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I can't check, because one of them has been deleted, but I know that there are rare occasions when this happens. I also know that most of the time when a duplicate link is submitted it acts as an upvote on the existing item.

I also know that this doesn't work unless the earlier item is in the cache.

I also know that the duplicate detection mechanism is currently working because I just tripped it, so it's either more complicated than you think, or I haven't understood you fully.

HN does (usually) detect exact duplicates, and your comment seems a bit simplistic. The duplications of these videos about the voting machines are not identical URLs, and I haven't recently seen an example where the URL was identical, and yet was not detected. As I say, your references can't be checked because one has been deleted, but I have several times seen people claim a duplicate was not detected, only the find that the URLs were not, in fact, completely identical.

I am unconvinced that anything has changed.
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That's very jolly! I like how cleanly constructed it is. On a DIY hacking project that kind of attention to neatness can make all the difference between "oh, cool idea" and the feeling of an actual product (even though it's in fact one of a kind).

I wonder how feasibly the opaque parts could be replaced with transparent ones and whether that would look cooler or just plain tacky?
At a place like Goldman Sachs, you don't need quants or predictors. You call up the CEO of a company you want to post record profits, and you tell them if they don't do absolutely desperate, self-destructive things (screwing employees and customers for immediate gains), you will crash their stock and destroy their entire company. That CEO then has a choice. Be the one who killed the company, or be the one who kept it running for a few more weeks and delivered a record quarter that made Goldman Sachs happy.

Once you have the assets and capacity to actively manipulate the price of any stock at will, the market is a VERY different animal and no longer need to be understood at all. You simply force its hand.
The other alternative might be to review your current archival storage format every year, and upgrade while the interface is still available but new storage formats are coming out.
To change the world. This is why people do startups, but my project is not something that could ever make money, and besides I'm not a businessman and prefer the stability and resources of working at an established company.
> "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

As long as we're quoting Keynes, let's also remember this gem from a letter he wrote to the regents of King's College about the performance of their endowment's portfolio (which Keynes managed).

"The management of stock exchange investments of any kind is a low pursuit, having very little social value and partaking (at its best) of the nature of a game of skill, from which it is a good thing for most members of our Society to be free; whereas the justification of Worlaby and Elsham lies in its being a constructive and socially beneficial enterprise, where we exercise a genuine entrepreneurial function, in which many of our body can be reasonably and usefully interested. I welcome the fact that the Estates Committee-to judge from their poker faces and imperturbable demeanour-do not take either gains or losses from the Stock Exchange too gravely-they are much more depressed or elated (as the case may be) by farming results. But it may be useful and wise nevertheless, to analyse from time to time what is being done and the principles of our policy."

Edit: Worlaby and Elsham was a farm that the endowment owned.
Agree to number 4. If you are "out of touch" from corporate world for a few years, it's difficult to get back to corporate world with a decent pay.
You have to take a big pay cut and probably you have start it from the beginning.
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I think that's the correct meaning of this announcement.
It'd be strange to drop such a huge bomb on the election day.
Although I'd be happy if we're wrong.
hackers enter your computer to steal stuff from you, and love it

Those are crackers, not hackers.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

(that said, I'm posting in a site calling "hacker news" heh)

That's because pg understands the correct use of this terminology.
These aren't really side projects in a conventional sense of the term. This appears to be just some work-related stuff.
who says I _need_ to make a choice?
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That's pretty interesting to learn. Blue State Digital's allegiance is obvious. ExactTarget is based in Indiana, a red state.

(Though I'm sure their greatest allegiance is to green.)
Thanks for the reply! Glad to hear these are on your radar :)
It's a great point and seems like a very smart thing to keep in mind. I think in my case, based on the statistics involved, the odds that my success was luck just seems astronomically small. But, guess I'm biased in my own way :)
Cool article but I hope people don't start trying to follow this path. Ask yourself -- why did he stop?
True one shouldn't get too caught up in the narrative - past, current, or future. But. A good founder story will work wonders. It can be the key differentiator between you and the 12 other hyper local mobile social app out there. It's stuff that press and connectors can run with. But yes, the predictability of that marketing formula is also annoying. The tech startup industry has a reputation valuing the "brainy", but it's also susceptible to typical marketing tactics.
The story of a typical software project
> suggested conspiracy... I want proof

Just because you don't get a proof doesn't mean there is nothing going on there.

I mean, they looked at Apple and said: "me too". It may not be a conspiracy but I would not dismiss the claim as "not making any sense".
3 comments up I predicted 'reset' would make an appearance. What is the point of having multiple command names if the command name says nothing about its behavior, and the command flags trigger completely diverse functionalities? Just have the CLI be git -a to git -zz and stop teasing users.
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I hear this should make it easier to use Wine or something:

http://www.codeweavers.com
I think there is a healthy respect for computer code that can let loose upon the world and make money.
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Is there a way to do this with Python or Ruby? I could just as well program this in C#, but I have a friend who can code a little, but doesn't really need everything in C# to do what he wants. The value add of offering the simulator, including the taking into account the bid/ask prices and a stochastic model for latency. Combine this with a web based code editor and easy hosting, and I think this would be a viable product.
Ambiguity of English. India is not a corrupt, mafia run state, but it indeed is a state which is run by a corrupt mafia. Things are changing, but the change will not manifest itself at sufficient scale unless the established negative forces are eradicated. Which is hard. NP hard.
Good news. Now I hope DRM free distributors like GOG will start paying more attention to Linux.
Because when choosing between consumption or production, I choose production.
@victorhn is right, the two words are often confused.
I don't notice anything unless I have my machine doing some crazy stuff. That being said we haven't done any real performance tuning yet. Out of curiosity what macbook do you have? I run one of the 2011 airs.
IMO Microsoft is simply catering to both markets with Windows 8. They figured if 70% or more of Windows 8 is on touch based tablets, and 30% or less is on PCs ... might as well boot to Metro because the Desktop folks are smart enough to click on the Desktop icon.
Isn't the title a touch sensationalist? Google did not go "offline": it was briefly unavailable for a relatively small number of networks.
What does a graphical diff and GUI message editor with interactive changelist management have to do with being "below median"? I came to write code, not restart my workflow from scratch every time I want to slightly edit my change.
There is a coursera course called "Computational Investing, Part I" that I am taking that aims to build a market trading simulator to test a trading model. It just started so it's not too late to join.

https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1
Side projects are good for you? I think it depends.
Enterpreneurial types in most cases can't specialize (they get bored and demotivated quickly while doing it) but trive while stiching things together and see them work / produce results. This is their motivation and if you are such person and do not get enough of playground at day job you have 2 options, quit or kick off some side projects.
I also admire people who can specialize. Lets call them real engineer types. Only because of them we have all technology things running day to day. But I guess side projects are not such necessity for these guys.
In both cases I was talking about people in software dev space.
But why would you do that?
Press enter only where it makes sense.
It's just like with other tools, you can cut your finger with knife, but that doesn't make knives less useful.
Here is another duplicate of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749252

Simplistic, but exact matches none-the-less.
You make a choice when you buy a car, a phone, sign up to some service, order off a menu, etc.
Gambling can be done intelligently and profitably. Don't be so quick to label gambling as a pitfall to be avoided at all costs. I am not a financial expert, but as someone with a background in math/probability based gambling strategies, I can see similarities in the financial markets.
The show and ask HN posts are extremely simple to speed read over. Just as in any other aspect of your life you don't have to read everything in front of you. Just learn to skim and cherry pick your articles.
Hackalones aren't specific to coders, you can design hack as well.
> How many non-programmers actually recognize the difference between full Windows 8 and Windows RT?

Programmers are not immune to the confusion, I've had to explain the difference to multiple coworkers.
Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server
All resources are pegged to ram - the more ram you allocate, the more of everything else you get as well.
Might I suggest an alternate title / next startup?

"Learn how this unemployed soccer dad made over $45k a month working from home! His winning system can be yours for only $200!!!!"
> Then I expect there to be a wave of lawsuits over Google's intelligent search results e.g. flights, tickets, offers, shopping which are very similar to Microsoft's "embrace and extend" approach.

See, you left off the end of that strategy: "embrace, extend, extinguish". Maybe if Google wanted to "extinguish" intelligent search results you might even begin to have an argument, but as long as they're just looking to provide a better service, you're just trying to draw connections to a strategy that people in this community [rightfully] react to emotionally and negatively.
> As a result, they are only capturing ~$50k per car, versus ~$85k once GP cars start rolling off the line.

That is not how GAAP accounting works. You record revenue when you finish building the car and it leaves the factory gate, not when you accept a deposit.
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TermKit author got mad at the community last year and went underground. :-( No idea if it will ever launch.
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I'm going to say what I always say in these sorts of circumstances ...

I don't know what you've sent in your resume, or your covering letter. I don't know what projects you've pointed them to, what work you've shown them. I don't know what companies you've tried to talk to, nor whether you've gone to an HR department, or directly to a reasonably senior technical person.

See, that's the point. I don't know what you've done, and you haven't displayed the initiative to tell us.

Companies need more than someone who's technically excellent. Or even just technical competent. They also need someone who will display initiative, someone who will solve problems. Someone who will ask for help the right way, and if they don't know what the right way is, will make the time and take the time to find out.

What do companies need? People who will create value. Showing that you can code is only part of that. If you just fire off a resume and covering letter then sit back and wait, what does that say about how you will work?

All this, of course, is just my opinion, but I think you should try to work out what companies need, then show that you can provide it. How you do that will depend on your skills, of which I have no knowledge.

So that's up to you.

Added in edit: Have you seen this?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749296
As an attendee of the Ubuntu Developer Summit (where we were all promised beta keys), I can reveal two facts:

1) I haven't gotten any keys yet
2) There is an internal beta that some third parties have access to
They day I learned that gvim has support for mouse hover tooltips, was a great day.
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Steam beta would be neat - but you know what I'd prefer first? Non-shitty drivers and config interface.

I recently switched from 7 to Kubuntu full-time on my primary desktop. So far the only severe problem I have run into is that when I activate the nVidia drivers, my display becomes retarded. If I dare to go into the terrible nVidia configuration app, it insists that both my monitors (a 1920x1200 24" and a 1680x1050 20") run at 1024x768. Now, it's not that the drivers can't figure out my displays resolution. It clearly states the correct resolution for both monitors in several locations. It's just when it comes to the X Server Display Configuration, it decided to go full retard. Now, just activating the drivers and not touching the config results in a display that AAALLLMMOOOSSSSTTT works. Except for the fact that it assumes my smaller monitor is to the right of my larger one, when the truth is the other way around. And, of course, I can't simply change that setup because that would require going into the configuration app... which will force my resolution down to 1991 levels should I be unwise enough to try to actually use it.

I THINK this is caused by the fact that my larger monitor runs at 75Hz while the smaller is 60Hz. But I'm not sure. I refuse to plumb the intestinal depths of xorg.conf, most especially because when I install Ubuntu, ITS display configuration works perfectly. Of course, after installing nVidias drivers it goes out of its way to fuck up Ubuntus display configuration app too. It certainly seems aggressively determined to make my experience as difficult as possible.
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Okay, let me put it another way. While they may not get the contract, friends and relatives of the same politicians suddenly do find themselves beneficiaries of those who do win the contracts.

Remember the fun with Countrywide and the sweet heart loans? How some politicians or their friends do so well in the stock market or get into IPOs at a level not afforded to the public. If not family is it not worse when those who support your campaigns are the ones more likely rewarded with the contracts?

So yes, while direct attempts may be protected against nothing stops the train of indirect benefits.
Can someone explain the potential viability of a bootable Steam Linux distro, probably based on Ubuntu? I guess device drivers would be the main issue but if there was ever anything that could get manufacturers to pay more attention to Linux it would probably be this.
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Election graphic novel from the Guardian (scroll down)
It's comforting to know that NVIDIA understands what drives purchase of their hardware, and is willing to hold Valve's hand in this.
I can understand why a company wouldn't want to publicize this. If consumer data was compromised, that would have made for a much bigger issue and in which case better to disclose and be more transparent to the public.
Just wish I had more choices of small MIPS based boards and computers like I do with ARM.
Doing side-projects is like using the right side of my brain. It allows me to follow my heart rather than the logic of my head and do projects that sound interesting/challenging to me, in the language I choose to use, in the way I like to code. That is power to me.
I'm curious about the performance characteristic of Postgres arrays and how to decide when to use an array versus when to use a many-to-many join.

For instance, I have an app with a "project" with users that have different roles (owners and members). Right now, I'm modeling that with a join table that contains the role information. Would those be better as arrays? (I'm inclined to think not.)

Alternatively, I also have a messaging system in place, where the recipients probably would be better modeled with an array.

Anyway, this is great information, and it gives another, nice tool in the quiver. Thanks!
Cool stuff ! I'll try to reach them and bring some AR too.
Assuming you're a business guy, I'd suggest you raise some money or validate your market first rather than waste your and other people's time with the age old build-my-idea-for-me-for-free-and-i-promise-you-fame-and-glory crap.

One very simple way to do that is to get a cheap wordpress template or whatever and get people to sign up for beta access keys or a newsletter.
Nope, not exact duplicates, because one has a trailing backslash, the other doesn't. Sometimes that matters.
It's an edge case in the US, and it's not like we don't have public/private partnerships here.
Until NVIDIA makes Optimus completely functional on Linux and not a pain in the ass to configure, I'm pretty much going to dismiss any claims that Nvidia are working to improve Linux gaming.
It's not easy to take action by authorities if such acts were done by or repeated by many.
You almost have to. position:fixed on a lot of android devices won't work without it.
As with all tools you have to consider if it's the right place to use it. Things like the instarepl aren't very valuable in highly side-effecting code, but being able to evaluate some block on command still is. You still have to test if that code that removes a file is doing what you think it is as you write it. That being said, you have full control over what does and doesn't end up eval'd - just don't press cmd-enter :)
Hacking mRuby onto Heroku
Something else: Help people and community
If hitting monsters with an axe sounds as appealing as bashing your head against a wall, I guess I can understand why you wouldn't enjoy gaming.
Ask HN: Who are the most innovative law firms/lawyers for startups in the US?
After incubation, this matters more. Examples

* becoming a B corp.

* creative equity strategies

* crowdfunding risk mitigation

* intellectual property and building value while being against software patents, traditional copyright, closed source , etc
You might want to check out ipython notebook: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.... and http://ipython.org/videos.html

It's a pretty awesome interactive Python environment.
It isn't immediately obvious to me what the Eve Alpha does. If I was to connect all my devices to a single bit of hardware what do I have now? Do I get a shared file system, or a specific service? I read a lot about the future of Eve but what do we get with the Alpha?
I don't know much about the processes behind the Internet, but I found this to be a fascinating introduction.
NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead
>I like the old-school definition.

The definition you've provided is not the 'old-school' definition.
$10k loan from dad. Built it up to 30k trading manually before my automated program went live.
This is an issue[1] that SublimeLinter ran into when syntax checking Perl modules. Code in a BEGIN block (which gets executed at compile-time) could actually delete files when using `perl -c` to handle syntax checking:

BEGIN { `rm -rf $ENV{HOME}` }

They had to switch to using static analysis rather than relying on Perl's built in syntax checking to avoid executing code in BEGIN blocks.

[1] https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter/issues/77
Without funding, it's the only way I have to move towards the freedom to work on my own products and ideas full time. Can't quit my job to work on my own company unless I can also pay rent, buy food, etc.
I get the following error:

$ ./LightTable: error while loading shared libraries: libsmime3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Instruction in how build/install LightTable on Linux? What the the dependencies or configuration directives?
Outage in an ASN != Google went Offline. The title puts the blame on Google which isn't true.
Instagram profiles: the social image
A bit of metasocial reflection on the social image, and why a picture is more than a thousand words. Should possibly have been titled "Our Pictures, Our Selves"
Try http://www.playonlinux.com/ its a little GUI that sits on top of wine and gives you a list of preconfigured wine settings to play in a lot of modern games
Your full package of $2k/mo sounds about right from what I remember, after you factor in server, access, licenses.
1º: for fun
2º: To learn something new
3º: something else - I love/hate when some of my coworkers say something is impossible/very hard to do, or that I can't do it. I know they are aware that saying that is pretty much all they need to make me do the hard work for them (not related with our work) but I do it anyway. =P
Fair enough. But that gives Intel at least another decade at the top. A lot can happen in that time.
I didn't lose any sleep but I do indeed hope to contribute more to society with future projects.
We did a project of this ilk at the university a couple of decades ago. Differences were the color detection circuit was a pain-in-the-ass and we used M&Ms instead of Skittles.
I used to work for a smallish company that works on DOD contracts. It's really not that bad. We did most of it in-house. I doubt it's worse appreciably worse than dealing with any big faceless organization (try contracting with Wal-Mart or Boeing).

Big organizations have transaction costs associated with them. That's kind of inevitable. But the question is whether eliminating a few billion here and there in transaction costs is worth forgoing potentially huge benefits from public/private partnerships.
I wonder how the accountability issues that Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/accountability-on-kickstarte...) is dealing with recently affect a start-up like Givver. Any thoughts?
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Glacier looks great, until you look at the retrieval costs!

If you use it as a backup strategy and you're going to need access to all of your data then you're going to have to extract it from glacier in a relatively short time period. This might cost you an arm and a leg (relative to the storage costs)!

See: http://brandt.github.com/amazon-glacier-calc/ for an online calculator.

If your use case matches the price structure in that most of your data is write and forget and occasionally you'll need a small piece of it back then it's a fantastic service & as last-ditch backup options go it's a whole lot better than nothing at all!

(edit: not sure that calculator is entirely useful since it appears to squeeze the entire download into a single 4 hour period.)
I was trading stock market index futures: Russell 2000, DAX, and a bit of Nasdaq. I experimented with other stuff as well.