skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much time it takes to install a different/newer browser?

In a corporate environment? Anywhere from days to years.
Maxima's user base has long been minuscule compared to Mathematica and Maple. There are many factors that went into Maxima's present state, few of which I think are directly attributable to it being open source. There are plenty of open source projects that are more than competitive with their commercial counterparts, e.g., version control, Linux in the data center, R, many MPI-based HPC libraries.
US Planned To Blow Up The Moon In 1959
They are usually called "Britons".
Very true, and that's why S3 is excellent, but I still feel there's a lot of value in using low-end servers until you're running at a large enough scale where redundancy actually matters (not just we should use this cause it's what everyone else is doing).
Just thinking out loud here but is it possible that places like Y Combinator will end up fulfilling this role in the future?
> For the record, another disadvantage is that source versioning and diffing is nigh on impossible

I can attest to that! I have directories full of -v1.nb, -v2.nb, -v3.nb, -v3-fixed.nb files. Here's to hoping someone figures it out anyway :)
Sure, that's definitely fair. It seems to me though that developer salaries haven't risen nearly as sharply as demand. Add to that the actual effects of the entre-boom with regard to the average developer's wealth and it starts to look like a lot more people are working a lot harder, for a lot less.

My gut is that maximizing the actual-value creation per-developer is something to strive for, and ought to be good for everyone involved.
This is what I don't understand about bitcoin. With my extremely small amount of knowledge about it, I thought the idea was to make it so that the rewards for mining were aligned closely with the price of electricity.

But is this the price of electricity in the USA? What about hiring people to do mining in countries with cheaper electricity?

What about if some miners had a solar panel on the roof? Although, as I write this, it occurs to me that at some point, it would be more economical to sell the solar generated electricity back to the grid, rather than use it for mining hardware...
Republicans and Democrats voted almost in equal measure for the NDAA, and I agree, I don't like it one bit. I remember a few people from each party stood up, and being honest here the only notable person I remember was Rand Paul, so I give a little credit there, but very very little since most of his party still voted for it as I remember.
Do you have any links for this?
While working as a teacher I came to the conclusion that links to wikipedia should in most cases include a known good revision number in the url.
Was launching warheads from the moon a boneheaded idea in 1958?
Surprise Windows 8 keygens contain viruses
Rip and Convert DVD to Galaxy S4, Play DVD on Samsung Galaxy S IV 5-inch Screen
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Since they are debt, they accrue interest and the note is due and payable in full at some point down the road (say 18 months). If the company successfully bootstraps, they need to be in a position to pay back the note + the accrued interest by the end of the 18 month period.

If the company can't pay back the note, they need to negotiate with the investors to either extend it or to convert it at some mutually agreed upon valuation
Make Responsive Drupal Sites...
I love me some Bootstrap!
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For an amusing take on the complexities of spoken Danish, have a look at this Norwegian skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
It looks like this also requires a server with a wrapper. The difference is that websockify is more efficient.
We all saw that coming. It's a bummer as adding your own "style", "theme", "whatever you want to call it" isn't that hard.

I think a lot of early stage startups are staffing less graphic art/design via their dependence on Bootstrap.

All in all, it is a sweet front end visual framework!
Not sure how to measure developer demand, but as a "valley-insider" I regularly observe directly engineers being paid about 40% more today than they were in 2008. Also, I recently heard of a mobile developer getting a base salary of 900k, but that's hearsay so who knows..

In any case developer salaries have risen very sharply in my experience.
Restraining Order Compels Twitter to Provide Firehose Access
To use Uber I think you have to give a credit card. I think this is be biggest deterrent to breaking any laws: they already know who you are and if you commit a crime they can find you. I suppose a gang banger could use a fake credit card to set up an account just to then get a cab and rob them, but that creates a big hurdle that I think will eliminate lots of crime.
for the same reasons jquery plugins are terrible
You didn't convey anything but earnest interest in contributing. I intended to address you, then any people trying to game karma.
On reflection, I'd have split the comment; in my defense I was posting from my phone.

FYI, In terms of communities related to specific subjects, a surprising amount happens on mailing lists, not web forums.
Swedish stock exchange hit by programming snafu
> Free markets are generally good at determining value, and for decades the market for young business leaders has given a strong vote of confidence to the graduates of top MBA programmes.

The opposition's entire argument hinges on this one sentence, but they supply no evidence to refute the idea that this segment doesn't behave like a free market at all. As the moderator pointed out, there's no reason to believe that this is anything other than the effect of the "old boys' network".

The opposition needs to come at this from another angle - to show that an MBA gives advantage to the holder in such a way that it isn't clearly an effect of networking rather than learning. Unless they can do that, I will remain unconvinced. I will, however, admit that this a big ask. Performance of business leaders is difficult to measure in a meaningful way.
It's a cube

Surely you can't trademark a cube?
cool, tweeted!
Yeah, it's amusing how the article talks about things that have been shipping in browsers other than Chrome for years (generators, say) and only talks about Chrome supporting them...
China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to Brink
As a quick FYI, I see in the comments below people comparing s3 pricing to the likes of a VPS instance storage from XYZ hosting company.

Given that you have no redundancy with that storage you could save an addition 30% and use reduced redundancy storage in s3 which still provides redundancy to a second AZ (just not all of them or across regions in the odd case of US Standard)
No, not by any reasonable account.
Wouldn't work, because they're also monetizing inter-personal data.
"Twitter has built its business on the promise of openness."

"Twitter promoted its ‘open ecosystem’ to encourage third parties to risk their time and money building businesses that depended on Twitter to survive".
If you're not already comfortable with the command line, Ubuntu's package manager GUI is a hell of a lot more intuitive than apt-get. After that, a simple text editor is easier to work with than nano, emacs, vim, etc. for changing config files.

That said, I wouldn't use a GUI for such things, but I would still prefer my own box. The big power button is a lot easier than EC2s endless menus and options. I say this from the perspective of someone who's used EC2 for a couple of project - imagine someone who's never seen it before.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/almost-precedent/

There is a reason why WHATWG considers HTML a living standard.
$ uname -s
OpenBSD

$ uptime
3:37PM up 2597 days, 20:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.12, 0.13, 0.09

Though, uptime is only a measure of how long it's been since you last patched/did kernel upgrades.

This box is off most of the network and being left alone just to see how long it lasts before it totally dies ;)
If you already have kids then you can't qualify.
I'm having trouble understanding your recommendation. Vagrants take ALL of their belongings with them, they have little where else to store any items they. Backpackers couldn't possibly take everything they own with them or they would by definition be Vagrants.

I think having a Vagrant as the mascot for Vagrant is the only obvious option.
I was initially led to think I wouldn't be allowed in, being only an enthusiast and reading "filmmakers only". Loved the design and guiding interface, can't wait for features like the outline and more parts of the workflow.

Edit: The 'Learn More' link has no href?
Well some of those changes are not reflected in Scandinavian in general (many Scandinavian dialects have V-to-T, some have V2), so I'm not sure if it's actually relevant to the authors' hypothesis. But some of those changes also happened _in_ Scandinavian in recorded history. So the probability of these changes is relatively high given a 500-year span.

Borrowing "fundamental grammatical words and particles" (I'd go with "functional elements") is common too (the French of Prince Edward Island French is a famous example). That English has Scandinavian functional elements is uncontroversial, and previously was taken as evidence for contact, not descent.

Here's what I see as the facts underlying their claim. English went from a OV, V-to-T-to-C (thereby, V2) language to a VO language with no verb raising, in which it is similar to Scandinavian. I don't see how that's inconsistent with contact.
I managed to break that link somehow and can no longer edit it, here's the correct one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.onbefore...
As my original post said this all applies to webapplications. If you're building a consumer facing brochure site then you neither want nor need most of these new web features.

Have you actually used or tried to deploy ChromeFrame? Its plenty ready for prime time, and features:

1. A 60sec installation

2. No browser restart required

3. No admin rights necessary

4. IE6+

5. Autoupdate just like regular chrome

Even the most technophobic user can follow 2 links to be able to use an app they really want to use.

And remember this is all about applications, not your average brochure site.
It would be really cool, but the reality is that websites that uses similar kind of data are usually direct competitors and work as closed gardens (Facebook vs Google+, Vimeo vs Youtube, Bing vs Google). But I do hope that at least multimedia tags will be able be dragged and accepted by other websites (drag a video tag to YouTube, drag a pdf to dropbox, etc)
" … I am still horrified at the price of data at scale."

This isn't "the price of data at scale", this is "the price of flexible, reliable, available data at scale"

I think what some people don't understand, is that Amazon _aren't_ trying to compete on price.

With Amazon, you're paying a premium for the ability to scale, both up and down, very quickly.

Rackspace, Linode, and some-guy-subletting-racks-in-some-local-datacenter can easily beat EC2 prices for "general purpose servers". What Amazon does differently is let you quickly and easily go from 1 "server" to 10 or 100 servers, then switch most of them back off again 4 hours later. I deal with a great local hosting guy, who can (and does) fast track provisioning for me at times, but if I called him and said "Ummm, the CEO is on Oprah tonight, I need 100 additional webservers, a load balancer or two, and a dozen database slaves; to keep my not-architected-for-scale-but-suddenly-in-need-of-it web app alive at 8:30pm tonight", there's no way he'd be able to do it. And even if he _could_ there's now way he'd agree to if I said "and I only want to pay for it all until midnight, then shut all the extra down and go back to charging me for my single instance".

"$1000 per terabyte per year" might seem crazy expensive if a sensible alternative for your data storage requirements is to go to BestBuy and grab a 2TB external drive for ~$100. But that's a _very_ different thing to what Amazon are selling...
Completely agree having lived in Denmark and my mother being Danish.

Jeg vil gerne have en kop kaffe = i would like a cup of coffee

That's my go to for similarity.
Languages don't work that way. Anyone touching the language has to deal with the whole thing.

Tooling ES6 code is more complicated, learning the language is much more complicated (it was nicely minimalist compared to other mainstream languages). At least they mostly stuck to mucking with the syntax--saying they turned it into Java is crazy until they introduce Java's broken threading.
Rocket Internet did an online clothing store in Nigeria. Not sure how well its done. They are famous for cloning sites into different foreign markets. German company. Not the most honorable business model just to clone, but it pays the bills.
Interesting, why is it confusing to switch between two layouts? I speak both Russian and English and I can type without looking at the keyboard using either Russian or English layout (I'm sure this is not something outstanding). Perhaps when it comes to two layouts for the same language it might be more confusing.
It doesn't become really controversial until someone points out that unclassed functions are the logical extreme of this philosophy at which point the predictable shit flinging starts.
When I called iCracked about the same thing, they (very honestly) told me iPhone 5 screens are uber expensive and they currently cost more than it would to get a replacement iPhone 5 from Apple, which is currently $229. The way the markets work though, iCracked said they will be swapping those screens out at half the price pretty soon. I'm assuming it's the in-cell technology in the new screens that makes them so expensive.
If the goal was to provoke the Soviet Union into a spending war of gradual budget attrition, nuking the moon would probably be pretty effective. It's flashy, outrageously expensive, and vaguely threatening -- the ideal combination for this sort of thing.
What about blockchain.info?
I think by "split verb" he's referring to "separable verbs", where a particle, resembling a preposition, moves to the end of the sentence. This sometimes occurs in English, apparently violating the "schoolmarm" rule to not end sentences with a preposition.

c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_verb
It's not a big deal: startups are supposed to fail. Fortunately for most of the failed entrepreneurs, they'll be able to get a job at one of the countless startups that aren't failing :)
A lot of that data comes from SquareTrade.
Yeah, there are definitely people doing it way cheaper, but the quality is terrible and there is no warranty!
I highly disagree. Segways are awesome.
There are lots of startups hosting their services on AWS. Their data is already on AWS. Amazon's Redshift makes perfect sense for them.

Many startups like Qubole have been already working on providing such cloud based solutions for data analysis.
now that's something new!
Thanks for clarifying this for me! I wish there had been a linguistics department at the school I went to, I'm sure I would have minored in it instead of philosophy.
You can go into the css and for the .alertify {} selector

Remove the border{...} values and change box shadow to:

box-shadow {box-shadow: 0 0px 60px 30px #666;}
1) They're working on that problem, and it's solvable without disrupting the security.

2) You can always use one of a number of online wallets who will host the blockchain for you.
Sorry CNET, Cyber Monday was not the biggest online shopping day ever
There were a couple comments about the legality of foreign donations, but I wonder whether foreigners can volunteer for a campaign.

Some causes are worth the hassle.
It doesn't subtract from your point, but both iOS and Android do in fact have native-quality browser accelerometer support.
Just launched world's first iPhone dock that mounts to iMac + thinnest USB cable
1) GPU mining is still profitable, if your power is cheap.

2) FPGA mining is still plenty profitable (I'm making, eh, 20BTC a day or so? And already paid for my hardware)

3) ASIC, coming soon, will change everything again, but keep it profitable
I see you're trying to do some fancy CSS thing on the site. Unfortunately this means all the text is mangled into one big mess; completely unreadable.
Might want to fix that.

Edit: Should add I'm using Chrome.
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Feel free to let me know if you have any questions regarding the dock, the manufacturing process, the cable or the general process of launching a project on Kickstarter.

Also, if you guys are interested I can upload some behind the scene photos of the prototypes, how we made the video, etc. :)
One case that could break by this change is if you relied on insert's old default of being a no-op if an object with the same _id already exists. This can be used to efficiently insert a default document without race conditions. Example at https://github.com/RedBeard0531/Mongurl/blob/master/mongurl....

That said, it makes sense for this to be opt-in behavior rather than the default.
Windows Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way
6. The expansion is complete, and they are conservationists with an eye for subtlety.

I favor this possibility. Fledgling expansionists cannot know if they are wards of conservationists who have spent the past billion years developing spying technology and culling weapons. On a game theoretic basis, every sensible fledgling expanionist, even the first one in the universe, should reasonably act as if a living god is judging them.
That's a really nice demo!
Frankly no - I see that event as the watershed when the appengine community suddenly matured. Thousands of people who were using appengine as free hosting disappeared, leaving those who actually understand the value proposition appengine offers.

Appengine is NOT cheap hosting. It IS an massively-scalable, massively-redundant zero-admin development platform - and maybe I'm nuts but I expect to pay for that. I was glad Google set realistic prices and put appengine on a commercial footing, because I don't want it cancelled next time Google has a bad quarter.

Just to put this in perspective, we have four appengine apps that handle about half a million users between them. They generate a 6-figure annual revenue, and we pay Google around $50 a month. Yep, you read that right - $50. We've looked at AWS, but we'd pay a lot more - and that's without factoring in the cost of a good sysadmin to support it.

If you need a company website, appengine is probably not for you. If you're putting on a royal wedding and expect billions of hits for a short period, it's perfect. If you love tweaking your own firewall rules and tuning Postgresql for ultimate performance, you don't want appengine. If you're a development shop that wants a stable, scalable platform with the overhead of a sysadmin, welcome to your new home.
Update! The entire keynote is now available on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJ5DBLSFe4

The discussion about Amazon Redshift begins at 52:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
In a rational society, yes. If you find one, let me know.
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While watching the English subtitled "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" I was surprised by how many time I didn't need to read the subtitles.

Obviously I'm have no knowledge of linguistics, but maybe there's something to this theory.
That bug has been happening with older versions of Chrome. I know that's not an excuse, but you probably want to look into updating if that's what's happening.
Very cool that this will support regular sql queries and queries can be sent using postgresql drivers. Postgresql drivers are super stable and supported everywhere. Driver support is usually overlooked with 'Enterprise' Data Warehousing solutions. I recall that it was really hard to get the Vertica drivers installed and stable under Linux.

I took a few screenshots from the keynote and included one showing the mention of Postgresql and ODBC/JDBC support. Included here if you want to see for yourself: http://wp.me/p2sRpx-1e
> don't forget ebay and amazon fees add up to 11%-20%

True, but comparing Helium with eBay and Amazon is like comparing apples to oranges. Both Amazon and eBay are marketplaces where you get visibility from buyers other than just payment processing. Helium should be compared to more the likes of Shopify (integrates Stripe), Volusion and BigCommerce.
That was my first thought - Hydrogen has low energy density, even in frozen form. That is the thing that holds Hydrogen cars back more than anything else - tiny range for massive (and costly, and complex) fuel tanks. The same would have to apply to both airplane and rocket designs.
It takes a lot of courage to share the source code of a failed project. What would you do differently if you had the chance?
It's not an isolated report.

The USSR discovered water on the moon about 40 years ago in 1976 - http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428030/soviet-moon-land... They also had landers on Venus in the 70s http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/venera.html Why did NASA announce in 2009 as if it's unexpected and novel that there's water on the moon? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_r...
"Completely"? "No food"?

A bit of hyperbole there?
lol, my favorite part was when you thought a totally hacked together, duck-typed, uncompiled language would produce less buggy code than Java!
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. :)
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Great news Mitch! Congratulations, and give us a yell if I can help with anything.
> These just need the other 20% to go up in value 5x to break even, and with seed/angel money that is easy to do.

Yes, picking 1-in-5 investments with 5x return is so easy it's a wonder that this investment style hasn't completely taken over the $1-$5M segment of the market.
Enhanced and Disenchanted
Harpo spelled nigger is harper.
Assuming no major side effects how long before something like this can be used in humans? What are the next steps even?

Does the therapy used to treat the mice with these genes work with humans?

What could the possible downsides of this be (other than things like overpopulation)?
We are really excited to solve a huge problem for everyone that uses Windows Azure. BTW, our product also works on any Windows or Linux servers no matter where they are deployed!
How to achieve a 2s page load w/Magento store
Yeah, they're known for unreasonably high failure rates and terribly warranty service.

SH/SC says "Do not buy drives from OCZ or last-generation (SATA300) models, they are not reliable." and refers people to this list: http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-...

It's possible that they're the entire cause of the "SSDs are less reliable than spinning disk" conventional wisdom.
First chart's huge dropoff is an artifact of choosing a yrange of 21-41 instead of 0-100. It's a common deficit of charts created under motivated cognition.
Homebuilt X-ray backscatter imaging system (airport body scanner)
Lisp isn't too slow, but it was too slow at one time. The old joke was "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
Completely agree.

There are always a thousand things that you can prematurely optimize (page load time, HTML, conversions, etc). The trick is figuring out what the highest ROI thing is for you to optimize right now given your specific point in time. If you get 100 visits/day set metrics around sign up, retention, or whatever is going to build you up to 1K/day. Then figure out how to get to 10K/day, and so on.
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