skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy and freedom isn't going to feed the North Koreans. They need an authoritarian government that understands geopolitics and economics, and has the ability to exploit the former to jump-start the latter. It's how every successful East Asian country has done it - Japan (Meiji bureaucracy and then LDP post-WW2), South Korea (Park Chung-hee), Singapore (Lee Kuan-yew), Taiwan (KMT in the 70s/80s), and now China (CCP). Of course, it's possible that they end up with a shitty dictator (like in the Philippines), but democracy only produces change very slowly.
It seems like a number of problems (erosion of privacy, abuse of advertising channels, etc) would cease to exist if users were charged some small sum for the use of Web services that are now ad-supported.

As someone who's utterly naive when it comes to building a Web property, I'd like to understand why this idea is bad/hard/crazy. What is a typical set of eyeballs really worth on a high-traffic site? Are paywalls the kiss of death?
Save your rage. The parent was referring to the article Gruber is critiquing, not Gruber's article.
Oh, please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunus_expedition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimosodat

Moreover, Finland right-wing government was supported by Germany in 1918 and prospect of Finland allying itself with German once again seems quite probable.

I can only repeat myself:
In case you are wondering, my position is that 1917's revolution was a tragedy and Russia would've been better off if it didn't happen, Stalin is a criminal etc., but the logic of moving border westward have nothing to do with this because I don't see any alternative scenarios not leading to bigger casualties on part of Russia.
Square is basically trying to buy marketshare right now.

Everyone regardless of size pays the same base prices to Visa and Mastercard [1] and makes up profit in markups. A large processing network can charge lower markups because they process many more transactions, where smaller processors needs to make more on each. Smaller processing networks also make money on fees (chargeback fees for example), but Square does not.

The only way to profitability would be to try and shift transactions off the processing networks (like with Square Wallet), or to 1000x transaction volume.

1. http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-...
I've got the XPS 13 standard edition (max-specced refurb was half-price of the dev edition!) and it's been nearly smooth sailing.

One difference between the dev and std editions is the wifi chipset - 6235 in std, 6230 in dev (and some reports of the AR9462 in others). The wifi was practically unusable for me until I manually disabled power-saving on the wifi interface.

Also had a couple of instances where the machine has dropped into a coma (even on full battery). Usually after rebooting or suspending. Quite scary when it happens, since the long-hold power button trick doesn't always revive it. It usually comes back to life later but I wish I knew what was causing this.

Also have to run the battery all the way down to 0% (the point at which the HW forces a shutdown) and charge back up to 100% every couple of months else the calibration goes wonky.

Lovely machine though.
Excellent talk. When describing the map coloring problem I think he mean to say the minimum number of colors, required to color the countries such that no two countries that border each other have the same color.
I found/find it interesting that the Oberon system is written in a language that has garbage collection built in (the Oberon programming language). I haven't checked how it is dealing with allocation in interrupt handlers, though. I should, it is a small system and probably deserves reading the code of.
I thought this was a discussion about Facebook serving higher resolution digital photos - why is physics relevant here?
Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use on OSX?
There seam to be many alternatives. I would be interested in knowing why you use <alternative> and how is it better to default terminal ?
Dubai is a lovely place as long as you love empty desert visas, sandstorms, and you don't mind not having many of the freedoms or safeties that you would enjoy in the US, Europe, or even most of Asia.

For example, public kissing is a felony in Dubai. A woman walking around in public "indecently clothed" is a felony (though exceptions are provided for hotel guests and beach visitors). Drinking is a felony, though hotels and other tourist spots are excepted. There is no free speech in the UAE. If you badmouth the royal family, you've committed a felony. If you badmouth Islam, you could be put to death (but most likely would be killed by religious zealots long before trial). Worse, for expatriates--if you aren't a UAE citizen and you commit a violation of your employment agreement, you've committed a felony and your visa is subject to destruction, effectively barring you from leaving the country without the assistance of your embassy.

Oh...and by the way...if you're a foreign corporation, you end up paying a 50+% income tax. While there technically is no income tax in Dubai, all companies doing business in any UAE member state must be at least 50% owned by a local company, and by law, all eligible local companies are owned by the state or a member of the royal family.

I have quite a few clients that operate in Dubai. Without exception, they limit their time in Dubai to strictly what is necessary for their business, because it's a decidedly unpleasant place to be once you've experienced the very limited touristy options.
What is the real cost of your online attention?
From a common man to Cheif Minister in an year.
The problem of SSDs, as others have mentioned here, is that writing during power loss can have more important effects: it can overwrite firmware bits or mapping bits. In the first case the whole SSD is dead, in the second case, much more data than the one currently written is lost.
This is closer in size to a travel trailer.
That's almost how twitter's web UI is setup
The Xperia Z1's sensor is actually 1/2.3", so it's smaller than that.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 does have a 2/3" sensor however.
Really weird; I just made these last night and the post shows up here today. They're delicious, by the way.
If I were to create a new OS today, it would basically look like an iPad-ish screen of icons as a front-end to Xen. Each "app" would be a stand-alone virtual machine image custom configured to run a /single/ application each.

I'm speaking out of my rear end, but it seems like that's where we're all headed in order to achieve the security/configurability/reliability/simplicity/etc that we all want. As examples, I point to sandboxed mobile/browser/cloud/game console apps as well as config sandboxing such as VirtualEnv and .Net's dll versioning. Might as well drop the half-measures and go all the way. Skip DLL/API/browser version hell and just ship a complete OS image that has been configured and tested to work reliably for the app.

It's my understanding that the Xbox One has basically implemented this already. Game discs contain an OS image that runs as a guest OS on the Box. In addition to improved security, this should greatly reduce the back-compat test burden as future Xbox OS revisions come out.
Before people get up in arms about iA patents, see this tweet where they announced that they're dropping their patents pending: https://twitter.com/iA/statuses/416393539182796800

That aside, this is pretty cool. I'm not sure if I'd ever use it, but it would be cool to see a vim plugin that offers similar functionality.
That last point strikes me as a very valuable piece of information which I've never seen spelled out before: consultants/freelancers should specialize in a vertical.

(I'm reading between the lines to assume that you don't actually have a problem with teams standardizing around a specific stack, but rather that they shouldn't market themselves that way; either way, that's not really the interesting part.)
Think of North Korea as one gigantic hostage situation. Has it ever gone well when the so-called good guys decide to go in shooting? There are far more tactful ways to effect a rescue, it just requires a whole lot of political will which we are sadly lacking.
>I had been a die-hard Apple lover for years.

I don't buy it. None of your gripes are problems that real users of Apple products would claim to be an actual problem. Your submission history seems to back this up.
Most people who choose to live this way in highly-efficient areas are +3 standard deviations away from the mean when it comes to wealth, which is also highly correlated with lack of progeny. So I wouldn't be worried about that.
Very little about "technology at large" and mostly apologetics for Apple.
http://www.multicians.org/myths.html
iTerm2

Really, the only reason is that cmd+left and cmd+right switch between tabs. The built in Terminal uses cmd+{ and cmd+}.
It's great to see many resources for keeping up with the unknown giant nowdays!
Indeed! Me and my fat fingers. :)
Lunch with the FT: Peter Thiel
There is a US TV show called "Elementary" which uses the characters Sherlock Holmes and Watson, set in NYC in the present day.
I've recently switched from android (my latest was a GS3) to iPhone 5s. I figured it was time for me to give Apple a shot at my phone. While screen size hasn't bothered me, you hit the nail on the head with Swype (or just the choice of alternate keyboards). I have found many things better in iOs than Android and vice versa, but my biggest gripe so far has been the keyboard.
Nope, no minimum room size for single-room occupancy. Minimum square footage in NYC for 2 people is around 140 square feet I believe. I lived in a 6'x10' space on east 82nd street for years, and paid a fourth what my neighbors paid in rent. Of course that was still more than I pay now for my 2BR in Seattle...
I agree. I decided to give away my prized collection of books and move to e-books in my quest for minimalism. The only challenge that remains now is my musical instruments. :)
I have the exact same problems when playing with others, or hearing a song in a concert which has been transposed. I freak out when someone thinks he's just about right with the key, but is way off chart.

I also recognise notes in relative to C though, so it might just be really good relative pitch
They have the gnu info pages which comes with emacs. Man pages is a dying artform. With all the github projects out there they may have, if your lucky, a help dialog switch but no proper man page for their projects.
Key words: "had been"

Merriam-Webster:

been |bin|
past participle of be.
The Samsung SM843T has power loss protection, among other things, and is priced really competitively to the Intel S3500.
1) Indeed. Google today is kinda schizophrenic when it comes to this kind of policies: super strict rules about the content and the way it gets displayed in SERPs by google Search, totally non-chalant and pretty lax about Adwords campaigns that are borderline scammy.
Sometimes they look like the totally separated departments of a dystopian government from the Future, à la Brazil.

2) Hard to do before an investigation takes place. Sure there are recognizable patterns but the easiest route is still to block and refund after the fraud has actually
happened.

3) Well, more than that the Govts should spend their money on educating people to avoid this kind of scams
Absolute pitch is often an obstacle in ear training. Speaking as someone who got the highest grade in a few college-level ear-training courses in music degree programs, the students with perfect pitch had a lot of problems that I didn't. Transposition in particular gave them problems. A really strong sense of relative pitch is much more valuable, especially for areas like jazz theory.
In a nutshell, we encountered two problems (which may or may not be prevalent with all Earthships)

1. Extreme temperature fluctuations. You're essentially living inside a solar collector. In the fall, the sun would blaze in through the windows, and I know you're supposed to have overhangs, shades and air vents and underground air circulation systems, all of which we used. The bottom line is you can't cheat physics. Even with the shades closed, the house is receiving over 300k BTU/hr of solar heat. This is just too much for any reasonably sized cooling system to handle. My infrared thermometer measured surface temperatures in excess of 140 deg. F on surfaces near the windows. In the winter, the same windows would leak heat like a sieve. Here in Montana when it's overcast, 10 deg. F, and the wind is blowing 30 mph the front of the house would barely reach 55 deg F. This was with the 30k BTU propane furnace going 100% duty cycle. I would work at my computer with long pants, a sweater, a blanket over my legs, and an electric heater blowing under the blanket :) The rear of the house is built into the hillside, so it would be warmer in the back, but you could never get the place past about about 65-68 in the winter no matter how much you tried. The sheer size of the front windows and lack of insulation again made the house design at odds with thermodynamics in my opinion.

For the sake of comparison, our place in the hangar has ~R30 walls to the hangar, and again about ~R25 walls to the outside. We have in-floor radiant heat provided by our geothermal heat pump. Earlier this month when it was -20 deg. F outside we were toasty warm at 74 (we have a newborn child in the house now). And we were using significantly less energy to heat than at the Earthship.

2. Mice. The house construction methods are inherently porous, and mice have infiltrated the entire structure. They live in the cavities the walls form (and the roof supports), along the utility raceways in the ceiling, under cabinets, everywhere. I surmise that the mice have tunneled through the back of the hillside, between the tires, and up into the hollow cavities which support the ceiling. They then use this space to move around the inside of the house structure to other areas. No amount of trapping poisoning, etc. has slowed the onslaught of mice into the house. If the only way to prevent mice from infiltrating your supposedly green house is to use concrete in its construction and set outdoor poison traps which potentially kill hundreds of mice and may harm animals which then consume the poisoned mice, is this really such a green alternative?

I've visited an Earthship being constructed in Big Sky Montana by Mike Reynolds this year. The design changes I've seen may partially address point 1, but as far as point 2 I'm not at all convinced that this new house will be any better. I admire his vision, and that he's been able to take his ideas so far. From an engineering standpoint, even taking into account the ecological footprint of the structure, I'm not convinced that his approach is the best when you look at the whole picture.
If you guys like this, then make sure to look at an interview with Marcin Jakubowski the founder of Open Source Ecology.

He said that you can build your own house for $2000 dollar.

I can't find that report now, but here is a link to their discussion form.

http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/903/building-a...

they even open source the design to build your own brick presser.
Very cool, looking forward to hearing from you!
Sure, but the cost will probably consume your entire savings.
Your list of complaints reads like something you've read about on the internet and does not at all seem like something an actual customer would list as a problem.

>I had no idea at the time of initial release that everything including the battery, was soldered/glued to the main board/case and what little was replaceable was all proprietary. When I came upon this information, I was shocked.

Lmao. Good troll.
So what does that make cloud service providers like dropbox? Aren't they directly analogous to me giving a document to someone to put in a safe?
If they put decent (read: not mobile chipset) graphics in the iMac's the higher end models would fit the bill as a decent mid-range.
Some of Google's internal architecture is inspired by plan9, e.g., gfs. Plan9 also included a language called Aleph which has today evolved into golang.

Union mounts have been particularly interesting: something plan9 implemented, but no one else has successfully.
> I think he means MS does make compelling products, they just can't market them as well.

I think there's a blurry place between marketing and UX where Microsoft falls flat.

For example, Windows got "Shadow Volume Copy", and then OSX got "Time Machine." Windows could have done something exactly like Time Machine given Shadow Volume Copy, but they didn't until Windows 8 (File History Backup.) And so people use Time Machine as the example when they ask questions like "but if my computer is getting backed up, and it contains my music library, is that fair use?"

Now, is that a marketing failure, a UX failure, or something that's not quite either? Either way, it's a failure to create something users will want to talk about.
Today we have mobile phones and tablets running on a 64-bit desktop-caliber CPU architecture.

This is so silly it reminds me of the time when XML was praised in computer magazines as the approaching revolution in how everyone, including desktop end-users, will work...
It is about as shiny as the top of a Macbook Air. Studio lights and Photoshop are used heavily on the marketing shots.
here is more detail. It is called a

OSE Microhouse

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Microhouse
I need to add that unlike you, I was actually completely left behind on these classes. Younger I felt what it was to understand too fast and I just doodled while people where catching up. But in college it was the opposite.
It's the successor to BeOS.
The key to typing fast on iOS is to not stop and correct yourself when you make a mistake and let it correct it for you. After many years typing on iPhones, I'm much faster than I ever was on Blackberry with a physical keyboard.
> State taxes are deductible for federal income tax purposes.

How does that work, considering federal taxes must be figured before the state?

Edit: looks like itemize and sched A are necessary.
Valleywag attacks Paul Graham
First of all, let me point out that 1/3 and 2/3 are both rational numbers, so if you can imagine them with empty space between, you've imagined two rational numbers with empty space between.

> It's even easy to give an example of two points in the [Cantor] set that can (sanely) be depicted with empty space in-between: 1/3 and 2/3. If I'm not mistaken that example also disproves your stated conjecture... [that between any two points in the set, there is a third one] ;)

Fair enough. Consider, then, the intersection of the Cantor set with the irrational numbers (you can think of this as the "open Cantor set"). It is, obviously, a subset of the Cantor set, and really does have the property described.

Since I'm feeling embarrassed about that last time, a proof follows:

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The Cantor set consists of all real numbers in the interval [0,1] which have a "decimal" expansion in trinary which does not contain the digit 1. That is to say, they can be expressed in terms of powers of (1/3) such that the coefficient of each power of 1/3 is either 0 or 2. (1/3 would usually be represented in trinary as 0.1, but is in the Cantor set because of its representation as 0.02222222...)

Let a,b be two irrational numbers in the Cantor set, a less than b. There is some decimal place at which they diverge, and since a is smaller, it has a 0 at that point, while b has a 2. Since a is irrational, it also has a 0 at some later point in its expansion (if every digit after that were 2, then a's expansion would be repeating and a would be rational). The number constructed by substituting a 2 for a 0 at that index is greater than a, less than b, and in the Cantor set.

Graphical representation of the proof:

a = 0.......0......
b = 0.......2......

then

a = 0.......0....0.....
c = 0.......0....2.....
b = 0.......2..........
From Microsoft:

"Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior."

"The Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 2.0 is now available for academic non-commercial use. You can download it from CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting website"

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/
If you want to take a constructivist viewpoint, it doesn't exist. You can define constructible analysis, where you only work with numbers that you can approximate arbitrarily well using a Turing machine (this is a subset of all numbers that you can define, since you can do tricks with the halting problem). But constructible numbers still don't have decidable equality, since the halting problem reduces to constructible equality: is the number whose 2^-ith place is 1 if and only if the Turing machine M halts on the ith step equal to 0? You can approximate it arbitrarily well by running M for more and more steps, but proving that it's 0 would require proving that M never halts. (You can, however, get decidable ordering if you know a priori two numbers are unequal, simply by approximating them close enough that you can distinguish them.)

Personally, I'm not a constructivist; I think that these undefinable real numbers exist just as well as the ones that we can define. But that's a philosophical argument and I was never any good at those.
On power up, there's a pretty big spike in power usage as the controller gets its shit together. Normally, this is not an issue, since the SSD housing simply absorbs the heat and then goes about its business. The same holds true for spindle drives.

What this guy did was test the drives in a manner they weren't designed for. Sure, I can drop Corvettes off a 20 story building, then bitch about the results, but that wouldn't change the fact that my test was flawed from the onset.

All he did was subject something to an environment is wasn't designed for.

Sure, I can drop a Corvette from a 20 story building, but there's nothing to be gained when the crumple zone is packed into the tail lights.
"Lets combine CAPTCHA with advertisement."

I _really_ hate this.
Greenspun's tenth rule writ large.
A glimpse into a new programming language under development at Microsoft
Nesta playng safe with 2014 predictions
Couldn't you remap those in Keyboard settings or use BetterTouchTool to remap those? Granted, I like iTerm2 for other reasons as well
How to Escape the Community College Trap
That's already common. I'm typing this on Firefox for Android which has Sync enabled, and all the tabs from my laptop are here (and vice versa). You just need to choose applications with support for that.
Free economic zones like the Dubai Internet City exist, where 100% foreign ownership is permitted. I agree that there are many other issues though. Could I have your input on this please (if you have the time): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904888 .. I'd love to hear your opinion since you have a lot of knowledge in this field.
I was trying to figure out where this was myself, digging thru last year's tax forms. Looks like you need to itemize and complete a Schedule A to use it.
I think what you actually want is static linking, with an OS that supports kernel ABIs going back many years (like FreeBSD) and good process/user-level restrictions. Running an entire operating system for every application is a bit heavyweight.
Umm..this is too stupid to argue with, sorry.
Now can someone PLEASE post the recipe for KFC batter.

I walked into a KFC and ask to buy a bag of batter, it is how funny they turned very serious all the sudden and asked me to leave to store.

I mean I just want to use it on real organic chicken. Anyone???
Sounds like a opportunity for the NSA -- who should be aware of all of this -- to close them down and gain some credibility.
There's always the phone Ocarina: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/ocarina/