skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I would not choose to trade freedom and self governance for economic benefit. I was however pointing out that when you look at things from a purely utilitarian perspective, you often end up with strange conclusions.

The other thing I find interesting is that we seem to be left with no options for solving the problems of these struggling post-colonial nations. Some certainly prospered economically after the ruling colonial powers left. Some suffered immensely. If one accepts that institutional order is a prerequisite for economic prosperity, then one might conclude that an outside power should take over and institute order, but the obvious moral problems prevents this. Not to mention the historically supported unlikelihood that the country would actually benefit. The only solution appears to be institutional order that grows organically from within the country. Outside aid doesn't seem to help much. This leaves very few options for the Haiti's and the Camaroon's of the world.
Yes you can start out with lisp. You will certainly learn a lot if you go that route, there are good resources out there if you do (see the link to SICP someone else posted, and also look at one of my favorite books, The Little Schemer[1]). Still, I'm not sure it's a path that I would recommend. You will be able to go farther, more quickly in Ruby. There are more libraries, better resources for those new to programming, and (this is subjective of course) a more welcoming community if you need to ask for help.

But, if you are willing to figure some things out by yourself, don't let me discourage you from starting with lisp.

edit: forgot Little Schemer ref. see: http://books.google.com/books?id=xyO-KLexVnMC&dq=the+lit...
There was already Apple Newton though, so the idea was clearly in the air.
great idea and great execution (from what I can see). The narration idea is very original with the video intro. But I do agree with other commenter that it was odd to have to pick a narration.
I'd suggest you pick the one you like best or which best shows off the capabilities, and just use that, or rotate through them.
Even though you went through the effort to create the different videos, it is best to keep something like that simple for the user.
If it's a completely original design/layout that the designer comes up with $2K is fairly reasonable. I found fresh designs start around $800 for one page and go up depending on what else you need. If you have a PSD of your design file there are plenty of services that start much cheaper.
http://letmego.com/submit/toronto?G_type=AREA&check_in=2...

Just change any of the options on the side and you'll see what I mean.
My other startup: http://voice123.com
There are two massive obstacles to wearable electronics: seasonal fashion and air travel security. Those are not going anywhere any time soon.
You're attacking a straw man. It doesn't matter how unlike theft coypright infringement actually is. What's being claimed is damages under tort law. However outrages you think those damages are, courts have repeatedly affirmed them.
Here's a site I saw the other day that looked pretty nice:

http://psddesigners.com/

I have not used them so this is not a recommendation. Just price comparison. Designs start at $880 with 3 rounds of revisions. So, if you know what you want then this could be a cheaper route. If not this isn't the package for you. Once they are done you're on your own so this is a hands off approach if you want someone who will work with you over time I'd stick with your designer.
Project Delta aims to create the perfect cookie (2005)
They prevent cash outflow by ensuring your business accounts are with local Chinese banks and your transactions must pass through those banks. A company has a quota (usually annual) for how much can be sent out of China and the banks have records of your company's quota usage. There are deals to be made. If you're bringing in $X million USD to invest in China, you may be able to get the government to set your quota to that of your original investment or higher. This is negotiable to some extent. But the overall purpose is to lock in some or all of your gains so your choices are aligned to investing in China (real estate, stock market, other China companies, etc).

Similar system for personal gains. If your a foreigner working in China your supposed to be paid by the local company which means through their local bank accounts which can only pay to your local bank account (usually only to the same bank). If I recall correct, your default quota per year is $50K USD (or is that RMB? I never hit either limit). So if your making $200K a year in China and are not blowing all that on housing and having a grand time, your limited to only being able to send $50K a year out. Some get around this (as well as taxes) by paying their foreign employees through an international entity and then the employee bring in the cash he needs on a regular basis. But this practice is deteriorating as China is becoming better at policing payroll of foreigners working in China.
I'm re-posting a deleted comment because I found it to be of merit:

"Actually, in the original story about the photo the photographer claimed to have set up everything in advance, and used some sort of sensor to have it automatically fire when the wolf jumped over it; he may have said that he'd previously seen them doing so."

This is a scenario I had not considered, not having done nature photography before. Perhaps I will set up some strobes and a motion sensor next time I throw rotting food into my backyard to see if it disappears by morning.
FWIW, Chrome dev channel's inspector is approximately equivalent to the one in webkit nightlies.
What if I can't run the linux CLI?
This is doing the rounds on the net too:

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/robots.txt

It doesn't mention Bing. Amusing, and useless.
The NYT's target demographic is the top 40% of income producers middle age and older. They don't know how to reach us, and they're not worried about it for another few years. If they lose us (in a general sense here), they're not too worried yet. At that point, they'll start hiring people like Kos and other top bloggers on both sides of the isle as their columnists and target us.

Most people under 35 scoff at paying a newspaper because they news they print is not targeted at us.
Web Designer vs Client - Make my website for free
As a follow up, I didn't explicitly state one of my points. When you are taking 50000 shots per project you only need one to come out perfect. So when you look at award winning shots like this it could be a 1 / 1000000 shot. It's seems possible he takes a similar amount of shots per project all year long, year after year.

The interesting part is taking a night shot with a flash of a fox jumping a fence - you probably only get one chance. Or his setup only got one chance. I can't imagine the fox is going to get anywhere near that same spot again.
..for the vids.
The situation isn't necessarily as bad as my essay implies. One of the commenters posted this link:

http://www.idealog.com/blog/apples-disruption-of-the-ebook-m...

(Attention-conservation version: The major publishers have done a deal with Apple whereby they'll be selling books on an agency basis rather than the wholesale model that's got them into such trouble with Amazon et al.)

And then there's this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/20/amazon_royality/

(Short attention span version: Amazon is spooked.)
I would not call it "complete". Maybe "complete" in the sense that it works under perfect conditions, but not "complete" in any real sense. I don't see any error handling or power-up initialization, I don't see any DMA, I don't see any timeouts, I don't see any interrupts.

I could write the same code in C and it would be just about as long.
I doubt they have 70 people there just for fun. They can't exactly drive around in a sat truck and do a live shot with a reporter and a camera operator. There's no place to stay, no place to eat, no easy way to travel, no easy way to communicate, no security, etc etc. Tons of legwork just to get basic reports out.
This is pretty stupid.

We have detected that you have genetic predisposition to develop this rare medical condition. <little print>Above general population, you have 0.5% chance of getting sick every year until you turn 40, 1% until you turn 55 and 3% afterwards</little print>

You should be concerned because there is no known cure for this disease. <little print>But the expected survival rate is 8 years with proper treatment</little print>

There are 2 preemptive surgeries.<little print>But of whose have a 10% chance that you will die within 30 days of complications, leaving 2 little orphans to fend themselves in the world</little print> One has 50% chance of preventing the condition to develop <little print>Still above general population expectations</little print> and the other has 90% <little print>But will cost a fortune, and stain your marriage and your self esteem</little print>

How brilliant!
An industrial food developer pits their traditional R&D model against two trendy software development methodologies: religious XP and 'open source'

Of course Gladwell makes his usual obvious, almost trollish mistakes, piled in great heaps: "On the one hand, there was the 'open source' movement. Its patron saint was Linus Torvald, the Norwegian hacker who decided to build a free version of Unix"
What stops population growth? [video]
Maybe Accelerando could be made into a movie...

Who could direct it?
NYC Seedstart Summer 2010 Program
this is true. pp's technical books actually look better on the kindle than amazon's.
I agree, and am a polyglot myself, but I think there is a tradeoff. The more time you spend learning new languages, the less time you have to master one of the languages you already know. Take a complex language like Common Lisp. You can learn the basics of Common Lisp in maybe a week or two, but to master the language, to really understand all the details, to know the idioms, etc, takes years. Lisp is a language you can spend the rest of your life learning.
Chrome for Linux gave me the same warning.
My curiosity hovers over how much freedom FB app developers have in the "Request for Special Permissions" dialog.

Will the FB API force them to disclose the fact their app wants to email you directly, as is shown in the screencap, or could this fact be obscured with clever word choice or some other diversion in the dialogs?

If the latter, then this new feature sits somewhere close to sanctioned phishing. Once an untrusted 3rd party has your email address, FB can't revoke it. The recent stories about Farmville don't give me much reason to trust such 3rd parties.

Indeed at that point, FB, along with whatever role FB had hoped to play in data-mining the traffic it sends to your address, become entirely irrelevant.

Which begs the question: why does FB chose to cast itself as the easily expendable middleman?
but if it did, the outcome would not be as certain as you stated.
They do indeed. I have a number of titles in epub format from them.
Thoughts on scientific consensus
Briefly terrified by a future where people are as easily convinced they're good at programming as they are today with writing.
Does this say anything not already said in these:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065080

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062951

I'm currently not in a position to check, but thought it was worth the cross-reference, especially since those submissions already have comments.
lionhearted is not a troll. What he is saying it is actually resonated with what I think/do also.

BTW. My friends and I use the same term too. "Quality Woman": Is a girl/woman that is well educated, cute, nice, not with a huge self sense of entitlement, and a good personality.

Basically a woman that has her shit together, not bitchy, and is cute at the same time.

So instead of having a whole paragraph to describe her, just saying 'quality', and my friend will understand it immediately.

They are actually pretty rare in the US, especially single.

I don't know why, but European girls seem to be a lot balanced in general.

Maybe saying she is a great girl will be less offensive to few people? But whatever, life is short, so I am not going to live myself to appease everybody.
I see. You are right. It may become annoying. Thank you for the tip. We will work on it!
Hellllloooooo Mailinator.
Explain. If I burn a copy of a CD I own for shits, that is formally an act of copyright infringement. Who is victimized by this act?

I understand that tort by definition is compensation for injury, but if that injury as defined by the law does not actually harm a party, it fits my definition of "victimless".

Statutory damages for copyright infringement have historically been in lieu of actual damages when such were hard to prove, and IIRC earlier versions of the copyright act explicitly said that statutory awards are not to be construed as punitive. It's hard to argue that these awards are anything but punitive.
I think its the idea that copyright is considered by some to be actual property right, when it isn't. It is a creation by the government to encourage the development of goods. With the internet and the relentless extension of copyright many people no longer believe it is worth the trade off and think that copyright should no longer exist.

I didn't write the previous posts, but decided to chime in with what i thought.
A common PC is a layered monstrosity that can still run nearly every desktop OS made since the early 80's. I would not surprised if every modern chipset had a vestigial cassette port lurking in there for when you wrote "CLOAD" on GWBASIC.

I see no reason for a modern x86 (Oh God... What am I saying) to be able to faithfully run code targeted for the 8088. Heck... I am not sure if there is any reason to even support 487 instructions...
> 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 hard, it's just that most people (ie. NBC's giant[1] audience) already have something that works for them in the plop-on-the-couch-surf-with-remote area. They aren't yet looking for ways to watch internet video on their TVs. And even if Conan's fan base is setup for IPTV, advertisers haven't yet bought into the small engaged audience as a viable demographic.

[1] Giant relative to Rev3's.
You raise a good point. If we take the sum total of all images shot during the year by all photographers entering the competition, it is probably in the millions. So, events with million-to-one odds are likely represented in the very non-random sampling of entries.
This made me think of a quote which turns out to be from a Clay Shirky essay (http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html)

"It may be time to dust off that old issue of Wired, because the RIAA is succeeding where 10 years of hectoring by the Cypherpunks failed. [...] Note that the broadening adoption of encryption is not because users have become libertarians, but because they have become criminals; to a first approximation, every PC owner under the age of 35 is now a felon."
By the way. The warning is triggered only if the browser you are using hasn't been fully checked with our site by our QA team; however, it may just work fine for you given that we tried to stick to many standards that most browser use (plus IE own "standards", of course).
I agree with you, but your use of "begs the question" is wrong, and given that I'm in a pedantic mood (and that this is a mistake I've seen before on HN), I'd like to offer a word on the subject.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which you essentially assume your conclusion as part of formulating your argument. Instead, you probably mean something more like "Which brings up the question".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Are you able to share what strategies you have for increasing participation among lodgings businesses? It seems to me that this would be a big challenge and a huge factor in your success, and I am curious how you address it.
Estonia came to mind because of an Economist article a couple of years ago.
Check out the Zii EGG from Creative Labs:

http://www.zii.com/Developer/Landing.aspx

It's basically an Android "iPod Touch" for $399.
Thanks. So this is 'total users since records began', rather than any type of 'active user' count. That's what I figured, but wasn't sure.

Just wish articles would quantify what 'user' means when they say "X has Y users".
Reducing the Cost of IP Law
Just so that you know Chrome on Ubuntu also triggered the warning notice
I got a warning and I'm on FF 3.0.6 the catch: it's called Iceweasel and on Debian.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102814 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3)
Heh, now my comment does not make any sense! Oh well. :)
Why am I not surprised that it is using both WebForms and Silverlight... I see that big chunk of viewstate there Bill.
> Just a short matter of time.

Obviously, in Conan's case NBC has proven that they're not willing to wait for any reasonably short time period when trying out new things. I'm betting the reason that's the case is because advertisers aren't either. Until the advertising dollar moves onto the Internet, it's not going to make sense for a Conan to do the same.

I agree that it's a matter of time before we stop talking about IPTV as something new or separate from TV, but that timeframe isn't going to be determined as much by consumers (your old salts) as it is by the advertisers.
Fair enough, and thx for the reference. Idiom and logic rarely get along together.
Ok, but is that book dead sexy? :)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
No. Fair use already supports that idea, as in the Betamax case.
"lionhearted is not a troll. What he is saying it is actually resonated with what I think/do also."

A troll is as troll does. And this isn't about whether the two of you share some weird notion of "quality" in women. If you do, take it off line. This sexist claptrap doesn't belong on HN.

"I prefer taller women, and I prefer women who are built strong with good musculature, athletes, and girls with wider hips and shoulders."

Does anybody care a damn what someone's sexual preferences are like?

This is borderline locker room conversation - discussion of "long thin athletic" women, sexual history paraded as "education" for other readers, challenges to other people to compare their sexual lives with his (e.g:- "if you want to talk about relative social lives, sex lives, and dating lives, I'm happy to go there . We could compare and contrast, if you like, how your politically correct pseudo-chivalry is working vs. my slightly more gritty candidness")

Gritty candidness my foot! This sounds like juvenile frat boy crap to me.

It doesn't matter whether you have the same tastes.

I just happen to think such crudity should be kept off HN. If I am in the minority, so be it. Nothing prevents the lot of you from forming a private mailing list and exchanging vapid theories of "quality women".

Or are you saying your sexual fantasies and theories are of "intellectual interest to hackers"?
Such a childish signature.
A Myspace pose is also a good indicator that a girl is fun (meaning interested in sex) and doesn't demand much taste or sophistication. I've been on way too many dates with women who turned out to be wine snobs, music snobs, fashion snobs, literature snobs, or even TV snobs, who lost interest as soon as they realized I didn't meet their particular snob standards. People who are committed to being "better than" in any way would never post something as cliché and tasteless as a Myspace pose. Honestly, for the long term I'm looking for someone whose snob standards are sufficiently aligned with mine, but sometimes it's nice to go out with someone with no standards. (Actually, they have standards, but they're the kind of standards that can be applied before agreeing to a date.)
So a prediction that we would have tiny computers that we carried everywhere in our clothes and bodies is wrong because instead of carrying them in our clothes, we carry them in our pockets? Kurzweil's predictions relate to the level of computational power for a given cost and what we can do with that power. Just because my turn-by-turn directions come from my phone instead of a wrist-strap doesn't make those predictions less wrong.

In the absence of iPods or cell phones, it's likely that sewn-in or wearable computers would be more attractive.
There is precedent for what you describe: prog-rock band Marillion did this in 2001: http://marillion.com/band/bio2004.htm (4th paragraph).

"[...] it was the revolutionary concept of asking their fans to pre-order and pay for the recording costs an album some 12 months in advance of its release that hit the headlines in 2001. Astonishingly, over 12,000 of their fans pre-ordered and an additional deal was struck with EMI to market the resulting ‘Anoraknophobia’ album."

Not sure if escrow was involved though.
What ? There are still people on Second Life ?

This is, for me, the very big news ...
I remember getting a Taco Bell Star Wars toy just like this when the special edition came out.

http://www.listia.com/auction/20297

It does the infinite folding thing but doesn't split into two stars.
Great read,

However, first he says:

"These days, a lot of newspapers look to cut their overheads by reducing their actual journalist and editor head-count — after all, these folks aren't contributing much to the bottom line .... But in the long term, it's insane: it's the kind of move that cuts one or two percentage points off the bottom line, but pisses off the subscribers."

Which I totally agree with, my local newspaper is just empty calories in that sense.

He then goes on to say

"Given that the crappiest spam blog is as useful to Google as the greatest virtuoso symphony performance or the Nobel prize winning novel, if it generates the same number of advertising click-throughs, they'd do just as well to spend the money on automated spambots."

Which is where I go astray. I am getting annoyed with Google junk results. If I am searching for weird niche tech stuff I get fine results, but if I look for products, general health information, financial info, or any of the things an "average person" looks for I just get crap. Spambot blogs, and the inevitable list of pages that are from heavily SEOd, but useless sites.

That has got to be driving people crazy, and if Google does not figure out how to weed out the useless content they will lose their users to some sort of trusted social networking bookmarking model. Already I see this on Facebook where my friends ask each other for links and sources.
I've read the book about this: _War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires_, by Peter Turchin. (http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/0452288... )

Turchin's model of asabiya is much more developed than the article's, but goes in exactly the same direction. He emphasizes the importance of frontiers and warfare -- the civilizational counterpart to Darwinian selection pressure, and a reminder that there are worse enemies than one's neighbor and higher causes than one's checkbook -- for asabiya development and, thus, the cohesion of societies. All this is borne out with some very impressive styles of measurement; he's the founder of a new discipline called "cliodynamics," taking its approaches from ecological population modeling.

On the other hand, before we embrace war as the road to prosperity, we need to remember what commentors here observed -- that most civilizations wage war lawlessly, to the point of torture and genocide; so some sort of authority to control the intensity and severity of warfare would be a good idea. I don't think the United Nations will cut it; but Chesterton thought that the Pope would have, had the medieval project been taken to its conclusion...
Comparison of Enterprise Functionalities of 5 OS RDBMSes (2005, exhautive)