skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm concerned, they've pretty much started to saturate their target vertical in the government (military/intel). I've also noticed that new installs are starting to go in at pretty large discounts over a year ago. The government, while large, is finite in size. It doesn't take too many enterprise deals to max it out.

If they aren't making money yet, and at their tremendous burn rate, is another $90million really going to bring them to self-sustainment? I'd bet that the curve on their growth rate is starting to drop off now, the next logical place for them to push into is local law enforcement. But at their prices, compared to the de facto competitor (i2) I can't see them getting much traction except for maybe the very largest municipalities (I know they have one in the DHS funded NYC Fusion Center for example).

Their going to have to put more resources behind their non gov/intel verticals I think for this to make sense.
I'm now the mayor of... uh, crap.
Unbelievable. Especially after reading the official word from Innocentive posted by shaddi in this thread. Do we know at least what BP's rationale. They seem to be focused on spending minimally on additional efforts to close the open well or cleanup the spill and really rely on the August relief well as the only worth investment right now.

Their rationale: Can't just be cost containment? That would be so idiotic and short sighted! They are going to be dealing with this as a corporation for decades...

They should be owning up to it now. But maybe it's just short sightedness of the people in charge currently. They will likely all be retired long before this is over...
You can do it if you've jailbroken. Haven't looked for non-jailbroken stuff.

On my 3GS, I can vary up to 20 dBm depending on how I'm holding it, how I rotate myself and/or the phone, where I'm holding it in relation to my body, etc.
Yes, it happened to me already. They temporarily disabled the public link after 10GB of traffic or so.
nah, youtube doesn't update the view count very often at all.
IE, Firefox, Chrome (probably Opera and Safari also) already have hardware accelerated graphics in their preview/beta/whatever builds. And just like ActionScript, JavaScript is JITed nowadays.
Well, they actually sell two products simultaneously. They have a flashy, pretty good, front end tool. But what they really pitch is their very large and super scalable integrated ontologically driven back end.
When I first read the question, I thought Oh boy, there's going to be some asinine suggestions to this one. But this is one of the most sensible answers I can think of. Seeking to turn 1 buck to 10 in the markets, and quick, sounds like the beginning of a disaster. Reframing the question to one of passive income, one can view the 100K as a sort of financial buffer that can finance or cushion different forays into passive income generating ideas (for example, take a month off regular work, take 5K (or whatever it costs to maintain your family) out of the buffer, and work on some crazy idea that may or may not work out. You could do this 20 times (although I doubt anyone could be so dumb as to totally lose it all 20 times in a row!) and even if it's all financially unsuccessful, you would have learned a ton! That sounds doable and realistic and actually fun.

On a personal note: I'm in a similar position to the OP, except I inherited the money a few weeks ago, and am still trying to figure out how to go about this. Thanks a lot for this new perspective!!!
It would be great if it was updated so that the links could be opened in background tabs with a mousewheel click like normal links (as of this writing mousewheel doesn't work for me to open new links - FF 3.6.3). I'm a flash developer but one thing I can't stand about flash is the inability to open links in other tabs.
Providing access to a receptionist / someone who answers the phone ect would be very interesting for people who deal with a lot of 'traditional' business types.
I remember the days when the JVM only had mark and sweep GC and it interpreted bytecodes. I remember when the JIT kept on crashing, and Java apps were catching up to Smalltalk VMs on benchmarks, but wheezing on real apps because of poor GC. Then there was generational GC, but lots of real apps were still wheezing because no one knew how to tune the GC settings. It took a decade for the JVM to cover the same ground the Smalltalk VMs had covered 4 or 5 before it.

Now the JVM is mature, and it fricken kicks ass! Really, for a high-level OO language supporting VM, the thing just screams. It's still unwieldy and much better suited to server stuff, but as a Smalltalker and therefore a former longtime Java detractor, I have to say, I am really impressed.
And how about any of the infinite mirrors which aren't the big producers? And do they block RapidShare? Torrents?

It's impossible to filter it all (maybe with strong A.I., but show me a porn filter that has that and I'll denounce this claim).
I tried the feature and I like it. The only confusion was about "Copy to my DropBox" button. It does only one-time snapshot of the shared area. I would expect to have live access to shared area through my local folder.
What an amazing line of BS. Anyone who's ever dealt with them deals with sales people. Please don't buy into this, they are by far the most marketing and sales oriented companies I've ever seen in 15 years in the government/military intel space.
It seems to me that the black gaps are bigger. I just did a back of the envelope calculation, using the photos he posted and it looks as though black gaps take up about 30 percent of the space on the first and second iPhone while they take up about 40 percent on the new iPhone 4.

I wonder what the effects of that are. It probably just makes the display a bit dimmer (if one were to use the same backlight).
21 Mac OS X Apps you cannot live without
Add missing Vuvuzela functionality to Grooveshark
A lot of musicians are moving to facebook and soundcloud
If the shares are retired, which is what we are discussing in this case, they do disappear.
at a cost of...?
1 USD CPM?
is it worth it?
will it be worth it once the novelty wears off?
is it enough to make twitter profitable enough?
Well, I'd guess it depends on what their support/upgrade revenues are like.
Anything that strengthens their brand - sure! Unconscious type of marketing.
In theory .xxx is the perfect ghetto for adult content. Dump everything there and then it becomes so much easier to filter/block/firewall, etc. Pornographers will see this coming from a mile away and most won't bother with the .xxx tld. Moreover, none of the big porn sites of today are likely to relinquish their prized .com domains. On the whole it's a bad idea that will have little result.
Does anyone else get the feeling this sort of software is probably sold for tons of money but rarely useful? I could be way off here but just from glancing at it, it looks like one of those things that is probably too complicated for the average government employee to use. So they end up having to hire outside consultants or something. It looks like a research tool that is one step removed from the lab.
It's more like an increase in efficiency. The turn all of the engineers into what are essentially BD and sales staff. It saves them from having to deal with high-commissioned sales people, while enjoying the benefits of low salaried, just out of grad school, smart engineer types that clean up well (the company branded track jackets and massive quantities of hair product on display at any of the conferences helps too).
Hy The iPhone's "FaceTime" Video Calling Will Succeed Where Others Have Failed
I sort of agree. And I apologize on behalf of the community for your being downvoted, as the exact same comment on another article would have a good chance of being upvoted.

You have to attune your humor to that of the community. I laughed, so I appreciated that this video appeared here. If the humor was slightly lower quality, I might have made the same comment you made and been sad about it.

I think the upshot is that people want a little good quality humor in their daily news, and are willing to upvote it occasionally. The lower quality posts are going to fail, be flagged and removed, etc.
Why not? Can you explain?
I helped to launch a co-working space in a community of 12,000 in the Sierra Foothills. (Although I can't claim any credit at all for its current implementation. :-) You can check it out at http://sierracommons.org/

Contact Robert Trent there at (530) 265-8443, tell him Rob thought he might be willing to talk to you. If you can get him to slow down for a few minutes, he'd probably be very willing to tell you all about what he's done.

In short, they've managed to take a run-down space above a restaurant, and turn it into a beautiful co-working space. I think they managed to fill every available desk within the first couple of months, despite being (IMO) way pricey. They've done a lot of it through grants, so definitely ask him about that.

If you'd like to know anything else about the project and can't get ahold of him, feel free to drop me an email -- address is in my profile.

EDIT: Just to be clear, all I did was start a "solopreneur" group in the area, and shortly afterward, start pitching the idea of a co-working space. Eventually, I met Robert Trent, who had some extra office space and graciously opened it up to anyone who wanted to give it a shot. He and I debated different models for a co-working space. I disagreed with some of what he wanted to do, and eventually lost interest. He took the project the rest of the way and ran with it, and has done a truly amazing job of pulling it all together. It's still not what I had originally imagined, but he's the one that actually made it happen, and it's certainly successful. So, all props to him.
I tried buying strangles and stradles a few times, up to a few small bets ($40-50) at a time. There's a substantial difference on whether the earnings announcements are after hours in the evening or in the morning, for example.

I think I would have made money with a trailing stop but Thinkorswim did not have trailing stops at the time. The problem, of course, is the volatility drop-off right after earnings announcements. You also need to evaluate what the company is doing and see if there's a good chance the stock will move.

I found http://www.theflyonthewall.com to be excellent for research.

The volatility drop-offs doesn't happen right away after the earnings announcements, at least that's what I noticed. There's still a bit of time (minutes?) where traders are slugging it out.

It's virtually impossible to monitor several positions for volatility drop-offs on Thinkorswim, though. ZenFire is available on the Mac but ZenFire equities and options are only available through a couple of brokerages where a large account is required. Contrast with futures (and options on futures) that I can get over ZenFire through my Mirus/Dorman account for a $500 deposit.
I'm interested in learning more about bio-tech research, genetics and synthetic biology. I hope to finish my doctorate in CS soon, and after that I'm going to take some time off to travel and read. Any advice for a computer geek who wants to learn how to program biology for the good of mankind? What do you, or others who work in the industry, think would be the best way for me to bootstrap myself in the area?
An Awesome Article On Passion
More reason to be conservative with brain-altering medication.

Unless you want a world without creativity. It'd be easier to control, at least.
A/B testing at it's best. The exact wording of your introduction also makes a difference depending on what part of the country you live in. In silicon valley, "startup" will perk up most people's attention. "entrepreneur" in the midwest will get a "what ?"
SP1 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 beta is out
Right.

And there are features in common lisp that I really want to see escape into mainstream. Condition and signal handling, in particular, is an amazing thing that almost no language has a good answer to.
Tell HN, read this: The Design of Design - Essays from a Computer Scientist
The world really needs a "Dispassionate Meta-methodology." We need some group that goes around doing analyses and meta-analyses of various practices. I'm sure there are lots of not-so dispassionate methodology people who would love to provide data. (One would collect the data and ignore the excuses.)
Innovation in typography? I'm by no means an expert in the field, but that seems like a poor example. I've always imagined typography to be relatively stagnant.
"Just avoid holding it in that way"
I was in Tenerife earlier this year and I was shocked at the number of properties that were lying around, half completed. It seemed like every cove and beach along the south and west coasts of the island had uncompleted holiday/retirement apartment buildings lying semi-built. I was also amazed that prices in the local agents seemed ridiculously high given the obvious devastation in the market. I would be extremely wary about entering the Spanish real estate market right now...
Well then for starters maybe you should spend some of that money on life insurance.
Specifically, it's only 'real time' up to the first 300 views, and then it only refreshes every so often.
Whatever happened to the "40 Hour Week" pillar of XP?
By Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month. I'm reading the book right now, it's great.

Here's a link to MMM in case someone hasn't read it:

http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin...
Drop the price for a single day to 5 or 10. Encourage free try-outs. Offer to hold Meetup events there for free, and find some of your own guys to do the first few ones on topics that will draw local groups. Contact people who run local meetups and offer the space to them. That's how I ended up at hackerdojo.com.
Oh, but it is!

I just viewed a few Google ads sponsored from South Africa, increasing the big G's revenue by some vanishingly small amount.
A man stopped at Murray the Tailor's shop to pick up his new suit. Trying it on, he noticed that one sleeve was longer than the other. Murray waved it off: "Just pull your right shoulder back and bend your elbow a bit." The man did this, and was pleased with the look of the sleeve.

"It also looks like one pant leg is longer than the other" the man continued. Murray the Tailor shrugged. "No problem. Lean to your left a little bit, and don't bend that knee so much when you walk." The man pulled his shoulder back, bent his elbow, leaned to his left and strolled in front of the mirror with one leg stiffened. The suit was perfect... except...

"Should this collar ride up so high?" Murray the Tailor smiled indulgently, and chided "You shouldn't let your head droop so low. Push it back so people can see you!" He guided the man's chin up, up, far enough so that the back of the man's head just closed the distance to the collar.

The man studied himself in the mirror and was satisfied. He left the shop wearing the suit and strode happily down the sidewalk, leaning left, stiff legged, one arm held at an odd angle and head back with chin pointing straight ahead. He was noticed by a pair of bystanders, and one of them remarked:

"Murray must be one damn good tailor. Look how he managed to fit that cripple."
It's not that Ayn Rand detested skeuomorphs. It's that she wanted to demonstrate Howard Roark's independence and honesty. AFAIK Ayn Rand did not have a position on architecture; she just used it as a device in (one of) her novels.

Unfortunately, many people read Ayn Rand way too literally.
A very large part of their strategy is crowdsourcing named entity extraction. Basically, as you read a report, you hilight and tag all the entities of interest. It provides incredibly high quality entities and relationships on an enterprise ontology.

The problem is that it scales incredibly poorly. Imagine hilighting every person, phone number, location, etc. in a document. Then linking them all together manually. Then imagine having a few million documents you have to do that on. It's been an enormous problem at all the sites I've seen it deployed at.
maybe i'm a bit slow on the uptake this morning, but what's the book you're referring to..?
What nonsense are you talking about? What does Rapidshare or Torrents have to do with filtering out porn sites that would use the .xxx TLD?

> It's impossible to filter it all

And?

.xxx won't change that. At all.
Derivatives are mathematically zero sum minus costs. That's why. For traders in aggregate, they are a certain loss.

1. Fair enough. HSO makes the point that this is true for all financial transactions. So by your logic, investing in the stock market is also a guaranteed way to lose money over time. I don't think this is your contention, but this is really going to end up being a silly conversation if we have it. We'll just agree to disagree.

2. On a different note, in the interest of sharing something I learned recently. Options almost always trade at a volatility premium to their realized volatility. The reason for that is that vol traders want to price in the future uncertainty in vol.

Derman writes about this a bit here by comparing it to interest rate term structures: http://ederman.com/new/docs/gaim-trading_volatility.pdf

3. Also, historically (if that matters) selling vol is actually positive EV. BXM is a buywrite index and has outperformed the SP500 on a risk adjusted basis (http://ederman.com/new/docs/gaim-trading_volatility.pdf) indicating that option vols have not been fairly priced.

4. Countering #4 is the popular Taleb wisdom about selling vol. Taleb is a net buyer and won. His general contention though is that kurtosis of the distribution is mis(under)priced. So from those 2, you might think that selling at the money options is positive EV and buying "tails" is positive EV. Of course the rest of the Taleb intuition is that we have no idea what the actual yield distribution should look like, so all pricing is out the window.
multiply it by 10
One thing I never understood is how you can guarantee consistency in distributed transactions given this problem. Can you really build a 2-way ACID system, or is only "eventual" consistency achievable?
The rationale is simple: it freaking complex for a large corporation to navigate legal wranglings with "normal" trading partners during the best of times; given that they are currently embroiled in what already may bankrupt them, it does not make sense to embark upon a partnership with an unknown entity type.

Put simply -- they know what they know and they know what they don't know, and they're worried that if they step outside the comfort zone of redlines, LOLs, and escape clauses that they could worsen rather than improve the current situation.

<edit> That said, it is really myopic of them and it does demonstrate a possibly disastrous lack of foresight.
I don't imagine that Apple will ever "substitute" OS X with a mobile OS on the Macs. I believe that Apple will embed the functionality of the mobile OS in the hardware/software combination that is the Mac.
They map data from different sources onto a common semantic ontology. From that, relationships can be derived. It works better with nicely structured data, but people can be leveraged to manually tag entities in documents and add those to the appropriate part of the ontology.
USA, though I'm physically in the UK right now. It's getting painful enough that I'm considering starting a parallel business/bank account/merchant account track over here and going with the country that wins.
Yes. A PhD can work at Starbucks in a pinch, but a guy with skills sufficient only for manual labor can't take advantage of a software engineer shortage. So, even if you presume (wrongly) that employers place no value in skills un-necessary for the job at hand and instead choose randomly among applicants, this disparity would exist.
Ask HN: More interesting side work?
I probably do 20 or so hours of side work in addition to my typical 9-5. The extra money is nice, and in the past, I was getting to do some pretty neat things. Now, although I'm still making good money, most of my side work has turned into installing/theming/configuring various CMSs for clients, and, well, its not interesting. I've got several years experience as a PHP & Front-End developer, and I'm really looking to work with a "cool" startup and better utilize my talents, and help grow as a developer, but am not ready to leave my 9-5 for it. Anyone out there looking for someone to work on the side for them? Suggestions on how to find something more interesting without leaving my day job?
So environmental damage to many thousands of square miles (how many cubic?) has no/low implied cost, only human damages?

That's not exactly a good message to be sending to businesses.
I guess "independence" is in the eye of the beholder. Working 1-2 weeks out of 4 and sailing around sounds like a pretty nice level of independence for someone like me. If your idea of independence is to never have to work a day of your life ever again if you choose not to, it sounds like the solution would be to "work more" in the near term. It sounds like you're a pretty bright fellow and when you do work, your services are highly valued. The more you work, the higher your odds of "getting lucky" are.
Super AMOLED > IPS
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/22/samsung-galaxy-s-super-...
Thanks for responding. can you point to me some articles explaining more about retired shares?
Serifs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#Origins_and_etymology
"The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the Serif is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first painted onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush marks which flared at stroke ends and corners, creating serifs."
> Java 7 is much friendlier to dynamic languages ... it would need to be really inelegant to warrant a comparison with the x86

Not that much, and not that inelegant ... at least x86 evolved a lot since 8086. The JVM itself evolved only in the internal architecture, but the bytecode itself is almost the same since Java 1.

The best VM for multiple language will soon prove to be LLVM, only because it makes your code cross-platform, while being low-level enough and not being strangled by a standards body.

It's actually easier to build a compiler for LLVM than it is for the JVM ... you might not go at first with a generational GC, and the speed might be terrible ... but at least you have room to grow ...

I have yet to see a language on top of the JVM beat LuaJIT2 (even Java itself can hardly beat it in simpler benchmarks). And the optimizations in Java7 can be achieved today in Java6 (with lots of workarounds, of course).
I don't know, man. The NHL, for example, has seen tons of engagement related to liking things. http://scobleizer.com/2010/04/22/facebook-ambition/
Oh, and to put that $2.35Bn into perspective, Union Carbide paid out $450M for, umm, killing 20,000 people at Bhopal

First of all, let's not pretend like all American's are happy with Union Carbide's "punishment" for that incident.

Second, BP isn't paying for deaths. They must pay for the monumental cleanup and economic damages resulting from the environmental disaster they caused. It's expensive.

According to the article, Innocentive has a global network of more than 200,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, and business people who are experts in physics, chemistry, math, life sciences, computer science, and many other fields.. I wouldn't be so fast to discount the worth of their ideas. It's that kind of arrogance that got them in trouble in the first place.
I personally did not notice vuvuzela noise, Until i saw all these people complaining online.
I'm actually in Vancouver, B.C. which I think is somewhere in between those two. I've been calling mainly real estate agents all week, and am really surprised that they are the ones who perk up at hearing the word entrepreneur.
Normally funny, I suppose, if a bit tired. But this man designs antennae for use on AT&T's network