skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, If you are partnering with a firm, or retaining a firm who will have access to company private information and they won't sign an NDA that's a red flag. http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/01/08/we-sign-ndas/

That being said you should be able to have one or more conversations where you don't disclose private information so that both sides can evaluate whether a relationship makes sense.
I was expecting the "The Holocaust We Will Not See" to be the one that will obviously take place after the film ends. The native people have driven the imperialists off their planet. But, the imperialists have space weapons and the natives do not. Plus, the imperialists only want inert matter that exists underground. And, they are so evil they have no respect for life in any form.

I assume a kinetic bombardment is imminent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
meter was originally designed by French to be measured by clock which was much more precise at the time : a thread pendulum of length one meter has a period of two seconds . thatis why acceleration due to earths gravity is g~pi^2
This doesn't read so much like click fraud to me as hijacking a user's browser to convert organic traffic into affiliate credit. The fraudulent clicks are merely a cover story.
Nice. And only 0.5% off.
Don't know. Works fine for me..
I know it seems obvious, but determining when to create your own tech instead of using or extending existing solutions is tough. Even tougher given the tendency of people to think their situations are unique instead of being "just like situation X with Y added."

I mean, how many times (to beat a dead horse) have you seen someone say "I wrote my own framework because <insert contrived scenario that other frameworks have solved or are easily extended to solve>".

Yes, sometimes your situation is so unique you need to role your own solution. Chances are it's your ego talking instead of common sense.
"Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world's top 10%; a good deal for both sides" -- not for the rest of the population of poor countries.
Why are you so certain of this? I grew up dominated by Christianity. It wasn't until 14 that I saw a UFO magazine insinuate that humans came from Mars. True or not didn't matter - what I remember from reading that was that my faith was shaken to the core. That day, I learned to never base your worldview on something so tenuous that a new discovery could topple it. That experience sent me on a journey to solidify my understanding of the world, and in the process, has made me less of a 'hardcore' Christian.
I'm curious about your "lots of examples of political regimes keeping their countries in the dark ages."

The only one I can think of that actually worked was Japan's repudiation of the gun, and that was broken open from the outside eventually. The Soviets tried to control communications technology, even requiring copy machines to be licensed, but it didn't work very well.
O'Brien: Age bias and Silicon Valley
The corporation has been immensely powerful for hundreds of years, e.g., United Fruit and British East India Company.
Heh, me too.

Yet, we seem to have very different experiences.

What browser/OS are you using?

I am on OS X/Firefox.
I've been coming to grips with #11 a lot more since starting my own company. Sometimes you've just got to get something out the door. The perceived value of elegant code is minimal compared to delivering the product (although obviously elegant code has a longer term benefit in being easier to maintain and extend. I always go back and 'do it properly' afterwards. Just add it to a to do list so it's there next time you come to adding a new feature.)
I think the most interesting part of Guns, Germs and Steel was the assertion that violence is not an aberrant condition for humans. In other words, violence is not a disease, it's standard operating procedure. However, it's normal only under certain conditions. So to prevent violence, you need to work on preventing those conditions.
This is a link to someone's take on someone else's blog post. The original post is here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/12/productivity-h...
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That would be tantamount to a blockade of shipping lines, ie an act of war. They are certainly able to do it, but I don't think that right now they will.
I read somewhere (probably here) that Google accounts for 5% of global internet traffic.
When you owe China $1 billion, you've got a problem. When you own China $684 billion, China has a problem.
Ask HN: Review my startup, WebServius
See http://www.webservius.com

I'm currently positioning it as an API management product (and it certainly does that), but think about it from a different perspective: It allows you to monetize any useful software component as an API in the cloud. For example.: Suppose you came up with an interesting image processing algorithm - you just host it somewhere as an API, hook it up to WebServius, set the pricing through our control panel (e.g. $0.01 per image), and you instantly have a potential revenue stream - no need to worry about user signup process, billing, etc. That's why I thought it would be interesting to the HN community - people with lots of great ideas looking for ways to monetize :) Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Eugene
Yes, I can't wait. I've been waiting for that literally for years.

Many years long we used a crappy old little javascript that I wrote long ago, it basically loads jpegs under water in to an off screen buffer and then flips them over the previous one when they're.

Using some trickery I could get pretty good framerates if the connection is good but the bandwidth cost is just terrible.

Now we've switched to (yuck) flash and it works ok I guess but something more standardized would be much appreciated.
Click-fraud is the carrot - that's why these guys are doing it.

Google's best layer for detecting click-fraud is tracking click-to-buy ratio, particuarlly for large advertisers.

This company has figured out how to make fake-clicks appear to have a good click-to-buy ratio.
This is why you're not running an evil regime.
Just think back on when Columbus discovered the new world. Savages! Things that look like humans yet live like animals! With no clothes, no God, no sense of church or salvation. You can't even say that somehow Christianity arrived in the New World and then was lost -- it was just too isolated. (At least until the Mormons came along and solved that problem, but that's another story). As far as anybody was concerned, these were creatures that lived in an entirely alien way. Barely human, if that.

Lots more examples where that came from. Christianity adapted just fine. In fact, one of the major changes Christianity brought to the ancient world was the understanding that all bipedal hominids were equally deserving humans -- that was an unheard of concept before about 100AD. If history is a guide, there'll be a little backlash for a decade or two due to the strangeness and then somebody will be telling us how Jesus actually came to the Martians first back in 1 Billion B.C.

To say that religion will not survive wildly changing pictures of reality is to fail to understand religion's key concept: the creative group explanation for things that cannot be proven one way or another. Heck, religion is custom-designed by evolution especially for situations like dealing with E.T.
It does say "attack __on__ Google"...
Ah so that's what the Fleet Foxes album cover is - http://www.mtv.co.uk/files//library/images/album_covers_2008...

Sorry, off topic.
Yeah, I see that now. At the time I posted I was operating under incorrect assumptions and info.
I propose that we change the Golden Ratio to reflect the current exchange rate, daily.
I invite you to switch your flash player off for a bit and see how many sites use it for all kinds of stuff.

It's a nuisance but it is so pervasive it's not even funny.
He said contributed to it, not caused it or was a major reason for it.
SI units:

Seconds came first. Since ancient times (Egypt or Babylon) people divided the day into 24 parts and then sub-divided by 60 and by 60 again. This unit is defined in relation to the rotation of the earth (which was later found to be slowing, so it got redefined).

With seconds established, someone realized that a pendulum has the same period regardless of the weight attached. The meter was defined to be the length of a pendulum with a period of two seconds, or a half-period of one second.

Unrelated, but grams were defined to be the weight of one cubic centimeter of water at (I believe) freezing/melting temperature.

Imperial units:

Well, these come from all sorts of places. Miles comes from paces, which are related to the height of a man.

Conclusion:

SI units are derived from Earth's rotation and gravity, imperial units are derived from functional and human characteristics. Unless you believe that the proportions of the human body are related to other things in the cosmos directly (DaVinci tried to show this) then it's just a coincidence.
http://www.csoonline.com/article/print/329164

This is an old article but compares the actions against the Barbary Pirates (US Navy used force to ensure Free Trade) with what US could do with Internet 'piracy' - and no thats not copying CDs.
The Vatican has already taken steps to handle this situation.

"Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7399661.stm

There may be some religions that specifically state that there is no life anywhere but on Earth. Apparently Christianity is safe from this problem.
Doesn't the US government through the NSA also access citizens emails ? If yes, should'nt google complain as well?
I was thinking this too as the credits were rolling.
+1 I do this every single working day without fail. #7 is excellent too. Ernest Hemingway said:

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

(more detail: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-...)

I would also add 9a. Understand what was causing the bug once it's fixed. I'd say a key hallmark of a bad engineer is if they are happy with a fix even though they don't understand what the underlying problem was.
FF on linux.
It doesn't matter what the current revenues are, or even the profits. The point is to be part of the fastest growing market in the world, and to be an option when many new consumers are choosing online services.

If Google is deciding that they don't want in on this, it's not about giving up millions today; it's about forgoing billions from the next decade.
The part that this graph is missing is the effects of entrepreneurship on savings when you get traction.

Many entrepreneurs I know have a graph like that for a year or two and then what we call "hockey stick" growth in the opposite direction.
This article is largely based on the claims of Bartolome de Las Casas, an activist from the time of Conquistadors. Some scholars believe thathe wildly exaggerated the crimes in order to convince the Spanish and other governments to intervene.
This post might have some merit if the graph included another 10 years of data showing the return on his investment.
Yes but that's all traffic to and from its datacenters. I don't touch Google if I request a page from bofa.com, e.g., except maybe through their public dns.
Then I don't feel rude pointing out that it should be "step into", not "step in to".
[Warning: spoiler-heavy]

I have to say the exact same thing occurred to me at the end of the movie. "And so the aliens returned to their dying world." ...yeah, to get more ammo.

Of course, the counter-argument might be that the Na'vi managed to defeat a heavily-armed base using a skeleton force, before most of the tribes had even turned up, so by the time they got back Pandora could be too well-prepared to resist for them to be successful. Kinetic bombardment is all very well, but you need to get down to the surface to pick the stuff up -- unless you completely destroy every living thing on the planet, in which case you develop a very serious logistical problem (they were growing their own food on the surface).
The demo uses 1/3 as much CPU as a similar Flash app would on my Mac. Very cool.
I found the first part to be the `good part'. I like observations about psychology and selling, but I do not care too much about TV.
They also had badass arrows. But on a world where the flying things are all glowing and lizardy, where did they get the feathers for the arrows?
Thanks Eru. I had in fact written it for the purpose you mention. That was my interest in all of this, but then people took from the tech side too, so thats great as well ;-)
How can I read the full article?
Google Charging Nexus One ETF In Addition To Carrier ETF
I can't stand the blackberry interface because the fonts are ugly.

That is a concrete thing. You can (and did) actually point to that as a reason for not liking the thing. You cannot point to "Freedom."

That a universal one-size-fits all judgment cannot be made.

Yes, and? That's obvious, and I said the same thing myself. What isn't obvious is what you mean with a term like "Freedom", which is why I bothered to point out that it was nebulous. Clearly you're not making a judgement based on "Freedom", which is abstract, but some actual thing or things which that codes for. So why speak in code?

Clearly the winner is he who can satisfy A^B^C

...I give up.

some people like the nebulous concept of "freedom", while others like the nebulous concept of "slick".

This is intellectual laziness in action. I hope that you will realize that someday, and I'm sorry to have wasted your time and mine on this thread.
not only are more of us intimidating each other subtly and slowly through social grooming on social sites, aren't we also complicit in this surveillance as voters?
"That's just how humans roll."

Thats not how I look at it. We have made progress from a society of primitive tribes to a more reasonable society rapidly in the last couple of centuries.

Universal women's suffrage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#United_States) did not even exist in the United States until the beginning of the 20th century.

There is an endless number of social issues that Humans have made advancements, including Civil Rights, Gay Rights etc.,

Our understanding of the world has increased [changed] and so has our ability to make decisions based on such new knowledge.
I'd call it the opening salvo in a trade war, if not a new cold war. Expect to see a lot of political pressure for other companies to 'follow Google' and repatriate manufacturing operations and the like.
Very few religious people will say "If you proved that, my faith would be shaken."

And this is true regardless of what "that" is.
It hasn't been a huge secret that the Chinese government conducts all sorts of electronic espionage, both for economic and military information and to identify dissidents so they can imprison or shoot them. What's new here is that a powerful entity is finally willing to call them out in public, and it's about time.
Clickable: http://www.webservius.com
Hah! It takes the Earth about five million seconds to travel through one radian of its orbit. That... seems more useful to know than it actually is.
Nigerian Anger at the U.S. Grows
I don't see the need to talk to him.

For one thing, it sounds like your satisfaction there will boil down to your personal agenda. If you are trying to build a world-class IT shop, you'll struggle. If you are trying to help the non-profit do their work, which will clearly entail sacrifices in IT, you'll be fine.

Also, if further prying did not give more info, then they expect you to make decisions based on what they told you. If you need more info, you may have differences in communication styles that will lead to problems down the road.
Title should indicate that this is the effect of HIS entrepreneurship on his savings. This is not a graph showing the average of a sampling of entrepreneurs savings. Also, the post doesn't indicate anything about how his savings were spent so that the reader could determine whether this was a likely scenario for them. I'm an entrepreneur as well and I've spend a total of $5K in one year working on my project. That includes production of two fully functional (but not market ready) prototypes.
He should have taken the invite to appear with Hugh Jackman on the Letterman show. Although he might think it's a setup, the fact is that if he were to apologize to "Wolverine" and have his apology accepted on national TV, gain some public support and put Fox on notice that he could indeed be too much of a PR disaster if taken to court, he'd probably have a better chance of escaping the full extent of Fox's wrath. Without the protective blanket of public support and a handshake from Hugh Jackman, he's an awfully better target for Fox to shoot at, without anybody noticing his plight. Sucks to be you, Wolverine leaker.
An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG
Hmmm, looks like a lot of graphs in 2008-2009.

Home values, savings, wages, employment, manufacturing jobs, consumer confidence.

On the bright side, processor energy consumption, cost of entry into software development.
Facebook & Privacy: Trying to be everything to everyone is a minefield
Very non-descriptive title, though it results in a number fairly close to Pi. It's based on this:

The challenge: calculate all numbers between 1900 and 2100 with
exactly one operator between the sequential numbers 123456789
with as many brackets as desired.

There are links to two other methods of solving the problem, both of which are significantly more "intelligent" methods, but it's an interesting starting point for all three.
I wouldn't say it was necessary. But it happened and that history wasn't ours. We only get to influence things that are happening now.
I just missed reading "attack on" for a second and was shocked!
I submitted the title of the article as it appears on the site. But it looks like a mod must have changed it.
Thanks for the notes! Did they have free coffee on the Limo Liner? That may be a plus.

Just bought my ticket (somehow Amtrak let me cancel my Accela ticket) for Thurs. We'll see how it goes =)
I'd like to chime in and point out that the Java approach had by far the best performance (about 7 seconds), for all you Java haters out there ;)
Archaeologists conduct probe on secret Chinatown tunnels (2007)
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Formal Grammer
Actionscript 3 isn't that bad.
Framerate on the iPhone is terrible for the part with all the stars, then quite good.
Your bias is defining all those things you listed as progress. For some those items are signs of a degenerate society that has lost its way.

Your thinking is more like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history#Social_ev...

Than this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory
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SWF files on the iPhone.
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I love that they made this announcement via a press release on their blog and not an 'exclusive interview' with a specific news outlet.
Finding SI unit domain names with Node.js
BackTrack Linux 4 released (Linux for penetration testing)
I have to believe that somewhere in the parameter space of human diplomacy and relationships there is the possibility for expansion and coexistence without utter annihilation of one side. We appear to be doing it on some scales in the modern age, certainly much better than we've done before, though not perfectly.

Still, homo sapiens largely wiped out neanderthal populations many eons ago. They had a similar to larger cranial capacity to cro-magnons and modern humans, they used and created tools, and there's some evidence of cultural artifacts such as jewelry around their sites. The signs point to a culture of intelligent humanoids, now almost completely wiped out (except with possible genetic relics in the human population). This genocide preceded civilization as we know it by millennia...

Placental mammals, crossing over to south america from the isthmus of Panama when it arose, almost completely destroyed marsupials in south america. That's not just an ethnicity, race, or species, it's an entire infraclass. It is likely the case that our primate ancestors did the same for many other classes of beings.

So to turn the clock back, it is hard to know when to stop. Fundamentally it is difficult for me to reason about when it is good for one creature to profit while others perish. I do know, though, that they are in a much more complicated relationship -- that it is impossible to separate one creature from its ecosystem, and that if no particular creature or plant or species is to be sacred above others, then surely it's the integrity and continued vitality of the ecosystem that matters. This is one reason I am an environmentalist: human beings now have immense power over the environment, and as such need to take responsibility for the fact that they can alter it, destroy it, or care for it. We have to become not the Earth's ignorant children, but the it's gardeners.
You should definitely contact him, unless you would be willing to quit almost right away if they start jerking you around somehow; which I don't think would be a good idea.

Several commenters have said you should take what he says with a grain of salt; You should take anything anybody says with a grain of salt, even if you think they are being completely aboveboard, you could be wrong, and you don't know what kinds of incentives and conflicts may be influencing them. And you should be alert for honest misunderstandings as well.
How is it not useful for people that need to be successful in an era when browsers aren't bridging those gaps themselves?
Yes but we can only work with the data we have.
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