skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely true in a lot of cases, but many of the more indie-friendly engines (like Source, I believe) are free or cheap for non-commercial use. I think that works well with the fact that this funding model is most likely to work with indie-scale projects.
Nothing wrong with that.

I, for one, get extremely nauseous when I have to use WinVista with Aero. I'm used to the neutral monochrome of OS X and the warm brown of Ubuntu Human, and any interface with too many wild colors makes me feel tired after a few minutes of use. If ever I have to use Windows, I always change the theme to Windows Classic.

Win7 is much better in this regard.
Yes, C-x 5 is for acting on other frame.
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I'm not worried about the death of the news organizations, it's journalism I'm worried about.
It's awesome that you can get servers like that for those prices these days. One of my customers recently purchased a similarly configured PowerEdge.

What is high-end about the database is you are trying to get high-end performance. Having all the data in RAM is the "close to the hardware" part of getting that performance. Having multiple computers is the parallelism part of that performance. Having virutualization sticks a software layer between MySQL and the RAM, and if you have other VMs running on the hardware, then any performance numbers will be dependent on what the other VMs are doing. Of course, if you have all the NDB nodes running as VMs on the same machine, then that will never be as fast as one NDB node running native on that same machine.

If you are using the virtualization environment as a way to partition customers, consider that MySQL already does this well. A web hosting shop can have a singkle MySQL server and give each customers a database or databases and a user / pass to access only their own stuff.
Any ideas on how I can make it more obvious? What if I put an 'annotation tag' in the beginning basically saying something like 'Step 1: Wait for the random Jeep Girl to come to a complete stop' or something?
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I think the most general implication is that it works to give smaller amounts of funding to larger numbers of startups. This is an insight that could be incorporated into every step of the funding process. I'm constantly pushing later stage investors to do more, smaller, faster deals. They are starting to, but slowly.
The Apollo code reminds me of the Feynman inquiry: by then he had not much to loose by saying the truth.

The funny thing is, that his remarks are still valid and apply to current "big science" projects and we still didn't quite manage to break through communication barriers and learn to deal with thermal expansion and rigidity change (spring constants spring to mind) at different temperatures.

At CERN, they call this the silent killer. Just let's hope for the best... while doing everything to see it working. And when it does work: i.e. pp collisions and recording of those events (not cosmics), then I'll be one celebrating the most. But until then, no propaganda, please.

"For a successful technology," Feynman concluded, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Because the customer's perception of your professionalism matters, and the problems with the browser's execution of javascript would strongly and negatively affect their likelihood to use your service and convert to a paying customer?

My site depends heavily on custom-coded javascript. Minor browser inconsistencies are one thing you expect to handle or live through. Absolute FAIL because of poor javascript engine implementation is another.
I don't see how this can work. Like all DRM schemes this breaks down the first time a user decrypts the message. At that point you simply make a copy of the decrypted data. Am I missing something?
For those in the Bay Area, you can see an actual Apollo guidance computer prototype at the Computer History Museum:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X37.81A

Notice all the wire wrap!

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/physical...

The docent said that the computer would be potted before an actual launch.
Whoops, wrong version. You're right, it was FF3 that didn't change the color at all. Sorry about that mixup.

In FF 3.5, it just makes the background tab bar color the same color as the foreground Cocoa titlebar color. So it's still irritating to see what's in the foreground and what isn't; especially when the window is partially covered up.
The database that I am trying to work into a master-slave replication environment currently has a 500 GB InnoDB file. ( I think since some cleanup was done, the database no longer has that much data in it, but the InnoDB file doesn't shrink. We could dump / undump it to get a clean InnoDB, but it takes 24 hours to dump it and about that to read it in, and we can't be down for multiple days.)

If the virtual nodes are on the same hardware, you also loose the parallelization speedup and the reliability from redundancy, but you have them spread accross physical machines I presume ?

All that said, your setup is probably good enough to learn on and do some testing. I wish I had some real-world load to throw at it.

I think you are right that you could sell NDB MySQL as a service; there is a demand for it, particularly the reliability and allways-up aspects, I think. I think that for people who want more performance, you would do better selling a set of pre-configured machines to deliver to them, and some consulting time, perhaps in partnership with someone who specializes in MySQL performance tuning.

I think that could be pretty lucretive. It would all be a matter of getting the setup down pat and then finding those customers (the hard part).
If I gave off a sense of entitlement, thats the last thing I feel, concerning FF. However, I don't feel like its that big of an expectation to want software that works well. Am I mistaken here? Or did you mistake my responding to a dev asking "whats wrong?" and listing the problems I had as something else?

My problem with reporting issues to Mozilla is that they seem to fall on deaf ears. Every issue I've mentioned I've discussed with people on irc.mozilla.org or seen a number of bugzilla tickets for. None of them have been completely fixed.

And, I don't use FF. I would like to have it as a secondary browser, incase Safari acts up, or for testing websites. But, that doesn't work; it doesn't even render content the same on Windows, Linux and Mac. So that's out the window.

As to why I don't go and fix it myself? I don't use it. I'm happy with the browser I have. There are more interesting (to me) projects to contribute to. I have more interesting ideas to hack on then a web browser that has a company dedicated to working on it.
There's a cost to software that always works correctly. If one of the avionics software engineers I've worked with tried to write a consumer webapp, he'd work so slowly that by the time the app was done, I wouldn't need it anymore.

When Reddit was young, I sent a couple bug reports and feature requests to spez & kn0thing. Within an hour, they had the code done and up on the live site. The cost of that was that their users did the QA, which is simply not acceptable for avionics. But I'd rather have a feature done in an hour that may or may not work than wait a month for a feature that I know will work, but is probably rendered obsolete by developments elsewhere on the web.
Nope, that's about it.

"Content providers" should see what DRM + Open Source did to the shareware industry.
More information on the plastic logic ereader:

http://www.plasticlogic.com/ereader/index.php
Yeah I know it's not a big deal.

But MS using GPL was a big news for me.
But this particular convergence will also enable new types of communications processes to become part of every-day scenarios.

Eeek. I think he means "People will use it to communicate."
If I know MS, they probably created JavaScript callable stubs for the .NET components already in the OS. This is the same way JScript cheated by calling ActiveX components that shipped with the OS and Office. I would be surprised if MS really embraced web standards. Or we can expect a portable Silverlight runtime which brings ActiveX to non-MS platforms (like Flash, but from an actual tool vendor. Adobe is struggling being Sun and Pixar at the same time; they're speaking to a wide audience with diverging interests)
Yeah, as I mentioned before, this was the interesting thing about the new Office:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702707
I'm not sure it's a utopia. An increase in longevity coupled with an increase in age at which you have kids would put enormous pressure on government welfare systems. Actually, this is already happening in many places in the world--Europe, Japan, Taiwan... China, with their one child policy will be in a very tight spot much sooner than might be thought as well.

Besides these more direct effects, I wonder what other unintended effects mass-increased longevity would have. Imagine everyone retiring around 75 instead of 65, 30+ years of retirement instead of 20. The younger generation, either through private sense of obligation or government taxes are going to be facing a huge burden. With that kind of economic burden, there may be even less incentive to have children, especially at younger ages, and thus even fewer tax payers to support the retired masses. At the same time lot of the jobs that would've been available to younger rising stars remain occupied by a group that is retiring later and later. So there would be a squeeze on both the expenses front and the income front. For an individual, especially if you could _expect_ and _plan_ for a longer life, it may be individually fulfilling, but on the whole, I'm not sure that it would result in some kind of ideal society, especially in the transition.
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I assume you mean starting companies on a smaller base rather then simply taking smaller stakes.
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Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

What if it was potentially criminal? Would you still want to know:)?
He can't.

As far as I can tell, the browsers only contact him if they find a string with a shorter hamming distance, otherwise it's entirely offline, including picking random words.
The reason to develop Silverlight was to kill flash and compete with Adobe. However, Silverlight hasn't been a big success and it's now obvious that if any technology is going to take over Flash, it's HTML5, CSS3 and JS. It seems the best move to take JS seriously for MS. By the way, Microsoft is hosting the jquery conference to come.
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I'm not so sure how smart it is to encourage other people to follow suit with your prank.

Yes, it was kind of funny, but wait until some guy gets pepper sprayed and falls out of the car in moving traffic and JeepDiving.com will end up costing you a lot of money...
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I'm about to launch a web app, closed alpha testing just for a few friends at first. I'm curious as to how others set up their terms of use. Is it almost time for me to hire a lawyer?

Also - does anyone know why Facebook need their users to be at least 13 years old? Is this some kind of standard to which a typical site would need to adhere?
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I'm going to set the script up to tweet whenever I find a closer hash, and include the IP... you can follow me @silentmac
reading y-combinator startup competition rules. they pay you a mere 10k to be their slave & you have to move to the bay? f'ing rip off!

Tell that to someone who has been a real slave.

And ask around founders at YC about their time during YC. Vast majority wouldn't trade it for anything.
Poorly written, abusive, and full of ad hominem attacks.
Hahaha, although I flagged this as well (it's unreadable, seriously), this man has one of the most simplistic minds I've ever encountered. He seems unable to hold a cogent argument without attacking the opposite party and, frankly, he can't even speak the language.
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It's actually a little more interesting than trying to DRM documents - it's a mechanism in which documents _decompose_ over time in a completely delegated manner. Quite clever, actually.

It's a way for people to send documents back and forth to each other without worrying about discovery later on, post documents/embarrassing pictures onto facebook, etc.. - At some time in the future, when the keys have fallen out of use and if (BIG if) nobody else has bothered to make a copy of the documents, then they will have just disintegrated. Poof.
Can you implement a method of scrolling that actually works with a multitouch pad? That is, 2d scrolling that's smooth and lets me scroll pixel-by-pixel rather than in chunks?

There is NOTHING worse than a web browser that can't scroll correctly. It makes the Internet feel fucked-up.
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I really hope that's not you laughing like an idiot the entire time. It would have been far funnier without.
Similar goals as in what? Are these goals for a Neoplastic utopia? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Plasticism]

>They [propenets for neoplasticism] advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.

Are you proposing something similar with Arc?
You're no Rémi Gaillard or Joey Scaggs, or even Sacha Baron Cohen or Johnny Knoxville. However, if you wanna pull of something like Gaillard's stunts but for the American market, I can see that working.

My gf is a musician and I know a few agents who we have declined to work with because they specialize in shock gossip, celebrity scandals and other tabloid-worthy stuff. If you get contacted by those, hire them as "bookies"; a commission on each deal, but keep final say to yourself.

Jeep Diving could take off, but make sure you're not giving free advertising to Jeep. At the same time, try to avoid commercializing the Soy-Bombing movement; pranks as art are strictly a counter-culture thing, do your reading and be nice.

http://sniggle.net/theory.php
This upcoming design really excites me - this and the experimental stuff they've got Aza Raskin doing. I've spent the last two years really being annoyed at Firefox for being a subpar browser beyond plugins/being open source, and I think it's uglier even than Internet Explorer. Now they seem to be making a concerted effort to look prettier. I only hope they fix the ugly Mac functionality.
It is a good idea to set some milestones to be achieved before actually issuing the stock. Not everybody has the long term view and once the stock is issued you can't take it back without a fight.
There're a lot of philosophies that say poor and hungrier is in some ways a happier way to live.

Perhaps there's no "wrong" way to live life, and the people who die young and the people who die old are both happy with the choices they made.
Are you sure? AFAIK the earliest LISP (1958) supported lowercase, PDP-1 (1960) had lowercase, the ancient SAIL keyboards (1960s) even had Greek letters on them.
This is my dream handheld app. I'm finally moving to the city, so wi-fi will be constantly available, and I can't afford the iPhone's network plan.

The perverse Apple fan in me, of course, doesn't even care about this upcoming technology as much as he cares about how awesome the keynote announcement will be.
If you're just doing something standard, it is not worth spending your money on a boilerplate ToS.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910

For the age 13 thing, I believe it is holdover from when this law was in effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act.

Edit: Actually, the 13 thing is still in effect, it's this similarly named act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...
Anything that was done using punchcards was all uppercase.

Btw, did you know that the 'SAIL' assembler/debugger was called 'FAIL' ?
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Rumors have swirled about Apple readying a new version of the iPod Touch with a camera and microphone, which, combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line once and for all.

1. Pretty sure that need was obviated years ago, when cell phone coverage became ubiquitous.

2. I really doubt this will make much of a dent in the home phone market, as VOIP handsets have been available for years.

3. I agree that the iPhone network plans are overpriced, but I really don't want the hassle of carrying two devices, hunting for open wifi, plus the cost of buying them both, a skype number, etc.
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Thanks for the quick and helpful reply!
Or maybe it's the Facebook to Twitter's MySpace?
There is definitely a balance, but high-level code, when well written, is self-documenting. Comments should justify why something has been coded the way it has, not tell others what the code does (unless it's justifiably unreadable).
Looking through this makes me thankful for all of the high-level goodness we get to use today.
Update!

On a second view, I think you will need more than just guts to be good at this. Good pranksters are philosophers at heart; not only do they turn social norms on their head, but they also have strong sense of irony. You and your friends are breaking character left and right. It's you jumping into someone's jeep, not your character. Create a character, learn method acting and always ask yourself "What would Andy Kaufman do?" :-)

Create the character, be him, and follow up with a few more "Jumping into X" videos (not just Jeep); start with an "Jumping into an stroller", for example. Or jump into a cage in a zoo (starting perhaps with the much easier "doggy day care" ;-)

Open your eyes.
It might not be a switch -- sometimes you just want to try an alternative setup without having any particular problems with your current one.
The article links to http://www.digi.no/504306/her-kjores-egentlig-opera-mini&... for pictures of the blade server. But that page also reports that they're driving Opera Mini with... Pike! I thought I'd never hear of Pike again. (insert Kirk joke if applicable).
If he paints himself as the "jeep jumper", Jeep will not pay for advertising they're already getting for free. And no other advertiser would want to touch a performer so strongly associated with another brand.

He needs to create a character that does wild things, that way sponsors would pay for the persona/character and not the comedic prop.
a quicker approach to your bit counting routines:
(in C because that's what I'm most comfortable with, but it is pretty much a drop-in replacement for your code)

#include <stdio.h>

char dist[256];

hamm_init()

{
int i,j,n;

for (i=0;i<256;i++) {
j = i;

n = 0;
while (j) {
if (j & 1) {
n++;
}
j >>= 1;
}

dist[i] = n;
}
}

int hamming_distance(char * hash1,char * hash2) {
//calculate the distance between two hashes

int d = 0;

while (*hash1) {
if (*hash2 == 0) {
break;
}

d += dist[*hash1++ ^ *hash2++];
}

return d;
}

main()

{
hamm_init();

printf("0 %d\n",hamming_distance("abcd","abcd"));

printf("1 %d\n",hamming_distance("accd","abcd"));

}
Try doing faster than realtime transcoding of 2000 simultaneous streams. Not that trivial.
Perhaps it's unfortunate that the media even thinks that these conspiracy theorists even need to be debunked. They wouldn't waste the column-inches (or whatever the online equivalent is) debunking claims from people who think the earth flat, or that cigarette smoking is unrelated to lung cancer.

Yet pose the almost the most fantastic conspiracy theory imaginable, and the mainstream media will sprinkle it with just enough fairy dust of credibility that they then have to debunk it.
Has anyone used this as opposed to say a combination of {trac,github,lighthouse,redmine,fogbugz} - and if yes, what has your experience been like? Pros/Cons?

It seems like it doesn't support git but now that it is open source, maybe that'll change soon.
That's true and it was my first thought (which is why I asked about benchmarking the js code). What it did do was to get a pretty clever idea out into the world, which is to crowdsource the answer to some contest.

Contests are usually held to fire up peoples creativity and this idea to solve it via the browser as an ad-hoc cluster is really pretty creative.

Personally I think to try to solve this contest by brute forcing it is changing it in to a simple pissing contest between the various hardware / software combination, I'm sure some guy with an fpga kit will do a lot better than the CUDA competitors.

It would be nicer if someone discovered a previously undetected flaw and solved the contest through a backdoor. that would be hacker news :)
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Imagine Github, then add an integrated package manager, an inter-project bug tracker and extensive documentation and collaboration features. That's Launchpad. What I've seen of it has been really impressive. This could be a game changer for open source.
Thanks for the tips, I hope the deal gets through.
Here's the real gem:

"Prototype - done in Feb. Version I can charge for: 8 weeks maybe? (ed: hahaha)"

Ah, founders' optimism.
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is a significant percentage of Opera users non-Swedish?
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I've met Dan a few days ago in Sweden, and apparently he is making a decent living off of Cortex Command.
The document was very informative. A repository of YC apps would definitely be a tremendously useful collection, not just for future YC applications, but for general startup community as well.
Video of people passing out Bing stickers in front of a Google office?

Perhaps if there was audio of the Googlers' responses, this might be interesting, but otherwise this is just a (fairly boring) commercial for Bing.
Canadian judges are a lot less inclined to allow frivolous lawsuits than their us counterparts.

People are responsible for their own actions, you should not be able to sue some website because it told you to do something stupid.
When do I need to incorporate a company?
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SharePoint 2010 will not support Internet Explorer 6.

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Well, the program isn't only for Spanish and the idea is to eventually give it in English. The problem is that we know that not that many English-only speakers will come along the first time. Nevertheless it depends a lot on the initial teams. If they don't mind we could gladly give it in English. On the other hand, classes won't be extremely complex to grasp, even in Spanish ;)