skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the possibility that while there is more music now, it is less good. Consider that there are brilliant musicians who no longer make music because they cannot afford to do so. We lose out, we get the crap, because the best musicians no longer produce in a form we have access to.

Yes there was a lot of music before copyright, but copying was less efficient back then, so your arguments don't really make the watertight case you seem to think they do.

I know some brilliant musicians who have turned to other means to live, and who no longer use their gifts, talents and skills in music. Instead there's vast amounts of crap floating around, with the occasional gem that's hard to find.

I'm not saying copyright made it better, because there were the toads and slimey bastards in the middle, taking their excessive cut and squeezing the artists. What I'd really like to see is the best artists (not just musicians) being fairly compensated, just as I'd like to see the best programmers getting the recognition they deserve.

It doesn't happen, it probably won't happen. Certainly it never has happened.

But instead of technology just making the copying easier, wouldn't it be nice if it also made the proper compensation of artists possible.

Won't happen. The very people who could make it happen are the ones who claim it doesn't matter.
Depiction of rich people on Law & Order
League of Legends comes to mind with that, their matchmaking system has seen some growing pains for this exact reason.
I'm aware of it (you forgot to mention that kqueue is on the OS X as well). So what?

There are probably hordes of people who will be willing to run Mongrel2 on *BSD platforms, precisely because of the performance reasons. And Zed is a famous tinkerer rather than a religious zealot, so very probably he could be interested in checking kqueue as well.

"Why not" is also a good reason for a hacker when he's lacking other reasons.
When I ran an online comics store, I would get letters from the customers with drawings they made of the characters. When I closed the shop down, someone even made a YouTube video to mourn the loss. It's not always just a pure cold exchange of goods/services with cash.
Right, that makes perfect sense. But it really makes me wonder why I run in to that hard limit, I've tried just about everything to get around it and no matter what I do that seems to be the magic number.

I should go and do some testing to see what's causing this, you make me feel like the solution is right around the corner.

re. your edit, ulimit will happily raise the number > 64K, all the /proc/* settings seem to be ok so that's not it, it has to be some other layer in the stack that causes this. I'll definitely spend some time on this, it's been bugging me for a long time.

edit2: there seems to be a max_user_watches upper limit to what epoll will handle.
He gave you a citation. search on epigenetics. It's seen a lot of headlines in the last couple years.
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Is that...significant indentation in Perl?

Will you marry me?
I'm working on an app that allows you to (smoothly, quickly) see full resolution images on your iPhone, by reading png tiles of the original image. The tiles are created on your pc using a java app that stores the tiles in a sqlite db, it can also rasterize pdf to images using the java.net pdf-renderer.

Anyone knows a better pdf renderer that works well with java ?
> if we are at war and Manning should be executed for treason, then why not execute Cheney too? Didn't he reveal classified information and endangered Americans when he exposed Valerie Plame?

Cheney didn't expose Valerie Plame - Richard Armitage was Novak's source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
> On a desktop, getting to 100% memory usage is a big deal, because it means you're already using a lot of swap.

But that's not even true for any OS more modern than Windows XP. Linux, Vista, 7 and OSX all keep huge amounts of data cached when you don't need the memory, just because they can and it's more efficient to restart stuff pulling half of it from RAM than re-reading everything from disk.

My macbook currently shows 2.27GB Free out of 8GB RAM, but 2.27GB of those are marked as Inactive (they're cache holding old data which might yet be needed again), yielding a total of 5.73GB in active use. The rest can be reclaimed and reused at a moment's notice if need be.
"we're back in the 80's " We're not. Baby boomers were in their prime during that time, therefore consumption still increased over time, and innovation still thrived. Now, the biggest consumer market in the world is disappearing, with no comparable replacement in sight.

"10 times better than the kings of 500 years ago." Yes, but both you and jacquesm are confusing technology advancement with an economic phenomenon, which is defined by high structural unemployment rate and many business failures

"pack cans of beans and ammo and head for the mountains." Nobody says you have to do that. 75% of the people that lived through the great depression lived a normal but frugal life. However, if/when the dollar suffers from hyperinflation, that's another story.
Correction: The name of the author is Rob Walling, not Bob.

I've read the book, like the podcast and I'm currently a member of the Micropreneur Academy.
The FBI seal, along with all other government seals, are public domain.
We paid for them with our taxes.
Yes, there are laws saying that you can't use the FBI seal to misrepresent yourself as an FBI agent, or acting on authority of the FBI, but you have a right to display the seal in other ways. Same as any other government seal.
Wikipedia is using the seal in an educational manner. Fully protected and legal use of that seal.
I didn't know there was a secure.blueleaf.com subdomain, and I don't use Mint or Quicken.

Financial sites should be secure by default, load times be damned.
Clickable: http://usablehealth.com/
http://www.startupweekly.com - Aggregating tweets based on topic hashtags. Find other people interested in your hashtag and other analysis.
Snow Leopards integration with Exchange is very basic. There is no delegation support, and no ability to access secondary mailboxes which you have permissions on. Hopefully the new Outlook application for Mac which will replace Entourage in the next version of Office will fix these problems later this year.
Terrible review of the book. Doesn't really get to the meat of what he was trying to say about colleges.

One, the article never mentions that the author wants to get rid of all degrees except liberal arts. He is totally against college as "training".

He's also against the standard complaints of colleges, tenure, sports, ivy leagues, etc. etc.

It's be much more enlightning to go this NPR transcript or his website:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1289333...
http://highereducationquestionmark.com/?page_id=52
Here's a random greyhound racing tip which a man in a bar told me, so it must be true: before the race, leave it as long as possible to bet and watch the dogs. The one that is quivering and dancing and looks must wound up generally wins. Wait until you get a race where only one dog looks that way.
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Best way to refine ideas with out getting it stolen
Hello, I was just wondering the best way to refine an idea technically. I get paranoid about people on the internet stealing my ideas. I'm continuously bouncing ideas off myself and my girl friend, parents and close friends but they don't have programming background and can't really help in the technical parts.
I can't figure out his math, either. In his second example, if you put $4M in a bank account that gets 2%, and can still save $10K a year you'll have $7.6 mil in 30 years. If you can get 8% (which I think you can, all arguments to the contrary) you will have $41M. Maybe he just means once you get the cash, you quit your job, put the money under the mattress and spend it all?
fastr - ruby web framework http://github.com/chrismoos/fastr

async-mysql - asynchronous mysql driver for ruby (native - no c extension) http://github.com/chrismoos/async-mysql

moostrax.com - gps tracking (just released iphone app...working on new version)
+1 for positivity!
You oppose the war in Iraq? Why do you hate the troops and support terrorists?
I once heard a joke related to this:
Dev1: "Did you know C# is faster than C?"
Dev2: "No, really? By how much?"
Dev1: "Oh about 6-12 months"
Mongrel2 is supposed to handle WebSockets as well as HTTP, so I think open connections with sporadic traffic are a use case Zed has to worry about.
http://soundkey.com : Will ideally become something like the Wikipedia of sounds (i.e. a central repository/global reference about anything that has to do with sounds)
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This is a new approach, but you forget to answer a very useful question: what do I get out of signing up?
World of Warcraft did something similar with its arena teams. Don't ask me to quote details, though, or to tell you how successful it was. Others can probably do that better.
I realize that there are non-startups I'd enjoy working for, but in general I think that being employee number 10-50 would suit me better. I'd prefer to spend the majority of my time developing new code. I enjoy creating APIs. I would want to be able to execute good ideas (that make it quickly into the end product) myself without a ton of bureaucracy. Sure, there are some companies where these things are true, but I think they are much more likely to be the case in a startup.

And when I say "steady", I don't mean that I need a high-paying job that I needn't be scared of losing for the next several years. I simply mean that I would like a salary with a monthly or bi-weekly paycheck for as long as I happen to be working there. I only meant steady in relation to freelancing or creating my own product.
I love my new job! Getting ready to switch from a slightly used Lenovo W500 to a Core i5 MBP in the next couple of weeks. Developing enterprisey-apps for Cisco may not be as cool as working at Google, but I love what I'm doing and the new toys are great too.
We once had some sort of explosion regarding mail-servers at a company I worked for. I have no idea, what the actual problem was, other than too much incoming mail combined with some settings goof. The mail server software ended up eating memory and cpu cycles like crazy. This was on a FreeBSD box. I remember the sysadmin saying "You know, linux would have just OOM-killed it at this point, but its a BSD box so it's doing the right damn thing". Ever since then I've carried around this idea that BSD is stable to a fault :)
Yeah, I'm using gomoku extensively. But there are some questions that are more about the langauge -- for example, it took me a while to figure out you can't have a default value for an optional argument.
I noticed that too, and I wondered if they were even capable of making that judgement. I looked up their backgrounds: the review writer is an English professor at Emory; one of the book authors is a Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Queens College in NY.

This continues the tendency I've seen elsewhere, which is to lump science and engineering education and research in with humanities when criticizing higher education.
On "Should I invest in mutual funds managed by a human being?" we agree. That article is in the editing process as we speak. :)
JailbreakMe 2.0 for the iPhone 4 Uses PDF Exploit
That's all true. But honestly, I would expect this poll to be biased toward over-counting woman. I mean, if I saw a poll to find out how many red-heads (like me) were on HN, I think it would catch my eye and I'd be more likely to click.
So your hypothesis is that what differentiates agriculturists and hunter-gatherers is intelligence?

That's an extremely strong statement. Do you have any proof of significant differences in human intelligence amongst populations?

Basically I'm saying you're full of shit. You should read the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel". It was written by someone who took the time to research the issue and develop some convincing arguments.
Thank you for sharing. I think this shows limits of comment format. Why can't we just draw and embed images inside comments, along with Rich Text?
Good point, but I didn't mean it quite that literally. I only meant that I don't expect to get paid without producing. Fortunately, that is not the "Objective" on my resume, but thanks anyways for the pointer.
Up until Froyo (2.2) I had to kill tasks every now and then (or simply reboot) because it was slowing down to a crawl. All the animations were getting choppy, took a lot longer for applications to start, and so on. I guess they fixed or tweaked something in 2.2 because for the past moth I didn't have to kill anything yet; I have the same apps as before. Unfortunately they also broke some stuff in FRF91 (oddly enough FRF83 was better / more stable for me...)
You don't have to set your whole system to read only for the entirety of the backup. There are three ways to avoid it:

1) Use mongodump which queries for every object in the database. It will produce a compacted file, but does not do a point-in-time snapshot.

2) Take a backup from a slave. You can either set it to read-only mode, or just shut it down and copy the files.

3) Run MongoDB on top of LVM. LVM supports almost instant snapshotting because it uses copy on write. Once the snapshot has been made (usually less than a few seconds) you can resume the server for read-write operations.

Note that all three options can be combined. You could make an LVM snapshot of a read slave then use mongodump's --dbpath option to produce compacted backup files.

Please see http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Backups for more details.
Turns out that fixing it doesn't reduce signup rates. The vast majority of people use the top form above the fold. :)
Google Multiple Sign-in Now Available
+1 insightful. Huge missed opportunity.
am working on building an customizable online dispute resolution platform. Using web services and a rule engine
RIM attempts to create Apple-like buzz with BlackBerry Torch event
Thanks for the comparison. I took a few tips on Vim macros yesterday and shortened mine:

qqdf"t(D+@qq@q

qq opens a macro in register q
df" deletes through the first "
t( jumps to the character before the next (
D deletes to end of line
+ jumps to the beginning of the next line
@q recursively calls macro q
q@q stops recording macro q, calls it once
If you want to allow the users to take the db offline, you will still be happiest giving each user or group their own database. Databases are just a file on the server, and CouchDB has been deployed with millions of databases on a single server. So the one database per user model is totally viable.
I once worked at a software company where a big deal has been made for software + hardware. It was a lot of hardware, and the software was maybe 10% of the overall cost, which was approaching $1million.

Then the company backed out and said they just wanted the software.

All of a sudden, our software became 90% of the overall cost, and hardware was 10%.

All your idea would accomplish is making the credits super expensive and the extras super cheap.
It depends of the kind of book you are writing and what the final file format is. In the past I'd use LaTeX unconditionally, but I've been thinking about using Sphinx[1].

[1] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

The two main approaches are to have the whole book in one big file or one chapter per file. I think that having one chapter per file is more flexible and that's the way I'd do today.

Another thing to keep in mind is if your book is going to have source code. Is it going to be highlighted? If so, in color or grayscale? Do you want to have a way to test automatically every code snippet so you don't ship the book with broken code examples?

Also, do you have images that need to be converted, say from inkscape to png or eps? Usually I use a makefile for things like that.
I love the status page they have. I wish more providers did this.

However, I wish I never had to use this page.
I don't think most of the articles are against higher education per say, but against modern universities offering inferior education at higher cost.
> => "I'll pick the best one for the environment"

Which, in reality is, "I'll spend a lot of design and implementation effort designing a new one which may or may not improve the measurable, global performance of my new web server because it's not yet at the point where I can benchmark these sorts of things to verify that I'm not wasting a whole ton of effort that could be better spent by deciding that epoll is fast enough."

Maybe Zed knows from his previous server experience that {e}poll is where he hits a bottleneck; it's just that if there's any chance that it's not, he could be wasting a bunch of time implementing "superpoll".

(Or maybe he just wants to do it because it's neat, or because it's innovative (which it is), or for any number of other reasons. I'm just pointing out that he's doing much more than picking "the best one for the environment")
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Doing small bits of work on the Twitter client I started a while ago – http://tweetby.com/ (lots of features are currently disabled)
I think you just made Gabriels day.
What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care
Thanks for the correction, I fixed my comment.
That's a lot like my last web app before I started using CouchDB. Before I made the switch I was storing JSON in text fields in Postgres. Views are much better than the hoops I had to jump through to query that.
I second the snapshotting using the disk system. It would be nice to be able to do this without locking the database, but LVM or ZFS snapshots take fractions of a second to create. In the mean time, pending transactions will just wait.
just a glance is enough at this table of contents of academic journal - classical and quantum gravity- http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/27/17 to wonder how much of this -research- is advancing knowledge and how much is --about advancing the career of the authors--
let's kill all the language lawyers...
It's actually silly to think that stock market ROIs won't rise again. They're abnormally low now, but we've seen it many times before.

Market returns are based on the amount investors need to take the inherent risks. Unless stock market investing gets considerably less risky (seems quite unlikely) investors will leave the market for less risky vehicles until rates return to the amounts needed to justify taking the risk, which have historically been around 7-10%.

Stocks, real estate, bonds, and all other market-based investment vehicles will always have returns in-line with risks in the long run.

Nobody should ever retire hoping to get a steady income from the stock market or real estate or other volatile investments. By the time you're ready to retire, you should be entirely in FDIC-insured CDs and the like. If your retirement plan is contingent on 6% annually you're asking for trouble, and you're probably going to get it if you live long enough.
Is this worth reading? I stopped after the ridiculous claim that "If you can pay peanuts, you can produce tanks and ICBMs that cost peanuts."

I mean, if a small band of hunter-gatherers is led by a single tribal leader with complete power, he can pay them nothing. But that doesn't mean he can make ICBMs for peanuts. Likewise, the US had objectively more economic power than the USSR, and, assuming that the USSR had to maintain military parity with the US to remain stable, it would be quite possible for the US to beat the USSR by out-producing it. (I'm not enough of a student of history to know if this is actually what happened.) Yes, things can be misleading if you use straight exchange rates, but that doesn't mean it was logically impossible for the US to out-spend an authoritarian government.
If Y Combinator put ads on HN they can fund 8-10 more startups every year
I work on both BSDs and Linux boxes and this fact struck me recently:

for i in /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin; do ls $i|wc -l; done

Linux:
124
2155
67

FreeBSD:
44
430
1067

On BSD, you clearly see which programs are essential for your system to be up & well, which are service additions and which are 3rd party stuff (yeah I missed sbin but you see the picture). On Linux there's a big bag of /usr/bin and a beginner can have no clue if some stuff is important or not.

And the sources. On BSD, sources of kernel all system programs are at your disposal in /usr/src and that's it; they represent a coherent view of what meat you have running. On Linux of course you can download the sources and most probably your distro will help you with obtaining the right version. But it isn't the same when you hit the problems, esp. on production. Well even without the need of fixing anything or tracking problems, the sources serve a great educational value with an immediate availability.

In general, the BSD approach seems to come from a longer experience of establishing best practices. I'd say the principle is the same with Linux and BSD, but the devil (pun intended) is in the details, and BSD details look as better engineered for many.

[edited for clarity]
[meta] this comment is about the company, not the blog post. I liked the blog post[/meta]

Mint is the clear front-runner here, with significant brand recognition and momentum. I think it's a mistake to not position yourself w.r.t. Mint.

. . . unless you're hoping people get the two confused.
Was just about to say the same - some stats show more women partake in polls (offline) but online many women are put off by them esp. in a male dominated zone, such as this...

But the current stats show this is a hugely male dom site...
Yes, obviously. But, the point of this thread was to show/"convince" Linux heads what they are missing.
I have been working on and off on a web-based (C#/.NET) front end for MSSQL to make working with the beast easier.

http://github.com/sonnym/csmsadmin

Runs on IIS >= 5, and Mono on Apache. It does most of what I have needed for daily tasks, so it has been some time since I have worked on it; should probably get back to it in the near future . . .
what scripting language do you think was designed with security in mind, then?
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Validation funs give you a lot of control over the update logic. However, they cannot be used to grant anonymous write access to application code. The design document may only be updated by the database or server admin.
I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything. I was just trying to answer the question asked.
launch a prototype.
Microsoft and the NHS: what went wrong?
I am. There are also a large number of services that detect plagiarism in essays, but most (all?) only detect direct copying from published sources and sometimes re-use of an essay previously turned in by another student.

I'm targeting the custom essay - services like http://essaymill.com ("our writing, your success"), as well as students paying other students to write their papers.
so what you're saying is the more red I wear, the more chicks I'll get. I knew my all red unitard I've been wearing around town was a good idea. ;-)
Viewing OpenStreetMaps through Bing requires Silverlight? That seems a bit contradictory to the "open" part.

(Note: I've tried Moonlight half a dozen times and have had zero success with it on Bing or elsewhere)
Gabriel will be even happier when our next push goes live. :) (He's in the preview.)
Brain Research Using Online Data Repositories: Network Structure of the Brain
An affiliation and cross-promotion network for mobile apps

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I signed up and got an email back that basically said "thanks for signing up, now dance monkey".

I'm the guy whose money you want and the way your blog and the sign up was worded, I feel like I'm dealing with a company who has forgotten this. Usually a company will forget AFTER they are successful, not before.

I'm not sure if I hope this works or not. I will keep tabs on it to see just how far a beta system can be pushed. I'm glad this test is on your dime and not mine! :)