skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"BitTorrent is available in 52 languages with 'clients checking in from over 220 countries every day.'"

Wow, a service available world wide, is twice the size of two that are US-only, one of which is not free.

Big surprise.
It's 'dubbed' not 'doubled'.
Average user would not get into this situation, because average user does not download driver from nvidia and then does not run scripts from command line.

Average user installs nvidia driver through 'restricted drivers' icon in the panel. Later, after the kernel upgrades, the driver recompiles itself during first boot (the user does not see this, the first boot just takes a little longer).

So yes, these hardware-related problems were dealt with years ago, you just chose to side-step the solution. (I'm sure unknowingly, but most people who choose to ignore package manager run into problems later and then blame it on the distro).
Your community site obviously has very different goals than Hacker News. Hacker News's primary value is in having a very high signal:noise ratio - the only way that can continue is by having a very strong community-enforced standard for what counts as 'noise'.

Your community site, I'd guess, is largely about providing support for parents and family of cadets - that's an entirely different set of goals and requires an entirely different set of community values.

It would be a mistake to assume that all communities on the internet behave the same way.
I think what he meant by that was that webpages and RSS feeds ultimately boil down to the same thing: transmitting markup across the wire. That's really all an RSS feed usually is; HTML markup CDATA'd or escaped inside a simple XML doc (often incorrectly).

Whether you request a webpage through a browser or an RSS feed through a reader, you're essentially doing the same thing.

And I think RSS/ATOM have failed to go mainstream for three reasons:

- The RSS and Atom specs are a mess. A mess. And have been for years. Most RSS/ATOM feeds are technically incorrect in some way, usually around the escaping of markup and/or the presence of feed metadata.

- There have been few, if any, truly inspired RSS readers (Google Reader doesn't count).

- Browser makers have never made RSS a first-class user experience. When asked to, the response is "nobody uses RSS". But nobody uses RSS because there's not a compelling RSS facility in any major browser, including Firefox.
Really now? NO ONE is going to comment on the irony of Kanye West singing about douchebags?
None taken, what would you change to make it more lively?
Forget about paid vs ads vs free for a moment. One is a technology that lets people all over the world share many types of files, legal and illegal, versus two US-only services with a limited selection of TV and movies.

I fail to see how this is a meaningful statistic in any way. How many "users" does FTP have versus Netflix?
In every case where insurance was made mandatory, prices went up.
"Roger completed the project in 3 days with nearly flawless quality. More specifically, he completed the project in 72 hours. 72 non-stop hours: No stops, no sleep, no nothing but coding."

Then later on: "He was addicted to cocaine."

So...no comment from anyone on how these two things are almost certainly related?
Very interesting. Those glitches/breaks seem difficult to pull off, which makes it a good feat in my eyes, though perhaps I'll have a different opinion once I give it a try.

Interesting that some of us spend weeks working through level after level, while others master hacks and exploits in the same manner.
Care to recommend any areas with acreage and good broadband?
I remember your thread from several months ago in which you were pondering on whether to launch... after almost a year in development. I must say that your website looks almost flawless, and the video by Epipheo does a fantastic job at explaining what Taketake is all about. I would think that Taketake is more like ShopSocial.ly + Blippy.

By the way, how did the idea come about? I'm asking because we're in social commerce ourselves and generally interested in developments in the space.
I accidentally conflated tipping and bribing. I feel tipping is acceptable in certain narrowly defined and publicly acknowledged circumstances, whereas bribing is almost always wrong. I also feel there isn't a sharp distinction between the two.
It seems like the consensus view is that HTC's Sense (and equivalents to a lesser extent) was a definite improvement over stock 1.5/6 but has become less so over time as stock improves.

Even as of 2.3 though some stock apps, e.g. the media player are a bit basic, so it's only overall better, not a point-by-point victory.

There's also the fact that Samsung could create "tablet" versions of apps without waiting for Google, manufacturers having to replace Google apps on non-phone devices, and ROMs going their own open source way.

You could also argue, in a game theory kind of way, that the potential for replacement has aided Android in general (and therefore Android users) even if any particular replacement has been negative.
I agree with the above
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I'll take a look at that, thanks. The typical Z80 had ran 4 times the clock rate at the 6502. Both CPUs had their pluses and minuses and I think for many practical purposes were roughly comparable. The design differences and choices are certainly interesting. I don't think the OP was right to claim the 6502 'ran rings' around the Z80 and that remains the case, after all the comments I got.
A youtube that doesn't take videos down for copyright violations.
A 14 line article is too long to read?
Lies != Deceit.
Would you pay $20 for a monthly subscription to such a service?
Sry.. it does not feel good. It's like alpha stadium. No collision detections, the sprites flickers sometimes, no gifts and stuff. Its like the first lesson of a game development tutorial, where you learn to add basic movement to your sprites.
Isn't DRM on noninteractive content (not games) doomed to failure?
Thanks for the edit, I was not looking forward to a huge debate over this topic since it's been discussed to death. We all have our own opinions on what's ethical in this area, it's all very gray.
I see the same as JamesDB. I'm in Canada.
I'd love to read more, do you have some links?

I'm aware of Chomsky's work, for example.

The reason I posted is that, although many have said it again and again, the message is not taking hold and IMO needs to be repeated.
BTW, this is also an excellent post on actionable metrics by Eric Ries : http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/19/vanity-metri...
My objection isn't to the wealth of the responder. My objection, and I think Guelo's, is that although there may be a market out there for sites that help people with the means throw around $20 bills, it wasn't really the time or the place to bring it up as a response to a site trying to fight genuine corruption, which the US does not suffer from much and which disproportionately affects the very poor.

Also, poverty in America is not, as far as I can tell, much like poverty in the US, although I've not spent any time in the rough parts of Chicago; like most middle-class white people, I spend most of my time on the north side.
The ability to search the Appbrain market and exclude proprietary software would be good. A "curated" FLOSS app store that let legitimate forks get ad revenue, but prevented shady cloning would be even better.
Not that it changes anything but this is from 2008
Good for him, no donations should translate in to obligations, they're donations, voluntary and are considered to be a reward for services rendered in the past, not the future.

Typically when someone is as driven as this and you get the output of all the labour that went in to it the proper words are 'thank you' and if you feel like rewarding the creator then that's great. But that does not entitle anybody to future preferential treatment or even any guaranteed output level.
Really? You didn't just try to look for web pages that end in ".php" and have a zip field? It's a pretty clear security vulnerability.
>Best was to call up the ceo on his personal homephone every night at 3am, until they knew what he sounded like raving mad

That is gold...

Now I want to be a whitehat pentester even more than I did before.
Apparently, you *are* entitled to your own facts now
I doubt that was the whole of it but it probably didn't help.
I bought a 60GB one last year, which is plenty for my OS and applications--I use a 1.5TB external for storage. It's the most tangible difference in my computing experience since 4 years ago when I bought 8GB of RAM and got rid of my swap file. If you're willing to spend money to make things faster, spend it on an SSD.
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I mostly disagree there too (at least in the US). Tipping is so ingrained in American culture that I don't think you can put the burden on the tipper to know that doing so can get someone in trouble with their employer.

Just as it's their responsibility to report the income, it's their responsibility to inform the tipper that they cannot accept and, if they want to explain, tell them that it could get them in trouble.

Persistence with that knowledge is unacceptable but that's another matter.
Enterprise world...

In my job even the developer computers are really closed down, its really anoying

(Thanks vim for the not-administrative rights exe also :D)
In response to all the comments referencing "Idiocracy" - I can't believe so many of you are taking that movie seriously.

1. Even if the effect it claims is true, it wouldn't result in an "everyone's stupid" society, it would result in a split society with an even more distinct intellectual upper and lower class. Not desirable, to be sure, but not necessarily dangerous to the human race as a whole.

2. What we arrogantly see as the "stupidity" of the lower classes is almost entirely caused by social and environmental factors. Genetically, they're not necessarily inferior at all. Even if genetic drift COULD occur within just a few generations, which I doubt, genetic effects would be entirely dominated by environmental factors such as education, nutrition, and socialization.

If you pulled a healthy baby from the worst white trash family at birth, raised it well and gave it an education, there's no reason to think it would be any less intelligent than you.
Price for this one is $400. A lot more expensive than I thought.

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If I click on the button sometimes the ad moves to the center of where my cursor is. There could be some accidental clicks here.
If anything, seeing something regularly on TV but not in RL is evidence against it's RL prevalence. The people who write TV generally do not lead statistically typical lives, although they often seem to think that they do. See: Sex and the City.
You'd be surprised by how many people read only comments unless/until they're motivated to read TFA. shrug
First of all - congratulations, you've blown my mind with your figures!

Secondly, I have a small worry about your traffic sources; is there any chance that the visitors are encouraged to click on your ads? If so, I'd imagine that Google might close your account soon. That said, I hope it's working for both you and the relevant advertisers :)
If they had been a little smarter about things, we wouldn't be having this debate. For example, in Japan there are 2000 private (non-profit) insurance companies. If you don't sign up with any, they sign you up for your local municipal plan. If you don't pay the bill, they don't bother you. But if you go to the doctor, they don't pay until you pay your back premiums.

Nobody's being forced, but the moral hazard is mostly fixed.

Japan has one of the highest-rated healthcare systems in the world, doing better on us on all sorts of stats like survival rates after diagnosis of major disease. They have universal coverage. But they pay 6% of their GDP on healthcare, compared to about 17% for the U.S.
So long as they're presented and taken as such, I don't see why not. ck2 never said "Every woman does X" or "Your girlfriend will surely do X".

I guess I took the "when" as a colloquial "if" - if your reading was more literal then I suppose I can see why you're upset.
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I'll say it a thousand times, corruption is the cancer of all societies and we really need to find the cure as priority number one. Before going to mars, before sea-steading, before feeding africa.
Act 2312863 of "how to fund open source software". It's not easy. Indeed, it's pretty much impossible to extract a proportional amount of the value that users derive from your code.
I pay for video games and I pay for music (my entire library for both is all paid for) but I pirate movies because it's impossible for me to watch them with ease, I'm in England and don't know of any service that lets me pay to stream movies on my PC :(
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I'm curious how users on newegg and related sites will take this and how much it will hurt Intel's sales.
[citation needed]

Insurance is mandatory in Germany, France, and Japan. Germany spends about 13% of their GDP on healthcare, Japan spends 6%, and France is in the middle. The U.S. spends 17%, and falls far behind the others in results.

Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
> What I meant is, it's not ethically wrong per se; it's only considered bad because it's bad for the economy in the long run.

Not really. It's ethically wrong because the creators and distributors of the content want to charge money for it and by pirating you're refusing to pay for it. If they wanted you to dance for it, or send a photo of you wearing a hat, it would still be ethically wrong to pirate it and there'd be no effect on the economy.
Huh? I'm not sure how you can beat _free_ file sharing services.
He is differentiating that the past was a problem rather than the present. See, if the guy was a 37yo rookie because of current, actively on-going problems, then the past would still not matter, but there would be good reason to be wary. So finding out that the thing is in the past is an exercise in finding out enough to dismiss qualms.

You are being disingenuous btw -- this is not like the gender question at all.
I disagree. Turing's original paper where he introduced the Turing machine addressed the question of whether a discrete machine is interchangeable with an analog mind; Turing's argument is that even if the states are continuously variable there comes a point where two states are too close to be distinguished by the mind itself, and therefore it is permissible to say that the number of states IS finite and can be modeled by a discrete state Turing machine. Now put Shannon's information theory in the mix: a channel, even a sloppy one, has a bit rate and an error rate. My intuition is that whatever speed increase you get from allowing sloppy cirfuits will be matched by an increased error rate. If you trade off error rate of a sloppy channel against using fewer bits of precision in a discrete/non error prone channel, you should get the same effective information rate.

All of these claims of increasing performance by sacrificing precision are achieving it by ignoring the tradeoff between rate and precision. It would be the same as if I claimed to speed up a lossless compression algorithm by discarding every other byte while measuring data rate as if I were not losing information.

My point is any tradeoff you can make by losing information in hardware, you can make the same information tradeoff in software.
.. or not use an algorithm that depends on the hardware implementation of floating point math? How about just comparing the previous & current iteration values? If you're not making any progress, you're done.
Random theory that is in no way provable.

It used to be (in caveman days) that merely getting to adulthood indicated some level of competence, either intelligence or physical.

Organized society made it so that moderatly, or less competent people got to adulthood.

But the sexual characteristics we enjoy didn't change. "Ugg like big boob". So the relatively dumber (not necessarily dumb, just not as quick as it used to be) "bimbo" (or "hunk") got to reproduce, where in the past they would have died a beautiful death.

And that's the end of cschneid's wild speculation that is in no way provable.
What needs work >> Venture Capital

Given the interesting things going on in the engineering labs I visited and the startups I met, one would have thought the place would have been crawling with VC’s fighting over deals. Instead it felt like the government – through CORFO - was doing most of the risk capital investing.

Not ideal, but better than nothing. Capitalism can get the most solid footing as a sustainable economic system when there is minimal government involvement. Need wealth to create and fuel more wealth.
People pay about that much for usenet servers (giganews, etc).

I'm not the kind of person who spends all his time watching TV shows, but if I was, I probably wouldn't mind paying that much for it.

But that would be out of convenience, not out of a moral obligation.

I've paid for some steam games, but I still download games from bittorrent (even games that are available on steam).

I've paid for some games because I wanted to support the developers, and I'm not just talking about indie games here. I paid for Valve games (HL2 series) because I felt they deserve it. I felt like they were nice guys.
Global market vs. north american centric services. Also, there's obviously a lot more going on in the entire bittorrent ecosystem than just video. Considering the respective market sizes, i'm surprised bittorent's total reach isn't 50x.

Bittorrent Inc. wasn't trying to make any of those points though, they were just trying to say hey look at how huge our reach is! Except that reach will be considerably diminished as soon as you're taking money (or charging it) to promote some content to your users.

Personally, I think P2P is a non-issue in the future of content delivery. Bandwidth is cheap and getting cheaper and torrents provide a significantly lower performance and less reliable channel than hosted servers. I am loathe to use torrents even to pirate content, I'll be damned if I want to pay for it and let you abuse my outbound too.
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The Flynn effect has been observed over less than a century. Extrapolating it to 20k years is a stretch.
>The U.S. spends 17%, and falls far behind the others in results.

Although you have to wonder how much of the results difference is due to our lousy diet.
It is interesting about the maps, but I read the headline with the context of Google search. Any SEO experts know if Google search also penalizes 'dead-end' websites (ones with no outbound links)?
I'm hoping to build off of this but its the bare minimum to start processing the API. Of course, I'll be adding some queuing and analysis on top of this.
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What are you using after the 10 days?
I'm not sure what the problem is with the ST-based Data.Vector. The State Thread approach lets you get performance like C, but with type safety like Haskell. This implementation gets you performance like Haskell with type safety like Haskell. Sure, there are "no monads in sight", but at a high cost.
... and the system is setup so that getting a licensed firearm is close to impossible (and you have to pay a lot of bribes to get one).
http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/javascript-super-mario-kart...
Oh well. I hope that the majority of the community is not like that. Just to restore some balance in the universe: I have donated and I don't expect any obligation in return.
Um, if Netflix Instant charged users per movie, it would've been a failure. The reason people love Netflix Instant is: one low monthly fee; unlimited, unmetered use of the service.

This is night and day different from what Hollywood wants to do, and what Intel is trying to enable them to do: force consumers to buy physical discs, or force consumers to rent from a hardware-enforced DRM'd digital kiosk.
I enjoy boring reporting with a touch of analysis. the whole "But wait, there's more" and "most exciting financial news EVAR" sucks.
You read my post and replied to it without my permission. I want you to send me a photo of you wearing a hat, with a sign saying "I'm really sorry".

/sarcasm
Well, zips aren't numbers, but it's potentially a DoS vuln.
Careful... You are bordering on being inflammatory with your sarcastic questions. Having read all of your posts/replies, you are close to what people would call a troll.

From wikipedia - In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

As I am sure this is not the intention you have, please be a bit more careful. We are all friends here. No need for sarcastic questions or inflammatory messages.
Actually, it's because the Clinton administration made encryption protocols a type of munition, and didn't allow the export of any with more than 40 bits until 1999. OTOH, South Korean legislation didn't allow the use of 40 bit encryption for online transactions, so they commissioned the Korean Information Security Agency to create a 128 bit block cypher called SEED in 1998. At that time, ActiveX (IE) and NSPlugin (Netscape) were the only viable technologies for this purpose that would be available on all customers' computers. Now that Netscape's dead, only ActiveX is left.

In January 1999, RFC 2246 (128 bit SSL) was finalized and permitted for export, but by then SEED was already entrenched. It's only now that smartphones are starting to become popular that they're trying to change things: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/09/133_73601....

You can read Gen Kanai's post about it on the Mozilla Asia blog for more info: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu...
I don't see your point, sarcasm or otherwise.
I always go back to some flavour of Windows on my home computer.

At my day jobs I've used OSX extensively too. It works well but I don't like it as it does some things in a way I don't like - i.e. it's personal preference for Windows rather than technical.
I understand that WikiLeaks is global. I also know that they have exposed leaks from Kenya, India, etc.

But I think there is still room for a local "wikileaks" which is tailored to the local environment in India (which is a big enough country that it would make sense).

Even though India has its version of the FOIA, asking too many questions can get you killed: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/india-rti-activi...
Cryptonomicon.
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Yeah that is a valid point. We have been at the top of the food chain for a long time, no natural predators to avoid. So any mutation that drops some of those self preservatory traits will not get weeded out like it would have been in the prehistoric times. Besides we now can compensate for many of those potentially debilitating mutations with technology.