skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting just below that on my Galaxy Nexus, a phone.

Interesting times we live in, indeed.
That depends on your perspective. I, for one, am put off by excessive "corporate image". Perhaps some people are put off by hearing that sometimes one department doesn't talk to another. For me, I'm just pleased to hear that there is an explanation of some sort. And that there is an actual human being somewhere within the company, not just an anonymous collection of robotic drones. And guess what: I already knew that sometimes one department doesn't speak to another because that happens everywhere.
Where did you get that? Mine took around 3.1 second per second of emulation (at the prompt; earlier, it got to 4, but never even close to 10)
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Journalist publishes list of possible tax evaders, state arrests journalist.
I thought he was very polite. He made sure everyone was on the same page, thus avoiding a lot of unneeded commentary.
I've been using WorkFlowy for almost a year now, and it has soon become one of my "Pinned Tabs" because I use it every day. It's the most flexible tool I have found to literally organize my brain. Since there are no predefined rules how to organize your stuff in WorkFlowy, you can use it just as individually as your thinking works. The great mobile version of the website is useful for using it on the go.

I love those products that look minimalistic and trivial on first sight but that are feature-packed underneath for power users: full keyboard use, sharing, search & tags, copies/templates, "hidden" timestamps, ...
I think its interesting how productivity increases have led to increased consumption instead of increased free time. Maybe this is partially because consumption is viewed as nobel in the sense that it's what causes the economy to grow.

Does anyone have any thoughts on a technology tax? If say you're fired because your boss hired a robot to do your job, your boss pays a percentage of his increase in profits as a tax which is redistributed to everyone - much like in Alaska how everyone gets a check for the oil that is pulled from the ground, what if everyone got a check for the technology pulled from our minds? Maybe this would encourage people to value technological growth over consumption growth.
I loved Called Me Maybe, went to check out the album to see if I wanted to buy that too, and simply didn't like it, so I didn't. Stylistically, the rest of her songs just weren't 'catchy' enough that I saw myself listening to them much.

Maybe for a lot of people like me, Call Me Maybe was just enough pop? I didn't need a whole album of her.
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Your comment made me think: interestingly, "growth" as a key concept is being forced on all of us right now, no matter one appreciates it or not... (either directly or indirectly).

If I forget about the word itself (and being unsure of the cultural connotation associated with it outside France - which I have no idea of), I personally do relate to the following sentence in the wikipedia definition:

===

maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community

====
It has 2 much maths
Seems that corporations want to profit from globalization but they want to forbid private entities to do so. Kind of unfair, whatever the outcome of the court ruling will be.

The only control they might have is to produce completely different texts for each country - but to profit on global scale this would be inefficient. So they resort to lawyers and tarnishing of their name.
After jacques_chester comment, I wonder (for everyone): what is you country, and is degrowth seen as something positive or negative in general in your country?
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We now theorize that on Easter Island, the societies that presided there destroyed their island's environment to such an extent that they themselves were essentially destroyed.

To prevent that from happening, it would have made no impact if a few individuals would have stopped the harmful actions. They would have had to change the whole culture of consumption, production, even religion. See where I'm going with this?
Downvoted for unwarranted ad hominem sneering, which does not address the point made at all.

BTW, she's hired by reputable publications to write music reviews, because they feel she is capable of expertly writing music reviews.
As a white male who has dated Asian females in the past (and is currently in a relationship with a white woman, if you must know, and to ward off the inevitable charges of "yellow fever"), I find at least part of this sentiment highly irritating. I'm really not sorry at all for "taking" something from you that you don't "own" to begin with. They aren't "your" women and they can date whoever they want to. They're not "betraying" anyone in dating outside of their race. (I use quotes not to quote you but rather others who have made similar arguments).

This basic idea, that you can't even get the women you were entitled to by your birthright, is based on fundamentally flawed assumptions.
"Affordable" seems like a big word. It would be "less expensive of the others" but still expensive. If a business would wanted to buy a 3D printer they would buy something more "professional", so I suppose this is aimed to a broader public, but for that public is too expensive.
I almost completely agree with your post except for one tidbit: "... the lack of actual 'real' wars to train the leaders ...".

The US is almost continuously involved in plenty of wars. Afghanistan and Iraq surely have been big enough to train generals (a WWI/II scale war is luckily the exception rather than the rule), but the generals have been slow to adapt to a new type of enemy (insurgency vs. straight up battle against a conventional army) and a new way of fighting a war.

The excellent article quite eloquently makes the point that this kind of big scale thinking and adaption is exactly what a general needs to be able to do, and which the current system fails to promote.
There was a similar post about Kindle.

It should be expected.

People wait to see what is available.

Of course there will be a flood of Amazon/Apple/Android sales.

This does not tell us which one got the most sales.

Regardless, Apple may of got the bigger profit.
I was actually aware of that. Jason Scott is going to be personally responsible for some interesting cultural developments.
Occam's razor tells me this might just be right. The map is even 6th without 'Large'.
Typical WSJ red scare claptrap. This paper is seriously still caught in the McCarthy era, especially when it comes to anything at all related to Asia. Sure this article seems positive on the surface, but underneath it all is a deep, abiding, white fear of being overtaken as the dominant racial group.
I'm sorry, but that's not an argument, that's just bias. In principle everyone is against policies that are damaging to one's life, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily bad.
I think it's sadly obvious at this point what is going to happen: the inherited technology is going to require expert knowledge, and being able to constantly learn different complicated technology is simply too much to expect of most soldiers, sadly.

I think there are people who do want to work in the military, but more than that they want to know that they can complain. If you can't complain about your commander being a terrible leader, how on earth is shit supposed to get fixed? If you can't report incompetency, and it's not being effectively measured, how are any warnings going to be listened to?

Ironically, the cure is also a big fear: wikileaks. There needs to be a way to complain about failures in people as well as mechanical in an anonymous manner. It can't be seen as ratting or it won't work.

It needs to go from being a boys club to being autonomous units with high transparency and measured expectations. No more excuses, no more delays: if you can't train yourself in competency on the job, you will most likely never excel in it.

If anybody knows the government's reaction to the Peter principle besides mercenaries I'd love to hear it.
Where is the Hibernate option in Windows 8?
Plenty for who??? not the Main Stream/Typical/Average PC gamer. The numbers are not on your side so how can you back up your statement.
I wonder if the number of extra pixels the ipad has to draw would account for this decrease in performance, seeing that it doesn't have a graphics card.
It's pretty funny that an ISP can't get their certs together, but geez, temporarily accept the cert, read the service agreement and get on with your life. Are you seriously worried about a man-in-the-middle attack here?

Trying to impress first tier forum support with your long history with computers isn't helpful to anyone, and sounding off about a serious legal issue in bold and italics is probably just making the lawyers giggle. It's nice to report the problem and follow up on it. There's no reason to be a dick about it.
Awesome!!! Took me back many years. Kudos to David Caldwell.
> See where I'm going with this?

Yes, you're constructing a "the end justifies the means" argument.
Thanks for the links. Apple Basic was a lot of fun.
Knowing Microsoft I'd say the odds of a reboot is probably larger on the Surface. Apparently even a small app update (office) requires a reboot.
Well look at Apple's return to power in the last ~ 10 years. That happened when Jobs, not Woz, came back.
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> There is no new dynamic in play, this has been happening to just about every one hit wonder since recording was invented. Some stay, most go.

The last 4 paragraphs of the article go on to describe exactly what the new dynamic is. In addition to the normal bombardment of hearing the song all the time, it is the additional flood of memes that the internet and social media bring about. As the article says:

> In the past, the worst thing that could happen to the Song of the Summer was it being played to death. But in the digital age, the pitfalls are boundless. As “Call Me Maybe” is increasingly meme-ified, it runs the risk of becoming completely mummified.

and

> Simply put: when you think of “Somebody That I Used to Know,” you’re less likely to think of the man, Wally de Backer, but the meme.

Both of you arguing about something that isn't even the main point of the article.
> is being forced on all of us right now

By whom?

I don't see men out the front with guns and dogs, demanding that I pop up to the electronics store to get the latest TV.

Or that the Buy Stuff Or Else Act 2012 had just passed through both houses of Parliament and received Royal Assent.
In Denmark and the UK, the narrative is appealing, not because of its merits but because it provides an alternative to austerity. It seems to be mostly utilized by the same hard-left that has always been more concerned with distributing wealth than creating it. In both countries, the main-stream left has long since realized that there is no alternative to reducing the deficit and bringing back growth.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Piwik[1] so far...

For web-analytics it's almost on par with GA (at least back when i last used it) and you get to keep your data!

[1] http://piwik.org/
Parsing url is difficult and prone to errors. How $.url() compares to furl? There are two furl(s) on github:

(1) https://github.com/stricaud/furl

and

(2) https://github.com/gruns/furl

furl(1) seems to handle a lot of edge cases when the URL is containing an IPv4/IPv6 address or when the URL is partial (e.g. without the protocol). furl(1) aims is to be fast. furl(2) seems to be more flexible and used for inline modification of the URL.
> See where I'm going with this?

Down a slippery slope.

Nobody actually knows what happened on Easter Island. There are as many theories as there are people trying to peddle their concept of how the world will / won't end.
> Agreed, this is the way to do it.

This sounds like arguing that we should use getElementById&al, addEventListener, and array.length with for loops instead of $('selector').on 'foo' and .each(). While this lib's inner code leaves to be desired in a number of ways, I really appreciate the readability and the lack of need to instantiate a full-blown DOM element then read a property to obtain a simple single result or two.
Do you live in a magical world where the two people vying for executive power in the most powerful country weren't scared of admitting to our failing ability to generate electricity efficiently OR in a green manner?
I find this fascinating as I am thinking more about how companies acting as Tumors. Growth for the sake of growth is the symptom of cancer. Larger economies do enable human collaborative feats like going to the moon and finding ways to live healthy and longer lives but it's engine itself driven by the fuel (mass consumption) of greed and desire rather than curiosity and joy. All signals seems to indicate that it has gone too far. We have to come up with a sustainable way to create large economies.
And that's why I love HN. Thanks for the down vote.
Maybe it's not so much growth vs degrowth as short-term vs long-term? A country like China that's pursuing a very aggressive short-term growth policy is obviously endangering some aspects of their future with pollution, corruption, etc.

I don't have a problem with pursuing growth, so much as focusing on the next few years (or the next election) to the exclusion of anything else.
I'm so glad to see Iran doing this. Not because I have any particular affinity for Iran, but because the technology will improve as competition increases and more nations/companies take steps into space.

This may be a big step for Iran, but it's an even bigger one for the human race as a whole.
The difference is that tumours don't have to solve economic calculation problems: companies do. As they reach the limits of that capability they become increasingly inefficient until they are supplanted by smaller, nimbler competitors.

... or propped up by governments. But then the analogy is even more broken.
I really love this idea. Great !
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> If say you're fired because your boss hired a robot to do your job,

You're not seeing the whole picture: Being replaced by a robot is just the final step in an extremely long sequence of productivity enhancements that being with using a shovel instead of your bare hands. Why should the tax hit robots but not a power drill? Or a fork-lift truck? A washing machine? Or a computer? (don't forget, as programmers, we are parties to one of the largest eradications of jobs in the history of mankind)

What you're really proposing is a tax on increasing efficiency, by a long shot the best and most easily understood kind of growth. Interestingly, with reference to the movement's goals, little frees up more resources for family, art and music than getting the same work done in half the time.
I wonder how they made this. My guess would be that they aren't using GPS data but checkpoint times.
Is long term growth qualitatively different from the integral of short term growth over the same period?
It is worth repeating the main idea here: "Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being. Rather, 'degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community."
> Maybe Ubuntu just has gotten "bloated" over the years and everyone has failed to notice because all PCs are overpowered these days

When my terminal after starting unity is pid 12000, you can guess bloat has occured. Even on my arch boot my terminal after auto login through the x virtual console is pid ~500 still.

Also, Unity uses at least 300Mb of memory, and composting. Compostinggggg.

Most of the inefficiencies in a modern Arch distro, for example, are build around plug and play mostly I think. Udev, systemd, dhcp, etc are all designed to gently allow arbitrary hardware arrangements without interrupting the experience, but cost performance to determine what is available and constantly babysit the environment.
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> Because the stakes are so low

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences

related: best God joke ever:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion
That would explain all of the crazy rubber banding that always seems to start and stop at exactly the same spots.
After Reading the article, 47 people still went and liked the page. Lool that's funny
Good writers will definitely tell you that practice makes perfect. That studying techniques and understanding the theory behind them will make you a better writer. Chop the wood, understand the different kinds of axes of different kinds of wood, perhaps even investigate how axes are made and what it takes to design one.

I think in science this is more invisible, because it is a natural part of the work. A scientist is naturally encouraged to scrutinize his knowledge and techniques to discover whether something can be improved, abstracted, done differently. However, I believe many would learn a lot from conscious attempts at that and especially in attempting to understand their process and way of working, instead of just their knowledge and tools.

As for engineering: there are often many procedures in place to make sure even an inexperienced engineer will produce solid work, often supervised and reviewed by more experienced ones. Practices that are also in place where good software engineering happens.

A lot of errors in the medical profession are attributable to the same mistakes as made in bad software engineering: a lone gunman mentality; a lack of communication and a lack of (following) procedures.

> I think there's an actual difference

I think so to. I think the reason is that in programming it is often quickly clear whether a product is deficient. When it is, it is usually clear what caused the deficiency. Often it is even attributable to (a) specific person(s). That has caused many programmers to be very conscious of how often they fail, which has caused them to be very introspective of how they work and how they can improve it.
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HNers might find reading about Epicureanism and Stocism to be an enlightening addition to reading about Degrowth.
The fastest way to degrowth is creation of brain-computer interfaces that have realistic feel like in the matrix. Degrowthers should join the hacker movement in advancing that technology. The way to most quickly advance that technology is through computer vision technologies that allow the running of biotech experiments at an industrial scale. The key to computer vision is the application of machine learning (neural nets and random forests). The key to that is the creation of classifiers on image datasets on cloud computing infrastructure. Therefore, projects like microsoft kinect and google goggles in addition to vision guided industrial robots are the best degrowther strategies.
Yes, but it is the flood of memes that allowed this person to get most of the exposure to begin with. The point I'm trying to - unsuccessfully it seems - make is that exposure is not enough. If it were then one hit wonders would not be one hit wonders.

You can't ride on a wave and then complain that others are trying to ride that wave too, you especially can't blame the wave.
Geckoboard is another dashboard that seems pretty good and has better pricing Statsmix.
Regardless of your views on the sanctions themselves, this blog post illustrates how effective the US blockade of technology to Iran really is. The Iranian space program is just starting to reach the level of sophistication of hobbyists in the western world.

The post however fails to mention Iran has actually launched a total of 5 satellites, the first two being joint launches with Russia and China.
Knock on doors you're nervous of and you will make progress
There's a LOT of engineers in SV. If everyone get as little as one great idea each 10 years it's a lot of great ideas. The cognitive bias described in the article doesn't really matter because of the statistical nature of the process.

The problem with enterpreneurs is that they are focused on getting funding. The investors that provide the funding tend to prefer proved solutions, so the enterpreneurs dump great ideas as too weird or too unproven or having no clear business model to possibly get the funding.
You are being deliberately dense. If no existing JVM gives runnable objects their own stack, then it's impossible for a java developer to create thousands of threads (without creating their own JVM, which is totally unreasonable 99% of the time). It's a practical impossibility. Is that so much worse than a technical one?
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http://lusob.com/2012/04/f1-live-timing-map/

Exactly. Which means they are simply interpolating the time and distance between the checkpoints. So it's not 100% "true".

Very very ingenious hack though.
Apparently not serious enough. Windows RT seems to runs a lot slower than Android 4.1 on the exact same hardware. I wonder how much slower it would run on the initial single core and dual core ARM chips for tablets than Android and iOS ran on, with decent performance.
Surface was a secret even internally. I'm not in Office, but I assume they were simply not told that it existed.
The level of anal retentivity is creditable. Goodbye HN.

Edit: Thanks mparlane. I was on my way out, but you are right of course. :)
No, but it is inefficient. A larger charger will have a larger 'dead load', the internal consumption of the charger. So if you plug in a very small consumer into a such a charger then percentage wise you're losing a lot of energy to heat.
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Dw, more People can upvote than downvote.
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The correct term is internal resistance, and you can calculate it easily using ohms laws. The internal resistance is easiest to think of as a series resistor in line with one of the output terminals.
Wow. A full 4 seconds? How exactly is that perceivable to anyone without having a timer nearby? Besides, for the faster booting they used another trick, replacing the "true Shutdown" with Hibernate, which makes waking from Hibernate faster than waking from a true shutdown.
If Iran is capable of technological progress at this rate, how did Pakistan get a nuke before Iran?
Serious question:

How does a country that embraces 'degrowth' defend itself militarily from a country that is still working on the high production paradigm?
I presume to allow for idiomatic use in code that already uses a lot of jQuery:

var file = $('a#interesting').url('file')

vs

var file = url($('a#interesting'), 'file');
It's very rarely relevant to evaluate a movement's goals on it's own, especially when they are so lofty as here. What means are they proposing?

In France, it seems they are happily backing the near-total destruction of their economy. I struggle to see how this will allow them to "devot[e] more time to art, music, family, culture and community".
The fastest way to degrowth is [growth] ??
LOL this sounds super ominous
Already here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItkWCmkxBv0

However, I would wait at least for Cortex A15 chips to arrive, especially if you're going to want to use Unity, which isn't exactly a race horse on PC's either. I'm sure Canonical will port Ubuntu to the upcoming Nexus 10, too.