skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats the definition of any zero sum bet though. Puts are also designed by people who will benefit if stocks drop in price, that doesn't necessarily make it wrong or bad. The counterparties had access to all the same info Paulson & Co. did, they just didn't analyze it correctly or in as much detail.
That's my understanding too. We just moved our blog from blog.menuism.com to http://www.menuism.com/blog/ - hoping to see some gains from it.
Toshiba unveils automotive-grade 200GB hard drive
1. Sell doomed products to stupid clients

2. Short those products

3. Profit X 2 !

3a. If fail, have taxpayer pay for it
Would have been nice if that article delivered on the promise made in the headline and actually listed the eight counties.

Fortunately, the list can be found on the site after more searching: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/11/business/la-fiw-cal-...
(I agree, but why are we whispering?)
The most fundamental principle for startup success
While I share your sentiment about too much processed foot, may I ask what's there to say against genetic engineering?
just checked and apparently blog.whyspam.me is only PR3 looks like you could be right.
I believe that the Pixar happy meal deal w/ McDonalds was over by the time Wall-E was released.
Very well written article that touches on some of the more important points about accessibility. I've seen the attitude that they mention in too many developers. What they don't realise is that for people with a visual or motor disability, a computer and the internet can make possible things that weren't earlier possible or make easier things that were hard.

If you'd fractured both legs or you're allergic to sunlight, would you prefer to get your milk at the local grocery store or to order it online and have it home delivered? If you had a visual disability and had to rely on audio cues, would you prefer a conversation in a crowded room full of people or IRC?

I don't know if toucscreen devices can replicate the kind of tactile feedback you get from a physical keyboard. I've heard of research in this area that uses tiny electric pulses or vibration, but I don't have a source to cite right now. It may be some way off, but just dismissing it by saying it's not necessary isn't the solution. We're all smart enough to figure it out if we first identify it as a problem.

Remember some of the first FORTRAN and COBOL programmers are in their 70s now. Arthritis and visual problems aren't that uncommon at that age. Will PHP, Python and Ruby programmers still be able to use a computer when they turn 70?
If it was out of IXO and was associated with the Admiral than I can sure guess. PAM was perhaps the project played up in the press as asking people to predict terrorist actions (the press not reality)? I think the real nail was TIA though not your project.

When IXO folded I was pretty far along in marketing to them. I got strong advice to keep a low profile after that due to superficial similarities.

I think we probably have something to talk about if you have time for lunch. Email is on my profile.
Standalone Solaris subscriptions will soon be history
Seems a lot like IPP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol

I can already print from anywhere in the world to our work printers which operate on a CUPS server with authentication and SSL. I don't need a special driver, a generic print Postscript or PDF one works.
Ugh. I've always hated the non-local returns in Ruby blocks. They massively clutter up my mental model of a block as an anonymous function, where a return statement should return from the block's function, not the enclosing function.

It seems like it adds in a lot of potential confusion and diverges from any other closure/lambda implementation in any other language without adding much value.
If you're focused on entrepreneurship and startups, possibly themes around debunking startup myths (e.g. you HAVE to get VC) then I'd be interested!
Probably closer to Singapore really.
Or at least of resources.
What you need is HireLite: http://hirelite.com/ It's speed dating for hiring
Just a programmer?
You no longer need a secretary for a private company:

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/companiesAct/implementation...
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Adding healthy options is progress, but I think adding health options is very different from the overall menu becoming healthier.

The junk food items have grown not declined though. And McDonald's no longer advertises supersizing, but they will ask if you medium or large and I think large is the same as supersizing was. That is a change in marketing, not in offerings in any way.
There is a tendency in society for people to blame the victim. You hear about rape crimes, and people ask what the girl was wearing with the idea that somehow she was 'asking for it.' I try to view the situation from both sides as much as possible, but I do not advocate blaming the vicitim in most circumstances.

In this particular case, it is stupid for the school system to even implement this policy in the first place. There are multiple issues with this other than the spying aspect.

(1) Why is the school letting the kids use laptops in the first place? What is wrong with desktop machines that are cheaper that stay at the school? Is there really a significant advantage given to learning or is it worth it to the taxpayer? I highly doubt a positive correlation exists between computer use and higher grades.

(2) They could simply have installed other tracking software or reported the IP address back to a server have the laptops found if stolen. They could have required some form of collateral or payment if a student lost a laptop or if the laptop was stolen. It does not make sense to justify such a method of tracking when other (better) solutions exist.

(3) The system was only 'activated' 42* times, but it took thousands of pictures? You only need one picture to identify someone. They were actively spying on these kids.
Silicon Valley unemployment rises to 12.3% in March
> I live in the Central Florida/Space Coast area, and there is a palpable fear that soon all these aerospace jobs will be gone

Those aren't jobs - they're welfare checks, taken from working Americans in return for very very very little of value.

I hope that the folks on the Space Coast are right. They can all go get real jobs (even if it's at Target), and the free market space industry can deliver for several orders of magnitude less.
Thats a ridiculous thing to say.

I know someone who learned ruby, and rails in 6 months, built an app - and was part of techstars boston last year.

I also am personally a UI designer professionally, I taught myself ruby and rails in much less than 6 months, and have also built two apps already.

Its nice being able to bring your designs to life, can't help you with the boring thing, I like math/problem solving so it keeps me entertained.
I think the requirement for the interviewee to have a webcam accessible is a little much.
The data can also be calculated from the latest BLS statistics by county: http://www.bls.gov/lau/

The data is for January 2009 to February 2010.
SEC charges Goldman Sachs with subprime fraud
The limit can be affected by the stakes. How about drugs?

I've been in music competition situations where I've gone into hyper vigilant/super multitasking mode and my recollection of time seems to have expanded, like a scene from the Matrix. However, my brain overloaded and my coordination melted down.
The guy who taught my section of calculus years ago said that you don't really know it till you teach it.
Wish i had some PR 5 sites under my belt.
The real reason why Apple is banning some applications
Translation: Who will guard the guards? The people.
The difference is that these were synthetic CDOs so they didn't generate more demand for residential mortgage backed securities, rather they piggybacked off pre-existing ones. This likely did nothing to expand the bubble.
Infamous hacker applauds security of Microsoft software;not with Apple & Adobe
"And do you really want it displayed with a huge green bar every time you get into something that was previously protected? Aren't there some situations where discretion is preferable?"

Well - we won't know without trying. But it's clear that in the Read/Write Web Facebook case, a bunch of people had thought that they had logged in to Facebook when in fact they hadn't. And that they didn't even know where they were.

You may not want it every time. But at the moment, we don't even have it at all. That's restrictive in the kind of messages we can send out.

For emails flying off the screen: the execution is in the detail. A few seconds may be too long. For some people, it may not even be long enough. But the animation isn't necessarily just showing that an email is being sent: it can convey a lot of other information in a clear, yet subtle way. It's interesting that there's no visual cue when an email is sent that distinguishes between sending to a single individual or a group of people, or an even larger group of people.
Sorry, wasn't meant personally - but you get the point.
Q; How many states DON'T have a Nasa facility?
Most of the articles aren't in depth enough compared to what my expectations are from the title nor the blog name. I'd love to see you work your way up to OK cupid style analytics, (though, they have better data than you).

Did like "Foxii" though :)
Thanks for linking to a great story. The documents that they reference are part of a project I'm working on (DocumentCloud). Here's a direct link to Magnetar's response to the investigation:

http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/magnetars-responses...
Your analogy is correct inasmuch as the urchins cannot communicate for the same reason the Alice and Bob, each with one particle of an entangle pair, cannot communicate. But it can be shown by very clever experiments that the future statistical observations of Alice and Bob cannot be explained by assuming each had a particle with properties fixed when the two parted ways. Entanglement is very subtle.
The NY Times magazine for March 7 had a piece on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...
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Cloud Computing Economies of Scale [video]
"But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday and suggested that he resubmit the app, Mr. Fiore said in an interview. “I feel kind of guilty,” he said. “I’m getting preferential treatment because I got the Pulitzer.”"

He should get preferential treatment. He won a freakin' Pulitzer. Better still if it changes behavior, rather than being a one time damage control exercise.
The key difference between the two is that the idea behind a put is extremely simple, while the ideas behind a mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligation are extremely complex. Hence, a counterparty to the put could be reasonably expected to know what they are getting into, while the same does not apply in the Goldman Sachs case.
On the subject of "write anything you like on my server," here is a fun little "Tragedy of the Commons" area for people to play with:

https://loom.cc/?function=edit&loc=ba35327dc62909d8383ca...

That location is stocked up with a limited number of usage tokens to limit the amount of data people can store there.
Completely 100% agreed. Apple already knows this which is why is makes such heavy use of animations and lavish graphics in its UIs.
Wow, this is amazing and I'm now using Chrome fulltime. Anything to not have to use the Dell mini 10v's trackpad with OS X. ;)
But no one wants to live in Disneyland. A manufactured experience can be nice for a while - it certainly achieves a level of perfection that other experiences cannot. But in the end, a walled garden only extends as far as the walls. And there's a whole world out there that's messy and dangerous and not as polished, but also more exciting, more fulfilling, more real.
If so there should be jail-time involved for the person administering this system.
I have to say, I hope the future looks a lot less like Movie OS and a lot more like the Anti-Mac: http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html
On the contrary, living in Europe I see you in the US as a great example of society which dares to stand up and say "No!". By comparison, you are exceptionally well-educated, conscious and actively taking care of your rights.
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Well, you have to admit, it's a pretty nice place to live.

I suspect Earth is probably the most amenable place in the solar system for long term life because of a number of features:

* High ambient energy (temperature, non-ionizing radiation)

* Shielded from ionizing radiation

* High atmospheric and oceanic churn

* Stable geology

* Rich dispersion of minerals

Though you are right, the competition on Earth that a second branch of life would face is not insignificant...
Fake moons? Phobos and Deimos? Not sure how they are fake.

Yeah, gravity sucks, but I find a trip to Mars far more interesting than one to an asteroid, E.g. the geology, water resources, valles marineris, the potential for life, colonization. Why not be obsessed?
Apple blog update
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I think to a certain extent we already had Movie OS in the early 00s / late 90s when all kinds of apps were skinned. People would make all kinds of baroque skins that looked like they came out of movies, that acted much like this, but you know what? They were cluttered and hard to use.

Who remembers Winamp 3, with its fancy skins[1]. I know I breathed a sigh of relief when iTunes with its simple, yet highly functional, interface came out.

1. As an example: http://www.thg.ru/technews/images/winamp_skin-270206.jpg
I think the OP's question was asked in innocence... They were probably looking for something along the lines of a web-based registry where various agencies could post their more vexing problems.

But yes government, with it's monopoly on force and tendency towards regulation is fundamentally antithetical to the crowd. Government can achieve certain efficiencies through uniformity but mandates don't really foster innovation.

To more thoroughly answer the OP, government can work with the crowd to 'promote the general welfare' by limiting itself. Ideally, the more remote levels of government should tolerate the experimentation and even the failings of the more local levels. By "tolerate" I mean less regulation but also withholding subsidies and bailouts. As Jefferson said,

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

The reason for this is twofold.

1) Government cannot create an incentive/bailout/subsidy without diminishing other, more successful pursuits through a taking.

2) By propping up self-destructive behavior, government enables it to perpetuate.

The experimentation of the more local levels of government and ultimately the individual citizens that compose self-government _is_ the exercise of the crowds. E.g., think of the unsolicited advancements the Wright brothers brought to the military.
That's brilliant! It's such a simple feature, but such a huge step in UI magic.

I always hated those needless extra steps in screenshotting. And then two months later your Desktop is full of things you forgot to delete and you had to figure out why you had ever needed a screenshot of top in the first place...
"For its part, the Justice Department has taken a legalistic approach: a 17-page brief it filed last month acknowledges that federal law requires search warrants for messages in "electronic storage" that are less than 181 days old. But, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pegeen Rhyne writes in a government brief, the Yahoo Mail messages don't meet that definition.

"Previously opened e-mail is not in 'electronic storage,'" Rhyne wrote in a motion filed last month"

Am I missing something here? How is web-based email not in electronic storage? Where is it then?
Any money to be made in arbitrage between this and intrade?
Am I the only one that doesn't like Mixergy?
No Flash Support on iPhone and iPad: Best Example
For how many of the applications available for touchscreen phones and tablets is the touchscreen really necessary? For some of them(fast-paced games, visual-arts-related things, etc.), the touchscreen is key, but those are largely inherently inaccessible to the blind. Not as much to arthritics and others with decreased manual dexterity, but they'd probably be better off with a mouse.

For most iPhone/Pad apps, the touchscreen, at best, makes the UI more convenient. It is not at all integral to the functionality. One of the frequent criticisms of Android is the risk of fragmentation of the platform between devices with very different capabilities, but this is one situation where that could actually be a good thing. There's no hope that a blind person will ever be able to use an iPhone or an iPad, but there is at least a chance that HTC or some other company will release an Android device targeting people who have difficulties with touchscreens. It probably would be a much worse experience than a normal Android device for people who can use touchscreens, but the decision for those that can't wouldn't be between a normal smartphone and one without a touchscreen, but between a phone without a touchscreen and no smartphone at all.
How to Hack Administrator Password of Window XP without PC Open
If humans survive long enough to become highly advanced technologically, we'll almost certainly have a high degree of control over our bodies. Tall, thin and handsome is probably to be expected.

See Iain M. Banks's Culture novels for a fictional depiction of this pushed to the extreme (people there can even chose to switch from one sex to the other whenever they feel like it).
It's the whole "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care if they are watching me" standpoint that most people have. The problem of course is that the people watching you are the ones who decide what's wrong. Of course there is the famous other quote: "If I have nothing to hide then why do you need to watch me?" or something like that.
Loic Le Meur to Twitter Naysayers: "Fuck You" [video]
I seem to be completely missing the connection you are pointing to Davide.

Are you saying that Apple wants to monetize mature content only through their ad platform?
"I realize this was an app, not an e-book, but Apple can’t credibly run a book store while holding any sort of policy that bans political satire." -Gruber

I could not agree more with Gruber's last statement.
Well really the problem with Facebook is that's too complex.

Though I'd agree there are non-sys admin problems that people have, but the worst problems are all sys. admin type ones, viruses, out of space, slowness.

The user-space stuff is nice to have, though the movies tend to have some impressive visualization and lots of data (like floorplans, schematics etc.) in order to show things like that. Facebook could maybe show a picture of your 500 friends and say "sending..." though.
A Parable For 3rd Party App Developers
I was kind of hoping this would have something to do with skywriting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywriting).

It would be cool, because then you could integrate it with twitter and have really big tweets in the sky. Google's main service is ads, so it would kind of make sense.

Thinking about it, skywriting might actually make more sense from google's business perspective than 'cloud printing'.

I fail to see how cloud printing is better than a document aware printer (runs its own OS or something) attached to a bluetooth and your LAN.

How do you monetize being a glorified printer driver?
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A very great innovation regarding t-shirts is a custom-made t-shirt. These days, there are many services or companies that offer printing of cheap custom t-shirts.
Honestly, I have to say: Talk to the developer relations people when you don't see why they're rejecting you. Sometimes, things can be done.

Sometimes, no.
Intrade doesn't have very many UK election markets.
If this ISN'T intended as "The Onion" meets "Stat Class" then you're doing something wrong. If that IS the intent, you're spot on.
If I read it correctly, it's not that they sold doomed products to stupid clients.

It's that they represented the products as awesome, when they knew they were structured specifically to be doomed.
I need to crowdsource tagging photos from Chirp - Do you know these geeks?
While I admire what Carmack is doing on a "that's cool" level, what real results have been produced?

He has a device that can lift off the ground, move a couple hundred meters to the side, and land.

That's a long way from a space program.
http://www.improve-pagerank.com/promo/

It alternates between blue, black, green, and red. So you're right, it's quad-color.

I was wrong about the source of his quotes being his ad copy. It's actually an unlinked forum where he probably got his friends to write ad copy for him, presuming he didn't do it himself.
As we all know, hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks are completely unable to evaluate complex investments.

Note: CDO's are not sold to retail investors.
Vim works great in Dvorak. I switched to Dvorak, and jumped right in to relearning my Vim keystrokes with it. After a few weeks, I was back to normal in Dvorak, in both typing and Vim.
I run www.trackmycv.com and www.finddjs.co.uk on it as well as several company intranets. I've been using it for about 18 months, in my opinion it's the quickest, cleanest PHP framework out there. It's got loads of features, it's well documented, sanely laid out and fully extendible, can't recommend it highly enough
None of the things you mention are actually healthy though. It's terribly unfortunate that they're going in the wrong direction.
Yeah, it's a brain@#$%. I did it though, and wouldn't look back.
Teacher Layoffs Sweep The Nation
A truly iPhone game billing model . . .
Ask HN: What do you think of the domain industry right now?
Obviously the market for domains is way down, but do you think it will ever be the same? I tend to believe landing pages will be much more important going forward than great domains. However, this isn't exactly a great time to sell some of the bigger names I'm sitting on.
They accused him of libel, actually. In the UK you can both be telling the truth and be guilty of libel. (Hence the hubbub there about libel reform)
You're confusing a few separate issues:

1) Cheap, high-yield corn. Upside: cheap carbs. Downside: Probably unsustainable. Crops require crazy chemical fertizilers to support the increased yields. Because it's cheap, people want to use corn for all kinds of crap it's not really suitable for, such as feeding livestock despite it being outside of their normal diet, which has ballooning negative effects (antibiotics, animal suffering)

2) High-fat, high-sugar foods becoming cheaper. Upside: Tastes good. Downside: Not good for you. Higher health costs, greater human suffering.

3) GM crops. Upside: all kinds of stuff. Downside: mostly unfounded FUD.

4) Chemical additives. Upside: longer shelf life, ergo cheaper products. Downside: certain additives are downright scary in doses far greater than normal presence in foods; AFAICT there's not enough research on the long-term effects of the normal doses.
Thank you for this link... I have always wanted to do this.