skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really. Are you on a particularly challenged connection? I just tried exactly that test and could barely get anything typed at all before the page display was finished. And it certainly didn't miss any characters. Obviously there is a lot more content on the page now than there was a few years ago, but AFAICT they've hidden it exceedingly well.

Honestly, the above seems like pretty bald hyperbole to me.
If you were really obsessed about speed, you'd use the omnibox.
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excited to see that what I had the privilege to work on during this summer as an Intern is showing up.
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I've been using DGG for a couple of months now and it's been great. As a programmer, it turns out that like 50% of what I search for at work is programming reference stuff, so I've found the !php and !jquery syntax totally awesome.

There's still occasionally searches that I make that I can't find what I need from DGG, so I manually go to google for those (and of course for image search). But DGG definitely meets my daily needs for a search engine, and I love how privacy friendly it it.
Too bad it requires Django 1.3, given the fact that RHEL 6 comes with Django 1.2.
http://www.google.com/search?q=that+first+movie+with+the+din...

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+with+the+space+miss...
At least MRI doesn't really screw the patient much, and doesn't screw society at all, unlike overprescription of antibiotics.

(I'm in favor of complete availability of most scheduled drugs -- narcotics, pot, LSD, whatever -- but restriction of antibiotics to those with a prescription. Drug resistant bacteria is no joke.)

There's probably some argument for 0.5T MR being diagnostic now, with faster computers. I just think Japan pushed to low-field earlier because they don't actually care about the results. Also Japanese tend to be physically smaller, so maybe a 0.5T there is as effective as a 1T in the land of the super-sized drive-through.
Regarding the thought that Instapaper is somehow robbing writers of ad revenue, I think it needs to be noted that you actually have to visit an article to add it to your Instapaper queue. On top of that, Readability's model of paying authors isn't all that effective, a recent article on The Brooks Review[1] showed that even a moderately popular site such as his generates nearly no income from Readability's service, especially now that the service has gone free with optional payments.

Also, what happens to all those authors that don't opt in to receive payments from Readability? Does readability just take money on their behalf and not actually pay it out to them? It seems like that would be a legal grey area.

[1]: http://brooksreview.net/2012/03/readability-ios/
Here, take a look at the "testimonial" in question[0]:

"When I first saw Earbits, I couldn't believe my eyes. Worlds collided, rivers flowed upstream, birds sang in languages that could only be described as the purest form of unconditional love. Since that day, no other radio will do. I have lost my wife and children, but I don't care. All I care about is Earbits."

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Yeah.

[0]: http://www.earbits.com/play/#/about_us
Hi Stephen. Congratulations, it looks great. I can't wait to play around with it.

Quick question: have you any idea if it works with django-nonrel or if it could be ported to a non-relational database? I've thought building a CMS on App Engine but I may just try porting one of the Django solutions instead.
Did you actually read the post I was replying to?

It is completely devoid of any data - just assertions that are completely false in the world I live in.

> If your best interpretation of "innovation" is "web standards," it is clear that we have VERY different perspectives on modern computing.

Well, in HN the standard topic of "MS stalling" is IE, so I assumed that.

> Please consider the tone of your posting.

Yes, it was a bit aggressive. I've been on HN since the time when a demand for facts or at the very least items that could be discussed (rather than vague notions) was the norm. Most people on this site had joined recently, and think this is a reddit/fox news "everyone's opinion carries the same weight". I don't; I think If you want to advance a position, you have to give some support. Non was given.

Let's start again. Do you think the claims in the post I replied to have any merit? I don't. Do you have any examples we can discuss, since you clearly disagree the ones I brought up are relevant?
There seems to be an iframe involved: http://i.imgur.com/R4efp.png
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Another option, if you're a Java programmer and want to reuse existing Java libraries you've written: http://code.google.com/p/playn/ which is the library initially developed to port Angry Birds to HTML5 (although it's true purpose was to allow Web and Android simultaneous development)

This is a multiplatform API for 2D games. It runs as native Dalvik code on Android with a GL backend. On the Web, it runs as JS using GWT for compilation, and either a Canvas or a WebGL backend. For flash, it uses the http://code.google.com/p/gwt-flash addon for the GWT compiler to produce SWFs. For iOS, it uses iKVM to run Java bytecode on Monotouch. I believe the same code can also run on the XBox and perhaps Windows phone. Box2D is builtin.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwUyu7UzcM for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sbusEUz5w for a longer presentation I did at Google I/O.
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Excellent for "best way to install X" posts when X is fast-moving :)
Other "special" things about MRI:

1) The trucks -- a lot of times MRI trucks are driven around to various hospitals, and scheduled in advance, for non-emergent studies. These obviously get scheduled during "working hours", and then the emergent off-hours MR studies are done by transporting the patient to a higher level facility and thus might get shot whenever.

2) The whole "doctor owned imaging center" scam or "perverse economic incentive", where doctors own imaging centers and then refer a lot of patients to them, increasing the use of the technology for basically no need. These are easy to schedule during working hours, too.
The problem with studies like this is that they pick a single issue within healthcare and try to make a broad assessment from it. There have been other studies that break down the overall costs of health car in the US that are more informative. It's four years old, but this McKinsey study is a good example:
http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Americas/Accou...

The Interactive Flash slide show is interesting as well (where "interactive" is defined as clicking forward and back buttons, I guess).
These can be easily covered by legally allowed fees.
Do you feel guilty when you skip commercials on your TiVo? I don't, sorry.

An ad on a page is no different than a billboard or some other passive advertising. I am not required to notice it.
"caveat emptor" is the problem that civilization solves.
I am aware that Linus has that reputation, but glancing over the post and comments, it seemed like a good, factual discussion in this case. Did I miss something?
I once had to have a CAT scan done. I was really scared. I asked how much it would cost. No one was able to tell me! I was told the price would be negotiated with my health-care provider, if they opted to cover the procedure.

How can there be competition when no-one can give you the price of the procedure? Seriously WTF.
Really? I find them generally bland. And I've driven quite a few things.
You certainly can make cars with close to zero emissions. Solar energy via bio-fuel is one way, though there are some energy inputs required to make the fuel. A steam powered car that burns wood could possibly be more efficient in that sense however.
I would suggest that if you're using your system's version of Django, you're not doing things optimally. Check out virtualenv for more info: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html
Flex is a different beast (to my knowledge). Adobe would have to somehow support the huge library that Flex already has. A reason why not all components of AS2/AS3 are not supported.

Flash CS5 uses the new XFL file format, which are essentially zip files. The DOM document is then just parsed through and converted into their counter parts.
it needs to be noted that you actually have to visit an article to add it to your Instapaper queue

That isn't true. Lots of sites/aggregators add "Read it later" buttons to articles so it will go right into your queue and then there is the "Browse" page on Instapaper itself where you can add articles as well.
Taking them up on an offer is not abuse. They do fine (ab)using the money you park with them.
Hydrogen would definitely be much more expensive. Hydrogen leaks, a LOT, it's really hard to contain and ship.

You would need a built a whole new infrastructure, and existing one for natural gas would not work.
You can use "!gi" to search google images from DDG & "!bi" to search bing images.
Fair point, some Twitter clients let you send a tweeted link straight to Instapaper too, but in my experience the overwhelming majority of links I add come from me using the bookmarklet when I visit a web page.
I'm glad to hear that. As another poster mentioned, I also favour BSD style licenses for libraries, but I don't scoff at LGPL.
And I enjoy getting a free lunch by grabbing a sandwich that someone irresponsibly left on the table when they went to the washroom. The alternative is everyone paying for lunch.
Thank you!

Using a non-relational store with Mezzanine would be an ambitious task, as Mezzanine makes heavy use of Django's ORM in a relational way.

However I was recently contacted by someone from the App Engine team offering to help ensure Mezzanine deployed smoothly onto it. I mentioned the above and was told that Django is now a first class citizen on App Engine, with relational data supported via "Google Cloud SQL" which is their MySQL offering: https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/django

I haven't gotten around to making sure everything works smoothly, but it's toward the top of my todo list, so if it doesn't deploy cleanly at the moment, it will soon.
As Stephen mentions, this is easy to work around using virtualenv and pip. The venv/pip combo make it very easy to work around using whatever outdated packages your distro uses.
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I left Instapaper for Readability as well, but my reason was entirely different and a first for me (at least on the web): Marco. I'm not even sure what it is about him exactly, but after listening to some of his Build and Analyze podcasts and reading his slanted blog posts I just found myself not wanting to use or support Instapaper anymore.
The "deploy everywhere" saying may feel a bit tired, but before you hate on haXe before having given it a try, NME is a perfect example of what's possible.

I recently wrote a haXe version of "Pirate Pig", a sample game originally written for Enyo in JavaScript. It took me about a day of work to write, and it went straight to webOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Linux 64-bit, Flash, Mac and the iOS simulator.

It would have gone to an actual iOS device, too, but I was too lazy to pull out my iPod Touch.

If you are interested, please feel free to view the game online, in the webOS App Catalog, Android Market or downloadable. All the source code and assets are available, too:

http://www.joshuagranick.com/blog/2012/02/22/nme-game-exampl...

I am very thankful for haXe, which makes the NME project possible. The great part is that it really works.
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I'm looking forward to Richard Gabriel's keynote at Clojure/West (http://clojurewest.org/sessions#gabriel). I think it will delve directly into some of this. Fortunately, it will be recorded and released.
I had a set of his Empire Strikes Back drawings as a kid, and I spent countless hours pouring over every detail. He really had a way of capturing one's imagination.
Every law is underwritten by the potential use of force by agents of the state. Sometimes you have to go through several laws to see that (you ignore liability -> you get sued -> you ignore lawsuit -> you lose -> you are ordered to pay -> you ignore payment -> (if you have money in bank, it is taken from you; go to beginning of loop, this time with respect to bank | if you don't have money in bank, but do have money and spend it, you'll be eventually likely be arrested for contempt of court, but an agent of state applying force)

Law without an underwriting by law enforcement is not more than convention.
As an underpaid startup founder, I keep a tiny balance with them, and run large amounts of transactions through them (not transactions they earn fees from); I'm a horribly unprofitable customer for them.
well-meaning, wholesome, but hopelessly out of date buffoon? More like:

"Two men stand side by side in front of a featureless, white background. "Hello, I'm a Mac," says the guy on the right (who is much younger and dressed in jeans). "And I'm a PC," says the guy on the left (who wears dorky glasses, ill-fitting khakis, and a jacket and tie). The two men discuss the many advantages of using a Mac and seem to agree that Macs are "better" than PCs"

>Google here is being portrayed as slimy, dishonest, and malicious.

The salesman is being projected that way, and I hope you know how IT salesmen work, they're just maybe one notch above used car salesmen, You can take it as a parody if you will. And it wasn't plastered all over prime TV like the Apple ads were, it was just a video uploaded to YouTube(atleast for now).

If you have any beef with misleading or wrong content in the ad(like there was in some Apple ads) I am willing to take a look at your argument.
This is one thing that Logo got right. You didn't learn to program, you learned to draw cool pictures and animations with the turtle
But parent is also right metaphorically. Once the car starts moving, consuming energy and filling traffic, it is not longer invisible to the world.
I've switched to ddg for my basic searches. Hard searches still go through Google but the truth is, most of my searches these days are because I can't be bothered bookmarking stuff, not because they are difficult searches.

The nymwars are the main reason I switched. Ironically I always have had my real name attached to my account. However Google suddenly insisting on it being my real name makes me very paranoid about what Google could possibly want from it. I'm happy for them to use data about me anonymously - I couldn't care less if they mine every email I ever send and every search I ever do as long as I am sure it is safe and secure and impersonal. But as soon as I get a sense they are not treating my participation as anonymous they lose the lot, and that's effectively what they did with the nymwars.
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Google outspent Microsoft in lobbying efforts spending in the US in 2011.

Also, it has a commercial interest in SOPA not passing so their opposition is to be expected for their bottomline.

If you think lobbying isn't done to enhance any company's bottomline at the expense of everyone else, then you're mistaken.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2007/06/09/google-reveal...
Great question - would love to get more data on this..
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I agree with what you did and it's what I would have done no question. But I have to say that loyalty and that type of behavior has definitely hurt me business wise over the years.

I wonder how much of that is "doing the right thing" vs. protecting one's reputation so you can continue to do deals. (And you clearly referred to protecting reputation ..)

If you are just interested in "doing the right thing" then the issue of protecting one's reputation wouldn't even come up in the discussion, right? (And nothing wrong with sounding "pollyannish"?)

I wouldn't have done what your friend did at the dance. Not because I'd be worried about reputation but because it would make me feel bad to do it. I wouldn't want it to happen to me (empathy). I can tell you have empathy just by the way you wrote the post. I'm wondering if you feel a need to cloak it in "reputation" and are you sure that's as big a motive as you make it out to be? As if it won't be manly or something.
As far as aesthetics go I actually prefer the approach Marco takes with Instapaper. I think Readability does have more of a polished feel but in no way does this polish make the service any more usable. The Instapaper apps are top notch in my book.

The moral angle of feeling guilty and thus using Readabilty to compensate authors is total garbage. I disagree with this guilt trip blog post on so many levels. The 30% cut that Readability takes is the whole reason Readability exists. Essentially the writers are providing free content to Readability that they get to make a nice profit on. This is exploiting the writers to a far greater degree than Instapaper. Also, not every article I save I deem worthy of a contribution to the author. I may utterly hate an author's guts and am simply reading their article to better understand their insane philosophies before I decide I despise them. I'll fall back on an old Techdirt term: CwF+RtB. If I like a writer and want to support them I'll visit their site enough to earn them ad impressions, or I'll buy their book, or I purchase something using their affiliate link. I certainly don't need Readability paying people for me while pocketing a handsome chunk of change in the process.
"The question, of course, is why Americans pay such high prices — and why we haven’t done anything about it."

This is probably the same reason we've taken close to 40 years to finally try and get off our dependence on foreign oil after Jimmy Carter said we needed to in 1978. Yet, we still pay more than we really should and haven't done anything about it.

Why? Lobbyists, too many layers of bureaucracy, special interest groups. Take your pick, but at the end of day, it takes a lot of people wanting to do the right thing to make things change. In this country, that's a lot harder to do than most people think.
I think Readability's model is a little presumptuous. Why do they get to decide unilaterally that they deserve 30% of the revenue? It's not like the App Store where you agreed to it. Given all the work that goes into creating an article, is extracting the text worth 30%? If I was a publisher, I wouldn't think so.

To me, Instapaper's approach is much more straightforward. You have to have gone to the publisher's site in the first place and seen all of the ads. You pay a flat fee for the Instapaper app, and can subscribe if you like the service. Why make it more complicated than it has to be?
People are touting S3, but you pay twice -- storage and transfer. Using the most inexpensive options with S3, a 1 gigabyte file (with reduced redundancy) with 1 download per month would run you $0.21.

Even without the one download this would still cost you $0.093 just to keep the file!

Let's ramp up and assume you have 1TB of storage and 250GB / month of transfer. How much is that?

STORAGE: 1000 GB x $0.093 = $93.00
TRANSFER: 1000 GB x $0.120 = $120.00

TOTAL: $213.00

I should note the above does not include any servers which will actually run the websites.

Lets compare this to hosting your own (ie - dedicated):

I have a 1.5 TB RAID-I server with 1.8 TB transfer per month on a 100MB port on a month-to-month contract.

STORAGE: 1.5TB RAID-I
TRANSFER: 1.8TB

Total : $123.00 / month

It is a 8-core xeon with 4GB RAM -- I run a LAPP stack with 6 Cores dedicated to ffmpeg and image conversions. Waayyyy faster than cloud.

This is more of a hosting and infrastructure question. I recommend bringing this question to the community at webhostingtalk.com.

Yes, you will have to grow into these numbers, but that can happen pretty quickly.
There's a slight difference.

Billboards don't help support anything of value to you (namely the road you are driving on). They are advertising for the sake of advertising.

Commercials on radio/TV/web fund the content you are enjoying. Of course you can flip the channel or have AdBlock or whatever, but you're actively taking revenue away from the creator. You may not have a problem with that (I certainly don't).
You're not the only one. I counted three occasions just in the last week when an attempted Google visit timed out, yet DDG and Bing worked fine. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes at Google.
> What did Google have to do with this discussion in need for regulating governments’ appetite for citizen data and corporations abusing their privacy policies?

Everything. I would not be surprised if Google knew more than your government knows about you. Hopefully that does not sound sensationalist. Google also has come under a fire for their privacy policy changes, so that seminar was certainly not baseless, and I think it was a bit naive to assume a seminar about privacy wouldn't focus on Google. Maybe not the entire focus, but surely it would take up a noticeable chunk.

Coming from Microsoft, however, I could see why the author walked out. The goal was not to educate the government or its people; the goal was to scare people into using Microsoft products.
Lemme see if I understood this right: you rewrote a large part of the kernel because you think your code will be better than code that's been tested by (literally!) billions of people over the course of 15 years?

Not that there is anything wrong with this approach (I rewrote glib'c memory allocator, which is atrociously broken for modern systems), but you better have a very good explanation for why you did this.

P.S. I won't touch on the fact that a good scheduler will necessarily need to run in kernel-mode, not user-mode. But that's a subject for another discussion.
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"there are exceptions to the norm"

This is an analog situation. Things like this are a matter of degree not absolute. Just like speeding, insurance claims and taxes. Some people can definitely be trusted less than others to care at all about the other party. Those are the people that you need to identify.
that is a fantastic career of work.

sadly - the thumbnails on his site aren't working for me...is that true for anyone else?
I took 4 MRIs last month in Japan. The first one (lower back) was ~$100. The rest (left foot, right foot, upper back) were each on average about half that at Medical Scanning:

http://www.medicalscanning.net/access/shinjuku/

That was what I paid out of pocket, which is 1/3 of what the clinic actually charges. Insurance paid the remaining 2/3 of the cost.
Antibiotics are restricted to those with a prescription in most European countries, for the reason you mentioned. That said, I still keep some in reserve (purchased via prescriptions from doctors in my family) to use judiciously when traveling or living abroad without wanting to deal with the local healthcare system.
One note here: we pay less for petrol than any other developing country, which makes it harder for alternatives to make economic sense.
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The labor costs would vary from country to country. The article questions the price of a service performed by machine (that supposedly differs very little from country to country).
Are there any particularly skilled documentation/technical writers in open source? They aren't getting enough recognition.