skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most major issue is managerial - the Xbox division from what I've heard has managed to conquer many of the serious management issues that plague the rest of MS (particularly the "main" teams, Windows and Office). MS is infamous for having a thick, thick layer of middle management that has proven to be detrimental to innovation and productivity.

I think MS's long-term success hinges on being able to determine the managerial how and why of the successful, innovative teams at MS (Bing, Xbox, etc) and transferring that to the rest of the company.
Objectivism is -- literally -- orthodox Marxism with different words filled into key blanks.

Don't believe me? Try it for yourself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=965622
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They can still do a slam dunk ... the mobile market is big-enough for everyone to fit in.

Anyway, why in the world would anyone use Windows CE when there isn't a market for third-party apps on WinCE? What incentive does it offer for mobile manufacturers? Pocket Word?

That's what Apple (and also Palm and Nokia) did right ... delivered their own software, their own hardware, created a market for third-parties, delivered a decent design (personally I don't think it's revolutionary. it irritates me actually).

Hopefully Google/Microsoft learns from this. More competition is better for everybody.
I'm not disputing your number per se in the I think the U.S. system is too expensive and I suspect the system in Canada is cheaper than the ugly hybrid the U.S. has. But having said that, as someone whose looked at the numbers, the facts you quote are largely bull (sorry)

If you look at the breakdown of things you'll see that a lot of the cost difference is because people in the U.S. have a choice and they choose the more expensive option. There are also issues of tort reform which the U.S. desperately needs. Because the current system leads doctors to order thousands of dollars in additional treatments to rule out things that Canadian doctors don't have too (and while the actual suits themselves are a relatively small portion spent on health care it should be mentioned that the U.S. pays 4 times more per capita on malpractice suits)

As for wait times it's true but the base line number doesn't take into account the fact that many don't have health care. Again I reiterate the U.S. system is screwed up. But the fact is people with insurance in the U.S. tend to have shorter wait times and it's only when you factor in things like free clinics and government programs that the wait times rise above those in Canada.
I don't know about any of that stuff, but I think you've successfully shown me a sexist.
Well what it does prove is that the European system isn't the unmitigated disaster that conservatives and libertarians here claim it is. I'm personally all for a free market system, but I think it's counterproductive to be in denial when the other side brings up a damning data set.
That's the stupidest rationalization I've ever heard for why we should continue to deny basic equality to a significant portion of the population.
Well, mobile phones are a huge market for this stuff right now. I've found that regular DHE adds latency perceivable by the end user in my mobile apps, because they have to wait for the (fast but heavily-loaded) server to calculate the modular exponentiation, and then they have to wait for their slow phone's processor to calculate the modular exponentiation.

When I said AES-CBC-SHA, I meant AES-CBC-HMAC-SHA. The TLS ciphersuites are named without explicitly saying "HMAC"; e.g. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA is RSA key exchange with AES-128 in CBC mode as the bulk cipher, authenticated with HMAC-SHA1.

The practical problem that people will have with your advice is that they will want to implement it using TLS (despite your recommendation not to use SSL), and TLS doesn't have any standard AES-CTR-[HMAC-]SHA256 cipher suites; there's only standards for AES-CBC-[HMAC-]SHA, AES-GCM, and AES-CCM.
Depending on the complexity of the charts, Google Chart Tools may work for you: http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/
http://progressive.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/article.php?article_... speaks of the place of privilege in Objectivism. If every child was guaranteed equal access to health care, food, shelter, good education, and health care, I would have less of an issue. However, as Objectivism stands, what we really see is a de-facto neo-feudalism.
Does France not have their equivalent of the FDA and AMA?
The data says the average brit lives longer and healthier than americans, and the fact that anyone, including temporary visitors can get free healthcare in britain is 'awesome' from the viewpoint of 'humanity' compared to the travesty that is american healthcare.
My needs aren't typical, but I think that the need to run streaming audio programs in the background is, for now, even less typical.

You're just violently wrong about this.
Go over to the App Store and have a look at Pandora's reviews, if you want to see 10,000 or so users who disagree with you about the importance of background streaming.

Pandora is among the most popular apps for a reason (quick survey, how many other iPhone users reading this thread haven't used it at least a few times, if not regularly?) and the lack of background streaming is easily the #1 complaint.

Generalized multitasking, meh, but there is no technical reason why allowing a single background-streaming operation should interfere with other applications, and there's no conceivable reason why Apple couldn't allow apps to do it. They're just being, for lack of a better term, weird about it.
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I don't see any problem with this, it clearly states that the articles are from Wikipedia. As long as they don't change the license they can more or less rework and distribute it however they like. There are also others doing similar things.

http://www.wissenmedia.de/wissenmediaverlag/verlagsprogramm/...
http://pediapress.com/
VHS was released in the mid-1970's. Betamax was released in 1975. They are widely considered to have popularized (or been popularized by?) video porn.
That's not really true. The reality is these systems are bankrupting themselves in almost every country that has them. Including Canada: http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/98041...

In fact I'd put the people in the U.S. against single payer a step above advocates only because at least they realize their system isn't working while many single-payer advocates refuse to look at the flaws in their own system.
Perhaps something like this? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb
Consumers of pornography are victims?
Full employment is a threat, not a promise.
I've seen that, how ever I probably should have mentioned some of the charts will contain confidential financial information making that solution impractical, possible illegal.
I do believe I just pushed you over the threshold, if it's 200 as was rumored.
If we want lower-cost health care, we should enact stricter intellectual property laws, and require other countries license and pay full fair for medical advancements made in the United States. 82% of global R&D spending in medicine comes from the United States.

The author of the article was frivolously using medical resources, which is why he couldn't get insurance. If he has been so healthy that he hasn't missed more than three days of work due to illness since 1986, why does he need "routine checkups" every four months. If I was looking at that from the perspective of an insurer, the conclusion that I would draw is that, should this guy ever actually come down with something, he'd be in the hospital for months.
They'd need to sort this out before it can be widely recommended:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html#xss
Well, to be fair, It's not clear that Microsoft would have come up with the Zune interface on their own without a number of companies such as Apple, showing how successful such a platform can be.

It's easy to say "Create a simple, consumer oriented, touchscreen device" - it's entirely a different thing to implement. I've been using, and hating, the Windows Touch Screen Kiosks for over 10 years, frequently at Movie Theaters. Someone has taken a Desktop OS, and just ported it to a touch screen, rather than starting over from scratch, and saying "What should a touch screen OS look like" (Hint, it doesn't have a mouse pointer)

Also, note that Microsoft _did_ try and start over with a "simple, icon oriented, technology free" user environment - Microsoft Bob was that technology attempt. It was just a failure.

Perhaps the lesson to be learned about Bob, was that it's important to fail more quickly, so you can tack and take on a new approach. The goal was admirable (eliminate the technology interfering with the user doing their job) - Just didn't have the right team/processing/hardware at the time.

This may be contentious to a less informed audience, but in Many ways, the goals embodied in Microsoft Bob are represented in the iPad.
So, in this brave new license-less world, how would we ever get any new doctors? Who is going to recommend a doctor he's never used before? If a charlatan sets himself up as a doctor, how many people have to die under is care before word gets around that he's really no good?

Maybe florists are taking it a bit far, but it's easy to see a yoga instructor could cause someone serious injury if they didn't know what they were doing. Even interior designers have to know about things like egress paths or they could end up creating a space that becomes a deathtrap in the event of a fire.
Legal rights protected by the supreme court are "harmful content" now? I didn't get that memo.
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Right on. Glad to see this post because the nexus of e-commerce and ads is a smart place to be in. I have been working on that problem with a partner for 6 months straight. We are launching soon for our first customer who is very well-known, and we have customer number 2 signed on (and lots of warm leads, too).

We are doing exactly this: building and selling "a 'turnkey' monetization mechanism and selling into publishers".

The next few weeks should be exciting and I would like to give you updates as things happen if you are interested. Our product info is at: http://palermo.infusedindustries.com
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It violated the license ... if you read the first link, the author claims that the individual deleted copyright references of him and of plugin contributors, taking credit for the work.

The author also said he doesn't have the money or the time for legal recourse.

I also don't fully agree with Mark ... there is an unwritten rule in any society ... when people are being nice giving you stuff for free / helping you out, don't piss on their lawn ;)

In real-life when this happens, you just slam the door on his face next time. This also happened here, but unfortunately because of the easy means of redistribution, the author just slammed the door on everybody.
Yes, I assumed you meant AES-CBC-HMAC-SHA. But CBC mode is horrible, and nobody should use SHA any more.

And I agree that out of AES-CBC-SHA, AES-GCM, and AES-CCM, the best choice is AES-GCM. But my advice was primarily directed towards people not using TLS.
We're open to suggestions for a better sixth question. Right you are, the beef one was suggested to us by a vegan, who pointed to some articles suggesting that red meat was a major cause of global warming. Our research hasn't confirmed this, and that is obviously coming through in the survey.

I should mention that the main emissions issues with cows that we are aware of are from methane and nitrous oxide. The former comes both from the cow itself and its manure; the latter from its manure and from the fertilizer used to make its food. There's some issue with CO2 and land use changes (e.g. cutting down forest for cows to graze), but that's not as big. Methane and nitrous oxide are 20 and 300 or so times as strong greenhouse gas as CO2 on a 100-year time scale. However, we clearly didn't find it to be nearly as significant as the other categories.

We wanted to include some question about a type of consumption that wasn't about home energy or transportation, because a significant part of one's emissions does come from the supply chains that lead to one's purchases. It may be that there is no one question that would be very useful in this regard. Perhaps we should ask something about which car you drive, or something else to help refine one of the already mentioned questions.
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I feel like I've read this article in Reason before.

http://reason.com/archives/2004/01/09/flower-power
I notice the article didn't mention anything about engineers, either. Licensing doesn't make sense in every industry, but when people's lives depend on someone doing their job right, I think it's fair to require that someone demonstrate a minimum level of skill.
That one sentence has quite a bit wrong and not even wrong about it, and that's before I even get to your implicit demand that I defend the US health care system against your boosterism of the British NHS.

This is why I don't argue for or against health care reform.
This is again the problem with anecdotal evidence. Everything I've seen points to costs and care being relatively similar between insured U.S. people and Canadians. At least those in good health who have occasional mishaps.

The question is in the specialized medicine. When you have Canadian officials flying to the U.S. for heart surgery and cancer you start to wonder. The same can be said for the relatively large industry of U.S. insurers who sell policies to Canadians.

Again, that stuff might not mean anything but it points out the problem of anecdotal evidence.
The prevalence of 'porn for men' [1] doesn't counter the argument. You're just pointing out a (largely historically-biased) discrepancy in the target market.

'Porn for women' exists. The day it sells as well as 'porn for men', will something about 'porn for men' have magically changed?

Frankly, that it's not yet as popular says more about our society's remaining sexism [2] than it does about whether pornography, as a concept, is inherently sexist.

And I'd also argue the point of whether the male actors are objectified in the same way the women are.

There is no shortage of 'porn for men' that revolves around the concept of the 'hapless delivery guy as sexual object'.

The assumption that this isn't equivalent is purely sexist. The argument ("what red-blooded male isn't Ok with that?") presumes that no red-blooded female should be Ok with a 'hapless secretary as sexual object' fantasy.

And there's absolutely no basis for that assertion. Objectification is high on the list of fantasies for any gender and any orientation. Assuming it's something women shouldn't or don't want is sexist repression, pure and simple.

[1] The idea of 'porn for men' vs 'porn for women' is pretty useless. The genres of porn are many and varied and have wildly differing levels of objectification of the parties involved, wholly separate from the concern of who their typical consumers are.

[2] Our society holds women to a far higher sexual standard of chastity and more-harshly represses any exploration they may do, as compared to their male peers. To say nothing of what we imply their fantasies and erotic consumption habits are or should be.
Meta-point: I'm surprised at how accurate this article was in terms of the way it explained the concepts and the jargon. It seems to be rare in non-tech publications.
No, I understand Rand pretty well, though admittedly not as well as I used to. Her ethics comes to a conclusion--non-aggression--that contradicts with her political conclusion--government. Axiomatic logical systems don't mean you can derive contradictory conclusions as long as one is further downstream than the other. (If you do, you have chosen contradictory axioms, which has problems, especially if you explicitly choose non-contradiction as an axiom!)

Not to mention, the logical path between Rand's axioms and the rest of Rand's philosophy goes through a thick layer of vague handwaving and unjustified assumptions.
Showing a bit of flesh, or all your flesh for that matter, isn't objectification. Objectification is rooted in what's being communicated, so its much more dependent on the subject and publication's reasons and context.

Trite examples:
Picture of Bikini Clad girl visualizing results of weight loss through hard work, healthy eating, and going to gym for purposes of promoting a better lifestyle = not objectifying

Picture of Bikini Clad girl indicating you need to buy XYZ or you'll never be beautiful like this specimen = objectifying.
Doctors don't need the threat of tort to have an economic incentive to oversupply health care, while consumers of health care have a significant asymmetric information disadvantage, so they cannot necessarily contradict their doctor's advice.

Meanwhile, non-mandatory health insurance, in the absence of other factors, is a recipe for adverse selection.
Funny you should mention that, as the doctor shortage in the US is at least partially caused by lobbying by the AMA:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor-shorta...
I'll have the same care for at least 18 months after losing my job and even after that I'd have a variety of government programs that would provide for me. But the main point is that no one in the U.S. thinks our system isn't screwed up. The question is whether single-payer is the solution or not.
The problem is American doctors are smug elitist's who believe they're worth half a million dollars a year and american society believes they're worth it too (possibly through watching too much medical dramas on television).

Every other country in the world treats theur doctor's as humanitarians who deserve an above average but honest wage.
They can deliver (for now). They do prioritise servers on the network so these servers are getting better bandwidth than most others that I have seen.

The only problem is that they will wise up eventually and fix the issue (especially when you've just walked away with 500TB!) so it is quite a gamble.

If you do ever get a HG-10G Large from them and get bored of it, I will gladly take it off your hands. (Possibly throwing in something to help with the set up fee depending on how much I need it).
I appreciate the correction. My statement was based on my memory of the news reports at the time. Clearly my memory failed in this case. :-p
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There was an iPhone game released in July that uses the same effect for a ball in maze type game.

http://www.dromsynt.com/diorama/
Pardon me for quoting from something I wrote above but I didn't want to retype. The bottom line is Data Sets can lie (though I agree single-payer is certainly not the disaster some make it out to be). The quote...

If you look at the breakdown of things you'll see that a lot of the cost difference is because people in the U.S. have a choice and they choose the more expensive option. There are also issues of tort reform which the U.S. desperately needs. Because the current system leads doctors to order thousands of dollars in additional treatments to rule out things that Canadian doctors don't have too (and while the actual suits themselves are a relatively small portion spent on health care it should be mentioned that the U.S. pays 4 times more per capita on malpractice suits)
As for wait times it's true but the base line number doesn't take into account the fact that many don't have health care. Again I reiterate the U.S. system is screwed up. But the fact is people with insurance in the U.S. tend to have shorter wait times and it's only when you factor in things like free clinics and government programs that the wait times rise above those in Canada.
Another little-known fact: that JVM that Erlang was originally written on? It was coded by Scott McNealy! It was a side project of his to prove to Bill Joy that he wasn't just a suit.
Framing the argument as socialist vs capitalist is not helping us work towards a real solution to America's health problems. France is not a socialist democracy nor is the USA a true capitalist republic. We need to dissociate ourselves from idealology driven plans and name calling.

That said I have enjoyed the medical care of The Netherlands and the USA at different times and I much prefer the Dutch system. It's just cheaper and less hassle. They're both public/private organized but for whatever reason the Dutch system is just easier for me to deal with. I don't know which one is socialist or which one is free market or whatever. The Dutch one is just cheaper and I get better service.

Maybe the USA can attain lower costs and better service through introducing more competition. Or by training more doctors or public support. I don't care what idealology my elected leaders pick. Just come up with a plan, show me what I have to pay to go to the doctor and I'll decide if I move back to the USA when my time in Holland is up. But that's not going to happen if we as Americans can't move away from infantile and outdated idealogical debates rooted in cold war fear mongering.
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If that was the reason then I would agree with the GP, but the real reason is virality. A music video is a promotional tool, not a cash cow.
Have you ever exceeded your linode bandwidth cap?
If so, my real question is what happens then. Will linode ever charge you more, or do they take the responsibility of blocking you at the right time? (I mean in practice... I don't care about the theory. Hence HN!)

As I'm just getting started, I very much doubt I'll reach the limit any time soon, but I would like to eliminate surprises as much as possible.

Thank you!

Ezequiel
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I prefer: it's cheaper to ignore marriage than have to deal with possible fraud. Legally marriage was important because it conferred rights to spouses (mainly wives) that they otherwise wouldn't have had. Now that everyone at least nominally has the same rights, what's the point?
Nice so no need to worry about a fork.
Just open the Web Inspector and view it in the Resources tab.
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One wonders though why they didn't implement it as a general js library that could also be used from gm.
Your reference to BOB sent me researching:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
Thank you; this is quite useful, and it confirms some of the same feedback we've been getting from other sources. We will definitely start a new iteration of this page using these ideas. At the very least, we can figure out a way of setting of our goal such that the instinctively "best" value is unattainable. And we will try to keep pillaging to a minimum...