skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D: huh, kinda looks cool but I think I'd get tired of holding my hands up all day :P

D: s'what keyboards, palm rests and elbow rests are for

S: yeah, i hear you

S: i played around with it for about 20 minutes and my arm was aching

So yeah. this is me being skeptical
That'd likely result in increased traffic and slowdowns even in normal cases.
Financial Regulation and Impact on Computational Complexity
I read the main thrust of her post to be to fellow entrepreneurs - and to remind them to not worry about that commentary and keep going with the hard work of what they are doing.

Rather than the whole woe is me portion you quoted (and I agree it was laid on a little thick) I think money quote was fuck that noise and for the target audience I think that is pretty good advice.
This will be supremely useful to anyone who finds getting started with emberJS onerous.
But it's still very easy to grep through your codebase and find them, unlike some other issues which can be very context sensitive and far harder to find quickly.
Well sure, but since when is emoji part of unicode?

Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.
Also known as Steam syndrome.

Does this trend worry anyone else? Limiting usage to one distro can't be a good thing.
If I recall correctly, Gabe expressed his fears that Microsoft and Apple would move against Steam, as it provides an "App Store" that would compete with that shipping with the OS, motivating his desire for a Linux-powered steambox and to make Linux a viable gaming platform.
In a related vein, I suspect ligatures, small caps, and non-lining figures already look weird to "digital natives" because they were dropped during the age of DTP and generally have only been reintroduced as typographic novelties.
BananaBread is a different 3d engine, it's what most of the development work of emscripten has been focused on. The UnrealEngine demo is a separate demo done by compiling the UnrealEngine codebase to asm.js using emscripten.
Chrome supports it, but it looks really wonky.

http://i.imgur.com/YB3krUW.png
Mercedes is just as vague with battery capacity and charge
times, claiming the B-Class can add an additional 60 miles
of range in less than two hours when plugged into a
240-volt outlet.

"A 240-volt outlet" only provides half the information you need-- like specifying the maximum PSI of an air compressor without saying what its flow rate is. A 15 amp 240 volt outlet can only provide half as many watts as a 30 amp one.

The biggest Tesla 240-volt charger draws 100 amps = 24KW.

The Superchargers run at 440 volts and ~400 amps = 90KW.
Same here, ugh. Looks like programmer art from the early 2000s.
They only write a blog post, however, if they screw up so badly that the Internet takes notice; if they managed to get by because no one was certain what happened, or if it only affected some of their customers, and so the blame thereby largely got deflected to others, they are careful to remain quiet about the situation. For an example of such an incident, I had to spend a bunch of time debugging why CloudFlare's optimization service (which they apparently do not actually do tests for the code of) was causing WebKit browsers to entirely lock up late last year. http://www.saurik.com/id/14
Well, if you have $n \to \infty$ blind chickens running around, at least one is bound to run in the right direction!
Uh, what?

>since when is emoji part of unicode?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan...

>Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Um, yes. I said "that were". I realise it is now mainstream now because it is now in Unicode.
To find Tech staff, go to Tech meet-ups
BlackBerry 10: A better Android than Android?
Crowdfunding campaign aims to put a 30-second NASA commercial in movie theaters
Zoom - news entity search
Snowfall.js - small, fast JS templating lib
Student loan write-offs hit $3 billion in first two months of year
I can attest that nobody I know has a twitter.
I think there's some truth in both perspectives, yours and dmor's.
There is also a third perspective; use of the term "boring" and saying
social has "run its course" was intended as a compliment to the current
W13 batch, although being dismissive of previous "social" startups.

Unfortunately, using the term "boring" even in jest as a compliment is
still a bit too close to calling someone's baby ugly.

(I'm certainly guilty of using poorly chosen words at times, and so is
everyone else.)

Another issue, is some potential investors most likely want to appear
disinterested even when they really want to invest, since it is to
their advantage in negotiations. It seems part of the intent behind the
"Handshake Deal Protocol" was to put an end to this kind of posturing
and dancing. Playing hard to get might be profitable in some sense, but
it wastes an enormous amount of time and effort.

The last issue is "interesting" and "fascinating" are choices. You
decide to be interested of fascinated by a subject. Other than surprise,
it often takes effort and investment to be interested or fascinated.
Others may decide differently. I've worked on a ton of fascinating and
challenging things that when explained to others could literally bore
them to death. Even if the bored people count on the boring thing every
single day, the decision to be interested or fascinated by it is their
choice to make.

When people find a difference in their interests, the usual result is
along the lines of resentment, intimidation, or elitism. A better
approach is to acknowledge the difference of opinion on "interesting"
and try to find some common ground of mutual interest.

The whole W13 batch is interesting to me. Even if I don't fully grasp
the problem they're trying to solve or don't agree that their approach,
I always enjoy learning about someone fascinated enough to try building
a company around a problem that they consider interesting. If I just
don't get it, then there's most likely an important, unknown something I
can learn from them. If I do get it, then I my understanding is probably
way behind theirs, and I still have something to learn from them.

If you're uninvolved with the push and pull between startups and
potential investors and are unaffected by startup outcomes or business
competition, then it's easy to ignore the nonsense and enjoy learning
about all the new companies on demo days. It's OK to be a spectator and
cheer the accomplishments of others.
I believe http://gpgauth.org/ is better (except that it lacks strong community and PR from browser vendors).

No need for per-site passwords (the only passwords are master password and, possibly, secret for key escrow). No need for any discovery and third parties, as you're identified by your own key, which contains a name (or nickname or whatever) — the most natural approach to identities (which has minor problem with nickname collisions, but that's about it). And, privacy-wise — no need to reveal email address if you don't want it, too.

Edit/Add: WebID looks even more nice http://webid.info/, as it's actively developed by W3C WebID Community Group, while gpgAuth development is stalled and project seems dead.
It says $33,000 to show in 50 movie theaters across America for 8 weeks - I always thought that in-theater advertising would cost more.

Also, I believe this is an ad that's played before the actual 'trailers' start -- when the least amount of people are in the theater. Nevertheless, a great cause - donated!
Distributed Systems Under Attack: Bitcoin and the Internet
What's your favorite computer science topic?
Right now I'm learning a ton... Entropy, compression, functional programming, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, artificial neural networks, k-nn classification, clustering, Bayesian stuff... Just a ton of stuff to be really excited about! What's some neat stuff you guys have learned about?
How do the endpoints authenticate each other?
Alright Debbie Downer.
If there is no substantial third party coverage of a topic, why should Wikipedia cover it?

Because "substantial third-party coverage" is a flawed test for the importance of a subject.

Press coverage tends toward the sensational, visual, beautiful, controversial, current, language-specific, and easily explained. If a topic doesn't meet those criteria, it probably won't be covered by the press -- unless the topic in question has some well-connected PR firm or publicist pushing for it.

Another issue with press coverage is "established" media is contracting. There aren't as many editors assigning stories, or reporters crafting unbiased profiles of companies, organizations, topics and people. This has an significant, indirect impact on the types of topics that can be sourced according to Wikipedia's official rules.

Meanwhile, the number of self-published, user-generated sources of expert opinion is exploding. I'm talking about blogs and places like Hacker News and Reddit. Someone with deep experience and understanding of a topic can share information, yet this information can't be used, according to Wikipedia's policies.
Get ready, I have been trying to get things together for a startup to accomplish this.
I think your objection misses the fundamental point of the paper which is that blindly applying formulae (in this case Bayesian ones) without considering the part these computations play in the whole scientific process leads to bad science. Specifically, it leads to assuming that the correct model is already among those being considered. The authors say this is often not the case and assuming so often leads to stagnation in the relevant discipline.

This isn't an article that hands the readers a set of rote instructions, it's a warning that rote application is bad science because good science doesn't merely compare existing models with the data, good science proposes new and better models. This is fundamentally an article on the philosophy of science so leaving out the philosophy would make the article pointless.

In general, people who are good at symbolic manipulation are often in search of a methodology that allows them to only do symbolic manipulation and relieves them of the difficult task of doing semantics as well. The article is saying that there's no free lunch here - we have to do the semantics as well, we have to understand why models don't perform well and come up with the creative insights necessary to replace them with new ones.
I really want the Pixel to get some traction. UNfortunately, the tiny SSD and no USB3.0 kill it for me.
Mount the device at the end of an armrest.
Dropbox used to be my Silver Bullet
Oh, good lord. Let's just agree to use "💩". Problem solved.
100Gbps is the fastest ethernet connection that you can buy (for six figures). So that is always going to be a limitation on the router. They can be aggregated into larger links but I think that is pretty uncommon. The internet is made up of lots of connections between ISPs not a few giant ones, and you can attack each one of those links separately.
FINALLY YES
zlib is fine as long as you don't give an non-threadsafe memory allocator - see http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html#faq21. As far as I can tell, it either means that the summary was imprecise and the slowdown was in the image processing code and not zlib or that they chose to rewrite (and debug) a big chunk of code rather than read the zlib documentation.

Ignoring that point, this seems like a poor point for comparison as it's a trivially parallelized task because zlib operates on streams and shouldn't have any thread contention. There's very little information in the description but unless there are key details missing, this doesn't sound like a problem where Erlang has much interesting to add. The most interesting aspect would be the relative measures for implementation complexity and debugging.
Sony dives deep into the PS4’s hardware power, controller features at GDC
> For an internet encyclopedia to require references to dead tree sources is a failure.

It doesn't require references to dead tree sources. Wikipedia policies -- particularly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability -- require that material be sourced to reliable, previously published sources, but does not require that those sources be "dead tree" sources.

> For example, my country haven't got any music press that isn't a joke, should it mean that no music articles should be allowed?

Not per Wikipedia policy, since no policy limits sources to the any particular country.
Boom Times on the Tracks: Rail Capacity, Spending Soar
Hasn't stopped other distros from supporting Steam, with Valve's blessings no less. I use Steam on my Arch Linux machines with zero issues.
Someone should cite this entry on the ICD Wikipedia pages that do exist.
The medical system in China is severely underfunded while prices are fixed by the government that don't much these funding levels. Its kind of a mess.

For private healthcare without bribes in China, the prices are way more expensive than the states...but what choice do we have? At least I have insurance. Anyways, my experience is only in China.
The ARPANET Interface Message Processor (1980) [pdf]
I agree with you that the ... notation is ill-defined. It's common in mathematics to use conventions that are a little woolly, but only where everyone understands how to express the idea more correctly.

Here's one way of presenting this formally. Define a 'decimal' to be an ordered sequence of integers (called 'digits') a_1, a_2, a_3, and so on. (By 'and so on', I formally mean that for each positive integer k we have a digit a_k at the kth position in the sequence). Let's say each a_k has to be between 0 and 9 inclusive.

For each positive integer k, define the 'kth partial sum' of the sequence to be the sum from j=1 to j=k of (1/10^j) x a_j.

I'll skip over what it means if we say that the partial sums converge as k->Infinity, because it sounds like you understand what limits are and how they work. If not, I'd be happy to explain.

Now, if the partial sums converge to some value 'd', we say that the decimal has value equal to d. It can be shown that any decimal has at most one such d (which is good, because a decimal shouldn't have two values).

Now, I think you'd be happy to say that when we write 0.9999999..., what we mean is the decimal where a_k=9 for all k. Given this definition, it follows that the value of the decimal is precisely 1, using properties of geometric sequences.

It is up to you how you define '...', but all mathematicians would agree that 0.99999... should be interpreted as above if it is to have any meaning at all.

If you really want a more precise eplanation of '...' at the end of a truncated decimal, I would provide the following: "Writing 0.abcdef... asserts that the digits abcdef of the truncation provided have a pattern which should be obvious to the reader. Assign the first few digits a_1, a_2 etc as per the part of the decimal that is explicitly given; and then assign all subsequent digits values according to said pattern." - it's not a formal notation, as I say, but rather a convenient shorthand that is understood by working mathematicians. It is always possible to be more precise if one has to be.
One of the interesting projects that Nortel was developing before they went into bankruptcy protection was web.alive. It is a 3D collaboration platform built on the Unreal engine. The biggest problem was that it only supported windows and required a pretty big plugin that needed to be updated regularily.
Avaya still sells it, and I think this could really make a big difference for customer adoption.
http://avayalive.com/Engage/
Old enough to have been 19 many years ago. Its young on the timescale of the human lifespan, certainly, but by 19 one has the opportunity to be already fully established in society and industry. You expect people to be working on amazing things by that time. Any greatness that may come from that work does not seem particularly unusual to me.

I am actually quite surprised that there has been such negative reaction to my comment. When does one age beyond the "wonder years" if not by 19?
The DNS system needs to be changed.

It needs to change, but I highly doubt it will for at least a few decades. Too many things rely on it, and it would require way too many resources and a miserably long time to change everything to the new thing.
> But in a world of quasi-infinite storage, I think inclusionism should be the default, with a strong burden of proof required to delete.

Its not about storage, its about mission. Wikipedia has a purpose. Many things do not fit that purpose (even many things for which the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to have its storage used, hence why the Foundation has other projects besides Wikipedia.)

Just because its is worth having somewhere on the internet (even in a publicly-editable place on the internet hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation) doesn't mean it belongs on Wikipedia.
Retail prices in hospitals take into account a high-percentage of non-payment...which is why they are high to begin with! They have complete correlation with reality: an uninsured person is more likely not to pay, so prices are higher so that works out. Now, the higher prices lead to more non-payment, and a vicious cycle ensues.

This is why the mandate in Obama care is so important, to stop this cycle.
I've worked with programmers who are both positive and care deeply about solving problems. It was very pleasant working with them. I aspire to be as positive as they are.

Also, nothing makes me happier than improving or fixing broken things.
Yes, I pointed to that, the thing is, people won't switch to linux because of that. I know Linux guys always want to say 'X is going to be the reason Linux will be adopted' but the thing is, it won't. Outside tech circles, and what I call technohipsters, Linux won't gain that much traction. Not at least to make Valve consider Linux only client. I have a Mac and PC at home. Steam on Mac has 76 games, Steam on PC 238. I don't know about Linux, but I'm guessing even less. And from those 76 Mac games, more than half are indie games. Few AAA games there were released on Mac Steam a good half year after the PC version. Do you really think the 50 million people that bought Call of Duty on the first weekend will move to Linux where they can't play those games?
Awesome! How did you pick those timings? And what were the responses like from the people who received the emails?
Everson did manage to get J.R.R. Tolkien's Cirth and Tengwar tentatively included; see http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/
This was actually a fantastic introduction to an important aspect of R which I had only briefly explored in the past.
If you install gnome tweak tool then you can set all buttons to the title bar of your windows, except for the menu button on the left side.

As extension developer I agree with your sentiment, all the missing parts are slowly returning, Gnome 3 shell is not bad, it was just put out to the world way too early.

I was very critical when I saw the first versions of gnome shell but things are really going well for it.

It has many development languages to choose from like Python, C, C++, Vala and even Javascript. It uses CSS as styling. Several backends to output to X, Wayland coming, HTML (which is impressive and good use when owncloud is integrated). Soon you can use your desktop everywhere not like VNC but realtime.
That hardly seems relevant. I'm far older than most figure skaters, but I still feel quite confident in the fact that 19 is not a particularly young age for a woman to become a figure skating champion. In fact, doing it 10 years later would actually be more noteworthy.
I really want a 2d time-travelling tomb-raider game with that title now.
> Go will share memory, by default, and special attention must be taken preventing or avoiding it.

Not really. If you use channels to communicate between goroutines, then the concurrency model is that of sequential processes, even if channels are implemented using shared memory under the hood.

That is, the default concurrency model militated by Go is not shared memory, but that of CSP. It's disingenuous to affix Go with the same kind of concurrency model used in C.

> And yet they have refused to implement a correct model

What is a correct model? Erlang's model isn't correct. It's just more safe.

> (and having the interpreter get special status in breaking them, see generics)

What's your point? Purity for purity's sake?
Or, as Scott Adams put it, "management exists to minimize the problems created by its own hiring mistakes."

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_managementfree_organizatio...
Forget about Summly – what we need is analysis
http://m.cnet.com/news/egypts-military-arrests-divers-cuttin... now it feels like a conspiracy to takedown Internet
Probably the most useful observation in the article is hidden right before the Results / Conclusion...

Any optimization should be measured. Otherwise how do you know if all your hard work is worth it? In the author's example, the fastest implementation was actually _not_ lock-free, it merely used a better spinlock than std::mutex.

It's a good idea to use existing implementations mostly so that you can measure and (hopefully without too much trouble) change out the implementation whenever you need to. Different hardware likely has different performance, so measure often!
Egypt's military arrests divers cutting undersea Internet cables
Emil- I am glad you're finding success, but please make sure you give back to Bosnia by keeping employees there or doing some community outreach. It would be unfair and kind of crummy to use the country and bail.

Not that I am accusing you of doing so, just hoping you keep in mind who was there for you in your time of need!
Like the old carpenters adage "Measure twice, cut once"
Even if "considerably less than 10 seconds" means 9 seconds, that means the B-class could keep up with a 1982 Ferrari Mondial. In city driving, nobody cares about 0-60 times.
My IE10 octopus is missing 3 arms and a mouth, resulting in something that looks more like a 3-legged grey alien trying to surrender than an octopus who is smiling.
Window's Phone app problem
> It's production ready by definition.

That is, if you define "production ready" as "already being used in production."
Obviously, sequential programs haven't been getting slower on new chips. However, the acceleration rate of single thread performance has been slowing, so even with all our tricks we're getting double in four years when it used to be every 18 months just by doubling the number of transistors on an IC.
Summly discussion over the past few days:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442290

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445159

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449394
So nothing surprising, iOS and Android us OpenGL while Windows phone uses DirectX. It's just funny to note that Microsoft's APIs, once used for lock in are now acting to cause lockout. Oh irony.
Search History Not Part of the Facebook Activity Log Anymore
It seems that the Search log has been removed from the Facebook activity page. Is this linked with the coming global release of the Graph search?

It would be interesting to know the reason(s) behind such a choice. Does Facebook think it could be disturbing/embarrassing for some of its users to get a precise and chronological picture of whom & what they're looking for on this SNS, once the graph search implemented? Other motivations...