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> I think the journalistic epistemology it dismisses is actually a good one

I disagree with this. Basically, the journalistic "epistemology" the article describes is that journalists get access to information the rest of us can't see, so we have to take their word for whatever they say about it. That doesn't seem like a good thing to me. I don't want journalists, or anybody else, to pre-digest my information for me. I want to see the raw data. If they want to show me their spin on the data in a separate article, that's OK, but if I can't see the actual data they base their spin on, I don't trust their conclusions.
How I Enabled the Cult of Lance Armstrong
No, google has one customer: advertisers. Searchers don't directly make Google any money, advertisers do. Google is not a public utility, it's the most successful online advertising machine ever.
How did the DragonFlyBSD team performance benchmark [1] against Postgres version 9.3 when the latest stable release is 9.2.1 and no development release of 9.3 is available?

[1] http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20...
Yes, the selection and implementation of equality is open to suspicion.

I reject your implication that the state/government are somehow separate from those governed, however. Without that, all you are saying is that equality is a flawed concept, owing to the fact that government has so many stakeholders, with disparate, wide-ranging and sometimes conflicting interests -- and therefore any notion of equality formed by consensus will fail to completely satisfy someone.

The ideal of equality before the law, however, remains -- something which cannot be said for a pay-for-play justice system. You are changing the subject by drawing attention to the flaws of the current justice system. The original statement you made was a positive assertion about the qualities of a theoretical private arbitration system.

I see that you added "when a competitor could easily pop up who offers transparency and a lack of vested interests" since I wrote my comment. To this, I can only groan and roll my eyes. Who will pay for such a system? Why would someone who can pay prefer a fair system to an unfair system? All other things being equal, if you have to pay $X for justice, would you rather have a fair hearing or one where a favorable outcome is determined?
(yeah we both had green lights)

Ha, the more you know. I have an out-of-state license, and learned how to drive in Europe, where this would definitely not be legal. Guess I should move my butt to a local DMV and get a local license and learn the local quirks.
Because it requires a lot more mental effort to parse a headline without vowels, and people don't want to expend mental effort to parse headlines; they want to be able to make an instant decision on the question "do I bother clicking on this headline or not?" Lack of vowels makes that much harder.
There is no way you're going to waterproof an electric car to the extent it can survive total immersion in seawater without doubling the cost. Immersing an electric car in seawater will kill it. Immersing a gasoline burning car in seawater will kill it. Immersing a gasoline burning boat will probably destroy the engine too.

Dropping a car in the ocean is far, far outside of the design envelope. It is simply not reasonable to expect the manufacturer to add cost to endure that unlikely of an event.
I find I disagree with a lot of your opinions but do find many of them interesting. I haven't made of study of your posts so I can't say whether they _all_ bear the pattern that eropple describes but I'm sorry to say that many of them do. Your first post in this thread does, as eropple pointed out.

I do think there is a lot of bad downvoting and that there are certain demographics (were you expecting a flat distribution?) which results in the suppression of certain types of opinion to some extent. You are correct there. But this doesn't help:

"haters going to hate, and leftists hate private property and fandroids hate apple."

If you take an offensive position right at the top of the thread, how do you expect people to respond?
> Politicians, by and large, are fairly numerate.

Got any data to back this up?
I'm really amazed (and impressed) at how many mentions & links Vote-USA got throughout that article. Seemed like an inordinate amount for the number of times it was mentioned.

Also, I get the whole "we got deindexed" from Google, but duplicate content is not necessarily a new thing. If you got penalized for it, so did a bunch of other people. You shouldn't act like it's a surprise and whine about it. Just fix it and move on.
Two men from indicted BitTorrent group imprisoned for movie piracy
Why is it a goof not to design the car to survive complete salt water immersion? Combined with protecting all the electronics and interior, I imagine that would add a large price to every single car for a situation everyone knows totals the car anyway. I don't think I'd pay anything extra for that feature, at least.
Amazing but what a ramshackle-looking device!

Reminded me of that 1970s VW Beetle advert: "It's ugly, but it gets you there." (IIRC)
That word "entertaining" is the root of the problem. People don't want to actually think about issues; they want to be entertained. You can't fix problems by being entertained.
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Fascinatingly, 84% of these scenarios are Obama wins, which is surprisingly closeto fivethirtyeight's current projection of 85%.
Google has 2 customers: Searchers AND customers.

Google has to get searchers to sell to advertisers. That said, the generic 'websites' mentioned above are not Google customers. Google does not "owe" them anything – they owe the searchers the best results and the advertisers clicks at a certain cost. The only thing those other websites do with their free listings are attract eyeballs to Google's engine.
Neat.

How did you get google to serve up a white tileset? Or did you generate your own?
Not just that, it stopped it at the most awkward place in the story:

>He made his reputation as a pure mathematician by inventing concepts such as the “Wiener measure” that …
> There's tons more, but I'm not a practitioner of SEO.

Sounds like you know an awful lot about SEO and consequences for not being a "practitioner."
Usually the marketing team is tasked to generate leads. Where do they play into all of this? How can they help sales?
Refurbished smartphones for developing countries.
The entire premise of this article seems bogus to me.

"Google casts a big shadow on smaller web sites."

That title implies that Google is specifically targeting smaller web sites which isn't the case.

The problem seems to be that some shady small business did some shady stuff, got caught and got mad about it.

Google didn't go and replace them with walmart, they probably replaced them in the results with a similar sized company. Someone lost and someone won – that's it.

I'm the first to say Google should step up it's customer service, but it's disingenuous to act like Google is proactively seeking out small businesses who never did anything wrong in favor of big massive conglomerations.
Would you refer to some sources supporting your argument?
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This seems similar to Hollywood complaining that dvd sales are down because people want to stream stuff over the internet.

Technology changes. The rules change. Don't complain that you built a company based on outdated business strategies (renting dvds or monetizing search traffic). Change your strategy and take advantage of the new opportunities.
It's worth noting that PC manufacturers had a variety of 'palmtops' and 'subnotebooks' based on low-power RISC chips & Windows CE, going back to the 1990s.

IMO, this segment was largely a casualty of Microsoft's disinterest in web browser development. If they had something approaching a working browser, these devices might have found their niche. MS also lost interest in CE, which should have been the place to define 'industry standards' for 'managing the power architecture'.

When Windows CE was released, it inspired a lot of talk about "Only the paranoid survive" and "MS doesn't want someone to do to them what they did to IBM". Somewhere along the way that was all forgotten.
I can sympathize with Nextag on the topic of Google entering their market and possibly being a little less than objective regarding their own product (Benjamin Edelman has written about this several times: http://www.benedelman.org/).

On the other hand, getting 60% traffic from Google is very unhealthy (18 mil. of 30 mil. monthly users?) and doesn't make Nextag look like a site people stick to because of its quality. None of the sites I visit daily (directly) has anywhere near that much search traffic (according to Alexa), so perhaps Nextag hits are perceived by searchers as "generic", interchangeable results that happen to rank well on Google and they don't care much whether the hits are from Nextag, Google Shopping or any other e-commerce site.
Where I live, Verizon and AT&T are the only carriers with service, and both of them are more or less dedicated to the phone/contract ball and chain. To my knowledge it is not even possible to buy a retail, unlocked CDMA phone (for Verizon).
Read the article. The service is for an enhanced way of opening the gate, not for opening it in the first place.
They really are trying to make money. Read Entrepreneurial Finance by Leach / Melicher. They list a few things:

Market Size potential > $100 million

Venture growth rate > 30%

Market share > 20%

Legally protectable IP

Gross margins > 50%

After-tax margins >20%

Break even within two years

IPO within two years

There are non-financial factors such as the type of business. Most people will not want to invest in something that seems unethical or has legal risks.

Also there's the novelty of the idea, who else is investing, etc. Maybe some investors can chime in.
For about $2500/month you can put a rack of machines into a colo connected to the peering net. Depending on how clever you are that's like 1/2 PB of disk space and plenty of CPU to host what ever you want.

You can do it for less than that if you're willing to rent an 'office' near a tie point. Just takes a bit more work, and of course you are always going to be threatened with the government coming in and taking all your servers if they don't like you but, that's kinda the way it is.
In hindsight now, was Dillon correct in his approach to SMP & threading implementation over FreeBSD 5's approach?
How New Yorkers Adjusted to Sudden Smartphone Withdrawal after Hurricane Sandy
Without Microsoft, Dell would not exist as a major hardware provider (Samsung and others, are left as an exercise for the reader).

It was Microsoft's business innovation of separating the operating system from the hardware that formed the foundation upon which Dell was built, and which sent companies like DEC, Wang, and Commodore to extinction. IBM and Apple only survived by reinventing themselves as something different.
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Obviously there's at least one spectrum here.
The rather famous 'Top Gear tries to kill a Toyota Hilux'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

The part when the Hilux goes in the English Channel (which is salt water).
It could be that the times lowered its paywall after Sandy, and only just reinstated it, so people have been able to explore and find more interesting articles than usual.
Shut up. All of you.
Be a "what needs to be get done" #Engineer
‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance
Startups are generally better structured as C-corps rather than S-corps due to the likelihood of of pursuing outside investors and retaining earnings to fuel growth.

Therefore, they tend to have radically different needs than the type of small business Legal Zoom targets with its services
Postgres 9.3-devel: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/install-getsourc...
How to hire great developers and great managers based on personality
A diesel, with a far simpler ignition system. (well, old gas cars or dirtbikes with carbs are kind of the same way, but lack of spark plugs makes diesels even better with water)
Why Should Web Design Be A Profession?
Unix, as an environment, uses a handful of primitive paradigms. You will not learn much if you're using an advanced language.

If you were to learn Oz[1] in this manner, none of the its powerful features will be called for to implement simple filter programs, transforming text, and crashing when confused by unexpected input.

For languages that support advanced features, you're better off modeling "advanced" systems. Say, in the case of Oz, you might be better off modeling a secure microkernel or a VM; not dumb text processors.

--

[1] http://www.mozart-oz.org/
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Came here to say essentially the same thing. In designing a 400A speed controller for my Battlebot I got to learn all about MOSFETs and their current ratings.

In this case the MOSFET is rated with a max current of 5A @ 25 degrees C if the gate is driven with a 5v signal. It has an 80 mOhm resistance when fully enhanced. So at 5A that is 2Watts of power dissipation (p = i^2r) and since the case has a thermal constant of 62 degrees C/W that means the case will be at 149 degrees C (25 + 62 2W) which causes Rds(on) to double and that 'explodes' the MOSFET. If the device was successfully carrying .5A loads then then the case is only good for about 20mW of power dissipation (which looks reasonable given the package size). So gluing a copper heak sink to the FETs with at least 2 sq inches of surface area would probably keep them alive with a .75A load. If you combined that with about 150 CFM of air flow at sea level (225 CFM at 8,000 ft) you'd stay pretty solidly inside the 'not to be exploding' parts of the parameter graphs.
Pot smoking in Cali gets you a citation at best. It's not obvious where she was, and SF's not going track down alleged pot smokers. All the actions mentioned in the article were violent acts and felonies.
PX00307, also known when Windows NT was born.
I don't hear voices or see things. I talk to God.

We have no power to communicate with someone who is enchanted into what they want to believe. There is magic which warps and twists my words so I cannot communicate. Just give-up.

God says...

76:1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword,
and the battle. Selah.

76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
none of the men of might have found their hands.

76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
cast into a dead sleep.

76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight
when once thou art angry?

----

Not random:

25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

----

It sucks getting persecuted--made impotent patronized tortured locked up given wicked meds, but God rewards me for it.
No, that's illegal and he was in the wrong.

> 2. Right turn. Begin and end the turn in the lane nearest the righthand curb. Do not swing wide into another lane of traffic.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/turns.htm
I generally use ST for web development stuff. I use the following packages:

1. Tag
2. HTML Prettify
3. Sublime Intel
Congratulations! A nice slap in the face too for those people who constantly rant about kids/young people being distracted too much and unable to learn much nowdays (by the Web/new technologies/gadgets). It's the adults who get distracted and become unproductive, kids' brains adapt more easily.
You can often approach hosting providers out of band and arrange deals for sites that are normally against their TOS. I've seen it happen on multiple occasions.
Apple just needs to get into cloud services more so they can compete. I don't feel bad.
> And no the electoral college does not exist to avoid deadlock. Do you know what the chances of deadlock are in a popular vote of about 100 million people?

It might not be the intention to avoid deadlock (I have no idea). But it could definitely happen. You don't need an even split for this to occur, just enough to require a recount, which in a popular vote might mean recounting every single vote in the country which would be a nightmare.
This is not secure. At the very least, you're trusting Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to not alter or drop votes. This is a terrible idea.
When China does dumping, you don't call it a good thing, right? This is essentially the same thing: taking advantage of a success business in one market to eliminate competitors in another market by pricing things at near cost or even below cost. In case of Amazon and Google, they are using money from other divisions to fund the mobile hardware division; in case of China, they are using profit from other state-owned enterprises to fund dumping in solar panel, for instance.
The article says it was a Prius. In fact, a couple of other hybrid Prius's (Prii?) got hot and were smoldering too.
I disagree with the comment about Sony unable to match Apple's design. I have an Xperia S and although I don't flaunt it around, people who have seen it made comments about how good it looks. Including a few Apple Fans with iPhones. A couple of friends even bought Sony phones after seeing mine. The design of the phone was one of the main two reasons I chose Sony (the other is sound quality when playing music on the phone). They even manage not to screw up the Android experience, in my opinion.
They are not the most popular phones, but I think the design is not the reason for that.
"This DVD is licensed only for private, non-commercial use."

That's backed up by copyright law. If you build a theater, charge people to enter, and program runs of classic movies, you will get sued for violating the commercial-distribution aspects of copyright law, even if you bought the DVD you were charging others to see.
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There was no difference in the calculations at 100 orbs, we just let v/c get much closer to one. The effects were actually there before 100 orbs you probably didn't notice much because of the colors! Internally the colors and Lorenz and time invariance calculations effect different things, the 100 orb stage just removes the operations done in the fragment shader--the vertex sharer remains unaffected.
Ask HN: Technical pet peeves?
HN is slow as hell over the long weekend, and someone just set me off again referring to directories as folders.

It's stupid and pedantic to be as bothered as I am by this, and it got me thinking; what else is HN up tight about?
This is one of my favorite Python sketches.
What is an Android?
Anonymity in voting only applies to your vote, not the fact that you voted. Physical paper-voting gets this right: it's trivial to see how your vote is kept secret and counted, while each entry on the voting lists only gets to vote once.
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But Samsung didn't copy. The UK courts have ruled so, and they've made it clear that they consider it libel to say otherwise.

In fact, I question the article's premise. Samsung did invent the iPad, as well as the iPhone - except that theirs are called Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab. And they were able to do so while being a hardware manufacturer whose OS is provided by a third party, which calls the entire "blame Microsoft" theory into question.

The fact that Samsung's offerings arrived after Apple's means nothing: it is clear that they were developed independently, and the fact that they shipped later must have been due to the additional development time required to make their products less expensive, and thus technically superior. The timing was entirely accidental, a mere side effect of the fact that Apple had access to a mass of brainwashed fanbois that will buy anything with an Apple logo, which provided them with both the funding and the opportunity to target the deep-pocketed early-adopter market.

But in a world where Apple didn't exist, Samsung would have shipped the Galaxy family of products around the same time as they eventually did - and they would have looked just as they do, too. Any resemblance in design between Sammy's products and Apple's is due to convergent evolution: it is simply less efficient, if not thoroughly impossible, to make a smartphone or a tablet that doesn't feature that shape, that button, that grid of icons in those specific colors - or even one that doesn't ship in that type of box. Apple's claims to have "invented" any of that are tantamount to claiming ownership of a law of nature.

In the end, articles such as this are a waste of time. There is no secret to Apple's perceived success, no lesson to learn. Their headstart is doomed to evaporate against Android's irresistible growth, and they will be recorded as a mere curiosity (to avoid calling it a "fad" as it really deserves) in the books of history.

Hacker News has limited formatting capabilities, but, while reading the above, please imagine that there is a banner saying "This is what Android fanatics actually believe" at the bottom of your screen.
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If you seriously believe the reason we don't have new class of antibiotics is because of the pharmas are not interested enough in making one, you don't know what you are talking about.

You know why we cannot find new antibiotics class? Because it is hard, really really hard! Your statement about economics being the main drive of finding new cures, including antibiotics, is a great insult to tens of thousands of researchers working hard day to day with the sole purpose of find that damn compound. Yeah, these researchers are human with lots of feelings and sometimes with friends and families needing new treatment too, and they are not just working for the salary or bonus.

Patent system is not perfect, but getting rid of patent system will not speed up or better incentivize any effort of finding new drugs and cure. Think more public funding in basic research in universities, and new/better way of regulation/approval instead.
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Linus is a socialist, and has always hated big corporations and profiteering too much off technology.

Thats why I think he's awesome.
I got it. But how about job offers? Where I can get a job if I am a good electrical engineer with good programming knowledge?
Well, it's conventional wisdom. Here's a source that says bad weather suppresses turnout to the benefit of Republicans.
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/10/weather-affects-electio...

The principle is the same.

We also have Republicans favoring and Democrats opposing laws requiring voters to show ID, because they both know which side benefits in relative terms from making voting more difficult.
Just because most reactions somewhat imply shady SEO problems:

Cutts' clearly states, that they are giving preferred treatment to a high viability site such as Gawker, while normal websites (i.e. internet peasants) would have been de-indexed in the same situation. Cutts' fulltime job is communicating ranking related issues, so I am quite certain this would have sounded a lot different if this would have been implemented as a general rule for disaster ridden IP ranges etc.
If you have to input a key it sounds more like browser-based access to private files than 'public files'.