skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something a bit like Prolog might do the job. There would also have to be terminal predicates coded in English. So theft (in English law defined as: "dishonestly appropriat[ing] property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it") might be:

(define ([Person]X is-thief of: [Property]P belonging-to: [Person]Y)
(and
(X appropriates P)
(X != Y)
(X intends
((Time>now) implies not (Y has P)))
(dishonestly)))

(define dishonestly
"this is purposely left undefined in the law")

(define ([Person]X appropriates [Property]P)
"X does some action causing him to have control over P")

There could then be a compiler and other software to automatically reason about such statements.
i'll write a post about this that's more in depth, but the fact of the matter is: content is no longer linear when it comes to the internet. If 2 million people are going to watch heroes it certainly won't be at the same time. it will be at their leisure, so the whole technical capabilities argument doesn't hold up.

the stuff that is livestreamed is a different breed of content. think more along the lines of interactive sessions on ustream and jtv. they haven't hit a 2mil simultaneous stream. the engagement for each person is much higher on those sites anyway.
Nonprofit CEOs Selling Equity in Themselves: $300K for 3% of Lifetime Earnings
Hillary Clinton says she "will be giving an address next week on the centrality of Internet freedom in the 21st century"

Too bad about that whole ACTA thing.
Governments are basically corporations with varying degrees of public ownership that have monopolies on societal goods. I would consider this corporate espionage.

The US also engages in corporate espionage through the NSA in the interest of its defense contractors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#ECHELO... (last paragraph)
I've tried LimoLiner a few times, however the price has gotten a bit too steep for me. The last time was about 3 years.

They provided tea, coffee, water, and they provide you with a decent snack; a decent wee sandwich that's much better than you'd get on the train. It's not enough food to substitute for dinner (maybe they'd give you a 2nd sandwich if you ask), but enough to keep you going till dinner.
OT: I need people to help me mirror CiteSeer. I have a feeling it's going to go away RSN.
I admit I'm naive. I don't know how efficient the Red Cross is, nor other operational issues.

They are, however, there. I gave to the Red Cross not just for Haiti, but for something else that will happen. It saddens me I donated because of Haiti, not just for Haiti.

I wish I knew more about operations such as yours. I wish I knew more about the organizations saving lives right now in Haiti. I wish I knew more about organizations and people who take on the lasting sadness after the horror.

I just don't know.

Thank you for giving me another organization I believe will be there.
I'd recommend launching, then buying some Google AdWords traffic so that you can A/B test your site and optimize until it converts decently. Then start emailing bloggers after that. Just send them a 3-sentence personalized note with a link, nothing fancy.
How do you know that being dead isn't better than being alive?
That's because Kazakhstan is sitting on top of a known twenty billion barrel oil field controlled by a government monopoly. At $70/barrel that gives them 1.4 trillion dollars of liquid assets (literally). Between that at 100 trillion known cubic feet of gas (at $5-$10/1000 cubic feet, do the math) I wouldn't be too worried about them defaulting on their debts. California, on the other hand...
Does anyone know if there is a Europe based phone number where it is possible to send donations (something similar to 90999)?
No.

I understand the mentality that draws people to try new things, experiment with new technologies, and learn different ways of doing things they've previously struggled with. Personally, I don't have any side projects anymore. All of my effort goes into my job, simply because the challenges that I face at work are more complex, more demanding, and more interesting than anything I can reasonably hope to accomplish at home. If a problem is truly hard, I don't think I can solve it in 2 hrs/week, and if it is interesting enough that I think it is valuable to solve, I will try to find a way to integrate it into my work.

My tone here is probably harsher than it needs to be, but it's in reaction to the tone of the title and the self-congratulatory responses I expected to find ("at least those who are passionate ... are similar"). A certain type of techie has a huge list of pet projects, but there are people at the other end of the spectrum. Call them researchers, as opposed to builders, and they want to solve abstract problems with no immediate use or UI. Their interesting problems, like data mining, hardware scaling, and distributing programming, are a lot harder to do on the side than creating a Rails/Google Earth/Yelp mashup, but not necessarily because of the absolute difficulty of the problem. The former problems only exist when you have a lot of resources already invested in a project, and trying to investigate them on the weekends is much less rewarding than learning Haskell. Ultimately, I find that these at-scale problems are the ones I'm interested in, so I don't come home and code in my free time. I just stay at work for 12 hours a day.

It's certainly an artifact of being engaged in your job, but I think that should make it even more clear that all techies do not have a huge list of pet projects. Having one is certainly not a necessary condition of talent or passion.
Are you out of your mind? He doesn't sound like an argumentative asshole, his sentence flowed perfectly normally with the word "but". Not to abuse the cliche, but have you looked in the mirror?
As an aside: why isn't the GE plugin available for Chrome on Mac?

Sigh.
Exactly. And the fact that most people will go on them again (and the re-use rates go up exponentially as the number of times an individual relapses) was meant to demonstrate the ongoing nature of the battle with depression. "Managing" implies an active relationship with the condition, proving my point that it is not temporary.
Right.. for those curious why this makes sense for carriers. Just think how much carriers charge for txting. Anything that gets people using SMS is a win in their book.
The reputation of the Caribs as cannibals is almost entirely myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carib#Cannibalism
Yes. We are the size we are precisely so we can move quickly. There are lots of other organizations that are already on the ground. Organizations we've already worked with. We'll have people on the ground in the next few days. We're also a share the love kind of organization. We find the best way to do the most good... sometimes that means giving our money to other organizations... sometimes we lend our volunteers to other organizations.
Pretty cool! However, I wonder: are there privacy implications here? If I bring a clojure-bot into a wave with a human, will it be able to 'see' the rest of the conversation?
A link in the post update indicates that he doesn't pay the money he promises for reviews:
http://www.jon-atherton-wobble.com/tag/jon-atherton/
I've got a different experience; ~14 hours is the maximum sleep needed to completely recover.

I get by on 2 hours of sleep a night all week and just have an extended 14 hour sleep on Sunday.

I've been doing this for about 3 years now so maybe I'm just used to it.
Thanks for the suggestions.

1. Pretty likely, though I'm a little hesitant to replace the current syntax for if. The others shouldn't be hard to implement.

2. I've been planning to use the vector literal syntax. I've basically been lazy since PHP's array() construct makes it easy to cheat.

3. Indexing into arrays presents a problem. Pharen doesn't know what's a scalar, array, or function name at the moment so a special function for indexing is needed. One possible solution is to prefix an array's name, so it would be (:some_array 4) or something similar. I personally think the superglobal syntax is cleaner, if not more succinct. Any suggestions?

4. I haven't implemented an object system yet because I want to try something new here instead of simply copying PHP's syntax.
Thanks for that feedback. I understand where you're coming from, but that's the company that processes our donations. You can check us out on the BBB site or on services like http://bit.ly/GuideStar_HODR (When we have extra $ we'll invest in our own SSL cert and payment processing. For now we'll let trusted services like Convio.com handle our donations.)
Is anyone surprised that Schmidt wanted to stay after making that privacy statement blunder?
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All three of them crashed my Chrome 4.0 tab.
those kids that happen to not have access to technology are behind the ones who do by more than any time in history, including yesterday, including 5 minutes ago.
PEP 8 Python Style Guide as pdf with syntax highlighting
I suspect that unmitigated habits of noisiness contribute more noise than the combination of noisiness and inverse noise.

"I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg."

Disregard for standards leads to digg.
Stanford course on technology entrepreneurship
This is the point where pg would usually say "please stop". Please stop.
Haiti earthquake victim Startup charity drive
Most people in the world don't have these things. They don't have a lot of things. Redistributing between some Americans and other Americans hardly does anything to reduce inequality, and it's naive to think otherwise.
Looking at CoffeeScript was definitely an inspiration to pick up the pace on Pharen. :)

I'm actually a student in New York but can't be there Thursday. Will you be giving this talk at any other events?
This seems like a great deal for the entrepreneurs since they'll probably never have to pay out due to the 13th amendment.
This is my effort at creating a way for startups and small companies to help Haiti, and also get exposure.

As I went to submit this, I also noticed this post : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051914 from another HN called dariusmonsef who seems to have plenty of experience and knowledge in this field.

As a result, I'm updating the site to send all donations collected directly to http://hodr.org/.
The watch is redundant. Look at the Android phone for the time and bus data.
He didn't really throw down any hard $$$ numbers in terms of costs. And didn't take into account the worlds demand for more bandwidth in general. As servers become more powerful and cheaper, and fiber becomes more plentiful what he said makes sense today, but will it tomorrow?
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1. Perhaps you could keep the PHP-style syntax around under a different name.

2. Sweet.

3. (:some_array 4) seems perfectly reasonable. Would that interact with superglobals the same way? e.g. ($:server "PHP_SELF"). I believe that PHP 5.3 or 6 has return value dereferencing, so I don't think it's necessary to know the type - you could just do (:(array 1 2 3) 1)

4. If you haven't played with Clojure, you might find inspiration there. It has interop with native Java instances, though I find it a little too syntaxy for a Lisp, and PHP doesn't have such deep class structure.

Thanks for responding.
I'm on board with this. When I had less interesting jobs, I had side projects to keep myself interested. But with a job that is truly interesting, I find I spend all my time on it. My only hang up is that I want to do the cool/challenging stuff first, and I end up working some overtime doing the productization stuff.
1. The future strength of our economy depends on its
ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs.

Dead on.

2. ...They are in school, right now...

Very True.

3. They are nerds.

Wait what?

This piece is about catering to a niche subset of the potential future entrepreneurs not a superset of the future entrepreneurs as claimed.
Cuban's fixation on live video may have something to do with his interest in sports, which people like to watch live. We might also notice his other conflict of interest from HDNet, a traditional linear cable channel.

Even if everyone doesn't watch Heroes at the same time, you can bet there's a peak time of day where millions of people are watching something. It may actually cost more to deliver 1M different streams to 1M people than to deliver one live stream. Or it may cost less if you can prefetch and buffer it like crazy.

The question of why YouTube doesn't use the latest technology is an interesting one. Is it more expensive? Does it "not scale"? Do they just not care since it's free anyway?
So what would all of the people involved in the design, sale and distribution of that stuff do? Then what happens when the recently unemployed are put on welfare and stop paying income taxes? And what happens when raising taxes to compensate for the diminished tax base makes more thing unaffordable, further reducing spending... not to mention the questions about what happens when debts issued on the premise of growth go bad.

It is a cascading failure.
I've set up a small site at http://haitibizrelief.blogspot.com/ designed to give people a fast and easy way to donate, view donations through ChipIn, and to get some exposure for their startup or business.

After reading this post, I've altered the site to make the beneficiary of these donations to be HODR.
Someone is still going to control all that infrastructure no matter how cheap it gets. The content will be controlled by the users more than it is now (premium content/celebrities will still draw the most eyeballs), but the backends will still be in the hands of a few companies, and in this sense everyone is still at their mercy.
You can text DOB to 90999 and $5 goes to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders). Surely we can all agree they're okay.
Way to be contrary to the maverick, @jason. ;) I totally agree with you, though; people will totally craft their own viewing experience. I was catching up on a Simpsons episode recently and when the 30 sec ad started, without even thinking, I clicked to another tab and did something else for the duration, and clicked back when I heard cartoon voices. Then it hit me that hulu probably had a point with their charge-for-content threat. It's not so easy to leave the room for commercials, but it's all too easy to click to another tab.
Google does not mention Red Cross at all on their Haiti relief page. http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
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This article scares me.

Why?

Because looking at a few samples of Mr. Arends's work, and comments on it, he seems to be way out of touch.

see these examples:
Who’s paying Brett Arends to malign Apple?
July 21st, 2009
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/21/whos-paying-brett-a...

Load Up the Pantry
by Brett Arends
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/104914/Lo...

Why Apple Shouldn't Pay a Dividend
January 11, 2010
by Felix Salmon
http://seekingalpha.com/article/181974-why-apple-shouldn-t-p...

I could undoubtedly find a few more, possibly even some in favor of his thinking - these are just from the first page of a Google search on brett arends.
Decisions like this should be made at the local level... The author should talk to his local school district before pushing his untested ideas on the entire country.

The future strength of our economy depends on our ability to foster the experimentation and competition of ideas.
phil:~$ ls ~/proj -F|grep "/"|wc -l
100

Not all are programming projects, mind.
How we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system
Most of mine involve raising money for resarch
If other members of the wave can see it, clojure-bot can see it too. Don't say bad things in front of clojure-cot!
What sort of expertise / skills would you be looking for in volunteers?
You should really remake the screencast, I can barely hear the voice.
I've set up a small site at http://haitibizrelief.blogspot.com/ designed to give people a fast and easy way to donate, view donations through ChipIn, and to get some exposure for their startup or business.
Those guys are retards. Why would they place themselves in lifetime indenture to anyone? I don't know if the 13th amendment or other laws would prohibit this sort of arrangement. Why would anyone invest like this in an individual, given discount rates and possible other investments? They seem to think they're going to make lots of money--at least they are implying this. If these guys earned so much money then why are they making so much money out of nonprofits? I haven't exhausted the stupidity of this idea.
All those same arguments basically apply against Angel investing in a startup. The only exception between the details of the agreement not being fleshed out, which I assume they would flesh out with any potential investor. Taxable Income might be a good guideline for what and when income is paid out to the investor.
The opinions of a ex-employee are more noise than signal. You're not dating, you're doing a job - make sure expectations match up, and if they do, accept the offer, and do your best. What an ex-employee thinks about the people is completely irrelevant to the job that needs to be done.

Arguing against talking to the old IT guy is like arguing against washing hands

We're not talking about transferring technical know-how - that would be a question of brining him on as a consultant.
I once had a website that did that - in '96 or '95 I think...
We did this in my AP/IB physics class in high school, except with marshmallows like michaelcampbell commented. We packed the marshmallows in together and stopped the microwave right when they started to expand.
You should get wowza to adopt this technology, the keyframe-less solution is a big step forward.

What are the implications for automatic bandwidth adaptation?

To do all this without touching the decoder, so staying within the standard is really impressive, it's funny how such constraints bring out the creativity.
i've mentioned this in the other post, but

I'm pretty sure the merits of the redcross are irrelevant, as the fund was specifically created to Haitian relief. Red cross is merely acting as a vehicle through one can donate.

from the redcross page:
The public can also help by texting “Haiti” to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross, through an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.

I can't confirm this, but quotes from state.gov such as this one, led me to this conclusion:

Anyone wishing to donate or provide assistance in Haiti following the devastating earthquake that struck near Port au Prince on Jan 12, 2010, is asked to contact the Center for International Disaster Information. The Center, operated under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and initial support from IBM, has become a valuable resource to the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies and international corporations. CIDI has established a dedicated page to coordinate Haiti support at: http://www.cidi.org/incident/haiti-10a/*

You can also text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Or you can go online to organizations like the Red Cross and Mercy Corps to make a contribution to the disaster relief efforts.
I'm pretty sure this entire discussion of the merits of the redcross is irrelevant, as the fund was specifically created to Haitian relief.
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No. Business equity has well understood conventions and laws. An angel and entrepreneur willing to take faith in personal reputation with hazy details does not place such an arrangement anywhere at all near the prospect of lifetime equity agreements in people.
I agree with you that privacy is very important, we have a lot of stuff that we don't share online specifically because we value our privacy.

My point isn't so much that you are doomed, you need to sell the general public (such as myself) on the idea that your system is unique and valuable. You need to figure out why private, intimate sharing is really important and totally sell the benefits and the ease of use.

You also might want to consider slowly regenerating credits, say every day you get 1 free credit to a limit of 30 accumulated free credits. That way noone will leave your site for good after putting 30 photos online and missing the point. Send an email when the points max out to remind your users to come online (habit forming?)

Perhaps you could have album content invitations - a user asks another user to add a certain type of content - "could you upload your birthday photos for Alex please?" That is a nice excuse for user A to remind user B to log in.
Doesn't Wowza mostly do offline content, e.g. pre-recorded video? Even in the case of live streaming, the keyframeless option is really only useful if you're trying to go for very low latency, which as I mentioned in the blog post isn't very useful for ordinary broadcast purposes.

The primary target of all this is interactive video: gaming, videoconferencing, and maybe something like Livestream or Justin.tv where a person interacts with viewers who are chatting with them. Ordinary broadcast probably won't benefit.

I should note that the keyframeless solution is not unique to our system: this was done a few times in MPEG-2 broadcast encoders back in the day, as well as in some mezzanine stuff. I haven't seen anyone do it in H.264 though yet; it is made slightly more tricky due to the way that intra prediction in H.264 works.

What are the implications for automatic bandwidth adaptation?

We don't support that yet--but that will probably come soon, as it's the natural next step forward. (Currently the encoder's ratecontrol settings can't be changed without re-initting it.)
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I love it. I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I was a Vimperator user for quite a while, but just couldn't use it anymore. I ran into too many issues, and I think the feel just wasn't there.

I support anybody who tries to make me use my mouse less, and the browser is the biggest pain point right now in that arena :)