skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is extremely smart on googles part.

* Why not ads? Everyone is worried that glass will just be a billboard held half an inch from your eye. Most of the jokes and AR gone wrong videos are exactly this. No one wants to pay 1500 for a device that shoots ads directly into your eye.

* Why make all the software free? First, you get people that are building software for fun rather than as a business. There is a long track record of this producing great software (hobbyist is not a dirty word in the world of software). Second, with a new device people are often unwilling to risk buying new software (or lots of new software) for something that might not pan out. Free is a great way to encourage people to explore and google glass is about exploring the space of AR rather than defining it. Third, it avoids the whole freeium crap that is chocking the android market. I was looking at pushup apps and it took me half an hour to find one that didn't require that I pay, look at ads or sign up with facebook despite there being a large number of "free" apps (free as in expensive). If I could find a version of the google play store in which the software didn't have ads and didn't have an absurd number of "pay 2.99 for the non-crippled version" I would use that store exclusively.

App development as get rich quick scheme is not a sustainable software development ecosystem. It sets all the wrong expectations.

It may seem counterintuitive but I trust free, ad free software (free as in beer) more than software that has a monetization strategy. Part of it is that software with a business angle tends to be SAAS since they have money for servers to store and compute on my data, whereas free/ad-free software tends to be a local app (it appears that Google glasses is not allowing local apps).
Y Combinator results
Wondering if anyone received any results from the incubation program. Or when will the results be given. Thanks.
You can buy an AMD 7750 for $99, which theoretically gives you in the range of 800-900 GFLOPS (single precision).
Microsoft urges uninstallation of Windows 7 ‘Blue Screen of Death’ patch
The only reason it isn't a big lie is that it's an utterly meaningless statement. In any case it is a misrepresentation of what modern CPUs are capable of.
How Java Cookies helps in storing users information
Can anyone explain what the practical differences between something like this and a gpgpu approach? It doesn't sound particularly performant compared to modern gpus otherwise. Maybe they add in some more general purpose instructions for a little more flexibility?
It's an interesting (read: niche) market, to be sure. It's the same market as someone who might buy 8 raspberry pi boards, or 4 ODroid U2 machines for the purpose of learning about parallel computation.

The Epipchany chip (the coprocessor on these boards) is supported as of GCC 4.8, so we also may see some novel ways to offload work to this chip in the future.
Enriching a list of URLs with Google Page Rank
I'm no scientist but it seems its not destroying the energy, its just reflecting it out into space
Laziness / efficiency.

Some of the tools require specific kernel configurations/etc. to work properly (like wifi or bluetooth sniffers/fuzzers).
These can sometimes be either a) tricky to install, b)hard to get to cooperate, or c) mutually exclusive.

Backtrack et. al. save the security practitioner a bunch of time getting a ton of tools in place all at once that are (mostly) pre-vetted to not do anything stupid, and to work together.

Beyond that, if you're doing it professionally, most folks I know use something like Backtrack to get a new device setup, and then heavily customize/modify it from there.

If you're doing it...for fun, a bootable CD leaves no logs and can be used on any computer on any network without having to pre-install stuff.
They do answer that on their kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...

Why do you say the Parallella is a 45GHz computer?

We have received a lot of negative feedback regarding this number so we want to explain the meaning and motivation. A single number can never characterize the performance of an architecture. The only thing that really matters is how many seconds and how many joules YOUR application consumes on a specific platform.

Still, we think multiplying the core frequency(700MHz) times the number of cores (64) is as good a metric as any. As a comparison point, the theoretical peak GFLOPS number often quoted for GPUs is really only reachable if you have an application with significant data parallelism and limited branching. Other numbers used in the past by processors include: peak GFLOPS, MIPS, Dhrystone scores, CoreMark scores, SPEC scores, Linpack scores, etc. Taken by themselves, datasheet specs mean very little. We have published all of our data and manuals and we hope it's clear what our architecture can do. If not, let us know how we can convince you.
Prediction:

White males, former US army, and have family ties to the South and/or Mid-West.
"The purpose of your first release (and every other release) is to give your customer immediate value."

Exactly. That's a MVP, not a crappy product which doesn't even work.
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Bully for Node, but to compare apples to apples, you should count from when the packaging system was released, not from when the language was released. Node's numbers wouldn't look so good if divided by the number of years since JavaScript was released.

Rubygems dates back to 2003, in which case Ruby's 5,439 packages per year still trails Node's pace but not so dramatically.
On the contrary, all of those are being taught in schools python is now being taught at introductory classes in MIT, Cal and Stanford to name some. Ruby and PHP are taught too. At lest in grad school. Don't forget the private turoring and certification programs you can enroll in. I have not seen a single certification course that involves Lisp. Also, consider the ages of those languages. Lisp has been around for more than 50 years now. The others are not even half its age.
Coding for the Soul
I didn't look at the implementation, and would be out of my depth if I were to. I'll relay your concerns to the authors (I share some of them, actually), but, meanwhile, here are a my thoughts:

The fact is that the performance of Julia is already quite good. Julia is semantically much closer to C than Haskell is, and it needs fewer optimisations to get reasonable speed.

The necessity of static analysis for performance is a myth that's been debunked for a while now. From the language semantics, I think that the runtime model of Julia must be about as complex as Lua's, including the LuaJIT FFI (swap metatables with type-based multiple dispatch).

As you said, though, whereas LuaJIT has its own tailored bytecode, Julia compiles to LLVM IR, and potentially useful information is lost in the translation process. LLVM-Lua is reportedly 2-3x slower than LuaJIT. I suppose that type specialized traces and immutable types help somewhat.

An area that clearly needs improvement is vectorised code. Currently, an new vector/matrix is allocated for each intermediate step. Bad. This is being worked on.

> also: Julia doesn't have a type system, it has a dynamic check system. (Show me the code for static type check in the julia code base as it exists on github and I'll owe you a beer :) )

You're conflating type system with static type checking. Julia is dynamically typed, but its programming model (the UI of sorts) is built around the type system and multiple dispatch, it is one of its main features of the language, actually.
Raspberry Pi Tops 1 Million In Sales
I'm curious as to whether you've actually worked on the Linux kernel, or the UNIX descendants, or TCP/IP stacks.

I have. The only reason they work at all is the enormous number of man years spent banging on the poorly tested code after its written. The number of regressions that pop up in core subsystems of the kernel are staggering. VM bugs still happen in commercially shipping systems like OS X because of small changes to extremely fragile and untested code.

Linux isn't a paragon of code quality, and neither are most Network stacks. If anything, you're proving my point -- code written in that methodology has required enourmous amounts of work to stabilize and prevent/fix regressions going forward.

Case in point; a few years ago, I found a trivial signed/unsigned comparison bug but in FreeBSD device node cloning that was triggered by adding/removing devices in a certain order; this triggered a kernel panic, and took teo days to track down. The most trivial of unit tests would have caught this bug immediately, but instead it sat there languishing until someone wrote some network interface cloning code (me) that happened to trigger this bug faaar down below the section of the kernel I was working in.

This kind of thing happens all the time in the projects you list, and its incredibly costly compared to using testing to not ship bugs in the first place.
This is a solution fantastic book. Reading the exchanges from the early pioneers of the Internet is just amazing.
What the fuck? Citations please? There is absolutely no reason I can see to beleive that every person we kill with drones had any plan (realistic or otherwise) to attack us? Where do you get this? Because of Obama's reclassification of male casualties between 16-65 as combatants? Is that kind of word-game nonsense really so effective?
Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B: Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.
Radeon 6990 is 5.1 TERAflops (5099 GigaFLOPS) ... several orders of magnitude faster than this thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_6000_Series#Northern_...
Your comment is so filter bubbled that it hurts.

People keep developing against the Twitter and Facebook APIs because that's where the users are.
Dota 2 eSports league suspended after players hit by DDoS attacks
When It Comes To Sharing Startups, The Airbnb Model Doesn't Work For Everyone
What you experienced is typical. It's harder to get a new job within a company than to get an external promotion into another one.

Here's probably more than you care to read on this topic. I just finished it this morning: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/gervais-macle...

The short version, as pertains to what you experience, is that companies have (since Enron made it fashionable) included performance reviews in the transfer packet as a way of enabling managerial extortion (for the sake of project expediency, although it's unclear that it achieves that) and passive firing, reducing lawsuit risk. The passive-firing infrastructure is supposed to be there to make low-performers look objectively unwanted (lawsuit issues) but the headcount limitations and transfer blocks actually end up getting used against high-perfomers that their managers want to keep captive. Google (which has Enron-style performance reviews) has a well-documented problem with this.
But when we consider the consuming power of ASIC platform, I think this board has strength. They said this board consumes 5 watt for typical jobs.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
http://www.aigis.co.uk/blast-resistant-litter-bins
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It is 90 GFLOPS at less that 5 Watts. That's not too shabby. Adapteva claims that the Epiphany cores have a GFLOPS/W ratio of 50.

See here:
http://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2012-08-27/processors-that-ca...

Also, the boards for the backers feature a ZYNQ-7020 SOC by XILINX which sports a 1.3M Gate FPGA, available to the user. This ain't bad either.
Microsoft brings fight to AWS with first full IaaS offering
Cayman XT [Radeon 6970] outputs 2.7 TFLOPS in Single-Precision and 675 GFLOPS in Dual Precision. [1] I think the 6990 is just two of those, or at least that's normally their convention.

[1] http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/12/13/amd-radeon-h...
If nothing else it's very small and uses very little power
Interesting. LaTeX support?
You can get close to 1TF in the GPU space for $99 these days, but at much lower power efficiency. The Adapteva hardware looks to be around 18GF/W, whereas a GPU is about half that at $99.
I've deployed BigBlueButton to a Rackspace Cloud Server. Not terribly difficult but not exactly easy.

We're not using it in production yet, but during testing the system crashed after uploading 1 PPT but worked perfectly fine uploading another (both converted from Keynote) so I'm not sure if something was wrong with the conversion or there was some weird image in the ppt that screwed it up.

I'm still looking around / playing with different options.
This sounds great on the surface but I'm always wondering about specific implementation of this method. How do you charge people for a promise? Do you set a certain timeline so people have something to look forward to?
Experimenting with Swiss Style in CSS
yes, LateX support is there! Inbuilt visual equation editor coming in a week or so! :)
> A single private key passphrase is all that stands between a bad guy and everyone's credit card information... Well I know I feel better...

Where do you get that from? They encrypt all of the CC info using the public key. You need the private key AND the private key passphrase -- and one of them isn't stored on a computer.
I consider "L.A. Noire" the modern equivalent of an adventure game. Much of your time is spent walking around crime scenes picking up everything that isn't nailed down. The rest of the time consists of solving the game's "puzzles", which are all in the form of conversations, and sometimes involve using objects (evidence) to solve, while otherwise requiring careful observation. The combat and chase sequences are actually very incidental, with the foot chases in particular having extremely simplified controls (just hold "up" to climb a whole set of fire escape ladders and stairs) and if you screw them up enough then the game will simply let you skip them. Unlike old adventure games, there are multiple ways to solve each case, and there are no instances of "Moon Logic Puzzles".
Could it be good for path finding and other NP Hard problems? It could do good things for the AI world if that's the case.
If you are correct for the first clause(8 Flops/MHz),
45GHz of Ivy Bridge core has 360k Flops (8 Flops/MHz * 45GHz ==> 8 Flops * 45k).
They should add this as an option for the Google Play store, Free-NotFreeium.
"Hey I just made a website,

And my tech is crazy,

But it's not yet ready,

Come back in 6 months maybe?"
I'm no expert on Earth's climate but I do find it interesting that we are technically in an "ice age" right now. This sort of implies to me that we should expect a rise in temperature as a natural part of climate change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
Previous discussions:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635618

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705487
And, in the case of this seller, it appears this was not an isolated incident. In their reply to the one star review, they state:

Sorry- no idea there was postage due. This has happened alot from USPS lately.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&...
Disney's takeaway from a "violent revolt of rampaging gamers" will be that this IP is tremendously valuable, which is probably the opposite impression you should be cultivating if you want to buy it from them at a low enough price to make third-party development itself practical.
Can anyone remember a few years ago, where it felt like almost twice a week there was a new thing leveraging from Twitter in some way, doing something useful or something novel or something completely terrible? That was great, it created genuine value and drew more users in.

If you're a developer and you build on Facebook, or Twitter, or any other API, you now need to be ready for them to pull the T&Cs out and ban your ass and kill your project because damnit, we can't extract value from your additions that'll help us effectively monetize our customer base.

(p.s. flattr looks like a great service and I'm sure they'll find a work around, but they should have known this was on the horizon)
I look forward to seeing this. Don't just focus on the gaming community.
Backbone.js: Backbone Events
Simplee, a free online personal health care expense management tool
Talking with some friends we all were reminded, we've been in a constant state of war for over a decade now (20 combined years if you think about in a different way). There's a qualitative difference in the populace since 9/11. The first responders in Boston were nurses who had been combat medics during the height of the Iraq war -- people who had seen the same scene dozens of times. Following them were soldiers in uniform who cleared the area of debris to make evacuation easier. It's no doubt a reason the deaths were held to 3.

One of the major outcomes of WWI and WWII was a rapid advancement in trauma surgery, with reconstructive surgery advancing decades almost overnight. It'll be one of the enduring legacies of the Iraq and Afghan Wars that those who lot their legs in this event will be running the marathon again.
Looking at the numbers posted in the article, there are almost as many npm packages published in four years of Node than there are Python packages published in 22. I think just saying "hey, they're new, it'll level off" is a great disservice to the Node guys who made this happen.

Truth is, npm is growing (in terms of # of packages) faster than any community like this ever.
Might be true for Computer Science, but what does computer science have to do with tech/innovation? ;)

Engineering programs are a great example - most provide opportunities for students to join projects outside of the core curriculum to build something cool (sun powered cars, robot competitions, etc). Even the Arts programs offer opportunities to do exciting things (and especially fine arts).

My comment was to dispute the notion that school isn't an environment where someone can push the boundaries - on the contrary, it's the very place that boundaries SHOULD be pushed (both personal and other).
Why The Lean Startup Changes Everything
Steve Blank's article in the Harvard Business Review is free for a month! Announced at his blog ( http://steveblank.com/2013/04/16/when-hell-froze-over-in-the-harvard-business-review/ ).<p>I'm not so sure that I agree with his forward-looking statements about large corporations adopting his methods... business plans are still needed to decide which direction to go into, and product development times are long for a reason in established industries. The GE example is really just more about "understand your market" than lean start-up principles.<p>That said, I'm glad he's in HBR, and I especially like how he plays up the other people who helped articulate the framework he's pushing.
They are clearly wrong. The purpose of higher clock rates is to produce a given answer in a smaller amount of time (latency). The purpose of adding more processors (cores) is to produce more answers in a given time (throughput). They are free to report their results using any standard measurement of throughput. Their answer is weasely.

But then, clock rate is irrelevant to latency and throughput. Really matters how much more work per cycle you get done, how fast you can move IO, and the cost of throughput per watt (and whether the system can meet your requirements at all).
My Reconsideration Request To Google For Selling Links
Let's say your application depends on two libraries A and B. And let's say that these 2 libraries depend on different versions of library C. In Maven if library C is not backward compatible, you're stuck. Only one version of library C can exist in the classpath and so one of your 2 libraries might fail. However, in node, library A and B use their corresponding versions of library C. There are no conflicts.
Which is perfectly fine. I mostly want to be able to trivially use packages which solve my trivial problems, so I can move on to something more fun.

The issue eventually becomes a one of search; when I'm looking for a package, how do I know which are maintained, which never picked up broad adoption, etc?

Between the npm registry[1] and node-toolbox[2], there's already decent visibility into it. I often find the output of 'npm search' daunting to the point of mental paralysis, though.

[1]: eg, if I need a redis client, I can see the redis project is active and broadly used: https://npmjs.org/package/redis

[2]: similarly, http://nodetoolbox.com/categories/Redis
The immediate, apparent, utter dishonesty of Linode in this incident had me closing my account yesterday—and watching my credit card's recent activity. It's bad enough that their security was awful; it's so much worse that they're trying to spin the incident instead of being 100% honest about it, and perhaps offering to compensate those who may have been wronged.
Wow, I was kind of shocked by first impression loading the comment box too! (Before I had even read anything?)

http://snag.gy/m4OLu.jpg
Why can't people just wear their normal glasses or contacts under the headset?
Steve Blank's article in the Harvard Business Review is free for a month! Announced at his blog ( http://steveblank.com/2013/04/16/when-hell-froze-over-in-the... ).

I'm not so sure that I agree with his forward-looking statements about large corporations adopting his methods... business plans are still needed to decide which direction to go into, and product development times are long for a reason in established industries. The GE example is really just more about "understand your market" than lean start-up principles.

That said, I'm glad he's in HBR, and I especially like how he plays up the other people who helped articulate the framework he's pushing.
> Is it any coincidence that the blog stopped around the same time they were acquired? It served its purpose and ran its course. They're done innovating in the space. We'll have to let startups lead the next wave of innovation in online dating.

First, I used to work on the OkTrends team, but I'm speaking for myself, not on behalf of OkCupid.

OkTrends didn't shut down after the acquisition - in fact, they made two posts afterwards (one several months afterwards). The fact that they haven't posted much recently has more to do with the available staff.

It takes a LOT of work to make those posts. The research for "The Real Stuff White People Like" took me a month and a half of working full-time on that and not much else. (Remember that it's "easy" to solve a problem when you define the problem at the start, but with OkTrends, we weren't always starting with a specific problem - each post began as one idea, and then went through multiple iterations before we hit on the "real" question we wanted to answer.).

Around that time, there were three of us working on OkTrends, two of us full-time and the third more-or-less full-time. Once the two full-timers left (for reasons unrelated to the acquisition - I went back to school to finish my degree), you can see why it became much harder to work on those posts.

And before someone says that they could just hire someone else - yes, perhaps, but that's harder than it looks. Data scientist positions are already one of the most difficult to hire for (from a startup perspective), and OkCupid also sets the bar incredibly high. To date, I think that was probably my most intensive and comprehensive interview experience.

Trust me, I give the OkCupid folks crap about this every time I see them (particularly my old boss), because I'd love to see more posts too. But don't think the timing of the hiatus has anything to do with the acquisition; it's truly coincidental. Many startups stop innovating after they're acquired - OkCupid is definitely not one of them.
Thanks for the update. Any word on when the consumer version is coming out?