skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-technical people can definitely contribute to the apps. For one if it's their idea, they get an immediate stake in future profits. There is also a lot of marketing and strategy work that goes into any successful product. The community around each product will vote the relative merits of each contribution. Basically, if someone submits work that is deemed good, they will receive a stake in profits.

In terms of where it lies on the idea sourcing to building spectrum, I would say it's definitely leaning towards building successful products. There's no shortage of good ideas floating around, we want to help organise people together to build great products and push those products to succeed.
It was pretty typical to get +4x performance in less than 2 years before after an upgrade cycle. The problem is that encryption standards aren't increasing at a logarithmic rate like CPUs were, so DoD had to step in and adjust the marketplace. By 2010, it was well known in certain cirles that the i7 would be the last serious CPU in the desktop space, that future CPUs would be targeted to cloudian budgets and applications, where they can be managed and hidden away from people who might use real modern cpus you've may have heard about like Tile-x that are used by NSA to do the very thing they were afraid normal people might do, like break https, farm personal data and use it to affect the market, and basically have control over their lives outside of the financial system. Now that surveillance state is complete, they don't really have to worry about drug dealers breaking away from the financial system anymore.
Google sends out emails to a bunch of different addresses like webmaster@domain.com, abuse@domain.com, etc and notifies anyone signed up through Google Webmaster tools. The only improvement I can think of would be if they notified whoever was listed after doing a WHOIS of the domain but that's a little hard to automate.

>And after that, it forces the owners of the site to register with Google and use Google services just to even figure out why, and to get their sites unflagged.

Google forces you to prove that you own the domain before they give you any information that they don't release publicly. How else do you suggest they go about not releasing everything publicly? Also, all you have to do as a site owner is click on the safe browsing diagnostic link and go from there.
I agree a lot of is bullshit, but it doesn't say you're out of compliance when you're breached at all. It specifies that a compliance test is a point in time though, and being compliant doesn't mean that you're still compliant the next day.
OS X Mavericks Adoption Reaches 5.5% 24 Hours Following Public Release
This is super offtopic, but it thought it was awesome: on the ActionBar in the PushBullet android app, the pullout drawer icon makes it look like the bullet (your logo) is being shot across the screen (like "action lines").

It made me smile :)
Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes
Pool of antifreeze? Who cares! In all honesty, a shared tub sounds like a horrible idea.
Thanks, regarding disagreements, this is from our FAQ[1]

The Assembly platform is intended to allow everyone to vote and influence the direction of an app. Assembly also actively surfaces key metrics so all decisions are data driven and can even be reevaluated and rolled back later when more data is available. In the event the community hasn't come to a clear direction and the data is inconclusive, the core team will be left to mediate disputes and decide on an outcome.

[1] https://assemblymade.com/help/general#general-7
My .02 is that Microsoft OS stopped being lead-ware. I noticed that since Win7.
Good for Google upping the limit here. Similarly when I developed a search engine using Google's API I too exceeded the query limit on the first day; however, At a rate of $5/1,000 queries with a daily cap at 10,000 I was forced to redevelop using the Bing API.
Bacteria evolving to secrete a soap-resistant compound doesn't sound far-fetched at all. Such compounds clearly exist already (e.g. pigments that don't wash off).

Thinking about this more, I suspect there already has been some selection in this direction, but that it has little to no public health impact, as this defense is not useful in places where infections are typically a problem. Indeed, our body is teeming with bacteria (mainly in the guy) that are in fact beneficial, and they've presumably managed some resistance to shear stress and extreme chemical environments (e.g. high acid).
Don't blame me. The official policy is that titles on HN must be the title as given on the referenced page. I would have made it something more descriptive, but that's a waste of time.

PG's comprehensive explanation is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

Added in edit: Hah! I see now that the title has been changed so that it isn't the title on the page, even though it wasn't "egregious linkbait, or false." Color me confused. I'm not complaining, the new title is probably better, but changing it seems completely at odds with PG's statement.
Under that razor... if you search for southwest airlines and between the results you get a Adwords of Southwest, then that won't be an ad because is in the result page of the same thing I was searching?
Interesting. I think this presents the question, why should I be forced to let my heirs have rights to my work? What if I really don't like them?
We also mean different things by overhead. For me (and the C++ committee) it means something that is done in addition. So for me templates create zero overhead as the do not produce more code than the same, non-template code. In practice, templates produce less code as there is a higher chance to fold common code from the instantiations of the same template than from many handwritten functions.
> I don't really see the point when I can reach that with human energy.

That is, in fact, exactly the point.

That is why they are bicycles, not electric mopeds or scooters. The point is to do the same thing you could do before on your own, except with less sweat and fatigue through electrical assistance.
4GB is plenty of RAM for a web browser with many tabs, especially with an SSD for backing virtual memory. If it isn't there is a memory leak, and if there is a leak, 8GB is as bad as 12GB.

My MBA has 4GB and I constantly forget, because it is enough, and I am constantly surprised that it doesn't have 8GB.

All modern web browsers save and restore sessions across restarts.
You took the cooking analogy too far. Programming a hello world app isn't any better for you than writing the great american novel.
There were times in my life when I would have loved to have had this, but nowadays I rarely see spreadsheets (not just excel, but the concept in general) as much of a solution to anything.
New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen
What kind of problems are those? I would love to find problems, ultimately examples, where smart Haskell and c blends are superior to pure c.
Whole Foods (Large American grocer targeting healthy and alternative lifestyles) still has what seems to be just that at their stores in the wine departments. It's a rather drab looking cylindrical device with a pool of water in it that swirls on button press.

Now people at Whole Foods are going to be scratching their heads as to why the sudden a bunch of geeks are lining up to use the wine chiller no one has touched in the last five years. lol
> It's that when tablets hit the scene, people realized they don't need their PC for 90% of what they do on a "computer".

That's exactly what I see everywhere. People still need a PC for the 10% of the tasks they can't do on a tablet. So, they'll keep a good enough PC around all the times.

What is a different situation from a few years ago, when people were buying a PC for each family member. Now, it's a tablet for each person, a PC for each home, and spare space at the desks.
The secrets of viral content: How to stimulate the correct emotions
Part of the reason is because we have gone back to the days of terminals. Chromebook is a good milestone in marking what people do with computers and how much power they need. We are past the point where computer as a consumer device, and computer as a professional equipment have parted their ways. We are also lucky that the people who buy CPUs in bulk for their powerhouses are still using architectures similar to the ones we use in our desktops and laptops. Because with our weak demand for new hardware, the prices cannot stay low for long.
BRICS building new Internet backbone to circumvent US
100% agreed. GEB is a great book, but Hofstadter hasn't been relevant in this field for a while now (AFAIK). Good old fashioned AI approaches show what a giant blind spot our minds are for our species, how little introspection goes on even within the brightest minds. Modern approaches to AI/ML have yielded tangible results and moved the field in the right direction, dismissing those results makes anyone look ridiculous in 2013.
Some personality types gravitate towards drug abuse and some types gravitate towards programming as a primary activity. The overlap between the two sets is very significant.

Add in money and a tendency to have few friends, and almost certainly no SO, and the wonder is there aren't even more casualties. Though there are a huge number of people who get older and wonder where exactly it all went wrong.
I wonder how much heat this provides? Or is it mainly just to brighten things up?
Robert Shiller: A Skeptic and a Nobel Winner
> Google said that it won't be charging more for the banner ads - which take up large parts of the screen: "they are part of AdWords" [from the linked article]

"they are part of AdWords" -> Google considers them to be an an ad.

Ads doesn't, per definition, need to be irrelevant.
Well, at least there are 6,352,596,267 results I can sift through. The last search I did, I found my solution in result 4,936,392
Looks nice, but I'm not sure what to make of this when underscore.js has a 0.0 score (https://codeclimate.com/github/jashkenas/underscore/trends).
> In any case, sounds a if e-bikes are aka e-scooters?

Not necessarily. Depends if its a pedelec or if it has power-on-demand. In the first case, it can only do assistance while the user is pedaling. It is a less tiring bike. In the latter, it is a slow moped (the pedals should remain functional at all time, so you can use it as a bike if it's out of batteries).

> Doesn't an e-bike defeat the purpose of a bike?

Not if you consider the purpose of a bike to be moving around.
I'm OK with optimizing this single step in the process. Things can change so much elsewhere that it's rarely all that prudent to perform a more complete analysis as you suggest, especially for a young, high growth service/company.
>and the people riding them seem to feel the need to take up an entire traffic lane with their bike.

Cycling around my city in the South, where people tend to think bicycles belong on the sidewalk, the only way I can ensure my safety is to aggressively take the entire lane. It is when I pedal sheepishly on the furthest third of the lane that I have the most issue with cars trying to squeeze past me in an unsafe manner.

I try not to be unreasonable, though. In a one-lane road I will gladly work with the cars behind me and let them pass whenever the distance allows. But two lanes or more? I'm going to err on the side of my own safety and take the lane, as is my legal right as a street vehicle.
Modern games are gated by GPU, not CPU. Except a rare one like Dwarf Fortress.
You don't have to have the meals, many people leave by 5pm and some people bring the dinners with them when they leave at 5pm!

But for people who don't want to spend the 2hrs/day total in decent food prep & cooking, it's there for them. Maid service and such is something you usually pay out of pocket, most of the times it's just meals & a gym.
Since we are going off on a tangent, a cool camping hack when you don't have ice is to stuff a beer in a tube sock, dunk it in water, and hang/tie it to a tree branch in the shade. If there is even a touch of wind it will be nice and cold in 10 minutes.
> Why not read it and find out for yourself?

Because he'll have other things to do in the next year?
With the New Relic Platform, you can write a Plugin to report data about anything you want. There are Java and Ruby SDKs, and if you prefer, there is an HTTP API.

https://newrelic.com/platform
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/plugin-dev/

Hope that helps you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
How is she going to open her Heineken with those nails [0:45] ?
Very much reminds me of Quirky for Apps -- AFAIK Quirky is doing really well. Congrats on the launch guys!
I think this author should have used the title "The way journalists cover tech is ridiculously bad", which would be true of all sectors. I do think that there are definitely legitimate tech aspects in current events, like the NSA and HealthCare.gov, that should be addressed by experts. Instead we have critics who try to "explain" what is wrong with the technology, etc. revealing their incompetence to those who actually know/understand the topic. Really tech savvy people should definitely make an effort to debunk claims that are made by non-experts on tech topics, and not just share there knowledge amongst already tech savvy people.
This is great. I totally did that on purpose (lining it up vertically and everything) but I figured I'd never hear anyone comment on it :)
Those two don't have to be mutually exclusive you know..

Killing the goose is never maximizing profit.
I wonder if this has any effect on the plans for CentOS? Somehow I suspect there would be more wailing and gnashing of teeth from that user community. (Not a criticism, just an appraisal of what CentOS folks do and how they're set up.)
Yeah, what's amazing is that they didn't charge us to increase the limit. It's also pretty awesome that their android push notification service has no quota and is free.
Do people not use these? People use the one at a supermarket near me all the time.
I'm sure the outside of your bottle/can has seen worse horrors than that. If you are concerned by that sort of thing, you should probably make a habit of wiping them off before consuming anyway.
It's interesting to see this article portray Hofstadter as the last of the dying breed of GOFAI researchers.

When I was in college (and GOFAI was still alive) GOFAI researchers themselves portrayed him as very much an outsider.
In terms of gaming performance, when you go from mid range machine to high end machine, you are often spending 2-4 times as much without 2-4 times the performance. You hit diminishing returns big time.

I go with generally mid range components with my gaming machine. Even then, I upgrade every 3 generations for CPU and every other generation for video card. CPU performance doesn't impact gaming as much as it used to.

This gives me reasonable performance in most games around high to ultra on a 1920x1080 monitor.
Ya, his article jumped the shark there and went downhill from there, but the essence is there. We dropped the ball on Smart Watches, Tablet PCs, Pens, etc.

Agreed on the OSS thing, that's why my group doesn't do that whenever possible.
‘Don’t wait for an invitation'
Why You Look Like Your Dog
This is actually a really good opportunity. For a while now, I've built little web apps designed to increase my ability to focus. NOT productivity, but focus. Maybe one of these days I'll actually focus enough to finish one.

For example, I've built a little time tracker tool that asks you to rate your focus after a work session. That way you KNOW how much time you've spent actually focused, vs. puttering around on the internet.

My current hobby project is a gamification of journaling. The basic idea is to get people addicted writing. My current issue with this app is with testing it. I find myself focusing on playing the game instead of actually coding. Oops.
How I Set And Achieve Personal Goals
New Android Banking Trojan targeting Korean users - The Hacker News
The 'Rankine vortex' is a simple model for a vortex in which the centre is in solid body rotation and the rest is a free, irrotational* vortex.

From the looks of their video, the bottle forms most of the solid body core. The velocity in the rest of the fluid goes as u~1/r and is pure tangential (streamlines are circles around the vortex centre).

This isn't anything special, it's just a pretty regular unforced vortex.

*irrotational here means that the vorticity (defined at a point) is zero, not that the system doesn't look spinny.
In support of Veterans learning to code.
by the way keepalived >= 1.2.8 also supports vrrp over unicast
Silk Road: caught by the NSA?
That last awesomeness is SIGOPS: They bought out the copyright for all papers at SOSP'13 on behalf of the authors. three cheers. All of the SOSP papers are available -- already -- open-access: http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/program.html

(For the non-academics: SIGOPS is the chapter of the ACM for operating systems. It runs SOSP and similar things.)
> If the problem is that you can be at top speed without peddling

Not necessarily.

> why not just require that the peddles turn at a speed proportional to the power output of the motor?

EU laws require exactly that, and that's what the "pedelec" sub-category of e-bikes do: pedaling assistance rather than power-on-demand (note: there's also the s-pedelec sub-category, which also only does assist but has a more powerful engine and maximum assisted speed than allowed for the "bicycle" status in the EU, they are thus classified as mopeds if not motorcycles)
That's like saying you don't believe in memory allocation and pointers because they're "untamed" and "mischievous". Sure, low-level APIs/formats are a pain to work with, but that's the whole point of abstractions like this. If you hate yourself for learning how something low-level works, that sounds like a personal problem. :)
Evaporative beer cooling.. very clever. I wonder if there is a market for a product dedicated/optimized for this (incorporated drawstring/hanger, ideal material, etc.)
Neat idea, I like this very much.
I can't find it online, but there was an article covering this topic in the April 1989 (if I recall) issue of Radio Electronics, referring to modifications to reverse a Microwave to turn it into a Macrowave oven to cool things fast. Of course, it was their annual April Fools article, but very entertaining none the less.
If the deep drawn stampings were so precise, why are they machining the surfaces after they are stamped? ;)
When people say the PC is dead, they do not mean that it is not being used and people don't need one... they mean that people simply don't buy it as often and have other options to choose from, like laptops.

Saying that the PC is dead is being correct. Almost everyone I know buys a laptop instead of a PC. I know a lot of people that do not have a PC, but I don't think I know a single person that doesn't have a laptop.

It's like saying the Novel is Dead. Plenty of novels are being written, but it is really not the one major form of art that people are discussing. That is being replaced by television and film. Will there be novels written fifty years from now? Most definitely. But still, the idea that the novel is the one true form where the greatest art occurs is over.
Tried that and not one replied, also most appear to be new accoutns and of indian origin, so I'll presume this is being driven in india.

Either way it is such a scale and using such a copy/paste haord of rating trolls to 5* it that every one looks the same.

I hope google educates Blackberry and there underhand tasteless tactics in self masturcation PR.

Laughable thing sis everybody I knew who I could BBM no longer have a device and with that they missed the boat. Maybe in Asia but too little, too late and handled far from smoothly.
We're working on a somehow similar product that works by understanding the network traffic received and sent by your application. This means it can be language independent. http://packetbeat.com/
> Safety is very important to me. In medical diagnostic imaging it’s often important to have an image as soon as possible, but that’s not the case for scanning non-living objects purely for scientific or educational interest...[I] make use of a “check source”, which is an extremely low intensity source used to verify the functionality of a high-energy particle detector.

Thank you for doing this. It's easy to build something cool but extremely unsafe in your home, forgetting that medical devices are carefully controlled to ensure patient safety. All it takes is one irresponsible DIYer to cause problems for everyone.
I made some personal goals this month and have been tracking them. Willpower has helped me toward accomplishing some of these goals, but motivation has plays a much larger role. Perhaps motivation recharges the lost willpower.
I've felt this way since I built my last desktop in 2008. I was sort-of waiting for the "gee its time to upgrade" mark to roll around in 3 or 4 years, but it hasn't happened yet. Any games I want to play it still runs very well, and it still feels very fast to me even compared to modern off-the-shelf systems.

When my friends ask for laptop-buying advice I tell them if they like the keyboard and screen, then its just plain hard to be disappointed with anything new.

I think I can pinpoint when this happened - It was the SSD. Getting an SSD was the last upgrade I ever needed.

~~~

Above that, PCs aren't necessary for a lot of people, because people do not need $2000 Facebook and email machines. For the median person, if you bought a PC in 2006, then got an iPad (as a gift or for yourself) and started using it a lot, you might find that you stopped turning on your PC. How could you justify the price of a new one then?

Yet if there was a major cultural shift to just tablets (which are great devices in their own right), I would be very worried. It's hard(er) to create new content on a tablet, and I don't really want that becoming the default computer for any generation.

I think its extremely healthy to have the lowest bar possible to go from "Hey I like that" to "Can I do that? Can I make it myself?"

I think its something hackers, especially those with children should ask themselves: Would I still be me, if I had grown up around primarily content consumption computing devices instead of more general purpose laptops and desktops?

Tablets are knocking the sales off of low-end PCs, but we as a society need the cheap PC to remain viable, if we want to turn as many children as possible into creators, engineers, tinkerers, and hackers.
Teaching students how to code on paper
A 22day old blogpost that's light on details...

If you're going to downvote, how about you explain the relevance of a 22day old post, with really no substance, that's speculating with little understanding or presentation of fact? Ken's discussion of the charges is both more comprehensive and actually informative. This erratasec post offers no new or persuasive information
Have you considered freemium (or close to freemium, like Zendesk)? That would be interesting. My sense is there are three audiences: those who want to pay nothing or close to nothing, those who will pay a little and those who will pay a lot.

And this is based primarily on their financial situation, not needs or aspirations.