skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another argument: Legislating that ISPs must treat all their bits as equal may cause ISPs to lose the flexibility needed to optimize their networks. Laws that inhibit freedom of private companies may look like a good solution to certain problems, but they often have unintended side effects that decrease the efficiency and effectiveness of the company.

Allowing market forces to work solves the original problem, and does not create laws limiting freedom and innovation in the company.
With iPhones, "less than a year old" means "the new one's about to come out". My two year plan expired a few months back and I'm holding out for iPhone 5, and I suspect a lot of iPhone 4 purchasers are in the same boat.
Grubwithus buys The Social Feed, expands dining network to Canada
Professional Magento Developer Toolbar
The Mgt Developer Toolbar for magento is a must have for all people who working with magento.
Many professional developers all over the world use this extension to find possible performance bottlenecks.
You have an overview of the parse time, memory consumption and number of queries executed.
It also gives you information about the Controller, Module and Action which is responsible for the current request.
Google: 2 guys doing a PHD, work on their thesis, not for money (Theory). They later realize they could turn this into a business (Application).

Programming language, OSS, and platforms: A few friends or a lone guy/gal know they can do something way better or create a programming language or a database system more powerful than what is out there (Theory). Millions of other programmers use the language, tools and build powerful businesses such as Facebook and Twitter around it(Application). This is probably why you can do a startup today for $0 upfront cost.

I doubt Einstein spent countless hours working his brains off for money, Darwin did not go across continents to study the origin of species for money, Bethoveen did not write symphonies solely for money. Yet many other talented individuals have used their findings and made loads of money along the way.
Unusual fan box - using QR codes and Facebook
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Sales Banned in EU by German Court
I know, but I thought the existence of robots.txt was why Google is allowed to crawl sites. If a site disagrees with the crawling they can add a robots.txt entry and Google will honor it. It at least shows that you are giving the publisher an option.
I think the message is not that they have to deliver "certain" messages, just that they are not allowed to discriminate in the messages they deliver. Like the phone company is not allowed to listen to calls and decide to terminate a call if people are talking dirty to each other.

It is -and should be- an all or nothing kind of proposition I think.
Why vmware bought nicira
That could also be interpreted as "someone tried to run some shellcode [that was copied from Stuxnet] on the POS Windows XP boxes we use for QA tests, so we shut down the SCADA interconnect just in case." It's pointless to speculate though. I bet it turns out to be a really stupid prank by an ex-scientist.
HTML website 10x faster than Wordpress on shared hosting
Thanks for your comment.

So much of the coverage of your research was brief video, that having just this small-but-precise description is an immense help in understanding.

Many also need to hear your other message, about the distorting effects of both popular-media-attention, and of transplanting-results-outside-their-original-context. So much online discussion is knocking down decontextualized caricatures of real work... resulting in a lot of unnecessary waste and negativity.
If I lure some customers away from my competitor by offering a superior product at a lower price then my competitor might complain that I "stole" them. They might say
A: Stealing is wrong
B: You stole my customers
Therefore:
C: What you did was wrong
but due to the fuzziness of English words A and B don't actually imply C, since they used "steal" in different senses.

I think a far better word for these discussions is "trespass" as in "he trespassed on my patent/copyright/trademark". I think this has the advantage of being closer to literally true in a legal sense, more in line with what our moral intuition ought to be about for copyright, and giving the right idea about how the law regards the acts (copyright and trespass can be crimes if done in certain ways, but are usually just torts).
They also missed the EPS by a dollar ($9.32 vs $10.35)
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and rent control prices people out of SF.

SF has limited space. Price is not the only way to allocate space. Local government can, within limits, set other ways such as rent control (essentially a form of seniority). The local government representatives are democratically elected in seemingly uncorrupt elections, so I have to assume this is the will of the majority of the city residents. Get over it and deal with it.
This prompts an interesting question: Is identity theft the act of procuring personal information without permission, or is it the act of using this information to misrepresent your identity? Is it both, necessarily? What if you don't harm the victim in any way? And what part of this constitutes actual theft? To the person, it certainly _feels_ like a part of him was stolen and used without permission.

Having published creative works on the Internet myself, I certainly understand why so many content creators try to prevent unauthorized copying. You really do feel vulnerable. Something you're very proud of has been shared with the world, and now it's in some seedy part of the Internet, with forum dwellers making fun of it.

I've noticed that as social creatures, we're unable to have empathy for corporations. There's nobody to feel guilty towards when you download that copy of Autodesk Maya. I don't think our brains are designed for it. We like individuals and small businesses because we can fit a picture of the actual people inside our heads. We feel guilty when we infringe upon their copyrights, because we know it might actually hurt them personally.

Most illegal acts can be boiled down to emotional damage. As pointed out elsewhere in this post, the right to property is an abstract concept. You _decided_ to hold onto that object, and you're unwilling to part with it. It doesn't seem abstract, because it's something our brains instinctively do, but it has no root in physical reality.

Why is murder a crime? Supernatural beliefs aside, the victim most certainly doesn't care anymore, because he's dead. As we all know, the problem is the emotional and financial damage to the people left behind. Prison sentences serve to control this damage.

Can a large corporation feel emotional damage? Should these laws apply if there is no emotional hurt? Everyone can see that a large company like Adobe is nowhere near going bankrupt, and their employees are most certainly not hurting because of piracy. Adobe has money coming out of its rear end.

Perhaps our laws should offer less protection if you're big and strong. Vast swaths of the world's population are happily breaking copyright law, and _not_ feeling guilty about it. Some shades of gray are clearly missing here.
The "libertarian" argument against the Civil Rights Act isn't that discrimination is good. It's that the prevailing attitude towards discrimination was inevitably going to trend away from discrimination, and that forcing businesses to serve people harms their right to associate freely with the people they chose; while this limitation on free association is obviously benign, it sets us on a slippery slope towards other violations of free association.

I am not a libertarian and find this argument very unconvincing. Also, my emotional brain tends to impute racism towards those politicians who have advanced it. But it's not an illogical argument.

So in that spirit I'd say: if you think the government should step in to guarantee neutrality, you're not a pure libertarian. You don't need the scare quotes.
And yet, like most (all?) calculators, there is no questioning about the houses age, condition, pending/expected costs, etc. Those are things I've always needed to tack onto the calculator results to get a better answer.

Edit: Sorry, I think my message's tone should be better. I enjoyed testing the site but while looking for a home last year it would have been nicer to have more control of how these calculations were done.
Woody Agriculture - On the Road to a New Paradigm
Flogging yourself doesn't make you righteous. Doing good for the world does.

Craigslist wastes several human lifetimes worth of time every month through maintaining a monopoly product with a shitty UI and refusing to let anyone innovate on top of it. They hold back progress and they are evil. They are the IE6 of classified ads.
We made some changes for the search to work better...just need to deploy.
Indeed. I was familiar with the purple but I went straight red and got 3.14/100. Turns out, the color was changed in June 2008: http://www.thewwwblog.com/yahoo-logo-changes.html
I met Ric Richardson sometime late last year. He claimed to have just invented a "fibre optic CPU" the week before. He also boasted about how at a dinner party he had taken a guest's idea and filed a provisional patent for it in 30 minutes.

He made a room full of young entrepreneurs with unique ideas feel very nervous. He feeds on innovation.
Building a Real-Time Database for Hadoop on MapR
The problem is that Craigslist has a monopoly. They use that monopoly to shut down competitors, resulting in millions of hours of lost time for users every month.
So should we have "neutrality" in every market with large barriers to entry? Drug neutrality? Railroad neutrality? Automotive manufacturing neutrality?
Me neither... I figured Shell would be the closest thing to a "mermaid" related logo, but I guess I was wrong.

Also, Shell is multi-national, even if it's based in Europe. There's tons of Shell gas stations around Canada.
Shame about the lack of support for older macs. I've upgraded my late 2006 MacBook with a new SSD and the thing runs great. Best upgrade I've ever done. Now mountain lion isn't supported. Looks like apple trying to increase those profits even further.

Your Mac must be one of the following models:

iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
More important than the cost is the restrictions state and local governments have. Big ISPs have the right to lay down cable, it's nearly impossible for anyone except a huge ISP/Utility to get those rights.
"Maximizing everyone's liberty" is code for taking from some and giving to others to to achieve a "just" result. That's not how libertarians think, that's how modern progressives think. So you think a "real libertarian" should be in lock step with liberal progressives.

I don't want to protect corporate rights over peoples' rights. I want all rights protected in accordance with the non-aggression principle. I don't want you using the power of government to beat down your enemies.
In some ways, I'd recommend restructuring the app a little bit and start low-level and allow the user to do his own research and build up his info.

For example, let the user put it the price of a house. That's it. With 0% down payment. Show them the graphs and the monthly payment (without taxes/insurance). In 1 second, they immediately have something in front of them.

Then, let them enter in a down payment, as they are doing so in real-time update the graphs/payments.

Then they choose 15 or 30 year, and keep adjusting parameters. They started simple but are slowly building up to see what makes a difference and aligning it with what they can afford.

At least, that's how I approached it. I want to see graphs/payment before I even have to tell you my savings.
I think a lot of the work to put a quality UI on craigslist ignores something very important about user psychology - seeing your data that you willingly gave to one organization publicly available in the hands of another one is generally perceived as creepy. Apartment listings may be less sensitive than other kinds of data, but they're still personal, and some users may not want their listing showing up in different venues even if others will take whatever publicity they get.

Most programmers and designers have made peace with the idea that what's public on the internet is public for the whole internet, but I think most people perceive this kind of information leakage as a lack of control. I think that Craigslist, more than most companies, has a real understanding of this, and a lot of their restrictions that may seem arbitrary to entrepreneurs come out of it.
Intel Science Fair winner clarifies work in HN comment
Migrating MySQL to Oracle
Our original howto guide, with various updates and edits.
They have an estimated 70-80% margins... maybe I should have said drowning in money!
The libertarian response is that Congress doesn’t restrict speech. Telling people what they must or must not say violates this.

The First Amendment says nothing about markets or competition. If Congress thinks it can address improve the telecom markets, great. But the idea that the 1st amend doesn’t apply because some market is suboptimal is a non-sequitur.
How To Make Sure Your Intellectual Property Is Protected
My quick and dirty analogy:

Imagine a world where each street is owned by a company. Then they start deciding who is allowed to drive which road. People who pay for the premium package don't have to stop at red lights, and right of way. Freetards aren't allowed between 08am and 12am. Only bicycles with UEFI are permitted.
I assume GCE is based on a space-shared design (1:1 pinned vCPUs); if that's not correct then this becomes harder. On https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/instances#overvie... I see the term "Virtual Cores", but I don't want to hear about virtual cores. I want to know how many physical cores are backing the VM. (I don't find the term "logical core" further down the page helpful either.)

So I would say:

n1-standard-1: 1/2 physical core

n1-standard-2: 1 physical core

...

n1-standard-8: 4 physical cores
Go doesn't require tabs. Tabs and spaces work just like C, they separate tokens but are not otherwise relevant. It's not like Python where they indicate indentation level.

The only whitespace character that works differently than C is the newline. In Go, newlines (usually) separate statements, like a semicolon does in C.
Craigslist is a business. And a monopoly, like Microsoft in the 90s. Didn't they have the right to decide which browsers are packaged with their OS? Don't they even have the right to decide which browsers run on their OS?
This is my problem with net neutrality (and I'm not even a libertarian!). The Internet service model is such a moving target --- and (I personally think) it's so not what (many) neutrality advocates think it is --- that legislating it seems counterproductive.

Service providers should not be allowed to use local monopolies to harm competition in other markets or to form cartels in them, but legislated "neutrality" doesn't seem like the right way to ensure that.
I did this all by memory. First and only try.

Here are my results (and my very brief feedback follows):

coca-cola: 96
batman: 100
Yahoo!: 85
Dropbox: 83
McDonald's: 82
Starbucks: 85
IBM: 94
Shell: 89
Apple: 100

Avg Score: 90%

The only one I seemed to really have a problem with is Shell. The red seemed way too vibrant/bright. The Apple one I think can throw people off because of Apple's love with a glossy, "transparent" look. My intuition told me it was a lot lighter, but then on second thought, I decided to go way darker, thinking of the logo as separate from what Apple puts on their actual products.

I'm using a cheap CRT monitor, by the way.
That sounds similar to RECAP, which is a free interface to the for-money PACER database of legal filings.

RECAP is on a better legal footing because the filings are public domain instead of owned by someone.
Ask HN: Is there a tool to track search rankings in Google Play?
I'd like to be able to track how well our SEO efforts for Android are working. I'm currently doing a manual search each week for the keywords/phrases that we're targeting and entering the results into a spreadsheet, but this is getting tedious and I'd gladly pay a small amount for an app to do it for me.

I know that there are websites for tracking what the search rankings for key phrases are in the iOS app store (e.g. appcod.es), but are there any for the Google Play store?
In the Netherlands, where a 36 hour work-week is pretty standard, it usually means 4.5 days, so one day you work half and go home earlier. Another common scheme is to alternate 4x8 and 5x8 work weeks. But I suppose most bosses would not mind if you want to keep an even different schedule as long as it adds up and doesn't inconvenience the rest of the team.
I just did the math, your average was 77.11 (total/9) which rounds to 77% :)

Aware of the centering issue, looking into it thanks!
It also does not mean that CL has any obligation to provide that data to another for free. If you want the data in multiple locations, post it to those other locations.
Apple’s iPhone Sales Fall, Dragging Down Results
This is the beginning of the end for CL. You can just sense by actions such as this what their survival strategy is. While legally they may win this battle, in the long run, I think CL is headed to deadpool in the next 5 years.
From the topmost section:

We use tabs for indentation and gofmt emits them by default. Use spaces only if you must
The cynical side of me says that, while warrantless wiretapping is bad and the NSA will get a strongly-worded condemnation, not much else will come from this once the furor dies down.
That is a good point. I did not mean the quotes as scare quotes, just to emphasize the idea that this might not be a core libertarian argument, but seems to be held up as such. I honestly don't know for certain.

The idea that it harms their right to associate freely with the people they chose seems like a misnomer as well. It seems like it does the opposite. It says you are not allowed to turn AWAY customers based on race. Is that phrase or right in the constitution somewhere? I am embarrassingly ignorant in those areas.
The Next Best Thing
Just thought I'd risk proposing some possible architectures to confirm I see how the licenses (and datomic) applies.

Standard web application using free edition. Three servers. Architecture is DB storing data locally, a web server and another server (say for slow report queries, an API or web worker). Could use beefy servers to scale up.

Business application using pro license allows better redundancy and scalability. Can use different data storage options. Can break beyond limits of 2 servers for processing and request handling.

The pro's peer license cost per process (which I think means cost per grunty server cost) is at worst $800 up front plus $400 per year.

Note: This is unlikely to be quite right.

Updated: thanks to RichHickey.
It sounds like EC2 and GCE are using different terminology here, so Google is giving you half as many cores as you think but thanks to Sandy Bridge they're crazy fast.
I read sometimes about how few choices you US people have when buying your Internet connection. Something about only a single ISP allowed by the city etc.

That would make your ISP the de facto government for your online activities. A government that is potentially very invasive, inspecting your every data package, limiting your access to certain sites and dictating what kind of content you can download at full speed.

How is that libertarian?
> As impressive as this is, it is below analyst consensus, and the stock is down 5% afterhours :-(

This happens every time. Apple exceeds their own guidance; grows at a rate faster than nearly anyone else in the Fortune 500, and yet still fall short of the (insane) analyst guesses (predictions would be unsuitable).

I believe Horace Dediu did an article some time ago on amateur vs professional analysts and their track records against Apple's earnings calls. I can't seem to find the link but the degree at which some were off (with regularity) would be concerning if I were paying them for the advice.
I have never seen a restriction on the class (exempt/non-exempt) of employee. The only restriction I remember seeing for tuition reimbursement at the companies I've worked at was that you must be full time and the coursework must somehow be related to what the company does. That last bit is typically only there to discourage "underwater basketweaving" courses.

The most common degrees people go for seem to be general Business, Marketing, Accounting, and then the more specialized tech. degrees. I'm amazed at the number of CS people I come across who have "silent" MBA's. At my last job I knew at least one person who joined with a high school diploma and eventually had an MSEE all paid for by the company.
"Standard shifts are 10 hours. Mandatory OT can be frequent off-peak and is every week during peak" That's pretty rough. What's the benefit to Amazon of doing 10-hour shifts instead of, say, 8?
Searched a couple books, found none:

2666 (none found), Vanished Kingdoms (none found), Twilight War: After the Fall (tried 'twilight war' and 'after the fall', each gave unrelated results).
Actually that seems like an interesting idea! If we did, maybe we could have non-proprietary car parts for instance? Better drugs? Fewer patent monopolies granted?

Am I missing something fundamental in your point?
"Return the Error Code" better than Excexptions - Joel Spolsky
I think the race situation is actually the most damning example for libertarianism. I'm not convinced that, without anti-libertrian intervention by Congress and the Supreme Court, we wouldn't still be segregated today.
About Anders Jorgensen
"The advertising units Twitter and Facebook are selling today are “hot dogs”: poorly targeted, poorly performing."

Maybe that's true for FB, but apparently Twitter's mobile ads are doing just fine: http://on.wsj.com/LxMLwc
That's a non sequitur question. A circumstance in a particular market isn't "libertarian" or "not libertarian".

A libertarian would say, people should be free to make and enforce promises among themselves, and the government should constrain itself to those roles that can't be performed by markets.

Libertarians by and large don't believe in "antitrust". The market is, a libertarian would reason, inevitably more powerful than any temporarily dominant firm. If a cartel of ISPs emerged from a free-market approach to Internet governance, that cartel would either (a) be an optimal solution to the requirements of Internet users or (b) eventually worked around and eventually replaced by alternate offerings in the market.
Are We Addicted to Gadgets or Indentured to Work?
Absolutely. Water companies regulate water usage of their customers. You're going to find that regulation is needed on any shared resource.

You're free to get a leased line that is private and just yours, but you will pay significantly more for that. The Internet lends itself so obviously to packetization and shared wires that it takes an extreme case to justify using a private network rather than sharing a public one.

There needs to be regulation to stop (say) the DSL company from impacting VOIP traffic. But a completely unregulated network will lead to the torrenters destroying the VOIP traffic just as fast.
Third-party Twitter apps
Comcast Internet to hit 305Mbps, 5 megabits faster than Verizon FiOS
This article is very vague and confusing. I'm sure there are real problems here, but the grammar makes this hard to read. What are you complaining about, specifically, in the "Logos" section? What would you like a company like Twitter to be providing in terms of graphics?