skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be that there are a number of twitter fan boys who mod down those they notice who don't toe the line and shine glowing praise for twitter.
That bugs me too, but I write it anyway - all my code has to be localizable, and I'm not about to write that code for who-knows-how-many languages that I don't know. There are usually more important things. But it still bugs me - polish is important. :-/
I personally think it will be a while before it happens unless the government allows private companies to do it. If they for example make it that any planet you colonize is basically owned by your corporation you'll see a flood of space exploration to get a piece of the pie. Sure can set something like the Alaska agreement, corporation owns the planet for 200 years and in the end the government has the option to buy it for a trillion dollars.

But right now the government is slow because of burecracy and no rush...the second Russians stopped the space race we stopped it and corporations can't do it because there aren't any rules out there regarding space claims and they don't want to invest the money into building a colony only to have the government come in and say sorry but we own it.
Look at The Economist Guide to Business Planning http://www.amazon.com/Business-Planning-Economist-Graham-Fri...

It may be more technical than what you need (but of course that depends on how much money you're trying to raise).
Even a 10 Gig drive would be tremendously useful. At $30/Gig, this would mean that you could install your OS and one multiplayer game for $300. Lots of people would buy it just for that. Video editing would be another use.
I like your summary of the talk. One subtly to his position that made the talk stand out for me was that he wasn't completely opposed to the top-down model for determining the weight of subjects in schools based on industry demands. Rather, his argument was that schools weren't keeping up with the needs of the industry they educate their students for. He seemed to be making the case that as an increasing number of the methodical aspects of industry become automated as technology progresses, problems which require more creativity such as determining "what" to make rather than "how" to make it become much more important.
I would assume that video editing is a mostly sequential workload and thus would do better on conventional drives. You can get 10 1TB drives for the price of one Fusion io card.
> Withdrawing money is a very top priority of ours.

So no-one has received any money yet?

It would be in your interest to send some cheques immediately. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109017 for details. At the very least, people can blog about getting the first cheques.
well you should look here
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/25/twitter-2/

and see the number of video comments
This is why you should not rely on search engines for revenue. Create a name for yourself in a community mediated by humans instead of search bots.
The issue is the regulation around being a money transfer agent. Earnings in Tipjoy can be dedicated to a charity or cashed out with an Amazon gift card. This has happened a bunch.

We'll let you cash out to PayPal or a checking account as we complete the lengthy paperwork for the licensing.
Anything by Greg Egan. It is a science fiction author who actually has a very good understanding of science (he's published articles in a scientific journal about quantum gravity) and makes non-trivial use of it in his plots. Plus, he's a computer programmer and you can go to his website and see a collection of applets, some of them illustrating the concepts from his novels and short stories. On top of that, he is good with all the soft stuff, like character development and psychology etc., that is essential for great fiction but that some science-intensive science fiction is very much lacking.

There are other very good nerd literature authors out there, like Vernor Vinge and Neal Stephenson, but to me none of them was as big a revelation as Greg Egan.

If you don't mind something non-mainstream and a bit dated, but first-class literature nonetheless, you can try Stanislaw Lem. It's a Polish author but most of his work has been translated to English. I consider him one of the best science fiction authors ever. "The Star Diaries" is light and funny, a perfect pool side reading.
I think you should do a little bit of research into motivation and the way trivial rewards effect returns. People don't actually behave the way you think they do.

An interesting experiment in the field involved asking people on the street to assist in changing a flat tire.

When simply asked for help, the response was pretty high. A significant number of people helped.

When offered a small cash payment (a few bucks), the positive response rate dropped dramatically.

When the cash payment was raised to something relatively sizable, like $50, the response went back up to about the same as just asking for help.

I won't try to explain this phenomenon (though I think there's the obvious fact that being paid a few pennies is far less satisfying than helping someone out of the kindness of your heart). I believe the fundamental reason every single revenue sharing business has failed to take off (a few minor successes excluded) is because they fail to accept this bit of humor nature. It's a pretty fundamental flaw, so it really ought to be taken into account.
Lots of the cost has to do with being radiation and temperature hardened. The methods are one-off for programs like this. There is little to stop it from scaling though - it's just a matter of getting the economies of scale.
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