skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you don't respect their laws, don't do business there."

Uh, so it looks like they turned the lights off on the offending piece of software. Now the ball is in Chinas court as to weather or not they block the redirect.

China likes to shy away from Global Embarrassment. I don't think anyone from Google China will be executed.
"no matter in which country you conduct business, you have to obey the laws and regulations there."

Quoted for truth.
I agree with you (and him) that "science can tell us what human activities foster and correlate with human prosperity and happiness." However, that presupposes that "human prosperity and happiness" is something that we should consider valuable. This is (almost) a classic utilitarian POV. But what if we don't all agree that utilitarianism is what we should be after? What if you're a Kantian? Or an Egoist? Or an emotivist/expressivist?

Harris sells us utilitarianism and utilitarianism alone. His views would be much more palatable if he distinguished between the moral theory he is espousing and his argument that science can help us interpret/apply the theory.
Amazon announces AWS SDK for Java
You're refuting it with examples of men in their mid-30s? That's quite an interesting definition of old age.
It's a frickin' LCD display. Anyone using a computer knows how to read, so they will be able to read the label. Not reading the label won't lead to harm, so there is no need to figure out how to make it obvious to the illiterate and the lazy.
No, but you can buy it cheap from India. If you google "modalert" -- the 4th link down, they have been around for years and will hook you up.
That's why they're leaving, so they don't have to obey the oppressive third-world laws and regulations there.
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It's going to really suck to be you in about 15 years.
How exactly does Google help grow China's economy? I don't really think China cares much for Google -- not the people or the govt. They won't care to lose them. I don't see any evidence that they will. Baidu can take care of whatever crumbs Google leaves behind.
I really hate that argument. It's not like the internet stops existing or has no value or information if you can't use Google to find stuff. Even in China - Baidu has existed since 2000, and Google had enough confidence in what Baidu was doing to buy 2.6% of their shares a year before they decided to tackle the Chinese market themselves.

All they were ever bringing to China was the opportunity for themselves to make money. Just like any business anywhere.
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There is a real need for this in collection oriented REST interfaces. While PUTing the individual properties is possible, it doesn't allow you to

1) Commit a set of changes together as a single transaction
2) Commit a set of changes in a single HTTP request (latency matters)

And yes, you can just PUT the whole thing, unless one of the properties you aren't updating is a 4MB image, or 500MB video.

I'm working with a REST framework where the authors have been forced to use a custom verb (MERGE) to provide this functionality. See http://www.odata.org/developers/protocols/operations
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In fact, no country allows unrestricted flow on the Internet of pornographic, violent, gambling or superstitious content, or content on government subversion, ethnic separatism, religious extremism, racialism, terrorism and anti-foreign feelings.

The US basically does. The government never censors the Internet; producing child pornography or running an illegal gambling site may be illegal, but there is no filter on Google to prevent you from finding those things. Terrorism, anti-foreign feelings, racism, government subversion, ethnic separatism, etc., are reprehensible, but are protected speech here. The government could find itself in trouble if it prevented someone from publishing something about one of those topics ("prior restraint"), and has lost many cases where it has tried to remove this information after the fact.

Basically, anything goes except libel, obscenity with no cultural value, and speech to incite imminent lawless action.

So basically Xinhua, get a clue. China is the outlier.
Aniracetam is a stronger version of piracetam, and taking DMAE with it can increase the positive effects and help avoid the headaches. Placebo effect? Who knows. But the absence of headaches was pretty real.
The internet would be significantly less valuable to me if I couldn't use Google.
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Horrible horrible article see why here http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/worst-sci...
Mac vs PC spoof: Brown vs Harvard
It isn't exactly clear until you hit the actual site - http://www.hndir.com/ - that this is only for students. Just a heads up in case you aren't.
Why? There's other search engines, other maps, other email providers, other blog platforms, other analytics systems, other instant messengers, other social networks, other rss readers etc.

All that would happens is you'd replace whatever you use with something else, just like every other time something online stops being available.
I guess I'm not understanding what this "catastrophic insurance" is supposed to be. If it covers any medical condition that you might get in your 20s -- without charging enormous co-pays -- then it seems an awful lot like regular insurance. I can't see any reason why someone in their 20s would need less coverage than someone in their 70s. You may be less likely to get sick, but if you do get sick, you'll want that coverage even more than someone in their 70s (since you have more to lose).

>If everyone needs "hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetime" they are getting too much healthcare.

Eh? I never suggested that everyone needed to spend that amount. But some individuals will, and not just for "useless operations." There are plenty of cancer survivors who are in that degree of debt.

>Healthcare is best directed towards younger people, where it can make a difference.

I hate how the terms of the debate in America are so selfish. In no other country is there any perception that the old and the young are somehow conflicting interest groups in healthcare. The discussion of this issue is a symptom of the bitterness, cynicism, and (frankly) utter insanity brought about by decades of buying and selling healthcare as a commodity. I just can't engage on this point; I'm baffled by it.
I hate articles like this. I agree that we are not engineers, or scientists, or architects, or designers, or monkeys.

So what exactly is wrong with "programmer"? Even Don Knuth likes that title; TAOCP is the art of "computer programming", not computer science, not coding, and not design.
This doesn't sound sketchy at all.
there was a long reddit IAMA thread where some med student said he'd tried everything and the only one he'd consider using long-term is a daily extended-release dextroamphetamine, like dexedrine spansules. i've got no clue about this stuff but he sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b4duo/iama_grad_studen...
I appreciate the filesystem snapshots that ZFS give me.
There is, but neither is at all related to hacking.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, nurse, or med school dropout. You shouldn't listen to me.)

Nootropics don't work, but this is mostly by definition. Just like any algorithm that works isn't AI, and successful minorities aren't minorities, when a drug is shown beyond all doubt to improve the ability to deliver sustained mental effort, it's not a nootropic. It's a stimulant.

I'm baffled why people spend so much time hunting the perfect combination of vitamins and piracetam and fish oil when prescription stimulants are so readily available, obviously effective, and completely safe at clinical doses. They're the Apple products of nootropics: They just work.
"we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there"

Doesn't sound like they're leaving to me. If they were to leave properly they would shut down all operations and 404 the .cn domain. Instead they've just redirected and uncensored their services. To me thats just more drama, another move on the chessboard.
"ALL complaints were because of experts exchange."

Really? None for Yahoo! Answers? :)
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Eh, piracetam. Anirecatam or oxiracetam are more expensive, but they're also a better value, because while piracetam is cheap, you're also eating three-plus grams a day of something that tastes like ground-up mothballs. (When the author of the linked article says, "it'll probably have the taste and texture of sugar", you should know they're either blissfully ignorant or pissing themselves laughing. Piracetam tastes like sunshine and gumdrops, totally!) Piracetam and friends may work for you, or they may not, but (as these things go) they're among the most benign nootropics. Either way, they will probably take at least a week of consistent use to have a real effect. (For piracetam, at least, that's often too much trouble, though gelcaps help.) I still wouldn't necessarily recommend them, but odds are you'll just find them boring and move on, neurons intact, albeit with a distinct hatred for orange juice.

Taking choline can make them work better, though for some people, racetams (alone or combined with choline) can cause major headaches. Regularly eating foods with moderate amounts of choline (particularly eggs) is a middle path. YMMV.

While not mentioned in the article, I've had good results with l-theanine, which is mainly present in green tea. (The sort of salty / MSG-ish taste from Japanese matcha and gyokuro is from high concentrations of l-theanine. It's an amino acid, and tastes very umami.) At the very least, it counteracts caffeine jitters, and if you're still reading this, you may already be taking enough caffeine. A bit makes me feel calm-but-alert, though IMHO there's not much point in taking significantly more than occurs in green tea already. I like green tea, but if coffee's more your thing, then powdered l-theanine is quite cheap - it's extracted in bulk from low-grade tea. It's worth a try.

I've also had good results from getting enough sleep and exercising, as lame as that sounds. (I like martial arts, weight training, and bicycling. Find something fun.) There are going to be diminishing returns from nootropics, particularly if you're sleeping or eating poorly to begin with.

Also: Vasopressin / desmopressin is a major antidiuretic hormone, so if you're experimenting with it, keep that in mind.
Questions about Search Engine Optimization came up a couple of time of this forum. I hope to create a friendly community to demistify SEO.
I have personally interacted with Conversion Rate Experts and they are a fantastic team, solely dedicated to the art of conversion rate optimization. They do their job excellently and as you can see from this post they write great content too!

Really well done, Karl (from CRE) - if you are here on HN, that is.
We had a party on Saturday and someone brought a couple of tubs of potato salad / pasta salad. You'd think these might be a bit starchy, or contain fat, but be basically pretty healthy right? (It does have salad right there in the name)

Pasta salad at least listed HFCS as an ingredient. WTF?
People in power make better liars, study shows
Sure it's theoretically generic, but is there a single other plugin available through Mozilla's PFS server as an xpi? They have records for the other standard plugins, but those all use native installers. I can't find a dump of their database, and it looks like there's no way to enumerate it through the API.

Gnash and swfdec are available via Debian and Ubuntu's independent PFS servers as an xpi in their Mozilla forks, but not through Mozilla normally since I don't think their UI will present multiple options for one set of <embed> attributes.

The feature exists solely because Flash doesn't ship in the default installs of Windows (or in OEM installs in NPAPI form), or any of the Linux distros (just OS X).

Mozilla are collaborators: they don't have the moral high ground here.
So why not just separate the video from the metadata? The PUT would a be small thing thats easy to replace, and contains a link to the video elsewhere.
>Only if said plan sets aside some of the money that you pay now for your future care

No, that's just false. It will pay for your future treatment as long as the insurance company is legally obliged to foot the bill. It has nothing to do with the total amount you pay in -- the whole point of the insurance business is that a company is not guaranteed to make a profit on each individual customer.

If you stopped trying to turn this into a debate over social security, you might be less confused on this point.
There're also: Huperzine-A, Vinpocetine, Phosphatidyl Serine, Phosphatidyl Choline, Ginko, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Taurine, Magnesium. There's a list of them in the book 'The Brain Trust Program', also Ray Kurzweil's 'Fantastic Voyage'.
Because there's a single, vendor-neutral, scriptable, unbranded API: <video>
That's okay. It'll be that way forever. I look at code I wrote 6 mos ago and gasp at the inefficiencies. If the freshman finds a better way, all the better -- the sophomore learns more too!
I joined, and created my school. I've gotten four e-mails about new students joining my network despite no-one else actually being there. Not a huge deal, especially since gmail put them all into a single message thread, but it should probably be looked at.

It might be nice to have a field for people to list their personal websites. You'll find mine if you google me, but people with more common names are going to have trouble.
>When the author of the linked article says, "it'll probably have the taste and texture of sugar", you should know they're either blissfully ignorant or pissing themselves laughing.

The author did go on to say that piracetam tastes like nasty sugar.

Also, your comment is reasonable, so I don't know why you're being downvoted.
maybe if every poster, that will get out on a public surface, should get a city (or whatever legal entity) issued mark/stamp on it... like some products have already, cigarettes, coffee etc. (for taxation/anti-smuggling purposes). That could alleviate false poster issue and be cheap to implement. Might as well earn some cash for the city to keep those surfaces clean / lit or whatever.
Posting this link on nearly every study which is not in your subject area is beyond tedious. I cringe every time I see it.

Ask the question - have their been any well designed studies with nootropics - by all means, but enough's enough. If you have no subject matter expertise, don't make claims about lack of good studies. It's like the morons spouting "correlation is not causation". Sure they are right, but the first step in good science is to create a model, the second step is to test it for causality. In the meantime the best we have is correlational studies. The alternative is just to believe whatever your biases allow.

Diminishing the result of the study (which is often the implication of posting that link in my opinion) is just showing a lack of understanding of how good science iterates between induction and retroduction over time.

BTW: There are 24,000 studies with the search term nootropic. 2500 with piracetam. Even a cursory look may be useful in the future.
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Xen actually does support overcommit: http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/27/xen-33-feature-memo...
should be fixed now, sorry about that
Thanks for that. I definitely need to put some more thought into the design. Hope to have something out next week that is a bit better.
How many people in China have internet access? How many people in China even know what Google is? How many people in China do even care about all of this? I may be naive, but I don't see chinese people being vocal on any matter regarding "their rights" - either they are satisfied (in majority) with their system and it's not anyone's business outside of China, or they are contempt but silent about it - which, again, shouldn't be anyone's business outside of China until they ask for outside help.
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It is not a myth, what worked for SEOMoz may or may not work for you. As even they point out, that is why you should A/B test - avoid applying "best practices" directly to your site. It can actually harm your conversions.
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Rubbish.

How many states have gone down? Somalia. That's it.

Now how many corporations have gone down leaving the people who the corporation agreed to provide services to in deep trouble?

It's almost quite literally infinitely more risky to trust a corporation than it is to trust government.
I prefer Software Developer.

The development of software involves much more, on a day-to-day basis, than programming. Some tasks are plumbing. Other tasks are wiring. For exceptional tasks it's implementing some algorithm that can properly be called programming (Those are good tasks!)

Much of the rest of the time, we're negotiating scope and features, mentoring colleagues, analyzing defects or performance problems, tuning the build system, sketching documentation, assisting support, hiding from QA, or refining our foosball game.
Was the GHC 6.12.1 for Snow Leopard compiled with --enable-shared?

It seems it wasn't. I just tried to install a cabal package passing the --enable-shared switch, and got the error

Failed to load interface for `Prelude':

Perhaps you haven't installed the "dyn" libraries for package `base'?

which I believe means this GHC cannot build shared objects.

Am I right about this? I hope not; the ability build shared objects is one of the key features of 6.12.
If you encounter headaches when using piracetam, or any of the racetam family stimulants, it's a sign that you have to start taking choline. Choline is used rapidly by the body when medicating on piracetam, causing headaches, so you have to replace it with a choline supplement.

I've heard that piracetam is so subtle that it's not worth messing around with, and that aniracetam is only a little bit better. If you're serious about using a nootropic, use a more potent analeptic like modafinil or amphetamines, if they're available to you.
Great idea! I'll paste my poster over top of that stop sign over there! It'll have great visibility!
But the websites of offshore gambling sites aren't blocked at the national border; it is the transaction, rather than publishing information, which is illegal.

(Apparently, the state of Kentucky has recently tried to seize gambling-related domain names held by remote entities, but that's a new local enforcement tactic which may not endure.)
I thought their threat was to leave. They haven't exactly left. It's more like they've thrown more doodoo into fan.
Better use a disposable credit card number...
In these sort of threads, people who indiscriminately encourage people to take amphetamines tend to get upvoted* , and everybody else is a buzzkill. If people don't want information, though, so be it. (I was a bit heavy-handed on the whole "no free lunch" aspect.)

* Update - happened again.

That said, I find it interesting that, in the course of posting this, I've been upvoted and downvoted five times.

Also, "nasty sugar"? More like "ground-up burnt plastic, with a slap".
Well, even countries with very US-like legal heritage, such as Australia and Britain, have tried to impose national-border content-filtering. So sadly, the US is still somewhat of an outlier. Turns out putting an explicit absolutist free-speech right in the written constitution was a good idea!
Internet censorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

Pervasive: Burma, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, People's Republic of China, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

Substantial :Australia, Bahrain, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Nominal and others: Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia , Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America

Specifically the US, although not much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
As a recent immigrant to Canada form the UK, I am not surprised by this. I have seen Canadian TV; I do not intend to do so again.
I can second its truth.
Piracetam for me is about as effective as Adderall. Which is to say that it is very effective. I took it a lot in college. Be careful taking it with coffee though, it potentiates stimulants.
That's not ok at all. You can't toss someone who doesn't understand what a function is into large-scale application development (which is what I was doing first semester sophomore year) and expect them to get anything out of it.

There's merit (a lot of merit) to the idea of pair programming as a way to learn programming. I just don't think the logistics of freshman/sophomores working together are realistic.
Did anybody try to copy and paste any portion of text from that article? Pretty nice trick
Fairly certain that zpool and friend live in /bin or /sbin, so you'd still be pretty hosed if you lost all your system binaries.
Site's not working on IE8 / Windows 7 64-bit - everything is completely skewed etc. I suspect it's related to this?

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/ie8-64-bit-windows-7-an...
Except for the fact that google was allowed to get away less censoring than the other search engines as well as making it obvious that filtering was going on. Google provided a service in china while making that money and improved the freedoms of Chinese citizens with the above mentioned tools.

I'm proud that google is not above turning away from money on moral grounds. And whether you buy the Press Releases or not they seem to have had plenty of moral reasons for the withdrawal.
Will factories move back to the city?
I think the advantage is that you don't have to get a prescription.
I'd think what Magnus says he does is more of the exception rather than the norm. Most chess grandmasters, like successful writers, are extremely disciplined, so I believe following a schedule definitely helps. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, Magnus wouldn't rather prefer a timetable. Just my two cents.
if you could recover "cat" and if there was /proc.. oh well, lots of "if there were".
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They are no longer serving search from china. That means they are no longer responsible for censoring those results. China is responsible for censoring them. China has no laws that say just because you have a presence in our country you must censor all of your sites on the internet. The redirection is merely a courtesy to the china users not all of whom by the way are in china. The Hong Kong site is still censored just this time China has to do it all by itself without Googles help.
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While true, you can boot from a removable media and restore the snapshot fairly quickly. The original article author seems to have had a problem where he wasn't sure what exactly did the system/boot backup contain.
I posted comments elsewhere in the thread. Briefly: Overrated, probably not worth the trouble, but at least pretty benign.