skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>It was 9 AM in California when he replied.

Sorry, but that excuses nothing. Do VISA, MasterCard, American Express start business at 9AM? They're 24-hour operations. So should any op dealing with payments.
I hope so too, because it's pretty obvious to me that's what he's doing (stepping out), out of sheer common sense, and I'm grateful for that.
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I've been an Oracle DBA for 15 years, and no-one uses top for that, as it's well known not to account in any sort of meaningful way for the way Oracle uses shared memory. The only thing it's useful for is seeing which of the sysadmin's Perl scripts is chewing the CPU.
Big price increase from last year, up to $900.
I'm a developer too and this is what I understand (might be wrong):

- Virtual memory is basically "abstract memory" that is linked (mapped) to RAM or HDD, this means that by accessing this "memory" you might actually be accessing the HDD and, because of this, larger than physical ram.

- Virtual set size is the allocated virtual memory (the above) to the process.

- Resident set size is the allocated physical (RAM) memory to the process.

- Shared memory is memory that is shared on multiple processes, meaning that if you have 10 processes using 10mb of resident memory each and have 2mb of shared memory each, the total of resident memory used is not 100mb but 82mb.
so every time I sell a site on flippa thats an exit now
It could have probably been run off a VPS for $20/mo or a dedi for $100/mo.
Hydrogen fuel cells powered up by cheap solar panels will be our future power source. No need to transmit electricity across the globe.
Oh Dear Lord. The fact that all of the previous people left at once, leaving them without decent support looks like bad planning/management from Google.
"Not knowing about the existence of a patent should be a valid defense against a patent infringement suit, and it should be the patent holder's responsibility to make sure that most other people in the industry know about the patent and how the invention works."

The problem with allowing this is that it becomes (as it has) de facto procedure to never read patents because you might infringe. So, this fails to uphold the idea that patents should teach society how to do a thing.

Better to just remove them entirely.

"The justification for copyright is to increase the value of creating creative works, so that society has a richer culture."

So, there's your issue right there: creative works have no value beyond that which people assign to them. The utility I get from the Mona Lisa is greater than that I get for Piss Christ--and that is a personal preference, at this point in time.

Creators should not be shielded from the free market: they either need to pander to the public (if they want money), or they need to accept that what they do is not motivated by money (and in so doing free themselves of their audience's expectations). Copyright introduces scarcity and inflates value for things that, quite frankly, don't deserve it.
or pairing up tech founders with skilled salespeople who want to work in tech.
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I replied to a couple points in your thread.

Long story short, kill patents, kill copyright, keep trademark.
For rollouts of new Granola versions, it's usually either "Let's Get It / Sky's The Limit" by Young Jeezy (http://youtu.be/GBhipX5cHtA) or "Destroy the Opposition" by Dying Fetus (http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI).
... and $900. So much for enticing developers to come. A first come, first served with a much higher price means it's more likely non-developers will come.
Interesting, but even knowing what you were trying to achieve, my brain still defaulted to the skewed-text as being 'important' more than sarcastic. I guess there just isn't a replacement for a silver-tongue.
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Perhaps it is easier to explore the limits of individual ownership when they are taken to the extreme, rather than to a minimum asshole status example.

Consider that an entrepreneur could obtain ownership of an entire nation purely through voluntary contracts that mutually benefited the parties involved. This differs from a despot only in justification of ownership being based in rights rhetoric rather than the divine. If the new king decides to shutdown all of the factories and farms so he can have more hunting land, what are the counterparties supposed to do? Lay down their plows and quietly consent to death?

At the point where individual ownership creates a power structure over other citizens' ability to use their labor to reproduce society's needs, that ownership has obligations of higher moral standing than the individual owner's whims. I tend to think preventing people from working to help themselves is even more abhorrent than merely hording resources, so better highlights the limits of ownership. Which power structures we consent to in our economic ecosystem and which individuals we offer to run them should always be up for renegotiation.
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It's just business. They have a responsibility to their shareholders.
Well, I'd simply say that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4jvDsNtEE
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What's unethical about this?

Seriously, where is the moral imperative that says "Thou Shalt Not Patent Troll"?
Holy God this is messed up and I hope it isn't real.

If it is real...

Dear Google - An unknown employee communicating through a random forum is NOT the right way to tell developers why they are not getting PAID!!!!

EDIT:

To the op of this post: It appears you personally feel an obligation to communicate with the people who want to be communicated with the most. I truly hope that you do not get in trouble for this and that your desire to communicate with us is applauded and replicated over and over and over again as the old team vanishes and your new team takes over.
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What does about:memory say?
But the warmth isn't on a temperature gradient so it's difficult to exploit.
We can build power plants in the middle of the desert and ship power out. The technology exists; we just haven't done it yet. Transmission losses are not a concern for superconducting cables (though maintaining the cryostat jacket is). Such cables are currently being proven before being used in larger grid connections.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/superconduc...

http://www.htstriax.com/columbus.html

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/htsc/documents/pdf/fy2003/HTS_Cable_...
Last summer I evaluated Lift vs Play 1.x and was leaning heavily toward Play. I wrote some toy apps in each. We chose Lift only because it turned out that Play was incompatible with our Maven setup. (I have heard it has improved in 2.0 but I have not looked into it myself.)

I found Play to be fairly intuitive and it matched my mental model pretty well. It was lightweight compared to Lift and the other Java frameworks I looked at. Play 2.0 seems to have made improvements in the areas I found weak in Play 1.x. i.e. modularity, Scala support (specifically for continuations)

Lift is a fairly heavy framework, but you can ignore big parts of it if you need to. In Lift it took me a while to grasp the HTML transforming concept, partly because the documentation seemed to out of date. It felt both cumbersome and elegant at the same time. Sadly I didn't get very far on the project so I have no idea how Lift has changed/improved since then.

Today I would choose Play in a heartbeat if it fit the parameters of my project.
For 3 European countries and Korea. Nice linkbait though.
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The fact that they play it, and perhaps incidentally help show how fucking stupid the whole system is, is more respectable than armchair quarterbacking.

(and yes, their shareholders and executive force them to play it.)
> Of course, when it's private venture capital that's behind this, people don't seem to complain as much.

That's because private venture capital is people spending their own money, rather than other people's money.
Seriously, isn't it obvious? Look at the purpose of the patent law. It's supposed to promote innovation for the benefit of the society, or how it formally sounds: "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Software patents do exactly the opposite. They not only don't promote any innovation or progress, they stifle it.
Looks like they've also decided not to do the coding challenge, originally suggested to stem the "first come first served" rush.

A bit of a shame, could have been interesting - and would have made for more devs at, what is after all, a developer conference
I think I may have misunderstood the manufacturing process. To my reading, it looks like they have 3mm-thick wafers, accumulate a 20mm-thick layer of hydrogen, which then shears off in a furnace, leaving...a 3mm-thick wafer. Which they started with. Thanks in advance to whoever explains how I've misunderstood this.

EDIT: Oh, I neglected to pay attention to units. The above should be 3mm, 20-micrometer, and 2.98mm, respectively, which means the sheet shearing off is 0.002mm thick. This is seriously cool. Thanks for everyone's patience.
Why do you doubt this?

Delphi/Object Pascal shot up in the rankings just as Google released Chrome.

That's only significant because, at the time, the implementation of Object Pascal on the CLR also had the name "Chrome".
This makes a lot of sense - imagine if (certain) iPhone apps could be run as widgets on the OSX Dashboard (IIRC, widgets were the proving ground for phone apps)...

The issue this raises is one of prerequisites... are things like accelerometers supported on all Win8 machines? What about cameras?
Some people need the money because it's their only source of income or because they need the cash flow for their business, or whatever. Tell them to start worrying 15 days later. About the payments, on Google's side they show up as having been initiated on the 2nd and Google has been deaf and mute about the issue.
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I found a good introduction on unix memory caching in chapter 3 (The Buffer Cache) of 'Design of the UNIX Operating System', http://www.amazon.com/Design-Operating-System-Prentice-Hall-... . At least it was good for me (mathematician by training, programmer by profession)
(I mean in Office)
"You think that Apple and Amazon don't care about their bandwidth charges?"

I really didn't say that, and you know it.

Apple and Amazon don't want to have a very high marginal cost, but they really don't mind small costs like credit card transaction fees. They don't need to eliminate those costs in order to be profitable. Minimizing their marginal costs is not their top priority.
MALwar?
I have always refused to participate in a language war, but I never said anything about a music war. All these songs do is push me to the medicine cabinet for some Excedrin. My choices:

When I'm not quite in the zone and need to get there quickly: Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0

When I'm 300 lines of code short of a breakpoint and I know I'll be here for a while: Depeche Mode, "Enjoy the Silence", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo

When I've already figured out exactly how it's supposed to work and I'm just slamming code: Romantics, "What I Like About You",
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHKjDKY_O8

For debugging (which can be a lot like sex): Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn4i8bAfnMY

And finally, for regression testing, when it suddenly occurs to me that I really am changing the world: Handel's Water Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4
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Stop thinking linearly. Both the amount of solar energy per dollar, and the total global amount of power generated by solar panels is increasing at an exponential rate.
555 MB is still a lot. That's the actual memory usage.
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We might be more focused on getting people to do things, but it doesn't need to be just about getting people to sign up for things. We can also use software to make people behave better, to make people's lives better.

Just yesterday there was a post from Grouper talking about how they figured out basically a hack to get people not to flake out (http://blog.joingrouper.com/intro-to-social-hacking-how-we-l...). Anil Dash talks about using technology to create more civil conversations on the web (http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assh...). If you ask me, those are good developments and we should focus more on figuring out how to create online communities that are best. That may involve some manipulation but it may all be for the best.
It's been announced as opening on March 27.

Source: https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
Germany has a plan to use Norway as a huge energy store, adding pumping capacity to the hydroelectric plants.
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Very interesting story and I love these low maintenance ideas. Congratulations on that sale!

Can you elaborate a bit on how you drove customers to that site? I was looking at a similar idea just a few weeks ago but search engine competition on usability keywords is incredibly tough.
Thats the thing that sucks about such events; $900 is very expensive.

If anyone wants to sponsor a fellow HNer, I'll give you a bunch of digital Karma :)
Second that. Copying currency is counterfeiting. This demented idea will achieve nothing but bring the Secret Service to your door with a warrant.
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As for why the browser is horribly slow, try blocking all the unnecessary (read: tracking) Javascript and Flash. Suddenly, the browser is a joy to use again.
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Completely new material. I took a case study method as opposed to a tried+true methodology.

What I did was understand what readers wanted from my blog posts and took that into account. I basically just wrote everything I wish I could have told myself 5 years ago.
Exactly, the point is that the 20micron-layer of silicon that was shearing off is now the solar cell. Compare that to 200micron sheets, as used currently, and you see where the savings come from (i.e. you can get up to 10x more solar cells from a standard waver).

I hope this helps.
So much for a coding challenge to get tickets. "Registration will be first-come, first-served so make sure you're online promptly at 7AM PDT on March 27."
Some info:

We're entering a private beta in about a week. The analytics portion of the application is free, but we're also building a content distribution system (a sort of iBooks for question banks and assignments). Currently we have a subscription model ready, but intend to have pre-built assignments purchasable in the store as well.
A key problem with Google I/O is that they give you enough free stuff while you are there to pay you back for the price of the ticket multiple times over: this pricing arbitrage creates miserable incentives, and causes a lot of people to register for the conference for the sole purpose of being able to obtain free stuff, after which they either immediately ditch or scalp their ticket.
Cheaper than WWDC and it's likely you'll get a bunch of free hardware.
They must have meant 20 micrometer thick layers since they also state that they are "a tenth of the thickness" of standard "200-micrometer-thick (0.2mm)" wafers.
Doesn't the free phones pay for it? I'd suppose those early limited edition devices are worth more than the ticket.
Or a pacemaker - something drawing power for a very long time, and where recharging/replacing is literally painful and power failure is deadly.
"You will need Google+ to register and Google Wallet to pay."

Perhaps this requirement will do a first pass at filtering out non-developers.
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we would be glad to hear some feedback about our remake

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wingsoffurylite

Best Andy
Wonderful list, the only thing I'd add is to convert a PSD to sRGB before handing off if using a different color space.

Regarding export: the Monitor Color vs. Document Profile popup: http://photoshopetiquette.com/#exporting unless I'm mistaken, this only pertains to the preview of the optimized image within Photoshop.

And if you must embed a color profile on export, save it for photos only.
Another one of Twitter's shut-down-acquisition Amy doesn't mention is the wonderful DabbleDB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble_DB
850 million. Trained. Let's take advantage of it.
Can 'Big Data' make IT relevant again?
Thank you for elaborating on your position. Upvoted for content.

That said, note that this isn't an abuse of the system--it is very much using it to the letter of the law. Note further that, at least in America it would seem, we place a very high value on the letter (as opposed to the spirit) of the law.

I still think there isn't a fully developed moral argument here, but at least you've elaborated on your position. For what it's worth, I think the rough sketch of the argument would go something like: scarcity is Bad, knowledge promotes nonscarcity therefore Good, patents intended to promote knowledge therefore Good, wording of patents allows companies to act to decrease knowledge there Bad.

I just wanted to make sure you had a better backing than the usual "Oh noes patents are teh evil and the abuses you see".

If we're ever going to fix this mess, we need to make sure our ideology and reasoning is in line and clear.
Also see this article series of mine called 'Top 10 One-Liners From CommandLineFu Explained'.

Top one-liners 1-10:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-command...

Top one-liners 11-20:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-next-ten-one-liners-from-co...

Top one-liners 21-30:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-com...

Top one-liners 31-40:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/yet-another-ten-one-liners-from...
Other sources of shortages are due to the fact that the government issues drug companies production quotas for some drugs, which the drug companies aren't allowed to go over even if their competition has problems. My understanding of how this works is that the DEA tells companies A, B, and C that they can each make 20 units of Drug X. Then the FDA tells company C that their Drug X isn't up to snuff and they can't make any more this year. The 40 units that companies A and B make isn't enough to cover demand, but they can't increase their production to 30 units because the DEA has already filed their paperwork.
I think you hit the nail on the head. But it does restrict the ambit of the possible for web properties to ones where the end-user both understands the value and is willing to pay the cost of the service being provided. It would be impossible to build facebook or google without an advertising based business model, you just can't reach critical mass.
How would you go about doing a sellathon?
I would start with better home design and energy efficiency enhancing improvements before throwing a Carnot-limited solution at the problem.

Last summer I ran an experiment. We live in a two story house in California. We usually see low temperatures at night (sub 70deg F) and highs in the range of 105+ degF during the day. At night I opened all of the windows downstairs and used a small industrial fan (about 2000CFM) to pump cold outside air into the house. In the morning I'd shut down the fan and close all windows.

I could get the lower part of the house down to below 70F on most days during the summer. Cold enough to have to wear a sweater. Even with the outside temperature hitting highs above 105+ the thermal mass of the house succeeded in maintaining a very comfortable inside temperature (max around 77F). We did not use the air conditioner at all last summer, saving tons of money. The fan costs pennies a day to run.

This summer I am looking at what efficiency improvements I can make to this arrangement. I'm itching to throw a micro-controller at it, but I want to learn a little more before I take that path. There's a lot to do in the roof. Think about it, you have this huge solar heat collector --the roof-- reaching ridiculous temperatures during the day and radiating that right into the house. Sure, there's attic insulation, but that's a ton of energy to deal with.

I'm thinking that some forced ventilation of the attic with a small fan might just do wonders.
There's a good overview of this in the first four pages of http://www.atoptool.nl/download/case_leakage.pdf

The rest of that document shows how to use atop to monitor per-process memory usage and identify a memory leak.
Presumably, the only cost in solar panels is their construction, so there are no recurring costs (other than amortizing their lifetime). It seems complicated to figure the number of hours it lasts for, and figure out the energy generated in those hours. It's a lot simpler to figure out the amount of power generated for a given surface area (in some standardized amount of light input), and the cost of that surface area to generate. So if you wanted a kilowatt of power generated continuously from the sun, minus overcast and such, it would cost $400. I'm not an expert, but that would be my guess.
How many core developers work somewhere besides 10gen? I know there are a few contributors who work on drivers but it seems like nearly all of the contributors work at 10gen.

Lately I've noticed a lot of "open source" projects that don't feel open source at all. Chrome, Android and Mongo all jump to mind. In each case one company does nearly all of the work and dictates what the product does and where it goes.

It is true that I can fork as I wish, but the odds of my indie fork being able to keep up or compete long enough to gain escape velocity seem unbelievably low. It seems that whatever 10gen or Google want to do on these projects they can do with little chance of reprisal from any open source community.

Perhaps there should be a new name for software whose source is available but is effectively controlled by a for-profit entity.
I'm trying out the demo chrome experiment on the page. It seems there's a bug that the "Keep trying" pop up just won't go away after the tutorial. Or is it just me? I'm using Chrome 17.0.963.65.
Thanks! htop is MUCH better than plain ol top.
Creators should not be shielded from the free market: they either need to pander to the public (if they want money), or they need to accept that what they do is not motivated by money (and in so doing free themselves of their audience's expectations). Copyright introduces scarcity and inflates value for things that, quite frankly, don't deserve it.

Note that I'm proposing to reduce scarcity by getting rid of traditional copyright. If you want a copy of something, obtain it in any way you can and pay for a license; you're guaranteed that the license is available and isn't outrageously expensive. If you don't value the copy at the offered rate, don't get a copy and don't pay for it.

As the marginal cost of a copy approaches zero, you need some kind of (group or individual) patronage system for any production to be cost-effective. That could be a viable way to go, but I'd like to see some more detail about how it would work before I jump onboard with it.
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Hi, i live in a Latin American country and also enrolled in the course (and without a team), would you be interested?