skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the best-known case of a fraught missile defense scheme (that of the US), the concern was that the US and Russian/USSR had effective parity in offensive capability and were thus stalemated (to the betterment of all). An effective missile defense capability could have broken the nuclear stalemate and made nuclear strategy once again fluid and unpredictable.

This is simply not the case with Israel. Israel and Hamas do not have military parity. What prevents Israel from wiping Hamas off the planet is humanitarian concern (either heartfelt or driven by realpolitik, depending on which Israeli leader you're thinking of and what you think of Israel in general). I would be surprised (and delighted) if you found a credible analyst that said otherwise.

Meanwhile, the notion that missile defense drives Hamas to seek ever more sophisticated missiles seems hollow as well, for a couple reasons: first, it implies that Hamas wouldn't source the most effective missiles available to it; next, it implies that there's no strategic benefit to forcing Hamas to source more expensive missiles (there is: first, it raises Hamas' costs, and second, it makes it harder for the entities that support Hamas to conceal their support); next, it implies that the costs to Israel of those more-sophisticated missiles are higher when what we're really talking about is Israel simply accepting the cost of less-sophisticated missiles killing their citizens.
Everything about technology so far on the large scale has been about the opposite, preventing every device from seamless integration. Swap the tire from any car to any other car? Plumbers have entire vans full of "compatibility" parts. Over a century of electrical and phone service yet very limited interoperation and limited compatibility yet that "networking" is at the level of trivial connectors and AC waveforms. No, I'm not thinking tech is a natural monopoly.

I remember my joy at the rise of USB... finally no more rs232 problems with DTE vs DCE and 9pin vs 25pin and m vs f connectors... then we got multiple USB connectors. Even funnier we have "power only" usb cables for phone charging that don't have data wires and are visually indistinguishable from "full" cables. Eh... bring back my RS-232, usb isn't any better at all.
> "You could easily make the argument that's the reason Congress is set up as it is"

It was a fairly explicit design goal. By setting up Congress so that one house mirrored population and the other mirrored number of states, they basically guaranteed that there would be no substantial legislation passed on the issue of slavery, at least not until a major shift in culture.

In a broader sense, remember that "fast and agile" is another way of saying "changes rapidly". Since government writes the rules you have to operate by, both in your personal and economic life, it's important that those rules not change quickly if the changes are at all controversial.
I think it's more that several of the founders of YC were part of the MIT/Harvard community, so it grew from there. The participants in YC are much more diverse than the YC partnership.
Israel is probably not restrained by fear of reprisal by Hamas.
You mention developing a PaaS product, then you go on to describe a business model based around professional services (PS). By definition, they contradict each other. Also, a product-based business and PS are very different businesses and has different ways of scaling revenue and marketing.

Decide which is it first.
Is it fun to come before your interview and hang out with another applicants or everyone is so stressed (fixing the demo!) ?
An Entrepreneur Expands The Lego Universe
That looks really good. I am not familiar with many of the sites on there, but I noticed no way of getting to HN discussions from your site. Do you think some way of reaching the discussion or comments section of some of the feeds would be helpful to others?
The one I've found that's worked best for me is a Chrome extension called Delayed Gratification that actually only delays my access to the site for 30 seconds. It's enough that I can convince myself to sit there and wait for 30 seconds rather than turn it off when I really want access to the site and feel it's justified.

But 30 seconds is also a decent amount of time to convince myself that I don't really need to see that site right now, and often I'll just close the tab a few seconds in and get on with work.
Yeah. In Metro, it's fairly obvious what's clickable.
Eventually you should try to find a babysitter (grandparents often work well, but not everybody has the option) and go out without the child. Although I admit we have done that only twice in the last two years...

What costs 1500$ more - per year, or per month? Because you'll move to a bigger apartment?

Our kid (2 years) actually sleeps from 8pm till 8am, so in theory there is still plenty of kid free time. Don't worry so much :-)
> Who's [sic] definition is that?

wiktionary...
There's a bug in the code submission, it didn't like <> in haskell, replacing it with `mappend` was fine
As a Spanish citizen employed as a web developer in America, even I am hesitant to seek employment there. Unemployment rates are high, civil unrest is high and the local economy is in the crapper. There has been alot of press about the "PIIGS" of the EU: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece & Spain. With the recent economic collapse of Greece - I fear Spain is not far.

-A-Spanish-passport-holding-techie-in-US
>>"Republicans who live in conservative neighborhoods (and hence had no neighborly pressure to conserve) and had no record of giving to environmental organizations actually increased their consumption by 1 percent.

Why would some energy-conscious Republicans all of a sudden become power hogs?"

The article says that a particular demographic of republicans increased their usage by 1 percent. Then describes them as power-hogs for their 1 percent increase. Thats a bit difficult to take seriously. All the examples of change seem to have been cherry-picked to try and make an interesting article, rather than forming an interesting picture as a whole.
I wholeheartedly agree. Rarely are people confronted about such things, nowadays. It's OK for someone to put on their Big Boy/Girl pants and take some criticism (tactifully, sure).

Plus, civility and such are different for everyone.
You make it sound like the banking equivalent of running on a single Slicehost VPS, which I think does a disservice to the incredibly smart people running Stripe. I doubt there is any risk at all of "if they lose their merchant account the whole thing goes up in smoke".
Method Combinators in an Asynchronous World
Looking at humans as domesticated apes: We are not fixed in being pair bounding or tournament species. But the current western culture is pair bounding.

Its typical for pair bounding domesticated apes, that the poor and uneducated breed like rats, in the hope that one of the 9 children survives and can feed me, when I'm a grandpa. The more wealth and education someone has, the less children they have, because it makes sense to have fewer children and invest more into them.

Till a culture runs into the problem that the average mother has less than two children. This had been a problem for every high culture, regardless if we talk about Greeks, Romans, or later high cultures. And US is not yet at this point, because CIA tells me 2.06 children per mother, while Germany has 1.41 children per mother.

The solution would be to get rid of the pair bounding culture, because domesticated tournament apes have exactly the opposite children per mother distribution. Rich man have several women, and those have several children. Poor man have no women, and no children.
>To me people with families will take less risk.

But to me, this is the biggest myth of all: starting a business has risks to be sure. As does planning your career path in the corporate world. Your skill could get automated or outsourced. You could get cut at a critical point in your career.

There is no "safe" path these days. There are paths that seem to have less risk, but you can approach business in a way that limits your exposure easier than you can do that with a job (most jobs require an investment of 40+ hours per week). I think Patio is an example of this.
CSSHat has been HACKED You can have it cheaper.
Hey Ryan,

I understand your concern because unfortunately some registrars have done this in the past. I can tell you that I've never shared what you're searching for with anyone else; no one benefits from your searches other than you.

For what it's worth, in the 10+ months of Lean Domain Search's existence there hasn't been one allegation of impropriety -- and it should stay that way as long as I'm doing my job of keeping your searches private.
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"Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary"
"These may have provided the neurological underpinnings for some of his visuospatial and mathematical abilities, for instance."
Good question! If you start hyring former and current politicians, sponsor elections, pressure your employees, try sneek in legislation, I'd say you're special interest.
I was wondering what kind of place this was that allowed workers to get drunk at lunch. However now that I realize it is in the UK, it makes a bit more sense.

I was talking to my boss once, he worked in London for a while. He once said that the biggest difference between American workers, and English workers is attitude towards alcohol.
No, Facebook Still Owns Your Posts, You Dummies
AFAIK, only PG, Harj, Jessica, Garry, PB, Geoff, Sam, and maybe RTM and/or Trevor?
I think it depends on if you're talking about expected case or worst case.

In the U.S., companies will act out of their own selfish interests, but in theory the government can address the concerns of the citizens in areas the citizens don't have sufficient power themselves ("by the people, for the people", etc). If the government is focused on regulating the industry, the "serf" ownership model won't be transitive from the companies to the government. Hopefully the companies would act as a barrier and the government would never get them as direct minions.

But obviously the government could abuse this position. Then it's a question of which one would be the purest evil given the chance.
More recent updates have Google claiming this hasn't happened

http://allthingsd.com/20121126/google-sources-say-company-di...

(well played mods on the updated title ;-)
Building Features That Move The Needle
1%/year over 300 years is nearly a 20-fold improvement.

Also, while the construction improvements in the past 30 years may not be major, framed-tube and trussed-tube construction will be 50 years old next year.

You may be right that we have currently reached the pinnacle of technology, and that nothing else is possible except in the fields of iPhone games and social dating sites. The dead end in robotics may be approaching, even though it has resulting in a 150% improvement in manufacturing productivity since 1985 (we currently produce 70% more with 30% fewer people).

But that's not a bet I'd be willing to take.
What? type writers?
I think there is a bug in the 'off' function (though I haven't had the chance to run it yet).

# Read from the array, and remove files from /etc/hosts
for site in $*; do
sed -i '' "/127.0.0.1 $host/d" $hosts
done

it should be $site instead of $host (the latter is never referenced elsewhere in the file)
Don't forget Microsoft. They still control more endpoints than anyone else and they're entering the cloud and mobile market, albeit late.
The Four Horsemen of the Cyber-Apocalypse: Security Software FUD
thanks for reporting that
This looks promising, aside from being long overdue. Header files have always been one of the more annoying parts of C/C++/Obj-C development.

The important bit is that the proposal's ideas for making the transition easier are good and make it seem like this may get traction where similar efforts have failed before. That Doug Gregor and other LLVM/Clang/LLDB developers are already working on the Clang implementation is even better. At the very least we may see this in Objective-C.
There are 3 tracks (fyi).
Yeah, I bought mine from RS. They recently sent me an email saying the product was on the way, but no tracking number. I guess it will be a surprise.
Actually, the title I saw before the change (and now) said "Entrepreneur", not startup founders. I don't think it was misleading, though it's true that people could be substituting "Founder" for "Entrepreneur" in their heads.
Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights
Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80
I don't know if this will help others but it helps me - I try and go to the gym at lunch, or if I have to work my lunch then go after work, basically get to the gym at some point in the day. If I'm skipping too many days and feel like I'm losing it, I wear my gym socks all day until I go. It's like a constant physical reminder to go. Seems to work for me.

Also, I find that I tend to overwork at the gym and feel tired or I ache too much to go the next time. Recently I've been able to go more just because I'm deliberately not working out so intensely. I tend to do a 5 minute rowing warmup, a 2-3 mile run, some cycling (10 mins alternating easy/hard every 2 mins) and then, if I have time, I'll do some weights (legs or arms depending on what I did last time).
This sort of thing is happening on a massive scale in the US as well. David Cay Johnston's book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob you Blind exposes how "regulated" monopolies bereft of competition squeeze money out of their essentially unrepresented customers.
China Telecom starts iPhone 5 pre-orders
That sounds useful, but not as useful as transactions on joins.

It's great to have transactions when you have to cross reference data, on a key/value store, although you can have range queries I submit that kind of operations is less frequent.

But still, it sure is great to be able to run a batch of operations with the confidence it will be transactional, I'm sure there are many use cases that can benefit from it.

Oddly enough, it's strange that there aren't more NoSQL engines offering this feature as once you have MVCC you've done the hard part and AFAIK several NoSQL db have MVCC.
Pick up a publishing magazine, they have companies that advertize perfect bindign equipment for a few thousand dollars that only costs a few dollars per unit to use.
That page doesn't work on vanilla IE 9 - there's flashing boxes that pop up over the text and artifacts all over the place. Is it really that hard to support the browser that millions of people in offices are forced to use?

Partial screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/8kP0b.png
Agreed. It's a different concept from both startups and preorders, but of the two it's more similar to a preorder. The ultimate point I'm trying to make is that, at the completion of a successful kickstarter, the creators have a guaranteed minimum customer base for the product, which puts them way ahead of the average startup. Success rates should therefore be much higher.
Printable nanosecond for reference: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/a-downloadable-nanosecond.html
What is it with Google and unauthorized Press Releases? For a company this big it's strange that they would misinform the public twice within a 6 month period.
> The first couple of days with a language can be painful.

It doesn't have to be:

http://xkcd.com/353/
It would be possible to add Perl and Clojure to the list of supported languages, would that be interesting?
I'm sorry JS master; but well, at least "Jash Kenas" sounds really cool.
In-App Store as a Service (IASaaS)
Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder
Objective-C is certainly important, but C++ and Objective C++ is where I think this is super important to see. I don't care which solution wins (yet, I might after more inspection/convincing), we just need A solution, and one that works for some older projects with little work.
A holiday round in the mammography debate
Unfortunately Budd started a new a little Smalltalk at least 5 times. None of them are for production use, but only to look, how a Smalltalk could be implemented.
As a CL developer with only a bit of dabbling in Smalltalk and Ruby, Smalltalk and Ruby seem much more similar than CL and Clojure.

In particular, Clojure's preference for vectors over lists in many situations, combined with its much stronger preference for immutable objects makes it highly distinct from CL.

The requirement for explicit trampolines to allow efficient tail-calls makes it distinct from any (non-toy) lisp I've ever used.
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TechCrunch is saying the same:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/26/icoa-corp-ceo-this-is-not-t...
It's full of bashisms. Arrays, double equals (==) in conditionals, and the function keyword stand out to me.
The reason you don't see many implementations of Scheme is that Java's calling conventions do not jive well with tail call optimization. This is the same reason that Clojure has the recur keyword: http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special Forms--(recur exprs*)
If you're getting ill, then you're (probably) missing something in your diet.

After working out hard enough for a few months, I used to get an injury (muscle strains)... then take the rest of the season off to let it heal. It would happen every time I tried it.

At first I tried reducing my exercise... that worked.

Then I started paying more attention to my diet. Turns out, I would often only eat 45-60g of protein a day (not a huge fan of meat).

Fixed that.. now I can exercise hard every single day without any injuries.
I like the case studies & the freebies are great too! Maybe a tutorial would be good? Or you could take an familiar app & redesign it to show what elements have to be taken into consideration.

I'd be interested to see how the design & development sides of iOS apps fit together, e.g what files do you provide, sizes, naming conventions etc.
>I'm pretty sure Jeff specifically builds his machines for low energy use.

It doesn't matter how low energy your servers are they are still servers than most people don't have.
^this. "I was really really wrong when I started using blocks. I don't do this now" is something I had to say about a project that got put on hold shortly after I got to start using block based networking in Objective-C
Samsung Plans to Open New Start-Up Accelerator in Downtown Palo Alto
Shoots. I just wrote a whole article on the topic for SeekingAlpha, which I'll have to pull back. Internet, be more reliable!
It looks like your standard penny stock "pump and dump" except this is not a penny stock since it was trading at .0001 - 1/100 of a cent - this morning

http://www.google.com/finance?cid=9420828
Third Grader Dazzles Twitter with Her Amazing Doodle
Speeding Things Up With JRuby
I ordered mine in April? May? It got here last Saturday. I'm not complaining (I've been busy with other stuff; I haven't even had a chance to play with it yet!), it's pretty awesome to think of this kind of power for so little cost, and it's like early Christmas :)
This is really nice, good work! I think the print icon should be an actual printer rather than an ink droplet though.
long overdue indeed, reminds me a lot of google go?
This article seems to be more of an excuse to brag about a morning workout routine than the self help article its masquerading as.
CERN: The Higgs boson, unfortunately, is behaving exactly as we expected
Right, so in the case of releasing the product as open source, the product is not the business, it's something to base a PS business around. I see this as something similar to, say, 10gen with MongoDB.

By 'service' in this case I'm really talking about internal services that an IT department provides to developers, rather than something hosted by a third-party, and I use the term because it's analogous functionality. By having a product that you can run yourself, you can maintain a coherent system that works across the whole development runway, reducing deployment failures that are caused by mis-matched environments. (This is very much came from an itch that needed to be scratched.)

Because it's something for an in-house IT department to provide, just as they would provide code repository hosting and bug tracking, there would likely be a need for training, for consulting, and for integration with existing business systems.
> but as we know half of those marriages end in divorce.

I'm not sure that's true actually. My feeling is that there are "serial divorces" who have 5+ failed marriages and drive the numbers way up.
Short on facts and data, long on speculation and sensationalism.
1%/year over 300 years is nearly a 20-fold improvement.

I'm not sure it makes sense to assume steady incremental growth over such long time frames. I mentioned 1%/yr when considering improvements over the last 3 decades.

You may be right that we have currently reached the pinnacle of technology

This is not a claim I've made.
Well that clears up basically nothing; I still don't understand what you're saying, or where the A major comes in.
Don't believe in Zimmerman?
If you want more detail, this article links a research paper that describes the system in detail. Very clever focussing on the timebase as a way to improve distributed consistency; I'd always assumed NTP was sufficient. http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

The part of the article that stood out to me is that Spanner is used in F1, the new backend datastore for AdWords. That's a significant vote of confidence.
Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites
I don't get this behaviour with my (latest-gen) Airport Extreme. I have a separate 5GHz network and get consistently 360Mbps to 450Mbps connection to it. Are you sure your Airport isn't faulty?

Changing it to a single name for both networks leaves my iMac always connected via 2.4GHz and no obvious way to switch to 5GHz.
I know it's not considered a good thing to do, but I also have problems with Maven, mostly because I so seldom use Java.

But I found JarFinder in IntelliJ to be a good replacement for many needs. You just start using a class and it suggests a couple of jar's to download and reference. :)
I use VoIP at home. I plugged my DSL adapter, my router, my VoIP box and my wireless phone base into a cheap battery backup. And when the power went out, my wireless VoIP phone still worked. I trust DSL more than cable for this, but even most cable deployments are not dependent on local power.
It's been awhile since I did large scale C++, but I remember precision with header file inclusion was a big deal in C++ projects, to the point where you'd mangle your class structure if it'd keep a cascade of header dependencies out of a set of source files. It looks like this module proposal would work at cross purposes to that effort.
As the father of an almost 2-year-old:

Baby spending is a gaseous thing. It expands to fill the size of your budget.

All a baby needs is onesies, diapers, food, some blankets and a place to sleep. A car-seat and a stroller for going out (plus some blankets, etc for keeping warm). Anything else is gravy.

The kid will be fine. Quit worrying.

You will have to ease back into outside social engagements but you will sort things out.

Young children sleep a lot.
[RubyConf 2012] Rapid Programming Language Prototypes with Ruby and Racc
If anything, Monticello and many of the collaboration practices in Smalltalk were intellectual forerunners to git.
Inside Harmonix's race to build 'Gangnam Style' for 'Dance Central 3'
We've just shipped LinkedIn integration for Lanyrd
I'd like to know a little more about the network setup. Are the Expresses bridging via Ethernet, or acting as repeaters? I don't know if that could be part of what he's seeing, but I'm still interested.
Everyone wants modules but nobody can agree on how they should behave. This is why they weren't included in C(++)11.