skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I'm not "writing off" either book. I don't think either author was attempting to make literal predictions about what society will or might look like, so I don't consider it at all a failure if things are different. I just can't understand how Brave New World could be seen as more accurate than 1984. For example, if you wanted to film a 1984 movie, there is very little you would have to do other than go to some place with urban decay, throw up some Big Brother posters (perhaps placing them over the existing billboards encouraging police/soldier worship or admonishing "if you see something, say something"), put telescreen props in plain apartments, and throw in some extras in the right clothing. The actual palpable differences are quite small, because they mostly exist inside the minds of the average citizen.

For Brave New World, you would need strict population control (mandatory sterility), mass manufactured test tube babies with hatcheries and conditioning centers, working class castes that are chemically stunted, near-mandatory government issued hallucinogens, far less chaste sexual mores, etc.

Like I said, it is a science fiction fantasy world with a multitude of plot-significant fictional technologies. Even the human birthing process is far more unrealistic than the entirety of 1984. The only science fiction I recall from 1984 were artificial foods, telescreens, voice recognition, and some military equipment, all of which are quite realistic today (and were mostly so in real-world 1984).
MakerBot have at least some patents, including a patent on a conveyor system for automated building.
That does not answer my question. Yes, I can quite easily come up with many ways in which that quote is relevant to the topic. But what were your intentions? The problem with dropping a quote without context is that people end up countering points they think the person was trying to make. The person you responded to said "Hey, here's a bunch of good uses of drones that we currently can't do." The implication of dropping your quote there is, "I don't want you to do those things."

Or maybe you did not mean to imply those things. Which is rather my point that without context, there's not much value in dropping a quote. I find quotes are great to illustrate or support discussion. But they are not discussion itself.
It's not all expensive scammy ebooks, but "most" is probably an accurate assumption. I've actually purchased some useful software from a company using clickbank, but for the most part it's a strange part-pyramid scam type of thing with ebooks that tell you how to make your own part-pyramid scam business.
Samsung declines to produce the next Facebook phone
Microsoft losing emails in Outlook update
I renamed my wife’s Hotmail account over a week ago to Outlook, and in the process lost her 10+ years’ worth of email messages. Having had a look at MS’s support forum, it seems that it’s not an isolated case:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/mail-email/emails-missing-from-inbox-since-upgrading-to/6e01c14e-465d-4975-a6da-3da0ace815f3

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/mail-email/lost-emails-after-renaming-an-account/15639037-f925-46c2-97bf-e36c32f452ec

I raised a call on the 9th of June, and Microsoft’s technical have not been very responsive in trying to rectify the issue. Is there anyone from Redmond that has any insight on this? The misses isn't very happy and I would really like to sort this out sooner rather than later.
Reallocate?
If an acqhire, it's not for the engineering team. As addressed above, it's more likely for the brand recognition - given how finely tuned their propaganda machine is, they may be worth it.
There was this antitrust case where Microsoft tried to illegally take ownership of the entire desktop computing ecosystem. It would have probably done more harm than any one rootkit. You may have heard of it.

Also, Sony-BMG is not the same company as Sony Computer Entertainment, and indeed no longer exists.
Nice post! This is the kind of stuff I love finding on HN.
I feel conflicted about this. On one hand, I haven't logged in to my yahoo account for several years so I clearly don't "need" it but on the other I don't want to have someone steal my username. I think the fact that yahoo is so desperate to get people back on their platform that they're willing to resort to this tactic should be very unsettling to anyone with a vested interest in the company as a long term investment.
Flask book project funded in just 36 hours on Kickstarter
But they don't overwhelm the Android tweets everywhere, only in some places.

I agree that it is too big a leap to say that phone choice always indicates wealth, but I do think there is a connection.
I interviewed for a hedge fund once where my job interview was to write a program that exploited a security flaw like this to make a real time model of what people were paying for diamonds.
When someone submits a PDF to HN it'll be automatically changed to a scribd link, so that's why you see so many scribd links to HN.

I know that doesn't help with this particular article.
I'd attribute this to Heinlein's Razor.
There is an intro talk and slides from London Lua here http://www.londonlua.org/scripting_nginx_with_lua/index.html

It is pretty easy once you get started...
These screencasts by John Lindquist, available for many months with new ones appearing frequently, are awesome. The youtube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/johnlindquist.

John provides very quick yet potent explanations of most features in AngularJS. All those videos can be played at 1.5X speed using YouTube's HTML5 mode. Takes roughly 2 hours to complete them.
The only difference with retail and digital sales is obviously the lack of a physical copy but also cutting out the middleman (which is retail). It's still ultimately up to the publisher and distributor if they want to sell you cheap games, and the fact that consoles are closed systems they really don't have a reason to sell you cheap games.

They already sell games digitally on the current gen systems but choose not to do many decent sales. There isn't anything stopping them from giving you cheap games, they just don't want to - there's no reason for them to put in the DRM except to give themselves more control.
I can't find a good reference right now but I remember that in DC the rail fares cover 90% of rail operating costs and bus fares cover 30% of bus operating cost.

Public Records Here: http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/public_rr.cfm?

The best I could find on page 21 (numbered 15) of pdf "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended 6/30/12" does not seperate bus from rail.
Getting threatened with physical violence by a mentally ill homeless person on the LA Metro (and having the subway operator literally tell me to shut up and get off the intercom when I reported it) is the reason I don't take the subway anymore.
Has Microsoft ever done anything like the removal of Linux from the PS3? That is what will stop me personally from buying another Sony console.
Not to detract from that excellent, excellent response but refusing to pay he has every reason to overstate his eagerness for litigation in hopes of scaring Monster Cable off. Of course, in making that statement publicly he also nailed his colors to the mast, making it far more difficult to back down even if he might have otherwise. And now that he's made that public and gotten press coverage other companies know not to hassle him too.
I think this is a case of the 80/20 rule. Given some talent, I believe one can become 80% proficient in less than a month. Basic design principles really aren't difficult and can drastically improve results for someone starting from 0.

It's the last 20% that takes years to master.
I'd love to hear any opinions the RethinkDB guys have about this.
Your advice isn't very clear, as you're switching genders. Stick with one, lest someone think "whom" is for men and "who" for women:

If "he" sounds right, use "who"; if "him" sounds right, it's "whom".
Yahoo should be desperate. After fading into irrelevance for the past decade they need to make unusual/risky decisions to have any hope of turning that around.
Dart's Beta Release
"Perhaps there is the odd hippie selling homegrown ganja out of his greenhouse who has never been in a fight in his life..."
You don't know what you're talking about.

"Drug crime and other crime go hand in hand."
[Citation Needed]

"Those who are currently dealing drugs don't know how to play this game and will lose."
And then get a real job.

"They can't go and get a straight job because they have no provable work history, probably a criminal record and few contacts outside of the "underworld". They also have become accustomed to a lifestyle of nice cars and (possibly multiple) high maintenance girlfriends, so McDonalds isn't going to cut it."
You have no idea what you're talking about. The margins are not that high.

Your image of drug dealers applies to an extremely small minority. You must only know what these people are like from TV.
I wouldn't be surprised if this flip-flop was planned for some time ago. Same with the iOS7 icons.
Definitely could be. I installed on MySQL because that's what my Linode is running.
looking at "whois egghead.io", it's John's site.
Man, I seriously expected this to be a flask disguised as a book. A book on Flask is cool too though.
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The most expensive Xbox 360 at launch was $399.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Retail_configurations
Tic tac toe on toruses is fairly popular as an educational toy, and there also is serious research on it, for example http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~kwolcott/TTT.pdf. You might have mixed the 'on a torus' part with the 'using a magic square' part. No problem, but the two do not mix that way (maybe, on larger boards? That 4x4 Dürer square (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DuerersMagicSquare.html) has zillions of 'add up to 34' sets of cells. There may be even better ones of larger size)
Yeah, seems party is moving to freenode...
Check out https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!... or just look for oilpan on blink-dev.

I haven't seen anything about Dart (the big win would be eliminating the really slow DOM "GC" cycles on the webkit/blink side of things), but it would be interesting if this opened the way for easier VM integration. My understanding was that post-webkit they were tying v8 deeper into blink, though, not allowing more flexibility...
That's not what WaPo's free Metro Express newspaper put out when they were talking about the fare increase last year. I'll see if I can find one of the mentions.

Edit: An example straight from the horse's mouth (the WMATA proposed FY13 budget). Revenue makes up 80% or so of the MetroRail budget, the remaining 20% to be made up by local jurisdictions.

So it does appear indeed that Metrobus is much more subsidized (27% of the budget from fares). Page 67 of the PDF is probably the best overview.

So definitely not as bad as I thought, but $183 million is no small chunk of change either.

PDF at http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/docs/ProposedFY2013Budget.p...
1. Yep 2. Dump and reload to get between mongodb and TokuMX. The storage systems and replication systems are incompatible
I'm quite familiar with LowEndBox, and I would say my current "Best Value" VPS provider would be Digital Ocean, who I found via HN. I probably can think of at least a dozen with solid reasons to avoid.
FYI Digital Ocean's lowest offering is $5/m.
Good move, but I can still see the one becoming this generations Wii. Sort-of gaming system mixed up with home entertainment and novelty controllers...going up against the PS4 which has similar guts but is designed as a no-compromise gaming system. The Wii did OK to begin with, but was then smashed by 360, I suspect the PS4 will do same to One.
I wonder why they wouldn't just structure pricing to incent users to move towards the digital versions. You can pay the $60 for a disc based game and all the benefits/drawbacks therein or... pay $30 to get it digitally and be able to play it from any of their consoles and lend it to friends like they originally planned.

Rather than backtrack, keep moving forward but do it a little bit more slowly... the way Amazon did/does with Kindle.
It still has to be connected at all times so I think his point is still valid.
This page says it's disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.
3. We support 2.2 but we've back ported some things from 2.4 (like hash-based sharding) pretty easily, I think we'll be able to keep up 4. Nope, it just came out today.
> Not true, Firefox uses OdinMonkey, which type checks the code, but then optimizes it using IonMonkey, the exact same pipeline all JS code uses.

The special interpreter is what I've inferred from pcwalton's comment of their being an optimized interpreter for it in Firefox. If its the same JS VM how can anything fail the type checker (e.g. forgetting a '+' or '|') cause it to run much slower? http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html and if its the same pipeline, how can an asm.js bug have different behavior to normal JS in Firefox? https://plus.google.com/111090511249453178320/posts/cr4jTsfx...

> This is simply false. You can run the Epic Citadel demo in Chrome (dev runs ok on my machine for example) and non-nightly versions of Firefox.

I've got the latest version of Chrome and it always crashes for me: http://imgur.com/Nrsxsdk
I've tried it a few times and I've never seen it work in Chrome, It even crashes when I tried it in Dartium (a Chromium based browser shipped with Dart SDK). Though I don't have the dev version of Chrome to try it on.

> It is true that the Epic website recommends Firefox Nightly, that is outdated and it should definitely be removed.

Right, it works in normal Firefox which is what I meant.

P.S. it is good to have 2 from the Mozilla elite here to clarify Firefox internals :)
Whom is fine, but so is using "who" in its place. If in doubt, use who.

On that note, it reminds me of a company I did some work for recently. They never used "me", only "myself": "Yes, he gave it to myself on Tuesday."

I doubt anyone would argue that "myself" is archaic, but people using it incorrectly is definitely jarring.
Awesome!, thank you.
Why would console players want to be weened off, given the advantages they have? Ease of trading/reselling. Put the disk in and play. No need to bring your console to a friend's house to play.

If the price is the same, I prefer physical media on the PC as well. I still feel cheated that Skyrim required a Steam activation.
No, benefits should be paid in cash as they are in other developed countries.
Yes it was. The console would only need to connect once every 24 hours. The rest of the time, it wouldn't give two shits about if it was connected or not.
You can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, which is no cost. Older VS's you can of course launch the command line compiler. The generated Javascipt is not mangled and is quite debuggable.

I've been using Vim and the browsers' F12.
Orwell owes more to James Burnham's non-fiction book The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World. Orwell's pamphlet-within-a-book in 1984 "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" is more or less a condensed version of Burnham's thesis. Orwell even reviewed Burnham's book when it came out: http://www.george-orwell.org/James_Burnham_and_the_Manageria...
The issues of speed that this article mentions are negated by the latest electronic ticketing systems such as Oyster, Myki and Opal. As you walk on to the bus you touch the card against a reader and that's it. Saves a lot of time.
Are you basing that on a reading of the appendix, or just on the sentence I excerpted? It's not really clear from the sentence itself, but in the context of the paragraph, it makes a lot of sense.

Pay close attention to what's cast in the subjunctive throughout the appendix, and this reading, or at least the ambiguity, seems intended.

Another good example is "In 1984 [the year, not the book], when Oldspeak was still the normal means of communication, the danger theoretically existed that in using Newspeak words one might remember their original meanings. In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished." The consistency seems more than accidental.
I mean "efficient" as it's generally defined: maximum productivity with minimal wasted effort or expense.

In the case of the Great Northern railroad, the efficiencies were passed on to the customer in terms of ever falling costs and an expanding network of service.

> The population of low-volume regions will be under-served

No, it's the opposite! Low-volume regions are underserved with centrally planned government transportation. The planner has limited resources that must be "democratically" administered.

In a free market, any underserved area provides an opportunity for an entrepreneur to serve that need in the market! It's an elegant system that serves the needs of the people faster with less waste.
I've always pronounced it "en gee eye en ecks".

Not the most elegant, but it rolls of the tongue relatively well and nobody who was familiar with nginx has ever been confused.
The simplest list is this: no full text search, geo indexes, or background indexing yet.
The joke is that he is demanding a refund of his property taxes without any evidence or argument just as the township lawyer was also issuing merit-less demands.
What would doing it right be? Interested what techniques you'd suggest for keeping new PHP/Ruby projects i18n-friendly.
Stratasys acquires MakerBot, the one firm that could have disrupted it
Why not just market games that require cloud processing to play as online-only? It's a bit much for the entire system to have to take on this always-online requirement for games that may not have a multiplayer or large universe aspect.
I wonder how they plan to monetize their service I've only found this regarding their financial model http://duck.co/topic/financing-model
That's not strictly better. You can be discouraged from suing big parties because they may run up their own bills, which you would have to pay if you lost. And losing doesn't mean your case was without merit.

There is no perfect answer. It beats the old days where people would have to fight to the death to settle disputes, at least.
I wish them well too, and talk about them to privacy-minded friends, but I dont use them personally because I almost always wind up going to Google anyway...

Edit: Its been some months, Ill give them another try.
In places like Manhattan as described above one wants to incentivize people to take the very efficient mass transit over using vehicles because of the traffic as well as the air pollution. The tolls help to do this.
Netflix has always been behind the Xbox gold paywall.

Give them credit for addressing some of the more pressing issues. It was enough to sway me back after considering a PS4.
The amount was the same as the town paid for their web site. ($5,000/yr for hosting? Ludicrous.)
The gaming industry seems to be moving in the direction of the movie/music industry where they place completely unnecessary restrictions on the digital content they sell and blame their customers for it being there while all the meantime they don't actually ever produce anything I want to buy.
I've seen your guys site before actually. I thought you were a Puppet house, not Chef though?

Sounds interesting to be sure though! I'll keep an eye on your site.
It's hard to talk about great C&Ds without mentioning Chilling Effects, http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi, a repository/database of many C&Ds and copyright claims, which receives copies automatically of many letters sent to large websites.

Some of the content in there is particularly golden for humor value (search "perfect 10"), but more importantly, it serves as a first step to quantifying how many of these letters get sent and how many of those are legitimate. Chilling Effects doesn't track what happens afterwards, but it's one step above anecdote, anyway.
any high end car dealer will offer something like this, especially if you have one of the nicer models.

when hyundai launched the equus, they specifically offered this feature as a selling point to people who couldn't afford a 7 series, and would other wise get a 5 series.
It's not a 0-1 thing, there are degrees of attraction towards "evil". The guard in a concentration camp has more tendency towards evil than the guard in, say, a factory or residential building.

As Buchheit[1] himself said: "It’s also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent." (emphasis mine)

Realizing that your competitors, i.e. firms you acknowledge as being in the same industry, are "kind of exploiting the users" seems to me not far from realizing that your very industry has a tendency towards that.

I think "Don't be evil" is an honest expression of the early confidence and idealism of the founders and core team of Google. However, in the last few years, as with America at large, something seems to have changed at Google. Personally, I tend to steer more and more away from it.

If they truly wanted to avoid evil and, perhaps more important, the potential for future evil, they would anonymize all observations to make, say, search per se better (as opposed to expressly attributing data so as to "personalize" it). That, incidentally, would also make Google immune to NSA bullying. Much like Apple, they could just say: We don't even store this kind of data, sorry guys, look somewhere else. At the rate with which they collect data points and with which hardware, algos, and science advance, it will be possible in a few years to do fine-grained psychological profiling on a massive scale, with all the possibilities of evil I can imagine. It's a fine line between prediction and control in social systems. And we all know that what is technically possible eventually will be tried by someone. It's not hard to think of scenarios.

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[1] http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-16-n55.html
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> If the 'never' is literal, then it's attempting to establish a universal truth

No, its not.

As a statement about predictions, its about likelihood. "Never assume malice when incompetence is plausible", even if taken literally, need not be an attempt to establish that it is universally true that when both are plausible, malice is always the correct prediction; it is a sufficient premise that there are no circumstances in which both explanatiosn are plausible where malice is more likely.
> The special interpreter is what I've inferred from pcwalton's comment of their being an optimized interpreter for it in Firefox. If its the same JS VM how can anything fail the type checker (e.g. forgetting a '+' or '|') cause it to run much slower?

The type checker either succeeds or fails to type check. If it succeeds, we know all the types and send those with the code to IonMonkey (just like normal code, except with the types). Otherwise, we run it normally, and eventually it will also get sent to IonMonkey (with types inferred at runtime).

So failing to type check can make a difference in performance. It should not be large, and if you look on awfy, on most benchmarks it in fact is not (it is larger on large benchmarks though, which need more attention).

> I've got the latest version of Chrome and it always crashes for me

Yes, this was fixed by the Chrome devs, but not yet in a stable release. Please try the Chrome dev build for example, and you'll see it runs very well there. In just a matter of weeks that will be true in stable Chrome as well.
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