skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting link, thanks!

In the interview, he mentioned that the folks at MIT wrote the program in high-level-language called MAC (MIT Algebraic Compiler) and hand-compiled it to the machine language of the actual computer which I take is what we see at google code.

Wouldn't it be great if the MAC source would also be available for us to see? After all, that is the context in which the actual software engineering took place. Looking at the resulting assembly might give a somewhat distorted impression of how the work was done.
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It is lucky she didn't get round to noticing the AVG (Yahoo) toolbar that appears in your browser. You hide it then next time you start up you get a helpful "I have noticed you have disabled the AVG toolbar, I have re-enabled it for you so that your system is fully protected." message.
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Well performance looks impressive.

The webswite looks horrible; I know it's shallow but that puts me off it a bit.
The figure that always bothers me is California ranks 47th in school spending (http://edjustice.blogspot.com/2009/01/california-drops-to-47...) yet we rank 1st in highest average salary for teachers (http://teacherportal.com/teacher-salaries-by-state). So basically our teachers live like kings while our schools crumble.
UTF8(ASCII) == ASCII

Unless you're using characters > 255, UTF-8 is identical to ASCII.
Why are we seeing this kind of crap on Hacker News?
This belongs on digg.com
You could also make use of the fancy new worker thread stuff in browsers that support it. Should let you skip the timeout altogether.
That's fine for software that I'm not paying for - and how many web apps are worth paying for? I smell a chicken or the egg problem...
Interestingly making 160-char message fly through the air is pretty reliable, because that bit of the system was implemented by real engineers.
If you are missing the software hacker culture, check out https://har2009.org/ . Then watch http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1862239880289447491 to get in the mood. See you in the Netherlands. :)
When comparing Office 2007 (and 2010) with Office 97 one can clearly see these are not "the same old apps".
Especially when combined with the Office Servers.

JavaScript isn't such a bad language. It's essentially Scheme in C cloths. It has first-class functions, lexical closures, prototype-inheritance and more.

Just avoid the bad parts. See this Google Talk by Douglas Crockford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
Actually it's UTF8(ASCII) == ASCII iff ASCII < 128, since the MSB signifies a multi-byte character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Hm, on second thought UTF8(ASCII) is -always- == ASCII, since ASCII is only defined for 0-127, unless you count the extended variants :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
We also have some C and Java implementations helping out. C = 500,000 a sec per core and Java just under that.

Also, we will be tweeting out what our analytics say about how many computations took place in the browser sometime soon after the competition is over.
Nothing new here, and upwards of 80% of it is common knowledge on HN.

Pick which two of the following three items are desirable: revenue, launching early, hiring your uncle as CTO. Wow, you're a sharp one, aren't you.

On the other hand, I sort of liked this phrase:

Don’t believe that the exception is the rule. ... Twitter is the exception. Facebook is the exception. YouTube is the exception. There, I listed all the exceptions. Everyone else needs revenue asap, or you will fail.
Yet another use for Dropbox?
I only know one, which is exactly my point. You won't find many of them because that isn't the type of company YC was designed to fund. You will find more than a few companies that have raised multiple rounds of VC and are in growth mode (Justin.tv, Xobni, Scribd, Songkick, Dropbox, Loopt, etc) because those companies better match the type of company that YC naturally fits.
Perhaps it can be made more visible to the user

It's pretty highly visible, especially when more than one person is logged in at once - it's highlighted you bright yellow. It's a brilliant touch - I check this every once in awhile, but have yet to find anything.
This was the last straw for me. I've purchased more than 60 licenses of AVG for business computers, after being impressed by how well the free edition of version 6.0 worked on my home computer.

With each subsequent release, they've just added more crap, and gone same way Symantec did. Aside from updating their virus database, I haven't noticed a single useful improvement in years.
Yeah, AFAICT the leader right now is http://twitter.com/seibert with a hamming distance of 31 (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=87acc31e73d939b72dffbf7...), and he says he's pushing 800M/sec across 4 GPUs (http://twitter.com/seibert/status/2748691432).

For comparison, this guy's distributed JS implementation just reached 1B a few hours ago: http://twitter.com/wondersquirrel/status/2750527789

If Engine Yard was trying to promote their cloud services with this contest it's rather ironic it appears it will probably be won be a few desktop computers with high end GPUs, which cloud hosts usually don't even have.
combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line once and for all.

as the iPhone OS still does not support background applications, this is barely true - unless you want to keep skype running all the time which would render you unable to do unimportant stuff as, say, change the track you are listening on.
Seriously? If I go traveling without internet access for over 30 days, they delete all of my stuff? Wow, no wonder GMail is kicking their ass :-/
You should work with your spouse. It's great, and a lot of companies have successful husband/wife teams. Here's an HN thread that lists a few: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663881

I've liked some Guy Kawasaki articles, like the 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint, but this article seems hastily written.

Another fallacy is to think partnerships are bad. Partnerships are great in certain markets. Seek out people... you'd be surprised who'll take a phone call.
Find your music in the computational universe
Corrected. I didn't have Internet at the time and forgot to check :)
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It is much more likely that they will use the CLR as a backend.
Switched to Avira for almost a year now for most of the machines at home and friends. No problems so far, and works fine.

Still, the nag screen is annoying, but how hard it is to click one button. :P
Cutting services is really the only play.

It's OK to cut government services benefiting the poor as long as the millionaires don't have to become nine-hundred-thousandaires. They earned that money, and I'll be damned if they have to share it with the society that helped them get that far!
Silverlight is competing with flash as planned - read between the lines here - Adobe is concerned with "Doing it right", possibly due to competition. http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2009/07/flex_4_beta_upd...

Silverlight hasn't taken over yet, and it's too soon to say it's "not a big success" - it looks like it isn't a big failure - from what I heard from Scott Guthrie's public talks, the installed base of SL is on track with MS expectations. SL3 is being pushed quite hard, MS has not given up on it.

It's not obvious that HTML 5 will make Flash/Silverlight obsolete. But it's competition for sure.

It is the nature of MS, being a very large company, when asked to chose between competing technologies, to choose both, so that whichever one wins out, they will be there. Hence, Javascript and Silverlight.

MS has deep pockets, and in both paths is leverage existing assets to cut costs and increase developer familarity - JQuery in Javascript, and .Net and XAML in making silverlight.
Javascript and Silverlight are orthogonal. The first version of Silverlight was only programmable with Javascript. It wasn't until Silverlight 2 that C# was a supported language.

Microsoft is a huge company and the departments are loyal to their own bottom lines before each other's technology investments. The Office team clearly recognized that they needed to support alternative browsers in order to be competitive.

I believe the Office web apps use Silverlight for a few small, optional features (this may no longer be true).
ClamWin is ok, but the scanning time is very slow.
Do yourself a favor: Turn UAC all the way up, and forget the antivirus. Your system will still be fast and snappy, but you'll still be notified every time tries to do something it shouldn't
Silverlight supports "Alternative browsers". In fact, it's easier to get the exact same rendered output on screen in Silverlight than in Javascript, since it's running the same engine in all browsers, just via different plugins.
This is actually pretty sweet.

I wonder if they could have used some kind of web chat like campfire, or if the Iranian authorities had banned every explicit communication channel.
"Beating the system" makes me think of rebellion. Is this really what you looking for in applicants? Does non-conformism really matter that much?
Which, to my (probably outdated) knowledge, is why they used Silverlight for print preview.

The key here though is that I can log in to any random machine with any common browser and use the primary features of Office. Google Docs offers me the ability to read a spreadsheet on a kiosk in a hotel, so Office web better do it too. If Silverlight was required, that wouldn't be realistic until it achieves Flash-level or greater adoption.
You compared the use of shortened URLs to spraying poison out of a firehose. Can't quite put my finger on it, but yeah, I think that's a bit unreasonable.
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What I'm curious about is why they bothered to do the myth busting. What's the motivation to do this?

If everyone thinks even the mighty Google can't get YouTube to break even, then no one else will try to compete with them in video, and when they get around to figuring out how to make money, they will own the entire whole short video market.

Meanwhile, Google overall remains a desirable place to work in the eyes of many engineers. And Youtube advertisers care about how effective their ads are relative to what it's costing them, not whether or not Google is making money from Youtube. There may be some concern over the long-term availability of Youtube as an advertising channel if it's not making money, but do you need to think about that when you need to run an ad campaign right now?

So I mean, I don't really believe all the spin either, but why tell anyone else otherwise? They don't certainly aren't out to raise funding either...
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The generated melodies do not have any emotion.
It seems like they didn't get any decent sound bites so they went for the silent movie look. There KDE/Win7 film wasn't bad but this was very boring.
I work on SIL-4 systems for Rail (Transportation, not fancy web framework de-jour) applications .. the code I spent a year slaving over to ensure it is as bug-free as can possibly be rendered, won't ship to our customers until next year, and even they won't be deploying it in field for another year or so after they get done with their own tests. So, I'm looking at having to support that code from a year ago, 3 to 5 years from now.

Thats why, its good code. ;)
At least this one is getting discussion vs. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682892

Goes to show that adding "Guy Kawasaki" to the title makes a difference.
Yup, they peer at local internet exchanges (e.g. LINX in London - www.linx.net / INEX in Ireland - www.inex.ie), cache locally where they can (uk.youtube.com / ie.youtube.com are what you get redirected to periodically over here) and I would imagine that this drastically reduces their "internet" bandwidth consumption.
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They'd have to unwrap the instructions (hard-wire, literally) to get to the meat of it, and even then there's no guarantee they'd be able to put it all back together again.

Better that it just remains curious, and that we don't use AGC Version 1.0 for future launch attempts ..
Possibly. What I meant is that the app is fully functional in Opera.
>It's a nice gesture, but for all I know about Hyper-V (which admittedly is very little), it's a deliberate strategy with an ulterior motive.

Almost like they're a business or something. ;)
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Yep, it's not like Microsoft has ever hijacked any other software to shoe-horn in their own useless stuff.

</sarcasm>

See <a href="http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=.net+framework+as... Framework Assistant in Firefox</a>.
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I'd say going from two to three is `half' as more effort as going from one to two (in logarithmic scales). And that is precisely because trigrams can predict better --- they are even more redundant than bigrams.
In the video of the landing, you can hear Neil ask about error "1202", which I think I found in the source here:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=10&...

Which is talked about here:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
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Agreed. I know Launchpad has many powerful features for tracking all kinds of projects from third parties, but I've never been able to figure out how that works because the user interface is so strange. Github doesn't have as many features but its UI is just right.
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Yes, did that for me until I disabled it (after swearing at both AVG and Yahoo for the intrusion). Would have been a deal breaker - I like my blank tabs, they represent the limitless possibility of the internet.
I don't want to sound too negative, but it seems to me like they have failed by releasing this so late. Creating open source software is not just about releasing the source, it is also about building an active development community.

By releasing a mature product, people won't be as likely to join, as most of the stuff has already been shaped. It's really hard to change the way launchpad works right now, which is part of the fun in an open source project. If you join now, you're basically an alien around the canonical employees, which doesn't sound very attractive to me.

Time will tell of course, but I think it's a mistake to only release this now.
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He did it because everyone in the company knew his name as the guy who would possibly ruin the contract and jobs of everyone who worked there.

The face loss would be terrible, the number of high ups in the company talking to him must have put him under massive and immense pressure.
I stopped reading in the second paragraph after this: "A freeware is a software"
YouTube can then look at taking content to international markets (as opposed to the U.S-only Hulu), which make up a fairly decent chunk of their viewership..
Couldn't the Skype app send you a background notification that the phone was ringing?
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Just doesnt work. The millionaire will move and then the state wont get a dime from him.
How about lowering taxes instead? That let's people put there money where they want it.
Yes! I was going to ask if anyone used it, and what did they think of it, because there's been a long time since I don't work on a windows machine on a daily basis, but at the time I did I used Avira.

I was just wondering if after the years that passed it had become less good or something...
Of course. I just wanted to point out, that it's not only the state of an industry that determines if it's investment-worthy. But also the price of assets.
Maybe? But housing prices are already way higher in California (SF/LA) than they are in, say, Illinois (Chicago). If people are so concerned about money, why doesn't everyone move to rural Kansas?

(Because California has nicer weather and better infrastructure, among other things.)
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Ditto. Got 10 tabs in Chrome and 10 tabs in Safari all running at 1ms. Using ~60% CPU. I'll let it run for the next 4-5hrs until I go to work.

Good luck.
Definately apophycral - from the bbc article linked in the first ycombinator article:

The rope core memories would become know as "LOL memory" after the "little old ladies" who knitted together the software at a factory just outside Boston.

These ladies would sit in pairs with a memory unit between them, threading metres and metres of slender copper wires through and around the cores.

"It's an extremely time-consuming process and it meant that the programs had to be finished and fully tested months in advance," said Mr Eyles.
The article tries very hard to blame this on Apple, which seems unsubstantiated.

Taiwan-based Foxconn [...] faces cutthroat competition from other manufacturers around China and the world. A leak of the next generation of Apple’s crown jewel, the iPhone, could badly hurt Foxconn’s business relationship with Apple.

It seems this company got a little over-eager in securing its future business with Apple. There is no indication that Apple policies drove them to take harder action against this guy than they'd otherwise have.

On the other hand, Apple should put some effort into investigating if someone had his apartment illegally searched and was illegally detained in their supply-chain.
Of Microsoft and Symantec, I'm not sure who I trust least. In any case a Microsoft virus checker wouldn't have to - indeed wouldn't benefit from - seeking attention. That, in it self, would probably lead to a better product. There are other technically sound arguments for letting Microsoft deal with security issue, such as the fact that they know how the system is built (At least in theory).
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In the fifties Germany used industrial technology from the thirties to get back on her feet. Had the Reich used the twenties years in between for something other than destroying itself and the rest of Europe, it would have surely been richer and more advanced.

"In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly and efficient -- a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete -- was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person. Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, [...]" (from "Chapter 3: War is Peace" of Emanuel Goldstein's `The Theory of Hierarchical Society' (from 1984))

Anyway, the greatest life-altering technologic advances have been made during the long and relatively peaceful period of the 19th century. And no, it was not all an application of inventions from the Napoleonic wars.
Push notifications aren't perfectly real-time, you can often have a delay of up to a few minutes, which is too long for a connect signal.

However, as it's pretty much free to call on Skype, a notification that someone has tried to call you, and do you want to call them back, would be completely feasible with the current technology. I can only imagine that Skype are gearing up to do exactly this in their iPhone app...
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I am a musician and I've used generative/aleatoric techniques many times.

Carefully crafting sounds, defining my own generative rules and keeping adjusting each subtle parameter until I've achieved the desired results is the farthest I've been in this territory.

Even Mozart played with chance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Würfelspiel).

On the other hand, I've always despised experiments like this. And I hope there will always be more in what we perceive as art than just selecting a genre, a scale, some sampled instruments and pressing a button.
> "[...] with their economies in shambles [...]"

I guess going to Mars will take longer than the current crisis.
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My questions: has anyone here come across such a solution online? Is there merit in such a solution?

Thanks for any feedback.
We have AVG 8.5 at work and it’s killing our machines.
I've found the way California does its voting and budgets completely crazy. The people vote for popular programs and leave it to someone else to finance it. Now they find out they are out of finance options. Can't tax cigarettes, people aren't smoking enough. Can't tax gas, it's already too high. Can't tax property, don't even bother touching my paycheck. The easiest place to gain money are either too small in number (realistically, how much would you gain by taxing he rich and additional 1%, not) or too vulnerable to sales tax increase (the poor).

Also since the state is the largest employer (lots of voters there) they can't touch pensions.
Agreed. The "melodies" all suck.
But, I do find the scales feature useful.
I use the O2 ISP and I often notice that if I stream a popular video from YouTube (or anything from the BBC iPlayer) my browser will tell me it's "transferring data from" an IP address which is in my ISP's own range. It must be cheaper for them to cache popular content within the ISP system and send it out that way.
I don't know if that's a useful answer for me. There is currently about $3B/year being spent on something I have a cheaper, better solution for. The problem is everyone thinks I'm crazy. There is a huge gap between current thinking on the problem and my thinking on the problem. So most sources of revenue currently available to pay that $3B/year bill would be unlikely to be available to pay for any product I put out there. Also, since my solution drastically shrinks costs, it wouldn't be a $3B/year market. $3B is grossly inefficient. I can't begin to guesstimate what the market would be worth for my solutions.
Even just trying to rationalize things like this shows how disconnected we've become.

This is sad from whichever angle one looks at it.
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