skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't doubt it; and I'd bet it would also work for apartment buildings. This is incredible -- where do the plants even get the energy to grow 347 cherry tomatoes in a year?

This would be a heck of a lot better for the environment, too, than the mess we've currently made of agriculture -- huge quantities of fertilizer producing algae-laden dead zones in the Caribbean. A flexible government not beholden to farm lobbies would subsidize this immediately.

Grow sugarcane in it, and we'd even have energy independence from Saudi Arabia! :)
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Hm, interesting requests. I had other similar requests via e-mail for auto-colon-insertion so might prioritize this.
Accounts usually have bandwidth limits that get tripped by this sort of thing. 33 kB * millions of viewers = gigabytes of data.
GVR's tweet: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/9297047851

The PEP that was accepted: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/

Previous Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066283
Last I checked marriage does not always proceed from love.
Iran can only accept any associated prize if it first demonstrates how such statistics are unscientific.
personally no, but I wasn't for 9/11 either. But not sure if I can say the same for those people in the building.
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What does CodingHorror have in common with Apache H-Base?
Maybe captain obvious at work, or old news, but thoughts about Jeff Atwood and Apache H-base and thinking along the same lines
Why can't he just be a crazy person who did something crazy?
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You, sir, have obviously failed to memo that in this post-9/11-world, only brown people are terrorists.

Here's a key, in case it gets confusing again:

- Guy in an airport with a Koran and an accent: terrorist.

- White software developer who flies a plane into buildings for ideological reasons: not terrorist.
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It's simple. The goal of terrorism is to terrorize. If the perpetrator was part of an organization from which similar acts could be expected in the future, than that has a terrorizing effect.
It's just a bug in our design as humans, IMO, but it's that same bug which allows us to occasionally do monumentally amazing things. It just depends how you spin your perceptions to yourself, I suppose, and if you can accept that greatness is, more or less, a large scale way of turning a frown upside down. :)
I see a lot of child pornography arguments being made, but what if this was a work laptop that you brought home and your boss spied on you?

Would that be okay?
I agree with this. But the solution to this problem will not be found in nonsense articles printed in Rolling Stone.
Great post! I think my main attraction to startups is that there is a much more reasonable chance of answering this question successfully. That is, everyone can put their heads together and come up with a coherent plan of action, which though certainly imperfect, at least has well-understood reasoning and awareness behind it.

In a large company it's orders of magnitude more difficult to create a persistent vision. Certainly with the right management talent it can be done, but it's damn hard and I have no strong desire to be a part of it (though I would join a well-oiled corporate team).
Since when did surveillance == pornography? Is CCTV pornography? This story isn't even about pornography. Why are we talking about pornography?!
The FBI's definition of terrorism: The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

He was angry and violent, but he didn't have any objective he was trying to achieve through the act. The objective in terrorism isn't the violence, it's a means to an intended end (such as changes in policy, release of prisoners, etc.).
Is that some sort of viral promotion for 24?
I'm guessing this doesn't affect firms that use unix based OSes? I wonder if companies will ever switch over to unix/linux for the security benefits. At some point will it be so obvious running windows is a huge liability that companies will be pressured by stock holders to not allow windows on their computers? One can dream right?
Rental? He still would've had to have a pilot's cert, which costs about $6-10k USD to acquire.
Ever since I replaced the Macromedia folder with a file called Macromedia, BetterPrivacy hasn't erased a single LSO. Everything works.
Read the final two paragraphs of his screed (posted in this thread). He says that he wants his act of violence to initiate change - I assume in the IRS specifically, but also in American politics in general. That's the definition of terrorism.

Terrorism does not have to be initiated on behalf of a group or a specific ideology. The definition is "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes."
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apparently the "site" was written in Office 2000, at least according to the HTML file
the comparison with netflix is a little misleading, i think, because there's a much clearer difference between films than their is between wines (famously, people have rated white wine + dye as red wine with no problems).

pulling numbers out of my ass i would guess that grape variety, colour / tannin content, sugar concentration and acidity would cover all you needed if context wasn't so important. but context does dominate, so if you have faith in the site you'll enjoy whatever it says it is good...

[actually, the more i think about this, the more i like the idea of something like you suggest based only on hard numbers for factors like i gave. if nothing else, it would be a lot of fun following different trails...]
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And if had my servers hosted there, I might consider moving them.
I flagged this article. Doesn't seem relevant to Hacker News.
Interesting article. I'll forward it to him and discuss it with him. Thanks.
Oh, I'm a nut too, and humanity would be much worse off without its nuts, but what concerns me is that particular, Timecube-esque variety of nut -- not particularly creative or ambitious, but turgid and cramped. Why do people end up like that...?
That definition says nothing about the perpetrator needing to be a part of an organization. If his act meets the definition - which I think it clearly does - then we have to call it terrorism.
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It did ramble and drift a bit but it all added to his story.. just very slowly. I don't think he should have flown a plane into the building. However I believe he did it because he tried the proper way spending over $5k of his own money and months of his time to change it. No one listened/cared (which is the main problem) about his problem. So when push came to shove and the government and businesses took everything he had by taking advantage of him, he had to finally stand up and say no more. Thus we have this event today, which is his way of raising enough commotion about the problem to hopefully get them changed. Honestly I cannot believe its not more common (not the plane part but the people rebelling part).
I actually spend a lot of time on the design of how the idea should be executed. The one thing I always seem to run into is the "one founder" problem. Too many things, with too many skillsets (at a high level) need to be done at once. I don't just write a one sentence idea and leave it be, I iterate through brainstorming, re-evaluation, sorting, and putting it into a project management logframe. I experience the 1-founder dilemma on a day to day basis, but I refuse to be beaten by it. (Side note, this is not for any egoistic reasons, just that I am in a place and situation where I can't find co-founders)
"Terrorism" became an overloaded term once we coined the term "War on Terror".

While this is an act of terrorism for sure, this is not the Terrorism that originates from those we are supposedly fighting in the War on Terror, therefore we should not raise our country's alertness level, have reason to panic, or mobilize our armed forces in response.

(my 2 cents)
Terror? No, but I'm reasonably sure that there will be a large number of off-balance nutters who are upset about corporations and taxes and the gubment who will use this event as a rallying call for further violence.
Ineffective terrorism is still terrorism.
This highlights one of the problems with the current patent system that I illustrate in my recent essay: How Law Shapes the Business Landscape, and a Patent Puzzle.

http://daniellefong.com/2010/02/11/how-law-shapes-the-busine...

Corporations with no assets and no technological liabilities can acquire patents and use them as weapons for extortion. There is no counterbalancing force. These corporations may be created and dissolved at will for an exploitative purpose: they need not ever invent, produce, or otherwise give back to the public: the initial impetus for the patent system in the first place.

The liquidity afforded to ideas that Intellectual Ventures claims to create might, in fact, create enough social good that the drain via litigation is mollified. Given that they've claimed to be pacifists here, the deception laid bare looks particularly evil.
because child porn laws - or at least the perception of them - have become so disconnected from basic ideas like victim and intention that they appear completely arbitrary, associated with little more than unauthorised pictures of minors.
Somebody compared the features of all these mobile browsers and discovered that they're all based on something called "WebKit", but they all end up being quite different. e.g. One browser uses a fork of a two-year old version of WebKit while another uses a fork of a one-year old version.

http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
If you haven't read "Predictably Irrational," you should go out now and find it.

In the book, it states that people have "price imprinting." That the first price someone hears about a product will have dramatic impact on how he will perceive future prices.

For example, the Apple iPhone. It came out at $599 and when people heard it dropped to $399 then $199, they think it is a great deal, because they are comparing against the high price they first heard.
The article begins with 'A former Goldman Sachs Group programer...'. Amazing insight sure to follow.
You must be playing devil's advocate here, because you couldn't possibly want the rights to use an idea to be based on an arbitrary standard, mediated by technologically illiterate members of the legal profession.
Also archived here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack...
Thanks for this, I've printed it out and stuck it on our product manager's monitor.
I've taken lots of Steve Yegge's advice - more than anyone else I've read - but I only catch up with what he's doing once a quarter or so.
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How is this guy different than the Ft. Hood shooter? Both went on rants against the actions of the US Government; both apparently snapped; both wanted to inflict mass carnage. Senators like Joe Lieberman have insisted that the Ft. Hood shooter be labeled and tried as a terrorist.
While I agree with your point, I'd like to point out that McVeigh was white: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
> For items where the cost per unit is dependent on marginal cost of each item, it's 'fair' or 'efficient' if it is priced with a reasonable markup over the marginal cost.

With the quote marks, I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but a fair deal is one that both sides agree is good for them. Now often, there's a range of prices that make sense for the seller to sell at (anything $40 or higher will be fine for them) and a different range that is okay for the buyer (anything $60 or lower). Anywhere between $40 and $60 they can do the deal and be happy, and it'll be a fair deal so long as it's voluntary and nothing crazy is happening.

As for efficiency - again, there's no ideal profit margin. If anything, if you really like a field, you want higher profit margins in that field, because it encourages new competition and investment and innovation. Getting good value is more important than ensuring the person selling is making a small margin. For instance, McDonalds only marks its food up a tiny bit, but it's still not a good value for me because I don't value McDonalds highly. But there might be some Brazilian food that's marked up 50% or 80% that seems like a real bargain for me.

tl;dr - "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." Publilius Syrus, ~100 BC in Rome.
Qt puts a fine layer on top of C++ to make it much less verbose, at least, not more than C#. Plus there are python, ruby and JS bindings for Qt.
Replace Wine with Jewelry and you've got almost the same issue.

Consumers are unable to tell a synthetic diamond from a real one. They couldn't tell you Tiffany's from something made locally, and the cost of production has very little to do with the cost of the item. In short- spending a ton is rarely justified and a lot goes into marketing.

A late friend of mine was a master jeweler for 30+ years and he made some fantastic stuff that was often 1/4 the price of something that a 'big brand' would have. His was handmade, unique, and often better made as well. He said that most of the industry was a joke and to never buy jewelry from a major retailer.
Would it be a problem to send me these papers?

My email is on profile.

edit: I probably have access from academic network, but I am at home for a few days...
So do the fish just eat the plants growing in the tank? Or are they fed human table scraps?

Edit: Feeding habits - Talapia feed primarily on plankton and small organisms living in or on bottom detritus; most common foods in the wild are detritus, algae, diatoms, and plant material. Age and growth - Grow rapidly for first few months, then slow somewhat but ultimately reach 5-6 pounds by age 3-5 yrs; fish weighing 2-4 pounds common; males being larger at each age than females.
I dunno, but you can't use it now anyways.
You can grow a tremendous amount of food in a relatively small space. Square foot gardening is a good example of this (http://www.squarefootgardening.com/). The trick is in crop selection - if you grow things that do well near each other you end up with fantastic yields. The common example is the "3 sisters" method of growing - melons + corn + beans, for example. The melons provide a shade canopy at the soil level, the corn grows tall so it gets enough sun and the beans use the corn stalks as a trellis.

Of course, this isn't a method that scales up at all; machines can't be used in harvesting since you have mixed crops everywhere. Arguably they wouldn't be so necessary for community gardens though.
No need to add the site name, since it's listed afterwards. However, the subtitle would be useful. I'd rename this to:

Knee Jerks: Your instantaneous first reaction

That will get more/better attention.
This displays a clear lack of understanding of expected value. There is a popular saying in the wine industry: "The best way to get a small fortune from the wine industry is to start with a large one." Most producers of fine wines lose money. Owning a winery is a badge of honor among the ultra wealthy, often at the expense of being a terrible investment.

In any hits-driven business, like wines, there is a large risk. It's more akin to starting a rock band than a traditional business. For every Screaming Eagle there are hundreds of upstarts who can't even push bottles at $30.

It's not fair to evaluate the pricing of only the most successful. That's like saying rock CDs cost too much because the Rolling Stones make billions off of them. Sure, maybe, but overall the industry's profit margin is in line with other industries with similar risks and opportunity costs. Since we live in a free market, if it were not competition would spring up until it were.
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I hate to always be the person to ask for things, but does anyone have good resources on how to get started with this kind of stuff?
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When it's a good Bordeaux from 1985, 86, 88, 90.
I'm a pretty heavy user of Skype, but I would switch in an instant for that call blocking functionality.
This is what people are using three-letter domains for? Well, I guess it's a .info, so...
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I would love a Shady URL bookmarklet!
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Using the CLR "future proofs" it. The iPhone can't use another processor without recompiling all the apps, but Windows Phone is processor independent.

Not that it really matters as it looks like the ARM monoculture is going to continue for a while. At least ARM is a sensible architecture, unlike the power-sucking monstrosity that is x86 and the hardware to support its weird and wonderful instructions.
The registry existed in Windows 3.1 for COM. It was from that it was expanded to hold every possible setting.
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I could build this in a weekend. No, really.

Who is in? I'm in. Someone comes with me I'll go, but I have no interest in a lone wolf initiative.

I need a designer who knows HTML/CSS and someone who can help get the word out. I'll do all the programming, database design, security, and hosting.

Optimally, I'd like at least 3 people to be involved including myself. If two people, who are serious, decide to come along by midnight tonight, we'll post a link to review the site Monday morning.

Edit: The project has been started, see this post to contribute to a discussion about what the site will do. I have a data model there as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1135508
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Edit: the rest of this comment is a misconception on my part. I agree with you completely, except that now you can use a smaller, cheaper thumb drive than you could before (though arguably bandwidth limits effect the same result).

If you're dropboxing large files, using a lookaside cache means that you can greatly reduce latencies and often improve throughput (assuming you're not on 1 or 10 gigabit directly to the dropbox servers). But I doubt the dropbox servers themselves support this kind of functionality.

More likely is that you can move your files to various disconnected computers more easily and automatically without dealing with manually pushing them around from dropbox folders to portable drives.
In my mind the difference here is that he was alone, committed his crime in a singular act, and now he's effectively out of commission. There's no terrorist at large to further perpetuate the terror. There's no looming sense of threat from this guy personally, and since he wasn't part of an organization, there's no nebulous "other" threat from that, either.

Had he enacted a long term plan where he was shooting at people randomly for days and making demands or something like that, then that's different in my eyes. At that point it becomes about using the fear of further violence as a tool and that's when you cross into terrorist land.

But who knows. I think DHS decided it'd be called a criminal act for now - so I guess that's what it gets to be called. Perhaps that label was politically motivated, but I can certainly understand the decision. Everything need not be a conspiracy and every large scale crime need not be a terrorist attack.
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Problems that this creates:

1) Because of how governments deal in collective punishment, private aviation is likely to suffer further regulatory decimation even though events of this type are extremely rare, statistically speaking.

2) His rambling, narcissistic screed will be broadcast widely, and his immature and senseless actions used to paint those with legitimate and sensible criticisms of our tax system or systems of governance.
Never thought I'd see this on HN.

If you want a better place to check out what I guess you would call "fish hackers" are doing visit:

http://www.diyaquaponics.com/

Lots of very cool stuff there. I have no connection with it. Aquaponics has always just fascinated me.
Are you claiming that books, software, and other pieces of intellectual property become cheaper over the years because the creator has finally recouped his or her costs of the initial creation and benevolently decides to give consumers a break on pricing?

Before I start explaining how I believe the economy actually works, I'd like to make sure I understood you properly and you're not being sarcastic.
Neither. I'd like protection of inventions by solid standards issued by an enlightened patent office. I realize we're a good way from it now, but don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The problem we have has nothing to do with the legal system, that's just a symptom. The disease is that patents are poorly researched, issued according to guidelines as capriciously enforced as the iTunes App Store, and are therefore frequently rendered toothless in court. They are hoarded by corporations as little more than weapons to respond to other patents with. It's sort of an intellectual mutually assured destruction.

The legal system too may need some improvement where it comes to patent litigation, but it still must exist and be a part. But I think the ideal of a very good patent system, backed up by enforcement (because otherwise it's pointless) that is reasonable, fair, and swift, and enhanced by a liquid market for legitimate patents would spark a wave of innovation perhaps unlike anything we've ever seen.

On the other hand, it's much easier and more fun (and less disruptive to a naive, black-and-white worldview) to simply call people patent trolls.
"post-9/11"
And nor was he part of a group or even a sympathizer of a group looking to revolutionize or effect change. McVeigh was.
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But what, really, was his problem that no one was listening to? I couldn't really figure that part out. It seemed to me that he was just pissed off the government wanted to collect taxes and annoyed that some people were a lot richer than he was.
I think his distaste was that when he made some mistakes, he got caught and shafted by arcane laws, yet when some richer folks deliberately committed fraud, the government barely did anything about it or rejigged the laws for them.
He spent $5000 lobbying dozens of government officials, but what was he trying to change? Does it really all come down to the rule determining whether programming consultants are treated as employees for tax purposes? Was he even able to explain his case to them coherently, without using phrases like "declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave"? And then he makes ludicrous choices like taking an IRA distribution (which in most cases results in taxable income and/or early distribution penalties) without reporting it or paying taxes on it:

"I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed..."

Why is he just assuming that there's no need to file, rather than looking it up himself or asking someone for advice? Oh yeah:

"After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again."

...because he once had a bad experience with accounting (which as far as I can tell he never actually describes), he decided that all accountants are frauds and there is no way to find an honest person to help him. It sounds like he was an antisocial crank long before flew a plane into a building.