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It's funny, I've actually sort of quit visiting HN daily and gone back to /., because the comment quality seems to be decreasing. Yes, Slashdot is still full of morons, but the moderation system just... copes with garbage better, and I have no expectations of politeness.

Remember when every week there was a thread bemoaning the slow demise of Hacker News? Now that it's actually happening, no one cares.
i disabled acceleration, and i suspect many others do.

i tried several times to get used to it. it's just not predictable enough for me. hitting or missing a target just because i was too fast or slow, sounds useless to me.
The "trying multiple approaches" point he makes at the end exists in America, to an extent. It's called federalism. There can be substantial, though not absolute, differences between the laws of the states. Different states value different things, so some will try things before the nation as a whole is ready. If they work, the nation can look to their experiences and try to implement a nationwide plan that has all of those benefits and avoids any pitfalls they experienced.

Examples: women's suffrage, universal healthcare, medicinal marijuana even though it's federally illegal, physician-assisted suicide for terminal patients, probably tons more.
I think it's nice to have a sustainable revenue for a site like Mixergy. I find the content very useful and i like it to exist for a long time.

I can imagine it costs to maintain a site like Mixergy and to produce it's original content. So having a revenue stream means the founder can continue to focus on Mixergy, continue to improve it, continue to produce more contents and not have to worry about how to spend his time finding a living.

Of course, eventually it can lead to more income than he probably needs to operate the site, then i think that's also his choice how to spend the profits anyway he sees it. As far as i see it, i like Mixergy to continue, and if it starts to charge for some of the premium features, then i will evaluate if it's worth for me paying it.

With income i think there's always the concern if the motivation to move forward with Mixergy is only about money instead of about creating valuable content for it's users. For this concern, i think we can all evaluate for ourselves if we see it like this, and can decide not to use it anymore. And, as we all know on the web, it's very easy to switch to a different site.
so this is basically latex, with with support for unicode and difficult font features...

i'd love to see someone submit a different approach to writing technical documents. something that doesn't look like the macro system of latex, or a soup of XML tags.
This assumes the goal was/is clarity. Unlike software, people have a lot to gain from being unclear in this case.
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Which subclasses do you want to search through in JavaScript?

That said to me lua seems a little bit like JavaScript's sane cousin.
Define "quite different".
Neat use of development tools to illustrate a point. But, to be quite blunt, very naive in the best case and quite stupid in the worst case. We can "ship early, iterate often" in software because quite often it doesn't cost much (certainly a naive way of putting it) to do so. However that paradigm breaks down even in software when dealing with things like enterprise software or say medical device software or FDA approved software. Guess what would happen if the large scale infrastructure construction industry went with this model?

Think about what it costs for an organization to adapt to a new set of regulations. A boatload of new paperwork needs to be setup, ordered, printed and distributed, after a thorough analysis of the regulations and a whole long process to determine documentary requirements. If software or electronic records are used, those need to be updated. The new set of rules need to be communicated to a large number of participating health care providers with appropriate document and/or software updates. Each of those things needs to be audited and certified. Personnel have to be trained to understand and comply to the new set of regulations and potentially certified. There would be a period of enforcement where nobody will quite understand the limits and those limits would be tested and the legal system would then clarify those regulations.

And that is just the tip of the iceberg. In such cases the massive one-shot refactor gives you way more bang for the buck than not.
> My point is simply that someone at the school decided, apparently, that these books were in some way bad for he kids.

You're assuming facts not in evidence. A more likely conclusion is that they simply decided to teach something else. And, even if your "facts" were true, they don't support your conclusion.

There is lots of great stuff that doesn't get taught. It's absurd to call that "banned".

> Such a school should not actively ban books for shaky moral reasons...

Once again - refusing to provide is not banning. No one is stopping those kids from getting those books.

This matters because when the banners actually come, and they do occasionaly, folks who cry wolf will have helped them.
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> I dont want to live in society where a company can be sued for everything that can go wrong

Well, it isn't for me to argue with what kind of world you want to live in. Those are your authentic feelings and you're entitled to them.

> If netflix failed to hire db security experts to notify them on this possibility, then yes sue them.

I don't know how lawsuits actually go, but in principle at least the idea of a lawsuit is for Netflix to stand up and say "We did this and this and this" and for the plaintiffs or whomever we call them to say "yes but you failed to do this and this" and for a judge and/or jury to decide the case on its merits.

That's a nice fantasy, of course. In reality there's all sorts of backroom wrangling and juries baited into hating the big bad company and what-not. But in principle, a civil suit provides both sides and opportunity to make their case just as you say.
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I like the diff idea for many things in government data.

But the real physical world has much higher costs, ask the hardware manufacturer that makes a chip that is not bought. Software has much easier iteration properties. Hardware and physical changes or slow changing society/process changes are much much harder to iterate. It is like writing code on punch cards or having to make the entire computer.

I think there is a fair amount of experimentation, trial and error and more in healthcare mainly private but also public. What we are seeing in congress is what we all deal with individually and as group, it is just freaking hard to get teams to agree on even a direction on touchy subjects and the larger they get the harder it is. Resistance to change and posturing prevents faster change, mainly because of that error side of trial and error and large doses of groupthink.

We can't easily roll back changes in law, process, society as you can in software. But I agree it is so bad right now we have to do some changes to see what happens.
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Slashdot was great back in the first few months and years. Like many other aggregation sites, it degraded in forum quality as the user base grew exponentially. See Usenet's Eternal September. The Well has intelligent discussions, but it can be dry and academic, not to mention it is subscription based. Digg and reddit are just overrun with lunatics and youtube-esque banter.

On HN, I can read a few interesting articles and comments and feel satisfied. I am learning a lot. I hope I can contribute in the future.
I agree. In fields other than computer programming like physics, school makes sense because there genuinely are years of knowledge you need to acquire before being useful. This isn't true in computer programming since you tap into those years of knowledge by--get this--programming with libraries. And using other peoples' software. Using someone else's web server means I don't need to know how TCP/IP works, or even what it stands for.
Users are often upset about any change whatsoever. A certain percentage of people simply don't like the things they're familiar with changing at all. They will complain loudly. You have to ignore these people to succeed. If you let them convince you to remain static you will lose.

I don't think that's the case here though. It's hard for me to be objective, but I'm fairly certain this change was executed poorly and may have been an entirely mistaken course.

> ...[they] never suggest any specifically or show any evidence they would actually gain traction.

Leo Laporte makes $1.5MM/year on his podcasts with sponsorships. I doubt Mixergy will make that with paid subscriptions anytime soon, yet it has an even more valuable audience. TechCrunch makes a heck of a lot more than that. Imagine how much money Techcrunch would be making if it had gone subscription a year or two into its life.
One question i have regarding these is how fair are the tests, a very quick look at the tests shows for "pidigits" the lua code has the line:

require"c-gmp"(g, aux)

Implying that it is using the GNU Multiprecision Library for it's big integer support, whereas the JS code has:

load('/home/dunham/shootout/bench/Include/javascript/biginteger.js');

Which is apparently a big integer library implemented in javascript http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/

In other words, in at least one of the tests a comparison is being made between javascript and C/C++, not javascript and Lua.
I loved the Foundation trilogy for its ideas, but you can't get much more stark and dull as far as prose goes. The art of literature isn't what you write about, it's how well you write it, and there's very little of that in the Foundation trilogy. There's no artistry in the prose or characterization: it's just a straight translation of ideas to text. Of course, the ideas are very interesting and good, which is what justifies it.
Vancouver is an odd city for that. You can be in an upscale neighborhood, walk a couple of blocks in the wrong direction, and find yourself in an open-air drug market. Go another block and it's back to normal.

OTOH, for sheer number of transients it's hard to beat SF.
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I hate the ones that don't let you unsubscribe because they need you to login first. Then you don't have the login information so you need to do a password recovery, which you can't do without supplying the town your mother was born in/a phone number from 6 years ago both of which you either have either have no idea about or have since long forgotten.

This was my unsuccessful attempt at getting rid of the WAR newsletter. :(
It's an easy mistake, since in the movies, New York City is usually depicted at night and Los Angeles is usually depicted at daytime. Blade Runner (and I guess The Fifth Element) reverse that.
It's very irrational as when they fly on an airplane it is the computer that flies the plane most of the way. (Perhaps I naively think that even a computer illiterate person knows about the use of autopilots).

On the other hand, their other experience with "computers" has been seeing blue screens of death and having to reboot to "fix it".

But perhaps because of this, Toyota has to engage heavily in perception management. Even if they identify a software problem, they would love to blame it one a 'floor mat' as that makes it clear and predictable in people's minds ("oh it's just a floor mat, I understand that") as opposed to saying it is some electronic brain that is damaged that decides randomly to take over and kill drivers.
The one difference is that videos take up a lot more bandwidth than blogs. Hense, it is still probably prohibitive for the average person to post up videos in this way.
We (Braintree) support over 100 currencies: http://bit.ly/braintree-currencies . We're less hassle than other gateways, but getting merchant accounts for international processing isn't completely hassle free. It's more of an industry problem than a gateway problem, but we're working on it.
They may do it, but:

(1) I don't use Google Toolbar, which is required for that to work (

2) I'm trying to wean myself away from Google for everything by dividing my usage out to other search engines

A single vendor solution for something so private and important is undesirable, on general principals. It's a small step, but an important one, at least to me.
If Lehman did it, is it not reasonable to assume that others did it as well?

What lies beneath TARP/TALF/TANF etc. I wonder ... ?
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Or, perhaps it is less that they dropped everything in their race to get ahead, and more that they lost themselves when they became so huge. Perhaps, in the lingo of hackernews, their business model is having trouble scaling past a certain point.
One of the big issues is that any JS function can technically walks its own call stack, which makes inlining very difficult, and for many of these tests the ability to inline is actually a fairly substantial advantage.

The basic problem faced by a JS engine is that if it wants to be able to inline a function it has to be able to either:

* Prove that it knows everything that the function may do -- in effect this means you can't inline any functions that themselves call functions, or any functions that interact with any values you can't consider constant, or identify before you enter the inlined code; or

* Have the ability to at any point in time reconstruct the call stack, and all arguments correctly.

One of these choices is exceedingly limiting in what you can do, and the other is vastly complex.
if it's operator error based, with the driver thinking they hit the brake when they really hit the gas... footwell space and pedal size and spacing- ergonomics, basically- would be very important. It's plausible Toyota's pedal layout is simply a little more vulnerable to this kind of mistake. (not a lot, cause it's still a limited occurrence, but a bit)
It's soju, and he smiles in multiple photographs. Kim Jong Il also likes shoes, plastic buckets, and large control panels.

I find these pictures sad. There's a lot of people working like slaves in NK for whom these pictures document the most important day in their lives. Awash in propaganda, many of them probably sincerely believe they're engaged in a noble mission of freedom. Sometimes I wonder if Kim himself believes he's the only think holding it together.

The regime in North Korea seems to have a desperate need to convince others of its legitimacy, unlike, say, that in Myanmar where the junta holds the country in a equally tight grip but seems to shun all outside scrutiny. Whereas any educated person can recognize Kim Jong Il, even Google has only a few photographs of Myanmar's leader.

(in case you were wondering: http://1763coventry.com/burmeses/index.php/TOC_-_Leaders_%26...)
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The directors cut is underwhelming. I only just noticed the latest release with not 2 but 5 versions on DVD. I had the chance to see the original version when it came out. It really did change the way SF was portrayed on film. Gone was the shiny white, clean environments of say BG or ST. Guess I'll have to ask Syd Mead which is his favourite release when he's in town ~ https://www.alumni.rmit.edu.au/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid...
Pissed away 20 years of your life making great money? Even as enlisted, if you aren't an idiot or an alcoholic, you should be able to sock away far more savings than private sector counterparts at a similar level of education and ability.
Of course, the slowness of a single artifical <50-character program completely demonstrates the slowness of a jit-compiler for a dynamic language, and clearly they should stop devleoping right now.
I have looked at a few of the other tests and nothing obviously pops out as being bogus, so it's likely just this pidigits test which has an unfair advantage
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_i...

An excellent (and short) analysis of North Korea from Banyan, the Economist's excellent new Asia columnist.
I've been using xPAD for a while. It's simple but very useful. My housemate swears by Evernote but I'm not convinced yet.
Interestingly, this reminds me of the distributed cultural nation-states based on interests as described in _The Diamond Age_. The idea of non-location-based national affiliation has interested me since I read about that, and though I've read some about old Iceland's political system, I never knew they had such a thing.
Either have I honestly, and I am certainly not one to join a private army simply because I am told to (this isn't 4chan).

Unless I see legitimate proof of them "spamming", I'm not planning to report then. People who are affected should, but honestly, there are plenty of spammers/scammers out there. Many are probably more important than these, and I'd rather that Google removes links for fake banking sites and such first, than a website which doesn't even have a bad "web of trust" scorecard.
Damn, dude! Fact-free trolling is so karma friendly! I've gotta try that, I've been going about this all wrong!

See, now, I thought that jmackinn's been so very understated and reasonable, thanks for clearing that up for me.
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"can you explain why not?"

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208811

I said there "PCI takes (in my opinion, feel free to differ) a math-lite, "dummies guide" approach to AI algorithms. "

Brad's approach and recommendations are in the opposite direction.
No, I understood that, but it's massively not the same. Metal armor has a lot of problems, like chinks and deformation crushing the flesh below. Plus the rest of your body needs to be geared for it. If you donned a metal helm and started butting heads with a mountain goat, you'd loose. The metal stops your head from cracking open, but that's about it, and you wind up with a host of other problems. The goat has an entire body built for the shock.

There's a ton more I want to interject with, but yes. Just a movie.
The idea of experiment-driven law is an interesting one that should be explored. I'm reminded of a TED talk I watched recently about "charter cities" that have experimental legal and economic policies.

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html
The problem with the comparison is that lawmakers are purposely being duplicitous. It's a well known fact that congress drafts laws in a manner that's designed to turn away the casual reader because doing so gives them the ability to "spin" when re-election comes around. So all the tools in the world aren't going to compensate for someone whose trying to be opaque.
Microsoft seems a lot more tolerant of competing hardware than I expected. Somehow I doubt they're as relaxed about it in Cupertino.
I look forward to seeing PyPy become the canonical Python compiler in a couple of years.

I think Unladen Swallow might be ahead of them on that one since they're much closer to getting integrated with Python 3.0 (and they're supported by Google, who also has Guido on their payroll!)
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start to mine the content being shared through The Platform, present it in interesting ways, and sell ads on those pages.

Sounds like a great idea to me. Just wonder who's gonna get that right first. The search engine company, or the company struggling to keep the failwhale away from a trivial messaging app...
is ./bin/pypy the version of pypy that's been compiled or simply the pure-python interpreted version (easy check is to view it in an editor)? if you're running the interpreted version, then that makes sense that it's 5x slower.
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But seriously, does Microsoft buy its employees Windows Mobile phone? No? That's why nobody has them; why pay money for an inferior product just because you work there? At least Google buys everyone an Android phone.

I work for a bank. I don't put my money in this bank, because their fees are outrageous and their interest rates are insanely low. ING Direct is a much better product, so I use that instead. There is no incentive for me to use my employer's product; it would cost me money. Why would I want to spend my own money to make the executives feel better?
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He tries to string together two different points:

1. The language used for describing a change in a legislative document is verbose and difficult to understand. A simple "diff" of the two documents would be a substantial improvement

2. Because a developer tool (diff) might be useful in one specific aspect of legislation, other development methodologies might also be useful. Specifically, the short time to release, fast iteration strategy should be considered for legislation.

The author has a good point in #1. In this century, we should be using tools that make our lives easier. Maybe not the exact diff tool, although that would be an improvement - but any move away from a prose describing the changes down to the last comma is probably a good move.

Point #2 fails to hold water in many respects. First, the particular utility of a tool like diff has little implication of the end methodology that should be used. Second, even if everyone decided that lawmaking should be more like software building, the "fast iteration" methodology is not necessarily the correct choice. Just because that may be a good way of building web-based software, if you are building software for a space-station, a medical device, or a nuclear reactor, this is rarely the accepted practice. Perhaps law-making is more like developing these forms of mission-critical software systems, rather than web search software.
Some interesting thing he pointed out before is still happening, except not interesting this time because there is no new information.

In other breaking news - other stuff is happening somewhere else: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_some_bul....
V8 is implemented in C++, so should you count it as just a really bad C++ benchmark?

The Lua benchmark uses features Lua can use. JavaScript does not have that feature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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Since I am using Windows 7 my options are rather limited. I think xPad might serve my purpose if only it had an alternative for Win 7.
Agreed. The key is to improve the data collection process. To be more scientific, per se, in how we approach state-wide and national problem-solving. To treat other states as controls, etc. What we have now is people citing different stats from oft sketchy sources, to say the least, when they mean they're relying on "the numbers."