skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes a lot of sense in combination with Chrome OS. Once we have an OS that's just a browser, we can still run high-performance apps. If I would switch to Chrome OS today, there's quite some things that I'd be missing, and NC can help making the transition a lot easier.
It's a plugin - meaning that we limit the users to using a subset of browsers (those with supported plugins) and forcing them to upgrade it when we want to use the latest features. This is NO worse than flash, it's just you write the apps in C/C++/Go rather than ActionScript.

I don't see the benefit; all I see is another Flash/Silverlight wannabe that puts more reliance on the user understanding their system/installed programs. This is not the future.
I do internet marketing and found it really easy to get a full time job, honestly, and I don't have a degree. The article is sure to be popular, though.
This is a good attitude. It's worthwhile to be aware of the sensitivities involved in this, but the key is to execute and iterate.
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Right, I think there are many software niches that are still dominated by over-priced enterprise solutions, and the web is eventually going to destroy them.

If you eventually want to compete with those guys though, wouldn't you rather have a significantly lower price to make people consider switching? Or do you think having too low of a price will make people dismiss your business as shady, unreliable, etc.?
I think you misunderstood my question. I'm asking: what are you doing to guarantee HIPAA compliance? I.e., what's different about how you treat those accounts than the others and/or what steps are you taking to ensure compliance?
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I was being serious. Old-fashioned women who are happy to marry a richer, more capable man and do household duties do still exist, but they're much rarer than they used to be.

The fact that so many of you apparently thought the idea that your wife might cook for you is sexist kinda makes me wonder what the point of a modern marriage, from the point of view of a moderately-wealthy-to-rich man (who doesn't need his wife's income) would actually be.

And don't just say "love", there has to be something else. The man brings love and money to the table, what does the woman bring?
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If consumers don't realise the issues then they are non-issues. That is the way of the 21st century.
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cousin_it doesn't like the "sold directly". So, I'm asking about how he/she would like to do it indirectly, or how you would suppress reports of new theories from reaching the public until they are proven.

Whether you like the role the media play or not (and here it is definitely the scientific media), it is not a new phenomena. News == news.
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To me he smells more like a guy around whom a community just happened to form.
Wait…the guy who founded LegalZoom represented OJ Simpson? OK. Why is that relevant? Seems like the author didn't have any good arguments, so tossed in the OJ connection.
Why Steve Jobs?
I'm just starting to get into Ruby but I'm pretty confused about this project. It sounds really cool, but doesn't Ruby 1.9 already have a GC and compiles into byte code? Maybe 1.9 doesn't have a JIT but couldn't they add it?
Put the sentimental stuff into storage and look at it every month when your storage bill comes in the mail.
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Perhaps you can formalize in a light weight manner? E.g. just write down what kinds of training steps seem to work well, in which don't.
earlier post about Munger this week on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1331591
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But be prepared to die under the treads of a tank.
What secrets are hidden in your computer?
Oh, you mean "where is the interface to this implementation of the scrypt KDF?"

I thought you were asking where the function itself was defined -- which, as I said, is in the paper.
Steve Jobs invented digital typography thanks to a calligraphy class he briefly visited in the '70s. Without him, the only fonts in the world would be Terminal Monospace and Tasteless Serif.
Well, since you've been in China less than a year and you're finding out that it hampers your ability to run a business, why not state loud & clear to the government they'll be losing your business and move out?

It's not like you don't have options, as opposed to the majority of the Chinese population, for who moving out is not an option.
Interesting that he says: "Goldman has the best morality of any of the big banks".

Goldman have taken a lot of flak recently. Perhaps it because they were the survivor.
I just apply the label "sexist" in the meaning that its inventors intended :-) That doesn't mean I agree with them that sexist (or racist, or whatever) is always bad.

I'm single and don't want to marry yet, but I can see why people can still want to marry even if it doesn't mean acquiring a provider or a cook. The top reason I can think of is companionship. If you live alone, by default you spend every evening alone unless you expend effort. This might be hard for most people. Heck, it's hard for me, but being free to do stuff is more important to me than staving away loneliness.
I just checked into a flight using my iPhone
3 options :

1 - Playball
2 - Dodgeball
3 - Run ...
Perhaps I'm overly paranoid, but I think moving out first, then getting all uppity with gov't is probably a saner route.
XCode is free just like IE is free:
a free add-on on overpriced product.
It isn't ActiveX. ActiveX is basically OLE/COM components in the web browser and allows execution of arbitrary code. Code has full access to the Win32 API and full access to the system. Native Client on the other hand is sandboxed at the CPU instruction level.
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Well. You're obviously not chinese. It is not your role to play.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx / chromium dailt builds, clicking on buttons does nothing. Song length is always zero.
Actually I came here because my wife missed home, and the business isn't official(that is, isn't registered which because I'm not Chinese takes a lot of time and money and could very well be flat out rejected, have a read of some posts at China Law Blog http://www.chinalawblog.com/ , they cover the details).

Basically this is something I've just gone ahead and started, will work my ass off to make work, and if it does, and is worth while then I'll go official.
Unfortunately, IE8 doesn't do much better.
Ok. how about your own very private VPN to a machine abroad somehwere ?

I'm willing to host it for free for you if you play nice just to get you out of the bind you're in.

Mail me if you're game.
Good luck to him: hope it goes well
For 20USD/mo you can setup a VPS and create your own vpn service using openswan. Is 20USD/mo too much?
I think it's more than just surviving and coming out on top. They came out on top because they have an extremely short term focus: buy stuff, package it, flip it, move on. That's their business model and it allowed them to change direction when the crisis it. In contrast, companies with a focus on long term investments were crushed (e.g., WaMu).

This goes against the dogma that "those short sighted companies, aiming for profits in the next quarter, now look at them." Therefore, Goldman must have cheated.
You could say that this is actually beneficial for chinese startups, because without access to foreign alternatives chinese users are forced to use their services.
I don't think it's a coincidence if most segments of the chinese internet are dominated by a company from China, not the USA.

The other goal that the Chinese government is achieving, is that by pushing chinese users towards chinese companies, they make sure that they keep them under their thumb. It's much easier for them to take down a video from Youku than from Youtube.
Rent a VPS or dedicated server outside china and use an SSH proxy.

Linux: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/06/18/tunnel-web-and-dns-tr...
Windows: http://www.dotcomunderground.com/blogs/2008/12/11/putty-ssh-...
I've done the same except intercontinentally and with two suitcases.

I didn't feel liberated from my stuff, I just felt like I now had an inconveniently small amount of stuff and needed to buy all my stuff all over again.
How is that weird?

A semi-hidden API like this is a huge benefit to Microsoft itself, and a detriment to its competitors, or indeed, anyone who writes software that becomes a DLL in the next version of Windows.

If you write to a documented API (Win32, GINA, etc) your code is slower and possibly less capable than it could be.

If you write to the undocumented NT-native-API, you have to invest time and effort into understanding it, and risk having it change out from under you at the next rev.

Microsoft internally, and/or favored partners, get to use the faster, capable native API.

So, Windows developers have something of a dilemma to deal with, don't they?

Also, I'm given to understand they're callable as C functions.
He's posted below that his business is not registered, so there is nothing to get uppity about.

Also, after moving out there is not much to gain from the situation any more so any time you invest in to getting 'uppity' is wasted.

On another note, I wonder how much of the paranoia is really warranted and how much of it is based on media hype, I have two friends working in China and they're managing to get along with government officials well enough, so far, even when they're critical.

Does anybody from China have any experience with 'getting uppity' with Chinese officials as a foreigner doing business in China? As in "Hi, I need this to do my work, can you provide it or will I have to leave?" (which doesn't sound all that uppity to me anyway).

edit: by the way, funny the moderation in this thread is making me wonder how many people on HN have an irrational fear about all things Chinese. They can't all be moderating out of personal experience.
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Not only that, AOL didn't last long after that.
Move to Hong Kong?
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Right. Most people pay more taxes than they need to on purpose out of each pay check so they get a refund at the end of the year.

People who are so bad at savings that they want the government to hold their money are taking the contract.
Who (or what) would you suggest as an intermediary between the public and the scientists?

Other scientists. Promoting a scientific idea should only be okay if you have a complete technical understanding of it. I haven't yet seen any scientist blogger (never mind journalist) who actually completely understands Verlinde's ideas. So they should all shut up.
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But Munger and Buffett are all about the long term. Why would they then admire Goldman Sachs who you say are obsessed with short term?
The Tiananmen Square protests were in 1989, well before the rise of widespread internet usage, I wonder if given the speed with which information moves around these days if the government of China would risk a second confrontation in the public eye like that.

While the OP states clearly that the government is doing a lot to crack down on communication with foreign entities I can't help but think that communication inside China is still on average a lot faster today than it was in 1989.

Are mesh networks illegal in China?
If it takes 4 hour to get SSL working for a site with 5,000 users then linear growth to a site with 250,000,000 users is 50,000 hours. IMO, google can get SSL working in less than 50,000 hours.
The pastel green gradient doesn't work at all as the background color.
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This. I'm surprised that Android phones are not being pushed more aggresively in India. There's a pretty big demographic there that is willing to throw money at good smart phones and Apple is screwing the pooch with their comically high pricing. If companies can sell unlocked androids at decent prices they could capture a piece of a very significant mobile market that is currently owned by Nokia and Sony
Nah, they'll stop the tank and show their mercy to the international public, while an onslaught of protesting students is going on outside the view of the camera. Then you'll get taken away by a man on a bicycle and never heard from again.
You don't get "uppity" with Chinese officials. You either have a good connection to the government or you can do squat. Government ties is everything if you really want to get your business going.

The real problem is the international companies providing all this nifty IT tech to actually realize this 1984 path what is going on in China.
I have watched your video before, good job!
How long will China tolerate VPNs? While they are an essential tool for international business, they also completely defeat the firewall.
I always find it annoying that every news article about the recession and lack of jobs focuses on people with degrees in drama, or communications, or what have you. Aren't there articles that focus on what the job situation is like for those with engineering degrees? physics/chemistry degrees? CS?
The inet connection into mainland from that route is very slow.
Quite frankly I think you are nuts for voluntarily living in China. And trying to run a business off the books? The punishment for that is severe enough here in the US, I cannot imagine what it is there.

The only real solution to your problem is to move to a free country. Take it while you till have that option.

As far as technical solutions, how good are they at tracking down individual, private VPN sessions? Setup OpenVPN on a friend's server and don't advertise it.
Everybody on this site is always attacking stuff. I'd like to write in defence of stuff.

Stuff is awesome. Four years ago when I moved to the US I went from the situation of having an apartment full of stuff to having two suitcases full of stuff. I acquired an apartment where the old tenants were happy to leave behind a crummy couch and a mattress on the floor, did a quick run to Walmart to pick up a minimalist set of kitchenware and bedding, bought a bike to get around town, and I was pretty much in the supposedly-blessed state of having the mininal possible amount of stuff.

It wasn't that great. It was just limiting and depressing.

Four years of stuff-acquisition later I now have just about the right amount of stuff. Some stuff (like half the stuff in my kitchen) I seldom use, but it's there in case I need it. Other stuff is completely useless, but I like having it around because it looks nice. I own four frypans, which is probably at least twice as many as I need, but y'know what? Contrary to what you read in many of these articles, having the extra two frypans doesn't cause me any distress.

So while I'd never advocate anyone buying stuff just for the sake of buying stuff, nor buying stuff that they can't afford, I really don't see any problem with having some stuff, nor any great advantage to getting rid of stuff. Three cheers for stuff, and its nonzero ability to enhance your life!
For prodding Adobe into taking the stance that they're open.
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Yes, they're a real pain. I don't think it is as much that they don't realize it, they just see it as a way to make money. Take Cisco for example: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/
Expect everything going through the great firewall to be slow. Also I wonder if they will allow encrypted connections over a longer period at all if they already run a app firewall.
The welfare state is today's equivalent of the gold standard
I don't know that it damages their startups. If anything, they make me-too products that mimic those here for their own domestic market.
> There is a difference between "not liking" sports and not knowing anything about sports.

Yes, and that's even an argument in favour of explaining more. E.g. I like some sports, but I don't know anything about basketball. (It's just not a big sport where I come from.)
Absolutely. Braintree, NetBilling, FirstData, PayPal Standard, and more gateways are being added soon.
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Hello Hn'ers,

What hobbies do you have?

What do you do to wind down when you're afk?
Did you mean, "a definite, [quantitative] outcome"?
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ActiveMerchant is a payment/shipping library for Ruby. This is more of an independent billing engine that also gives an API for payment gateways but also handles customer records, automatic customizable emails for billing events (purchases, subscriptions, renewals, cancellations, etc.), handles auto-recurring billing across all gateways, and allows you to distribute API keys with separate API and control panel clients.
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Having a medical business card readily available for distribution makes communication between you and these parties much less complicated.
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You sound like an introvert to me. Introverts are more sensitive than other people, so it definitely can lead to sensory overload. For example, I believe that introverts are affected more by caffeine.

Also, listen to your friends, but take them with a grain of salt. The only person that can correctly judge your personality is you.
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> Quite frankly I think you are nuts for voluntarily living in China.

Why? Two of my friends are doing the exact same thing (only their businesses are registered) and they're doing just fine. One moved there from the Netherlands, the other from Hungary.

> And trying to run a business off the books? The punishment for that is severe enough here in the US, I cannot imagine what it is there.

Neither can I, but that's not the same as having information.

> The only real solution to your problem is to move to a free country.

His s.o. wants to be in China, that's a tough choice you're giving him there.

You mean a free country like the US perhaps:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-08/betonsports-ex-c...

> Take it while you till have that option.

Are you suggesting they will restrict his ability to travel? Jail him perhaps?
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True. It's not free and open-source. And, until Braintree's Credit Card Data Portability movement takes a foothold, it's impossible for OpenGateway to transfer CIM data to another payment gateway (though we'll be the first on that train when it comes).

However, the "open" part of this solution is, to me, that:

1) You choose which gateway you want to use based on its price, service, etc. - not because there's some free PHP class available for it or the API makes slightly more sense than the others.

2) You can run your own billing engine and open up the API, so to speak.

3) You aren't gaining billing engine power by giving up more transaction % fees or relying on a 3rd party service provider's closed system.
If by "special" you mean "different", you're correct.
Check out the following page for official information:

http://www.kmu.admin.ch/themen/00614/00715/index.html?lang=e...
Cisco, Nortel (now Avaya).

source: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4854

There may be others though.
If you're not outside your current contract, that's not really a very good option. If your plan has expired, aka, you're past your initial 2 years, that's fine.

Otherwise, you have people entering (comical) 20 year contracts, which would be (practically) unenforceable.
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Munger and Buffett are long-term investors. They have nothing against short-term positions, so long as those positions aren't confused with investments.
Sign up for a $20 slice at slice host, install squid, and configure a ssh tunnel to it. Tell your browser to use the tunneled proxy. Voilà.

Edit: just saw two others recommended this approach.
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Actually... the browser won't send a referer to a HTTP site if coming from HTTPS. From the RFC: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec15.html#sec15...

"Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol."

I wonder if Google will implement POST forms instead of GET to prevent caching of request-uri data by the browser as well as proper Cache-Control/Pragma/Expires headers to prevent caching of search results.
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Have you considered running your operating system in a paravirtualized environment instead of on the bare metal?
The problem is there were no samples in stores that people could play with.

And, if you got a lemon, you couldn't take it back and exchange it for a new model (you had to wait weeks while it was repaired by HTC (assuming N1 here)).

I really don't understand why people keep missing these two crucial points, which TRUMP ALL OTHERS.
Well, the idea was to build a community about anime and /b/ hit the fan so you are right.
At the same time, he had the vision to keep things running and let /b/ develop, something that very very few people would have done.
Yes. They just do long-term investments in relatively simple businesses, because that's what they do best.
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The chinese government don't care about VPN that target people with credit cards that can pay in US dollars because most local chinese won't have access to that and those that do are also likely to travel abroad and be exposed to all that information anyway...
> When Hitler was in his bunker before he shot himself, he said, "This isn't my fault. The German people just don't appreciate me enough."

Charlie Munger knows his history. I wouldn't have expected a knowledgeable quote about German history.
That's what I'm doing, it's not very slow (or at least I don't really feel the difference)...

I don't think they'll ever block encrypted connections because that would deal a major blow to the foreign companies working here.
This doesn't abuse AdSense to force anything, it's simply using doubleclick as a stats tracker to see who clicks. If you worship a brand please don't allow it to cause you to spread misinformation about its competitors on the internet.

I'm new to HN, is there no down-vote or report as inaccurate mechanism?
150 million page views a month works out to 57.9 pageviews a second. So the vast majority of those requests must be JS, CSS, and static image requests, although 98.5% seems a bit off?
I lived in China for years, I recommend this approach....
It's only fair to list my own I guess: renewable energy and restoring old cars (yes, terribly inconsistent!), music.
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>> Take it while you till have that option.
>Are you suggesting they will restrict his ability to travel? Jail him perhaps?

I think he meant to say, "while there are still free countries in this world".
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