skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Men have votes, so women must soon have votes; poor children are taught by force, so they must soon be fed by force; the police shut public houses by twelve o’clock, so soon they must shut them by eleven o’clock; children stop at school till they are fourteen, so soon they will stop till they are forty. No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and monotonous gallop of mere progress by precedent. It is a good way to prevent real revolution."
>"Whales is a term thats been there from the Casino days of Las Vegas. You may know its other variant - High roller."

"Whales" is also used in the financial world for a person with lots of money and no knowledge of what to do with it. In other words, a mark for the clever financial "advisor".

Though, I suppose that in reality there's not much difference between the two definitions.
But at the end I didn't understand because he wrote "In the end, 3 days later I had been issued a replacement MacBook Pro which I got just as Mountain Lion released." So he went back right?
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Ask HN: If HN was a country, it would look like
As a huge fan of HN and daily reader, I appreciate the diverse and honest perspectives that continually are shared.

That got me thinking about our community at large. I understand that no precise figures of the HN members exist. Still, based on your perceptions and experiences, if HN was a country, what would it look like? (according to:)

Avg. age:
IQ:
Race:
Population (proportionate to real countries):
#AnyOtherRelevantMetric
Besides mails_viewer, there are several more choices such as mail_view, letter_opener, mailcatcher and mailsafe. Checkout our blog http://blog.pragmatic.ly/announcing-mailsviewer-a-rails-engi... for more info. There is a link in the github page but I think it's not clear, :)
He actually starts out by pointing out that the American education system is not very good at creating "interchangeable cogs".
First time I heard about CUPS! Apparently it's a kind of printing system. Thanks.

http://www.cups.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
Talk to an accountant, preferably your accountant.
Co-Founder of Embark here (letsembark.com). We have apps for 12 systems, mostly in the US (BART, Caltrain, NYC, LIRR, MNR, NJT, DC Metro, Philly, CTA, Metra, Boston & London Tube). We also integrate with iOS 6 maps, so our apps should show up for you if they're relevant. In my subjective opinion, it's a way better experience than a google maps web view.

EDIT: Looks like my co-founder David beat me to the punch
> Nice catch. It's a MacBook Pro (completely forgot about the existence of non-Pro MacBooks).

Given that Macs don't run iOS, this casts a lot of the rest of what you say in a very strange light (and he gave you the chance to correct it were it a 'typo', but you doubled down). I was curious as to the problems you said you had with your Android devices but honestly I'm wondering now how much of it is user-inflicted for reasons other than "I installed Instagram".
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I'm not sure you read the article thoroughly.

His point in putting in the test score table is to say it's focusing people on the wrong things.

Just note the title: "America’s Problem: How the World is 'Beating Us' in a Battle We Don’t Necessarily Want to Win". The battle is the test score battle. The scare quotes around "Beating Us" mean that he's calling into question the notion. And in case that isn't clear, he then says explicitly: we probably don't want to win.
A country full of nerdy men. All that violent virginal angst would probably lead it to many many wars.
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I will read the article later, when I have more time, but many geeks that only know Linux and eventually BSD, have no idea how painful commercial UNIX systems can be.

Several of our customers have HP-UX systems that look like plain System V systems straight out of the 70's.
> If Apple's management thinks its acceptable to roll out
> beta products on all of their users, I'll be moving to
> Android.

Sure - because Google never rolls out beta products on all of their users...
Eh, if he was gone before the iPhone 4 people would have said the same thing about "antennagate".
>"A lot of people make money selling drugs too."

And a lot of people enjoy taking drugs, but face the same problem of other people pushing their personal morals and ethics on them.

If I want to smoke pot and design shitty Facebook games, leave me to it.
On reddit, the user akefay provided some useful comments on this that people might want to take a look at.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/104uen/study_finds_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/104v50/recent_com...
+1 for this. I've been on the startup circuit for almost 2 decades and find it as home. But getting tired of being depicted as not knowing how business works because I'm just a "coder".
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> You want this. You have certain tastes and preferences and expectations but you (and me and everyone else who reads HN) are not representative of the typical user.

I want search results that let me find what I'm looking for while minimizing the amount of junk I have to deal with along the way. I didn't realize that wanting search to do a good job at finding things was a sophisticated HN-user desire, out of touch with the common man. I guess that does explain all those times I've heard ordinary people exclaim while searching, "Dang! I found what I wanted too easily. I wish this thing was harder to use effectively!". :-)
Hey guys. David Hodge here from Embark. I just wanted to let you know that we've got you covered for transit directions in many large cities. (And more being added all the time)

Look for Embark in NYC, Washington DC, Boston, London, Chicago, San Francisco. Embark will work underground and has results tailored to each city instead of the very general results you tend to get from Google Transit.
The problem is that the window to submit prior art is still very small (6-18 months basically) and prior art must be submitted before the patent is approved. This means that all of the bullshit patents that already exist? Those are still good and always will be. Very unfortunate.
There is a philosophical gap that is independent of typing. Clojure encourages functional programming, but does not require it. It is also littered with a lot of not perhaps arbitrary but definitely replaceable syntactic sugar geared towards short, clean and practical code. Haskell on the other hand is like an evolving paper on how to implement the world using typed functional programming. If two people figure out the same idea, in Haskell they will much more likely end up using the same syntax up to naming. It is the canonical language for concepts.
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"The authors declare that there are no conﬂicts of interest."

As a few bloggers noticed, I guess publishing multiple sensationalist books about the dangers of genetically modified crops (with wonderful titles like "Genetically incorrect") is not a conflict of interest:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3D...
The issue here is that maps is about data, not about UI or hardware, or any of Apple's core competencies. Whereas Apple doesn't know anything about data, it's Google's bread and butter.

Sure, there are a few things you can do with the UI, but ultimately the new "wraparound" feature when you go around a corner in Apple Maps is worthless when you're driving, since your eyes should be on the road. But ultimately, creating a good maps product requires year after year of intense data collection and sorting, something that you can't just rush through.

> On the other hand, Google has a habit of releasing amazingly disruptive products (maps, gmail, etc.) and then the pace of innovation of each app slows dramatically. What was the last "innovation" gmail did? Priority inbox? Buying Sparrow?

Sounds a bit like everyone's favorite mobile OS from Cupertino. What was the last "innovation" in iOS?

Siri? Barely works in real life, regardless of what they might claim in TV ads.

Notifications that actually work? That was in Android for years before Apple copied it whole hog.

Copy and paste? Are you shitting me?
I just use Waze for turn by turn (iphone 4s) available for blackberry and andriod. Plus if you go to google on mobile safari, it basically pesters you to install a google map shortcut on the "desktop". This works very well.

I'm sure apple maps will get better, but seeing as they're not a search engine, I don't think they'll ever get quite as good at finding by location names.
You have to careful comparing one specific EC2 instance with other providers. Unlike most compute services, EC2 infrastructure is heterogenous. The c1.xlarge instance compared might deploy to 2 or 3 different chipsets in us-east-1, each with different performance characteristics. Based on the results they posted, this instance appears to have deployed to a 2.13GHz E5506 host. Most likely, Brightbox is using a homogenous infrastructure, and likely something a bit faster, like X55, X56 or E5s. For a more apples to apples comparison, they might have tested against an m2.4xlarge (8 cores) or cc1.4xlarge (8 cores hyperthreaded to 16), which are also 8 cores and deploy to X5550, X5570 or E5-2665. Based on my own benchmarking either of these instances would have performed comparably or better than the Brightbox 8GB instance.

The point is, you have a lot of options with EC2 in terms of performance, and comparing a single instance deployment doesn't really do it justice.

[Edit]
Here are a few links to Phoronix results for EC2 instance types not included in their testing. m2s, cc1s and cc2s are the better CPU performers in EC2 due to faster processors. If you do a CPU performance comparison, these instance types should not be excluded (as I observe they often are):

m2.4xlarge - 8 cores - X5550
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1208019-SU-CLOUDHARM39

m2.4xlarge - 8 cores - E5-2665
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1208139-SU-CLOUDHARM43

cc1.4xlarge - 8 cores/16 HT - X5570
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1208127-SU-CLOUDHARM93

c1.xlarge - 8 cores - E5506
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1208134-SU-CLOUDHARM15

These instances were tested using CentOS 6, which will be a bit slower than Ubuntu 12.04.
Not a bad machine, still uses the laser-cut-plywood and screws approach that I don't particularly like.

I also went the build-my-own route because about the time my "buy silly toys" fund was up to where I could buy one, anything with a useable build envelope had a price increase pushing it beyond what I wanted to spend, and I wasn't really happy with the designs -- I really don't like that plywood & screw style construction. Using my own design allowed me to get away from those issues.
Just to be clear, I wouldn't recommend making a film with an iPhone either. At the very least you want to be able to mount your camera on a tripod. But if you're going to spend $500 I'd recommend getting some good wireless mics over a DSLR.
PRNewsWire can be forgiven, they literally just publish press releases, they don't offer opinions on them.
This seems wonderful. It's exactly the sort of practical solution that could really make a big dent in the patent problem, and to see it actually come into being with the cooperation of the USPTO and Google Patent Search is very, very heartening.

I hope folks here will take time to read this new site from time to time and raise any particularly problematic patent applications to their circles. There's the risk of reading a patent and then potentially being made liable for trebled damages, but hopefully any ridiculous patents will get filtered out by this system, reducing the risk of violation in the first place.

I see a two-tier system emerging: a group of "frontline" patent reviewers reading AskPatents regularly, and a wider group of people interested in patents within an industry. If only the really problematic patents are brought to the attention of the wider group, they won't have to worry so much about liability for trebled damages. The "frontline" people reading new submissions on AskPatents and trumpeting out the basket cases - they'll be the ones taking on the trebled-damages risk. I hope there'll be some among us who can play this role. (It'll probably end up being interested hobbyists or the patent-hunting departments of large corporations.)

edit: I wonder if there's any mechanism for discussion of approved patents? This might provide the seed material for patent reexamination, which in turn allows for patent invalidation. If people review approved patents and start offering prior art for some, any patent trolls intending to wield those patents might start having second thoughts, because it'll look like those patents are on shaky legal ground. This way, even after being granted, questionable patents could still be cast into doubt. Maybe I'm overoptimistic, but how far could Spolsky/the PTO push this?

edit2: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like there's no "patent application stream" on AskPatents, so it's basically a bog-standard discussion board for patents right now. It might be more handy if it had an integrated feed from the patent application database (no need for an API, even an RSS feed would work).
Or the flexibility to do them at all. The old Maps and YouTube apps were written and maintained by Apple.
I think that, though computer science has permeated a number of different fields, its core study remains more relevant than ever. There are important theoretical problems in CS and so much more potential to be unlocked in other fields s.t. the core study remains necessary to understand how it can be better applied.

Also, there are areas in computer science that wouldn't be 100% applicable to, say, bioinformatics (e.g. cryptography) but may be very applicable in a much more generalized sense. I don't think we've delved into computer science for long enough that its study can be relegated and subjugated within other fields. That it is taught alongside courses in other fields speaks more to its practicality than its diminishing relevance as a standalone field.
That extreme is frustrating. Working with a bunch of characters who all want to be in charge and change the world is irritating as well.
These changed haven't been applied to Github:Enterprise yet.
Isn't it a reference to the maize's treatment to grow with Roundup being applied?

'The researchers hypothesize that the reason why NK603 GM maize, NK603 sprayed with Roundup, and Roundup on its own, all produced very similar negative health outcomes, is that both the GM maize and the weedkiller Roundup "may cause hormonal disturbances in the same biochemical and physiological pathway."'
It doesn't matter to customers whether or not the data will eventually improve - there are significant feature and quality regressions today that will cause delays in iOS6 adoption and directly work against the popular perception of their most important product. Everyone get their digs in now, because the titan doesn't stumble often.
"Head of Skitch" is the name of the job that was forwarded to me on LinkedIn. They are apparently looking for someone to run the division in Austin which includes about 30 employees. This person would be responsible for figuring out how to make it successful, something that clearly hasn't happened yet.
I agree.

I'm in the UK, and has done quite a bit of work in the payment space, and I've kept seeing this all the time.

On one hand, a lot of US companies just ignore the European markets. On the other hand, a lot of the ones that try demonstrate why:

Assumption after assumption about regulatory regime, languages, culture etc. need to be beaten out of them. When they grasp multiple languages, you can bet a lot of them will get caught out with multiple languages in a single country (this one always confuses me - so many US companies deal with at least Spanish that you'd think more companies would be prepared to deal with this). Then there's inevitably issues around VAT/sales tax, and engineers who don't have the faintest understanding for just how strict handling of invoices are in some European countries (I remember when my dad still had to print out every electronic invoice he issued and glue them in on numbered pages in a book to satisfy the auditors - thankfully things have moved on somewhat, but US engineers: Stop making systems where invoices can even theoretically be mutable after issuing already, and you'll be vastly better placed for international markets).
Tangent: Waze also wants to kill you.

That may sound flip, but I'm very serious. Their app commits the cardinal sin of going out of its way to distract people who are driving a ton of metal and plastic at high speeds (what the hell is a mapping application doing with "pick-ups" on the road and why the hell is it beeping at me for it?!). It's the most irresponsible app I've seen on a phone. I don't call many companies "evil" but Waze seems maliciously so.
This is awesome, my only fear is that it only stops new Patents, giving existing dubious patents even more power, since it will be harder to create a new "defensive" Patent?
Do you know if you used TomTom or AutoNavi maps? In my limited testing not long ago TomTom was pretty bad here in China and AutoNavi was like a black hole out side of it.
I really don't like arguments of the form "It's hard and I can raise some questions, so we should stop thinking about it."

Also, it's generally unhelpful to say "solution X is totally wrong" without then offering a concrete solution yourself. Poking holes is certainly fun and satisfying on some level, but really, the status quo doesn't need a lot of help.
Apple will have something much better in one year

It certainly will be better but I'm not holding my breath about Apple maps surpassing Google Maps any time soon. Google bought a Rasmussen brothers' company (what eventually became Google Maps) in 2004. That's eight years of product development, data collection, storage and refining -- all at Google's pace. Will Apple find some shortcut to compress this time in one-two year? Unlikely.

It's very easy to underestimate the amount of pure, repetitive effort required to build products of this sort and how hard it is to "disrupt" the industries with players like Google.
If you use Google's transit maps at all you'd know how it's pretty much a step below the original native Maps app. The only thing going for the mobile web version is bike routes otherwise it's still a below par experience compared to Maps.
How about just sticking with iOS 5 until Apple fixes this? Is it really that important to upgrade to 6? (obviously doesn't apply to the new phone)

The latest doesn't always mean the greatest.
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A pity the Silicon Valley view is not the path to happiness, as far as I know.

Teach the children to be able to be really free. This means: reading and writing and the five rules above all.

BUT (big but): writing is NOT just being able to write down a dictation. Reading is NOT just reading aloud.

The rest is mostly crap. [OK I may be biased because I am a maths professor, so the five rules might be reduced to the four ones, just in case].
Yea, I still can't get my head around letting a 16 year old specilise based on some sort of long term plan. The problem with a lot of 'education reform' ideas is they take a more is better approach without separating those things that are useful for everyone vs. the foundations for continuing to focus in that area.

IMO, there are basic skills that everyone needs, such as understanding compound interest and letting students decide they don't need to know the basics is a horrible idea. That said being able to name the platonic solids is not a life skill. IMO, have some basic stills you need to graduate, let students test out of classes, and have stream lined versions of subjects that focus on what's important vs. what's been traditionally been taught.

PS: I question why someone would think a semester of Drivers ED is optional for anyone that's not blind, but we still need 4 years of English to graduate irregardless of actual proficiency.
There seem to be a few different problems being solved by the suggestions in the comments:

1. I don't want to send out emails in dev mode. At all. (mailsafe)
2. I want an easier way of looking at the emails my server does send out (letter_opener, mailcatcher, mails_viewer)
3. I want to be able to preview an email without having to do the action that triggers it (mail_view)
That's little consolation to people who've bought the iPhone 5.
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> It's really hard to find meal ready to eat that aren't full of carbohydrates.

There's your startup.
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It may depend on whether you buy with Linux support in mind (having waited for someone else to do the spadework, and posted the results to Ubuntu Forums or wherever). There are machines where everything really does Just Work, with at most a few proprietary drivers that are in most distribution repos. (And I've had models from several manufacturers needing at most minor tweaks going back ten years or so --- FWIW, one machine that needed custom scripts to get the display-dimming function keys to work right.)

But if you buy on raw hardware specs, and then try to get Linux working after that, odds are that you'll run into something (sleep/wakeup issues, flaky Broadcom wireless drivers, or lately, problems with fussy trackpads) which will be real trouble.

So, you can get a pretty trouble-free Linux experience, if you do research --- but it might not be the exact machine you want, and it probably won't be anything bleeding-edge.
Yes, it is possible! Can you drop me an e-mail (you can find it on our site) on how do you plan to use the service for this purpose. Skype call could be best!
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I also love using Python's integrated SMTP server.

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25

This will just spit out the raw email.

Edit: you need root permission to listen on port 25. Otherwise you can use a different port > 1024.
I use Nitrous.
Whenever I had a tough Solaris x86 problem, a web search would usually turn up information from Cuddletech.
A bit unrelated, but I wanted to thank Mark and @fat, I think the president of the United States and the governor of the Universe should personally award them for creating so many jobs throughout the world. Bootstrap created lots of opportunities for people, startups, established companies and everyone in between. I really appreciate the work of @markdotto and @fat making Bootstrap. You guys rock!
Can't wait to see the consequences of this. I hope Google delays their iOS maps a while so people can get frustrated with Apple.
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> Sometimes I wonder if iPhone people experience the same kind of disappointments ... and when they do it makes me feel a little warm inside.

Sometimes.

The iOS4 update on iPhone 3G was absolutely terrible, the phone became pretty much unusable. The 4.1 update made it less unusable, but the phone was never restored to its former snappiness (unless down-dated to iOS 3.1)

There's also the issue of updates being (at least somewhat) intentionally nerfed for older devices. Sometimes it's explainable by hardware or performance issues, even if a stretch, but other times it feels like complete arbitrary bullshit:

* for iOS3, 3G owners couldn't "view or create 'Invitees' on a Calendar event" while 3GS users could

* for iOS4 3G owners not only didn't get multitasking (acceptable considering the performance issues) but they didn't get the fast-switching UI and attached tools (orientation lock) or larger fonts in messaging applications (...) either

* for iOS4.2 3GS users didn't get the expanded set of text tones

* for iOS5, 3GS users didn't get location-based reminders (geofencing)

* for iOS6, neither 3GS nor 4 owners get turn-by-turn navigation or panorama mode; 3GS owners don't get offline reading lists