skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I happen to care more about DVD ripping because I like it and I think it is going to become bigger, but most of my argument also holds if you're talking about watching DVDs on your laptop or desktop instead (which is completely mainstream).

That being said, where did you get the idea that ripping CDs is nerdy? Where do you think the legions of iPods Apple has sold have gotten the overwhelming majority of their music? iTunes took plenty of time to get to where it is today and ripping was where (most of) the rest of the iPod music came from. To take a personal example, my wife has had an iPod for almost 6 years. Her iTunes Library is at least 80% ripped (maybe even 90%) despite the fact that she buys plenty of music from iTunes. Why? She had a substantial CD collection she ripped to start with. She also didn't stop buying CDs (things that you can't get on iTunes, autographed CDs or special attributes, new or used CDs on sale for less than they'd be on iTunes, ...).

I'm also not claiming that Apple's reasons are absurd. I'm just saying that they have structural and institutional biases that might lead them to come to an incorrect conclusion about this particular point: the value of an optical drive. In other words, even though Apple has a pretty good batting average on these sorts of choices, there are reasons to think they might be wrong (in terms of what people will actually value) in this specific case.
Some counterpoints to the article

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-bust...
It's hard to imagine a different ruling in this case. Courts respect copyright laws and in this case there is a clear infringement.

What I don't get is the involvement of BT, they are just an internet provider. Why wouldn't MPA directly sue NewzBin2 and shut them down?
I think you might have misunderstood the article. Doctor's aren't being paid to use this particular software. Doctor's are being paid to convert to electronic records. To be eligible for that payment, they have to use systems that have been certified. Drchrono has been certified.

Anyone else is free to write a competing application, get it certified, and compete in the same market.
"Cato free-market spin is questionable and not terribly well suited to Hacker News"

As if Hacker News is somehow more qualified on economic issues than Cato, which has 10 Nobel Laureates?

F. A. Hayek

Milton Friedman

James M. Buchanan

Robert Mundell

Edward C. Prescott

Douglass C. North

Vernon L. Smith

Gary S. Becker

Ronald Coase

Thomas C. Schelling

http://www.cato.org/people/nobel-index.html
Logitech Revue drops to $99, that’s below cost price
The press has been drumming it up for the Opel Ampera (european badge of the Chevy Volt), but I don't think they're being delivered yet. My local Opel site has a configurator (mostly paint job ;-) with prices (over 40k euro).

Bumped into an interesting tidbit: an official blog post claiming 80% energy recuperation in the regenerative braking system http://opel-ampera.com/wp_en/2011/07/21/maximal-recuperation...

The other posts in the blog indicate that it's in the "presentation to the press" stage this month.
Medical service providers work in something that's only vaguely like a free market.
You probably will, if you're anything like me. However, at the end of the day, I find the "require" statement in ruby to be the truly most irritating feature. You simply don't get much control over what is slurped into your code. Python's import statement is so refreshing in comparison. I feel more in control in python, and I say this as someone who really likes ruby.
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Why should I have to pay for-profit pharmaceutical companies, hospital companies, and insurance companies for worse quality healthcare than I could be getting for pennies on the dollar from my taxes?
You would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.
The beginning of the end of Google, and why Apple is the creator's friend
That's it?

Huh. After all these years I find women really are the weaker sex.
Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
The last part was the most insightful for me.

Personally I am pretty damn sure that WSGI no longer carries the importance it had a few years ago. I think it no longer makes sense to merge different applications on the WSGI level together, it should be done on a higher level and JavaScript is a nice way to do that.

Just think about Google's gray bar. You can totally throw such a bar on top of different independent parts of the application by emitting a tiny piece of JavaScript that generates that bar and handles your user session.

I started thinking about it and was like "Right, you can make multiple async requests to hit multiple apps!"
The era of search is not over. It's just getting started.
Hm, interesting question. I was thinking specifically of primary education, most people never go to a private college and it's a very different situation.

For example, my wife is a teacher, and one of her biggest challenges is dealing with kids with severe behavior problems. They disrupt the entire class, but these kids still need an education. If you remove those kids from the class the rest of the kids benefit, but our goal as a nation isn't to only educate good kids.

This seems to create a perverse incentive in a private system. Private schools will do everything they can to be selective about there students, because their ultimate goal isn't to educate the nation as a whole, and that seems like the wrong goal to me.
Your account has been hellbanned.
Java 7 has "Commercial Features"
//If running a startup were my actual goal, I'd have been at it for a couple of years already.
that makes you an academic. we(society) need our academics, but i think there are a lot of ideas that don't crossover into the entrepreneurship/product for the same reason(small chance at big payout). In that light, i would say this NSF initiative is good to push those on the wall into entrepreneurs.
There's a sorta precedent in countries other than the US. Gas in the UK costs at least $9 per gallon, and there hasn't been a huge shift to electric cars: http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/road-freight-industry-ann... (that link is for businesses only, but if anyone had an incentive...)
Check out section G of http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/... and table 1.1 in http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/products...
At this point it's downright comical. It seems like a significant percentage of startups these days go to market on a design that is directly copied from Shopify.com

pricing page:

http://www.shopify.com/signup
https://drchrono.com/pricing/

Or worse, look at that little badge in the top right and compare it to the one at www.shopify.com frontpage.
What I find particularly striking in this is that attrition.org has been strongly tied to the antisec movement in the past. This leads me to think that the previous "doxing" or disclosure of lulzsec members identities were either staged or a rogue incident. Older antisec groups then appears to be more involved in this recent lulzsec surge
I can't get specific because De Gray's theories are either too general or so wrong as to not even be wrong.

So lets stick to fundamentals. His basic argument: ... the fundamental knowledge needed to develop effective anti-aging medicine mostly already exists, and that the science is ahead of the funding.

In other words, big pharma with all its money and all those huge profits coming form treating age related diseases, is just not interested in spending more to develop more such drugs? I mean the cure for agings is just sitting there, and all they have to do is put a few people to work on it, but nope, not interested.

All those scientists can't see the forest for the trees, but Aubrey does see it!

Does this give you any kind of a pause?
I mean, sure he might be the visionary of our age, but how likely is that?

Imagine this was about algorithms. And someone claimed the basic theory to solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time already exits, someone just needs to implement the algorithms. Would that person be taken seriously?

Does it not bother you at all that so many in the tech community are a buzz with his theories, but the life sciences community not so much? What's keeping Craig Venter from curing aging in a couple of weeks? Pro-aging and pro-death bias?

That is another one of Aubrey's claims, that a lot of his opponents are just hypnotized by our pro-aging and pro-death Stockholm syndrome culture.

Let me ask you this, can you provide me with specific evidence that Aubrey's main theories are NOT pure charlatanry?

Because the generic "We can like totally to do this, if we just try guys!" is not even wrong.
Would you say the same about C? More is not always better, esp. when it comes to languages.
try burning multiple isos to a single usb stick.. next time read the article
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there is no project so intractable and undesirable that someone doesn't see it as a fun and satisfying challenge.
Google Releases 2-Step Verification in 40 Languages
Other thoughts...

"Every word on every Google page is in the same typeface. No brand images appear other than Google's. This action essentially neutered the production values of every high end content creator."

During the 90's portal wars, search companies like Yahoo filled search result pages with brand images. The idea was to keep the user engaged on the search portal for as long as possible.

Then Google came along and said, hey, our goal is to actually get users off the search result page and to their content as fast as possible. That is why I use Google search. It gets me to high end content faster than anyone else can. IMO, this doesn't decrease production value of the content, it actually makes it better.

"Long term, focus on HTML5. The sooner you commit to HTML5, the more likely you will produce something of economic value."

FWIW, Google's platform is the web, and they are really advocating and pushing the HTML5 spec. For the past 3 years, Google Chrome has been leading the way in this area: http://html5readiness.com
FYI, Steve will be discussing this program at the San Francisco Lean Startup Circle:

http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Startup-Circle/events/27379661/
Finally, that ridiculous BS from Techcrunch is being debunked.
This sounds like a less depressing version of the gunshot detectors Oakland put up (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/shotspotter.html). Unfortunately, the ShotSpotters are not, to my knowledge, tweeting.
The patent application appears to have more detail: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090067402
"But, I'll just mention two things that are critical in Multiplan.

The first is the use of naming. You are not put into a mode where you have to use "A10," "B9," "C14," and things like that, which you have to do with VisiCalc. If you want to say that taxes are 6% of sales then you say "taxes are .06 times sales." If you want the sum of all the profits you say "SUM (Profit)" and so we deal with data on a name basis which is the way people are used to dealing with it."

Am I the only one that would love to see this impleneted in spreadsheet software today?
Ah, that makes more sense. I can see how the public good would be served by having doctors use electronic records; having them use this specific software (which is what I thought was being subsidized) seemed too specific to justify in terms of the public good.
I've seen people who were better at written communication in English than verbal communication. It was easier to both understand them and have them understand me.

I think everyone would be at the same disadvantage, regardless of English competency, when it comes to 19th century English poetry. ;-)
Fair enough, but many US colleges and universities are private and are the best in the world.

I think your worry about someone starting a school that is actually a sham are very much out of proportion. In today's public schools, many kids can't read or do basic math, so it's hard to imagine something worse.

Also, the monopoly system is the only reason parents can't easily switch their kid to a different school. If this were an option, parents would be much more critical. Most parents today just settle for whatever is publicly available b/c it's "free" to them and they'd have to move to a different district to put their kid in a different school.
To everyone on this thread: thanks for all of your input. We're already working on the next release of CorrugatedIron and we're taking it into account. Seriously. We want to make sure that CorrugatedIron is as easy for you to use as it is for us to blog about it.

So, thanks already for taking a look at our code and poking at it.
The reason why people care about getting more women into programming is the same reason why we will never get rid of the creeps: there simply aren't that many people with the ability to write software. A job applicant that can write a function that implements bubble sort and comes for the interview on time and wearing clean clothes is already way above the median. I'm not thinking of any specific example here, but a key developer of a successful open source project can be a total jerk and still get plenty of job offers and even a few speaking invitations.
"The complete answer to this question is very long, involving immensely complex mathematics, very
carefully designed software and hardware, and new data communications and modulation techniques.
The following is a highly simplified explanation" = BULLSHIT

Sorry, guys, but it sounds like somebody is trying to raise money for vaporware.
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This is the type of industry that really needs that type of standardization and enforcement of it. I can fully understand why the government wanted to step in and help enforce that standardization for a greatest benefit of all involved, and I can not really think of an alternative to the cash incentive to get people to do it. Can anyone else offer up a reasonable alternative?
I'm not going to defend corn ethanol, but I do think this debate is misguided. The problem is not the corn ethanol, the problem is the corn.

Corn is an indirect way of converting oil into sugar. It is just as inefficient at making food as it is at making fuel (though that's less obvious because the end product doesn't have the same units.) There's a great article in an old issue of Harper's called "The oil we eat" (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915).

I find it amazing that people are complaining that diverting corn to make ethanol raises food prices, when you can make the same argument that diverting corn to feed cattle raises food prices. Making beef via corn is an extremely inefficent method that's only viable because of cheap oil.

If the real concern is feeding people, you eat vegetarian. From a food supply point of view it's pure waste to feed cattle food that humans can eat directly. (Letting cattle eat grass on land not suited for agriculture is different.) The only reason it's sustainable to raise cattle the way it's done in the U.S. is because of an abundance of cheap corn due to cheap oil.
By no means universal, merely a reflection of my experiences.

For example, I was an exchange student for a year and when I came back I was told I'd get no credits for it because I couldn't produce a report card , so I was held back (i.e. punished for studying in a diff. country for a year).

Same year: moved from another state, forced to take freshman "earth & environmental sciences" because it's a state requirement. I requested being able to take AP Environmental Science instead: "no, it's a requirement." So I'm turning 18, held back to 11th grade because I got an exchange scholarship, forced to take a freshman (remedial) course surrounded by kids straight out of middle school (embarrassing and discouraging as a teenager) when I'm willing to take a comparable AP course.

This stuff happened with me all throughout school. To be fair I was somewhat lazy, but much of this was due to the feeling of powerlessness and inevitability public school is designed to instill.

inb4 someone who had a different, great public school experience. As I said, this is my experience.
Mobile payments: great for coffee, but not much else
So what does this isostick do that YUMI does not do?
A new dating tool for Lexus?
Daniel Spiewak presenting a new hybrid OOP/FP approach.
Crap, I didn't know that. My big-O notation is out of date, as is my knowledge of calculus.
Wish I had read the HN comments first, I came to same conclusion: read the white paper, not the article.

Fascinating stuff, this could very well be revolutionary if it's proven to scale up.
"But before you blindly throw it away you have to understand why it was created in the first place."

This is an excellent piece of advice that I wish more people would use. If you find something that you disagree with (a law for instance) it is a good idea to first see how it came to be. The decisions people usually have some reasoning behind them that can't just be discarded when being evaluated.
Its not really a new discovery, the very first instant messaging system was half publish/subscribe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)
Lithium-titanate battery can be charged in 10min@250kW according to E-RA specs: http://www.raceabout.fi/era/

They have somewhat smaller capacity than conventional lithium-ion though.
This is the basic idea from the white paper.

DIDO communication begins with the DIDO APs exchanging brief test signals with the DIDO user devices. By analyzing what happened to these test signals as they propagate through the wireless links, the DIDO Data Center determines precisely what will happen when it transmits data signals from the APs to users, and how the simultaneously transmitted signals will sum together when received by each user device. Then, the DIDO Data Center uses this analysis, along with the data each user is requesting (e.g. video from a website), to create precise waveforms for all of the APs that, when transmitted at once will sum together at each user device to create a clean, independent waveform carrying the data requested by that user. So, if there are 10 APs and 10 users all within range of each other, then 10 radio signals will sum together at each antenna of each user’s device to produce an independent waveform for each device with only that device’s data.
I think the problem is less the amount of land than the energy intensity of the crop.
If I buy a $30 bottle of pills that are supposed to make me lose weight, well I lost $30 and I learned my lesson. If I send my kid to a fucked up school it might take years for me to realize it was fucked up, and the stakes are much higher.

Or you could send your kid to a public school which is also fucked up, but not have any other options because, hey, there aren't any other schools around, and nobody has any real incentive to fix it up.
Use the knuckles trick: http://lifehacker.com/232828/macgyver-tip-use-your-knuckles-...
IANAL but I have to imagine that one simple rule would bring back the validity of patents as an innovation protector:

If you have a patent, you MUST have a product or be working on a product using the technology in question or you cannot litigate others using your idea.

Patents are required to protect the truly innovative individuals and groups from huge corporations who can, as you said, just steamroll them and steal ideas.

I'm afraid it will get a lot worse before we finally get this fixed, though.
Facebook's open source
This changed my life: http://itunes.apple.com/app/london-busmapper/id431558152?mt=...

I'm using the tube less and less every weekend now that I now how to go from one place to another without needing to memorise it.
Interesting simulation. The braided behavior sounds like the 'equilibrium behavior' I mentioned earlier. Does this simulation also allow for taking another player's exact location, forcing a split of their market share on both sides? I imagine that's a subtle but game-changing move.

For the higher vendor numbers (3+), did you notice similar behavior when the vendor parity was the same (i.e. all even or all odd)?
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Private schools are already widely available.
Why would you automatically declare an organization like Cato, which comprises a lot of living and dying Nobel Laureates (10 in fact) and read by a large number of PhDs in economics from our top universities, not HN worthy and "political propaganda"? It's a little absurd to make such a claim without substantiating your argument.
i researched a few php frameworks (sy2, zend, cake, li3, kohana, etc.) a little while, and by far i'm most satisfied with lithium (li3, http://lithify.me/). depending on 5.3 seems to open up a wide range of possibilities and oftentimes i feel like 'this is the way to do it', whereas i felt like 'the framework is getting in my way' with sy2 for example.
I came here to inquire about the same thing. The shared page has been last modified 2011-07-28 but currently Perl seems to handle Japanese fine, either via the Encode module (core) or alternatively Unicode::Japanese on CPAN.

Regardless, I'd be interested in knowing of any problems people have had with handling Japanese.
Drill Down HN : Github
When I land at web apps or sites upvoted here in HN, most of the time I wonder - how these sites were developed. Figuring out all architectural, technical and UI aspects of an app or a site would be inspiring to a developer-cum-lurker like me.

Shall we start with http://github.com
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I don't see the change of character. They encouraged the prosecution of a journalist for getting his hands on an iPhone before release, they sued several mp3 manufacturers for copying the iPod's look and feel (wonder why you didn't see other mp3 players with clickwheels on US shelves?), they were similarly aggressive (albeit not litigious) in blocking the non-threatening Pre from accessing iTunes, they've been fighting toe to toe with content companies since iTunes debuted, they've routinely cornered the market for critical components (small hard drives and flash memory, most notably) for the better part of a decade. This is a company that's played hardball every day for as long as I can remember.

The main difference here is that the stakes are higher.
You seem to be arguing against a point I didn't make. I didn't say that "Hacker News is more qualified on economic issues than Cato" as you put it. I said that I found the case made in this blog post to be questionable and that this political content is not well-suited to Hacker News.

I was not impeaching the intellectual output of the Nobel laureates associated with the Cato institute, but I do have to note here that none of them wrote this blog post, nor is there any indication that any of them reviewed it. I could further debate your name-dropping, but I've wasted enough key-strokes on this as is.
...three weeks ago!
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Ask HN: Why was my submission stillborn?
I've been hunting around through the various FAQs and guidelines and I don't seem to be able to find an answer to this. Yesterday or the day before I submitted an item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811776

I went to add a comment to it, but there was no "reply" text box. I asked a colleague, and he said that he couldn't see the item at all.

Why should that happen?

Thanks.
What's the Matter with Boston VCs?