skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really had to come into the comments to see if this was satire or not. Paper, Pencil, Book. I swore this was a joke, even after I saw there was an actual price tag!
Block 24400 (http://blockchain.info/block-height/24400) was created on October 5th, 2009. It created the 1,220,000th Bitcoin. So not only would you have a hard time finding people to sell you Bitcoin, there wouldn't even be enough in existence to buy $1000 worth at that price.
> Since fiat in the US, we have the two worst economic crashes (great depression and great recession). Under gold standard, recessions were more common and smaller in impact.

The US -- and most of the world -- was still on the gold standard at the time of the Great Depression, and in fact some economists have blamed the length and depth of the depression on the gold standard.
That actually makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Yeah, I helped him choose those screensavers, he basically wanted some video to show while he was sleeping, that way the timelapse could be continuous. I was especially pleased with the bus driver bit.
I don't know the intricacies of Canadian code enforcement, but in the US building codes for private homes are only relevant at a few points: New construction, substantial renovation, certain not-wholly-private use cases, and certain types of financing when buying. New construction is where it's strictest.

In a case like this, your contractor may have to install handles to pass inspection, but nothing stops you from changing them out for knobs if you want to.
one of those posts got me started on bitcoin. I mined like ~30 BTC off my laptop GPU and then forgot about them.

Thanks HN!
I downloaded and installed VS2012 a few months ago, but I saw no reason to use that over VS2010. However, I downloaded 2013 two weeks ago, and now it is my favorite version. I'm thinking about uninstalling 2012, and I haven't used 2010 since installing 2013. Why? 2013 adds some really nice improvements: cursor position, line changes, and breakpoints are shown on the scroll bar; peek definition; Intellisense seems better; predictive typing everywhere. Having all these improvements out of the box without having to download third party addons is a nice touch. Microsoft should have had all these features a long time ago, but it's good that they are finally here.
An Interesting Approach to Reverse Engineering Apps
I've often had headphones get caught on levers. I wonder if there are any studies on this point: "Incidence of clumsy accidents on door levers vs. knobs"
Awesome! Glad to hear it :)
Why not? No virtualisation overhead, good io, memory and cpu and even network limits with cgroups and no extra committed ram for the vm. You just give team xyz a login and they run their favorite distribution and software without overhead. If you have a copy on write filesystem you even save more space and with lvm you have easy snapshots and backups. You can put a lot of users on a moderately fast machine this way. Thanks to lxc-attach it is also dead-easy to debug problems for them or install software. I'd love to have this possibility in the future.
> It should be no surprise that every time you buy something from Gamestop they try to upsell on your "protection plans" and strategy guides, items that actually have high margins.

And second hand games. They give customers a low price for the game and add a fat markup before selling it on again.
Very nice read! How does this work compare to work on java 8 to bring GPU compute to the jvm by AMD, ARM and Oracle? Do you see this as a competition or do you feel you are in a separate niche?
>>> I test drove a lot of premium vehicles last year and found most of them were using engines/drivetrains that were still based on 15-20 year old designs with only cosmetic (and cabin electronics) changes.

I'd love to know which cars you're referring to. I've been a huge BMW guy for years and they generally go on 5 year cycle with their engines and drivetrains.

For instance, on the M5 the E60 M5 used the same drivetrain and engine (with minor tweaks) from 2005-2010. Whereas the new F10 M5 engine and drivetrain was redesigned in 2011 and has yet to see any major changes in its current iteration.
Hell, Sony execs ought to be fly-me-to-the-moon ecstatic if the PS4 actually costs less to manufacture than its retail price. Let's not forget that it was estimated that the initial run of the PS3 was sold at a loss of up to $300 per unit:

http://www.edge-online.com/news/isuppli-60gb-ps3-costs-840-p...

"Electronics supply chain researcher iSuppli’s analysis showed that Sony loses $306.85 per 20GB hard-drive equipped PS3 sold, not including packaging, controller or cables. The amount is greater than the loss incurred from the 60GB model, which has a $241.35 difference between the cost and retail price."
Also these days they get a cut of any in-game purchases that flow through their service (and they'll no doubt block any game that tries to enable in-game purchases by other routes). It is the razor blade model except they get the income from three sources after selling the razor: dev licenses, a cut of game sales, and a cut of in-game purchases.

Of course the cost of the kit will fall over time so next year they will either be making some profit on the kit (though they may instead drop the price for market-share reasons).

Though if you think the loss on the physical console parts is surprising: think about the R&D costs that they incurred before manufacturing even one single consumer unit. Consoles are a fairly extreme example of a loss-leader product.
I think the lanyard / key chain combo sounds great on paper, but lacks some basic safety features. Also, fellow workers unconscious on the floor with head wounds should be a red flag that some action is needed. We live in an imperfect world.
Just coincidence, actually.
In addition to OnStar already mentioned, some Audi can over wifi/cell. Also the OEMs that use Tegra have this capability though I know of none that have enabled any OTA updates over wifi. Hyundai/Kia had beta hardware that did it over BT a year ago.
You should qualify that with "In the U.S., government and politicians..."
My car insurance in Canada is public, and quite affordable($66 a month.)
Updated list of venture studios and startup foundries
"Why did you buy a bitcoin?" "Because I don't want to enter too late!"

The absolute problem with bitcoin is, is that it cannot be used as a currency. If one bitcoin can buy you one "x" today, two "x" tomorrow and in a week only half an "x", what is the point of spending it? Its value fluctuates way too much and that's why so many people are getting on board. They want to be in the elevation towards another all time high.

I am not saying that Bitcoin does not have a future, but key in this future is that all those investors and startups on the get-rich-quick-with-a-very-high-potential-to-loose-a-lot-scheme have to abandon ship. The value of Bitcoin has to stabilize because at this point it is not a viable currency. Currently it is just an asset so many people are interested in, which drives the price only further up.

As soon as it stabilizes or drops we will see what it will d o with Bitcoin its popularity and acceptance for other goods and services.
It's never too late, is it?
Visualizing Bitcoin post frequency on HN with InfluxDB and Rickshaw
"Do you actually leverage HDFS and the Hadoop scheduling infrastructure to run ParallelX jobs?" -- Yes.

We could also provide what you're suggesting outside of Hadoop, no problem!

"What are the limits like for input data sizes?" --- There are no limits. You can store your data in AWS, and we will crunch it for you. That said, initially, for IO-bound and disk-bound jobs, ParallelX might not be ideal. This is a problem we are solving as we scale.

Thanks for the feedback! We appreciate it!
GDDR5 could potentially eat about a lot of that difference.
It's not clear to me which benefits are from the new stylus and which are built into Paper.

For instance I don't see how the smudge with finger is actually a Pencil feature.

What are the differences compared to just using a regular/dumb stylus?
> does anyone know the profit margins nearing the end of the console's life

Came here to ask the same question. I'm curious what the final P&L was for the PS3 console (not software/licenses), over its entire run to-date.
Waiting for MGS5 and FFXV on the PS4.
I don't doubt that you have, although I would be curious about the mechanism. Spindles are spindles, whether they're feeding to a GPU or a CPU.

I would be careful about phrasing it as "memory bound is not an issue". There's a distinction between memory bandwidth (which GPUs excel at as long as the data is resident), memory latency (which GPUs are pretty bad at), and memory capacity. 12gb is slim in the grand scheme of things; my laptop has 16gb and you can get machines with >1TB of memory. Outside of the GPU's memory limits, you're relying on streaming data to/from the device, and potentially bound on PCIe bandwidth, or partitioning the problem across multiple GPUs/machines.
DVL: a language and compiler for writing numerical kernels
PS3 perspective: I am not aware of any games that take full advantage of the current generation console. I'm currently playing GTA Online. Aside for the poor quality release, the rendered game world is lush and the game experience is fully engaging. What I understand of the PS4 is that the rendered game world will be even more vibrant and the game experience will not change much. I'll stick with the PS3 and the huge catalog of used games for $20. If the PS4 supported PS3 games, I would consider upgrading.
Ahh, Samsung. Always masters at figuring out how to do the right thing completely wrong. Holy crap that's ugly.
Can The Enterprise Afford to Pass Up PaaS?
I think it'd be better to have "The real title [whatever comment the editors want to make]". If someone writes a blog post, they should have a right to keep their title.
Where could one learn?

Just look for someone posting this comment on HN and partner up:

Wow, there is money in this? Why am I wasting time working on legitimate and difficult products? I'm a fantastic Internet marketer, and this seems like something slapped together very easily.
I never can decide if it's hilarious or sad when 18 year olds proclaim that a life of children + mortgage + work isn't a life of "magic and love". If you're having a boring life with kids around, you're doing it wrong. Sure, people manage it, but don't be like that.

Having a house to do things in and a family to do them with/for has helped breed more creativity and magic in my life than I ever had before when I lived by myself with nothing tying me down.
It's only saving the world in that it's a step in the right direction. However, it's not the destination; it's not even the thing that'll get us halfway to the destination.

It's good, but it's not that good.
The USD is backed by the material value of everything USA, at a minimum. It's practically impossible for the USD to go to absolute zero, there's still some gold in the reserves and oil and mining to be done at absolute worst.

Obviously our debts exceed this, but that's a different issue. Say everyone cashed in at once - they'd get a percentage of our debts, not zero, since there's still material value.

You can't "undo" Bitcoin's power -> money exchange, though. There's no gold sitting in vaults providing some real, physical insurance. If I lift this brick, I've done work (but nobody cares) but even that has intrinsic value as it can be "redeemed" by lowering it, powering something. Bitcoin is different.
Are you porting string processing routines to OpenCL? The grid model of GPU computing seems to be a bit of a mismatch with the jagged-edge model of a bunch of variably-sized records in 2 1TB files that I want to join on in my typical hadoop use-case.

I guess I've only delved into GPU stuff for dense matrix math, though, which is a pretty bad fit with Hadoop. Maybe you guys can come up with some other use-cases for them.
Kyocera floats mega solar power plant in japan
It's free, but you have to buy the individual tools with in-app purchases: see the list on the left of the iTunes link.
This[1] was considered to be a valid use of deadly force. Calling it self defense is a huge stretch, it was basically execution for failing to follow police orders.
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/california-poli...
The Monitorix Project – Take control over your small server
You are not alone. I'm a white foreign developer currently in the valley, not working, just visiting and getting involved in the startup scene.
The border and customs BS is the number 1 reason I dont think I could stay and work in the US long term, even though my home country(australia) and profession(dev) are on the 'blessed' lists.
I'm frankly terrified of the US border/customs for 3 major reasons:

1) I'm afraid some ignorant/overzealous border guard will ask about all the startup events, conferences, hackathons etc that im going to and deciding that im looking to 'work' here, regardless of that being untrue.

2) There's no rules! There's only guidelines! Buy a $2000 ticket to come over to visit? No guarantee you'll be let in, its all completely arbitary and totally up to however bad a day the boarder guard is having. Turns every visit into a (low chance) potential nightmare. It's stressful, doubly so when the attitude you always face is 'prove to me your're not a danger to the US'

3) I have an 'interesting' recent history, did a bunch of travelling over the last year, including through Iran and a bunch of former soviet states, and a few uncommon asian countries. Again, if i get a border guard having a bad day I could easily end up like the OP

I hate the borders, they are arrogant, arbitrary, stressful and unpleasant, and will always make me think twice about future US visits.
what's the conversion rate on unicorns to leprechauns? i'm gonna need a perpetual motion machine to figure this one out...
10 Powerful Ideas That Will Shape The Future
Don't rub salt in fresh wounds, man.
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Well -- the chickens have come to roost. Terrorism of the 9/11 sort was the result of "faux-colonial faux-terrorism" that certain countries in the west had inflicted on the rest of the world for a long time.

And this sort of thing is happening because they can't just do these things to brown-skinned people, once in a while they have to do these things to white-skinned people. Faux-parity, you know.

Yummy -- tasty tasty faux-chicken.
The costs of producing BTC or USD are not their backings. You can't exchange your BTC back into electricity.

The USD (and usually most other currencies) aims to be indirectly backed by the corresponding amount of goods they represent within the currency zone and their legal status.

BTC isn't even indirectly backed. It just exists. And that's okay for its purpose.
How do you even draw any conclusions about their failing? I am amused that some HN commenters judge the efficiency of the product marketing using their personal take on aesthetic qualities. No-one except the company has the data if their strategy is working. I guess some just like to bash 'hipsters'.

Don't you think they[company team] did user experience tests, A/B copy tests, product tests, customer research? Do you think that they are utterly incompetent and didn't think about the 'over-the-top' factor?
Same here. I'm in the habit now of making sure that I've selected all target configurations, then all target architectures and then put the settings.

But even then, I need different settings for debug/release or x86/amd64 - and it's not really helping when there is incosistent naming across SDK's coming from Microsoft itself - where you can't match with one variable (say $(Target)) the given architecture, and it seems every group at Microsoft follows different conventions of how to name things.
I like this one:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...

It's purely meant as a mouse-and-keyboard thing, and in that vein it has some failures (the mouse-buttons are face-buttons instead of console-style triggers, and the keyboard lacks a way to use the F function keys)... but in general? I used its predecessor (the N9501 instead of N9502) and found the design lovely.

I could navigate my set-top PC easily with the trackball and mouse buttons, and when I needed to do text-entry I could hold it like a thumb keyboard. I even got pretty far in Cipher Prime's Auditorium with the trackball - it was quite pleasant for low-stress mouse-only games (as long as they only need click, not drag). The problem with my old version was that the trackball was not user-servicable (trackballs get dirty, fast) and it wasn't backlit.

The new one uses a touchpad and has backlighting.
PS3 was the same way. Xbox completely dominated in the advertising space. I've seen XBox One advertisements on TV but not PS4.
What do you mean doesn't leave the system ? If I were to exchange yuan for USD at a currency exchange/bank, they would keep the yuan and give me USD. The yuan wouldn't get destroyed and lose value or leave the system. It would be either a) handed back to another guy who wants to buy yuans for USD or b) used for the profit/operations of the currency exchange.

BTC may for the time being move currencies without any perceptible loss in exchange value but the exchange value of BTC will go up per yuan with greater demand. The yuan will devalue against BTC but maybe this isn't a big problem because BTC isn't a major world currency .. yet ?
Airbrite is Parse for e-commerce, and that is a major value add. No one does it.

We also have Ruby, JS, Python and Node.js SDK wrappers for the REST endpoints, which makes it easier for devs to integrate.

There’s webhooks integration, which can be configured from your account settings.

Fulfillment adaptors are in private beta. Contact us if you want to use: support@airbriteinc.com
The Written Words That Leaders Live By
"In September, Vancouver council adopted new amendments to its building code, effective next March, that, among other things, will require lever handles on all doors and lever faucets in all new housing construction."

...

"Will Johnston, the former Vancouver chief building inspector who wrote the changes in consultation with the building industry, doesn’t see this as the inevitable death of the doorknob because the rules aren’t retroactive. People can also still buy doorknobs and put them back on lever handle-equipped houses."
Google reaches privacy settlement with 37 states
You missed another benefit towards API first development: it makes it much easier to get a head start on mobile development as you can reuse many of your endpoints for common operations.
IntelliJ is pretty awesome too, I haven't used it in quite awhile!
In my opinion VS with ReSharper comes extremely close. Close enough for me to not miss IntelliJ anymore now that I've mostly switched from Java to C#.
I'll never understand backlash against accessibility improvements. People fought against ramps and now they're the reason all people can have wheels on their luggage.

Accessibility is important.
I pondered this a few years ago with some colleagues but it never seemed possible to get off the ground: real programmers, who consider themselves fairly good, using best practices, working on real, meaty projects, videoing _everything_ and making it public. Actually being able to see in detail how this stuff unfolds would be great for me.

You can sometimes follow along with ludum dare etc but that's mostly stuff hacked together quickly. I'd absolutely love it if top open source coders showed up live streaming their work.
I think you are misrepresenting valgrind some. Just going by the bullet list on their homepage, they do more than just undefined. Offering fairly nice analysis at the cache level. Also, has support for finding threading errors. Note, this isn't just a "do mutexes work" sort of thing, but offers analysis that shared memory is safely shared. (And, from my understanding, this doesn't require modification of the code to make it slower/larger.)

So, this really doesn't answer my question. I can't but agree that the tooling in Haskell is above that of plain C. However, what class of bugs will be prevented in the kernel, that isn't already fairly well handled with existing tooling. Consider that the kernel is actually fairly solid code, if I'm not off my rocker.
I use at least the first two on the list regularly in emacs; I don't have enum completion setup in C++ code, but it may be available or easily addable with some CEDET hacking. The big caveat that configuration is onerous, depending on the target language. I doubt that emacs's IntelliSense-like packages are as good as VS's, certainly in terms of polish and packaging, but what it has is good enough.

Also nice is being able to immediately pop up the man page for the symbol under the cursor, as well as language-specific documentation (like the Hyperspec in CL), and the ease of extending it to do exactly what you want, and supporting new languages, can't be beaten.

I refuse to work in an environment without jump to definition/references. These things should be considered a bare minimum requirement for a programmer's editor.
Another casual Office Snapshots visitor. Also, wanted to say thanks for keeping it updated. Always an interesting read.
Hiring Indicators, OSS, and the Value of GitHub
This merely sounds like they're adhering to the buzzword of the year 2008 - SOA. I'm I wrong? (Not that there's anything wrong in that, just nothing new)
"No one want's your shitty software, it's not a competitive edge [...] You wanna know what people are care about? Picture quality."

To be fair, a lot of that is software, too, nowadays. Upscaling without visible artifacts? Figuring out what the optimal backlighting should be? Adaptive blurring? Motion blur compensation? All done in software.

A large part of the problem, I think, is that tv companies, traditionally, let the hardware engineers who write that software add a menu structure, because they are programmers, and all programming is programming, isn't it? I do think things are a lot better than they were 5 years ago, but could be a lot better still.
Algorithms + F/A-18 Jet = Vital Testing for SLS Flight Control System
Lincoln’s handwritten Gettysburg Address on the Google Cultural Institute
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that's not wikipedia.
Correct.

PCIe is the least of our concerns at 16GB/s. Some of our tests indicate that our GPU analyzes data at a rate of ~5GB/s. If we can feed it the data in that amount of time, we're in business. We're also parallelizing disk reads, which is one bottleneck at this point.
Ok, I don't know why it got downvoted ; cannot reason the logic. Do people assume "this guy doesn't know the various definitions of the word hacker"? However, thanks for the feedback.
It's about future likelihood, not prior probability, and the fact that an issue was discovered means that the likelihood is much higher than if it were some isolated incidents.

To put it differently, if it were entirely random, the premiums would not change, but if there were a systemic problem (which appears to be the case here) the premiums should change to reflect the risk
In the Midwest where pork is cheap to begin with (and people seem to have an insatiable appetite for it) you'll often see pork chops and loin sold as a loss-leader to get people into the store. For example, last week my local grocer had chops on sale for <$1/chop (works out to $3/lb) when the actual cost is closer to $7-8/lb.