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There are many categories of articles that are newsworthy but not HN-worthy; let's not add another to the front page. The test is whether HN readers will find the article intellectually engaging. Let's face it, this article is two things:

1. The fact that Anand won. Anand instead of Topolov, okay, how is this fact intellectually engaging to me unless I'm a fan of one or the other?

2. The game itself. What's interesting about this game except the fact that it's played waaaaaaay above my skill level, and therefore represents an opportunity to learn? There are craploads of those games out there. You can get a subscription to Chess Life and get dozens of grandmaster games every month. Except for players who are very unusually skilled, this game is not any more interesting or engaging than any of the thousands of games played every year between lower-level grandmasters. Those rare players (certainly at least expert level; anyone under expert level who thinks they can learn more from Anand's moves than they can from a random International Master is fooling themselves) are already following this news on chess sites.

So, to sum up, everyone for whom this article has special interest will see it elsewhere. Nobody who will only see it here can tell the difference between this game and the thousands of other grandmaster games played every year.
In some cases, they take ALL of it (just because the mailing list exposure is that powerful).
Well that comparison is a bit flawed. Compare Django/Ruby On Rails and you will see Django surpassed Rails since 2009....
What if you are too far away from a facility that can provide that for you? Having a syringe of anti-venom with you can be the difference between life and death.
Regardless of how you may feel about this team, this project, or the interesting name, it's at least clear there's some real momentum for an anti-facebook social network alternative.

This group seems to have some good energy but I agree with a lot of others about the name - they should definitely change it to something easier to spell and say.
Really...so releasing in 3 months is not fast enough for you? If it was me, I'd want to work on it for 3 months and during that time - talk to other folks that are working on similar issues and have the code reviewed by some trusted mentors. This is pure speculation on my part but I suspect they already have that in mind...per their blog:

"...If you want to see what we are up to, we will be hanging out on the GNU Social mailing list, as well as a few other places as we work on defining some common protocols between like minded projects."
Or simply revoke the patent for these antivenoms so that companies that don't have the same opportunity costs can enter the niche.

I think it would solve a lot of other problems (e.g. submarine patents) if patent holders were required (within defined bounds) to offer their patented products for sale on the open market in order to retain the patent.
There was a deal a couple of weeks ago that I was considering getting in on. I went back at 2pm, and the deal was closed - so I think they do have an upper limit on customers.
The title is misleading, Wolfire made Lugaru, not the other games. Those other developers have independently chosen to open source their games.
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The funny thing is as you get more talented you start to realize how much less talented you are.
You're absolutely right. In the spirit of HN, I'll build just that. No idea what such a site should look like, but I guess I'll start with a wiki and go from there.
Over a million dollars, wow, pretty amazing! According to the JSON file, each of the developers will be getting $130,000+, right? I'm sure they will be eating a nice success steak tonight... or a fatty veggie burrito for the vegetarians, heh.
False dichotomy and you know it.
What's most interesting about this is that this is as much money as they'd have gotten from going into a seed accelerator program.
Open source 3d printing machine: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page It can make many of its own components so is at least partially capable of self replicating.
Fascinating. I had no idea that anti-venoms make for such a great example of regulatory failure: a completely strangled market and the resulting dangerous shortages.
This is definitely a developers' project for developers. I'd imagine the paid hosting (as Wordpress.com is to Wordpress) version would have a major branding re-think, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others used the Diaspora source to created better-branded hosted free versions, to try and convert the masses to.
"My System" by Aron Nimzowitch - I have a decent size chess library, this is my recommendation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_System
Amen.

I don't know, maybe it's cultural. In 13 years in the industry I never ever met anyone who bluntly referred themselves as "talented programmer". And a few actually had grand egos..

But good luck to them with the project anyway. I like the idea, just that the opening line was sorta gross.
I don't mean to add to the noise floor, but is there a reason you generated a bit.ly link for this? This isn't twitter with particularly restrictive character constraints; all it serves is obfuscation as far as I can tell.

I'm genuinely curious what the reasoning is.
They'd be possible, but they wouldn't be nearly as fast without it.

Java before JIT was added to the JVM was dead slow.
No, it's not, but your point definitely is irrelevant. You see, it's my body, so I can put whatever I want in it, be it aspirin, heroin, thalidomide or cyanide. And yeah, I may wish to make an educated choice about that, but then again, I don't have to.
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As much as you may be against software patents, there can be no current patent restriction on the production of coral-snake antivenom if it was approved in 1967.

The problem described in the article is simply that so few bites occur, the effort to make antivenom is not interesting to anyone with the skills or equipment to make it. This includes individual pharmacists, university scientists, and corporations; all of who can but do not provide antivenom.
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Just last week a family friend was bitten by a huge copperhead and was in real bad shape. My mother, a nurse for 40 years and the director of protocols for a string of hospitals in southwest Missouri, took him to the hospital for care. They were very hesitant to give him the anti-venom, but after about 20 hours and a move to the ICU, they gave him the ONLY dose they had at the hospital. He's a big burly bastard, and they decided he needed another dose. They had to put him in an ambulance and take him an hour to the next hospital to get another dose.

My mother, after seeing everything first hand, launched into a review of their snake-bite procedures. She came to find out after speaking with the head pharmacist, that the anti-venom our friend needed was $64,000 - and they have a short shelf life! This was the reasoning for only having one dose at the hospital they went to.

Our friend is fine, and has a good story to tell. My mother called a 'meeting of the minds' for the hospitals she oversees to try to find a solution.

All that to say, yes, there are indeed problems with anti-venom!
Yes, that's true. I'm not claiming that the just-in-time compilation technique was invented specifically for java, merely that it was a very useful addition to it and that whoever did invent it probably helped saving the platform.

That invention pre-dates java itself by quite a few years, but then again, java has a lot of elements in it that were considerably older, iirc there was UCSD pascal P-code, which was another virtual machine like environment with an abstracted machine, and the 'forth' language which has quite a bit in common with how the JVM operates on the lowest level.
I like it - I've also had your experience with the other Ruby documentation formats (RDoc can become too messy, YARD too many @tags). One potential suggestion:

It might be worth adding some indication of how to specify a duck-type (rather than a Class) in the arguments section. (i.e. "name - The name of the object; should respond to to_s", or hopefully something less clunky than that)
Surely Apple and Nike's successes aren't completely dependant on design. Apple in particular are at least masters of the product launch and PR in general. They also make an above average operating system.
For the longest time there was a theory called "starve the beast". The idea is that Republicans interested in reducing the scope of the federal government could cut taxes and actually increase spending, forcing a deficit crisis and a sudden paring-back of the government (similar to the now famous Greek "austerity measures") and creating a permanent distrust of big government.

I bring this up because it seems like a similar tactic could be applied to the FED. The FED doesn't hyperinflate because there's no oversight or control by Congress--if there was oversight, Congress would do all they could to get the FED to hyperinflate just to increase spending. Maybe goldbugs want to introduce permanent oversight and control over the FED just to cause that hyperinflation, just so they could turn around and say "Look! Central banks are untrustworthy!".

There are lots of similar examples on the left, whether deliberate or accidental--regulating certain industries within inches of their lives (healthcare) and then pointing to it as a market failure.
aaronsw hits it on the head. Under the original, Congress gets to perform a complete audit of all the Fed's activities. Under the passed version, Congress will perform a one-time audit of TARP. I'm less concerned with the ongoing audits (although I'd prefer they remained) and more concerned with the depth of the investigation that will be undertaken.
I'm writing from inside China.

The US has the moral high ground with regards not blocking Dropbox, Google Groups, Blogspot, etc wholesale within the country, but China has the moral high ground with regards not invading foreign countries simply because "when you can you should". As thiopental wrote: "It's futile to expect others to adhere to your moral standards (here: truthfulness) when they think you should clean up your own act first."
You are reminding me of the day I spent 5 solid minutes looking at the word "tonido" trying to work out on my own how to say it.
Counterpoint: I (indeed, an expert) am interested in this article and I may not have seen the game until my New in Chess arrives, because I've been too lazy to keep up closely with the championship. I appreciate seeing it here immediately, just because it's nice to be timely without having to put a chess website on my RSS reader. As I mentioned, I think a club player with an interest in the chess world would find it engaging, even if they "couldn't tell the difference" between it and another grandmaster game.

I don't think your logic corresponds to the actual community preference when it comes to putting things on the front page. There are a huge amount of general interest articles devoted to things that everyone will see elsewhere. It's because people like having one-stop shopping for recent news and because people value the HN comment threads on news items. (I did go and spend a few minutes examining the portion of the game that they're discussing above, and I'm the better for it, I suppose.)

Look, I'm with you if think that we should only have really fascinating content that people are unlikely to find on their own, like some awesome technical Metafilter. I would love a site like that. Go make one. On the HN front page is an article about today's Senate vote on the Sanders amendment; the same "1000 true fans" article we've all seen ten times for two years; an obituary for Frank Frazetta from the NYT; assorted press releases from small companies; a repost from Reddit about Facebook FUD. (To be fair, there are some good posts, too.) So that's not what we have. We have general interest articles about all kinds of vaguely newsworthy things with OK commentary. Hell, we frequently have the very same articles posted month after month. On that scale, I think this weighs in above average.
So why not have a one-time audit of the rest of the Fed's activities?
I hate it when they don't cite the actual papers! http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Millions of people have died because the government has banned certain drugs. Whereas the number of people who have died because of a drug not being banned is zero. It seems like a clear tradeoff to me.
This whole phenomenon makes me happy. I already had 3 of the games, so the user set price hits my sweetspot.

The idea of open-sourcing the games after a set goal is achieved is interesting. Could there be some future business model there?
I usually like Dave Winer's posts. They are sometimes outlandish, but there is usually some beef behind his point. This is a joke. Turning Newsweek into a bunch of blogs would be brand suicide.

Corporations rise and fall because that's the natural order of things. It's not because they have nothing to contribute: after all, startups do it too! Every single corporation he lists provided some valuable contribution to the marketplace, and some of them are continuing to innovate.
One of the uses I thought of was when a waiter does not want to or cant split a bill, simply pay for it and have your friends pay you. You still need to cope with fees but whats a couple of $$ between friends? ( If you are cheap you can take the 3% off the tip for the waiter )

Its also a great use for people who do on-site IT work they can charge on the spot. Just swipe the customers card and you're done.
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Without having to give up the equity, you mean?

True (and good point), but they also don't get the benefits of the mentorship, the alumni & mentor connections, and the shared drive of being with 10 other groups doing the same thing.
While it's done a lot of good for making things safe to eat and is a necessary public service I'm going to have to say that currently:

...The FDA sucks...

You need millions in legal/preparation fees just to get your foot in the door and the level of bureaucratic bullshit you have to deal with still blows my mind.

My company has had a lot of experience in this sorry to say.

Again. Going to reiterate here: The FDA sucks and needs to be completely overhauled. Lots of PhDs and government bureaucrats spending too much time behind a desk with no real world experience and dictating arcane rules to the rest of us - that's the FDA I know.
"Senate votes for toothless, meaningless lipservice."
...
"I'm glad that this step is being taken,..."

Can't say I agree with you at all there. Instead of addressing an issue, they voted 96-0 in favor of 'meaningless lipservice' so that they can say they voted in favor of something useful.
When you measure only the costs of one side and only the benefits of the other, the conclusion is predetermined, and of no value.

How about you engage the question of whether the costs and benefits of our current policy outweigh the costs and benefits of a looser policy directly, instead of just tossing a rhetorical hand grenade into the debate ("look! mangled babies!") and running away? It would look something like this:

"The number of thalidomide birth defects estimates range from 10,000 to 20,000 according to Wikipedia. Given the rate of cancer death in this country, a net one year delay applied across all effective therapies compounded across many years almost certainly outweighs your one example. Excessively liberal medicine policy may kill and maim, but so does excessively conservative policy; it's not a pure win by any means. Are you so sure that our policy is really the best policy?"

This isn't a question you can actually determine the best answer to with a series of anecdotes. You have to actually do a statistical analysis. I have not done this statistical analysis, so all I can say is something like "I'd bet money we're being too conservative", or "My libertarian leanings lead me to say we should have a more liberal acceptance policy on the grounds of personal freedom", but just screaming about deformed babies with no other analysis like this is an emotional tactic that should be replaced with something better. Too many people's lives are on the line for this debate to be shut down with "won't someone please think of the babies?"
> Edit: to be clear, I was attempting to respond to the parent's parent post. I apparently suck at internet.

Something weird happened. When I originally posted, your comment was a sibling post to mine (and was already a child of the root of this thread after the page reload from submitting my comment). I was surprised when I came back to this thread to see your comment a child to my comment.
google googol googel googil...

Do we have to optimize everything for those of limited literacy or vocabulary? I hope not.
Homeland Security might not be amused :)
Ask HN: Still unsolved problems where computer science can benefit people?
I'm wondering, are there still any new real problems in the world where computers can be a good solution? I want to Make something people want, and solve a new real world problem, but have a hard time finding any problems where the field of computer science can contribute a practical solution to the problem. In most cases, I either find a marked is filled with competitors, or there are very high barriers to entry in that area. In other cases, companies don't make something people really need, and spend massive amounts on advertising to create a fake demand for that product or service.

How can a humble programmer make a difference in today's world? How can I find out how to make something people want? Where do you look for problems to solve that really make a difference?
Indeed, it's a bit derivative.

Though I can think of a few other places I've seen it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computing)
This still doesn't seem to be an option for Google Apps for your Domain users.
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It's not that simple. If they allow the sale of non regulated drugs then you'll have a 10x increase in commercials on TV trying to sell you an untested and unregulated "purple pill".

The fine print will say "this drug has not been tested and is not approved by the FDA. It may cause death or create an uncontrolled viral outbreak..."

The drug will sell like hotcakes though because the commercials will have lots of happy-smiley people and the distributor will get a healthy 80% profit margin on the sales.

There's some comfort in knowing that a non-profit agency is looking into the safety of a drug before it goes out to the public for consumption.
I agree. I was mentioning this project to a guy at work but couldn't remember the name. He was intrigued by the idea but that's where it ended. I'm sure as it gets more popular and I start hearing i more often I'll be able to remember it though a good name up front could help pick up steam early on.
Smart phishers should probably start building Google juice for "diaspora login", "dispora login", "dieaspora login", etc
it's different in that we un-americans will probably never visit the site again after finding out it's US only.
That was my comment, too - it's interesting how a program like Kickstarter has become a viable alternative to something such as, well, ycombinator. Noted, though that you're only receiving money here and not the other related benefits, which can be substantial.
So did John Scalzi.

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/12/the-nagging-details-ab...
The one thing separating us from hyperinflation is about 20 years.
The point is that some people, like the entire purity-insane modern Republican party, would look at that decision and freak out running in circles yelling "socialism!"

I just took the cheaper one.
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Apple is systematically cutting their dependence on GCC and related code. I wonder if it's due to GPLv3 or some other reason.
It's also effectively a non-issue. Why not slap a big "THIS IS NOT TESTED TO BE SAFE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN" label on the thing? I mean doctors don't recommend ibuprofen for pregnant women, but mostly because there are no studies on the effects of ibuprofen on unborn babies. We don't out-right ban ibuprofen just because we don't know how it will effect women/babies during pregnancy.
Here is a link to the video from the sharding talk at MongoSF

http://blip.tv/file/3597247
I like the idea but I don't like the AGPL. If their intent is really to solve the problems they state then they should be aiming for as wide a distribution as possible and, GPL should be good enough. If I can't host it & extend it locally without fear of my code becoming (A)GPL then it greatly limits my appetite for using the software.
Watching the video it took me a while to work out what was 'wrong' with the system: it works with cards you swipe, and there's no PIN entry, something I haven't seen in five years (and won't work with any card issued by my banks).

Of course, the US is a big enough market to support a product like this, but it still seems odd to launch something that ignores the current standard in hundreds of other countries, EMV. Not to mention the increasingly popular contactless payment systems.
The eventual Facebook replacement will look nothing like Facebook in terms of functionality. I wouldn't give a penny to a startup/project that positioned themselves against Facebook like this. Any variation of an "Open Facebook" of some sort is bound to fail.

Facebook's real problem is not user backlash from their privacy shortcomings, but the future of social networking in general. Some visionary will beat them to the future while they are busy milking the status quo.

This is not visionary, sorry.
True, but when you're talking medicines, you may not have a choice in the matter. e.g. You come into the emergency room unconscious, what medicines should the doctors be allowed to use?
Your comment is full of the absolutisms and blanket assertions that I'm talking about.

Regulation IS systemic risk. -- Always?

The power and impact of the bond rating companies is also a product of regulation. -- 100%? You see no use for these companies in a private market as a selling tool?

* Oh, and the "mortgage pool insurance" - also a product of regulation. Regulators wanted banks to hold more of those securities but needed to make them appear safer* -- Doesn't really look like they needed a lot of encouragement from regulators to me. I don't think you're telling the whole story here.

And finally -- For example, regulation forced US banks to own lots of fannie and freddie stock as part of their "regulated assets". When that stock tanked, they all took a huge hit. -- How huge a hit? "We require a 1 trillion dollar bailout" huge? I don't think so. Red herring.
- GMail for the iPad is actually decent except for one bug: you can't properly scroll when composing long emails that span one vertical screen space. Again, this just makes GMail useless on occasion.

I don't have an iPad, but is this an issue of the non-obvious "use two fingers to scroll a textarea" that I and others deal with on iPhones?
> Whereas the number of people who have died because of a drug not being banned is zero.

I'm sure this is a debatable 'fact'/statistic.
yeah, that's second thing I thought as well. GOP is definitely on this big time. But unanimity of this totally gives populism of the bill out.
What's an "operation" in this context? Reading a boolean value? Incrementing a counter? Loading a 100kb document?
I don't know if that's a good idea or not. People are mostly worried about the bailout, so auditing the rest of the FED's activities is out of scope. I think the relevant boundary is between accounting for a (legitimately questionable, expressly Congressionally-authorized) bailout and going on a general crusade against the FED.