skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The calculation cost and time are so minor and assets so malleable that it can't possibly end up the bottleneck - not when you have ten or twenty widgets, scripts, and trackers loading as well.

No, it can be the bottleneck.

http://mobile.lesoir.be with its 3000x3000 pixels images for a mobile website can make my firefox really sluggish on my notebook.

As far as I can remember there always have been rendering problems with displaying downsized large images on an html page (notwithstanding the bandwidth waste).
People do have money. The median salary is on the order of ~$75,000/year. But everyting is so expensive that you don't get the class division that can be observed in the UK and US. (It is also a part of our culture to not have distinct social classes).
I had a job where I worked from home 3 days a week, and in the office for the other 2. It worked well, I had the freedom to sort things out like the dentist, taking my car to the garage etc. It really helped me get organised both personally and professionally.

However, going into the office for the other two days really helped me understand the problem I was facing – developing an intranet for a sales/tech company. I was creating systems for three days, but could never fully understand how they should be implemented into the system.

For me, it worked really well having those days at home and in the office.
Licenses for video codecs are sold because people want them, the chip can decode them, and it would obviously be stupid to bake that cost in to the base price when only a subset of users want them. The Foundation doesn't want to see your business model - they don't distribute VideoCore documentation, that is intellectual property of Broadcom and they decide who they share it with.
It was the most requested feature. I also asked it (amongst many thousands of others).
And now I also feel, that it's a bit late...
You have so many great companies to choose from nowadays. Great service, good infrastructure, etc.
Google is great also, but it's a bit too late, isn't it?
I'm using toggl.com to track spent time on various projects in school/work (you can structure your time tracking by project and client). Really simple and easy, while it gives you a really nice overview for how you've "performed". For me, it was enough seeing where time was spent...
Obviously. But lock-free data structures in C++ are not as good as their Java counterparts (because of GC), and besides, most lock-free DS are often implemented in C++ several years after they're implemented in Java, if at all.

For example, Java's nonblocking hash map (by Cliff Click) is still not available for C++, 6 years after its release. There are a few very limited/half baked implementations, but nothing "canonical" (and nothing so thoroughly researched, optimized and used).

BTW, part of the reason is that the world's leading low-level concurrency researchers and implementers (Doug Lea, Nir Shavit and others) do most of their work in Java (most of my own work is designing non-blocking data structures, BTW; not that I'm comparing myself to Lea or Shavit in any way).

To get a sense for the quality of Java data structure implementations, I strongly suggest you watch this talk by Doug Lea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0MX3fHkro

His work is incredible. Even if you don't use Java, there is so much to learn in the talk. One of the coolest things there (which I already hinted at), is how to spin properly on modern Intel processors.
Well, I thought exactly what you just said and just sent the link to all my musician-friends here in Germany (ok, not that many, but non the less.
Rahul Gandhi's 'Jupiter Escape Velocity' seems like a good metaphor for Flipkart's fund-raising prowess.
It is working but the US store seems to be down for maintenance.
Exposure: http://distrokid.com/api/passwordResetEmail/

Glad to try out CFML again - trying out Railo.
Which are the sites that you think do it better? I have used a bunch of other websites, but IMO from aesthetics to tracking Flipkart is way better. However, there are things I find cheaper on SnapDeal.

Free shipping for less than Rs 500 is an unreasonable expectation. It will cost more than 50 bucks (and a lot of time) to drive down given petrol prices. Finally, the nearest book store may not be stocking what you need.

Eventually, Flipkart will become an Amazon. They seem to be following the exact same path.
Upload a song to iTunes Store, etc for free
That's more the perils of being born with a golden spoon so far up your ass you start complaining because the back of your mouth tastes like poo.
the geometric rationale - the axiom of parallel lines.

On classic, Euclid, plane a pair of parallel lines would never intersect. Given a line and a point outside of the line, there can be only one line through the point which would be parallel to the first line.

If one modify the axiom to allow for many such lines through the point (the lines which would never intersect the first line) - that would result in hyperbolic plane geometry.

If one modify the axiom to state that no such line through the point is possible (i.e. any line through the point would intersect the original line) - that would result in the Riemann sphere geometry.
E-books and audiobooks experience
Hey, I'm just starting up a new site in Sweden for e-books and audiobooks. I've coded all 3rd party import stuff in Ruby, the webshop is based on Magento, and some product imports into Magento using their API with PHP.

What do you think about the design and UI? Any ideas and improvements?
I'm both a programmer and a musician.

As a programmer I think bits are bits, they are meant to be replicated. I make my software free (open) and charge for the service, not the product.

As a musician, pretty much the same thing. I make most of my earnings from gigs. I see albums as marketing, a polished support for what you could get in a digital form for free. Some people still prefer the physical form, especially if you offer something more original than a classic plastic case digipak. I'm actually genuinely happy when I see my albums shared in online forums.

So my advice would be: provide a service valuable enough that users are willing to pay for it even if they could find the contents somewhere else.
It's really easy, and really fast. Why not do it?

Small print: that's a link that will upgrade my plan if five people use it to register
Look for another job. I've stayed at jobs way too long in your position and most likely, you won't get that promotion.

You can also ask for more money at your potential new job.
Things No One Tells You About Your 20s
Very cool!!

Is it possible to upload but say you don't want your stuff to go to Spotify? I'm interested in doing digital downloads but not streaming, since I believe they rob sales to a greater degree than they create new sales through discovery.
What it lacks in accuracy it makes up for in entertainment.
Congrats, Pud! I hope you will share some growth stats in the months to come. :)
The "trick" is to get generating as soon as possible. Even moderate revenue matters - not only because moderate expenses have to be paid, but because "generating revenue" as a mindset needs to be cultivated and honed. It's an ethic that few have truly mastered, and one that truly defines an entrepreneur. Generate revenue as a habit.

Yes, there's a balance to be had between doing things that generate revenue now and doing things that matter in the longer run ... but guess what ... that is exactly the nature of every business out there. From the biggest multinationals to the smallest corner shop - they're all balancing between generating shorter term revenues with longer term growth.

If you are spending time only doing long run ("strategic") stuff, you are not a business. The funny thing is, the opposite is not true: i.e. if you're only generating revenue but have little to show for long term direction.
How To Build A Million Dollar Mobile App
yes its smell
I was just happy that it loaded quickly and with no problems. I'm on an iPad 1, and more and more sites nowadays either take forever to load, or flat out crash iOS safari.
Peter Higgs proves as elusive as Higgs boson after Nobel success
I don't live in US, but I think it's not very fair to measure US with separate countries. It would make more sense to measure separate states. Because if you take EU as a whole you would get worse result too.
It is available and it's called bandcamp. I said it before but I think it's a superb platform for musicians and listeners alike.

iTunes / Apple takes the curated approach with their catalogue, they obviously don't want you there unless you're signed to a label. That is fine - let's not act as if iTunes is the holy grail of music distribution - I'd argue that if you aren't big enough to get into iTunes without another middle men you're very unlikely to make any sales there either - especially as a small indie artists. It caters to casual listeners of popular music.

Bandcamp on the other hand is for enthusiasts actively seeking for obscure music. Depending on your audience you might be a lot better served there.
This doesn't really particularly safe to me (assuming that exec.Command allows spaces in arguments):

cmd := exec.Command("grep", s, logName)

Since you are searching for the expression in just one log file, why not use Go's excellent regexp package?
No one is particularly interested in "fair". Fair doesn't generate clicks.
Norway is not a socalistic country, that's just absurd (unless you are on the right wing of US politics - where everything left of for-profit healthcare is socialism/marxism/communism).

Our cost of living is often absurdly high though, and the increased wages can't completely make up the difference (it's AWESOME for travel though). Therefore we can't afford as much "stuff" as Americans can, but I think it's worth it due to increased quality of life the Norwegian system brings.
This is an enormous achievement, as is the fact that an uploaded song is available in all countries worldwide, wherever each store is supported. The payout method being via PayPal email address is also a good move for users outside the US.
How is it different from https://www.recordunion.com/? Because you get rid of the concept of "albums"?
It started off as a class assignment where it was required to execute "grep" on whatever shell we were running the program on. That's why, instead of using the regexp package, we went for the above (somewhat shitty) approach. But, that's something I am definitely looking into changing!
As a customer of the Campus location I love the simplicity of paying with Tab. From my perspective this plus the 10% bonus when topping up over £10 is nearly there... if only these guys could've survived long enough to make this viable. I'm sure someone else will.
I don't know if this is meant to be actually used, but clearly ssh with shared keys and a trivial bash script would be better than just shelling out to grep from go itself. Fairly pointless really.
I think it was a year well spent! Nicely done. This is an important step in the right direction for independent musicians that don't have the benefit of large distribution.

Quick question: How do the various services handle categorizing the uploaded music? My concern as a musician is my music might not be as easily discovered via Spotify Radio or on related artists pages.
Your parent is unhappy with these articles because they are basically doomsday proclamations. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even enter into it, because the message is simply "welp, we're fucked". That's why new angles would be interesting.
Forty years is incredibly optimistic. But beyond that issue, I don't see how transferring my brain to a computer does anything for me. I don't want a copy of me to live forever, I want to live forever myself. Copying my brain won't copy my conscious self. (It can't; after all, if you can make one copy then you can make ten copies.)
I said 'Java' not JVM.
Only for US merchants. Sigh. Ok.
They still do ... the 100% royalty refers to the portion paid out by the store, which is possibly something like 70% of the purchase price for iTunes?
ZFS on linux guide
If it's work worth doing, shouldn't they be offered a job instead of having to fight rats, use old shopping cars and get hassled by the cops?
Kurzweil is just a popularizer of this idea, which is an important part of the road ahead. If nothing else, this article illustrates that more and more people are beginning to see the possibilities on the road ahead.

However, neither Kurzweil nor anybody else has actually enough information to make a solid prediction as to the time frame.

Your guess is as good as his.
If artists get 100% of the royalties how do you make money? I want to be sure that a service I use for something as important is this will still be around in 12 months.

Also, do you collect and pay out money to artists like CDBaby does or do they have to collect it themselves?
Who is better? I have used SnapDeal, BuyThePrice ( now merged with tradus) and lots of others, and Flipkart is THE best. Their website is pretty good as well and search is great. Not saying that there aren't issues with Flipkart, like cancelling items if price goes up, but they are still way ahead of others. Flipkart is the Amazon of India.
Good article series on the limitations of mice as research animals - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_t...

I also came here to say what greeneggs already stated about the digital brain - I want to live forever, not have a copy of my brilliance survive for future generations (though I'm sure they'd be grateful).
qr codes for gpg public keys - sounds a great idea. Any idea why no one done it yet - seems like it could be a simple transform from an ASCII armoured output.

Bookmarking reply
I would flip this question around and ask: why should it be hard for a startup to reach a cash flow positive state? We are lucky enough to live in a world where the fixed costs of starting a technology company are virtually zero, while the willingness for large enterprises to work with startups is at an all-time high.

I'm a firm believer that a core team of smart, hungry engineers is all you need to create a profitable, growing company today. Venture capital helps you get there faster, but it shouldn't be a crutch.
If the computer can actually model the brain itself, copying your brain may well copy your conscious self as well. If true, this would raise quite a few metaphysical questions, to say the least.
Kurzweill is 65, so he has 20-25 years to live probably in the currently system; figures he would say 20-25 years. The blog owner probably thinks he has 40-50 years more to live so is gunning for 40 years. I remember Larry Ellison mentioning 20 years for such a revolution in a speech some years ago. People are less likely to say 'in 100 years' if they won't make that themselves. 1000 years is easier to talk about than 'just' after you're dead yourself, but what would be the fun in saying 'in 1000 years' ; no-one would listen.
Ship of Theseus argument applies here - done gradually enough there's no perceptual difference between a brain running in a computer and on a biological substrate. You 'die' in that sense every time you lose conciousness - a different you wakes up.

I think we have a much better chance of extending human life biologically in the next 40 years than we do running the brain in software. 100TB for a brain map is extremely optimistic - that's assuming a byte per connection, and I bet it's a lot higher than that.

Like effective fusion power, it's always 50 years away, unfortunately.
> compared to Western Europe it doesn't have a very high number of immigrants.

This is true. America has an immigrant population of about the same size as Germany or Sweden (at about 12-13% of the population).

> Or does the American definition of 'diversity' only refer to the number of black people? In that case, blaming their numbers for lower test scores is kind of ... racist, isn't it?

I believe that is the main demographic difference between western Europe and America. We do not have a large population of former salves who historically have suffered heavy discrimination. Pointing out the results of historical (and current) racism is not racist.
>> "We'll put your music on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Amazon"

Are these the only services the music will be on? I can't even list the services I get on with CDBaby it's that long but you are missing some important ones:

Rdio
Deezer
Last.fm

I just looked through my sales reports on CDBaby and those are some of the most used services. I would love to use this but Rdio and Deezer in particular are too important for me.
He charges each artist $19.99/year.
Hopefully that'll be enough - cause I'd love for this service to still be around in 12 months.
I assumed from the title that this would be about Google open-sourcing their PHP runtime.
What an incredibly self-righteous and unnecessary response.

Everyone hates recruiters, fine, I get that. It doesn't change the fact that like you, they are also trying to make a living. They also have friends and family that give a shit about them and despite the fact that they may be exceptionally annoying at times, responses like this are simply rude and unprofessional.

6 or 7 no replies is "I'm not interested" in normal person speak.

Wrong. 1 reply of "I'm not interested, please don't contact me again." is normal speak.

Sorry Matt but your response does you no favours and it certainly doesn't educate the recruiter in question.
> It can't; after all, if you can make one copy then you can make ten copies.

Just because you find a notion inconvenient to deal with doesn't mean it's not factually possible. It basically comes down to your view on the supernatural, and by extension the role of your brain. If you're a materialist, we can talk. Otherwise it's just about religion (which is fine if that works for you personally) and in that case a conversation isn't really possible.

Much like space flight and killer drones, this will one day mature from science fiction to reality and we'll have to deal with it in some form. At this point, you have a choice to make: either hang on to centuries worth of convoluted ideas about the soul made by people who didn't know anything about anything, or move on to a new substrate that is much better aligned with the way our minds actually work and better suited for moving us forward as a civilization.

And it's most likely not going to be a do-or-be-damned choice. Barring unforeseen social dynamics, nothing is going to prevent you from choosing to stick with a biological existence.
More specifically: oil + ability and political willingness to exploit it yourself and share the profits among all citizens.

As opposed to selling exploitation rights to investors to enrich a kleptocracy.
Sorry, saw that after clicking through to the site.
Live link: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/08/possible-image-surfaces-of-...
Last year, I met a girl at the after party that was invited to the pre-reception thinking that everybody was invited. She did not have an idea and she was not a technical person.
I am not sure what is the criteria for being invited to this pre-reception...
I'm a little skeptical of this whole mind uploading business. How do we really know consciousness isn't in the brain, anyway? I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying, like Woody Allen.
On a related note: Raising money at insanely large valuations sounds sexy and exciting, but can lead to serious problems down the road. The expectation with any VC-backed startup is for the proverbial valuation pie to expand after each round of funding. If the pie is already spilling over the sides of the pan after the A round, then the company is almost certainly destined for a down B round unless they can grow massively. That typically smells of desperation and failure, or a rotten pie, to continue the analogy. Damn, pie sounds really good now at 1:15am.
without autoload its seems useless and as monster. Its seems as broken by design.
DistroKid makes money from the $19.99/year.

DistroKid collects royalties & pays out monthly. I also founded AdBrite which paid out several million dollars per month, if that adds to DistroKid's credibility.

And the good thing is that even if your distributor disappears, your music is still in the stores. It's decoupled from the distributor. Tho I'm not sure how you'd manage your music if your distributor went away, but I'm sure there's a way. Also, the stores vetted DistroKid somewhat. Likely so they can avoid having to figure this out.
Firefox OS 1.1 Adds New Features, Performance Improvements and Language Support
If I made an exact copy of you, right now, you'd both swear you were the original.

In fact, I'm not even so sure I'm not a copy, as most of the original stuff that made me is long gone.
How do I get this problem? :)
It'd no-doubt be "easier" for the FBI to "do their job" if they had copies of everybodies house keys and office keys and safe-deposit-box keys too – so they could have a quick snoop whenever they got curious about whether you were doing anything wrong.

But we don't let them force builders/landlords/lockmakers to hand everybodies private physical house keys over, just because somebody somewhere is doing $bad_thing inside a house.

The FBI didn't trust him – boo hoo – they need to find another way to get their job done then.

(Does anybody _really_ think this was about "trusting" Levinson? Or that it was instead about trying to strong-arm Levinson/Lavabit into illegally and immorally participating in the NSA's ubiquitous surveillance program, almost certainly something they've gotten so used to having work for them that they've forgotten that occasionally they'll bump into someone prepared to throw their business away instead of compromising about "doing the _right_ thing"?)
White-bread? Please, that's not nearly organic, biological and ecological enough. I only eat $16 bread made in some unspecified third world country and distributed by a local multinational.
It's interesting that American adults are ranking 17th in problem solving on these tests. Still, I wonder... how much bearing does a problem solving test question have on actual, modern day problems?

George Carlin's thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jQT7_rVxAE
Another instance of me is not me; everyone will think it's me (I will think so too, however I see a nice psychological Philip K Dickian mess coming up with you thinking the rest of your life that you are not you) but it's not. I wouldn't really care at all for that kind of 'immortality'.

I don't remember which sci-fi book it was, but I read that book (or story) a long time ago where the brain itself was, in a flash (no losing consciousness), turned into a kind of 'plastic'; literally every part, so you are you and after that nano machines would create the new cells, destroy others and create connections from that plastic mimicking the exact way the brain works. Give me one of those.
And you thought nothing that they've completely taken the human part out of it and the fact that that email was sent by a machine? It's spam - a conversation isn't one way and if she wanted to have one I'd appreciate the email actually being sent by a human, not a form letter from a machine - so you can see why I don't reply in the first place and how six or seven emails gets annoying...
I don't want to connect to my appliances using a phone. I also don't need a high-tech smoke detector. I have them in all rooms, they work, no false alarms. If I need light, I turn on the light.

A device for gadget nerds. Unnecessary for the rest of the world.