skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm (lazily) using Friedman as a proxy for the whole Chicago School. I think once behavioral economics forces you to abandon the rational actor model, you really have to go back and reevaluate all the places where you (explicitly and sometimes implicitly) assume that economic actors are rationally wealth-maximizing. With Friedman specifically, this is particularly relevant in all the situations where he wanders away from empiricism (e.g. in his role as economic advisor to Reagan).
Scrolling up and down on that page causes the URL to change to reflect the article you are now viewing. I'm pretty certain this is a bad idea.
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Yes, it's built-in (there's a "Videos" link at the top, and any videos you start watching show up in the carousel interface).
Next Generation Genomics: World Map of High-throughput Sequencers
We must go deeper. But seriously, are they all that rare? There's one similar just down the road from me (Colchester) and it's a pain when you're learning to drive.
> The idea that markets usually produce a optimal outcome is certainly austrian

Im sorry this is not right. It is in fact dead wrong!

The austrian have from the VERY, VERY start objected to models that discribed market as perfect, or people as perfectly rational. Go into the internet and look up what austrians actually say about markets, google 'Market Process Theory'. It is actually the case that most of austrian theory trys to figure out how a groupe of ignorent humans like we are with our imperfection can creat such a complex structure of production or what Hayek called 'The extended order'

Why do people that have a bar half knowlage of economics, clame such wild things about a 120 year old tradition of economic thought.

The thing that most austrians clame, is that the market produces better results then a goverment influencing the market can that is because goverment does not have the knowlage (nor the insentive but that more public choice theory) to imporve the market outcome.
Dealing with Timezones in PHP and MySQL
So is your strategy to always use the worse of two services to ensure competition for the future?
> I don't understand why they are so passive aggressive towards Android users who do not buy the Kindle Fire, but want to rent videos.

Because on a Nexus 7, you might also go to the Google Play store to buy books, music, or videos. But Amazon has removed that from the Kindle Fire.
Already on front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915944

Submitting the canonical URL helps with popular articles like this.
The new Google Maps app on iOS -- unlike the pre-iOS 6 Apple Maps app using Google Maps data, is a Google-branded application that integrates with Google Accounts for cross-platform history and other purposes, provides feeback mechanisms that helps Google gather information to improve the Google Maps experience for all users and all platforms, and integrates with Google's reviews and other Google services.

Android, for Google, is a way to drive the entire mobile marketplace in a direction which supports Google's online services, which by design are not tied to a particular platform. Apple may use services to sell the platform, but for Google its the other way around.

If people go to Android instead of iOS, that's good for Google, sure, but its almost as good for Google much if people use Google services on iOS. Heck, that's why Google was best friends with Apple when the initial iPhone with its everything-is-web approach was released.

Google Maps on iOS exists for the same reason that Youtube on iOS, Google Chrome on iOS, and other Google apps on iOS exist.
the article is "the FED's thermostat" as an analogy about the Fed's. There is no "Thermostat Theory" it's just a title, not a general theory.
If you haven't committed a crime how could you possibly need privacy, comrade?
Sure. I mean, their local police are allowed to arrest people and send them to "Reeducation Through Labor" camps for 1-3 years without trial. But sure, the US, China, same thing.
They don't apply that rule any more to app approvals.
"the levity about north korea and their slave labor camps isn't funny"

Gallows humor is generally about the horror of the situation, not at the expense of the victims.
Congrats! Looks interesting, and at a pretty decent price. I've been meaning to update my C# knowledge (as a non-.NET developer) and your book has piqued my interest even more.

What exactly is 'PacktLib access to the book' included in the print version as opposed to just the eBook?
That's the one I'm near too. It isn't actually that hard. You just need to treat it as a normal road and not a big roundabout.
Relations between the two companies were hardly cordial. I suspect Apple didn't want to be beholden to a rival over what was becoming an increasingly core service.

Remember Apple already give Samsung, another competitor, a shed load of each money for components. Why enrich someone you're competing with?
Which means you must be using it in a browser, on a Java phone/blackberry, or in iOS 5. Try the new iOS app or an Android phone.
Having both, I find that the Kindle Fire HD's speakers and feel in the hand are also a bit nicer.

That said, the horrible app store and out of date android build get old. More than half of my apps on it are APKs I got from the support staff of the various companies and have to manually update. Since the Google Play store also won't let you just download the APK or run on the Kindle Fire (two play at that exclusivity game!).
Variable length keys are difficult to implement efficiently. The alternative is not doing file name lookups by key query which would damage performance in unpatholgical cases.
Yes, this plugin is pretty awesome :)
Also note that this is not a work of mine, so any remark, bug report, etc should be filed on Github.
Netflix allows it (in the UK, at least). I use it every so often when my Apple TV borks.

You're quite possibly right though. The 4oD app (British TV channel's streaming service) also blocks Airplay for licensing reasons.
Meteor is kind of nuts: https://github.com/meteor/meteor, real time, database abstraction built right into the browser/js, no lag for saving as it uses background sync.

Screencast is here: http://player.vimeo.com/video/40104996
The year haven't ended yet.
The new app is vector based and has turn by turn directions.

Google refused Apple access to both of those features in the original "Maps" app (in iOS <= 5), but they conveniently included them in their new Google Maps app. :)
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Well, people being unaware of the name doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of his thesis. So if you're correct that would be rather incongruous with the rest of the post, which I think is valuable and worth reading.

So I don't think he's criticizing people for not knowing the specific name, but there's some egotism at play. He likes the idea he identified and the name he came up with, and is scratching his head that only market monetarists have picked up the name and that his blog--minor in the blogosphere--is still the first link.

Full quote:

Google seems to tell me I'm right. I'm the first link, which is really pathetic for such an important idea; the second is Friedman himself (pdf); and most of the rest on the first page are other bloggers, mostly Market Monetarists. But this idea has got nothing (in particular) to do with Monetarism.

But arguing about the interpretation of this sentence ultimately is a red herring--you don't go into rage-mode about a blog post because most of it says X but one sentence seems to say Y instead, especially if you can't be sure it even says Y.
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Soon Chinese citizens will enjoy more freedom and privacy than western citizens.

Only if the one-party rule of Communist Party of China (CPC) ceases. Right now, under a policy introduced by that party as it consolidated power, there is not even freedom to change residence addresses in China.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-hukou-20121212,0...

And Chinese citizens enjoying "more freedom and privacy than western citizens" is not likely even if the CPC allows free and fair elections, in the near term. But I wish the common people of China well in gaining more freedom, as their cousins in Taiwan have done over the last thirty years.

中共下台.
Last.fm was great before CBS, I used to use it all the time. It had one of the better algorithms out there for suggesting music and it introduced me to a lot of great bands after I'd been out of listening to music for a while. Then, for whatever reasons I just stopped using it.
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Chinese don't care what their own citizens do as long as they don't blow things up (or out of proportion).

People should note that while in the Western world technology has increased the powers of the wealthy minority, in the east it's the people that have learned to harness it. The Chinese "human flesh search" is notorious for bringing corrupt officials to justice and to find lost children. In the west it's just iSheep staring blankly into their shiny iDevices and not giving a rat's ass about anything.
Not sure if you're aware, but there's a popular WordPress theme with the name Roots:

* https://github.com/retlehs/roots

* http://www.rootstheme.com/
At risk of stating the obvious, the false positive rate will create a vast number of innocent citizens flagged for further investigation. This automated flagging will overwhelm the human investigators, creating a situation in which terrorists find it easier to hide and operate amongst the citizenry, with the added feature that innocent citizens swept up will become truculent and less likely to cooperate. Net result; the US government makes terrorism easier, at vast expense to the US taxpayer.
Are you saying the US does not detain people without charges for years at a time?
FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising News: Over 650 New Donations In Three Days
I think you're probably right, and it's crazy that this is the way things are in NYC. I live in Seattle now (originally from the NYC area) and use Uber extensively. I would be incredibly angry if Seattle tried to pull the same kind of crap that NYC and SF do in regards to black car services like Uber.
Why Do We Still Have to Work?
My temporary solution is to right click and select Inspect Element in Chrome. Then find the "overlay" div and set the z-index to 0. This pushes that to the bottom of the pile and you can browse normally again.

For me personally I think it sits b/c my work proxy has an ad blocker.
Thanks for posting. This is actually pretty critical to be aware of. I've seen problems come up a handful of times when developers weren't paying attention to timezones. The code was in one time zone and the database in another, so things got messed up really fast.
Yup, events never actually reach the browser. They are received by the invisible layer and then sent to some JS code (which is injected into the page).

Thats why you need to double-tap to edit text fields or upload a photo - we can't make text boxes enter editing mode or initiate image upload via JS (the second is disabled because of security issues) so we need to temporarily disable the layer when you attempt that.
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Microsoft’s new OS takes a giant step backward
I traveled across Central and South America for 2 years.

Without exception, every internet cafe I went to (a lot) was overflowing with locals doing one of two things:

1. Chatting on MSN

2. Facebook
Your question was "why do you waste your customers cpu cycles for really small difference in speed of producing the code?" It was not "why do some programmers assume that users are stupid and won't notice that software runs slow?"

To the latter, I shrug. It's a big world with lots of programmers. Some believe very strange things.

But I've seen very little code which was written slow because of a belief that the users are stupid. I've seen a lot more slow code written because the developers were stupid.
Even with company names, they do a pretty poor job. Though it is getting better.

For example, a month or so back a search for "Northern Brewer" (homebrew store chain) made when I'm physically only about 2 miles away from their Milwaukee location would return only the location of their flagship store in the Twin Cities. Which I suppose is technically a correct result, but it's a little galling to have regressed to a mapping app that doesn't even understand concepts as basic as, "When I just enter a business's name all by itself, it just might be reasonable to assume I was looking for a local place."

Some are still really bad. A search for the Miller Brewery's bar, Miller Inn, produces a single result for a business called Fabric Inn in Miller, South Dakota.
My wife can definitely relate to that. Different places offer different things for sure and there's no one place that's great for everyone. Thank goodness.
Yes, voice navigation should work fine on an iPhone 4. Enjoy :).
but the corrolary [sic] to this is that we shouldn't then raise up economic arguments to keep the government from solving real problems.

I disagree: The economic argument against price controls is a very good one, and it's completely valid and useful to raise against the idea when governments try to use them to "solve real problems".
It's a pity they've chickened out in recent years.
WTF is it in the US store only?
Cool project. Also, you should checkout Punch (http://laktek.github.com/punch). I like it mainly for the JSON based content definitions, which is really helpful when it comes to prototyping web apps.
This. I'm an American living in Mexico. I have an Amazon Prime account but can't watch any of the videos here.
Without Airplay this is mostly worthless to me. I just don't sit down and watch movies on my phone. I'd like to stop using my xbox (and paying for xbox live) for amazon+netflix+hulu, but apple tv doesn't have all of them yet. I should probably get a roku, but i'd like to also get airplay in addition to the above 3. :-(
I'ved used Android's "Navigation" app on different older phones without a data plan (only WiFi) and they've been surprisingly good about setting up a route and letting me follow it.

(I can't change my route mid-trip, which was maybe what you were saying.)
I'd really much rather have a Google Navigator that can talk to a Bluetooth earpiece so that I can look where I'm going rather than at a smartphone. "Go left. No, your other left!"
How are you defining 'poor' in this context? Because I'd expect smartphone ownership to be more correlated with age than wealth, and at least in the UK it's quite easy to get a cheap Android phone for £99 on PAYG, or free on a £12.50/month contract. If you're willing to shop around, you can probably get a cheap phone on a £7.50/month contract (including data).
Apple Laptops w/ Embedded 4G Chips
An app that lets you earn money while you search
Any feedback, tips or improvements?
"celebrating the fact that things are better than they used to be in many, many ways."

Yes, that's certainly an invitation to regression of all battles won for the better, with civil rights and other gains. We're not moving in any particular vector, necessarily, we have to actively ensure we're pushing to build on these victories and the victories of our predecessors.
Not to knock against an undeniable excellent effort, I am sure this will delight some people, I wish them luck.

Personally, I just sold my iPad and got an 11" MacBook Air. I know some people are tired of hearing this (Gruber for one) but from direct personal experience over 6 months use my conclusion about the iPad is it is great as a media consumption device, and it does have some extremely lightweight abilities for content creation, but that is about it. I tried using the iPad as a code editor with Diet Coda, Textastic, iSSH etc, using a remote server for remote VIM etc, but with the onscreen keyboard leaving only a tiny viewing port and the obvious lag and internet connection requirements it was just a novelty I couldn't seriously consider. For some people the iPad is a wonderful, perfect desktop computer replacement, but I found it extremely hard to justify the high cost for what I was getting in return. I guess my hopes were too high from the off, I had read many stories about people giving up laptops and just using the iPad for everything, I found that to be laughably unrealistic. Next time I get a tablet it will be a cheaper one with no expectations of using it as a sort of laptop replacement.

Good luck to them anyway, I am probably in the vast minority.
What do you mean "if I stop using it it won't get better"?

Do you mean apple will stop supporting it?

I'm having trouble seeing why you can't stop using it for a year until it gets better.
Isn't there another one of these in Essex somewhere, other than Colchester? I seem to remember passing it on the way to Canvey.
I was thinking this same thing this morning as I tried to figure out where I needed to go once I got off the subway using the new google maps. This is a neat idea, but I wouldn't use it until I feel confident in the GPS and compass in my phone being accurate. Right now it's only right about 50-75% of the time (an one fo the times when it is notoriously bad is when it is finding its bearings after being without servie underground.)
> Soon Chinese citizens will enjoy more freedom and privacy than western citizens.

Soon Chinese citizens will enjoy more freedom and privacy than AMERICAN citizens.
Or How I Made $900/hour for Picking up a Quarter on the Sidewalk

Or Extrapolation Gone Bad
Using 10sec TTL currently for site failover. No complaints.
If you're a developer trying to decide which OS to develop your software on, and market share is a significant factor in your decision, you're going to choose something cross-platform. That's most likely web, but even if you choose one of the toolkits your choice is going to impact all of the OS producers equally: their marketshare will not be impacted at all by you, unless they actively inhibit cross-platform development on their OS. MS used to do that but not anymore; Apple tries to keep the wall around their garden but they don't block cross-platform completely.
There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s...

Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.
IE flaw lets websites track your every mouse movement, and MS refuses to fix it
Vote Clears Way for Taxi Rider Apps in NYC
Using Haskell’s CmdArgs Package
Agreed! This happens with my own app as well! Apparently the app title, even when an exact match to your search query, is no longer considered important.

If there is one thing Apple truly fails at, it is search.
Same thing for Barry's NDAA. Except there's no chance to be reeducated. The only option is to be waterboarded. The only salvation for the United States is the total bankruptcy of their own government.
I'm pretty sure none of these are referentially transparent: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186964/java-core-api-anti... [1]

Less sarcastically, the mere existence of the builder pattern in Java, which undermines referential transparency to its core, is proof that the design of Java as both a language and community is strongly biased against a functional, referentially transparent, mathematical approach to programming, even if such a style were theoretically possible[1].

[1] eg. com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState

[2] Scala and Clojure being proof that it is still possible (though only to a lesser extent - tail call elimination and corecursion being an example where it fails completely).
Yes you are right.

Reading the introduction about express.js i (don't know why) expected more glue magic between frontend and backend.
Who makes the "Navigation" app that I've found on every Android phone I've used? It's been quite useful without a data connection for a daily commute. (It probably would not survive a trip to another city.)
Have you checked out the site? The "lead" is only submitted when the person has indicated that yes, they are interested, and answers whatever questions the bounty-poster wants answered to qualify them ahead of time. So it's not an introduction, but the person actually starting off the conversation with you, saying: "Yes, I'm interested", "Yes, your idea sounds interesting I'd like to have a discussion about possibly funding it" or whatever terms you define.

That said, we do have a demand for deal bonuses, payable when a qualified lead results in a closed deal. That's coming down the line.

Thanks for your feedback.
Not really different from Germany...
Flying Spaghetti Monster for the win!
Maybe Google should pivot and try this whole maps thing out.
It's funny how this ended up on here - this article about "nail houses" was recently posted today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915398

The magic roundabout is mentioned in another posting on that same site:
http://www.theworldgeography.com/2011/08/top-10-strange-stre...
It's proven to work [1],[2] but I have no idea if it's used in the wild.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/cryogenically-frozen-ram-...

[2] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/new-research-resul...
Then you're SOL. That's part of being in a competitive environment.

It doesn't happen that often. Features are hard. Performance is hard. Features and performance is very hard. If a company can pull of both then it deserves the new customers.
Google Now Degrades Android To Sell Music
Navteq is owned by Nokia, btw.
Now Apple has major map services from all mobile platforms with a full-featured Google solution. Plus they have an in-house solution that will become better over time. Removing an image-based Google Maps app developed by Apple from iOS was a great decision.
"Gallows humor" refers to the humor of those facing the gallows, not tasteless jokes cracked by comfortable observers.
buzzwords get
The search of Google Play store is atrocious, much worse than this.
> Try searching in Google for "San Francisco" versus "Francisco San."

On the other hand, that's not a mistake you can make, because "San Francisco" in the minds of people really is "Sanfrancisco", a single word. Why would anybody spell "San Francisco" as "Francisco San"? In fact Google should differentiate heavily between these 2 terms, as they aren't similar at all.

Google also does a lot of other neat things, like translations for city names. Searching on google.com for "Bucuresti" (my town) brings up the sidebar for "Bucharest".

And on GMaps, I'm never afraid of using "str", "strada", "soseaua", "sos" which are different Romanian words and abbreviations for "street". The results aren't the same in these cases (nor they should be actually) but because Google also searches within the addresses of businesses it's usually able to give me an accurate answer to what I mean.
this looks really cool, thanks for sharing! i'm definitely going to check it out and pick it apart : )
I'm not really sure I follow that argument. I get that consumers often prefer unlimited mobile data plans to paying per byte, but what does that have to do with regulation? I'm not aware of any current or proposed rule that would mandate or even encourage unmetered bandwidth and the mobile market is clearly moving away from unlimited data all on its own.
Amazon doesn't sell phones, though. No clear reason to not support Android phones like they're supporting the iPhone.