skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not had a chance to actually dig in and use in depth. But on first glance, I think you have a very useful and important concept here. This has very large upside. The 2 key strengths I see:

1) Providing a needed service to startups - making it easier to acquire and track early adopters... hugely valuable.

2) Intriguing, focused portal to interesting new techs. Not just useful to curious web surfers, but also for market research and business-collaborative purposes.

The one constructive critique I would offer at this stage is just to continue to work on simplifying your text, both in terms of wordage and visual presentation. Less verbose, bigger text, clear, broken down steps.

Best of luck - great start.
wasn't this on here yesterday ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691077

and before that...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691070
I'm not sure that it is the same debate.

Javascript doesn't compile down to any sort of bytecode. It is just a chunk of raw source. Anything of the techniques that you'd apply (like JIT), would occur after a compile on the client.

That seems like a pretty fundamental difference to me.

And playing a 17 (!!) year old game doesn't strike me as a particularly convincing argument. You're effectively saying that javascript is some 2^(17/1.5) ~= 2000x slower than compiled C.
Smart idea using the tooth to prevent rejection.

So now I'm curious. I want to see his wife...
I assume there is something higher-grade than chemistry-lab splash goggles for this. There must be some protective equipment available for people working with white-hot aluminum.

Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness.
The big question is, will these netbooks and such running chrome os have all the linux tools available, or is this going to be a certified google world, with google package management?
"The goggles, they do nothing!" Thanks Simpsons.
There is need for proof - or even some kind of suggestion. Otherwise it's just a scare story :)

The question is, what sort of market forces are at work, both within and outside of the company, which motivate bad behavior? What are the forces that dissuade it?
So you go into my post and complain about self promotion, just to find out that you are just as guilty? So you post a few other links here and there, but you are consistently self promoting Windy Citizen. Windy Citizen is no different than Examiner. It's all crap on the surface with a few writers who may occasionally produce an interesting article.

You then go on to gripe about what an injustice Examiner is when you publish a website that is basically the exact same thing as the Examiner, if not worse? I am not delusional. Examiner sucks. But coming from you it's quite ironic.

Furthermore, isn't the point of social media sites that the creme rises to the top and the crap sinks? That's the whole idea of voting. I've had several articles rise quickly and get a lot of votes. I've had some sink because they are crap. If I hadn't had some that were successful, I would stop posting my links here. But the truth is that posting my links on this site has been rather successful because I've had some articles gain a lot of votes.

Also, your facts on how much Examiner pays are completely off. Examiner pays $0.01 per click. That's $10 per 1,000 and I earn $1500 a month writing around 15-20 articles. It seems that some people want to read my stuff. So why do you take it upon yourself to police the site when there are others who actually enjoyed the article? 7 people voted it up because they liked it. Having to promote my own articles isn't something I gripe about. I'm not an entitled journalist. I'm a guy that works in a cube that makes money on the side by occasionally humoring people.

Perhaps it is inconceivable to you that someone could like reading something that you don't like.
I know this may be hearsay, but I've been using pylint and have been generally pleased with the results. I don't take everything it says as the ultimate source of coding standards, but it will pick up on some silly mistakes one might make and generally make my code more maintainable.

Granted, I'm still in University, but I think your disdain for automated code quality tools may be misplaced. Instead blaming the tools, why not blame the community as a whole for engaging in arcane coding practices.
Interesting observation, asterisk-word-asterisk in the text above results in the <i> tags, but in comments it results in italics.
The memristor doesn't keep changing states. Where did you see that?

More technical: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/01/logic-circuits-...
I'm having a hard time mustering a whole lot of sympathy. If you want the ability to individually approve each ad then Google is definitely the wrong tool for the job.
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And how is this different from what you can do with Microsoft software and services today?
I think that was the point the author was trying to make. The Google OS is nothing more than Linux and the Chromium browser.
> I'm not saying this is a great idea under normal circumstances-just these circumstances.

What, exactly, is this "great idea", what are the circumstances that make that idea "great", and "great" for whom?

I think that loaning money to the state of CA is like giving booze to a drunk. That would be bad (for the drunk) if Bill Gates did it, but taking money from folks who are hard pressed (general taxpayers and folks dependent on govt) is even worse.

However, you clearly disagree, so let's see the details.
134.5 billion US bond confiscated in Italy - carrier related to bank of Japan
Firefox stability to get a boost with multiprocess browsing
He was 'duke' from efnet and undernet 10+ years ago.
I thought the standard was "4 to 6 weeks"
Repetition leads to boredom, boredom to horrifying mistakes, horrifying mistakes to God-I-wish-I-was-still-bored

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed,
The lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
-- David Lynch (Piter de Vries from Dune movie)

"It is caffeine alone that sets my mind in motion. It is through beans of java that thoughts acquire speed, that hands acquire shakes, that shakes become a warning... I am... IN CONTROL... OF MY ADDICTION!" -- From the Minicon Graffiti Wall, 1989
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
My favorite John Von Neumann quote is: "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." That was circa 1949. The statement may appear silly at first glance. Nevertheless, even when Mr Von Neumann couldn't foresee any more advancements in the industry, he still was humble enough to concede his own limitations by implying that maybe there was more to do/discover. That stance alone deserves much praise.
Except that Stackoverflow itself has just around a million hits a month; A third party site wouldn't need so much scaling anyway.
have u checked out rpxnow.com or maybe clickpass as additional options for offering multiple logins?

provides pretty close to universal coverage login-wise, easy to implement.
From another poster's comment, it appears that I just didn't understand the article -- that it's always been possible to deduct for losses, but the question was, who's an ACTIVE investor. So I guess in MY hypothetical, I'd have gotten taxed on $25k, not $50k.

As to your hypothetical, though, my curiosity is piqued:

Let's say the Household's businesses are losing $250k a year of the Household's money.

Why should they pay tax on $500k of income? Their income is $250k in your hypothetical.

If the businesses ARE losing money, then the household as a unit has less income, so why not tax the household on its actual income?
Intel aims for chemical sensors in phones
Whatever happened to the Segway?
There must be a mistake somewhere. 800TFLOPS / 750MHz = 1 million FLOPS / cycle. As there are 130 million gates you would need to do 1 FLOPS with 130 gates. At 6Ghz you still only have 1040gates which is not going to cut it for 32 bit math.

Edit, Ok, http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20090629/172373/... has 88TFLOPS equivalent per IC which might be possible if equivalent is loosely defined. And with 9 of those you might hit 900TFLOP's equivalent.
I don't think it's a matter of performance, but of realism. If you want realistic calculations, you must go to a ray tracing algorithm, there's no substitute.

If you don't need 100% realism, though, you can probably make things look 99% as good with "fake" effects, with better performance.
> severely reduced revenues owing to the recession

They're only "severely reduced" from a spike in 07. They're well ahead of just a couple of years ago.

CA Govt behaves like a stupid lottery winner. When it has a great year, it acts as if all years will be better.

You know how this story ends. "Ex-millionare now homeless, bankrupt, sued by three ex-wives, collecting cans and dodging bill collectors."
dpnewman,

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm actually trying to polish the message the site is trying to convey.

I just came up with the text on my BART ride to work. I figure I need to at least have a description of what the site does on the front page.
Cool tech, but why would I not just type that in to the note app on my phone? I imagine most people with an iPhone can use it with one hand, can't they?
It's illegal for you to drive like an ambulance to the hospital in your own unmarked car.
_34_signals?
That is a slight misquote. Radioactive Man says, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

(The word "they" is never said, contrary to the meme on slashdot a few years ago.)
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Due to the BBC's public service remit it has to support a very wide range of use cases - many of which fall outside of the accepted norm. For example the BBC has to provide its contents to libraries and schools, many of which have more heavily 'locked down' machines than your typical corporate network, and who do not have the money or time to upgrade their machines. There are a lot of smaller user groups in situations that prevent them from upgrading too. You'd be surprised how many older machine users this equates to. Thus the BBC has to support the thin end of the wedge of web browsers, and the stats we have (unfortunately) back this up.

The Glow team itself is actually a very small team, even in BBC terms (which usually has small teams compared to a lot of companies). Add to this the in-house support they give to all of the other web products in terms of a library and general JS support and you have in effect a net gain in web producing ability - not a loss, so its more effective to do this and thus a more efficient use of BBC funds.
You seem to have taken the bait of my comment -- you assume that anti-Scientologists are atheists! I'd argue that they are Christians.
It isn't where I live.

And better your own unmarked car than none at all.

In fact my insurance policy explicitly states they'll reimburse me for damage to upholstery when transporting accident victims.
Do you differentiate between Scientology and other mainstream religions like Mormonism, Catholocism, Judaism, etc.?

I don't. You say Zenu I say tomato.
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Personally, I think all religion is silly. But, mainstream Christianity is rather harmless compared to Scientology. It doesn't require its members to sink money into its lawsuit fund, for example. (But sure, there are crazy Christian groups too.)
ESR was never representative of the hacker community.
Can't this be done with an .htaccess file?
The funny thing is that there is one major reason why I don't see bing taking a substantial number of people away from google, which is that on the whole google does what it should do, there isn't enough dissatisfaction with google to get people to switch in droves.

When google took on altavista pretty much any single keyword search on altavista was 50% or more spam.

That single item is what gave google traction. They didn't spend any money on advertising their service, it just worked, and so much better than the competition that if you had tried it once you were sold.

I don't remember any 'altavista side by side with google' comparisions at the time that gave you the impression that it was too close to call.
You're right, but the intersection between that population and the population of university graduates is, I'd imagine, fairly low. And there are differences in race relations across the spectrum of economic classes.
I thought of that as well when I read the article. Surely the author must have tried that?
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Throw in a continuation and they'll have a half-boner the rest of the day.
It seems like Glow is YAJSL (Yet Another Javascript Library). After looking through the documentation, it doesn't seem to provide anything that jQuery, Prototype, Dojo, Extjs or Mootools doesn't already provide.

Selectors, DOM Manipulation, Events, Ajax, UI Widgets. At least it looks like it doesn't extend js primitives or DOM elements like Prototype and Mootools. It's sad that the BBC is continuing along this path despite the original reason for it... browser support... being a moot issue at this point. The JS world would be better off if they abandoned their support of their internal library and instead focused on using, supporting, and extending one of the existing open-source libraries.

jQuery is so open to user development and its plugin architecture lends itself nicely to the BBC team being able to add any functionality they feel is missing. I hope they at least consider dropping Glow and taking up jQuery instead.
You missed the point? He wasn't claiming that open source software is universally awesome, he was saying it's awesome that it doesn't get split into home/premium/business/pro/basic/enterprise/ultimate/etc. editions.

It's always "awesome" edition - you get every part of it.

(Although, I'm not sure I agree - there is price and licensing segregation with commercial Open Source software).
> There is no lock-in with Google, and that makes all the difference.

The iPhone came with Google Maps, and Google/Yahoo search box. Try to add your own search box to the iPhone... worst, in the past there was an antimonopoly inquiry attacking Microsoft for integrating their IE on the OS, now Google under the [buzzed] "Open Source" lemma, give you less web APIs in the web than Microsoft in the OS.
The proposal is a bit light on details - does anyone know if this has multilayer switch capabilities?

My kingdom for an open source layer 7 switch...
On the Mac, since Chrome uses Webkit, you get Cocoa text handling "for free" in text input areas, i.e., pretty much the full Emacs editing basics.

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.... gives the inside skinny.
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related links/discussions about his exploits if you're interested:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164725
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690592
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=692881
The road to hell is paved with utilitarianism.

That is to say, just because you can show that a policy produces gains on some statistical matrix does not mean that it is morally correct to coerce people into your scheme, particularly people that aren't doing anything wrong.

Consider if I could show that eliminating redheads from society lowered traffic fatalities, saving 10k lives per year [1]. Would you argue it proper to kill off all the redheads [2]? Or even to use the minimum force 'necessary,' and require all redheads to keep their hair dyed brown? I hope not.

Just be cognizant of whether the outlines of your argument can lead to nonsense.

--

[1] Perhaps lots of men were rubbernecking behind the wheel to get a good look at those redheads, but the researchers couldn't definitively determine the causal pathway.

[2] Only if the net present value of the expected future gain in lives was greater than the number of redheads that needed to die, of course.
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don't they mean "does" Google one better"?
Ah. I misread the NewScientist article. It wasn't clear to me that in the experiment to mimic the slime they, in fact, modeled the slime with a circuit that _included_ a memristor and not with just a memristor. The paper the article cites also made things much clearer: http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/0810.4179
It's pretty much what Maxwell was said to have done.

Trying to create taxonomies is often worthwhile. You find patterns, holes and other interesting things when you succeed and learn more about what you don't know when you fail.
According to the article, he's tried using that filter to no avail.
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There is no comparison, and here's proof. Google hits my website basically every couple of seconds. At this rate, Google will crawl my site in total a few times a year, since we have millions of pages.

Bing, Yahoo, and all the rest only visit a few times a day. At this rate, they will spider my site completely....ummmm... never.
They will probably build something like fbdev wrapper to run their browser along with Native Client and GPU-accelerated (even on ARM) ffmpeg's codecs for html5 support, and it could be a real deal. They will reuse 80% and build 20% as usual.
If they can be good enough to keep people from switching to Google when Bing is the default through OEM deals or IE downloads they'll gain significant market share. In the short term just keeping people would be a victory.
Ask HN:  How to make Numbrosia 2 and 3 descriptions more comprehensible?
See descriptions here:

http://www.numbrosia.com (Numbrosia and Numbrosia 2)

http://amichail.posterous.com/numbrosia-3-screenshot-and-description

The Numbrosia 2 and 3 descriptions are probably incomprehensible to most people.

I realize that videos would help considerably and I plan to make them, but I would also like to have text descriptions that are more comprehensible.
Atheism is the largest religion.
Automotive applications are different in that they're inordinately concerned with the appearance of reflections, especially in areas such as the appearance of the headlights. This makes non-raytraced approaches substantially less valuable in the design process. They really want to know what the shiny bits will look like ahead of time.

Raytracing still suffers form the performance implications of incoherent memory accesses patterns for non-primary rays, but when you want physically correct reflections and shadowing to fall out of the rendering architecture naturally, an implementation of ray tracing in hardware starts to look like a pretty spiffy idea.

Are there other fields that require physically correct models for reflections, etc? None spring to mind for me right away.
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yeah...for sure. it's a very iterative process.

btw, i am in sf - and developing a conversation service which possibly could have some synergistic connection to (startups as vertical) to what you're doing. fire me an email if you'd be interested in connecting/chatting/hacking. dpnewman a t gmail.
I think we're off topic here. The main issue is that the Scientology ads are dominating and nothing else is showing up ever. I'm sure people would be upset if all they saw were Christian, Mormon, Muslim, or Atheist ads.
I tried doing it that way first, but the wsgi directives aren't allowed in an .htaccess file. It would have been much better to have a user place a few lines in their .htaccess file for python projects, but I didn't find a way of doing that.
In NYC, I have only seen the Segway used as a mobile advertising station. I have never seen a "normal" person riding one.

It may be due to the ubiquitous stairs and subways, but this device would be utterly impractical in most situations here, and it looks silly to boot.
Atheism is not a religion.
This is why surgeons get paid the big bucks. Makes the average programming job look pretty trivial...
I do not see a use for this. Cool concept, but not practical for anything?
It made me think a bit, especially about the types of code I find beautiful. Also in the comments there was some back and forth about regex interpreters which exposed two ways of looking at this. Is beautiful code beautiful because of it's internals or is it beautiful because of it's externals and what it allows?
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gonna try to make it. thx for putting together.
Hello News.YCers!

Today, I'm submitting an idea that has been growing in the back of my mind for some time. The American political system is broken, and it's high time we apply our hacker creativity and startup ingenuity to reverse the rising tide of ignorance and apathy that threatens to sweep away any remaining semblance of informed, rational political discourse in the United States.

The Simplevote website doesn't explain many of the details; I'm still working those out. There are a myriad of potential objections and pitfalls; some of them are easily mitigated, some less so. Please ask questions and point out shortcomings in this idea; feel equally free to suggest solutions.

I'm an entrepreneur and web developer by expertise; I'm currently the founder of InQuickER, which was discussed here a few months ago. Ultimately, I may not be the person to spearhead this concept and push it forward over the next couple of years, and I'm perfectly fine with that. However, I think it's time for this idea to become reality, and I can't help but commit my time and money to getting the idea off the ground.

What do you think of this?
Anything new over the last year article?
I am probably missing something about Fabric, but it seems to me it solves a problem already solved by most unix distributions.

Why not utilize the host packaging system for deploying your code and applications?
When you're on mobile devices, the game changes a bit. It's not just about running fast enough, it's also about not draining too much battery. Sure, netbooks last 4-8hrs nowadays... but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be the case with 90% CPU utilization all the time.

I'm all for high-level languages. But it's going to take some optimization to get there.
Has anyone actually taken a hard look at Bing? I get that it has interesting bells and whistles, but I think the search results are incredibly naive.

For example, when I search for my company I get 7 pages of results that are pages I host. Then finally at the end of page seven there are links to our TechCrunch and TradeVibes pages. I think having some diversity of results is important.
One fault with TDD that I have heard mentioned is that people tend to write tests and then code only for those tests, ignoring the big picture. Then of course there is the other end of the spectrum where people write the app, then use that as the spec to create tests to avoid breaking things.

This is closer to the latter and very sloppy. He's creating a test to fit the data. I feel that tests should embody properties of the perfectly working app, they should be developed almost in isolation, then the code can be modified until it produces the desired output.

But all that said, testing with large data sets and random data sets is a very good way to find your edge cases and work towards more robust code.
Maybe bing is better, but the keyword there is "maybe".

Even if it is, this is the same battle between blu ray and dvd. Similarly to DVD, google is good enough that the jump to blu ray/bing isn't really worth it to people (if the benefit is even visible to them).

Sorry, microsoft, but I think google is going to win this round.