skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL what total bunk, "unless" of course you practice some sort of magic and believe by definition humans cannot replicate this form of magic, then his theory might fit.

Besides which the Singularity has nothing to do with the 'soul' and consciousness. It's about super intelligence, this is possible without being self aware. IE Deep Blue I assume is not considered 'conscious' but it can solve the chess problem better than us, why would you think a super intelligent machine that can solve general problems has to also be 'self aware', bizarre.
I want Windforce bow. How much SOJ? ^_^
> you only have to double a megabyte 30 times to get a terabyte.

It seems to be only 19.93 times according to Wolfram Alpha?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log%281+terabyte%2F1+me...
The next logical step is Diablo in CSS3.
The most bicycle-aggressive drivers are usually middle-aged, in my experience. I've never, ever had a 20-something deliberately swerve to try and run me off the road.
My point isn't that I'm looking for an excuse. Obviously a bike can't do 50.

But it really disrupts traffic when someone is trotting along at 15. Be that a horse, dogcart, or tractor. In a car-centric infrastructure, it's a disruption. Obviously the USA infrastructure, particularly in rural areas, is car-centric and thus non-cars will be disruptive. That's my point.
I think most folks building websites should blindly follow A/B test results. There are no doubt situations where it's best not to, but introducing that possibility means there are too many opportunities to make judgement mistakes.
In the same way C implementation could be interesting.
The purpose was measure efficient of PyPy for you Python code.
Are the patterns I see here artifacts of the data collection method, or do meteors really prefer the northern hemisphere?
Logically oceans get hit at the same rate. Also land that is now under water. Are there any recorded oceanic meteor strikes in this map?

Oh! The one that killed the dinosaurs. It was pretty big. Maybe only the big ones leave a mark on the ocean floor.
I wasn't aware of this, and it's surprisingly hard to Google. Thanks for informing me.
To keep on rolling and flip the statement again, it seems closer to "look, I can build Tetris on my wristwatch":

in order to make your statement, you have to ignore the state of a web browser running on a 1997 vintage desktop.
Where does this leave us in understanding public policy related to climate issues? Do we have enough understanding of climate influences to know which influences may need policy interventions in the current haphazard pattern of global human behavior?
> And the first time they avoid taking responsibility for something that was clearly their fault, fire them.

I guess there's still difficult for a lot of people to acknowledge their own mistakes, maybe because they're afraid of getting fired for that (acknowledging the mistake), which in the case of startups/small companies happens very rarely.

From my own experience of working at startups for my entire professional career as a programmer (7 and a half years) I can tell you that the first step when noticing you f.cked something up is to take immediate responsibility and then asking yourself "how can I/we fix this?" (you might need the help of other people to fix your mistake). After you've fixed the issue the question should be "how can we make so that this doesn't happen again?". That being solved I'd say nobody cares anymore whose fault was it to begin with, there's always other more important stuff to do.

I agree that maybe at larger companies this kind of thing might happen exactly the opposite way, i.e. you can get fired for making a mistake and nobody really cares to fix other people's stuff, because their next paycheck/financial well-being does not depend on that (or so they think).
Rightsizing your product plan, but not your vision
As I read the article, Makers Mark is a widespread first choice at their current price point. They already face some competition at the fringes of this leadership position (e.g. the Bulleit reference in the story).

If they allow the price to rise, bar purchasers move to alternatives. (Whether independently or in conjunction with a shift at the distributor level.)

Currently, Beam can and does (per the article) use Makers Mark as leverage to sell their other products. I would imagine including before the point of the bar's purchase decision. Liquor distribution is big business in the U.S.; in many places, it is an oligopoly if not monopoly. (Illinois, for example, currently has issues with this. And I realize that this circumstance might argue for any potential change taking place at the distributor level rather than the level of the individual bar, depending upon whether and how much diversity the distributors offer.)

If you want Makers Mark, it comes as a package deal along with X quantity of this other stuff. Being that the other stuff is targeted at less discerning market segments (at the least, based upon price), a pretty good argument can be made that "whatever you buy for these segments, you'll be able to move it" (especially with a little effective marketing).

One of the first words that popped into my own mind was "bundling". Whether the article has the situation right, this is how I understood what it is saying. (With "bundling" being my word and analogy, whether or not it would be the proper term and analogy.)
Idle thought: If this could be shown to be the case, i.e. that BK actually increased their profits as a result of the defendant's actions, could the court order the defendant to pay negative damages?

(I know the answer's no, I just find the idea interesting)
If there were a comment about corruption in politics, would your response be 'well, if you don't like it, start your own party, win the election and stop bitching'? Probably not. Do you see how the two are similar?
I was referring to the conversion to sales. What % of people clicking on a link to amazon actually buy a book.

What you are referring to is the rev share %: how much of the the sale price amazon shares with the publisher. 10-15% is correct here.
This should fix my problem of not being able to connect to my site though a corporate firewall because I run multiple tornado instances on a single server on different ports. Before nginx wasn't able to route port 80 requests to the chat sub-domains, but now it will be able to.. w00t
I partially agree. I think it's a combination of 2 things (the second being more or less the same as what you are saying):

1) Their brand reputation became toxic over time. Windows ME was seen as a bad product. XP prior to service pack 1 was seen as a bad product. Normal people knew what the blue screen of death with. Normal people made jokes about the quality of Windows. Correct or not, their market dominance (seen as insurmountable) contributed to it. By the early 2000s, no one liked Microsoft.

Windows Mobile was just as good as the competition (pre-iPhone). It might not have been dramatically better, but it was just as good. In the 90s that would have been enough for them to swallow up the market completed, but it didn't happen here. People were slow to adopt smartphones in this time period.

2) They are just an old company. As you said, they are slow to get to market. It's the ship you can't turn around. Google is a lot like Microsoft in their ability to form partnerships, but unlike Microsoft is very nimble and able to adapt to the market, has the courage to try something completely new (Chrome OS was laughed at just a few years ago), and has the right amount of cockiness to make it happen (usually).

There can only be one Google/Microsoft in technology. If you accept that, how can Microsoft possibly win?
Nobody has to be in such a hurry as to warrant legislating someone elses rights out of existance to save 30 seconds. That's MY point.

It all looks car-centric when you're driving a car. In rural areas, if you've even been in one for even a short amount of time, you learn that the roads are almost exclusively there for the commercial traffic. Iowa has a grid on a 1-mile spacing of gravel roads - not so you can race to grandma's house in your car, but so all arable land can be serviced by tractor and truck.
Framerate was a bit choppy for me. It ran smoother back in 1997. The open web still has a long way to go.
Assumning there aren't multiple competing attractors.
Can't move in Firefox 18. What is so out of date with Firefox that this cannot work? I see more and more of these demos flat out not working in FF, but work fine in Chrome. What is the explanation?
And the "purpose" that the "web" was serving back then.
Not sure what amazon's cookie duration is. But to get enough cookie coverage, a lot of people would have to be clicking out on the links.

I simply think that 10% conversion is just way to high. If it was so easy to make a $1 ARPU from a blog, you'd see way more way more bloggers :)
But as soon as you want to use that knowledge to actually make money, your agent is participating in the market, so it has to account for itself...
Hey, thanks for the comment. Your point about financial security and "high-profile" companies are exactly the narrative I'm taking aim at. Fame and fortune are not truly sufficient motivators for innovation. Developers can do more and deserve better than to barter their skills for either of those two things. Also, show me a modestly talented developer in today's tech economy who is "strapped for cash" and I will show you someone who choses to not help themselves.
The Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope Construction Kit
Excellent point. Blindly following A/B testing can lead to a good local maximum, but odds are it's not the market maximum. Radical redesigns and new business directions can lead to even higher (or lower) conversions.

In my experience, the trick is finding the balance between optimization and strategy. Doing continuous testing along the way helps you find out what's working and what's not.
Usually, when referring to someone in print, we use their last name. Out of courtesy. So it's "Popova" not "Maria."

Also, Bleymaier's estimates on donation and affiliate income are just ludicrous. 50k-100k/year in donations from 1.2 million visitors/month? Yeah, right. :) They take away from the original point he was trying to make, which he could have made without making numbers up out of thin air.
In Firebug (Firefox) you can selectively disable 'debugger' statements. You can even disable them only if a condition is true.
Some explanation over the map is here http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/18/4001936/map-every-recorded...
A busy person's introduction to Clojure
Open API for all NBA player stats
To what extent is that actually useful if I want to know the specific state of the system at some point in the future, though? Even if I know the attractor I still can't measure the current state accurately enough to simulate its future state.
Trouble computing timestamp age in your head? Tail with a clock.
I didn't get the feeling that aw3c2 was being a jerk. The demo really does use sprites ripped from Diablo and it's in alpha quality. I could neither move nor attack, all I could do is watch that first monster attack me and wait while it completely depleted my health, at which point I did not die but just continued to stand there. Tested on FF 18.
Together, vim and vi have over four times as many invocations as emacs. I like to think it's beacuse vim is more popular, but it might also mean that vim users are more likely to pop in and out of vim while emacs users run emacs once and then never go back to bash-land.
NYT Editor: Problems With Precision and Judgment, Not Integrity, in Tesla Test
Totally on 2. Checkout Oman, there a lot there, why? http://www.emirates247.com/news/oman-is-major-site-for-meteo...
Why do I get the feeling SCOTUS will render a terrible decision in this case?
So was Petabytes 60 years ago, yet today there are people who have single-handedly uploaded more than that on private BitTorrent trackers.

Never say never.
Agreed. The worst part is that, as far as I can tell, this isn't actually Diablo. So we can't even claim a foothold on 1997.
Agreed. The brain was 'invented' by non-intelligent evolution, a blind drunkard's walk of chemistry and biology. I am amazed we haven't figured out what mind-bogglingly simple premises are required to build a brain - it happened through a series of alway-stable always-useful small steps. I've seen a car designed by a web page through random 'genetic algorithm'. How about a simple random walk through neuron interconnection until something useful pops out?
Man, I can understand people writing Firefox-hating demos if they're trying to show off some feature that recently landed in WebKit, I can almost understand it if they just did a weekend-hack and couldn't be bothered testing in any browsers other than their own.

I can't understand this - in 2013, how on earth do you break mouse events in JavaScript? We've had events like onmousedown working reliably across browser implementations for a decade or more, what on earth is going on?
Obviously it's a metaphorical loaded gun.
Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17%
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/129/
I agree. In 5 years, very few people will be using anything with a keyboard.

main frames -> mini computers -> desktops -> laptops -> tablets / phones -> ... -> ambient computing.
>There has been no "transition" because MS never was anywhere that mattered with their phones ...

That's not really true because there was the PDA market, which was dominated by Palm and Microsoft. So you had RIM and Nokia in one corner, and Palm and Microsoft in the other. Any one of them could have created the iPhone but none of them really got it, and they are where they are.
In all seriousness I think headway could be made with starting a byte code project for those that want to go down this path.
Your VM is going to need to run in and generate js (or asm.js subset) - or you'll need to patch IE, Firefox, Chrome etc.

The problem is of course this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

Which is why there are no very high performance multi language VMs.

High level languages such as C still do not compete with hand rolled assembly for diamond-patterns or any situation where the minimum unit of scheduled work is very fine grain.
It's not the JavaScript part that is interesting, but the fact that it's running in a browser. In fact, "Diablo (alpha) in Browser" would've been a more appropriate title. And it's interesting because, well, it's programmed for a browser, which is made of open-standards.

And I know people will complain about how "we were doing this kind of stuff in the 90s", but I still think it's quite an accomplishment given that it's programmed at a much higher-level of abstraction than the original Diablo (which was C and some machine code).

But I still think it's stupid to have games in the browser. The browser does not take full advantage of the hardware - it shouldn't, it's made for content and information. Its priorities are security (sandbox) and accessibility.

So it's gonna be a while before we'll see games - that require lots of raw machine code processing - in the browser. Because in principle, if browsers give accessible raw processing power, they'll suffer on security. And it's proven really hard to have the best of the both worlds, otherwise today we would have mainstream cutting-edge graphic games available in the browser.

And we don't, we have 90s games.
Sequoia Capital or Andreessen Horowitz
China Knocks Off U.S. to Become World's Top Smart Device Market
anyone guess what the ... might be? iWatch?
Thanks for exposing PG's and Jack's email to the whole world.
No, I don't.

Alon Zakai is just a dude who made Quake and you're bitching at him because it's not Crysis.

Maybe Alon Zakai just isn't as ambitious as you. Maybe he just wants to make the web a little bit better today and you want to make the web a lot better 10 years from now. Good for you, get to work, let others work on the projects that are of interest to them. If you succeed I think you'll be pretty darn famous, and like I said, I'll upvote your efforts even if you fail, it's worth a shot. Get coding.
Free crowdsourcing!
I'm not advocating anything (I don't see a reasonable solution proposed to date), but I would like you to understand the problem.

Let's say you're traveling 10 miles in either bike (15 mph, very fast cyclist) or car (55 mph). It will take roughly this many minutes to travel:

(* 60 (/ 10 15.0))
40.0

(* 60 (/ 10 55.0))
10.90909090909091

The difference is half an hour, just going 10 miles. So really think a bit: if you're stuck behind $slow_traveller for 10 miles (curvy roads, hilly roads, whatever. Google for Palouse in WA if you want an idea of my local road system), you've just lost 30 minutes of your time. Fiddle the math how you like; it adds up to a lot more than 30 seconds. 30 seconds of hassle is what I get in town: not much.

Note that I live in a rural area and bike around as much as I can. So I swing both ways here, and I still say that bikes disrupt road infrastructure which isn't designed to handle them.
Right, so since they're already running Steam and several high profile games on Linux, going for ARM should be aaaaalmost as easy as a recompile?
I first met him in '00 (I think). He came up right after I played a live techno set in a warehouse in Oakland, and I second this. As someone who grew up on 2600, my excitement for meeting Draper quickly turned to backing away once the topic of an energy transfer massage came up.
I recently updated the whole site, you can re-visit it at: http://powerful-savannah-5198.herokuapp.com/

I think it is much nicer now... =)
You're mixing the time frames.

When Widows Mobile Smartphone came out in 2003, it was the most advanced, most open, most app-friendly phone OS. However, there were not substantial improvements for the next 5 years - the product was in fact stillborn. The Windows Phone team was then brought in to bury the corpse, and start afresh, which is what they did. It wasn't their fault that the predecessor has died several years earlier.
All bourbon is "watered down". Literally! It comes out of the barrel at an undrinkable ABV. When you say things like "literally watered down", you sound like that might be news to you.
While it's possible quantum effects could explain unpredictability in the physical universe, there is no scientific evidence this is relevant to the brain; the brain operates at a much higher, more macro level than quantum mechanics.

The brain evolved in the physical world. It seems an odd economy to categorically exclude quantum effects because they are "too small", hard to measure, and/or poorly understood.
True, but irrelevant in context of the analogy.
Bill Gates calls for more innovation at Microsoft after past mobile 'mistake'
It might also mean that vim users are more likely to check their ~/.* files into a public Git repository. You really can't do that much with the information that vim was invoked more.
This is pretty much exactly how I do it.

I still sometimes get that sinking feeling in the stomach that I have screwed something up, usually just after I hit the 'execute' button. And I really don't want to have to take the site down to run the restoration.
Blindly following A/B testing with no design judgment is an interesting idea, but difficult to truly do. At its extreme, it's just an interactive genetic algorithm. You start with a blank HTML page, and then you design it only by A/B testing, not by any human judgment. You generate elements through some kind of statistical process (maybe Markov chains trained on existing webpages), then you make every decision of what to include or exclude based on A/B testing.
If you don't come up with a good idea, please consider configuring Tor Relays[1] to donate your bandwidth to those who need it. You may have legal troubles though[2].

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

[2] https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en
Actually there are many people in the world who would have moral issues with working to make the world a worse place, but still need to keep the paychecks coming in.

I know a few developers who would never work for the defense industry, because no matter how justified some wars may be they don't want to directly contribute to weapon code. I'm not sure if I'm with them as it's never come up, but it might be.

I know a fair few people (myself definitely included) who would never work for companies making intrusive ads or advertising/tracking software, because it actively makes the world a worse place for everyone.

These aren't exactly ditching it all to make software that actively makes the world a better place, but if we all refused to make the world a worse place, wouldn't that be good as well?

And if you're reading HN, you have career and employment choices, you really do.
If you are interested on how it was made, checkout https://vimeo.com/59791629
Create an AS, present your IPs as a end point and route internally to ISPs - there will be ISPs who will feel the pain of no Ip4 soon and will pay and accept the routing headaches for access to another 10,000
Sometimes it is laziness on the part of the developer (i.e. only using webkit- prefixes on the new JS/CSS features, even though the moz- prefixed equivalent works perfectly), other times it just hasn't been implemented in FF yet (although sometimes the demos do work in the aurora/nightly versions).
How to get your website to load in less than 1-second
testosterone is very frequently prescribed, as is hgh
Who'll promptly switch/add advertising on the Xbox. Which sends more cash Microsoft's way.
Ask HN: Which IaaS to start on AWS, RackSpace, GoogleCloud?
"Grocery-shopping normally takes hours and is a pretty redundant activity."

Really? I offer that "hours" may be an exaggeration here. It doesn't match my experience, anyway.
Good catch, thanks. I just updated the images with the emails removed.
Are you enhancing this visibility economics to other "ideas" as well? e.g. that the punishment for the killing some public figure should be higher than the one for some homeless guy?
Now you won't need a separate reverse proxy for Websockets. That also means, with just nginx, now you can have both websocket and http on the same url subdomain (for same origin policy and sharing ssl certificate etc).
Here I was thinking you were referring to the Japanese meme "No ___, No Life!"