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pg: I have fair bit of lisp dev experience. If, as a weekend project, I modified the HN src to use postgres and memcache would you consider using it in production? Obviously, I don't expect carte blanche prior agreement, but I wouldn't want to invest the time unless I thought it was plausible the work could actually help.

I would expect it to solve most of your performance problems for the foreseeable future (at the very least, by letting you scale horizontally and move the DB, frontends, and memcaches to separate boxes - plus ending memory leaks/etc by moving most of the data off the MzScheme heap).

The obvious downside is that it would use your (or someone at YC's) time. First to merge the changes I make to http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar into the production code, then to buy/setup some extra boxes and do the migration. We're probably talking, roughly, a day. It also has the unfortunate side effect of costing HN's src some of its pedagogical value, since it adds external dependencies and loses 'purity'.

Been looking for an excuse to learn arc for a while now ...
> I'm not really sure how affirmative would be a passive policy vs. a reactive one, would you be able to elaborate on that?

Having a quota of minorities is passive because it's a fire and forget rule that must be met. That is still being racist, because you are discriminating applicants success based on ethnicity.

Reactive laws is really just judicial. You can't write a fire and forget rule of law and have it be anything but a passive manipulator of public policy, it doesn't have reactionary change based on circumstances like courts do.

> Also, use of the legal system to remedy institutional and societal problems has really only been effective to introduce marginal change in the face of existing problems, so its not an overall solution to the problem, just a small part.

You don't solve the hostile behaviors of cultures and groups by being racist. You solve it by criminalizing their racism and punishing those who are bigoted.

> This would of course assume that it is possible to be institutionally racist against the predominant white culture in the US, which is not possible. In that sense, a policy such as affirmative action is not racist and instead is a policy that combats racism.

I'd argue the MLB is institutionally racist against white people. There is a tremendous cultural racism thinking it requires high melanin skin content (not even necessarily African heritage) to be good in basketball. And that is a permeating cultural force that a lot of people don't argue against, they just "assume black people are better at basketball". Or how Asians are better at math because they are Asian, and not because they had strict parents who lauded over their studies.

There is plenty of institutional anti-white racism. White people can't be "street" or ideas like "white people can't dance". They are institutional, not of white culture, but other cultures. It doesn't mean it isn't racist if the majority population isn't in the culture that purports it.

I'm not saying there isn't tremendous institutional racism and sexism in the US. I'm just saying inverse bigotry that replaces merit with skin color, ethnicity, or gender is inherently wrong. When ethnic minorities and women experience less math, science, and intellectual learning, you go where they aren't getting that and give it to them, you don't take what is inherently not racial and make it so.
Sorry to offend, I was just clarifying why the original guy said you sounded naive - just clarifying what specific implementation you had in mind would have helped in your original comment. I can see how it sounded as if you meant the idea "universal translator", can't you?
Mine was really high (150/90 vs. the normal 110/70) a few times when it got measured, but never high at home. I figured out what it was -- I'm getting it done biweekly when I donate platelets, and it is measured while the nurse is asking screening questions about where I've been in the past 3 years. She then says "what is state is Kuwait in, is it a city?". This reliably spikes my BP.
Apples to oranges. iPhone 5 is severely limited when purchased in the US: you can't unlock and put a different (overseas) carrier's SIM when you're out of country, until you complete your 2 year contract.

Unsubsidized, the iPhone is $699. Unsubsidized Nexus 4 is $350.
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Have you considered branching the database along with your code?
Yeah, that's why I stopped using them -- their collection agencies were horrible.
It seems like most of the polling organizations that did the worst during this election did poorly because they were way off-base with their likely voter model. No one in the press seemed to notice the scale of the turn-out machine Obama constructed since 2010. Many organizations (including, apparently, Romney's internal pollsters) assumed a turnout somewhere between '08 and '10 levels, when the Democrats managed to match or beat 2008 turnout in critical areas.

I'm not sure it's really a question of ideological bias so much as filtering the raw data through a backward-looking model.
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There's a full page that describes a service that may be relevant to everyone, but nowhere in the page does it say which 1% of the planet it applies to.

If you mean "specific operators in one country", then name them.

If you saying "mobile operators" while meaning "<1% of all mobile operators" - that is simply lying. Well, 99% lying and 1% truth.
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No, looks interesting, I'll check it out.

Thanks.
Could be. But there are some unlucky people in there as well - single parents who bought a house at the peak of the housing bubble because they were afraid that home prices would keep rising and leave them without a place to live. And then promptly lost their job in the recession.
Consider starting a start-up if you are at all interested in executing on your own ideas. If you are able to get a job at Google, you should be able to execute on a good idea. 20% time is a minuscule investment in your ideas for a company that is investing $300 million in start-ups.
> 18 year olds aren't very good at this kind of reasoning, but that's what parents are for.

It is a dangerous assumption to think it is the place for a parent to judge if their children should incur the equivalent of half a decades debt when they themselves may have no comprehension of the value of a degree their kid is thinking of.
Eh? It's not odd at all ... "Jesus H Christ" is a bog-standard exclamation with which to express extreme surprise/disgust.
> most importantly nowhere near a minority.

Affirmative action is not just for minorities... in some (many?) places, the historically excluded group form a majority.
Which raises the bigger question: is a Techcrunch post worth $750?
> The student loan system today generates a huge number of defaults.

Too bad you can't default on student loans. I'm lucky I have 7k in the bank and 10k in student loans to pay off since I'm unemployed. I've heard horror stories of people working minimum wage service jobs with 40% of their wages garnished for student debt for an art degree.

It is their faults they did it, but its also the faults of colleges and institutionalized higher education creating a culture of dependent debtors when young people leave high school.
1) Do NOT use 224.0.0.1! I cannot emphasize this enough. This is the IPv4 all hosts address and should not be used for mcast applications. IANA has reserved the 239/8 range for intra-AS mcast applications. Use it. In general using any address in the 224/8 range is bad for mcast application development. But especially do not use anything in the 224/24 range.

2) Does Ruby automagically take care of setting the destination Ethernet address to an IP multicast MAC? I don't see any mention of this but it's pretty important.

As insaneirish rightly points out, it's really only multicast if it crosses an L2 boundary and a multicast routing protocol like PIM or DVMRP is involved. This writeup will most likely only result in poorly formed packets being broadcast on a local subnet.
Also from what I understand, certain homophones are differentiated in practice by differing accenting (raising/lowering) in speech. This is however region specific.
Politicians should represent the entire country...

Suppose I decide to vote instead of not voting at all. So now the winning candidate (who I may or may not have voted for) represents me, whereas he didn't if I hadn't voted?

...prisoners and convicted felons should also be given the right to a vote. If someone is going to pass laws that affect you, you should have a say in who that someone is.

Ok, what does that have to do with compulsory voting?
Agreed. I want this hanging where I can see it anytime I'm working.
Most of that are more like myths or are mostly irrelevant for current problems.
My bad, I read "Consider not doing that." as a more strict recommendation!
Amusing url for the story... http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/we-are-worth-at-least-3k/
I'm trying to find a positive interpretation to this:

Could it be that they are trying to find out how the customers actually use their products in order to allow them to build a better product?
This wasn't the idea. Not living in a particular religious country, I did not think for a second something this mild could give offense. Religion, as demonstrated by current events, is a very poor way of trolling people.
Still a bit early to tell how many people voted in total. Probably need to wait a week or two for the final result.

Actually, that makes this whole exercise premature, the rankings may change once the final data is in.
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Ever read 1984? A lot of linguists make arguements that our language shape the way we think and interact with the world, since at a young age we stop thinking visually and start thinking in spoken words.

In 1984, newspeak was all about removing ways to describe things the Party didn't want the public thinking about, so that in several generations of the language nobody would be able to comprehend dissent. And it actually has some real life foundations.

Just think of all the times a foreign language speaker says "I can't accurately represent this in whatever other tongue".

Note, I only know English, and after 6 years of Spanish throughout high school and college I have forgotten every wink of it. You really need to immerse yourself in a language to really dedicate it to memory, and constantly use it. Which is really a ton of overhead, that isn't really necessary, I agree.
I had an ear infection once that was so bad I couldn't balance. I also couldn't code. I took an antibiotic. I got better.

Some drugs help some programmers some of the time.
I happen to agree with JWZ, but drop the attitude internet tough guy.
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FTA:
$750 = TechCrunch pay-for-pitch targeting vs.
$400 = any other blog pay-for-pitch targeting

A percentage cliff that steep seem like an indication of content saturation and price competition by amateur entrants vs. a calculation of value with backing metrics.
There is no quality control at regular, commercial gyms either.

I used to work out at a popular commercial gym and would see trainers doing the most ridiculous things with their clients: swimmers press on a bosu ball for a average 45 year old non-athlete, all kinds of pointless machine circuits.

Coming from a competitive sports background and year of training, my injury rate has actually gone down after joining crossfit, mostly due to the balance it builds by the variety of movements.
Just blowing smoke rings here, but it also could be possible that "undecideds" might break towards a perceived winner. If they aren't committed, they may just pick the winning side.

I have no evidence for this whatsoever.
Or you could do like Washington State and change to a mail-only system. I voted weeks before Election Day, and then dropped my ballot off at my convenience.

I could see your argument for having deliberation day or something, but there are other solutions for the problem of long waiting lines at the polling place. (I was 18+ and resident in California previously, so I waited those lines, too. I wasn't employed then, though.)
> Speaking as someone who builds networks just for multicast

I heard about IP Multicast more than 10 years ago. But it never took off. Or at least I thought so.

I am really curious what are practical applications of the networks you build. Do your clients use them for broadcasting video streams or something else?
In a pinch, standard silicone earplugs work extremely well when you disregard the instructions and slowly push them deep inside your ear canal until you have a perfect seal.

With the Bose noise cancelling earphones, it's actually considered a feature that they don't block out conversational frequencies.
Developing machine vision software with Ruby instead of C/C++ (thesis)
This comment is the problem with North America's health today.
On his Electoral Vote histogram, he'd had 332 as a big spike for weeks. The day before the election it was over 20% for that one outcome.
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This feels like very old news... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7is6r6zXFDc
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> Voting should be a privelege for the few who are very well informed, not the many who are not.

Except that you're not very well-informed. So why are you voting?
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Voting is not something I am forced to do. Do you think I don't vote because I am lazy? I don't vote because our election process is a crock of horseshit masked as something that actually makes a difference.

Where do you get off coercing me to participate in an obviously broken system?
Its a bog standard unclassy way to lose any moral high ground before describing someone else's choices as nauseating. Personally I am not religious but I still think its important to respect other people's faiths in meatspace and in threads on HN.
> Would you have a problem with me instead voting for the closest equivalent of the nazi party?

Go for it. Here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America#United...
Have you thought about creating a non-profit (or some corporate) and actively hide behind the corporate veil?

When the shit hits the fan, suddenly there's nothing under that tablecloth...
And you overestimate the crowd's intelligence if you think this doesn't happen on a regular basis (quite successfully, I might add).
Votes aren't supposed to be meaningful. They're just analytics. Why should it be meaningful?
Check out taint mode in perl. It's been around forever, and I don't understand why all web frameworks don't have a similar concept.
We’ve since proved that this is in fact true, and that a couple of our writers were on the receiving ends of these “pay for play” sorts of pitches.

-- Unfortunate wording; without an explicit denial.
Closest I have found is this (two years old): http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ctz7c/your_gold_dollar...
I went through the same experience as you. One day I downloaded the drivers after reinstalling Windows and found it asking for a username and password. The old drivers are still on the site though, just hidden. To find them, follow these steps:

1. Go to http://www.razersupport.com.

2. Scroll down the page, and then click on the Drivers, Firmware And Manuals Download button.

3. From the Main Categories menu on the right side of the screen, click Razer Mice Products.

4. From the Download Categories list, click your mouse series.

5. From the Download Categories list, click your mouse model.

6. From the Download Categories list, click Drivers.

7. If the Legacy drivers are available, they will appear in this Downloads list.

The Naga ones are here: http://www.razersupport.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=vi...
The name for the service is very unfortunate one. II thought it's some kind of anti-Google campaign.
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Interesting coincidence especially I read this post a few days ago. Kinda deep towards the end.

"TechCrunch, Facebook, and journalistic bias: http://www.numair.com/2012_09_tc.html "
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California now has both legislative houses with supermajorities for Democrats.

No excuses going forward.
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Sounds great.

So the mob will start buying debt from targeted individuals and have a "chat".
People celebrating things like this is how net neutrality will die.
I think this is really awesome what you're doing. Can you provide some examples of the kind of debts you're talking about?
It's pretty basic tribalism. "I am a Republican. Therefore, I will vote for the Republican option, unless I have an actual reason not to."

In front of that, there's probably, "My parents were Republican. My family is Republican. My friends are Republican." And so on.

%s/Republican/Democrat/g

This isn't actually wrong, per se. It's a basic affirmation of trust in one's close network. Some people go to church without bothering to believe in God; they go because they've always gone and their parents go and their friends are there and they discuss the football game or whatever. They're passionate about things because all of their friends are passionate about it.
How does this work? Philippine users accessing this URL don't get charged at all, regardless of their data plan? If so, does Google pick up the tab?
I admire the design. It's like carbon credits: you can buy pollution credits and simply not use them, if you want to do good by the environment.

Buying debt is much more efficient than lobbying, going through lawsuits, etc. It shouldn't be sustainable, presumably, since all these people buying up debt should raise its price. But maybe it's sustainable enough.
But their code could also be hard to understand because you don't understand the problem good enough.
Thanks. I skimmed those links and found it all confusing. What I got was, approximately: it still exists, it's relatively small ($30B is small in financial crisis terms), and its activities have not been particularly transparent. On the other hand, http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/repo....
Table too big? Redis is not a solution.
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Rails sortof does that, and has since 3.0.

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0/
We'll have less horror to show when clients and project managers stop setting unrealistic deadlines and stop changing requirements every step of the way.
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No by buying bad debt that nobody wants to buy you are adding liquidity to the market, its a win win for everyone involved.
If it were an official API, wouldn't it be associated with HN or Y Combinator rather than an external website?
That's one of the few cases where getting pedantic about the hyphen (or, in this case, lack of it) solves ambiguity.
> jwz's thesis, that uninformed people shouldn't vote, is overwhelmingly correct.

Uh, unjustified assertion ftw? Please tell me the rest of that paragraph isn't supposed to be the justification.
It sucks that this is just offered in the Philippines. I hope it catches on in other parts of the world.
This probably better belongs to a private email.
It was an earlier time. See also "dated" - past participle, past tense of date (Verb)
Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
I consider that to be insanely cheap. It would cost you almost double that to sponsor one high profile tech meet-up in London and a techcrunch piece would drive infinitely more traffic as well as more credibility.
I would expect ear protection (to avoid damage caused by extreme pressure changes) and volume reduction to be quite different.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-safety-ear-plugs.htm
This is really impressive, especially the speech recognition part. I can't really judge anything else, since I don't speak a word of mandarin. The speech recognition though is easily the best I've ever seen. This is almost the kind of recognition rate needed for voice controlled interfaces to finally work. Exciting stuff.
A lot of the early ones are good for testing your linux-fu I'm finding :) Very cool & interesting
Also note that the article never states that those caught taking money for writing articles will face any consequences. Sleazy stuff, but who expects any better from TC?
It would be really interesting to have one of those, a physical building with proper archiving and curatory.

About the fear losing our knowledge of good and bad practices, open source software itself can serve that purpose, most major projects being well documented with both development manuals and discussions from the community.
>Human translators are so expensive today that they are only used in situations where the translation has to be correct -- diplomacy, courtrooms, books, etc.

Professional translators and trained interpreters yes.

But thousands of people work solely (or assume the role periodically) as interpreters and translators for many more situations, mainly revolving around business.

Now, signing a business deal will still involve translator and a trained lawyer, but those other everyday cases, including showing a western partner around the Chinese offices, could switch to machine translation.
What does it do to your blood when you digest traces of it?

BPA was happily used for years by industry.
The economic expansion you refer to was fueled by what was happening with the Internet. Clinton had nothing to do with that. He just happened to be there while it was happening. Some folks choose to ignore the facts and attribute the economic expansion to his administration.

It's clear you merely skimmed over my post since in the very next sentence I stated:

There are those who are quick to point out that president Clinton can't really take that much credit for the complex factors that supervene in the emergence of an economic boom, they then go on to contradict themselves by suggesting that Romney does have the power to give everyone a job.

I follow it up with an explanation of how the president generally defers to advisers with regard to issues of the economy.
Er, no. It's so common that it's essentially lost any religious connotations. It implies nothing about "faith", lack of faith, lack of respect, or anything else.

Maybe it originally had such connotations (and thus initially had shock value), but it long ago made the jump to a simple generic exclamation, and a rather mild one at that.
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Thank you for explaining why the 'unknown link' happens at all. It's terrible - same with when you spend time thinking and formulating a response, only to see it disappear with the same error.
I thought Porco Rosso was sad compared to Totoro or Mononoke. My friends who liked other Miyazaki movies didn't like Porco Rosso.
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The Play framework (Scala, Java) and Mojolicious (Perl) (and many other newer frameworks probably) escape output by default, so at least they make you think before allowing XSS.