though I hate "this" even more than "pro-tip")
A great install-and-forget, cross-platform, Google Drive Client
The idea is that if you meet the guidelines with your existing salary, you can expect a lifestyle similar to the one you are already used to. If getting a lower-salary job lowers your lifestyle expectations, it could work. :P
Ask HN: Looking for freelancer to do filesystem dev on mac
Hi,

I posted this on elance and guru and thought I would ask this community as well. Does anyone know a developer who will help me with doing filesystem development on mac?

Thanks
------------

Looking for a freelancer to work on userspace filesystem on mac osx. The final application will be a cloud storage application but I am looking for someone with expertise on filesystem development on the mac platform. In addition, you must be willing to do pair programming. I will pay by the hour. To separate the spammers, please type 'FILESYSTEM' on your response and include a list of projects that involves filesystem development. Thank you.

Requirements:
expertise in filesystem development
expertise in mac osx application development
pair programming
git for source control (I will provide the github repository)
willing to sign IP and confidential agreement

Bonus:
familiarity with AWS S3
python development for cross platform components (mac and windows)
Under the hood RethinkDB already supports multiple protocols, so from our perspective there is little difference between a SQL front-end and a ReQL front-end. Of course to users, that's the only thing that matters.

There are still many improvements we can make to the core system and an enormous number of people are already interested in it, so we decided to satisfy them first. We might add a SQL front-end at some point, but it's not very high on the priority list now.
...and already someone's made a snarky remark about PHP in the comments.
Java is not JavaScript - tell your friends
Ironically I think Silicon Valley will appreciate this show so much more than Bravo's attempt to glamorize it.
Well, there are a lot of crimes that people engage in other than murder, and many of them involve weapons. It's a much different thing to be caught selling drugs, soliciting sex, etc. in a school zone from a punishment standpoint.

All that aside, I don't trust other parents with handguns around my children, and am perfectly okay with laws preventing people from carrying around my kids. Most of the people I know who are deep enough in their fantasies about their handguns are, and this is just my belief, just as likely to accidentally shoot a child as they are to do any good with a weapon.

You might disagree, but it isn't true that prohibiting weapons around a school has absolutely no sense about it.
The first problem is in the second sentence of the report:
"The study lasted for approximately eight weeks."

Based on my limited knowledge of outcomes assessment and the current scholarship of teaching and learning, eight weeks is not a long enough period of time to meaningfully measure the effectiveness if any learning method (at minimum, you want retention data past the learning phase, i.e. it matters less how you score on a final exam at the end of a class than how you score on the same exam 1/2, 1, 3, and 5 years later, etc.)
10 Facts: Secure Java For Business Use
Perhaps you forgot we are talking about San Francisco?
Software developers who outsourced his own job
> I've never seen a major brand complete a redesign without at least a little backlash. People have a natural preference for what's familiar, but in time new brands tend to grow on you.

OTOH, maybe it's because all the major brand redesigns you've seen have been complete crap... This wouldn't be particularly surprising, because many modern corporate redesigns seem to be best described as risk averse pandering to fads (on the part of both the designers and upper management). As another comment put it, they tend to be very bland.

[Of course in reality, it's probably a combination of the two reasons: many such redesigns are very poorly done, but even the ones that are decent risk backlash due to changing something that's familiar.]
Opening arguments in the court of public opinion after Aaron Swartz’ death
Wow, didn't know they had that back then. I thought everyone was still on text messages.
Submission to FCC to Modernize Ham Radio Rules
Reddit co-founder's death shows scope of tech law
You're conflating magazines and guns. A magazine can't fire bullets. It can't hurt people. So who the hell cares if they get picked up on metal detectors? You want to catch the gun, not the magazine.
Ah, git is not a non-trivial storage system?
Yeah, please don't use the Svbtle design.
Architecture to name one of many.

Some of the best American architects built many buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers in Chicago. The Chicago skyline is a wondrous thing. It can't be compared.
I imagine the $20 is to keep artists out that are less serious, and therefore make the queue of songs to review more manageable. And to pay the folks reviewing stuff so they can go in depth.

I agree pay-to-play can be sketchy, but the alternative (which I do all the time) is put my music out there for free to writer's overcrowded inboxes and hope that they take a look (which they often do not).

I put in $20 just to give it a shot. If nothing happens, no big deal.
Yes. SF is not a very family-friendly city: the cost of living is high, transportation can be difficult, the schools are not great, and there are many homeless people and "crazies".

Apparently, San Francisco has the lowest percentage (13%) of children of any major city in the country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-f...
Unfortunately, many of my non-developer/computer science friends make this confusion disturbingly often. All things considered, it's pretty understandable mistake. Look at Clojure/Clojurescript; though not a great analogy, it shows that such a name similarity definitely implies a relationship other than "it has similar syntax."
...and make ones for Google Images, Google Maps, Wikipedia, and lots of other sites...
Well the non-virtual analog would be "malicious destruction of property", no? And if he were to say physically go over to the hospital and smash the MRI machine, would he be charged with additional crimes due to the hospital's inability to take MRIs ? So maybe this is what you mean by 'property crimes' - a specific analog for 'malicious destruction of data' or the like.

I'm not quite sure I agree that defacing a site should automatically be a felony. But that's even presently based on the dollar value of the damage caused being over $5k, right? (which seems pretty low and maybe that combined with overblown copyright maximalist valuations is the real problem). I need to brush up on what the current laws actually say; I remember them as basically do anything to a machine out of what "normal people" expect (like even just nmap) and you could technically get screwed.
slava @ rethink here. Let me explain the state of affairs on this.

The underlying storage engine was tested on commodity systems and super-duper enterprisy storage systems, and can do hundreds of thousands of ops/second on tens of terabytes of data (that required pretty beefy setups, though). When we added clustering on top of the storage engine, we avoided thinking of performance too much (in the interest of shipping), so everything slowed down significantly. Here's our (rough) roadmap:

- New protocol buffer API and some more checklist features (1.4)
- Secondary indexes, huge ReQL improvements (1.5)
- Performance and scalability (1.6)

We'll be doing scalability and performance demos that I hope will be really impressive, but it'll take ~4 months to get there.
I should add that if you are on OS X and know you won't be opening Photoshop files, Pixelmator has tons of great tutorials (http://www.pixelmator.com/tutorials) for all skill-levels and is on sale for $15 right now. It can open PSDs just fine (including guides and editable text), but - at least right now - it has some trouble importing the look of certain layer effects that are also affected by opacity, the layer effects are merged/not editable and Smart Objects are rasterized/not scalable.
Sorry I only use proper DB's like PostgreSQL and MSSQL who optimizer's have no problems with this ;).

Also what I like about the count approach is you can do "show me all the posts with at least 2 out of the 3 tags matching" fuzzier search if you desire.