skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Further, Valve is bring it's "App Store for Games" to the Mac, which will encourage other game publishers to port to the Mac, and give them a solid sales-platform to do so on.
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In another irony, the "Worst Journey in the World" that is mentioned in the article was based on another incorrect scientific theory: recapitulation theory. They thought the emperor penguin eggs would reveal more about evolutionary theory than they actually did. (According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World#...)
If mahalo were pulled from the rankings, other pages, most likely of better quality, would fill that space.

There is nothing to prevent them from using adsense to monetize the quality of their (non-scraped) content.
Remember after June 30th it's also (750 * 0.15) to upload it.
Paul Revere was probably a silly alarmist too.
World of Warcraft has been running on OSX for several years, and Apple has helped them to get better performance over time.
Nanophysics, and a new way of producting electricity
An old chip would at a minimum have to be socket compatible, otherwise the system won't even boot.

Simpler to just take a rejected chip and package it in a retail box.

Note that the chip itself seems genuine enough but all the bits around it (hologram, manual) are of such low quality that they might as well not be there.

Late stage rejects are supposed to be destroyed in the factory, given the number of those rejects and the fact that the street price of these chips is as high as it is there should be little cause for wonder that maybe someone figured out a way to make some money on the side?

Blank pages in a manual vs packaging an old chip in a 'new' case is a bit of a difference in grade of accomplishment.

edit: turns out the chips are not 'counterfeits' but simply clumps of metal
I bought a Backflip yesterday and returned it today. I was so excited about getting an Android phone finally. What a disappointment when I realized I couldn't install apps from the web. I tried to install the Android Scripting environment that Google released, but I couldn't. Motorola support told me it was due to "carrier restrictions"
According to Tom Merrit of CNET & Buzz out Loud, the complete package was fake - foam fan, plastic heatsink, plastic processor, misspelled packaging, etc... It seems like a case or two (nearly 300 processors) of i7 processors were switched for fakes somewhere down the line, before making it to Newegg.

EDIT - Apparently, the processors were pieces of scrap metal.
the news is that newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units.
I believe this article by Derek Powazek is worth reading: http://powazek.com/posts/2101
A few small obfuscated Programs
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I have. I chose my own encryption password, but in order to restore files, I had to enter the password into the Backblaze web site. Backblaze used it to decrypt my files on their server and assemble them into a zip file on their server. They then sent me email saying I could download the zip file.

Also the Mac metadata weren't restored properly:
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/backblaze-backup-bouncer...
Good reply.

> The truth is I really respect the leadership at the
> company that gave me an offer and I WANT that job.
> My lack of attention to detail to this could be a
> reflection of that.

Quite possible. Let me offer this thought though - if you tried really hard, maybe you could find an offer that's even more attractive. If you don't try really hard, you'll never know if you simply took the first thing that you liked the look of. Maybe there are things that are even better.

But whatever you decide, I do wish you the best.
Counterfeit to me suggests 'functional', just like counterfeit money is not 'real' but it functions just like real money until you test it thoroughly.

more here:

http://hardocp.com/news/2010/03/07/intel_comment_on_fake_cpu...
Perhaps he is saying that the per-gig cost is not clear. It says buy now for $29, but the extra $0.15/GB/month to use S3 is hidden under "Why use S3?" (you might not expect costs to be there)

We both know what S3 is, and know that they charge per gig. But the market of people who want online backups for their macs don't necessarily know this.
Often times when (3) ("Estimate the time needed for each agenda topic") fails is because not enough time is budgeted for discussion afterwards. Don't budget 30 minutes for an item if you expect the presentation itself to take 20-25.
Ask HN: choosing Web framework, again
Just when I was choosing to go with Django for my startup app, I read here that

http://www.mutualinformation.org/2010/03/why-i-switched-to-pylons-after-using-django-for-six-months/

it's not very appropriate when you have more complex sites, etc.

Are there any guidelines for choosing a web framework? I'm language agnostic, but would avoid verbose languages if possible. The framework will be like a bank website, if you want a reference. I want to start web programming but I'm growing more confused every day.

I now heard about Rails, Django, webpy, Grails, Pylons, Lift, Play, Seaside, Ocsigen...
Closeness of Actions and Objects in GUI Design
Somewhere, Tony Soprano is happy.
That makes more sense, if they actually managed to counterfeit a CPU they ought to be given a medal or something ;)
Often times, we (journalists) get sent the news/releases directly. Most of the time we're not even sent the link, so that's what we work off of.
> Another important factor here is the amount of reserves that are held back from each $1 of premiums input into the system.

You're forgetting that insurance companies invest that money.

There are times when claims payout exceeds the premiums, yet insurance companies still manage to make money because of the investments.

As always, if you think that you can do insurance better, go for it. If you're right, you get rich and drive them out of biz.
I had Mozy and I used their built-in encryption to backup ~250GB. I went to restore some wedding photos while at my parents' house, so I downloaded their decryption utility, and started the decryption of a 10gb subset of my backup.

Only about 1/3rd of the files decrypted correctly. The rest of the files were totally corrupted -- not cool. I contacted support and we investigated the problem for ~3 months. Luckily I didn't have dataloss, but what exactly was I paying for here?

We never got the problem resolved and I ended up getting a full refund for 1.5 years of service. Make sure to test your backups no matter where you store them.
I think that's probably because the announcement wasn't up until after Wired had published, as Wired and several other news sources just got the release dropped in their inboxes directly.
Nicely written article! The Casimir effect is a great example of quantum mechanics which is actually tractable without too much math (until you start getting to the weirder renormalization schemes). Bonus question: after reading, do you believe the quantum vacuum (or even "the electromagnetic field" can be said to "exist"?

I wrote my thesis on the Casimir effect last year, strangely enough. If you're hungry for a little more, it might be worth scanning. http://aphyr.com/data/journals/113/comps.pdf
"Millions of people who don't care one bit about sports watch the SuperBowl for the ads."

Millions? Really? I don't think so.

If anything, they can pull up the ads on Hulu or YouTube if they really weren't otherwise interested in the game.
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Programming in balance with Yin and Yan :-)
Demo boxes? That would explain a lot
More (full-res) pictures: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1035412736&postc...
"Ending sentences with a preposition is something with which I will not put" is a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, but is probably incorrect: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

It's one of my favourite examples of the tortured tangle into which we twist the language occasionally, in order to comply with seemingly arbitrary grammar rules.

However, I instinctively cringe when I see sentences that end with a preposition. I don't know whether this is learnt behaviour, but I really do find the constructions for which the preposition is accounted earlier in the phrase to be more elegant.

The alternative to your example would be: I'll come (or arrive) after I have finished writing this reply. I'd argue that this sentence is less folksy, but forces you to be more precise about your intent and action. I often find that when writers resort to poor grammar because they lack the attention to detail to state exactly what they mean.

This is especially true as we move to faster and faster paced methods of communication in which precision is often sacrificed for a speedy, less clear reply.
How do you mean? I just quoted from that web site... So you are saying their example for Point Free Programming was bad?
Apparently, the situation is not quite as bad as it first seems; the article links to instructions for setting up the Android debug environment on a host computer, which can be used to install apps.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643866
I agree with his complaints about reusable apps to an extent, but I feel a lot of the fault has to do with the design of the apps he referred to. I feel that the good apps are the ones that focus on a very narrow scope and try a singular problem (Paypal integration, Twitter integration, etc). Pinax tries to shove every social media idea at you. Other ones like Satchmo (shopping cart) even have their own templates and styles, sorta like a CRM where you're kinda meant to use the Admin to manage your shop. I think you can get decent flexibility with Django as long as you choose simple apps.

I've always liked the Django debugging information and haven't had too many problems. I agree that it's very possible for many to feel limited by the ORM and standard templating system.
Most of the Steam games are wasd-based, which you really don't want to replicate with a controller. I played Portal on my XBox, which was OK, but TF2 sucks with a controller. The keyboard and mouse is a great control combination for serious games.

Even Peggle would be hard to play with a controller.
"It'd be good if we stopped pretending everyone runs adblock."

Please do. I certainly wasn't pretending that in the first place.
> this point, given how messed up the health care system is (law, super expensive EOL care, high entry cost for doctors and nurses, poor non-emergency care situation), can you really do the right things.

Which of those factors are due to insurance companies?

If you don't fix them, how likely is it that any "new" system will be any better?
I've built a couple of reasonably complex Djamgo apps, and as much as I like Django, all the points author makes are very true. That said, by the time you have swapped out the template language and the ORM you are basically no longer using Django; I think it's fair to say that if find yourself needing to do those things, you're much better off with Pylons.It's a question of the right tool for the job.

I do agree heartily that Django apps are not an effective level of abstraction as on might hope. Personally I usually just stick to using various libraries and writing my own code to do the Django-specific parts.
Per the valve guys in an interview with AppleInsider, Apple provided quite a bit of support and help when they were porting Steam/Source to Mac.
Saying Django is not appropriate for complex sites is just plain wrong. For whatever reason Django was just not a good fit for that author, but I think there's thousands of Djangonauts developing complex sites that would completely disagree with him.

Definitely don't pass on Django because of one guy's opinion.
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It's a far cry from real counterfeiting, but in the past Intel had problems with "remarking" processors; people would buy low-bin parts, sand off the markings and re-etch them with a higher speed. This was fixed with multiplier locking and (to a lesser extent) CPUID.
I am able to play Half Life 2 at full settings on my older generation MacBook Pro with an 8600M when running Windows, on a 1080p monitor.

I would be interested in seeing how the 9400M does in the latest MacBook Pro's.
I'd be far more interested in a generic ssh target thingy, than support for specific peripherals.
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Insurance companies are, however, subject to "the law". Govt agencies mostly aren't.

Feel free to compare Medicare's dispute process with that of an insurance company. And remember that some people can switch insurance companies while no one can switch Medicare.

We can make switching insurance companies easier. Switching "single payers" is, by definition, impossible.
This is a quote from the article which was rebuffed. Restating it here for no particular reason / without additional commentary is unnecessary clutter.

Edit: Sigh, I'm pretty sure this is a bot account.
Already discussed at great length here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172803

Found by a trivial search: http://searchyc.com/gendercide
I played CoD: MW2 (Bootcamp) on my 27" Core Duo 2 iMac and it ran well. Not at highest quality settings, but about as well as the PS3 I'd say. No crashes either.
If your state government isn't responsive to its people's needs, that's a bigger problem than losing your Amazon Associates revenue.

If you want a more constructive suggestion, here's one: form a lobbying group to protect the interests of web publishers. In the 1990's there was a moratorium on sales taxes over the internet in order to protect the burgeoning ecommerce industry. I think there's a good case to be made for moratoria on taxes affecting web publishing and advertising--especially affiliate advertising--since web publishing is in a burgeoning state and needs to be allowed to grow without tax or interference so that content producers can find the right business models to serve the public interest after the decline of newspapers. (This is very handwavy but lobbyists and think tanks can come up with much more solid arguments.) This isn't necessarily the greatest idea, but that's how the system works nowadays and we need to get with it.
it's mostly due to indexing, Google has a few thousand pages indexed, while Bing and Yahoo have a few hundred
Have a look here:

http://hardocp.com/news/2010/03/07/intel_comment_on_fake_cpu...

That makes the newegg spin definitely less believable.
Could you convert the mechanical energy of the moving plates into electrical energy? Probably orders of magnitude too small, eh?

What about at the nanoscale? Could these plates be like springs that provide motive force? What scale are these plates we are talking about? What are the wavelengths of the particles?
I think the best advice is just to pick something and stop worrying. Analysis can be a form of procrastination.

That said, I use and recommend Rails. Rails 3 is nearly ready for prime-time and introduces a suite of changes that make it faster, more flexible, and infinitely configurable. The part I have always liked about Ruby and Rails is that even when you are stretching beyond it's intended use-cases, it bends rather than breaks.
Do these photos support the claim that the boxes were just demos shipped mistakenly, or that they were indeed counterfeits that were inserted into the supply chain? Thoughts?
My 2008 Macbook Pro (C2d 2.5ghz, 512MB Geforce 8600gt, 4GB ram) holds up pretty well with most Steam titles at reasonable settings and resolutions. I'm sure the newer ones fare even better. I wouldn't worry about your graphics card so much- even 'older' ones are pretty good still.

Will it play Crysis at full settings on a huge screen? No, but it does TF2 and Portal nicely at 1440x900.
what's wrong with subdomains?
Being flexible might help. Hire part-time. Have them stay over for few months and also allow working remotely. Make them visit once in a while. That's the mode I engage with companies who have good problems to solve and it works.
It doesn't make sense. If it were a demo, wouldn't Intel stamp "DEMO" on it all over, so it wouldn't be mistaken for the real thing? Also, as the article points out, why would there be a blank manual in a demo chip, and why would Intel make it look nearly identical to the shipping version, modulo typos?
I'm confused how this product can charge so much more than JungleDisk but not really do anything different? Is there a difference I'm missing?
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AFAIK the canonical FPS setup is wasd for up/strafe left/down/strafe right, left click for fire, right click for secondary fire, x for duck and z for prone. Or, anyway, it's what I use. I think it allows for more flexibility in movement, but sometimes cheap keyboards don't support strafe+forward+duck together too well without using modifiers (ctrl/shift).
I think it's reprehensible that parent has been downvoted. Ad hominem is ad hominem, no matter how deserving we think the target might be. Great-grandparent poster asked a question, ostensibly seeking an informative answer. What they got was grand-parent's uninformative tirade. While it certainly represents how people feel about Calcanis, it does not in any way answer great-grandparent's question, it is not informative, and it undermines the norm of civil discourse that we should expect on HN.

Refresher: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Question, what software are you running under that?
Well, running HP/UX seems to be a big advantage (read: converting costs money/time and messes up the monitoring infrastructure).
Wow. In summary, he switched from Django to Pylons because:

- He couldn't figure out how to modify his Pinax project
- He couldn't get django-openid to work
- There's no debugger on Django exception pages
- Something about magic imports?

You don't have to fork Pinax to add/remove apps to it. You don't have to fork django-openid to use it in your project, just override the templates. Recaptcha fits into the app model very easily: it's just another auth backend. You can get a debugger on your exception pages by installing django-extensions.
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You are not alone in your desire for better privacy controls. Here's kind of what our roadmap has been/will be:

The last few weeks have been focused on the iPhone app and API. I'm guessing the next few weeks will be focused on keeping the site up (it's already gone down once today because of traffic) and working on the overall speed of the site (that's what I'm working on right now).

But after that, Privacy is the next major item on our todo list.
> The value created is not one year's salary, it's the difference in the present value of an individual without a job and the present value of an individual with a job, including all estimable secondary effects (both positive and negative.) If you simply divide it and compare it to a year's salary, you'll sit there and go 'HURRR THAT IS DUMB', but in reality, you're proving only that you don't really understand policy analysis.

You're assuming that the job will last beyond the year and that we couldn't simply send that person $X dollars and produce most of the same benefits.
I like point-free when I want to express that I'm creating a function on a function. For example, memoize is a combinator that takes a function and returns another one. So I don't mind seeing (memoize f) as opposed to the sloppier (\x -> (memoize $ f x)).

Yet I don't enjoy point-free always. I'd probably be more comfortable with the pointed sum example (although I'd be able to understand either). When there are lots of . and $ floating around, point-free code can be tough to read for the uninitiated.

What you do get out of point-free is an appreciation for currying and partial function application, which are crucial if you want to understand the lambda-calculus on which functional programming is based. If you're doing calculations in lambda calculus (in which there's no distinction between first-class "data" values and functions, at least in the untyped version, because all objects are apply-able) you're constantly removing extraneous variables.
Well, JungleDisk is a monthly service from $2-5 month (plus S3 charges) depending on the plan you choose. Arq is a 1-time $29 cost (plus S3 charges). The other big difference is that JungleDisk is a Java app and doesn't have a native Mac look and feel.

Also Arq is a lot simpler to use. I really need to put up a screencast to show that.
Yeah, I remember being afraid of breaking computer parts putting them together or taking them apart. Then, after I accidentally dropped the screwdriver, pointy end down, on a few important looking circuits on the motherboard and it kept working, I realized that things weren't that fragile.
Ah, yes I agree with you. Success comes from tenacity. But the original comment made me think all start ups should be sprinters. Some of us are marathon runners, or even long distance walkers! We get there, slower. But the persistence is just the same, even more, perhaps, due to the longer time frame.
THANK YOU. I think this feeling of invincibility the kids have these days is a by-product of the cocoon we are now bringing up children in. I bet none of the youngguns reading this have lost a grade school friend and a cousin under the wheels of a school bus. They'd know that sometimes, when one takes risks, there are consequences.

Sometimes I prefer taking care of somebody's computer, precisely because they might break something. Nowadays you can still burn an LCD if you neglect the screensaver and powersave (10'000 hours backlighting MTBF can really fly), or burn a nice annoying image in your display. You can mess up your Windows installation pretty bad if you play in the wrong places. And don't get me started on giving root access to grandpa. I don't see much value for some people in learning to rebuild an OS installation from scratch. Like with kids there are times to encourage experimentation, and there are times to be cautious.

There's a whole school of thinking that value safety first. About 15 years ago there was a bold data entry clerk that wasn't afraid of fixing problems by himself. Faced with 2 waypoints called "R", he decided to encode one point as "ROZO" and the other as "R". As a consequence an aircraft turned into a mountain en route to Cali, Colombia.

Toyota, presumably because of sloppy programming in a cheap microcontroller, is learning that when you take somebody's code without looking, you get all his problems too.

It's fun to take risks sometimes, go into uncharted territory, put yourself in a situation to be exposed to new unfamiliar things.

But please, don't make it a point of being careless.
I think the evidence is pretty convincing that they were counterfeits created by people with no connection to Intel.

Putting the CPU/heatsink aside - If you wanted to ship a demo unit, wouldn't you just use the exact same box that you're already producing thousands of in the factory and slap a "demo" sticker on it? Even if you made a separate demo box, there's no reason that the boilerplate text wouldn't just be a copy/paste. It's obvious that someone not familiar with English and French manually copied the text (the French text is even worse than the English; the accents are missing pointing in the wrong direction).