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You got it from American politics, where anything to the left of anarcho-capitalism is "socialist". What you're thinking of is called social democracy, and in greater or lesser measure widely considered to be both responsible for the post-WW2 "Golden Age of Capitalism" and the best empirically tested economic system.

Basic income guarantees are the "Pirate Party" social-democratic response to automation.
Low-hanging fruit. This is a non-issue that concerns no one but the Senator and her frequent-flyer peer group. I don't vote people into office for taking care of fluff issues, and I hope neither should you. Address what matters, then we can legislate on iPads in the air.
Sanitising User Input from Browser. part 2
Sorry but where in Australia are you that Google Maps is showing POIs ?

And which POIs are inaccurate exactly ?
Who Needs College? Young Entrepeneuer Bets On Idea For Solar Energy
Maybe people are not willing to pay more for software that runs faster, but I'm sure more people are willing to use your software longer time when they don't have to complain about the user experience.

In the game industry we often see the requirement of needing to buy new computer because we want to play some new game, but we have quite much accepted this because usually those games bring pretty good upgrade on the graphics. Though personally I don't know what is the current situation as I have dropped pc gaming. But I know nothing new has happened in the console side, except new games every week with similar graphics and physics, but different story and setting.

Anyway. One example where global bad image of software is easily seen is the browser wars. When majority of users started to replace their default Internet Explorer installation to alternative like Firefox. Though now the most popular is chrome. Of course the graphical user interface, other features of web browser played big role on this and much of the complain of web developers who did not want to support some browser.

Recently I have had to answer to questions like why Firefox or Chrome is taking something like 50% of cpu to render something. Of course I've asked them how many tabs they have open, etc. But the major cause I've realized is code of Facebook which does ton of stuff in the browser instead of in the server.
This is the underlying cause of the Great Recession, according to an increasing number of credible economists (ie: Paul Krugman took up this view recently).
FB doesn't really offer it as an option unless you go through and set everything to full feed for each person.

This sounds completely horrible, and I don't mean it as a nasty, but the active user base of Facebook seems to be distinctly less technical than the active user base of Twitter. I think that could lead to upsetting the active core at a gamble of attracting a couple of hundred thousand new users, who they won't really be making money off.
Google Maps is a tween, Apple Maps a toddler
The Bravery .. kickass band. Saw them once, too drunk to remember. So, what were you saying again?
Awesome, between /b/, money launderers, the Silk Road, and its arms-dealing offshoot, bitcoin may have attracted the attention of all the scumbags on the internet!
How Aaron Barr correctly identified Commander X
Frankly, I'd rather achieve immortality by not dying because having a body is more fun than being a disembodied mind.

Of course, I come from a religious background in which worldly pleasures are supposed to be moderated rather than abolished, so there's that.
Insane. Insane.

A hundred years ago, people thinking about machines doing the work for us recognized that this was a good thing. Now, we worry about "our" "outrunning" the robots. Which is fucking impossible. We are building them to do the work - let them do it. Let us be human - as prices fall, we won't need to work nearly as much with the stupid fiddly bits of putting pieces of metal against other pieces of metal, and can instead just do whatever we want to. Sure, lots of people will explore beer in great detail, and other people will make a lot of concrete geese with more elaborate clothing, but who cares? Why does Eric Schmidt think that's a problem?

Prices of things we need will fall. We'll need to work less to live. Robots will give us that. There isn't a problem here.

Longer term, sure, I suppose mere human brains won't be the biggest around any more. Maybe we'll stop caring. So? If it's inevitable, it's inevitable. Love your children now and let them worry about it. They'll evolve, or they'll die - the same deal every other life form gets.
Would you care to comment on the perceived lag some people are experiencing while panning and zooming?
Thank you for the great suggestions, well, the really big spending here was the computer (Mac Book pro) , as for the virtual assistent, that's not a big deal (marginal cost/hour, 5 hours/week), her work is so far worth every penny I've paid till now... I'll try to figure out how to optimize an Adwords campaign, so far my approach was to focus on retargeting people who already visited my site and didn't convert...
It's Capitalism, if the business is not profitable they should get out of it. No one told them to run on thin margin. Not my responsibility to subsidize bad business decisions.
The good thing is that OS on my iPhone can now be upgraded to iOS6...
The interesting conclusion for me as a user is that:
(1) I value the additional services like Maps more than the base OS...
(2) I don't care about Apple loyalty - my loyalty is towards iPhone and any app provider who continues to provide me an excellent iPhone experience
Show HN: iPhone App - Icon based review for concerts
Why do you consider people who frequent the Silk Road to be scumbags?
Oh yeah it is here

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/hackathon-slumberparty
You ignore them. All prices will fall - including the prices of robots. (3D printers are doing this right now.) So you build a decentralized economy - which will happen no matter what we do - and the "owners" become, well, everybody.
or, you could have click on the original link to get there
Definitely search advertising like AdWords + Yahoo + Bing. Capture the people looking what you are offering. Therefore, they will probably search and be willing to pay. Think about search terms. Worth every cent if done right! And don't believe the "automated" bid stuff in AdWords. Fine tune your own bids and review regularly. Squeeze as much as you can out of your spend and understand your market. Use LOTS of different messages to experiment.

FB is nothing more than broadcast advertising, like TV. Too unreliable and not worth the money. I'm still dubious about click fraud on FB.

Consider your VPS environment and make sure it's redundant (ideally multi-location). Depending on your project, nothing worse than disappointing your paying customers, so best to get the production environment right.

Hold on to as much CASH as you can so that you can react to opportunities as they arise. Depending on your product, some other careful marketing could really pay off - like booths at appropriate conferences.

Make sure you build up lists of interest (email & sms) so you can repeat market later at much lower cost. Conversion isn't just about immediate sales; sometimes it's acquiring targets to sell to later. Depends on the sales cycle and decision process of your offering.

Hope it helps!
We don't really envisage the notebook as a tool for creating modules and packages. It's not a replacement for a traditional editor or IDE; indeed you could use it alongside one.

We might even pair it with a web-based editor, like ACE, so you can comfortably write modules on the same server.
No it isn't. That would only be true assuming you have a knowledgable attacker. For most cases physical access definitely does not mean game over.
Writing Perl 6 Rx (Regex) [Video | YAPC::Europe 2012]
"Reddit Accept Bitcoin"

"4Chan Accept Bitcoin"

"____ Accept Bitcoin"

Is this going to be a trend on HackerNews post?
Thank you for the suggestions, the site is live and the design looks fine, (using twitter bootrap), there's still 1 or two things (images) to tweak and I'm looking for a great designer to get them right, I've been a bit shy asking friends/people to share my stuff on facebook or twitter, maybe it's time to try it.
It says "our team is joining Dropbox", emphasis on the team, not the service.
You use it inside IPython, with a command like:

%run -n foo.py

You can't set __name__ to arbitrary values. It's either '__main__' like when running a script, or (with -n) the module name, like when performing an import.
HackerNews Accept Bitcoin?
The hierarchy is just for illustration purposes. I'm sure you would agree that a startup that solves problems of food, shelter, health, or resources is solving a more important problem than one addressing creativity or self esteem? What would you address first if you were shipwrecked on a deserted island? This is true regardless of what Maslow said.
I can't believe they haven't fixed that. I discovered that the login prompt ran with system-level privileges in Windows 95. I used it to play Duke3D in computer class when I was 14. You could press Ctl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager, from Task Manager you could choose to run a command, and run explorer.exe. It would start Windows with full admin access.
If "Bob" has access to my machine I have to assume it's game over, even if I have no idea about "Bob's" ability.

Under-estimating the ability of the attacker is a mistake, no?
So Larry and Sergey don't want Google to be evil, but Eric certainly does and wants it known that he's an evil overlord. Now I understand their holy trinity!

I think the UK government will enact some clear laws that hurt Google as a result.
AAAAAAAND IT GOT PATCHED!!!!
Mr. Zuckerberg, Tear Down This Wall
I know it's not always about the language choice, but it does matter too. Java for example requires easily 2 to 20 times more memory compared to c++? So why do we exchange we few fine lines of code for that memory consumption and easier cross-platform distribution?

Ugh.. Polling can seriously eat some resources for activity which really does not need to happen. :P

The worth of a programmer is completely another topic.
I don't really, but I do find it amusing that the BTC fanatics try to push for mainstream acceptance, when what's actually happening is (predictably) it mostly gets used by the underground.
In the old days, Audiogalaxy was one of the early successful P2P mp3 sharing networks. This was 1998 to 2002. It was groundbreaking because it was, AFAIK, the first one which let you resume an interrupted download from peers other than the one you initiated the download with. The fingerprint used for that was the file's hash, I think, so the filename didn't matter thouth ID3 tags did. In a time where lots of people were still on slow dial-up connections, this was huge.

It had a lot of other convenient features (good, specialised search engine, community features, network effects meaning you could find obscure stuff), but the robust fingerprinting and resuming was the big one. I also seem to remember that it had a very odd interface, where you controlled the app through the browser (I'm hazy on the details.)

Of course it was all quite obviously designed to facilitate copyvios and Audiogalaxy was subsequently killed, sold, repurposed and now resold. I had no idea the brand still existed.
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PHP.net documentation adds user voting to contributed notes
I don't believe the Search algorithm to be malicious, but it is definitely off.

And anti-competitive maybe a bit strong. But wasn't it Google Voice that has been stranded in review for a while now?

I think Apple's mono-culture is beginning to fail: using the App Store as a gateway to their devices (touched on briefly above), etc.
It is always good to see an innovative product; 'tis almost the essence of hacking, only in this case, hacking illumination.
Yes it is: remove harddrive. Put harddrive on other PC. Read contents of harddrive. Or even reboot the existing PC with an OS on USB or optical drive.

Unless the HD is encrypted of course, but that is not what this article and password is about.
Very sincere arguments and reasoning. Alternatively, guns. There will be fewer winners than losers.

As I've been pointing out for a long time now, Norway de facto has a system like this with the welfare state already (primarily due to high petroleum incomes). If you are a Norwegian citizen and somehow unable to make a living (low skills, illness), the government will pay you a small but sufficient amount of money. This is what we will eventually need to institute across the whole world - tax the richest and use the proceeds to give a "guaranteed salary" to everyone. For instance, through negative taxation where below a certain income the government pays _you_. This is the only good way to ensure basic human needs for everyone in a world where technological leverage makes everyone but a small amount of very skilled workers redundant.

Eventually, the social stigma of recieving such benefits will vanish, since a significant part of the population will not do enough work to cross the threshold.
Often it doesn't really matter which language you use. Your webapp written in C will be just as slow as one written in PHP if the queries you're writing are poor.

It is absolutely possible to write very fast applications in 'slow' languages by writing optimised code, optimised queries and caching intelligently.

If you see a slow application, chances are it's not slow because of the technology that the developer/company picked, it's probably slow because they just didn't care enough to make it fast.
Because usually it's people that do shady things, not bad things maybe, just things that people don't want you to see, no matter if it's just trading pot or else, or even if you have the best intentions. If you do need/want to hide something, people will assume you are doing something bad, and therefore you are a scumbag. Personally I don't care but this is how the world usually works.
This app was built to help people write quick reviews of the concerts they are attending.

The Chennai Music Season (also called Madras Music Season) refers to a set of concerts that happen in the months of December and January of every year. Concerts are held at more than 30-40 venues across the city of Chennai (a city in India).

Using this iOS / Android app, users can do a review of the concert within 5 seconds, by picking an icon (emoticon) that explains what a fan thinks of a particular piece of live-music that he just heard.

The idea of the app is to get maximum feedback from a fan from a live performance he is attending & at the same time share that with his social graph & also build some analytics for the artistes on how they can improve the performance. Essentially, we are building a platform that connects the performing musician with his fan-base.

We request the community to give us feedback on the Design also the app experience.
cool! Is it possible to add upvoting?
Some links about the Chennai Music Season:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/03/stories/2005020301281000.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Music_Season
There is a problem, and that is that our (or at least the American) social system is not built to handle a world where most things are automated. If you are unemployed and unable to find work with your current skills (because all the jobs you are intellectually capable of doing have been automated), how will you earn enough money to eat and pay rent?

This is one of the big problems we need to find a solution for in the next 100 years. I don't think that Schmidt has the right solution, but his perspective definitely offers some insights into the problems that lie ahead. He is onto something.
If you put it inside your brain, and it assumes the tasks of each neuron when it dies, what's the difference?

Also, can you cross the same river twice?
I object to the statement "our behaviors are shaped in ways that increase our fitness follows necessarily from the theory of evolution."

That is a individual-centered view of evolution. But evolution works on genes, not individuals. Had you said "our behaviors are shaped in ways that increase the fitness of our genes" then I would have agreed.

In your second paragraph, you said "Also, there are multiple levels when considering optimal behavior."

I disagree. There is only one level - that of the genes. If you're a Tasmanian devil and part of you mutates to produce the cancer which is devil facial tumor disease, and that cancer spreads to all of the other Tasmanian devils, and kills off the species, then evolution doesn't care. That set of genes managed to transcend the individual and survive without it. (Which is a good thing since it kills its host.)

Elsewhere in this thread I gave a model where two independent mutations occur at effectively the same time in the same person. One is a big advantage, the other a minor disadvantage. Both together still convey a big evolutionary advantage. This means that the minor disadvantage is very likely to spread into the entire population, because it's part of the same genome as the big advantage.

We see this all the time. As a trivial example, about 8% of our genome is made up of endogenous retroviruses. These are viruses which incorporated themselves into our DNA, and then a host mutation killed them off. They are no longer do anything for us. But our body spends a slight amount of energy transcribing them. No advantage plus slight disadvantage => net negative. Still, the evolutionary pressure to remove those bits of dead retroviruses is so weak that they have persisted for millions of years. We share some of that DNA with chimpanzees, for example.

There was likely never a time when those genes gave any advantage to an individual or even were net neutral, which is why I object to the statement "behaviors that are detrimental get weeded out."

Your statement assumes an infinite amount of time in a stable background - but species live for only a few million years (on average) and the background is always changing, so your statement isn't useful.
Google Maps officially back on iPhone
Tax evasion is not legal.

Tax planning is legal, and is ordering your financial affairs so that you pay the minimum tax legal. This is sometimes called tax avoidance.

Because of the behaviour of a number of companies and rich people tax avoidance has now come to be associated with the grey area around doing bizarre financial tricks, tricks which will be changed as the law catches up, to reduce tax obligations beyond a point that most people would call reasonable.

Very few people are asking for Google to pay full taxes. But if you have staff here, and you sell services here to people here, then you should probably pay some tax on those earnings here.

Google might be able to ride out the storm - there's not very many Google stores for vandals to deface. And they're lucky that they employ all those smart people. Any laws the UK gov makes will be fairly easy for Google to hop around.

(I day dream of Google AI / GA programming competitions where the algorithms battling for survival are those that robustly reduce tax burden to a fraction of a percent.)
Virgin Nuclear? Can Branson do to atomic energy what Musk did to space?
>Implying 4chan == /b/.
This Sir, is Gold! It gets me on the right mindset, Thank you.

As for the VPS environment, I'm giving Hetzner a shot, my front-end is very light so, it should be even faster faster soon, almost all my static assets are hosted on Google cloud storage and I'll probably being moving them to amazon as well, once I merge CSS files as well as JS files into single CSS & JS files. I'm also thinking of deploying a caching server (Varnish) in front of the site, but not yet sure if it'll really make sense or is just over-engineering.

As for the lists, that's what the virtual assistent is doing so far and I'm happy with what I see. Yes, it helps a lot. Thank you.
Reminds me of http://i.imgur.com/fqjnK.gif
I'm strongly surprised that is not widely used for money laundering yet.

It seems perfect for the purpose of storing value and moving it semi-anonymously. Especially since you can just buy a bunch of very generic hardware with stolen money and mine pure money.

I'm hoping underground will adopt bitcoins widely before I'll be forced to sell the ones I own.

Maybe there has to be generation change for that, but luckily gangster generations are shorter than average ones.
So to put this in perspective, a bad person could crank up their phone and prevent all sorts of safety and assistance systems on a plane from working?

Then why ban a bottle of water?
>> New GMaps totally annihilates Apple Maps in every which way.

* Rendering is faster on Apple Maps

* Apple Maps caches a much larger area offline, while Google Maps is basically useless without a network connection

* Apple Maps integration in iOS apps is better than embedding Google Maps, which is very obvious if you compare 3rd party public transit apps that use Apple Maps to Google transit directions.

Not saying Apple Maps is nearly as good as Google Maps (because it isn't), but 'totally annihilates Apple Maps in every way' is simply not true.
A follow-up of the very interesting Thorium story here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912187
Just wanted to say thanks for this great post. I've not heard this viewpoint and now need to swot up on it. Glad there are optimists wrt the possible impending class divide.
8 hours is a very good number , given i dont spend all day in front of a computer screen .. prefer some exercise to loosen yourself , i cant believe how much this little routine helps !
operating at 150% now a days !
Where can I find stuff implemented with REBOL? Stuff like factorial, a web server, Unix tool implementations.
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Seinfeld 2.0: what would Jerry do today?
SDK launched for Google Maps for iOS
I disagree. If you're using Java properly then your data structures should be similar to that of C++. I've programmed assembly language, byte level machine code, C, C++, Java, C#, etc. They're all fundamentally the same. You can always use various compilers to dump to native too to overcome interpreter problems. Technique is what matters.
It was serious apart from the fact that I know it would never happen and will see little support here due to this website's infatuation with JS.

Every website that I see using JS these days would work much better with some GET or POST requests. Some examples:

* Using JS to load the next page for instance. That should be a simple request to the server for a /page2/.

* Using JS to change sort orders. Again a simple request for a new page should be made to the server.

* Pages not loading a full list in one go but making several requests for more entries via JS. The server should just return one long page.

* Searches not being sent to the server but using the browser to search which does a new search for every character.

* The same searches above hijacking the back button so that I can go back one key from round -> roun -> rou -> ro ->r -> no search -> at last, back one page!

* Images being hidden behind a javascript link when it should be a simple hyperlink to the image.

As for every website writing their own native software, at least some that I can think of could be substituted for old ones. Think ftp (or better yet sftp) for uploading files.
Come on, equating 4chan with the worst of /b/ is a little like judging HN solely based on the spammy posts on the /newest page.