skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His comments on focusing on what the user is trying to do rather than on how it is going to be implemented is absolutely spot on. For me, this is one of the big advantages that TDD has. It gives you the opportunity to think about your API as a user first, before you try to do the implementation.
That's nowhere near the consensus definition of "theft". It's no more legitimate than declaring you an arsonist, because you've deprived them of a mansion they could have had built.

Information age scarcity through copyright as a tool to compensate creators brings a uniquely complex mix of benefits and drawbacks. Arguments about how and when to apply them best should stand on their own, rather than being disguised as millenia-old emotional baggage about survival.
When living on other planets actually becomes a practical possibility, all those rules and laws will most likely go right out the window.

The more interesting questions are: who will be living there? why? and how?
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Journalists are paid too, can't you trust them either?
Works even better for squares ending in 5 because you'll round up and down to multiples of ten which means the number ends in 00 and you'll always be adding 25.

So:

35 squared is 4x3 x100 = 12 00 + 25 = 1225

45 squared is 5x4 x100 = 20 00 + 25 = 2025

55 squared is 6x5 x100 = 30 00 + 25 = 3025

When I heard about this trick it was referred to as vedic, hindu or indian math, but I don't know if that's actually historically/geographically accurate or not. There's some Japanese nintendo DS games that aim to train you in it, I think it was a bit of a craze over there.
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According to Spolsky, he'd take the CS degree. Since he is an internet celebrity, people will use him as a credible source to justify their hiring reasons. Also, the HR filters don't really care what open source you've done in your spare time. They won't have much knowledge on it. They will understand what a Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale graduate can bring to the table. But your contribution to Apache won't mean much to the filterer.

Now, having personal contact and a network throws all of this out the window. I don't have a CS degree, I've never gotten a job offer without someone having personally reviewed my application. A friend in HR says they use software that looks for competitors (aka work experience), degrees, languages in that order.
Sounds like Sony just wants to legitimize modchips. With no way to run Linux on the PS3 without one, possession doesn't immediately mean you're a pirate.

(Now to solve the small problem that there aren't any PS3 modchips. AFAIK, anyway.)
Ask HN: what are your 2 or 3 favorite SAAS services ?
I'm working on adding more content to http://kingapi.com.

By content I mean SAAS services that people here actually use and are happy with.

Could you share the names of your preferred ones ?
Have you heard of neo4j?
http://neo4j.org/

It's a graph database. I haven't used it but only attended a presentation by one of its developers, yet it seems to make a lot of sense. :)
My Google skills are failing me today, as I'm convinced that I've used a privacy policy and T&Cs generator from a UK government website before.

Ah! Here we go:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESO...

Lots of link action for creating relevant policies :)
The reason may be that Sony has had enough of scientist buying shiploads of their subsidized hardware and not buying the profitable games.

MS has been reluctant to sell xbox systems to the military for this reason.
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And, if Google Apps count, count them in too!
on a similar note, a great article on why a fixed income is a 'sucker bet' - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/09/a-fixed-income-is-a...
Like "open source", "open standard" has a specific definition which includes being royalty free. So while HTML5 is an open standard, H.264 is just a standard.
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If you feel it's worth having one, it's worth getting a lawyer to handle. Having one that's not written properly could very well cause more problems than not having one at all.
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Not cool. Is this even legal? They can't just patch out features that I paid for, otherwise I may have not bought the device.
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I'd add SMF (unless you know about something similar that's built-in into Linux ?).
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The navigation on the front page is terrible. It's impossible to know that "n days left" means n days left of normal sleep, and hence those should be read first.

I was able to figure out the nav only after clicking the links and checking the "posted-on" dates.
Your definition is slightly wrong. In Alan Turing's own words:

It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used
to compute any computable sequence. If this machine I is
supplied with a tape on the beginning of which is written the
S.D of some computing machine M, {242} then I will compute
the same sequence as M.

(Alan Turing, 1936, On Computable Numbers, With An Application To The Entscheidungsproblem)

So it is no merely that the Universal Machine can read and execute programs, it is that it can read and executes programs to make itself equivalent to ANY other turing machine. Thus the Universal Turing machine is Turing Complete. As the amount of tape required to solve all computable programs is unbounded the Universal Turing machine must have an infinitely long tape.

It's usually worth going straight to the source where you can in CS, but much more so with Turing as his papers are so nice and easy to read :)
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Blog is transitive, with an assumed object. Here's just the results for the phrase "blogged the results" http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=... (43k hits); similar numbers can be found for "blogged X" for pretty much every X (and it adds up to a lot.) It's a usage that began with newspapers sometime in the middle of last year, I believe, but it caught on fiercely.

The point of the title, as I can read it, was to avoid being parsed as "how to write insightful posts." The author went off on "how to write" as a set phrase because it implied that one was about to talk about the mechanics of writing (grammar, diction, style, etc.) rather than the content. I believe this whole thing could have been fixed as thus:

"How to find insights to blog"

or even more simply:

"What to blog"

or, now that I think about it, the simplest of all, with the least change:

"How to be insightful".

Because that's what the author really wanted to show with the rest of his post—how to be an insightful person that would then have insightful things to blog.
Call Me Crazy but Application-Awareness Should be About the Application
In case this observation isn't immediately obvious:

Observe that 27^2 = 30 x 24 + 3^2

It's derived from this:

(x + c)(x - c) = x^2 + cx - cx - c^2
= x^2 - c^2
=> x^2 = (x + c)(x - c) + c^2

(I note that the blog explains this later, but I had to stop when I read the observation and work it out for myself on paper - when reading the text, it seemed like this step was missing.)
It may not be true for math...but math is probably the exception rather than the rule. I'd certainly say timthorn is correct about CS.
There's a difference between finding a few smart friends anywhere, which I agree isn't that hard, and living four years of your life in a place where everyone you meet is extremely intelligent and driven, which is qualitatively different and extremely valuable.
No. Not blindly anyway.

But they are being openly paid by X media organisation with Y leanings. It's possible to adjust for bias etc.

For a start no one knows who funds Wikileaks.
>Why pay to attend an institution that does not care about your studies?

Because you're paying for environment, education, peer group, opportunity, and credibility...not hugs.
I don't think you appreciate the sheer volume of traffic.

Half a million 15-year-olds watch the clip, and none of them immediately buy the product. But it's fair to assume at least 10% of the girls remember the brand name, and the remaining 90% will remember that for custom designed shoes they should go with "whatever the brand was that got recommended by shinyrainbowprincess". That's a lot of brand recognition.

But let's look at it from a cost perspective for a moment. I'm almost entirely sure that she got paid less than $10.000 for the advertisement. Probably way less, but what do I know? Suppose they did pay $10.000, then they only need to sell an extra 100 shoes or so to break even (assuming they have a healthy profit margin). That's peanuts, really.

So even if there are no direct conversions, and the only benefit is word of mouth or brand recognition the shoe shop still got a deal of a lifetime. Half a million people, that's half the circulation of the New York Times! And most people spend only 10 or so minutes on the paper, which is the same as the length of the advertisement.
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How does one do that? I can't imagine 13-17-year-olds having the means to order shoes online.
It took me a bit of time to see what is the real big difference between Quora and the rest:

IDENTITY.

People on Quora use real names. Presumably this affects greatly the type and quality of the content published.
They be called parents :) "daddy I reeeeeeaaaaaaaaly want those shoes, pretty please"

(also there are a few services kicking around that try to solve these problems)
Interesting. I always thought of the "think different" slogan as meaning "think of this a something different" - similar to the common use of "read".

How do you interpret it?
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Interesting experiment, but I can't navigate beyond the 'About' page because of all the Flash.
This is the book you buy someone else if they don't think good business advice comes in blog-post format.
Wordpress.com have a pretty good Terms of Use policy which they've licensed under a Creative Commons share-alike license. I personally think this is the best starting point :)

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
I can't make heads nor tails from this rant. It reads as if the author is very upset about something, but he never quite explains what it is that's so upsetting to him. The arguments he does make are nonsensical (such as the rant about openness being a continuum according to MS.)

Low quality, low content, if you ask me.
Great stuff, it's a shame it doesn't work on Windows (yet). Makes me want to spend the rest of my day trying to port it to MSVC.
Check out http://overcomingbias.com and http://lesswrong.com.

There are some good discussions on Eliezer Yudkowsky's articles: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~andwhay/postlist.html.
Wireless Carriers Get Revenue Share From Google Search
You know, I used to be a big detractor of "Second Life", but the other day I found out that it's now a big part of distance education at some big universities. That seems like a great way to get some of the same benefits: you can literally run into people in the halls, and know what they're interested in.

Edit: Did some research; it mostly seems to have failed. Some examples:
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/slum/
http://udsled.ning.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuNFRie8wA
People are using linux on clusters of PS3s for real work, so it is obviously practical in some scenarios.
Reviews Pour in for a B&B That Doesn’t Exist
Improved WSGI script for Django (by mod-wsgi author)
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Nonprofit it doesn't mean that the people working there cannot get paid (in some cases) a lot of money.
Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It
As a Django developer I was chuckling but also moaning at the State of the (Intellectual) Union.
Spam filters force 'The Beaver' to change name.
Thanks for the example. Yes, it was a serious question - I thought the CIA was largely an intelligence gathering agency. I hadn't heard of this before.
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Communication Silos
I love this guys attitude.

When you are in business, you're not there to make friends. If everyone took this attitude, there would be no corporate bullshit, no pointless niceties, no pissing about on the phone for half an hour because the other guy can't get to the point, no wondering did you get the job or not after an interview just because the HR guy or girl can't say 'no', no polite rejections by VCs that seem like something positive etc etc
Most of the 30,000 monthly visitors to the site were staying less than 10 seconds when they didn't find the beaver they were seeking.
if YouTube is worth 1.65 billion, then i'd say yes!
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In v0.2-beta, the line reads `sprintf(pport_s, "2222");'.
Woow, that is really effective !
I recently listened to Derren's Brown audiobook about memory and he teaches a really effective method to remember list of words. With his technique I can memorize really easily 20 words and still remember them days after. I never tried more but I'm sure I can do 50 words (I really have to try).

His technique :

1. okay first imagine that the list of words begins with "telephone, sausage and monkey"

2. When you listen to the first word, imagine something grotesque with vivid colors and unscaled.
For a telephone just imagine an immense telephone, let's say a pink huge telephone.

3. When you hear the next word, imagine something in relation with the previous word. Like you need to use smelly sausage to type on the digital numbers.

4. Continue to do the same. Next word : "A red monkey is eating saussage"
The problem that I have with your question is that I'm having trouble what you mean when you suggest you base pricing on "number of users/questions". What does that mean? To me, as a webmaster, I start thinking, "Wait - do I have to know how many users are hitting my website or do they mean how many users can manage/edit the questions/answers?" It's a bit confusing.

I'm going to assume that you are thinking along the lines of "How many users the company appoints to edit/manage the entries." Okay - if that's the case then what happens if a big company (like MSFT) decides to try you out on 10 pages that have 1-2 editors? You might get tens of thousands of hits but still get the same revenue that a one-person site with 1k uniques a month gets you. Can you scale that?

I don't know - it's a tough slope but I think you have to put something in there to prevent DOS to other clients because you are fulfilling one big client's requests ten-fold over the others.
To paraphrase, if you need to square a number of the form N5, for some N, the answer will always be (N x (N+1))25

35 squared is (3 x 4)25 or 1225

85 squared is (8 x 9)25 or 7225

115 squared is (11 x 12)25 or 13225

It's an easy proof, too.
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I'm too dense to understand your explanation, but thanks anyway :)

Edit: It took me a while but I figured out his version and your version. Thanks!
Yeah, it seems questionable, especially since they're still advertising this as a feature: http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

They do include a disclaimer that it isn't available on the slim models, but don't given any indication that if you had a model that advertised support, that the support would be removed in the future. In fact, as another comment here points out, they promised pretty recently that they would retain support.
I had read in Surely You are joking Mr Feynman, squaring numbers near 50 is really easy, for example, 49xx2 is (50 - 1)xx2 which is 2500 - 100 + 1 that is 2401.
Vonnegut used such delicious metaphors (from the article):

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Interesting comment on the rationale for Linux support on PS3:
http://kotaku.com/comment/21054663/
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Another interesting thing from the book is square root estimation. For example what's the square root of 73?

Well you know it's between 8 and 9 because 8^2 is 64 and 9^2 is 81, so it's 8 point something. The difference between 64 and 73 is 9. His estimate would be 8 plus 9 divided by 2 times 8. Or how much the low estimate is off by, divided by twice the guess.

In this case that's 8 9/16 = 8.5625. The actual square root of 73 is 8.544.
I worked for Coca-Cola on the container floor in my teens. It's insane how much small point pressure a plastic bottle can take. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ScJUCqj98

We had fun throwing 2L bottles on the floor. If they struck the floor smack on the bottom of the bottle they would bounce back up. The impact increases the pressure inside the bottle. We'd do this a couple of times, then the last drop would be top down, hopefully breaking the cap launching a coke powered rocket to the roof! That's the quickest way to break the bottle without using tools I think.
Just imagine doing lots of work on spam filters and having the final part of your last name be 'Cumming'.

Hilarity ensues, or not.
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The colours and icons are more corporate than cute too. I'd suggest some warm vibe and less technically perfect icons.
A good shortcut I use is for calculating cumulative interest / growth.

x% growth followed by y% growth is equal to a growth of (x+y).xy % overall. Eg. 6% followed by 8% growth is 14.48% overall growth.

You can easily extend this to account for negative growth rates, more decimal places and so on. Very useful in tracking business metrics, portfolio valuation and so on.
Do you have any high-end premium features? Or are users and questions the only knobs you have turn?
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Sorry, I didn't really define my question well. Basically by users I mean people that may edit the website.
You have really good arguments. I don't really find this being fit for big companies, but I suppose one way of pricing would be by how much traffic your site gets which sort of directly imposes how much money your business is making. In my opinion this is by far the best way to go.
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What is interesting about such lists of N writing tips is the total lack of theory of fiction or narration. It like explaining people how to write software by listing formatting rules/code conventions.
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But if you know there are other products in your space, how can you ignore those numbers when you come up with a TAM? Surely, he didn't invent bingo software?
Actually, when Youtube sold in 2006 November it was already widely popular. 1650/80 ~ 20. Does this site have Youtube's 2006 November popularity / 20? Or potential? (I don't know, I'm asking...)
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Well, you can brand your page using logos, colors. Another feature is you can upload screenshots along with pasting a youtube video link and we convert it into a video object.

Besides that, I guess stuff like live search etc.
Interesting article, however, it is way too focused on software / services. For example, not every product "solves a problem" or provides any direct "benefit". Think of women's clothing, for example. You can't write "if you buy our clothes, you'll have 40% more chance of getting laid".
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Can recipes be copyrighted? I'm assuming they can be, so that might be a concern if you are 'sharing' recipes with other users or to the public and someone uploads everything from Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
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I think free software is enemy of open source software.
I have an odd habit to factorize the number first: 24 * 35 = 6 * 5 * 7 * 4 = 840. Oh, the article is talking about addition and squaring...
Ask HN: Should I be using Git instead of Bzr?
I've been using Bazaar for a few months now and not had any trouble, but after reading lots of talk about Git on HN I've been wondering if I should switch.

Any big advantages of using Git instead of Bazaar?
When I heard about this trick it was referred to as vedic, hindu or indian math, but I don't know if that's actually historically/geographically accurate or not.

That is not historically accurate, as several authors in India have pointed out. Let me see if I can find a citation:

http://books.google.com/books?id=DHvThPNp9yMC&pg=PA16...

(That's footnote 7 from page 16 of Mathematics in India by Kim Plofker, citing works by scholars in India who have dug into the primary sources.)
Correlation != Causation
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Careful, that will start a claim that engineers are better at writing fiction than anyone else ;-)
So is his name Pete Michaud or Paul Michaud? They say "Paul" in the title but "Pete" everywhere else, so I'm assuming that it's "Pete".