skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It already does for other criteria, like how much is paid by the content provider to have the relevant cable "still work flawlessly" (such behaviour sometimes raises a scandal).

The problem is the network you talk about is a bunch of interconnected machines and cables, each under the control of some entity, which is often a profitable company. What you propose would be very difficult if you want to preserve (the illusion of) net neutrality.
An iPad add-on for those who had playing arcade games using a touch screen
I am serious when I say that the GAE loading request time for a Clojure app is noticeably longer than the time for Java or Python. I searched for some benchmarks and found this: http://github.com/garyburd/app-eng-cold-start-test See http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/12/request-performa... for more info on loading request perf.
The intro implies that this article is an excerpt from the MEAP edition of The Joy of Clojure. I don't recognize a lot of it from my 4-chapter MEAP copy. Is there a new push due out soon?
Would you expect anything less sensational from TechCrunch?
My guess is that the root cause is really Digg's (relative) stagnation. They all expected to sell out years ago and the drudgery and risk is probably getting to them. They took too much VC, shot for the stars, and missed -- the social bookmarking Friendster. Alexis and Steve of Reddit should feel pretty smart right about now.
IPad + Car = pretty cool car hack
Why do you care if the rest of us read iPad articles? This makes no sense. Is it an extension of the Apple-controls-everything philosophy?
Ditto. Especially after one made a glib comment in front of his intern how a simple procedure (a nerve test) could potentially puncture my lung but it was my decision whether I wanted it.

"What would you recommend for a family member" gets a noticeable change of demeanor/gravity.
Good article! I don't use Clojure much, but the language is fun to code in. I bought the MEAP, and I am looking forward to updates. BTW, I fortunately don't have to code in Java too much anymore, but when I do I have been favoring read-only objects.
What? Ugh. That's depressing.
Jay founded Equinix. After five years, how could he possibly remain interested in yet another news aggregator with gross revenues that are less than his personal wealth? I just find it interesting that Rose is the new CEO. I've always felt that Rose was an actor that Jay hired to play a part, in order to feel like he was putting his film-school background to good use (which is also the reason for the frat-boy fart joke tv show that Rose does).
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First of all, I disagree with the entire premise of the question. Why does the intelligent have an obligation to dedicate his or her life to the creation of maximal value for society? Sounds like Nietzsche's slave morality to me. Why does the attractive/tall/healthy not have a similar special moral obligation?

Second of all, providing liquidity is very important. Sure, you are only shaving off a few basis points, but multiply that by a few trillion and you are creating serious value. How much value does a silly time-wasting video game provide relative to the efficient allocation of the world's capital?

Finance is an extremely exciting field, where machine learning, econometrics, physics, and just about everything else converge. Imagine a world without car insurance, where startups cannot offer equity, where there are no IPOs. Finance facilitates co-operation, trade, and, yes it is cliche, but world peace. If you are interested, please don't let the media and finger-pointing politicians turn you away from this exciting line of work.
Color Things Green...  If you want to destroy the Earth
Lots of reasons, but one is that it's offset by some other kinds of taxes being absent or lower. Our sales tax is lower and collected on fewer kinds of transactions than a European-style VAT, and our personal income tax rates are lower than most other developed countries. Another is that we have a lot more deductions and loopholes: Ireland's rate is lower, but they collect it more consistently.

If you look at taxation as a percentage of GDP, the U.S. comes out relatively low overall. For example, total tax revenues are 28% of GDP, and corporate-tax revenues are 3.3% of GDP; both figures are higher in Ireland, meaning that Irish taxation overall takes a bigger bite out of the Irish economy than U.S. taxation does out of the U.S. one.

Data on that last point: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/27/41498733.pdf
Have you seen the article about the game that was initially launched at 99c and then progressively increased to $350? It's really the best example I've seen about how bad the pricing in the AppStore has really become.

I'm not sure that this is the original source, but its Google's first result: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27628/GDC_Refenes__Saltsm...
Creativity Over Optimization
"What was the success of Microsoft in the 80s and 90s? I believe it was that they had an open system."

Wow, I guess it would take Apple to make Microsoft look open. "Closed Is The New Open"... "Cathedral Is The New Bazaar". Sigh.
Make that nine. Four other companies just commented with open gigs.
$30, actually -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote are all $10 each.
Maybe this is because iPad apps are viewed as "real" software and iPhone apps are "toy" software, due to the screen size differential.
Likely big iPad news. I'm hoping for some type of handwriting/fingerpaint recognition, myself.
MSNBC Blocking Searches for "Wikileaks"
Sounds a bit like Maslow's hammer, does it not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
Very interesting topic!

I use random nicknames a lot. For example on Freenode IRC. I then started talking on different channels and also, without hesitation linked to some of my personal websites. Now I find IRC logs searching for my websites and leading from there, that random nickname which of course is not so random anymore then.

It is a weird thing. You know its public, but you do not expect it to end up in a search engine. After all it is realtime like a conversation and who would think of recording (and indexing and publishing!) those. Until now I used IRC like the real world. You know there are cameras everywhere but you do not expect to be seen on them.
Yeah, the very idea that there's a launch of a Digg V4 with multi-year dev cycles seems weird to me. Usually you don't do websites as if you're rolling out a new release of Windows.
Yeah, I don't understand the complaints about $10 iPad games; an indie PC game is $20 and a "AAA" PC game is $50.
Actually, one of us could have been anyone. It's a quote out of context.
At Amazon this was not an option. They closed the branch in 2004.

At Yahoo i was only a contractor and, to be honest, I was glad not to be an employee there... they closed development in early 2009.

I must really confess, that I don't want to work in old-economy blown enterprises ever again. Also the european dev-branches of US IT companies are usually doing localization only, nothing really innovative or game changing.

This might not be the case at Google but I surely do not qualify to work at Google anyway.
Google can do whatever they want -- there is no slippery slope; if you don't like what google is doing don't use it.
Significant events (note that this refers to the link as modified by pg, not the link as originally posted):

1:11 - We hear there's a guy with a weapon.

1:38 - We see the weapon.

2:05 - Identification of a second weapon. One of the pilots requests permission to engage. This is given; however the helicopter does not have a clear shot and waits.

2:33 - Identification of apparent RPG (is that the camera?)

2:45 - "We got a guy shooting", not sure what this refers to.

3:15 - One helicopter opens fire. The other joins in a bit later.

4:40 - Apparent gap in the tape?

6:15 - We see a survivor crawling slowly, obviously injured.

7:29 - First mention of a van approaching "and picking up the bodies".

7:40 - We see this van and some apparently unarmed men.

7:48 - One of the pilots says "let me engage". They ask permission to engage several times but get no response until...

8:19 - They finally get a reply, and ask for permission to fire on the van.

8:32 - They get permission and open fire with several bursts.

9:28 - Shooting ceases.

(I didn't go much beyond this.)
Ok, fair enough. I appreciate the corrections.
So do you think Kevin is a lame duck over there? I think most people can't fathom digg.com without Kevin Rose. So him becoming chairman and interim CEO will be viewed as a positive to a lot of people, myself included. Even if the VC have control of the board, don't you think Kevin will have a better position to exert influence as chairman? I would be very interested to hear your opinion on this. If that's ok (trying not to fanboy out)
Mobile Blogging: Is it Really Worth It?
Skype could use push notifications for incoming calls just fine.
People who are car enthusiasts are often MT fanboys, too. Presumably because they enjoy the process of driving.
I ran a test this morning, running the Google Maps application as I traveled to work. Wifi-only geolocation continued to accurately position me to the nearest intersection for about 3 city blocks after I left my home access point (and without connecting to any other access points for network access).

So it's got a cache of nearby access points it can use for positioning even without a network connection.

About 4 blocks away, it mistakenly placed me on a hillside 4 blocks in the opposite direction from my starting point -- but the local topography makes it very possible it caught a momentary signal from a faraway access point still in its cache.

From that point on, it provided no additional updates to my location -- even though I was following a 'directions' route previously called up, stepped through, and zoomed-on. From this I conclude: it precaches Wifi points near where you are when initially using location, but not along planned paths or all map areas viewed.
Why do they expect iPad app prices to be cheaper than MacBook app prices?
I can kind of see the point. Website users are infamous for hating change. So it can be easier to make big changes / redesign, and then fix little things, rather than to make small changes that are constantly getting pushback.
Unfortunately you can use the same logic to argue the opposite point:

You just sold someone a minimum $500 device and you're going to charge a nominal upgrade fee on top of it? Why do companies do that?
The list is shown on the page as an embedded Scribd document so enable flash and you should see it.
That's fair.

>If you really believed that the killing is bad, you ought to not enlist

I really do believe that. I even donated thousands of dollars to a POTUS candidate that would have gotten us out of Iraq as soon as he took office. Sadly, 98.5% of Americans still wanted this war, since they voted for Obama or McCain.

>It seems that you're entirely too willing to throw out morals for expediency

If the expediency should mean the difference between my life or death, than yes. I'm just being honest here. In war, I'd kill anyone who I thought was a danger to me, but then I wouldn't go to war unless it was for self defense.

>If you go there willingly, knowing what's going on, you can't use the exigencies of the situation as an excuse, as they're perfectly foreseeable.

That's a good point, but why apply it to just the soldier, why not our Presidents? Wasn't it entirely foreseeable that innocent people would die by going into or staying in Iraq. Isn't it entirely foreseeable that the money we send the government is going to pay for all this to happen?

The reason I defend these heli pilots is 1) because the situation they were in was far more complicated than most people here will admit, 2) they probably didn't sign up to kill innocent people, just like I didn't pay my taxes to pay for the bullets.
What this guy said!

I tend to open a few HN topics at once in different tabs, and in the time it was taking me to work through the chafe I was thinking about the arbitrage between downtown real-estate and the ULTIMATE FLEXIBILITY OF ANY CORD AT ANY TIME!!!11OMG
If you don't already know about it, dstat is a good one too, and lightweight enough that it can be run on heavily loaded production systems w/out as much "top problem" going on.
The current community would most likely say "invite-only" is a feature not a failure.

Dan made the executive decision to open the site up to viewing by the general public against the wishes of a lot of the members.

Community quality is an issue that most sites just try to ignore. When someone tries something different to relative success -- invites are extremely hard to come by and current members are very active -- rushing to call it a failure is short-sighted.
Yeah, I felt a little awkward for him when I watched that.
Always divide the load average by the number of cores.

Maybe we should re-define load average, as the old definition divided by the number of cores.
This has the exact same problem that the JSMin "don't be evil" clause and all other similar licenses have. It's not compatible with other free software licenses.

Code using this license can't be reused in the vast majority of other FOSS projects.
How this hard-coded size renders backward compatibility difficult?
I like how it's been how many hours since this story leaked...and not a single major U.S. news organization covered it yet(as far as I can tell).
At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online
Even more interesting perhaps is that I didn't know that, because I don't depend on news organizations for news anymore. Aggregators have been my default source of news for years. News organizations now have the role that weekly publications used to: they're a place you sometimes find interesting articles about things you already knew about.
"wikileaks video" works. Malice, incompetence, etc?
This is so true. I firmly believe that the reason automatics are so popular in the US is because of the traffic situation.

Edit: And driving a manual in SF certainly tests your clutch skills...

Of course, it doesn't get any easier driving a manual in stop-and-go traffic when everyone driving automatics are so much more prone to accelerate violently when traffic starts moving and then brake abruptly when it stops. And then they get annoyed when people with manuals are content to idle along in second which keeps the same average speed but periodically opens up large holes in front.
Bizarre. "Wikileak" works and brings up wikileaks.org as the first hit.
Equity Simulator
Hmm, I can see that reasoning, but I think it might overall be worse. If you change a ton of things all at once, you do get the user gripes over with all at once, but you also have less continuity than if you introduce a few changes here and there. I'm not sure that a website wants to give users the retro feeling they experience when they were used to Windows XP, installed Vista, and now feel like everything's weird and different.

Admittedly that's wishy-washy, and I'm not against bundling up some amount of changes into groups to roll out, especially since presumably some kinds of changes depend on each other anyway. It just seems wrong if it's becoming a huge thing equivalent to traditional product-release cycles.
Prices also set expectations. If you pay $1 or $2 for an app and it's no good, you get on with your life. If you pay $15 or $20 and it's buggy or doesn't work, you complain in every forum about what a rip-off it was and write a one-star review.

More expensive apps also require more energy to market them. Three screenshots in the app store don't cut it. You need a proper website, and a screencast video, and such.
You flew right over the point, and you had to slather your post in ad hominem to get there.

It's not about justifying carpet bombing, it's about not fighting when you don't have to.

Vietnam was a horrible idea, not because we didn't have precision munitions and rules of engagement, but because we didn't belong there in the first place.

War used to be a big fucking deal. Now, George Bush gets on the television and says "don't worry, we won't hurt any kids, we're using JDAMs." And it's bullshit, we end up killing tons of civilians because people think that ROE and precision munitions will actually make war zones safe. News flash: they aren't, and they never will be. If people realized that, then we wouldn't be in Iraq right now, which is the right thing.
Another interesting thing: on Facebook I have a fake account that I use to check how my account appears to other people. Statuses and links I've posted to collateralmurder.com keep disappearing from other peoples' displays.
Unfortunately, the OP manages to thank Steve while completely ignoring his points.
Facebook Whisperer Speaks About Why Facebook Threatened to Sue Him
Why would it drive you crazy? From what I understand (I've never used it), the Locale app is customizable. You specify what setting you want changed and under what circumstances. I actually use similar but more limited free application on my N1 called "Timeriffic". I have it set to turn off notifications (text messages, new emails, etc) automatically at night and turn them on the next morning. I leave the ringer on though for phone calls, because generally if someone calls me on my cell after 11pm it's probably important. :-)
While I agree that the release of this video is important, I disagree with it being posted on HackerNews. We are not Reddit.
By any chance were you there? I'm kind of curious as to why you would consider Dan Weinreb's account more creditable than Stallman's.

I will say I used a Symbolics machine for a few years and boy they were sweet. Both Weinreb and Stallman wrote some pretty awesome code
My wife is a grad student. Every time she writes a paper, no matter how long, she prints it out and then marks it up with a red pen to go over changes she thinks it needs. I always think this is extremely backwards and she should just edit it directly in word, but it is what works for her. She will surely do the exact same thing with the book she is working on as well.
CNN is also deleting submitted stories about the wikileaks video from their website. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bmr9w/reddit_i_sub... | http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-429272 | http://i.imgur.com/QE5w5.png
Not very well written. The point is unclear... I had to read xxzz's comment to really figure out what he meant (probably because to me as to xxzz, "increasing the liquidity of the secondary bonds market" doesn't sound like "worthless value" at all, so the main point of the article contradicts my sense of values).

I think the question "How do we add value?" is important, but only in the sense that it can help you figure out what are the key activities of the business, that you should be involved in. It can help focus you, basically.
The intentionally misspelled name could be a challenge to new users as it may be confusing.

Also, when I hear the word "dribble" I think of pee, preventing me from taking the site seriously.

Just my two cents.
Modeling cyberattack deterrence on nuclear deterrence fails
Huh. Their office is literally about 200 feet from my desk.

On what people said about Blacksburg: yes, it's cheap. For another calibration point, a bottle of PBR is $1.25 at the bars. Yes, it's a beautiful area.

For the bad: I have to disagree with lallysingh on "if you're single and younger than 30" it's a good place to be in. Once you've been out of undergrad a few years, you start to realize just how young some of the undergrads are. I'll be 29 in June. I look at most of the undergrads as "kids."

In contrast, I spent two summers in the NYC area, and I was amazed at how much easier it was to meet people who were at a similar point in life.

College towns are nice, but the farther you are from being a college undergrad, the harder it will be to socialize.
It works perfectly fine for me guys. I'm not sure what you are talking about.
I'm glad to see prices raise a bit. People don't understand how much work we put into applications.
I'm not sure I see how killing your battery listening to Pandora is more confusing than killing your battery listening to MP3's/AAC's?
I did this with my daughter.
I just tried it, it doesn't work for me either. 'Wikileak' works, but not 'wikileaks'.
The lowest I price my apps (beside rare cases) is $1.99 exactly for that reason. For more people .99 = crap (and often it is true)
I probably shouldn't talk through my hat too much, I've been away so long that anything I say probably isn't accurate. I couldn't help but verbalize my initial reaction though.

EDIT: Although reading through the techcrunch article, I'm more convinced I'm correct.
What's really interesting about this is that, since cyber-attacks aren't as openly destructive or nearly as effective as nuclear weapons, they are actually more dangerous and threatening in practice!
In other words, exactly the way Android already does it? :-)
Ask HN:  Status Message Social Advertising?
Hi All-

I had a weird idea and wondered what HN thought. Lots of my friends use gmail, facebook, twitter, etc. They are often posting status updates which range from the mundane to well, the mundane. Is there any value in paying people to use their status messages for advertising? I foresee tons of technical problems, but they could probably be worked out if it was a worthwhile idea. So, what say you HN?

Thanks
lol, where should I ship it? :)
Yet Bing works: http://www.bing.com/search?q=wikileaks
Personally I've found, "Assume that I'm paying you in cash, not with insurance" as a prefix to a question is very, very helpful with doctors.

Before I tried this approach, I would get "you might want to consider having your tonsils removed. Have a nice day" over and over again for about 8 years.

After I tried this approach it was, "Go see an ENT and have them removed immediately!". From the same doctor who was otherwise afraid of insurance related referral paperwork.
"Lucas's feedback for the candidate started with, "I spent the first five minutes of my interview calming the candidate down after his interview with Piaw..." When the others got to this part of the feedback there was a lot of laughter. I think that was the moment I realized that Bogdan and I would get along, because he high-fived me across the table."

You're a douchebag. I don't think I'm breaking HN etiquette, because I would have no problem saying it to the guy's face.
BBC has had it for a few hours. Not top billing though...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8603938.stm
+1 to that.

I've driven manual for 15 years, but conceded to the wife asking (nay, demanded!) for an automatic on the last automobile purchase. It frees up one hand majority of the time and she doesn't have to think about it through turns.

For me, the benefits of an automatic are trivial compared to the joy of driving a manual transmission, with one great exception: stop-and-go traffic.

The process of driving a manual usually boils down to engaging the clutch partially, briefly, so that not too much fuel is wasted for each acceleration. My shins get tired after at least 20 minutes of this. You would think doing this routine every day would make it more tolerable. Surprisingly, it does not.

Now that I do not have to freeway commute to work, considering a manual for the next purchase. As already stated, they are more fun to drive.

On topic, I'd say this is why I do not prefer Apple's walled garden of simplicity. I don't want these choices made for me, necessarily. I like the fact that I can install any software I wish, at any time. As has been said uncountable times, the iPad is directed at certain types of users. I am not one of those types, and I doubt I would ever be. If I had disposable income (where I could afford to throw away $500 on an entertainment device), I'd buy one. My wife would love it, and I'd use it for idle surfing now and again. I might even make some interesting apps for Safari. Wouldn't want to learn Objective-C though, because what good is writing a program if your own computer won't even allow you to run it?