skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone could avoid such a law simply by hosing their .xxx site in another country. And even if every national government agrees that segregating porn on the Net would be a good thing, you’ll never get them all to agree on a standard. In some countries topless women are no big deal, and in others an exposed elbow is obscene.
This is sad in a way: people just spent a few hundred dollars on a shiny (literally) device and now they need to tape it in a very visible place so that it works consistently.
Let me help your imagination:

Nobody would give a shit if this was any other company.

You'd get maybe 1/10th of the stories and 1/100th of the up-votes and comments around the web. Maybe.
NSFW. A little courtesy next time.
Yep, those implementations are crappy, but they are in production and deployed in hundreds of thousands of end-user systems. The author seems to have only been testing PC web browsers, which is not the only place JS is used. This is easy to forget, though.
If a comment from Jobs about the latest release of Apple's product leads you to hate humanity… well let's just say you're going to have trouble with society in general. There is far worse.

It wasn't that particular comment I was referring to. But thanks for being patronizing!
Buy stock in SecondMarket for companies that are likely to IPO: LinkedIn, Zynga, etc
Thanks! I don't hate people, I just get tired of lots of people around me and need the solitude of my office.

My timeline is 10 years or less and I could, likely, add 50K a year.

I don't have a penchant for gambling, I traded twice in ... ugh... 15 years or so. I stopped because I figured I didn't know enough and wasn't capitalized well.

Real estate is great long-term. There are some awesome deals to be had in Tenerife as a lot of people are giving up their speculatively bought houses. You can buy a 1-bedroom apartment in a well-travelled tourist area near the beach. This will cost less than 100K in foreclosure.

Buying one apartment a year and renting it out to tourists is a great option, so long as the market has hit bottom, more or less. I don't think the Spanish real estate market has hit bottom, though.
There's a trick a lot of contractors/consultants use if they work in the same industry for a while. They create a "platform" (which honestly is just a few libraries of code), and then charge clients more to use their "platform" (which comes with nice-looking sales materials). You still do the same amount of programming, and charge the same for that, but charge extra for use of the "platform".

You sell the client on the fact that they'll save heaps of money using your platform because a lot of code is already written. This isn't actually true, code re-use doesn't save that much money, but it sounds good and they tend to buy it. I've seen it happen over the years again and again and again.

It's a bit tricky but loads of people do it. It used to be cms platforms, now it's social networking platforms or mobile app platforms. Same trick.

It's a little dirty though but one of the only ways to actually "scale" consulting. The other way is to have high-powered sales people, and hire superjunior beginner who do all the work. I think that's even dirtier.
Look, I understand that this wont persuade you. From other threads, I know you are a hardcore proponent of EMH. But someone else might find this insightful:

Buybacks work in theory, but they depepnd on a lot of factors.

Essentially what you are trying to do is shrink the existing share count, so that EPS goes up which presumably drives your share price up in the longer term.

E.g.:

$10 in net income / 10 shares = $1 EPS. Lets say right now you are trading at a 6x multiple, the market is nervous about your prospects. You think your shares are undervalued and that you are probably worth 10x (perhaps your industry average).

So you buyback 20% of your shares, existing share count decreases from 10 to 8. EPS goes up to $1.25 per share.

But, one of the uncertainties behind a buyback is the fact that you never know when or how much management will actually buyback. They will sometimes announce a plan that would buyback 20% of shares, but only do that over maybe 10 years. Thats why your bit about timing the buyback just doesn't work.

Let's say somehow you do manage to buyback the 20% in just one year (the market hates your company). So with an EPS of $1.25, if the market keeps giving you that 6x multiple, in theory your shares should be worth at least $7.50, not the $6 before. Moreover, if the buyback signals enough confidence in the company, maybe the market will realize it and you will return to the 10x multiple you had before, so your shares go to $12.50

But see nobody can time when the market works or when the market will catch on to the value of your company. Benjamin Graham said that is one of the great mysteries of the stock market when he testified before congress.

It is during that lag time when the share price does not move that investor confidence can waiver and maybe they will sell -- ultimately not realizing the value that eventually comes from the buyback and reduced share count.
Buying to rent should result in income uncorrelated to programing.
How about wait in line for 10 hours even though you have a reservation and it'd be trivial for us to get you your device in minutes just so we can have a photo-op. Not that big a deal.

It used to be Apple fit the we wanted to live, now they want us to go out of our way to conform to them.
I have TideApp, but I haven't seen anything like weatherfax on the iphone :-)

You're right that chart plotter on the ipad would be pretty tops. As waterproofing.. you'd have to use a material that lets the capacitance of your finger through.
This is very interesting. Do you have links to any examples?

This could be very useful for running certain algorithms in web apps...
EVO here I come!
It's pretty hard to block these sites because you have to know the domain name/information on each one. Assuming large-scale voluntary compliance, and I think the chances are good that all the "big" producers will move over, it's much easier to just filter the xxx domain and be done with it.

Usually the idea is to keep it away from children because children will willfully look at it without understanding. That page that says "Absolutely DO NOT look at this if you're under 18" has no relevance to an under-18 year old.

It's the same reason we put all other restraints on teenagers; if they were capable of detecting trouble and reliably refusing to participate therein, then they wouldn't need all of the things that are in place to protect them from themselves, foremost among these being parents.
Things that are Not A GOOD IDEA
my proposal: http://www.mattthered.com/sitegarden.PNG
I'm looking for visual and layout consistency across all mediums (screen, print, etc) and in my experience ePub isn't suited for that. My apology for the lack of clarity.
> Only that batteries don't tend to obey Moore's law.

My current smartphone is massively more powerful than my old Symbian smartphone and gets better battery life as well (and is smaller). We've seen massive gains in the power consumption of components inside computers and phones.

> When that point is reached the war will go on how well your software manages the limited resources.

That's never been true. Nokia is losing the smartphone market to a company that ported their desktop OS to a phone! The original Palm OS is no more because it was designed for devices of the day, not for devices of the future. What is considered "limited resources" changes daily and it doesn't matter how well your OS handles them if nobody bothers to write software for it.
Has the Java the brand completely evolved from a enterprise Sun product, into a counterculture language? With GWT and other JVM languages, Java is starting to look cool again.
That's cool, but the parent didn't say Steve Jobs had been right, he said Apple had been right.
you work at a .NET shop?
not cool, just mature/polished/stable.
HTML is more liberal about missing close tags, so minifying HTML should include removing those tags when the page is pushed to the browser.
I don't think it needs to be dirty. I think a "platform" is a good idea.
Why do you want a million euro? Are you going to spend one million euro on something?

I bet the answer is that you aren't going to spend $1M on anything. You intend to put the $1M in some very safe investment and live off the interest, correct?

So you don't really need $1M, what you need is $100K per year passive income. It's the same thing.

If you look at your problem that way, things seem more doable. Instead of spending 10 years making $1M, you can spend the same 10 years growing your passive income from $1K to $10K to $100K.

As somebody who has made a lot of money in real estate and in stocks ... and who has also lost much of it, I believe a business is a better investment for you than stocks or real estate. A business is a machine that produces money. Making your money in stocks or real estate is like hunting. Every time you go hunting, you may be lucky, but you may be unlucky. It's not conducive to a stress free state of mind.

Since your current business can't ever be passive, you'll need to start a new one that can be. Your sailboat electronics passion seems like a good one. Electronic products can be passive income and sailboat owners have money.

Good luck.
Clickable Links

http://beta.techtestnow.com/

Java : http://beta.techtestnow.com/en/user/testLogin/secret/TTN4c24...

Ruby : http://beta.techtestnow.com/en/user/testLogin/secret/TTN4c24...
This is a true statement, but don't enter the world series unless you are already a top notch player. Just play in the 150$ nightly tournaments on pokerstars and you could expect a 120-150% ROI as a solid player.
It does have an R restricted, some sexual content, warning at the beginning.
Data sample, n = 1. Michael J. Fox supposedly smoked like a demon in younger days. Has Parkinson's.
The enemy is always us.

But that's not the point, the point is that we are susceptible to manipulation, and the media is doing it actively to shape us all into self-destructive consumers.
She refs two newer ones:

rePublish (LGPL3): http://github.com/blaine/rePublish

Monocle (MIT): http://github.com/joseph/Monocle

I liked Monocle's looks a little better.
se.xxx?
> For example, in the phone world, making more features available to the phones that billions of not so wealthy people in China, India and Africa might aspire to own.

Except the software doesn't get any cheaper. The whole argument is that Symbian is hard to develop for because it's designed for hardware that frankly doesn't exist anymore. The software is more expensive. Android is cheaper for other manufacturers to use than Symbian is for Nokia.
Where can I register at?
It would be interesting to see the writer debate share buybacks with Buffet.
This is astonishing:

There is no publicist, no sales or marketing team and Karp adamantly believes that there will never be one. He says he is perfectly content to let word of mouth drive his business, in press and in sales.

It means they are completely rewriting the rules for selling enterprise software.
Ask HN: Help my wife find a new career.
Hello all,

My wife is looking for a change in career, this is proving to be a time sapping and uninspiring process.

Some background: she has a degree in English and Sociology and has worked very successfully for the past 7 years in marketing and events ending up as an account manager. However, this job never inspired or satisfied - I'm convinced that with the right motivation she could succeed in most areas.

The problem is where do you start? We've read plenty of books and explored the various careers advice services (which are pretty awful so far). With many jobs merging into a very similar skill-set (various combinations of management, logistics and administration) it is hard to find inspiration.

I guess the question is, if you had not found a field of work that satisfied how would you go about finding it? Income is not the primary motivator, it is about finding an enjoyable/fulfilling way to utilise the working day.

Any form if inspiration would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance
JSON Schema - the next standard for defining schemas.
Do you know of any material that lets capacitance through?

The other issue is connecting a GPS to the iPad if the internal GPS is not good enough. I don't know if it is yet, will take my iPad sailing this August.

Apple requires you to build external accessories specifically to work with iOS devices. I think that even requires a special chip. An external Bluetooth GPS would likely be power-hungry.

I think http://www.tacktick.com/ are an awesome example of low-power marine electronics. They designed and built their own low-power wireless network to connect their instruments and powered them with solar energy whenever possible.
The Programmer Personality Test
Where are the questions? The UI is not very intuitive. Good luck anyway!
If you were in the US, I'd suggest real estate. At this point in the real estate cycle, you could probably buy two single homes, or a duplex/triplex and rent it out and have positive cashflow immediately. I used to be a landlord, but sold the house and I sometimes regret that decision since it was bringing in about $400/month with no work on my part. Rental property isn't a bad investment if you're willing to do the work and it's easy to sell if the property is making money.

I don't know what Spain's real estate market is like, but in a touristy location there are probably opportunities to get creative.
Wow that was funny! All roads lead to the JVM.
Yes, we need more lawsuits like this (I know it is a joke, but they should actually make the motions to go through with it) to show the complete absurdity of these other suits.
Much as I love Ruby and all the things he talks about, I worry that publicizing all these self-congratulatory posts about the Ruby community will create a lot more resistance to what we do. I get the impression that that's how SmallTalk died.
in figure 7, Faradays Law: changing magnetic field in the left torus induces a variable current in the wire, then via ampere's law the changing current in the wire induces a magnetic field in the second torus.

However in figure 8 while there is an A field which extends to infinity, don't forget that B = curl(A) and so the magnetic field of the torus is going to be confined within it. As such there's no way to induce a new field in the additional torus. A is a potential, it's not a "real" field in as much as you can only measure things like |B| and |E| (or quantum phases induced by A in the Ahranovov-Bohm experiment)
These blogs are a starting point:

http://www.thestartuplawyer.com/

http://www.infochachkie.com/roping-in-the-legal-eagles/

http://venturehacks.com/archives#lawyers

http://www.technologystartuplaw

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/
If you just want the knowledge, then quit worrying about this. It doesn't matter if you go to Miskatonic University or Stanford.

If you're worried about getting a job... I say quit worrying about it anyway. Yeah, sure, there are some managers out there who have the mindset "I won't talk to you unless you went to Stanford or CMU or MIT." Most normal people, on the other hand, realize that the name of the university you attended is a pretty weak indicator, if it's an indicator of anything at all. If you're legitimately good at what you do, it'll show. And it won't matter one bit where you went to school, for 99% of employers. (disclaimer: 73.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot. The point still stands though, IMO.)

Also, ask yourself if you want to work with the kind of pretentious snobs who spend their time worrying about shallow symbols of status as opposed to worrying about things that really matter.
Or don't include sensitive data in your test set or build system. If you include something in a release that you should not have included, then you are responsible full stop, and a revocation system is not a solution. This sort of functionality should not be used to fix developer mistakes; you can't do this sort of thing with desktop applications either, and once again, for good reason.

Even if Google initiates a mass revocation, that doesn't mean the application is no longer in the wild. Users who want to exploit your mistake could just as easily do one ogf the following:

- Disconnect their phone from a data connection or wifi signal

- Dump their current ROM/data to a backup image using a 3rd party bootloader

- Extract the .apk from the phone using root access, using an app like Titanium Backup

- Install the .apk from a source other than the Market, so that the revocation system will ignore it

Google's mass-revocation system only "works" because it is designed to remove malicious applications from the phones of unsuspecting users. If you make sensitive data public, it becomes public data, period; there's no going back.
The blog claimed the opposite:

These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or system resources beyond permission.INTERNET. As the applications were practically useless, most users uninstalled the applications shortly after downloading them.

So no, they didn't try to access private data.
(-1 + 3) * 3 * 7 = 42
Again? At least this article doesn't even purport to be backed by any published research. Mention some brain scans, toss up a CG image of a brain, and for good measure, start 'em off with a nice photo of Salvador Dali.
I just outsourced a project to my brother, a first in a few years. I also know a great local 3D modeler often in need of work. It is sounding like I'll need to transition into running a consultancy. Nothing new, I ran my own offshore development a few years back. Good 50% margins for a bit of marketing, sales and project management work.

I haven't had to turn work away only because I've been able to queue up projects and space them out. Oh, and because clients have been patient while I've done that.
Zenwalk 6.4 Openbox Screenshots
As i recall the company was actually mentioned in a book i read - Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World by Trevor Paglen. so you are on the mark here.
Quote from my friend (who earns his living doing Java development):

"Java is COBOL of nineties. Future generations of programers will fly here from the Moon to piss on our graves for inflicting it upon them."
go through one of the test link and create an account. it'll take you to the test. I gave the recruiter login which was used to create those tests because it's easier to check it out.
Two good ones:

Edwin L. Miller, Lifecycle of a Technology Company: Step-by-Step Legal Background and Practical Guide from Startup to Sale (http://www.amazon.com/Lifecycle-Technology-Company-Step-Step...)

Constance E. Bagley and Craig E. Dauchy, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law (http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurs-Guide-Business-Law/dp/03...)

Both of these do a good job of delineating startup issues from a legal perspective. They do so from what I would call a "big firm" perspective, which means heavy emphasis on VC-template-style companies as opposed to the leaner or bootstrap variety. Nonetheless, both do an excellent job of presenting the formal legal questions in practical contexts and both give clear explanations of the main issues involved in a startup from inception to exit.

Edit: The Miller book actually does a pretty good job of covering IP basics and, beyond that, I don't know of any particularly standout general IP book written for business people (there are some pretty good ones covering specific categories such as patent). By the way, as between Bagley/Dauchy and Miller, the Miller book is my personal favorite for startups - it was originally written as a big-firm treatise (multi-volume, with each of 4 or 5 volumes costing $200 or so), dry as dust, and then magically transformed through a fabulous edit job at Wiley into a well-distilled presentation of startup issues.
I hope someone like aquapac who make them for iphone will make an ipad cover too.
From other threads, I know you are a hardcore proponent of EMH.

I don't know where you get that idea. I work for a hedge fund, which would be really dumb if I believed markets were efficient. That would mean my expected bonus is $0 [1].

When a rich person tells me "markets were inefficient, and now I'm rich", I often believe them. When a person tells me "look, a whole bunch of idiots are throwing their money away, but I'm not going to take it off their hands", I'm a little skeptical. And when someone says "look, the markets are inefficient in a manner that is extremely obvious and easy to exploit", I'm also a bit skeptical, since most such inefficiencies have already been arbed away.

Lastly, my trading strategy doesn't require the buyback to complete. All it requires is that philk's claim actually occurs: that the buyback transfers money from sellers to shareholders. Using his numbers and my proposed buy price of $1.01, the moment the buyback has transferred at least $0.02/share from sellers to shareholders, the strategy has become profitable.

[1] Not strictly true, since a bonus behaves like a call option on profits, but you get the picture.
Does the FF extension click-to-flash mitigate this?
Or maybe a company full of boring, humorless teetotalers.
What is the difference between this and http://codility.com/?
This is precisely the type of content that shouldn't be here on HN. Sure, it's funny, but it doesn't help to facilitate intelligent discussion or add value other than humor.
Spanish real estate has been tanking. Over 1.5mm units unsold. I think it's a good time to buy, perhaps towards the end of the year.

My wife is a self-employed travel agent catering to the Russian market (I'm Russian/Cuban). I she would love to go into property management, specially if the property is ours.

I'm reading about LBOs in "Barbarians at the gate" and I think it's a bit like that. You need to figure out the potential rental income of a property and convince the bankers that it's enough to service the mortgage debt. All the while putting as little of your own money in as possible.
I think that the confusion is because you attempted to take the test using the login credentials for the recruiter.

Recruiters cannot take tests - only candidates can. Note that you can easily create a new account at the 'take test' page (please use one of your email addresses).
No doubt, this is a huge money giveaway to whomever will be selling these.
The world would be a better place if more young billionaires would have incurable diseases.

On a serious note, I hope they can find a cure for him and millions of others who can do nothing about their illness other than playing a waiting game.
77% of iPhone4 sales were upgrades
sure, there are lots of "screen protectors" that are thin plastic films: http://www.amazon.com/9-7-Screen-Protector-Apple-iPad/dp/B00...

Tacktick looks pretty awesome, i will check them out!
Coke sees 'phenomenal' result from Twitter ads
Come on... The JVM is cool.
You are completely right, but very few "startuppish" companies do buybacks. In fact, depending on how you draw the lines very few "startuppish" companies are publicly traded.

It is possible for a more mature company to have truly reached market saturation in their area. Then they are left with the option of investing in R&D to try to make something truly new, trying to branch out outside of their current area, or distributing the profits to shareholders.

These three stategies are not mutually exclusive and a company with sufficient profits can do all three. But both R&D and diverisifying can involving risking the money put into them (potentially even more than you put into them when you consider liability possibilities), so it can make a lot of sense for a mature company to directly enrish the shareholders, and a stock buyback is one way of doing that.