skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not reading these works purely for edification then I assume you are working through a Great Books curriculum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books ). Congratulations. The trouble will soon be finding anyone to with which discuss what you've read, especially if you work in technology where ideas are assumed to have a shelf life. Being well read can be alienating.

In terms of increasing reading speed, you may want to try the utility "dictator" for those texts which are electronic. For physical books I would run a finger under text to maintain momentum as Adler suggested in "How To Read a Book". Make notes in the text, being sure to use a custom set of symbols to speed notation. Write concise thoughts in the margin, don't go overboard.

Good luck.
£800 option on the F30 in the UK - doesn't seem that much on a £43K 330d...
> Also the poster seems to have an agenda;

True. Most people who take the time to write content that they publish on the internet have an agenda.

> this is just marketing.

False. This is an informative and useful summary of a 75-page deeply technical presentation into a few screens of text, and shows actual Python code (and benchmarks) to demonstrate the principles.

> Also, the practical use of this idea is extremely limited.

Care to elaborate? A substantive discussion about the subject of the original post would actually be constructive and add value for the HN community.
Apache has had mpm_worker since the 2.2 days, and now (2.4) has mpm_event, which uses epoll too.
Join EasyPost (YC S13) and build a shipping API for devs
EasyPost is currently a team of 4 and looking to hire 1-2 more developers to help build the product and the future team.

We are working on a lot of challenging problems and are looking for all around hackers who don't mind touching everything from user facing code all the way back to tweaking servers.

Being completely transparent here - if you email us with just a resume and github link we likely won't respond very promptly. If you want to impress us, show us that you have put some thought into working with us. Check out easypost.com, create an account, and try out the API. Tell us what you would do your first week on the job if we hired you, and chances are that is what you will be doing as part of your interview.

Emails can be sent to work@easypost.com and the subject "I want to help build easypost" is getting pretty worn out, so try something new =D
A useful idea from academia can be used to create a startup, but a startup is more than idea. The key thing that is there is that it must have growth. From Steve Blank: "A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model." Paul Graham also has the essay http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html where growth is again emphasized.
In my experience...

They absolutely, positively will not cover you unless you've raised money.

Even if you have stats that blow competitors out of the water - crickets.

It's been demonstrated more than once that their traffic isn't useful to the vast majority of startups (doubly so for B2B companies).

It's a nice thing to have coverage from them. But in no way needed for a successful launch of a company.
I see a comment here about MPT, modern portfolio theory, with the idea you can balance risk and reward with math. Yes, but if you don't want to have to learn stocks, perhaps you also don't want to learn asset classes.

If you're willing to park your money, check out the efficient market hypothesis ("EMH") which tries to explain why in the long run, most financial advisers and stock pickers and even hedge fund managers have their asses handed to them by a straight up stock index:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

Think of EMH as "how I learned to stop worrying and just buy an index". What you can use an advisor for is learning which indexes may reflect any appetite for risk you have, or perhaps altruistic or diversification goals you have. (For example, I'm working in growth technologies, so over the past decade I've liked to diversify by storing value in timber land.)
It's hard to see how you could have read the article given your comment. This is certainly not a copy of some original presentation. The article may not be motivated well and certainly can be critiqued on many levels.

But it describes a specific reason why using a high-level language to directly program the GPU can be extremely useful --- you can easily build, test, and iterate on execution order to improve performance. Hardware is changing, and we need better tools to write code for it.

The author uses CUDA Python, but you could do similar things with PyCUDA --- it's the emphasis on the scheduling that is the relevant point.
Not sure if I agree. Apple consistently provides better experience because they control both hardware and software. Google is now realizing that or else they wouldn't have built nexus.
Could NSA be spying on technology companies to help competitors compete?
It's more likely to be an employee who might take advantage of this, though it makes me wonder if your company's technology-related emails safe then being talked about or other data shared online.
Switch PHP to FastCGI under Apache (as it is under nginx), and this isn't a problem.
I agree it's totally unnecessary for your company, but we haven't raised money and we're a Utah-based b2b company and they've covered us twice.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/07/vidpresso-wants-to-help-tv-...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/vidpresso-adds-photo-touchs...
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/c_str

According to that link, c_str() and data() work in constant time. With that restriction, it's impossible to do the joining lazily - it must be done when data is added to the string.
Isn't he the same Economist who went bankrupt himself ?
in high school i learned z80 assembly to hack games on my ti-86 calculator. it's a great chip to learn on.

i remember there was a cross-compiler and a software utility + serial cable ... after some googling:

http://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/86-asm/el-helw/les...
Signup or Sign up?
Just curious - do you have a dedicated PR person? Contacts? Blind reach-out? AirPR?
We don't know how much traffic the NSA actually decrypts, just that it has the capability to do so.
To compare disregarding outdated browsers, non-JS users, and the like with genuinely disabled people is completely asinine. "Fuck this post."
> Let free people interact in the market

This isn't the question. The question is whether or not the market is fair. This is the role of government in this case - to protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by the big guy.

You can argue about whether or not Reuters should be able to release public information in a tiered manner. In this case, I don't think they should, but others may differ. But what you can't argue about is that the knowledge of the tiers must be made public.

You should be able to know if someone else is getting information 2 seconds or 10 minutes earlier than you, just because they paid more for access.
My friend from Poland (a co-founder of one of the programs run by my nonprofit) was very pleased with his daughter's education until she was in middle school, when he found out that she was learning very little for a few years. He made sure his younger child, his son, had more steady supplementary education through middle school, and encouraged his daughter to challenge herself to catch up during high school. For most of us who have spouses educated in other countries who now live in the United States (I am such a person too), the most successful both-and is to set the expectations of curricula in other countries, while allowing the multifaceted extracurricular activities commonplace in the United States.
I KNEW someone would say that.

How is that more convenient than a one-cup filter cone? I must be missing something that's really attractive about the k-cup machines.
World Record-Breaking 134.8mph Drift (15s video)
“Shopping cart” patent troll tries to save itself, gets pounded by Newegg
I agree. I don't see any difference from putting the powder in the bowl and adding hot water (even through a Keurig). Besides the marketing and sales opportunity, of course.
I'd love to see a question that addresses the nonprofit's goals from an Effective Altruism perspective. Maybe something like: "who are your competitors, and what is their average cost-effectiveness in DALYs[1]? If they aren't very cost-effective, what makes you think your process will be better?"

[1] http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/additional/D...
Enticement is a goal of providers with certain models. Readers want an accurate indication of whether the target contains new and useful information. These goals can often conflict. Techmeme is more aligned with the readers, here.
"I’ve had an iPhone — which, sad to say, did not survive dunking in water — and now have a Samsung, and the differences don’t seem huge"

everyone new to contemplating the mobile scene always seems to miss out on the longer term advantage of apple phones due to upgradability. it's an absolute hell with andriod. im not saying this will create a swing back in apples direction for marketshare, not at all. I'm just saying that difference is indeed huge to anyone that looks at it.

(disclaimer, I've had iphones and andriod phones and i think they all suck equally. i role on motorola c155 with 3 text line display)
Can they be both Journalists and Startup shills? Very interesting play by play on the fight over there!
How NSA gets around encryption
It strikes me that there is now enough evidence that high frequency trading & algorithmic traders are a blight on the markets. They should either be banned, or protections put in place to negate the arms race they cause. I see this 'early data' as part of that arms race.

Does anyone have any evidence whatsoever that high frequency trading is a benefit? I've read arguments that they are market makers by creating liquidity. But, I've yet to read a compelling explanation as to how they actually achieve that, nor how its provably valuable to the market as a whole.
A friend of mine recently brought up the idea of a curved smartphone design to maximize thumb reach. My head nearly imploded imagining interface development for that.
No, that was satire that breitbart and the boston globe fell for:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/paul-krugman-bankrupt-boston-...
V. is one of my favorite novels. To anyone not already familiar with Pynchon: If you like Neal Stephenson, give Pynchon a shot.
Krugman says so many wrong things - about bitcoin for example, but not just about that.

So, who cares ?

Also, he seems to miss how many people complained about Microsoft in the 90s while most people seem very happy with their Apple products.
You should read her (the author of the article is a woman) entire newly published book, which is receiving very good reviews, and see if you still summarize her argument in the same way.

http://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Kids-World-They-That/dp/14516...
> the wonderful people in the Wilson School IT department, who have saved my life multiple times, aren’t set up to deal with Apple products.

I would argue that not only do you have full access to the Apple Store geniuses but if you happen to not have a Apple Store near you there will be Apple certified repair people you can use. Also I would guess that you would not have to get your mac repaired anywhere near as often as you do your windows machine.
Building a Mobile App Landing Page
This article, along with most of the stuff Krugman wrote about bitcoin, is utter bs. Apple is doomed cause iOS doesn't let Krugman organize his Youtube downloads.
I think the only hope PHP has of continuing development is if someone big like Facebook can add some direction to it. Maybe they will but I think last I checked even they were giving up on using it for much more then a thin veneer to their back end services.
In Search of a Fast Cube Root
Hopefully this will be a bit less painful if/when TCO makes its way into ECMAScipt 6 ("Harmony") as it is slated to do: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proper_tail_c...

Regardless, this was an excellent introduction to trampolining.
IIRC, IndieGoGo accepts PayPal, no? If all your disposable cash is in PayPal, couldn't you just... use it?
He's a little out of his element in this space, and a lot of his article feels like off-the-cuff ramble without much support.

But he does raise one really strong point: namely, that Microsoft's lead was largely secured on the back of enterprise sales -- a tougher moat to build, but a very protective and lucrative one once built. Apple's lead was secured on the consumer side, and consumers tend to be two things in the long run: price-conscious and fickle. Consumers picked cheaper and more ubiquitous Wintel machines over the more beautiful and expensive Apple machines in the 90s. Now they're picking cheaper and more ubiquitous Android devices in sufficient numbers to threaten Apple pretty seriously.

It's way too early to write Apple's epitaph in the mobile war, but things aren't as rosy as they once were.
Answer is Yes. Previous related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6192878
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." - Paul Krugman, 1998

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com...
Share your github repository via Twitter and Twitter button for github
Unless of course you can be made to look like a bad person and the twitterverse blows up.
Stopped reading at: "[Apple is] selling products that are little if any better than competitors, at premium prices. How can it do that?"

This is such a ridiculous statement. Apple's notebook line is dominating, not because it's "little if any better" than the competitors, but because it's head and shoulders above the competition. They've systematically and iteratively refined, both in software and hardware, all the most important bits of portable computing. Battery life. Display quality. Weight. Size. Noise. Keyboard. Trackpad. Durability.
I just realized I haven't been to TechCrunch in months. It's rapidly become more of a press release distribution platform than a "journalistic institution."

And how much interested traffic is it really driving? Look at the number of comments: 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0. It used to be full of (albeit low-quality) comments. I don't think that can be blamed on the commenting platform.

As I prepare to launch a startup and close up funding I've made contact with some TC writers, but I don't see a TC writeup as integral to the launch process as it used to be. I don't know if there's anything that would fill that gap -- Show HN, maybe? PandoDaily, kind of? Talk to startups that have been featured there, and they'll be shocked at how little traffic and interest it drove - one app had a full writeup about them and they saw a bump of a couple hundred downloads.

TC is as much of an ego-rub for the founders as it is anything else at this point.
Historically, what happened to make the PTA what it is today is that independently organized parent groups were co-opted by school staff so that they wouldn't question the assumptions of the school system.

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2003/02/01/takin...
Awesome. $20 to them. (And finally got around to renewing my FSFE support too!)
I wonder about the noodles. How will that work?
I mean I am the "other" contemptuously categorized by my government, a vast category of people with an interest in using encrypted communications to thwart my government's attempt to spy on me.

The government almost certainly doesn't want to spy on you, it just wants to be able to find spies and other bad actors among you.

I have to admit to taking a jaundiced view of these complaints, since for almost 20 years the US has maintained an immigration regime in which illegal aliens have virtually no legal path to residency (despite many of them having no criminal record - unauthorized presence in the US is a violation of administrative rather criminal law, and it only become a criminal matter in the case of deportation and repeated unlawful re-entry); illegal immigrants can be detained incommunicado for up 6 months without any right to a hearing, have no right to provided counsel, and enjoy very few constitutional protections (in general, those extended to 'persons' rather than 'citizens' or 'the people'). Leaving the US imposes a whole raft of additional sanctions on such a person (eg a 3 or a 10 year banishment during which the person may not even apply to re-enter the country) which don't apply to people who stay, and thus create a strong economic incentive to remain, resulting in an entirely legal underclass of about 11 million people who have even fewer rights than ex-felons. 'But they broke our laws' is the response of most people, as if the laws were not the responsibility of the legislators and people who elected them, but had come down from heaven.

I'm not excusing the NSA's overbroad vacuum-cleaner approach to gathering metadata, busting encryption and so on, other than to note it's not very different from the kind of data collection private actors fiercely defend the right to engage in, saying that the onus is on the data owner to use good security. But it's very hard for me to give a sympathetic ear to complaints of tyranny from people who seem happy to tolerate a system that severely curtails the freedom of several millions of their neighbors.
OS updates are not something non-techies think about, in my experience. For the vast majority of users, they mostly care that their favorite apps continue to work, and this is something that Android provides good tools for.
Apple may or may not be doomed, but one thing I've learned over time is not to trust economists straying too far from their turf. Krugman blaming a dead CEO on his inability to use an iPhone does not equate to calling up the corporate coffin maker.

When I saw the title, I was hoping for a more economic reason about trade, network effects or competitive advantage.
"But I don't think many non-profit founders will drop their day-job salaries to launch YC non-profit startups."

I'm quitting my day job in January to launch a non-profit startup. The timeframe is more or less the same as YC, so I'm considering applying.
Just hit a paywall, so it would be nice to read at least a summary of the article.
He's not looking for up/down votes. He's looking for a discussion. Which well-meaning participants in an open source project should be able to have with some civility.
I have no idea what people used BCD for either. I vaguely recall reading that the C64's interrupt routine didn't even bother to clear the D flag, so you had to disable interrupts while using decimal mode! - so obviously most people just weren't expected to be using it.

I only ever saw it used for game scores... and the following, which prints a byte as hex, and is a neat example of cute 6502 code. Saves a few bytes over having a table of hex digits, and you don't need to save X or Y.

HEX: PHA
LSR:LSR:LSR:LSR
JSR HEX2
PLA
AND #15
HEX2: CLC
SED:ADC #$90:ADC #$40:CLD
JMP PUTCH

(PUTCH takes an ASCII character in A.)

The 68000 had BCD as well. Never used it and don't recall ever seeing it used. I think they only included it so they could have an instruction called ABCD.
Type-checked dictionary templating library for python
Really? where can I read about it. AOE has the in game advance empire thing going where you can upgrade your entire empire to the next level I thought it was pretty cool.
500px...
Yahoo! From fun to serious and dark
Perhaps more unfortunate than awesome. But I get the economics. And as someone on the other side... There are those who can afford the sacrifice, and those who prefer to wait until someone else has made that sacrifice. There's room for both.
The problem is when your favorite app stops supporting your Android Frosted Cup Cake on a phone that was abandoned by its maker.
Facebook isn't built with PHP (using hiphop-php) anymore?
Writing in PHP is a war against the platform - that's why PHP code tends to look like a battlefield...
They're Not For You
Right, it's a little disappointing that the blog of a fairly well-known economist just uses some basic anecdotal evidence. I'd hope he'd provide some kind of deeper insight, but I guess that's what passes for quality on the Times these days.
Value Explosions Are Rare
I am typing this on a 2008 MBA that is now over five years old and looks brand new ... so there's that.

BUT, I cannot help but notice that existing macbook airs, five years later, have only very marginally increased their resolution - even as we're 2.25 years into the retina era.

... and over here are a bunch of Lenovo and Samsung netbooks with screen resolutions of 3200 x 1800[1] or so ...

So something is definitely slipping a bit. Don't give me blah-blah-battery-life - they should just figure it out. That's why they exist. And they're not.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/technology-companies/1...
For Microsoft and Nokia, fewer secrets
Adafruit's Trinket
hey, thanks for this. I didn't know about it, but I think I should apply. I would be super appreciative if you could contact me (info under my heading) if you would be able to provide advice or insight into whether or not this is a good idea.
What, it amazes you that people would drink dried soup after reconstituting it? That's a pretty common product to find on supermarket shelves. I also don't see any indication that Keurig has anything to do with it, it's Campbell's and Green Mountain who are making the product.

What exactly is your displeasure with this product?
>>This isn't the question. The question is whether or not the market is fair. This is the role of government in this case - to protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by the big guy.

Exactly. Having a free market is desirable if and only if we can also ensure fairness for all market participants. Otherwise it's just like the Wild West where the strong take advantage of the weak.
It's not perfect. The bottom and top of the cup are punctured, and the forced water tends to splatter a bit inside of the cup receptacle. Mine always has a few grounds, and the surfaces all have some residual coffee. The water doesn't run directly out of the bottom of the cup where it's been punctured, otherwise, you'd get grounds in your drink. Instead, it runs along a channel down into your cup, another place for residual flavor. Of course I clean it from time to time, but I don't do a ton of different flavors. The cleaning to get chicken broth or tomato soup out would be too much to switch back and forth.
NSA decryption revelations 'provide roadmap' to adversaries, US warns
Telecom rate tarrifs are usually convoluted and political. Some places have the opposite of what you outline, where international calls pay an extra kickback to the telecom/government. Other places, like the US, had things setup so that calling people inside your state was more expensive than calling another state or calling from an international location.

This also creates incentives for people to setup grey routes. It's common to buy local prepaid SIM cards then hook them up to a GSM bank and sell "international" connectivity to calling card companies. One guy had his setup inside a van, so he could drive around town and avoid being triangulated by the local telco. (The local equivalent of the FCC will raid and steal your equipment if they can find you.)
You have to seriously love Cheng from Newegg. That guy has some serious disdain for patent trolls! I am glad they are taking a stand against them and fighting the good fight, too many companies do the easy thing and roll over.
I don't see how that helps things. Instead of "remember to log out after using a public computer", then you would have to "remember how to find the settings for every browser to check if the internet cafe set the right 'remembered' setting or just still remember to always log out at public computers".
TDecision to Publish Against Government