skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair (and probably pedantic :), natural monopolies don't happen in any free market given enough time. It's more like, certain very specific markets (such as ISPs and desktop operating systems, apparently) have built-in dynamics that lead to natural monopolies. Most markets aren't like this and can remain competitive without regulation.

My desktop OS example requires some clarification- there were plenty of things Microsoft did in the '80s and '90s where they exploited their position in the market to increase market share. Per-processor licensing fees are a prime example of that- a PC vendor that wanted to license a Microsoft OS would have to pay a licensing fee for every computer they sold, regardless of whether or not that computer had an MS OS on it. However, one could argue that this was a consequence of MS already having a monopoly (50% market share can be considered a monopoly in some markets), and they were exploiting that monopoly to become even more deeply entrenched. I honestly think that the desktop OS market in the pre-web days had very strong tendencies towards a natural monopoly regardless of whether or not any given player in that market was engaging in unfair business practices to achieve that monopoly.

Any time discussion about competing products revolves around which product is ultimately going to "win", there is an implicit assumption that the market those products compete in tends towards natural monopolies. It may not be true, but the people participating in those discussions think so even if they're not fully aware of it.
VM CAN share binaries/libs/etc (otherwise called files)

also, VMs CAN "share" memory. ie VMs can dedup memory between themselves. On Linux at least.

Not saying docker/lxc and all things namespaces are bad at all - but setting things straight. VMs can do this:)

Checkout KSM for memory "sharing" and any overlay-style file system that is mounted by VMs (this one works exactly the same as when you use namespaces/docker/lxc in fact)
Jerk is also the guy talking loudly on his cellphone while a subway moves between stations. There is a clear limit to how much jerk average standing(or sitting) passengers can survive before they fall down on the guy and knock his teeth out. :)
Could you host your mail on a VPN instead? I wouldn't mind doing this except for the fact that I'm 100% certain I'd get something wrong.
"Can HHVM use standard PHP extensions?"

Our internal plumbing is different, so the extension APIs aren't the same, thus PHP extensions can't normally be used with HHVM. Paul has a source-compatability transformer which works for simple extensions (no fancy stuff allowed), but we recommend anyone with an extension consider porting the code.

If your extension is one of those "This was written in PHP but we wanted it to be faster so we turned it into C" types, you should consider going back to PHP for it. In practice, we find that HHVM can JIT PHP code into running about as fast as (sometimes faster than) C/C++ extension code.

If you do need to dip into C/C++ (because you're calling an external library), the API we've designed is a LOT easier to work with than PHP's. And I say that with the authority of having written THE book on writing PHP extensions: http://amazon.com/dp/067232704X .

I'm working on proper documentation for extensions as we speak, but for now you can find some very basic info at https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Extension-API .
> Learning Objective-c and Android java dev isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be

Where did you start? As a web developer Java and Objective-C seem really complicated and require so much code for the simplest things.
this kind of shape is also used in high speed machining, when there is no need for a precise path (pocket roughing for example), it's better to avoid the shock (infinite jerk) of a circular arc.
Dogecoin managed to be pretty easy, though. (I've never used bitcoin, so I don't know how much difference there is.)
Everyone knows that with enough praise on HN, founders don't need to have thick skins to survive. Failure is the fault of those who criticize.

Or at least, that's what I'm getting from your comment.
Read the title more closely -- the revelations are costing tech companies, not the spying itself.
> This is a bit naive isn't it? Imagine contacting FINCEN, or whatever other appropriate regulatory agencies at the time of MtGox's founding when Bitcoin was a novelty and worth practically nothing. Imagine trying to explain to them what a "Bitcoin" is.

Much of the financial regulation that exists that would apply to MtGox has nothing to do with Bitcoin per se, it has to do with keeping customer accounts denominated in fiat currency and disbursing funds at customer direction from those accounts to accounts of other customers.
Ooh, point.
The performance impact really depend on your server and traffics. Currently with high traffic server it will take quite some amount of CPU if running for awhile, after 15-20 mins or so, but I'm working on reduce that. So now it mostly useful to know what's going on with your nginx at the moment but not over a long period.
Project Scaffolding Template for Web Apps
It is, though defense attorneys and judges rarely call them on this since it is a bridge-burner. Once you do this, you can be pretty sure they're acting within the rules/ethical obligations in future dealings, but you're also less likely to get good deals from them since they're much less willing to negotiate. This matters since most criminal defendants actually are guilty (and admit it!) and don't want to go to trial.
Ask HN: Getting back into Python
About to start a job doing python; it's been over 10 years since I've written any. All I remember is lots of indentation.

I've been doing C# for the last 10 years, so I'm quite out of touch with the latest in python development.

What's the best IDE for writing python? (on Mac OS X)

I see a lot of options out there, but would like to hear what people are actually using. Mostly I want an IDE that supports debugging.

I see that Xcode supports python, does anyone use that?

Thanks!
Mulithreaded using the pthreads api or something else? Any chance there's code I could take a look at (I'm curious!)
Yeah, by the same logic, the NYT causes anguish by reporting on tragedies and disasters.

EDIT: ALSO:

> Despite the tech companies’ assertions that they provide information on their customers only when required under law — and not knowingly through a back door — the perception that they enabled the spying program has lingered

Nobody cares if data leaks are intentional or legal. When China was suspected of backdooring routers in 2012 I don't recall anyone caring if it was intentional by the Chinese Tech Companies, or the legality of it if it was intentional. The Congress issued a report saying :

Chinese telecommunications companies provide an opportunity for the Chinese
government to tamper with the United States telecommunications supply chain. That
said, understanding the level and means of state influence and control of economic
entities in China remains difficult. As Chinese analysts explain, state control or influence
of purportedly private-sector entities in China is neither clear nor disclosed.34
The Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, experts explain, can exert
influence over the corporate boards and management of private sector companies, either
formally through personnel choices, or in more subtle ways.35
As ZTE’s submission to the Committee states, “the degree of possible government influence must vary across a
spectrum.”36

[...]

Recommendation 2: Private-sector entities in the United States are strongly encouraged
to consider the long-term security risks associated with doing business with either ZTE or
Huawei for equipment or services. U.S. network providers and systems developers are
strongly encouraged to seek other vendors for their projects.

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...
How do I use it?
Is it a SaaS, a Chrome extension, or...?
> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousands of slaves per pyramid. It's a good thing that we've transcended the necessity for hundreds of thousands of slaves when raising buildings, don't you think?

False, they were skilled, paid laborers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_t...

Apologies for being irrelevant to the main point, but this is a tired myth.
What about the "cum" in the middle of the sentence?
I just don't understand. From this report, all persons involved look like kindergarten kids, herself inclusive. What's wrong with this world.
1. You want shares that don't dilute.
2. You want to make sure you are a partner on the C-Corp/S-Corp.
3. You don't want to setup an LLC.
4. You want to make sure you are getting a K1 each year.
5. You want this all in writing before accepting your offer for salary, etc.
6. Your title should be Founder / <whatever you do>
Duly noted, will not be so negative on long running processes. :)
> just slowly reinvents everything

Yep. Not sure why they didn't just copy WPF or even Android's way years ago.
They made praising comments about the service last time.
This document[1] seems to imply that Django works with Python3 since 1.5. But I don't find mentions of it in the release notes of 1.7b1[2] on the Python Compatibility area.

My main interest in porting my 1.3 Django App to a newer version is to get Python 3 support.

Does anyone here run Django on Python3 and care to share the experience?

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.7/#python-c...
In this country, the citizens have guns too. This is actually a pretty big reason for why the police are so heavily militarized here as compared to gun-prohibitionist nations like France or Germany.

But the law does not boil down to men with guns--it boils down to our voluntary consent to live by the laws by choosing to live here (immigrants) or to remain here (everyone else) as opposed to somewhere else, like the wonderfully law-free nation of Somalia.
Better late than never. The same would go for ensuring that Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz don't wreck other valuable lives.
> He/She just needed to know where to stop.

Well, that's a good thing right? You're pretty much saying "I knew this person once who wanted to do something, knew it was illegal and so scaled back their plans to fit within the law. What a scumbag."
Pretty good but it's only been one day.

I started by copying these out by hand every morning. It sounds cheesy, but it does give me the chance to reflect on them which may work better in the long run.

Or I could keep both strategies. It's stuff like "Get up if you don't feel like working. Don't guilt yourself into trying to work." so it does help if I can see it in the middle of the workday.
Their marketing and fund-raising approaches also seem to be completely different. I think this was good for both of them, especially if Dileep is licensing from Numenta.

Win-win scenario.
I know the rainbow light thing is so it doesn't just look like an aluminum tube, but I hope you can turn that off. I wouldn't want my battery to sit there and continually use power to light up the HEY LOOK AT ME lights.
I'm really looking forward to see what this team is building.
I'm sorry, i've heard this argument for 15 years, and it's still as false now as it was then.
It's really just staunch privacy advocates thinking that their position is really right, and everyone would see the light if only they could be educated.
Everyone likes to think this about their position. It's not limited to privacy contexts.

Your problem is not education. Your problem is your position is just a marginal one. Sad in some ways, but true.

The truth is, people have bigger fish to fry than this, and like a lot of things, they like to talk about some stuff, but when push comes to shove, "privacy" is just nowhere on the list of priorities, educated about it or not. The market would already exist otherwise.
'Seeing' & understanding unstructured textual data is a huge step towards replacing manual human work.

Captcha appears to be a good place to start. It'd be awesome to feed some software a mess of an Excel document, and ask it to analyze a question
> How about just make Javascript frigging fast so everyone can code their own layout system?

Because separating content (HTML) from layout (CSS) from behavior (JS) is a good thing, and because, particularly, being able to have content work without layout or behavior (for situations where you just need the content), and to have content and layout work without behavior (for situations where you just need static presentation) are important.
Read it later when you have more time, I enjoyed the garden-path walk to get to the answer. Hopefully you will too.
Transbay Transit Center
As a publisher, I'd question when I'd actualy get money for the content I sold, if I have to wait for every "customer" to accumulate €5 before they forked over cash. Until LaterPay has significant market penetration, the likelyhood is that small publishers will never see any revenue.
It remembers your preferred volume, though that feature isn't very discoverable. You could set it to zero and all videos would start muted. Ideas on making that more discoverable?
"vastly expand the welfare state and divvy up at least part of the accumulated surplus to everyone"

That's a technology we haven't had much luck with so far. We've had economies where "distribution" was related to direct wealth creation (make a sandwich and eat it myself), property & labour (you make a sandwich with my bread,we eat half each), thievery (gimme your sandwich). We've done sharing in small groups, that may have been the paleo-economy. We've doe bits of charity welfarism, redistribution and centralization but never really succeeded at making those work well at a large scale, especially for those supposed to be protected by it.
I've been getting a bunch of hits from this and couldn't figure out why! Glad someone did some more research on it.
Do you mean to say a look-and-feel consistent with other sites I may have visited rather than some special snowflake whiz bang mystery meat UI that some "designer" cooked up? Yeah, the people of Somerville are really missing out.
> Is anyone else more disturbed at the 4chan-esque style of the author, than the actual ramifications of the "presentation"?

Probably, but that sounds like a bad idea to me.
Side question: I saw a project similar to this, but display
top in your terminal/browser with a beautiful visual dashboard. I remember seeing it here on HN recently but I can't find it. I mention that because it has a non-ascii visual component. I am interested in looking at the two source codes and see if I could make pretty dashboard out of it...

EDIT:

Thanks for finding the, HNers. I also think it is possible to look at IPythoNoteBook integration.
Very much reminded me of WPF, where grids are awesome. This being CSS, the syntax is a bit wonky, but it is certainly very good news for a world stuck in "pick any one of three sizes" bootstrap grids.
I think the author makes a poor analogy here:

>> This would be as similar to blowing up a nuclear plant in New Jersey only if the nuclear plant were stupid enough to put a button on their website – hidden, obviously, through a feat of minor obfuscation – that said “Press Here To Blow Up Nuclear Plant.”

Not having experience in nuclear plants, I would not be surprised to learn that there's a lever/button/etc. that would destroy the plant if pressed at the wrong time. Maybe the button to remove all the control rods or something. Airplanes, cars, computers all have a similar button (e.g. steering wheel, rm -rf, etc.). In any case, it's not obvious to me that a power plant couldn't be destroyed by someone actively trying to do so, especially if that person thinks he's special because he can see through the "minor obfuscation".

So I think this was a really bad analogy.

I don't know enough about weev to have an informed opinion.
Replicating the neocortex is Kurzweil's vision / approach also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Create_a_Mind
go for Redhat certificate . they are best in it
How many products have you designed and shipped? If that number is non-zero, have you had a problem with cheap offshore reproductions messing with your business?
2 examples of Streams in Java 8
Sounds very similar to NYC's 311 app, which still sometimes surprises me with how interactive and transparent feeling it can make the huge unwieldy city bureaucracy.
We saw this referral on our stats a few months back, and I was naive enough to signup to the service to check it out... it was total rubbish, and deleted my account immediately.

Clicky recently tweeted about banning them from the stats https://twitter.com/clicky/status/445704464750501890
Criminal courts aren't allowed to evaluate whether the defendant is good or bad. It's actually one of the basic federal rules of evidence. Character evidence is relevant and admissible only if the defense first makes the defendant's character a part of the defense.

Courts should evaluate...whether the law is consistent with constitution.

This seems to be a big misunderstanding in the tech world. Courts already do make sure laws are consistent with the Constitution; that is one of their primary jobs. But they primarily do this when the law is challenged--usually when it is first introduced or on its first application to a novel set of facts. The courts do not re-determine the constitutionality of a law every time a criminal case proceeds, and especially not when the constitutionality of the law has already been addressed in prior cases.
The only other top I know of is htop http://hisham.hm/htop/ but I don't think that's what you're looking for
Turkey's Attempt To Block Twitter Is Backfiring Spectacularly
The recharges and station availability are more the problem. The Tesla Model S has longer range than a good number of popular gas cars including several Ford Mustang models.

The solutions already exist if we find a way to deploy them. We even have the technology today to recharge your car wirelessly while it's driving.

With wireless induction charging, you won't have to stop driving until it's time to rotate your tires or use the restroom.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/advanced-cars/...
There's a key difference: Elon Musk is delivering results.

The scientific method enables one to deliver results because its models are predictive, not merely explanatory. The engineering and science we do today is also predictive because it relies on models cultivated within this methodology.

Equating today's "best guesses" with those in medieval or ancient times is absolutely inane.
You typed your comment on a highly effective cross-platform UI, and I'm reading it on the very same. While there is a place for experiences tailored for specific devices, cross-platform UI also offers value, especially for fast prototyping and iteration.
Indeed the unauthorized access to office sucks. But what strikes me the most is the totally nonsensical(to me) sensational emotional reactions of each person. How can trivial, pointless things be blown out of proportion as to incite "crying"/"shaking" reactions, passive-aggressive behaviors, and even code-deleting? Are they really grown-ups, 30s & 40s, or just 3-year-olds? This is insane.
You're using Cold War logic in a world of martyrdom.
Can anyone give a description for users that can't play the video?
Maybe that one? https://github.com/Unitech/pm2
JQM is so unbelievably terrible. Been working with it for the past year.
Not any more indentation than code in any other language (you indent anyway, whether that's enforced or not).

Python has IDLE (which is cross-platform), but I prefer writing with Sublime Text(on Ubuntu).

Here's a list for you:

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

Good luck, codr.
Why is this person renting or buying an apartment in a building whose management allows their residents to rent their apartments out like hotel rooms? Why can't this function through contracts with disputes being adjudicated through a court system rather than through comparatively blunt statutory regulation? For example, replace "run a hotel with strangers coming and going at all hours" with 'smoke cigarettes' or 'own a pet.'
Bloc announces Front-End apprenticeship
I’m really not sure I see your point. This is about math and physics, so I would assume anyone who writes about it writes about the same things and has similar diagrams.

Also, this is not a scientific paper. As long as words, diagrams or very specific and very novel ideas (nothing of that kind seems to be happening here) are not lifted directly I really fail to see the problem.

My math and physics textbooks in school didn’t contain any citations either.
Probably Larry Page already knew about this when he recently said he'd rather invest in Musk biz than Gates charity?

(Not that I agree with him, but it helps explain why he uttered such a thing.)
You can drag anything into the Evernote icon on a mac too.
I think this is because stubbornness is built into the Turkish national identity. Especially when it comes to politics, if people start to feel that they are being wronged, they will be very, very stubborn about finding a way to express it.
What type of Python work will you be doing? Web, ML, desktop, etc?
Messing around with
True however if it was used for legitimate proposes like by Netflix what's your excuse for throttling if it's not piracy.

Plus I suspect that if they ever go to such draconian lengths there would just be a lot of random protocols popping up and it will turn into another race of cat and mouse until the filters get so bloated it can't handle the traffic anymore.
The Designer Hired to Make Obamacare a Beautiful Thing
> need to at least understand the basic details in order to maintain their ethical obligations to their position, the court, and the defendant.

So, if he didn't do this, and knew he didn't do it, couldn't one argue that he should be disbarred, or at least be subjected to some sort of professional sanction?
Free Speech or Stone Age.

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/06/free-speech-or-...
It’s time to return to the moon, former NASA division chief says
If what you're really after is designing a scalable website - which is very different from system admin stuff - I think the "Building Scalable Websites" book is a great place to start: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596102357.do

Perhaps a bit dated (2006), but most of it would still be relevant.
I like this.

Now I don't want to sound like the guy who said "who needs dropbox when you can use rsync" but I actually just implemented something like this using rsynch and file folders to organize random clippings and notes in a similar way.

So far it's working pretty good. [1]

There is definitely potential for dragdis unfortunately it isn't possible to find out more without signing up which I am not willing to do. Or to login. And I am always concerned about not controlling the host that the data sits on.

[1] Objects are rsynced to a cloud host and they can then be viewed or retrieved from laptop, desktop etc.
Fulfills the browser aspect of the question...this?

http://scoutapp.github.io/scout_realtime/
Servo making progress on Acid2
I asked this here 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411541

I'm not sure why it's not repeatedly mentioned. The news talks about the futuristic hardware upgrades with GPS, etc. However, we can solve most of the problem today.
Do they provide only the certification, or training too?
New York congestion pricing plan gains actual momentum