skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. The other way is for a new, massive industry to open up. (Think terraforming Mars.) This would correspond to increased per-capita wealth consumption.

However the fact that you must choose four of {decrease excess wealth, decrease employment, maintain moderate per-capita consumption, maintain high per-capita work output, maintain high per-hour work output} is a logical truth.

Proof:

Wealth can be created (work), destroyed (consumed), or accumulated and held (income/wealth inequality). Wealth must be created at the same rate it is accumulated or destroyed (i.e. Wc = Wa + Wd). Since OWS wants to decrease wealth accumulated and it is undesirable to increase wealth destroyed (unless in the example given above), we must therefore decrease wealth created. Right now this is happening due to unemployment. Since OWS also wants to minimize that, we must decrease wealth created in another manner. Obviously, decreasing wealth created per hour worked is out of the question (that would mean reverting to a pre-industrial age). The only remaining option is to decrease hours worked. QED.
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People in California make no sense to me - why go through the trouble if you've got that much money - just get a Chauffeur! We do it Right Coast!
I rather thing you are either trolling or do not know the specifics on "for hire" work when it comes to either:

a) performing
b) speaking
c) creating value around information and how you disseminate it (RMS' case)

Riders are there to ensure every edge case is accounted for, especially with people who do things like this often. The apt comparison is how you keep your desk at work. What if you arrived tomorrow and someone had moved your keyboard around, changed your mouse and messed up the calibration of your monitor?
"Line-ucks"? Isn't it Lee-nucks?
A number of women have been beaten, raped and/or murdered by men making identical noises. MikeeUSA wasn't trolling, he was threatening to murder those women he was stalking, and justifying it.

As MikeeUSA himself wrote:

> The women of the "geek feminism" movement will be just as effective at excising men from the movement as Nina was at systematically destroying Hans Reiser's life untill he saw no reason, nothing left in his life, that could hold him back from striking back.

Hans was convicted in 2008 of murdering his wife Nina. MikeeUSA is saying categorically that Nina deserved to die, just like MikeeUSA's targets.

http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/13/on-being-harassed-a-littl...
That's an interesting bit of trivia! References?
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Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938270

That story started as a female blogger attacked for being a successful female in tech. It's an easy simplification. Meanwhile, I followed that story and it turns out (unrelated to tech, success, or being female) she was involved in breaking up a marriage (being the other woman) which lead to harassment from a Christian fundamentalist relative.

While I have no doubt individuals can be hostile towards women in tech, I generally find posts from people heavily involved in a cause tend to re-contextualize stories to fit their narrative. If you read a blog post from feminists in tech you are going to read a post about how women are mistreated in tech.

Which turns a story about an former partner calling up the work place to harass his ex girlfriend into an attack on women in tech.
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Look at Apple's blocks (LLVM/Darwin and FreeBSD only, I believe), GCC's anonymous or nested functions (may be supported by LLVM too, they tend to copy GCC language extensions), and (a very restricted subset of) C++.

Also note that C is easy to parse. It's definitely possible to write a C-to-C compiler that supports parts of Apple's syntax (e.g. "oneFrom = ^(int anInt) { return anInt - 1; };"), just by replacing every ^ by a function pointer to a function defined at the end of the current file.

Of course, blocks is much more than that (e.g. includes memory management), and there is a reason for that...
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Proposal - we leave the names as Linux. There is no reason to change it or confuse the entire world to satisfy the pet peeve of one toe-fungus eating nut.
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Drawing a Line on the Cost of Education
Both are listed as valid pronunciations according to the Oxford English Dictionary:

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/251510
To be fair, how many of these XP installs are still running a pre-SP1 version of the OS? Probably not much. Windows XP might be 10 years old, but it went through 3 major service packs that plugged many security holes, upgraded many frameworks and libraries, etc. Visually XP SP3 might not be different from the first Windows XP version, but under the hood, a lot has been fixed or upgraded. If I remember correctly, XP is still getting security updates to this date.
This is very clever. Is there supposed to be a practical application, or is it simply a "look at this neat thing I did with CSS" demo?
Hi Eric! I run http://impromptudo.com. Though it's been neglected. Obviously PadMapper is/was a huge influence on my project, keep up the good work.

Any plans for your next move? New map provider? Pony up?
The point is, if your email address is public, expect copious amounts of spam, abuse, scams, and so on.

If you get offended by random emails, don't have a public email address.
If You Build It, They Won't Necessarily Come - Launching Your Web App
Agreed - I'm hopeful that npm can see some love on Windows as well. As more and more utilities take advantage of node that aren't strictly web-related, having first-class npm support on Windows will be even more helpful.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-05-00... is one, tho' I can't remember where I first heard it.
Try plugging in 22808277332 and 42028050 for "hacker news".
Gazing into my crystal ball, I think the next generation of consoles may well be the last. Cloud gaming services like OnLive, which offer games on demand to whatever device you happen to be using, are going to be the ones eating everyone else's lunch.

There may still be a (much smaller) market for a dedicated set-top device which connects to these services, but it'll be commoditised. The only way I could see Apple getting involved in this is if they add gaming services to the Apple TV. Which could actually be quite a good fit, now that I think of it.
"the "touch screen" Android interface is mostly driven by buttons"

That's what I kept thinking while watching the video. Blackberry and Blackberry Pearl were all about pushing or selecting things using a rocker or ball, and that's what's shown in this video for making selections.

What the iPhone changed was direct interaction, making the OS interact and respond the way the spinning globe does in this video.
Everyone should read this post, the origins of copyright are very enlightening when trying to understand the insane system we have now.

Intellectual property is system of monopolies inherently incompatible with a competitive, creative and innovative free market, how the IP-industry managed to turn this argument around in the minds of most people is truly scary.
I believe so. There have been some efforts to make a softcore[1] Lisp Machine, but when I last looked, it appeared that they weren't seriously pursued.

I would love to put together a softcore Lisp Machine. It would a tremendous learning experience and I think it could help spur some really interesting results in OS architecture. Particularly useful in that arena would be a multicore Lisp Machine.

It would be a dream come true if I got a job building such a device and development was open-sourced from day 0.

[1] Softcore, that is, a processor on an FPGA.
If it's at that point, wouldn't it be more prudent to get the police involved? Restraining orders exist for this exact reason.

The article(and blog post) imply that this has been a long-term issue, and the level of threats are pretty terrible, even to the level where most good forum admins would seriously think of tipping off the police if these messages were brought to their attention.
Have you seen it happen where candidates are vetted by the state and only allow those it blesses?

I don't see a parallel. I think you're reaching very very far.
From requirements discovery to release
WS-* and XML cryptography is such a clusterfuck. It's ironic to see Amazon injured by use of "standard" constructions; they'd have been better off rolling their own here.
I don't have the answer, but when the trend goes to zero, I'll be suspicious about the distro's community, it could be a bug free distribution you're right. On the other side, as a Arch Linux user, I don't think this distro is more buggy that before, and the trend goes clearly up. But you're right, their is not only one reason for the trend's explanation.
I'm curious to know what a list implementation would look like
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Ur right. It has been a while since I heard him say it: http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux...
I have no problems with the 3DS. I think it's a great handheld console - the software library has been a bit limited so far, but replaying Ocarina of Time having not played it since it launched on N64 has been great. The 3D effects add something special to what is already a brilliant game.

It's unfortunate that some people are experiencing headaches etc with the stereoscopic 3D. New Mario & Mario Kart titles are being released soon, and despite the inevitable groans that Nintendo are just rehashing old franchises (which they are), I struggle to think of any of the recent rehashes that weren't great. The 3DS lineup will improve and improve. I think it's great.
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this reads like classic "blame the victim" to me.
The cost certainly is relevant. You can lease or rent a cube van. You can't rent $10 tools.
Interesting experiment to improve comments: only show a comment field or reply button on threads if the user clicked the story.
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None of the recent Sonic games have been anywhere near the standard that they used to be. Sega, to me, are a sad example of a company that used to make great games consoles & games and are now resigned to manufacturing mediocre games. I would be gutted if Nintendo went the same way.
Thanks for the reply. It's interesting to so how MS is trying to involve themselves in public, interesting research.
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Firmware forensics: best practices in embedded software source-code discovery
If you or anyone can provide actual evidence that manufacturer software increases sales or gets consumers to tolerate higher margins, I'm all ears. But short of that, I don't believe it. I've never met someone who said they preferred a phone because of the bundled software. I have observed two groups of people:

- Most people aren't conscious of bundled software or couldn't care less about it.

- A minority actively dislike it and are biased toward buying "Google experience" phones.
Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute"
I must agree with your main point, which is that the typical user just won't have the expertise nor the energy to dive in and modify the code, making the GPL much less useful for them.

There are two obvious ways to solve the problem: find a way to make developers make more software that is useful to end-users (basically the Apple route).

Or, find a solution so that end users themselves can modify their systems. That second route is currently close because of the ridiculous size of current systems. (The volume of a typical GNU/Linux distro is the size of a whole library, and Windows and MacOS are fare marginally better.) The obvious solution there is to reduce the size of our software. http://vpri.org/ is currently attempting to do an OS in 20,000 lines of code (a middle-sized book), and they are doing quite well.

Note that doing the "Let's Remove the Fat" route, if successful, will massively reduce the amount of necessary programming work. Plus, more of that work will be done by the end users themselves. That could have dire consequences if we don't prepare for it. (A similar example would be automatic Google cars driving truckers out of business –no pun intended.)
+1 for Digilent. They are a local company for me; they do really great hardware stuff at an affordable price.

The founder of the company is a pretty spiffy speaker as well; if you have a chance to see him, it's worth it.
I had some time on a plane so I wrote up a quick feature request for Kayak.

I don't really know anyone at the company so I thought I would ask HN if someone had a contact they would be willing to pass it on to. The content should also be of interest too this group; with some ingenuity it's possible to get a greater $ value of free tickets than you spend earning the miles.

Roughly it's economical to spend the time to learn how the system works if you currently take at least 2 transatlantic/transpacific or 4 transcontinental (across the USA) flights per year.

Glossary of industry slang used in the deck:

Fare code/fare bucket: For each flight a number of tickets in each bucket are made available for sale. Each bucket (identified by it's letter code) has a different set of rules and prices. The bucket for a ticket also defines how many miles you will earn for taking the flight - generally (but not always) cheaper buckets earn fewer miles.

EQM: Elite Qualifying Miles, miles earned (usually by flying) that count towards elite status for the next Elite Year. You can earn between 0 and 1.5 EQM per mile flown for United Airlines. Elite Status is useful, so the value of this kind of miles is in earning pain-free travel for next year.

RDM: ReDeemable Miles, miles earned (in a bunch of ways) that you can spend on travel. You can earn between 0 and 3 EQM per mile flown for United Airlines. You can trade in each mile for somewhere between $0.01 and $0.15 worth of free flights, which is why they are valuable. (My last trip exchanged 125k miles for a ticket that would have cost $14k in cash.)

FF: Frequent Flier

UA: United Airlines
DL: Delta
AA: American
NZ: Air New Zealand
TK: Turkish Airlines
LH: Lufthansa
AF: Air France
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Julian Bucknall just posted an article he wrote for PCPlus last year on this very subject.

http://blog.boyet.com/blog/pcplus/pcplus-297-arithmetic-with...

As usual, well explained and interesting.
The problem is that you're relying on a third party which does it in their free time. I am not sure they're up to the level of the Linux kernel or Firefox yet.

And installing stuff on a PC is ingrained into people's psyche, if they can't do it themselves, they get some other folks to do it for them. Upgrading phones? Not so much. My friend never updated her iPhone 4 once. She once used iTunes to transfer songs to it when she bought it and then hated iTunes and didn't listen to music on the phone enough to connect it again. I installed a bunch of apps/games on her phone that she uses/plays, but whenever I see the phone, I see updates to the apps that are never installed from the app store. The other day, 34 apps were pending install on the app store icon!

I know that's unfathomable to us geeks, but that is how much of the general populace is. They wouldn't even know what a ROM means or how to go about finding what's the best one from xda-dev or how or even why they should attempt to install it instead of just using something that "works"(well or not) for now.
Getting C++ like performance from your Java application
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Harassment goes well beyond trolling, and so does the specific targeting of women.
This is the least expensive service of its kind, and yeah there are a few too many options for times, but it is a great idea to limit it to X hours and provide a cheaper monthly rate. The closest competitor is much, much more expensive. I don't have the money to buy a decent Mac, and I really need to set my new web software system up to run on OSX.
I have an overseas developer (with a mac), but that wants to test xcode/ios simulator and have the location services work in the US as it does for a US-based developer. Are the servers in the US, or is this configured such that the ios simulator thinks its in the US (and if so, what location?)
If you look at the the chart there is a large jump in the data.
"Notes on the data: Only birth dates after 1910 can be accommodated and only countries with populations of more than 100,000 people are included. Where available, the UN's medium variant and average figures from 2005-2010 have been used. World and country population clocks are estimates based on the latest UN figures and growth rates. They may not tally precisely with other clocks because of the way this application is configured."
Infographic: Home Improvements that Pay You Back
The pay system should be "pay as you go". Obviously, the daytime hours are going to be more expensive, and they can easily chart it out. Kind of like how toll bridges scale their cost based on traffic: http://wstc.wa.gov/highwaytolling/SR520Bridge.htm
This is a misleading story & headline. Nowhere in the article does it have this proposed "gnulix" term. I saw that this was linked to gnu.org and I thought that GNU had changed their minds, but no, GnuLix is a proposal of tinkerbrick, not GNU.
As long as we're just making crazy proposals, I say: 'Lignux'. With the 'g' silent.
That analogy is utter nonsense.

With a Linux or Windows desktop equipped with a good toolbox we can cross-compile to a wide range of architectures. That this range doesn't currently include the iPhone is completely accidental; it's merely a consequence of a business decision by Apple (and it might even be a good business decision for all I know). It doesn't tell us anything about the adequacy of a Linux/Windows desktop as a tool.
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Developers respond to Google Maps API limits
This looks totally rad -- the stylistic choices are as cool as the idea is intriguing.
I support equal rights. If a guy fell for troll bait, I say hes stupid for falling for it. If a woman does it, should I not treat her the same way? If I did, I myself would be undermining woman's rights.

There is also insufficient proof such things happened. If they did, why has she not gone to the police and legally pursued it? I'm not seeing that she has done so at all.
Anyone know why there is a steep drop as we move towards the end of 2011?

For some reason, this trend seems to be uniformly noticeable in most distros.
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Well, the general reason for this attitude goes back to the old phrase "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me".

When someone initiates physical force against you, it is an action being done to you, the consequences of which you cannot avoid due to the laws of physics. We take actual threats of physical violence seriously because of this.

When someone says mean things, the above attitude presumes that the consequences to you are entirely within your own mind. One can either be offended or not offended, angry or not angry, etc. The presumption is that the onus of response is on the trollee, not the troll.

Modern psychology and neuroscience have some things to say about the degree of distinction that the human mind makes between physical and verbal "forces". It also has some things to say about how much control we actually have over our responses to these forces. But so long as humans like to believe that they are in full control of their own actions, and that lacking this control is a personal fault, the mentality you describe will persist.
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It looks like Google may have JUST fixed this, but I was able to replicate and saw a few random sites in my analytics (a private school, and Air Canada)
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Skimming over the comments here, once again I find myself distressed at the large number of men in the tech community who just don't get it.

Whether it's sexist jokes, inappropriate language or illustrations, or plain old stereotypes, it sometimes feels like the tech community's firmly stuck in the 70s.

The worst thing is that none of this is difficult to solve, it just involves growing up, frankly.
Besides environmental and cultural factors, a variation of 100 nucleotides across Y. pestis strains is certainly enough to explain huge differences in its virulence and overall prognosis. Just a few nucleotides are enough to cause significant changes in the expression of its surface proteins (thus helping it overcome immunities).
Hurry up and use "span.label.default" in your code before it becomes ubiquitous.
No, I don't think they do. And if you think they do, I don't think you understand the scale of what she's talking about. It's linked several times in this thread. Please read it.
You've not been on IRC have you...
I was born a little while north of you. What I would tell most guys born in that general region is: "quit smoking, drink less, and watch your diet". That should raise their life expectancy by a decade, I guess.
Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API
Add the Sony Xperia to the mix. It was released and sold with Android 1.6(!!!!) and the updates were really slow in coming.
Woah, I never expected you would be able to get that kind of performance out of an iPad (2?) with only 30 minutes' work.

Nice sound effects, too. :)
Though to be honest, for the iPhone 3G, the longer green bar is easily misinterpreted as a positive thing, when for the most part, iOS4 rendered the phone very painful to use. 15-30s wait times for camera shutter, frequent hangs, constant crashes in Maps, being the main pain points with the two that my wife and I owned. If they'd have continued security and minor app updates for iOS3 on the 3G, I'd have been much happier.
Bitching is bitching no matter if a guy or a woman does it. If you let political correctness run your life, you are no different than the people who think women should be kitchen slaves.
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I speak from experience when I say, putting iOS 4 on the 3G was just a terrible idea.

The 3G should have stayed with the 2G in being restricted to iOS 3.1.3, which whilst no speed demon, at least runs reasonably well, even now.

The 3GS is the lowest hardware that should have been given iOS 4.
Indeed, it's just sweden. In the summer it can be relative hot there :) The fact that it is cold over is not the main reason. Sweden is know for its good network infra
If you bought an iPhone 3G any time before June 2009 you were buying the latest phone. On a 12 month contract that leaves you with 3 months unsupported, and on an 18 month contract 9 months.
All of them look very Nigerian to my eyes. Maybe if that blogger looked past his own cultural bias, he would notice there is variation amongst themselves.
Hmm. I read the whole thing and was surprised and saddened to find it seems genuine. There are some beastly women operating under the flag of feminism, but if I'm any judge of character I don't think Bayley is one of them.

I am curious about the removal of code issue, but I'm sorry to say it's a morbid curiosity. I would like to see if my opinion of ESR's judgement of human issues can get any lower.
It's only for "per month" graphs, as the last month wasn't complete, it drop at the end. I should have removed the last month for a cleaner graph. "per days" graphs should be fine.