skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the third definition of off merriam-webster online doesn't really prove your point here. There is a reason why the title of the op was "Why Engineers Scare Me". I know this was all in good fun but please do understand why this is stalking and how the same technique can be used in very harmful ways.
Suppose someone is raping you:

- Stop this! You're hurting me. Stop it! You'll go to jail.

- I wouldn't go to jail if you just consented to sex.
I believe there's a good bit of psychological evidence that spending more money actually makes you perceive things as better.
Not me - sounds like your average defense contractor boondoggle.
For sure, but I wouldn't call somebody wacko based on that sort of aesthetic difference.

I reserve wacko purely for people who claim performance benefits from things which cannot be proven or measured in any way...or are provably false.
> 1. remap `caps lock` to `ESC`: goes without saying for vim, but extremely useful in other situations too (like playing starcraft and de-selecting units)

Or to Control, if you're an Emacs user. I've even seen some people remap a tap on it to ESC, and holding it down to Control, to cater to both needs.
His is a former KGB officer, an organization hardly known for religious tolerance. Most Russians claim Orthodoxy, including me, but Putin is the last person I would associate with any sort of piety.
An open source Wufoo :) Cool.
I worked as a recording engineer you definitely can detect a difference between audio gear. However, it's likely that you weren't selling products for an audience that actually cared.
Looks nice. Too bad it requires backbone and rivets...
I was once contracted to be an expert witness in a case involving the definition of an "appliance" versus a "computer."

The bulk of the argument was than an appliance was designed (and often constrained) to doing the 'thing' it was designed to do, and a computer was designed to embrace doing many different things.

As the author points out, a game console is a computer which has sacrificed generality in order to achieve a cost advantage in the market where it competes. As the cost of generality goes down, the comparative advantage slowly evaporates.

An example of how this plays out is with robotics. You can consider your dishwasher to be a robot, it reacts to conditions (dishes, no dishes) it has various schemes for cleaning them, and that is pretty much what it does. A clothes washer is another robot of the genus 'washer' but works only on clothes. A general purpose robot could, in theory wash clothes, or dishes, and pretty much anything else if you programmed it to do so. So where do you draw the line between robot and appliance?

I posited the line was based on the relative cost/complexity advantage of one over another. When a computer was targeted to a particular task, and could do that task at a significant market cost advantage over the general purpose implementation, it went from being a 'computer' to being an 'appliance'.

Game consoles are appliances that play games, which is not to say that iPhones don't play games, but if you only want to play games then a console has a cost advantage over a phone.
I can see if there's anything in any of my backups. Nowadays I'd just use Google Earth's history feature (optionally feeding in time based KMLs of access points). I think the WiGLE interface supports time filtering, but I don't know if that's officially exposed.
How APIs are Changing Software Development
Crack this code and become a cybersleuth
For sure, but that's a cognitive bias.

These people go out claiming these things as fact...and unfortunately there's an entire industry out there supporting and benefiting from their claims.
Ask HN: What do you think about the design of my website?
I suppose I can be so audacious as to plug this here too: http://minikomi.github.io/Bootstrap-Form-Builder/ for bootstrap forms.
Most of the discussion on Perl Poetry in the Camel Book is by way of inclusion of this Usenet post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/news.groups/qSO-Q0rxg_E/RrRn...
There actually are differences in digital cables (like HDMI, cat6 utp, etc.), though -- they become apparent in longer runs. I've seen really crappy 2m HDMI which wouldn't actually sync.

The price point for decent cables isn't high, it's just not the absolute cheapest cables. I'd probably exceed the spec for long runs or noisy environments, too. I mainly go with monoprice for short, and blue jeans cable for longer.
You're completely wrong.
You could probably buy a hardware equivalent PC for $250, or even less.
There are very few mobile games that I want to play, and lots of console games I want to play. Most mobile games are small and simple. And I think the $1-$4 cost of most apps has killed much of the market for serious apps. Apple's 30% cut is far too much for apps over $20 and further drives developers away.
Pretty much spot on here.
Percona Server 5.6-RC3 with TokuDB 7.0.4 – experimental build
Phrases like "meaningful traction" and "at scale" and statements like "if they aren't 'better' by 10x, then they're probably just nibbling at the edges of the incumbents' market and their traction isn't really worth noting" might sound good at a Silicon Valley mixer, but they don't really mean anything.

There are lots of people who have mid-to-high six and seven-figure a year businesses who are "nibbling at the edges" of markets. To those who aren't impressed I say: don't knock it until you've tried it.
Yet another entry in the list of missed opportunities.

But I suppose it's easy to criticise people with the benefit of hindsight.
I dug around a bit and found a research paper[0] about TerraServer. It's got all sorts of neat details not in this link.

TerraServer hardware configuration parameters:

Max hits per day 40 million/day

Max SQL queries per day 37 million/day

Max image downloads / day 35 million/day

Bandwidth to Internet 200 Mbps = 2 Terabytes/day

Concurrent web connections = 6,000 connections

Web front ends: Six 4-way 200 Mhz Compaq Proliant 5500, .5GB ram

Database back-end 1 8-way 440Mhz Compaq AlphaServer 8400 10GB ram, 3.2 TB raid5

324 9GB Ultra SCSI disks

324 x 9GB disks for 2.9TB? You could store 1.2PB with the same number of 4TB disks. Doesn't seem like Moore's Law is holding up for storage, nor for internet speeds.

[0] http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/cs401/project_fall_04/...
I've found it interesting that arcade games have gone in the opposite direction. Most modern arcade games are released on the Taito Type X, Sega Lindbergh and other similar platforms. These are basically just PCs with Intel processors, Nvidia or ATI graphics cards, and Windows or Linux.

A good example is Street Fighter. Street Fighter 3 was release for the CPS3 [0], a completely proprietary platform that ultimately only had 6 games released for it. Street Fighter 4 was on the Taito Type X2 [1], which is pretty much a PC.

[0] http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=799

[1] http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=903
Well, I have a Java system for playing interactive fiction games on the desktop. When people started playing them on the browser, the obvious way to adapt my system to that functionality was an applet. That way I could reuse 99% of the code, and they could get the same functionality as on the desktop.

Sadly, now it's getting harder and harder to run applets. And I'm not going to code a different web-based version of my system (which would involve not only rewriting a lot of code, but finding different libraries to handle MP3, OGG, SVG graphics, etc.) so I suppose my system will just slowly fade into obsolescence.

For some things, applets are still the best choice... or would be, if users were not aggressively discouraged from using them due to what amounts mostly to PR campaigns (as i.e. Flash is by no means more secure than Java applets, and browsers don't make you click through four layers of scary dialogs to run it).

What I hate about coding projects for end users that need to run on shiny platforms (like the web) is that you always get caught on politics. Stuff like company X not allowing running software written in language Y on platform Z so as to promote its own platform, and making you port everything several tiems. Or company X including a crippled distribution of software Y because it hates company Y (this happened with Ubuntu and Java and has brought me scores of bug reports to handle). I guess my future hobby projects will be in C/C++ and directed to technical users that don't expect to run their machine learning software (for example) on a tablet browser...
But those performance differences are measurable and are independent of price. There's data (and better yet, graphics) that can be supplied to help explain those differences but they're almost never presented to the salesman or the customer...if either is knowledgeable to interpret them anyway.

Audiophiles (more specifically audiophile communities and publications), traditionally do have a tendency to prefer gear that his higher in price-range/markup over gear that may be better but isn't.

Reviews of products that say "hey, this product that costs <$250 is measurably better than this 5-star product that costs 10x as much" are rare and make waves when they happen but such product differences always exist.
Here's the design for my new website. The stars fade in one by one in a and they continue to fade in and out in a subtle fashion. The clouds also go left to right continuously. All animations, the stars and clouds are done using CSS, the only JavaScript used is starting the position of the clouds and the number of stars, which is dynamic per your screens resolution + random positions throughout the screen. Thanks!
Agreed. I'm not promoting violence. Rather, through hard work, kindness toward others, and a unwavering faith in the general benevolence of mankind, I press on to make a better place for all.

Oh, and +1 for correct use of "effect". Such a feat is rarely seen nowadays.
It would be pretty awesome if they created a fully editable/customizable version of this talent tree. I would totally pay for it.
The same reason modern smartphones do. PCs (whether windows, Mac, or linux) are horrid from a usability perspective. It boggles my mind how regular people manage to put up with the shit that it takes to use a computer effectively. But I know that the answer is that they don't, and the result is that they are exposed to a vastly degraded experience of using a computer compared to an expert who can easily troubleshoot and solve the vast majority of problems that they run into day to day.

Gaming consoles (and DVRs, and every other device which is basically just a computer) are simplified systems which remove a lot of the hassle of using them. Even a PS3 or a Wii-U (which are excruciating to update) is orders of magnitude easier to use than a general purpose computer.
Thanks! It probably isn't exposed, but it would be nice to see these grow over the years. It may even expose other things like how community hubs have shifted and what demographics are being catered to. Overlays from census data or other insights might reveal some interesting things.
Thanks you! I will check it out.
That sounds reasonable. Let's turn on the spigot but get company sponsorship out of the way (it works like this in Oz). The problem is evaluating perspective highly-skilled immigrants without taking into account direct company demand.
Where does the article say anything about Windows RT?
Brazilians created a site to prank friends by phone and made U$ 7k in 10 hours.
I just realized I tend to do the same thing, when I edit in vim I read the "phrases" I am typing, like ci" etc.
Grouping all the described symtoms under "depression" (and "stupidity") is a non-helpful way to think about Lyme disease, which messes up all sorts of neurotransmitters. You won't get very far by just comparing your experience to that of a depressed person; variously, the symptoms of Lyme disease can mimic clinical depression (serotonin/norepinephrine imbalance), or ADHD (dopamine imbalance), generalized anxiety (GABA imbalance), seasonal/chronic fatigue (acetylcholine imbalance), and so on. This is besides the effects that the swelling of brain tissue has on cognitive function, e.g. memory.

And I wouldn't equate any of that with what it's like to have a low IQ (what is traditionally thought of as "stupidity.") IQ is a measure, basically, of how little evidence your mind needs to recognize a pattern--thus, low-IQ people being thought of as "dense," and thus sufficiently-high IQ being able to do things like deducing all of physics from a few static pictures[1]. Being dumb doesn't feel like having a bad memory, or thinking slower, or not being able to multitask. It feels like looking at a square peg and a grid of shape-holes, and not (quickly) realizing that "shape" is a relevant property that the holes differ by, such that you should select a hole based on the shape of the peg.

It should feel genuinely alienating to try to picture yourself "dumber" than you are--like that you, which you would be, is hard for you to empathize with; like they'd solve problems in entirely different ways, out of necessity for not recognizing patterns as easily. And then you can reflect that intuition to understand what it would be like to be more intelligent than you are: someone who would also solve problems in different ways, for seeing their structure more easily; and someone who would have a hard time empathizing with the decisions a version of themselves, reduced to only your intelligence, would make.

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[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
I bet best buy and office depot still have $15 as the minimum price for a cable. Last time I really needed an ethernet cable and everything but office depot was closed.... I paid like $15 for a 6' cable.

I think that's just the best buy/office depot "minimum price"

Fry's is one of those places that targets, well, me; They are more expensive than monoprice, but not by so much that I would delay a project to get the monoprice price.

I think they are pretty good at pricing high enough that they are making some money (I mean, I /expect/ to pay more in person) but low enough that I can still go in and buy a hundred cables for a project without it being thousands of dollars.
Monty Hall problem: The probability puzzle that makes your head melt
they tend to fall in
Learning = Earning
Didn't redhat say that they will continue to maintain OpenJDK 6 ?
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/3/red-ha...
>If a criminal says that helping an old lady cross the street is the right thing to do, would you discard his statement because he is a criminal? No!

many people unfamiliar with Russia or similar countries forget that selective enforcement of law is a well established and widely practiced form of tyranny and abuse of power there. The same principle applies when people like Putin are selectively say/do something that may look like a right thing - it is just a tool of advancing their agenda. Like in your example with a criminal when he would point you to the lady requiring assistance, and would do whatever he wants while your attention is diverted. You'd need to discard his statement precisely because he is a criminal.
Do you think that the entire U.S. military has not thought of that idea? While there is the possibility of a mistake, presumably they will avoid strikes on locations which are likely to cause such an event.
Yes, there has been testing that there are quality differences in HDMI cables over 30'. But it's not Monster's gold plated contacts that makes them better, it's alwayas cable materials and shielding.

Every objective test that I've seen though with tested-good HDMI cables shows no difference until that 30' mark. The HDMI licensing board recommends that past 30' you use signal amplifiers or HDMI-to-Ethernet anyway.

Maybe out past 10' you'd want to worry about cable insulation? I haven't been in a situation to worry about it yet. At 2m I'd think any cable that doesn't sync is defective. I'm not interested in paying 10x-100x the price for higher manufacturing quality control standards.
> I'm not the biggest Apple fan around, but if this is meant to be some kind of expose of wrongdoing, I completely disagree.

Why would you think it is such a thing?
Arrington is a judge and CrunchFund is a seed investor of the winning company.

Stay classy, TechCrunch.
Android has had support for bluetooth game controllers for years and has yet to get widely adopted by end users. I think there's even been some companies that have tried specializing in controllers for Android.
Does it blow your mind that I posted about a topic in a meta-discussion thread about that topic?
At this point, unless you care a lot about keeping graphics high, I wouldn't be too surprised if you could keep a decent computer for at least 4 years. Even more so if you didn't care about resolution/played games at low resolutions (keep in mind, consoles have run games at 720p or less for the past 7 years!).

The thing is that most people who're willing to deal with pc gaming also care enough to upgrade more often, so a lot of the cost is self-imposed.
I wonder if 324 on Lustre would have more throughput than a 1 4TB disk?
"Even if Apple doesn't contribute a line of code, "Apple thinks LLVM is the future" brings new people into the project"

This is a fair point. However, I actually think GCC's negativity and steadfast refusal to adapt and evolve contributed more to its rise than anything else.

Apple may have brought users. But the contributors are mostly ex-gcc folks, or folks from research communities/other compiler people. They are the people that were/would be working on GCC if LLVM didn't exist.

The reason LLVM got the majority of these contributors is not because Apple made it the default compiler, or even because Apple supported it.

It's because GCC was unwilling to change and adapt in the ways that its contributors (current and future) wanted. For example, becoming a modular, pluggable compiler. RMS resisted plugins for many many years. He resisted writing out the IR. He resisted requiring newer versions of C, or C++, or ...
(While GCC is led by a steering committee, RMS can override them, and the recourse is to go to the FSF board or something. I can't remember all the details of the EGCS reunification agreement). The steering committee of GCC, while all wonderful people, over time became less of GCC contributors, but refused to turn over their steering committee roles to any younger and newer contributors. This left GCC with a steering committee that, while well intentioned, and again good people, was not in any way related to the current major contributors.
Part of this was just politics. GCC simply had a lot of politics (because of the FSF, because of EGCS, etc) that LLVM did not.

In any case, contributors and researchers left GCC because of this unwillingness to change. This is what caused a community to coalesce around LLVM, not Apple. People in this community advocated to their companies to adopt LLVM, and some were successful. This is why Apple uses it. This is why ARM uses it. It is because the community and it's members were successful in convincing them to do so (certainly, there is more, in that the companies saw long term strategic benefit, etc)
I'm confused. Someone who makes an ACTUAL credible threat against someone typically just goes in a police file. Someone who makes a threat - not even to slander, but to investigate and expose - is committing a crime?

If I say, "Jim is a dirtbag, I'm going to expose him and his whole dirty family," what have I done? It sounds like I'm just an investigative journalist with delusions of being good at my job and who probably has a personal grievance with Jim.

I happen to not be a fan of the individual in this case, but it's important to be realistic about the whole business of threats against reputation.
Related and somewhat similar stories from Quora users: http://www.quora.com/Intelligence/What-does-it-feel-like-to-...
The hosts are probably getting enjoyment from hosting this guy. That's their payment. Some people enjoy the company of others and might also feel this is an adventure. I don't think anyone feels like they're being taken advantage of.
I removed Java from all my computers, and all my Java problems vanished as a result.
Thanks for the tip on Bartender. Now I can hide all those crufty work-provided menubar items and also the super-useful-but-not-deserving-menu-item-space apps like F.lux
oh man, I remember back when my only keyboard failed during my shift (i work from home) and I had to rush out to Staples to get a short-term replacement. There wasn't any available option under $80.

Though I should just shut up. I use a Topre Realforce now and most would consider the cost to be excessive.
I used to use Java for new projects when I needed performance, but I've switched to Go and could not be happier.
Mandlebrot flythrough is my personal favorite: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=329492
I have 2 github accounts, one personal that I use very seldom, since I prefer to put my free software on gitorius.ORG in Norway rather than on github.COM in the USA, and another for work, since my boss puts his company's sources on github.

In anycase that means 4M-1 users, for 4M accounts.
EU unveils plan to end roaming charges for mobile phones
> custom-written apps that work only on the older Java version

How is that even possible?
A Sinatra-inspired micro web framework for Java
Change within the government and legal system is necessary, so I'm more inclined to think being quietly vocal will help, rather than social changes outside those systems.

I actually complained to a friend, as I posted it, that it's becoming increasingly common for correct English to be misinterpreted as incorrect. +1 for noticing.
Well, you are right, the model should not send the mail to new users. There should a way for the mail service to poll the model for emails to be sent. So the business rule here is still coded in the model. Say you want to also send the same email to old inactive users, you should just need to change the model, add a new business rule.

If you add such rules in the controller, you have to split your rules in two places, which is bad.

Ideally, I always thought that business rules should be a kind of "config", or more accurately a set of files written in a mini-domain language, that would be readable by PMs. Then it would be the job of the model to interface this set of rules with the controller.

So no, business rules and logic and whatever do not belong to the controller.
Yeah - OP, change your title to the one provided in the article.
vim user here. I map mine to Control because ESC is a simple C-] away and Ctrl is so much more useful outside of just vim.
Directly in front of me from the 1970s is a 3x5' Spock ASCII art poster - here's a pic of one - http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/ASCII/Spock.jpg

I got a wide column terminal printer in storage, one day I may get it going and print out some others.

Other than that some old movie reproduction posters (Forbidden Planet, Flash Gordon), a few abacuses, some old posters of events I had put on, and other classic computing ephemera.
Right, saying something is better because it's quality - absent price - is better than something else's quality is different than saying something is just plain old better (which it might be just because it's more expensive).

Seems to me that there is something people want - a better audio experience. They may actually get that by paying more, but the preferable outcome would be to get better objective quality. In fact, I think it would be preferable to even pay more to get the better objective product and know you weren't duped. I think there is probably a market for consulting:

value1 = objective_value1 + value_of_knowing_you_werent_duped

value2 = objective_value2 + cognitive_bias_for_paying_more

If it's true that objective_value2 is actually << objective_value1, and cognitive_bias_for_paying_more is not too significant, value_of_knowing_you_werent_duped could be a lucrative business.
Did you forget who is the prime candidate to replace Ballmer? Elop...
$250 PCs (I own one) suck for games.