skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying for software virtually limits the supply, which is detrimental to many efforts. Software is not a consumable like beer, therefore the comparison doesn't work. Granted, development is not a one-time investment with virtually unlimited pay-out, either, if maintenance is involved, and has a half-time decay due to progress in technology - but precisely because of that, people would rather not pay than make a risky investment. Ultimately, it's hard to put a price tag on it, therefore we are better of getting people jump the band-wagon instead of declining the benefits of the technology that in case of doubt would seem overpriced.

And then there are the idealistic developers who don't need to get paid for that specific piece, because they did it out of need, not greed. The potential for abuse on that side is also apparent, that limits the free market.

So, two adjoint markets exist with some customer-transfer:

One for power-users that can estimate the value of the tool and are willing to pay and another for freeloaders. Freeloaders benefit from a quick decline of value in the upper market, while the upper market benefits from a growing, free market that is basically advertising if not educating for the upper market. Only nothing is ever really free, freebies come with a small or hidden price attached.

I should go read the bazaar and the cathedral
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Is a No-Show Cheaper Than Changing a Flight? (2013)
Here's the chip in question (Intel Xeon E5-2666):

http://ark.intel.com/products/81706

I don't think anyone but Amazon has this specific model. I don't see it available for sale anywhere.
Well, in an old school way thats already whats happening. We have many countries on this planet (UN recognizes about 200) and some of the most modern are actually a collection of smaller states organized in a federation. USA, Germany, Switzerland etc.

In fact, you guys had the unfortunate role to find out how well USSR style (I assume) communism works.
99 Problems but the pitch ain't one! Add humor to your presentation-free now
A bit of everything. The dash' online component will search amazon etc for products while you type, but it will also search Wikipedia and seemingly every online resource under the sun. If I want to search Wikipedia I go there, so for me it's just annoying, but I can see it being useful to some.
If you go deeper, most of culture is made up. There are no states, and there are no companies, not without people making them up. It is what makes us cooperate and ultimatively function as a society. Some beliefs are (to some people at least) more obviously, hm, hard to falsify, but they're all beliefs in something.

I'm not trying to make a real point for the argument here, just pointing out that things might be deeper and more complicated than obvious on the first layer. It's up to us to decide which ideas we want to use, or it should be, but they're all ideas.

(I might have read idea on lesswrong or similar some time ago and am still digesting. Thus, I'm very open for arguments and ideas here.)
It's interesting that this new generation has moved away from onboard ssds.

The extra features of EBS SSDs are pretty useful (ie. snapshotting)

But having attached disks was super fast.
>To users worried about losing karma I say... grow up.

So, you agree with me, in part, that downvoting is childish. Because downvotes are obviously a big part of that number at the top right, and the very notion that commenters would be "punished" and lose a gold-star sticker over a comment (vs. just submerging the comment) is what I find most childish.

So, perhaps I should be more nuanced: Downvotes are childish primarily when it comes to the karma score; whereas they are more ineffectual and promote groupthink when it comes to actual discussion.

So, actually, it looks like we are somewhat in agrement on both fronts.

But, like you, I don't think I actually care enough to send an email, nor do I thik it would matter if I did.
Three Senior Executives to Leave Advanced Micro Devices
> And that is the most innocent of their tactics. Just wait till you've agreed on a price and think you have a done deal, and then they come back and say their boss has vetoed the deal and won't do it for more than half the agreed upon price.

Ex-car salesmen?
A bit of both actually. No one is immune to some of that bias even the big league players. The over-zealousness wasnt necessarily a turn off but it put the corp dev department in the drivers seat. We could then respond and shape a deal to our advantage as much as possible.
Are you the author? This seems like it would fare better as a Show HN.
Apple Supplier Desay Unveils ‘Unbreakable’ Sapphire-Screen Phone
I mean that more in personal terms ("look, this machine is more skillful/faster/smarter than you") than in economical terms. There will be a huge impact on the service sector, so upper and middle class will be able to personally relate to the lower class and show empathy. I think the middle class will mainly promote the changes.
If you build your binaries against Ubuntu 12.04 (=glibc 2.15 symbols), chances are, that it will be extremely compatible with many distributions for years to come. Just make sure you know, what API you are really linking against.

The resulting package can install the repo by itself - i.e. user downloads the package, install it and suddenly, he has repo for updates installed. Google Chrome does it, for example.
The same happened to all my replies on this post. it Seems like a french cyberteam crushed all debate with flagging, down voting and scripted attacks.

Where is the defense of freedom of speech beloved by #ImCharlie folks?
Heh. I don't really think I'm even disagreeing with the majority media narrative here. I do think trigger warnings can be taken to ridiculous extremes (e.g. imagine a trigger warning every 30 seconds of a horror film) and, as a result, am not fond of them as an idea.
Open source software platform released by Lockheed Martin
Is this open source? What language is it built on, which database does it use?
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They also didn't have things like sun screen, and died at half of the life expectancy we have now.
Secret Ingredient: From Zero to 2 Apps in iOS App Store
I was initially surprised to find that Beep is still available in the latest .NET framework (in multiple forms) because it just seems so archaic, but I guess the most basic audio feedback can still be useful.

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console.beep%...

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kz27k38z%28v=vs.90%2...
Dear Jacques, your opinion is not the only one that matters, I hope you remember that. No opinion got diluted, nor yours or mine or whatever you meant by that.

I will say this clearly to you, Muslim people have faith in Prophet Muhammad and his teachings. What are they? You neither have complete knowledge nor intention to get it.

It in-fact, includes the same liberties and rights you seem to be are defending at the moment. Yet from the intensity with which you are responding to my replies to other people as well, makes you look like rather driven by emotions here.

If you could only find out for yourself, and spend the proper effort in finding out what Islam really is (from a genuine Quran) you will realize that what you are simply brushing off as another religion is not what you think it is.

Is it possible for you to be wrong about Islam? Yes or No?
The accelerometer and gyroscope. The double integral of acceleration is displacement. On iPhones/iOS it's extremely accurate to the point where you can integrate displacement from it and not be far off from the real result - over short timespans/distances anyways.

One of the lesser-appreciated qualities of Apple hardware (more accurately, hardware and drivers) is the quality and accuracy of their sensors.
Ugh, very disappointed to see these are EBS only.
In case anyone else was wondering what "ability to control P-States and C-States" is about, I think this is a useful reference [1]. I guess with the C4-8Xlarge you control the entire physical machine and you can enable additional P-states to get more power out of the cpu while using more electricity.

[1] http://www.xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xe...
When I had a phone that held a week's charge, the "low battery" notification meant I had a day's worth of charge left, so I never let that run out. Now, if something breaks my habit (travelling during the night, most often) the battery will run out in the middle of the next day with the low battery notification often being useless because I can't get to a charger within an hour or two.
Ask HN: Isomorphic Hardware, what would apply?
I like the idea of isomorphic web apps: code that runs on both client and server.
What do you think about the concept of isomorphic hardware? Code that runs on different processors? Or, code in simulated environments vs. physical environments?

How would the isomorphic principle apply?
I don't know if you can make a serious game with js though. ASM.js might help, the 3D demo from the unreal engine showed a decent framerate, but I don't know if it can go from the neat demo to something that can be sold.
Does this apply for adults also? May be this is the reason why tech gaint companies like Google have sleeping pods in their offices!
Yes, some unfortunate historical choices there.
Good point.

Now that you point it out, depending on your income tax bracket the credits would probably be worth more than the capital gains tax.
>Kill adwcleaner with taskmanager.

AdwCleaner requires a restart to finish up, as I understand it. If you know differently, I'm genuinely interested.

>ComboxFix is unnecessary.

Respectfully, I disagree. It's caught things that the others have missed. Anecdotal evidence, sure, but in my experience it's proven useful.

Most of the time new laptops are not for speed purposes - there is a misconception that a new laptop is a fresh start, not necessarily a much faster computer.

The thought process invariably is: this laptop is slow and full of ads, I need a new laptop to start over without the ads and _new is best_. My clients are mostly non-technical, that's why they call me; technical clients (say, 1 in 10) are more willing to explore SSD and appropriate RAM.

TV-advertised laptops for 200-250GBP are very appealing for my client demographic. It irks me, sure, but then sometimes people have to learn by doing. The tide is very slowly turning.
I'm considering switching to these from C3 and it would be interesting to see hdparm outputs / etc on these if anyone is going to try them.
That defeats the point of having a type system (casting is as error prone as forgetting to check errors).

Also it doesn't allow for the use of already defined functions to do the transformations, (e.g. `maybe.flatMap(existingFn).flatMap(otherFn)` wont ever work, new closures will have to be defined that do casts before calling the existing functions).

So basically, its just-as-error-prone and just-as-tedious as checking error codes but in a different way. Both benefits of the pattern are gone. Given this, I don't think that the word "impossible" is a stretch at all (not having any of the benefits of the pattern = not implementing the pattern)
Google initially was talking about an investment or purchase, but the discussion soon devolved into an acqui-hire situation.

But in reality an acqui-hire was the intent all along, Google was just being deceptive.
Should we expext R4 (ram optimized) or M4 (balanced) instances soon or is the high cost of DDR4 going to delay things?

I am about to reserve some R3 instances so maybe that will speed it up :-)
true. that's why the way to go with portable is to put a beagle bone or a Chinese arm soc in a mechanical keyboard. add some small screen (though you will always use the bb video out or a makeshift gglass) and you got yourself a cyber punk deck, minus the neural interface :-(
Then we simply have different opinions. Nothing more.

What I meant in my original post is that, out of the millions of ways to be amused, if you can simply write off "insulting prophets of Islam", I your Muslim friend would be very happy.
This article has nothing bogus.
if you are in search of truth, this article is real and I have been in West Africa long enough to confirm that, otherwise you can always find rented mouths that support colonialism even if they are Africans.
>> The same way, someone would offend you by offending your family.
>No, that's not the same way.

Maybe for those offended it might be? It can explain a lot of the anger.
Ways that Data Science can improve your business
Aren't GET forms still the default choice for search engines like Google? Otherwise you couldn't bookmark a search.
Ask HN: Citigroup
I recently got a job offer from citigroup in the mainframe group...can anyone share information about citigroup please
You can't have it both ways. You either believe there are invisible, magic beings or you don't.

Well, yes and no. A lot of people (most?) kinda-sorta believe, but have doubts about the weirdness of some of the more unlikely and/or extreme beliefs. The vast people don't have enough faith to strap on a suicide vest or behead someone, even in Islam.

For most "believers", religion is a consolation when you think about Grandma in heaven or a way to be socially connected to your community.
'Killah911' ? Right...

As for what the enlightenment was all about, maybe you should read up on that first before starting a rant like this:

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

So no, Islam did not experience enlightenment. The closest they came to that was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk and his attempt to reduce the influence of religion on politics but it mostly failed outside of Turkey and recent events there should make you worried about whether or not his legacy will last.

The fact that there are anecdotes about atheists in the 1100's does nothing to contradict what I said.
Why should he have to distance himself? That notion in itself implies that his default position is showing some favour.
I think a lot of people don't understand why the iPhone 6+ lasts that long. It does so because the battery is specced out to last a certain amount of hours with the screen on. Because the screen requires more energy they've put in a larger battery. The standby and talk usage getting a bump is just incidental.
My one and only question: How can a religion be based mostly on one book? Surely the book isn't wikipedia or google.

This question applies to Christians, Muslims and Jews.
> The other, and perhaps bigger, point is why the need for ridicule in the first place?

> Perhaps you would be inclined to understand, teach, etc.

What approach do you suggest? Imagine, for a case, that you meet someone that claims to believe in unicorns. Most people would say that person is insane, and there is no point in "teaching" him/her otherwise; if one is so oblivious to the reality as to believe in the existence of unicorns, you probably won't be able to convince him/her otherwise using "conventional" means (words). I simply apply the same reasoning to people who believe in a god. (For the matter of case, I would also apply the same reasoning to someone who blindly believed in e.g. evolution or that the Earth is round - although my default assumption, when I come across such people, is that they have reasons for their beliefs, and could at least outline the method of the proof, and discuss its limits).

> I suppose it's good that I can "prove" that to you with a dictionary, else be subjected to your ridicule.

Thanks for clarifying that. Still, I think I have a point when I say that my approach is "considerably" different than that of Charlie Hebdo attackers.
I presume they will add storage optimized instances with local disks in the future?
Forth Methodology Applied to Programming (2001)
Looks fun. Good work!
And I know quite a few people who are too broke to pay $1 for most apps. You are implying that people pirate $1 games "because they're too cheap to pay" which most of the time is just completely untrue - for a lot of people, it's a matter of not having the money.

Some people here need to take a reality check break once in a while and look at people who don't make as much as they do.
google.com :)

stackoverflow.com

facebook.com
> "Too often someone with an automation mindset will see an task and decide that it can be automated without actually understanding half of what the task involves."

Depressingly common. And also depressingly futile to argue against sometimes.

Person tries to automate something they don't understand. They come up with simple, elegant "solution" that fails to address half of what the task involves. When presented people are, naturally, "what about X?", where X is important and addressed in the previous solution, and not at all addressed in the simpler, more elegant new solution.

Cue blog post where automator complains about how "management" piled on "edge cases" "at the last minute".
Why was this down voted ?
Arduino milling machine
Or "Forth Methodology vs Agile"? Coding is the 9th step and the easiest one.
Too bad there's no Firefox version.
People need to learn that it's the extremist violent Wahhabism that is the core of these attacks and Al Qaeda. The mainstream Islam / Muslims do not agree with what one sect has to say.

It'd be like calling all Christians terrorists because of what the Irish Catholics / IRA did in the 90s. Wahhabist Islam regularly attack and kill Shia Muslims by the dozens.

Even then, Wahhabism is a growing philosophy amongst Saudi princes, who have remained good allies to the US. Explicit denunciation of this particular philosophy would run counter to US Foreign Policy. Besides, its not like all Wahhabists are violent. Going back to the IRA example, some Catholics were violent in the 90s... but certainly not all of them.
He shouldn't be, because his business is growing and about to achieve success, but is not yet worth much. There is no way he gets a fair evaluation based on being popular for a few days.
Yes, I can see this as their strategic goal.

Importantly, it's just a variation of Osama bin Laden's self-stated goal for 9/11: poke the bear in order to get him to chase us into our trap.

The French will surely be more willing to pursue military intervention against jihadists, leading them to inevitably kill some innocent Muslims in the process, increasing recruitment.
news.ycombinator.com
stackoverflow.com
google.com
In that case the machine code generated doesn't dereference NULL, so the answer "it segfaults" isn't wrong.
okay, since you are insisting this much. Let us hear what your copy says? What are you quoting exactly, and what is your point? You seem to claim that you are not rigid in your opinion and are open for debate.
Ansible Docs + Van Halen Idiosyncrasies Surfacing in Projects
I don't think I did. What's a proportionate distribution? Proportionate to what and for whom? The whole "market" or "system" of innovation is driven by "disproportionate" distribution. If people don't have the potential to get rich creating a New Thing or Efficient Method, what's to encourage them to even consider Something Better?
One week after launching pgcli
http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendl... is one list, but frankly there are ridiculous number of these boards/modules available.
great, thank you to all who offered to help. I will get everything setup and email you all with the plans. Thank you again!!
You made a decision that you're happy with the risk of not wearing a helmet when walking, but you decided that the risk when cycling was enough that you want to wear a helmet. I don't care why you made that decision. It's not relevant.

Other people made the decision that they're happy with the risk of not wearing a helmet when cycling.

What is so special about you? Are you some kind of super-powered genius, and your assessment of personal risk is some kind of magically "absolutely correct" answer? Why should your personal choice about acceptable risk be made law? (Trick question; it shouldn't)
At that level (you're using linux, know what 'root' is, how to access root and how to execute a shell file as root) you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass.
no, it is not open
php + pgsql
Small, Exterior Home Improvements Offer the Best Value Investments in 2015
This is actually a good example of how to fumble a decent exit for a struggling app. This was written in April 2014 so we have the benefit of hindsight for evaluating this claim:

"I’ve already built an £X million company in this area that was limited to the UK & Ireland; this time it’s global and I can easily get to twice £X million"

Based on the number of reviews for roomscan I'm going to guess that getting to "twice £X million" has not in fact been that easy. The app does show creative thinking though and you can see what Google may have spotted potential in him. $2M would have been an incredible exit for him.

I suppose there is something good in entrepreneurs having outsized, seemingly delusional expectations for their startups. However, it's important to be self aware and not take deep, personal offense at what are reasonable market offers for your work. You can just say no thanks, $2M is too low of a max offer.

What you do definitely not do is have a paranoid meltdown on a blog post and start wildly speculating about deceptive practices like using fake identities and fake meeting requests with zero support. Also probably not a good idea to send over paperwork from your last company's sale to prove how awesome your current company is.

It may be hard to accept the reality of how your project is really doing but don't slip into a bad mental place like this. You may just end up passing on a million dollar outcome.
Oracle is bundling the Ask toolbar and McAfee Security Scanner as "optout adware" with java runtime updates, the whole windows 3rd party software ecosystem is nothing but a cesspit.
> There are a lot of inspiring projects over the web, but very often they require tools that aren't available to everybody or they're not cheap for one-off projects (laser cutter, 3D printers, etc).

This is why hackerspaces are a rising phenomenon.
javascript enabled ?
Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever
I'll add filehippo.com to that list.
WolframAlpha will do some of the relocation calculations for you including groceries, health care, etc.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+chicago...
My view is that Ataturk was trying to declare victory for western ideals while not actually holding them. His policies include fining people who speak languages other than Turkish, forcing people to have Turkish surnames, confiscating property from Armenians and so on. (I don't believe that he was directly responsible for the Armenian genocide, but there is nothing in his policies that would suggest he was opposed to it either.)

I agree that he was an improvement over the state of affairs in most muslim countries in the Middle East, but can't go so far as to say that he had the right idea.
Wouldn't virtual address translation prevent this from happening?
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The Muslims in my cirle make no attempt to apologize for what happened here and are not adding weaselwords to their condemnations. They realize that actions like these make all muslims look bad, even those that would have nothing to do with any of this.

You are unable for some reason to see that you are indirectly blaming the victim here and you are qualifying your condemnation.
While reading the Ansible docs, I came across this gem. I'd like to know if other HN users have moments (discovery or creation) of such entertaining idiosyncrasies/creator self-expression occurring in projects they've worked with.