skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I agree work based allocators are out.
Specifically, if you follow/mark N references for each M words allocated, you can guarantee to not fall behind and still have a strict upper bound on collection cost/run-time jitter. This adds a linear-in-size cost to memory allocation, which already typically has an amortized linear cost (because you touch all memory allocated) so it's analytically very well behaved.
God damn, this was one of the huge reason I was still sticking with Firefox...
Or alternatively instead of testing the market with the mindset of absolute consumer naivety.... and the fact that in this industry it's much easier to make a bet that your comfortable with and then just putting it out there and see. No amount of market research will tell you that an iPad was a good idea for a product. Likewise I don't need any market research to know that a teleporting machine would be a good idea.

Learn how to understand what has value. Build things for yourself that you find valuable and sell those things.

I've never done market research and I sure as hell don't ask my customers for feedback. I just build things I want and it turns out I'm almost never alone, the question then becomes a matter of just how much other people want it. But again this is all predicated on the idea that you actually know what is a good idea for a product (which I believe many people do know).
I started using Firefox for the past couple of days.

I find it slower than Chrome, not page loading but in terms of being responsive.

Sometimes there is an issue when I drag a word into a new tab, I would like it to search google, but it tries to go to the site.

I had to reload the page a few times to listen to the changelog today and gave up and just switched back to Chrome.
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To see other sessions

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Yeah, check if you have the firefox-globalmenu apt package installed. If so, check for "Global Menu Integration" in extensions.
sue redhat? Or someone else who will put their butts on the line. Maybe what needs to happen is some open source businesses need to enter the fray, offering configured and working lab systems, integration, and support guarantees.
In India, laptops can be cash-on-delivery. When I order from Flipkart(India's very own Amazon), I always opt for cash-on-delivery. I see no point in paying up-front when sometimes they don't have the goods and I have to wait for refunds. The delivery person carries card reader, so there is no need to carry large amounts of cash.
Very awesome. Glad you shared. I think I may remember seeing Snailmailr.
It isn't a major player at all. Indian Post Office is mostly used for sending documents and stuff and people prefer it because it's cheaper and available in most destinations ranging from metro cities to small villages.
Most ecommerce players use private logistics companies like BlueDart, DTDC, etc. They use Indian Postal Service only for rural orders where BlueDart and the like don't service.
This man has more mental energy at nearly 100 than I do in my 30s. What a gift he has.
This is Chrome's definitive legitimation as the standard browser UI.

I personally think it sucks (on OS X, that is). How anyone can think that a 10px window dragging area is fine is beyond me.

I just hope Apple can step up its game with Safari.
The Reuters article (which Gizmodo re-blogspammed) says the distance was 10 feet:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-apple-samsung-l...

"Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company's
tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass
tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could
identify which company produced which.

'Not at this distance your honor,' said Sullivan, who stood at a
podium roughly ten feet away."
> what needs to happen is some open source businesses need to enter the fray, offering configured and working lab systems, integration, and support guarantees

Sounds like a startup opportunity to me!

> redhat

They'd probably be decent at it...if they made a conscious high-level decision to devote resources to focus on the education market, and followed through.
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It will. But when, nobody knows.
Can hackers always choose where they work?
Firefox 4-20 hasn't had any toolbar button changes. You really can't count third-party addons as something that Mozilla changes to the toolbar.
Where should we submit our complaints? I jumped on Ubuntu on my senior year and it's been awesome so far but LibreOffice is seriously deficient.

I'd love to contribute!
1. I don't believe Firefox UI is busy

2. We always had those kind of "busy" UI since IE, Netscape, Opera and Firefox.

3. Chrome comes around, makes a very simplistic UI and now many people assume that it's the only way.

IMO Chrome is just too simplistic, It's beautiful yes but is it efficient? For example, the first thing I do when I install Firefox on a machine is to display the menu bar. And I think it's a shame there is no more status bar as well.
On the other hand, if the endorphin hit is too big people can absolutely become hopelessly addicted to skinner boxes. Just look at the slot machines at any major casino.

This I think is Zynga's real goal.
Major props to Elon and Tesla as a whole on paying back its government loan before its maturity date. Hope this catches other car manufacturers off guard and reinforces the idea of how successful an auto company can be with properly built and aesthetically looking electric vehicles.
In my area, it's that the technology budget is separate from the general fund budget. The general fund, which pays for teachers, facilities maintenance, and things like libraries is squeezed by falling payments from the state and a cap on the amount of local contribution. We're losing teachers each year (I think 7 years and counting) and the overall budget is down about 35% from the peak in the early 2000s. The local voters haven't rejected a general levy in many years, although they did reject a capital levy for a renovation to combine two schools. (that would have closed a school campus that dates from the early 1900s and needs seismic upgrades to be safe, and moved the students to the half empty high school)

The tech budget is funded by separate tech levies, which can only be spent on computers or tech related staff.

This leaves the district in the strange place of being able to afford iPads all around for a couple grades in middle school, but not being able to afford a librarian for the primary school. There can be a media specialist, but only if the media is not books. They can have smart whiteboards in each classroom. But not a librarian.
Because you can't shake it.
Lie. No one ever sues MSFT for delivering a bad product, let alone (cash-strapped) schools.
Let's start a charity where developers donate time to migrate local schools to open source.
Right, it's a "social game" that encourages intelligent gameplay. Building it as an open platform that others could add logic (say in asm.js modules) would be a cool hook. I'm encouraged by what Minecraft is doing in making a very nerdy game cool, and supplanting mind-numbing entertainment or purely violent games for younger kids. Having something like Minecraft but instantly accessible though the web could be a good way to bring new players into the genre, even if they end up being Minecraft players at some point.
It's Gizmodo, they probably just popped open a bottle of champagne now that you promoted them to "reporting, albeit shitty".
Surely if it's buried, as seems to be the general consensus for cheapest mode of safe deployment, then it doesn't shake? Also, these have been deployed successfully in cars and on various other types of vehicles (cranes, etc.) so the physical stability issue is certainly not a big one. My high school physics is terrible but the keyword vacuum might have something to do with that. Data centers would be concerned about safety in earthquakes, too, but flywheels like this one seem widely deployed: http://www.socomec.com/range-dynamic-energy-storage_en.html?...
Try this:

The front page should not have a page number.

Please place a header on each page. On the even pages, the header should be on the left, on the odd pages, the header should be on the right. On the bottom-center of each page, place the page number, except for the front page, as specified above.

The above is probably a bit much, but it is, as far as I know, absolutely impossible to do in Libre Office, or it is not, it is extremely difficult to do, but this sort of formatting is absolutely trivial in MS.

If the above sounds to complex, then try creating a working TOC in Libre Office.

The grammar and spell-checking capabilities are not very good in LO.

I've also had many doc -> PDF conversion problems in LO. There are many other smallish issues.

LO is about as much of a replacement for MS Suite as Gimp is a viable replacement for Photoshop for productivity and real-world work. I use the FOSS stuff at home, but my overall productivity is way lower at home as well. I've ran into many things I simply cannot do. It really is a cost-to-productivity ratio here. MS Suite really isn't that expensive if you compare the speed and accuracy you can accomplish common tasks.
I worked closely with 3 studios, pretty closely with maybe 5 total. A studio tends to be about 50 people, maybe as big as a hundred.

In those, there were many people that liked their job. By job I mean, the challenges, the scale, and environment. I only met a handful that were jazzed up about the game they were working on... and that was usually the most heartbreaking, because they just never had an opportunity to change things for the better as far as game design, or the art. There are two specific people I know as exceptions, that are tenacious as hell, and made concessions only when absolutely necessary. Total respect for them, but they're still pretty beaten down and discouraged.

Intermittently, a lot of people got excited about games. Overall a lot of people derided the games they were making, a lot of the time.
The thing about schools and computers is that it really is a losing battle on the part of the school. They wish to provide the students with easy to access to tech to allow them to become intimately familiar with it to advance in the world.

Then they have students use computers for the most simplistic things. Typing up essays and getting to piece together a video in windows movie maker is the absolute extent of what the above average Canadian high school can do. They don't understand, they being the old guard of teaching, the things a modern computer can do because they think in analogue methodologies, not digital.

Only within the last few years have we replaced overheads and transparencies with 'smart boards' and projectors and even then, few teachers have been found to use them in any manner other than an even more LIMITED version of the traditional overhead. Very recently the younger teachers have built small wordpress sites or shared google drives for notes because of ease and personal comfort which is a giant step forward but moot for all it does to solve the issue of the unsavvy teachers.

If a school were to wise up and switch to open source, the amount of headache from staff is simply impossible to imagine. The students can understand the rapid pace of technology and the very new or extremely impassioned teachers can cope with it where the older teachers throw their hands into the air and bring out the transparencies. A billion dollars to the person to come up with a way of easily transitioning them to modern method.

Sorry for the rant, but education hits close to home for me.
Agreed, I would never consider using another browser unless they had vertical tabs. My Firefox typically crashes once per day but treestyle tabs make it worth it.
And Firefox continues the inexorable march towards Chromeness by removing the actual title of the page from the window chrome.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Firefox. This just strikes me as wrong; the rest of the new UI is fine.
The problems with LibreOffice are the problems with Microsoft Office.

It is a god damned miracle Microsoft Office even works at all. The design is a monolithic do everything fully integrated suite. The combinatorial explosion of interacting features that MSOffice has going on is enough to make a mathematician blush (and the testing staff cry). A super large scale SDLC type one size fits all solution, not based on a generic powerful concept, but a gigantic feature blob that deals with problems as they come.

It's a god damned miracle, and LibreOffice is what happens when you don't get a miracle. It's a feature blob, it's buggy (last time on my system it used 100% CPU, and every time I adjusted a field in a dialog box it didn't redraw the background), it has surprising behavior (play with tables some time, now try sizing them). Hey, I'm no fan of Microsoft Office, either.

I'd say I like LaTeX, but that's a generic powerful concept with absolutely no concessions made for John Q Hacker. Let alone John Q Pedestrian.

Personally, I don't know where to turn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY
"What products/site could you build that charges $30/month (SAAS) and can get 500 signups. Just that would get $18k/month in revenue [...]"

Well if that's the process then why not just up the ante and figure out how to make some absurd amount of money?

The reality is you're not going to be able to answer that question with any degree of accuracy as to make the exercise meaningful.

All you can do is put something out there that you believe has potential and gauge how profitable it is and consider the growth potential in the future.
there's lots of businesses that provide lab computers. Schools and universities often outsource to such sue-able people.
Is it a issue if they don't push beyond China just yet? Maybe they can sell a lot of these devices to a inspired domestic market, and once they have enough clout release a device with Apple level quality to the whole world.
Charts can say anything you want them to
I think chourobin is talking about how the CEO aspires to be like Steve and even dresses like him... The ultimate Chinese copycat?

(I disagree but I think thats the jist of what chourobin meant)
Meaning it runs on a Chromebook, for instance, and other mobile devices without (Oracle) Java
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That's one of the things I despise about Chrome... plus the fact that it doesn't have a title bar at all. They taking exactly the things that make Chrome less usable to me and putting them in Firefox. /sigh
Herd mentality is very likely.

Many barns in USA are red. Most barns in USSR were not painted at all. Most French barns don't appear to be red either: http://www.google.com/search?q=image+barn+france
I think Firefox should switch to Qt, since it allows more flexible management. For example GTK prevents it from drawing in the title bar.
This will not happen, especially with the recent surge in python.
In the 1st tier cities at least, Xiaomi's are phones you buy if you can't afford a Samsung or iPhone. I have yet to see one of my friends with one. Honestly, for value + good design, Nokia's Asha phones would be a better choice. We are thinking about getting my wife's mom one since she finds her Chinese-brand Android phone too hard to use.
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> .. you can't ignore the impact of the tremendously acrimonious culture we have, steeped in animosity between the races and between different socioeconomic classes.

That is actually symptom of the problem, not the cause. It's not too long time ago when Finland had one of the bloodiest civil wars in European history[1], but still country was made enough unified to survive during WW2[2][3] and of course build 'nanny state' we have today.

Only reason that was possible was that big differences between classes was seemed as primary problem, caused by the system, instead of thinking it was caused by external forces which cannot really be affected. Maybe biggest success in this front was to ban private schools for kids and provide good basic education for everyone. Take note that all of the kids went to same schools, so kids from both factions of civil war shared classrooms, meals, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
The media always shows a close-up photo of a man standing in front of three tanks.

This photo might surprise you.

http://imgur.com/N6mpnPY
He didn't say that it was lacking any features, or even that "We didn't like it". He said "the school's staff and teachers balked at using" it. That is, the teachers were afraid that they might have to learn something new.

Chances are, they wouldn't even try it. And nobody had what it takes to tell 'em "Well, give it a try, it should suit your needs just fine. But feel free to set up your own tools if you don't like it."
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Zynga never did that well to begin with. It was all hype and misleading numbers. They only go down from here.
encryption : inbox :: excryption : outbox.

Totally makes sense!

Although SHA-512 != encryption, so... I'm lost again.
> The end result is that Indian book prices are quite high for a country with largely third-world living standards.

Indian book prices, especially for foreign books which are published in India, is quite low.

http://www.flipkart.com/feynman-lectures-physics-mainly-mech...

Price: Rs 236

http://www.amazon.com/The-Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Vol/dp/04...

Price: USD 38(about Rs 2100)

That's almost a 10 fold difference. The paper quality isn't good, it's mostly paperback[1], but paying 10 folds for a hard cover isn't worth it. Books which aren't published locally(imported) are an issue. Prices are too steep compared to books which are published here.

http://www.flipkart.com/algorithm-design-manual-0002/p/itmdy...

Price: Rs 5163

[1]: In the examples above, both books are low quality paperback books.
I'd say let them switch to using Qt on Linux instead of GTK, and that problem could be solved.
I think in reality the reason is a sort of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" mentality.

I know that if I found myself suddenly a school technology administrator person, I would be very inclined to take the easy way out and just install windows on all the lab computers. I would do this if only so that I did not have to fight the stupid mentality of "You have to teach these 5th graders how to use obscure features of a version of MS Word that will be a decade and a half out of date by the time they graduate"

Seriously, every "vocational" computer skills class I ever had was absolutely worthless. They should shitcan all of those classes and teach something that is actually worldview expanding... but that will never happen. The people in charge of making those decisions will all inevitably think that those courses are important because they are teaching the tools that they are currently using.
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I'm actually kind of sad they're moving away from "square" tabs, as that was one of the design choices they've made that I always really liked. I'm hoping they'll provide an option in the new release, or at least that there will be an add-on that allows me to revert back. I'd love to be able to have my tabs in the title-bar with the current style.

Current setup that I'm happy with:
http://i.imgur.com/lf99vO3.png
I'm originally from Italy, and I can tell you that so many of my friends had to go through unpaid internships which were 'offered' with the excuse of a learning opportunity but were basically considered just as free employees.

The high unemployment rate pushes people to accept them to have at least more experience to use in their following job applications, but basically this created an ecosystem in which there is companies that count of a few employees working for free.

I can also tell you that in most cases the owners of these companies are not exactly starving, so there isn't a real reason why they shouldn't pay for good work.

Fortunately it seems that the startup culture is picking up a little, and hopefully this will improve the situation.

But I agree with you, and here in the Bay we are fairly lucky.
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It's not just the migration, but the support. I wouldn't want to be reliant on charity or the type of support many open-source projects have if I were a school.
I'd guess that phrase refers to how energy is put into and taken out of the flywheel: using electrostatic force rather than electromagnetic.
No, this was not due to open resolvers in this case. We do not run public resolvers - we only provide authoritative DNS.
right. these phones aren't similar at all. http://cdn.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iphone-...

/sarcasm
Unless of course it's classified... (programs that simulated nuclear weapons come to mind)
Right. And my point is that the deallocation vs. allocation ratio is the only metric you really need. How fast garbage is made is completely irrelevant because over the long term it's bounded by the allocation rate. You don't have to solve the hard problem of figuring out how fast garbage can be made, you can solve the much easier problem of bounding allocation. And of course in either scenario you have to show that there are no leaks.
Very cool. But Derby still needs to support IE in order to be taken seriously.

Otherwise look into AirBnB Rendr and Yahoo Mojito if you want to support both client side and server side rendering.
Your looking at stone barns in France, wooden barns and wooden doors on stone barns are often red.
Japan is very cash-based. I've never seen Square or the domestic one (Coiny, I think?) in the wild.

Many stores still do not take credit cards.

A lot of convenience stores will take credit cards, most will take Suica cards (mass transit cards pre-loaded with money). Some vending machines will take Suica cards.

Mobile phone payment is kind of a hassle and requires a credit card as well as a phone that supports it (osaifu keitai). Not all phones do.

Cash is still the preferred method of payment online too -- three of the four options are basically cash: bank transfer (done with cash at an ATM or online if you use a bank that supports it), COD, and payment at a convenience store.
I'd bet lots of things at Lawrence Livermore fall under national security and will not be in the public domain for a very very long time.
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Well, in return for them finding it harder to move to a new job they would be getting a nice tax benefit.. seems approximately fair enough to me.
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> Even if the value doesn't go up, eventually you'll pay off your mortgage and be able to live more cheaply.

In 30 years, in most cases. Just in time to retire and collect your smaller, fixed retirement income. How convenient!
It's still a few months out; I assume someone will find a workaround by then (if they haven't already).
I was under the impression that it was red because it was best color for keeping the heat absorption even.
TWC focuses on more of the enterprise/b2b side of things. They also recently opened up a new incubator dedicated solely to healthcare, which could turn into a HUGE market. It seems like many of the accelerators (TechStars, even YCombinator) go through phases where there will be 2-3 similar companies at a time.
Also, Derby needs to decouple from MongoDB.