skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why charge per picture?

Pictures = More likely to get sale, Less likely to disappoint the customer.

I like the idea of making the initial listing of the item easy (although I'm still not sure on the benefits over just making an extremely simple, sell this form with 3 boxes (title, description, price).

What is wrong with taking a small charge for the successful sale? The advantage of this is that everyone wins. The seller will only pay an amount (relatively small) when they have completed a sale and made money (and thus don't mind paying the small fees).
As I'm a beginner in this I can't really detect sarcasm in this topic. So basically does the liver produce enough amount of glucose? and depriving the body of glucose is that good or dangerous??
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No. It's referring to foods that have a relatively high glycemic index; those do include sugar (of all sorts) but also white rice, potatoes, juice, and most things made from any kind of flour.
Reminds me of the scene in Independence Day where they plug their laptop into the alien mothership.
How do you figure? If we want to play with food analogies I'd say more like eating meat while not knowing how run a cattle farm.
Do it, fail or succeed but don't listen to 'experts'.
There is a distinct difference between a "created" image and a photograph (which the suggestion in your link is).

The wood carvings are probably fine; you have to take a pragmatic approach at some point. Artistic (non-abusive) photography is also usually fine - I'm not sure what the outcome of that specific case was but I expect nothing came of it.

The point is to capture those abusing - or encouraging the abuse of - children. So you will find occasional contradictions and difficult distinctions.
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I'm not aware of benchmarks either way, but Chrome certainly feels a lot faster. Pages snap up almost instantly and events fire immediately. Firefox, by contrast, comes across as comparatively sluggish.

It pains me to write this, because I've been a happy and devoted Firefox user since the early days of Mozilla, but I am gradually shifting over to using Chrome for straight browsing - though I still rely on Firefox and the unparalleled Firebux addon for troubleshooting web applications.
> How are private schools in the US regulated to prevent similar situations (if they are at all)?

In practice, market forces do a decent (though not perfect) job: most private schools want to produce students who have a chance of getting into a good college, and one of the more effective ways to convince colleges you aren't insane is to: 1) have your students do well on standardized tests like the SAT; and/or 2) be accredited by an organization like the National Association of Independent Schools.
A look at the MIT $100K finalists - from insulin chewing gum to IT automation
I think I agree with you. I've always just thought of infinity as having no end - and that's helped me understand all these paradoxes. For any N, 2N is certainly bigger, even if they're both so big I could never measure either. In my mind, infinity follows all the rules of mathematics that other numbers do (i.e. multiplying inifinity by two ensures that it's even, IMO), it's just that it has no end. Parallel lines don't meet at infinity - they have no meeting point.
Odd, my car lost my coffee when I put it on the roof on the way to work. Good thing there was backup coffee at the office.
...because I didn't have my own backup."
Ask HN: Nominate a song for startup founders?
What song epitomizes the startup life? Any nominees?
emails works because we use "email" to refer to a single email message. Contrast to use of mail, which never refers to one piece of mail.
My point was it's probably not wise to assume what the authorities may or may not find actionable.
Copywriting: Google's Chrome is all about Speed
Heroku makes it really easy because you just enable the free sendgrid add-on and it automatically works without any configuration whatsoever.
Doctrine in all the major Western militaries is to specify orders in terms of the outcome, and push decision making as far down the chain of command as possible - to the "strategic corporal": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Block_War

However there are times when an order really does need to be obeyed immediately without question, because there simply isn't time for anything else. The problem here was the officer didn't know which was which.
According to http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_spe_per_pri_sch_stu-sp... the US spends about $6K per child for primary education.

I don't know about the US but private schools here in the UK are rather more than that (we pay a total of about $15K a year).
While disbelieving in cattle farms. That's what the discussion started from.
Ah, I see. Well I work in investigating computer pedophilia (among other things). Obviously there is still a caveat of "within my experience" but I am quite confident that nothing will come of this particular complaint to the FBI.
So what would we need to implement an open alternative to Facebook?
When at home, I listen to CDs on a B&O sound system, or streaming from iTunes radio or Pandora.

I am considering getting a nice vinyl player, any suggestions?
People have all sorts of problems, so restricting your efforts to a domain you care about is probably the most efficient approach
Apple Lowers German iPad Prices After Tax Screwup & Consumer Uproar
The screenshot ( http://www.markshuttleworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/L... ) does use Chromium. What I find remarkable about this "light" version of Ubuntu, though, is that it seems to use up more screen real estate for panels than normal Ubuntu! What the hell?
1. You're assuming your conclusion.

2. Curriculum oversight is just another way of saying state sponsored indoctrination.

3. If parents believe that the schools are better than the alternatives, what right does anybody else have to butt in? In the American case they already pay for them through (local property) taxes anyway so they probably have good reason to pay a second time for the private version.

4. Would you support the abolition of the Amish's special privileges under which children are withdrawn from formal education at ~14, in contrast to the normal school leaving age? Why are they even allowed to have their own schools? After all they're weird religious fanatics with a self-perpetuating sub-culture, shouldn't we break that up and force them to assimilate by making their children go to schools with normal children? [Not actually a USAn]

As to private school oversight, I imagine it varies by state like the position on homeschooling. But the big discipliner is that parents can take their children out. they have real right of exit, to a far greater extent than with public schools
I was in this exact same scenario yesterday: standing outside my building under the awning with my bike watching the rain come down. I tricked myself into doing it since the rain and sort of been off and on, and in the worst case I could just check out the farmer's market near me and then head home. As it turned out, 10 or 15 minutes into my time outside the rain stopped and I ended up riding for more than two hours. I was really glad I sucked it up instead of going back inside, where I might not have gone back out when the weather got better.
Redd-what? Is that like Digg?
>On my netbook with Ubuntu I wanted to move the top gnome panel to the right side so I'd have more vertical space; apparently this is impossible to do cleanly.

I tried this with the past four versions of Ubuntu (8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04) on my Aspire One. In the first three cases I went back to a top or bottom panel because the side panel was ugly and unusable. With 10.04, a right-side panel is actually decent for the first time. It's not great - e.g. the shutdown applet is still too wide and doesn't flip vertically - but it's decent.
In any event, it's time to move from e-mails to emails.
I dismissed cloud storage , because i don't think a large percentage of people would pay higher bandwidth bills for this feature when they have something like dropbox . And i'm not sure people would pay higher bandwidth bills for internet installs.
There was a pretty lively exchange on twitter last night regarding this. I strongly disagree with the AWS forum poster. EBS does not suck. In fact, EBS and other services from AWS and Rackspace provide the building blocks to allow you to construct incredibly scalable, available systems.

However, you have to accept that when you use IaaS you are taking on some of the operational responsibility and you have to know what you are doing or find someone who does. If this user had been snapshotting regularly to S3, the worst thing they would have experienced is a couple of hours of downtime. All of their data would have been safe and easily recovered.

They didn't do that and the worst case scenario that AWS clearly describes in it's docs (failure of MULTIPLE devices) happened. And it will happen again, someday. Accept that and accept that failure is a feature when systems are designed properly.
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Cool. Thanks.

Edit: but that still seems to me to reflect infinitely, the adjective, as opposed to infinity, the noun. Still, thanks.
I would love to see the comparative analysis to see the factors taken into account to conclude that high speed rail not economically competitive with auto/air.
Am I the only one who sees 37signals all over this product?
> btw, there is no market for flash-based games, but very big one of upcoming WebGL standard.

MochiMedia (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046942) and Kongregate would disagree with your statement. Heck, the Internet would disagree with your statement.
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I'm pretty sure they are actually, I am very sure there was a canonical blog post recently saying the netbook distro was going to use a global menu.
Bloombug is my favorite
Trellis Helpdesk - http://www.accord5.com/trellis at the moment it does not have a good reporting, but v2 is going to be released soon (aplha available now at http://www.accord5.com/trellis_desk_v2_alpha_1.zip)
And so did their unemployment. Paradoxical, no?
There was a great article on HN a while back about how employees only do 2 hours of real, actual work per day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781182

p.s. I found this quickly and easily thanks to the Search link below (yay!). I like this feature, even though some don't see the point.

Regarding this particular article, I anecdotally heard of a case where a Boston company took on summer interns and had a pretty, shall we say, 'flexible' work arrangement that allowed the students to socialise to their hearts content but also get the required work done. The deal was that they had X amount of work to do by Friday each week, but it didn't matter when or what days they turned up, as long as the work got done by the Friday deadline.

So, on a Tuesday and Wednesday each week, the students were monsters of productivity, getting five days of work hammered out in two (long) days. From Thursday to Sunday/Monday they emptied their wallets into the many fine watering-holes around Boston.

There's a lesson to be learned here I think. If I were an employer, I'd like to think I'd be able to take a ballsy approach like this.
Every reply so far has missed out on one crucial fact: it is not possible to deviate from the officially approved method of teaching and keep your job. I urge everyone to closely scrutinise the National Curriculum and the National Strategies, bearing in mind that you will fail an OFSTED inspection for deviating from either.

http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/

Teaching at KS1 and KS2 is completely micro-managed, with statutory requirements set through the National Strategies on a day-by-day basis. Under the guise of "disseminating best practice", the system forces teachers into lock-step. If a child needs a little more time to grasp a concept, forget it. You've got to move on to the next unit, and the next one, or you won't be able to complete your Teacher Assessments. If they are lucky, the child will busk it and nobody will notice that they never learned appropriate use of the apostrophe; If they are unlucky, they will receive the mark of Cain - the Statement of Special Educational Needs. It is a near-certainty that they will never recover from this, and will be treated as a dunce for the rest of their school career.

At Secondary level, matters are worse still. Almost all secondary schools are surfing wave after wave of exam-driven panic. The abolition of the KS3 SAT has helped matters, but continuous assessment has kept the pressure on to a great extent. KS4 more closely resembles a death march than anything else; The whole school becomes a machine for getting those all-important marginal students those essential 5 A*-C grades. Any student too far ahead or behind the pace is completely ignored. All other school functions become a tool for pushing up that magical number. Student engagement matters only as much as it affects those marginal students.

The primary function of school is not to teach, and anyone naive enough to believe otherwise will quickly be corrected. A school is a bureaucratic machine and the role of a teacher is to follow the Approved Procedure. Your success or failure as a teacher will be measured entirely in terms of how closely you imitate the State Approved way of doing things.

If your partner has an ounce of intelligence and decency, I'd advise her to quit right now and do something else with her life. There's a lot wrong with FE, but at least you've got some freedom to teach. In the private sector, you won't be teaching anyone who actually needs your help, but at least you won't come home crying. There are some real opportunities to actually engage with young people in the voluntary sector. The pay is awful and funding erratic, but at least you get a chance to actually do some good.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue2.htm
Due to the lack of carbohydrates in their diet, Inuits apparently process protein differently than most others, through gluconeogenesis. I can't say whether that has any substantial impact on their susceptibility to cancer, but it's not necessarily inconsistent with the "China Study" findings.
Rust particles reveal data on your credit-card's magstripe
When we talk about infinity, we never really talk about it as though it were an actual value. In calculus, we really only talk about limits approaching infinity (sometimes using "infinity" as a shorthand). In set theory, we really only talk about things having infinite cardinality (sometimes using "infinite" as a shorthand). In geometry, we talk about things being "infinite" not to suggest that there's some endpoint that is simply unreachable; we mean something more along the lines of "unbounded."

Hilbert's hotel is more of a set-theory problem than a calculus or geometry problem, so it's best to think of the set of rooms having infinite cardinality. A set of countably infinite cardinality (the guests) is of the same cardinality when another (finite or) countably infinte set is added, so we can develop a one-to-one correspondence between it and another set of countably infinite cardinality (the rooms). Thinking about it this way demystifies the problem a little.
Reminds me of:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1969602-1,00....
The biggest criticism of this purge seems to be that the definition of pornography might have been slightly too restrictive. Some good images were lost that might not have been legally required to be removed.

So what?

The Wikimedia Foundation can't be expected to toe the line, deciding for itself exactly what pornography will result in criminal prosecution and just keeping their fingers crossed that the State of Florida will agree with them. The laws on obscenity are complex and inconsistent. American citizens have been convicted of criminal obscenity for possessing drawings of children engaging in sex acts, whose production did not involve any actual child. Perfect discrimination between legal and illegal images is not possible, and they've decided that an error of unnecessarily deleting "good" pornography is preferable to an error of distributing illegal images of minors.

I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2004, and I can say from experience that child pornography is not some mythical boogieman. It does exist on WP, and it can go undetected for a surprisingly long time.

The most recent example I can think of is an article on a medical condition that involves as a symptom the swelling of the breasts in pre-pubescent girls. A photograph was added showing a very young girl standing topless with her eyes edited from the photo, showing the camera her prematurely large breasts. The image caption was a brief description saying that the girl was 13 years old, had the relevant medical condition, and that the uploader, whose username began with "Dr", took the photo himself in Brazil. Uploading this image was the user's only contribution, and he hasn't been seen since.

It was literally months before any editor looked closely enough at the situation to realize that this might not be fully kosher. This isn't because editors are lazy or naive. Wikipedia is a big place, and catching these things happens almost entirely by happenstance. Once the issue was raised on Media for Deletion, consensus was quick that it had to go. But while the image is gone from WP, it's more popular than ever elsewhere. A Google image search for the title of the article will reveal the image re-hosted across dozens of web sites, which is why I'm being so scarce on the details here.

The Foundation has to make a decision on whether preventing incidents like this is worth the downside of forbidding some pornography, the only redeeming feature of which is often that it isn't illegal, should be hosted on Wikimedia servers, exposing the Wales and the Board to the possibility of severe criminal penalties. We have no moral ground from which to accuse them of shirking their responsibilities if they decline.
Even that would be a problem... legal problems according to what legal domain? What is acceptable in some US States is wildly different from what is acceptable in some EU countries.

The concern I have is greater than the definition of what is or is not pornographic, but it is the underlying notion that some entity feels that I should not see something, that a puritanical approach has come in at the top. To me this is the greater problem.

If we stick to legal definitions then we're in a much better position, even though the lack of a global legal system introduces technical issues about what is stored where, and what is available to whom (according to where they are) and the maintenance of that legal knowledge (that in one region the laws are X, Y and Z and that in another the laws are B, C and D).
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When a manuscript for a novel—especially a novel by an unknown writer—hits an editor’s desk, neither the author nor the editor really knows for sure whether the story is going to be a hit, a bomb, or something in between. The current publishing world is organized so that the publisher, which has much deeper pockets than the author, commits money up front (not just the author’s advance but the salary of the editor and other personnel); if the book turns out to be a hit, the publisher takes on a better-than-50% share of the profit. This risk structure, as far as I can tell, is independent of the medium in which books are published.

Also, when a publisher associates a certain imprint with a book, it advertises something about the book’s contents. (What image does “an O’Reilly book” or “a Baen book” evoke in your mind?) That kind of endorsement is extremely valuable to an author who hasn’t already become a celebrity, and an author-editor team working independently couldn’t duplicate that effect unless the editor was a celebrity. And by the time an author or editor becomes a celebrity, he or she has already built up a mutually profitable relationship with a publisher. (You don’t see Stephen King or J.K. Rowling offering their next books through lulu.com, do you?) Again, this effect has little to do with the medium in which books are published.
That isn't a poor translation. The spambot is using a Markov chain to generate plausible text and circumvent the possibility of a filter which also uses Markov chains.
only to catch your eye. I can imagine it dying down quietly after the initial 'wow wow'
Given her other serious medical conditions, probably not.
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Why is this on HN? AWS provides a great way to back up EBS volumes called snapshots. Snapshots only store the deltas from the previous snapshot, and all the work to create one is done by AWS, not the server it is attached to.

This guy didn't read the docs and did not use AWS snapshots. It was the equivalent of not having a backup strategy for your local hard drive.
The Amazon EBS page states (which the author quotes):

> As an example, volumes that operate with 20 GB or less of modified data since their most recent Amazon EBS snapshot can expect an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% – 0.5%, where failure refers to a complete loss of the volume. This compares with commodity hard disks that will typically fail with an AFR of around 4%, making EBS volumes 10 times more reliable than typical commodity disk drives.

Nowhere within that does it say 0.00% failure rate, and later in the page they even describe how to mitigate the risk of losing data due to disk failure using snapshots, mirrored across availability zones.
> "expect an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% –0.5%, where failure refers to a complete loss of the volume"

Well, I think the OP has just experienced a sample from a probability distribution characterized above.
> (or your school isn't attempting to report anything remotely useful as a GPA)

That is correct.

> Get straight Bs and take 4 AP classes or 8 honors classes over your 4-year career and get a 4.0? I call BS.

This is exactly what I did. I took all honors courses and did well in all of them.

Oh, so I found my school handbook, if you'd like to see. Apparently they changed the addition to 0.06 and .12. It's on page 27:

http://freeport.k12.pa.us/srhigh/FSD%20Student%20Handbook.pd...
"Great Web Site, Pixar"  -- Seriously?
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Problem with the long game is that it can be a very long game indeed, and then not only you are dead, but the market is still irrational.

If you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Operat...
you will notice that people like Warren Buffet have always been in the minority, as much as people hate to admit it, there is always that element of speculation in their investing.

The problem, according to Mark Cuban(and I will agree here), that there has been too much emphasis on the creating leveraged bets, and skimming in HFT, and not enough emphasis on capital creation for companies new(read - startups) and old.
It was worded a bit awkward, but again the goal is not to eliminate the boilerplate code, but to abstract it to a level where you only need to write it once.
With the result that votes for certain political parties are produced?