skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know much about semiconductors, but Apple started shipping x86 Macs when Intel had just switched to the Core architecture. I can imagine that Apple didn’t bother to write for technologies that were present in earlier Intel chips. Apple has only shipped Intel-powered computers with Core and Xeon chipsets (the first gen AppleTV ran on a Pentium M, though).

“The Core microarchitecture is a major architectural revision”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_(microarchitecture)
The radiation is ongoing and cumulative. You speak about it as if its something that has happened and is over.
You'll want to put it in the public field, your email in your profile is not publicly visible.
www.budgetbytes.com

Everything under $2/meal.
did you get all the way through it?

If you did, you are a substantially smarter person than I.
thanks! Great idea - we'll write a blog post about this
When Soylent was first a guy's "garage project," I too wanted it to work, or, to be clear, I do still want the idea of Soylent to work. However, Soylent went from being a simple meal replacement, to a snake oil miracle food nearly overnight.

Once the internet buzz started swimming around their milkshake idea, it felt like the developers saw green and threw their standards out the window. Their Kick Starter page read like something out of the Patent Medicine era of the early 1900's. "Do feel tired, groggy, or have ailment X?" Soylent with cure it!

Obviously, I'm a cranky minority, but the absolute lack of intellectual honesty and rigor presented in the claims on their Kick Starter put a sour taste in my mouth over the whole thing.
and here is the problem with yours, from the EULA:

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Licensor hereby grants to
You, free of charge, a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable,
non-transferable, limited copyright license, during the term of
this Agreement, to download, install and use the Software
internally in machine-readable (i.e., object code) form and the
Documentation for non-commercial use on an Authorized Android
Enabled Device and non-commercial redistribution for academic
purposes only of a reasonable number of copies of the Authorized
Android Enabled Device Software (the "Limited Purpose"). You may
grant your end users the right to use the Software for
non-commercial purposes on an Authorized Android Enabled Device.
The license to the Software granted to You hereunder is solely for
the Limited Purpose set forth in this section, and the Software

This makes it entirely impossible for AOSP to distribute the drivers
pg asked about FaceMash, and he said something like "It was nothing. Everyone thinks it was a huge deal. That stupid movie..."
Everybody does that. This has not much to do with ACPI. ACPI is mainly a software thing (yes, you have some dedicated register support in some chips, but the baseline of those that are absolutely necessary is quite small and well supported by chip vendors)

ACPI has also proven to be an idea with a very bad execution: much of the tables are filled with bugs, and the spec has been written by complete psychopaths. IIRC sometimes it is better to skip entire sections and to use a custom written driver for each OS (like Intel did for some processors or chipsets for Linux I think)

Remember that ACPI has been created in part by MS, and that Bill himself wanted a conception that was easy for windows and hard for the other. I'm not sure this has been executed for the conception (even though the result is a mess), but MS absolutely managed to create an ecosystem where board vendors test only on Windows and ship if this kind of work, regardless of the amount of obvious bug present in their ACPI code.
Yes. It just may... and wouldn't that be interesting and effective. != )
He was frustrated at its portrayal that Facebook was a direct result of Facemash.
I genuinely don't understand why you think Soylent is anything new or unique.

Is it just the marketing buzz that Soylent created?
An Application-Centric Approach to DevOps using Cloudify + Chef on Cloudstack
I took me 4 or 5 tries, the AND ones were hard for me
I've been doing them every year ( http://gkoberger.net/m/startup-school ); would love to eventually do something like that. I wouldn't want to make money; maybe I could donate proceeds to Watsi?
Seene - Share life in 3d
I am more or less a foodie, and yet am watching Soylent intently for exactly the opposite reason: I could conceivably only eat when I'm able to have an excellent meal. Maybe that means setting aside time to cook an exquisite dinner a few times a month, and only going out to eat when I want to try a new restaurant or to socialize.

I could actually see Soylent as the hardcore foodie's dream come true: Never eat a boring meal again, because you don't have to eat until your next feast.
Early in its 'development', if I'm remembering correctly, not long. But that's only once it's mixed. In it's dry form, I believe it'll last quite some time.
Their obligation to their shareholders actually means that their uninterrupted profits are too important.
I'm sorry... I didn't post a conspiracy theory, but linked a series of widely-covered reports on Pogue's ethics issues—which are in fact a big deal, since he's a journalist.

He worked at the Times for more than a decade, during an era when journalists with much smaller names than his own (think Jayson Blair) damaged the rep of the paper. The public editor called him out for it, even:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06pubed.html?_r=0

Also, he works in a space where his industry colleagues constantly face conflict of interest issues. It's not a "conspiracy theory" if it's common knowledge.

If you think that's "the worst in HN," then this comment is no better.
It wasnt my intention to point fingers at others, it was to point to the thread article that the problem is more widespread and thus general than for the tech industry, and any good solution must be founded with such an analasis in mind that is applicable for all.
Mark was talking about how he always envisioned a way to connect people. And he was citing examples of early hacks he made in college. Of course, his most notorious one was the "FaceMash" hack, the one the movie, "The Social Network," put a lot of emphasis on. Hence, Mark was venting a little frustration that his other notable achievements went largely unnoticed by the public.
OSX is not a general-purpose OS.
IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
Very creative, good job!
How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
Apple's iCloud: Lack of two-factor authentication allows remote data download
> The experiment drove enough interest that Rhinehart decided to do a pivot, and change his YC-backed startup from working on wireless networking to making Soylent full-time.

That's really stretching what pivoting is, no?
I have the exact same problem as OP. Getting tons of job offers because I've been doing competitive math and algorithms since grade school but really have hard time understand technology. I'm pretty ambitious and I want to join a small, high growth startup and have the excitement of being part of a founding team but I'm afraid of letting people down.

I could learn heroku/RoR/whatever other technology but news things are always coming out and some people keep up with it so easily. I'm not sure being a dev is right for me if I take so long to understand such basic stuff. But I love coding and algos! I write python scripts to do all my homework... and then run them in codecademy labs because doing it in unix makes me so confused.

If anyone has had the same problem please let me know how you got over this hurdle. Thanks.

background; sophomore, cs major, cornell
Open Source Node.js framework for building realtime web apps
Awesome design and thanks for open sourcing!
Morning meal: granola or oatmeal (cost: $0.25-0.50 per person).

Afternoon meal: sandwich, maybe bag of chips ($1.00-2.00 per person).

Evening meal: meat, vegetables, carb ($2.00-3.00 per person).

I guess if you compare it to eating out it's pretty cheap, but if you compare it to cooking (although there isn't much cooking in the mealplan above, really just dinner), it looks pretty pricey.
They do to an extent they can. They fight for more transparency (http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/google-and-microsofts-plea-on-n...) and fund organizations such as EFF.

You have to understand how US law works. If you are not an injured party, you can't sue the government for it. In other words, Google cannot sue the government for the injury government is causing to you. What they can do, however, is claim an 'injury' on First Amendment grounds, reasoning that their free speech is limited when they cannot disclose that John Doe is being surveilled (and thus John Doe is being injured). They do that with the hope that with transparency John Doe will have the information necessary to sue the government.
And I doubt those people aren't weary of it...
Another marker in the deathbed of traditional print journalism. Add this to Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post, the departure of Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from the WSJ, and you have indications that tech media is going to diverge and likely eclipse traditional media, the disruption will be complete.

It used to be that internet media was playing in print media's game, but now the situation is reversing, and the weaker (either in content or profitability) outfits will go by the wayside.

This isn't necessarily a good thing, but it will happen.
Go to http://openweathermap.org and find your city, then copy the name it says.
There are better (less expensive) ways to build credit than car loans.

While I don't remember the name, my wife and I built credit getting some sort of secured loan from our local credit union. The process was something along the lines of making an account with them, putting $X into the account, and then getting a 6 or 12 month loan from them for the same $X dollars at a really low interest rate. Overall I think we paid $30 to $50 dollars over that period in interest.
There are plenty of recorded cases of extraordinary acts of kindness between people who knew each other only via some online hobby subculture. It'd be nice to get some objective statistics here.
Alfred is amazing, if you are on Mac. I would strongly suggest it.
I <3 that landing page!!!!
An Hour Is The New Week
> Land is finite and does not depreciate.

The value of land can definitely depreciate. Perhaps not in [sub]urban areas so much, but in rural areas the value of land can be tied to things like timber, water, or mining. If I buy some acreage and extract timber/sand/gravel/etc, that land is going to have a lower resale value.

Or maybe I buy prime farmland and then crop the soil until it is dead.

Or instead of extracting stuff, I leave bad stuff behind (persistent pollution -- lead, mercury, etc).

For something more [sub]urban, consider the case where a new highway is built to route traffic around a city instead of through it, and a previously viable commercial location becomes worthless because the traffic count drops to near-zero.
Silicon Valley’s Secessionist Movement Is Growing
As best I can tell, Mayer believes deeply in reflexivity, which might not actually be a bad strategy. Probably figures if she repeats claims like this over and over again, and make a couple acquisitions that kinda-maybe-sorta insinuate that it's different this time, peoples' opinions on Yahoo will turn around and with it Yahoo's fortunes. I'm sure deep down she knows she's peddling bullshit though.
Wonder if he'll be able to work from home?
The 'exact' answer for the angle you need to row (alpha) is Sin(alpha)=KCos(Phi).

Yes, the 'exact' answer is the tangent. If you want the relationship between K and Phi, then:

K = Cos(Phi) + SQR( (pi+phi)^2 - sin^2(phi))

The derivation of both of these is contained in the article.
Since Oracle started shipping malware/spyware on every damn Java update, we where forced to abandon it and we can't recommend it to any customer. Considering the vast amount of warnings each time a client start a remote-control applet, it's just not usable any longer.
CryptoSeal VPN shuts down rather than risk NSA demands for crypto keys
You would think everybody with a shred of conscience at cnet would quit after the DirecTV Hopper debacle but that didn't happen. cnet still exists and people still work there.

> "CNET is not going to give an award or any other validation to a product which CBS is challenging as illegal, other networks believe to be illegal and one court has already found to violate the copyright act in its application. Beyond that, CNET will cover every other product and service on the planet," a CBS spokesperson said.[0]

USA Today questioned CNET's as well as CBS' credibility going forward:

> CBS, once called the Tiffany network, will never be viewed again as pristine. The ethical media rule is that corporate business interests should never interfere in journalism – or at least not so blatantly, publicly and harmfully. It made me wonder if 60 Minutes had ever suffered the same treatment.[1]

Why does CBS still exist? Why does CBS get a free pass simply for being the second largest broadcaster in the world? Why aren't we actively boycotting everything CBS lays its slimy hands on?

I am sad to conclude that your conclusion is correct. Nobody cares. Once you are big enough, you know you can get away with certain things.

[0] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57566906-93/cea-gives-dish-...

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/01/30/cbs-cnet-ce...
Good point. Nobody has the time, money, and energy to construct perfectly-sourced and meticulously prepared meals three times a day. I cook a lot and I get to do a fun experimental food project maybe every second week - most of the time I'm falling back to the grind of stand-by stuff since I've got a family of 5 to take care of.

Obviously it wouldn't work for my case because there's no way I'd feed this stuff to my kids, but I can't really blame folks - even food-lovers - for wanting to just skip the effort with a big chunk of their meals.
NB: if you're trying out haskell and you're on a mac with xcode 5, you'll be hitting some weird CPP related errors due to GHC 7.6 and older not playing nice with Clang's CPP.

I shared a number of work arounds with the general haskell community a few weeks ago here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2013-September...
(there are alternative work arounds, but I only listed the ones which are simple and easy to communicate with other people and be able to expect them to follow the steps correctly.)
"filter out (gently fire) the ones that aren't as good." If the employee finds out you "hire more than you need of the top performers", you end up with a potential court case.
If I found this out about a former employer, I would have pursued them to the end of hell.
This is what I don't understand about Soylent: assuming that these are similar products and offer similar nutritional profiles, no one would reccomend that you base 90% of your diet on ensure. It sounds crazy. Is this mostly about rebranding/recontextualizing a similar product for another audience? Otherwise I don't see why it's innovative.
Yes, you're right. I don't know why I ever thought raping hotel maids, attempting to rape journalists, or going on trial for pimping would ever reflect badly on a politician [1]

Clearly only a fundamentalist puritan would object to those things. I'm so old fashioned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn#New_York...
Hopefully they won't call it green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
11 Must Watch Documentaries for Entrepreneurs
Or as Steve Yegge likes to say, "Done and Gets Thinks Smart"

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
Why the Oct. 23 countdown is still the best working Android KitKat theory
...but this idea is still an enormously entertaining excuse to turn the tables on recruiters, and subject them to a sales pitch right while they're in the middle of pitching to you.

In other words, some annoying recruiter delivers a cold call sales pitch to you. Then, when you realize the call is a solicitation, you get to interrupt them, while their in the middle of their sales pitch, and solicit your service to them, and reveal exactly how irritating they might've been, by irritating them in kind.

> Hey, would you be interested in--

Hey, you sound like a recruiter! I have just the kind
of thing you might be interested in! It's a recruiter
service for recruiters! Would you be interested in a free
trial.

> Erm, no thanks. But I do have a job open--

Are you sure??? It'll only take less than a minute to
get set up, and in no time, you'll be recruiting with
recruiters just like you, all over the world.

> Um, I'm not interested.

Okay, but could you take some time, and respond to my
brief survey? This is a questionnaire on why no recruiters
seem to be interested in my service.

> No. Thank you. Goodbye. *click!*

I think, when it comes down to it, you can't ask the recruiters directly.

They're the subordinates, and they don't make decisions about how their jobs are carried out. They perform the leg work, but probably at the behest of a manager.

It's just a day job to them. They'll find a way to say "no" anything they perceive as another layer of "extra work", and assuredly find some way to justify avoiding it. I know I do.

If you really want to make money, selling a thing no one wants, or needs, you have to ask their bosses, who will then saddle the bottom-rung recruiters with a service that they might not opt-in on themselves. Why should a boss care? They don't actually do the work themselves. They never get their hands dirty.

And, think of it this way, recruitment services are middle men to begin with. It's already an industry no one wants or needs. If you're selling an add-on (that, ostensibly, based on your ad-hoc 8-person survey, no one seems to want or need) to a business (annoying recruiters, that no one wants or needs), then you'll probably see some luck by targeting the leadership of the industry that no one wants or needs, because those are exactly the kinds of people that are probably most aligned toward a mindset of mutli-layered make-work inefficiency.
While it is definitely possible to go below $3/meal (perhaps even $1/meal if you are willing to subsist on ramen and multivitamins), it is very likely that GP already spends much more than that - except he never did the math.
Postmortems like this are really interesting to see, they benefit incoming and future YC classes. I'd love to see more as well.

I agree that if you don't pass the conviction 'sniff test', it's really hard to grind through the ups, downs, and fundraising.
Big Data Talent: Examining the Expected Shortage
If you only "eat" Soylent, you're doing $9.29-ish a day. At 2.5 meals a day (breakfast is usually pretty cheap, so I count it at half), $3.71 a meal is not bad. If you do a lot of scratch cooking you may be spending less, depending on how fancy. It's about the same as other prepared foods (frozen dinners, etc.) If you eat out much, it's way less. Many people pay more than $65 for a single meal out.

I'd imagine it's similar to or cheaper than most people's food expenditures. If they actually can make it significantly cheaper, it could be a big deal.

I suppose sending it all to one place in big chunks makes it seem scarier, price-wise, which could be a problem for them. Food expenditures usually dribble out. They may want emulate that in their sales model, at least initially (weekly recurring transactions, or something.)
A appreciate your comments tokenadult. Thanks for taking the time to compile and summarize this research.
Or as Steve Yegge likes to say, "Done and Gets Things Smart"

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
Alternatively, http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/ ;)
I can think of several other news agencies - other than NYT - who still haven't taken analytics seriously. This could be a blueprint for how to build the case.
There's probably 490 million lines of comments explaining all the quid pro quos needed to get the thing built.
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I think the start-up world needs a better word for "we're completely abandoning our entire product direction and moving into a new industry" than "pivot". I'd suggest "reboot" but even that's a stretch.
No freaking way. 500 people can't write 1 million lines of code in 7 months. Maybe if you counted some kind of ORM generated code but even that seems ridiculous. Even 500 MB of code doesn't make any sense.
Pretty cool! Seems like there are lots of features buried in there. What's the common use case?
Oh good. An autoplaying YouTube video with audio.

closes tab
There is a bug in displaying the first paragraph. I was unable to set it in a code block, as indented paragraphs or anything but by putting a throw away line in the first paragraph and then format the subsequent ones...
I believe the data is very limited. Russia and India are no where to be seen?

On my server logs, I find a large part of such automated attack bots originating from Russia.
Was iOS7 Created in Microsoft Word? [video]
Conversely couldn't it be said that 'the worst in HN' might be the meta discussion about how everything is negative?

It's one thing to bash someone who posts up a new service, a new idea, or a new project. It's entirely different when (in my case) you question a part of the machine that makes good on proving that there might be a conflict of interest when it comes to journalism and how the subjects they cover are treated.
The BBC's first Man in Moscow
The quote was "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."
So I would highly doubt that "software code" would also include comments.
Rightly said, SaaS easy to build hard to sell. Products hard to build are easy to sell, as it has value and willing high value customers. But in all, a product or business without a clear customers acquisition strategy is a miracle.
I'm in the video game industry working on AAA console titles, and the last game I worked on sits right around a million lines for the runtime executable, and maybe another 1-2 million for all the supporting toolchains.

I worked on a game once that was about 4 million lines, and it had continuously evolved for about a decade at that point.

If the 500 million line comment is true, it probably counts all the lines in all the supporting documentation, xml configuration files (which could be huge), etc.

I'd bet my life's savings that it's not actually half a billion lines of executable code.
Good with algorithms & horrible with technology. Please help me
So I'm a sophomore at a ivy league school studying CS. Recently I've been doing a few interviews and most of them have been pretty impressed at my ability to find anagrams in strings quickly, or whatever. The thing is, I can't understand technology at all. I love algorithms - I write python scripts for my math homework... and run them in codecademy labs because I can't figure out the unix compiler.

How do I get over this? I want to join a small high growth startup and live the exciting startup life but I'm afraid I might fail. I'm pretty ambitious and I have no problem working really hard for long hours but I feel like even if I learn heroku or xcode or RoR or whatever it is, new technologies will keep coming out and if I am fundamentally bad with technology I will not be a great developer.

When I tell people about my problem they say, oh you're good with data structures - the hard part is over. I completely disagree. Programming in real life is much harder than any algorithm. Things crash for no reason. And where do I even start typing?

Any advice or help? Would really appreciate it.

somebackground: have some experience in web dev but had to be walked through it step by step. here is the only thing I have ever made by myself (with a friend who helped me get started): jessicashu.com
Isohunt is dead - Initiating Self Destruct
After I read that I figured that they have enough resumes, so no need to send them mine. Is that the message they want out there?