skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think certain kinds of content just look better on a big screen ex: videos and images. Also, if you have a limited budget you are not buying both a phone and a tablet (for the bigger screen to consume content). Instead you could buy a phablet to do both. So trade off one handed use for your phone against the cost of a tablet and not having access to the tablet at times. That's the tradeoff from the consumer's standpoint. From Apple's standpoint, they would have to design a phablet that works wells and can be economically produced. So for example, if they want the same quality screen as the iPhone, would the screen have really low yield rates and would thus be uneconomical to produce? Are there issue with building a larger aluminium frame? Do they have higher priorities or different products that they want to create?
Actually, that portion seemed pretty puerile and unimaginative to me.
Has being a VC taught me anything? Lesson 1: A portfolio view of the world
The author explicitly says it's not intended for production in the README:

> This code has every security flaw you imagine, tons of memory leaks, and when I wrote it I may have been awake for much longer than one should be when writing C.
I think the point here is don't hold your breath.

Science like this has to be slow and careful. Sudden magical breakthroughs are vanishingly rare, and this probably isn't one; but it is interesting, and worth getting excited about.

.. just don't go throwing your Standard Model quite yet. :)
A personal Lisp crisis
If we do, it'll be 'uninformed thief cuts off finger but still fails to hack into phone'.
I've made the switch to Blekko for the time being.
Initially my comment was longer, but I quickly realized that it was all redundant.
While I don't generally get why people get so hung up on specifications ("my phone has more cores than yours"), the performance is actually put to good use. You wouldn't be able to do HD video recording and editing, slo-mo and burst shots and a host of other things had it not been for more powerful and efficient processors. It has nothing to do with snappy, and everything to do with functionality.
I wrote the piece, it seems to have been very well received.

I've read your 5 paragraphs and I can't really understand what you're saying.
I think it's just not very good lubricant. It wears off pretty quickly if you use it to lubricate your bicycle.
I don't really. I agree that it's too early to tell, but his argument reads a little strawman-ish. IE, the haters that call the post Jobs releases incremental, would have called the ipad "just a big iPhone.”

I think thats a little silly. There clearly is a difference between an incremental update of a product from a 5th to 6th generation (which is also hard, important and can be impressive or unimpressive) and a release or update that is a Big Deal in the way the iphone 1 was a big deal.

The reality is that under Jobs, Apple did some big things. Macs (which you you might call several big things). ipods, iphones, ipads. These all had very big impacts on technology, economy & culture. You can't expect these kinds of things to keep coming every three years. Maybe they would have stopped even with Jobs. But, at some point, a post Jobs Big Thing needs to happen.

I saw needs to happen and that's a little harsh. Realistically, Apple are an enormous company. Several very successful product lines that can carry them a long way, perhaps through several successful CEOs. Incremental improvement on those product lines is not the end of the world. There's no reason the iphones and ipads can't last as long as macs.
That reminds me of dealing with Fasthosts. They used to reset iptables to their own defaults during the boot sequence...
http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
What buttons will you push?
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As date guy that uses both, there is a higher level of expertise required to properly maintain PostgreSQL. SQLite is something that I can call instantly from Python without much forethought.
That's pretty much what MapQuest Open tries to do: http://open.mapquest.com/ . Expect routing to come to osm.org within the year, too.
Quite likely - although any vendor assessment programme would include reference to performance/deliverables in previous projects.

(Actually, if I had my way, certain vendors and consulting groups would be told to fuck off and not bother tendering!)
Did DuckDuckGo started to suck for everyone else?
The duckduckgo search is not very good today, did anyone noticed this?
Except that this project seems to be mainly about providing realistic controls (switches etc.) which the Oculus Rift can't do much about.
Yeah very good point. Our offshore guys can't even get c# right :)
backed with serious funds

As I suspected, The Simons Foundation is backed by Jim Harris Simons, mathemetician and the most successful hedge fund manager of all time (Google Medallion Fund and Renaissance Technologies for more info). Cool.
We've had a very positive experience with btrfs, using it on a redundant system for a few years. It's a lot more flexible than zfs in some respects. For instance, all the snapshots are modifiable and can themselves be modified. You can build up a graph of snapshots, which is not possible in zfs which enforces a strict hierarchy. We ran btrfs on top of mdadm, to get raid and integrity checking.

btrfs can do things like copy particular files using copy on write, which is really cool. btrfs also supports offline deduplication, which isn't supported in zfs. This is very useful if you want to do the deduplication when the system is not otherwise being used and avoids the overheads of keeping hashes in memory all the time.

I think that 10 years behind is exaggerating where it is at. For instance, people using zfs on linux often have problems with running out of memory and so on, even on systems with very large memory.
This looks cool, but I increasingly seldom I find myself watching physical media. I'd be more inclined to fore-go an optical drive and buy a case like this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003DXI288/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl...

and just rip my physical media ahead of time. Although here in the U.S. I think it may be technically illegal to back up my DVD and Bluray collection onto a hard drive (thanks to the DMCA).
Note that they don't cache anything over ~50mb, and it's a relatively small cache (~4GB nodes, cleared LRU first), in addition to only revalidating every 5 minutes.

http://wiki.coralcdn.org/faq.html

So don't use it for big files or anything that changes more than every 5 minutes.
I just tried the site and it worked okay for me (2mins after you posted this). Also the CDN test seems to work okay as well. Try doing a trace route.
"ever increasing value, at constant prices, which is the very successful strategy at Volkswagen"

That might be strategy for the VW brand, but VW Group very cleverly uses its huge array of brands to segment the market very nicely (SEAT, Skoda, VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti).
Wow, that's a pretty awesome brother.
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This article is dead on the money. I think this comes back to people having a hard time discovering the value that their product offers customers.

They may hear that 2+ invites, and 3 projects 'activates' the customer - but they don't truly understand what that means and why that provides value.

I have noticed that with some of my clients too, and other entrepreneurs I talk to.

That's one of the reasons I am starting to write more about discovering/understanding value.

The first such post is 'Redefining MVP to Minimum Valuable Product'[1] because I think that's a perfect place to start - plus it is where I have been noticing this issue pop-up more and more in my work.

I think the entire industry does need to take a step back and really start re-evaluating the way we analyze/discover value. It feels like it has been lost with everybody trying to go too fast and 'hack' everything.

[1] - http://5kmvp.com/blog/2013/09/17/redefining-mvp-minimum-valu...
Short of inventing the holodeck out of Star Trek, I can't possible seeing that being entirely true as it's not quite the same as being physically immersed with more than one's eyes.

Oculus Rift would be useful in those situations when you want to switch between say a WW1 flight sim[1] and a modern day one. It would be a little jarring to be flying a Fokker Dr1 in from the confines of an F-16 cockpit (well unless you want to pretend you went back in time and suddenly your mach 2 jet fighter must obey the limitations of 1917 aviation). The cockpit + Oculus Rift would at least dampen the sense somewhat of being seated in a modern day cockpit without having to build two (though building a modular one that you can swap the cockpit part in and out might be an idea). Maybe add a programmable fan blowing in front of you that adjusts its RPMs based on velocity to simulate wind effects :)

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/244050/?snr=1_5_9__205
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I kinda agree, but still, back then much fewer people needed security compared to nowadays where you have your life in your pocket. It's plausible Packard Bell did provide a very subtle Touch ID button on a cheap laptop and it flopped because nobody cared.
Those numbers are NZD, and from less than 2 months ago. :) To convert to USD, multiply by 0.8.

I just looked on the home hardware website, and they don't sell any MR16s that are more than 6.5W. The 12W bulb is a 650 lumen and sells for NZ$13. However, a CFL goes for less than NZ$4. That $9 will buy you a lot of electricity.

At 3hrs/day, and NZ$0.25/kwh, that's a break even point of ~5.5 years... I think... (6W difference in power usage between CFL and LED?)

Going from a 20W halogen to a 10W led would result in a payback period of 3 years. To me, these sorts of things need to pay off in their warranty period. :)
How does it compare to raphael.js?
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Isn't this very old? I am sure I stumbled upon this while doing some research on a CDN project I was interested in about 5-years ago.

I would assume that CDN technology has progressed significantly since then.

The impression I got at the time, was that it wasn't maintained - as well as I would have liked. I could be mistaken, but that was the impression I got a few years ago.
I'm looking forward to this revolution.
And that's presumably why you wouldn't be allowed anywhere near making such a decision. You would be trying to get the right thing done (a failing many of us have) whereas the goal of these consulting groups is to make as much money as possible and who cares about delivering anything!
The site in inaccessible at the moment (maybe under load). Is this can be used as a shim for d3.js?
Au contraire, this is the perfect complement to the oculus rift for physical feedback.
> If you're smart enough to safely write that C code, you won't.

That's one of the best things I've read in a last few days.
I have once dialled a call using only my nose.
I just came to post this link myself so I'll +1 instead. Really glad to see this happening - I recently blogged about how financially unsustainable the future of the current UK university system is and how MOOCs are the future http://lifebeyondfife.com/the-future-of-education/
The problem with "click here" was related to how search engines indexed you since they traditionally used anchor text to find the most relevant link.

I still find it hilarious that Adobe Reader is still #1 for a "click here" search.

I think a tap and a click is interchangeable anyway. You can tap a mouse.

Considering the website is called readtapestry.com, I'm getting the impression this is a fairly new concept that is still in it's early days. Once people get used to the idea, the prompts may not be needed. Perhaps it's just odd to us right now because we still use mice.

However, worse than this is the "do not break the back button" mantra, which this seems to do so well.
Formula E
It's ironic that "funny" is people laughing out loud and "lol" is "funny" (read: odd) things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6400455
"Productive" and "unproductive" are understandably pretty relative terms. I've accepted productivity is like efficiency -- I'm going to have some waste/inefficiencies and that's okay. That doesn't stop me from trying to make value judgments in choosing what I think are better activities for myself though.

Some people liken this to "hacking oneself"; I won't abuse the term "hack" quite so much, but I do think of it as a subproblem of "finding a job you love and you won't have to work a day in your life" -- finding a hobby you enjoy that enriches you as a person.
Although we try not to talk too much about it, many users of Varnish Cache actually use it "because it is the easiest way to get a C layer in our web stack".

Others are proud creators developing web sites in it using both VCL (which is compiled into C) and C directly through VMODs or Inline-C in VCL. More:

* https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-inl...

* https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/vmod.html

* https://www.varnish-cache.org/vmods

* https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCL
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Happening to me regularly this morning:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john%20b%20up%20all%20night&kd=-1

Common theme in the results is the word "all", but it's not the same as a search for the word "all" (obviously). Pages are all rubbish.

Weight of traffic?
That's always been a pet peeve of mine on Android, though now it seems both ecosystems will have a slightly more consistent user experience if one uses devices on both OSs a lot.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Neil Gaiman on the Secret of Genius
I think the Anandtech reviews are one of my favourite parts of a new iOS device launch, talk about thorough.

Interesting comment was made that the A7 seems capable of driving a larger Retina screen than the iPhone, which gives credence to the rumour that the next Mini will shift to Retina, if they've managed to offset the battery life concerns as well anyway. The A7 does seem really rather impressive, I don't know hardware as well as I'd like, but that was some fairly effusive praise in the review.
While the point in the headline is fine, the supporting reasoning is in places dubious.

Don't use SQL for anything over 5 TB? Huh? You can put a lot more data than that on a node with a nice open source columnar analytic DBMS, and of course there are a lot of MPP relational analytic DBMS as well.

SQL on Hadoop requiring full table scans? Well, that's what Impala is for. Hadapt is more mature than Impala. Stinger is coming on, and is open source.

Nice marketing line, however.
I use an iPad mini as my iPhone replacement because I wanted a bigger screen while staying with iOS and Apple hardware.
it is unmaintained. to quote a mail from january 2012 (the maybe twentieth latest mail in the -dev mailing list):

> CoralCDN is basically a "one-person job", and I never got around to
> building a great monitoring-and-notification system.
> In this particular
> case, I didn't have as great access to email as I usually do.
I thought everyone knew about this? I use it for mirrors when a site looks like it's going to go down. Just append .nyud.net to the domain and it gets cached.
Walking on a highwire is also exciting. :)
From the frontpage:

»CoralCDN has been continuously operated since March 2004, running on 300-400 servers on the PlanetLab testbed, spread worldwide. As of 2011, it receives 25-50 million requests per day from a few million unique clients.«

In the beginning you had to add .nyud.net:8080 but it changed to the more convenient .nyud.net along the way.
CoralCDN is old an unmaintained.

For the new hotness (web only), try https://peercdn.com/ :)
Well, if they could add slides diffs that would be cool too.
Try appending .nyud.net to the URL.
OTOH, with Xeons you could sell virtual private server hosting to compensate for the heating expenses. Anyone care to make and ROI calculation here vs. resistive heating?
Are you implying that two wrongs make a right?
This comment makes no sense at all. They would never throw away their lte network they JUST finished building over the past 3 years. They are just starting to roll out their 2nd layer of lte on their aws spectrum.
I would say phones are already fashion statements (or at the very least lifestyle statements, if you want to make the distinction).

I'm sure Steve Jobs understood this - since his return, Apple has consistently made emotional appeals, not technical ones. Their "innovations" are generally improving on the execution of existing technology (music players, smartphones, tablets) but packaging it in a way that people connect with.

Colour, on a device that you carry with you everywhere you go, is very much a part of this.
Why is the Star Trek geek in me reminded of Cardassians?
I know plenty of people who agree with you, but Apple's damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Imagine:

1. build a box to put this in

2. paint that box a very distinct shade of something e.g. yellow

3. get a very even lighting

4. wear an Oculus Rift

5. have software do chroma-keying of the outside of the cockpit

6. dream about mounting it on some kind of hydrologic piston contraption..
But you will have a chicken and egg problem. If the steam box sells well, they will port, but except for some early adopters, they won't buy it until the games are ported.

I hope we see more games ported, but having worked in the industry for many years, going the extra lengths to support yet another OS which will most likely be just a small beep in the sales numbers isn't going to happen anytime soon. Heck, look at the franchises that started on the PC (CoD for example) and how the developers still focus more on the console versions then the PC ones.
which seems to be Lisp-snobbery which is clearly somewhat justified in theory but almost irrelevant in practice

I agree, but you're missing the forest for the trees here. Please accept my arguments in good faith.

Do you honestly view ZFS as the be-all and end-all of data storage?

For local storage? Right now? Yes, it's the best we have.

provided no compelling argument

How many filesystems have Merkle trees? You need something like them to avoid phantom reads, phantom writes, and silent corruption.

How many filesystems have duplicate metadata blocks, duplicate [what's analogous to] the superblock several times, and can duplicate data a user-specified number of times? And then check their validity using the Merkle tree property above to validate reads?

How many filesystems offer free and instant snapshots? As many as you want? Those things are wonderful for databases.

How many filesystems offer software RAID? Hardware RAID is a dodgy idea, because it's a complex binary blob in firmware you have no insight into when something goes wrong (speaking from bitter experience, things go wrong). Furthermore some hardware RAID suffers from a write hole.

How many filesystems are transactional? And allow you to roll back if a transaction becomes unfixably corrupted? How many can replicate? How many use SSDs efficiently? How many have been in heavy industrial use for years?

ZFS has all that (not some of it, that's the point), and more. There's nothing else like it. btrfs probably will be one day as well, but not yet.

So, no, it's not ridiculous. I've been down this trail of tears before, and ZFS has made life so much better. At least I don't need to dread a number in my database silently flipping a digit anymore -- if that scenario doesn't give you the hives, then I really don't know what to say.
You just convinced me to never have kids.
Except there isn't NFC.
The fact that Guantanamo still exists is an absolute blight on Americas reputation and the cost of that will resonate for many many years into the future even if it were disbanded today (which it really should be). Obama claims his hands are tied but to me that smacks of a lack of resolve, he has several options at his disposal (such as threatening to resign if congress won't bend on this or playing hardball in return on every other subject). It's a pity that America is so tied to the 4 year regimen for elections and that the president does not have a direct way to call for earlier elections (as far as I know).
Why is the fifth part of the GCHQ "Can you find it?" challenge so easy
FORK YEAH, this is what I've been waiting for the last 2 or so years. <3
www.reddit.com/r/python

www.reddit.com/r/javascript

www.reddit.com/r/webdev
What about his above statement is inaccurate?
There has never been a one-to-one mapping (rather one-to-many), but it's still perfectly possible to transform C into assembly by hand. It's not even that difficult.
What would calling for earlier elections solve?

Tangentially related, the post-war German constitution was carefully crafted to avoid early elections---as a reaction to the frequent elections in the Weimar Republic.
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> If Apple has 20% market share but 50+% profit share, then what does that mean?

It may keep the shareholders happy, but ultimately it means nothing to anyone else. I don't see why people keep brining up this retarded meme.
[Google+ growth-hacked their way to 170 million users,...]

It is just like a math expression: Google+ growth-hacked.

If "Yahoo!" can be inserted in this sentence, it would be funnier.
Best thing I've read on HN in a while.
My idea:
1. Use Oculus Rift
2. Surround cockpit with a green curtain
3. put webcam in Oculus Rift (if it doesn't already have one)
4. Project camera view with green-screen over virtual scenery

That way you might use your hand-eye coordination (minus stereo) with the cockpit and the rest is still "oculus rifted".