skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I'd say long polling is probably a better solution in this case than web hooks since clients (likely) could be behind firewalls, NAT, and be going on and off line relatively often. Sorry, the title and description on that one just threw me off a bit - I think you chose the best option though.
Games are very competitive, appeal to only a a specific demographic, and most of the time do not have in-built virality. I don't think games are a good money maker if you're not already established there.
This is not even vaguely HN-appropriate. Flagged.
> Why did I never hear conservatives decrying deficit spending during the Bush years, when deficit spending ballooned. No, then you had conservatives talking about how the deficit does not really matter.

The Mises institute (as others have rightly pointed out) is not conservative, but libertarian. Fiscal conservatism and libertarianism are similar, but there is a distinction.

The Mises institute has been talking about deficit spending for well over 50 years now, regardless of who has been in power. If you haven't read Mises' Human Action (c. 1940) which deals extensively with this, I would recommend you to do so.

Please investigate a bit about what you're saying before you try to write off a writer as "well the cat's out of the bag now".
I know you're trying to be incendiary, and I don't think corporations are evil, but I will give you an example of corporations acting like witches. Look up redlining (implicates the government as well).
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Who mentioned national lines? (1) The original article, which was talking about, e.g., the chances of moving out of the top or bottom 10% by wealth of US society. (2) The person you were replying to (you can tell he was talking about the US by, e.g., comparing his figures for the $250k proposal to the US population, though I think he misunderstood the proposal). (3) The two people who replied to you.

Or, in other words, apparently everyone else in this thread apart from you. How is one supposed to tell that "we have insane mobility compared to any other society at any time in human history" was meant to mean everyone, worldwide?

Indeed, how can that possibly be true (what do you think is the mobility rate out of the poorest 10% of the world population?), or make sense (given that it requires that you regard, say, the US, China, Afghanistan and Burundi as parts of a single "society")?
It would be cool to have an option to tap into Facebook or other social networks somehow, so that there would be a higher likelihood of meeting up with someone who was a friend of a friend (or further out) rather than a complete stranger. Plus, if people on Kikiverse were coming together for a bigger event, the event could be simultaneously posted on FB. Most of my friends in the 18-29 age range and the student groups on campus used FB for planning group outings.
Maybe I just don't get it, but if the opportunity is there, then what stops an established company or a startup from making a tablet that does exactly this but is more flexible? Probably easier with a linux variant? My point is that this device could likely easily be replicated with a ux that treats the owner like an owner. By restricting everything so much, Apple has seriously limited its options -- especially in enterprise computing.

I don't know if the tablet market will progress the same way as the smart phone os market has, but I doubt Apple has hit a home run here. I look for a "Symbian tablet" or RIM-like product to take the majority of the market share and profits.
Reading the article, I don't think the author meant what you think - "Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to thwart innovation." He says they always sucked in a moderately polite fashion.
what's wrong with allowing each member of that large group to petition congress, to "speak" so to speak independently.

If every employee of GM wants to donate $2k to Obama, great, let them. If GM wants to donate $2M to Obama -- no way!
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Good article.

I'd add one more bit, though: it's not between youth and old; it's between risk takers and risk avoiders.

The last thing the majority dreams about is risk. So the gov takes care and tries to minimize the risk. The minimum wage, enormous benefits for not very innovative public workers, interest rates' manipulation etc.

Of course, if you minimize the risk you also minimize the social mobility. It's hard to get a reward, without risk.
Look at the big picture: the aging of the population means that the eldery must enslave the young, or they will have nothing to eat when they are old and infirm. Long-term savings is a fictitious concept - nothing we produce today will be of any use 40 years later so when you are old you will depend on the young to provide your food. When that happens you better have a way to compel them to part with fruits of their labor. Saddling the young with debt seems to be the current retirement plan for the old. It ain't just about bankers.
The institute was only established in 1982 so it is impossible to argue that the institute advocates against deficit spending for well over 50 years.

It might be true for many Austrian economists to advocates against deficit spending, though.
Yes, even though their successes with that model were in the OS, browser and office wars decades ago, they made billions on those success this year.
Whatever happened to Asmallworld?
Asmallworld, the social network for a rather self-selecting elite, was launched several years ago by Swedish Investment banker and INSEAD Alumnus Erik Wachtmeister. Back then he’d deicded to tap into the evolving microcosm of social networking. In that era it was Myspace that was making its way as the leading social net aside from Friendster et al. Specialized social networks were still scarce. Wachtmeister hit up this niche of a an international network of affluent and influential people. Asmallworld grew to a userbase of initially 30,000 users, and later 500,000. So what happened?
The Bill of Rights did not apply to the state governments until the 14th Amendment was interpreted to so apply them. Thus you had established churches in several states during the early years of the republic.
Not everyone thinks progress should be the ultimate goal, though.
I don't know. Perhaps. However, with the current economic conditions I would think that many that attend school under normal conditions might not be able to attend without aid.

I'm sure we can look at the numbers and come up with a conclusion. Furthermore, there are many city and state institutions that have tuition caps. In this situation I would expect more students to result in better use of existing resources or the creation of more city and state institutions.
TJIC, just curious what others in the industry are getting, if anything. The whole thing is rather comical, no pun intended. I wonder if any other sites that have access to advanced solicitations are getting letters.
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[Germany] Serial entrepreneurs and investors Christoph Janz and Mark Gazecki have invested in Momox, Germany’s leading online trade-in service for media products. Momox has run on revenues since 2003, but is now pulling in around €10m a year. The German-only site, which lets users trade-in their used books, CDs, DVDs and games for cash, will use the investment to expand (and hopefully get a UI makeover, geez). The combined investment was €250,000.
That is interesting. At the Smart Energy conference I spoke about, one Canadian utility that has implemented smart meters and Time of Use pricing found virtually no evidence that people were reducing their consumption. If anything, load was shifted from peak periods to the off peak periods on the weekend. You would have been a great example of what they were hoping for.

I am curious though. If you are using about .09 or .10 an hour in total (for the brief period I looked at the graph), how were you able to achieve such high savings? Did you get rid of unnecessary appliances, or simply find ways to reduce consumption?
I think some form of this confrontation was inevitable. It's good to shake up an industry now and then to shake off outdated practices. Unfortunately for Macmillan I think it will mostly be their practices that fall short. Publishing houses don't have exclusive control of supply any more, and tactics that depend on that control (like price control) won't be as effective.
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I think the idea is great. I don't know how close you are to launch but I'd at least make the featured activities all have some seed data (cello was the one I clicked with no results).

Also, I'm pretty lazy but the registration form at first glance seemed a little much. Middle name? Captcha?

Looks cool though. I think there is a lot of future for sites like this that encourage and enable real-world experiences.
Ah, yes. A new email scheme that would require us to replace all clients and servers in one fell swoop. I can see that taking off.
All it requires is a major server (i.e gmail) providing it as an option and a major client (say a iPhone email app) supporting that option.
Not in the article, but worth mentioning: Wattvision is a YC Winter 09 company.
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I'm not a physicist, but here's why I think the energy appears to be less at the top of the tower than at the bottom.

If you send energy up the tower as a light beam, gravitational redshift reduces the energy of each photon as it travels up out of the gravity well.

If you send energy up the tower as electron current in a wire, the electrons spread out from each other slightly as they go up, due to the lower value of the electric constant (epsilon sub zero) in lower gravity, which makes the voltage appear to be lower.

If you send energy up the tower by rotating a shaft, with a motor at the bottom driving a generator at the top, then the energy produced by the generator at the top will appear to be less than that put into the motor at the bottom, again due to the lower value of the electric constant in lower gravity.

In all three cases, if you send the energy back down the gravity well (in whatever form), it'll appear to increase back to its original value, so you can't make a perpetual motion machine this way. And of course I'm assuming perfect conversion efficiency, lack of friction, perfectly rigid materials, et cetera in all three cases.
Maybe the economy will manages to weaseled their way out despite the huge obstacles that has been placed in front of it.

It look like the government is doing everything it can to make the obstacle even higher and thicker though.
No, you cannot physically harm yourself by using a computer.I think the fear is that they have no idea how it works and how they might break it. A person hates to feel stupid and they hate feeling helpless. I think for this reason they avoid it. Most people now feel comfortable driving cars but are terrified of opening the hood. I think most people are like that with computing, but they don't understand what "maintenance" they should really be doing.

I could be entirely wrong though. I think it is very difficult for those of us that understand technology to understand how those people must feel about things. It is for me at least.
I would imagine its probably sort of like the electric grid. In the morning there is a huge surge as people wake up, flattens out during the day while people are working and goes down at night while most (normal) people are asleep.

If it was 'machine driven' traffic I'd imagine it would be pegged constantly, where as bandwidth for a given region of the world would behave similar to that of electricity usage.
Yes, and the Fannie/Frdedie mortgage meltdown IMO was the result of government 'reverse' redlining.
This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Mises institute has a bunch of crackpots that are not respected by actual economists:

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/market-economics
Does this feel sketchy to anyone else? This is supposed to be a multi-million dollar fund, but their website looks like that? It feels pretty unprofessional.
That's stupid, ask any orthodox jewish scholar, or hell, read the passages yourself. The first section is 'foreshadowing' for lack of a better term, and the second is the accounts in detail.
It depends on the group. When I interviewed there recently, one of my interviewers was there in exactly this capacity (taking research into products).
Sure. They should take it for granted. </sarcasm>
I'm not sure that the number of uniques is the right metric for success here. Presumably if the site is for "the elite," their membership numbers shouldn't go up indefinitely.
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My responses to your Design Outline.

1. I'm not convinced that http/https is the best protocol. I agree
that it's the defacto standard, but if you're going to go through
this, there might be a better way. (Push, in particular, is a problem).

2. Stateless is wonderful, agreed.

3. I agree with JSON over XML, but what about binary data? That is
the weakest part of JSON, in my opinion.

4. I like where you're going with this, but I'm not sure this is the
exact right way to handle it.

5. Agreed.

6. how about SHA-1 hashes of content? Done properly, that would
eliminate any duplicate messages, and could make it very easy to
include other messages. This might also allow content to be
transfered between accounts only once, dropping bandwidth and
speeding delivery.

7. Don't know enough about MIME to comment.

8. According to your comments on this page, you're referring to long
polling. I agree that this use case needs to be addressed, but I'm
not sure that this is the way to do it. Perhaps multiple options here?

9. Good idea, but do you think that stemming/language differences is
going to be a problem? What about other types of content? attachments?

The biggest thing missing from this list is some sort of Public Key
Encryption. Anyway, it looks like a good start.
Seems kinda US centric, it let me put in a country of England but now my posting has no location attached to it.

http://heykiki.com/listings/98

I also did not spot the ToS button when I was logging in and so had to re-do the capatcha
Ask HN: Why does Google say X million results and only gives up to Y?
Why is it that Google will say 100,000,000 results but lets you only search up 1000. Also why is it that most of the results at the bottom are sometimes from the same site?
The concept might be appealing at first blush but I can't see this doing anything that meetup.com and craigslist don't do.

I spend a fair amount of time looking around for prospective partners and teachers in a variety of activities (including martial arts). The problem isn't that people can't find each other. The problem is most people don't have much commitment to pursuing an activity on their own. If two people are in a city looking for activity partners, they'll find them. But in the Bay Area, a large metropolitan area, you'd be lucky to find a committed activity partner for anything but the absolutely most common activities.

Just think, it's easier to be posting for a prospective partner than actually practicing the activity. So the number of ads one finds on meetup.com and craigslist is probably greater than the number of people you can actually get to practice with you consistently (I have two meetup groups - membership is consistently 20x attendance. Sure, if I put in a lot of effort, I might boost that but it's not a money making gig for me, so why should I? I don't mind having five people show up but this relatively low turn-outs is still a measure of the difficulty in getting people committed to an activity).

Even more, just about everyone is in alternative activity class (yoga, painting, whatever) has been recruited by the teacher. Very few people actively keep a look-out for a special teacher for any extended length of time (I think I know this because I'm one of those very few people). So the model of "connecting people" doesn't work.
Nice work. However, given that the Christian Bible has been translated into English (probabaly many times over during the last thousand+ years), wouldn't it make more sense to diff the original Hebrew version?

I'm assuming there's a website where you can retrieve this ...
I would be rather upset if I built a successful application, it started bringing in substantial cash, and I couldn't put that in my pocket because I'd taken some money from outside investors, who now expected me to use that cash to scale up the application to something 'venture-capital-sized'.

Applicants to this sort of thing (assuming it works like a normal investment) should be fully aware of what they're getting themselves into - this sounds great for those you want to go big or go home, not so great for everybody else.
This is an interesting new development in what was a couple of years ago an already observed phenomenon by half of the same team:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5792/1402

However, I think their publishing the idea that these patients were "conscious" is morally questionable. The reasons for this are expressed far more elegantly that I could manage by Parashkev Nachev in the following response:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/sci;315/5816/1221a.pdf
Assuming that you can break the laws of thermodynamics is like assuming you can divide by 0 when doing real number arithmetic. If you allow this you would end with a highly inconsistent system/world.
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TV and radio time? Those things are going to the internet rapidly. This makes the amount of bandwidth used dependent on the number of listeners (i.e. not a pure broadcast medium), which means that there are by definition enough resources to go around. There's only a social difference between "buying airtime" and "putting a video on YouTube."

Pamphlets won't go away until everyone has a smartphone, which could take a while, but once it happens, that's it for the medium. It gets replaced by the "website."

And you pretty much can will a website into existence. FrontPage is decidedly unpopular here, but I know people who have built adequate websites to their purposes just using FrontPage. We just need the free alternatives to catch up.
Do you have a better argument than an appeal to authority?
Due to other engagements, I've decided to pass on in participating this, but not before my imagination went wild :)

First iteration: this is a schoolbook-example of discreet state spaces; the moves of each player can be represented by a tree, in which we're searching for a node with the following properties:

-is it OTHERplayer's move

-without him having further valid steps

Using a breadth-first search, calculating the number of moves forward has a (both time, and space) complexity of N^3 (you can not move backwards). Calculating all of the possible steps forward, then selecting consistently moves, where all possible end-state is a winning state would yield a mathematically guaranteed always-win robot (to the extent the table's configuration allows for).

This is feasible for several of the built-in test maps (the ones without nasty combinatorial explosions), as well as in endgames.

Working from this one backwards, see how much space you can fill for each player at a given step! If fill(a) != fill(b) then one of the players has been cut off; and the one with larger space wins.

This should give you a good head start; of course, you still need to figure out a good heuristics, that puts you into a position for a killer state-space :)
Good read! I like the Guy Kawasaki poke, I hear he's in town.
I don't know if it's "clearly false". Anti-trust/anti-competitive business practices are an area that personally make me uncomfortable but again, here too, companies are having increasingly difficult control over maintaining dominance if they don't provide the best products/services and focus instead on trying to suppress competitors (e.g. browser wars, high end computers - apple v pcs). I'd also be pretty uncomfortable with governments making the determination of what's "good" and "bad" as there have been some bizarre anti-trust rulings over the past few decades.

Here's Cato's take on anti-trust: http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-39.html
Because you can't fine someone once they have fled the state/country.
I figured I'd like to the paper itself, because the article that was submitted to Reddit [1] was pretty inflammatory.

Basically, it appears that an attacker could read any file on your hard drive, under the right conditions.

1: http://www.taranfx.com/ie-flaw-public-files
They're not exactly the same. Genesis 1 places the creation of animals before humans, whereas the natural reading of Genesis 2 has the reverse:

"And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them"

(Admittedly some modern evangelical Bibles make this "God had formed every beast". But this seems to be motivated by a desire to harmonize rather than honest translating.)
No, the idea is not stupid, but I think you are making some unfounded assumptions.

it would completely obliterate poverty in the US.

Not really, it would do little to help people in poverty already past 18 (unless they had children who were both just about to turn 18 and those children were generous...). Even for those that benefitted from this, to assume they would not go back to poverty you have to assume they will use it wisely (and possibly have some luck too.) If they go to college or start a business with that money, then they probably will move up and sustain themselves at least in the middle class. Probably. On the other hand, I bet a large percentage would spend it quickly and have relatively little to show for it at the end.

Even those who start a business/go to college are not gaurunteed to stay in the middle class, they just have a good shot. Many businesses fail, and then those founders would be left with little but that experience. Many people with degrees are unemployed right now.

I am not saying it is a bad idea necessarily, and I am certainly not about to dismiss it as stupid, but I do not think it will come close to wiping out poverty.
If they don't show up, how do you fine them?

This isn't just about a person who misses a court date because they're lazy; it's also about people who may flee to a different country, or start working under an assumed name, or anything of the sort.

If they've already paid, they have some incentive to come back and be able to reclaim their bail money.

If they do skip town, sending cops after them to track them down and arrest them again is expensive. That's where the bounty hunter part comes in; if they skip their court date, their own bail money is used as incentive to encourage police officers, sheriffs, or private investigators to capture them.

In many cases, this isn't the romantic image of a western cowboy hunting down dangerous criminals in caves, but just the equivalent of a debt-collection agency, that calls them, mails them, files information with credit agencies preventing them from receiving credit, and so on.
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Polygamy and Polyamory are very different concepts. I'm not which Steve Pavlina wrote about, but they are not the same thing.

In simple terms, Polyamory is the practice of open relationships, where Polygamy is the practice of having multiple married partners.
i'm not sure mother jones qualifies as a neutral source either

(despite the quotes from krugman and friedman about biz cycle theory)