skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing that football(soccer) needs is another official to use technology such as a replay camera to overrule the officials on the field, on obviously large mistakes that any ref could make.

This way events such as the first goal in the mexico game should not happen. (in case you missed it, Argentina scored making it 1-0 however a player was clearly off sides and the goal should not have counted. They showed the replay over and over to the viewers, But the officials stuck with their call and counted the illegal goal. This really took a toll on Mexico's moral. )
What does it do? Put up a tag line or a quick explanation on the home page.
I once worked in the information security group at a large insurance company, and they prohibited their employees from using, e.g., AltaVista Babelfish, lest they mistakenly release confidential information via the translation tool. Instead, they wanted employees to use a local desktop-based translation tool.

For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it at all" is very secure indeed, and in some arenas, the inconvenience may be worth it.
Is the resolution of most cell-phone cameras good enough for this?

I frequently use my phone to take pictures of stuff I would normally just write down (error message after a kernel panic, asset tag, where I parked my car, etc. etc.), but for things the size of a receipt, I can't read it...

What phone were you using?
> I'm talking about one, and you are talking about the other. I'm discussing the point raised in the original submission. You aren't, except insofar as they are not entirely unrelated, as I remark above.

He is not responding to your comment. He is responding to edanm, who is discussing exactly what jpd is discussing.
If I owe you a hundred dollars, I can say outright that I'm not going to pay you back or I can wait until that $100 is worth so little that it can't even buy a pack of gum at the store. The end result for the lender is pretty much the same -- the only thing that differs is the timeline.
The Keynesian prescription is fatuous because, with rare exceptions, politicians never are willing to stop the flow of goodies that get them elected (tax and borrow, spend, elect).

Sure, in theory, it might work to smooth out the normal business cycle (although I have serious doubts about its applicability to catastrophes, e.g. pushing on a string), but in normal circumstances it's a recipe for ever increasing sovereign government debt in the hands of mortal humans.
Yeah, the Mozilla test is Dromaeo (although you can use the Dromaeo test page to run Dromaeo+SunSpider+V8).

http://dromaeo.com/
Inflation doesn’t have to reach triple or even double digits to have an effect on a country’s debt burden. If a country owes a big pile of money at 4%, and inflation goes up to 2%, and the nominal GDP grows at 5%, then the overall debt-to-GDP ratio will decline.
I have the hardest time conveying to some clients that legal documents are more like code than prose. I'll try the analogy of a DSL with my dev clients. Thanks.
Anyone having DNS troubles with this domain?
I’m not saying I don’t believe you (laws like this are famous for accidental side effects), but I’m having a hard time understanding how a law targeted towards business management executives regarding financial accounting can impact labor level productivity. Care to elaborate?
I'm arguing that non-intervention might be good; that perhaps interfering with other countries might not be a good idea. Now I'm all for humanitarian assistance, and helping people fleeing countries that are war torn. In fact, I think when their is serious strife the US should do it's best help people relocate to the US -- e.g. instead of letting people get slaughtered in Rwanda we should have helped evacuate them to the US.

I think that it is far from given that the US should be the world police, or that anyone should be the world police.
Thanks for the response Toni!

Working on all these items - asap!
You're assuming the US government can just simply print money. It can't: the Reserve and the Treasury are two different entities. While I might agree that default and inflation both have costs, with inflation perhaps costing more, you're ignoring the time value of money and elasticity of supply/demand. You better believe default on loans by the US gov't would cause panic and economic stagnation.

The purpose of this whole economic and central banking system is to smooth out the economic peaks and valleys, not to be perfectly efficient and/or "morally" correct. It's far more important that people continue to have food on their tables than the economy and government operate at peak efficiency.
> I really appreciate how he's always searching for things that went/go/will go wrong even thought everything seems to go so well for Pixar.

Of course, the fact that things are going fairly well makes it easier for him to find and focus on things that aren't going well.

It's a virtuous circle wrt technical debt. The less you have, the more effort that you can apply to each bit that you do have. And, if things are going well, the less that you spend in total on reducing your technical debt.
> But it doesn't really matter what the method is that makes soccer so unpredictable.

Of course it does. I suggest we flip a coin and decide the match based on the outcome.
You are missing the point here. The real point is ownership of data. who owns it? Cloud has its uses. But for personal data you better of keeping it in your control. It is not that difficult.
For someone who made statements like this:

"Spending money on education is all well and good, but what about the dead GIs that we can't bring back to life? How many Einsteins, Teslas, and Neumanns die in that war anyway? We probably lost some of them in that war."

and

"Heard of the broken window fallacy?"

it's a bit too much to read this latest statement from you. A number of your statements on WWII were not relevant to my comments. You also made a number of unsubstantiated assertions. Also, the third sentence in my previous remark addresses your present question.

I believe a review of logical fallacies would be beneficial to you.
People who suck at satire shouldn't be allowed to title things "A Modest Proposal".
Thank you, that's the one.
Court Strikes Down Part of Sarbanes-Oxley
I routinely use my iphone 3gs to take photos of things like that; my glasses and contact prescriptions live in my phone as images, I'm not even certain where the originals are now.

I'm guessing that anything that's come out around the same time would do fine in good lighting.
For a minimalist survival kit, you'd just include a little bit of twine, probably wrapped around something else, like a couple of cyalume sticks. Alternative: dental floss.

The main purpose for the twine is as a night-time rescue signal. Put the cyalume stick on the end of a piece of twine. Twirl it in a circle. If your twine is long enough, what you have is a perfect glowing circle about 8 feet wide. This will be highly visible for many miles to aircraft or to search parties at an elevation. It is also an unambiguously artificial signal.
Ask HN: Best resources for trading noobs
I've always wanted to do a bit of trading, but feel like I lack knowledge in a bunch of areas. Since there's a ton of you guys who are quite versed in trading of stocks and options, so I'm wondering if you could list good starting points for people who like me are interested in getting started on the stock market. Papers, books, webpages are all okay.

I'm an avid reader and and want to dedicate a bit of time to economics and markets in particular. Help! Thanks guys.
The Entrepreneurs (Graphic novel)
> Then tell him your new hourly rate for consulting. Make it a good one.

Note: search around here for tips on choosing a good rate. And then factor in your history with them.
You're right that the point of the cloud computing conversation should be ownership of data.

However, the point of this article is little more than "Use Tonido."
The demonstration of how to derive the circle area formula was the clincher, especially because of how similar that derivation is to other famous classical physics formulae. That was the only example I could previously conceive for why pi was still useful, but now I see that the factor of 1/2 in A = (1/2)τr² shouldn't be avoided.
The chinese have balls when it comes to hacking, but not that much balls. If, and it would be, the bricking was traced back to the Chinese there would be a major international shitstorm about the Chinese "Declaring war on open technology, and American consumer electronics."
The core argument amounts to:

-- quote --

"The core of the problem has not been self-discipline or a lack of opportunity," Karelis says. "My argument is that the cause of poverty has been poverty."

-- end quote --

Being Indian, I have spent a lot of time observing and thinking about poverty from childhood, and in recent years, doing something about it. I believe he has hit the nail on the head with his analysis of the problem, yet I completely disagree with his solution, which is negative income tax i.e direct government cash to the poor.

Here is where I believe he is right. Poverty is a "phase transition" effect: there is a point of being too-poor below which you lose all motivation to better yourself, not only because there are too many problems but also because those problems are all interlinked, so solving just one feels utterly pointless. Spend time in any very poor neighborhood and you will see this. That poverty threshold would be different for different people, and you can aggregate these thresholds for a distinctly identifiable group to come up with a "group poverty threshold", which itself is a function of the group's history and culture. Once you are below that threshold, poverty is very hard to escape. You can state that as "poverty is the cause of poverty."

Yet, I also completely disagree with his solution - direct cash grant from the government. To prove the absurdity of it, imagine this on a global scale. Is the solution to Indian poverty then massive transfer of resources from the rich world?

So what is the solution then? Here is a sketch: the trouble is there are so many interlinked problems it is not even clear where to start. It is utterly chaotic. To overcome it, first create a very small "Zone of Order" (one room, one household, one neighborhood, one small company, one city ... whatever) where you establish clear, orderly systems. China called this the "Special Economic Zone" which they modeled by taking advice from Hong Kong and Taiwan businessmen.

Once you prove that working, scale it up. You have to bootstrap from that "Zone of Order", however small that is. At a personal level, it could be just one small corner of your shack or one hour a day of order, and for a country like India, it could be one city.

You can generalize this principle: the solution to any self-referential problem ("poverty is the cause of poverty") is bootstrapping from a very small seed. In fact, I believe most intractable problems are self-referential.

On a related note, read about "Charter Cities" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli...
I really like this "modest prpoposal." In its spirit, I suggest that from now on we refer to 13 pies as a "taue," sort of a bakers' dozen of pies as it were. Tau Day will be the new Pi day, but students would be inspired to bring and share many times more delicious home baked goods as before.
Cory Doctorow vs Canadian MP on "Canadian DMCA"
Is it just me or is YouTube slow lately?
Well, at least this is a lot smarter than the "pi is exactly 3!" movement.
Just curious - do you know if they'd buy a desktop version of something like this? If they did previously? Thanks for sharing about these kinds of users.
Are there particular advertising firms that you would suggest to work with? Do you have an opinion on a firm such as Adroll?
Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS
You're absolutely right. Those just take a significant more time to do, which we will focus on as well, but would like to test out advertising waters first.
Uh, the lender is collecting interest the entire time. The government is borrowing to invest in and ensure the continuity of it's economy, which is it's source of tax revenue. Recession and/or economic stagnation are much more expensive than debt service.

Nobody would say you're a fool for taking out student loans to get a bachelor's degree. All things being average, the debt service on student loans is cheaper than the cost of not having a bachelor's degree.
We'll announce soon, but we gave the journos a bit of a heads-up.
Tau is an awful symbol in my opinion.

Agreed, mainly because it's already used so widely in so many very standardized ways (including many constants). Of course, most of the Greek alphabet has been used by convention for one thing or another, and people would find it all but impossible to change those habits.

If the people who support double pi as the true symbol they should be writing papers with a definition of double pi and truly proving to the mathematical community that pi is the wrong definition. I personally think piD is a perfectly sane way to describe pi and that thinking in 180 degrees is just as easy as in 360 degrees.*

I don't think many people would dispute that 2pi is a much more natural angular constant than pi, the haters are absolutely right, we're stuck with all sorts of extraneous and unnatural factors that are simple powers of 2 because of that "mistake".

But long standing convention is hard to break. Every formula list in existence uses pi, as does every textbook, lecture, and problem set. Every formula that people have memorized is in terms of pi, and that's not something you can alter by fiat.

I fear that however well-intended, this may be a losing battle. It reminds me a bit of people complaining about the negative charge on the electron - yeah, you might be "right", and there are certainly some annoyances that we put up with as a result of the "mistake", but it's over a hundred years too late for that to matter, you're never going to get a critical mass of people to change.

Though I will say, at least if a new symbol is used for 2pi, it's possible to get a few people to change over, since using that notation is not mutually exclusive with using pi (whereas the charge of the electron is a choice that has to be made, and if you make a different one from your peers, there's going to be a lot of friction).
It's a really minor part, though. Essentially, everything is the same as before, except that PCAOB members can now be removed by the SEC. I'd be surprised if this has any noticeable effect on companies subject to Sarbanes-Oxley.
What do you mean by Chrome Tabs? Are you referring to separate Process per tab on chrome?
Obama To Nearly Double Available Wireless Spectrum
I am really looking forward to Taskfox, at least if it can solve some of the problems Ubiquity had. Unfortunately, I haven't seen all that much excitement for it.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefevre
Absolute classic.

Beyond Candlesticks: New Japanese Charting Techniques Revealed, Steve Nison
You might not end up using candlesticks, but they help you understand time/strength in stock movement.

Also read this blog: http://tradermike.net/
I may get down modded for this but I just have to say, this is more like a religious propaganda than science. Throughout the article they have only demonstrated how a particular community is more comfortable with using double pi. I totally believe in what wwortiz said in his/her(sorry cannot open your website) post. If they like the tau so much they should be writing papers on its advantage.

I think scientists should be more concerned about finding and confirming important things than releasing such propaganda.

EDIT: OK I don't usually do this, but I would like anyone who downvotes me to leave a small note on why this time. Its really important to me
Office Space, anyone?
SDSHDH - San Diego's 1st ever SuperHappyDevHouse
better late than never.. It came too late, but it definitely does not look like too little.
No problem, glad i could help! Also some security-by-obscurity tips:
Minimize the "Server" signature and remove "X-Powered-By" from your response headers.
Fiat currency production is limited by political capital; specie money, on the other hand, is susceptible to random booms (mineral deposit discoveries) and deflation (when economies grow faster than the growth of money supply). And it's not like mineral prices are predictable enough to be an entirely safe store of value.
This is a painfully misleading title.
A friendly request: if anyone is willing to share their before / after I'd love to see them (including any suggestions / requests you have for tweaking), and I'd like to put them up as a gallery, with your permission of course.

Thanks for all of this great feedback!
Did you run it for Actual Objects? We have a B2B product, wondering if this will have a similar return for us.
Xero.com -- been using them for about 2 years now, very happy.

They also tie into freshbooks.com which we use for customer billing.

Combined they allow us to focus on other stuff, like building the business.... we have one guy that does the accounting stuff and it goes really smoothly.
Or the 22/7 people...
and then when your personal cloud goes down ...
Like Jonathan Swift's proposal for ending poverty and hunger in Ireland, I am sure this "modest proposal" is entirely serious.
Google to use HTML5 in Gmail
Developers are creatures of odd schedules. If he's got the skills to pay the bills, and gets the work done...let the schedule slide. Programmers work with computers and data which know no schedule. A tremendous number of them are traditionally nocturnal, and do their best work in the wee hours of the night.

If he's just lazy (as in, not getting things done) then there's a problem. But, your post doesn't seem to indicate that he is - just that he doesn't show up on your schedule.

At a previous job of mine, developers particularly were given flexibility in their scheduling. At one point, the management were looking to lock this down for many of the same reasons that you were - they had the perception that business only happens between 9 AM and 5 PM, and expected that if developers weren't making things happen in that timeframe, there was a problem. One of my colleagues told the manager in charge of the change "I'll show up at 8 AM if you want, but I'm not going to be productive until 11 AM anyhow. I'll clock out at 5 PM after getting 5-6 hours of work in, rather than clocking out at 8 PM and getting 8-9 hours in". The management let her keep her schedule.

If your partner needs to be working with external contacts during business hours, or if he is expected to perform customer service duties and be available when people are calling the phones, that's one thing. If he's the guy writing the code, maintaining the hardware, and making stuff happen, leave him be. Just because his schedule doesn't coincide with your schedule doesn't make his schedule wrong. How would you react if he asked you to conform your schedule to his?

Something you probably don't realize is that he's likely working around the clock - not just during office hours. You get to clock out at the end of the day and go home and not worry about the job until 9 AM the next day. A technical co-founder never gets the luxury, really - we're always watching, working, monitoring, and fixing. If something breaks at 2 AM after we've been asleep for a half hour, we get up to fix it. If we're having scaling issues, we work 36 hours straight to get infrastructure optimized and stable. A technical founder's job conforms to no schedule, recognizes no business hours, and takes no holidays.

If you want a happy tech partner, give him leeway in his schedule insofar as it doesn't actually negatively impact the business of the business. If he's not available for collaboration, is failing in his duties, etc, he needs to change something, because he's not doing his job. If it's just "morale", then honestly, get over it. If you make his job about showing up and having his butt in a chair from 9 AM-5 PM, then that's what you're going to get a - a butt in a chair. Established companies can afford that. A startup can't.
this was discussed with respect to a different article on the same idea on hn a few days ago.

This is not a trolling proposal, and in fact aside from centuries of convention in using pi, it is in fact very well motivated to propose this alternatively. For those without the math background to grasp the examples, the tl;du (to long, didn't understand) is that many classical mathematical objects (the ones that will be seen in any very very advanced hs level or intermediate level college math course ) would become MUCH MUCH more uniform with respect to the values that the coefficients take.

Now, ignoring pedagogical considerations, theres no reason for having this tau value, but thats being completely dishonest about how people learn and how the brain best works. Our minds are really really really sophisticated but at times silly pattern recognition engines, and any notation that makes related topics, problems and patterns look more uniform makes it just that much easier to have insight, understanding and improved problem solving skills.

the examples to pay attention to if you're rusty beyond the hs level are the ones involving:

the notation for radians with tau instead of pi (excellent because every calculation can be thought of as a fraction of the circle), and the extended example at the end involving how using tau rather than pi leads to a natural symmetry with a whole slew of formulae is also quite good.

If you don't care about pedagogical simplicity or the overhead of having a needless notational special case, this article is not important to you, but otherwise its a very good idea or at least one worth considering.
Ask HN: open sourced idea management system?
Recently there was a post here about a big U.S. retailer that open sourced their idea management system. I can't find the link. Does anybody have it?