skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While exposing a baby to cold certainly isn't a good thing to do, I think colds spread in the winter by people being indoors so much. You catch a cold from another human, not from the cold wind.
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I think it is just a matter of "new marketplaces". Paypal benefited from the eBay marketplace ...and found casual online merchants.

Generally, marketplaces get hooked with very few mainstream payment methods.

Next time there will be a completly new marketplace, with new types of merchants and new market mechanic...you will see a new, major player...but it has to be disruptive to PayPal.

Online to Offline is a new marketplace in many ways...looking for a unified payment. If i am not mistaken, the next big payment player may come from that....
Sorry for the meta nature of this comment, but Pyjamas have been in my bookmarks for so long and I never really got the gist of it. With the first paragraph in this article, I finally "got it". This is the kind of golden stuff I love to see in HN, so please keep 'em coming!
I'm not suggesting that you have to know specifically that chr is being redefined; to cancel the optimization, you simply have to know that "this loop body is not limited to the subset of operations which are known to not redefine chr" (i.e. basically the same sort of analysis Google NaCl does.) This leaves a large number of optimizations on the table (i.e. any loop body that modifies a global hash will cancel the optimization), but is better than no optimization at all.
If you vote for a losing candidate, then you can complain that your voice has not been heard.

If you vote for a winning candidate, then you can complain when they break their promises.

If you don't vote, you have nothing to complain about but your own laziness.
I love being from a "contended" state. My proud state of Virginia, home sweet home!
Well, yeah, but it's also like telling someone 3-4 years ago to work at Google instead of Digg. The people who worked at Digg, now that the brand doesn't carry much weight, ain't doing so hot.

The problem with betting on an unknown is that you're betting. The returns can be high, but so are the risks. If you're comfortable with those risks, it can be very lucrative. But it can just as easily go south.
To me, reading the news is a very important part of my day. I always feel slightly uncomfortable when reading Guardian/Telegraph, almost certainly because the Times aligns with my political spectrum much closer.

The cost is worth the fact that I find the articles much more...enjoyable(I'm not entirely sure that's the best word!).

Connection problems aside, I have been satisfied with the service. If I hadn't been a Times reader before, I don't think there's anything there that would persuade me to pay for it, but to me, the cost is worth it.
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> Remember that you don't vote to make a difference, you vote because it's your obligation to do so.

Really? Its my obligation to help the rest of the people pretend we live in a democracy?
This /maybe/ makes sense if you are CPU bound. Uh, for everything else, I don't really see it competing with virtualized X86. One of my 8 core, 32GiB ram socket G34 opterons? comes in well under 200 watts, including disk and power supply inefficiencies. are those beagle boards under 3.3 watts?

also, my capital costs are lower. one 32GiB reg. ecc ram, 8 2.0ghz core and 4 500gb disk server comes out to around $2500 in parts, give or take. That's a lot less than 60 of those beagle boards.

Of course, it's quite possible that 60 arm cores are better than 8 opteron cores, even though it's close to equal on ram.

I will revisit this issue when the many-core ARM chips start shipping, and when arm boards start coming with socketed ram.
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In other news, record low temperatures were recorded in hell.
People who exercise are more likely to eat healthy and take care of their body in other ways.

Did they people who made the study correlate for that?
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These numbers seem totally PR-ified.

"The figures include subscribers to the print version of the papers who receive an online subscription as a result."

So some of those people who they are counting as having "subscribed" to the paywalled content might not even have an internet connection.

What are the total number of print subscribers? Im guessing it's a pretty large proportion of that figure.
If you have an obligation to vote, then it's an obligation to make an informed vote. If you haven't attempted to evaluate your decision carefully and can't make an informed vote, please don't vote.

Informed voting > not voting > uninformed voting

Greg Mankiw has a column on this: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/11/election-day-approach...
In line with the idea that if your struggling to keep up with workload then your not charging enough, perhaps here the total value of the program has become a lot higher than the equity being taken, hence the number of great applications.

Wonder if there would be merit in taking some more equity as a way to try and cap the size of future batches.
In Australia voting is mandatory. If you're registered to vote and you don't you can get fined. If no one is registered to vote at your address you'll tend to get lots of mail about it (but ultimately, staying off the electoral roll isn't difficult).

I used to think this was a bad idea as it forced people to vote who didn't really care.

In recent years I've come around to the opposite point of view based pretty much entirely on how badly voluntary voting in the US works.

When voting is voluntary there is an incentive with certain groups to dissuade, discourage or simply make it difficult for others to vote. In US elections there have been cases of bribing homeless people to vote with cigarettes or alcohol. Getting into vote can be difficult with long lines.

In Australia pretty much all these problems go away because you have to vote and the AEC (Australian Elecotral Commission) has to provide enough capacity to do so so, unless you go in the first hour or two of the morning, you can typically be in and out in 5-10 minutes tops.

Politicians love an apathetic population. So by all means go out and vote.
Actually it doesn't. The potential advertising revenue probably exceeds the revenue from subscriptions.

I've seen this before even when subscriptions for a news site was actually very good but potential advertising from page views would be better. (TimesSelect/The New York Times)
In competitive races I agree, but there are odd cases where voting uninformedly might be better than not voting, though you can always leave particular parts of the ballot blank. If your vote doesn't actually sway the race, then in effect you're only voting for your demographic to be taken more seriously in the next election's "likely voter" screen that pollsters use, which is probably in your interests to do (this is one reason the elderly get disproportionate weight in politics, because they vote at high rates).
WebSQL has been dropped in favour of IndexedDB (both are separate specs).

Geolocation has been removed from the main HTML5 spec.

CSS3 is not HTML5 and that fact is not debatable at W3C.
You didn't say what your father actually researches, but there are tons of cushy research jobs in industry, if you're smart enough. Many big tech companies (MS, Google, IBM) will hire people to work on whatever they want, simply to prevent them from working for a competitor or to be able to drop names when recruiting other people.
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Hi,

It's certainly an interesting question, but it does poke a pain I have. Have you tried searching for information before posting?

I'd guess not, because really recently there was a poll asking exactly this question. User "koski" (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=koski) has already linked to it, but here it is again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083

And this comment is directed just at you, but at everyone who submits questions without first searching.

Why? Unless you're asking for specific advice about a specific situation that's unique to you, there's a really good chance that the question has already been asked and already been answered.

Why not search first? http://searchyc.com/
It doesn't make sense to divide the number of subscribers by the number of months - a subscriber is likely to be a long term customer (I appreciate the number of trial subs will be significant, but...), so x/4 seriously understates the monthly average.
I don't know how laws and culture are in the USA, but in my country (Italy) vote is not an obligation. Vote is a right, and a hard earned one. It is also considered a civil duty. But never an obligation.

The choice not to vote is also an expression of one's idea: that he does not believe in any of the politicians, or in the system as a whole. Lack of votes is also a measure on how much people believe in politicians. Italy has never been so corrupted in the past (transversally, in every party) as it is now, and this is reflected in the fact that the percentage of people who did not vote at the last elections was the highest one.
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My guess regarding the wheels is that the designer was looking at old school BMX mag wheels as a model rather than the current crop of Aerospokes.

Your other criticisms are valid, too, though if you look at what most manufacturers offer as "commuter bikes," they are missing the same key features.
Besides Tiobe and Alioth shootout, here's some other attempted quantifications

http://github.com/languages

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083

http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/

http://www.hackernewsers.com/skills/index.html

http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/programming#Whatlanguageredd...
IE team has been donating test cases to W3C, and of course they have 100% compliance with test cases they've published.

Historically nobody wanted to write test cases. I think Microsoft/W3C now discovered incentive to do so…
Comments from an earlier submission of this story (from a different source) can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836462
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Ask HN: Is this called creativity?
I just read a post :http://mashable.com/2010/11/01/microsoft-wants-you-to-manage-your-gmail-from-your-hotmail/

I often see many idea's are copied from one competitor to another. I can understand if someone copies must have feature in their product but many times these big players like google, oracle, MSFT are just copying things from one another to compete but not delivering creative addons.

If you are an entrepreneur or a member of product management team what would you call this strategy ?
people got used to texting on a number pad because there weren't any real alternatives.

the problem 8ten is facing that there are a number of alternatives that require smaller mental leaps to use effectively.

people will probably try 8ten for a few messages, find it frustrating and then switch back to whatever they were using before.
I wonder how many of these users paid for news because they didn't realize they could go elsewhere?

My Dad rang me a few years ago and was like "hey, just bought iTunes, do they email me a download link?" and I was confused - what did he mean bought? It's free from Apple.

Turns out he google'd "iTunes download" and clicked the first result (an adword) and paid £25 for iTunes. I later actually met a guy that ran this scam, he said he made thousands each month. (Apple/Google has cracked down on this recently)

My point is, if you have thetimes.co.uk as your homepage, and you trust that for news - if one day you're asked to pay £1/month or whatever, would non internet savvy users just pay it? I expect quite a few would.
I doubt people would regularly buy day passes of non-niche news.
Of course but getting too cold weakens your body and makes you susceptible to cold, etc. It can also lead to problems with the organs later.
The difference is that the Times and Sunday Times are aimed at the public. There's plenty of competition and free on-line quality alternatives in the UK from the BBC News Website and the Guardian. What I'm interested to see is how other sites traffic went up as people left the Times site as the pay wall was put up.

I'll bet the type of news you're willing to pay for isn't aimed at the general public. I reckon sites that will do well behind a paywall are either specialist sites or industry specific sites or even sites that offer time sensitive information first. The kind of sites that either offer quality information or hold a monopoly on this information. They also won't price this for the general public they'll price it for the corporations.
Yes, but how do you convert from decimal to unary in a regular expression?
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The supposed fix - delete the alarm and recreate it - seems to have only worked in half the cases for me.
If more people voted, if fewer people like you held an attitude like that, then you wouldn't have to pretend.
There's also adverts all over the tube (metro) in London, they're really pushing it.
What my program did, was compiling this expression down to the weaker language of regular expressions.
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Create an open 'fight the machine' competition and let them brawl it out. Problem resolved.
"Never an obligation" is imprecise. Voting in Italy was obligatory until 1993. Also see article 48 of the italian constitution, where the exercise of the vote is defined "a civic duty".
What if you disagree with the system of giving everyone a vote being a valid way to decide things?
And for those who complain about not having the right to abstain, you can get the same effect by turning up and spoiling your ballot paper. You can even make a show of doing it so that everyone can see you're deliberately not casting a valid vote. That makes more of a point that staying home and being invisible.
It's not really succeeding if you keep going with a serious injury that leads to death. In those times infections from gashing wounds were much more likely to be fatal than they are today.
That's right, IE9 Platform Preview 6 is the release that was rolled out at the PDC last week,

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I always believed that not voting is also a vote, but you are fined in Australia if you do not show up and cast your ballot.

The only way to say 'none of the above' is by filing an informal vote. This is a de-facto way of saying that you don't like any of the options, and at least in Australia this informal vote is tracked and parties take notice of it.

In the USA if you vote to not vote, Washington bundles you in with everybody else and assumes that you have no interest.

The ideal solution would be

a) Voting is mandatory, but with a formal 'none of the above' option

b) Voting is not mandatory, but representation is allocated based on what portion of total people voted for you, not allocated based on the portion of the total vote. (ie. if in one state all 25M people voted, they should get 5 representatives in congress, while if in another state of 50M people only 5M votes, they should only get 1 seat in congress)

With a quota based system based on proportion of population congress/parliament would then be a true representation. It is the only way to reflect the will of the entire population, meaning that those who choose to stay at home can no longer be ignored.
My approach was more mechanistic, but may boil down to the same idea.

I build up the finite automaton for testing for divisibility by 7; one state for each possible remainder from 0 to 6. Then I compiled this description of an automaton to a regular expression using the textbook algorithm.
I am Yank, Arab and Somali (I hold three passports) and I will soon be an Aussie, via marriage. I have spent a year in Australia. My feeling is that Aussies are not really as political as Americans.

American voting is under-informed and has low turn out, but at least the few percentage of electorate that vote actually care.

Aussies .. I am not sure if they don't care, or if they're just good at hiding their political views. It's far easier to speak to an American and learn about his/her political stances. Aussies are much more opaque, in my experience, and seem to be equally resentful of all politicians.

For all their bureaucracy, Aussies are far more anarchic and egalitarian than any other nation that I am familiar with, except maybe Somalis.

Australians, at least the ones in NSW that I have come to know, consider the government and politicians "a bunch of wankers". They're very pessimistic about the people they elect; which is both nice, and also harmful.

Having said that .. Aussie Aussie Aussie!

[Edit:

People should harden the fuck up and visit Australia; everyone should live there at least once. Just thinking about that place brings a smile to my face. They're a nation of good-natured jokers, thoroughly beautiful I tell ya. But be prepared to be bull-shat left and right; you will have a hard time if you're a self-righteous prick]
Very happy with Redmine too, on a couple of client projects. The Ubuntu package seems to work pretty well to automate the setup too.
You shouldn't use URL shorteners at HN. People here generally want to see where a link is going before clicking it.
This column was originally written in Oct 2000. I wonder if he still holds the same opinion. I think that the problem with assuming that the uninformed shouldn't vote is that you assume that all of the uninformed don't vote, or that the distribution is uniform. This is far from the case.

It might be the case that we should encourage everyone to vote, so that all of the uninformed votes might cancel each other out.
This is wrong. One shouldn't have to vote to be left alone. Reality is different, I know, but it isn't one's laziness that is to blame. (PS: I vote.)
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This is unfair and unjust, I don't really understand why there hasn't been a better regulation put in place for so long.. (even if the initial distribution of ownership rights doesn't affect economic efficiency)
> why not go to a place with the standards he admires, instead of trying to carry UofM on his shoulders?

Because if he can fix UofM others will benefit. If he moves on, nobody will. There is competitive pressures on universities to become degree mills and it must be stopped.
Strongly agree. There are a lot of fluff posts made which could easily be avoided if people just bothered to search first. Please let's try to improve the signal-to-noise ratio here, not make it worse.

I know people are lazy to use Google for a custom search. So I put together a google custom search engine which searches HN and a bunch of other programming-related sites - http://laughingcomputer.com.
HN frowns on shortened URLs - http://mashable.com/2010/11/01/microsoft-wants-you-to-manage...

Creativity? No. It is just like any other industry where you have to match the base feature set that people demand and then from there you sale based on your uniqueness (which could be creative add-ons, pricing, or branding).
Cleaning your hands when you get back home after having been outdoors - a very basic hygiene measure - does a WHOLE LOT more, I would say. Interestingly, in contrast to the article, the direct effect of a session of physical activity is a short suppression of the immuno system that leaves you temporarily more sensitive to the rhinovirus, should you be carrying it at the time.
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If you don't vote, you have no right to complain about the next set of assholes.

Here in the UK, the British National Party (a far-right fringe party) got two seats in the last European Parliament elections simply because turnout had fallen so low for the main parties. A lot of people are rightly ashamed at not bothering to vote. The only people who benefit from apathy are extremists and demagogues who can reliably rally support. A moderate political environment depends upon people motivating themselves to vote for boring candidates.
Option B would be pretty interesting, and might provide a decent incentive for people to vote. However, if people aren't likely to vote anyway, why would they care how much representation they have in Congress?

We effectively do have a "none of the above" option: don't select anyone and still cast the ballot. However, it would be better if there was an explicit "No vote" option.

The biggest problem with voting not being mandatory is that a lot of people don't have the opportunity because they can't get off work. If you made voting mandatory (or at least made election day a paid holiday), this impediment might be alleviated.
> People like Lukacs need to find organizations that are compatible with their irreverence.

No. We have to bend organizations into compatibility.

It's said that a reasonable person adapts itself to reality and doesn't try to change the world. Therefore, all the progress comes from the unreasonable ones.