skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the paper though?

"Taking this triple-difference [their metric for determining piracy rate] as a conservative estimate of the effect of piracy on box office sales,
we infer that pre-release piracy causes the foreign box office returns for a movie to decrease by
1.3% for each week of lag between the U.S. release and the foreign release of the movie."

...

"We estimate that movies in our data
would have returned a total of nearly $3.52 billion if not for piracy, implying that piracy caused
films to lose $240 million in weekend box office returns in the non-US countries in our data during 2005. Thus we estimate that weekend box office returns in our data were about 7% lower
than they would have been in the absence of pre-release piracy. This estimate may be
conservative if the actual losses to piracy are greater than those suggested by our tripledifference
estimate or if returns in the US box office are also reduced by piracy."

Also, the paper only talks about box-office sales, not even touching the DVD/Blu-ray/download market.
Unless I'm missing something, many of these would make no sense to actually use. The point of the bootstrap css is to provide baseline styles which handle all of your functional needs.

In terms of button sets, you almost always need a red button to signify that this button does something dangerous (or perhaps just irreversible). And it must be done without making the user read, so usually bright red is needed. And if you have multiple shades of red (even an orange, brown-ish orange, or purple are pushing it I think) for different buttons, it becomes confusing and defeats the whole purpose.

Just taking into account the need for one red (and only one red), I'd probably rule out half of these as unusable combinations in an actual web app.

The other half look great though! ;-)
Elsevier's Open Access Choices
In my list, generally preferring Thinkpad over Mac:

Better keyboard feel and layout. Especially if you're used to PC/Unix keyboards.

Trackpoint. I vastly prefer this to a trackpad (and generally disable trackpads in BIOS).

Cooling/airflow. Mac's sealed design is nice, Lenovo's gets the heat out (and the dust in, sigh).

Thinklight.

To Mac's benefit:

Magnetic breakaway power connector. Sheer genius.

Illuminated keyboard. Kind of neat.

CD slot (not on Airs, obviously). I'm always accidentally opening my CD drive on my Thinkpad. Some way to lock the damned thing would be nice.

Displays -- I've been consistently impressed by the brightness of Apple displays, if not the aspect ratios (I prefer Thinkpads generally here, though they're converging on Apple's standards).

And in 10+ years of lugging Thinkpads around, I've had few if any hardware/robustness issues. One screen that pixilated badly after a fall onto the street in my satchel, replaced by IBM. Otherwise, nada.
The US could update their old coal power plants to the usual standards or replace them with newer ones.
Sure, there will always be people with unreasonable expectations but I think that the more of peoples requirements you can satisfy the less appealing piracy becomes.

There are also network effects at work, I remember when Napster first became popular (I was quite young at the time) and literally overnight everyone at school had gone from owning a handful of CDs and cassettes to having huge music collections.

People spent a lot of their time discussing the various artists they had discovered through Napster and you would have been considered pretty odd if you didn't have at least a couple of gigabytes of music. Not to mention that everybody suddenly had more disposable income to spend on other things. So whilst you could take a moral stance on it, you would most likely become an outcast to a certain extent. Besides, people tend to decide their morals based on what they see others do.

This can also work the other way though, as with my Steam example. As well as selling games in a convenient way they also provide tools you can use to find out what your friends are playing and join games with them. This means that adoption can spread around a peer group pretty quickly.
He and Agarwal seem like odd choices to teach this lower-level undergrad class. Maybe because it's so high-profile?
just harvest the sun.
Yikes, that is a whole lot of pedantic argument over the semantics of MVC.

"Handlebars is a compromise between logic and logicless views... ladda ladda ladda"
They aren't; that's what people will think of them as though. It's taken us this long to actually build a new plant period; it'll be a while longer before people are convinced it's safe to live across the street from one.
I have a degree in engineering from Stanford, which is one of the top engineering schools in the world. Do you know where I keep it? I gave it to my mother over 20 years ago since she liked to look at it. She died a long time ago. I haven't seen it since then, and I don't have any idea where it is. Would you like to know how many people have asked to see it other than my mother? The answer is zero. Would you like to know how many coworkers, employers, acquirers and partners have asked to see my credentials since I graduated? The answer is zero.

Credentials are completely useless in this field. They mean nothing. No one wants to see them, unless you are trying to emigrate to another country and have to prove you have a degree.

The reason one takes classes at MIT or Stanford is because they are known to have really good programs. The degree doesn't matter. The certificate doesn't matter. After you graduate, no one cares about that stuff.
Agreed and to me it sounds incredibly short sighted. People who have survived technological gauntlets know how to adapt and help instill a sense of continuity in fellow team members.
How does the Lenovo x-series compare for you, where does it not measure up? I was recently at a linux conference and probably about 60-70% of delegates had either an Apple or a Lenovo laptop.
I'd love for my WebDev classes to see these
I don't know why you think I'm defending OOP. I'm not. My original point was that copy-pasting is not an argument against any programming paradigms. The possibility of programmer error is not a valid argument against using a programming language, just as a person being unskilled at spelling is not a valid reason to criticize English, Mandarin, French, etc.
my interpretation- they were WAITING for an outside party to speak up about it, so they could say "well, x party forced our hand" to shift the blame. Reddit (the company) is terrified of upsetting its userbase, lest it go the way of Digg.
I have a Macbook Air and a windows desktop that runs all my test browsers and a linux VM through virtual box. I use VNC to test everything on the browsers I have installed on the windows box and additionally run databases on the linux VM. Super smooth, I have never had any performance issues at all. Modern CPUs are more than fast enough to really do any type of development on as long as you have the ability to offload the occasional compute intensive tasks.

I also only have 4GB on air and yet I can't remember when switching to an application wasn't instantaneous even with 20+ applications open. I won't go back to running Vmware on the laptop, so much faster as a virtual desktop.
We don't do marketing BS since well.. we'd like to use Rails occasionally as well.

All I can say is that YMMV since this debate typically goes to no end.

If we have a super-hacker on our team that can fix any problems ranging from C to Assembly to Linux Kernel to everything under the sun, we'd take the risk of using cutting-edge technology such as Node.JS to do SOAP/WS-*. Otherwise, it's all Java/.NET plus outsourcing the risk to Microsoft/IBM/Oracle support when shit hits the fan.

Certain things don't apply to internet companies by the way. They can write a SOAP library, put it on Github and blog about it how much they save the money but Enterprise project has deadlines and impatient customers.
Is the Netgear NTV200 a Roku killer?
A bit surprising is the tone of apology when touching JVM even with Scala gloves.
I've never understood the enormous popularity of M.G. Siegler. His articles are often published without any attributions or even basic spell checking. Yet somehow he's ridden on the coattails of Apple's ascent by positioning himself among the fandom as a "champion of good taste". In interviews he doesn't even come off as particularly pleasant.
I had a similar memory problems with my 2011 iMac. It had only 4 GB of RAM. The machine started pretty fast to filling up my swap. After it started paging out the machine was unusable for some minutes. I don't know if this is true but I think the HDDs in the 2011 iMac are not that good.

I upgraded the memory to 12 GB. Since then working on my iMac is a lot easier.

But the troubles are still there (from time to time). A few days ago I ran Virtualbox and Parallels Desktop 7. I had a 5 GB big swap, the machine started paging out and it slowed down. I had to quit some apps to solve the problem.

So I have to agree with the author of the article that Lion has a weak memory management. Apple must fix this. Running a 12 GB of RAM machine and getting a sluggish machine?

I think that if I would install an SSD my iMac would be a lot faster. Also the paging out.
To put this in context:

He is predicting that around 50% of all jobs on the planet will be destroyed in the next 18 years. This means that less than 3% of all jobs will be destroyed per year.

Question: How many jobs are destroyed per year normally, just as part of normal churn?

Answer: In the US, around 10%. Europe is broadly similar. Reliable data for China is very hard to come by, but it seems that, if anything, they are experiencing much more rapid dislocation.

In other words, his prediction is probably wildly conservative. Many parts of the world will probably see something closer to 200% of all jobs destroyed, or more than four times his estimate. And that's without postulating anything more radical than what has been happening every year for decades.

(Also: Note that these are all gross job destruction numbers, not net. Probably obvious, but worth emphasizing.)
should they also ban the lolicon subreddit?

In fact, they did ban the lolicon and respective male version along with the jailbait subreddits.
Gane Publishers Aren't Evil
Well, I would say yes, Linux has come a long way to be much more mature and much more usable than before.

However, up to this date, it is not without issues, especially on laptop hardware. Remember that Lenovo ThinkPad T400 from a few years ago? Well, the level of stability from a popular distro, such as ubuntu, has been quite up and down. One release (like 11.04), I had trouble with it booting up and playing nice with dual graphics mode. Today, with 11.10, it is much better. How about that shiny Acer AspireOne 722 netbook? You should check the online thread. There are still discussions about how to prevent freeze up and etc. All these little quirks here and there are the reason why I would still run OS X.
Engineering Education Startup
Apples and oranges. Bootstrap's default buttons all carry some kind of semantic meaning (primary, warning, info, etc.) while these buttons are purely for their visual appeal. The colors within a single Kuler color scheme aren't intended to be used together in this pack, they're just arranged like that so you can see the color schemes. It's more like for when you want a nice looking button and want a wide variety of colors to choose from.
If people are steeling themselves for high electricity bills, then why not focus on renewables where the current technology is improving very quickly? When the amazing thorium reactors show up I'll reconsider, but until then... why be willing to pay big for nuclear?
Would be interesting to know what the wonder solution is!
Street Fighter X Tekken Preview: Year of the Dragon Punch?
How so? If this case sets a precedent that anyone who speaks out in favor of marijuana can be prosecuted as part of a criminal conspiracy, then by defition they would be eligible for the death penalty because that's how RICO works- you can get charged for any crime committed by someone else in your 'organization', regardless of what that crime is or what penalty it carries. I don't see how that's an extrapolation.
Facebook Comments: An Experiment
I dont see why not. There are ways to push growl to your iOS devices, I cant see why we cant push them to our desktops.

Here is an example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109786/growl-notificatio...
OctaneNation, a Start-Up Chile graduate, is looking to change they way automotive enthusiasts interact. Positions are available for passionate enthusiasts who also think that forums are broken. The market of parts to customize cars is $30B in the US alone...

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I wish the design was focused on presenting content instead of "HTML5 IS SO AWESOME!"
After noting my rather older MBP with 8GB RAM was outperforming my new iMac, I spent $16 for 4GB of RAM (doubling the total to 8GB); the iMac's performance improved immeasurably. By far the best bang for the buck on OSX is maxing out the RAM. (Well, at least until I can afford a solid state drive of adequate size.)
US gives its blessing to Google's Moto purchase
Freedom from drudgery sounds great, but who will pay for those people to eat and do more fulfilling things?
You're still missing the point. It's not about having a syntax checker. It's about removing the onus from the user and putting it on the compiler/interpreter writer.

Compare what happens when running:

perl -e "print \"\$bob = $bob\";"
perl -e "use strict;print \"\$bob = $bob\";"
python -c "print('bob = ', bob)"

Python throws an exception and warns about the undeclared variable automatically. It has the same behavior as "use strict", and I didn't have to do anything to get it.

Perl makes the special case that's bad 99.999% of the time (you've basically said as much yourself) the default. At the very least, reverse the situation, make "use strict" implied, and add a "use unsafe" or something.
IMO G189 Syahrini | Spesifikasi dan Harga Terbaru
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Small, simple perching glider
In other news, gum road just EXPLODED in japan
TY will have to have a look at it be interesting to compare it to Small wars
MUCH better. You know what would be cool? If you implement an SMS service like Sendhub so people can text themselves the link. Just an idea..
Question regarding AngelHack Hackathon
I am an idea person but don't have a team just yet. Will I be able to join an existing team (working on a different idea) or form one (based on my idea) after getting there?
Pleasantries aren't part of this kind of "good taste".
Brave article by Dan. Please keep them coming.
Lunch Event 3/6: Data Mining in Networks with Dr. Andrew Fast
Nasty little ankle-biting Matty the Angry Chihuaha, hoho how wonderfully droll :) It may very well be verging on the meta-hypocritical but unlike Siegler at least this man has a flair for the written word.
Reddit was already cracking down on child pornography --- illegal content was actively searched and reported to the authrities already. What's happening here has nothing to do with CP (in the legal sense), but with public perception. It's a PR move, protects roughly 0 children, and that's why so many people don't really buy it.
If You Want Electric Cars, You Need Electricity
Who cares? Some anecdotal blurb about not liking OS X is HN worthy? How is this on the front page?
> it is worth remembering that coal plants are a catastrophe every single day.

In addition to CO2 levels, most people are unaware of how much radioactive material is released by burning coal, because it's spread out of over time rather than in a few big dramatic incidents.
It's tempting to dismiss this as just e-lebrity gossip, but I think that this kind of rottenness is probably more dangerous to the Valley than threats from Washington or talk of bubbles. If who you know and how well you can politic overshadows what you did and the results you got, then you're in trouble.

If somebody is an unscrupulous douchebag, don't to business with them, don't read their blogs, don't upvote their articles. Treat them like the trolls they are.
as described here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.ht...

Binaries are either stored on a private heap or in a global area where they are reference counted. Binary reference counting depends on ProcBin objects stored on a process heap.

Reference counting is only effective when garbage collection occurs, thus forcing an explicit collection on an process removes the ProbBin objects.

The system has no way of knowing if a collection should be triggered to free ref counted memory. Collection is local to a process.
I would think a loan guarantee would only have a cost if the utility defaulted on the loan. The taxpayers are in effect co-signing.

Unfortunately the history of nuclear generating station construction is one of massive cost overruns and defaults. I wish I felt more confident that things would be different this time.

Regardless, I think this is welcome news, demand for electricity is only going to grow especially as electric vehicles start to become viable.
Startup Tutorial: An Introduction
Show HN: I made an app discovery app, any feedback?
I think the simplified design shows that if you distill down what makes the iPhone UI great, it's not just about color and resolution. Great, simple layout with intuitive icons and an easy-to-use interface. Win.
One of the main issues to me is that these things keep getting imagined in a vacuum, a place where logic reigns and technology as as perfect as its imagined.

For example this:

>Neighborhoods will be designed differently and all City planning departments will have to rethink their jobs.

This is not much different than today. But, at the same time, you could imagine that sentence to imply vast change. (remind me of the cold reading article the other day)

And:

>One thing I’m not saying is that we will have 2 billion more people unemployed. Rather we will be forced to rethink the whole process of job creation, and we will need to do that very quickly.

How is it that this will be true in 2030 but ALSO happen very quickly?

And:

>Working closely with the inventor community, I’ve had the unusual opportunity to see breakthrough technologies at the formative stages, and there are several around the edges that are now reaching the boiling point.

I mean, it's great to have enthusiasm, but c'mon. We've heard these things over and over --something could finally work out, but the odds are against those techs being the silver bullet in Coal/Petroleum/Nuclear. Lead bullets, yes. But those take many decades.

I mean, optimism is great, but I think he's gone overboard and kind of forgot a bit of skepticsm.
Poor Opera never had a chance.
My impression is that Wayland planned to support X as a compatibility option. The difference is that X isn't the low level mediator of all input/graphics by default. As I understand.

http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
Gah, I want to read the contents of this book but the design is so terrible.
I would assume (though I'm not fully up to date) that the so-called "safer" reactor designs such as high-temperature gas cooled, pebble-bed, or thorium reactors are still pretty much research projects. They are likely at least a decade or more away from commercial scale feasibility.
Like any tool, ORMs are appropriate for some uses, and not for others.

In the Python world, I like SQLAlchemy. It performs well, it's fairly well documented (improving, though I've had to read source code to figure out options before), and it's not tied to a web framework, the way I believe Django's is.
I think you're on to something when you contrast the 2 problem domains. Number of requests is a very naive way to look at load factors.

At the startup I work, we've got 25-30 Million users, many stats similar to Tumblr, and we're running it on about 250 Ec2 instances of varying size. I think if Tumblr's numbers are high at all -- due to rapid iterations and no time to focus on deep optimizations -- it's maybe 10-15% high, not 90%.

I'm saying this because I've seen periods where our usage numbers are somewhat flat, even falling, but our hardware demands rise as we provide more features. When there's just one or two primary ways to use a service (eg "I post status updates and comment on my friends' status updates") it can be quite easy to optimize. But add features. Photos. Chat. An in-house ad serving platform. I18N. Etc. You have different types of interactions with different acceptable service levels and varying storage requirements.
Yes. We should ban kiddie fiddler fiction like Romeo and Juliet. Did you read that disgusting line about busting their maiden heads? Yuck. Yuckity Yuckity Yuuuck.
I was expecting an XMPP/Jabber implementation in Javascript using Backbone.js
Nuclear seems to be our only option for the time being; most renewables require TONS of space to be comparable (not to mention problems with electricity production vs. demand management in the grid - solar and wind energy kind of depends on weather). There's a good book on the topic that has all the relevant calculations: http://www.withouthotair.com/
Fanboys on either side of the aisle love to pat themselves on the back and reaffirm--almost daily--that yes, they did buy the best product imaginable. It's the same reason Gruber makes half a million a year writing snarky one liners.

Some sort of subconscious need to find superiority in consumer purchases and brand loyalty. It's kind of disturbing.
What part of the planet are you looking for?
If it makes them kill themselves its definitely not teasing, but heavy bullying. In that case very large portion of the guilt should be on those doing the bullying!

But of course it's easier to blame 'those paedophiles on the internet' than 'my little innocent boy'
If you want the free version of Visual Studio, you go to a web page (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...) and click on the download link. You don't need Windows installed, or need to be signed in or have special software on your machine to download the file.

If you want the free version of Xcode, you first need a mac.
Now you need a mac with a recent OS. Ok, good, go to the web page, click on the "App Store" link. Make an account in "App Store" then hand over Your CREDIT CARD information. Great. Now it will download through the app store. Click on "Purchases" to see the status.

Microsoft doesn't need to know who I am and doesn't even care if I'm on Windows but Apple wants me on a newish mac and then hand over my credit card before I can get their IDE. Really? Ridiculous and almost intolerable.

But that's how they roll.
Is it really so hard to believe that some people honestly think that reddit should have no Subreddits explicity catering to hackers?

Yes, I'm for Reddit taking away the freedom of hackers to share code on Reddit, even if that code happen to be legal more often than not. Is that really such an outrageous position?

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Yes, I'm for Reddit taking away the freedom of religious people to share their religious ideas, even if those religious ideas happen to be legal (and not constitute a hate-crime) more often than not.

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Yes, I'm for Reddit taking away the freedom of <insert minority interest group here> to share <material>, even if that <material> happens to be legal.
Heh - as some one who did write FORTRAN IV and 77 I all ways loved this article - oh and I did write billing systems in FORTRAN at BT

Fortran is still in use for technical programming when you realy realy need to get the most performance out of simulations.
Please don't resort to these kinds of comments. Its hard enough to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high in "gossip stories" posts such as this one.