skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings a bit of a tear to the old eye. I worked on Mira's predecessor and a bit on the acquisition of Mira itself (literally rooms and rooms of Gantt charts, floor to ceiling, wall to wall), and it's very cool to see it get put in. A fine job was done by the Argonne staff to get this thing purchased and accepted.

My only correction is:

> Nowadays, these processors are no different from what you’d find in ordinary servers.

With this particular computer, that's not strictly true. These are special low-memory A2 PPC chips that, to the best of my knowledge, aren't in much else.
If it's gonna cost X to finish the game and they expect to make more than X from selling the game, then they should finish it. The amount spent to date is irrelevant.
PlayStation launches in Chile: Job opening for Key Account Manager
I understand that one approach to dispatching requests at the load balancer is superior to the other, just as I understand that one way of absorbing requests at the app server is better than the other.

Most things are inferior to other substitutable things! :)
"Non Apple Mac ports, if broken by core functionality changes to WebKit2, are now responsible for fixing themselves."

For a cross-platform project, this is a stunning policy change. I don't know what was the chicken and what was the egg, but it looks like this split was inevitable.
DevelopersAuction lets startups bid on developers who are looking for work
Sure there is. If Mt. Gox goes down before you dump BTC, then you wouldn't be able to convert BTC back into dollars. Mt. Gox has been pretty unreliable recently too...
No, but if I told you shining a flashlight on quarters made them more valuable you probably wouldn't agree.

And it is worse than that, each transaction consumes a bit of electricity (in a hand wavy sense anyway; the chain must go on for the coins to have any worth).
Not always. Sometimes generalisations can be useful.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Disney-Game-over-at...

Here is the SF Gate article on it. I thought I would share it because it has some pictures of the campus. I have driven and walked by it and will be sad to see it go.
Typed arrays are an explicit JS feature: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Typed_ar.... There's nothing "background" about them.

None of IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 support them: http://caniuse.com/typedarrays. Ergo, asm.js won't work on IE 6, 7, 8 or 9.

(Speaking of authorities: I got this info from azakai, who's the author of Emscripten and one of the designers of asm.js.)
Why risk Management is Important for Defense Industry?
If we took Chromium's multiprocess code and put it in the WebKit tree after the Chrome folks specifically said they did not want to do that, that would have been super rude. Don't you think? That's why I say "hostile fork". I am judging our own path not chosen, and do not mean to cast aspersions on Google's actions.

To be clear, I do not consider Blink to be a hostile fork. I wish the Blink developers good luck & godspeed.
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I think it is time you launch your project. You are finding all kind of excuses before the product is even out. Launch it, have people here at HN help you beta test it. Show it in relevant forums. You either fail or you succeed.
Wow, this page tries to do a drive-by java install. Other comments say its to load a bitcoin harvester.
Ruby Advisory Database
If you think WebKit hasn't fostered a culture of laziness and apathy among mobile web developers, try browsing the web using Firefox for Android or IE (on Windows Phone) sometime.

I've lost track of the number of times I've had to pretend to be something different (desktop Firefox, default Android, Mobile Safari ...) to make a website usable. Every time I have a fresh Firefox install on Android, the first extension I install is Phony.
Bitcoin price should stabilize if there are more transactions.
Biggest issues now are slow payment time, hoarders and over-reliance on few exchanges. I think higher price and faster payment/withdrawal times would decrease the price eventually as bitcoin holders would have more incentive to spend/take profit while the price is high and exchanges would be forced to sell coins after a transaction for merchant withdrawals. For hoarding, if protocol can be updated to charge higher transaction fee for long-held coins, this should make it less profitable to hoard and increase number of transactions.
AUS is interesting. Everyone lives in VERY large cities, they're very far from many places where vegetables are grown, they have had a HUGE mining boom (which means more money chasing fewer goods, and the cities are incredibly far from one another)

Add onto that the Parallel Import Tax (which prevents people from just importing it themselves), and you have an INCREDIBLY captive market, getting gouged on all corners. Sure the high minwages dive costs up, but the high minwages are needed for the high costs too that it takes to live there.

They're quite recently dropping lots of the items off the PIT list, and prices are going down. Imagine that, drop protectionist tariffs, and prices decrease.
Josh, I also apologize for the rage. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Variables in AWS Access Control Policies
I think Notch personally pocketed about as much as Square Enix lost in the same period, so the math must be in there somewhere.
if you don't consider html a programming language (and it's really a markup language anyway..), i know dozens of single language programmers who only know PHP.

In fact, I think the majority of developers I know fall into that category.
TechStars says that an iPhone app for Pet Lovers with 204k fans can't be wrong
Windows 8 devs were as happy as Mac devs, which was interesting. No-one else was close. Also note that Mac devs tend to work in smaller shops, which is correlated to happiness.

Game devs were the happiest devs. So - work for a small mac game dev.
I miss them too. I make up for it playing the X series[1] and Freespace mods[2]. X series is more like a single player Eve (also has lots of mods like Freespace), while Freespace is more like X-Wing/Tie Fighter. There's even a Star Wars mod for Freespace (might be one for X, but have not checked).

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/2820/

[2] http://www.gog.com/news/freespace_2_open_source_code_project...
IDology has a service for what you're looking for I believe. It's called KYC or "Know Your Customer". I use it on my site to verify identities before opening bank accounts in their name. For my use, we require SSN, DOB, and address as inputs. It checks credit agency and other public data. If user enters any of this info incorrectly, it switches to OOW "Out of Wallet" method and will prompt user to answer questions only they should know, like "What year did you purchase your Ford Bronco?" If they answer 2 out of the 3 of these questions correctly it assumes they are who they say they are.
What was the actual question asked? (And did it change at all between surveys?)
You seem to have overlooked the whole "Firefox basically saved the world from an IE monoculture" thing that happened in the mid-2000s.
None of those were from the ground up. Mozilla was based on the netscape codebase, firefox was based on the mozilla codebase, safari was based on the khtml codebase, and chrome was based on the webkit codebase. IE I'm not sure about, but it seems unlikely that they started from the ground up, surely newer ie uses code from older releases.
I... am really confused. AFAICT there is only one DFW essay linked in these comments, and it seems to say basically what I, others here, and the linguistic consensus is saying: That there is a dialect of English used in the great majority of formal English speech and writing which is not spoken natively by many intelligent English speakers, and that the best way to deal with this is to acknowledge that their dialect is valid and appropriate when spoken with peers while also instructing them in the rules of SAE that will be necessary for them to interface effectively with formal society. There are differences in that DFW is talking about college-age writers who have to more or less be told to suck it up and learn it the hard way, while young schoolchildren can be taught much more effectively by early immersion, but the general thrust is much the same.

What are you reading in that? I'm legitimately, deeply baffled.
>We talked privately with particular Chrome folks before we started (as described upthread), in the middle, and shortly before landing to mention that we were landing soon.

Yes, I'm aware of that, but the work had been underway for a long time and was about to be dropped by the time there was a real heads up. So the core of the architecture was already being frozen from a larger perspective.

>BTW I am not trying to pick a fight here. I think mikewest's comment gave the impression that Apple built a multiprocess architecture out of cussedness or NIH. But that's not how it was.

I don't interpret Mike's comments that way. Chromium's architecture was public and available, but we assumed it wasn't used because it didn't fit the needs of WebKit2. There's no malice in that. We designed Chromium from the beginning for SFI (as Adam tried to convey), and that incurs quite a bit of complexity. I'm comfortable that the divergence was simply a result of different needs. I just don't see how it could be presented as something malicious or anti-collaborative.
You're probably thinking of humanoid-type robots. If you consider highly-specialized and sophisicated machines to be robots, you'd realize there has been a ton of momentum in this area. I mean self-driving cars were sci-fi 60 years ago.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the scale model of the solar system strewn around the Boston metro area. If you live there, it's pretty fun to visit all the planets. One year the MIT Mystery Hunt had a puzzle related to it.
Not an Android solution, but a Surface Pro could probably play them okay if you don't want a full out computer or laptop.
Sad to say, but I think it's a simple matter of enough people getting burned for the scales to tip on non-DRM content.
The Cisco VPN client supports 64bit Linux, now. Just go to http://ist.mit.edu/cisco-anyconnect and get the latest version of the client. You could also hack the 32bit only version to work on a 64bit Linux system if you can't use the new version for some reason. There's a wikipage on how to do it.

You should be able to use a cert based web form to get ssh traffic allowed to your host. But, if you were using the VPN, you wouldn't encounter the firewall.

It does kinda suck. But, the aaronsw hacks were a game changer. MIT became a different organization after them.
I appreciate your taking the time to reply, but I think it's a little soon to be saying never. For one thing, we have spent a lot more time and energy trying to figure out what's going on with Mars than Venus.

Though of course Mars is a better prospect today. Frankly, I think the important thing is to have a backup, as it were, and to that end whatever serves will do. But if one backup is nice, two is even better, and the cost of making a good backup is highly justified.
As a data point, I'm strongly proficient in one (Objective-C) but use PHP,HTML,CSS and a small amount of JS to supplement the data handling, web services, and create the web site side of my mobile apps. I can get done what I need to in those other 4, but I can't sit down and hack out a whole project like I can Obj-C.

I'm also strongly proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign though, so I don't know if that offsets my proficiency in only one language.
Oculus Rift USB Power Hack
Multiplying the Old Divisions of Class in Britain
O...kay? I'm not sure how you're reading my rather lay summary of the state of modern linguistics as histrionics, but maybe that's just a dialectal thing. I was kind of hoping you would go ahead and check out the Wiki articles[0], but I guess I'm glad you're even bothering to read my comments.

[0] If this is still on the table, I'd also like to add "ad hominem" to the list. To quote The Princess Bride, "You have six fingers on your right hand. Someone was looking for you."
Not sure what your use case is; but rather than identifying the PERSON is unique, you can identify that their PHONE NUMBER is unique. Require a text message code be entered on screen. Most people have only 1 cell phone; and if push comes to shove their real name is linked to their cell phone in most cases, so they could be found out via court subpoena.
Yeah, I like how you described it. We definitely agree.
Show HN: Music Mover - custom, time-sensitive playlists.
Chromium as packaged by most Linux distributions is not a "nightly build" sort of a thing. It's only a hassle if you run a non-FOSS operating system without a package manager, and in that case having to run Chrome instead of Chromium is the least of your issues re: FOSS.
And let's not mistake what regimes claim to do with what they actually do.

This seems like a very hard criteria to meet - separating claimed intentions from "actual" causes (which are never objective).

Besides, the original quote is "in the name of".
I mined for a week or so in 2011. I wish I had kept on going!
"Like I said before, it's a supply and demand thing. There is a huge supply of kids who want to make video games, and not enough employers for them all."

But is the demand for employees at game companies static? One could imagine, and I am hardly an expert, but one could imagine that as big games become bigger and bigger, indie games see more recognition among the 'mainsteam' and the industry grows in general, the number of people they employ will rise. It will always be more competitive to get into these companies compared to some other unsexy technical thing, but I think the games space is blowing up (economically and culturally) and the schools and more jobs are (will be?) a result of that. Same with the kids who want to go into the industry. The idea that there is necessarily a fundamental lack of opportunities for those who want to work in the industry doesn't feel right to me; I guess the big problem will be making a living doing it.
I wonder how this would correlate to different development stacks. It's possible a "language" used to mean something more like an ecosystem.
How many are using javascript and not jQuery then (i.e. more than -2000?)
Web programmers tend to take this for granted, but there are whole swaths of the software world that aren't web applications. For developers in those areas it may very well be something they haven't considered.
Here's one of my interesting throw-away apps I played around with but never really took anywhere:

a turntable.fm clone that spits out shoutcast-compatible urls

or in slightly more detail:
- user creates channel
- user invites friends
- users can collaboratively manage playlist
- users have access to a shoutcast-compatible url that's a shared stream of said playlist

should give you a few interesting engineering problems to deal with :)
Chrome has a very quick release cycle, so I don't see why not?
Migrated from iPhone (iOS) to Motorola RazrV (Android 4.0). My decision was motivated by cost considerations. The Moto was far lower cost of the phone (bought outright) than for comparable features of the 4S (didn't even consider the 5 due to the new connector not being compatible with all the gadgets).

Odds are that if I decide to update the tablet (iPad) it will be to an Android based one. In addition to cost considerations, the openness is another consideration.
I'm not an expert when it comes to GPGPU for DBs (heck, I'd like to even find one ;) ), but see below what I could come up with.

This is a presentation from a member of the IBM Almaden research group I've been talking to at GTC. I can't find much else online, their work seems to be unpublished, but maybe if you ask nicely, they could give you a few pointers:
http://cis565-spring-2012.github.com/lectures/02-13-Search-T...

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/bakkum_sqlite_tr....

http://gpuscience.com/software/postgresql-gpu-pgstrom/

Edit: Tbh. this still seems to be a very young field of research - which is good if you're a graduate student or a member of a private research institute, but as a startup I'd think twice before spending a few man years for making this work.
Wow, could become a clusterfuck of epic proportions:

1. It takes three months to get you BTC back, and only up to a max of 50. If you have more, it will take longer.

2. If the hackers can figure out your url and key, they can dispute your claim. If they actually get their claim in before your legit claim, their claim is favored.

Yikes. I would not want to be either an Instawallet employee having to sort that mess, or a client with their BTC frozen for months and potentially at risk of being stolen.

"Important information on claims submission:

For the first 90 days we will accept claims for individual Instawallets. Your wallet's URL and key will be used to pre-populate a form to file the claim.

After 90 days, if no other claim has been received for the same url, your Instawallet balance under 50 BTC will be refunded. If several claims have been filed for the same url, we will process those claims on a case by case basis, under the presumption that the claim we received first belongs to the legitimate balance holder.

Claims for wallets that hold a balance greater than 50 BTC will be processed on a case by case and best efforts basis."
Speaking of reviewers, it looked like there were (maybe) a handful of WebKit reviewers that meet the following criteria:

1. Not affiliated with Apple or Google.

2. Not specifically associated with a port in terms of their review areas.

To me, that says a lot about how WebKit governance works in practice.
most of our customers tell us that they're not willing to trade lower availability and higher latency per request

What's the constraint that prevents you from having your dynos register with the loadbalancer cluster and then having the latter perform leastconn balancing per application?

Also why would that mean "lower availability" or "higher latency"? Did you look into zookeeper?
http://www.sanjosegasprices.com/Palo_Alto/index.aspx

Arco, 699 San Antonio Rd & Middlefield Rd, $3.93 as of 15 minutes ago.

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/808...

9, 13 or 17 cents a kWh for residential, depending on usage tier.

Or if you want green energy in Palo Alto it's 11, 15 and 19 cents a kwH.

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/809...

If it's a business meter, such as one would have at a refueling station, or recharging at work or at the store, it's 15 cents a kwH for green energy:

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/809...

And 14 cents for non-green:

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/809...
Coal miner photos: Where they worked, where they lived
Webkit's done plenty of innovating, haven't they?
When I was in Geelong bananas were $12/kg, and in Atlanta they were around $0.50/lb. Other produce seemed quite expensive, also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Internal_structure
I wonder if that's where the name came from: something any decent web developer would be ashamed to put in a vendor prefix.
With some strategic skimming I think I've been able to get at the point of Morozov's essay: It's a complaint about the corruption (or "pollution") of language. Given the 20th century that's a reasonable thing to worry about: in retrospect, language is often the canary in the coal mine, warning of the approach of Fascism.

The problem is that his argument doesn't really come together. He rightly makes fun of "Web 2.0" as a pointless buzzword, but that's a complaint beyond it's sell-by date. Nobody says that with a straight face anymore, except as a vague marker for a time-period of website fashion. It's not a concept anyone associates with anything of serious importance. He also makes a side-remark about '“Open,” “networks,” and “information”' that I don't really get: networks and information are mostly used in a rigorous technical sense by the tech community as far as I can tell.

His main thrust is reserved for "open", but he doesn't really make the case here either; there's a long retelling of the old free software vs. open source battle, but promoting a new, roughly descriptive term to draw a distinction between two things is hardly the stuff of Goebbels. This is apparently being extended into "Open government".

This, as far as I can tell, is the core point arrives: Morozov can put up with transparency and accountability, but extending that into "open government" that obligates government agencies to permit the public to collaborate with them is not ok. This reduces government into provider-of-services, a set of replaceable parts like the NIH or the Federal Highway Administration that either do their task or don't, and if they don't, can be changed.

This is a very sad, small box to put the government into if you've become emotionally invested in the idea of the state as the manifestation of our collective will. In this world, the "political and moral principles" of the government are of central importance and the primary goal of politics is to petition this god-state into a benevolent and not evil ruler by ensuring that it is not blind to the concerns of everyone.

This is where his point kind of falls apart, as he doesn't seem to quite distinguish the problems with the evil all-containing-god-state (Singapore, more or less) from the problems with the technocratic, apolitical, one-institution-among-many service-provider state that he claims O'Reilly is pushing for. Lumping these two opposites together makes the whole argument kind of mushy.
The Usability Myth
STM32F4 Microcontroller Demo - VGA, Audio everything.
I don't see why decent ASICs will ever be for sale. It'll be more profitable to run them than to sell them so the manufacturers will keep them.
"Citation needed."

That's what "empirical" means: a statement based on observation or experience.

C'mon folks...it's not clever or insightful to "refute" personal opinions by pointing out that they're opinions.
Jane Goodall turns 78
Note that the primary HTML resource for most web pages takes multiple roundtrips to transmit completely. If you sign it only at the end, you've made the browser feel slower. So you'd have to avoid the RTT by accepting, processing, and presenting the data immediately but only later authenticating it retroactively. The bad guy can just drop or delay the legitimate signature.

This is inherently error-prone. It gives the developers a big, convenient, and reassuring assumption which the attacker is able to violate. For a complex and evolving endpoint like a web browser, I don't think you'd ever see the end of security bugs. More: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg04017.h...

Furthermore, retroactive authentication still doesn't preclude the encryption: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08722.h...
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Nobody would be brave enough to pay (or work for) fixed bitcoin amounts right now.