skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's all probably true. Anti-Vietnam-war protesters did endanger US troops and South Vietnamese civilians by emboldening the Viet Cong, and do in fact bear a great deal of responsibility for the fact that the war was eventually lost. The folks who chose to publish the Abu Ghraib photos and make a huge deal out of an incident of prisoner abuse no worse than what probably goes on a dozen times a year in any US civilian prison, likewise bear some responsibility for the provocation there.
HTML 5 looks more and more like the Win32 API to me (or x86 assembly). At first everyone will use it directly. But people will quickly see that its a bear to be productive with it. Then you'll quickly see new frameworks built over it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Silverlight eventually simply targeted HTML 5. You wrote your code in Silverlight and out comes an HTML 5 page.

I'm not really sure what WPFs future is. It's great technology, but the desktop is increasingly niche.
I think the most interesting piece of that article is that they are caching per user results. So not only have they made result display dynamic, but they've made the performance unique to everyone using the system.
What this is really showing is how fast the underlying infrastructure already was. It had been optimized to the point that it really couldn't get any faster without speeding up the user themselves, so they did that.
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It's actually been a lot nicer to live in Cuba during most of that time than much of the rest of Latin America. Pinochet comes to mind.
What might be going on with IE9 and the math-cordic benchmark described towards the bottom of the article? Sounds a bit fishy.
Dude, where the fuck do you live? Where I am, the average Islamic-world immigrant is, like the average Chinese immigrant or the average Romanian immigrant, about an order of magnitude more productive and conscientious a citizen than an average decadent native-born layabout. Have you ever even spoken to a muslim?
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Linode doesn't "burst" CPU usage. Processor time is shared fairly among Linodes on a host, and you can use any time that isn't used by others. It's worth noting that each Linode has access to four cores, so you can go up to 400% CPU utilization. For a good idea of how Linode's CPU performance routinely exceeds that of competitors, try this review: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
Congratulations Broadcom! It's nice to see you becoming a Linux-friendly company! It's certainly a new chapter in the history of the company!

(People who use Linux and your chipsets already know why this is such a good news.)
> What else do we keep in a protective case 24/7, even when we're using it?

I keep my textbooks wrapped in book covers made from grocery bags. I keep my feet in protective shoes most of the time, especially if it's cold or raining outside. I'd put a car cover over my car, if it wasn't a rusty pile of junk (i.e., a Chrysler).
The mosque builders deny making any such deal, according to MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573/ns/politics-white_house...
You could look at:
http://uk.crunchboard.com/ukcrunch.php
Source:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fid...
What was so bad about Pinochet by South American dictator standards? It's hard to think of any metric under which Pinochet's Chile could be considered worse than Castro's Cuba.
> We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

I'm not sure how you can have a nice discussion with another religious leader when you basically say, "Well, you see, there IS a time and a place to burn the holiest of your religious documents. We just decided that we're a little busy this weekend."
So it's finally time for XY and XX Combinators!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system
Just compile the interpreter/VM and include it in your application. It depends on the size of the interpreter if this is possible/practical I guess. It's no problem with Lua for instance, since the Lua runtime is really small.
Semantics. The end result is the same: there is almost always a large amount of spare CPU cycles on each physical box, which can be utilized by instances to "burst" above their allocated capacity.
MPG numbers mean less and less as they get higher. It's much more important to go from 10mpg to 20mpg, than it is to go from 20mpg to 50mpg.

It would be better to list fuel consumption in "gallonage" rather than "mileage". If you drive:
10k miles @ 10mpg = 1000gal of fuel burned,
10k miles @ 20mpg = 500gal (600gal less),
10k miles @ 50mpg = 200gal (300gal less)

The compromises you have to make to reach higher mpgs are generally not worth it to most drivers.
The tipping point was "no card counting". While card counting may be against the rules at a particular casino, it's not illegal in general and does not belong in the "legal" section.

Whenever Apple is confronted with a situation where the user could use a feature or tool for something that's "against the rules", they tend to disable the feature. See, for example, iTunes' inability to import music from an iPod. It could be 100% legal for me to do that, but Apple doesn't provide that feature, even though iTunes "knows" how to do it.

(I stopped using Apple products about 5 years ago when they added PT_DENY_ATTACH.)
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That's not much of a "behind the scenes". Granted, this is still rather impressive. Would love to get more technical details on it.
So is he just using fear of violence to troll the world?
I'm amazed that users couldn't tell the qualitative difference between submitting a form and find-as-you-type. To a hacker, AJAX is a whole other experience but to Joe User, it's just a bit faster. It's something to keep in mind if your AJAX interface isn't actually faster.

Yet another unconscious programmer assumption shattered.
That's because you've spent your American life hearing about how Castro is the devil (because Cuba was allied with the USSR!) and hearing very little about Pinochet or any of the rest of Reagan's buddies.

I mean look at the comment I responded to, it sounded like they were running gas chambers in Cuba. I'm no defender of communism or non-democratic governments but just because someone wasn't allied with us doesn't necessarily make them more of a monster.
i loved it and took it to the racetrack quite often (that picture posted the other day of dhh's lamborghini was taken by me while at a track day with him) and only sold it because i was going to buy and assemble an ultima gtr:

http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/Content.aspx?f=gtrintro

it would have taken me about a year to put together (http://www.craig-ultima.com/ is one guy's build log).

but my life situation changed and that plan got scrapped, so i still have my old volkswagen r32. maybe later in life i'll move back to the suburbs and have a big garage filled with cars. (but probably not a custom pagani zonda ahem)
Yeah, this guy is a piece of work. He's either saying that so he can save face as he backs down, or else he's going to later claim the mosque-builders went back on their word.
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I'm finding that these awkward "manipulation" skills that Adams describes are simply leverage to multiply the impact of one's technical skills within a company.

I work in the IT organization of a Fortune 100. Due to our size and modularization the skills of persuasion and influence (and consensus building, presentation skills, social skills, name recognition) are very important if I hope to have an impact here beyond that of my own code quality.

Being "right" on a technical matter is worthless if no one takes you or your ideas seriously.
I really hate to say this because I don't - in a million years - want to be seen in any way to be defending this nutjob, but, in the spirit of "Things You Can't Say"...

This entire episode has essentially proven his thesis - that Islam (or more accurately, a significant number of Muslims) are more inherently violent by definition. He didn't even need to actually complete the act, just suggest it.

Could you imagine a similar outcry of defense for any other segment of the population? Buddhists? Christians? Atheists? Republicans? Women? Germans?

We all know full well that Islamic sub-movements (properly representative or not) will lash out violently at a Koran burning (or Mohammed cartoon) in ways that other belief systems wouldn't even consider.

How does this not directly support the crazy pastor's statement?
Damn Google! Still not available in Australia. Isn't this the country that gave use GMail, Maps and <cough>Wave</*cough>?? Get with the program Google!
Sure - you can now (as of the new rules today) ship a VM and bytecode (eg, Python VM and some Python code). Your app just cannot download additional bytecode (like Flash VM downloading arbitrary Flash bytecode).
I agree. It's an impressive interface. If this really proves to be a very desirable improvement from an end user perspective, it may take Bing YEARS to be able to duplicate the experience unless they had something like this in the works already. ie: It takes lots of coordinated effort to make something like this possible at scale. Congrats to the Google team!
Roughly the same amount of undergrads.. well within a factor of 2 for sure.
Not to seem doubtful, but the website does not inspire a lot of confidence. It is terribly formatted and oddly has red text highlighting market sizes.

Also, the Business Development guy also designed the website with his separate company. But that company's website (jkmarketingspecialists.com) was designed by some company that is a green company directory?? I would definitely encourage an effort of legitimacy. No one can fund that website.

You mention that he has been published in peer-reviewed journals, could you put those links or articles on the website. I have never seen an academic extract mention money or be formatted like this:

~ $265 MM/year pre-tax net income and liberates US Government budget from > $15 billion/year expenses. The U.S. market for the RCC packages is about $10 billion/year.

The technology could be as awesome as you say but this lack of clarity could be why the experts say no way. It usually isn't a conspiracy or a vested interest conflict. A smart investor would be aware of these and would probably only refer you to someone whose honest opinion he could get.
The fact that Buffalo is #4 really causes me to question the algorithms employed.
Plenty of English translations available online.

The tone is hardly New Testament - turn the other cheek fare:

Qur'an (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."

Qur'an (9:73) - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination."
Can we stop using the phrase "flyover country?" I and many others find it offensive. (Unless you're using it ironically, in which case, carry on, but I don't think you are.) Middle-aged women in boring desk jobs aren't that different in the center of the country from anywhere else. There are a lot of smart people and cool things to see there too.
Seems unlikely. It's always been possible to create Mac apps in, say, C++ using Carbon or Qt, but ObjC/Cocoa has remained very popular despite that.

It's an exceptionally good and low friction framework that people tend to like. Most of the anti-Objective-C sentiment seems to come from people offended at the notion that they might be required to learn something new rather than stay forever in their comfort zone.
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It's not clear to me what calculus one should use when ranking dystopias, nor the point of such rankings. At least Pinochet is dead.
No not really - I would be much happier if browsers used Silverlight (or rather the tech behind), since it is much better than the cooked together mess that is HTML. The only thing necessary would be an open-source renderer that worked equally well on all platforms.

But given that that is not going to happen, I am rooting for HTML5.
>This entire episode has essentially proven his thesis - that Islam (or more accurately, a significant number of Muslims) are more inherently violent by definition. He didn't even need to actually complete the act, just suggest it.

A Christian religious leader threatens an act of aggression against a sacred text to make someone else do his bidding, and that somehow proves Muslims are violent??
Voting in representative democracy is statistical quality, so no, not one in particular but a nation as a whole. Like in the USA you might not be personally responsible for Iraq war, but as an American, you are.

Of course such property makes it attractive to neglect personal political responsibility. But in some situations, like with Greeks now, it can come back and bite you in the ass.

(Also, read the article - it's not quite about benign populi paying for mistakes of the Government)
Some interesting ideas here, and in the parent comment. I'll admit to being fairly naive when it comes to economics. With that in mind, when I started this thread I was thinking about whether it mattered that the discretionary income of those in the upper quintiles was growing faster than those in the lower quintiles, as long as all quintiles have discretionary income. I agree that being able to buy a TV is not the same thing as being able to house/clothe/feed your family. In light of this discussion, I'm now thinking it would be helpful if the charts showed how poverty (which I will define to mean unable to house/clothe/feed your family) has increased/decreased during the same period.
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No, it hasn't supported a damn thing about any of that nonsense.

In the last few weeks we've seen half the country get all up in arms (whipped up by the right-wing media) about a mosque 2 whole frickin blocks away from ground zero. In a condemned Burlington Coat Factory. Meanwhile, a bunch of other nutjobs are now asking to be praised for their moderation in not running out and burning a bunch of Qurans just to piss people off. All this during Ramadan, to boot.

So, my unofficial scorekeeping has christians as way crazier than muslims for the last few weeks.
That's not what Verizon has done, though. I bought a Droid 2 from them recently, and when I first started up there was a question about V.Cast which I said no to (because I knew everything there would cost money that I didn't want to spend) and I wound up with the Android Marketplace icon on my home page and the V.Cast app buried in my app list. If I want to check it out it's there, if I don't I don't have to click on it. Same goes for the other apps that cam pre-installed, which mostly aren't even that bad. I did go and re-organize most of my home pages, including getting rid of things like the Fox News widget, but that's just customizing. At no point did I really feel constrained by running Verizon's rom.

Of course, I am paying $20/month for tethering on top of my unlimited data plan. The phone by itself is unlimited, but when other devices connect through it I'm limited to 2GB/month before ungodly data rates kick in. For now I'm saving it for emergencies, but so far the web browser and email connectivity are good enough that I don't think I'll even need tethering, so I'll probably cancel it.
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3131-more-on-microsofts-diffic...

Expanded analysis with explanations for those who don't know what this is about.
Personally, I'd think that Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi add up to a very strong argument against banning religious content. But as it's your (hypothetical) hosting company, you're obviously free to do as you wish. :-)
I've always wondered about the effectiveness of courses that claim to teach "Management" or "Negotiation" or "Networking." There's certainly theory to these subjects and practicing in a contrived setting may help, but I suspect there are fairly narrow limits on what can be learned about these subjects in the classroom.

Likewise, I'd be suspicious of a program that claims to "create people who can enter any room and make it their bitch."
iOS is very similar to Mac OS X, where VLC runs already...

Android is very different from usual Linux, using a different libc and libraries than normal GNU/Linux and requires Java bindings to run...
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There are a lot of knuckleheads in the world. Best for all to just ignore them. This one called it off because he already got what he wanted--lots of attention.
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Here is an idea - why don't you test your idea and try to do a public and well publicized Bible burning. Believe me there will be a much bigger outcry. You will probably get lynched before you can even light a match.
With DivX decoding, I believe 7hours+
In my experience, STEM students are interested in solving problems. They are simply uninterested in learning bout problems which they cannot solve. Many of the `life in general' subjects you speak about are problems that cannot be solved...only moved in one way or another.

If they had solutions, if they appealed to an analytical mind then you would have interested STEM students. Maybe there should be a course taught by top politicians, spin doctors and media moguls: `Hacking Public Consciousness'. I almost guarantee that this would attract the students you talk about.
Thanks a bunch for this. I've experimented a bit with Lua/ObjC bindings as well, and your solution looks very good.

I just love Lua. It's such a powerful language, and perfect for embedding :)
> I wouldn't be surprised if Silverlight eventually simply targeted HTML 5.

No, that's not possible, as HTML5 is pretty incompatible with Silverlight's selling points.

Besides, the article is flamebait ... Silverlight will be the native API people are going to use for building native-clients on Windows desktops / Windows mobile phones. Add to that list portability Symbian, MeeGo and probably Android.

Silverlight also has a more efficient VM than Flash or the various mobile-browsers, so if they play this card right, it could actually be efficient when running on mobile phones ... windows mobile 7 is actually using Silverlight for its UI ... and from early reports, the interface is snappy.
I, for one, forget to appreciate the fact that one of the fastest web apps I regularly use is the one that searches the entire* internet.

*kinda
Actually I asked for information on how Pinochet was worse than Castro, not just a repetition of the assertion that he was combined with a false assumption about my nationality.

I don't claim to be an expert on South American dictators, but as far as I know the worst thing Pinochet did was to kill and imprison thousands of political dissidents, which is coincidentally also the worst thing that Castro did.
He may be a nut job, but Jones is now a hero to many.
Saying that antiwar protestors bear responsibility that the war was lost assumes that the war was winnable.
Have fun downvoting everything you disagree with. Someone even went and downvoted other, unrelated posts of mine just to spite me. Note that your downvotes have done nothing to change my opinion; I will leave you all with this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Enjoy your echo chamber.
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They capture my keyboard after I search from the menu bar of Chrome, so I can't hit backspace to return to the previous page. Even if I click outside of the box, any Google search page redirects my backspace into the search box, which also changes the results.

It's rather quite annoying.
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I think King Arthur had the last word on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZUibOUX28

He was the Joel Spolsky of the Middle Ages, I'm telling you.
I'm wary of it as well. But war protestors are protesting against US policy; the purpose of exposing abuse is to prevent it from occurring again. As far as I can tell, the Florida group are protesting the existence of Muslims. All are legally protected, but I'm comfortable drawing distinctions for myself for how I treat them.
I would've used that more if X-ing them out kept them out! Afaict, it only removed them from that particular search, and if you searched again, they'd show up again.
Also known as how to spot a dysfunctional work environment! Lots of good advice in there, especially if you've never experienced cube-land first hand.

I wonder how many people are filing this under "useful but morally grey", versus "i need to quit my job and fill out a YC app"?
OEMs wanting to offer a non-IE default browser had the unattractive options of switching Linux or incurring the financial penalties; iPhone developers barred from using "cross platform" tools had the unattractive option of switching to platforms that have shown relatively little potential to generate revenue or higher development costs.

Because of their store cornering the market for paid apps, Apple is in the enviable position of being potentially able to reduce development on their competitors' platforms, thereby making customers less likely to switch as well as worse off overall. Irrespective of the letter of US antitrust law, that is something I feel _ought_ to be kept under scrutiny.
This is a guy who runs a church with fewer members than Fred Phelps, the guy who pickets military funerals with anti-gay propaganda. Why are we giving this any of our attention? Flag it. Flag it with fire.
Pinochet also has the mark in his credit that he eventually handed over power to a democratically elected government, and that Chile is now (by South American standards) a stable, democratic and prosperous country. Who knows what Cuba will be like twenty years after its dictatorship eventually ends?
I think he has a great point here. I think the most important part of that kind of education would be to awaken the masses to the fact that they're being manipulated every single day by everything around them, whether someone has constructed the manipulation on purpose or not. Clearly the ideas in most people's heads aren't their own and judging by how canned they sound, I can't imagine they have put much thought themselves into the idea.

This would be immensely useful in creating people who were perhaps more resistant to persuasion strategies of our education system, government, product marketing, and humans in general; and instead create people who are themselves more freely thinking - producers and thinkers instead of pure consumers.

In addition, it's unbelievable that people (including me) are overcome by the simplest of persuasive strategies. If we weren't so poorly (on purpose) educated on rhetoric and debate, and if we had some understanding and dependence on our inner selves and strength, I believe things would be very different.

I'm behind this idea!
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Why is it not possible to target HTML5 from Silverlight? You may have to tweak Silverlight some, but it seems doable?

You map the styles to CSS. The Xaml to HTML (I'd love to have Silverlight layout in HTML). Although the Xaml also includes stuff that you need to map to Javascript as well. The C# code gets mapped to Javascript.

You'd have to map all of the things like databinding, DeepZoom, and animation specially crafted Javascript. Audio, video, WCF, may have to be scaled back for targeting HTML5. But then you can have two versions "Silverlight HTML5" and "FullPower Silverlight".

I'm sure there is tons I missed. But what do you think in particular can't be mapped from Silverlight to HTML?