skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" A thousand addicts who can seek help is better than ten addicts who are driven deeper into poverty and crime."

a thousand people who wouldn't have tried drugs in the first place to get addicted is better than 10 addicts who wanted to use drugs because it feels good.
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Waited for del.icio.us to implode on relaunch, mostly. The efforts to make it fandom-friendly also stem from that.
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Curious how they would keep them from not just ripping off the meter?
Sigh. This may actually be good PR :(

I had never heard of this controller until this story. It looks really cool. How other many people is that true for?

edit/update: this story is #2 on the vanilla reddit front page.
The problem with this article is that it only seems to present options for intelligent selling agents. Where pricing inequality exists, so too does a market for equally intelligent buying agents.

Personalised pricing, complex pricing structures (to prevent comparison) and other newer retail tricks can be overcome fairly easily. For example, proxying purchases through intermediate parties that have access to pricing closer to the point of equilibrium. Or grouping buyers together to starve an industry or supplier of cash flow until pricing requirements are met.

This is a game theory exercise where both buying and selling agents are involved. It is unwise to assume that sellers will have the upper hand. As many cost comparison websites have shown, a market also exists amongst buyers to force prices down to a level of equilibrium.
Do the right thing? This is GoDaddy for heavens sake. They've never heard of it.
Apple is also a bad example of luxury and/or simplicity. They are nothing like a Gucci bag or an exotic car. At best they are an automatic transmission vs. a manual one (following his "simplicity" argument) but there are automatic transmissions from other companies too now, it's not the 1990s. Also their customer service is appalling, their failure rates have been proven to be middle of the pack.

I am not ignorant of using them either, I used OSX and iOS for years and I say Android ICS is better, Ubuntu is better and new iterations of Windows certainly don't seem to be worse (although I have less data there).

People like to compare the latest OSX to Win95 or even XP (2001) but don't compare as often to the most recent offerings. There is a total intolerance to criticism. Android ICS has been said to be better than the latest iOS by multiple reviewers, so it's at least neck and neck with the last bit probably depending mainly on personal preference, but say that here and you will risk a downvote. In fact it's almost certain to get downvotes and they will only sometimes be balanced out but people appalled at the abuse of the voting system being used to just hammer someone who doesn't belong to the group.
The customer is always right - and when the customer is wronged, then they can be as frank as they want. It might not be classy to cuss out the supplier - but he wasn't wrong and is in no way wrong.
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I wonder if anyone at Ocean Marketing and among the people who make Avengers had any idea how Paul Christoforo rolls.

Another point towards "trust but check" policy towards your employees.
yes. I highly recommend this book. And I can't wait for his new book, "The 4-Hour Chef".
"Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart was great. It's a hilarious "detective" novel set in a fictional ancient China. One of the two main characters is an 80 year old sage with a drinking problem and the ability to con almost anybody. The pace never slows and it always has you wondering what'll happen next.

Technically, I'd say "Land of Lisp" has been the most fun and the most rewarding.
> * I have, like most people, had the frustrating experience of trying to work out whether my mobile phone contract or the airline flight I'm been booking is actually the cheapest one that meets my needs,*

UK mobile phone contract pricing is very frustrating. Free market should mean customers shop around to get the best deal. Providers thwart that by including lock-ins of various forms (contract lengths, cost of new phones, making it tricky to keep the same number, making it tricky to move a phone to a different network.) and by having a bewildering array of different contract types.

> If you earn 50% more than average you can expect your grocery prices to begin creeping up, because your suppliers can infer what's in your wallet

Or maybe the retailer wants your custom, and thus offers you cheaper prices to secure it. Poorer people spend less money and generate more cost per visit, thus are not as attractive. Retailers don't want to exclude those customers, but do want to get more cash out of them.
Some basic Constitutional law would have saved this guy the trouble. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that travelers do not have the right to refuse searches at an airport [1]. You might disagree with the decision, but if you're going to pull a stunt like this, you should at least be informed on the current state of jurisprudence regarding airport searches.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/08/court-says-trav/
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Several Reasons why

- As you said, pollution from power plants have less effect on humans, because of distance and filters
- You are comparing vehicle best case efficiency with Electrical worst case
- Electrical power can be produced from clean sources, gasoline can't be used without creating pollution
- Electric can potentially be smaller and lighter because of a very simple mechanism compared to the gasoline engine and all the components around it. (But batteries efficiency must be improved to really reduce weight)
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That is quite the assumption to make, given the vastness of our universe.

Not so much of an assumption. You also have to take into account the speed at which the Voyager satellites are traveling and how far they will get before the heat death of the universe.

This site says it will take about 40,000 years to get halfway (2 light years) to the closest star (besides the sun that is): http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/didyouknow.html

There's a bigger chance humans themselves will retrieve them and put them in a museum but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
"Picturing the Uncertain World" by Howard Wainer.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691137595

- World record improves linearly for over 50 years, for how long will the trend continue?

- Is it OK not to rescore erroneously high SAT scores?

- Why among examinees who get the same SAT score White examinees do better on easy items, whereas Black examinees do better on hard items?

- How comes that areas with the lowest and the highest kidney cancer death rate are rural areas?
Efficiency isn't the same carbon/NO2/whatever emissions. A lot of inefficiency comes from waste heat and mechanical losses (that's true both in electrical generation AND gas/diesel engines of course) and even then fossil fuels only make up 75% of US power.

Now that said the overall win is still probably smaller than marketing would be willing to admit.
I wonder about the editor aspect of small shops, like a book shop with a special selection, or a shop with children's toys (one of those closed in our neighborhood recently, apparently some former customers cried).

Amazon sucks for discovery of things imo. At least for serendipity - in an extreme case, an acquaintance met his lover in a library...

Will those small retailers simply be replaced by affiliates who are content with earning 10% on their referrals? Is 10% a fair price for that kind of thing? And Amazon even seems to have a cap on how much you can earn, like if the item is really expensive you won't even get the full 10%?
I've seen the series and read the first book and thought it did a pretty good job. What do you feel the TV show got wrong- not being argumentative btw, I'm just interested!
Think Penguin's Linux exclusive "Air" notebook, review with pics...
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You're counting all the deficiencies of electricity through the life cycle of how it gets into your car, but not for how oil gets turned into gas and then into your tank.

Less than half of electricity in the US is from coal. Also, because of how power plants / grids work, there is excess capacity available that electric cars can use (overnight charging) without increasing power generation.
I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't read any books (beside some programming related stuff) in over a year. But I did start reading A game of thrones in the middle of August this year, now I'm on page 300 of the A dance with dragons. Simply amazing book.
Can you elaborate? I used to work in the space industry, but it's been some time.

I spent some time at Orbital at a time when they were trying to launch ORBCOMM. What they were doing seems similar in feel to SpaceX. I also noted that ORBCOMM is one of the first scheduled launches for SpaceX.

Interestingly, Orbital was started by an entrepreneur with a vision of small launch vehicles and he managed to actually pull it off- it was not some huge spinoff of an existing giant. I wonder how much the two are talking.

Friends of mine who worked on the early days of Orbital's Pegasus described a situation that sounded very startup-like to me. (I worked there in the late 90's, but on Hubble, not Orbital's commercial projects).

Orbital had modest success (if an IPO can be considered modest). So it seems not only plausible, but likely that a new approach is what is needed here. Perhaps SpaceX is the next iteration of a leaner approach that will actually scale to the meet the grand vision.
The Checklist Manifesto is a great book. Short and offers lots of insights in how to manage risks and minimize silly mistakes. Must read for every system administrator and programmer who want to make sure every deployment works as smoothly as possible and every release as few silly bugs as possible.
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I'm sure there are technical ways of preventing the system from working if the meter is tampered with.
On the fiction side, I absolutely loved Shogun by Clavell. I didn't know what to expect, and I found an epic that was captivating in many ways. I also started Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. I realize I'm about 10 years behind everyone else, and I've found it most deserving of all of the hubbub.

With respect to nonfiction, I enjoyed Schroeder's recent biography of Warren Buffett, entitled the Snowball. It was much less of a hagiography than much of what you read on him. He's a fascinating, complex man.
I think we have some problems with causation here.

Being mocked and misunderstood seems neither necessary nor sufficient to making it big.

I think Fred is arguing that it's often necessary or quasi-necessary or something.

This really seems more like an emotional reaction to negative press than Fred's normal well-thought-out posts.

Also, is Twitter profitable yet? That gets asked way too much, but I still don't know the answer yet.
For Ford, I'd imagine it is the same reason Fender is on that list. Somebody owns a lot of stock elsewhere (Fender was owned by CBS until they bought themselves out from under, but I'd imagine a significant number of shareholders still hold stock in both).
For those who want a clue: the book is largely concerned with two things: how to get unstuck, and how to recognize quality.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Lean Startup - Eric Reis

Rework - 37signals
I've played around with most companies' flagship tablets, to include the iPad. With the exception of my windows 7 tablet, the kindle fire was the first tablet that I actually purchased. Overall I love it, but there are a couple of things that really hurt the experience.

The biggest issue for me would be that the kindle fire often doesn't respond to input very well. I often find myself having to press a button 2-5 times in order for it to register. I know I am hitting the button because the button animation seems to be working correctly. I hope that they finally manage to fix this issue with another update. This alone brings the device from 4.5 stars down to 3.5 in my opinion.

The only other issue I have is that magazine/comic books are being sold for the kindle fire as if they are actually readable. This is more of a complaint against magazine and comic book publishers who should have started optimizing their content for digital display years ago. I shouldn't have to manually zoom in every time I turn a page and then pan around. The print magazine industry is rapidly becoming unprofitable, so why aren't these companies busting their asses to create e-reader friendly versions of their products?
The development of websites that group together different brand/name mattresses according to physical properties would eliminate any advantage sellers have of creating artificial value in model naming and numbering. Widespread use of such websites would have a devastating impact on premium priced products as consumers would no longer attach value to "premium" marketing labels and branding.

If sellers want to make brand names, model numbers and other identifiers redundant, buyers will eventually be the beneficiaries.
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I wonder what their overhead is for going to rural areas to install/service these devices.
Eat That Frog by Brain Tracy. An excellent read to get rid of procrastination.
How interesting will this be if i've never read the Harry Potter series? (i've seen a couple of the movies)
This is a terrible summary.

The USPTO office rejected 17 of the 21 claims in one of the patents Oracle is suing Google using.

It's (very) helpful to Google, but saying USPTO rejects Oracle’s patent claim on Google Android (the title of the story) is a huge, huge overstatement.
At this point I won't be excited about Intel in tablets and phones until a major manufacturer announces products based on Intel's SOC.

Like Linux on the desktop, next year is always the year of the Intel tablet.
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If you contract a marketing company, surely you take some responsibility for how they interact with your customers.
I'm interested in how hard it is to recycle these things from scrap electronics.

There are many developing nations where a clean safe recycling factory would be very much better than scavenging scrap from a dump.

It seems to solve a few problems - giving people work and money; diverting dangerous materials form landfill recycling; etc.

It's weird seeing tantalum on the list, and knowing how many tantalum capacitors are thrown away each year. Or lithium, and knowing how many mobile phones I have stored away. (At least mobile phones now have some value and get sold onto recyclers.)
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Paul Christoforo should never be in charge of a customer facing position.

Maybe he should take the advice on (his) Ocean Marketing's front page: "Your brand is no stronger than your reputation - and will increasingly depend on what comes up when you are Googled."

I wonder what will come up after all this is over.
+1, that is an amazing book. even if one is not a runner, it is still worth reading the book. The author goes to great lengths to track the tarahumara, and to organize the race, in a dangerous region.
I am a doctor in a Scottish hospital.

For every productive member of society using drugs there must be at least 2 -3 that drain from society

I rarely see anyone use methadone long term and rehabilitate themselves back to productive members of society. They end up being permanently high. My opinion is not isolated amongst my colleagues.

Spend a couple of hours in a hospital that provides free health care and see the devastation caused by all drugs.

Alcohol and smoking cause the largest volume of problems but many of the users have jobs.

Heroin produces real life zombies!
I wouldn't exactly be calling my employees in over Christmas to make it easier for customers to leave.
Excellent book. With a bit of looking around you can find a volume of his letters, and also a book called "Judgments on History and Historians."
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> I think we have some problems with causation here.

Hell, there's even a problem with correlation here. We've all seen plenty of crap that is mocked and misunderstood that sank to the bottom of the sea without fanfare.
I think you missed his point about the unlock animation. His complaint wasn't primarily that it was too simple. He was complaining that in spite of the animation's minimalistic design, it still lags. Personally it didn't bother me, but it is kind of silly that even the unlock animation causes choppiness on the Fire.
For me, I had a few that I really liked:

* The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell. Probably one of the best books I've read, even for people who don't want to make games, it was really good.

* Business Model Generation by Osterwalder and Pigneur. One of the better business books I've read through. Also one of the most creative.

And I finally read:

* The C Programming Language by K&R. 'nuff said.
I've come to this conclusion.

When I was in graduate school I was timid. If I had an idea that people didn't get right away, I wouldn't stick with it.

Today if I'm working on something and people don't think I'm crazy, I think I'm wasting my time. If everybody understands the value of something, you're getting in too late.
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If your business is "mocked and misunderstood," it isn't guaranteed to fail. It's not anymore likely to succeed because of that though...
She didn't refuse a search, she just wanted to read out the fourth amendment to the rest of the queue while it was happening.
Sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean you endorse it.
This text is from 2001. Also, the guy is a gal.
When did Amazon ever claim to offer one year? The initial announcement of it was one month of free prime (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/amazon/).

If your LCD is defective, contact Amazon and they will take care of it - that's what the warranty is for :)
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Reference counting is slower than proper garbage collection, since it adds an overhead for each access, instead of just during the collection. (There are ways to make reference counting faster, but they are no longer quite so simple.)
"Incognito - The Secret Lives of the Brain" (http://amzn.com/0307377334) blew me away. Very interesting read on the current understanding of how the brain/consciousness work and the implications of these models on free will, etc.

I've now given it as a present no less than 4 times and counting.
Would be nice if HN could resolve the (google.com) bit in the list to a Google+ user account.
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Airline ticket pricing is not a good general example: The airlines get away with arcane pricing in part because they have successfully outlawed arbitrage by prohibiting the resale or transfer of tickets away from the original buyer, in the name of "security".

I'm dubious that this practice is going to work so well for, say, socks. There is no law against trading socks on the secondary market.
The real money for Twitter is in disintermediating the ad and PR agencies. They need to fleece the CPG companies directly. They spend insane money on almost nothing.
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Both IGN and Engadget have tweeted about this:

.@OceanMarketting Please refrain from referring to me or IGN as support for you, your company or your clients. You do not have it.

http://twitter.com/#!/ScottLowe/status/151595644182740992

http://twitter.com/#!/engadget/status/151673881671905281
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The moment you pay them, you're endorsing it. Sure, make your public "whoops" statements, but at the end of the day, it's your fault for hiring them and you get the rep hit as well.
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I mean, everyone made fun of groupon and zynga, and ...

is this a clever ploy to try and get some sagging stock up?
Now, to be fair, most Christians haven't read the Bible.
Actually 10-petaflop barrier (LINPACK benchmark) was surpassed in November by Japanese K-computer:

http://www.riken.jp/engn/r-world/info/release/press/2011/111...
Yes, I use iOS regularly on the iPad and iPhone.

While saving work is thankfully disappearing as a paradigm in iOS (I don't use Lion, so don't know), it's still application-based, meaning that if there's a tool I like in one app, I don't have access to it unless that app is open, and I can't call the tool up on its own.

iOS is a major leap forward, but at its heart, it's still more suited to consumption than creation.
I think this is a case where it's justified to consider them guilty until proven innocent. Interacting with customers is what they paid these guys to do. It's not like he's doing this in his spare time or anything. Yeah, they probably don't endorse it, but as has been pointed out elsethread, this isn't the first time this awful marketing company pissed people off. When it comes to Googling for due diligence, surely the same applies to choosing your marketing company.
Unlikely to happen. Reference counting has poor interaction with the CPU memory hierarchy: It makes all objects larger, making the working set correspondingly larger, meaning your data cache is less effective. It makes code larger because of the extra ref counting twiddling code. Larger code means a less effective instruction cache, as well as being slower because of all the extra operations performed. Reference counts must be frequently modified, and they are scattered all over memory (next to each object), so you get poorer locality and more atomic writes which has all sorts of negative implications for cache-coherent SMP architectures.

So while you may not notice the penalty of reference counting since it is spread out over every operation, it's unlikely that it is better than proper GC for most applications. Maybe just for ones which are extremely sensitive to latency, yet don't mind running much slower overall (hard real time? aeronautics and space?).

As usual you'd need to measure it.
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After tea and some thought: No thanks
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