skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "market" that economists say about is their model of what they believe a market is, it's a mathematical model with a good amount of gaps, this is why you will always find economists disagreeing among them, it's not like physics because they have to decide to rely on more assumptions and less experimentation.

I used to work in earth sciences although not in glaciology, and their models are very sound to say about the now, not so much about the future, that glaciers retreats and expands is common knowledge (the Missoula flooding event is a good example), but I am sure with a warming planet, if that's the case, more glaciers would be retreating than expanding, this is easier to search for, but I know the World Glacier Monitoring Service have good data about that.
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Is it just me or does the laptop in this (stock?) banner photo on their homepage look like a Macbook? (With the Apple logo photoshopped off.)

http://i.microsoft.com/global/ImageStore/PublishingImages/As...
Do you run Linux on a macbook? If yes how is it performing?
I just discovered an even more obvious and easy to automate way. Pick random words, like "newyork", and MD5 them. Then search for them on Google (or elsewhere), adding a whitespace and then "@gmail.com" or "@hotmail.com" or whatever. It'll show a list of accounts who have used "newyork" as their password with a web-service once, and possibly their e-mail account as well.

as a programmer, all logic and simple. but it still is really scary.
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Unlikely. It requires use of private API on the Mac, or direct USB communication with the device using an undocumented/private protocol.
_VMware should have a free upgrade program for recent purchases of 4._

They do.
http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/fusion/faq/lic...
Too true! If I have to write anything in cursive other than my signature(which has now become a symbol more than my name in cursive) I am completely flummoxed as to how to do it.
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My Delonghi Perfecta bean-to-cup machine will disagree with the argument that Nespresso is faster.

I can skip the "pop in the capsule" step for a weekly "pour some beans in the top".

Bean-to-cup machines are fairly common, but for those who wish to take their time then there are more time-consuming ways (syphon coffee anyone?).
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Must read: http://inrng.com/2012/08/lance-armstrong-quits/
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We just passed one million dollars. Now what?
Instead of Coursera, Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad Course wil be on Udacity.
I would say fuck it, I'm opening it now.
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good concept buddy ... The links were missing from the pdf. If pdf could have the links to the original content then it would be more easy to get to the original content
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This blog adds nothing to the discussion, it just asks questions answered in the original article on Business Insider.

Waste of time.
Is it possible to sell just obfuscated library?
If UIWebView is the cause, how come the Android Facebook app is also really slow? And to be honest, even surfing to mobile.facebook.com in Mobile Safari the app was really slow.
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The guy who made Impact is from germany, not the US.
Except that the Delonghi Perfecta is three times the price of a Nespresso :-P
The term "shared source" exists, and sort-of covers this scenario:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reciprocal_License#Mi...
As some people have pointed out this is a bit of a simplistic analysis, but I find it encouraging that Google is doing this. The state of Maternity leave in the U.S. is frankly appalling. My wife (a nurse) is currently pregnant and her Maternity 'leave' is 8 weeks. She is _required_ to burn all but one week of her vacation time as well as all her sick leave. After that it's unpaid and if she were to stay on her employer's insurance we would have to pay for it out of pocket for the remaining duration of the leave.

Fortunately I have good insurance but this seems incredibly bizarre to me. Nurse's are already overworked. Long story short, when I see a high profile company treating pregnant mothers better it only makes me happy.
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How is this different than any other commercial software library - once you have a copy, what prevents you from reselling it illegally?

While HTML5 games can be easily copied wholesale somewhere else (as can Flash SWF files generally) - the code is usually minified and not terribly useful to try to do development on.
I love this, I use Kiva and the rewards are wonderful as is their way of keeping my money in circulation. But I'm not a U.S. citizen so I only donate a small amount because it's not tax-deductable in my country. You know what I would love? Some one to build a global non-profit money distribution center, so I can donate a lot more in my country and the money can go where I choose. Right now I keep my donations limited in price unless it's a local charity to my tax country and I'd like to see that change.
I hope the op realizes that, by posting this on HN, he/she has just promoted the much cheaper copycat product to the very target market that alleged thief wants to reach...
Nespresso capsules can be fully recycled. Every time I order replacement capsules, I also order a recycling bag. At the time of delivery, the driver collects my pre-filled recycling bag from the last batch I ordered and takes it away for recycling - completely hassle-free.

All the rest of the packaging Nespresso pods are delivered in is made of paper or cardboard.
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You could do that but you are risking a lot. A well funded competitor with competent founders who understand the market like you do would likely outperform you. (Emphasis on competent founders).
Are you suggesting that the President doesn't read these pull requests?
In case you're not being rhetorical/sarcastic:

Linux (or any other OS) runs terribly on Apple hardware, because the hardware is intentionally designed to run OS X and only OS X. If you try to run, say, Ubuntu on a Macbook, you'll notice that you won't be able to do basic things like adjust the fan speed (it'll be turned up to the max the entire time) and the battery life will thus be horrible, not to mention that the computer will also be insanely hot.

This is because of the way an alternate OS is installed on Apple hardware - it's actually running on top of a low-level layer that prevents the OS from having proper access to the hardware.

The only time I've ever heard of people running into driver issues these days on Linux for basic work is on Apple hardware, and that's the reason. So even if you like Apple hardware, you still wouldn't be getting your money's worth running any other OS on it.

If you want to run Linux, go for almost any other laptop on the market - you'll get better priced hardware, and the performance will be better.
My company provides a Keurig machine and a whole slew of different beverage choices. While it doesn't reduce waste, and maybe doesn't reduce time, it certainly provides a nice selection of beverages. I value that.
The problem is that Facebook doesn't include both.
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I don't have any insight into Google, but is is a smart thing to do.

My wife and I recently had our first child, who thankfully has no serious health issues and is a great sleeper. My wife's employer provides 3 months leave at half pay, but only after she uses her PTO accruals.

So that left us in a position where we would have to find quality, expensive infant care, while simultaneously dealing with taking FMLA time without pay for baby doctor's appointments or when daycare sends the child home due to illness or other issues. (My job unfortunately requires travel, so much of that burden falls on my wife.)

End result is that we ran the numbers and talked about what we really wanted, and it made sense for my wife to stop working.
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Someone told me that in Canada, clinics often hire dentists as contractors ... this makes it so that you can't get maternity leave benefits, etc. Not sure how pervasive this is across different occupations. Would appreciate hearing experiences.

(I'm a Canuck living abroad.)
I am using Qt to render the content to pdf ,and some how links are not working in the rendered pdf.Will work on this.
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I didn't really like backbone at all. It was a pain. It didn't offer anything to help you build complex UI.

I had to use backbone to build a mildly complicated UI - not so complex, mind you, just something that's supposed to be somewhat interactive.

Backbone was no help at all. Its "views" don't really offer anything.

Just about 2 weeks ago I discovered knockout.js, and I felt stupid for spending days building something that would probably take an afternoon to do with knockout.js.

Then, a week later I discovered angular.js and felt even more stupid.

Now I really dislike backbone.js
At WebFilings (https://webfilings.com/) we've been using since day 1 as well. It has it's warts but once you get some experience on the platform it can be pretty great.
Unit testing will also force to decouple your code in a similar way. In the first example it is impossible test individually test all the things the code should do without worrying about everything else that is going on (e.g. you need make sure all the elements exist on the page). By moving to an event trigger like you suggest, you can then test that each listener does the correct thing independently of the others. You can have a separate test for 'selector' and 'yet-another-selector' and they don't need to know about each other. As an added benefit you don't need to mock out your ajax call either. Instead you can just fire a "DataModel:update" event in the unit test.

I've only recently grokked this aspect of unit testing and I feel like it's made my code an order of magnitude better and more maintainable. Thinking first about how to write code in a decoupled manner also makes unit testing really easy. After having tried unsuccessfully for years to test my code it was a revelation when I that it was because my code was bad that it was hard to test, not that testing is itself hard.

Edit: I've tried to illustrate my thoughts more clearly with a copy-cat post to show the parallels between the two: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427842
I am not advocating for defense contractors making swaths of money. But you stated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have destroyed wealth. That's not really true. The housing bubble busting, for example, destroyed wealth, as many families' wealth was tied into the value of their home. No one actively lost money because of the wars. Yes, the money added greatly to the deficit and could have been used for infrastructure here. But you can't assume that that money would have simply been spent on items like efficient engine R&D.

As for productivity, let me be more clear, too. Productivity per worker (i.e., widgets made) are also at historical highs. Corporations are very lean.
Thank you for saying "MIT grad students achieve" instead of "MIT achieves"!
How long has it been that sports are a race to be just ahead of banned substances? Should we even care about sports anymore?
If the Chinese site is selling the minified/uncommented JS code that you would get from "view source" then he probably wouldn't be in business for long.

In this case, it sounds like he bought a copy of the engine/level editor/build scripts/documentation and is selling that. Is that any different than buying the Unreal Engine Source Code and reselling it for 50% off?
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Where should I host my app: amazon ec2/softlayer/Google compute engine
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OS X sends info on apps installed outside of the app store back to Apple?
Well if the photo hadn't been doctored, it would be quite easy to tell - the one with SAMSUNG written in large friendly letters across the top is the Samsung. I won't bother going through the other reasons why that photo comparison is deliberately misleading, I'm sure you already know.

> When MS "borrowed idea" of GUI from Apple

When MS borrowed the idea of a GUI from Xerox, it was in the interest of all consumers.

Can you imagine a world there there was only one company making GUIs, one company making phones, one company making each item in each product category?

Android was clearly inspired by many aspects of the iPhone. I could point to dozens of aspects of the iPhone that was inspired by earlier phones.

Granting monopolies on entire broad product categories would be a disaster for everyone.
Yes! Not to hijack this thread but I hated building web interfaces with javascript, struggling with cross-browser support for anything remotely non-standard. We've been using Angular.js for the last month to build a very beautiful, complex interface and I'm loving every minute of it. As long as the framework doesn't change too drastically over time I know we'll be able to keep what we've built for its 2-3 year lifetime and fingers crossed that IE14 and Safari 7 don't break too much of it.
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I ran FreeBSD as my laptop and desktop OS for many years (1999 - 2006 ?). Regardless of what did and did not work, the keys for me were a working vmware environment and a working browser, and around 2005/2006 that no longer existed.

vmware 3.x for linux could be installed and run with linux compat on FreeBSD and it worked fine on FreeBSD 4.x, etc., but never did beyond that, and that (important) use case was allowed to rot. We tried[1].

And around that time the browser situation got really bad as well - every web 2.0 website was using flash for everything ... submit buttons, even, and browsing was always a pain after 2004 (I used both opera and firefox).

So I had to switch to OSX.

But now, I think the browser issue is solved - since everyone is moving away from flash and to HTML5, I would think the browsing experience would be much better ... all that is left is getting a working vmware environment back on FreeBSD, through linux compat.

This is relevant, since OSX is just getting weird ... I am going to keep going with snow leopard until that is impossible, but after that ...

[1] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html
Not to be mean but I don't think you have any idea whst you're talking about. Lawsuit is your answer? Really? So you damage my priority, now I have to get a lawyer to sue you. You file bankruptcy or kill yourself, I'm now left holding the bag.

Insurance? Really, insurance? If you don't like building codes, who says you're going to get insurance?

What if you start getting behind on your bills? Now I'm left holding the bag again.

Your argument is a strawman. No one says governments have always existed and civilization could nor have existed without them. That's stupid, why say that? It's a fact that things were much more dangerous and more likely to be fatal before regulations that enforce minimum safety standards. So yeah, civilization would exist, it would just be more dangerous. What a silly argument.

Also, if what you said was true about this magical insurance compliance then there wouldn't be any buildings in active use that don't conform to minimum safety because we have this free market with perfect actors that pay their bills or some such nonesense.

Now, the second thing, how is your magic lawsuit/insurance fix going to bring back the dead? Or do they have to stay dead due to your rickety building because that's one thing the magic free market can't do.

Come on this is hard to take seriously, and yet I'm accused of not understanding the issues.
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This is an important question I think should be answered
I haven't yet benchmarked any flavour of Linux running natively on my current-gen Ivy Bridge 13" MacBook Pro, but I have compared Windows 7 to both System 10.7 and 10.8. Consistently Win7 out performs OS-X on "raw" math-heavy benchmarks.

I've only uploaded my results form Geekbench-2, but the other benchmarking utils show similar numbers:

Geekbench-2 Scores and [Results]:

OS-X 10.8: 8743 [1]
Windows 7: 10092 [2]

Getting a Linux install to run via Bootcamp on this MBP is one of my next projects (most likely Gentoo), and I'm curious to see how well its performance stacks up against the other two. That is taking some time as... well, some things just don't work yet. (Thankfully I don't have to deal with the hybrid GPU setup that's in the Retina MBP.)

1: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/902437
2: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/810264
Powerful languages don't force you to decouple your code. Disciplined use of patterns can help.

But all our minds are warped from thinking web programming has to be different somehow from the desktop programming of old, and that concepts like SRP, LoD, and coupling don't matter.
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>How much more of this will we take before enough people demand privacy again?

Probably when actual privacy issues surface, not this "zOMG Microsoft collects a hash and IP!" nonsense. Between crash dumps, the CEIP, and other downloads directly from their site, this is a complete and total non-issue.
That's assuming sexual selection doesn't play a role.
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Ha ha, so true :)
Why not have several mini-launches?

Launch the free, get feedback and iterate. You could post the price list but make the higher tiers unavailable at the moment. You could offer a wait list or make it invite only after they have tried a free account.

Then when you launch the higher tiers you have a list to contact. Get their feedback and continue to improve.

I think it gives people confidence that you are actively improving the service if they can see a feature set list that will be in the forthcoming paid version.

If it's not costly, don't restrict people on volume on the free plan just yet.

You then get data on the natural usage levels your service gets.This might help you to refine your volume cut offs in future.
I would vouch for opencoffeemachine.org and it's related APIs. We have to stop this corporate pissing contest
Yeah, I calculated that when I purchased it.

The coffee is a third cheaper and that's for Square Mile or Monmouth beans (about as expensive as you can get ignoring stuff involving Civets).

It's the difference between purchasing a more expensive laser printer and having reduced printing costs, or purchasing an ink jet and having higher printing costs.

We make 2-4 double-espressos per day. It's worth paying for the better machine to make the savings each day. Given that I've had the machine for more than 4 years it's already saved me a substantial amount of money.

Each double-espresso (14g of coffee) costs me around 35p, whereas a Nespresso (6g of coffee) costs around 52p, and the local coffee shop charges around £1.20 (14g of coffee).

So not only is it cheaper, but there's a full double-shot in mine and less than a single shot in yours. Of course, if I had a single espresso to make it comparable then the price of Nespresso looks even worse.
It's actually an old, yellowed photograph of Rick Astley.
I am actually living next to one (in Berlin)... It's interesting, because I never saw a single person there, I have no idea how successful it is here, but always wanted to ask.
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Before going into all the hassle, you should talk in their conversation channels, IRC or mailing list, about your approach and why you want to make this change, get the core developers involved into your development.

I get this every time at work, and sometimes I just don't have time to review something that looks unneeded, from my point of view, and something I can't review, since it's too big of a change.
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It's not a bad joke, and what he is selling is not a web app either. There is a lot of open source projects that you have to buy commercial licence in other more closed languages.

What he is selling is a programming framework to do games and it is not licenced to be resold, simple as that.

If the guy would be in the US, it's clear that action would be easily enforceable. Softlayer should atleast take down the website.
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As someone with a macpro version 1 tower, I can be heartened that I can install the latest Linux, even though apple no longer supports my machine with its OS upgrades. Its only a matter of time (and lack of security updates...) before it would be a very large well designed paperweight

Of course I'm still running snow leopard a 2 versions back OS.
Is there a way to have them recycled if you don't have them delivered to your door by a person in a vehicle? In your case, does the driver just deliver nespresso capsules, or are they delivering supermarket grocery orders?
I actually like the way the U.S. does it. Citizens and companies shouldn't have to have their dollars used to pay other people to have and raise children.
> But what are the odds of 'hundreds' of tests turning out out to be false negatives?

The Tour is one of the most heavily drug-tested events in international sport, and yet it's still notorious for rampant doping. (About half of people who have finished in the top 10 in the Tour over the past decade have also been caught doping.) The odds that thousands of drug tests can be false negatives is virtually zero. . . but it's certain that they regularly fail to catch doping.

Doping is harder to catch in the Tour, because doping in multi-stage bike racing is very different from doping in most sports. It's not about taking anabolic steroids to give you the physique of a pro wrestler, it's about very carefully tweaking your metabolism to help give you just a bit more endurance than you would have otherwise, or to help you recover from the exhaustion of the previous day's stage just a bit more than you would have otherwise. There are lots of ways to do this, and many of them don't even involve drugs. For example, a nightly blood transfusion will give you more red blood cells with which to keep your muscles oxygenated.

Another popular agent, EPO, is a natural part of human metabolism that plays a part in red cell production - and it's impossible to distinguish EPO that a person's body produces from EPO that's been injected. So instead officials have just set an upper limit on how much EPO can be detectable in your bloodstream. Which essentially codifies doping as just another part of the strategy of winning the Tour: The goal is to skirt as close as you can to that limit without going over.
In my experience, somehow everybody in the money chain of posession manages to grab some of it. Never mind the logic; people can't help but wet their beaks. Socially we rationalize it. It doesn't really make any more sense for a sales person to have a commission, than the guy that boxes up the product and mails it.
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Not sure if it's legal, but you have my thanks!
Just a somewhat offtopic request: on an international site like this one, would you please be so kind to translate non-international terms such as "PTO" and "FMLA" to something more general? I really want to understand your comment, but I have a hard time at it.