skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practical Analog Semiconductor Circuits
So the company that controls your computer and 95% of all desktops is the one you want to control your search also?
I'm really quite enamoured with your work. Most wikis seem confusing or dead or forboding when you first load them. You've really brought the "visible pulse" of the site right up front and made it inviting for people to take an initial action.
That's really interesting. Are you using any tools to do the actual time tracking? Are those productive hours per day? How do you cope with distractions? I noticed you don't have "idle" time in your chart.
The incentive for scalping will increase.
I prefer the analogy posted by norkakn on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/90tge/hey_rprog...

L1 - There is a sandwich in front of you.

L2 - Walk to the kitchen and make a sandwich

RAM - Drive to the store, purchase sandwich fixings, drive home and make sandwich

HD - Drive to the store. Purchase seeds. Grow seeds..... .... ... Harvest lettuce, wheat, etc. Make sandwich.
It's nice that Microsoft is reporting Bing is up 8%. Of course, no one else is reporting that and StatCounter even shows a huge drop in total usage.

And 8% increase of what? 8% higher than Bing last week? 8% market share? From everything I've been able to find, Bing is still way back behind Yahoo which doesn't do any advertising at all!
Ram might not hold all the information, and reading the files isn't the problem, finding them is. SSD's have virtually no seek time, it is RAM. Tossing in a 64gig SSD essentially puts the entire file system in RAM, at least that's what it feels like, they don't need warming up. It feels like everything's in the page cache all the time.
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I'm using it as a blog. I like the ease with which I can use it and how I can write my posts offline (GMail with Gears) and then upload them as soon as I have an Internet connection.
For example, I remember reading a story about someone testing out the iPhone UI alone in a contraption in a box as opposed to the real hardware.

Why is this a problem? Other than having multitouch capability, the UI didn't depend on the hardware at all.
Couldn't the fbi just use their upstream provider?
Right. This "client-side OS" that "is all but assured" will be running on the... server perhaps? Haha!
But please, spend time optimizing your string concatenation... because that is going to help

I have been a "hero" many, many times by doing exactly this, unfortunately for the assessment of "average" programming knowledge in corporate IT.
I have a web facing version up and working (test version). I'll link it here once I work out a way to get more API calls from Zemanta
I just had an Intel SSD die on me that was less than 2 months old. Without any warning it became unreadable. Hooking it up to an external device I used to retrieve data from faulty spinning disks didn't work to get any data off.

Right now I am back to spinning disk and time machine for hourly backups. I'm highly considering selling the replacement Intel SSD when I get it back. Some things like loading programs, starting up and shutting down are much faster. When it comes to installing stuff, extracting files, or writing data to disk, this 7200 rpm 500gb drive is faster than the SSD.

Also worth taking note is the $300+ for the 80 GB Intel SSD could buy 4 500GB laptop drives.
I, like you, spend a great deal of my time "up in the clouds,"so to speak. Grandiose, whimsical ideas are for the most part what keep me going, and do well to quell the drudgery of routine/secondary education. All I can say is a bit of pragmatism (which is borderline sacrilege to the ears of a dreamer) goes a long way in overcoming inhibitions or procrastination.
That really is incredible isn't it. I don't mind saying I have difficulty comprehending - really comprehending - such large magnitudes.

Great to hear it in different formats though. I can stare at numbers all day and still not really get it, but the difference between a second and 5 months is as subtle as a punch in the nose. Good stuff.
All wait for Drizzle.
Pandora now pushing radio to pay for music
Van Eck Phreaking: eavesdropping on video displays [pdf]
My basic conclusion about the "personality" issues regarding INTPs is that INTPs think way too much about personality. Once I stopped over-analyzing everything as it related to my "personality traits" and how I felt so weird and different from the general population, life got so much easier. Isn't there a saying something like . . .

"Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

That said, the MBTI can be a useful tool to help in communicating with others (understanding how they see the world, for example), but over-analysis on the personal psych issues can easily escalate into a big, bleak black hole of self-perpetuating discontent. Sometimes you just have to kick yourself out of your own rut by doing something drastic. Get out of your comfort zone. Put yourself into extremely uncomfortable zones. For the INTP, this usually involves being around people.

Disclaimer: I've tested INTP.
They do: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=nehalem+die

Nehalem is about 70% cache. Most of it is the shared L3 between
cores. There are physical limits to how large a cache can be and
still run synchronously. The L1 is still tiny (64k, split between
instructions data), and it's really not feasible to make it larger
without affecting clock speed. But if you drop just a little bit and
pay a latency cost, you can stick a 256k unified cache on each core.
Then they all talk to the 3M shared "uncore" cache.

But to first approximation, a modern "CPU" is entirely SRAM.
I'm not sure how prudent or productive it is to insult yourself - ostensibly, it's a recipe for a lifetime of needless anger and self esteem issues, but it is certainly a novel approach, if nothing else. Although, in my experience, acknowledging shortcomings and understanding them, sans insulting self-talk, has been fruitful - maybe a bit of honesty and self-awareness, coupled with the occasional crack binge, is more productive?
What about Google bookmarks? They are also private, you can export them and I suspect are backed up.
I use Rsync.net and have been very happy with them. They even give you the option now to do pull backups via cron to prevent hackers deleting your backups a la the avsim.com hack.
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What sort of app are we talking about? If it is a web app, and you're optimizing the DB... are you sure you're not already working on the wrong mole?

Take a look at the above scale: page rendering times are going to dominate everything else. There are simple, repeatable, effective ways to reduce them. See the presentations from the YSlow guys.
I'm on the border between INTP/J. Was definitely an INTP as a kid, then have gradually moved towards the J, such that I'd probably test as INTJ if I took it now.

For me, it helped being exposed to people who Got Things Done. My high school was a startup, my teachers were a bunch of go-getter early-20-somethings, and one of the school's founders was an experienced entrepreneur. That started my shift towards the dark side of the force.

Then when I got to college (still very much an INTP), I volunteered to rewrite a major Harry Potter fanfiction archive and couldn't exactly back out without disappointing 100k users or so. I think the experience of pushing through on that and finishing it was a major portion of what led me to believe I could finish other stuff as well.

It also helped that I can now concentrate on stuff I like doing and avoid much of the stuff I hate. I used to always procrastinate on writing papers - now, I just don't have to, because I went into computers. (Ironically, I still sorta write fiction as a hobby, but I'm as unproductive with it as I ever was with my school papers.)
Business model.
Everyone complaining about the fact that the torrent info is not well hidden and suggesting steganography seems to be missing the point. Stego is not suitable for what is effectively an attempt to broadcast information; if you hide the torrent info too well then the only people who can find it are those who know the key, which is begs the question* of why you don't just create a private tracker. By encoding the info using a well-known scheme you get a bit of security by obscurity, which is probably good enough for most use-cases, while maintaining the useful property of getting the info easily dispersed. Until google images, flickr, and other sites start filtering this info you can create a parasitic tracker just by picking a couple of popular tags and handing out a script that will crawl the sites and decode images to get torrent seeds.

*yes, I know this is the improper vulgar usage of the phrase, sue me.
The way to decode would still be public, so there's no difference.
Exactly right. You could just rename a .torrent to .png and you'd essentially have the same thing. Granted, said png wouldn't be viewable, but neither are truly "hidden in plain site" which is what I think of when I hear "hiding data in an image file." To me, that evokes the idea of still having a viewable photograph that doesn't let on that it's hiding data within.
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/649/pinboard.png
if the file is in cache, you can 'find' it in cache, without hitting disk. seek time, (which I assume is what you mean by 'finding it') is only a problem if the file isn't cached in ram.

Yes, running on a SSD takes the entire filesystem much closer to ram speeds. However, you are doing so at almost ram prices. (I'm speaking of good SSDs, like the X-25E; which comes to something like $15 per gigabyte; the not so good SSDs have problems of their own. I have a SSD in my laptop right now that is branded by one of the gamer ram companies, i forget which one. It was pretty cheap, under $2 per gigabyte. It's pretty nice for reads, for writes, sometimes it is good, but often writes are worse than spinning disk.) The advantage of just buying the ram is that a good virtual memory management system can automatically optimize to keep the data you access most often in ram.

Like I said, i use a SSD in my laptop, a cheap brand and it's small, my laptop doesn't need a lot of storage, so the cost is reasonable, and I use a journaling file system, so writes are cached and the slow sub-cell size write speeds of the cheap SSD aren't a huge problem. I'm just explaining why in my servers, I prefer to go with a whole lot of ram, and then slow, cheap, and large SATA, rather than less ram and expensive SSD.
iPhone 3g crashes too. :(
Surely the vast majority of IED's aren't remotely triggered. I would surmise that simple trip wires or pressure triggers would be the norm.
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I remember hearing about the Q Drum several years ago:
http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/q-drum

Basically, it's a low-tech solution to the problem of cheaply transporting water with manual labor.

Granted, it's not a large-scale solution for a city the size of Bhopal. (It seems like it works best at the family/village level.) But I love how ingenious the solution is. It's not high tech. It's not Web related.

People overuse the phrase "thinking outside the box," but I've got say this is truly an example of it. It's a good reminder that sometimes silicon isn't the solution to everything and that we need to consider other ways to hack.
it has one thing that the west does not have, which is the power to make very bold decisions and to realize them.

I don't think I would point to that as a friendly atmosphere for basic science research.
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That's not anti-social bookmarking. This is anti-social bookmarking: http://sm.purepistos.net/about

I went from browser bookmarks, to Delicious, to exploring (Magnolia, Simpy, etc.), to Diigo, to Selfmarks. A couple hundred bookmarks later, I haven't looked back; it's all I need.

Functional, usable demo at http://sm-demo.purepistos.net/ .
I have my own 'custom' search engine that filters out those annoying sites. You can use it here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015394218516616598090:kmqd...
Once in 2007 when I was 14,I was running a RealVNC server on a computer with the default port forwarded. Around the same time, unknown to me, a buffer overflow exploit was released for the particular version of RealVNC that I had. Some kid eventually found it, and proceeded to do stupid things on my computer (IM my friends, change my background, etc). Luckily nothing of any importance was lost.

Another time, in 2006, I had a shell account on my friend's Linux server. At the time I was using it to host a Wordpress blog. My friend was running an outdated version of PhpMyAdmin, and it was exploited. The guy who got in dumped all of the databases, and on top of that, e-mailed us screenshots of him doing it. :/
Thankfully, all of the users had recent enough backups to deal with.
western politics are centered around special interest groups

Currently internal politics in China is centered around a much smaller segment of the country's population. The masses and their concerns are largely ignored. I don't think that is good for the future of China, as the future is with the masses.
By default, mod_php registers .php, .php4, .php5, .phtml, and .pht. (Also .phps, but that isn't executed.) A lot of people forget about the last two.
You described me exactly except I'm only 22. I've lost a pretty serious relationship as well because I became a very "going through the motions" kind of guy and basically stopped really caring about anything.

My advice is to get yourself a mind mapping tool (xmind is free) and name the center item "Life" and just put down everything in your life on there. I just did this and have branches for Projects, Work, School, Social, Personal, and Financial. Fill up the the whole thing with both where you are and where you want to be.

I have found that having everything objectively in front of me instead of floating around my head drastically improves my ability to line them up and evaluate everything for what it's worth. By having it all laid out in front of you, you can see what areas need attention and which ones can hold off for a while.

Also, ideas aren't a bad thing. I find myself drowning in new ideas, almost to an ADHD level of lack of focus. The best thing you can do is pick 2 or even 3 of the main ones you want to focus on and write down everything else. You don't want to forget your ideas but at the same time you don't want to lose focus, so keep a notebook full of everything you think of until you have time to go through it.

Bite sized chunks are really important too. I fell into a lot of financial troubles because I just stopped caring, stopped opening my bills, just overall gave up. If that's the case, go through your finances and find out exactly how much you need to live on, add a few hundred for just in case, and divide that by 20 to find out roughly what you need to be making on a normal work day to get by. That way you can see at a moment's notice if you're working enough or not.

Lastly, I kind of just started feeling really guilty about the way I was acting. It didn't take much for me to drop everything and head to the bars with friends, and that lack of self control greatly impeded my ability to get work done. I've since developed a bad taste in my mouth and am consciously working on making sure I don't screw around as much.

It's easy to be lazy man, it happens. You have to harness your willpower to pull yourself out of the rut. Start small, track everything, and improve upon yesterday always. You'll get there, it just takes active thought to make it happen. Good luck.

EDIT: I almost forgot a big part of fixing things. Make lists. For everything. Grocery Lists, todo lists, goal lists. Todo Lists are the most important thing to help with procrastination.

What's important to remember is to make everything on your todo list "actionable" (to borrow from GTD). so don't put "build website for Greg"...instead put "setup server, install CMS, mockup template, etc...you want individual, achievable items, so that you can both: see what needs to be done, and see what has been done. This is key to you breaking your habit...
Ask HN: justifying hosting costs for hobby sites
I've got a webapp idea in mind, but I don't see any revenue potential. But as an unemployed dev I do see resume potential. The thing is I can't seem to justify the hosting costs. My best guess is it would be about $100/mo. But, I see on HN a lot of people whipping up simple webapps and sometimes complex webapps with out any revenue being generated, and just running it for the fun of it. So how do people justify expenses similar to that that don't justify the ends? A line must be drawn, no matter how much fun it is. Especially since as I said, I am unemployed.
Yeah, there's always been a lot of "I can't use anything other than what I'm used to because everything else is too different" and "Why would I switch to that? It works exactly like what I already have". I've heard this from a number of people over the years concerning even trying Linux, both usually from the same person.
I think the author makes some very valid arguments and presents them in a non-dogmatic way (from either side). I use Linux at home and Windows at work and am fairly happy in both environments. In general, I've found that Linux applications tend to lack polish and Windows applications (and the OS) tend to lack functionality (from a developer's POV).

I can also agree with the author that the fragmentation of the Linux market poses a significant barrier to entry to most unintiated and nontechnical users.
Nice! Reminds me of one my friend Ian did: http://gimmeshiny.com/
Blackboard paint is cheaper. You can even mix it with other colors to make non-black colors. See:
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Fate of entire civilization is dependent on monsoon rains. In my opinion, there is hardly any way to provision supplies in vast amount. Ground water tables, dams are all dependent on monsoon. Only way is to keep in check the transmission leakages.
To get at least a resume-building prototype going I don't see why you would need to pay $100/mo in hosting.

Now, if you begin to grow such traffic that you need to shell out $100/mo in hosting, then maybe you have something interesting going that you can probably find a way to make some revenue from it (or at least $100/mo)

There is always the option of using S3 or App Engine, but it really depends on your app. So, if your goal is Resume Building, at least start with cheaper hosting and build a prototype.

I use a VPS that costs me $49/mo and I use that for hosting any prototypes or early projects.
Not really. I interpret it the other way--a blow to Google Docs.

MS Office is so much better than Google Docs it's not even a fair comparison. Now they're going to offer a free version which will not only remove most of the reason for anyone to use Google Docs but will also potentially bring in more revenue from the student/cheap crowd(those paying like $150 or less for MS Office now), without losing anything from the business market(I doubt even 5% of businesses would stop using MS Office because now there's a free version online--to most businesses I know, Office is essential to their existence and a few hundred for a desktop version is well worth it).

It's a natural evolution of how software is shifting to the cloud and I think Microsoft has done a good job at not cannibilizing Office's enormous revenue flow while still getting ready for the big shift to the cloud that's coming.
teach question if i may
what configuration do u use for the email sending ?
did you set up smtp server to deal with the load.
or are u using what ever scripting language build in tools
for sending emails
Thanks
I am amazed the rate at which they are continuing its development. But I wonder if all such niche features would only cater to a select segment of customers.

Does the common user really care if there is Google maps support or not?
i'm using php to send out the digests using the mail() command. the service was coded in python, php, and ajax.
Summary: My code didn't make me rich and famous so I use these licenses so people have no choice.

Fair enough, but I think the biggest reason people didn't give him respect and piles of money because of Mongrel or whatever wasn't that they wanted to steal his awesome code and exploit him, but it was because he was a douchebag to them and everyone else. Who wants to deal with someone that toxic?

But, no no, it's not his fault. It's those meanies that jacked his code and didn't tell anyone. Jeez.
Any specific reasons why you think it would be $100/mo?
Zed has a caustic personality, but I have to admit that the article was probably the most cogent argument for the GPL over BSD-style licenses that I've ever heard.
Amazingly, that still underestimates the ratio of HD/RAM latencies by a factor of 10.

(I'm using 83ns and 14ms, as in the article, and half an hour for RAM and one year for HD.)
I was entertained by your fact-finding mission. I only skimmed the original diatribe.

Still, the fact that deaths were removed from the data at all (exactly in favor of the pet hypothesis of the researchers) because they "didn't count" is extremely suspicious, even if it may prove justified (by other confirming studies).
We? No thank you.

There was a great deal of opposition to a full-fledged invasion, just not on mainstream television networks. I personally remember reading about a lot of more peaceful alternatives that ranged from not actually invading, to targeting Osama directly, to accepting offers by the Taliban to hand Bin Laden over to an international tribunal or neutral third-party country.

God knows how serious the last offer would have been (perhaps it was a stalling tactic), but it would have been easier to find the man that way - assuming locating Bin Laden was the actual point behind the invasion. Regardless of how things play out now, claiming there were not alternatives to invasion only excuses the poor judgment of those who backed the war in the first place. These people need to be kept as far from government as humanly possible, not excused for the "inevitability" of the Michael Bay approach to foreign policy.
However, I'm afraid I still don't see why you view USG's ownership as legitimate, unless you are equating de facto ownership with legitimate ownership -- i.e., you don't believe there is any difference between the two.

I think the concept of adverse possession is a necessary concept to avoid violence and enable us all to get along with each other. So if de facto ownership exists for long enough, it should be considered legitimate.

Would the leaders of the Catholic Church want their subjects to be told there is no God, even if these leaders were paid large sums of money? Power and influence are worth something to them as well.

Any Moldbuggian plot to reboot the U.S. would require a critical mass of mandarins to acknowledge the intellectual bankruptcy of the current regime. Well, either mandarins or soldiers.

The other option, which is perhaps more plausible, is that perhaps break away republics can form as the U.S. continues to weaken. Those break away republics could innovate new forms of government and provide examples of how to reform USG.
Yeah and I also think he's missing the point that people use mongrel not because it's awesome like Zed, but because they don't have choice. Having deployed several mongrel-based servers I personally think mongrel is a crappy server, and is in fact one of the reasons we switched to python/django.