skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peacekeeper:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper

As I said, it's very rough, but seems to be a good indication of where abouts browsers are in comparison to each other.

Though, once you get to a certain point (around 2x IE7, I'd say), it becomes irrelevant to 99% of what you'd want to do. Or should I say, irrelevant of what you can do, while slow browsers still have high market-shares...
Regardless of what the domain name of the site is, this technology isn't all that "current". Apparently it's been out since 2004, http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/08/18.html
I can't say that your statement has no merit.

However, it's still kinda weird how modern communities educate such vast numbers of people in fields where careers don't even exist (eg. liberal arts, biochemistry, biology,... for my country).

There is always a possibility of being a craftsman or entrepreneur - but that is not for everybody (it takes a special personality to have a go at that).

As for being a waitress - what she is doing currently is not far from that - but it is not something a person would aspire to do for whole life. Especially if you were a good girl/boy and studied hard - but then got shafted. :)
haven't had any heating issues, but the battery definitely is lasting longer in OS 3.0.
No, they say Ruby is the new Perl because of the "TIMTOWTDI"
paradigm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theres_more_than_one_way_to_do_...
Huge forward step while you are still far far behind = still far behind.
Twitter chaining new generation
This applet demonstrates why the technique cannot be used for FTL communication:

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/APPLETS/20/20.html
> You could have good FOSS usability - if you had a central
> company driving the development. As in Firefox. It just
> hasn't happened many times so far, because people are
> willing to pay for good closed-source interfaces in most
> problem domains.

Actually, Firefox was originally started by two guys as a reaction against the centralized development that was at the time occurring with the Mozilla browser. The Mozilla foundation officially came on board later, well after Firefox gained momentum and popularity.
If you read the actual source article in National Geographic, you'll find that the Horten brothers were in fact Nazis.

Still, even if they were not Nazi's, English is sufficiently malleable that Nazi engineer could mean simply an engineer employed by the Nazi's.

Is every "Google engineer" an actual Google?
Bathroom wall tiles,Kitchen wall tiles
I think the article is (as titled) about the end of _a_ era, not _the_ era. I don't think this article is saying the RDBMS is dead (the author works for Vertica, which I believe is a column-store RDBMS). He is saying that the era of the "row based physical model for everyone" era is over.

Ideally a RDBMS should have logical-physical seperation, and be able to support both row and column based stores (or any physical strategy at all) in the same DB. I think the author is just saying that the next stage on this path will have various competing RDBMS physical implementation strategies as they have such big performance impacts.

I don't think that these different storage method DBMS's are the end point, but a way point to RDBMS technology that can mix physical strategies while keeping the logical relational model intact.
I suspect the article is confusing cash and cash equivalents like savings accounts. It says that cash is 16% of the Japanese GDP. I have a hard time believing that. The Japanese have a high savings rate and the predominant means of saving is postal (government) savings accounts. (The last time I read about it was the middle of the last decade.) If I am correct, they are contemplating negative interests rates on savings accounts. They might be considering the elimination of cash to prevent people from pulling cash out of their savings accounts and putting it in their mattresses or lock boxes.
I find it really really hard to believe that the largest bittorrent site/tracker in the world sold for just $8 million dollars...maybe I'm just making assumptions but I feel like it should be worth 10 times that much...
That's pretty tragic. Ah well, there are other torrent sites.

As one falls, others rise.
Worldwide Real-Time Firefox 3.5 Download Stats
I think the main problem with Open Source application software is the lack of experience in the field the application deals with. Open source programming libraries and languages, webservers and browsers are all great because they are mainly programming problems, and open source developers are programmers. Things like the GIMP and Virtualdub try to deal with problems outside the field of programming, and don't have the knowledge, research or resources to develop something that people in those fields want. Usability is one of those fields but it isn't the heart of the problem.
I'm not sure how this article fits in here, but I do know that my wife made this recipe last night and it was fantastic.
"Linux" is only uniform if you stick exclusively to gnome or kde apps. Just try running firefox (gtk) on kde (qt). The file selector dialogs don't even look the same.
The trick, it would seem, is convincing them that a $0 tool with its faults and crashes is better than a stable $400 industry-standard tool 15 years in the development and that, when billing design time at $80-120/hour, the latter tool won't quickly prove its worth.

Time and time again, Gimp has proven to me that it's not the tool for doing anything but the most basic editing. I want to love it, because it's free, but I don't have the time to waste when it eats my drawings.

What could really help would be a gallery of stunning art created with only open-source tools; the trick there is teaching the artists to use the tools and making it worth their time to do so...
Team sports are great if you can get into them, and completely pointless if they disdain them. Individually oriented physical activities that emphasise co-ordination are good for dyspraxia e.g. dance, martial arts, gymnastics. Spend lots of time explaining the blidingly obvious in terms of social skills. Premature advice: acting, improv, debating are all good for socialisation. They're likely to be nerdier than normal, encourage this, and making friends of like interests as otherwise the chances of having no friends whatsoever until they get to a big high school or college are high (unless you live in a major urban area) If you can get them into a gifted and talented programme, whether a summer school or a proper day school do so. They are likely to put no effort whatsoever into tasks and subjects that don't interest them, give up on this pre-emptively. Try to make sure they encounter challenging material relatively early in their education. I was ~16 by the time4 I got to that and nine years later my capacity for necessary grinding work is still low.
The same thing happened to Long-Term Capital Management. You can read up on it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

They were bailed out when they failed too so that set the precedent for the bailouts we had recently.
Works pretty well on 10.5.7 with WinXP SP3 as guest.

I couldn't install a firewall for testing (Comodo CIS, it'll hang WinXP on reboot) on the guest w/o VT-X/AMD-V off. I hope they fixed it in this new version.
For those of you who want 'firefox' to run 3.5 with your current 3.0 profile, you can do the following:

tar xjvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2
sudo mv ./firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5
cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox firefox-3.5
sudo rm -f firefox
sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox

You can run 3.0 by using 'firefox-3.0', which should already exist.
Or you could just run Firefox completely in RAM in Linux, as I do:

http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/speed-up-firefox-by-moun...

It's fairly easy. There's a guide just for Ubuntu, too:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=991205
I heard that too (again without proof) - that Lehman (& Bear Stearns) refusal to participate in the LTCM rescue still rankled with other market participants.
Hashing the password client side and then sending it in plain text does nothing. In that case you don't need the password to log in; you only need the hash. Intercept the username and hash over an HTTP connection and then impersonate that user. It makes no difference to the person stealing accounts and only means more work for the hapless developer who thinks this is some form of security. You'd be better off doing nothing. It's just as secure (or rather insecure) and less work.
here's some help: STOP WRITING. YOU ARE A JACKASS.

sorry, but good God the planet would be so much better off without this douchegeyser.

here is an article corroborating my opinion from someone who knows the guy:

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-t...
The article does little to show hows maths brought down Lehman Brothers. Rather, it shows how important assumptions about the future (and your uncertainty surrounding those assumptions) are for structuring financial contracts.
True. But for Open Source projects, having a lead developer with taste is a matter of chance. And people using the software usually don't care about the "no-users" but only their own wants and needs.

In contrast, Closed Source products simply hire a professional interface designer if that's necessary to convince "no-users" to buy.
"Five homes. Three estates. Fancy cars. Private jets. (The jets are always rented. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long run.) Thousands of acres of land. Art on the walls and libraries stuffed with first editions. Bronze statues littering up the garden. Chauffeurs, housekeepers, financial advisers and other personal staff coming out of my rear end. Oh, and thousands of bottles of fine wine in the cellars. Never forget the wine."

All this overhead is definitely not for me. I want to get rich but to gain maximum independence and peace of mind, not to clutter my mind with countless possessions.

I don't think I'd live very differently whether I had 10 millions in the bank or 100 millions. I'd just want a ridiculously top-notch workstation (like in Matrix?), really fast connection and a big architecture in the cloud for my world domination fantasies ;P (and maybe a private island or something)
I've been using Firefox 3.5 and it's fast and hasn't crashed at all unlike Opera which crashed every once in a while here on Ubuntu Karmic.
Duly noted, and I agree.
If he's making the same point as usability and UI experts, why does it matter who he is?
Updating software packs, determining if source is reliable, studying source code and debugging are not done very often by office workers in fields like biz admin or design, to say the least.
It's a bit more akin to now calling all Lockheed Martin engineers "Obama's Engineers".
Can Open Government Be Gamed?
Let's wait for the end of hierarchical databases first...
An excellent book on LTCM is 'When Genius Failed' (not an affil link):

http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Managemen...
Wait, you're actually saying that:

1. Someone still makes non-standard cd-roms?
2. Someone else still buys them?

After learning you are person #2, why would anyone ever trust any other judgement you make?
I do not see this as good news. tpb works. If it ain't broke, don't go mucking about trying to fix it. If they think they can maintain control without ownership they are seriously delusional. A company with a stock symbol is beholden to its stock price, not idealism.
And that brings us back to the article - you're left with countless college grads with a near-useless degree who are faced with three choices:

- somehow "rise above the rest" - which, by definition, not everyone can do

- wallow in a career and lifestyle which is unfulfilling and doesn't live up to their expectations (as described in the article)

- suck it up, cut their losses, "settle" for a "lesser" job, and live happily ever after (also see: Mike Rowe's opinion on the subject).
Ask HN: Why aren't we spending more time to research harnessing solar energy?
I just watched this movie

http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

This fact shocked me:

In one hour the sun gives the earth the same amount of energy as that consumed by all humanity in one year
(Fast forward to around 1:26:20)

That is a staggering amount of energy. Shouldn't we be spending more resources in trying to build, say a solar car, than an electric car?
Writing externalized memory. The computer externalized procedure. What's next?
heavier products like what? I use prime for everything, and have never had a problem...even when I ordered my TV, the gold box shipping was free and it still came pretty quickly...
yes, we should. the issue is that its not just one technology that needs to improve for making solar energy viable to become the serious heavy power provider, but many different interlocking technologies. batteries, for example.
Even the article says that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. (Quantum entanglement seems to transmit information instantaneously, but I make no claim to understand what is going on.)
It really depends though. If you're using mysql with myisam tables you can easily come up with a sequence of events that lead to N+1 records being much faster due to table locking issues, especially when joins start getting involved. In that case if you can split your query into N+1 requests by primary key and avoid the join that locks both (or worse, many) tables for a little while it'll be much smoother and faster in production.

Now, of course, if you can do that you really should be thinking about memcached and/or a key/value store with possibly a distributed index rather than a relational db anyway.
I concede it's not a great example, but the larger point was that the V2 is related in type to the Saturn V in the same way that the Ho-299 is related to the B-2. In other words, I don't think there was much to discover about the 299 aside from historical novelty.

For what it's worth, Jack Northrop was interested in flying wings as early the late 30s with the N1-M.
How many lead devels on OSS projects would bend before a pro UID who would contribute to the project?
This is why I'm happy that MS might be distributing Win7 on USB drives - install will finally take a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks, and here I had been thinking that "the maths" was a neologism like "The Interwebs".
Tell that to Walmart.

RDBMS era will never end as long as corporations need to store data efficiently.

Most web pages don't need the power of a RDBMS and they go well enough with whatever is fashionable.

An invoice is a row, a purchase order is a row, an employee paycheck is a row, a product is a row, etc.
"I can show you how I safely do things outdated physiology textbooks tell you is impossible. This isn’t because I have some unique intelligence. It’s because I’ve tested the most basic assumptions of nutrition and exercise… and I experiment with outrageous alternatives that end up working."

I don't buy it. It sounds too good to be true and it most probably is, it most probably will sound like the article itself on and on without saying much.

What assumptions has he tested? This is like some amature physicist suggesting he has found out the secrets to the whole universe or something and and who reads outdated physiology books for practical information anyway?

One more... Outrageous Alternatives to me seems to suggest like alternative medicine or something, or alchemy :P

I mean good for him for using his publicity from 4 hours work week to come up with any other book. This guy is a marketer in my opinion and if I had his publicity I too would spend a month going through medicine journals and come up with some advice.

That all said, I wouldn't mind some online sources for optimal home exercising, like you know push ups and other alternatives. And what I think would be supper cool is like distance karate learning or something :)
True. Tesla Motors got $465 mil loan from the US govt, what about the companies that are working to produce solar energy based products? Shouldn't the govt support them at least as much as they support companies like Tesla?
"Therefore, investing on CDO is a riskier choice than betting for Manchester United."

Article is obviously watered down to make it more digestible, but how he came up with such flawed logic on this example is beyond me.
I read that somewhere else. When I went to look for that setting, I couldn't find it. I'm on Mac OS X.
Using Mongo for Real-Time Analytics
I don't see why private browsing should be considered a late copy for Firefox? That feature first appeared as a Firefox extension, and was then copied by IE. Are you saying Firebug should be included with the default Firefox install just b/c IE has their copy of it now?
Ask HN: Best way or place to sell domain names?
I have a few domain names I would like to sell to make some extra money. What is the best way to do it? Domain auctions? Ebay? Can you recommend any websites that have worked for you? The domains I am trying to sell are crowdhub.com and cleverhub.com, so if you are interested just message/email me.
I can't help but wonder what inpact you think that would have on heathcare spending per person.

PS: Most americans live within 150 miles of the ocean.
That's just an explanation, not a reason.

Why does it have to be like that? Why does Linux distributions fall in one of two categories: either "stable foundation and out-dated apps" or "unstable foundation and recent apps"?

What many people want is a stable foundation and recent apps. This is easier to get with a decentral installation system.
I think his scientific process is a little flawed... wheres the control? How is it a double blind study if he is the experimenter and guinea pig? Just an example of quack science using outrageous statements and feeding off the fact that people are willing to ignore reason if they _want_ to believe what hes selling.
So they have had 5 years to perfect their technology. Are there any more recent reports on this, or did it go the way of Cold Fusion?
I love the candid bio at the end of the article.
I'd like to see Timmy train for an ironman triathlon or a super marathon. He should do quite well (in theory) given his hacking skills.

If he can do well in one of these events it would give credit to his claims. Until then, he should consider touring around with David Copperfield.
this article leaves more questions than it answers. how does the author know the contents of an "investment plan" that was on the CEOs desk? where does the 3% number come from that is the bulk of the assumptions about the housing market.. and more than a few others..

even worse though, its flat out wrong in other areas.. lehman absolutely knew the risk of its CDOs and in fact was trying to offload them as quickly as possible. in contrast to goldman, lehman was famous for making money packaging and selling its bonds on a fee based model. whereas goldman's model relied more on proprietary trading - actually making bets on the direction of bond moves, lehman would theoretically be profitable regardless because they were making fees from the beneficiary of the bond and taking a cut from placing the bond with customers. the problem that killed them was the turnaround time from when lehman received the assets and "commission" to create the bond and when they could offload it to customers. during this time the bond was actually on lehman's books. basically, wall street caught lehman holding a bad hand of these bonds before they could unload them to the rest of wall street. rumors were started just like they were for bear sterns and financing got pulled like a house of cards..
This is exactly the problem. What percent of graphic designers would use an app, find a bug, and report it, let alone wade through the code and fix it?

On the other hand, an open source webserver or programming language, in which the user is a programmer by default, is much more likely to get fixed.

And honestly, what is your average open source developer more interested in: GIMP or Apache?
The whole point of Firefox is to not overload the average user with feature bloat. Yes, Safari and Chrome are slightly faster than Firefox now, and this is something that should be in core. OK. But awesomebar + ubiquity + weave? Other browsers just barely started copying awesomebar, and the others have yet to be copied. How are these not revolutionary?
No, that only applies if they work at GM.
I'll see your "lease a car" and raise you "learn the auto market, buy a car, drive it for 3/4 months and sell it at a profit."

Lots and lots of people do this for a living; they're called "wholesalers". You can pretty easily get a wholesale dealer license (go to your local DMV if you're in the United States). Once you have this, it will allow you access to dealer-only auto auctions, and the ability to sell more than 3-4 cars a year (I forget what the law is).

Granted, this is a considerable amount of work, with a pretty high risk, but it can be really profitable if you know what you're doing.
The trouble with your example is that a car is not a dyson sphere. A car is a few square meters, which means that with a 30% efficient pv panel (double the efficiency of the current standard), you'd only be getting around 15hp at noon. That's enough to toddle around a closed track at 30mph in a carbon fiber frame built by a university, but not enough to outdo a bicycle in real-world applications.

Fixed solar power plants are more promising, but they're not perfect--Sure, a square 100 miles on a side in Arizona could supply a lot of power, but not to New York or Seattle, even over the best HVDC lines. And 1,000 square miles is a helluva lot of monocrystalline silicon. Solar thermal looks more promising, especially for keeping the power going at night, but it's far from a panacea, and there's lots of companies working on it. I've invested in a few of them.
> Almost every piece of medical advice that i read always have counter-argument. It's so hard to know which one is working without experiment.

Medical advice based off peer reviewed studies and expert analysis or advice from some quack promising to increase your strength by 30% in 48 hours?
If any country can pull it off, Japan can. The economy is dominated by a relatively small number of large conglomerates.

It would be much harder to pull it off in more fragmented economies (except for very small ones perhaps).
It wouldn't, if he had something novel to say, or an interesting or effective way of phrasing it.
Introducing the Computer of 2010 (2000)
Because I am secretly an axe murderer, and who in the end wants to hear an argument from an axe murderer, however valid they might be?
to be more specific, LTCM set the precedent for Fed organized bailouts.. private bailouts have a long history, going back at least to JP Morgan
Usually true, but their World Wind software is only unfriendly compared too Google Earth or MS Earth programs. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
This is similar to placing a set of lenses in front of a laser beam and quickly changing the focus - the focal point can move towards you at arbirtrary speed yet you can't pass information because focal point is an imaginary object.

Similarly, you can spin the laser in front of a wall and then the spot on the wall can move at arbitrary speed (provided the wall is far enough).
He's asking for contributions from other people so that you don't have to just believe him. Maybe you won't believe Tim Ferriss but you might believe an NBA trainer or track and field star.
Because he's not making any new points. The only way his post could be useful is if he was notable, making his agreement notable.
The costs of buying and selling the car, as well as adjusting to a new car, are non-trivial for most people.

It's another case of doing more work to make more money. The question should be, "Is doing a better investment of time and effort than simply buying a newer car and keeping it longer?"