skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this apply to overseas workers hired by a company to perform accounting and back office communications task. If you pay for a full time employee in the Philippines or India do you have to worry about payroll taxes?
In the end it depends on what customers really want. How important is healthy food as a part of their overall dining experience?
The man's humility is inspiring.
Paul Allen's Evri-Twine Merger: Lessons for Semantic and Social Search
I had some good success running away to Tahoe. Good internet access can set you back, but I prefer to work locally.

If you can find a decent location with enough space, bring enough food to last for a week and you can blow steam up on the mountains, or rolling through fields of snow (whatever floats your boat).
Psychopaths have a hyper-reactive dopamine reward system?
Tell HN: Here's how my team got to the YC interview stage
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Yes, billswift, you're right. I reworded the title (and 1 or 2 others but not all) because the rework sounded more compelling. Sorry if that bothers you.
One dude's opinion...
Planning a Semantic Web site
Wish I had thought of that...
I'm annoyed that "Pre-calculus," "Calculus I," and "Calculus II" are deemed distinct areas of mathematics. Do additional dimensions necessitate a new category?
If an employer was a discriminating kind, they'd already have access to a lot of information they would need, even without the internet.

Your sex and race are instantly apparent, age and many disabilities can be guessed, national origin can be figured from an accent, and marital status can be seen by looking for a ring. Even religion can be discerned in some cases, for certain orthodox members.

I agree that employers being able to easily see an employee's sexual orientation might not be a step in the right direction, but I don't think it's opening up a huge can of worms. It's an already opened can of worms.
also http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2010/03/vmware-hires-key-dev...
I suggest "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, as well as "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp (or read his blog Rands in Repose, full of thoughtful geek-oriented essays on managing software teams and navigating organizations)
Given credit isn't the only thing that affects the reserve amount. For example, the bank buying securities themselves.
A big mainstream consumer market isn't going to be so forgiving. Can't really expect them to carefully research which handset is likely to get quick software updates or hack on a custom ROM. My bigger concern is the disparity in hardware. The slower Qualcom based Android phones are still going to be shipping brand new throughout 2010 while the higher end is likely to ascend into multi-core 1Ghz+ CPUs with 4-5x as much RAM as the low end models. I'm not sure how a developer can target all those devices successfully over the next few years.
well, you certainly picked a heavily saturated market, but good luck. :) is there a special angle to your service?
I have a few friends that do angel investing in the 5k - 10k range regularly. Unfortunately that's still only a handful of deals and might not be enough to get a good reputation or good deal flow.
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Congratulations!

An ex employee of mine went to work for vmware and he was very positive about working there, if his experience is any guide then I'm sure you'll enjoy them. As you already wrote they're a technology company and they take their tech very serious.

So far their track record has been very impressive and they've successfully managed to hold their own against MS, something that few thought was possible.
Ignorance is a woefully inadequate form of counterintelligence.
It shouldn't matter if you buy a "cheap" $50-$100 phone with a 2 year contract. Google is building a brand and it needs to keep people excited about their product. Buying a new phone that is 3 or 4 revs behind will certainly dishearten people.
That sounds about right.
Asking people about novel statements would be a huge improvement over the protocol they described. You probably would see a difference then.

Generally, the brain evolved to be lazy. Our ancestors needed to spend their time finding food, not questioning reality, and so evolved to make a decision and move on. We only re-examine firmly-held beliefs when a great conflict arises and even then we spend a great deal of effort rationalizing to try to resolve the conflict without overturning the beliefs.

Rational activities like science and philosophy, where you are forced to dig deeply into your assumptions, are very unnatural. That's why they're so hard to learn to do right.
I agree as well. This is exactly why God gave us rel="nofollow".
I understand that legally this is the way it's supposed to be, but do you really expect us to believe that Bernanke doesn't understand what's in his portfolio? Come on...

Bernake doesn't know what's in his portfolio, because his money managers don't tell him. That's why many agency heads are required to put their money into a blind trust. If you have evidence to the contrary, by all means notify the proper agency (I think OTS, not really sure).

As for Bernake's friends, I expect most of them don't tell him (or anyone else) how they are betting. If I tell you my trading strategy, you can turn around and take my money.
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They are not distinct areas. However, I feel that dividing them up helps the reader compare apples to apples, rather than having a list of 10 calculus related books.
Grazie David ;)
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Seems like everything was fair and transparent among them.

Reputation saved.
I lend on Kiva, and I don't have a problem with it. There's a lot that has to happen between my Paypal transfer to Kiva and the money being distributed to the local entrepreneur...and even more that has to happen to collect the payments.

I'm happy to set aside a small amount of money as a catalyst for progress, and thankful that others are doing the heavy lifting.

(Apologies for continuing this off-topic line of conversation.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192677
I dont think there's an issue with controlling the quality and security of the content at a marketplace. Its an issue that its the _only_ marketplace that they're controlling.
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It's not like Gates is just handing out 5$ bills and saying "Go get yourself some meth!"

Charity involves research on where your dollars are going as well as the giving. At Gates's level, it involves program creation, not just handing out cash.
Anyone have any openVMS/cluster uptime war stories to share? I also found this:

http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=03/11/28/7758863
Nothing beats Greyhounds: http://www.thedogs.co.uk/Ownership.aspx.
I think you are right but in the short term only. I think long term there will be some huge flap involving online privacy and after that people will wake up to what the consequences can be.
I'm saddened to see someone gloating at having helped to prevent the release of a dataset that I see as beneficial. Netflix offered an unprecedented corpus for research, and now someone is proud about helping the lawyers to lock it up. I think I just have a fundamentally different sense of privacy than the author. I think this comes out most clearly in their FAQ:

Furthermore, even if the algorithm finds the "wrong"
record, with high probability this record is very similar
to the right record, so it still tells us a lot about the
person we are looking for.

So the "violation of privacy" occurs even we don't actually reveal information about the individual, even if we only provide a framework for making predictions? So if I publish a study (with backing data) that says that 38 year old males are likely to commit adultery, I've "violated the privacy" of all 38 year old males?

Could someone who shares the author's worldview try to explain it? I've tried, but I just don't see it.
http://www.getdonedone.com

It's great for small teams where you don't need a ton of reporting features - and it's focused on real-time responsiblity (who needs to respond to what right now). Google docs/excel aren't efficient because there's too much extra noise (sifting thru bugs that don't pertain to you, not easily seeing what bugs are waiting on you with a question, etc.)

Hope you'll try us out!

-KC
Actually, if you are a complete novice, Linear Algebra Done Right won't serve you too well. You need to understand basics before approaching it. I should probably include Strang's book as a first introduction, before Linear Algebra Done Right. On a side note, Axler's book is also $120 cheaper than Strang's (which may or may not matter to you). You could also watch the free lectures by Strang online, and then use Axler's book as a supplement. I personally think that Axler's exposition is far more concise and clear.
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Congratulations. This is fantastic news for redis-users like us, as well.
A very closely related / similar idea:

http://austin.vicarious.ly/
I have a copy of that dataset.
Thought I'd share the story, especially for those who are outsiders to the startup world, like myself. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or, better yet, interview advice.
the derivative exposure could be risk-reducing, fwiw.
> I have no problem trusting independent bodies with things, so long as they are well-chosen and truly independent.

Right, and a well-chosen king rules better than a representative democracy. The problem is, how do we choose a king well? Likewise, how do we guarantee the Fed is well chosen and truly independent? I submit that we can't.

> History shows that this is a much better idea then trusting either the econo-politically elite or the demos.

Care to elaborate?
This (flash) site has sound. Horrible annoying, and unexpected sound.
Have you considered becomming a creditor? You can lend via sites like lendingclub.com. Annual returns are approaching what you'd expect to get on the stock market in the long term.

I haven't tried this investment myself yet (insufficient funds) but I'd be interested if I had the money spare.

Warning: I'm not sure about how this works in the US, but here in the UK I'd have to obtain a consumer credit act license for lending more than 25k.
I love to see open-source projects like Redis get picked up by established technology companies and STAY open & developed. Wins all around.

Congrats, antirez!
"For those with more knowledge: in what way is Sheldon Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" (quoted in the list above) superior to Strang's "Linear Algebra" for the complete novice?"

A complete novice should go for Strang. Axler says upfront (in the preface iirc it has been a while since I worked through it) his book is intended as the second Linear Algebra book and assumes you have a base in Linear Algebra (matrix manipulations and so forth) already. Axler depends more on a classical "theorems and proofs" approach. Strang doesn't involve proofs etc and is more ocncerned with funamental operations and building intuition and so (imo) is more suited to the complete beginner.
Good point.

Maybe what happened was that he didn't know whether they'd get in YC or not so was OK with being part of the application.

Then they found out they got in and he realized he had to make a decision between the two projects and it took him one week to make that decision.
No more blogging, but damned if he'll give up responding to comments on Hacker News.

(Cute dog.)
Err, the first question we should be asking you is "why don't you have a mortgage".

Unless you were given a house and have a chest full of gold bars, you are probably living off the income of interest, so you're still paying income taxes.

Get a mortgage. Its a tax write-off, along with the fact that RE is a pretty good overall investment, and very 'cheap' money. Hell, if you have to, HELOC your place and put that money into a higher yield investment.
I think videoblogging has been done and done, different concepts, different ideas, several iterations, none have truly taken off. The points made already about people not being as open to it are valid, and even if/when you get past that barrier, you then have to start turning the users/readers. The nice thing about ~reading~ blogs is that you can bookmark, switch to another tab, highlight portions, and even email complete entries, all from the relative silence of your office cubicle.
1) What am I looking at? A brief one liner would be nice.

2) Took a while for the first tweet to pop in. A simple "wait" prompt would provide ample user feedback.

3) Color code the pins to the tweets on the left hand side. That would be a simple but effective UI improvement.

All-in-all, nice work for a weekend!
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Great news for Redis fans! Redis is getting better all the time, congrats antirez.
There was a talk at The Last Hope entitled "From a Black Hat to a Black Suit - How to Climb the Corporate Security Ladder Without Losing Your Soul"

16 kbps: http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/16kbps/From_a_Black_H...

64 kbps: http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/From_a_Black_H...
Just Another List. You'd actually do better to browse the Amazon Listmania lists and check the reviews for various books you are considering, you'll end with a more comprehensive view of what's available. And often find real bargains on very good, but older books. For example, the Dover paperback http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Graph-Theory-Gary-Chartra... or http://www.amazon.com/Course-Combinatorics-J-van-Lint/dp/052... .

Some Listmania and So You'd Like to . . . lists:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/20JWVDE...

http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Combinatorics-Gra...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/34SIY10...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/34SIY10...
I seem to recall a similar article that was on Hacker News a while back, but with seemingly opposite results (probably not testing for exactly the same thing, but it seemed to suggest that secular and religious thoughts were distinctly different). I'm curious to compare now, can anybody help me find it?
It seems that more and more people (and companies) and recognizing the potential of Redis. It's the default data store for projects I start. Congrats!
Wikipedia paraphrasing of a related Shakespeare scene, which is one of my favorite ways to remember an important lesson:

Caesar saw the seer and joked "Well, the Ides of March have come," to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone."
I think the NY Times articles leading up to the Iraq war made up for it...
That's great news. Pretty ballsy move too, I'd like to see google match you on that one.

The one little issue is that IP traffic passes through a whole pile of routers before reaching your target, so if you really care about your privacy that much then you should probably use https.
I think it's important that we draw a clear point about what you're talking about when you say "open". I must confess that I thought you were talking about open as in F/OSS. You're clearly talking about "Maury Povitch" open ("You don't know me! I'll do what I want!"). My guess is that you're pro the former, if even you have not stated it yet. I think it's pretty obvious to all involved that phones be moron proof by default. Phones after all, for the vast majority of the populace, are simply an appliance (off-on, simple functionality).

This view of the phone as an appliance is not accurate any more. Whether or not the public realizes it, they're holding a computing device. In 5 years time, I expect one to be able to use their phone with an external monitor and keyboard and use it much like you would a Netbook today.

So where does that leave us? We're headed towards a highly portable and compact computing device, that is currently a transitory species (if you will). I think this is an exciting time for computing. This is a bold challenge! How do you provide something that is safe by default, simple to use, and doesn't encumber the tinkerers that have been proven to time and again generate wonderful arenas of opportunity, wealth and societal change?

Personally, I think a sort of middle solution is best. An opt-in for tinkering, perhaps. I think closing tinkering is just plain foolish. It's proven to be valuable and shouldn't be stopped.
Perhaps Bill Gates doesn't think of himself as being primarily in that race?
Yeah I mean I face this issue too and it can go both ways.

I've talked to other potential founders who like my idea and would want to participate as a side project. But I've been loathe to do that. Initially I thought more help would be better but as I started working on it, it just seemed like it would be a logistical nightmare. Also, PG has some words with people working part time which mostly were not good and I totally agreed with his points.

It's a double-edged sword though. It's infinitely easier to find someone who will work part time on your idea than be committed to it.
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193530

Feature request: strip out utm_* and common tracking vars from links before dupe checking.
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I know this is the popular perception. I'm trying to challenge what appears to be an unsupported assumption.

Can you provide specific examples where we know that short-term goals prevailed over those of the long term? In particular, it should address the difference between making mistakes in expectations that resulted in poor long-term performance, as opposed to explicitly choosing to optimize for the short term, or explicitly choosing to ignore the long-term.
Sure, you can do that, but hard coding ephemeral IP addresses into your configuration is still problematic.
Well that's basically what we did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

Sure if you could have great certainty there was someone on the other side of your transmission then logically I think you are correct, but they might just be swinging for the fences like us.
Find a designer co-founder, right now :)

I'm interested in what problem this solves compared to say, Tumblr + WikiQuote? It isn't clear what the specific value proposition to a user is.

When I think of Friend Feed I think of importing all my "stuff" into one place, is Quote Feed supposed to import quotes from all over the place into one place?
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I think that would quickly turn into a real oyster carnival.
It's a limited beta right now and it's only a web service.

Here's the master plan for future development. As usual, no plan survives contact with the enemy. This is just the vision and we're actively looking for a pivot point as we continue to work customer development.

----

You're in a conference. The keynote speaker says something cool. You go to tweet it to your friends -- but it's longer than 140 characters. So you key it into your iPad on my app and choose to share it with your FaceBook and MySpace Friends. Over on FB and MySpace, the longer quote appears and has a link back to my web app where the quote is stored.

You're reading a political or science article. About half-way down, the author makes a really cool point -- all the ideas seem to be coming together and this text just jumps off the page. You highlight the paragraph and enter it into my app, choosing also to share it on Twitter and FB.

You're looking for something pithy to tweet or put on your FB status. You visit my app and read the latest quotes from sources all over the world, sorted and ranked especially according to your tastes. Choosing the one you like the most, you upvote it, make a comment, and choose to automatically email it and post to your status updates.

You're looking for the best of the web today. Visiting my app, quotes from much longer articles and speeches are listed, customized to your tastes. Finding one that looks especially interesting, you click the link and go to the longer article, spending 10 or 20 minutes reading the full text.

Your friend hears something incredible at a news event. He quotes the speaker, links to the video, and notifies you by using my app. You visit his quote on my app, make some comments, and vote it up. Soon you and your friend have made several comments -- other people have also joined in. Your conversation about this quote is saved for you to return to when you like.

Finally, you're reading a book on your Kindle or other device. You find a particularly interesting passage. Quickly you copy it out, tag and save it, perhaps also choosing to share it on your status update. Later on, when you are not at your e-book reader, you can visit the web site and view your quotes -- along with the comments from your social network and other folks who share your same interest.

--

Why is it different from tumblr or other micro-blogging services?

1) Message length

2) Superior content preference learning system

3) Niche product
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Awesome news Salvatore. Looking forward to seeing what VMware does with Redis.
It's a rather old term, even in the US, going back to the 1940s, at least in print. The example I linked to last time was a Time magazine book review from 1942 or something like that). It's really fun to investigate stuff like this using Google News' archive search :)

It's clear that usage has really taken off recently, although it is possible it may have peaked in 2008.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned...
'Gloating' is so diametrically opposed to the view expressed in the article that I have no idea how to respond.

As for that part of the FAQ, it is intended as an explanation of some of the theorems proved in the paper and is a response to some of the theoretical objections we face from the data privacy community. It is not an issue that arises in practice.
Ballsy, I don't know. I'd call it very smart. Maybe I don't know the extent of the benefits of IP tracking, but being relatively unknown, this is a great way to gain market share as a niche.

> you should probably use https

Not sure if this is what you're implying, but https://duckduckgo.com is mentioned in the article.
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" -- using IE7 on Windows XP.
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Buy/get a dataset, such as images or audio or biological data, and spend the money on computing time to do machine learning/genetic programming to create a classifier from it. Sell/rent out the classifier for big bucks.

For example, label smiling/unsmiling faces on 10,000 images using mechanical turk, run an algorithm (neural net,svm,genetic programming) on it using your own computer cluster or amazon ec2. Once you have the classifier, allow people to use for a small payment each time.

There are almost infinite number things to do in this way, some examples

accent identification in audio ;
telling the gender/race of person from photo ;
labeling person attractive/not attractive