skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, as a Flash supporter I've often encountered the opposite experience on HN. Logical arguments supporting Flash are pushed down into the neg, while profanity-laden anti-Flash rants score high.
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Investigation
Congress dreamed up some weird criteria to determine copyright ownership, and no matter how wrong it is, it still the law. Unless it was a work for hire, which it probably isn't under 17 U.S.C. §101 as there was neither employment nor anything in writing, the copyright belongs to the author.

There are probably implied licenses, but that is definitely a question for a lawyer.
I think it'd be an oversight to not stay on top of the new technologies that scale better.

A document store fits a lot of problems much better than doing everything in Postgres, and offers easier maintenance and replication. And can offer a lot simpler architecture when all is said and done.

But yes, obsessing about scaling on an app that has no users can be a very big time sink. Much better to just hack out some software with whatever tools are the most productive, and get a few customers to drive the human side of business requirements.
> It's a broken, overly conservative market dominated by huge scale investors that want to invest tens of millions at a time. Imagine if instead of dealing with VCs, you had to go straight to LPs and have them give you money for a project.

Interestingly enough, most "venture funding" is not through VCs - it's direct from "the money".

In any event, banks serve many of the same functions as VCs. Both "borrow" money from one set of people and based on agreed-upon criteria, "lend" it to others.
Just about every programming language looks like baseline noise compared to Java. Still, there's no denying these are both still very much niche languages.
There's bound to be an exponential form for the offset which would take up a reasonable amount of space. eg: 2^100^100 takes up just 9 bytes, but if I wrote it out longhand it would be over 3000 bytes. Remember that it doesn't have to be human readable either; the 2 could be assumed and the 100's could be \x64\x64, just two bytes. In that form, you have a compact way to express large numbers, and any offset could be expressed as a sum of some such numbers.

I think the real problem, as you said, is having a copy of the full sequence around for encoding and decoding, and finding any given string of bits within it.
The quote at the top of this article, from one of the people involved is literally "I’ll continue to bury their submissions until they change their ways and become conservatives," which makes me think that maybe they just don't understand how the internet works?
I think it depends. I've seen some decent discussion of TechStars on here before. I'm sure there is a Harvard and Yale aspect to it it as well. But overall I think that HN is a fairly impartial site. I would be much more inclined to think that people just didn't like the article then think they were boycotting TechStars.
This is more-or-less the plot of Borges' "The Library of Babel," except he doesn't talk about binary, computers, or pi.

Instead the Library is a place where you have books that contain the every string of symbols.

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.htm...
This is a big deal. As your build process grows more complex, it can become a very significant bottleneck.
The centralized distribution system is a real convenience,

Having a centralized distrubition system with some light editorial control is indeed a great convenience. Having that system to the exclusion of letting users decide to run maps from other sources is very limiting.

I would compare this to the Android Market. It is centralized, easy to access, and has some limited editorial controls so I can feel relatively safe I am not downloading malware. But, the architecture is relatively open so if I choose for whatever reason to run an Android App from a different source I can do so without too much trouble.
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Accusations
http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/8998094/artic...

According to that article:

"Today, Gobble identified BornDigital.com as a “one-man show” and named Perk Evans as the administrator."

So the awesome http://www.BornDigital.com is the company that did work for Mr. Tim Gobble.

UPDATE: http://bradleynewsgroup.blogspot.com/search?q=perk

Seems like the two knew each other as that article says Perk Evans was a volunteer at the police station. Not sure why Gobble would want to do business with this guy, but oh well. It's his $30K
The Wonderful World of Graphs
I'd just grep for the ascii version of the comment.
Justice in Brooklyn.
I like where you're going with this.

Have you ever explored the IAT (Implicit Association Test) at Harvard's site? ( https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ ) The IAT "is an experimental method within social psychology designed to measure the strength of automatic association between mental representations of objects." (Wikipedia).

Pictures could be pulled from Facebook of the user with his/her significant other and pictures without the significant other. And then the app could have the user run through an IAT-like test where their associations of those images to both positive/negative words is measured. Possibly this could give some sort of indication of the sentiment towards the significant other vs being single..
Freemium business models for enterprise software?
Content seems good for first year students. I'd clean up the format of the presentation a bit. You were inconsistent with spacing between points in some cases. Lots of switching between back ground colors, images, no images, etc. It made it a bit harder to focus. I don't think you should have the period at the end of the titles, seems out of place.

Perhaps you handle it when you are speaking, but I'd put a bit more about pivoting. Or talking about MVP and iterating (pivoting) as required. Its really taking most of what you talk about and explain how it is not a linear process.
Little Bets and the Power Of Quitting
Why shouldn't it? Everything described at that level of specificity seems to be trivial in comparison to such grand notions as "essential liberty"; but if we want our concept of liberty to have any real substance, we have to understand what it means especially in the context of our superficially-trivial day-to-day endeavors.

Granted, given that this instance applies to a single PC game, and there are plenty of other games with thriving and robust modding communities, I'd hardly say this is an example of real oppression. But it's this kind of heavy-handedness - as we've also seen in their decision to eliminate LAN play - that has led to me not purchasing Starcraft II, despite looking forward to it for quite some time.

Which I suppose is just as well: Civ V will be out later this year, and I can't imagine Firaxis even having the inclination to treat their modders with such paternalistic contempt.
10 weeks went between photo and payment.
Saw this posted on the Nitrogen Web Framework mailing list, and I'm strongly considering going. Seems this would be rather helpful followup/supplement to the Erlang books.

And nice and close to Milwaukee.
I loved the article, but there is subtle problem troubling me over here.

How do you build the previously impossible without knowing the real extent to what is possible, or not possible? It's one thing to see trends, but quite another to take in depth domain specific knowledge across multiple interconnected topics and form a picture out of them. I can sit here and talk about trends in a lot of industries, but questions like sustainability, future growth require that picture. You need to get it.

It takes a lot of time to do that and there really is no way to escape it. (It's pretty awesome if you fail though, at least you learn something out of it)

However, what happens if you're in a crunch and you're trying to enter an unknown field? You can't assimilate information at a reasonably fast pace, and what you do learn will have a greater probability attached to being inaccurate/flawed. Importantly, you won't have the complete means to detect it.

I am asking this because pretty often I find that most of the overlooked problems lie in the intersections of things, and I've realized that it's really important to know how to bridge that gap before jumping in.
Group opened:

http://groups.google.com/group/hackernews-cologne
I globally agree on HN fairness, was just curious on recent posts.
IMO paying rent wouldn't count as a P2P transaction. I've used Paypal for years to pay friends, and there have never been any fees.
I used to be obsessed with this 2009 NYTimes profile about him and read it several times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/technology/companies/26hp....

Not anymore.
Oh web 3.0? Now they tell me.
C&C4 is worse. You have to be online to play. You can't even start the game if you're not, and if you disconnect during play, on single player campaigns, then your progress and achievements won't be saved because those only exist on EA's servers.
Analog wipeout recreation.
Blizzard's problem is that their communication is awful. This leads people to imagine what they are - and aren't - doing, which you can't fault them on.

Blizzard have already shaped Battle.net and StarCraft 2 in ways that people disagree vehemently with. Add to this the number of cock-ups in the recent weeks, which successfully removed any benefit of doubt that their decade of StarCraft goodwill had accrued.

The best recent conciliation on their part was to promise that some things would be addressed "eventually" with such controversial things as region realm restrictions for players in multiplayer. That's not exactly magnanimous.
It's to 4chan now. With pride, usually.
So Begins The Golden Age Of Consumer-Focused Startups
If a solid month of work for $25k seems like "a big project" then maybe you're not billing enough.
Scala does not follow the usual version number conventions. Scala 2 was a total re-write from Scala 1 (the compiler was ported from Java to Scala). Scala 2.8 is a major, backwards-incompatible release with Scala 2.7. Scala 2.8.x releases will be at least backwards source-compatible. (Binary compatibility is more challenging in Scala, because of how traits work, but the Scala team is allegedly tackling this problem for 2.8.1. We'll see.)
I would imagine that there is no exponential form that would take up less space in all cases than the original offset itself. You could think of the "exponential form" as a sort of compression algorithm with the same pitfalls as the latter, some exponential forms will end up taking more space than the original offset.

Furthermore, I would guess the offset has even less entropy on average than the bitsequence you're hoping to compress, so if you had an algorithm that would shorten the expression of the offset you might very well be able to apply it to the original bitsequence with the same or better results.

I'd think an information theory expert could probably tackle these sorts of questions very rigorously, but I am not one so this is mostly conjecture.
I was once approached by the conservative party of North Vancouver to build their web site. But they turned me down because I hosted my sites in Vancouver which was out of their constituency. Nobody hosted out of North Vancouver because you had to cross a bridge to get there and there was no fiber optics to do it. I should have told him I'd put him on a special server off my home ADSL box and been done with it.

Politicians are idiots!
It frightens me how many of these responses are people describing the scams they'd pull off if they had the cajones to do so.
Cool idea, but awful realization.
Ask HN:Serving Global customers being a local comapny
Imagine a non-US company serving US customers. Are there any legal issues aroubnd this? Should such company need to pay tax in US also?

If one starts a company outside US that is serving US customers, is it needed to pay tax in US as well as that country from where it is started?

I understand there is a need for lawyer advice here. But I just wanted to check if fellow HNites here have a firsthand experience.

Thanks.
I've watched like half of this and it looks like they've written their own framework and built their own version of Rails in PHP -- without even realizing it.
> But there's a high degree of speculative cloak and dagger fantasizing going on around here

Can't argue with that

> while teleporting out the tea-house owner and his family

We have to assume the Pentagon knew what documents Manning leaked from the moment they apprehended him. With that info at hand, they had a couple weeks to arrange protection for informants whose names they could assume would be disclosed.

This is an asymmetric war. It's impossible to win.
He says "I realized there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP and which have guided me throughout my career"

While his actions do seem inexcusable, it is good to see that he is admitting error. Too often, people refuse to accept any personal errors and prefer to portray themselves as innocent victims. It is good to see that Hurd didn't choose that path.

[edit: note to downvoters and johnknee's question - HP's investigation concluded that there were violations of HP's standards of business conduct and Hurd himself has acknowledged his error. Hurd has also admitted that the inaccurate expense reports were intended to conceal his personal relationship with the female marketing contractor and that this "showed a profound lack of judgment"

If you disagree and if you find no fault with Hurd, I suggest you take it up with HP and with Hurd himself.]
Google and Slide: Building a More Social Web
Fluidinfo looks like it may be one.
This is great! It reminds me of Zoomworld, described by Jef Raskin in his book The Humane Interface, and even the Demo picture on the front page demonstrates some of those ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
http://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-...
Sure, if you include all the big government subsidized, supported, and protected telcos like Verizon, Comcast, etc.

IMHO any state-protected monopoly or oligopoly or any large recipient of state subsidies is not a "private" company.
Wow thats a great analogy. What if you had a nano-replicator? I guess at that point we would have to be nearing the end of scarcity, right? Because you'd only need 2 nano-replicators to turn dirt into just about anything.

And I guess at that point people's motivations would radically shift as money was no longer required, since everyone would have the same 'means of production' (assuming the nano-replicator propogates, like everything else, and that the world isn't turned into grey sludge).

But, until then, the people who make the software do need money, or rather to make software costs money and risk and the risk is undertaken with the expectation of making a return on their investment. Not in every case, but its usually pretty easy to tell whether something is for sale or not.

Morally its kind of like the prisoner's dilemma.
Its in everyone's best interests for people to buy software if they can afford it because it will lead to better software for everyone. But individually its better for pirates to not pay for the software because they get the software for free, and if enough people pay for it, they get the benefit of better software in the future. If everyone stole it, there wouldn't be any. Same for cars and whatever. It seems obviously wrong to me.
I've been coding everyday for the last 2 months: It's summer's fault.
A Google News search found this tidbit from last month: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/07/12/the-daily-sta...

"The much-hyped start-up is out looking for [$100 MM] from both strategic and financial investors to increase the manufacturing of its fuel cell-based power generators, VentureWire reports. The financing would come at the same valuation - between $1 billion and $2 billion - as the $100 million round raised last year. It’s already raised more than $400 million in equity so far from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Morgan Stanley, New Enterprise Associates and others."
they claim to not have any DRM, registration, pingbacks, etc.

If you read what they wrote, they made no statement at all on pingbacks. They define what they mean when they say the game is "DRM-free". And since this definition does not preclude counting up the number of IPs from which the game accesses a particular online resource in the course of normal operation, I would have to say: No, it would not be dishonest of them to do that.

Perhaps another example would help: The Fedora Project estimates the number of active users of Fedora by counting the IPs accessing their update servers. Yet I don't think this causes Fedora to contain DRM, nor do I think collecting this information is particularly dishonest.
and http://www.dotdeb.org/ for php/mysql

and http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ for an ffmpeg that has modernish codecs
This could be really good; I've started reading this book twice now, and gotten about 1/3 of the way through both times before my brain starts to melt.

Also, Douglas Hofstatder's "I Am A Strange Loop" is a little more accessible and is all about consciousness, if that part of Godel, Escher, Bach interests you.
Thats pretty cool. First one to come up with a site that shows a bunch of examples wins a bunch of easy traffic.
i wonder how a new CEO will effect the palm acquisition.
This is what I love about slate. It seems to do a better job of reporting on issues like this without a lot of partisan ideology.
That's why the nickname for stable is stale.
FTA: "For decades, politicians and pundits on the right have told us that we need to balance the federal budget in order to keep inflation low; this remains a staple of libertarian thinking (even though economic research demonstrates that except in wartime, there is effectively no relationship between the size of government spending and the existence of inflation)"

Sure there is no correlation between size of government and the existence of inflation, but that isn't what the "politicians and pundits on the right" have said, they said "we need to balance the federal budget in order to keep inflation low".

It isn't overall government spending is going indicate inflation, but rather large deficit spending and/or large gov debt that is going to lead to inflation because the only way to pay off creditors is to print more money, the more money in circulation the less value it has => inflation.

Am I wrong? Isn't there some awful inflation going on right now in Zimbabwe because they government keeps printing more and more money to pay off its debt?
hey, HP, Jay Allard just left Microsoft! He has built his life on the social aspects of the internet, and knows games. I bet he could make a really successful tablet and phone product.
Folks interested in deflation will want to check out Irving Fisher's debt deflation and Hyman Minsky's work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_deflation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky
"For decades, politicians and pundits on the right have told us that we need to balance the federal budget in order to keep inflation low; this remains a staple of libertarian thinking (even though economic research demonstrates that except in wartime, there is effectively no relationship between the size of government spending and the existence of inflation)."

Well in that case, lets just stay out of war and let the gov hand out monthly payments to everyone so we don't have to work anymore. If government spending doesn't lead to inflation then this should work out fine.
Wow, there have been 720911 previous meetings?
As someone who has faced different forms of abuse, including sexual abuse. I would ask people not to judge anyone on the basis of sparse information or their mistakes.

We don't even know what happened over here, and I think that nobody is in a position to comment on/judge either party involved. It's just too complicated.

On the other hand, the amazing thing is that HP still retains its core values and asked Mr. Hurd to resign even when they had the option of simply burying it. Even though Bill and Dave are long gone the spirit of their institution still survives. Simply Amazing.

[edit: I am pretty sure that a lot of people will find this comment to be offensive, but think about it. Does judging a situation and the people involved as an outsider help anyone? In fact, it just makes it worse.

On a more personal note, I don't want to be a victim of the cards I've been dealt. I would rather learn how to play the hand. I've learnt to see the silver lining, learn and just move on. It makes life easier to deal with. ]
"could be really"? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your use of those words - this is from 2007, and everything from the course is on that page, including videos of the lectures.
One of the things I love about Google's Closure Compiler is that it takes care of these optimizations for you. If you want, you can write in an explicit readable style and still get any performance benefits.
I was going to say, until I got to the end of your post, DoTA is a much better example than Tower Defense, which didn't start with Starcraft. Which after continued reading, I now see that someone has already mentioned.
Listen dudes - if these limitations ACTUALLY impede the community's ability to enjoy the game, rather than just IN THEORY which is what this post and most of these comments are arguing about, then Blizzard isn't going to sit there and watch its potential sales of the next two StarCraft 2 games and other parts of the franchise slowly die because people are getting bored with multiplayer due to lack of innovative community-content as a result of these restrictions.

Let the market decide - if most devs have trouble making a fun map / scenario / mod that's under 25 megs in size, then obviously blizzard will change it. That being said, 25 megs is probably sufficient anyways. Relax.
There's lies, damned lies and statistics...
> Besides, how hard would it be to implement a reputation system instead of censorship?

Impossible. They host the content, they're responsible for it, they're required to uphold the age rating the game is given.
Minneapolis? The #1 Bike City in the country? http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/1-bike-city-m...
Preferences address the problem opposite to "lifestyle companies" (which, by the way, is a silly term). Preferences cover the case where the founder wants to ditch the company in a "cheap" acquisition instead of rolling the dice on the investment return the VC bought into.
You're right.

Inflation actually refers to an increasing number of dollars in the economy, not increasing prices of goods. More dollars in the economy will lead to higher prices of goods and services, so this leads to the common misconception. But like you said, if government spending is larger without larger deficits, this would mean they're spending more existing dollars, no new dollars are created, and prices of goods stay the same.
He probably signed some agreement to keep him working for competitors. Also, I thought Allard was staying on as an "advisor" to Ballmer?
Krugman wrote a good article earlier this week addressing why deflation is a bad thing.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation...
Slightly off-topic, but I've been building my CI server by hand with Rake and various shell/Ruby scripts. It's working OK but I wonder if I would gain anything by moving to Hudson. I've heard a lot about it lately.
So you're surprised that there are significantly fewer apps for a device that's been out for 4 months versus one that has been out for 3 years?
Demand Media Files With the SEC For IPO
Funny how these things work:

http://img.skitch.com/20100806-n839s48kxx3gq6ae3m7ru45t6j.pn...
http://img.skitch.com/20100806-dy2ghicjxgac7dpmdd2pwhdntc.pn...
> While his actions do seem inexcusable

What were his actions? I didn't see anything about what the accusation was.