skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism is a symptom, not a root cause as you are suggesting. Communism has (and has had) a similar record of environmental and climatic effects.

To me, the root cause is ... us. As Pogo (Walt Kelly) famously said, "We have met the enemy... and he is us":

http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm
Thanks to Comeau C++'s standard compliance, you can put the template into the .cc files. ;)
That's the whole reason for adding a reputation system, which is what replaces quality control and selection.
Ironically,

during the period of French colonial domination of Timbuktu (1894–1959), many manuscripts were seized and burned by the colonialists, and as a result, many families there still refuse access to researchers for fear of a new era of pillaging.

http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_con...
Pretty sure "wanna get away" is trademarked by Southwest Airlines.

Overall, great layout.
> Your abrupt dismissal of that possibility doesn't make it go away; it just makes you seem like you don't know what you're talking about.

Yet you write this on a computer, a smartphone or a tablet, which has been provided to you at a very low, affordable price thanks to this capitalistic model you seem to despise. And you are the one who is accusing me of not knowing what I am talking about.
Just installed this new EasyMotion plugin. Works well!

https://github.com/tednaleid/sublime-EasyMotion
I'm curious, but what's your workflow re: Obj-C development? I only dabble, and for me the vim-xcode bindings are enough but mainly because I don't find myself on the command line much during an XCode session. The built-in shortcuts are all easy enough so that I don't have to use the mouse much either except to use interface builder.

Second, can you share a little on your #4? Aside from the aforementioned Obj-C dabbling, I use vim for almost everything. There are so many awesome plugins that do just about everything I could ask for and therefore I have yet to do any plugin writing myself. Having seen the usual complaints around VimL, what's the deal with external scripting support? I compiled with +python and +ruby since that's what I'm familiar with for plugins, scripts, etc. and a few plugins I have did require one or the other but are there any downsides? Most of t-pope's plugins appear to be straight VimL which makes me wonder.

Apologies for being an idiot, but I'd certainly appreciate some enlightenment.
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Nifty, thanks! Emailed to see if there's a way to earmark my donation for this cause (since it'd be separate from a general donation).
Is this really a common use-case? When I travel it's always driven by the "where" not by the "now"...
Seems like Pagerank would be an ideal reputation metric, following citations in papers instead of links in web pages. Except it's patented until 2018 or so.
Steve Wozniak was working on the prototype Apple I as a hobby and that's all it would have been without Steve Jobs.

Jobs convinced him it could be a business. Jobs had to sell his minivan and Wozniak's calculator to build the first batch of computers to sell at local computer shops. Jobs had to cajole and motivate Wozniak into being part of Apple Computer Inc rather than just an HP employee who gave away circuit board diagrams at HomeBrew meetings in his spare time.

Once the story of the Mac begins, Wozniak was practically retired, working mostly on education and coming up with neat ideas for remote controls. Jobs was motivating and cajoling the generations of brilliant engineers that would make the Mac, the NeXT Cube, the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

Jobs was never a sales guy, he needed other people to do that. He was a motivator and a critic.
"Competitive" is not binary. Yes, 4 networks is better than 1, but it's not like you have 30 choices.

Even with MVNOs, there aren't many real options. If Verizon were GSM it'd be a lot better, but as of now you are really locked in.
The project I'm currently working on is called Atlastory, and would be a Google Maps-like interface throughout history. The idea is to eventually have political maps like those in the OP + specific maps for historic events.

Demo is up at http://atlastory.com (for now only maps are WWII and Civil War). If anyone's interested in helping out please contact me. (Currently looking for another developer to help with the much more complicated back-end)
You probably prefer other systems who focuses on the annihilation of the human race above all ? If you were born in a "capitalist" country you are probably owing to that system the right to be alive nowadays, well fed and educated. Look at how people fare in countries where there is no entrepreneurship, no free markets and no way to invest the fruits of your labor. You ought to travel a little more.
> Increasingly it will be seen as perverse to submit a paper to a journal and wait 12 months for comments from two scientists, instead of sharing it on a platform like Academia.edu and getting comments from hundreds of scientists in two weeks.

This seems absurdly farfetched for me. It is easy and common for mathematicians to share their work (e.g. on the arXiv) and I consider myself fortunate to get two or three good comments, let alone hundreds. (Of course, this is a claim made by TC, not by academia.edu.) Whatever the virtues of academia.edu or any other technological solution, I do not expect it to multiply the audience for my work by an order of magnitude.

By way of comparison, check out Terry Tao's math blog. His reputation, his expositional ability, and the size and enthusiasm of his audience are surpassed by no one. And of course, the blog (and the ability to comment) are freely available to everyone with a web browser.

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Look at the comment counts. For many posts, in the single digits. And this low, even though Tao personally responds to many of the comments and questions.

I suggest that this is likely to be an upper bound for responses to math writing posted anywhere, in any format, with or without restrictions on how can read, write, or respond to what's posted.

I don't think peer review is broken, at least not in math. It can be annoying to do (which is why it takes so long), but we regard it as an obligation and that's why we do it.

The issue, in my mind, is to separate peer review from "publishing", or more to the point, from dissemination. The reason this problem is so thorny and obnoxious (again, in my mind) is that in principle it is trivial.
I would recommend to have a look at sorted arrays first. There is an implementation available in Boost:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/doc/html/container/non_...
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Common enough to make a living off it. There are times when I want to take a big planned out vacation. There are other times where I just want to sit on a beach for 4 days, and really any beach will do.
Why liberal arts education matters
Speaking of metrics, using a very rough one (ye olde Google Book Ngrams), we can guess that citation-counting became prominent in the late 1970s: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=citation+count%...
Great idea, nicely executed.

It seems that the price estimates are only for the flight costs (and not for lodging costs) - I was confused about this a little.

I would love to see something similar for lodging costs as well.
My comment started a discussion about what the claims mean. It got the people away from vague, incorrect allegations about what "the patent" covers.

I'd say that contributed.
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This thread is filled with the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy and it's sad, so I can see where your question is coming from.

I personally like to read books from people who predicted things before they happened and try to understand their mindset.

Understanding finance...

One may not like its writing style but Nicolas Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan" helped me understand how finance was indeed the crumbs of capitalism that Buffet hates.

Understanding economy...

Another one I love --but it's in french-- is Charles Gave. That economist (definitely not mainstream) did write, in 1999, that the introduction of the common currency in Europe (the Euro) would lead to: "Too many houses in Spain, too many industries in Germany and too many public servants in France. That Spain was going to state default, followed by Greece".

So he got the order wrong about Greece (which already default a first time and which is going to default again) and Spain, but besides that he was spot on.

And you cannot say: "If you take enough economists, one of them is going to predict the future". Because here the prediction was way too precise to be sheer luck. He did explain the precise mechanisms that would lead to that situation (and he did bet his money accordingly and made millions).

Basically after reading that you understand how wrong the Keynes school is and how Krugman totally lost it (yeah, let's mill a $1 trillion coin... Why not mill 26 of them and be done with the public debt right!?).

There are going to be more state defaults in Europe (it's not even opened up for debate), starting with Greece which is going to default again. There's going to either severe inflation or partial state default in the U.S. too unless public spendings are dramatically brought down. No way out.

I'd suggest not to read from people explaining the past or the present. It's not interesting. It's more interesting to take out older writings explaining what's going to happen in the future and why. People able to do that are the most critical thinkers ever.

These writers often use an aggressive tone but you have to bear with it: these people are right and they know it and hardly anyone is listening to them.
Ok, I just updated that ticket. I had seen it, and tried the recommendations (latest chromium build), but have not yet had success. Thanks for any help!
Nice idea, but nooo contact information, nor an about page reachable from the landing page?
Something ( Plant? ) That could take Solar Energy within the desert and turn into a Liquid Fuel ( Diesel ? ), that could be refined ( using the electricity from the Desert ) into usable fuel in today's Diesel or Patrol Engine, without emitting any ( or most ) of the harmful substance that we current do.

That would be the best of best Fuel type, require no change of Engine in Planes and Cars. But still as clean.

Of Coz i am only dreaming of one.
My problem is with the premise of your argument; that being expressive and flexible are more desirable than other traits, and that having those traits make it somehow more applicable to 'real world' applications, whatever those are.

I've coded in Ruby. I've also coded in C, C++, C#, VB.Net, VB 1 through 6, JS, Java Smalltalk, Pascal, MASM, and more. Many on production systems or consumer software that was distributed to millions of people. Each language has its strengths and weaknesses.

There are many situations where Ruby is a great choice. Unfortunately it also gets used in situations where maybe it wasn't the best choice.

No language is the be-all end-all. You're always going to want to choose the 'least bad' option for any project and there are many factors to weigh and not all of them are technical. Personally I will probably never choose to start a new project in, or build a team around, Ruby again.
OS/version, browser/version? Doesn't work here, though if I reboot into Windows 7 I'm sure it will.
The people at Sun Microsystems who invented/implemented NFS "predicted' Dropbox. Actually, for me personally being able to mount NFS partitions hosted in "the cloud" would be better than Dropbox.
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she panicked and tried to remove the battery by prying open the back of the iPhone. As she did so, the battery, she says, was “in the process of melting and oozing liquid (acid).
”

You can't "pry out" the back cover on the iPhone 4S. It requires a specific pentalobe screwdriver which is not your garden variety Philips or torx one. It's very easily doable wih the right tool but I doubt she had it with her while her phone was "burning" lying around on her table.

She probably did something to cause it to burn up and is probably looking to get a free replacement by claiming "spontaneous combustion". There's an army of bloggers to assist with these endeavours.
Campagna elettorale: dall’Italia agli States, la musica non cambia…
I'm currently taking a microeconomics class and seeing someone discuss all of the concepts my class covered in a single article was pretty cool! Thanks.

Quick niggle:
FTA "So we can generalise: if the price of a good falls demand for it’s substitutes will rise."

Should be

"... if the price of a good increases..."
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I agree with gvim being a bit basic. If you're on OSX, I think MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/) is a much better choice. On Linux, I use terminal vim and rely on the terminal for environmental integration: you can choose from a dozen X terminals that will do almost anything you want.
I would love a phone that only made cell calls and texts and used wifi for everything else. I suspect most people would too.
I never thought people would stick bluetooth headsets on their ear and walk around either. If the utility provided by GG (or other product) is high enough, it will get over the 'un-cool hump' and become common.
I am taking Methyphenidat/Amphetamine for nearly 10 years now and it totally changed my life in a positive way. I wasn't able to read anything longer than a few sentences (which means no newspaper, no books etc). School was horror for me. I nearly failed in the lower secondary education. Then I was diagnosed with ADHD by a German mental research institute and they began to treat ADHD with medications and my situation improved very quickly.

I am very skeptical when I am confronted with overly critical statements about the current ADHD treatment. These statements come up every two weeks or so. Maybe they are correct - maybe they are wrong. The only thing I know is that the medication helped me like nothing else in my life. Maybe I am living in a dream world where my sense of reality is somehow disturbed. The good things a proper ADHD treatment can do are more or less always never mentioned - at least that is my perception.
This is a horribly list to read, albeit a very nice list to put in to the front of a book shelf. Most importantly, if one reads only one book on any given subject, then one will only hear of one point of view. A problem that is made worse by selecting classics, which are usually written to make a point instead of summarizing the broader debate. The most obvious example from this list is probably Origin of Species, a work where Darwin did not talk about the evolution of man, because he did not wanted to be drawn into a theological debate.

Additionally the classics carry context, which may or may not be obvious. Here the most obvious example from the list is Adam Smith, who did not write about abstract global markets, as the term is used today, but he did write about a collection of market stalls. Similarly, his thought about government and regulation was informed by his times, the first edition appeared in 1776, the same year as the declaration of independence and thirteen years before the French revolution. So Adam Smith did never write about a modern nation, with formal representation and a process for the transition of power, but he did write about a late feudal society, in which the political power was held by an unchecked former warrior elite.

[ The above does not mean that I am against reading classics, in fact quite the opposite. The problem is just, that trying to get an important idea x, then you should probably read "A modern introduction to x," not the classical book where it first appeared, in an convoluted way embedded into some discussion at that time.]
I felt the same until I started using it. As boring as it sounds, just working and being easy enough for your grandparents to use is apparently enough to get people excited. The fact that it's been done (or tried) so many times before really just makes you appreciate it more.

Yeah, MS, Apple, etc. all should've had this figured out years ago and yet they didn't. So boo on them, but it's probably for the better because now we have Dropbox and you can use it on your Mac or in Windows, on your iPhone, Android, or whatever...
> Most of this money doesn't come from banks or venture capital funds, however. "Newly founded companies are mostly financed by the founders' own funds"

Also happens to be true of the US as well.

VC funds only fund a minority of tech businesses, and for a good reason too, many tech businesses are simply unsuitable for that type of investment. VCs typically need to seek a 10x return over 3-5 years for the maths to work, and most tech companies aren't going to grow that fast.
Not sure how impressive this was. My recollection of 1996 was very much a lot of talk about Java terminals, e.g. machines dedicated only to running some dumb/thin client with backend servers doing all the work/persistence. That was a "future" that was only supposed to be a couple years out.
What's actually happening there is you are executing the program directly from your editor, in the same work process. So if you get a runtime error, then you get the stack trace (dump) and you have lost your whole context so you are back to the menu.

Just run the program in another session.
I didn't see any data in that article. Does anyone know if there is any validity in that point of view? I mean from a moral sense, it sure sounds powerful, but does it really show results?
But there may also be a rock-paper-scissors effect at play. We may be in a 'rock' phase of bacterial life; uncover some old 'paper' and maybe the younger strain would find itself in trouble?

There is no inexorable refinement force in effect in natural selection; simple organisms are selected for their current environment with no plan of building complex defenses against ancient enemies or any such.
Another wrinkle is that the constant factors can be data-dependent: which data structure to choose can heavily depend on the distribution of data you typically see.
The Etch a Sketch works by scraping aluminum off of glass, so the implementation is kind of the inverse of the inspiration; but they both revolve around taking a pointer and running it across something adhering to the surface.
Currently working on a similar project as well!
I've imagined it would be kelp, where the pods fill with alcohol or paraffin. Harvest by milking or reaping the plants. Kelp grows meters per day; shallow seas to cultivate kelp abound in nature.
From my time working with academic researchers it was clear that they absolutely coveted publication in the above journals as they are so widely read - unlike the niche journals in their fields. To paraphrase one of them "They're crap, but everyone reads them and everyone cites them"
If you are just staring with VIM, I recommend taking a look at spf13-vim (https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim)
The real Gigabit Challenge is getting ISPs to think like tech firms
> that it teaches us to despise those who suffer, to see them as somehow beneath us. The contempt that was once the property of those few at the very, very top has become democratized, so that we may all join in in feeling it.

To me, economics is purely a system of wealth creation and the regulation, or lack there of, of that wealth. I see it as an amoral system. I don't see a society of capitalism and a society of everybody making sure that everybody else is taken care of as mutually exclusive.

Morality is influenced by a wide wide wide variety of isms, movements, culture, media, technology, population size, and famous people. The economic model of a society is certainly one of them but by no means the only issue that matters. I think this can be proven by tracing the moral compasses of various societies whose economic model has stayed roughly the same over a period of say 100 years but morality of the society has drastically changed.
The EU is all about setting up a centralised governing power over Europe. Given that Europe contains many different cultures, this will inevitably be an Imperial government, since there is no single demos with broad agreement on policy to be represented by the European state. The EU is really the last thing Europe needs: all the European creativity and energy over the last few centuries has come from competition between small nation states, while huge states everywhere eventually run out of cash and become oppressive and bureaucratic (keep an eye on the US, folks).
I love sites like this. But, it would also be extra great if the site's price included estimates for the cost of lodging (say, at a particular quality level).
>power is the dominant cost.

That's only true for GPU/PC based miners.

66GH/s @ 600Watts, Power is 1-2% of mining cost at current Difficulty / $Exchange / power cost ($0.12). Here is a link to info about the "free nights" plan. https://www.txu.com/residential/promotions/mass/free-nights....

The ASIC based system is much more power efficient than GPU/PC systems. It's even better than FPGA based systems which are (~10-20x) more power efficient than GPU/PC systems.

If Bitcoin mining economics are able to sustain ASIC production, it will probably render FPGA based systems uneconomical.

Even with just two viable ASIC production runs, I suspect that GPU/PC mining is dead.
One of the reviews that I linked to talked about this. According to them, they talked to several suppliers who said the food-grade difference was make by turning the (source! I think) canister over and running it for a couple seconds.

Take that with a big grain of salt. I'd certainly look into it more before I used it. :)
Its amazing there's entire groups of people who are so anti-knowledge. I don't see how you can do some introspection and not realize its a backwards stance.
I feel this is entirely justified. There are a lot of people on HN who are very much in favour of a minimum of regulation in these sorts of markets, but the Dutch government has democratically opted to put rules into place for, amongst other things, hotels and taxi services.

It’s great that business like Airbnb and Uber are looking to disrupt their respective markets but that doesn’t make them exempt from the laws that everyone else has to follow.
Vundle works nicely as a package manager:

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
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Hi,
This a great example of a broader issue.

The statement "I switched to Wordpress when I realized that Drupal's Link Field Module (a plugin to add a hyperlink field to an entity) was 1100 lines of code." contains no logical context.

Most Drupal developers are not programmers. For example, a Drupal developer may be graphic's designer.

Drupal allows end users to define ad-hock data types. That's what "Drupal's Link Field Module" is (a part of). Ad-hock data types are an option, not a requirement.

If an end user wants to define an ad-hock data type with a "link", they install and configure "field modules". That's a limitation of being an "end user" (as opposed to being an application programmer).

A application programmer would look at Drupal's source code and see there is succinct API method to create a link.

So the broader issue is, you have folks with little to no programming experience making application programming decisions :) It's just as likely, the poster's project did not require ad-hock data types. Without any type of requirements analysis, the project fails.

Drupal's popularity (at least among CMS's) is due to it's set of logical features. It's not the technical implementation of the features :)

The downfall of most Drupal projects is due to poor resource choices. You hire a graphic's designer to implement an inventory system, you are going to get the same results no matter what CMS, frame work, programming language etc :)

Sorry, didn't mean to pick on anyone. Without an elaboration, you speculate based on you experience :) That's my experience with Drupal development :) Lots of talented folks asked to do the wrong job :)