skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever this supposed "we" collectively did, it's still a linkbait title. Sure the buck stops at the president's office, but you can't say that person X supports some very specific activity unless they come right out and say it. However it is certainly fair comment to say that Obama, by appointing industry lawyers, has given tacit endorsement to the industry stance of harsh penalties.
You're thinking of the Banach-Tarski Theorem, sometimes called a paradox. Mentioned here several times.

http://searchyc.com/banach+tarski

Same connection was made last time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416765
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Right. That's my point.
My parents don't have cable. My dad watches Steeler games, my mom watches Dancing with the Stars, and they occasionally watch the morning news. That's it. The friends I speak of range from 18-35.

> Not only that, but the setup has to be permanent and drop-dead simple.

I'm not sure what's hard about Boxee, Netflix over the XBox, or even just having a computer hooked up to a television in general. It's not like there's a difference between them now, other than size.
Yes I was a bit confused on that too.
I've never actually tried it (other than sporadically on planes and similar), but thinking about it it sounds like an interesting idea. I know I have tendency to start idly browsing when I go to check up some programming thing on the web. Perhaps I'll try unplugging my network cable for a few hours a day, just to see what it does to my productivity.
Ask HN: Contracting out website design.
I am looking to contract out the design of my iPhone app's website. I contacted a designer whose portfolio I like, and I have received a ~$2K quote for a 3-4 page website design. I have to pay $1k up front, and the rest upon completion.
Does that seem reasonable?

If some of you can recommend a website designer that you have used in the past that would be helpful. Also, if you can provide data points in terms of design cost that would be useful.

Thanks!
Would Street Performer Protocol be appropriate in this case?

http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html
The fact that it is widely practiced is a defense. For the same reason that people would rightly object to a $675,000 tort judgment for speeding, or jaywalking, or smoking marijuana.

Are they crimes? Certainly. But because they're widespread, generally unenforced, mostly "victimless", people are outraged that they'd have such high penalties. If you applied that judgment fairly you'd probably bankrupt 3/4s of America, if not more, which would be bad. Any law that you don't want enforced in the general case is a bad law that's going to generate outrage when it is enforced.
I think it may even be easier if you're just starting. If you get used to Ruby, it could be painful/hard to switch after. It all depends how much you're ready to learn and if you need hand-holding, in the later case Ruby might be a better place to start. However, beware tutorials catered to new programmers, they're not always giving good advises (being generally written by newbies) and coding on your own is always more efficient. Furthermore, if you're not shy, participating in the community is the best way to learn, so it also depends on how you get along with the others using the programming language you've chosen.

My path to Lisp: C/asm > Java> Ruby (and some Scheme) > C# > Clojure

I've always been a polyglot and been programming for fun in lots of strange languages, so I've skipped lots of them in the above. Others notable languages I like are Python, OCaml and Haskell, but I didn't do much with them. That route may not be the best for you though. And you can't know which way will work for you until you've found it! So you need to try one and go far enough to see if you really like it.
That seems pretty expensive for 4 pages. Why not put out a call for designers here?

That has worked quite well for me in the past.
"but if it did, Microsoft would win it."

There is a difference. It's much easier to upgrade Google's applications than Microsoft's. When Google patches Gmail, it takes a couple minutes for me to enjoy my corrected version. When Microsoft issues a correction, it could take weeks until it hits the Windows Update servers and that could easily turn into months before many businesses incorporate it into their update sets.

It's not only the size of the attack surface, but the time it remains open. There is also a huge factor in public perception - people perceive their computers as imperfect mostly because they are astonishingly unreliable. If Google can make people happier with their computers and web applications than they are with Windows and desktop apps, Microsoft will have a huge problem that may not be solvable by throwing money and people at it.
I was confused by the video tour. I clicked watch video tour and was given the option of who to narrate it. Unfortunately I didn't know what that was. I thought I was looking at a rhetorical question along the lines of "you pick your favorite music, so how do you pick your favorite lodging?" or something like that. I'd suggest changing the heading of that to "Which narrator do you want?" or something with the word narrator.

That was my only nitpick. I tried out the interface and I love it. This is a really cool app that I find to be really well put together.. It does have the Catch 22 of you need lodgings to get users and users to get lodgings. Hopefully you find a way around that.
Does it affect CP/M too? ;-)
Wearables are destined as peripherals, precisely because it only makes sense to choose a wearable over the computer itself when the ergonomics and use cases are superior.

So a cell phone watch is a trivial non-starter. But a bluetooth watch, subservient to the phone, delivering accurate time, calendar information and message notification without having to reach into your pocket and enter your lock code, is a different thing.

Similarly, a necklace recording device would be ideal for hands-free audio/video recording to your primary device. Who wouldn't want a trip video they didn't even have to remember to record? Not to mention a necklace/earring combo that acted as a bluetooth headset.

Eyewear definitely has a lot of promise, but I'm not entirely sold on it needing to be inexpensive. People pay a lot for stylish eyewear. So I don't doubt people will pay quite a bit for eyewear with features. However, it also suggests that eyewear electronics are dead in the water until they're stylish.

The watch and jewelry really isn't that far out there. Particularly during years when chunky jewelry is in style.
First application deployment and management solution on VMware vCloud Express
Today, VMware announced its partnership with webappVM for vCloud Express, making webappVM the first application deployment and management solution to be available on a vCloud implementation. Enterprises that use the combined solution can now offer their application teams a self-service experience in which they can deploy and manage their applications in the cloud without changing the applications or middleware.
The photo stops fast motion during the night, so enough lighting was used to get a shutter speed of at least 1/100th. From the lighting/shadowing, we can see that at least a couple of artificial light sources are present. What is the likelihood that a wildlife photographer would set up for such a shot in anticipation of any animal, much less a wild wolf, jumping over the gate. Given that the exposure seems just about perfect, we have to assume that lighting levels were set for about three feet above the gate -- this rules out animals not able/likely to jump it. How likely is a wild animal to venture near such a set-up (with its associated human smells) when it could just as easily have jumped the stone wall? So, without identifying the wolf in the photo, we can determine that the shot is almost certainly staged with a compliant animal.

Edit: It's a really, really good shot though.
Presumably because they're not likely to find the denials of people paid by their adversary very convincing.
If you're really interested in this, you could look into the editor market on lulu
Here is the facebook announcement,
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=355

Applications can request you to share email addresses explicitly via their "extended permission" api...

Its upto the user to share or not...
I'm with you on becoming fluent in one before going to another, I've lost lots of time because of this. But for how you're viewing programming, it all depends on the person. Like natural languages, some people just can't become bilingual. We all have our limits, I don't think I could be fluent in say 10 languages and it's probably much less than that.
I can see this being the case. One thing people miss while they are bashing the China gov about corruption and oppression is that a great deal of the "bad behavior" in China is caused by business leaders (small and large), not government. There exist fairly good laws protecting worker rights. Unfortunately, if an employer wants to be abusive, they will and its up to the employee to decide how or if they want to fight it.
A little off topic, but any of the Good alignments follow "Don't be evil", since by definition Good is not Evil. Neutral says nothing about not doing evil and actually implies doing some evil. Lawful Neutral is following the order of law regardless of whether a law is good or evil. Chaotic Good is more of disregarding law or actively attempting to destroy law but while still doing what is Good. Therefore, I'd say Google acting as the GP describes would more closely follow Lawful Neutral than Chaotic Good.

Edit: Actually, I guess the process of acting as the GP describes would be Lawful Neutral but the end result would be Chaotic Good.
I would have less problem with the size of this fine if, when the music industry breach copyright law, they had to pay bankrupting fines too. With no limitation of liability.
same here, safari, ff, webkit, chrome, camino on mac os x.
I think a good place to go for a "baseline" cost would be:

http://99designs.com/

I used them for some graphics work at my current employer and was happy with the results. It at least gives you a starting point and a place to negotiate from.
What kind of public image is the RIAA seeking for itself? Can't they see they're committing imago suicide? Maybe these lawsuits were meant to show unequivocally to the public that file sharing is not permissible and will be prosecuted, but these figures are getting ridiculous. They lost their sense of proportionality.
You need a merchant account in the name of your business. Whichever credit card processor you use will send your funds directly to that account. So if you haven't incorporated, you will need to take care of that in order to get a merchant account. Be aware that where you incorporate will affect what credit card processors will do business with you and the rates you will consequently get. Things will be easiest if you incorporate in the United States.
Google escalates standoff with China: postpones two Android phones
Not disallowed, but you should question what the point of critiquing details of other countries' policies unless you seriously favor trade sanctions and all of the suffering they cause.

Part of the story we tell ourselves in the US is that our righteous indignation about other countries is reasonable... meanwhile American citizens are raped every day in American prisons and nobody suggests that other nations boycott the Olympics to nudge us toward human rights improvements.

Since Obama took power there has been tremendous pressure to harm China's export industry, and Obama did this with his recent tire tariffs. How do you convince a bunch of entitled Americans that it's reasonable to harm the economic wellbeing of Chinese tire makers (who are quite a lot poorer than any US worker)? By helping Americans believe that China is morally inferior and thus deserves to be punished.

This is the trend that is shaping up now. Google's move was foolish and plays right into the hands of US warmongers and trade protectionists... also, Google was (at least) showing which results were censored. Baidu offers the Chinese no such information.
Both Chargify and Spreedly require a payment gateway of some sort, no idea about the others.

I believe Chargify only supports Authorize.net currently, and it looks like Spreedly supports a few more.

Authorize.net is only the payment gateway, so you'll need a merchant account as well. A merchant account with a bank is where you have the transaction fee (flat fee per transaction) and discount rate (percentage per transaction). The payment gateway is a monthly fee on top of that ($10 p/month or so), and then you have the fees for the recurring billing service as well (and any special services they require, for instance Chargify requires the customer management part of the Authorize.net API which is another $20 a month or so).

As far as the merchant account goes, start with this blog post: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0006-how-to-get-a-merchant-acc...
Conversely, it makes me happy. Yes, yes, downvote me, as supporting copyright holders is the unpopular opinion on the internet. But this notion that everyone can just take what they please and expect no repercussions needs to stop. It's trampling on the rights of people who create intellectual things. The very people that make all of this content possible in the first place. I still don't understand why they always get the short end of the stick.
Hey mate - I actually went to your profile to look for an email to write you. This other comment you made was so subtly funny I laughed quite a bit when I saw it:

"Hmm...if I were a botanist, I think I'd get a bit weary of always having to interrupt a high-bandwidth dialogue with a peer to insert sufficient fawning to appease those who might otherwise judge us for the things we did not say."

I was going to drop you a line to let you know I laughed out loud, and to ask if you got the botanist reference from Feynman, which summed things up incredibly well for me the first time I read it.

> I agree with the general spirit of what you're saying, but I disagree with a few tacit assumptions: that you can automatically equate highly-sought-after with lower quality,

Ah, you're right, I was a little unclear on that. I guess I could more accurately like this - some things that are desirable to men don't indicate quality. Obviously some other things do too. The key is finding out which are actually well suited for you - just because a woman is desirable to most men doesn't make her a higher quality gal for you. (What's with the guy who doesn't like the word "quality" by the way? Maybe he's from somewhere else, I just got introduced to a fellow with my friend saying, "This is so-and-so, he's a really high quality guy, I think you guys are going to get along great.)

> that quality women are more forgiving of beta traits,

Disagree. Hmm, how shall I put this.

I don't believe in the alpha/beta dichotomy. Well, there's some truth in it, but among my friends, we actually jokingly talk about "alpha male types" who are kind of loud, and crass, and things. I have read Roissy though, and think he's hilarious once you get over the initial shock and rawness of the guy. But alpha/beta I don't so much agree with.

For me, I usually think of things as strong/average/weak, where strength is of character, internal strength so to speak. So you could be strong (of character) in an area, or average, or weak. On that notion, I don't believe that quality women are more forgiving of weakness - just the opposite actually.

> and that quality women don't know their sexual market value.

This is the most thought provoking part of your comment for me. And I had to think about it for a minute, and you know what? I really think girls who aren't extroverted and sexualized are often less confident than they should be about their prospects, and due to men's ignorance and short sightedness, they do get less attention than they objectively ought to get. Really, I don't think extroversion and hyper-sociality and sexualization makes a girl a better long term companion for most men. But it's interesting to think about either way, cheers for the discussion.
Make one yourself from colored paper.
Video showing how it's done at http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1014711/crazy_star_cube_nice_p...
Looks pretty cool.

When I was on the 'iternerary' view the bar at the top of the screen changing colors drove me crazy though.
I'm in the middle of the same process. I linked up with someone on elance.com based on their portfolio of work. Results have been so so - think the most important thing is to understand expectations - web design is sort of a generic term - what are you actually getting? design? execution of your own design? If its the former, $1k to $2k seems cheap, if its the latter, maybe expensive.
I suspect that programming will become part of tomorrow's test of basic literacy. That programming skill could entail writing formulas into a spreadsheet, whipping up a script to process a bunch of one-off data, writing macros to automate repetitive tasks, creating digital art projects, whipping up mobile device apps, whatever.

But to have a computer and not be able to do anything beyond what can be done with already-installed programs is to be essentially crippled in your ability to use the most powerful mass-market innovation facilitator in history.
Enumerate all of the methods/protocols/whatever that you employ in keeping our information secure. Most (all?) of the site seems to be behind https, so that's a decent start. Are you PCI compliant? How to you store and encrypt our data? Obviously, you don't have to divulge the secret sauce here, but something more than what the FAQ outlines would be a good start. 37s has a decent go at a security page: http://37signals.com/security
Oh, and this is a simpler variant, but interesting nevertheless... http://www.metacafe.com/watch/783529/unbelievable_white_or_b...
Torts and crimes aren't the same thing. There is, for instance, no such thing as a "victimless tort".
It is, but thats what Threat Level used. I never edit the title other than to shorten it
I'm confident that an internet version of The Conan O'Brien show will be funnier, edgier, more credible and more innovative. And that will translate into more profits - both for Conan and for Revision3

It seems possible it could be more innovative and funny if it was internet based, but I am highly skeptical of this translating to more profit for Conan. How much is Conan worth to the big networks for a year of shows? 15 million? Where's Revision3 going to get that kind of money?
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Logotipos embasados por animais são bastante usados, não só por ser o mascote da empresa mais também por conseguirem representar a empresa mais fortemente, um bom exemplo disto é o MSN, Ecko ou Twitter.
There was a big scandal a few years ago for the administration interfering with federal prosecutors. Either they have independence or we have prosecution mixed with politics. An administration can publicly pardon people, but quietly squashing prosecution is a horrible precedent.

That said, there is some degree of guidance possible as to the overall tone. However, that mostly works to increase the number of prosecutions in some area not eliminate them.
my thoughts:

too many options for the video tour. i mean, i didn't have a problem figuring it out, and i enjoyed what i saw, but you're going to find that some users will get confused. from the standpoint of converting customers, provide a default and start it playing, and then provide other options if they want to get silly.

i'm not sure how i feel about the red box on the map. i kind of think that it should be a bit more static, so that it doesn't automatically re-search each time the zoom changes or i scroll the map. but i can't think of a good solution off the top of my head.

there are a few references to st.hal.biz, where its clear that it should be just hal.biz. example: http://st.hal.bz/img/global/guarantee120.gif is showing up as a broken image vs http://hal.bz/img/global/guarantee120.gif
> tolerant of weekly board game night.

Ooo, that's a good idea.
> The main benefit I receive from publishers is filtering.

The main benefit I receive from my friends is filtering.

Now, the question is: do publishers or my friends do that job better?
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Not too impressed by being told Chrome isn't good enough for your site!
Sure, but there's not enough money in Internet programming right now for Conan's cut to be worth it. Hell there's not enough money probably to operate the show even if Conan takes $0.

Madonna was popularized using a very well established formula that had been honed by record companies over the previous half-century.

My point is, that at this stage in the game, Conan could innovate, but only if he can take a controlling interest. If he wants or needs someone else to be the strategic party then it's too soon. He'll need to wait 5 or 10 years for Internet programming to come into its own as an industry at which point he can be just one more chunk of content (sort of like he was for NBC).
Sure, nobody else can publish to Kindle

That's not true, is it? I'm sure I've seen publishers like Pragmatic Programmers selling Kindle stuff that doesn't go through Amazon. I don't have a Kindle though, so I'm not going to state this with 100% confidence ;-)
Looks good...but from a usability standpoint, would it kill you to label the fields? Which one is start date, which one is end date. What about i18n? "Where are you going?" is a little too ambiguous I think. I presume that's what you were going for, but locality can be quite granular. Hopefully there is an intuitive interpreter parsing that text.
it is certainly fair comment to say that Obama, by appointing industry lawyers, has given tacit endorsement to the industry stance of harsh penalties.

No, it isn't.

If I know that X laws need reform, I'll hire lawyers who are very familiar with X laws to review possible changes, their effects, and how they would use those laws, to try to avoid making a bad situation worse.

On the flip side, if I want X laws strengthened, I'd still hire lawyers who are familiar with X laws, to figure out how to make them stronger, and plug the holes.

As such, I'd contend that Obama's hiring of lawyers who specialized in IP tells us only that his administration is interested in gaining expertise in the application of IP law.

That said, I tend to be a lot less outraged about politics than other HN'ers.
Careful; that sort of wish lead to ActiveX and the disaster that is Korean online banking.
The $2K quote is for the design only. I would have to write the HTML myself.