skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you serious? I'm curious to see how you normally hold your phone with one hand now, I'm figuring you as some sort of contortionist, or one of those guys that can cut a deck of cards in half with just one hand. I personally love this gesture, and I use it all the time, especially when it's too cold outside and I'm using my phone with one hand, with the other one in my pocket instead.
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Is the machine faster and more productive?

Then the issue is of upfront capital investment surely? No sane silversmith shop will hire 20 workers who need attention, break bones etc when 5 can operate a machine if the shop can ge the machine for free

(Of course firing all those workers now you have them may be harder)

It's unlikely to be true that indian business owners sit around saying "I would buy capital machinery, but it's sooo much more fun being evil and anyway human life is worthless round here. Unlike London where my cousin lives and I visited last week"

Yeah off on a strange rant there - basically saying "oh the Indian culture does not value human life so they don't bother buying machinery we Europeans have is flyin real close to racism - or wilful blindness. Have faith in rational actors and economics - there is always a rational explanation
The CORBA example is an own goal. In software, we can replace outdated specifications without threat of a federal raid. If you want to use a different serialization format, no one is stopping you. But if you want to innovate in any physical world good or financial instrument, you face the possibility of men with guns throwing you in jail.

Could not be more different. Has nothing to do with complexity and everything to with the unchecked exercise of power. If executives were free to fire or imprison one regulator every year the situation might be slightly more symmetric. As it is you have a caste of individuals employed for life with the ability to unilaterally order raids, fines, and seizures. Obviously, CORBA's advocates never had power like that -- and that is why CORBA was actually replaced via innovation.
> Look at the dangerous potential of a baseball bat, or a crowbar, or a javelin. Should we not ban all those things?

I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but which do you really think is more likely:

* he's arguing that "potential for misuse" may well be a legitimate reason for regulating some things (inside a larger cost-benefit analysis about danger vs beneficial use, both observed and potential), perhaps up to and including banning

* he's arguing that every single potentially dangerous thing should be banned (and also, believes in a flat equivalence between melee weapons, firearms, and motor vehicles)

> Should we not ban all those things? Cars? Airplanes?

Probably not ban outright. We do seem to have made some progress in automobile and air travel safety by enacting/tweaking requirements for manufacture, registration and insurance for ownership, training and licensing for operating various classes of vehicle, and regulations regarding operation.
How bad of an idea is it to sell a stupid rock to people?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_rock

There are some days I must grudgingly agree with screenwriter William Goldman's "Nobody knows anything."

If you're not more confused by life as you get older, you haven't been paying enough attention.
Unfortunately the mobile versions renders broken in the iPad. :-/

Now I'll have to find a regular computer ASAP.
Oh boy.. I was going to buy some bitcoins, but the price is creeping towards 100 USD/1 btc. That's just ridiculous.

A few weeks ago, prices were around 26 USD/1 btc... So are we going to see a swing down that low again? Or is this SilkRoad talking?
Windows 8 doesn't do it automatically, but does prompt with a "do you want to be taken to the login page" which most people would click I should imagine. Blackberry also prompts through a pop-up to load that page.
IMO any overly clever code would remind of obfuscation. The trick is to notice in time your own attempts at being smart and refrain. Thus the code could communicate most of the things that needed to be explained in this walkthrough.

That's also why I personally am not very enthusiastic about such code reviews. Good code would seem boring, and why study bad code?
Please elaborate. Unless "load of crap" fully articulates your argument. If so, thanks for the feedback.
Upload on S3 with jclouds
Upload on S3 with the jclouds library - the 4 generic Blob APIs.
so, I work in your office. you, in mine. office swap.
Open sourced rss reader in Clojure
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You're overestimating Forbes.

Don't know about them to be frank, but I've seen major newspapers and magazines go from 10-20 copy editors down to 2-3.

That's due to the news industry crisis, and also due to the switch to the internet -- for one, 24/7 pushing of new articles tends to lower the overall quality compared to the daily/weekly/monthly magazine editions of the past, and second, the publishers don't seem to care as much to have copy editors available (well, the lower margins on the net also play their role).
Make them 3 not 10. Both yes and no ... depending on how we frame the control.

Guns should be limited by the kinetic energy they are able to eject both per shot and per minute. No matter if the gun is home made or purchased.
Totally off-topic, but welcome back!
I hope this leads to some sort of weekend project. Would love to see that in action.
I don't get it. Warren Buffet seems to be wrong, which is somewhat unlikely.

First, there is only one "world's most profitable" Exxon Mobil. You can't buy 16 of them. Second, oil will run out. Sure offshore drilling will extend how long we can produce it for, even one Exxon Mobil producing at this rate doesn't look like it will last much longer than a century [1]. It is likely that the price of oil will go up (I think orders of magnitude) as the reserves dry up, but not enough to keep producing $40 billion/year. As one of my professors in college said "Your children will not believe you burnt this stuff" as it is so useful in other ways.

Second, oil is not end-all be-all. Cold fusion [2] is coming, and it will make energy cost a rounding error as compared to today's cost. It is not clear when there is a good chance it will happen within the next 100 years. This will mark a singularity past which even the investment genius of Warren Buffet is unlikely to see.

Because of point #2, crop fields may lose their value. Why bother growing things under the sun, when we could grow them using an artificial energy source much closer to us, that we control? If all of a sudden, every household has a self-regulated food growing companion cube, powered by dirt cheap energy, why bother with corn fields?

I suppose his larger point is that you are better off investing your money in companies that produce value in the world vs holding onto value. I would agree with that. However, for the love of god, don't buy 16 Exxon Mobils! If you have that kind of money, talk to me instead. I have a very profitable bridge to sell you!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power
Think you are getting personalized search, it's #2 if not logged in to Google.
Oh my god. People always look at work from home as they are a good fit for work-from-home-culture. The important issue to discuss is how we hire people that fit to work-from-home-culture? I think 37signals should share more how they hire the people that fit this culture.
There is no such thing as "arbitrary hypermedia".

watch these two very good talks on this topic:

* http://oredev.org/2012/sessions/designing-hypermedia-apis

* http://vimeo.com/20781278
>>>Steve Jobs reminds of Peter Keating from Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'.

Seriously? You think Hank Rearden developed Rearden Steel without all of the efforts others had first made in steel? Dagny inherited her damn railroad. She didn't create it. Richard Halley didn't invent music. John Galt was working in a damn auto factory. He didn't invent autos nor the idea of an engine. Midas Mulligan was a goddammed banker. He didn't invent currency or the idea of stored value.
I had forgotten about lighttable, thanks. I'll need to revisit it.
Yeah, this is exactly what I do, I work remotely but have a bright, relaxed office 10 minutes walk from my house. I can see this being a more popular arrangement in the future. Perhaps instead of companies spending money on giant cubicle offices they give their employees an 'office allowance'. Taking London as an example, you have many people commuting into the city from areas with cheaper housing to expensive offices that are located in the heart of the city. The money spent on deskspace for that worker in the city would go a lot further if they had office space where they'd just come from. Not to mention the transport savings, both for the individual and the system as a whole (which is already making some cattle carts look roomy during rush hour). Walk round London for a day and you'll find windows filled with rows of people staring at their computers. The majority of the time they're just stuck there looking at that computer. Making them travel 2,3,4 hours each day seems unnecessarily cruel, a relic of a time before email and skype. Let's not discount the value of face to face, but the fact is that this makes up a small part of the average worker's work. Most companies implicitly acknowledge this by reserving only the dayless rooms of their basement for meetings.

There's a startup idea or two waiting in this space, there are many fundamental inefficiencies in the way business is currently conducted. There's potential for both improving quality of life and reducing costs.
I think that your #1 is pretty "you specific". In other words, what percentage of gmail users need to "compose multiple emails at a time"? I'd guess it's right around 0.0000000001% (which represents you specifically hehe). I'm joking around a bit but seriously - that's not a "feature" that most people need, is it?

Personally, I like changing my flow to work on an email. Chat is different - I want to do that inline with other things. Email though requires a different focus level (or it should) thus having a dedicated page works better for me.
Why does the ternary operator unexpectedly cast integers?
anti-feature is just bad engineering, no matter how marketers spin it.
The gold craze in India is something I cannot possibly describe to somebody in the western civilization.

The thing is Gold is an amazing investment to make. Those who invest in it know it. Its practically zero risk, high return investment at practically no effort.

To give you simple statistics here in India. Only six years back Gold was around 1400-1500 rupees per gram, 10-12 years back it was around 650-700 rupees per gram, its now around 3000 rupees and growing.

Barring certain rare circumstances in Human history, price of gold has almost always grown.

Who wouldn't want gold? You can invest in small quantities, use it as jewellery, social status and makes the best investment.
I'm very curious about the items listed at the bottom of the page - 18 USC 506 deals with forgeries of badges and seals and stuff of government departments.

Are they alleging the site was used to make fake badges?
They were wanting a new patent for a slightly improved version of their drug. They held the patent for the previous version which expired.

Since they were fighting so hard for a new patent, I was wondering if such a patent would affect a generic drug made from the pervious version.
Well, the other thing to consider about Jobs + Wozniak is that they were young at the time. The young are more apt to take risks -- and they were also friends with mutual interests beyond just computing. Did Jobs tend to use Wozniak? Yes. But Wozniak had to be willing to go along on the ride. Also, being young, they had their parents to still fall back on, whereas if you're older and being asked to take a risk, you have to consider the web of financial and personal obligations that have grown up to ensnare you.

EDIT: Typo killed.
SaaS pioneers date back to the 1960s so we have decades of knowledge that's floating around. More recently, during the 1990s, we had Application Service Provider that tackled the same issues. Imagine being IBM during those very early years trying to sell the idea of remote computing - it must have been an utterly alien concept to most organizations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
That's exactly what I find myself doing, but:
I don't like paper
As things change I find myself rewriting the same stuff over and over
It feels like it should be easier/more effective if automated
Ah, ok.. Ya I think I was clicking on the link title before perhaps? I see it works if I click on the box instead. Just having a + button there would do worlds to explain that process I think.

Thanks.
Russians Selectively Blocking Internet
I haven't looked at this detail yet, but it should be noted that we haven't even optimised Vert.x yet so there should be plenty of scope for further improvement :)

(Disclaimer: I'm the Vert.x project lead)
Huh?
The traces were buried inside the ceramic chipset. And even at the scale of technology in that era the soldering was usually done with vibration, not heat.

I find this statement rather implausible. It would take far too much time and equipment to make it worthwhile vs. just upgrading your CPU "over the counter".
I love this and the fact that it works on mobile devices.
Chrome extension to generate typos, ideal for April's fool. Extremely annoying
Maybe the other way round. I consider it good engineering (why waste an entirely separate production process to make a lower-grade version, when most of it can be shared?), but people are irrationally led to believe they are entitled to the full thing, just because it's potentially there. Proof of this is that if no one told you, you would not even suspect anything at all. If you want to "unlock" your car to get that extra 20kWh go ahead, the car is yours after all, but then do not try to ask for any form of warranty or support from the manufacturer.
Why haven't you, personally, dedicated your life to making cancer drugs?

The people that do so would rather like to be compensated for it. You may think it's an imperfect system but until you personally start making cancer drugs for the world for free maybe you should think a little deeper on the subject.
>It means you can work anywhere you can make arrangements to work.

Like in an office surrounded by my co-workers. This works for me.
Been saying this for years.

It chimes with a flow of history I think we are seeing - that source code literacy is roughly equivalent to read and writing literacy, and we have already seen Gutenberg invent the printing press (Www).

Now we are seeing what Europe saw from 1451-1590 - what happens when you go from 2% literacy rates to 20%+. Just imagine the advantages a company in 1500 enjoyed if its top staff were literate, and engaged with all the other literate employees in the industry. How many competitive advantages could it take to make up for that single one?

We are lucky members of that 2 % and should not see it as a permanent elite - but we should also recognise the changes coming. I think DHH hits it right
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I think I might try a light version as a weekend project sometime soon, cheers.
I believe its $7500 from the federal government and various states like California also have a subsidy on top of that.
How is cold fusion related to a technology singularity?
This chrome extension is just for fun. Install it on someone's browser to drive him insane!

Also posted here: http://redd.it/1bezlh
>> And doing HATEOAS seems like making a c++ program const-correct.

I would argue that cons-correctness is probably one of the most important considerations of any public C++ API, so not really the best analogy ;-). Try to refactor some actively used C++ framework API that never bothered about const correctness some day, weeks of fun and bickering with your API clients guaranteed.
Iceland moves to Bitcoin
>>>Founders don't have to concern themselves with getting hired.

But they still have to do things like pay rent, buy food, buy clothes, buy tech. Those things take money. And money is usually gotten from a job. The point is, Jobs wouldn't have even been able to get a job to survive first. That old guy sweeping floors in McDonald's today? Did you ever stop to think what led him there? (For the Rand worshipers out there, how was Galt employed at Taggart Transcontinental?)
What does controlling a market have to do with being rewarded for saving people from dying of cancer?
Never heard of my postmark. You'd think with elasticinbox + someone routing emails for you you'd be done but then who would handle spam? Email is two way, can't wait till I see a Sagas solution to that (probably blind to what's out there.) I mean, there's Pass, DBas, email senders, more analytics than I can count and some great payment processors. Seems the only missing link is a cheap inbound routing/spam fighting system.
I am a Biotechnology Student in India...
Even if the older version exists, pharmaceutical companies have the power to enforce the new drug with their buying power...Pharma Companies gift a lot of doctors with various goodies to enforce the newer version - thus allowing company to make profits....

The Point to be noted here for Developers, Designers and Other Technologists - " Where Do you Draw the line ?"

Novartis might have made a slight modification to the structure of the drug - and thereby requesting patent for the new drug.. The new drug might be more effective or not, they would want to sell it at a premium...So where does one draw a line towards how much of a change is ok for the drug to be accepted as a new drug.. should the change be in effectiveness or structure or something else...

The same question applies to developers and designers - when someone uses their designs or code.. Where do you draw the line ?
If I may, the goal seems a bit incorrectly specified for hypermedia. For instance, if github decided to change the number of results they return per page, then your script would not break, but it would have a different meaning.

I would suggest a better goal to be "get the 11th public gist". Although that still isn't perfect since it doesn't mention how the collection would be sorted (I presume by date).
The real problem is the battery. It is not improving as fast as everything else...
This is how a bubble begins.
If you're modifying the software, such that in certain edge cases your battery overheats and explodes, or the brakes stop working, does it still make sense to rely on road approval to deem a car road-worthy, and get appropriate insurance? Since all software has bugs, I feel this is an interesting discussion point even if you don't modify it. Basically, should road approval include a check on the software? (which would be nearly impossible)

Or will insurance companies just ask if you modified the software, and charge you an appropriately higher price? Is that how they do it with cars mechanically upgraded like you describe?
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>natural gas plants can already be switched off and on

They can be, but unless the government steps in to subsidize them, it's not very profitable. Due to low gas prices, a lot of European gas plants are being shut down.

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/europe-gas-carna...
Modularization in Typescript
Sure, investing in running farms takes more day to day work, and the probability of seeing your entire non-diversified portfolio wiped out might be somewhat higher.

But gold prices are far from stable: they're at least as volatile as the stock market albeit tending to move in the opposite direction. They can be hugely affected by changes in legislation which affect the perceived risk or return to actual investments, not to mention exchange and convertibility restrictions or the vague possibility of returning to some sort of gold standard, so anyone holding a vast fortune in gold can't really afford not to have lobbyists and PR campaigns
(an interesting corollary is that as the real purchasing power of a gold portfolios rises when the economy as a whole stutters, "gold bugs" generally don't have a vested interest in economic stability...)
Systemd to replace glibc
It's almost as if Google has offended one of its most influential constituencies, with little conception of the possible backlash that might result from such "bait and switch" tactics.

Oh wait, it's exactly like that.
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Textadept 6.5 released
Go read the biography of Harry Cohn, one of the founders of Columbia Pictures.
Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder announces MixBit video collaboration site
There are coworking spaces for that exact purpose. All of this discussion is about not forcing people to commute and chaining people to the desks at a central office, and giving them freedom to choose their own workplace where it is convenient for them.
MixBit - Chad Hurley's New Video Site
Except gold has an actual use, and it seems to be really rare.

Diamonds, bits of green paper, tulip bulbs, are all items that are not actually rare.
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Definitely because you can sign up and login. For anonymous reading less so.
Its funny that deleting all the RSS feeds - will result in the MYSQL Error... Look into it developer...

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND date > NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 0 , 10' at line 1
How do I get to your website from your blog? I'm viewing it on my phone and there's no obvious link.
Not sure we will still have cellphones 46 years from now.
Ask HN: When building a news site, should I aim for a specific audience?
Suppose I would like to build a news site, should I aim it for a specific audience (like tech crunch or HN) or build something more comprehensive like Digg or Reddit?

I can see the advantage in both options so I can't decide.

What would you do?
http://longform.org always has interesting stuff to read.

They recently reposted Renata Adler's "A Court of No Appeal" from 2000. I thought it was a really interesting denouncement of the current practice of journalism (particularly directed at the New York Times).

http://harpers.org/archive/2000/08/a-court-of-no-appeal/?sin...