skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to expand on my point. To me the OP was obviously engaging in a worthless semantic debate. The post to which he was replying said (paraphrased) "elitism is good, everyone wants to best for themselves and their kin." It was clear from the post what temphn meant by elitism.

Then scrod came in with the dictionary definition of "elitism". And my point is that people will always favor their family, their friends, people who have been through similarly trying circumstances. The formation of factions of people who cooperate is inevitable, and some will be successful. Furthermore the beautiful, the intelligent, the charismatic, the ruthless will always have an advantage over the masses. Does anyone really want to live in a society that's NOT run by people who are in some way "the best"? I understand that some people are against hereditary wealth and privilege, but in a meritocratic society it's just a different set of people who are the elite. Again I ask, where is the society which is not dominated by an elite?

At this point it's impossible to tell if the post was edited, but when I read it last night, I don't recall seeing the phrase "above all else". It's not implied by his dictionary definition, so that part of his statement is too strong - "dominating element" vs "above all else". It's clear that scrod has contempt for any society with an elite (which I again emphasize is every advanced society on earth right now).

And then finally the moralizing came in: "Your attitude is pretty repugnant", in an attack on a strawman!
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On the same line with uploaded minds, a technology that disable your senses, and send custom signals through your neural fibers. This makes it possible to live in a virtual world, reducing resource consumption for entertainments.
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Haha, okay. That'll be next on my TODO list :)
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You can walk into a bank anywhere in the world and convert it into local currency. That's as close to money as you're likely to find.

Edit: I should have said "coin dealer." To the reply below in Cork Ireland - I see you have a convenient merchant in your very town that will be happy to convert gold coins into cash:

http://www.dublincoinauction.com/index.php?page=index
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Just above iframe and ajax it needs to say memcache/queue/additional check and you will be fine. Seriously - it's not an architecture problem here, just a way of figuring out how to make your code aware of changes outside of its process.

Edit: forgot to mention - think about your worst case before/while you design and you will then have a problem in yours hands down the track that says - 90% of visitors do A (subset of B) and my design caters for B. How do I optimize for A?

Instead of - my design caters for A, but a fair few do B - how can I extend A cater for B?

Architects - agile, waterfall, whatnot - they can help you with this!
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Come on, the BOM alone on these things is more than $200 and there is no console-like way to make your money after.
You can walk into a bank in any country in the world and convert it into a local currency. How is this not money, or equivalent to money?
Not so astonishing! Multiply those 3 years times 1000s and you get from 4m to 12bn.

This would assume currency value stability over 1000s of years of course, not possible even over decades.
Huge congrats to the guys! Delighted for them, Literally couldn't happen to nicer guys or a better team.
I do believe sites have much better mechanisms for sorting and searching compared to the web-interfaces of mailing lists.

If you're talking about using, for example, the web interface for Yahoo Groups or something, then maybe yeah. But if you're having the messages delivered to your email, and reading it with either GMail or a standalone client like Thunderbird, I think email wins on "searchability." I personally haven't found most forum sites to have terribly good search.

"why are mailing list web interfaces so horrendous compared to sites?"

Good question. :-)
Prepare some seed content yourself. Just "listphrase" existing similar sites. It will give a bit of realness to new visitor.

Cheers and best of luck.
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What does this have that S5 [1] hasn't had for a few years now?

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
Silver was money, and so was gold.
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I think the phrase "By the same unflinching logic..." gives some insight into the mood of the author.

I'm surprised they didn't drop in a "it's a well known law of the universe that 20% of women have 80% of the babies..." Pareto adds credibility to any predictive model (just make sure the numbers add up to 100, since you don't want to look stupid)
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Can you please say a bit more about what this is? Is it an IDE? Is it hosting? Is it both? IS it specific to a language/framework?
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I'm sure selling something for 1/3 the cost to make it is attractive to buyers... But of course, HP can't afford such a thing indefinitely. It was merely an attempt to get rid of this embarrassment as quickly as possible.

And it worked, too... I couldn't get my hands on one.
Grid systems require that Web designers add .grid_x CSS classes to HTML elements, mixing presentational information with otherwise semantic mark-up.

This is a pretty shallow problem analysis because total separation between presentation and semantic mark-up isn't possible nor even relevant. Also, why is it that lots of developers argue in favor of semantic markup but fail to explain exactly why and how it matters? What's the measurable difference on header/footer/article instead of nested divs? Seems that many devs just assume that semantics equals "better" code without taking the time to really understand if, why and how.
webOS is based on Linux, only tailored beautifully for a finger/touch based interface, so why bother replacing it with a variant of Linux that is not?
How is my post wrong? Name one fiat currency in the history of the world that has not eventually been devalued and become worthless over time.

Every currency that has crumbled has had one thing in common - it used to be backed by gold, silver, or some other precious resource, and then due to the need of government to print more money, the backing was removed.

Why are we as humans destined to learn this lesson the hard way every few decades? Because people have a short memory and forget history. Once confidence in a currency has eroded no amount of it can be worth almost anything. See Germany during the Weimar republic - people carrying wheelbarrows full of paper bills to buy a loaf of bread.

I'm not saying that's going to happen tomorrow in the US, but currency devaluation is a slippery slope and it is happening all around us.
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Not sure if I understand you correctly, but the article states:

It is generally understood that both parties carry their own costs until the final contracts are signed.

Which is how it's normally done, both sides are interested in a sale/investment/merge so I see no reason why you should expect to get paid for the due diligence process.

The buyer has to analyse all data on which the deal is based, until he is satisfied, which in many cases means hiring experts for that job.
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at my work the devs have ordered like 2-3 each and 6 for other employees, so £90 for an android tablet is brilliant, the ubuntu port is news to me though, but all the better
Thanks for the useful feedback Michael - that last sentence makes a lot of sense to me.
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This is a classic example of the problem of selling things below cost. It always "works". People always love you for it - it's basic manners: "don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

But not only does it teach you nothing about the actual market, it actively misleads you. Even if you try to consciously remember that your popularity is illusory, that you bought that popularity - even if, like the triumphant Roman generals of old, you employ a servant to stand behind you at all times whispering: "Remember your company is mortal and these happy people are all paid shills" - psychology is psychology, and smiles are contagious, and you are going to fool yourself, and you are going to make bad decisions under the influence.

And then the paid-for popularity will warp your product, as you begin to build features based on feedback from the existing users, the ones who did not pay a fair price. These people aren't your market. But that doesn't mean you can just ignore them either, because they are in contact with your actual market, so you have to keep them happy...
How does Clojure enforce that there are no side-effects in the transactional code?

Technically it doesn't. If you have a (println "foo") in a transaction it may be
printed multiple times if the transaction gets retried.

Clojure does give you an io! macro that you can wrap all your side effects in to
manually provide that kind of protection. If you try to use io! inside a transaction
you'll get an error at runtime.

user=> (defn foo [n]
(io!
(println n))
n)
#'user/foo
user=> (defn bar [] (dosync (foo 10)))
#'user/bar
user=> (bar)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: I/O in transaction (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
> I'm sure selling something for 1/3 the cost to make it is attractive to buyers...

Not 1/3 the cost, 1/3 the BOM. It does not include software, shipping, building and packaging costs, just buying the hardware parts.
I've started to wonder when Apple is going to offer hardware subscriptions. I guess that's not much different than leases, but I don't think consumers ever lease hardware. It's surprising that they don't because the phone market is so driven by just the monthly payment amount.
Looks like you are using Google custom search. Can you please provide your perspective on the service.
Too much excitement? _why was generally a cool guy, but why (no pun intended) would you get yourself excited over his return? He's just a person, just another developer, not the messiah or anything.
I'd assume because webOS will not be receiving updates.
"Gold is not accepted at my local supermarket, and probably not yours either."

Neither is any other "foreign currency" which also needs to be "exchanged to local currency first".

See that's the thing the markets are trying to figure out right now ... is gold an industrial commodity? In which case, yes it is terribly overpriced! Or, is it in a time of world-wide currency crises reviving its historical role as a store of value, an AAAA++ rated, supra-sovereign "monetary asset" (rather than granted an immediate for-daily-barter currency) with no debt burden and no counterparty risk? If yes, it might still be vastly undervalued!
The point of that paper is that they have been researching it, quite extensively. But the performance results have often been disappointing, and the semantics of nested transactions can be surprisingly complex. At what point do you start looking into other things?
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Are votes really a 1-5 rating? I thought it was bit counterintuitive (I guess in my experience "votes" are typically binary). How about allowing just thumbs up/down?
Although this doesn't retain a lot of the features we're accustom to with PowerPoint and Keynote, I think it holds a different purpose. What about using this on a marketing site for your web app? Build a deck for potential customers to go through. Offer up backup options like a PDF or PPT for download. I think deck.js has a lot of potential and cool possibilities.
Presuming the GP is talking about this http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2011/08/samsung-digital-pictur... then the answer is no.
I don't see how this proves state collusion in hacking rather than just some individual working on their on behalf? While we all know this is likely, I don't get the "proving" claim. Did I miss something in the story?
Seems like good news to me: amateurs! I haven't seen a video of US government hackers in action.
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At least at this early stage with little content, the site seems very snappy. Looking at the blog, I'm assuming you're running on Google AppEngine? Can you give us an overview of how the site is implemented?
> It's a pity he left so many things unfinished.

I realize that ending the description in such a bitter way misses the big picture.

He offered a slew of free/libre programs and art, and more. Bickering over a few abandoned projects is ridiculous.

_why, if you happen to read this: it was fun while it lasted. Thanks a lot for the ride, and best wishes for your current and future endeavors.
Nice idea and good implementation! The home page could look cleaner if you use less bold font-style and a smaller number of different font-sizes.
I'm not sure, - that could be a way, but only if you actually enjoy writing those articles.

Just thinking out loud, your time could also be spend editorially adding more and more subjects and quality lists. The whole problem with such a site is that you need to maintain some level of quality, which is best maintained by attracting people that care about that quality. If you have a lot of quality lists with quality subjects, the next thing you need to ensure is that Google (and other search engines) pick up on that.

If I search for "emacs color themes", for example, you want listry to be the #1 match in Google with a list of links to color themes.

That, and just balls: try to get some popular bloggers to cover your site. If they like the concept, they won't mind vouching for you.
Oh, but he's part of the lore and the canon, so even though the sixth patriarch tells you to stare at the moon and not the fingers pointing the moon, on HN there's a lot of finger-worship going on.
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Who wrote this?
I don't think that the first result on Google is by accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)

This blog was created when it was posted on HN so i assume this is yours david927

Why so secretive?
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Trick is, of the people who are buying gold, almost no-one is buying physical gold. So its physical properties are irrelevant.

It's almost entirely being bought either on speculation that it will continue to rise in price, or as a hedge against inflation. And for that purpose, they might as well be buying giant stone discs that lay beneath the ocean.
It's very easy to set up, and it works alright. There is a delay for things to show up in the search results though. I think once app engine (which is what Listry runs on) implements full text search, I'll probably make my own solution using that.
Can you still find them for 99$ somewhere?
When is the infographic bubble going to pop?
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I suggest you buy your "close" friend some "sandpaper" gloves, and then tape them to his wrists: http://www.amazon.com/Gloves-Sandpaper-Finish-Wrist-Dozen/dp...

That should put him off... well, hopefully, unless he develops a sandpaper gloves wanking addiction ;-)
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I think you misunderstood codedivine. His point was not that applications that use STM and make use of a single thread are slower than sequential implementations of the same application. We expect the parallel implementation's single threaded performance to suffer by a percentage or two (or ten...) because it has to do more hardware-level atomic operations.

codedivine's point was that it is often the case that applications implemented with STM that use multiple threads often perform worse than the sequential version. See the excellent ACM Queue article he links to in a sibling comment.
It looks like it's a lot more amenable to customization.

I've used S5 for many presentations, and there's a limit to how much you can customize the look without getting into nasty hacks.

It also doesn't have any sort of theme or plugin architecture. Basically, deck.js looks like S5 for the modern era.
I don't think this is particularly useful. The end result CSS is going to be bloated with large amounts of repeated styles. It also lacks reusable HTML components. The article references Bootstrap, but Bootstrap still produces a grid that is based on using reusable HTML classes - a better approach.

When you're looking at modifying the grid at different viewport dimensions, this grid system looks like it will require you to redeclare every selector that applied the `.column()` mixin.
Just called my son (age 9) at home and spent 30 mins on the phone with him while I responded to emails. He loves this! He now understands the importance of paying attention to the details. You can't leave out a ()," or ;. Great way for kids to learn to precisely follow directions!
OK, I can potentially see where vi(m)'s rectangluar selection would be good for editing config files and such, but I'm pretty sure all modern editors have rectangular selection anyway (notepad is not a modern editor). My IDE has the ability to rename a variable and to comment/uncomment a selection which solves your last two problems.
It would be great if Mozilla followed through on their projects. Prism to Chromeless to stalled. Chromeless has potential to expand their core product, which is the browser. Why does everyone have the need to be Google and have their hands in everything?
Given that hacking is considered an act of war... where does this lead? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230456310457635...
Several $99 tabs have emerged in India. I am yet to get my hands on them but I suspect Indian companies have simply imported some cheap Chinese low quality stuff and branded as their own.
I'm a paying recurly customer, and I think depending on jQuery is totally fine; even if we had to include jQuery on a payment page when we didn't use it anywhere else on our site, that wouldn't be any trouble.

Please, use your precious development time on more pressing issues related to making payment's even easier to accept and integrate!
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I wonder if the author was trying to compare S3 costs to running your own Nginx on EC2 (which involves other cost than just bandwidth), or to some private datacenter? (Meaning his reference to "taking a huge load off their application servers")
I do all of my presentations with HTML. For the past few years, I've mostly been using Eric Meyer's S5, though I've used some other things as well.
You don't think we hack them? We're far more proficient than they are, the only difference is that Chinese systems are more difficult for your average script kiddie to hack due to the language barrier.
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. The solution is right there in the article - send a few ships from the navy, like the Spanish treasure fleets of old.

If England doesn't want armed Venezuelan ships in their waters, use a freighter and escort it all the way back. Divide up the cargo between the ships if you're really paranoid.

The author is inventing a problem where none exists. Transporting large amounts of heavy cargo overseas is a solved problem.
As much as I support what they are doing, I don't see Apple implementing any of this any time soon - even if it is in the Webkit trunk, they'll just rip it out/deactivate it.

Apple's strategy for their phone platform runs deeper then just what is in the open source Webkit codebase.

I used to think/hope open platforms would ultimately win in the market but iOS and the Apple App Store has kind of proved otherwise.
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Semantic tags simply carry meaning in themselves whereas div-tags don't. There was a campaign to use standardized attributes to convey meaning (the campaigns name escapes me at the moment), but that's just a hack.

Just an example, if you want to scrape a website for the first 100 characters of its articles, you can just look for <article>-tags. If the website used <div>-tags you would have to figure out how to identify the articles (perhaps the author used the class .article or .main_article, etc.), and you'd have to do it for every website you want to scrape.

Screen readers would be another example of software that profits from semantic tags.
It's a bad comparison.

If you're going to serve static assets, you're better off using CloudFront which has better delivery and lets you set proper cache headers so you won't have to use as much bandwidth.

Aside from serving assets efficiently, being able to store them in a permanently cacheable scheme is a huge benefit.

We used Cloudfront Asset Host to build this solution at PatientsLikeMe:

http://github.com/wpeterson/cloudfront_asset_host
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Rubinius's parser is C/++ code derived from the same Bison grammar as regular Ruby. That's not to say it couldn't be pure Ruby, but it isn't right now.
Since both sides bear their costs until the final contracts are signed, how do you prevent an insincere large competitor from offering a term sheet, doing due diligence to learn everything they can about the business, and then backing off based on a contrived revelation?

If NDA you mentioned is the only thing preventing them from doing this, it seems a bit iffy.
Thanks for noticing the speed :) I spent a lot of effort on that.

I built my own mini-framework for Google App Engine with a focus on speed. The main thing that makes it fast is that it utilizes public edge caching for most content, and the parts of the content that change from user to user are updated with javascript.

So with the home page, App Engine just serves a static page from it's edge cache, which is updated every 30 seconds, and the top bar of the site which is different if you are logged in is updated with javascript to show you different links if you are logged in.
So should local storage be used as a better alternative to cookies?
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