skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. It's hard to see how publishing source code in and of itself constitutes a make or use action, so they could go for "inducing infringement". As I understand it, you would need to have an infringer for that to be true.
The important thing to keep in mind is that emacs is ridicously bad at editing text.

I don't know why this is being voted up. This is utter nonsense and not supported by any arguments.
Yeah, that's why the usual solution is to cobble together a bunch of different 90% solutions until you have something pretty close to a 100% solution. Scientists are going through something similar with fighting wheat rust (which you've probably never heard of, but it'll be an important problem if it gets out of control).

The problem with HIV is that every obvious way of attacking it seems to have some kind of drawback that's less than obvious. You can sit around and think up all kinds of hypothetical scenarios for attacking it and find that people have already tried that. And failed.
oh cool an iPhone app, I will visit the site from my iPhone so I can buy it immediately...... flash demo?!? dude....

I love the idea though and it is a cool demo movie.
$170K/month went to lawyers (in California the wealthier spouse pays for both, he says

Wow, that's awful.

Here's a question: What's to stop states from competing on divorce laws? In the old days, people used to fly to Reno to get divorced, right? Why doesn't Nevada declare that a man can divorce his wife, in absentia, leaving her with (say) nothing more than whatever her personal assets were before she entered the marriage (plus 5% per annum in interest)? They could throw in a five-day residence requirement and $100 worth of slot machine credit while they were at it.

Meanwhile, Delaware could make a similarly female-biased divorce law, and fighting couples could have a race to see who could file the papers in their state of choice first.
Euro-zone debt and currency problems
Blatant copyright infringement, with no attribution. This was originally published here:
http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
It has taken me several years to get used to using Unix systems through accumulated casual and professional usage. I used Git for a year or so before I really started to understand it.

Emacs is like that. You can read the Emacs tutorial in 20 minutes and use it like a fancy notepad, but true mastery of any complex and powerful system takes years.
I don't think it matters if you didn't have a cell phone as a kid, anyways. In the past, kids didn't have access to malaria vaccines. Does this mean kids aren't better off now that they have it?

I feel that using these stories to conclude that we shouldn't let kids have access to valuable equipment to be counterproductive. I would say it's much better to reason with them (as the author seems to have done).

My father bought me a computer when I was really young and told me to play with it all I wanted. He also told me not worry if I broke it as long as I was not being reckless. Thanks to that, I am now a graduate student in Computer Science.
This is not copyright violation. This is the sharing of sensitive user data. You may find both abhorrent, but they are not at all the same thing. You're making a straw man argument with all this "sharing data" nonsense, essentially trying to paint The Pirate Bay as supporting any illegal use of a computer just because they support one illegal use.

TLDR: If The Pirate Bay were getting upset over having their intellectual property shared freely, that would be hypocrisy. But they're not. They're trying to stop people from hacking their site.
"Female-biased"? Really? What a creepy thing to say.
If you've earnt over $150 in a region (uk, us, Europe, Canada, Australia, japan, rest of world... Off the top of my head). Then you will usually have the money in your account just before the end of the following month. Although you'll start to receive financial reports mid way through the month.

E.g
Jan) 100$ - uk
Feb) 100$ - uk (your now over 150$ for the region)
Mar) financial report around the 14th onwards then money in the bank by the end of the month
And 18-20 year-old entrepreneurs must travel outside the U.S.
Nathan Myhrvold
I was terrible too at design.. and I have to agree to those points. However, the one that made the biggest difference for me was the use of whitespace.

I would also add:

- Don't be afraid to take space for important stuff. And to simply delete useless stuff.

For instance, when I create powerpoint presentation, I put only one picture that takes all the screen.. this is way better then 5 small pictures a little bit everywhere.

Or on a web page, I like when the logo takes 1/3 of the page. The main content 1/3 and the "a little bit" less important stuff 1/3. For an example of that: http://us.battle.net/?rhtml=y
JavaScript 1.7 already supports a very similar module pattern. For example:

myModule: {
// don't do anything if myModule is already included
if (myModule) break myModule;

let this_is_private = ...;
var myModule = ...;
// myModule is public and won't pollute the
// global NS if it isn't included globally.
}
How a Bunch of Silicon Valley Rookies Out-Launched the Veterans
Titanium dioxide is also used on the inside surfaces of windows, for the same purpose. I don't know how widespread its use is, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide#As_a_photocata...
Funny you mention Windows - while true on a full desktop, I've been having issues running Chrome in a Win7 VM. It doesn't crash, but something isn't right with their js engine, things like jquery run very erratically (timing issue, aka animations/transitions don't run correctly).
Right - I think that's actually the most valuable lesson in your post. Start making friends a year or more before you raise.

There may be a small caveat - it's worth debating this because I'm not sure I'm right but I'll throw it out anyway: Some investors like a fresh face with a fresh idea. If you become a groupie and hang out at every single event for a year before you raise, you may be less attractive to investors than a fresh face with the same traction and idea. Not sure if this is true but just a thought.
Flash demo? I only see a YouTube video, which opens fine on the iPhone.
This will drive casual viewing in the same way as 99p apps drove casual app purchases. DRM and various licensing issues have made this very difficult to achieve so far.
If your bank is aware that a payment is going to an illegal gambling site, they are required to block it. However, the regulations don't require them to scrutinize checks since it's just not practical.

Merchants who accept credit/debit cards must code the transaction for whatever their industry is, so those in the gambling industry are easy to block and banks are required to do so.
True, but 'Dashboard' is one of the options by default... So if you're not that savvy, you're probably just looking at the Dashboard anyways.

I do agree with some other commenters that, if this is a flexible framework allowing you to peer into other services besides Analytics, it could be quite a boon.
I constantly read tons of business books. Some are pretty cheesy, some have lots of good insights buried in them. Good reads:

Emotional Intelligence (http://amzn.to/9LXV1x)
The House Advantage (http://amzn.to/95VsAv) - full disclosure this is my friends book and Trada is mentioned in it but its a great look at using stats in business
Statistics (http://amzn.to/bUZTcW) - oddly a great read
George Soros just penned an article on Euro-zone issues:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/crisis-...
I'd assume it means 91% of strains of HIV. It means that the odds that someone has a vulnerable strain is greatly increased and thus you can heal more people.

HIV has a few limits, firstly (I think) it only infects one type of cell (CD4 immune cells - white blood cells), secondly, it doesn't spread as easy as influenza, you need to exchange some bodily fluids with someone, preferably with an abundant supply of CD4 cells to infect. Since it generally requires sex to get HIV, if you knock out 91% of strains the other strains wont rush in to fill the vacuum.

The resistant strains already present will almost certainly increases as a proportion of the HIV population, its just natural selection. Use of condoms can prevent people from getting the resistant strains. Interestingly, male circumcision is also an excellent way to reduce chances of HIV infection because there will be less CD4 cells in your penis.
Very awesome answer. Thank you.

I am familiar with programming. Though I remember very little of the syntax, I certainly have not forgotten how to properly analyze and organize the flow of code-- or in other words, how to think like a machine.

Still, OOP was completely foreign to me before starting this adventure-- but I have also realized that it is not entirely different to writing good segmented VB code in which I would create procedures to call upon and return results-- I just didn't know to call it OOP back then.

I have heard some people say that OOP takes a considerable knowledge of proper coding to utilize fully, which maybe is beyond me at this point, but if you were to step outside of your multilingual box and decide it was time to learn programming, would you start with OOP or something like Python/Ruby?

Let me put all of this into perspective a little bit and maybe you or someone else can get me pointed in the right direction:

One of my immediate needs/desires is a scheduler. I am fine with a command line program that simply outputs the details of a database that I maintain. I'm good with that. What I need is a lightweight piece of software that simply allows me to input Date/Time and maybe some notes and then allow me to manipulate that date to provide alerts or notices on a schedule I define for each task. Now, this may sound like reinventing the wheel, but honestly I hate the way traditional schedulers work and I'd like to just take a crack at it myself. I also think this would be a relatively light and easy first project for my welcome back to programming.

This "database" could be a simple tab-delimited text file that my software imports and parses-- in fact, I am quite fond of ETCs. This would also mean I could keep this "database" up to date across several machines using various OSes via Dropbox even. I would like for this software to work on both Windows and Linux as I am regularly in both systems-- and ultimately my phone if at all possible.

Now, I really do appreciate the help and I sincerely thank you for following along this far and reading all this gibberish-- but what would you fire up to write something like that? I am, after all, a lifetime learner and I have no problems learning multiple languages. I've got the time. :)
When a little knowledge really is dangerous
The Power of Free (aka The Numbers Post #3)
I think you missed the point with the first comment. It's a show of appreciation, not a charge for a service.

As for your second comment, I think you're mistaken. With the same reasoning, one might think that developers have no incentive to make it easy for users to stop using their application and migrate their data to a competitor's, but this is actually a good thing to do. Google in particular is known for this. I would personally be more inclined to send cake to a site that links me to other good content.

Flattr shouldn't be evaluated purely based on hard, rational economic principles; it's more of a social effect, so it's more complicated than that.
seems great. when is it going to be available?
This is great news.
the problem is that the $1K/month in 'the cloud' buys you servers that would cost $4K to buy. Even I (and as far as I can tell, nobody else using Xen has lower prices) price things out so I cover my hardware in four months.

The advantage to 'cloud' stuff is that if you have servers with less than 32GiB ram, the economics of owning get much, much worse, mostly due to hosting costs. If you have tiny little servers, VPSs really are cheaper over the long term... of course, 'serious business' hosting usually requires larger servers, so we're back to saying that you save a lot of money buying if you are big.
You are partially on the right track. There is an innate response to pathogens exhibiting particular molecular profiles. But this innate recognition is not by antibodies, which are part of the adaptive response.

To my knowledge, there is not a repertoire of antibodies that are automatically produced, per se.
I'm not a lawyer and I may be wrong but can't we use the patent vagueness against itself in a sort of "patent aikido" defense.

It's seems like it would be trivially easy to release this source code given the way the patent is described.

This source code does pattern matching for audio, sound and music. I looked at the patents in question. They only discuss this method for use with "audio files", "audio samples", "sounds", and "music".

However the patent doesn't cover other types of waveforms with changing frequency and amplitude.

With that in mind, couldn't you just change the language used to describe what you code does so that in now describes other types of waveforms that are NOT sound, music and audio?

It seems to me that patent lawyers can either patent the implementation or they can patent the application of their implementation. Simply changing the application of the implementation you coded in a weekend would mean that the patents cited no longer apply to the code he wants to publish.

Also, if these lawyers have never seen the code in question. How are they going to know you released it if it somehow gets released anonymously?
The reason that i didn't touch on any of these things is that the necessary skills for them all (that you mention and many more) are relative to a point in time and very much related to the charts i talked about. Let's use an example: what's "the right" organizational structure. By definition it changes as a company grows. An organization will need to be structured differently at 3 people, 12 people, 30 people, 65 people, etc.. This is, in fact, a demonstration of understanding the S-curve and how it applies all over a business. Something parochial like accounting is actually the same thing. The complexity of our accounting (and need for systems, experts, auditing, etc..) was directly related to us hitting a network effect in our business. As they say - you can run accounting of a bad business really well.

I'm not disagreeing with you just noting that my piece was much more about how to recognize patterns that emerge in a business everywhere and know which pattern you're working with to make tactical and strategic decisions at the right time.

I've written quite a bit about financials, the economics of startups, etc.. Here is a good example about business model integrity on my blog:

http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2006/05/...
The Unreliable State Machine
I partially agree with your caveat. In our case we went to almost zero events, all of our meetings were face-to-face with a single firm. After that we stayed in touch and gave updates on our progress. This also let them get comfortable with our ability to work together and execute on a product. We were also able to show more and more traction over time.

Investors will get tired of you if you are raising money for a long time. Once you decide you are raising, get all your meetings done as quick as possible, hopefully in only a couple of weeks.

It may not need to be a year. We started these discussions in June and started raising in September. They key is just before you need money.
"Sigmoid" observation also is known as "Diminishing returns"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
Clearly many businesses have bifurcated price points. I totally agree this can work. The question is when? If you walk into Target you can buy a pack of gum and a $1000 garden set. My point was in the context of most startups (tech primarily) its usually a bad sign in your business when very early on you see bifurcation in pricing. I've been involved in many businesses that have seen that and the ones that convinced themselves they could serve both types of customers learned the hard way that you only get to do that when you've got a solid foundation in your business of one type or another.
According to this tweet there will be one soon: http://twitter.com/billclerico/status/18004740402
Ask HN: What paid services do you use now for your startup?
I was looking around for server setups, and I ran into an old HN post about what paid services people use.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229

Now that it's more than a year later, has consensus changed? Or is it mostly still the same? What paid services do you use?
I hope you're saying that misinterpretation of the research is stupid, not the research itself.

What you and parent poster are saying was nicely illustrated by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism:

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.

Fir'd at first Sight with what the Muse imparts,

In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,

While from the bounded Level of our Mind,

Short Views we take, nor see the lengths behind,

But more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!

So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,

Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky;

Th' Eternal Snows appear already past,

And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last:

But those attain'd, we tremble to survey

The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way,

Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandering Eyes,

Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
If you go to "about:plugins", you can disable the built-in Flash plugin.
"If you ask me about barriers to entry, you don't understand the internet."

Asking about barriers to entry does not mean the potential investors don't understand internet. This comment says to me the author does not understand business or investing.
Bilski says software is not patentable
That was very open, which you don't see all that often.
Children who are spanked have lower IQs
A better writeup, a little more technical than the Discover Magazine version but far more comprehensible than the actual paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/466195a...
A Strategy for LinkedIn
Thanks! Glad to see people liked it...
The 3.0 servlet spec fortunately includes support for async processing, so you can give your thread back mid-handling the request; No more thread-per-request required.

Jetty has also supported their own async handling extension for quite some time now (but they're moving to the 3.0 standard). I've used it to build 'Comet' servers before, and it does the trick.
Search engines learn how to watch and listen to video
Now that's what you call an entrepreneur
Pirate Bay account database compromised
I will buy what they're selling. Just as long as they integrate with Remember The Milk.
This is what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
Cool.

In that case, someone should write a Clojure library that utilizes the 3.0 standard. That'd be even cooler.
I can see his point, but I have very good friends who I'm sure they would say the total opposite. Some found love, some found fun... heck, one even found a Maxim model (and they are still dating).
Right on. Cheers!
Direct link to article : http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/07/pirate-bay-hack-exposes-u...
BP Gulf disaster may have triggered world-killing event
> Servers are cheaper than you think, if you don't use the cloud

I'm confused why the cloud is viewed as expensive. For managed hosting on a big name provider perhaps, but there are dozens of virtualization providers who are capable of providing power and bandwidth for unbelievably small amounts of money.

Sure you don't get the uptime, reliability, and support of a big name host, but it's usually good enough. From what I've gathered, twitter's growth has not been severely hampered by the fail whale, especially in the beginning.

Once you've reached critical mass, you can move on to a larger host. I think it makes sense to rent rather than own, especially if you're just starting out.
What do you mean supported by arguments? It's obviously my opinion comparing Emacs to Vim.

Vim is excellent at editing text. Really really good at it. Emacs is not. It's better than this vanilla comment box in firefox for sure, but compared to Vim's modal editing it's a dog. People injure themselves typing in Emacs. It's actually dangerous!

And my comment was getting votes because people agreed until you came along with your meta comment.
How to approach online dating in a novel way does keep me up long hours as this is something I'm trying to solve in my startup, albeit for a niche segment of the population.

[Apologies for this next plug]
I am very interested in teaming up with a couple of talented and driven hackers and working together if this area interests you. My startup has some initial traction (slightly north of a thousand users) in the two months since launch.

My email is in my bio.
Good luck in real world dating if you think a coffee date after 5 hours of surfing the web from the comfort of home is a poor ROI.
After trying to convince a friend that privacy is important, I got the usual retort: "It doesn't really matter to me if some company picks up on these things".

I wouldn't be surprised if others did start caring if the the negative side effects were brought up more thoroughly. After reading DDG's policy, I can't really point to where the negative side effects are. They aren't clearly spelled out and easily visible. I don't have much in the way of penmanship, but I'm sure that talent lies in the the readers of this website. Someone should clear up the cloudy negative effects of giving away their whole life to some company.

Side note: "Don't be evil" sounds just like the slogan of an evil company. :)
Its something you want if you need a systems programming language that does safety and concurrency well.

At the unveiling yesterday, Graydon (the author) said he deliberately has spent no time making syntax nice, and refused to discuss syntax until a much later date to avoid bikeshedding. As a result, its not very pretty code but you can't judge it on that.
Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other.
Okay, so lets pretend that you are right about vanishing money. You are failing to take into account the productivity gains you get from proper rest.

1) Tired workers make costly mistakes, often countering any extra production they may have made
2) Tired workers work more slowly
3) Tired workers miss opportunities to save time through better work methods

Reducing hours towards 32hours /week will usually net you more produtivity per week. Increasing past this will give you temporary improvements, but they won't last beyond a couple of weeks.

Not to mention - the more Ford pays per hour, the better the quality of the workers he attracts.
The Spoke predates Facebook I believe. At least the site as we know it today. The Spoke existed far before people believed there was a ton of revenue to be made on those sorts of sites... otherwise sites like MiGente and BlackPlanet would have probably been more richly funded.
/ It turns out, women really care about men's height. I’m 5’9”, if I wanted to be as attractive as somebody who’s 5’10”, right, another inch? I would have to make about $35-40,000 more a year.

From a 5'7": sorry, what!? Link to paper?
Here's the associated blog post from the developer: http://onecreativeblog.com/post/781952553/announcing-whichlo...
For shame. I don’t understand how someone can be so greedy as to try to take wealth their ex-parter created after explicitly agreeing not to do so!

Edit: And due to lawyers’ fees, the couple’s net worth is decreased by millions in the process.
While I can't help but be a little curious and jealous over the last case, outliers always exist. You do need to make sure that your examples are not outliers, as by their very nature they do not represent the whole.