skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who needs credibility when you have unchecked power?
It has happened a few times naturally, but we wouldn't try to push it to happen in the sense that "match up" implies.
I'd rather hire a foreigner
I can't remember the exact quote but he said something a long the lines of "we tried porting quake live to linux and nobody played it". Which I'm sure is true, but the way he said it seemed to imply that this was adequate evidence that supporting Linux was probably a waste of time.
This initial rollout is not intended to be used by doctors to determine (or even suggest) treatments for patients. IBM is usually very careful to point this out: they are not looking to replace doctors, at least not yet.

(Source: work for a company that has worked with IBM on this)
So it's OK, because FBI employees also speed and jaywalk?

Piracy is an Extremely Serious crime that only evil hackers would do. I know this because, the enormous financial penalties and occasional jail time to those downloading a handful of songs.

So please, put our equivocation away, and treat FBI employees who pirate the same we treat the general population.
You mean, I should stand idly by while you casually malign the integrity of a good journalist? Sorry, I'm calling you out for bullshit. So far you score highly for innuendo and zero for producing any substantial facts or other concrete evidence.

Ed Bott has an impressive professional record and a statement of disclosure:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/us/ed.bott/

Where's yours?
And as likely, it could just be a series of light VMs running on the same host, if not just elaborate masquerading on a bunch of virtual interfaces.
Everything has to be formulated through clichés?
If only there were any minerals that were prone to being shiny, we'd have one.
Specificially, they consistently paid the most, out of all three operating systems, sometimes double the amount of the amounts payed by windows users (and we are talking average prices here!)

http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/
Its not hard to understand. You are NOTHING like an artist.

Is your name used to promote work?

Do you have to go on promotional tours to show your face / drum up sales?

Is your work unique, no it's not. You can easily be replaced. You have a skill. Artist has talent and popularity. They could find another artist. Not easily and not with the fame and following and thus profitability of existing artist.
Engineering the Perfect Morning in 8 "Easy Steps"
Traceroute 216.81.59.173
Wow. I thought I did a decent job of keeping up on the USFG's encroachment on civil liberties but I missed this particular blend of lunacy. Thanks for the links.
I know you mean well, but as I said: I have tried this. It ended up with burnout, depression and two years of not doing anything useful, courtesy of the Norwegian health care system and a very nice family.

I am not doing it again. It doesn't work for me. I have worked more than 40 hours a week for periods of time, up to 6 months. But it is not sustainable. There are individual differences here that a lot of people with very high capacity for work do not understand.
Someone's about to 'beat' runescape
about 21,000 hours of game play from what I understand... CRAZY
>extensive manual tuning

I was surprised by how little low-level knowledge it took to get within a stone's throw of the theoretical peak.

The general rule seems to be:

- keep data in packed registers (use YMM instead of XMM if you have them)

- interleave addition and multiplication

- unroll the loop sufficiently to avoid stalls

I wonder if how close to ATLAS you could get if you wrote a matrix multiply following these principles and additionally structured the row/column iterations into cache-sized tiles.
Can we get more details? What did they use before? C++? Is there any code opensourced?
For those wondering where is Go mentioned: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
Haskell I/O is pure
Ask HN: How can I send a package on an infinite voyage on the internet?
"The Origins of Illnesses"
> They naturally give their descendents their connections, secret knowledge, wealth, safety and other benefits.

The idea is that society in whole should be set up in such a way that connections and secret knowledge isn't valued as highly as it is now. George W Bush didn't become president because of merit, but because of connections and inherited wealth. A better system would have more highly valued leadership skills, rhethorical skills and general smartness and kept dofuses like him out of power.
There are a few different plausible explanations for this, and there is no evidence for or against any of them.
Dunno, I believe her. As I said it might be the fact that she was foreigner, just arrived and not assertive. (if I may add, I'm even surprised someone has a positive or even neutral opinion of recruiters! I'm pretty pretty sure that that view is not the common consensus, whether her case is extreme or not)
I think their security rating system is more than a bit wrong. They rank badness using star ratings, which imply to users that anything above 1-star is still acceptable (you'd still see a 3-star movie or eat at a restaurant with a 3-star rating on Yelp, right?). And in their view, a 1-star rating is something that will physically damage the device.

http://support.verizonwireless.com/information/app_ranking/c...

A 4-star rating seems to me like describing an app that gathers analytics without a stated privacy policy. The offenses necessary to earn a 3-star rating in their book look like things which should be absolutely, positively, dealbreakers, but by using a star rating it communicates to users "hey it's acceptable but not as bad as it could be."

Battery life and data usage are things that can clearly be ranked on a continuum, and those are things where users can accept tradeoffs if it means playing a fun game or streaming content. But for security, bad is bad. They really need to ditch the star rating and use a "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" system, where any security transgression leads to a thumbs-down.
CISPA is back
It takes "so long" because of the disparate cache and TTL idea. That is, service providers believe the best thing to do is run large DNS caches for end users (and those providers can each set TTL's however they wish; they might not all be in agreement on what is an appropriate TTL). Of course, that's not the only way to run a DNS. But groupthink (or whatever you choose to call it) prevents any change in the status quo.

For example, if I said end users could run their own caches, use their own custom zones, or custom /etc/hosts files for sites they frequent, I'll bet the idea would quickly be shot down by the defenders of the status quo.

Yet it solves the "so long" problem. They can honour the suggested TTL's the authoritative DNS servers provide, or set their cache's min/max TTL's as they wish. Long or short. End user decides. Not all sites, including CDN's, keep changing their IP every few minutes. Once the user knows the closest IP for getting what she wants, no need for the DNS. Things become very fast when you don't have to constantly look up the same names, day after day.

But the real question is why are you asking why it takes "so long"? What is the real problem you are trying to solve? For example, are you needing to keep switching IP's, add CNAMES, or create more indirection? If so, why is that?
I feel for the end users, but developers really ought to know better and get OpenJDK instead.
How do you get a job at startup that hasn't been funded yet?
The precautionary principle has kept us alive for millions of years.
as difficult as writing a web browser that runs on different operating systems.
I agree with the call for caution regarding nanotech safety in general.

Firstly, as a technical nitpick, osmosis by definition is the diffusion of water across semi-permeable membranes. Stuff that is not water cannot move by osmosis. What you are worried about is stuff like the coating being able to just diffuse through your skin.

That said, having trawled through the companies literature [1], they actually only claim micron scale particles. For reference, your cells are typically 70-100 microns in diameter, so these particles are still comparatively huge. They are likely larger than most bacteria you will see.

Furthermore, since they are both hydro and fat phobic, they'd almost certainly have a very hard time diffusing your your skin, since your live cells have membranes made of (basically) fat, and then enclose a space that is mostly water.

[1] http://www.spillcontainment.com/sites/default/files/FDA%20an...
It may be that the only cure for nanotech is more nanotech -- once the genie is out of the bottle. That doesn't mean we have to go down that road.
Can this course be taken/audited online? My degree has a distributed course, but there isn't even a mention of anything like Paxos.
Check their site for 2012. It was C++. :-)
I don't think the concern is that the next generation of doctors will be incompetent, but perhaps they won't be as quick as their elders. There are times where you can't wait 30 seconds for Watson to suggest a course of action.
I'm currently taking the class. C++ was used before. The main reasons the professor cited for using Go are that it has a very easy to use RPC library and that the labs are designed so that you will spend most of your time working on the distributed systems aspects of the problems, not dealing with the intricacies of the language or libraries used. Apparently he felt Go was better for that than C++, though he didn't spend any time comparing the two.
Headline directly contradicts safety advice in the article. Bad NPR.
"House of Cards" And The Decline Of Cable
makes sense, has there been non technical single founders in the alumni?
Avoid Too Much Stress, Help Yourself To Manage It
A Product That Will Turn You Into a Tree After Death
Startup Life: Our PR “Crisis” with TechCrunch and How We Came Out On Top
Also here: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-1.html

> You'll implement this lab (and all the labs) in Go.

I'm really glad to see this :-)
Doesn't matter if it's signed code. I still turned off Secure Boot on my T430. It is rare that I have ever gotten malware, much less any that execute code at boot. Boot-sector virii died off in the late 90s.

Make no doubt about it; this is just another monopolistic implementation of restrictive technology by Microsoft.
Possibly, but that claim is false. On the 64GB Surface Pro, the fraction should be 1/2, if the calculation is done in decimal (billions of) bytes.

As with the MacBook Air and other systems, the 64GB or 128GB (decimal) that is advertised only comes to 59GB or 119GB of real (binary) space.

If you are still naive enough to think that buying a 128GB PC or drive gets you 128GB of usable binary file space then your calculation cannot possibly be correct.

Note, I'm not saying that 1/2 is good, merely that 1/3 is wrong.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656
I'd rather have noobs complaining that Linux sucks than a calculator popping up whenever I hit FN instead of CTRL.
It seems some of us are missing the implication of the article.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that there really were a way to negate all advantages a person could be born into. No social networks, no additional wealth, no additional opportunities, etc. A place where everyone is born at 25 at the exact same moment: no friends, no past, no parents, no money. We can call this place 'Equalistan', population 1 million. Now, in Equalistan, there is still random genetic mutation. Some people are taller, some people have working memories that store more information, some have long-term memories that store more information, some solve problems by simple heuristics, some follow bodily signals for cues, etc. There's no such thing as 'smarter' or 'better' at birth in Equalistan, however, because these only make sense in hindsight. Each person in Equalistan just has a different, inherited strategy at living. Everyone just showed up at the same moment, 25 years old, no history, no buddies, but just an inherited genetic toolset.

Now, in Equalistan, there's a test to decide who gets the most resources. However, no one in Equalistan designed this test because, remember, we are making sure no one has any advantage; each person only has an inherited, random strategies from birth. So everyone takes this test and there is then a distribution of resource possession. But here is the upshot. Every person completely deserves the outcome they receive on the test. After all, the only thing being tested was each person's 'merits'. Now the question is, does it ever matter whether people "deserve" the amount of resources they possess?

The article isn't saying so much that meritocracy begets old-school elitism after assortative mating as much as it's saying that meritocracy itself is a terrifying thing. That it may be 100% the truth that people deserve the outcome they receive in life, but, who cares?
> Is it that difficult for them to write their code once and compile it separately for each platform?

Yes if you start out writing it in "Visual C++" targeting Direct3D. Less so (but still somewhat painful I imagine) if you start out compiling with GCC and targeting OpenGL.

In theory, these days C++ compilers are cross-platform, OpenGL is cross-platform, windowing-integration libs like SDL/GLFW/etc. are cross-platform... but the best engines for one target primarily Direct3D and their OpenGL path might be non-existent and/or sub-standard.

I think people starting from scratch today probably look around, notice OpenGL runs anywhere in some form, and start learning this path. But until just a few years ago, OSX and Linux were much more fringe, Windows was the only realistic place to be, and back then, OpenGL on Windows was a really vastly inferior option to D3D. The game-devs who started out learning their craft back them, I think, come from that background.

If you start from scratch today, cross-platform support is quite a lot easier than it used to be and you don't need the JVM to "write once run anywhere".

Trouble is, though, if you were to start from scratch today, then you're also probably not gonna launch a big title this year or next...
I couldn't help see the Irony. The writer was from Nigeria.

I totally support hiring the best person for the job and hope that one day foreigners will be seen as better (more creative, capable) instead of just "push themselves" which usually translates to "works more hours".
Valve-Based 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Would push notifications for HTML5 apps kill native apps?
None of the stuff you had as a kid would be playable. The rules have changed, the figures replaced, old ones out classed, etc. GW rehashes so you have to buy new stuff constantly. They don't innovate (besides marketing/sales innovations).

Hasbro (wotc is subsidary) also rehashes, maybe more so. They're only innovations are sales and marketing based. They recent innovations online portal, 4ed and gamma world have flopped hard.
From the article

"
Google software engineer Jeremy Hoffman commented in the Quora thread, saying it was a bug:

As a web search query, [-4^(1/4)] is interpreted like [-4 "1 4"], as in ”Find me pages which contain a 1 next to a 4, but which do not contain a 4.” This should return zero results, because it is impossible to satisfy both requirements.
However, we have uncovered a bug that causes some web pages to “match” these contradictory queries. Since these are the only results that “match” the query, they are the results that get shown. We are working on a bug fix. Thanks to the Quora community for bringing this to our attention."
So, we don't know what it is, how it works, or if the ad is fake, but this is worthy of the NPR banner? It's like they use the label "blog" to mean "BS link bait crap".

We expect better from NPR.
But is the potential worse than existing systems?
Yes thanks for pointing that out..
Not of Watson is missing an audit trail of its fuzzy calculations.
He's name is suomi. That indicates that he is from finland.
He has maxed every stat. That's nothjing new. I remember when Zezima was big thing. He had every stat in 99 with bots and everyone worshipped him. Zezima is the one who beat the runescape.
Why should anyone bother to spend their time finding you, finding out about your idea, and then convincing you they're the one to work with? You've given absolutely no reason for anyone to spend any time doing anything about contacting you.

Search HN for "Looking for a co-founder" and read previous discussion, then decide what makes you different from all the other "I have a BRILLIANT idea!!!" people.

Technical people need marketing co-founders. If you need to convince someone to join you, you'll need marketing skills.

Demonstrate them.
This link is to the (non-paywall) original peer-reviewed article, which isn't cited in any of the pop-sci blurbs I've seen on this.
Is anyone really surprised on Obama's stance on civil liberties? His track record as a Senator was atrocious, why would he be any different as President? FISA flip-flop anyone?
So it was never fixed. Win2k ran the NT kernel which AFAIK was written from scratch.

Another funny thing which worked in win9x was:

cli
foo: jmp foo

I never understood why and how, but it really did.
Google will make a free version.

10% less accuracy isn't tragic if it is phenomenonally better than what we have today.
Thanks for the response ivancho. I am really keen to hear developers' experience with hackathons. I'm gathering exactly this sort of story you just shared. It appears that the resulting theme with hackathons is that you meet really talented people, and get a shot at partnering with bigger companies. Would you mind sharing what you guys did?
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty willing to donate as part of a charity drive. What happens when you just start selling the game straight out?
Interesting idea, I happen to have an interest in communications law, but I never would have thought to pay for a service similar to MarketBrief for that space in order to keep tabs on the industry when I was at Twilio. In fact, there are a lot of analysts in the space so I am a bit surprised you consider it underserved.

Would this be a content site, or would you have a paid subscription model or deeper analyst pieces, or something else? What is to stop the FCC-focus from just being a niche channel on marketbrief itself?
Bitwise: Algorithm Intensive Programming Competition
>> [...] tend [...]

You're the exception.
Having setup a new computer and installed Java on it recently, I found the inclusion of this bloatware very tacky. It's also frustrating because in the past, I have told family members to "just answer yes" to Java update prompts. I'll probably just remove it from their computers now, if given the chance.
Find better doctors. My doctors never argue from authority, and are willing to challenge some "research"
And more people mining leads to higher difficulty rating which leads to longer block times.
I was inspired by looking endlessly at traceroutes slowly scrolling by. Im snowed in and I decided to give it a try. It only uses 2 routers to do this and VRFs.
Cider is, IIRC, regularly used to port games to OSX, but the results are pretty poor in my experience.

The winelib/cider method of porting raises an interesting question, should I as a mac/linux user have to pay the same price as a windows user for an objectively inferior product? (In the case of steam I think this is fine, because I get access to all three versions of the game)
"It's been confirmed"

source?
"You can sign the petition here. So far, 6,000 people have done so,"

6000 people? The more appropriate subject here would be "Most users don't care about Java bloatware".
Tesla store in Toronto
http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20121116_C8623_PHO...
Browser distribution for those using Archive.org
Two Cisco 1841's running many vrfs bouncing packets back and forth.
Source: I did it.
Believe the Results, not the Conclusion
Another option for developers is to just install JDK directly from Oracle site[1] instead of going to java.com.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
He is right, but I"m not sure for how long. Right now there isn't a huge market for Linux games, especially big budget ones. Smaller games might see good ROI, but I don't know.

When a real Steam Box happens running Linux, things might change quite a bit, but it needs to sell in the millions of units before it starts being a big deal.

In the short term OUYA is more interesting.
From the creator:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html

From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.
Screen dumps bypass the presentation here. Executing from console gives you slowly scrolling text which is the signature opening for the Star Wars series.

Normally, this is just identifying with a known theme, unless one reserves special vitriol for Star Wars for some reason.
I genuinely don't see how that's a foregone conclusion.
Seriously? They're a blessing - I'm rarely unemployed for more than a week thanks to them.
Yes, sales tax and income tax are two different things.
Great demo and presentation.

This is apparently based on the WebGL clouds demo, which is equally as amazing: http://mrdoob.com/131/Clouds
education, marketing, sales, social networks, planning, ads, defense, science, engineering, politics, games, news....

"Watson eating the world"
The positive sounding press from 'selling out' is almost certainly at work here. Dollars to donuts, this is just stock manipulation.
Steam's potential success on linux is part of his thought process. From the reddit thread:

>I truly do feel that emulation of some sort is a proper technical direction for gaming on Linux. It is obviously pragmatic in the range of possible support, but it shouldn’t have the technical stigma that it does. There really isn’t much of anything special that a native port does ... Ideally, following a set of best practice guidelines could allow developers to get Linux versions with little more effort than supporting, say, Windows XP. Properly evangelized, with Steam as a monetized distribution platform, this is a plausible path forward.
That "watchdog" doesn't seem to be doing its job all that well.
Horsepucky. Most of my clients are entrepreneurs. Many fail. That's just the way it goes. But of all my client projects, the one that I was most sure was a total waste of time and effort is the one that has been the most successful.

If I were so good as to be able to tell which ideas are going to succeed as products, I'd be sitting next to Mark Cuban on Shark Tank and making fun of how poor he is. Until I gain that expertise, I think I'm going to let my clients follow their dreams and help them out as much as I can.
Discrimination based on immigration history sounds extremely unjust. At that point you may as well base it on height.
How will you prevent them from stealing your stuff?
Do Weird Stuff in case it works
Ask HN: First time in SF today and tomorrow – can I visit your startup?
Hey Hacker News: it's my first time in San Francisco this weekend, and I'd love to get a taste of the startups in the area. I'm a frontend developer working at a startup in Boston, and I'm always up for meeting new people and exploring a new city! Feel free to shoot me an email (davewasmer [at] gmail [dot] com).
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but you are _greatly_ oversimplifying the issue. Politics is a complex system of public and private relationships. If there's an imbalance of power, it's not because Obama is King.