skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Free-market capitalism is a joke.

To paraphrase Churchill: It has been said that free-market capitalism is the worst economic model except all the others that have been tried.

You use the word "deregulation", yet thousands of pages of new regulations are churned out each year by the Federal government... when 1 or 2 pages are repealed, we hear "They're deregulating!". Any look at the regulations being emitted from the Federal Government will numerically prove that deregulation isn't our problem.

It seems more apparent to me that the problem is that the Government has created really poor regulations and way too many of them at that. They created the regulatory mix that their corporate partners wanted them to in order to protect the business models of those corporate partners.

Maybe if the Government tried to do a lot less and just did what it does well, we could keep better track of it and hold it accountable? Instead, the trend seems to be to hand over more power and authority to the Government in hopes that the people in it are somehow more ethical and wiser than the citizenry. That hope would seem to have been misplaced.
What happens when the contributor abruptly cuts out?
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Fighting fire with fire:

http://phys.org/news/2011-03-horizon-victims-ddos.html
As someone who grew up just outside of Detroit, it seems to me that the most enthusiastic people about Detroit's future are not those from this area. The internet loves Detroit for its ruin porn and hackers love anything with massive potential for growth, yet the city is confronted with so many hardships - ones that will not be gone in ten nor twenty years - that it can be hard to relate to the dreamy optimism of people from far away.
Spoken like a natural-born insurance salesman!
"This study is currently recruiting participants."

Well, get back to us when they find out all the side effects.
But from the "deniers" side it is the "what ever you call the opposite of deniers" who are using FUD.
Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds
A data-loss bug is far more serious than anything about sorting. MySQL has an encoding called "utf8" -- if you can't count on it to round-trip UTF-8 data without data loss, that is a serious problem IMO, documented or not.
That's possibly a little more unethical.

You're about to ship some big project, a key person says; I'm leaving, there are no docs and I'm not training a replacement - call me if you want any help at 10x my salary.

That could be regarded as a little bit naughty
I don't want to turn this into a finger-pointing exercise, but I downloaded a free version of one of the apps mentioned in this article, and to put it bluntly, it's not very good. (I wanted to buy the for-pay version, but decided not to after I tried using the free one.) The controls are awkward, the workflow is confusing, some of the settings make no sense to me, and it does localization wrong so there are parts I can't quite use. I'll give anyone a bit of a pass if they're actively working to improve it, of course, but it also hasn't been updated since last year.

In "Dune", the Duke says "Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them". As an 'indie' Apple developer, Apple's policies frustrate me as much as anybody, but it's hard for me to find a lot of sympathy for someone who has a free trial with a 3-star rating, that hasn't been updated in the better part of a year.

It's convenient to think that Instagram is beating us because of name recognition or advertising or iTunes search favoritism or whatever, but maybe it's because they've got a 5-star rating (the average of 700,000 reviews!) and their last update was only 2 weeks ago.
One thing I'd like to hear is whether this is opt-in or -out and whether it's client or server side.
I highly doubt he's talking about moving industries forward by using Rails. More likely he means moving industries forward by creating and continuing development of Rails.

Say what you want about it now, Rails had a huge impact on the web development industry when it first came out.
You can open it up in web browser and view the code. Goes right here: https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu.... I'm not sure how it could be more transparent.
> > it's true that Unicode is (relatively speaking) very new for such a fundamental technology

> That's becoming quite hard an argument to swallow when encountering astral planes issues in 2012 when Unicode 2.0 was introduced in 1996.

I don't get your argument. MySQL was also released around that time and we don't call it "cutting edge" because we found a bug. There are bugs in old stuff all the time but (most) people don't throw a fit.
Today I got a check from a class-action suit against Google
Most of the real changes would require many people to die.

Going back, worldwide, to a pre-industrial civilisation would be a possibility. However, We're looking at 90% fatality rates to get to that point due to lack of food production. Probably would be even less than that. No chance in happening, unless forced by catastrophic event.

Another possibility is tremendous rationing. We see what having even simple healthcare is in this country. Instead, we would look at rationing everything in the world, including determining who lives and dies by how much resources they use (carbon debt). With 2 high input/output countries, good luck on this happening either.

And we have to look at all the smaller ways to handle global warming. One proposal is to dump megatonnes of lime in the ocean?! Or perhaps this carbon credits scam: it makes the rich richer (Well, where DOES the money go?). At least sources of energy like solar or wind make sense... Until you realise the amount of energy to make a solar panel is greater than the total energy you will get out of it. Bummer.

And underlying is this assumption that global warming == CO2 peak.. I've heard of this law called thermodynamics. CO2 may trap heat, but heat generated anywhere is still heat. We generate heat via our vehicles, electric grid, generators, burn piles, and other human sources of heat. Is this not a direct consideration as well?
Hah! Pretty funny. Run this one: sudo rm -rf /
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Thank you. I think I will have to hire a designer to do a logo for me.
it's really amazing that chrome has gained so much traction. It wasn't too long ago that most people thought firefox had pretty much the market for browsers, with internet explorer being legacy software. Even though chrome has a very spartan interface (where the hell is the bookmark button??), every version of firefox became more and more bloated than the last, until it became unusable. Chrome by contrast was lightning fast, and used very little resources.
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That is great. How do I submit my site for a design audit?

Thanks
1. Mood Detection was an excellent way to automatically update status.

2. Being able to Auto-Tag a Photo based on past knowledge of a person (whether celebrity or after training on general users) was a handy secondary feature, but admittedly this might be considered the most useful for some.

3. Last but not least, I always thought that being able to suggest similar photos (for example of products not just people) would have been a useful application in comparison shopping, but couldn't ever get that working well with Face.com's API.
> FF performance finally seems to be mostly on par with Chrome

It's always been faster for me, especially with a nontrivial number of tabs and on start-up.

> the extensions situation is as good or better.

Much better, especially for the things I care about, such as themes. I can't find out how to theme Chrome; if you don't like the default, you're apparently still stuck with it.

More to the point, Firefox respects me. I can turn off the speed dial feature in Firefox. I can't in Chrome. I can theme Firefox to a level unheard-of in Chrome. Firefox extensions seem to be able to dig deeper into Firefox than Chrome extensions can into Chrome.

It's about respect: Firefox allows me to shape it the way I want to, whereas Chrome constantly demands to shape me.
Agreed, but how do we slow the march of this kind of sensationalism and manipulation? Even in highly educated communities such as HN we're still suckers for pitchforks, even though we should know better. It's such an eye for an eye landscape...
It's not that fast. With a hot cache "grep -rn mmap /usr/src/linux/" runs in 0.3s on my desktop machine.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, the code behind this is awesome. I just can't help but think there could be something bigger to search, that is infeasible to do on my desktop. What about all of the code from the Debian repositories or something?
> Chrome by contrast was lightning fast

Was, maybe; not anymore.
Like he has a choice or control in the matter...
Among the many annoying half-truths of this article is that he doesn't make any attempt to discuss why the predictions from the 1990s were wrong. For example, we now know that dumping of heat and CO2 into the oceans is a bigger effect than originally modeled. In other words, thinking about the big picture, things are worse than was thought (because it means measures like putting up giant sky-mirrors aren't going to reverse committed warming as easily as they might).

Ultimately, he advocates technological fixes. For a more critical, but highly readable, look at this subject, see Michael Specter's "The Climate Fixers" from the New Yorker this past May:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/14/120514fa_fact_...

Had the OP read the New Yorker article, he might also understand that his references to "forbidden thoughts" are entirely unjustified. The thoughts he expresses are actually quite conventional, and widely discussed in scientific circles.
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Low overhead and a great visual.
This study details the use of a peptide-drug conjugate; these are drugs with peptides (small proteins) chemically conjugated to cytotoxic drugs.

The idea behind these conjugated drugs is that the peptide portion of the drug hones in on a specific biological target and the conjugated cytotoxic drug then kills the cells that have been recognized by the peptide (think warhead and payload). In this case, the peptide recognized prostate-specific membrane antigen, which is expressed on prostate cancer cells, and the cytotoxic drug was one derived from Thapsia garganica, the toxic weed (cytotoxic drugs being isolated from plants is nothing new, of course).

A more common class of these conjugated therapies are called antibody-drug conjugates[1], where an antibody molecule (instead of a peptide) is linked to a cytotoxic drug. There is currently one of these drugs, Brentuximab vedotin, FDA-approved for the treatment of cancer[2]. There are many more under preclinical or clinical development.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-drug_conjugate
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentuximab_vedotin
This only applies to paying, "Pro" users.
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That's just how Kickstarter works. Everyone should understand that before putting down any money.
This is incredible and the pricing could be a game-changer for distributed compute
It's an interesting test. Reddit / "the internet" would have to find a candidate who could win in that district that they could support.

It would involve some serious value judgments and compromises (a liberal dem is not going to get elected there), and my bet would be that they simply are not capable of it in the end.
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>why would I buy one of these instead of or in addition to an xbox360

They've just passed $1,000,000 on kickstarter, so it looks like around 10k people have decided to buy one.

>The advantage AAA consoles have is that they can provide high end PC level graphics for much less money than a high end PC because the are subsidized.

That's not really true except for the first year they come out. After that PC hardware outpaces them, and the only advantage is that it's easier to use and it sits in your living room. Look at the Wii, it wasn't anywhere near PC level hardware even when it came out. In fact the next gen of consoles won't really be faster than top of the line PCs even when they debut.

The developer is arguing that the advantage consoles have is TV access (easy TV access). So she's looking to combine the TV access of a console with the ease of development of a PC. And it looks like there is a sizable number of people who agree with her.

Look at the sales so far. 10k units presold in a few hours, the X-box 360 only sold 300k units its first month in North America, and that was with a huge advertising campaign and an actual product on store shelves.

They also don't need to beat x-box, I'd wager that almost anyone who would buy this will buy it in addition to X-box.

From the results, clearly there's a market here.

>Indie games generally also have the advantage of being very easy to port, especially if you use SDL for the graphics.

Why wait for the game to be ported when this thing is only $99.

>Just being slightly cheaper

It's half the price of the cheapest 360, and there's no xbox live subscription fee. The average game price will be much cheaper as well.

The other thing I think you're missing, is that most of the I know run out of games to play. If this thing is just provided 10% extra content over what they have now, they'd spend $99.
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"If you disable any direct shell access to the server and force all configuration changes to be applied by running the recipe from version control, you have an excellent audit mechanism that ensures every change to the environment is logged."

Um. Yeah. You're also creating a situation where, should anything possibly go wrong (now, how could that happen), you cannot hop on the server, diagnose, and possibly do some quick-try fixes. I can see limiting shell to a small trusted subset of colleagues (sorry, devs), but not eliminating it altogether.

Automated management, "system-as-code", devops, and all that has its place. The problem with virtually all existing systems for automated configuration management (cfengine, puppet, chef, Oopsware), is that they are highly non-transitive, and effectively bin years or decades of administration experience. They're fine once you've worked out the kinks, but as anyone who's worked with these tools can tell you, the one thing they're best at is screwing up all of your systems simultaneously.

"Etch" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/etch/) is one tool I've looked at briefly that appears to take a different tack, and is amenable to taking on-host changes and incorporating them into the configuration management system itself. One of the criticisms I've seen of it is that it's rather Linux and/or specifically Debian-centric, which may well be as Debian offers some very strong tools for managing, assessing, and maintaining system state (policy, APT, debconf). While dependencies can be painful when they keep you from doing what you want to do, as with most good safety systems, it's generally because you really don't want to go there (and if you do, there are means, within the framework provided by Debian, to get you there).

One way to avoid snowflake systems is to use tools that manage dependencies, stick within them to the greatest extent possible, and where that's not an option, to put your own modificiations within that same framework.
Break-even is 0.2 cents/hour per core for a 4-core system that uses 100 watts. A full i7-3770K system with integrated graphics uses 102 watts under heavy load [1], and when each of its 4 cores sells for 0.2 cents/hour, that covers the 4*0.2 = 0.8 cents/hour difference from natural gas to electricity. 0.3 cents/hour covers the entire electricity usage, providing free heat.

[1] http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-Core-i73770K-Ivy-Bridge...
To me, ugly code is code that gets the work done but at the price of too much complexity ( non-DRY, non-cohesive, spaghetti, callback soup ), not enough abstraction, too much abstraction, or too few quality control measures (tests). These things make it difficult to maintain any code.

In other words, ugly code is code that must be rewritten to be maintained. Depending on the innate complexity of my problem that can be an acceptable trade-off.

Beautiful code should also be easy to maintain; usually that means making each layer of abstraction as simple as it can be, and adding a new layer of abstraction to handle additional complexity.

In this way, I may write more new code to handle newly discovered edge cases or new features, but at least I am not rewriting old code to solve the same old problems plus the new ones. That gets old really fast.
you should be able to view the paper without logging into Academia.edu - can you not?
sudo make me a sandwich

returns what you'd expect.
Ok!, the two instances you were seeing were duplicate listings of the same instance. That bug was introduced a few days ago by some database optimizations, and is now fixed! Thanks for reporting it.

The 1.56 core-hours is mostly from inst_KGN6tZdFgoeL2C9KPKBsNA which has four physical cpus and has been running for almost an hour at this point.

Thanks so much for trying this out!!!
Does Firefox need to be saved?

Chrome isn't bad, and it has a huge amount of marketing dollars behind it, and it gains market share because of it. But does Firefox need a 100% market share, 50%, 30? Firefox exists, it makes the web better and it is probably the best browser out there on quite a few platforms.

Chrome might be the new IE in many ways, but I don't think that Firefox needs to be saved. If Mozilla wants more market share, they probably need better marketing, not a significantly better browser.
That's weird, I thought the standard line on Apple was that they don't innovate, they just take existing product ideas and make them "pretty". And then sheeple like me buy them because we're gullible and stupid.
http://www.gp2x.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/223?osC...

Sort of neat, but...

That thing is $750, plus shipping. Every gaming system I can think of is cheaper than that, including decent desktop systems. Almost everything you describe can be achieved on a low end laptop, which has more utility, for half the price. Outside of "fitting in my pocket", I can't see any practical reason to own a gadget like that. Am I missing something?
Sophos Endpoint Security is the "best" I've seen. It seems to have negligible performance hits. Please don't take this as a glowing endorsement.

Everything else seems to be complete garbage, especially the respective products from McAfee and Symantec. ClamX is clunky and not very functional.
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> 'm tempted to think that it is because the barrier to entry to the banking industry is so amazingly high largely due to regulations that it favors a few large banks at the expense of eventual competitors.

That's a completely ridiculous statement. The barriers to entry in banking are coming up with huge amounts of capital. Silicon Valley is the complete opposite. You can build Facebooks and Googles with very little capital up front.
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> I can't find out how to theme Chrome

A variety of themes are available in the web store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes
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Apple wins another ridiculous patent
'elegant' also provides interesting results
Why is the presumption that "vote with your money" will solve that? Why don't you prove that "vote with your money" will solve that problem?
As long as your clusters use the right locale/encoding settings, yes.
If you need costs to justify it, they need to pay the salaries of their employees and all the other costs involved in running a business. Only real difference I can see between this and, say, the Double Fine Adventure, is that Penny Arcade is a pre-existing product and the Double Fine Adventure isn't.
I recently did the opposite, back to Chrome. FF tends to lock up for a few seconds on me a lot, even on silly little things like switching tabs.
We posted on HN about two months ago and received tons of valuable feedback. We refined the user experience and value proposition. Thank you everyone. Look forward to your questions and comments.
The real problem is that MySQL accepts and silently drops this data that it cannot handle. It has a nasty tendency to silently drop data rather than error out.
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Okay, if it's per core-hour that's different.
Please, please, please - for the love of all that is good and grammatical - change "noone" to "no one" as quickly as you can possibly photoshop in mail2.jpeg. This single error tainted your argument (for me, at least) for the rest of the page.
This is just the original argument restated. It's not a rebuttal.
Messages will send as an SMS if the iMessage isn't delivered in a reasonably short amount of time.
> [Edit: imagine two bookies, both of them placing odds on different horses. how, exactly, are you going to figure out which bookie to bet with in order to get the fairest odds?]

Isn't that type of problem solved through arbitrage? Frankly, I'm really not sure I get your point.
Wouldn't work. As soon as you move the incentive to the world of financial norms people start wondering why they are bothering for a couple bucks a year.

They will get more people doing it to be part of a community if they can keep that community seeming "cool" in some way.
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The thing is though, you need to be familiar the tools involved with installing the system in order to use the system. It might present a bit of a learning curve up front, but I think you'll be better off.

Now try installing rails on a windows machine; that's the real pain in the ass.
Compare Firefox's share to Opera. They're still a huge player in browsers, and I don't think people are asking "Can Opera be saved?" Firefox has indeed been through a rough patch, but I think the next few releases clear everything up and will be truly silent like Chrome updates.
Does anybody really think that UCS-2 is a good idea anymore? Or that random indexability by code point is all that valuable, in a world with combining glyphs and bidirectional characters and whatever other crazy stuff Unicode has? If you just want an upper bound on the number of bytes needed to store n code points, then (a) that's probably not a particularly useful question to ask, and (b) if you assume that 32 bits is enough for any code point, then the space taken by properly-formed UTF-8 is bounded.

So, why would they want to store things internally as UCS-2? Or rather, why should they?
Interesting. What scenarios are you specifically targetting for Montage to excel in? e.g. mobile? touch? I noticed that you target Safari and Chrome. Does this mean it is more suited to an enterprise environment rather than consumer environment - where people may run Opera, MSIE etc?

Why is Motorola releasing this? What kind of risk that it will not be supported and the platform left to wither?

How does Montage compare with Knockout.js? The latter is more incremental, and seems to be a safer choice.
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Each item can be replicated to many machines, but written by one machine at a time. Galaxy works best when items that are replicated to many nodes are updated infrequently. This works very well when distributing data structures like B-trees, when the root of the tree is read by all but updated rarely, while the leaves remain pretty much confined to only one node and are updated regularly.

This is all for latency reasons. Fault-tolerance is a different story.