skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if Google actually "killed" all the competition and started charging what would prevent someone else from coming in and undercutting Google? In technology if there is an opening there is always someone waiting to fill it (I know Apple is interested in the space). Also there will always be a need for low price and high price options (iPad / Kindle Fire) If what you're offering is worth the price that you charge then you should not have an issue finding customers.

P.S. I would be more surprised if this were a US Court.
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But Debian, etc. updates /usr/bin/vi to point to the Vim with the most features.
Well, this is the thing, it is pretty much a physical law. Information is nonrival: it is infinitely copyable and anyone can use it without reducing access to anyone else. The effort and work to produce information is a scarcity, but once the information is expressed and public it is an abundance.

The problem is that this "scarcity" (to produce information) wants to be compensated too. And it's not only "scarcity", it's also costly to produce information. The fact that you can make 1 billion copies of Adobe Photoshop for free, for example, does not mean Adobe Photoshop itself costs nothing. It costs something like several tens of millions to make in programmer's salaries. Those paying those millions should get to dictate how you pay for it, like the guy that makes a chair gets to dictate how you pay for his chair.

You seem to think that the scarcity of infomation production means nothing at all, when you say e.g.:

Paying people for work done to create makes sense. It makes an 'economic' structure that mirrors the basic physical constraints. And it is justified according to its 'economic' effects. You give something up, you get something in return.

When you buy Photoshop, it's not just bytes downloaded to your PC you get, which cost nearly nothing (= your ISP bill), you ALSO get a slice of the paid, hard, work of hundreds of people in return.

Why are we confusing technological feasibility (free copies are feasible) what what ought to be done (compensate the creator or not)?

A crazy idea to directly make the software sale more akin to a specific item sale (a chair):

The software maker sets an arbitrary total aggregate expected sale price P and a selling goal (say, X units). Anyone buying before X units are sold pays P/X. For anyone buying after it, the price falls P/X+ (and the first buyers are also given their difference back, either directly or in "store credit"). In the end, if they sell a billion copies, people get the program for say a dollar, but it's OK, because the company is compensated. Actually, this makes popular items essentially free or dirt cheap in the end. For this to work, we need a marketplace like the Mac App Store, so those transactions and record-keeping can be automated.

This restricts the artificially huge profits made by controlling the price, and puts a set price to a free copyable item, like a tangible item has, that reflects the work that went into it. It also keeps the risk of the original sale, i.e if the sell < X, they have a loss.

None of that much holds for paying for copies. The transaction is not fair and square, it is an unwarranted and unjust restriction of personal freedom of those using the information. And as for the global gain, it seems rather lacking grounds of actual evidence.

Well, the global IP industry, sales of software, music, books, magazines, etc, is on the level of trillions of dollars. It would be almost zero with totally free copying. So, at the economic level, there is some support for "global gain". And it's not like the culture would be poorer if less Metallica and Lady Gaga albums where freely torrented (yes, I'm a snob like that ;-).
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2012: The year the Internet died.

I guess the Arab Spring et al. must have really scared TPTB.

[snark] Now waiting for the first U.S. "per country" based censoring, e.g. of Occupy communication.[/snark]

Seriously, though. The lack of wholesale "per country" censorship seemed to be working to some extent to pull world society closer together in terms of understanding and supporting each other. These recent choices seem to fly in the face of such trends.
The big winner will be an easy 3d modeler.
Even NFL star players have to resort to illegal methods to watch NFL content
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Does anyone know what the breakdown between men/women users are on pinterest? Do you think it will always be women dominated or will they roll out something to attract men users?
> I think the only reason they went public was because they had to.

No, hitting the investor limit means only that you have filing obligations with the SEC. There is no obligation to trade your stock publicly.
Is there no suitable vim autocomplete script for Objective-C?
How do they make the jump from 43 blocks to 43 meters? Are they assuming that each block is exactly one meter?

Also why did the video randomly go blurry at times?
I was using XFS on a production web/ftp server (RedHat 7.x with XFS patches) in or around 2001. The port was done in 2000. I don't think a 4 year old port of a 10 year old file system is that extreme. That said, I've been using ZFS in FreeBSD since FreeBSD 7.
I really don't get how its more efficient than a modern editor!

I use vi(m?) when I am working on a unix/linux/mac terminal and have done so for 10+ years. But I never bothered learning it properly so I only know a handful or two of commands. So I can't appreciate both perspectives clearly.

However, how can it be faster and more efficient to edit in vi than in a modern editor? I'd assume that if you can use multi gesture scrolling, point and click location, the modern editor type keyboard shortcuts (with multiple keys pressed) that it would lend itself to be faster to work with and more "efficient" somehow (hard to explain).

Would love to know what vi-people think about that because I am most likely wrong (as I said, very one-sided experience) but would love to get that level of detail (I don't think the story was iron clad on that point).

Is there anyone who has switched from many years of very happy vi onto modern editors and love that more?

Thanks..
I'm similar. I'm playing a lot of Terraria recently, and it bugs me that you can have a tower of water in a tube connected to a shallow lake, and the pressure doesn't force the water through.
It's a FAQ:

http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_is_the_problem_with...

In summary: XFS used to default to having write-barriers disabled (for performance), which makes it prone to data-loss during power outages. This default has changed nowadays, but you must still review your controller-/disk-cache settings to ensure stuff is really flushed to disk when XFS thinks it is.
From what I understand, when the lawsuit started, the service was free.
I would agree with you here. Most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked. But that doesn't mean the low-hanging fruit is the juiciest. As I mentioned in the grandparent comment, and as I agree with you, Facebook Connect is the future of Facebook. Facebook seems to understand that fact, and now it's just a matter of how keenly it does.

Facebook has (wisely) focused almost entirely on user growth and retention over the last few years. That it stumbled into being an attractive display-advertising platform was almost inevitable, and required little effort. The real money lies on the distributed mobile and web ecosystem, into which Facebook has been diligently inserting itself as a de facto credential and backend. (Think of Facebook as the "Intel Inside" of the entire content web and mobile content web, and you get the idea).

Facebook has established an impressive beachead with FB Connect, and from there, it's only a matter of time before it can monetize its FB Connect partners through contextual and interest-based advertising services. Google should be very concerned -- and, to that end, it would not surprise me in the least if the threat of FB Connect to AdSense (and, to some extent, AdWords) was a significant factor in the race to develop Google+.
I think this comment should be somewhere at the top. There was a similar law for a long time in Ireland, precisely to prevent companies with a large capital base from pricing their competition out of the market and then raisin their prices afterwards. If this is the reason they were sued, then it's not as big a deal as I thought from the headline.
There should be another option: mothballed account.

My facebook account exists solely as a placeholder.
As someone else in this thread mentioned, the page has a link to itself in the L section, which means that we can't (and don't need to) go a level up. Like any good metalist, this list contains itself.
I completely disagree about competing with Google and Microsoft.

Google's weakness in the enterprise productivity software market segment is that they have no track record of providing stability via long term backward compatibility and support for obsolescent software - e.g. the Chrome Browser. Furthermore, the enterprise market is not a significant piece of the core strategy - it just doesn't grow fast enough and it requires the dedication of a highly trained salesforce and a commitment to long term support of each software release.

IBM can compete with Microsoft on the same basis as they have for the past twenty years - as an ecosystem.
you could use the ex6:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6

a little more expensive (69 EUR) and less RAM (16 GB) but using ECC.
A client of mine sells classroom decorations and teacher resources. We recently added a Pinterest share button to each product page which has increased our traffic from Pinterest significantly. The conversion rate from Pinterest traffic averages between 6 and 10 percent. Conversion rate from Facebook traffic: .40%, Twitter: .08%.
I'm with you. I want tabs, I want multiple windows, I want an easy list of project files, and I don't want to waste time thinking about editing. That's why I use vim.
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Nice to know that RSS is the major factor in finding news.
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Next up: a list of lists that do not contain themselves

(Punchline drumroll.)
The same thing happened to me last month. I was writing up something right after reading a few IBM Tivoli and Websphere white papers and suddenly noticed I was talking corpspeak without even realizing it.
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Ask HN: How do I hire someone to make my site faster?
I run a couple of sites that I'd like to speed up but know nothing about CDN and other technical things. How would you go about hiring someone who could help with this? Or are there any services I can use?
From reading a bit more about it, I agree. It's not quite 'cash', but it's not the worst nickname for liquid assets.
<channeling Jeff Foxworthy>

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Would you put a QR code to your online profile on a business card? #Quora
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I use a development version of webkit for logging into social network sites. My accounts exist purely for work purposes, and on the rare occasions that I actually need to log into one of them, I fire up webkit.

I'd be fine with them if they didn't broadcast my every move and everyone I know, but even then I wouldn't use them; I just don't see any point to them. If I want to know how someone's doing I'll contact them on Skype or by phone or just go visit.
> ..it's like sending a package internationally...

If it's a local package, why put it in the international mail box in the first place?
Information Theory provides a measure of a quantity, not an account of what that "stuff" is.

I do not think that 'that which reduces entropy' is an account of information.

How is a system informed by an input that 'carries information'? What details is the system able to 'learn about' from that input/information?
What's happening there is just a physical interaction of the 'inputs' interacting with the system.

How is that information related to the meaning of the information - how does that work?

If the brain is just computation, how does the "semantic information" in the brain work?
So it's

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The positioning of the device you need swipe looks a little inconvenient. You'd need to look down and stoop a little to touch your card to it (assuming the picture in the article is representative of normal positioning).

In the London Underground, the Oyster Card readers are placed on top of the dividers between the turnstiles, so you just move through as normal and swipe as you go.

I also wonder whether combining a credit card and subway payment card is necessarily the best idea. If you want an Oyster Card in London, you can usually grab a pre-paid one in the terminal itself, or in a newsagent by the entrance. If you lose your card, then you've only lost what you put on it.

Getting a contactless card seems more work, and I'd be a little more nervous about it being taken whilst I was waving it around.
If you're using an AWS m2.4xlarge (score: 1511) then you pay $2.00 per hour. If you're using this Hetzner (score: 1729) you pay less than $0.09 per hour. You'd have to use very few hours indeed for AWS to be cheaper. That's not even factoring in traffic. You get 10TB per month with Hetzner which would cost you an additional $1200/month (!) with Amazon. AFAICT Amazon doesn't use ECC ram either; at least I don't see it mentioned anywhere. Hetzner does have competitively priced servers with ECC ram.
No. It was like that (where vi is just a lightweight recompile of vim) several years ago. Since then Arch has switched to using ex-vi[1], the closest thing to 'authentic' vi you can get nowadays.

[1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
Aren't you reading a lot into the OP's response? I don't see anything to indicate he has anything against Windows.
The people this is going to hurt the most are the citizens and businesses in France. No company or entrepreneur is going to want to setup shop in a country where success is punished. No creator, achiever or pursuer of excellence will desire to go to France if they risk being sued the moment they become successful enough to be worth it. Argue all you want that this is about "monopolies" and "anti-competitive" behavior, but what this is really about is greed. The greed of Bottin Cartographes, jealous of Google's success, using a government that doesn't respect private property rights to steal from another. This is reprehensible behavior on behalf of the government, its people, and anyone here who defends it.

If the only differentiating factor between the "monopoly" and a local business is price, the "monopoly" is going to win every time, and this is in fact a _good_ thing and best for everyone as it rewards successful business models. The "monopoly" didn't become successful because it was handed to them, it had to compete and earn it, and now it's enjoying the fruits of its labor. If on the other hand it did not earn its position, but instead lobbied or procured favors from government officials, then it deserves to be shut down, broken up, etc... as this is what's known in a free market as corruption.

Competition does not die in the face of a stronger competitor. Competition dies when rewards are removed and you take away the purpose for competing. Reward inferior products and call it justice, and you'll get more of the same.

Ask yourself this; If this were to happen in Silicon Valley, would Silicon Valley as we know it continue to exist? Doubtful.
You might also want to check out some benchmarks I ran a few weeks ago. It compares many types of EC2 instances: http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-...
I'd happily pay for an Android note taking app that integrated this.
I've never had a problem with XFS, but I had several silent data corruption issues with ReiserFS after power losses, where I would find the contents of one open file intermixed in another open file. I think such problems have been fixed now, but I ended up losing trust in ReiserFS at that point.
I'm not sure about India but here in Pakistan, the word "Junglee" has quite negative connotation attached with it. Unless used for an animal, "junglee" usually refers to an illiterate person with no manners.
That's hardly a fair comparison. Last time I checked Hetzner doesn't offer auto scaling, "elastic" load balancing, or any of the countless other features that EC2 offers. Actually, forget auto-scaling: what if you want to bring up another bunch of instances manually to deal with a spike in demand?

The EX 4S looks like a very compelling alternative for many use cases but saying that its 9x cheaper is comparing apples to oranges.
Why is this being downvoted? The processor used (i-7 2600) does not support ECC RAM, and this platform does not include it. A server platform without ECC RAM is a pretty big disadvantage for several reasons, to most compelling being the high real-world rate of memory errors in real systems. Memory errors in non-ECC systems can be extremely difficult and expensive to track down, and can cause data corruption or loss if the machine is used in the data pipeline.

In one study (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf), strong correlations were found between age, usage and error rate. Before using a server without ECC RAM, it's worth doing a quick estimate of the amount of data you intend to move around, and whether it's worth it to you (and, more importantly, your customers) to save a little money going with a non-ECC platform.
RealPlayer has its use: to download Flash video quickly via browser plugin :D
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I think prevention of semantic extraction to diagrams would better pitched as "another unforeseen negative consequence of agreeing to Elsevier's terms", rather than as a significant part of the problem. If this story became a major part of the larger narrative, Elsevier could respond to this particular concern in a limited way (special access for researchers that apply for it), rather than dealing with the more central concerns.
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There are a few existing applications. Autodesk have released a hobbyist package (http://www.123dapp.com/) and there's online ones as well (https://tinkercad.com/). OpenSCAD is my choice because it allows you to parametrically design objects with a scripting language.
This is what I heard as well from consultants: moving from Notes to Exchange don't yield more benefit or safe money.
If you don't show up to take the exam, it's pretty obvious what your grade will be.
How do pinterest users discover new content like yours?
PIE has proven to be a motivational and empowering tinderbox for most of the companies and entrepreneurs involved. It certainly was for me.

Get in while the gettin's good, I hear there's already a flood of applications.
> How come we assume that Google is going to start charging as soon as competitors died?

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, I suppose.
So the answer to a monopolist commoditizing a market is... to introduce a cartel? Because this is basically what this judgement argues: Google should charge something in line to what its competitors do, and forget about any downward pressure on prices.

I'm not a free-market zealot, but this sort of ruling is really bad for small players. Googlers understand the internet and so they make money while lowering prices for consumers, why should we punish them for this? Then we might as well say the copyright mafia is right and the internet should be tightly regulated and controlled by cartels.
I did not manage to get $\xi$ working.
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Very nice. One quibble - The warning in the top right is a tiny bit ambiguous, it would read better as:

"Caution: This test checks which CSS3 features the browser recognizes, not whether they are implemented correctly."
Very insightful, as always. I liked the bit at the end about squirming a bit because "I didn't build it". It puts the focus on the business of making money from a product.
Amazon acquired Junglee in 1998. Folks from that acquisition went on to work on the Amazon recommendation system.
Your first step is to look at a few simple tools that could give you ways to get perceived (and actual) speed-ups. These are your low hanging fruit, before spending time (and money) on infrastructure upgrades.

Look for a 'YSlow' plugin for your chosen browser (they exist for Chrome and Firefox), which can help you to identify things that are causing your site to appear slow.

After that, then I would look at CDN, and then I would look at database optimisation (many people just don't "get" indexes, and don't understand how much of a difference they can make), and finally code optimisation.
@Cloudability hearts PIE.
True, but... If there are thousands of prototype interfaces in review why is Zuck using this one? This is more of a fun "What if?" then anything else.

What if Facebook jumped into search in a big way?

What if people used Facebook Search while they are on Facebook instead of jumping over to Google?

What if every website could use a Facebook Search plugin?

Facebook knows if they want to beat The Street, now that they are going public, they need to crank up the revenue machine. They want to make more money to make better products. Banners are not doing that, but search and an advertising network that would compete with Google in a big way would help them turn their 850 million users into a revenue powerhouse.

What if?
A good way to make your users feel dumb. Well done!
WOW! Those numbers are crazy and precisely why I wrote the blog post.
Zynga is probably in over their heads
Unfortunately GEMA blocks me from seeing that video.
I'd pay good money for it
Inspired by this poll, I'm taking a similar poll on G+ as well -- https://plus.google.com/u/0/115324919838980591640/posts/ZL5d...
What I want to know: how good is the best autocompletion available? Does it stack up to Visual Studio's Intellisense? (For statically typed languages, that is; Intellisense doesn't work very well for eg Javascript).
It's about 80/20. (http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-networks/pinterest-d...)

Personally, I think men will "catch on" in the future. Many of the Pinterest users I know use it as a catalog of things they like around the web. Sometimes it's clothing/craft/recipe related, and sometimes it's a workout program, news story, or other interesting (and gender neutral) read, that they want to come back to.
One correction... I believe that Forrester "invented" the term NoOps and did so quite a while ago.
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