skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also important that assembly lines can be offshored, whereas a lot of repairs really need to be done locally by someone who can interact with the consumer to understand the problem. Countries where labor is cheap relative to imports don't have the same throwaway culture, because in those circumstances it's economically viable to repair things rather than replacing them.
I don't think money is the only thing that matters but I'm fascinated you don't think having a lot of money can dramatically improve the quality of your life.

If I had enough money to live comfortably off of the return on my investments, my life would change in at least the following ways:

- 1.5 hours extra in my day from not sitting in traffic commuting to work (moving somewhere closer to work will cost me money I need to save)

- 8 hours extra in my day where I'm not deciphering and rewriting legacy code at work (sure I could quit my job and live off savings while I work on my startup but unless I'm damn lucky with growth I'd run out of money and have to seek outside investment and lose equity; I'd rather save for now and retain full ownership)

- I'd live where I choose to, in the house I want to live in, not just somewhere near to work

- I'd wake up being free to do what I want all day long, not having to sell 8 hours of my time to somebody else with the hope one day I'll be successful enough to spend my days doing the things I really want to do (things that won't necessarily pay the bills or fund my retirement, or potential medical bills, or my children's education and health etc.)

- I'd go for that eye operation so I can stop wearing these damn glasses

- I'd be free to travel whenever I like rather than currently having to trade-off working for future financial security if I choose to travel

This is just off the top of my head. Those are pretty dramatic quality of life changes in my opinion.
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As someone tangentially involved in the administration apparatus for large, well utilized clusters, I have to dispel some myths related to "Cloud" services and Amazon EC2 for computation. First, if your school has institutional cluster services, these are FAR cheaper than cloud options. Secondly, the type of systems that are good for scientific computation are not the type of boxes typically deployed in the cloud; try to find a 48 terabyte memory node in the cloud.

OSG/Teragrid are much better options than the cloud, though you do have to jump through some hoops to access them. Believe me when I say it is worth it though.
The problem with that analogy is that you are comparing darcs to a myth. Postgresql was not "very slow at first". It has certainly gotten faster, but it was faster than mysql for real workloads ~15 years ago. It isn't closing a gap, it is pulling further and further ahead. Mysql is only fast if you are using myisam tables and doing a single threaded microbenchmark of repeating a single simple query in a loop. On real benchmarks where there's many connections executing many different queries at the same time, postgresql has always been way ahead of mysql.
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hmmm....

Here's an exaggeration to make a point:

“The housing bubble didn’t really hurt anyone who already owned their home, or those who never owned a home in the first place.”

Yes, a tech/start up bubble burst would not have near as much impact as the housing bubble for the reasons you point out, but when you suggest that it won’t hurt “anyone here” (i.e. people who frequent HN), I’m not sure I agree.

Let’s say Angel and VC money dries up, and Series A funding also dries up. You then have a bunch of start ups that don’t get funded at all, or who burn through their first Angel/VC raise, and then can’t get any further funding. They then can’t afford to hire or keep talent (hackers, system admins, designers, etc. – i.e. the people here) and there are only so many positions at companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

So, depending on the percentage of people who depend on work from start up, or early stage companies who are not yet profitable and need to rely on further funding to grow, a “bubble burst” could impact people on HN.
True, these are only my individual observations, but after the legislation the prices for mobile subscriptions seem to have increased. Now almost every subscription has 'unlimited SMS' but the internet bundles are priced higher for what you get than before the regulations.

However, this increase of course would also have been the case without the new laws (as you say, as people move from SMS to Whatsapp, they have to compensate). The only difference is that they now can't differentiate between different uses of the internet, but only on the amount of data you get.

I don't think the net neutrality isn't such a bad thing price/economic wise. I'd rather have this clear system which might mean slightly higher prices for the average consumer than a system in which different prices for different uses of internet make calculating your actual costs more difficult. In my opinion, that would only give more opportunities to telecom providers to screw you over with little details, rules and clauses in their contracts -- something which history has shown they don't shy away from (rounding up every call duration to a full minute etc.).
So cool -- out of curiosity, is this emulating the actions of a pre-existing, "professional" machine or is the concept brand new?
I know there's no incentive for them under the current circumstances, exactly the opposite is true.

You are right about the resellers. I didn't think about the name because I have never bought or repaired anything in an official Apple Store, I am not even sure if I have ever entered one. The authorized stores have been awesome so far! :)
Although KPN saw profits drop by 11% they are still a very profitable business (€368M in 2011). It may just be that the telecoms industry may eventually have to settle for lower margins like other established industries.
I was going to use an CSS tool today, but, then i took an arrow to the knee.
Almost all successful start-ups have multiple founders, from the Central Pacific's Big 4 to Google's Sergei and Brin.

One thing to get right in your blog post: your examples.
Translation: "We are totally not ready for mobile payments. And we're willing to spend a lot of money on a study that's carefully designed to try and convince you of that, in order to try and keep Google from eating our lunch before we can get to it."
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A better name would be "Four things that matter to a VC or investor", namely...The founding team, The core values, Where the company is located, The initial investors (and their terms). Plus find one mistake, hint: Google's founders.
I once had an interesting experience when visiting Apple. I was telling a DTS engineer about a gnarly bug in the Cocoa text system I had found (certain text editing sequences would silently corrupt the undo stack; user might not notice until they accidentally did a select-all and delete, and then tried to undo to get their novel back).

I never got any feedback on this bug at all (just like always).

But, this Apple guy looked up the bug on their internal radar tool (a native Mac app, not some crappy web interface). There were screens full of discussion, with engineer's names I recognized, and the bug has been elevated to "Show-Stopper" status, which he told me meant the next release wouldn't ship without a fix.

What I took from this is that Apple's internal tools for bug triage, discussion, and prioritization are relatively sophisticated and heavily used, but they have nothing to do with the pathetic, rude, uninformative Radar interface that we peons who pay Apple for the privilege of developing for their platform get to see. It was kind of interesting to get a peek inside from their perspective.

Having said that, though, I almost never file Radar issues anymore, for exactly the same reason that I don't go to Apple's offices and clean their toilets for free.
Alas, the site is down. I'd love to see this.
Is there a 3d LOGO?
Everyone keeps talking about the new bubble.. there is a slight difference from the 2000s anyway..hasn't anyone noticed the 2 BILLION PEOPLE online?...
But a lot of those factors apply to Chile and it's even quite close if friends and family are a factor. They are 88 places better on the corruption index and about 151 places better on economic freedom index, plus the government has an innovative technology accelerator program. Those are massive differences. Indeed it's probably one of the top differences for neighbours in the whole world besides North and South Korea. Chile also seems to have better education, as last I checked a significant portion of Argentinians haven't even completed primary school. But perhaps competition to hire talent is greater as well.

It seems to me Argentina is in a pretty dire situation at the moment. There is even a, small but real, possibility things could collapse into a failed state or dictatorship if the economic situation spirals out of control.

Edit: The economic freedom gap is actually bigger than South and North Korea! Argentina (158th of 179) is only just hovering above the failed states/dictatorships. I expect next years ranking will also be worse as things have gotten worse.
I don't think that is a necessarily true statement. I would need to see the cord.

Given how horrible reporters are at getting tech and science right, I don't assume "frayed cord" in the article translates to the technical meaning of the term.

That being said, this argument seems to largely consist of 1) some people who assume the repair-man is incompetent and possibly has a psycopathic desire to kill people via shoddy repairs, and at the same time assuming the technical descriptions are 100% accurate, and 2) some people who assume the reporter was being a reporter and willfully being incompetent in reporting, while the humble repairman (basically a hacker working on items) is good enough to know what he is doing with extremely reasonable margins of safety.

Neither of these sets of assumptions particularly valid and they appear to stem from deeper assumptions: what is an acceptable margin of risk, what value various safety rules have on actual safety and so on. IMHO, discussions on these would be far more interesting than wrangling about a passage from a single report without any other evidence of what was (not) done.
> However I don't know if that reflects some deeper truth about the world, or just my bias in how I answer the questions.

It's the same reason why you always end up on "Philosophy" if you're browsing Wikipedia and consistently follow the first link in each article. Here's the path for "Airplane":

Airplane
Fixed wing aircraft
Aircraft
Vehicle
Motion (physics)
Natural science
Science
Knowledge /* we know where this going... */
Fact
Proof (truth)
Argument
Philosophy

Try it yourself: http://www.xefer.com/wikipedia
What is the Chinese dream?
A site for cross device apps where you can't access the navigation on a screen smaller than 1280.

Another example of a potentially great technology that loses credibility at a critical juncture due to execution details.
As someone living here temporarily on and off over the last 10 years I agree completely.

That said there are some amazing business people here. Argentinians are amazingly resilient and adaptive. There are also many fantastic coders here, many working for US startups.

Here is an inspiring article about how various entrepreneurs coped during the previous crisis 10 years ago.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/doing-business-in-argenti...
I don't see how the length of use has any bearing on the appropriate response to something (potentially) being a health hazard.
At the last one, I met people who helped me think through my ideas and figure out how to solve basic problems (like getting my iPhone to work locally).

I even met people who I hope will be life-long friends, like rubyrescue and his wife.
git's only "theory" that could potentially be verified is merge resolution. which has been.

I think darcs approach is a little different.
"Now we get around the efficiency stuff the same way Barton did on the B5000: by just saying, “Screw it, we’re going to execute this important stuff as directly as we possibly can.”

We’re not going to worry about whether we can compile it into a von Neumann computer or not, and we will make the microcode do whatever we need to get around these inefficiencies because a lot of the inefficiencies are just putting stuff on obsolete hardware architectures."
Well, not so much. The only similarity is that Squarespace generates websites.

The Joshfire Factory targets all the connected things: Mobiles, Tablets and desktops, but also connected TVs, kiosks...
It also generates more than websites or webapps: you can build on Joshfire's servers a packaged applicatios that can be distributed on Apple's App Store, Google Play, or other marketplaces
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Actually i am afraid to search my name, what if the blog itself is a trap? how do you overcome this?
It is absolutely something that each business will need to work out for themselves.

What I am getting at is that just because IE10 is falling in line as far as standards go that doesn't magically earn back all the trust they have spent years destroying. A track record is something that is hard to shake weather it is good or bad, so I am just saying that it is going to take some time...
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> It will be very hard for Darcs (and Bazaar, Monotone, etc.) to get so much better than git that switching is worth it.

People said this about Subversion not so long ago.
Well yeah I now that it is a term that means something else. I was just being silly saying I wish Computer Science would have stolen the Cybernetics label for itself.
2012, read again.
It is weird that all the comments are about patch theory. I use darcs because it is by far the easiest, simplest to use DVCS. I don't know anything about patch theory, and I don't care about it at all. I just know I can have a DVCS noob using darcs effectively in a couple minutes, and it will merge properly.
I think the author makes some weak arguments. I've worked as a consultant on a few zany startups and all I have to say is that this kind of crap happens all the time:

http://ixjy.com/post/22704727159/will-somebody-please-disrup...

There are so many cocked up ideas out there (many of them built with someone else's money in the hope that somehow, someone, somewhere will give them money).

Some of these ideas actually get funding, which is tragic, and some of them actually make it, which might be worse, but most of them never see the light of day.
That reminds of a pro-Kodak report, claiming digital cameras won't matter much, years ago.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877750311... (and also in the arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003 )
All of the players you mention would be remembered as greats with or without Miles Davis. Their playing might have been different, but Miles wouldn't have been Miles without them, either.

Calling Bill Evans a "good piano player" is like calling Feynman a "good physicist".
I feel one big thing that the "cool" (as opposed to us 'uncool' academics) can miss is that good research is hard. It is common to spend months on topics on areas that don't work out, and years on topics that do. It doesn't fit the modern high-speed of the internet, and it doesn't fit in 140 characters.

And of course, most research isn't particularly interesting to people outside a fairly small area. I might come up with a new way of doing something important in my research area 50 times faster than we did it before, but explaining what I did struggles to fit in 15 pages, never mind 140 characters. Personally I can't imagine what interesting research related-comment you could fit in a tweet. Then again, I've never got twitter (which isn't something I'm proud of -- sufficiently many people are using it that I am sure I'm missing something.. just not sure what).
Overinvestment in hope of exceptional returns is what a financial bubble is. Excess liquidity in the economy is one of the things that can lead to a bubble, as people look for places to put the money to use. If this is the case now, we should be seeing the same thing in other business sectors that promise the potential of well above average returns.
The comparison doesn't really make sense: R is a language (and environment), scikit-learn is a library.
Interesting service, never heard of it.
I am actually looking for a library/framework rather than service, I was hoping there is some "visual editor" for defining what to scrape/crawl and simplify the building process.
thanks, that's a much better explanation
And a more successful strategy is tough but fair where when the other party resumes good behaviour (which MS have) you resume good behaviour.
You missed the point of my comment — donors contemning the less fortunate by throwing them scraps.

It was not an argument about the minimum technical specifications of donated goods. Nor was it an argument about donated goods needing to be brand new.
Because it is an authoring tool, the Joshfire Factory itself hasn't been designed to run on screens smaller than 1096px wide.

Generated apps are fully compatible with all screen sizes.

As for our landing page, you are right, we will work on adaptive versions.
how about making sure you provide a solution to a real problem for which people are willing and able to pay?
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It sure is a tough environment. A few days ago I had a conversation with a couple of people who just got back from there. The picture they paint isn't appealing at all. Another South American government intent on destroying a very nice country. These governments, in general terms, are so corrupt that they only care about their own financial advancement. They buy-off the population with all sorts of unsustainable socialist (and sometimes communist) programs and benefits at the expense of the private sector (geez, that sounds like...never mind).

The nationalization (theft) of private assets belonging to foreign companies means, in no uncertain terms, that the country will not see significant foreign investment in probably twenty-five years. It's a shame.

They apparently also pulled an interesting one: Their citizens are not allowed to take their money out of the country. There's a convoluted process through which you have to open a bank account in US dollars and then you can move money out. Except that the government is monitoring everything. They have to ability to seize anything they want at any time. They control exchange rates too.

A fine example of how things can derail when the masses elect presidents (because they are being paid-off in so many ways for their vote).
hello! I'm martin, I created that little search tool.

no need to worry, all it does is search in the usernames that were posted on pastebin.

nothing else :)
I don't think its worth breaking horizontal scrolling for those fancy page transitions or whatever reason you have for discriminating small screens / split screen users. Not everyone surfs the web full screen on a large monitor.
Thanks, I had no clue how this trick worked until I saw your link.
I'll try the plist hack! Thank you for the tip. I think I can live without the flocking icons, but I suppose it's about freaking time I update my OS :)
It's actually relatively easy to see when it's become fad/fraud driven. The hard part is predicting when the music is going to stop, because that's controlled by the people investing. Some of the best times to invest in a bubble come during the final frenzy. Warren Buffett was absolutely correct that the dot com bubble was vapid, but he still lost money betting that way. People were predicting in 2003 that the housing market would crash by 2005, with detailed and accurate predictions about how the crash would happen, just two years too early. It is quite clear that the Australian (and, I've heard, the Canadian) housing market is in a bubble, but not so clear how long it's going to go on.

One person who seems to know how to think about these things is George Soros. His New Paradigm for Financial Markets is a good read on this question.
For certain industries, government is already heavily involved as a matter of national security. Energy, telecommunications, research, finance etc.
There are wire and pipe bending machines that do this on a larger (and probably smaller) scale.
They are however expensive and I doubt their tool chain is open source
This isn't reddit. Please reply with a helpful comment describing why this is/isn't the right way to do things.

(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388595/why-use-deflate-in...)
May I request that the arrow has a drop shadow too. I mean this is not exactly rocket science, but the drop shadow will be much tougher.
There are expensive machines you can buy that do this: CNC wire benders. From the first page of YouTube hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwygMdpQ8SU
That's the point. The typical tech demographic is hostile to women which is why you're mostly surrounded by men, which is why you feel these casual comments are normal. And the circle of exclusion continues.
That type of daily behavior is common in human activities. It matches nicely with typical daily activities like waking up, having lunch, etc... See http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/17.h... for an example in web page traffic, http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200805... for cell phone traffic, etc...
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The participatory/social aspect of this is pretty interesting beyond repairs. It seems like a plausible low-barrier route to learning something more about how things work, by getting some help from someone who knows how to disassemble and explain the innards of a particular item.

But, seems like it'd work better for older stuff, unfortunately. A lot of newer stuff is just not made to be dis/reassembled or to have parts replaced, so it's much more difficult to do. I tried to repair a toaster recently, and as far as I can tell you can't even open it without some serious hard-to-reverse effort, because unlike older toasters, the housing isn't closed with removable screws, but is stamped/crimped together somehow.
Beautiful chart, I want to make some interactive charts and d3.js is just suited for me. But I can't dive into JavaScript though it looks like easy. I'm familiar with Python. Anyone can suggest enough JavaScript tutorials to hack d3.js. Thanks!
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We will see the bubble deflate a bit when FB doesn't hit its target valuation, and it will either pop at that point or it will pop when one of:

* LinkedIn busts

* Zynga busts

* Google sees a dip

Happen.
The demo page is broken in IE8

I prefer to say that “IE8 is broken when attempting to render the demo page,” but either way, good catch.