skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a horrible analogy. Fast food and drugs have very little relation. For example, prohibition of drugs has made them more concentrated and far more dangerous to ones health, the concept of a concentrated hamburger flies against the pillars of "super size".

The fact of the matter is most of the natural drugs, in their natural state are relatively benign to your health or at least no worse that tobacco or alcohol. Pot, is on par with tobbacco with a potential for lung cancer but far less addictive. Opium is pretty freaking hard to OD on, and other than some constipation has no long term health ramifications. Coca (raw coke) is about as bad for your heart as nicotine or caffeine.

The analogy does not work, because fast food is actually worse for you than unrefined drugs.
People play the lottery for the same reason. The point (don't waste your time) still stands.
Good to know. I was just about to ask if it was any good.

Thanks.
The only thing that bothers me about the all notebook route ( and trust me, I'd really like to do this) is that their disk drives are still butt-slow. I do a huge amount of creating and modifying virtual machines for deploy. The copy/clone operation that takes my disk array of cheap desktop sata drives 5 minutes to do takes my macbook pro nearly half an hour. All the cores and ram helps too. Those who work with large video, audio and graphics files probable have similar experiences.

Lets just say that there will be less reasons to have a big, boxy computer on one's desk...
What are the tax consequences?
Disable Autorun
cool! but still no hardware acceleration for OpenCL it looks like.
Build Communities not Apps Contests
If you're talking about live chat support via your website, where your secretary could be running a chat program in the background, a YC company that has a good product is http://www.olark.com/
"If you're that worried about the money part of it, sign a pre-nup, even if you don't have anything."

That's exactly what Elon Musk tried. Of course, after the pre-nup you have to sign a post-nup confirming the pre-nup, and that's how this whole mess started.
One of the other reasons they'll win is they respect their customers.

I installed the B&N app on my iPad. First it came with a lot of samples I didn't want (Sarah Palin, really) and the only way I found to delete them from the device was buried in my account options on the B&N web site.

More over while I've had an amazon account for years I've never had a B&N account. I signed up and bought a book, only it wouldn't buy it just gave me an error repeatedly, and then sent me an email saying I had cancelled my purchase.

I just opened the Kindle store and bought it on there instead.
Indeed the proposal is not UI simplification since you reduce the action of pressing one of two buttons with the action of pressing one button and then read direction for each elevator which stops after your pressed the button.

Having people make choices based on information they have to read should be avoided when possible.
Did you even read the entire post?
Why does the author assume normal distribution (bell curve) for apps' revenues?

He doesn't. He tries to estimate the median precisely because he doesn't actually know the distribution although in several places he specifically mentions that it's likely not 'normal'. He's going for the median because it's more informative than the average, given the uncertainty about the distribution. It's a little moot, anyway, since the average figures are pretty lousy and given the most likely distribution, the median just makes it worse.
It probably depends on your research field. In my main field (part of optics), articles must usually be sent in a specified format. If accepted, the final version is prepared by the authors and published as-is. Journals provide templates, usually for Word and/or LaTeX. Examples: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/submit/templates/ http://spie.org/x5258.xml

I would at least expect the text to be justified, and no 3D graphs (I'm talking about the general format, not strictly typesetting). Also, an IP address with a long query string isn't a very good reference.
For extremely simple situations (one owner, or multiple owners who are all equal in what they own) a person can do the work. Nolo books are good. There are others.

The real question is "Do you need a corporation?" There are other entity types. This question has legal and tax implications.

Then the next real question - if three grand is real money (and in my world three grand buys a lot of food!) have you considered the time and financial cost of ownership of your corporation? For a one person corporation figure $3k per year minimum. I am such a corporation (in a figure of speech) and imagine getting a $4k bill for a tax return from your CPA. Anyway, you get the point. It ain't the cost of the obstetrician to deliver your baby. It is the care and feeding when you get home.

Finally. You are starting a business. If you are seeking outside investor or you plan to exit by selling out, don't do amateur hour stuff that will cause these outsiders to question your judgment.

Yes you can do it. Yes you can do it competently. It will never be cheap. Yes it is necessary to form a company if you are serious about doing business. Just do it right.

@philiphodgen
Good one, doing that now. Other suggestions? Is M$ security essentials enough?
At Google, You're Old and Gray at 40
Have you considered Monocle?
I'm currently back in school summer and there is no space left in the library, even on weekends in the summer. This isn't universally true of course, but neither is what is asserted in this paper. It seems part of a larger trend of baby-boomers discovering the joy of complaining about kids these days.
Together with part 1 (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/18/the-beauty-of-typ...), quite an informative summary of different writing systems. I find different scripts fascinating, and know little about most, so this is a nice entry point to learn more.
Did you see this post? http://moschus.livejournal.com/141570.html

As we discussed around here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405512) her blogging seems to stink of narcissism and entitlement.
I am German and have lived in England and in neither country I have seen a lot of enthusiasm for video refs or more severe penalties. Generally, people enjoy the unpredictability of the game.
Hmmm... In 1843 Ada Lovelace wrote a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's Analytical Engine, and is generally considered to be the first computer program. Having said that the early 19th century Jacquard looms used punch cards for pattern instructions. Hollerith expanded on this with his 1890 census.

Zuse's language was never implemented in his lifetime. You could argue the same about Lovelace's algorithm, but not about Turing machines.

Zuse certainly developed the first programmable computer (albeit an electromechanical one, the first digital one was the UK Colossus a year later) and it's certainly an amazing achievement, but not the first programming languages.
"former Nokia executive"
[number froth]
"What I have been telling my readers and followers and this blog and in my books, that the real money is in true mass market services like SMS, MMS and WAP. That is where the REAL money is."

This guy makes a strong case for skating to where the puck used to be.
I don't understand why this is anyone's concern aside from the company's.

If they squander money on the CEO's salary and fail because of it, that is their onus. If they succeed, then why should we intervene?
In fairness this represents him as a Nazi sympathiser etc. Which is somewhat unfair given his contribution:

IIRC he built computers to help guide the bombs, it's questionable where that becomes collaboration. From what I know, and from a quick refresh just now, there is nothing to suggest he was an out and out Nazi (or held any of their views).

(I think it is absolutely important to point out what you did; but I feel how you phrased it does him a little injustice :))
That's not how token ring works. In a token ring a single token circulates and is captured by a node wishing to transmit. That node then transmits its frame. When the transmitted frame is received back by the transmitter (it has gone full circle around the ring), the token is released and continues circulating.
JSConf Live Ep. 2: Brian LeRoux and the Mobile Web
I highly recommend MalwareBytes Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

The free version is really good, but it's also worth the $25 investment for the real-time protection of the full version.
"This software, "Flash", is distributed to individuals for personal
non-commercial use and to non-profit entities for non-commercial
purposes only. It is licensed on a non-exclusive basis, free of
charge for these uses. All parties interested in any other use of the
software should contact the Rice University Office of Technology
Transfer...."
I think his entire "Priority 2: TRY" makes it quite clear that he has other platforms than iOS in mind. :)
Wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

It terms it the first high level non-von Neumann programming language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
Who's overreacting? I think my reaction was very proportional.

Humor doesn't always translate well to text, so I simply wanted a clarification. It's bad manner to accuse someone of being a coke-head in public without any clear indication that it's a joke, whoever that person is (you, me, Elon Musk).

We can think all we want that nobody should care, but we have to live with the world as it is (until we can change it, anyway), and there are many evo. psych. reasons why people care about that kind of stuff.
In other words, M$ security essentials isn't enough protection?
no you pay 15.3% more taxes on your salary. This is you a portion of your taxes that your employee and now you will be responsible for. As well, never do business under your own personal liability, while software is low risk, if you get into a litigious contract dispute you could loose everything. You want to limit your liability and you want to form a S-Corp. Go to an accountant or attorney, not doing this correctly could be a costly mistake, if you truly can't afford one then educate yourself and file online for $50 bucks or whatever they charge now.
"People who get degrees in computer science like to think of computers as “Turing machines.” I suspect this is because it is easier to prove theorems about Turing machines than Von Neumann machines. That’s fine by me, though I will note in passing that I have never read a proof (or anything like a proof) that VN machines like you write code on are computationally equivalent to Turing machines. Someone smart please point me to the proof if it exists."

This trivial proof is usually left as an exercise sometime in the first couple weeks of an undergrad theory of computation course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

This quote rhetorically implies that the author is deeply versed in computer theory, and has made a penetrating breakthrough that undercuts its entire edifice. In reality, he's "not aware" of such a proof because he is aware of very close to zero proofs in computer theory. It makes me reticent to bother engaging with the remainder of the article, which contains assertions in fields I'm less capable of evaluating skeptically.
I work 7am-4pm (which means 5am-6pm if you count commute time), and though there is plenty of time to work on my own projects in the evenings, I find myself mentally drained most days, so what takes me an hour to do at work takes 2 or 3 at home in the evening. Weekends are more productive.
I haven't read the linked paper, but if it's conclusion is correct and students are spending less time studying, then all I can say is "good for them"!

Honestly, it seems like kids are expected to work flat out in school these days, killing themselves to get top grades and doing as much extra curricular stuff as they can schedule. It's as if taking a larger course load and burning out is a badge of honour.

If I went back to school now I would take a light course load in order to better spend my time on my own projects. I wouldn't worry too much about my grades as long as they were "good enough" and I would just try to enjoy myself and keep it fun.
He was a German during the war. There's a difference. I think you're thinking of people like Henry Ford and Thomas Watson (founder of IBM).
And starting at 7am. That's nine hours out of the day. Even if you're not 100% busy during that stretch, you're still not free to let your mind wander and do the things that matter to you. You're mentally occupied.
No, I am well aware of how bad treatment can be. I am just not willing to go quietly unless it is a problem with the brain. If it is mental impairment then I am already gone.
I've always wondered what kinds of data services are available for getting listings of games, teams, players and if any of them are open source.

Anyone know where the data for a service like this comes from?
>First, adaptations, tracings, and parodies are almost certainly fair use.

Parody can be fair use (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html; caution annoying interstitial) and protected internationally I gather but is not always. The original costume probably could pass as a parody (or be deemed personal use) and so be fair use whilst this comic-book image doesn't look parodical it's just a commercially used derivative in a different media.

Adaptations of other's work (that use a "substantial part") are not allowed without permission of the original creator.

Tracings? You think it's OK to duplicate someone else's copyright work as long as you trace it? That's almost the definition of a slavish copy - like considering copy-pasting the binary presentation of an MP3 to circumvent the creators rights.

Marvel are presumably distributing this internationally? Remember that fair use is a lot narrower in some non-USA jurisdictions.

Lastly, is the owner of the convention photo copyright sure that this is a copy of his image. Presumably others could have taken pictures of this guy at the same time?
I agree with you. Node.js is a practical in cases where your app is mostly glue between some client and some other service. CPU intensive apps can be offloaded to other processes (not the Erlang kind) making the driver glue again. So, yes, it works.
It's not a line-item veto. That wiki page mentions it has not become law. As far as I can tell, the bill is in committee. Both the House and Senate have to vote on the exact same bill. But both houses like to make their own changes. So each pass their own version of the bill, then meet in committee to come up with a version they both agree on, this new one goes back to both houses and they pass it. What I suspect is being claimed is that it says "shareholders" in both the House and Senate versions that already passed, and the White House is asking the committee to change that to "shareholder", otherwise Obama will veto it.

Edit: This article contains a barely legible image describing the process: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/03/89797/heres-how-reconc...
Research Paper Cover Page describes the Attitude Towards Your Research 
Although the research paper cover page is the last item done in the research paper writing process, great care should go into its production. As it is the first impression of your research paper you need to ensure that it is well formatted, with legible titles, names and other elements which go into the cover page.
without mentioning what these fixes are.

I've discuses them elsewhere. The main ones:

- setting limits on player wages
- harsher penalties for cheating or foul play via post-match review
- faster review of matches

These address the same issue without materially affecting the game.

What does america have to do with it?

TV replays is a very US influenced idea. It seems fair to term it that way,

And everybody I know agrees that TV replays for judging fouls is good. So, your appeal to "we" is a non-argument at best.

ahem :) see below:

You are dropping all reasoning and you are just saying "we like it this way, no thanks.".

maybe it would be even better with replays.

I already laid out in quite some detail why I feel replays would interrupt game play and generally make the game less fun to watch overall.
Ask HN: recommend a logic book
My supervisor asked me to get a good introductory logic book for computer science. Need to grasp a solid understanding of propositional and predicate logic. Any recommendations? Thanks very much!

(Preferably available in PDF or other non-dead-tree formats.)
Radar reveals huge underground metropolis, an ancient city
Does anyone know of any paternosters in the U.S. or Canada? My new life goal is to ride one, and it'd be swell if I didn't have to go far to do it...
We all (OK, maybe just me) agree that the free market is the way to go, competition, prosperity, etc.

But the free market is an ideal which is easy to game. CEOs hand picking the board, and the board then turning around and deciding on the CEOs compensation is an example of the free market being gamed.

It's a bit more complicated then that, it requires the government enforced and defined legal entity that is a corporation, but it's still market inefficiency, mostly agency risk.

So in a way, it is the public's concern to remove market inefficiencies.
A short Rob Pike interview on Go.
Right. What looks like iron clad will over the course of a year is nothing more than the will to go one more day, every day.

I've lost close to 90 pounds over the last year. Honestly, I didn't expect to be this successful. I thought that after a few months, I'd lose the motivation. But every day I tell myself, "Forget yesterday. Forget tomorrow. Get through today, that's your goal."

Now some days, I didn't get through. But the next day, I'd begin all over as if it never happened. If you don't worry about willpower lapses, you will find it easier to get back to it. 100% willpower is an illusion created by having over 50% willpower along a great enough timeline.
I think the point is that Google has deep enough pockets to defend against the also-deep pockets of the music distributors. Lawsuits aren't won by deep pockets, but it often takes deep pockets to defend, and lack of defense is the same as losing.
Jailbreak iOS 4 for iPhone 2/3G (more to follow)
Downloaded and scanning now.

One of the problems is that my backup drives (pics and stuff) are obviously old, have been around the world (literally), and who knows what old malware may be lurking on there.
I use both VLC and MPC-HC on my machines. On the lower end computers I've noticed a large performance difference between the two: MPC-HC can crank out 720P on my 5year old laptops without hiccup, but VLC stutters all over the place.

I've heard some recommendations on how to configure VLC to be more responsive, but the fact remains MPC-HC performs better "out-of-the-box" than VLC.

I still keep VLC around for anything MPC-HC has trouble playing, however, as VLC truly does play just about anything if it is playable at all.
Regarding the use of Java, the language is dying. Maybe the languages developer base, and supporters refuse to believe it, but on the commercial end most of the major Java supporting software shops have wound down or died. Even sun is closing up development. So, if you are developing actively in Java you run the very real risk of developing a ton of unmaintainable code.

It's like the quiet little joke the industry refuses to address. Erstwhile, Google is now the only people doing any legitimate active development on a new vm... and even they aren't chaining themselves to Java.

So I ask you, do you really want your software written in a dying language? I wouldn't. Java apps were hard enough to support when the many and myriad vms were being actively worked on. I can't imagine the pain that will be brought down upon adopters now. =/
A small plea from this humble user, if you include a Twitter link: I love that you let me follow your prospective and released updates using Twitter rather than the slew of RSS feeds and newsletters for a plethora of other apps I also use, but I will unfollow the profile in a heartbeat if I see three tweets from your company every day - particularly if they are retweeted testimonials; God dammit I hate them.

At the very least, find out what and who your Twitter profile is for and don't fit all the things Twitter can be used for into that one account; you can always divvy yourselves up into multiple profiles.
Science Fiction: Nokia goes Android
Also welcome: any other suggestions for customizing a new Win7 install.

So far I'm very pleased, the desktop is superfast, 6Gigs of ram, much faster than any laptop I've had and only 600$. I do want to avoid it slowing down over time, and definitely want to avoid it getting infected with malware. I live in Colombia and a lot of CDs etc. here are full of viruses.
Five Tactics for Changing My Mind and Yours
I browsed the site instead of using the search just now. It's possible that many of the torrents I've never heard of are independent artists in the public domain (or released CC, whatever), but almost all files in all categories were illegally distributed content. The exception was the "Applications > Unix" category.

It's a site that calls itself "The Pirate Bay." They don't have much of a defense in the way of legitimate (legal) use cases, but I strongly disagree with legislating results out of a general-purpose search engine.

I honestly do not see this going anywhere. As much as I disagree with almost everything the DMCA stands for, safe harbor provisions were included for exactly this reason.
Ask HN - Rate my startup: Struc.to
http://struc.to

After working for a few startups and a few years as a freelance web developer, I noticed that I was repeating many of the same tasks all the time.

So I'm building a cloud service where you can define your full data schema, and get a full embeddable form/REST API. We handle the boring business logic.

I'm going to have the developer-ready beta in the next couple weeks, but the idea + landing page alone is starting to receive some traction. Would love to hear your thoughts!
They used the whole work, a photo.

He's not only using an excerpt of substantially reduced quality but also reporting and/or critiquing the work. Lastly the work he's critiquing is in part a derivative of his own work and so the presentation of at least that derivative [half-page] image could not be a copyright infringement IMO unless he'd licensed away the right to duplicate it (this would not be true if it was transformative).
Have a look at Apache Hama which allows Pregel like computation over Hadoop cluster.
http://incubator.apache.org/hama/

Alternatively you can have a look at my still in production python multiprocessing based code to simulate Pregel .
http://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/Community-Detection-using--Pre...
... he could have Asperger's ??
Yeah, but he doesn't take into account the fact that 73% of apps do not get 73% of the downloads.
But it's not.

If the company can succeed with the inefficiency, then it's not that big an inefficiency.

It's a much more difficult argument to say that it is the public's concern to eliminate every inefficiency. God, imagine the employment opportunities for fixing poorly designed enterprise software... But no one is arguing that we do that. It is so easy to agree to not let an individual get rich from an inefficiency.

This is not to say I don't agree that it's a terrible, idiotic practice. But it's not my decision to step in.
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Developers can register for an invitation to the SkypeKit Beta Program beginning on July 23.

http://developer.skype.com/public/skypekit