skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hm, intel tries hard to make a decent GPU for years now and fails miserably every time. AMD bought ATI, why intel shouldn't pass checks to buy nvidia then? Nvidia seems a bit lost in their direction and they are using TSMC's fabs, where they could use intels if there were an acquisition. Both companies have superb engineering talent. Also, there was always this feud between AMD/ATi vs intel/NVIDIA rigs amongst geeks, might be a consolidation on that turf also.

I like that idea.
Searching vulnerable sites with Google
From a strict technical point of view it seems that my PS3 is capable of doing most if not all of this. However, after watching the introduction video, I think The Boxee Box might be worth picking up for the great interface and ease of use alone.
It's odd, but as I've gotten older I've _really_ started to hate graffiti...for every undiscovered artistic genius practicing art 'outside the mainstream', there are 5000 ignorant 'X was here' messages uglify-ing the landscape.

Paper is cheap enough that there isn't a need to vandalize your surroundings in order to express yourself. If you absolutely _must_ paint mural size graphics, do it on the walls inside your house.

Also, get off my lawn.
Actually, I think it's called 'let's put together a promotion that includes both shopify and 4hourworkweek and create a lot of talk about both'.

That being said, $125k is a lot of money, and kudos to them for encouraging startups. Sparkfun is dolling out $100k in a couple weeks. Perhaps this is the new marketing engine of web 3.14159?
Excellent point, Jeremy. This article didn't talk at all about the CPU/RAM balance, which is a important to consider when scaling any application. In my experience, a large number of Rails apps are more RAM bound than CPU bound due to large gems/libraries/codebases.

Having additional Passenger processes available even when CPU bound will allow for greater throughput (if at a less-than-ideal speed) than having requests back up on the queue, however - especially if those requests spend a good amount of time waiting on DB, memcached, or other external API calls.
I've never had anything like that. Chrome on my computer is, at worst, taking 5-10% CPU usage to maintain 10 tabs in 2 windows, and it doesn't slow anything else down. Perhaps your OS is the problem?
The same advantages (and disadvantages) to running any stable build vs. development build.
Along those lines is etckeeper:

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/etckeeper-chronicles-...

Edit: if you are worried about your crontab files from users then version /var/spool/cron/
It is funny how everyone blames Schmidt and not the government or the patriot act or the politicians that enacted the patriot act. Schmidt was just being honest.
If he had that problem I doubt he would have posted:

> I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)
There is only one failure and that's not trying.
You could tweak a million things to perfection and stress yourselves about it but, I doubt the outcome would be much different.
Whether or not this works out for you, you will have learnt a great deal both personally and professionally.
Good luck to you.
I doubt Chrome (browser and OS) are going to become spyware platforms. Even if Google feels like data-mining you, it'll happen on the server side as you use Google search and your Google account and associated services.
Why whitelists (and blacklists) are long-term poison for online systems
Firstly, you don't need to phase shift here, because you'll need to generate AC from DC (battery), so you may as well generate it in phase with the signal from the outlet.

Secondly, if you need a phase shifting device (for something else), depending on the requirements, there are a number of options starting with something as simple as an RC unit.

Thirdly, generating "AC" [periodically changing signal] of a given voltage and an (approximate) frequency in sync with some other signal is what CRT TVs did (for the CRT).

> it is hard to shift phase.

Not to the engineers building these kinds of devices

(I'm explaining high school to freshman Physics here)
I like being able to move tabs between windows seamlessly with Chrome. Safari lets you detach a tab into a new window but that's about it. I don't think you can merge it with another window that already has open tabs or re-attach it. My biggest gripe, which is purely personal preference, is not having the progress bar integrated with the address bar. At least the status bar automatically disappears after a page loads. The feature that will keep me on Safari is bookmark syncing via MobileMe. It's really nice having it sync to my other Macs and iPhone.
I've had a ton of tab crashes, tab freezes, slow downs, etc. But where Chrom(e|ium) shines is that you can generally just reload the tab and go. Worst case, quit and restart takes seconds.
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I might not know what you exactly mean by a "bookmark manager", but the star to the left of the URL textbox and Ctrl+B give you bookmarks.
Are There Some Diets that Will Never Work?
Well, if you want to test what he would do under a specific circumstance, go ahead and simulate it and see how he does.

Or see how he works under pressure/stress.
Had to link to this because the comments made for such interesting reading. Is there anything in the entrepreneurial world that suffers this stigma? (socially acceptable if free, illegal/frowned upon if money changes hands)
That's always been the issue. Technically many computers can do this, from AppleTVs, to custom Linux Myth boxes, to PS3s. Where Boxee shines is connecting to web-based media through an easy-to-navigate interface. Have fun trying to get Hulu videos to play fullscreen when your interface is only a remote.

Boxee has done a terrific job making internet media accessible. All they're doing now is giving you a pre-configured box so you don't have to do any major hacking/configuration yourself.

I hope they do well. I think that disconnecting streaming media from the browser will help move the industry along as a whole.
You can move tabs between windows in Safari on OSX.
Patriot Act compliance

see the Yahoo leak from cryptomeme
http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf
see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...
(via infowarrior - https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior )
You're right about it being slow, it's even slow on chromium. I hope it will improve.
Streaming will never stop downloading
A corporation will use your information to make money, and they only have access to data that you freely provide them or their partners.

The government can gather your information covertly, can obtain data from multiple companies using legal means unavailable to corporations, and typically do so with the goal of charging one with a crime.
Did some computation here...
In order for Shopify to break-even with his $100K, they need 4,167 ($100,000 / $24 per month membership fee ) new registered paid stores.

After that 2 months contest, MAYBE some of them will bail out with the membership.

At the end, this contest is a very good marketing strategy to pull-in new customer.

Nice job Shopify.
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
Have you tried torrenting it?
5 skills I look for before writing a check
First, I'm not talking about people, but about works. Second, I wasn't saying there was a reverse correlation, but not really any, in my experience. Exciting work (from the consumption standpoint) is not really any more or less likely to be well-done in a technical sense, as far as I've experienced.
If you're CPU-bound, you can't have greater throughput, by definition. Once you calculate your non-cpu latency (50% in my example) ceil(1/latency%) is your limit per core, before you start wasting resources.
At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)
This seems kind of like closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out (and lions have eaten the horse). Just an empty barn full of taxpayers’ money that is not being lent out. A case of the fox watching the henhouse and we taxpayers seem to be the chickens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
Doesn't that make Java the flagship?
I heard about Glass-Steagall last month on NPR via Robert Reich (http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2009/11/04/p...)

It sounds like a better approach then many regulations that lead to very little.
From the article: ...will prevent the economic meltdown we are in the middle of from ever happening again..by making it impossible for those banks with access to the sovereign's fractional reserve privilege to speculate with it.

The author doesn't seem to realize that Glass-Steagall won't prevent commercial banks from making bad home loans.

From the article: Lending went to finance productive assets (e.g. factories, machines, tractors, combines, etc) instead of financial speculation as it had in the 1920s.

Instead of speculating in "finance", lending went to speculate in "productive assets" like equities and bonds.

Seriously, what is this tripe doing on HN?
I have PS3 too, it can do almost anything like boxee here. However, I have old xbox (first one) with xbmc installed on it - now, that can do everything! (except HD on xbox last time I checked).

http://xbmc.org/
First point: Yes.

I expect some refinement of an artist's craft over time. Just look at his faces. As a point of comparison my sister is a long way from mastery but he presents a reasonable progression for a HS student.

14 years old: http://geomexia.deviantart.com/art/Wired-Mother-Earth-273474...

15 years old: http://geomexia.deviantart.com/art/Deep-Sea-Gold-34634785

17 years old: http://geomexia.deviantart.com/art/Looking-Up-37173397

18 years old: http://geomexia.deviantart.com/art/Turn-Around-Turn-Around-1...

Bacon had some interesting ideas, but he lacked the skills to really explore them. IMO, that is forgivable for a dabbler or young person, but it's just not acceptable for a serious artist.

Second when looking for truth, philosophy is a dead end. You can still use a horse and buggy to get around New York but there is a reason it's become far less popular over time. Painting as a means to convey meaning from an artist to his audience has been similarly demoted because there are better ways to capture what you have seen. Leaving panting with abstract ideas better conveyed though words and meaningless garbage.
I like how they have gotten rid of categories. I presume they have done so out of efficient laziness (you aren't gonna need it). Also, I'll bet they will observe the searches to see what people are actually looking for and then categorize after the fact.
You have purchased an overpriced HDMI cable too.
I never bothered to refute that at the time, but as a matter of fact practically everything he says there is mistaken. E.g. that no one painted alla prima till recent times, when arguably the most famous exponent of this style is Franz Hals, who worked in the early 1600s.

It's a strange situation. If someone writes an essay attacking you, you either have to respond, in which case you're letting someone else pick your topics, or you have to ignore it, in which case people who don't know any better may be convinced by it.

Though I'm not willing to use up an essay to refute someone, I will in a comment thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984217

One thing I still wonder about is whether this guy actually believes what's he's saying, or whether he's deliberately trolling. He seems reasonably smart. How could he not have heard of Franz Hals? On the other hand, who would try to keep a troll going for 4 years?
Evolution Of Websites
The next thing I tried in Java was creating a web application. I bought a book on J2EE and as I began learning the ins and outs, I began to hate it with a passion. The amount of configuration and boiler plate code to get something simple up and running, was a huge turn off to me. I was disgusted with the concept of EJBs and all the various patterns in J2EE

Who said you need to use EJB's to do Java web development? At least spend some time learning Java before you start bashing it. Anyone else getting tired of the constant bashing of Java?
The barn door was closed with this act until 1999 when it was repealed. How is that "closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out"?
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This is aimed at advertisers. If I was going to place a business-related ad on LinkedIn, I think this comparison is pretty good.
Google Chrome Browser Comes to Mac, Linux
While you're right that vilifying Schmidt based on this statement is a little ridiculous, I'd say that one would still be wise to take it as a warning. Chances are that Google not only has your search history, but your email history, many of your documents information about your travel plans, and more. All it would take is for one unscrupulous executive to abuse his position and ruin your life. Chances are, no matter how innocent you are, you have something to hide. Google doesn't have to morally evil to justify our being wary of it.
not necessarily only for OSS but collabfinder.com
Hands On with the Crunchpad – Er, JooJoo
Except for like, the job site portion of HN.
Better yet - offer the service free-to-use with some trivially low amount of space (like 5MB) and then charge per year on amount of space ($10/yr = 50MB, etc).
I looked at the map, and it struck me, when did we bomb Mississippi?

The answer? [1964](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Uniform)...
What you really want is a scheduler that can handle all this for you, so you don't have to write the same management gunk into every script you run with cron.

It would also be nice to be able to express "the first Saturday of each month" for backup jobs, so you don't have to run a script every Saturday which carefully avoids doing work after the 7th.
Yes, but it would take a generation and there would be a lot of damage along the way.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society http://books.google.com/books?id=hsyA7hmDEqYC http://www.davidbrin.com/transparent.htm
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
Isn't/Wasn't it also the core for 'SunStudio' ?
While I don't like the tone of this post, the point about secret ballots is insightful and deserves consideration.
Every desktop environment that I'm familiar with (OSX, KDE, Gnome) has a built-in password manager to hook into, that stores the data encrypted and prompts the user for a master password in some configurable way. I'm guessing that if the OSX and Linux variations of Chrome get any traction, hooking into the password manager will probably be done.

I have no idea if Windows has a password manager, but I don't know why it wouldn't.
if its not better than gmail, i don't think anyone cares.
World's most powerful telephoto prime lens on eBay
Really a great way to promote Shopify. I wonder how much they paid for this (prize money aside). I'll hand Ferriss one thing, the man knows how to get eyeballs on a product and get people excited about it.
The self portrait is a nice drawing, but not particularly accurate. Or do you really think his ear stuck out like that?

Remember, we're talking about rendering here. Do you really think the woman's upper arm was that long compared to her head?
Try hackerhackernews.com. It's the same site, but uses some Bayesian modeling to filter out the TechCrunch-like internet drama.
I think the difference between equity speculation and bond speculation is important. Debt bubbles are much more catastrophic than equity bubbles.
I see the Developer menu, but "Developer Tools" is not listed on my Ubuntu build like it is on my Windows build. :/

I'm pretty sure I can't Inspect Element on my ubuntu build either, but I will try it when I get home.
Yep, that's the entirety of the circuit. This will work with any drum brain I know about (but it's been a few years since I did it, so YMMV...) This worked with an old Alesis D4 that I bought at a pawn shop. And I know it'll work with a DM5, etc etc.

You can play with materials a little for the surface -- I used plywood and mousepads. Mousepads are a little soft (the traditional 3/8" thick foam rubber with a cloth backing type...), Different thicknesses of plywood affect sensitivity, etc. If there isn't enough mass, false/double triggering happens.

It's a fun thing to try, and the materials are really cheap (and there are DIY drum trigger boards you can find on the internet now...)
Thanks! I will give this a try shortly.
XML View plugin for Safari - http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2009/02/09/Safari-Plugin...
Obviously you can't because you are doing something you think/know you aren't supposed to be doing.

In all reality however google is no more evil than telephone companies that allow the government to place wire taps on lines or datacenters allowing the government to take the private server your website is on.
Media Firms to Unveil Joint Venture for Digital Devices
> don't you think social mores regarding what is "embarrassing" or "shameful" would change?

I'm old enough to realize they already have quite a bit. As a child, it was safest for a gay person to stay in the closet, now states are legalizing gay marriage. The idea that someone can be openly gay alone is a huge change. Even celebrities used to hide it, now they can't because someone is sure to catch a photo of them out with someone or at a club.

The same is true for drug use. Michael Phelps was caught on camera with a pipe, but people just shrugged and moved on.
Mathoverflow: Fundamental Examples
Right, the problem wasn't as much the home loans as all of the side-wagering. Nobody really knows the exact extent, but the credit default swaps are believed to be one to two orders of magnitude more money than the CDOs they were based on. Lehman and AIG in particular were destroyed by them.
Yes, there is irony in the world today. Intel acquired StrongARM (renamed XScale) with an ARM CPU license from DEC. IIRC, they had a development license which meant that they (now Marvell) could modify the instruction set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale

So Intel had an unusually permissive license to a very popular, very low power CPU architecture and they sold it (June 2006). A few years later, they are struggling to recreate that low power capability in their x86 architecture.
Reinstating it now is like closing the door. The damage has already been done, the system has been raped and pillaged already. Closing the door will not fix the damage.

Closing the door is a Paraphrase.

Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphrase
That had more totally non-applicable down-home folksy sayings per paragraph than the average Sarah Palin speech. Kudos.
Previously submitted here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982838

Though unfortunately my submission didn't get as many upvotes for whatever reason.
extensions seem to work fine
http://glimmerblocker.org/

Proxying blocker for OSX. Works really well.
I dunno, Google's strategy of using a lot of off the shelf hardware as opposed to supercomputers seems to be paying off well.
This Robert Reich?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TkLgfinE
A simple way to install chrome extenstions on mac
divide by 6 (the contest is six months, not 2). That means 833 people for six months, some of whom will become successful and keep doing it. Then there's a 2% transaction fee for the entry level shop. Then, some will choose premium plans.

If they even get 100 successful new businesses (that last two years and end up on the 60/month plan), they've paid it back with interest - the unsuccessful startups are just a little extra. (And, they get people who will use the service as customers and tell their friends!)
I think you'll find that there are a whole load of baby horses still in the barn, and you're going to want to close the door to stop them getting out in the future.
I think it was posted in response to this...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983717
On a sort of similar note, I've been looking for active developers to follow on Twitter that regularly tweet about programming-related matters. I like to hear about how their project is progressing, or what the like/hate/learned about a certain language or framework, and potentially, I can @ them if I have a related question.

Any suggestions (or volunteers)?
Wow! With this comment he just created such an enormous market for _secure_ search! Unbelievable!
Intel only. Looks like I'll be sticking with Stainless (http://www.stainlessapp.com/) -- probably would've stuck with it anyway, it's a pretty nifty little Mac browser.
Failure: An Illustrated Guide
Firefox does the exact same thing unless you setup a "master" password that you have to enter when you launch it.
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The key phrase here is "using legal means unavailable to corporations".

Governments retain a monopoly over things like use of force, forcible investigation into your affairs, etc. And when they abuse those powers, you legally have significantly less recourse than you would if a private company did the same thing to you.
two spaces

like this.
The more interesting part of the story is that they're collaborating with D-Wave to try and get these algorithms running on their hardware. Should be interesting to see what comes out of this, considering the amount of skepticism that has been surrounding D-Wave.
Better disable javascript, if you are avoiding google, as well
LoseThos V5.18 Released (64-bit Operating System)
I agree with you Tome, I am not saying it is bad, just that it was allowed to happen and that is where the problem is. Now we taxpayers have to pay those who did this with our earnings after they knowingly shot the system down in flames.
Sysadvent : One article for each day of December on System Administration
You can't gain any more cycles, of course, but you can gain throughput by adding processes to an already cpu-bound app by giving faster incoming requests a place to go instead of sitting on the global queue while waiting for other requests to process.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984036
I wanted to post a quote about the millions of other amphetamine users in the world, but most of them don't seem to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.

It's almost as though taking amphetamines doesn't make you as smart, productive, and famous as Paul Erdős. Weird, huh? What's weirder is that this seems to be true of all vices and all famous people!
...but for a bullet list...

* Use a leading asterisk

* Separate the list items by a blank line (i.e. make them separate paragraphs)

- Leading dashes work too.
Thank you. That was excellent.
This is the feature I've been waiting for for me to switch to Chrome. Just waiting for ChromeBug now, if there will be one.
Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak
Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?
I just called up my local development site which has a ".dev" domain (which is setup in /etc/hosts) in Chrome and it decided it didn't want to load up any JavaScript or CSS. Apparently you have to disable the phishing and malware protection from the options. Just in case anyone else has a similar setup.
Certainly, but there are a couple trouble spots.

A) The transitions aren't always smooth, and the people whose privacy is violated are sometimes sacrificed in the years-long process of mainstreaming whatever "shameful" thing they did.

B) We're a hypocritical lot, so there will probably always be things that we all do and yet still shame others for doing. So the common knowledge that everyone does a particular thing won't be enough to shield you from the shame of being exposed as a doer of that thing.
There's clearly some wires crossed in the organization(s) involved. I thought that perhaps some linkage would draw some attention to what has (according to some parties) been a long-standing issue.

In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have rung the bell. We'll see how it works out, but mea culpa nonetheless.