skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Westerners seem to get majorly hung up on the "China copying" meme and miss the bigger picture--China is incredibly focused on technology and there are huge sums of money and a strong cultural impetus for home-grown innovation. As an analogy, China is at the stage where they have learned the major rules for a programming language, and are now copying and pasting advanced code from stackexchange or other places.

Let's not forget historical context either: Japan and S.Korea were once known as knockoff central, and now produce extremely advanced products in their own right.
The other key factor is, is there interesting property available for rent when and where you need it. I'm currently looking for a bigger place for me and my family and the overlap between property available for rent and property I'd consider living in is pretty close to zero. So as such the relative financial merits of the two options are pretty much irrelevant.
contact me "o at tomodo.com"
Especially the NYT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5755627
Annnnnddd .... it's down.
Oh yes they will. And no, they won't like it at all.

The more they try to stop bitcoin, the more it will succeed. Why? Because of the network effect it is built upon. The more people hear about it, the stronger it gets.

If the US tries to block bitcoin. Opponents such as Russia and China will do the opposite. Why? Because the US will shoot itself in the foot. They will automatically lock themselves out of a rapidly growing economy currently worth $1.5BN.

US Government, take note of a simple fact: Tax evasion existed before bitcoin, and it will continue to exist regardless of if you accept bitcoin.

To the people. The more the government takes note of bitcoin, the more you should. They are worried because at last, they cannot control YOUR hard earned money or dilute it. Let me remind you about how much the fed has devalued the US dollar since the financial crisis... trillions.
Still working for me
Good Decisions. Bad Outcomes.
That's really cool!!!
Of course they don't, why should they?!

malloc/free are part of the C language runtime, not OS syscalls.

A compiler writer can build the memory allocator on top of what the OS provides as syscalls or take a shortcut and use the C runtime library instead while adding a dependency to it.

I never mentioned malloc/free were syscalls.
Fair enough. The golden era of their mouseover dictionary was ~2000.
Very cool! webRTC has so much potential, and it will open the P2P world for chrome OS.
World of difference.

Physics, biology, and economics all framed certain problems centuries ago. Physics and biology have answered the questions as framed, and subsequent framings have superseded them at regular intervals.

Economists have had much more limited success. Most of the research questions of the 1930s still have no consensus today. The same can't be said of successful, non-pathological sciences.
Make The World Awesome.
Brilliant advice combined with the clarity of a child. How does it get any better?
Here's a cool picture showing the layers of a star before collapse http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Evolved_s...
The issue is as you would guess a strategic one.

If he had answered the question definitively and been correct it wouldn't have aided his case, as it would have only reaffirmed what already was his case. If however for any reason he got it wrong, he would be fired and probably never work again. People's brains aren't that reliable. I know the difference between the tablets and I wouldn't stake my whole career on which was which if I was put on the spot. It's just not smart.
Please do not use this very average technology in production :-(
Keep it for demos, proof of concepts, admin back offices, that's where it shines.

You can tell the authors are more on the designer side when you look at the quality of the JS components...
> Westerners seem to get majorly hung up on the "China copying" meme

Huh? Nytimes seem to be hung up, yes. 'Westerners' seems to have slipped out.
I'll take that as a "yes" ;)

AFAIK, neither signatures or "something you have, know" alone fixes replay attacks. Since this is a well known problem in cryptography, many solutions exists. All of which are probably overkill for this use.
> Mostly everything from Flipkart (and for that matter, it appears, from Amazon) can be bought cash-on-delivery.

I know most of the things can be bough cash-on-delivery. I was responding to "high priced items viz. laptops" can't be bought cash-on-delivery.
I had bought Rashmi Bansal's book when it was released. I am not sure how high it was priced at the time but I guess it was not more than 125 or so. It was a well priced book. I think she had reduced the middleman's[0] commission to a great extent.

Funny thing about that book, you can buy it legitimately at ~90 and even street vendors(pirated copy sellers) usually sell it at 50+ and people still buy :-)
I think they never got that taste of that feeling when you read a book, hold it your hand, travel with it and then over the time appreciate the crease on it and dream passing it over to your bloodline hoping they would love reading books.

Anyway, I still feel bad having to pirate any book or film or songs. Very bad. Though my next statement is technically incorrect but there are times I can't avoid pirating a book.

I have reduced my music piracy. I've reduced/ the number of songs I listen to around ~ 7GB (almost all of them 320kbps or 8-20 MB on an average). Out of them around 4GB I've purchased and to be honest a lot of them is from Flipkart's 10 day freebie bonanza, but I've purchased from other sources a lot and I must say that A 7-9 Rupee DRM free song is a deal sweeter than saccharine so I like a song and I buy it. I can even go a lot more if the cost goes directly to the artist or most and I do it. Like Indian Ocean's music. I hope in a few months I'll not have any pirated song on my pc or phone. I use Spotify so that also covers a lot.

I've not have any good and affordable[1] alternative for fils. I hope sth like Netflix/Hulu comes up in India or even a good DVD/BRay rental online shop which offers quality with a price. The ones we have don't have many worthwhile films int heir inventory.

Yes, you are right - pricing does affect privacy, in a positive way to check it. However there are people who would just pirate! Piracy is imprinted on their minds and they never bothered to check whether it's a necessity and or is there a mid-way like a friend who stopped using WhatsApp the day his 1 yr trial was over, he just had to pay INR 55 for another year. Though I should have been this judgemental, still active in piracy myself.

[0] Publisher, distributor, agent etc

[1] Again, this is my point of view and someone else can just say I can buy the movies at INR 500 a dvd and this is just an excuse to pirate.
So are china:

BYD, Baidu, QQ, Weibo, PPS

Some of those products have no equivalent in the West, namely BYD and PPS.

Others are significantly different to our equivalents (Google/Baidu, BYD/Tesla(?), Weibo/(Twitter/Facebook))...
Which doesn't work in Chrome. heh
Exim (SMTP) & Dovecot (IMAP/POP) work well together. Run them locally first to get comfortable since it sounds like you're a bit new to this. Read the docs and don't hesitate to search and post over at Serverfault ( http://serverfault.com/ ).
I may be totally off... But sound like you were trying to use several features in fogbugz just because they were there... And then liked best the one that did not give you so much hope for you to hang yourself
Here's another explanation, which I think is much better.

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2008/09/16/farmers-almana...
Just from reading the comments here you can get an idea it's more than the NY Times, the assumption of westerners is an assumption, but do you seriously think it's a bad one?
Except they can't seem to emulate Chrome where it counts: The snappy page loads and heavy heavy caching. Regardless of benchmarks, Chrome is noticeably faster loading existing and new pages for me. Everyone else I know has the same perception.
Ask HN: Whats a reliable free/cheap DNS host?
We'd like to switch to an external DNS provider to avoid having issues when moving web hosts. Unless there's a better way that I didn't think off, I want to know if others had experiences with any free/cheap DNS hosts.
Very nice one guys, good luck!
Not on Windows :/
OP has mentioned that 'search' is not a noun and hence can't be modeled as a resource.
First of all, 'search' can be used as a noun in the sense of quest/query - 'His search for the Holy Grail was fruitful.'
Secondly, we happen to have a multi-model search in our application and we treat it as a resource. This has worked out very well for us and our users can easily craft search queries just like for the rest of the RESTful resources.
At $11,125 per student in total funding (not counting $359 food services fund) I wouldn't call our local schools cash-strapped. They do call themselves cash strapped though.
> the rest of the new UI is fine.
The seemingly inexorable chrome-ification is just wrong.

I didn't see it in the linked article, but what happens when I do Alt-V, z, r in the new UI (to pick one at random) to reset the zoom level? Will the rest of my memorized shortcuts cease working?
The real battle is between native and cloud apps.
The URL without the #comments is better:

http://99u.com/articles/6947/what-happened-to-downtime-the-e...
I tried to find ads in Amazon... And found none. I get nothing. Only the "(not)similar products on other websites" which is a total miss most of the time. I doubt this is what the article is referring.
For dns hosting/registration/ssl certs I've found dnsimple to be quite good.

If you just want dns hosting (no registration or ssl certs) zonomi is quite good, and has a free level
Tried this out on Firefox 23 (Aurora)... it printed a long string of silly error messages ("Making more coffee..." "wow you chose a BIG file!") without actually doing anything, then froze the browser. After restarting, on the second try Firefox crashed. Anyone else having trouble?
You probably never bought anything out of an banner, and that's what the article is taking about.
Here's a working web demo of the new interface https://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-desig...
This is something that I would very much like to see. Personally, I'm a bit of a fanatic about fine-tuning every small detail of a project but I always start with designing the architecture. I feel that it would be of great benefit to use something as you describe to generate the connecting architecture and, as necessary, it can be fine-tuned from there. I have little doubt that it would enhance existing rapid application development.
It's implemented using the new WebRTC DataChannels API. Probably the most promising and interesting API in HTML5
Both look like LG Prada knock offs to me.
Sharefest works with WebRTC - dataChannels, currently there isn't interoperability of this api between Chrome and Firefox. This swarm was created with a chrome browser so firefox leechers can't join the swarm (yet).
How long till we can have an OT PaaS?

I love OT RT editing, but want to use it for small parts of my products and don't want the hassle of setting up servers.

If you're looking for your next idea; please, take that and run with it :)
Don't get me wrong I love English people!

Well, I have no scientific evidence to back up my claims (deadly sin, I know...) it's mostly the personal experience of my friends who lived in multiple countries, which closely matched this documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4R84xfLOQ
I want to think I failed from the moment I have the idea to starting something. I failed so I have nothing to lose but I want to believe I can revert that by making the stuff and finishing it.
And one of the biggest attack surfaces to come along in browsers in quite a while. (Immature DTLS implementations! SCTP stack in userland! Woooooooo!)
Freemium model is setup so that it drives unsucessful companies to abuse their users for more data or in the case of microtransactions it leads to them employing psychological tricks to get the "whales" to spend more and more while the long tail continues to enjoy the service for free..

A startup founder is the owner (part or full) and is not a regular salaried employee. Hardly a counterexample...
It's not really in the interests of the ruling class to build genuine solidarity and shared values. Divide and rule.
I like it and use it to send my clients files and movies working fast and good!
Lessons of Steve Jobs
Daido Holdings Group - Baidu Says Profits Up.
You can't consistently manufacture one-hit-wonders.

You don't need to consistently manufacture one-hit-wonders, just enough to make up for the losers. A lot of businesses are like this. Investing in startups, producing movies, etc, etc. And there are stars in each industry that do seem to magically consistently manufacture one-hit-wonders.
Yes, there is room for disagreement. I accept your point.
Do a search for the word "sponsored" on most any pages. There are almost always sponsored links and sometimes sponsored products as well.
Will this work for Chrome on Android?

Would love to see what this could be when you add a rasberry pi connected to a 3TB external hard drive... Your own personal Amazon Glacier?
I have three tabs open, all of which begin with the title of the site. How do I distinguish which is which?
Apparently Fujimoto really liked sushi. Combine that with the fact that living in Japan, you're going to be able to eat sushi at some point in your life, it was only a matter of time until he found out he really liked sushi and wanted to become a sushi-chef. For all we know, there had been several "close calls" before this one, his parents maybe wanting to celebrate a special occasion with sushi, but then changing their minds. If his friend hadn't treated them, he would've probably had other opportunities to taste sushi and find out the same thing.
I experimented with AppyFridays in April on Mac App Store (free for a weekend) and the app got spot n.1 in its category in US, Italy, France, etc and made it definitely in the first 10 worldwide (Music category app, got ~10K downloads per day), bouncing back (slowly) to the normal (5$) price made the downloads return to the "a few per day" it was before (may be slightly more).

On the plus side, the promo was free (i.e.: no additional money to be part of it) and they had no requests for revenue sharing or the like.

Just a data point, I think that the app in itself plays a role... gaming and iOS are probably a better market for this kind of promo. (and, yes, app discovery is a serious problem).
Show HN: git pause
http://www.dnspark.net

Cheap and very reliable, used them for years.
That's called client side window drawing and GTK has it. Needed for Wayland. Maybe good to investigate a little bit before saying things that aren't true.
WTF, only books and movies on the first day, Who wants to buy these.
Imitating Chrome, of course.
Well, they did develop things like game theory and information theory in those 80 years. They also went beyond Keynes (the serious ones).

The problem is that you can't make n experiments in economics to study a phenomenon, so many less bright (to use a kind word) economists get along with opinions and this damages the credibility of all.

But politicians know, today they have powerful tools to analyse their country economy. However, one thing is to know what's to be done, another things is convincing your voters, world of difference.
Probably is cultural. As a spaniard, my guess can be that people love gossip but the amazing thing is, every tv show and many ad agencies use twitter hashtags for their promotions. This didn't happened me at Berlin, for example, but maybe I'm wrong and it's just something cultural.
And no real binary protocol and browser interoperability as well. But good folks at Google and Mozilla are working on it...
I'm sure we thought the same about Alta Vista and Yahoo. :/
It actually already works for Chrome on Android (you have to turn the webrtc flag on)
BUT there's a bug in chrome for android when downloading a download tag with href that links to a blob url. hopefully they'll fix it soon enough
Wouldn't they have to pay a penalty for the ones they've already sold?
I'm not entirely sure how that relates to the grandparent's comment about treating children like adults. ;)
I wish I was as optimistic as you: I still find the Canadian store to be pretty pathetic.
Yes

the pitch for iUnplug is ironic.

No, you don't unplug by installing another app, you unplug by keeping away from the darn thing
The reason why X Windows was so much more popular than Mac OS X or MS Windows was because it was so configurable, right?

As a matter of good design, configuration options should be used very sparingly. Yes they diversify the UX, but they also diversify the UX! Some decisions just have to be "made," like losing the title bar.

> you will cross a border for another part of your customers and then somebody will come up with something new just because you forced us and then you'll lose customers.

If the overall design is good, the customers loss are negligible vs. the customers gained. No one bothers chasing the miniscule emacs market.
It seems to me that the real problem is the habit of always "doing" something we're in, making any wasted time when we could be doing something but aren't feel bad and anxiety producing.

When I'm on a long train ride in a third world country for a half a day or more with no Internet access and no ability to do work (or surf the web, for that matter), this feeling of urgency disappears and I feel at peace. When I try to meditate early in the morning for 20 minutes back at home though, it takes a lot longer than it should to clear my mind of urgent desires to "check" on things and make sure nothing's blowing up at the office and get cracking on the day's agenda.
> My understanding is that AC/DC conversion is lossy

We don't need to do this all that often, and the flywheel is lossy too. And you can get 96% efficient power supplies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_PLUS

Plus you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_converter and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-generator which are basically the same thing, minus the energy storage part.

> A lot of products already on the market have 20 years lifespans quoted, eg. Socomec FLYWHEEL, Vycon.

This could be new - I haven't been following this recently.

> Sources?

When people first started focusing on automobile energy efficiency flywheels were the thing. They eventually gave up and switched to hybrids, and/or batteries.

Note the date: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/22/business/flywheels-to-powe...

I don't really have any links from stories from years ago, but this one is high profile and recent:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/9/feds-call-ban...

The stores would have a pattern: Some young new company proudly showing off its new technology to the fawning journalist - and then that would be the last you would ever hear of them. (Someone once told me to put their names in a google news alert then forget about it - most of the alerts would never trigger a second time.)
Sailing Hydrofoils and the Fold Catastrophe
Java vs C++ performance
WOW! Now this is amazing!

I really hope this get standardized and adapted to mobile browsers (like safari and android's browser)...at least the receiving end.
It's not impossible at all, you just need page styles. Could it come with more document templates? Probably. But it's not impossible in the slightest.
Wordnik's swagger comes to mind

https://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/

We just launched our own api ( handwritten with bootstrap,css )

check it out at http://appetite.io/docs

~B
Not all of them disappeared:

http://afstrinity.com/

It looks like they pivoted to other storage systems and are now finding their way back to flywheels.
I think very highly of WebRTC as a platform for a range of cool new innovations, but it is wrong to give it the status of supporting P2P network models.

WebRTC is inherently dependant on centralised servers.

Unlike in traditional P2P, where there is simply the problem of bootstrapping the node (getting some initial connections into the network), in WebRTC this style of doing things is barely supported.

Instead you need to exchange RTCSessionDescription's (SDP blobs) through a createAnswer/Reply API, which is doesn't facilitate your typical 'connect to a node by their IP'. These session descriptions need be tweaked according to who is connecting and what parameters, so it also doesn't allow for a node to forward another nodes details (to form an overlay).

I've been researching the process of building a true P2P application on top of web technologies, but sadly and frustratingly this is stumping my progress. The only solution would be to expose a more 'raw' connection API by creating an RTCSessionDescription based on IP addresses. It's possible to hack together a solution whereby you tweak the data in the SDP blob (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Description_Protocol), but this is too cumbersome.
Can any one who's looked at event sourcing comment on the relationship between ES (which is basically a fold over a sequence of events onto a state object) and OT. Superficially it would seem that they are very similar, with OT perhaps being a way to combine the events before applying them to the state.

The reason I ask is that I'm thinking of the feasibility of modelling a disconnected client that continues working from some state. Could you think of this as collecting its list of edits and then applying them on top of the state of the world when that client re-connects (sort of like a git rebase)?
they cannot control YOUR hard earned money or dilute it

If that's your worry, how are bitcoins different or better than investing gold, oil, Euros, Swiss Francs or any of the other myriad of options available to you that cannot be diluted by the US fed?
> The Earth also rotates on its axis. And with the speeds and energies with which grid storage flywheels operate, that's a significant engineering concern.

You can align the angle of the flywheel to match the angle of the earth at your latitude, which helps with that. However if you do that the flywheel is titled, so the bearings are uneven, and then you need some shielding above the flywheel - you can't just have the earth be the walls.

But it means that the bearings experience much less force, so it can be worth it.
Diary: Cleo misses Hakeem?
why is Poland not allowed in? damn racists
Moz api + Bing api = SeoSherlock Beta
The hard part is the conflict resolution. CRaaS FTW.
Just got back from Quadra Island (British Columbia) after four days of no cell service and patchy wifi at best -- got a significant amount of thinking done... made me realize I really only get 2 to 3 hours of actual work done in the average day due to email, chat, and in-person interruptions... thinking working at the coffee shop next door to the office could result in significantly higher productivity... worth an experimental attempt anyway, right?
Check out Gemini from Countersoft: http://www.countersoft.com - something a little different from the norm
They are one of the early ones: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/22/business/flywheels-to-powe...

But it's been 20 years and no flywheels ever made it to market.
I think we should have a commenting practice here on HN to disclose financial interest in a given story. Any time I read a comment like this I cannot help but wonder if the author is truly convinced of what he is writing or just holds some stock/bitcoin/whatever and is operating on the greater fool theory. Another example that comes to mind is Tesla.
I wonder if in some deep recess of Mozilla people are giving serious thought to re-skinning Chrome like Opera have done.
Yeah, back in the old days everyone had that kind of compiler development experience, didn't they?