skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but also strategic value, as China currently is the only source for some rare earths

China effectively subsidizes mining for strategic purposes. Cheaper mining = cheaper manufacturing = strong industrial base = higher employment and lots of foreign IP to acquire.

This blew up in their face for rare earths, because they are valuable enough that shipping isn't a big deal, so cheaper rare earths in China just means cheaper rare earths in Japan.

If they didn't subsidize mining, or they keep restricting exports, people will look elsewhere. I'm not sure if China has particularly good reserves, I think they just dig it up cheaper, because they want to feed their industrial base.
When I started at one large Brazilian portal, our ops team served both the home page and the images off IIS boxes. Many people on the team knew how stupid it was and there were scripts running (on Linux, obviously) scanning the Windows boxes for malware (every day or so, somehow, an infected flash or a defaced weaponized HTML file appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

The clueless idiot who managed the team kept on resurrecting benchmarks from the 90's on how Windows was better for serving static content. When it finally became obvious that all the problems were due to their technical choices, they botched two attempts to migrate the servers to Linux. They configured Apache in such a way it kept on allocating memory until the machines crashed every 25 hours or so. I won't attribute that to malice. They were really incompetent and misconfiguring a web server in this way required more brainpower than they had.

We eventually fired him and most of his minions. They now work at a Microsoft partner.
I would not say better - different certainly. Jsonpipe is a lot slower and heavier. (Matters when you are adding json based web 2.0 integration to your router. For small cases jshon is 15x faster and uses 1/14th the ram.) And I would really want to avoid using jsonpipe inside of a loop.

It also seems to handle typical use cases inelegantly. Probably the most common thing I use Jshon for is turning json into a tab deliminated text file. To compare both, here is a query that returns json search results:

curl -s "https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg=python"

If I want to get the name, version, votes and description into a single tab deliminated output with jshon:

jshon -e results -a -e Name -u -p -e Version -u -p -e NumVotes -u -p -e Description -u | \
sed 's/^$/-/' | paste -s -d "\t\t\t\n"

With jsonpipe it looks like:

jsonpipe | grep -e '^results/[0-9]*/(Name|Version|NumVotes|Description)\t' > matches.tmp
grep 'Name\t' matches.tmp | cut -f 2 > name.tmp
grep 'Version\t' matches.tmp | cut -f 2 > version.tmp
grep 'NumVotes\t' matches.tmp | cut -f 2 > vote.tmp
grep 'Description\t' matches.tmp | cut -f 2 > desc.tmp
sed -i 's/^$/-/' *.tmp
paste -d '\t\t\t\n' name.tmp version.tmp vote.tmp desc.tmp
rm {name,version,vote,desc}.tmp

Most of that awkwardness is from `paste` really wanting real files to operate on. But if you are going to use jsonpipe, you might as well just write the whole thing in Python.

The one thing that I do like about jsonpipe is that each line has the fully self contained path. So you can shuffle (or otherwise destroy) the output but still have something with usable context. Except for the example above, where the order matters a lot. For really simple cases jsonpipe's method is nice. I might just port it to C so that there can be a fair comparison.
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They may lose money on the first asteroid, but once they have the first one, everything should become exponentially cheaper as very little will need to be launched into LEO, and once they have a water rich rock, they can manufacture all the fuel they need, virtually for free. Once they have brought enough metals into LEO, along with some sort of manufacturing plant, they can build more miners, and they will only have to launch the complex parts into LEO, building the rest in orbit.

At some point, mining these asteroids will, for all intents and purposes, be free.

Edit: Another alternative is that these bored billionaires want to actually change the world just for fun, or to see if they can.
Good interview, but the interviewer editorialized the headline.
Apparel exporters from india
Leading Exporters of Readymade garments from India have come together to form OGTC cluster. It is one of the most active groups in India taking initiatives on technology and training.
If it even remotely lives up to its promises, I can't wait to take a closer look at it – implementing a Socket.IO server should be a great first project…
Google is the one that needs to survive Facebook

In this industry, that's not how it works. Smaller companies must survive the bigger ones, not the other way around.

Google survived Microsoft, but that didn't kill Microsoft, which is doing just fine. Microsoft survived IBM, but that didn't kill IBM, which is doing just fine.

The problem smaller companies face is that bigger companies get benefits by (1) being in the market for a longer time + (2) having their products integrated to work well with each other + (3) having more resources + (4) having the ability to push new products down the throats of their customers.

The one weakness of such a big company is the Inventor's Dilemma. Microsoft survived IBM by making hardware a commodity, making IBM obsolete from their viewpoint. Google survived Microsoft in the same way, by relying on the web, which made Windows irrelevant from their viewpoint.

Google Maps is going to have a rocky road ahead
if Apple does plan to release iMaps for iOS 6

Google Maps is still going to be the default on every other phone. It's also a solid product that's hard to beat. Will iMaps have turn-by-turn navigation? And when will iMaps have maps for Europe, including Eastern Europe? If iMaps will not be at least as good as GMaps is, then Apple will have a problem, because Android will be perceived to have the better app.

Google+ will never be the default on iPhone.
Twitter is. Facebook will be

It will be the default on Android, and say what you will about it, but it is more popular than the iPhone.

The problem for Google is that they have made
enemies of Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook

I agree. Google+ was a stupid move. However, I don't see how Google is more of a threat to Apple than Microsoft is. I also see Facebook being more of a threat for Twitter, than Google is. The enemy of my enemy doesn't seem to apply so well here.
And even this seems to me to be not quite right. There was a talk, Marissa Meyer gave on Velocity '09:

http://blip.tv/oreilly-velocity-conference/velocity-09-maris...

Just watch from 1:00 to 2:00 -> One Minute will answer the question.

Here she tells the story, how the first Google Design came to live. It is quite interesting. It seems, that minimalism wasn't a rational choice and that it came to stay only, because the data proofed it to be the right lucky choice.

I can understand, that the minimalistic homepage was a point of pride. I would be proud, to minify the homepage of the company I work for.
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I can't read that link from Europe, it just shows a map of the US and asks me to click my state.
In the Ruby world Ramaze is right there between Rails and Sinatra.
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Zurb Foundation is a very nice responsive framework. I'm both happy to see it here on HN and sorry to find that the post has done a terrible job at capturing readers' attention during the first 5 seconds.
APM trivia: there was a brief moment in-between two patches in Heroes of Newerth - a popular DoTA clone - in where moving your "hero" to a new location on the map counted as an action. Players simply stepping around rapidly right where they were standing would increase their APM indefinitely.
I have an ESXi 4 server on one of their servers, the setup was rather tricky - but it ran since ESXi was made free and had absolutely no problems.
Oracle has indeed taken on Mac OS X specific changes. There are a few cosmetic issues still not resolved as of this update. But they are known, and in their bug tracker.

Oracle and Apple have actually worked together closely and openly on this. Anyone can sign up to the macosx-port-dev@openjdk.java.net and follow the progress.
Hello,

we have several servers at hetzner since 2009. The performance has been stunning. Biggest upside is probably the ability to buy 1 TB of bandwith for 6.90 €. What amazes me is the fact that they can provide such great service and still be highly profitable. Turnover in the fiscal year 2010 was 29.68 Million € with post tax profit being 8.925 Million €.
I thought the same thing, haha
There are a few unresolved issues with the OS X look and feel in OpenJDK. I've been actively seeking them out and reporting them, as my product is written in Java and is a Mac-only product, so I affected by any issues.

IMO Apple and Oracle are actively and openly working on these outstanding issues.
Oracle JDK 7 and JavaFX SDK available for Mac OS X
In which we plot an escape from the quagmire of equality (Clojure and Emacs)
Haha, yep. We do enjoy some tongue-in-cheek humor about it but the intent behind it is serious.
Was Usenet?
They used to use Skimlinks - which convert any links (affiliate or not) to their affiliate links. It was in their TOS. I was happy with that, because they've got to make money somehow. Lots of sites do it. But the blogosphere hated it, and I think Pinterest stopped doing it. There have been threads on HN giving clear details about how to bypass it.
Incidentally, Hailo is in pretty much every way a much better Megahal (esp. when your text corpus is large): http://search.cpan.org/~hinrik/Hailo-0.70/bin/hailo
Actually it should be an obsession not from the customer but from the company. People like quick, helpful responses when they are stuck due to a bug or confusing feature or a payment issue. Companies that obsess over support benefit from it.
This user style puts the text back on the buttons: http://userstyles.org/styles/57677/gmail-change-button-icons...
I'm also a customer for quite some time with various servers.

Pros:

- virtual private servers (VPS) have a tun/tap device so that you can use the VPS as a VPN server. this is not necessarily common with all hosters

- good speed/connection/reliability

- good hardware for a fair price

Cons:

- I usually don't need to talk to customer support often, but I rent a managed server and once in a while, they shut it down for a major update. This is totally fine and they even try to do this in the night, but it happened already twice that they couldn't tell me the exact time (in a range of minutes) in advance when they shut it down and they just said something like "server is offline sometime between 7am and 11am". I have paying customers on my server and I want to put the website in maintenance mode to prevent data loss. "Sometime between 7am and 11am" is NOT an acceptable answer. The downtime itself is a matter of 5 minutes, but I would expect an accurate time to shorten the maintenance period.

- They announced a server downtime for "Tuesday night" once. So what is "Tuesday night"? Is it the night from Monday to Tuesday or Tuesday to Wednesday? Guess what, I put my website in maintenance mode in the wrong night. I hope, next time they'll get that straight and announce the correct date and time.

- They stored passwords for their managed server customers in plaintext until September 2011 and got hacked. I hope they learned from that, but still, extremely stupid.
You're begging the question.

If we take what you say is true every redesign is good, which is patently false.

A perfect example is the Office Ribbon UI, an unmitigated disaster. Also putting Vista in your list there, mmmmmm. Wasn't exactly a great redesign was it.

The Google redesign is also pretty much a disaster.
Water Weight Facts that will Drain Down some Misconception about Weight Loss
What's water weight and how does this have an effect on your actual weight? ten items about water weight that can allow you to turn into more conscious about your diet and health.

You’ve most likely heard of the phrase “water weight” many times before, but what exactly is this and how does this impact your real weight? right here certainly are a few fast facts about water excess weight that you ought to know about.

1. Water excess weight is the excess weight you shop in your body temporarily the moment you drink water, eat salty foods, fruits, sugar and other forms of food. It does not necessarily add up to your current body excess weight as you lose the water excess weight when you pee, sweat, or when you do your day-to-day business in the bathroom.

2. When you cut down your calorie intake whenever you go on a low-carb diet, you lose excess weight quickly but do not be misguided as you are losing the water weight, and not the specific weight. Likewise by going towards the sauna – you just lose the water weight, which you gain it all back the moment you drink fluids.

3. As easy since it may be to lose the water weight, some water receives absorbed by your body tissue and cling to it, which affects your all round body weight.

4. Too much intake of processed foods which are substantial in sodium makes it hard for the body to flush down the sodium, which makes your body become thirsty enough to want to maintain on towards the water. This does not necessarily become lasting excess weight since it is still considered water excess weight but it will make you appear bloated. To lose the water retained by sodium in your body, merely decrease your consumption of foods substantial in sodium. Salt is okay if not needed by your body, but there must be balanced.

5. By hydrating yourself and consuming enough water everyday, you inform your body that it will have enough water supply continually and forces it to lose the water stored in your hands, feet, and other areas in your body that make you appear bloated.
How to find related or duplicate text documents with IndexDen
Correct me if I'm wrong but that picture doesn't really say anything. Each one of those machines could still be running 16 VMs
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Beans are cost effective, might be stored for a long time and are available in a wide range. This tends to make them an awesome addition for your pantry. A number of the most nutrient-packed beans are: black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans, lima beans and navy beans. Nevertheless, all beans promote improved personal wellness and needs to be regarded as when starting a diet plan.
is this from an actual hetzner datacenter?
In the alternative universe where Google didn't do Android, Apple would be able to extract more cash from Google for its search placement, at the very least, since Google would have fewer alternatives.
Facebook buying Bing to fight against Google Search would be like buying a gunboat to fight a destroyer.
I had to buy mine in the US. :-(

I don't think they are available in Brazil either and, in any case, the keyboard layout is not to my taste.
The only issue we've had with Hetzner was related to billing. Our payment failed on a Friday afternoon, and even after updating the details, payment wasn't taken and the server resumed until Monday morning.

Apart from that one hicup, it's been very reliable so far.
Social search is pointless, it does not improve search quality. What it does is allow for overly targeted advertising which while useful it's no where near as valuable as many people think.

PS: Remember when all search companies wanted to become portals? Yea, that did not turn out so well for them.
Will an IBM computer be your next mayor?
Does this one work? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hLwK7mWdjJ...

Or search for "Smartphones fuel Samsung profit to record".
kind of unlikely revenue will be $8 trillion or whatever the valuation is, though, right?
yes.

it's linked on: http://www.facebook.com/HetznerOnline

and probably shows: http://www.datacenterpark.de/index_en.html

Here's a list of all data centers: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Rechenzentren_und_Anbindung...
The company rocks :)

I have two dedicated servers (EX 6 with ECC) they are awesome. Until now I had no issue with them.

I hope they continue this way.
gg and then alt+q,q.. those were the (depressing)times...
Our feedback cycles are much much shorter than 18 months. It would never go that long. We have semi-annual reviews. We also have weekly 1-on-1s and one of the best portions is "what sucks?"

This portion of the 1-on-1 is a time to vent about anything and everything no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. Don't like the flavor of free yogurt? Bring it up. Desirous of different snacks? Mention it. Feeling overwhelmed or burnt out? Say so.

All of the what sucks from all developers is compiled into one email and sent out along with action items on each issue is being addressed. Being conscious of what is less than ideal on all levels helps us improve our working environment and our processes.

We've set two large goals at our company, developer happiness and client happiness. Everyone's job is to fulfill those two goals and part of being happy is not being burnt out!

By making vacation mandatory, but with no set limits, and saying you can literally be fired we're signaling to each other the relative importance of being aware of our limits and addressing the importance of moderation.

Someone working 60 hours a week is indicative of a severe problem in process, planning, or execution. The same applies for someone going six months without a day off.

Does that make sense?
Their VPS service looks fantastic also: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserv...

Their 2GB plan is 3x cheaper than Linode…and you get over 4x the data transfer! Does anyone know how the performance compares?
Before one goes to apply the Coase Theorem too broadly, it is important to note its limitations. The obvious ones are named by Coase himself: liquidity constraints, poorly defined property rights, and (of course) transaction costs.

What came about much later is the Endowment Effect: that people value things they own more highly than than an identical good that they do not own. Thus initial allocation of property rights matters, even when the common constraints are satisfied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
forgotten the illegal invasion of iraq so quickly?
'Almost Anybody Can Have An Idea' - Linus Torvalds
Original Headline is: "A jQuery Plugin with Grunt & QUnit"
I should have been more specific - I have completely cut out all refined carbs like bread and sugar, and massively cut down on the rest (I do still eat some fruits, vegetables and even a little starch in the form of sweet-potatoes etc, but very little while I am losing weight).

Once I have lost enough weight, I will increase the amount of carbs in my diet (NOT refined carbs) until I find the point at which I start putting on weight again.
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Well, shit.

This is all I'm going to be doing today...
This picture was posted from official account:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=267761909937344
(third number) so it looks legit
I have only cut them out completely until I have reached a healthy weight. Once I am there, I will not introduce any refined carbs (sugar, flour etc) into my diet, but will increase certain carbs (Sweet potato, other fruits etc) until I find the point at which I put on weight again.
Why would anyone pay for Bing? It costs MSFT almost a billion a quarter and has around 4% market share.
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Am I the only one that actually likes the ribbon? I can actually find the options I want to use in Office 10 instead of trying to dig through dozens of drop down menus.
Well, it works just fine for me. Look, non-eyeburning theme, different coloured stars, non-hidden mailboxes.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/6972254464_24774f868a_z.j...

Just for kicks, I switched to the default theme - same deal, mailboxes hide properly, etc. The red button's annoying, but hey, that's why I switched theme.

Perhaps you might want to quit flaming people (and Google) and fix your settings or browser or whatever the hell is wrong with your PC?
Because maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. Personally having used the old Gmail interface and the new Gmail interface extensively, I think the criticisms do mostly boil down to change aversion.

Just to take one point: the icons are confusing at first, but mail is something you daily for years, and Gmail has always been optimized for power users, so even though it might take you a week or two to get used to the icons, it's a benefit because now a greater percentage of the words on the screen are actually your email content.
> Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.)

Particularly through certain resellers, including the own "budget line" (http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/). Not that I'd know anything about nefariousness, 'onest guv.
That only holds up until you start shipping a lot of Platinum down at which point the market crashes. Also, it's £620 or 1,000$ to LEO right now and 100$ /lb to LEO is possible if we scale things up far enough. What NASA found out from the shuttle program is we just don't need that much stuff in space, because once stuff is up there it can stay there for a long time.
I haven't looked at SoftLayer's offerings re: RAM but the most important thing to note with Hetzner is that only some of their dedicated machines have error-correcting code (ECC) memory. Hetzner's 16GB machine[1] (89 Euros/month) has ECC memory for example.

Whilst this might not sound like an enormous issue, DRAM errors are surprisingly common in real deployments[2] and can result in scary things happening to your data.
If you're using a machine without ECC memory make sure you're prepared to deal with any possible issues that might arise, especially if it will impact your core business.

[1]: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex8

[2] DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
This one is probably more relevant: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...
I just make use of EclipseFP, it is a very comfortable IDE for Haskell.

http://eclipsefp.github.com/
"Of course, there’s a catch. You couldn’t offload all those metals on the world market at once, for fear of crashing their prices. But the company would still own that much in equity, which would allow them to borrow against it. They would be that wealthy, to all intents and purposes. That’s just how capitalism works."

You don't have equity to borrow against unless you can liquidate and transfer to the lender.

You can't liquidate and transfer to the lender unless you can bring it all down here (destroying the market and making the equity worth much less), or transfer any on-going and steady operation that is bringing it down little by little (show me the money), or by bring us up there in the form of widespread operations across multiple companies.

If we go up there in a big way, well, precious metals aren't so precious.