skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ask what future things having something like this on a SoC would enable.

I asked that and came up blank. And I haven't seen answers from anyone else, either. Has Adapteva themselves shown any examples where their chip beats a GPU?
And "a modern, brick big house" is slang for prison.
It is not easy finding people with good parallel programming skills. Hopefully, this will help things along.
That may have been true a couple years ago, but they are rapidly expanding. They now include calculus and diff eq with plans to go beyond. They're even researching med school related content for the future.

That being said, I wouldn't take that as a reason to not pursue this.
> "I wonder if google would consider this a violation of the ToS since someone could offer an app that does not work at all except if you pay for a membership somewhere else."

Isn't one of their go-to app examples a headline feed from the NYTimes? Don't they still have a pay-wall?
Mars One will start recruiting volunteers in July for one-way trip to red planet
> In my opinion, the larger the company and the higher the hierarchy, the harder it is to innovate and experiment with something different for that next project.

In my experience this just simply isn't true. Both large and small companies can put up reasons why you can't innovate or experiment.

For small companies there is always a deadline or budget that gets in the way.

The size of a company has no real bearing on what they allow their employees to do.

The only difference I've seen is with well run and poorly run companies.

In my experience these are evenly distributed between big and small companies.

Or put another way, your manager will determine 90% of your happiness at your job.
Yes, I love this realization.

People don't know what they want, but they sure as hell know what they don't want. I think this ties both to businesses (specifically startups and what they focus their efforts on) as well as employees and entrepreneurs themselves.

To quote Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
Cdf to cd into whatever is the forefront Finder window
Great stuff, as always. Here the one-page view: http://hbr.org/2013/05/why-the-lean-start-up-changes-everyth...
Sony ISP launches world's fastest home Internet, 2Gbps
Around 2010, 2009 I noticed some articles come out that observed that in general, people who graduate in a recession have lesser lifelong earnings than people who graduate in a boom.
Do you ever rent an apartment on a site like AirBnB? If so, you could be guilty of drug trafficking.
Yeah, I know lots of people who pay for a netflix subscription and then torrent netflix available content for higher resolution/etc.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’
Researchers argue over whether the Canyon is literally as old as the dinosaurs
Yes many words have different meanings. It can get confusing. I can't imagine someone speaking a foreign language learning French :)

BTW I would be interested to read if someone shared his experience.
What has global warming done since 1998?
Looks good, I look forward to exploring the site properly after work. One small niggle for you to address though. Log out and go to your home page. Navigate to the About page. Now try and get back to the home page without using your browsers back button.

I would expect your site logo in the top left to take me to your home page, especially as it appears clickable, but it doesn't. It puts a # at the end of the url and that's it.
Look into Lojban for what it's like to specify these kinds of rules prescriptively. Adjective ordering was something I had never given a moment's thought to before reading about Lojban, but in order to specify it formally takes pages.
Look for the term "streaming". My project is distributed, asynchronous streaming (research name "System S", product name "InfoSphere Streams") which uses a dataflow language called SPL (Streams Processing Language). However, it allows imperative code at the vertices in the dataflow graph. It's appropriate for large scale streaming across whole clusters. The StreamIt project at MIT is not distributed and is synchronous, which maps to single chips much better. In fact, it grew out of making DSPs (digital signal processors) more programmable.
The ‘why I left ___’ genre
No conflicts, but a tradeoff of loading two versions of library C. I assume at some point, the cost of multiple versions of everything (in terms of memory usage, for example) becomes an issue?
The author uses the term 'mono culture' but I think the better term might be 'network effect'. There are a lot of positive network effects of all these projects hosting on github.
The importance of your W-4 and why I owe taxes this year
Show HN: real-time news dataviz with unsupervised machine learning
Your TL;DR talks about things I never said. I never discussed security questions or mentioned any hash algorithms by name.
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Grunt: A build tool for front-end projects
Absolutely. I think padding a true blank spot is a problem.
OpenSSL doesn't use key strengthening on password protected RSA keys. GPG does, but I don't know how much it does by default.
What exactly is the problem with charging 2.99? You make it sound as if it was unethical to charge money for a product that someone has spent months to develop/advertise.
The HTML5 based DRM would require a binary blob for the browser so that's not likely to happen for the iPad/iPhone anyway.
It's such a great idea that AMD Kabini already did it.
Why was this submitted? The article says it was a false alarm.
I know for a fact the wallpaper ones were not. The LGE and LogMeIn apps I believe came as part of an "Android" update from the carrier (T-Mobile). Not sure how "Music Visualization Wallpaper" works but seems odd that it would need the ability to record audio.
Indeed. Many, lacking compiler research know-how, just make it a graph-encoding language, which is really not the point of dataflow. Any language trivially mapping to SSA semantics is already a dataflow language, essentially.

SISAL isn't all that bad, ignoring the 80's syntax:

function BottlesOfBeer(i : integer returns array[string])
let
s,bottles,preface,n,nextbottles :=
if i = 1 then
"1"," bottle","If that bottle","No more"," bottles"
elseif i = 2 then
itoa(2)," bottles","If one of those bottles",itoa(1)," bottle"
else
itoa(i)," bottles","If one of those bottles",itoa(i-1)," bottles"
end if;
in
array[1:
s || bottles || " of beer on the wall",
s || bottles || " of beer!",
preface || " should happen to fall... ",
n || nextbottles || " of beer on the wall!",
""
]
end let
end function
> However, if you are just interested in a new programming paradigm, want to write an ORM in Haskell, or design a new IoC container university is not for you. As someone with a masters degree in CS I can assure you.

As someone with a masters degree in CS I can counter-assure that University is faaaaar more open to experimentation and delving into new things than a company.
Linguistics is a lot more than just syntax.
You dislike walled gardens, but you're very happy with Google's API?
Seconded; it may be "only" three boxes, but I can browse SO or SE by filling in zero boxes. This reminded me of a site (can't remember which) that comes up in Google results for some UNIX CLI searches I've done and requires sign-in or payment(!) to view community contributed answers. Bugger that for a lark.
Should startups deduct TDS for using AWS in India?
> One can then either assume that Wikipedia administrators are swimming in money and have all bought small island in the Caribbeans, or that running a services on that scale is actually quite expensive.

Running services on the WMF may be quite expensive but that tells us little about TPB - the WMF is not really comparable. They're running hundreds of projects, not just the English Wikipedia; their staff are living in one of the most expensive places in the world, San Francisco; they're developing & supporting an infrastructure much more complicated than 'upload a torrent file and a textual description box', due to editing pages by all sorts of users with different privilege levels and rich media and exploiting HTML5 and working with new MediaWiki extensions like Semantic and of course the truly enormous size of Commons' media database of millions of photos and images and videos; they work under many more legal pressures than TPB (which takes joy at thumbing their nose at any legal issues); coordinate dozens of chapter organizations worldwide (some with significant amounts of revenue like the de chapter); and do other things like the floating Wikimania conference or the DVD encylopedias aimed at Africa or surveys or editor-retention projects or third-world article writing contests etc.

What TPB does is impressive in its own way, but simply is not on the same scale of complexity or variety.
Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Thank you!! I would also like to add that the content would NOT be greyed out for non-registered users and it would be licensed under creative commons :)
In practice, working with them can be quite different. In a lexically scoped representation (either ANF or CPS) you have to preserve lexical scoping after each transformation, which can be pretty annoying if you want to do optimizations in their full generality. With SSA, you have to preserve dominance, but you don't have to update the dominator tree (the equivalent of the information encoded in the lexical scoping of ANF / CPS) if you don't want to; you can simply recompute it.

Of course, the advantage that ANF / CPS have is that they can naturally represent higher-order programs, but for first-order programs they don't really have any advantage over SSA.
Looks like I was about a year behind.
FWIW I have "Music Visualization Wallpapers" installed as well. Given that it has no network/SMS access I highly doubt that it is anything other than a wallpaper app.
While there's some deflation built in as keys get lost and the economy grows, periods of inflation are still possible as bitcoin billionaires start going on shopping sprees.
This site doesn't necessarily need off-the-bat registration, so forcing users to register when we think registration isn't a necessity is the issue I think.
I backed them on kickstarter, and I don't remember seeing any claim like what you claim to have seen.

To me it was always clear that the current models are not particularly fast. They may be fast "per watt", and if they succeed in their roadmap, then their future 1024 core chips may be fast for the subset of problems that they are suitable for.

In the meantime, the kickstarter page is/was careful to focus on this as a stepping stone, and developer platform for playing with the technology first and foremost, and not as being about delivering some incredibly fast computer for end users.

If anything, they've provided an extreme amount of data, down to cycle counts for memory accesses and the instruction set, and they've dumped a lot of code in our laps, including drivers etc., and the final unit actually comes with a faster version of the Zynq SoC than what they promised, after Xilinx apparently gave them an amazing deal.
And yet it succeeds. I think it's simply that async IO is in javascript developers' blood - sure, everything you can do in node you've been able to do for five years with twisted, but if you start trying to do something in twisted all that wonderful python ecosystem is suddenly useless to you, and no-one wants to talk about creating replacements because they've all moved on to tornado or gevent or incompatible-framework-du-jour.

Because javascript started in the single-threaded execution environment of the browser, the whole ecosystem has had to be nonblocking; browser APIs were callback-oriented so the whole ecosystem has been written in callback-oriented fashion, and all the libraries play well with each other. Single-threading is a hair shirt that results in better code in the long run, like laziness in haskell. And async I/O is so much more performant than blocking (in modern application stacks) that that's making node dominate there.

I do wonder whether other languages could have ended up the same way if threading hadn't been invented. Perl always had these unreliable bodged threads, and so there were some really interesting event-driven libraries for it - but the threads were good enough for many practical uses, and AFAIK the ecosystem never converged on a single approach. Did I hear of a PEP attempting to standardise a compatible API for doing these things in python?
It's not unethical, but allowing paid apps can attract people only interested in making money, not making good apps.
In the comment thread on the article someone points out that the Adapteva chip doesn't do double precision floating-point, which limits its usefulness (to put it mildly). If the goal is to provide people with a low-cost platform to experiment with parallel programming, surely a decent NVidia card gives you less expensive (given you can plug it into a PCI slot and it will work) access to more CPUs that run faster and do more.
gk2gk is not a huge success because straight males usually prefer females, even if they are not geeks.

Your potential audience is not tiny but it isn't massive either.
@shit_hn_says
Note: the $99 version has 16 cores, not 64 cores. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su... (+ 2 ARM cores)
Small companies have a lot of work. A lot of work doesn't actually mean good work.

Unless you are simply looking to undergo a form of endurance training.
Of course if you learn on Adapteva then your knowledge may not translate to the "worse" architectures that are used in the real world. If you want to learn parallel programming, the computer you already have supports threads, CSP, actors, OpenMP, OpenCL, etc.
I'm sorry, you are right, rephrased my comment, thanks for a great set of posts!
Agreed. As soon as I heard about this, I called my bank and canceled the card (no suspicious activity on it) and then regenerated 32 character passwords for all of my logins associated with Linode. An ounce of prevention and all that.
Opinions of NYC's Flatiron School?
I was going to check out the talent at the Flatiron School's graduation event this week. Also thinking about suggesting it as something of a boot camp for a friend's younger sibling who is interested in learning to program. I know there are free online classes but I think having the focus would be very helpful, plus the boost in the job market. Would you recommend attending the Flatiron school for $10k?
Look, the thing is, the only reason why you are asking for registration is building an email database. If you stated that clearly like "please provide your email so we'd contact you later" or whatever -- that would be perfectly acceptable. However, by forcing me into surrending you my email address you make me wonder what else I'm going to be forced into down the road. So, thanks, but no, thanks.
Linode brought this issue to Adobe's attention. It's pretty clear that the hack happend 1-2 weeks BEFORE it was announced to the public on Friday. See: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3

seclists.org was one of the sites hit in the hack. See how they were down "over the last week". Also note that the Adobe security bulletin was release on April 9: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-10.ht...

So ya, these hackers found the problem (a 0-day in Coldfusion), used it against Linode. then Linode got Adobe to look into it and found the cause.
Since each row is a single request, and ab writes the file sorted by response time, the first plot is effectively a sideways cumulative histogram. In other words, you can see that 4000 out of 5000 requests were served in under 150ms, etc. Arguably this is more informative than the scatterplot, although I suspect the OP is right about how commonly the graph is misunderstood.
Sorry but there was no act of war because Osama never represented political entity that could declare war on the US. And there are good reasons why the Israelis went to such pains to bring Adolf Eichmann to trial instead of just shooting him in Argentina.

Also murder is crime in Pakistan ... so if there was Pakistani rule of law the navy seals are murderers.
It's talking about the general flattening of the temperature trend in the last decade or two. Try this:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti

The default woodfortrees index averages a bunch of different global temperature series so you don't have to pick just one. (It starts in 1979 because that's when we first had satellite coverage.)

If you try to plot a linear rate from that, the trend depends on what year you start from. From some starting years the trend is increasing (though less than predicted) but from other starting years the trend is flat or even decreasing. For an example of the latter, here's a trendline for the last ten years:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2003/plot/wti/from...
Show HN: Pinterest for text
This was my take as well. Surprised it took me so long to scroll down to find someone who agreed. This has limited predictive power of what glass will look like when in prime time.
That's good to hear -- I own the previous Nexus and skipped the Nexus 4 mostly because of the customer service complaints. Still, it will take a lot more stories like yours to repair that aspect of their reputation, especially for people (like me) who highly value customer service and don't buy anything without a warranty.

Also, that doesn't address the other side of the problem, which is the potential lack of support from Glass application developers. What happens when Glass OS 2.0 is released and half your favorite apps break but the devs have no incentive to update them? This has happened to me several times even with paid apps in the Android store, where the devs have actual cash motivating them to get an update out quickly.

It's a little naive on Google's part to assume people will create AND maintain tons of useful, quality applications just out of sheer enjoyment or the goodness of their hearts.
Yeah, I see what you mean from his explanation. I wonder how/why the misreading happens? Maybe it depends how much statistics you got beaten into you at school or something.
Wayland & Weston 1.1 Released, with RDP support
Unfortunately MVP has been bastardized from "the smallest thing people will pay for" to "the smallest individual piece of the application."
If I were to design a processor, it would essentially execute programs written in a total functional language with corecursion. So you would be able to create Turing-complete programs, but most of the time, the processor will be evaluating expressions in a primitive recursive subset that it can reason about and aggressively optimize.
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Thanks!! Fixing it now! :)
2 questions:
1) What do they do with the Pinterest-generated ID? Do they store it with each row in addition to the local ID?
2) Why randomly select a shard? Shouldn't you do this based on DB size across all boxes, or at least based on physical space left across all boxes?
There are of course collateral casualties, but I do believe every drone strike has a target that has expressed some intention to attack the U.S. We're not blowing up random Afghans for fun.
True but, this may also be a "technology generation" issue..
i mean.. compared with the 90's .. there are much more people interested and with hands-on computer development than ever before..

And this is all about the internet boom.. so it happens that the technology of the moment now is javascript and consequently node.js.. its natural that a great part of this bigger labor force ends up doing node.js stuff..

to see this numbers clearly we need to see the net effect, the number of the whole development community in comparison..

it's not fair to compare 2010's with the 90's.. what was the audience for perl back then? now whats the audience for node.js and all the other players?
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> Second: Six months, you say? Can any of us think of a cohort of job seekers that routinely needs to contend with 6+ month employment gaps? I wonder, maybe, just maybe, do you think that has a powerful "objective" stigma attached to it disproportionately often might find it difficult to compete equitably in the job market? I wonder which 50% of the population I might ask to find out more about this.

Oh, wait, you mean women? For a most of that rant I thought you meant ex-convicts, because there is definitely an objective stigma against them (and they're certainly out of the job market). Now that I think about it, it's possible that the amount of ex-cons in the 6-month+ unemployment bracket, plus maybe ex-mental-institution or ex-rehab individuals, is significant enough to skew the results. The original paper doesn't address this, at least not that I can see.
I'm a citrus farmer. I have several acres of trees growing oranges. Now, you may know that we usually pick the oranges before they've fully ripened. Consequently, we have to store them in a building for a little while until they're ready for consumption. We have several of those buildings, so I've named them for family members, such as my daughter Vi, who married the boy next door, Davie Brown. And this weekend, I'm paying a crew to come out and repaint the building that's named after her. So come next Monday, it will be the white Violet Brown green orange building.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Cool. I don't know any other cheap way to experiment with optimization for 64 cores.
In small company, while you don't have internal mobility across teams it's much easier to work on different projects, since cost of switching between projects is not so expensive as in big company. There are no formal management rules, so you don't have to play politics to achieve this.

It depends. Small companies can go to shit quickly. I've seen it happen at under 10 people.

Even in companies with "open allocation" you are not given completely free choice where to work, because you first need to gain credibility. It's faster to achieve level of credibility, required full freedom on what to work inn smaller company with open allocation than in big corporation, even ones, which are pretending to have open allocation.

That goes against open allocation, because the whole idea is that you have the right to work for the company directly without needing a "credible" person to sanction it. Open allocation probably requires that projects have some degree of sanction, but that should be based on project merits as much as possible. And if people aren't free to move form one sanctioned project to another, then it's not open allocation.
Could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
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No, the DHS treats citizens like that too. My understanding is that it's purely a psychological technique to extract more truthful stories. People have plenty of time on the plane to practice their cock and bull stories, but when some key detail changes during their interview, they aren't so good at thinking on their feet and they end up being caught in a lie. "This picture doesn't look like you" is the oldest trick in the book. If the customs agent really thought the picture didn't look like you, he wouldn't have told you. You would have been led away without question. What he really wants to do is get you on the defensive where you're less likely to remember your pre-rehearsed story.

(If you ever want to watch Customs in action for four hours, take the train between the US and Canada.)
I am very happy to see this coming out. The negativity found here is really disappointing. I will be very happy to get hold of a good number of cores running with a hardware memory model that is more out-of-order than x86.

Sounds like a glorious playground :)
Most irrelevant HN post ever? Please stop wasting everyone's time.
what happens if 1 shard contains a whole slew of large companies (macy's, gap, etc), or over time users on one shard grow to the point that they cannot be contained within one physical machine? Are they just assuming that this will be very unlikely?