skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly backwards. The more people there are who are skilled, educated, and working, the more resources are produced. Resources aren't manna from heaven, they are the products of human labor and ingenuity. In 50 years we'll be using robots to pluck Neodymium and Copper from the ground and Iridium from asteroids. We're not going to be running out of resources, we're going to be wealthier and resources are going to be more abundant.

It's easy to imagine that we'll "run out" of "resources" because in theory many resources are in finite supply. But in reality the hard natural limits are so high as to be effectively infinite over extremely long periods of current levels of use and historically humans have gotten more and more clever about finding new methods to extract or produce resources that previously were not available.

Moreover, our increasing wealth and technological capabilities have made it possible to reduce and reverse our environmental impact and encroachment of habitats.

Personally, I like my life and I think it's worth living, and indeed even justified, and I think that denying the ability to live a similar lifestyle to others simply because they were born into a different part of the world is just know-nothing nonsense and veiled racism.
Define failure first.
I like Charlie Stross essays, and I'm glad this one was submitted here, but when Stross writes,

"The range of choices available at the democratic buffet table have therefore narrowed until they're indistinguishable. ("You can have Chicken Kiev, Chicken Chasseur, or Chicken Korma." "But I'm vegan!") Indeed, we have about as much choice as citizens in any one-party state used to have,"

then I have to say no. Evidently Stross has no lengthy experience in living in a one-party state. I do. The range of choice for voters in the United Kingdom, and especially the range of channels for dissent there or here in the United States, far exceed the range of choice available to citizens in a one-party state. Been there, done that. (The one-party state I lived in during the early 1980s, Taiwan, still had rigid mass media censorship and political assassinations both at home and abroad, but even at that was rather benign compared to many current one-party states. Taiwan has transitioned to democracy. Throughout Stross's lifetime and mine, the U.K. and the U.S.A. have offered far more political choice to citizens than has any one-party state anywhere in the world.)

Stross is a science-fiction author by occupation, and maybe the next stage of his self-education for spicing up his science fiction stories is to learn more about political science, especially public choice theory.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html

http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/pdf%20links/Booklet....

http://perspicuity.net/sd/pub-choice.html

http://pileusblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/the-left-and-publ...

Stross's point is quite correct that people developing their careers in politics look for channels to increase their influence on the system, whatever their ideological proclivities. That is human nature--why work hard in political activism to NOT end up with influence? But the counsel of despair in the interesting article kindly submitted here is an exaggeration. There is still diversity of point of view in the system, and plenty of opportunity for activists to make meaningful changes, including the example he gives: "Marriage equality is a fundamentally socially conservative issue, but reflects the long-term reduction in prejudice against non-heteronormative groups." Choices still abound. Advocate for those that you desire.
"a) to be able to work as a politician you must first have been working at least x years in the private sector"

So someone coming out of the armed forces wouldn't be able to directly stand for election - that strikes me as an awful idea.

e.g. Paddy Ashdown was in the SBS and MI6 (!) before becoming a diplomat and then a politician. I'm not a supporter of the Liberal Party but he strikes me as precisely the kind of person who should be in politics - he actually has opinions and views based on his experience in the real world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown
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In none of those examples the criminal 'successfully' sued the victim (ie. won), they merely brought a frivolous case before the court.
That makes it even more interesting, doesn't it? They are willing to pay for having something at all, even if it is somewhat bug-ridden or not quite as fast or not quite as perfect as it could be.

That should emphasise even more that it might be worth pouring additional resources into development. Whether it will be done is another question, steered by corporate politics, risk-assessment etc. etc.
I prefer people who are accepting of other's perceived faults. Take you, for example. You are obviously a bigoted asshole, but that doesn't mean that you might not have some decent programming skills or that we don't have anything in common.
> "So who is right? Well, the BSD camp is."

Unfortunately, it's not quite that black and white.

When it comes to operating systems, for example, I believe in using "the right tool for the job". Depending on the situation, that might be Windows, Mac OS, or Linux.

The same holds true with the BSD vs. GPL argument. In some cases, the BSD is the better license. In others, the GPL is.

Personally, I am thankful the GPL exists. Were it not for the GPL, I would not be typing this comment on this laptop running Debian. However, my MacBook Pro and iPhone are sitting just a few feet away from me. I likely wouldn't have either of those if it weren't for the BSD License.

As a user, I am thankful for those who release their code under the GPL. As a developer (and I use that term very loosely), I put any code I publish under the BSD license. I do not care what anyone else does with it -- if someone can use my code to improve their own commercial product, so be it.

The BSD vs. GPL debate will never die because there is no one "winner" in all cases -- and we all benefit from that.
Linux on Surface Pro
Lots of users but no money (Informly January stats report)
Hi guys I've done my monthly stats report which reveals honest numbers about my business (including revenue or lack thereof). I hope there are some interesting stats in there for the group particularly around monetization. If you have any questions let me know.
If your Kindle gets stolen, it's still your Kindle and Amazon should therefore disclose any information they have stored on your Kindle.

The underlying problem seems to be that a Kindle can be registered by new users without consent from the current/last user. That is very irritating …
REPL? A bit more (and less) than that – Erlang shell
That analogy doesn't really hold, because Spanish and French do not run on Latin under the hood, so they don't hide away the complexities or any errors you might be making while using those languages.

On the other hand, it's quite a reasonable assumption that getting a good understanding of JavaScript gives a broader context of what is going on that is necessary to properly use jQuery.
The first thing I noticed was that Allmand Law who commissioned the infographic is a firm that specializes in bankruptcy and collections... LOL

It's an interesting/hilarious (yet ironically fitting) marketing strategy. Failed startups make great clients for bankruptcy law firms. Most end up swimming in debt.
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
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Thank you! I was very hesitant to post this because I've always had the mindset of "if your product is good enough then you don't need salesmen" but have only recently realized otherwise.

I figured everyone has a few old sloppy projects that need cleaning up but it's not worth their time, it's worth my time at the moment though so I figured it would be a worthwhile to all parties to advertise my service.

If this gets enough response and I can't manage the workload, then I will probably consider creating a website to allow connecting people and trusted code cleaners.
I hate cars analogies. But now I'm going to make one.

Sixty or seventy years ago, cars were unsafe, contaminant, ugly, heavy... add to this that they were driven mostly by (often drunk) males.

What has changed? How? Did some of the changes annoy big corporations?

That's it. What are the problems with democracy now? I'd say:

- Defective control of party functioning: represenatives hiding behind party line, opaque lobbying, etc.

- Bad representation systems. Winner takes it all that prevents new minority parties to enter the system.

- Opinion created and spread top-down through media and representatives.

These are general non-partisan problems, couldn't they be solved on their own?
Virus?
Kaspersky flags the site as trying to load http://feedma.com/cgi-bin/v/v.cgi//v in the homepage.
watch out.
Wepawet seems to think its clean.. shrugs
http://wepawet.iseclab.org/view.php?hash=e8b60fe27c3cfcb149d...
I think it's pretty obvious this is a 5 year old article. And in fact, it has ideas that are much more appropriate to 10 years ago than today.

GPL is a hindrance to your code, not a help... unless you're lucky enough to have your code become popular with a large open source community.

GPL prevents any proprietary software maker from using your software. It requires that if you use the code, your software also be GPL. Well, good luck with that. Software companies need to make money for a living, and most of them want to do it selling their software, not hoping someone will pay them to support their software.

In practice there's no difference between BSD and GPL in the worst case, and in the best case, BSD is better.

Worst case:

Some awesome devs make Cool GPL Software™.
Hundreds of large proprietary software companies like the look of the software, but it's GPL, so they can't use it. They use something else.
Cool GPL Software™ loses out on all the manpower that could have been given to it by proprietary software makers.

vs. BSD:

Some awesome devs make Cool BSD Software™.
Hundreds of large proprietary software companies like the look of the software, and use it, but never open source their changes.
Cool BSD Software™ loses out on all the manpower that could have been given to it by proprietary software makers.

end result: the same, but the BSD guys feel butthurt, and the GPL guys feel ignored

Now, the best case, which is what actually happens quite often these days:

GPL (same as above)

vs. BSD:

Some awesome devs make Cool BSD Software™.
Hundreds of large proprietary software companies like the look of the software, and use it.
Some of them contribute their work to the original BSD project, because it's good karma, good publicity, and keeps the community around that software alive.
Cool BSD Software™ gains a bunch of hard work from devs who get paid to work on their software 40+ hours a week.

end result: GPL guys feel ignore, BSD guys feel elated.

This is why I'll never use GPL for any software I write.
Yeah, that makes sense! Totally agree. I will try to implement this.
You can see the other talks from dotJS 2012 here:
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The 2013 conference will be announced soon, you can register here to be kept updated:
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What evolutionary reason? See here:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/03/theorizing-more-b...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299529/

Various organisms (i.e., bacteria, fungi, plants and animals) within an ecosystem can synthesize and release into the environment certain longevity-extending small molecules. Here we hypothesize that these interspecies chemical signals can create xenohormetic, hormetic and cytostatic selective forces driving the ecosystemic evolution of longevity regulation mechanisms. In our hypothesis, following their release into the environment by one species of the organisms composing an ecosystem, such small molecules can activate anti-aging processes and/or inhibit pro-aging processes in other species within the ecosystem. The organisms that possess the most effective (as compared to their counterparts of the same species) mechanisms for sensing the chemical signals produced and released by other species and for responding to such signals by undergoing certain hormetic and/or cytostatic life-extending changes to their metabolism and physiology are expected to live longer then their counterparts within the ecosystem. Thus, the ability of a species of the organisms composing an ecosystem to undergo life-extending metabolic or physiological changes in response to hormetic or cytostatic chemical compounds released to the ecosystem by other species: 1) increases its chances of survival; 2) creates selective forces aimed at maintaining such ability; and 3) enables the evolution of longevity regulation mechanisms.
What about Obama would put him in the right-wing "everywhere except the US" (meaning Europe, I take it)?

He has moved the U.S. to the left as much as was possible in his first term. He would have moved it farther if it were feasible but the U.S. government is large ship and it takes a while to turn.
Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
The sad thing is that the set of countries is always the same.
I got the 1% mail, which in my experience of 2012 means getting exponentially more recruiter spam
I believe it does, labor cost is part of the price.
10k App Downloads in 8 Hours - Lessons Learned
This conversation seems to come up often. Server side templating is still really important and isn't going away too soon.

There's still so many problems to solve before server side templating can seriously be considered obsolete.

1. Search engines still can't scrape javascript created content. Hacks like #! don't count.

2. Grade A browsers still don't properly support pushState() and if they are supported in some cases it's a buggy experience.

3. There's still a decent amount of people with JS turned off.

4. Having the client do the heavy lifting of your web site is a bad idea because the experience cannot be controlled. Anyone without a decent computer is going to get a sluggish experience and mobile performance is still very questionable.

#3 is probably the least important thing but it will also depend on what your site is doing. If I'm selling a product that with global reach and I ignore #3 then I'm throwing away money basically because India and China are massive and they have pretty high %s of people without JS or very old browsers.
Superior in what way? No one has better spam blocking.
I'm sure a lot of this is true, but some of it seems like you're casting him in a much more negative light than is fair. He did accomplish some things.

I don't think he had something missing inside of him. I think he had some mistaken beliefs but probably would have figured those out eventually if he hadn't taken such a radical step.
By the way, this is a timely reminder.

If you have a brand that you want to protect, go get a trademark registered. It'll cost you a few thousand dollars at most. Less if you play not-a-lawyer-lotto and do it yourself.
The City of London cannot pull the eject handle and relocate. The City of London is a separate legal entity[1] with it's own laws and rules, and it's those rules that meant that the trading that took down Lehman Brothers was conducted in the City of London, because it couldn't have really legally taken place elsewhere.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Creation and management of virtual machines through HTML5 browser
I think reddit's moderation system has more to do with the relative success of its discussions than its audience. Are you implying Slashdot didn't have a high proportion of programmers?
> Opinion created and spread top-down through media and representatives

I would argue the emerging long-tail media is reinforcing special interests and gotcha politics. Some of it is top-down but much of it isn't.
Updating to this post: I was able to test on newer Leap hardware and fingers no longer drop or jitter. I don't think a JavaScript library will be necessary to filter noise or track fingers in the production version.
Note that sensing-based whitespace radio has a number of issues. The biggest one is the hidden node problem - you can interfere with receivers without being able to hear the transmitter. There is also the issue that the licensed users of the band need to be very interference-resilient for the first few ms of their transmissions, until all of the sensing-radio users realise that they aren't allowed to be there anymore (and then the sensing radios need to have a consistent way to keep the link up).

The first problem can be mitigated by making the sensing receiver significantly more powerful than the transmitter, although you still have issues with specific terrain layouts (e.g. something big and RF-attenuating between you and the transmitter). The second problem makes it very difficult to interoperate with existing licensees (who assume exclusive use of the spectrum); it may be possible to make it work better with new licensees.

There is another interesting approach to cognitive radio, which is to use a centralised database of spectrum allocation, and then use RF propagation models & surveys to find gaps in space & frequency where you can let people transmit - for example, there are big gaps between terrestrial TV transmitter zones, to avoid the multi-kW transmitters interfering with each other, where you can easily fit "big WiFi"-style transmitters transmitting at a few watts.

Obviously, there are a number of issues here (need GPS or an accurate location on installation, need internet access for the DB, need to restrict movement, inefficient without really good RF models, weather affecting RF propagation) which make this less of a panacea than sensing-based cognitive radio, but it is relatively simple and robust to implement. In particular, a lot of the issues disappear if you use it for "big WiFi" applications - access points already have a fixed location, internet access, and mains power.

It also opens the possibility of a much more dynamic marketplace for spectrum - if all spectrum users are checking with a centralised DB (at least in a particular band), then it becomes much easier to handle short-term/local licenses - for example, providing massive short-term additional cell/wifi service to big events and festivals.

tl;dr Cognitive radio is a very interesting and promising development, but it's much harder than initial intuition suggests.
Hence the requirement for "picking up a microSD adapter that sits flush in the MBA" -- presumably in the USB port.
An infograpnic that concisely illustrates the title of the post? Out of luck.
Great talk. Does anyone know how I can get that inline complier Jeremy was using? I don't use Coffeescript just yet but I figured that could be useful when I decide to pick it up.
People move around Europe without changing their last names.
Link works for me, could you elaborate, I want to make sure this is right. I have "redirect w/ or w/o www" checked in cPanel. Is this not enough?
good articel and interesting facts! thank for sharing!
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Why not speak to your existing investors and see what they say ?
they could prevent fraud by disabling the card.
You know I thought about that last night after I had finished the project! It's definitely cooler than business card, would be more interesting to look at, and isn't a hassle to read through. I'll add it to my long list of project ideas :)
> The unfortunate fact is that police have more pressing issues to deal with than petty theft …

This is not strictly true. Police forces have divisions and staff dedicated to all types crime and petty theft is no exception. They might be understaffed compared to the workload but it's not necessarily true they have more pressing issues to deal with. Someone on the bulglary team is supposed to work on bulglaries, not, say for instance, murder or vice or whatnot.
The author's story is unfortunate. But this is not the tip of the iceberg. It is not a tragedy, either.

A kindle costs about $100. The FBI won't get involved - even if you live in the United States. A person is lucky if local law enforcement cares. The expectation that a corporation should devote significant resources to international law enforcement over each petty theft is absurd.
Looks like a good idea. Though I wouldn't want that to happen in the middle of me explaining something important to a co-worker...
A Year In Photos - Instagram’s Best of 2012
Calm down. He has been paid by Microsoft in the past so his opinions are hardly partisan and being economic with facts means that he often tells half a story, generally Microsofts. Like I said, I don't care either way, what I do care about is needless name calling and veiled ad hominems.
No, the 13" Air has an SD card reader, one which leaves part of the card sticking out and requires a special microSD adapter to sit flush, like the one already linked on this thread: http://theniftyminidrive.com

Lots of people with 13" Airs don't realise the 11" lacks the SD card reader, so it's a common mistake to make. (It's also a pity the 11" doesn't have it - I've missed the SD card reader a lot more than the ethernet port.)
When there is an important new policy change needed (think environment conservation) - then in beige politics it gets coopted by all or most of the parties. In this way they stay beige (and the green party never becomes important) - that looks boring and is intellectually frustrating - but it is so much better what happens in dictatorships (even when they are overthrown by revolutions and the politics become so interesting and exciting).
I had done a course called, 'sahaj samadhi' (loose translation in english: calm meditation) from Art of Living foundation.
I found it very easy to follow.

Also sometimes, I do guided meditations.
Not if you want to leverage the millions of professional software developers out there. With GPL you're stuck with the hobbyists and the very few companies that can survive getting paid for support of their GPL software.

You know what's BSD/MIT licensed (or similar)? Python, Ruby, Rails, and probably a million other things you use every day. Good software is good at making a community of developers, regardless of the license.
Better Science of Viral Marketing : Part 3
The sheer terror of syphilis (as seen in 1930s posters)
New Archive.org uploader allows presetting metadata
Great learning, will follow the tricks shared
It would be so much cooler if Stanford looked in the app store and saw the app that they could actually download. If it ends up getting approved (probably not, for the reason you mentioned), I could still show it to them, but I agree, the video does a good enough job.

I won't be keeping it in the app store if it is approved, however.
good idea, will be nice to see if this becomes popular. i think quite a lot of people (myself included) have loads of unused domain names for project ideas that were never finished (or started) that will just be left to expire
21 characteristics of great teams
I believe that, exactly as the utterly retarded "TAB vs space" debate, the "cameCase vs dash" should be a non-issue. This should be solved at the text editor / IDE level and at the tools level and should not cause any issue.

Put it this way: I can trivially write an Emacs minor mode that detects cameCase and shows them as dashes and vice-versa.

This should be something each programmer could decide on its own, as long as the commits are using the same convention.

Now, also, maybe maybe maybe that it shouldn't be language recommandations but specs defined in the language.

A bit like how the Go language close shut the big mouths of people advocating for this or that place for brackets.

For what it's worth I'd configure my text editor to show names using dashes instead of camelCase...
There is definitely a cost-benefit analysis to run. How much is my time worth to me, how much gas do I use up in a month, what is the price of gas, and how much we this service cost?

I think that there certainly is a market for this sort of service, however I'd need to know a little bit more about the specifics to give a better answer.