skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the web link:

Resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1)

Wondering how did they make this working this time?
why can’t we have 8-16 slots in low-cost systems?

.. or 24-64 slots on mid-range systems, for that matter?

Because, unless it's serialized (like FBDIMMs), there's a linear growth in number of traces (and something line n^2 growth in board surface area taken up by them) for memory, not to mention a more complex (or at least bigger) memory controller.

I'm sad that fully buffered memory didn't take off, as I'm sure the power consumption problem would, eventually, have been solved.
Let me put this another way. Can you think of a system of management that doesn't rely on the judgment of managers? No matter how you slice it corporate America works like this...

+ Executive Staff gives an assignment to a certain manager.

+ Manager divides that assignment up and gives it to his team members

+ Team members complete the assignment

+ Manager submits the completed assignment back to the Executive Staff

Given that scenario there's no way anyone other than the manager can know who accomplished what meaning no matter what system you implement it's always going to come down to the judgment of managers.

(which is why hiring good managers that don't try to game the system is so very important)
Autojump is awesome! (i'm the author ;-) )
ESPN SportsNation - ESPN Profiles
CTR is useless without hard numbers on clickfraud.

If every click was a 'real' click then it would go a long way towards getting an idea about conversion rates and so on on new traffic to your site.

With clickfraud an unknown all the numbers that depend on it are also unknowns.

There was a time that we spent a ton of money on adwords, it started off real well, then after a while we realized we were still paying about the same money as before, but no sales came out of the traffic that we bought.

There are some really tricky things going on here, one of them is that as long as advertisers don't wise up to CTR not being a very relevant metric (end-to-end conversion is) that there is very little incentive to combat click fraud, as long as it is not too blatant.

It directly increases the bottom line for the middlemen, and the defrauders both, at the expense of the advertisers.

Your tracking has to be very precise to document exactly which users are fraudulent and which ones are not. Simple checks such as seeing how 'deep' a user goes on your page, or whether or not they get style sheets and other static stuff no longer is enough to make a classification.

Impression based metrics are even worse.

The only system that comes anywhere near working is performance based advertising, but that can be very hard to couple to a large number of products.
Well, I am not talking 16 channel memory controller :-)
16 slots for 2 memory controller channels. 8 slots per channel. Line count should be reasonable.
Do you work on the iTunes Store or in the Apple Developer program? If not, I question the authority of your "99.9%" claim.

As far as all of the other arguments, they are very touchy feely. "The App Store is new" but it's built on top of a store that's been around for 7 years. And that store already processes billions of transactions annually, so those numbers don't strike me as crippling.

I don't know what Apple is or isn't doing, but I do know what they've admitted to publicly, and I do know dozens of (well respected) developers who have had issues with the app store. I also know that Apple has lied about the store in the past. So, I think some criticism is deserved here.

As far as relating it to the employee paperwork, that was absurd. They've been using the same paperwork for years. It's completely unrelated.
I think you latched on to the real lesson here. Most people will be conformist, it's in their nature. So "don't be a conformist" isn't really a lesson that's practical from a societal level.

The lesson I think is that society needs to tolerate non-conformists because they may very well be it's salvation some day. Even if society feels those people are completely undesirable there are ways to separate them without throwing away their accomplishments (Galileo was put on house arrest in 1600 but still allowed to continue his work)
A great line by Doctorow:

"Let's start with that overarching point: the BBC is prohibited from encrypting its terrestrial signal. Full stop."
Does this mean that they are now spoofing Apple's vendor ID?
XML in Easy Steps (book review)
The Ultimate List of Web Applications For Developers and Designers
In other articles it is mentioned he adapted a telescope to fit his stock digital SLR. Something like this: http://www.nikonweb.com/svp127/
not an emacs dev, but this is incredibly cool.
for the comparison to be fair it is important to mention that with iChat screen sharing you also get voice chat, and when there is to work on web applications it is pretty cool to be able to also share the browser window.
/me hugs amichail

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786874
I'll have to try applying some of these study techniques, thanks.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we taught people how to learn instead of just teaching them the material?
> The story unwittingly demonstrates a case where zero-tolerance policies could have created frighteningly different results.

The problem in having too much tolerance is that the library would be stolen empty. Everyone thinks that if they take just one book there is no apparent damage - but there is.
Zero tolerance is also important in situations where the crime is difficult to catch (such as shoplifting or stealing books). Stealing is wrong as a moral principle. I do not get the argument from moral relativists that stealing is wrong in some cases but not in others – it is always wrong. This is a very rare case where the person actually took the book back.

There are societies where stealing has become almost socially acceptable with young people looking up to criminals and their apparent wealth.
I don't really think this guy understands the 80/20 rule at all. He seems to be very young.
Ask HN: Resources for Online Biz Optimization 
I am going into some business discussions on what I am going to call online business optimization i.e. optimization from the perspective of an advertiser in the areas of SEM, SEO, display ads, tracking of visitor behavior on your site, A/B testing of various site features, using social networks for marketing and sales.

I need to come up to speed quickly on these topics. Most of my web searches find superficially written thinly disguised marketing material.

I am interested in recommendations for both online articles as well as books on these topics. I have a highly quantitative background, so fairly mathematical books/articles are welcome. Generic statistical textbooks are of little use to me; I already quite familiar with those topics. However adaptation of these techniques to online biz optimization, if not obvious, can be valuable.

I understand this is a broad request, but all well-written articles/books in this area are welcome. I can save some of them for later reading.
Millions of dollars are built on the Facebook platform, I fail to see how this is all that different.
Exactly. The 80/20 rule is about isolating what you are good at and doing MORE of that.

For example, in real estate sales you can make money selling houses, listing houses, or both. If you find that 80 percent or your commision is coming from listing houses but it's only taking 20% of the your time, then you should use that knowledge to dedicate yourself to listing houses rather than selling. Doing so could bring you extraoridinary commissions. However, doing so may not necessarily require the massive 100% brain dedication that the author is talking about.
On Linux there are dynamic window managers available. They automate window placement to maximize use of screen real estate. Many are keyboard driven and seem difficult to use. I usually have 15-30 windows open so I've been looking at them as alternatives to ALT + TAB.
The problem with the moral objectivists' argument is that they then refine stealing. So stealing is always wrong, except when it isn't, in which case it's not stealing.
I certainly hope you don't find my prior post to defend anything Mao did. I simply feel that if it wasn't him it would have been someone else's name we affix to some other incalculable amount of suffering. There were and still are in China many that model their behavior after thousand year old stratagems for accumulating and maintaining power. When the last empire was swept away, there were many ready to replace it with another form of empire. If it wasn't someone from the camp that Mao sprang from, it may have been someone from the Chiang Kai-shek camp.

As far as "Mao's achievements" goes, we may see these having rather short half-lives throughout society. I find that most Chinese only pay lip service to the current mantras from headquarters. Whatever happens over the next 60 years is anybody's guess.
There are three basic use cases:

1) 123 main street wichita kansas -> should show me map or link that obviously takes me to a map

2) two addresses with the word "to" in between should offer me a link with directions

3) "restaurant" (or other business type) plus an address or zip code should take me to something like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=restaurant+11211&ie=utf-8...

These really only save a few clicks, but I love having one box which can answer pretty much any question. Google does a decent job with the mapping, but it's definitely possible to do better. Of course, correctly guessing what a searcher means is always a tricky challenge.
i didn't RTFA, but perhaps what that quote is trying to say is that you should choose something that's VERY hard to implement properly but easy for consumers to use. simple interface is key, but if the implementation is also super straightforward, then there will be tons of competitors or opportunities for scooping.

ideally, it would be something that you have special skills in implementing but other founders might not. one example is start-ups spun out of university research projects (e.g., VMWare, biotech start-ups).
Or put in another $100 million towards ads.
For that I suggest "Feature Extraction and Image Processing" 2.ed by Mark Nixon and Alberto S Aguado. But "Digital Image Processing" (DIP) by Gonzalez and Woods as suggested by monk_the_dog is pretty much the standard prereq. Actually DIP may get you what you need depending on how deep you need to go.
There are many different ways to deal with coordination problems, both public regulation and private arrangements.

The overfishing problem isn't a hypothetical example, it's a real problem that has caused problems all over the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing#Instances_of_overfi...

The problem is that even if 90% of the fishers in an area are responsible, the remaining 10% can ruin it for everyone. And no one has any incentive, other than their conscience, to cooperate. And that's why it's a tricky problem.
i wouldn't call RentHop a 'web startup' ... they're a business that operates very much in the real world ... the web is simply their interface for doing meatspace business. i usually think of web startups as existing purely in cyberspace (wow that's a 90's term heh), where end-users are less likely to want to pay for services. in the real world of apartment hunters, brokers, landlords, etc., people are used to paying money immediately for goods & services.
Seems to be only good for presenting data, not interacting with it really.
Me neither. They'll both be gone in 5 years :)
I would not really call the argument of moral relativists as “refinement”. The same actions should always be wrong – no matter what the inferred motivations or rationalisations are.

A good example is stealing from a rich person. A lot of people feel that it is suddenly “not wrong” to steal from a rich person. The same goes for motivation – no matter what your motivation are, the action is still wrong.
I can only second the recommendation. Skype + Screen & vim over ssh is a great way to collaborate in a distributed environment. We are all working from home since 2005 and it worked pretty well so far.
He makes a good point - sometimes it's that last little bit of skill that makes the difference between a success and a failure. When you completely master something, the whole game can change.

The problem is that it's insanely hard to completely master something - there's the time involved in doing it, but there's ALSO the fact that you're competing with everyone else who's also trying to master it.

The real value of the 80/20 rule, I think, is that it gives you the ability to devote time to several different pursuits, giving you a combination of skills that few other people can match. Call this the 'Scott Adams Rule' of success - you can either be the very best at something, or be in the top 25% of 2 or more things and combine them.

See: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
Palm restore pre iTunes sync. Your move Apple
Ask HN: How do you pick colors
How do you pick the colors that you use in logos and sites? I've been using Photoshop's color libraries for years to find attractive color combos, but I wanted to see how others have approached the task.
Ask HN: Everybody can tell you how to do it, but they never did it.
I see so many blogs and papers about startups and about being an entrepreneur. I find that many of them are from folks that never took that leap. Never experienced it. Do you usually check the source?
He hardly seems to address Doctorow's criticism at all.
see Paul Graham's essay on See Randomness, (http://paulgraham.com/randomness.html) it might or might not be true for your case but personally it makes me feel better when I am in similar situations by maybe seeing things in better perspective. A lot of times when I am confused about someone's actions toward me I tend to think that it must be about me and to make it worse I exaggerate it in my mind. Sometimes it isn't rational to always expect a rational response from other humans. We are all humans after all, and we make mistakes just like everyone else, a little understanding goes a long way.
My problem with this article is that it starts by completely misinterpreting the Pareto Principle:

[The Pareto Principle] guides us to spend little time on many things, without over investing in any one thing...

No. That is precisely what the Pareto Principle does not do. The Principle suggests that we spend all our time on a relative handful of "things", because that will produce most of our desired result. In other words, the Principle is "'overinvest' in a few things, and disregard the rest for the moment".

Why is (say) Apple Computer "perfect"? [1] Because Apple Computer looked at all the things the company might do with its time, then chose to invest in a relative handful of products. The list of things that Apple could do (like: seriously compete with Microsoft in the office-suite market; seriously compete with Linux in the server market; seriously compete with Asus in the cheap netbook market) is far larger than the list of things which Apple actually does.

Moreover, the Principle is fractal. Why is a single Apple product, the iPhone, "perfect"? [2] Because they looked at all the things they could do with a phone product and decided to "over"emphasize a relative handful, like "the web browser". Why is the iPhone's web browser "perfect"? [3] Because they focused intently on certain features, at the expense of others. The browser famously did not support cut and paste on initial release, and it still won't play Flash... but these don't stop it from being a delightful product.

In addition, the Principle is iterative. If you have a goal, you should see if you can get 80% of the way there with 20% of the effort. And, once you've put in that effort and are 80% of the way there, you may find that another 20% of the remaining effort will get you 80% of the rest of the way. And so on. Notice that never does the Principle say that you can't spend 100% of your time working toward your one true goal. The Principle is just trying to help you spend that time wisely.

--

[1] They're a very popular example of a "perfect" thing, and this author is not immune to their charms. But, of course, in reality Apple Computer is far from perfect. They have all kinds of problems. But the company is very, very good at figuring out which 20% of the tasks they need to do to convince 80% of their customers that they are perfect 80% of the time.

[2] It isn't, of course. In ways that are really noticeable to, say, 20% of the market: Doesn't have a hardware keyboard option, doesn't allow you to drain your own battery by launching background processes, has a proprietary app store with strangely arbitrary rules, has an exclusive carrier agreement with AT&T and therefore drops a lot of calls. Et cetera. But 80% of the market doesn't notice that.

[3] It isn't, of course. But it's really good at faking it, on a fraction of the effort. Notice a trend in these footnotes yet?
He is doing some stellar revenue. I am impressed. Though, just like Kevin Rose cashed in on his cred from TechTV and made Digg immensely popular Leo is as well. I would wager that he would not be anywhere near that revenue without the initial infusion of celebrity.
I really like the BBC and the openess of their blogging. I generally agree with Cory but think he sometimes goes too far, however ...

Every time DRM comes up the BBC embaresses themselves with their shifty and/or nonsensical stances. It is genuinely appalling so I'm glad to see them taken to task.
Starting with some basic knowledge of machine learning (clustering, NN, bayesian inference, etc.) and some basic computer vision / processing (edge detection, color, basic shapes), how much theory is needed for achieving that objective? (recognizing vehicles in photos, and more interesting objectives: extracting 3d structure from a single 2d image).
I got it for PS2. Not exactly the best looking game of its time. But some unforgettably great concepts.

You play the game inside someone's psyche. Early on you come across a suitcase that is crying and it needs your help to find a missing tag. I really laughed out loud when I realized it was emotional baggage. :)

Later in the game you have to solve some puzzles by looking through other people's eyes and realize that they see things differently than you.

Wonderful stuff!
i think what really happened is that he only gave 20% effort on the essay
It does however enable bad programming in a way that other languages do not.

This is wrong -- read StackOverflow some time, and you will find that people write horribly, horribly bad code in Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Haskell, ... anything. Bad programmers enable bad programming. The best a language can do is to make sure that the bad code is indented consistently.

(Have you read 1984? Replacing negative words with positive words does not make the world a positive place.)
What language does enforce "good practices"?

(You seem to think that the programming community knows what "good practices" are. I have not seen any evidence of that.)
Svn to git protips
Why don't you try Google and paste in the links that you like?

Your posts in this thread indicate strong feelings about Perl. If you can't describe what you feel, though, nobody will be able to agree with you; they will just slowly get the impression that Perl detractors are a bunch of wackos. I think that's the exact opposite effect that you are trying to achieve, so... think about it for a bit, and write down some reasons why Perl is bad. (Failing that, write down some reasons why you don't like Perl.)

Basically, we are trying to have an intelligent discussion about programming here, and "Try google." adds nothing to it.
too little too late

So you're saying that every time someone figures out a new way to program, they should throw away their tools and rebuild everything from scratch? No thanks.

The reason I stick with Perl is because I can use all the "bad code" that happens to work, and replace it as time permits (or as I need to maintain and extend it).
I am not sure one can use civilization and population interchangeably, for one reason: population either adopts to new conditions or dies, civilization, on the other hand may change environment and survive.
That's how human species differ: they are alloplastic, while other are autoplastic.
Sorry, I meant "redefine", not "refine". I would say the problem with this "always right/wrong" approach is not in the obvious cases (like stealing from the rich ... it's still stealing), but in the edge cases where it's not entirely obvious a real act of stealing is taking place.

Moral objectivists will vary the definition of stealing for self benefit. We've seen this in history where moral objectivists have justified slavery, invasion, and all kinds of destruction this way.
I've lived in Shanghai for 10 years. Very little that Beijing tells Shanghai to do has an impact on daily life there. For the most part, Shanghai controls Shanghai. Governance in China is fragmented, hierarchical, and networked.

I built a large workflow system for the Shanghai gov in 2001. To build such a system, I had to understand decision processes, chains of command, etc. If there was an "org chart" I never saw it, but had to piece it together through inputs from many government departments. The structures that exist follow patterns well understood by those in power (and to varying degree by many in society). These processes are more complex then Western business or government structure and rarely dictatorial.

Decision takes a long time to incubate while various interests align. Once consensus is reached, they move forward in lock-step. An outsider may view these actions as the result of a dictatorial process. I can assure you they are not.
I always try to read up on the authors background to frame what they are saying.

I do think it is useful to hear from people as they are going through the process, meaning I don't require that they have "made it" to trust their advice.

I think there are four levels I group most people into:

1) Never done it and not doing it now. The lowest credibility level.

2) Doing it now, but not full-time. Potential for good advice but not really in the position to make grand statements.

3) Doing it and making a good living. The best people to listen to.

4) Did it and exited. Sometimes great people, other times they have been out too long and don't remember what it's like. (or built their company in a different time)
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Feature Extraction and Image Processing looks pretty good. Do you think a beginner would be able to follow it without reading Digital Image Processing first?
Install MS office2007 on ubuntu using PlayOnLinux
I wonder if perl would be less popular if it was a better language.
Maybe these also, if so inclined:

- new perlperf man page that looks interesting: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.0/pod/perlperf.pod

- 'use 5.11.0' also implies 'use strict' now, yay: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.0/pod/perl5110delta....
Care and Feeding of Singletons
I use color theory. http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm