skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there's a good motivation here: (x)range objects are supposed to be index-able, while a generator (expression) cannot go back once an element has been consumed.
Consider the salary and benefits and office space costs of one employee at Google. Then assume that the backdoor interface requires at least a few employees. You're already at $1M. Now imagine a bit of extra infrastructure, people to deal with communications, legal, etc., and you're in the millions.
So you think all enterprise users will be content to having 10" "laptops"? Most of them will still need large screen laptops, so they could get cheaper non-ultrabook laptop instead (and probably more powerful, too - ultrabooks are pretty weak) and then buy an iPad or an Android tablet for a $1000-$1200 total price, which is probably what the Surface Pro 10" tablet will cost.
The U.S. holds complete embargoes against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria

The exportation, reexportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Apple goods, software, technology (including technical data), or services to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government. This prohibition also applies to any Apple owned subsidiary or any subsidiary employee worldwide.

So that's why they always completely ignore my bug reports :)
Meanwhile Wordpress is eating the blogging world not by spoon but by a HUGE bowl _and_ making money, creating community of users and consultants to live off Wordpress.

Was Broadcast.com a great idea? :D
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"we're working on fixing a lot of these problems"

If you are working on fixing and improving your site that is what you should be spending your time on.

Not doing this:

"“We will launch foreign-language sites in German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and Chinese,” he said. The translation is being done by the site’s users."

Regardless of whether the translation is done by the site's users my feeling is that that is a distraction to you right now in coming up with the best product you can for your initial market.
I'm listening to Torvalds talk that this comment came from, and it's actually quite interesting.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyM...
If that does apply to electronics like the iPad/iPhone, it is pretty retarded. It requires a significant degree of knowledge of citizenship law on the part of the sales personnel. Also, it is pretty hard to verify citizenship without getting into same breach of privacy that the Arizona law (SB1070) fell into. Lastly, how are you as a merchant supposed to enforce such controls in an electronic transaction?
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That would still be an improvement from Kin 2.0, which could still be a possible outcome.
I accidentally hit the downvote button on your comment. Sorry about that. Someone else can feel free to counter it by upvoting the comment. I completely agree with what you are saying, by the way.
The making of jimu - a new tool to rapidly build better Android apps
most favorite phrase: "Proceed with caution when using the 3D context because it’s WebGL, and at the time of this writing, there is limited browser support for WebGL." Why not just say, "Proceed with caution when using the 3D context because it’s IE, and IE ... (wait for it)... doesn't support it."
A purely mechanical Turing Machine built using Legos
I am going to be watching this product very closely and might even climb on the x86 model pre-order bandwagon when I can. I am a software developer who travels a lot and I currently use a Vaio Z and an Asus Slider on the road. I was very close to picking up the new Transformer but who's kidding who, having to work in a Microsoft world on Android is still a tricky process. I love my ASUS tablets but if this product is as good as it looks, it's a no brainer. To be able to run native x86 apps, have a decent sized keyboard, 1080p, with the portability of a tablet... win win. I don't often get too excited about a product but Microsoft really has caught my eye on this one.
He probably heard they had hot Latin girls there.
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Godel numbering, and two more that I can't remember.

hmm... That list seems incomplete.
I was responding mainly to his comment on downvoting. At 200+ answers I've seen some moderation, but never been on the receiving end of it.

Having been a Wikipedia admin, I'd say Quora's doing a reasonable job. Moderation always feels arbitrary to people on the receiving end of it. And bureaucratic, too, if more than a few people do the moderating.
Racial profiling is wrong even if it is effective. That is the opinion of many who are opposed to it. Just because something is effective doesn’t mean it should be done (e.g. killing every criminal is extremely effective in pushing the relapse rate all the way down).

That’s what those who respond with “But it’s effective!” to racial profiling just do not get.
I guess the problem with a long article, even an interesting long article like the one submitted here, is that it is hard to read to the end. Near the end of the submitted article is this paragraph:

"A second problem is that even when it comes to alternative energy sources, Germany doesn't reward carbon dioxide reduction. Rather, its policy establishes well-defined subsidies for specific technologies: a kilowatt-hour of solar power is rewarded more than power from offshore wind, which in turn earns more than power from onshore wind. Even though solar subsidies have been reduced to rates far lower than the ones Leurs locked in, solar power still pays the highest rates. If reducing emissions were the focus, however, more money would be directed toward reducing energy use. 'If you could choose the optimal instruments, focusing on those areas first where you can achieve your goals most inexpensively, you would focus not so much on renewables but much more on efficiency,' says Pittel, the energy economist from Munich."

This ignores the advice of Amory Lovins

http://www.rmi.org/Amory+B.+Lovins

(Amory Lovins profile page at Rocky Mountain Institute website)

http://www.ted.com/speakers/amory_lovins.html

(TED profile)

http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_ene...

(TED Talk video "A 40-year plan for energy")

and generally the advice of any thoughtful scholar on how to improve worldwide energy efficiency. The German Energiewende plan is a remarkable example of intentionally wrong policy choices that waste the money of German taxpayers and utility rate-payers and delay innovation. It's a good thing that other countries have differing policies that better encourage innovation, especially innovation to reduce energy consumption.

AFTER EDIT:

Another subthread here talks about the economics of importing energy versus producing it domestically. An astute HN participant mentioned the principle of comparative advantage. For onlookers who may not have seen a good reference on comparative advantage, I suggest "Ricardo's Difficult Idea,"

http://www.pkarchive.org/trade/ricardo.html

by an economist who has been awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics, an essay that explains why trading for resources is generally much, much better than trying to produce all resources within national borders.

There are some other good explanations of the principle of comparative advantage easily found via an online search:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadv...

http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/cadv_e.htm

http://iang.org/free_banking/david.html
>Apple + Microsoft in 2012 ($70b in profit) = Goldman + Bank of America + Citi + Wells Fargo + JP Morgan + PNC + BB&T + Morgan Stanley + Blackrock etc.

Heh heh.
You are conflating investment banks with commercial banks and mutual fund managers. The goal of deposit taking institutions isn't to make $70b in profit...its to safeguard deposits, make some modest profit ( if any ) by lending out to sound borrowers with collateral. Similarly, if the mutual fund guys take outsize risks by investing in high beta stocks & they end up on the wrong side of the trade, the funds would be unable to attract any investor interest in the future. Even a tiny 1% return over S&P is huge for mutual funds.

Here's a more apples to apples comparison:
a. $125 million hedge fund, run out of a 2-room office, with 3 PhDs in Finance from MIT,MIT & Chicago. All the software is VB macros on MS Excel + 3 Bloomberg terminals. Profit $7m in first year. Each guy takes home $2m
b. 5 person startup in the Valley gets bought out for $20m. Each co-founder takes home $2m, after the VCs get their share.

a == b. But which would you rather be ? I interviewed with both at one point in time...
I think open sourcing drivers makes pragmatic sense to the Linux community more than it does with Bitkeeper. Without open source drivers, how can the Linux community make Nvidia's drivers a better citizen of their ecosystem?
It is optional, but it won't be at some point in the future.
When I'm asked to spec out a new windows based PC, my users compare the price to the Acer at Costco for $349. Then they compare it's performance to a $2200 MacBook Pro. Much of Apple's success is based on forcing good (if expensive) choices. This is Microsoft trying to do the same.
Call them and ask.
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The success of Xbox should not be used as a point of reference without mentioning the red ring of death that almost killed it. That type of problem would be fatal in the tablet market.
Udacity + Google App Engine. Conveniently free, completely awesome.
Lenovo sells 4 or 5 tablets today, why in the world would they not include Windows 8 in their lineup next year. Lenovo is a computer company, they have to sell computers or they don't have a business.
Exactly. I'd be interested in some follow up with that 30-story building they previously built. What's the final quality -- months later?

I'm skeptical, but with enough pre-planning and enough people, I think it is possible to build a quality building in this way.
Julian Assange Seeks Asylum In Ecuador Embassy
Having just had to go through ITAR training for my new job, it is my impression that a) it is your responsibility to make sure you comply with the law, which means knowing what is export-controlled and who you are dealing with, and b) export control violations are punishable by at least a decade in federal prison, if you should be so unlucky.
Painting is called Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, by the way [0]...

Original reply was:
Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil's brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked ass? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou son of a bitch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother. )))

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossac...
Not to disparage this launch at all... a lot of people will love this... but I wish my Inbox was ever that clean to be able to see the picture :)
A freaky recreation of Pac-Man
The original name for pac-man was puck-man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck, but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase..
They clearly wanted to steal the thunder from Google's tablet launch.
Looking at the profile, it is much more stout than Burj Khalifa which should make the engineering significantly less complex due to the inherent stiffness.

On the other hand, much of the building's interior spaces will have little access to daylight due to the large size of the floor plates - at 1,000,000 m^2 it is has more than three times the area of Burj Khalifa.
Their wikipedia page said 7 months in total, with a 90-day on-site construction time.
Let's all kneel and psychoanalyze Mark Zuckerberg on a site dedicated to people who love hacking and building things. What a garbage article.
Microsoft: The Great Copier, Apple: The Great Aggregator
If it's only 10 cm taller, that sounds like within the margin of error of where you measure. Not that I have any idea what the standard "building height" measurement entails.
Not to mention that CIA gets lots of their foundings from drug trafficking and you could cut off 50% of its money/air supply and they would still run on full throttle.

Its an easy Google search so I won't point to sources but at some point I understand CIA owning drug grounds. You see a billion of dollars in profits from something that is illegal on its face: you have too choices: being a good decent human being and shut this entire thing down, or being a greedy evil man and get into the roots of it and run the game getting the biggest cut for yourself.

God only knows how many secret ops / black ops / unknown organisations that even don't have names, the US government (and many others) are running, without other organisations or even the head of organisations knowing. One day we may find out some of those secrets which would be extremely interesting to learn.
I guess different people had different experiences. My nVidia cards have worked just fine on Linux but my HD7750 ATI card does not work properly (random screen flashes and poor rendering) on Ubuntu no matter which driver I try.
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Mona Lisa in a Tweet
There could be a number of reasons for what Nvidia is choosing to do here. I've worked for a company that provided a kernel module separately (though, it was all GPL). There were a number of reasons for this:

* The architecture of our driver did not fit with the subsystem we were playing in (this was a SCSI module). We worked with the package maintainers, and without a near complete re-write of our code, it would not have been accepted.

* Part of the above design was cause by cross-platform code we had (parts of the driver was shared between Windows, Linux, AIX, others).

* When supporting customers that run older version of a distro, there would be no-way to give them the latest features if the code was part of the kernel. So our latest product offerings would be incompatible with older systems. We would have been at the mercy of RedHat and SUSE to backport our drivers into their older releases. (or would have had to pay them a lot of money to do it).

We had a driver that basically started development in 1997 or so, that there was no-way we were going to rewrite it just to get it into the linux kernel.

For us, it was just way cheaper to supply the drivers outside of the kernel.
Ask HN: How do you research your competitor?
Hi HN,

I understand that the good execution is the key for a successful startup. However, that doesn't mean you should naively jump onto an idea thinking that you can out-execute all the competitors out there. I believe you should research your competitors and try to position your startup so that it can stand firmly and grow strongly in the middle of the competitions.

So my question is, how do you research your competitors? When you have a great and seemingly novel idea, you probably won't know who your competitors are.
What's the best way to find competitors who are doing the similar thing as you are thinking of?

What I do to find the competitions are:
- googling
- search on Apple Appstore, Google Play Store, chomp.com, angel.co, crunchbase etc.
- etc.
We are Anonymous
I think that what the US government would say is that if you choose to sell export-controlled technologies, then it is your responsibility to follow the law. If you can't verify that you are following the law in an electronic transaction, then you either have to take the risk of getting convicted or not sell online.

The bizarre part here is that an ipad falls under export-controlled equipment.
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This isn't racial profiling, though.

To clarify: racial profiling means using someone's race in place of legitimate evidence. In the case of this export rule, though, speaking the official language of an embargoed country sure sounds like legitimate reason to take further action.

Most Farsi speakers are from Iran. Most people from Iran speak Farsi. It's completely legitimate to assume that someone speaking Farsi is at least from Iran, and may reasonably be a visiting Iranian national.

The mistake in this situation was that the manager applied the rule to anybody from Iran, and ignored the person's US residence and citizenship.
I don't think we disagree much. I would argue that personal finances and business finances are totally separate, though. Whether or not you are making your mortgage payment is not all that relavent to the business in terms of its profitability.

For example, two founders each have identical businesses. One has a $10k/month mortgage. One lives in a $400/month apartment. Which one is more profitable? Neither. If either founder chose to sell their business, they'd get the same amount. That is, the present value of the profits of either business is the same to a would-be purchaser.

The question that needs to be adressed is not "How much do I need to live the way I want?", but "What is the market salary of someone I could hire to do my job while I sit at home and watch Shark Tank on DVR?" If you account for that, and the business comes out ahead, you have a profitable business. (Even if you're blowing the profits on your mortgage.)
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Because the women were U.S. citizens, rendering any law about foreign exports (and consequently foreign nationals) moot
Nice post, but only one language and one simple structure. Would be interesting to see differences across most popular languages and frameworks.
There's no mention of her telling the clerk that she was a U.S. citizen. She told him "I'm from Iran". What's he supposed to do in that case? Can't blame him for not taking the risk. That's a serious federal law (and it's not unheard of for the feds to run sting operations, when it comes down to that).

The other guy was definitely trying to buy the device for an Iranian citizen.
Yes the talk is quite good and it is worth watching. Quite a few insightfull questions and answers. I would even say that the nVidia outburst was the least interesting part.
However, it seems pretty clear that the Apple employee interpreted Sabet's words "I'm from Iran" as meaning "I am an Iranian citizen." This is a perfectly reasonable interpretation, and there's no indication that Sabet made any effort to communicate her citizenship.
If you think Apple takes the law too literally you should read the SCOTUS on interstate commerce.
Assange interviewed the Ecuatorian president for his program at RT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-1-9QXd3Y

The Ecuatorian president is introduced as "populist", yet the interview is non-critical. I thought "populist" was globally pejorative?

Edit: the president himself uses the term in a negative context
Consider FuelPHP (http://fuelphp.com/) - it has a decent support for PHP 5.3 and modern databases such as Redis & MongoDB.
Good catch. This was overlooked. I've removed that bit and modified the upgrade section with the correct information.
Why Ecuador, in particular? I just learned that they've adopted the US dollar as their currency, following devaluation of their old currency in 1999.

Edit: I checked, and Ecuador does have extradition treaties with both the UK and the US. I don't know about Sweden though.

Edit2: according to http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/19/assange_seeks... Ecuador has a treaty with the EU as well. But moving to Ecuador puts the decision in Ecuadorian hands instead of UK, so maybe he thinks they will stand up for him better.
I've helped create two companies with successful exits (Naughty Dog and ITA). When founders with successful exits tell me it was all skill and they didn't get lucky, I ask them if they'll give all their money away and start over, because, of course, it's all repeatable. No takers so far.

Being smart, technically good, etc. is all (usually) necessary, but not sufficient. Anyone who thinks otherwise exists in a profound state of self-aggrandizing delusion.
Maybe the solution is to give them a cut?

Maybe that is fever talking. I don't know.
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It wasn't even incorrect: her own words were "I'm from Iran." It's obvious that the Apple employee made the perfectly reasonable interpretation that this described her citizenship.
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It is at least very similar. Also, from the point of view of those who are opposed to it, racial profiling would still be wrong if it were effective (i.e. if race could actually provide evidence).
I don't think reality bears this out. Now that Broadcom has come to their senses, NVIDIA is pretty much the only major consumer device vendor in the PC space with binary blob drivers. Everyone else has, ultimately, folded in the face of pressure from the dogmatists. I think Linus is pretty much winning, and the fact that NVIDIA is feeling pressure here is a good thing.

Do you have any examples of situations where this is making us "MORE" beholden to third parties? I honestly don't see many (though in the SoC space, the PVR drivers are a very similar situation).
Actually Populism is just the opposite of Elitism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism#Latin_America "a process of controlled inclusion of the "masses" into the political system"
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Uh, they do, and it has.

I was twice "randomly selected" (read: I was nearby when they were finished with whoever they were inspecting) by TSA officials before check-in, who went systematically through my to-be-checked luggage looking for things unspecified. I have also several times received rather serious-looking notes in my checked luggage stating that they had gone through my luggage behind the scenes without my consent. They also demand to see at the very least an x-ray of any carry-on luggage that I take -- including special processing for shoes, anything in my pockets, and the laptop in my bag. The last time I went to the states they took a naked photograph of me with a machine that had "X-ray vision" (though I don't know whether it was Safe Microwave or Cancer-causing X-ray style). Nominally nobody actually saw the photograph, and it identified that my ponytail (I had one at the time) was a Serious Risk worthy of further investigation.

Generally speaking one tries to be several hours early to their flight.
What they do with it once it leaves is not the concern. The mere sale of export-controlled material to a foreign person is prohibited. It doesn't matter what they would do with it, because it's the transfer of technology to them that is prohibited.

You should think of this law in the same way as the fact that you can't offer someone a job without verifying their legal work status. It's not "profiling", because it is your responsibility to ascertain that you are not breaking the law. You should positively verify this with everyone.

The problem is that the law is being applied to completely mainstream consumer items, not ballistic missile technology or something.
There's always a lead time. But the pace at which prefabricated items can be built in a factory is significantly greater than that at which items can be site built. The constraints on an urban site are a significant logistical problem - site fabrication requires lots of different trades arriving through city traffic at the same time because there isn't much space in which materials may be staged. Every trade adds to the traffic through which other trades must transport their materials.

Conversely, prefabricated units can be built virtually anywhere and shipped economically over long distances...i.e. fabrication can occur at a factory in a rural location and assemblies can be moved by rail or barge.