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Ask HN: Is HN laggy at certain times of day?
My (android) browser frequently crashes on HN. I occasionally entertain the paranoid thought that perhaps I have been slowbanned. This evening, it seems to be loading faster and not crashing my browser. Is this a known issue with the site, perhaps tied to traffic load?
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Most universities have a student representative council or some such body that represents students. You could submit your concerns to them. As @lutusp suggests you would need to be specific, the more specific the better in your submission.

Unfortunately the education system is going the way of corporations. Ever increasing prices and a constant chipping away at costs and thus reductions in quality.,
That's a very interesting learning resource. I wish something similar came for Scala or Clojure (as opposed to tryclj, which does not have all those "Learn" pages).
Writing a letter to the dean will work because in academics all those professors secretly or not so secretly don't like each other. The dean is looking for help to deny tenure and raises. One letter won't do it, but if there is a pattern it is strong evidence. One thing, though is you probably want to have some strong evidence of wrongdoing. People who are struggling with the material usually complain "the professor just doesn't know how to teach." I wouldn't consider this as something that is report-able.

You should deal with bad professors by over-enrolling and then dropping the bad classes after a the first week or so.
Of course it depends on the circumstances. Typically a tyrant maintains power by buying off a small portion of the total population. It can be as little as 10%. Somebody like Marcos in the Philippines comes to mind.
Phoronix reported that THQ is considering Linux ports of their games, and currently using Unity for a project: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1N...
That is a really good read, and very sane. So, obviously, it has to get pulled.
AWS stops some EC2 servers without warning
Absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that behavior is the same as choice. It didn't occur to me that could even be an issue. It's a neutral term.
The reason the dependency exists is because silverlight includes the .net compiler and, in addition to literally executing the code on the client, is used for a lot of the IDE sugar, like Intellisense. Additionally, you don't just get the f# language here but also access to a lot of the standard .net libraries. So while I agree it's annoying that the dependency exists, it's not an arbitrary requirement to do accomplish something that could have easily been replicated in another technology
Apache plug-in doles out Zeus attack
This was a particularly well written summary, with references to the relevant parts of the document. Comments like this are why I (and I suspect many others) skip straight to the comments after a quick skim of the link, and hence it deserves the upvotes it is getting.

That you classify it as 'correct' is icing on the top.
Thank you!
{
'Time': 'since June 2012',
'Problem': 'content segmentation',
'Vision': 'universal Finder'
}
The US during the 30's ended up remaining in a deep depression that didn't let up for well over a decade, something that casts doubt on any of the actions the US government took during the time.
I got this pitched to me a couple of months back, but why not start a Yelp-like medical tourism service? Americans can save a ton of money going to S. Korea or anther country with similar healthcare standards at the fraction of the price. It would have to be elective surgery, but you can save a ton of money.
I like a related point I think he makes: that adding a feedback mechanism to a photo site turns the site from being about photography to being about feedback. In other words, it moves from being a site where people post photographs they like to a site where they post pictures they think others will like.
Brazilian company selling 'iPhone' that runs Android legally
For Web performance you have Velocity in Santa Claria in June 2013
For OpenSource you have another Orielly conference OSCON
For project management you have Atlasian's annual conference
For Web Hosting you have HostingCon in Aug usually in Austin
For Gaming its GDC (Game Developers Conference) in Austin and San Fran (i think)

Just depends what your looking for.
Here's a tip for your next test - make the link underlined so it looks like a link and choose a higher contrast color.
Great site, good read. Definitely will come back to it when I design another blog.
Could someone help me out why this Middlebrow Dismissive Comment has been voted up? It contains no information, takes no position, and merely lobs cynical derision at everyone.

Marty's other comment in this thread was cogent and interesting, comparing Iceland's actions to earlier crises Sweden and Argentina. But this comment, useless.

What am I missing here?
Isn't it obvious how omitting this detail --that he talks of a 70 year old movie-- changes the whole, err, picture?
"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant." James Joyce

http://incomestrategix.com/incomestrategix/admin/uploadImage...
At some point they need a downloadable installer, if only for e.g. gentoo or slackware.
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The new syntax would not as type safety is being enforced at compile time. However the old syntax using strings is also available so if it is, then yes used the same preprocessor macro step will apply.

Was reading to find answers to some of my own questions and found this link helpful regarding use of c++11 in Qt5 [0]. Use of c++11 features seems limited in the first release which makes sense.

[0]: http://woboq.com/blog/cpp11-in-qt5.html
>Iceland did what any sovereign nation should do in that situation. They fixed it, and importantly they did it not by bailing out the bad guys but by taking everything from them!

Well, you can always solve your debt problems by refusing to pay creditors. I wouldn't read too much in to the doings of a country with the population of a mid-sized city.
Hell yeah!! Time to move to stripe.
Then why don't you? Often these simple and "obvious" sorts of ideas aren't very obvious at all. But prove me wrong, and get rich/contribute to the world in the process.
In undergrad, I had the worst teacher I've ever had in my life. No apparent sense of how to convey the material, no apparent viewpoint beyond that he was paid to administer tests and to grade them.

In addition to being a bad teacher, he was a jerk. He took great delight in the fact that he failed 30-50% of his class every year (as he gleefully announced first day of class, "I've seen most of you before, and I'll see most of you again"). He assigned problem sets, but just assigned a grade, so you couldn't figure out what you had done wrong. He was famous for turning his office light off during supposed office hours, not answering your knock, and then skulking out when he thought you had left. He once took points off an exam because I switched from pen to pencil to do a side-derivation of an integral.

And now we come to my point. There was no point in doing anything about it. The powers that be knew he was a terrible teacher. How could they not? Other teachers would openly joke about it, or listen with knowing smiles if you told one on "Rusty". For whatever reason-- probably tenure-- he was allowed to stay. Or maybe they liked the fact that somebody was doing the hard job of winnowing out each incoming freshman class to a more manageable size by junior year.

But since it was widely understood he was a terrible teacher, it didn't really matter. Nobody cared if you flunked his class two or three times before making it through. And there was a great instant camaraderie to be found with fellow-students across all the years, just swapping stories about "Rusty".

And you know, a few years later, after I was able to let go of my anger about it, it at least turned into some good stories. Five years on, it didn't matter to me, anymore. And 30 years on, my only regret is that I didn't learn the material better.

In the big picture, you might think about it this way. You go to college to prepare for your future. An obvious part of that is mastering the class material. But part of it is learning to encounter people who are terrible at what they do, figuring out how to step around them, and figuring out whether you have any power to move them out of the way for other people.

To be more specific, I would start by having an off-the-record conversation with another professor you trust and like (if there aren't any, then either you're in the wrong place, or you're doing it wrong). Try to get a sense whether there's a broad understanding among the faculty that the malefactor is a bad teacher. If there is, but it's accepted, then just give up. But if there's some process under way, you may be given the name of a particular person to whom you should speak-- somebody may be developing a case against him, and ask you for specific information.

Oh yes, and a lot of universities have an ombudsperson, who is there to help students navigate the administration. That person generally should be isolated, organizationally, from the teachers, so that you don't have to worry about confidences being revealed, or personal politics coming into play.

Good luck!
I'm on Firefox 17.0.1 / Ubuntu 12.04. It doesn't work for me. Is it not intended to work there?
I thought this line in the article was pretty funny: "There were potential programs we could use, but they were written for Linux." ><
The opinion that the Nobel Prize in Economics is a "fake" prize is not shared by the Nobel Foundation, which treats it as equal to Nobel's prizes and awards them in the same way, with the same people, by the same criteria as the other science prizes. They differ only in name as they were named after different benefactors. I wish people would stop saying this. On the other hand, it's a sure sign you don't know what you're talking about.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/
No -- but you might be responding to something I have NOT said.

I'm not against action. I'm for action where it _matters_.

Abandoning all those really relevant privacy fronts and then "sending a message" to ...Instagram, is not it.

That's what I tried to convey with my "stomping the cigarette" analogy. Better try to put down the house fire first...
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Not for Gentoo, which has overlays[0]. Slackware would be the exception, as it has no de facto package management solution.

0: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
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Is 911 response REALLY a cost center? Around here, to get an ambulance, it's $500 (IIRC) up front + $16(!!!!!) a mile. And the closest hospital might be 10 or 15 miles away. And I dont think this includes material costs (any drugs, etc.)
But it's a pretty valid excuse. Luxembourg has the highest GDP per capita in the world, but you can certainly find places in the US with roughly the same population that would have a higher GDP per capita were they independent countries.

Why bother with Iceland when we can be following the economic policies of Beverly Hills?
I feel like if you are going to the effort to show the EU cookie warning I should be able to say no and still view the content. Would you rather I don't see your ads without cookies enabled or not see your content at all?
A friend of mine, Baptiste Coudurier, is the person at Hulu who manages the transcoding of all their videos. He told me they also transcode a video to multiple versions to accommodate different streaming devices and bandwidth characteristics.

I think it only makes sense to lazily-transcode videos on demand (and cache them) when you have millions of videos (eg. Youtube). Netflix and Hulu have much smaller catalogs, so they can afford to transcode ahead of time, and it simplifies their processes.
You can't make porn in a rented space?
It's not the decoder fee alone that was a problem for Firefox, it was the patent encumrance (problematic for an internationally distributed open source browser), not to mention the requirement for some content producers to pay a separate license just to be able to take advantage of the encoder licenses they already paid for with their camera and editing software. Also, instead of getting cheaper over time, MPEG-LA can raise the H.264 rates by 10% every five years (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-an...).
Perhaps...but I am still curious as to how it works :)
It would indicate that others share his lack of faith in mainstream Western economics.
The site literally crashes your browser? I've never heard of that happening.

HN is busiest (and thus slowest) from roughly 9 to 11 pacific time.
This is a technology demo. We wanted to demo our real-time tech rather than show a bunch of sign-up workflow code. Facebook auth lets us save a bunch of boring code.
Shouldn't be that hard, there are loads of the poor buggers. Just look around the climbing routes, they don't (can't) move most of the bodies AFAIK.

Bit morbid though.
Hah, yeah. I looked at it and thought, "well, I'd kick someone for writing code like that nowadays, but looks perfectly valid to me."

(And I'm not even that old! I've only been writing C for 12 years or so!)
I got the impression the OP isn't writing their own integration, but bolting together pieces.

There are many more products (CMSs etc.) out there which include PayPal integration (or have it readily available with free plugins) than those including Stripe -- for now, anyway.
They'd have issues with their DRM doing that.

They should ship the Steam binaries properly through apt and yum repositories, but I doubt that they'll ever ship the games that way.
Even some ThinkPads are broken in this way though (x).

It's actually a bug in the laptop (hardware or firmware). It's just blamed on Linux when it doesn't happen to trigger on Windows.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/751689
Thing is, the C standard (compared to many other standards) isn't even that complicated. Googling for the C standard doc, and then grepping through for "function declaration" would likely clear that up.

But it's way easier to consult the lazyweb than to do your own research.
I'm really, really trying to restrain myself from vigorously flaming you here in the way that I'd be tempted to if I'd seen this post in a forum where the cultural norms tend toward less civility than HN. Suffice to say that I find your views utterly abhorrent and unconscionable.

Charity is about helping people who need help, creating more happiness in the world than previously existed. Measuring its virtue in terms of how much pain it creates - for anyone - is a shameful, Manichean inversion of morality.

Maybe "the wealthy" are "trying to buy their way out of hell". They're also buying other people's way out of hell. Good on all counts; who wants to see anybody living in hell, other than someone who thinks that pain is good?
Having worked in the technology industry for past 10 years; starting at Globat (Web Hosting) now owned by one of the mega Web Hosting consolidators (who also own BlueHost now); on a side note we were first to go Unlimited bandwidth (pure marketing to compete with BlueHost and it became an industry trend), and working for a CDN (NetDNA and MaxCDN) now; selfless promotion, every Website owner should have a Content Delivery Network these days.

I have to go with Amazon EC2 for your one-time testing instances (location availablity to spin up a box in Ireland or Singapore is great). If your doing some more permentant stuff, then I would have to go with Linode or VPS.net which both are unmanaged vps's. I can't recommend Rackspace cloud, good for some things but not this area. If your looking for application hosting then page.ly or WPEngine is the way to go for Wordpress Hosting, for other application hosting it would be OnApp.
I'm interested in learning F# but can't get past the "Your system does not support the execution of F# code in the browser." Any other pretty painless way to try it? I've been messing with Haskell and like it a lot but it would be nice to have access to the .NET libraries when I wanted them.
It irks that a writeup for a technically clever and elegant setup for stunning visuals sits next to such a mess of irritating, flashing ads.
The last thing I have to say will be a disappointment to many of you: I don’t have any resulting images to share with you due to the client’s request to not share any sample photos outside.

-- Why so top secret? But blog the technique...?

Usually its the other way around. "awesome image, how'd he do that"?
>There are two groups of economists: scientists who predicted that austerity wouldn't work and would make things worse, and quarks (aka the Chicago school) who recommended it.

Oh please. The idea that you can spend your way out of debt has been shown to be disastrous over and over, and yet like the Marxist "scientists" before them these Neo-Keynesians are going to claim everything is peachy until even the slowest among us can see they're wrong (and not scientists, either). But like any good faith healer they'll say "You didn't do it hard enough". Does that sound familiar?

In the short run austerity is painful. In the long run it's the only option, and putting off the pain only makes it worse when you're out of options. Either you do it honestly by cutting expenditures, or you do it the normal way by printing money.

The idea you can derive globally applicable lessons from a country the size of Cleveland is a bit daft.
Thanks! This sounds great.
To people fighting a personal fight in the middle of the battlefield, neutral terms can become not so neutral very quickly :-).
It makes a great deal of statements, and does take positions. Factual positions no less. For example:

"At the onset of the 2008 crisis, some people very accurately predicted the type of crisis it was (a financial panic) and recommended policies that were tested and proven to work."

Position taken. Factual assertion made. Is this true or false?

"The mainstream camp however, thought otherwise and most of the world followed their advice."

Position taken. Factual assertion made. Is this true or false?

"With 4 years of data we now know who was right and who was wrong"

Position taken. Factual assertion made. Is this true or false?

"Few high profile economists have reversed their deeply flawed views and the views of those baked by data and correct predictions are still not taken seriously. "

Position taken. Factual assertion made. Is this true or false?

"Economics is deeply corrupted by politics and the financial interests of its practitioners."

Position taken. Factual assertion made. Is this true or false?

Everything I have seen over the past few years indicates to me his assertions are true. In particular the case of Iceland and Ireland.
Then use the service as intended.
>Makes sense, it is not irresponsible to refuse to entertain debts to shady creditors.

It's not irresponsible to refuse to borrow money from shady creditors. But no matter how you dress it up refusing to pay debt freely taken on is theft.
Yes, when I tried out Hillis's touchtable around 2005 my reaction was like "Cool! I'm finally seeing this kind of thing in person."
Congrats to the Elepath team. This is looking really good, especially considering how long you guys have been at it. I can see a huge amount of potential in this Grasshopper-style visual coding approach.

When I use Grasshopper, one of the nodes I find really helpful is the note tool, which you can use to watch output from a widget in real time. For example, it'd be great to be able to put one on the output of a math node to see the resulting value of the calculation as it's happening.

One of the things I don't like about Grasshopper is that you can't just output the code from your visual layout. It would be great if your tool could provide this functionality, allowing you to output the resulting JavaScript for inspection and tweaking.

Can't wait to see the new Moonbase nodes as they get added. The audio components you mentioned sound really compelling.
Wow, that's crazy. I just tried it too (gcc 4.6.3). No warning options generate no warnings at all. -Wall only warns about the lack of return statement in main(). You only get the parameter-type default warning if you add -Wextra.

Interestingly, adding -std=c99 oddly removes the warning about the missing return statement in main().

I can't find a way to warn about the empty param list in the prototype, but it's possible that it's just not considered "bad enough style" to warrant one.

C++ is, of course, more strict. Try to compile that with g++, and you get several errors. The compiler needs to know how to mangle the symbol when it first encounters it, so you can't have "unspecified" parameter lists anywhere.
While not a scientific article, here's an interesting read about corvids (crows, jays) presenting two sides of the argument that the birds possess theory of mind:

http://io9.com/5969515/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-huma...
Who cares if it's a tax write-off? What is at all negative about a tax-write off that in any way detracts from the manifest positive impact that the charitable donation itself creates?
I'm interested in TF2 and Red Orchestra but look forward to my old favs...HL and HL2! I might even buy a new system so I can play the whole L4D series too!
are you saying the only value of econ is its predictive value or the lack thereof ? if some PL hotshot predicts that 10 years from now imperative languages will go the way of the dodo, must we mock his particular prediction or his field in general? shaw is supposed to have quipped "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." - but some actually see that bug as a feature. disagreement in social science != quackery
One complaint was that once the project started growing past a certain size, the compile times (into javascript) took significantly longer.

The rapid development cycle that we had in the beginning of the project seemed to disappear. Occasionally some strange GWT bugs started popping up, but figuring out what was wrong was very difficult GWT is by nature Java compiled into JavaScript, and tools like Firebug would give a non descript JS error message. This was several years ago though, around GWT 1.5 or so.

I don't have any GWT 2 experience and I should have emphasized this, however I witnessed another project (a year ago) based around GWT 2 and although with capable programmers, they found GWT to be a burden rather than a benefit, and frankly the result looked horrible.
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I wrote a announce list manager over here https://github.com/kaihendry/sg-hackandtell/blob/master/list... that's inspired by this. Be great to get a code review.
For starters, they've cut back on proprietary trading considerably. Before we had quite a few prop traders who would invest the bank's funds in equities and I believe only five of them remain. So the bank as a whole is less willing to risk its own funds through traders and prefers to make its money facilitating access to various markets or offering retail trading services.

Management has shifted their focus and puts a lot more emphasis put on generating small and steady profits as opposed to massive bonuses for large profits.