skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From all that verbiage I was able to extract that Mir might screw up community supported Ubuntu-derived distributions. I can see how some people would like their road map explained.

I was hoping there would be a real comparison of Wayland and Mir development. It seems like they may be identical in effect, and both will enable using Android HAL implementations in mobile devices.

I had an occasion to ask a Linux kernel developer about this and got an answer long the lines of "Why ask? Only Ubunutu will use Mir."
Do 500W GPUs play any part in this? No. The bitcoin client is a standalone app that can run on any machine. Mining (generating hashes) does not, to my knowledge, actually operate the network.

Hell, if bitcoin needs 1000 petaflops just to operate the network when it is still a fringe currency, how exactly is it supposed to scale to mainstream use?
If we continue slashing arts, music, woodshop etc. in favor of more AP classes you'd end up being somewhat right, but still, you have no idea the difference in education quality
No, that's only a piece of the puzzle. See my other comments in this thread.
I'll mentor someone wanting to get started with programming. I'll get you up to the level you need to be to make Android games.

Requirements:

* Drive - You have to want to learn!

* Modern computer

* Skype (or similar)

Email me at zchlatta (at) gmail.com!
"Hi Mom, I just called you using something I found online"

"What?? What does that mean? Is it tracking me? I heard from Sylvia's sister that people are tracking you everywhere you go now on the internet? Is that true? This call makes me very nervous now."

"Uhhh, that was just a joke? Anyway Happy Mother's Day"

"How come you only call me on Mother's Day??"
Fairly likely the poster got it via RSS, so we're all reading it through RSS indirectly.
It doesn't just do it for the sake of "computing numbers":

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99631.0
http://teachingtree.co/cs

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/

http://www.algorithmatic.com/browse?q=sort:latest
"Embarrassingly parallel" is a term used to describe problems that can be easily divided amongst processes and require little to no communication between processes.
Methadone, at least in my experience, really does "zombify" you. It has really pronounced CNS depressant effects. It's basically no different from Heroin in how it affects your state of mind: that's why I personally chose Suboxone as my ORT drug.
Because the payloads are tiny and require almost no coordination compared to many algorithms.

Machines take small work packets and crunch numbers, then pass back results in minutes. For many clusters, various steps of the algorithms require fast messaging for things like MPI.

TL;DR Bitcoin: no coordination during work
Wow, that was beautiful. And dead on.
>Any reasonable businessperson would see a company like Instagram for what it is: a server with some data on it.

I think you mean technical person, because a business person saw them correctly and acted accordingly: a threat (and this is all about growth, and this is the reason of separation between startups and regular companies).
Of course one could see it as "IT's revenge" after Scott McNealy so famously said it was dead. There is a lot of power to be had by creating an interface for the customer and then keeping everything behind that interface 'obscure'. They have to have that interface to survive, and if they don't know what goes on behind it they have no way of discerning outrageous costs from reasonable ones. The current exemplar seems to be medical costs.

Back in the 60's there was this chamber of secrets called "the Machine Room" which had the "Mainframe" and various and sundry high priests who went in and out, and if you literally played your cards, as in punched cards, right you could get a report on how sales or manufacturing was doing this month.

That got lost when everyone had a PC on their desk, and now some folks are trying to reclaim it :-)

That said the article is still poorly argued. The cost of data management is fairly high. And generally a big chunk of that cost is the cost of specialists who provide business 'continuance' which is code for "makes sure that you can always get your data when you need it, and you can get the answers you need from it in a timely and repeatable fashion." That hasn't changed at all, and whether you have some youngster doing "IT" on the creaky Windows 2000 machine running Back Office or you are using a SaaS company like Salesforce.com, data management is and will continue to be a mission critical part of staying in business.
Ask HN: How do you manage your functional testing process?
We've got all kinds of automated tests. They're great. But we still have humans test our application before each release. Right now I use spreadsheets to manage lists of things to test. It's cumbersome and there has to be a better way!
Zhu Ling Case Re-emerges, Unleashing Chinese Fury
Cool! I love a good complaint
I agree with you. The idea of "mining" these numbers using an ever-increasing amount of computing power is simply absurd. They'd have done better to allocate the coins in some other way .. I don't know how, maybe distributed equally among Hacker News readers? That would be as good as anything, to get the system started.
Dots: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dots-a-game-about-connecting...
If > 1 week, I use Airbnb. There's usually a discount for lengthy stayes. Less than than, it's not worth the hassle since most hosts require a specific time to meet up to exchange keys and instructions - which is difficult considering flight delays, new terrotories, no cell phone if you're out of the country.

I also use hotels.com, which is nice for its 10th or 11th night free stay in participating hotels.
In many countries, subtitles are an integral part of watching movies in theaters. The 3D boom (fad?) lately has introduced a new problem: When combined with subtitles it leads to lots of headaches, since the subtitles are usually in a different z-plane than the action. Since my English is good enough, I've been waiting for 3D glasses with integrated closed captioning, such that people who don't need them can turn it off. Additionally, many places are highly multi cultural and freely adjustable subtitle languages will be very beneficial there. This innovation will then not only benefit the deaf if applied correctly.
Still, I think it's more moral than sending children into the earth to mine gold.
I've lived half my life as a kid in Bangalore and half in the US. All I can say is if you're willing to eat Chapati and Dal and never go out to "do" things while living in the San Francisco area, basically, if you live like an Indian, you won't have trouble "getting somewhere". It's not like rent is cheap in India, and getting your kid into a decent college is way harder.
I am about to return to grad school after working a bit in industry; so this article is very relevant to me. I will be doing a Masters right now, but I do plan on doing a PhD afterwards.

I am constantly splitting my brains about how I can work on an "important" problem; something where my expertise will be relevant years after grad school, too. And I don't want to become a professor and there is a chance I might choose to go back to my home country (not much of compsci products, but very good e-commerce and banking); so my expertise should be of value even in a consumer-of-technology (not producer) economy.

If anybody has ideas about how to pick an area for research, I'd love to hear.
Thingsquare Code: program the Internet of Things from your browser
Inefficiencies: using C++ and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Cube (YC W12) is looking for mobile and web interns
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The Market:

Did you know that $3.8 trillion in credit card transactions are processed each year? Of that, 5% is e-commerce, 5% is mobile, and 90% are in-person transactions at the point of sale. There has been a lot of innovation with online payments, but very little innovation with in-person payments.

The Role:

We're looking for motivated mobile and web interns who want to spend the summer hacking as part of a very small team. We'll cover all the annoying things, like food and rent, so you can concentrate on building, learning, and networking with peers around the Bay Area.

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I can't speak for others, when I was a kid, computers were powerful machines locked away and operated by seemingly mythical people. When I started reading about them I realized quickly there's nothing mythical, magical or mysterious about them at all. Then I wondered why isn't this power available to anyone, to everyone? It dawned on me in a flash, power and control.

I keep the cloud at an arm's distance, those computing resources are not owned or controlled by me. The cloud, given full control like a ChromeBook, takes all of the control away from me.
Umm...he's clearly not an idiot. Check his CV if you don't believe me.

But he does say that.

There are two possible conclusions:

1. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, he is in fact an idiot.

2. I'm quoting him out of context. I took classes from him at UCSD. Maybe I didn't understand him. But maybe I did.

3. You don't know enough about his philosophy to understand what he means, but he really, really does mean that. Not "in context," but always.

Now despite my respect for him, I think he does gloss over the power user UI when he says that. He has an entire book on how bad the Unix command line is, and yet there are some things I wouldn't want to use a GUI for. But I'm not a typical user; probably very few people on HN are.

Think about the "Principle of Least Astonishment," though. [1] The more things that work as you expect, the better an API or language is, right? The same should be true of an editor.

I know that in vim you can reuse your knowledge in many ways, but it's all restricted to the vim environment. You can hack that environment onto a command line; maybe even hack it into Firefox text entry boxes. But there are dozens of apps that won't have that ability, and you'll be handicapped in all of them. And there are millions of people who know how to use CUA keyboard shortcuts, and for them the PLA says to have the basic controls use CUA standards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
People should read (if they must) this in context of Greenspun's rather fanatical political ideology. His blog has plenty of samples, I don't want to link to it.
Similar service, with link shortening and markdown support: http://hashify.me/
Bowie's Space Oddity sung from space... awesome
Idea vs Execution
Is this some kind of a joke? I feel sorry for anyone who actually accesses this so-called mobile website from a mobile, wow. Worse mobile website of all time?
Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping
did Tropo not require any kind of verification on the phone numbers you were sending messages from?
Mama also means mother in Hungarian though. Nagymama (nagy means big) is grandmother.
Phil should get that money. It's the casino's fault that the dealer rotated the cards and exposed their value to Phil, and that the cards weren't destroyed at the end of each day. If they present a deck of cards with a flaw, that is their fault.
I think it's a bit like the weather in New England, if its not to your liking you need to go inside and have a cup of coffee and then come back outside, all new weather. :-)
Eliss was the first game for iPhone that I played that really took multitouch to a new level. It's been around for a while now but it is still good. The music is fantastic. The creator's (steph thirion) next game Faraway is supposed to be really interesting but it is still under heavy development.

http://www.toucheliss.com/

http://www.playfaraway.com/
Exactly right. Calling proof-of-work useless is like calling physical locks "a bunch of wasted metal just sitting there doing nothing."
> In spoken Telugu today, 'amma' is far more common than 'talli'.

That's intriguing, because 'amma' is the Tamil word for mother.
Motivation and Passion is a Myth
> minimal graphic design with excellent interactive flourishes

Why is this relevant?
Not really, plenty of kids have grown up on WoW or EverQuest or LPMUD or whatever before this, not to mention so many other games. I don't see how Minecraft is revolutionary in this respect.
The bitcoin network isn't just computing numbers for the sake of computing numbers. Proof-of-work is integral to the "decentralized network of trust" that is bitcoin.

Also, even if bitcoin became the dominant global currency, I highly doubt that it would take up a noticeable portion of the world's computing resources.
haha yes, very common to the point where I no longer have a capslock key (my keyboard is programmable, so I nuked it).
Not just a different design, a different set of features. For example, no backreferences.
Thanks, we've removed the server limit for the moment and put up a screenshots page. Any feedback you have on the UI and how we could make it more useful to you than Ansible (besides our autogenerated scripts) would be awesome.
An awesome idea. Simple, great execution that doesn't overcomplicate the goal of the site. People love to review and complain, but I wonder what kind of implications a site like this could have if people leave false noise complaints especially if addresses are being publicly posted. While I doubt reporting noisy homes and businesses could do too much damage, I just wonder if there is a process in place to have false complaints removed and what that process looks like?

Great idea. I wish I thought of it.
Ya? Then why is Android share dropping and iOS gaining.

http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/2013/04/08/an...
And exactly what "fanatical political ideology" is that? Must be pretty horrible mind-poisoning stuff if you feel compelled to warn people off of his blog ("if they must"), eh?
Why Sysadmin's Can't Code
Great! Thanks!
Do you know any example of one of these time banks, but online?
Ask HN: Review my startup, www.yoused.me
Hi, I currently studied web development (Rails, HTML5, Javascript and CSS3) and have this idea of a website specializing in distributing used goods around the Bay. My website features a way of showing a product's price, condition, description and photos. My users can also search a product and find it within a certain radius from their location. The main feature of my site though is a private messaging feature. This allows users to instantly message other users of their interest instead of having the inconvenience of opening another application or window for email, and as well as giving out their private e-mail account. My site is all about convenience and functionality. I haven't put much effort on design yet (I will in the future).

Link: www.yoused.me

Any form of criticism is welcome! :)
> If anybody has ideas about how to pick an area for research, I'd love to hear.

If you don't really know, maybe you shouldn't do it, or at least stop after your masters. PhD is not something you do some work to get, its rather something that comes along with the work you do.
It is a common term in concurrency and parallelism that refers to a specific kind of task [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
Maybe Erik Meijer?
We were originally going to create a bastion but got some early feedback that server admins wanted user management, and a bastion as a side feature. We've got two-factor auth right now. Would you use a bastion + user management, or if not, what's your need for the bastion besides the need for a solid, secure, locked-down entry point?
Those who enjoy this review will also enjoy Philip's review [1] of "Straight from the Gut" by Jack Welch (former CEO of GE):

If you want to learn the names of every person who ever worked at GE during Jack Welch's 40 years there, you'll find this book invaluable. If you want to learn something about what made GE successful, however, good luck picking out the few saplings of wisdom from the thick forest of names.
Golf and tennis fans will also find the book fascinating for its endless catalog of golf and tennis resorts nationwide. Apparently being anywhere near the top at GE requires moving to Fairfield, Connecticut and aping the Lifestyles of the Bland and WASPy.

One interesting thing I learned is that GE went from 0 percent employee ownership to 31 percent during Jack Welch's tenure as CEO, primarily through granting of stock options to top managers such as Jack himself. Jack doesn't talk about this except to say that he's proud of the number. He doesn't get into the question of whether the investors from 1980 are happy now that they own less than 70 percent of the company. Nor does he talk about what would have happened to GE's earnings if they'd accounted for all of these stock options at time of issue.

The useful and interesting content in this book could have been presented in 75 pages if the editors and ghostwriter had been doing their jobs. But they weren't doing their jobs. So the readers all have to "give 110 percent" or "give 1000 percent". Maybe this is what Jack Welch wanted because he uses these expressions numerous times throughout Straight from the Gut.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Straight-Gut-Welch/dp/0446690686
Personally, I don't have the energy for a monumental struggle with local government to get potholes filled and streets cleaned. I'd have to convince a bunch of regular people first that the streets are miserable, a fact that they attenuated a long time ago for their own sanity.

I'm also not inclined to just go fill the potholes myself.
They require an outbound token associated with your app
Ok, here's some "conversational language" insight:

He said: "Exactly this business model" -- that is, as it pertains to it's essence.

NOT to be read as:

"Exactly this business model as it pertains to inconsequential details, like which big company they should be imitating".
Probably it was meant to be "mumma" not "mama". Though the interesting part I see is "mma"/"umma"/"amma"
I'm reminded of Lanier every time I hear a startup pitch exit strategy like "to be acquired by Bla" like your purpose in life is to find missing features in the giants and then hand it over to them for cash. Seems to me there is space for stand alone alternatives that don't completely rely on the existing winners of the online land grab.
Yeah. I'm a scientist that deals with huge datasets. Huge. I must admit that I do cringe a little every time I see the words 'big data'.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the post. Only the title.
> Yes, but in China Google services aren't nearly as prevalent as they are in the US. Baidu is as popular, so naturally it'd be okay as a default standard.

And if Google's services became so crappy that people started using something else (like Bing) on their PCs, then it would be trivial for Android phones to switch over to that as well.

My point was that Android phones are not tied to Google services, and that Chinese Android phones are a good example of that.

> The Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S1) on Verizon had Bing included by default, and there were quite a bit of complaints about it

Yes, because people didn't want or expect Bing, they wanted Google. The reason why almost all Android phones (outside of China) have Google as their default is because people want Google to be the default, not because Google has mandated it.
You know that, shockingly, there is a world outside USA?
Computing SHA hashes is embarrassingly parallel, but LINPACK is NOT embarrassingly parallel. LINPACK, like many scientific applications, requires a fair amount of communication. Comparing hashes per second to LINPACK scores is really apples to oranges. A better comparison is to simply add up numbers of similar GPUs and CPUs and ignore all the benchmarks.

Bitcoin enthusiasts should also consider that the Top500 is not an exhaustive list; governments have much more computational power than is on the list.
(Google paper) DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
It may be a lack of "social intelligence" as you say, but it could also be a result of Broken Windows Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory). What incentive does one person have to organize his/her trash when there are already massive burning piles in the street?
Ex-AWS engineer does an AMA
Chasing Big Data Unicorns
What we need is something similar to ReCAPTCHA - use the computations for good while doing the mining.
Looking for a mentor to kick-start my career in Web development

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Is this still true though? Lots of businesses are spinning up instances in "the cloud" for big compute jobs and then shutting them down. What bigger cloud is there than the millions of idle internet connected devices?

I've only invested about 5 minutes thinking about it, and previous failures are probably a strong indicator that the idea isn't profitable. I'm just questioning whether previous attempts were premature.

There is a market for un-utilised compute (bitcoin/torrent) and a market that requires compute (AWS/Azure/Etc). An intermediary to join these two markets seems like an opportunity (naively).
Laptop U: Has the future of college moved online?
If you want to make an impact on an important problem, I'd focus on the advisor first, not the area of research. Pick an advisor with a track record for strong publications in quality journals. Someone who produces quality research will typically have the best sense of what problems are and aren't important, and can guide you much better than bystanders who don't know your skills. In addition, a strong advisor will have the contacts necessary to get you in touch with other top researchers in your field, which is extremely important in producing high quality publications.
Yes, thank you. You still see them in your inbox view (due to multiple inbox) so you are still aware of them.
This is so embarrassingly bad...it starts bad, and then gets worse... examples:

He discredits one of Sandberg's scientifically verified claims that women take criticism worse than men, by referencing "as John Ioannidis notes, “Most Published Research Findings are False.”

Yet he begins his review with a US News report:

"This US News article describes research that found that, among college graduates, left-handed men earned 20 percent more than right-handed men."

Talk about a bayesian paradox here. It's easy to prove people wrong (and right) when you believe A and ~A.

I could go on, it gets much worse. Does he really think Harvard uses the same internet bandwidth for their particle physics dept and the dorms? Ugh...