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San Francisco median home hits $1 million
Oh man, the Atari 5200. I'd almost forgotten. We didn't have a 2600 but my folks got duped into the 5200 being 'the next big thing'. I guess I should be grateful, without that failure my folks wouldn't of had a reason to buy the Commodore 64 later on which not only had games but also could be used for a lot more.

Also, when talking about E.T. and the landfill you are obliged to link to the music video made by an indie band about the fiasco[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt_3_bQVJU
a good idea. for now, i left everything metric, but have thought about dropping in the units.
Are you using a CRT monitor?

I can't even tell the difference between 120Hz and 60Hz on a monitor, simply because the display doesn't flicker.

If you're using your monitor for gaming, well, that's a different story.
What exactly does this have to do with the matter at hand? What did you choose this particular thread to make a point about Cody? Cody was contributing his insight about vulnerability markets, which is something he knows a little about (unlike most thread participants). You seem to have chosen it to make a political point at his expense. That's not neighborly and it's not germane to the issue at hand.

With your response you make the problem even worse, by pointing out other people who made decisions that you, Chris Soghoian, don't approve of but who you "at least respect".

I also think it's a little laughable to suggest that Cody in any way enabled the USG to break into hotel rooms, as if that was a capability they were just champing at the bit to buy from someone like Cody rather than something they've been able to trivially accomplish for the last 200 years.

I've worked with Cody in the past, consider him a friend (despite his different stance on vulnerability market), and have a problem with comments that chime in on threads for the sole purpose of trying to take him down a peg.
Ehh, IE5:Mac may have been better than IE5:Win, and yes, its CSS and PNG support were ahead of its time, but it was still IE5.

IE5:Mac didn't have support for a lot of things IE6 had that we now consider standard, like :hover for links, for..in, Array.prototype.splice, XmlHttpRequest, contentEditable...
Odd that this article popped up on Yahoo today:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/futuristic-high-spe...

"A company called ET3 has plans in the works for the Evacuated Tube Transport, a high-speed transportation tube that uses magnetic levitation."
This has inspired my thought for a startup idea: downstop.com.

It's the opposite of Upstart https://www.upstart.com - where people can go can short the future prospects of people such as yourself.
Advocating what amounts to rape and torture just because we don't break it into its components (it's tacitly accepted, after all) is utterly abhorrent and deserves every step closer to invisible that it's getting.
Oh, that might be useful. Although, most test frameworks at this point have mechanisms for pretty easily load data, but it'd be interesting to figure out if any corners could be conveniently cut with this.
America, It's Time to Start Making Things Again
How about all the innocent people who end up in prison? A small fraction of those people are exonerated. Imagine if you were sent to prison because of the color of your skin, you were falsely accused, or just because of plain corruption? Scrapcode, you better pray that you don't ever end up like one of those unfortunate people. Our justice system is broken and far from being able to be fixed. Justice is a joke, and so far it is truly blind....
If you are going to level an accusation like 'the majority of Americans think prisoner-on-prisoner rape is a-ok', then the burden of proof is on you.

I won't even say that nobody thinks that way, I just want proof that this is the prevailing mindset.
For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
Same thing here: I learned some Spanish in high school, then studied Mandarin later. Now whenever I try to say things in Spanish, Mandarin comes out. It's like it took over the "foreign language" spot in my brain.

I was never really fluent in either of them, though, just barely proficient. I wonder if I had gotten to a higher level in Spanish, would it have been harder to unseat.
Interesting note: Goldman Sachs donated $377m in cash last year. At $2,500 per life saved, that's 150,000 live saved per year.
I'm not talking about GUIs. I mean in text editors and at the Terminal.
that's a really interesting concept

you could probably do it today without the use of a private account

i believe in app settings, you can restrict the visibility of posts by any particular app. this way, your scale's posts could be seen by just you and not your friends.
I think genwin's point is that we humans behave very stupidly whenever we find an innovation that allows for exponentially more of anything. We behave as if that massive growth will continue forever, and it never does, and usually leads to a crash worse than the solution. So if a new invention allows us to feed all 7 billion of us comfortably, instead of just feeding 7 billion of us comfortably we'll instead create 10 billion, 20 billion, 100 billion of us, up to whatever point the innovation no longer feeds us all comfortably, and then it crashes, and then instead of a billion people dying off we now have 90 billion people dying off. Where I think genwin is wrong is in blaming culture or religion. Instead I think we're just stupid that way.
Here's one listing of some local startups who are hiring:

http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/job+board/1604...

Also, there is a "Tech Jobs Under The Big Top" job fair that is held periodically at the American Underground in Durham, where startups pitch prospects to come work for them. There was just one in April, not sure when the next one is. But check http://bigtop.it for more info.
This is so stupid.. so instead of working to make the world a better place let's speculate on everything, trying to rip of as much as we can so then we can give our money away. It's like working as a lumberjack and then use your wages to plant other trees, you will never be able to replant what you destroyed previously
On the subject of prison harshness I don't think holding up Japan as a model of care and compassion is a good idea (link is old but not much has changed, I hear).

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/08/world/prisons-in-japan-are...
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Hence the "I imagine". I am allowed conjecture as I wish.
I just wrote a post about MoarVM, too: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/a-vm-for-6model . Slightly more slanted towards how this fits into the evolution of Perl 6 implementations.
KGTP is a flexible , lightweight and realtime Linux debugger and tracer
We encourage the videos to be public so:

1) The knowledge is opensourced
2) The experts can build their online presence and prove their knowledge
I suspect Joe is referring to the fact that when you desugar "do notation" you arrive at basically a lot of function composition:

do x <- f
y <- g
return $ h (x + y)

becomes

f >>= (\x -> g >>= (\y -> return (h (x+y))))

I don't think Joe does a lot of Haskell, so I'm not sure his vision of monads matches up with a Haskeller's though. For me, the fact that monadic do-notation desugars this way is less meaningful than that a monad is anything that supplies the functions bind and return with the necessary types. After all, not every block introduced by "do" is an SSA-friendly looking series of assignments leading up to some function call.
Good point. We should ban computers too.
I wonder if there is precident with Three Letter Trademarks, where almost any variation can sound similar. (perhaps this is an argument for a longer brand name that Three letters.)
That is going to be one toxic excavation, I hope they wear the proper protective clothing.
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Soo, people who you disagree with should be stopped from spreading their opinions? Come on, it's not that extreme, he's supporting the status quo. It's not like he's saying that all <minority X> should be killed. For comparison's sake, I once wrote here that "the Israeli government are a bunch of nazis" (and I'm still ashamed of that), and I got fewer downvotes (which doesn't make any sense at all, it was a horrible and worthless thing to write). In fact, people who disagreed with me took on the discussion and I learned a lot. That's what HN should be about.

I really don't understand why supporting the current US prison system is an opinion so dangerous that it must be hidden from sight.

Also, if you would've carefully read his post, you'd have seen that he doesn't advocate rape and torture, but the perception of it. It's a subtle difference, but a significant one.
You got it right entirely.

And to make it plain for everyone to understand the insanity of it: A year in Elementary school is pretty much free in a Public School. It easily costs you $20K in a Private School.
That's for one kid. Tack that on top of your $3K a month rent or mortgage and you quickly see how a six-figure salary does not mean much in this area, for anyone but the single 20-something.

I think it's a bit by design too, as most of the local economy wants young people, with stars and dollar signs in their eyes, who will work 12 hours a day while shacking in groups of 3 in 11x11-foot apartments. LOL
That is exactly what happened in the UK a few days ago and I am talking about domestic terrorists in this case like Boston or Oklahoma City

How do you stop another oklahoma city other than by monitoring far right extremists/ How much info woudl you require to track members of a group?

I agree the standard cops should need a warrent for all access and NSL letters should only be for serious crimes and by that i mean only terrorism or national security ones.

Personally I think the FBI should have been split two one to do the day to day cop stuff and the other to do what in other countries is handled by there security service.
in America where if you are poor you are essentially fcked.

That is not the case in other Developed countries.
This is basically what I was going to say, but more specific. I can't believe they could write such a long article without even mentioning the direct negative impact your job could have on the world. It's still possible working your high-paying job is net improvement over the alternatives, but I don't think this went into enough depth to provide a good argument.
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Another benefit of this approach is that it allows you to save storage space by eliminating the need to create a copy of the JSON data in the DB's own internal format.
At least in my life time and durring my education, mid USA, there seemed to be a considerable amount of emphasis placed on doing good with your own hands, even going to the extent of suggesting that getting a high paying job was morally negative or at least undesirable as an intention.

The article and the sentiment behind it is more about this negative stereotype changing and hopeful disappearing rather then devaluing what is already valuable.
Twitter adds inline profile editing, drag-and-drop photo uploads
I actually made good money while using Win95 back in the WWW 1.0 days.
Well, I think a lot of people end up like that - but then I'd argue they're not really taking any approach (much less a conservative one) to "world-saving". They've switched their goals at that point!
Great, can you please drop me an email (see profile) with some details on what data you're interested in tracking?
I think it's the best of both worlds. If I can have four files open side-by-side and see a reasonable slice of each, I think that's a win.
It depends what roles you're applying for, at early stage startups they're going to want candidates who've direct experience with the tech stack they're using.

More established startups are more likely to take fresh grads.

Feel free to ping me your CV if you want and I'll tell you if there's anything obviously wrong with it.
json_fdw to Citus DB or any other PostgreSQL based distributed database, is like json serde to Hive.

So, I think you should probably compare the json_fdw to json serde, and Citus DB to Hive.
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=ruby+or+python+or+javascript+or...
2013-1983 = 30, you are right.
Take a look at Django-CMS (https://www.django-cms.org/en/) if you are interested in Python.
Thus explaining the lack of military response in the "friendly" countries where those terrorists had been hiding, training, and collecting their money, and the continued military effort elsewhere that is directed at people who were not involved with the attack.
Nice article....Is there a reason for having a separate return within each method? How about returning all of the methods with a single return?
I can totally imagine phone that has two huge metal contacts on sides that get exposed and connected as you shove whole phone into the charger. Such connection could transfer 1kW easily.
I vaguely recall watching a program on tv in which there was an African tribal language composed of clicking sounds and other sounds that were claimed to not be able to he repeated unless learned from birth. I'm not entirely sure of the specifics but I remember it being cited as an "unable" to learn language
> A lot of the activities that take place on Wall Street are fairly harmless.

Most of those harmless activities do not include trading stocks, bonds, derivatives and commodities.

Wall-Street is like a very powerful diesel engine, it generates enormous amounts of power and it generates enormous amounts of pollution. Hard to get the one without the other.
If you live in the future, computers will read your mind and bring that information to you without you having to ask. Google Now is one very early start to this.
> If you wait until the time is right or the conditions are right or you have enough money or time or something else, you will probably never get around to doing good. And even if you do, how much good will not get done while you're on your journey to being able to do good.

Some times this choice is obvious, under feeding myself to feed other would probably reduce the amount of long term good I could do for the world.

Saving my money now so that I can be in a good finical position to take advantage of economic opportunities is not as obvious, but can lead to considerably more good being done.
Ask HN: My first attempt at research 
Hey HN,

I'm an undergrad and I just recently started a position as a research intern, in an area in which I have no experience, let alone expertise.

I've read the related research material, and have been presented with the problem, and I'm unsure about how to proceed. Apart from thinking about how t approach/arrive at a solution to the problem, do you men/women have any advice?

Also, to anyone in a research/research-like position, how do you approach research problems?
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What would have happened had GMO food been introduced with labels in the beginning that indicated that it was GMO, how it was modified, and the benefits?

I wouldn't be surprised if there'd be much less opposition to it. If you're opposed to labeling now, it looks like you're trying to cover something up or sneak something past the public.

I just realized... maybe the problem isn't that the Monsanto PR machine is deceiving everyone about GMO food. Maybe the problem is that Monsanto sucks at PR, bad. They certainly suck at modern PR. The kind of PR-firm tactics that they use to try to explain themselves to the public come off as smarmy and disingenuous to anyone under 40.

Rule #1 of modern PR: if you assume that your audience are idiots, they will realize this instantly and assume that you are a lying sack of you-know-what. I know I can smell a talking-down-to-me PR flack writeup a mile away, and stuff like that makes me feel like I'm eight years old and my gym teacher is telling me this is what people do when they love each other.
Not just that, but C++ has one pointer type. Oh, and if you're building a big app, you will probably use and have to learn about shared_ptr, uniq_ptr... and then you're right back to Rust with more typing and less guarantees.

There are good arguments not to use Rust today, but I think the 'it has four pointers' complaint is a cop-out, personally.
In January their website still had "Marketing Analytics" as the featured item that was coming soon. The poor Doz guy still had no idea what was going on and thought it was different enough. Her warning wasn't very specific and he thought he was in good shape. This is really a bait and switch on him.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130122024159/http://moz.com/
Love Rand or hate her, she was one of the few authors that glorified successful people instead of vilifying them. Objectivist principles may not be perfect, but they are a far healthier base for society than "you didn't build that".
You can and people do turn the GC off in D.
Just use the voting arrow.
Outing the identity of a covert operative to a reporter is not one of those crimes you accidentally commit while making orange juice in the morning.
Is this useful? http://www.esuli.it/software/amazon-reviews-downloader-and-p...
Or perhaps just somebody who came up with the same solid but not particularly earthshattering idea independently.
Cody, on his own blog, described the sale of the vulnerability as follows:

In 2010, we (the startup I was running with friends at the time, UPM) decided to license the opening technology to a locksmithing company for law enforcement purposes.

If it is "laughable to suggest that Cody in any way enabled the USG to break into hotel rooms", then why would he describe the sale as "for law enforcement purposes"?
Not quite. The default transaction fee is 0.0005 BTC per transaction. If the transaction fee you offer is too small, miners won't process it.
John Arnold, Houston billionaire & hedge funder, closed up shop last year to focus on his foundation with his wife:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-new-science-of-giving-2126...
You could say Camino has ...

* puts on shades *
Reached the end of the road!

* Cue the CSI theme *
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
It will be interesting to see what the effect of both Gate's and Buffet's donations will be. It certainly is a good that a large chuck of capital and energy is going toward improving society, but putting that much capital to work may also cause significant inflation and negate some of the benefit.
Does the "fly you here" idea apply to candidates on different continents?
Many international businesses include over zealous US law enforcement in their disaster recovery plans as a disaster to recover from. US government interference is considered a disaster along side fire, flooding, war, hacking, criminal activity, and so on.

So, sure, store data in a convenient, well run, good value, US based cloud, but what do we do if the FBI raid the data centre the cloud lives in and we lose our data or access to it.

Kinda sad that people actually have to consider that.
>Soo, people who you disagree with should be stopped from spreading their opinions?

Nobody's stopping anybody from spreading their opinion, last I checked. I said the downvotes were deserved.

Not only for being factually incorrect, ("Prison has to be scary", which is the whole premise of the post, is handily disproved by looking at some of the Nordic nations' systems), but for perpetuating the kind of culture that allows solitary confinement (i.e. psychological torture) and prison rape to be accepted by otherwise sane and caring people.

The culture of "whatever happens to guys in prison is their own fault" NEEDS to stop.
Still, that's not the point.
The point is that all this madness is so fragile and stupid that it can give lever for digital businesses overseas to have competitive edge on yours by both not being forced to waste resources building backdoors and surveillance into their systems(which also make them less secure) and also by making them have an advantage no USA business will be allowed to have ever, which is to offer privacy. It's probably what MEGA was thinking.

Now when and if this happens the FBI will really see what's 'going dark'. Of course, they have plenty of means to try influencing things their ways but it's utterly unmanageable, if they choose to hack the servers and news break that US Government agencies are hacking into legitimate businesses overseas, it's not gonna sit well with both governments(Brazil, for example, is historically a pacific country that tries to not interfere with anyone, how will you make it into a terrorist country?) and to the general population, they can also do it politically but this won't sit well with the country's population too and are sure to have 'anti-american' vibes increasing, besides that, each country has it's culture and takes on civil liberties(and the chopping of them) and also it's own interests and industries it allows to influence it's politics, in Brazil that would be Meat, Soil, Mining, Cars industries... and if allowing privacy(or, at least, keeping civilian basic constitutional rights) ends up helping the economy too then it may also be a choice to be considered to support it too, right? Dunno if Hollywood bullshit will stick everywhere, and going heavy-handed on other countries matters are sure to spread the shit, there's plenty of countries in the world.
You can tell the lions that all you want, but lions will be lions,
or
as Alan Greenspan said our assumption that its in ones self interest to do the right thing has a little flaw.
When push comes to shove, self interest always ends up being for ones self not the collective.

It is going to be a long time, requiring a whole lot of mental evolution for there ever to be trust between the lion and the zebra. Only when that trust exists can the search for a solution begin.
I would classify myself as a futurist, but we have a flaw...one that tends to lead to our demise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara
It should be said I think that it's super cool that you guys are putting Postgres to broader use. More stuff can and should be done with it, i'm just not sure what to do with this particular tool :)
How can you know how many people don't commit crimes because they fear prison? Yes the people who currently are in prison are the ones who didn't think they would get caught, but there are people who are not in prison because they did consider that.

Yes there are cheaper and more effective disincentives, but you're right it is a cultural thing. Our culture considers those barbaric (but not prison somehow.)
It would be rather awesome if all or most of that money was going to one of the top three charities at give well. Enough so that would significantly change my understanding of Goldman Sachs and make me revaluate similar companies.
But you can do that with 8:5, plus get the same vertical screen height as the 16:9 display.

You can still use xmonad/dwm/whathaveyou like you want; you'll just have more vertical height per slice.