skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I’m sure it’s easier to layoff someone here, outsource overseas for $7 an hour, and then have to hire the same developers back to fix the ridiculous mess of a software project you got back (ie. rewrite) when you don’t think of programmers as people."

and

"I think it can affect programmers more because of the disparity between corporations viewing programming as monkeys banging on a keyboard whereas a truly good developer knows that it’s much more of a craft or even an art."

The author thinks of her own work as art, but those of fellow programmers across the pond is all a "ridiculous mess". Neat.
And you think this will work and be accepted...?
I still think that the best product reviews are for the three wolf shirts - http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Wolf-Short-Sleeve/dp/B0...
I wonder if Google has the proper Party connections to keep this mischief going — I suspect with the shenanigans they're playing they either don't or don't care about keeping them. There appear to be too many forces against them for this to keep up for much longer.
Why these features are not in iphone 4 for game developers
I would have written this, but you've saved me the trouble of doing so. Bookmarked, and thanks!
Is there a significant amount of people out there who still use IE5.5?
In addition to this, I've also heard the government is also giving money to the incubators.

They've managed to attract Joichi Ito to set up Neoteny Labs there: http://www.neotenylabs.com/
Massive competition from many established companies, $300M+ tooling costs to roll out a new car, low profit margins, high marketing costs, long sales cycles, etc... Auto manufactuing is a bad business to be in, maybe second only to operating airlines. And Tesla owns no special ip on their battery tech, they will likely have to do a lot of dilution in the future to stay alive. That said, I wish them luck, and if anyone can do it, it's Elon Musk.
I've seen too much news trying to spin the "Tesla raises $221MM" as a huge number. Sure, for most of us that hack away on web apps, $221 million is insanely high, but it's important to remember that Tesla's operating at a loss of nearly half a billion right now and is still losing money. The S is necessary to turn the cash flow around.
The responses by demallien and thaumaturgy cover this better than anything I could have written, rather than duplicating them I'll just defer.
You say that homeopathy has cured many people. I believe you have stumbled upon one of the magical things in medicine: in acute cases of most diseases, people get recover. Even if we did nothing, most people would get better. Unfortunately, homeopathy is the clinical equivalent to nothing, so you are only observing people's natural history - not improving their outcome with your treatments. I urge you to very carefully consider if someone needs actual medical care in the future, and to refer appropriately.
There is no earthly way that an app-store style platform for Windows would be backward compatible, but it doesn't have to be. New apps would run in a sandbox and only those would be allowed to use the slick new distribution system, go in the app store, etc. Legacy apps would run the same way they do now. Some day, there would be no more legacy apps but until then, the two types can happily coexist.

What they need is something like ".NET App Framework" that offers a complete platform in a sandbox. They could easily leverage existing Windows and .NET functionality to the point where the platform would be considerably more powerful than iOS/Android/WWW and very difficult to clone. Making it touch-friendly would be a good idea too.

This is a far better option for them than trying to clone Google's clunky web apps or start yet-another-smartphone-platform. There are really only a few critical things that allowed those models to successfully compete with the desktop, so figure out what those things are and fix them. Contrary to Microsoft gospel, the market is clearly willing to throw everything away and start from scratch, just to fix the bloody mess they made, so do it.
China is only nominally communist and has no dictator. I think pseudo-capitalist oligarchy is more accurate.
Just because it's only presentation doesn't mean it's not bloat. Assuming this is a rendered JSON object that's still a ton of extra HTML elements and CSS to render/instantiate than should be necessary to produce the same effect and while that might not be noticeable on your top-end MBP with safari for a lot of devices it does.

It's also just poor craftmanship, I think that's what really bugs me.
Is it really the final one (not a mockup)? In fact you can click anywhere (not just on the image) and it will redirect.
The problem with people that eschew science is that they no longer know how to even tell if what they're doing is actually working the way they think it is, or not.

> Couple of weeks ago, I recommended Rhustox200 to a friend of a friend who had back pain for the last 1 year. This had started when he lifted a heavy object at that time. Rhuxtox faithfully cured him. Before that pain killers were temporary relief.

What was the biological cause of the pain? Was it neuromuscular? Was it nervous system? Had there been any medical diagnosis of injury before the "treatment"? Any follow-up diagnosis? What was your follow-up? What is his subsequent range of motion? How much weight can he dead lift now? Has he taken any other treatments since? What was the timing between your "treatment" and any other treatments? Was his "cure" independently verified by anyone so that he didn't feel compelled to tell a friend-of-a-friend that it worked even if it didn't?

How many people have you "treated" that did not get better at all?

The maddening thing about saying that it might just all be "a placebo effect" is that that explanation implies that the treatment has actually worked, even in an indirect way, when in fact there's no evidence that it works at all.

This is pretty much the very example of cargo-cultism: taking magic pills and then trying to correlate positive effects with them.
[Disclaimer: I am a committer on Project Voldemort]

Redis is very cool (I really want to play with it - congrats to VMWare on hiring its author), but it is neither a disk-oriented system [EDIT: fixed per comment, was disk-persistent] nor (most importantly, IMO) a fully distributed system.

See a comment in this blog post for great visual guide to these systems from these two axes (disk-orientation and distribution):

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2929
Bash sure, but why would Microsoft build an X server? They already have remote desktop technology that works fine. The only thing one would possibly need an X server for is to display unix applications on the windows machine. Why would they spend extra effort for something like that?
He also gave a TED talk on this very subject:
http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/psychopathic_ki.php
This is not completely unlike the process model that Mac OS 7 had. Extensions could easily screw up the system, applications could write all over the filesystem and even damage the "System" resource file. All applications could modify all of memory.

OS X added process protection and fixed most file permissions and /System is almost read-only (some 3rd part still install stuff there). The major tool was Carbon: provide all the functionality as system calls instead of modifying lowlevel memory directly. Carbon was sourcecode backwards compatible, so you could easily modify your app and still have the same binary running on old Mac OS versions, and run on OS X at the same time.

Mac OS would have had Carbon-style protection sooner if Apple had not dreamed of Copland as the golden bullet as the future OS.

Microsoft needs to create a "Carbon" for installing and updating apps.
There is a compilation of clinical cases titled "Microdoses Megaresults" by a renowned Indian homeopathy doctor Diwan Harish Chand. It lists around 400 cases with complete histories of patients each spanning many years.

It is a wonderful compilation in the sense that it first lists all complaints and test results of a patient and then follow up results after treatment by remedies. He has discussed why he selected a particular remedy and why it worked or not worked.

This book serves as a good empirical evidence for me.
Yeah, but...

Microsoft has a monopolist strategy.

That means, among other things, that their products need to be hard to both clone and/or be compatible with.

Microsoft systems then need to have too much complexities and oddities to be bug compatible with. It should be hard to clone APIs etc as parts of other operating systems. And so on.

The implementations also need to vary over time and be replaced periodically.

Just look at their "open" document standards of thousands of pages...

All that can't be fun to work with.

Edit: Word choice, a bit grammar.
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> Not moving because of urls seems like not switching to a Mac because you have all the Windows keyboard shortcuts memorized.

In the spirit of the recent "raw unsolicited advice" to Posterous trend, here are my thoughts: I was impressed when you guys responded saying you were going to add this feature soon. However, playing it down with car, phone, and operating system analogies feels sort of patronizing and makes me worry that you guys might not understand the full scope of the issue:

a) You will lose all of your page rank

b) Anyone who has linked to you (including yourself) will have a broken link

Sure, for some number of users this doesn't matter. For the people who care about it, it is, by definition, very important. What's the point of trying to play down their concern?
Voldemort?
> most of Posterous users are starting fresh

Posterous heavily promotes migrating your blog from other services.
As jasonkester pointed out, the HTML is only sent out once and then dynamically updated with AJAX (or AJAJ, as the case may be). So in the grand scheme of things, those few hundred lines of HTML don't matter much.
Actually, AD is the shortened form for "the year of our Lord". The "Year of our Lord" came first, before the initials.
I see what you mean - if there's no session to keep track of, it's easier.

Also, I would just have to alter tempalias just a tiny little bit to actually provide the service: I'd probably need an alias with unlimited validity (that's something I'm a bit concerned about because of spammers) and a small modification to the smtp proxy - something easily done.

I'll keep this in mind as a feature for the future - or you send me patches - tempalias is licensed under MIT and available on github (http://github.com/pilif/tempalias)
The worst part about this is that they're out there selling this crap. I went to the pharmacy in Wal-Mart a while back for some eye drops because my allergies were acting up.

I was in a bit of a hurry, so I just grabbed one. Fortunately, I read the label. Sure enough, the damned things were homeopathic eye drops (AKA water) with some undefined "apis" extracted from bees. I looked up their website, later. It claimed that their cures would "activate my immune system." Obviously, I put them back, but they were on the same damn shelf as the real medicine and in the pharmacy. Can you say "confusingly similar"? Yeah, they had a tiny label on them that said "homeopathic" without bothering to tell anyone what that means, or that the substance is nothing but bee crap heavily diluted with water.

Now, let's review: allergies are caused by an overactive immune system. Their eye drops, which are often used to treat allergic problems, contain bee bits (which people can be highly, even lethally allergic to, making me hope they really do dilute it enough) and they claim that this will cure me "like a vaccine" by activating my already over-active immune system.

Talk about a recipe for disaster. I was pissed off enough to send out a complaint, but I never got a reply.
The barcode doesn't work for me: Item not found. I'm on a HTC Hero, Android 1.5 (argh), T-Mobile Germany.

Are there any minimum system requirements?

Edit: Duh, it says on the page that you need 1.6.
I'm actually of the same mindset.

I've pretty much stopped watching TV - apart from certain live sports and the ahem occasional downloaded TV show. My life is too precious to spend it watching ads and mindless chatter.
Quite a different tune than Sergi's initial gung ho, human rights are being violated by sensoring searches, and we aren't evil responce.
...except that you clearly don't want to understand the point, because the point -- no matter how it's presented -- is that homeopathy doesn't work, and it doesn't have even a grain of truth.

And, I wouldn't say there's a strong bias against homeopathy here, so much as there's a strong bias in favor of 700 years of science of Things That Actually Work. (Thankfully; this isn't always the case on HN.)
You might find this interesting: http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/12/confessions-of-an-au...

That blog in general deals with a lot of these issues.
To keep your mind sharp, you need to sharpen it. Challenge yourself with e.g. coding katas: http://codingkata.org/katas/
> I cured a large number of people for similar complaints

> my point is that it works for me as it claims.

My point is that you are entirely unqualified to tell what works, and you are going to end up hurting yourself or someone else.

"Works for me" is meaningless. It either works, or it doesn't. In homeopathy's case, it has been demonstrated time and again that it does nothing; it is indistinguishable from a placebo.
Seems like they just want something to say to their investors when they have to leave China. If the government fucks them over, it's not Google's fault. If Google just leaves, then their shareholders might be upset.
The most interesting part of the article: "Part of the reason for building his newest sequencing centre in Hong Kong is to reassure researchers from other countries that the facility will operate inside a reliable legal framework."

This is why, not matter how much capital you inject, more open societies ultimately prevail wrt. innovation.
Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part Two)
Tim Minchin's 10 minute beat poem "Storm" has this line in it.
Sun's failing has been a disaster for its open source assets, not Oracle buying them out.
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Hmm, very interesting. I've never read this, but it's entirely possible that the source I heard it from got it from there.
>I don't think you can judge someone else harshly (especially someone with an infant) for working until he had something else lined up.

But if you're not getting paid (or very likely not to, as in this case) then you're not working. You're donating time to someone. Don't do that if you have mouths to feed.
>>Mac and Linux already exist, and they can beat Windows in the premium/shiny and cheap/utility departments, respectively. Those two right there are going to satisfy a lot of people's needs.

Mac, yes. Linux? No. The key word that Linux distros (including Ubuntu) still miss is usability.

Btw, Windows _and_ Linux user here.
I understand your question and often think the same thing myself. The most gain in flipping sites is in the middle - sites between $1500 and $4000 as these are fairly low investment and quick turnover, but the problem is in automating this. When you try to manage five medium sized sites, you can end up losing entire days :)

I'm working on a new project to manage outsourced web marketing and ultimately semi automate the process of building traffic and revenue to a site. Flipping is, at the moment, only sustainable if you know how many sites you can personally manage (or even how many people you can manage if others are managing the sites for you).
How to choose the gps maps for your auto?
C++ killed my grandpappy - Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding?
You mean this "在新的浏览器窗口中显示查询结果。" option http://www.google.com.hk/preferences?hl=zh-CN ?
"What was the biological cause of the pain? Was it neuromuscular? Was it nervous system? ....."

To use Rhuxtox, we only need to know (short version) if the ailment was caused by strain, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. And it will work. I just mentioned one case but it has worked in many similar cases. In this particular case, the patient had stopped using pain killers because of side effects and he felt much better within first 3 days and after 1 week much better. Rhuxtox will keep working for him and if his complete recovery stops, he will get Rhuxtox 200 again or the next higher potency (Rhuxtox 1M).

"How many people have you "treated" that did not get better at all?"

This is an interesting point. Sometimes when I prescribe incorrect medicine (mostly because I was not careful enough taking symptoms, causes) the medicines does not work at all. Even though the patient is believer. For example if the abdomen pain is due to injury (Arnica 30 is correct medicine) and I give Colocynthis (for spasmodic pain), it won't work. Correcting the medicine will bring cure.

And there are times when I can't help people get better, mostly because I am not that good, though the patient has faithfully used medicine for quite some time. See place effect is not working here.

In such cases I recommend him to get consultation from professional homeopaths I know and he/she in fact gets better from someone with more knowledge. Placebos working again. Isn't it strange?
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It might not be as racist as you imply. The fact is those fellow programmers "across the pond" are usually not experienced. That's why they're so cheap. After they get a few years experience they leave to start getting paid. Because of this, outsourcing firms usually have insane turn over and actually do give back a "ridiculous mess".

If this weren't the case programming would probably have been outsourced years ago. Having face time is worth something, but not worth the discrepancy in pay between outsource and insourced.
So just because scientists have been wrong on a topic we should stop exploring it when newer measuring tools become available? I encourage this kind of research, just because it will probably show that there is more genetic variation between individuals than between races ;-)
The simplest way to increase the effect of the law of large numbers without compromising the play of the game would be to have teams play multiple games. Best out of 15 anyone?
They actually are auctions, just not public ones. Silent auctions, where the bidders communicate privately with the seller.

The buyers set a price they will pay, possibly a price x number of shares matrix.

Then the company picks a price to maximize the amount brought in.
It's from Tim Minchin, in his poem "Storm". It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk
The man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills in 9 years
How Well Do You Know Your Twitter Followers?
>Ah, I thought everybody wanted to be successful? ;)

In Vienna? HAH AHA HAHAHA HAHA AHHA HAHA HAHA HA HAAA!!!

ROFL

You haven't lived here long.
that would be "does the entire keyspace fit in memory?"
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The way to fight employer abuse is the same as it's always been: forming a union.

As far as "still not hurt our bosses and companies in the process", you will do exactly that. That money they save by getting you to do the hours of 2 people isn't just laying on the ground. It's going somewhere. So if you want the company to pay you more or hire the amount of people they actually need to let everyone work more reasonable hours then they either have to raise their prices or cut costs somewhere.
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Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, ...? Could they be more inconsistent?
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Hey there, designer speaking here:
The designer was drunk during the critical phase of white-space-consideration. I'm happy to inform you that he has since recovered well and upon re-evaluation submitted a tightend version to Pilif for implementation.

Seriously: thanks for your valuable input! Pilif: Work your magic!
:-)

Richard
And then you would have to explain how that magic water memory makes it into sugar's magic memory when the water is evaporated away.
Don't forget the size and homogeneity of the governed.
>I think a bit part of Austrians having inhibitions about starting their own businesses is as you say, the mindset.

I think its the rampant Marxism, frankly. So many brainwashed people in this society think that success = criminal behaviour, and that to be a successful capitalist means you have to be an utter thief. To be fair, the Austrian society has its statistics in this department, which go back to before the Austro-Hungarian empire, and I doubt some dubious American-style hype festival is going to change much about that.
> If the journalism industry did its job properly, there would be no reason for Wikileaks to exist;

Not true. Journalists still have to work within the laws of their country (and possibly, if they want to travel, the laws of others too).

Entities like Wikileaks will always be able to push the boundaries further.

(that's not to say the journalism industry isn't pretty hopeless)

I think Wikileaks does both journalism and activism; nowadays probably more of the latter than the former.
None of the class names used are GWT class names, so I doubt it. It'll be the output of an internal template engine. Interestingly, AFAIK, most of Google is not written in GWT -- anyone know any production Google stuff that is? (I think Wave is.)
"except that you clearly don't want to understand the point". Don't be so cruel to me.

Think about yourself. You don't believe anything which contradicts those 700 years of work. You don't believe that water can have a memory. You don't believe there is some sort of energy/frequency stored in water or sugar which cures us. Why? Because we cannot see it or prove it with any known scientific methods. Right?

Well I was exactly like you. I got helped by homeopathy by chance and probably a "hacker" (as defined by Paul Buchheit) within me got curious if homeopathy is really works and is as miraculous as it claims?

I spent time, took medicines myself and my volunteer friends and family. It is still hard to believe for me but it works and it looks more than placebo effect.

I did not read it in a book. I actually experienced it. And my experience of 10 years tells it works.
Instead of 'doing coffee' with all these guys, why don't you come to Metalab on Friday night and hold a few lightning talks?

http://metalab.at/
Yup, but you and I are not casual computer users - some people are frustrated by the change and decide it's easier to just use Baidu.
being really good at writes does not mean it's really bad at reads, it is actually pretty good (in our cassandra cluster we have ~1ms latency which may be tolerable or not but it's not a lot) EDIT: and we don't have row caching enabled
GMail is.
But now it's just a hollow shell of it's former self.

Exactly. I liked their older UI. Allowed me to explore music better. Right now it seems like they've cut down on features heavily. This approach seems to give new music a chance.

But I think they should offer an option to switch to the old UI for those who have time to wade thru music and choose what they want to listen to.
No, it isn't strange at all that placebos work if your definition of "works" just covers subjective experience. Comments like "I have seen many infants and young kids get better immediately with the homeopathy use. I am not sure if the placebo effect can work on them." show that you aren't aware of observer bias, for one.

How do you explain that the supposed effects of homeopathy evaporate like the morning dew once they're placed in the setting of a double-blind scientific experiment with proper (well, in this case more) placebo controls?