skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A standard reboot from the GUI should be fine. If you boot up in verbose mode there are some amusing messages that are displayed at the top of the screen during reboot/shut down when a program has to be force quit by the OS.
I was running small instances - probably should have been micro. And there were definitely ways to decrease costs and stay on EC2. Heroku is free though so for me (at my scale) it seems like the best option for now.
New Zealand has had a 600V HVDC link from the South Island to the North Island for quite some years - most of the power is generated by the hydro lakes in the south, then delivered via a 610km link to a substation in the north, where it is fed into the normal high-voltage transmission grid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Inter-Island

So it is a proven technology to have this as a long distance link (been in operation since 1965) and it is capable of bi-directional power transfer as well.
And as an aside, companies are already pretty good at storing energy with things like molten salt.
Most likely that Apple don't provide access to the Bluetooth layer; there's also no bluetooth file transfer apps available.
Does the current model produce the majority of the world's NMEs or does the current model simply bring them to market. From another comment on this topic, it sounds as though most novel research happens not in the labs of companies like Glaxo-Welcome or Pfizer, but in university research labs for a couple of million dollars.

If this is the case, I imagine that any disruptions will occur at the C-suite level mostly, paving the way for entirely new ways of looking at the problem of bringing a new drug to market.
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iPhones have different vibration patterns for what its worth.
Read my comment here: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3699868

It has nothing to do with the year, it has to do with the position of the US (as developing or developed) changing its viewpoint vis-à-vis IP rights.
If you can opt out of public helthcare, then it is fine. But if you can opt out, I wouldn't call it "public" anymore.

If you can't opt out, then choosing private basically means paying for both.
Not really. Yea it's actually just stupid looking back at it. But I hadn't done any pricing before and I wanted to experiment. So now I know at least I won't make a boneheaded mistake like that again :)
Probably means throughput, not latency.
as far as I can remember, this is almost how an older version of twitter looked like. The difference was that the compose tweet box used to be right above the timeline.

nice work!
OkCupid has "My Best Face" which is similar (but only for pictures, not content). http://www.okcupid.com/mybestface
Virtually everyone is insured as a side effect of being an employee at a company that provides access to a group health insurance plan as a benefit. This has the side effect of coupling people's jobs to their health insurance, which drastically reduces labor mobility.
By default, iPhones vibrate once for emails, twice for texts.

Through the accessibility settings, you can set completely custom vibrations for each of the contacts in your address book (e.g. you could make morse code of each of their names)
My frustration is based on the fact that I'm stuck as a consumer. I'm perpetually "buying" one, and never "owning" one. When it arrives on my doorstep I get to finally move on to being a user.
In short: I drove customers poorly and infrequently.

The only marketing I did was through my blog/Twitter. That spawned a fair amount of word of mouth and some other blog posts by people who had used the service. Beyond that I think it was just people talking to eachother because the product really does provide value if you're building a website.

I also have a hunch that the custom thank you videos played a part too but I can't prove it.
I found this page because I was pretty confused about these issues, and still am...

Question for the crowd: In this site the example given says that in reality there are 869MB of used RAM. I'm comparing this with my VPS values, and would like to know if this is the sum of some column in top. Is it? It looks like it's pretty close to the sum of the SHR column. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance.
Performance does suffer, because the operating system doesn't know that all that memory being used by firefox is just cache. And firefox doesn't know when the operating system would like to use memory for something other than cache. So when you start a second large program, it's thrashing time.

VMs like vmware have the exact same problem, where the host might want memory used by the guest, and you end up with weird scenarios where the guest's swap is in the host's disk cache, but the guest's memory is in the host's swap. One of the things guest tools are supposed to do is communicate with the host regarding memory pressure. Firefox lacks this feedback mechanism.
You can create HW multiplier using only NOR+AND elements. It will consume a lot of silicon, but will work fast enough.

BTW, most FPGAs have HW multiplier prebuilt block, because you will loose lots of flip-flops or LUTs (or both) implementing one yourself.
Hate to tell you bub, but none of that is coding. It's all simple markup, and a designer that can't do his own markup just isn't qualified, there are far too many available candidates that can to even bother talking to one who can't.

If all someone knows is making pretty images in photoshop, they simply aren't web designers, they're print designers who dabble in the web, amateurs.
Awesome... give me a shout. fogbeam@gmail.com
That website without Javascript http://i.imgur.com/iMnNI.jpg
This already happens through craigslist and ticket brokers, without the charity piece.
Eclipse plug-ins are usually located in the plugins folder of the Eclipse installation.
Do you mean there is a "special workspace directory" that could contain all sorts of plugins?
Thanks for your comment! I did definitely set up Google Analytics. But I didn't have goals or Web Master Tools or funnels or anything like that set up. So I had a few metrics but nothing really in-depth.

Yea I definitely could have done the EC2 experiment much more cheaply. But Heroku is free if you're small scale like DomainPolish :) Thanks again for commenting!
lol the funny thing about the title when I read it was "yeah, and they freaken' get it. They are not waiting till the company is tanking to think 'omg how do I salvage'? They are being pro-active shooting in every direction hoping for a hit."

"Intel has almost no presence in smartphones or tablets." which is an important quote. Because if the majority of the business will be smartphones/tablets then ARM wins by a leap. And if ARM wins, then why not move ARM into the PC market?

Problem with Intel: Architecture + Manufacturing. Their Architecture is not the best, their manufacturing is, gives em an edge. However as ARM architecture gets up there, their partners are helping with the manufacturing innovation. Its like 1 giant fighting an army of slightly smaller giants.
Python (the subject of the OP) is a strongly-typed, dynamically-typed language.
True. Pretty expensive tutorial at $1,000 though ;)
Keep in mind that the majority of the cost that gets put under the "advertising" label is actually free samples. Those effectively lower the cost of care for patients, it's not just money spent on madison avenue.
It just doesn't make any sense for a health insurer to cover people with pre-existing conditions. Insurance is all about risk; if you have a pre-existing conditions, there isn't a risk involved anymore, since you already know you have a problem (unless the provider doesn't cover anything that derives from that pre-existing condition which would also increase processing costs).
A little more details to this can be found

http://cocoaheads.tumblr.com/post/17757846453/objective-c-li...

This was posted about 3 weeks ago.
A single-payer health care system would be excellent. I eagerly await its implementation in the United States.
Why then is len special? Should we also have builtins to add to a collection?

If it is good design there, should others repeat it? For example, if a module author is defining a new protocol for a set of objects that anyone can implement should they provide functions that delegate to the methods in their protocol?

For myself I think that the python community can be counted on to be consistent without the need for this duplication and indirection.
I wish I could help you but I've only ever used them for Rails. I have used GAE for Python and had a pretty good experience. I think that's also free at the beginning.
Tribe in the Amazon uses Internet to fight illegal loggers
A bit annoying they force you to sign up for both Google+ and Google Wallet to attend.
I've wanted something like this for a while, but I'm worried that easier access to notifications is going to just make me more neurotic.
By now the blogosphere, twitterverse, and even mainstream media is abuzz with the absurd decision that Yahoo has made to sue Facebook over ten software patents with the assertion that Facebook’s entire business is based on Yahoo’s patented inventions.

What is the potentially depressive effect on Facebook's IPO price come this May (or whenever) if it has a lawsuit hanging over it claiming that its entire business model is based on Yahoo's patented inventions and that it would face a ruinous liability should Yahoo prevail?

I suppose the timing could be coincidental but I doubt it. After all, the problem for Facebook can easily go away if it is just willing to be "reasonable" in resolving this quickly. Truly a new low in patent trolling.
I purchased a cheap car charger for a Nokia phone. After a while it started regularly blowing the fuse. After going through a package of six fuses from RadioShack, I bought a better charger.
I fear that if that happens, the best case scenario would be some kind of "compromise" between the major patent holders, because by then they'd still have a lot invested in them, and the overall situation would still be worse than it is now when web patents aren't enforced.
Yeah, I think it would be very difficult to make this work as a standalone service, but I think it could be potentially be very successful as an internal feature of OKC or a similar site. It would be valuable to me to find out what the women that I am interested in think of my profile, especially the ones that don't respond to me. I would pay to get some decent feedback on myself. One of the problems is that I see my own profile in complete isolation. Actually, what I should do is go look at the profiles of other men to find out what the competition is like, but I'm not going to do that. But there are probably lots of women who would give me feedback on my profile if I paid them even $1.
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The real problem is that a nuclear power plant needs a staff of several hundred people. They can't travel 500 miles every day to work to the middle of a desert. Even if they wanted to relocate there, they would have to build a little town to serve these people and their families, and now we are back to the original problem.
> It's going to take a little while for a language like Scala (or any JVM based language) to fully penetrate the market.

By a wide margin, the overall consensus in the JVM community seems to be that Scala will probably never be more popular than it is today, which means, it will never become mainstream. Hopefully, one of Ceylon or Kotlin will succeed where Scala failed.

With that in mind, Play betting on Scala is quite a risky direction indeed.
Congrats. What was the justification for that price? A certain number of months of earnings?

For something that required little work to maintain and produced consistent revenue, that should be 18 months earnings at an absolute minimum. 36+ months for this probably wouldn't have been difficult at all if you had put it on Flippa or similarly marketed the sale. Not trying to make you feel bad, just giving you some info for the future.
Time to update all my computers. As long as you don't use RDP you should be ok.
I do not remember any such announcements.
sarcasm And clothes for size small should be cheaper than size large, since it has less material.

To make this work in practice is really hard. Do you charge people at the gate? If a teen bought a round-trip ticket to be a high school foreign exchange student, and had a growth spurt while training for the football team, then does the teen need to pay more money in order to return home? And if that student doesn't have the money on-hand at the airport? At least with luggage you can leave something behind; with your body it's harder.

I suppose here the student who gained 10kg could leave 10kg of luggage behind. That's about 1/6th of the total weight allotment for check-in + carry-on. But suppose the weight gain was more than the luggage carried. Do you want to be the airline which refuses to let a student return home?

Suppose someone prepaid the expected weight then lost 10 kg. Do they get the money back in cash? After all, the person might not have a credit card, and depositing a check in another country can be really expensive. In the case given (US to Australia) would that rebate be given in US or AUS dollars? Is it taxable? If you travel for work then does the company get the money back?
I think you mean 17?
You're right, I forgot to utilize the search function :)

HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609071
> spiral out of control with everyone suing everyone for every patent they have in Silicon Valley.

That misses the real dynamic: Yahoo is suing because FB has money + they don't have as deep of a patent portfolio. (It's why Google shelled out a pile of dough for Nortel's portfolio.) The lawsuit wouldn't have happened if they had comparable portfolios; The lawsuits would then have ended in a draw.

Bullying/shakedown at its best. (I'm sure it's not personal to Scott Thompson, just business.)
I'm hoping for a self-driving car giveaway myself
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In the 1800's the US was considered developed in comparison to other countries. (For example the Cotton gin was invented in the US.)

You can't compare developed vs developing using 2000s definitions and at the same time using 1800s definitions for IP laws.

You have to be consistent, pick one era and compare everything using the same definitions.
Insurance is for unexpected events. Paying for expected events using insurance is not a worthwhile thing to do because you must pay for the cost of care plus the cost of running the insurance company, which is more expensive than just paying for the cost of care. So, if someone is worried about running out of money due to foreseeable medical expenses, buying insurance to cover those foreseeable medical expenses will cause him or her to run out of money earlier.
yawho?
No, I can't argue that's not true. We don't really know what Bayer's strategy was here. For all we know they could have told the Indian gov't to shove it. In that case, they gambled and lost.

Or, they could have offered the drug at 25% of the original cost and the gov't could have told them to shove it.
I wonder how this affects other operating systems that implement RDP. I'm not familiar with the protocol and don't regularly use it, but is this a flaw with the protocol or with the implementation that windows uses?

Are there multiple implementations? I'm a little in the dark on this one.
Wow... it really helped me, thank you man!
> I suppose the timing could be coincidental but I doubt it.

I don't. FB is much more vulnerable now than after the IPO shares have been sold. (That probably translates to a bigger settlement.)
Sounds like "root my box as a service."

As one of the commenters there points out, you can just do this with ssh. Which means you're ssh'ing to a machine you probably control, which means you would have had to install the stuff you want at some point on that machine anyway. Why not just do all your development from that machine (or, if you don't want to, why not just install the package on your local machine?).
Quickly off the top of my head:

- Low power home servers (media, voip, etc.).
- Digital signage.
- Portable computer, just add keyboard+monitor.
- Hobbyist controller, like arduino but you can code in higher level scripting languages (python/ruby/etc).

There are plenty of other uses. It's small, low power and runs linux... the possibilities are endless.
The '-v' flag enables will give you a verbose output that shows you the votes.

The '-o' flag will take you to the comments page of the command so that you can read other users inputs.

These are in place to help you make a more educated decision
> something that happened when it reached developed nation status

Nonsense. The US was born as a developed nation, it never had a period of time when it wasn't.
Why? They'll probably give you a phone integrated with Google Wallet, so it'd make sense to have you using it beforehand.
Please note, this blog post is related to Play 1.2.X, not 2.0
>That's not quite true. People do in fact do CPU intensive stuff in browsers, if nothing else because they write algorithmically slow code.

It's CPU intensive because of the way it's done, not because it intrinsically requires much CPU. That was my point. And it's not just algorithms; everything goes through a million layers of abstraction.

>Note that GMail is not an example of an application that really does intensive JS. A photo editing app would be a better example.

Again, I was doing photo-editing years ago with no troubles. You wouldn't even be able to start your JS photo editing app on a 1996 computer. And by focusing on "CPU-intensive" tasks you're missing an essential point, which is that stuff that shouldn't require any CPU does. My system shouldn't pause - ever. We have optimised everything for high throughput on powerful machines. The JVM suffers from exactly this problem. Java is plenty "fast" if you ignore latency.

There's just nothing demanding enough to require that going on. And yet the UI locks up for 1-2 seconds pretty frequently on my $1000 desktop machine with loads of RAM and CPU. It's even worse on my $400 laptop. There's nothing intrinsic in the hardware or the tasks that should cause this to happen - it's the design of the software. It's because the system is too complex and preemptable that this happens.
The cool factor is definitely there but I am not buying one of these devices unless they figured out how to charge it without any help from the user.

I do not want another device I have to remember to connect to its charger and given its functionality I don't think its battery life is stellar.
A big concern here must be the potential for this bug as a secondary payload for malware delivered over email; virtually no network allows RDP through firewalls without a VPN connection, but RDP is broadly available on most large networks once you're behind the firewall.
> If pleasure is its sole motivation, it will prioritize it over survival.

Which is why I proposed a design with no pleasure construct.

> If the AI can't change its own motivation (its utility function) it's nothing more than a clever automaton.

The utility function is the way the mind decides which states of the world are desirable. You don't need to be able to change that to be intelligent. I'm unable to change myself so that I consider my family being murdered to be a good thing, but that doesn't make me 'just a clever automaton'.
What people don't understand is, patents legally are valued under the legal standard of roughly 'patents that win in court are real patents, those that lose, are not' This means that patents MUST be defended to even really be a patent. This means that, this scenario is almost automatic when a company like Facebook comes up for IPO. Facebook is one of those companies that essentially is 'The Internet' in 2012 on the timeline of companies that have held that title, (Yahoo, Google, Facebook).

This lawsuit will be settled, and then Facebook, Apple, Yahoo-Alibaba, Microsoft, AOL, and everyone else will resume the world war against Google.

Amateur hour in some of the analysis in these articles.
One of the reasons why the FDA rejected Qnexa was that one of the components in the drug was thought to cause cleft palates in babies born to mothers who take the drug.

Mind you, this drug is already approved for use in humans. The FDA made the call that preventing cleft palates in babies (mind you the company offered to restrict the label to "non-child bearing women") was more important that reducing levels of obesity.

The FDA "suggested" the company run a 10,000 person clinical trial (estimated at $100M) to prove it didn't.
Douglas Hofstadter's satire on sexist language [1985]
> But where's the full-stack test harness for a Rails app with heavy JS usage, that runs at a reasonable speed, gives us useful traces on the client and server, and doesn't break when I slightly rework my HTML?

If you're talking Python, Lettuce does this is Python, there also is Splinter. You can run selenium with a headless firefox quite easily with Xvfb.

If you're talking rails, Capybara has drivers for Webkit (QI), selenium and even PhantomJS. Their speed is variable, but it's not too bad.

On the "HTML changes break my tests," I'd argue that A) you should write your front end tests not tied to the HTML if at all possible. Refer to elements by semantic names, not XPath or CSS selectors. And be smart about your steps. Make your submit_form() method actually look for a submit button in more than one way. B) you shouldn't have more than a handful of full stack frond end tests. They're hard to write, slow, and don't give much help telling you WHAT went wrong. Most of the time the ROI is only there for verifying a few user paths, but not much more than that.
It's an implementation flaw. There's no concern on others.
It’s obvious Google wants people to use Wallet, but I would argue it’s indicative of weakness, not strength, to require its usage (as opposed to letting the strength of the product draw people to use it).

Similarly, shouldn’t they make us excited to try Google Wallet on these phones, as opposed to forcing us to prepare ahead of time? I mean, if they are still going for a non-evil not-just-another-BigCo vibe.
Yes Microsoft made a JAVA compiler and runtime, NO it is not a new product, as a matter of fact Microsoft cannot redistribute it at all.

But back in the day it was a very exciting thing to have JVM's from SUN, Microsoft and IBM... Its kind of funny how nobody thinks twice about Solaris containing Java, OS/2, and how Microsoft got pushed out of the market for trying to co-opt Java.
That's as techy as Sacramento gets.
Some people, when confronted with a simple problem, think "I know, I'll add a cloud". Now they have two problems.
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There needs to be a movement to encourage family members and friends to dump Yahoo e-mail, change their home page from Yahoo, maybe even dump Flickr.
I read both. D is for Digital takes up where Code leaves off. It's an easier read, Code gets harder near the end.

I just starting learning programming in January, and both Code and D is for digital were indispensable for the context they gave me.
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I don't even use Jenkins... we have our test suite and autotest running while we code. Instantly know when you're done breaking stuff and ready to deploy.

A CI server would be nice as a pre-deploy sanity check, but that requires me to push to it in order to get feedback.
I agree with this policy -- why should past attendees get preferential treatment?
No, generally we have less than four options for insurance provided by our employer. When we are not employed, most of us cannot afford to carry insurance.