skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting, but what would be the alternative?

Rob Pike's dream setup "is a computing world where I don't have to carry at least three computers - laptop, tablet, phone, not even counting cameras and iPod and other oddments - around with me in order to function in the modern world. The world should provide me my computing environment and maintain it for me and make it available everywhere. If this were done right, my life would become much simpler and so could yours."

In this situation, there would be public phones, public computers available in sufficient quantity everywhere. Think of the necessary amount of work to install, maintain, and upgrade such a setup. In a capitalist society, there would be different brands providing access to their own solutions, and thus a lot of Blackberry, Apple, or <your favorite carrier> kiosks all over the place.

You could think that with such a scheme, costs would prohibit a rapid evolution of services, as we witness them in current business models. Would we get the iKiosks updated each year with new firmware, or the latest multitouch screens? In comparison, how much money is being poured by individuals in upgrades for their personal stuff? What is the overall cost (i.e. money that could be spent on something else).

There's the real estate issue also. How much space would be consumed by those kiosks, and how much would it cost?

It would be interesting to estimate all the pros and cons of that dream setup, and compare it with our current situation.
Seth Godin writing about crowdsourcing : http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/09/beyond-crowd...
I highly doubt it's something that simple, the OP had been self hosting a blog network on Linode. There's no way he made that simple of a mistake.
I'm following the ecat and Rossi story about the possible LENR device that he has (supposedly) built. Everything regarding this matter is surrounded by mystery and a lot of people objecting the tests.

I hope to see some serious development from other parties like
NASA. Could be really cool.
Even if the product names have an article, you can still read them differently.
Indeed, the economics of hydroponics would suggest that it should already dominate commercial vegetable production. The main reason they're not, is because municipalities greatly undervalue water, and because agriculture is so highly subsidized and so it's hard for hydroponics to compete.

1. Underselling water

Municipal water prices set by local government greatly undervalue the actual rarity of water. With so many aquifers running out, and rivers stretched to the max, especially in the west, I'm surprised there could be this much myopia on an issue that is clearly far more serious and immediate issue than energy. Right now the only pressure to reduce water use seems to be on consumers (watering policies, low-water use appliances), but they only use 11% of it.

2. Subsidized agriculture.

This is a more well known issue so I don't think I need to repeat it here.
I didn't mention it in the blog post, but I also rang them. Several times. Mostly I got placed on hold until I gave up.

I am in Perth, Australia. This means I need to stay up until 10pm in order to speak to them.

Like I said, that part is on me for not finding out their hours in advance.
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Pissing off bloggers is probably the worst thing you can do, given that they'll likely blog about it..!
On the same page, "it is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed".

If I tell you I think you're lazy, that's rude but it isn't defamy. If I write you a letter and you publish it, it's still not defamy.

If I talk to your boss and tell him I think you're lazy (without evidence) that may be defamy. If I publish a letter to you telling you you're lazy, that may be defamy.

And no, this has nothing to do with the rest of the issue.
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I'm sorry, why is it my obligation to be nice to an expensive, specialist business who utterly let me down?

Especially given the content and tenor of their marketing.
I've had a radically different experience with WP Engine and would happily recommend them to others, and have done so.

I went through 3 or 4 different providers, and the only place that i was really happy with setup, infrastructure and support was WPEngine.

As some of the other guys have stated regards the caching and their suitability to vanilla installs, i think that is most likely the case, and yes mine was a pretty vanilla install in the grand scheme of things, but i'd still choose them over anyone else.
Thanks for the feedback. I generally concur that there has to be a story for a visualization to be successful. The goal with this project was different for once. All data comes verbatim from one Wikipedia page. The goal was to explore how rich Wikipedia content can be presented more interactively and visually appealing.

As to the interaction you suggested: you can click yourself from map to map using the navigation at the bottom instead of having to go back to the tiles.
What's not true? (what's 'it' that you talk about)
Lol, I dislike how it's used, not what it is. Also, bear in mind that NLP requires a LOT of effort to pull off (reading it and using the techniques for a month or two will not yield much).
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I did not give advice.
This sort of thinking is actually a large part of the piece.. I'd highly recommend giving it an honest and unaffected read, it's thought-provoking stuff
You can already do this with Labview and National Instruments hardware. It is quite easy to program and Labview is inherently a parallel language so you get that for free, but the price is way too high.

One FPGA module costs around 3000 $ and a Labview licence costs around 10000 $, at least in Denmark. It is probably cheaper in the US.
WPEngine uses NFS/NAS which is a show-stopper. Dreamhost has the same issue, and GoDaddy (still?)

You never, ever, use NFS on something with hundreds of files to load for every page (ie. WordPress).

Every file takes 2-2.5ms to stat/load on NFS (from my tests on WPengine) which seems small but adds up fast.

It means you instantly have 700ms or more of overhead on the SERVER side to render a page (not transmit to the browser, just to render).

You can somewhat get around this by using an opcode cache and turning off file stat but there are still some files that have to be checked like static data read from the disk and turning stat off has other issues when editing code like having to flush the cache.
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i'm not sure the same logic applies, to be honest. setting up CRM is a lot more intensive than setting up a twitter account, for example. i think you neglect to take that into account.
Personally, I switched to a tiled WM because I didn't want to go back and forth between keyboard and mouse all the time. I want an editor which I can handle using keyboard alone, and only use the mouse when I really have to (web, drawing, games - perhaps I should use a trackball).
Acme relies too much on the mouse for me, but I like the idea a lot.

There's another couple of issues: syntax highlighting, large scale refactoring (which is not easy either with vi or emacs atm).

However, once you get accustomed to a certain workflow, it becomes difficult to accept something new. Maybe I should give it a shot.
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When it was working, I found WPEngine snappy.
Not to mention the fact, that the man could've been simply misdiagnosed. It was 60s after all...
they can be read differently, but what is the default for most people? I honestly don't know, but have an idea that MS/Apple/Google others have people who study this sort of stuff and do it for a particular reason. I may be way off there though.
I don't know... Even in records, Amazon are allowed to inaccurately call you a filthy good-for-nothing and these would not be subject to EU Privacy requests. They're not FOIA requests. You don't get to request a copy of your whole file like you can with the FBI. Amazon is not a public body.

Its privacy requirements are limited to giving you a copy of your personal information. Name. Address. Phone number.

Anything else (including the marker labelling you as a pillaging hobo) is their proprietary business intelligence and good luck convincing them otherwise.
I guess you're the Samos type.
For what it worth - they are hiring. Probably to this exact reason - to bump up quality of their service (although their recruiter was not responsive, I guess I did not fit their requirements :))
The research I've read seemed conclusive that what you eat is as important or more important as how much. Intuitively it makes sense that giving you body the correct building blocks would make it healthier and that's definitely not just a function of quantity. And from what I've read the science supports it as well. Here's a relevant book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Anticancer-New-Way-Life-Edition/dp/067...
I want a two word tl;dr summary of every article in the title:

How fast is... Apple.com? (tl;dr: not very);
Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface (tl;dr: pretty interesting).
Thank you very much for linking to the "view all" page.
What part would you be interested in? Pretty much everything that Plan 9 has is available in some kind of fashion for other operating systems, often in a more specialized manner. And by the time you hack the performance and compatibility into Plan 9's kernel and drivers (if its minimalism would allow it), you could port/re-implement most of what you'd be missing.

The main part that made this distributed nature possible was 9P, a network protocol/file system. And distributed file systems are a dime a dozen now. Hadoop, S3, GFS, GlusterFS are all vital elements of "the cloud", never mind old staples like NFS, AFS etc.

For "cloud needs", they're better suited (fault tolerance, performance…). The big thing about Plan 9 (and Bell Laps software in general) wasn't its novelty, but its scope, narrowing down everything in a typical network environment down to a few protocols, APIs and GUIs. Not really all that applicable for serving bits to browsers.

Never mind the bandwidth. Plan 9 was mostly text in a LAN.
…and they never accepted my credit card.

Just because you have a bad experience it doesn't mean that it sucks. My experience with WPEngine has been fantastic.
Thanks! I suppose that's not too surprising; I've yet to hear of anybody open sourcing their core OpenGL implementation (is there even an open implementation other than Mesa?). It would be fun, in a sense, to have raw access to the VideoCore components without any existing firmware. Judging from this comment[0] of yours that I found on a Google search, I'm not the first to think so.

Now, as I've said before, if the RPi gets solid USB host and isochronous transfer support (for e.g. Kinect, USB audio devices), then it will be unbeatable.

[0] http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6...
I would also throw out that the Rumble provided a server setup script that automatically used Capistrano and MySQL, so it would hurt your time a little had you not used what they provided. That may have skewed the deploy/database usage results a bit. The only reason I used MySQL was that I essentially got it for free through the setup script.
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The article did not become propaganda.
You say "no extra effort", as if widespread platform support, hardware acceleration, more than one high-quality implementation, significant support by authoring software, and direct-to-format hardware capture would happen for free. Avoiding royalties would be nice - although it's almost certain we'd still have lawsuits absent patent reform - but as a business decision that's a LOT to give up.

I really think Mozilla did the web a disservice. They should have implemented platform codec support immediately and added other formats so content vendors could adopt HTML5 video independent of the codec wars
I suspect that for 99% of customers, WPEngine is fine. Excellent, even. Certainly better than barrel-bottom shared hosting outfits.

But I wasn't asking for anything exotic. A multisite network, not very large, not much traffic. It says, right there on their site, that they support multisite networks.

So I guess I ... well ... expected that they would be able to support a multisite network.
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Those are also the two reasons that meat is so cheap. The real costs of meat are 1-2 orders of magnitude greater than what people pay now.
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As long as the guy at best buy can explain the difference between Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT, it doesn't matter.

The uninformed consumer will go to others for guidance. As long as the CSR's are informed there won't be a problem.
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It is not that much about diet, it is about having less stress and worries of all kinds, and have good habits, such as mixing periods of physical activity and with total rest (taking naps).

It is not like staying all the time in a passive stress (or depression) - having a high level of stress hormones without any physical activities.

And the last but not least, there are emotion contagiousness - one can see it a subway. "Toxic people" is very real thing.

Then comes the media with its pressure about sex (which is about youth and health) and wealth (which is a weak substitute for the two former), and these material pseudo-achievements that one must accomplish.

All these factors together, plus many more - such as drinking water, air, soil in which vegetables and grapes grown, contributes to longevity, of course. But it seems like there is no one which makes it all - no shortcut, no way to buy it.

I believe it is much more about the state of the mind, which influence everything, including inner bodily processes and rhythms. Mind is first, environment is second, adversaries is third. ''Hell is other people'', you know.)
That the guy survived lung cancer seems more likely a misdiagnosis or rare spontaneous remission than some kind of cause-effect.

My vote however does go for: stress level, diet, and enough physical activity. Genetics too but you can't control that.
I think access to cheap, small and powerful computers would probably improve and it make it turnkey. My guess is it is pretty complicated to get all the factors right. Figuring out things like why are my fish dying, why is there a disease in my lettuce, etc., can get complicated.
There was an RTS game in the late 90's that did something like this. It was peer to peer, with peers broadcasting their input events to each other and running mirrored simulations in lockstep. So the bandwidth used was trivial since you can code a keypress or mouse click in just a couple bytes, but any packet loss would degrade the game for all peers. So they just duplicated the last packets input data in successive packets. No algebraic coding or any other attempt to save bandwidth, since the data was already trivial.
You don't need to wait a few months to get "real" x86 Windows 8 tablets. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba are all releasing x86 Windows 8 tablets and/or convertibles this week.

So you'll need to wait if you specifically want the Microsoft Surface Pro, but you'll have other choices starting on Friday. In fact there will be more x86 devices than ARM devices shipping with Windows 8 this week.
Maxed out both my cpu cores. Is framelimiting or similar techniques hard to do in Javascript?
I've said it before, but we've got a few years before we really see the post-Jobs apple. Like the OP I find it very strange that people keep coming up with comments about Jobs wouldn't do X.

Steve has been dead for only a bit over a hear. The time it takes to deliver products like the iPad Mini or iPhone 5 are a tad longer than that.

We'll see the real post-Jobs Apple in another four or five years time. After we've had the products that aren't even on the drawing board delivered by people hired after Steve died.
>> "But... it's not called Metro anymore."

Customers won't care. Most people don't follow the development of a software product and will call it Windows 8. If they need to differentiate between the desktop and the new interface they'll come up with their own way to describe it (the tile interface for example).

>> "And Windows RT and WinRT are different things."

Windows RT is the tablet operating system. WinRT is the Windows Run Time something customers will never hear mentioned and never care about.

As for the 'full' Windows 8 tablets vs the arm Windows RT ones I don't think consumers will care either. Most people will probably try it before buying, see what it can do, and as long as it still does that when they get it home they'll be happy. Full Windows 8 tablets will be quite a bit more expensive by the sounds of things anyway so they'll be aimed at a different market.
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/ru-RU/app/remote-desktop/05...
My least favourite part of this type of sharing is when all the competitors come along to now try to pitch their wares. It's not clever, it's not classy, it's just lame.

I don't doubt this was a shit experience, it certainly sounds incredibly infuriating.

Jason & his team work super hard, and have thousands of happy customers, so they're doing lots right. Even the greatest of companies can screw things up now and then, especially in non-straight-forward situations. I'm sure he'll put it right.
I'm a Mac/Linux guy so I really don't care that much about Windows. However, I am a "let's just roll with it kind of person," so if you do like Windows why not just give Microsoft a chance? They are taking a bold step forward. How about giving it a chance? Even if it's a "failure", it'll still be bigger than my two favorite OS's in a matter of ... weeks ...or months?
You guys do a really great job.

To be perfectly honest, I've kind of fallen out of love with web development in the last year and have taken more of an interest in algorithmic trading. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
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Though I agree that the parent comment was unhelpful and a bit ungrateful, there is at least one good reason to want source code, especially for one-of-a-kind GPU processors. It's just plain interesting.

Asking for 'the blob' is akin to asking for the firmware source to a hard disk. Even if you had it you could not do much with it.

Play. Is that not enough? I'd love to experiment with hard drive firmware, toy with different caching algorithms, learn about the algorithms that convert between the analog signals at the heads and the data sent to the host, etc.
+1
“Getting people and organizations in sync is the project of our times.”
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This idea's about the right thing to do then.
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I'm very curious to see how this kind of thing scales. I've yet to see what I think are truly sustainable plans for vertical farming but I'm hoping they come soon.
Rob Pike was one of the earliest advocates __against__ the use of traditional "dumb" terminals (including the "smart" ones, e.g., DEC's VT-100+ line). Early on, he developed Blit and brought the mouse to Unix. Later, he helped develop Plan 9, an operating system that's far more advanced (in some respects) than what we have today.

He is not and has never been "steeped in the 'old ways'".
Just wanted to mention that the supply from Element 14 in Australia is outstanding. I put in an order for 2x model B's two weeks ago and received them both (512mb model) last thursday ... approx. an 8 day wait.
>I'm just suggesting that you refrain from the public flogging and find another solution.

If you've spent more than a day in any online community you should have already learned that this, although it may not be preferable for the company at fault, is the fastest way to get something fixed or something changed.

It'd be irresponsible for Jacques to stand by silently and suck up all the time and money he wasted days after there was a great PR piece for WPEngine on the front-page of this site because it would lead to others having his issue which he could help prevent.

This is a community. It's not an advertisement source. People vote on things they find interesting and discuss them, it's not a place to only post positive things about up and coming companies and hide all sources of negative news.
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I'd suggest that you need to work out whether you want an ally with that much baggage and that many enemies.

People who are ideologically aligned to you you stand by, people who are co-incidentally aligned to you you get to choose. In the case of Kim dotcom I think I'd want to stand a long way away from the man - some of the current stuff may be trumped up but the older stuff seems pretty nailed on.
I recently removed some code that stat'd 4000 files over NFS. It took ~5 seconds, so it wasn't as bad as you say. Also, I'm pretty sure NFS can do better if you tune it.
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Thanks.
Wow, I wonder if they'd accept us.
I was thinking the same thing, but still this doesn't make what he says any less true.
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I wonder if this article has some sort of selection bias. After all, communities that have the lowest and highest rates of cancer in the US are small towns of <100 people.

It's easy to find several small towns in the US where people have unusually high longevity. After all, you have many to choose from.

What's more curious is to make a hypothesis around diet and exercise, and then show causality across all similar islands in Greece.
The bottom line ...

"If you're an early adopter willing to forget everything you know about navigating a computer, the Surface tablet could replace your laptop. Everyone else: wait for more apps."
It's possible but not so likely, the 60s was not the Middle Ages. In any case, he was clearly very sick when he returned to the island and eventually felt better, became strong and lived into his 90's. Not that that proves anything in itself. It's just a journalistic device to illustrate the point of the story which is that people on this island do live a remarkably long time and that it's worth asking why this is so.