skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private bytes or address space? Shared readonly counted twice?

I happily suffer Chrome's stupid tab design and lack of Flash (on Ubuntu) for much better end-to-end performance, whether it takes up more memory or not.
Ask HN: Simple, simple, simple editors for Linux.
My father-in-law is 81 and in good mental shape, but he's unwilling to learn yet another bunch of stuff that seems irrelevant to his main requirement. All he wants to do is write letters (to be printed and posted) and write papers (which may be printed, may be emailed, but will certainly be plain text).

He doesn't want to learn about OpenOffice, and certainly doesn't want to learn about vi or emacs.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: They run KDE, and he has trouble using a mouse. Driving entirely through the keyboard is close to an absolute requirement. Sorry I forgot to say this earlier.
He talks about his utility on this page:

http://dotnetperls.com/browser-memory

"It uses the PrivateMemorySize64 long value from the Process collection in .NET."

You can get his memory watcher from this page:

http://code.google.com/p/dotnetperls-controls/downloads/list

The relevant lines from the "MemoryClass" class:

long size = singleProcess.PrivateMemorySize64;
double megabytes = ConvertBytesToMegabytes(size);
Note that it won't work on first-generation iPhones. It wasn't mentioned on that page, nor on the TechCrunch article that talked about it and I was left wondering and restarting mine to no avail.
I don't understand how this is supposed to work with the 2.5W you're allowed to draw from USB, does it contain batteries and charging over a few hours?

I mean, those "snap pots" look like they can hold about 100ml of food. (assuming 5x5x4cm) The specific heat of water is over 4000 J/kg/K, if you need to heat it from 20°C to about 40°C that's a total of 8000 Joules, which at 2.5W takes about 3200 seconds, or almost an hour, even if it ran at 100% efficiency.

Since it's not available "yet" it's quite possibly vapourware intended to generate buzz. They even leave it open whether the device will ever be released - "if customer feedback is positive": http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainabilit...?

Edit: looks like others have noticed this, too.
Just wait until the flower/holiday cards industry gets bigger.
I don't really get the logic of this part of the article:

* Eating a food that's flavourful and familiar => your body says 'stock up' => you eat more.

* Swallowing unflavoured oil between meals => you gain calories but do not trip the 'stock up' trigger

* Roberts could eat whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and felt less hungry.

Yet, if he's eating the same familiar, flavourful foods, surely he's tripping the mechanism at mealtimes and ingesting extra calories between meals, meaning he should gain weight? If there's an additional logical step in the reasoning, i.e. eating oil makes your stomach full so you eat less, it should really have been mentioned.

(Before I'm told to Google it, I'm sure further literature on the diet explains the full logic; my point is that the article doesn't.)
Mousepad or Gedit.
As an advertiser on Facebook, I can attest to the fact that Facebook's recent increase in click fraud has become UNBEARABLE.

What started with 1-2% of clicks being fraudulent, has progressed to some ad campaigns recieving 10 real clicks to 90 fake clicks.

And this is over 10,000s of clicks.

FUCK Facebook because they do nothing about it, simply providing a boilerplate email.

EVEN an IP exclusion tool would help, but Facebook doesn't have that.

But what the fuck do you expect? They treat their customers like shit. They have "Ad reps" on their platform who serve only one purpose: to increase your daily budget on their platform. Ask them anything else and they are totally fucking clueless.

Also, apologies for the recurring vulgarity but this has been an issue for me for the past month. It's money.
An 11 page XML spec? That would be surprising. But you're right, XML itself is pretty simple and useful for document processing. Where things really went completely awry is XML Schema.

I have read (and implemented) a lot of weird specs in my life, but XML Schema has to be the worst. What makes it stand out is that it's incredibly convoluted and completely unfit for purpose at the same time.
"Turquoise plastic tat sold by association with one-piece-machined-aluminium stylish computer"

"If you don't have time to buy a sandwich to eat at your desk, you wont have time to buy a pot of beans and a spoon, but we hope you've bought this before you realise"
It's not really a debunking - it is the worlds smallest microwave, and it does plug in to a computer by USB, just as claimed.

Nowhere does it claim to be USB powered.
> What do you think?

I think that some are too concerned with these things and/or think that they're "owed" something that they're not. (Many in the latter group know why their comment was downvoted and an interesting fraction of them are just looking for an opportunity to argue that the downvote was undeserved.)

Downvotes mean that someone didn't like your comment. Be grateful for that - in the real world, people silently put the asshole label next to your name. Sometimes it's you and sometimes it's them. Only one of those is under your control.
On the mathematics of evolution
Thanks for the swift reply - let me add that they are running KDE, not Gnome. Also, he has trouble using a mouse, always has. Ideal would be something that can be driven entirely, and obviously, from the keyboard.

I'll investigate Mousepad.
I wonder what kind of parts are inside...although I know that microwave dissasembly is supposed to be dangerous (lethal occasionally).
When I'm at a conference, I prefer finding people with entirely different sets of interests. This gives me the opportunity to potentially learn something new and maybe even find out about a field I didn't previously know about.

This idea sounds interesting. I'd like to see where it could go if you built it online and let people use it while not at conferences; keep a virtual "hallway track" online at all times.
Find out who your friends are following that you are not (on twitter).
I'm really curious about the 'log over the wall' assessment. Why did it fail, and what test is better ? Which person of the group would actually be the better officer ?
Follow @duckduckgo then tweet '@duckduckgo diff' or '@duckduckgo diff -popular', which does something like...

diff friends friends/friends | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

I looked for this functionaliry last night (http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150) and again this morning, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. So I hacked it together myself!

Updated: you need to follow @duckduckgo for it to work (so I can send you a DM).
What do you think?

I think your idea has already been implemented by Slashdot and if you like seeing labels like "+5, Insightful" you could go participate there, instead.
You could use technology to find people with entirely different sets of interests as well at a conference.

The point is, this would be better than aimlessly walking around trying to find someone to talk to.
Beta versions of software include debug information. This is pretty much a standard practice, even I do it. It helps me understand where things went wrong and how it could be improved. When you do the final version you generally get rid of the debug information which more often than not will reduce memory consumption. This is different from optimization.
Having infrastructure costs similar to running a search engine, but a revenue model that is at best 1/10th as efficient as search keyword advertising.

You can demo-target display ads all you want, but the facts remain: search engine users are searching for something specific while social network users are just dicking around.

Facebook's current advertising model is essentially the same as Yahoo's display ads plus some demo-target frosting. Note that a) Yahoo has additional revenue streams and b) isn't doing that well.
Here comes the requisite five minute manager hate.

If the suits are so incompetent, why are they in charge of everything? Perhaps they aren't optimizing for what you think they're optimizing?
I'll check that out.
Terminal-based "pico" (part of the pine distribution) is pretty simple to use.
If I knew where my father was or how to contact him, I would! Alas, I will pay homage to the Great Father of us all, and pray for my mortal father, wherever he is.
I think Kate is the default in KDE, have they tried that?
you are triggering the release of very similar drugs to those you'd criticised mere sentences before

Opioids are not similar to any of the drugs described in the article.
It takes time to turn a big boat. I think it's naive of them to not have anticipated this kind of problem. It would also be naive of us to expect an "Ad Rep" who was probably a PolySci student 2 months ago to be able to fix it. If it's really such an UNBEARABLE problem you don't have to bear it. Suspend your ads and come back when it's fixed.
Why the table? I can imagine being confused by something like that. I'd attempt a solution like this before using a table.

Order a CD:
[Google Checkout]
[Paypal]
Purchase a download:
[Google Checkout]
[Paypal]

That way, I still make the decisions in order but only click one link. The tree could be inverted and still work, but this way the label on the links match exactly where you are going.
I think calling electoral systems, a tyranny of the majority, is a gross exaggeration. A multiparty system, one with an empowered opposition where bills require 2/3s not merely 1/2, encourages this within an electoral system.

In Iran, trust in the system was lost. This is much about Iran's supreme leader as it is about the election for president.
Maybe the person learned English as a second language. English is not easy to learn, and it's no sin to screw up a few things. Focus on whether or not you agree with what the person wrote.
Just out of curiousity, why do you fancy that one? It always struck me as the most inept set of four lines Shakespeare ever wrote.
Calling bullshit on your own post might be a smarter idea. Just because it's not intuitive to you doesn't mean it's not mathematically sound.

Your post amounts to "I don't understand statistics or what the hell this article is talking about, therefore I'm going to be suspicious of it."
I find myself constantly glancing at my karma score. I have to remind myself that it does not really matter.

I find my better comments begin with a short initial response, and then after a line break, I go into detail about my thought process if need be.
I've felt like you have many times. Whenever I do, I go read this blog post from Timothy Ferris:

http://tinyurl.com/4l2gpl

It contains this gem of a quote from Marc Andreessen:

“First and foremost, a start-up puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You flip rapidly from day-to-day – one where you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over. And I’m talking about what happens to stable entrepreneurs. There is so much uncertainty and so much risk around practically everything you are doing. The level of stress that you’re under generally will magnify things incredible highs and unbelievable lows at whiplash speed and huge magnitude. Sound like fun?”
Maybe someone who has been in the military can shed more light on this, but I suspect the log test and officer school are testing different qualities. Perhaps the log test emphasizes the ability to rally a group, and officer school emphasizes decision making and analysis skills.
"psychologist Robert Rosenthal, who has praised Roberts for 'approaching data in an exploratory spirit more than, or at least in addition to, a confirmatory spirit' and for seeing data analysis 'as the opportunity to confront a surprise.'"

I think it is a shame so many people frown upon this. I say that because I fiddled around with my diet for years and found out all kinds of things about how I work. It's interesting and I think i'm a better person for it.

For example, whole milk, greasy beef, and certain cheeses give me zits. Every single person I've told calls bullshit and says I'm making it up because "studies prove that what you eat doesn't affect your skin."

Well, that's great, I guess I could eat this greasy cheeseburger and show you what happens in 2 days, but... you wouldn't believe it, anyway.

What's my point? I think a lot of people would be better off if they took an active role in their health like this guy instead of relying 100% on "experts" and studies.
This is the first sensible statement on political systems I have heard in a long time.

You are absolutely correct, the problem in Iran is not a lack of democracy, it is tyranny through democratic means. Just because you win an election, does that mean you should be able to do something that the other 49% of the people find intolerable? It depends on whether you believe in democracy as a guiding principle, or in democracy as the letter of the law. The belief in democracy as the letter of the law, is, in my opinion, democracy taken to the extreme. It is the definition proffered by those who would use democracy as a cover for wanting, winning, and wielding power over those who may, legitimately, disagree with them.

Democracy is a beautiful idea. Now, thanks to the efforts of politicians in democracies of all stripes, not just those in Iran, it has become the principle endorser of divisiveness in the world of ideas. It is being used to give violently divisive ideas an air of legitimacy that they do not deserve.
A 1000 Watt microwave it takes 1 minute to boil 1 cup of
water.

(2 cups 1000W * 1 min / cup) / (60m/h))/ 2.5= 13 and 1/3 hours

So, it could be USB powered if you only used it for ~2 cups a day.
nano is simple enough, if it has to be all keyboard i guess it works fine for that.
No. Sorry, just no. If you buy a Mercedes and they deliver a Yugo, you've been defrauded. Fine, maybe they can't get you the Mercedes back right away but they sure as heck can refund your money. Facebook appears to not even be talking to these customers beyond a form letter. That's just plain wrong. Yes, problems can take time to fix but working with the customers you have just screwed over to compensate them can be done RIGHT AWAY. Apparently they aren't doing this, and that is the problem.
He assumes that, if people have to pay their own money, they are going to make rational economic decisions about health care purchases and will shop around for the best price. This is such utter crap that it is hard to believe that an open minded economist would utter it. Health purchases are not rationally economic. They are made on other considerations like trust in the doctor and increasingly on patient evaluations of treatment options. If you have a kid with a high fever, you dont start googling for the best price.

You could reasonably compress "rational economic decisions" to be ones considering two factors: price and quality. It sounds like you're arguing that people are often willing to pay a lot for high quality healthcare. I think you're correct that people seek high quality healthcare, especially for their children, but I disagree that this implies the consumer isn't making a rational economic decision. The economic term you're looking for is elasticity. It sounds like you're claiming that demand for high-quality healthcare is inelastic. Inelasticity is a well-understood concept, not one that destroys economic analysis.

My impression is that people are cost-conscious when purchasing healthcare. I myself have shopped around for various services. A friend of mine shopped between services in Panama and India for surrogate pregnancy services, and cost was a factor. I've heard that there is a lot of traffic across the Mexico-USA border, and the Canada-USA border, of people seeking cheaper prices. My decisions to purchase from online pharmacies have been driven by price comparisons, and online pharmacies are very popular so I doubt I'm unusual.

These things indicate that cost is a factor at least for some people, when considering healthcare expenditures. I think that Milton Friedman's perception of cost-conscious health consumers was correct.
On Lisp, printed version for $13.02
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainabilit...:

The Beanzawave, which measures just 7.4 inches tall by 6.2 inches wide and 5.9 inches deep, doesn't even need to be plugged into an electrical outlet. The device contains a USB port, so mid-afternoon snacks can be heated up at the computer without expending excess power.
You don't develop those skills unless you have been rickrolled at least 200 times.

Joking aside, you are right. It is unlikely that this is anything but a flaw on Facebook's end.
If youre willing to move I may be able to help you. http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/eng/1228872309.html
Is having a GUI a requirement? If not, check out Diakonos (http://purepistos.net/diakonos/) I haven't used it much, but the keyboard shortcuts are all "standard", and it's branded as a "Linux editor for the masses". Maybe the lack of a GUI would be helpful?
Your understanding of the points you are arguing against is so terrible and flawed that you need to start over from scratch.

(Note the difference between that statement and "the points you are arguing against are correct".)

"He assumes that, if people have to pay their own money, they are going to make rational economic decisions about health care purchases and will shop around for the best price. This is such utter crap that it is hard to believe that an open minded economist would utter it."

The idea that people don't take prices into account is such crap I can't believe anyone could believe it. You argue:

"They are made on other considerations like trust in the doctor and increasingly on patient evaluations of treatment options."

Which betrays a profound misunderstanding of how economics work. Those considerations are indeed weighed... all in a context of how much it costs! If you can't understand it in an emotional arena like health care, consider buying a house. Price isn't the only concern. How much you like it factors in to your final decision. But if you don't consider price at all, you're going to make a very bad decision by any measure, both conventional (you're going to run out of money) and economic utility.

"Yes, I by drugs at Costco because they are cheaper, but that is because Costco has negotiating advantage, not me."

Time for some 5 Whys: Why does Costco have a negotiating advantage? Because they are big? Well, why are they big? You can dance around all you like, but you're going to have to come back to "Because they have you and many other people as customers, and Costco can aggregate your bargaining power together." If Costco screws up and alienates enough customers, they will have no more bargaining power. This is a critical aspect of economic theory. Your conception of Costco as a sort of platonic ideal of a large company, with this fact disconnected from the input of the rest of the economy, is very wrong. Costco's bargaining power is an effect, not just a cause.

I commend to you a lot of time with a textbook: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_ToC...

And I remind, it is not necessarily because "economic theory" must be right... it is because it is objectively true that you don't understand it. Perhaps if you do, you will find you opinion of it changes. (Even if you don't entirely agree with it, it would be weird if moving past a strawman didn't change your opinion.)
The search wars take a silly turn
Safeway's doing great work and genuinely innovating on multiple fronts. Our startup (URL in my profile) is working on this part of it; great to hear that people are interested.

The procedure code part of it is challenging. We're using a combination of plain-English descriptions of the various codes and some predictive modeling to try to get you to the right code. We can't guarantee anything there, but we're hoping we can narrow it down to a small subset and give you a pretty good idea of what your out-of-pocket is going to be.
Bad customer service, yep. It's ok to be angry, but that doesn't invalidate my point: click fraud often takes companies by surprise (though it shouldn't) and that it will take a non-trivial amount of time to fix (I'll guesstimate 3 months once it gets serious attention from management) but it will be fixed. It's like an ant infestation.

In the meantime given the bad customer service and probable time frame, the best thing to do is suspend your ads. FB will pay a LOT more attention to that than how many customers call up to verbally abuse their salespeople or vent on forums.
Many distributions don't install this by default, but nano is there. I find it an acceptable pico clone.
what about firefox + firebug compared to chrome?
Sadly, Dad's been gone for 18 years and my last grandfather passed away last year and I'm only 29. I'll be raising a beer to their memory though.
I mean that if we continue proliferating simplistic views of the effects that drugs have, our collective ability to distinguish between that view and the more nuanced truth will be diminished. We risk redefining "intelligent" to mean "high on speed".

And yes, I am aware of their efficacy, but it's the "only on controlled, specific tasks" part that concerns me. Blanket terms like "mind-enhancing" mask the specifics of their effects in favor of a more marketable label. After all, who doesn't want an enhanced mind? (And it is about marketing. Articles like this reek of PR if you read them closely.)

The distinctions are too important to play so loose with language. If I feel like a genius after downing a fifth of bourbon, that does not make bourbon "mind-enhancing", even if the genius ideas that I have while so sloshed turn out to be right. That's just not what we mean when we say "mind-enhancing".

Likewise for amphetamines. They don't cause you to think better or to have better ideas, they cause you to think all of your ideas are good ones; they don't give you focus, they nullify the sensation of boredom and make everything exciting. At least that's how we describe the same effects when they're caused by cocaine or manic episodes.

We could describe cocaine and meth and manic episodes as "mind-enhancing" by these standards, too, but collectively we've realized that it's more complicated than that, and describing them as something universally positive would be misleading. You also can't patent cocaine or sell a manic episode.
What is the point of celebrating something at time intervals that correspond to one rotation of the earth around the sun? Isn't that completely arbitrary?
I don't think it's as unlikely as you suggest.

Click an advertisement on Facebook, you'll see it redirected as Facebook registers it in a few milliseconds, but you'll have several seconds before the actual targeted site loads and can easily close it.
I'm generally a fan of SciTE. It runs on Linux, Mac and Window with the exact same UI; you can drive it with a keyboard alone. It is very simple to use, but it's intended as an editor for code (it has built-in syntax hiliting for a large number of languages) so it may not be _exactly_ what he is looking for unless he writes his letters in LaTeX...
Eric Lippert wrote an article a while back about "Cargo Cult Programmers" (http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.a...)

It would appear to be a meme that can be applied to almost anything...
Ok, but how to interpret the results? If the memory is not used, it is a problem that Chrome takes up so much of it?
A lot of scientists would be very pleased to have results with a 99.5% confidence. The fact that the results have a 0.5% chance of being real, combined with the fact that Ahmadinejad's votes have a significantly different distribution from the other candidates' makes this a pretty strong argument.