skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In three years or so, the flash manufacturers will put chips on the SSDs that will allow you to send down programs to them (not unlike the shaders in video cards). That will likely be a bigger revolution than SSDs themselves. Where we are now is just the beginning.

This sounds crazy. SSDs have all this firmware and processing power to make them behave like hard drives. If we want to drive the underlying storage directly we might as well rip all that out and let the OS drive the flash directly from the main CPU. Why would we want to be sending programs into the black box? What can the firmware do that the main CPU couldn't if we stopped attaching flash as SATA and instead just created a direct connection that can DMA back and forth to main memory?

Some Linux developers have made that point, that they would rather be implementing their own filesystems directly on the flash than dealing with a firmware that is trying to make it appear that the SSD is a hard drive but that then needs TRIM to work around the fact that that is not true. These firmwares are nice for Intel by letting them turn a commodity (flash) into a differentiated (and higher margin) product based on the code in the firmware. Considering Linux already has filesystems that can operate directly over flash and that better ones can be written I'd say we would be better off just getting direct access to the flash.
It is not a power management issue, but servers are optimized to run certain server operating systems. Laptops lack this server OS optimization. For instance our Dell PowerEdge 1850 has different fan drivers depending on if we load it with RHEL5 vs WinServer 2008. The drivers control the fan speed and are OS specific and work with the server bios. If we loaded XP Pro or Ubuntu as an OS the box would probably light up and function but would lack the fan speed control (and some other management features), plus the Bios is not optimized for a non-server (non-supported) OS meaning possible loss of USB functionality (This is the voice of experience).
But the AI-kills-the-world hypothesis has no basis in reality, whatsoever. It's fiction. We might as well be writing computer viruses to help protect against alien invasions (that's the plot of Independence Day). It's a completely baseless fear stemming from our complete ignorance of what AI might be like - just utter science fiction.
My own thoughts:

- what's the cost advantage over the usual buy-and-sell-back-to-used=bookstores approach?

- do enough students want to hold the inventory and take on the risk of nonreturns/expiring editions/etc.? (If this is a economic winner, I would have already expected it to be done informally already by hustling undergrads... is it common?)

- how much more lifetime does the physical textbook have?

And if you've been at this since 2007, you probably know that various kinds of textbook exchanges are so commonly proposed (and go nowhere) that they're (in some circles) a running joke. Google [sethi "trade your used books"] for what I mean.
Just curious. We were thinking of doing a college in the bay area and another in Cincinnati (proximity of myself and co-founder). Do you think this would be better received at an elite school like Stanford or a community college like DeAnza?
I think you don't understand the basic physics of electricity. There is no need to detect a drop in the voltage. If you connect two sources of electricity of the same voltage (whether DC or AC in phase), the resulting voltage is still the same. (Secondly, if you don't have access to the insides of the machine, you can only feed it with AC)

> synchronizing voltage, frequency, and phase -- turns out to be difficult.

for English majors, perhaps.
Ask HN: Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS
I'm not asking what goes into Adwords QS or why mine is always low. I just about have never had any success with any thing I've tried to advertise on Adwords.

But, I'm posting this question because of one main thing. I've come across a large amount of ads that rank very high (position 1-3 consistently; which means they much have a good QS), that feature landing pages with little to no text at all.

How could adwords possibly assign them a high QS for a page that is 95% images?

Examples:
https://www.demandbase.com/signup_freetrial_a.html
http://www.centraldesktop.com/l?sr=googs&sy=col_onl_np
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/t/gg/online_collaboration-Broad/NAPPC/g2msem3
http://campaign.mindtouch.com/C/Download_MindTouch_Deki/4?copy=4

..you get the point
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Delhi directory is a best site to find the best market available in Delhi. Here we are doing our best to give you better facilities than others, for finding barcodes stickers and labels market go here.
But you could put an accelerometer hooked into the usb header on most motherboards.
Dude. Australia? 25 million people, size of USA? Awesome for long-distance driving.
Google Personalized Search -- A New Challenge for SEO
Google has raised a new bigger challenge for SEO Professionals. Personalized Search. How can we know the behavior of Users?
Google has raised a new bigger challenge for SEO Professionals. Personalized Search. How can we know the behavior of Users?
...it was in the article.

Don't worry, I thought it was real until halfway through the second patent.
Continuity also sort of reminds me of Small Worlds: http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/?gameID=9
Mathematically speaking, the sum of the amount of money he will have left after x years is greater if he has no loans, which have interest attached to them.

With a huge penalty in disposable income while in grad school. Spending more in the long term and spending less in the short term are two different cases -- neither of which is objectively better than the other. The better is dependent on circumstances.
links

https://www.demandbase.com/signup_freetrial_a.html
http://www.centraldesktop.com/l?sr=googs&sy=col_onl_np
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/t/gg/online_collaboration-Broad...
http://campaign.mindtouch.com/C/Download_MindTouch_Deki/4?co...
Try one of those plug computers like http://www.tonidoplug.com. It runs ubuntu though.
Wait, what? Wait, WHAT?
http://www.silentpcreview.com

My reference for silencing computers. The guys there take their noise VERY seriously. I was among them at one time :)
You bring up a very good point. Actually, I think this issue warrants an entire blog post in response. I think there are indeed huge dangers in informationization that could be catastrophic.

So I guess we need to determine whether informationization is a force that can be stopped, and if it's not, what can we do to minimize catastrophic failure. One thing could be to have certain physical/static baselines to fall back to (like shelters, food, minimum levels of non-liquid wealth). Or convert some of NNT's black-swan heuristics into well known practices (e.g. "Learn to be redundant, don’t be optimal.", "have small losses if you are wrong, and big profits if you are right", etc.)

I haven't put a lot of thought into the risks and downsides of informationization actually, and perhaps not enough people out there aren't either. At this year's Singularity Summit there was a real lack of skepticism and interest in debating some of these core downsides and dangers.
In the end, the gift card idea evaporated as quickly as it
was conceived, so I didn't need to stand up and object to
slimy tactics.

Did anybody else think the ending was anti-climatic? Mr. X was, "standing up for the truth," but he ended up not standing up for anything because the project got canceled.
ialertu is an GPL'd app for the macbook that, stupidly, sounds an alarm when the built-in accelerometer indicates that the macbook was moved. You could modify it to do something worthwhile instead, like lock the screen and shut down.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ialertu/
There used to be an initiative called ANDF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distributi...) which was designed to distribute software in some form of intermediate level code. They got compiled to native code on the user's machine.

I guess you could think of LLVM object files as the equivalent today.
Personally I think it would work better at which ever school you were able to be more engaged with and / or knew better.

There might be some benefit to focusing on a more technical school in terms of the student's willingness to trust a web site. However, I really think the key to getting your first community would be personal knowledge of the school and ability to market on the ground.
maybe slide duplication is the easiest to discover and verify.

sound advice regardless! thanks for the uplifting post. fear mongering is crummy. i'm glad to have found a source that is both entertaining, useful and upbeat (telling it like it is!).
As I understand it, a command-line app is typically something which is only accessed from your shell's command line, like 'ls'. You can type 'ls' and follow it with whatever arguments you want to follow it with, but it will always land you back at your command prompt (excepting crashes or infinite loops, of course). It's user interface IS the command line.

A terminal app (or a console app), while also accessed from one's shell, is not reliant solely on the shell's command line. It can have an interface of it's own, like 'hnsh' does, or like 'qbasic' in DOS does (did?).

By these definitions, all command-line apps are a subset of terminal/console apps, and not the other way around.

Personally, I do not think the difference is pedantic, but the terms do seem to get confused and muddled together frequently.
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No one else thinks this is just a little bit dodgy? I know it seems to be par for the course for some of the security scene, but still.
Lane et al. v. Facebook, Inc et al.
Why So Few In Dubai Saw The Debt Crisis Coming
Good questions. Let me try to respond by line.

- Renting a book out once will yield the renter within 75% of what they'd get by selling back to the bookstore. You should be able to rent it out 2-4 times which means it yields more than selling back to the bookstores. This, of course, implies demand for your book.

- That's the big question. We believe there's enough interest by students who want to save money and/or are sick of bookstores.

- Long enough for a venture. Ultimately, this will go digital but that'll be a slow process. There's a lot invested in physical textbooks. It's something we're keeping our eyes on.

There are tons of "trade your used books" sites. We believe our advantage is that we simply act as a facilitator. We don't have a warehouse of books or employ people to manage inventory. We can, on a dime for the most part, start operations in Germany or India.

Hopefully our advantage keeps us from ending up like the rest of the "trade your used books" sites.
Even if you do, you won't have a problem in the computer. It will be warmer than the refrigerator so any dew activity will be elsewhere.

Getting the power cord in will require some creativity.

And frankly, I have no idea if a small refrigerator can keep up with the heat output of a small computer. It would be an interesting duel.
Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
I've always thought it natural to carry my wallet in my front pockets. Any particular reason why most people use the back?
Actually -- and this is new in 2009 -- gift cards cannot expire by law in California.
Fridges often make more noise than laptops.
You made a nice analogy there, but other than you saying so, why is it exactly like selling a product? I can make up an analogy too.

Let me make this clear. I am not saying that marketing is completely useless. What I am saying is that when you go up to a marketing guy, chances are that he has no idea how to make the actual product. When you ask an engineering guy how to sell the product, he at least has an idea of how to sell it.
If this is a economic winner, I would have already expected it to be done informally already by hustling undergrads... is it common?

Going only off of personal experience I frequently swapped or loaned books within my social circle. Already had trust established and knew where I could get my hands on them. Facebook app facilitating trading between established connections?
Ha - I'd thought this was smart. We expect Japanese things to be a bit oddball by our standard, and this delivered.
Actually, I now see that I have originally misread descent angle for glide ratio, but still, even 1/2 of 747's performance is great. Natural selection!
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I'm glad they didn't. Despite CL's shortcomings, it's hard to see eBay making them better in any way.
I think a big barrier is making it easy for students to complete a transaction. Students with a social circle (fraternities, etc.) may not find as much value as students without big social circles. I had a social circle but they all needed the same books as I did.

Also, we don't expect this to be useful for every single student. We're looking to identify a niche and provide an excellent experience for them.
This post is a bit whimsical for my taste. The author seems to imply that it's the job of a designer to rise above the ordinary requirements of their job and insert some kind of politically-charged influence into their day to day work and their interactions with non-designer co-workers, based on what they feel is good or effective design, even if it does not align with the broader corporate strategy.

As for the gift card anecdote used in the article, it doesn't take a good designer, or even a designer at all to realize that "hiding" a customer's gift card balance, or making it difficult to access, is an underhanded thing to do. I think it has little to do with design and more to do with a company's culture and true relationship with their customers.
Moxie Marlinspike is a well-known (if a little eccentric) security researcher.
Same thing in germany. Shops can put an expiration date on their cards, but that just means they have to pay a full refund in cash from that day on (they have alredy benefited enough from the interest free credit extended to them by the giver of the card). So good consumer protection laws are not only just, but also beautiful, as they discourage bad web design :-).
Playlists are not something I have much use for (I prefer listening to whole albums at a time), but as a graphic designer I'd like to second the thing about the stock photo.
> 100ms/page (i.e. just 10 requests/second)

If a page takes 100ms, that doesn't mean you only have 10 requests/second. With a little care you can have thousands of requests per second, especially on top the JVM.

> A single 45Kb SVG file, when fully parsed, eats up 150MB right here on my laptop.

That's not the fault of the JVM, although I do agree that many Java-libraries are memory-hogs.

The only difference between the JVM and CLR/Python/Perl/Ruby is that the JVM doesn't return the used memory to the OS. This means that if the JVM reaches 1 GB of used memory, it will remain there even if the GC kicks. Also, when allocating memory, the JVM has to allocate more memory than it needs because it needs space to degragment the heap. But on the other hand compared to CPython / Ruby MRI / Perl ... the JVM's GC is generational and heap-compacting, making it much more efficient memory-wise for long-running processes ... allocation is cheaper, deallocation is smarter and you won't end-up with a heap that looks like swiss cheese.
I believe it's another case of the word "framework" being bastardized. It seems that everybody likes to call their project a "framework". No more are the days of library, template, or package. Everything is a framework.

This makes it significantly harder for projects that are truly are frameworks to distinguish themselves. It's a big mess. I think it might be too late though, I fear the word is already too damaged.
dogpile is coming on #1 for me
/var/tmp/xmas.txt, each unix cmd could only be used once
If that's the case Bing probably has the worst. The excerpt reads "Visual Search · » · » · » · » · ◄ · ►. ©. The USS Missouri and Arizona Memorial in Pearl..."
Saw you demo at SF Musictech today - good demo, and very solid product.

I don't think the stock photo on the front page is that bad - people who work with websites might cringe, but other than that it's not so bad.

My one criticism is that it's not immediately obvious why I should sign up or that I need to download a client. This page [1] is an excellent explanation, but it took a bit of hunting to run across it - at a very superficial first glance, it looks like I'm supposed to buy the music from you. It should be a lot more obvious that it works with my existing music collection (maybe say that instead of "works with your digital music player" on the front page).

[1] http://www.getplaylists.com/sync/download/?next=/playlist/11...
Maybe it is based on whether the user immediately pressed the back button or not.
Dogpile Web Search

AltaVista

Ask.com Search Engine - Better Web Search
Well Altavista used to be the best search engine.
Interesting idea, I like the site, although might want to clean the design, it's a tad bit busy.

The only crticisim I see here is you only get 30 second previews instead of the entire track, and I don't feel like paying up $100 for a playlist... Grooveshark solves this by allowing playlist sharing and full track playbacks which solves that problem. Any thoughts about that?
This repeatedly comes up, as if Eliezer Yudkowsky convincing someone to say "Ok you can go free" is somehow indicative of how difficult or easy it would be for a real AI to get let out.

Let me put it this way: If it were that easy, out in the real world, I'm fairly certain prisons would be impossible.

Keep in mind that the gatekeeper is not obliged to sit and listen to the AI-in-a-box. The gatekeeper is not even obliged to pretend it's a real AI-in-a-box scenario and make the decisions he would make in that situation; you can sit there thinking, nay, SAYING "man this is gonna be the easiest $10 i ever made" for the whole two hours and tough shit for the would-be-AI.

I continue to refuse to accept the possibility of Eliezer having won those two rounds without being paired with a completely retarded gatekeeper.
you are probably logged in and it's giving you custom results.

Dogpile is #2 for me.

On bing #1 result is Dogpile

On Yahoo #1 result is Yahoo

On Dogpile, #1 result is Dogpile

On Ask, #1 result is Ask

On Altavista, #1 result is Yahoo
There will be lots of RoR certification, because certification is a business itself. Think of SAP or Cisco.

Usually certification does not required for a gifted artist, because his abilities are self-evident, but for low-skilled craft man to prove that he possibly could not fail. It is a trick to not to show your abilities each time, because it is extremely difficult to you - think a certificate of sexual ability for impatient - for a healthy man it is not a problem to "prove his ability" =))

mr. Nabokov, for example, didn't got TOEFL before he wrote his "Lolita". TOEFL is required only for pidgin-speakers, like me, and after some amount of practicing it become useless.
I think its more impressive that Google doesn't even rank itself in the top 10
They're actually using dreamweaver. I didn't think anybody serious about HTML/CSS/Javascript used dreamweaver.

I mean, it's a good product in it's own strength, but I wouldn't use it as a text editor.
The problem is that most of us only have the time to make safe choices.

Selling yourself as a <whatever> is part of your job, as discomforting as that is.
For now, i'd say just buy more ram. Basecamp apparently serve 100% of their data from memory.
This reminds me of "Eastern Polish Christmas Tree Notation": http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/6/1/43942/41236
Even touchpad, webpad or cloud-D sounds way cool then joojoo and I just thought of those while in bed and typing this on my iPhone.
DuckDuckGo was only 2 after Google. Way to go!
Indeed, that's precisely the point. When findings are unreplicable _despite identical procedure_ it's usually considered a disconfirmation of the results of the initial experiment. Maybe not of the phenomena, but of the experiment. And since pretty much _all_ psi experiments have been disconfirmed, this effectively (tho not technically) disconfirms the phenomena.
So Mister X's implication, in context, is that American Airlines' website is so deviously and incredibly terrible not because they're incompetent, but because they would rather you didn't use it.

Having been a customer of AA before vowing in disgust never to let them take a penny from me ever again, I surmise that the hidden plan here is to make you call their customer-service agents to book or change your ticket, since you can't work out how to do it on the website. At AA, calling them to book means a $35 extra fee on top of your ticket.

So that's it? They have the worst website in the industry just to screw their customers for a lousy $35?
You just stated that you want your staff to tell you what you would like to hear, even if that's a lie.
they actually advocate disassembling the wall plug and cutting hot leads while the building wiring is still live.

Isn't that kind of the point? How else would you do it?
Well, it seems Altavista somehow has a PR of 9. The only other site with the PR of 9 on that page is Yahoo but Yahoo's page doesn't seem to mention "search engine" as explicitly as Altavista, so the ranking makes sense.

How in the world Altavista has a PR of 9 is a mystery though.
It is the oldest one.
Funny, AltaVista doesn't seem to think too highly of itself:
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=search+e...
What's the worst thing about working at this company? is a perfectly valid question.
Indeed. Fantastic business opportunity.
I am amused by the proof that all natural numbers are interesting. Sort the numbers into two lists, one of interesting numbers and the other of uninteresting numbers. If there is a smallest uninteresting number, that number would be interesting and it would not be on the list. Therefore the list of unintersting numbers is empty.
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Synchronizing phase, and/or hitting that switchover window is trivial for even the cheapest microcontroller. One cycle at 60Hz seems fast but its an eternity for a 20Mhz uC.

I'm going to guess "detects the drop and hits the window" simply because this is how cheap UPS units work and I'd bet a month of lattes that its made of cheap UPS guts.
I'm not logged in and I'm also getting Dogpile as #1 result. I hate that when google alters my results according to my country/login.
friends'

OAuth says, "Please come back later."
If you want to work in industry for 3-5 years, I would do that either before or after graduate school, not in the middle. Once you've started graduate school (at least in a research program) and you're happy with your adviser/program, it will be a net loss of time if you leave school, work for 3-5 years, and then need to go back to school again.
Obviously in this context I'm talking about drawing in the sense of rendering.
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Looking over the responses, it is really hard to believe many of the people here have worked in C++. This is basic style for anyone who has ref counted, such as implementing IUknown.
I do so because it would get crowded in the front. I carry a lot of stuff in my pockets: keys, phone, notebook, pencil, and wallet. None of those would work well in my back pocket but the (relatively thin) wallet, and trying to stuff more than two per front pocket is uncomfortable.