skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just invented something (probably not). Voluntary Ad Photo Submissions™. Someone takes a photo of their friend drinking Pepsi. Posts it, tags the advertiser: @pepsi. Use a hashtag, whatever. Pepsi looks through their submissions, selects a photo they like and uses it for their Instagram ad campaign. BAM. Now it's a game. The "winner" is popular, they get the likes. Pepsi gets tons of free advertising from everyone posting Pepsi photos.
if you have a good debugger then start at the beginning and run it line by line. if a section looks understandable skip it.
Being true to yourself: A Core Lesson for Entrepreneurs
NBC's Vivian Schiller Announces Twitter Job
not yet, but that's a nice suggestion. thanks.
Not the parent poster, but I also bought a computer in 2010 for about $1000 and am very happy with it today. I still play games at max or near max settings with no problem. This does not include a monitor though; also I only bought a 1650x1050 monitor, so I save a bit on graphics power by not having the full HD pixel count (or more).

EDIT: don't know my full specs offhand; i5, gtx 460, either 4 or 8 gigs RAM (4 I think), a 120gb SSD and 2G HD
In the recent past, even with a premier paid account on GAE, getting a specific quota raised took a few days and was apparently a non-trivial operation.
People who believe in being able to buy social status are the ones perfectly fooled by advertisements!
Someone can be butt ugly, poor and stupid, but still have the highest social status and popularity in most social environments. What makes one an attractor of popularity is demonstrating power, will and the ability to achieve what you want.

Who would be more popular?

A) A rich guy who thinks he can buy friends, by inviting everybody to an expensive cocktail to an exclusive restaurant?

B) A guy who own lots of expensive high-tech and luxury car + his own house?

C) A guy with charme and charisma, who can make anyone feel special, or have a fun time, even in the dirtiest place?

Choose yourself. I believe you all experienced A,B and C already. But I would rely on the scientific evidence that C) has a higher long term chance of staying an attractor of popularity. (I'm sorry, I couldn't put the references together, but hope you understand)

Side story: A weird guy in my old class possessed a bluetooth wireless headphones with integrated mp3 player in 2006, a 3000EUR laptop and all sorts of other very expensive gimmickry. That didn't make him cooler at all. People still didn't like him and it just made him more vulnerable to attacks of the some of the more primitive pupils.
I agree. Much of this is just because the processing is moving off of the machine too. When you were doing all of your own computations, any incremental thing you did required a stronger PC. Now that computation is happening on the server.

There are programmers, mathematical and financial users who are still stretching their desktops, but for most of the rest of us the need to upgrade is going away. It's almost like it's time to upgrade when there's just too much clutter on the old machine.
I disagree. Let's say the GPL code in question is the Linux kernel, just so we have something more definite to talk about. When the OEM sells Kogan a TV containing a binary Linux kernel, and a CD-ROM containing the source to said Linux kernel, Kogan is receiving two copies (the one in the TV and the one on the CD-ROM) of one copyrighted work (the Linux kernel). Kogan is not altering either copy. It's irrelevant from a copyright view that Kogan happened to receive the two copies in the same shipment from the OEM, or that one copy is a source code CD-ROM and one is binary firmware.

It's not really much different than if I buy in one order from Amazon a copy of the first Harry Potter book in English, and a copy of the Spanish edition of the first Harry Potter book. If I then sell the Spanish edition to a used bookstore and keep the English edition, I don't have to get J.K. Rowling's permission. The combination of the English and Spanish editions did not become one work just because they both came in the same box from Amazon--and it wouldn't even if Amazon was actually offering such bundles as a package deal (say, aimed at readers who are learning Spanish so they can read them in parallel to help learn).

Even if a case could be made that the bundle of these two copies counts as a separate work, it would just be a collective work or a compilation work, and the copyright in the collection or compilation would belong to the party that made the collection or compilation--and that would be the OEM.
Our culture of change (JSConf and inclusiveness)
>A, in my opinion

mmmh... I thought about this too.

However, MS is anything but stupid marketing wise, I find. So I dismissed incompetence.
Would have been better-played 6 mos ago.
> The prosperous parts of the geographical area NYC is in have very high housing prices and very little new housing construction

I suspect you are arguing based on incorrect intuition here, this simply isn't true. Some of the neighborhoods with the most construction in the last 15 years include the financial district, Manhattan's west side (Chelsea all the way up to the the UES), and the brooklyn/queens waterfront. Where I live, in the East Village, many new luxury buildings are going up. http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new...

In the next several years, midtown east - some of the most expensive real estate in the country - is going to be transformed with millions of more square feet of office space in a huge rezoning plan: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/east_midtown/index.shtml

A little bit north of there, in one of the most expensive residential neighborhoods in the country, there is a residential boom going on - soon, 4 of the tallest buildings in NYC will be around 60th st:
http://gizmodo.com/four-of-americas-tallest-buildings-are-be...

>I'm willing to bet the high cost of living (mostly driven by very high housing prices) is the number one driver of outmigration

Doesn't this contradict your original point that everyone wants to move to NYC? Anyway, I agree, but this isn't relevant because it's regulated by supply/demand - this is as close to economic fact as you can get. As I showed in a previous comment, supply growth has outpaced demand growth for decades now. Housing prices are going up in NYC because wealthier people are displacing poorer people as jobs move here and the city gets safer/nicer, not because there is a housing shortage.
Eve Online does not really give you the same gameplay in my experience. There was something visceral about combat in elite that doesn't seem to have been replicated in any of the modern space games.
I wonder what parts of PHP (if any) they're re-writing in C or if it's purely application-code that they've ported to C.
It is virtually impossible to disinherit a child in France. (But a child can refuse an inheritance)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/internationalproperty/33...
I can do the same, also with a $1000 computer bought in 2010.
Correlates to this Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601148
Twitter to offer 70M shares priced at $17-$20 to raise up to $1.4B in IPO
This may be fallout from trademark owners losing their various lawsuits against Google for allowing competitors to advertise on their trademark as keyword. (See this article: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2013/05/google_crushes....) So now they may be the top organic result (or even a navigation result) but JetBlue or United or whatever can buy a banner on top that has their airline telling the searcher how much better they are than the other guys. This is great for Google, now Southwest has to pay to advertise or get side swiped by a competitor, and because its an auction system their competitor can bid up the keywords to negatively impact Southwest, forcing higher ad rates. Win win win for Google, not so great for Southwest Airlines).
Twitter proposes offering range of $17-$20/share for IPO
Buy or not?
1. Battery life
2. Weight
3. Cost - you don't have to spec up MBA and go with base model
How Flipkart scales
Unless that ad doesn't knock the Deepwater Horizon down past the fold, and it paints BP in a terrible light. It can go both ways.
What does "Share scripts with up to 4 users" (Enterprice License) mean?
They're going to have the same problem as Facebook Home. They're essentially doing an overlay activity like most of us do. It only works as they describe provided the user keeps the device unlocked in the system. You can't bypass the device lock screen without rooting the device.
We created an extension called "json-stream-encode" which doesn't encode JSON in a single large block, as the standard PHP code. For large JSONs this is a large memory improvement.
That is incorrect. Currently for "southwest airlines" in the US, sub links for their organic listing include:

-Check in Online
-Book Travel Award
-Check Flight Status
-Special Offers
-Flight Schedules
-Customer Service

This may be different in other countries. I am inclined to believe this is showing for nearly all US users as I have seen these direct links for airlines for quite some time.

What Southwest is doing is trading their free clicks for paid ones.
I think the more apt comparison is that Apple customers are like Honda owners.

Apple is one of the largest consumer electronics company in the world. iPads and Macs and iPhones and iPods are owned by every strata of the consumer ecosystem, from McDonalds employees to CEOs.

From what I understand (and I don't have any of the data handy), this is only true for the American consumer ecosystem.
Why not use hip hop?
Open source life
I think that's quite a plausible future for Bitcoin, though I find it hard to give an estimate of likelihood and of the relative relevance that Bitcoin will have.

The next-most plausible (though I think much less likely) future is that the hype will die down, there will be widespread disappointment, and it will turn into a kind of ghost town.

One big problem of Bitcoin is that in terms of efficiency, pretty much any centralized service can beat the shit out of it. If you think of Bitcoin as a ledger, and then look at the amount of resources spent on maintaining that ledger, and compare it to the amount of resources required to run a simple centralized ledger... well, Bitcoin loses big time.

This means that whenever Bitcoin comes close to having a large mindshare for everyday internet transaction, there is a serious window of opportunity for non-Bitcoin startups to take its place.

The only market where this logic doesn't apply is the Silkroad-type market and the stuff that caters to gold-bug/libertarian ideologists.
Yeah that is the old-school kind of motor hub, I have that on the front wheel.

The one I saw was way smaller than that. Must be some kind of motor evolution.

The problem with going that fast is you better be looking way in front of you because things come up fast.

It also appears you do not have disc brakes which is dangerous not to have at those speeds.
This is pretty much dead on. What I think will happen is that PC manufacturers are going to look around for new markets and the obvious one is going to be consoles. Once SteamOS comes out I expect a slow but massive ramp up in PC-Console production in a similar vein to the way that Android powered devices have come to dominate the smartphone market (in numbers shipped).
Yet it looks exactly like the peak -> crash curve of its own history. People we claiming the same thing of real estate in the US in 2008 as well. Yet the correct analysis is still that there's no real reason for Bitcoin too grow - it can't extinguish tax obligations, and any move by governments to tax BTC profits will tank it because payment will have to be made in their currency, not BTC. No one has any reason to hold onto BTC if they're not speculating.
I like that Apple realizes what their products' pain points are and appreciate incremental updates

Please realize there's a bit of rose colored glasses here. After an iPhone 3g, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s I couldn't stand the wait for a larger screen any longer and was forced into switching away from iPhone. I chose a Lumia 928. A co-worker of mine ended up with a Galaxy S4. The Lumia 928 is the best phone I've ever owned and my co-worker says the same thing about his Galaxy. You really don't realize the pain points you had with an iPhone until you have something else. For example: the fact that the screen is so narrow means that they had to come up with the hack of hiding the address bar unless you're at the very top of Safari. That's a pain. To reduce that pain they came up with the hack of tapping the very tippy top of the screen which whisks you instantly to the top of the page. Not a bad hack - until you're on page 9 or 10 of reading something and accidentally trigger the immediate scroll to top thereby losing your place.

There are a ton of things that users have been clamoring for in every Apple product and most of these things, Apple just ignores.

The thing I thank Apple for in the smart phone arena is raising the bar so high with the original iPhone that it led to having several decent choices today. It's a shame they've stagnated since then though and the competition has significantly passed them.
I'm not to that extreme because you need buy-in to make things work. But.... The problem with group think and committees is that everyone has a veto. The problem then is it is very hard to get out of Pareto Efficient [1] situations where advancing the group has to come at someone's expense. In these cases, someone owning the entire result needs to force the decision.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
He said that a product being a status icon justifies a high price, not that a high price makes something a status icon.

edit: parent comment has completely changed since I replied
Primer on elliptic curve cryptography
It's not crazy talk. :)

I seem to remember retrieving from a BBS way back when, an MS-DOS shareware pascal or C compiler of some kind that would leave behind a serial number foot print in executables that the author said he could use to prove that an unregistered version of his product was used. I wish I could remember it now, though
I'd argue a similar pattern is happening with laptops (well, at least ones with exchangeable parts).

My old T400 was "dying" until I put an SSD in it. Blew my mind how significant an upgrade that was. When it started "dying" again I maxed out the RAM @ 16GB.

The CPU is a bit lacking now that I want to run multiple VMs side by side, and the chassis has seen perhaps a bit too much wear, so a replacement is coming -- but I've managed to put it off for years, with relatively inexpensive upgrades.
How David Byrne Misread the Creatives of Our Time
I was specifically talking about the crowd who watches those events and that 'magic' reaction. I probably should have been more clear.

I didn't mean to suggest that they wouldn't care at all, just that they wouldn't react to a price cut and updated internals like they would, say, 4k displays, an app store on the apple tv, a watch, etc.
The disassembly for both versions of the file was a 100% match, though, which is a pretty good indicator that the binary difference must be something unimportant and not related to the actual code.
Why The Visual Web Is A Billion Dollar Trend
Hmm, I want to compile huge open source projects quickly. For this I need as many cores as possible at a reasonable price, a lot of memory and an SSD. So it's time to upgrade :)
Which isn't a currency backed by gold then, its a fiat currency. A gold backed currency can easily inflate if new gold mines are discovered - it just uselessly doesn't track with the production of things people need.
Mavericks: The end of Macs in the enterprise?
"The actual model becomes thoroughly comingled with calls to ko.observable ... I reached a high-water mark and decided to move off Knockout"

+1, this is exactly my experience too. my app is the enterprisey type with lots of really complex and dynamic views
PubMed now allows comments on abstracts — but only by a select few
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580426 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010370 (22 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3316340 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791961 (15 comments)
Digital Attack Map, a map of DDOS attacks against Google throughout the world
That's so weird. Why wouldn't they just use HTTP GZip.
Duetto (C++ for the Web) to be released with dual licensing
Oh I was absolutely agreeing with you and just expanding and making explicit how this totally contradicted the article's argument.
He probably confused cellular respiration with physiological respiration, and thus incorrectly conflated the primary purpose of the mitochondria with the physical act of breathing.
I have a retina macbook pro for my own development and have a macbook air at work.
Once you're a confirmed webmaster for a given site, Google provides you with access to exactly what files are infected on your site. To provide that information publicly would be open the site up to further exploitation.
this thing is slick! Great, thoughtful design that is making me want my android back
Exactly my guess too. There's no way they make a Mac Pro that can make a 4k display look good without making one themselves. My guess is after Christmas though, maybe a Spring event of some sort.
actually in the specific example I'm thinking about, i'm talking about memory locality being the performance difference (and in this case, array layout for matrix multiplication).

The naive obvious "dot product" matrix mult of two Row Major matrices is 100-1000x slower than somewhat fancier layouts, or even simply transposing the right hand matrix can make a significant difference, let alone more fancy things.

Often the biggest throughput bottleneck for CPU bound algorithms in a numerical setting is the quality of the memory locality (because the CPU can chew through data faster than you can feed it). Its actually really really hard to get C / C++ to help you write code with suitably fancy layouts that are easy to use.

Amusingly, I also think most auto vectorization approaches to SIMD actually miss the best way to use SIMD registers! I've actually some cute small matrix kernels where by using the AVX SIMD registers as a "L0" cache, I get a 1.5x perf boost!
> Let's say, for example, a vendor is considering whether to begin accepting bitcoin. She will need to be able feel relatively certain that, when she leaves the storefront in the evening, she will have nearly the same amount of value on balance when she returns the next morning.

Fortunately, vendors don't have to take on any such risk. There are services (e.g. CoinBase, BitPay) that let sellers accept bitcoin without ever holding a bitcoin balance. These services effectively instantly convert bitcoin revenue into something less volatile (e.g. USD).
The lines were so tightly scripted that the presenters often stumbled off-script slightly,
and rather than rolling with it naturally, they’d just jump back and awkwardly retry the line.

The "I'm a a big fan of The Black Knight" (instead of Dark Knight) part was especially painful :/
Air flow doesn't have to be noisy - quality 120mm fans in no way are noisy. If the GPU fans bug you, you can get some Arctic Acceleros, so quiet.
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I'd say laptops have been improving quite a bit in non-computational ways. Weight, battery life, and screen quality particularly.
My guess one of these items:

1. Market - is it large enough? What's your angle? what has everyone else missed. Do you have evidence or are you guessing?
2. Team - Why you? Experience? Previous success(Have you done something awesome?) Have you gotten any traction? Do you know they right players?
3. Product - People just love the product. Think Iphone or Ipod.
Git migration marketing material
Or if you want a similar experience plus modern detailed graphics plus the ability to land and explore planets plus more http://pioneerspacesim.net/
odds this is costing mazda > 0 car sales per day?
in the original, the fisherman returns to a life he had before the MBA came into his life. The original story was meant to teach us the evils of money. But!! The thing that is missed is that the fisherman made a fortune and now has
Health insurance
good medical care
can pay for his kids to be well educated
can fund his nations defense
his tax dollars help fund stuff like figuring out the cure for cancer
Has helped to produce wealth
money is not evil folks.
Twitter expects to raise up to $1.61 bln in IPO
This shields any signals transmitting to/from your cellphone
This not just another cellphone case. This wallet can silence any mobile devices you put in it.
Typically I wouldn't think so because there is an F in FOSS, after all. However, they explicitly say that they worked with him, so I would imagine it was paid time.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to Stripe (aside from wishing I had gotten pc's username first!) so I'm just guessing.
just for the hellavut i checked out gaming at 4k (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pq321q-4k-gaming,3620.ht...) and note that it takes Titan's in SLI (at $1000 each) to get good framerates on many modern games.

Like another poster said, with "game" terms replacing "data": " But, if you can run a [game] and it's [good framerate], it just means you should really be doing better [gaming] over more [pixels]."
Props to the New Relic node team... I remember when they started work on this, I was skeptical it could even be done (async tracing is a pain in the ass)...

Congrats, and great work, for getting the (near) impossible accomplished.
When searching for "BP", all of the results are relevant, but none are about Deepwater Horizon.

Interestingly though, at the bottom of the page, I see Google has an "In-depth Articles" section that has three articles, all about spills, two of them critical of BP.
One tidbit that continues to bother me regarding the long-term viability of bitcoin is how long the encryption processes it relies on will stay secure. IIRC bitcoin relies on ECDSA for signing and SHA-256 for hashing.

Pretty much all forms of encryption have a shelf-life until they are broken, especially when you consider quantum computing on the horizon. What happens when ECDSA becomes viable to break, or when they start finding SHA-256 collisions? Would the currency just collapse, or is there some way provided to change the system's cryptography methods?
> I'd rather see taxes lowered

And here was I thinking "spend money on more web apps" was the nadir of human ambition on HN.
Not sure if you're associated with that site, but it's kinda hard to read that article: http://imgur.com/lyeZ9qZ

Windows, Firefox 24.0
How Google Search Trends Provide Insights Into Rental Prices
Do other guest players automatically join the game? I played alone for about 2 minutes with nobody joining. I see that I can invite a friend.

Bug: Pressing two direction keys simultaneously almost always allows me to 'double back' on the same path, essentially pulling a 180. Try it: When traveling to the right, press DOWN and LEFT simultaneously, and your snake turns around without crashing into itself.
Quick and dirty guide for having decent PC:

1. Buy mid range processor with a lot of L2 cache
2. Find mobo that supports lots of ram and stuff it to the max.
3. SSD is a must
4. Buy the second card of the high tier model (the cut chip from the most recent architecture (in their times that were 7950, 570 etc ... but with current branding of NVIDIA a total mess it may require some reading if you are on team green)
5. Any slow hard drive will be enough for torrents
6. In 2 1/2 years upgrade the video to the same class.
in 5 years ... if the market is the same repeat. If it is not - lets hope there are self assembled devices on the market non locked.

I have been doing that since 2004 and never had a slow or expensive machine.
They look like Altavista in 2002. Glad I switched to DuckDuckGo three months ago. Adios, Google!
Twitter Seeks $1.4 Billion in Biggest Web IPO Since Facebook