skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in seeing the wealth distribution of the US without the financial sector and compare that to other nations…
wow, just wow. You would think that if you volunteer to maintain something, you would actually like what you are maintaining.
I can't tell if these rates are current, but: http://www.pge.com/about/news/topics/ratereduction.shtml
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I'll be very surprised if anybody can get timing on an HTML5 sequencer tight enough to be musically useful. It's hard enough as it is in native apps.
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If you posses drugs, you're following illegal conduct, and you can be fined or imprisoned. Similarly, if we end up with a government OK'd list of crypto schemes, those of us who use strong crypto legitimately will be criminals.

Well, yeah. But you have a right to be tried by a jury of your peers... who probably won't understand crypto. (The "drugs are bad... except coffee and cigarettes and high fructose corn syrup" propaganda caught on pretty well, so you are probably stuck there. But there is no "strong cryptography is bad" rhetoric out there, and it will be hard to argue for -- the opposite is "the government is trying to steal your credit card number".)

Anyway, the whole point of the Constitution was to allow people to do things that the government didn't want them to do. Using strong cryptography is the modern way to for one to "be secure in their persons, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".

Finally, it seems that this round of laws is directed at service providers that store encrypted messages; the government wants you to be able to read everything passing through your network. Of course, you do not control the P2P network that your movies and phone calls pass through, so this law has limited effect. Even then, if end users provide their own encryption, that's out of the scope of this law.

The government cannot read every packet that passes over the Internet.
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Would you still feel that way if he had lived in Washington the whole time?
Exactly. Wasn't this plan just announced yesterday? Is text of the proposed bill even available yet? Has a draft bill even been written yet? I don't think so.
In a nutshell, because the Chinese take that sort of thing personally. I do not think you are really serious, if you consider this course of action credible in in either fiscal or strategic terms.
Each one of these devices is a radio transmitter. Even if it is a receiver, or dvd or HP200lx. They all transmit measurable signals. If two or more are on, this can result in the sum and difference of each pair of signals.

Thus verifying each one is not going to tell the whole story.
Well, I agree with you that isn't fantastic marketing. But neither is using a mutator function name to describe a talk on a functional language.

Rich Hickey loves to rail against nonsensical constructs/concepts like @date.day = 3, and I'm guessing he is very against the (++) method, as well. (How can you tell one number to become another number?)
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I would design my cart widget so that it does not require multiple pages that way it stays memory resident. The entire cart workflow would exist in a shopping cart widget. Further we designed a routine that wires into the page load and unload that does the following. Any data marked as persitable is stuffed into client side storage (we use Dojo so it figures out where it can store stuff, Cookie, Flash, IFrame). The routine looks for stuff stored in this segment when a page loads and pulls it back into memory and flushes the data from storage. On unload it repeats the process of serializing marked data. If you absolutely need a multi-page model you can use a similar pattern.
Let's hope Arrington will continue to be loud even after the acquisition and not have to worry about pissing off some advertiser with AOL or something.
I don't think SV is SV _because_ it's in CA. I think SV is SV _despite_ being in CA.
I love this thread. The last six month of frustration finally have a place to express itself.

I found Facebook's documentation to be awful, and their online tools not very clear \ friendly. What I did find immensely useful is the community's support and knowledge. SO is filled with excellent questions and “How To”s. Also Facebook's developer forum is quite good. In other words, my fellow developers... keep on the good work, help build a strong community, Facebook sure isn't.
So, this isn't a useful number for the OP (as it doesn't compare against a direct email/password registration), but people may still find it interesting:

My application (an alternatie to the iPhone App Store) supports Facebook Connect and Google Login (using OpenID). As I'm selling products, I can do a direct revenue breakdown on the two services, which shows a 2:1 advantage for Google accounts.

(If anyone is interested, the 2:1 Google advantage holds even if I control for "in the United States"; about 50% of my sales are in the US, so I have a great statistical sample, and the login breakdown for the rest of the world is nearly identical.)
The main thing is to not pick a saturated color that will clash with anything in the picture/video.

Otherwise, a very light color (white or close to it) or a very dark color (black or close to it) will probably make the picture/video more visible.

FWIW, older users seem to prefer light backgrounds, and younger users seem to prefer dark backgrounds.
My point was not to translate the method name, it was to point out that (++) is anti-Clojure. I wanted to refactor the title to avoid mutability. I.e., "return the increment of clojure", not "change the value of clojure".
This is really cool, but...

It really needs capacitance touch. Aside from watching movies, it's going to be a bear trying to move a mouse on one machine while the pointer is on another screen, perhaps pointing away from you.

I hate to complain, but that's the one feature that's missing from making this a truly breakthrough product. If they had that, I'd be a lot more psyched.
AOL owning Engadget and Autoblog, two blogs I visit daily, hasn't affected the quality one bit.
Wasn't there a rumor awhile ago that someone (AOL?) offered TC $20 million in 2008? If true, $25 million seems low.

That article was updated with CNBC's figure of $40 million.
Except that goes in the wrong direction. People actually think they have more wealth, proportionally speaking, than they do have.
2-3 years ago I bought a Sony Reader. This year I bought an iPad. I've been thinking somewhat about this issue as well.

I really like(d) my Sony Reader for the reading experience. Reading, at least for me, is a very relaxing endeavour. I typically use it simply for reading fiction, almost entirely sci-fi. It's a good device but e-ink really hadn't progressed since then (in terms of contrast, refresh rate and price) until the new generation Kindles in the last few months.

This year I got the iPad and it's much closer to the notebook end of the spectrum. That also means it's much more of a distraction.

It very much doesn't relax me like my Reader. For one it's easy to get distracted into reading HN, my RSS feeds, email, Twitter or simply playing Angry Birds or Bejeweled.

It may even be due to it having an active display. This technically tires the eyes but it seems to also have a stimulative value, at least to me.

So I'm going to buy one of the $139 Kindles. I can then read my books on it or the iPad.

To answer your question: at least from my perspective, I think you'll find it a less distracted experience.
There are rules in place to determine what's 'fair' and what's not 'fair.' I'm assuming Mike has played by all the rules, so it's most certainly 'fair.'
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For clarification: This is for human/fantasy languages, not programming languages. :-)
Because it's beautiful.

The effect is known as datamoshing and has become popular in some contemporary video art. It got popular from a Chairlift music video and is achieved by removing keyframes from compressed videos.

Check out this how-to for the non-Ruby way to do it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8

Here's the Chairlift video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzXVeugvYc

And here's some work (from Takeshi Murata) that I think directly influenced the datamoshing effect becoming popular:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ucn3m7rN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I
Huge props to AOL for showing that a massive company CAN pivot and use their brand equity/buying power to maintain a successful business.

Myspace, take notes.
For the record, normal users /do/ delete their accounts. Users also often have unpredictable priorities, as they are complex people in their own right ;P. Example: they may use transient e-mail addresses (assigned to them by their ISP/school/work) and then get "locked out" of their Facebook account because they forgot their password and can't fix it due to a new e-mail address. Rather than going to the trouble to fix the situation, they may instead simply create a new account, and take this as an opportunity to have a "clean slate". Meanwhile, they may consider your website, which they might even be paying for, to be critical to their lives, and now they can't log in anymore.
"just buy companies that are alread profitable (to name a few: Sun, "

don't know about the rest in your list, can you specify what do you mean saying "profitable" in application to Sun?
My uninformed guess is that if it went to court the justification would probably be the (interstate) commerce clause. Its what they used for the war on drugs.
It's the ease of usage, speed, and very large compression window that makes dedup better than traditional compression.
What you're proposing there sounds a lot like the Xnet in Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother [1]. But I do agree with your comment that it's a sad commentary about the state of government and regulation, that a private network like this sounds like a pretty good idea.

[1] Available for free straight from Cory Doctorow: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
"Earth's lifespan" is slightly misleading if we're talking about inevitable future catastrophes of physics. What's more important is the lifespan of earth as a hospitable planet and that's significantly less time (since the sun is heating up). From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle
"...the Sun is gradually becoming more luminous (about 10% every 1 billion years), and its surface temperature is slowly rising. ... The increase in solar temperatures is such that already in about a billion years, the surface of the Earth will become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life".
So (using the numbers from this article) we have about 1 billion years to get off this rock, leaving another 2.7 billion on other planets before time ends. Not a bad run if we can make it. :)
People who are poor might think it more just that the extremely rich share some of that wealth so that everyone can have decent housing, food and school for their kids.

Even if you don't have an issue with rich people being rich, on a personal level, you may have an issue with the system allocating wealth in such an unequal matter.
No, it theoretically would not happen.

Proof: let X[n] be the set of numbers with non-zero probability of being produced at the n'th trial. X[n] must be countable, since sum(X[n]) = 1 and the sum of any uncountably infinite set of non-zero numbers must be infinite.

Let X = union(X[n], n=0...infinity). X is countable, being the countable union of countable sets. The reals are uncountable. Thus, most real numbers will NOT eventually be produced.

(It's true, pi in particular could be in X, but the vast majority of numbers could not be in X.)
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For one, at least since the New Deal, the strict constructionist interpretation of enumerated powers doesn't hold water. The federal government has a pretty broad interpretation of 'interstate commerce' which supersedes the list of 'enumerated powers' Since the internet crosses state lines, it's interstate commerce.

For example, it the government can't constitutionally control communications, the FCC is illegal. And yet it hasn't been shut down by the Supreme Court or Congress.
Only one thing to say about this...

"Pizza."
I'm sure CA's tax board will be looking into his claim of WA residence...
I've never really thought about renting software, it might make it more practical to get legitimate copies of something like photoshop, which is fairly expensive.

For the web (and really and computer software) I am in the more liberal camp of http://unlicense.org/ (no affiliation to them) I think opening up everything to the public domain will speed innovation, among other things.
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What a troll. And no I don't mean you bearwithclaws I mean 37 Signals. Cherry picking two failed acquisitions to support your knee-jerk reaction to this deal is just lazy. I don't think I need to point out that AOL has done just this before (bought popular blogs) with great success. The shot at AOL's 'age' is just icing on this lame attempt at getting some free press cake.
Ok, so help me with this. Let's shield the airplane. Now, how useful is your cell phone?
true - it is going to especially troublesome for non-native English speakers, who wont be able to pronounce the name.

Especially in Asia - is it "lee-bree office" or "lie-bree office" ?

Even worse is that you cant use the word in spoken conversation, and hope they will be able to spell it correctly enough for Google to work.

They are gonna search for "libr office" - which returns Microsoft Office as the top hit.
Which means I cant go and ask my friends to download it.
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I don't mean to personally call you out but this mindset is entirely flawed for this argument. If you're so worried about keeping your private things private, don't put anything you're not completely fine with being public on facebook. According to your logic they don't owe you any real promise of privacy, right?
I read it more as Tim saying "this is now our company and I'm letting you know", so any previous rules are already out the window ;-)
Valid question. And indeed, if wealth inequality did not have any consequences, we might not worry too much about it.

Unfortunately, in the real world it's correlated with a lot of unpleased effects. See the other replies to your comment or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects_of_... for some details.
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The same argument could be made for the reverse side and against your proposal. For instance, Canada and Switzerland have a liberal gun policy, and Brazil has a somewhat restricting policy. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics
People have been arguing about it forever, but I think there's at least a relationship. The UC and Cal State systems have been feeders to many tech companies, and during the Valley's formative period, even the private universities were heavily state-subsidized (California used to have an extremely generous CalGrants scholarship that would pay for any CA high-school student with good grades to go to any CA university, public or private).
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There clearly is some kind of earn-out, meaning that the founders get the whole money only if they stay long enough and/or if the business remains healthy.
On stage, Mike Arrington mentioned that he'd stay for sure on board for 3 years, due to "incentives."
So it's possible that the sale price is $25M upfront, with another $25M in 3 years. That would make both sources (one that says the price was only $25M, and one that says it was in the $40 or $50M) correct.
No, what I'm saying is that an event which takes an infinitely long time to happen (ie an infinite series of one-second flashes) isn't a proper "event", which as used at least in relativity, is something that happens in finite space and time.

But there's no need to argue about the definition of event. I'll say instead that I'm interested in knowing whether infinite time implies that all finite-length events must eventually happen (and indeed, happen an infinite number of times as the paper claims).
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In that case, it seems like what we're really trying to do is envision or bring about a world in which death ISN'T a good thing. If we can bring about an existence without overpopulation, decrepitude, destruction of the biosphere—and maybe with interplanetary colonization, to boot—then death won't be a good thing anymore. But death is not the evil there. Suffering is. I don't think anyone would argue that death is an ULTIMATE good, unless they worshiped Kali or were just hoping to get into heaven—but as long as we live in a world with suffering, decay, and limited resources, put me down in the death column. The cost might be 'all those people' but the alternative is horrible to contemplate.
I haven't done anything with Clojure, though I'm curious and wondering if would be worth my while. I'm already familiar with languages covering similar territory (Erlang, other Lisp dialects), but I haven't done much with the JVM. Also, the lack of tail-call optimization in Clojure is off-putting to me, but it looks several good design trade-offs elsewhere would probably make up for it.

(I was thinking of tattoos, PS.)
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Can anyone provide some examples of businesses that have successfully used more than one of these methods? We all know about Facebook, but let's look at businesses who fall under the Radar.

I want to see what people say before I provide my example...
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>They showed respondents three unlabeled pie charts...Norton and Ariely were astonished that 47 percent of respondents...chose the pie chart depicting Sweden.

Here we go again
It's interesting that in the 1920s they recognized that a Constitutional amendment was required to prohibit a given substance (alcohol).

You're right, it seems these days anything the Feds want to do can be justified by an allusion to "the Commerce Clause".
We have about 1 billion years to get off this rock

Or we could just move this rock.
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You could make a virtual company with this site, and when you incorporate divide the real stock like you did with virtual.
But gadgets and cars aren't areas AOL is heavily involved in, as far as I know.

How would reporting of something like AOL's search privacy leak (http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/07/aol-this-was-a-screw-up/) go?
I don't mind either, as long as the wealthy 20% don't use their (obvious) political influence to further their own ends.

This can obviously happen without them being aware that they're doing that. A good example is the Chicago law prof who laments being too poor for the temporary Bush tax breaks to expire.

What he's not saying explicitly is; "I don't want to pay for healthcare for poor people". Probably as he's already got a pretty nice health plan already.

Now you can bet that a Law Professor has more clout than your average construction worker, so his ignorance at his own wealth is more damaging.
Of course, that has not stopped Larry Wall ;)
NASA's Ames Research Center has a great site called "Using Color in Information Display Graphics":

http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/

It has articles, tools, a bibliography, even an entire section devoted to designing with blue:

http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/blue_2.php

It's geared more for functionality than beauty, but that suits me fine. I mostly do web sites for other departments in my company, and clean, functional, and not actively unpleasant are all I need to deliver. They're also pretty much all I'm capable of delivering. Beauty is way beyond my abilities.
I'm pretty sure that is the message he was trying to convey. He is saying the scientist's point doesn't make any sense.
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You seem to be confusing what is "fair" with what is "legal."
Ads that solve a problem and target the solution vs. ads that are all marketing mojo. Anything that has "best" "award winning" etc. I dont react to, but an ad that addresses a solution directly, often in a humorous "I understand what you need" kinda way I tend to respond to more, this is regardless if it is contextual or not. If a company is creative with this approach I tend to remember the product.
I understand the metaphor but it seems a bit of stretch.

Since when do sports remind you of a product built for the enterprise? Considering the device can do more than just plan out strategies (as a playbook does), the name doesn't seem right.
Interesting point, and what's interesting is that it doesn't rely on the cardinality arguments above. Both the set of points visited by the walker and the set of points in the universe have the same cardinality, but that doesn't mean that the walker visits all points.

(In fact I suspect he can never visit more than a vanishing subset of them, but I could be wrong, and I'm sure somebody has figured this out already...)
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The author is likely using a high gamma, which is common among designers.
Should've called it PhyggNewton.
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I just put together minvp.com which I hope to make into a newsletter about the latest minimum viable products people have launched or are working on.

Basically, you would get an email with links plus short descriptions of each idea. There would also be a link to discuss the idea and provide feedback to the creator on minvp.

Anyone can submit a site/app for free (they would all be vetted). I was inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724178

What do you think?
I didn't say it was ok. I'm saying the rhetoric about his kids starving is absurd.
Many of the NPR audio archives were at risk because it turned out that the audio tape formulations of the 70's were defective. Many CDRs and writable DVDs use dyes that will become corrupt in about a decade. Charles Stross has the early 21st century comprise a "digital dark ages" in some of his books because of a proliferation of proprietary/DRM formats.

It is both amazing and understandable.
Even for Spanish speaking people it is a slow pronunciation word, Even OfficeLibre would be easier to pronounce.
Ask HN: A free semester before college, what do I do?
I enter college Jan '11 as a Computer Science major and Communications minor. I know the basics of each (3 or so years experience in programming and 5 years of speaking/writing/etc).

HN, what do you recommend I do for 3 months? I could start a business, learn to speak French, or take a trip to Kalamazoo, your call.

I want advice from people who were in my situation, or wish they could have been in my situation.

Thanks!