skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today is a bad day to buy a GPS watch
from what you're saying 100/0. It sounds like at current he's basically been an advisor and not much else.
I think that's closer to Cheney's algorithm (which is one of the easier ones to make bounded-latency actually).
PHK keeps calling for radical changes to HTTP semantics which other people don't have the stomach for and would take a decade to deploy even if they did. In some sense, getting HTTP/2 done quickly clears the field for people like PHK to start on HTTP/3 sooner.
I firmly believe we are products of our upbringing. Here is my personal example.

One of my facebook friends is a D-1 college basketball from the 80s. Throughout the years, his updates were about running laps and shooting baskets with his two sons. He groomed them to become basketball players. And no one was surprised when the boys made the varsity team in high school.

Replace basketball with programming or financial success. Acquiring a skill is infinitely easier with access to role models.
I draw a distinction between a person saying something I disagree with, ("I think variable foo should be 35%, not 34%") and a person being outrageously, astonishingly wrong. ("Solar roadways are a good idea." "Instagram is worth one billion dollars.")
I'm starting to feel a real disconnect with what amuses teens nowadays. I guess I'm getting old ;)
Nevermind the folks complaining that ESRI's years-old template site is more functional than what you built in a few days. I've built a few gis sites for municipalities and I think it's pretty great.
Awesome, can't wait for "Deploy Discourse to Heroku", "Deploy Jekyll to Heroku", ...
Any particular add-ons or features need to be disabled for this to work?

JOOC, I temporarily allowed cookies, no luck. Then disabled ABP for the domain, no luck.
E) posts with claims that are that are provably false
A friend and I recently tried to get a LAN game of Battlefield 1942 going. It was only possible with hacks and [available, well-trodden] anti-piracy circumvention.

This made me very sad. I'm not overly sentimental for that game, but it still has a lot of merit, and my computer can still play it. Should I have to wait for EA to repackage it in some kind of virtual console store? (No.)
Since I tend to highlight text with a mouse as a I read, there are a number of threads that I have accidentally voted on. I would really appreciate the ability to change my up/down vote on HN (even if it's only available for a limited time).
I actually got sucked into the show, and the two brothers seem to have a really good approach by looking at other areas, instead of the just going after 10X and continuing in the same vein so many others had.

The Shakespeare guy was actually really interesting. A little nutty, but he did turn up several more signs on the stones.

I'm hoping this comes back for another season and would love to see these guys finally solve the mystery. I think they have several good leads and have pushed closer to a solution than anybody else.
That's a good point, but since the new ISA is only available in 64-bit mode there's no practical way to attribute the performance gains. AFAIK ObjC is using some 64-bit pointer tricks that probably aren't possible in 32-bit but I don't know how much of the performance gain comes from those tricks.
>People often accuse people in Silicon Valley of working on things that don’t matter. Often they’re right. But many very important things start out looking as if they don’t matter

Not really. And the counter-examples he gives either didn't look trivial at first (the iPhone: actually everyone gapsed upon its introduction), or aren't really "world changing" (Facebook, Twitter: just some social networks).

As for the "Arab Spring" thing. Revolutions happened all the time without them. There were huge movements and shakedowns throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties, including in the Arab world (Iranian revolution anyone?). It's mostly Silicon Valley and western media bullshitting that made some believe Twitter et co role in Egypt etc was "crucial". Plus it's easy to make starts out of the few Egyptians who tweet etc, and are usually of the more affluent and easier to talk to the press classes).
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The moment that Libertarianism becomes a viable political movement is the day they decide on what it is that they stand for. And when I say "political movement", I mean Party. As it stands, they're far too spread out in their ideologies that it's hard to get behind any one candidate or group.

Personally, I'm of the mindset that government performs best when promoting and enforcing an even playing field for its citizens. Too often lately, we see two separate sets of "rules" between the 1% and the rest of us 99%, such as prison sentences and having a voice in governance. I'd like my government to provide universal healthcare and promote good stewardship towards both the environment and our communities. There's far too much greed and apathy towards one another for my taste, and no one is courageous enough to try and tackle these issues.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/614.short
It's not about the amount of change one is bringing, it's about the arrogance. It's about giving oneself more importance than anyone else. It's about believing that what you shitcode is golden
And what is real progress? Do you define it?
The thing is, building a marketplace (or a community) is very difficult because you have to fill and balance both the supply and the demand sides.

That's why startups resorts to these kinds of "hacks" (whether it's ethical/legal or not is another problem), it's akin to Reddit owners having multiple accounts to give the impression of an active site.
I believe it's called: Constructive Criticism.
People use the JVM in soft realtime / financial applications, and the trick is to reduce allocations, especially of objects that are long-lived enough to make it to gen 2.

Go is better suited than Java for those kinds of applications, because it's easier to avoid allocations (Java doesn't have stack allocations, but Go does.) Also hard upper limits on GC time are very helpful for those cases where allocations can't be reduced any further. The standard library additionally has a Pool type that allows for reducing pressure on the GC through object reuse.
I totally misinterpret your first comment. It looks like "This is even more amazing! We have a perpetual mobile machine!!" but it's really is "This also break the energy conservation law! So we have a serious problem."

In special relativity, momentum and energy are much related, so if you break the conservation of one of them, you break also the conservation of the other. (It's not very clear if the authors say that this device break the momentum conservation, all the information is very confusing.)

But the example is nice. Just get two of these devices and put them in the opposite sides of a carrousel or a spinning space station so you don't have to worry about friction.
CloudFlare's CEO says that free SSL will use SNI with ipv4 [1] and possibly non-SNI with ipv6 [2]. A CloudFlare engineer has discussed splitting the SSL handshake between servers so their many edge nodes don't need to keep customer secret keys in memory [3]. However, this sounds slightly different than the lazy loading behavior in the blog post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910849

[2] https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/478369486643658754

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/cloudflare/running-secure-server-s...
Most of the websites wont encrypt the link from Cloudflare to the server, ultimately defeating the purpose of SSL aside from a better search ranking.
can you imagine the same thing on atari 2600? in 1983?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameLine
You've mentioned a few examples of how social media is having a positive impact on the world. And after thinking about it some, I think I underestimated how big an impact they have. I still think the proportion of the usage that is meaningful is low, but given the huge amount of usage, it has lead to a pretty decent amount of meaningful interaction.

But what about the downsides? I don't have too strong an opinion and can't argue it well, but I do suspect that social media has its downsides, and that has to play into the equation. Something along the lines of "kids in the neighborhood used to all play outside together and now they're inside gossiping on social media".
I downvote comments that I think do not add anything relevant to that particular discussion.

For example, any time there is an article about email marketing, there are always people on HN who post how they hate getting commercial email, all commercial email is spam, all email newsletters are spam, etc.

I often downvote these because they add nothing of substance to a discussion of the article itself; they're just people staking their claim to a particular opinion.

It's fine to have opinions (we all do), but if the thread is about a particular technique or technology to improve email marketing, then a bald "I hate it all" statement doesn't add anything.
Yup, the article did!
Comments that add nothing to the conversation are noise, and noise necessarily harms the signal-to-noise ratio.
..but i just wanted to collapse and hide the child elements?
Can you summarize for us how to avoid this kind of tracking? Is there much we can do besides Ghostery?
Downvoting someone because you disagree with them is the online equlivalent of saying somebody is stupid because their views differ from yours.
It is normal, not even a too big demand, as soon as you accept that the system depends on the GC. They are just being honest, even slightly optimistic. The current state of art is, you should suspect anybody who claims to you that GC systems don't need significantly more RAM.

See for an example:

http://sealedabstract.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Screen-...

(quoted in http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...)

According to the graph, most GCs start being really slow even with 3 times more memory than needed with the manual management.
For me it is the opposite. Many programmers in the Haskell and Machine Learning/Scientific Computing communities use twitter and post useful tidbits all the time.

Facebook is full of my older aunts/uncles/grandparents posting memes and inviting me to play useless games. While most of my friends are on Facebook none of them actually post to it.

Then again I am 30 years old, the Facebook of a younger person may be very different.
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I haven't done a code bootcamp myself but we did hire a junior developer for our startup who had done a such a program in SF and had very minor previous coding experience & education. He has learnt well and fast and is now a valuable member of our team.
Facebook, Twitter, reddit are still trivial.

I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I have those things and they didn't.

The internet isn't trivial but I wouldn't say that my life is SO MUCH BETTER because I have internet. My parents did great without internet.
NY Times article, by John Markoff: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/science/new-computer-chip-...
Hawkmoon? while set in the future it kind of had both the fantasy and the sci-fi,granted that magic was technological artefacts and monsters were mutant but it still took place in a middle-age like world.

Would like a video game set in that kind of world.

EDIT: while not a rpg, a better example would be "Thorgal" ,which mixes viking stuffs with sci-fi , a great cartoon,from Belgium.
IKEA Effect (Cognitive Bias)
Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack (2012)
Yeah. Carmack wanted to calculate the distortion of the ear-canal on positional audio and to calculate the effects of sound diffusion off of surfaces like light. Creative owns patents on both of those techniques. :(
Based on the content of the article, and you language you used, I assumed you were wondering if it really was hard for most people to imagine the impact of things like Facebook, Reddit, smartphones and the internet. Not that there was a small number of people who did, but most people. And for all of those technologies, I think the answer is, yes, it was hard for most people.
There are many possible ways that Facebook was able to aggregate who your friends were. Some of these are:
Your history of searches, people you looked at, things you liked, your IP address, GPS location, facial picture, login patterns, people who searched for you with your new email account, sites you tried to connect to while on a page that linked back to Facebook that had the same cookie tracking information from your other account. Depending on the amount of information you made available in your previous account they could have used that along with tracking cookies or other stored data if you used your mobile device to associate your new account with your old account and friends.
This should be a separate option. I never downvote comments which differ from my opinion, but I always downvote comments which differ from fact.
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A big problem with this poll is that the lines between option A and B have become largely blurred in today's society.

For example: "I disagree with the President of the United States and feel his policies are harming America."

Response: "You are a racist."

Of course, the reason for disagreeing with the President has nothing to do with race, yet it's an easy way to attack and silence points with which some do not agree.

As one commenter noted, "there are no rules." Really, it comes down to rational, thinking human beings being open to an alternative point of view rather than finding every way possible to attack people on the other end of the table—whether by downvoting or crying "racism."
Some good notes on its reconstruction can be found in the readme: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
It's not even close to true. Women and children are the largest consumer group in the US, and are soon to become the largest consumer group in the entire world. Women control the vast majority of every day spending in the US to the point where most advertising and marketing is meant for women in one way or another. You're completely right, in that women and children do define the mainstream.

[1] http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2013/u-s--women-c...

[2] http://www.unpac.ca/economy/consumers.html

[3] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
If (and I do mean if) she actually enjoyed playing softball after all her father's pressure, she probably would have been able to play it much longer without the intense focus that eventually blew out her knew.
But you had a grandfather to give you wise words...
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I run an incredibly boring business (SSL certs for Heroku), for which:

1. The majority of my alpha and beta testers came from Twitter.

2. The second highest source of traffic to both my marketing site [1] and the actual add-ons page [2] is from Twitter.

3. All of the testimonials on my site (which have been incredibly helpful in convincing people my service is useful are actually Twitter embeds)

4. There was a Heroku presentation given in Tokyo where my add-on was brought up as an example, which someone in the audience then tweeted about in Japanese. This triggered an alert on my computer (from Tweetdeck) and I was then able to on the fly answer questions people there had about it.

To me, with the people I follow, Twitter seems more like a programmers / startups meetup or conference than anything else.

1 - https://www.expeditedssl.com
2 - https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl
I'm sort of amazed that "B" has only 12 points at this moment. I am downvoted all the time based on B. Otherwise, I'd love someone to go through my comments and find how many that fall under A or G (as I'd very much want to learn to never fall under either of these categories). Unless you think, "zzzeek posted facts that are incorrect (sure), misunderstood the person he was responding to (arguable IMHO but i often make this impression), told person-I-like they are wrong (lots), used a little too heavy on the sarcasm (I think I've improved a lot in this regard but I continue to work on this) therefore the comment is MEAN! -> downvote".
What helped me was: 1) I had saved a year's living expenses, 2) I left my job after the end of a project, rather than in the middle, 3) I had a specific idea that I wanted to pursue, and the idea was not in the same area as my old company.

I am perhaps more risk averse than some people on HN, so I thought carefully about my plan while saving money.

I realized that when I quit, that my company might not succeed and that I may either need or want to work for someone else again. Therefore, I wanted to be able to tell to a future potential employer a story I would be proud of: "Yes, I did quit a job to start a company, but when I left my old job I showed professional responsibility by finishing my project. I'd didn't quit in the middle and I didn't quit because I didn't like working or because I hated my job, I left to do something positive and start a company doing the following carefully thought-out idea. Also, I did not steal this idea from my old company. Even though the idea did not work out perfectly, I learned a lot, and now I can be a more valuable employee to you."
O(N^2) is not exponential at all, it is polynomial. O(2^N) is exponential.

And the grandparent was pointing out -- correctly -- that that description doesn't really apply here. (2^N)^2 = 2^(2N) = still just 'exponential'. Plotted on a log scale it would still be a straight line.
>I have gone from writing letters to my distant friends, to writing them emails, to writing them facebook messages.

After using email those are all diminishing returns. Nothing earth shattering.

>When it comes to the big picture, look at the Arab uprising, it used the social networks heavily.

No, it really didn't. Western media just liked to advertise it as such, because it made for a nice story. Plus social media using arabs are easier to approach, and are more likely to be more affluent and west-friendly, so they make for nice material to inflate their role.

>We don't know what would have happened without Facebook or Twitter, but my guess is that not much.

Well, from people actually following middle eastern and arab history in all the 20th century, tons of movements have happened without any social media. The Iranian revolution in the late seventies, for example, was much touted in the west, and they didn't even have phones for the most part.

>The movement started on Twitter, and slowly moved to Facebook.

There's a huge grassroots, on the roads, picketing and protesting movement in Spain. And there have been similar in the sixties in the US and Britain, in the seventies in Italy, Germany, etc. Twitter and Facebook are just convenient modern methods of organizing such things. If anything, current movements are much more tamer and less populated than the ones at times without social media.
To clarify, I'm definitely, 100% not saying that you should never work on the appearance and interactions of your app. I'm a firm believer that this will totally make or break an app's success. I'm just saying that calling your app pretty isn't necessary.
Neither of these are applicable to the situation he described, though.
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> (Java doesn't have stack allocations, but Go does.)

Go also lets you have fields in place in structs, like C and C++. In Java, all fields (except primitives) are references.
While the efficiency gains are nice and definitely welcome, it would be interesting to see what the performance gains are over a GPU. The article makes the chip sound somehow superior to existing implementations but really this is just running the same neural network algorithms we know and love on top of a more optimized hardware architecture.

Meaning I have no idea how this signals the beginning of a new era of more intelligent computers as the chip provides nothing to advance the state of the art on this front. Unless I am missing something?
Anyone got something more technical? I googled a bit and I can't seem to find anything beyond marketoid handwaving
>Maybe mandatory parental education is the answer?

I have to admit that this sounds a bit dystopian (enforcing all parents to attend a class on how they will raise their children). On the other hand, since raising a child is something anyone is allowed to do and child-rearing is far more of an impact on society than even the greatest inventions have been, it seems logical. Certainly, child-rearing is far more of an impact on society than the things we do expect people to spend years in classes getting 'licensed' for.

I think this topic is due a thorough and deep discussion. Even if the government is completely unwilling to enforce anything, is it possible that 'social pressure/expectations' can be lifted on parents (without that scenario becoming too burdening or dystopian itself)? Right now it seems that social expectations do exist, but that they are also failing (for at least a large enough percentage of the population).

So, I don't know but I am open to everyone's thoughts on the matter. :/
All the contemporary excavators seem to have missed the real treasure. It's now a site that has huge tourism potential...Something worth far more in $$ than a few pieces of eight.
I agree that it's a good picture. But "I took a great picture of a monkey" doesn't sell nearly as well as "This monkey took a great picture of himself". "I took a great picture of a monkey" doesn't get you articles about that picture, "This monkey took a great picture of himself" definitely does.
Whatever the results here, I want to use this opportunity to strongly object to all of the meta-scoring-discussion that I see more and more of ...

Editing your comment, or adding additional comments with things like "why the downvotes ... ?" or "not sure why I am being downvoted because ..." or "you can downvote all you want, but ..."

By all means edit posts and post followups and continue the discussion, but please, please let's stop injecting literal references to the scoring system into the conversation itself. It's distracting at best, and really narcissistic at worst.
The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense, slightly dated at this point, but very good information and you'll probably need some good historical grounding to do anything useful today.

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Computer-Virus-Research-Defense/...
I suspect you're arguing from how you understand the term "artistic expression", now how it's defined for the purposes of the relevant law.

Law works like programming: Nouns need to be defined before they can be used, and the operant meaning is the one you get form a scrupulous and pedantic reading of that definition, regardless of what your intuition says about the matter.
The only thing these "social web apps" achieved was turning trust fund millionaire kids into billionaires.

Give me a break. Real science and engineering, pushing the state of the art, is what changes the world. Not building a FarmVille platform or an advertising portal.

I have a hard time associating with people who are so caught up in the "Valley culture" that they can't see how ridiculously trivial most of their endeavours really are.

If you're into the startups and making money off "social/mobile/etc", all the power to you. Just don't claim you're the next Nikola Tesla. You're Gordon Gekko at best, making a quick buck off people's stupidity. No one will write about you in the science and engineering textbooks of the future.

You got FU money. Congrats. Now donate some to Janelia Farm so something can come of your time on this earth other than stocks market transactions.
I bet there are downsides. But there were also downsides when every home got a telephone. And when everyone started carrying cellphones.

My point is that new technology which changes the way humans communicate with each other is a phenomenon that has played out many times in the past few centuries.