skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With businesses whose sole businessmodel depend on government to grant an state enforced monopoly, one should really ask if government shouldn't take a more active part in determining the benefit and cost of said model.

When ever government go out and try to influence a market, they commonly do a cost-benefit analyzes. If they add a new regulation regarding health concerns in food processing, it is assumed that they do some form of balancing of cost and benefits. It is also assumed that we do not use the same cost and cost-benefit analyze they have laying around from the 19th century. Most people assume that what ever was true a few hundred years ago might have changed in the years and thus a new check regarding cost and benefits to society is in order.

When government goes out using patents to influence the market to produce more inventions, they don't do a cost-benefit analyzes. They barely even use the 200 year old check regarding previous invention, obviousness and discovery, as the number of inventions has increase beyond what is human possible to check. They just grant the same sized 20 years state enforced monopoly to anyone who ask, and hope that any problems will be solved by the court system.

The core of this case is how one should read the patent-exhaustion. It really shouldn't be about that. It should be about how and if the government should give aid to an company that invented, produced and successfully sold a grain that they modified with a discovered gene. It should be about the check and balance of the actions of government trying to influence the market with monopolies in an effort to encourage more inventions/discoveries regarding gene modified plants.
The Chinese government made a statement last year about MAD. It basically boiled down to their population being so large and spread out so far across china that they would still have a large enough population base to continue on past past the Armageddon to rebuild while everywhere else would suffer a lot higher casualty rates because a lot of the developed world is concentrated in large cities.

IIRC one of the main reasons MAD was a threat to the Russians was because they're populated centres are mostly in one area of the country.

Its all saber rattling regardless I guess, as china develops they'll be more so concentrated in cities like everyone else.
I have lived in several states including CA and found four claims for myself in the CA system due to forgotten accounts from prior addresses, here are a few that might be typical examples of what is being held in this program:

1. Pacific Bell Telephone Company $72.24

2. Verisign (SSL or domain payments) $73.50

3. 20 shares of TravelZoo stock ~$400.00 value?

That TravelZoo stock was from back in the crazy/genius dotcom days when they gave out free stock for email referrals and sign ups. :) They did something right since they are still in business.

I do appreciate this program as these were my oversight/losses, things I had forgotten. However the process to place claims is a bit of a hassle: I need to physically print out forms, include copies of ID, etc. I'll write up a blog post of the process of claiming it when it's all said and done.
Cracking Crypto on Android Phones at Low Temperatures
I don't know if this would have an important effect on the business model (or if it's part of the reasoning of 'not wanting to be a hedge fund'), but being in that position is going to give you a very hostile user base.

As a music fan, I can't stand scalpers. I understand the principles of supply and demand, but scalpers subvert this because you don't necessarily have to resell all the tickets you purchase to be profitable - just enough that your margin covers the unsold ones. The only people losing are the fans, who can't get affordable tickets, even when the venue is half full.

I had no idea how bad the scalping situation was until I tried to buy tickets to a show in Chicago (in Australia where I live, it's a problem, but I've never been in a situation where I couldn't get tickets by buying them when released). I stayed up late (in my time zone) to get tickets, and missed out because the website wasn't dealing well with the load. Next morning, I got up, and there were 400+ tickets for sale on StubHub. For a 1300-person venue. Even if 100% of scalped tickets went on sale, on one website, within 10 hours of the event going on sale, that's still 30% scalping rate.

There are a number of solutions both easy (printing name and date of birth on the ticket, which is matched to ID at the gate) or difficult (personally I like the idea of taking 'bids' for tickets - the maximum someone is willing to pay, and then at a cutoff date taking the nth person in line's bid (of an n capacity venue) and issuing all tickets at that price. Minimal risk for promoters as they can cancel if they can't manage a reasonable margin, and no one overpays for tickets).

Anyway, I digress. My point is, I think potential sellers would see this service as ripping them off, and would be hesitant to list tickets unless they weren't confident they could resell them, and buyers would resent them because you're essentially taking a large margin for almost no service. If the algorithm works there's minimal risk for the company, you'd just be taking free cash. I could see myself as a buyer actively avoiding using this (hypothetical) service where possible because of it, and sellers also avoiding it as they perceive an offer from you as a way sign that value would go up and they shouldn't sell now.

As an aside, when I was in the US I got a ticket to see the SF giants for about $10 for great seats on SeatGeek. Was super happy with the experience (and the people next to me who so generously offered rules clarifications for me).
Pinkie Pie is helpful, but the DTrace Laser Pony is the best debugging pony :)

http://dtrace.org/blogs/about/dtracepony/
Australian Prime Minister trials Google Glasses
2006 AOL Searcher No. 2708: Revealed Today
I was doing that in Smalltalk in 1995.
I hear that a lot, but the truth is that the next Perl Harbour has already happened. It was a surprise aerial attack on a strategic port city back in 2001. Almost 3,000 people were killed.

I don't believe any cyber attack is likely to be that dramatic or destructive for the same reasons that computer systems are hard to protect. Complexity. It's hard to protect a computer system because there are so many potential vulnerabilities. It's easier to take one down, but that won't necessarily result in much damage. To do that you need to take over a complex system and exercise sophisticated and dynamic control of it, to orchestrate very specific behaviour, which is not easy. For example shutting down the computers at a nuclear power plant may be feasible. However taking control of it and manipulating it with enough sophistication to engineer a meltdown, while overcoming all the computerised and physical safeguards would be a lot more complex to pull off.
A hacker's words in defense of MBAs (or remember not to dismiss each other)
it's easy, but also a bit hacky...
because opsworks triggers multiple lifecyle events and also distributes the chef config
if you solve the config problem, maybe with a static example you're pretty much done
That was fantastic - thank you.
WebKit is the new IE.
So what I really meant to say is that the compilers end up supporting each others bugs for compatibility reasons.

Example?
Very repetitive, I copy the text open paste bin paste it then go to my pc open paste bin copy if from there and paste it where I need it. I want a seamless integration that will hopefully be as simple as CTRL+c / CTRL+v
I still feel like a beginner in Clojure. One of the things with Clojure is that you nearly always realise later that there was an easier way to do it. It can be frustrating, but it's a sign of the sophistication of Clojure that you keep running into functions that already do what you wanted.

P.S. check out the frequencies function. There are a large number of higher level cOnstructs on top of reduce.

P.P.S. good article :)
> It's a great company doing great products.

And now, for the first time ever, they're a great company doing their OWN great products.
I had not. Thanks a million for that, that does look promising!
$() has been POSIX for a while, here's the SUSv2 definition from 1997: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html#...
More likely it's a software issue.
Pitchrs: Helping others not ourselves
You would commit copyright infringement. Check out the sounds of games like OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Zonotic, etc. Not good but ok as placeholders.
Wow! Amazing animation..
Great example of being original by taking something existing and changing one aspect of it.
I hear you. It's very difficult. In this town, people have to squint at their schedules to find a free hour for their best friends. And yet, somehow, they always have the time to respond to you instantly on Twitter or Facebook.

All my friends in the Bay Area came from Burning Man, art projects, hacking projects, NoiseBridge and so on.

I don't find that friendships are forged from common interests or whatever draws people to Meetups. It has to be a thing you both find intrinsically valuable, ideally something of at least moderate difficulty that forces you to spend a long amount of time together. Could be hacking or could be fishing.
Gmail is down - "Error 502 (Server Error)!!1"
never again.. by the way, `git diff --no-index` also works like a generic diff utility on any two files.

(Wow, that --no-index behavior seems to be default outside repositories now. I learned something, just git diff works now.)
No app. Just a simple website i run on my own server, where I can paste stuff.

You could use any of the quadrillion webservices instead. Any blog service like tumblr will do.
I believe the @ is used only by the obj-c keywords and not the ones from C. So it'll be something more like this

@autoreleasepool{
for (int index = 0; index < 100; index++){
int error = [MyObject performSelector:@selector(addCoolFilterToImage:)];
if (error) {
return 32;
}
}
}
When you're in school, you tend to become friends with people you're placed together with - people you were placed with in dorms, people who had the same classes as you and with whom you did projects/psets, and people in the same clubs as you. In that sense, many of your friendships are predicated on chance encounters. Most are, as someone pointed out, serendipitous.

If you want to make friends out of people who aren't your colleagues, you need to take actions to ensure your friendships aren't dependent on chance encounters anymore. If you meet someone you think is really interesting, you need to go out of your way and invite them to lunch/dinner/parties/events. This does blur the line between networking and friendships though. Then again, the strongest network is a network of friends.

I also wonder if there's a difference between SF and the Mountain View/Palo Alto/San Jose area. It seems to me like it would be easier to stay connected with people in SF, since you'll often bump into the same people at different parties/events - I know that this has certainly been true in my case whenever I go up to SF. Down south people are spread out and there's a lot less going on in terms of events.
Much of it will never be claimed (no matter how much effort is exerted). What is your reasoning for why that much expense would be justified?

The average per potential claimant ($6B / 17.6MM) is only about $340.
World's Quietest Computer Packs a Powerful Punch
The more powerful a PC is, the noisier and hotter it runs, right?

Not the Puget Serenity Pro, the world's quietest computer. It's so quiet, you can't hear any noise coming from it at all. Yet it runs the fastest third-generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, and has a graphics card that can drive four monitors at the same time and play serious games.
More details about the Facebook waterhole attack
Anyone know which websites exactly were compromised?
I'm going to add step 5b - save what SQL you executed (against what server, and for what reason), ideally in source control, as an audit trail.

Otherwise, I end up having this conversation (which actually happened):

Him: <Big Client> is having troubles! Features X, Y, and Z aren't working!
Me: Hmm, has anything changed? It was all OK on Friday.
Him: No, nothing's changed.
Me: Really?
Him: Well I ran a bunch of scripts on Saturday while I was visiting them.
Me: OK, so what exactly did you run?
Him: Just a bunch of scripts.
Passpack (http://www.passpack.com) for centralized password sharing among remote team members. Previously using Keepass, which is great but difficult to sync. Yes, passwords in the cloud -- I never thought I'd do it either.
I wonder what is the easiest way to automatically snapshot EBS volumes? I don't want to run a script - scheduling, managing access keys, etc are all too much hassle. Besides runing the script on the machine itself is unreliable - I want the setup to take one last snapshot after the instance dies.

Ideally I would right-click on an EBS volume, select "backup periodically" -> "every 10 minutes" -> retain each for three days, and then dailies for 30 days" and be done with it.
And now it's going up and down sporadically. This is what I get for trying to process email at 4 AM, I guess...
PayPal Stops Personal Payments In Singapore
I currently have a previous-generation MBP 15" (the last one before the retina), as far as I can tell pretty max'ed out on the specs. I really don't like OSX and want to run Linux instead, and running Linux with poor hardware support on the MBP is not really appealing (This is my primary work machine, I don't have time or patience to fiddle with things, I particularly don't have time to deal with something acting up in a meeting -- works out of the box is a deal breaker, this is why this offering is appealing).

What am I going to miss if I get the XPS 13 with the 1080p screen?
So the sperm donor has to pay child support??
An Ultimate Hunt Part 2
Download the An Ultimate Hunt Part 2 app now to your Kindle Fire or
other Android devices from the Amazon Appstore for Android.
You need to enter in your SSN/Tax ID/FEIN.
It reminds me of Fisher's theorem. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishers_fundamental_theorem_of_...
Yahoo and Google are both owed pretty large amounts, e.g.:

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRe...

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRe...
AWS have owned the base cloud market with EC2 and S3.
What I find impressive is that they're continuously lowering prices competitively[1] and expanding their services in a way that makes their base offering more attractive.

OpsWorks starts to battle one of the biggest reasons to go with PaaS[2] providers such as Heroku: the difficulty of managing these services yourself.

[1]: This benefits both Amazon and the consumer. Lower prices and continuous reductions improves customer confidence in and use of the AWS platform, whilst consumers are just happy they're paying less. Heroku and Google App Engine (even VPS providers) rarely decrease prices, making AWS something certain to be considered.

[2]: Accidentally wrote IaaS -- thanks Argonaut.
Ways to boost MSFT stock in 1 hour... Announce that Ballmer is leaving.

That would be the _real_ "Ballmer peak."
PMX wasn't Danger, and PMX did Pink/Kin. Danger was folded into PMX, true, but the history is way messier than you're letting on. Some of the survivors of the PMX fiasco / power grab went on to Courier.

WoA did absorb some parts of WiMo (power management, for example).

The whole thing makes me want to cry in frustration. The day the iPhone was announced, the halls of 116-117-118-119 were filled with shell shocked, demoralized, pissed off people.
This might be a goldmine for genealogical research...
Nitpick: Heroku is a PaaS.

EDIT: Second nitpick: AWS OpsWorks is no Heroku. Amazon's already released AWS Elastic Beanstalk, though, is supposed to replicate Heroku's functionality (there's a reason Heroku is still around, though).
sorry, do you mean chef server is better, or this looks better?
Good questions! I know what you mean. For websites urls, I find myself using Chrome's 'other devices' menu (at the bottom of a new tab). This of course only works since I'm logged into Chrome with my G account on all devices.

For real ctrl-c stuff, I have to admit I reside to workarounds that are far from ideal.
A "Steven [P] Jobs", of Palo Alto and Woodside, has a bunch of small insurance, share, and dividend amounts due, including for example:

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/NoticeDetails.aspx?propertyRecI...

I suppose Oracle Shareowner Services has had a hard time reaching this reclusive character since their last reported contact date of "10/2/2008".
I prefer the monkey shuffle.
Braess's paradox: adding capacity can reduce performance
I saw Ed Lu speak at SETI recently. If you want some more background with visuals check out his tedxmarin talk:

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Changing-the-Course-of-the-So...
Swelling in Second Boeing 787 Battery
How Does Anyone Take These People Seriously
C99 is still not fully implemented in GCC? What's missing?
Amazon is still committed to solving the wrong problem, which is "how do I run a lot of virtual machines", when the actual problem is "how do I deploy/scale/maintain complicated applications"

Chef is an excellent fit.
I guess you can: http://imgur.com/8SndTkZ
The Amazon blog post is not very clear on this, but Werner Vogels post is:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/02/aws-opsworks.htm...

This was previously known as "Scalarium", which was a third-party solution developed by Peritor that added several features on top of AWS, including management of instances using chef, infrastructure planning etc.
Introduction to Clojure Videos
btw, there is a mood, like so-called flow, when you just do it, just as best as you can, without even worrying of anything. It is like surfing - you just keeping your balance and going with a wave.

Being overwhelmed is a side-effect of fears, doubts and ignorance - what they call insecurity. As long as one tames them, uninterfered awareness is what remains.

It is like a performance of professional musician or painter - you just do it out of habit.

Just doing with relaxed mind is also called Zen.)
I think 'git add -p .' would have worked better for the specific example he gave, though. (Step through and stage change by change)
You posted this just to get some downloads, didn't you? Perhaps one could call this spamming. A "show HN" would be nice. Also "Play Your Favorite Ultimate Hunt Arcade Game, Play Bird-Duck Hunting Arcade Android Game Online
For Kids." is not the most human readable game description I can imagine.

This did point me to the Amazon appstore initiative, shame on me I didn't know about it. Will look into that. Hunting games for kids are not my thing though, sorry.
Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request
Amazon AWS is a low-level platform, not necessarily a full solution. They do solve the "right" problem, but not necessarily yours. Thats where Heroku and (the now obviously aquired) Scalarium come in.
There's a typo in the url. Should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox

[EDIT: or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox]
The address, 2101 WAVERLY ST PALO ALTO, does indeed confirm this is the late Steve Jobs.
Sure we can secure a certain piece of information if no one has to ever access it. Hard drive in a locked box inside some bunker type of thing. It becomes hard when the information must be easily accessible to multiple persons operating from different places.
Why not just commit after the first step? You can then use the normal diff, and afterwards you just remove your temporary commit to make the final one.
> the degree that defense spending props up the US economy

US defense spending was 4.7% of GDP in 2011. What do you call the other 95.3%?

(context: Russia 3.9%, China 2.0%, World 2.5%) --SIPRI
But OpsWorks is the answer for the problem.
The article resonated with a majority of those who read it.
The click handler is registered on the canvas and it checks e.offsetX. On Firefox, some people use e.layerX, but it's not exactly the same thing [0]. Someone posted a useful polyfill on JQuery's bugtracker [1].

Firefox should just support offsetX as well, but they don't, for whatever reason.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122665#c3

[1] http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8523#comment:16
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That doesn't prevent ripping, does it? Just playing back burned discs. I don't know anyone who burns the movies they download onto DVDs (or whatever) before watching them.
Hi Sean, yes there may well be different intentions at play, the but also huge overlaps on the technical level. We are all concerned with liveness, and your debugging is my (and I think Bret Victors) exploratory programming.

I can understand your frustrations, lets talk by email about establishing a clearer distinction between performance and more general contexts, if you don't mind. But I think not on the basis that they are completely unrelated, to me it makes sense to think of live coding in social situations (including lectures, dojos,conference talks as well as a/v performances and group music making) is an application for live programming languages.

I can agree reinterpretation per key press is useful in some very particular circumstances, but not others. The difference is not in delay, but in what constitutes an edit.
Why do problems like this only get tackled when there was a close call?

It's the same everywhere. Gun control discussions, nuclear power plant safety, anti-terrorism measures... it's a long list. Suddenly, governments and societies want action and funding there, where before no need was seen, when the actual situation didn't change.

(However, in the case of climate change, it might be just to late to steer things properly when the effects become clear.)
Great story! Yup, this kind of thing happens. For some reason it reminded me of something that happened to me as a newbie engineer. It was really funny a week later.

I was troubleshooting an intermittent problem in a piece of equipment. It had several boards full of mostly LS TTL logic chips (yes, them chips). It was the kind of problem that only happened once every other day or two. Nobody knew. So, I had all kinds of instruments attached to this thing and was watching it like a hawk waiting for a failure. It had probes attached to every point in the circuit where I suspected I could see something and learn about the source of the problem. I also tested for thermal issues with heat guns and freeze sprays, familiar troubleshooting techniques to anyone who's done this kind of thing.

Anyhow, every so often the thing would go nuts. The three scopes I had connected to it showed things I simply didn't understand. I'd analyze but couldn't make any sense out of it. Still, again, every so many days it would happen again. Changed power supplies and the usual suspects. No difference.

Well, finally, two weeks later, the other engineers in the office took pity on me and told me what was going on: They had connected a VARIAC to the power strip I was using to power the UUT (unit under test). The scopes and other test instruments remained on clean power. Every so often they'd reach into this drawer where the VARIAC was hidden and lower my power strip's voltage just enough for the power supplies to fall out of regulation and everything start beeping and sputtering. Those friggin SOB's. They had me going for days! I was pissed beyond recognition. Of course, after a while I was laughing my ass off alongside them. Good joke. Cruel, but good.

My revenge: A CO2 fire extinguisher rigged to go off into his crotch when my buddy sat down to work.

Fun place to work. We did this kind of stuff all the time. Today I'd be afraid of getting sued. People have really thin skins these days.
Yes. The source is not available publicly. There is a petition for opening the sources here - https://www.change.org/petitions/opera-software-open-sources... - but I wouldn't hold my breath.