skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, as technology and quality of life increases, risk tolerance decreases. I think this trend will continue. Historically, technology has increased fast and uniformly enough that we've still been able to do great things. But if health care technology improves much faster than space technology, then we may never leave orbit again.

(This trend holds at least at the societal level, and over long terms. For individuals over the short term, it can be weaker, e.g., you might buy a helmet or a safer car, and then ski or drive more dangerously.)
Borderlands did it pretty well. I wouldn't mind playing a fantasy-themed Borderlands.
Indeed this is what I was looking for (however I will be updating the software on CentOS) sprinkled with a few snippets of wisdom from the above posters.

Thank you all for your thoughtful replies.
Given how much Thomas contributes to this community, it seems fair to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he has good reasons to say no more than what he has said. Also, this comment alone probably counts for thousands of
dollars worth of value to people running business on nginx. Thanks Thomas.

As to the average hacker, yes we want to know everything, but there are valid reasons not to be told everything. In this case, the information given is useful and sufficient, and the implications of what he said and how he said it are very clear indeed.
As far as I can see, there are very, very few disasters that would render Earth less inhabitable than Mars but not also destroy Mars in the process. Even if Earth were reduced to a cold, lifeless rock with almost no atmosphere or water, high radiation levels and almost all sources of energy gone (including geothermal and wind energy and things as simple as burning wood), that would just put it in the same ballpark as Mars.

Basically, if you have the technology to support human life on Mars, you have the technology to disaster-proof Earth.
Assuming this comment is a response to what the article said, your reasoning is circular. Lessig blames both the change in laws/regulations and Goldman going public for the issues.

We can't nail Goldman with fraud under the existing laws. That's his point: laws and regulations should be reverted/changed to criminalize some of their current behavior.

Professional Companies are companies that provide professional services. These are companies that are hired because they are licensed to do something. They need to be licensed because their field is sufficiently complex or opaque that their clients cannot evaluate their competence or trustworthiness.

He suggests these company should not be able to go public because this class of companies cannot be fairly evaluated by the market without creating perverse incentives.
> Apple does not allow you to sell iOS apps outside its app store,

This is incorrect in a minor, but fundamentally important way, I think:

Apple does nothing to prevent you from selling outside their store. What they've done is make it difficult for the average iPhone owner to buy from you.

You need to target a specific demographic that can overcome those obstacles and will pay enough to make it worth your time.

In practice, that probably means enterprise.
The other half of the word "Wikipedia"
That is a great idea. I haven't even thought about the weight of the pictures meant for the retina display on an iPad. When I build up an iPad retina app I will definitely not be forcing the mass of data down an iPhone user's throat.
I think there will be a limit to the amount of beer, fixies and tea topical info that G+ will be able to take.
Thanks for the detailed replies.
So he collected consumer data from OInk and shut it by calling it test app and now joined Google.

Google loves data

Hope you all got it
I believe you are missing the point. It is not about who provides a better service, or fraud. It is about long-term stability.

Goldman has made extraordinary profits. And done well for their customers. But it is becoming increasingly clear that the outlook is becoming more and more myopic. Profit ≠ Profit, if one is short-term and one is long-term. They are different beasts. Goldman used to be the king of kings with respect to earning long-term profit. Mr. Smith points out that long-term profit has been sidelined for short-term profit. Both are still profit - but one has a sustainable culture, one does not. This is a more nuanced issue than 'good company', 'bad company' - the qualification, 'in the moral way' becomes necessary.
You missed my point: this is not a cloud problem except to vendors looking to sell non-cloud hosting. Any region is vulnerable - some clown with a backhoe, congestion / DDoS, routing screwups, etc. have taken out data centers in entire areas (Los Angeles, SF, NY, etc.) even when providers thought they had more redundancy. If you really need it, you spend the money on wide geographic separation.
Microsoft Makes Fun of Older IE versions To Promote IE9
This is correct. If the variation is high enough, the per-trip discount starts to approach the value of a per-hand discount, which of course is tremendously favorable. If he's a real whiz with the numbers, he could even have altered his play to slightly less absolute advantage but greater variation, and therefore greater advantage in the model given per-trip discount vs probable # of hands played per trip.
Facebook-based link-sharing games are loser projects you need to avoid.

Mark Zuckerberg had a professor at Harvard who tried hard to convince Zuck to stop wasting time on this stupid facebook idea and get more serious about his degree.

Your advice to the developer sounds similar to the advice given to Zuck by his professor.
I'd say the Milk Team won the bidding war!
In Europe there are huge discrepancies in purchasing power between countries even inside the Euro zone but, at least when buying online directly from Blizzard, the price is the same wether you live in Greece/Portugal or France/Germany.

Having the same price for every country inside the UE and not using the actual conversion rate hurts even more the people in countries where average wage is bellow US wages.

It wouldn't hurt them that much having different prices for different countries inside the UE, just make it so you need a credit card from the country to pay the price corresponding to that country.

(at least there is amazon.co.uk and I am a little happier)
Oh for goodness sake: google "responsible disclosure" and sit tight.
SXSW: Time to sell
First, when did a chicken genetically become a chicken? you could simultaneously build your product and your customers at the same time. Take a general idea and use your customers who are interested in the broad idea to bounce ideas off of and build the product around them and adapt further once things become more polished. Have your chicken and egg a the same time. =)
Say what you want but Milk has a tight team that is capable of turning out high quality apps. When you compare this to the $100m+ that (supposedly) offered Path and the $220m+ they paid for Slide then this seems like a steal.

Honestly, they are paying pennies for a team that they KNOW can produce solid product and have the personalities and operating capability to do it in a tougher environment. Adding Kevin's celebrity and understanding of social and marketing is a huge bonus that will help G+.
another factor: as an inside guy, he probably knew their precise algorithm for catching counters. I suspect he does count, but knows exactly how to vary his play to keep just south of the model targeting him as a counter.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for simple website development?
Most talk around here revolves around complex web development issues, so I thought it might be interesting and informative to reexamine simple projects. I'm curious, with so many choices at your disposal, what's your favorite toolset for simple website development? For clarification, simple might mean something along the lines of a small business website for a client or a blog for a friend.
Very cool - thanks. The muted trumpet image[1] that the site uses for a mailto link is an allusion to The Crying of Lot 49 (a Pynchon novel).

[1]: http://www.nyx.org/~awestrop/av/trumpet.gif
I'm sorry if the question is naive, but if he made such a great amount of personal wealth, why would he still want/need to "get a job" (regardless of company)?
That's true, but I wonder how much better Microsoft's tablet strategy would have fared 5, 10 years ago had they not been developing essentially a tablet version of Windows.

(It's hard to know just how sticky the iPad would actually be if, say, there had never been an iPhone. The iPhone established iOS and Apple as the best choice in non-computer computers for consumers. For the sake of argument, though, let's assume the iPad would be just as successful regardless of the success of the iPhone.)

So, back to the original argument -- MS was busy making Windows on a tablet computer. The failure of this effort can probably be attributed to two main points:
1 - The tablet computer hardward tended to suck for a lot of people. Bulky, slow, stylus-based, etc. This is the point you're making.
2 - As Apple an iOS have shown us, people don't necessarily want [Desktop OS] on their tablet. They just want a great tablet experience, even if that means throwing away years worth of desktop paradigms. As hackers, we can see the similarities between OS X and iOS, but to your average user, there's almost nothing similar between iOS and OS X.

I think point #2 could have been done by MS 10 years ago, had they had stumbled upon the same happy accident that I think hit Apple with the iPhone and then iPad: a dedicated phone OS works much better on a tablet than a tablet-versioned desktop OS. We can probably trace this back even further to the original iPod, with Apple gaining a lot of knowledge about what people like and dislike on portable electronic devices.

In summary: while you're right, MS's tablet ambitions were hindered by the hardware-of-the-day, I think stcredzero is more right: had Microsoft's execution been better, they wouldn't have been held back by lesser hardware.
To quote:

> We don't know how to reverse tissue loss of elasticity do we?

Ok.

> So when he said it could not be reversed with diet, that seems to be correct to me.

Doesn't follow. If something has certain effects, that reality necessarily precedes our knowledge of it. Our discovery necessarily follows the reality.
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Guys, please stop being so mean.
A sentence about how severe the problem is and how many people it practically affects wouldn't have hurt.
Well, I'd love to do that (upgrade to IE9 and get the magical wonderful experience that no other browser offers). Let's try...oh wait, you mean I need to buy a new version of Windows? Hmm, uh, well, okay then...oh wait, you mean I'd also need to buy a new computer to go with it? Well screw that, I'm staying right here with Opera, Chrome, and FF. Buying a new computer just to pin Pandora seems the tiniest little bit of an overkill - no other browser offers that, indeed.
It many cases the developers share (if not enough) are supplemented by a large additional bonus with a long vesting schedule.

"Golden handcuffs"
I'm sorry, Lessig didn't name a single repealed regulation in his piece, nor how maintaining such a regulation would have concretely affected some action that Goldman took. As I said, it's hand-waving.
> Israel is actually good at what they do O.o.

Yes. They are the best at religiously driven oppressive racism. You want to find people that think non-kin aren't fully human in 2012? Hey, I used to work in a room full of them; but never on Saturday of course ;-)
Just wandering how far you can go on the free plan with Python vs Rails. Looking for that for side projects.
"This is one data point, so it's hardly conclusive, but coming from a doctor who (a) teaches doctors and therefore plants seeds for the next generation and (b) should be an expert on new medical treatments with his position as the director of research, it's troubling."

Why should this be troubling? Why do you presume to know more as a pre-med than this director of cardiac research does?
Competing with Prison Labor
Triangle has always been square's worst enemy.
Good stuff. I like the dispatch idea. I've encountered the need for a way for views to talk to each other as well, though I ended up using another Backbone Model for that.
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I always wondered if Facebook would acquire Google Ventures companies. It looks like the answer is yes.
ranking social content created and shared and filtering out the noise is I think the biggest problem with current gen of social networks and though fb's edgerank is better than anything else out there I still find myself on g+ to avoid the overload. but the biggest offender is twitter using only time as the decision making point to update me about my interest graph is not very effective (and its slow loading of old tweets doesnt help either). [though if its only intended as a real time feed I may be using it wrong]
Yes, but to some extent only. (and typically the "idea guys" don't have a clue of the technical reality behind their "genius" idea)

To me, there's actually a difference between knowing how to code and knowing the technology. You can know how things work and what's technically possible without really knowing how to code it.

But this goes both ways too: developers don't necessarily have a good product sense, and without knowing about interaction and design patterns for example, or know what the current product landscape looks like, they would also be limited in their implementations. My comment above was mostly to contradict comments like the parent, that are fairly common: hackers can do it all, knowing how to code is the most important thing. Coding is not important. Knowing what can be coded is.
So, Demons' Souls, basically? :)
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This is completely missing the point of demos like these.

It doesn't matter whether it breaks the web. It also shows new ways of thinking.

Dont forget that whatever is currently the "rule" is always in flux.

I for one hope that people will continue to "break the web" like this.
I was wondering about GAE as well. After the pricing change, it looked like it got horribly expensive. Any comments on how a side-project would do on the free plan ?
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>> you mean I need to buy a new version of Windows?

+1
Before people panic too much, while people should definitely upgrade ASAP. This exploit does require a hacked or otherwise broken backend. People cannot use this exploit to hack nginx remotely without already being able to manipulate an upstream.
How the ipad can wreck your vision and what to do about it.
"There isn't much difference between the old and new version of the A5: an "x" in the name and an extra 0.2 GHz clock speed." -- http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/2
Thanks. You think this is better than just copyrighting?
why not hate both. everyone has a choice.
Except we can defend the earth from an asteroid for probably five orders of magnitude less money than establishing a self-sustaining colony somewhere else. And if self sustaining is all you need, setting up a self-sustaining colony a mile underground is also five or six orders of magnitude cheaper.

I can't think of any risk to humanity where going to the moon or Mars makes sense as insurance.
It looks like to biggest extra is the ability to insert variables into the generated, so you can make e.g. a blue and orange button from the the same output.
1.0.14[0] and 1.1.17[1] have been pushed to the FreeBSD ports tree too.

[0] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=753841+0+current...

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=756257+0+current...
He didn't exactly get picked up to be some random engineer in a big corp.
Has anyone seen any good information about using the Chrome Profiles tool (or similar) to track down these 'zombie' objects?
"That being said, if there is anyone gets delusional, it is you."

"Please, at least read what you reply to."

Why isn't this guy getting down-voted? Personal attacks and a sorry attitude shouldn't be tolerated on HN.
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One difference is that the ASUS tablet isn't out yet. And, as far as I know (which, admittedly, isn't much), it doesn't even have a release date. Once it is out, it should be definitely comparable, but this tablet is out now. Which is pretty impressive.
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I used to believe that too but while 5 blocks of 1 hour each aren't as efficient as 1 block of 5 hours, it's still better than 0 hours.

Today I've managed to get Hadoop set up in pseudo-distributed mode in 1.5 hours on a fresh VM I just installed, while reading a tutorial in the background waiting for stuff to download and install. Tomorrow I'll think more about how I want to convert my crawler prototype from C# over to Ruby on the cluster and read a bit more about how this all works while I wait for code to compile or packages to run at the day job.

Even the 15min I spend eating while at the client are used to think, read and plan my next step or how I will implement something. Same for the drive to/from work. Yup I talk to myself. There's a lot of time in the day when you're supposedly busy that you can get constructive work done.

In the evening I'll start working on getting my first test job to run. At the end of every day it looks like I've made little progress, but at the end of the week I'm certain to be happy with my progress (something I learned from David Burns' "Feeling Good" is to actually test your hypotheses; if you feel you didn't accomplish much, actually test it by listing what you did and you'll be probably be pleasantly surprised).
Congrats to Professor Judea Pearl! Though I did not take any of his classes when I was at UCLA, in chance encounters he gave me a very good impression - nice, intelligent, and unassuming. I ended up using a lot of his materials (Bayesian analysis) after college in my projects... Here's a Tagxedo I made of today's announcement in the shape of UCLA's logo: http://daily.tagxedo.com/march-15-uclas-judea-pearl-named-20...
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So cool, cant wait to test it out
He made something called Pounce too that did quite well.
Does your school have a co-op program? Even though its not a co-op job, I'd still go visit a co-op adviser. Mine was really great at making my summer jobs look important. Or maybe your school has a career center? They aren't as targeted as a comp sci. adviser, but I'm sure they'd be happy review your current resume.
What other hacker conference this quality has a free live stream? MWRC is so great.
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Ask HN: Re-Entering U.S after a having a U.S post graduate degree
Hi,
I am a graduate of a top 20 CS Univ in U.S , where I did my post-graduation (For this post's sake,lets not consider education in U.S broken).Due to an unfortunate sequence of events- culminating from graduating in 2009 ( worst year of the recession )and not finding a job in time,my visa restrictions implied,I had to come back to India.
I am looking to re-enter U.S on H1-B this October.
Yes,I know that there are lot of Indian post graduate students who shamelessly fudge their resume for fake work experience,and then work at a IT consultancy firm.
I'm not one them.
When I ultimately had to chose between paying my student loan in INR,and somehow staying in U.S on a loophole,I came back to India. I would consider myself as a decent hacker-who likes algorithm puzzles for a pastime,amateur guitarist,who enjoys coding in C,C++,and does not shy from disassembling on gdb,I would like to know if there is anyone else who had to leave U.S because of visa restrictions (for instance the recession of 2000),and came back to U.S to work.Sharing your experience would mean a great deal to me.I'm sure I'm not alone.
Whatever the opposite of "I stopped reading when they said X" is, I did that when Nicolas drew a distinction between local and global semantics. Anyone who talks semantics without understanding that they require contexts to have any meaning at all is someone not worth listening to, and man oh man is the "semantic web" full of people ready and indeed anxious to make that fundamental mistake.

In the interests of counterbalancing the tendency to have nothing but criticism up in comments, let me just say: This is great stuff.
Wish I could upvote you twice for rephrasing what has been ruminating in my mind for such a long time. The problem is an economical assymetry: it 'costs' far less to produce content than to consume content so there is no incentive to be selective. What if we somehow could artificially constrain the supply-side?
That's like a compensation for opportunity cost incurred by giving up startups for a while.
Show HN: We added an Oink data importer for Cheers
"Isn't it about time to say goodbye to localhost?" is a terrible hook for what might be an interesting concept. I'm not sure if this will work out as a product on the other hand,
> If you were worth getting $1.7MM to piss away you would have had $1.7MM to piss away.

So you are implying that a luck and contacts and more other things such as your experience, geolocation, etc. don't matter as long as you are worth getting $X, you will have $X to piss away.

uhm, is there any website to sign up? I want to try my skills against it -- perhaps I am "worth it".
Give paypal about three months before they start locking innocent merchant accounts and inadvertently sending square all the business they can handle.
I have some experience in this area.

It seems to me that usually these game companies have a publishing (as in, books) branch that manages the official guides. THEY'RE the ones who can't accept any competition, possibly due to their contracts with Prima/Brady (or whoever).
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Web frontend-wise, there isn't much difference, so it depends on your framework. But I can't find a Python equivalent of HireFire or the likes to keep worker dynos count down. I haven't gotten around to write one yet.
We heard from a number of users of both Oink and Cheers that were disappointed that Oink shut down so suddenly.

To help them out, we put together an importer that takes your Oink data file zip and turns it into posts inside of our app, Cheers, with as much fidelity as we could reconstruct.
We've employed this idea in Typecast (typecastapp.com) and it has proven really useful. One thing to watch out for is how you namespace events... Make sure and stick to a consistant format.
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Server seems to be getting slammed now.
You sound jealous.
It is very clear he wanted to be left alone. It is hugely egotistical to think that your article would be the one he'd need to know about. The one he'd be happy to comment on.

I think that's what this is really about - getting some kind of quote from _why would have been killer for this article. Getting "word back-channeled" to you at all is pretty exciting in itself, if it's even true.

Like I say, is it very clear he wanted to be left alone but there were eyeballs to show adverts to, so you persisted. Let's not pretend it's anything different.