skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first statement does not follow at all.

Do people realize that we're talking very specifically about auto vectorization? This is a very unique, niche area of software (and it is absolutely an optimization, various hysterics notwithstanding), and this notion that various random software you're running are being "crippled" is utterly nonsensical.
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The chargers and the car itself indicate whether it's charging or not. With the Chargepoint chargers mentioned in the article you can see if they are in-use or not online. But in-use just means plugged in, not drawing current.

As an individual you can see if your car is charging online, but you can't see if others in the same bank of chargers are charging. You also can't see if a car is blocking the parking space.

This is something where an webcam would help, but without a way to contact the owner of a car in a space it's hard to do something about it.
How do we captitalize on this - we are getting 1500 downloads a day as a free app - what's the best way forwards - anyone with experience?
Perhaps offer plans for longer recordings?
What we need is a whitelist alternative, at least for searching spammy subjects like healthcare advice. How could this work?

One idea would be to have sites that concentrate on some topic(s) of interest, where people can submit interesting links they find directly, and where others who share those common interests can lend their support to promote the best material and share other related links they've found themselves. I know, I know, it's a radical concept, but I truly believe there's some potential there...
Then you did not read or failed to understand the line that came after the one you quoted.
Yeah, but why would you want to take calls in your browser? Why not a separate application (node-webkit, Firefox app) that runs as its own process a la Skype clone?
So do they scrape a competitor's website every day? Or do they respect the robots.txt?

If so, it seems like this would be extremely easy for a competitor to block, and if not, well it's surely a bit shady?
I need to work on a small infography to explain the figure with details. It would bring a better fact sheet to discuss about it.

Good job on citing Xavier Niel. The tax+subsidies system still alters the profile of start-up that survives.
The economic theory of "money as memory" + cryptocurrencies
Is this a response to this?
http://nenadseo.com/new-seo/

Now that the cat's out of the bag (and getting some attention), I guess it's sensible for Google to jump out of the "big brand's" pocket. Sounds like they're trying to avoid the interpretation that big brands and Google are scratching each other's back by blaming it all on the practice of guest blogging.
My charge-rage is when I see a Tesla in one of the two charging spots at the Stanford shopping center. They have enough range to not need the power, the owners typically park there because they are the best spots in the garage.
Middle class is going away for sure. It has always been a historical abnormality anyway.

As for the latter -- people have been participating in monetary economy long before industrial revolution, and will be participating whichever way the society evolves -- it is just simply more convenient than barter. If someone can produce beer himself cheaper than it is available on the market, why would he not sell it and earn some money? And if he cannot make it cheaper, why would he not buy it instead (or not drink it at all if he is too poor, or steal money & buy beer, or...) -- the point is that whatever he does, making it himself is never a good idea unless he enjoys it as a (somewhat expensive) hobby.
An all boys class sure would be a breath of fresh air: it might be possible to focus on the actual education for once. Voluntary segregation seems like it would solve a lot of problems and eliminate our favourite scapegoats.
Shouldn't that be "move fast and crash things"?
So, it gets white males upset, who have all the power. Not very constructive. Further the benefit is accrued through the actions of OTHER people. So who's the right one to educate?

I think the discussion is mostly confused and non-productive, when it resorts to using charged words over the correct ones, and seeks to insult those who admittedly wield more power.
Ask HN: Does anyone have an AT&T Upgrade they're not going to use?
My wife's brand new iPhone 5s was stolen and AT&T says that upgrades are transferrable. This is a shot in the dark, but thought I'd throw it out to the community.
Former spook on Reddit AMA.
> Because we're stuck in a tyranny of flat text files as a representation of code.

Their simplicity is also a strength. That richer file format will at some point be written in a text file.
If they care about Jobs it is because Jobs was a larger than life figure who was turned into a celebrity. Otherwise they wouldn't really care about Jobs either.

Same with Walt Disney. (Of course he had a TV show..)

In the case of Ray Croc there was Harry Sonnenborn who was given credit (in the business press but not the popular press) as being the financial brains behind McDonalds. But most "normals" have never heard of him. Have you? (Not a challenge just curious..)

In the case of Ray Croc that was another story of business celebrity that made it main stream. Otherwise at McDonalds all anyone would care about is the food, right?

I guess my point is that (some) people get jealous when someone else has something they don't have. In the case of Woz he has money but he is jealous of the fame that Jobs has (over his fame which of course is considerable, right?). If Jobs wasn't so over the top idealized Woz wouldn't say as much is my speculation.

Of course not everyone wants that fame some people are perfectly happy not being noticed and letting someone else get all the attention. Even if that attention isn't deserved.

All this is a matter of degree of course.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Sonneborn
With many corporate chargers you need to have a special card to charge on them even though they are standard ChargePoint chargers. So if you are near a Google, Microsoft, etc building at night which has hundreds of chargers not in use you can't use them.

Because these companies get a great tax break for installing them I think they shouldn't be able to prevent the public from using them.
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Yeah I was wondering that too.

Maybe it's mainly for competitors to apache ...
In some parts of the world there are electrical outlets for everybody so that everybody can plug their block heaters in...
The Sum of All Reasons
Truth is: Google is corrupt to the bone. If you're a startup or small business, you need to play by the rules, and often get hit as collateral.

If you're big, like spending >$20M on Google adwords, and might be Expedia, you can do as much black SEO as you want (spammy links included)

http://nenadseo.com/new-seo

You can buy Googles love, plain and simple. Guess this goes for guest blogging also.
Just in case you skimmed moconnor's comment, it bears repeating:

Intel's compiler: 15% speedup

Hand-optimized code: 800% speedup

This gap in compiler tech is still a big deal today. Think about the early mainframes and how the code was all written in machine code or assembler. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

Compilers can still improve, a lot.

• Parallel code? _still_ hand-written, even though choosing the right language/library can help. Note that choosing that language that makes parallelism easy may cost you when you actually go for the max parallel speedup

• GPU? hand-written. See: litecoin miners and bitcoin miners before that. OpenCL but were hand-tuned for a specific architecture

• Cross-platform? Java and C should be portable, but ask any Android developer how it really works

• And the one we're talking about here: number-crunching code? hand optimized!

I'm actually quite optimistic about the future of compilers. One of the reasons HN is so fun to read is that it comes up often.
I'd be curious to hear of a couple examples of software large companies buy that is visible from their websites.
Groklaw may have had a bias but you could always tell where Paula (?) was coming from and she doesn't appear to have taken money from anyone involved in the cases.

Other bloggers on the other hand seem very biased, are paid to consult on this stuff and don't disclose who's paying them for what.
I don't even understand what you're saying here.

We seem to be talking past each other, so let me briefly summarize what's going on, since you keep talking about optimizations and how difficult they are, and that just doesn't matter.

Intel's compiler produces multiple code paths, each one optimized for different CPU features.

The generated code always runs the slowest "fallback" code path on AMD CPUs.

Other code paths are still faster than the "fallback" path, even on AMD CPUs, despite not being optimized specifically for them.

Thus, Intel is artificially reducing the performance of their generated code on AMD CPUs. They put in more work to make this happen. If they had simply left out the CPU vendor check, AMD CPUs would perform better.
Anything network-connected will probably eventually have some vulnerability discovered when it's out in the wild.

There's a business opportunity here: Anyone who makes a hardware device can pay a fee. In return they get to apply your company's branding to the hardware. They must submit their source code to you in escrow and provide you the keys to a remote update mechanism.

You promise to only look at the their source code if there's a security flaw in their device and they're unresponsive.

This way consumers still have some protection against insecure devices even when a manufacturer goes out of business or stops supporting a product line. You might want to include an expiration date on the branding ("Protected by SecureDevice until January 2018") to keep yourself from the unsustainable situation of providing unbounded support for a finite fee.

I was going to call this a "startup opportunity," but I think it'd work best for a company who's already convinced lots of vendors to pay a fee for a hardware certification (e.g. someone who certifies compliance with key standards, or an OS vendor like Microsoft / Apple)
Well, we already have desired situation with a different kind of snow -- cocaine.

Right now, most bills are (supposedly) tainted with cocaine. And yet holding bills with detectable cocaine is not admissible as evidence against you.

That's what these pools are going for: so that every bitcoin has touched every transaction. So yes, you can prove that a bitcoin previously touched a crime at some point ... but that fact has zero evidential value.
That is an overly precious view of money. Do poor Cherokee with starving kids care where the money comes from? If they do care, does it change anything? Do we leave kids suffer because some rich folks care about what they're thinking?

The fact is, the 1st attempt worked stupendously well at alleviating a critical problem. Further study will likely cause real delay and suffering, and is an excuse for inaction indefinitely.
It's actually a hybrid:

500 km (310 mi) in Comfort mode

600 km (370 mi) in Eco Pro mode

Electric range	35 km (22 mi)

The I3 more like the GM Volt (electric w/ generator).
I wonder how different this is from what https://builtwith.com is doing?
I met Douglas just once, in the summer of 1996. I was in London and I was visiting a friend and former co-worker who, after the startup we'd been in together in Edinburgh collapsed, had moved on to become one of the syadmins at The Digital Village, Douglas's game production house. (At the time they were working on Starship Titanic.) So I dropped round at TDV to say "hi" to my friend C. and a couple of other former acquaintances, and was taken aback when I was ushered into the boardroom, given a cup of tea, introduced to the MD, and then this tall, gawky fellow was wheeled in to shake my hand.

(I was so overawed I couldn't string enough words together to embarrass myself. (So that's okay then.) I only figured out afterwards that they were expanding and looking for new hires, and C. or another acquaintance (the UK internet scene was rather small in the mid-90s) had suggested seeing if I'd bite. As it would have involved moving to London and I'd just bought a flat in Edinburgh and high speed internet meant 56K modem dialup at £3 per hour, the answer was "no, but thanks" ...)

Anyway. Anecdote time:

Back around 1996-8, Apple went through a spot of bother with the Powerbook range -- during the Amelio years, the number of models proliferated and the build quality fell through the floor. In particular, Douglas had been toting around a Powerbook 1600cs or similar, and the blessed thing was exhibiting a tendency to halt and catch fire.

C. got a bit annoyed about this, because Douglas was about to depart on a speaking tour of the US, and C. was responsible for ensuring his laptop worked. And this machine had been sent back for repair about three times, and replaced twice. So he phoned TDV's Apple technical support contact.

"Hello? It's about this Powerbook 1600CS, serial number blah, that we keep sending back. Our CEO needs it fixed, urgently, but every replacement you send us is dead."

"Uh, well, there's a bit of a problem with that model. Send it in and we'll get a working one to you next week, I promise."

"I don't think you understand. Our CEO is about to go on a speaking tour tomorrow."

"Yes, we'll get you a replacement next week --"

"Our CEO is Douglas Adams, one of your company's leading evangelists. Do you want him to spend the next month going up on stage and explaining to everyone why he's carrying a Compaq?"

...

Three hours later a motorcycle courier turned up with six Powerbooks.

Now that's what I call AppleCare!
It sounds like freemium is the best way to monetize this (although 1500 downloads a day isn't an absurd amount based on the numbers I've heard).

Some ideas:

* Charge for >3 minutes

* Cap number of screencasts on the "free" tier (charge for >x screencasts)

* Watermark/intro is free, without is paid

* Hosted for a fee
"Cutts seems to be under the mistaken impression that hyperlinks were invented to provide source data for his employer."

This is the reality of 2014: Google thinks hyperlinks have been invented for their algorithm, and not the other way round. Oh the mighty.
I got the sense that they're scraping the customer's site every day. So they might find a new JS library or CSS file from a competitor.

Paypal might want to know when a customer starts trying out Stripe, and KISSmetrics probably cares when people start using Mixpanel.
>I still do not understand what problem upstart or systemd are trying to solve

Linux systems are still too much like unix. There are still some simple components that do a single, simple task, and can be easily debugged. This is clearly not acceptable, and does not fit with the rest of a modern linux distro. It needs to do more things, be less reliable, and be harder to figure out when something has gone wrong. Systemd and upstart both solve these problems nicely.
Yep, same thing but with YAML deserialization. Deserialization vulnerabilities are common for Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP web apps, because deserializing an untrusted input is nearly akin to running eval() on an untrusted input.
No, they scrape potential customers' sites. Customers don't have the same incentive to block it.
I used Rdio for a few months this it seems like this streaming music business model is the going to be the future..
The bottom line is what the business problem you try to resolve. Helping broker is would be profit prohibitive to brokers, hence the slow tech adoption rate. Now if look from consumer's view, a big problem is to identify what a fair price a house should be in a given area at a certain period of time. The shopping experience only benefit broker which helps to turn on buyer's buying mode. To consumer such a big purchase there are far more important questions to answer before a real estate agent has all the advantages to rip off. Apart from the real estate wall guarded listing, is there any open geographic, demographic data available from which any meaningful software can be built independent from real estate industry? A disruption of real estate industry can only come from outside, and it can lucrative for just considering the amount of fees a broker has taken away from each transaction today. It is amazing so few of founders have targeted real estate industry. It truly needs think outside the box, don't be like zillow or trulia.
Candy Crush maker King is a step closer to trademarking the word 'Candy'
FBI files on Richard Feynman
But will they put the trial code in example.com/index.php ?

How else will you find the signs of it?
stephp, it's great that you sound like a high-quality contributor, but my intent was to highlight the issues around the hundreds of awful spam emails that you mentioned receiving. I've seen a lot of business owners fall for them. :(
>The problem with this traditional unix approach is that in addition to init, pm-utils, inetd, cron, etc you end up having thousands of lines of shell scripts that glue all this together in a big brittle mess.

No, I don't. Typical linux distros may, but I sure as hell don't. I have a very simple, easy to read and debug set of shell scripts that work very well: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc/rc?...
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We all carry some bias. It's like telling a strong animal rightist about hunting. They are not going to agree with you whatsoever, even if it's just philosophical discussion.

> Then see that point being made, and rebutted, in every single previous similar thread. There is no point trying to hold logical conversation with people who are dishonest.

People are just trying to bring out their own arguments. It's not all that weird to argue that someone would want to have more male nurses because the public image of nurse is feminine.

Some arguments are weak and some are strong. For example, in abortion, the two most flammable are status of the fetus and the woman's right, but to be honest, after reading Rosalind Hursthouse's Abortion paper, you will that neither is relevant in the discussion of abortion. But we still bring them up because that's just how people view the issue and I think that's fair and not dishonest.

Dismissive and dishonest responses are those just reject facts without proof. For example, if someone says there are enough women in the tech sector that's a lie because we know the number is not high and we shouldn't place any quota at all. But if someone says that we have enough opportunity for women to enter the tech sector that's not dismissive or dishonest. It's a fair argument because the lack of resource vary from location to location, from age to age, from school to school and vary from personal experience.
It's a minor point, and perhaps only a quibble, but the title is wrong.

Wikipedua's AB testing is correct in as far as the problem and approach have been defined. This article suggests an improvement.

Wrong is when they're trying to test for something but due to some error they aren't actually testing for what they think they are.

Something can be accurate/correct but also improvable.
The suit in question (11-908 in Delaware federal district court [0]) was filed in October of 2011. It is coming to trial in 2014 and the participants have probably spent well over a million dollars each getting to this point. That alone tells you all you need to know about the chances that a startup company has in getting justice or even just surviving against a garbage patent abuser in court.

Google did not own Motorola when the case was filed and Google is not a named defendant, contrary to the deliberately misleading headline.

The Reuters article doesn't say anything about what the six patents claim or even give their numbers. Those numbers are 7,810,144 (the '144 patent), 6,412,953 (the '953 patent), 7,409,450, 7,120,462, 6,557,054, and 6,658,464.

The Reuters article does mention that the accused devices are older Moto phones and accessories. Newer devices than 2011 are, of course, not in the original complaint and usually are not added at this late stage.

The '144 patent is for a "File Transfer System for Direct Transfer Between Computers" -- describing a subset of SMS or IRC style messaging -- filed in 1997 and repeatedly rejected until the PTO folded under seven continued amended petitions in 2010. There is no limit to the patent amendments an applicant can make and no such thing as a final rejection at the PTO. Applicants are encouraged to reword claims to cover technology invented by others since the original application. [1]

If you'd like to be infuriated about how the patent system abuses software and computer networks, read the linked [0] opinion starting on page 14 where claim construction begins.

The '953 patent was filed in 1998 vaguely describing long established LCD backlighting practice. The '054 patent, "Method and System for Distributing Updates by Presenting Directory of Software Available for User Installation That Is Not Already Installed on User Station," was filed in 2000. The '464 patent, "User Station Software That Controls Transport, Storage, and Presentation of Content from a Remote Source," is like iBooks or Archie and filed in 1994.

The '450 patent, "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Packet-Centric Wireless Point to Multi-Point (PTMP) Transmission System Architecture," was filed in 1998. It describes the use of any QoS scheme that includes packet inspection over a wireless network.

The '462 patent, "Portable Computing, Communication and Entertainment Device with Central Processor Carried in a Detachable Handset," filed in 1999 describes handheld computers with a docking station. It does not describe how to build such a device, of course, just that one could exist.

[0] Summary judgement motion here explains most of the issues http://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/slr...

[1] http://www.patenthawk.com/blog_docs/2004_Continuations_Lemle...
HP discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs
probably not much beyond how they are marketing it.
Point taken. I just changed the title of the post; thanks for the suggestion.
May I bring up that whether or not you read code, you ain't gonna read it literally. Imagine following all jump statements with out fail. That's the machine's job, not yours.
As someone who also tried to hold code reading groups I agree 100% with the conclusion.

The first code reading session I held, I chose underscore.js and it was a successful code reading session, because -- unlike most libraries and programs -- a functional utility library was a nice linear read with mostly self-contained functions. However, when we got to more complex programs and libraries with more code to handle accidental complexity (e.g. handle browser and DOM inconsistencies, or UNIX fragmentation etc) it was considerably harder to read and the presenter found themselves jumping between different code paths and functions like they were debugging the program.
You make an interesting point. One of the issues, however, is that all of the data is created within the industry. Because brokers create and control the data, companies must work within the system in order to access the data.
Nobody is "okay" with it but everyone is influenced by it and there's nothing you can do. If there's a company with a large marketing budget then you can bet a good portion of that budget goes towards making themselves look good and their competition bad, because that's what everybody is doing.

The best thing you can do is not play their game.
How is that important in a story about a 1990 computer used by an author that died several years ago (and last used said computer 15 years ago)?
Why not just charge employees for the electricity? That should help reduce contention, and pay for expansion automatically as it becomes necessary.