skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ccr/blog/2009/04/post_17.html
"Saving the Economy with Starcraft"

>According to Lee, there are almost 20,000 PC Bangs in Korea and they collectively make about 120 billion wons (about 100 million US dollars) every month. Lee has also stated that “This is not the only source of economic influence achieved by gaming. There are three cable channels for starcraft leagues and tournaments, as well as thirteen other professional teams. These game broadcasts have potentials to be exported into other countries, just like how Korean dramas were actively exported throughout Asia during 2002-2006.”
Getting fit is as easy, on paper, as getting rich. Eat less, exercise more. Get a reasonably well paying job, save more, spend less. The problem is that this sort of advice is meaningless. It's not much better than giving someone instructions on how to fly a plane as "go up". Or, telling an alcoholic or drug addict to stop cold turkey. Maybe that works with robots, but it doesn't work on humans.

The real problems are the meta-problems. How do you develop good habits for eating right and exercising regularly? How do you keep motivation? How do you build up each one of the skills necessary to construct a self-sustaining lifestyle that supports your new goals? These are all incredibly difficult problems.

As difficult as teaching an alcoholic how to live straight. Or how to quit smoking. Or how to become a millionaire (just create a business providing a good or service people want, keep your spending low and your savings high, couldn't be simpler right?) Made all the more difficult by the people on one side who don't have the strength of character to do anything that's difficult, the people on the other side who insist it requires absolutely no effort whatsoever, and the people in the middle trying to take advantage of folks desperate for a quick fix by selling them snake oil of some form or another.
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What you need is something like this: http://www.paloalto.com/business_plan_software/

I've used it, and it's pretty good.

It will create the entire structure for you, so all you have to do is fill in the data. It might have sample business plans for a web based business, which you can edit to suit your objectives.
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It's a reference to intuitionism, a constructivist approach to math and logic. Because the law of the excluded middle is disallowed in intuitionist proofs, you can't show what the parent comment was annoyed about.
Here's a review of the nanonote:

http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/netbooks/296251:a-...
Is there any way to make this work on the Blackberry?
He is not saying it's invalid, he is saying it's old (and probably posted here a couple times before).
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Don't.

Write a technical spec and marketing goals/strategies. Any financial projections you make will be wrong.

The most important part of your plan will be a functional prototype
It's a series of articles on the topic, this is just the first.
This has been pitched as an idea in the past; I don't think it really took off then either.

One of the problems is that users have become accustomed to skipping over ads - they either miss the captcha entirely first go (not great) or get put off by having to engage in the ad (also not great).
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No, my second account is for something else (that started as a joke), It just proves to be a useful testbed for these things.

And they do provide methods of seeing what is available to friends (But that only works well if you have lists and stuff setup)
The Corporate Branding team will say that capitalizing PE in Pepsi is a violation of brand guidelines. Welcome to the Fortune 500.
This is absolutely the best advice i know of on losing fat.

Its quite straight forward - Eat less, work more, repeat. Sometimes you slip - Easter, friend's stag do, weekend in Vegas etc. - you start again.

This is not rocket science. I read all these links that have been posted here on HIIT, Tabata, 100-pushups, cross-fit and what not, they all read like everyone is pushing to be an elite athlete. May be some people are but i suspect the majority are where i am - get the basics right in the amount of time and effort you can spend on it and keep it simple.
Can I see your work somewhere? I've been wondering about crypto in javascript. I checked your profile for an email, but it doesn't show.
Windows 7 got pretty close to solving this problem.

Winkey+Num makes the n-th window on the taskbar active. Since you can modify the order of the taskbar icons, this solves the spatial memory vs. fast switching between two windows.

Winkey+1 for Firefox, Winkey+2 for Twitter, Winkey+3 for something else.

This combined with Alt+tab that cycles in the same taskbar order (as opposed to MRU) seems like the holy grail to me.

The problem is that this would break the existing expectations of Alt+tab, which is why I fear it won't happen.
Forcing people to write the ad contents is a pretty big step from passively displaying ads - by having to write it out you are forced to think about it on some level, rather than being able to ignore it if you choose. Its going to have some subconscious impact at the least - which I makes the whole idea ethically questionable to me. Mild brainwashing is brainwashing all the same...
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q. Please enter the drink you like best: (1) Pepsi (2) Coke

a. (2)

Wrong answer. Try again.
There's also a Romanian startup doing this http://www.adcaptcher.com/ and I'm sure there are a couple more.

The referenced article claims the startup in question is singular.
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Normally in Software there is two approaches a single software solution , or a best of breed. I.e. Office vs Lotus 123, word perfect, etc.. Or in the world of ERP having HR, Accounting, Planning software from different vendors. The interesting bit from this article is that is implying that cobbling bits together is a more reliable approach.

I have always been amazed in how the unix approach of cobbling bits together is often more reliable., than trying to write one large program.
More so, the internet became so popular that significant portions of the IP v4 address space was in use. This is important because it means that a very simple piece of worm code which merely probes random IP addresses attempting to infect other vulnerable machines will have a non-trivially high success rate. High enough in fact to be able to spread exponentially through the internet until nearly all vulnerable hosts have been infected over a matter of mere days.

This combination: massive vulnerabilities in popular operating systems due to a failure to take the risk of exploitation seriously; large numbers of computers operated by unsophisticated users directly on the internet (plugged directly into a cable or dsl modem, for example) with no firewall or NAT bridge protecting any of their services; and an address space full of vulnerable systems, led to a perfect storm for the spread of computer worms.
I didn't use to be. Then I had a problem and my bank took 2 months and almost 10 phone calls to fix it. Then I became a little paranoid.
I'd like to know if someone has pointers to a similar writeup but focussed on Europe rather than US. AFAIK neither Google Checkout nor Amazon Payments are available in Europe, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
The main flaw in this plan is the context in which Captcha's are generally used -- sign-up forms, comment forms etc.

They're part of a deliberate user action, not part of a general browsing behaviour.

People mid-stream in a sign-up form are very unlikely to follow an ad -- or if they do so, it might be at the cost of the primary activity.

I think it's for reasons similar to this that Facebook ads perform so poorly (apparently).
Except the Big Bang theory doesn't say there was a moment of time zero, the "moment of creation" before which there was nothing. This is a popular misconception about the BBT which is driven by our religious beliefs: there was nothing and then something caused something. BBT in its modern form approaches very dense and very hot moments of the Universe, but doesn't say anything about "creation".
From what I understood it's like this:

class Universe:
def __init__(self)
self.time = []
self.space = []

our_universe = Universe() # <== Big Bang
"Google wants carriers to be mere bit pipes, wireless ISPs and nothing more. They want to drive the price of smartphones to less than $100 in order to take the carrier out of the subsidy business and, as a result, loosen the carrier’s control over handsets."

I guess that explains why Google and Apple are on a collision course, Apple can't compete at the low end. Though interestingly Apple led the way for loosening carrier control over handsets with their take it or leave it attitude.
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I started this rant over at help a startup out, but had more to rant about so its on my blog now. Basically a real world response to Calcanis and Suster
I imagine the sign-up rate for those sites will decrease for lets say 80% because every AdBlock user will not be able to see the Captcha. But I don't really know how this would work...
Readability breaks pretty badly on pages with really large amounts of text, like HTML ebooks.

I moved to Readable now - http://readable-app.appspot.com/
You can take a look on Managing Gigabytes (http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Gigabytes-Compressing-Multime...)

It is nice book, but might be little bit outdated.
Wow, I never guessed that my simple proof achieved so much resonance!
You're right in the comments that the proof just shows the NP-hardness. I ommitted the other part of the proof, because it seemed obvious to me - as others already said, you just have to find a solution of the level by nondeterministically "guessing" and verifying it.
Of course, the game levels can get arbitrarily large. You have to assume this for any problem, otherwise there is only a finite (and therefore constant) number of configurations of the problem, and checking them can be done in constant time.
Btw., I also found a direct reduction from directed Hamiltonian cycle. The proof is a little bit more complicated, the idea is that you have to collect a key in each node, and that you can leave each node only once, i.e., leaving a node on one edge will block all other outgoing edges of the node. Another technical difficulty was to create crossing edges. If you are interested in the proof, I'll ask Holger to put the example level in his blog.
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The basic data structure behind most text databases and search engines is an inverted index.

Basically it's a map of words to a list of documents containing that word.

eg
{"hello": [1, 2], "world": [1,3,4], ...}

(the numbers are document id's)

So for example, the word 'hello' occurs in documents 1 and 2. 'world' occurs in documents 1,3 and 4.

Doing boolean queries is also really easy with an inverted index. You basically get the document set for each word and then do a union on the sets for an OR query.. or an intersection to do an AND query.

Pretty cool right?
> > So you don't really care about performance.

> Did I say that?

Yes, by saying that copy prone RAII is rarely an issue. Meaning, performance is rarely an issue. So, you rarely care about performance. That's fine: performance rarely matters, anyway. When it does, we can still locally optimize.

> > And on all other fronts, C++ really sucks.

> Stating a claim is no defense of it.

You're right. This is: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ The writing is quite fun, and the whole thing is actually informative. To sum up, the guy says that for a new project with few dependencies, C++ is almost never the best choice. Meaning, (almost) no niche is best filled by C++. Each one is better served with another language.

> Your original point, which I've now quoted twice, was that C++ is inappropriate because many programs don't need to deal with low-level details like memory management. My counterclaim, which you have yet to refute, is that C++ is no obstacle to that end.

You're right (again). I can't refute that point. Now my point is, that doesn't make C++ appropriate. See, when you don't need to do low-level stuff, many programming languages are vastly simpler, safer, more terse, and more flexible than C++. All at the same time. And you can learn them in no time (you were able to learn C++, after all). So, in that case, C++ isn't the best option. Why bother with it?

But still, I wonder how a significant project could avoid to implement some sort of data structure itself (which would mean worry about memory). Do you have any example?

> The vast majority of people who blame C++'s design choices don't understand them. Have you read Stroustrup's D&E?

I didn't. As I understand it, Stroustrup had some goals, and C++ achieved them. One such goal was to bring Object Orientation to C programmers (the "masses"). So I won't say that C++ didn't achieve it's purposes. It did. I just say those purposes weren't worth the behemoth that C++ is.

Object Orientation for instance, is a mistake. As seen by C++ (and Java), OO encourages high coupling and side effects more than is healthy. And that's before you need to apply one of the baroque design patterns from the GoF book.
Good, now you just need to consistently remind yourself long enough that sitting properly (with an "S curve") becomes a natural habit.
I should have said "or vice versa".

JKR is better than Umberto Eco in some ways. You don't have to think much (you just know that most of the twists at the end will be some sucker-punch magical tricks that you never even heard of), and her early stuff was like Roald Dahl. I wouldn't read Harry Potter and The Name of the Pendulum unless I had a lot of time on my hands.
I think he's applying lean development principles too broadly. You don't need to find a unique niche for exercise, you simply need to find one of the many solid workout/dietary plans that are already out there and faithfully apply it.
You can't do a EU-wide guide easily, because you will need a merchant account at a bank in your country (and you typically can't use one from another country), and you will need a processor that can work with that bank (which will typically be a processor from the same country) and finally a provider that can work with that processor, again, mostly country-bound.

If you're in Denmark I can recommend http://epay.dk as a provider, their SSL relay solution + some AJAX allows you to make really nice payment interfaces that are completely branded and integrated, without the hassle of PCI compliance for your site.

(As processor we use http://pbs.dk, because, well, there's noone else really.)

If you're in Denmark for instance,
You could also check out Ion. The development has stopped and the webpages pulled, but there seems to be two forks (notion and anion3) that are in progress.
The Paris one was done a lot better, imho.
Thanks for the pointers, I should have mentioned that I'm in France so it looks like they're not available to me.
The uncertainty is enough for them to "pull the plug" for all practical purposes simply by dragging people into court. If SCO were able to keep IBM and Novell fighting them in court for 7 years on the basis of ridiculous unfounded claims, then how long do you think a well funded company like Microsoft can keep third parties spending money defending themselves for?
"Naming" colours is really a lot harder than it sounds. As the differences between colours become less significant, it gets really difficult.

As an interesting follow-up - this is a 'Munsell Hue Test', the aim is to order the colours by hue:
http://spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk
Has Calacanis ever written .. anything that didn't mention that he's wealthy enough to drive a Tesla?
Two consecutive internships looks no worse or better than two different internships.

Now, two different internships might give you completely different experiences, or depth as you return to the same project as before if you go back to the same place. But those things are both valuable in and of their own.

In short. Enjoy EA. Don't worry.
Is the Android-powered Aigo an iPad killer?
Honestly, the logic and proofs of CS isn't a big deal on the proof side. However the big O issues and sorting are a big deal.

If you get into languages, the language part of the proofs are important, but only insomuch as recognizing/identifying if something can be parsed with an X or Y or Z.
Wow didn't know about Heroku plugins. Thanks for the link!
This is not optimizing django.

This is use django-compress to bundle your js and css to have fewer HTTP requests and use HTTP expire headers for longer client-side caching.
I'm a British citizen and living in the UK.

I've met many people through the university in the city where I live, so they come from a diverse range of backgrounds. I have noticed no common racial or nationality elements in those who have mentioned having a worse time with airport security.
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Go for it. I once used flot for a small project, and it was a pleasure to work with: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ . Thanks to excanvas, flot works fine with IE6: http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
Does this mean that a police raid was a way of getting back at them for paying the money, and for mocking Apple and the engineer? Now that would be worrying.
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The convention of calling this the "inverted" index never ceases to trip me up whenever I see it, since when it comes to IR, I always think of a normal index as being a word->locations mapping, like the index in the back of a book.
Well, I know it's been 27 days, but you should be able to bundle everything using py2exe. (http://www.py2exe.org/)
I see your point, but I think that the article does give an answer to those problems, too.

The solution is to incorporate changes slowly. A lot of people start extremely motivated, start exercising, eating healthy, taking fish oil, take the stars, etc., but they can't make it through two full weeks and are back to their old bad habits. So the idea is to start simple and add on this from time to time.
The book by Manning (freely available online) has already been recommended. I would start with this.

In addition there are a wealth of online video lectures that may inspire you:
http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-sc...
and
http://videolectures.net/mlss04_hofmann_irtm/
and
http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/

In so far as search engines go it's certainly worth playing around with Lucene. It's well implemented and you'll learn a lot of what really matters when it comes to indexing and retrieval.

For the text processing (classification, data extraction) side It may also be worth brushing up on your stats (a good excuse to learn R) and checking out Mahout http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/
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Could be handy with Google App Engine. Other than that, doesn't seem extraordinarily "optimizing"
This really doesn't work so well with ClickToFlash installed. I couldn't watch any of the movies on the demo player by clicking on any of the play buttons. They seem to be (I assume) hiding the video behind a poster image and trying to start the video playing before they remove the poster. With ClickToFlash as I never see the flash player to click I just get stuck looking at the poster frame.

Also the name, OSM, is very similar to Adobes "open" player framework, OSMF, http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/. That could get confusing.

Other than that nice idea.
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> Now I can develop for Firefox, and know it is going to work in Safari, Opera, Chrome, etc...

Not in my experience; there are all sorts of nooks and crannies that catch you out between those browsers (not that IE isn't worse of course :))
Does anyone have links for this?
This is what the author is saying: authentic isn't binary
Working twice at the same position and team indicates that someone thought you where good enough to be worth inviting back. Personally I wouldn't see that as a bad thing.
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Perhaps those of us who object to the security theatre do shout louder than most. So far, the visitor stats for the US show a dramatic reduction in US tourism post-9/11, but over time the level has returned to what it was before or a little higher. It's impossible to say from those figures alone whether it would have been higher still except for the people deterred by the kinds of measures we've been talking about.

Then again, a recent survey that hit a lot of the tabloids over here in the UK predicted that about 90% of our people would still fly despite airport body scanners. We're still in the fear stage with that one, and of course most people haven't experienced it yet and there haven't been too many high profile stories of abuse so far. Also, some people prefer the virtual strip search to the alternative of a physical search, so given the choice they would rather take the scanner. The wording of that survey was interesting, though, as it did seem to imply that around 10% of our population would simply refuse a body scan or avoid making arrangements where they might be required to have one. It was also interesting that in other countries, a much higher proportion of the population objected, in some cases a heavy majority. Of course, for now there are still alternative flights from the UK to many destinations that don't involve using airports like Heathrow where the scanners are, so those who object can mostly just avoid the scanners and go from elsewhere. It remains to be seen what the effect would be if the scanners became compulsory at all airports.
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Proper links: Data Portability[1], New to payments[2] and Use this checklist[3].

[1] http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/data-portabili...

[2] http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/new-to-pay...

[3] http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/dont-get-duped...
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iPad killer? I'm going to go with "No chance".

Choppy graphics, unresponsive touch screen, too many ports, too small a resolution. So from a technical perspective it's not very attractive. Speaking of attractive, the device is pretty ugly and the swivel flaps look flimsy.

(And can people please stop saying "HD video playback" and "1080p HD compatible" on a screen that isn't even 500 pixels high!)

Maybe this device will appeal to a some geeks, I dunno. Either way, there's no chance it will have mass consumer appeal. So: linkbait title.
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