skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft slams Google - Android Edition
So the message is, be physically in the office because you (or I) may need high-bandwidth collaboration today? Sounds inefficient.

I'm willing to entertain the idea, but I'm not even sure your "it might be needed" explanation is true for BigCo's... look at the proliferation of open office plans, for example. COLLABORATION 24/7, YAY!
Other: Amazon clone

EDIT: I just found out that Amazon was founded in 1994. I think I could still have a chance at rivaling Jeff Bezos though.
He's not describing HFT, he's describing an illegal activity that is not technically possible on any venue I know of.
It's not related to the article, but rather the site hosting it.

I noticed more than one fishy looking 3rd party domain loading while the page downloaded, so went into Inspector to see what was up. There are one or more resources loaded from each of the following domains, in many cases including javascript...

2mdn.net, scorecardresearch.com, bizographics.com, tynt.com, optimizely.com, google.com, sail-horizon.com, facebook.com, 247realmedia.com,akamaihd.net, vizu.com, pubmatic.com, imrworldwide.com, advertising.com, googlesyndication.com, doubleclick.net, chartbeat.com, sharethrough.com, fbcdn.net,
skimresources.com, gstatic.com, stumbleupon.com, tynt.com, adadvisor.net, youtube.com, shareth.ru, agkn.com, yimg.com

'shareth.ru' seemed particularly suspect, until I realized it was probably sharethrough.com trying to be cute.

There are so many domains being trusted here the drive-bys could have drive-bys.
No problem. When I read your post I was confused whether you were suggesting that he could have gotten a 30% speed up in overall time by making i/o more efficient. Now I understand you weren't.

But I would still suggest that, within the context of programming competitions, a certain kind of "programming efficiency" is close to irrelevant. A sloppily coded solution that nevertheless implements the proper algorithm can be many orders of magnitude faster than an efficiently coded implementation of a slow algorithm. Programming contests are more about having the insight to implement an algorithm having low big O, not so much about efficient coding practices. This isn't to say that efficient coding practices aren't important generally, just that there are much more important things to focus on in programming competitions.
FWIW I believe Takeout does work when your account has been disabled, so that you can transfer to another provider.

EDIT: Although sadly it looks like Gmail is not part of Takeout :/
You may be interested in checking out my startup which organizes sports journalists tweets by league and team.
http://www.fancloud.com/nba/cavaliers
AMD's been shipping even their basic mobile chipsets with ~4 eDP for a while. Alas, laptop manufacturers are all cheap bastards, and only bother bringing one maybe two of these links to external ports.

Their discrete mobile GPUs and embedded GPUs still have all six eDP ports as found on their desktop kit. Would that someone step up with a laptop that brought 5 of them out the back! It's a niche feature, but a ragingly awesome niche feature.
Software produced by committee is less secure?
The most interesting part was the reason he believes the account was suspended. He was working on a spreadsheet containing usernames and passwords. If that's really the case, it means some automated system scans not only your email, but documents you work on, for things like password lists, and right away assumes you're up to no good, killing your account. Scary.
another very important exception: crypto
I could pick out misinformation for every word in your reply.

Pretty much every product you said have not evolved is continually improving.

You know I say that? Because I USE them.

I'm 100% sure you have not spent time using these products.
Imagine a beowulf cluster to... power them.
I think I meant to write WinRT instead of Windows RT. My understanding is that Windows RT is the new ARM-based Windows OS, but WinRT is a new set of system calls which replace the old Win32 APIs. Am I mistaken in this?
Typing 'typedef enum' into VS 2012 crashes Visual C++ 2012.
I agree, but for "legitimate" use of address space ("resold" legacy or otherwise), why would this happen?
Twitter has much better uptime than it used to, too.

When you get in the hundreds of millions of users, you've run out of early adopters and end up with users who are a little more demanding about uptime.
Data is worth money. Anyone can build features using data. Data is worth money.

Data is worth money.

Data is worth money.

We are in the age of information, not the age of pretty UIs.
If you bought the Nikkei within the last 25 years or the S&P within the last 15 you're about as likely to be down as up, even including dividends.
Perhaps there should be a feature on resubmissions to preload the discussion with high-rated comments from the previous discussions?
Stardog 1.2 released
I don't normally do this, but relevant to this post:

http://xkcd.com/605/

iPhone market share is relatively stable; Android gains are mainly at the expensive of RIM/Microsoft.

> I believe within eight quarters their profit will fall from $40x billion to $25 billion annually, and they'll lose 1/3 of their existing market share while margins also keep falling.

Do you have any facts to support your opinion? Or is it just a gut feeling you have? Apple isn't going to stand still for 8 quarters. I just bought an iPad Mini for the wife yesterday, the Apple store was very crowded as usual doing $1m+ in sales a day. Its amazing how people make these predictions and always forget about China.
Sometimes I look at an old code and I say "Man, this is awful".

Then I realize that I wrote it.
(Forgot to mention drive letters, unc paths don't work on the console.)

rdp is no substitute for real deployment tools. That you've spent years working around the issues and recently got headless working seven months ago is not impressive. Not when its been mature elsewhere for decades, for free. Nor is your defensive tone.

The original point I made was that there are impediments to using Windows and many still exist whether you believe them or not. If they didn't Windows Server wouldn't be moving closer to the Unix model with every release.
Several in Twitter Following % Growth have <200 followers and a few with only 10s of followers. At these numbers 100%+ growth may not necessarily be an indicator of "hottest".
Definitely a good read for anyone experiencing coder's block! Just stop worrying dig right in!
I'm sorry, you complained too many times and made too little sense, so now I don't want to discuss anything at all with you =P
90k is by no means optimistic; new grads at any of the BigCos start at 100k base not including bonuses, stock grants/RSUs, or relocation. If you're highly marketable due to internships, personal projects, etc. and have multiple offers, that can be easily bumped up by a significant margin. Additionally, if you're capable of making it into one of those top schools and then, again, into the CS department, you're more than likely eligible for numerous scholarships and other merit-based financial aid. To end up with 250k in tuition would require you to come from an extremely wealthy family who refuses to pay any of the cost of your education, and likely spending more than four years at university as well.

Internship pay (assuming one position as a rising Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior) will add up to 60-70k, and contracting could be another 5-10k for only a few hours of work every few months. The benefits are, as you yourself mentioned, being able to indulge your passions and dive into esoteric areas without the pressures of the real world. Had I dropped out of university I never would've been able to pursue my interest in quantitative literature, my ex-roommate would never have taken the dive into distributed systems, both decisions which have had a net return over not going, even accounting for lost salary.
Biz Stone introduces Jelly's CTO Ben Finkel
Sounds like you need to use Ghostery to nuke all those analytics scripts automatically.
Free Event: Fiber for Breakfast: Fueling Healthcare Innovation
You are just shooting from the hip again.

Apple can probably be a great company with just 20% of the international market and 40% of the US market (also, they are gaining % in the US which is sort of an indicator for how the world would behave in the near future).

Does the profit machine hold so well if you have a declining market share?

Yes. All that matters directly is $ not how many units you sell. As a business it all comes down to $ and whether you can keep it flowing. They have kept it flowing with a reduced market share by units. Also, shouldn't the system have collapsed long ago when Android overtook iOS quite a while back? Care to explain why it will fall? As a developer, I will always develop apps for the platform with the most number of paying customers who appreciate quality.

Consumers with $ will always go towards the best product. The hackers will go towards the best platform.

*I don't think it will hold up. I believe there's very likely a market share line in the sand, that if Apple gets pushed below it, there will be terrible profit consequences.(

Instead of giving poetic descriptions, please give us solid reasoning from financial first principles.

I am convinced that you just want to see Apple fail and have no solid argument. I would be interested in one if you have it. It is not all flowery for Apple, but claiming "terrible profit consequences" is just FUDish IMHO.
That was actually a typo. I meant to type "consciousness doesn't really have anything to do with complexity." In the sense that you could probably define an intelligent being like a human in very little space.

>In other words, the complexity is still there.

Well yes in a way. By the definitions used in information theory, complexity is just the amount of bits you need to accurately describe something in some language. By common usage complexity just means the amount of concepts you need to learn to understand something (about the same thing.) But it can also mean the number of moving parts a machine has, so to speak, which could be very large while simple enough to understand or write on paper. Like a computer display which has a few thousand pixels each of which is almost exactly the same.

I don't know if you would call a computer display complicated, at least not much moreso than the invidual pixels that make it up. The same is probably true of humans. Even if humans are fairly complicated, someday a connectionist approach or maybe a rough approximation of a human brain might succeed at creating something arguably conscious.

>If you're trying to argue that the complexity may not be in the algorithm itself, but only in the actual working out of the algorithm in time and space, I'll buy that.

This may be a much better way of describing what I just said above. So yeah.
There's an add-on that merges the address and search bars: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foobar/

> I've always supported Mozilla's mission, but I'm still a Chrome user because I feel like it's a more polished consumer product

If you're not using Firefox, how are you "supporting" Mozilla's mission?
It's easy, if you exhaust yourself by reading or browsing until you drop. (Not saying it's a good idea, but I do it a lot).
Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?! And the real question here, who's going to be the first person to accidentally pinch their friends nose when trying to zoom? How will we recover from such embarrassment? Is it in the warranty?!

On the other hand this does look interesting, I wonder if you could use this to "select" things in the world like "click/point to" a restaurant sign to learn more.
Masonic Emblems on Coins and Medallions during the French Revolution
I believe I was not around then. I started when the shared hosting was a really popular thing with fixed bandwidth and even that could of easily survived HN. So, I'm kind of amazed on why some sites can't handle that in 2013.
I don't really think wakemate ever had any actual business.

They had an overhyped alpha phase that never really got to a beta. Then they sold that alpha and everything, from the almost laughable unit itself to the broken website interface to the constantly failing android app, was desperately undertested and destined to fail.

Sorry about the rant. Still kinda bummed out over the $70 bucks I lost on this.
Like I said in a previous post, the Apple store in Sanlitun Village (Beijing) keeps doing $1m+ sales a day, iPhones keep becoming more ubiquitous here, not less, and Android headsets are seen as a good choice...for farmers who can't afford iPhones. Ya, XiaoMi is great...if you can't afford an iPhone. Those officials would love to push domestic vendors, except they are too busy buying iPhones for themselves and their family.

China will eventually overtake the US as Apple's largest market, everyone knows this; Cook admitted it, and it wasn't controversial when he said it.
"One look, one gesture"? This is engineering, not a fucking love story. Ordinary English should be sufficient to communicate status information.
Younger people buy their stuff online. Anytime someone wants to buy something they no longer have to drive to get it. I wouldn't be surprised if this impacts younger cohorts more as well.
That's true. I messed with other ways of weighting it, or just putting the absolute number of new followers (e.g. Dropbox gained 70,000) but already has 2.3M. Thoughts?
I'm not sure if they're that great, they seem contempt or OK is releasing pretty poor games lately (Duke Nukem Forever and Colonial Marines).
Want to keep more of your money? Early invitations available.
We're not out yet and can't say much but let's just say this is a personal finance tool with some gaming elements...Sign up, invite your friends and start planning how you're going to buy that private island.
> Glass will be made by a third party but feature support from Google

I hope in the future it will be made only by 3rd parties. Say, you buy nicely looking designer shades and they have google glass. Right now it's ugly, vulgar, creepy and has a high douchebaggery factor, I wonder how they want to convince people to walk around with this thing on their faces.
Isn't the deal with Google Docs that you can revoke that access a second after you realize you made the mistake? Unlike, say, sending the doc as an attachment?
I totally agree with this notion about "timing." MICHAEL RAYNOR has some good research in The Strategy Paradox. One of his central points is that all of the behaviors that create "knock it out of the park" success are the same behaviors that create bankruptcies. He uses the classic example re: Apple, but also provides many others.

http://cdn.dupress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/US_deloitt...
If I shake hands with the top 10% of SAT scorers in the country, then 10 years down the road determine that their average earnings are greater than that for their age cohort, does that mean my handshake is worth $200,000?

This is precisely what universities do and argue that buying into the massive education bubble is still a "good investment" since you earn more.

I have no doubt there is value to classroom lecturing and the "soft" features like interaction with a wide range of your peers (assuming you choose to leave your dorm room), but the value of college can't be estimated by earnings differentials between college graduates and non-college graduates.
If it was based on the content of a document in the Google Drive, it's probably an automated rule. Clearly such an automated rule is going above and beyond the minimum action by affecting the entire account rather than just the document in question. Given that characteristic, I wonder if it might also shutdown the account of anyone who the document is shared with. Could be quite dangerous if it does. Documents can be added into someone's Google Drive just by having them follow a link.
If one review worries you, you probably have too few reviews. I’d say, get in touch with users of your app and ask them to leave reviews.
Until dropbox wipes their side and waits for you to sync...
What would be interesting is establishing benchmarks from the historical data you have collected around Likes/Follows/etc. Then using the benchmark, compare the weekly or monthly change for each startup relative to its previous Like/Follow count
The most ridiculous startup ideas that became billion dollar businesses
I can read faster than you can speak. I can probably even write faster than I can speak. And most importantly, I can defer both activities to a time when I'm not focusing on something. It's standups that are the impediment.
Google is the one that people are most invested in.
Well, judge for yourself: http://open.spotify.com/artist/6BPUgRHwjjtpLZnVsgPnp4
"Services I'd Pay For", May 2013 Edition:

1) A hands-off, hassle-free service that connects to all your Google 'properties' and backs up everything every hour, on the hour, and allows easy importing into a selection of similar replacement services if/when the Googleplex smites me down.

2) See 1).
Pretty UIs can be copied... big user base and data can't!
It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone.

Or if you drove around showing off your crazy automobile contraption instead of riding a horse like a normal person.

Or if you wore a timepiece strapped to your wrist, instead of on a chain in your pocket like a proper gentleman. (And later, if the watch on your wrist had some kind of ugly LCD thing, instead of a handsome analog face.)

Then again, there was a time when you were a douche if you rode around on a Segway... and that period never ended.

So I guess this could go either way.
It's interesting you chose 1995 because that's the year I entered college the first time around, and my dreams of writing operating systems were dashed by required classes in COBOL (to justify keeping the department's pet IBM 370 around) and the appearance of Linux which took over the server & workstation space by the time I left.

So if I could go back to 1995, I'd probably be working on that "User Friendly Windows Operating System" and maybe beat OSX out of the gate. Who knows how much success I'd have, but it would be a hell of a lot of fun. Besides, you said I'd have all the resources I needed to do it right!
You could try only taking account companies that are ranked under 100k (like Alexa does on their own website).

Many of the companies on that list have ranks somewhere in millions, which can fluctuate quite easily, and many of the companies have been around for months or years.

Edit: Accelgolf seems to be dead too. Blog & website broken and no updates for two years on twitter, linkedin indicates the founders have moved on.
An open-source version of the Inferno VM, to take the place of both Linux and Java.
Ask HN: How to export GReader Starred items and GBookmarks to Evernote?
This is going to sound like I'm selling Evernote, but I'm not. It's just that Evernote supports data portability more than the competition.

I'm going to be transferring all my Chrome Bookmarks and previous Google Starred items to Evernote.

How?

With these programs:

https://github.com/kerchen/export_gr2evernote

https://github.com/spiermar/bookmarks2evernote

Why?

I have 3 premium months for free so I want everything all in one place so then I can sort, delete, and reorganize these bookmarks.

The problem is none of these github pages come with instructions. I'm running Arch Linux and nothing happens when I type the command x >> x.py.

If you're the author of these pages, don't assume people will magically know how to use these programs!

DAE how to use these?
Can you please tell me how because I really want to get this done.
Yet places in Chinatown selling cheap tourist kitsch don't seem to have the same rent struggles.
I think that HBO are quietly positioning themselves to prosper when the cable bubble finally bursts, though- HBOGO is great. Compare that to Showtime, for example, whose app offerings are widely panned.
Great, whenever anyone uses this new technology they'll be warped into a bizarro Charlie Chaplin style universe where everyone is a buffoonish clutz.
Kickstarter Documentary on the cultural influence of The Legend of Zelda
The Excel error heard 'round the world has put deficit-cutters on the defensive
Yeah, about that... :-/

I've decided to just treat Graham and McCain as if they're representing the Golden Dawn party for now.
Edit: yes you are right.

I was more concerned with 1.6, 1.8, 1.4. Definitely, as long as N is an integer, scaling will work correctly.
I just finished watching the first season of House of Cards and I really enjoyed it. It's up there with original HBO programming as far as quality is concerned. If they can keep that up then traditional outlets should definitely stay worried. I know there was some talk about Netflix's future because of their dependence on content providers, but if they can keep this up then they certainly have a hand to play.
Visual Studio :)
I'm not a coffee/tea drinker and I don't drink soft drinks (caffeine or otherwise) apart from when its mixed with alcohol. I personally find it takes me a lot longer to get to sleep after having consumed pre-mixed alcohol involving things like cola. Beer, on the other hand, does not seem to have the same effect even when consumed at the same time of day.
>There is no doubt in my mind that if you're the type of student who can get into MIT/Stanford/CMU/Berkeley/etc (at least Berkeley Engineering),

And if we're not? Do go to college then?
Most developers think that their apps belong to the "something so interesting and cool that you must share it with everyone" category, I am sure you think that your app belongs to that category too.

The problem is that how many apps actually belong to that category? These are the apps on top of my head:

- instagram

- pinterest(sometimes, but, not always)

- what else?

Just go check out your Facebook feed, how many of those activities are actually generated by your favorite apps?
I keep seeing qz.com linked here: Is there a bloody reason that the page doesn't go completely to the right side, so I can use my bloody mousewheel without my mouse being over the content?
They just released another Netflix-original series, Hemlock Grove. After watching through it, I'm not that impressed. The reviews I've read also seem to be on the negative side.
Netflix competing against HBO will be great, especially when HBO separates itself from its current model of being a cable add-on. Lilyhammer (Netflix) and Game of Thrones (HBO) are two of the best shows being produced right now, not to mention all of the other great original content both have provided. Mainstream TV is not at all compelling in comparison.
See what I said here: In fact, this probably applies to most colleges, not just top-tier ones, but in which case the salary numbers are more variable.

The problem is that your situation is a lot more variable. I know people who dropped out of community college and are make 100k+ in SV right now. I know people in better colleges studying CS who will probably never make that much. It's a lot more variable.
Why 256bit encryption keys are large enough
"Go may have been created at Google, but it's really the work of Pike and Thompson;"

Ok, so products created within Google by Google employees don't count?

What other restrictions do you have?
Now, to send out a mass email to every student asking them to chip some paint off their ceiling and check... =D
I look at a lot of my old code and think that, as I should. You should be learning from every piece of code you write so that when you're done writing it's already obsolete based on your new set of knowledge.
I think this is the point.