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Heroin is supposed to make you happy, if that's the goal. Being an ignorant member of society is a recipe for personal and societal disaster.

How many people have taken the time to define news? Not in terms of what makes one thing more interesting than others, but at the simplest level: what is news?

You can't ask for more substance until you define what the substance you are after is. Once you've defined it, you will see solutions where you haven't before.

After that, ask yourself if the information sources you've historically related to as news media are in fact news sources or public relations sources.

More third-party aggregators and readers are only going to disappoint the market because they don't do anything about the underlying news problems.
I think you forgot to change accounts while agreeing with your post...

At any rate, you've narrowed your original broad statement,

>Tablets are a faster brain --> interface than a keyboard for visual arts like drawing, painting, video and photography. Arguably music too,

down to a specific use case -- and one I actually agree with. However, writing off the value of all shortcuts as "tedious" is fundamentally ridiculous.

I respect that you've "used computers" for a long time. However, the following assertion makes it relatively clear that you've got no idea how people interface with non-linear editors.

>As they get more numerous (aside from standard stuff) they only serve to give your mind a slight pause (to trigger shortcut recall, because not all are in muscle memory) and they trick you into thinking you're doing something useful for 0.5s, which for a lot of operations mostly the same time it would have taken for you to do it with a mouse. Just that with a mouse your mind is not working that hard (whereas the effort to remember the shortcut makes your mind think less time has passed).

Being that this is the frame of mind you have, I'd just going to leave it be. There seems to be an entire way of using a computers that you are unfamiliar with.

I recommend you drop into a post shop one day. You can see how we use keyboard short cuts ;)

(This is the strangest disagreement I've ever had online)
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I agree that the organisations are on the left but as far as I can see (for the BBC, do not know al-jazeera) they do not let their organisational bias affect their reporting as much as other organisations.
> The primary optimization that ASM.JS brings is its static type system.

Well, that and not having objects, user-defined types, closures, strings, polymorphism, or even garbage collection. asm.js is fast because it's essentially BCPL, not just because it has a static type system.
Reading news articles that are informative can be thought provoking and improve my understanding of people and the world around me. Over time, many smaller pieces of information can accrue into an understandable whole, providing context for future experiences and information. If you never end up understanding the information thrown at you, or consume garbage news, then yeah, it won't help. It's possible you need to ingest a lot of background material to really make sense of the news in a useful and non-helplessness-inducing way.

The news to me is incremental history, economics, and political science. I wouldn't watch low-content information like daily TV news, but that's not the only option.

That said, you don't have to do it all the time, because sometimes, in your topic of interest, nothing much happens for a while... The most I do on an actual daily basis is read the top three headlines on the BCC News site, just to check that nothing incredibly crazy happened. Oh, and read too much HN, but that stuff can be interesting... and I mostly read the comments...
For the purposes of this AI player, all NES games are fully deterministic. Even what hardware the NES had that could be used for random number generation is under the control of the emulator and being run deterministically. There's no "random" in the usual sense here.
>feel that though google glass would be a hit product

This will be a very interesting test of Collinridge's Dilemma.
In the first 5 minutes, the girl described above gets jailed for Tweeting something about her case. And Jason Biggs has been on the show as Mr. Bitcoin and he asks Alicias company to sue Aaron's prosecution. The show was mostly though about the case you described.
They are three sides of the same coin, but reflect on the subtlety of the robbery.
I stopped using Google Reader recently; this has had the side effect of making me read much less news and, thus, being less buzzed to write a scathing or snarky comment/reply.

I browse a few news sites once or twice a day, read the 1 or 2 news that look relevant to me, and that's it.
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I agree. I sometimes (rarely) have moments when I want to punch into the air, or raise my hands above my head to claim victory, or slap my desk with vigor, when I just achieved something (generally small) on the task I am intently working at. Then I look around somewhat abashed, but I can't share it with too many people because it will be hard to explain my accomplishment to them. That is true joy. I think that's what the article is talking about.
Where does one draw the line on what is and is not Propaganda? I can't say that this page would help sway me one way or the other. It is however more than just an informational page. Lets keep .gov domains based in the least bias we can. I'd hate to see different government agencies and offices starting to spew their own version of this in a battle for public opinion.
you do realize you are posting news right? on Hacker NEWS
Sensationalism on Hacker News?
> for workloads that are processing multi-gigabytes rather than terabyte+ scale, a big-memory server may well provide better performance per dollar than a cluster.

Does the "performance per dollar" take into account the devastating damage that a single, very powerful server would cause if it ever went down?

With 1 server that can process terabytes of data, you're either processing terabytes of data or zero bytes of data. Redundancy would be difficult to achieve, not only because the hardware is expensive, but also because your software was designed to work best on a single server.

With 1000 servers that can process gigabytes of data each, you're always processing terabytes of data even if a few servers go down from time to time. Redundancy is already built in.

If you put all your hard drives in RAID 10, you need twice the hard drives as your storage needs. If you put them all in RAID 5/6 instead, you only fewer hard drives but you'll get a similar level of overall reliability. With hard drives, of course, there would be a significant difference in performance. With CPU cores, on the other hand, the difference would be smaller.
The author is Stewart Brand of WELL fame. Cool to see the exact moment video games came to be.
News programming should be pronounced noise. It's mostly gossip and tragedy and crap. We stopped watching it years ago.

My parents watch the news and talk about "staying informed" and "keeping up" with things. What exactly is newsworthy? You need to know about that apartment complex that caught fire or the shootout between drug dealers?
I am curious how an advocate of Keysian economics is a fellow at an institution that heralds itself as being "...dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace."
According to that link, the incoming freshman class is 64.2% Asian, not the school as a whole. It does state that they're a majority but doesn't say by how much.
We can't see your app.
That is what great minds of business say about pivoting, especially in the early stage of business. Google didn't get into the ad selling business until they aquired AdSense. Now if I only can pivot some of my own ventures...
For list comprehensions, it's the same syntax, but in ()s rather than []s. A generator will be lazily evaluated (so until something tries to get a value out, nothing is computed) and can only be iterated through once. That's pretty much the only differences in that case.

There's more complex generator stuff you can do (ie. using the ``yield`` syntax inside functions), but unfortunately I don't know a good resource for that off the top of my head :).
There are some serious offenders who take the low and quick road when it comes to journalism but I have seen a swing of sorts in higher quality journalistic standards. While Fox News is considered the epitome of everything wrong with biased news, there are lot of smaller shows and websites that have a higher standard. Here in Australia while we have the likes of news.com.au (a joke and a half) we have other online news outlets in the form of Crikey! and the philanthropically funded long-form journalism website The Global Mail who put effort into their articles and don't misconstrue the facts to get more Facebook shares and readers.

Not all news is bad news. I see the likes of Facebook and Twitter are forms of news, both have their fair share of gossip and junk, but also have their share of information that we need to know; massacres, accidents, bank robberies and slaughter of innocents in countries that try and control their people and shield their actions from the rest of the world. Choose your news carefully, don't believe everything you read and always look further into things (there is more than meets the eye).
> Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way.

I couldn't help but think that he was scamming the reader just as he scams everyone else in the story.

By the end, when sitting down to actually ingest literature, it sounded like the story of redemption is something that The Atlantic would publish so he made redemption part of the story. It wasn't clear that the tiger changed his stripes at all.

Of course, the fact that I made it to the end tells you: I fell for it hook, line and sinker, and I'm just as bad as the rest of the suckers in his story.
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It isn't informative. A giant banner with the words "NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE. LET'S MAKE OUR CALL FOR ACTION SO LOUD IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE" is a demand, not information. It's stifling the ability of people to think for themselves politically, and attempting to sway people into thinking what the government thinks. There's emotional bait there too, for Pete's sake.
The fact it's not neutral is probably why I'm coming back to it. I don't really keep track of general news, because they are very boring, and highly irreverent. (The only side I'm exposed about news is that people around me going nuts over what they heard in the news.)

What comes up on HN to me, is more entertaining, and somewhat more relevant (I do run across the things once in a while that I could apply to what I do at my work.)
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We used Akamai, Cloudfront, and Level3 in various combinations.
Henry David Thoreau: All news is gossip
http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/henry-david-
thoreau-all-news-is-gossip/
No, just some of the medium-lifetime data.
One of my "new year resolution" this year was to block news sites on my /etc/hosts.

Almost 5 months in and I'm not going back. The next step is blocking reddit.
You can start by not having meals alone. It may sound silly, but having meals in a group is a great way to form stronger bonds.
>>novels I'd ever cracked were Moby-Dick and Frankenstein—both sold to me by a crafty high school teacher as gripping tales of adventure, which they weren't.

Oh, I wish you hadn't said that, you unclean cad! Other than that, this article was a work of art. Thanks for the link, mitmads.
According to dictionary it is: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/conservative
"1. favouring the preservation of established customs, values, etc., and opposing innovation"

It would make sense that someone who thinks of their finances conservatively wouldn't go for all or nothing bet on a start-up. One can make a lot of money in financial companies climbing up corporate ladder, it would strike me as a more conservative approach to building a fortune.
it's not what the government thinks.. it's what the whitehouse thinks. there's actually this whole other political party that thinks the exact opposite..

it's kinda lame to see this article posted to hackernews really though..
Ah, I see. I haven't watched it yet.
The part that isn't arbitrary is that monads are endofunctors, meaning they must go from a category to itself. That means that the domain and codomain are the same, which means that you must be able to wrap already-wrapped values. There's no way around that.
He says he was more positive? Well, he was more positive than the other reactions, that is true... You can read the emails for yourself.
I remember reading (can't recall the source right now) that a study conducted over multiple newspapers over a period of time revealed that 95% of news carry a negative tone.
Add this to the fact that most news channels focus on trivia more than important issues and I have a perfect reason to not dive into news.
I still sneak a peek at any interesting story that shows up on my twitter stream though.
Found this interview with the main points about the book:

http://vimeo.com/25367464

Good ideas here.
For reference, Amazon's revenues in 2012 for the entirety of its business was $51BB.

http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/revenues

Too bad we'll never know AWS's margins. It'd be a lot of fun to look at the numbers for Amazon's product portfolio.
That part is a a little more nebulous. When deploying the entire full stack of all applications is automated, rolling a new environment is very simple. So, for instance, if I wanted to load test a specific end point in our API, I would just build a new instantiation of the API and test against that in a protected and isolated environment.

So in reality, it might be 2 staging environments and 12 testing. There was no real set number of environments.
I also work for the company that produces Numba. We do have an issue tracker for Numba, if you're having problems then it might help to post your code. https://github.com/numba/numba/issues
Exactly. This article doesn't make much sense unless you read it carefully enough to understand that "news" has a very specific and limited definition in this context.

Indeed, when it described the damage done by news, it notes an inability to grasp the kinds of deep, large, and truly world-changing stories that are happening all around us, and which the shallow, fragmented, and sensationalistic sugar hits of "news" can never convey.

Generally, following these larger, deeper stories (to say nothing of participating in them) requires both a measure of focused interest, and pre-existing knowledge. A lot of the news on HN fits into this category. This is very different from the parade of horribles that is found on FOX News, CNN, in USAToday, etc.
Each block also awards the miner a variable fee for every transaction included in that block, so there will always be an incentive to mine: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#If_no_more_coins_are_going_to...
I think this article nails a lot of key points, and it is really spot on. The sad thing is not many people are going to read it because it is a lot of true words.

I don't think the economic culture of the US bred global business, though. I think the trivialization of the distance did. Glottalization meant that it would be much cheaper for a US based company to enter a fledgling market (say, McDonalds) and reestablish themselves as the market force in that area, since it has a much cheaper barrier to entry than building an entire enterprise from the ground up. The economies of scale grow faster as you approach ludicrously global scale, because you can really streamline all aspects of your business.

There isn't really a correlation with global business and competition, either - I'd say global business is only possible when corruption enables rent seeking business (which has no competition and is rigged to the market dominator) OR when there is real competition, and the global business is so successful because of the economies of scale and significantly lower market entry barriers to new regions than a brand new business.

So you could have either. We have, sadly, a lot of the first, but the second can happen to.

And global business (with competition) is good. It means the competition and economies of scale drive profits to zero, and maximize the benefit to the consumer.

The problem with global business is that when our markets and economics are global but our politics and emotions are local, those super companies have significantly more influence than a tiny group of people in an isolated pocket economy artificially cut off by an imaginary line on a map. The global business that truly connect the world extract their clout from the entirety of the species, while a countries politics gets its validation from its people.

And no country has a population, GDP, productivity, or workforce, competitive with the global one. Of course they will be corrupted by global business. Their resources are much more limited and restricted, because our politics and cultures are outdated in the face of a modern economy.

But this is just one piece of a giant puzzle. Individually, the problems are obvious, stupid, an simple, and often the work of the greedy and corrupt rent seekers. But there are millennias worth of built up greed to lead us to where we are today with the rigged system we work with, and the individual parts complement each other and support one another to maintain the whole broken game. The problem isn't fixing one part, it is figuring out how to remove the tumors before they kill the host, and there are millions of small tumors that add up to a large cancer. And as you chip at the fringes of one, the rest keep on poisoning the system, and they all have to be somehow dealt with.
I love the fact that a newspaper can still publish this without fear of losing viewers. It's like eating at a restaurant that everyone qualifies for dog food but... well...we go anyway :)
In general, it's amazing to see the difference that slight "UI" improvements like this can make. For instance, the Cambridge crosswalk signals count down the time left to finish crossing. This may seem like a trivial nicety, but just across the river I feel like I'm rolling the dice every time I step into an intersection where I didn't specifically see the walk symbol come on. Will the light turn green while I'm in front of traffic? Or will I be doing a goofy half-run only to find out I had another minute or two to cross leisurely?

First world problems, I know.
> the SBCL code submitted there could hardly be called idiomatic Common Lisp

That's the point of Common Lisp: It gives you enough rope. Some people use it to hang themselves, others use it to selectively optimize the parts that need it, still others use it to optimize the whole thing.
Actually "holistic" admissions means "we're not going to be irrationally obsessed with SAT scores".

Basically if SAT is your sole criterion then you become Caltech. Caltech is a great school but there are other human phenotypes that would like to go to college and other universities to accommodate them.
I think the best counter to the faff in this article is simply: Talk to someone who watches the news. Then talk to someone who doesn't. Even if nothing else, watching the news is at least indicative of an interest in the world beyond arms'-length.

Besides, there's a world of difference between "read the news being aware that the news-maker has an agenda" and "ignore the news entirely".
Fair episode, though by the evidence of my submission, I anticipated the show would be more about that stuff.
A 'refactoring' is a change that doesn't change behavior, so the word is a red herring in this context, shedding more heat than light. Redesigns can be valuable, but let's call a spade a spade.
> Since you can make new wallets at any time to spend from, the key is paying your btc into a wallet that others are paying into, and then extracting multiple different amounts to new, different wallets (and then using those for spending).

1mdc was a similar service to this that I used as did many others about 10 years ago for the purpose of obfuscating and anonymizing e-gold transactions between various accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1mdc

One interesting comment from the wiki page:
"1mdc's e-gold was held in unallocated (pooled) storage (in several e-gold user accounts) which allowed for extra privacy from e-gold's administrators. However, this increased storage risk, as the client had no precedence on the e-gold they entrusted 1mdc to hold, and there was virtually no way for a user to ensure that 1mdc is maintaining full reserves of their e-gold."
so, you said, I should give up Hacker News?
Predicting tech more than 2-3 years out is like predicting the weather 10 days out.
Yes, here are someone's presentation slides on it. According to the slides, the cutoff in Ruby 2.0 is 6 elements.

http://lanyrd.com/2012/goruco/swfqq/
http://sharejs.org/ is in use for a number of production sites, and we've had users report that it is quite reliable. How would you like to see it further generalized?
"I don't know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie" is not the same as "stop consuming the news altogether, it's bad for you". It's a horribly fallacious argument.
That's not what it says at all. What it says is that there are really big, deep, important, and world-changing stories happening all around us, but you won't get them from what passes for news. What you will get is a fragmentary sugar-high that actually damages your ability to grasp more meaningful accounts of the world. That is to say, the kind of news this story refers to (and which the Guardian sees itself as being above) will make you ignorant. Moreover, that ignorance is characterizes by anxiety and aggression. In other words, the opposite of bliss.
A) That's a bit nuanced and depends on the application you are referring to (there are ~200 represented here), but if you had the scripts and the repos and built from a vanilla AMI, a box would boot and configure within a few minutes. We shortened the boot times greatly by using puppet to configure a template node which we then used to create a generic versioned AMI per autoscale environment and deployed with Asgard. If you had the AMIs, an EBS backed instance would boot and serve traffic in anywhere between 15 and 30 seconds or so.

B) For costs, you can check the FEC filings... I cannot recall what they were month to month, but it will be accurately reflected quarterly there, so you can get a rough estimate. It was like a kabillion times more in October 2012 than it was in June 2011. The important part for us is that the costs scaled with our demand.
Now it's a monad how? What category is it a monad on, and in what way does it satisfy the monad laws? Are you really saying that sometimes $() is return and other times it's id, and presto magico it's a monad?
There are two problems in your argument.

1. Mainstream US economics and politics is dominated by varying degrees of Keynesianism or Neo-Keynesiansm. Even the Republican mainstream (not talking about Ron Paul / libertarians, I'm talking about Mitt Romney).

2. Republicans are very supportive of measures that increase national security. If Bitcoin ever becomes widely used by terrorist organizations to shuttle money or other criminal organizations (as it appears to be used on a smaller scale already), then some Republicans would turn against it.

Combine this with the fact that the White House and Senate are controlled by Democrats, and you could very well see government action against Bitcoin.
If I had named it golfclap maybe you would understand. Thanks for being a dick.
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